No this still applies to today. If you look like a dog when your husband leaves the house and look like a dog when he returns while he is at the office all day with dolls......Keep it youthful ladies.....He will be a Keeper....
Not offensive at all . . . if it goes both ways as it should. The epitome of "keepin' it real" in relationships. As for Mad Men, let's go beyond just using the song and have Jack Jones have a cameo as a Roger Sterling relative.
@BrianGValentine Back in the day when this song was released it was called a Jazz Waltz. There were many other Jazz Waltz recordings back in those days.
A great song they may make women realize they should not fall apart once they have caught that man... If you stay at home comb your hair, fix your makeup....
Thanks for posting this... this guy was huge with the middle-aged crowd back then. My parents had an 8-track of his hits, it played over and over on Sat. night when they played cards.
I was just a kid but I have every lyric in memory forever. Great stuff.
One of my all time favorites of the 60's, I love Jack Jones! Hint, hint, time to get ready for love, not too risque tho, Bacharach & David, fantastic writing team!
even though i was a kid when this song came out i liked it a lot and it could be heard in my home on my Moms stereo . The man had an incredible voice . I should say has an incredible voice .
regarding Mad Men I cannot believe I lived as a boy in a time where women were this beautful . Its no wonder I didnt get much done in school
Love the song! May be sexist but we wouldn't have so many problems in society if woman would just obey! Spoken like a true Evangelical christian but I'm a gay man! Get over it!!!!
I love and live by this song. It has really helped me to get out of bed and look nice before he left in the morning. Since I am retired now and so is he we can't help looking like bed heads in the AM, but after we get up and get dressed we still look pretty good. I too think it is a wonderful song.
Wow this sure brings back memories of a quite handsome guy. I used to love to listen to & watch him . Looked very forward to it. Still looks handsime ;)
LOOK at all the anger that the word FEMININITY provokes; nobody can even define it anymore because it has been replaced by feminism, beyond equal rights to an attitude of female superiority. Men and women are BOTH beautiful and valuable when they live to serve each other. Women are the true victims of radical feminism which makes war on men who actually enjoy pleasing women. ---THUMBS UP to love and happy men and women
This song was a favorite in our house when I was a kid...I remeber hearing it and watching my mother put on her push-up bra and a low cut sweater before my father came home.
Heard this tune yesterday on "Sunday with Sinatra", Sinatra did it after he couldn't really sing anymore but there is still just something about Frank. I forgot that it was originally Jack Jones, I always think of Steve Lawrence doing it.
one of my all-time favorite songs and the lyrics I memorized - not politically correct but while the "libbers" have stuck up for their "freedoms" their men freed them to do whatever - I've had a happy man for 44 years.
Exactly one year ago, today at approximately 9:45 p.m. September 15, 2010 I listened to this tune in my car radio as I was driving home. It is just a little bit past that time right now in fact.
I know I'm in the minority...but I miss the days when men brought home the 'bacon' opened doors, and ladies cooked and made a happy home for their special guy.... wish there were still men looking for those things..
we have come a long ways from then. I still greet him at the door so he's happy to come home. Why not? My dog greets me and makes me happy so why not him? LOL!!! still a great song!
Always have loved this catchy little tune...and as Scarlett O'Hara said, "If a girl can't keep a man, then she deserves to lose him." (Or something along those lines). There are always two sides to every break-up story.
Hey, I was just a tot when this song came out, but I recall it growing up. Perfectly produced. Simple words. Easy on the ears. And keep in mind - in a marriage, the message of this song works both ways. Don't let yourself go.
nothing annoys me more than anyone saying anything about the old days and the lyrics and all that crap. it's a SONG, it's a fabulous performance. like it or don't. I LOVE JACK JONES.
This song is speaking the truth. I am a single JESUS FREAK/CHRISTian who loves the LORD and HIS WORD. Point: How do you guys and gals think Esther saved her people from destruction when Haman conspired to kill all of the Jews? She fasted 3 days no food/no water,; she got gorgeous for her king, her man, her hubby, went to him and fixed two feasts for him and she was so fine that he offered her up to half of his kingdom. In the end, the Jews were assisted by her beauty. GOD okayed it, y not u?
These lyrics are true...once a woman gets comfortable and feels "I got him" married or not, that's when another woman can and will fill the void. That's the way of the world, like it or not...
@Sinababes6194 I'm assuming you mean the lyrics...this was the mindset of american males during the early 60's and most women at the time accepted it....then Gloria Steinem and the women's lib movement changed a lot of attitudes. You should have seen what it was like by the mid 70's....a lot of women were bitc--I mean very opinionated!!!!...just a joke ladies.....
@PortiaOfBelmont I totally agree I heard it on a “Memory” station and thought it the quintessential Mad Men Song….surprised it hasn’t been used already.
@PortiaOfBelmont I totally agree I heard it on a “Memory” station and thought it is the quintessential Mad Men Song….surprised it hasn’t been used already.
As to the original comment, the song may be considered chauvinistic today but it still rings true today. The song deals more than anything else about keeping the fire alive in a relationship... The only difference is that today the song can have a role reversal between a man and a woman…
man this song really must pissed off militant bull dyke feminist's! i love it! at my library i have this butch dyke who gets pissed off at the fact i am looking women in swim suits. he called me on it on day ,i replied you sure dont care about the sword swallower who viewing the Robert mapplethorpe crap in video screen did you!
@richyrollins Sounds like you have a lot of fun loitering at the library with your fellow freaks who are also hung up on their sexuality. We're all real happy you've found your place in society. No wonder our libraries have grown so inferior...
@richyrollins All I can think right now is...what's the point of a man (and I use the term loosely, of course) such as yourself GOING to a library? Surely, there's a sports bars that needs your grunting and chest thumping right about now...!
Thank You very much for this classy song. I loved this song when I was a little boy, had no idea what it meant but now I do and it is stll beautiful. Thank U
Reminds me of Jersey City as 7 year old.....went down the elevator at our hotel by myself and walked out into the streets of Joysy!! I remember looking up at the buildings that seemed so gigantic--hey StevieB, the barbershop was a memory for me as well!!!
If you don't take this song literally, it's very good advice. The point of the song is to keep the romance alive and remember how you were attracted to each other to begin with. Just because you are married don't mean you stop taking care of yourself and fall apart and turn into a slob. This is coming from a woman.. oh yea and the advice goes for men too.
@blackmusictoday not really. Men are visual, physical appearance is more incumbent upon the woman. A woman is more tolerant of slob then men are so long as he is a good provider. Studies have shown women, who are married to WEALTHY men, not attractive men, WEALTHY men, have more orgasms. Women married to wealth men are also happier with their marriages.
So anyway, I said to my wife, "stop sending me off to work while you`re still in curlers, and you`d better wear something pretty and run into my arms when i come home from work, because there are other women where I work, and, you know, men will be men"...My broken jaw is just about on the mend.
Thanks for this! Who doesn't like Jack Jones? I recall the 60's as a kid, I'd sit in a barber shop, waiting to be tortured. I gave up valuable play time to get a stupid haircut ! But Jack always made it more bearable. The top 40's had his songs, along w/Sinatra & Tony Bennett. Shows how great J.J. really is. Running right along w/the Big Dogs. My wife took me to his concert in the 90's. I know she has a crush on him. Is it the eyes? I can't compete, but she hasn't left me yet. Thanks Deb W.
Classic Tune.When music was music and singers had class,confidence,and an undescribible swagger.So cool before all this horrible commercial music(if you can even call it that)of today.You can just hear the romance in Jack's voice as he is narrating to the wives.Definitely a song I would put on with a beautiful girl over a glass of wine and dinner.
As a fifty-something woman I've come about full circle with this playful, lovely song... I was an adolescent girl when I first heard it on AM radio and thought it was wonderful; then I was taught it was "sexist" and, budding feminist that I was, felt properly guilty about my affection for it. Now I love it again, and without reservations. I've learned that sometimes it's better to go with the mood and not obsess about the meaning, ya know?
@TheCatgirl6 It was a very sexist song but those were the times! Just enjoy it! Jack was extremely handsome man and talented to boot. You can't change history so just enjoy your memories!
@RImusclebear Exactly. I was trying to make that point with another commenter who had a problem with the inherent sexism of Jack's other big song "Lollipops and Roses". You have to take into account the era in which these songs were composed, and try not to take the lyrics quite so literally. Also how can you not love Jack's lilting, tender reading of these songs? They are pop perfection.
@RImusclebear Me too, kiddo--and I'm a girl! I related to it in a slightly different way. Funny, isn't it, how music can both define and transcend such things?
I've always loved this song. It was from way before I was born but I guess my parents must have played this when I was little.
So sexist but love the tune. I'm waiting for them to play this on Madmen. So hard to believe this kind of stuff went on in the 60's!!!! Were they all Don Drapers??
It were 1963. The pill (for contraception) wasn't generally available yet. A few short years after it became readily available the world went to hell in a handbasket. I was on the verge of manhood then and the interior of car has just enough air to cause a man's voice to resonate, so I got some feedback as I matched my voice to his.
Even as a small child I thought Jack Jones was beautiful, along with several other men in the entertainment industry. didn't notice the women very much. Loved his voice as well and I'm a gay man. Just goes to prove if I was attracted to Jack Jones at 5 years old I must of been born gay!
As much as it heard it in the 60s I could'n relate being too young....but now I do. I see why my Mom always looked hot for my Dad back then!! All girls need to hear this!!!
This is a great song that brings back great memories of my childhood, HOWEVER, I can only guess that "Nocaro" must be a guy. You see, as a woman, I remember how handsome Jack Jones was as a young man (and still is), and I'll Guarantee you that most of us who came to this 'you tube' are women. We wanted to hear JJ and SEE him - circa 1963. Looking at women provocatively posed is a guy thing. And, the silhouette isn't offensive, it's just cheap. Should be on the back of a diesel truck.
@sentjourwla Thx for your comments and, yes, I'm a guy and had this song been entitled "Husbands and Lovers", the video would have been portrayed in a very different way, I assure you...lol...Lanny (Nocaro)
@Nocaro Thanks for your fun reply; you've got a good sense of humor about it. I guess my point is that, since the song is a message to women, some 'eye candy' (like a young - or even older - Jack Jones) would have been fun for us! (If the song had been entitled, "Husbands and Lovers" and you remember it being sung by a beautiful woman as a message to all guys, would your video really have been portrayed with handsome hunks of men? What would have been the point for the guys watching it?)
@sentjourwla LOL, point made, but I do recall doing a video featuring a few "hunks" (and I can't remember which one it was), and I cringed after it was completed. Of course the music and the pix are from my (a male's) point of view..Lanny (Nocaro)
Classic Tune.When music was music and singers had class,confidence,and an undescribible swagger.So cool before all this horrible commercial music(if you can even call it that)of today.You can just hear the romance in Jack's voice as he is narrating to the wives.Definitely a song I would put on with a beautiful girl over a glass of wine and dinner.
Mad Men is starting again on July 25th...and in honor, I'm posting a song I heard on our AM Gold station...Jack Jones "Wives and Lovers"...perhaps the most misogynistic song ever written...and of course, his biggest hit! Draw a martini and enjoy!
I was 16 back then. I loved this tune, both because of the melody and arrangement, and because of (gasp) the lyrics. A wonderful world where women existed to please us men. I'm so sorry to admit to that! Live and learn. I hope I have learned. Having said that, it would be a marvelous song with different lyrics.
It's such a politically incorrect song by today's standards that it's refreshing to hear with so many safe and boring songs out there. Try playing this at a feminist's pub crawl if you're a DJ and see if you'll get out alive! ;-)
This song needs to be played at EVERY wedding. Women need to adhere to what is said in this song if they want to have a successful marriage. Just because you're married, ladies, doesn't mean you can stop doing the things that got us to marry you in the first place.
@psx2514 And what is that you would do to stop a woman from cheating? Because she certainly wont be sticking around for your compassion and unconditional love and respect.
@xXMissFoxyXx You are a child, the same age as my daughter. You don't know or are able to understand what I am talking about. Also, I grew up in Southern California in the sixties and seventies, not over there. You don't know....I miss those days...when families were intact, and people weren't as selfish as now. I hope you try to understand what it is about...don't buy into it...from someone who is old enough to be your mother!
@rousse61 You know who else is old enough to be my mother? My mother. Shes a feminist, and has been happily married to my feminist father for over thirty years. They both worked and raised me and my brothers to be happy and healthy. Its great that you have good memories of growing up in a 'traditional' family, but it wasn't like that for everyone in the 60s/70s, just like not everyone now is selfish. Thats too simplistic.
This along with "Girl Talk" are the last great male chauvinistic songs of the 60's....Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Bobby Troup, Jack Jones...when men were men...
Jack Jones was popular in Malaysia and quite a number of his songs were played over the airwaves in the 60's. You seem to have many clips of his. Would be much obliged if you could upload The First Night Of The Full Moon which hit number one(Music City Chart) in 1964 over here in Malaysia. Thanks, Nocaro.
His version is the definitive version of this song. This is the one I heard most as a kid growing up. Thanks for sharing and posting another trip down memory lane.
This song is pre-sexual revolution. Wives were not expected to be lovers in this time period. Wives were expected to be wives - cooks, baby-producers, accountants, nurse, family taxi service driver, trusty side kick, effervescent good girl - but certainly not a lover, as in wild, romantic sex. Being "a lover" was reserved for the husbands' mistresses.
No, I was not offended. The music, lyrics and Jack Jones all came together so well in this classic. Jack had that wonderful smooth style with the right touch of fun in the song.
The image at 2:12 is just a silhouette, and I debated with myself whether to include that in the video or not., but decided that just this once I would...sorry if you were offended, but it seemed to "fit" the song.
this song is on the movie goodfellas soundtrack and drew my attention when i first heard it. i've loved it since. jack jones had a phenomenal voice a long time ago.
funny thing, that's exactly what happened to me. I heard it faintly in the background, and it caught my attention (that being the first time I heard it). I looked up the lyrics, and found out what it was.
Y'all can argue over whether the words of this song are still appropriate or not, but I just love the song. I think the song could be sung by either a male or a female with a slight change of words. I just love Jack Jones' silky smooth vocals. This was his best. Oh, and my wife and I have been married for 41 years. LOL!
i'm 25 and about to married and completely agree with the message of this song. I will definately instill those values on my children. i can't wait to take care of my husband and i will ALWAYS make sure i turn his head ;)
These lyrics are so true, but apply to both men and women. We take our partner for granted and quit trying to impress them. Look your best at all times!!!
womens rights was so dumb. men and women both have their place in a marriage. just because their roles r different doesnt make either role any less important then the other. pride...is all it boils down too.
I love this song.I understand its viewpoint.I also understand the criticisms against it.I'm all for the solid bond of marriage and family.Men and women are both capable of cheating : That's a lousy trait,with us almost since the beginning.Feminism was a liberation for some and damaging to relationships in others.Where we're failing is in believing we should all think and be the same without question,in shades of black or white with no middle ground.A good song of a not as simple as we think time
Well, you are old enough to remember coming home to a clean house. As a woman, looking back, I feel lied to. What was I liberated from? Something that worked? Kids nowadays are ripped off, they have no idea what security is, because their parents never knew it...all they know is stepparents, or a latest boyfriend/girlfriend of their parents...so sad.
@rousse61 My mother cooked,cleaned,dressed up AND worked and my father cheated on her anyway,telling the other woman "It's not working out".Her 2nd hubby,after marriage became a jackass who abused her.Later,the one good guy in her life she wouldn't marry because she worried about us kids,even as adults,and wouldn't move to Virginia with him because of that. Everybody has similar stories with variables, that's reality.A Leave It to Beaver idea of marriage/family is not the reality we live in now.
@MrJamesrnolan I'm sorry to hear about that, James. It sounds like the barramundi and mullet experiment where you put a barramundi in a fish tank with a glass screen in the middle and the mullet on the other end. The barramundi will try to go for the mullet then bang his nose on the screen. He will keep trying and trying, and then finally when you remove the screen he won't go for the mullet. Says a lot about us humans too.
And to clarify a little further,my father married the other woman and had a daughter with Down's Syndrome,which changed him into a more responsible person.The values you and marydorrell believe in are not necessarily gone unless you surrender to the belief that they can't be regained.The world has more people in it than when I was born (1959) and it's constantly changing,so maybe the answer is rather than complain about how we're losing those values,we should just continue trying to teach them
@rousse61 that is not always the case. There are still many families that have been intact for decades. My parents got married in 1968 (my dad is a Jack Jones fan btw) and they have never separated or divorced, even though they have their fair share of arguments like every other couple. The problem today is that people have things easy and divorce is granted for reasons other than spouse abuse or adultery. Pretty sad. I wrote a song called "Paper Wedding Dress" about disposable marriages.
Understood, and I agree with you. The question, and there is no one single answer to resolve it (because everyone is a unique individual) , is how to find a way to impart those values (and hope) to those kids, so that perhaps in the future their children won't have to bear the burdens of being lost and confused.
When couples marry they need to learn to prioritize. Marriage has to be the most important thing in their lives. Not the money, not all the gadgets available today that they want, not that big fancy house first thing off the bat. Not even the children because they will grow up and leave the nest. A couple's marriage has to be #1 or they will find any little excuse to call it quits. Both have to be in it for the long haul and yes, be lovers to each other. 40 yrs of marriage taught us that.
Agreed ladies...might be a bit asking too much...but keep us happy women!! Oh yeah keep her happy too!!
chernand58 3 weeks ago
No this still applies to today. If you look like a dog when your husband leaves the house and look like a dog when he returns while he is at the office all day with dolls......Keep it youthful ladies.....He will be a Keeper....
snazzyjazzyshar 4 weeks ago
@snazzyjazzyshar -If u ever look like a dog, he should not have married u!!!
charlene12341234 1 week ago
Not offensive at all . . . if it goes both ways as it should. The epitome of "keepin' it real" in relationships. As for Mad Men, let's go beyond just using the song and have Jack Jones have a cameo as a Roger Sterling relative.
jpiddydiddy 1 month ago
As a tenor, he was a singer's singer, perfectly pitched
Nice tempo for an "American style" Viennese waltz
BrianGValentine 1 month ago
@BrianGValentine Back in the day when this song was released it was called a Jazz Waltz. There were many other Jazz Waltz recordings back in those days.
mortyfromc 1 month ago
A great song they may make women realize they should not fall apart once they have caught that man... If you stay at home comb your hair, fix your makeup....
snazzyjazzyshar 1 month ago
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Thanks for posting this... this guy was huge with the middle-aged crowd back then. My parents had an 8-track of his hits, it played over and over on Sat. night when they played cards.
I was just a kid but I have every lyric in memory forever. Great stuff.
woofwgn 1 month ago
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woofwgn 1 month ago
One of my all time favorites of the 60's, I love Jack Jones! Hint, hint, time to get ready for love, not too risque tho, Bacharach & David, fantastic writing team!
daffy16324 1 month ago
fantastic song
mzpreciouz86 2 months ago
great song by Jack in his prime
airkooled05 2 months ago
one of the best of all time;gramer school music teach Mr. Wagner thought him the bst!!!
pjdpelham 3 months ago
even though i was a kid when this song came out i liked it a lot and it could be heard in my home on my Moms stereo . The man had an incredible voice . I should say has an incredible voice .
regarding Mad Men I cannot believe I lived as a boy in a time where women were this beautful . Its no wonder I didnt get much done in school
airkooled05 3 months ago
Love the song! May be sexist but we wouldn't have so many problems in society if woman would just obey! Spoken like a true Evangelical christian but I'm a gay man! Get over it!!!!
RImusclebear1 3 months ago
@RImusclebear1 your too confused!
carrier3232 1 month ago
@jannalli understand,but like candy,it may not be good for you, but it is delicious!
carrier3232 3 months ago
Feminists, why do you marginalize men? You don't(didn't) like it. Great song
luviananna 4 months ago
This song will never get old....a great great one sung by Jack...He is so sexy & Handsome ....still
snazzyjazzyshar 4 months ago
@jannalli BUILD A BRIDGE !!!
sproutcentral 4 months ago
@jannalli Don't mention it ;-))
sproutcentral 4 months ago
Wonderful song and video! ;)
KarenEng 4 months ago
I love and live by this song. It has really helped me to get out of bed and look nice before he left in the morning. Since I am retired now and so is he we can't help looking like bed heads in the AM, but after we get up and get dressed we still look pretty good. I too think it is a wonderful song.
SuperKazyWazy 4 months ago
I personally don't find this offensive...LOL
i think its a wonderful song :-)
TrueEventsOfHistory 4 months ago
@jannalli Wonderful lyrics.
Porky ;-))
sproutcentral 4 months ago 2
Wow this sure brings back memories of a quite handsome guy. I used to love to listen to & watch him . Looked very forward to it. Still looks handsime ;)
Nice vid.
TDAMGIRL 4 months ago
Could anyone please upload Jones´ "Don't Wish Too Hard"?
diuga1 4 months ago
LOOK at all the anger that the word FEMININITY provokes; nobody can even define it anymore because it has been replaced by feminism, beyond equal rights to an attitude of female superiority. Men and women are BOTH beautiful and valuable when they live to serve each other. Women are the true victims of radical feminism which makes war on men who actually enjoy pleasing women. ---THUMBS UP to love and happy men and women
califbozo 4 months ago
This song was a favorite in our house when I was a kid...I remeber hearing it and watching my mother put on her push-up bra and a low cut sweater before my father came home.
drjules900 5 months ago
FEMINISM-- A disease that causes women to hate femininity........This song could save a lot of relationships
califbozo 5 months ago 2
@califbozo THUMBS DOWN!
chodiestchode 5 months ago
Heard this tune yesterday on "Sunday with Sinatra", Sinatra did it after he couldn't really sing anymore but there is still just something about Frank. I forgot that it was originally Jack Jones, I always think of Steve Lawrence doing it.
pogo4pres 5 months ago
great
SongOnLyrics 5 months ago
one of my all-time favorite songs and the lyrics I memorized - not politically correct but while the "libbers" have stuck up for their "freedoms" their men freed them to do whatever - I've had a happy man for 44 years.
imapatching09 5 months ago
Exactly one year ago, today at approximately 9:45 p.m. September 15, 2010 I listened to this tune in my car radio as I was driving home. It is just a little bit past that time right now in fact.
Helivz 5 months ago
I know I'm in the minority...but I miss the days when men brought home the 'bacon' opened doors, and ladies cooked and made a happy home for their special guy.... wish there were still men looking for those things..
cynmarie33 5 months ago
we have come a long ways from then. I still greet him at the door so he's happy to come home. Why not? My dog greets me and makes me happy so why not him? LOL!!! still a great song!
BichonFrise2001 5 months ago
I like this version and Frank's version but I'm sooo into Dionne Warwick's version...
pcorn613 6 months ago
One of my all-time favorites. Thanks.
seledge 6 months ago
What a brilliant song!
rankingtrevor 6 months ago
this reminds me of Mad Men!!!
CrazyBoutThe60s 7 months ago
@CrazyBoutThe60s I was a little girl when this came out, and I remember it...
rousse61 6 months ago
@rousse61
:-)
CrazyBoutThe60s 6 months ago
Always have loved this catchy little tune...and as Scarlett O'Hara said, "If a girl can't keep a man, then she deserves to lose him." (Or something along those lines). There are always two sides to every break-up story.
jekorb 7 months ago
time to get ready for love
7c8f9x 7 months ago
Hey, I was just a tot when this song came out, but I recall it growing up. Perfectly produced. Simple words. Easy on the ears. And keep in mind - in a marriage, the message of this song works both ways. Don't let yourself go.
98WAFA 7 months ago
This song has been a favorite since I first heard it. Thanks for the memories.
shirl328 8 months ago
Wives & Lovers / Dear Heart - One of my favourite albums I got to remaster in the studio. Fantastic vocalist, arrangement and feeling.
TheProjectClub 8 months ago
nothing annoys me more than anyone saying anything about the old days and the lyrics and all that crap. it's a SONG, it's a fabulous performance. like it or don't. I LOVE JACK JONES.
motown1diva 8 months ago
This song is speaking the truth. I am a single JESUS FREAK/CHRISTian who loves the LORD and HIS WORD. Point: How do you guys and gals think Esther saved her people from destruction when Haman conspired to kill all of the Jews? She fasted 3 days no food/no water,; she got gorgeous for her king, her man, her hubby, went to him and fixed two feasts for him and she was so fine that he offered her up to half of his kingdom. In the end, the Jews were assisted by her beauty. GOD okayed it, y not u?
peacheslovesjesus 8 months ago
@peacheslovesjesus god is in your mind, its just your imagination, like sana claus!
carrier3232 1 month ago
"Wow, this song is so offensive! I can't even begin!"
Then don't...and let the rest of us enjoy this real music.
wannawatchu66 8 months ago 7
@wannawatchu66 Maybe you should check out "Lollipops and Roses"
ndjhnsn68 1 month ago
@ndjhnsn68 Already have...and love it. Both Jack's and Herb Alpert's versions.
wannawatchu66 1 month ago
This is when women were women and knew their place!!!
bushna2007 8 months ago
Remember this was the sixties! Remember the TV series "It's a Man's World." I believe Glenn Corbett was the star. It was a different era back then.
Tombazley 8 months ago
Wow, this song is so offensive! I can't even begin!
newyorkserenade 8 months ago
I remember my momwould clean house, on the weekends! This is timeless!I really enjoy Jack Jones!!!
246810282 9 months ago
jack jones father was a singer who play with the marx bros.a night at the opera....did any body know that?
09bnunez 9 months ago
I remember from childhood, too.. great tune.
amirrahim 10 months ago
These lyrics are true...once a woman gets comfortable and feels "I got him" married or not, that's when another woman can and will fill the void. That's the way of the world, like it or not...
videolover61 11 months ago
how can people like this bullshit?! women are so sad...
Sinababes6194 11 months ago
@Sinababes6194 I'm assuming you mean the lyrics...this was the mindset of american males during the early 60's and most women at the time accepted it....then Gloria Steinem and the women's lib movement changed a lot of attitudes. You should have seen what it was like by the mid 70's....a lot of women were bitc--I mean very opinionated!!!!...just a joke ladies.....
ultraroadmap 9 months ago
@ultraroadmap i know it was and it's even more horrible that women accepted/ accept it !!!
Sinababes6194 9 months ago
@Sinababes6194 no it isn't...see, the ones that stayed married are happier, healthier, better off financially. It really does work.
rousse61 6 months ago
@Sinababes6194 obviously you weren't around in 1963! I remember hearing this...but life was a lot better then than nowadays
rousse61 9 months ago
@rousse61 this is degrading to women. i hope you are joking.
Sinababes6194 9 months ago
I nominate this for Mad Men Season 5...
PortiaOfBelmont 11 months ago 9
@PortiaOfBelmont I totally agree I heard it on a “Memory” station and thought it the quintessential Mad Men Song….surprised it hasn’t been used already.
ndjhnsn68 1 month ago
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@PortiaOfBelmont I totally agree I heard it on a “Memory” station and thought it is the quintessential Mad Men Song….surprised it hasn’t been used already.
ndjhnsn68 1 month ago
As to the original comment, the song may be considered chauvinistic today but it still rings true today. The song deals more than anything else about keeping the fire alive in a relationship... The only difference is that today the song can have a role reversal between a man and a woman…
mktpostal 11 months ago 3
The comments are in the hundreds. That says there are many people who think Jack has a great and timeless voice.
BackInsight 1 year ago
Loved this from my senior year ('63) and beyond. T F P...!!
sgtlzy 1 year ago
man this song really must pissed off militant bull dyke feminist's! i love it! at my library i have this butch dyke who gets pissed off at the fact i am looking women in swim suits. he called me on it on day ,i replied you sure dont care about the sword swallower who viewing the Robert mapplethorpe crap in video screen did you!
richyrollins 1 year ago
@richyrollins Sounds like you have a lot of fun loitering at the library with your fellow freaks who are also hung up on their sexuality. We're all real happy you've found your place in society. No wonder our libraries have grown so inferior...
nauort23 1 year ago
@richyrollins All I can think right now is...what's the point of a man (and I use the term loosely, of course) such as yourself GOING to a library? Surely, there's a sports bars that needs your grunting and chest thumping right about now...!
Dasprite222 10 months ago
Thank You very much for this classy song. I loved this song when I was a little boy, had no idea what it meant but now I do and it is stll beautiful. Thank U
tonkinshipwreck69 1 year ago
Reminds me of Jersey City as 7 year old.....went down the elevator at our hotel by myself and walked out into the streets of Joysy!! I remember looking up at the buildings that seemed so gigantic--hey StevieB, the barbershop was a memory for me as well!!!
ultraroadmap 1 year ago
If you don't take this song literally, it's very good advice. The point of the song is to keep the romance alive and remember how you were attracted to each other to begin with. Just because you are married don't mean you stop taking care of yourself and fall apart and turn into a slob. This is coming from a woman.. oh yea and the advice goes for men too.
blackmusictoday 1 year ago 23
@blackmusictoday For sure...people who complain about this song are obviously not paying close attention to the lyrics ♥♥
NYChica23 3 months ago
@blackmusictoday not really. Men are visual, physical appearance is more incumbent upon the woman. A woman is more tolerant of slob then men are so long as he is a good provider. Studies have shown women, who are married to WEALTHY men, not attractive men, WEALTHY men, have more orgasms. Women married to wealth men are also happier with their marriages.
coliwood 3 months ago
So anyway, I said to my wife, "stop sending me off to work while you`re still in curlers, and you`d better wear something pretty and run into my arms when i come home from work, because there are other women where I work, and, you know, men will be men"...My broken jaw is just about on the mend.
crapidious 1 year ago 5
@crapidious LMFAO
Paulina89 6 months ago
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mrJJ11 1 year ago
Thanks for this! Who doesn't like Jack Jones? I recall the 60's as a kid, I'd sit in a barber shop, waiting to be tortured. I gave up valuable play time to get a stupid haircut ! But Jack always made it more bearable. The top 40's had his songs, along w/Sinatra & Tony Bennett. Shows how great J.J. really is. Running right along w/the Big Dogs. My wife took me to his concert in the 90's. I know she has a crush on him. Is it the eyes? I can't compete, but she hasn't left me yet. Thanks Deb W.
StevieB1362 1 year ago
good work anthony-
hswatnik 1 year ago
Classic Tune.When music was music and singers had class,confidence,and an undescribible swagger.So cool before all this horrible commercial music(if you can even call it that)of today.You can just hear the romance in Jack's voice as he is narrating to the wives.Definitely a song I would put on with a beautiful girl over a glass of wine and dinner.
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mikaylwright 1 year ago
This in my book...is REAL music, not the crap they play today...music like this make me wish there were really time machines.
UntouchableNYsee 1 year ago 12
@UntouchableNYsee There are time machines, and I am in it at this time. it last only 2;31 seconds but I will only play it over. What a trip
tonkinshipwreck69 1 year ago
@tonkinshipwreck69 ..so very true...love the time machine refrence!
UntouchableNYsee 1 year ago
@UntouchableNYsee Man, I soooooo agree with you.
brianc9896 8 months ago
@UntouchableNYsee Im 11 and like this AND LADIES AND GENTLEMAN... THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RosstheCODBOSS 6 months ago
Remember when misogyny was classy? Nowadays they cut to the chase and sing about titties and ass.
BunnaySango 1 year ago 2
What a handsome stud!
RImusclebear 1 year ago
Wow, great to find this memorable tune from a while back. Thanks for posting it.
takemeback2 1 year ago
As a fifty-something woman I've come about full circle with this playful, lovely song... I was an adolescent girl when I first heard it on AM radio and thought it was wonderful; then I was taught it was "sexist" and, budding feminist that I was, felt properly guilty about my affection for it. Now I love it again, and without reservations. I've learned that sometimes it's better to go with the mood and not obsess about the meaning, ya know?
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
@TheCatgirl6 It was a very sexist song but those were the times! Just enjoy it! Jack was extremely handsome man and talented to boot. You can't change history so just enjoy your memories!
RImusclebear 1 year ago
@RImusclebear Exactly. I was trying to make that point with another commenter who had a problem with the inherent sexism of Jack's other big song "Lollipops and Roses". You have to take into account the era in which these songs were composed, and try not to take the lyrics quite so literally. Also how can you not love Jack's lilting, tender reading of these songs? They are pop perfection.
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
@TheCatgirl6 I have always loved Jack, even as a young boy Jack was sexually atractive to me. I GUESS I was born gay! No choice involved!!
RImusclebear 1 year ago
@RImusclebear Me too, kiddo--and I'm a girl! I related to it in a slightly different way. Funny, isn't it, how music can both define and transcend such things?
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
I've always loved this song. It was from way before I was born but I guess my parents must have played this when I was little.
So sexist but love the tune. I'm waiting for them to play this on Madmen. So hard to believe this kind of stuff went on in the 60's!!!! Were they all Don Drapers??
Thank you for posting.
tarmale 1 year ago
I just had a dream with this song in it....odd...
noirtriptyline 1 year ago
It were 1963. The pill (for contraception) wasn't generally available yet. A few short years after it became readily available the world went to hell in a handbasket. I was on the verge of manhood then and the interior of car has just enough air to cause a man's voice to resonate, so I got some feedback as I matched my voice to his.
tonygumbrell22 1 year ago
yeah - this song swings
holyfuckareyoustupid 1 year ago
GET IN KITCHEN WHERE YOU BELONG BITCH!
chavedappelle 1 year ago
@chavedappelle u sound like a lonely guy loser!
carrier3232 1 month ago
Even as a small child I thought Jack Jones was beautiful, along with several other men in the entertainment industry. didn't notice the women very much. Loved his voice as well and I'm a gay man. Just goes to prove if I was attracted to Jack Jones at 5 years old I must of been born gay!
RImusclebear 1 year ago
I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS TUNE
bobaloo47 1 year ago
nice song to piss off my girlfriend.
axxymax 1 year ago
As much as it heard it in the 60s I could'n relate being too young....but now I do. I see why my Mom always looked hot for my Dad back then!! All girls need to hear this!!!
jili515 1 year ago
This is a great song that brings back great memories of my childhood, HOWEVER, I can only guess that "Nocaro" must be a guy. You see, as a woman, I remember how handsome Jack Jones was as a young man (and still is), and I'll Guarantee you that most of us who came to this 'you tube' are women. We wanted to hear JJ and SEE him - circa 1963. Looking at women provocatively posed is a guy thing. And, the silhouette isn't offensive, it's just cheap. Should be on the back of a diesel truck.
sentjourwla 1 year ago 2
@sentjourwla Thx for your comments and, yes, I'm a guy and had this song been entitled "Husbands and Lovers", the video would have been portrayed in a very different way, I assure you...lol...Lanny (Nocaro)
Nocaro 1 year ago
@Nocaro Thanks for your fun reply; you've got a good sense of humor about it. I guess my point is that, since the song is a message to women, some 'eye candy' (like a young - or even older - Jack Jones) would have been fun for us! (If the song had been entitled, "Husbands and Lovers" and you remember it being sung by a beautiful woman as a message to all guys, would your video really have been portrayed with handsome hunks of men? What would have been the point for the guys watching it?)
sentjourwla 1 year ago
@sentjourwla LOL, point made, but I do recall doing a video featuring a few "hunks" (and I can't remember which one it was), and I cringed after it was completed. Of course the music and the pix are from my (a male's) point of view..Lanny (Nocaro)
Nocaro 1 year ago
@Nocaro Hahahahaa!!! I guess if you were gay, then you would have made just the right video for someone like me to see!
sentjourwla 1 year ago
@sentjourwla
I remember this song from 1963. What a great song. I still love this song.
is1531 9 months ago
O man Nocaro! Did you just htrow in a charcoal drawing of Jack at the end by Tony Bennett? Smooth, but I caught it.
Dakers11 1 year ago
Classic Tune.When music was music and singers had class,confidence,and an undescribible swagger.So cool before all this horrible commercial music(if you can even call it that)of today.You can just hear the romance in Jack's voice as he is narrating to the wives.Definitely a song I would put on with a beautiful girl over a glass of wine and dinner.
clublife32 1 year ago
i love it when demon prometheus sings this to me. love isadora smileycat
isadorasmileycat 1 year ago
Mad Men is starting again on July 25th...and in honor, I'm posting a song I heard on our AM Gold station...Jack Jones "Wives and Lovers"...perhaps the most misogynistic song ever written...and of course, his biggest hit! Draw a martini and enjoy!
NHWZID 1 year ago
Great words of wisdom
downrightman 1 year ago
I remember this song in the movie Good Fellas.
sarnow76 1 year ago
@sarnow76 I remember this song from 1963...my very young parents listened to it...I was just two, but I can remember it....
rousse61 1 year ago
this is 4 all those brainless muslim female idiots!!
jpsea1 1 year ago
The lyrics are anachronistic, granted. Don't analyse, just enjoy. Bloody marvellous tune!
melmau1 1 year ago
I was 16 back then. I loved this tune, both because of the melody and arrangement, and because of (gasp) the lyrics. A wonderful world where women existed to please us men. I'm so sorry to admit to that! Live and learn. I hope I have learned. Having said that, it would be a marvelous song with different lyrics.
rwkennedy 1 year ago
It's such a politically incorrect song by today's standards that it's refreshing to hear with so many safe and boring songs out there. Try playing this at a feminist's pub crawl if you're a DJ and see if you'll get out alive! ;-)
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
What a handsome man! Yikes!
Christlessgrave 1 year ago
This is one of the lamest songs on the Planet. But hey, it earns that distinction.
Analoggirl11 1 year ago
Tom Leykis actually talked about the meaning of this song once on his show. Go to leykisonline(dot-com) It's the 10-18-2004 (hour 2) show.
psx2514 1 year ago
This song needs to be played at EVERY wedding. Women need to adhere to what is said in this song if they want to have a successful marriage. Just because you're married, ladies, doesn't mean you can stop doing the things that got us to marry you in the first place.
psx2514 1 year ago
@psx2514 And what is that you would do to stop a woman from cheating? Because she certainly wont be sticking around for your compassion and unconditional love and respect.
xXMissFoxyXx 1 year ago
@xXMissFoxyXx You are a child, the same age as my daughter. You don't know or are able to understand what I am talking about. Also, I grew up in Southern California in the sixties and seventies, not over there. You don't know....I miss those days...when families were intact, and people weren't as selfish as now. I hope you try to understand what it is about...don't buy into it...from someone who is old enough to be your mother!
rousse61 1 year ago
@rousse61 You know who else is old enough to be my mother? My mother. Shes a feminist, and has been happily married to my feminist father for over thirty years. They both worked and raised me and my brothers to be happy and healthy. Its great that you have good memories of growing up in a 'traditional' family, but it wasn't like that for everyone in the 60s/70s, just like not everyone now is selfish. Thats too simplistic.
xXMissFoxyXx 1 year ago
@xXMissFoxyXx Well, for starters, that is very rare. They teach selfishness, period. I remember what it used to be like, which is a lot better.
rousse61 1 year ago
This along with "Girl Talk" are the last great male chauvinistic songs of the 60's....Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Bobby Troup, Jack Jones...when men were men...
broadjumper1 1 year ago
Jack Jones was popular in Malaysia and quite a number of his songs were played over the airwaves in the 60's. You seem to have many clips of his. Would be much obliged if you could upload The First Night Of The Full Moon which hit number one(Music City Chart) in 1964 over here in Malaysia. Thanks, Nocaro.
erickonsim 1 year ago
His version is the definitive version of this song. This is the one I heard most as a kid growing up. Thanks for sharing and posting another trip down memory lane.
SwingAge22 1 year ago
Classic!! Thanks for sharing Nocaro!
ph1lanthrope 1 year ago
Very nice.... I've always liked this song ...thanks for posting...
itchycoopark2 1 year ago
This song is pre-sexual revolution. Wives were not expected to be lovers in this time period. Wives were expected to be wives - cooks, baby-producers, accountants, nurse, family taxi service driver, trusty side kick, effervescent good girl - but certainly not a lover, as in wild, romantic sex. Being "a lover" was reserved for the husbands' mistresses.
CheckMate657879 1 year ago
@CheckMate657879 I wonder if much has changed sometimes in families I know.
jenzeppelin 1 year ago
@jenzeppelin LOL!!!
CheckMate657879 1 year ago
This was one of my favs in junior high school - always enjoyed a wide range of music.
CheckMate657879 1 year ago
No, I was not offended. The music, lyrics and Jack Jones all came together so well in this classic. Jack had that wonderful smooth style with the right touch of fun in the song.
nowbellhere 1 year ago
Who is that pictured as a silhouette at 2:12? I did not expect to see that image in this clip. Nice cool song.
nowbellhere 1 year ago
The image at 2:12 is just a silhouette, and I debated with myself whether to include that in the video or not., but decided that just this once I would...sorry if you were offended, but it seemed to "fit" the song.
Nocaro 1 year ago
@Nocaro..... good call!!
SwingAge22 1 year ago
Call me chauvinistic, but I like this version the best. This is the cut, ladies and gents!
Albertarecords7ny 1 year ago
lyrics are funny kinda of cheesy, as a drummer its a great song...love the horns etc. "wives should always be lovers to"........lol
scaramoochscaramooch 1 year ago
@scaramoochscaramooch I am 48 too, and remember hearing this song when I
was little...personally, I don't think it's cheesy for a wife to be a lover, too...a different generation than us, I suppose
rousse61 1 year ago
this song is on the movie goodfellas soundtrack and drew my attention when i first heard it. i've loved it since. jack jones had a phenomenal voice a long time ago.
skibluiz 1 year ago
@skibluiz
funny thing, that's exactly what happened to me. I heard it faintly in the background, and it caught my attention (that being the first time I heard it). I looked up the lyrics, and found out what it was.
alliwantisbitches 1 year ago
Y'all can argue over whether the words of this song are still appropriate or not, but I just love the song. I think the song could be sung by either a male or a female with a slight change of words. I just love Jack Jones' silky smooth vocals. This was his best. Oh, and my wife and I have been married for 41 years. LOL!
LesGovt 1 year ago
i'm 25 and about to married and completely agree with the message of this song. I will definately instill those values on my children. i can't wait to take care of my husband and i will ALWAYS make sure i turn his head ;)
finnishsnarky 1 year ago
These lyrics are so true, but apply to both men and women. We take our partner for granted and quit trying to impress them. Look your best at all times!!!
musicofthesoul85 1 year ago
This song is so true, but it applies to both men and women. People take their partner for granted and quit trying to look good.
musicofthesoul85 1 year ago
womens rights was so dumb. men and women both have their place in a marriage. just because their roles r different doesnt make either role any less important then the other. pride...is all it boils down too.
ILoveLloydDobbler 1 year ago
I love this song.I understand its viewpoint.I also understand the criticisms against it.I'm all for the solid bond of marriage and family.Men and women are both capable of cheating : That's a lousy trait,with us almost since the beginning.Feminism was a liberation for some and damaging to relationships in others.Where we're failing is in believing we should all think and be the same without question,in shades of black or white with no middle ground.A good song of a not as simple as we think time
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
Mr. Jamesrnolan
Well, you are old enough to remember coming home to a clean house. As a woman, looking back, I feel lied to. What was I liberated from? Something that worked? Kids nowadays are ripped off, they have no idea what security is, because their parents never knew it...all they know is stepparents, or a latest boyfriend/girlfriend of their parents...so sad.
rousse61 1 year ago
@rousse61 My mother cooked,cleaned,dressed up AND worked and my father cheated on her anyway,telling the other woman "It's not working out".Her 2nd hubby,after marriage became a jackass who abused her.Later,the one good guy in her life she wouldn't marry because she worried about us kids,even as adults,and wouldn't move to Virginia with him because of that. Everybody has similar stories with variables, that's reality.A Leave It to Beaver idea of marriage/family is not the reality we live in now.
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
@MrJamesrnolan I'm sorry to hear about that, James. It sounds like the barramundi and mullet experiment where you put a barramundi in a fish tank with a glass screen in the middle and the mullet on the other end. The barramundi will try to go for the mullet then bang his nose on the screen. He will keep trying and trying, and then finally when you remove the screen he won't go for the mullet. Says a lot about us humans too.
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
@fatpizzaman A very apt analogy, and sadly, a very true one.
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
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MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
And to clarify a little further,my father married the other woman and had a daughter with Down's Syndrome,which changed him into a more responsible person.The values you and marydorrell believe in are not necessarily gone unless you surrender to the belief that they can't be regained.The world has more people in it than when I was born (1959) and it's constantly changing,so maybe the answer is rather than complain about how we're losing those values,we should just continue trying to teach them
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
@rousse61 that is not always the case. There are still many families that have been intact for decades. My parents got married in 1968 (my dad is a Jack Jones fan btw) and they have never separated or divorced, even though they have their fair share of arguments like every other couple. The problem today is that people have things easy and divorce is granted for reasons other than spouse abuse or adultery. Pretty sad. I wrote a song called "Paper Wedding Dress" about disposable marriages.
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
@MrJamesrnolan I am not trying to
complain, and yes, I am trying to live
up to the standard. I just don't see the
devotion nowadays that I see in the
people I take care of...married for 50-
60 years, and toughed it out...
and yes, there were bad situations,
I am more than aware of that, but
at the same time, feel sorry for kids
nowadays...so much confusion
rousse61 1 year ago
Understood, and I agree with you. The question, and there is no one single answer to resolve it (because everyone is a unique individual) , is how to find a way to impart those values (and hope) to those kids, so that perhaps in the future their children won't have to bear the burdens of being lost and confused.
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
When couples marry they need to learn to prioritize. Marriage has to be the most important thing in their lives. Not the money, not all the gadgets available today that they want, not that big fancy house first thing off the bat. Not even the children because they will grow up and leave the nest. A couple's marriage has to be #1 or they will find any little excuse to call it quits. Both have to be in it for the long haul and yes, be lovers to each other. 40 yrs of marriage taught us that.
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