YVONNE ELLIMAN Hello Stranger
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hawaiian beauty, Yvonne Elliman, was not on the pop landscape all that long, but she made her impact, and her gorgeous face and sweet but powerful vocals graced the 1970's with a distinctive air. I am posting "Hello Stranger", as it is not one of her bigger chart successes, but it does showcase her wonderful voice and it is a very seventies take on the 60's Barbara Lewis classic.
35 years ago, "Love me", written by the Bee Gees, was a breakout hit for Yvonne, giving her a worldwide hit, including Australia, where it would ascend the charts and reach #4 in the late summer of 1977. "Hello Stranger" was discovered by me, once again courtesy of a Various Artist compile - the sexy styled "Ripper 77" with the curvaceous cheeks of a woman adorned with lipstick writing of the names of the 20 original artists featured on the record.
"Hello Stranger", like several of the hits on this compile, was not a hit in Australia, but three and a half decades later, it is a fondly considered musical postcard from the era, and i am eternally grateful to the record companies for releasing those compilations, even if some of the inclusions were bizarre and obscure. Back in the halcyon days of the late 1970's, radio airplay and tv shows like "Countdown" and "Sounds Unlimited" were the few outlets for songs to receive exposure. So many fine recordings were simply overlooked, because of the few opportunities for visibility or audibility at the time.
1978 would be the major year for Yvonne with another Gibb brothers extravaganza giving her the biggest success of her career with the #1 smash "If I can't have you", from the pop & disco juggernaut "Saturday Night Fever". Another movie soundtrack "Moment by Moment" also starring John Travolta, would see another recording by Yvonne Elliman - the title track, but the gentle ballad could not break through the endless litany of disco hits that monopolised 1979. Her own "Love Pains" was her final hit from that part of her career, and it is a much loved and much covered anthem from the disco era.
I hope "Hello Stranger" gives whoever hears it, the joy that it has given me.
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Where were you around March 1977 when this came out? who's here in February 2023?
2024!
I was working in F W Woolworth's stockrooms Bradford UK.
Good old days they were too.
Gaz UK.
I was 9 years old. I was living in Brooklyn, NY. I still am.
Working in Harrogate North Yorkshire UK at George Morrells as a trainee accountant and expecting my second child. I was 23.
@@lsmith992 Music can take you to a place happy or sad, this took me to good old days back to Woolworth's as a teenager.
ME... still listening.... 🎼🤗💚 2024.......hello stranger🎼
Ace song and singer.❤
One of the best❤️
I think we the baby boomers had the best music of all time and the greatest singers....love this.....glad I was a boomer......
I agree.
Pamela Webb ...Me too!😎🤘
I wholeheartedly agree! I'm glad I grew up surrounded by such excellent talent. I still prefer the 60's -70's to what is being produced now.
We did have the best music now, didn't we?
No Doubt !
This version of this song is absolutely the best. The music is unbelievable and Yvonne’s voice is perfect.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ~ SULTRY VOICE
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ~ SULTRY VOICE
Very rarely is a cover song better then the original,this is one of those times :)
Yvonne Elliman never got the accolades she so deserves..was backup singer for Rock and Pop Legends including Eric Clapton and The Bee Gees..She is absolutely stunning too..
BEST VERSION OF THIS SONG EVER!
Barbara's has a quality that Yvonne's doesn't have, and Yvonne's has a quality that Barbara's doesn't have. I love them both. That should clear it up 👍
perfect assessment :)
Barbara is the original but Yvonne ABSOLUTELY PERFECTED this song
I fell in love with Hello Stranger at the age of 3 My father played this record a lot by Barbra Lewis. I still love it. At the age of 60 +
Never to old to listen to them oldie songs of the past "you go 60" from a 59er.
Me too
I use to listen to this in Monroe Louisiana in 1977 I loved the music then and now even more 😌because my wife is in Florida with her parent's its our anniversary ❤ not together but we will be Friday love her
I like both Barbra Lewis’ version and Yvonne’s, but Y’s version just moves me. Can’t explain.
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This woman’s vocals drives me crazy! Ever since I first heard her perform in the late 70’s, I have never been able to forget this version of this song!🎤❤️🎼🎶
I’m the same as a child of the 70s and I met her at a wedding of a family friend several years ago who she’s related to. She still sounds amazing and is very very sweet. Her voice is sexy, sweet and clean.
You got that right, Totally agree with You, She is the WORD AWESOME eh??
My grandmother used to love this song. She’s passed now. Today would’ve been her birthday 🥲❤️🙏🏾
Those eyes! That smile! That voice!!!
Romantic and beautiful music 🎵❤️
Ahh the memories 😊 yeah baby boomers enjoyed raw unadulterated music 🎶. Thank you for sharing ❤
Yvonne Elliman really did justice to this song.
It’s beautiful song by IVONNE ELLIMAN , HELLO STRANGER .
Best remake of a song EVER
Bueatiful song from the lovely Yvonne Elliman💘Always love her voice, videos and her appearance.
One of my all-time favorite songs!!
Original version by Barbara Lewis is what most of us grew up listening to. Different renditions but both really great.
Both versions of Hello Stranger by Barbara Lewis and Yvonne Elliman were big hits back in 1963 when Barbara Lewis took it to number three and was a hit again in 1977 when Yvonne Elliman took it to number fifteen. Great song by two great female singers.
One of my favorite songs
Beautiful lady, beautiful voice... 70's was a magical decade
Many probably don't know she was in Hair back then. Not sure if she was in the nude scene, but one can only imagine. The BeeGees wrote some very good music for her later.
Bruce Powell she was in Jesus Christ Superstar not Hair! She played Mary Magdeline.
+Sky Andropoulos I believe she was also in Hair, at leasf the stage version.
Nope!!
Dee Jones I was between 68 and the 70s.. all the music from that era was the greatest. We grew up with songs about love and peace and during the most tumultuous time of civil rights and Vietnam..music was and is my life. 56 years of keyboards..
Oh Oh i'm so glad I found this song.
I'm seventy years young and i love going back in time to dig up old memories that will last and live within me forever.
For a moment I am young again.
Pete Alba makes two of us Pete.
Pete Alba I'm one year younger than you. There is no music that is better
Yes Pete, I dance through the tears missing the ones that are no longer with us. At last count, I must celebrate for over 100 people. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. I dance with joy
Love it
Pete Alba I’ll be 70 in June, this song captures my heart every time I hear it, oh the memories!!!
Wish I could go back in time:))
There's something so pure about the 70s music. Nothing compares to the feeling listening to it brings back!
But this isn't 70s music. Barbara Lewis wrote and sang the original in 1961. Yvonne Elliman's 1977 version just has a disco beat added to it. The original is better.
60's classic Soul is the best and most important Soul music ever written. Sure, it's a great Inspiration for generations of singers and songwriters
I first heard this song performed by my friend Paula Estrada in 1962 and then in 1977 by Yvonne Elliman! To this day at 60+, this is one of my favorite all time songs!🙏🎤🎶❤️
This is an incredible beautiful talented singer with a soulful voice! This re-make sounds so much better than the original version from the early 1960's!
ditto
What a great version! Even ardent fans of the Barbara Lewis original have to say BRAVA Yvonne!!!! She too got to the summit. With either version you experience excellence.
With such magnetic, soul-rendering, ethereal voice, one would imagine she would make it much much bigger in the US pop chart....give her the credit for her true talent and skill, it surely is a MIGHTY LONG TIME~~ Yvonne, soldier on and SING LOUD and PROUD.
She was big for awhile...Jesus Christ Superstar era...
I never tire of hearing Yvonne's voice in this great song!!!!!
Yup
Me too...
Take me away beautiful song
Could listen to this live on the beach in hawaii Aloha Yvonne
I could listen to this song a million times a million...💋
I just have, it's so soothing 💞
She has a melodious voice, I really love her voice especially back then when I new married to my late wife we had fun with Yvonne Elliman songs
I remember when this remake came out in 77 ..life was so mugh better ...if god was to grant me anything I would ask to go back in time when life was beautiful love was in the air the world was at peace happines was everyday
I want to get out of 2020.. God.. please take me back to 70's
Wow her vocal delivery and treatment is luscious. Seamless, flowing,....
Sensual!
I've always loved this song. She sings it sooooo well.
One of the best voices ever! One of the very few contemporary singers who didnt have to shout to achieve rich clear resonant vocalization. And then, you could look at her a mighty long time!
Not even close. Karen Carpenter, Olivia Newton-John and many, many others are much better.
This is such a cool song my Brothers loved to play back in the day.I was still a kid but my Brothers would talk about their girlfreinds.I found myself day dreaming about this song when i got hit with "puppy love" with a girl in my class in the 5th grade.Wow!Brings back wonderful times...
+reddevilparatrooper thanks for sharing that. The music of that era brings back so much in the way of memories. Cheers. :)
daveinprogress3 Love them times too always...
🌹 For Ms. Elliman:
Lovely Yvonne,
of feminine spirit and song:
Thank you for gracing the days with
your beauty, as of the new dawn.
There's something very special about Yvonne. Her voice and demeanor are very pleasant such a nice Lady.
She one Island Gurl.
😁
Yu kno, da kine Pualani Vahine. 😃
Just perfect, better than the original, more emotion and a stronger voice.
This is one of those songs that I put on repeat and repeat and repeat.
I love everything about Yvonne,not just her music ,the total package,you have my admiration and respect.
I just keep listening. When I need to be picked up I always listen to this magical lady. All my best to her and sincere thanks 🙏
What a voice ... she gives me goosebumps.
She's awesome!!
Beautiful Yvonne. What a voice 👍✌️
My favourite version of this has always been the original by Barbara Lewis. But I would say that it is closely followed by this Yvonne Elliman version. But then again I would say that. I had the honour of dancing with this incredibly beautiful lady in around the late 1970s (maybe 77/78) at the lyceum ballroom just off the strand in London. Possibly she could have been over here promoting this song? Anyway I just remember what incredibly exotic & captivating eyes she had. & probably still has i imagine. I hope she remains safe & well to this day, and that she's in good health 😀💙
ONE LUCKY FELLOW, l must say
@@jessesandoval4970 Thank you. Yes i was & that night does still come to mind occasionally. Best wishes to you 😃
Carrie Lucas doesn't do a bad job either.
I’m here all the time . I come here often to listen to her voice . And I be loved this song from the first time I heard it . Way , way back in the 70 s . Great romantic partner song . ! Love it to the max !
have you found my extended video of the song yet?
This is all I listen to. My outstanding memories all the girls all the dances all the DJ,S we never stopped rocking in the 60,S and 70,s. Finest singers song writers and singing groups boys and girls!
As a kid I knew her voice was great, as an adult she is amazingly underrated.
I LIKE THE 1 BARBARA LEWIS DID AND I LIKE THIS 1💜💖💙THESE R MY FAVORITE VERSION💓💙💕💞💖💚💜💗
Who's still listening in 2019?
You are :) :) :)
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A Beautiful and Nostalgic Song...(Since 1963 - Barbara Lewis ...!)
Love it
Not me
I love this version! Yvonne’s voice is beautiful & her performance “knocks it out of the park!!”
MacGregor Poll
What a beautiful voice, this is the best version ever! Yvonne puts more feeling into it the other versions can't compete. I love this when it came out. Beautiful!
One of my very favs!!!.....still enjoying in 2021.
I thought Barbara Lewis' version was the best. But the more I listen to Yvonne the better I like it. Seems to be more soulful! Thumbs up all the way!
G.P. Pilon this is better than the Barbara Lewis version.
I think Barbara Lewis and Yvonne are just about equal singers. But the background vocals in Yvonne's version are just SO much better; in the original the backup singers are so far off key that it is hard to listen to.
+Dave Jones This definitely beats the Barbara Lewis version, but hers is also nice.
I agree Dave. Barbara Lewis brought me here! Loved her stuff when I was a kid (68 now).
G.P. Pilon a
Hello stranger, I'm so glad your back again.
I love her..70's seemed to have the best music and vocals..now its all about pop not complaining..but its different from yester year.i had to grow up with this music thanks to my mom...shes stuck in the 70's but its all good..
I'm stuck in the 70's and 80's.
the 70's produced the finest music of all time. It appeared that all the efforts of writing songs hit a magic something, at the same time, as if they matured into a procession of hits, as if they were organized to produce one after another and another. I was working in an automobile paint detail shop, next to a car wash, and Car Wash came on the loud speaker! I can imagine the people waiting for their cars had a little bounce in their step when that sound cut through the noise of sprayer nozzles.
Now that I remember, not even the stupid Beatle curse affected the seventies hits! I never thought of that before. Groovin', My Girl, Lady Marmalade and Signed Sealed Deliverd were among the tunes that made me move and tap my feet. I was forced, however, to learn that not everyone who moved, could really hear! They just copied those who could. The music could have had a religious connection, because it was toooo good. Like inspiration.
James Reder the 60's were the best
CatLovezTokioHotel music was at its peak at the change of the millennium but it was very good in the 60s and 70s.
What a great, great song, never will go out of style!
Who's still listening in 2024?
Me , love this song she’s a great voice
Just found this , makes me feel good
Me, on a Friday night. Just mellow.
Heck yeah... Was listening to Samantha Fish do this song. Couldn't help but think how much I missed the "doo-wop, doo-wop my baby" .
Cette chanson fait partie des dix chansons que j apporterai avec moi sur une île déserte avec une bible bien sûr..☀️☀️☀️☀️😉 ( Dominic)
Knew about this music jewel through a great friend who just passed away. Listening AND remembering him
Listen with pleasure in 2020
😊😀😁😆😃😄🤗🤩😁😄
From Thailand
# Land of smile 😀😊😃😁
Sawadee!
I was with my mom in front of Safeway market in Kaneohe doing the cha-cha when we heard this song. Makes me cry the old days were so beautiful.
Hawaii's gift to popular music.
❤❤❤my soul dancing with this soulful melody...
God this is the best remake I have ever heard just fantastic!!!
One of my favourite tunes of all time. This version as well.
Great remake of a classic but check out Samantha Fish's version.
@@ronvogt00 I heard that. 2010s had mostly bad music but that cover is surprisingly great. That sounds like an influence by Ebony Alleyne (check her cover). Barbara Lewis would be so proud.
Totally agree she is the best over looked, under appreciated singer ever.
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Are we listening in 2020. Glad as it takes me away from the terrible Corona Virus news.
yep, hello stranger - there's tons of good music to click on to take you away from all the chaos. Take care, cheers; Dave
Beautiful voice, beautiful sound, beautiful woman!! Good song!
AGREE al the way. 👍
She is a living doll. Forgot about her til I heard this song again. One of my favorites.
Phenomenal vocalist.. with an original sound.. the minute she sings you know it's Yvonne elliman
Age is but a number. We live and enjoy life then we die.
But while I'm alive I'm holding on to all my youthful memories that keep me young at heart.
I have loved and lost so many special people throught my life.
And after so so many years, I have not forgot you. Live on love on.
what a beautiful comment, Pete, thank you so much for sharing such special thoughts on this clip. My best wishes and regards to you, Dave
A beautiful comment. Love to you!
This song has been sick in my head all day😅
Yvonne is a doll! Love her and her music!
Me too !!
Mark Lindsay of The Raiders?
Uh, no I'm not. Don't even like the Raiders. LOL...
Si es una muñequita!!
I would smash hard 😁😁😁➕➕➕🏃🏃🏃🙌🙌🙌🍭🐹
Outstanding! What a way to end a long day; Saturday night rocking to the oldies! Great job indeed!
Yvonne Elliman is such a beautiful and talented singer! This was a fantastic re-make of "Hello Stranger"!
Michael Williams neg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden I heard my momma cry late December in Chicago time never gonna leave
Beautiful.just beautiful
It's a 1,000 times better than the original!!!
Try the extended version, lay back & enjoy 👴🏼😍
Esta canção é apaixonante
Songs like this remind me of my beautiful nana Carmen 😭💞 May she rest in peace with God… He knows I miss her so much .. 😢 1951-2023 😭
this song gives me a good feeling
This is definitely the best version - love Yvonne she has a beautiful voice, and soo pretty
Both versions are great.
Old evonne ellemon
Try other versions by Carrie Lucas, Queen Latifah, The Supremes & The Four Tops, Ebony Alleyne and Samantha Fish.
Yes I agree.
Absolutely me!!! Still listening, at 58, hope I still can for another 30 years at best !!!
She is my friends "Auntie" here in in Hawaii and beautiful inside and out. LOL
+Montgomery Denzer Tell her thank you for her beautiful voice. She had quite an impact on us born-again Christian Sisters when Jesus Christ Superstar came out. Boy, those were the days..........
Thank her as well for me. Puts a smile on my face to hear her music!
+Montgomery Denzer that's prettycool.If you could you might mention the comments section on her vids for her to see that people are still diggin her songs and the memories she left us..let em' return some of the good vibes back to her :)
Montgomery Denzer Please tell her through your family that we still enjoy her voice, her music and her soul. She is fantastic.
Let your friend's "auntie", know she is missed, but never forgotten.
she hits me right in the heart with a good feeling
I was going to college in Joplin, MO, and this was a hit over there. I know all three of the radio stations at the time gave it plenty of play time, which was fine by me. One of the few songs that I never got tired of, and it's still my favorite 39 years later.
Wow. Que lindo haber encontrado este tema..
What a beautiful smile
beautiful song takes me back to my past ....song is amazing thank you Yvonne Elliman
Clean, Clear,Music! (Class of 71)-FSIS.Lawton Oklahoma.
Timeless Song! Lovely Lady, I love you.great tune and beautiful voice. Thanks.
"Hello Stranger" has always, always been one of my favorite songs, from the first moments I heard it on the radio, back then. Few other songs come close. Interesting to see how its reception was so lukewarm, which, I having always loved it, just baffles me.
Pretty lady from Hawaii with a beautiful voice. Much Mahalo!
love her voice!!
I never heard this song,before I heard it on boom radio,love it.
So many wonderful slow dances to the song with the ladies at the discos Memories that will always be cherished thank you Yvonne
I never tire of this....everything that is lush and swish oozing class is contained in this sweet song. I will die a happy man in that I grew up in this plush era of music..........Simply Bravura
Her smooth breathy voice really nails this song. I come back to it every now and again. A real keeper for any music collection.
Well said!!!!!
My goodness , I never new Yvonne Elliman sang this song . Beautiful song , beautiful lady .
Damn, she was gorgeous.
She still is!
Darry
For sure!
Brings back so many memories of a better world.
I love the way she sings this song
My older sister said that the original by Barbara Lewis was 'the bomb,' and I agree. Yvonne Elliman takes it another level. BOTH are superb!
By a mile Yvonnes' best vocal - superb!!