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  • "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon
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    Chorus:
    Kodachrome
    They give us those nice bright colors
    They give us the greens of summers
    Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah
    I got a Nikon camera
    I love to take a photograph
    So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
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  • @donovanalex9751
    @donovanalex9751 2 месяца назад +58

    Today this song broke me down... My mom loved it and any time it came on and she'd turn it up, I would get mad for whatever reason. I now LOVE this song, it grew incredibly on me... especially the ending, hell, even my kids like it... and I never got the chance to tell my mom that one song that made me mad is blasted at my house and it breaks my heart. LOVE YOU MOM!!❤❤

    • @theeatmebeatmelady8620
      @theeatmebeatmelady8620 2 месяца назад

      You think grownups dont kno what bratty little shits they’re raising?? Honey, SHE KNOWS it was just angst. Dont let it break ur heart your heart should only FEEL like its going. To explode from all the joy and love and blessings

    • @LimaWhiskey48
      @LimaWhiskey48 2 месяца назад +4

      It gets easier with time, she knows , she still can see you every day from heaven ❤️

    • @osnat057
      @osnat057 15 дней назад +1

      My heart goes out to you so much, I know what you're talking about. And along with the pain, it's a wonderful memory!

  • @joeyd.7428
    @joeyd.7428 4 месяца назад +81

    Be 68 Friday, this song brings back some great times, great memories.

    • @suzannewolf5062
      @suzannewolf5062 4 месяца назад +1

      Me too ! Hello from France😊😀

    • @ishaa5948
      @ishaa5948 4 месяца назад

      Happy Birthday to u both. My sister's was the next day. 🙏

    • @jamesskelton2988
      @jamesskelton2988 3 месяца назад

      @joeyd.7428 happy belated bday🎉!Ah,good times!I am 64 and have been listening to a particular Beatles song (when I'm 64)that brings back great memories,but also gives me a reality slap!It's nice to listen to this and smile😊!

    • @Marms41
      @Marms41 2 месяца назад

      I will be 68 june 28th,happy Birthday

    • @davidfinnegan9162
      @davidfinnegan9162 22 дня назад

      Keep rocking

  • @adamholtz733
    @adamholtz733 3 года назад +268

    Best line in a song goes to this one !!!! " When I think back on all the crap I learned in High School . It's a wonder I can think at all . " Pure poetry !!!

    • @sherriffwiggles4515
      @sherriffwiggles4515 3 года назад +3

      😂👍🏻

    • @lrkk3698
      @lrkk3698 Год назад +8

      And all the girls I knew when I was single, what a concept.

    • @lioneldubinsky7553
      @lioneldubinsky7553 Год назад +8

      considering that Paul's father was a high school teacher......

    • @bh9225
      @bh9225 Год назад

      Trur

    • @meme2514
      @meme2514 Год назад +4

      That is the hook because everyone can relate. ❤

  • @Inspiringsuccess2
    @Inspiringsuccess2 6 дней назад +1

    Never will forget the very first time I heard this song. That next summer I got my first camera: a Kodak Instamatic and I fell in love with film. This song is the songtrack of my youth!

  • @topnotch99
    @topnotch99 6 лет назад +2511

    First memory of this song: Summer 1972 or 1973. It’s on the AM radio. I am 12 and in the backseat of my mom’s 1965 Pontiac Safari station wagon. It’s hot. It’s summer. No a/c so the windows are all down. We are crossing the Savannah River into Georgia and downtown Savannah. I can still smell the paper mills and swampy acrid smell. We are on a long drive back to Miami. No interstates. This song blew me away. I can still smell that paper mill and see that bridge in my mind when I hear this song. Everything’s going to be ok.

    • @willard2729
      @willard2729 6 лет назад +82

      Well said...I have a picture in my mind and I've never been there.

    • @christophers.o622
      @christophers.o622 6 лет назад +30

      Mark Martin that song was in the summer of 1973 during the time I used to love summer, and now I hate summer where I live at in Arizona. Iended up there because of the Clinton military base closures in California, Colorado,Florida.

    • @toddroberson1663
      @toddroberson1663 6 лет назад +49

      Very vivid memories of this song for me so well. 11 years old first noticing girls at Westwood Swim Club in Indianapolis. A girl named Lisa and i went out in the woods by the club singing this song and made out by a stream called Eagle Creek. We could hear the chorus floating out from the club loudspeaker into the woods. She let me touch her boob. In fact, I think she put my hand on her boob.
      Thanks Paul!

    • @19boulder11
      @19boulder11 5 лет назад +43

      I live in Savannah right now listening to this as I smoke a cigar on my balcony.

    • @ricarleite
      @ricarleite 5 лет назад +27

      THAT'S a great memory. My memory of this song sucks. It reminds me of the Coneheads movie.

  • @AyeCarumba221
    @AyeCarumba221 3 года назад +125

    I’ll always have a very special association with this song. In about 1973 there was a store in Berkeley called Pacific Stereo. As a thirteen-year-old, I would go down there and drool at of of the wonderful electronic goodies. One day a salesman popped Kodachrome into a really nice system, and cranked it. It was as if I saw God for the first time. I had never known music with this high of fidelity and crispness. It felt like Paul Simon was there playing in the same room with me. Hearing this song always brings that moment right back to me. Even 48 years later.What brought me here today is an interview with the guy who was the drummer on this track, and he tells the story of working at the Muscle Shoals studio and what they had to do to get this exact sound of the drummer. It just gives me a whole new appreciation of this song and the musicians behind it.

    • @jbuchana
      @jbuchana 7 месяцев назад +1

      I have a similar memory of hearing Rainbow's "The Gates of Babylon" on a good set of headphones. Magic. Every time I hear that song, it takes me back.

    • @billhorstkamp98
      @billhorstkamp98 4 месяца назад +1

      I remember Pacific stereo. There was a few of them in the bay area. Yeah where did the time go man

    • @Jay-gy5hs
      @Jay-gy5hs 3 месяца назад +1

      We had Pacific Stereo in Ft Worth, Tx. I loved that store!

  • @anthonyhoey6394
    @anthonyhoey6394 Год назад +7

    I've converted my kids to some of the old stuff like Paul Simon,the stones,James Taylor,Crosby Stills and Nash etc,I know one day they will be greatful for this,all the greats are passing on,rip David Crosby.Greetings from Ireland .

  • @jessicatabler7272
    @jessicatabler7272 2 года назад +44

    My Dad use to put my sister and I on his feet and dance with us when this song came on!! Miss him so much!!

    • @theeatmebeatmelady8620
      @theeatmebeatmelady8620 15 дней назад

      @@jessicatabler7272 my uncle's used to do this .. I'd completely forgotten about this! Thank you i

  • @captaineasychord1
    @captaineasychord1 3 года назад +45

    Kodachrome was one of those songs that defined the summer of 1973. I was 10 years old and all the world was a sunny day indeed whenever that song came on the radio. Bad, Bad Leeroy Brown and Shambala were also great summer ‘73 listens.

  • @debraalexander7967
    @debraalexander7967 Год назад +23

    The guest speaker at our graduation assembly in 1976 played a clip of this song: "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school". The place just erupted with applause, shouting and whistles. It will forever live on my memory as one of the greatest speech intros ever!!! Makes me smile every time I hear the song.

  • @user-gk1qo2hb7y
    @user-gk1qo2hb7y 22 часа назад

    Takes me back to the summer of 73 as a kid. What a time to be aIive, I remember my dad always liked this song.

  • @robertsteffes5487
    @robertsteffes5487 Год назад +35

    Who is here because Paul Simon is just that damn good? 🙂

  • @larrywiesner893
    @larrywiesner893 7 месяцев назад +60

    This song takes you back to the incredible 70's. What great times as a teenager.

    • @KristNi
      @KristNi 4 месяца назад +1

      Takes me back to 1980s. I wasn't born in the 1970s

    • @Evsta
      @Evsta 2 месяца назад

      @@KristNi Takes me back to around 1862. I listened to Paul Simon a lot during the civil war. Helped me get through the pain when I had to amputate all 5 of my arms and my 2 dicks

  • @corndooxjuliodorado7494
    @corndooxjuliodorado7494 10 месяцев назад +24

    I love this song. Never gets old!

  • @postmastersgt1670
    @postmastersgt1670 10 месяцев назад +47

    The "Coneheads" will forever bring me back here. I didnt understand the lyrics when I was young but as an adult you totally get it.

    • @TrinaGallo
      @TrinaGallo 2 месяца назад +1

      I fell in love with this song from Coneheads too! But my (55 yr old) partner had to explain SOME of the lyrics! I totally forgot about buying film and putting it into the camera! 😂 For real!

  • @frankgiancola7
    @frankgiancola7 5 месяцев назад +10

    Most of us forgot about this amazing song by Paul Simon

  • @edwardpasby5051
    @edwardpasby5051 8 лет назад +707

    One of the best songs of the 70's. Practically everything Paul Simon has done is excellent

    • @luckpenn5780
      @luckpenn5780 6 лет назад +4

      Edward Pasby

    • @nataliemanda1036
      @nataliemanda1036 6 лет назад +10

      I agree, I struggle to find fault with his songs.

    • @patriciadavies5651
      @patriciadavies5651 6 лет назад +1

      Did Simon stop and add silences to it in the 70's? It sounded different...

    • @lloydkline7245
      @lloydkline7245 5 лет назад +2

      Edward Pasby love paul Simon

    • @rubyblack6682
      @rubyblack6682 5 лет назад +1

      Agreed 100% I grew up listening to him with my mom and will do the same with my kids.

  • @davidmarine5159
    @davidmarine5159 Год назад +13

    I remember hearing it in '83-84, being about 4 years old and being blown away, but having to ask my mom what , Kodachrome' was.. she showed me older family pictures in the format and it clicked! Awesome tune

  • @JamesBrown-nu8vk
    @JamesBrown-nu8vk Год назад +13

    This is DEFINITELY 1 of the most UPLIFTING songs 🎵 ever in History ABSOLUTELY!

  • @KB-sv7fm
    @KB-sv7fm 4 года назад +98

    This song reminds me of my older brother. He loved this song. He passed away a few years ago. He was one of those very bright students who found high school BORING. He loved the first line of this song. He once told me that he listened to this song every day. Every time I hear this song I think of him. I love it too.

    • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
      @MichaelClark-uw7ex 3 года назад +9

      I can relate, I was one of those too, I bet he never studied either.
      Got beat up more than once for blowing the grading curve.
      May your brother rest in peace.

    • @KB-sv7fm
      @KB-sv7fm 3 года назад +6

      @@MichaelClark-uw7ex Thank you. My brother always had his head in a book. He was just years ahead of what they were teaching in high school.

    • @SpeegBJ
      @SpeegBJ 2 года назад +4

      I hear you....I hope you have favorite photo of your brother this camera song reminds you of. My former husband was a photographer.....when this tune came out! We used to sing it outloud all the time going to photo shoots. He died a few years ago. I can't listen to the song and not love every photo he took and still have.

    • @KB-sv7fm
      @KB-sv7fm 2 года назад +2

      @@SpeegBJ Thanks for sharing. Be well.

    • @bradleyherbert2170
      @bradleyherbert2170 5 месяцев назад +1

      love this song.😊😊

  • @bubbaray8670
    @bubbaray8670 2 года назад +8

    I heard this song on my cool grandma's Walkman in 1988. She's the reason I love these old songs. I was fascinated by that Walkman back then being able to listen to head phones and nobody else could hear it. I was 4 years old. Great memories,🤣

  • @gerardorodolfocaceresespin3922
    @gerardorodolfocaceresespin3922 Год назад +25

    Después de 50 años no he olvidado esa canción, es buenísima, viva en la memoria de quienes la conocimos.

  • @ABock4
    @ABock4 Месяц назад +3

    The music of Paul Simon is something that I recently re-discovered after hearing him some while growing up. One of the great talents to ever do it.

  • @MrAlleghany
    @MrAlleghany 7 лет назад +242

    When the world gets me down this song never fails to cheer me up.

  • @petergarcia589
    @petergarcia589 3 года назад +44

    Carrie said it best, "If Paul Simon wants to write a song about you. Let him!!!"

  • @Steve-yo4ld
    @Steve-yo4ld Год назад +10

    Here I am again, Pauls music never ages, what a time it was to be young and innocent with our whole life ahead of us!❤

  • @duggie6717
    @duggie6717 3 года назад +32

    First heard this awesome Paul Simon song on the radio in the summer of 1973 while working a college summer job at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester New York ... worked in a huge darkroom in Building 25 at Kodak Park making Kodachrome film with other college kids ... I probably made over half a million rolls of film over three summers ... this song was kind of our "work anthem"!

    • @disphoto
      @disphoto 9 месяцев назад +1

      I worked in an intern program in the summer of 1973 at the Kodak Hawkeye Works building (Art Deco on the Genesee River). I was studying Electrical Engineering and learned that that Kodak was a silver haloid chemistry company so not a great career path (I ended up in semiconductors). Still, the song Kodachrome, which was playing everywhere on the radio that summer (almost 3 decades before the iPod and even about one decade ahead of the Walkman becoming popular), brings back memories of that summer in Rochester NY.

  • @collinsnider4179
    @collinsnider4179 3 года назад +130

    One of those songs that can get stuck in your head for DAYS!

  • @KristNi
    @KristNi 9 месяцев назад +7

    Its amazing these how much older songs are so sentimental to younger people and generations across different races. Its truly amazing how great these artists and songs are

  • @bigdonnydeee8696
    @bigdonnydeee8696 2 года назад +374

    I’m 23, and I’m hoping that my generation and the generation after ours never forgets this incredible display of music.

    • @nomiddlenamenmn427
      @nomiddlenamenmn427 2 года назад +10

      I agree. These are The Founding Fathers and Mothers of Rock.

    • @alpaca1775
      @alpaca1775 2 года назад +3

      Ew

    • @mattyian1208
      @mattyian1208 2 года назад +12

      I’m 23 also and I love this classic music as well, and I was born in 1998.

    • @willyjames8300
      @willyjames8300 2 года назад +9

      @@mattyian1208 Listen to Graceland and Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes. Album of the year 1987. Then read how and WHO he recorded it with.

    • @lawrenceaisingioro8045
      @lawrenceaisingioro8045 Год назад +1

      Never❤

  • @glenmaurizio630
    @glenmaurizio630 11 месяцев назад +30

    Greatest Summer song ever written!!! Loved it since the day it was released and still do just as much today!!!!!

    • @Steve-yo4ld
      @Steve-yo4ld 11 месяцев назад +2

      Amen, and what awesome memories! I'd go back in a heartbeat!✌️

    • @cynthiadavis3749
      @cynthiadavis3749 10 месяцев назад +1

    • @matthewcollinsmc
      @matthewcollinsmc 10 месяцев назад +2

      Can we call it a tie with Good Vibrations? :)

  • @tamd8802
    @tamd8802 3 года назад +7

    I hear this song and I'm a kid of 12 again, riding my bicycle in the summer without a care or worry in the world. What I wouldnt give to go back to those days.
    Another great Muscle Shoals AL hit. I never realized growing up that just across the river hit songs were being made left and right. The drummer for this song and many others from Muscle Shoals passed away last week. RIP Roger Hawkins. You left a legacy of amazing performances. Rock on. ❤🎵🥁

  • @michaelstein7995
    @michaelstein7995 3 года назад +248

    what a rollercoaster of a song. tempo changes, great lyrics, and a great voice..... and memories. Paul is a genius.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +4

      Beautifully produced too

    • @alabhaois
      @alabhaois 2 года назад +2

      He sure is!!! 👍👍

    • @jacobstoecker458
      @jacobstoecker458 Год назад +5

      Such a minor thing, but that piano swipe really energizes the song and it's lyrics

    • @msb8013
      @msb8013 Год назад +2

      What tempo changes? There might be a bar or two of odd meter.

    • @hmackie6823
      @hmackie6823 Год назад

      yeah,but for a musical genius,he has his political head up his ass

  • @barryallender8694
    @barryallender8694 2 года назад +7

    H.S. Class of '75 and I love this song.

  • @stevelinwood8362
    @stevelinwood8362 Месяц назад +10

    The 70s had the Music! Rock,Disco,Pop,R&B.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @chriswarburtonbrown1566
    @chriswarburtonbrown1566 10 месяцев назад +4

    When I had just turned 18 I went to work on a farm in Scotland. I had a handful of tapes from a second hand store, and this album was one of them. I listened to it over and over again. 32 years later I can still smell the damp in my little caravan... so many powerful memories of the first steps into adult life.

  • @jakematic
    @jakematic Год назад +5

    Reminds me of hearing this on AM as we pulled up to Arthur Treachers in the jalopy. As a pro, and old man, this song is special

  • @NunyaBSwax-xr9gn
    @NunyaBSwax-xr9gn 3 года назад +7

    This dude can write!!!! Love me some Paul Simon!

  • @amayz111
    @amayz111 8 месяцев назад +142

    I’m 17, this is such a wholesome song I only just found Paul Simon and i think ill stay around for a while

    • @HighOnTheSound
      @HighOnTheSound 6 месяцев назад +5

      The album “Graceland” is a masterpiece

    • @user-sd5qy3ng8q
      @user-sd5qy3ng8q 6 месяцев назад +6

      you should sing mama dont take my iphone

    • @mbrow
      @mbrow 6 месяцев назад +4

      So glad you have discovered PS's music! Paul was in a duo, Simon and Garfunkel, prior to going solo. Make sure to check them out because they had some iconic hits as well.

    • @sydneydesimone6323
      @sydneydesimone6323 6 месяцев назад +1

      I discovered Simon&Garfunkel when I was a Junior in high school and fell in love - haven’t left since. I teach music now to kids in high school and talk about Paul Simon all the time 😂 it comes full circle. They’re the best! Stick around!!

    • @kristinfrederick6867
      @kristinfrederick6867 5 месяцев назад +2

      Welcome! Pull up a chair, stay a while, and enjoy the tunes. 😎

  • @ralphbishop5096
    @ralphbishop5096 7 лет назад +1232

    I am 76. and have been a rocker since age 13 = this is a GREAT song!

    • @vincent-dd8xk
      @vincent-dd8xk 5 лет назад +43

      Whoa take it easy there, POPS!!

    • @ericfelds6291
      @ericfelds6291 5 лет назад +53

      This is the best comment I’ve had the pleasure of stumbling on in all my internet wanderings. Keep rocking bro!

    • @jifreed49
      @jifreed49 5 лет назад +22

      you wouldn't have been here without us@TCBTT

    • @elisecliftonklitz
      @elisecliftonklitz 5 лет назад +8

      @TCBTT we all have Pluto in Leo, us boomers🐯

    • @subwayeatfrisch
      @subwayeatfrisch 5 лет назад +15

      Happy belated 77th b day!

  • @brettwatson-will3388
    @brettwatson-will3388 19 дней назад +1

    Fantastic song by a fantastic singer. Paul Simon you are a legend.,

  • @JOANNAMADAMS
    @JOANNAMADAMS 5 лет назад +6

    I can still hear Kasey Kasem announcing this song on the top 40.
    One of the best songs of the 70's. Practically everything Paul Simon has done is excellent
    1972 wow! I love this song!

  • @calcium.8454
    @calcium.8454 Год назад +5

    17 years old and I dance and just light up so much when I listen to this song. I knew it from my dad and Coneheads haha so I grew up listening to it but it's truly a soul toucher. Just makes me feel so good

  • @johnhummer265
    @johnhummer265 10 месяцев назад +2

    This single alone, made Paul Simon, not only an American legend, but also an American icon,.......forever!!

  • @mrsbluesky8415
    @mrsbluesky8415 2 года назад +11

    Reminds me of my first summer back in the States from Japan. I was 13 and we stayed at my cousin’s house for about a month and did what teens did, going to the mall, eating ice cream, swimming. And this song playing in the background! What great memories.

  • @mkl62
    @mkl62 5 лет назад +7

    A #2 hit for Paul Simon in the Summer of 1973. It also hit #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts and also on the Cash Box charts. Ditto in Canada and New Zealand. It went to #3 on the Canadian AC charts, #8 in France, #15 in The Netherlands, #17 in Spain, and #20 in Australia.

  • @matambale
    @matambale 3 года назад +7

    First record I ever owned. Sister gave it to me as a birthday present. Great album. Great sister.

  • @alfreddeflorio7938
    @alfreddeflorio7938 11 месяцев назад +10

    This song is very special to me. It was June 18th in 1990. I was on a bus headed to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. I joined the Army and I was headed to Ft Dix NJ for basic training. The bus had a radio, and this song started playing. Now I've loved Simon and Garfunkel, so I knew this song well. The part of the song that really hit me, was the line "Mama don't take my Kodachrome and leave your boy so far from home "... I was a 17 year old kid who signed up for an awesome adventure, and I was on my own for the first time. Hard to believe it's been 33 years ago, but it's a sweet memory I'll never forget. I ended up retiring after 22 years of service. Looking back, Paul Simon helped me start the adventure of a lifetime

  • @user-se1rx8st6z
    @user-se1rx8st6z 2 года назад +3

    I heard this song at first in 1978, when I was a freshman in university. I am impressed very strongly. Thanks a lot☆.
    South Korea

  • @brennonhoward7835
    @brennonhoward7835 8 лет назад +383

    Paul Simon is a rather gifted writer and is more than sufficient when it comes to making a pleasing melody, perhaps one of the greatest musicians I've heard so far.

    • @lenaryder6325
      @lenaryder6325 7 лет назад +2

      Brennon Howard love the music great beat!

    • @paulb111
      @paulb111 5 лет назад +2

      Please don't forget to mention what a great singer he is too.

    • @TyVerte
      @TyVerte 4 года назад +8

      ​@Daddy Daddio He's definitely up there with the top: just his solo career is maddening: Duncan, Still Crazy After All These Years (that bridge!), Graceland, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard. Then what about with Simon and Garfuknel? Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sound of Silence, The Boxer, Mrs. Robinson, So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright, the list goes on and on. Maybe McCartney and Lennon may edge him but he's definitely right up there with the top of the top in my books! A master songwriter and lyricist!

    • @dreugh424
      @dreugh424 4 года назад

      @Daddy Daddio You see, that's the wonder of opinions. Neither of you is wrong, neither of you is right.

    • @stevekearney5340
      @stevekearney5340 2 года назад +2

      @@dreugh424 Anytime family & friends are talking about music Paul is the #1 name I throw out there as The GOAT.

  • @julietanner7084
    @julietanner7084 2 года назад

    Fabulous Paul Simon!!!

  • @ladyhonor822
    @ladyhonor822 Год назад +7

    I will carry the song until the day I die.
    My daddy sung it to me since I got here.
    Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲 AMEN ☦️🙏😇❤️💋

  • @jamesjohnson2900
    @jamesjohnson2900 7 лет назад +467

    Let's not forget the amazing studio band who was backing him at Muscle Shoals. Barry Beckett on piano, David Hood on bass, etc. These guys MADE this album with their playing. Simon's work is amazing. But so much more goes into the making of a great record than just writing the songs. Vibe, engineering, studio cats who know a great feel, and get out of the way of that great song. All these things are what your hearing, but very few acknowledge them. Go take a look at some of the names of the players, then Google their names, and take a look at the hits they've recorded on. Believe me, it's not just a coincidence.

    • @arlenjohnson8820
      @arlenjohnson8820 6 лет назад +27

      The sign of a great musician is one who surrounds him or herself with other great musicians (and sound engineers, artists, etc). Paul Simon is therefore one of the truly greats.

    • @garyfrazier5414
      @garyfrazier5414 6 лет назад +4

      Dixie Hummingbirds!

    • @dsparkstbbucs
      @dsparkstbbucs 6 лет назад +21

      That piano is on point!

    • @kenperk9854
      @kenperk9854 6 лет назад +15

      David Sparks Barry Beckett, probably the greatest, most versatile keyboardist in music history. Check him out on My Little Town, Main Street, We've Got Tonight, I'll Take You There and on and on. Google him and check his Discogs rap sheet.

    • @bobmoslow9554
      @bobmoslow9554 5 лет назад +4

      to back up your point...try "Late in the Evening"!

  • @davidhugaert8006
    @davidhugaert8006 5 лет назад +15

    I love this 1973 Paul Simon hit, which peaked @ #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart!!!
    Bravo, Paul Simon!!!

  • @shiloazriel3267
    @shiloazriel3267 9 месяцев назад +3

    paul simon truly has some rhythm to his voice that none other have

  • @James-tt7vg
    @James-tt7vg 2 года назад +2

    One of my early youthful favorites...Loved it ! Man brings back some memories of early 70's rock...so many great innocent songs...before they were corrupted with older life's lessons. "Bubble Gum Rock" Thanks for the memories Paul ! "Rock On David Essex"...Had Too.

  • @brentmoss3134
    @brentmoss3134 2 года назад +3

    My mother and I listened to this song often when I was growing up. She worked at Kodak making Kodachrome film. I love her and miss her very much.

  • @BenDudley-zw2hh
    @BenDudley-zw2hh Месяц назад +10

    My dad died last week, this was his favorite song

  • @SimonMas
    @SimonMas 3 месяца назад +1

    roger hawkins on drums is the hero of this song. i don't care what you say, but if you just zoom into his playing, he's the boss. collected, precise, never seems to sweat it out, it always has the song under control, it gradually increases the steam from 1:49 until the song goes in cut time for the ending, and i can really see him, calmly banging on his drum like he was drinking a glass of water. fantastic.

  • @paperbakriter77
    @paperbakriter77 Год назад +1

    I'm 45, listening to it with my 24 year old, Paul! Lol 😆 Your music will be FOREVER be RELEVANT AND AWESOME! 🥰✌🏼💯

  • @jperschino
    @jperschino 8 лет назад +96

    18 when this song was released. Still evokes the same feeling of euphoria and toe tapping as do most of Mr Simon's songs. Thanks for posting and Thankfully he shared his music with us all.

    • @babeeblues
      @babeeblues 5 лет назад +3

      I ain't the only one in whom this gem also resonates w/ some poignancy. Even the best of times, our fondest memories: we can never quite capture all they were. While, to me, we can never quite capture all we'd want even in the best times we've had. I dearly hope, recall these as intoxicating, resonating mightily. Yet, as it turns out w/ basic quantum mechanics, trying to capture, distill our most blissful moments bound to fall short; even impact for the worse in the very moments we oughta be as fully engaged in as we can.

    • @squishmastah4682
      @squishmastah4682 3 года назад

      This song brings me joy even as it brings tears to my eyes.

  • @ChicagoBeaver
    @ChicagoBeaver 3 года назад +5

    I love this song! It just show's the brilliance of Mr. Simon. The perfect summer song.

  • @krypton1982
    @krypton1982 3 года назад +31

    This song randomly popped up in my head out of the blue. Needed to hear it.

    • @sandrab601
      @sandrab601 3 месяца назад +1

      Me, too, just now!

  • @stephenwahl8740
    @stephenwahl8740 3 года назад +4

    every boy should given this song on his first day in high school....truly words to live by

  • @gregduck7455
    @gregduck7455 Год назад +5

    Like other comments, yeah, this song is so summer of 1973. Takes me back to being a carefree 15 year old boy, heatwave, wearing nothing but my cut-off jean shorts & Northstar runners. Walking my dog Dixie & goofing off with my friends. My Dad doing BBQ on our house's sundeck. Going to the beach in my Uncle Brent's 1962 Chev Acadian convertible. Great song.

    • @Steve-yo4ld
      @Steve-yo4ld Год назад

      Those were the days for sure, how did the last 50 years fly by so damn fast!?😢

  • @wardharrah55
    @wardharrah55 6 лет назад +9

    this is the first song I really remember as a little kid...I remember my parents cranking up the volume in the car whenever it would come on...Thanks for posting!!!

  • @fobbitoperator3620
    @fobbitoperator3620 Год назад +2

    There's some polka influences in this magnificent tune!

  • @johnwomack8049
    @johnwomack8049 11 дней назад +1

    Since there's no more Kodachrome, why doesn't some singer come up with a song about taking pictures with their cellphone and young kids with their noses always stuck in said phone!!!!😂❤😊

  • @amberpalmer892
    @amberpalmer892 3 года назад +9

    I am 14 and I love this type of music it really brings out the day of a sunny day

  • @huskiefilms7080
    @huskiefilms7080 2 года назад +5

    I’m 19 and this is better than Alot of new music

  • @AM-wd1wy
    @AM-wd1wy 4 года назад +2

    "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, It's a wonder I can think at all" -Paul Simon. That was a high school quote they didn't let me use.

  • @MichaelMurray-id2vj
    @MichaelMurray-id2vj 10 месяцев назад +8

    I'm 66years old and I still like this song

  • @lowteck1955
    @lowteck1955 Год назад +3

    Paul is a musical genius.

  • @Kristinapedia
    @Kristinapedia Год назад +3

    I may be only 52 but damn I love me some paul simon and simon and garfunkel! I remember going to the music store (The Wall) in the mid 90's and would buy a Metallica cassette along with a Simon and Garfunkel cassette.. Strange combination lol. I love it all!

  • @Explosive-Variety
    @Explosive-Variety 11 месяцев назад +3

    I was born in 1980, oldies were in my ear, when I was being brought up. I love this so much i burn it up, what's even worse is that I listen to many varieties of music and people look at me. But I'm good with that.

  • @sandraa2971
    @sandraa2971 Месяц назад +1

    This song makes me feel happy and wish I can go back in time with my own camera. I loved taking pictures with my cannon., Minolta with actual film.

  • @vivievei6298
    @vivievei6298 3 года назад +1045

    I’m a black 27 year old from the hood of Detroit😭😭😂😂🤣🗣. And i fucking love this song. I guess because i loved watching coneheads and this song always had me dancing. Makes me feel euphoric!

    • @arthurmorgan7642
      @arthurmorgan7642 3 года назад +48

      You see, that's what I mean. It doesn't matter where what when and how your raised, you can still have a different opinion then the majority of the people in that neighborhood listening to rap. Most stereotypes aren't true you know (I'm as white as white can physically be btw)

    • @kenperk9854
      @kenperk9854 3 года назад +2

      Roger Hawkins of the legendary Swampers didn't play the drums on this song. He played a cracker box! Talk about musical geniuses, the Swampers were! They didn't make a movie Called Muscle Shoals for nothing. Watch it and learn more about music history than you thought possible.

    • @michaelderoche5661
      @michaelderoche5661 3 года назад +13

      It don't matter if you are a sister roll with it!! That's what it's about!

    • @G.H.O.S.T.F.I.R.E
      @G.H.O.S.T.F.I.R.E 3 года назад +24

      .....So you're black and you don't feel guilty about listening to white people sing songs. Congratulations.

    • @vivievei6298
      @vivievei6298 3 года назад +12

      @@arthurmorgan7642 that’s exactly what I meant lol!

  • @justinwakeling2966
    @justinwakeling2966 Месяц назад +7

    My new stepdad became my dad in 1975. He was a photographer and used a Nikon camera. It's my childhood.

  • @danielfloyd1442
    @danielfloyd1442 2 года назад +1

    THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVORITE PAUL SIMON SONG I'M THIRTY YEARS OLD AND THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS SONG WAS FROM THE MOVIE CONEHEADS!!! 90'S BABY!!!

  • @SteveGamlin
    @SteveGamlin Год назад +2

    Still smiling...after all these years.
    Another example of a song that never ages.
    3:36 of joy.

  • @ILLIFIED77
    @ILLIFIED77 Год назад +25

    My dad who just died made me listen to this all the time. I will miss him. Thank you Paul for keeping his memory alive ❤️

    • @lillieauger1900
      @lillieauger1900 Год назад

      My condolences.

    • @ILLIFIED77
      @ILLIFIED77 Год назад

      @@lillieauger1900 thank you Lillie

    • @nilsberger9524
      @nilsberger9524 Год назад

      @@ILLIFIED77 Well memories, car washing on saturday evenings in western germany in the mid80s.

    • @dzapp98
      @dzapp98 Год назад +1

      Your Dad had great taste! God bless his soul!

    • @felixarredondo7016
      @felixarredondo7016 3 месяца назад

      Rembering is reliving..

  • @nujabes8166
    @nujabes8166 6 лет назад +7

    I'm 21 now but wow I use to listen to this song and much more with my grandmother back when I was still in 2nd grade. Amazing, this brings back memories.

  • @albertlluisvila1251
    @albertlluisvila1251 6 месяцев назад +2

    Paul Simon is a genius 🥰

  • @foxworthhall726
    @foxworthhall726 Год назад +1

    Summer of 1973. Just turned 10 years old. This song was blasting on all the radios at Nantasket Beach in Hull Mass. Good times!

  • @markweintraub325
    @markweintraub325 Год назад +5

    Now this record brings back memories of the year of 1973, like this:::
    Kodachrome, Nancy Stuber, Convalescent Hospital for Children, the home visits, out with Dad in the car on Saturday morning, going over to the factory and listening to the Muzak for a while, with Bill Burton and the Muzak orchestra, going to see Steve at his trailer, and also seeing Nancy Stuber, lunch at the Arrows, but not the
    drive in, because the call microphones are very loud and harsh, a chocolate milkshake, a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, cottage cheese, and strawberry shortcake, getting a new radio, which is a GE FM/AM Accent Line portable radio with Duracell batteries, a notebook and some pens, and some Road Runner and Tweety Bird comic books, that have the
    black and white kitty and the yellow bird in them, singing its heart out in its miniature willow frame cage, petting our kitty Suki,and she puts her soft little pink and white nose out to kitty kiss you, Gloria Barbaro,
    Tabby and her kittens, etc.
    -Mark Weintraub.

  • @benton-benton
    @benton-benton 3 года назад +3

    One of the best song writers of all time - Paul Simon. One of a kind. So now I think I'll listen to Graceland. And Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard.

  • @lx5xk
    @lx5xk 4 месяца назад +1

    Niiiiiiiiiice bright colors. Ooo that’s nice

  • @brucehuddleston9563
    @brucehuddleston9563 8 месяцев назад +2

    Kodachrome 35 mm film really did make images look better than reality. The song is perfect in every way!

  • @toddsands6000
    @toddsands6000 5 лет назад +28

    One of the greatest written songs and melodies ever produced on a recording - period!

  • @RoIIingStoned
    @RoIIingStoned 6 лет назад +66

    I had an extremely nostalgic, emotional dream last night and this song was playing out of nowhere; I hadn't heard it in years. I went crazy finding it, but I did!

    • @RoIIingStoned
      @RoIIingStoned 6 лет назад +4

      I had no idea it was by Paul Simon! 22yrs

    • @squishmastah4682
      @squishmastah4682 3 года назад +1

      That's what this song does. Interesting how its theme so closely matches its actual impact.

    • @BlakeNix
      @BlakeNix 3 года назад

      You went crazy? After all these years? :-)

    • @michaelbruns449
      @michaelbruns449 2 года назад

      Wow...

  • @ishaa5948
    @ishaa5948 4 месяца назад +1

    I FKN! Love the music in this piece! That tempo...❤💃
    I would love to hear Steve Martin on this w his banjo. This is The Blues... Country... It's even got some Funk in the bass.

  • @GM-vf7px
    @GM-vf7px 11 месяцев назад +1

    The world was a Sunny Day!!!!!!This song captured all that and more!!!!Now I see why all the older people call them "The Good Old Days!!!!!!

  • @georgeparkins777
    @georgeparkins777 6 лет назад +175

    I’d pay real money for Kodachrome to still be around. It’s the best colors of any film I know of, and it looked great cross-developed too. Look how much of a dive the quality of the photography in National Geography took when they went away from Kodachrome and Ektachrome.... digital is great but it doesn’t get the kind of colors I like

    • @edwinclements8112
      @edwinclements8112 3 года назад +16

      Kodak dropped it, so there wasn't much National Geographic could do about that. Sometimes I think if I ever win one of these multi-hundred-million dollar lotteries, one thing I will do is see if I can buy the rights to it from Kodak and start producing it again.

    • @darrinlindsey
      @darrinlindsey 2 года назад +3

      Digital gives you the color that was there. Many different apps can enhance the photo as you like, in many different ways.

    • @tylerandus2051
      @tylerandus2051 2 года назад +8

      The longevity of it can't be matched ,processed and packaged slides. In the 2000 we started scanning em. I've scanned entire family's stories all captured on Kodachrome 40+ years in those carousels . After that many years there coolers just as vibrant as the day they were processed. NO OTHER negative /positive lasts half that

    • @tylerandus2051
      @tylerandus2051 2 года назад +5

      Before they shut down there lab Kodachrome had a six month backlog and turnaround time they made it great by consistent quality control personally

    • @onnowesterman4825
      @onnowesterman4825 2 года назад

      @@edwinclements8112 Could very well be that kodak already solled the rights when t hey were to sell of a lot of patents in the yeares 2021 when they were changing to Kodak Alaris and had to sell lots of patents to get starting again. Chrome was stopped in 2009 by the way

  • @ssully8542
    @ssully8542 8 лет назад +264

    Photography was about the only class that wasn't crap in high school. ENJOY your retirement Paul, THANKS for all the years of GREAT MUSIC!

    • @camille9ful
      @camille9ful 6 лет назад +3

      What're you talking about Sully? Paul Simon retired? Never! Just saw him perform in Charlotte in June this year. Still Total Perfection!

    • @levibrewer8463
      @levibrewer8463 5 лет назад +1

      Fly the kite

    • @pnp522
      @pnp522 4 года назад +1

      My favorite class in high school. We used mostly Tri-X not Kodachrome though. I must have shot 8-10 rolls of film a week

    • @gamemeister27
      @gamemeister27 4 года назад +1

      You must have had awful teachers.

    • @bkisl7275
      @bkisl7275 4 года назад

      @@gamemeister27 Great picture!

  • @carollipton4584
    @carollipton4584 3 года назад +2

    I cried when I heard Paul Simon perform this song under in a concert under the Eiffel Tower in Paris in July 1973. One of the greatest experiences of my life and never more proud that I was a New Yorker.

  • @jeff6949
    @jeff6949 2 года назад +1

    Faded and bumping this shit since yesterday in my 30s turn it up yall !!!!! Gods blessings to everyone of the 1 percent that read this !!!!

  • @acgogoacgogo8854
    @acgogoacgogo8854 6 лет назад +578

    Don't think kids today even know what Kodachrome was. It was one of the most innovative advances in color photography. Simon's lyric captures it beautifully. "Greens of summers, makes you think all the world's a sunny day" He's right. I have summer photo of me and my family that was taken on a rainy day. Colors are bright, lawn is bright green. Sky is a stunning blue/grey, my cousin's blue eyes and yellow bathing suit.

    • @nmay2991
      @nmay2991 5 лет назад +7

      Acgogo Acgogo I doubt many people who know of it, but if they do it’s from this

    • @hashed206
      @hashed206 5 лет назад +18

      Except it’s being used here as a metaphor not as a tribute to the actual film :)

    • @kelsareis7674
      @kelsareis7674 5 лет назад +18

      "I don't think kids today... ". I'm a millennial and an old soul and I'm passing these relics along to my kid 😊 We are out there. 😍

    • @johnchronic6725
      @johnchronic6725 5 лет назад +7

      Ektochrome was crap

    • @davejohn3600
      @davejohn3600 5 лет назад +8

      it's funny I studied photography in the 90's and Kodachrome was as dead as disco at that time. You can't even get it processed today. Heck, I don't even know if you can get Ektochrome at this point!

  • @angelalyons653
    @angelalyons653 7 лет назад +52

    This is the best feel good music 🎶

    • @jfrtbikgkdhjbeep9974
      @jfrtbikgkdhjbeep9974 5 лет назад

      Diabolical Insolence my gahhd .. you are very beautiful 😍

    • @squishmastah4682
      @squishmastah4682 3 года назад

      It brings me joy even as it brings tears to my eyes.

  • @whalelord514
    @whalelord514 Год назад +2

    Thanks cone heads! I would have never heard this song if it wasn't in that movie. Now i just love it!

  • @mindseyeview7411
    @mindseyeview7411 Год назад

    Thank YOU 🌍💖💞🎶🌌