Terry Kirkman, lead singer and founder of The Association, sadly passed away on Saturday, September 23, 2023. He wrote this song (along with others) and it's one of the greatest songs ever penned.
wow, Terry Kirkman passed away? Ohhhh no; he was AWESOME! Albeit i was only 5 - 7 yrs old in the 60s; i remember sooooooo many of these incredible songs; and TV shows; The Courtship of Eddie's Father; Bewitched, Family Affair, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Perry Mason, The Fugitive, Romper Room, Get Smart. There was Captain Kangaroo, Jumping Jack before Sesame Street... etc...
He was 83. ---- The cause was Congestive Heart Failure. --- This song was Mr. Kirkman's answer to the Beach Boys masterwork "In my Room". --- Both songs include the words "Dreaming" and "Scheming". --- RIP, Terry Kirkman.
This record was produced by my dear friend and mentor, Gary S. Paxton. The story behind this record is interesting: It was recorded in Hollywood at Gary's studio, located in his house. In fact he made the entire house into a studio - along with all the house furnishings (much like the studio he had here in Nashville). The control room was located in an upstairs bedroom, with a hole in the floor so that he cold talk back to the musicians downstairs. That control room had the only 8 channel tape recorder in Hollywood at the time, of which he rented out to Capitol records often (Beach Boys, Sinatra, ect.) That machine is currently in his basement in Branson Missouri. (I've got photos of it). The musicians were all Gary's studio band. At the time they recorded this record, there were only two guys who consisted of the Association. The rest of them were hired to sing in the group on the road. This is a video of that group. The way they recorded this record (actually the entire album, which also features "Along Comes Mary") was very unusual. The drummer was in the dining room. The guitars were in the living room, and the vocals were recorded in the kitchen (which explains the kind-of "open room" sound of the vocals). I think the bells were recorded in a separate bedroom upstairs. If you listen to the original 1-inch master tape, you'll hear Gary yelling down the hole in the floor, "Tape's rolling..."
@Kevin Wicker: Wasn't this song one of the 2 grammy's that Gary S. Paxton won for producing this song?? The other was a gospel record he sang on later.
Yeah at 6zero ......but local government thieves and the evil demons in human form stole Our house and EVERYTHING in it . And what was supposed to be Our Sons , scratch that WAS their legal possessions . The evil is rampant .
I AM 67 YEARS OLD AND I AM SO GLAD I GREW UP LISTENING TO GREAT SONGS SUCH AS THIS. THIS IS AS BEAUTIFUL A SONG NOW AS IT WAS THEN....................CHERISH IS THE WORD.
I agree...they have some killer tunes. I was born after there biggest songs 1974, but I have come to realize that some of my favorite 60s tunes(this and Windy for example) are the Association...great band
My husband and I were dating when this song became so popular. I listened to it everyday. It brings back some wonderful memories. It is a very special song for us. We will be married 50 years on 9/21/2016.
September is the best month to marry ! I know several people who have married in September and have been married for years. If you are not married yet Cat Man and you decide to marry tell your girlfriend it has to be September. It is a great month !
This is the first record that my husband bought me when we were dating. We still do cherish one another . We are now married 48 years and together 52 years.
Clean cut young gentlemen who can harmonize and actually carry a tune. They put today's so called "artists" to shame. It is so sad that much of today's music is pure noise. I am so glad that we can still enjoy these songs via the wonder of You Tube. Thank you for posting.
Most people (myself included) thought they were a vocal group who performed in front of a band. Never fully realizing their immense talent as musicians as well.
I saw The Association live in concert when I was a college student in the late 1960s. Not ashamed to say that listening to this made me tear up a bit, since many of my classmates and friends from back then are no longer with us.
No fancy, flashy on-stage costumes, fog & pyretics, blinding lights, exorbitant makeup, etc. Just mesmerizing harmony. This IS what singing is supposed to be. First listened as a teenager but still listening as a senior. Forever cherished.
remember those little transistor radios? A lot of the guys heading to Vietnam took them and in camp they would try desperately to listen to just a few bars of songs like these. I served during Vietnam. I served, I saw, and I wept for all that did not return,
A timeless classic. Rarely heard on the airwaves now which is a travesty. Such a beautiful stunning song which I think has never been surpassed. Simply wonderful.
I'm a taxi driver. Took a BIG tip because I was listening this song(part of a homemade BY ME big compilation of the 60's)and the 2 guys that i had in the car said that this was their parents songsofthelife, but they didn't know who was the singer!! They and their parents were searching this song for about 30 years!!! Made them(and the parents!)happy showing the name of the song! Incredible, you search for a (not so easy to hear today )song for decades, and you listen it in a public car!😂
Wrecking Crew drumming great Hal Blaine who played on the original version said he thought this was perhaps the best of the thousands of songs he performed on.
@@toddb8851 Why🤷🏻♀️?? How🤷🏻♀️?? I’m a woman of color (73 to be exact) born and bred in NYC; a beautiful melting pot of cultures - which inevitably includes MUSIC! YES, NYC is racist, but this is AmeriKKKa after all. More to my point, I’m not quite understanding how the lyrics - or how the style in which they’re delivered, is considered racist. That said, I can name some white groups from that era to the present who’s lyrics are pretty distasteful.
I fell in love with a girl who was 15 in the summer of 1970. I don't think she ever realized how much I cared for her. She died young. I fell for another girl and I tell her every day how much I love her. We've been married 45 years. What a wonderful world!
It´s good !!! I fell in love at the age of 23 with a girl, and the day I met her I said I was going to marry her, we are 44 years old "dating" we had 3 children and 6 grandchildren, and we are in love until today !!
Ricardo Alencar de Azambuja I would say there are fewer that can write music well today, but there are still those that can, that have the essence of the message they are trying to give captured, though some say anything less then classical, jazz or symphany is not good music, but most cant even play well if at all their insterment let alone be one of the people that is learned in playing abillity as well as degrees in the musical arts like professors, of sorts, that have the full mastery of theory, writting, and playing, and the genious to write about something with real meaning and not just for the money. there is noththing wrong with using all the tools but they ought not be the main crutch for lack of talent, such as auto tune, or using the computer because you dont even have the skill to match beats as a dj or know when to change the sound and song on the fly to keep a good vibe at a party, let alone play keybords or have a band going with the electronic insterments or computers.
I am not married but someday I hope I find the right person to "cherish" the rest of my life. A faithful kind person who laughs and cries with me. Who has his priorities in proper order.
ASSOCIATION:. CHERISH OMG!!! LUV THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG WITH PRECIOUS LYRICS. ABSOLUTELY ENCHANTING!!! IT TOUCHES THE HEART STRINGS WITH LOVELY MEMORIES!!! TQ FOR SHARING A LOVELY ENSEMBLE!!!
This song is miles above most of the more recent ones. It conveys feeling, and is very well played and sung. The lyrics are very good and meaningful. How I miss those times when singers were elegant, and sang nice songs with no profanities or vulgar words.
@@faithpatterson7158 If you're referring to the Fab Four, yeah, definitely! My favorite song of theirs is Golden Slumbers where they showcase the drumming ability of Ringo Starr.
@@AnneMarie-xq7uw Quote: "If you're referring to the Fab Four, yeah, definitely!" ...Who else would the Fab Four be? Are you referring to his spelling of Beatles as "beetles"? ..and a quick question: I've noticed a lot lately that people will respond to something said, and then make a statement followed by, "yeah, definitely" or comment and say, "but yeah...." and then have no proof of their affirmation of fact or truth on how and why it's correct. Where is that coming from?
I was in Nam and when I came home this was the first album I bought. "The Association".....I wore the grooves out. Every song was fantastic! "Enter The Young" On and on. I later got a rare Cd from Japan of the same album. Still have it today!
This band and this song in particular owned Salt Lake City in the mid 60's. Every time I turned on my car radio, it would soon show up. It is a great memory, it was some of the best years of my life. Thanks, guys
For me this is their best song. An excellent love song which expresses very deep feelings about a hopeless love affair. It is hard to love and not be loved in return. One feels like if one were wothless at times. It has happened to all of us who have lived enough. But fortunately most of us get over it in time.
They seem unusually uptight and stiff in this video. They usually joked around a little on stage with each other. This appearance could have been from The Hollywood Palace or maybe The Andy Williams Show. The average age of The Hollywood Palace audience was approximately 106 years old and wouldn't have gotten The Association's hippy antics on stage.
I am a classic rock guy along with hard rock, heavy metal. I have always thought this is an excellent executed piece of music. Association had some great tunes.
One of the greatest love songs ever written and performed. Come on guys, how many of you ever found the girl or found that woman that evoked all those feelings found in the lyrics? This song speaks volumes to me...
The Association did this song the best. Very beautiful harmonizing! They were the masters at harmonizing. I never tire hearing this song by them. Thanks for sharing.
Simply beautiful not only the melody is excellent for the lyrics, but the performance these men did is really great so full of feeling and with such depth. Every instrument is played at exactly the appropriate moment and in the right tone and every word is sung the same way. So this song is exceptional and outstanding and so good to hear 52 years after it was released.
You are absolutely right. I love it as well. And re listen to it often. Beatiful arrangement and Orchestration and fantastic singing.. Just beautiful. The words are so true too. John (Australia)
Loved the Association over 45 years ago, still love them today! Brings back beautiful memories of a gentler time in the world; when neighbors helped and knew each other and music was like this. Yes, the war was going on; I served in the Air Force from '69 to '71, but the music of my generation's time was the best ever offered! Thanks for the memories!
52 years have gone by since this song hit number one back in 1966. I was 12 years old then. And now that I'm 64... The song sounds as fresh to me now as it did the first time I heard it back in 1966. They are just one of the reasons why I consider the music of the 60's as the greatest decade in Rock & Roll history... Priceless!
I was born 1958. The Association was one of the best influences of my childhood. Listening now, I realize its remarkably well crafted music. By the way, I’m a jazz musician.
This brings back memories of when I was a young child. You know as a kid you aren't really paying attention to the sounds in the background of life because you are too busy playing and having fun. Then as I got older and started hearing these songs it was amazing to me to find that they brought back visions of relatives long gone, memories forgotten (or ones I never even knew I had) and evens smells of food cooking in the kitchen! So I try to search for songs from the past just to see what effect it will have upon me. Thank you for posting this one. Also the title of this one is very apropos!!
This song could be 20 minutes long and wouldn't be long enough! I was 7 when this song came out and it embodied the great music and sound of all the amazing music of the 1960's. I think it stayed at #1 on WCFL am radio survey for like 4 weeks and deserved it.
I remember listening to this song on the AM transister radio back in the late 60's, but now hearing it in full stereo on You Tube is awesome. Ah memories
Can't get enough of these guys this morning. Started about 20 min. ago and now at 1966 the Cherish is warming my heart. Pushing 68 in a few months and bringing back the teenage years of my incredible life on the planet, Thanks be to God!. I hope you treasure the incredible era we live in as much as I do. Live, Love, Pray!
One of the best love songs about unrequitted love I have ever heard it is up at the same level as "If I could reach you". Always liked it since I first heard it 51 years ago. It is deep and sung with so much feeling one gets the message immediately. And the lyrics are great too.
@@jeffthebracketman And both the Association and the 5th Dimension could shake you with a vocal roar. And both were produced by Bones Howe, if I recall correctly.
what a most delightful classic this is such lovely harmonies ...these fellows look so smart ,,they played a part in the 60s era ,,my word what utter pure talent ,,than you xxx
I knew the girl that this song was written to. She went to Purdue University. We were at her apartment for Purdue Home Coming and the band (Association) walked in. She went on to marry him and she sang backup in songs by the Association and also Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. In my mind, it was the most romantic song of the era. Youth today does not have love songs like this and they are missing something.
Still one of the best love songs about unrequitted love I have ever heard. It is at the same level as "if I could reach you". It describes very well how we feel when we love someone who does not care for us maybe she likes us or wished to be friends only but that is it. Not only it has great lyrics but is sung with so much feeling and depth it is one of those songs that make me feel and remember so many things.
Im 77 years old now and I rediscover my group and this song that is the best that I heard in my life.. .I put my speakers and listen the whole day again an again....in the 60 I didn't do it cause no time and obstacles...but now the whole time is for me...I wanna pass away listen Cherish....
Not only an excellent song sung with so much feeling it is a representative of an era in which singers had to have real talent to succeed as so many electronic gagdets that exist today to make anyone sound good did not exist then. Besides the feeling they put singing and the elegance they exhibit is something sorely missing in today's singers. The song is very good describing the frustration one has when one loves someone who could not care less for one. Still one of those songs really worth to hear.
She was the most beautiful girl in our high school, and there was somewhere around 4500 of us. I had girlfriends in High School, but always thought about her. Never tried, that is the most pathetic part. She was in a different group and I was with the troublemakers, I loved them all. I always thought about her as I knew the lyrics were true, not going to be the one, etc. I was in Vietnam in a hole, in the rain, and this song came on the radio. I saw her face, and layed back. All of a sudden, I was not in VN anymore, I was in HS and she was walking past me in the hall. I didn't feel the rain anymore. I had a good life, a good lady and 4 kids and 5 grandchildren. No regrets there, but I always wonder, what if? If you have a desire, GO GET IT! Trying and failing is far better than living wondering.
I'm sure your "lady" is lovely. You had children with her. And grandchildren. You have more than most ever will. I think that if it were meant for you to be with her, you certainly would not have the life you have now. So don't wonder. It wasn't going to happen. She sounds honestly like a pleasant memory, that's all. And it got you through something rough and that's good, but that's all. Wishing you and your family all the best.
She hooked up with the star quarterback. They graduated, married, and he became an abusive drunk appliance salesman. The abuse led her into a depression. She eventually became addicted to prescription drugs, which led to harder street drugs and eventually to heroin. She finally divorced the guy and started working as a topless dancer till the drugs and age stole her youthful beauty. She became a cheap hooker, turning a trick for a high and a place to sleep for the night. Now she's in her 70s, living in a trailer park in Smyrna, Tennessee, living on welfare and food stamps, smoking cheap cigarettes and drinking cheap gin, watching game shows on a 24 inch television, and listening to the oldies station, remembering when she was the most beautiful girl in school, and wondering what happened to all those dreams from so long ago.... Does that make you feel better now?
oh, I'm so glad you had a good life with a good wife and I wish you soooo many more good years. However, the telling of your story touched my heart and made me sad that you didn't - because of your circumstances - try. It's a good lesson you offer.
Godspeed, Terry Kirkman 😇, [December 12, 1939 - September 23, 2023]... thank you for this masterpiece; one of the most stunningly beautiful background pieces of my childhood! Nostalgia can be so "ouchie", but oh my, I am so grateful for the amazing music with which I was blessed to grow up; even just those first few notes immediately transport me back to a more innocent time... generations who came after have no idea how deprived they have been. Though you have passed from this world, thankfully, we still have these gifts of your talents to appreciate for the rest of our lives.🥰 May God bless you & comfort your loved ones. [9.25.2023]
Terry Kirkman, lead singer and founder of The Association, sadly passed away on Saturday, September 23, 2023. He wrote this song (along with others) and it's one of the greatest songs ever penned.
wow, Terry Kirkman passed away? Ohhhh no; he was AWESOME! Albeit i was only 5 - 7 yrs old in the 60s; i remember sooooooo many of these incredible songs; and TV shows; The Courtship of Eddie's Father; Bewitched, Family Affair, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Perry Mason, The Fugitive, Romper Room, Get Smart. There was Captain Kangaroo, Jumping Jack before Sesame Street... etc...
Beautiful song
Insuficiencia cardíaca, la causa de su fallecimiento
He was 83. ---- The cause was Congestive Heart Failure. --- This song was Mr. Kirkman's answer to the Beach Boys masterwork "In my Room". --- Both songs include the words "Dreaming" and "Scheming". --- RIP, Terry Kirkman.
Which one is he ? They are all singing lead
This was our song at our wedding reception in 1967. We are still married..55yrs💝
NICE MEMORIES!!!!
That's great 🎉 cheers to you lovebirds. Many regards. Am 67 and think am 20.
Very sad news. What a legend, making the association part of music history.
This record was produced by my dear friend and mentor, Gary S. Paxton. The story behind this record is interesting:
It was recorded in Hollywood at Gary's studio, located in his house. In fact he made the entire house into a studio - along with all the house furnishings (much like the studio he had here in Nashville). The control room was located in an upstairs bedroom, with a hole in the floor so that he cold talk back to the musicians downstairs. That control room had the only 8 channel tape recorder in Hollywood at the time, of which he rented out to Capitol records often (Beach Boys, Sinatra, ect.) That machine is currently in his basement in Branson Missouri. (I've got photos of it).
The musicians were all Gary's studio band. At the time they recorded this record, there were only two guys who consisted of the Association. The rest of them were hired to sing in the group on the road. This is a video of that group.
The way they recorded this record (actually the entire album, which also features "Along Comes Mary") was very unusual. The drummer was in the dining room. The guitars were in the living room, and the vocals were recorded in the kitchen (which explains the kind-of "open room" sound of the vocals). I think the bells were recorded in a separate bedroom upstairs.
If you listen to the original 1-inch master tape, you'll hear Gary yelling down the hole in the floor, "Tape's rolling..."
Kevin Wicker, this is pure gold.
@Kevin Wicker: Wasn't this song one of the 2 grammy's that Gary S. Paxton won for producing this song?? The other was a gospel record he sang on later.
I’d love to read a book or watch a series about your and your friends adventures
geez
Creative setup! A magical uplifting song I liked as a child then.
56 YEARS LATER AND I AM STILL SINGING AND ENJOYING THIS SONG IN 2022❤️
Enjoy...
Same
Yeah at 6zero ......but local government thieves and the evil demons in human form stole Our house and EVERYTHING in it . And what was supposed to be Our Sons , scratch that WAS their legal possessions . The evil is rampant .
My GRANDDAUGHTER loves this song and she is 15 [year 2022]!
Ah, no. 2023 now!
I AM 67 YEARS OLD AND I AM SO GLAD I GREW UP LISTENING TO GREAT SONGS SUCH AS THIS. THIS IS AS BEAUTIFUL A SONG NOW AS IT WAS THEN....................CHERISH IS THE WORD.
I agree, we have been married for over 40 years, and sit in the patio and listen to these songs.
67 and counting!
Amen!!!!!?
Haven't you heard? The BIRD is the word...…..
One tear older than me,,,,I miss Port Townsend,,,WA.....
One word will do... timeless.
The Association should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
I AGREE!!!
WHY ISN’T IT????
Why are they not, and why is my reply censored?
No doubt
Yep .
So should Connie Francis , Lesley Gore , Ella Mae Morse , Skyliners , Neil Sedaka and Chubby Checker .
The Association is one of the most underrated bands of all time
Amen. From 1960 until 1975, NO ONE can tell me this wasn't the greatest time for any genre of music ever produced. This band proves it.
Yeah, and for good reason. They weren't that hot.
I agree...they have some killer tunes. I was born after there biggest songs 1974, but I have come to realize that some of my favorite 60s tunes(this and Windy for example) are the Association...great band
Yeeeessss... very beautiful songs...
I totally agree with you! They were my favorite band in the 60's and still are today.
Are you cherishing those you love in 2024? Don't forget to tell those who are in your life how much they mean to you.
Every , we need talkink this for all ......
We need to value our loved ones every day and say thanks for sharing the day with them. Also the Lord for giving us life.
Wow 1966 seems like yesterday 🎉
...WOW... Still listening to the great record on my 74th birthday today 10-24-2019...Thank God....
My husband and I were dating when this song became so popular. I listened to it everyday. It brings back some wonderful memories. It is a very special song for us. We will be married 50 years on 9/21/2016.
+Vickie Taylor Congratulations on such a long marriage !!!!!!
50 years CONGRATULATIONS!!! On 09/21/2016 I will be celebrating my 58 BD.
+Cat Man my birthday is seven days after!
COOOOOOOL September ROCKS
September is the best month to marry ! I know several people who have married in September and have been married for years. If you are not married yet Cat Man and you decide to marry tell your girlfriend it has to be September. It is a great month !
This is the first record that my husband bought me when we were dating. We still do cherish one another . We are now married 48 years and together 52 years.
CONGRATULATIONS!
LUCKY!
WELL DONE!
Yes, continue to cherish one another. 💞
Clean cut young gentlemen who can harmonize and actually carry a tune. They put today's so called "artists" to shame. It is so sad that much of today's music is pure noise. I am so glad that we can still enjoy these songs via the wonder of You Tube. Thank you for posting.
I'm grateful to youtube for this too !!
Most people (myself included) thought they were a vocal group who performed in front of a band. Never fully realizing their immense talent as musicians as well.
I call this new music noise pollution exactly what it is. Nothing absolutely nothing beats the 60s and 70s music 🎵
Actually these guys are pretty shaggy - not clean cut.
Hahaha. That’s what parents & old folks said about these guys & so many others. It’s all relative!!
My wife and I got engaged in 1966. Cherish was our song then and still is!
iT´S TOO GO😍OD LISTEN THIS!!!!
Born in 1966
I saw The Association live in concert when I was a college student in the late 1960s. Not ashamed to say that listening to this made me tear up a bit, since many of my classmates and friends from back then are no longer with us.
God, I love this song!
were all just passing thrugh here mate...make every day count...
This song is like gold.....it just sounds even better, all these years later. Cherish is the word.
I'm really not a fan of Heavy Metal.
Rip Terry Kirkman. You wrote a song that will never be forgotten as long as there is longing for love.
No fancy, flashy on-stage costumes, fog & pyretics, blinding lights, exorbitant makeup, etc. Just mesmerizing harmony. This IS what singing is supposed to be. First listened as a teenager but still listening as a senior. Forever cherished.
Perfect harmony. Every time I hear this song I get goosebumps! Thank you gentlemen❣️
I am now 67 and still listening to them....they lift my spirit and transport me back to those wonderful days.
@@eleanortempleman6695
Ditto. 65 this year. Still enjoying this song.
Exactly! Music is more of a feeling than performing like theatre. I agree
No foul mouth techno noise made to the beat of a bouncing basketball with a fly squealing through a bullhorn
This is such a romantic song.🥰
I agree!!!
Who Is With Me...It is December 2019 & We Still CHERISH This Beautiful Song..Cherish is the word
Daniel Marin Me!! I was 6 years old when this song came out!! Great childhood memories!!
April 2020
It has stood the test of time!
@@rickmays797 July 2020
This takes me back to 66-67.
remember those little transistor radios? A lot of the guys heading to Vietnam took them and in camp they would try desperately to listen to just a few bars of songs like these. I served during Vietnam. I served, I saw, and I wept for all that did not return,
The testimony that you were in the war is always hard !!
@@ZAMBA1952 Thank you sir. I was just a field medic Women's Army Corp(WACS)
@@mariesmith599 congrats for serve your country!
Thank you. 💜
Thank you 🇺🇸
I was 8 yrs old...Cape Town, South Africa, my Mom played this song over and over again, wish she was still here to listen with me once again!
remember is to live, remember our loved ones is to revive ..
she is...
Ricardo Alencar de Azambuja afterthefox Too true!! 😅
She is still with you, Wilsy, and listening with all her heart. They never leave us..
We have all lost loved ones and music takes us back in time to when they were with us.
Those of us who know great music will Cherish this song into Eternity
I Agree!!!!
I am one of those !
Greatest love song of all time!
A Toaist friend says the ugly vulgar trash music is needed to realize how beautiful this music is....
I loved all your songs,such good MEMORIES,LIVE in DE. I'll get to the SAND BAR one of these days!!! OH in OC, MD.
Listen to this song everyday absolute class
FOR MY FIRST HUSBAND. Gone with the angels. I married someone he knew with his blessings. He was dying of multiple myeloma. I am 66 now.
A timeless classic. Rarely heard on the airwaves now which is a travesty. Such a beautiful stunning song which I think has never been surpassed. Simply wonderful.
A Classic for all times ,
The best and most perfect
and beautiful song from the
60s, Awesome Perfect Song.
For decades this was voted the number one oldie on 98.7 Dallas. Year after year
We don't need / rely on the 'air waves' when we have YT
The entire group is singing even the drummer.
I'm a taxi driver. Took a BIG tip because I was listening this song(part of a homemade BY ME big compilation of the 60's)and the 2 guys that i had in the car said that this was their parents songsofthelife, but they didn't know who was the singer!! They and their parents were searching this song for about 30 years!!! Made them(and the parents!)happy showing the name of the song! Incredible, you search for a (not so easy to hear today )song for decades, and you listen it in a public car!😂
I love listening to this, this is the idea when I made my playlists...
Still an Amazing Performance! Complex harmonies. Sophisticated arrangement. Elegant presentation. Timeless.
Untouchable.
Playback
racist
Wrecking Crew drumming great Hal Blaine who played on the original version said he thought this was perhaps the best of the thousands of songs he performed on.
@@toddb8851
Why🤷🏻♀️??
How🤷🏻♀️??
I’m a woman of color (73 to be exact) born and bred in NYC; a beautiful melting pot of cultures - which inevitably includes MUSIC!
YES, NYC is racist, but this is AmeriKKKa after all.
More to my point, I’m not quite understanding how the lyrics - or how the style in which they’re delivered, is considered racist.
That said, I can name some white groups from that era to the present who’s lyrics are pretty distasteful.
I've heard this song 100's of times since it came out and it still moves me every time. The way it builds at the end is just fantastic.
I fell in love with a girl who was 15 in the summer of 1970. I don't think she ever realized how much I cared for her. She died young. I fell for another girl and I tell her every day how much I love her. We've been married 45 years. What a wonderful world!
It´s good !!! I fell in love at the age of 23 with a girl, and the day I met her I said I was going to marry her, we are 44 years old "dating" we had 3 children and 6 grandchildren, and we are in love until today !!
Ladies and Gentlemen...THIS is how you RECORD vocal harmonies...THIS is how you PERFORM vocal harmonies. These guys wrote the book
kyle briese by
You are soooo right.
These guys and/or the Letterman wrote the book on performing tight vocal harmonies, yes.
The lyrics are off the scale!!!
Here here
This song is #1 of ALLTIME !!!
I knew this song but never discovered who sang it. Coincidence of lines, destiny, the treasure is here! Thanks for bringing them here !
It seems like the the heart and soul has gone out of today's music. None of it has substance, as this one does.
I agree!!!
Ricardo Alencar de Azambuja I would say there are fewer that can write music well today, but there are still those that can, that have the essence of the message they are trying to give captured, though some say anything less then classical, jazz or symphany is not good music, but most cant even play well if at all their insterment let alone be one of the people that is learned in playing abillity as well as degrees in the musical arts like professors, of sorts, that have the full mastery of theory, writting, and playing, and the genious to write about something with real meaning and not just for the money. there is noththing wrong with using all the tools but they ought not be the main crutch for lack of talent, such as auto tune, or using the computer because you dont even have the skill to match beats as a dj or know when to change the sound and song on the fly to keep a good vibe at a party, let alone play keybords or have a band going with the electronic insterments or computers.
***** Oh, bullshit. Good music comes out of every era.
well depends on the genera.
+Vertical Horizon
name one good band from the last 35 years then
So beautiful
I am not married but someday I hope I find the right person to "cherish" the rest of my life. A faithful kind person who laughs and cries with me. Who has his priorities in proper order.
I already found it and I'm happy ...
That's wonderful. So happy for you! Say a prayer for me to find my true love. Thank you.💛
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Always wishes everyone to be happy with what they can get, get or love !!
I hope you do, I had it it was beautiful
@@beaverstandig1747 Tks!!Best for all!!
ASSOCIATION:. CHERISH
OMG!!! LUV THIS BEAUTIFUL
SONG WITH PRECIOUS LYRICS.
ABSOLUTELY ENCHANTING!!!
IT TOUCHES THE HEART STRINGS WITH LOVELY
MEMORIES!!! TQ FOR SHARING A LOVELY ENSEMBLE!!!
Unbelievable music. Such great music that fit the times.
This song is miles above most of the more recent ones. It conveys feeling, and is very well played and sung. The lyrics are very good and meaningful. How I miss those times when singers were elegant, and sang nice songs with no profanities or vulgar words.
I Agree. ! Goldem good times!!!
Totally agree
CIA took over (Laurel Canyon) music business
And Beatles is Tavistock creation
I'm 25, and without the youtube I never would know about this songs. So thank you.
Listen to the old beetles. It will blow your head off.
@@faithpatterson7158 If you're referring to the Fab Four, yeah, definitely! My favorite song of theirs is Golden Slumbers where they showcase the drumming ability of Ringo Starr.
"the youtube" nice try going undercover, grandpa
@@AnneMarie-xq7uw Quote: "If you're referring to the Fab Four, yeah, definitely!" ...Who else would the Fab Four be? Are you referring to his spelling of Beatles as "beetles"? ..and a quick question: I've noticed a lot lately that people will respond to something said, and then make a statement followed by, "yeah, definitely" or comment and say, "but yeah...." and then have no proof of their affirmation of fact or truth on how and why it's correct. Where is that coming from?
Rafael Santos glad u got to experience this.
Living it was the absolute best
That last echoing guitar chord is awesome!
Called tremolo, very popular in the 50s & 60s.
He's playing a Jazzmaster back then the top of the line Fender electric... they were more pricey than a Strat or Tele
@@BillDerBerg ,zaabYgxyvgvhy
belissima cancao tocadas e interpretadas pelo Grupo Association.
Beautiful song and awesome group! Windy is also a very beautiful song by the same group.
I agree!!
So beautiful... makes me happy ❤
I was in Nam and when I came home this was the first album I bought. "The Association".....I wore the grooves out. Every song was fantastic! "Enter The Young" On and on. I later got a rare Cd from Japan of the same album. Still have it today!
Actually the album was titled "And Then Along Comes The Association" .
Thank you for your service. Did the album provide comfort during your time in Vietnam?
@@TruthAndFreedom76 Yes It did Juan. I even had "Cherish" played at "one" of my marriages in Las Vegas! LOL Stay safe and Merry Xmas!
Thank You for Your Service... and I bet those donut dollies were hot 😍❤️
This band and this song in particular owned Salt Lake City in the mid 60's. Every time I turned on my car radio, it would soon show up. It is a great memory, it was some of the best years of my life. Thanks, guys
For me this is their best song. An excellent love song which expresses very deep feelings about a hopeless love affair. It is hard to love and not be loved in return. One feels like if one were wothless at times. It has happened to all of us who have lived enough. But fortunately most of us get over it in time.
Cherish IS. the word !! 💕it felt so right to be persuasive mildly persistent and passionately positive about this desire I had..
My favorite song by this great band, thank you for this great video upload
Great harmonies in this one! And look at those three-piece suits! Definitely a different era with a lot more class back then.
They seem unusually uptight and stiff in this video. They usually joked around a little on stage with each other. This appearance could have been from The Hollywood Palace or maybe The Andy Williams Show. The average age of The Hollywood Palace audience was approximately 106 years old and wouldn't have gotten The Association's hippy antics on stage.
And they are lined up together and nobody is a front nan trying to show up the other guys
Yes it was. So much more than present society
Sammy Hagar wrote in his book that he loved this band, and their great harmonies. High praise from Red Rocker!
Sammy Hagar from Montrose?
I am a classic rock guy along with hard rock, heavy metal. I have always thought this is an excellent executed piece of music. Association had some great tunes.
One of the greatest songs about unrequited love ever made. Thanks for posting.
I agree!!
I was a junior in high school when this came out. It is still good.
These guyz though, absolutely beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
One of the greatest love songs ever written and performed. Come on guys, how many of you ever found the girl or found that woman that evoked all those feelings found in the lyrics? This song speaks volumes to me...
Perhaps the best harmony I have ever heard from a group. Just perfect!
The Association did this song the best. Very beautiful harmonizing! They were the masters at harmonizing. I never tire hearing this song by them. Thanks for sharing.
This video and song i can watch every day absolute quality words fail me
the most underrated 60's group for their HARMONY! They excelled with their harmony. Listen to their songs today and it still sounds just as beautiful.
I agree!!!
This is a classic and will pass the test of time, it will go on forever.
Simply beautiful not only the melody is excellent for the lyrics, but the performance these men did is really great so full of feeling and with such depth. Every instrument is played at exactly the appropriate moment and in the right tone and every word is sung the same way. So this song is exceptional and outstanding and so good to hear 52 years after it was released.
Excellent contextualization of a melody, that transcends time.
You are absolutely right. I love it as well. And re listen to it often. Beatiful arrangement and Orchestration and fantastic singing.. Just beautiful. The words are so true too. John (Australia)
Song is nice, yes. But this isn't recording of live performance - look at drummer from 1:58
Lip service
Also, the New Colony Six, "Things I'd Like To Say."
Loved the Association over 45 years ago, still love them today! Brings back beautiful memories of a gentler time in the world; when neighbors helped and knew each other and music was like this. Yes, the war was going on; I served in the Air Force from '69 to '71, but the music of my generation's time was the best ever offered! Thanks for the memories!
I'm happy to hear this. The idea is this: to share happy moments.
Fell in love to this, never looked back
Fantastic Marilyn! Me too! God Bless You Always!
I like this song hugely ! To me it
epitomizes the 60s superbly -a very,very nostalgic song! The melody and the harmonies are unmatchable !
I agree!!!
RIP Terry....your beautiful music will last forever💗
52 years have gone by since this song hit number one back in 1966. I was 12 years old then. And now that I'm 64... The song sounds as fresh to me now as it did the first time I heard it back in 1966. They are just one of the reasons why I consider the music of the 60's as the greatest decade in Rock & Roll history... Priceless!
Mr54nomore, it was so good, David Cassidy covered it. :)
freeguy77 I consider the music of the 60's to be the greatest decade in Rock & Roll history. And these gentlemen where one of the reasons why. Peace!
I was 12 years old too!! I love have lived this great years, I would never change them for the music and situation now, believe me :)
Magda Sanchez Agreed!
I was 12 in '66, too. Love this great song, brings back a lot of great memories.
Some songs can rightfully be described as masterpieces. This is one of them.
great song , discovered it recently in the movie " pretty in pink" , awesome find
The prettiest song ever written 💕
I Agree!!!
… and the most heartbreaking 💔🥀
I was born 1958.
The Association was one of the best influences of my childhood.
Listening now, I realize its remarkably well crafted music.
By the way, I’m a jazz musician.
WHO KNOWS GOOD, RECOGNIZES A GOOD MUSIC EVER !!
This brings back memories of when I was a young child. You know as a kid you aren't really paying attention to the sounds in the background of life because you are too busy playing and having fun. Then as I got older and started hearing these songs it was amazing to me to find that they brought back visions of relatives long gone, memories forgotten (or ones I never even knew I had) and evens smells of food cooking in the kitchen! So I try to search for songs from the past just to see what effect it will have upon me. Thank you for posting this one. Also the title of this one is very apropos!!
I just feel the same thing like you.... Because this, I get to this dicography....
Thank you for listen...
You're welcome it was my pleasure.
This song is very soft
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TRUTH INDEED AMEN I WAS A CHILD THEN.I LISTENED TO THESE GREAT SONGS
A pure love songI fell in love to this song
I agree!
All the 45s rock n roll records I listen to, I have three older sisters and an older brother, all four with different taste and sounds, lucky me
Makes the dreams of lovers sweeter and warmer. Love their harmonious voices and the bells.
This song could be 20 minutes long and wouldn't be long enough! I was 7 when this song came out and it embodied the great music and sound of all the amazing music of the 1960's. I think it stayed at #1 on WCFL am radio survey for like 4 weeks and deserved it.
I Agree , it´s a nice music!!!
Here's to another kid from 1959
"All those other guys just want to touch your face and hands but I'm the guy who will actually love you." Lol Such an innocent song for the time.
Mel Bee beautiful lyric
I remember listening to this song on the AM transister radio back in the late 60's, but now hearing it in full stereo on You Tube is awesome. Ah memories
MARAVILLOSO TEMA CON VOCES INCREIBLES !!!!!!!!inolvidable.....desde Rosario Argentina
RIP Terry Kirkman. Thanks for the the memorable songs.
Can't get enough of these guys this morning. Started about 20 min. ago and now at 1966 the Cherish is warming my heart. Pushing 68 in a few months and bringing back the teenage years of my incredible life on the planet, Thanks be to God!. I hope you treasure the incredible era we live in as much as I do. Live, Love, Pray!
One of the best love songs about unrequitted love I have ever heard it is up at the same level as "If I could reach you". Always liked it since I first heard it 51 years ago. It is deep and sung with so much feeling one gets the message immediately. And the lyrics are great too.
And what do those songs have in common? The Wrecking Crew (Hal Blaine, Joe Osborne, Tommy Tedesco etc.) played the music on both songs...
@@jeffthebracketman And both the Association and the 5th Dimension could shake you with a vocal roar. And both were produced by Bones Howe, if I recall correctly.
Yes you are correct...
Saw them in Bethlehem PA last year with my 2 older sisters. Wonderful! Anne passed away 1month later from Covid. CHERISH that forever.
Cool!!!
The harmony is fantastic
It don't get any Better than this. One of the Greatest Love Songs Ever, Amazing Harmonies. Have a Wonderful Day~~
Beautiful loving song. Excellent music. Harmoniesing very effective.
Such a pretty song. Sung so perfectly, the harmonies are perfect.
I agree!!!
These guys put me in a better head space.
It's just a bit boring though.
@@severnboar Well, you can't put pearls before swine.
what a most delightful classic this is such lovely harmonies ...these fellows look so smart ,,they played a part in the 60s era ,,my word what utter pure talent ,,than you xxx
I knew the girl that this song was written to. She went to Purdue University. We were at her apartment for Purdue Home Coming and the band (Association) walked in. She went on to marry him and she sang backup in songs by the Association and also Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. In my mind, it was the most romantic song of the era. Youth today does not have love songs like this and they are missing something.
Good Memories are our theasures, when the ages até coming! We living a golden times!!
One of the absolute sweetest love songs ever written.. What amazing chord progressions with inimitable vocal harmonies.
cuerollen
IMPECCABLE
Agreed!
One of the very best groups of the 60s.
Still one of the best love songs about unrequitted love I have ever heard. It is at the same level as "if I could reach you". It describes very well how we feel when we love someone who does not care for us maybe she likes us or wished to be friends only but that is it. Not only it has great lyrics but is sung with so much feeling and depth it is one of those songs that make me feel and remember so many things.
Loved this song many memories
Im 77 years old now and I rediscover my group and this song that is the best that I heard in my life.. .I put my speakers and listen the whole day
again an again....in the 60 I didn't do it cause no time and obstacles...but now the whole time is for me...I wanna pass away listen Cherish....
Never is too late to listen good musics..
Not only an excellent song sung with so much feeling it is a representative of an era in which singers had to have real talent to succeed as so many electronic gagdets that exist today to make anyone sound good did not exist then. Besides the feeling they put singing and the elegance they exhibit is something sorely missing in today's singers. The song is very good describing the frustration one has when one loves someone who could not care less for one. Still one of those songs really worth to hear.
I was born in 1967, I listen to this song now, and it actually gives be goosebumps.
She was the most beautiful girl in our high school, and there was somewhere around 4500 of us. I had girlfriends in High School, but always thought about her. Never tried, that is the most pathetic part. She was in a different group and I was with the troublemakers, I loved them all. I always thought about her as I knew the lyrics were true, not going to be the one, etc. I was in Vietnam in a hole, in the rain, and this song came on the radio. I saw her face, and layed back. All of a sudden, I was not in VN anymore, I was in HS and she was walking past me in the hall. I didn't feel the rain anymore. I had a good life, a good lady and 4 kids and 5 grandchildren. No regrets there, but I always wonder, what if? If you have a desire, GO GET IT! Trying and failing is far better than living wondering.
I'm sure your "lady" is lovely. You had children with her. And grandchildren. You have more than most ever will. I think that if it were meant for you to be with her, you certainly would not have the life you have now. So don't wonder. It wasn't going to happen. She sounds honestly like a pleasant memory, that's all. And it got you through something rough and that's good, but that's all. Wishing you and your family all the best.
I was in a CONEX pulling bunker guard in the Central Highlands.
She hooked up with the star quarterback. They graduated, married, and he became an abusive drunk appliance salesman. The abuse led her into a depression. She eventually became addicted to prescription drugs, which led to harder street drugs and eventually to heroin. She finally divorced the guy and started working as a topless dancer till the drugs and age stole her youthful beauty. She became a cheap hooker, turning a trick for a high and a place to sleep for the night. Now she's in her 70s, living in a trailer park in Smyrna, Tennessee, living on welfare and food stamps, smoking cheap cigarettes and drinking cheap gin, watching game shows on a 24 inch television, and listening to the oldies station, remembering when she was the most beautiful girl in school, and wondering what happened to all those dreams from so long ago.... Does that make you feel better now?
@@RTRoberto No !, but humanity is full of these stories. Each of us is an engineer of his destiny, you reap what you planted in your youth !!
oh, I'm so glad you had a good life with a good wife and I wish you soooo many more good years. However, the telling of your story touched my heart and made me sad that you didn't - because of your circumstances - try. It's a good lesson you offer.
This song is sooo beautiful!
Godspeed, Terry Kirkman 😇, [December 12, 1939 - September 23, 2023]... thank you for this masterpiece; one of the most stunningly beautiful background pieces of my childhood! Nostalgia can be so "ouchie", but oh my, I am so grateful for the amazing music with which I was blessed to grow up; even just those first few notes immediately transport me back to a more innocent time... generations who came after have no idea how deprived they have been.
Though you have passed from this world, thankfully, we still have these gifts of your talents to appreciate for the rest of our lives.🥰 May God bless you & comfort your loved ones.
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