I remember when I heard this, it had been YEARS since I heard Dion. He was coming back, after years with his Spiritual-Religious albums period... We were shocked and overwhelmed when we lost JFK, MLK and BOBBY too....I was working for Bobby in the precincts too and was up at 2am when SS killed him. This song still makes me cry.
This song is the 60s to me when I watch and remember this. Thanks for reminding us on Martin Luther King day today. Powerful then and powerful reminder now
I remember seeing Dion Live in Gatlinburg ,Tn. He was a great writer /singer /performer when all of the 50's music began,yet I love his more recent songs. This one is an alltime great one.I LOVE his Christian Albums,soulfull and soundfull. He's a very nice guy as well,met him after his concert on the street and was overwhelmed at how decent he was .
@curtiss123 hi! I met him too! Yes he was cordial and very nice..I told him how much I loved his music..A big smile came across his face and he shook my hand and thanked me. What class! I will never forget it.
Thanks for doing this. Have always loved this song but had never seen Dion perform it - was not aware of his guitar skills - this is a fantastic guitar arrangement and beautifully performed.
He is absolutely a fantastic artist, his career now spans the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, naughties and now no doubt into 2010, check out the video posted "this guy is 70" from Oct. 2009, man! what a performer still with that bronx accent, his book is a great read too!
Anything great reflects the time that is depicted but extends itself to the future. This one does that for we are reminded of wonderful people, of course of a less caliber than this, who shaped our lives and yet whom we will never see again. anyhow, it is so beautiful!!!! Thank you for posting it
All I know from this beautiful song is that we have lost these wonderful people who only tried to do the right thing-I know many people do not agree with their politics, but no one deserves to be assasinated for their beliefs!
@Southnsoul Dion's guitar work that he did when he performed this song on The Smother's Brothers Show was really exempilary. I do not know what kind of justice an Elementary School Choir can do for this song, but we did it in 1970.
Living in the UK I have only ever heard the Marvin Gaye version of this beautiful song. I've just read on Google that Dion was the first to record it and wow, my goodness me that has just made me cry! So much so I can't write another word 😢
I met Dion personally when he sang to a very small crowd of fans at Grand Rapids Baptist. school, near Grand Rapids, Michigan in suberb of Wyoming; in 1987,, he sang both his origional songs and lot of Christian contempoary and gave a testimony of how Jesus christ worked within his life,,,
thanks for posting....i went to this concert at the HardRock in Hollywood...Dion was great...i think it was dec 9th 2011...this song is so special considering Nov 22 is the JFK assassination...R.I.P.
@donnyoh -- Quite a few of us out here are old enough to remember the deaths of King and Bobby and John Kennedy in the 60's And for us, not only do we still recall the shock and pain of their murders, but this song brings a tear to this day. My folks thought Dion was just a flash in the pan back in '61'. Man, were they wrong!
Powerful song with much a Sad Message from the 1960's ~ I wonder what they would think now about 2011 ? Seems nothing really changes ~ No one ever talks We live in sad world ~ God please help us learn something Before it's too late ~ 24/7
a song to commemorate the loss of the Baby Boom generations hopes and dreams. First John Kennedy, then Martin Luther King and finally tearing the generations hearts out Bobby Kennedy!
I remember when you recorded this in 1968. my Doo Wop king singing a song so serious and right. Don't get me wrong I loved it and still do but was shocked that you had really got serious. Thanks for it Dion.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Obama, can you tell me where he's gone? He tried to change the people, turns out he was wrong.thats the last verse of this song!
Who would have thought someone that was a teen idol singing songs to teenyboppers at the start of the the 60's would have come up with one of the saddest songs ever at the end of the decade?
Dion returned to Laurie records after having left and gone to Columbia. This song was great and a big hit for him. I never realized that Dion played guitar.
He played guitar on most of his records. Had the industry not said "Lead singers don't play guitar", we would have seen him upfront with one. When he wrote his songs with the Belmonts, he had a guitar. He did not write Abraham, Martin, and John, but the songwriter thought this was for him, and he took the opportunity after coming out of rehab from heroin addiction. He certainly did the guitar work on the song, and its very inventive. He's a great musician. And remember, there are no guitarists. Its musicians with outlets.
WOW! This Dion was one of the most God blessed Christian musicians to ever live...too bad he was deceived by the Deceiver and fell back into the world of compromise. He used to follow Jesus, now he follows a man, the Pope! I love you Dion.
Yep I agree..that was the only time of his life he was nice to me.his outa wedlock son when he was 16yrs old n not a shit head rock star yet..www.dionthewanderer.com
@@stelladonaconfredobutler9459 Hah ha>who is dumb Dumb?>sounds like you are deceived and need to SELL OUT YOUR WACKED SOUL TO CHRIST! Or lose>#1, "Well, my Catholic faith influences everything. That’s at the center of my being, of my mind." Dion Dimucci. #2. www.ncregister.com/news/dions-spiritual-journey-for-truth
@bigbirdandsnuffyfan I met him on the street in Gatlinburg ,Tn after he perfomed at a Christian concert. One of the nicest guys ever and what an artist !
I imagine someone has already mentioned it in a Comment, but the first photo of "Lincoln" is actually Jefferson Davis. Well, at least they're both from Kentucky.
@Upsiditus7 Mr. Kennedy (along with his bother Robert) "freed" Black Americans from those with bigoted views within our own Government and from those who tried to enforce laws that trampled their rights, simply because of their color. ALL 4 men who are sung about in the song...deserve NOTHING LESS than our undying respect.. for their actions in bettering mankind. May they all rest in peace.
I agree..but I do remember Bobbys death..I was just 15 and hoping he would be President..much better than the awful one we had at the time..I felt the pain and loss..It took people I knew around me a very long time to recover from that..just like JFK. Dion said it all when he recorded this song!
Even if you are too young to remember John Kennedy, surely you have read about our history. Mary Revis gave you an excellent reply to you question, so I won't elaborate further.
It means 🚶God given rights that we are entitled to and born with as u.s. citizens.my college professor gave me an A and he said sir could read 📚your paper 📃to the rest of the class
Beautiful song but this song was also done where the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were interspersed with dialogue and somebody interviewing a young kid asking the child what bigotry is
@12Krys My friend people ARE LEARNING SOMETHING. The multiracial Occupy Movement, the fight for union rights in Wisconsin and Ohio, The Arab Spring, people are trying to built a BETTER world. Open your eyes and look.Please make that a New Years resolution. Take care.
By the way I still haven't been able to enter into a McDonalds in New mexico 🙃perhaps not even for mother's day which is ashame cause these presidents spoke of rights of blacks,brown,and unalienable rights
I handed a clerk a five dollar 💵 that was little torn in middle and she said she could not take it cause clinton the owner did not like lincoln or his kin coach Abe lemons
I still remember what I felt when I first heard this song - deep sadness...
Such a powerful song. Always makes me cry.
I remember when I heard this, it had been YEARS since I heard Dion. He was coming back, after years with his Spiritual-Religious albums period... We were shocked and overwhelmed when we lost JFK, MLK and BOBBY too....I was working for Bobby in the precincts too and was up at 2am when SS killed him. This song still makes me cry.
This song is the 60s to me when I watch and remember this. Thanks for reminding us on Martin Luther King day today. Powerful then and powerful reminder now
+Ellen Kelly Yes !!!
This one always gives me goosebumps. Amazing song!
Luv this beautiful tribute to 4 wonders men taken from us too soon rip😢
I remember seeing Dion Live in Gatlinburg ,Tn. He was a great writer /singer /performer when all of the 50's music began,yet I love his more recent songs. This one is an alltime great one.I LOVE his Christian Albums,soulfull and soundfull. He's a very nice guy as well,met him after his concert on the street and was overwhelmed at how decent he was .
A wonderful song apropos ti these troubled times. ❤✌
Still listening yet again, August 18, 2023... this is still timeless in its emotive lyrics.
The song has been in our Hearts for many years The Awakening 💙
@curtiss123 hi! I met him too! Yes he was cordial and very nice..I told him how much I loved his music..A big smile came across his face and he shook my hand and thanked me. What class! I will never forget it.
Still moves me after all these years. Really enjoyed this.
Love Dion.
Thanks for doing this. Have always loved this song but had never seen Dion perform it - was not aware of his guitar skills - this is a fantastic guitar arrangement and beautifully performed.
He is absolutely a fantastic artist, his career now spans the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, naughties and now no doubt into 2010, check out the video posted "this guy is 70" from Oct. 2009, man! what a performer still with that bronx accent, his book is a great read too!
Anything great reflects the time that is depicted but extends itself to the future. This one does that for we are reminded of wonderful people, of course of a less caliber than this, who shaped our lives and yet whom we will never see again. anyhow, it is so beautiful!!!! Thank you for posting it
All I know from this beautiful song is that we have lost these wonderful people who only tried to do the right thing-I know many people do not agree with their politics, but no one deserves to be assasinated for their beliefs!
The Evil politicians LIVE ON and the good ones DIE for trying to.ake this a better place for ALL OF US!
@@soothingfrequency4517Yep, as the song says, don't it seem the good die young...
He does this great song so beautifully here. 😢
Yes it is the arsenio show..I always thought this was the best live perf of this song..thank you for posting this
beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
,,, absolute, all time favorite , of Dions !!!,✨🙏🏼✝👍🇺🇸🌎✌️❤️🌷🔔🤓✨
@Southnsoul Dion's guitar work that he did when he performed this song on The Smother's Brothers Show was really exempilary. I do not know what kind of justice an Elementary School Choir can do for this song, but we did it in 1970.
What a great heart felt song.
Powerful song from the man who made my name famous!
Living in the UK I have only ever heard the Marvin Gaye version of this beautiful song. I've just read on Google that Dion was the first to record it and wow, my goodness me that has just made me cry! So much so I can't write another word 😢
great song, always loved it!!!
I met Dion personally when he sang to a very small crowd of fans at Grand Rapids Baptist. school, near Grand Rapids, Michigan in suberb of Wyoming; in 1987,, he sang both his origional songs and lot of Christian contempoary and gave a testimony of how Jesus christ worked within his life,,,
what an amazing performer.
Something about you Mr Dion love the way you think
thanks for posting....i went to this concert at the HardRock in Hollywood...Dion was great...i think it was dec 9th 2011...this song is so special considering Nov 22 is the JFK assassination...R.I.P.
@donnyoh -- Quite a few of us out here are old enough to remember the deaths of King and Bobby and John Kennedy in the 60's And for us, not only do we still recall the shock and pain of their murders, but this song brings a tear to this day.
My folks thought Dion was just a flash in the pan back in '61'. Man, were they wrong!
Powerful song with much a Sad Message from the 1960's ~
I wonder what they would think now about 2011 ?
Seems nothing really changes ~ No one ever talks
We live in sad world ~
God please help us learn something Before it's too late ~ 24/7
Live on the Arsenio Hall Show, 1988
Just a great American song!
a song to commemorate the loss of the Baby Boom generations hopes and dreams. First John Kennedy, then Martin Luther King and finally tearing the generations hearts out Bobby Kennedy!
I remember when you recorded this in 1968. my Doo Wop king singing a song so serious and right. Don't get me wrong I loved it and still do but was shocked that you had really got serious. Thanks for it Dion.
Thanks for posting.
I did know Dion very well, rode with him at his frist come back gig. Wish I had listen to him back then...Loveya Bro.....Peter
Seems like a pretty nice guy.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Obama, can you tell me where he's gone? He tried to change the people, turns out he was wrong.thats the last verse of this song!
Who would have thought someone that was a teen idol singing songs to teenyboppers at the start of the the 60's would have come up with one of the saddest songs ever at the end of the decade?
I just looked around, and he's gone! Too soon. :(
Why the heck is there a picture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis on left side of screen before Abraham Lincoln is pictured on the right?
Amazing!
BEAUTIFUL
Dion returned to Laurie records after having left and gone to Columbia. This song was great and a big hit for him. I never realized that Dion played guitar.
Mate,..everybody plays guitar.
Felix Burke Not like Dion they don't.
Don't Forget He Wrote This From His Heart,
Bobby Darin played guitar, too.
He played guitar on most of his records. Had the industry not said "Lead singers don't play guitar", we would have seen him upfront with one. When he wrote his songs with the Belmonts, he had a guitar. He did not write Abraham, Martin, and John, but the songwriter thought this was for him, and he took the opportunity after coming out of rehab from heroin addiction. He certainly did the guitar work on the song, and its very inventive. He's a great musician. And remember, there are no guitarists. Its musicians with outlets.
What a voice
Awesome. But for sound quality check out Joe's Pub 2011
WOW! This Dion was one of the most God blessed Christian musicians to ever live...too bad he was deceived by the Deceiver and fell back into the world of compromise. He used to follow Jesus, now he follows a man, the Pope!
I love you Dion.
Yep I agree..that was the only time of his life he was nice to me.his outa wedlock son when he was 16yrs old n not a shit head rock star yet..www.dionthewanderer.com
He did not you idiot
@@stelladonaconfredobutler9459 Hah ha>who is dumb Dumb?>sounds like you are deceived and need to SELL OUT YOUR WACKED SOUL TO CHRIST! Or lose>#1, "Well, my Catholic faith influences everything. That’s at the center of my being, of my mind." Dion Dimucci. #2. www.ncregister.com/news/dions-spiritual-journey-for-truth
My dog jumped up when he heard the phone ringing in the background, man they've got good ears.
@bigbirdandsnuffyfan
I met him on the street in Gatlinburg ,Tn after he perfomed at a Christian concert. One of the nicest guys ever and what an artist !
It's a couple of lines from Will The Circle Be Unbroken
I imagine someone has already mentioned it in a Comment, but the first photo of "Lincoln" is actually Jefferson Davis. Well, at least they're both from Kentucky.
I never realised he was playing in Stirling, I would definitely have gone as I live in Dundee
Thumbs down..why. this is a beautiful song. By a great musician. a bit history.
Merry Christmas to You ~
Nice video, only problem is the first picture they show is of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, not Lincoln.
Beautiful song and voice, yet couldnt he have used some background musicians?
The very first black and white photo in this video is Jefferson Davis not Lincoln.
Thank you. I thought that was Jeff Davis.
I remember :-(
Dion rocks
@Upsiditus7 Mr. Kennedy (along with his bother Robert) "freed" Black Americans from those with bigoted views within our own Government and from those who tried to enforce laws that trampled their rights, simply because of their color. ALL 4 men who are sung about in the song...deserve NOTHING LESS than our undying respect.. for their actions in bettering mankind. May they all rest in peace.
Is this the Arsenio Hall Show?
Does anybody know what word unalienable rights mean
Juan o savin brought me here.. WWG1WGA
I agree..but I do remember Bobbys death..I was just 15 and hoping he would be President..much better than the awful one we had at the time..I felt the pain and loss..It took people I knew around me a very long time to recover from that..just like JFK. Dion said it all when he recorded this song!
does anybody know if bobby darin sang this song?
I wish I had the lyrics as he sings them here... he seems to have another line or two beyond what you get when you google for lyrics.
Just happened by this. I forgot how beautiful and moving it is. Not to mention that Dion is cool as f^^k to this day.
Even if you are too young to remember John Kennedy, surely you have read about our history. Mary Revis gave you an excellent reply to you question, so I won't elaborate further.
WTF??!! Somebody edited in a picture of the Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Don't think that's what Dion had in mind...
Amen, Mary M. Revis.
This could be a 1985 TV special.....anyway written by Dick Holler......
Wow...
It means 🚶God given rights that we are entitled to and born with as u.s. citizens.my college professor gave me an A and he said sir could read 📚your paper 📃to the rest of the class
You can add John Lennon to the list.
Beautiful song but this song was also done where the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were interspersed with dialogue and somebody interviewing a young kid asking the child what bigotry is
@Kelly O'Sullivan Thank you my friend.
watch this and you decide.the wanderer talks truth part 1...23minutes on you tube. DION II
Would someone please tell me who exactly John F. Kennedy freed?
lmao.
also remember, he didn't write the song.
@neilnsue what did the Kennedy's do for you?
yeah it sounds like you have some research to do.
@12Krys My friend people ARE LEARNING SOMETHING. The multiracial Occupy Movement, the fight for union rights in Wisconsin and Ohio, The Arab Spring, people are trying to built a BETTER world. Open your eyes and look.Please make that a New Years resolution. Take care.
By the way I still haven't been able to enter into a McDonalds in New mexico 🙃perhaps not even for mother's day which is ashame cause these presidents spoke of rights of blacks,brown,and unalienable rights
THE TRUTH IS COMING .....WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN MARTIN AND BROTHER BOBBY.....they tried to free us all
Where We Go 1 We Go All
What did John F. Kennedy do "to free Black Americans?"
@Upsiditus7 If you bothered to read...your question was already answered.
I handed a clerk a five dollar 💵 that was little torn in middle and she said she could not take it cause clinton the owner did not like lincoln or his kin coach Abe lemons
I just noticed the same thing - weird!
Inspirational song, but the writer is rarely mentioned or else is assumed to be Dion. Actually written by (then 16 year old) DICK HOLLER.
go back to school.
zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....boring