As a 70 year old woman of color and multi ethnicities, I think it's too sad that we continue to label music and voices according to color or ethnic group. I loved the Righteous Brothers as much as I loved Black Opera singer Leontyne Price, and Roy Orbison as I loved Smokey Robinson. The BeeGees and The Temptations, Janis Joplin and then again Aretha, Carole King and Martha & the Vandellas or Ronettes. I enjoyed Miriam Makeba and enjoyed Celia Cruz etc. My point is we sing the style we grow up hearing until we are exposed to a style from a different town or part of the country or the world and discover that if we love music we can appreciate it who ever is bringing it to us. Joy is Joy in every color❤
@Hillary's emails to Lorne I tend not to blame entire generations for things any more than I would blame entire nations, people, ethnicities, etc. The problem is greed and it certainly isn't unique to any one generation.
@@bonnienadinenewman I believe it is Basque in origin, though my full name is fictional, from one of my favourite writers. Also, yes it is a surname. The name is Rodel Ituralde.
@@bonnienadinenewman the writer was Robert Jordan and the series is called "The Wheel of Time". The first book is "The Eye of the World". A beautiful series if you like adventure fantasy akin to Lord of the Rings. Thank you for the invite. I will check it out.
I'm black and grew up with this music, that statement has to be directed at the young folks, them guys could sing and they're not the only ones, there's a lot of blue eyed soul groups that are and were out there, sing righteous brothers, real music that you can appreciate for times to come, never goes out of style, enjoy guys.
If you're truly Black then you know they were, as White people, copying the Black sound and were socially acceptable to the White mainstream radio audience at the time. Put your comment into context of that time. You and I would be disappeared without a trace, remains never to be found. Don't kid yourself. In the 50's 60's and 70's, in the South. If you are really Black we both would be KILLED! DEAD! Elvis music flourished during this time especially in the Southern Confederate States. Pure, Unaltered Original Racism .100 percent!!
@@DaPurpleWeedMan that don't apply to me sweetie, you have to catch up, it seems as though you're lost. I'm not playing the race card, as I stated prior it's a lot of white guys that could and still sing today, I'm going to drop the mic on this platform, have a blessed day kiddo
Yeah but if you don't know, and you hear them for the first time, you might assume they are black. That's exactly the point of the video, and its entirely the thing that makes the reactions in this video so damn cute. We need to try to just appreciate that shit and stop being so sensitive.
I, as were many Black ppl, was raised to hate Elvis Presley as a racist song stealing tyrant. It wasn't until VERY recently that I found out that not only was this untrue, but that he spent his career trying to make what he knew to be a racist southern fan base, STOP giving him credit for things he learned from working with and listening to Black artists. He didn't like being called The King of rock and roll, because even he said what he was doing was just an attempt at what Black artists had been doing for years, and stated that no one could do Black music better than Black ppl. He intentionally went to music festivals on the nights reserved for Black ppl, bc he wanted to jam with the Black artists. He adored Black ppl and Black music culture, and wasn't ashamed to admit it. It only took 1 rumored quote to make the Community that fascinated him, turn on him. Someone told us he said "The only thing a negro can do for me is buy my music, and shine my shoes." It was easily confirmed by the venue he was said to be at when giving this interview, and the person he supposedly said it to, that it never happened, and that Elvis was in an entirely different place at the time, and had actually NEVER interviewed with this person or their publication. Unfortunately Elvis never addressed it (I'm assuming he figured it was a baseless rumor and would go away on it's own). For this reason he lost almost all of his Black fan base, as well as respect from the Black music industry. By the time he addressed it, it was too late. The lie had been passed on to children, and grandchildren. We were halted and told not to like Elvis as soon as we discovered him as children. Black hatred for Elvis Presley is a sad and unfortunate trope that has been passed down in the Black community for decades. Hating him is part of Black culture at this point. As a Black woman, I can say that it's unfair to his memory, that his love for our culture has been washed away and buried under a lie, and even worse, is it would be hard if not impossible to ever repair that relationship.
@@Undeniably_Me I find it very believable that an actual racist created this story to give Elvis a bad name because he was promoting a Black culture which seemed very uncultured to certain ignorant people at that time. A TRUE racist would have wanted to stop this culture from spreading out and 'infecting' the minds of youth so they concocted a story to stop it. The problem is that attributing this false story to an absolutely amazing artist is akin to the story of Michael Jackson being attributed to being a child molester. I still disbelieve he was one and have seen no proof he was one and will not believe any malicious rumors of another amazing artist who passed before his time. Now we can see how both examples work to pollute the truth by creating LIES and disinformation. LIES breed ignorance, distrust, and antipathy. Walking in the truth of the LIGHT of GOD is the only route to salvation. It is better to walk with a light to guide your path than to stumble around in blindness and darkness. What pisses me off is how the hell can a person listen to his songs bout LOVE LOVE LOVE all the time and find racism in this person without giving the story a second thought? ONE stupid story about Elvis which was false, wipes about all his songs about LOVE? Hundreds of them! Has anyone listened to the words of "LOVE ME TENDER" as he sang it? HELLLLLLOOOOO!!!! How much HATE do you have in your heart (to give the FAKENEWS of that era) so much weight I wonder?
@Hillary's emails to Lorne People had soooooooooo much more class and decency and civility back then. Say what you will about gender roles, back then men knew how to be gentlemen and treat women as ladies, with respect and deference. Motown music reflected all that, all the time.
@Gemma Saint please appreciate whatever vintage Shakira you encounter
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I am 63 years old, I grew up listening to Blues, Jazz, Motown and Blue Eyed Soul. I get a "charge" when I see how some black people are amazed by the full, rich, melodic sound of the Righteous Brothers. After 30 yrs of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap music, some blacks are experiencing, for the first time, what "real" music sounds like. Music that makes you feel good without the use of foul language, or lyrics that degrade women or lyrics that glorify robbing and killing someone. Music is universal. Whether you are black, white, or purple, there is nothing more invigorating than the awesome and dynamic combination of gospel and R&B, which we called "Blue Eyed Soul"
Soul is soul... a skin color doesnt enter into anything.. you either got soul.. or you dont. And most will agree, this is and has soul. As well as some of the finest vocal performances ever recorded. Enjoy the music and I hope we all can share in the joy it can bring to all.
@@madhatter217 , pain doesn't create Soul. Talent does. People can write songs about things they have never experienced. They just have to imagine what it feels like. I have written poems about things that never actually happened to me. Songs are no different. It just requires talent to do that.
I'm almost 70. You can imagine how we reacted when we first saw the Righteous Brothers in person! We were amazed, shocked and in awe. But they were accepted immediately in the Black communities. It goes to show you that music can truly bring us together. Great duo with a string of hits that we all made love while listening!
I watched an interview with them and they actually got their name after performing for a predominantly black audience. Several patrons after the show were complementing them and saying, "That was RIGHTEOUS BROTHER" and the rest is history :D
Most don't know that Elvis Presley and many other went to a black church to learned moves and technique. And yes the Righteous Brother was a nice surprise to me as well www.journalnow.com/archives/the-church-of-elvis-presley-family-regularly-attended-tiny-church/article_f9d40d97-c14a-59da-a634-b5a4e6ea232b.html
@Algo Rhythm Does every "white person dancing" video online express racism? Chinese people eat hamburgers for 1st time? We shouldn't strive to be oversensitive. I remember pointing a friend out in a large crowd and referring to him as the black guy......The old white lady I said it to, seemed so uncomfortable by this......, So to make a point, I started listing his character traits........I asked her how much that helped her find my friend in the crowded room........I then pointed out.......that he was the only black person in the whole group, so my words were very efficient...............(over sensitive) All cultures collectively overlap at some point (Picture a Venn Diagram), so most racial stereotypes are just the parts of a Venn where the circles do not overlap. If totally unfounded as a culture trait, then sure, but this portion of the diagram doesn't get labelled as racism. See how many clicks "black people eat chitterlings" gets vs "white people try chitlins" Racism isnt implied or inferred. Racism requires prejudiced. Prejudiced; requires statements made outside of reason or evidence. Noticing that 1 culture is less familiar with an artist than another is by definition not even prejudiced....its just an observation.
SAME! And this isn't even technically my generation. I'm an 80's kid... but how can someone not know The Righteous Brothers. I judge their parents. They done f-ed up while raising them.
@@Mathuna1 Americans understand it better than most of the world. The USA is the most multi ethnic, multicultural country in the world. Where people from all around the world coexist and have created the most prosperous, most culturally dynamic nation in the history of the world. There is no other place on earth like it, idiosyncrasies, growing pains and all.
They used to play this at my teenage disco in the mid 80s and even the guys who had no one to dance with in a slow set would just stand around and sing in to a pretend mic, great song one of the best.
This is hilarious. I grew up with this music, and it never occurred to me that anyone would think that only African Americans could make this kind of music. So glad new generations are enjoying it. I have the Righteous Brothers in two different album formats. One is a CD and the other is actually on tape! I have a lot of vinyl, but just don't happen to have them on vinyl.
It always puzzles me when I see people react like those watching this. What's race got to do with how you sing? Heck if you listen to those of that era sing. For that style of music. Most had that soulful sound. Your race doesn't determine your voice. Only your nationality (country you were born in) or region and the language you speak at home are indicators of where you have come from.
Hard to believe, that, in the not-too-distant past, THIS, was what real music sounded like, no foul language, no obscene gestures, no referring to women as "bitches" or "hoes", just an awesome combination of two dynamic and melodic voices, coupled with Phil Spector's "wall of sound", producing the most subline mixture of gospel and R&B ever recorded. I am pleased to see that this dynamic music still resonates throughout the decades. No doubt about it, whether you were alive in 1966, or not, this is "food for your soul". Can I get an "AMEN?"
In the 60's we didn't care what color they were when it came to what we loved listening to. It was a time of great music and great musicians. It thrills me that you young folk can appreciate it too. (Many a baby was conceived in the backseat while listening to The Righteous Brothers on the car radio...😇)
@@gregryeii403 Really, good music is more or less immortal. People are still listening to music from known composers hundreds of years ago. And there's stuff that's far older where we don't necessarily know who it is that wrote it. People are still going to be interested in actually good music many generations down the road in most cases. It's mostly when music uses different systems like the pentatonic scale where it can be a more universally hard to listen to experience.
"The Righteous Brothers” are considered by most to be the Greatest Male Vocal Duet Of All Time. I agree. Between Bill Medley’s Lows and Bobby Hatfield’s Highs they can hit every note on an 73 key piano. No other male singers can do that. Legendary. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” was the most played song on radio in the 20th Century. "Unchained Melody" - Bobby Hatfield Live 1965. Considered by most as The Greatest Live Male Vocal Performance In History... I agree. Bobby's use of "Runs" is brilliant. He is the master of the technique and started the trend. 7 notes just to say the word "I".... Their name came when they did a show in a smaller venue and a black man told them…. You two Brothers are Righteous. They created the sound and set the table that all Soul Music fed from for decades to come. In 1983, in Newport Beach O.C. Calif. Bill and Bobby at the Jolly Roger Restaurant . I was 13 feet away for... "Unchained Melody"- "You've Lost That Lovin’ Feelin‘" - "Soul And Inspiration".... They were perfect, awesome, amazing, incredible......
They still are to this day. A perfect example of 'call & response' that's so heavily used by blues guitarists but they did it with their voices. They were lightyears ahead of their time vocally & their music absolutely smokes the music nowadays 👍
For real! It was like, she realized just then for the first time that that type of expressed devotion exists... and "oh my God where have you been in my life.". kinda felt like that was going thru her mind. I think hers was the purest and most meaningful reaction. Super pretty too.
I loved all of those reactions especially for the fellas who said "HE'S A WHTE DUDE?!" and "TWO WHITE DUDES!?" Y'all I laughed so hard! So glad people can still appreciate the Righteous Brothers even today and that people can enjoy them for the first time still.
I think it's funny because I never really thought much about the racial identity of any of these groups. They were mostly releasing in an era when there was less of an emphasis on the video as a means of promotion. Sure, it definitely was a thing and it's why there are so many clips of these groups from various TV shows. But, radio was a larger tastemaker than it is now. Even in the '80s that's where I got my taste for a lot of these groups and while there were some that I knew were black, in most cases I had no idea, and didn't particularly care either.
Dad, I hear you. But it’s not exactly that way. I am a recording engineer. They used an equalizer and a compressor and a plate reverberation unit on his voice. I have copies of this kind of vintage equipment which I use on modern records. It has a unique glow. Every record is engineered. Nothing but a documentary film is unaltered.
@@audionmusic2787 Like we never knew this stuff back in the day. The difference was that engineered recordings back in the day were made to mimic live performances and eventually it started to go in the opposite direction. Nevertheless you still hear the odd music artist that just doesn't need the help. Back in the day live shows were always the preferred mode for listening to music because recordings just didn't have the same effect, live was always better. Not so much these days..
@@Theodorussfo Dark Side Of The Moon was made to mimic a live performance? Are you deaf? You are speaking to a mix engineer. You are trashing the entire art of mixing which is intended to make music sound better than live.
@@125AXer Right? I am still of the opinion that this is one of the causes of the skyrocketed divorce rates. Everyone today is mostly only surrounded by media that glorifies promiscuity, vilifies commitment and only mentions love if they are talking about heartbreak/being betrayed. So now people dont know how to find love, think they dont want it, dont know what to do when they get it or how to treat their partner with it.
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Lol. I am a 40 yr old white woman and I always say I was raised right because we listened to EVERYTHING in my house, from country to motown to disco to R n B, from the 50s until present. So I really enjoy watching others experience oldies but goodies for the first time.
It’s about as funny as watching black people react to Dolly Parton singing her original “I will always love you” or the first time they hear Chris Stapleton!
@@epistte Why they calling that sound blue eyed soul? When it's black soul sound period. Just don't want to credit it as. Sound of the black culture music that many foreign white people listen to coming up . They even come to America and name the black artists they were inspired by. Like I've said all nonblack people with the black sound has always made it famous and topped the Elvis is one of many. We black people are amazing. I'm even in awh of our talent sometime.
Music speaks all languages. We all feel joy, ecstasy, love, fear, anger, pain, and broken hearts. That's why these reaction videos are such a good idea :)
They adopted the name Righteous Brothers when the Black Marines at El Toro military base would say to them “that was righteous, brothers!” after they performed there.
@@shamsulhisyam3037 eh. That’s debatable. Old school is great for what it was and it inspired later artists to do their own things, but it doesn’t mean it’s automatically better than later schools
Why's everyone obsessed with autotune? It's pathetic. As for songs that "use more than two words", the utterly fantastic and 50 odd year old Surfing Bird by the Trashmen says hi.
Before videos we enjoyed all music it didn't matter if singer was black or white. Good music was simply good music. I can't believe the emphasis that is being forced on us today to take a stand for skin color. People are simply people.
So sick of this “back when” bs. I was born in the 70’s. There was great music before, during and since my generation. There was also a lot of crap from each one. The great stuff filters through and stands the test of time.
Me too, thank God. When I was at the age to be influenced by popular music, there were no Beatles albums in our house. We either had Beethoven, Dvorak and Handel upstairs; and in the rec room it was Righteous Bros., Eric Burdon and The Animals, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, etc. When I cleaned out the house after my parents were gone I found an LP by The Monkees but it sure as hell wasn't me that bought it and no one else copped to it either. Maybe it was brought to a party by someone and forgotten.
We blue-eyed people love our soul music too. I grew up in the Motown of the 60's with R&B and the civil rights movement. These two sang the most beautiful harmonious songs of the day!
I get so sick of people complaining about white people being influenced by other groups. It's usually not as simple as folks like to make it out. There's plenty of room, especially these days, for everybody. I've heard some impressive albums made for under $1k, so it's not necessarily the case where it's even that expensive. I get the feeling that it's a lot less expensive the more talented you are and the more you work to improve the actual music being made rather than to use technology to cheat you to a good sound.
When a human being has Soul, the color of his/her skin doesn’t matter at all!!! Music and soul, could bring all of us closer together, and stop the hating!! ✌️ ☮️
shouldn't ever matter what color your skin is. mine is olive, I'm half Italian, they used to call us wops (without papers). My Grandparents came here legally, their names are carved on the wall at Ellis Island. we all bleed red! it's our hearts that matter... God bless you all, whatever the heck color you are, who cares. ;) love the Righteous Brothers, they rocked big time. † ♥ #StopTheHate #Kindness is good! ♥ ♥ ♥
I love this video. The women are beautiful and their reactions are priceless! And how could they not be?!? This is one of THE top 10 songs of all time. Take my word for it; I've been a musician since 1964 and "I was there when..." PS: I've had the pleasure and honor of telling Bill Medley, himself, how amazing this song, production and performance is! Still moves me every time!
I believe the period correct term is she was swooning something girls did back then I believe , It seems the demise of such a reaction was incorrectly reported, There are still girls out there with feelings who that simply surface at the right time.
Well there was no black ppl in that in movie so why would they watch. Back in those black never got major rolls like that or even rolls to be a side kick like goose.
Completely speechless, what a lovely reaction. I am still moved whenever I see and hear this live version. It is perfect, just perfect... what a voice...
I never wanted a career in law enforcement (police, court system, etc.) because I am never brave enough to face the dark side of humanity. Though some people think I am naive (aka stupid), I believe that there are good people out there in every town, city, and state. I whole heartily believe that THERE ARE good people out there in every race, religion, and profession who actually believe what is right and try to protect others who are afraid to speak or act out against the bad things (such as crime).
Brian Wall Anyone who has seen the movie Top Gun (which is everybody) or listened to any oldies station has heard this song before. I think the point of this video though is that a lot of people didn’t know it was 2 white dudes that were singing.
Most of us don't, but please don't be patronizing and ignorant; a lot of us younger folks know very well of these older artists and greatly admire them. A lot of good music still gets made, you just have to dig through Spotify or other music platforms to find them, unfortunately.
Get over being defensive . This comment not directed to just you . Dont be so self absorbed . But exactly , in those days , you didn't have to dig through stuff to find good music . Music then was original and so creative . They had fierce competition . Artists didn't copy songs or lyrics because it was raw talent . Learn some manners and be respectful .
Squeaky Reed man I’m so sorry. Yes I called him - a few times. I have a young son who also adores him so we have spent some quality time on face time recently too. God bless you bro thanks for checking in
This was the times when people knew how to sing. When people were romantic. When you went to a party and we played 3 slow songs to one fast song. When we did the 500, the dip, and the grind. We bought a 45, a flower and wrote a note to give to the girl you liked. Her response and reaction were amazing 😍😍😍
well yeah, if you pull out a 45 on the date I'm sure her reaction would be quite memorable!.. I don't know if flowers and a note would help much by that point though..
My parents raised me on everything from classical to jazz to rock to musicals and all in between. My siblings were 10 years older than me so I was exposed to the Beatles, Zeppelin, Who, Stones etc as a child. I did the same with my kids who are now just in their 20s but know music from the 50s,60s,70s, etc. Good music is good music regardless of "colour" and is all about talent. And the line about getting on his knees makes my 58 year old heart melt every time!
Me too same thing 58 and my sister 7 of them were 10 years older than me! I was born in 1965 so I grew up listening to all the great music of 60, 70, 80,
This gave me a good laugh. I've heard this song like a million times and it's always funny to see someone who doesn't know the Righteous Brothers were white dudes. Those dudes were insanely vocally talented.
@@mikem9001 wouldn't have been out of memory though. If Top gun 2 had come out last year lol. It still came on alot last year. Damn Covid. If someone's 20 or older hard to believe they haven't seen it, it's like the breakfast club or back to the future, I blame it on the parents for not showing them the classics lol
I think more folks were shocked when Bobby Hatfield started breaking it down hitting those high notes than the fact that they were white. I'm a 65 year old headbanger but have a deep seeded love for R&B from the 60s. That was the music my parents listened to when I was a child. Good music is good music.
@@Gonk He hits just about the highest notes that a man can hit. Well, without going castrato, and that is some pretty hardcore stuff right there. I had forgotten about just how high some of those notes are.
I am 63 years old, I grew up listening to Blues, Jazz, Motown and Blue Eyed Soul. I get a "charge" when I see how some black people are amazed by the full, rich, melodic sound of the Righteous Brothers. After 30 yrs of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap music, some blacks are experiencing, for the first time, what "real" music sounds like. Music that makes you feel good without the use of foul language, or lyrics that degrade women or lyrics that glorify robbing and killing someone. Music is universal. Whether you are black, white, or purple, there is nothing more invigorating than the awesome and dynamic combination of gospel and R&B, which we called "Blue Eyed Soul"
This is the best thing I have seen in a while. As some old white dude myself, watching these reactions to music I have always known and loved was just awesome. They were so surprised and it made me laugh, but in such a good way. We are not as different as we might think.
I'm 37 and my parents were as old as most people's grandparents my age so I grew up on this stuff, but c'mon how do you go this long in life without ever hearing a righteous brothers song?!
Hard to believe, that, in the not-too-distant past, THIS, was what real music sounded like, no foul language, no obscene gestures, no referring to women as "bitches" or "hoes", just an awesome combination of two dynamic and melodic voices, coupled with Phil Spector's "wall of sound", producing the most sublime mixture of gospel and R&B ever recorded. I am pleased to see that this dynamic music still resonates throughout the decades. No doubt about it, whether you were alive in 1966, or not, this is "food for your soul". Can I get an "AMEN?"
To be fair most women during that time were not bitches and being a hoe was shunned. Now we have hoes showing their bodies off for nothing but thumbs up and like on the internet for the whole world to see. And if you tell them that's trashy, they go full bitch mode. Times have changed and it hasn't all been for the better.
Amen right here. No auto tune. No bull. Just pure joy in the music. The telling of a man and his love for a woman. Just doesn't get any better than this.
I'd agree, except the blue eyed soul is talking about that genre of soul music. Can you name plenty of white soul singers from that era? I'd like to look them up.
Love the music and also love the reactions. Kind of sad so many people have missed out on such great music for so long. As someone else said, no autotune, nothing but just pure GOD given talent.
I LOVED LOVED dancing to these guys and many like them. Music was real then to the depths of your soul. I am 78 and can still feel those exact emotions when I hear them! REAL MUSIC!
I love that guy who was like, "a white dude?!". ..."TWO white dudes?!". Lmao!! It made me laugh so hard and it was so great watching him start jamming out. Haha
@@julesedwards4495 Right on. His channel is really good actually. He's intelligent and well-spoken. He gets a connection with great singers. Modern Renaissance Man channel. Worth a watch.
I feel so blessed to have grown up when songs like this were on the radio almost every minute. We just didn't know how good we had it back then when it came to the music that surrounded us. There will never be another time when the musicianship, the artistry of the singers, and the songwriters were all at their very peak at the same time.
Can't tell you how much I loved this video. I'm a 77 year old white guy and in 1968 shared an apartment with a close black pal. We, with late apologies to our many neighbors at the time, had nearly weekly parties during which my friend heightened my enjoyment of The Miracles, Temptations, Four Tops, etc, and all I had in return was to shock him with The Righteous Brothers, which I really don't think he'd ever heard till then. Locally hear in the Bay Area I think all blacks only listened to KSOL, which now is a Spanish language station. Don't know how successful I was getting him to buy into The Doors, etc. but my favorite 8-tracks on my Motorola 4-Channel Surround Sound car tape player included Otis, Aretha, Marvin and many others. This brings back great memories of great times and great music.
The Righteous Brothers were so...Righteous!!! It is a shame they didn’t have more hit songs. Lost that Loving Feeling, Unchained Melody, and Ebb Tide were their big hits. Like many singers of that era, they depended on others to write songs for them. They deserved more with their incredible talent!
This is great. I love it all the more when it’s young people listening. Always heartwarming when the younger generation discovers the older generation’s music. And vice versa.!🥰 I remember, as a teenager, hearing my mom’s big band records for the first time: I was hooked!
Men just don't talk like that anymore. There are always the exceptions but romance is dead with most men. It's one of the most damaging things of the feminist movement.
Yes... bad form to not credit and link to the original reaction videos. Heading off to check out your channel now. (PS: Honest question from an old white dude... is it wrong to love reaction videos of African-Americans listening to music I grew up with for the first time? I find it G-damn delightful, but it also gives me a slightly guilty feeling... )
I got such a giggle out of watching your reaction and having to have a drink of cold water !! That's how I felt watching them on TV all those years ago !! Lol
I love these reaction videos - for just a moment in time - black/white issues dissolve when human beings see the humanity that exists when emotions of love and relationships are allowed to be expressed without excessive efforts to ‘find’ ‘microagressions in places where none exist.
yessssss - you got it. but: in my lifetime experience we know how much mixed-race couples suffer from prejudice. is it not happening any more? i'm so happy that music is really THE equalizer for genuine appreciation of what we all deserve: love one another.
As a 70 year old woman of color and multi ethnicities, I think it's too sad that we continue to label music and voices according to color or ethnic group. I loved the Righteous Brothers as much as I loved Black Opera singer Leontyne Price, and Roy Orbison as I loved Smokey Robinson. The BeeGees and The Temptations, Janis Joplin and then again Aretha, Carole King and Martha & the Vandellas or Ronettes. I enjoyed Miriam Makeba and enjoyed Celia Cruz etc. My point is we sing the style we grow up hearing until we are exposed to a style from a different town or part of the country or the world and discover that if we love music we can appreciate it who ever is bringing it to us. Joy is Joy in every color❤
Well said!
Well said, music is everyone's gift.
We grew up, on all of them
Absolutely sister
iam a woman 67 colour doesn’t matter it’s the music you are right
I'm more amazed that some people haven't heard this song before now..
Most of them are pretending.
@@willdill4987 I'd hope so
Must’ve never seen Top Gun
@@aintsam9952 exactly ĺ
I also would’ve thought everyone knew who they Righteous Bros are. Unless they weren’t American,but even that would be too far fetched
Im 37 and for my age group when you hear this song, you get that "The moment when you realized your grandparents were way cooler than you." vibe.
I've long had the feeling I was born either way too late or way too early...
@Hillary's emails to Lorne I tend not to blame entire generations for things any more than I would blame entire nations, people, ethnicities, etc. The problem is greed and it certainly isn't unique to any one generation.
43 here and yes they where
@@bonnienadinenewman I believe it is Basque in origin, though my full name is fictional, from one of my favourite writers. Also, yes it is a surname. The name is Rodel Ituralde.
@@bonnienadinenewman the writer was Robert Jordan and the series is called "The Wheel of Time". The first book is "The Eye of the World". A beautiful series if you like adventure fantasy akin to Lord of the Rings. Thank you for the invite. I will check it out.
I'm black and grew up with this music, that statement has to be directed at the young folks, them guys could sing and they're not the only ones, there's a lot of blue eyed soul groups that are and were out there, sing righteous brothers, real music that you can appreciate for times to come, never goes out of style, enjoy guys.
If you're truly Black then you know they were, as White people, copying the Black sound and were socially acceptable to the White mainstream radio audience at the time.
Put your comment into context of that time.
You and I would be disappeared without a trace, remains never to be found. Don't kid yourself. In the 50's 60's and 70's, in the South. If you are really Black we both would be KILLED! DEAD!
Elvis music flourished during this time especially in the Southern Confederate States. Pure, Unaltered Original Racism .100 percent!!
@@DaPurpleWeedMan that don't apply to me sweetie, you have to catch up, it seems as though you're lost. I'm not playing the race card, as I stated prior it's a lot of white guys that could and still sing today, I'm going to drop the mic on this platform, have a blessed day kiddo
@@gloriastuart7598 gloria..try listening to dusty springfield..try a few songs
@@ianharris879 I know about Dusty Springfield, I reiterate again you're lost and need to catch up to the era.
Yeah but if you don't know, and you hear them for the first time, you might assume they are black. That's exactly the point of the video, and its entirely the thing that makes the reactions in this video so damn cute. We need to try to just appreciate that shit and stop being so sensitive.
Anyone else just randomly have this recommended to them
Yes.. RUclips algorithms are acting up again.
Yes but it's odd to me that they didn't hear it before....
Yep. Still watched it though lol
Extra rando
Yep lol
“Any man who hates another human being because of the color of his skin is hating a part of himself” - Elvis Presley
I, as were many Black ppl, was raised to hate Elvis Presley as a racist song stealing tyrant. It wasn't until VERY recently that I found out that not only was this untrue, but that he spent his career trying to make what he knew to be a racist southern fan base, STOP giving him credit for things he learned from working with and listening to Black artists. He didn't like being called The King of rock and roll, because even he said what he was doing was just an attempt at what Black artists had been doing for years, and stated that no one could do Black music better than Black ppl. He intentionally went to music festivals on the nights reserved for Black ppl, bc he wanted to jam with the Black artists. He adored Black ppl and Black music culture, and wasn't ashamed to admit it. It only took 1 rumored quote to make the Community that fascinated him, turn on him. Someone told us he said "The only thing a negro can do for me is buy my music, and shine my shoes." It was easily confirmed by the venue he was said to be at when giving this interview, and the person he supposedly said it to, that it never happened, and that Elvis was in an entirely different place at the time, and had actually NEVER interviewed with this person or their publication. Unfortunately Elvis never addressed it (I'm assuming he figured it was a baseless rumor and would go away on it's own). For this reason he lost almost all of his Black fan base, as well as respect from the Black music industry. By the time he addressed it, it was too late. The lie had been passed on to children, and grandchildren. We were halted and told not to like Elvis as soon as we discovered him as children. Black hatred for Elvis Presley is a sad and unfortunate trope that has been passed down in the Black community for decades. Hating him is part of Black culture at this point. As a Black woman, I can say that it's unfair to his memory, that his love for our culture has been washed away and buried under a lie, and even worse, is it would be hard if not impossible to ever repair that relationship.
@@Undeniably_Me I find it very believable that an actual racist created this story to give Elvis a bad name because he was promoting a Black culture which seemed very uncultured to certain ignorant people at that time.
A TRUE racist would have wanted to stop this culture from spreading out and 'infecting' the minds of youth so they concocted a story to stop it. The problem is that attributing this false story to an absolutely amazing artist is akin to the story of Michael Jackson being attributed to being a child molester. I still disbelieve he was one and have seen no proof he was one and will not believe any malicious rumors of another amazing artist who passed before his time.
Now we can see how both examples work to pollute the truth by creating LIES and disinformation. LIES breed ignorance, distrust, and antipathy. Walking in the truth of the LIGHT of GOD is the only route to salvation. It is better to walk with a light to guide your path than to stumble around in blindness and darkness.
What pisses me off is how the hell can a person listen to his songs bout LOVE LOVE LOVE all the time and find racism in this person without giving the story a second thought?
ONE stupid story about Elvis which was false, wipes about all his songs about LOVE? Hundreds of them!
Has anyone listened to the words of "LOVE ME TENDER" as he sang it? HELLLLLLOOOOO!!!!
How much HATE do you have in your heart (to give the FAKENEWS of that era) so much weight I wonder?
PS: This post was directed to the world at large not you specifically. It is very rhetorical in nature.
@@Undeniably_Me very enlightened of you.
Wasn’t Elvis a racist before he said he wasn’t before he died?
Bring back Motown and the Golden Oldies. Uplifting music that promoted friendship and brotherhood and our common humanity.
@Hillary's emails to Lorne People had soooooooooo much more class and decency and civility back then. Say what you will about gender roles, back then men knew how to be gentlemen and treat women as ladies, with respect and deference. Motown music reflected all that, all the time.
@Gemma Saint please appreciate whatever vintage Shakira you encounter
I am 63 years old, I grew up listening to Blues, Jazz, Motown and Blue Eyed Soul. I get a "charge" when I see how some black people are amazed by the full, rich, melodic sound of the Righteous Brothers. After 30 yrs of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap music, some blacks are experiencing, for the first time, what "real" music sounds like. Music that makes you feel good without the use of foul language, or lyrics that degrade women or lyrics that glorify robbing and killing someone. Music is universal. Whether you are black, white, or purple, there is nothing more invigorating than the awesome and dynamic combination of gospel and R&B, which we called "Blue Eyed Soul"
Frank Berst Besides the rampant domestic violence...
Check out Vulfpeck. Some of their modern stuff has a contemporary spin on Motown.
Soul is soul... a skin color doesnt enter into anything.. you either got soul.. or you dont. And most will agree, this is and has soul. As well as some of the finest vocal performances ever recorded. Enjoy the music and I hope we all can share in the joy it can bring to all.
That's right. Some are just born with soul, and some aren't.
Brother, they sold their soul to the devil for this song. You think they come up with this on their own?
soul is created through pain if it is channelled right .
@@1.21Gigawatts_ , you think people can't write or sing certain songs just because of their skin color? LOL!
@@madhatter217 , pain doesn't create Soul. Talent does. People can write songs about things they have never experienced. They just have to imagine what it feels like. I have written poems about things that never actually happened to me. Songs are no different. It just requires talent to do that.
The Righteous brothers had the most amazing voices. No autotune, just pure talent.
Gives you chills doesnt it.
them blue-eyes do be singing like angels, hot damn!
@@svenpoletka5236just like the different pitches in Gregorian chants
@@thetricksterpill It do be just like that!
That moment when a woman realises she was born into the wrong generation
I'm almost 70. You can imagine how we reacted when we first saw the Righteous Brothers in person! We were amazed, shocked and in awe. But they were accepted immediately in the Black communities. It goes to show you that music can truly bring us together. Great duo with a string of hits that we all made love while listening!
It goes to show how Blacks recognized talent above anything else.
Im so jealous! I would do anything to see them live :(
I watched an interview with them and they actually got their name after performing for a predominantly black audience. Several patrons after the show were complementing them and saying, "That was RIGHTEOUS BROTHER" and the rest is history :D
that is great you were able to witness this.
Most don't know that Elvis Presley and many other went to a black church to learned moves and technique. And yes the Righteous Brother was a nice surprise to me as well www.journalnow.com/archives/the-church-of-elvis-presley-family-regularly-attended-tiny-church/article_f9d40d97-c14a-59da-a634-b5a4e6ea232b.html
"It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell..."
- Ray Charles
Good music has no color.
Exactly !!!!
Ray Charles loved george Jones and the race hustlers used to get pissed when he said just that
Amen!
I guess that answers my itching question about Ray Charles and seeing colors while Tripping! 👍
@Algo Rhythm Does every "white person dancing" video online express racism? Chinese people eat hamburgers for 1st time? We shouldn't strive to be oversensitive. I remember pointing a friend out in a large crowd and referring to him as the black guy......The old white lady I said it to, seemed so uncomfortable by this......, So to make a point, I started listing his character traits........I asked her how much that helped her find my friend in the crowded room........I then pointed out.......that he was the only black person in the whole group, so my words were very efficient...............(over sensitive)
All cultures collectively overlap at some point (Picture a Venn Diagram), so most racial stereotypes are just the parts of a Venn where the circles do not overlap. If totally unfounded as a culture trait, then sure, but this portion of the diagram doesn't get labelled as racism.
See how many clicks "black people eat chitterlings" gets vs "white people try chitlins" Racism isnt implied or inferred. Racism requires prejudiced. Prejudiced; requires statements made outside of reason or evidence. Noticing that 1 culture is less familiar with an artist than another is by definition not even prejudiced....its just an observation.
No mixers, fixers, or sound equalizers: just raw talent. Grew up loving the Blue Eye Soul music.
I like soul, whatever the eye color is. It moves me.
They had reverb and you can hear it. It was a analog echo. but noticeable and gives the music presence and length.
@@fluxrider7027the people that decided to label it a color are racist. Music coming from the human soul has no color.
Back when people sang about love.
That never stopped, they just call it fucking now.
And without synthesizers and auto tune.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 that is funny as hell but cause its true.
When stalking was considered romantic...
Now its all about doing drugs and hooking with 100 guys
I'm feeling so old because I can't imagine an adult not knowing these men and their music.
Tell me about it...
SAME! And this isn't even technically my generation. I'm an 80's kid... but how can someone not know The Righteous Brothers. I judge their parents. They done f-ed up while raising them.
Me too.
Thank you for saying exactly what I’m thinking!
I'm 27 and I grew up listening to this type of music with my dad.
Soul is soul, soul has no color.
Music! The universal language!
Amen!
Some do not realize this.
Ya but Americans don't understand that...
@@Mathuna1 Americans understand it better than most of the world. The USA is the most multi ethnic, multicultural country in the world. Where people from all around the world coexist and have created the most prosperous, most culturally dynamic nation in the history of the world. There is no other place on earth like it, idiosyncrasies, growing pains and all.
Glad that younger generations are discovering these great old tunes.
I'm more sad that more people don't know who the Righteous Brothers are.
Many do. It’s the obvious appropriating back then. While Black American artists had their songs stolen and given to white artists. 🤔
Ipwnkyle exactly!
Sahiry Gnobehi Nah honey this is how they do it and have for centuries- soul has no color!🦅🙋🏽♀️☀️🦅
@@sahirygnobehi6448 shut the hell up with that nonsense, you racist POS
@@chablebarrett8106 .. Chile, me racist. That's it. That's all you got. Hmmm #soundsaboutwhite 😂😂😂
I wonder how many people are on the planet today because of this song.
Quite a few I'd say haha
A lot
They used to play this at my teenage disco in the mid 80s and even the guys who had no one to dance with in a slow set would just stand around and sing in to a pretend mic, great song one of the best.
This is hilarious. I grew up with this music, and it never occurred to me that anyone would think that only African Americans could make this kind of music. So glad new generations are enjoying it. I have the Righteous Brothers in two different album formats. One is a CD and the other is actually on tape! I have a lot of vinyl, but just don't happen to have them on vinyl.
Yup, the brainwash is disgusting.
Leave it to Progs creating their new version of "separate but equal." Sad.
It always puzzles me when I see people react like those watching this. What's race got to do with how you sing? Heck if you listen to those of that era sing. For that style of music. Most had that soulful sound. Your race doesn't determine your voice. Only your nationality (country you were born in) or region and the language you speak at home are indicators of where you have come from.
@@aldofromsf= sad idiot.
Hard to believe, that, in the not-too-distant past, THIS, was what real music sounded like, no foul language, no obscene gestures, no referring to women as "bitches" or "hoes", just an awesome combination of two dynamic and melodic voices, coupled with Phil Spector's "wall of sound", producing the most subline mixture of gospel and R&B ever recorded. I am pleased to see that this dynamic music still resonates throughout the decades. No doubt about it, whether you were alive in 1966, or not, this is "food for your soul". Can I get an "AMEN?"
In the 60's we didn't care what color they were when it came to what we loved listening to. It was a time of great music and great musicians. It thrills me that you young folk can appreciate it too. (Many a baby was conceived in the backseat while listening to The Righteous Brothers on the car radio...😇)
Truth!!
Did you say Thrill me...
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It depends where you were living. That was more or less the peak of social strife along racial lines in the US.
Have these people been living on another planet ? This is such a FAMOUS song !!
Richard Merghani ; folks, these are OUR artists, OUR songs. For many people, time started only when THEY came of age. No history!
Also the radio versions are actually kind of bland, these live versions are much better.
Right?
@Franz Klein I'm starting to realize that. Latinos play this stuff and so do polynesians. Oldies.
@@bigdaddymarketing6449 bland or not it's STILL the same famous song !!! It's totally incredulous that they haven't heard it before .
There is absolutely no doubt that the Righteous Brothers recorded some the most profound love songs in music history.
and looking at those reactions, even 2 generations later they can still melt a womans heart
Amen 100%
@@gregryeii403 Really, good music is more or less immortal. People are still listening to music from known composers hundreds of years ago. And there's stuff that's far older where we don't necessarily know who it is that wrote it. People are still going to be interested in actually good music many generations down the road in most cases. It's mostly when music uses different systems like the pentatonic scale where it can be a more universally hard to listen to experience.
This video could also be called, "People that have never watched Top Gun."
🤣🤣🤣 I don't know how I ended up on this video but so glad because of this comment.
Am I the only person who HATED Top Gun, and have consistently since its release? There must be someone else...
Robert Wright 👋 👋 👋
@@salicemccool9186 Oh , thank you, person of good taste. I'm not alone..😁
Robert Wright Nor am I, though I’ve often thought I was!
Grew up hearing this song & I never get tired of hearing it. They are talent & soul personified!!!
Soul has no color y'all ❤️💙❤️❤️💙
#facts
Amen to that.
Spot on
quite the opposite soul have all the colors... every single one... and make no difference between them
No, it does not.
"The Righteous Brothers” are considered by most to be the Greatest Male Vocal Duet Of All Time. I agree. Between Bill Medley’s Lows and Bobby Hatfield’s Highs they can hit every note on an 73 key piano. No other male singers can do that. Legendary.
“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” was the most played song on radio in the 20th Century.
"Unchained Melody" - Bobby Hatfield Live 1965. Considered by most as The Greatest Live Male Vocal Performance In History... I agree. Bobby's use of "Runs" is brilliant. He is the master of the technique and started the trend. 7 notes just to say the word "I".... Their name came when they did a show in a smaller venue and a black man told them…. You two Brothers are Righteous. They created the sound and set the table that all Soul Music fed from for decades to come.
In 1983, in Newport Beach O.C. Calif. Bill and Bobby at the Jolly Roger Restaurant . I was 13 feet away for... "Unchained Melody"- "You've Lost That Lovin’ Feelin‘" - "Soul And Inspiration".... They were perfect, awesome, amazing, incredible......
*
They still are to this day.
A perfect example of 'call & response' that's so heavily used by blues guitarists but they did it with their voices. They were lightyears ahead of their time vocally & their music absolutely smokes the music nowadays 👍
The look on the first young lady’s face shows why this song has lasted all this time.
For real! It was like, she realized just then for the first time that that type of expressed devotion exists... and "oh my God where have you been in my life.". kinda felt like that was going thru her mind. I think hers was the purest and most meaningful reaction. Super pretty too.
@@bobhancock8630 she has her own reaction channel, it’s pretty good. (India Reacts)
Making women moist after almost 60 years
I loved all of those reactions especially for the fellas who said "HE'S A WHTE DUDE?!" and "TWO WHITE DUDES!?" Y'all I laughed so hard! So glad people can still appreciate the Righteous Brothers even today and that people can enjoy them for the first time still.
I think it's funny because I never really thought much about the racial identity of any of these groups. They were mostly releasing in an era when there was less of an emphasis on the video as a means of promotion. Sure, it definitely was a thing and it's why there are so many clips of these groups from various TV shows. But, radio was a larger tastemaker than it is now. Even in the '80s that's where I got my taste for a lot of these groups and while there were some that I knew were black, in most cases I had no idea, and didn't particularly care either.
I’m 73, this is how music was, in the time of Otis and the rest, no enhancement, just pure voice. I’m grateful I was there.
Understood.will be 75.
Dad, I hear you. But it’s not exactly that way. I am a recording engineer. They used an equalizer and a compressor and a plate reverberation unit on his voice. I have copies of this kind of vintage equipment which I use on modern records. It has a unique glow.
Every record is engineered. Nothing but a documentary film is unaltered.
....71y.o....and...ditto..😎👍
@@audionmusic2787 Like we never knew this stuff back in the day. The difference was that engineered recordings back in the day were made to mimic live performances and eventually it started to go in the opposite direction. Nevertheless you still hear the odd music artist that just doesn't need the help. Back in the day live shows were always the preferred mode for listening to music because recordings just didn't have the same effect, live was always better. Not so much these days..
@@Theodorussfo Dark Side Of The Moon was made to mimic a live performance? Are you deaf?
You are speaking to a mix engineer. You are trashing the entire art of mixing which is intended to make music sound better than live.
In a time before auto-tune, voices that made love to the audience.
And artists sang love songs, not the usurous and debased crap that is common today.
@@125AXer Right? I am still of the opinion that this is one of the causes of the skyrocketed divorce rates. Everyone today is mostly only surrounded by media that glorifies promiscuity, vilifies commitment and only mentions love if they are talking about heartbreak/being betrayed. So now people dont know how to find love, think they dont want it, dont know what to do when they get it or how to treat their partner with it.
@@125AXer They "usurous" should lower their interest:
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YES YES YES 📣🥰🥰🥰💖❤❤❤❤
even today, most singers sing without auto tune
Its takes a special kind of person to have their eyes tear up reacting to music. Beautiful.
Righteous brothers make my eyes tear up because their voices are so beautiful, unbelievable
@Aþort Mən whats the name of your album? I’d like to compare
@ᴬᵇᵒʳᵗ ᴹᵉⁿ !̽ 𓂸𓌪 I feel you, definitely don’t soul your soul….it isn’t worth it.
@ᴬᵇᵒʳᵗ ᴹᵉⁿ !̽ 𓂸𓌪 awww your the best
Lol. I am a 40 yr old white woman and I always say I was raised right because we listened to EVERYTHING in my house, from country to motown to disco to R n B, from the 50s until present. So I really enjoy watching others experience oldies but goodies for the first time.
Same here. I'm 44. And I shown so much music all different genres. ❤
"A white dude?" Scratches head. "C'mon, two white dudes?" Best reaction ever, had me rolling on the floor.
Stevie Winwood and Hall and Oates are also blue-eyed soul.
me too, that guy was so cute in his reaction. Loved it. Loved the woman at the end too, her reactions.
That was Ty, the Modern Renaissance Man. Love his channel!
It’s about as funny as watching black people react to Dolly Parton singing her original “I will always love you” or the first time they hear Chris Stapleton!
@@epistte Why they calling that sound blue eyed soul? When it's black soul sound period. Just don't want to credit it as. Sound of the black culture music that many foreign white people listen to coming up . They even come to America and name the black artists they were inspired by. Like I've said all nonblack people with the black sound has always made it famous and topped the Elvis is one of many. We black people are amazing. I'm even in awh of our talent sometime.
That first chick almost cried like 3 times! I love the Righteous Brothers myself. Color has never had anything to do with soul. Proof positive.
Need to shout that from the mountain tops!
Music speaks all languages. We all feel joy, ecstasy, love, fear, anger, pain, and broken hearts. That's why these reaction videos are such a good idea :)
It's alright, you can cry 💖
This song always struck a chord for those who had listened to the song.
I'm a white guy, but I always forget how awesome Bill Medley's voice is. Pure soul. :-)
Bill Medley - the best ever!
I love how all the girls melt at "I,ll get down on my knees for you...."
🤣 yea that’s funny
@Marie The song strikes a nerve in everyone's soul. Can't help it😊
They knew how to "ring that bell"
My panties fall off every time.
@Marie You've got the right!
They adopted the name Righteous Brothers when the Black Marines at El Toro military base would say to them “that was righteous, brothers!” after they performed there.
Cringe.
This sounds like complete bullshit. Do you have a source?
Matthew Wall Google it. There are several sources.
X your cringe asf dipshit
I learned something new! Thank you 😊
They are one of the best duos in the history of music. It matters not the type of music their songs still hold up to this day.
Songs that tell a woman," I love you ", in a romantic way, old school style
AMEN!!!!
Old school is the best school....bar none.
@@shamsulhisyam3037 eh. That’s debatable. Old school is great for what it was and it inspired later artists to do their own things, but it doesn’t mean it’s automatically better than later schools
that's back when people of all colors could actually sing without autotune an other digital effects.
Yes back when they used more than 2 words in the song. 👍
Why's everyone obsessed with autotune? It's pathetic.
As for songs that "use more than two words", the utterly fantastic and 50 odd year old Surfing Bird by the Trashmen says hi.
Before videos we enjoyed all music it didn't matter if singer was black or white. Good music was simply good music. I can't believe the emphasis that is being forced on us today to take a stand for skin color. People are simply people.
So sick of this “back when” bs. I was born in the 70’s. There was great music before, during and since my generation. There was also a lot of crap from each one. The great stuff filters through and stands the test of time.
Nor was their a need for “explicative” warnings on their songs. It was good clean and pure talent.
It's great seeing a new generation discovering the Righteous Brothers.
OMG. This was do much fun. I really loved watching these folks sweet reactions. Gotta love them.❤
Let’s get back to music that made us overlook race and just celebrate our love for people!!!
Dom Abalos those days may be unfortunately gone forever.......sad
@@rowdyrx6109 Now it's gone, gone, gone, whoa-oh. :(
AHAHAHAHA like that has ever happened
This music is it.
AMEN! but ya know what, those fuckers, they gunna invent Gansta Soul !! o0 sob sob
I guess I'm not shocked because I grew up on this music 💜
I was born in 1993. Until i was watching a reaction compilation i thought these dudes were Ebony. Like The Inkspots haha
Same with Caldwell and the beegees XD
Honestly always thought they were black until 2 minutes ago when I clicked on this
Me too, thank God. When I was at the age to be influenced by popular music, there were no Beatles albums in our house. We either had Beethoven, Dvorak and Handel upstairs; and in the rec room it was Righteous Bros., Eric Burdon and The Animals, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, etc. When I cleaned out the house after my parents were gone I found an LP by The Monkees but it sure as hell wasn't me that bought it and no one else copped to it either. Maybe it was brought to a party by someone and forgotten.
First heard them when I was 16 (I’m now 72). I had the same reaction back then. I might have cried a bit.
🤗
Same here! 16 and now, 72…in two months.
Only 70 , 😂 , but I’m right there with you on that .
My definition of Great Music: "It transports you to another time/place....... and never gets "old".......
I still cry every time!!! To be loved like that!
We blue-eyed people love our soul music too. I grew up in the Motown of the 60's with R&B and the civil rights movement. These two sang the most beautiful harmonious songs of the day!
I get so sick of people complaining about white people being influenced by other groups. It's usually not as simple as folks like to make it out. There's plenty of room, especially these days, for everybody. I've heard some impressive albums made for under $1k, so it's not necessarily the case where it's even that expensive. I get the feeling that it's a lot less expensive the more talented you are and the more you work to improve the actual music being made rather than to use technology to cheat you to a good sound.
And it changed the world… Now we have to save the world again, for peace, love and soul.
Blue eyes are the most beautiful 😉
So heartwarming! Music really does transcend all boundaries. It's a universal language.
When a human being has Soul, the color of his/her skin doesn’t matter at all!!! Music and soul, could bring all of us closer together, and stop the hating!! ✌️ ☮️
Amen to that!
TRUTH
Hallelujah
Beautifully put my friend
@@LastForeverMedia are you actually saying many white people don't have souls?
shouldn't ever matter what color your skin is. mine is olive, I'm half Italian, they used to call us wops (without papers). My Grandparents came here legally, their names are carved on the wall at Ellis Island. we all bleed red! it's our hearts that matter... God bless you all, whatever the heck color you are, who cares. ;) love the Righteous Brothers, they rocked big time. † ♥ #StopTheHate #Kindness is good! ♥ ♥ ♥
SOUL HAS NO COLOR ITS A FEELIN✊🏾
Neither does blues.
@@sallyshipwreck4315 or any music
Ditto
What about Northern Soul?
💯 this!!
I love this video. The women are beautiful and their reactions are priceless! And how could they not be?!? This is one of THE top 10 songs of all time. Take my word for it; I've been a musician since 1964 and "I was there when..." PS: I've had the pleasure and honor of telling Bill Medley, himself, how amazing this song, production and performance is! Still moves me every time!
I really enjoyed the first lady’s reaction. She is a cutie and you could see her melt a little. Good music is good music. Love this.
I believe the period correct term is she was swooning something girls did back then I believe , It seems the demise of such a reaction was incorrectly reported, There are still girls out there with feelings who that simply surface at the right time.
@@stephencox4224 36 year old white dude and I swoon at these guys, some things can't be helped
they should call this video "black people who have never watched Top Gun before"
LOL RIGHT!!!
Agreed..Tom Cruise taught most of us this song. Lol
Yeah, this was one of my favourite songs when I was 8 and I can thank Maverick and Goose for that.
Well there was no black ppl in that in movie so why would they watch. Back in those black never got major rolls like that or even rolls to be a side kick like goose.
@@deandoxtator7137 there was a back person. Sundown the RIO who sang this song in the bar.
The Righteous Brothers give me goose bumps when I listen to their stuff...
Completely speechless, what a lovely reaction.
I am still moved whenever I see and hear this live version. It is perfect, just perfect... what a voice...
I really enjoyed this, for a moment I forgot that people hate each other
I never wanted a career in law enforcement (police, court system, etc.) because I am never brave enough to face the dark side of humanity.
Though some people think I am naive (aka stupid), I believe that there are good people out there in every town, city, and state.
I whole heartily believe that THERE ARE good people out there in every race, religion, and profession who actually believe what is right and try to protect others who are afraid to speak or act out against the bad things (such as crime).
We don't hate each other. It just serves the political parties for us to think we hate each other.
Lmao
@@aliamjon2550 I don't hate you, just your dumb ignorance.
@@tehgringe sure you dont, i can feel the love, smh
I cant imagine how there are alot of people who haven't heard this song before. Really? I'm surprised.
Dude.. I'm 36 and I'm shocked that some people are finding out about the Righteous Brothers now. They were incredible.
Brian Wall Anyone who has seen the movie Top Gun (which is everybody) or listened to any oldies station has heard this song before. I think the point of this video though is that a lot of people didn’t know it was 2 white dudes that were singing.
I think that no one realized the singer was white, not that they've never heard the song.
Me too!
A lot of "reaction" channels fake everything to get the $$$$
Next time, on *I Can’t Believe They Ain’t Black* ...
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I wonder if the Asian equivalent videos are titled: 'I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!'
@@Music-tg5is or I can't believe it's not Bat ;-)
🤣 like bobby Caldwell
Lol!!!
Kids today don't know real music.
God Blessed them with this recording so they can experience real love and soulful music
Most of us don't, but please don't be patronizing and ignorant; a lot of us younger folks know very well of these older artists and greatly admire them. A lot of good music still gets made, you just have to dig through Spotify or other music platforms to find them, unfortunately.
Get over being defensive . This comment not directed to just you . Dont be so self absorbed . But exactly , in those days , you didn't have to dig through stuff to find good music . Music then was original and so creative . They had fierce competition . Artists didn't copy songs or lyrics because it was raw talent . Learn some manners and be respectful .
Man I remember my pops sang this at a karaoke on a family vacation. Brought the house down that night. Ima call my pops today 👊🏽
Just checking in to make sure you called your Pops! I'd give just about anything to be able to still call mine!
Squeaky Reed man I’m so sorry. Yes I called him - a few times. I have a young son who also adores him so we have spent some quality time on face time recently too. God bless you bro thanks for checking in
You did, right?
Bet he singed both voices simultaneously XD
Wow! I guess I must be getting old, these guys were at the top of their game during the Motown era. Which I remember quite well.
Old is good. Means you're tough.
I miss Motown. So much....
This was the times when people knew how to sing.
When people were romantic.
When you went to a party and we played 3 slow songs to one fast song.
When we did the 500, the dip, and the grind.
We bought a 45, a flower and wrote a note to give to the girl you liked.
Her response and reaction were amazing 😍😍😍
How about this for a flashback:
ruclips.net/video/_Ee3C2m3OXE/видео.html
Yep, right there in a Hialeah warehouse...
So true !!
well yeah, if you pull out a 45 on the date I'm sure her reaction would be quite memorable!.. I don't know if flowers and a note would help much by that point though..
Get off my damn lawn.
@@markb.humble6945: Pretty sure she meant a Malt Liquor : ) (in case you're not being facetious!)
My parents raised me on everything from classical to jazz to rock to musicals and all in between. My siblings were 10 years older than me so I was exposed to the Beatles, Zeppelin, Who, Stones etc as a child. I did the same with my kids who are now just in their 20s but know music from the 50s,60s,70s, etc. Good music is good music regardless of "colour" and is all about talent.
And the line about getting on his knees makes my 58 year old heart melt every time!
Me too same thing 58 and my sister 7 of them were 10 years older than me! I was born in 1965 so I grew up listening to all the great music of 60, 70, 80,
72 here I listened to 40s and up but no country or rap dislike them both
This gave me a good laugh. I've heard this song like a million times and it's always funny to see someone who doesn't know the Righteous Brothers were white dudes. Those dudes were insanely vocally talented.
Guess they never watched Top Gun either lol
@@c1979h Its a pretty old movie now. ;o)
@@mikem9001 wouldn't have been out of memory though. If Top gun 2 had come out last year lol. It still came on alot last year. Damn Covid. If someone's 20 or older hard to believe they haven't seen it, it's like the breakfast club or back to the future, I blame it on the parents for not showing them the classics lol
@@mikem9001 pretty old movie? Watch Casablanca from the early 1940s. That's a pretty old movie...sigh
@@papetogaming pretty old movie? Watch King Kong from the mid 1930s. That's a pretty old movie...sigh
They were ahead of their time, their songs should be played today!
Nothing stopping you! Hehe.
This is proof that the soul has no color. Only love.
Thank you for your comment. Very true... we are all human beings. We have more alike than different... shame we focus on the small differences.
I think more folks were shocked when Bobby Hatfield started breaking it down hitting those high notes than the fact that they were white. I'm a 65 year old headbanger but have a deep seeded love for R&B from the 60s. That was the music my parents listened to when I was a child. Good music is good music.
Umm yeah I always thought the second singer was a black woman and I'm sitting here shocked it was a white man this whole time lol.
@@Gonk He hits just about the highest notes that a man can hit. Well, without going castrato, and that is some pretty hardcore stuff right there. I had forgotten about just how high some of those notes are.
Absolutely
@ 1:51 : "These dudes are cold..."
No Sir...those dudes are RIGHTEOUS
Crush (Finding Nemo): RIGHTEOUS. RIGHTEOUS!
I am 63 years old, I grew up listening to Blues, Jazz, Motown and Blue Eyed Soul. I get a "charge" when I see how some black people are amazed by the full, rich, melodic sound of the Righteous Brothers. After 30 yrs of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap music, some blacks are experiencing, for the first time, what "real" music sounds like. Music that makes you feel good without the use of foul language, or lyrics that degrade women or lyrics that glorify robbing and killing someone. Music is universal. Whether you are black, white, or purple, there is nothing more invigorating than the awesome and dynamic combination of gospel and R&B, which we called "Blue Eyed Soul"
there are only a few things in this world that can cross any boundary and thats music and eating a good dinner with company
@Trelise' Avery-Moore it all good thank you for that out to me anyway
His channel "Modern Renaissance Man" has great reaction videos!
AND MONEY
A whole diner, that would take a while, especially the door handles.
Jonny Langs's "Lie to Me" sounds like a 50-year-old black bluesman, despite him being 16 years old when he recorded it.
This is the best thing I have seen in a while. As some old white dude myself, watching these reactions to music I have always known and loved was just awesome. They were so surprised and it made me laugh, but in such a good way. We are not as different as we might think.
Same here
I'm 37 and my parents were as old as most people's grandparents my age so I grew up on this stuff, but c'mon how do you go this long in life without ever hearing a righteous brothers song?!
Some of the songs from this era are simply incredible.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob
Robert Nestor Marley
damn right
I have this tshirt
@Mowy You ruined it Mowy way to go....
@Captain: Or you feel a lot.
I love all the women's reaction to "baby baby I'd get down on my knees for you"
Hard to believe, that, in the not-too-distant past, THIS, was what real music sounded like, no foul language, no obscene gestures, no referring to women as "bitches" or "hoes", just an awesome combination of two dynamic and melodic voices, coupled with Phil Spector's "wall of sound", producing the most sublime mixture of gospel and R&B ever recorded. I am pleased to see that this dynamic music still resonates throughout the decades. No doubt about it, whether you were alive in 1966, or not, this is "food for your soul". Can I get an "AMEN?"
Amen!!
To be fair most women during that time were not bitches and being a hoe was shunned. Now we have hoes showing their bodies off for nothing but thumbs up and like on the internet for the whole world to see. And if you tell them that's trashy, they go full bitch mode. Times have changed and it hasn't all been for the better.
@@snakeinthegrak8969 you said it
No Amen - you'll have to settle for a Nudey Bottom
Amen right here. No auto tune. No bull. Just pure joy in the music. The telling of a man and his love for a woman. Just doesn't get any better than this.
Young people today need to go back in time, there are plenty of white singers that had soul !
Of course....that’s back when the media wasn’t trying so hard to split people
I'd agree, except the blue eyed soul is talking about that genre of soul music. Can you name plenty of white soul singers from that era? I'd like to look them up.
Of course if you go back a generation before that you realize where they get their soul from...
@@sofrshsocln4
I would suggest..
- Steve Winwood
- Gary Puckett
- Van Morrison
- Tom Jones
- Tom Waits
See what you think!
@graphicats 3D I co-sign Tammy Wynette n Janis until I die better believe. I'll check Bonnie Bramlett... props
It’s always the “baby” that catch us off-guard lmao
YES!!!!!!!
Medley does the best "baby" to this day
Because these men had that great combo together.
Love the music and also love the reactions. Kind of sad so many people have missed out on such great music for so long. As someone else said, no autotune, nothing but just pure GOD given talent.
I LOVED LOVED dancing to these guys and many like them. Music was real then to the depths of your soul. I am 78 and can still feel those exact emotions when I hear them! REAL MUSIC!
I love that guy who was like, "a white dude?!". ..."TWO white dudes?!". Lmao!! It made me laugh so hard and it was so great watching him start jamming out. Haha
Jules Edwards He was stupid..
@@lisasez not sure how I see his response as stupid, but we are all entitled to our opinions. 🤷.
@@julesedwards4495 Right on. His channel is really good actually. He's intelligent and well-spoken. He gets a connection with great singers. Modern Renaissance Man channel. Worth a watch.
When he gets excited he always scratches his head.
Laurence Cursaro I assume you’re referring to the ukpkmkkkkkk person. Well said , informative and funny to boot.. 👏🤣
Bill Medley (the guy with the deeper voice) was also the singer on "I've had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing.
Jeremy Kristoff ebb tide is a fav of my mine...
😮 that’s awesome, I never knew this!
Flossy now listen to both one after the other... x also pat swazye and Jen grey hated each other in real life......😬
Hillary's emails to Lorne and other things...
Wow
I feel so blessed to have grown up when songs like this were on the radio almost every minute. We just didn't know how good we had it back then when it came to the music that surrounded us. There will never be another time when the musicianship, the artistry of the singers, and the songwriters were all at their very peak at the same time.
I wore out my fingertips & my push buttons on my AM car radio switching between radio stations to keep finding this song LOL
Can't tell you how much I loved this video. I'm a 77 year old white guy and in 1968 shared an apartment with a close black pal. We, with late apologies to our many neighbors at the time, had nearly weekly parties during which my friend heightened my enjoyment of The Miracles, Temptations, Four Tops, etc, and all I had in return was to shock him with The Righteous Brothers, which I really don't think he'd ever heard till then. Locally hear in the Bay Area I think all blacks only listened to KSOL, which now is a Spanish language station. Don't know how successful I was getting him to buy into The Doors, etc. but my favorite 8-tracks on my Motorola 4-Channel Surround Sound car tape player included Otis, Aretha, Marvin and many others. This brings back great memories of great times and great music.
The Righteous Brothers were so...Righteous!!! It is a shame they didn’t have more hit songs. Lost that Loving Feeling, Unchained Melody, and Ebb Tide were their big hits. Like many singers of that era, they depended on others to write songs for them. They deserved more with their incredible talent!
Don’t forget “You’re my Soul and Inspiration.
@@moniquechenard736 and "Just Once In My Life".
I still sing “Ebb Tide.”
Remember “A change is gonna come” ?
This is great. I love it all the more when it’s young people listening. Always heartwarming when the younger generation discovers the older generation’s music. And vice versa.!🥰
I remember, as a teenager, hearing my mom’s big band records for the first time: I was hooked!
Cue the credits from “Top Gun”
Reynaldo Vazquez RIGHT?
Right? Maverick & Goose tore it up!
We only had radio back then. Could not see color, just heard great music and singing!
I'm a child of the 80's and I remember Goose and Maverick singing to this in Top Gun!!
Me too, that scene in the bar is gold ^^.
I love how the fourth lady was like “Tell her! Tell her!” 😂
Next: white people reacting to black people playing hockey.
OMG LMAO
To be fair: You just have to film people outside of Canada reacting to hockey.
ronny raygunz that comment made my day. 👍🏼
Lmao
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I love The Righteous Brothers, there voices are as beautiful as a baby's smile.
Reactions were priceless...the ladies were feeling it in their souls...especially when he sings "I'll get down on my knees for you"... Love it!
Such a universal language, music and song is. One love peoples.
@Bobert Wiltshire aww snap, must be
When ever he sang "get down on my knees..." watch each reaction.
Men just don't talk like that anymore. There are always the exceptions but romance is dead with most men.
It's one of the most damaging things of the feminist movement.
Malorie how is men being bad at romance a problem caused by women? You make no sense. 😂
@@groovymovie3213 Agree. Only a boy would not be able to be a man around an independant, feministic woman as well.
from a era when people who were famous as singers could actually sing and belt it out ...awesome
There still are in this generation
@@ikarimisu0184 was more referring to the use of auto tune after the year 1997.
I love that some of them teared up to this powerful, emotive song.
Imagine me watching reactions and coming across myself in one of them lol 😂
Yes... bad form to not credit and link to the original reaction videos. Heading off to check out your channel now. (PS: Honest question from an old white dude... is it wrong to love reaction videos of African-Americans listening to music I grew up with for the first time? I find it G-damn delightful, but it also gives me a slightly guilty feeling... )
The looks on your face are priceless. 😅
I got such a giggle out of watching your reaction and having to have a drink of cold water !! That's how I felt watching them on TV all those years ago !! Lol
I liked your reaction. Thank you.
jdhalvo not at all! Lol it’s interesting to see what others think
I love these reaction videos - for just a moment in time - black/white issues dissolve when human beings see the humanity that exists when emotions of love and relationships are allowed to be expressed without excessive efforts to ‘find’ ‘microagressions in places where none exist.
yessssss - you got it. but: in my lifetime experience we know how much mixed-race couples suffer from prejudice. is it not happening any more? i'm so happy that music is really THE equalizer for genuine appreciation of what we all deserve: love one another.
The First Lady was deeply touched by this music… So much so, that she was nearly in tears! A precious soul, no doubt!