Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion - 1969

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2010
  • Studio version, music video, lyrics.
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    Look over yonder what do you see?
    The sun is a-risin' most definitely
    A new day is comin' people are changin'
    Ain't it beautiful crystal blue persuasion
    Better get ready gonna see the light
    Love, love is the answer and that's all right
    So don't you give up now so easy to find
    Just look to your soul and open your mind
    Crystal blue persuasion
    It's a new vibration
    Crystal blue persuasion, crystal
    Blue persuasion
    Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
    Every green field and every town
    All of his children every nation
    There'll be peace and good brotherhood
    Crystal blue persuasion
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Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @BIgDaddy-ow1zq
    @BIgDaddy-ow1zq Год назад +165

    This song is 99.1% pure

  • @jordyncantrell215
    @jordyncantrell215 2 года назад +356

    Just had my grandfather’s funeral yesterday. He didn’t want any fancy funeral service, he just requested that this song be played and that’s it. Miss him so much and needed to hear it again.

    • @ramonacoleman4608
      @ramonacoleman4608 2 года назад +15

      Sincerest condolences 🙏
      He is up there, singing his 🎵

    • @Ab_43336
      @Ab_43336 2 года назад +1

      F

    • @Ab_43336
      @Ab_43336 2 года назад +3

      My sympathies...same here
      And it's a beautiful. Morning the rascals.
      .my daughter doesn't care
      She hates me ..i grave life and a better life.

    • @williamflack5767
      @williamflack5767 2 года назад +11

      I am so sorry, heard this in my Grandfather 1964 Ford pick up. AM radio was the only thing extra. I learned to drive on. The simple life. What happened to us ? Love you all ❤️

    • @joycecoletta7699
      @joycecoletta7699 2 года назад +9

      He speaks thru music and at your quietest time.

  • @alanroy2228
    @alanroy2228 7 месяцев назад +40

    This song is 99.6% pure

  • @PhuongNguyen-zb2en
    @PhuongNguyen-zb2en Год назад +55

    This song is 94.7% pure

    • @christopherryan8
      @christopherryan8 Год назад +10

      99.1%

    • @SrGreen02
      @SrGreen02 Год назад +1

      where's that number from?

    • @patriciastaton6182
      @patriciastaton6182 9 месяцев назад

      @@SrGreen02 the movie

    • @SrGreen02
      @SrGreen02 9 месяцев назад

      @@patriciastaton6182 wich part exactly?

    • @patriciastaton6182
      @patriciastaton6182 9 месяцев назад

      @@SrGreen02 not sure I watch the whole series and it was so good I'm ready to watch it again

  • @eldrizahn9511
    @eldrizahn9511 5 лет назад +774

    This was "our" song and the other part of "our" is sitting next to me and has been for the past 50 years.

    • @karentravis1575
      @karentravis1575 4 года назад +21

      So sweet, you brought a tear to my eye.

    • @walterfeely1092
      @walterfeely1092 4 года назад +12

      That's amazing.
      Wishing you 50 more years

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 4 года назад +11

      CONGRATS! BLESS YOU
      BOTH!

    • @delfinoguajardojr3165
      @delfinoguajardojr3165 4 года назад +16

      Look over yonder and what do you see and new day is coming! Woooooooooo!

    • @bryanleigh6497
      @bryanleigh6497 4 года назад

      @@walterfeely1092
      Think he's gone 😄

  • @pammiller942
    @pammiller942 5 месяцев назад +28

    I'm 69 years old and I'm still grooving on this song this is a great song I always have Crystal Blue Persuasion in my brain❤ 0:16

  • @lehlohonolomakume2873
    @lehlohonolomakume2873 27 дней назад +16

    This song is 99.1% Pure

    • @bishophjones
      @bishophjones 15 дней назад

      Word to Heisenberg 💪🏿💯💯🤣

  • @SoftOceanBreeze
    @SoftOceanBreeze 5 месяцев назад +38

    Who's here simply because this is a cool song and has never seen a single episode of breaking bad in their entire existence?

    • @fmdvkkrkrkrk
      @fmdvkkrkrkrk 5 месяцев назад +1

      Watch Breaking Bad

    • @SoftOceanBreeze
      @SoftOceanBreeze 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@fmdvkkrkrkrk but why tho?

    • @laurarosalia8399
      @laurarosalia8399 4 месяца назад +3

      I only watch my childhood memories wiith this song.

    • @bdlc6832
      @bdlc6832 4 месяца назад +1

      I am. I remember this song from my childhood days.

    • @lizjarvis5449
      @lizjarvis5449 4 месяца назад +2

      me!

  • @MikeMizz
    @MikeMizz 7 лет назад +198

    Song isn't about drugs, it's about peace, loving your fellow man because we're all the same regardless of your, race, creed, religion, anything. I was born in 1963, and growing up it was so much simpler then. The world was a huge place, no smartphones, no internet. Phones were all hooked to the wall, and one color, with a heavy cord connecting the handset to the phone. You'd go outside and play games, not walk around with a phone in your face all the time. Now the world's become very small, with a lot more darkness known about thanks to progress. Not saying it's all bad, but if I could go back, I'd do it in a second and poof...I'd be back to such a better time...believe it

    • @terryomalley9669
      @terryomalley9669 5 лет назад +7

      MikeMizz,
      Also, you could look at a woman back in the day, without worrying that she was going to either declare sexual harassment or even worse, kick you in the gonads. I would go back in a second.

    • @pedromeza2398
      @pedromeza2398 4 года назад +7

      @@terryomalley9669 the exception to looking at women back then, was that her husband, father had the rights to kick you in the gonads, now a days we get arrested for doing that to you perverts and fools.

    • @debbieh5620
      @debbieh5620 4 года назад +1

      I agree 💯 😊

    • @charlesstevens6705
      @charlesstevens6705 4 года назад +4

      Mike you know what Eienstein the inventor said "Technology is going to make fools out of all of us if we dont corral it " .This is what has happened.I ride the train everyday and people no longer talk to each other anymore, they have headphones on their heads, or they are speaking on their phones. The "Twilight Zone " is no longer on television its on the streets of America. I went into a Stop & Shop and there was a huge robot moving about the store and about 9 people working inside the store !!!! 9 living souls in the store !!

    • @themagicalgamer6522
      @themagicalgamer6522 4 года назад +2

      ok boomer

  • @froggie6608
    @froggie6608 7 лет назад +27

    June 1969, I married my high school sweetheart. We left the church in my buddies 68 Dodge Charger, we were in the back seat. When Paul started the engine, this song was the first thing we heard on the radio. Really special meaning to me even after all these years.

    • @t-bone6864
      @t-bone6864 7 лет назад +2

      I was born in '89. im 26. i wish i coulda lived in your era. you have golden memories.

    • @davidsurnearsr8249
      @davidsurnearsr8249 7 лет назад +5

      The sixties and early seventies were a special time, it's hard to explain. Even with all of the unrest and political up heaval there was an innocence that rang through. The music was a message of love and hope that you don't find today.

    • @dennisriblett4622
      @dennisriblett4622 7 лет назад +3

      Really ,You could hitch-hike anywhere and everybody stopped .

    • @t-bone6864
      @t-bone6864 7 лет назад +2

      Dennis Riblett my dad said him and his friends would hitch hike,and instead of holding out their thumbs,theyd hold out a big bag of weed

    • @catherinevaz6139
      @catherinevaz6139 6 лет назад +1

      Wow, wonderful...I was definitely born in the wrong era...

  • @slimanity35
    @slimanity35 3 года назад +143

    Jesse we gotta cook

    • @oledebraekeleer1710
      @oledebraekeleer1710 3 года назад +3

      Lets do it

    • @pureChem1calz
      @pureChem1calz 3 года назад +6

      Say my name. Bitch.

    • @thenavigator2559
      @thenavigator2559 3 года назад +1

      @@pureChem1calz You're Diesel

    • @BeileighCp
      @BeileighCp 3 года назад

      I was watching malcom in the middle 1x6 they have the song when Hal and Lois and sitting by a fire enjoying champagne

    • @HiyaEverybody.
      @HiyaEverybody. 3 года назад

      Lol my comment was "Yo Mr White" 👍😎

  • @dennismclaurin1487
    @dennismclaurin1487 3 года назад +64

    This song IS worthy of a Nobel peace prize

  • @doccarew9103
    @doccarew9103 7 лет назад +18

    Drafted in 69, wasn't smart enough to say hell no I won't go. Many young Americans never had the chance to hear this great music. Hope they have a rock band in heaven.

    • @suerosner6539
      @suerosner6539 7 лет назад +3

      This is a beautiful song.Love the video.

    • @timalan1630
      @timalan1630 7 лет назад +2

      Sorry but the Iraq war as far as oil goes was the Bush's and only him, other people had other interest as far as artifacts from babylon, there are crates there that has stuff in them, marines was there that took that stuff out but where they took it nobody knows but it was not completely Oil. But like i said The Bush family was the only ones interested in the oil and the saudi's.

  • @szuperrosszarcu
    @szuperrosszarcu 4 года назад +33

    - SAY MY NAME
    - uh... Tommy James?
    - YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT

  • @glennjohnso310
    @glennjohnso310 Год назад +22

    68 years old and still listening.

    • @7272goldy
      @7272goldy 11 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you, stranger, a person who just passed by and shared a good mood!
      With just one sentence, you changed my mood, my day, gave me a little happiness.
      Thanks a lot!
      God bless you, sir.

  • @Kusoka1
    @Kusoka1 2 года назад +41

    My grandma gave me a transistor radio, under my pillow at night waiting for this song. 60 and still loving this song.

  • @garyt3358
    @garyt3358 4 года назад +37

    We don’t realize how great we had it in 1969!

    • @02_uw70
      @02_uw70 3 года назад

      I rly wish I was a teen during the 60s sometimes to experience the crazy times

    • @callahanburke8486
      @callahanburke8486 3 года назад

      We never do.

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 года назад

      That was the year my brother was killed in Vietnam and my Mom left us kids to fend for ourselves

  • @paulomarino6941
    @paulomarino6941 9 лет назад +97

    Heisenberg brought me here

  • @Moondoggy
    @Moondoggy 2 месяца назад +17

    One of my top 10 songs of ALL TIME.

  • @brendafrasher8746
    @brendafrasher8746 2 года назад +21

    This song was popular the Summer my father died. I was 9 years old and I still miss him every single day. 💔

  • @ronbarrett7724
    @ronbarrett7724 4 года назад +46

    I'm 64 and was born in San Francisco. I just love this song. When they show the Haight -Ashbury sign in the beginning, reminds me of home. Be safe people, we will all be ok.

  • @juanpaez6349
    @juanpaez6349 5 лет назад +75

    1969-2019, 50 years have passed and this song is still beautiful.

  • @peteculver6063
    @peteculver6063 2 года назад +13

    Who the HELL gave THIS song thumbs down?

  • @TheBob3759
    @TheBob3759 9 месяцев назад +13

    1969 was a great year for music.
    This song is one example why.

  • @sheridan7303
    @sheridan7303 7 лет назад +18

    this s probably one of the most beautiful records ever recorded!! It has nothing to do with drugs. It is a spiritual song and one of his favorites. Tommy James said he was most proud of this recording and I am grateful he created it. It should be the National Anthem. God bless all souls whose hearts are this beautiful!!

    • @johnspencer772
      @johnspencer772 7 лет назад +2

      Yes, I, too, will count this among the very beautiful songs recorded.. I do remember liking this as a teenager all those many years ago.

  • @KohiHD
    @KohiHD 6 лет назад +67

    This comment section:
    75%- people relating the song to breaking bad
    25%- Nostalgic comments about past times

    • @davidknight2749
      @davidknight2749 6 лет назад +2

      put me in the 25% even tho i loved Breaking Bad. This song is LaDonna '69 and nothing else. My Brown eyed girl.

    • @rickylafleur9855
      @rickylafleur9855 3 года назад +1

      Someday a psychiatrist should study the people who make those stats.

    • @jeice3714
      @jeice3714 3 года назад

      @@rickylafleur9855 yes

    • @JuanIparraguirre
      @JuanIparraguirre 3 года назад

      LMAO!!

  • @michaelluciano1980
    @michaelluciano1980 2 года назад +22

    Doesn't get much better than this, folks.

    • @7272goldy
      @7272goldy 11 месяцев назад

      Да, однозначно! Шикарная! Душа поёт, когда слышу эту песню.

  • @susanBaca107
    @susanBaca107 3 года назад +29

    This was my Mom's Favorite Song. I miss you Mama.

  • @terrylembke8100
    @terrylembke8100 Год назад +16

    I wish they made music like this today . Maybe people wouldn't be so mean and angry .

  • @brettcurtis5710
    @brettcurtis5710 4 года назад +63

    Over 50 years and still has The Message.....!!! Who's listening in 2020?

    • @nicolekatcher1612
      @nicolekatcher1612 3 года назад

      Meeee

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 3 года назад +1

      PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOD!!!
      THE APPROPRIATE LYRICS FOR THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS
      OF UNPRECEDENTED
      TIMES.
      MERRY XMAS!!!

    • @billharden7127
      @billharden7127 3 года назад

      Listening May 4th 2021.

    • @climax522
      @climax522 2 года назад

      Listening Downunder. August 2021.
      Look to your soul. Open your mind ...

  • @ambersofia9681
    @ambersofia9681 8 месяцев назад +15

    We really need this song nowadays

  • @tyhliaaaa
    @tyhliaaaa 3 года назад +13

    Oh look! You aren’t the only one listening to this masterpiece in 2021 😉

  • @nanook5875
    @nanook5875 7 лет назад +14

    Every Nation: They'll be Peace and good Brotherhood

  • @jthoen61
    @jthoen61 5 лет назад +29

    Hard to believe this song is 50 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @cynthiabennett405
    @cynthiabennett405 2 года назад +12

    They don’t make music like this anymore…. 60 and 70 🎶

  • @ritahernandez8630
    @ritahernandez8630 3 года назад +38

    It’s 2021.... still listening to this song. STILL HOPEFUL. ♥️

  • @leannshelton8234
    @leannshelton8234 4 года назад +17

    Got my first kiss with this song!!! I am 66 now and it brings back those special moments. Come on people let's get it together.be kind.be safe and do what's right in this country.crystal blue life forward

  • @georgesmith3158
    @georgesmith3158 2 месяца назад +14

    3 years to this day Marci passed, would still be here if the doctor listened 2 her ❤ a fib didn't shock it back into rhythm! Great Song we listen 2 it back 69' before I ship out.

  • @Dana9437
    @Dana9437 22 дня назад +8

    we're all in our 70's now -- this is still such a great song!

  • @timjones7547
    @timjones7547 2 года назад +24

    I recall sitting at a traffic light in my 67 GTO with this song playing. Back in the days when we believed music could shape the world, make it a better place! Youthful idealism......Love the song!

    • @DubDidit
      @DubDidit 2 года назад +4

      I think memories are a commodity that will soon be very valuable. write it all down, in depth, your feelings of the time etc...i do it, and post it online. just a way for people to live brief moments of my life in their mind...

    • @bebeautiful6613
      @bebeautiful6613 2 года назад +1

      I’m 59 and I do really feel music shaped me. There is nothing like the music I grew up with 60-80’s. So much good and meaningful music. We were so fortunate to be young in that era ☺️😌

  • @mariemarie1505
    @mariemarie1505 Год назад +16

    As a young girl I remember coming upon a family of hippies sitting at the plaza. I felt the love and peace all around them that that was the day I wanted to be one of them.. Dad said go ask your mother and mother said no. After fifty years I can still see their faces .

    • @s_cuzz
      @s_cuzz Год назад +2

      who cares who thinks what? be what you want to be , if it doesn't mean damage for others then it sallgoodman

    • @mariemarie1505
      @mariemarie1505 Год назад +2

      @UnSetMindLock I was only like ten years old. Although I did become a rebel years later lol

    • @mariemarie1505
      @mariemarie1505 Год назад

      @Joseph Brennan Yes he was ❤️

    • @serenatwilite4005
      @serenatwilite4005 Год назад +1

      @@mariemarie1505 Sounds like you benefitted just by picking up on their groovy energy and good vibes even if you couldn't join them.

  • @humbleevidenceaccepter7712
    @humbleevidenceaccepter7712 6 лет назад +21

    My parents rented a summer cottage on Lake Huron in the earlier '70's. The radio was always on. Whenever I hear this song, the sun is just barely rising over the Lake. Dad and I are going fishing. Hardly a ripple and the poles are in the Yar Craft. Life is wonderful.

    • @michaeltowle2607
      @michaeltowle2607 6 лет назад +5

      HUMBLE, I like to read the posts that tell a story that relates to the song. And I like your story (love you Dad).

  • @michaelvarble4392
    @michaelvarble4392 11 месяцев назад +18

    Born in 50s lived this music and it's all I listen to I don't think there's been anything ever that was better.

  • @ldickerson8193
    @ldickerson8193 4 месяца назад +15

    Loved it in the 70's and still do in 2024, that was music back then❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @FKP_1510
      @FKP_1510 4 месяца назад

      theres a band that makes music sounds EXACTLY like this style of music if you want to listen to 70s inspired music made today give this a check out! ruclips.net/video/Orlbo9WkZ2E/видео.html&ab_channel=DeathGrips

  • @dburch7894
    @dburch7894 5 лет назад +40

    This song can bring tears to my eyes.
    When this song came out I was in 10th grade in LA. My brother was in Viet Nam,” He’d do two tours.” We all had lost someone to war.
    This song represented a hope for peace and love in the world. I’d play this song over and over on the jut box at Gardunos on Whittier Blvd.
    Young people then really thought that our generation could and would, make a change.
    So, in 2018, when I re listen to this song, I sometimes cry.

    • @tammyhanson7843
      @tammyhanson7843 5 лет назад +2

      D DOLLAR Hello my brother in law did not come out of it sane. How could anyone , being a door gunner in a helicopter you kill kill kill. God bless everyone

    • @paulchristman2456
      @paulchristman2456 3 года назад +1

      Whittier Blvd.-----Bethesda, MD ?? Great town.

    • @dominicdagostino8464
      @dominicdagostino8464 3 года назад +1

      God bless your bro cause of his and all his brothers sacrafices gave me the opportunity to serve my country for 21years in the usn god bless🇱🇷

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 года назад

      The world became what it is now when boomers were 100% in charge. This is the boomers legacy.

  • @pigtowski
    @pigtowski Год назад +21

    This song is over fifty yrs old and people still commenting…fine music ages like fine wine❤

  • @daviddragona1853
    @daviddragona1853 22 дня назад +7

    THIS SOUND IS GONE FOREVER HOW SAD 😔 LETS HOPE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WILL GET TURNED ON TO IT

  • @lulugodzilla
    @lulugodzilla 3 года назад +16

    I was a full-fledged Army brat during this war, 101st ABD. I wasn't supposed to like this stuff, but I did. And my sister and I would sing it. Long, long ago.

  • @davidperez3256
    @davidperez3256 5 лет назад +20

    The 60's had the greatest music ever, no doubt about it!

  • @albertchin1050
    @albertchin1050 2 года назад +21

    "Maybe tomorrow, when He looks down, on every green field, in every town, all of His children, in every nation, there'll be peace and good, brotherhood..."
    Was my hope when I heard this song as a kid in the 60s. Still is.

  • @marykinard790
    @marykinard790 2 месяца назад +15

    Love this song! It brings back so many memories. Simpler and easier times. Hippies, love, and peace. Those were the days. If only I could go back to them. ❤

    • @prshr6145
      @prshr6145 Месяц назад

      They were just riding off the hard work of those before them. That is exactly why we have an abundance of rich, leftist who horde their wealth and want the rest of all of us to pay for the social programs they support.

  • @jackkellydunn4079
    @jackkellydunn4079 3 года назад +14

    "Maybe tomorrow when he looks down,on every green field,ooh ooh,and every town,all of his children,and every nation,They'll be peace and good,brotherhood," This song is based on Isaiah 9:7"To peace there will be no end."

  • @fritzidler9871
    @fritzidler9871 5 лет назад +54

    "Crystal Blue Persuasion" is the blue sky of summer to me. Laying on blankets on grass tanning next to the pool, watching cirrus clouds floating by high overhead, this song on the radio... so long ago, yes. A day like today, actually. My retired dad is visiting from Florida, siting outside, the house with the pool long gone. I'm going downstairs to chat and smoke cigars with him. Peace

    • @nbloom1189
      @nbloom1189 4 года назад +1

      Fritz Idler Makes me wanna cry. This song is so special. Make sure you play it now while you’re sitting in the backyard with your dad smoking cigars

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 года назад +1

      After my wedding we were so happy singing along with this song, riding along without a care in the world when a drunk hit us head on and my beautiful bride died in my arms. I miss you so much Susan.

    • @fritzidler9871
      @fritzidler9871 Год назад

      Dad passed away, last summer. He led a good life, missing his wife for 25 years. Together again.

  • @EristiCat
    @EristiCat 2 года назад +17

    I’m afraid the 60’s will never come again in my lifetime. What a time it was.

    • @ukrandr
      @ukrandr 2 года назад

      38 years to go. I won't see them either.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 года назад

      The Vietnam war and civil rights movement. It wasn't all peaches and cream back then.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 года назад

      @Alex Erami that is certainly true.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 года назад

      @Alex Erami Former vice president and secretary of defense Dick Cheney received a number of college deferments during Vietnam.

    • @wastrel09
      @wastrel09 2 года назад

      @@jeffreyconner2937 so did Joe Biden

  • @sonnyboy8957
    @sonnyboy8957 Месяц назад +9

    I was 12 when this came out and have loved this song ever since!!!!!!!

  • @radiodazearchives-formemor7478
    @radiodazearchives-formemor7478 Год назад +10

    In 1969, though I was only 7 years old, even I understood this song. Peace and love. More than just money and survival. Belief in something bigger than self. Look at what's happening now in 2023. What is wrong with people?

    • @MariaGazda
      @MariaGazda 7 месяцев назад +1

      They repeatedly listen to 'angry' so-called music! Plus the shattering knowledge of corruption/greed at all levels...the de-volution of society as a whole. Makes it difficult to stay Loving and Positive...but we must rise above. LOVE IS the Strongest Power my Friends! Give a listen to a favorite song: "Samba Pa Ti - Jose Feliciano/Santana" The footage is old but sounds soo Good! Blessings...pay it forward ;)

    • @eggedon6112
      @eggedon6112 5 месяцев назад

      People now live in fear. They only care for themselves and worship false idols.

  • @JonnyMG123
    @JonnyMG123 5 лет назад +35

    This song came out 21 years before I was born but it just gives me absolute chills every single time I hear it. Almost like a nostalgia and yearning for a time I never experienced. Anyone else?

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 5 лет назад +2

      I was 14 yrs old back in 1969 when this was hit. I'd go back and stay. So in love with a cute young lady in my neighborhood. And she was the 1st girl I ever kissed. 💏♥️

    • @KliKaeL
      @KliKaeL 5 лет назад +2

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehnsucht
      Look this word up my man. It's german.

    • @JonnyMG123
      @JonnyMG123 5 лет назад

      @@KliKaeL Yeah sounds about right!

    • @JonnyMG123
      @JonnyMG123 5 лет назад +1

      @@usmc-veteran73-77 That's awesome!

    • @geneobrien8907
      @geneobrien8907 2 года назад

      "Did you ever dream about a place that you can't recall ever having been to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination. Someplace far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there though, you knew the language, you knew your way around. That was the sixties." - Peter Fonda in the movie, The Limey
      I'm 71 now and that may best describe the 60's for those who were part of the counterculture. It was a very special time.

  • @zenadeleon7785
    @zenadeleon7785 4 года назад +18

    I was born in 67. But I remember hearing this as a child and thought this was one of the best songs I had heard. I'm 52 going on 53, and this song still gives me goosebumps. I was a teen in the '80's, and to me, the music of the'60's-'80's are the best. Music of today has NOTHING on the music of my childhood and teen years......

    • @revasserk2462
      @revasserk2462 4 года назад +1

      from china,from tvshow breaking bad. born in 97. diggin in 70s

    • @tammyhanson7843
      @tammyhanson7843 4 года назад

      I have a couple years on you, born in 63. I had an older sister and we would dance to Saturday on the tv. Her husband was a door gunner for several tours, could not conform back. He died. But I had those white go go boots

  • @rosspbarnett458
    @rosspbarnett458 Месяц назад +8

    One of my favorite songs of all time !

  • @intercommerce
    @intercommerce 10 месяцев назад +9

    Wonder where all these people are all now? Some dead, some old, some getting there. Others may remember the song, but not the vibe....which this song captures beautifully.

    • @ljre3397
      @ljre3397 10 месяцев назад +8

      Oh I remember the vibe and it was wonderful, hopeful unlike today.

  • @AmberDoubleU
    @AmberDoubleU 6 лет назад +40

    Breaking Bad brought me here after watching the series all the way thru for the 3rd time. One of the best tv shows ever!!

    • @chord972
      @chord972 6 лет назад +2

      Only 3? I'm up to 8!

    • @AmberDoubleU
      @AmberDoubleU 6 лет назад +3

      T C I will go back a 4th time. Taking a break by catching up on season 3 of Better Call Saul. 😀

    • @searx6509
      @searx6509 3 года назад

      @@chord972 lol its my 2nd time. Since 1st watched it like 5 months ago. So hard to find other series that this level.

    • @dylanurbanski8014
      @dylanurbanski8014 3 года назад

      Just about done round 4

    • @jamesadkins1507
      @jamesadkins1507 3 года назад

      Yessssss

  • @williamwhite9946
    @williamwhite9946 3 года назад +19

    Aug 2 1969 greatest day in my life when I married my wife Wanda.

    • @ovy830
      @ovy830 3 года назад +1

      Damn nigga how old are u

  • @rob-robi
    @rob-robi 2 года назад +17

    Tommy James is a musical genius

  • @julieerin115
    @julieerin115 2 года назад +14

    The '60s might have been a crazy time, but it had the best music.

    • @laview360degree6
      @laview360degree6 2 года назад

      I didn't grow up in 60s BUT OOHH YEAH 100% HANDS DOWN
      I BET the dance halls
      And music spots were Poppin--!!!!!
      Hermans hermits
      Doors
      Stephen wolf
      Presley
      Tommy James and SHONDELS..
      James Brown I feel good

    • @robertmasina4610
      @robertmasina4610 2 года назад +1

      Early '60s music and that toward the later part of that decade was as different as night and day. Music from the early '60s was still 1950s'ish.

    • @AngelOrtegonM
      @AngelOrtegonM 2 года назад

      Yes

    • @tablerockkid8237
      @tablerockkid8237 2 года назад +1

      @@robertmasina4610 yep. The music 'grew up' while we were growing up. So lucky to have grown up in those musical times. The very best ever.

  • @youtubecommentor4480
    @youtubecommentor4480 2 месяца назад +13

    This song has staying power!

  • @kawikalee2076
    @kawikalee2076 7 лет назад +30

    When life was love and love was life...so simple

  • @crystalcheyenne9559
    @crystalcheyenne9559 Месяц назад +8

    I was only 8 yrs young when this song came out in 1969. Not sure I understood what was going on in the World back then. However, I loved💗this song bcuz my name "Crystal" was in it. My close friends still call me "Crystal Blue"!💙
    This song will always be one of my favorites!🎵

  • @jerrywestermann4435
    @jerrywestermann4435 2 года назад +11

    Well,I'm 63,a musician,still a hair farmer,as I wave bye bye to my disappearing youth,it's laughing at me & waving back,this song,probably more than any other,is bittersweet.Memories of girls with blonde bangs,hoop earrings,& blue eye shadow.Smoking ganja.Those were the daze.That's not a typo.

  • @cdl1952
    @cdl1952 7 лет назад +12

    Ken : feel the same way , I just turned 65 and still think this song says it all ! All the best!

  • @charleswolf1066
    @charleswolf1066 3 года назад +23

    I was fortunate to grow up during this time, I miss the 60's. There will never be another time like it again.

    • @johnsimth1606
      @johnsimth1606 3 года назад

      Due to meth we have anarchy

    • @jmarie92625
      @jmarie92625 2 года назад

      And we all survived without the internet or cell phones. At least songs like this live on and take us back to a much simpler time. I don't begrudge the medical advancements that we've enjoyed over the last 50 years, but our world is moving way too fast for my taste. Just think if we had seriously addressed climate change 50 years ago, instead of leaving a less than desirable planet for our loved ones to inhabit. It's sad but true.

  • @user-cj9lm3rh2g
    @user-cj9lm3rh2g 4 месяца назад +25

    According to James's manager, James was actually inspired by his readings of the Book of Ezekiel, which (he remembered as) speaking of a blue Shekhinah light that represented the presence of the Almighty God, and of the Book of Isaiah and Book of Revelation, which tell of a future age of brotherhood of mankind, living ... That's what this song is about a reflection from the good old book The Bible 🙏

    • @mauricewascom658
      @mauricewascom658 4 месяца назад +3

      THANK You for the Enlightenment❗ I was in Pre-Seminary in the 60s when the song came out. That sounds like it belongs together all right. The school I went to was rather strict and we didn't have a chance to discuss much rock and roll LOL. I will dig deeper into the scriptures you mentioned, but the glow of the Shekinah protected the children of Israel in the wilderness and the cloud gave them shade by day ❗✡️✝️🛐🙏🏼❤️
      I'm like Gramps here, was a good tune back in the day and I'm enjoying it now.
      RIP Gramps ❗❤️👍🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @smatthes2570
      @smatthes2570 3 месяца назад +1

      Amen ....

    • @user-mc9qh9xc6v
      @user-mc9qh9xc6v 2 месяца назад

      Well it was a time, 1969, where there was a belief in the possibility of a brotherhood of man, a unity, an ethnic melting pot where we'd all mix in and become "coffee coloured children by the score"...
      With or without the Christian religion and other dogma. This song was an epiphany of those times.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 Месяц назад

      ​@@user-mc9qh9xc6vWhite people are the reason we're not one "coffee" colored people.

  • @randyjames4380
    @randyjames4380 3 месяца назад +9

    This was our song Debbie. You know who you are. Ill love you until my last breath. 😢

  • @miguelmontano637
    @miguelmontano637 4 года назад +22

    This was music. 50 years later, sounds fresh and better than ever. 60s please come back!. We need more of this.

  • @cjweber6771
    @cjweber6771 4 года назад +25

    A message that is very appropriate and much needed in the current time!

    • @anthonyd.8734
      @anthonyd.8734 4 года назад +2

      I was thinking the same thing. That's why I came to listen to pay this song and see the comments. It's not elevator music; it's better than crap that's playing on the radio today. This song is very deep and was well written ahead of its time!

    • @jillsmcfarland2001
      @jillsmcfarland2001 2 года назад

      Same syop running now

  • @MikePGalvan1991
    @MikePGalvan1991 3 года назад +19

    Reminds me of my mom.. I Love and Miss you so much momma❤🎶🎶

    • @mysoul9726
      @mysoul9726 3 года назад +1

      May she rest in peace

  • @Angrybirdsshit
    @Angrybirdsshit 2 года назад +21

    I think people should come back every 20 years and look back to the 60's and realize how shocking and rapildy the world is changing. And try to bring back love to their century...

  • @russelllane4481
    @russelllane4481 6 лет назад +18

    This song needs too be broadcast worldwide everyday too the world leaders and maybe through the grace of our loving god they will open there closed eyes and hardened hearts I mean really people enough is enough!!!!!!!!

    • @_cloudiiskxy_158
      @_cloudiiskxy_158 6 лет назад +3

      Russell Lane Wish we had another Robert F. Kennedy

    • @wendystroupe8058
      @wendystroupe8058 6 лет назад +2

      AMEN

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 4 года назад +2

      I GREATLY APPRECIATE
      YOUR COMMENT. WE
      THE LIGHT = GOD TO
      FILL THIS WORLD WITH
      HIS PEACE. TQ

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 4 года назад +1

      @@_cloudiiskxy_158 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!

    • @nbloom1189
      @nbloom1189 4 года назад

      It’s just not enough when I play it every day. This whole bloody world should hear this song every day, especially in Brazil and Italy and China where they are suffering with COVID-19. Wish we still had Pirate Radio

  • @anomaly2990
    @anomaly2990 4 года назад +18

    Brings back memories of when my life was uncomplicated and fun.

  • @TheBob3759
    @TheBob3759 Год назад +18

    Tommy James was celebrating his conversion to Christianity
    in this song.
    Beautiful song still.

  • @B4Usmilelaugh
    @B4Usmilelaugh Месяц назад +13

    Look over yonder
    What do you see?
    The sun is a-rising
    Most definitely
    A new day is coming (ooh, ooh)
    People are changing
    Ain't it beautiful? (Ooh, ooh)
    Crystal blue persuasion
    Better get ready to see the light
    Love, love is the answer (ooh, ooh)
    And that's all right
    So don't you give up now (ooh, ooh)
    So easy to find
    Just look to your soul (your soul)
    And open your mind
    Crystal blue persuasion, hmm, hmm
    It's a new vibration
    Crystal blue persuasion
    Crystal
    Blue persuasion
    Maybe tomorrow
    When he looks down
    On every green field (ooh, ooh)
    And every town
    All of his children
    And every nation
    There'll be peace and good brotherhood
    Crystal blue persuasion, yeah
    Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah
    Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah
    (Crystal blue persuasion, aah-aah)

  • @dan-o9746
    @dan-o9746 4 года назад +23

    People were changing back then......time for that mind set again.

    • @nbloom1189
      @nbloom1189 4 года назад

      Dan Metzger brilliant

  • @jefft4098
    @jefft4098 7 лет назад +13

    Thank you breaking bad for introducing this classic song to a different generation "old soul". Love history and reading/listening about the 80's, 70's and 60's. Envious to those who grew up listening to this.

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 лет назад

      Jeff Timoteo >>> It was an amazing time.... the music of that era spoke about those times. Political, social upheaval. The f*ing war. Yeah, amazing times....✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 Год назад +14

    An unbelievable amount of chill, peace and optimism emanates from this song.
    Memories from a childhood I had forgotten, dreams of a future I have never seen.
    We need to build a pedestal for this song somewhere.

  • @MsBee
    @MsBee Год назад +14

    When this came on in Breaking Bad, it was perfect

  • @11sophiemarie
    @11sophiemarie 4 года назад +21

    A timeless classic!!!

  • @janetaldrich7747
    @janetaldrich7747 7 лет назад +16

    Oh, summer when I was a kid ... wish I could go back ...

  • @Highheels4ever
    @Highheels4ever 5 месяцев назад +11

    Jeez, I still dance this song from the great Tommy James and the Shondells. Very nice song and rhythm too.
    Crystal Blue Persuasion is a classic of a great time, it is a song which is timeless. LOVE Crystal Blue Persuasion, just love it and I will continue dancing it. Let the good times roll! YAY!

  • @philstall6262
    @philstall6262 Год назад +8

    53 years old and sounds 👌good always and forever through time 1969

  • @templerman1
    @templerman1 4 года назад +18

    I met a girl in the seventh or eighth grade at Mitchell Junior High School in Rancho Cordova CA. We met and struck up a conversation. She was wearing a paisley 'Granny' dress and had on a pair of rose lensed glasses. She was the only authentic 'Hippie' girl I ever met. I have met lots of others who put on the act but did not even come close. She was full of kindness, and love of life, and represents the best part of those years.

    • @tammyhanson7843
      @tammyhanson7843 4 года назад

      william york I love your story. I comment off and on here. A part of me is stuck here. Brother in law was a door gunner in a helicopter for several tours and eventually, we’ll he died. I can’t escape this period in time. I had those white go go boots🙋‍♀️🦋💜you may not believe this but I’m wearing a homemade tie dyed t-shirt lol

    • @charlesstevens6705
      @charlesstevens6705 4 года назад

      @@tammyhanson7843 Hi TAMMY Glad you are alright

  • @tammyhanson7843
    @tammyhanson7843 4 года назад +14

    Here I am again. Hi folks who just love this song or the people like me still trying to deal with the war. I’ve appreciated all the feedback from you friends. I don’t feel so alone in trying to digest this time in our lives. I’ll say this every time I comment, I had those white go go boots 🤦🏼‍♀️ peace be with you all🇺🇸🙋‍♀️🦋💜

  • @skeeterblanton5226
    @skeeterblanton5226 4 года назад +14

    77 now and thanks to YOU TUBE that I can come here and remember all my favorite memory songs of past loves and friends....On YOU TUBE memories do not grow old....

    • @jaguarhouse333
      @jaguarhouse333 4 года назад +1

      bless you man

    • @alexlewis5182
      @alexlewis5182 4 года назад

      Did you go to Woodstock and If you did what was it like? Lol

    • @skeeterblanton5226
      @skeeterblanton5226 4 года назад +2

      @@alexlewis5182 ....In August, 69 I was living on the beach in Fla. and having too much fun to go....Looking back I wish I had gone....That was such a special time in America to be young and is still the best of my memories....

  • @louisejohnson7336
    @louisejohnson7336 4 месяца назад +13

    To me this song was about peace an l❤ve an togetherness !

  • @waynemoores
    @waynemoores 6 лет назад +26

    Turned 65 yesterday...would sure love to be young again...but not if I had to miss all that...feel sorry for kids today...at least my kids know better

    • @prayergate8388
      @prayergate8388 6 лет назад +1

      Turned 67 a month ago. My sentiments exactly! Golly!

    • @kareno8634
      @kareno8634 6 лет назад

      Peace to You and your Kids; Mine Knows Better as well. He Spreads his knowledge, Trying to get others to understand - most Do. Wouldn't have it any other way. ~ *

    • @MsRandieK
      @MsRandieK 6 лет назад

      Happy Belated 1952 me 2 ✌️♥️ ahh we had FUN

    • @centralparocker8886
      @centralparocker8886 6 лет назад +2

      They say 65 is the new 40....Just regress a few more years....

    • @waynemoores
      @waynemoores 6 лет назад +1

      Still get up and run around the lake every day. Partied downtown last night. I guess 65 is the new 40. Some 20 year olds that I was working with thought I was putting them on when I told them my age after having worked with them for a couple of years. They also said my wife looks pretty hot. So all in all, guess I'll take it.

  • @pattyhouck8477
    @pattyhouck8477 7 лет назад +15

    I've commented on this one a few times because the song ment so much to me. but maybe I should say more. if you grew up then, you would know what I'm trying to say. we were young and the world and all it's possibilities lay before us. yes different then. no so much crap confusing our minds like today. thank God I grew up then! say what you will! it was for me fun, easy, no real stress and just the fact that I looked forward to each new day without fear and so much joy. yeah, I grew up in southern California. ..what a great place to grow up in the 70's. Lord what I wouldn't do to do it again. just my experience I guess.. many remember it different I suppose. I'm truly thankful I had this time in my life. I'm 59 now and think of it alot. I watch my 14 year old granddaughter and she struggles with bullying and the whole social media bullshit. I try my best to calm her fears and tell her it will be ok. but I know it wont. she will deal with this till she is out of high school. that was not how it was when I was in school. man I hate this! and what about after school? will she be wrecked as a human being? I don't know. The world has gone to shit, folks! so guess what? some good ol medical marihuana for me and like the the song says, yeah I will be alright... I still believe in peace and good brotherhood. Crystal Blue Persuasion! ah ha! take care people out there and God bless! !

    • @zaid22287
      @zaid22287 7 лет назад +2

      as a 19 year old today i find this so pure and uplifting

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 лет назад

      Patty Houck >>> kids your granddaughters age have to be smarter now. The challenges present now require crucial critical thinking skills and abilities. In an intelligent, unbiased way. You, Ms. Houck, must help your granddaughter by continuing to reassure her and encourage her to be a strong, independent young woman. And to get her education! Remember the activism of that era. The youth of today cannot become apathetic and stand by and not express themselves. Yes, I remember.... Those were, and these are, the GOOD OLD DAYS .... 📻🎶🎵🎶🎵✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @joshuabrown9609
    @joshuabrown9609 11 месяцев назад +8

    This song is about early morning East Coast surfing. Offshore Breeze. Clear water. 8ft sets. Winter swells. Perfect tubes.

  • @debberraharriman3332
    @debberraharriman3332 2 года назад +15

    When life was better than today.

    • @MickHuerta
      @MickHuerta 2 года назад

      Better if you were white? Perhaps so ... but if you were minority/marginalized/female? Not so good.

    • @Hollywood49
      @Hollywood49 2 года назад

      When we sent 58,000 people to die in Vietnam for no reason and black folks were getting beaten in the streets. So much better!

  • @donnielee4136
    @donnielee4136 7 лет назад +18

    I was in the basic training at Fort Knox 1969. We playied every night at the PX, my favorite song ever

  • @Rebecca-rw9us
    @Rebecca-rw9us 5 лет назад +21

    Such great music..& no crotch grabbing, swaggering, gold chains swinging, posing or cussing. Just thrilling soul music.

  • @johnnyintrieri
    @johnnyintrieri 21 день назад +8

    Bought the 45rpm in 1969. Still have it. 👌🏻

  • @MelvynLawes
    @MelvynLawes 22 дня назад +6

    Remind me of the peacful days of the 70 tirs❤❤❤❤