We who lived through these times have been blessed for they shall not come again for anyone else. We were priviledged to experience a special time in the history of music.
I'm 69 and I think about that every day. As you said there will NEVER be a time like that again. Simple, easy going lifestyle and music. No locked doors, be home by dark and family friendly TV that was free, just turn it on.
I’m 75 now and I can say it wasn’t just the music. I read books that influence me even to this day. I had a special relationship with GOD and the world around me despite the difficulties of the times. I loved the hippie idealism too. I continue to grow, still. The journey continues every day. Marvelous to still be on it.
This song …..I was in nursing school and my roommates alarm would come on at about 6AM and more than twice a week this is the song that was playing. So then it was time to get dressed and go to class or clinicals. So many good memories and this song is one of them. I saw Tommy James and the Shondells that year at a concert .
@@richard3793 Agree. 69 - never even heard a Swift song, but bought the records of most the greats of that era plus the 8 track, then the 4 track tapes, CD's and now had to download them onto UBS sticks. How on earth did this chick become a billionaire? Crazy. Listened to Ten Years After today.
@@zobo70 ironically I listened to "I'm going home live" a few days ago. Swift from what I've read is the worlds top pop star. I have never heard her music either, not into pop except some of Boz Scaggs and a little Van Morrison.
I hear you. Will be 72 in October. My ex used to ask me when I was going to grow up. I haven’t yet, and hope I never do.🐲 Keep on rockin’, Greg!! You’ll never grow old✨🌙⚡️☀️😎
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed." Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
Even though alot of us are now in our 60's and beyond , we still have these songs to look back and reminis . These songs never get old, lol, at least not to us.
This was a time with so many great songs. I'm 73, this takes me back to high school days when you weren't worried about school shootings. Life was great then. Homecoming, beach trips, school dances, cruising, proms, berry picking for extra money, getting in berry fights coming home with stains all over clothes. Good clean fun. Miss the innocence of those times. Today, faces are buried in cell phones obsessed with social media, etc. Sad times for the kids growing up in this warped world that has been created. Prayers to all.
President Nixon got us out of Vietnam after his first announcement in '69. These clowns today are involved in a senseless European civil war/money laundering scheme, a Mideastern holy war, plus pissing-off China, Ad nauseam. America didn't have the grotesque national debt, multiple mass-shootings, stabbings & physical violence on a weekly basis, Yeah, it was a much, much more innocent time. Strawberry Fields, forever...📻 🎼🎵🎶
@@donhebel1011 Each generation has had its time on the battlefield. I volunteered for the service in 1972, after graduating high school, ended up spending 20 years in the service. I would gladly exchange today and all of its pros and cons to go back to the late 60s and early 70s again. In comparison with today's world problems and lifestyle, it was much better then even with Vietnam.
President Nixon started pulling troops out of Vietnam in '69. After '72, things were a lot like you say, "Innocent", a lot less worry than the crap we have now, daily.
Turned 69 this year. What an exciting and dangerous time the 60's and 70's were. But the explosion of rock and roll music made those tumultuous times bearable and very fun. I'm not glad I'm old but I'm glad I experienced those exciting times. If only I had the wisdom then that I have now I could have avoided many wrong moves. But I made it, I'm still alive, happy and still having fun.
Me too!!!! Such good music! Saw Santana at Balboa Park; in San Diego. 691/2 now. Could go out til the porch light flickered off and on to come in. Halloween could eat popcorn balls; cookies, etc. Took it for granted then; and now look at the world we live in.😢
I think maybe you came of age and lived through one of the greatest times in American history. Don't feel guilty about it. I was born in 1969, and I treasure my memories of a simpler time.
@@lemurianchick- I love to tell my sister (she just turned 70) that the hippies have become the system they used to protest but it’s worse now than when they were protesting. It used to piss her off. Now she agrees!
wow…that takes me back…back when musicians knew more than three chords, harmonies ruled, and engineers knew how to mix without over-producing the crap out of everything.
This was playing on the radio when I was in 8th grade. In our 8th grade prom (Catholic school), a boy asked me to dance and we danced a few times. The next day, he called me, but I was too shy to really to talk to him. To this day, I regret that. My home life was not good and my choices in life were not the best. I still wonder what life would have presented had I talked to him and opened up. That song cuts to my soul.
@@denniswisniewski9035 Sadly, it is. I looked him up some years ago; he had passed leaving a loving wife and adult children. My husband has also passed. I believe we just must listen to the past and dream what might have been, loving God for what we have chosen and what he blessed us with.
Hence the reason I just tried so hard to not say "No" like Nancy told us. I can say my body has taken the brunt of those actions. So it's, as they say, "Damned if ya do" and "Damned if ya don't" ; therefore, make the best of what the good Lord has given ya in life. God bless.
Hearing this song reminds me of some of the best childhood days of my life, camping and fishing with my family on Toledo Bend Lake. Thank You JESUS ! ✌️
I have a clear memory of being 15 and walking away from the snack shack at the private pool. This was playing on the loud speaker. I love this song. It will always represent an iconic summer to me. 🏊♀️☀️🕶️❤
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed." Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
Having been born in 1959, I was 9 when this tune was all over the radio when my family lived on Oahu, Hawaii. Great memories of a time that was soooo different than the times we live in now
When this song came out there was literally nothing like it. TJ was groundbreaking in so many ways - all their hits captured the energy of the counterculture. If you're younger and listen to this now, this is what the 60s felt like!
I met Tommy back in 76 or 77 when Tommy and the Shondells played a benefit show for our little towns youth center. They put on a great show in our high school gym then came back to the center and hung out for a bit. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I will be 67 in 5 days. THIS side of THAT album got played at every jr high dance and party because the whole side was slow dancing and nobody had to stop dancing to go change the record. It will always have a place in my heart.
Society has changed people respected each other and life seemed simple and then the internet came along, but the 60's will never change or the great music.
I was born 1960, had an older sister, she listened to the Beatles, and another that listened to Tommy James. In 1973 I bought my 1st Pink Floyd album, and never looked back. A great time ta be a teen! Sex, drugs & Rock n Roll! Choppers and Hot Rods! ✌
First heard this song on AM radio, back when they played a wonderful mix of pop, soul and rock. This song is a well-crafted piece of pop artistry and outshines anything being put out today.
"Running just as fast as we can, holding onto one another's hand . . . . put your arms around me and we tumble to the groun, saying ' i think we're alone now, doesn't seem to be anyone around . . . the beating of our hearts is the only sound..." Spiritual enough. There is no spirit without body, life.
I remember the exact place and what I was doing first time I heard "Light My Fire" from The Doors on the radio in the car. I was born in "64" and it came out in "67" Crazy what you remember from Music and had an infatuation with Morrison ever since...lol
As a baby 🤱 baby boomer, I sure wish to thank all you Elders. Born 1961, the massive cultural change, that first ten years, OMG. You older BOOMERS, thanks for EVERYTHING. The media, does love to deride you. I, remain in awe. 👏 I have heard, personally, so many, sad stories of those times. I was a child. You lived those days, as adults. I am sooo sorry, for what was done to you. 🙇
Love to read all the comments here. We have so much in common and have been blessed to have lived in this great country and other places around the world with this beautiful music
65yo here living in SoCal and feeling good… Groov’in on a Sunday afternoon … Brought back ‘69 when this song was playing on radio every day, love it… Love this video production, thank you!
God, I love this song. It takes me back to the summer of 1969. I was 10 and so into music. I love hearing the “psychedelic music” as it came out around 1967. It was then I became aware of the world around me. Wanting to grow up, go to college like the “big kids” were doing. Moving to either NYC, or LA…..now I wish I could go back and tell myself don’t be in such a hurry, enjoy your youth because it’s over too soon. Thankfully the music has survived and is there to take me back. ❤
I used to listen to that great music as a strange kid with Autism. I went into writing and eventually did a little PR work for hall of fame singers that I heard on the radio as a kid in the 60's. Now in my elder years, widowed, I make videos for enjoyment. Love these old songs!
One of my all time. Great memories from the 60's to into the 70's These are real voices singing this song I was born in the 60's but I was to young to Remember the 60's but I Remember the 70's though the 70's was the best time and best year A beautiful song I always enjoyed it love that song so much I love Tommy and The shondells so much 🎸🌷💐💝🥰🎤🎶🎼🔥🦊🌹💯💋💕♥️💚😘💙🤩😍💗🎵💖💘❤️🩹💜💞💓🧡❣️❤️
Born in 56. I heard all of the greats! This is one of them. So many more. The songs and memories of when they became hits are with me forever. The best era of music!
We played this so often( over&over)+ Crimson In Clover, that the owner of the BeeHive( local hang-out) threatened to hook a chain to the juke-box+his truck, and drag the damn juke-box out the door&down the street!! His wife(gf?) calmed him down, he finally agreed to certain time slots of play/no play!! It was hysterical to watch the crowd exit for coupla hrs/then rush back in/then repeat!!(But it allowed for cleaning/re-stocking/ brief homework achievements!!
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed." Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
I live in Richmond, VA which has a very mixed population of multiple nationalities, etc. Last year while standing in a huge line in a parking lot waiting to get into a venue that apparently was experiencing some type of issue, I'm white, which is not a big deal, but this black gentleman who was in line near me, pulls out a blue tooth speaker and connects his phone to a "mixed tape" of all this great music from the 60's and 70's ... and suddenly, it became a dance party, everybody singing ...remembering the times . . many were what I call young people, I'm 67, but were the children and grandchildren of people who played those golden oldies and, quote, not the crap they've got on the radio today. Too soon, they fixed whatever the problem was, and we all trickled in, I wasn't 66 anymore, I was back in my youth -- my girl will always be good -- and that was one of the best times of my life.
I was 15 when this song was released, Because all my friends and I were listening to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Hendrix, the Stones and so on, this was considered almost beneath us - bubblegum music, as we called it. But now all these years later, I realize that I love this song, and loved it then. And lovely video, by the way.
From Brazil - I was teenager boy in 1969.!! This music remember my good times of high school, my colleagues, my teachers and my parents!! Wow, it`s very emotion for me!! Thanks grecco2!!
The All Night party at Disneyland my senior year in hs. This song came on as the bus was driving us back to the hs. The sun was rising and my girlfriend was nestled on my shoulder. A memory I have when I hear this song
All us that had family members that introduced us to the most popular music in the 60's made us far more advanced than our school mates that were our own age.
We who lived through these times have been blessed for they shall not come again for anyone else. We were priviledged to experience a special time in the history of music.
Well said.
At 68 I agree.
I'm 69 and I think about that every day. As you said there will NEVER be a time like that again. Simple, easy going lifestyle and music. No locked doors, be home by dark and family friendly TV that was free, just turn it on.
I’m 75 now and I can say it wasn’t just the music. I read books that influence me even to this day. I had a special relationship with GOD and the world around me despite the difficulties of the times. I loved the hippie idealism too. I continue to grow, still. The journey continues every day. Marvelous to still be on it.
@@Foozy-jr4yb I'm glad you had a relationship with GOD, I didn't until 2012 but I do know HE was with me, blessing me the entire time.
We were so lucky to grow up in the late 60’s and 70’s.
Thanks, these comments are morose
This song …..I was in nursing school and my roommates alarm would come on at about 6AM and more than twice a week this is the song that was playing. So then it was time to get dressed and go to class or clinicals. So many good memories and this song is one of them. I saw Tommy James and the Shondells that year at a concert .
At 68 years old I agree. Music today 👎
Indeed 🎉❤
Absolutely
Im 68 and those songs like this one keeps me going. They dont make music like that anymore.
68 here as well and todays music 👎
@@richard3793 Agree. 69 - never even heard a Swift song, but bought the records of most the greats of that era plus the 8 track, then the 4 track tapes, CD's and now had to download them onto UBS sticks. How on earth did this chick become a billionaire? Crazy. Listened to Ten Years After today.
@@zobo70 ironically I listened to "I'm going home live" a few days ago. Swift from what I've read is the worlds top pop star. I have never heard her music either, not into pop except some of Boz Scaggs and a little Van Morrison.
I’m 66 and I can sing along every word! Funny how you never forget song lyrics.
71 here brother yer so right@
How I wish I could relive my childhood and NOT wanting to grow up so fast!!!! At 64, My life has flew by way too fast!!!!!
I hear you. Will be 72 in October.
My ex used to ask me when I was going to grow up. I haven’t yet, and hope I never do.🐲 Keep on rockin’, Greg!! You’ll never grow old✨🌙⚡️☀️😎
64 too, I hear you on that
Where did the time go !!!
But we grew up in a great era for music
IKR?????
Yeah, wasted too many years of my life 😢
I hear ya, I'm 67.
at 72 yrs old, i remember and miss those days BUT, still a teenager at heart :)
I'm 72 also. Wonderful years of music
68 here and still young in the brain.
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed."
Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
@@monterock6726 I agree. I think like a 20 yr old but my body says no sometimes LOL
@@lincolnlandpicker I'm 73, I'm a carpenter and I still work. My body is constantly telling me to stop treating it like it's still a 30 year old body!
Even though alot of us are now in our 60's and beyond , we still have these songs to look back and reminis . These songs never get old, lol, at least not to us.
At 68 I have collected over 5000 songs from the good ol days and never stop listening to them.
My son who is in his late 30s knows quite alot about 60s and 70s r&r and appreciates it.
everyday all day
This was a time with so many great songs. I'm 73, this takes me back to high school days when you weren't worried about school shootings. Life was great then. Homecoming, beach trips, school dances, cruising, proms, berry picking for extra money, getting in berry fights coming home with stains all over clothes. Good clean fun. Miss the innocence of those times. Today, faces are buried in cell phones obsessed with social media, etc. Sad times for the kids growing up in this warped world that has been created. Prayers to all.
President Nixon got us out of Vietnam after his first announcement in '69. These clowns today are involved in a senseless European civil war/money laundering scheme, a Mideastern holy war, plus pissing-off China, Ad nauseam. America didn't have the grotesque national debt, multiple mass-shootings, stabbings & physical violence on a weekly basis, Yeah, it was a much, much more innocent time. Strawberry Fields, forever...📻 🎼🎵🎶
@@donhebel1011 Each generation has had its time on the battlefield. I volunteered for the service in 1972, after graduating high school, ended up spending 20 years in the service. I would gladly exchange today and all of its pros and cons to go back to the late 60s and early 70s again. In comparison with today's world problems and lifestyle, it was much better then even with Vietnam.
So true so sad
President Nixon started pulling troops out of Vietnam in '69. After '72, things were a lot like you say, "Innocent", a lot less worry than the crap we have now, daily.
In my 60's and I can't believe life has passed so fast.
Great memories 🥲😥
I hear you 😮
We didnt realize how special these times were until we experienced now.😂❤
Turned 69 this year. What an exciting and dangerous time the 60's and 70's were. But the explosion of rock and roll music made those tumultuous times bearable and very fun. I'm not glad I'm old but I'm glad I experienced those exciting times. If only I had the wisdom then that I have now I could have avoided many wrong moves. But I made it, I'm still alive, happy and still having fun.
Same here…..turned 69 last December. Best times ever!
Me too!!!! Such good music! Saw Santana at Balboa Park; in San Diego. 691/2 now. Could go out til the porch light flickered off and on to come in. Halloween could eat popcorn balls; cookies, etc. Took it for granted then; and now look at the world we live in.😢
Ditto.
I think maybe you came of age and lived through one of the greatest times in American history. Don't feel guilty about it. I was born in 1969, and I treasure my memories of a simpler time.
You bet brother!
Forever timeless. Beyonce, Taylor, Gaga, Minaj, Cyrus, they'll never be able to say this about their music.
That is the absolute truth!!!
60s and 70s….best. Music EVER
Ummm, there was disco though. The short musical abyss. Until now that is.
"A new day is coming . . . People are changing . . . "
For a few brief moments it all seemed possible.
Now the Boomers support Dark Brandon....ooooooof....
@@lemurianchick- Not all of us.
@@sean_connors Thank you!
@@lemurianchick- I love to tell my sister (she just turned 70) that the hippies have become the system they used to protest but it’s worse now than when they were protesting. It used to piss her off. Now she agrees!
@@fanman8102 I can't wrap my brain around it.
wow…that takes me back…back when musicians knew more than three chords, harmonies ruled, and engineers knew how to mix without over-producing the crap out of everything.
And none of the autotune crap.
100% absolutely so!! 😊👍🎶🎶
@@alanhughes5868 Exactly 💯 % genuine talent! 😊👍🎶
Yes. Goid days. I'm 68.
This was the first 45 record I bought.
Crimson and Clover was the flip side 🤯
Mine also.
Both good
So true I remember this as a gotta have 45
Man that was a great record,and a great buy
Tommy James is a legendary song writer/composer
This was playing on the radio when I was in 8th grade. In our 8th grade prom (Catholic school), a boy asked me to dance and we danced a few times. The next day, he called me, but I was too shy to really to talk to him. To this day, I regret that. My home life was not good and my choices in life were not the best. I still wonder what life would have presented had I talked to him and opened up. That song cuts to my soul.
It’s never too late.
@@denniswisniewski9035 Sadly, it is. I looked him up some years ago; he had passed leaving a loving wife and adult children. My husband has also passed. I believe we just must listen to the past and dream what might have been, loving God for what we have chosen and what he blessed us with.
Hence the reason I just tried so hard to not say "No" like Nancy told us. I can say my body has taken the brunt of those actions. So it's, as they say, "Damned if ya do" and "Damned if ya don't" ; therefore, make the best of what the good Lord has given ya in life.
God bless.
I Made the same mistake
Born in 66’ but the 60’s & 70’s are my all time favorite decades for music
born in65 here, I used to listen to the oldies stations but can't find any that play the oldies from the 60's and 70's anymore.
Born in '62 and I totally agree!
Hearing this song reminds me of some of the best childhood days of my life, camping and fishing with my family on Toledo Bend Lake. Thank You JESUS ! ✌️
Amen
I have a clear memory of being 15 and walking away from the snack shack at the private pool. This was playing on the loud speaker. I love this song. It will always represent an iconic summer to me. 🏊♀️☀️🕶️❤
Am 74, heard this on am radio on my old 55 chevy bout 68/9 n waitin on uncle sam's.....greetings. unbelievable decade y'all missed out.
72 here, same story in my '57. Best time ever.
Exactly the same here, good luck forever! 55 and all
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed."
Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
I didn't miss out on anything, I was there!
1970 graduated hs and this song was our favorite. Brings back fun memories and I would not change a thing. Still walking at 73.❤
The 70s were the best! Today is the scariest of my lifetine.
66 going on 67 with a life time full of memories
Me too !😊 HS Class of 1975🎉
Me2 class of 76..
Having been born in 1959, I was 9 when this tune was all over the radio when my family lived on Oahu, Hawaii. Great memories of a time that was soooo different than the times we live in now
Me too, but in Buffalo, NY. Parents wouldn't buy us Bell Bottoms.
I lived there then. Was ten years old. Lived on a Navy base.
@@PattiTaylor-ov7cv we did also, Barber's Point Naval Air Station
Would go back in a heartbeat what a sad mess we’ve become 🥲
When this song came out there was literally nothing like it. TJ was groundbreaking in so many ways - all their hits captured the energy of the counterculture. If you're younger and listen to this now, this is what the 60s felt like!
So every sound engineer that uses auto tune needs to listen to what real singing sounds like! One great tune!
Yes sir absolutely
100% agreed!! 😊👍🎶
One of my all time great memories from the 60s into the 70s .These are real voices singing this song.Nothing.a machine or turning board could bring.
I met Tommy back in 76 or 77 when Tommy and the Shondells played a benefit show for our little towns youth center. They put on a great show in our high school gym then came back to the center and hung out for a bit. I remember it like it was yesterday.
A song that transports to to another place- a very good one!
Oh yeah, a lot of great songs/instrumentals back then do that for me. Golden era if there ever was one. 😊🎶❤️🎶
Wouldn't it be incredible if a song was played we could flip a switch on our body that could take up back to that place for a lousy 10 minutes 😊
@@murraychadwick9362 Yes, with what we now know retained, but back in our younger bodies!! 😊👍🎶🎶
This song is now❤
I will be 67 in 5 days. THIS side of THAT album got played at every jr high dance and party because the whole side was slow dancing and nobody had to stop dancing to go change the record. It will always have a place in my heart.
Happy Birthday Wendy....🙂
Mine will be on the 8th.. This Monday I'll be 64...😥
Society has changed people respected each other and life seemed simple and then the internet came along, but the 60's will never change or the great music.
I was born 1960, had an older sister, she listened to the Beatles, and another that listened to Tommy James. In 1973 I bought my 1st Pink Floyd album, and never looked back. A great time ta be a teen! Sex, drugs & Rock n Roll! Choppers and Hot Rods! ✌
First heard this song on AM radio, back when they played a wonderful mix of pop, soul and rock. This song is a well-crafted piece of pop artistry and outshines anything being put out today.
I’m 70 and glad I grew up then instead of what they are doing to the kids and their childhood. So many types of music with so much soul.
MANY SONG'S FROM THE 60'S WERE HIGHLY SPIRITUAL, THIS IS 1 OF THEM. ( 3 )
"Running just as fast as we can, holding onto one another's hand . . . . put your arms around me and we tumble to the groun, saying ' i think we're alone now, doesn't seem to be anyone around . . . the beating of our hearts is the only sound..."
Spiritual enough.
There is no spirit without body, life.
We grew up with incredible music.
I remember the exact place and what I was doing first time I heard "Light My Fire" from The Doors on the radio in the car. I was born in "64" and it came out in "67" Crazy what you remember from Music and had an infatuation with Morrison ever since...lol
A beautiful song! I've always enjoyed it! 👍
As a baby 🤱 baby boomer, I sure wish to thank all you Elders.
Born 1961, the massive cultural change, that first ten years, OMG.
You older BOOMERS, thanks for EVERYTHING.
The media, does love to deride you.
I, remain in awe.
👏 I have heard, personally, so many, sad stories of those times.
I was a child. You lived those days, as adults.
I am sooo sorry, for what was done to you.
🙇
A song that puts you in a time of total happiness in your younger years
Went to high school with him in Niles Michigan. He was always very talented😊
Love to read all the comments here. We have so much in common and have been blessed to have lived in this great country and other places around the world with this beautiful music
I was 12 when I bought this 45. Also Crimson n clover. Great tunes!!
65yo here living in SoCal and feeling good… Groov’in on a Sunday afternoon … Brought back ‘69 when this song was playing on radio every day, love it… Love this video production, thank you!
This song is like a WAY BACK MACHINE. Reminds you of great times from long ago.
Yes it was a groovy time!🌍🌕🌛
1968; the “year it all happened “! Look it up.
My life is flying by too. Can't believe I'm 69.
I'm 71 years old and when I heard this song I was,10 years old and it was beautiful then and is today all I ever listened to now is the oldies
This song reminds me of riding around the neighborhood on my bike with my transistor radio. ☺️
I loved donivans gurdy hurdy. Played it over and over. And i remember inagadda da vida. Im 68❤
God, I love this song. It takes me back to the summer of 1969. I was 10 and so into music. I love hearing the “psychedelic music” as it came out around 1967. It was then I became aware of the world around me. Wanting to grow up, go to college like the “big kids” were doing. Moving to either NYC, or LA…..now I wish I could go back and tell myself don’t be in such a hurry, enjoy your youth because it’s over too soon. Thankfully the music has survived and is there to take me back. ❤
I used to listen to that great music as a strange kid with Autism. I went into writing and eventually did a little PR work for hall of fame singers that I heard on the radio as a kid in the 60's. Now in my elder years, widowed, I make videos for enjoyment. Love these old songs!
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I remember listening to this song on the radio omg it was fantastic and now at 70 still listening to this song yeah look to your open your mind 😉😉🎵🎶💦🍞
One of my all time. Great memories from the 60's to into the 70's These are real voices singing this song I was born in the 60's but I was to young to Remember the 60's but I Remember the 70's though the 70's was the best time and best year A beautiful song I always enjoyed it love that song so much I love Tommy and The shondells so much 🎸🌷💐💝🥰🎤🎶🎼🔥🦊🌹💯💋💕♥️💚😘💙🤩😍💗🎵💖💘❤️🩹💜💞💓🧡❣️❤️
Do you know what this song was about? Give a comment if you know.
@@henryechtner no I don't really know what the song is about though
Love is the answer, and that's alright, which is a true statement. I loved this song when it came out, and I still do. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
One of my favorite songs from the wonder years in which we boomers were blessed to have grown.
How I wish my grandkids could live my times
Born in 56. I heard all of the greats! This is one of them. So many more. The songs and memories of when they became hits are with me forever. The best era of music!
I agree I'm 63 and time flew by...WoW...I love this vibe...❤❤😊😊
We played this so often( over&over)+ Crimson In Clover, that the owner of the BeeHive( local hang-out) threatened to hook a chain to the juke-box+his truck, and drag the damn juke-box out the door&down the street!! His wife(gf?) calmed him down, he finally agreed to certain time slots of play/no play!! It was hysterical to watch the crowd exit for coupla hrs/then rush back in/then repeat!!(But it allowed for cleaning/re-stocking/ brief homework achievements!!
I remember dancing to this song with a pretty read head, so close we could feel each other's heart beats.
Ahhh..the summer of 69 top 40..Tommy James an the Shontells
Was a draftee when this came out - will always remember...
Today I turn 75and listening to a great song ag
again
"I asked an elderly man once what it was like to be old and to know the majority of his life was behind him. He told me that he has been the same age his entire life. He said the voice inside of his head had never aged. He has always just been the same boy. His mother's son. He had always wondered when he would grow up and be an old man. He said he watched his body age and his faculties dull but the person he is inside never got tired. Never aged. Never changed."
Source: Weird Beautiful & Amazing Everything
This was back when music was done by artists who worked hard at their craft! Miss these times!
I swear I've seen these same images in my head many times in the late 60's early 70's!
71 here…. Big time flashback riding around and listening to to this song
Where has all the pretty music gone? We need life that feels like this good vibration.
I’m 68 yrs old I can tell you where I was who I was with what I driving q when I first heard this tune! We had fast cars and cool bands!
I live in Richmond, VA which has a very mixed population of multiple nationalities, etc. Last year while standing in a huge line in a parking lot waiting to get into a venue that apparently was experiencing some type of issue, I'm white, which is not a big deal, but this black gentleman who was in line near me, pulls out a blue tooth speaker and connects his phone to a "mixed tape" of all this great music from the 60's and 70's ... and suddenly, it became a dance party, everybody singing ...remembering the times . . many were what I call young people, I'm 67, but were the children and grandchildren of people who played those golden oldies and, quote, not the crap they've got on the radio today. Too soon, they fixed whatever the problem was, and we all trickled in, I wasn't 66 anymore, I was back in my youth -- my girl will always be good -- and that was one of the best times of my life.
Never a time machine around when you want one ❤
Thier will never be music like 60s and 70s and 80s!
This song is a time machine, at 75 I remember the times, even though I was in Vietnam at the time.
At 73, this brings back SO many memories beautiful memories! 🥰
Damn do I miss the good old days, we had it made in the shade ! What the hell happened ?
I was 15 when this song was released, Because all my friends and I were listening to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Hendrix, the Stones and so on, this was considered almost beneath us - bubblegum music, as we called it. But now all these years later, I realize that I love this song, and loved it then. And lovely video, by the way.
I still can’t believe we stopped changing and forgot that Love is all you need!! ✌️❤️
This type of music filled the air when was I conceived in the turbulent year of 68’ during TeT new year.
Some things last forever,this song is one of them.
Graduated High school class “75” what a life sound track from Beatles to NIRVANA thank you Jack and Marjean for a marshmallow life.
"Look over yonder, what do you see?" Man that is it.
Those were the best days years-69 yrs old now.
They nailed my life. Memory flood. People never appreciated them in public. I did.
The Music was fantastic
Just beautiful and memories galore. Thank you so very much for the song I am 65 and I still love this music.❤❤❤❤
This was OUR song, my to-be-wife, and I. Played at our wedding, and we still listen to this song 55 years later.
60's / 70's were best years of my life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Approaching 75 here but in my mind I feel much younger. Love our music from back then.
Good good music 💯🎶🎶 back in the days 😁
One of the sound tracks of my life ❤
It was around 1972 or so at house parties squeezing 15 year old girls. What memories. 😊
MY GOD! I just Left now and disappeared back to my childhood! Beautiful feeling! ❤🩹 thank you!
Miss you Chuck Scrantom ! HS Class 1975 ❤
From Brazil - I was teenager boy in 1969.!!
This music remember my good times of high school, my colleagues, my teachers and my parents!!
Wow, it`s very emotion for me!!
Thanks grecco2!!
Wow, this song reminds me of head start; the spring before first grade. Sitting on our pole fence waiting for the bus. I was five…no worries.
The All Night party at Disneyland my senior year in hs. This song came on as the bus was driving us back to the hs. The sun was rising and my girlfriend was nestled on my shoulder. A memory I have when I hear this song
I loved TJ and the Shondells. I was a senior in high school when this song came out. I just turned 71 and I tear up and smile EVERYTIME I hear this.
All us that had family members that introduced us to the most popular music in the 60's made us far more advanced than our school mates that were our own age.
It was a great experience, seeing Tommy James and the Shondell’s perform MANY YEARS AGO, in downtown Boston. 73 year old Tim in northern TN