in the early 60s it probably was insane. there were people still alive who could recall the first implementations of early telephones in their communities. must have been truly something to behold the rapid advancement of voice technology in the 20th century.
@@SexyFace even when Peter Frampton made it famous people still were blown away about how his guitar could talk. I mean if I was in the audience this would blow my fucking mind. Also fun fact the older talk boxes were notorious for damaging amplifiers and PA systems all the time so its no wonder that they weren’t used that often
Expecially when you think about all the people who used this same technique of voice boxes on guitars and keyboards and shit like Rick James: Mary Jane or dire straights: mTV
Agreed: The single is missing that beautiful tremolo guitar... Something about the jazzy Maj7th chords softly strummed and allowed to ring out in tremolo coupled with the dampened staccato piano notes creates an otherworldly, mellow showcase for Drake's lead melody.
The Backup Singer who looks like Conway Twitty is named Lin Brown and he sang with Sonny James for awhile. Almost swear that one guy on Guitar is the incomparable James Burton.🤔😉🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸B.W.
@@onzah3515 That Singularity song sounds like a generic dubstep song with common vocoder effected vocals... which isn't a bad thing, but I don't think it's comparable to this song from the early 60's. That said, it's AWESOME to be able to enjoy both :)
@@onzah3515 Here's my contribution to an "alien music" playlist though, if you're interested Onzah, haha... ruclips.net/video/k-b-OJrRQxA/видео.html&ab_channel=AnimalCollective-Topic
Agreed! Beautiful song, I love it, and the old talk-box unit is really cool but . . .there is a slight nightmarish veil to the video! ;-) Probably because I watch a lot of mystery/suspense/horror shows and sometimes similar music is used. I'm thinking of that great X-Files episode, one of the best and most shocking/intense with the deformed inbred family that lived in a small town.
It would make a good Twilight Zone episode: a small town turns out for a concert by a country package tour that presents a big, lush, sound, featuring a talking steel guitar, completely without microphones or any sound system. Their hair is perfect and gleaming, and their outfits wrinkle-free. The next morning, news arrives that the entire ensemble died when their plane went down in a remote Saskatchewan lake hours before the show everyone saw.
@@keefmeister77 aliens would think humans naturally sound like that (with the talking guitar), I feel a song like this on the record would throw them off
This is the most magnificent thing I’ve ever heard. This man was ahead of his time, too early. This is a blend of beloved oldies mixed in with something that you hear every day, distorted or auto tuned voices. This is gold.
Pete Drake was playing pedal steel on George Harrison's album "All Things Must Pass" when he showed how his Talk Box worked to Peter Frampton, who was a friend of George's and was playing acoustic guitar on the session. Frampton was blown away by the sound and started using it in concert. He always thanks Pete Drake in interviews.
@@davediamond9436 You’re correct. Frampton evidently started experimenting with the talk box at Harrison’s 1970 sessions but didn’t record with it ‘til later (after Walsh).
@@maxmalmgren2480 floyd cramer i think, one of the greatest piano players of his generation. look up his songs last date, honey, rebound. YOu will see how amazing he is
This is so utterly beautiful and strange. I love everything about it, the tune, the performances, the filming, the colour, the lot. It looks like David Lynch took some tips from it. Ace.
The guys in the vocal group are (L to R) Duane West, Lin Bown, Glenn Huggins and Gary Robble. This was probably 1963-64, when they were known as "The Chordsmen" and served as the Grand Ole Opry's house quartet. In August 1964 they joined Sonny James and became "The Southern Gentlemen". Over the next seven years Sonny reeled off 23 straight singles that hit #1 on either the Billboard, Cashbox or Record World country charts (16 in a row on Billboard alone).
On closer examination, that's not Glenn Huggins (bass singer of the Southern Gentlemen) third from the left. It's Ray Walker, bass singer of the Jordanaires. Ray was close to The Gents at the time. This may be shortly after they joined Sonny James, as Glenn did not tour with Sonny until sometime later.
I agree with the time line. All the guy are wearing the proto-punk ducktails. This hairstyle gave way to the Beatles and longer hair, combed or uncombed. :)
I remember this from so many years ago. My dad really liked country music and every Saturday night we watched country music on t.v.. i miss him and our family so much.
“it may not mean nothing to y’all, but understand nothing was done for me. me and my steel guitar, and it and I are singing forever” - Pete Drake ‘Forever’
@@TheWTFMatt There's good and bad in each era. Today there is still amazing music and there are still amazing people doing rad things. Back then there were rad things like this, but you also had Jim Crow and stuff like that. Awful and nasty and beautiful all exist in our era and in that era.
im so glad that's cleared up the confusion i was feeling im glad there is a logical explanation for that guy sticking a plastic pipe in his mouth like that i thought for a minute he would suck up some pepsi cola from that box.
Yes! The Anita Kerr Singers. They recorded the original version of this tune in 1960 under the name The Little Dippers and it was a hit record for them. It's on RUclips and has a nearly identical vocal arrangement. They did the bumper music for WLS radio in the 1960s, which was where I first heard them.
Unless they were lip synching to the Anita Kerr singers the gentlemen here are some of Sonny James Southern Gentlemen. I'm not sure of the lady singer. I watched this movie and Sonny performs in it also and they are introduced as Sonny's Southern Gentlemen. The lady singer could be one of Anita Kerr's. I also understand many of the performances in the movie were lip synced so who knows.
It can be, cause whole scene is very well directed. Every actor is doing exactly his work. They worked with musicians and made them look perfectly. Qualified quality.
I'm stunned reading the negative comments on this link. This is not only a beautiful tune it's also an innovation of monstrous bounds. Addicted to this
what year was this from? and did you know that they went on to do more on the talk-box to regular electric guitar with Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton. look for it on here.
BaronVonPenguin If it isn’t to someone’s liking, perhaps they just move on, but the internet gives morons an anonymous place to vet their pent up anger. Really is a shame and really shows the maturity of the human race.
Jack Cramer Not quite. This was an early instance of a voice box, where a performer can modify the instrument’s sound by simply shaping their mouths into syllables, and that combination is fed back into the microphone. A vocoder relies entirely on a performer’s actual voice, hence the word itself (“voice” and “encoder”)
Takes me back to summer of 95 when i stayed with my grandparents in Utah. Grandpa gave me a cassette tape he mixed with music like this. This song, Remington Ride and Sleep Walk were my favorites. Sadly he passed this year at the age of 87. Thank you internet for keeping precious memories only a click away.
Pete Drake met Peter Frampton while he was recording parts for George Harrison's All Things Must Pass in 1970 and Frampton was so enamored with Drake's music that he gave him one of his own talk boxes. The rest is history.
Lol, this is a joke people. This talk box obviously pre-dates Frampton’s. “Forever” was recorded in 1964. All Things Must Pass in 1970. Pete Drake was the person who introduced Frampton to the talk box during some sessions.
This is probably the most beautiful song that I hate listening to the most. The way it's put together is magnificent, but it just gives me this underlying feeling of an end. Like this is the conclusion to something huge, and it's to be enjoyed one more time before it's gone forever.
Modern media has made a very strong effort to alianate us from our cultural roots. Twerking and multiculturalism is the norm. Respectful conservative culture is alien and scary now.
If you like this check out “Hello Walls” by Willie Nelson where he records with him. There’s 2 versions but one of them you can definitely tell that it’s this guy.
@plnkfloydian Well ya see there bud, that there is a small amount of humour taken in by way of what might be called a 'phonetic artefact'. Ya see now, our fella here is talking into a make-shift talk box and thereby is forming words by way of some fair obstruction. This has a noticeable affect on the clarity of his pronunciation, adding some ambiguity to bilabial, labio-dental, and dental sounds. Thereby, also obfuscating those sounds that would be formed further back now. So there you have it bud. No psychopathy involved. Or should I say 'Gno gykobaty inbwlbet'. To be fair though, Pete does a stand out job of getting some clarity out of that - it's a hard ask to say the least. But eh, you'd better not be cheesing me there buddy - 'cus I'm fair sure you'd a got me a good'n.
This is so set in its time yet its a hundred years ahead of everything else. So atmospheric. A sound I only ever credit to certain techno and dnb artist. I'm blown away
The workings of a talk-box FYI : The guitar signal is split 2 ways. One going to the amp as usual. The other goes into the talkbox. Inside the talkbox , is a small speaker. The guitar sound travels up the tube and bounces around inside your mouth. It is then picked up by the microphone there for the vocals. By “shaping” the words in your mouth , the sound of the guitar becomes part of your voice. Play a song on your cell phone , stick the speaker end in you mouth and make the oooo and ahhh shape. You’ll get the idea..
I wondered the same thing. I know how the talk box works, so there’s gotta be a microphone hidden somewhere. Maybe a primitive lapel mic, or a boom mic above camera-view...or this could all be lip-synced. Which was/is common practice for television.
no. inside the talk box is a little dwarf. the tube goes direct into the ear of the dwarf. the dwarf has a little mic in his hands and talks what he hears into the mic. because the mouth of the dwarf is so small, it sounds so different.
This is incredible, it’s like being trapped in some kind of blissful purgatorial time glitch where the past and the future exist concurrently in opposing but adjacent dimensions. Or something.
It's partially because it is an analog sound and video artifact. This footage never saw a zero/one binary system until it was digitized from the source. Every single bit of the equipment you see there is analog. Maybe the nostalgic dimension you perceive resonates because of the integrity of the analog recording, being filtered through a binary system. Either way, I agree...this performance is surreal. I keep stumbling back on this video year after year.
this is amazing. the piano hits hard. you can see Pete cracking a smile like he knows how amazing it is. and that blonde behind him cant stop smiling from the sounds
When I first saw this I thought it was from a David Lynch movie, the staging, the people (especially the lady with the red bouffant), their clothes, the camera angles, the performance, they couldn't be authentic...i was wrong.
Sounds wayy ahead of its time. I sometimes take for granted how special it is to be able to view these old recordings so easily its really something special.
Its sending me to space how far ahead of his time this guy is. No one would have any appreciation for this sound until 50 years later. This is a bop and groundbreaking as fuck
It is the calm of the age of innocence. Picture it, 1963, President Kennedy has great plans for America and its people and everyone is starting to get along and people respect each other...
What an essentially perfectly crafted song, brilliantly spread across each performer on the song. But that piano ... that piano ... listen to the whole thing again just focusing on that. It is utterly, phenomenally skillful piano playing technique.
Yeah, the piano is so on tempo and blending just right, with so much feel, and yet simple. It's just gorgeous playing. The backbone of the piece more than anything else, but modest about it. Brilliant.
I know. Everyone focuses on the sound box but the piano sounds the coolest to me. Unfortunately I don't think this is a live performance, unless this is the recording that they used for the single.
A rare footage of an extremely talented and creative musician, Pete Drake. Pete was a famous early user of "The Talk Box". His recordings of "Forever", Sleep Walk" and other Talk Box style recordings were of huge interest and intrigue to the masses due to the unusual sound not known before through-out the mid-sixties. He was mostly sought after as a highly regarded and respected studio musician and did not favour for being placed in front view attention during live performances. He deserves respect for being such a creative innovator. This video is a rare gem indeed to catch a glimpse of a great man whom played wonderful country/cross-over music. Thank you for posting!
Well said. His era was a wonderful time of innovation combined with superb musicianship, the likes of which we don't see today. To think, almost everything back then was done live, in real time, with all the musicians and singers in the studio together for each take-- amazing!
He is looking at us when he uses the talk box like, "are you seeing this shit? Its insane"
Hahaha
in the early 60s it probably was insane. there were people still alive who could recall the first implementations of early telephones in their communities. must have been truly something to behold the rapid advancement of voice technology in the 20th century.
@@SexyFace even when Peter Frampton made it famous people still were blown away about how his guitar could talk. I mean if I was in the audience this would blow my fucking mind.
Also fun fact the older talk boxes were notorious for damaging amplifiers and PA systems all the time so its no wonder that they weren’t used that often
It’s maybe looking stupid but at that time it was not so easy to perform on tu, and the rules where super strong 🙏🇧🇪
Well it looks and sounds pretty insane!
But how does it work?
What is even going on?
holy shit. This is so ahead of its time.
Ingenuine Galaxies a vocoderr
That the first thing that came to mind like there's somthing wrong with this vid its crazy
You should look up the theremin.
Expecially when you think about all the people who used this same technique of voice boxes on guitars and keyboards and shit like Rick James: Mary Jane or dire straights: mTV
I would like to heat it in some Philip K. Dick movie
This live version sounds 100% better than the studio recording
For real. I wish this version was on music streaming subs.
Agreed: The single is missing that beautiful tremolo guitar... Something about the jazzy Maj7th chords softly strummed and allowed to ring out in tremolo coupled with the dampened staccato piano notes creates an otherworldly, mellow showcase for Drake's lead melody.
This is a studio recording too. They're lip syncing
Yup, I looked for it on iTunes but they didn’t have this version. This is the best one, the vocals are so different.
I concur.
This is strangely retro and futuristic at the same time....incredible!
Retrofuturism! The aesthetic of what people in the past thought the future would be like.
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Both replies are accurate AF.
Who do you think dropped the bombs first? US, China, Russia or Vault-Tec?@@eight1021
The Backup Singer who looks like Conway Twitty is named Lin Brown and he sang with Sonny James for awhile. Almost swear that one guy on Guitar is the incomparable James Burton.🤔😉🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸B.W.
Sounds very much like a Country & Western version of The Fleetwoods. Especially the "Deep Space" style Harmonies and Keyboard Melody.🤔🎤🎹B.W.
the piano in this song hits hard
floyd cramers a goat
Floyd Cramer
YES
A bit of honky-tonk mixed with "A Summer's Place".
True
*"but your kids are gonna love it"*
Jajajajajajajjaaj
I got the Reference !! Marty Mcfly! Really ... this guy was a time traveler. He was ahead of his time ...
Macy!
"Peter! Peter! This is your cousin! You cousin! Marvin Frampton! You know that new sound you're looking for? Well listen to this!"
I like the Mac pic :)
I can picture this playing in an empty mall during the apocalypse
Which is coming real soon......
OmfgSheDead
Oh but imagine if you and the one you love dancing to this in an abandoned mall, with no one for miles ❤️❤️💕
Fallout 4?
I think of walking through the fields out in the country before it rains with my loved one
You mean now right? Lol the malls are empty
I cant stop listening to this, i wish the chorus lasted longer. Its so dreamy
“This is earth radio and now here’s… Human music“
Alfred The Great King Of Wessex “human music, I like it”
I love me some human music
That is a really creepy song.... if every sense of the word
Human music? I like it
I didn't want to change the amount of likes, but this was excellent reference lol
Hold me (hold me)
Kiss me (kiss me)
Whisper (whisper)
Sweetly (sweetly)
That you'll (that you'll)
Love me (love me)
Forever (forever)
x2
THANXS -avocado boy
@@girlgetbeautiful7637 "avacodo boy" you are not original
@@epicsex9072 learn English to know what i just did there.
but since you noticed how bout some recognition on the reference...
This song is how I imagine what my dog feels inside of it's head, as I stroke it's belly.
ha ha ha ha...yep!
Lol
lmfao
best laugh i had all day thanks
Best comment
The background singers were really feeling this joint
Theres something about this song, it somehow sounds so alien and yet so familiar at the same time. Its not timeless, it's beyond time.
@@onzah3515 love that yourself. Everyone choses what is alien themselves.
@@onzah3515 That Singularity song sounds like a generic dubstep song with common vocoder effected vocals... which isn't a bad thing, but I don't think it's comparable to this song from the early 60's. That said, it's AWESOME to be able to enjoy both :)
@@onzah3515 Here's my contribution to an "alien music" playlist though, if you're interested Onzah, haha...
ruclips.net/video/k-b-OJrRQxA/видео.html&ab_channel=AnimalCollective-Topic
@@onzah3515 get that shit out of here
It reminds me of modern day lo-fi
Nothing like a smooth talkin' robot to please a gal.
Reference?
Angel Gonzalez-Perez he’s talking about that fact that Pete sounds like a robot
Teddy! Is that you?
Definitely shorted in my circuits.
Lol....
This video is surreal.
Agreed! Beautiful song, I love it, and the old talk-box unit is really cool but . . .there is a slight nightmarish veil to the video! ;-) Probably because I watch a lot of mystery/suspense/horror shows and sometimes similar music is used. I'm thinking of that great X-Files episode, one of the best and most shocking/intense with the deformed inbred family that lived in a small town.
Haha, fo sho, David Lynch directed this i think
It would make a good Twilight Zone episode: a small town turns out for a concert by a country package tour that presents a big, lush, sound, featuring a talking steel guitar, completely without microphones or any sound system. Their hair is perfect and gleaming, and their outfits wrinkle-free. The next morning, news arrives that the entire ensemble died when their plane went down in a remote Saskatchewan lake hours before the show everyone saw.
Hank Tilbury
Lol good repurposing of the vibe
Yes
This is one of the songs that should've been on the golden record on Voyager 1 and 2. What an incredibly emotional song. Pete Drake was a legend.
Yeh I have the Voyager albums.
I disagree, we wouldn't want any space aliens to think we're more advanced than we actually are.
@@keefmeister77 aliens would think humans naturally sound like that (with the talking guitar), I feel a song like this on the record would throw them off
literally everyone in this video is an alien doing their best job to impersonate human behavior...
I think their on acid
They knew if they so much as blinked wrong they'd be called a communist and blacklisted.
Back then being recorded by a camera was kinda akward, so people didnt act normal... kinda weird
😄😂😀
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I imagine myself at the bottom of a old 60's motel pool somewhere outside of Las Vegas high on Quaaludes while this is playing in the background.
this is an underrated comment
How does this comment not have 1.k likes lol
Alex Johnson I was there in 1976 but it was a motel in LA .. can’t believe I’m still here to tell the tail
It's got a real Mad Men vibe
Lol yesss
This is the most magnificent thing I’ve ever heard. This man was ahead of his time, too early. This is a blend of beloved oldies mixed in with something that you hear every day, distorted or auto tuned voices. This is gold.
Benjiii finally a good comment! ppl are so damn ignorant now a days... i agree, this is great!!! reminds my of Sleep Walk
I love it, can't stop listening to it, it's a beautiful melody, voices, everything, it's perfect
@@eLzErRiO No one's being ignorant at all lmao, people are saying this is what heroin feels like. That's a compliment
harry c lmfaooo
I cried too bro
Pete Drake was playing pedal steel on George Harrison's album "All Things Must Pass" when he showed how his Talk Box worked to Peter Frampton, who was a friend of George's and was playing acoustic guitar on the session. Frampton was blown away by the sound and started using it in concert. He always thanks Pete Drake in interviews.
Yep, Peter refers to Pete Drake for being his inspiration. Haaaa both named Peter, weird haaaa
didn't joe walsh use a talk box before frampton ?
rocky mountain way -1973
show me the way- 1976
@@davediamond9436 You’re correct. Frampton evidently started experimenting with the talk box at Harrison’s 1970 sessions but didn’t record with it ‘til later (after Walsh).
The barnstorm album is a year or two earlier by Walsh. I wonder where he got it from
@@davediamond9436
Amazing story that ties so many things together. It makes so much sense once you say that
That piano player is killer
Can anyone name the piano player? some serious feel....
Seriously. I know the main focus is the talkbox steel guitar (which is great too) but yeah that piano playing is something else
@@maxmalmgren2480 floyd cramer i think, one of the greatest piano players of his generation. look up his songs last date, honey, rebound. YOu will see how amazing he is
Where is the piano player ?
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@@tomschaffner9704 he's the dude playing the piano
There's a dreamlike alternate timeline surrealism about this whole video that I just love.
This is so utterly beautiful and strange. I love everything about it, the tune, the performances, the filming, the colour, the lot. It looks like David Lynch took some tips from it. Ace.
This just took me back to the 60's. Weird because I was born in '88.
Lol I just watched blue velvet again today. Last winter I watched all twin peaks.
The guys in the vocal group are (L to R) Duane West, Lin Bown, Glenn Huggins and Gary Robble. This was probably 1963-64, when they were known as "The Chordsmen" and served as the Grand Ole Opry's house quartet. In August 1964 they joined Sonny James and became "The Southern Gentlemen". Over the next seven years Sonny reeled off 23 straight singles that hit #1 on either the Billboard, Cashbox or Record World country charts (16 in a row on Billboard alone).
On closer examination, that's not Glenn Huggins (bass singer of the Southern Gentlemen) third from the left. It's Ray Walker, bass singer of the Jordanaires. Ray was close to The Gents at the time. This may be shortly after they joined Sonny James, as Glenn did not tour with Sonny until sometime later.
Bro was the fucking Drake of his time (Drake like Aubrey Graham not Pete Drake)
Thank you so very much for this info. i have been searching for this info for 2 days now
I agree with the time line. All the guy are wearing the proto-punk ducktails. This hairstyle gave way to the Beatles and longer hair, combed or uncombed. :)
wow, thanks for the info. do you know what show this was from?
Everybody gangsta till Pete Drake speaks enchantment table.
I did not expect to see such a meme on something like this... nice👌
Blake Irvine thank you :)
😂😂😂
Hahaha exactly
@@blakeirvine425 This is the last place I'd expect this meme to end up in
Directed by David Lynch
Haha
33Ddg209Ret7 This is PERFECT for a TV series...you are a genius...
Thought the same thing.
@@elis1716 Yeah, very evocative. Keep it up, 33.
Playing every other Saturday at The Bang Bang Bar.
Love the old American traditional wear. Man we need to bring that back!
I remember this from so many years ago. My dad really liked country music and every Saturday night we watched country music on t.v.. i miss him and our family so much.
“it may not mean nothing to y’all, but understand nothing was done for me. me and my steel guitar, and it and I are singing forever” - Pete Drake ‘Forever’
This should be in a Fallout game.
I was just imagining coming across this scene outside New Vegas.
Imagine this blasting out of your pip boy while killing feral ghouls with your npc companion 🤔
@@Davide0660 yes
Dang they need to continue the story screw this new one they put out
J. Valencia foreal 76 was eh, feel like fallout 3 and new Vegas were the best ones
That was pretty cool.... RUclips is the repository of our vintage culture and it's wonderful we can call it up any time we feel inspired.
And the comments section, generally speaking, is the suppository of our culture, vintage or otherwise.
Let's give a shout-out to everyone who saved this stuff. Without them, this clip would have been forgotten and never seen again.
Makes me sad how beautiful the culture was.... And how awful and nasty it is now... 😭
@@TheWTFMatt There's good and bad in each era. Today there is still amazing music and there are still amazing people doing rad things. Back then there were rad things like this, but you also had Jim Crow and stuff like that. Awful and nasty and beautiful all exist in our era and in that era.
The piano fill at 2:00 makes me melt every time
It's actually a guitar singing through a talking human. The guitar is a living, breathing, organism and it is holding all of them hostage.
I'll take whatever you're smoking
forever
69th like
That’s why the blonde is signaling for help in morse
im so glad that's cleared up the confusion i was feeling im glad there is a logical explanation for that guy sticking a plastic pipe in his mouth like that i thought for a minute he would suck up some pepsi cola from that box.
Beautiful
Why does Pete Drake look like he'd be ReviewBrahs father
NotUrWorldFromNow A.D because he is. Look it up
none of your business I couldn’t find anything but they absolutely look related
LMFAO 💀
Because Suits
Hahahaha he's review brah before the upgrade.
Came from a meme now can’t stop listening 🥺
Bone Steak iFunny
Bone Steak just saw it bro this is so smooth
What was it?
Bone Steak - Was it the “Autotune was invented in 1998......People before 1998:”
Lorenzo yes😳 saw it like 2 minutes ago
Yeah the steel guitar talkbox sounds amazing but can we talk about how beautiful that vocal harmony is in the bridge 🥲 1:42
Yes! The Anita Kerr Singers. They recorded the original version of this tune in 1960 under the name The Little Dippers and it was a hit record for them. It's on RUclips and has a nearly identical vocal arrangement. They did the bumper music for WLS radio in the 1960s, which was where I first heard them.
This sounds like a motif from Gone With the Wind, maybe it's a homage in some way
Unless they were lip synching to the Anita Kerr singers the gentlemen here are some of Sonny James Southern Gentlemen. I'm not sure of the lady singer. I watched this movie and Sonny performs in it also and they are introduced as Sonny's Southern Gentlemen. The lady singer could be one of Anita Kerr's.
I also understand many of the performances in the movie were lip synced so who knows.
*this creeps me out but i love it, feelings like this they dont teach us.*
Muse Ik why does it creep you out? Lol this is sick dude
Creepy? You must get terrified easily.
It can be, cause whole scene is very well directed. Every actor is doing exactly his work. They worked with musicians and made them look perfectly. Qualified quality.
I also said i *love* it.
Feelings aren’t taught, they are experienced.
I'm stunned reading the negative comments on this link. This is not only a beautiful tune it's also an innovation of monstrous bounds. Addicted to this
BaronVonPenguin thank you!
Absolutely 100% sweet song
what year was this from? and did you know that they went on to do more on the talk-box to regular electric guitar with Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton. look for it on here.
Possible to buy CD of the song "Forever"- by Pete Drake and his talking guitar?
BaronVonPenguin If it isn’t to someone’s liking, perhaps they just move on, but the internet gives morons an anonymous place to vet their pent up anger. Really is a shame and really shows the maturity of the human race.
2020: Autotune
1950's: talking steel guitar
Ok boomer. Autotune was 2008. 2020 is gonna be all about hiding the licc in every song you write
Nah this is vocoding.
Jack Cramer Not quite. This was an early instance of a voice box, where a performer can modify the instrument’s sound by simply shaping their mouths into syllables, and that combination is fed back into the microphone. A vocoder relies entirely on a performer’s actual voice, hence the word itself (“voice” and “encoder”)
Holy Heyoka As in the video’s title, it’s a pedal steel guitar.
Holy Heyoka ?? You could’ve specified, but ok.
Takes me back to summer of 95 when i stayed with my grandparents in Utah. Grandpa gave me a cassette tape he mixed with music like this. This song, Remington Ride and Sleep Walk were my favorites. Sadly he passed this year at the age of 87. Thank you internet for keeping precious memories only a click away.
bro i'm from utah too
@frwystr Born in Layton, lived in Clearfield, then when my parents split moved around alot. Utah has always been home for me
the blonde is tapping out, "Help" in morse code.
0:18 guy on the left front his hand has lost all sense of rhythm, time and space for a full 10 seconds LOL
1:56 totally. I think she spelled out T O R T U R E
@GEEz NUTz ASMR she's been up for a week and has consumed nothing but diet pills and 3 cases of Tab
@@MissRandomComment - There, lost my shit.
@@tkgawa Same, now thanks to your comment I get to relive crying in hyperventilation all over again XD
Pete Drake met Peter Frampton while he was recording parts for George Harrison's All Things Must Pass in 1970 and Frampton was so enamored with Drake's music that he gave him one of his own talk boxes. The rest is history.
Jeff Beck used one too, live, back in the 70s.
Those talk boxes required that you tie its tube to a microphone. The one that Pete Drake is using has no Mic. How does that work?
i wondered who did it first; was going to research but i'll take your word on it. Passing strange music!
Lol, this is a joke people. This talk box obviously pre-dates Frampton’s. “Forever” was recorded in 1964. All Things Must Pass in 1970. Pete Drake was the person who introduced Frampton to the talk box during some sessions.
@@headly21 Uses the guitar's pick-up instead of a microphone.
This song is so far ahead of its time what a genius
This is probably the most beautiful song that I hate listening to the most. The way it's put together is magnificent, but it just gives me this underlying feeling of an end. Like this is the conclusion to something huge, and it's to be enjoyed one more time before it's gone forever.
It does give that vibe doesn't it. That's why we gotta remember the oldie but goodies, some of em got a sort of timeless vibe to them in my opinion.
I don't get any uncomfortable vibes from this song, I find it incredibly beautiful. The singing reminds me of Daft Punk.
Absolutely different vibes come from Pete's singing and other's
Modern media has made a very strong effort to alianate us from our cultural roots. Twerking and multiculturalism is the norm. Respectful conservative culture is alien and scary now.
If you like this check out “Hello Walls” by Willie Nelson where he records with him. There’s 2 versions but one of them you can definitely tell that it’s this guy.
@@user-rd4cd7ph7x exactly, go watch a 21st century humor video and think of how people in the 1800s would react
It's like they're all being held at gunpoint and I love it
This song should have been on a Taratino soundtrack
There's nothing to say it won't yet someday be on one.
Vic Vinegar sadly there is, Tarantino has retired from directing movies.
Or David Lynch
@@timmcdonald958 he said 1 more no? LOL like he always does
Who?
*"Hold me"*
_"hold me"_
*"Kiss me"*
_"kiss me"_
*"Whisper"*
_"whisper"_
*"Sweetly"*
_"sweetly"_
*"Bet you"*
_"help you"_
*"Kill me"*
_"help me"_
*"Forever"*
_"Forever"_
@plnkfloydian i believe its a joke
@plnkfloydian
Well ya see there bud, that there is a small amount of humour taken in by way of what might be called a 'phonetic artefact'. Ya see now, our fella here is talking into a make-shift talk box and thereby is forming words by way of some fair obstruction. This has a noticeable affect on the clarity of his pronunciation, adding some ambiguity to bilabial, labio-dental, and dental sounds. Thereby, also obfuscating those sounds that would be formed further back now. So there you have it bud. No psychopathy involved. Or should I say 'Gno gykobaty inbwlbet'.
To be fair though, Pete does a stand out job of getting some clarity out of that - it's a hard ask to say the least.
But eh, you'd better not be cheesing me there buddy - 'cus I'm fair sure you'd a got me a good'n.
@@nithingr4359 nice
@@nithingr4359 Love your argument.
@plnkfloydian fyi his argument is completely invalid but it sounds smart- he's saying it's hard to tell what Pete is saying
Wow... just wow... rest in peace all these beautiful people.
RIP Forever
Maybe not in 2024. 1964ish. 20yr olds be 80s.
I was 9 when this song came out in 1964. @@tomhowe1510
This is so set in its time yet its a hundred years ahead of everything else. So atmospheric. A sound I only ever credit to certain techno and dnb artist.
I'm blown away
I heard nof toger and tpain
That. Piano is hitting the sweet spot for me
the type of song that would be playing in an empty 50's diner as you are looting the building in a suit and radiation mask after a nuclear apocalypse
Fallout
I was questioning myself how no one heres said something bout this song and fallout xd till i found you
Black ops 2 zombies? 😳
I understood that reference
Musically, nothing can really touch old love songs. The vibe they give, the melody touches your soul
The workings of a talk-box FYI :
The guitar signal is split 2 ways. One going to the amp as usual. The other goes into the talkbox. Inside the talkbox , is a small speaker. The guitar sound travels up the tube and bounces around inside your mouth. It is then picked up by the microphone there for the vocals. By “shaping” the words in your mouth , the sound of the guitar becomes part of your voice. Play a song on your cell phone , stick the speaker end in you mouth and make the oooo and ahhh shape. You’ll get the idea..
Where is the microphone that picks up the sound after it's been into the mouth? Inside the talk box?
I wondered the same thing. I know how the talk box works, so there’s gotta be a microphone hidden somewhere. Maybe a primitive lapel mic, or a boom mic above camera-view...or this could all be lip-synced. Which was/is common practice for television.
your the man
no. inside the talk box is a little dwarf. the tube goes direct into the ear of the dwarf. the dwarf has a little mic in his hands and talks what he hears into the mic. because the mouth of the dwarf is so small, it sounds so different.
Much easier if you just use the fan method😂
Takes you away to a time with no corona.
I kinda prefer corona over the cold war's nuclear threat
@@rickyspanish4792 nah the cold war nuclear threat is a way better time
Ricky Spanish that threat is very much still alive man
Space Racer26 nah we chillin
Ricky Spanish 🤣
This is a great, great memory from my high school days in the very underrated music of the early 60's. Anyway a happy golden memory.
When the instrumental break starts, I love how the piano player switches from playing staccato chords to something that rolls with a New Orleans feel
This is incredible, it’s like being trapped in some kind of blissful purgatorial time glitch where the past and the future exist concurrently in opposing but adjacent dimensions. Or something.
I totally get this and I feel the same way watching and listening to this its almost magical, so glad somebody felt the same!
It almost feels as if your high on bath salts while trying to jerk yourself off but you keep bleeding from your anus. #timeless
Rick and morty
Time is a circle?
It's partially because it is an analog sound and video artifact. This footage never saw a zero/one binary system until it was digitized from the source. Every single bit of the equipment you see there is analog. Maybe the nostalgic dimension you perceive resonates because of the integrity of the analog recording, being filtered through a binary system. Either way, I agree...this performance is surreal. I keep stumbling back on this video year after year.
Love the way he lays back on the talk box lines (plays/sings behind the beat on purpose). And that is the PERFECT use of tremolo on the guitar!
this is amazing. the piano hits hard. you can see Pete cracking a smile like he knows how amazing it is. and that blonde behind him cant stop smiling from the sounds
This song makes me want to die of old age
Like right now haha?
@@MegaBanne No !
Yesterday !
Ok boomer
The greatest comeback I've heard in a 'long' time.
This song makes me feel like I am dying of old age.
The pianist is in their feels
glad to see my great great uncle an the orginal rock n roll
+Cory Drake your great great uncle is an icon of the pedal steel guitar, you can be proud of him...
Thank you man I'm really proud to share this with the world
+Cory Drake - Is he the one who did the talking steel version of "Hello Walls"? I remember this from my youth, but cannot find it on RUclips...
Yes he is an thank you
Are you half as talented as your great uncle? If so, you could have a great career!
Really amazing tune! Few other songs reach this level of softness and beauty.
These old TV performances, especially this one, were so surreal and Lynchian and it's an aesthetic I live for
When I first saw this I thought it was from a David Lynch movie, the staging, the people (especially the lady with the red bouffant), their clothes, the camera angles, the performance, they couldn't be authentic...i was wrong.
This shit fucking slapps. Gonna be bumping this in my ride for a while.
Sounds wayy ahead of its time. I sometimes take for granted how special it is to be able to view these old recordings so easily its really something special.
Its sending me to space how far ahead of his time this guy is. No one would have any appreciation for this sound until 50 years later. This is a bop and groundbreaking as fuck
bruh, this song was #25 on the top 100 charts in 1964. They also appreciated it back then.
This is literally the most beautiful vibe I have ever felt ❤
Try listening Between The Cheats by Amy Winehouse
@@dantesanchez2491 I tried. I've heard cats fighting in the alley that sounded better.
From the time when background singers were chosen for their voices.
Are they not anymore?
Aaro Perämaa he just means they’re ugly
@@noxim_ Often they are selected for their looks and or ability to dance while singing. Depends on the group doing the hiring.
@@alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838 No, he means they were chosen based on their talent unlike other times when they are not.
@@GetUpTheMountains true guitar players use to be more famous nack then but no anymkre
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Thank you who ever wrote it .
I feel a deep connection to this song.I really dont know why but it makes me feel weird.Anyone got more songs that can make me feel this feeling.
Kai same
It is the calm of the age of innocence. Picture it, 1963, President Kennedy has great plans for America and its people and everyone is starting to get along and people respect each other...
Hey me too Kia! Kinda nostalgic in a daja vu" way of sorts...
on repeat, forever
Sleepwalk - The Ventures
What an essentially perfectly crafted song, brilliantly spread across each performer on the song.
But that piano ... that piano ... listen to the whole thing again just focusing on that. It is utterly, phenomenally skillful piano playing technique.
thanks for pointing that out. will pay attention next time.
Yeah, the piano is so on tempo and blending just right, with so much feel, and yet simple. It's just gorgeous playing. The backbone of the piece more than anything else, but modest about it. Brilliant.
@@barryschwarz Sounds so much like Floyd Cramer!
I know. Everyone focuses on the sound box but the piano sounds the coolest to me. Unfortunately I don't think this is a live performance, unless this is the recording that they used for the single.
@@billtonystewart2558 Yeah, it is Floyd Cramer.
i love this song 2020 33 years old living in England pissed out my head wishing todays music was even half as good as the 50s 60s and 70s
This is one of those gems folks. No matter when you hear it, it stands out from everything else entirely
i bet this is what heaven sounds like
In the 1970s Peter Frampton said, “this is a great idea”.
In the 2010s every pop, R&B, and rap artist said, “this is a great idea”.
In the 1980s Roger Troutman and Zapp!
Dont forget about Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way !
@@darrylcole5575 "uh oh here comes a flock of waa-waas" gets me every time
Pete Drake gave Frampton one of his talk boxes after Frampton heard him use it between takes at a George Harrison recording session.
One of the many uses for old catheter tubes.
God dammit.
Hey man, nice shot!
Ha ha ha. Whats that pissy waft?
Great artist, great song and Pete Drake was way ahead of its time. Much respect for Pete Drake!
First time I heard this I was hooked. Can’t explain it.
I can’t even express how special the place in my heart is for this song.
there will never be a song more beautiful than this
This is so wholesome and nice.
I actually think this is a really cool sound! Props to this guy for being so ahead of his time
I've smoked enough for the night; take us on home, Mr. Drake. Take us on home...
Amen
😂 That's what I thought too 😂
I wish I was 24 in the 60s and got to experience this completely unique time period
smokingterd53 especially if you were black or a woman :)
no it would be more of HELLO VEITNAM
I can't believe this exists! and how cool to come across it by accident.
This is how I imagine what heroin feels like
LOL
not to far off
I'll stick with this 😂
It is
Pretty much
Who your grandma thinks you're talking about when you say you listen to Drake
Its the only Drake that matters
Grandma would be right then.
this is the greatest song discovery ive made this year, what an incredible piece!!!
One of the most relaxing songs I've ever heard
A rare footage of an extremely talented and creative musician, Pete Drake. Pete was a famous early user of "The Talk Box". His recordings of "Forever", Sleep Walk" and other Talk Box style recordings were of huge interest and intrigue to the masses due to the unusual sound not known before through-out the mid-sixties. He was mostly sought after as a highly regarded and respected studio musician and did not favour for being placed in front view attention during live performances. He deserves respect for being such a creative innovator. This video is a rare gem indeed to catch a glimpse of a great man whom played wonderful country/cross-over music. Thank you for posting!
thanks for the info! you can see at the end, he is abashed by the situation...can't wait to get away! looks like a decent guy
well said!
Well said. His era was a wonderful time of innovation combined with superb musicianship, the likes of which we don't see today. To think, almost everything back then was done live, in real time, with all the musicians and singers in the studio together for each take-- amazing!
Way ahead of its time and still just as beautiful ❤ Pete Drake was quite the pioneer
There's so many people in this video, and that's what makes it so damn unique. It all comes together in this beautiful way.....
Where have these type of songs gone nowadays. Awesome song! Wheres my time machine.
This song is good, but also, this song gives me an eerie feeling.
This is beautiful music. Wow
I come back to this all the time
This was so unsettling yet so good at the same time
Los Angeles funk came from this? Damnnnn....... way ahead of its time. Zap and Roger....
I was looking for a comment about Roger and Zapp...
Radio People!
do wah ditty!