Bob Crew admitted in an interview that this recording came about because he heard the Pepsi ad this song was written for and felt there was a hit record in it! Of course he was right! it sounds Tijuana brass meets James bond with a bit of the tenor sax solo from the middle section of the pink panther theme. Think about it, you will hear it.
Chris, the instrumental was released in Dec. 1966. Andy's version hit #34 on the Apr. 22 chart, so only 2 1/2 months after the instrumental peak and four months after its release. IOW, Andy Williams capitalized on the song's popularity to release his own vocal version soon after The Bob Crewe Generation original.
I'm 63 years old, and this is my favorite instrumental song. I love the way it invokes the allure and glamour of James Bond and the Riviera and the international jet set of the 60s. The counter-melody that comes in in the second verse is beautifully haunting
My aunt Ada who was the sister of my aunt Lilia who was married to my uncle was a swinger in the 1960s in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era! 😊
I’m 64 and this is one song that when heard instantly puts me back in San Francisco in 1965 as a five year old hearing it on the radio in my parents ‘57 Cadillac.
I am Russian and I am 64 years old. I have loved this melody since childhood. It has notes of sadness and tenderness at the same time... and some unique charm of the 1960s
@@sergeykazantsev4324 I think there is something Russian--or Eastern European or Slavic about this melody. It strikes a melody within me. Similar to Подмоско́вные вечера́ (Midnight in Moscow). Maybe that's it. What do you think?
I'm only 64, but I do have some memories of hearing this instrumental classic as a kid. It certainly has to qualify as one of those tunes that helped define the 1960's musically.
Wonder if it's possible to "reminisce" on a time before you were born? I'm 20, but I can just picture listening to this music if it were the '60s. Why can't we have music and stuff like the old days? Wish I could have lived through the time myself instead of just seeing it in photos and videos...
Takes me back to going to New Orleans City Park back in the early 70s on a Friday afternoon with my grandma and grandpa and they were playing this on the radio.
Gush! I've got goosebumps just from listening to this music again. It used to be popular back in the late 60's when I grew up so its sexy, melancholic waviness stuck to my mind forever. As life went on and years passed by it disappeared from the charts and apparently many in my generation were too young to remember it but I always did. So for many years it layed doormant in my mind until in the past 5 years I heard it a couple of times in an oldies radio station but the hosts never mentioned the title to it. So in 2014 my friends and I got together at their place and began playing oldies on their giant tv screen. I found some by Andy Williams and amazingly and without much fuss I picked one off the list and there he played my song... I couldn't believe it after more than 40 years I finally knew the title to one of my favorite soundtracks ever! Thanks to technology and RUclips! :) Music is like the sense of smell because it can bring back memories as vividly as if they happened yesterday. Videos and pictures don't do the trick because they miss the feelings and nuances that music can bring up in you. And this sountrack reminds me of the stability, prosperity, and social sophistication of my childhood in a great decade but at the same, time as an adult, it makes me feel like having a pina colada by the pool under a deep blue sky... Thanks for sharing!
Great memories. Song came out when I was 12 and was a favorite. I'd forgotten the 007 style chords in the song. Still great to hear after all the years.
That is great ! I love, ( and miss ) the sound of those little transistor radios we carried everywhere ! And a lot of the records DID sound better on them ! I play some all the time, and listen, and think, geeez, this just does not sound right!!!
The tops in sophisticated adult pop music of the 60's....I was grooved by this at the age of 15, and it gave me images of a slick night out having a Playboy Bunnie on each arm sauntering with them down 5th Ave heading to a bachelor pad for some very good times.....ah, what a feeling of the times!
Love this song. My dogs just chewed up my 45 of this :( Didn't know he was up in Maine in a nursing home, not far from where my relatives live). He was brilliant.
Absolutely love the instrumental sound of the 60s. I've always felt these type of songs, including herb alpert and the Tijuana brass, in my very core. Gives me a solid sense of happiness.
In 1966 I was 3 yrs. old and I still remember this song was playing in every grocery store, department store and elevator my Mom took me in. Hearing it makes me happy and sad at the same time...I miss you Mom.
The great Sid Ramin who wrote the original "Music To Watch Girls By" for Diet Pepsi passed away 7/5/2019 at 100 years of age. I had the very good fortune to have been the producer of that "Girlwatcher" music session and the engineer? Phil Ramone, another legend at his A&R Studios over Jim & Andy's Bar. What a great time to have been working on Madison Avenue in the 1960's.
@TBCSTARS Man....picture tooling down a California highway in an Austin Healy. The sun is shining and you are with this person who really turns you on and you just drive on and on into the Golden California sunset.....I DID THIS and man, it was unreal. Feels like a dream now. Whenever I hear this I think of my Healy and that georgous guy with his hand on my knee and my hair blowing back like crazy. What a time I had when I was young and hot!
Meanwhile, I like imagining The Milwaukee Road's westbound Afternoon Hiawatha from Chicago to the Twin Cities on a summer's afternoon segueing into evening passing through the Driftless Plain of western Wisconsin (roughly from Portage/Wisconsin Dells to LaCrosse) on hearing this. Still managing to go strong, right down to the Super Dome and the Skytop Lounge observation car such as made the train distinctively Milwaukee Road in its own way.
Given there are no lyrics, how does that work? What app lets you search that way? I can't carry a tune worth a darn but would still like to know. Thanks for your consideration!
For those not familiar, this is the same man who produced and wrote or co-wrote many songs for Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons! Very talented man all around!
@rbvo They were both USA hit recordings in 1967 but I agree Bob`s hit single was released 7 weeks before Andy`s vocal hit version . You could argue that Bob`s instrumental wasnt strictly the original as it was apparently based on a Diet Pepsi jingle composed by Sid Ramin.
I beg to differ with the comment posted. The Bob Crewe Generation's version of this song was the hit version. Andy Williams did a cover of the Bob Crewe Generation's instrumental original.
And Williams's version added extra, new music for putting in the phrase "Each time you hear a loud, collective sigh," making the melody a bit longer at the end.
I think it's really cool that the video accompanying this song shows the different styles of those paper sleeves that those old 45 R.P.M. records used to to be sold in. I remember those records. I used to have a big collection of them, along with an even bigger collection of the 33 1/3 L.P.s, plus a lot of cassette tapes and some C.D.s, V.H.S. videos, and D.V.D.s. But, the records, with the colorful sleeves that they came in, were my favorites. Boy, do I miss them (I lost them all when our house was foreclosed on). I also miss the old record stores that used to sell them. They may seem old-fashioned by today's standards, but at least they had real style and character, and the music didn't sound like it was composed by a computer. I know this sounds like a cliche, but those were the good old days. It's too bad that today's generation, raised on digitalized music, do not or cannot know the joys of the music I used to know. A lot of them have probably never heard of vinyl records. Several years ago, I read a letter to the editor in a newspaper by someone who was most probably of my generation or older. This fellow, it seems, had visited a flea market where he found some old long-playing records for sale. He then asked a salesgirl, who apparently was decades younger than he was, if the market was also selling any "45s" as well, to which the girl, who obviously wasn't too bright, replied "No sir, we don't sell guns here." Get the picture?
LOL... sad, but TRUE ! I was playing 45's at one of our shows, and a boy's Grandmother brought him by my table, to show him, "This is what WE played, for music as children" .. As I was spinning on the turntable...To which, he watched me flip one over, and he remarked..."You mean, they played on BOTH sides???" LOL.. a moment in time, I will never forget !
I had just come to the US in 1967 and I very fondly remember listening to this song at my Grandparents house. I couldn't wait to hear it on the radio and It brings back such wonderful memories ♥ 💖 ❤
Heh. "Instrumental cover of the Andy Williams hit" suggests that this version came later. The Williams recording was later (1967 I think). Not sure whether the words were written when the music was, or later for a vocal version.
@smwca, I think everyone who heard this, thought the same. What a wonderful surprise, huh? We all know Herb & the TJ Brass rocked it, which is why "we" wen't there. And I just got an idea! I plan on contacting our "local" radio station, that plays everything from early Motown, to 90's, to bring this back. Anyone else on board? Greater Los Angeles, and... I only say "Greater" because that is how this region is referred to as by, in general. With that being said, I will very strongly bite my tongue.
Remembered fondly as a child, when music WAS music...& yes sounds like Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass.....RIP Bob....( I'm going to listen to Herbs cover now )
Such a wonderful song. I had my transistor radio 2nd grade just always listening I remember this one very well. Always asking my brother for a quarter to buy 9 volt batteries. The 60s were a living music heaven.
Actually originally written and aired as a Diet Pepsi jingle by Sid Ramin who died 2 days ago. RIP Mr. Ramin went on to win many awards for Broadway and Movies including several songs for the original West Side Story. and Gypsy.
Jack Wells I remember this tune being played on Polish radio station when I was a kid as well. I have lost a track of it( didn`t know the title or composers name). I found it today after 50 some years! We are blessed to have RUclips, along with all these wonderful gems!
Started whistling this at work yesterday. I was in kindergarten when this came out(4yrs old). Didn't know for sure what the Title was but thanks to youtube....Man ! The 60's.
I knew he was famous for this tune (AKA Diet Pepsi back in the '60's--yes, I was alive) but I never realized all the hit music he had written for others. RIP BC.
This statement got my attention, specially the Date.... I thought you were a Time traveler!... Traveled back in time to Deliver the news... In these days Who knows who is among Us...Whoah!!
Describing the 60's is a lot like this video...Its seems hazy and all over the place, unlike today with all of its "order" I remember reading about a book about some teens that wanted to rock stars and its was like a dream. That is what the 60's were like (Though I only saw the late 60's, lucidly :-)
MrMotownmanny...........Which "Generation" came first: The Bob Crewe Generation or the Pepsi Generation? They must have made a deal on the use of "Generation", since Pepsi paid Crewe big $$$ to use his music in their commercials?? 4-3-18
Ahhhhhh yes! When men could look at women in mini skirts on the streets and looking at them in bikinis in the 1960s before woke culture and cancel culture and women's lib. I grew up in that era in NYC. .. n
Bob Crew admitted in an interview that this recording came about because he heard the Pepsi ad this song was written for and felt there was a hit record in it! Of course he was right! it sounds Tijuana brass meets James bond with a bit of the tenor sax solo from the middle section of the pink panther theme. Think about it, you will hear it.
Precisely
You are right. The MAIN thing though I hear in this is Tijuana Brass.
spot on
Absolutely!
Yes!
This is not a "cover of the Andy Williams hit." This is the original. Andy Williams had the cover hit.
You're right this was a whole year before Andy Williams.
I should think so. Both great records
Chris, the instrumental was released in Dec. 1966. Andy's version hit #34 on the Apr. 22 chart, so only 2 1/2 months after the instrumental peak and four months after its release. IOW, Andy Williams capitalized on the song's popularity to release his own vocal version soon after The Bob Crewe Generation original.
@@cmulwee001 i remember the original very well.... everyone went crazy over the instrumental........ i don't even remember the andy williams version
@@waynesmith9162 I remember this song from the around 1st or 2nd grade. Instrumentals were big then in the 60's. Herb Albert was everywhere.
Heard this on XM radio today, haven’t heard it since 1966, brought me right back to the 13 year old kid that I was at the time of it’s release
I'm 63 years old, and this is my favorite instrumental song. I love the way it invokes the allure and glamour of James Bond and the Riviera and the international jet set of the 60s. The counter-melody that comes in in the second verse is beautifully haunting
My aunt Ada who was the sister of my aunt Lilia who was married to my uncle was a swinger in the 1960s in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era! 😊
I’m 64 and this is one song that when heard instantly puts me back in San Francisco in 1965 as a five year old hearing it on the radio in my parents ‘57 Cadillac.
I am Russian and I am 64 years old. I have loved this melody since childhood. It has notes of sadness and tenderness at the same time... and some unique charm of the 1960s
@@sergeykazantsev4324 I think there is something Russian--or Eastern European or Slavic about this melody. It strikes a melody within me. Similar to Подмоско́вные вечера́ (Midnight in Moscow). Maybe that's it. What do you think?
I'm only 64, but I do have some memories of hearing this instrumental classic as a kid. It certainly has to qualify as one of those tunes that helped define the 1960's musically.
It sounds like Herb 🌿 Alpert and the Tijuana Brass! Blessings and Hugs 💖🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏!
Huge Andy Williams fan and I also love this version of his hit. The 1960s was the Golden Age of trumpet instrumentals.
A few great flute solos, too.
Wonder if it's possible to "reminisce" on a time before you were born? I'm 20, but I can just picture listening to this music if it were the '60s. Why can't we have music and stuff like the old days? Wish I could have lived through the time myself instead of just seeing it in photos and videos...
Takes me back to going to New Orleans City Park back in the early 70s on a Friday afternoon with my grandma and grandpa and they were playing this on the radio.
Gush! I've got goosebumps just from listening to this music again. It used to be popular back in the late 60's when I grew up so its sexy, melancholic waviness stuck to my mind forever. As life went on and years passed by it disappeared from the charts and apparently many in my generation were too young to remember it but I always did. So for many years it layed doormant in my mind until in the past 5 years I heard it a couple of times in an oldies radio station but the hosts never mentioned the title to it. So in 2014 my friends and I got together at their place and began playing oldies on their giant tv screen. I found some by Andy Williams and amazingly and without much fuss I picked one off the list and there he played my song... I couldn't believe it after more than 40 years I finally knew the title to one of my favorite soundtracks ever! Thanks to technology and RUclips! :) Music is like the sense of smell because it can bring back memories as vividly as if they happened yesterday. Videos and pictures don't do the trick because they miss the feelings and nuances that music can bring up in you. And this sountrack reminds me of the stability, prosperity, and social sophistication of my childhood in a great decade but at the same, time as an adult, it makes me feel like having a pina colada by the pool under a deep blue sky... Thanks for sharing!
Au Siz ... Very Well Put
This music is still alive and so are you'
Great memories. Song came out when I was 12 and was a favorite. I'd forgotten the 007 style chords in the song. Still great to hear after all the years.
This really brings back the 60's for me. Great sounding video! I still have about 1200 45's and many are from the 60's.
Didn't his wife shoot some guy to death?
Paul B ....Skier Spider Sabich...Not Sure Last Name Is Spelled Right...Playboy
This one is an original. Andy Williams composed the lyrics and recorded hit cover. I was looking for this one for 50 years and found it today!
I can't begin to express how much I have always loved this song
Real music
Bob Crewe appears as a major supporting character in the film "Jersey Boys." He had a golden ear.
This brings back memories.
just another example of why the greatest musical decade, is, the 60's
Inclined to agree but I have to add the first 5 years of the 70's.
Agreed
Dig it. And I'm only in my mid/ late 50's. I'm the youngest of 5 and the radio was huge growing up. Especially AM.
Yes ! Carrying around those little transistor radio's everywhere ! ! !
That is great ! I love, ( and miss ) the sound of those little transistor
radios we carried everywhere ! And a lot of the records DID sound better on them ! I play some all the time, and listen, and think, geeez,
this just does not sound right!!!
This one reminds me of why it was cool to be cool.
This and Andy Williams' version are good. I have the 45 of this version.
Мне 64 года и эту мелодию я люблю с детства. В ней есть нотки и грусти, и нежности одновременно... и некоего неповторимого шарма 1960-х
The tops in sophisticated adult pop music of the 60's....I was grooved by this at the age of 15, and it gave me images of a slick night out having a Playboy Bunnie on each arm sauntering with them down 5th Ave heading to a bachelor pad for some very good times.....ah, what a feeling of the times!
Love this song. My dogs just chewed up my 45 of this :( Didn't know he was up in Maine in a nursing home, not far from where my relatives live). He was brilliant.
The dog?
How did this slip by the James Bond movies??
+The Perfect Autumn, agreed! 1966, too. Between "Thunderball" and "You Only Live Twice," there was time for it to be in a 007 picture. What a classic.
I know. It would've been perfect. Good driving scene music.
Very good point !
007 in “The Love I Lost”. That would work and this song could have been used.
Love Going back to the 60's listening to great music and daydreaming about yesterday.
Absolutely love the instrumental sound of the 60s. I've always felt these type of songs, including herb alpert and the Tijuana brass, in my very core. Gives me a solid sense of happiness.
A mí también me gusta mucho esta melodía y la recuerdo desde que era un crío. Hace poco la escuché en un comercial de TV.
In 1966 I was 3 yrs. old and I still remember this song was playing in every grocery store, department store and elevator my Mom took me in. Hearing it makes me happy and sad at the same time...I miss you Mom.
ditto
The great Sid Ramin who wrote the original "Music To Watch Girls By" for Diet Pepsi passed away 7/5/2019 at 100 years of age. I had the very good fortune to have been the producer of that "Girlwatcher" music session and the engineer? Phil Ramone, another legend at his A&R Studios over Jim & Andy's Bar. What a great time to have been working on Madison Avenue in the 1960's.
That's amazing! What stories you must have!
@TBCSTARS Man....picture tooling down a California highway in an Austin Healy. The sun is shining and you are with this person who really turns you on and you just drive on and on into the Golden California sunset.....I DID THIS and man, it was unreal. Feels like a dream now. Whenever I hear this I think of my Healy and that georgous guy with his hand on my knee and my hair blowing back like crazy. What a time I had when I was young and hot!
Meanwhile, I like imagining The Milwaukee Road's westbound Afternoon Hiawatha from Chicago to the Twin Cities on a summer's afternoon segueing into evening passing through the Driftless Plain of western Wisconsin (roughly from Portage/Wisconsin Dells to LaCrosse) on hearing this.
Still managing to go strong, right down to the Super Dome and the Skytop Lounge observation car such as made the train distinctively Milwaukee Road in its own way.
This is one of those "stays in your mind all day over and over" songs....
yes Andy's version was done after words were added to it in March of 67. Bob Crewe took a Diet Pepsi jingle and made this song out of it , he wrote it
For years I had this song stuck in my head but didn't know the title I sung it to my phone and here I am
Me too same here!
Given there are no lyrics, how does that work? What app lets you search that way? I can't carry a tune worth a darn but would still like to know.
Thanks for your consideration!
When I was a kid, I thought that this was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass!
I couldn't find this song for years, I was sure it was Herb.
Excellent studio production!
Love that mid 60's Herb Alpert sound!
That is who Crewe was clearly copying!
Herb was even outselling the Beatles in 1966.
@@jimmyferguson2283 . True!
A few of his band members were in Alpert's group as well.
This isn't TJB though.
For those not familiar, this is the same man who produced and wrote or co-wrote many songs for Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons! Very talented man all around!
MARAVILHOSA MUSICA ,INESQUECIVEL EM MINHA VIDA!
Would have been a great theme song for one of Roger Moore's James Bond movies
@rbvo They were both USA hit recordings in 1967 but I agree Bob`s hit single was released 7 weeks before Andy`s vocal hit version . You could argue that Bob`s instrumental wasnt strictly the original as it was apparently based on a Diet Pepsi jingle composed by Sid Ramin.
Sounds very much like Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Green Peppers
Good ears young lady!
it was taken from a diet Pepsi jingle , Bob Crewe was a bit of a Musical genius
Hi beautiful. Love your channel.
I beg to differ with the comment posted. The Bob Crewe Generation's version of this song was the hit version. Andy Williams did a cover of the Bob Crewe Generation's instrumental original.
And Williams's version added extra, new music for putting in the phrase "Each time you hear a loud, collective sigh," making the melody a bit longer at the end.
R.I.P. Bob Crewe.
Even though this record resembles Herb Alpert, the brass is not as prominent in this song. I like the James Bond sounding verse near the end.
Bob Crewe = gay musical icon R.I.P. (2014) Thank you for posting!! DAVEDJ
So he had a mental defect. Who asked?
An outstanding instrumental that takes me back nearly 50 years. Thank you for posting!
Can you believe it's been that long?
This song's been in my head for as long as I can remember! And I was born in 2000!
Same here. I'm 2001
Perfect song , perfect title , being a youngster in the sixties , priceless !!
This song has been stuck in my head for 50 years...it's a good thing!
I was only in fourth grade when this song first came out. I can't believe that it's now 50 years old! My oh my how time flies!
translated; "I'm crusty and older than dirt!" ha ha! (Before you smoosh me for being rude - consider that I am here, too...for...umm. the same reason.
Me too. I remember the very first time The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan. As for this song, who of us thought this was Herb Albert and the T.B? (I did)
@@mtntime1 Who, me?
Ok, admit it. Didn't you, at first, think this was herb Albert an the T.B?
@@mtntime1 So much so, that I STILL question it! ha!
Reminds me of a time when the world seemed a better place or was it because I was just a kid?
Both . . .
I think it's really cool that the video accompanying this song shows the different styles of those paper sleeves that those old 45 R.P.M. records used to to be sold in. I remember those records. I used to have a big collection of them, along with an even bigger collection of the 33 1/3 L.P.s, plus a lot of cassette tapes and some C.D.s, V.H.S. videos, and D.V.D.s. But, the records, with the colorful sleeves that they came in, were my favorites. Boy, do I miss them (I lost them all when our house was foreclosed on). I also miss the old record stores that used to sell them. They may seem old-fashioned by today's standards, but at least they had real style and character, and the music didn't sound like it was composed by a computer. I know this sounds like a cliche, but those were the good old days.
It's too bad that today's generation, raised on digitalized music, do not or cannot know the joys of the music I used to know. A lot of them have probably never heard of vinyl records. Several years ago, I read a letter to the editor in a newspaper by someone who was most probably of my generation or older. This fellow, it seems, had visited a flea market where he found some old long-playing records for sale. He then asked a salesgirl, who apparently was decades younger than he was, if the market was also selling any "45s" as well, to which the girl, who obviously wasn't too bright, replied "No sir, we don't sell guns here."
Get the picture?
LOL... sad, but TRUE ! I was playing 45's at one of our shows, and a boy's Grandmother brought him by my table, to show him, "This is what WE played, for music as children" .. As I was spinning on the turntable...To which, he watched me flip one over, and he remarked..."You mean, they played on BOTH sides???" LOL.. a moment in time, I will never forget !
@shyphyre Also used on The Man from UNCLE.
This is a song to cruise by, back in my day. When we had freedom and the world didn't revolve around Washington bs.
Marble zone from Sonic the hedgehog sounds a lot like this.
I had just come to the US in 1967 and I very fondly remember listening to this song at my Grandparents house. I couldn't wait to hear it on the radio and It brings back such wonderful memories ♥ 💖 ❤
Part of it almost sounds like the beginning part of Marble Hill Zone in Sonic 1.
That is because Marble zone's music was inspired by this very song.
I finally found it!! First heard this in Apollo 10 1/2.....the 8th wonder of the world..the Astrodome
This Song Went To Number 15 On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart In 1967.
This instrumental was used to plug Diet Pepsi in the mid-1960s. It was also known as "The Girl Watcher's Theme". RIP, Bob Crewe.
Music like this makes life worth living !...
the jackel ....Your Right...Stay Strong
Heh. "Instrumental cover of the Andy Williams hit" suggests that this version came later. The Williams recording was later (1967 I think). Not sure whether the words were written when the music was, or later for a vocal version.
When I first heard this, I thought it was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. There was no getting away from them through most of the 60s.
Actually, most people did ...But this sure was a boss, for Bob.. The Diet
Pepsi commercial spin-off, just classic to this day !
I thought the same. It totally sounds like Herb, who was all over the radio in the mid 60's.
yes, Herb was a big hit everywhere, back then... Who can forget the
Lonely Bull, and Whipped Cream ! He was mega player, for years !
Same here , i would've bet on it...
@smwca, I think everyone who heard this, thought the same. What a wonderful surprise, huh? We all know Herb & the TJ Brass rocked it, which is why "we" wen't there. And I just got an idea! I plan on contacting our "local" radio station, that plays everything from early Motown, to 90's, to bring this back. Anyone else on board? Greater Los Angeles, and... I only say "Greater" because that is how this region is referred to as by, in general. With that being said, I will very strongly bite my tongue.
This song is quintessentially '60s :)
Remembered fondly as a child, when music WAS music...& yes sounds like Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass.....RIP Bob....( I'm going to listen to Herbs cover now )
Did Herb Alpert ever cover this? French singer France Gall did a cover of this in German.
Heard this today on the 60's on 6 channel on XM satellite radio. Its been so long I heard this, I thought it was Herb Alpert at first.
So did I. So did a lot of us. Has a little bit of a James Bond feel to it too, I think.
Instrumentals were all over in the 60's. Loved them. This is great!
A classic instrumental, MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY, was used for a Diet Pepsi ad in the 60’s? I just don’t get it.
Kenneth A Huang 9/3/22
The strings in this song give it an eerie beautiful sounds. Could play it multiple times.
I do play it multiple times
Such a wonderful song. I had my transistor radio 2nd grade just always listening I remember this one very well. Always asking my brother for a quarter to buy 9 volt batteries. The 60s were a living music heaven.
Listening to this reminds me of when I was young. That was a world ago.
The simpsons bought me here HAHA!
Actually originally written and aired as a Diet Pepsi jingle by Sid Ramin who died 2 days ago. RIP
Mr. Ramin went on to win many awards for Broadway and Movies including several songs for the original West Side Story. and Gypsy.
I remember south Calif,
Mega 😊
Loved this song when I was a kid - still do!
Jack Wells I remember this tune being played on Polish radio station when I was a kid as well. I have lost a track of it( didn`t know the title or composers name). I found it today after 50 some years! We are blessed to have RUclips, along with all these wonderful gems!
Jack Wells just my memory... same as you.
Thank-You Bob Crewe for wonderful memories this song brought me. To me
it's 1966, my & i just turned 14. Rest in Peace Bob !!!
Started whistling this at work yesterday. I was in kindergarten when this came out(4yrs old). Didn't know for sure what the Title was but thanks to youtube....Man ! The 60's.
I knew he was famous for this tune (AKA Diet Pepsi back in the '60's--yes, I was alive) but I never realized all the hit music he had written for others. RIP BC.
I don't watch girls walk by, but I do love this song...
Superbe orchestration ! Sur France Culture, ils s'en servent de générique !
I was 2 years old when this came out... great 60s tune.. addictive too
What a Way to Celebrate New Year's Eve! Bob Landed on the Top 40 on 12/31/66, Peaked at No. 15, On the Cart 10 Weeks!
R.I.P. to composer Sid Ramin - July 1, 2029
That should be 2019
This statement got my attention, specially the Date.... I thought you were a Time traveler!... Traveled back in time to Deliver the news... In these days Who knows who is among Us...Whoah!!
Must say sad to know he is gone, but sure left something for all to Remember, Thanks for the great memories. RIP
Didn't realize this is where Lucky Blondo got the music for "Le jeu du téléphone"?
Any Sonic fans in the comments? 0:13 sounds astonishingly like Marble Zone from Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive/Genesis.
R.I.P. Sid Ramin, composer and orchestrator.
VIVIO 100 AÑOS.
Amo! Recordo minha infância ...
Describing the 60's is a lot like this video...Its seems hazy and all over the place, unlike today with all of its "order" I remember reading about a book about some teens that wanted to rock stars and its was like a dream.
That is what the 60's were like (Though I only saw the late 60's, lucidly :-)
The 60s, Joseph? Too groovy!
Why can't the youth of today enjoy this type of music instead of the junk that they listen too.Don't get it...
A Diet Pepsi please!!
MrMotownmanny...........Which "Generation" came first: The Bob Crewe Generation or the Pepsi Generation? They must have made a deal on the use of "Generation", since Pepsi paid Crewe big $$$ to use his music in their commercials?? 4-3-18
I'll have a Tab.
Yes ! that version is a little change up tho...I have it on channel..stil grate !
Ahhhhhh yes! When men could look at women in mini skirts on the streets and looking at them in bikinis in the 1960s before woke culture and cancel culture and women's lib. I grew up in that era in NYC. .. n
Reminds me of Herb Albert. I love this song
Where's a time machine when you need one?
RIP Bob...thanks for all the tunes!
even a brotha like me can appreciate this kind of music
+Brett Shepherd i ain't neva met a brotha named brett
Lol
or Chad
You called?
Or Kip.
Some songs are just better without lyrics.
I love that kind of 🎶. Today don't get that type of music.
I was surprised this is not originally French. It has that light erotic, nostalgic and romantic feel.
This song inspired my modeling career...
I originally tracked down this song because it was used in a meme but now can't remember the meme.
Music by Sid Ramin