I was 6 years old when this song was released i have 5 sisters 4 of them are older than me and they played this song non stop so it akes me right back to some great days 👍👍
If you want to hear them together try one of their other hits. Soul and Inspiration; You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin; Ebb Tide; or Rock and Roll Heaven. You won't be disappointed.
Bill is still alive in his 80's, singing with another partner,. calling it the Righteous Brothers. They are appearing at the Firekeepers Casino near Battle Creek MI on Feb 28, 2025. That's only dow the freeway from my house 35 minutes.I'm gonna buy some tickets for this once in a lifetime thing...Bill's pretty old [84?] and these guys are dropping like flies from the 1960's. Bobby died in November 2003 at 63 in his hotel room nearby in Kalamazoo MI maybe an our from my house]. it was so sad he was on tour with his buddy Bill. I was a school music teacher. The original guys actually toured with the Beatles as a warm up act BEFORE they were world famous in August/September 1964. The next January 1965 they had the big #1 hit You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. From the grave, Bobby is still making girls melt in their chair singing this lol
Bobby Hatfield is actually sick with flu or cold (listen when he's doing interview), still pulled it off, on another professional artist live TV show, with parents in audience, nothing but a microphone and pure talent and professionalism..... Set the standard that lasted decades.. IMO
If I'm not mistaken this song was first recorded thirty years before Bobby Hatfield claimed it as his own with this legendary performance. Elvis Presley has a great live performance of it too.
BothBobby san togegther but would do solos as well. Any williams is the hostandhe was also a hell of a singer. You can tell he really liked these guys personally as well. There's more to this tape, before the song the RIghteous Brothers sang a couple tunes. Then Bobby sang after the interview , then Andy joined them to sing a song and have fun. You knew you had made it if Andy wanted to sing with YOU.
Great reaction. They have so many great songs. Please react to one of the best deep tenors in the last 25 year singing Oh Holy Night. It's outstanding and perfect for this time of year. ruclips.net/video/ElJ0fiD0lkc/видео.htmlsi=wDbvc-dOTboFyA6e
Unchained Melody: Bobby Hatfield live performance. {The Andy Williams Show}- Episode #4.5 Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965: Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher countertenor voice ( in this performance his range is an incredible: D3 to G5 sharp) to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield each sang a song as a solo vocalist on their albums. As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song. Sadly, on Nov. 5, 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack in a Michigan hotel room just prior to a Righteous Brothers performance, apparently in his sleep at age 63. The Righteous Brothers version was , oddly enough a huge hit because it was recorded merely as a filler song for their fourth album, not for release as a single. Philles Records owner/producer Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip B-side to writers Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “) as to which side of his Philles single was the A-side. The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley to make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and before he left he said, 'No, I can do it better. ’And I said, 'No, you can't!’ [Medley Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song." This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did! In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming and costly for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,' which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer. I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B-side of a Phil Spector single 'Hung On You' but the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof." Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’. Also: Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig” ruclips.net/video/xIIvXYo5INo/видео.htmlsi=OmBVdie7xz-GPuIh
You've put together an excellent "article" on Bobby Hatfield's "Unchained Melody", if viewers will take the time to read it. I appreciate the link to the different and equally special performance on the great Shindig television show, though I prefer the original black and white version, also available. The Shindig performance is sexual/soulful while the Andy Williams Show performance is romantic/soulful. 🎶✨
@@darrell9410 Right. But the reason it was played at the end is because it was the love song that played during the pottery-making love scene between Swayze and Moore earlier in the movie.
If you love this try to listen to Extreme ll Pornograffitti is the album and the duet MORE THAN WORDS. Two brothers singing to the song and smashing it. You have to listen to it!!!
Top shelf blue eyed soul.
Live audience. Live orchestra. No autotune. Not even an earpiece. One take. REAL talent.
Pure talent!!!
I was 6 years old when this song was released i have 5 sisters 4 of them are older than me and they played this song non stop so it akes me right back to some great days 👍👍
It was used in the movie GHOST
In the movie GHOST, when Demi Moore is at the pottery wheel and Patrick Swayze joins her. This is the song!!!
If you want to hear them together try one of their other hits. Soul and Inspiration; You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin; Ebb Tide; or Rock and Roll Heaven. You won't be disappointed.
Try Little Latin Lupe Lu for a fun fast tune.
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And on the great Shindig television show, where they were regulars, available on RUclips.
Bill is still alive in his 80's, singing with another partner,. calling it the Righteous Brothers. They are appearing at the Firekeepers Casino near Battle Creek MI on Feb 28, 2025. That's only dow the freeway from my house 35 minutes.I'm gonna buy some tickets for this once in a lifetime thing...Bill's pretty old [84?] and these guys are dropping like flies from the 1960's. Bobby died in November 2003 at 63 in his hotel room nearby in Kalamazoo MI maybe an our from my house]. it was so sad he was on tour with his buddy Bill. I was a school music teacher. The original guys actually toured with the Beatles as a warm up act BEFORE they were world famous in August/September 1964. The next January 1965 they had the big #1 hit You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. From the grave, Bobby is still making girls melt in their chair singing this lol
Headphones or earphones will greatly improve your listening experience
It's about a prisoner hoping his girl will still be waiting for him.
Bobby Hatfield is actually sick with flu or cold (listen when he's doing interview), still pulled it off, on another professional artist live TV show, with parents in audience, nothing but a microphone and pure talent and professionalism.....
Set the standard that lasted decades..
IMO
If I'm not mistaken this song was first recorded thirty years before Bobby Hatfield claimed it as his own with this legendary performance. Elvis Presley has a great live performance of it too.
Long Live The King!
Ten years before in a prison movie.
BothBobby san togegther but would do solos as well. Any williams is the hostandhe was also a hell of a singer. You can tell he really liked these guys personally as well. There's more to this tape, before the song the RIghteous Brothers sang a couple tunes. Then Bobby sang after the interview , then Andy joined them to sing a song and have fun. You knew you had made it if Andy wanted to sing with YOU.
Omg❤❤
Please listen to summertime by Bobby Hatfield of righteous brothers. 💎
You heard him say it was a solo.
Great reaction. They have so many great songs.
Please react to one of the best deep tenors in the last 25 year singing Oh Holy Night. It's outstanding and perfect for this time of year.
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Unchained Melody:
Bobby Hatfield live performance.
{The Andy Williams Show}-
Episode #4.5
Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965:
Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher countertenor voice ( in this performance his range is an incredible: D3 to G5 sharp) to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield each sang a song as a solo vocalist on their albums.
As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song.
Sadly, on Nov. 5, 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack in a Michigan hotel room just prior to a Righteous Brothers performance, apparently in his sleep at age 63.
The Righteous Brothers version was , oddly enough a huge hit because it was recorded merely as a filler song for their fourth album, not for release as a single. Philles Records owner/producer Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip B-side to writers Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “) as to which side of his Philles single was the A-side.
The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley to make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and before he left he said, 'No, I can do it better.
’And I said, 'No, you can't!’ [Medley Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song."
This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did! In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming and costly for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,'
which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer.
I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B-side of a Phil Spector single 'Hung On You' but the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof."
Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’.
Also:
Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig”
ruclips.net/video/xIIvXYo5INo/видео.htmlsi=OmBVdie7xz-GPuIh
You've put together an excellent "article" on Bobby Hatfield's "Unchained Melody", if viewers will take the time to read it. I appreciate the link to the different and equally special performance on the great Shindig television show, though I prefer the original black and white version, also available. The Shindig performance is sexual/soulful while the Andy Williams Show performance is romantic/soulful. 🎶✨
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Thanks.
Happy Holidays !
This song was in the movie Ghost. The last few minutes of the movie.
Wasn’t it the pottery scene? I don’t think that was at the end. Been a long time though since I saw Ghost, I could be wrong.
@SavingHistory when she gets to see him at the end. When he starts fading away with the other people who are ghost to.
When he tells her that you get to take your love with you when you go.
@@darrell9410 Right. But the reason it was played at the end is because it was the love song that played during the pottery-making love scene between Swayze and Moore earlier in the movie.
@@darrell9410 ruclips.net/video/MhAE3lQ_FHg/видео.htmlsi=EE3Mko1Z1mV9PUwQ
If you love this try to listen to Extreme ll Pornograffitti is the album and the duet MORE THAN WORDS. Two brothers singing to the song and smashing it. You have to listen to it!!!
Great reaction Nene! Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Live at the El Mocambo) m.ruclips.net/video/KC5H9P4F5Uk/видео.html&pp=ygULdGV4YXMgZmxvb2Q%