FIRST TIME HEARING Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody LIVE (1965) REACTION

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  • Опубликовано: 19 янв 2025

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  • @dthur1003
    @dthur1003 2 года назад +55

    1965...LIVE... no second chances...no lip sync...no auto-tune, just PURE TALENT !!!!

    • @gailbatty1702
      @gailbatty1702 Год назад +5

      I was going to write the same thing, but you nailed it 3 months ago.

    • @chevy266nova
      @chevy266nova 4 месяца назад +1

      And Bobby just got over a cold.

  • @robhaunui3343
    @robhaunui3343 2 года назад +59

    21 different notes he went through on this performance,and it's still far and away the best version of this song.

  • @toodlescae
    @toodlescae 2 года назад +67

    Bobby was a countertenor. That's how he could hit those high notes so effortlessly while suffering from head congestion, nervousness because his parents were in the audience for the first time and out of breath from the previous song. You could hear how out of breath he was when they were talking but that seemed to instantly disappear when he started singing.

    • @bbb462cid
      @bbb462cid Год назад +3

      Like a pro athlete, he seemed to welcome the challenge. I can't say enough great things about Hatfield's talent and skill. Bill Medley was no slouch either.

    • @LindaLittle-m7j
      @LindaLittle-m7j 6 месяцев назад +2

      I love both of your reactions and comments to Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @antichoice1
    @antichoice1 2 года назад +64

    One of the purest singers ever.

  • @FUBAR1986
    @FUBAR1986 2 года назад +34

    I love doing this watching today’s youth, listening to the musical catalog of my life…. As an old salt I know these songs like the back of my hand so I know when the juicy parts are coming up and I get so excited to see your reaction. Thanks to both of you for appreciating the real music because unfortunately, the stuff out today, nonsense and as always peace, love, joy, and hope to you and yours

  • @alexsaunders352
    @alexsaunders352 2 года назад +17

    Just the best , totally magical performance and supream voice,

  • @geraldjensen6831
    @geraldjensen6831 2 года назад +43

    1965. Live. No autotune. just something lacking in so many of today's singers--TALENT. His mother was in the audience, and he was getting over a cold, believe it or not. In his grave now for two decades, and STILL making womens' hearts flutter...today they would be throwing undies at him on the stage...

  • @allenpierce4575
    @allenpierce4575 2 года назад +40

    counter tenors have a higher range but higher clarity in their voice when they are singing higher notes like bobby, he's not doing a falsetto at the end of the song thats his actual voice coming out naturally instead of being forced out like a falsetto

  • @maryanngarrimone1153
    @maryanngarrimone1153 2 года назад +28

    Awww....the late Bobby Hatfield. I was 15 yrs old when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. Bobby owns this song. SUCH A CLASSIC! RIP BOBBY! We miss your beautful voice. 💖😢🙏

  • @54nomore
    @54nomore 2 года назад +8

    The Andy Williams Orchestra was killing it with their beautiful string section and horns. Add the great voice of 'Bobby Hatfield' of the 'Righteous Brothers.' It is no wonder why this live performance done back 57 years ago in 1965 is considered by many in the music and television industry as the greatest live performance ever! The rest as they say is history.

  • @chuckcarles8288
    @chuckcarles8288 Год назад +6

    I am 81 and have heard several artists before Bobby’s version and several after. No one comes close to this, Bobby owns it. This version came out as I was headed for Viet Nam. You can feel the loneliness in the words and the way we felt as we were away from our families for one long year. Bill and Bobby always did one solo on each of their albums and while on tour. They both wanted to do “Unchained”, so they flipped a coin. The music was written as the theme for the little-known prison film “Unchained” (January 1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. The movie “Unchained” is about a man in prison and longing for his wife and children. Hoping his wife will still be there when he gets out. So you can now understand the meaning of the song. The movie was not very good, or so my friends told me. But we were all teenagers so what did we know. Several artists sang it and it made the billboard top 100. But no one can come close to Bobby Hatfield’s version. Bobby’s version hit the top ten chart. And did it again when it was used in the movie “Ghost” It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by Bobby. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.

  • @zanhar7688
    @zanhar7688 2 года назад +18

    That comment about it not being a hit was just stage-play … they both liked the song but recorded it as an album cut … it was Bobby’s solo and never intended for two voices. Bobby had a huge vocal range (B2 to Ab6) so he was well within his range here (G5). He was a counter tenor and did not need to go to falsetto. Bill is a Bass-baritone and their ability to blend those two disparate voices is amazing.

  • @kathleenmenker3853
    @kathleenmenker3853 2 года назад +29

    I’m so glad you showed the whole video with the chit chat with Andy Williams.
    Bill was kidding when he said he didn’t think it was going to be a hit. They flipped a coin because they both wanted to sing it on one of their albums.
    It’s only recently that I saw this live performance. The more dramatic ending blows away the studio recording which came out when I was 21.

    • @monika_martin
      @monika_martin Год назад +1

      As of a few years ago, Bill was still doing shows. I saw in an interview with him from about four years ago and he talked about a special cover of it in the show that he dedicates to Bobby.

    • @marymichael1211
      @marymichael1211 8 месяцев назад

      The coin flip is also a joke which became a rumor. In an interview with them Bobby Hatfield stated that he sang this song with his original group The Variations and that "I had that one in my pocket".

  • @kazshaw3945
    @kazshaw3945 Год назад +6

    Bobby had a cold when he sang this song here but he wanted to get it right for his mum that was in the Audience,i think we can safely say that he managed it !😍👏👏👏👏👏

  • @monika_martin
    @monika_martin Год назад +2

    I loved Liya's reactions to Bobby hitting the high notes; amazement and pure joy. This is how music should be experienced; especially terrific music like this. My mom exposed me to their music while I was growing up and I love it. She always told me the Righteous Brothers were her favorite artist of all time.

  • @ronaldstokes4841
    @ronaldstokes4841 Год назад +3

    One of our Nam anthems... "I'll be coming home, wait for me." You'd hear this comin' from someone's hootch at night. Someone else would holler, "Turn it up!"

    • @marymichael1211
      @marymichael1211 8 месяцев назад

      Thank you for informing people of the meaning and feeling this song evoked in soldiers in Vietnam by evoking the scene. May you be well. 🎶🙏

  • @harrysmithson9122
    @harrysmithson9122 Месяц назад +1

    Ain't it nice to hear someone who can ACTUALLY sing??. . . BTW, Liya is a BABE!

  • @allenpierce4575
    @allenpierce4575 2 года назад +23

    bobby hatfield is a counter-tenor, if you to see even more power from his voice you have to watch bobby hatfield summertime

  • @iolafiengo5099
    @iolafiengo5099 Год назад +5

    Watch them sing "you'll never walk alone " on the Ed Sullivan show!!! It is amazing

  • @lindajames978
    @lindajames978 Год назад +2

    Love you youngsters appreciating music made in my era...

  • @JonHammerHeart
    @JonHammerHeart Год назад +2

    The amazing Bobby Hatfield! So many artists have covered this song, but Bobby owns this song; sheer talent and taste.

  • @deborahsmith6731
    @deborahsmith6731 2 года назад +24

    His brother (not related ) Bill Medley was not jealous; he produced the song, saying only Bobby's voice could sing that song.

    • @CjJohnson-kf1oz
      @CjJohnson-kf1oz 9 месяцев назад +1

      You are about the first part,but they both wanted to docit and flipped a coin. They also made a pact in beginning that on each album they would take turns doing a solo. We are so fortunate to have these videos .

    • @marymichael1211
      @marymichael1211 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@CjJohnson-kf1ozThat is a joke that became a rumor. In an interview Bobby Hatfield stated that he sang this song with his original group The Variations and that "I had that one in my pocket".

    • @CjJohnson-kf1oz
      @CjJohnson-kf1oz 8 месяцев назад

      @@marymichael1211 i

    • @CjJohnson-kf1oz
      @CjJohnson-kf1oz 8 месяцев назад

      Medley said it in an interview this month on utube. Anyone can read his book also. But he did also say no one could sing it like Bobby.

    • @marymichael1211
      @marymichael1211 7 месяцев назад

      @@CjJohnson-kf1oz The Righteous Brothers often played and joked. Phil Spector said and did toxic things that added to the mix. Bill Medley has offered much accurate authoritative information and he has also said some things which were contradictory to other things he has said and to what Bobby Hatfield has said, including about Bobby's choice of "Unchained Melody". Yes, Bill said many things in his book -- after Bobby has gone and can't say his side of the story of a complicated relationship. Many of us have seen, read, and researched and reject some of what Bill has said. One can and will believe what one chooses. I believe Bobby saying that the song was his choice -- which Bill has said, including as he humbly sincerely stated in an interview with them just before Bobby left his life in "The Righteous Brothers" on the Jeff Kreiner RUclips channel that he sang "Unchained Melody" with his original group The Variations and that "I had that one in my pocket". 🎶✨

  • @artbagley1406
    @artbagley1406 2 года назад +12

    This practically flawless 1965 performance of a 1955(!) prison movie ("Unchained"), still "knocked a lot of people out." A video of Mr. Hatfield's rendition needs to be put in the National Music Treasury of the Library of Congress. Catch a chopped up version of Bobby's studio version in the movie "Ghost."

  • @UncleCharlie111x2
    @UncleCharlie111x2 2 года назад +12

    This was awesome!

    • @raineytv
      @raineytv  2 года назад +1

      Thank u more to come

  • @charissanomdeplume6475
    @charissanomdeplume6475 9 месяцев назад +2

    A truly satisfying reaction vid. 💛

  • @Madminute1968
    @Madminute1968 2 года назад +2

    WOW, that performance was beyond 'outstanding'.

  • @namvet6970bd
    @namvet6970bd 2 года назад +2

    Back in the day we were leaving their show and I said the applause was deafening and she said that the applause was loud but all the panties hitting the stage was louder lol maybe lol

  • @meghanhallen525
    @meghanhallen525 2 года назад +6

    love this

  • @vinniewheeler5441
    @vinniewheeler5441 Год назад +2

    LETS GOOOO!!!! BOSTON IN THE BUILDING !!! Southies here Baby girl!!! That’s a good lookin out for fellow reactors and singers my brotha.

  • @teresarankin7077
    @teresarankin7077 2 года назад +16

    The Righteous Brothers were great! But Bobby Hatfield was the best. Listen to him singing Ebb Tide or Summertime or Somewhere. All show his range and beautiful natural talent. Reacting to both of them try Soul and Inspiration, You've Lost That Loving Feeling or Rock and Roll Heaven.

  • @donnanutt3650
    @donnanutt3650 Год назад +2

    I was a kid when he sang this on Andy Williams. Even my parents were taken aback. Chills up your spine good

  • @IreneTozetti-v5n
    @IreneTozetti-v5n 9 месяцев назад +4

    Women are always mesmerized, no master what year it is.

  • @davidjohnson7336
    @davidjohnson7336 2 года назад +1

    And that man talking to the righteous brothers is. Andy Williams play some of his songs just as good....

  • @DouglasDruigA
    @DouglasDruigA 14 дней назад

    1965 Live, no computers and the crowd was showing respect by keeping things silent instead of being obnoxious.

  • @jimnicosia5934
    @jimnicosia5934 2 года назад +2

    I remember watching that on TV when I was sixteen years old.

  • @wandajaneburlinson5288
    @wandajaneburlinson5288 2 года назад +6

    He gave up a professional baseball contract to sing. Thank you, Bobby Hatfield!

  • @wandalewis5097
    @wandalewis5097 2 года назад +3

    Like you said PURE TALENT. Yeah we had real talent back then. If you ever watched Ghost this song was in it

  • @Cooker224
    @Cooker224 Год назад +1

    The name came from a black Marine when they were performing on base. Great story.

  • @theretiringbarber
    @theretiringbarber 2 года назад +2

    Greatest performance in history and you won't shut up !

  • @GwenByrd-d4k
    @GwenByrd-d4k 4 месяца назад +1

    He is all the way live. Amazing vocals.

  • @stepanwarenik8934
    @stepanwarenik8934 2 года назад +1

    He put his soul in every word. And then put every word in mine.

  • @MelodyMan69
    @MelodyMan69 Год назад +2

    The last note blows my socks off..every time

  • @emiliomazzeo4286
    @emiliomazzeo4286 2 года назад +3

    YES, I AGREE WITH YOU, THIS PERFORMANCE WAS WAS AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL. I THIUNK NATALIA "FELL IN LOVE" WITH BOBBY HATFIELD, AND WHY NOT. HE HAS MOVIE STAR GOOD LOOKS . BOBBYS STUDIO VERSION OF THIS ICONIC SONG WAS IN THAT FAMPOUS FILM "GHOST" STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE AND DEMI MOORE AND WHOOPIE GOLDBERG.

  • @Asherfonseca
    @Asherfonseca 2 года назад +1

    Following.

  • @raymondjerry4046
    @raymondjerry4046 2 года назад +1

    I loved that song for many years I love the reactions of U2 Even better

  • @theoxley
    @theoxley 2 года назад +2

    This is what your grandparents listened to when they were your age................

  • @victorcowboywest
    @victorcowboywest 2 года назад +7

    Check out the origin and history of this classic song to hear some of the 1,500 version, some may just surprise you. Bobby Hatfield has the most acclaim and popular version of this song (note:He was a little nervous because his parents were sitting in the audience).

  • @fredpoarch1985
    @fredpoarch1985 Год назад +1

    Angelic is right.

  • @carlmaynard8367
    @carlmaynard8367 2 года назад +3

    Song was written for a movie where a man was in jail and missing his love.

  • @petercav9440
    @petercav9440 2 года назад +3

    Back in the 1950s I bought the version by Al Hibbler. Much as I enjoyed it I have to say that when I heard Bobby........ Well, it was and still is his. Superb!

  • @garrymoore2161
    @garrymoore2161 2 года назад +2

    No studio equipment. Just a hand-held wired microphone Years ahead of Autotune. This was 100% his talent.

  • @ripmod1
    @ripmod1 2 года назад +5

    Bobby was 25 in 1965 when this was recorded. The song is from a 50s prison movie called "UNCHAINED." The real reason Bobby recorded the song himself was because they had broken up for a while when the song was recorded. They later got back together. They are in the rock & roll hall of fame. It was a couple of black marines in the bar who gave them their name. Bobby died in 2003 and kept his beautiful voice right to the end. RIP Bobby Hatfield.

  • @tomheglund6994
    @tomheglund6994 7 месяцев назад +3

    Don’t stop girl

  • @robertszekely8686
    @robertszekely8686 2 года назад +1

    One of the greatest songs of all time.

  • @donnastupka7507
    @donnastupka7507 2 года назад +1

    💙💙💙

  • @rona8663
    @rona8663 2 года назад +2

    I view this song as the Ghost song. They used it in Ghost with Patrick Swazee and Demi Moore. Great movie and this song was incredible in the movie. Go watch it if you haven’t seen it yet.

  • @melissabrooke1146
    @melissabrooke1146 2 года назад +4

    Check out Bobby singing Summertime, insane vocal acrobatics!

  • @gracemichelli.2am124
    @gracemichelli.2am124 2 года назад

    Effortless icon.🥰

  • @nancyj795
    @nancyj795 2 года назад +1

    She's a very musically informed and observant reactor.

  • @robertallen568
    @robertallen568 2 года назад +2

    THE PLATTERS SANG THIS SONG IN THE 1950s it was a live performance also. I think that this is the best one.

  • @tomheglund6994
    @tomheglund6994 7 месяцев назад +3

    It’s his voice

  • @lisaarmes234
    @lisaarmes234 2 года назад +1

    Song was on the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze

  • @minnidrake3342
    @minnidrake3342 2 года назад

    You guys make a great team more of u two

  • @jimdrake873
    @jimdrake873 2 года назад +9

    Those very last 4 notes was not on the cut record, Bobby told Bill he was going to do it that night live and Bill warned him if he missed it will blow the whole thing, Bobby did it anyway and then you see that little grin at the end, he knew he nailed it.

  • @carolespinoza8469
    @carolespinoza8469 2 года назад +2

    I was 15. When I met my boyfriend,. This was our song.💕. Got married the next year 1966 I was 16. Been married 66 years. This is still our song❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

  • @dennisflury6942
    @dennisflury6942 2 года назад +2

    Well next try soul and inspiration... You'll love it too!

  • @nelsonmellososobrinho1123
    @nelsonmellososobrinho1123 Год назад

    Congratulações pelo ótimo vídeo , excelente som e por vocês serem jovens e reagirem tão bem às canções da minha geração, dancei muito com o meu " primeiro amor" essa música!!! Abraços desde São Paulo - Brasil .

  • @LVZVRUS
    @LVZVRUS Год назад +2

    He would have tore out all the girlies hearts if this dropped today 💀

  • @yankeeairpirate1799
    @yankeeairpirate1799 2 года назад +4

    No one but Bobby can do that...he knows it as well as all others who can’t do it.

  • @rayvanhorn1534
    @rayvanhorn1534 2 года назад

    Bobby's smile at the end, he knew he nailed it (& I think he looked at his mom right then)

  • @Robert-jh8yo
    @Robert-jh8yo 2 года назад +1

    Hey brother. This is my time when music was top shelf.

  • @shellygill5029
    @shellygill5029 2 года назад

    Quite possibly the greatest counter-tenor. to ever live.

  • @100RAM100
    @100RAM100 2 месяца назад

    This live version is better than any of the studio versions. None of them have the ending from the Andy Williams show. I would love to have it put out on the radio and one I could buy on Apple.

  • @bintheredonethat
    @bintheredonethat 2 года назад

    Good on you for playing the intro to this. It answers a lot of questions other reactors have. Like where's the other "brother". Back in the day these guys & a multitude of other artists represented a time when you couldn't fake it to make it. You had it or you didn't. ;o)

  • @mesmith01
    @mesmith01 2 года назад

    Wow, it doesn't get any better than that!

  • @maryohara6192
    @maryohara6192 2 года назад

    If you notice at the beginning of this when Bobby was talking how he was out of breath and sweating, I read he was shy and had a hard time speaking publicly but was fine when it came to singing. I first heard this22 years ago when I was 17 as dad had the golden oldies on and it stopped me cold, I could not believe what I was hearing, to me it is the greatest love song ever and live performance ever.

  • @noelanderson8915
    @noelanderson8915 Год назад

    Don't worry you guys are not the first to be knocked out when you hear that performance for the first time. Way back, and I mean way back when I heard that song for the first time (at 24-25) it rocked my socks. One of the original "panty-dropper" songs of all time.

  • @Preciousmiller1
    @Preciousmiller1 2 года назад +1

    Is that the Guy, know for singing white Christmas? My Mom, always play that Song around the Holiday time.
    His face looks like that Guy! On the CD. Not the Guy, singing the other guy,beside him.
    🤔
    Have a wonderful Weekend 🤍☕☺️

    • @ellen6638
      @ellen6638 2 года назад +1

      You're thinking of Bing Crosby. That was Andy Williams

  • @mikeolson2457
    @mikeolson2457 2 года назад +1

    This 1965 version is hot because of voice and voice control over falsetto, phrasing, diction, body motion and using something many well-known singer do not use or do not use well--big Smiles.

  • @stevechrist8622
    @stevechrist8622 2 года назад +2

    just subscribed saw them live in vegas in the 90's outstanding , nobody sings this song better. also can you do an Elvis song with her a few suggestions 1973 live from hawaii (AMERICAN TRILOGY) and from 1970 live from Las Vegas (BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS)

    • @raineytv
      @raineytv  2 года назад

      thank u what shouild i react to next

  • @agapeo4137
    @agapeo4137 2 года назад +6

    Please Listen to Bobby he is off to the highest heaven notes in his solo Summertime

  • @johnfrueh3584
    @johnfrueh3584 Месяц назад

    He had a 4.5 octave range!

  • @willieb3765
    @willieb3765 4 месяца назад

    The real reason Bill didnt sing on this is that on their albums each did a solo, this is Bobby's. Look for Bill's solo for Old Man River.

  • @Ididnotwanttojoin
    @Ididnotwanttojoin 2 года назад

    As others have pointed out, Bill was joking about why Bobby did this song alone, They each did solos on their albums and they flipped a coin to see who got to do this one. Bobby won and so did the world! The producer (the famous/infamous Phil Spector) was the one who had no faith in the the song. He wouldn't even produce it, so Bill did He put it on the B-side of the single "Hung On You." Fortunately, the radio disc jockeys started flipping the record over. Once it became a hit, Spector changed the producing credit on future copies of it to take credit for producing it, even though he didn't.

  • @colmdonoghue5521
    @colmdonoghue5521 2 года назад +4

    Maybe Checkout Elvis Presley if I can dream it was dedicated to MLK & JFK

  • @daveakfu
    @daveakfu 2 года назад +2

    bobby hatfield SUMMERTIME

  • @melissabrooke1146
    @melissabrooke1146 2 года назад +5

    Bobby had severe stage fright but always pulled it off…

  • @duncangarrah968
    @duncangarrah968 2 года назад +4

    I don't know how you could listen to any of todays noise and call it music after hearing real talent like this. All the autotune , splicing and computer twiging highlight what low talent hacks are preforming today. Stand up, don't accept it anymore. Don't support them. Bring back real music.

  • @thebrownage8599
    @thebrownage8599 2 года назад

    you wanna hear bobby's pipes? watch his performance of "summer time"

  • @virginiawilson2213
    @virginiawilson2213 10 месяцев назад

    They were joking. There was one who usually sang a solo on each album. They flipped a coin to see who would sing that solo & Bobby won!!!❤🎉🎉❤

  • @deborahpowell7791
    @deborahpowell7791 2 года назад +1

    his face never changes

  • @tomhall3245
    @tomhall3245 Год назад

    This song was originally from a prison movie. A prisoner is writing a letter to his wife.

  • @michelvandruten2107
    @michelvandruten2107 Год назад

    to think he was nervous because his parents were in the audiance hearing the live version of this song for he first time

  • @almaconnor9171
    @almaconnor9171 2 года назад +1

    LOSTEN TO BOBBY HATFIELD SING SUMMERTIME! YOULL NEVER BE THE SAME!

  • @johnrodrigues5974
    @johnrodrigues5974 2 года назад

    Please react to Bobby singing “Ebb Tide” same hi voice👍👍👍

  • @mikem8563
    @mikem8563 2 года назад

    Nightwish - I Want My Tears Back live in buenos aires Ghost Love Score

  • @vincentvancraig
    @vincentvancraig Год назад

    Hes an opera singer level/quality counter tenor...its called a counter tenor voice, its different from a soprano.....also, he was nervous bc his mother & sister were in the audience, & sometimes anxiety helps u....also, they had a very reasonable expectation the song would be a hit, that was a joke, the other righteous brother couldnt sing the song because he was a baritone

  • @FrankCapite-i4s
    @FrankCapite-i4s 9 месяцев назад

    Soul n Inspiratíon ......or.....
    ..you've lost that lovin' feeling by Righteous Brothers

  • @GodsLittleDemons
    @GodsLittleDemons 2 года назад +3

    I asked you if you could react to hasta que te conocí by Juan Gabriel the live version about a month ago and I know your probably busy but if you did forget you should listen to it because I think you'd like it
    Also hope you're having a great day/night

  • @phillipplumb6292
    @phillipplumb6292 Месяц назад

    Fun fact, the song actually started as a 1955 prison song