This is brilliant, for those who want a reproduction of her original rendition listen to a CD. In this version there are nuances of maturity,regret and weight of experiences lived that the younger Charlene would not have known.
This is one of those lost songs for me. I could not think of the name and very few of the words and then in Shrek there it was! I was so happy to find my song at last. It meant a lot to me when I was young and now it means more to me. What I get from this song is not to lose yourself...in relationships or the pursuit of happiness but to realize what you have may be the best for you. Not to say we shouldn't dream.
I saw her tonight in Boston. I love her! She is the sweetest and very down to earth. I almost cried when I saw her because I always listen to her song as a kid. She made my day!
What an absolutely wonderful rendition. Charlene made that song fresh and new, as though it was the first time I had heard it in my life. That is the talent of a true entertainer. Truly wonderful. Thank you for breaking copyright and uploading it to the Internet so we can all enjoy it.
I've seen and remember seeing videos of this song done when Charlene was much younger... and yes, probably more beautiful. But as I age I can appreciate this version so much more. It's that life experienced... life lived... tragedy known... heartaches gone thru... let me tell you my story feeling that this version brings to life. This is what music does for me... if I can't feel what you're singing to me, I'd rather not listen at all. Thanks Charlene... lesson learned!
Eu tinha apenas 8 anos quando essa música estourou e hoje tenho 47 e por mais q tente segurar minhas lágrimas é simplesmente impossível meus deus como o tempo passou rápido e como as músicas deixaram de tocar nossos corações como essas de antigamente só saudades de um tempo q não volta mais
i finally see the face behind this music..being a guy i was contented of just hearing this song .. very sad, but well written- the lyrics perfectly matched the words..the studio version is still the best rendition of this classic..so her name is charlene ..i used to imagined that the girl behind the song was a long haired brunette with high cheekbones and a little bit tanned , slim well proportioned body , eyes (not necessarily blue)that emotes pain and caring ,soft shoulders..ahhh..dream on.
You know what? I remember when this song came out in '81 I laughed at it. It wasn't until it was on a Motown compilations of songs that I really listened to it and fell in love with it. I didn't know it was a Motown release and from that cd I bought back in '86, I fell in love with this song. She sings it the best.
this is a really beautiful rendition of this song. Charlene's voice has matured and she shows herself to be a true singer. Love the piano work too. Thanks for posting.
Saudades desta linda cantora !. Charlene . Cuti grandes momentos de minha vida. Bons momentos de minha vida com esta linda canção. Saudades.Parabens a este canal. ♡♥
Gosh! Why say this is a weird song? It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I think she's trying to communicating something right from the bottom of her heart and all women should try to listen.
I have one important question: Why is this woman a "one hit wonder", she's truly got talent it's so obvious. Sad because even with a more mature voice she made the song better, more intimate to me.
@@Albemarle7 While "I've Never Been To Me" remains as Charlene's only Top 10 hit (it reached #3 in 1982), she also scored with three lesser singles. They were (and you should be able to find them on You Tube): "It Ain't Easy Comin' Down" (reached #97 in March 1977), "Freddie" (reached #96 in May 1977) and "Used To Me" (reached #46 as a duet with Stevie Wonder).
On this day in 1977 {September 24th} Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for a three week stay, peaking at #97... Five years later in 1982 it re-entered the Top 100; and this time it reached #3 and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #1 in Australia {for 6 weeks}, in Canada {for 4 weeks}, and in the United Kingdom {for 1 week}... It was originally recorded by Broadway musical star Howard Keel {its available on You Tube}...
It would take me some years to like this song and when I finally bought a Motown Complation of hits in the late 80s I was laying on the couch dozing off to sleep and this song came on and i fell in love with it. I forgot what year it was a hit but it still holds up and its one of those songs that makes you really listen to. The words are very strong and Charlene sings this wonderfully.
I love the song - remember it the first time around. She gives a fantastic performance. What a great voice. Brilliant singer, singing a brilliant song!
I hate to say it but I love this song so apt about my life toured the world lived the high life. Now all I have is memories I missed out on all of the important things family children. If I could turn back time x
Charlene Duncan recorded this incredibly heartfelt song in 1977 -- and it bombed. In 1982, though, DJ Scott Shannon began playing it on WRBQ in Tampa, Florida -- igniting such a response that the record was reissued and shot to #3 coast-to-coast. Non-maternal man-hating feminists despise this song because it so eloquently speaks so many truths that they deny -- until, of course, they find themselves aging, childless and alone.
I've always loved this song, ever since I was eight years old (probably in 1982, as you stated). And even though I would grow up to be a child-FREE (not child-LESS) married feminist, I still love this song because it's a beautiful song and because children are adorable and hilarious, even if I chose not to have any myself. It doesn't mean I can't enjoy being around them. And sure, I'm sort of a man-hater - in a sense. Not as much now as I was in my younger years, because I've become aware that the same patriarchal pressures that make women miserable also destroy what's good and beautiful in boys and turn them into aggressive, woman-hating men. I would say men hate women FAR more than women hate men. All you have to do is take a look at popular pornography and see the way women are treated in it, then look at the statistics of how many men are watching that same degrading, abusive pornography. My guess is you're one them.
@@Starlight_Silver Hate to break this to you, Heather, but the right man completes a woman -- just as certainly as the right woman completes a man. Correctly matched couples are not adversaries but devoted 50-50 life partners, forever doing everything they can to make their sigificant other's dreams come true. The most important job any human being can undertake is to become a parent and, from the start, bend every effort to help shape one's children for happy, successful lives. After all, they are your only lasting legacy! When I began dating, I was not fueled by porn, as you so crudely suggest. I knew even then that the person one marries is the single most important choice you will ever make -- as it will affect every part of your years ahead. To that end, I sought out someone was was kind, compassionate, thoughtful, loyal and as devoted to the idea of carving out a happy life for us as I was. I wasn't looking for a Playboy bunny. It was the kind of woman she was INSIDE that counted. And once I found her, I swore to do everything I could to make her feel warm, safe, secure, fulfilled and very truly loved for the rest of her life. And I found and married her. That's what it's all about, Heather. It sounds like your idea of bitter feminism has attracted the wrong kind of ,men to your door, reinforcing your negative stereotypical views of the opposite sex (probably planted there by screwball instructors and feminist militants in college). You have my sympathy that you have chosen to miss out on so much of the real joys in life.
Such bitterness between you both. Most men love women and most women love men. We are made that way. Men and women are here to protect and support one another. Most people are intrinsically good. Let it go and look for the best in people. @@Starlight_Silver
On this day in 1983 {February 5th} Charlene performed "I've Never Been To Me" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... Eleven months earlier on March 6th, 1982 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100... She originally released the record five years earlier in 1977; at that time it reached #97 and stayed on the Top 100 for 3 weeks... It reached #1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the U.K. RIP Mr. Clark {1929-2012}...
47 year old male now but I bought this when it first came out. Northern soul 'cool boy' at that time but nothing will hit me as this record does. You enjoy life and then it's gone. The only fool was you but you never knew it. ... Brilliantly sad!!!
Really better than the already excellent 1982 videos which seem to all use some element of lip synch to studio recordings (recorded in 1976). This is real. This is Charlene with 30 more years of living a roller coaster life of abuse, poverty and disappointment, alternated with periods of career success and ultimately the “paradise” of a fulfilling family life.
This song was originally released as a single without the spoken bridge, and went nowhere. The "album" version started getting airplay in Los Angeles, and that is the version which got popular. It has now been recorded in several languages, with the bridge.
A "sensitive" male? Is that a new species I haven't heard about???? You're a male, and you even know the word sensitive!! I'm impressed!!! All sarcasm aside, I'm so glad to finally find Charlene, love her music.
This song is such a story of my life in many forms right from the beginning of it... Actually in the throes of writing my biography with the same title...
I remember when this came out. I had to have the cassette. At the time I didn't realize that it was about a woman that had done all those things and although she had a life people dream about .. she wasn't happy. She is telling a woman who is envious of all her adventures that she is the lucky one.. the one with the real life not just a fantasy. Once you go there you can't go back....
As i was a little Child i read that this Song is in the Top 10 in the US and UK and i never heard this Song because it was no hit here in Germany and i always thought this must be a Song from Charlene Tilton (Lucy from DALLAS) haha - so silly - and a few Years later i heard this Song from the very first Time!
Never been to me? it's a story of people that put others before themselves, even today people get into relationships and are then stuck there, never having time to enjoy themselves or do the things they need to do, i'd have thought that with the many teenage parents today, this song is even more significant, especially when they get to a point when they realise they have missed so much in life, sorry to those that are happy with that way of life, but the songs not about the contented ones!
godang she never lost her touch, this version is better than the original, Ms Oliver my wife' kept playing this 200 times a day, Smh. Too bad they never made you record another song, you could have had thousands of hits. What year was this recorded? God bless!
@jacquesjunk So Well Said...........this song brings a tear to my eye everytime i listen to it.......i wish for everyone to listen to this & consider thier lifes paths.....
This is brilliant, for those who want a reproduction of her original rendition listen to a CD. In this version there are nuances of maturity,regret and weight of experiences lived that the younger Charlene would not have known.
I always loved this song. As you get older and you look back over your life you can understand her and what she is talking and singing about.
This is one of those lost songs for me. I could not think of the name and very few of the words and then in Shrek there it was! I was so happy to find my song at last. It meant a lot to me when I was young and now it means more to me. What I get from this song is not to lose yourself...in relationships or the pursuit of happiness but to realize what you have may be the best for you. Not to say we shouldn't dream.
I saw her tonight in Boston. I love her! She is the sweetest and very down to earth. I almost cried when I saw her because I always listen to her song as a kid. She made my day!
boring song darlinks
What an absolutely wonderful rendition. Charlene made that song fresh and new, as though it was the first time I had heard it in my life.
That is the talent of a true entertainer. Truly wonderful.
Thank you for breaking copyright and uploading it to the Internet so we can all enjoy it.
Words would not describe the simply amazing music, the soft touching lyrics, and the powerful voice of this song. May this live long after years..
There is nothing "weird" about this great song, whatsoever. It's a gem.
I've seen and remember seeing videos of this song done when Charlene was much younger... and yes, probably more beautiful. But as I age I can appreciate this version so much more. It's that life experienced... life lived... tragedy known... heartaches gone thru... let me tell you my story feeling that this version brings to life. This is what music does for me... if I can't feel what you're singing to me, I'd rather not listen at all. Thanks Charlene... lesson learned!
Muita saudade desta canção e da Charlene, musica de minha juventude. Congratulations of Brazil
Greatest song of all time! A classic! Thanks for posting the video.
Eu tinha apenas 8 anos quando essa música estourou e hoje tenho 47 e por mais q tente segurar minhas lágrimas é simplesmente impossível meus deus como o tempo passou rápido e como as músicas deixaram de tocar nossos corações como essas de antigamente só saudades de um tempo q não volta mais
An eternal song. A tribute to Charlene!
The Diva in the musical who sings this is absolutely AWESOME.
This version is GREAT -- I respect her for giving a new rendition of it. This lady knows how to sing. Jolly good work, well done!
I remember this when she first recorded it and to tell truth it feels as if a few years of life has added something to her delivery
i finally see the face behind this music..being a guy i was contented of just hearing this song .. very sad, but well written- the lyrics perfectly matched the words..the studio version is still the best rendition of this classic..so her name is charlene ..i used to imagined that the girl behind the song was a long haired brunette with high cheekbones and a little bit tanned , slim well proportioned body , eyes (not necessarily blue)that emotes pain and caring ,soft shoulders..ahhh..dream on.
You know what? I remember when this song came out in '81 I laughed at it. It wasn't until it was on a Motown compilations of songs that I really listened to it and fell in love with it. I didn't know it was a Motown release and from that cd I bought back in '86, I fell in love with this song. She sings it the best.
*Song in 70's and 80's is so meaningful and feel in the heart of listener unlike now duhhhhhh!!.*
Agree
This is in my top ten songs of all time and I am a rocker!
Through age, I feel that songs grew up.
It is very wonderful. I want to give her a praise.
oh my god, goose bumps! this was dancing in my ears!amazing! she sounds even better with a little age to her!
Best interpretation song that I see in my 54 years
this is a really beautiful rendition of this song. Charlene's voice has matured and she shows herself to be a true singer. Love the piano work too. Thanks for posting.
Such a beautiful song 😢
Thank you very much for uploading.
Saudades desta linda cantora !. Charlene . Cuti grandes momentos de minha vida. Bons momentos de minha vida com esta linda canção. Saudades.Parabens a este canal. ♡♥
A song from a long time past, just popped into my head this morning, had forgotten just what a melancholy song it was, lovely
Absolutely love it. I've been listening to the same so for eight years.
Gosh! Why say this is a weird song?
It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I think she's trying to communicating something right from the bottom of her heart and all women should try to listen.
I have one important question: Why is this woman a "one hit wonder", she's truly got talent it's so obvious. Sad because even with a more mature voice she made the song better, more intimate to me.
The song angered certain people who saw it as politically incorrect. She may have been blacklisted in the music industry.
@@Albemarle7 While "I've Never Been To Me" remains as Charlene's only Top 10 hit (it reached #3 in 1982), she also scored with three lesser singles. They were (and you should be able to find them on You Tube): "It Ain't Easy Comin' Down" (reached #97 in March 1977), "Freddie" (reached #96 in May 1977) and "Used To Me" (reached #46 as a duet with Stevie Wonder).
She is not a one hit wonder! She recorded Used ro be wirh Srevie Wonder!👍👍👍
It feels close to my heart ❤ 💔 😞 😪 😢 😔
I don't somehow I never get tired listening to this song.
On this day in 1977 {September 24th} Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for a three week stay, peaking at #97...
Five years later in 1982 it re-entered the Top 100; and this time it reached #3 and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #1 in Australia {for 6 weeks}, in Canada {for 4 weeks}, and in the United Kingdom {for 1 week}...
It was originally recorded by Broadway musical star Howard Keel {its available on You Tube}...
I love this song so much for more than 20 years. Great performance
It would take me some years to like this song and when I finally bought a Motown Complation of hits in the late 80s I was laying on the couch dozing off to sleep and this song came on and i fell in love with it. I forgot what year it was a hit but it still holds up and its one of those songs that makes you really listen to. The words are very strong and Charlene sings this wonderfully.
I love the song - remember it the first time around. She gives a fantastic performance. What a great voice. Brilliant singer, singing a brilliant song!
love this song and rendition
Wowwww. This is even better that the studio version.
歌詞の意味はよくわかりませんが、どこか切ない中に女性の強さや儚げな部分が交互に視えて、曲の感じが大好きです。
Beautiful song. Charlene was interviewed on Radio 4 today, I could listen to her all day
Her voice just getting better and naturally beautiful.... Just Wow!!!
annoying
Finally found a version with the spoken part live.
I hate to say it but I love this song so apt about my life toured the world lived the high life. Now all I have is memories I missed out on all of the important things family children. If I could turn back time x
Yes it's a lovely song with haunting thoughts. x
You could always change yourself. Don't lose hope
Jill Wilson it's never to late
I'll knock you up.....
i grew up listening to this song...
the very nice, tender song, with a deep sense within
Charlene Duncan recorded this incredibly heartfelt song in 1977 -- and it bombed. In 1982, though, DJ Scott Shannon began playing it on WRBQ in Tampa, Florida -- igniting such a response that the record was reissued and shot to #3 coast-to-coast. Non-maternal man-hating feminists despise this song because it so eloquently speaks so many truths that they deny -- until, of course, they find themselves aging, childless and alone.
I've always loved this song, ever since I was eight years old (probably in 1982, as you stated). And even though I would grow up to be a child-FREE (not child-LESS) married feminist, I still love this song because it's a beautiful song and because children are adorable and hilarious, even if I chose not to have any myself. It doesn't mean I can't enjoy being around them. And sure, I'm sort of a man-hater - in a sense. Not as much now as I was in my younger years, because I've become aware that the same patriarchal pressures that make women miserable also destroy what's good and beautiful in boys and turn them into aggressive, woman-hating men. I would say men hate women FAR more than women hate men. All you have to do is take a look at popular pornography and see the way women are treated in it, then look at the statistics of how many men are watching that same degrading, abusive pornography. My guess is you're one them.
@@Starlight_Silver Hate to break this to you, Heather, but the right man completes a woman -- just as certainly as the right woman completes a man. Correctly matched couples are not adversaries but devoted 50-50 life partners, forever doing everything they can to make their sigificant other's dreams come true. The most important job any human being can undertake is to become a parent and, from the start, bend every effort to help shape one's children for happy, successful lives. After all, they are your only lasting legacy! When I began dating, I was not fueled by porn, as you so crudely suggest. I knew even then that the person one marries is the single most important choice you will ever make -- as it will affect every part of your years ahead. To that end, I sought out someone was was kind, compassionate, thoughtful, loyal and as devoted to the idea of carving out a happy life for us as I was. I wasn't looking for a Playboy bunny. It was the kind of woman she was INSIDE that counted. And once I found her, I swore to do everything I could to make her feel warm, safe, secure, fulfilled and very truly loved for the rest of her life. And I found and married her. That's what it's all about, Heather. It sounds like your idea of bitter feminism has attracted the wrong kind of ,men to your door, reinforcing your negative stereotypical views of the opposite sex (probably planted there by screwball instructors and feminist militants in college). You have my sympathy that you have chosen to miss out on so much of the real joys in life.
Such bitterness between you both. Most men love women and most women love men. We are made that way. Men and women are here to protect and support one another. Most people are intrinsically good. Let it go and look for the best in people. @@Starlight_Silver
Uma das musicas mais lindas que eu ja ouvi.
always love this song... time after time... original for my age then, this version for my age now... touch!
On this day in 1983 {February 5th} Charlene performed "I've Never Been To Me" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'...
Eleven months earlier on March 6th, 1982 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100...
She originally released the record five years earlier in 1977; at that time it reached #97 and stayed on the Top 100 for 3 weeks...
It reached #1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the U.K.
RIP Mr. Clark {1929-2012}...
Im 22yrs old but i love this song......since when im 16 yrs. And soon....always ..
Very meaningful and smoothing song!
47 year old male now but I bought this when it first came out. Northern soul 'cool boy' at that time but nothing will hit me as this record does. You enjoy life and then it's gone. The only fool was you but you never knew it. ... Brilliantly sad!!!
Every mother should listen to this song in case of emergency :). Very strong lyrics. I just love you lady´s ;).
this is one of my favorite song! i just love it! classical :)
she sang that, just lovely!
❤What she did 2 her original vocal arrangement from the studio version, 2 this live version vocal is SO Lovely!
Crazy Talented Woman!
I'm dead!
Who's here in 2024 ,and still love this song
One of the best songs ever.
She got angelic voice & touching too!!!
AMAZING!
I love this song!!!
Really better than the already excellent 1982 videos which seem to all use some element of lip synch to studio recordings (recorded in 1976). This is real. This is Charlene with 30 more years of living a roller coaster life of abuse, poverty and disappointment, alternated with periods of career success and ultimately the “paradise” of a fulfilling family life.
Beautiful lady and great voice..❤
Great song from a great singer
Love this song!
VERY NICE JOB WELL DONE
3 this song since forever...
I think 🤔 for as long as people loves each other the memories inside it will make this song to last..... and beyond.
My late mother loved this:-)
Superb!
Magic :) this has cheered me right up :)
Just brilliant
Heehee..STILL relevant comment...Felt like "visiting" me this morning...love your response. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year, my friend
i just love it
thanks,that the song remind me about my dream.......
This song was originally released as a single without the spoken bridge, and went nowhere. The "album" version started getting airplay in Los Angeles, and that is the version which got popular. It has now been recorded in several languages, with the bridge.
GOOSEBUMPS!
she whas so special that she became the first white woman contracted at motown.still this number is gold and moves millions.i love it
A "sensitive" male? Is that a new species I haven't heard about???? You're a male, and you even know the word sensitive!! I'm impressed!!!
All sarcasm aside, I'm so glad to finally find Charlene, love her music.
Good song!
Far more convincing song now that she is older, than it was when this was a hit 25 years ago.
i think this song is really good...not really sad though. it is true about women and family life and love...thanks a lot...i really like it.
Masterpiece
This song is such a story of my life in many forms right from the beginning of it... Actually in the throes of writing my biography with the same title...
ilove that song..
DONE VERY NICE
I remember when this came out. I had to have the cassette. At the time I didn't realize that it was about a woman that had done all those things and although she had a life people dream about .. she wasn't happy. She is telling a woman who is envious of all her adventures that she is the lucky one.. the one with the real life not just a fantasy. Once you go there you can't go back....
"You know what true love is , that freakin baby, that man you just faught with that your gonna bang like a spruce tree tonight"
Old songs like this are far meaningful and better than our songs now; nonsense lyrics, a hit now but easily passes away.
I've been listen this in to some point in my life... Its the first time that I saw who sang this song :D
As i was a little Child i read that this Song is in the Top 10 in the US and UK and i never heard this Song because it was no hit here in Germany and i always thought this must be a Song from Charlene Tilton (Lucy from DALLAS) haha - so silly - and a few Years later i heard this Song from the very first Time!
this song was sang by Vivian Chow (chinese), who was the original singer! .. this is an english version which sounds nice!
Never been to me? it's a story of people that put others before themselves, even today people get into relationships and are then stuck there, never having time to enjoy themselves or do the things they need to do, i'd have thought that with the many teenage parents today, this song is even more significant, especially when they get to a point when they realise they have missed so much in life, sorry to those that are happy with that way of life, but the songs not about the contented ones!
Classic.. Strong lyrics, and only some will grasp the true meaning of her thoughts when she wrote it. It's there but many miss it..
godang she never lost her touch, this version is better than the original, Ms Oliver my wife' kept playing this 200 times a day, Smh. Too bad they never made you record another song, you could have had thousands of hits. What year was this recorded? God bless!
いい曲だね～、この人歌うまいし。もう50回は聞いたよ。Fantastique!
@jacquesjunk So Well Said...........this song brings a tear to my eye everytime i listen to it.......i wish for everyone to listen to this & consider thier lifes paths.....
Powerful
Respect, live good as the single
love it
I like it!
excellent, nothing else to add is there! Any chance of another guest appearance?