A load of singers have sung this song but none have done it better than Bobby Hatfield. No auto tune or gimmicks just pure talent. The studio version was used in the movie 'Ghost' and was great but this live version is stupendous. He had a cold, his mother was watching him perform live for the first time and he suffered with stage fright. Watch when he gets to the high notes at the end. He does not contort his face like other singers do when hitting a high note. He just bites his lip and smiles as if to say I smashed it.
The Righteous Brothers were probably the greatest duo ever. Both had amazing voices, individually, and when they sang together it was magic. They definitely were just as funny as they were talented singers as can be seen in some of their live Shindig weekly performances like "Ko Ko Joe". You've gotten a list from other people posting Andy Williams' hit songs but you might recognize "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" for sure. It's played every year at Christmas time. Thank you for a great reaction.
Andy Williams - the host - was a beloved singer and a heartthrob back in the day. Moon River was probably his most famous song. He had a beautiful mellifluous voice
Imho... one of the best voices ever!! ... if not the best! You were right... no autotune, no studio trickery and the ease with which he sang this blows my mind. I can't even talk without using more effort than he did here! Lol....truth! Love the reaction you guys.
The fact that Bobby did this amazing performance with a head and chest cold and it is still by far the greatest version of this song is all you need to know about the talent of this duo and Bobby himself
Andy Williams was the guy who introduced them. He was a huge star, one of the crooners. His big hits include Moon River and Impossible Dream. Thankyou for a great reaction. These guys were amazing x
Andy Williams was a big singer back in the day. From wikipedia: Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 - September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified[1] and three platinum certified.[2] He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted the Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.[3][4]
Bobby was a very rare 4 Octave Counter Tenor. Over 670 singers worldwide recorded this song. No one will ever match or come close to Bobby Hatfield. This was the song used in the movie Ghost but this song was made for a movie 5 years before called Unchained. The one in the movie was singing from jail. Thanks for making me feel ancient. I watched this the night it was on TV and Andy Williams was also famous as a singer who had his own show. I was so lucky to grow up with this music. We truly were born in the best generation of music ever. Bobby and Bill often sang solo and together. Bill is the deeper voice and just as good, together they were amazing.
You had to have talent to sing back then ... no auto tune, no re-takes, just pure God given talent ... Bobby know to us oldies as blue eyed soul is a counter tenor with an amazing range ... check out You've Lost that Lovin Feeling (most played song of the 20th century). also Bobby singing Summertime
❤️❤️🥰 My mom got to see them perform in Atlantic City 1966. She finally agreed how awesome they were! They were my favorite ❤️ I have ALL their albums.😊 Nobody can sing this song as well as Bobby Hatfield!
They were the best of blue eyes soul. Bobby will always own this song. He was a rare counter tenor with a 4 to 5 octave range. He would glide effortlessly between octave
My first concert nearly 60 years ago was The Righteous Brothers.❤You mentioned what good performers they were. When working the late shows in Vegas, early in their careers, Sinatra caught their act. He took them under his wing. The Brothers credit Sinatra for showing them how to be performers & entertainers, not just singers.
Nice reaction, fellas. Can totally relate to the song taking you back in time. Music does that so effortlessly. The Righteous Brothers have a lot of great songs together, but if you want to be blown away, watch Bobby singing Summertime live. It’s incredible.
His Mother was in the audience for this performance. I think that's why he added so much tremolo over what we know as the studio version. He was showing off for Mom.
Show host Andy Williams was an amazing singer in his own right, with a prodigious catalogue and many, many awards. My personal favourite is "Speak Softly Love" from the original "The Godfather" film. I'd love to hear you guys react to that! Personal story: One summer evening in 2011, I was enjoying a cool drink at sunset, when someone across the street struck up "Speak Softly Love" on the violin. Watching the sunset while listening to that and drinking my drink was one of those nearly perfect moments in time, that you wish would last forever. ❤
Andy Williams started singing with his brothers when he was only 8 years old. He had a great and long solo career after The Williams Brothers broke up. The Righteous Brothers were amazing singers as solo artists but phenomenal together. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 just months before Bobby's death. When this song was in the movie Ghost it hit the billboard again. They re-recorded it and the original 1965 version and the re-recorded versions were both in the billboard top 20 at the same time. This is the only time this has happened in music history. You need to check out Bobby Hatfield singing "Summertime" live performance 1965. He will blow your mind with his amazing vocal control and range. He also shows you his soulful side. It's phenomenal.
Great reaction; thanks! This song originated as the title track to the 1955 prison movie, _Unchained._ The original performer was a black opera singer If you listen to the lyrics, you can sense the longing for the MC to be free and go home.⬅ As you noted, Bobby did outstanding. This live performance is even better than the studio version. Here he went for the runs, and ended with that three-stage escalated note. In the studio version, he simply holds an extended final note. Thus in my opinion this is the definitive performance, regardless of singer (though admittedly I have not heard them all). ⬅ An element few people talk about is the perfect performance by the Andy Williams' orchestra. They probably had 5 days to learn and practice the songs for next week's guests, yet they nailed this and achieved perfect balance with Bobby's voice.
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 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
Nice reaction. I was fortunate to see the Righteous Brothers in the 1980’s after they got back together and this was the one song that Bobby had problems with. Bill Medley had scored with the movie Dirty Dancing.
Bobby's solo performance is considered 'The Gold Standard' for the song and rightfully so. However, the performance Angelina did regarding the song when she sang at the recent Nobel Prize ceremony is the most emotion laden, penetrating rendition I have ever heard and that includes Bobby's great rendition.
The coin toss was a joke that became a rumor. "Unchained Melody"was a song which Bobby Hatfield sang in high school, with his original group The Variations, and which later with the Righteous Brothers was his choice for his solo on an album which was then put on a record single. He said in an interview with them "I had that one in my pocket". 🎶✨
Why can we have real again? It's sad. Now many great singers of old are being pitch corrected by the industry! They're ruining all the greatest vocals of all time. Disgusting.
Bobby Hatfield sang this better than anyone else that tried singing it.
A load of singers have sung this song but none have done it better than Bobby Hatfield. No auto tune or gimmicks just pure talent. The studio version was used in the movie 'Ghost' and was great but this live version is stupendous. He had a cold, his mother was watching him perform live for the first time and he suffered with stage fright. Watch when he gets to the high notes at the end. He does not contort his face like other singers do when hitting a high note. He just bites his lip and smiles as if to say I smashed it.
Andy Williams is a phenomenal singer. He is worth checking out. Bobby Hatfield was a gorgeous man with a gorgeous voice.
The Righteous Brothers were probably the greatest duo ever. Both had amazing voices, individually, and when they sang together it was magic. They definitely were just as funny as they were talented singers as can be seen in some of their live Shindig weekly performances like "Ko Ko Joe". You've gotten a list from other people posting Andy Williams' hit songs but you might recognize "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" for sure. It's played every year at Christmas time. Thank you for a great reaction.
Andy Williams - the host - was a beloved singer and a heartthrob back in the day. Moon River was probably his most famous song. He had a beautiful mellifluous voice
Imho... one of the best voices ever!! ... if not the best! You were right... no autotune, no studio trickery and the ease with which he sang this blows my mind. I can't even talk without using more effort than he did here! Lol....truth! Love the reaction you guys.
Yes, he did that ❤ No one would even guess that he was fighting a severe cold while singing this ❤❤❤
The fact that Bobby did this amazing performance with a head and chest cold and it is still by far the greatest version of this song is all you need to know about the talent of this duo and Bobby himself
Bobby Hatfield, what a voice.
Andy Williams was the guy who introduced them. He was a huge star, one of the crooners.
His big hits include Moon River and Impossible Dream.
Thankyou for a great reaction. These guys were amazing x
Andy Williams was a big singer back in the day. From wikipedia: Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 - September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified[1] and three platinum certified.[2] He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted the Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.[3][4]
Bobby was a very rare 4 Octave Counter Tenor. Over 670 singers worldwide recorded this song. No one will ever match or come close to Bobby Hatfield. This was the song used in the movie Ghost but this song was made for a movie 5 years before called Unchained. The one in the movie was singing from jail.
Thanks for making me feel ancient. I watched this the night it was on TV and Andy Williams was also famous as a singer who had his own show. I was so lucky to grow up with this music. We truly were born in the best generation of music ever.
Bobby and Bill often sang solo and together. Bill is the deeper voice and just as good, together they were amazing.
Not even Elvis could match this.
You had to have talent to sing back then ... no auto tune, no re-takes, just pure God given talent ... Bobby know to us oldies as blue eyed soul is a counter tenor with an amazing range ... check out You've Lost that Lovin Feeling (most played song of the 20th century). also Bobby singing Summertime
Love this reaction man..my mum and dads funeral song.. makes me sad but yet I'm here listening 😔 rip mum and dad x
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Andy Williams show was a weekly show great music
❤ So wunderschön gesungen.
Andy was a great singer.
❤️❤️🥰 My mom got to see them perform in Atlantic City 1966. She finally agreed how awesome they were! They were my favorite ❤️ I have ALL their albums.😊 Nobody can sing this song as well as Bobby Hatfield!
They were the best of blue eyes soul. Bobby will always own this song. He was a rare counter tenor with a 4 to 5 octave range. He would glide effortlessly between octave
I've seen this performance dozens of times, but have never seen the interview beforehand. Love these guys. Their singing looks so effortless.
My first concert nearly 60 years ago was The Righteous Brothers.❤You mentioned what good performers they were. When working the late shows in Vegas, early in their careers, Sinatra caught their act. He took them under his wing. The Brothers credit Sinatra for showing them how to be performers & entertainers, not just singers.
Nice reaction, fellas. Can totally relate to the song taking you back in time. Music does that so effortlessly. The Righteous Brothers have a lot of great songs together, but if you want to be blown away, watch Bobby singing Summertime live. It’s incredible.
Absolutely!
Please react to the Rightous Brothers singing their 1st big hit
“You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”
“Soul and Inspiration “
“Rock and Roll Heaven”
He was also the one that performed this so for the movie Ghost twenty-five years later at the age of 50❤
Now do Andy Williams, Moon River. C’mon guys, it’s a classic
Effortless talent.
Bobby Hatfield also had a three or four range octave.
His Mother was in the audience for this performance. I think that's why he added so much tremolo over what we know as the studio version. He was showing off for Mom.
Omg I’m so darn old!
Music these days can't hold a candle to 1960's and earlier. People these days don't know what real talent is.
Show host Andy Williams was an amazing singer in his own right, with a prodigious catalogue and many, many awards. My personal favourite is "Speak Softly Love" from the original "The Godfather" film. I'd love to hear you guys react to that!
Personal story: One summer evening in 2011, I was enjoying a cool drink at sunset, when someone across the street struck up "Speak Softly Love" on the violin. Watching the sunset while listening to that and drinking my drink was one of those nearly perfect moments in time, that you wish would last forever. ❤
A lot of people don't realize that when this song came out most of our young men were fighting in Veitnam 😢. I was 14 when this came out.
Andy Williams started singing with his brothers when he was only 8 years old. He had a great and long solo career after The Williams Brothers broke up.
The Righteous Brothers were amazing singers as solo artists but phenomenal together.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 just months before Bobby's death. When this song was in the movie Ghost it hit the billboard again. They re-recorded it and the original 1965 version and the re-recorded versions were both in the billboard top 20 at the same time. This is the only time this has happened in music history.
You need to check out Bobby Hatfield singing "Summertime" live performance 1965. He will blow your mind with his amazing vocal control and range. He also shows you his soulful side. It's phenomenal.
They were great live..saw them in concert in Toronto in the early 1970s
Live & NO autotune!
And I feel Simon Cowell judges singers' performances against Bobby Hatfield's rendition of "Unchained Melody"...
Great reaction; thanks! This song originated as the title track to the 1955 prison movie, _Unchained._ The original performer was a black opera singer If you listen to the lyrics, you can sense the longing for the MC to be free and go home.⬅
As you noted, Bobby did outstanding. This live performance is even better than the studio version. Here he went for the runs, and ended with that three-stage escalated note. In the studio version, he simply holds an extended final note. Thus in my opinion this is the definitive performance, regardless of singer (though admittedly I have not heard them all). ⬅
An element few people talk about is the perfect performance by the Andy Williams' orchestra. They probably had 5 days to learn and practice the songs for next week's guests, yet they nailed this and achieved perfect balance with Bobby's voice.
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 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
This song has been covered over 600 times, I hear.
Cool ! Ty for watching !
Andy Williams songs are played at Christmas time. One famous song is “It’s the most wonderful time of the year “.
Nice reaction. I was fortunate to see the Righteous Brothers in the 1980’s after they got back together and this was the one song that Bobby had problems with. Bill Medley had scored with the movie Dirty Dancing.
Bobby was a little nervous, and excited, because his mother was in the audience.
Please react to Bobby Hatfield "Summertime" live performance 1965. He will blow you away with his vocal control and range.
Im 74 Bobby got me girlfriends. In 60's 70's put that record on panties dropped. Free Love era.
Those were the days when music was real.
Blue eyed soul is balm to the heart! Check out other songs, including their covers of Etta James, and Louis Armstrong's, Summertime.
Bobby's solo performance is considered 'The Gold Standard' for the song and rightfully so. However,
the performance Angelina did regarding the song when she sang at the recent Nobel Prize ceremony
is the most emotion laden, penetrating rendition I have ever heard and that includes Bobby's great
rendition.
check out Andy Williams singing the iconic Moon River.
Andy Williams, one of the great singers like Sinatra, Tony Bennet etc.....
Check out their version of I Just Want to Make Love to You. Radio stations wouldn't play it.
I always thought they were brothers
Live tv, no redo, and his mom in the front row
Actually both Bobby and Bill wanted to sing the solo but Booby won the coin toss
The coin toss was a joke that became a rumor. "Unchained Melody"was a song which Bobby Hatfield sang in high school, with his original group The Variations, and which later with the Righteous Brothers was his choice for his solo on an album which was then put on a record single. He said in an interview with them "I had that one in my pocket". 🎶✨
Why can we have real again? It's sad. Now many great singers of old are being pitch corrected by the industry! They're ruining all the greatest vocals of all time. Disgusting.