My husband and I watch your channel together and we ask each other do you remember where we when we heard this song, or remember dancing to this at a school dance we went to, my husband have known each other since we were ten and got married right out of high school, 45 years of marriage and I still love him lol
Leonard Cohen has a song titled "Dance Me To The End of Love" about long lasting love matches like yours. I lost my wife last March from covid19, after 27 years or marriage. Celebrate the years together.
This was Steam's biggest hit in 1969. This song became popular being played at many sports events. Steam had another minor hit with "I've Gotta Make You Love Me".
We used to sing this song's chorus at our high school football games while shaking our car keys at the visiting team's fans across the field. 1974 to 1977
Great old sixties song! To this day, you hear people at football, Basketball, and Baseball games, singing and chanting "Na na, na, na...Hey, hey, hey...Goodbye." If a guy fouls out of a Basketball game, you hear it. If a pitcher in Baseball gets pulled by the manager, you hear it. It's been in sports arenas and stadiums for over 50 years. Besides that, it's just a great song. Thanks
I knew him, his mom was a Rocket at Radio City he grew up in there, the organ player took him under his wing, so he wrote this song to put on the B side, DJ played it by mistake.....he didn't even have a band, threw one together.
My goodness I was 15 years old at the time and a sophomore in high school when this came out back in 1969. This was a multi-platinum record song and a monster hit for the group "Steam." This was and is still used in sporting events around the world. As Shawn mention... it was used against a losing team. Brilliant!😎
this obvious one hit wonder group 'Steam', joined the likes of that period, (late 60's) of one hit wonders such as 'Keith'- "Hey, 98.6" and 'Jaggerz'. (The Rapper)
there was no group "Steam" this song was created and recorded by Gary Decarlo who I had the pleasure of preforming it with a few times- the group in the video was singing to his tracks after the record label and he when separate ways - on my RUclips page under link below at 7:10 into the show you can see this performance the night I met Gary - ruclips.net/video/fyR_TawAedQ/видео.html .
Gary DeCarlo, main song writer, made at least $50,000 a year every year in song writing royalties from the day this song hit #1 on the charts (1969) until the day he died in 2017. This song really was a gift that kept on giving.
I wish that was true because he was a wonderful person - however I preformed this song with Gary a few times. with out divulging our conversation that's not the story he told me . if you go to :7:10 at the link this was the night we met ruclips.net/video/fyR_TawAedQ/видео.html
This was in the movie "Remember the Titans"! A really good football movie, ya'll would love it. And that guy singing looks like the Meathead on "All in the Family"
For decades now High Schools and Colleges have played the chorus of the is song in some way shape of form, recording or pep band etc., at basketball and football games, without EVER knowing the full song or where it came from. This was actually two different songs written by two separate guys, who slapped them together and accidentally caused a hit song.
I remember standing in line to 6th grade in 1969 and someone would have a small transistor radio. a term from the past lol. But this was on A LOT and you could hear many of us singing it. Great memories. Look up The Pipkins Gimmie Dat Thing. or close to that. Silly songs. we had a lot of them back then called novelty songs. Ray Stevens made a great living writing and performing them. Ahab the arab, guitarzan, Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte From Cleveland and growing up with had Big Chuck a Polish guy and so am I but he did friday night fright videos, but in breaks he started to add in skits they would make up to songs. Here is one. A lot of stuff back in is not PC today. Not here to offend someone but I turned out fine while Big Chuck was making silly videos about A CERTAIN ETHNIC MAN names Stash. Polish of course. Just a diff era. We could all laugh more. ruclips.net/video/zBbr9qM9uv8/видео.html
This was actually a "throw-away" B-side song that as basically created when Decarlo was fooling around with an old musical track from one of their earlier compositions. The result- a smash hit which rocked to #1 in Dec.1969 and is now known by multiple generations and sports fans across the world!
I REMEMBER THIS RECORD OUT GOING TO CANIBE LAKE. 1970. WITH MY BROTHER AND HIS FREIND KEVEN. MY MOM AND SISTER. ON THE WAY HOME. THERE WAS GUY NAKED RUNNIN OUT AND WAVEN UP IN TREE. I REMEMBER MY FAMILY LAUGHLIN. AT LEAST GUY WAS HAPPY. IN MIDDLE OF FARM HIGHWAY. I REALIZE HE WAS LSD. LOT THAT WAS HAPPENING THEN. BUT KNOW ONE KNEW. PEOPLE WERE HAPPY MOST. IF NOT POOR SOULS IN WAR.
an excellent tune from 1969. I crank the volume the second I hear this come on the radio... love it ! and....it's such an easy song to sing along to...
This was a relatively obscure song until the organist at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Nancy Faust, starting playing it in 1977 when a White Sox hit a home run. Things took off from there and soon it was played sports stadiums throughout the country.
It was very popular before the White Sox organ played it. Every high school band in the US during the early 70s played it at football and basketball games.
Another great song that came along in my teen years. 68 years old I was lucky to enough to have been able to listen to a tremendous amount of great music growing up.
I'm used to The Nylons acapella version of this song. In the 90's you could go to the CNE and they would do a concert every year and afterwards the entire audience would be stamping the beat on the bridge of the exit singing this song.
HONESTLY HAVING BEEN BORN IN 1960 AND GROWING UP LISTENING TO THE A.M, AND THEN F.M RADIO, I ALWAYS THOUGHT STEAM WAS A BLACK BROTHERS R&B BAND. WHEN I FIRST SAW VIDEO OF THE BAND (NOT VERY LONG AGO) AND THE FRONT MAN (SINGER), I HONESTLY LAUGHED MY ASS OFF. HE JUST DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WHO I THOUGHT SANG THE SONG. LOL!
Elvis behind you. The man who taught his singing style was a black man Roy Hamilton when they met. You'll see if you hear Roy Hamilton hit "Don't let go" 🎶 Request 👍
Was it my favorite song back then? No, but it's a nice song. Sure has longevity? Hear it occasionally on oldie stations. A one hit wonder, tho surprising he had a good voice.
Imagine if you will back in my day we heard the song before we saw the group . We loved the groove and yes it became the chant at sport games to the opposing teams.
Wow does this take me back to junior high lol Some other great ones from that era are Build Me Up Buttercup, Take a Letter Maria, Tracy, Eli’s Coming, In The Year 2525, Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.. love your channel 😌. Ps. You an O’s fan? I won lunch with Adam Jones a few years back 😀
I was about 12 years old when this song came out and when I got into the high school band we started singing this at the football games and 45 years later they still sing it at the sporting events! We had the greatest sounds ever when I grew up. Baby boomer yes!
This people involved with recording this song considered it a dog, and it was only added to the album because they needed another song to fill it out. And it became their only hit. Elvin Bishop's big hit, "Fooled Around And Fell In Love", is another example of an album filler, that turned into a hit.
That was so beautiful guys! I know what you mean the music is addictive. The feelings they brings really calm and soothe the heart and take my mind away from all the troubles and worries, and back to a simpler time when people sang about the slower and kinder world that I grew up in. It's like a little vacation for my mind listening to your channel. I know I have said it before, but it just keeps getting better and better. You two are great hosts! :)
I love this song. And, yes, it became the sports anthem for the losing team as they left the stadium. The fans on the winning team would wave "goodbye." 😂😂😂
This song was dead until Nancy Faust & the 1977 Southside Hitmen brought it back to life. She played it on the organ after the Sox drove an opposing Pitcher out of the game.
This is very popular chant at sporting events, but I believe the first time was when somebody sang this years ago at the old Comiskey Park ( home to Chicago White Sox) when one of the White Socks hit a homer, and it caught on. So whenever the socks hit a homer the home crowd would rock the place with the catchy chant!
This song was our High School Graduation theme song kinda crazy but it was very popular also in 1970 and right after graduation me and my two friends drove to Myrtle Beach South Caroline but I can't remember hardly anything for those three days ............too drunk hahahaha
This is the studio version! The studio version is being played over a live performance or else the group in the video is doing a poor job of lip-syncing to the studio version. Lip-syncing to studio versions of songs was common for TV appearances at the time.
The person "singing" lead is not the actual singer. Gary DeCarlo is the actual singer but he was not allowed to perform in the band. They put someone in his place to lip sync as you see in the video.
Shawn's all over this, when he says that it's a staple (was?) at sporting events, that's played when an individual has been ejected from a game, a pitcher in baseball is being removed during an inning, and of course when it's inevitable that a team is going to lose a game, especially one that eliminates them from a playoff etc.
Interestingly, the musicians in the (fake) Steam group are pretending to play guitars and bass - there were no guitars or bass at all in the Gary Decarlo, Paul Leka recorded song the fake group is lip syncing to in the video. Leka played keyboards on the recording and the drums were a track were used from another Decarlo previously recorded song (if you listen carefully you can hear at one point the drum track was edited and a section repeats twice), the congas were a track from a different Leka produced song. The lyrics were partly from a song Leka and Decarlo wrote a few years previously, the ‘Na, Na, Na’s’ were ad lib in the studio. The song was meant to be a throw-away - a B side record not meant to be played by Disc Jockeys. It went on the B side of another Gary Decarlo recording - the song that was meant to be played. They decided to name the (alleged) group Steam (another attempt to ensure Disc Jockeys would play the Decarlo A side) inspired by the Steam rising from manholes outside Mercury Records Manhattan studios. Leka inferred years later they tried to make a song no one would play. Of course one Disc Jockey played ‘Na, Na, Na’ and the favorable reaction started other stations to play the B side and there you have history - a number one song! I remember when this song hit, it wad played everywhere. Pretty infectious record, one of my favs from that era. Paul Leka was a record producer working with such groups as The Lemon Pipers, the Left Banke and REO Speed Wagon among others. Leka passed in 2011. Gary Decarlo passed in 2017 (both from cancer). There is a video on YT of Decarlo singing the song live in 2015 - his voice absolutely sounded the same in 2015 as it did in 1969. One of the great stories of a record accidentally becoming a major hit, becoming part of cultural history and continually being used in movies, commercials and heavy rotation on oldies stations for decades. Thanks for your great reaction videos.
Great retelling of the story. I too was 15 or 16 when this song came out. Everyone loved it. Gary was contacted by the producers of the PBS Doo Wapp series in 2011-12 and asked if he'd perform his song for their series. He jumped at the chance, he said in an interview. I was thinking that live recording you referred to was from the Doo Wapp series. If not, I wonder if there is a video of it somewhere.
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My husband and I watch your channel together and we ask each other do you remember where we when we heard this song, or remember dancing to this at a school dance we went to, my husband have known each other since we were ten and got married right out of high school, 45 years of
marriage and I still love him lol
Leonard Cohen has a song titled "Dance Me To The End of Love" about long lasting love matches like yours. I lost my wife last March from covid19, after 27 years or marriage. Celebrate the years together.
Great tastes in music👍👍👍
And congratulations 😁🤩
It's also on remember the titans
Probably the greatest one hit wonder of all time. Mel getting into it and that is the best.
Love that xylophone.
This was Steam's biggest hit in 1969. This song became popular being played at many sports events. Steam had another minor hit with "I've Gotta Make You Love Me".
We used to sing this song's chorus at our high school football games while shaking our car keys at the visiting team's fans across the field. 1974 to 1977
It's a great loser song🤭 ruclips.net/video/DZqu8ojifhU/видео.html
Put this one on the playlist
This guy gets the top award for not looking like what you would think this singer shoulda looked like.
He looks lime my jr high math teacher
This song has been sung by fans at sports events for over fifty years now.
A song from the 60’s became a sports stadium chant! 😁❤️
They Played This Song At The Chicago White Sox Baseball Games Too
The 70's are full of one hit wonders! I think it is what made the music great
I totally agree , 70's music was like no other before or after
Song was from 1969. But you were close lol.
Great old sixties song! To this day, you hear people at football, Basketball, and Baseball games, singing and chanting "Na na, na, na...Hey, hey, hey...Goodbye." If a guy fouls out of a Basketball game, you hear it. If a pitcher in Baseball gets pulled by the manager, you hear it.
It's been in sports arenas and stadiums for over 50 years. Besides that, it's just a great song.
Thanks
My kind of music ! 😃
I knew him, his mom was a Rocket at Radio City he grew up in there, the organ player took him under his wing, so he wrote this song to put on the B side, DJ played it by mistake.....he didn't even have a band, threw one together.
Imagine having one hit that lasts forever?
I agree 100%
My goodness I was 15 years old at the time and a sophomore in high school when this came out back in 1969. This was a multi-platinum record song and a monster hit for the group "Steam." This was and is still used in sporting events around the world. As Shawn mention... it was used against a losing team. Brilliant!😎
this obvious one hit wonder group 'Steam', joined the likes of that period, (late 60's) of one hit wonders such as 'Keith'- "Hey, 98.6" and 'Jaggerz'. (The Rapper)
People were singing this song outside Florida State Prison the day when Serial Killer Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair in 1989
Played this at our school leaving party 1972, Birkdale Secondary Modern, Southport, UK. Happy days 👍
Steam didn't actually exist as a group when this record was released. A group was formed when it was decided that Steam needed to tour.
Absolute Truth, yes.
Hi Shawn and Mel
Love this... thank you 💓
there was no group "Steam" this song was created and recorded by Gary Decarlo who I had the pleasure of preforming it with a few times- the group in the video was singing to his tracks after the record label and he when separate ways - on my RUclips page under link below at 7:10 into the show you can see this performance the night I met Gary -
ruclips.net/video/fyR_TawAedQ/видео.html .
Gary DeCarlo, main song writer, made at least $50,000 a year every year in song writing royalties from the day this song hit #1 on the charts (1969) until the day he died in 2017. This song really was a gift that kept on giving.
I wish that was true because he was a wonderful person - however I preformed this song with Gary a few times. with out divulging our conversation that's not the story he told me .
if you go to :7:10 at the link this was the night we met ruclips.net/video/fyR_TawAedQ/видео.html
I bet he was happy he wrote it!
Hey hey ...that beat is good for depression!
This was in the movie "Remember the Titans"! A really good football movie, ya'll would love it. And that guy singing looks like the Meathead on "All in the Family"
For decades now High Schools and Colleges have played the chorus of the is song in some way shape of form, recording or pep band etc., at basketball and football games, without EVER knowing the full song or where it came from. This was actually two different songs written by two separate guys, who slapped them together and accidentally caused a hit song.
I remember standing in line to 6th grade in 1969 and someone would have a small transistor radio. a term from the past lol. But this was on A LOT and you could hear many of us singing it. Great memories.
Look up The Pipkins Gimmie Dat Thing. or close to that. Silly songs. we had a lot of them back then called novelty songs. Ray Stevens made a great living writing and performing them. Ahab the arab, guitarzan, Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte
From Cleveland and growing up with had Big Chuck a Polish guy and so am I but he did friday night fright videos, but in breaks he started to add in skits they would make up to songs. Here is one. A lot of stuff back in is not PC today. Not here to offend someone but I turned out fine while Big Chuck was making silly videos about A CERTAIN ETHNIC MAN names Stash. Polish of course. Just a diff era. We could all laugh more.
ruclips.net/video/zBbr9qM9uv8/видео.html
This was actually a "throw-away" B-side song that as basically created when Decarlo was fooling around with an old musical track from one of their earlier compositions. The result- a smash hit which rocked to #1 in Dec.1969 and is now known by multiple generations and sports fans across the world!
Love this song & Jimmy Ruffins “ farewell is a lonely sound” is worth a shout out too👍
Big hit
I REMEMBER THIS RECORD OUT GOING TO CANIBE LAKE. 1970. WITH MY BROTHER AND HIS FREIND KEVEN. MY MOM AND SISTER. ON THE WAY HOME. THERE WAS GUY NAKED RUNNIN OUT AND WAVEN UP IN TREE. I REMEMBER MY FAMILY LAUGHLIN. AT LEAST GUY WAS HAPPY. IN MIDDLE OF FARM HIGHWAY. I REALIZE HE WAS LSD. LOT THAT WAS HAPPENING THEN. BUT KNOW ONE KNEW. PEOPLE WERE HAPPY MOST. IF NOT POOR SOULS IN WAR.
an excellent tune from 1969. I crank the volume the second I hear this come on the radio... love it ! and....it's such an easy song to sing along to...
This song and No Sugar Tonite by the Archies were the bomb in '69
This one break beats songs all time next to Dennis Coffey one of the bongo bothers of Motown
Its actually the perfect high school graduation song 😊 too
The Rapper - The Jaggerz out of Pittsburgh with Donnie Iris on vocals
Fire...epic
This was a relatively obscure song until the organist at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Nancy Faust, starting playing it in 1977 when a White Sox hit a home run. Things took off from there and soon it was played sports stadiums throughout the country.
It was very popular before the White Sox organ played it. Every high school band in the US during the early 70s played it at football and basketball games.
Another great song that came along in my teen years. 68 years old I was lucky to enough to have been able to listen to a tremendous amount of great music growing up.
"He Don't Love You Like I Love You" by Jerry Butler would be a great follow-up for this.
I'm used to The Nylons acapella version of this song. In the 90's you could go to the CNE and they would do a concert every year and afterwards the entire audience would be stamping the beat on the bridge of the exit singing this song.
They sing this in Congess about each other.
LOL!
That na na na chant is huge in hockey playoffs. Whole home crowd serenading the losing team.
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HONESTLY HAVING BEEN BORN IN 1960 AND GROWING UP LISTENING TO THE A.M, AND THEN F.M RADIO, I ALWAYS THOUGHT STEAM WAS A BLACK BROTHERS R&B BAND. WHEN I FIRST SAW VIDEO OF THE BAND (NOT VERY LONG AGO) AND THE FRONT MAN (SINGER), I HONESTLY LAUGHED MY ASS OFF. HE JUST DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WHO I THOUGHT SANG THE SONG. LOL!
Elvis behind you. The man who taught his singing style was a black man Roy Hamilton when they met. You'll see if you hear Roy Hamilton hit "Don't let go" 🎶
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it was played at hockey games here in NYC as a goodbye to the losing team...was a lot of fun back then - 1990's early 2000's
When I'd first heard this song as a kid, I'd thought Stevie Wonder was singing vocals.
They played this song when Trump lost the 2020 election! Well suited!
My ex said when he was in the Army they marched to this in boot camp. So good!
There was a song on that album called ,, ITS THE MAJIC IN YOU GIRL... GOOD SONG...☮️🙏
The Chicago White Sox first starting playing this in the 70's when the starting pitcher of the opposite team got replaced by the relieving one.
Some of your patrons are correct! There was no group Steam. They were made up of studio musicians and fronted by studio singer Gary DeCarlo.
Classic 60's song. Glad you both like it!
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Bananarama re-released this is 1983, and it was a big hit for them. Up till now I have never heard the original version. But I like that version too.
There is a song "Take Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, Im Kissing You goodbye"
Aaaah, the sound track of my youth. I love it.
Was it my favorite song back then? No, but it's a nice song. Sure has longevity? Hear it occasionally on oldie stations. A one hit wonder, tho surprising he had a good voice.
Imagine if you will back in my day we heard the song before we saw the group . We loved the groove and yes it became the chant at sport games to the opposing teams.
Steam, very good band very good reaction. might like-[King Harvest-Dancing in the Moonlight]
wow tyu
Lots of sports teams would sing this to their opponents
Like my daughter's swim team. Fun memories
"If he did he wouldn't make you cry" iconic!!
They-use to play that song on the radio all the time. What I hated about it was they cut it in half. I hated that
Wow does this take me back to junior high lol
Some other great ones from that era are Build Me Up Buttercup, Take a Letter Maria, Tracy, Eli’s Coming, In The Year 2525, Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.. love your channel 😌. Ps. You an O’s fan? I won lunch with Adam Jones a few years back 😀
This song was played at the end of so many winning teams back in the 70's...to kinda kiss the loosing teams fans goodbye
One hit wonders and this supposed to be a b side. You just never know
I think you would like. If i can dream by elvis you guys rock
Seems the 70's were loaded with one hit wonders
I was about 12 years old when this song came out and when I got into the high school band we started singing this at the football games and 45 years later they still sing it at the sporting events! We had the greatest sounds ever when I grew up. Baby boomer yes!
This people involved with recording this song considered it a dog, and it was only added to the album because they needed another song to fill it out. And it became their only hit.
Elvin Bishop's big hit, "Fooled Around And Fell In Love", is another example of an album filler, that turned into a hit.
That was so beautiful guys! I know what you mean the music is addictive. The feelings they brings really calm and soothe the heart and take my mind away from all the troubles and worries, and back to a simpler time when people sang about the slower and kinder world that I grew up in. It's like a little vacation for my mind listening to your channel. I know I have said it before, but it just keeps getting better and better. You two are great hosts! :)
I love this song. And, yes, it became the sports anthem for the losing team as they left the stadium. The fans on the winning team would wave "goodbye." 😂😂😂
Bringing back my childhood!!!!
Check out the recorded version. What a 60’s banger! 😁❤️
I don't think I heard this song since I was younger(way younger).. I loved this song.. And yes we use to sing it a college football games when we won
Man we rocked this song.
This took me back to my High School daze.
I thought this was Tod Rundgren
Steam's 1969 Hit On Mercury Records
Yes Mel there's a very interesting story behind the creation of this song. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_Na_Hey_Hey_Kiss_Him_Goodbye
I feel like you guys have been peeking at my spotify playlists,LOL
This song was dead until Nancy Faust & the 1977 Southside Hitmen brought it back to life. She played it on the organ after the Sox drove an opposing Pitcher out of the game.
This is very popular chant at sporting events, but I believe the first time was when somebody sang this years ago at the old Comiskey Park ( home to Chicago White Sox) when one of the White Socks hit a homer,
and it caught on. So whenever the socks hit a homer the home crowd would rock the place with the catchy chant!
My two locos! Wow! I thought this group was African American. Wow! Arriyba!
React To Sweet City Woman by The STAMPEDERS 1973
This song was our High School Graduation theme song kinda crazy but it was very popular also in 1970 and right after graduation me and my two friends drove to Myrtle Beach South Caroline but I can't remember hardly anything for those three days ............too drunk hahahaha
i am 68 and remember hearing this on the radio and have this on vinyl somewhere
If your listening the this.... you gotta listen to "Dance To The Music" by Sly and the Family Stone.😎
Studio version is much better !
This is the studio version! The studio version is being played over a live performance or else the group in the video is doing a poor job of lip-syncing to the studio version. Lip-syncing to studio versions of songs was common for TV appearances at the time.
We sang this instead of Christmas songs when we went caroling ...damn we thought we were too coool....so fun!!!
The person "singing" lead is not the actual singer. Gary DeCarlo is the actual singer but he was not allowed to perform in the band. They put someone in his place to lip sync as you see in the video.
Shawn's all over this, when he says that it's a staple (was?) at sporting events, that's played when an individual has been ejected from a game, a pitcher in baseball is being removed during an inning, and of course when it's inevitable that a team is going to lose a game, especially one that eliminates them from a playoff etc.
Interestingly, the musicians in the (fake) Steam group are pretending to play guitars and bass - there were no guitars or bass at all in the Gary Decarlo, Paul Leka recorded song the fake group is lip syncing to in the video. Leka played keyboards on the recording and the drums were a track were used from another Decarlo previously recorded song (if you listen carefully you can hear at one point the drum track was edited and a section repeats twice), the congas were a track from a different Leka produced song. The lyrics were partly from a song Leka and Decarlo wrote a few years previously, the ‘Na, Na, Na’s’ were ad lib in the studio. The song was meant to be a throw-away - a B side record not meant to be played by Disc Jockeys. It went on the B side of another Gary Decarlo recording - the song that was meant to be played. They decided to name the (alleged) group Steam (another attempt to ensure Disc Jockeys would play the Decarlo A side) inspired by the Steam rising from manholes outside Mercury Records Manhattan studios. Leka inferred years later they tried to make a song no one would play. Of course one Disc Jockey played ‘Na, Na, Na’ and the favorable reaction started other stations to play the B side and there you have history - a number one song! I remember when this song hit, it wad played everywhere. Pretty infectious record, one of my favs from that era. Paul Leka was a record producer working with such groups as The Lemon Pipers, the Left Banke and REO Speed Wagon among others. Leka passed in 2011. Gary Decarlo passed in 2017 (both from cancer). There is a video on YT of Decarlo singing the song live in 2015 - his voice absolutely sounded the same in 2015 as it did in 1969. One of the great stories of a record accidentally becoming a major hit, becoming part of cultural history and continually being used in movies, commercials and heavy rotation on oldies stations for decades. Thanks for your great reaction videos.
Great retelling of the story. I too was 15 or 16 when this song came out. Everyone loved it. Gary was contacted by the producers of the PBS Doo Wapp series in 2011-12 and asked if he'd perform his song for their series. He jumped at the chance, he said in an interview. I was thinking that live recording you referred to was from the Doo Wapp series. If not, I wonder if there is a video of it somewhere.
@@ssdd3332 I think this is the performance you were referring to: ruclips.net/video/zbItRD40KJ0/видео.html
@@draff1662 😊
Yes... this is the theme song for the Chicago White Sox. When I was growing up, I live there is the best time of my life.
Connecticuts own, STEAM!😄
Just a bunch of studio musicians got together and made this song....
40 years i thought these were black guys till now
Love your reaction. Thank you.