four freshmen supercomp (spencer Lay director's cut)
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2022
- i noticed that my favorite four freshmen live compilation video was recently removed from youtube, luckily I saved it awhile ago & peppered in some of my personal favorite performances from over the years. this is really just for me so if anyone finds joy in this i'd consider it a win. love u
day by day 00:00
you're so far above me 1:45
love is just around the corner 3:40
you stepped out of a dream 5:25
charmaine 7:50
got a date with an angel 10:11
easy street 11:45
after you've gone 14:20
somebody loves me 15:50
poinciana 17:35
in this whole wide world 20:15
ain't seen nothing like you 23:12
blue world 25:16
he who loves and runs away 27:15
crazy bones 30:07
the day isn't long enough 32:16
how do you like your eggs in he morning? 34:10
someone like you 36:10
we'll be together again 37:39
this can't be love 39:55
graduation day 41:16
frosty the snowman 43:41
love turns winter to spring 45:37
there will never be another you 47:50
That was a real treat. At age 87 now, I still remember so clearly back in the 50s when I was dating my not so soon to be wife and listening to the radio together in Pasadena in my mom's 50 Ford convertible. After 64 years of marriage we are still brought back in time by The Four Freshmen. Thank you Spencer Lay.
That's wonderful Larry.
Many more years of
Marital bliss.
You are SO blessed.
Bless you, Larry, you were one of the rare one who married your childhood sweetheart and stuck it out through thick and thin for 64 years; we wish you both happiness for many more years!
Thank you so much for sharing, Larry. What a beautiful story, beautiful memories.
In 50's got an invitation from a friend and his wife to go to the AIR FORCE BASE on Cape Cod Mass. To see the Four Freshmen! ! Thsy were fantastic! They had their own sound! Over the years people tried to come up with the same sound but no one could get the same harmony! What a great surprise to see and hear them after all these years! I am now 91 years old! Thank you!
To this day, NO ONE can match what these guys did! Just simply the best ever, and it never gets old!! My music teacher told me, that they harmonize like a group of saxophones!! So smooth!
Pentatonics…
No instruments, only vocals
ruclips.net/video/LRP8d7hhpoQ/видео.html
The Hi Los were pretty close 👅
.......maybe.....@@r4b32t11
In vocal harmony, yes, but these guys played instruments at the same time!@@r4b32t11
I fell in love with these Dudes in 1955...What a year they made it....There are no words !!
I met this group in 1956 when they came to Ohio Wesleyan University where I was a freshman. They were members of Tau Capa Epsilon fraternity which I had pledged. Kenny Albers had just joined the group, so we took him in then and had a party for them after their performance and I entertained them with my comity escape act. Many of my fraternity brothers , including myself were in the University concert orchestra so we had a special interest in the group. They will always be my favorite musical group and afforded me memories that I will never forget.
Thanks Jack for taking us along in your pleasant memories.
I saw this configuration of the 4 Freshmen at least 10 times back in the fifties. Ross, Don, Ken and Bob. I loved them!❤️
Thank you for saving this fine collection of heartwarming tunes sung by the Four Freshmen; this brings back sentimental memories from the forties and fifties. Now that I am 90 years of age, I am rejoicing..
My fave singers back in the ‘50s were these guys and the hi-Los. So fantastic!
I'm 42 and I love this era! Wish I had grown up back then. Simply the best ever. Very grateful to have had parents and grandparents who passed on to me a love for the wonderful things they grew up with!
These guys STILL excite me no end! There isn't a song WRITTEN that they could not turn into a gigantic hit!!💖💕💓
Those amazing harmonies…. BLISS ❤
the greatest of them all
This is just wonderful !! 🎶🎵🙂
THANK YOU for saving and sharing this incredible historical footage!!
Bob Flanigan had the voice of angel. On easy street he plays two different instruments and then sings immediately after the solo. Underrated people like him are easily forgotten today but videos like these let us see these men in their youth and when they were on top of the world.
are easily forgotten today
Have a look to "Emmet's place" a weekly live jam session, each Monday 7 or 7h30 EST by the brilliant pianist Emmet Cohen and his wonderful partners. Here, the last show.
ruclips.net/video/T10ZkqoP0K8/видео.html
How is Bob Flannigan " underrated" and forgotten when clearly people are watching and praising the Four Freshmen as the baddest vocal harmony group ever?
@@nancydrew5 ask your average Joe who he is or ask a Gen Z person and they won’t know. I say this with complete respect to him and his music. I am a huge fan but his name doesn’t ring like a more mainstream musician. Just my thoughts.
Love the four freshmen very talented dudes and a real influence on the beach boys
Also Donald Fagen of Steely Dan--he wrote a song, Maxine, on his album The Nightfly, in the style of the Four Freshmen. Then the Four Freshmen recorded a cover of it in the early 90s!
BBoys will tell you outright that the FF set the tone.
Thanks so much. The very original Freshmen, then Ken Albers and then Bill Comstock. early 50s to early 60s has to be. THANKS SO MUCH.
Saw them on tour with the Kenton band and June Christy, Michigan State Fair, Aug 1959.
You certainly got your
Money's worth. What a
Lineup.
Thank you Spencer for this wonderful playlist. My sister is 11 years older than I am, so this music was more from her era in the 50s than mine. But I grew up with the four freshmen and so many other wonderful groups from that time. It's such a treat to hear them once again, and especially seeing these live performances.
There are no words to speak of my ADORATION!!🌹🌹💕💕💕💃
Thank you so much... I saw the Four Freshmen perform in a local auditorium when I was a freshman myself at Whittier College in 1957 - 58. They are my favorites, so talented. Bless you for saving this precious material.... yay Four Freshmen!!!!
Thanks, for posting!!! Had the fun of interviewing the boys following a ‘56 concert at the Prom Ballroom in St Paul.
I love their music.
The best vocal group of all time!
Totally agree with you.
Pentatonics…
No instruments, only vocals
ruclips.net/video/LRP8d7hhpoQ/видео.html
Saw this group perform in our High School (Jamestown) in 1962. And fell in love with that group and managed to see them a dozen other times over the years. Even proposed to their song Polka Dots and Moonbeams. This brings back great memories.
Hi Spence, Many thanks for a great selection of TFF tunes.
Greetings from across the Pond.
Ah thank you! My first pro gig was with a band called the Barry Thompson Quartet, a 4 piece vocal harmony/instrumental congjunto based on the 4 Freshmen. I was a teenager at the time and Barry taught me that the harmonies of the 4 Freshmen were based on an analysis of Beethoven's writing. That's why it sounds so 'right'. Nowadays harmonies tend to be computer generated by algorithms that ignore some of the intricacies of classical harmonies. Barry said that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys understood these intricacies.
These are the squarest hipsters I have ever ever ever seen! I have always appreciated their material but had no idea that they had the chops to play instruments too. I long for the time when groups like these were tearing it up.
You've got a ton of
Catching up to do.
Bob Moore (Nashville A-Team) Loved these guys.
Thanks so much for re-posting this. I was very much a Four Freshmen fan. I saw them perform in 1961 at the Venetian Room in San Francisco. No vocal group could or can touch them talent-wise.
They were tops.
@@dcasper8514 They do a fantastic rendition of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." I got emotional the first time I heard it.
Was Don Barbour still in the group at that time? I know he passed away around that year.
@@elchingon6759 Yes, when I saw them perform Don Barbour was still alive.
Manhattan Transfer or New York Voices. And what about the wonderful Lambert, Hendricks and Ross !
He original upload of this is what got me into the four freshman over a year and half ago. Thanks for the trip load
My favorite fab four, thanks for uploading this concert from The Four Freshmen, it's very welcomed by all of us who can't get too much of this group, they were the best! These songs take me back to places where I'd rather be again! Happy joyous days of my past! I never got to see TFF live because I was in school, or later, working myself as a musician. But I think this foursome was one of the best TFF had their whole career! Some of the later groups were good, but this group's harmony seems so well matched, it's hard to beat! Thanks for posting.
yes........
So happy you re-uploaded this.. classics..
It's such a shame there are not more videos/films of the original Freshmen with Hal Kratzsch. Hal's voice, harmonizing and instrumental solos were perfection!
Thank god this was reposted ❤️
yes..........
Beach Boy genius Brian Wilson obviously loved the harmonies and you can tell in his songs
What wonderful happy memories! Thank you for posting!
When I was a freshman in HS in 1961 I would lay in bed at night listening to KEYY-AM and the Four Freshman.
Provo Utah...
@@dcasper8514 Greetings from the beautiful Coast of Washington State dcasper8514. I grew up in Orem
listening to KEYY-AM 1450 .. Class of 65 OHS ..
Saw them at an American Air Base in the UK in the 1970s. (I was in a band at the time)
Thank You! Thank You! You have made my day. Love these guys. The Times. Being able to hear my favorite songs and Harmonies . The Original Versions stuck in my 'memory banks'. lol I Re- Found the JOY you mention. Thanks so much! :)
Thanks for sharing these gems A+
A+A+A+A+A+A+
That footage of “ain’t seen nothing like you” is awesome. I love the way the move to the music haha
This brings back memories. ❤️
What a incredible video of my parents loving them and dancing, and me in between them. What joy!!
That's what 'close harmony' is all about. Besides, the FF's presentation is pure fun also. Beach Boys were inspired by them.
Sincere thanks for rescuing this for the rest of us. I wondered where they went. These are elemental for Four Freshman fans. The choreography/staging is almost supernaturally wacky, but in a fun way. Ray Anthony and improv dialogue did not go hand in hand!
Thank you for saving this treasure. The Four Freshmen were just matchless, thrilling to listen to. Personally I would delete one number - the interminable "Lazy Bones," which doesn't showcase even a moment of their unique phrasing & sounds as if sung by some dreary group like The Ames Brothers. Lord knows what musical director chose that clinker. Otherwise, this is perfection. Much appreciated.
These guys are awesome!
u r the best ever thank you
The Lettermen who also recorded for Capital Records got their inspiration from the Freshmen too ....
Four Freshmen!
Thanks
Poinciana ❤
❤
Outstanding, close to the originals, but there is a difference
Steve Guinn 85 now.
The LH&R's brothers and Manhattan Transfer's fathers 🙂
And though not the same members, the group still performs. My understanding is that there's good continuity from the original to the present. From a few days ago... ruclips.net/video/T10ZkqoP0K8/видео.html
There’s that damn P again … Butler Indy
Here because of Donald Fagen, anyone else?
Who's Donald Fagen ?
Hi, everybody! Can anybody tell me the name of the blond gentlemen? Thanks a lot 🥰
There should be B for Butler University not P
Where’s “ Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring “ ?
What does the p signify ?
nothing...........
Purdue University is my guess. These guys were from Indiana and there's footage of them performing at Purdue on RUclips
I think Plymouth was once a sponsor.
There wasn't even a cord connected to that guitar. No wonder you couldn't hear it in the mix.
Sounds like the Beach Boys.
Slightly, but the BB are way level higher skills, hands down.
The Beach Boys sounded like T.F.F 🙏🏼🫠
well of course! TFF were a huge inspiration to TBBs!
wow some creepy stuff at the beginning
IKR?
I am so sorry to say this........this video / film/ what -ever!!! poor quality! Shabby Video!! All of that aside! !!! should we talk about production values !!!! Noooooo
Still have one of their albums with these tunes😎
I've got all of them.