I turned 16 in 1965 and got my first car (1966 Mustang). No matter what anyone else may think, the 60's and 70's were the best eras for music and I am glad I was there to enjoy it.
I turned 10 in 1965 and I couldn't agree with you more. I too feel incredibly blessed to know all of these amazing songs...to listen again takes me right back to where I lived at this time.What is life without MUSIC ?
I’m a year older. In the summer of ‘64 my friend across the street got a new 289 Mustang convertible, dark blue with white top and blue interior. He was a boarding student at Georgia Military Academy and couldn’t keep his car at school. So on Sunday nights I’d have to ride with him to school and drive it back. Rough life. We had great times in that car.
@@rickharriss What I didn't mention was, I turned 16 on Nov. 7, 1965. Got my 66 Mustang on Nov. 9th, 1965. Had my first wreck on Dec. 2nd., 1965. Ended up having 7 more before getting rid of that car. It seemed people were aiming for it. Sold it and bought a 69 Torino and have never had a wreck in anything since the Mustang.
70 yrs old and STILL get goosebumps when I hear this song ... Spent decades loving this song...one hit wonder and remains one of the BEST songs ever ... ❤
Just a fantastic song god I wish the world was like that now I was blessed to have been growing up in that era The world isn't a good place now . Just listen to the song 25 25 Zager and Evans they got it dead right we the human race have f......up badly 😢
A small bedside tube radio (with a sleep timer no less) drifted me off on these AM songs every night! I love to come back and hear them again! (Born in 1956)
Probably the most beautiful song that never got the recognition it deserved. Any boy who never thought he would find the love he was searching for would be chase that butterfly! With nets of wonder!
This song came out in the winter of 1966 I was dating my high school girlfriend that I've been going with for a while and I love her so much I dedicated to her
Song fits within my life. I fell in love with a broad who double crossed me pretending that she cared about me only to have found out that she ran off with an old man who is a rich old Doctor 22 years older than her and myself as she was my age. I went out to say hello to her only to find that her house and property in East Palistine, Ohio is up for sale, and found out later she announced her engagement to the old buzzard two days before my birthday back in 2005, and I was 48 years old at the time. Guess you could only say that she is a good for nothing, deceptive pile of crap, which, this song fits her to a T. An Elusive Butterfly.
Yes, beautiful song!!! But it was a HUGE hit on the radio hit when it came out in 1966 and was played nonstop for a year or so!! Got lots of recognition at the time, but sadly it's been kind of forgotten over the years. 😢
What a beautiful song. The lyrics are just as beautiful as the melody. They match perfectly the song is well balanced meaning a HIT RECORD. if your still alive make another one just like it. 🎉🎉
Diddo. When this song came on the car radio or my little transistor AM radio. It made me sit up whisking me away into my little world of imagination. Such a beautiful, beautiful soothing and simple lyrical masterpiece. It will not grow old - it has not grown old, just better with age.
The writer of this song, “Elusive Butterfly,” is a singer/songwriter named Bob Lind (with a “d” at the end). This song reached #5 in both the US & UK in 1966 and was considered to be part of the folk rock movement, which was popular at that time. Good tune! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This brings back very special--and painful--memories for me. I was hoping to become a butterfly after a painful childhood and a painful marriage....my growth was long and hard, but I made it! This song touches my heart like no other.
Having loved and lost too, even when she really didn't love me, I am indeed better for it. After pirouetteing into dark space that were meant for no man, I do understand who I am, and I did not allow it to crush my soul.
This is by far the best poem-song of the Rock Era Mr Bob Lind at its best This masterpiece will live on for generations to come! I listened to it ever since I was a little kid & still listening today! 😊
I thank you all for your nice comments and sweet words, I remember 55 years back when we use to practice playing and singing this song, with my friend Basam (may God rest his soul) who use to be the singer and guitar player. Ever since I had never stopped listening to this song from that time. 🎸🎷🪕🎻🎹🎧
Ahh yes, back when there was REAL music. I started guitar in 63 and was a singer songwriter myself beginning in 1971. Some great memories. Love songs with those Maj7ths.
I was in bed in Toowoomba, sick with measles, from school in grade 3. It was winter in July/August of 1963/4 lying in my parents’ bed on a school day with the sun coming into the bedroom. I heard the that song and it was so wonderful…
This must stand as the theme song of my metamorphosis from childhood, family, and home town school life into the scary but irresistible lure into an approaching, unknown realm of independence and fulfillment. Uplifting, inspiring, peppered with notes of loneliness.
Also on the first two albums by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Cuz Columbia Records wouldn’t let Gary and Kerry Chater and Mutha Withem and Dwight Bement and Paul Wheatbread play
M9st definately an evergreen, with specific to days when those of us whom love this song were young and the world was a wonderful place all round. The feelings of times ling ago makes one relive those days They say those who can relive their memories, live again Keep on chasing the brigght elusive butterfly of Love my love live forever.. 🦋
I can't listen to this...much too painful personally. I remember this song on the radio very often as a kid. Most music (for me) is sad. If you actually listen to lyrics of most. I used to be able to dial into the pain of the songwriter if I felt it a sincere expression of their inner feelings. Looking back ...my (our) lives are devoid of the true happiness of life ... knowing that 'true happiness' is different for each of us....music sometimes would bring that ethereal feeling of a cosmic connection with someone that just might understand .... but its fleeting and emotionally draining when reality creeps back. Life events have made me an empty vessel with not much to look back onto. I'm fearful of allowing my mind to wander back into events that occurred and cannot change. Life is full of mostly regrets, mine for sure. Not meant to be a downer ... but I feel marginally better for expressing this abstract thought after hearing a beautiful song that has multiple meanings.
Same here. Only I got hurt really, really bad over a broad who did nothing but double crossed me. Now in days, because if her, I hate all women because you just can't trust them, they ALL are deceptive.
The song is "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind. I was just reading the comments and they are all over the place with very few getting the facts straight. I guess many people don't remember the sixties very accurately. I have this album and even Bob Lind's best of CD compilation.
This appeared on my page, which was fine, but I was hoping for the other version by Val Doonican, but it was nice to hear the Bob Lind original. Both versions reached number 5 in the UK chart and stood side by side at one point. Seeing the same songs in the chart by different artists was nothing new back in the day, but in 1966 was a novelty. Having said that, we had three Paul Simon songs in the same chart, Sound Of Silence - Bachelors, Some Day, One Day - Seekers Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel... If it's any consolation Bob reached number three in the NME chart.
I agree 200% 60 s and 70s were the last years Of intelligent music so it’s over. I feel sorry for young people today. Scream and scream and more scream and repeat the same sentence of a lyric 10 times and feel no shame. Like they ran out of words. It’s like their brain is slow or ill. I’m sorry.
I turned 16 in 1965 and got my first car (1966 Mustang). No matter what anyone else may think, the 60's and 70's were the best eras for music and I am glad I was there to enjoy it.
Agreed!
I was also 16 in 65. June!
I turned 10 in 1965 and I couldn't agree with you more. I too feel incredibly blessed to know all of these amazing songs...to listen again takes me right back to where I lived at this time.What is life without MUSIC ?
I’m a year older. In the summer of ‘64 my friend across the street got a new 289 Mustang convertible, dark blue with white top and blue interior. He was a boarding student at Georgia Military Academy and couldn’t keep his car at school. So on Sunday nights I’d have to ride with him to school and drive it back. Rough life. We had great times in that car.
@@rickharriss What I didn't mention was, I turned 16 on Nov. 7, 1965. Got my 66 Mustang on Nov. 9th, 1965. Had my first wreck on Dec. 2nd., 1965. Ended up having 7 more before getting rid of that car. It seemed people were aiming for it. Sold it and bought a 69 Torino and have never had a wreck in anything since the Mustang.
I'm 70. The 60s and 70s were the best of times and the music was the greatest. I'm so glad I was young then.
Yes, I agree, I lived and loved those years. Thanks
It was a time when we understood the words of a song. I'm 72 and still remember the them.
Amen , lived it
Good times! 😎 I was born in the 70s.
Beautiful memory from the past that's so many of us that have reached our golden years can recall and appreciate. Still one of my all-time favourites
Songs like this bring tears to my eyes. Memories of my wife who passed 8 years ago.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Ken, I’m so sorry. Trust him, you will see her again.
I'm so sorry for your loss... I truly hope this song brings you the joy and sweetness of her memory. 🫂
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Sharing this with my 3 year old granddaughter in 2023. My favorite song when I was 4.
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70 yrs old and STILL get goosebumps when I hear this song ... Spent decades loving this song...one hit wonder and remains one of the BEST songs ever ... ❤
@@marialewis6432 All the best
I feel the same way
Just a fantastic song god I wish the world was like that now
I was blessed to have been growing up in that era
The world isn't a good place now .
Just listen to the song 25 25 Zager and Evans they got it dead right we the human race have f......up badly 😢
Yes agree.
Just one more reminder that the 60s turned out the best musical artists.
Probably the most beautiful song of all time ...... such outstanding and meaningful lyrics.
wonderfull song..but more songs are also so wonderful..scott mc kenzy san francisco...and so on..❤❤❤❤
I am a fan of all types of all types of music. I agree this ranks at for its sheer beauty.
Is there anything more wonderful to go back and feel that moment when you heard this song and the magic it brought to your life !
sadly, these "woke" morons are trying to turn this into a "stalker" song and trying to get it banned....
So true.
A small bedside tube radio (with a sleep timer no less) drifted me off on these AM songs every night! I love to come back and hear them again! (Born in 1956)
Yes, and unfortunately that magic has turned to mud.
Probably the most beautiful song that never got the recognition it deserved. Any boy who never thought he would find the love he was searching for would be chase that butterfly! With nets of wonder!
I totally agree
This song came out in the winter of 1966 I was dating my high school girlfriend that I've been going with for a while and I love her so much I dedicated to her
Song fits within my life. I fell in love with a broad who double crossed me pretending that she cared about me only to have found out that she ran off with an old man who is a rich old Doctor 22 years older than her and myself as she was my age. I went out to say hello to her only to find that her house and property in East Palistine, Ohio is up for sale, and found out later she announced her engagement to the old buzzard two days before my birthday back in 2005, and I was 48 years old at the time. Guess you could only say that she is a good for nothing, deceptive pile of crap, which, this song fits her to a T. An Elusive Butterfly.
Yes, beautiful song!!! But it was a HUGE hit on the radio hit when it came out in 1966 and was played nonstop for a year or so!! Got lots of recognition at the time, but sadly it's been kind of forgotten over the years. 😢
Didn’t this song hit #1
What a beautiful song. The lyrics are just as beautiful as the melody. They match perfectly the song is well balanced meaning a HIT RECORD. if your still alive make another one just like it. 🎉🎉
He is alive and well at 82
He is still alive. Thanks
I loved this when I was a kid in the 60s . Lovely song.
I agree with you
So many wonderful sad songs from the 1960s. A great decade to grow up in.
Diddo.
When this song came on the car radio or my little transistor AM radio. It made me sit up whisking me away into my little world of imagination. Such a beautiful, beautiful soothing and simple lyrical masterpiece.
It will not grow old - it has not grown old, just better with age.
One of those haunting songs that formed a shadow on my memory.
The writer of this song, “Elusive Butterfly,” is a singer/songwriter named Bob Lind (with a “d” at the end). This song reached #5 in both the US & UK in 1966 and was considered to be part of the folk rock movement, which was popular at that time. Good tune! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This brings back very special--and painful--memories for me. I was hoping to become a butterfly after a painful childhood and a painful marriage....my growth was long and hard, but I made it! This song touches my heart like no other.
Sorry for that, it is my icon song
Having loved and lost too, even when she really didn't love me, I am indeed better for it. After pirouetteing into dark space that were meant for no man, I do understand who I am, and I did not allow it to crush my soul.
God bless
This is by far the best poem-song of the Rock Era Mr Bob Lind at its best This masterpiece will live on for generations to come! I listened to it ever since I was a little kid & still listening today! 😊
@buddhabuddha9136 Yes, I totally agree with you. Thanks for listening
I thank you all for your nice comments and sweet words, I remember 55 years back when we use to practice playing and singing this song, with my friend Basam (may God rest his soul) who use to be the singer and guitar player. Ever since I had never stopped listening to this song from that time. 🎸🎷🪕🎻🎹🎧
Takes me back to 1965 and I was 20. Sure went by fast, what a time to be alive.
I was born in 1965.
Ahh yes, back when there was REAL music. I started guitar in 63 and was a singer songwriter myself beginning in 1971. Some great memories. Love songs with those Maj7ths.
I saw Bob Lind do this song live at the Denver Custom Car Show in the late 1960s. Brings back memories to a special time.
Times were definitely different back then. Thank you for recalling
One of my favorite songs of all time I was eleven in 66
1966 Elusive Butterfly Of Love written by singer songwriter Bob Lind. A #5 hit for Bob in 1966.
Great song. I'm 68 and those were the years when I realize girls were something really special. I was 12 yrs. old.
This is one of Bob Dylan's favorite songs. Even Bob Dylan could not do better.
I so remember this song. It was a 60's hit that kind of slipped in among the Beatles and the British invasion. Loed it. Happy memories
I loved this song and still do. We have all chased the elusive butterfly of love. Some more than once and most often she gets away.
So many wonderful sad songs from the 1960s. The drums and the strings sound awesome.
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when there was real music!
Some of the best pop lyrics of its time.
Thanks all
first time I heard this song it was in 1968 or even before that
I use to sing with a band when I was 17 years old
I was in bed in Toowoomba, sick with measles, from school in grade 3. It was winter in July/August of 1963/4 lying in my parents’ bed on a school day with the sun coming into the bedroom. I heard the that song and it was so wonderful…
It's a pretty song
For the record his name is Bon Lind , a master of lyrics
This album is gem, with Butterfly a magical song !!
He was a Great mucical poet !!
I was just a baby when this song was released and discovered it on UA-cam. Beautiful
2023❤
A blast from the past What memories
Great great memories of the past what times were simpler and people are more together
I loved both this and Val’s version in the 60’s. A truly beautiful song.
Love this song 😊
Thanks
How I Miss Music Like This It's So Sad That We Don't Hear This Anymore
I remember this great song and am delighted to hear it again!
This man that sang the song was Bob Lynn he wrote the song and he sang the song no one did it before him and many sang it after him..
Bob Lind. Here is this original full length song with extra lyrics. IMO it was whittled down to perfection!
ua-cam.com/video/nbuC9hX2XAk/v-deo.html
I'm Aware of that. Lovely Lyrics
Bob Lind is his name.
I was aware of Bob Lind, I heard the song by Val Doonigan
Correction Bob Lind !
A favorite of mine from the Way-back machine.
Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody.
good grief! i haven't heard this in more years than i can recall. i was probably 10 or 12 when it came out, but i loved it.
I also love this song for the beautiful melody and beautiful lyrics
Thank you
This must stand as the theme song of my metamorphosis from childhood, family, and home town school life into the scary but irresistible lure into an approaching, unknown realm of independence and fulfillment. Uplifting, inspiring, peppered with notes of loneliness.
Hal Blaine on drums.He was everywhere in the 60's.
Also on the first two albums by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Cuz Columbia Records wouldn’t let Gary and Kerry Chater and Mutha Withem and Dwight Bement and Paul Wheatbread play
Hal was the drummer in almost every studio recording in the sixties.
@@scottstrand1874 If it was recorded in California, that's a safe bet.
M9st definately an evergreen, with specific to days when those of us whom love this song were young and the world was a wonderful place all round. The feelings of times ling ago makes one relive those days They say those who can relive their memories, live again Keep on chasing the brigght elusive butterfly of Love my love live forever.. 🦋
You betcha for sure. 1965, the years in love.
This song touches one's soul that holds the heart, just like Bobby Goldsboro reflection in his song Honey, of love and lost in all of our lives.
I can't listen to this...much too painful personally. I remember this song on the radio very often as a kid. Most music (for me) is sad. If you actually listen to lyrics of most.
I used to be able to dial into the pain of the songwriter if I felt it a sincere expression of their inner feelings. Looking back ...my (our) lives are devoid of the true happiness of life ... knowing that 'true happiness' is different for each of us....music sometimes would bring that ethereal feeling of a cosmic connection with someone that just might understand .... but its fleeting and emotionally draining when reality creeps back.
Life events have made me an empty vessel with not much to look back onto. I'm fearful of allowing my mind to wander back into events that occurred and cannot change. Life is full of mostly regrets, mine for sure.
Not meant to be a downer ... but I feel marginally better for expressing this abstract thought after hearing a beautiful song that has multiple meanings.
What strikes me about this song when I first heard it-----is the study of life -nature and Philosophy of life in general .!
Very Bob Dylan kind of a song.
THIS SONG BRINGS BACK A LOT OF MEMBERS FROM THE 50-60 VERY NICE SONG
May all of us who care will always see the elusive butterfly of love
I'd completely forgotten this marvellous song!
One of my all-time favourite songs reminds me of happier times not like the lunatic times we are living in at the moment.
Strikingly beautiful visual interpretation!
Beautiful ❤
One of my all-time favorites, a beautiful song with a meaning behind it!
Takes me back to my younger days!!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful song from the sweetest days of my youth.🎼🖤
Bob Lind classic!
Oh the days where did they go im still chasing my butterfly***
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this at the right time. The words resonate some inexplicable part of my soul.
Gosh, yes..
WOW TAKES ME BACK THANKS
gees Hani, I forgot all about this one, what a real gem this one is.
Yes it is
Thanks! This brings back bitter-sweet memories of my college days and my first real love...
Same here. Only I got hurt really, really bad over a broad who did nothing but double crossed me. Now in days, because if her, I hate all women because you just can't trust them, they ALL are deceptive.
The song is "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind. I was just reading the comments and they are all over the place with very few getting the facts straight. I guess many people don't remember the sixties very accurately. I have this album and even Bob Lind's best of CD compilation.
Precious ❤
beautiful song and presentation
The words alone would make a beautiful poem.
Yes they do
An absolute timeless beauty. I think it is from the movie “butterflies are free”
Great to remember things to but not everything .
So lovely! Tugging at my heart-strings... again!
So beautiful brings back memories
Great song from Bob Lind.
Beautiful song came out 1966
1965
I was in Army training hearing this in 1966.
beautiful song, real nice video. Thanks Hani!
You are most welcome
Bob Lind is my friend. I just posted this song because I even remembered the B side. Now I want to hear it!
Early February 1966...searching for something to believe in...
I love this new background!
TY, beautiful memories!!
Most welcome
Awesome!
I was in Engineering School at Inglewood, Calif when it came out. Gorgeous, beautifully and brings back nice, beautiful memories fromt those years
This song is for the memory of my best friend Basam, who passed away two years ago. He use to sing it must of the time
This song is so special even the b side was Awesome
So sorry fir your loss!!!!💔
So sorry. Life can be so hard.
Beautiful
Beautiful ❤❤
Thank you
I've been there too.Almost broke my hart,it was close!
This appeared on my page, which was fine, but I was hoping for the other version by Val Doonican, but it was nice to hear the Bob Lind original.
Both versions reached number 5 in the UK chart and stood side by side at one point. Seeing the same songs in the chart by different artists was nothing new back in the day, but in 1966 was a novelty.
Having said that, we had three Paul Simon songs in the same chart,
Sound Of Silence - Bachelors, Some Day, One Day - Seekers
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel...
If it's any consolation Bob reached number three in the NME chart.
Very unique lyrics. Sounds a lot like something Glen Campbell would sing.
This song really does have a haunting quality about it. Very nostalgic. Bring it back please!
@@jimbo43ohara51 Lyrics are brilliant. This song didn’t get that much reconnection back in the day.
In my opinion Val Doonicans version is the best .....
Was always my moms favorite song.
It’s the only 60’s song I have on my IPod twice.
There are some extended versions of this song that have been technologically "cleaned up" here on UA-cam. Give those a listen as well.
@user-ve4ig6pw1s Thanks. I will check these versions.
unforgettable....
To you Rachel..my lost love 😢😢😢
Finally found out who did this, thanks
your heart is showing
Epic Lyrics !!!
Val Doonican did a magical cover of the writer's wonder.....
I remember that version here in the UK.
I agree 200% 60 s and 70s were the last years Of intelligent music so it’s over. I feel sorry for young people today. Scream and scream and more scream and repeat the same sentence of a lyric 10 times and feel no shame. Like they ran out of words. It’s like their brain is slow or ill. I’m sorry.
Absolutely right
Masterpiece
Thank you
Does Or Doesn't It Sound 🔊 Like Rhinestone Cowboy's 🤠(Glenn Campbell's) "Gentle On My Mind"?
My Space... oh... it's 12 years since it was posted....