The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (1964) Stereo HQ Audio

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  • "Leader of the Pack" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich. It was a number one pop hit in 1964 for the girl group The Shangri-Las. The single is one of the group's best known songs as well as a popular cultural example of a 'teenage tragedy song'.
    The tune of "Leader of the Pack" is credited to pop impresario George "Shadow" Morton together with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. According to Morton, he wrote the song for the Goodies (also known as the Bunnies), but instead it was needed as a follow-up to the Shangri-Las hit "Remember (Walking in the Sand)". He said he did not know that he was supposed to have a second idea ready to follow up "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" until Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (Red Bird Records co-owners with George Goldner) asked him, "Hey, what do you want to do for the second record?" Morton said he "got a bottle of champagne, two cigars" and "went into the shower, sat down, drank the champagne, smoked the cigars, and wrote the song on a shirt cardboard with my kids crayons." Morton claimed he credited Barry and Greenwich as co-writers for business reasons; however his recollection has been questioned by Ellie Greenwich.
    The song is about a girl named Betty, asked by friends to confirm that she is dating Jimmy, the leader of a motorcycle gang. After singing of love at first sight ("I met him at the candy store/He turned around and smiled at me/You get the picture?/That's when I fell for the Leader of the Pack"), Betty's heart turns to despair as she bemoans her parents' disapproval. The parents claim Jimmy hails from "the wrong side of town" and ask Betty to tell Jimmy goodbye and find someone new. Betty does as she is asked, and Jimmy speeds off on his motorcycle. Moments later, he crashes on a rain-slickened surface and dies; Betty's pleas for Jimmy to slow down are in vain.
    In July 1964, Morton recorded the vocals for "Leader of the Pack" with the Shangri-Las at the Ultrasonic Sound studio on the second floor of a Manhattan hotel. The song was produced by George "Shadow" Morton. These vocals were dubbed over the instrumental parts, which had been previously recorded at the Ultrasonic Recording Studios in Hempstead, New York. Billy Joel, then a young session musician, said on November 16, 2010 during an interview with Howard Stern that he played piano on one of the demos for "Leader of the Pack," but he was not sure if any of his parts made the final recording. In fact, the piano part was played by Roger Rossi, a staff musician for Ultrasonic Recording Studios at the time. Rossi said, "I remember the date like it was yesterday, there were no written charts, so unfortunately, some musicians kept making mistakes. As I recall, it took 63 recording takes before Shadow Morton was satisfied." Rossi added, "By the end of the session, in take 62, I also messed up and Morton laughingly yelled out, 'Ohhhh, noooo. Not you, too!'"
    According to legend, to add the authentic sound of a motorcycle engine, one was driven through the lobby of the hotel and up to the floor of the recording studio. No one was arrested, but a ticket was issued. However, in an interview four decades later, Shangri-Las lead singer Mary Weiss said the motorcycle sound was taken from an effects record. The Zombies' drummer Hugh Grundy recalls revving up a motorcycle backstage when the Shangri-Las performed on a U.S. tour.
    "Leader of the Pack" was released as a single on the Leiber and Stoller label Red Bird Records, the song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 28, 1964. In the United Kingdom, the single was refused airplay by the BBC, probably due to its death theme, although some have speculated that it was considered likely to encourage violence between mods and rockers. It charted three times on the UK Singles Chart: number 11 in 1965; number 3 in 1972[8] (by which time the BBC ban had been lifted); and once again at number 7 in 1976, when its sales figures as a reissue on two different labels (Charly and Contempo) were combined to arrive at its chart position. The record also reached number 1 in Australia.
    In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song among the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at number 447. In the 2010 revision of the list, it was moved to number 454 as new entries were added.
    The song is featured in a Broadway musical based on the songs of Ellie Greenwich, Leader of the Pack, which opened in 1985. In 1990, the song was featured in the soundtrack of the Martin Scorsese film, Goodfellas.

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  • @muffee68
    @muffee68 Місяць тому +116

    Listening to this AWESOME song in April 2024 🎊 ❤

    • @avantixsiempre
      @avantixsiempre 7 днів тому +1

      Here may 24

    • @sindyrichter7040
      @sindyrichter7040 7 днів тому

      @@avantixsiemprein Italia, in Sicilia,in Germania ,in Saxonia it is April 10 hours ago 😅😂

    • @avantixsiempre
      @avantixsiempre 6 днів тому

      @@sindyrichter7040 good 4 u

    • @catchinka7066
      @catchinka7066 14 годин тому

      Loved robert goulet!

  • @somchitrwright6749
    @somchitrwright6749 3 місяці тому +229

    My heart is broken at the loss of beautiful Mary Weiss. Her voice and performance was permeated with the pathos of her many wonderful songs. Only 15 when she recorded “Leader of the Pack” with her school friends who became The Shangri-Las. Now it is like the ELO song “ My Shangrila has gone away. Faded like the Beatles on “Hey Jude” . Goodbye Mary. We will miss you. ❤

    • @yvonnecooper5004
      @yvonnecooper5004 3 місяці тому +5

      Well said❤😢

    • @MakingFunofBusiness
      @MakingFunofBusiness 3 місяці тому

      You’re weird

    • @GeorgeCalldickygrononoback
      @GeorgeCalldickygrononoback 3 місяці тому +1

      that was such a beautiful song very well performed and at such a young age they think they're living room destined for real good life in the music industry but unfortunately thingsthings happen😢😢😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😊❤❤😂😂❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉nevernever forgotten

    • @FirstBookShelf-li8hh
      @FirstBookShelf-li8hh 3 місяці тому +1

      "My heart is broken" a bit of a drama queen I think

    • @tryithere
      @tryithere 3 місяці тому +2

      I didn’t know she had died. The twins both died pretty young.

  • @mlang20
    @mlang20 3 місяці тому +36

    damn puts a tear in the eye, i miss being a child in the sixties , beautiful time to be alive

  • @bertie_magoo
    @bertie_magoo 2 місяці тому +178

    Feb 2024 and who's listening to this classic with me.

  • @mysticlight5846
    @mysticlight5846 4 роки тому +2654

    The guy on the motorcycle is famous singer Robert Goulet from Canada, he did this as a favor for the girls who are huge Robert Goulet fans at the time and to promote the song for the girls record label too

  • @SMOKEYMCPOT727
    @SMOKEYMCPOT727 18 днів тому +17

    I was born to the oldies no music is better than this💯❤️

  • @djt2nd
    @djt2nd Рік тому +47

    I was born in the 80s but the 50s and 60s had the best music I grew up with my mum listening to it on a weekend cleaning the house and making the Sunday dinner

  • @toddglover1121
    @toddglover1121 12 днів тому +15

    God, I wish I could start my life all over again! I miss them good ole days.

  • @cynthiam3943
    @cynthiam3943 2 роки тому +81

    As someone who is 74 you can’t beat this music 👏👏👏👏

  • @nancybusso6171
    @nancybusso6171 Рік тому +636

    Gosh I loved this song! I was 14 when it came out! Now I’m 71 and it sure brings back memories!! 🏍

  • @marlenesullivan3113
    @marlenesullivan3113 9 місяців тому +155

    WHO'S STILL ENJOYING THIS SONG?
    GREAT ERA OF MUSIC🎶

    • @jonmaveus1426
      @jonmaveus1426 9 місяців тому +6

      I am right now! ❤❤❤

    • @JohnSteech
      @JohnSteech 9 місяців тому +4

      Wow I remember this huge hit

    • @CarmelDeery
      @CarmelDeery 9 місяців тому +3

      A timeless classic, YES I'M STILL LISTENING TO THIS SONG IN 2023, !!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉😂😂❤

    • @normanalvarez5751
      @normanalvarez5751 8 місяців тому +2

      🥰

    • @marilynpoynter4526
      @marilynpoynter4526 7 місяців тому +2

      Me

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill
    @GeorgeVreelandHill 2 роки тому +273

    I grew up listening to music like this. I'm old. Good for me. That means I grew up in great times.

  • @steveosullivan5262
    @steveosullivan5262 Рік тому +72

    It had to be the summer of 1970. I was a paperboy and was getting ready for our family to head up to the cottage in Canada. I came across a bunch of boxes that the folks had left out in the trash after they moved. So I loaded what I could carry in my wagon. Records, by the score. 1950's and early 60's. Had to been hundred 45's. The girls that owned them loved to dance, that became clear. All summer long we played "oldies" this one was one of my favorites. I always wanted to thank those girls..I had never owned a record before. We ha the gift of music in our era, it help us cope. The kids today...no poets, not songs,only games. Pity

    • @hamsandwich6374
      @hamsandwich6374 Рік тому +3

      And just think this is what your parents must have experienced with the change in generations. Because back in their day people had to be multi-talented to even be famous for the most part. Dance, sing, act , horse riding, trained in stage combat etc whatever the case may be for movies / music. These days all you need is a good computer engineer and a green screen or some auto tune and a pretty face.

    • @curtischildress9580
      @curtischildress9580 Рік тому +2

      @@hamsandwich6374 The need for a pretty face & a nice body is going to vanish...digitized performers looking so real no one can tell.

    • @suzannebrown9359
      @suzannebrown9359 Рік тому +1

      Actually, I was still in grade school or just starting H S so it was definitely the mid to late 60’s. HS grad in 67

    • @yvonnecooper5004
      @yvonnecooper5004 3 місяці тому +2

      You found a treasure.

    • @aprilgoff583
      @aprilgoff583 20 днів тому +1

      I was born in 80 and these songs were part of my childhood too. My bff and I listened to the 50s and 60s religiously lol. Good times. I was actually lucky because I was introduced to so many genres and decades in my youth. I feel old though.

  • @Carol-he2mo
    @Carol-he2mo 2 роки тому +123

    The guy on the motorcycle is my (was my...R.I.P.) famous cousin, singer and actor, Robert Goulet.

    • @user-wf2pb3mi2n
      @user-wf2pb3mi2n 2 роки тому +11

      Loved him!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 2 роки тому +9

      I remember him well from those days. Terrific voice! You're lucky to have had such a distinguished relative.

    • @darth-loser
      @darth-loser 2 роки тому +1

      Robert Goulet!

    • @charlottejameson8924
      @charlottejameson8924 2 роки тому +3

      Really good looking and talented but maybe slightly too old for the par

    • @yvonnecooper5004
      @yvonnecooper5004 3 місяці тому +2

      I should have recognized him. I'm a fan. I actually thought it was Danny Thomas. Thanks for sharing.

  • @chrischamaschuk463
    @chrischamaschuk463 2 місяці тому +27

    one of the greatest classics of alltime

  • @maybeitsneato
    @maybeitsneato 3 місяці тому +23

    I loved listening to this record with my father when I was a kid. One of his prized possessions was a signed photo he had. gotten from the band at a show. RIP Mary, say hello to my father for me if you see him on the other side.

  • @ycul21
    @ycul21 2 роки тому +827

    You can't beat these classics from the 60s. The greatest music ever.

  • @davesigmon8144
    @davesigmon8144 3 місяці тому +24

    One of my all time favorite songs depicting teenage drama. RIP Mary Weiss.

  • @michelledaniels1958
    @michelledaniels1958 3 місяці тому +18

    I was 6yrs old and I remember the words still great era my sisters played it over and over Mary you always made me cry this song still tugs at my heart ❤ RIPIH MARY WEISS never forgotten ♥

    • @JohnSteech
      @JohnSteech 3 місяці тому +2

      I was 9 when leaders of the pack came out in 1964
      Love you Mary Weiss. 😢❤😢

  • @lindastjohn5007
    @lindastjohn5007 Рік тому +53

    The 60's and 70's were GREAT!!

  • @SuperRed1969
    @SuperRed1969 2 роки тому +36

    Guy on the bike pure makes me laugh, the facial expressions and bouncing the bike around.

    • @mikebryant8122
      @mikebryant8122 2 роки тому +6

      Singer Robert Goulet, helping promote the group.

    • @belkyhernandez8281
      @belkyhernandez8281 Рік тому +4

      He was funny while they were serious. Sort of made me laugh.

    • @holoholohaolenokaoi2299
      @holoholohaolenokaoi2299 3 місяці тому +3

      the honda 50cc was bouncing around under all that horsepower.

    • @blurgle9185
      @blurgle9185 2 місяці тому +1

      @@belkyhernandez8281 WHAT? this song isn't a joke? I thought they were satirizing, the lyrics seemed too ridiculous to be serious.

    • @belkyhernandez8281
      @belkyhernandez8281 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@blurgle9185 Real song. Not satire. Still played on the radio when I was a kid in the 80s. I liked it through my teen years

  • @billyangus
    @billyangus 3 місяці тому +16

    R.I.P. Mary 🌈🌈🕯🕯
    You're now in Heaven,
    riding with your beloved
    "Leader Of The Pack".

  • @davidkastin4240
    @davidkastin4240 2 роки тому +289

    Absolute Gold. Aged liked fine wine. The older it gets the better it sounds, the more it's appreciated. Best decade for music.

  • @mikeymoo1291
    @mikeymoo1291 2 роки тому +554

    Her voice breaks your heart. And what an amazing opening line to a song. It's like a mini drama. Wonderful stuff.

  • @loriannenberg3583
    @loriannenberg3583 3 місяці тому +12

    I lived on Long Island ten miles from where the Shangri-Las lived in Queens. I have fond memories of trying to look as cool as these young women were, but, there was nothing like the real thing. Incredible talent and raw emotion. This was 60s rock music at its peak-tried and true, and nothing comes close to it. Mary and The Shangri-Las will live on in our hearts forever.

  • @ericjahoda2997
    @ericjahoda2997 2 роки тому +22

    My dad gave me a "Silvertone" (Sears) transistor radio and this was one of the first songs I heard, laying on the sand in So. Cal., circa 64'. What a time to be young. Next would come The Beach Boys and then The Beatles and everything would change!

  • @estellawobker3568
    @estellawobker3568 2 роки тому +152

    My cousin bought me this seven single when I was 11 years old...😍 She is 74 now and I'm 68...brings back so many memories. 😊

    • @MrHeavensoverrated
      @MrHeavensoverrated 2 роки тому +5

      That is lovly...
      Go give her that hug of love

    • @mikeymoo1291
      @mikeymoo1291 2 роки тому +2

      that's very sweet.

    • @sandraherrera6832
      @sandraherrera6832 2 роки тому +2

      That’s awesome 🤩

    • @kfl611
      @kfl611 2 роки тому +4

      Makes you wonder just where did all those decades go ! I recently retired and am still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up...............

    • @dalewalker4614
      @dalewalker4614 10 місяців тому +1

      @@kfl611 ❤❤❤ I'm 72 and I never want to grow up! Happily "Stuck in the '60's!" 💟☮😎

  • @drincogni
    @drincogni 3 роки тому +27

    Her hair is pure gold!😋😀😀😀😀👍👍👍

    • @rattusnorvegicus4380
      @rattusnorvegicus4380 3 роки тому +1

      ...and a major fire risk, a few haystacks went up in the ciggie-smoking days.

  • @laurietijerina3816
    @laurietijerina3816 Місяць тому +207

    Who's still listening in March of 2024?

    • @johnoostveen1856
      @johnoostveen1856 Місяць тому +7

      I’ve never stopped!

    • @BladeStar-uq6xe
      @BladeStar-uq6xe Місяць тому +6

      March 29th, 2024! In fact I'm doing a Playlist. Up to about 50 pre-1970s songs so far.

    • @AVIARYCOURT
      @AVIARYCOURT Місяць тому +8

      Me !

    • @gingerbuckley2010
      @gingerbuckley2010 Місяць тому +4

      Northwest floriduh

    • @dreban
      @dreban Місяць тому +4

      I ironically just now discovered this song bc it’s playing at dennys at 12:58am right mow

  • @mikecoats489
    @mikecoats489 3 місяці тому +35

    Mary Weiss, what a voice, no autotune in those days!

  • @robertbilling6266
    @robertbilling6266 4 роки тому +545

    Must have heard this hundreds of times, but I never knew what the singers looked like. Thanks.

    • @rodbrown1732
      @rodbrown1732 4 роки тому +10

      Just what I was thinking

    • @DaphneHarridge
      @DaphneHarridge 4 роки тому +8

      Robert Billing, same here!

    • @tedzaremba1412
      @tedzaremba1412 4 роки тому +10

      Those other 2 are twins?

    • @tedzaremba1412
      @tedzaremba1412 4 роки тому +6

      Me too

    • @DaphneHarridge
      @DaphneHarridge 4 роки тому +5

      Ted Zaremba , according to wiki, yes. Marge and Mary Ann Ganser are twins. It also says they began with four members. I had no idea! 🤷‍♀️
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-Las

  • @rumbellefever
    @rumbellefever 2 роки тому +17

    The 50's, 60's....and the 70's...My favorite time in MUSIC!!!!🧡💛💚💙❤️💜❤️🎷🎺🎸🎹🎶🎵

  • @kendalbateman8702
    @kendalbateman8702 Рік тому +83

    This is from the old Steve Allen show, I've Got A Secret. Robert Goulet was a guest on the show. When the band started singing their new number 1 hit, Goulet rolled out on the bike. The girls never missed a beat... After the song ended, Goulet stumbled back on stage all bandaged up.

    • @redoz9768
      @redoz9768 Рік тому +5

      they were clearly miming, so it wouldn't have been that hard to not miss a beat.

    • @dalewalker4614
      @dalewalker4614 10 місяців тому +4

      @@redoz9768 If I were that lead singer I would have cracked up when Robert Goulet started "revving the engine" by bouncing the motorcycle up and down..... 😂😂😂 If that didn't crack me up, when he gave her the stupid grin, and then started talking to her while she was singing would have done the trick! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @JohnSteech
      @JohnSteech 9 місяців тому +1

      Sensational ¡!!!!!!!

    • @13lilsykos
      @13lilsykos 3 місяці тому +2

      Thanks for the context. I was wondering what was with him.

    • @kazamshah4543
      @kazamshah4543 3 місяці тому

      They looked like they had loads of fun doing this performance. Wish I had a time machine. 60s was a beautiful, fun time to be young.

  • @0megacron
    @0megacron 3 місяці тому +12

    Never in history has there been a more beautiful love song written about a greaser.

    • @peterd6842
      @peterd6842 3 місяці тому

      For sure, this is an epic song. As for beautiful love songs about greasers, you might also
      consider Richard Thompson's "Vincent Black Lightning."

    • @tryithere
      @tryithere 3 місяці тому

      How about ‘Do the Fonzie.’

  • @douglashoward6565
    @douglashoward6565 2 роки тому +19

    I wasn’t born till 1978 grew up listening to this music from my parents and I love it I am now 42 and still loving it.

    • @topherbarrow4631
      @topherbarrow4631 2 роки тому +3

      Same here. I'm 1973

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 2 роки тому +3

      Gees, that's too bad you guys were born so late! But, you've got the music and flicks if not the direct memories. Hey, not too bad!
      Am pre-Boomer era here, and I congratulate you for having excellent taste in music. (I myself was mostly into classical then but, even though this music got into one. Now it IS nostalgic to me.)
      Happy listening.

  • @stevedixon8567
    @stevedixon8567 3 роки тому +129

    "They told me he was bad, but I knew he was sad" is such a great lyric

    • @cascade3769
      @cascade3769 2 роки тому +1

      Sarcasm spotted.

    • @mummyjohn
      @mummyjohn 2 роки тому +11

      @@cascade3769 no....very much the opposite

    • @misterrea861
      @misterrea861 Рік тому +6

      It's proto-emo

  • @pattayaguideorg
    @pattayaguideorg 14 днів тому +4

    I was born in 67, been listening to this song every now and then my whole life, love it! in 2024, saw the girls sing it here for the first time, I never once imagined they were white girls singing this classic.

  • @cynthiaschneider2282
    @cynthiaschneider2282 2 роки тому +10

    Glad my Mom listened to allot of music- One of my favorites- still listening Mom

  • @marios.sanchez
    @marios.sanchez Рік тому +12

    first time I`ve seen this group instead of just hearing it on the radio. the lead singer is a "babe"🙂love the hair🩷

  • @janetbenning2645
    @janetbenning2645 2 роки тому +64

    I grew up on this kind of music.. 68 years old today and still love that good old rock and roll

    • @chrisretired5379
      @chrisretired5379 2 роки тому +4

      Right on, Janet ! 💝💝 Hey from AK !

    • @TEAMERICA96
      @TEAMERICA96 2 роки тому +2

      I grew up and learned my way around SoCal in the Sixties on that very same Yamaha 80. I definitely remember the song but didn't hang around home long enough to watch pretty girls on TV. 72 today!

    • @broella6493
      @broella6493 2 роки тому +2

      Wow! only 15 with a voice like that..

    • @dalewalker4614
      @dalewalker4614 10 місяців тому +1

      @@TEAMERICA96 72 also! I had a Honda 90 in high school & used to take the college girls that housed in my neighborhood on motorcycle rides..... the tighter they held on, the better! ❤ You and I probably both knew instantly that the 4-cycle exhaust track used in the recording didn't come from that 2-cycle Yama' 😂😎

  • @carolinelambert4950
    @carolinelambert4950 3 роки тому +21

    Lost era. Wonderful innocence. With a touch of rebelliousness in the song. Wistful times.

  • @senorkapowssite
    @senorkapowssite 2 роки тому +9

    "Look out, look out, look out, look out"....
    I love it.

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 10 місяців тому +10

    SIGH...I was 15 years-young and this video and song floods my mind with great memories of 1964.

  • @TurboMountTV
    @TurboMountTV 2 роки тому +16

    These girls get a number 1 hit right in the middle of Beatlemania.

  • @drumcdoo9050
    @drumcdoo9050 2 роки тому +9

    I'm 65 now but remember this song well. Aged 14 was bombing around in a field next to the M1 on a 200cc Triumph Tiger Cub which cost £10! Raced from one field to another misjudging narrow gap ending up with front wheel going into ditch with barbed wire fence and hedge the other side. Dislocated hip and ended up in hospital for three weeks in traction. School mates requested 'Leader of the pack' be played on the hospital radio. Cheered me up immensley. Spent 3 months in plaster from knee to chest and tried one day unsuccesfully to ride with cast still on!!
    So lucky not to end up in wheel chair or dead because of not wearing helmet and traveling at over 50 MPH..

    • @TurboMountTV
      @TurboMountTV 2 роки тому

      We all have our teen motorcycle ending accidents.
      Mine was against a tree.
      Didn't learn.
      Then it was a hill too steep for me and 125cc bike.
      Cracked knee cap.
      Learned.

  • @jenniferkay4038
    @jenniferkay4038 Рік тому +16

    I'm in England and I bought this single in the days when we could listen in a booth, to a whole album if we wanted! I love this and all Shangri-Las music. I feel so lucky to be born when I was, and have The Best musical memories. Thank you BeepSleepMusic for posting this video.

    • @Gerardnolan191
      @Gerardnolan191 11 місяців тому

      Smiles, how are you doing Jennifer?

  • @franciscomclaughlin1476
    @franciscomclaughlin1476 Рік тому +21

    I love the 60s and 70s I can’t get out of it

    • @dalewalker4614
      @dalewalker4614 10 місяців тому +2

      ❤❤❤ Class of '69 here! I just flat-out tell everyone that "I'm stuck in the '60's" when it comes to music.... I'm very happy in the golden days of Rock-N-Roll, Ballads and Love Songs and never want to leave! ❤❤❤

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Рік тому +19

    I met him at the candy store, he never said he was forty-four !

  • @GoofballLtG
    @GoofballLtG 3 роки тому +457

    I grew up listening to this song. And after 44 years this is the first time I’ve seen a video of it! Thanks for sharing it!

    • @jackiejack4659
      @jackiejack4659 2 роки тому +12

      I saw them in concert many years ago in Cleveland Ohio I remember the motorcycle on stage.

    • @alpiekaar
      @alpiekaar 2 роки тому +6

      same for me ,,,,,,jeez. im old

    • @pricklycactusblossom6790
      @pricklycactusblossom6790 2 роки тому +5

      @@alpiekaar ~ Age sometimes creeps up on us. Sad.

    • @alpiekaar
      @alpiekaar 2 роки тому +5

      @@pricklycactusblossom6790 it sure does

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad 2 роки тому +6

      @@pricklycactusblossom6790 Nothing sad about it when I consider the alternative...😁😁

  • @user-dp3iu3hz7u
    @user-dp3iu3hz7u 7 місяців тому +1

    Great song ! Came out when I was 11!

  • @carolynrobinson6110
    @carolynrobinson6110 15 днів тому +5

    I love music like these and I am only in my 40s ❤

  • @c.a.6254
    @c.a.6254 Рік тому +9

    I LOVE the lead singer's hair, it was GORGEOUS.

  • @eddietucker3334
    @eddietucker3334 3 роки тому +311

    FYI all, the dude is Robert Goulet and I think this was from his TV show. Anyway, for those of you too young to know, Robert Goulet was a major major singer of sixties and a pretty good actor. He was having fun with the girls.

    • @jmthomson0220
      @jmthomson0220 3 роки тому +6

      And if you don't you should at least know will farrels impression....GOULET!

    • @TomHuston43
      @TomHuston43 3 роки тому

      @@jmthomson0220 Ferrell does Goulet - ua-cam.com/video/k7QCje1kU1o/v-deo.html

    • @TheFox2249
      @TheFox2249 3 роки тому +3

      Thought it was Bob Hope

    • @djisizzle
      @djisizzle 3 роки тому +1

      @@TheFox2249 I thought it was Bob Hope!

    • @michaelmckinnon1591
      @michaelmckinnon1591 3 роки тому

      Ed Sullivan Show if I heard correctly

  • @nunyabusiness4281
    @nunyabusiness4281 4 роки тому +112

    This was my mom's favorite song... sadly she died in a car accident on May 24, 1995.... it will be 25 years this year... i was only 14... 😇😢😥😭❤

    • @darkennui
      @darkennui 3 роки тому +9

      I'm so sorry you lost your mom at such an early age. I hope your memories of her are comforting and joyful! ♥️

    • @stephenmorris3696
      @stephenmorris3696 3 роки тому +7

      I lost my mum recently, I can't imagine your loss to lose her in the way she died, hope you are at peace.

    • @br5469
      @br5469 3 роки тому +4

      I’m so sorry for your loss. A favorite song makes me think of loved ones too. I pray the passage of time has helped you to remember her with much love and that time has eased the pain of her passing.

    • @350mcn
      @350mcn 3 роки тому +3

      Sorry for your loss at such a young age

    • @trishbrewster183
      @trishbrewster183 3 роки тому +3

      {{Hugs}}

  • @jerryturner3997
    @jerryturner3997 3 місяці тому +6

    All ⏱️-"CLASSIC" "LEADER OF THE PACK" 🎶 Rest in "SHALOM" Miss Weiss! -🌹-❣️-🌄...1/19/24

  • @Crimepaysaskapolitician
    @Crimepaysaskapolitician Рік тому +8

    I remember this song, my older brother listened to all kinds of music

  • @ycantabrana
    @ycantabrana 2 роки тому +7

    never will we see this talent ever again again

  • @Paul-lm5gv
    @Paul-lm5gv 2 роки тому +18

    Loved this song back in the 60's! The dude on the motorcycle is renowned baritone and 50's-60's crooner Robert Goulet!

  • @audreynichols7988
    @audreynichols7988 3 місяці тому +5

    I remember well 1964, standing in front of the bedroom mirror with our hairbrushes as microphones, singing along to this song and dreaming of one day having our own boyfriends since we were only nine. The feelings this song made of feel even then, what great memories, and I still can't help singing along!!

  • @dawsie
    @dawsie Рік тому +10

    This song came out a year after I was born and as I was growing up I would hear it in the radio, I loved this song😊😊 I even did a drawing of a wing mirror of a bike with a guys face in it because of this song, now I’m 59🙀 and I still have the drawing and I still love listening to the song, I have the LP of the Shangri-Las 😹😹found a copy when I was 13 in an old second hand shop in Grey’s England

  • @scottburton9701
    @scottburton9701 2 роки тому +16

    Written by Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich-Fantastic song that topped the charts in 1964.

  • @McCannon21
    @McCannon21 2 роки тому +347

    This is so pure, innocent and intense!! the lead singer sings with so much sentiment, like if she had lived the story she's singing and the twin girls with their vocals enhance the tragedy and angst of the song. Glad to discover these girls, better late than never.

    • @supportiranianfreedom4982
      @supportiranianfreedom4982 2 роки тому +11

      Pure and innocent??? Dude is a cradle robber...he's at least 50...she's 17.....this is your idea of pure and innocent???!!!!

    • @McCannon21
      @McCannon21 2 роки тому +18

      @@supportiranianfreedom4982 the song is, that "performance" ain't.

    • @pendragonU
      @pendragonU 2 роки тому +3

      @@supportiranianfreedom4982 some can't hide they love too much the candy fresh off the candy store, their sticky fingers reminiscing from their jail cell while doing 15 (to better remember those below 18 are to leave alone once off the Jolliet)

    • @andrewwilliams7501
      @andrewwilliams7501 2 роки тому +6

      @@supportiranianfreedom4982 he's 31 you absolute 🛎 🔚 😂

    • @supportiranianfreedom4982
      @supportiranianfreedom4982 2 роки тому +2

      @@andrewwilliams7501 you must've put a lot of effort in this...Bravo !👌🤣

  • @reneemoreno8030
    @reneemoreno8030 Рік тому +5

    I was 8 yrs old...still great music when music said something.

  • @martinmold1051
    @martinmold1051 Рік тому +5

    I must be getting on..I remember liking this when I was at school in Cardiff. Time is pushing on..

  • @guitarandbeyondplus
    @guitarandbeyondplus 2 роки тому +45

    Great memories, one of the great novelty songs. I saw them live back in '65.

  • @LADYJUSTICE50
    @LADYJUSTICE50 3 роки тому +26

    This cracks me up! That guy can’t keep a straight face face his life! Even she started grinning!! 💋❤️🕯

  • @mikehherron4800
    @mikehherron4800 Місяць тому +15

    I still listen to the "oldies". It's better than listening to the new stuff they call music.

    • @peacenow42
      @peacenow42 15 днів тому

      I'll never understand why some need to make their own choices better by putting down others.

  • @MissCatfriend
    @MissCatfriend 3 місяці тому +7

    Rest in love ❤ and peace 🕊, Mary Weiss!

  • @MartinIDavies
    @MartinIDavies 3 роки тому +78

    "I met him at the candy store..' with opening line like that.. what can possibly go wrong :-)

  • @marthao5799
    @marthao5799 3 роки тому +41

    One of my all-time favorites from the 60s!!

  • @luciamondello2873
    @luciamondello2873 7 місяців тому +7

    It's one of those songs that surprises you with dialogue, that sets up the story, a story of youthful love, which ends in tragedy, a melodrama.💥 A teenager falls in love with the pack leader of a motorcycle gang, decides to leave him to please his father and the boy, after a motorcycle ride in the rain ends up crashing and losing his life. 💥The whole story is told as a nursery rhyme by Mary Weiss, lead singer of Shangri-Las while the others in the group imitate her. 💥Shangri-Las, one of Pop's (Punk-New Wave), most beloved girl groups was one of the foremost exponents of teenage angst, a group that avoids being glamorous and promotes the image of the tough girl. 💥Shangris - Las was a group of student sisters from Queens who began their singing career in talent shows , they would later strike gold with the collaboration of the eccentric Pop genius, George Morton.💥 It was one of the most acclaimed, successful songs at that time , personally reminds me of Amy Wirehouse, presents originality in the exposition, in the drafting of the entire story, from the interweaving of voices and noises that I can compare to the confusion of the adolescent period , a confusion that you carry with you once you finish listening to it. 💥Thanks for this novelty in style and writing, I think it's a rarity, to have it where it was a stroke of luck, thank you 😊😊😊..

  • @joannefairhead2403
    @joannefairhead2403 Рік тому +25

    This brought back good memories of a great time to just be a kid. My sister had this song on a "45" record. I heard it many times growing up👍 thankyou for this. 🇨🇦 🍁

  • @michelleprie2854
    @michelleprie2854 3 роки тому +56

    What a GREAT Piece of Nostalgia!!! 🎶💖🎶

  • @dongrohol5425
    @dongrohol5425 2 роки тому +11

    The Shangri-Las. A Great Group. Seen Them In Person,Back In The 60's' Twice. Sang All Their Hit's. Even Received Their Autograph.

  • @Daehawk
    @Daehawk 3 місяці тому +5

    Rest in Peace Mary......big hit been a long time.....best to all.

  • @fredziffle1991
    @fredziffle1991 8 днів тому +1

    1964 i was 6yrs old but i remember this.

  • @ChrisT-O
    @ChrisT-O 2 роки тому +20

    When this song was released, I was a toddler, but still I remember and like this song. Always when I read the title, the melody is in my head. This song accompanies me now nearly my whole life.

    • @SoapinTrucker
      @SoapinTrucker 2 роки тому +2

      Same here, I was a toddler as well, but the music stayed on the radio charts for quite a few years, I remember listening to the 60's music as far back as my memories go, 67 or so, and of course, my 1st transistor radio around 70! :)

  • @bryanburton6087
    @bryanburton6087 3 роки тому +310

    For me, Mary Weiss is one of the most underrated singers of all time.
    I just love her voice.

    • @uncooldispatch5438
      @uncooldispatch5438 3 роки тому +6

      😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

    • @joaniepiraino8336
      @joaniepiraino8336 2 роки тому +13

      Agreed!!! Growing up in the 1960-1970's era she REALLY should've been huge!!!

    • @jim7745
      @jim7745 2 роки тому +16

      I love her face and her body and her hair.She can belt one out.

    • @summerbreeze757
      @summerbreeze757 2 роки тому +6

      I get tired of folks saying she's underrated or he's underappreciated. It demeans their accomplishments. Praise them and shout out what you love about them.

    • @bryanburton6087
      @bryanburton6087 2 роки тому +5

      @@summerbreeze757 I get you.
      I did praise her and will continue to do so.
      Even if most people have never heard of her.
      :-)

  • @stormpaterson334
    @stormpaterson334 2 роки тому +13

    Always loved this song, it's still a golden memory for me!

  • @kelluvsgeorge8166
    @kelluvsgeorge8166 Рік тому +4

    I wasn't a twinkle in my father's eye when this came out but I no it's still a banger of a tune

  • @Steve-yo4ld
    @Steve-yo4ld 2 роки тому +15

    OMG Mar 2022, I grew up with this and all the song's from one of the last best Era's!!!💕

  • @paddington3028
    @paddington3028 2 роки тому +52

    Haven't heard this since it was in the charts way back then.
    It's still as I remember it . Great.

  • @damiensuil2183
    @damiensuil2183 11 місяців тому +5

    simply brilliant

  • @nylanelson5212
    @nylanelson5212 2 роки тому +106

    What a beautiful voice. Mary Weiss was 15 when she recorded this & 16 when it was released & became a no# 1 hit

  • @lalomontoyajr.9282
    @lalomontoyajr.9282 2 роки тому +9

    Damn! That lead singer girl is so beautiful! 😍 She looks like a 2021 girl! Any body have a time machine?

  • @phyllisperezbatista695
    @phyllisperezbatista695 Рік тому +6

    I loved this song

  • @user-mz7eg8rr8q
    @user-mz7eg8rr8q Місяць тому +2

    I am. Listening to this in March 2024. A storyteller song

  • @Scratchingforcash
    @Scratchingforcash 2 роки тому +63

    The lead singer was very pretty and also extremely talented. Excellent song and amazing video!! Hats off to Robert!!

    • @zevcrider3683
      @zevcrider3683 Рік тому +7

      The lead singer's name is Mary Weiss and she is still alive at 73 years old!

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 Рік тому +2

      Are the back-ups sisters?

    • @zevcrider3683
      @zevcrider3683 Рік тому +1

      @@sharksport01 not that I know of. Im pretty sure they both passed

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 Рік тому +4

      @@zevcrider3683 i looked it up. They are twins. Also the lead singers sister was in the group, she wasnt there because she was having a baby. Lead singer became an architect/designer.

    • @Scratchingforcash
      @Scratchingforcash Рік тому +1

      @@sharksport01 maybe? I’m not sure but I should’ve mentioned them too. They also are very talented.

  • @jscottupton
    @jscottupton 3 роки тому +65

    I was in high school when this came out. It played constantly...a massive hit.

  • @vanetamorrison2972
    @vanetamorrison2972 3 дні тому +1

    Just coming back from watching Amie Winehouse. This was played in the film.
    So much i could say...

  • @frankforce9241
    @frankforce9241 3 місяці тому +2

    I always pictured a bigger bike. Enjoyable. Thanks Frank

  • @philiptucci2458
    @philiptucci2458 2 роки тому +20

    Beautiful piece of music, really brings back fond memories

  • @chrisanka1838
    @chrisanka1838 4 роки тому +24

    Remember listening to this song as a kid in the 70s loved it but never seen this video before...wow

  • @donstaley8420
    @donstaley8420 Місяць тому +1

    The Shangri las we're way ahead of the time's and should be in the rock and roll hall of Fame ❤

  • @julletteellington8613
    @julletteellington8613 Рік тому +1

    My favorite song of the 50 am telling you they don't sing songs like that anymore, even those am from the 1960 all those songs are my favorite song and listening to the music is like joy to my soul..... I don't think any music can out play those days and I am a person who loves humble music that's all about love, am from Jamaica and we're knows to play just about anything old and new, but listen to those songs remind you of the days you would hear it on the radio.....

  • @pamelajordan2890
    @pamelajordan2890 2 роки тому +8

    Me and my friends were 13 14..this loved this song we were so cool😄😆😃❤️

  • @BusinessLawyerGA
    @BusinessLawyerGA 2 роки тому +13

    So simple by today's standards, but, oh, so powerful. I miss this stuff.

  • @jacquelinefox2632
    @jacquelinefox2632 Рік тому +4

    Still know the harmonies. Just listen. Brilliant. 🎶🎶🎶🎶💖🎼

  • @boopnsnoop
    @boopnsnoop Рік тому +2

    I rember receiving a pack of cds full of songs just like this one when I was about 10 or so, this song was one of my favorites and I'm so happy to find it again

  • @americanpatriot9865
    @americanpatriot9865 2 роки тому +13

    Boy that sure is a badass motorcycle! 😂