Time FLIES!!!!! You're saying 51 years ago, but I do realize it's been that long. When I was going to high school in Acton, (1968-71) I had to spend an hour on the bus, we lived way out in the farmlands.The bus driver played CKOC Hamilton, (1150-CKOC) and this song was my fave. I heard it the other day on an oldies station , and it just brought back such memories! There is good music today, but not on the radio anymore. I miss the old days.
I was 8 yrs old when this song came out. I remember listening to this and other great AM "pop music" station singles in the summer of 1970 on my little Sony, hand-held transistor radio! This song transports me back to a seemingly simpler time. Great timeless song that never grows old!
I was 15 when this song came out. this song and so many more of that same time are still so important in my memory. I don't think music has ever been the same since that time. I'm 69 now, and there has been a lot of really good music since. But I really love the music of the late 60's and early 70's. I have to aask you to listen to a song be Street Heart, came out in '78. It's called Action. I never heard this song until 4 years ago, and I just freakin' love it. Check it out
Sorry for all my speling boo-boos, but I was typing faster than my brain could control my fingers. Shit happens sometimes, but I hope you caught was I was trying to say, despite the spelling errors
I don't know about anyone else but I've heard this song about a 1,000 times in the past 50 years and have never got tired of hearing it. If I was marooned on a desert island and could only pick one song to play..this would be the song.
Back in 1970 when I was 19, I didn't realize how happy, just a good feeling, this song gave me. Still does to this day. We are all very lucky to have our own, personal "picks me up",music.
Yes, I feel like I'm driving around with my cousins at the age of 7 in a non air conditioned car with the windows open... It's amazing what music can do !
Its funny you should say that. I heard this in Safeway and it immediately took me back to the exact place and time I heard it for the first time. Amazing how the mind does that
Tommy James and this group....... We will never be able to duplicate these artists. The music in the 2000 s will never have the heart felt songs they sang and brought us all together at a difficult time. Thank you Tommy James and the Shondells for touching Our lives.
This is just one of those songs that was written and performed so well. I wish there was a video of the moment they recorded this. To me this is so much better than anything being thrown out to the public these days. This song seemed so ahead of its time, but still captured the mood of 1970. I guess great songs always stand the test of time, and this certainly does. LOVE this extended mix. Whoever did this, THANK YOU!
Right as rain Mike! I graduated high school in 1970 and the memories this song brings to me are invaluable! Sounds even so much better in the extended version! Godspeed to all!👌
You mean you still have Goosebumps from the very first time you heard this all these years days and nights you had goosebumps Non-Stop? Sounds like a skin condition. JK
I was 13 and remember I hope they didn't stop playing it before I found out who played it. It's been all these years without my favorite ❤️ song. I'm catching up. Love the extended. My jbl extreme rocks this song.
Wonderful composition. I remember the first time I heard it. At the high school I attended in El Salvador,kids loved it. Ever since it has been one of my favorit songs.
This song completes the checklist of having everything in it : a tight, punchy rhythmic Groove, great "Loving-Lyrics", tight vocal Harmonies, a long, sustaining Fuzz guitar line, a hot, snappy overdriven lead guitar Solo & last but not least - a hypnotic "Herb Alpert" - like Trumpet Riff echoing in the background. How can you get any "Tighter" than THIS, now Baby ?
Alive and kicking started in a basement or garage in Brooklyn NY Tommy James wrote this song for them. But they are awesome .I'm from the Bronx I was 10 til this day every I hear this song the memories flow thank you and God bless you alive and kicking
Your 17,you just graduated high school its ,summer and your whole world is ahead of you, with the one you love ..your young,healthy and very happy being alive.
Woke up with this song running around in my head, wasn't even sure who it was... found it on UA-cam, what a beautiful chorus, I loved this song as a teenager, no wonder, thank god for UA-cam
When I heard this on the radio today I literally laughed out loud in delight. What great memories this evoked. Thanks for posting this. I had to hear it again.
Am glad James decided to give this one away! He sure picked the right group to do it. Had forgotten music could still make me feel like this. First heard it when home again on temp leave before being deployed. In those times you lived every minute and knew good music when you heard it. I would have extended it too! The guitar solo was a stand-alone classic all by itself.
Believe it or not! I just heard this incredible song for the first time today, 1/30/19, on the Sirius 70's channel. Have never heard of the song or the group before this day. This is truly a feel good song. Can think of a number of movie scenes, family videos, other projects this song would be great for. Love this group and song! 70's forever!!!!
I was 12 when this song came out and I still blast it thru my stereo they just don't make perfect music like this anymore it will always stay on my PLAY LIST thank you Alive and Kickin
I was 20 in 1970 when this song hit the airwaves. I had just bought my first car, a 1970 Mustang fastback, and can remember grooving to this tune on the Mustang's AM radio. Lots of happy memories here. You can hear the Tommy James style in this song. Great job on the extended version!
You & I know how great 👍 music was back in 1969-71, but it's ironic how my Grandparents & parents used to make the same comments about "current" music vs "old" music back then?
Bass Line in this song is bumpin'!! God I LOVED the 70's!!!!! This is one of the songs that make you happy to still be,..... Alive 'n' Kickin'. Rest in peace Mr. Pepe Cardona.
I remember being at house of records in Tacoma, Wa. And a car of teenagers rushed in and asked the manager who sang this song as they just heard it on the radio and he didn’t know but I was perusing the 45’s and said it’s Tighter tighter by Alive and Kicking and no, there wasn’t a copy in the store- this was the nineties and I was addicted to this and it is is my collection and I never get tired of the way I feel whenever I play it- goosebumps🥰
The slight smell of a two stroke outboard as an occasional boat passed by on the lake, the bright sunshine, warm sweet smelling summer breeze, playing cards in our canvas tent playing crazy eights and kings corner, fishing on the dock for sun fish and swimming, listening to these songs on KDWB out of the twin city’s I was seven years old back then life seemed so sweet back then I wonder where it all went.
We owe our Parents for what we became, and all the music that helped to mold us into good human beings, I am grateful I was able to serve this country for as long as I did and Thanks be only to God almighty I made it old age
One day I held your hand , then one day you let go as Vietnam called you far away , 45 years later you took my hand again. 8 months later heaven called you away . I don't know when but I know I will take your hand again with God's blessing . Amen ❤
This song has NEVER gotten old for me....one of my all time favorites from my early years and will always have a place in my rock n roll heart. I was just learning to play the drums and a buddy of mine that had been playing for a while showed me the groove. Wow! I was hooked. Have it on my iPhone and play it regularly! I imagine people in the car next to me at the stop light are wondering why this old man plays it so loudly!!!! LOL....'cause it's so damn good!
I have always adored this song! I do have a cassette tape of this and their album and this song on certain 70's mixed albums! This song really gets you to move and wanna sing to the world!! Alive and Kicking you were outstanding!
I was 13 when I first heard this song. It inspired me to continue music and learn to play guitar. It was such a good feeling song. I had forgotten all about this song until I stumbled on it here. It still emotes this good feeling I remember from long ago.
One of my all time favorites! My sister and I had a dance routine we would do with this and we played this song over and over again! I’ve never gotten tired of this song 53 years later!❤❤❤
Great job by motosogam on this extended rendition. “Tighter And Tighter” by Alive And Kicking is one of my favorite songs. I was a mere lad of thirteen when it came out, and I’m sixty-six now. Still enjoy it after all these years.
Real instruments, real vocal artists and song lyrics that had substance, depth and very relatable to the point that even the sad songs would make you happy! Cant listen to most songs today!
Best summertime song ever! Especially on Saturday mornings. My dad owned a diner in Middleboro Mass back in the 60’s. He had juke box selections in the booths. I always put a purple quarter in it and played this song. This song also takes me back the beach days. I’m 67 and will always play it and never get tired of it.
I was 18 and just graduated high school when this song came out. Iam 72 now and when I hear this song , precious memories and feelings flood my heart and soul of the girl I was dating at the time.
I was so influenced by this song. I remember writing ‘Alive and Kicking’ in every High School Yearbook I signed. 1970-1974 in retrospect some awesome times.
Never forget the first time I heard this song. 1970, western Kansas, we were cutting wheat. Stopped about 10 pm because the wheat was getting tough. Drove the equipment back to the farmyard. Got in my car to drive home and this song came on KOMA out of Oklahoma City. I was spellbound and listened to the entire song before driving away.
I heard this many a day out in the hay field. My kids ask me what it was like back then, starting high school and graduation in 1974. My one word response was FREEDOM
Anyone here from Flushing NY and remember a club Called Jimmy Burns? I remember at 20 yrs old going to the club every weekend to listen to this group perform. Today 2020 I am 62.
O..M..G..Yessssss!!! From Astoria but we went there practically every weekend!!!! My best friends sister even let us take her maroon Camero instead of my shit brown Impala! Good times, good times!!!
The memories invoked from this song are too poignant. Extraordinary that I’m still here listening to this song. God is good. Angels are real. Music is food for the soul…..
I'm a old soul in an young body....I grow up listening to music like this. I'm 38 years old and I prefer this to any new music these days....music was MAGICAL back then....I turn stuff like this on and it opens up my soul!
This is a great song, hard to believe it was from 1970, after the 60's sound, I love the suttle brass, vocals are awesome as is the lead guitar and drums, great melded song.
My friends and I just loved this song when it was first released, played it until we drove everyone around us crazy (we were already way past that mark).
This popped into my head yesterday; was 3 years old in 1970. Had not heard in 40+ years. So glad I found it and thanks for the "extended" version - still not long enough! I guess I'll just have to play it again! 😃
What a great song. I first heard it when I was on my first date. It is an iconic song that transports you to a different era when everything seemed possible and the world was a gentler and kinder place full of love and hope. Transcendent!
51 years later and I STILL LOVE THIS SONG!!!
This song is awesome. I never get sick of hearing it.
Time FLIES!!!!! You're saying 51 years ago, but I do realize it's been that long. When I was going to high school in Acton, (1968-71) I had to spend an hour on the bus, we lived way out in the farmlands.The bus driver played CKOC Hamilton, (1150-CKOC) and this song was my fave. I heard it the other day on an oldies station , and it just brought back such memories! There is good music today, but not on the radio anymore. I miss the old days.
This song is still great & I,ve been listening to it over 50 years as well...
@@brendadale852 yes I miss the good ol days too! Times were alot better for sure! Great song!
Me too!!!!
I was 8 yrs old when this song came out. I remember listening to this and other great AM "pop music" station singles in the summer of 1970 on my little Sony, hand-held transistor radio! This song transports me back to a seemingly simpler time. Great timeless song that never grows old!
Well said
I'm 68 and I feel the same as you. What fond memories.
I was 15 when this song came out. this song and so many more of that same time are still so important in my memory. I don't think music has ever been the same since that time. I'm 69 now, and there has been a lot of really good music since. But I really love the music of the late 60's and early 70's. I have to aask you to listen to a song be Street Heart, came out in '78. It's called Action. I never heard this song until 4 years ago, and I just freakin' love it. Check it out
Sorry for all my speling boo-boos, but I was typing faster than my brain could control my fingers. Shit happens sometimes, but I hope you caught was I was trying to say, despite the spelling errors
@brendadale852 yep good times then.
I don't know about anyone else but I've heard this song about a 1,000 times in the past 50 years and have never got tired of hearing it. If I was marooned on a desert island and could only pick one song to play..this would be the song.
Bob bsing absolutely same here..the song best ever..never gets old hearing it..
Bought this 45 when it came out in 1970. I was10/11. To this day, it is my prized single. Just makes me feel sooooo good. Never gets tiring.
I love this song I listen to it all the time now.
Either this or Louie Louie.
@@jx14aby I have Louie Louie The Group call Story also. Lol!
Back in 1970 when I was 19, I didn't realize how happy, just a good feeling, this song gave me. Still does to this day. We are all very lucky to have our own, personal "picks me up",music.
Know what you mean I was 16 , still love hearing this song
I'm going back to the 70's in a time machine.....Anyone else coming?
Wait for me..
Room for one more?
Please hold the door I’m coming!
I still get goosebumps even though it’s bittersweet it’s awesome
The music from that era was the best ever. No music will ever touch it or even come close to it.
Sitting with my Girl, at Lake Michigan listening to this song. Before going to Nam .
Thank you Michael
So glad you made it home, brother. Thank you for your sacrifice.
I can picture it! I'm glad you made it back to write your comment! Thank You & so sorry you had to do that!
Thanks for your service
God Bless You , thank you for your service
Another hit from 1970. What a year for music.
It was, indeed.
The year i was born
The Very Best Music ever!
Check 1968...also awesome music!
@Bruce Griffin late 60s early 70s was the best time in music history.
How is it that a song can take us back to a time and place so vividly that we ache to be there, if only for a minute.
SO TRUE
I completely understand what you mean
Damn, you hit that one right on the head.
yes, you did hit it right on the head! it is an ache....of times gone by......it was simpler.....we were young....both parents still alive....
Bluesky4591 that was beautiful.
you know that a song is good when you get the same old feelings when you hear it again like this one!!!!
Yes, I feel like I'm driving around with my cousins at the age of 7 in a non air conditioned car with the windows open... It's amazing what music can do !
👍👍👍👍👍.....
+sandman6999 Aw Yes The 70's
Rosalie Corrado they kick ass. I was 12 yeaes old in Ensenda. Summer.
Its funny you should say that. I heard this in Safeway and it immediately took me back to the exact place and time I heard it for the first time. Amazing how the mind does that
Sang this song to him for our 8 year anniversary last night! He got very emotional! :)
I like. 👍
This is a real feel good song and never fails to uplift my spirit. I want it on repeat all day. ❤
Outstanding extended version. This song is as great in August 2024 as it was when I was in Junior High in 1970.
Just a perfect pop tune...the harmonies, the progressions, the guitar solo, the horns...Tommy James at the peak of his powers as a producer
I didn't know that Tommy James did producing good stuff I like it 😎
Neither did I
I should have known, I liked Tommy James since I was 4 and my dad's friend took us for a ride in his Mustang.
This song was written and produced by Tommy James, the genius himself.
Tommy James and this group....... We will never be able to duplicate these artists. The music in the 2000 s will never have the heart felt songs they sang and brought us all together at a difficult time. Thank you Tommy James and the Shondells for touching Our lives.
God Bless Niles, Michigan
Thank goodness we're all alive and kicking.
One of the best one hit wonders of all time.
Bob bsing yea sir..
You got that right !
I third that.
Fourth
Fifth
Its hard to imagine that music can ever be this good again. Its all I listen to
This song was pure magic 50 years ago, and still is.
This is just one of those songs that was written and performed so well. I wish there was a video of the moment they recorded this. To me this is so much better than anything being thrown out to the public these days. This song seemed so ahead of its time, but still captured the mood of 1970. I guess great songs always stand the test of time, and this certainly does. LOVE this extended mix. Whoever did this, THANK YOU!
I'm 68 and I was 17 when this song came out, this one is on my top 5
You’re so right about everything you say.
Right as rain Mike! I graduated high school in 1970 and the memories this song brings to me are invaluable! Sounds even so much better in the extended version! Godspeed to all!👌
I saw them play this song on American Bandstand the Summer of 70
Amen to that Mike. Sounds as great as it did back in 1970. Reminds me fondly of my high school graduation and my beautiful high school sweetheart ❤
Tommy worked his way up to perfection with this one; and what a brilliant move to hand it off to this wonderful band !
YES !!!
He was a true artist,God gives us angels in many forms,he was no exception,he was the real deal.
Lost my true companion a few months ago. This was a favorite of ours. Missing him so much.
The more I hear today's music 2023
The more I gravitate back to the 70's
Right Here
I've been listening to Tighter since I was about 4. My mommy loved it, so I did. 61 years old and it still seems like a hit!! 💕
Beautiful late summer song from 1970. One of my all time favorites! Magic sunsets, starlit nights, waves foaming on sandy beaches. And YOUTH!
Are you the Mike Kelly on SiriusXM 60's?
And youth..........
My song to my boyfriend. A state trooper I was dating.
Mini golf, date with that cute teenage girl at the ice cream stand, drive in movies-----oh why did it end so fast?
WHY DOES THIS SONG STILL GIVE ME GOOSEBUMPS?
BRIAN ROGERS cmon man..you got soul..that’s why..🇨🇦🇨🇦
You mean you still have Goosebumps from the very first time you heard this all these years days and nights you had goosebumps Non-Stop? Sounds like a skin condition. JK
The raw truth the melody the highs guitar leads.....haunting
I understand..me too❤❤❤
I was 10 in 1970, but it's one of my all-time favorites and still gives me chills! Thanks for the extended version.
You're welcome!!
I was also 10 year's old when I first heard it!!! Thanks for sharing
Far freaking out love this song ! Man time flies...
I too was 10, now 60, times at warp speed lookin back✌
I was 13 and remember I hope they didn't stop playing it before I found out who played it. It's been all these years without my favorite ❤️ song. I'm catching up. Love the extended. My jbl extreme rocks this song.
Wonderful composition. I remember the first time I heard it. At the high school I attended in El Salvador,kids loved it. Ever since it has been one of my favorit songs.
I'm 76 and remember every word. What a great song with a lot of meaning!😊
2019 and 53 year's old.....There's NO age limit to have great taste in music 😊Its simply AMAZING.
This song completes the checklist of having everything in it : a tight, punchy rhythmic Groove, great "Loving-Lyrics", tight vocal Harmonies, a long, sustaining Fuzz guitar line, a hot, snappy overdriven lead guitar Solo & last but not least - a hypnotic "Herb Alpert" - like Trumpet Riff echoing in the background. How can you get any "Tighter" than THIS, now Baby ?
Alive and kicking started in a basement or garage in Brooklyn NY Tommy James wrote this song for them. But they are awesome .I'm from the Bronx I was 10 til this day every I hear this song the memories flow thank you and God bless you alive and kicking
I was 15 when this song came out and still love it today at 69....woohoo
ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME
Yup!
And yet it's hard to believe it's been forgotten or never heard by so many ❤️!
I was 8 years old, I'm now 62. This song is STILL incredible! Beautiful vibes & message!❤
Your 17,you just graduated high school its ,summer and your whole world is ahead of you, with the one you love ..your young,healthy and very happy being alive.
Summer at its best!!
Memories and the music!!!!
From the greatest generation ever.
Superb song...A great feel
Perfecto...my freshman year...and my 1st love...beautiful song and wonderful memories, thank.you!!
Woke up with this song running around in my head, wasn't even sure who it was... found it on UA-cam, what a beautiful chorus, I loved this song as a teenager, no wonder, thank god for UA-cam
The 70’s had the music and bands! What a pleasure to have been able to experience this greatness!
I listen to this song when I was 20 years old and I’m 74 years old now it still a kicking song I listen to it to bring me up 👍❤
Brings me back to cruising in my 65 mustang n just listening to the tunes on the radio. Were those not the good old days? It takes ya back.
Do kids cruise anymore? Guess they surf the web...
Amen Brother!
When I heard this on the radio today I literally laughed out loud in delight. What great memories this evoked. Thanks for posting this. I had to hear it again.
Am glad James decided to give this one away! He sure picked the right group to do it.
Had forgotten music could still make me feel like this. First heard it when home again on temp leave before being deployed. In those times you lived every minute and knew good music when you heard it.
I would have extended it too! The guitar solo was a stand-alone classic all by itself.
A timeless masterpiece with an early seventies feel.
Believe it or not! I just heard this incredible song for the first time today, 1/30/19, on the Sirius 70's channel. Have never heard of the song or the group before this day. This is truly a feel good song. Can think of a number of movie scenes, family videos, other projects this song would be great for. Love this group and song! 70's forever!!!!
Brings me back to summers in the triumph...top down...bikini on smoking a fine one.
Why is it that some of the most simple songs are the best? If the elements are all just right, you gotta timeless hit that everyone loves.
Ah to be a kid again in the 70's. Believe I started listening to the radio in 1972. Remember most of these cool songs on the Big AM's.
I was 12 when this song came out and I still blast it thru my stereo they just don't make perfect music like this anymore it will always stay on my PLAY LIST thank you Alive and Kickin
When a song can send chills down your spine you KNOW it’s good!
True story
You said it love it makes you feel good and sends chills all over your body
Absolutely
I agree
I wasn't aware Tommy James is part of this genius.. This song has that magic touch, especially at wedding reception parties..🙊🙈🙉... good stuff!!
I was 20 in 1970 when this song hit the airwaves. I had just bought my first car, a 1970 Mustang fastback, and can remember grooving to this tune on the Mustang's AM radio. Lots of happy memories here. You can hear the Tommy James style in this song. Great job on the extended version!
You didn't get drafted? I did.
You got that right. They were all very special for those of us who remembered very good music not this b.s. that is called music of today
You & I know how great 👍 music was back in 1969-71, but it's ironic how my Grandparents & parents used to make the same comments about "current" music vs "old" music back then?
This song was a hit during my first girlfriend’s relationship back in High School. 69-71. Still like it
It never seems to grow old, yet it reminds me of the wonderful, wonderful summer of 1970.
Love it they don't make songs like this anymore winderful
one of the best songs of the entire era.
After more than 50 years hearing this song I am still alive and kicking
Bass Line in this song is bumpin'!!
God I LOVED the 70's!!!!!
This is one of the songs that make you happy to still be,.....
Alive 'n' Kickin'.
Rest in peace Mr. Pepe Cardona.
I was in high school back then, and I love this song. Still do! Really takes me back, so many good memories!!
Same here still rockin on the Rez.
I was a junior in high school right before i met my girlfriend
This was the song I selected as the theme
for my wedding in 2006 to my 2nd wife, Debra. Still rings true!
Great choice
Great music from the summer of 1970. I was 14 and would be entering high school in the Fall. How I wish I could have that time back.
I remember being at house of records in Tacoma, Wa. And a car of teenagers rushed in and asked the manager who sang this song as they just heard it on the radio and he didn’t know but I was perusing the 45’s and said it’s Tighter tighter by Alive and Kicking and no, there wasn’t a copy in the store- this was the nineties and I was addicted to this and it is is my collection and I never get tired of the way I feel whenever I play it- goosebumps🥰
Wow, this hit me in the gut and throat at the same time, yearning to sing it over and over; reminding me of those times when she first held your hand!
Such a great song with duet harmonies so so fine. Thanks for posting a great hit of our youth!
The slight smell of a two stroke outboard as an occasional boat passed by on the lake, the bright sunshine, warm sweet smelling summer breeze, playing cards in our canvas tent playing crazy eights and kings corner, fishing on the dock for sun fish and swimming, listening to these songs on KDWB out of the twin city’s I was seven years old back then life seemed so sweet back then I wonder where it all went.
We made the 70's seem like the 25th Century, war , protest and so much more May the 70's live forever
Disabled Veterans Helping other Veterans thanks for your service!!
We owe our Parents for what we became, and all the music that helped to mold us into good human beings, I am grateful I was able to serve this country for as long as I did and Thanks be only to God almighty I made it old age
Amen my fellow brother and sisters veterans THANK YOU 🤗🤗
I know the feeling exactly! I feel like I was living in an advanced modern time back then and now (2019) I’m living in a “backward” time! Weird!
Vietnam was such a bad mark on our history.... Thanks Richard Nixon.... The worst president of all time
I was 5 years old when this song was a hit. Few months from starting kindergarten. Timeless classic hit even in this year of 2024.
One day I held your hand , then one day you let go as Vietnam called you far away , 45 years later you took my hand again. 8 months later heaven called you away . I don't know when but I know I will take your hand again with God's blessing . Amen ❤
This song has NEVER gotten old for me....one of my all time favorites from my early years and will always have a place in my rock n roll heart. I was just learning to play the drums and a buddy of mine that had been playing for a while showed me the groove. Wow! I was hooked. Have it on my iPhone and play it regularly! I imagine people in the car next to me at the stop light are wondering why this old man plays it so loudly!!!! LOL....'cause it's so damn good!
Never tire of hearing this gem...and an extended version, no less!
I have always adored this song! I do have a cassette tape of this and their album and this song on certain 70's mixed albums! This song really gets you to move and wanna sing to the world!! Alive and Kicking you were outstanding!
I was 13 when I first heard this song. It inspired me to continue music and learn to play guitar. It was such a good feeling song. I had forgotten all about this song until I stumbled on it here. It still emotes this good feeling I remember from long ago.
One of my all time favorites! My sister and I had a dance routine we would do with this and we played this song over and over again! I’ve never gotten tired of this song 53 years later!❤❤❤
Great job by motosogam on this extended rendition. “Tighter And Tighter” by Alive And Kicking is one of my favorite songs. I was a mere lad of thirteen when it came out, and I’m sixty-six now. Still enjoy it after all these years.
hard to believe that after all these years, when I get in the car, I want to hear this song while roaring down the highway ...
Real instruments, real vocal artists and song lyrics that had substance, depth and very relatable to the point that even the sad songs would make you happy! Cant listen to most songs today!
My first favorite song, still got it on a 45. Thank you, brings back great memories
"Just a little bit tighter" - absolutely. The truer words were never spoken.
Excellent lead Guitar break, and in the coda too.
😊 yet another Tommy James classic
Best summertime song ever! Especially on Saturday mornings. My dad owned a diner in Middleboro Mass back in the 60’s. He had juke box selections in the booths. I always put a purple quarter in it and played this song. This song also takes me back the beach days. I’m 67 and will always play it and never get tired of it.
Love it !! I fill butterflies in my gut just like the first time !!!!
No kidding!! I was a freshman in high school and sooooo in love!!!!
+Pottery27 me too!!
So true -- when life was one big adventure!
LOVE IT!!!!
Staci Donahue well if your anything like me...THANK GOD I'M YOURS...
I was 18 and just graduated high school when this song came out. Iam 72 now and when I hear this song , precious memories and feelings flood my heart and soul of the girl I was dating at the time.
I was so influenced by this song. I remember writing ‘Alive and Kicking’ in every High School Yearbook I signed. 1970-1974 in retrospect some awesome times.
One of the greatest Rock and Roll songs ever made. We loved it then, we love it now!!!!!!!!!
Never forget the first time I heard this song. 1970, western Kansas, we were cutting wheat. Stopped about 10 pm because the wheat was getting tough. Drove the equipment back to the farmyard. Got in my car to drive home and this song came on KOMA out of Oklahoma City. I was spellbound and listened to the entire song before driving away.
A great idea to extend it...
an underrated classic...i remember from my childhood
123...thanks so much!!
So many good songs were under 3 minutes
Same hear.
mosogotam
I heard this many a day out in the hay field. My kids ask me what it was like back then, starting high school and graduation in 1974. My one word response was FREEDOM
One of the greatest summer songs of all time. Nostalgia strikes!!
Anyone here from Flushing NY and remember a club Called Jimmy Burns? I remember at 20 yrs old going to the club every weekend to listen to this group perform. Today 2020 I am 62.
O..M..G..Yessssss!!! From Astoria but we went there practically every weekend!!!! My best friends sister even let us take her maroon Camero instead of my shit brown Impala! Good times, good times!!!
Pretty emotional for me ....my mom passed away in 1970 and this song really reminds me of her ......#beautifulsong
The memories invoked from this song are too poignant. Extraordinary that I’m still here listening to this song. God is good. Angels are real. Music is food for the soul…..
I'm a old soul in an young body....I grow up listening to music like this. I'm 38 years old and I prefer this to any new music these days....music was MAGICAL back then....I turn stuff like this on and it opens up my soul!
38 is not exactly an old soul.
This is a great song, hard to believe it was from 1970, after the 60's sound, I love the suttle brass, vocals are awesome as is the lead guitar and drums, great melded song.
1970 and 1971 still had that 60s sound in alot of songs from those two years...1972 welcome to the 1970s.
My friends and I just loved this song when it was first released, played it until we drove everyone around us crazy (we were already way past that mark).
I love this extended version!!! I love this song and I’ve always wished it was longer and here we are
This popped into my head yesterday; was 3 years old in 1970. Had not heard in 40+ years. So glad I found it and thanks for the "extended" version - still not long enough! I guess I'll just have to play it again! 😃
What a great song. I first heard it when I was on my first date. It is an iconic song that transports you to a different era when everything seemed possible and the world was a gentler and kinder place full of love and hope. Transcendent!