Mercy - Love (Can Make You Happy) clip from 1969 movie
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Mercy was a group started by Jack Sigler, Jr., with former members of his high school, Brandon High in Brandon, near Tampa, Florida. They spent about a year after graduating performing from Tampa to Miami. After several personnel changes, Mercy settled in as an eight-person congregation consisting of Jack Sigler, Brenda McNish, Debbie Lewis, Ronnie Caudill, Ann Sigler, John Hudson, Roy Schultz, and Lou Vasenda.
Jack's father knew a Hollywood movie producer who in 1968 had come to Tampa to shoot a movie called Fireball Jungle. The producer, George Roberts, heard Mercy through the senior Sigler and asked them to perform a song in his movie. Jack had written "Love (Can Make You Happy)" in high school and the group performed it for the movie. . The movie was finished in 1969, but apparently not released to theaters. It was a car crash and violence extravaganza, and several clips and trailers are available on the internet.
Jack's father put up some cash for the group to record their songs as a single (it may be this recording that was used for the group to lip-synch to in the film).
sourced from Sundi Album Discography By Mike Callahan, Randy Watts, Patrice Eyries and David Edwards
I drove my Austin Healey to Manhattan to visit a girlfriend just as this song was getting air play. She and her room mate were stews for United. We put the top down on the Healey and all three of us drove around the East 80's with the radio full blast. Love Can Make You Happy came on the radio and we all sang the easy lyrics. Sappy story I guess, but fantastic memory.
Takes me back to a time that's gone forever
In 1969 I was 12 years old and loved this song. It was the first 45 I ever bought and I still have it!!
Me too
Beautiful message. The 1960s produced a lot of sunshine pop tunes that lifted our feelings and this was one of them. We just don't have music like this anymore.
Amazing how you feel listening to this vis-a-vis contemporary rap/hip hop, or even the Stones' music from that era.
@@issues9828 Yes indeed. Today's music lacks the aesthetic and feelings embodied in much of the older music. If we listen to A Beautiful Morning by the Rascals or Abraham, Martin and John by Dion, just a couple of examples, it produces a positive reaction. When I listen to the stuff coming out of people's radios as they drive down my street, I wonder what has happened to us in terms of the capacity to identify with beauty and positive emotions. Has true love died? Rap and Hip hop represent an ugly esthetic to me. There's no emotional beauty in it.
@@warmweatherfriend1756 I love those two songs. I remember being in grade school in the '70s, and waking up to a New England spring morning with warm sunshine, and hearing "It's A Beautiful Morning" on the radio and feeling that the spirit of the song captured perfectly the emotions that the spring morning sun conveyed.
Although I feel that the Dion song has some lyrical flaws, I do love the song and listen to it often.
@@warmweatherfriend1756 A couple of other songs I love that capture the beauty of nature are "Nightingale" by Carole King, and Elvis' version of Neil Diamond's "And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind".
I was 15 when this song came out, in May, 1969. Funny how a song can transport you back to how you felt at that time.
And remember the lyrics! I can't remember what I did yesterday, but I know every single word of this song, that I haven't heard in MANY years! 🤔
I love this song. I have it on a 45 in my jukebox I play all the time ❤
I always love that song it brings back those days when I was in Jr High School in 69 it was great days ✌❤🍄🌸☺😎
Geez, even live they sound amazing. I love these unique harmonies.
Pure perfection in this fantastic ballad !!!
That "love....love.....love" harmony at the end is terrific. First Ann then Debbie, then Brenda. This is a live take for the film, too. It's quite a bit different from the usual studio version.
I love this song! Brings back memories of my childhood and first love.
I'm clapping too. Rare you hear music like that anymore. Those vocals are just plain awesome, rivalling the Beach Boys big time.
Truly a beautiful song. Loved it the first time I heard it & still do, all these many years later!
What beautiful voice love it I remember this song
that song was from that wacky bad movie fireball jungle that was so bad it was never released but the song was beautiful
Had to have been released. It made over a hundred grand at the box office in 1969. Plus, I'm watching this clip.... the film got released somewhere for this to show up.
Those were the days when love always circulated in the air. It was the times unlike today.
Can't ya tell these guys are real party animals?
Wish I could been there when this was filmed
Me too. The dark haired guy sitting at the table by himself was really cute :):)
I hope you realize that some of the people in that audience are Manson family members.
One of my favorite songs back in the day. I miss those days ( SMILE ). Brother Monroe Dey El Bey (7).
This is music.
Thank you so much for posting this with the hostorical information.
Flashback! Thank you for sharing and bring memories to my life. Great memories!
Song was written in 1967, came out in '68 and was featured in this '69 film...
What a awesome beautiful song 🎵
A great song
Nostalgy, peace , happiness.
beautiful !
Beautiful!
This is sweet.
It's a tasty slice of yesterday.
The best music
Very beautiful song, the lyrics and music is so lovely, ps. the audience on this vid are all well behave😍
I love the girls matching pajamas!
Best song ever?
Kidding love the song.
50 years ago absolutely identical
One of my favorite favorite songs so beautiful just wish they had a better videos, this is horrible but thanks anyway.
Low budget amateur shot film “Fireball Jungle”. The best part of this film is that this group ‘The Mercy’ are actually playing and singing live.
No. I read that Jack had enlisted by the time this song became a hit and the band was over. The record company used some props, made an LP and toured to take advantage of this hit record.
The true story, told to me by guitarist Ron Caudill was that they were signed by Warner Brothers and the Sundi head was mad and put together a fake band.
They fought in court and won but they didn't get any more hits.
The girls left, then Ron and they just disbanded at that point.
I was talking to Jack today in the music store. Hopefully we'll be setting up some shows soon.
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The movie was cleaned up- has it been released on DVD ?
I wonder if the middle-aged woman behind the bar is still alive? She was probably in her 50's at the time. Most of the patrons are probably in their 50's or 60's now!
most likely deceased now. sad thought.
Why is anyone applauding? Not one of them were looking at them singing.
Maybe, and this is just a guess, they were _LISTENING_ to the band! We used to do that back then; we would focus our EARS on music, not our eyeballs because you see, ears pick up sound, which is what music is. Eyeballs do NOT pick up sound. Stevie Wonder, for instance, is blind and can not only hear music, he can MAKE it as well. Why? Because he has EARS. EYEBALLS are more useful in the visual art world. If these patrons in this video went to an art gallery and didn't look at the paintings and just sat around yakking it up with their dates, macking on fried chicken, swilling beer, and THEN, _applauded_ , well, yehhh..... THAT would be weird.
They weren't all from Brandon High. Debbie Lewis was from East Bay HS in Riverview Fl, a few miles down US 301. I had several classes with her in 1969 as a senior
I shared at least 2 classes with Debbie Lewis in 1969 as a senior at EBHS.....Charles Watkins
+willa watkins Love this song bought it when it came out . It's a shame that this was the only song ever heard by them . I think they could have been as big as the Carpenters
@@FROSTOPable "Forever" and "l heard you went away" are both nice tunes.
It’s odd that there very few pictures anywhere of her and the other band members.
Looks like Wolfman Jack sitting with the girl in the foreground.
Wild to see this- I had no idea people lovingly remembered this A-side, or that it was an actual band. I dug the 45 for "Fireball", the b-side, which is, shall we say, in a different vein than this... ua-cam.com/video/HawzQe4HlVs/v-deo.html
How'd you like to work that crowd?
MST3K brought me here!
great oldie. why the closeups on the dorkie guy instead of those cute gals? I liked the cold Falstaff beer they were serving. Drank a lot of that as a youngster, a lot of it illegally. I don't know if u can even get it today. good old times and a far better America.
Poor Jimmy. He really wants the waitress but knows his best shot is the blonde.
Its like I was there. But I wasn’t...
I cannot figure out if the guy with the beer (Randy Kirby) is flirting with the blonde seated provocatively at the bar or the waitress.
Is that a young Leonard Nemoy at ::42 and 1:56 ?
Roy Shultz is my uncle. No "c" in Shultz. :)
Song s crewed up by bad electronic saaatage
nope, the sundi cover are random models
Why are they wearing thier jammies?
'cause they're jammin!.....(I am so sorry)
1. Does that sign say "LSD" on the wall? Dang. Ruins the video for me if it does.
2. I bought the Sundi single of this in a record store around 1974 when I was 14...they were probably long-disbanded by then. Interesting you say the movie was called "Fireball jungle" because the flip side of the record was an instrumental song called (drum roll) "Fireball". It sounded like a bunch of Florida gulf coast (where there are no Pacific-style waves) kids playing "fuzz" guitar making a surf record.
LSD?
That was the sign of the times back then.
Wonderful advertisement to a really groovy song.
Their guitarist wrote it. Just as a surf instrumental. He's my barber now!
Says LSD Sandwich...lol.
It says LSD for lunch bunch. Doesn't ruin it for me ☮️
the guy on the left is doing nothing much less singing
jeff hunter actually, they're all doing nothing. They're lip syncing to a recording.
sweer
jeff hunter. Regardless, this song is so much better than the garbage heard today!
very much so
These guys started playing at Woodstock, but, the stage they were playing on collapsed killing eveyone of them, thank god. The cat in the green crocheted jumper was their manager. He didn't get kilt at Woodstock, but he did end up blowing his brains out in this saloon because the beer really sucked. Sad, sad story.
wow, worst version of all the UA-cam versions sung by mercy.