The Association "Along Comes Mary" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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- The Association "Along Comes Mary" on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 8, 1968. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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After listening to this, you realize just how far pop music has fallen.
RIP the three members of The Association
Terry Kirkman (December 12, 1939 - September 23, 2023), aged 83
Larry Ramos (April 19, 1942 - April 30, 2014), aged 72
Brian Cole (September 8, 1942 - August 2, 1972), aged 29
You will be remembered as legends.
They certainly are. We'll never witness a time like this again. Only on film.
💯♥️
May you R.I.P., Larry Ramos. Kaua‘i's (Hawai‘i's) very own.
❤
Also sadly now Terry Kirkman.
❤️🤙🤙🤙
Sad
He was an excellent singer. RIP Larry
After listening to this I find it difficult to listen to the commercial version. The biggest difference is that the commercial version was played at a much higher speed which makes it difficult to understand the words and all of the vocal subtlety is lost. This version is a joy to listen to.
If you LIVED in this era, enough said. Music that defined a time never to be seen again. An experience that still brings life today
💕💕💕!!
I DID. My 22 year old daughter, her friends would kill to have.😊
Jim singing live, the harmonies, flute, the swagger, fantastic, timeless music. Wonderful..
It's not even a flute, but a recorder! Terry Kirkman is playing it like a flute.
@@mangrove
I suppose playing that way stops him colliding with the mic stand - with the possible dental trauma that might entail.
Playing live too I think too
YES, the lead singer on this song was: Jim Yester
Man, this is a killer live cut, better than the studio cut.
Just groovin' to this☮
TOTALLY!
I do like the slower tempo - gives the song a deeper groove.
RIP Terry, One of the founding members who passed away on this day September 28, 2023
He was a musical genius
Damn, this is one of the coolest songs that came out of the era of great harmony bands in the mid-late 60s. The Association made quite an impact on the music scene over a relatively short period.
WOW, they sound GREAT live. The Association were one of the greatest groups of the 60's.
Yes they were
I read somewhere they started out as a comedy act..
@@thegreenbird795 I've always thought that Terry Kirkham looked more like a comedy actor than a pop musician.
@@thegreenbird795 No, they started as a folk act but they always included humour in their sets.
Right? They are so tight live. And the arrangements and songs they perform are pretty complicated so it's def impressive
Damn!! I'm 63 years old. I have half listened to this song for decades. Then I saw this video by chance. That man can sing!
Listen and learn kids 👍🏾
Yeah, the man can really sing, and he is fantastic at it,
me too...and this is the first time I actually saw what they lyrics are :
Back when hitmakers actually performed their hits
Fantastic version
I like it better than the recorded version. Unbelievable voices and melodies
me too
it is a very good version of the song, a bit slower and you can attempt to figure out the wording which otherwise if you hadn't looked up lyrics for a particular song, it was really hard to figure out. JIM LESTER nails the vocals again, as he did in original faster paced version.
@@davidrobinson4486 the vocals are are simply incredible, you can hear the great bass lines in this version better.
@@frankrizzo5710 Brian Cole was actually an excellent bass player. It's too bad they used studio musicians so much.
I like the recorded version better but this one is different and you can figure out the words better. There’s just something about this one I don’t care for.
Gotta say Jim Yester always had the coolest voice and very unique. It was a great group.
His technique is making my throat hurt! Look how red he is by the time the song is over. Instead of using his diaphragm for breath support, all his singing is in his throat. Ouch. He likely wore his voice out very early in his career unless he had some training in singing technique.
@@milkbarMPLS - In Yester's defense, he's squeezing a LOT of lyrics into 2.5 mins. They approach a song like say,..Cherish...much differently.
This was a group in their prime, they were late 20s, and those harmonies were effortless because they were young. Their string of hits only lasted about two years. By the early 70s, they were already an oldies group. Drugs and poor decisions ruined them; like so many in the Hippie years.
@@milkbarMPLS Unfortunately, in those days, there wasn't a lot of emphasis on proper vocal care and training for singers as you have today.
There is an exception with "Along Comes Mary" because it was a vocally challenging song with its complex phrasings.
He does a great job. This is not an easy song to sing.
@@raddmann336 Having tackled it a few times in karaoke, I can concur! But, fun as heck to sing, though!
They slowed the pace for this performance. Have you ever tried to sing this word for word at the pace of the released recording? DAMN SAM!! Jim Yester beautifully belted out pretty complex lyrics at the speed of light. Amazing talent.
Love it, Elizabeth!!
@@tantraman10 One of my top ten favorite songs of all time, fast or slow!
I saw Jim Yester perform “Darlin Be Home Soon” with The Association at a concert in 1972. Of course, Jim sounded superb, what a great singer/musician, he is.
My thoughts exactly - that song has very difficult lyrics. LOVE IT!!!!!
The groove sits so much nicer in this pocket / at this tempo.
Junior High, got called into the auditorium for a unscheduled event. Was the Association touring the local schools around Portland OR. Was blown away how good they were, then started hearing them on the radio.
That’s pretty awesome. It sounds analogous to what The Guess Who (Mark III lineup with Cummings, Peterson, Winter, McDougal, & Wallace) did circa 1973. If I were to hazard a guess, I’d say it was Brian’s idea for them to do that since he was from your area…
Wow....jealous!! I lived in Lake Oswego back in those days. How cool would that have been to see these guys!! Thanks for sharing.
You were so lucky! I know you’ll never forget it!
Geez, this live performance was damn near perfect.
It was perfect
100 to 1 it's live vocals to a recorded backing track.
@@slide4180 The band recorded the backing track earlier in the same day. The vocals are live to that backing track.
Tight band. They make those falsetto harmonies sound effortless.
I cherish growing up in 60's+70's!!!!
🥰😁♥️
Underrated group
VERY
They were HUGE in their hitmaking years! All over TV and the radio...No group, not even the Rolling Stones or Led Zepp, can keep up the notariety and fame of yesteryear.
The music you're hearing is the Wrecking Crew, The Association were just 'right time right place'rs providing the face
CallitHowISeeIt Great musicians, for great vocal talents. The wrecking crew did much, for many, in the studio. This is live, Association. I cant forget The New Christy Minstrels contributed to this band also. A well loved group by many, and I was one of them. 👍🏻
They're one of my faves!
Now this is music! One of my fave songs. The Association was brilliant!!
Jim isn't singing this song. He is this song!
No filter, it's all him.
Great work by the whole gang 👍🏾♥️
Why they aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is mind boggling.
The best part of The Ed Sullivan Show was that acts like The Association ... and The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, The Doors ... were on the same show that had the acts my parents liked. My father, in particular, hated 60s music, but he was intrigued when 60s acts played on the Sullivan show. He even sat and watched James Brown, who seemed to be his least favorite of all.
You are right. Most of the shows and the Grammy awards pretended rock and roll didn't exist. Ed put it on
Ed Sullivan on a sunday night on that black and white introduced me to a lot of bands.
Sullivan was a smart man. He knew the kids would tune in. Something for everyone on every show.
How old was your dad in the 60s? Wondering what era of music did he love probably like my dad lol?
Another show was The Midnight Special, showing the 70's bands
This a live version.
These Sullivan clips are amazing to me because most bands played live on that show but there was no sound reinforcement whatsoever. The amps were far away and there certainly weren’t any monitors. So there’s no chance they could hear themselves. Musicians were built different in these days.
This is better than the studio version in my opinion.
I AGREE
YUP
100%.
Agree!
it's more relaxed
One of the best songs about weed.
Jim Yester's name is never mentioned enough in music history. Larry Ramos resembles a young Manny Pacquiao, just 100x the voice!
A twenty year old @ work was singing this, glad to see a new generation appreciating music from my childhood.
Yes, I can't get an oldie past my 31 yo son-in-law. It's like he knows more songs then I do. I did get him once with Traffics Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
I don't care for todays music, all the cords and all the lyrics have all been used up.
Christine McVie has left us, but we still have her music.
This just blows away the studio version. So much energy and feeling compared to that one! And really no noticeable flaws that a person might correct with multiple takes in the studio either!
Wow, not lip synched! And I've never seen a recorder held sideways like a flute before. Very cool! Nice performance.
It looks like a hybrid recorder/piccolo. Sounds like a piccolo with the high notes. Crazy
he does it that way to get it closer to the mic
Sullivan show was always live, not lip synced.
@@pattiweikert5503 : One time, with the mamas and papas, it was lip synced, for some reason.
@@pattiweikert5503 incorrect
I knew the author of this song, Tandyn Almer, a nice man. He helped me with my music. RIP Tandyn
Okay, this is by far my favorite rendition of their performance of Along comes Mary now😩👌
I like this slower tempo better than the studio version... I can understand the lyrics...
First concert I ever saw was these guys. Only 16 but they blew me away.
Same.
How about you Mary, do you wanna? Takes me back to the summer of 1966, a truly wonderful time to be alive. This song is a timeless classic.
How I love Larry Ramos (RIP)! His musicianship, heavenly voice, and joy in performing...
I got to meet him briefly after a show maybe 15 years ago. He was especially nice. RIP Larry.
@@oldiesgeek454
Yes, Mr. Ramos was a terrific guy and musical performer.
Requiem aeternam, Mr. Ramos.
With their excellent vocal talent, this was a group that could rotate lead singers easily.
Grammy winner!
Their guitars are actually plugged in. Amazing. There was a lot of lip-synching going on in the TV broadcasts back then and they often didn't even bother with the electric guitar chords. I think this is really a live performance.
I think the lead is live but the backround vocals may be recorded
Funny how the guitar chords/(cable) get lost in the background and no amps to be seen. Ed Sullivan’s was notorious for playing background music and let the stars sing over them. There is a story about David Crosby of the Byrds, as told by Roger McGuinn, that when he was told he couldn’t play live, he threw a fit and their appearance was nearly cancelled. Either way, the singing sounds awesome.
This is DEFINITELY NOT the record, and Yester is singing it differently!!
Terry Kirkman's recorder part is ALSO different than the single or album version!!
@@tantraman10 I definitely think this is totally live. It ‘s slower and different. as far as no amps, like the Beatles they were plugged into the main mixing board and piped out directly to the TV audience rather than the sound being secondarily sent out to the TV audience...
Wow they're actually singing and playing live! That never happens on these shows from back then. There's definitely a pre-recorded backing track, but they're definitely singing over it. Very cool
This is notably slower than the studio version, so not sure how that would work with a backing track. Does seem like there's a harpsichord or some keyboard in there, though.
yeah you're right - but according to Cavaliere of the young Rascals he said Sullivan show bands had to practice all week, every day. So what the heck were the lip synchers doing every day? Synchers hardly ever matched up anyways, hey you're a band if you can't do a live off version then what's the point?
@@ptownscribe1254 The band recorded the backing track earlier in the day. They're singing live to the backing track.
These guys were so underrated yet absolutely talented. This is a great live version.
Holy 60's Batman!!! One of my older brothers favorite groups, so they were a big early favorite of mine too.
Nobody has dared to remake this song
Great performance. Slower version. Real Cool..The original kicked ass too
Jim said he was the only one who knew the words.... such a feat of memory.....😂❤
A little bit slow, easer to follow the lyrics and sing this complicated tune. I love The Association, the harmonies, voices, looks and great songs. Really good performance ❤
The first concert I ever attended. The harmonies were incredible.
One of my top 5 all time favorite tunes & groups. I've seen them in concert twice, and once when I attended The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 60s. I've always loved their harmony and ability to play good live.👍🎶🎤
So amazing. When this song was first heard in 1966 i remember it like it was yesterday. The association dominated to 60’s and i was so fortunate to live it. The association made music history and will never be forgotten.
an actual, honest to God LIVE performance! A great one at that.....
Love this slower groovy version!
Tight, consistent, and deliberate groove.
Beyond amazing
Wow.....done live on Ed Sullivan??? Amazing!!
Love this slow version!
i like the version they did at Monterrey better
@@theanswerisinthebackofyourhead Too fast and rushed at Monterey.
Fantastic group with a host of hits back then when I was in High School. In fact my girlfriend or 3+ years then, our song (mine to her) was CHERISH. Nothing like today, of those groups of the 60's !!!
These lyrics are a masterpiece. "And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality from where she got her name?" God damn man
Awesome and that flute work nice!
50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, even the first decade of the 2000s... every decade had it's own original, timeless, classic music. What has happened to music in the last 15 years? I can't even turn on my radio without wanting to toss it out my window immediately
What a difference a year makes. I like the tempo, Jim Yester sings without rushing the lyrics. Brian Cole's bass playing is always stellar. A combination of live and recorded backing? There's a buzzing lead guitar audible towards the end that isn't visible in the musicians' picking.
I remember being at Cedar Point amusement park (Ohio) when this came out. One of the rides had a speaker piping 3 or 4 contemparary hits on a continuous loop, including this song. I told my family to go ahead, I'd catch up. I probably listened half an hour so I could hear this a few more times.
Beyond GROOVY! Nice singing there Jim!
@@kevindoran4938 lucky you! My home state rocks!
And then along comes Larry.
Good ol' Larry.
Great arrangement on this version.
I saw the Association live .Great band.Impressive vocals.
Whare n when?
Finally a live performance. Love it
Great group. Unique sound with super harmonies. Helped to define the 60's.
A most underrated group of artists, they were fabulous.
I wander why in those years groups and singers made such a Beautiful and Romantic 🎼 music of love, nothing to do with the music in this days, 60- 70- 80 those years are unforgettable! Music 🎶 for ever!
What a super great harmony band they were . Timeless music .
Rest in Peace, Terry Kirkman… you guys were the best… 💔💔💔
Great song by an underrated group (actually sang it live!). Brings back fond memories of my youth.
Now my empty monitor sounds as good as the album!
They nailed this performance!
I love every single version of this song. 👏🏻😀
It’s just that good.
What happen to the music industry, why can't they make music like this nowadays?
Awesome rendition of one of their best tunes. Jim Yester looks so very handsome here..& always 🙂..but all the guys sounded so great 2gether. Those were the days..& I miss them alot. 🙂🙂☮☮✌✌💕💕
There were so many great music groups in the 1960s and 1970's that the Association was very underrated. Great harmonies and musical talent.
i was 17 when i heard this Love The Associations music , nice thing about the 60's and 70's there was room for all Genre's
I was so happy to hear this song on "The Queen's Gambit" :-)
the tall dude is killin it on dat flute....👍
This is a great performance of this song. I really like this slower version. And how cool is the raised platforms. Music was so much better back then. Wish I could time travel and experience the 60 and 70s in my youth. Those who did were very lucky
I guess you’re right. But we’ve lived the years since hoping to hear truly fresh, original music. Everything is a remake, or the styles were inspired by a group from that era. Still, in 1968, The Beatles were the standard and as great and original as these guys were, they were presented as just another pop group. The other major hurdle was everyone embraced British bands, even those that offered fluff like Herman’s Hermits or Freddy and the Dreamers. The Association were different, even a 12 year old kid like me could hear something special and really cool about this band.
@@seekingwisdom8 Unique and unforgettable they were.
They were great days!
Whoa....this live version is cool too !!
It’s better than the original recording.
Omg I’m listening to this stoned right now and they already slowed it up Lmaooo
Love this group.
Real musicians not the rubbish we have nowadays.
Have loved group this group since late 60's!
Truly performed live. No lip-syncing.
Truly one of the two great singles of the 60's along with "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock ⏰
I think that condensing the entire 1960s down to just two songs is rather limiting!
@@heli-crewhgs5285 Maybe, but those two are my absolute favorites.
The 1960s can't be narrowed down to just two singles, it's by far the most broad and influential decade in music history
@@VirreFriberg True. But those are excellent singles.
@@heli-crewhgs5285 I think it is ridiculous. There were a helluva lot of good songs fron the sixties.
Ahhhh! TV giving us live acts with hot microphones….true listening pleasure!!💕
I'm sure Ed had no idea what they were singing about or he would of stop this performance! Love this live version!!
@8 Bit Hero I never missed a show after watching the Beatles there!
This was my Sister's FAV Band... Think she had several albums of theirs..
He is playing the hell out of that cowbell! Playing live, sounding great, great musicianship!
The Association is one of the few groups that I have never gotten tired of. Their style is extremely unique and filled with a relaxed musicality that resonates beyond pop music.
They actually performed this live, and it sounded excellent!
Love watching live instead of lip sync.
I'd never heard this song before seeing the beginning played by Leonard Bernstein in the episode of Young People's Concerts where he explains modes. And I was like "wow, great lyrics. Let me check this out." What a song.
Holy smokes!!! That was great!
I still love this song. MaryJane is an awesome thing.
Amazing performance of this banger!
One of the best!!
Great live performance! Although early recordings of the band used studio musicians (probably some members of the Wrecking Crew), the instrumental chops of these six guys were later undeniable. And, of course, those stellar vocals! So happy to see these high quality segments from Ed's show.
The Band Of My Life : The Association. Since 1966.
●☆♡ good old ed sullivan ~ an equal opportunity: host narrator presenter and musicologist•°○● the precise enunciation of this songs words is exquisite!•°●bravo!☆