Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and The Shondells (With Lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- "Crimson and Clover" is a 1968 song by American rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. Written by the duo of Tommy James and drummer Peter Lucia Jr., it was intended as a change in direction of the group's sound and composition.
"Crimson and Clover" was released in late 1968 as a rough mix after a radio station leaked it. It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching number-one in the United States and other countries. The single has sold 5 million copies, making it Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling song. It has been covered by many artists such as Joan Jett and Prince.
In 2006, Pitchfork Media named it the 57th best song of the 1960s.
Following the release of "Mony Mony", Tommy James wanted to change direction of the group's sound, and began producing his own material. At the time, James said this was out of "necessity and ambition", wanting to move from singles into albums. He departed from the group's principal songwriters Bo Gentry and Ritchie Cordell, and was given complete artistic control by Roulette Records. The title, "Crimson and Clover", was decided before a song had been written for it. The combination of unknown meaning came to James as he was waking up, comprising his favorite color -- crimson -- and his favorite flower -- clover. (There is also a species of clover native to Europe called the crimson clover.) A song to fit the phrase was written by Tommy James and bassist Mike Vale, but was scrapped. His following collaboration with drummer Peter Lucia Jr. was more successful. During the song's production, Roulette Records wanted a new single, so the group agreed to release "Do Something to Me" to gain time to complete the song.
"Crimson and Clover" was recorded in late 1968 in about 5 hours. Tommy James played most of the instruments, while Mike Vale played bass and Peter Lucia Jr. played drums. The song contains a tremolo effect on the guitar, set so that it vibrated in time with the song's rhythm. Near the end of the recording, the band had an idea of utilizing the tremolo effect with vocals. To achieve this, the voice microphone was plugged into an Ampeg guitar amplifier with tremolo turned on, and the output from the amplifier was recorded while James sang "Crimson and clover, over and over".
Reminds me of roadtrips with my dad. He had one cassette tape that we would replay throughout the trip and this song was on it. Wish I could have just one more trip with him 😢
Sorry for your loss. I know that feeling.. Lost my dad too..
MzSolo, you can take that trip with your dad again. Just close your eyes and see it. He’s still there. He is not forever away. He’s been waiting for that one last trip with his girl all along. Close your eyes. ✌🏼❤️✨🌎
I remember the same thing. Going off on trips with my family and my dad all these years in the '80s listen to this.. I never knew your old man but he must have been a really good fellow.
I wish I could have one more trip with my son!!
Listening to this song.. I die!!
Rest in peace to your father!!!☮️❤️
50 years later. Still a beautiful song
55 years on 2023
Born in 1987- just an old soul at heart who loves this song. And now I play it for my 6 year old daughter who also is an old soul who loves some good classics 🎶 💜
I love it!
I had the 45, when this came out. Bad ass song, about to be 67 on on 1/3/24. Thanks Tommy James.. Bad ass shit.
when I hear this song it brings back so many memories of when I was a kid. simpler times.
Yes! And I wanna go back!!
Yes they were simpler times.
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We were never meant to leave there. We were never meant to grow up. We were never meant to embrace commercialism. We are hippies. We are Anti-War. We are Anti-Bullshit. We are Love & Peace. ✌🏼❤️✨🌎
This does takes us to somewhere magical, very reminiscent of youth, simplicity and just the badest ass wawa pedal and vocal reverb experimentation ... the best ...I feel you
You know when you see a beautiful woman and you get that feeling like, if you can only get the chance to know her.
This song reminds me of the first time I layed eyes on the woman I now call my wife. That was back in 2000. Wow...... how time flies.
I Love You Baby........😍xoxoxo😍
I've had a few. None of them loved me in the end. I guess I must be some kind of a jerk?
Age of innocence.
Love this for you!!! all the way in 2000 & infinity to go
Me 2... same story
@@ozzymandius666 I know the feeling. The story of my life.
💞My Daddy was always singing to My Mommy and he still does 55 years later...
This was just one of many...
They ha5known each other since they were 4 and 5 years old...
Now 77 and 76 years...
55 years of marriage💞
Holy fucky moly thats a lot of years. My mother didnt even have more then 56 years of life. Was married for 25.
Did anyone else run to the comments to read up on everyone else's nostalgia? I live for this.❤🤗
No😒:))~~~~~>💓°•○☆💕
Yes my wife an I love this song forever ❤❤
YESSSSSSSSS🙌🏼
I listen to crimson and clover over and over
So do I, Angel Angel
Far out James. Groovy man. ✌🏼❤️✨
I'm 19 and have been heartbroken so many times
But something about this song just makes me believe in the good things in life.....
I know how you feel blue. Youll find what your looking trust me
@@jackmayhofr
I did.....
Just few days ago...
Oh Darling you are so young!!! Don't be afraid ! The future gonna be beautiful! When I was 19 I believed I wouldn't never love again ! Instead ...
@@eleonoramaria
Thanku ❤
Hope you're doing great... and you're really pretty by the way.
I am 69 years old and in 1969 this was my favorite and most played song by me that year. I still see the orange and red stripes of the Roulette Record spinning around my phonograph. I remember Cousin Brucie on Tuesday nights counting down the top 14 songs of the week. I remember tracking Crimson and Clovers beginning on the charts and ascent to the top and then descent and falling off the charts. It started in the Spring of 1969 at #14 it's first week. Then climbed to #5 it's second week. Then in it's third week climbed to #1 where it stayed for 6 consecutive weeks. Then it slipped to number #3 then it's 9th week slipped to #8 then #14 in it's 10 the week then left the charts. It ended up #5 song of the year behind #4 Get Back by Beatles #3 Honky Tonk Women #2 Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In by The 5th Dimension and #1 Sugar Sugar by The Archies
I also had a poster in psychedelic red and green with Clovers sitting on a red splattered background with Tommy James also on it. I had long hair and got my first girlfriend at 16 years of age 😀
A great chart history of this unique song! Thanks a lot for this! TOP!👍
Gracias por compartir la información de la canción, yo nací en el 68 y no conocía éstos datos. Gracias
The past is such an alluring place, isn't it? ❤ Makes us want to go back........🥹 Nothing compares to the 60s and 70s.....at least in my book 😉
All great songs. I was four in 1969 but had an older brother and sister so I was lucky to expand my music exposure from them.
I was an 80's child but my mother played this song for the first time for me when I was about 7 (1987) and I fell in love with the song.
Same but I was thirteenth when I first heard it
I'm of the Baby Boomer generation and I'm pretty good at music trivia from the mid to late 60's and beyond. I was with my adult son one day recently nd he started singing "I Think We're Alone Now" so I asked him who he thought originally did that song. Of course he said "Tiffany" to which I replied "No. Tommy James & the Shondells!" 😁 He googled it and incredibly, his mom DID know something after all!! LOL I had forgotten that group had so many great songs! Thanks for bringing back so many great memories!!
2020 and this song still stay a wonder
Like if you here, with me, in 2020❤️
Loving it still in Summer 2020
are you with me ,in 2021
LOVED IT AT 8 YEARS OLD WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT & STILL LOVING IT TODAY, 2021. WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO LEAVE THAT PLACE. WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO GROW UP. WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO SURRENDER TO THE MAN. WE ARE ANTI-WAR. WE ARE ANTI-COMMERCIALISM. WE ARE LOVE & PEACE. WE ARE THE 60’S WITH CRIMSON & CLOVER. 🌎✌🏼❤️✨
Still here 2022
nope its now 2022
I remember playing in the back of my moms car as she drove my grandma to the Swap meet it was 1970 this song had been out already for a couple of years my had her 8 track jamming this Song I was going on 4 years old it was a beautiful time to be alive
I love this long version of Crimson and Clover!
Can’t wait Warren Ohio baby!
Whose here in 2024 classic rock! 🎶
All our old songs they were trying to tell us something and give us clues to were we came from and who we are
This is perhaps the GREATEST psychedelic classic of all time. I can't think of another tune that captures it all in its embryonic majesty. I think that every human on earth past the age of 18 should drop a hit of good acid and listen to this song repeatedly.
With repeated listenings, I declare this recording as BRILLIANT; this is in the sense as one of the all time rock classic tracks--in the realm of Layla, Stairway, Freebird, Purple Haze, Hey Jude, Jumpin Jack Flash, etc.
I've never done acid but I like shrooms
A hit of good acid will dissolve the ego and in turn allow objective insight and understanding to unfurl.
hell yeah!
unless ...
all you see is giant predators trying to eat your face.
#I'm.Guessing.That.Would.Be.My."Trip"!
or
worse, SO GOOD it would be tempting to do it again
if Acid is anything like my Shimmery-Dreams!! ;)
.. either way,
best.2.avoid.that.question.
kevin hughes 21,but I agree
takes me back to the late 60's and I love that feeling
Was the Funeral Song of my Uncle this Thursday...his fav. Song... i will miss u Helmut 😔
I have to say, this isn't just my favorite Tommy James & The Shondells songs, but this is on my list of favorite songs of all time. At least in the top 25.
Mine too Alan~~~
Indeed
Which song of theirs is your favourite then?
Yes
Still really, really love that song!!! One of the best of all time!
I have always defined my life with music. I was two years old when this came out, it has always made me feel warm and safe to hear it. Recently my 23 year old son "confided" he had discovered this song and it made him feel the same way...epic.
I don't 'define' but I have a sort-of soundtrack...
And this song is on it!!!
Kudos!! And enjoy your soundtrack!!! 🍺 🍻 🍺 🍻 🍺
I was fifteen and they were fourteen, what memories are going through my mind right now. The sixties were a crazy time. Everything was changing.
Koopke Tee I was there.
Yes it was and yes they were
Vietnam war and moon landings protesting
Always though it was...Yeh, my my what a sweet thing.....
They had so many good songs..I think were Alone Now, Mony Mony and Sweet Cherry Wine..I hear them and Im 50+ yrs younger
2018 and this song is still ageless!
I'm a down to earth girl.
Men are to shy to walk up, I may look high maintenance, But I'm a
Down to earth , kinda girl , a little bit of dirt don't hurt😏
Brings memories from a simpler time. And lost family and friends. 😊
This is one of my favorite songs from my dad's 45 collection. 💕🎶 I love the words.
it may be 2016 but this song still sounds great
You think it sounds great now? Try it with LSD!!
I have, real LSD way way back in the late 60's...
Noeffen, You must've been partyin' with Syd Barrett.
I wish. Just old...
Fluffy Merlo 2018 here.
Gets better and better. There is a hypnotic rhythm to the music, resonance to the high notes and the break in sound is so powerful.
WHO LISTENING IN COVID-19 2020 ??
Me
me in 2020!
April 2020 here
Who still listens to this kind of song in 2020?
Well ... all connoisseurs, nostalgic of the sixties and all those who were born in the fifties and before and who appreciate good music and who remind us of good memories of an era that the under twenty years cannot know
Yvan Poncin love it! blessings to you brother
Bates motel bought me here in 2016. It's even more beautiful to see how this music perfectly blend in with the scene. This song is ageless. It's still my getaway song.
Also in Sons Of Anarchy👍🏻🌸
Had a flash back about Crystal Blue Persuasion which took me to this, too. Gosh I remember these days, young & beautiful & innocent, the world was good & had it by the tail. If I only knew then what I STILL DONT KNOW.. lol!
Well if you ever find out what that is that you know now, I’d be thankful if you could share it with me in hopes it helps with my future and life 😌
La descubrí por mi hija, no la había escuchado en mi vida!! Me enamoré de la música y la voz. Me imagino bailarla con el amor de mi vida un día 🙏🏼
La escucho teniendo a un lado al mío y sintiendo la carcasa de la falsa realidad caerse a pedazos
When ever I'm feeling blue, music is the cure for my aching heart, this is my choice of drug. Nothing uplifts me more then good music
I'm 15 and love this song it's a beautiful song and one of my favors songs ^_^
It does get stuck in the head!
yeah it does haha
I was about 15 in 1968 when it came out so I can relate!
:)
You must be 19 by now
I used to play this son with my group in the late sixties. Great times in a so much different world from today. Pity.
This song is the shit and I don't care what Anyone says...... And I am young saying this!! That rhythm is so smooth and mellow.
I ALMOST missed the "THE" 😂😂😂
Was about to rip into you...
Lol. Only admitting that so i can get to this:
Music, all music is transcendant!! It will one day, tell you where you were, or how you FELT about a time in your life... you may not yet understand this (or maybe you do...) but one day, you will look back at the soundtrack of your life... I PRAY it's a good one!!
Much love, my friend!!! 🍺 🍻 🍺
Where are they now? Thank God for UA-cam and this song that brings back fun memories of my earlier days. Riding in a van playing the game hit the road sign with beer bottles. I won over and over with this song either playing or still in my head.
This is a perfect travel song, hit the road and just listen to this song.
My very first 45 I bought and played on my little blue record player! Timeless and makes me want to feel like that girl again! These days we need to jam out to the tunes from our growing up days. Uncomplicated, fun, just pure and righteous! Dance party in the kitchen! It's almost 2022, can you believe it?
I was born in 1962 - I had a hippie sister. She no doubt introduced me to this song w/in weeks of its release.
I loved this era. Thanks to my dad for introducing me to this music. I loved listening to this with him.
This will be my wedding song.
2019. still a fucking masterpiece.
When I was 20 I talked to this guy who was 27 n showed me this song, couldn’t listen to it for about 3 years until now it sometimes pops up in my head n I play it great song
Heard this song on Music Choice Classic Rock last night. Came here because I wanted to hear it with lyrics. First smile I got was seeing that this video was made in 1968, the year I was married! We are still together and doing well, BTW. Several years ago, pre-Covid, my husband and I saw Tommy James and the Shondells at the Palace Theater in Greensburg, PA. Great concert from start to finish. Towards the end of Crimson and Clover, I got chills then had tears streaming down my face! That’s never happened to me before or since. Amazing and wonderful! I bought a Crimson and Clover t-shirt after the concert and wear it when I need goosebumps ! 😊
Essas imagens psicodélicas, inclusive da aurora boreal,casaram muito bem com o arranjo sofisticado dessa canção!
This is my favorite song and Julius Caesar is my favorite historical figure. We must have similar brains.
I only heard it for the first time on the film THE VAULT.sad shame as I was born in 1977 and my dad used to play tonnes of 60s music in the car when u was a kid in the early 80s and no doubt played this.took so long to hear this but when I did I knew it was a trippy,amazing song indeed.
Never will there be a song like this...no comparison!😍💕"Masterpiece"✌💋💖💕💝💕👄💟🌼🌻🌺🌹💮🌸💐🌷🎤🎸🎺🎹🎷🎶🎵🎵🎼🔊🔊🔉🌐🍰💓Love me some Tommy James😘
I had the 45,, still do ❤️
This is one of my very favorite songs of all time. I was in high school when it came out,It always makes me think of a very beautiful girl I had a tremendous crush on. She passed away some time ago with breast cancer. I will always think of her when I hear it. Rest in Peace you sweet angel, Phyllis Pope Gibson!
Love, love this song! It is one of my favorite love songs! I can listen to eat over and over...Thanks for sharing! Have an awesome week!
2017 and better then todays songs !!!
2019
You must be so special
Better than songs in 2020
i used to listen to this also when i was a teenager. Love playing songs i used to listen to long time ago. beautiful memories come flooding back.
doesn't matter when I hear it.. it makes my ears smile every time..anytime ..all the time
Love this oldie!
Thank you for all that history. It makes the song all the richer.
You're welcome Luis!
I loved this jam since I was thirteen in 1973 bad out !
I almost wore this record out when I was a teen,,thanks for sharing, brings back a lot of good memories
you too? love this song
Used to drive my patents crazy playing this over n over . Still a all time favorite.
Oh for the 60's and 70's again when people were " normal"!
💯
I'm 41 and heard this on the tape in my moms car when i was about 7 and FELL IN LOVE!
This song is so cool when you are sitting on the beach in so cal , stoned and listening to this song and watching the sunset. Best feeling in the world.
Grateful to have been a Boomer. 😊
Wonderful time
As a kid in the 80s, I remember they played this song at a school dance and I remember I had heard it in a movie (can't recall the title) back then. Now at 52, I still love this song. ♥️👍
I heard this song when I was 16 years old...1968 and now I am 72...
Tommy James & The Shondells music will forever hold a place in m y heart..
Best version!! 1968/69 masterpiece!!
2021 and still here enjoying ❤️
My mother returned from Germany with a tape recorder call uber. This was one of the most fascinating lyrics as I could not make out the words but loved the song composition. Great Times and asante to mama for the uber.
AWESOME music
This song is such a beautiful trip.
I'm almost 64 years old and in my opinion this original long version is THE best version. The WAWA pedals, the Vietnam era, hippies, the crazy 60s, etc. Joan Jett's version can't touch this version!
2019 fell in love With that song
Reminds me of my late brother who got me listening to this sort of music. Love and miss you so much 💕
Wow this brings back great memories. I must try this out, love the feelings it brings back. Thanks for sharing.
This was before my time but I love this
2021.Still sounds so fresh. Touches every god damn nerve. Long may beautiful music live
I was born in November 1968. At that exact time, this beautiful song got released as I learned on this website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_and_Clover But it took me 52 years until today I listened to it for the very first time in the movie "The Sun is also a Star". I was so mesmerized, I had to check the song out which brought me here!
It's 2019, but still rocking 😙😚😘❤❤
Awww remember that old good time
Love this song what an amazing feel this one has . totally different to Mony Mony but I like that one too
Love this song...and it amazes me that the tremolo effect still holds well to this day.
Beautiful song!!!
I remember when it came out on the radio. everybody would stop and listen to it
THIS SONG HAS SO MANY MEMORIES TO ME
One of my favourite songs since childhood.
The coolest make out song from my boyhood. ! I’m glad I was from this Generation ! I hear this and I’m back there !
Love the longer version with the psychedelic tones - brilliant
Un épisode heureux de ma jeune adolescence....Le premier car ride en muscle car...Un SUPER BEE....et Crimson qui modulait les conquêtes du samedi soir...Drive in and out.... Crimson ans clover.....Ans over and over!!!
I've loved it since I was a girl...still love it....love the guitar in the middle...not the crazy part,but right before it....
The guitar represents the wild up and down emotions that falling in love bring to pass. The "Crazy part" represents the pure joy and elation of these two souls affirming their true love for one-another. The lyrics serve as a cipher for the the song as a complete whole.
Melinda Taylor hows was it being a guy
Me too. Think I was like ten, when it came out!
Bad ass stuff back when it came out. I was about 10 or 11.. I will never forget.
Peter Lucia, my uncle, wrote this song with Tommy. I miss every day.
Marisa DiFalco My generation (boomers) are dyeing off fast now so many great musicians are leaving us now it makes me feel sad. best of luck to everyone
Awesome xo
You're So Beautiful Hayden Panettiere
"I'll Always Love you Hayden Panettiere"
Good song!! Love it even though I was born one year later!!🙏💜🙏
still one of my favorites.. great memories.
THis is my favorite song of all time... and I know all the songs
As a 25 year old, im right there with you. Man, i cant get over this song.
Thanks Bates Motel!
Oh there is a loit of feelings from teen -years here This is mymost magic record