My grandfather was the bass player of The Cavaliers, he is the one pictured second from the left. He passed on Tuesday morning in Hospice Care, and this has made my entire day seeing y’all’s reaction video. Thank you for this, it was very healing. 💛
I know this is a year late, just seeing this. I'm so sorry to hear about your Grandfather passing. I always felt the bass player ( your Grandfather) really helped make the bones to this song. Always loved this song. But it was more of my Dads time. I'm only 50 but grew up with great music
They were not in the hospital, if you listen to the song again you will hear him say, when I woke up the rain was pouring down there was people standing all around, so you see they were still at the accident site when he found her and kissed her that "Last Kiss". Great reaction!
This is one of the most famous "Dead Teenager" songs. Other biggies include "Teen Angel", "Tell Laura I Love Her", and "Patches", although there were a lot of these type songs in the late 50's and early 60's.
Dead teenager songs were coined as "Tear🩸 Jerkers "back in 60's. When those heavy old cars run off the road at speed limit, they could take down 2 or 3 telepoles💥🤕💔 Rip Del Shannon, also review his hit ,"Runaway"❤ 👍
This was my 1st girlfriend's favorite song back when we were 13 years old. I haven't heard it in over 50 years. Sad song but it brought some great memories & a smile to this old man's face. Thanks for sharing.
When this song came out a lot of teenagers were being killed in car accidents on back roads some from drinking some from just driving too fast and vehicles that were fast but were made to handle the roads like they are today. It's a sad song but it was actually a reality at that time I mean a lot of young men and women did die in car accidents on back roads driving fast
@@elevenbucks5682 I know what you're talkin about my friend I lost my license and 77 for a long time. Back then you could get away with driving a lot easier I lived in the country but every weekend I'm from York Pennsylvania every weekend we would go into the city and it was 21 blocks East down two lanes one way then left down a block left again and back 21 blocks two lanes one way the opposite way block block racing at its best baby
I survived tha era through no fault of my own. Between kids not much older than us coming back from Southeast Asia in body bags, drug overdoses and "muscle cars" that were semi-controled cruise missiles I'm flat out amazed that so many of us lived long enough to grow up.
In the 60's we had sad songs like this. I use to play this song on a 45 over and over and we would sing it because we knew all the words to it driving down the street when it came on our AM car radio. The music and singing in it was good, but sad, but gave you hope for seeing your loved one someday again in heaven and eternity.
OMG! You actually listened to a song I had suggested two weeks ago. Thank you so much. That is one of my favorite sad songs. But if you something to help you smile try Ray Stevens, "I am my own Grandpa".
I sang this acapella in a school talent contest in 1964 when I was in the 6th grade. I still know all the words to the song. Crazy the things we remember.
Me and one of my Army buddies at Fort Campbell would sing this song every time we would get together. I still love this song because it brings back fond memories of one of my best friends and we are still in touch with each other on Facebook.
Twenty years ago I heard this on the radio...it was pearl jam....but it sounded familiar....oh yeah way back in 1964...when I was a teen....I LOVED this song 🤗❤
Oh how I remember these songs.....I used to cry my eyes out for about 3 years with these songs in the early '60's. Have you ever heard the saddest Elvis song ever- in this sort of genre...? It was called "Old Shep"- about losing his dog! I was only 5 but It still tears me up! And the saddest song by the Supremes a few years later was: "I'm Living In Shame".
These old songs really cover all the subjects of life. What I love about them is that people didn't just write "love" songs, or "break up songs". It feels like that is all you hear in todays music just those two categories. But back then they told stories, and talked about real things that happen in life. I can remember hearing that for the first time when I was a kid, and being sad, but at the same time I learned a little bit about the fragile nature of life and it taught me to never take life for granted. Great pic guys, have a wonderful day.
This is one of the teen tragedy songs popular in the 60's. A few artists have recorded this song but this was J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers biggest hit in 1964. They had another minor hit with "Hey, Little One".
You guys became my fav reactors, in a big field, from the first video I saw. Love the emotions and how you take things back to re-listen. Shows respect for music. Jareds channel is awesome too. Different type of reaction. Anyway... ♥️♥️♥️♥️
If you listen to the lyrics she died at the scene and not in the hospital. When I woke the rain was pouring down There were people standing round Something warm was running in my eyes But I found my baby somehow that night I held her close I kissed our last kiss I found the love that I knew I would miss Even though I held her tight I lost my love my life that night I sang this song many times with a buddy of mine. We would sing it every time we got together. It was one of our favorite songs.
Alot of Dead Teenager songs due to lack of seat belts. Every Monday morning in the 1960s in my high school, before classes started in the am, a loudspeaker announcement was made about classmates who died in driving accidents over the weekend. It was a common event.
My favorite dead teenager songs are Dicky Lee's Laurie Strange Things Happen and my all time fave Jimmy Cross-I Want My Baby Back. Then there's Bloodrock's D.O.A. taking the genre to a new level.
When I was in elementary school I occasionally got to ride home on the high schoolers bus. The girls on the bus always sang this song. It was fun. Sad song, fun times. Yeah, I'm old.
"Teen Angel" and "Patches" are two of my favorite songs of this sad genre. Grew up listening to them and still do. Makes you really think about life and that this still happens today.
I love these songs, grew up with them as well. Have a great deal of trouble listening to Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Similar situation when my wife passed July 9th 2016. Lord I miss her so much!
"Running Bear" by Johnny Preston is another tragedy song from about the same time as "Last Kiss" You should given a listen. It is sort of a Romeo and Juliet theme only involving Native Americans.
I was actually fortunate enough to meet some of the cast and see the cars. I'll never forget that piss yellow 32 deuce coop. Its what got me into hot rods and muscle cars. Well into cars in general. Wow. Hard to believe that was 20 some years ago.
Where I grew up, and still live nearby, we used to see this play out on many a weekend, we were right on the border of our state, whose drinking age was 18, the state next door and only a couple miles away was 21 to purchase. there were many bars clubs etc in town for obvious reasons, along with a good selection of package stores, every weekend cars full of kids would flock in, some from over 100 miles away for the clubs and bars, along with many of the cars from far away to fill their trunks with booze, to take back for parties at home,(who knows how many crashed far away on the trip back) but it was almost "normal to have serious crashes-often fatal on many weekends-some horrific ones, like a large car full of kids going out of control. hitting a tree sideways, killing all of them, there were some human body parts scattered about at that one-the car broke up into 3 pieces, another was when a local on the way home from one of the watering holes lost it in a turn, hit a house, (a full-size sedan from the '50s) , the steering column was driven through the driver, through the driver's seat behind him, and into the padding of the back seat( the steering column in those days was a solid shaft, and did not collapse as they do now, being impaled wasn't all that uncommon, sadly in those days that, and other teen car crash songs were a far too common occurrence in some places, I and others hereabouts lost friends and classmates that way. I also had a friend(now passed away) who had a girlfriend suddenly pass away from a heart attack-he never knew that his last kiss was to be just that, it affected him for many years, now and then he would get a bit tipsy, and ask to be dropped off outside the cemetery, go in and spend the remainder of the night sleeping on her grave-I several times dropped him off there, and others did as well, sometimes he would just walk there. Wish it were not so, but the themes of those songs were not at all farfetched.
Try Dead Man's Curve by Jan and Dean. the thing is you can't do a sad song on such a terrible death and loss on the radio back then without a peppy teen beat. The subject is so serious, and song so happy. Pretty crazy huh? Until 1968- when there was Honey by Bobby Goldsborough, sad melody, saddest damn song I have ever heard.
I was born in '82, so after this song came out.. BUT it is one my grandma played all the time growing up.. when I was about 9 we (us cousins/grandkids) were told a story, when my grandma was in her teens, she was dating a boy. His sister one night got beat up by her boyfriend and needed a ride home. It has been icy out and he hasn't been driving very long. It snuck out and took the car to get her. On the way back home he got black ice they are both killed.. Family says she played this song whenever she missed him.. until the day she died.
If you pay attention to what he's saying, she died at the seen of the accident. She didn't die in a hospital. We did have some good music back in the day, and I would love to see your reaction to In The Living Years by Mike and The Mechanics and also In The Ghetto by Elvis.
They weren't in the hospital. When he woke up the rain was pouring down, people standing all around (accident spectators), something warm running in my eyes (blood), but he found his baby somehow that night...
In my time, the 60’s and 70’s, songs had actual meanings, a story if you really want to hear a beautifully creepy song, check out Strange Things Happen in this World
My sister and I with our two girl cousin would sing this song coming back to town from the farm at night riding in the pickup box. me the boy was about 11 or12 at the time and they were 14 or 15. I am 64 now and I think we sounded pretty good back then. But I guess that's my opinion.
I don't know WHY these "teen tragedy" songs were so popular in the late 1950s and early '60s when I was about 8 to 10 years old, but they were - and my little best friend and I loved them. My favorites were this one, (Last Kiss,) and one called "Leader of the Pack" by the girl group, the Shangri-Las. Another favorite was "Laurie (Strange things happen in this world") - a sweet, romantic song about a guy who meets his soulmate at a dance, but finds out the next day she was a ghost. They were all big hit songs. Most kids and teens haven't experienced such things in real life and for that reason can be moved by the drama and sadness of it all - without being hit so hard by the song as an adult who has experienced loss would be.
I worked in a record store back in ‘69 and we literally kept a box of this single under the counter because customers would come in virtually every day asking for it.
you guys are awesome for reacting to this song. Not only was this song a hit in English but it also made its way to latin america. Many popular spanish artists during those times recorded this song in spanish. You guys should react to Los Doltons- el ultimo beso. It is one of the better versions. Such a beautiful song.
There were lots of sad songs like this back then. My mom passed in 1967 when I was 12 and we moved in with our grandparents. My sister and I would sing all these sad songs while we were washing dishes after supper. My grandparents loved that we were singing.. but I don't know if they ever heard the words. Last Kiss was one.. Patches.. Teen Angel .. Sad Movies, Tell Laura I Love Her .. Strange things happen in this world, and so many more.
Based on the true story about two 16 years olds. Their car hit a tractor-trailer on a road in Georgia. ... The song was written by Wayne Cochran, who lived about 15 miles from the crash site.
Thanks for the reaction, guys. Dead Man's Curve is another of this type of song that was a hit, but my favorite tragedy songs are Honey and Wildfire. Honey is by far my favorite tragedy song. HONEY (Lyrics) - BOBBY GOLDSBORO - UA-cam
On December 22, 1962, five teenagers were riding in a 1954 Chevy on Highway 341 in rural Barnesville, Georgia. The driver was J.L Hancock, a 16-year-old who was dating Jeanette Clark, she died at the scene she was also 16 and riding in the front seat next to him. Beside her was Wayne Cooper; two other passengers, Jewel Emerson and Ed Shockley, were in the back seat. It was foggy, and by the time Hancock saw a flatbed truck stalled on the highway, it was too late. He crashed into it, going under the truck and killing everyone in the front seat; the two passengers in the back survived with serious injuries.
I know how you feel hearing this song because it happened to me When i turned 16 i picked up my very first girlfriend except there wasnt a car my car blew the right front tire and we went down an imbakement 25 yards the rest is said in the song im 63 now and i can still feel the pain of losing her
In the 50s and early 60s, car dashboards used to be nothing but wood and steel. Back then the car survived a wreck without much damage, but the inside became a blender. They started regulating cars safety heavily to reduce deaths. Had to watch a couple videos on the evolution of vehicle safety for a job. It's quite interesting
As others have mentioned, there was a rash of these death songs in the late '50s/early '60s that were hits, Here's a quick rundown - 1958 - Endless Sleep - released and written by Jody Reynolds. Hit number 5 on the top ten charts. 1959 - Teen Angel - released by Mark Dinning, written by his sister with her husband. Number 1 hit. 1960 - Tell Laura I Love Her - released by Ray Peterson. Written by Jeff Barry, who originally wrote it about a rodeo, but RCA Records asked him to rewrite it to be about a car crash, to be more like Teen Angel! It reached number 7 in the US, although a cover of it by Ricky Valance hit number one in the UK. 1961 - Last Kiss (this song!) - released and written by Wayne Cochran. Wayne began the song after seeing many accidents on the road he lived on in Georgia, but halfway through it his drummer's girlfriend's 16 year old sister was killed in a horrible car accident and he dedicated the song to her. He had 3 co-writers who helped writing the song. His release did not become a hit. The song was covered by J. Frank Wilson in 1964 reaching number 2 on the charts (The Supremes "Baby Love" was number 1). But "Last Kiss" did spend 8 weeks in the top ten. 1970 - Patches - released by "Chairman of the Board" and written by "Chairman of the Board" member General Johnson and Ron Dunbar, this song was much later than the flurry of death songs between '58 and '64, but worth mentioning. Another song that didn't actually chart by the original, although it was the b-side of "Everything's Tuesday" which hit number 38 on the charts. Later in the year it was it was heard by the blind blues singer Clarence Carter, who covered the song and it reached number 4 on the Hot 100 chart and number 2 on the R&B chart.
crusing and listening to koma radio ... when this song came on we had to STOP ... hang our head and Listen ... nobody better say a word until it was finished and we always pulled back onto the road a little slower
My grandfather was the bass player of The Cavaliers, he is the one pictured second from the left. He passed on Tuesday morning in Hospice Care, and this has made my entire day seeing y’all’s reaction video. Thank you for this, it was very healing. 💛
I know this is a year late, just seeing this. I'm so sorry to hear about your Grandfather passing. I always felt the bass player ( your Grandfather) really helped make the bones to this song. Always loved this song. But it was more of my Dads time. I'm only 50 but grew up with great music
I know Snake and J Frank are also gone, is anyone from the Cavaliers still living?
They were not in the hospital, if you listen to the song again you will hear him say, when I woke up the rain was pouring down there was people standing all around, so you see they were still at the accident site when he found her and kissed her that "Last Kiss". Great reaction!
This is one of my favorite oldies, a definite tear jerker
This is one of the most famous "Dead Teenager" songs. Other biggies include "Teen Angel", "Tell Laura I Love Her", and "Patches", although there were a lot of these type songs in the late 50's and early 60's.
I'd say it's the #1 teen death song.
@@backgroundmusik don't forget Paint it Blak too!
Can't forget the 60s and Dead Man's Curve
Hell ya thanks for the info 😅
Dead teenager songs were coined as "Tear🩸 Jerkers "back in 60's. When those heavy old cars run off the road at speed limit, they could take down 2 or 3 telepoles💥🤕💔 Rip Del Shannon, also review his hit ,"Runaway"❤ 👍
Beautiful but sad song .... grew up listen to this song.
Very sad song. I teared up. Hey you two thanks for your reaction to this song. Keep up the good work.
always cry when I hear this song
Every time I hear this it brings me tears. Such an awesome song
This was my 1st girlfriend's favorite song back when we were 13 years old. I haven't heard it in over 50 years. Sad song but it brought some great memories & a smile to this old man's face. Thanks for sharing.
One of those songs where you have a little movie going in your head, you can picture the whole thing happening Very powerful.
Love this song and the way he sings it. Love forever, into eternity!
back when a song had meaning and feelings and i love your reactions they are so genuine
Teen years thank you for playing this song ❤️ very popular and Sad
When this song came out a lot of teenagers were being killed in car accidents on back roads some from drinking some from just driving too fast and vehicles that were fast but were made to handle the roads like they are today. It's a sad song but it was actually a reality at that time I mean a lot of young men and women did die in car accidents on back roads driving fast
Its a miracle I was,nt one of them, In the sixties I drove like I stole it, Had 19 tickets in 2 years fo speeding and street racing..
@@elevenbucks5682 I know what you're talkin about my friend I lost my license and 77 for a long time. Back then you could get away with driving a lot easier I lived in the country but every weekend I'm from York Pennsylvania every weekend we would go into the city and it was 21 blocks East down two lanes one way then left down a block left again and back 21 blocks two lanes one way the opposite way block block racing at its best baby
I survived tha era through no fault of my own. Between kids not much older than us coming back from Southeast Asia in body bags, drug overdoses and "muscle cars" that were semi-controled cruise missiles I'm flat out amazed that so many of us lived long enough to grow up.
This was uncle’s, who was like my brother, favorite song. He’s gone now so Thank you for letting me remember him.
never a reaction team as into its feelings as you guys.
I remember crying many times over this sad song 😪 There were lots of sad teen songs back then, and they were so popular to all the fans!
The late 50's and early 60's were known for the tear jerker songs of that time.
In the 60's we had sad songs like this. I use to play this song on a 45 over and over and we would sing it because we knew all the words to it driving down the street when it came on our AM car radio. The music and singing in it was good, but sad, but gave you hope for seeing your loved one someday again in heaven and eternity.
This is a hard song to listen to.Such upbeat music.Such a sad song.
OMG! You actually listened to a song I had suggested two weeks ago. Thank you so much. That is one of my favorite sad songs. But if you something to help you smile try Ray Stevens, "I am my own Grandpa".
I sang this acapella in a school talent contest in 1964 when I was in the 6th grade. I still know all the words to the song. Crazy the things we remember.
Oh wow I remember this song as a kid my mom would listen to it how sad
Me and one of my Army buddies at Fort Campbell would sing this song every time we would get together. I still love this song because it brings back fond memories of one of my best friends and we are still in touch with each other on Facebook.
Twenty years ago I heard this on the radio...it was pearl jam....but it sounded familiar....oh yeah way back in 1964...when I was a teen....I LOVED this song 🤗❤
Oh how I remember these songs.....I used to cry my eyes out for about 3 years with these songs in the early '60's. Have you ever heard the saddest Elvis song ever- in this sort of genre...? It was called "Old Shep"- about losing his dog! I was only 5 but It still tears me up! And the saddest song by the Supremes a few years later was: "I'm Living In Shame".
These old songs really cover all the subjects of life. What I love about them is that people didn't just write "love" songs, or "break up songs". It feels like that is all you hear in todays music just those two categories. But back then they told stories, and talked about real things that happen in life. I can remember hearing that for the first time when I was a kid, and being sad, but at the same time I learned a little bit about the fragile nature of life and it taught me to never take life for granted. Great pic guys, have a wonderful day.
This song never gets old.
Like the kid's it's about .
That was a favorite tear jerker in my childhood.
I love ths song know every word thank you Mel and shawn
This is one of the teen tragedy songs popular in the 60's. A few artists have recorded this song but this was J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers biggest hit in 1964. They had another minor hit with "Hey, Little One".
Pearl Jam has a really good version.
I liked this song, but I gotta say their version of "Hey, Little One" was one of the worst I've heard (in my opinion). Surprised it even made to #85.
You guys became my fav reactors, in a big field, from the first video I saw. Love the emotions and how you take things back to re-listen. Shows respect for music.
Jareds channel is awesome too. Different type of reaction.
Anyway... ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I knew you’d like this one. There were a lot of those sad love songs during my teen years. It has the desired effect on young girls 😚☮️❤️👵🏼🔥
Damn you guys are really pulling some oldies out the past . I bought that record as a kid …
One of my favourite tracks of all time bless you for playing this
If you listen to the lyrics she died at the scene and not in the hospital.
When I woke the rain was pouring down
There were people standing round
Something warm was running in my eyes
But I found my baby somehow that night
I held her close I kissed our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
Even though I held her tight
I lost my love my life that night
I sang this song many times with a buddy of mine. We would sing it every time we got together. It was one of our favorite songs.
Alot of Dead Teenager songs due to lack of seat belts. Every Monday morning in the 1960s in my high school, before classes started in the am, a loudspeaker announcement was made about classmates who died in driving accidents over the weekend. It was a common event.
My favorite dead teenager songs are Dicky Lee's Laurie Strange Things Happen and my all time fave Jimmy Cross-I Want My Baby Back. Then there's Bloodrock's D.O.A. taking the genre to a new level.
This was the first song to make me cry,and continues to after 40 years.
I thought that this was going to be a breakup song now I'm in tears and pretty much speechless holy cow I really didn't see that coming
You both are priceless. Yes we had some dying teen songs. Bless your hearts I can tell you have no idea what is coming. Happy to find your vids.
my favorite song of all time I love he music an is reaction to a tragic accident!
When I was high school in seventies we had number of kids killed in car accidents
You guys must hear Tragedy and Endless Sleep. These songs will make you thankful for what the two of you have.
We went over this song s few hours ago at practice it's not a song we know but it is a oldie but goodie Ty for sharing and the reaction good video
As much as I love this song, I cannot make it through the Pearl Jam cover without bawling my eyes out.
When I was in elementary school I occasionally got to ride home on the high schoolers bus. The girls on the bus always sang this song. It was fun. Sad song, fun times. Yeah, I'm old.
This was one of the carcrash songs that came out in the 60's
Written by the late great Wayne Cochran. You guys should check him out. Blue eyed soul at it's finest.
"Teen Angel" and "Patches" are two of my favorite songs of this sad genre. Grew up listening to them and still do. Makes you really think about life and that this still happens today.
Can't remember who sang it but there was the song Dead Man's Curve too!
@@darleneshriver3270 Jan and Dean sang Dead Man's Curve
I love these songs, grew up with them as well. Have a great deal of trouble listening to Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Similar situation when my wife passed July 9th 2016. Lord I miss her so much!
The warm running in his eyes was his blood from a cut
"Running Bear" by Johnny Preston is another tragedy song
from about the same time as "Last Kiss" You should given a listen.
It is sort of a Romeo and Juliet theme only involving Native Americans.
An anthem of the teen drama in music in the 50s and 60s.
i think it all happened on the road folks......when i woke up the rain was coming down.
pouring* down
"Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning was probably the biggest hit of this genre and was featured on the soundtrack of "American Graffiti"!!!
That faithful night the car was stalled apond the railroad tracks. Used to sing that one also.
I was actually fortunate enough to meet some of the cast and see the cars. I'll never forget that piss yellow 32 deuce coop. Its what got me into hot rods and muscle cars. Well into cars in general. Wow. Hard to believe that was 20 some years ago.
Jan and Dean Dead Man's Curve....warning songs for teens back in the day...
I love these sad, morbid songs!
Where I grew up, and still live nearby, we used to see this play out on many a weekend, we were right on the border of our state, whose drinking age was 18, the state next door and only a couple miles away was 21 to purchase. there were many bars clubs etc in town for obvious reasons, along with a good selection of package stores, every weekend cars full of kids would flock in, some from over 100 miles away for the clubs and bars, along with many of the cars from far away to fill their trunks with booze, to take back for parties at home,(who knows how many crashed far away on the trip back) but it was almost "normal to have serious crashes-often fatal on many weekends-some horrific ones, like a large car full of kids going out of control. hitting a tree sideways, killing all of them, there were some human body parts scattered about at that one-the car broke up into 3 pieces, another was when a local on the way home from one of the watering holes lost it in a turn, hit a house, (a full-size sedan from the '50s) , the steering column was driven through the driver, through the driver's seat behind him, and into the padding of the back seat( the steering column in those days was a solid shaft, and did not collapse as they do now, being impaled wasn't all that uncommon, sadly in those days that, and other teen car crash songs were a far too common occurrence in some places, I and others hereabouts lost friends and classmates that way.
I also had a friend(now passed away) who had a girlfriend suddenly pass away from a heart attack-he never knew that his last kiss was to be just that, it affected him for many years, now and then he would get a bit tipsy, and ask to be dropped off outside the cemetery, go in and spend the remainder of the night sleeping on her grave-I several times dropped him off there, and others did as well, sometimes he would just walk there. Wish it were not so, but the themes of those songs were not at all farfetched.
My parent listened a lot of oldies this was one of my favorites when I was 4-6
Deaths of lovers and boyfriends and girlfriends were huge in the 50's and early 60's.
Try Dead Man's Curve by Jan and Dean. the thing is you can't do a sad song on such a terrible death and loss on the radio back then without a peppy teen beat. The subject is so serious, and song so happy. Pretty crazy huh? Until 1968- when there was Honey by Bobby Goldsborough, sad melody, saddest damn song I have ever heard.
A sad song is Teddy Bear from red Sorvine the way he tells is incredible
It's such sad teen tragic song. It's a tear jerker. It was a very popular song
I was born in '82, so after this song came out.. BUT it is one my grandma played all the time growing up.. when I was about 9 we (us cousins/grandkids) were told a story, when my grandma was in her teens, she was dating a boy. His sister one night got beat up by her boyfriend and needed a ride home. It has been icy out and he hasn't been driving very long. It snuck out and took the car to get her. On the way back home he got black ice they are both killed..
Family says she played this song whenever she missed him.. until the day she died.
If you pay attention to what he's saying, she died at the seen of the accident. She didn't die in a hospital. We did have some good music back in the day, and I would love to see your reaction to In The Living Years by Mike and The Mechanics and also In The Ghetto by Elvis.
They do not write songs like this anymore, I miss the emotions and feelings of the 50s and 60s!
I remember this song coming out I was like 5 my mom had 8 kids and one of us always had a friend along in a 2 door car
They weren't in the hospital. When he woke up the rain was pouring down, people standing all around (accident spectators), something warm running in my eyes (blood), but he found his baby somehow that night...
In my time, the 60’s and 70’s, songs had actual meanings, a story if you really want to hear a beautifully creepy song, check out Strange Things Happen in this World
At this time there were a lot of teen tragedy songs released.
My sister and I with our two girl cousin would sing this song coming back to town from the farm at night riding in the pickup box. me the boy was about 11 or12 at the time and they were 14 or 15. I am 64 now and I think we sounded pretty good back then. But I guess that's my opinion.
This song is based on a true story.
Great reaction. There was a wave of teen tragedy songs on the radio in the late ‘50s Don’t know why.
I don't know WHY these "teen tragedy" songs were so popular in the late 1950s and early '60s when I was about 8 to 10 years old, but they were - and my little best friend and I loved them. My favorites were this one, (Last Kiss,) and one called "Leader of the Pack" by the girl group, the Shangri-Las. Another favorite was "Laurie (Strange things happen in this world") - a sweet, romantic song about a guy who meets his soulmate at a dance, but finds out the next day she was a ghost. They were all big hit songs.
Most kids and teens haven't experienced such things in real life and for that reason can be moved by the drama and sadness of it all - without being hit so hard by the song as an adult who has experienced loss would be.
You two are so precious
I worked in a record store back in ‘69 and we literally kept a box of this single under the counter because customers would come in virtually every day asking for it.
you guys are awesome for reacting to this song. Not only was this song a hit in English but it also made its way to latin america. Many popular spanish artists during those times recorded this song in spanish. You guys should react to Los Doltons- el ultimo beso. It is one of the better versions. Such a beautiful song.
There were lots of sad songs like this back then. My mom passed in 1967 when I was 12 and we moved in with our grandparents. My sister and I would sing all these sad songs while we were washing dishes after supper. My grandparents loved that we were singing.. but I don't know if they ever heard the words. Last Kiss was one.. Patches.. Teen Angel .. Sad Movies, Tell Laura I Love Her .. Strange things happen in this world, and so many more.
I wondered how long it would take for this song to be discovered. Also Tell Laura I love her.
Great song! One of the "Teen Tragedy" songs that were popular for awhile.
One of the teen tragedy songs from that era.
Based on the true story about two 16 years olds. Their car hit a tractor-trailer on a road in Georgia. ...
The song was written by Wayne Cochran, who lived about 15 miles from the crash site.
Thanks for the reaction, guys. Dead Man's Curve is another of this type of song that was a hit, but my favorite tragedy songs are Honey and Wildfire. Honey is by far my favorite tragedy song. HONEY (Lyrics) - BOBBY GOLDSBORO - UA-cam
Honey is a great heartfelt song!!
Great song to react to.
I love you two.
My sister used to sing this at night when we had to go to bed. Guess she dreamed of being a vocalist.
Teen Angel is another good one of this genre.
Yeah, peace and love.
On December 22, 1962, five teenagers were riding in a 1954 Chevy on Highway 341 in rural Barnesville, Georgia. The driver was J.L Hancock, a 16-year-old who was dating Jeanette Clark, she died at the scene she was also 16 and riding in the front seat next to him. Beside her was Wayne Cooper; two other passengers, Jewel Emerson and Ed Shockley, were in the back seat. It was foggy, and by the time Hancock saw a flatbed truck stalled on the highway, it was too late. He crashed into it, going under the truck and killing everyone in the front seat; the two passengers in the back survived with serious injuries.
They recorded this song in the same little S Texas studio that Roy Orbison recorded Pretty Woman. 😎👍
I know how you feel hearing this song because it happened to me When i turned 16 i picked up my very first girlfriend except there wasnt a car my car blew the right front tire and we went down an imbakement 25 yards the rest is said in the song im 63 now and i can still feel the pain of losing her
In the 50s and early 60s, car dashboards used to be nothing but wood and steel. Back then the car survived a wreck without much damage, but the inside became a blender.
They started regulating cars safety heavily to reduce deaths.
Had to watch a couple videos on the evolution of vehicle safety for a job. It's quite interesting
This is based on a true story. It may be a bit different from the actual event, though, as many stories are.
makes me want to cry
As others have mentioned, there was a rash of these death songs in the late '50s/early '60s that were hits, Here's a quick rundown -
1958 - Endless Sleep - released and written by Jody Reynolds. Hit number 5 on the top ten charts.
1959 - Teen Angel - released by Mark Dinning, written by his sister with her husband. Number 1 hit.
1960 - Tell Laura I Love Her - released by Ray Peterson. Written by Jeff Barry, who originally wrote it about a rodeo, but RCA Records asked him to rewrite it to be about a car crash, to be more like Teen Angel! It reached number 7 in the US, although a cover of it by Ricky Valance hit number one in the UK.
1961 - Last Kiss (this song!) - released and written by Wayne Cochran. Wayne began the song after seeing many accidents on the road he lived on in Georgia, but halfway through it his drummer's girlfriend's 16 year old sister was killed in a horrible car accident and he dedicated the song to her. He had 3 co-writers who helped writing the song. His release did not become a hit. The song was covered by J. Frank Wilson in 1964 reaching number 2 on the charts (The Supremes "Baby Love" was number 1). But "Last Kiss" did spend 8 weeks in the top ten.
1970 - Patches - released by "Chairman of the Board" and written by "Chairman of the Board" member General Johnson and Ron Dunbar, this song was much later than the flurry of death songs between '58 and '64, but worth mentioning. Another song that didn't actually chart by the original, although it was the b-side of "Everything's Tuesday" which hit number 38 on the charts. Later in the year it was it was heard by the blind blues singer Clarence Carter, who covered the song and it reached number 4 on the Hot 100 chart and number 2 on the R&B chart.
this story is real, beautiful music!!! It happened in Georgia the boy was J.L Hancock and his girlfriend Jeanette Clark, both only 16 years old.
crusing and listening to koma radio ... when this song came on we had to STOP ... hang our head and Listen ... nobody better say a word until it was finished and we always pulled back onto the road a little slower
"Mr.Shawn and Mel,you've heard of 'The Flamingos', Songlyric 'Lovers Never Say Goodbye' originally recorded possibly 1958. . .2-22-2022'
Loved this song when I was in HS
i was just singing this the other day but couldn't remember who sang it. thanks
You two are awesome it's great to see how you love the old music. I would love to see your reaction to Endless Sleep by Jody Reynolds.