don mclean - vincent *MarkG... i loved this deeply
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I was 11 years old the first time I heard this song, and It tore me apart! I'm gonna be 60 this year, and I still cry every time I hear this SOUL-STIRRING SONG! They don't make songs like this anymore! THANK YOU DON McLEAN FOR THIS GEM!🎼🎵🎶🎹🙏
The sheer beauty of this song, a tribute to one of the world's greatest painters, is that Don McLean is literally painting his own picture with his words.
In 1971, Singer/Songwriter Lori Lieberman saw Don Mclean at the LA Troubadour and she was so moved by his song 'Empty Chairs', that she took her feelings back to her songwriters Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox and conveyed her emotions to them and 'Killing me Softly With His Song' was born Roberta Flack won the Grammy for this song in 1974
Oh wow 😯 that is incredible story.. music 🎶 can be so very inspirational to so many 🙏💕
One of the greatest songs ever written (although this may not be his finest performance). Don McClean is a National Treasure.
I love this performance.
No taste it's a wonderful performance
Yes, he is. I was 13 when this song was released!
The Most Beautiful & Painful song I've ever heard!
Agreed :)
The most important factor is that this song is ART. It is about an artist. But it's art. It prompts an emotional reaction. It changes you for seeing/hearing it. ALL great art changes the person viewing it. In this case hearing it.
This was beautifully said Bruce... 🙏💕
I'm yet to hear this song without bawling my eyes out. And I've heard it a hundred times.
I can barely breathe when I hear this song... has had the same effect since I was 10 years old. Flowering garden path and cafe terrace at night have always been favorite and the thought the man who created something that brings me such joy could have suffered such agony is so painful
Yes, its about Vincent Van Gogh, how a wonderful artist was misunderstood in his time, and how he struggled to find acceptance which never came in his lifetime. After creating amazing paintings, and years of struggling, he took his own life. And yes, this song has always struck a chord deep within my psyche... it rips my heart out every time I hear it... I understand... and it makes me want to scream because...they not listening still. This song... along with a silly scene from Dr Who where they take Vincent to the present to let him see how his art is appreciated breaks my heart every time.
👊❤️🗣WolfsbaneHollow.. what an insightful name... maybe only the artistically inclined will get it... or maybe one day someone will finally expose such truth the world will have no choice but to listen... Van Gogh is my favorite artist... even I can’t put into words the way his art touches my heart so deeply ❤️🙂
i grew up in the 60's with some of the great poet musicians, McLean's "Vincent" is one of the best of that poetry.
If you look up the definition of Singer/ Songwriter/ Genius, Don McLean's name is among the list that has Volumes of names from the 60's &70's. The Genius in their talent makes you forget your life for a few minutes and journey into a World they've created. The expression on the faces in the audience is proof. Their Music is everlastingly fresh and pure.
This guy (Don McLean) is an absolute American treasure as an artist.
His songs are thoughtful (American Pie) and well written.
A history lesson in a song...what a novel idea.
Thanks Kristen
I'm always stunned that people haven't heard this song before. Of course - I was born in the 70's - so.....this song was my favorite growing up - i'm nearly 50 now and love it even more than I did the first time I heard it decades ago. It's a damned near perfect song. I can listen to it for hours straight & I have. Today is Vincent's b-day.
👊❤️🥰🗣This song is perfection... I was not exposed .. to a lot of different music.. (I’m a creature of habit) if it wasn’t for all the lovely people here I would never be exposed to half of all of this Amazing music 🙏💕
Can't help coming back...and I watch you rather than Don more and more...Thank you for letting us see so deep inside your heart. *SSS*
I went to CMU for art, I knew about Van Gogh, but not much. My freshman year, we each had to pick an artist to do a 30 minute presentation (with slides). I picked Van Gogh. I read a gigantic 700 page book, and spent weeks going through the slides before I could pick my selection. Knowing what I know, I cannot keep from weeping when I hear this song. I'm 51, and also a guitarist since I was 6. I sing this at karaoke, and cry as I sing.
Thanks Kristina Kali!
A great musician bows to a great painter , Art for Art .. never been better words for it
One of the most beautiful songs of all time.
Loving Vincent is a fantastic movie all done in art.
One of the greatest singer / songwriters/ balladeers of our generation. Another is Canadian.. Gordon Lightfoot (R.I.P.).
I learned to play the guitar because of this song. I still cry when I hear it.
I was drunk in a bar one night and this beautiful song was playing and everyone stopped to listen to it as it just draws you in. As it finished I was so moved I stood up and said to the entire room "I absolutely love that song about Picasso". It was one of those "I'll just get my coat' moments.
lmao!! about Picasso... that is hilarious..
My similar moment was in a 1963 English HS class. The intercom crackled and the principal's voice said, "I have an announcement of national importance.".
My mind raced with images of nuclear missiles launched because of the Cuban Crisis. After moments of silence she said, "The president has been shot."
First my hands covered my face, then I stood and loudly said, "Thank God".
Whenever you stop you do so with a sense of the music and with such appreciation - I never mind it.
A poet who writes music and sings, perfection.
It was like he wrote and performed the song, for Vincent personally.
The love in the lyrics and delivery was just so pure.
What an AMAZING live performance! Magnificent!
I think this is the most perfectly poetic song I've ever heard! Don McClean brilliantly used words describing Vincent's paintings, to paint a picture of Vincent's suffering and meaning, creating his own art in music to equal Vincent's paintings! Touches me every time, but I was especially touched by watching the song touch YOU!!! This is why I watch reaction videos...to share the appreciation and feelings that come from great songs! Thank you, and Happy New Year!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 ❤️✌🏻✌🏻❤️
I agree completely! thankyou and Happy New Year!
When poetry weaves music, me all meet there.
Alphatest Omega ❤️❤️❤️🥰🙏💯
Nobody stops their songs this much
Don McClean is truly unspprichiated writing one of the most beutifull songs ever written..thanks Don.
Probably the most poetic musical tribute ever written ❤
. I remember when it came out, I cried then and I cry now.
The most astounding reaction I have ever heard.Thank you! Thank you! Thank You!
Masterpiece...absolutely beautifully written, played and sung.
My Father used to sing this song in the car. Every time I hear it I think of that dear old man. I was always proud of the effect he had on small children who loved to be around him. While he cleaned his car, a small crowd of three to six year old's would gather like an audience around him because he talked to them like they mattered. I as an older child would watch this and even at that tender age would marvel at the kindness,humanity and humour he displayed. It broke my heart later in life to have to tell him that he could no longer go up to small children and start chatting to them like they were his friends. I know there are bad people in the world, but it's a shame we had to lose something so beautiful because of a few monsters.
You are so right... that makes me sad as well... you know that i tell Aegis the same thing? i tell my son that he can't just go up to strangers or little babies and start talking away? ohhh!! i know it seems trivial.. but this is the world we live in :(
@@KristinKali The current paradigm of our Human Condition is wasted among greed and thieves. We can only reach into our presence, holding despite the false fears, so that we all can feel the love that saves us. It takes a free mind to grasps this. In the extreme shaking, there is solace, a recognition, a sublimely healing passage.
True. One of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the sound children playing in the school playground. It's priceless and so sad that a person can't stand and listen to that beautiful sound anymore without being viewed as a pervert of some sort. So sad. I totally understand why but it's still so sad.
Man, that is so true. And you can't convince people that 'stranger danger' should be so low on their list of things to worry about. 99% of all child kidnappings are done by another family member, usually the spouse. Strangers abducting children is so damn rare, yet when it happens, it gets churned around on the 24 news cable channels and the internet so much that it gives the impression that it has become more common. it's actually far less common than it used to be. Doubters can look it up. Anyway, your father sounds like my Dad and I know just what you mean.
The comments are as poetic as the lyrics of this song. Absolutely!
Killing Me Softly was written about this guy.
No doubt one of the best pop songs ever written.
Don McLean is the poet laureate of lyrics and is considered so.
Kristin!!!❤❤❤❤ Miss u!!
The song "Killing Me Softly" is about a Don McLean concert!
I don’t think I am familiar with that one Scott Roberts
@@DarianHarder It's true. Roberta Flack thought McLean's words were intended for her.
It would be great if that were true. But it's not. Roberta Flack recorded "killing me softly" but she did not write it.
@@nikolatesla5553 LIES!
@@radar0412 why would I lie? It's an urban legend that I too believed for a long long time that "Killing me Softly" was Roberta Flack's reaction to hearing Don McLean sing American Pie. But the song lyrics were written by Norman Gimbal.
Fun fact: This was reportedly one of Tupac’s favorite songs
Love Don McLean , think this was one of Tupac fav songs
back in the late 60's mid 70"s folk music caught a little wind in its sails for a short while.
This song speaks to me as well Peace💝His voice is so pure and clean
🙂🙏💕
I always tear up when I hear this song, it’s truly beautiful.
Kristin, this is one of all time favorite songs period. As for the the pauses, more and more folks are dealing with this. No need to apologize for them. If the stops are what it takes for me to remember these classics and enjoy your channel, I'm good with that. Keep up the great channel!
I paint and I too love this song deeply
Music does heal us peaple with panic attack bless you .so much I've been .. remember it teaches to have empathy you've taken the road less traveled your a gift
And you are a gift 🙌💕☺️ Thankyou Pamela
This song is about Vincent Van Gogh - one of his most famous paintings was "starry night" - and he also "suffered for (his) sanity" - at one point, he actually cut off his own ear.... and eventually "took his life.. as lovers often do..." - guess this world was never meant for one as beautiful... but Don McLean's song... just as beautiful as could be..
👊❤️🗣Yes.. I have a starry night above my bed ... VanGogh copy... it’s beautiful 🙂💕
@@KristinKali I always cry when I listen to this... :) This is pretty cool: ua-cam.com/video/G7Dt9ziemYA/v-deo.html
@@KristinKali I also have Starry Night in my bedroom.
pretty bullet 👊❤️🗣You know.. there is a lot of Van Gogh lovers on this channel! So amazing!
I must have heard this song half dozen times and then it hit me what it was about...
He’s a singer songwriter from a lost time. Too many songs, movies, and meals being mass produced, formulated to touch the shallow in us. You should spend some checking out his entire catalog. There’s nothing in it that isn’t good. Thanks for playing this!
👊❤️🗣Thankyou Larry 🙏💕
A guy and a guitar, much love from the far north of New Zealand!
So glad you reacted to this song. Many think of the song, 'American Pie' when Don McLean's name is mentioned. I always thought THIS was his best song. I thought this in 1973 when I first heard it, and I haven't changed my mind in 46 years.
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Fabulous
Same here, when someone mentions Don, i dont think "American Pie" i think of "Vincent" first, this song cuts so deep, tells such a painful yet beautiful story, and it honors one of the greatest painters of all time. Yes i'm with you on that, this is the song i think of, when i hear Don being mentioned. :)
@@j0hnn13K "On the snowy linjen land..." Exactly, j0hnn13k … exactly.
Both are great songs. If we're looking for pure emotion, I think Empty Chairs may top even this one. That was the subject of "Killing Me Softly with His Song." Don McLean has written tons of great songs, he and Al Stewart are the two most underrated singer-songwriters in history.
@@razorback9926 absolutely! he wrote incredible lyrics and made the most beautiful songs for those.
Check out Castles in the Air.
Your a deep person , not enough of that kind in the world. You get it , few do.
Janey Oneal 👊❤️🗣Thankyou Janey... it takes deep to know deep 🙏💕🙂
Great reaction sweetie this has always been a fav moves me to tears all the time.
This is my favorite song by Don and not far off being my favorite of all. It's a magical song and the guitar flows dreamily around the words and providing emphasis when needed. There was a great episode of Dr. Who in 2010 called "Vincent and the Doctor". It is one of my favorite episodes. The Doctor goes back to Vincent's day and the ending is so good I cried there because in my mind this song was playing. Thank you for reacting to it.
To truly appreciate this beautiful piece, you have to find who Vincent was and his life struggles
Brings a tear to my eye every time... BEAUTIFUL
Vincent Van Gogh was a completely failed artist, who depended on handouts to keep himself going. Now only a very few have enough money to buy one of his paintings. There's a great episode of Dr. Who wherein the doctor meets Van Gogh and is able to bring him to the Louvre in Paris to see how people adore his handiwork. How I wish that was really possible. The world owes Van Gogh for the beauty he brought to us. And thanks to Don McLean for this heartbreaking, but beautiful tribute to him.
My Father suffered from mental illness, he was an iron worker most of his life, but as he got older, he started writing. He was brilliant. He wrote poems, and books never published that would make Frost blush. He died from years of alcoholism, and depression. At the age of only 53, we lost him to this horrible mental disease. This song touches home. He wrote a book called "When the Fire Went Out" about the brotherhood of firefighters. His Father, an Irish Immigrant, was a fire Chief, who died at the age of 49 because of years of smoke damage. I am almost 48 now, and this song brings back a lot of emotions.
Oh wow! I’m so sorry to hear about your father dying so young. Being a firefighter and dealing w alcoholism was more than likely his way of coping (been there). Shad I know you treasure his memory & his writings. Thank-you for sharing something so precious with me and I feel you have more to say but are reserved? I’m not sure why I just wrote that now 😅 Anyway, I do feel somewhat alone which is dumb when I’m surrounded by my kids, extended family, pets, nature.. lol 😂 It truly is a mind game to create our own happiness. Thank-you for spreading a rosy outlook on life. God Bless you Shad 🙏
@@KristinKaliWhat's really sad is that you apparently had no clue who "Vincent" was.
You killed it girl. You offered thoughtful commentary without babbling all the way through it and only stopped where appropriate. Thank you.
Thankyou for your kind comment! 👏🙂
What a beautiful song. Always loved this tune.
so beautiful ... brings tears to my eyes
Just beautiful.
Thanks for this.
A lot of people don't know this, but Don McLean was the nameless musician mentioned in "Killing Me Softly" (the Roberta Flack classic later covered by the Fugees). According to the songwriter, McLean's the one who was "strumming my pain with his fingers
, singing my life with his words."
So yeah. He's pretty amazing.
I think of that when I hear this song
....this world was never meant for someone as beautiful as you. ............................................................
He was living in the right time for his talent. It was a era of storytelling singer/songwriters, a genre sorely lacking today. They're many more for you to explore and enjoy from that period. This one and Run for the Roses (along with all Simon & Garfunkel's) are my favorites.
Run for the Roses - Dan Fogelberg. YES, YES. The Innocent Age - Leader of the Band, Same Old Lang Syne
Van gogh is reported to have had bipolar disorder, Meniere’s disease (condition of the inner ear resulting in acute, violent attacks of vertigo and hallucinations of rotary motion), thujone poisoning (interfering with the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA, causing mood elevating effects) from his consumption of absinthe to counteract his attacks of epilepsy, anxiety, and depression. A sick man, and a damn shame! They recently found complex musical compositions, some complete, some not, written by Nazi concentration camps prisoners while in these death camps. Through hunger, torture, and the constant threat of death they wrote their music about and through their suffering. The human mind and spirit is paradoxically both delicate, and yet overwhelmingly phenomenal!
👊❤️🥺🗣oh my! Thankyou for this 🙏 so sad...
This is one truly beautiful written song and beautiful sung loved it the first time I heard it 🦋
It is beautiful 😊🙏💕
Gorgeous song written and performed by Don McLean about the life of what many consider the the greatest painter.
I agree completely
Ok, after many reactions to this song, now I get it! Thanks for the reaction!
Greatest song of our time
as a kid, under 10.... when it first came out, I just thought it was an amazing song, when I later learned it was about Van Gogh, it opened myself to a more amazing worlds.
Vincent was not able to sell enough of his works to support himself. His brother Theo didn't buy his painting but rather supported his brother financially. Vincent sent his brother most of his works because it was the only way to pay him back. Because of that, most of his works are still held in the family and they shared them with the world sending them to museums everywhere until the 70's when they finished a museum specifically for his works in Amsterdam. I think they still arrange for several works to be lent out but now I believe it is a handful of works. I was lucky enough to see the whole collection at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in 71 or 72. Hundreds of his drawings and paintings...wow!
👊❤️😳🗣You are so lucky!! Van Gogh is my favorite Artist ☺️💕 Thankyou for sharing this extraordinary comment with us all! 🥰
@@KristinKali thank you for picking this song. It's a great work on its own but I like it so much more because it makes people think about Vincent. His life and struggles with life. How extraordinary he was. "perhaps they'll listen now"...many more are listening to Vincent because of this song and Vincent deserves that. He painted because he had too, it was in his soul. Most would move on to whatever would feed them. But Vincent was driven to paint, it calmed him and deeply interested him. You can see him influenced by the Dutch masters in his early works like "The Potato Eaters" and French impressionists later when he moved to Paris. Sorry to make this so long... I love Vincent too.
🙏🔥💕🗣You have passionate words .. never be sorry for that! 😊
Yes, I am lucky to have seen him perform this song live. A wonderful song from an incredible performer.
This one always gets to me
My dad's stereo back in the day, unintentionally put me to sleep with The Carpenters, Dan Fogelberg and Don Mclean, specially this song. That was in the 90s and I never understood the lyrics until when I was a teenager. It has since been special to me, coz I'm an artist by heart and sometimes got lost in my own little world. This song is not just for Vincent, it's for every artists and people suffering from mental illness.
Just a perfect song.
I love this reaction...I really, really do! *S* Watched right through, every second, all the way this time, and I have never been so touched by such a true reaction to a beautiful song. Thank you Kristin. May your G/god or guardian angle bless You! 🙂 Looks down the comments and blushes. I shall return...perhaps at times when Vincent's lessons need to be relearned.
' You listen now ' , Love is in all of us
but so much People have forgotten who to look inside and read the soul in next one Eyes.
This Lyriks had their weight at that time , today they make me feel like it is > to many peoble have lost the meaning of Life as human and it's like a Goldrush to find again the feeling of true love .
" Perhaps they don't know how " .
This song is a work of art!
“Castles in the air” is pure gold, check it out.
Beautiful reaction.
This is art.. a masterpiece
"I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." Since this song first came out, I have not been able to hear that line without crying. The first painting by Van Gogh I ever saw in person, I stumbled upon in a gallery that I didn't know had one of his works. It was not a painting I had ever seen in print, but the moment I came around the corner and saw it, I knew it was Vincent. I stood in front of the painting for the longest time with tears running down my face. Thank you, Vincent.
Love Don McLean & Jim Croce
Genius
Love this song too
Lyrical poetry put to music.
Soul touching hard to really explain but I think you get it.
Lovely reaction. I'm so glad you finally got to hear this classic song and that it touched you so.
Thankyou Tony 😁
Vincent is an incredible song! A thing of beauty! ♥️♥️ lt moves me! The entire American Pie album is brilliant! Check out the song 'Empty Chairs' off American Pie album. Another beauty.♥️ Moving! Thanks Kristin! Keep being you! 😎🎼🎶🇨🇦
Don't apologize for interrupting the song. If one just wants to hear the song, they can listen to it without the reaction.
Please do not be sad Kristin, and please do not think that you are alone. For every lost ship, there is a lighthouse. May God bless!
You did a fine reaction wth this song....and just as important, the subject of the tribute...both are great artists. This also shows your culture, intellect n empathy. Again, well done
Such a beautiful, touching song. Van Gogh was an interesting fellow indeed. In his life he sold two paintings, both of which were to his brother, who was an art dealer. His art was at best ignored during his life and often ridiculed. His painting technique laid on paint so thickly it sometimes took years to dry, which made it difficult to exhibit his work. Vincent watched as many of his friends and fellow artists such as Gauguin achieved some success during their lifetime while he was tragically unrecognized. Which of course led to an increasing despondency. His brother died soon after Vincent, and if not for his brothers wife who held onto Vincent's work for years, most of which was still wet at the time of his death, the world would never have known of this masters greatness. Another great and tragic figure who was a contemporary of Van Gogh was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was fairly popular during his life, which was not to his benefit. He was panned for being too popular, for being too European in his music, and for his melodies being too catchy, hence he wasn't taken as seriously as he should have been. What was worse was he was a homosexual during a time where that could get you jailed, killed, or both. Most of his music conveys a continuing theme of melancholy and an often aching beauty and helplessness. Two truly miserable contemporaneous geniuses. There are theories that both of these men committed suicide, Vincent willfully, Pyotyr because of threat of prosecution.
Hel Gar!! WHAT AN ABSOLUTE BRILLIANT COMMENT!!! MY GOODNESS!! THIS just gave me a pang in my heart i thought was my imagination! How horrible for this poor Van Gogh... I knew some of him but what you commented is a books worth in a synopsis with a contemporary being Tchaikovsky! The life at with they both sadly had lived is astounding in despair to say the least
Actually Van Gogh only sold ONE painting (his brother sold it) during his lifetime, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
@@jessieball6195 34 years ago the myth was challenged by art historian Marc Edo Tralbaut, a leading van Gogh scholar who wrote more than 100 books and articles on the artist. In 1964 Tralbaut published a letter, later referred to in his 1969 biography:
"On October 3, 1888, Theo wrote to the London art dealers, Sulley & Lori. In this letter he said: 'We have the honour to inform you that we have sent you the two pictures you have bought and duly paid for: a landscape by Camille Corot ... a self-portrait by V. van Gogh.'
I love that you get into the comments to see other perspectives or thoughts on the song. Even if you didn't have to stop the video for copyright, you should stop the video just because you, and therefore us, too, are enriched by what the song evokes in us-like Vincent’s paintings.
Vincent Van Gogh greatest tribute. Great vocals and lyrics incorporating his with the music
I was in Art Class in 1972 at El Camino College, CA & I told the class that this song ("Vincent") existed. They thought that I was making that up.
Goodness.. some people 😅 I bet they think of you when they listen to this song 🙌💕
"With eyes that know the darkness in my soul..." Nothing can be more present itself, to the Empathic human being among us. What this is ? - we are what this is. You are what this is. It is an amazing moment, one that serendipitously sails upon each of our heartbeats. For all The Artists, no matter the medium, we all hold a creation closely to our mind and heart, because we intuitively understand, the everything, and the all that is.
wish you had heard it sooner,,,,just be thankful you heard it now,,now you can have it for the rest of your life,,thats the beauty of quality music, once its in your head, no one can take it from you