The Sixties - there are many ways to describe the music of this decade - diverse, unique, funky, soulful, groovy, way out, energetic, etc. - This beautiful cover of Ian Tyson's song shows how some music of the Sixties could touch the heart - these four fraternity brothers knew just how to do that.
Oh God! Where have all the good music gone? Their music will always remind me when life with good old values are still the norm, Wish i could go back and live those moments...
I grew up about 4 mi. from UCLA, where this concert took place. I was 10 in 1962, which was roughly when this must have been taped. Very likely that several young men and women who were my babysitters, day camp counselors and neighborhood role models sit among the members of the audience. The "folk revival" music of this era is "comfort food" for my ears...my musical taste extends broadly but I always come back to these songs when I seek peace of mind.
I saw these guys at Hartwick College, Oneonta New York had to be 1960-61. They were awesome. Like Ted said," where did we go wrong" America had a soul back then. Just Beautiful.
I grew up with the Brothers Four playing in our household. I am not of this generation, but my father was. It makes me think of my father and my childhood. My father passed years ago, but I still have his old reel to reel recordings of the Brothers Four.
Wonderful! Brothers four was called as bro-four and liked and loved in Japan. In our student time and thereafter, we listened to them so many times and tried to sing like them. Thus, the folksong boom was started.
Best rendition of this song ever! The lead singer in this particular song has one of the most rich, comforting, mellifluous voices I've ever heard. Just beautiful!
I have just contacted the Kennedy Center and asked them if they would honor all the Brothers Four at their Kennedy Honors Ceremony . Anyone who thinks this is a good idea could go on their website and suggest it too. They deserve the honor. Carol Irvine,Bethesda,MD
I never heard of them, let alone this verson of this classic song. I'm sold and will be getting music by this wonderful group. Thanks for posting this!!!
We are still here, alive and learning, wiser for all we have seen, and disgusted by some of what happened, yet proud of the survival of this country, despite all of it. Experience and observation makes a fine teacher. Many of us should be listened to, yet are not.That is what bothers many of the generation. But things of equal impact are occurring now. Live and learn, and enjoy your life! It's all you will get.
This lovely, tender, tuneful song takes me back to the Manchester folk scene of the late Sixties. We thought we were putting the world right, then we got Thatcher and Blair to make it all bad again. Now we've got Johnson and Sunak, evil things that don't change, come what may.
I like this song. It reminds me of my years at Alderson-Broaddus College. We had a group of students who always sang this. In the video, I find the facial expressions so interesting: intent on listening to every word.
Were any of you there the night a band was playing in the Bank of American shell in Westwood? It was memorable and became great when a Hari Krioshna group weaved its way through the Westwood Boulevard flooding crowd with timpanies playing and singing the Hari Krisna chant which the band matched with a song I am so sorry I do not recall. Right out of as movie, but there were no cameras. Amazing event which happened for real.
Kids migrating by hitchhiking,with a backpack " goin down the road " was such a right of passage for the very young in the sixties. For Canadians it meant work in the oilfields of Alberta or forests of B.C. Later it meant gathering on 4th Ave. in Vancouver.
At 1965, I bought Brothers Four's little stereo record which included 4 songs like this "Four strong winds" or "Seven daffodils" at Tokyo. I was surprised at their decent harmonies. The lyrics that says " If I get there before the snowing and if things are going good, you could meet me" are so impressive to me. Is this a story of a divorced man in poverty? When I watched that every audience was humming those phrases at this video, I couldn't hold back my tears.
Ironically, Ian Tyson wrote this Canadian classic while still married to Sylvia Fricker. They later divorced, which would then make the words of the song fit.
The first song Ian Tyson ever wrote - still his best. In 2005, CBC Radio One listeners chose this song as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version. This was one of the earliest and finest covers. It certainly is not hurt by Dick's fine tenor lead. Combine that with classic B4 arrangement and harmonies ...
Pam, Most of the music left us in late 80's. I was 18 when I saw Dylan and Baez around 1962. He was to lead off show then Joan was to headline the rest. It was bone chilling as Joan asked him to stay up there were. I was into, folk, protest. Joan's voice mesmerized me as did many of the singers of the late 50's - mid 80's.I won't listen to the junk they are selling today. I never even locked my doors as a college student, we were all one. Today, we're a fractured USA and World.
i agree with you completly. we sure have lost something the past 30 years. today everyone is so cold and cynical. there's no compassion anymore. what happened to the world?
Wilbur, I liked your post. Thank you ! Seems you are a music lover. I don't care for the people who chose to live in the past and are constantly whining about their lot. (Most weren't even born yet, but we understand this - usually the big blabbermouths). Thank you for posting this of the brothers four. They are really something indeed !
この曲、ブラザーズ４の中で一番好きな曲です。 But our good times are all gone ・・・というところが寂しくてしんみりとします。 観客と一体になって、昔々の歌声喫茶みたいな感じで、きっと日本だけでなくUSAもそんな時代があったのでしょう。みんなの気持ちが一つになって・・・。もうそんな時代は来ないのでしょうか？
Not late 60's yet but was in HS when Br4 and other such groups hit the scene. It was an era of evolving free thought where the norms were challenged. While I see a bit of that returning, I am dismayed at the extent to which society is "dumbing down" and using "faith" and "belief" over skepticism and knowledge. We should be judged by how we help the least in our society and stop worshiping the rich and famous.
I love this performance, but every time I watch it I have to fight back tears. I was about 10 at this time, and I was so looking forward to being like those wonderful young people in the audience. The future seemed so bright and limitless. America was truly enjoying a golden age. But then, just a year or two later came the JFK assassination, the Beatles and drugs, Vietnam, and feminism - and it's been all downhill ever since.
one of my favorites even this is from my father era .... sometimes i feel live in that era too. i still keep searching EARLY MOURNING RAIN but never find.. anybody has and upload, would be great
Much much better than Neil Young's version. Oooh, the time has slipped through our fingers easily. We have lost such a good time and such good people. Look at the audience! Polite and did not make any noise. Look at the Asian girl blinking her eyes so many times enjoying the music.
I remember Ian & Sylvia singing it when it was newly minted. The first song of many 100's that Ian wrote. I think the B4 was my 2nd version. It was on the "Sing Of Our Times" album that came out about '64.
Wonderful, I found this by chance , as although 64 I had never heard of the Brothers, I just wanted to say that I agree with the comments by johnnyrockintalkin
+Lee YS No this song was written by Ian Tyson when he lived in New York city and was married to Sylvia and together they were successful and headed the first Newport Folk festival
Time when people, teen agers alike are seemed more civilized and dignified than the present days. The song is lovely but of personal note it is a very sad song portraying two lovers parting their ways....
@LuTubeified...We are not living in the past (I get that all the time.)That which is beautiful & meaningful has no "time." It is here to be enjoyed despite the criticism of those who are living by superficial thinking. Live on, my friend!
This was the first song Ian wrote (of hundreds). Even then the cowboy flavour is there. The Brothers Four bring their talent for harmony and arrangement to the table. For those below carping about Obama, I am not sure what improvement you are looking for but I don't see better on the horizon as yet whatever his "failings" are pervieved to be. I have watch many come and go over the last 60 years. Some pride, community and less "stuff" would help all.
I'm the same as you 70 years old and live in the UK I've only recently discovered them also ,I think the only original one still in the group is the double bass player , please correct me if I'm wrong.
I loved these times, and the music. I took them with me to Vietnam in 1966 and when I returned I found they had betrayed me. Again in '67 and '68. Don't get me wrong, there are many who gave us support and respect through their music and they are part of the good feelings I have from that era. But mostly, I have my brothers. I would not change a thing. pic is me atop a 100 foot pole in Chu Lai, RVN ready to set up a MARS antennae. Seabees Can Do
@rb62470 Before you call anyone "uninformed", you may want to check your facts. This was written by Ian Tyson, and originally recoreded in 1964 by Ian with his then-wife Sylvia as "Ian and Sylvia". This version is much closer to their version. I'm a Bobby Bare fan, too, but his 1965 version is badly over-produced. You can hear the original here on youtube.
Those who did not grow up in the 60's missed a lot.
the world will never be that young again...
In those days, it was pure talent, and the audience was mesmerised ! Beautiful !
This is the way we were. Can you imagine this kind of respect and behavior at a college concert today?
Over fifty years ago and people still love this song.
The Sixties - there are many ways to describe the music of this decade - diverse, unique, funky, soulful, groovy, way out, energetic, etc. - This beautiful cover of Ian Tyson's song shows how some music of the Sixties could touch the heart - these four fraternity brothers knew just how to do that.
Oh God! Where have all the good music gone? Their music will always remind me when life with good old values are still the norm, Wish i could go back and live those moments...
I grew up about 4 mi. from UCLA, where this concert took place. I was 10 in 1962, which was roughly when this must have been taped. Very likely that several young men and women who were my babysitters, day camp counselors and neighborhood role models sit among the members of the audience. The "folk revival" music of this era is "comfort food" for my ears...my musical taste extends broadly but I always come back to these songs when I seek peace of mind.
Old songs just won't fade,they always stay and linger on
❤❤❤😊
Saw this song in concert......these guys will be forever in our memories, those of us who truly love folk music.
Notice everyone in the audience knew the song and the harmony. That's the way it was back then.
And of course the words are plainly enunciated and the harmony is clear and crisp. Yeah there is such a thing as the good old days.
I saw these guys at Hartwick College, Oneonta New York had to be 1960-61. They were awesome. Like Ted said," where did we go wrong" America had a soul back then. Just Beautiful.
We went wrong with the Vietnam War. After that terrible war (I was a hawk) we never have regained out moral footing.
I grew up with the Brothers Four playing in our household. I am not of this generation, but my father was. It makes me think of my father and my childhood. My father passed years ago, but I still have his old reel to reel recordings of the Brothers Four.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - C. Dickens
It is amazing to witness how the audience genuinely blended into the hypnotic harmony so well at the end of the moving show.
Yes, it is amazing how a large audience of people can sound so good when they all sing along with the melody..
Wonderful! Brothers four was called as bro-four and liked and loved in Japan.
In our student time and thereafter, we listened to them so many times and tried to sing like them.
Thus, the folksong boom was started.
This is the real MUSIC we want to LISTEN too.
Sure Love yah!
Greetings from Thailand!
I grew up on the gentle and soothing harmonies of The Brothers Four and this
song brings back so many happy memories. Thanks for sharing!!
GREAT SONGS OF THE 60'S
So wonderful I start to cry
Truly wonderful..the audience was captivated
Best rendition of this song ever! The lead singer in this particular song has one of the most rich, comforting, mellifluous voices I've ever heard. Just beautiful!
I agree!
I have just contacted the Kennedy Center and asked them if they would honor all the Brothers Four at their Kennedy Honors Ceremony . Anyone who thinks this is a good idea could go on their website and suggest it too. They deserve the honor. Carol Irvine,Bethesda,MD
Send shivers down my back - about how much we lost!
what happened to music like this, i am happy to say i am 53. i heard great tunes more then than now
I love them, love their music, love their voice!
Dick Foley and Terry Lauber have a new cd out..with updated versions of their songs. Simpler, elegant,soft.C
If I'd been a girl in the 60s I'd have swooned to these hunks for sure.
Talk of a magic moment - the audience is completely lost with this performance... goosebumps!
Beautiful...singing....where is todays talent????????????
I never heard of them, let alone this verson of this classic song. I'm sold and will be getting music by this wonderful group. Thanks for posting this!!!
We are still here, alive and learning, wiser for all we have seen, and disgusted by some of what happened, yet proud of the survival of this country, despite all of it. Experience and observation makes a fine teacher. Many of us should be listened to, yet are not.That is what bothers many of the generation. But things of equal impact are occurring now. Live and learn, and enjoy your life! It's all you will get.
This lovely, tender, tuneful song takes me back to the Manchester folk scene of the late Sixties. We thought we were putting the world right, then we got Thatcher and Blair to make it all bad again. Now we've got Johnson and Sunak, evil things that don't change, come what may.
As much as i like THE KINGSTON TRIO, at times i think these guys are even better: what a great harmony!
The whole world was there stage and they never let their audience down.Thank you .Take care ADonovan43
Best ever rendition of this song....Beautifully sung and beautiful song.
Wonderful... Just wonderful.
Amazing what a voice in such
a harmony!! Love brothers Four!
Great old group!! Lovely songs!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I like this song. It reminds me of my years at Alderson-Broaddus College. We had a group of students who always sang this. In the video, I find the facial expressions so interesting: intent on listening to every word.
I received a note that the couple shown at 2:34 are still married. Thanks for the update!
some folks here might dislike this but the audience loves it. Listen to them harmonize
I love the song, and this is a superb performance of it.
My parents had the record when it first came out, and it was favorite right away...although I was too young to know how good it really was.
'where are tjey know
I love it and the Brothers Four.
Great video by the incomparable "Brothers Four".Thnx for posting.
Absolutely beautiful!
Were any of you there the night a band was playing in the Bank of American shell in Westwood? It was memorable and became great when a Hari Krioshna group weaved its way through the Westwood Boulevard flooding crowd with timpanies playing and singing the Hari Krisna chant which the band matched with a song I am so sorry I do not recall. Right out of as movie, but there were no cameras. Amazing event which happened for real.
Love this song! So beautiful!
Kids migrating by hitchhiking,with a backpack " goin down the road " was such a right of passage for the very young in the sixties. For Canadians it meant work in the oilfields of Alberta or forests of B.C. Later it meant gathering on 4th Ave. in Vancouver.
At 1965, I bought Brothers Four's little stereo record which included 4 songs like this "Four strong winds" or "Seven daffodils" at Tokyo. I was surprised at their decent harmonies. The lyrics that says " If I get there before the snowing and if things are going good, you could meet me" are so impressive to me.
Is this a story of a divorced man in poverty?
When I watched that every audience was humming those phrases at this video, I couldn't hold back my tears.
Ironically, Ian Tyson wrote this Canadian classic while still married to Sylvia Fricker. They later divorced, which would then make the words of the song fit.
Thank you for your nice comment.
After all, never divorce so easily.
Paradoxically speaking,
I can declare that the lack of patience causes divorce
John E the words might fit but the song wasnt about her, it was about a girl from greece
Beautiful!!!
Excellent music
绕梁三日，日久弥新
The first song Ian Tyson ever wrote - still his best. In 2005, CBC Radio One listeners chose this song as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.
This was one of the earliest and finest covers. It certainly is not hurt by Dick's fine tenor lead. Combine that with classic B4 arrangement and harmonies ...
Ian and Sylvia came to USM in 1969 , in persn and great concert!
Beautiful!
We use this version when singing and playing with our ukulele group on Martha's Vineyard.
Pam, Most of the music left us in late 80's. I was 18 when I saw Dylan and Baez around 1962. He was to lead off show then Joan was to headline the rest. It was bone chilling as Joan asked him to stay up there were.
I was into, folk, protest. Joan's voice mesmerized me as did many of the singers of the late 50's - mid 80's.I won't listen to the junk they are selling today. I never even locked my doors as a college student, we were all one. Today, we're a fractured USA and World.
i agree with you completly. we sure have lost something the past 30 years. today everyone is so cold and cynical. there's no compassion anymore. what happened to the world?
peace to my ears
The feeling there was absolutely alive with the spirit of the times and music and of course, UCLA.
QUANTOS IRMÃOS COM TANTO CORAÇÃO VÊM AQUI, TRAZIDOS PELAS MÃOS... DA MAIS LINDA CANÇÃO. AH, GRATIDÃO.
Thanks a million for re-posting this folk classic!
such an innocence...
Young and old days have gone.
Just love it!
thanks for uploading this song...
we were fighting a war then...still fighting one today. The idealists still do exist. People are still together....just stay positive! xoxo
Music is universal such a lovely
Somg
Yes the good times are gone!
Please explain. Those were good times, and these are good times, as well, at least from my perspective.
You got that right Dave Drolett. Perhaps the next life...
Yes, we and I were there. Yes we are old and wealthy. But we have held on to our values and protest the current ignorance of our administration.
Lee. You have something deep in your soul that has died
beautiful
One songs played at my late twins
Funeral neil young version.
But this is a lovely rendition.
Wilbur, I liked your post. Thank you ! Seems you are a music lover. I don't care for the people who chose to live in the past and are constantly whining about their lot. (Most weren't even born yet, but we understand this - usually the big blabbermouths). Thank you for posting this of the brothers four. They are really something indeed !
I love this....
look at them!!!! the audience listen with thier hearts.
No one could say it better.
この曲、ブラザーズ４の中で一番好きな曲です。
But our good times are all gone ・・・というところが寂しくてしんみりとします。
観客と一体になって、昔々の歌声喫茶みたいな感じで、きっと日本だけでなくUSAもそんな時代があったのでしょう。みんなの気持ちが一つになって・・・。もうそんな時代は来ないのでしょうか？
Best i ever Heard!!!!
Made my youth so much nicer.
It's the sincerity that matters!
Not late 60's yet but was in HS when Br4 and other such groups hit the scene. It was an era of evolving free thought where the norms were challenged. While I see a bit of that returning, I am dismayed at the extent to which society is "dumbing down" and using "faith" and "belief" over skepticism and knowledge. We should be judged by how we help the least in our society and stop worshiping the rich and famous.
I love this performance, but every time I watch it I have to fight back tears. I was about 10 at this time, and I was so looking forward to being like those wonderful young people in the audience. The future seemed so bright and limitless. America was truly enjoying a golden age. But then, just a year or two later came the JFK assassination, the Beatles and drugs, Vietnam, and feminism - and it's been all downhill ever since.
A GREAT Canadian song.
one of my favorites even this is from my father era .... sometimes i feel live in that era too. i still keep searching EARLY MOURNING RAIN but never find.. anybody has and upload, would be great
Morning, not mourning. Gordon Lightfoot.
The peaceniks, the compassionate, the 'anything goes' brigade have given us squalor, fear and obscenity for entertainment
Such harmony
Much much better than Neil Young's version.
Oooh, the time has slipped through our fingers easily. We have lost such a good time and such good people. Look at the audience! Polite and did not make any noise. Look at the Asian girl blinking her eyes so many times enjoying the music.
I remember Ian & Sylvia singing it when it was newly minted. The first song of many 100's that Ian wrote. I think the B4 was my 2nd version. It was on the "Sing Of Our Times" album that came out about '64.
Wonderful, I found this by chance , as although 64 I had never heard of the Brothers, I just wanted to say that I agree with the comments by johnnyrockintalkin
Beautiful ❤
Fantastico, digno de um Oscar!!!!
It was grerat. I was there. Wasn't it yesterday? 2 nights Hootenanny at UCLA!
alot of beautiful faces in the crowd, it's so trippy to think that they are now either dead or old prunes
Bobby Bare has an excellent Country top ten version which is my all time favorite,
+Lee YS I don't like this version much.
+Lee YS No this song was written by Ian Tyson when he lived in New York city and was married to Sylvia and together they were successful and headed the first Newport Folk festival
+Edward Moore I love this version!
Beautiful words brother/sister
Time when people, teen agers alike are seemed more civilized and dignified than the present days. The song is lovely but of personal note it is a very sad song portraying two lovers parting their ways....
NICE!!!
聴衆、ＵＣＬＡの学生達が歌う姿を見て感動した。彼らはその後、ベトナムへ送られ、死んだ人もいただろうと思うと、なんだか切ない。
@LuTubeified...We are not living in the past (I get that all the time.)That which is beautiful & meaningful has no "time." It is here to be enjoyed despite the criticism of those who are living by superficial thinking. Live on, my friend!
This was the first song Ian wrote (of hundreds). Even then the cowboy flavour is there.
The Brothers Four bring their talent for harmony and arrangement to the table.
For those below carping about Obama, I am not sure what improvement you are looking for but I don't see better on the horizon as yet whatever his "failings" are pervieved to be. I have watch many come and go over the last 60 years.
Some pride, community and less "stuff" would help all.
Only discovered these guys about a month ago, can't believe at nearly 70 i never heard of these fellas. Are they still together as the originals?
I'm the same as you 70 years old and live in the UK I've only recently discovered them also ,I think the only original one still in the group is the double bass player , please correct me if I'm wrong.
Awesome Video, I wonder who dose the Vocal
I loved these times, and the music. I took them with me to Vietnam in 1966 and when I returned I found they had betrayed me. Again in '67 and '68. Don't get me wrong, there are many who gave us support and respect through their music and they are part of the good feelings I have from that era. But mostly, I have my brothers. I would not change a thing. pic is me atop a 100 foot pole in Chu Lai, RVN ready to set up a MARS antennae. Seabees Can Do
Some beautiful girls in the audience. Why don't we see their like today ?
You need to get out more.
I see no beautiful girls around today. Lots of near-naked sluts, though. There is a difference.
preciosa cancion
@rb62470
Before you call anyone "uninformed", you may want to check your facts. This was written by Ian Tyson, and originally recoreded in 1964 by Ian with his then-wife Sylvia as "Ian and Sylvia". This version is much closer to their version. I'm a Bobby Bare fan, too, but his 1965 version is badly over-produced.
You can hear the original here on youtube.