Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost - Traces
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2012
- #2 in 1969 on US charts Lyrics: Faded photographs
Covered now with lines and creases
Tickets torn in half
Memories in bits and pieces
Traces of love long ago
That didn't work out right
Traces of love
Ribbons from her hair
Souvenirs of days together
The rings she used to wear
Pages from an old love letter
Traces of love long ago
That didn't work out right
Traces of love
With me tonight
I close my eyes and say a prayer
That in her heart
she'll find
A trace of love still there
Somewhere, ooooh, oh
[Instrumental Interlude]
Traces of hope in the night
that she'll come back and dry
These traces of tears
From my eyes
A classic, I was in the 6th grade when this song came out. Now I'm 70 years old.
i love this song still im still listening it...im 70
I was in 11th grade, I'm 71. Such a wonderfully written and soulful song.
65 yrs old here but I remember it and always loved it. Grew up with music in my house. Both parents were musicians, so lots of music in the house. Naturally us 4 kids played instruments too. But I guess this song forever stayed in my mind and I think of my HS sweetheart when I hear this….
I'm 73
I lost my wife of 12 years. We met in High School in the 80s this song brings back such wonderful memories of her and growing up back then.
Here comes the tears listening to such a beautiful song...after 50 years, it still means so much to me...I felt like the song was about my life back then and even now I can relate to it....alot of pain....one of my favorite songs of all time along with The Vogues, The Happenings, Marmalade who sang Reflections of my Life....TEAR JERKER!!!the 60s were the BEST..I remember all the songs back then..missing all my family and friends that are gone.................
for some, 50 years is not enough time to heal.
When music ment something.
This song brings me back good memories….
you WILL see them all again Veronika. Trust God that you will ❤️🙏🏼🥲
Feel like you will see these people that you lost someday but life is for the living
Listening to it 50 years later still a great song.
Yep. It’s timeless. And sad.
Got that right❤❤❤😂🎉😊😊😊😊
Lost my daughter to colon cancer in April 12 2021. After serving 25 years in the military…I miss her so much. There isn’t a day I don’t think about her…. ✝️✝️✝️
So sorry for your lost! Condolences, God speed, SEMPERFi!
@@mcburgerking1523 thank you for your kind words
Que Deus conforte seu coracao❤mae fé e força 🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹
@@hannahcarvalho8664 GRACIA QUE EL SENOR TE BENDIGA ✝️✝️✝️
Im so sorry
I was so very fortunate to have grown up in this era, when music had meaning, words and themes that we were able to understand and relate with. Indeed, a true classic 👍. Thank you for all the fond memories.
Me too. Unfortunately , lost an uncle mid3/68 tail end of TET in NAMs Central Highlands about 2wjs b-4 my 11th bday .
Song brings back memories of my High School sweetheart. Of course a young girls heart is crushed when it ends….. but some 25yrs later we met and we’re together for 3 yrs, but it wasn’t the same. I will always love him. You never forget your first true Love. It’s bittersweet ❤️😔
This is one of my favorites by the Classic IV
Dennis Yost hit some of the all-time heartfelt notes that few other vocalists ever delivered.
This song is so melancholy. I have tears every time I listen to it. One of the best songs ever written
Loved this song in 1969 and still today almost 50 years later. Mr. Yost had the most wonderful voice and put so much feeling into this song. Such trashy music today that I can not listen to it for more than a minute.
that' my favorite song when o was 13 yrs. old n i dedicated it to myself😌
DENNIS WAS AN AWESOME SINGER......REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND.
A requiem for the least, the last, the lost, and the lonely.
Very well said!
AGREED
This song brings back sad haunting feelings before I got with the girl of my dreams for four years. Thank you Shirley for coming into my life and being my amazing wife for 53 years.
This one still gets to me... .. Dennis got his props on the credits after this one.. He is missed.
Love this song makes me sad for the old days.
this song to me must the best song of losing the love of your life......and there are a lot of them out there....salute to you Dennis Yost and Classics IV
It was 1970. Dennis Yost and the Classics IV performed in a "pillow concert" in the student union at BYU. It was the height of their popularity, and they could have been very arrogant. Instead, at the end of their first song, Dennis invited all of us to stack our pillows to the walls of the large room with the stage at one end and get up and dance. I remember being so impressed then as I am 53 years later that such a big star was humble enough to give us an experience dancing to the live performance of their great hits that none of us would ever forget. Dennis was not just a tremendous artist--he was an amazingly classy guy.
This song has one of the best intros in pop! And I like the use of period photos! Hope they all lived happily ever after somehow or other.
agree with you.....
A beautiful song that brings back so many memories , when I was in training at Fort Campbell , Ky for deployment to Vietnam. My future was unknow, marriage
was ending. The song reminded me of the past memories of loves lost with an unknown outcome.
Listening to this again during Pandemic times and it takes me back to a simpler time when we were hopeful. I still feel this is so well sung with so much feeling. Kudos to Mr. Yost. Hope in heaven he realizes how many people he touched with "Traces".
'Every Day With You Girl' is so awesome also.....They were sooo good...still are...
THE HISTORY OF MY BROTHERS OUR SONG THE mARINES HOME TO A TIME IS GOLD A FATHER TO YOU MY TAPE OF A BROTHER BRING THE WARS OF SONGS
This song is timeless.
Time passed real quick but we do not have to worry about that cuz our souls live forever like an eternity.
Great song!!! when I was young and such a fool!!!
Sounds like all of us at that age!!
This song always struck a chord with me. I found out tonight it can still make me weep. Thank you.
A song whose lyrics make me sad for what could have been, but musically, is brilliant! R.I.P., Dennis. Thanks for the memories of a fantastic year, musically, and otherwise. Released on January 25, 1969, reaching # 2 on March 9.
😪!
RIP songwriter Buddy Buie, who wrote Traces, Stormy and Spooky, and hundreds of others. Your talent will be sorely missed.
Where was Buddy from ? How did Dennis get this song from him ?
The Atlanta Rythum Section connection I believe.....And Paulette, you are very attractive !......Peace to you !
The Atlanta area is where the band was from
Originally, the band came from Jacksonville, FL and moved to Atlanta to be near their new management (Buddy Buie, Paul Cochran and Bill Lowrey). All four original members, Dennis Yost, JR Cobb, Wally Eaton and Joe Wilson grew up in Jacksonville. Great vocals and great songwriting that both Jacksonville and Atlanta can claim!
As was Classics IV guitarist JR Cobb, who joined ARS
Love this song❤❤❤
Brings back so many memories and tears I thought I would never shed. So bitter sweet, and yet, so beautiful and comforting.
I cried over and over to this song after my girlfriend was killed in a plane crash
Still a beautiful song in 2020.
It breaks my heart😢. So many things, long gone, and I’m still alone. What’s the point in remembering if it hurts so bad. ❤😢
Very romantic voice of Dennis Yost, i love it❤
The first groups brought so much talent to the people
Hits right in the throat.
This was the first break song with my first boyfriend. I cried when I broke up with him; it broke my heart.
Beautiful through sad love song about a love we yearn for and remember but it has gone. One of my favorites through the years as it is very well sung with feeling. Nice to hear and enjoy.
Women were so pretty back then, and this music is timeless.
Timeless...............
The 60s and the 70s are the best and worst parts of my life But the music makes me feel much better about it all in my 60s and my Bobby Rose
Brings back the memory...still cryin until now
Clothing and hairstyles from my youth, when falling in love made the whole world look rosie and beautiful, at 69 I'm still in love with my wife and high school sweetheart, but the world around us is a different one and scary now.
What a mind bender after a broken romance.
This song perfectly sums up my love life and has always struck a chord in me. Unrequited and betrayed, I was unlucky in love and at 65, at least I loved than never to have loved at all. Oh well. A beautiful montage of lovely couples.
Canção linda e romântica . Lamentável o clip está totalmente em desacordo com a letra da música . O compositor do Classics IV , fala de uma situação pessoal dele. Um " HOMEM" , e não uma mulher ,amargurado e com lágrimas que rolam de sua face ao recordar fatos passados do seu verdadeiro amor . Abraços de São Paulo - Brasil.
Que música linda, maravilhosa! O cantor brasileiro Guilherme Arantes fez uma versão dessa música. Ficou muito boa!
Recife-Pe - Brasil
Uma melodia doce que traz boas saudades da minha adolescência !!!
❤ Preciosa melodia , me evocan bellos recuerdos del amor de mi vida !
Sally Field was so adorable as “Gidget”.
Yes. Fifty. Years. Later. I. Can. Still. Cense My first. Loves. Makeup. And. Lipstick. ❤☘️🌈
A poem that uses the word 'traces' in a magistral way.
A CLASSIC HIT FOR SURE........
Hermosa mi canción que la llevo en mis recuerdos, está banda tiene otra muy bella Stormi.
Great great songs from the "60"s that we took advantage of, songs that will stand the test of time, 60 years later I can't wait to hear this timeless classic once again! Traces is yet another moment in time that I can enjoy once again! 💝💯🌠
Jill Triggs, I always remember you when I hear this song. My one and only true love of my life.
The fact that this stalled at #2, speaks to how good the music was in that era.
the week it peaked at number 2, here are some other songs in the top 10: Time of the Season, Proud Mary (original CCR version), Galveston...some true classics. But is was kept out of the number one slot by "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe, which is a fine enough song, but IMO nowhere near the classic that the others are! What an era!
Should have been #1. But, #2 was no slouch!
Yes, the Top 40 was loaded in those days. I listened to it a couple of hours every day, without fail.
Dioos 😢 qué tiempos... qué recuerdos....!!😮
Memories from Great Falls, Montana at CMR High School with my beautiful princess Ann Sherbourne! 1969-1970! My first love🙏🏽🙏🏽
Amo essa música da minha vida❤
The lyrics and images in this video bring to my heart such pain, such sorrow, and to my minds eye the image of a beautiful young woman who came into my life, and came entered my heart during my first year of college and to my Foolishness I lost forty four years ago to my hearts pain, my hearts sorrow to this day. Like the lyrics in the song I still have those “Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases…memories in bits and pieces…” I still have the one of two photos of her and a handwritten note from her to me expressing her love towards that young man. The lyric “…that didn't work out right”. What “..didn’t work out right” was because of me, my lack of self-confidence, the fear of the future when she called me on that faithful night when her and her family were to moved away. I began my searched for her the next morning after that faithful night and for years after. I only knew the name of the town where she and her family were moving to, sadly not which state and in an age before the internet all I could do was use what little there was available to find her. Had I found her all those years ago, I would have prayerful ask on bend knee to forgive that young man and to apologize for being scared of what the future may have had in store. I would have asked her to share life's journey with me, for I knew from our last phone call that evening I would be lost without her. Not one day goes by I don’t think of her, and like the lyrics of this song each day, of each year I searched for her and each day of each year since "I close my eyes and say a prayer… That in her heart, she'll find, a trace of love still there..." IF at All. What I would give to see her face, to see her smile, or to hear her voice one last time before I leave this mortal coil. What I would not give to ask Peggy to forgive this old soul and the young man for not going with her when she called that faithful night all those years ago. As the poet once wrote:
"It's hard to wait around for something that could never happen. But it's even harder to give up when you know it's everything you want."
I lost a love also that wasn't ment to be. But to quote a famous song lyric. " If you can't be with the one you love honey love the one your with"
Way better music than the bs we have today
@@fidelhurtado9587 AMEN !
Best slow dance music in the late 60's, bar none
The Classics IV did not make a lousy song.
TIMELESS CLASSIC BY .......................................... CLASSICS IV ...................................... WHO ELSE ?
lost my Dawn to OD in WV, Had to leave for home in Germany--song reminds of her
What a small world. I was watching videos, and I came across this one. I saw my husband, Steve, with his high school girlfriend, Cathy in a picture at 55 sec. When I showed him, he couldn't believe it. Great video!
for real?
This video of “Traces” by Classics IV has just gotten those female tears 😭.
NO WAY!!! What town is that?
I loved this song when I was little
Fantastic song!-They certainly make them like that any more.
I lost you but never forgot you. A torn ticket to the matinee reminded me of that today.
First/last time I double dated with my brother (I was about 15, he was 17) was to a Dennis Yost concert in Orlando back 1968. Awkward but I wanted to go. I loved them and played the album (yes, vinyl) till the grooves got worn. I was, and still am, Stormy.
Per: www.oldiesmusic.com/news.htm
Songwriter, producer and publisher Buddy Buie died Saturday (July 18th, 2015) after suffering a heart attack in Eufaula, Alabama, where he lived...
Born in Dothan, Alabama, Buddy is best remembered for writing hits for the Classics IV like "Spooky" (#3-1968), "Traces" (#2-1969) and "Everyday With You Girl" (#19-1969) and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, including "So Into You" (#7-1977) and "Imaginary Lover" (#7-1978); all of which he also produced and published...
He was selected for both the Georgia and Alabama Music Halls of Fame...
May he R.I.P.
+sauquoit13456 I just read Dennis Yost Is gone, Who sang Traces, Is It true
REMEMBER THIS SO MUCH MORE ! !
Wow, such poignant images to go with this beautiful music.
Quando ouço esta linda música, passa um filme na minha mente. Haja coração para suportar tanta saudade...por onde andará aquela garota que me beijou e jurou amor eterno ao som desta melodia? ê os meus amigos daquela época? Todos se perderam na poeira do tempo, hoje sei que nada é para sempre, mas esta música será eterna. Descanse em paz Dennis, obrigado
A tear stained letter, 4 pressed red rose petals, a bracelet with a tiny gold elephant trinket. These are they things that truly matter.
I'd wake up to that everymorning before school
Thank you. Beautifully done. Memories of those we loved and lost. Family,loves,friends. We live in a Beautiful world to be able to hear and feel this.
Dennis was a true humble gentleman. I met him in Florida, not long after that we lost him. I know he is performing for God as we speak.
É da minha juventude. Eu sentava no divan ouvindo classics IV.
I remember 1969. Thank you, Dora, for the memories. Oxnard California.
Great images to go with the song. It took me back about 43 years. I never had a blowout in High School. Mine came later in life right around 50. Kicked my butt then but a few battle scars and lessons learned. Not sure if I can stomach the stomping of my heart ever again!
sorry James, I had 2 blowouts in high school, and 2 in marriages, my 3rd is the "charm", finally
I am glad for you to find a lifetime love. It may not be in the cards for me.
This song is a reminder that life is unpredictable. When we were young, we saw the world through different lenses. I had a special girlfriend and i didn't see what was coming down life's way. She was in college as was I. But, I then received my draft notice. As we became separated, we continued to write letters to each other. When I was sent over to Vietnam our relationship ended. I kept those letters as well as other small items that we shared and stored them in a foot locker. After I came back I never thought about the footlocker and my mother kept it in her things until many years had passed. She called me one day and asked if I still wanted it. I went over and picked it up and took it to my shop. Then one fall evening when it was cool and comfortable in my shop, I opened the locker and all the memories of 1967 & 68 came back to me in a rush. 25 years had passed in an instant it seemed. After reading the letters and looking at her photographs, ...I closed the lid and I never opened it again. A storm destroyed my shop and now 25 more years have passed since that day and I often think about it whenever I hear "Traces" on the radio. Keep your head up and I hope that you will find a love that you can cherish.
Mine came 3 years when I was 54. After two failed marriages. An 8-year relationship with the love of my life had me thinking getting older wasn't so bad. Then one day he just upped and left me for an old high-school friend who is a widow with wealth and power. It's been 3 years and I'm still not over him. Don't know if I ever wil be.
@@donnaroberts34 Sorry , I also hurt , one tossed me aside and my other dream lady , died years ago .Like the other song goes, if can't be with the one you love , than love the one you are with .
Such a beautiful and evocative song. Brings back memories.
This is a classic breakup song.
"This"......was very well done......💔
Este tipo de canciones romanticas tan lindas no volveran nunca ,too bad that this kind of beautiful romantic songs will never come back ,but thank God for the internet it can take us back in time.
This one is a moody song I liked very much and used to ask the radio station's disc jockey to play it for me on the phone. A lot of time in fact half a Century has passed since then but it is still a good song to hear and enjoy.
Back in high school, I wanted to sing and play (I also played tenor sax) this tune at "The Prom" but our band leader told me it wouldn't be appropriate, for even the slow dance.
grande musica . linda demais.
Yo lo escuche en el año 1967 en la estacion radio éxitos. Muy bonita canción de los cuatro clásicos, gracias
Música excelente para ouvir e curtir , pois adoro esta música.
😢😢😢this is so so beautifull but yet painflled, it recalls to mind a time wen music was PURE! LYRICS THAT MEANT SOMETHING AND MUSIC THAT HAD ONE FLOATING,OH HOW I WISH JUST ONE FRACTION OF THOSE DAYS WERE PRESENT IN THIS ERA,but alas! Wishfull thinking
We have two Idiots that didn't like this song, They must be Aliens from outer space !
Please don't insult Aliens from outer space - they have impeccable taste!
MrGoldenthroat OK maybe I went over board with the alien thing, You got me lol
Now there are two more! :-(
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@@MrGoldenthroat hahahah..well said.
Lovely song superb voice..
1969 eu com 17 anos recordando um tempo magico so quem e dessa geracao sabe .
Great pics of time
It was about my love and life ...
CLASSICS IV , tudo de bom Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo - BRASIL 🇧🇷
I love the nostalgic photographs! Thanks for posting this song!
Robert Killingbeck
wow, that was a really well crafted video.