My big brother loved this song, he use to let me sit in his room and listen with him. He died at 15 year's old. I cry every time I haven't heard this song in awhile. RIP Ray 🙏
For those of us born in the 50's and grew up in the 60's and 70's we now see how blessed and fortunate we were to have grown up with this INCREDIBLE music. I know there are MANY young people out there that would rather listen to the music we grew up on than the music they had growing up. When the music is that good it truly IS timeless and is for all generations to enjoy.
When I hear this song, I'm living in the 60s. It was a great era all round. I was born in 1961, but remember the music, fashion & episodes on tv of that era. It was a great time to be alive, young & carefree. Those were my happiest memories of all. Who else feels like that?❤❤❤🎉
When my daughter was born this was the first song on the radio when I got in the car to drive home from the hospital. It was also the father daughter dance at her wedding.
This was playing on an 8 track in my wedding night room. 43 years we listened to this song every anniversary. I miss him and I still play it on our anniversary date 🌹
I’m 42 and getting married for the first time on Labor Day, it was one of the first songs to hit me when I fell In love with my soon to be wife. I fully plan to use it in a similar fashion. I am sorry for your loss.
First, I want to add my condolences. I have a lot of memories, which even though they hurt, bring me joy in that I have them. Second, I have to say, I love your profile pic!
If you were in a garage band, you were cool WHEREVER you were. The guy one street over had a band, and when we heard them warming up, we headed straight over to his place. By the time they started playing, the driveway was full of kids. Not too many opportunities in 60's small town Oklahoma to hear live music--rock and roll, anyway. The band styled themselves the "Psychedelic Reaction," lol. RIP John Shafer.
My mother loved this song i remember her blasting this on the big stereo R.i.p. mom every time i hear this song now my eyes start to water thanks for teaching me what good music is
My grandmother loved this song so much she named my dad after it and he loved it so much he passed the name on to me and I love it so much there's gonna be a crimston III. My grandma isn't the best speller lol
The year was 1968. I was 11 years old. My family moved from Seattle to a new home closer to the Boeing Auburn plant. My first 5 years of schooling was spent being taught by nuns at a Catholic school. My new school was a public school where the teacher would play AM radio in the background during study time. This song came on the radio almost every day for weeks. I absolutely fell in love with this song. The whole experience was a radical departure from my time at Catholic school.
iiiii started at Holy Family in 69! The difference for me was Vatican II. We had nuns with guitars singing songs about love and tolerance. U might've been waaayyyyyy older than me (jk🤭) but, I bet I went to mass with u every morning! Keep EnJoYing Tommy James! ✌💙😇
I was blind as a child and didn't know what crimson was.. At 17, I got my sight and saw this beautiful girl and I began crying because I had never known what a girl looked like ... This song was playing when I saw her.. Every time I hear it, she appears in my mind...
That is such an incredible story, I feel like most people never take into account just how much excitement and desire we derive from sight. I NEVER have thought about what its like to not know what a girl or guy looks like and never experiencing that crazy young love. Thanks for sharing! That insight along with this soundtrack just changed my life, im inspired!
You had to LIVE THIS ERA TO TRULY COMPREHEND HOW AWESOME TRUE MUSIC WAS. IT WILL NEVER BE SEEN OR HEARD AGAIN. THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED IT WILL UNDERSTAND
You can experience this music no matter when you were born. The group of morons that happened to be born at this time has voted for the same closed-minded dipshits who bankrupted this country so I am not surprised at all by the general attitude. It won't be too soon for your generation to die off.
I grew up listening to these guys! Never gets old! Now I have stage 4 lung cancer and it’s everywhere but we all live till we die! No regrets, music rules!
Oh the memories I have of this song! I'm 65 now and when I hear this music - I'm living it again, it's just like yesterday. Thank you for this amazing music 💙
I am listening in June 2024. Love this song. It reminds me when I was a kid . Going through the gully with neighborhood kids at least 10 to 15 of us all around the same age. Memories forever the late 1960s to the early 1970. Great life ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
July 1st 2024 and I listen to this regularly and born in 59 so late 60's through the 70's it was just something me and my best friend always put on jukebox when we played foosball and pretty good at it once this song started it just seemed like we couldn't be beat and we won many a tournament and I always let my friend take the trophy if one was given and no when I do play this song I remember him vividly and sad to say he lost his life riding with friends and flew out the back window of a gremlin of all the ways to go that just wasn't right we had just started the 10th grade but this isn't a sad story cause I think of all the things we went through together and I know I wouldn't be who I am today without Scott , peace to you and to all those you hold close !!!
Gareth Collocot thank you, thank you thank you this is the exact point i tried to make to a group of 20smtngs recently these were musicians these were lyricists these were arrangers they never hid behind electronic gadgets, computerized music scores along every imaginable tech machines available now and is being used as an integral part of wat passes today as music so thank you once again for yr observation.
@@jeffreyramsey4538 all musicians hide behind electric gadgets. Including guitarists,. Bassists, keyboardists, and even in this song you hear hear the vocal compression and effects it's ELECTRONIC! You're slow and probably scared of change and evolution. This is the new age. Learn how to evolve instead of being stuck I'm your own ways that were created years and years ago that are no longer relevant lmfao
@@zackdunn5315Really? Stuck in my own time? Wat a stupid assertion to make so then those who are deeply and exclusively into Bach,Hayden,Mozart,Handel, Tellemann etc are also stuck in time? Wat an assinine comment to make its as if History is irrelevant to the present and future, newsflash without the past there is no present without which there is no future and as for yr senseless comments about all musicians hide behind and i am paraphrasing here electronic gadgets thats one load of bull ppl like you feel thar u know everything abt everything wen in fact u know squat the music and musicians of the 70s were purists they wrote composed, played, sang, arranged they HAD SOMETHING CALLED TALENT AND ITS WHY LOTS OF THEM ARE STILL OUT THERE TODAY PERFORMING AND IF U HV ANY DOUBT JUST GO LISTEN TO DAVID GILMOUR'S GUITAR SOLOS ON PINK FLOYD'S ALBUMS OR LIVE PERFORMANCES OR THE GROUP ITSELF OR SHOW ME A SONG IN THE HISTORY OF POP MUSIC THAT HAS BEEN RE RECORDED MORE THAN YESTERDAY BY THE BEATLES SO KEEP YR DAM SARCASM TO YOURSELF
@zackdunn5315…So Zach, you young whippersnapper, you actually believe bands like this one and say The Beatles are irrelevant in 2023?? You have much to learn young grasshopper. Yet learn and grow you will
my friend who passed years ago sang this in our 3rd grade talent show....I asked my mom if she remembers that, she's 80 now and she smiles and says yes..
I grew up in the 80’s with some awesome music, but I so appreciate the 60’s and 70’s for making the 80’s possible!! Joan Jett and the black hearts did an amazing cover of this song in 81!!
I'm 73 and about the only thing that still gives me goose bumps is hearing one of my songs I haven't heard in a while. That opening gets me every time.
Kenny Hooberry yeah the music is shit...this is some fine music. I might be a retired Marine...Kosovo 1999, Iraq 2003-2008, Syria 2008 for 3 months, Afghanistan 2011-2014. I played so many songs of your era..... Much better than this shit out these days. There’s fucknuckle rap singing about twatwaffles and ham..!! I’m currently in Vung Tau, Vietnam. I’ve been all over this country. Every 30 April, there’s more American flags in Saigon than at a veteran day parade in the US...! I will make a video.... Check out the ones I have now....it’s a changed country. I’ve been to 56 countries in my career. I share this music everywhere I go. After being blown up I listened to The Doors-The End.....it’s been my favorite song since 1982. Then it’s this one and a few more. Semper Peace out
Even 51 years after hearing this song, it still moves me and puts me in a space just like hearing it for the first time, every time...This and These Eyes...
I was born in 1959 and my older sister used to listen to a lot of music like this. She had this album so I got to listen to it as well as the other songs on it. Brings back a lot of memories from those days.
My dog Stella gets incredibly emotional when this song plays I have no idea why. She's indifferent to all other music, but this song sends her into the saddest low howl singing along, full on chin quivering and those deep breaths like when you've been crying for hours and your chest hurts. It is absolutely gut wrenching like she's missing someone. I have to turn it off if it comes on. One of my favorites but it clearly hits differently for her.
Sorry, your dog has an emotional breakdown when faced with this song? Lmfao please tell me you're exaggerating. I'm not trying to be mean I just want to know whether this is actual.
Previous life. But man, bad karma coming back as a dog according to the Krishna’s. But I don’t believe that crap. Just the reincarnation crap. Fun fact I had a Stella. Smart, crafty jack Russell
My parents always tuned to classic rock and golden oldies during car rides and I’d beg them to switch to current stations. They told me when I had a car I could play whatever I wanted 😂 Now I’m 40 and my kids get nothing but the best diverse play lists and they love it 💕
I first heard this song from my oldest sister collection. Grew up loving it and yes it brings back slot of memories.. I'm 60 yrs old and I still love listening to it...
I truly fell sorry for the ones that did not were in their teens in the 60s or early 70s. NOTHING can match the music that came out during those years……long live Rock & Roll
One of the greatest theme songs of THE generation that fought for Peace, the Environment, Trees, whales, back to the Earth, less pollution, more love between all of the world's people. Our music and cinema reflected who we were. We opened SO many doors! Now, only one more to open. . .
I remember this song, waiting in my older sister’s 67 Mustang while she was shopping. It was winter of 1968 in Kalamazoo, MI. I turned up the AM radio so loud and when she came back to the car, she said “Cool”.
I'll never forget the day my dad showed me this record. He was teaching me how to play drums at the time. And there were so many different styles of drumming and timing in this song he thought it would be perfect for me. I was 7 years old. Then he taught me neil youngs rockin in the free world. Damm it man I miss my dad.
Memories of days gone by! 💜 I still have my 45 from back then. When our sons were born I played music from my days growing up for them, when they napped and went to sleep at night. They grew up listening to the best music, just as I did. Before our granddaughter was born in 2002, our son made a cassette tape of songs that he grew up listening to that were his favorites. The first one on the tape was Crimson and Clover. She has also listened to the best music throughout her life. One of the great things we've passed down has been our music from days gone by. 💜 Thanks for the memories.
"Crimson and Clover" entered the U.S. charts on December 14, 1968 where it stayed for 16 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 and 15 weeks on Cash Box Top 100. Following a performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show on January 26, it became number one on February 1, 1969, a position held for one week on Cash Box Top 100 and two weeks on both Billboard Hot 100 and Record World 100 Top Pops. Internationally, the song reached number one in Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland. It also charted in Austria, Brazil, France, Holland, Italy, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Despite this, the song did not chart in the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
You could exclude the part about ur generation and trust me; people will actually like your opinion... In all history of music there has always been young folks blasting .... Fuckin' Bach!.. Although; if you feel like it.. say whatever tf u want... It's your 1st amendment... God bless America
I remember the first time i heard this song on my father's jukebox as a child. i immediately fell in love with the song and learned to appreciate this type of music. I am 37 years old trying to pass these classic songs down to my children and keep them alive.
Vandal King this guy was a song writing genius and wrote hit after hit after hit and the Italian mafia took his money for years per contract! It’s good you’re so young and recognize special music. That makes you VERY special. Don’t give up on the search! Kudos to you!
Tommy James and the Shondells was one of my very first eight track tapes purchased when I was eighteen back in 1972. I had just got my first car a 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 and my Mom bought me an eight track tape player as a Graduation gift. I thought it was so cool to be able to listen to the songs you loved when you wanted to without waiting for them to hit the play list on the a.m. radio. These wonderful days will live with me forever. They were beautiful.
What is eight track? What is LP? What is cassette tape? What is VHS? Amazing how fast our technology and understanding of it is changing our lives! Memories are ours. The youth of today don't care or are derived. Who knows. Just saying.
@@tamasklotz5928 Life sure was different back than you didn't have to be suspicious of technology. Today it's hard to trust anything and so much of all we enjoy has a dark side. Your television, computer, and your phone can all be used to harm you or your family. Change is not always good for you.
Im 66 and this was one of so many songs that I loved in the 70s Todays music will never match what we listen to then Songs had a meaning to it and you understood what the song was all about I could listen to the 70s music all day and never get board
I remember when I had my radio show, I played this song and a few people asked me about him and I told them that this artist had so many good hits out there that anybody in any era could enjoy his music and they agreed 100% . They liked the variety of this artist. The remix of his music
Perhaps the best rock single of all time. My lil Sis and I were under ten yrs old when it came out but we wore the 45 out singing along to it, singing directly into a square box fan on the low setting to get the vibrato/tremolo effect at the end. We still laugh about this even now.
There is something magical about this song. It’s like finding an old beloved toy in a flea market. I was playing this song for the girl across my hall in 2018. She ended up marrying me shortly after. She left me, and it’s been awful without her. We had 5 years together, and I need her now.
Only 500,000 views ? This is the Greatest song of all time. Makes me feel sorry for the ones that never watched this . The best of times and music...I just wish I would have went to the Circle star back in the early 80's to see the whole band live..
Uuff que épocas tan bellas fueron y son al escuchar estás Joyas de Melodías ,jamás pasaran de moda se quedaron para siempre , amo esta clase de canciones son de mi juventud y siguen siendo ahora que soy un RUCO ( viejo) pero con estos cantantes vuelvo a sentirme Joven . Saludos a todas las personas onestas de todo el mundo y en especial a los que les gusta lo mejor de lo mejor , 60,70, 80 s , bya bya ,desde AGS, Mex. 25,11,22.
I remember my guitar teacher playing it for me. I learned how to play Yesterday and felt like I had accomplished all I ever would with a guitar. And I was correct. cool story bro
I also remember a music critic mention how heavy the reverb was in this song and they thought it might be a little excessive. And then REM said "Hold my beer" and released the album "Monster".😜🤪😝
My parents played oldies for me when I was younger. Was born in 79 and both my parents were born before the 50s . I pretty much grew up listening to a variety of music but one of my favorite genres are the oldies. My dad and I listened to lot of these songs together.
This was released about 1968 and I was blown away at that time of the technology used on that song for the vocals. Remember it was all anolog studio recordings back then. Today that same sound is easily reproduced by computer. But wow! We came a long way since ‘68 and I’m glad to see it.
Crimson & Clover was in many ways marked the peak where rock, pop, and psychedelia all melded into one big beautiful mass....of course there were others but this remains a personal favorite.
I'm turned 39 yesterday but I really think I should have been born a lot earlier, I would have loved to have grown up with these kind of artists around me.
I have a feeling being born in the 50's or 60's would have been the greatest time to grow up. At least that's the impression I get from those that were.
Classic song, thanks for posting.This received a lot of air time on our local radio stations.My friends and I were 8th/9th grade when this record was released.One of my buddies (God rest his soul) considered this his favorite song.He perfected a way to imitate the refrain toward the end of the song by standing close to a box fan with the speed set to high and singing into the rotating fan blades that were moving rapidly.It sounded exactly like the song.Yeah,we were easily amused growing up. 🙃😀
Born in 1960, this has always been my most favorite song 🎶! I bought a 45 record of it, and played it frequently for years. I almost wore it out! 😮 Hauntingly beautiful.
I'm 71 years now and I have to say this is my favorite song. I was 16 years when this came out. I bought 45 records and still have some of them today. I loved the 60's & 70's music. Brings me back to great times with my friends.
This is when music was music it meant something it showed love and happiness every emotion in this gem of an era! Absolute greatness I was fortunate enough to have a father that showed me all about music from the 50's to the 90's even he showed me everything about life and I miss him every second of every day RIP daddy until we meet again I love you my hero
My big brother loved this song, he use to let me sit in his room and listen with him. He died at 15 year's old. I cry every time I haven't heard this song in awhile. RIP Ray 🙏
Prayers
I’m so sorry for you and your family’s loss. 🙏🙏🙏
Only the good die young , RIP
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@ronaldolaquidara64 thank you for your comment . I'm sorry you had to experience of losing your sister 😔
I'm 73. We had the best music, hair and cars.
...and girls, Yes Sir! 👍👍
And jeans, and romance and food and so and so ❤
I'm going on 69, and these songs bring me back to life!! I'm we with you⁉️❣️😘
I’m a generation younger, and you are right on. I love this music.
@richardspurlock8444 Everything was better and then some. Music and the movies are dead today with Gen Z. The no fun boring generation.
Ich bin 1960 geboren und habe diese Zeit erleben dürfen. Es war einfach nur eine geile Zeit!
Beste Grüße aus Deutschland 👍
I was born in 61 and I totally agree with you 👍
GROETJES UIT BELGIE
That’s what She Said.
Tanks
Drink 1 Cider for me:-)
Jau
This has literally been my favorite song my whole life!!! It’s April 2024 and here I am. 🍀☘️
And I am! 👍🏴
may 2024......immortal song
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Me too my friend, I had a hypnotic episode as a child on a road trip while this song played. I think it was the closest I ever came to nirvana.
Mine to I loved it when I first heard it I was 9 years old I’m now 54 and I’m glad for utube do I can hear it again
I'm 62 and this is still one of my favorites .. that velvet voice! 🤗💕
66 & this is the best!
This verison too!
Same here!🙂👍
Same here but iam 70 lol.but still thinking young!! Lol
Mine too, I'm 65. =)
Kathleen im the same age lady and this music will never die!!
For those of us born in the 50's and grew up in the 60's and 70's we now see how blessed and fortunate we were to have grown up with this INCREDIBLE music. I know there are MANY young people out there that would rather listen to the music we grew up on than the music they had growing up. When the music is that good it truly IS timeless and is for all generations to enjoy.
stem met jou saam.. watte wonderlike voorreg en eer wat ons gehad het...dank Hom Shalom
Yep , and can't forget the rocking 80 's .
I am a millennial and I agree with you 10000%
Absolutely boomer! I’m listening to all type of music, thing is if music good it will last forever
Yes that is for sure
this song is not just music but a piece of art
So is his hair.
Agree!
Totally agree! What has happened to the music industry?
Oh yes it is, I have their album too
Yea, from great artists.
When I hear this song, I'm living in the 60s. It was a great era all round. I was born in 1961, but remember the music, fashion & episodes on tv of that era. It was a great time to be alive, young & carefree. Those were my happiest memories of all. Who else feels like that?❤❤❤🎉
Clover and Crimson was a turning point for us in Denver Colorado. Greetings.
I'm, Aberdeen 💙🏴 !
@@johanna5688 🔷🔶🎸🎤🥁🎸I 'Born . In. 1957. and.
For. me. That. Song. Is. at. Great. Song.🎸🥁🎸🎤🥁🎸🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇺🇸🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🎸🥁🎤🎸🥁🎤🇸🇻🇸🇻
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This song was one of my favorites in it's time.
Also born in 1961, this was my favorite song!!! Now first two grandaughters named Crimson and Clover!
When my daughter was born this was the first song on the radio when I got in the car to drive home from the hospital. It was also the father daughter dance at her wedding.
Paul Mazan that’s beautiful
🥰🥰🥰 That's beautiful that is
That's just a beautiful story
@@thehiddencreator9019 She grew up to be a beautiful woman with a little girl of her own. Thank you
@@paulmazan4909 You're welcome
This was playing on an 8 track in my wedding night room. 43 years we listened to this song every anniversary. I miss him and I still play it on our anniversary date 🌹
Sorry for your loss
Wow, that is so sad& beautiful, at the same time.Sorry for your loss. God bless
I’m 42 and getting married for the first time on Labor Day, it was one of the first songs to hit me when I fell In love with my soon to be wife. I fully plan to use it in a similar fashion. I am sorry for your loss.
First, I want to add my condolences. I have a lot of memories, which even though they hurt, bring me joy in that I have them. Second, I have to say, I love your profile pic!
Un abrazo grande para ti a la distancia 🤗
60's and 70's best music ever. ❤ classics that never grow OLD 🎉
Today 'sMusicians Don't Sing songs like this one
Waaaay old 😂
Yep, my son said Dad your generation knew how to make music. Yes, they did son.
My mom would play her 45 record of this when I was younger and we would dance and sing to it and it was so much fun. I love this song.
LOL My parents also had the 45. Got flooded in the basement and it still plays!
@@jameslippincottI loved playing a game of pool to this song in the pool hall.
Yes totally magical there was so many music shows on in those days look em upp !
My boyfriend and I slow dance in the living room together on Saturday nights. This is one of our favourites.❤ He turns me into mush.💞
Played this in a garage band in the 60's. 6 kids with electric instruments and my set of drums. We were the coolest thing in the whole garage.
If you were in a garage band, you were cool WHEREVER you were.
The guy one street over had a band, and when we heard them warming up, we headed straight over to his place. By the time they started playing, the driveway was full of kids. Not too many opportunities in 60's small town Oklahoma to hear live music--rock and roll, anyway. The band styled themselves the "Psychedelic Reaction," lol. RIP John Shafer.
That is hilarious 😍
lol
@@terrykolvick8370 lololol
Great comment. Bet you were better than you think.
My mother loved this song i remember her blasting this on the big stereo
R.i.p. mom every time i hear this song now my eyes start to water thanks for teaching me what good music is
Wow, I hope my kids say this about me some day.
I'm only 33 yrs old to
My grandmother loved this song so much she named my dad after it and he loved it so much he passed the name on to me and I love it so much there's gonna be a crimston III. My grandma isn't the best speller lol
This comment made me cry
My mama also loved this song & she’s now in heaven with the ultimate ☝🏻 who loves us all.
i am the baby bloomer, now listening... watering the withering flower i am now
Us baby-boomers are a curious bunch to be sure~
As a Boomer I no longer fear the afterlife.
We had the best time.
The best music, movies, and television of any generation.
Rock on.
I grew up in the 60's & I loved this music. I still listen to it when we're outside sitting by a campfire. It always brings back memories ❤❤
You were very lucky. I grew up in the 90s, music was not that bad, but nothing compared to this.
I bet the fire rises higher when you're listening
Nirvana continued the tradition of great 🇺🇸 bands until hole had him murdered
campfire.
? he looks intensely high 😂❤what kind of campfire us that .?
Still enjoy this classic piece of music,the best songs back in the day
The year was 1968. I was 11 years old. My family moved from Seattle to a new home closer to the Boeing Auburn plant. My first 5 years of schooling was spent being taught by nuns at a Catholic school. My new school was a public school where the teacher would play AM radio in the background during study time. This song came on the radio almost every day for weeks. I absolutely fell in love with this song. The whole experience was a radical departure from my time at Catholic school.
1968 - so was I
iiiii started at Holy Family in 69! The difference for me was Vatican II. We had nuns with guitars singing songs about love and tolerance. U might've been waaayyyyyy older than me (jk🤭) but, I bet I went to mass with u every morning! Keep EnJoYing Tommy James! ✌💙😇
1957 was a great year we were born😅 by the way i was born in Longview
Any departure from Catholic school is a good one! I went from K to 8. No science or math! Thanks for nothing!
'68, first boy girl party and dancing slow with my first love..
I’m originally from Niles,MI. My grandpa was good friends with Tommy and would take him skiing. RIP grandpa 1946-2024 💔😭
Wow, small world. Your grandpa had great taste in music. 🙏
Detroit area right here!!! I'm in Belleville MI about 40 miles west of Detroit
Oh as far away as possible from Detroit n the 🌚🗑
I was blind as a child and didn't know what crimson was.. At 17, I got my sight and saw this beautiful girl and I began crying because I had never known what a girl looked like ... This song was playing when I saw her.. Every time I hear it, she appears in my mind...
That is such an incredible story, I feel like most people never take into account just how much excitement and desire we derive from sight. I NEVER have thought about what its like to not know what a girl or guy looks like and never experiencing that crazy young love. Thanks for sharing! That insight along with this soundtrack just changed my life, im inspired!
Beautiful story...thank-you for sharing that.
Omg 🤗🤗
classickruzer 1,What an Incredible story! Blessings to you from Philadelphia, Pa. 2020
Beautiful story....Thanks for sharing
You had to LIVE THIS ERA TO TRULY COMPREHEND HOW AWESOME TRUE MUSIC WAS. IT WILL NEVER BE SEEN OR HEARD AGAIN. THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED IT WILL UNDERSTAND
Is anyone listening?
Yes just seen Tommy at golden nugget Las Vegas great music still he's 75 I think
You can experience this music no matter when you were born. The group of morons that happened to be born at this time has voted for the same closed-minded dipshits who bankrupted this country so I am not surprised at all by the general attitude. It won't be too soon for your generation to die off.
When I was a very lil girl I had my granddad put this on his juke box...
Siaya7-No need to shout.
My dad was named after this song his name is crimston due to a typo and I'm crimston Jr. 2 generations of typos and 3 generations of tommy james fans
Lol, wonderful
😂
Crimston and Jr
Over and over
SO KOOL👍🏻👍🏻
I grew up listening to these guys! Never gets old! Now I have stage 4 lung cancer and it’s everywhere but we all live till we die! No regrets, music rules!
I am praying for you! You never know what miracles God can bestow
Listen to Spirit in the sky, Greenbaum , moving if u like music.
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With you with cancer I'm blessing you now and to recover and keep on with your musicals
Get ivermectin into you
God bless❤
Beautiful song❤
I'm in my 70's now but gosh I sure loved this song back in my younger days. And I still enjoy hearing it now. UA-cam is so great a music time machine.
Oh the memories I have of this song! I'm 65 now and when I hear this music - I'm living it again, it's just like yesterday. Thank you for this amazing music 💙
Hi gorgeous how are you doing today??
Oh yes, this song, matchstick men and others. I'm 66. we used to listen to this on the radio (radio was big in the 60's). Be good, be safe.
Same age here and this is still one of my favorites. Amazing how the songs can take you back and feel the emotions of the time then.
Me too!!
Sí que está hermosa. Yo nunca había escuchado este tema, pero me acaba de conquistar. Qué belleza de música. Y con ese intérprete.
I'm 71 now I simply love this music ❤❤❤❤
I would only dance with one boy at our school dance every Friday night 😅
Hell I'm 26 and love it. Our music isn't like this unfortunately
Great music never dies ❤
Concuerdo contigo , también tengo 26 años y me encanta la música de antes era excelente en todo el sentido. Saludos desde Ecuador✨️
We don't search for old songs...
we search for old memories
Truth
so true--- not looking for-remakes-
but Joan was great
@@nancycordero8566 put another dime in the jukebox.
As we baby boomers get older the memories now evoke a melancholy, because they are in stark contrast to the memories we make today.
I am listening in June 2024. Love this song. It reminds me when I was a kid . Going through the gully with neighborhood kids at least 10 to 15 of us all around the same age. Memories forever the late 1960s to the early 1970. Great life ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is the best psychedelic rock masterpiece ever! 👍🏴
Same here. I was probably about 14 when I first heard this song.
Me Too,…I’m 70yrs old !!,…STILL enjoying this song!!
Zombie James 🥩
July 1st 2024 and I listen to this regularly and born in 59 so late 60's through the 70's it was just something me and my best friend always put on jukebox when we played foosball and pretty good at it once this song started it just seemed like we couldn't be beat and we won many a tournament and I always let my friend take the trophy if one was given and no when I do play this song I remember him vividly and sad to say he lost his life riding with friends and flew out the back window of a gremlin of all the ways to go that just wasn't right we had just started the 10th grade but this isn't a sad story cause I think of all the things we went through together and I know I wouldn't be who I am today without Scott , peace to you and to all those you hold close !!!
Good @@msmbar
Absolutely beautiful, when musicians were actually musicians.....
Gareth Collocot thank you, thank you thank you this is the exact point i tried to make to a group of 20smtngs recently these were musicians these were lyricists these were arrangers they never hid behind electronic gadgets, computerized music scores along every imaginable tech machines available now and is being used as an integral part of wat passes today as music so thank you once again for yr observation.
@@jeffreyramsey4538 all musicians hide behind electric gadgets. Including guitarists,. Bassists, keyboardists, and even in this song you hear hear the vocal compression and effects it's ELECTRONIC! You're slow and probably scared of change and evolution. This is the new age. Learn how to evolve instead of being stuck I'm your own ways that were created years and years ago that are no longer relevant lmfao
@@zackdunn5315Really? Stuck in my own time? Wat a stupid assertion to make so then those who are deeply and exclusively into Bach,Hayden,Mozart,Handel, Tellemann etc are also stuck in time? Wat an assinine comment to make its as if History is irrelevant to the present and future, newsflash without the past there is no present without which there is no future and as for yr senseless comments about all musicians hide behind and i am paraphrasing here electronic gadgets thats one load of bull ppl like you feel thar u know everything abt everything wen in fact u know squat the music and musicians of the 70s were purists they wrote composed, played, sang, arranged they HAD SOMETHING CALLED TALENT AND ITS WHY LOTS OF THEM ARE STILL OUT THERE TODAY PERFORMING AND IF U HV ANY DOUBT JUST GO LISTEN TO DAVID GILMOUR'S GUITAR SOLOS ON PINK FLOYD'S ALBUMS OR LIVE PERFORMANCES OR THE GROUP ITSELF OR SHOW ME A SONG IN THE HISTORY OF POP MUSIC THAT HAS BEEN RE RECORDED MORE THAN YESTERDAY BY THE BEATLES SO KEEP YR DAM SARCASM TO YOURSELF
@zackdunn5315…So Zach, you young whippersnapper, you actually believe bands like this one and say The Beatles are irrelevant in 2023?? You have much to learn young grasshopper. Yet learn and grow you will
Ya u got that right 👍
my friend who passed years ago sang this in our 3rd grade talent show....I asked my mom if she remembers that, she's 80 now and she smiles and says yes..
So sorry for your friend!! 💙🏴
Love this song.❤Memories.❤
Tommy James… What a diverse, talented and amazing part of our lives. Thank you my friend.
I was 2 feet away from them playing this song at a Humphrey rally at the Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburgh. Awesome!
I grew up in the 80’s with some awesome music, but I so appreciate the 60’s and 70’s for making the 80’s possible!! Joan Jett and the black hearts did an amazing cover of this song in 81!!
Ya cool
This song is a masterpiece like most songs of the era.
I'm 73 and about the only thing that still gives me goose bumps is hearing one of my songs I haven't heard in a while. That opening gets me every time.
this guy.. was WAAAAAY ahead of his time.. what a genius..
Yes 🙌🏻
I am a 70 year old Vietnam combat vet and can’t believe we went from the best music ever to the shit they put out today ☮️ 🇺🇸
I for one salute you Sir. For Your fine bravery. Serving your country.
All soldiers. Foreign and domestic.
We love and appreciate you.🇱🇷
_can’t believe we went from the best music ever to the shit they put out today_
The 'good' music era ended around the mid 80s.
Most of the music since then is terrible.
Sad. Very sad.
Kenny Hooberry yeah the music is shit...this is some fine music. I might be a retired Marine...Kosovo 1999, Iraq 2003-2008, Syria 2008 for 3 months, Afghanistan 2011-2014.
I played so many songs of your era.....
Much better than this shit out these days.
There’s fucknuckle rap singing about twatwaffles and ham..!!
I’m currently in Vung Tau, Vietnam. I’ve been all over this country.
Every 30 April, there’s more American flags in Saigon than at a veteran day parade in the US...!
I will make a video....
Check out the ones I have now....it’s a changed country.
I’ve been to 56 countries in my career. I share this music everywhere I go.
After being blown up I listened to The Doors-The End.....it’s been my favorite song since 1982. Then it’s this one and a few more.
Semper
Peace out
So how does it feel to sound like your own grandfather,Lmao and thanks for your service.Soldier ask not where to war your banner goes.
Saw them in 1969 at the Atlanta speedway. At 74 years old., This is still one of my favorites.
damn ur old
james w. ponder Awesome! I’m in Georgia too.
Well I am 59 and this to me 1 for the Top songs of all times
Love ur mucik beter than todays crap
Tommy James is a true musical legend. Had so many great songs with The Shondells and later as a solo artist.
Nossa tenho 67 anos e desde jovem nunca deixei de ouvir essa música, inclusive está no meu pendrive.
Even 51 years after hearing this song, it still moves me and puts me in a space just like hearing it for the first time, every time...This and These Eyes...
@@tlgtlg3803 LOL a fucking Limp Pencil Dick Troll...
Yep takes me back when times were the best
It's just magnificent. ☺
The vibrato effect at (2:29) is what always gets me.
@@rokyericksonroks Same here,yes.Great music all gone a real shame now only crap.
I was born in 1959 and my older sister used to listen to a lot of music like this. She had this album so I got to listen to it as well as the other songs on it. Brings back a lot of memories from those days.
Not fair. ☹️
My dog Stella gets incredibly emotional when this song plays I have no idea why. She's indifferent to all other music, but this song sends her into the saddest low howl singing along, full on chin quivering and those deep breaths like when you've been crying for hours and your chest hurts. It is absolutely gut wrenching like she's missing someone. I have to turn it off if it comes on. One of my favorites but it clearly hits differently for her.
Sorry, your dog has an emotional breakdown when faced with this song? Lmfao please tell me you're exaggerating. I'm not trying to be mean I just want to know whether this is actual.
KATIE was a mute and me her support worker.....she loved my INDIAN SONG
Previous life. But man, bad karma coming back as a dog according to the Krishna’s. But I don’t believe that crap. Just the reincarnation crap. Fun fact I had a Stella. Smart, crafty jack Russell
'even the dogs feed of the crumbs of there master'
Have you tried rubbing her belly? that sometimes works for me.
My parents always tuned to classic rock and golden oldies during car rides and I’d beg them to switch to current stations. They told me when I had a car I could play whatever I wanted 😂
Now I’m 40 and my kids get nothing but the best diverse play lists and they love it 💕
I first heard this song from my oldest sister collection.
Grew up loving it and yes it brings back slot of memories..
I'm 60 yrs old and I still love listening to it...
This song is as unique and bizarr as no other song I have ever heard (and there are myriads of songs). It is a timeless masterpiece.
I truly fell sorry for the ones that did not were in their teens in the 60s or early 70s. NOTHING can match the music that came out during those years……long live Rock & Roll
Yeah huh! Nostalgia used to be better back then. It sucks now...
We had the best, right?
They don’t make memories like they used to?
Yeah, Brother. 💪 Right on!
Such a boomer comment lmao
Still a great sound in 2024, we from the "older generation" were brought up with the greatest sounds, gotta go now I'm "draggin the line"
iMAGINE if the young ones today could make music like this
One of the greatest theme songs of THE generation that fought for Peace, the Environment, Trees, whales, back to the Earth, less pollution, more love between all of the world's people. Our music and cinema reflected who we were.
We opened SO many doors! Now, only one more to open. . .
I'm 69 now...I close my eyes & I am right back...
hello, how are you doing it is nice meeting you here.
Take me back! 🏴
me too i am 70
67 here
I am a huge rocker and metalhead( born in 64) but still love this music, follow in my momma's footsteps loving all music. Rest her soul.
I was born in 58 everything was beautiful back then would give anything to go back 🙏❤️
Same. I used to roller skate to this song. I was so happy …….
i was born in 57 this song takes back to a much better time
Yes, this i can call music. I was also born in 1957. It was the real life, not just survival like today.
Same! I was born in 56 and really miss living not surviving
@@debi234 yes debi we were living and loving it oh what a time it was
I remember this song, waiting in my older sister’s 67 Mustang while she was shopping. It was winter of 1968 in Kalamazoo, MI. I turned up the AM radio so loud and when she came back to the car, she said “Cool”.
81 y/o and still loving this music
41 y/o and needed to hear it today. Good music....stands the test of time. Have a great day.
My mom just passed at 80 , Oh how I remember this song on the radio at 5, I miss this era .
Mom❤@@dollface6845
34 years old and missed all the good music 😢
Good music and good taste will never be out of style - no matter how old you are! Have a good time and greetinngs from Switzerland!
I'll never forget the day my dad showed me this record. He was teaching me how to play drums at the time. And there were so many different styles of drumming and timing in this song he thought it would be perfect for me. I was 7 years old. Then he taught me neil youngs rockin in the free world. Damm it man I miss my dad.
Times when music was from the heart so many of them ,we were lucky to have this kind of music
Exactly right
Memories of days gone by! 💜 I still have my 45 from back then. When our sons were born I played music from my days growing up for them, when they napped and went to sleep at night. They grew up listening to the best music, just as I did. Before our granddaughter was born in 2002, our son made a cassette tape of songs that he grew up listening to that were his favorites. The first one on the tape was Crimson and Clover. She has also listened to the best music throughout her life. One of the great things we've passed down has been our music from days gone by. 💜 Thanks for the memories.
"Crimson and Clover" entered the U.S. charts on December 14, 1968 where it stayed for 16 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 and 15 weeks on Cash Box Top 100. Following a performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show on January 26, it became number one on February 1, 1969, a position held for one week on Cash Box Top 100 and two weeks on both Billboard Hot 100 and Record World 100 Top Pops. Internationally, the song reached number one in Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland. It also charted in Austria, Brazil, France, Holland, Italy, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Despite this, the song did not chart in the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia
What is wrong with you Brits ? This song didn’t chart in the UK. 🫢
Wow,you can copy and paste
@@notnek202 I was a bit young,but yeah my fellow Brit's what the heck..
@@gscott2299 if it’s so easy why didn’t you do it?
I am from a younger generation, but WOW !! What a heavenly CLASSIC !!
You could exclude the part about ur generation and trust me; people will actually like your opinion...
In all history of music there has always been young folks blasting .... Fuckin' Bach!..
Although; if you feel like it.. say whatever tf u want... It's your 1st amendment... God bless America
I remember the first time i heard this song on my father's jukebox as a child. i immediately fell in love with the song and learned to appreciate this type of music. I am 37 years old trying to pass these classic songs down to my children and keep them alive.
J avais 15 ans premier flirt sérieux j adore cette chanson j'ai 70ans ❤❤❤que de souvenirs boums .........
I am 16 years old and I mostly like 60's and 70s music. This modern music really can't get close in any way to these oldies and goldies.
You have excellent taste in music!
@@debbygordon1432 thanks😁
Vandal King this guy was a song writing genius and wrote hit after hit after hit and the Italian mafia took his money for years per contract! It’s good you’re so young and recognize special music. That makes you VERY special. Don’t give up on the search! Kudos to you!
@@tabbysmithfield3794 thank you! If I am not wrong, he wrote "Mony Mony", The song Billy Idol covered.
Vandal King you are correct.
Tommy James and the Shondells was one of my very first eight track tapes purchased when I was eighteen back in 1972. I had just got my first car a 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 and my Mom bought me an eight track tape player as a Graduation gift. I thought it was so cool to be able to listen to the songs you loved when you wanted to without waiting for them to hit the play list on the a.m. radio. These wonderful days will live with me forever. They were beautiful.
What is eight track? What is LP? What is cassette tape? What is VHS? Amazing how fast our technology and understanding of it is changing our lives! Memories are ours. The youth of today don't care or are derived. Who knows. Just saying.
@@tamasklotz5928 Life sure was different back than you didn't have to be suspicious of technology. Today it's hard to trust anything and so much of all we enjoy has a dark side. Your television, computer, and your phone can all be used to harm you or your family. Change is not always good for you.
@@JoannaPriddy I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. How can a device designed to make music sound better destroy it's soul?
@@JoannaPriddy I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. How can a device designed to make music sound better destroy it's soul?
Im 66 and this was one of so many songs that I loved in the 70s Todays music will never match what we listen to then Songs had a meaning to it and you understood what the song was all about I could listen to the 70s music all day and never get board
My favorite song when I was 8 yrs old. Still one of my favorites today.
I remember when I had my radio show, I played this song and a few people asked me about him and I told them that this artist had so many good hits out there that anybody in any era could enjoy his music and they agreed 100% . They liked the variety of this artist. The remix of his music
Perhaps the best rock single of all time. My lil Sis and I were under ten yrs old when it came out but we wore the 45 out singing along to it, singing directly into a square box fan on the low setting to get the vibrato/tremolo effect at the end. We still laugh about this even now.
🤣⚰️
My parents would listen to Tommy James when I was growing up. Love their songs and brings back so many childhood memories ❤😢
Same here. Mom played this and Crystal Blue Persuasion all the time. Thank you mom.
I'm so glad this era of music is preserved, especially having video's like this to go with them! Love it!
*Música imortalizada, pois é da década de 60',simplesmente incrível!!!* 😊
My mom loved all these songs ❤️ RIP mom , I love you forever
A defining song of my childhood, now 73. Thank you for this beauty.
Awesome! I am here for Tommy James 2023
Tommy James was a hit machine. Such a prolific, influential musician
Him and Richie Cordell
Was absolutely blown away by this song and the guitar and distortion sound. One of my favorites!
One of my all time favorites! Thank u for the memories
There is something magical about this song. It’s like finding an old beloved toy in a flea market. I was playing this song for the girl across my hall in 2018. She ended up marrying me shortly after. She left me, and it’s been awful without her. We had 5 years together, and I need her now.
I know the feeling of lost and like harry style said you know it's not the same as it was
@@astrickland3120Thanks, and you are spot on. I just discovered that Harry Style song 4 days ago. I broke down, listening to it.
Only 500,000 views ? This is the Greatest song of all time. Makes me feel sorry for the ones that never watched this . The best of times and music...I just wish I would have went to the Circle star back in the early 80's to see the whole band live..
5.4 million views as of today.
It was March 1968. I heard this song when I left school on the radio. Unforgettable!!! Wonderful!!!
20 years before mtv. Imagine that
Remember I was still in school,1968 and enjoyed this truly classic piece of music
A great song from 1968. I turned 13 yrs old that year. The girls were crazy about this song. Thanks Tommy. 2:42
Uuff que épocas tan bellas fueron y son al escuchar estás Joyas de Melodías ,jamás pasaran de moda se quedaron para siempre , amo esta clase de canciones son de mi juventud y siguen siendo ahora que soy un RUCO ( viejo) pero con estos cantantes vuelvo a sentirme Joven . Saludos a todas las personas onestas de todo el mundo y en especial a los que les gusta lo mejor de lo mejor , 60,70, 80 s , bya bya ,desde AGS, Mex. 25,11,22.
could listen to this "over and over"
I see what you did there. 😊
fourleafcajun sweet so sweet love this song
And we have...and will. Classics live on
fourleafcajun Forever over and over !
!
Does anyone else remember singing this into a fan?
yes im 66
HAHA yes
@@johnneywalker261469...Yes!
I remember my guitar teacher playing it for me. I learned how to play Yesterday and felt like I had accomplished all I ever would with a guitar.
And I was correct.
cool story bro
I also remember a music critic mention how heavy the reverb was in this song and they thought it might be a little excessive. And then REM said "Hold my beer" and released the album "Monster".😜🤪😝
My parents played oldies for me when I was younger. Was born in 79 and both my parents were born before the 50s . I pretty much grew up listening to a variety of music but one of my favorite genres are the oldies. My dad and I listened to lot of these songs together.
Me also.
Best years of my teen life & greatest music late 60"s & 70's.
Mine too 😆
Yes, thank God I was born in the 50's
❤✌
D Gruber 65-75 the very best
I second that!
@@dickjohnson1158 agree. I'm 65 now & still love the old music & some of the 80's
U all do know I know u know how very blessed we all r for this great music sorry shake in my 66 yrs of age❤
Yes, indeed! We've lived a Blessed Music life. amazing......others' loss, our
experience!
This was released about 1968 and I was blown away at that time of the technology used on that song for the vocals. Remember it was all anolog studio recordings back then.
Today that same sound is easily reproduced
by computer. But wow! We came a long way since ‘68 and I’m glad to see it.
Crimson & Clover was in many ways marked the peak where rock, pop, and psychedelia all melded into one big beautiful mass....of course there were others but this remains a personal favorite.
I'm turned 39 yesterday but I really think I should have been born a lot earlier, I would have loved to have grown up with these kind of artists around me.
would you rizz up baby gronk and kai cenat with your rizz from ohio?
I have a feeling being born in the 50's or 60's would have been the greatest time to grow up. At least that's the impression I get from those that were.
Sorry you missed it! It was great❤
@@fifty6648it was fantastic!
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Classic song, thanks for posting.This received a lot of air time on our local radio stations.My friends and I were 8th/9th grade when this record was released.One of my buddies (God rest his soul) considered this his favorite song.He perfected a way to imitate the refrain toward the end of the song by standing close to a box fan with the speed set to high and singing into the rotating fan blades that were moving rapidly.It sounded exactly like the song.Yeah,we were easily amused growing up. 🙃😀
So underrated. Love the song and love the groovy clothes and hair of this time. Tommy James is legend
Época que tínhamos música de verdade.
14 Jahre alt und total verliebt❤❤❤die erste Liebe nach 4 Jahren tödlich verunglückt ich liebe ihn heute noch, Heinz mein Schatz ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So sorry for your loss! 👍💙🏴
Why are these guys NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Born in 1960, this has always been my most favorite song 🎶! I bought a 45 record of it, and played it frequently for years. I almost wore it out! 😮 Hauntingly beautiful.
I'm 71 years now and I have to say this is my favorite song. I was 16 years when this came out. I bought 45 records and still have some of them today. I loved the 60's & 70's music. Brings me back to great times with my friends.
I can still smell the vinyl record playing on my little record player so many years ago. Love this song
One thing good about this generation is the replay button.
Absolutely over and over.
Tip the flape! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is when music was music it meant something it showed love and happiness every emotion in this gem of an era! Absolute greatness I was fortunate enough to have a father that showed me all about music from the 50's to the 90's even he showed me everything about life and I miss him every second of every day RIP daddy until we meet again I love you my hero
What a nice tribute to Dad. You're a good man, Danny.
✅
Im here because of a bit in family guy
Heard this song when I was in highschool loved it also very happy that you got your eye sight back ✌️
I remember this when I was a kid, hearing this on the Wolfman Jack KXLA midnight show. That memory makes life easier today.
This song brings back such a sweet, innocent time of my life. My first love.