@@MrAbletospeak Pardon me. I was a teen when they were popular. Their music was called "Blue-eyed Soul" on the radio in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as by Black kids in my high school. It was a big deal. White guys doing runs when they sang to a two-four beat. Emoting, even. Soul.
Unchained melody, soul and inspiration, you've lost that loving feeling. I'm 64 and love the reactions of the young people. No auto tune just talent!!!!
43 here. Found them because of my dad, who absolutely loved them. As much as I wanted to push back against my dad's "lame" music, you just cant do it with these guys. God, I love them both so much. Bill is the man but Bobby was so damn special.
Well, this is, as we would say, paraphrasing the original. The original song comes from an OPERA, not a musical or a blues show. The song was a lullaby of a mother to a baby doomed by fate to be orphaned.
Great reaction 😊 I was 15 back then… We had great music, and we got live performances even if they were on TV …they were recorded while they were performing
Honestly, I have heard many covers of this song and this is the first time ever I heard Bobby singing it. My God, I did not anticipate this at all. This is many levels above the rest of humanity. He did not kill it, he owns it eternally.
I heard this for the first time about a month ago and asked my husband "How did I get to today-years old without having heard this!?!" Sent it to a friend who played it for her DJ husband and he flipped when she told him it was Bobby!
Bobby Hatfield just sang the living daylights our of George Gershwin's compostion of Summertime from the play Porgy and Bess. How does this even happen? Bobby is the most soulful man ever!
Summertime has always been one of my favorites, and two different covers of it were the ONLY versions for me, until I heard this one a few decades ago. I thought I knew all of The Righteous Brothers' catalog but somehow missed it. I still knew the song though and didn't think much about it til I played Bobby's version. I was SHOCKED. Good lord. This man's voice.... 🤯😳🤩
your reaction was so cute--I loved it. Love it when first timers hear Bobby Hatfield, or even the Righteous Brothers together. Always a surprise when a great note is hit, and I think to myself, he has only gotten started lol
Right? I said in a comment on another song that Righteous Brothers reaction videos has been my dopemine fix lately. You see their reaction early on the song, how shook they are, and you are like, "Just wait, my new friend, you about to see."
This Righteous Brothers was so awesome. His voice was incredible! I was in high school when they came out in 1964. I still have their vinyl record albums in my collection. I still plsy their greatest hits CD in my car. RIP Bobby 💖 🙏
Omg thank you for explaining this. I’ve heard it but didn’t realize that was Bill Medley. I wondered what song they were talking about at the end of this clip.
I’m having such a good time watching you react to the music of my time. I’m 68, and you are so much younger and yet, we both love great soulful music. Keep expanding your music taste
😅 I’m 74. Back in the days I only could listen in radio and my favourites allways were … black soul singers… including the Righteous Brothers … ! now I’m retired and plenty of time in UA-cam made me discover all my favourite alive and my reaction were similar to yours 😅. Glad to see your enthusiastic reaction ❤ Jump to Bill’s hot I wanna make love to you and understand why they where called blue eyed soul. They never deceive. Good work !
It's a record but not a video but I agree, you'll want to hear Bill Medley's blues solo of "I Want To Make Love To You" (You'll hear Bobby comes in during the chorus). It's on🔥. Also you should hear the record solo of Bobby singing "Ebb Tide". It's a ballad but his incredible voice makes you feel the emotion in the song like you are being swept in and out with the tide. Another old b/w louder finale video from Shindig TV show I like is both of the Righteous Brothers singing "Bring It On Home To Me"
Hey, Tayy geebrewer8186 is SO RIGHT! You're here now...and so are some/lots of these performances. We are so blessed to have UA-cam and other platforms...where we can access this history.
Your reaction is sooooo precious! I especially enjoy the reaction of young black men whose stunned look on their faces in total disbelief of what they have just heard is simply delicious to see, I can't help but smile at how much you appreciate genuinely good music that defies the passage of time by pleasing different generations from Boomers to Zoomers!
Like fella's who are close to one another as family or friends they rag on each other without mercy, but it is in fun and love. Try: You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Soul and Inspiration, Unchained Melody (on the Andy Williams TV show '65), and a '70s Rock and Roll Heaven, with lesser hits like; Little Latin Lupe Lu, Ebb Tide, Just Once in My Life not to mention lots of covers and one I love best is an Etta James song. They are Blue Eyed Soul personified so please enjoy.
I never get tired of listening to Bobby Hatfield singing that song and Unchained Melody you have to hear that too unless you've already played it. The tall guy Bill Medley was not his real brother but Brothers in a sense very good friends. Bill had that deep voice and Bobby had that Alto guess that's what you call it he died very young and he's 60s in 2007 rest in peace Bobby. So I was young when they were singing of course they were young too I'm 89 years old I know you'll think oh wow good reaction thanks.
Listen them sing I Just Want To Make Love To You and Nightime Is The Right Time with the Blossoms on Shindig. The Brothers were regulars on Shindig, a weekly show for teens. You can find a lot of their Shindig apperances on UA-cam.
This was a great reaction. I hope by now you have also listened to Unchained Melody and You've Lost That Loving Feeling. And another very popular song of theirs was Soul and Inspiration. They aren't really brothers but they sure were the perfect duo
Music of the fifties (Sarah Vaughn, Ella's Fitzgerald - the Big Bands (Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, et a l) alòng came the sìxties and great singers like Percy Sledge , the phenomenal Righteous Bros. ,the super talented Eric Clampton Gladys Knight and the Pips, Motown., . . . too many to name, but they were the Golden Decades of music.
Here is the link for Bill's solo " Ol' Man River" ua-cam.com/video/aJtEViPMfy8/v-deo.htmlsi=EkLO5QEHP2H8g-lf Here is another song from this show "My Babe" ua-cam.com/video/ONJCstJCqeM/v-deo.htmlsi=lY5wy3-AAwwOD96s
Add some depth to your life, go find the play Porgy and Bess. It will probably be in black and white, but give it a shot and it will add more color and soul to your life. It’s amazing.
The Righteous Brothers grew up in Orange County California when it was all .white. But they both loved R and B and listened to that on the radio all the time and loved singing R and B. When they were 21 or 22 they were performing in a club. Some black Marines from Camp Pendleton heard there was R and B at the club and started coming to hear them. A couple of those black Marines started saying "Hi, my righteous brother" when they saw them.The Righteous Brothers were really proud of that so - when they needed a name for their act - that's what they chose. After they cut a record and went to DJ's to promote it, the white DJ's wouldn't play it cuz it was R and B black music. The black DJ's would quit playing it as soon as they saw them and found out they were white. But eventually the black DJ's played their music anyway, andintroduced them as the "blue-eyed brothers". Then the white DJ's followed and started playing them too. They opened the door for so many musicians who followed.
Why is it that this mother to soon-to-be-orphaned baby lullaby is turned into an adult love song (if not worse), will always be a mystery to me. Porgy and Bess was an opera. Gershwin wanted it to be an opera. Here is the original soprano recording it a little time before the composer's untimely demise. ua-cam.com/video/zAsWSFF_55o/v-deo.htmlsi=cWNUP9yBES2QRnc-
Here's the link to the next song - ua-cam.com/video/aJtEViPMfy8/v-deo.html. It's not as exciting Booby Hatfield's "Summertime," but well sung nonetheless.
Tell the truth, everyone. If you did not know Bobby was white and were hearing this solo by him for the very first time with your eyes closed, what would be your thoughts about how he looks? Not meaning to be stirring up anything negative or controversial here, but I am just wanting to be real.
Take many bows Bobby Hatfield. There will never be another you and would wager you are soaring in the heavens..Rip Bobby.
This is why their music was called "Blue Eyed Soul."
@@MrAbletospeak Pardon me. I was a teen when they were popular. Their music was called "Blue-eyed Soul" on the radio in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as by Black kids in my high school. It was a big deal. White guys doing runs when they sang to a two-four beat. Emoting, even. Soul.
No autotune. No mechanical enhancements. Just pure talent.
Still bringing smiles and applause too.
Unchained melody, soul and inspiration, you've lost that loving feeling. I'm 64 and love the reactions of the young people. No auto tune just talent!!!!
43 here. Found them because of my dad, who absolutely loved them. As much as I wanted to push back against my dad's "lame" music, you just cant do it with these guys. God, I love them both so much. Bill is the man but Bobby was so damn special.
Bobby Hatfield was a genius.
Glad you f people are still discovering him!
@@finallythere100 curious what " you f people " means.
Don't ask 😊@@looneygardener
bobby invented quite a few new notes in this song
That’s a FACT!!!!! 👌
Well, this is, as we would say, paraphrasing the original. The original song comes from an OPERA, not a musical or a blues show. The song was a lullaby of a mother to a baby doomed by fate to be orphaned.
Blue eyed SOUL, right there.
Dang..Bobby was channeling some serious soul there!
My God - had no idea Bobby could sing (and groove) like this!!! PHEW❤
Great reaction 😊
I was 15 back then… We had great music, and we got live performances
even if they were on TV
…they were recorded while they were performing
Bobby Hatfield what a legend. An incredible voice, one of a kind. Words don’t do him justice x
Yep...you are so right.
Bobby is awesome. Not only was he one of the best singers, but he felt the music. His body was always moving as if the music was flowing through him.
The music was flowing through him -- he was channelling.
Soar and sing with the angels Bobby!!!!❤❤❤
Honestly, I have heard many covers of this song and this is the first time ever I heard Bobby singing it. My God, I did not anticipate this at all. This is many levels above the rest of humanity. He did not kill it, he owns it eternally.
73 and First time for me too !
Wow!
I've never heard this from Bobbie, either.
I'm totally blown away.
I heard this for the first time about a month ago and asked my husband "How did I get to today-years old without having heard this!?!" Sent it to a friend who played it for her DJ husband and he flipped when she told him it was Bobby!
This the kind a talent I grew up listening to! Those were the DAYS!
I always loved the Righteous brothers from back in the day. This song brings back so many memories. Great reaction!
This is the best reaction to this performance.
Blue eyed soul.
I’m 70, still think these guys were great! No enhancements, just talent!
Bobby Hatfield just sang the living daylights our of George Gershwin's compostion of Summertime from the play Porgy and Bess. How does this even happen? Bobby is the most soulful man ever!
Bill was referencing Bobby's designation as 'the cute one'. His nick-name was 'the blond bomber'😊
You should listen to Unchained melody and You've lost that loving feeling! ❤These two are called The Righteous Brothers btw!
THIS ' Singing ' is the INTENSITY l've been looking for !!!
PURE PASSION.
RAW & REFINED,
Man got soul
Absolutely anderwneale, what a blessed individual Bobby was with such a god given voice. You can hear his range, off the charts in this classic.
Summertime has always been one of my favorites, and two different covers of it were the ONLY versions for me, until I heard this one a few decades ago. I thought I knew all of The Righteous Brothers' catalog but somehow missed it. I still knew the song though and didn't think much about it til I played Bobby's version. I was SHOCKED. Good lord. This man's voice.... 🤯😳🤩
Bobby put a hurting on that song. Amazing.
Bobby Hatfield’s voice is unbelievable but you have got to listen to him sing Unchained Melody.
BLUE EYED SOUL. THAT WAS THE RIGHTEOUS.
Bobby Hatfield was my favorite that boy could sing one of the most amazing voices I ever heard ,check out White Cliffs of Dover
This was followed up by bill medley singing Old Man River
Thank you! That was going to weigh on me until I figured it out. I’ve heard it on records my parents listened to but didn’t realize who was singing.
Billy and Bobby The Greatest!!
I love your reaction bro
😎 *This is what COOL looked like in the 60's* 😎 I really miss the days when men used to sing to women, & not at them.....💗
Loved your Reaction 😊
He sang it 🔥🔥🔥
They are both great singers❤
your reaction was so cute--I loved it. Love it when first timers hear Bobby Hatfield, or even the Righteous Brothers together. Always a surprise when a great note is hit, and I think to myself, he has only gotten started lol
Right? I said in a comment on another song that Righteous Brothers reaction videos has been my dopemine fix lately. You see their reaction early on the song, how shook they are, and you are like, "Just wait, my new friend, you about to see."
Bobby had no competition as a siñgeŕ or all around eñteŕtàiñer. And he happened to be adorable, so we lovèðhim.
This Righteous Brothers was so awesome. His voice was incredible! I was in high school when they came out in 1964. I still have their vinyl record albums in my collection. I still plsy their greatest hits CD in my car. RIP Bobby 💖 🙏
If you want to see Bill sing after this. Just search for 'Bill medley-Ol man river 1965'
Yes ! it's awesome
Omg thank you for explaining this. I’ve heard it but didn’t realize that was Bill Medley. I wondered what song they were talking about at the end of this clip.
I’m having such a good time watching you react to the music of my time. I’m 68, and you are so much younger and yet, we both love great soulful music. Keep expanding your music taste
😅 I’m 74. Back in the days I only could listen in radio and my favourites allways were … black soul singers… including the Righteous Brothers … ! now I’m retired and plenty of time in UA-cam made me discover all my favourite alive and my reaction were similar to yours 😅. Glad to see your enthusiastic reaction ❤ Jump to Bill’s hot I wanna make love to you and understand why they where called blue eyed soul. They never deceive. Good work !
It's a record but not a video but I agree, you'll want to hear Bill Medley's blues solo of "I Want To Make Love To You" (You'll hear Bobby comes in during the chorus). It's on🔥. Also you should hear the record solo of Bobby singing "Ebb Tide". It's a ballad but his incredible voice makes you feel the emotion in the song like you are being swept in and out with the tide. Another old b/w louder finale video from Shindig TV show I like is both of the Righteous Brothers singing "Bring It On Home To Me"
Thumbs up to you teresa...you are RIGHT!
I, unfortunately, wasn't even born yet, but the quality of these two guys was unmistakable!! Oh, to have been born in those days...
doesn't matter, you are here now, and can find videos of so many songs/performers from back then
Hey, Tayy geebrewer8186 is SO RIGHT! You're here now...and so are some/lots of these performances. We are so blessed to have UA-cam and other platforms...where we can access this history.
Even many of us who were here then didn't hear and see all of these wonderful performances. Gratitude for technology and UA-cam. 🎶
Your reaction is sooooo precious! I especially enjoy the reaction of young black men whose stunned look on their faces in total disbelief of what they have just heard is simply delicious to see, I can't help but smile at how much you appreciate genuinely good music that defies the passage of time by pleasing different generations from Boomers to Zoomers!
Your reaction is priceless
One of the best reactions I’ve seen, so fun 😀.
I’m obsessed with his performance, just flawless.
Like fella's who are close to one another as family or friends they rag on each other without mercy, but it is in fun and love. Try: You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Soul and Inspiration, Unchained Melody (on the Andy Williams TV show '65), and a '70s Rock and Roll Heaven, with lesser hits like; Little Latin Lupe Lu, Ebb Tide, Just Once in My Life not to mention lots of covers and one I love best is an Etta James song. They are Blue Eyed Soul personified so please enjoy.
Best ever really.
Bobby Hatfield was amazing. They were not really brothers though
Your reaction is better than Bobby singing, almost, we had real singers back in the day!
Great reaction!❤
Bro.....that was the bomb
I never get tired of listening to Bobby Hatfield singing that song and Unchained Melody you have to hear that too unless you've already played it. The tall guy Bill Medley was not his real brother but Brothers in a sense very good friends. Bill had that deep voice and Bobby had that Alto guess that's what you call it he died very young and he's 60s in 2007 rest in peace Bobby. So I was young when they were singing of course they were young too I'm 89 years old I know you'll think oh wow good reaction thanks.
Listen them sing I Just Want To Make Love To You and Nightime Is The Right Time with the Blossoms on Shindig. The Brothers were regulars on Shindig, a weekly show for teens. You can find a lot of their Shindig apperances on UA-cam.
You really do a great job covering these great songs...thank you.
So great to see a young person enjoy the music I listened to so many years ago.
Gr❤eat reaction
Incredible! And I’m a fan You are adorable- subbed!
Holy Smokes! I know you did this a year ago but I've never heard this song before. How awesome was that?!!
This was a great reaction. I hope by now you have also listened to Unchained Melody and You've Lost That Loving Feeling. And another very popular song of theirs was Soul and Inspiration. They aren't really brothers but they sure were the perfect duo
Love your reaction
Music of the fifties (Sarah Vaughn, Ella's Fitzgerald - the Big Bands (Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, et a
l) alòng came the sìxties and great singers like Percy Sledge , the phenomenal Righteous Bros. ,the super talented Eric Clampton Gladys Knight and the Pips, Motown., . . . too many to name, but they were the Golden Decades of music.
❤great reaction 😂
The righteous brothers are Bill medley and Bobby Hatfield.
Great reaction.
He has perfect pitch no auto tune needed
THIS IS JAMES BROWN ' S IMITATION OF WAY OF MOVING AND FINISHING HIS SONG.
This is one of the best on UA-cam thank you wild bill
Hey my friend, i loved this as much as you do (did)!
Here is the link for Bill's solo " Ol' Man River"
ua-cam.com/video/aJtEViPMfy8/v-deo.htmlsi=EkLO5QEHP2H8g-lf
Here is another song from this show "My Babe"
ua-cam.com/video/ONJCstJCqeM/v-deo.htmlsi=lY5wy3-AAwwOD96s
Feels like velvet ❤
Add some depth to your life, go find the play Porgy and Bess. It will probably be in black and white, but give it a shot and it will add more color and soul to your life. It’s amazing.
The opera can be found in color too.
❤❤❤
Ooohhhh. It sounds like somebody's got a little gospel in their upbringing!
👍👍💯
Brown eyed woman, is sung by Bill! Listen to their songs, “you’ll never walk, alone,” and “all I wanna do is make love to you.”
The Righteous Brothers grew up in Orange County California when it was all .white. But they both loved R and B and listened to that on the radio all the time and loved singing R and B. When they were 21 or 22 they were performing in a club. Some black Marines from Camp Pendleton heard there was R and B at the club and started coming to hear them. A couple of those black Marines started saying "Hi, my righteous brother" when they saw them.The Righteous Brothers were really proud of that so - when they needed a name for their act - that's what they chose.
After they cut a record and went to DJ's to promote it, the white DJ's wouldn't play it cuz it was R and B black music. The black DJ's would quit playing it as soon as they saw them and found out they were white. But eventually the black DJ's played their music anyway, andintroduced them as the "blue-eyed brothers". Then the white DJ's followed and started playing them too.
They opened the door for so many musicians who followed.
Definitely a Janis Joplin moment.👏👏👏
Almost like Joplin, at the end there.
Old man river is next
Sounds like Janis Joplin version of summertime 💞💞💞💞💞
Gladly, it does not.
Listen to, “All I want to do is make love to you.” Bill Hadley is the main singer on this one, and it is R&B!
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS before they were the righteous brothers
George Gershwin classic best cover ever wild bill
Why is it that this mother to soon-to-be-orphaned baby lullaby is turned into an adult love song (if not worse), will always be a mystery to me. Porgy and Bess was an opera. Gershwin wanted it to be an opera. Here is the original soprano recording it a little time before the composer's untimely demise. ua-cam.com/video/zAsWSFF_55o/v-deo.htmlsi=cWNUP9yBES2QRnc-
Here's the the previous song.... ua-cam.com/video/ONJCstJCqeM/v-deo.html
No auto tune...
This is for Eternety
They didn't call it "blue eyed soul" for nothing.
Look up Bill singin "I just want to make love to you" and both of em singin "B Flat Blues"!!!
You have to react you lost that loving feeling
It’s so sad we only saw music as black or white….missed so many experiences….from both sides
The Righteous Brothers had some good luck and some bad luck in crossing over.
Brilliant eh??? I think you liked it😉
Reaction to Dire Straits Sultans of swing alchemy live version please
Here's the link to the next song - ua-cam.com/video/aJtEViPMfy8/v-deo.html. It's not as exciting Booby Hatfield's "Summertime," but well sung nonetheless.
Listen to Unchained Melody by him by the Righteous Brothers it will blow your mind too white boys can sing to
This is the song Bobby was introducing for Bill ua-cam.com/video/aJtEViPMfy8/v-deo.html
Tell the truth, everyone. If you did not know Bobby was white and were hearing this solo by him for the very first time with your eyes closed, what would be your thoughts about how he looks? Not meaning to be stirring up anything negative or controversial here, but I am just wanting to be real.
Black
Let him sing without your interruptions.
he got addicted to cocaine
QUIT TALKING SO MUCH DURING HIS SINGING.