I've listened to this song for 50 years and I agree with what you said. I still sit and wait for that pause and the acoustic guitar and it sounds like I am hearing it for the first time. . . Haunting
@anthonyc7045 Very different for it's day and still is today. I thought the song just naturally ended on the minor chord. Very creative to be able to transition off of a minor like that.
@@YorkyOneI believe the highest chart position was no.17. Kind of sucky, but at least this song made the charts. It's better for a song like this one to be at no.17 than not be on the charts at all. Supposely this song reached song reached no. 1 in other countries.
@@michaelconsuegra7316 I'm fairly sure I heard it on UK radio at the time so I am assuming it was released as a single here ( but that may be a false memory). But assuming it was it didn't do anything in the charts which is surprising as it has that Mamas and Papas sound which was very popular.
Don't you just love this song...as so many of us do, because it is such an interesting mix of melody, harmony and ethereal sculpture that anyone ever devised? It's truly an amazing composition, and begs the question, that if someone got to know us, they may be open to something deeper. ❤
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and nobody could perform it better than spanky and our gang. I love the skit they did on the Ed Sullivan show (1968) leading into the song.
Actually they were exactly the sound and image that was happening at that time. I wasn't wild about them as a kid but appreciate them a bit more now. I sort of thought of them as a more bland and less vocally sharp Mamas and Papas.
I was a brand new commissioned lieutenant in the Army-spent a year in army Schools and went to Vietnam as a new lieutenant- lots of memories -I’m now 79 and loving this song!!!!
Thank you for your service! Your sacrifice is the reason why I appreciate our men & women who wore the uniform. Great taste in music. I was born in the late 60s but have learned to embrace the great great music from each decade.
The bass player,Kenny, and the guitarist with the hair and sideburns,Lefty, were my first band’s managers back in the mid-60’s. Two of the greatest guys I ever met.
It's such a beautiful song yet also vulnerable and with a hint of melancholy--you wouldn't be human if this didn't touch you in the deepest part of your soul.
Alawys liked this song! The mirror is already my enemy, but I was only 9 in 1968. Strangely, I bought a beautiful well equipped 68 Mustang in 1977 when I was 18. It still looks as beautiful today as it did in1977, but my reflection in the rear view mirror has changed alot. However, were both still on the road. 😊
God I miss pretty songs. The world today is so hate full. We had no idea the depth of evil. We had pretty songs. That, in itself, was enough. Never saw this one on Ed, but I marvel at the intricacy. How did they present that? You know, back then, life was good, life was worth living. We need some pretty songs today, to drown out the cacaphony of despair.
@@JackMason-oq8lf I honestly think that is why the world today has so much aggression and intolerance. Beautiful songs like this one touch the heart and soul deeply and nurture the spirit. This was a classic example of the type of music you would hear on the radio back in the day. Popular music today by and large doesn't come close to having this kind of depth and introspection.
@@nyterpfan Chuckle, sadly, I haven't turned on a radio in years. After Whitney left the room, what was the point? Sadly, again, I can't think of any song in the past 20 years that I have really, easily, liked. Maybe Alicia Keyes for "New York." GaGa for lifetime achievement. I do remember one night when my attention on my reading was diverted to Letterman. I was a single man, proudly; my TV went 24/7, maybe you know what I mean. So I looked up from my book, and there's this fat girl singing on "Dave." She's standing absolutely still. Big deal right? Singers on Letterman often stand still (Well, maybe not Darlene, who used to blow Paul Schafer's sox to the wall every Christmas, and mine too. You know, it was Paul who booked the musical acts on "Dave." Him going crazy on Darlene Love Night was more fun than Santa on Christmas morning. Paul Shafer was, as you know, a Man of the Music, a TJ Labinsky with piano. Paul Schafer loved the music. Paul Schafer lived the music. If Paul said Party Time, kids, hurry up, grab your damn tap shoes.) So this fat girl, in profile, is singing, BUT the damn music is going crazy like Paul on Christmas morning. I am a naturalized citizen of the Jungle, and this babe knows her way around some mean jungle rhythms. And fat me, who was lying still on the sofa, in profile no doubt, starts tapping the air with my bobble, I'm starting to get animated. Chub now has my full attention, she's making me real awake. She's pounding those jungle drums, and my ass won't sit still, cause now, DAMN, I'm standing. Jeezus, what the hell is going on? What's happening? Am I going crazy? My heart won't slow down. Who the hell is this beautiful woman? With the credits scrolling, Dave says, "Let's hear it for Adele." Adele? Who the hell is Adele? Next day, every hip person in America knows who the hell is Adele. Damn Gurl, well done. Applause! Applause! THAT song I liked. Easily. Immediately. Maybe I should go plug the radio back in. And, in conclusion, this minor song, I remember, from back in the days, this Spanky song, I come across on UA-cam, first time in 60 years. 60 years? How did that happen? I still have issues with High School. And damn, it's brilliant, this Spanky song, you know, like Beach Boys brilliant. Jeez, it's manna from heaven, it's so good. I'm crying. Rotation time. Had another stumble a year ago, or so. There's this song popular when I moved to New York, 50 years ago, "How Long Has This Been Going On?" by Paul Carrick. I remember the song, but who the hell is Paul Carrick? My tablets have exhausted quite a bit since I discovered who is Paul Carrick. Double Rotation for THAT "little" song. I don't much care for Google, but nowadaze, UA-cam is my lifeblood. Thank you Paul Carrick. Thank you Spanky. Thank you Roy Orbison. Thank you Connie. Thank you Mick (Wild Horses is a doozy). Proco my big love. And Elvis, who kinda got this party going. In 2024 in America, there are no parties. There are no sock hops. There are no fun. Nothing's real. The only "real" I know, is yesterday once more. Spanky MacFarland is real. Spanky is the real deal, Real.
I remember this song I was in Walter Reed military hospital when this song came out we used to have wheelchair races in the song brings back a lot of memories when I was in the hospital I got hurt in Vietnam what memories of the song I tell you
My favorite Spanky & Our Gang song. I was only 11 back then when this song came out. As a baby boomer we were fortunate to have lived thru all this great music with rock and roll, soul and folk music.
The band was always highly regarded by fans, fellow musicians and critics. Only an unaware teenager would call them by that overused, meaningless term.
I remember watching this when it came on . No one missed Ed Sullivan . For all of us living in small towns and cities in the USA and Canada it brought so much to our lives. it actually introduced me to ballet which became an art form I have really enjoyed and such comedians s George Carlin but most of all the glorious music. Also a time when talent counted more than appearance . Today some marketing guy would insist Spanky go on Ozempic
I had the pleasure of seeing her with the Mamas and the Papas in Dallas in the 80’s. It was Great! And she was the perfect choice to fill Mama Cass’s shoes. Love Spanky and Our Gang’s music, but also the Mamas and the Pappas music.
This really takes me back. Mom let us stay up because The Rascals were on Ed Sullivan show. She thought it was the little Rascals. Spanky and Alfalfa,Buckwheat and them. Bless her heart,she meant well
As a black kid l was 5 my sister 4 we would be in the back seat in my father station wagon listening to cousin Brucie on the radio. I always thought this was a beautiful song now I’m 64 it still sounds great and every time I hear it it brings back such beautiful memories.
A bad, rushed day at work, a lot of stress, and this came on the True Oldies Channel, and suddenly everything seemed calm for a few moments. Amazing what music can do for you...
R.I.P. Malcom Hale, Nigel Pickering, Kenny Hodges and Lefty Baker. Without doubt, one of the best American bands of the 1960s, and one whose end came far too soon. Never saw the full performance before now...many thanks for uploading!👍
This totally lifted my spirits today. May seem cheesy to some but after seeing the totally crass videos that have popped up lately this is a cleanser to my brain. 😊👍
That beautiful vocal harmony at 3:02 is quite simple. It's a D minor 11th add 13th. If you have a piano - start with the D below middle C and play every other white key going up. D-F-A-C-E-G-B.
Three little girls with hairbrush microphones singing these extraordinary songs with our Mom who loved them so much. Fifty years later I still love these songs. How lucky were we?
lightening bugs, humid summer nights, wishing I was older so I could do the big kid things, sled riding, ice skating, watching the TV sign off, monkey bars !, twilight zone, capt.kangaroo, Saturday morning cartoons..... such a blessing growing up in the 60-70's .....sorry it is over--glad I can still remember.....hoping you have a great day....there are some great memories to be created today !! cheers !!!
We had a 1950's radiogram and I was only 7 when this song came and I would turn up the volume❤One of the most beautiful songs which I play regularly still❤Thank you Spanky and our Gang😊
Oh wow! Memories! I looked at the date of the song and our first daughter was almost a year old. Today this song came up on the radio, so I put the group on my UA-cam while I was at a stop light. I'm home now, pulled out my phone and the song came on and so did the tears. This daughter went on to become an Army Sargent and she died of cancer 5 years ago. I'm an old lady now 78yrs but my Memories still get to me. Thanks so much.
I ordered there cd on Amazon, it should be here Monday, and cuz I grew up in the 1960s I will be playing spanky and our gang songs and crying 😢, and why you might ask, cuz I miss the 1960s and my mom and dad, and how wonderful life was back then ❤❤❤❤😢.
Such a brilliant arrangement -- not just the song, but this video arrangement for the Ed Sullivan Show. What's truly sad is that Malcolm Hale died just 7 months later, from a gas leak in his home, and the band opted to dissolve. Lefty Baker, lead male singer on this song, sadly died 3 years later. But at least the band and the performers are memorialized for future generations on this video!
@@johnmurphy7316 But friends, fellow travellers, for us time HAS stood still, in our memories and in our hearts. We don't have tomorrow....but we had yesterday.
what a great group,and Spanky has a very 60's sound,very smooth when it needs to be, then she cranks it up and she's perfect,what a talented group.l'm glad i was born into this music at 68 years old i still love their music
This people is what is possible with real talent in an old school analog recording studio… art can be sculpted and artistically original. * “Yesterday’s Rain” is another example of what I am talking about.
Flashback 1991-1994. I am stationed at the sub bas in Norfolk, working hard all day, no friends. It's a typical Saturday I'm walking into town, drinking beer from a can of apple juice and listening to this song on my Walkman. The oldies channel and imagining what the place was like in the 60s
I’m not even gonna lie, I zone out and get lost to this 🎶🎵light one up and enjoy it too. A snapshot of a generation. It’s before my time but I feel it. Violins put me in that space
@@HoorayTV21 - Originally, all of the archive was 2" Quad from the early 1960s on >. Who knows when it was transferred or digitized, but clearly the transfers are from excellent quality low generation master tapes.
They were a popular group, but very underated at the same time. They sang beautiful, dreamy. trippy songs from an incredible time in space we grew up in.
Masterpiece of a song. This was March 24, 1968. Sadly, Malcom Hale, the de facto leader (blue shirt), died later in Nov 1968. Lefty Baker (purple shirt) died in 1971.
Just love this song. I was 14 when it came out and I bought the 45 RPM single of it. I listened to it a lot. When I lived in Milwaukee WI out of college Spanky sang with the Mommas and Papas after Mama Cass had died. She had a great voice.
Grew up on this and all of the songs from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, and I'm 47 (with a father, long passed, who served in Vietnam in 1970-1971 during the height of all the mess that was going on here).
I listened to this on WHB KANSAS CITY AM sitting on my stoop with my cousin Angela, we were just kids around 11 or 12 , great times , I loved it when the bands actually played live , or if they faked it they let you know, like drumming without drumsticks
Sparky & Our Gang were incredibly talented musicians, writing songs that were way more complex and sophisticated than the typical pop song of the era…or of any era!
I was brought up in the 60's and 70's, and she was my Dad's favorite singer. She also became mine as well! And then, along came Whitney Houston! 2 of the greatest artist...EVER!
Their vocals were so beautifully blended and the synthesizer added is so special. Her voice is so amazing to listen to. Her timber and vibrato is like no one else’s.
Just many of their Hits. Always love them and watching this video really takes me back to my days growing up in Hawaii. Not a care in the world, just enjoying life and being with my family and friends. What I wouldn't do to go back in time and just stay there. Anyone want to come with me? Peace ☮️☮️☮️ Love and Chicken 🍗🍗🍗
I'm 70, and what seems like a few months ago, this song got stuck in the old grey matter..it was like something out of a dream(like so many songs from the fifties and sixties) and everyone in that group just seemed like the nicest people... May I add, it's now Dec.15, 2025-we never had color TV until the '80's so may I say thank you to ALL of the people who find these treasures for UA-cam viewers.
I'm a 34 yr. ol' black kid and I absolutely love this song!!! Also Spiral Staircase, and The Zombies, my fav though...The Carpenters.
You have good taste.
My brother, black white, no difference. I am white, keep groovin' good buddy.
@@charleswhite2790 lol thanks, I'm a girl haha! What U listening to?? 🙃🙂
My apologies, my sister.
If you aren't familiar with the Classics IV you should give them a listen too
Something haunting when the song slows down and the acoustic guitar just emerges so perfectly arranged
I've listened to this song for 50 years and I agree with what you said. I still sit and wait for that pause and the acoustic guitar and it sounds like I am hearing it for the first time. . . Haunting
It's such a wonderful part of the song, and one of the most beautiful 45 seconds of music I've ever heard.
Could be its own song on constant replay
@anthonyc7045 Very different for it's day and still is today. I thought the song just naturally ended on the minor chord. Very creative to be able to transition off of a minor like that.
That is melancholy perfection.
Perhaps the most under-rated song of the 1960's!!! Great piece of music!!!
Oh really? What rating chart are you looking at?
@@axetu
The 'Most Underated Song Of The 1960's' rating chart?
@@YorkyOneI believe the highest chart position was no.17.
Kind of sucky, but at least this song made the charts. It's better for a song like this one to be at no.17 than not be on the charts at all.
Supposely this song reached song reached no. 1 in other countries.
Lose the useless unaware teenage term. This song was always highly regarded by fellow musicians, fans and critics.
@@michaelconsuegra7316
I'm fairly sure I heard it on UK radio at the time so I am assuming it was released as a single here ( but that may be a false memory). But assuming it was it didn't do anything in the charts which is surprising as it has that Mamas and Papas sound which was very popular.
I am a older mixed race woman and love this music..omg yes . Peaceful
Listening with you Joy.
bless you my dear for your race,gender,age and loving this music..keep up the good work.
@@larryheth8023thank you sweetie
Don't you just love this song...as so many of us do, because it is such an interesting mix of melody, harmony and ethereal sculpture that anyone ever devised? It's truly an amazing composition, and begs the question, that if someone got to know us, they may be open to something deeper. ❤
One of my absolute favorite songs from the 60s. I don't believe I have seen this clip in its entirety before until now and what a treat!!!
Darling clip and song.. ❤❤❤
Mine too!!
a incredible song and the drumming is perfect . this song is a masterpiece .
Such great harmonies..
Ikr... It's great!
This song never gets old; one of my favorite from the 60’s
I'm with you 100%...great music from year 1968 .....I love this song !!!
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and nobody could perform it better than spanky and our gang. I love the skit they did on the Ed Sullivan show (1968) leading into the song.
Timeless songs never get old.
This sounds like something The Beatles would write ... 🎵👍
@@jamescalifornia2964 ....and something that The Mamas & The Papas would sing, as well.
Haunting. They were so far ahead of their time.
No right on time
exactly, haunting!!!
@@michaelwood875Trippy....Like far-out, man...
So haunting. That's what i kept thinking ❤
Actually they were exactly the sound and image that was happening at that time. I wasn't wild about them as a kid but appreciate them a bit more now. I sort of thought of them as a more bland and less vocally sharp Mamas and Papas.
Mix Mamas and Papas with The Association and you get Spanky & Our Gang
excellent synopis....
Very spot-on.
Never thought of it like that, it's brilliant.
And "Spanky McFarlane" wound up with the reformed Mama and the Papas
@@richbailey8174 I couldn't think of a better person to replace Cass.
I was a brand new commissioned lieutenant in the Army-spent a year in army Schools and went to Vietnam as a new lieutenant- lots of memories -I’m now 79 and loving this song!!!!
Thank You For Your Service And Your Excellent Taste In Music Best Wishes From Philadelphia. 👋
Thank You 4 Your Service, LEFT-tenant, Sir!👍
Thank you sir ❤
Thank you for your service! Your sacrifice is the reason why I appreciate our men & women who wore the uniform. Great taste in music. I was born in the late 60s but have learned to embrace the great great music from each decade.
Thank you, for your service. Are you still listening?
The bass player,Kenny, and the guitarist with the hair and sideburns,Lefty, were my first band’s managers back in the mid-60’s. Two of the greatest guys I ever met.
That’s impressive ! What a great memory for you.
So neat! I didn’t realize until recently that Lefty was a Roanoke, VA native. (So am I…Still live in the Roanoke area)
Im cryin again this week with this song. I was 12 years old when this came out , best time of my life
Me too it makes me cry too wow
It's undoubtedly because of the music.
There are so many songs from that era that I remember and listen to today.
It's such a beautiful song yet also vulnerable and with a hint of melancholy--you wouldn't be human if this didn't touch you in the deepest part of your soul.
When the mirror becomes your enemy, nostalgia becomes your friend. I can remember my youth vividly when this fantastic song is playing.
Wow! that's all . (at 72)
Alawys liked this song! The mirror is already my enemy, but I was only 9 in 1968. Strangely, I bought a beautiful well equipped 68 Mustang in 1977 when I was 18. It still looks as beautiful today as it did in1977, but my reflection in the rear view mirror has changed alot. However, were both still on the road. 😊
Very well said, and very true.
Great comment. Love it.
Be happy when you look in the mirror. You made this far ….in a blink of an eye, you’ll only be in pictures.
Whenever I listen to this I temporarily leave behind all of the chaos and craziness of this world and float away to a peaceful, more beautiful place!
Me too!!
I'll see you there!
God I miss pretty songs. The world today is so hate full. We had no idea the depth of evil. We had pretty songs. That, in itself, was enough. Never saw this one on Ed, but I marvel at the intricacy. How did they present that? You know, back then, life was good, life was worth living. We need some pretty songs today, to drown out the cacaphony of despair.
@@JackMason-oq8lf I honestly think that is why the world today has so much aggression and intolerance. Beautiful songs like this one touch the heart and soul deeply and nurture the spirit. This was a classic example of the type of music you would hear on the radio back in the day. Popular music today by and large doesn't come close to having this kind of depth and introspection.
@@nyterpfan Chuckle, sadly, I haven't turned on a radio in years. After Whitney left the room, what was the point? Sadly, again, I can't think of any song in the past 20 years that I have really, easily, liked. Maybe Alicia Keyes for "New York." GaGa for lifetime achievement. I do remember one night when my attention on my reading was diverted to Letterman. I was a single man, proudly; my TV went 24/7, maybe you know what I mean. So I looked up from my book, and there's this fat girl singing on "Dave." She's standing absolutely still. Big deal right? Singers on Letterman often stand still (Well, maybe not Darlene, who used to blow Paul Schafer's sox to the wall every Christmas, and mine too. You know, it was Paul who booked the musical acts on "Dave." Him going crazy on Darlene Love Night was more fun than Santa on Christmas morning. Paul Shafer was, as you know,
a Man of the Music, a TJ Labinsky with piano. Paul Schafer loved the music. Paul Schafer lived the music. If Paul said Party Time, kids, hurry up, grab your damn tap shoes.) So this fat girl, in profile, is singing, BUT the damn music is going crazy like Paul on Christmas morning. I am a naturalized citizen of the Jungle, and this babe knows her way around some mean jungle rhythms. And fat me, who was lying still on the sofa, in profile no doubt, starts tapping the air with my bobble, I'm starting to get animated. Chub now has my full attention, she's making me real awake. She's pounding those jungle drums, and my ass won't sit still, cause now, DAMN, I'm standing. Jeezus, what the hell is going on? What's happening? Am I going crazy? My heart won't slow down. Who the hell is this beautiful woman? With the credits scrolling, Dave says, "Let's hear it for Adele." Adele? Who the hell is Adele? Next day, every hip person in America knows who the hell is Adele. Damn Gurl, well done. Applause! Applause! THAT song I liked. Easily. Immediately. Maybe I should go plug the radio back in. And, in conclusion, this minor song, I remember, from back in the days, this Spanky song, I come across on UA-cam, first time in 60 years. 60 years? How did that happen? I still have issues with High School. And damn, it's brilliant, this Spanky song, you know, like Beach Boys brilliant. Jeez, it's manna from heaven, it's so good. I'm crying. Rotation time. Had another stumble a year ago, or so. There's this song popular when I moved to New York, 50 years ago, "How Long Has This Been Going On?" by Paul Carrick. I remember the song, but who the hell is Paul Carrick? My tablets have exhausted quite a bit since I discovered who is Paul Carrick. Double Rotation for THAT "little" song. I don't much care for Google, but nowadaze, UA-cam is my lifeblood. Thank you Paul Carrick. Thank you Spanky. Thank you Roy Orbison. Thank you Connie. Thank you Mick (Wild Horses is a doozy). Proco my big love. And Elvis, who kinda got this party going. In 2024 in America, there are no parties. There are no sock hops. There are no fun. Nothing's real. The only "real" I know, is yesterday once more. Spanky MacFarland is real. Spanky is the real deal, Real.
I remember this song I was in Walter Reed military hospital when this song came out we used to have wheelchair races in the song brings back a lot of memories when I was in the hospital I got hurt in Vietnam what memories of the song I tell you
God bless you and your buddies!
@@vonhalberstadt3590My father was there when he was hurt. He was in the Air Force.
Thank you for your service.
Welcome home Billy!❤
Thank you for your service
That transition at the end is magical.
Was just about to write something similar.
Back when times were simpler. The music the best!
Yes 💯 1968 I was just 3 years old not a care in the world 🌞💕
@@freespirit21newyork I was 9. Carefree Sat.mornings.
times were simpler...?? which planet exactly are you referring to or where you on...( a drug reference)...😮🎉
A still relatively innocent era.
@@tomneff7030 You are so right 👍
2023 and this song still holds up
Yes!
Still holding up...2024!
Estou escutando em Outubro de 2024❤❤❤❤❤
The 'ending' is SPECTACULAR ...
My favorite Spanky & Our Gang song. I was only 11 back then when this song came out. As a baby boomer we were fortunate to have lived thru all this great music with rock and roll, soul and folk music.
Tail-end boomer here. If one didnt live it, they wont understand it
A special song that showed a more caring, loving, heartfelt time in the USA.
The intelligence level and sophistication standards were much higher then.
Yes, it was kinder, gentler time that I remember fondly as a boy. It’s like boyhood. Once it passes, you can never return again.
Well stated
@@catherinechristofis4039 I agree but it was tough too.
@@santo_man Vietnam and race riots were definitely no fun.
This song is so incredible. Absolutely dreamy and incredibly positive!
Dreamy :-) Love this description :-)
Wonderful song! Music played by The Wrecking Crew. Simply the best studio muscians!
@RobSheahan-qr2wv 👍 Those session musicians sure played on a lot of hits 🎵
Man, this was so original and refreshing to hear after years of bland cookie-cutter music . It makes you wish there was more music like this .
Yes, truly a unique sound...
There IS more music like this. Oldies But Goodies abound.
You nailed it.
Love Spanky and Our Gang! March 30, 2024! Still 🎶 😂😅😊
One of the most underrated bands of the 60s
Great band Great music it will never die 😊
Oh happy, happy, atmospheric, nostalgic days. Feel tearful for a lost time.
Take care.
A masterpiece from an underrated band.
The band was always highly regarded by fans, fellow musicians and critics. Only an unaware teenager would call them by that overused, meaningless term.
The whole band was underrated
I remember watching this when it came on . No one missed Ed Sullivan . For all of us living in small towns and cities in the USA and Canada it brought so much to our lives. it actually introduced me to ballet which became an art form I have really enjoyed and such comedians s George Carlin but most of all the glorious music. Also a time when talent counted more than appearance . Today some marketing guy would insist Spanky go on Ozempic
Lol Ozempic. Good comment.
I could listen to the last part of this song on a loop forever,
Ditto.
No doubt. One of the greatest outros ever for a song
But,..HOW do they MAKE that haunting sound ?
Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
My generation full of personality, kindness, genuine minds. We were human. So far gone now this song is a gold mine in my hearts.
I agree,
Millions agree with you❤❤
Today's generation is kiind, most of the young people anyway. I was born in the late 60's. Every gen has bad apples.
What a WONDERFUL blast from the past!!!
I had the pleasure of seeing her with the Mamas and the Papas in Dallas in the 80’s. It was Great! And she was the perfect choice to fill Mama Cass’s shoes. Love Spanky and Our Gang’s music, but also the Mamas and the Pappas music.
It is well that someone captured the 60's before it disappeared.
This really takes me back.
Mom let us stay up because The Rascals were on Ed Sullivan show.
She thought it was the little Rascals.
Spanky and Alfalfa,Buckwheat and them.
Bless her heart,she meant well
Those Little Rascals, with Darla and Alfalfa? Heaven sent. DuhSantis would have them imprisoned. To protect the children.
@@JackMason-oq8lf I met "Butch" at a flea market in San Diego.He was selling photos for five bucks.He looked the same but older.
It's both bouncy and melancholy. Great vocal harmonies and sensational singing by Elaine McFarlane.
As a black kid l was 5 my sister 4 we would be in the back seat in my father station wagon listening to cousin Brucie on the radio. I always thought this was a beautiful song now I’m 64 it still sounds great and every time I hear it it brings back such beautiful memories.
I'll be 64 this month. We both understand what this song means to us.
Iam also 64 a black man I absolutely love this song
@@ByronMathews-sf9gw a better time and we were a better age. Lol
Music really had no "color" for that short period of time. 68 YO white guy, NY area radio was so diverse. Talent ruled before business ruined it.
The 60 s wouldn't be the 60 s without this song.. whenever i hear this song memories come crashing into my head..a beautiful thing
A bad, rushed day at work, a lot of stress, and this came on the True Oldies Channel, and suddenly everything seemed calm for a few moments. Amazing what music can do for you...
Very true 👍
Back when....every day you felt bad, rushed. stressed. And then, the Top 40 came on, and life was back to bring real good.
I really like Spanky and our Gang. They were a special band.🎉🎉
You could say that. Unfortunately they were short lived which is too bad, but it just so happens bands come and go.
She still has one of the most beautiful voices
Splitting this group into separate scenes within the same song was technologically clever. A great '60s pop song nonetheless.
I'd like a hit of whatever the drummer was on!
@@patricklarkin9666😅
@@AdrianDeVore uh...far out!
@@patricklarkin9666well yes, coincidentally he and spanky are only originals alive today so yes I'd want to know his secret.
the stage was "live" the foreground was prerecorded
Wow....never saw that intro before. Great to see this in its entirety. Probably their best record.
R.I.P. Malcom Hale, Nigel Pickering, Kenny Hodges and Lefty Baker. Without doubt, one of the best American bands of the 1960s, and one whose end came far too soon. Never saw the full performance before now...many thanks for uploading!👍
Thanks for reminding us everyone's dead. very nice. what a downer.
@@DeptOfRevenueCalm down mate he just paying his respects, people die get over it.
Hale unfortunately is a "member" of the 27 Club.
@mangrove / Lefty Baker barely escaped, made it to 29 ... 🎂
It was a shame Malcolm died so early, the band never survived the loss and
could have remained relevant for a few more years.
A delightfully talented singing group - and they really know how to sing.
This totally lifted my spirits today. May seem cheesy to some but after seeing the totally crass videos that have popped up lately this is a cleanser to my brain. 😊👍
Takes me back to 1968 when I was 18. If only there was a way to relive time.
I turned 18 in '68 as well. Feel like i'm right there again whenever i listen to music of that era
That beautiful vocal harmony at 3:02 is quite simple. It's a D minor 11th add 13th. If you have a piano - start with the D below middle C and play every other white key going up. D-F-A-C-E-G-B.
I recall hearing this as a child. Peggy Fleming skated to it on tv n I was enchanted w it ever since.
Three little girls with hairbrush microphones singing these extraordinary songs with our Mom who loved them so much. Fifty years later I still love these songs. How lucky were we?
I played a mean tennis 🎾
I was just a kid but this song can bring back memories for me I probably would otherwise forget. And it’s such a perfect melody.
lightening bugs, humid summer nights, wishing I was older so I could do the big kid things, sled riding, ice skating, watching the TV sign off, monkey bars !, twilight zone, capt.kangaroo, Saturday morning cartoons..... such a blessing growing up in the 60-70's .....sorry it is over--glad I can still remember.....hoping you have a great day....there are some great memories to be created today !! cheers !!!
We had a 1950's radiogram and I was only 7 when this song came and I would turn up the volume❤One of the most beautiful songs which I play regularly still❤Thank you Spanky and our Gang😊
So many memories of me and my first love. How I wish I could go back and do things differently.
Oh wow! Memories! I looked at the date of the song and our first daughter was almost a year old. Today this song came up on the radio, so I put the group on my UA-cam while I was at a stop light. I'm home now, pulled out my phone and the song came on and so did the tears. This daughter went on to become an Army Sargent and she died of cancer 5 years ago. I'm an old lady now 78yrs but my Memories still get to me. Thanks so much.
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Thanks for sharing. Really. ❤❤
We Veterans salute your daughter and you !
Sorry for your loss.
My daughter was born the year this song came out. We lost her three months ago to a heart attack. Seems hard to believe.
Music to turn off the lights, relax and... get ready to travel back in time...
One of my favorite songs in my life. It will never get old I was too young when it came out!
Same here...Takes me back to 1968
I ordered there cd on Amazon, it should be here Monday, and cuz I grew up in the 1960s I will be playing spanky and our gang songs and crying 😢, and why you might ask, cuz I miss the 1960s and my mom and dad, and how wonderful life was back then ❤❤❤❤😢.
me too my friend..and all the great classmates,what a wonderful time for sure.
@johnkoch4472 thanks so much for the warm reply and God bless you.
Such a brilliant arrangement -- not just the song, but this video arrangement for the Ed Sullivan Show. What's truly sad is that Malcolm Hale died just 7 months later, from a gas leak in his home, and the band opted to dissolve. Lefty Baker, lead male singer on this song, sadly died 3 years later. But at least the band and the performers are memorialized for future generations on this video!
Tragically, Mama Cass died young. After that, Spanky McFarland stepped in, sometimes.
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So incredibly sad. If only time could have stood still.
@@johnmurphy7316 But friends, fellow travellers, for us time HAS stood still, in our memories and in our hearts. We don't have tomorrow....but we had yesterday.
Chuck, loved this album since I was 4 (1969). Happy to say I got saved at age 21, God gets the Glory! Thanks for all the great music!
pure folk my man
I just discovered this song a month ago and I can’t stop singing it to myself
what a great group,and Spanky has a very 60's sound,very smooth when it needs to be, then she cranks it up and she's perfect,what a talented group.l'm glad i was born into this music at 68 years old i still love their music
Who's still Listening and Watching in 2024? Timeless!
I am, Terri! Always makes my heart feel so peaceful!
clean glue
Me at 72 and still loving it
One of the greatest groups and songs.
@@Itsisawnotiseen You're so right, Itsi!
This people is what is possible with real talent in an old school analog recording studio… art can be sculpted and artistically original.
* “Yesterday’s Rain” is another example of what I am talking about.
A truely great and classic song. Sounds even better today!
Great to see the LP version come to life :)
Flashback 1991-1994. I am stationed at the sub bas in Norfolk, working hard all day, no friends. It's a typical Saturday I'm walking into town, drinking beer from a can of apple juice and listening to this song on my Walkman. The oldies channel and imagining what the place was like in the 60s
Such great harmonies.
They dont make songs like this anymore. This is one of those once in a lifetime classics !
Have you heard other SUNSHINE bands from the 60s?? Google Peppermint Rainbow, Will you be staying after Sunday..😊
@@johnfranklin5277 i just google them .Wow. The singers were like Cass Elliot / Spanky Mcfarland clones. Very talented group , i must admit !
I’m not even gonna lie, I zone out and get lost to this 🎶🎵light one up and enjoy it too. A snapshot of a generation. It’s before my time but I feel it. Violins put me in that space
I WAS 11 YRS YOUNG GROWING UP IN SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA
NORMAL HEIGHTS 1968 THIS SONG WAS BEAUTIFUL STILL IS AT 67 BUT RETIRED IN THE PHILLIPINES
The harmonies of the '60s. Gotta love it.
Oh man, so sweet. Great music from the best era of all time. Well that era and the Baroque period.
Elaine looks great in this clip. Originally on 2" color Quad videotape. Amazing preservation on this 55 year old recording.
Most of the 2" tape stuff they seem to have digitized is from around this time. I wonder how much in their archive is 2"
@@HoorayTV21 - Originally, all of the archive was 2" Quad from the early 1960s on >. Who knows when it was transferred or digitized, but clearly the transfers are from excellent quality low generation master tapes.
They were a popular group, but very underated at the same time. They sang beautiful, dreamy. trippy songs from an incredible time in space we grew up in.
Masterpiece of a song. This was March 24, 1968. Sadly, Malcom Hale, the de facto leader (blue shirt), died later in Nov 1968. Lefty Baker (purple shirt) died in 1971.
The only survivors are Spanky and the drummer . 🎵
@@jamescalifornia2964 Thanks for info...........I really loved their music ,they were great !!
@@motownfan3 _" Sunshine Pop"_ 💞🎶
@@jamescalifornia2964 YUP :)
Just love this song. I was 14 when it came out and I bought the 45 RPM single of it. I listened to it a lot. When I lived in Milwaukee WI out of college Spanky sang with the Mommas and Papas after Mama Cass had died. She had a great voice.
Grew up on this and all of the songs from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, and I'm 47 (with a father, long passed, who served in Vietnam in 1970-1971 during the height of all the mess that was going on here).
Walking down memory lane many years later! What great music and a shame we don't have any like this today.
This song brings me back to a special time in my life. Maybe just a few precious days as a child. The nostalgia it brings is incredible.
So beautiful. I was very young and my mom was the center of my world. 😢
This song cuts through all the doubts and says what you want to say to a woman.
wow! That's talent! Straight live !
Always reminded me of the RFK funeral train. Weird I know but was 10 years old and just remember that song at that time, haunting and sad.
I listened to this on WHB KANSAS CITY AM sitting on my stoop with my cousin Angela, we were just kids around 11 or 12 , great times , I loved it when the bands actually played live , or if they faked it they let you know, like drumming without drumsticks
Like to get to know you this song is classic masterpiece no body else could remake this song. Would be foolish to try
This is so trippy!!!! I’d like to get to know this whole freaky crew.
This is just one of those songs that makes you feel good.
Sparky & Our Gang were incredibly talented musicians, writing songs that were way more complex and sophisticated than the typical pop song of the era…or of any era!
I saw Spanky And Our Gang in person in 1967 at a concert in Central Park
Never knew she had that much range in her voice ….she’s a wonderful singer , I wonder ! If she’s still with us ?
Yes she is still alive at 81 yrs .
And so is Seiter the drummer who went on to a very successful career after Hale died forcing them to disband.
My all-time favorites from spanky and our gang. A classic. ❤
what a great band , one of the best ever
Too bad they had to break up which sucks, but a friend a told me one time: Bands come and go.
I was brought up in the 60's and 70's, and she was my Dad's favorite singer. She also became mine as well! And then, along came Whitney Houston! 2 of the greatest artist...EVER!
Their vocals were so beautifully blended and the synthesizer added is so special. Her voice is so amazing to listen to. Her timber and vibrato is like no one else’s.
Elaine "Spanky" McFarland is still with us I think she's about 80
Just many of their Hits. Always love them and watching this video really takes me back to my days growing up in Hawaii. Not a care in the world, just enjoying life and being with my family and friends. What I wouldn't do to go back in time and just stay there. Anyone want to come with me? Peace ☮️☮️☮️ Love and Chicken 🍗🍗🍗
Six part harmony-so disciplined! Just wonderful.
Love this song and group.
Im embarrassed to admit i never heard them before ( despite having a wide musical taste for more years that id care to mention). Wonderful voices
Beautiful memories❤ when music was truly musical❤❤
I'm 70, and what seems like a few months ago, this song got stuck in the old grey matter..it was like something out of a dream(like so many songs from the fifties and sixties) and everyone in that group just seemed like the nicest people...
May I add, it's now Dec.15, 2025-we never had color TV until the '80's so may I say thank you to ALL of the people who find these treasures for UA-cam viewers.
This was a monstrous song at 🎵 music radio 🎙 77 WABC AM from 1968.
Likewise @ The Big 11-10, KRLA Pasadena!
I'm with you I grew up in North Jersey also listening to this CLASSIC SONG on WABC back in '68.........
Or WBBF, WFIL etc