My family immigrated to nyc from denmark in 1959 and this is one of the first rock n roll songs that I heard and i was swept away. Never heard music til i heard my first rock n roll songs on my little turquoise radio in queens nyc. This and the lion sleeps tonight, Pretty Woman and Fats Domino. Best songs ever.
Bit of musical trivia: The harmonica player is Delbert McClinton who later showed John Lennon a few blues harmonica tricks (Love Me Do). Delbert is still playing and IMHO, doing some of his best stuff ever.
Yes indeed. And he and Delbert have stayed friends, and Delbert has a cruise most years, and always has a place for Bruce on it!!! And he always sings his songs in the key of D Doggie!!
Love this song, I'm 23 and it reminds me of my aunt, she used to live with me and she was a second mother to me. She passed away back in 2015 but this song makes me remember her memory when I came here.
I remember our band was playing this song and I was on my brothers shoulder screaming at the top of my lungs as the seconds counted down to our first win of the season (first game and everyone had just come from a huge school pep rally) and a junior walks infront of my brother and sprays an entire bottle of baby powder on me. It was fun none the less
Too many band kids don’t you agree? Some of them are called DunDun Productions and they leech a tumor off of a good comment to screw with the commenters mind lol
While driving car pool- 20+ years ago- with my grand kids, we agreed to listen to a song on XM Sirius I liked, then they could choose a song they liked. Eventually fifty/sixty music overcame 80/90 selections.
@@74bshsIt's in reference frames as our solar system moves us through outer space at 650k miles per hour. Anyhoo... I'm bout to turn 70. Loved 1950's and 60's culture. Peace.
Hola con mucha felicidad me refiero a estas melodias unicas no habra otras tan bellas como esta al escuchar estas melodias me transporta a otra mundo hermosa la siento en todo mi ser gracias Bruce saludos ciudad de Mexico
I always put music on before I go to sleep and then i had these lyrics in my head when i woke up so i had to listen to it again...Love 50s,60s music 🎶❤️
This is The Greatest 2 Minutes in Rock N Roll. Hey Baby is probably the most popular song ever played on the radio in Memphis. It was my personal pleasure to see Bruce and Delbert do this song on Mud Island, in Memphis and in the Mississippi River, in July/August 1988. It was a Jimmy Buffett concert, with the Neville Brothers, and Delbert McClinton. Bruce was playing guitar for Delbert's band. From out of nowhere Delbert started playing and then Bruce started singing and somehow everybody new it was the Real Bruce Channel. It sounded as good as the record, except it was better cause we was drunk. Mud Island was heard 5 miles away singing Hey Baby. What a night - Buffet, the Neville Brothers, Delbert and BRUCE Channel. I played this song on a Satellite Juke Box in Panama City Beach, Florida a couple of years ago and everybody started singing. It was great. Arnold High School Band, in Pananma City Beach, uses this song as its theme song. Art Can Go No Farther !
...can go no further....but it's all the same to me: if one wants to be technical, then Usage guides advise that 'farther' is for physical distance and 'further' is for figurative distance, but rules don't always stick....i'm no grammar nazi but suffer from extreme OC.
This song is etched into my brain from a weekend in July 1962 when the family Citroen ground to a halt with a failed wheel bearing on a trip to the British GP at Aintree and it seemed to be permanently on the radio.
Oh my goodness ,what a rich,warm, beautiful voice. The song is so respectful and sweet. Telling a girl he is so digging her without being raunchy. Hey Baby.
Kwabena Sefa: In the days of yore, eclectic music made the charts and radios in many countries -- including the U. S. where there were fewer segregated radio stations. Today it's one track for holed-up communities with no nose for musical diversity but has the souls who snigger and segregate other styles.
I would have loved to have been one of the members of the group who danced in that barn loft in Dirty Dancing. Beautiful girls, lots of wonderful dancing, and most of all great music, no uptight nun chaperones from Our Lady of 115th Street Academy.
A great cover of the DJ Ötzi 2000 classic. Bruces use of Harmonica in this cover of DJ Ötzi's "Hey Baby (uhh ahh)" is a great addition - something DJ Otzi had not thought of in the year 2000 but a great addition none the less.
For a song that only held the #1 position on the Billboard charts for three weeks in 1962, it’s sure had a lasting impact - pep bands and sports arenas still play it nearly 60 years later. The song was written by Channel and his acquaintance Margaret Combs when they were teenagers trying to create hits like they heard on the radio. Channel’s only other commercial success was a song called “Keep On,” which made the Top 40 in the U.K., but didn’t do much in the States.
At my high school, as the Tuba/Sousaphone section leader(as a sophmore and same next year as junior 😎) i play part of the bass line twice through. All the while everyone is singing "heeeeyyyy... Heeyy baabby... i wanna knOOOOoooww, if youll be my girl". Everybody loves it and i couldnt be happier to be the biggest part of the biggest pep band tradition. U wouldnt believe the amount of people that befriended me just because of my role in that. Its astonishing! Like this if your school does the same.
+Regal Two contra what? contra trombone? FYI the sousaphone (BTW its in the key of BBb just like a standard concert horn) is a contrabass instrument as is. so what instrument do you play?
One Of The Best Stand Out Tracks Of The 60's. A Belting Monumental Classic. So Many Memories From Over The Years With This Supreme Stomper. Thank You Mr Channel.
You just aren’t remembering it - Vietnam, civil rights, women’s liberation, JFK assassination, the Cold War, nuclear arms race - it was at least as crazy then as now. The good old days never happened. We just think they did.
@@DavidLaFerney Guess we are going to have to agree to disagree. Oh, by the way, how many school shootings were there back in 1963? How many babies born out of wedlock back then? How much dissolution in music and mannerisms as there is today. How many road rage incidents back then--only one I remember was in a movie called "Easy Rider". Oh wait, how many child mutilations were there and how the ACLU stands up for such nonsense. Can't recall there were too many children back then and if any child told their parent they wanted to be the opposite sex the parent would probably slap them and tell them to snap out it! But you are right-I guess I am simply delusional. Oh, yea and there are no assassinations in this day and age. Guess the two on Ford, one on Reagan and the recent one on Trump doesn't classify as "crazy".
Hey, heybaby I want to know if you'll be my girl Hey, hey baby I want to know if you'll be my girl When I saw you walking down the street I said that's a kind of girl I'd like to meet She's so pretty, Lord, she's fine I'm gonna make her mine, all mine Hey, hey baby I want to know if you'll be my girl When you turned and walked away That's when I want to say "C'mon baby, give me a whirl I want to know if you'll be my girl" Hey, hey baby I want to know if you'll be my girl When you turned and walked away That's when I want to say "C'mon baby, give me a whirl I want to know if you'll be my girl" Hey, hey baby I want to know if you'll be my girl Hey, hey hey hey hey, baby c'mon, baby now
This song came out in 1959............when I was 15 and a sophomore in high school...........still love this song.............hey baby I want to know know know if you'll be my..
This song was playing when I was born (my mum had a ‘hits from the movies’ cd) and every time I hear this song, or watch this scene in dirty dancing it always makes me so happy.
This song has been a staple of my high school pep band for generations. What's really cool is to hear TODAY'S high school kids belting out the lyrics like it's the hottest song on the radio, even though it is nearly 60 years old!!
This song was played a lot by Bob Wooler, DJ at the lunch time Cavern club sessions in Liverpool, when l was an office junior. I went every lunchtime to see the Beatles before they made it big. Everyone loved this Bruce Chanel song back then. The original and best
My sister wore the groves out on this one, playing it all night on her 16th birthday party back in November 1963. I think she may still have the single.
I can picture myself in the back seat of our old 1950 ford (standard on the column LOL) with my mom driving and singing along with this on the radio, all the windows open. Thanks for posting this, made me smile but brought a little lump in my throat too.
Delbert McClinton on harp on this song! Also the song has two different bridges...very unusual. I saw Bruce Chanel perform this song about 5 feet away at the Flora Bama Lounge on the Florida/Alabama state line in Orange Beach, Alabama, at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in about 2013. Great song! Always gets the crowd going when I play it in a jam session or with a band.
When my mom was cooking dinner for her family she was at 40' i think, she listning to the radio, and once, she heard this song and told me she dence when she was young. She was sooo happy!! Now its holiday in israel and tow years without her, just good emorys left.. Thank's for the song.
Great song, great harmonica (Delbert McClinton), great guitar, great drums, thumpin' upright bass, great vocal delivery -- and John Lennon said this song inspired him to play the harmonica bit on Love Me Do. Can't beat that, now, can ya.
I loved this song the first time I heard it on 1961, and still do so today. The Liverpool (well, "Southport" ) band Rhythm' N' Blues Incorporated used to do a fabulous version of this back in the sixties, Peter J Kelly being the vocalist.
I always thought that this cat was a brother but now that I see who sang.i was shocked any ways to me it sounds all the same anybody that could sing could really sing.. this one always a good song from the amazing 60's..👍✌..
Oct 2022 I went to a Football game recently and the Marana Tigers Marching Band played this. The crowd sang it loudly! Such fun that a 60 year old song can stand the test of time so well!
I've always loved this song, was thrilled when they used it in Dirty Dancing. A few months ago, I was watching music videos on UA-cam, and found a version of this song by Raul Malo! Oh my!!! He slowed it down, put some "swagger" in it, and girls I'm telling you...I needed a cigarette when it was over, and I don't smoke! 🔥😍
Just saw him at Poodie's Roadhouse in Spicewood, Texas, along with Sonny Throckmorton, Rock Killough and Craig Dillingham. Best songwriter event I've ever been to. Tanya Tucker made a surprise visit and sang a couple of songs with these masters of their profession.
there's so many band kids here and I love it
yess!!
AND A TWENTY ONE PILOTS FAN I SEE???
hey fellow mutant
Adree we play this in band to
Adree YESSSS!!!
Yes, I was there in 1962...so mellow, so sweet, life was pure and sweet....we should be so lucky.
We play this as a stand tune for band but the trumpet section says “will u be my squirrel” to piss off the band director
#Altos
Cm2
@@trevorbolena4202 what's that supposed to mean?
Our drum line says “grill” instead of “girl”
Thats so funny and quirky. Band kids are so cool and quirky wow!
My high school band played this on Friday nights right before we secured a win nothing but warm feelings
mine too! This was one of our favorites to twirl too just goofing off on the side of the field in between touchdowns
same
My family immigrated to nyc from denmark in 1959 and this is one of the first rock n roll songs that I heard and i was swept away. Never heard music til i heard my first rock n roll songs on my little turquoise radio in queens nyc. This and the lion sleeps tonight, Pretty Woman and Fats Domino. Best songs ever.
This for sharing. Experiences like this are special.
❤
La mejor época para vivir igual que la música, maravillosos tiempos aquellos que con éstas melodías nos transportan a ésa juventud bastante buena
I'm here because this song was number one on my birthday March 12th 1962..LOL
Happy late birthday love your music taste
Cool.
Bit of musical trivia: The harmonica player is Delbert McClinton who later showed John Lennon a few blues harmonica tricks (Love Me Do). Delbert is still playing and IMHO, doing some of his best stuff ever.
+Stan Young AMEN!!
Thank you!
Saw him at a concert in a sweet potato barn in Hugo, NC around 2012. One of the greatest concerts I ever saw.
Stan Young Thanks
I listened to Don Imus, too.
Who is here because they grew up with great music lik this 😉
My favorite song on the jukebox. I grew up in a cafe/joint. We often got to pick what music went on. I love it.
Can we all admire that he is alive and about to be 80
Yes indeed. And he and Delbert have stayed friends, and Delbert has a cruise most years, and always has a place for Bruce on it!!! And he always sings his songs in the key of D Doggie!!
I'm glad: I would like to go and see him live.
Respect. Great song
He's 83 and today is 1/18/2024 I wish I was his baby!
Dear Leah Bee, Great news? Thank you. Wonderful!
Love this song, I'm 23 and it reminds me of my aunt, she used to live with me and she was a second mother to me. She passed away back in 2015 but this song makes me remember her memory when I came here.
oh ye
RUP in Doo Wop heaven
i like when stuff remembers me. on account of how good it was.
Remembers and remind aren’t interchangeable
@@ice9557 - And that grammatical train wreck still garnished him 67 positive acknowledgements.
11-22-63 brought me here 😂 hadn’t heard this song since I was a kid
I remember our band was playing this song and I was on my brothers shoulder screaming at the top of my lungs as the seconds counted down to our first win of the season (first game and everyone had just come from a huge school pep rally) and a junior walks infront of my brother and sprays an entire bottle of baby powder on me. It was fun none the less
I hope you weren't in uniform 😭
I was maybe six when this hit the radio. I loved it so much, I felt it in my heart. So much joy! Music is a life saver
Dear D: Deep and delightful sentence. Music is a lifesaver.
This song just Never Gets Old!!! Been Lovin this for more than 50 years and still love it today 3/3/21!! 😊❤️
I love this song and have it in my record collection, so many happy memories.
Don’t worry if they at in the marching band they will know this song well
I love this song.. I play oldies like this to my kids.. ❤ let the greatest music live on
Too many band kids don’t you agree?
Some of them are called DunDun Productions and they leech a tumor off of a good comment to screw with the commenters mind lol
Girl i was thinking the same thing
While driving car pool- 20+ years ago- with my grand kids, we agreed to listen to a song on XM Sirius I liked, then they could choose a song they liked. Eventually fifty/sixty music overcame 80/90 selections.
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@@jubbybrab: This is what happens when someone like you are so sophisticated that you *soil yourself* with your sentiment of stultification.
One of the best songs of the 60's. Released on January 13, 1962, reaching # 1 on March 10.
I'm 67years old. Hearing this song takes me back to my early childhood.😊
I'm 68. Great song. Just had our 50th high school class reunion in June. Where does time go?
@@74bshsIt's in reference frames as our solar system moves us through outer space at 650k miles per hour. Anyhoo... I'm bout to turn 70. Loved 1950's and 60's culture. Peace.
Hola con mucha felicidad me refiero a estas melodias unicas no habra otras tan bellas como esta al escuchar estas melodias me transporta a otra mundo hermosa la siento en todo mi ser gracias Bruce saludos ciudad de Mexico
Some songs really are timeless,this one is right up at the top!
Talk about timeless I'm reading your comment from 8 years ago 😂
I always put music on before I go to sleep and then i had these lyrics in my head when i woke up so i had to listen to it again...Love 50s,60s music 🎶❤️
This is my marching bands go to song.
same!!
yay!! me too
do you guys do THE HORSE too
Branden Rounds yes same here we always get excited for this song!!
Branden Rounds Same
Loved the song from day one im now 74 ❤
I'm 77 and can still groove to this jam - for real
Played this sing in high school marching band. Brings back memories of some great times. Later played it as a Cavalier in DCI. Thanks for sharing.
*currently plays this in band* 😊
Greatest pep tune ever
Nigel Millican what year did u March cavaliers?
Znakomity utwór! Do dziś brzmi fantastycznie!
This is The Greatest 2 Minutes in Rock N Roll. Hey Baby is probably the most popular song ever played on the radio in Memphis. It was my personal pleasure to see Bruce and Delbert do this song on Mud Island, in Memphis and in the Mississippi River, in July/August 1988. It was a Jimmy Buffett concert, with the Neville Brothers, and Delbert McClinton.
Bruce was playing guitar for Delbert's band. From out of nowhere Delbert started playing and then Bruce started singing and somehow everybody new it was the Real Bruce Channel. It sounded as good as the record, except it was better cause we was drunk. Mud Island was heard 5 miles away singing Hey Baby. What a night - Buffet, the Neville Brothers, Delbert
and BRUCE Channel. I played this song on a Satellite Juke Box in Panama City Beach, Florida a couple of years ago
and everybody started singing. It was great. Arnold High School Band, in Pananma City Beach, uses this song as its
theme song. Art Can Go No Farther !
I'm so jealous! All of that at once.
cool story bro
Great share. God is good.
...can go no further....but it's all the same to me: if one wants to be technical, then Usage guides advise that 'farther' is for physical distance and 'further' is for figurative distance, but rules don't always stick....i'm no grammar nazi but suffer from extreme OC.
That sounds great, being surprised by that. I didn't even know his name until today, though I've loved the song for 60 years!
I was changed forever by this song!!! and my love of harmonica has kept growing since I first heard this at 12 years old. thanks
Well said, Stone: I savor the instrumentation and arrangements of this song.
Grew up listening to this classic.....
After 47 yrs. of marriage my BABY is still make me feel this way when I see her walking my way.
I'm 77 now but listening to this transports me back to when I was a teenager going to the Nightingale Cafe, Biggin Hill.
This song is etched into my brain from a weekend in July 1962 when the family Citroen ground to a halt with a failed wheel bearing on a trip to the British GP at Aintree and it seemed to be permanently on the radio.
Bruce does a wonderful job of singing of timeless classic song that still played and loved by a lot of people today.
I always really liked this song on the morning radio while getting ready to walk to school. 1962.
I heard it on Facebook and I LOVE it. I can't get enough of it,play it everyday. Makes me happy.
I love Delberts harp on this song. It sets the exact rite mood! Pure musical GENIUS!
The guitar sounds cool, too. And the drums -- that thump and swing. Great recording, really.
Oh my goodness ,what a rich,warm, beautiful voice. The song is so respectful and sweet. Telling a girl he is so digging her without being raunchy.
Hey Baby.
I was ten years old but I still remember the lyrics of this song. It was quite a hit in my part of Africa in its time.
Kwabena Sefa: In the days of yore, eclectic music made the charts and radios in many countries -- including the U. S. where there were fewer segregated radio stations. Today it's one track for holed-up communities with no nose for musical diversity but has the souls who snigger and segregate other styles.
I'm here because I've always loved this song! It's one of my favorites 😀
& it reminds me of Dirty Dancing! RIP Patrick Swayze ❤
Rest in paradise swayze 👊🏻❤️
Absolutely love the 50's and 60's gems.
Before my time, but Awesomeness is for all ages.
still one of the best Rock songs. if this don't make your feet happy you are dead
Can't quit tapping my feet love this song
Memories of dancing to this song in an El Paso park with my then girlfriend in 1962 while stationed at Fort Bliss.
This NEVER gets old!!! Sounds just as good today as it did when I was in the 10th grade in Fort worth... AHHS...
I did this in the 7th grade 😐
i listened to this in the 4 th. grade, in WACO, texas ?
Thanks ! Magnifique !
all these band kids... i’m just here from dirty dancing 😳
Same
same
Sameeeee 💖😂
Same!
I would have loved to have been one of the members of the group who danced in that barn loft in Dirty Dancing. Beautiful girls, lots of wonderful dancing, and most of all great music, no uptight nun chaperones from Our Lady of 115th Street Academy.
A great cover of the DJ Ötzi 2000 classic. Bruces use of Harmonica in this cover of DJ Ötzi's "Hey Baby (uhh ahh)" is a great addition - something DJ Otzi had not thought of in the year 2000 but a great addition none the less.
Love those oldies!!!! Just good music....plain and simple!!!
For a song that only held the #1 position on the Billboard charts for three weeks in 1962, it’s sure had a lasting impact - pep bands and sports arenas still play it nearly 60 years later. The song was written by Channel and his acquaintance Margaret Combs when they were teenagers trying to create hits like they heard on the radio. Channel’s only other commercial success was a song called “Keep On,” which made the Top 40 in the U.K., but didn’t do much in the States.
At my high school, as the Tuba/Sousaphone section leader(as a sophmore and same next year as junior 😎) i play part of the bass line twice through. All the while everyone is singing "heeeeyyyy... Heeyy baabby... i wanna knOOOOoooww, if youll be my girl". Everybody loves it and i couldnt be happier to be the biggest part of the biggest pep band tradition. U wouldnt believe the amount of people that befriended me just because of my role in that. Its astonishing! Like this if your school does the same.
Matthew Lynn I'm the only sousaphone at my school's basketball game band, we play this and my name fits the syllables - everyone sings my name :D
+Matthew Lynn Which school?
I play contra for our school's Pep band and I love playing this song. Possibly my favorite song to play at Pep Band. That or Wipe Out by the Surfaris.
+icetrey92 De Soto High School (in Kansas, we have the best marching band in the state)
+Regal Two contra what? contra trombone? FYI the sousaphone (BTW its in the key of BBb just like a standard concert horn) is a contrabass instrument as is. so what instrument do you play?
One Of The Best Stand Out Tracks Of The 60's. A Belting Monumental Classic. So Many Memories From Over The Years With This Supreme Stomper. Thank You Mr Channel.
STILL LISTENING IN 2024, GREAT MOVIE " DIRTY DANCING, R.I.P. PATRICK 🎉,
All rise for United States High School Marching Bands anthem
This is just a nice, simple, charming little tune. Makes me feel good 😊
Ahhhh I was laying down with my girl listening to this song so chilled
@@rollajay5301: You were chilly?
That bass line baby!! Straight grooving!!!!! Nothing like the oldies!!
this was one of John Lennons favorite songs because of the harmonica part. I love it more now because of the girl i'm in love with now :)
Do you still love her 2 years later?
@@ameade20 things happen but sad to say, no
WOW I didnt know that
That's how it goes. You'll always have the memories tho
Love Me Do harmonica part came from this song
whoever's playing electric guitar is ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT. Also, the drummer. Man this S L A P S
That's what I'm hearing, too. Great guitar tone. Drums were recorded really well.
1963, a time when.think most people would agree it wasn't as crazy as it is today!
You just aren’t remembering it - Vietnam, civil rights, women’s liberation, JFK assassination, the Cold War, nuclear arms race - it was at least as crazy then as now. The good old days never happened. We just think they did.
@@DavidLaFerney Guess we are going to have to agree to disagree. Oh, by the way, how many school shootings were there back in 1963? How many babies born out of wedlock back then? How much dissolution in music and mannerisms as there is today. How many road rage incidents back then--only one I remember was in a movie called "Easy Rider". Oh wait, how many child mutilations were there and how the ACLU stands up for such nonsense. Can't recall there were too many children back then and if any child told their parent they wanted to be the opposite sex the parent would probably slap them and tell them to snap out it! But you are right-I guess I am simply delusional. Oh, yea and there are no assassinations in this day and age. Guess the two on Ford, one on Reagan and the recent one on Trump doesn't classify as "crazy".
this was the building block for so many hits down thru the years.
11.22.63 !
+Ulvi Kerimli Who ARE you?
Me too!!!
+Ulvi Kerimli How's your clothespin ?
60s music all the way!
+Ulvi Kerimli YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE
I adore the juxtaposition of the bass and guitar chords in the chorus (hook) as if something is occurring with the in-key/off-key resolve tonality.
Great song that went to # 1 in early 1962.
graduated hi school june 63
I'm in band and we always play this and my boyfriend sings it to me 💕💕
Hey, heybaby
I want to know if you'll be my girl
Hey, hey baby
I want to know if you'll be my girl
When I saw you walking down the street
I said that's a kind of girl I'd like to meet
She's so pretty, Lord, she's fine
I'm gonna make her mine, all mine
Hey, hey baby
I want to know if you'll be my girl
When you turned and walked away
That's when I want to say
"C'mon baby, give me a whirl
I want to know if you'll be my girl"
Hey, hey baby
I want to know if you'll be my girl
When you turned and walked away
That's when I want to say
"C'mon baby, give me a whirl
I want to know if you'll be my girl"
Hey, hey baby
I want to know if you'll be my girl
Hey, hey hey hey hey, baby c'mon, baby now
This song came out in 1959............when I was 15 and a sophomore in high school...........still love this song.............hey baby I want to know know know if you'll be my..
This song was playing when I was born (my mum had a ‘hits from the movies’ cd) and every time I hear this song, or watch this scene in dirty dancing it always makes me so happy.
One of my favorite all time favorites !!! I LIVE ON OLDIES MUSIC 🎶
Dirty dancing😍😍😍 the best film i ever seen in all my life💖💖💖💖
You desperately need to see more Films.
This song has been a staple of my high school pep band for generations. What's really cool is to hear TODAY'S high school kids belting out the lyrics like it's the hottest song on the radio, even though it is nearly 60 years old!!
Band has made my high school experience magical. Thank you band
This song was played a lot by Bob Wooler, DJ at the lunch time Cavern club sessions in Liverpool, when l was an office junior. I went every lunchtime to see the Beatles before they made it big. Everyone loved this Bruce Chanel song back then. The original and best
My grandfather was called up to play drums with his band in the 1960's in a concert in Dallas ,TX back then
A staple of so many classic car shows and cruise nights. : ) Great memories.
My dad accomplished a lot while on this earth may he R.I.P. I miss you Dad...😎
Takes me way, way, back in time to when I was about 14-15 yrs old. What a song. Instant ly remembered it from the intro. Still move to it!
My sister wore the groves out on this one, playing it all night on her 16th birthday party back in November 1963. I think she may still have the single.
I can picture myself in the back seat of our old 1950 ford (standard on the column LOL) with my mom driving and singing along with this on the radio, all the windows open. Thanks for posting this, made me smile but brought a little lump in my throat too.
Delbert McClinton on harp on this song! Also the song has two different bridges...very unusual. I saw Bruce Chanel perform this song about 5 feet away at the Flora Bama Lounge on the Florida/Alabama state line in Orange Beach, Alabama, at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in about 2013. Great song! Always gets the crowd going when I play it in a jam session or with a band.
Hearing this at LSU games and the whole stadium singing gives me chills.
When my mom was cooking dinner for her family she was at 40' i think, she listning to the radio, and once, she heard this song and told me she dence when she was young. She was sooo happy!! Now its holiday in israel and tow years without her, just good emorys left.. Thank's for the song.
Love that bass playing!
I'm in North Philly and this song takes me back to the back roads of Louisiana!!
Great song, great harmonica (Delbert McClinton), great guitar, great drums, thumpin' upright bass, great vocal delivery -- and John Lennon said this song inspired him to play the harmonica bit on Love Me Do. Can't beat that, now, can ya.
Been a 'Delbert Fan' since 74..........He's da Man !
When I was young, they played this song at ball games and sometimes they still do. The song lives forever,
Excellent song, ruined by everyone who's tried to do a cover version. Thank God for youTube so we can get this, the original and best.
Michael Slater agree
+jennifur sun Not ruined by everyone, see Delbert McClinton and Bruce do this, Delbert was harmonica player on orig !!!
+cayogator It's not really a cover version if it's done by the original singer and harmonica player :/
i said it was a "cover" ?? lol, i know singer and harmonica player lol
+Jared Hampton
hi Enrique Hey Mimi
still listening & still loving it.8-21-20, we don't have any of this great music in today's world.
It sucks to be in the one band that doesn’t play this as a stand tune😭
Levi Cumberland black bands ik bc i was in one who would even play this as a stand tune🤦🏽♂️
Couldn't be me
I loved this song the first time I heard it on 1961, and still do so today.
The Liverpool (well, "Southport" ) band Rhythm' N' Blues Incorporated used to do a fabulous version of this back in the sixties, Peter J Kelly being the vocalist.
Great song from the past. Bruce Channel. I give it an 9 Great song.
Dirty Dancing lol. Love this song 🖤💖♥️‼️
Absolutely! R.I.P Patrick Swayze 💔💔😭😭
Best song in the whole movie.
I always thought that this cat was a brother but now that I see who sang.i was shocked any ways to me it sounds all the same anybody that could sing could really sing.. this one always a good song from the amazing 60's..👍✌..
One of my favorites back in the day.!!
I popped an oldie CD in the car yesterday and this was on it. Needless to say, I BLASTED it. I love this!!!!
*does the moves*
*sways clarinet back and forth*
Squidward-in Saturn lol
Yesss swing the clarinet.
When in doubt go left XD
Oct 2022 I went to a Football game recently and the Marana Tigers Marching Band played this. The crowd sang it loudly! Such fun that a 60 year old song can stand the test of time so well!
Still holds up after all these years
I've always loved this song, was thrilled when they used it in Dirty Dancing. A few months ago, I was watching music videos on UA-cam, and found a version of this song by Raul Malo! Oh my!!! He slowed it down, put some "swagger" in it, and girls I'm telling you...I needed a cigarette when it was over, and I don't smoke! 🔥😍
I've always loved this song
Um still diggin' this jam since 1961, when I was in 5th grade. Such a smooth classic that never gets tired.
Will Hernandez NY
Casey knows the proper version
Just saw him at Poodie's Roadhouse in Spicewood, Texas, along with Sonny Throckmorton, Rock Killough and Craig Dillingham. Best songwriter event I've ever been to. Tanya Tucker made a surprise visit and sang a couple of songs with these masters of their profession.
Which is better?
Like: This version
Comment: DJ Otzi version
There’s no comparison this fellas voice is a proper singing voice DJ Otzi can’t sing sure his version is catchy but he has no singing talent
i comment but fuck dj otzi ruin it
Old is Gold
I like both🙃 this one cuz 1. It's from Dirty Dancing and 2. Cuz I love how old it sounds 💖 DJ Otzi's version cuz it's funky ass shit 😂😂
Both!
This song be giving me goose bumps like I was there. I think I was.