Its 2022 and i am a 71 year old with goosebumps listening to this great song, 1969 i was 18 , time has flown and i have got older perhaps a little wiser in the ways of this old world, But the song is as fresh as ever Thank you so much, Sisaket Thailand
One of my favorite quotes is: "Time marches on and eventually you realize it's marching across your face." There's also a good song by an American Country and Western singer on this topic that I've always loved. "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence. (for anyone reading this, don't let the fact that it's a country song put you off. just give it a listen and then delete your internet history 😁) Ironically, it hit me earlier today that I graduated high school 23 years ago... It doesn't seem like that long ago. But in another 20 years, my daughter will be my age and I'll be staring down 61. Hopefully my dad will be still be around at 87.
@lori dingledine Sorry, I disagree. Almost every cover of a Bob Dylan song sounds better than Bob Dylan singing it... The Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man... Graham Bonnett, It's All Over Now Baby Blue... Gunners, Knocking on Heaven's Door... Just to name a few....
I was 17 and a senior in high school. I was home sick for a month with mono and i remember hearing this song on my radio. I t became my favorite song!!
In the 1970's a jerk in my class mocked me for singing this song that was already 'too old'. Now in 2019 I can play it on the guitar too. And loving it.
You got the last laugh ... now an anthem for victorious sport teams ... fans always drummed rival off the court with the chorus to this song ... which immortalized it.
LkOutMtnMan. U guys uh little late. White Sox organists Nancy Faust began playin STEAMS'S '69 hit in 1977 at COMISKEY PARK when the SOUTH SIDE HITMEN! were Makin uh playoff run. The song stuck as the seasons passed & became part of White Sox tradition.
@@peekiethedogpeekie1080 GREATFUL AND THANKFUL YOU STILL REMEMBER YOUR BEST FRIEND "ALL THESE YEARS LATER"!(I WAS BORN IN 69) YOU GIVE ME "HOPE" I'LL "NEVER FORGET MY 2 BEST FRIENDS I'VE LOST"...🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AND FOR OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸I'M SO SORRY FOR THE WAY Y'ALL WERE TREATED BACK THEN!!! THANK 🕇GOD🕇 WE NOW "HONOR ALL SERVICE MEN & WOMEN"🎗UNTIL THEY ALL COME HOME🎗...LOVE YOU BROTHER ALWAYS IN CHRIST🕇
Back sink I gather. A few of us were on kp, three days in a row, waiting to leave from Ft. Jackson to Ft. Leonardwood. Mess Sarg didn’t give us time to make music.
Air Force basic training, 1988: They played this song at the end of every church service for those that were graduating and shipping out to their tech school. Every week, I knew that it would finally be us. And it was. Whatever happened to my flight-mates, I hope life has been good.
Miracles still happen I tell you for sure. I'm alive and moving on having overcome the hardest ordeals-mountains not hills. And I'm very happy to watch this live video that I used to hear on radio in my adolescence years thtough UA-cam here in South Korea and now August 12 2024.
Me too. I never could have imagined the mountain that was ahead of me. It would come later in life, and was akin to being kidnapped. Music like this helped me through climbing that mountain. My present and future had been stolen from me, and my relationship to the past was forever altered. This music, on some level, kept me in touch with the past I once knew until it the fog that followed for several years subsequent to the active part of my nightmare had ended, effectively had ended as I reintegrated into life and felt like the person I had been.
Growing up next to a historically black university, I often went to watch their basketball games, which they almost always won. When it was obvious that they’d win each game, usually just after the start of the fourth quarter, the students and everyone else in the stands would start singing this song very softly, just the way Steam performed it. We would gradually sing louder and louder until this song was quite deafening. There’s no doubt in my mind that the losing team would lose the game because the song had them utterly demoralized. Great memories from the early seventies!
And yet they were furious when the record execs were so impressed by this throwaway B-side as the writers intended - so much so that they refused to have anything to do with it (other than to accept the writing credits - clearly they were no mugs in the Biz) and wouldn't allow their names to be used, hence the fictitious band "Steam" on the credits. I'm with the record execs on this one!
What a voice. I saw the singer on one of those PBS oldies shows and he belted that thing out like it was nothing. The crowd went nuts. Totally electric-
This tune got a lot of air time on Armed Forces Radio Vietnam, 1969. It always stuck in my head on Huey eagle flights heading out on missions. Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers is the song I played in my mind on the ride back to the NDP days later.
Thank you for your service Mr.Cook. I'm glad you made it back. Thanks to you and all of our Veterans for the Freedom and Security that you all provided. We sleep easy because you did the heavy lifting. Bravo sir, Bravo.
@@elylew Aug 2023: Especially so. I hope donalrump tries to run via jet...he's the only passenger...and the pilot/co-pilot are able to eject safely....when....
Remember this in Jr. High in 1970 and you still here it to this day at every football game! Songs from that era are the best! Listen to commercials and sports venues and its all around this time. lol
Yes, the group in the video is just miming to the record, and did not play on it. The lead singer on the record was Gary DeCarlo, and the keyboardist was Paul Leka. The drums on the record were taken from studio tracks from earlier recordings. DeCarlo and Leka are not in the group pictured here, they put this group together as a fake "Steam" for a tour and TV appearances when the record became a hit.
I'm pretty sure you can hear a synthesizer (Moog) in the drum break in the middle of the song. That break was quite a novelty in 1969. I think the Na na's were inspired by Beatles' Hey Jude.
I worked as a middle school nurse for 7 years. On the last student day at the end of the year, the entire staff lined the driveway where the busses loaded and we'd sing this song and wave to the students. It was definitely one of the best memories, although a little sad because of the students who were moving up to high school.
I heard this song at the onset of puberty, I remember moving on my girlfriend attempting to get to all the bases; attracted to her cigarette breath. I am now just 68, she lives in the southwestern U.S., I live in NYC ten miles from where we grew up. She is into fitness and health, and FB brought us together 13 years ago. We message each other four or so a year, checking on each other's heart condition. I heard this song, and recall the first time I heard it too. Around the time of my bar mitzvah, when we broke up later that night. Songs that bring back the soul of one's youth.
I am 62 years old and remember when I was 16 years old my girlfriends older sister after breaking up with her boyfriend would go around always singing this song for self healing after she and her boyfriend broke up. 🥰
I will honor him by turning the volume up to eleven on the glorious day when Donald F***ing Trump is dragged unceremoniously from the White House, kicking and screaming like the pathetic little baby that he is :-)
The Rob Rieners!!! LMF...ingAO!!!! Whoo The MeatHeads...I'm LOVING IT!! Anyone here in 2019?? Goodness NEVER goes out of style... Thank you for posting this... Classic. Priceless....Awsome. Good memories brought to you by The Waaay Back Machine....much love,
Great song. I was very young when I first heard it. My older sister and her boyfriend (husband now) would take us younger siblings (4) cruising with them and blast the radio. This song was one of those you would sing out loud to. Those were some good times
Nic Hey Nic I couldn't have d d said it better uf I tried!! I love it when it slowly comes back Nd the voices get louder and I get ready to play the "ding ding ding , ding , ding ding' then I pksy the guitar with the ding ding ding li2 yhid dom don dondingdindondpn with my hands cause Im not sure what inztriments Im playing but then it sounds like violins coming in louder on one side then everything comes into play I go crazy over it. I stay right pn beat and its feels great inside! I really love this SONG!!
Sept 1983....our whole Company broke out singing this song as we were just about to graduate from AIT at Ft. Benning Georgia! That was our 'Stripes' moment lol.
MTV really helped to popularize this song. I forget what the show was called, but there were 2 or 3 contestants sitting in really comfy oversized recliners and they were asked trivia questions. They ended up getting dumped from the chair if they got the answer wrong. The final contestant still in the recliner ended up being the winner. This was back in the late 80s. I had a niece that was 2 yrs old at the time, and that show would come on tv at her bedtime. She picked up on songs pretty quickly, and one night we heard her sing the Na na na na na na hey hey goodnight. It was so cute!
What ?? This song was already popular when it first hit in 1969 and was popular in the early 70s especially on black radio stations what hell are u talking about?
Man, brings back memories of one of the BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE, with some of the DEAREST PEOPLE in my life...who are now gone. Dedicated in Loving Memory to James and Gloria, Regina, Tommy, and Rockie. RIP
@@born4thstime I was never born at that time. I've always wanted to grow up in it solely because it the golden age of music. Especially rap Markie and Biggie oooo that's the the stuff.
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica.The last time I heard this song I was still a child, it was on the radio and I didn't even know the words nor the band, all I knew was that I love it and would not have found it if I had not stumbled on it today. I will be 61 this year.
This song hit #2 on the singles chart on December 6, 1969 in that very last month of the 60s decade with millions of listeners singing along to this joyful sendoff to an amazing yet turbulent ten years.
December 1969. Summer in Australia. I was 15. The days when you could take your transistor to the beach, go swimming, come back and the transistor was STILL THERE!! We had this song playing on pretty much every radio at the beach on our summer holiday in the south west of Western Australia.
As the memories keep pouring inside my head, they begin to fall down on my face. I remember the echoes of our youth by trying to sing this classic song, laughing, putting more makeup on, making our skirts short, foolish things, etc. I'll always cherish those days that went by so quickly, just as life.
They played this on the aircraft when we left Iraq in '04, and then again in '12 in Afghanistan. Special song for me. LOVE IT!!!! C-141 on the strip! Take me home Freedom Bird!!!
🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AND FOR OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸ONE NATION UNDER GOD🕇IN GOD🕇WE TRUST🎗AND "EVERYONE WHO SERVED ALONG SIDE OF YOU🎗" THANKS FOR MAKING OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸"SAFER"!!!
In the fall of ‘69 during the high school football season, some friends and I started singing this at our football games, which in turn started the cheerleaders to go along with us. Our team was pretty good, so we did it a lot……..and the rest is now history! We even got to do it in the oldest high school rivalry in the country, the Male Manual game.
The whole world is grinding their teeth when America, Russia and China vote's for their "democracy". Go live some else planet and you can be deceptive to democracy long as you like, but your same country made it happen that Trump was elected as a president. That can only happen in dictatorship countries. Your actions causes whirls on global scale, so i don't think you're capaple of voting for whole world.
To the OP, I listen to it EVERY single year since 1984 when your low life Mexacony LA/Oakland Raiders get eliminated from playoff contention. Usually after week 6 or so.
@@GOPMAN71 Sorry your cult leader lost...who knew supporting nazis and white supremacists would bite the GOP in the Trump? You have yourself a very fascist day, L'il Hitler. :)
@@cherylobrien2350 na na na na na na na na hey hey good bye to misinformation! 🖐 na na na na na na na na hey hey good bye Marjorie Taylor Green and your misinformation
All of my teachers sang this today as we loaded the buses for the last day of school 😂 Edit: omg how, school starts tomorrow why did summer go by so fast 😭
Ava Croley My school days sucked, Parents were so religious my grade school was all nun teachers & my High School was all boys. So much for Catholic grade school most 8th graders were smoking cigarettes. Man did I let my parents down I started drinking my freshmen year of High School. !977 was the year of Buffalo, NY Blizzard. It was a bad storm it snowed every day in December & January for a total of 19 feet City & Schools were closed for 3 weeks. That storm gave Buffalo the name SNOW CAPITAL OF USA. People were afraid of Buffalo like people were afraid of the movie JAWS. Even now we get 10-12 feet every winter from Lake Erie. Why of all Citys near 5 Great Lakes does Buffalo get most snow. This is True always WHITE XMAS IN BUFFALO. IRELAND FOREVER
Totally get that, Angela! My friends and I were into CB radios and would put it on the PA setting and drive around Southern California with songs like this and Bowie's Golden Years blasting on the PA. Ahh, memories!
Back in 1969YOU drove real slow and the windows were rolled up real 😳 tight and the music🎵 was loud and you know back in 1969 you had to hide so that's why the windows were up and closed 🌳🌷 and the windows were tinted so you couldn't see 🚔 I'm quite sure there's still some of you out there that'll agree with me back in 69 when you were 16🤣🤣 that's what you call Cruiser🚘
I can't help thinking that if the hit song was recorded by studio musicians, TV appearances by the touring band were actually just a bunch of guys lip-synching. Kind of a 1960s Milli Vanilli, if you will.
I'm a squirrel watcher--oops, I mean, I'm a girl watcher. Or Expressway to your heart. or do you believe like I believe in miracles. Great songs, but I can't remember the rest of the words.
Here in UK back in 1970 we use too sing the chorus from the terraces when watching our local football team. Our version included the name of the club's most revered player
1971 Graduated Navy Boot Camp at RTC Great Lakes. After the formal ceremony, there were buses waiting to take us to the airports, across the street to Naval Station or wherever and they played this song over the PA system. Brings back fond memories.
What I always thought was so cool about this song was toward the end when the instrumental is over i like how they build up the chorus by adding one instrument at a time back into it. Also in an interview they said for the majority of the song the drum part was just a loop.
When all is said and done, this song might be the most played and most enduring song ever. I mean, it can be played for pretty much anything that leaves something. And it’s played at sporting events around the world and as long as sports are still being played, this will be played worldwide everyday.
I'm dreamin for you...but, for me 2020-2021 was another night mare like sending our pot boyfriends off and away to Virtnam..which was catastrophic for teen agers..at the time. But, tgey fooled us again.
When I was 11 and 12 years old, my mom sent me to the YMCA summer camp in Catskills NY. It was some the best years of my life. I learned so much being outdoors camping and hiking and living in cabins half the summer. I met some really amazing people. We would sing this when camp was over the last night everyone would sing along brought tears to my eyes
The song will be very appropriate to share with Trump Supports, once all the votes are tabulated and Joe Biden is declared the winne of the Presidential election 2020. . .
Fifty years ago, some musicians were struggling with writer's block, so they time traveled to November 7, 2020. They found all the inspiration they needed, returned to their time, and composed a masterpiece. No one knew who or what the song was about, but when the time finally came, there were no doubts.
music way back when between the 40s and the 7 days was a real music was real rock and roll real country western real honky tonk lately all I've seen is a lot of canned music same old same old same ideas same twisted words it's way back when when music was real and people were real and that's something we have to be grateful for
I’m here in 2024 singing along to this gem of a song!!
#Steam
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
I'm here because this an original from my past damn good
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Oh Ok
I just came here to do for Biden
Song never gets old
Its 2022 and i am a 71 year old with goosebumps listening to this great song, 1969 i was 18 , time has flown and i have got older perhaps a little wiser in the ways of this old world, But the song is as fresh as ever Thank you so much, Sisaket Thailand
One of my favorite quotes is: "Time marches on and eventually you realize it's marching across your face."
There's also a good song by an American Country and Western singer on this topic that I've always loved. "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence. (for anyone reading this, don't let the fact that it's a country song put you off. just give it a listen and then delete your internet history 😁)
Ironically, it hit me earlier today that I graduated high school 23 years ago... It doesn't seem like that long ago. But in another 20 years, my daughter will be my age and I'll be staring down 61. Hopefully my dad will be still be around at 87.
so true from Wisconsin
Same here. I served as a Marine in Nam Phong, Thailand in ‘72. Just curious, are you a US ex-pat.?
I'm 66 years old.
Am I the only kid here? I’m 10😢
A fond memory from Oct. 69. I was a senior. It was a fun year and this song made it better
I was in 8th grade, & will be 69 on July1, this year
50🎉th school reunion last year it's as fresh like yesterday ❤️ it's all in blessings our generation 70s. 🙏📖😀
I was also a senior in high school. Where does 55 years go?
Awesome old song. I’m so glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Best era ever ❤
Ditto Kiddo😅
These dudes deserve endless royalties. Such a great song.
If your only gonna have 1 hit man this is good one to have.......this will be played forever .
at every basketball game in high school i went to
so true
I've not heard this version before, only knew the Bananarama cover from the 80s. This is better
@@turnman02 original always is :)
@lori dingledine Sorry, I disagree. Almost every cover of a Bob Dylan song sounds better than Bob Dylan singing it... The Byrds, Mr Tambourine Man... Graham Bonnett, It's All Over Now Baby Blue... Gunners, Knocking on Heaven's Door... Just to name a few....
This one of those songs that always takes you back to when it was released, Always loved the whole thing with the beat throughout the song.
ME 2 🎤😍🎸❤️😭💔
@@barbpence8784, I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
I was 17 and a senior in high school. I was home sick for a month with mono and i remember hearing this song on my radio. I t became my favorite song!!
This was the top song the day I was born.
In the 1970's a jerk in my class mocked me for singing this song that was already 'too old'.
Now in 2019 I can play it on the guitar too. And loving it.
and the winner is you , better and stronger
And he was a jerk. Some just don't understand good music.
I found some good sheet music and learned it on the piano. This song rocks!
You got the last laugh ... now an anthem for victorious sport teams ... fans always drummed rival off the court with the chorus to this song ... which immortalized it.
Well done good music transcends space and time . . . Gr8 song!!
raise your hand if you want to go back to october 1969!!!!
enjoy this great song
🙌
I sang this when Whitney Houston died.
I want to go back.
I don't want to go to 1969 bc I wasn't around until 1996!
@@austinmorse4337 you might like it!
I’m a 34year old from nz and this song grooves and jumps as well as back in my old man’s days lol classics can’t be killed or replaced
I’m 73 years old man I’m still digging this song brings back a lot of memories for me baby
Right there with you buddy. Good memories.
I'm literally only 19 but this song already fits with so many of my memories as a barely-adult person. Whoa.
me too
Me too
Right up there with you, my friend. Loving it.
I'm almost 82; and I Love this great song!
Keep on lovin' it
I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
i love that you're on you tube ♥
you mean 28 right ??!
I heard this song in old(1970s) indian movie. Came here for original 😁
This song is an Evergreen, it will never die!
This song was released in 1969, it's 2023!
This song is kicking just like Bruce Lee did in his movies!
Agreed! I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
It is a great song 🎵 to use when winning victories, whether it be sports or life's winning moments 🎇🎉🏀⚾️⚽️🏈🥊!
My high school band would rock out with this song after we were way ahead of our opponents in football games!
We would play this when we knew it was over for them and Taps at the end of the game.
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
LkOutMtnMan. U guys uh little late. White Sox organists Nancy Faust began playin STEAMS'S '69 hit in 1977 at COMISKEY PARK when the SOUTH SIDE HITMEN! were Makin uh playoff run. The song stuck as the seasons passed & became part of White Sox tradition.
i played this in marching band. in new jersey 1967
all good
I was on eternal mess duty at Camp Lejeune in 1970. We'd pound on the pots and pans and shake the silverware while we sang this song all night long.
Damn I think you served me in July or August. Arrived from PI on July 8
Nice! I can hear that. 👍🏽
🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AND FOR OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸 ONE NATION UNDER GOD🕇IN GOD🕇WE TRUST🇺🇸...🎗AND "EVERY" SERVICE MAN & WOMAN SINCE YOUR SERVICE🎗!!!
@@peekiethedogpeekie1080 GREATFUL AND THANKFUL YOU STILL REMEMBER YOUR BEST FRIEND "ALL THESE YEARS LATER"!(I WAS BORN IN 69) YOU GIVE ME "HOPE" I'LL "NEVER FORGET MY 2 BEST FRIENDS I'VE LOST"...🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AND FOR OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸I'M SO SORRY FOR THE WAY Y'ALL WERE TREATED BACK THEN!!! THANK 🕇GOD🕇 WE NOW "HONOR ALL SERVICE MEN & WOMEN"🎗UNTIL THEY ALL COME HOME🎗...LOVE YOU BROTHER ALWAYS IN CHRIST🕇
Back sink I gather. A few of us were on kp, three days in a row, waiting to leave from Ft. Jackson to Ft. Leonardwood. Mess Sarg didn’t give us time to make music.
Nov 2019 I'm here and grooving! Grateful to have grown up in the 60s/70s when the best and real music was created.
Yep
Same here, AND I saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965. I was 13 yrs old
January 2020 right on
Jan 2020 still rocking
A blast when DJ played this on radio. Amongst others.
Air Force basic training, 1988: They played this song at the end of every church service for those that were graduating and shipping out to their tech school. Every week, I knew that it would finally be us. And it was. Whatever happened to my flight-mates, I hope life has been good.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!
Miracles still happen I tell you for sure. I'm alive and moving on having overcome the hardest ordeals-mountains not hills. And I'm very happy to watch this live video that I used to hear on radio in my adolescence years thtough UA-cam here in South Korea and now August 12 2024.
I am so happy to hear that your miracles happened. We may be a similar age since I also heard the song in Korea a long time ago.
Me too. I never could have imagined the mountain that was ahead of me. It would come later in life, and was akin to being kidnapped. Music like this helped me through climbing that mountain. My present and future had been stolen from me, and my relationship to the past was forever altered. This music, on some level, kept me in touch with the past I once knew until it the fog that followed for several years subsequent to the active part of my nightmare had ended, effectively had ended as I reintegrated into life and felt like the person I had been.
GREAT GREAT SONG even today ... one of my all-time favorites!!
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
how could so many people not like this song. Very cool sound.
Sandra Brown justin bieber fans XD Great song.
+Sandra Brown Because this song was sung to them. Probably for very good reasons.
+Sandra Brown cool sound physically displeasing band
+toll_booth Ha ha
+Sandra Brown Either because they have no taste...or have a stick up their ass!
Growing up next to a historically black university, I often went to watch their basketball games, which they almost always won. When it was obvious that they’d win each game, usually just after the start of the fourth quarter, the students and everyone else in the stands would start singing this song very softly, just the way Steam performed it. We would gradually sing louder and louder until this song was quite deafening. There’s no doubt in my mind that the losing team would lose the game because the song had them utterly demoralized.
Great memories from the early seventies!
sung at the Palestra Palestra Jon
@@bigboyedward yes indeed!
We had the best music 🎉
What a song! Thanks Lord for helping me find it! Your light illumine my memory!
🎸🎶🎸🎼🥁🎵
this song takes me back to better times....better days....I want them back....thanks for the memories....nothing but love for ya
We all want them back.
Better times, no doubt!
Me too, absolutely
@@joannecarlson9933 yeah great times,great music better than some of the rubbish that is around now
Me too
1969 epitomized by this chart-topper. Radio couldn't get enough of this song that year. Released on October 4, 1969, reaching # 1 on December 6.
Steam. No one remembers the name of the group, but everyone remembers the song! What a song!
Lady Suzette @ N
I still have an original 45 of this.
I remembered the name. For a long time I though they were a black band..
This song is Badass!
Lady Suzette Uhh,I remember countless groups from the past! (when music was good!) and I have this one on 45!
I could watch these old music videos all night!
One of the greatest anthems in popular music history! A masterpiece
B.I.S.O.N.: BRISTOL SCREENWRITER NONSTUDENT they tried to make the worst recording they possibly could. That's a fact
Is a very popular song, no doubt. But it is light years from being a "masterpiece".
So true
And yet they were furious when the record execs were so impressed by this throwaway B-side as the writers intended - so much so that they refused to have anything to do with it (other than to accept the writing credits - clearly they were no mugs in the Biz) and wouldn't allow their names to be used, hence the fictitious band "Steam" on the credits.
I'm with the record execs on this one!
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What a voice. I saw the singer on one of those PBS oldies shows and he belted that thing out like it was nothing. The crowd went nuts. Totally electric-
Very Beautiful Masterpiece, great music & great memories of life, the best musical decade of all time
It’s f’n ridiculous how many times I listen to this song while dancing over and over!!! Still won’t sit down!!!1969 . . . and into eternity!!!
Oh dear God, that brought back memories **two thumbs up**
I said that before I saw this comment
I love this music. So awesome
They don't make songs like this nowdays
No cussing, no lewd actions, just puts you in a good mood!!
so true
This tune got a lot of air time on Armed Forces Radio Vietnam, 1969. It always stuck in my head on Huey eagle flights heading out on missions. Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers is the song I played in my mind on the ride back to the NDP days later.
Thank you for your service Mr.Cook. I'm glad you made it back. Thanks to you and all of our Veterans for the Freedom and Security that you all provided. We sleep easy because you did the heavy lifting. Bravo sir, Bravo.
Yes! I love both of these songs. "Oh Happy Day " is the song I'm going to sing when justice prevails over these evil Dems.
@@bettysmith9466 And "Na na hey hey kiss him GOODBYE" is what we all sang when Trump got voted out
@@elylew Aug 2023: Especially so. I hope donalrump tries to run via jet...he's the only passenger...and the pilot/co-pilot are able to eject safely....when....
@@A73ELKYSSthank you for your service.bless you
This timeless song ,will live forever .
I want this to be played at my funeral! :P
Now that would be BOSS!
Fucking hell ya
LMFAO 🤣
Mine too !
@@oofoof2887 and ur how old?
Remember this in Jr. High in 1970 and you still here it to this day at every football game! Songs from that era are the best! Listen to commercials and sports venues and its all around this time. lol
They are jamming all blood and heart! No sensitizers...no computers just pure talent
They aren't playing
none of the guys up there had anything to do with this song.
It's a fake band. The song is great and was sung by Gary DeCarlo
@@TheReeveOfMontClare what are you serious
Yes, the group in the video is just miming to the record, and did not play on it. The lead singer on the record was Gary DeCarlo, and the keyboardist was Paul Leka. The drums on the record were taken from studio tracks from earlier recordings. DeCarlo and Leka are not in the group pictured here, they put this group together as a fake "Steam" for a tour and TV appearances when the record became a hit.
I'm pretty sure you can hear a synthesizer (Moog) in the drum break in the middle of the song. That break was quite a novelty in 1969. I think the Na na's were inspired by Beatles' Hey Jude.
I believe its Stevie Wonder singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".
Heard this beautiful song in year 69's, I love it 🎼🎵🎶🎧😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️
I worked as a middle school nurse for 7 years. On the last student day at the end of the year, the entire staff lined the driveway where the busses loaded and we'd sing this song and wave to the students. It was definitely one of the best memories, although a little sad because of the students who were moving up to high school.
This is such a great song. Oh man it reminds me of 1970-71 when I was a boy. I love this song.
The 1960s went out with a bang with songs such as this one.
Heard this song for the first time at age 17,loved this song since, I'm now 52 😁
I heard this song at the onset of puberty, I remember moving on my girlfriend attempting to get to all the bases; attracted to her cigarette breath. I am now just 68, she lives in the southwestern U.S., I live in NYC ten miles from where we grew up. She is into fitness and health, and FB brought us together 13 years ago. We message each other four or so a year, checking on each other's heart condition.
I heard this song, and recall the first time I heard it too. Around the time of my bar mitzvah, when we broke up later that night. Songs that bring back the soul of one's youth.
I am 62 years old and remember when I was 16 years old my girlfriends older sister after breaking up with her boyfriend would go around always singing this song for self healing after she and her boyfriend broke up. 🥰
Ditto!
@@remahill9230 A wild Ditto has appeared!
Aw
@@remahill9230 For THAT!! 😏
Amen
This song generated such a wonderful feeling for everybody listening.
I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
@@shutterbug_713 Mazel Tov
RIP lead singer Gary DiCarlo and thank you Steam for this MASTERPIECE
and it was the only hit
I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
Don’t give a shit about Katy Perry love this band
I will honor him by turning the volume up to eleven on the glorious day when Donald F***ing Trump is dragged unceremoniously from the White House, kicking and screaming like the pathetic little baby that he is :-)
@@sawadee-er7vu just enjoy the music dude.
I remember this and the way we used to dance to it . Body movements...hey hey hey. we were all in for it X😊
The greatest singalong song of all time. 50 years later this song still slays.
I agree
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
@@pinkydogbear, I do too! I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
Classics Neva die 🎲
The Rob Rieners!!! LMF...ingAO!!!! Whoo The MeatHeads...I'm LOVING IT!! Anyone here in 2019?? Goodness NEVER goes out of style... Thank you for posting this... Classic. Priceless....Awsome. Good memories brought to you by The Waaay Back Machine....much love,
Playing it today!!!
Great song. I was very young when I first heard it. My older sister and her boyfriend (husband now) would take us younger siblings (4) cruising with them and blast the radio. This song was one of those you would sing out loud to. Those were some good times
One of the greatest pop songs of all time - love the outro as the xylophone creeps in and then the pleading vocals. Thanks for sharing.
Nic Hey Nic I couldn't have d d said it better uf I tried!! I love it when it slowly comes back Nd the voices get louder and I get ready to play the "ding ding ding , ding , ding ding' then I pksy the guitar with the ding ding ding li2 yhid dom don dondingdindondpn with my hands cause Im not sure what inztriments Im playing but then it sounds like violins coming in louder on one side then everything comes into play I go crazy over it. I stay right pn beat and its feels great inside! I really love this SONG!!
One of the best pop songs of all time? Wow.... you need to listen to more music.
Dan Holmes There’s no denying it’s iconic.
@@thedanholmes I listen to more music and I happen to agree with Nic.
Sept 1983....our whole Company broke out singing this song as we were just about to graduate from AIT at Ft. Benning Georgia! That was our 'Stripes' moment lol.
Reminds me of usn. Basic at great lakes ill 1984
hooah...never gonna miss columbus
1986 Basic Training Ft. Leonard Wood, we sang it too.
One day at BCT one of our drill sergeants switched from calling cadence to singing this song as we marched. Very cool. Fort Jackson E-6-2 Sep70.
RIP Gary Decarlo who sang that song died of lung cancer at the age of 75. This song has more meaning more than ever.
Wow, soo sad.
Sad.
so sad
I wonder if anyone played this song at his funeral.
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
I'm from Philly but I heard this song in New Haven Connecticut at age 13. I just love this song. I'm 63 yessssss!!!!!
I heard this song in 1969 the summer before I started for junior high school in Texas . What memories music can bring up and make you smile..
me, too!!
Same here on the age. The crowd used to sing this at Comiskey Park in Chicago when an opposing pitcher got the hook.......
So, you lived the 'Dazed and Confused' movie?
We must be the same age! lol
It was released in November 1969 so the summer you remember must have been 1970.
How could u dislike this song
Right! I sang it when Whitney Houston died.
Wow! Mind blown for obvious reasons. I've always loved this song.
MTV really helped to popularize this song. I forget what the show was called, but there were 2 or 3 contestants sitting in really comfy oversized recliners and they were asked trivia questions. They ended up getting dumped from the chair if they got the answer wrong. The final contestant still in the recliner ended up being the winner.
This was back in the late 80s. I had a niece that was 2 yrs old at the time, and that show would come on tv at her bedtime. She picked up on songs pretty quickly, and one night we heard her sing the Na na na na na na hey hey goodnight. It was so cute!
What ?? This song was already popular when it first hit in 1969 and was popular in the early 70s especially on black radio stations what hell are u talking about?
the show you're talking about is *Remote Control*
Does music get any more fun and groovy than this one?? I think not. I've been digging it since 69
julie miller .. Me to
cool song I'm 61 now
julie miller YES TIME TO GO ON A TIME TRIP
Julie Miller..Same here..Thats when music was real music !
Man, brings back memories of one of the BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE, with some of the DEAREST PEOPLE in my life...who are now gone.
Dedicated in Loving Memory to James and Gloria, Regina, Tommy, and Rockie. RIP
Girl. I'm. 66. And. Still. Love. Good. Old days
The best of days!! Everybody wants to go back!!!
@@born4thstime I was never born at that time. I've always wanted to grow up in it solely because it the golden age of music. Especially rap Markie and Biggie oooo that's the the stuff.
82 and still rocking,,,,,,, go pops
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica.The last time I heard this song I was still a child, it was on the radio and I didn't even know the words nor the band, all I knew was that I love it and would not have found it if I had not stumbled on it today. I will be 61 this year.
This song hit #2 on the singles chart on December 6, 1969 in that very last month of the 60s decade with millions of listeners singing along to this joyful sendoff to an amazing yet turbulent ten years.
They played it like it was brand new in the 70's! Good song anytime at all.
oh my someone else remembers the 60's I was 14 nd remember them well
December 1969. Summer in Australia. I was 15. The days when you could take your transistor to the beach, go swimming, come back and the transistor was STILL THERE!! We had this song playing on pretty much every radio at the beach on our summer holiday in the south west of Western Australia.
I always thought this was sung by a MO-TOWN group. Will surprises never end? Great party song.
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
They also thought it was Mo-Town ;)
Me too
Me too!
@@shutterbug_713 Not funny, at least not to most
Good taste in music brings me here!!! 😍😘😍
So true Melody !!! Fantastic song !!!
In high school we sang this as loud as we could when we won a game. Thanks for such a catchy tune!🔥🤩
As the memories keep pouring inside my head, they begin to fall down on my face. I remember the echoes of our youth by trying to sing this classic song, laughing, putting more makeup on, making our skirts short, foolish things, etc. I'll always cherish those days that went by so quickly, just as life.
I hear you Sadie x
I hear you Sadie x
THANK YOU STEAM! ONE OF THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME! NA NA HEY HEY GOODBYE!
They played this on the aircraft when we left Iraq in '04, and then again in '12 in Afghanistan. Special song for me. LOVE IT!!!! C-141 on the strip! Take me home Freedom Bird!!!
🇺🇸THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AND FOR OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸ONE NATION UNDER GOD🕇IN GOD🕇WE TRUST🎗AND "EVERYONE WHO SERVED ALONG SIDE OF YOU🎗" THANKS FOR MAKING OUR COUNTRY🇺🇸"SAFER"!!!
Thank you Tammy! Its over!
In the fall of ‘69 during the high school football season, some friends and I started singing this at our football games, which in turn started the cheerleaders to go along with us. Our team was pretty good, so we did it a lot……..and the rest is now history! We even got to do it in the oldest high school rivalry in the country, the Male Manual game.
Takes me back to being 13. Iconic song, always will be. Still sung at football grounds around England
The whole country is jamming to this right now
it's this, everybody rejoice from the wiz, and Party in the USA
The whole WORLD is jamming to this right now.. ftfy.. greetings from Straya! Na na na na Hey hey ... Goodbye... 🎶🎶👍🏼🙏🏼👏🏽💃🕺
YAY-UH!! 🎆💃💃🕺🕺🕺💃💃💃🕺🕺💙💙👏👏🙏🙏💪💪
The whole world is grinding their teeth when America, Russia and China vote's for their "democracy". Go live some else planet and you can be deceptive to democracy long as you like, but your same country made it happen that Trump was elected as a president. That can only happen in dictatorship countries. Your actions causes whirls on global scale, so i don't think you're capaple of voting for whole world.
The country will be gone within 4 years
November 7, 2020...listening to this non-stop...for some reason. :)
I know what you mean. I've had it stuck in my head since Saturday.
I'll be listening to it non-stop this Wednesday! Can't wait!!
Good Riddance Trump!! And your little Trump Bear too!!!
To the OP, I listen to it EVERY single year since 1984 when your low life Mexacony LA/Oakland Raiders get eliminated from playoff contention. Usually after week 6 or so.
@@GOPMAN71 Sorry your cult leader lost...who knew supporting nazis and white supremacists would bite the GOP in the Trump? You have yourself a very fascist day, L'il Hitler. :)
I love this song! Have not heard it in decades 😊
Anticipate this song getting a burst of play this month.
As a Canadian I expect to hear this for at least a week coming somewhere from the South. Turn those amps up to 11!!!
You're right
I welcome those people enjoying the positive vibes this songs brings .
Fraudulent Biden good bye 👋
@@cherylobrien2350 na na na na na na na na hey hey good bye to misinformation! 🖐 na na na na na na na na hey hey good bye Marjorie Taylor Green and your misinformation
Somehow...I did not picture these singers to look like this......
That's because they weren't the singers that recorded the song.
I thought it was black Motown song ahahaha
You are right. Its not them.
Yeah, it looks like a band of computer programmers.
For the last 47 years (I remember this song when it was hot on the charts) I thought it was a chick singer...
It is played at every college basketball game in the US when an opposing team player fouls out. That is a musical legacy.
Just taught this to a 3 year old and she loves it, the na na na na hey, hey, hey, goodbye!
All of my teachers sang this today as we loaded the buses for the last day of school 😂
Edit: omg how, school starts tomorrow why did summer go by so fast 😭
Ava Croley My school days sucked, Parents were so religious my grade school was all nun teachers & my High School was all boys. So much for Catholic grade school most 8th graders were smoking cigarettes. Man did I let my parents down I started drinking my freshmen year of High School. !977 was the year of Buffalo, NY Blizzard. It was a bad storm it snowed every day in December & January for a total of 19 feet City & Schools were closed for 3 weeks. That storm gave Buffalo the name SNOW CAPITAL OF USA. People were afraid of Buffalo like people were afraid of the movie JAWS. Even now we get 10-12 feet every winter from Lake Erie. Why of all Citys near 5 Great Lakes does Buffalo get most snow. This is True always WHITE XMAS IN BUFFALO. IRELAND FOREVER
One day you will sing it to your kids
Why Not ?
No school for quite some time now...
I’m sure they did, you bad ass fuckers.. lol...
One of the greatest one hit wonders of all time imo.
no there are many others
michael richard
he said one of the which means there are more than one ;p
Deffo agree one of the greatest one hit wonders of all time......loved it then and still love it today 20.4.2018.
your reading comprehension sucks
One of the greatest songs of all time....
I've had this on my playlist for weeks. Now is the time to blast it from my car stereo, driving slow with my windows open.
Hello Angela, How are you doing?
How’d that work out dumbass?
Totally get that, Angela! My friends and I were into CB radios and would put it on the PA setting and drive around Southern California with songs like this and Bowie's Golden Years blasting on the PA. Ahh, memories!
Back in 1969YOU drove real slow and the windows were rolled up real 😳 tight and the music🎵 was loud and you know back in 1969 you had to hide so that's why the windows were up and closed 🌳🌷 and the windows were tinted so you couldn't see 🚔 I'm quite sure there's still some of you out there that'll agree with me back in 69 when you were 16🤣🤣 that's what you call Cruiser🚘
Love this o grew up listening to this regularly as my uncle had the vinyl
When I heard this I never imagined that they'd be one hit wonders!
One and done !
the only song where everyone knows the chorus but not the whole song
I can't help thinking that if the hit song was recorded by studio musicians, TV appearances by the touring band were actually just a bunch of guys lip-synching. Kind of a 1960s Milli Vanilli, if you will.
I'm a squirrel watcher--oops, I mean, I'm a girl watcher. Or Expressway to your heart. or do you believe like I believe in miracles. Great songs, but I can't remember the rest of the words.
I know the whole song. My older brother bought the 45. Now I hear it at hockey games. Sad.
Here in UK back in 1970 we use too sing the chorus from the terraces when watching our local football team. Our version included the name of the club's most revered player
Funny, but that's so true! All the guys sang the chorus over and over as part of a ritual when doing something fun as a group
In ~24 hrs, he'll be gone.
I could listen to this on a loop FOREVER. 😁✊🏼😁✊🏼😁✊🏼
It's 2024 and thank the heavens trump is back!!!
1971 Graduated Navy Boot Camp at RTC Great Lakes. After the formal ceremony, there were buses waiting to take us to the airports, across the street to Naval Station or wherever and they played this song over the PA system. Brings back fond memories.
What I always thought was so cool about this song was toward the end when the instrumental is over i like how they build up the chorus by adding one instrument at a time back into it. Also in an interview they said for the majority of the song the drum part was just a loop.
When all is said and done, this song might be the most played and most enduring song ever. I mean, it can be played for pretty much anything that leaves something. And it’s played at sporting events around the world and as long as sports are still being played, this will be played worldwide everyday.
I sang it when Whitney Houston died
@@shutterbug_713 who the f*ck cares about Whitney this is a 70’s rock song
@@shutterbug_713 Loser
@@413smr, Gringo. 🖕🏼
At times I find myself thinking that I'll soon awaken from this bad dream and realize to my great relief that we're still in the 70's after all.
I'm dreamin for you...but, for me 2020-2021 was another night mare like sending our pot boyfriends off and away to Virtnam..which was catastrophic for teen agers..at the time. But, tgey fooled us again.
When I was 11 and 12 years old, my mom sent me to the YMCA summer camp in Catskills NY. It was some the best years of my life. I learned so much being outdoors camping and hiking and living in cabins half the summer. I met some really amazing people. We would sing this when camp was over the last night everyone would sing along brought tears to my eyes
I love Philadelphia and Atlanta. Nothing to do with the song, really. I just love those two fine cities.
Don't forget Milwaukee and Detroit.
Hey Las Vegas too
Been watching this song every night since Biden took the lead.
I love you
The song will be very appropriate to share with Trump Supports, once all the votes are tabulated and Joe Biden is declared the winne of the Presidential election 2020. . .
Love them even more today. Philadephia is MY CITY. Original NY'er but damn proud of Philadelphia.
Fifty years ago, some musicians were struggling with writer's block, so they time traveled to November 7, 2020. They found all the inspiration they needed, returned to their time, and composed a masterpiece. No one knew who or what the song was about, but when the time finally came, there were no doubts.
Sounds like these Dudes borrowed the Doc Brown Time Machine from Back to the Future to do research and wrote this classic lol.
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Totally!😁😁😁
music way back when between the 40s and the 7 days was a real music was real rock and roll real country western real honky tonk lately all I've seen is a lot of canned music same old same old same ideas same twisted words it's way back when when music was real and people were real and that's something we have to be grateful for
Inspiration for one of the most evil days in American history? How depraved are you?
This song came out in November 1969 while I was on Camp Pendleton, Ca. finishing up training at Staging Battalion, heading to Vietnam. Semper Fi.
Playing at full volume this morning!
Good job, USA, and wishing you all the best for the next four years. From some guy in Canada.
THANK YOU NEIGHBOR... WE ARE ONE NATION 🇺🇸 UNDER GOD ✝️ IN GOD ✝️ WE TRUST 🇺🇸!!! 20JANUARY2021
Greetings from the USA . Our fine Canadian friends ! ❤️ 🇺🇸
The perfect song to closing out the disastrous year that is 2020.
Ahh takes me back to my teen years. TOP TUNE