As a ten year old boy from the South Side of Chicago. I was secretly in love with a girl who lived down the street from me. I was too shy to talk to her, so whenever I would hear this song on the radio I would imagine that she was singing it to me. 1966, 67, around that time.
I have not heard any girls today even remotely close to as harmonic as these 3 girls are. They are all very lovely to look at as well. What a wonderful time to be alive for music.
I would pay to go back (we'd have to do something though about the Racism, Vietnam and the Assassinations); if that were possible? I'd pay and pay and pay just to get a week's vacation in the '60s.
Heard this was done in one take since the producers assumed it would not be a big hit and didn't care about perfecting it. But the rest is history - it was a big hit and to this day one of the popular oldies stations' favorites. Sure is a testament to Bach.
There is a tenderness, a happiness that, in all love, is tinted with a touch of sadness, melancholic achiness, for fear the love may not last! Her singing, Bach's melody, make this pop song one of the most romantic.
An amazing bit of appropriation ... This is how one culture (American Pop) finds its voice in another (European Classical) .. so sweet and charming Bach would approve... So many of his pieces started in traditional folk dance music... really amazing come around..
don't go there go away nasty this is ole School you know nothing about ! that's an Ole Saying you must not know any thing about so split ! get out !! @@cashew515
I remember hearing this as a kid in the early 70's on am radio that played every form of music that was in the top 40, before fm came along and allowed stations that could play one certain form of music. I remember how i thought the song was so unique and different than anything else and really loved the melody. At the time, i had no idea at all the melody was Bachs. Or was it Beethoven? Not sure, but it is an old classical piece by one of them, given new life with some modern soul. Awesome clash. Everyone still listened to am as many older cars didnt have fm, or many older radios and transistor radios which was the I phone of the late 60's early 70's Until giant beat boxes that is. But never since can you turn on a radio station and hear anything from Rock, soul, funk, pop, occasional country, doo wops, you name it. If it was any form of progressive music with a beat is pretty much what they played. Those from the NY metro area will remember well 77 WABC what every young person of every stripe listened to until fm, or until they got something with fm. Really miss being able to have that format when i felt like it. But am sound wasn't that great. A song you liked on am sounded ten times better once you heard it on fm. But where did the desire to experiment with music like this song go? Really miss that time musically. There will never be another time like this.
First song that I remember hearing, didn't know who it was or the name of the song. In fact, I was so young, born in 1962, I was maybe 3 or so years old, that I didn't know what music was. I just heard pretty sounds coming from another room where my mother was. I remembered that tune growing up and hummed it as best I could for many years, because it reminded me of my mother who had to leave me with some people she had met. She never came back for me, I forgot what she looked like, this song was all that I had of her. I found her when I was 21. I wanted to share with her how much that song meant to me. I asked her did she know the song, she said yes, I said do you like it, she no, I hate that whinny sounding song. Oh well, such is life... Still love the song. PS my birthday is Nov 10th same date as this video upload.
Great live vocals and harmony. Really cool how the instrumental track faded at the end, but their voices didn't. Plus, it was obvious at the beginning that the vocals were live, because they were way louder than the instrumental track.
So precious, they are so cute. I have such a crush....an innocent childlike crush. I wish I can just go back then and ask her out for a rootbeer float or to go roller skating, what a beautifully done song
This got me over in' '65. Was hurtin' bad. Not the word so much as the melody and three part harmonics. I was at Morehouse College when I first heard it. Freshman.
I think there are people who spend all their time bringing up UA-cam videos just so they can give them a thumbs down. What a pathetic way to feel empowered.
Doug Johnson I thought the same...who would thumbs down this treasure? I’ve loved this song since I was a child and didn’t know the title nor the artist. Stumbled upon it by luck. Great video!
Agree, imagine travelling through time or in this case, uploading a half century footage with great music and some jackass in the future with no taste gives it a thumb down
I was learning to play the piano at the time that this song came out and it was a different syncopation of an original classical tune. I couldn't help but played in this rhythm. And my piano teacher kept getting very frustrated with me.
How many pop songs are birthed by Bach hundreds of years earlier? The Minuet in G is the greatest song ever written IMO and this adaptation further extends its greatness to a whole new audience. Wonder what happened to the one hit wonders, The Toys?
It's nice and poppy and pleasant and girlie and sweet and lovely . Yes. Then you listen to Sarah Vaughn's version and you begin to understand . You understand how singers nowadays on The Voice , American Idol etc, with their stretched 'soulful' yelling and wailing cannot sing at all.
Wow! Most TV stuff back then used lip-syncing, so I fully expected that here too. But if she's lip-syncing, it's by far the best I've ever seen. And if she's not, she duplicated the studio version perfectly. (The other girls too, of course, but the lead singer is something else.)
Yes. For those stumbling upon, he mentions this as using the melody from Bach's "Minuet in G Major" as played here: ua-cam.com/video/lNg9iMQDnIM/v-deo.html . Don't know how long Kevin's URL will last, but here is his post: www.nationalreview.com/corner/andrew-lloyd-webber-puccini-stealing/
I was kind of expecting the bridge of the song to be what Bach (not Bacharach) intended, but then the sustained first note of it probably would have been outside of the lead singer's vocal range.
Never again shall they be written,orchestrated , and sung with such clarity and class. Glad I lived in this era.
As a ten year old boy from the South Side of Chicago. I was secretly in love with a girl who lived down the street from me. I was too shy to talk to her, so whenever I would hear this song on the radio I would imagine that she was singing it to me. 1966, 67, around that time.
That is so touching! ~Athena
those high notes are so beautiful...
I have not heard any girls today even remotely close to as harmonic as these 3 girls are. They are all very lovely to look at as well. What a wonderful time to be alive for music.
The voice of an angel. This song always makes me cry it's so touching. I love you Barbara Harris!
Be YOUnique The Anti-Bullying Chann
This song goes into the very core of my soul
IF I COULD GET BACK TO THE 60" S .
THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC!
I would pay to go back (we'd have to do something though about the Racism, Vietnam and the Assassinations); if that were possible? I'd pay and pay and pay just to get a week's vacation in the '60s.
@@woodmanbrown3114 I would bet on the Giants vs the Bills in 1990. Blew a grand on that superbowl fucking BILLS
@Tavon Fenwick that was 50s but mk
Tavon Fenwick try not to remember the bad times. In every decade people make mistakes don’t dwell on the bad but the positive ones
Goofball
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL VOICE OF THIS WOMAN.
ANGELIC VOICE INDEED.
I LOVE THIS ROMANTIC AND AWESOME SONG.
Heard this was done in one take since the producers assumed it would not be a big hit and didn't care about perfecting it. But the rest is history - it was a big hit and to this day one of the popular oldies stations' favorites. Sure is a testament to Bach.
This was on Only Connect last night! Love it!
Love those crazy hand movements ! 😁
There is a tenderness, a happiness that, in all love, is tinted with a touch of sadness, melancholic achiness, for fear the love may not last! Her singing, Bach's melody, make this pop song one of the most romantic.
My very favorite recording of this song! I wish I had heard more music from them.
An amazing bit of appropriation ... This is how one culture (American Pop) finds its voice in another (European Classical) .. so sweet and charming Bach would approve... So many of his pieces started in traditional folk dance music... really amazing come around..
Take Us Back Girls To The Good Ole Days !! Love This Still Today & All The Fun Times We Remember & Miss ......The Good Times !
marty walker no can’t turn back the clock don’t be stupid like trump. Get over it you people stop the nonsense.
don't go there go away nasty this is ole School you know nothing about ! that's an Ole Saying you must not know any thing about so split ! get out !! @@cashew515
The girls were beautiful then and the ladies are even more lovely now
I remember hearing this as a kid in the early 70's on am radio that played every form of music that was in the top 40, before fm came along and allowed stations that could play one certain form of music.
I remember how i thought the song was so unique and different than anything else and really loved the melody.
At the time, i had no idea at all the melody was Bachs.
Or was it Beethoven?
Not sure, but it is an old classical piece by one of them, given new life with some modern soul.
Awesome clash.
Everyone still listened to am as many older cars didnt have fm, or many older radios and transistor radios which was the I phone of the late 60's early 70's
Until giant beat boxes that is.
But never since can you turn on a radio station and hear anything from Rock, soul, funk, pop, occasional country, doo wops, you name it.
If it was any form of progressive music with a beat is pretty much what they played.
Those from the NY metro area will remember well 77 WABC what every young person of every stripe listened to until fm, or until they got something with fm.
Really miss being able to have that format when i felt like it.
But am sound wasn't that great.
A song you liked on am sounded ten times better once you heard it on fm.
But where did the desire to experiment with music like this song go?
Really miss that time musically.
There will never be another time like this.
It was an ad, on TV. the one with the dog, cat and mouse by an open fire
Or maybe Charles Petzold's. It was found in the notebooks of Anna Magdalena Bach, but we don't really know who wrote it.
It’s based on a piece by Bach
These girl groups of the 60's were just fantastic...
Great voice and beautiful melody. Also enjoyed the delfonics versions. William Hart had a great voice as well
Saw Barbara Harris and the Toys at Doo Wop Extravaganza in Ocean Grove and she was still crushing it. One of the highlights of the night.
First song that I remember hearing, didn't know who it was or the name of the song. In fact, I was so young, born in 1962, I was maybe 3 or so years old, that I didn't know what music was. I just heard pretty sounds coming from another room where my mother was. I remembered that tune growing up and hummed it as best I could for many years, because it reminded me of my mother who had to leave me with some people she had met. She never came back for me, I forgot what she looked like, this song was all that I had of her. I found her when I was 21. I wanted to share with her how much that song meant to me. I asked her did she know the song, she said yes, I said do you like it, she no, I hate that whinny sounding song. Oh well, such is life... Still love the song. PS my birthday is Nov 10th same date as this video upload.
still chills me to the bones
So Beautiful
Barbara voice is outstanding
1965...beautifull romantic Song
Just amazing!!
Thanks for sweet memories
how did they do such a brilliant intro for these girls to blow away with such a beautiful song privileged
Thanks for the memories UA-cam !
Great live vocals and harmony. Really cool how the instrumental track faded at the end, but their voices didn't. Plus, it was obvious at the beginning that the vocals were live, because they were way louder than the instrumental track.
it time to go back in a anther time zone. i alway go back.
So precious, they are so cute. I have such a crush....an innocent childlike crush. I wish I can just go back then and ask her out for a rootbeer float or to go roller skating, what a beautifully done song
Beautiful!
This got me over in' '65. Was hurtin' bad. Not the word so much as the melody and three part harmonics. I was at Morehouse College when I first heard it. Freshman.
Just fantastic! The girl groups of that time were something else.
One of the very few song that the title is not even mentioned in the lyrics. It landed only number 2 in billboard hot 100
I think there are people who spend all their time bringing up UA-cam videos just so they can give them a thumbs down. What a pathetic way to feel empowered.
Doug Johnson
I thought the same...who would thumbs down this treasure? I’ve loved this song since I was a child and didn’t know the title nor the artist. Stumbled upon it by luck. Great video!
Agree, imagine travelling through time or in this case, uploading a half century footage with great music and some jackass in the future with no taste gives it a thumb down
Lol and there's people that just look at the negative. This video has 1.1k likes. Don't focus on the 14 dislikes.
Such an underrated tune by a this band
This song takes be back to my first year in school fall of 1963.
the song wasnt released until 1965 :/
Back when live singers actually sang live..
fantastic, that's live vocals, listen when the backing runs out.
Yes
Memories just a child
Remember the good times
I don’t think there’s a girl group today that could sing this song. High notes and all. So pretty 🌸💕🌸💕🎶🎶
MAGNIFICENT ❤❤❤
I was learning to play the piano at the time that this song came out and it was a different syncopation of an original classical tune. I couldn't help but played in this rhythm. And my piano teacher kept getting very frustrated with me.
Tu amor! Esta siempre siempre es para ti!!!!!!
Lovely lead singer
Great vocal inflections. They should have made more records.
How many pop songs are birthed by Bach hundreds of years earlier? The Minuet in G is the greatest song ever written IMO and this adaptation further extends its greatness to a whole new audience. Wonder what happened to the one hit wonders, The Toys?
love ....
WOW ❤
what can i possibly say as far as im concerned mowtown was born with this song
I love this song as well, but they were not actually signed to Motown...ever, as far as I know..
My memory is vague but I'm pretty sure they came on after the Supremes ('66 maybe?). I know it was released in autumn,
It's nice and poppy and pleasant and girlie and sweet and lovely . Yes. Then you listen to Sarah Vaughn's version and you begin to understand . You understand how singers nowadays on The Voice , American Idol etc, with their stretched 'soulful' yelling and wailing cannot sing at all.
Sarah Vaughn was a song butcher.
yeah the singing has this drama to it - its sickening - and not voice dynamics. also, there is this thing known as "millenial whoop"
Wow! Most TV stuff back then used lip-syncing, so I fully expected that here too. But if she's lip-syncing, it's by far the best I've ever seen. And if she's not, she duplicated the studio version perfectly. (The other girls too, of course, but the lead singer is something else.)
100TH
IN THE YEAR 2018 YOU DON T NEED TO SING SOME MACHINES ARE DOING THAT FOR YOU
Minuetto in G Major JSB I790 about He must be looking down on them
Minuet BWV Anh.114
I hope he's smiling. This is a classic in more ways than one!
This music sounds so familiar, but it's written definitely not by an american composer, more like a german one... I. S. Bach, I think...
Nothing like the original
Ah, Bach!
Ah, Christian Petzold!
Did Kevin Williamson also send you here?
Yes!
Yes!
Yes. For those stumbling upon, he mentions this as using the melody from Bach's "Minuet in G Major" as played here: ua-cam.com/video/lNg9iMQDnIM/v-deo.html . Don't know how long Kevin's URL will last, but here is his post: www.nationalreview.com/corner/andrew-lloyd-webber-puccini-stealing/
Yes, lol.
Guilty as charged lol.
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There is a Disco Version played in 1979 by New Edition
Who come here because one nice cover by kelly chen?.
I was kind of expecting the bridge of the song to be what Bach (not Bacharach) intended, but then the sustained first note of it probably would have been outside of the lead singer's vocal range.
She could have done that with ease ,it was done for tension.
Actually now Petzold is generally recognized but still lovely piece
@@patricke2088 exactly!
Mr Holland brought me here
...Choreography sucks. The song is a classic though and the girls are sweethearts.