Growing up in the 80's, we used to pick up Canadian radio stations across Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This was one of those great Canadian bands that we would hear in the early 80's. We got a steady dose of great artists like Rush, April Wine, Frozen Ghost, Prism, Kim Mitchell and so many others. Canada has some great musicians. I feel so blessed to have grown up hearing these bands.
Overlooked? Might depend where you live. I currently hear this several times a week on radio here in Vancouver, and remember this being a huge hit back in the day.
Lynda Bartram it got a lot of airplay here in the Bay Area in late summer/fall of 1981. But I have not heard it on the radio since. 80’s stations will play Duran Duran and other new wave bands or hair bands but won’t touch many of these early 80’s pop/rock one hit wonders. “Sausalito Summernight” by Diesel is another lost tune I haven’t heard since 1981 on the radio either.
To anyone who lives outside of Vancouver (such as myself), yes, it’s a sadly overlooked song. Anyone here who thinks we’re all nuts for saying so either A) Lives somewhere near the band’s home region, or B) Doesn’t like the song. There isn’t an option C.
I was 16 when this song came out , wasn't sure who sang it , so I had to look it up, but it just popped in my mind today. Always loved the song, still a great song.
I first heard this in --- oh, gosh, I wanna say --- 1984? Somebody handed me a Sony Walkman and said, "Listen to this!" Absolutely blown away at 2:40 and I still am forty years later.
+Robert Miller The 80's were a great time, weren't they? I remember hearing this song a lot, many summer days at the local water park. When you get that time machine, please let me go back with you. While were there, we'll invest in this rinky dink company called Microsoft and be filthy stinking rich when we come back-LOL!!!!!! Have a great day.
+buzzboy14 xoxo If only...I would buy a lot of companies that is for certain. These guys may have only had the one hit I ever heard in Minnesota where I was in 1981 but it does sound like gold compared to td's garbage. I would have liked to have seen them play this live.
+bucky468 Guess the station I heard this song on thought the other singles were not popular enough. Glad they had a career in Canada and that at least we got this song.
One of the best songs to come out of Canada. The overlapping vocals and harmonies are amazing. It's no wonder it was nominated for a Juno award. Those lyrics really hit home if you've ever had a relationship go sour. Easily my favorite Chilliwack song.
I heard this song playing on the radio in a tiny shop in a small town in Brazil about years 10 years ago. I being a Canadian lad made my Brazilian wife wait in the store with me until the song was thru. It sounded wonderful.
What incredible musicianship. This song is complex and really two songs in one. The harmonies are gorgeous and audacious AF. The whole song is ballsy. Damn good. Miss you 80s!
I’ve been searching for this song literally for decades. It was one of those I heard on the radio back when it was released, fell in love with it, but had no idea the title or the artist. Funny how I just now found it. I’m going to play this song till my ears bleed.
Oh man...THE 80s...WHAT A DECADE!!! When music was FUN & REAL...WHEN MTV PLAYED MUSIC VIDEOS...IMAGINE THAT!!! I'm so glad I got to grow up in the 80s. Just a fun decade & era of music to ever come around in my opinion. Great, Great music...Great, Great 1 HIT WONDERS, & Great times. I loved this song in 1981. I was in 7th grade. 97 WABB here in Mobile Alabama used to play this song in regular rotation. I have it on my MP3 PLAYER and still listen to it often. I say it all the time and I'LL say it until I die....to really understand the 80s you had experience and live in the 80s. I wish someone would build a time machine and take all the 80s Fanatics back to a fun & special time in all of our lives. I tell my daughter who is 13 mow about the 80s & she always says I lived back in the stone-age times...no cell phone, no internet, no facebook... I always say this was a GREAT TIME to live in. Saturday afternoon at the mall video game arcade with all my friends trying to beat each other's HIGH SCORE on Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Astroids & Pitfall.
Loved your comment... yes, living and growing up in the 80’s was thee best times of my Life... more exciting and more meaningful than what is happening today... where is Doc Brown... hurry up with that Delorean so we can time-travel back to the 80’s in style!
I'm 55 now. Back in the day, I would listen to FM radio from both Montreal and Ottawa. To hear all those wonderful music acts like Trooper, Sheriff, Rush, April Wine, Loverboy, Chilliwack, The Box, Men Without Hats and so many others. Too many more to mention all of them. So many stupendous memories. And yes, MY GIRL made it to #22 in the BILLBOARD Hot 100.
So eerily evocative of the early '80s that I could swear I'm eight years old, riding around in my dead dad's truck at night and listening to the radio--starting to worry a little about the fact that I haven't done my homework yet.
acca freakin pella!!!! Great vocals!!! best 3 man Canadian band... well, there was Triumph... 2nd! 2nd best Caaa... ooooh yeah.. forgot about RUSH... 3RD!!!!!! LOL!!!!
OMG! I have sung partial lyrics to this song since I was a kid. I kinda thought maybe I just made the partial song up in my head bc no body but me seemed to remember it. I love it!
I had the same deja vu experience. Heard the lyrics in my head hear and there for a couple decades. Then I walked into a grocery store and heard the song on the speakers. I googled it over and over for months and I finally found out I wasn't crazy after all.
I forgot about this song they switched the music at my job to the 80s running a band saw I heard it the other day I turned off the saw and listened with amazement its been at least 30 years
You must be talking about the SCTV skit? If you are , you must note the funniest part of that skit. When John Candy has to gulp back the tears…. Why is someone else’s heartache so damn funny to the rest of us?!?!?! Classic comedy moment
I heard this song on the XM radio and it has been stuck in my head for a week. :( I think its a conspiracy from the Canadians to make us drink beer and eat bacon.
It's funny, i grew up and only knew this song hearing it in the early 80's on my little transistor radio in Toronto... memories of doing homework... lol. I have only now seen the video for it.
LOVED this song and STILL do!!! The vocals are killer on "Gone, gone, gone, been gone so long" ..... they just don't make QUALITY ish like this ANYMORE!!! This was and STILL is my jam!!! #TeamChilliwack #LOVEthisishrighthere!
This is one of those songs that just instantly takes me back to that time period. I didn't love, or hate it. But as soon as I hear it, right away I think of 1981, my favorite year for music as a teenager...
Yes, Ms. Deborah, same here, remembering people I knew then as a high school junior. Although I liked it enough to buy this and some other Chilliwack albums.
Love the Gone Gone Gone,fingers flicking and the harmonies part of this brilliant band out of classy Canada.And also M2 is so amazing with their topnotch videos ive seen a few on You Tube the quality.To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere vibes could harp on explain
Oh my!! I have been trying to remember the name of this song and band for over 30 years! I was starting to think I made the song My Girl up. My 35th class reunion is this weekend and I found a scrapbook from my 7 th grade year that listed all hot songs from 1980. Finally found my answer
Chillawack!!! Wow! What a song! Everytime i hear this tune it transports me back to the 80s and reminds me of those girls l knew a long time ago who left me standing alone! Gone! Gone! Gone!
Great song. Classic! Chilliwack is one the most underrated band who write wonderfully magical songs. Their passionate music will forever live in our hearts.
Those were the days of those catchy rock pop tunes you just couldn't get enough of like this great Jam, so you went & got the 45 or Album! So many great Canadian bands from the early to mid 80s on the airwaves!
I thought I had a pretty good grasp of early Eighties music as a DJ for ten years. I heard this song for the first time in February, 2018. How this song was not an international #1 is beyond me. The harmonies are so rich and well designed - the song is a complete masterpiece and I am so glad to know it now! Chilliwack is now one of my favorite "New" old bands. Incredible orchestration and production - thanks for brightening my day!
The first time I remember hearing "My girl", I was piloting the "Flight of the Phoenix", my 56 chevy , and had my Fulltron stereo system zeroed in on the Spokane FM rock channel. I had just touched down on the Main in Wenatchee,Wa. comming in off Deepspace Highway. I distinctly remember the goosebumps you get when one hears the "Good Stuff" (ASMR), and here I am 22 seconds later at 64, be careful, you young little nippers Time travel moves ever so rapid, but the memory remains, coming back with the music!
I can remember being 10 years old and listening to this song in the middle of the night on a transistor radio on K-98 in Austin TX in 1981. So great! I loved this song.
I like their hair.. And this song of course. I have been searching for this song, I heard it on the radio today and I finally found it! Very catchy song, I love it.
Gregory E. You'll find as the "Gen-Ex" ers start aging and taking the radio jobs, you'll find a lot of these cool songs being played more and more. Thanks to whomever did it this time to inspire a newer generation of listeners.
This song evokes generational feelings of the late 70’s early 80’s rock, I was around 45 years old when this came out and remember it well. I also think of Cliff Richards “A little in love” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”. Also evokes: and “Luke, I am your father”
When I was about 3 or 4 y/o one of my older cousins used to be a DJ in my native country of El Salvador and he used to bring records to my grandma's house and play them in his free time, well this was one of my favorite songs he used to play, I would beg him to repeat it over and over again, after a few years I never heard this song again, not even here in the US, but some times I would have those childhood memories and think about this song, as I learned the English language I realized the song said "She's gone..."but I could never find the artist, I thought it was the Police because my cousin used to played them a lot, but it wasn't, but last year I heard it for the first time in 40 years on Walmart radio and paid attention to the lyrics and found it here on youtube, I feel a great sense of accomplishment!!!!😄👍
I just listened to this like four times in a row. I was nine years old when this song came out. My childhood wasn't the greatest but songs like this give me happy nostalgia.
Being a Gen X'r hearing this for the first time and loving it since I saw it on MTV when they were a still a new thing in 1982 brought me here!!! .I never forgot this song or who sang it..about 17 years ago I had a store put the vinyl onto a CD so I can jam in my car since no CD was available then...Rock on!!!
Before the Hip came into my life in 89, there was Chilliwack. And before the internet I looked for years for this song. This and the Steinman version of Rock n Roll Dreams.
I was about a month into the 6th grade when this was released. I recall the concession area quickly emptying as rollerskates hit the floor when this came on!! Pretty Cool Canadian Group even though this was to be their biggest hit!!
Growing up in the 80's, we used to pick up Canadian radio stations across Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This was one of those great Canadian bands that we would hear in the early 80's. We got a steady dose of great artists like Rush, April Wine, Frozen Ghost, Prism, Kim Mitchell and so many others. Canada has some great musicians. I feel so blessed to have grown up hearing these bands.
M Harri I think this song made it mainstream in the U.S.
It did (TY Casey Kasem's American Top 40). Only just rediscovering it now.
M Harri ...rush
Great band....amazing song!
Me too. Lived in the Soo
Gone, gone, gone, she been gone so long, (nervous gulp), gone, so long!
🤣Miss you, John Candy!
Recess Monkey's rule and are what brought me here!
I'll miss john Candy, too, but this song will still make me think of the "Elevator Episode" of "Too Close For Comfort!"
@@charlie.on.youtube John Candy died 30 years ago.
@@danmccarthy4700 I know. I was replying to a different, now-deleted comment that said Eugene Levy had died.
My old reply is now gone, gone, gone....
A sadly overlooked song from the ‘80’s. A pop masterpiece!
very true
Overlooked? Might depend where you live. I currently hear this several times a week on radio here in Vancouver, and remember this being a huge hit back in the day.
Lynda Bartram it got a lot of airplay here in the Bay Area in late summer/fall of 1981. But I have not heard it on the radio since. 80’s stations will play Duran Duran and other new wave bands or hair bands but won’t touch many of these early 80’s pop/rock one hit wonders. “Sausalito Summernight” by Diesel is another lost tune I haven’t heard since 1981 on the radio either.
Sadly overlooked? I don't think so.
To anyone who lives outside of Vancouver (such as myself), yes, it’s a sadly overlooked song. Anyone here who thinks we’re all nuts for saying so either A) Lives somewhere near the band’s home region, or B) Doesn’t like the song. There isn’t an option C.
That modulation at 2:40 is the best in the history of popular music. The chords they hit with the vocals are gorgeous.
Indeed ! Beautiful way to go down a fifth ! Descending Eb Minor triad root motion with major triads on every fifth degree. Echoes of the Beach Boys !
La mejor que he oído, de otro mundo
Wow 😮 they didn’t to do that but I’m glad they did😊😊
I always that it was a keychange, but modulation sounds so much better
Good catch! I didn’t know that WAS a modulation! I need to go back and study my theory.
Rick Moranis & SCTV brought me here, but I loved this song growing up & haven't heard it in 25 years, wow!
Hadn't heard this song in years. IT was playing on a radio station at the peddlers mall in Richmond Kentucky. it's a very good song
Sweet Jeebus. How'd I miss this during the 80s? Better late than never!
Same
Loved this song when it was a hit in “81. Still sounds just as good all these years later!
This is new to me.
@@geoffreyharris5931 were you alive in the early 80’s? It wasn’t a huge hit but a hit just the same.
I was 16 when this song came out , wasn't sure who sang it , so I had to look it up, but it just popped in my mind today. Always loved the song, still a great song.
Didn't know that 81 was the date because I have loved it forever 🎉❤😂
My 12 year old just heard this song for the first time and started dancing. There may be hope for the youngsters yet.
morosemoose It’s actually a good song my dad just showed me this and I am 12. Yay 80s!!
morosemoose ok boomer
Now she's is 17
There is been listening to this since I'm 2feet tall because of my dad I'm 24 I'll pass it on aha
@Allan Cameron I submit that if Chilliwack is not part of ones' music library that person has no musical taste.
I first heard this in --- oh, gosh, I wanna say --- 1984? Somebody handed me a Sony Walkman and said, "Listen to this!" Absolutely blown away at 2:40 and I still am forty years later.
Chilliwack, another band who makes me proud of being canadian.
And SAGA and Loverboy
Don't forget Mr. Brian Adams as well...
Rush, Trooper, BTO, Prism, Guess who, Harlequin, Headpins Ian Thomas, Red Rider, Triumph. Bruce Coburn. Gordon Lightfoot. to name a few more
Bryan adams, loverboy, tom cochrane, april wine, honeymoon suite, gowan
Chilliwack , April Wine , Bryan Adams, Stampeders , Guess Who, Kim Mitchell
One of those songs that you hear the first chord to and it becomes an instant favorite. Long live 1981. I need a time machine to go back.
+Robert Miller The 80's were a great time, weren't they? I remember hearing this song a lot, many summer days at the local water park. When you get that time machine, please let me go back with you. While were there, we'll invest in this rinky dink company called Microsoft and be filthy stinking rich when we come back-LOL!!!!!! Have a great day.
+buzzboy14 xoxo
If only...I would buy a lot of companies that is for certain. These guys may have only had the one hit I ever heard in Minnesota where I was in 1981 but it does sound like gold compared to td's garbage. I would have liked to have seen them play this live.
+bucky468 Guess the station I heard this song on thought the other singles were not popular enough. Glad they had a career in Canada and that at least we got this song.
is 81 when it came out?
+bucky468 I heard it in Moorhead, Minn about Halloween 1981. Guess it hit most places then.
This was a big hit in Utah in the US back in the 80's
Proud to be born in Chilliwack, and to have met Chilliwack in person!!! Great classic song!
Whereabouts were you born in Chilliwack I was raised there
@@lawrencedares8853 I lived in Cultus lake and Sardis as a kid, what about you?
@@yorklovesrush
We got there in 1961. Lived on Wellington Ave.
Would you say chilliwack is more chill or more wack?
@@reginaldforthright805 when I grew up there, it was pretty chill, then it got pretty wack. But starting to become chill again!
One of the best songs to come out of Canada. The overlapping vocals and harmonies are amazing. It's no wonder it was nominated for a Juno award. Those lyrics really hit home if you've ever had a relationship go sour. Easily my favorite Chilliwack song.
The harmony that starts at 2:10 can still send a chill down my spine. Love this song.
Do you know Harem Scarem? scary thick harmonies that they manage to reproduce live.
got damn right....the goosebumps I live for. musicians these days do NOT cause this phenomenon
Even though I had a messed up childhood, this is one of the few songs that brings back the good memories I had in those times.
Word
+Mojosfire True
Sorry to hear about your childhood, but I'm glad you survived!
blaqceeza
thank you :) It wasn't all bad, and this song was on of my good memories.
I have this Album I served in Germany the Army in 1982
I heard this song playing on the radio in a tiny shop in a small town in Brazil about years 10 years ago. I being a Canadian lad made my Brazilian wife wait in the store with me until the song was thru. It sounded wonderful.
Glad to see you followed proper protocol.
What incredible musicianship. This song is complex and really two songs in one. The harmonies are gorgeous and audacious AF. The whole song is ballsy. Damn good. Miss you 80s!
I’ve been searching for this song literally for decades. It was one of those I heard on the radio back when it was released, fell in love with it, but had no idea the title or the artist. Funny how I just now found it. I’m going to play this song till my ears bleed.
Glad you found it 😉
Well...don't do THAT!!!!! P.S.-Posting from...CHILLIWACK!!!
hahahahaha! yeah!
Amen Brother!
Oh man...THE 80s...WHAT A DECADE!!! When music was FUN & REAL...WHEN MTV PLAYED MUSIC VIDEOS...IMAGINE THAT!!!
I'm so glad I got to grow up in the 80s. Just a fun decade & era of music to ever come around in my opinion.
Great, Great music...Great, Great 1 HIT WONDERS, & Great times.
I loved this song in 1981. I was in 7th grade. 97 WABB here in Mobile Alabama used to play this song in regular rotation.
I have it on my MP3 PLAYER and still listen to it often.
I say it all the time and I'LL say it until I die....to really understand the 80s you had experience and live in the 80s.
I wish someone would build a time machine and take all the 80s Fanatics back to a fun & special time in all of our lives.
I tell my daughter who is 13 mow about the 80s & she always says I lived back in the stone-age times...no cell phone, no internet, no facebook...
I always say this was a GREAT TIME to live in.
Saturday afternoon at the mall video game arcade with all my friends trying to beat each other's HIGH SCORE on Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Astroids & Pitfall.
Loved your comment... yes, living and growing up in the 80’s was thee best times of my Life... more exciting and more meaningful than what is happening today... where is Doc Brown... hurry up with that Delorean so we can time-travel back to the 80’s in style!
I live 60 miles across lake Erie in the USA and I can hear Canadians rockin from here. Great song
InvincibleEagle .... Akron Ohio here my ohio friend
Erie, PA here!
I grew up in Conneaut Ohio, and lived in Erie for about a decade from the mid 90s to mid 2000s.
Talk about a blast from the past! I just heard this randomly on the radio for the first time in decades so I had to see who sang it lol.
Great tune, felt like I stepped back in time when I listened today. What great years for music the 70's and 80's. Great memories for sure.
I'm 55 now. Back in the day, I would listen to FM radio from both Montreal and Ottawa. To hear all those wonderful music acts like Trooper, Sheriff, Rush, April Wine, Loverboy, Chilliwack, The Box, Men Without Hats and so many others. Too many more to mention all of them. So many stupendous memories.
And yes, MY GIRL made it to #22 in the BILLBOARD Hot 100.
So eerily evocative of the early '80s that I could swear I'm eight years old, riding around in my dead dad's truck at night and listening to the radio--starting to worry a little about the fact that I haven't done my homework yet.
AT 2:39...THE BEST VOCAL BRIDGE ....EVER
And @ 2:45...the best DENTAL bridge
@@dshmechanic 😁
😂😂😂😂
@@dshmechanic omg😂...💀⚰️🪦🥀
It is funny how the guitarist looks so tired after he hits that power chord
The vocals in this song just kick major ass! I'll never hear this song enough times.
acca freakin pella!!!! Great vocals!!! best 3 man Canadian band... well, there was Triumph... 2nd! 2nd best Caaa... ooooh yeah.. forgot about RUSH... 3RD!!!!!! LOL!!!!
Tankerc Though a different sound style, The Nylons are really good too.
Fabulous hair.
Man this song brings so many memories back.
OMG! I have sung partial lyrics to this song since I was a kid. I kinda thought maybe I just made the partial song up in my head bc no body but me seemed to remember it. I love it!
I had the same deja vu experience. Heard the lyrics in my head hear and there for a couple decades. Then I walked into a grocery store and heard the song on the speakers. I googled it over and over for months and I finally found out I wasn't crazy after all.
I forgot about this song they switched the music at my job to the 80s running a band saw I heard it the other day I turned off the saw and listened with amazement its been at least 30 years
Lori Lee Dover Bishop me too I heard this at work I had to look it up
超懐かしい、1980頃日本でヒットしていた！UPしてくれてありがとう
Love it! RIP Brian 'Too Loud' McLeod. So sad he's gone. So glad we still have these songs (and the Headpins) to enjoy.
Yesss!
Body dies music lives on FOREVER
Gone, gone, gone so long…he’s been gone so long.
Just heard this song on Yacht Rock Radio. Heard it before but I like it more the more I hear it. It's a keeper.
Same lol😂
SCTV brought me here.
Me too!
Me also kinda
You must be talking about the SCTV skit? If you are , you must note the funniest part of that skit. When John Candy has to gulp back the tears…. Why is someone else’s heartache so damn funny to the rest of us?!?!?!
Classic comedy moment
Who cares?
Me too!
I heard this song on the XM radio and it has been stuck in my head for a week. :( I think its a conspiracy from the Canadians to make us drink beer and eat bacon.
You caught us! I am sure there's a bacon beer in the making! ;)
and to eat Poutine
Best conspiracy ever
ClandestineOstrich nice! Sounds fun
jacob grappin screw off hoser!! HAHAGOD
It's funny, i grew up and only knew this song hearing it in the early 80's on my little transistor radio in Toronto... memories of doing homework... lol. I have only now seen the video for it.
I was in the same boat...only by watching Friday Night Videos or Good Rockin' Tonite would one have seen it back then.
I remember this song when it came out in 1981. Blows my mind that over four decades have passed since then. Where does the time go .... 🤯
Many years looking for this song!!!
Muchos años buscándola y al fin!!!
Thanks
I'm right there with you. It's amazing the memories that come back when you here these 80's classics.
an absolutely flawlessly crafted pop rock gem. a perfect song. should have been a massive hit.
Love the harmonies in this song. CLASSIC from start to finish.
This song just just popped up in my head ..then had to hear it lol
Great song and really hip for it's time - and still sounds fresh ! Great vocals :) - Go Canuck Rock !
This made me laugh so hard 😂
LOVED this song and STILL do!!! The vocals are killer on "Gone, gone, gone, been gone so long" ..... they just don't make QUALITY ish like this ANYMORE!!! This was and STILL is my jam!!! #TeamChilliwack #LOVEthisishrighthere!
LOVE the 80's vids...
How it is missed today
Fall, 1982...omg...Good times! Wackin my chili all nite long!!.😎😎😎
This is one of those songs that just instantly takes me back to that time period. I didn't love, or hate it. But as soon as I hear it, right away I think of 1981, my favorite year for music as a teenager...
Yes, Ms. Deborah, same here, remembering people I knew then as a high school junior. Although I liked it enough to buy this and some other Chilliwack albums.
@@bobdavis4848 ~ 👍🎶🎸
Love the Gone Gone Gone,fingers flicking and the harmonies part of this brilliant band out of classy Canada.And also M2 is so amazing with their topnotch videos ive seen a few on You Tube the quality.To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere vibes could harp on explain
one of those songs that just stays with you for the rest of your life....
Oh my!! I have been trying to remember the name of this song and band for over 30 years! I was starting to think I made the song My Girl up. My 35th class reunion is this weekend and I found a scrapbook from my 7 th grade year that listed all hot songs from 1980. Finally found my answer
Our neighbors to the North produced some fantastic music. So many great groups.
Chillawack!!! Wow! What a song! Everytime i hear this tune it transports me back to the 80s and reminds me of those girls l knew a long time ago who left me standing alone! Gone! Gone! Gone!
Great song. Classic! Chilliwack is one the most underrated band who write wonderfully magical songs. Their passionate music will forever live in our hearts.
Those were the days of those catchy rock pop tunes you just couldn't get enough of like this great Jam, so you went & got the 45 or Album! So many great Canadian bands from the early to mid 80s on the airwaves!
These guys still kill it live! Saw them open for Foreigner earlier this year!!!
RIP JAG gone gone gone for so long! just a memory. . .she been so long away!!! My girl!!! Miss you and love you sissy!
I thought I had a pretty good grasp of early Eighties music as a DJ for ten years. I heard this song for the first time in February, 2018. How this song was not an international #1 is beyond me. The harmonies are so rich and well designed - the song is a complete masterpiece and I am so glad to know it now! Chilliwack is now one of my favorite "New" old bands. Incredible orchestration and production - thanks for brightening my day!
Agreed. Just became aware of them now.
The first time I remember hearing "My girl", I was piloting the "Flight of the Phoenix", my 56 chevy , and had my Fulltron stereo system zeroed in on the Spokane FM rock channel. I had just touched down on the Main in Wenatchee,Wa. comming in off Deepspace Highway. I distinctly remember the goosebumps you get when one hears the "Good Stuff" (ASMR), and here I am 22 seconds later at 64, be careful, you young little nippers Time travel moves ever so rapid, but the memory remains, coming back with the music!
i still remember these guys playing at my high school in the 70's. just as good today as back then.
Lucky you 🎉😂
I can remember being 10 years old and listening to this song in the middle of the night on a transistor radio on K-98 in Austin TX in 1981. So great! I loved this song.
Rick Moranis, John Candy and Eugene Levy like this!
Chevy Chase.... eh, Not so much.
SCTV
@@Mike-pj1kv yeah. I like very much te canadian comedy and music. Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina.
I discovered the SCTV sketch they played this on after all these years. I'm glad that I found this.
This was one tough and resilent band. They recorded 9 albums before they scored this hit. Never give up on your dreams.
Brian "Too Loud" MacLeod in both Chilliwack and The Headpins. R.I.P. Too Loud!
He was criminally underrated guitar player
I remember the $15 triple bills in the late 80's being a teenager. We had some great metal / rock bands in Canada that were so underrated.
I saw him in a small bar in Penticton. He was out of this world talented. One of my favs of all time.
JohnE Canuck Don’t forget Chrissy Steele.
I recently discovered this great, hidden gem on Spotify several weeks back, & had to search for it on UA-cam. Excellent song!
This was always a great song.
I like their hair.. And this song of course. I have been searching for this song, I heard it on the radio today and I finally found it! Very catchy song, I love it.
may i politely say i think you are so gorgeous, WOW :)
That is so nice of you :) thanks
What radio station plays this kind of music!!! I am surprised you liked this song from the distant past, probably way before your time. Enjoy!
Gregory E. You'll find as the "Gen-Ex" ers start aging and taking the radio jobs, you'll find a lot of these cool songs being played more and more. Thanks to whomever did it this time to inspire a newer generation of listeners.
i second what Timothy said. Leah= beautiful
This great song made Fall 1981 memorable.
great song great memorys havent hered it since 81 thanks for posting
I love this song!!! Randomly found out about this group 9 months back. Even though SCTV pokes fun of this tune, its a great Rock single from the 80s!
I remember when I was little, my dad showed me this video. 10 years later, I'm still listening to it (I'm 18).
This song evokes generational feelings of the late 70’s early 80’s rock, I was around 45 years old when this came out and remember it well. I also think of Cliff Richards “A little in love” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”. Also evokes: and “Luke, I am your father”
Reminds me of Raiders of the Lost Ark which also came out in 1981. I was just a kid and remember this on MTV, and the movies that were out that year.
A blast from the past. I've always liked this song and band. Very very underrated!!
A beautiful Song the melody is unforgettable,eerie,and timeless..truly understimated beautiful song.
Never would have heard it without the early days of MTV. but, still listen to it from time to time, even in 2020
This song was ahead of its time.
When I was about 3 or 4 y/o one of my older cousins used to be a DJ in my native country of El Salvador and he used to bring records to my grandma's house and play them in his free time, well this was one of my favorite songs he used to play, I would beg him to repeat it over and over again, after a few years I never heard this song again, not even here in the US, but some times I would have those childhood memories and think about this song, as I learned the English language I realized the song said "She's gone..."but I could never find the artist, I thought it was the Police because my cousin used to played them a lot, but it wasn't, but last year I heard it for the first time in 40 years on Walmart radio and paid attention to the lyrics and found it here on youtube, I feel a great sense of accomplishment!!!!😄👍
I just listened to this like four times in a row. I was nine years old when this song came out. My childhood wasn't the greatest but songs like this give me happy nostalgia.
This canadian bands greatest hits album was second to none , one great song after another , thanks guys.
Well-constructed, super original sounding song. i totally love the outro.
Just saw a hilarious “cover” of this song in an old SCTV clip with Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy and the legendary John Candy.
One of my all time favourites!
Wow!!!! remembering when i was 15 on my great windsurf board. Thanks God for this video!!!!
They hit #22 in Billboard, 12-12-81. God bless you, Kenny, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a blessed rest of the week!
The guitar solo and vocal lick are great!
Being a Gen X'r hearing this for the first time and loving it since I saw it on MTV when they were a still a new thing in 1982 brought me here!!! .I never forgot this song or who sang it..about 17 years ago I had a store put the vinyl onto a CD so I can jam in my car since no CD was available then...Rock on!!!
Before the Hip came into my life in 89, there was Chilliwack. And before the internet I looked for years for this song. This and the Steinman version of Rock n Roll Dreams.
Always loved this song, definitely one of my favourite songs of the early 1980s.
I was about a month into the 6th grade when this was released. I recall the concession area quickly emptying as rollerskates hit the floor when this came on!! Pretty Cool Canadian Group even though this was to be their biggest hit!!
totally under rated tune, harmony, beat and band, proud to say from my back yard. Sounds as good now as when it first came out.
This song is a heavy contender for the original concept of a "One Hit Wonder." Long live the 80's. Heavy it is.
Chilliwack had many hits
chilliwack was not a one hit wonder band
Canadian rock comes through yet again ✌️🥳💞😎
This definitely received some airplay, it rings a bell. Gone gone gone sh been gone so long...
I have not heard this classic song for 25 years plus just watched it on Rage Australia...Thanks for the great memories.🎶😎
reminds me of the many times at the roller rink!!! Playing the great 80's music well on my skates
Funny I live in Chilliwack now for 16 years. I always enjoyed their 🎶 music. Moved from the east to the west.
2:39 is one of the epic moments of rock music.
Gone, gone, gone. Que buen recuerdo la primera vez que escuche esta cancion,fue en Disco Club (Gerardo Manuel), y radio Telestereo. ufff ............
Love visiting the past on occasion and appreciating the talent many of these bands had plus the memories that live on.
Rock Moranis, Eugene Levy and John Candy brought me here. 🔥🔥🔥
Love the "Casablanca" ending.
Here's looking at you kid!