Home to RU-vid's year-by-year HITS ARCHIVE playlists, the three MusicProf channels comprise the most complete organized online collection of major original-version U.S. record and song hits from the years 1925 thru 1980...plus much more. Scroll down this channel's home page to locate playlists from your favorite years (the actual pre-rock era videos themselves are posted to 'The78Prof' channel and the post-1965 Hits Archive titles are posted to 'AnotherProf').
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First heard this on the American Graffiti soundtrack. Great song, and album, and soundtrack. My mom heard me playing this song and told me she remembered the song and the artist, Buddy Knox. It was a favorite song of hers. Great memory to share with her! She passed away July 4th 2024, sadly. This song sometimes makes me happy, sometimes makes me cry when I think of her. Maybe she's up in heaven listening to this, rocking on eternally. Rest in peace Mom. I pray we'll be together again someday. Love and miss you so much.
Always wondered why this song never made it to a film. To me, it would be a great song to be played at the opening credits of a fantastic western of some sort. But that’s just me.
Yeah, my childhood too. circa 1959, I'm with a bunch of my 10 year old buddies at an old neighborhood movie house featuring 3 horror movies and John Zacherle, live on stage. Suddenly, I was ushered on to the stage, and I am face to face with "The Cool Ghoul," Zacherle, along w/4 or 5 other kids! He held a "howling contest"...and I won! I'll never forget that!
Oh, that's such a cute song! Even though it's short, it's superior to the crap that comes out today with such vulgar lyrics. This was a nice decent song. It's a shame we don't have songs like this anymore. But, of course it's not 6 decades ago either 1964.
I think the first time I heard this song was in the 60s when I was a little kid. It was playing on Capt. Kangaroo & showed pictures of sad kids as it played.
My grandpa loved this song. Used to play this on the loudspeakers when we was in the navy. Love listening and remembering his peaceful and positive attitude
The Exclusive record label of the late 1940s may have had Class Records as a later label due to the logo replacement of the E with a C by a crop-off of the middle area.
"So I used to call her Midnight just for fun. We were laughing through the darkness, making wishes on a star, and every wish came true, except for one." Interesting rhyme scheme. Sheer sublime poetry conjuring images of pure emotion at great depth. The way songs used to be.
beautiful recording! he released some really good singles throughout the 60's. "Just A Memory" and "Through The Eyes Of Love" are ones that come to mind.
I first heard this song on the famous Dr. Demento Radio Show in the 1970's. He was the greatest influence on me as far as collecting records, especially 78 RPMs and Wax Cylinders if i could find them.
