After the call and response finished with "All right!" That smile of Freddie's! He knew he had that entire audience in the palm of his hand. He was really enjoying himself.
I'm a 71 year old musician still doing Beatles music . It brings a tear to my eye , not just this song , but the fact young people are listening to this and understanding why we cry as they cry for a relationship they never got to know ! Hopefully with this new A I , they can show you what you missed , God Bless You all !
I hope you are ok. You disappeared. Our beloved Michael will have been gone 15 yrs in two days. Time flies. Sadly. I miss him every single day. Bless you and wish you the best. My fave reaction of yours in Alicia Keyes and John Mayer. I had another channel and I think I’ve watched it at least 50x.
Don't forget about Billy Preston's organ playing in the background. There's a lot going on in the song, all great, but Billy added a little more funk to it. The Moog synthesizer also has a great effect of wind blowing..What a song!
I used to sing this to my kids as a lullaby when they were babies. This and Goodbye Blue Sky. (Don't look at me that way, Rockabye Baby is just as dark!)
Doesn’t anyone who comments on the video know where Kashmir is? Not Morocco or Egypt, which are in North Africa; not “ancient Persia,” which is modern Iran. Seriously, people. It’s a region that straddles the border between Pakistan and India. Geez.
It’s weird for me to hear that younger generations relate to this via Iron Man. Just feels like it imposes imagery on a great song and performance that shouldn’t be there. Like only knowing Beethoven via cartoons. But oh well. (Nothing against the MCU, I’m a fan.)
A little background: Love your Bee Gee reactions of the brothers (Barry - the tallest with the beard, Robin, no beard, & Maurice, the shortest with beard - Gibb) who wrote the words & music to all their songs, as well as songs for other artists. They were also Producers and played instruments on their records! They had hits in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, for a 5 decade career! You can find videos of them performing on TV as early as 1960 when they were just children. Barry, the oldest, is the only one still alive today. He's living in Miami with his wife, Linda, of over 53 years! They also had a younger brother, Andy Gibb, who had a great solo career. He worked closely with his brothers (particularly Barry) in writing, producing, and doing background on many of Andy's songs! Andy also passed. --------------------- I’m not sure if you’ve reacted to any of these, but here’s a list with my interpretation of what genre I think they fall under: Too Much Heaven (R&B) How Deep Is Your Love (R&B Ballard) Staying Alive (disco) Night Fever (disco) You Should Be Dancing (R&B or disco) Fanny be tender with my love (R&B) Jive Talking (R&B) Nights on Broadway (R&B/Funk) Tragedy (Techno? Pop) More than a woman (Disco/R&B) Love you inside out (Funk/pop) To love somebody (R&B) Massachusetts (pop/country) Wind of Change (funk/r&b), live 1975 from the Midnight Special) Alone (pop) Love So Right (R&B) Words (pop, 1979 Spirits Tour) Lonely Days (pop) You Win Again (pop) Run to Me (pop) How Can you mend a broken heart (R&B) Kiss of Life (rock) One (pop) Wedding Day (pop) Rest Your Love on Me Awhile (country) Bodyguard (R&B) For Whom the Bell Tolls (pop) Blue Island - live (pop) Our Love, Don't Throw it all away-Bee Gee's or Andy's version (pop) Secret Love (pop) This is Where I Came in (live) (pop) The 1989 One for all tour medley (excellent vocals & some humor) If you want to see them (the Bee Gees) and how they work in the studio try: (A) the making of their song "Tragedy" from 1979 (B) The making of the song "Just in Case" (C) The making of the video "This is Where I Came in" from their last cd in 2001 Some that only the avid Bee Gee fans might know that you might want to react to: My Lover’s Prayer (pop ballard) Letting Go (pop ballard) Subway (R&B) You Stepped Into My life (Funk/r&b) Children of the World (pop) Search, Find (pop or R&B) Songs written by Barry Gibb (that other artists sung) -- alone or with his brothers (Robin & Maurice Gibb): If I Can't Have You (Yvonne Elliman) Woman in Love ( Barbra Streisand). In fact, The Bee Gees wrote every song on her Guilty CD, and Barry did 2 duets with her. And he did most of the background vocals on a lot of the songs. Islands in the Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Partons). In fact, The Bee Gees wrote all the songs on Kenny's "Eyes that See in the Dark" CD with Barry doing a lot of background vocals. Heartbreaker (Deion Warwick). In fact, The Bee Gees wrote every song on this CD too. The Bee Gees also did the Background vocals. Chain Reaction (Diana Ross) and yes, The Bee Gees wrote all the songs on this CD too. Barry also did the background vocals. Immortality (Celine Dion) The Bee Gees also sung background. The live 1997 from Vegas is excellent! More Than a Woman (Tavares) Love Me (Yvonne Elliman) Come on Over (Olivia Newton John) Emotions (Samantha Sang, with a lot of background vocals with Barry). Destiny's Child also recorded it. Grease--from the movie (Frankie Valli) Heart Beating in Time (Leo Sayer) Let me wake up in your arms (Lulu), who use to be married to Maurice Gibb A lot of Andy Gibb songs (Shadow Dancing, Everlasting Love, Love is Thicker than Water, Our Love, Don't Throw It Away; Desire;)
Autumn 1969, North of Holland, country side, where Bob Dylan loves to cycle like in his youth, me at High School had to deliver an English speech in class (at least half an hour.=so, I went on my Solex (mobike with motor on front wheel= 20 M/h) with my mums Bandrecorder (15 kilo) to a friend who had the disc (White) and Gramaphone, made a recording, and prepared my not so truthfull text (without Google we had other info like hearsay), then again with tape and recorder to school, a few words as intro about rocker John and more melodic Paul, and of we went. Many of the students still only used to Jazz with and no imagination. = I shocked with Helter Skelter (Scotish way of turning home after too nuch booze through rough landscape, I told them?). got some kind of good grade and some followers, then I took over the School Festivities and abandoned Jazz by playing Hang on to a Dream by the Nice, the spell was broken to get to Helter Skelter as well.=alex=me next year with Solex to London and sleeping Hyde Park after seeing Premiere Woodstock and Easy Rider in 1 night.=Bobbies kicked me out at 06.00, so rest of sleeping in Victoria Line (Metro Loop) .=Now Tuscany after 200.000 km of hitchhyking.
Singing since they were 5 yrs and 8yrs. Have always have had perfect harmony. This is from1978.. All brothers. Have another brother who is younger and sings on TV. They write all their songs. Wedding Day. Come Closer.
ELVIS IS AND HAS BEEN THE KING. Every woman wanted to be with him every guy wished he was Elvis. He was incredibly good looking. Fantastic voice. His Charisma is off the charts. HE IS THE KING ....no one else is even in the room.
Elvis sang over 700 songs, so you are only touching the tip of the iceberg, as they say. He has Amazing vocals & Amazing control. Even when he’s dancing, he can still sing without his voice wobbling all over the place. He has such power in his voice as well. I read a comment some time ago, where some guy said that Elvis’ voice wasn’t strong. Well I don’t know what Elvis he was listening to. It certainly was not the same Elvis that I’ve been listening to for almost sixty years. His voice has such depth & velvety richness too, & when he brings that raspiness in, it’s just Wow! Thanks for another great Reaction. I feel that we have added another fan to the growing number of new Elvis fans, 47 years after his death. And he thought he might be forgotten when he was gone. Hell no!
Jane H commenting ….. It’s so hard to watch this 1977 concert, which was his very last concert. He was so sick, but he still managed to charm with that wonderful charisma & that so beautiful smile. He was suffering & died just 8 weeks after this concert. The day he died, he was preparing to begin a gruelling concert tour, so I’m glad God took him before he began on that tour, because it was really costing him physically, with a very enlarged failing heart & liver, & several other serious health issues. He died at Graceland, the home he loved. He was just 42 years old, 4 years younger than the age his mother had died, of a heart attack. Then recently we lost his only child, Lisa Marie, of a cardiac arrest at 54 years old. It’s just so sad. Thank you for your respectful Reaction.
This was a tribute to Martin Luther King, after he had been assassinated. Elvis felt deeply upset about this senseless act & wanted to do this song to give encouragement for a brighter future where there would be no racial prejudice. He grew up with strict segregation laws & as a teenager at the start of his singing career, he flouted those rules & was seen as a threat. So he was drafted into the army & shipped off to post-war Germany for two years. He didn’t perform at all for that two years, but he bought a piano & a guitar & would sing in the house he had rented for his father ….his beloved mother had died of a heart attack at 46 years old, when he was drafted into the army, & he never got over losing her like that.
Jane H commenting ….. A 21 year old Elvis, just 3 years into his career & already he’s taking command of that stage. I never know how he manages to keep in tune, with all that screaming going on. He certainly does know how to work the crowd, which at his young age, is something special. Elvis has a very playful side to him, which you will see in most of his live performances. He also likes to pop a funny line of words into certain songs, & he can be a real comic on stage …. I saw him in one video performance catch a bra that some lady had thrown at him, & he continued singing as he draped the bra over his head. His musicians have to keep their eye on him, because he sometimes suddenly throws something in & they have to keep up with him. He loves his fans & enjoys making them happy. Wonderful reaction from you.
Jane H commenting ….. Elvis fans can never get enough of him. I’ve been a big fan since I was 15 in the mid-1960s, & decades later, I’m still a big fan. Others come & go, but Elvis remains. It’s wonderful to see your joy as Elvis sings.
This is a favourite of mine. He loves singing Gospel & Just Pretend does have a Gospel feel to it. Elvis has been singing gospel since he was a child. He really does have the most unique & magnificent voice, & his vocal range & control is just fantastic. Thank you for your wonderful Reaction.
Another great Reaction from you. Simon & Garfunkel were in the audience & when Elvis finished, Simon turned & said “Well how the hell are we going to top that?” & that is the highest praise that could be given. Elvis always puts so much passion & emotion & soul into his songs. He really feels what he is singing. That is why he was a worldwide superstar & sold over a billion records. And he is so versatile. He favourite genre is Gospel & he sings it for hours after his concerts, as it helps him to wind down & relax. A wonderful humanitarian whose generosity helped so many people & so many charities.
Jane H commenting …. Great Reaction from you. This is my absolute favourite Elvis song, & he does all his own musical arrangements. There is nothing going down on stage, that Elvis doesn’t know about. He doesn’t just walk on stage while he has producers doing this & that. He does it all himself, & that is what is remarkable about Elvis, or I should say, one of the things that is remarkable about Elvis. I was going to request that you do this song, & then spotted it. Over a billion people watched this live concert in Hawaii, because it was the First Ever live concert to be beamed around the world by satellite, with 36 countries watching it. I watched it in New Zealand, & Elvis looked & sounded Magnificent. It was hard to imagine that he was actually on stage performing as we were watching. Just Amazing.
I’ve come onto your channel to see your Elvis Reactions. Been a big fan of his since the mid-1960s, & my wife is a big fan too. Really enjoyed your Reaction to Jailhouse Rock which came out of one of his earlier movies & is a great song to do the Rock ‘n Roll dance to.
Elvis certainly is a Legend. He had it all. He loved entertaining & he loved his fans. This was a fun song & Elvis enjoyed being playful on stage, & he had the moves, which caused a lot of contention when he first shot to fame as a 19 year old in 1954. He had charisma in bucket loads & he had Southern Charm, because he was a Southern Gent. People said when he walked into a room, everyone could feel the energy coming off him, before they turned to see him. A fantastic performer & he had a wide range of songs to choose from …. Over 700. He even sang in Spanish & could sing in several other languages, He made over 31 Hollywood movies too. He was just an Amazing man.
Elvis is definitely the King of Rock ‘n Roll. At just 19 years old in 1954 he introduced a total revolutionary style of music ….. He danced on stage as he sang & played guitar ….. ‘hips swivelling’ & ‘gyrating his legs’ as said by one outraged lady. Up to that point, singers basically stood still when they sang. Elvis always said if he couldn’t move, he couldn’t sing. That was his style. People say he stole black music, but in actual fact, Elvis was raised in a very poor black community from the age of 7 until he was 14. His friends were the black children who lived nearby, & black music & Gospel were what he grew up with, & naturally that was what influenced him with his music & style. He didn’t steal it. He grew up with it. His skin might have been white, but everything he knew & loved was black. And he took that ‘black’ music to a white audience, in a place where strict segregation rules were in place, & no black artist could have got that music out to a much wider audience. Elvis, as a teenager, was loved by young people but hated by their outraged parents. He went through hell but he refused to compromise his music & style. When he was televised, he was censored from the waist down, because so many people complained. Elvis paved the way for singers to develop their own distinctive style, thus giving them freedom to express themselves through their music. He was a very courageous young man, & he paid dearly for his refusal to compromise, when authorities had him drafted into the army & shipped off to post-war Germany. His beloved mother was so distressed that she got very sick & then died of a heart attack, & that affected Elvis for the rest of his life. Don’t believe most derogatory/controversial things you hear. Some people just want to tear an Icon down, but the truth is that Elvis had such a caring, giving heart & he always wanted to give his fans the very best of himself. He had passion. He had soul. He had pure God-given talent.
I would really appreciate more Elvis reaction. Haven’t seen any in a while. I’ve been an Elvis fan for 68 years and I have loved that man all my life. Not so much for the entertainer but the man behind the entertainer. Pick any Elvis song you choose and I would appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Page - GOAT Plant - GOAT Bonham- GOAT Jones - GOAT Rock, blues, jazz, ballads, folk, mystical sounds. What can't this band play! Never have I seen a band in sync with each other from beginning to end of a song like these guys and with every song they've done!
As antiwar activists, John and Yoko were heroes. Our government dragged them through hell for it. Watch "the us vs john Lennon" It will break your heart. 🌹RIP JOHN🌹
