Bobby Hatfield's 'Summertime' in 1965: His Unforgettable Reaction! 

bobby invented quite a few new notes in this song

No autotune. No mechanical enhancements. Just pure talent.

This is why their music was called "Blue Eyed Soul."

Unchained melody, soul and inspiration, you've lost that loving feeling. I'm 64 and love the reactions of the young people. No auto tune just talent!!!!

Blue eyed SOUL, right there.

Bobby Hatfield was a genius.

Your reaction is the best!! Bobby, blue eyed soul countertenor ... no auto tune, no do-overs, just pure God given talent .. don't make em like that anymore

Bobby is awesome. Not only was he one of the best singers, but he felt the music. His body was always moving as if the music was flowing through him.

I’m 70, still think these guys were great! No enhancements, just talent!

Dang..Bobby was channeling some serious soul there!

Bobby Hatfield what a legend. An incredible voice, one of a kind. Words don’t do him justice x

This the kind a talent I grew up listening to! Those were the DAYS!

Honestly, I have heard many covers of this song and this is the first time ever I heard Bobby singing it. My God, I did not anticipate this at all. This is many levels above the rest of humanity. He did not kill it, he owns it eternally.

Soar and sing with the angels Bobby!!!!❤❤❤

Your reaction is sooooo precious! I especially enjoy the reaction of young black men whose stunned look on their faces in total disbelief of what they have just heard is simply delicious to see, I can't help but smile at how much you appreciate genuinely good music that defies the passage of time by pleasing different generations from Boomers to Zoomers!

Great reaction 😊 I was 15 back then… We had great music, and we got live performances even if they were on TV …they were recorded while they were performing

Bill was referencing Bobby's designation as 'the cute one'. His nick-name was 'the blond bomber'😊

Man got soul

Blue eyed soul.

This is the best reaction to this performance.

This was followed up by bill medley singing Old Man River

BLUE EYED SOUL. THAT WAS THE RIGHTEOUS.

I always loved the Righteous brothers from back in the day. This song brings back so many memories. Great reaction!

😎 *This is what COOL looked like in the 60's* 😎 I really miss the days when men used to sing to women, & not at them.....💗

Bobby Hatfield just sang the living daylights our of George Gershwin's compostion of Summertime from the play Porgy and Bess. How does this even happen? Bobby is the most soulful man ever!

You should listen to Unchained melody and You've lost that loving feeling! ❤These two are called The Righteous Brothers btw!

He sang it 🔥🔥🔥

Bobby Hatfield was my favorite that boy could sing one of the most amazing voices I ever heard ,check out White Cliffs of Dover

Best ever really.

This Righteous Brothers was so awesome. His voice was incredible! I was in high school when they came out in 1964. I still have their vinyl record albums in my collection. I still plsy their greatest hits CD in my car. RIP Bobby 💖 🙏

Billy and Bobby The Greatest!!

He has perfect pitch no auto tune needed

your reaction was so cute--I loved it. Love it when first timers hear Bobby Hatfield, or even the Righteous Brothers together. Always a surprise when a great note is hit, and I think to myself, he has only gotten started lol

😅 I’m 74. Back in the days I only could listen in radio and my favourites allways were … black soul singers… including the Righteous Brothers … ! now I’m retired and plenty of time in RU-vid made me discover all my favourite alive and my reaction were similar to yours 😅. Glad to see your enthusiastic reaction ❤ Jump to Bill’s hot I wanna make love to you and understand why they where called blue eyed soul. They never deceive. Good work !

If you want to see Bill sing after this. Just search for 'Bill medley-Ol man river 1965'

I love your reaction bro

I, unfortunately, wasn't even born yet, but the quality of these two guys was unmistakable!! Oh, to have been born in those days...

My God - had no idea Bobby could sing (and groove) like this!!! PHEW❤

So great to see a young person enjoy the music I listened to so many years ago.

Bobby Hatfield was amazing. They were not really brothers though

Loved your Reaction 😊

Listen them sing I Just Want To Make Love To You and Nightime Is The Right Time with the Blossoms on Shindig. The Brothers were regulars on Shindig, a weekly show for teens. You can find a lot of their Shindig apperances on RU-vid.

One of the best reactions I’ve seen, so fun 😀. I’m obsessed with his performance, just flawless.

Your reaction is better than Bobby singing, almost, we had real singers back in the day!

Your reaction is priceless

Summertime has always been one of my favorites, and two different covers of it were the ONLY versions for me, until I heard this one a few decades ago. I thought I knew all of The Righteous Brothers' catalog but somehow missed it. I still knew the song though and didn't think much about it til I played Bobby's version. I was SHOCKED. Good lord. This man's voice.... 🤯😳🤩

Love your reaction

Feels like velvet ❤

Like fella's who are close to one another as family or friends they rag on each other without mercy, but it is in fun and love. Try: You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Soul and Inspiration, Unchained Melody (on the Andy Williams TV show '65), and a '70s Rock and Roll Heaven, with lesser hits like; Little Latin Lupe Lu, Ebb Tide, Just Once in My Life not to mention lots of covers and one I love best is an Etta James song. They are Blue Eyed Soul personified so please enjoy.

THIS IS JAMES BROWN ' S IMITATION OF WAY OF MOVING AND FINISHING HIS SONG.

Gr❤eat reaction

The Righteous Brothers grew up in Orange County California when it was all .white. But they both loved R and B and listened to that on the radio all the time and loved singing R and B. When they were 21 or 22 they were performing in a club. Some black Marines from Camp Pendleton heard there was R and B at the club and started coming to hear them. A couple of those black Marines started saying "Hi, my righteous brother" when they saw them.The Righteous Brothers were really proud of that so - when they needed a name for their act - that's what they chose. After they cut a record and went to DJ's to promote it, the white DJ's wouldn't play it cuz it was R and B black music. The black DJ's would quit playing it as soon as they saw them and found out they were white. But eventually the black DJ's played their music anyway, andintroduced them as the "blue-eyed brothers". Then the white DJ's followed and started playing them too. They opened the door for so many musicians who followed.

Great reaction!❤

Music of the fifties (Sarah Vaughn, Ella's Fitzgerald - the Big Bands (Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, et a l) alòng came the sìxties and great singers like Percy Sledge , the phenomenal Righteous Bros. ,the super talented Eric Clampton Gladys Knight and the Pips, Motown., . . . too many to name, but they were the Golden Decades of music.

I never get tired of listening to Bobby Hatfield singing that song and Unchained Melody you have to hear that too unless you've already played it. The tall guy Bill Medley was not his real brother but Brothers in a sense very good friends. Bill had that deep voice and Bobby had that Alto guess that's what you call it he died very young and he's 60s in 2007 rest in peace Bobby. So I was young when they were singing of course they were young too I'm 89 years old I know you'll think oh wow good reaction thanks.

Ooohhhh. It sounds like somebody's got a little gospel in their upbringing!

Holy Smokes! I know you did this a year ago but I've never heard this song before. How awesome was that?!!

❤great reaction 😂

This was a great reaction. I hope by now you have also listened to Unchained Melody and You've Lost That Loving Feeling. And another very popular song of theirs was Soul and Inspiration. They aren't really brothers but they sure were the perfect duo

Add some depth to your life, go find the play Porgy and Bess. It will probably be in black and white, but give it a shot and it will add more color and soul to your life. It’s amazing.

Bro.....that was the bomb

The righteous brothers are Bill medley and Bobby Hatfield.

❤❤❤

👍👍💯

This is one of the best on RU-vid thank you wild bill

Listen to, “All I want to do is make love to you.” Bill Hadley is the main singer on this one, and it is R&B!

Hey my friend, i loved this as much as you do (did)!

George Gershwin classic best cover ever wild bill

Brown eyed woman, is sung by Bill! Listen to their songs, “you’ll never walk, alone,” and “all I wanna do is make love to you.”

Old man river is next

Why is it that this mother to soon-to-be-orphaned baby lullaby is turned into an adult love song (if not worse), will always be a mystery to me. Porgy and Bess was an opera. Gershwin wanted it to be an opera. Here is the original soprano recording it a little time before the composer's untimely demise. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zAsWSFF_55o.htmlsi=cWNUP9yBES2QRnc-

They didn't call it "blue eyed soul" for nothing.

Here's the the previous song.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ONJCstJCqeM.html

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS before they were the righteous brothers

You have to react you lost that loving feeling

Here is the link for Bill's solo " Ol' Man River" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aJtEViPMfy8.htmlsi=EkLO5QEHP2H8g-lf Here is another song from this show "My Babe" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ONJCstJCqeM.htmlsi=lY5wy3-AAwwOD96s

No auto tune...

Sounds like Janis Joplin version of summertime 💞💞💞💞💞

It’s so sad we only saw music as black or white….missed so many experiences….from both sides

Look up Bill singin "I just want to make love to you" and both of em singin "B Flat Blues"!!!

Brilliant eh??? I think you liked it😉

Listen to Unchained Melody by him by the Righteous Brothers it will blow your mind too white boys can sing to

Reaction to Dire Straits Sultans of swing alchemy live version please

This is the song Bobby was introducing for Bill ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aJtEViPMfy8.html

Here's the link to the next song - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aJtEViPMfy8.html. It's not as exciting Booby Hatfield's "Summertime," but well sung nonetheless.

Tell the truth, everyone. If you did not know Bobby was white and were hearing this solo by him for the very first time with your eyes closed, what would be your thoughts about how he looks? Not meaning to be stirring up anything negative or controversial here, but I am just wanting to be real.

Not real brothers