First Time Hearing The Reflections “(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet” Reaction Asia and BJ 

Absolutely love this song!! We're in our seventies and we were quite young when this came out! Thanks Asia & BJ you're gems!!

A classic of Detroit doo-wop from the early '60s. Wonderful stuff!

This song reached #6 on the Billboard chart. Their next highest charting song reached #55, "Poor Man's Son".

Ed Wingate, owner of the newly formed Detroit-based Golden World Records, had signed the Reflections on the basis of the group's regional success with the single "You Said Goodbye" on the local Kay-Ko label. Songwriter Freddie Gorman, who had been recruited by Golden World from Motown, would recall that he considered his recent composition "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" as "tailor made" for the doo-wop-styled Reflections "because it had a pop feel, as opposed to the R&B thing they were doing." However Reflections' lead singer Tony Micale recalls that none of the group responded positively to the song when Gorman first sang it for them: "It just didn't sound like much with [Gorman] just playing a little piano backup". The Reflections recorded the vocal for the track several weeks later at the RCA recording studio in Chicago. According to Micale, the group's members still regarded the song as somewhat of a joke. While running through the song prior to the recording session they ad-libbed a falsetto "doo-doo-doot" hook line as irreverent mimicry of Gorman's vocal style when he had pitched them the song. The group was surprised when Gorman added that line to the song's vocal arrangement. The instrumental track for "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" had been recorded at United Sound Systems in Detroit. Micale would recall that when the group's members first heard that instrumental track through the [RCA] studio monitors "we were just blown away... Some of the Motown [session musicians] were playing on it, and the sound was just amazing. Besides our vocals, the only thing added at that point were [the] 'doo-doo-doot's that we had come up with, and hand claps". (Wikipedia)

The ultimate feel good oldie!! This sounded great coming out of a radio station jingle and blasting out of an AM car radio! Mid 60's Doo-Wop. Things were changing in 1964. The Beatles and British acts were taking the world by storm. In the middle of all that, this song was a bit of a throw back. BTW, the backing musicians are the Funk Brothers, who were the Motown house band. They were moonlighting, which they often did because, according to them, Berry Gordy wasn't paying them very well. The Reflections are also a Detroit group.

I love this song! I love your reactions! I think that dance you were doing is called the "Mashed Potato."

I knew one of the clappers in this, lol

This was a huge Northern soul hit in the UK

I was about to turn 8 years old and in the second grade when this was on the AM radio airwaves. Life was so simple and I want to cry every time I hear songs from this period.

Yep, this is indeed doo-wop, and what a great song ! .. The first version I heard of it was the hit cover by Australian pop / rock band Mental As Anything in 1980 .. Loved it, but then found the original and it's definitely the best .. A classic for sure ! .. BTW - Cool dancing there, BJ 😄

Number one good dance song😊. Number two great lyrics to sing along! This was a chart topper back in the day and I still remember the words thank you God

Fantastic song. Going to the Jolly Roger in my 60 Chevrolet Night Moves Lol 🎷👍💕

We were young, everything was simple and innocent, girl likes boy, boy likes girl, Life is great!

Great recording! Good job covering this!!

It's just good old rock and roll ... Mid 60's.

Just Like Romeo & Juliet About Artist: The Reflections Released: 1964 Album: Presenting The Reflections Genre: Doo-Wop love this kind of music, back when I was a kid the Shell gas station was selling this box set of 50 and 60s rock. Each week if you filled up at Shell you could buy a cassette tape of 10 or so songs from the 50s and 60s and it came with a free plastic case to hold all the cassettes in, as you filled it up each week. We had all of the tapes and I listened to them all the time. I think you can even find it online to buy now, I wonder if I could just find a list of all the songs on it. Most of them would probably be good to do.

Massive hit on the uk Northern soul scene in the 70s......and today !!

A blast from the past.

I grew up in Australia so really only know the version done by Mental As Anything. They made it fun!

Wife here.., "Doo Wop" "R&B"..belongs to a genere we also call "Beach Music"..The Pop Rock of my Parents generation..But.., really U2 would love the history of (Beach Music) You do get that "Swooner" feel

Malt Shop dance beat early 60’s. Love this song catchy beat and hook.

This song is the early 60's. The dance BJ was doing was called "Cool Jerk." There is a song by the same name if you want to react to it.

1964, big hit! Lots of Motown muscians on this record.

Great tune. I think it was 1963 or 64

This is Doo Wop, I grew up watching these guys around Metro Detroit as “The Laredo’s” at local fairs and car shows during the 80’s and early 90’s. And my father worked with one of the guys Bernie, and that’s how I learned of the group that started before I was born. Damn they put on a fantastic show.

One of my all-time favorite oldies!

Alter Bridge- Watch Your Words

Sorry for the late reaction. The background musicians are the Funk Brothers of Motown!

Loved it!

I believe that dance was called The Jerk and you did it well.

This is considered DOO-WOP!

Wonderful

The Reflections were an American blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group. "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" was their biggest hit in 1964. They are considered a one-hit wonder even though they had some other songs.

Love to your fur baby!! Gorgeous!!

Fusion of doo wop and rock-a-billy

Better than I remembered it!

One of my fav songs💛

Back to childhood to the wonderful year of.......1964!

Some people referred to this as Bop Rock

Rock n' Roll, sweeties ... it's Rock n' Roll!

OMG! I LOVE YOUR PUPPY!

I love your 🐶 puppy

U gotta play 'The Walk ' By Mayer Hawthorne

Hey, guys: It's so nice watching you get into the early music of the 60s. I think anyone being honest with themselves would have to admit that the 60s decade was musically awesome. Here is a song that was not a hit for this group; it was a cover of The Rascals song, I've Been Lonely Too Long. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LIT8inPP8nk.html I love both versions but in my opinion, The Brooklyn Bridge one is far superior. Only a very small fraction of the 60s music was bubblegum and closer to the end of the decade, I think.

Rock & roll

This is cool

Always good to be reminded of the utter ignorance of today's youth.

Pup looks bored,..

just like Adam and Eve is a far better song.

I'm just saying my thought process I thought this was doo-wop. I'm not telling anybody what it is I'm just saying what I think it is peace and love