Count Me In. Indiana State Fair August 6, 2013. Video by John Blazier. No Copyright infringement intended. Video posted solely for the enjoyment of the fans.
Gary its 2021, & I am still a fan of yours. I just loved Gary Lewis & The Playboys. You sound the same & even better. You made the 60's Great. All the very best to you.
It cannot be denied that we're getting old but your style Gary Lewis remains intact. Your song Tina gave way to find a woman that later binds her with me. Thanks.
Played a couple of You Tube videos of his songs to my Primary School students ..... they loved them .... especially Everybody Loves A Clown. Great talent still attracting admirers.
A couple of times a year over the past TEN years I would get some tune stuck in my head. All I knew was that it was an oldie and knew it was something I had heard in my childhood. The best I could do was hum some of the chorus and even that would come and go. I hummed it for different people to no avail and would play the oldies stations and listen for hours hoping it would come on with no luck. Then one day, while the tune happened to be in mind, I hummed it for my brother over a FaceTime call, and within a couple of minutes he came up with Count Me In by Gary Lewis and The Playboys. 10 years of this song haunting me finally came to an end. It’s a great song and will always be special to me.
This was my childhood music..I think Gary Lewis and the playboys were one the most under rated groups...They had a plethora of great, feel good hits...Good stuff!!!
We do "Just My Stlye" as an Acoustic Duo. But in the right age range, they get it! Thank you Gary for the music you gave us all in a time of innocence!
Not sure what happened tonmy post, but I am definitely going to re-post. I had the pleasure of meetings and talking with Gary after his performance at a local ( Cooperstown NY and the ⚾️ Hall of Fame are close by) fair several years ago. He was very personable, pleasant, and very down to earth. Everyone danced and had a great time. He stayed and chatted after the concert. What an exceptional evening. A bunch of us probably would have gone out afterwards, but it was late and we had to drive home. Great memories for this senior citizen👍Would love to see him in concert again. Thank u for the upload. And thanks to Gary and the Playboys for the music and memories👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
So a week ago lat Friday, we did a Gary Lewis and the Playboys (on my suggestion) and the crowd (5 people) knew the song. Then they started heckling me so I sand all the songs I know from the era. Gee, you need to come to my "bitchin' kitchen" and hand out. I bet we know I know all your songs and some of the songs that inspired you. I love this video! God Bless the old school music and all of the folks that made it. I'm a PoP music girl, livin' in an old world!
WOW - WOW - WOW - tremendous talent here - GARY LEWIS sounds as young as he did back when he recorded this in the mid sixties- I remember his vocals chops way back then when I first heard HIM and the Playboys - very good- the band is also on the money - listen to that piano - it is exactly the way the late , great LEON RUSSELL played it on the original recording ! ! ! ! !
Gary Lewis & The Playboys need to be inducted into the 2022 Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. He deserves recognition, yes he's old now but the Guy has talent. He was the bands drummer. Then played some guitar and lead singer. His other band members weren't too bad either. Give credit where it is due!
@@willzimjohn I like their records too. SOme good songwriting there and good people playing on them. You can't beat his success on sales and on the charts.
@@willzimjohn Very true !!! "The Wrecking Crew" did perform the instrumentals and singer Ron Hicklin overdubbed Gary Lewis.. If you listen to this, realize that Gary lewis singing is better than the 1960's and a record would never have sold. FYI, this "concert" has a prerecorded instrumental track.. Instruments that are not visible are being played..
This is the best footage from a concert I'd seen on youtube. Picture is clear and sound is fantastic! Job well done. I thought I was actually there when it was recorded at the Indiana State Fair in August of 2013. It was 2 years ago but it looked like a live feed. Thank you so much!
Gary was pretty big back in 1965...listen to his string of musical accomplishments! He's a very nice guy who lived under the shadow of his famous, SELFISH father Jerry Lewis! Seems to have lost his voice a bit, but I still love his songs!
Dec 31 , 2022 still love this song. Got the album that this song and Everybody Loves A Clown was on. Like Jerry said in an interview back in the 80's , he was shocked when he came back from Nam and found out musical tastes had changed . Groups like Led Zeppelin were in , he took it hard. He hit the drugs for 2 years . Straightened himself out. I liked his music , never into Zeppelin . I hope he is still in good health. And he defended our country . Thank you Jerry .
I always equate this song with the great Summers when KIDS were not afraid of Clowns, & "Stealing a kiss" was not "Sexual assault" ,I personally ,still get a positive charge from these songs !.................See you in Sept!
An interesting aspect concerning GL is that he came along after the American era in pop music was largely over(1963 was the final year). Yet he still had many hit songs containing music that was similar to that previous time. He was not alone in having success with that type of music but few vocalists did all of their pop music after the era ended. If GL reads this blog I would like to hear his reaction. It is a pleasure to listen to his music and voice.
I heard dad Jerry say in Vietnam he was somewhere eating. A friend close to him was shot and some of that guys brain ended up in his food. I didn't know he sold so many records good music. Thank Gary.
