I'm 63 but in very bad health and this song touches my heart even more than it did when it first came out over 40 years ago... God Bless and thank you for posting this special song...
When this song came out I was 22 and thought it's a nice song for older folks. Now getting close to 60 I think Wow , what a great song!!! RIP Mr. Burns😇
@@mikez7842 it does speak to me actually it makes me appreciate my youth and it makes me realize how every moment with my friends and family should be cherished that's why I take as many pictures as i can with all of them because I know one day if God wants, I too will be old and i know I'm gonna miss looking like how i do now, so yes it does speak to my sole
@@elicoutino3633 nice. Appreciate your youth family and friends. Check out the song Everyone’s free by Baz Luhrmann That song tells no lies. Truer words were never spoken to a generation and still hold true to this day.
Yes, Mary... I understand... I feel that way too. When I mention aloud that... I've had a damn good life... My grandkids think I'm preparing myself for some future, which they can only imagine is something I fear... but no, they do not understand... I'm reminiscing about something I miss... and wish I could live it all again.
Only person born before the year 1900 to have a hit song on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 80’s. Peaked at No. 49 in 1980. Great tune, Burns has a good voice too. He was born in 1896 and was an actor and comedian, known for being in the George Burns Show back in the 50’s and “Oh, God!” in the early 80’s.
_The George Burns Show_ appeared the year after _The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show_ and didn’t last a full season due to poor ratings. _The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show,_ on the other hand, was a perennial hit and lasted about eight seasons - longer than “I Love Lucy.” I’m sorry if this comment seems pedantic, but a lot of us are protective of Gracie Allen and her legacy and do not like seeing her being unacknowledged, especially her starring titular role in a classic American sitcom that is loved to this day and that couldn’t have existed or survived without her.
Played this song in the spring of 1981 at WONW radio 1280 in Defiance Ohio. I was only 20 years old. Now I’m 62 and can really relate. This song touches my heart. Yes I do wish I was 18 again!
I was a kid living in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis when this came out. I was at a local Tavern with my dad where he shot pool when he gave me a dollar to play the jukebox. It cost a dime a song and I spent the entire dollar playing this over and over. The drunks didn't appreciate that at all.
What a CLASSIC !!! .......Brings tears at almost 56 ( I was 18 in the wonderful year that was 1981 !! ) GOD bless George Burns !! ....I like the " LIVE " version better , this is beautiful however !
i was going to pittsburgh and i heard this song on 1080 weep i went to the record shop and bought a it i was 32 years old then ,now i'm 65 years old so true are the words of that song .i cryed on my birth day .
when I was 18 i could dance all night long, now that I am 49 I cannot dance anymore because of a problem with my foot....I understand this song whole heartedly......:)
Probably the only one in his 20s who understands this song. I've known since the time I was five that the odds I'd hit 35 would be very low. Heart condition. I'm 29 now, just found the greatest girl, God I wish I was 18 Again.
George loved Gracie so much. George would go to the cemetery in Glendale California where Gracie was buried every month to put flowers on the grave and talk to Gracie. Unfortunately he had a fling once like so many other famous actors.
@@marshto1 ,you are correct about George’s visits to Forest Lawn at least once a month. However, Gracie’s body was not actually buried in an earthen grave. Her remains were interred or entombed in a crypt at the Freedom Mausoleum in the Sanctuary of Heritage at Park Lawn. Burns was entombed beside her. The epitaph was made to give Gracie, as George said, “top billing” for eternity.
If I’m not mistaken, George was an EGO, just a Tony away from an EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar. Had he opted to do a one-man show on Broadway, which would have been an overwhelming amount of work, I suspect he could have nabbed that too.
yeah, enjoy it while you can because, you may not see it right now, but life goes by faster than a lot of people understand....You wake up one day, and wonder what the hell happened.......Live and do what you want to do, be careful, with what you do, but enjoy life while you are young...Dont wake up one day and say,, " I wish I had done........"
Geat song from a fun film (George Burns/Charlie Schlatter). The song was poignant then; much more so now. Where does it all go; and will I someday know (not just die, but KNOW) . 11/2019
Is forgotten all about this song until I heard someone else singing it today. But, I had to look up Mr. Burns' rendition because I heard his first years ago.
The song is foolish - a man who abuses his body by drinking and smoking is wishing he were 18 again. How about this? Stop drinking and smoking. Do some exercise. Do the best with what you have rather than wishing for the impossible?
