To bring us literally to the present day with Voiceplay, their newly-released cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is just FLAWLESS! Pure perfect beautiful singing! You’re going to love it so much Sir H!!
Congratulations on that National Championship victory! That's amazing. Your enthusiasm for and love of this song is very clear. 😄 Your arrangement, what we heard, and your group sound so great! Would love to hear the award winning song in its entirety! This VP cover is so busy (in a good way) and fun! Loved it too. Thanks!
Congratulations on your national a capella championship! Wow, talk about bona fides. Kudos for using the word "groovy" completely straight-faced in your reaction. I love your passion for this song -- I really feel your joy. Thanks, Sir H!
Always fun watching you analyze and react to a song you obviously know extremely well! Especially the ones where you're "singing" along with the performance - some of these songs are just so catchy, no one can help but sing along if they know it!
It's fun to see how everyone has been enjoying the video and your analysis to it so much! I love reading the nostalgia filled comments haha. Cool how you added your own arrangement for us to see! I'm inspired to make today a 50's kinda day. If anyone has some more good song recommendations, please let me know! 😎
Too many to choose from! Some I've been listening to recently: • The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You • Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby • The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes • Bobby Darrin - Dream Lover
This was my older sister’s favorite song when I was young. It was always played at full volume on the radio (& on every jute box - showing my age, there were tabletop jute boxes in restaurants back in the day). Thank you for this VP reaction. All the guys are having fun, and it’s infectious.
Ahh sounds amazing! I found a working juke box in a pub near me a couple of months ago, complete with old records. A rare sight these days where I'm from!
@@SirHairless I was born before there was television. Indeed, there were no telephones in the top secret military installation where I lived. Perhaps being behind barbed wire is the reason for my love of a cappella. Music was produced by extremely talented neighbors. The military allowed one building to be shared by all religious groups & the chorales were, by necessity, without accompaniment. In those days, catholic services were in Latin. I still love the music.
It’s so nice to see you enjoying yourself with your music favorites and being excited about your accomplishments (✌congrats on the championship victory!✌); I also had a lot of fun watching this :) Thank you very much for sharing your admirable knowledge and contagious joy with us!🤗
I grew up with this song. My mom and her little band (in old Valdez, Alaska, after 1951) picked up on it early on. I turned six in November of the year it was first released by The Chords in 1954, and I already had implanted my permanent footprints by our wonderful, battery-powered transatlantic radio. When Mom and Dad began to sing it together from time to time (with or without the band), I would jump right in there with them, as they sang, shuffled, and bopped around the room. Everyone I grew up with, knew that song, and loved it. I still do. To me, Voiceplay's version is a bit "too jazzy," too snappy-fast, and a little too nasal, but that's basically because I still have the Chords' much smoother and more mellow sounds in my head -- even after all these years. In my head, I hear the rich, smooth voices of the Chords. That version of the song is obviously great for dancing (especially the old-style dancing that my parents did, with twirls, whirls, and sometimes fascinating slides). I somehow can't envision those same types of moves to Voiceplay's version (sigh). Also, when Mom's band played it, there was a WONDERFUL sax player, who would pick up from Mom's smooth piano lines, and there was the LOVELY rhythmic pattern being played by the hugely-talented String Bass player. Mom didn't play her violin with this one. She stuck to the piano. The tremendous drummer in the band sounded AMAZINGLY like the one in the Chords, in the original song (see just below). You can hear the original on YT in "The Chords - Topic," in the album "Here Comes the Chords." It's Track #1." This all doesn't mean that I think VoicePlay did a bad job. They didn't. Also, your breakdown of the way they performed it is great. It's just not the music that has already been in my heart (and my head) for 69 years...kind of hard to get that sound to move out, you know? 😀
I loved this song when it came out. Great beat, harmonies. They all must have sucked helium from a balloon before they started singing. So funny. Billy Boy
This was fun to watch! Sir H you were cracking me up throughout this video! I could tell you were having fun w/ this one! 🙃 I also like how you included some of your own arrangement!! This was an awesome reaction and analysis as per usual! 👏🏻🙂
I really appreciate your reaction and analysis videos! You are always positive and honest but I particularly love your classical music education perspective and when you bring up other cultural phenomena - the retro futurism bit was so very interesting and I wouldn't have thought of it, but I could not agree more that it fits. 😍 I cannot wait for the next one even if I cannot for the life of me predict which one you will do next (this one came out of nowhere for me) 😆 (I am also in full support of your vintage car cover with modern (electronic?) engines venture!!)
I agree. All a cappella, all Tim. He even has "In My Room" by the Beach Boys. Some are like In My Room others are more DooWoppy (for lack of better phrase). All are enjoyable.
Yo, as someone who's always wanted a classic mini cooper with a kick-ass engine, hit me up! Not sure if I've commented before, but I love your videos btw, I watch a bunch of analysis videos and you still find things to say which I haven't heard before, so preesh!
I like this whole arrangement, with this 50th environement and the sound in the "black and white beginning" - it reminded me of the famous sound of the Comedian harmonists 😉 I love the song , it´s one of those happy feeling songs, and you can see how much fun VP had recording it
This is a great one fromm Voiceplay and as always I very much enjoyed your reaction!. I love Doo-wop and they have perfectly melded the vintage 50s style wyith the modern/futuristic a cappella style and got the atmosphere just right. Talking of retro futurism, have you seen Fallout (the tv series of the game)? That's retro futurism and this reminds me of it a lot!. Layne's effects were brilliant and he seemed to be having so mucn fun. In fact they all seem to be having a blast - J-None in particular! 🤩😂
Thank you!! I was hoping you would enjoy this one. Such a classic but of course they manage to add their fun twists and well…VoicePlay it. I love Geoff’s subharmonic note thrown in there at the end of his solo and Layne’s crazy ending. I always thought of it as a jukebox winding down. I think they chose the setting with the cars because this song was in the soundtrack to the movie Cars.
Voice Play can do anything! It's a great rendition. My mom liked this song- I like it though osmosis lol. Very fun. ❤R/A🎼💯 I love your new Sir Hairless logo in the beginning! You taught me what a hemiola is - two groups of three beats are replaced by three groups of two beats. Hope I got that right.
A lovely song! Pretty much! An easy way to think of a hemiola is just to think "3 in the space of 2", so 3 beats occupying the space of 2 regular beats👌🏽
Laine's noise brrrah it reminds me of when you play Vinyl and you accidentally touch the spinning record briefly you slow it so the sound warps good job to Laine creative thinking or memories.
@@SirHairless I suppose that makes sense! I'm an 80's kid, so I love them all. In fact, Michael J Fox was the first celeb to adorn posters on my walls, my first celeb crush! And he's also been my hero for the past 14 years. He was my dad's hero, too. My family lost dad to Parkinson's in 2014. Maybe you know Michael also has Parkinson's which he was diagnosed with at the unusually young age of 29. It's almost unheard of for someone to last for 32 years with it, it makes you susceptible to other illnesses, falls, accidents, and it can just wear your body down to the point it can't fight anymore. MJF said in a recent documentary called Still, that "You don't die from Parkinson's, you die WITH Parkinson's." He founded the MJF Parkinson's Foundation, whose symbol is tattooed on my wrist, and they had a very significant research discovery recently! They discovered a 90% successful way to test for Parkinson's in spinal fluid. That's HUGE! Before, it was an exclusivity diagnosis, they'd test for a bunch of diseases and if you didn't have them, they'd diagnose you with Parkinson's. Now they can KNOW! And most people in my family have donated to the MJFPF, so I like to think we played a part in it. Finding a biomarker is the first step to finding a cure! Sorry, went off there a bit didn't I? Apologies, it's really exciting to me. It's a very, VERY heartwrenching disease to watch someone you love go through, it's a wasting disease, and exceptionally painful. At the end, a triple dose of morphine didn't help dad. So any significant steps on the road to a cure should be highly celebrated. Gah, went off again! I dreamed about my dad last night (he visits me😉), which is why he's on my mind, I guess. Again, sorry. But hey, now you have a bit of small talk! "Did you hear that the MJF Parkinson's Foundation is a significant step closer to finding a cure?" Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks for your patience, fun reaction and positive energy! I have a root canal tomorrow, so need lots of good energy! (And maybe a prayer or two as well. Ask the Universe. Tell them I sent you!🤣) Yeah. I'm in a weird mood. Ta ta for now!
The only thing I don't like? enjoy? get weirded out by? I haven't quite figured out exactly what it is? anyway, it's the angle of the camera on your keyboard. I feel like I've been suspended upside-down and backwards over the keyboard and I'm getting a bit motion sick. Lol. I don't know if you could or want to change that or maybe it doesn't bother anyone else so there's no need to change. But other than that, as always I really enjoy your reviews and analysis, Sir.
One of my favourites of the older ones. I don't think it gets enough attention, so thank you. It's from my yout. I loved it then and love this now. So much fun.
Knowing your acappella was national champion makes me want to hear you sing more than ever! Maybe a full recording of the championship performance? Especially if you have a solo.
I can't tell you how happy I feel right now having just watched this. It's one of my favorite Voiceplay songs, and as far as I know, you're the first person to do a reaction video. And how lucky could I be that it is from my favorite RU-vid Reacter. This song is almost exactly as old as I am, and as you mentioned the set is fantastic! My friends and I were into cars in high school and just after, and a couple of us owned some of these vehicles - the Corvette, the T-Bird and one of the Porsches. Thanks for doing such a great job with a great song. Think about doing their Wicked medley (though that would be a very long video). And also their versions of Tennessee Whiskey and Don't Stop Believin' - both with Earl. Of course it's very hard to find a bad VP song!
@@SirHairless Yeah, I still have a lot of great friends from high school who remind me of the good ol' days, but when I look in the mirror and see that guy I barely recognize standing where "I" used to stand, I'm not sure that nostalgia is what comes to mind! :)) Thanks again for all the great work you do.
@@thisismetoday7423 I agree - great song, but I think this is the first and only reaction to the VP version. Did I miss one? Please let me know. I would love to see it.
@@rdyer8764 Sure thing! Some of the more known reactors that have covered this one are QofyReacts, Brad Steele, King Family Reacts, Patrol Nation and Kazandra Brock but there are a handful of others as well. If you put “voiceplay sh-boom reaction” in the search bar you should get several results.
Congrats for your acapella championship!! And glad to be able to hear some parts of your arrangement (and I assume your singing in it as well?)! For me it's always so much fun watching and listening to their music! Full of small surprises in their arrangements and not shy away of showing their goofiness!! And seeing you enjoying their music and discovering those details are also fun!! Thanks for another great one!!
I love doo-wop as well and this is one of my favorites, and of course VP knocked it out of the park! Also, as an artist, I was so excited when you mentioned Retro-Futurism. I am very partial to Retro-Futurism and Steampunk stylistically. I guess I just like anachronistic mashups which, bringing it back around, is why I love this song cover. Top-notch R&A as always!
I grew up in mid-America (rural Illinois) in the 1950s and I don't know this song. To clarify: I didn't recognize it from the title, or from "Life could be a dream." But the music was certainly familiar--especially when they got to "the part that's so much fun to sing." I have a feeling that I heard it many times when I was a child, but didn't pay attention to the words. In any case, a great du-wop song plus Voice Play makes an irresistible combination. (On second thought, what music genre plus Voice Play DOESN'T make an irresistible combination? I dunno. But I'm not going to go back and edit this. Thanks for a great analysis! I especailly appreciated the clips from the original and different covers. Is your full arrangement available for listening?
