HOLY COW!| FIRST TIME HEARING Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson And Clover REACTION

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HOLY COW!| FIRST TIME HEARING Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson And Clover REACTIOn
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@TomTom-ui9hg Год назад

Amber is so right. Being a child of the 60's and 70's really was a wonderful time to be alive. So much great music and freedom to express with little judgement and just being able to run around without fear was a wonderful thing. We probably won't see it like that again and it makes me sad. Peace!

@Richard2003 Год назад

Makes me sad too.

@roseblake5803 Год назад

Oh the judgment was always there but the music was extraordinary.

@marygatteri1491 Год назад

@@roseblake5803 Yes there were some judement but today has become so mean and hateful and we did had more freedom back then just being children not being little adults not carry adulr burdens on our shoulders like children are having today . And we didn't live in so fear , again like children are having today

@roseblake5803 Год назад

@@marygatteri1491 - It’s because children today are much more informed. We were not.

@marygatteri1491 Год назад

@@roseblake5803 We were pretty imformed but of course we didn't have the internet . We had the news the newspaper and hearing about things through the grapevine so of speak and but we didn't know eveything little thing , still we knew enough of what was going on, we were still children through all that

@joelmclean2898 Год назад

Tommy James and Shondells were SO far ahead of their time! You can't really go wrong if you are looking for something good.

@chetcarman3530 Год назад

How old were you when this came out?

@ShadowHawk4219 Год назад

Indeed Joel, they are "Sweet Cherry Wine"

@kevinsattler6603 Год назад

@@chetcarman3530 Jr. High for me.

@wpollock1 Год назад

@@chetcarman3530 2nd grade or so

@SLam-ve3yp Год назад

They were not ahead of their time. They were on time!

@tombeyerlein3813 Год назад

Amber, we hereby declare you an honorary hippie! I really feel blessed to have grown up in those years. It truly was an age of optimism, when it seemed like anything was possible. There were some horrible things happening -- racism, Vietnam, the Cold War -- but for awhile it seemed like the solutions to every problem were within our grasp.

@ammaleslie509 Год назад

Agreed! Amber is an honorary flower child!!!

@rebeccawyse5562 Год назад

Someone needs to have a hippie party.

@Kayellen Год назад

Same!

@sunnystormy4973 Год назад

_#cheers_

@grabble7605 Год назад

It didn't seem like that. Everyone just had good drugs. The 60s were filled by people pointing at problems, singing about hypothetical solutions...And not solving any of it. Funny neither of them considered the racism in their 'I wanna be in the 60s!' spiel.

@rickmeister Год назад

Ya ever notice how Amber goes into the "Hippie Zone" soooo quickly? Jay's over there trying to figure out the sounds and the instruments while Amber has left the planet. Love you both, but Amber gets to fly the "freak" flag today! ....and that's a good thing!

@patrickchilds9620 6 месяцев назад

yup

@jamesponicsan6129 5 месяцев назад

This was my first time watching these two and I really enjoyed their reaction and take on this Tommy James classic.

@Shrykespeare Год назад

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but in case it hasn't... Tommy James did the original version of "Mony Mony", whose cover by Billy Idol you enjoyed so much. Some of his other bangers are "Hanky Panky", "Sweet Cherry Wine", and "I Think We're Alone Now" (again, you've heard this song, but the version done by Tiffany in the 80s). Tommy's songs were covered A LOT. Heck, THIS song was covered wonderfully by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts!!

@MikeCoggan Год назад

And Billy Idol and Tiffany both hit #1 back to back

@sp33dr4c3r Год назад

and "Draggin' the Line"!

@nickimontie Год назад

I heard Joan Jett"s version first. And it was okay. Then I heard this original version, and Wow! Instant 💗!

@MissAstorDancer Год назад

@@sp33dr4c3r GREAT TUNE!

@esdel1955 Год назад

This song was covered by Prince, too. He mixed it up with Wild Thing.

@7954astro Год назад

I'm so glad that you listened to the full-length version...the original radio version cut out ALL the psychedelic greatness that you guys were groovin' on. And yet it STILL became a huge hit.

@jpmnewyork Год назад

I don't think I ever heard the full version before! Amazing!

@sirdavidoftor3413 Год назад

Neither have I! It is really cool! though, it is that bass the really hits me in soul! Stay safe, stay sane, stay Strong Happy holidays

@nzlemming Год назад

Yes, first time for me for this version.

@misterdoe Год назад

I actually just commented that I'm hearing things that I've never heard before, even though I've heard this song before many times. ✌🏿

@saturnnet1627 Год назад

Radio stations did play the long version as a rare treat but you had to be lucky to catch it.

@TomGorham Год назад

You are right. This embodies my generation. I'm 72 years old and I still love this song. We were freer than we are today.

@hippielady123 Год назад

63 and I agree

@jeffthewhiff 6 месяцев назад

I have always thought that this was Tommy James' masterpiece because the song is so experimental and well-composed!

@st0n3p0ny 5 месяцев назад

Does he have another song?

@jamesponicsan6129 5 месяцев назад

You must be joking. Two #1 hits, 8 in top ten and 32 songs which charted on Billboards top 100. He had 9 gold or platinum albums and over 100 million albums sold Worldwide. @@st0n3p0ny

@benwilkinson815 Год назад

“I wanna do everything, what a beautiful feeling” is one of my favourite lyrics of all time that sums up happiness perfectly

@maryerpenbach9517 Год назад

Not to mention "My mind's such a sweet thing."

@MissAstorDancer Год назад

@@maryerpenbach9517 - the line is "My, My! Such a sweet thing!" referring to the girl he is singing about.

@C_mao Год назад

@@MissAstorDancer dah dah, dah dah, dah dah

@ericlweatherhog Год назад

The essence of life

@kajabrill2404 Год назад

I agree

@evantwede787 Год назад

And...just like that I'm in the sixth grade at Nina Dilello's party -- black lights and donuts. YOU GUYS ARE MAKING the trauma's of our sad current global moment so much more bearable. Smiles and chills.

@MissAstorDancer Год назад

Blessings!

@kathybwell Год назад

Black lights with black light posters were the best!

@stevebengel1346 Год назад

Black lights and donuts, great name for a band 🤣

@lmdashley6725 Год назад

@@stevebengel1346 Or Black Lights & Lava Lamps 😉😆

@FUBAR1986 Год назад

If the world was filled with more beautiful music like this, maybe we’d have less of that division in our lives today

@RobSquadReactions Год назад

We find this to be true as well

@gailenefuller8330 Год назад

I want to hug you both

@HardCold-Alquan Год назад

The world WAS filled with music like this - and you had wars, assassination, rhacism, mobsters, drug use, hookers, serial killers, colonialism, night stalkers and many of the same ills of society as today.

@grabble7605 Год назад

What an absolutely nonsense take. Wars happened the decade this song was released. And if anything, technology has actually FILLED the world with music.

@sl5932 Год назад

There is too much $ and power in being able to divide and foment hate.

@Paladin70 Год назад

Revolutionary song, the Shondells with this song took us on a trippy, psychedelic journey like nothing we had ever heard before this. From the reverb of the guitars to the tremolo voice distortion they opened up whole new doors to electronic sound. And it is so cool watching you crave what we actually lived in that era. Like the old saying goes, “You really had to be there.” Thanks for doing this.

@lgeyser1 Год назад

Well said, richardsmith9911! This song introduced and brought together just about everything that was possible in a recording studio at that time. Add a small dose of LSD and it was quite a journey. Those were the days!

@davidlongo7391 Год назад

Amber you spoke with such feelings about this song. Thank you for reminding me of what life was about back then . They were some of my best year's growing up.

@bobbit8987 Год назад

I'm turning 70 next month, and I grew up in that era, and on that music. 100 proof hippy music, and I love that you both get it like we did.......JUST like we did.

@RobSquadReactions Год назад

What a time it must have been to be alive

@RhiannonFan Год назад

@@RobSquadReactions It was. And then came the Vietnam War

@bobbit8987 Год назад

@@RobSquadReactions . It was a mind blowing time hearing all those songs for the first time - much like what you two are doing, a different time, but the same results.

@mrsouthjersey4956 Год назад

Tommy James and the Shondells secretary took a phone call 1 day. As she hung up the phone chuckling, Tommy asked her who that was and why was she laughing. She replied; "Some East Coast promoter asked if we wanted to play a paying gig on a pig and cow farmers dairy farm. I turned him down." Tommy said wile laughing, "I don't blame you." They weren't laughing 2 weeks later when they read about the "The Woodstock Arts and Music Festival" that just took place in upstate New York at Max Yasgers farm. He forgave his secretary.

@carsonl.8788 Месяц назад

Amber....got news for you. You are a child of the 60' and 70's. Your 'music' soul lived during that timeline....yes ma'am. I lived during those time and recognize your Soul Spirit when you hear our songs. You = Flower in your hair band, bell bottom jeans with Peace Symbol Patches, tube top, sandles, leather bracelets and in the front seat of a Volkswagon Van.....pulling into Woodstock. I've seen your 'Spirit' within many young ladies of that time. I believe I saw you dancing when Joe Cocker sang, 'With a Little Help From My Friend' at Woodstock. You were / arebone groovy girl!!!!😊 Peace!

@ernestolopezdevictoria8512 Год назад

You guys, and the reaction channels like yours, are the torchbearers. Keeping the music of the past alive and passing it on to the next generation. The freedom, the love, the joy, the wonder, they’re yours now. Spread these songs far and wide so they’ll never be forgotten and vanish from the face of the Earth.

@shoesagogo1 Год назад

💗

@Doug778 Год назад

truth

@drg3712 Год назад

well said

@scottfarnsworth9727 Год назад

That was so beautify said yes

@Vinylrebel72 Год назад

My mom used to listen to this when we were kids, she would put the record on and turn it up…. Great memories… thank you.

@bkm2797 Год назад

I swear they played this tune on the radio every third song, over and over, lol, I was over it.

@davedaddy101 Год назад

Same for me. Mom and dad.

@donnielsen154 Год назад

I did the same, only as a kid of the 60s/70s

@jtdesigns-childofgod6556 Год назад

Same 🙂

@LeChaunce Год назад

Heard an interview with Tommy James just recently about this song -- apparently he regrets that the song was never properly mixed. He took the rough mix to a radio DJ friend of his in Chicago (WLS), and the DJ, to Tommy's chagrin, later played it as an "exclusive" on air, and it blew up... so the record company decided to release it as it was. So what we've heard all these decades is effectively a step beyond being a rough demo. Amazing.

@mikeroscoe1508 11 месяцев назад

I remember falling asleep as a young boy to this song. Played on a 9 volt transistor AM only radio tucked under my pillow. To me, it is the ultimate " first love" song.

@Chris.Davis.2 Год назад

Tommy James was legit! So underrated, it's almost criminal! Dive in guy's, lot's of great tunes in their catalog!

@kathyrizzi8754 Год назад

Don’t ya just love the feel? 💙💖🌸 I was there, dancing to this song & many other great songs of the sixties!…oh the memories!👍

@shawnhall2412 10 месяцев назад

Y'all surprised me. Playing the longer, album version. Great move. The single is one of the best of the 60s, but the full-length album version is positively otherworldly. I'm hooked on your channel. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm diggin' it.

@nightmoves60 Год назад

I was born in 1960 and the music back then will never be duplicated. I remember listening to this song when I was younger and you would almost swear you were tripping when you listened to it.

@jrox6091 Год назад

I'm the same age, Edith. It takes me back to 3rd grade LOL and great childhood music.

@dalesouders4136 Год назад

Ditto. April ‘60. This music could never be done by today’s artists

@kathleenmurphy6220 Год назад

Same here…a child of the early 60’s.

@paulcwalina7910 Год назад

Another blast from my childhood. With this song, 'Mony, Mony,' 'Draggin the Line,' and 'Crystal Blue Persuasion, ' Tommy James & the Shondells were the hottest pop/ro kband during the early 70's.

@donnamcmanus7360 Год назад

I adore this song! Discovered it in the early 1980's when my bffs older sister told their mom to get rid of her teenage stuff ( she was 10 years older than us, been married & gone for 6 years). Her stack of albums was full of treasures that she collected & inherited from the other older siblings. We spent a year listening to and tape recording mix tapes. We thought we were so cool listening to those oldies😄 but goodies cruising around.

@daviddragavon7555 Год назад

Donna I thought I was cool listening to this song too. Alas for me it was a brand new song, not an Oldy.

@rubroken Год назад

You WERE so cool listening to those oldies!

@jeffcooley1861 Год назад

And .......We were ripped on LSD 😎

@daviddragavon7555 Год назад

@@jeffcooley1861 well yeah, or herbals!

@waitn4theharpazo Год назад

SO glad you picked the extended version. I feel blessed to have been born in the early 60's and lived firsthand through the best music ever.

@jackrucker5049 2 месяца назад

Aw yes ! Amber has an old soul ! A gift from above. Don’t ever change.

@chrisnicol1644 Год назад

You two have a habit of returning me to the days of my youth...

@easyrolling Год назад

Omg. So glad you did the album version! What a legendary psychedelic song! The short version was one of the biggest hits of the 60s and quite frankly stamped this groups status. They were fire.. Covered so many times, especially in the 80s. Tremendous reaction and still more wonderful songs to go from them

@TigerRogers0660 Год назад

Jay & Amber, this has to be one of the greatest songs of all time!! To add all those different effects to guitars in the one song is amazing - no keyboards or synths - just guitars. At the end they put their vocals thru a tremolo effect - creating a totally unique sound!!

@sonnytavares2006 Год назад

Was a whole different vibe. Love was literally in the air. Woodstock, the Jesus movement, the clothes, the cars. I could go on. I had just came back from the Vietnam war and dropped out, let my hair grow and joined the crowd. I am blessed to have had the chance to experience it all. America is not the same anymore. The world needs another era like this. BADLY.

@gregj1295 Год назад

It was a special time in the late 60's when the youth had a new way of thinking and the music just amplified it. There was nothing like this song when it came out and there hasn't been anything like it since. One of my all time favorites.

@Bensalem5Gang Год назад

Tommy James and the Shondells were the soundtrack to my 7th and 8th grade years ,with this and Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion and Ball of Fire.

@judyraeweissman 28 дней назад

It was a great time, and yes Amber, I think you would have loved it!

@kgeames5706 Год назад

“Mony Mony”, “ Hanky Panky” and “ I think we’re alone now” three of the biggest hits from 1966, 1968 and 1969. ❤️

@steppingrazor5520 Год назад

Joan Jett's cover of this song became one of her most successful songs. When she was inducted into the Rock Hall Of Fame, she invited Tommy James and they did the song together.

@joannelong8056 Год назад

That's awesome!

@thomastimlin1724 Год назад

Then Joan should be fighting like hell to get Tommy in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

@1calvinfunny1 Год назад

@@thomastimlin1724 RR hall has become a joke....

@jhonyermo Год назад

@@thomastimlin1724 How the HELL do you know she isn't?? What a goofy reply

@jhonyermo Год назад

@@1calvinfunny1 Maybe YOU are the JOKE

@redarmysoja Год назад

Tragically under-rated band, they had so many huge hits.

@brentfreeland5834 Год назад

I turned eight about the time this song was released in the US. I couldn't get enough of it, especially the lines at the very end of the song. I just couldn't figure out how they did that with their voices. Also, I grew up hearing the radio edit, which was maybe 3 minutes as I recall. Glad to see you enjoy it also. ✌️❤️

@marybaillie8907 Год назад

This was their follow up song after Mony Mony in 1968. Tommy James was looking for a different direction to go and came up with Crimson and Clover. Named after his favourite colour and favourite plant. Such a sweet song with a little psychedelic overtone and a great instument sound. It was on the charts for 16 weeks and made it to Number 1. Great reaction. Buckets of Maple Syrup love from Canada ❤️❤️ 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

@garylorentzen228 Год назад

Tommy James released this in 1968, I had just graduated from high school and was in the military just getting ready to go to Vietnam. Sure, somewhat psychedelic, definitely 'hippie', if you will, but one of the most iconic songs of the year and the era. Thanks for reacting to it! It's part of the soundtrack of my military experience.

@t.j.payeur5331 Год назад

Yeah, man. We were getting ready to take our senior class trip to sunny SouthEast Asia, courtesy of Uncle Sam and Mother Green the Killing Machine...

@geminiguy2013 Год назад

I had just got out of the Army, stationed in Germany as an armor crewman a few months before this came out. I probably lit up my first uknowhat about this time. Great times followed. TY for your service.

@pam1574 Год назад

Thank u all for your service 🤗 🗽🇺🇲 ✌️

@georgemarshal5288 Год назад

I went to Haight-Ashbury in 1965 to check out all the Hippies, in 2 weeks I was in Vietnam.

@ronnie237 Год назад

I haven’t heard the long version in quite awhile. It was so good hearing it again. Loved your reaction to it.

@davidbuck5864 Год назад

The long version hardly got any airplay. AM radio just didn't have the time. First time I have heard it in many years.

@LoisChisholm 3 месяца назад

This is a song that had such a distinctive sound, it just commanded attention when it played on the radio. Tommy James and the Shondells were a great band and held their own against some of the best of their time. I'm so glad you are enjoying them and bringing them back to light.

@barrymuller5131 Год назад

We would have welcomed you to be part of the “flower children” or “love generation.” Listening to you guys have given me a greater appreciation of the music of my youth. Although I listened to the 60s &70s music, I didn’t really appreciate it as much as I should have. When I listen with ya’ll, I feel like I’m sitting with my friends and hangin out and re loving it Thank you my friends.

@carlperyea5403 Год назад

Well Said

@kathyrizzi8754 Год назад

I second that!👍👏👏👏

@Zebred2001 Год назад

Of course Amber would be in. I can't imagine a less exclusionary group than Hippies!

@vickierivers5815 Год назад

Oh the memories. 5 yr old me sneaking down the steps to listen to music on the 8track while mom and dad had parties. I cant tell you how many times daddy carried me to bed. Crimson and clover, hang on sloopy, tommy roe sweet pea (my favorite), down on the corner, sittin on the dock of the bay and love me tender...I'll never forget that is how they lined up. 💙💙💙

@calebclunie4001 Год назад

Tommy Roe - "Sweet Pea", has an amazing drum break.

@reginawhitlock4227 8 месяцев назад

I loved Sweet Pea too! I was 6 when it came out and I still know the words.

@kimcutts6153 Год назад

Oh Amber..... You so would have fit in to the 60s & 70s. And you're right, it was a wonderful time to be young and growing up in that era. 🎼❤

@amandathibodeau4996 Год назад

Oh Amber, what a great reaction! You really described the essence of the feeling of this song!

@chad6707 Год назад

Of all the couples and other people I see on RU-vid you guys are my favorite. You make me smile every time. You all just seem like genuinely good people. We all need more people in our lives like you guys.

@mzluna313 Год назад

My parents were hippies. Well, my mom didn't like labels. She said they were just kids who thought they could change the world with love. My parents were also an interracial couple. My mom was black and my pops was white. This relationship was really frowned upon everywhere except among the counterculture! No judgements! Nothing but love, which seems to be in short supply these days! I also wish I had been older to grasp the concept of what was going on at that time.

@mrtim5363 Год назад

"I also wish I had been older to grasp the concept of what was going on at that time." "Nothing but love, which seems to be in short supply these days!" As a member of the hippy generation I would like to say. 💖Thank you. Marveled at the grandchild, graduating HS. He being so proud that his new 'modern' generation is the forward thinking, "accepting generation". Grumpy Grandpa butt's in...👋Hey! ☮ Dude... Let's be clear, your 'modern' forward thinking accepting generation of the 2000's. Hasn't caught up to the 1960's yet.

@maryswanson9982 Год назад

We’ve taught our children well. Now we’re working to teach our grandkids to be loving and tolerant.

@pedrosantiago2992 11 месяцев назад

SUPER! SUPER! SUPER! AWESOME SONG! ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME SONGS EVER!🥰😍😘

@bobblowhard8823 Год назад

More than any other group, Tommy James and the Shondells captures that feeling, those intense feelings when you were young and in love or infatuated, and alone with your lover for the first time. That intensity. The butterflies in your stomach. Those memories. Those were the songs by this group. And of course with this song, you're alone in a beautiful field of clover, and your girl is wearing crimson, and you're both laying there, entwined and in ecstasy.

@laurasmith4435 Год назад

This is one of my all time favorite songs! It's very nostalgic

@Roh_Echt Год назад

*OK, I'll admit it; I was alive when this came out. The 60's and 70's songs through my childhood were awesome. I have their "Best of" on CD and I do play it when cruising about. Takes me back to a more peaceful time.*

@stevetanner3019 Год назад

Classic late 60’s psychedelia ❤️. So many Tommy James songs were covered and became big hits again for others. This one by Joan Jett, “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany, and “Mony Mony” by Billy Idol.

@janster3000 Год назад

Amber, I knew you would love Crimson and Clover. I've suggested it several times and am so happy you finally got to it. I was in 8th grade when I first heard it and I can remember exactly where I was. It is one of the songs that has stayed with me for the rest of my life and got me into progressive and psychedelic music. If I remember correctly, Neil Young came out with Cinnamon Girl at the same time. I think you should check it out. Merry Christmas to you and your family.🎄⛄🎅

@KidBklyn Год назад

This was their psychedelic venture. A definite "Head" song It still is one of my favorite recordings. Another favorite of mine is "Sweet Cherry Wine", along with "Crystal Blue Persuasion".

@davidjackson4608 Год назад

Tommy is from Niles MI. His first hit was done with his High School group. Not making it in MI he went east to get a record deal. His band was no more.So when he got a deal he went and checked to get the best and that became the Shondels.

@sitnhere Год назад

Let me tell ya, Honey.......it was unbeeeelievable to be 18 when this song came out. This was one of the songs we played over and over......hahaha.......on my 8-track in my car......a 1972 Buick Skylark 442 with a floor shift, Emerald Green Metallic with white vinyl buckets and a half vinyl roof in white......this car screamed. Just like Crimson & Clover screamed out of it with all my friends sharing in great times.

@waltw4537 Год назад

One of my wife's favorites from back in the day. "My life's such a sweet thing". Ah! The extended version! Go 60s. So cool doing this version . Well, c'mon along! Welcome aboard. Thanks!

@denisetowe895 Год назад

I remember well where I was the first time I heard this song! What a trip and it’s still ongoing….still on my playlist and I’m 65! 😝

@BethHutter Год назад

Tommy James is from a little town in Michigan where I grew up. In my early 20's I played in a band with one of the original Shandells, and heard lots of stories about the band. My favorite of theirs is Crystal Blue Persuasion.

@debbiebock7966 Год назад

Loved Tommy James and the Shondells........too many great songs!

@angelamosley4588 Год назад

Thanks for reacting to that song. Takes me back to my teenage years. Can't believe how cold it is there. It's lovely and very warm here in Sydney Australia

@coolcpa3321 Год назад

My older sister would play this over and over (no pun intended). I really like Tommy James. Very 1960s, far-out vibes in his work. Crystal Blue Persuasion and Mony Mony are fun, too.

@kathybwell Год назад

Yes exactly! This music is far-out!

@johnjsal Год назад

Here's some interesting info from Wikipedia: "Crimson and Clover" was recorded in late 1968 in about five hours and is one of the earliest songs recorded on 16-track equipment. Tommy James played most of the instruments, while Mike Vale played bass and Peter Lucia, Jr. played drums. The song contains a tremolo effect on the guitar, set so that it vibrated in time with the song's rhythm. Near the end of the recording, the band had an idea of utilizing the tremolo effect with vocals. To achieve this, the voice microphone was plugged into an Ampeg guitar amplifier with tremolo turned on, and the output from the amplifier was recorded while James sang "Crimson and clover, over and over".

@anjoleeeickhoff6800 Год назад

You also need to listen to Sweet cherry Wine, She, Mirage, Do Something To Me, Hanky Panky, I Think We’re Alone Now, etc. by Tommy James and the Shondells! They had so many great songs!❤

@joeyrobison6629 Год назад

"Sweet Cherry Wine" will give you the same vibe as "Crimson and Clover". It's another window into the times when this song was recorded, a great anti-war anthem!

@marleneclausen30 Год назад

More stoner music by Tommy James & The Shondells. Their music was always on the play track in every head shop. Easy to hear why. Thanks for the reaction, hearing them is always a pleasure and a great "trip" down Memory Lane!!

@Thor_7577 Месяц назад

Amber I believe you must of been there in your past life because of how much you resonate with that time. Much love and bliss to you.From an old hippie ❤️🌹✌🏻

@mikev7088 Месяц назад

This song hit the charts and stayed there for 16 weeks. It was #1 for weeks. It was crazy popular.

@BoltManiac Год назад

Been waiting for you guys to do this one! It’s as good as Crystal Blue if not better. LOVE them both!

@Wordsmyth8 Год назад

Nah. Crystal Blue Persuasion is probably my favorite song of all time. ☺️

@aWOKEn1445 Год назад

I like Mony-mony, as well.

@bostonvair Год назад

This was one of my very first favorite songs. It came out just before I turned 7 (end of 1968) and hit number 1 on the billboard charts a little while later in 1969. It also was the first rock album I had ever purchased (with $4.99 of my mother's money). I'm glad you chose the full-length album version and not the shortened single version. Tommy James is a really interesting, humble guy and there are videos on RU-vid of him being interviewed about this song.

@Incognito2u 10 месяцев назад

I just have to tell the story of when I was in my teens and the little town I lived in had a youth center that I hung out at and one of the directors was a friend of Tommy James. She asked him if he would play a benefit concert for the center (it was called the Underground) and he was happy to do it so we rented the High School gym and they put on a killer show. I still remember shooting pool with Tommy James at the youth center. All the band members were great guys and really helped out the youth center so much.

@softly420 Год назад

DRAGGIN' THE LINE is another AWESOME Tommy James song!!😍😁

@bryanCJC2105 Год назад

This takes me back to being a little kid about 6 around 1970 and being at a family gathering and finding all the big kids (high schoolers) in the backyard smoking and listening to the radio and some cool Rock & Soul music. This song was playing and I wanted so bad to be one of the big kids because everything they were doing seemed so cool. Every time I hear this song it reminds me of that back yard with all the big kids and me trying so hard to one of them. Of course, they didn't want to talk to a little kid so I just stayed in orbit around them, hanging out in the shadows to feel cool.

@supobostarman Год назад

I was 10 at that time and had the same feelings and experience!

@Cannadarlin1 Год назад

Amber we would have welcomed you with open arms. I just love your appreciation for the tunes that shaped our lives. It feels new again reliving it with you.

@jerrypost9651 Год назад

One of the crazy things about this song is that I have heard numerous different versions they released. Go grab the track again and listen, and I bet you will get a different arrangement. It blows me away, as I don't know any other group or song with so many cool incarnations. I was born in 1951, and I rocked through these years that Amber so loves. It really was a joy ride. 😎❤️

@truckrboat Год назад

Like many bands of the 60’s did they created a longer version for the album so the single was one song, the album another. They screwed up the recording and the pitches dropped during the taping of the solo’s which is noticeable but they left alone. Later in the 90’s for a compilation record they digitally corrected that pitch drop and basically created a new version all over again

@Pntngbrn Год назад

One of my favorite songs from them. Amber is such a flower child, I love it

@meagankelly8755 Год назад

LOVE this song. This is the "first" song I can remember hearing at like age 3-4...driving with my dad in his old blue pick up truck.

@DG2244 Год назад

You made me smile listening to this again. Yes this was a song of the times. The hippies were preaching love, the government was pushing war. These great rock bands were were telling the youth to go your own way, on your own terms. Great music, crazy times, you had to live it to believe it.

@thebibagirrrlshow7748 Год назад

The Joan Jett version rocks it out & takes the song to a whole other level! You all should check that out sometime, Happy Holidays to you & your family, as well as those who follow this channel, it’s been one of the brightest lights in the darkness for me!

@user-xi9kp8dg4n 8 месяцев назад

Joan's version is great, just depends on what your taste is..i like both but prefer this version better as it has the psycedelic sound that was really prevelent in '69..Tommy James is truly a genius and have always loved his stuff..The version Joan did at the RRHOF with him was killer..

@CC-Rider Год назад

1976, in high school as a senior, our school was the latest and greatest being brand new. They didn't use bells for class changes. They used music. This song was one of the most played. It came on and you changed classes. When it stopped playing, you were late. Never forgot that.

@oldiesgeek454 Год назад

@CC. Now that's funny! I wish I had attended your high school. 😊

@CC-Rider Год назад

@@oldiesgeek454 it was very unique for our school district at the time. They opened all the classrooms and had no walls separating adjacent classes. All were in a "pod". 4 teachers and classes to a pod. Our cafeteria was both buffet and custom order. Soft serve ice cream and milkshakes. Plus a bunch more things. It lasted 8 years before they went in and remodeled it back to conventional school environment. It was crazy.

@oldiesgeek454 Год назад

@@CC-RiderThat's really something. I'm surprised anyone was able to concentrate with all the noise from the other classes. And a Buffet too... Lol. 😂

@blackprix Год назад

I love the holiday season for all the positive reasons that everybody knows. It also brings back great memories of holiday seasons gone by, and the music that we live by in younger days. Definitely one of those songs and the memories are wonderful, thank you for all your reactions😊

@user-wn6mr2pz1l Год назад

I’m 68 years old and this is my generation. This band was owned by the mafia . That’s how they got so much air time on the radio.

@user-js1mx7dx1p 10 месяцев назад

Im 63..grew up with this music..lucky me 😊😊😊

@steves9905 Год назад

that song has sooo many memories for me. Soft psychedelia that got a lot of radioplay back in the day. It really reflected, or maybe influenced, the times, when young people cast off the restrictions of conformity and were free to love and experience things in new ways...the Summer of Love was still in the air. I never get tired of hearing it

@RobertJones-ux6nc Год назад

I was born in 1957 and some of the songs you both react to takes me back to my childhood memories, especially the great ones hearing the music. You Both have my gratitude for the memories from back then.

@richardluevano8996 Год назад

“Draggin’ the Line” and “Mony Mony” are two other Tommy James classics.

@1CLAYTON67BROWNS Год назад

Used to hear this song all the time while swimming the local public quarry . They fed the AM radio broadcast through a PA system. Lots of Summer memories

@sharonjoan1970 Год назад

One of my Absolute Favorite Songs❤❤❤

@gordonclass1 Год назад

This was so popular when I was a teen that one day I heard it on 3 popular radio stations back to back to back. Had to love those old transistor radios too. There is a long version too.

@VirtualBabe29 Год назад

This IS the long version. When It was originally released the song did not have the instrumental section. That part was added for the album release.

@denisebartels2014 2 месяца назад

I'm 66 now, and this is still our favorite band!

@adamwarlock2099 Год назад

This is probably the best song ever made. Been my favorite since I was a kid listening to my parents 45 of this.

@happymethehappyone8300 Год назад

A MUST HEAR Christmas Classic,, Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer "Baby,, It's Cold Outside"🎁⛄🎅🎄

@SweetThing Год назад

Tommy James and the Shondells are an American pop rock/psychedelic rock band, formed in Niles, Michigan, in 1964. They had 2 #1 hits (of which this was one) and charted 12 other songs.

@davidmazon7516 Год назад

I know I was under 10 years old when the song first came out and whatever I'd hear it on the radio I would stop whatever I was doing, Pump Up the Volume and just go in a daze. I was so in love with this song. I also pictured a group of hippies singing this song. California was a place to be with that song came out. And that's where I lived.

@lorrainetorres1430 Год назад

Wow you all make me feel blessed that I was born in 1962! When I hear todays music I am very happy that I was born in the 60’s.

@williamthompson-xm3dy Год назад

I was listening to the radio earlier and Joan Jett’s cover came on. Serendipity. This comes full circle. Thank you.

@christopheroliver7589 10 месяцев назад

This is probably the most iconic "flower power" song ever composed with it's psychedelic sounds. Another song you may be interested in is Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donavan. You'll be astounded!

@rickwatson5113 Год назад

Amber I’m 70 years old and graduated high school in 1970. I went to high school just south (40 mins) of San Francisco. I’ve been to the Cow Palace and saw many artists of the time. One of my favorites of my youth was called “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart. It brings back fond memories of the early 1970’s.