Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (Reaction) 

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The Righteous Brothers are the only musical act in history to have this song become a number one hit when it was first released, then become a number one again when the movie Ghost came out years later.

You've been Bobbyed, man! Happened to me 60 years ago and I've never escaped. His velvet silk voice still gives me the chills. Counter-tenor, 5 octave range, effortless, and we all fall in love with it ...

Bobby Hatfield owns that song forever

one mike one take no auto tune. unbelievable

THIS is music. His control is off the charts. No autotune or anything. Just him and a microphone. Priceless!!

IF there was a mic drop moment in music history, this was it.

Bobby had a perfectly controlled 4 octave range. We're fortunate that his passion for music was in this genre. If he had wanted and trained for opera, he could have excelled as a world class tenor like Caruso or Pavarotti, which would have been great for opera fans, but the world would have lost a lesser known, but world class soul singer.

This was my song since 1965 when i met my husband, i still love this song. 2021. 54 years later. 💔💔💔💔💔

Best live performance of a song in television history, hands down !

Two guys with tons of humility, class, dignity and professionalism. So talented.

Pink suit, duck back hair, pinky ring, and untouchable raw talent!

The late, great Bobby Hatfield with one of the best live vocal performances ever. This was on the Andy Williams Show in 1965. I remember watching it with my Mom and Grandma and we were all amazed. 50+ years later I was so happy to find it on YT, because in 1965 there was no way to record from tv so I had to be content with memories. This song has been performed by many before and after Bobby, but he owns it. Next check out (You're My) Soul and Inspiration. For more of Bill Medley, with a bit of Bobby, do I Just Wanna Make Love to You.

I still get chills every time i hear him sing this song

A time when music was amazing! Words you could understand. Words that touched your soul. At 73 yrs young I'm glad I got to hear real talent.

( You've Lost That Loving Feeling n Soul n Inspiration)Bill Medley baritone is the other guy in this group This is Bobby Hatfield tenor, Bobby died in 2003 n Bill is still singing. I have listened to them since the 60's n I was lucky to become friends of Bill. Remember no Autotune just pure talent. I love your reaction n thank you for keeping their music alive.

This was sung LIVE in 1965 .. no auto-tune, no naked dancers, no smoke or mirrors ... just pure raw talent and blue-eyed soul ... Bobby had an amazing range of 4+ octaves! To find out how they got their name, watch this full performance in the Andy Williams Show ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FZZqf3AVJbE.html ... enjoy! Righteous Brothers are two guys who are not actually brothers, they are a duo. But this is a solo song so they flipped a coin to see who would sing it .. this is Bobby Hatfield, and the other member of the duo was Bill Medley who arranged the music for this performance .. and he did so well with that, building up the music to the passionate end, so credit to Bill Medley too .. I also read that Bill Medley played the piano in the background for this song, and that Bobby sang this song while suffering from a head cold! This performance was done live, (with no auto-tune or other devices used by today’s musicians) and was better than the recorded studio version. Bobby suffered from stage fright and was particularly nervous in this performance because his parents were in the audience... you can see him bite his lip then grin at the end because he knew he nailed it!

Smooth rich vocals. Never get tired of this song.

No matter how many times I hear this song, I get cold chills. Slow danced to this one many times with my hubby, now married almost 49 years. Yep best song ever

Was the favorite song of my husband. When he passed at 62 his last words to me were always remember “Unchained Melody”. I have tears.

Soul and Inspiration

Yes, You can feel Bobby's voice in your soul. RIP Bobby.

I've been listening to this all my life and it still gives me chills at 53. Pure perfection. 💜💚💛✌️

This is Bobby's song! He owns it! Love it today as much as I did when I heard him sing it in 1965! ❤❤❤

Nicely dressed singer, great beat, no filthy lyrics......when singers could really sing!!

I remember watching this on the Andy Williams show when I was a kid. Unbelievable talent!!

No auto tune brother just God given talent.

My moms favorite song. It reminded her of my father who died way too young at 58. The only man she ever loved.

righteous brothers - Love and inspiration

Soul and inspiration

Thanks, dub- Bobby Hatfield was unique & amazing - and at this LIVE performance, he reportedly was nervous b/c his MOM was in the audience -- I love that he does this so effortlessly - no straining or screaming... and I'm sure his Mom was proud!

“Your my Soul and my High Inspiration” is great.

Soul and inspiration will complete their Classic Trio.

When they signed their first big recording contract, they went to the Porsche dealer and the salesman kicked them off the lot, told them to come back when they grew up and had some money. So they went to another Porsche dealer and each bought a new Porsche. Then drove over to the first dealership and drove around the lot for awhile to let the salesman know he blew two sales in one day.

Blue eyed soul man....perfection 💙💙💙💙

Try "Soul and Inspiration," "Rock and Roll Heaven," "Ebb Tide," "The Time of My Life."

Yeah...they don't make them like this anymore! Awesome reaction my friend! Loved it! Til the next 1☮ 💯🔥🖤🎶🤘

I always think of this as a letter that an overseas G.I. is writing to his true love back home, imploring her to wait for him.

Soul and Inspiration ,Ebb Tide ,He or Just Once in My Life

Yes another classic, next try You Lost That Loving Feeling. Great reaction my friend!!

A lot of babies were made listening to these dudes

One of the greatest songs ever it’s timeless And Bobbys voice was something else

I always love the surprised reactions to The Righteous Brothers. They prove that really good music is universal. I Wanna Make Love to You (that's the song title) is a blues standard and shows their flexibility in style.

I've read that comment so often how he was nervous about his mom being in the audience ♥️🔥 I did comedy as a double dog dare, my dad was there & the funniest dude I know (in real life, anyway😉) so I know what that kind of pressure feels like! Love this "soooo much", thanks for checking it out!

A couple more “He Don’t Love You Like I Love You”......my personal favorite “The Angels Listened In “ (incredible baritone sax).....”Rock n Roll Heaven”.....

Let me point out that the live orchestra killed it too!

They flipped a coin to decide which of them would get to sing this. Bobby Hatfield (Rip, last year)) won but didn't know that his mom was to be in the audience that night. He was so worried that he wouldn't be able to nail it. Watch that little lip-bite right before his smile at the end. He knew he did. His blue eyes is what gained them the moniker blue-eyed soul. In that year, when black radio stations found out they were white they stopped playing their songs!

True story he was very emotional and scared his parents were in the audience he didn't want them to be disappointed in his performance and he nailed it his voice is buttery pure voice no mechanical machines to enhance his voice there's nobody today could sing like that this song was in the movie Ghost

They were so Righteous, gotta love them, wish they were still here

This song was originally written for a 1955 movie about a prison and love lost and song by Todd Duncan. The Righteous Brothers made it famous; bonafide hit and is a "prison song" to this day.

love the reaction,two of the greatest singers ever

How about “Just Once In My Life”.....”He”....”Go Ahead And Cry”.....”On This Side Of Goodbye”.....”Ebb Tide”.....The list goes on.....I love the youngsters appreciating the music some of us were listening and dancing to in our teens....go for it, it’s a fantastic journey....

I love this as much now as I did at 15 watching him sing it on tv ! I've read some wheres that he was nervous because his parents were in the audience that night and he wanted to sing his best!!

Bobbys mom was in the audience to watch him. He didnt look abit nervous. 🤣🤣

No auto tune back in them days. Straight beautiful voices. Would still love for you to do Johnny Cash “Man in Black” that said a lot about who he is and why he is called the Man in Black. I know you did his video “Hurt” that showed where he was in his later life. I’d love you to see what he was about earlier in life. It’s eye opening. “Man in Black” my friend. Thanks. Be well.🤙

Bobby Hatfield singing Summertime. Wow! Blue Eyed soul.

This first appeared in the 1955 movie Unchained, starring the former football player Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. The movie takes place in a prison, and the song was written for the movie to reflect the mood of the prisoners as they wait for time to pass. Alex North wrote the music, Hy Zaret wrote the lyrics, and a black singer named Todd Duncan sang the version in the movie. Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher voice than Bill Medley, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield were each allowed to choose a song to sing as a solo vocalist on their albums. As Medley tells us, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song. The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In our interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley if he could make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and he left. He said, 'No, I can do it better.' And I said, 'No, you can't.' [Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song." When the movie Ghost brought this song back to the charts, it marked the second time a Patrick Swayze film boosted the fortunes of Bill Medley. In 1987, Medley's duet with Jennifer Warnes, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," became a #1 US hit when the film it was written for, Dirty Dancing (also starring Swayze), took off at the box office. In 2003, Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63.

He made that look easy. Beautiful.

The song was written between 1954 and 1955. In 1955 there were 4 versions by 4 separate artist. When the Righteous Brothers got this it's been theirs, well more Bobby Hatfield's; his version is the standard that many are compared to. Both Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley had songs in US Films, Bobby's unchained Medley appeared in Ghost with Demi Moore Whoopi Goldberg, and Patrick Swayze and Bill Medley's sang Time of my life with Jennifer Warnes, Starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Cynthia Rhodes ( hell of a soundtrack ) On this live performance his Mother ( possibly dad ) is in the audience. At the end he bites his lip as he knows he nailed this song. Both Bobby and Bill do an album each of their own songs, both wanted to do this song for their album; Bobby won the coin toss, after hearing this version, Bill Medley is reported to ask Phil Spector; " What am I supposed to do after this?" Phil Spector's reply... Take the money to the bank. There are thousands of covers of this song, sung by Elvis, Robson and Jerome many, many others many come close, but none beat Bobby's rendition. Basic history: from Wikipedia: They began performing together in 1962 in the Los Angeles area as part of a five-member group called the Paramours . In 1964 music producer Phil Spector came across the Righteous Brothers when they performed in a show at the Cow Palace in Daly City, CA. where one of Spector's acts, The Ronettes, lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector), was also appearing. The rest is history. "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the little-known prison film Unchained (January 1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. Of the hundreds of recordings made, the Righteous Brothers'( Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley ) version in July 1965, with a solo by Bobby Hatfield, became the jukebox standard after its release. Hatfield changed the melody in the final verse and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. The Righteous Brothers recording achieved a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the film Ghost in 1990. In 2004, it was Number 27 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

No how many times I listen to this, I still get a bit teary.

Love everyone's first listen of the incomparable Bobby.

Watched another reaction to this classic perfect song. At the end the guy said, "That wasn't applause at the end. It was the sound of panties a bra hitting the stage. Lol! Have read he was nervous during this live show. His parents were in the audience.

This was sung by Bobby Hatfield, 1/2 of the Righteous Brothers. To listen to both together, check out You've Lost that Loving Feeling. It'll blow you away.

Soul and Inspiration!!

Women were "swooned" and men were astonished! 😲

Natural phenomenal talent..

You might like to have a listen to this from one of my favourites. Them - Baby Please Don't Go.mp4 is a live performance they did in France in the early/mid 60's I think. The band was called Them & they were from Belfast, same as me. The lead singer - Van Morrison - went on to have greater success as a solo artist. I'm not much younger than Van & the records from Them were a big part of my childhood. Gloria & Brown Eyed Girl were 2 more of my favourites from the band.

Yes indeed … Righteous😊💕

On the same TV show, Bobby (who has footwork, too!) and Bill joined host Andy Williams for a fun "What'd I Say." (RU-vid channel: yootami)

Some more Righteous Brothers videos for you - 1) You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin (Bill Medley’s deep bass-baritone voice) .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hziqpg7HeBY.html ... 2) Bobby Hatfield singing ‘Summertime’ live in 1964 .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mhmzauy-ISA.html. .. 3) Bill Medley, Bobby Hatfield and Andy Williams having some fun on stage.. “What’d I say’ .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KGClv9GKYmo.html. ... Andy Williams was so great to join in with the fun and make a fool of himself dancing like a chicken running for its life... but check out Bobby’s smooth moves (pre MJ’s Moonwalk) and Bobby loved to play tricks on people during performances .. in this one he just seamlessly starts singing a whole octave higher, leaving Andy speechless ..

LOL! I love your reaction to this straight out the gate!! And you got on good headphones so it's a whole experience. I heard this recorded before but when I saw this live performance here I was blown away!!!!🤯🤯😍😍😍

Listen to You've Lost that loving feeling by them and also You'll never walk alone. Thr first song held the record for being played the most on American radio history. No other song has surpassed it in the 20th century. It has over 8 million plays and counting. There are so many look up Righteous Bros You'll be surprised they were together from 1963 to 2003 other than a few breaks for personal reasons. How many Duo's can say that.

That lip bite! ❤️

No backup singers and did this live baby!

Great voices they have. Was great to hear words and a voice instead of noise pulition of instruments

Love watching your reaction you seemed to be really enjoying the song and you did not keep talking your facial expressions does it for me love janet UK x

Btw, let me go up three octaves to finish the song off...incredible.

R.I.P. Bobby your song lives on ! forever....

Love this song great reaction.

Love this song it is beautiful.

Lordy I love hearing all these great oldies!!! Great reaction looking forward to more👍

Love And My Soul Inspiration by Righteous Brothers.

I asked you to do this on the last Righteous Brothers video you did. Thanks for reacting to this.

The most played Prom song of all time. [btw this song appeared in the Movie "Ghost" starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore] In that movie, Whoopie Goldberg's character got possessed by the ghost of Patrick Swayze's character, and made out with Demi Moore's character. Probably 1 Million babies or more were created when this song was playing. [probably the same number of babies made while ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long was playing in the back ground]. Another ACDC song for bro to listen to!

Great reaction. I like your positive vibe. Thank you for saying blessed twice, it made me subscribe.

This song made a lot of babies.

Watch the Righteous Bros. Rock N Roll Heaven

Time can do so much. When your in prison. This songs about someone spending time but didnt commit the crime. Great reaction.

No, no Autotune pure tenor voice. Bill Medley is the other brother baritone. They are not brothers, Try " You've Lost That Loving Feeling n Soul and Inspiration " I was lucky to meet Bill n he is still singing Bobby tenor died a few years, The last notes he sang not many women can hit that high note

The song was written for a 1955 movie called Unchained, about a guy in prison who couldn’t wait to get back to his girl. The guy who wrote the lyrics refused to put any of that stuff into the song so it became a general love song, sung by many before the Righteous Brothers did it .. but nobody else did it like this, altho many other singers covered the song later (including Elvis) and based their versions of it on this version by The Righteous Brothers ... Bobby sang another version for the movie “Ghost “ and this revived interest in the 1965 studio version (this one) which was then re-released. The Righteous Brothers and this song made history by having two different versions of the same song in the Top20 of the charts at the same time, competing against each other! Unfortunately, Bobby had already passed away when this duo was inducted into the RocknRoll Hall of Fame .. but his buddy Bill Medley paid tribute to Bobby by singing Unchained Melody, in a slow, gentle and very touching way.

4 octave range is what young Mr Hatfield was sporting back in the day.

Bobby had severe stage fright which had to have been worse as his parents were there during this Andy Williams show performance. Bobby had a *four octave range* . What you seeing her is complete CONTROL in his singing. He didn't have to *strain* his high notes. Their song "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" holds the record as most song plays ever on the radio. If you REALLY want to listen to a true blue eyed soul listen to "I Just Want to Make Love With You". The ladies listen and get blushed.

BEAUTIFUL...

He was only 25 yrs old when he did this performance live.

Pure master-class

Just think about it, that performance is about 60 years old. RIP Bobby ❤️

Love your enthusiastic reaction to this video!

You have got to hear "I Just Want to Make Love to You". It has a real jazz feel to the song. Both of them are amazing in it.

You Lost That Loving Feeling is an awesome song

Is the most ever played song in the whole world