An excellent performance by Bobby Hatfield!!! He makes it look so easy! This is better than the studio version! I miss live TV & the performances from artists like Bobby!!!❤❤❤
The song was written for a "prison movie". The guy was hoping his wife still loved him and wanted him back when he got out of prison. He needed his wife's love to give his life meaning. Bobby nailed this song by the emotion he put into it, and his talent as a vocalist. This was a live recording and was made with pure talent, no recording gimmicks.
This song isn’t sappy at all. Sadly, people have become so jaded or hardened that we’re afraid to show that kind of vulnerability. This is a man dropping all of his guards and showing his true feelings and needs to his woman. That’s why this song still resonates 60 years later.
Blue eyed soul, The Righteous Brothers were of another world….they were unbelievable and this was live and unedited!! U should definitely react to “You’ve lost that loving feeling” with both members
I'm sorry to say, most of us don't sound anywhere near that good and couldn't possibly do a Righteous Brothers song the justice it deserves... I do not even think the attempt would be duly appreciated, frankly.
Apparently he had a cold at the time, his mother was in the audience and was seeing him perform professionally for the first time and he suffered stage fright. No autotune or gimmicks just pure talent. This version is so much better than the studio version which was used in the film 'Ghost'.
@@fernandopessoa7077 Bill Medley, the other Righteous Brother, has said Bobby had a cold then. If you watch other videos with the interview prior to this performance, you can hear it. He even coughs.
Back in the day when singers were singers. To hear live performances like this is what you knew you were going to get when you went to these performances. Man I miss those days. Thank you for taking me back to simpler times.
Best version hands down of this classic song. Absolutely loved the Righteous Brothers. Sadly we lost Bobby Hatfield about 20 years ago. He had a beautiful one of a kind voice. Home Free recently did a great version of this song. And Austin Brown also did a very beautiful tribute of this song about a year ago. You may want to check them out.
This song was written for the 1955 movie "Unchained." It expressed the sorrow and longing of a convict serving time in prison. The movie was a flop, but this song is one of the best love songs of all time. MANY great artists have covered "Unchained Melody", but this live performance by Bobby Hatfield (one half of The Righteous Brothers) is the definitive version.
This man was a remarkable singer. That can’t be overstated. What a gift that it can be shared with people today, do many years after it was on tv and so long after he passed away. So cool.
This is my daughter & son-in-law's song, played at their wedding. But there is a story before their story. I was a teacher, teaching just outside an AF base. A lot of my students had military parents deployed to Middle East in the '90's. After school one day I was led to pray for them & during that prayer I thought, "The future husband of one of my girls might be there." So I prayed for whoever that might be. New Years Eve, much later, my daughter was to go to a party but sick with a cold so stayed home. Her friend kept calling her saying she HAD to go. Finally went & met her future husband & yes he had been in Saudi Arabia when I had been praying! Now, 32+ years later, still together, 3 children & 2 grandchildren later, happy as can be.
Hey dude …you’ve just taught me a great lesson about head voice vs chest voice …I’m just a person that feels music in a way I didn’t think others did and I’m thinking I found you for a reason …this is just super ! I’ve watched with such intensity just like you some of my favourite artists …Bee Gees …Glenn Campbell and many others! Many times as I’ve wondered how they do what they do and you’ve given answers and words to my feelings! Love that ❤
Hey there to everyone. This song was my husband's and I song. When the song came out a lot of our soldiers were being shipped overseas as with my husband. Some came back and some didn't. I was one of the ones that lost my husband he didnt return from Vietnam. Bobby says in the song "Godspeed" and its a term used by the military families for their soldiers to get thru battle fast and return home. Thank you for bringing my memories of my beautiful husband in focus. I guess God needed him more than me. His last letter asked if I was still his and please wait. The mail didn't get to our soldiers to quick during war times. He was my true love always. Just a little info for you to know what this song was about.
Thank you. I love it when the younger generation can appreciate the music we grew up with. This will explain why us Baby Boomer have little use for modern music. Love your interaction! Your relationship based on mutual respect and admiration. There is no hint of underlying contempt, the sign that a marriage is on the skids. Never lose that. And never stop doing the things that made you fall in love in the first place!❤
This song was written from a cell in the United States Prison on Alcatraz Island. The singer was looking forward to eventual release and wanted to know his wife was still waiting. Hence the line in the bridge, "Lonely rivers sigh, wait for me, wait for me; I'll be coming home, wait for me."
You have to listen to Lara Fabian's concert "From Lara with Love" back in 2000. "Adagio", "Broken Vow", "You're Not From Here" and "Jesuis Malade" are unbelievable. I can almost guarantee you will fall in love with her voice, breath control and performance. She will be your new "Best" live vocalist.
The biggest thing that holds anyone back is their own perception of themselves. Love is a powerful connection and it is Gods plan for a union, man and woman united in life, a partnership to raise children, to support one another, to have someone to depend on as you go through lifes moments. Happy moments, tough moments, learning moments, together.
This song came from the movie unchained. Bobby Hatfield sang it 10 years later in 1965 for this performance. If you went back to the full recording from the Andy Williams show, you would see him talk about the fact that Bill Medley didn’t think it would be a hit.that’s why Bill’s not on this song and Bobbi does it by himself. This was from a prison movie where the guy is in prison singing this song, hoping his love of his life will wait for him to get out.
Actually this song was written for a movie named "Unchained" in 1955. I always thought it related to a soldier coming home from war but it's about a prisoner trying to decide to serve his sentence or trying to escape from prison.
Hello, I am brand new to your channel and I love the Righteous Brothers! This probably one of the most reviewed songs and group on RU-vid everyone seem to love! The other song that is reviewed an probably love by everyone is PROCAL HARUM A WHITER SHADE OF PALE LIVE IN DENMARK 2006 takes about a minute to get going with beautiful classical music in the beginning the venue where this was at reminds of a dream and is magical I see that you like the Guitar ? I never see anyone review "Classical Gas Mason Williams 1968" probably my favorite song with a acoustic guitar. thank you! you guys do a great job
We didn't enter war with Vietnam until after President Kennedy. About 65, we started to send "advisers." In the early 50s, we were in the Korean War. The draft was during WW2 ended after Vietnam. But in they restarted the Selective Service and you need to register at 18 as I did in 1980. It's just in case the draft is needed again
Look at his smile at the end. It is like he was saying "Yea, I did that shit". BTW, yea, I served 3 tours in Vietnam and this is why I broke up with my girl before I left. I told her that if she was still there for me when I got back then we will see how it goes then. If it isn't then it never should have been anyway.
There's also Mix voice besides head voice and chest voice. It's usually used when transitioning from lower notes to higher notes and vice versa. Great Examples of this- 80's Hair Bands, Motely Crue, Scorpions, Steelheart and many more.
65-75. We had some advisors and so forth in Vietnam in the 50's. Our involvement did not tick up steeply until the 60's. the French lost at Dien Bien Phu in May of 1954. Shortly thereafter, they got out of what was then French Indo-China. The country of Vietnam was partitioned, north and south and that civil war began. The US got involved as they did not want the communist backed north to win. We pulled our forces out in 1972. The south fell in 1975. It was a long, unpopular and destructive war. It influences our foreign policy and national psyche to this day.
The First Indochina War began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh. The United States involvement in the struggles of French Indochina began in 1945 at the Potsdam Conference and continued through many phases, culminating in a final withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. In Feb 12th, 1973 the first POW were returned to the USA.
You are not the first to be knocked out by Bobby Hatfield's version of this song. I think you will find it may be about a prisoner in jail missing his love.
This is and always will be Bobby's song. Others have sung it but not anywhere close to Bobby's. The Vietnam War might have started in 54 but technically we sent in advisors to Vietnam to give help to the French in 52.
I looked at my work as doing best that I could, everyday. If that wasn't good enough and they fired me, totally out my control. So I didn't worry about things I couldn't control.
Wrong context. This was from a 1955 film called Unchained. Sung by an African American prisoner to his love whom he hopes waits for him. Sung by a baritone originally closer to Elvis' range.
Profession, talent, skill, ability, G*d's will... Compared to that guy, we, possessing our simpleton selves have not one iota of use in this universe to even crawl beneath the primordial ooze of poopy yuk seeking critique of highly obvious perfection. So, there's that. Thanks guys. You're very cool.
You were right about the Vietnam War technically not being that long for us... we did not go into Vietnam until the early 60s (advisory capacity) and didn't really go in heavy until the mid 60s...
EXACTLY.......Wonderfully Stated!.. Yes,.... The Magical Vocal Notes to Come Are..... Out of this Stratosphere, Beautiful! God Given,.... Exceptional, Talent!❣️
Bobby Hatfield had a counter, tenor voice, and the range, and Breathing control that turn this performance into a magnificent performance. He was totally relaxed. He just opened his mouth and all this Beauty just poured out. Best live performance from the best musician ever.
No falsetto, just a magnificent counter-tenor ! No auto-tune, that would be invented decades later, just great talent. No digital-tune either for the same reason. Bobby OWNS this song!! Without a doubt the greatest live performance in my 72 years. I was a teenager at the time and you heard this song EVERYWHERE !!!!
This is most likely the greatest (live) television performance in recorded history. The music arrangement by the NBC Studio Orchestra of the "Andy Williams Show" (1965). Is the best musical arrangement of this great classic ever! The Strings and Horns sections made this version off the charts beautiful. It helped to create an even bigger and better sound. Unchained Melody was written as the musical score for the (1955) Prison Movie "Unchained." It was composed by multi-Award-winning Composer Alex North with Lyrics by Hy Zaret. Together they created one of the greatest and most loved ballads in music history. The late great "Bobby Hatfield" a Counter Tenor of the "Righteous Brothers" gave a performance that was one for the ages. May he rest in peace.
I am 81 and have heard several artist before Bobby’s version and several after. No one comes close to this, Bobby owns it. This version came out as I was headed for Viet Nam. You can feel the loneliness in the words and the way we felt as we were away from our families for one long year. Bill and Bobby always did one solo on each of there albums and while on tour. They both wanted to do “Unchained”, so they flipped a coin. The music was written as the 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. The movie “Unchained” is about a man in prison and longing for his wife and children. Hoping his wife will still be there when he gets out. So you can now understand the meaning of the song. The movie was not very good, or so my friends told me. But we were all teenagers so what did we now. Several artists sang it and it made the billboard top 100. But no one can come close to Bobby Hatfield’s version. Bobby’s version hit the top ten chart. And did it again when it was used in the movie “Ghost” It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by Bobby. 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. If you want to hear another song like this, it is LADY by Kenny Rogers. It was written by Lionel Richie for Kenny. If you react to it you needed to have your wife with you.
This song will live for as long as humans live. It's the best especially no auto-tune and live. So one shot to get it right. And he got it right. This will always be Bobby's song.
Unlike the "decorative divas" who over embellish their songs, Bobby Hatfield makes every note count...his note-shaping is pure artistry rather than mere note-shredding.
This is Bobby Hatfield's song....forever. NOBODY can sing this like Bobby. This was an era where entertainers dressed for the occasion and so did the audience. No torn jeans, no clothes that looked like they had just finished painting a fence. Class. No stress in his features. Just opens his mouth and ti flows out. No auto tunes. Live....one chance to get it right and Bobby nails it. There are singers better than Elvis...Bobby is one of them.
Bobby was a contretenor, the rarest voice of the rare, able to hit notes very few men can hit, even with a falsetto. Well up into the soprano range. And all that with masterful vocal control. Matched with Bill Medley, what a pair. You Lost That Loving Feeling is also a great song. Bill Medley's version of Georgia on My mind is also great.
Absolutely Tim, Bobby's range was soprano in the female range. Bobby was so blessed to be a contratenor, his octave (s), were off the charts. Any song that he sung, he did it so effortlessly. He has such a blessed voice, no artist then or now, could ever reach those octaves (s). He is dearly missed but his music still is here, after all these years.
Thank You For Reacting To This Beautiful Song..Bobby Sang Like Angel...You Really Need To Hear Both Of Them Sing You've Lost That Loving Feeling! There Are So Many More! Blue Eyed Soul..Oh And You Both Are GORGEOUS! So In Love!!! 💙🌻💙
America was publicly, actively fighting in Vietnam from about 64 to 74, with young men being drafted for the war through that time. Initially it was the French in the war in the 50s, and there are still many French influences in that region. Bobby Hatfield could sing anything. Beautiful counter tenor range. The Righteous Brothers were the best. I still play their music.
It was a civil war with communist forces being supported from China and then Russia. The US only got involved as an operation and not an act of war and did that due communists trying to take over the world.
It's true that '64 to '74 were the most intense year, but the US was involved from 1954 (the first American to die there was either in '54 or '55; however, the first combat deaths were in '59) when the French dumped it on us.
Bobby was one of those rare male singers who could hit a perfect high C note. The other "brother" had a very low gravely voice. Astounding together as when they sang "You've Lost That Loving Feeling".
bobby hatfield is a counter tenor, his high voice domes out naturally, a falsetto is being forced out. wheh bobby is singing high notes he is doing it naturally
You should listen to him sing "Summer Time" from Porgy and Bess. It is incredible! Plus hearing the guys together in "You've Lost That Lovin Feeling" and "Soul and Inspiration"
I was a young girl when this song was released by The Righteous Brothers. I was so happy to see it get another life in the movie "Ghost." I'm sure it's been used other places, too, but "Ghost" is the most memorable use in a movie that I can name.
This song was originally sung by Todd Duncan for a movie called "Unchained" about a man in prison singing to his love to wait for him. First sung in 55' and was a nominated song for the Academy Awards but did not win. But did make #1 on the Billboard Charts. Then in 65' Bobby Hatfield recorded his version of "Unchained Melody" and that topped the Billboard Charts at #4. Throughout the years there have been many who have performed this song but none could beat this version of Bobby's. He was only 25 at the time he sang this live version on the Andy Williams Variety Show on TV. His mother was sitting behind him in the blue dress. I was 15 and watched this episode on TV. All us girls were crazy over the Righteous Brothers then. Bobby Hatfield is one half of the Righteous Brothers. Bill Medley was the other half though they were not brothers. These boys had so much soul and passion in what they bring to their music. This song was on the flip side of a record and was not supposed to be the hit. "Hung on You," on side A was the song intended to be the hit and "Unchained Melody" was on the B side. The DJ's were more interested in playing the B side. Then in 90,' "Unchained Melody" was re released for the movie "Ghost" and it topped the Billboard Charts, this time at #1. Sadly, we lost Bobby in 2003. R.I.P.
Righteous Brothers were very popular, and that was a TOP song. A lot of artists covered it. My brother was drafted to Nam, Air force, in 1964. That war was a political ploy and a disaster for America. Many young men fled to Canada to avoid the draft. Vets returning home, after risking their lives, were insulted, treated horribly, spat at, and abused when the came back. They went because they had to, not because they wanted to. It was horrific. My brother was never the same.
It is the most perfect song ever sung. He looked perfect, he sang perfect. No one can or ever will sing that song like this performance. You are right, no where in the song do you see him straining to hit any of the notes. You Tuber Wings of Pegasus listens to this song and takes the music out of it, and it is really odd at first, but just shows the perfection of his voice. And I LOVE his little lip bite at the end of the song. You still got to listen to his live version of Summertime, amazingly different.
This was my parents' song. My dad was a career Navy fighter pilot. In his 27 years of service, they spent half their time apart since he was on 9 month cruises every other year or so. 3 times to Vietnam, losing friends being shot down, POWS, etc. Many holidays without him. They were married 55 years. Mom and dad are slow dancing to this in heaven. I am tearing up writing this. My dad was my hero and I miss him every day.
Thanks, Kids - Bobby was amazing... no screaming, straining, etc. Just pure talent.. and perfect breath control... plus, I heard he was nervous about this live performance b/c his MOM was in the audience.. I'm sure she was proud! lol
The Righteous Brothers were the original singers. It's been covered over 600 times. This is live version in 1965. No auto-tune or gimmicks. just pure live voice. Awesome !
OMG ....The late Bobby Hatfield! I was 15 yrs old when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. No one has ever sang this song like he did. No auto tune, just pure raw talent! The Righteous Brothers had so many hits in the 60's and the 70's. RIP Bobby! We miss hearing your beautiful voice! ❤️ ❤️ ♥️ ♥️
I was 15 also when he did this song. I was at the show to see the Osmonds who was often on Andy's show, because I thought they were so hot. Because of this song I fell for Bobby.
I love how back in the day you knew exactly who an artist was. Not hearing them on the radio and then getting someone completely different in concert. As spacefanatic said ... pure talent.
Ebb Tide is another Bobby solo which is beautiful and to really hear the Righteous Brothers different voices, You'll Never Walk Alone from the Ed Sullivan really showcases their voices
Yes Colette they need to tune into ebb tide, or his version of the classic summertime; he does put his own spin on that song, it does show his range of octave (s). Bobby does own this song, and always will. Bobby could reach those notes, no other artist could ever compare with his range w/o using autotune that came out in the 90' s. Bobby was such a blessed individual, with such a god given voice. Perhaps this young individuals, should take a look see into the classic 🎶 that was done in the early 60' s perhaps even earlier. No autotune, just natural voice. No one in that era or even now could ever do this song the way Bobby sung it. Ray Hamilton, even though being a baritone, did have a similar range as Bobby. Ray did this version in 1950. Bobby had a god given voice, we have been blessed that we are still able to such a beautiful voice. After all these years he is dearly missed.
I am 39 and I first heard this when I was 17 listening to the Golden Oldies with my dad, I froze and could not believe what I was listening too, and the studio cut wasn't as good as this, Bobby while rehearsing put that ending with the high notes in for this live performance and he has that wonderful orchestra behind him. To me the best love song and best performance of this song ever. 1965, did you notice that small microphone he had? I loved the reaction of you two and its plain to see how in love you two are. :)
around 4:00 Sebs says, "This is such a romantic song, you and I should dance to it." A lot of the dancing to this song was done in the horizontal position. It's what we called back in the day a "panty dropper."
This done live in a TV show ,remember this in the early and mid 1960's if you didn't have great talent you didn't make it , Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley ( the righteous brothers ) had the talent and there music is still great today .thanks for your reaction, thumbs up 👍
The lyrics mean so much more when you realize this was 1965 and the Vietnam War was in full swing. When he sings "Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much." - you can picture him in a fox hole terrified he won't make it home. When he sings "Are you still mine?" and "I'll be coming home, wait for me." it is heart wrenching because you know in the midst of the horror, all he wants to know is that she still loves him.
I can watch this performance over and over and I do. I think I've seen every reaction video out there because I love watching people's facial reactions to this specific performance. It's magical.
