Tab Hunter sings his hit "Young Love" LIVE on The Perry Como Show. NOW IN COLOR! Aired February 2, 1957. #TabHunter #YoungLove #DamnYankees #GayIcon / mascarocolor
I was 8 years old when I saw him in Battle Cry at the RKO on Fordam Road in The Bronx. I was stunned by Tab without a shirt. I still watch for that scene when its on TCM.
I can tell this is real singing, not lip syncing. Tab is very nervous but gets through it like a professional. Watch him sigh in relief at 2:04 while his backup singers chuckle. Great live TV.
Such a fresh young innocent voice. So handsome and unassuming. Love that this song became no. One and even beat out a song by Elvis. Tab exudes boyish charm that only adds to his a0peal. So gorgeous. Years later in his eighties he was still devilishly handsome and still had that charming boyish innocence about him. I love his sense if humor and the fact that he never seemed to take himself too seriously.. He still had that be fabulous voice that made hiseem ageless. R.I.P. Tab. We will be always Love You. XXX matg
Nerves got the better of him. More than once he missed the note dead centre, but when he grinned like "a teenager in love" it was easy to forgive him anything. What a cutie pie has was, no wonder my mother got this in an EP with "Red Sails in the Sunset" on the other side. I've still got it.
The way the second man from the right looks at Tab' with great admiration is everything.❤❤Tab Hunter is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life. I would like to live in his youth and be among those screaming women.
This song knocked Elvis off the #1 chart to become #1 for an entire month! The innocence of youth hidden behind trouble minds. At least Tab found his happiness!
I'm 72 now and living in Denver from New York city. I remember this song so well brought tears to my eyes, this time around. I have a list of great performances this is now one of them.
DAMN he was so cute ! He took it all in his stride. He knew he wasn't a real singer. He had a #1 record with this song and another hit with "Red Sails In The Sunset" . That smile !!!!!!!
What determines who is and who isn’t a real singer? He actually had quite a successful recording career. And in fact knocked Elvis out of first place on the charts with this tune.
As fob1xxi correctly says, HE knew he wasn't a real singer, even if others thought he was. He gets through the song nicely here, however. He had probably already heard real singer Sonny James's version, perhaps had even used it to practice for this TV appearance, and understood the difference.
@@larrydonguy comprehension, Don, its key. I asked who determines who is and isn't. what are the standards/set of criteria? you would need to know that before attempting to read Mr Hunter's mind.
@@jv-ep2tc Not really. Tab readily admitted that he did not have an outstanding singing voice, and it is pretty obvious here that he's trying get through the song without screwing up. If others wanted to consider him a good singer, fine. Lot's of charting pop songs have been sung by folks who didn't consider themselves to be good singers.
@@larrydonguy well at least you called him a singer. i partially disagree with "trying to get through without screwing up". the fact is: he was an incredibly private and somewhat shy person. to sing live on TV would be nerve wracking for most of us, more so for him. he couldn't even look at the camera and the girls screaming made him even shyer. [that is my take on it anyway. yes, he most likely did not want to screw it up]
I picked up a copy of _Tab Hunter Confidential_ several years ago at the Dollar Tree and never got around to reading it for one reason or another. I'm in the part of the book where "Young Love" is still a big hit. Very interesting read, and now I know what the fuss was about.
This is 67 years ago and many of the backing singers were middle aged then and will be long gone. Heck I was born in 1958 and many of my classmates have passed.
Tab, n'était pas le "chanteur" du siècle, loin s'en faut, MAIS voila, il était "canon", et que se soit au cinéma ou au disques, il était une source de profit évident !... Il le savait et en jouait, et à une époque ou le look "propret et rassurant" faisait fureur, un James Dean, un Rickie Nelson, un Tab, et autres Elvis ou Brando (jeunes), représentaient la jeunesse de rêve de l'époque. Mi- rebelles pour les uns, mi- fils de bonnes familles pour les autres, les "beaux gosses" sont les bienvenus pour faire rêver en ces temps d'après guerre, il en est aussi de même pour les filles bien sur. La "Bob Mizer Style", est totalement raccord avec l'iconographie idéalisé du bel homme symbolisé par un Tab Hunter !... Le gouffre qui sépare cette époque de la nôtre est tellement évident, qu'un simple regard suffit à qualifier cette époque "d'âge d'or" tout simplement .....
