Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion - 1969 

This song is 99.1% pure

Just had my grandfather’s funeral yesterday. He didn’t want any fancy funeral service, he just requested that this song be played and that’s it. Miss him so much and needed to hear it again.

This song is 99.6% pure

I'm 69 years old and I'm still grooving on this song this is a great song I always have Crystal Blue Persuasion in my brain❤ 0:16

June 1969, I married my high school sweetheart. We left the church in my buddies 68 Dodge Charger, we were in the back seat. When Paul started the engine, this song was the first thing we heard on the radio. Really special meaning to me even after all these years.

Drafted in 69, wasn't smart enough to say hell no I won't go. Many young Americans never had the chance to hear this great music. Hope they have a rock band in heaven.

This song is 94.7% pure

This song is 99.1% Pure

This was "our" song and the other part of "our" is sitting next to me and has been for the past 50 years.

My grandma gave me a transistor radio, under my pillow at night waiting for this song. 60 and still loving this song.

we're all in our 70's now -- this is still such a great song!

68 years old and still listening.

Who's here simply because this is a cool song and has never seen a single episode of breaking bad in their entire existence?

This song was popular the Summer my father died. I was 9 years old and I still miss him every single day. 💔

I was 12 when this came out and have loved this song ever since!!!!!!!

One of my top 10 songs of ALL TIME.

1969 was a great year for music. This song is one example why.

Ken : feel the same way , I just turned 65 and still think this song says it all ! All the best!

This song IS worthy of a Nobel peace prize

One of my favorite songs of all time !

Song isn't about drugs, it's about peace, loving your fellow man because we're all the same regardless of your, race, creed, religion, anything. I was born in 1963, and growing up it was so much simpler then. The world was a huge place, no smartphones, no internet. Phones were all hooked to the wall, and one color, with a heavy cord connecting the handset to the phone. You'd go outside and play games, not walk around with a phone in your face all the time. Now the world's become very small, with a lot more darkness known about thanks to progress. Not saying it's all bad, but if I could go back, I'd do it in a second and poof...I'd be back to such a better time...believe it

I'm 64 and was born in San Francisco. I just love this song. When they show the Haight -Ashbury sign in the beginning, reminds me of home. Be safe people, we will all be ok.

Loved it in the 70's and still do in 2024, that was music back then❤❤❤❤❤❤

It’s 2021.... still listening to this song. STILL HOPEFUL. ♥️

I was in the basic training at Fort Knox 1969. We playied every night at the PX, my favorite song ever

1969-2019, 50 years have passed and this song is still beautiful.

Love this song! It brings back so many memories. Simpler and easier times. Hippies, love, and peace. Those were the days. If only I could go back to them. ❤

THIS SOUND IS GONE FOREVER HOW SAD 😔 LETS HOPE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WILL GET TURNED ON TO IT

Hard to believe this song is 50 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday.

We really need this song nowadays

This was my Mom's Favorite Song. I miss you Mama.

Doesn't get much better than this, folks.

My parents rented a summer cottage on Lake Huron in the earlier '70's. The radio was always on. Whenever I hear this song, the sun is just barely rising over the Lake. Dad and I are going fishing. Hardly a ripple and the poles are in the Yar Craft. Life is wonderful.

Oh, summer when I was a kid ... wish I could go back ...

I recall sitting at a traffic light in my 67 GTO with this song playing. Back in the days when we believed music could shape the world, make it a better place! Youthful idealism......Love the song!

As a young girl I remember coming upon a family of hippies sitting at the plaza. I felt the love and peace all around them that that was the day I wanted to be one of them.. Dad said go ask your mother and mother said no. After fifty years I can still see their faces .

this s probably one of the most beautiful records ever recorded!! It has nothing to do with drugs. It is a spiritual song and one of his favorites. Tommy James said he was most proud of this recording and I am grateful he created it. It should be the National Anthem. God bless all souls whose hearts are this beautiful!!

We don’t realize how great we had it in 1969!

An unbelievable amount of chill, peace and optimism emanates from this song. Memories from a childhood I had forgotten, dreams of a future I have never seen. We need to build a pedestal for this song somewhere.

Jesse we gotta cook

Over 50 years and still has The Message.....!!! Who's listening in 2020?

This song can bring tears to my eyes. When this song came out I was in 10th grade in LA. My brother was in Viet Nam,” He’d do two tours.” We all had lost someone to war. This song represented a hope for peace and love in the world. I’d play this song over and over on the jut box at Gardunos on Whittier Blvd. Young people then really thought that our generation could and would, make a change. So, in 2018, when I re listen to this song, I sometimes cry.

Loved this hearing this on KHJ radio while riding with my brother to High School

Reminds me of my mom.. I Love and Miss you so much momma❤🎶🎶

I was in Vietnam during '68 and '69 on Swift Boats and loved this music back then. Mark Bell

This song came out 21 years before I was born but it just gives me absolute chills every single time I hear it. Almost like a nostalgia and yearning for a time I never experienced. Anyone else?

Jeez, I still dance this song from the great Tommy James and the Shondells. Very nice song and rhythm too. Crystal Blue Persuasion is a classic of a great time, it is a song which is timeless. LOVE Crystal Blue Persuasion, just love it and I will continue dancing it. Let the good times roll! YAY!

This song is over fifty yrs old and people still commenting…fine music ages like fine wine❤

The 60's had the greatest music ever, no doubt about it!

This was music. 50 years later, sounds fresh and better than ever. 60s please come back!. We need more of this.

This song has staying power!

Born in 50s lived this music and it's all I listen to I don't think there's been anything ever that was better.

Heisenberg brought me here

Every Nation: They'll be Peace and good Brotherhood

They don’t make music like this anymore…. 60 and 70 🎶

Oh look! You aren’t the only one listening to this masterpiece in 2021 😉

Got my first kiss with this song!!! I am 66 now and it brings back those special moments. Come on people let's get it together.be kind.be safe and do what's right in this country.crystal blue life forward

This is one of my best songs that will never be outdated, Such a euphoria comes over me when I listen to this song.

I was fortunate to grow up during this time, I miss the 60's. There will never be another time like it again.

Remind me of the peacful days of the 70 tirs❤❤❤❤

3 years to this day Marci passed, would still be here if the doctor listened 2 her ❤ a fib didn't shock it back into rhythm! Great Song we listen 2 it back 69' before I ship out.

A message that is very appropriate and much needed in the current time!

Takes me back to another time. Don't want to relive the 60s but makes me remember

this was my dads ringtone and hearing the guitar brought back so many old feelings and memories

Memories nothing but memories with this song brings tears to my eyes! Was only five years old but I remember it like it was yesterday were did the years go to. my God I'm turning 56 this year wow can't believe how much time go so fast in front of your life......😪.....

"Maybe tomorrow, when He looks down, on every green field, in every town, all of His children, in every nation, there'll be peace and good, brotherhood..." Was my hope when I heard this song as a kid in the 60s. Still is.

Bought the 45rpm in 1969. Still have it. 👌🏻

53 years old and sounds 👌good always and forever through time 1969

"Crystal Blue Persuasion" is the blue sky of summer to me. Laying on blankets on grass tanning next to the pool, watching cirrus clouds floating by high overhead, this song on the radio... so long ago, yes. A day like today, actually. My retired dad is visiting from Florida, siting outside, the house with the pool long gone. I'm going downstairs to chat and smoke cigars with him. Peace

I played this all of the time on a jukebox in a pizzaria in New York for 10 cents a song. I'm glad it's free now.

Such a beautiful song…. So remember those times…

I’m afraid the 60’s will never come again in my lifetime. What a time it was.

I’m so blessed to have been raised to this type of music since I️ was a toddler ... my parents would always bump oldies and the vibe with people around was always great... there is honestly no better music that people can connect too then with oldies.. my uncle and mom are in heaven and I️ listen to oldies on their behalf

Nice hot summer day on the way to the Beach! Oh the Memories this song brings.

Who the HELL gave THIS song thumbs down?

I was a full-fledged Army brat during this war, 101st ABD. I wasn't supposed to like this stuff, but I did. And my sister and I would sing it. Long, long ago.

- SAY MY NAME - uh... Tommy James? - YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT

Brings back memories of when my life was uncomplicated and fun.

I was only 8 yrs young when this song came out in 1969. Not sure I understood what was going on in the World back then. However, I loved💗this song bcuz my name "Crystal" was in it. My close friends still call me "Crystal Blue"!💙 This song will always be one of my favorites!🎵

This must be one of the top songs I've ever heard. The atmosphere created by its sound gives me a lot of peace and joy. I just close my eyes and think everything is OK. ❤

A timeless classic!!!

Thank you breaking bad for introducing this classic song to a different generation "old soul". Love history and reading/listening about the 80's, 70's and 60's. Envious to those who grew up listening to this.

Love❤️ Peace ✌🏾 Happiness 😊

Tommy James is a musical genius

An awesome example of music that made one close their eyes and dream their way home. It affected everyone who listened to it...Vietnam was raging and we were over here praying it would end...and it was songs like this that made us hope for a better world...

1 yr.after this song my little bro.went to Vietnam & never came back!RIP MY BABY BRO.JAN.30TH 1970 I MISS HIM EVERY DAY!!

Child of the 60s and this was my song. We need peace and good and brotherhood .

77 now and thanks to YOU TUBE that I can come here and remember all my favorite memory songs of past loves and friends....On YOU TUBE memories do not grow old....

I'll never forget the 60's....well,when I'm dead & gone i guess I'll do it then yet `til then the 60's are still one of the greatest decades to produce so much change,as people were expressing themselves totally& in every & any way they felt like doing so,& simply being themselves & truth actually came out of the darkness & into the light for all to s👀!!

I was born in 67. But I remember hearing this as a child and thought this was one of the best songs I had heard. I'm 52 going on 53, and this song still gives me goosebumps. I was a teen in the '80's, and to me, the music of the'60's-'80's are the best. Music of today has NOTHING on the music of my childhood and teen years......

This song / lyrics has lived in my mind peacefully for many years 🤗💖💖🙌

I wish they made music like this today . Maybe people wouldn't be so mean and angry .

When life was love and love was life...so simple

To me this song was about peace an l❤ve an togetherness !

Wonder where all these people are all now? Some dead, some old, some getting there. Others may remember the song, but not the vibe....which this song captures beautifully.

This comment section: 75%- people relating the song to breaking bad 25%- Nostalgic comments about past times

My go to song... when life gets dark❤️😁

yo mister white this is art !!!

this song still hits hard

This song needs too be broadcast worldwide everyday too the world leaders and maybe through the grace of our loving god they will open there closed eyes and hardened hearts I mean really people enough is enough!!!!!!!!