Tommy James & The Shondells - I Think We`re Alone Now Live on Village Square 1967 Follow Tommy James: www.tommyjames... Instagram - / tommyjamesandtheshondells Twitter - / tjshondells Facebook - / tjandtheshondells
I remember back when Tiffany released her version of this, I completely thought it was her song and my grandma loved it so much and then said the original was better😳😳😳 I was blown away when she busted out this vinyl and played it for me. It was my “rabbit hole” journey that took me to a whole new world of music to me!!! RIP to my wonderful grandmother. I MISS YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!😭😭😭😭
When I first heard this, it was on a classic rock station on a stereo that didn't tell you info about the song or the band. Heard again recently in passing(also like 10 years ago in the movie Ted) and looked it up. Got the Tiffany version first and thought it was good, but not what I remembered. Next on RU-vid results was a solo cover by the lead singer of Green Day, and immediately knew this wasn't the version, mostly because Green Day didn't exist when I had first heard it. So third in the results is this, original, version, that I was looking for all along for a very specific reason....the heartbeat. When the music and lyrics completely cut out for the deep heartbeat sound, it distinguishes itself from, even more than the already great singing and instrumentals, the covers and comes out on top, imo.
@@ArrowArchitect Exactly how I felt when my grandmother played this for me. It was unbelievable that such a hit was made way before my time that was even better than Tiffany’s cover. Tiffany’s cover was like a prime example of what the 80s represents but then when you go back and listen to this original, 😳😳😳😳 MIND BLOWING how far ahead they were in song writing!!!! It reminds of Marty McFly’s cover of “Johnny be Good” from Back to the Future! How he was playing music from a future generation. This is what this song did to me.
All it takes is a patronizing Boomer statement like yours to ruin a young person's pleasure of discovering this song. Way to burn that rare inter-generational bridge!🎉
HELLO @MARYBRITTAIN5945, I WAS IN VIET NAM TOO IN THE MARINES , IN 1966 THRU 1967 , GLAD TO GET OUT OF THAT PLACE, PLEASE REPLY , JOHN FROM NORTH CAROLINA . thanks ....bye john .
This generation doesn’t even know this song. For those of us who grew up in the 80’s, the Tiffany version is better. I’m glad these guys wrote it though, because there’s no way she could have come up with it herself.
Summer of 67...between jr high and high school... running wild thru the neighborhood in the hot evenings with our friends, listening to this song on the transistor.... life was simple and fun back then.
Did you have a 6 or 8 xistor radio back then as this is important? ; I had an 8 and lots of friends:) Transport me back too then "any" entity's are welcome to contact/contract me for this.
You too! My time exactly between jr. hi and hi school. I fell in love with my first lady. There was a field behind her house that we would run through. My o my, take me back.
They were upset the producers made them mime to their original song being played on air he was trying to be obvious that he is definitely not playing what you are hearing or singing in the background vocals etcetera
Hubby also introduced this beautiful song to me in 1978....soo makes me think of our early days together...we married 46 years this month God is good...❤❤
This is THE song that perfectly describes my senior year of high school with my girlfriend and how we had to “hide what we’re doing” because what would our parents say “if they only knew”. We spent many Friday and Saturday nights after games alone together where “the beating of our hearts was the only sound”. We eventually were married and together for nearly 20 years and had 2 amazing sons before we divorced. (Like so many of our generation). She was recently killed in a tragic gun incident and and I find myself remembering those amazing high school years, the great music, and just how very special those years were for us. We were the class of ‘69. RIP, S. You are missed!
Class of 1972 married My high school sweetheart also been married for 47 years. We went to a Tommy James concert in 1971 or 72 they were great just getting going Crimson And Clover just became a hit.
@@jackirodriguez8673 That’s so sad , sorry for your loss and that emptiness you feel...I am still with my sweetheart 44 yrs , we are one of the lucky ones to still be going
@@donr5593 Class of 71... had to travel 8,000 miles from home with the Navy to find my Filipina sweetheart. But all my classmates immediately know who she is at the class reunions. And at her 50th reunion I certainly stood out in the pictures like some random white guy accidently wandering thru the events. 😍
This was actually the first version I heard. Mom liked the Oldies station when they still had one on the radio. So I grew up listening to the "golden oldies". I love this era!
13,000+ likes and only 358 dislikes? I graduated high school in 1966 and college in 1970. Can you imagine a time when the radio was filled with stations all playing this sort of music? The music back then literally defined our lives, especially when I was in the Army. When I hear a song of some artist back in those days, I'll immediately have a flashback of somewhere or something I was doing at that time. Truly remarkable times. In our teens and early twenties, we hadn't the maturity or age to understand how fortunate we were. Only with 20/20 hindsight of 55+ years can I look and listen back and truly value what we had.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator :-)) Oh my goodness, gracious! Thanks for such a meaningful reply! You know, I would match wits with you, but I make it a rule never to fight an unarmed person. Your RU-vid profile, your username, and then your selected videos, say it all about who you are, about your searing intellect, incisive logic, and wisdom of the years. Argument for the same of argument. Have a swell day, kiddo.
I've got to tell the story I'm 64 year's old at the time this song came out I was 7 8 years old fast forward to the age of 14 year's old I met a girl name Lee Ann I fell head over heals for her, but for some reason something about both of us wanted each other but something kept that from happening. Through out 50 years every single time I heard this song she was the first thing that came to my mind EVERY TIME. The year is 2023 on October 8th 2023 I looked up Lee Ann and found her. I've fallen absolutely deep in love with her and she has fallen in love with me. I've told her on many occasions this was in the making it was supposed of happened and I believe that 100% in my heart it happened for that reason and that reason only... I love you Lee Ann ❤️..... forever ❤️....
One of the very few songs that church organ music was an acceptable R&R instrument. Sweet Cherry wine, Crimson & Clover, Chrystal Blue Persuasion……..they really bring you back!
Tommy settled in Clifton, New Jersey. Ironically, my wife and i moved to northern New Jersey. We knew friends whose kids would "trick or treat" at Halloween at his house in Clifton. Again, total gentleman. If asked, would show his gold or platinum records on the wall. Not preening , simply showing them. The man achieved early success, rode it, dealt with very strange business issues, (like Mob!), and is a Christian believer.
Sorry, no way. they'd be laughed and sneered at. Todays kids have no soul and no sense of romance, it's all just out there for them to jump on and ignore the subtle things.
@@davidschmidt6013 Mostly, but Kate Bush’s 1978 tune Running Up That Hill sure got a lot of attention from the young crowd last year after it was featured on Stranger Things. My kids were shocked I knew the lyrics!
The most underrated and underappreciated bands of all times...they were monsters...so many amazing songs. And perhaps tops 3 hair...the total package.i hope they got paid well for that atrocity that Tiffany spawned
1967........my last year in high school and before I went to college. Madly in love with a girl. Best summer a kid could have in high school. We meet nearly 50 years later. Great time reminiscing of what went on in 1967.
The years 1966, 67, 68 and 69 : the more I see , listen to songs in those years I ask : how could have people heard so big an enormous quantity of wonderful songs ? I guess there were more good songs than people to enjoy them, more talented people than listeners... Thanks for the golden moment.
My Dad was gracious enough to let his 16 year old son take his Oldsmobile 98 on a date... it had a factory 8-track player and this was one of many. Those were the days my friend!
I graduated in 1994 my friends and I all wished we grew up in that time. I remember when Forest Gump came out and Woodstock 94... We all wanted to be hippies sooo bad. We all dressed in tie dies and flannels (lots of color) good times!! but it didn't last long, we had to get jobs.
I got to see them perform LIVE at a 60’s festival, them the turtles the animals the monkeys, The Beach Boys and others it was my first concert ever😂 … Thks DAD HAD A BLAST AT LIKE 14 years old, 😅
First time I seen Tommy James live was in 1975 in a small Rual town at the Playland dance hall. That place was so packed a mouse could not sneak in. Was a great concert, but you could see the mafia drugs effecting him in a bad way then. So glad he found God and his power in the end. He looks better today than he did in 1975.
My mom grew up in the 80's and showed me Tiffany's version. Then randomly on the radio they played this song, and I was like, " That wasn't the original!?"
“Tommy James and the Shondells” took the music to the next level in the music industry. He molded, our hearts and souls into the next “Level” of what was to be an even better, greater, next level of music”. Thankyou Tommy and your “iconic” band for taking us to the next level.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Fortunate enough to hear the original and Tiffany's version. What teenage boy didn't have a Tiffany crush. She was amazingly close to the original but I still love the classics
Quintessential pop and rock song of all time. Tommy James...Shondells. Johnny Rivers...Boston. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an embarrassing joke for keeping these great rock performers out. Isaac Hays basically had one hit and is in the Hall of Fame. These other three have had incredible lists of several hits and they are not in the Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame is not real or even worthy of anyone's attention. Without Tommy James and the Shondells, rock and pop music is incomplete and missing its soul.
Such a great pop song perfectly rendered with harmony, melody, rhythm, beat, etc musically it all works so well! Imo Tommy James has McCartney/Lennon level smash hit song writing skills!
Oh my God this song sure brings back lots of memories for me. I sure think of my high school boyfriend Steve oh how I miss him. Since 1970 he was lost in a car crash so yes this song has so many memories.
Tommy is a really nice guy too. I'm good friends with his cousin. Got to meet and hangout with Tommy and the band. That was about 20 years ago and he still has it going on!!!!
My sister listed to this on her transistor radio, 1969 was a great year. The summer was exciting and the music was great. I was 8 that summer, a distant memory.
My girlfriend and I did a dance routine/lip sync to this song in our elementary school talent show when I was in fifth grade. What memories....good times!
Back when Tiffany released her version, my parents wouldn't buy me her tape so I took my dad's Tommy James and the Shondells tape and blasted it in my room with my windows open. I heard it for the first time in forever on the radio this morning and it made me so happy.
