When I was sixteen years old, my favorite band was Night Ranger. My school hired Sheriff for the Homecoming dance. Sheriff sang some Night Ranger songs. They ended the dance with this song. Life was perfect! Too bad it all changed so quickly. Thank you, Sheriff, for the memories!
I just came across this song and it's beautiful. And not that it matters but, I'm a black middle age woman and has listened to it six times. I was watching Cold Case today and this song played in the end and I fell in love with it. Truly beautiful 💪💯
OMG exactly, geneva! It's during the epilogue of Ep.#2.7 It's Raining Men. I just happened across it now on TNT flipping channels in the middle of the night. And that's how I first realized how powerful the song and Freddy Curci's voice is--while I was addicted to Cold Case reruns 10 years ago or so. Amazingly, I'd never appreciated it back in the '80s when it was on the radio.
I'm NOT trying to be a hater here but want to give some info about this Guinness world record claim in this comment. And just so we are not misunderstanding anything here, I actually like this song a lot so I'm not here to try to bash to be an ass. It may have potentially been a record when it first came out but there are a number of other singers that have held notes longer for US hit songs. We won't even go into opera singers who have been known to hold notes for quite a bit longer. But, since this is for a song put out to be heard on the mainstream radio, we can keep it for that for comparison. But, just to give you some info, Barbara Streisand has apparently held a note for longer in one of her songs. I haven't confirmed this and I'm just going off of Google. Personally I don't care for Streisand but that's beside the point. But, here's a rare gem that you may not know that I CAN CONFIRM is a longer held note and it's by the lead singer (Morten Harket) of the band Ah-ha who had the hit "Take on me". In their song "Summer Moved On", he regularly holds a note for at least 19 to 20 seconds in many of his live performances even just a few years back. It's about 3/4 of the way through the song and it's when he sings..."just one thing...left to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaask". If you don't believe me, I just looked up one of his videos from a channel named Rafael Horacio with the video titled "a-ha - Summer Moved On (HD Live)" and at the 3:20 mark you can hear it start and he holds it for 20 seconds or maybe even 21 depending on how you want to start and end. I would post the link but RU-vid doesn't typically allow that anymore in comments so I'm not even going to attempt to post it and you'll just have to go look it up yourself. I'm pretty sure I have watched quite a few of his live performances of this song over the years because I was in awe and I think he even held the note for about 22 seconds in one performance. I'm not gonna go look through the hundreds of live performances of this song again but you can enjoy finding it if you don't believe me. I PROMISE, I'm NOT lying about this at all. On a side note, it's amazing how well he has aged over the years and can still sing so well into I think his late 60s maybe into his 70s now. This was just one I can confirm was longer. I'm sure there might be others now.
@@andrewslone It's the "Longest held note on a US hit single." The key words there being US hit single. The actual longest note on a studio recording is by someone named Tee Green performing a standard and it lasts 39 seconds. People are debating this simply because they aren't reading correctly.
"I never needed love like I need you, and I never lived for nobody, but I lived for you..." RIP my darling. Happy 35th birthday in heaven! Always yours~Linz
I was born in 1989 and my mom said this was a huge hit when I was a baby and she always was fond of it because it reminds her of when I was a baaaaaaaabay!
I firmly believe Freddy Curci never got the credit he and his band mates they deserved. This is an illustration of pure talent you're never going to see today. Fod bless the 80s, it was the best time
Many could probably do that, in the studio? But live like this, without studio effects etc… That’s pure live, on stage performance, and it is perfection!
My daughter just used this for her wedding song, Oct 15, 2021! I had mentioned that if her dad and I had had a big wedding (we had a small JP wedding, by choice), this would have been our wedding song. She and her new hubby surprised me with this. I cried the whole time it was playing. Definitely a wonderful, timeless love song.
What a great wedding date!! Mine’s October 15, 1989! My best wishes to your daughter and yourself as well…be listening to this song for many many years to come. My husband and I used to lay on the sofa listen to music and talk into the night. We consider this our song, too.
80's music was awesome. Miss those days growing up in the 70's and 80's. 44 now and today's music stinks, but I guess it's what u grow up with is what u like. Still think the 70's and 80's were the best.
Lou Gramm lives about five miles from me on Lake Ontario. I've seen him at our local grocery store about three times in the past ten years (he just bought a few items, no shopping cart because he's way too cool for that ;) so I finally approached him last time and said "thank you for all the amazing music." Told him I saw him in concert a few times, had a Foreigner shirt, etc. He was extremely kind, quiet, friendly and I guess I'd say "tolerant" (lol) because I was gushing a bit as a fan. He just said a few words, like "oh, thank you, that's wonderful" with a smile. Each time he was there, people noticed him and were whispering to each other, but only one other guy had the balls to approach him, and that dude would not shut up, lol. Lou again was so patient and friendly to him, again saying only a few "thank you's" in return. He is an amazing, wonderful guy, and that music he wrote/performed was just outstanding. A real talent, and I didn't even mention how incredible he is for getting through what he's been through with his illness. One of those extraordinary human beings.
+Mike Coppedge I agree with +Susan Ryan completely, I've analyzed it a LOT: It is NOT about what we grew up with, it IS about the steady decline in real, *measurable* talent and skill sets. For me, it can be demonstrated from about 1990 on, when the metal pop bands were being phased out (not that I was a fan of many of them, only very few, I hated Poison for example). Quick example: Watch James Brown "Mother Popcorn" from the 60's and note the writing and musicianship. It is *outstanding*. We continued to see examples here and there in most genre's of that level of skill in music (and of course it sounding amazing) all the way up to the 90's. There was of course plenty of three chord rock and pop thrown in, but the talent was still there because *it was truly interesting, truly new, and enjoyable*. You can prove this by introducing younger people to it, and watching how they often can't help but like it. At the gym last year, three teen boys were singing and air guitaring a Journey song from 1984. I was SO happy to see that. I could go on a long rant about how grunge and rap reversed the trend of maintaining talent and skill in composition, creativity and musicianship, but I don't have the time. And have you listened to the Tomorrow land "House" genre, etc...amazing visual shows with *atrocious* music. I'm convinced they're all just huge drug raves and the kids don't know any better. But just compare Boston's "More than a Feeling" from the mid 70's, and something ultra pop from the 80's like Human League's "I'm only Human," and compare it to anything today. Those songs STILL create powerful responses, emotions. WHAT creates those responses today? One song in 1000 at best can even compete. I am convinced there may be environmental factors involved, outside of the corporate greed to push cheap, easy-to-create-and-produce garbage. If it's marketed enough, the kids are simply brainwashed into enjoying noise pollution through repetition. (End of rant)
Hi guys! I love "I want to know what love is' by foreigner. I'm always watching old music videos. I love Rock n Roll. To Death, try '70's, it's better than later 90's. Grunge totally ended all the great music. The kids growing up on that, didn't know how to play real rock music anymore. VH1 had a show about it, so real rock musicians said that. Thank God for RU-vid! Bye!
I can't BELIEVE this song originally flopped in the U.S. upon its initial release in the early 80s (I think the highest it charted was 60-something then). I think that it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Of course, thankfully, several years later it got a rare second chance and achieved its rightful spot at the top of the charts in our country getting the overdue recognition it deserved.
America was usually always oblivious to what was happening north of the border unless you were a yank living by the border & able to pick up canadian radio stations.
All totaled I think it's 4 for Freddy. More Than Words Can Say, Waiting for Love, and Perfect World (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead soundtrack. Plus this one. He received a millionaires award (million radio plays) for Waiting for Love from the record company because he also wrote that song.
This is rare. The band never came to prominence until the late 80s. So this clip of them together is one of few live performances as a group. MTV was only a year old in '82.
I saw another one of them doing a live performance where he holds his last note for a long time...still trying to find it again. If I do, I put the link here.
Crazy how this song and album didn't come out to the public till 7 years later. Always knew this song was older than that it always had that early 80s feel to it like Toto, Spandau Ballet, Foreigner.
I will never understand why he was a one hit wonder with 2 bands. His voice was amazing. If i'm not mistaken, the last long, long held note is in the guinness book of records.
Freddy in my opinion has one of the greatest voices, hands down. I can see why this song did so well. Still sounds as fresh today as it did when it was recorded. Thank you for posting this killer version of this song
studio version Canadian band entered Billboard May 14, 1983 ..reached #61 and #8 in Canada..then in Feb 1989 reached #1 in Billboard and #1 in Canada (hits the last note for 25 seconds)
It's a shame things didn't come together earlier on for Freddy while he was in Sheriff. He had some of the best pipes ever heard in rock and yet somehow didn't get as big as he should've. I've read they had a lot of internal problems with management and within the band itself. They should've been one of the iconic acts of the 1980s and 90s. I wonder if it might've been different if he was a young guy coming out today on an indie label using RU-vid and social media to get out there.
In 1989-1990, he was starting to finally get a break but in his new band Alias when AOR music was starting to kinda make a comeback again but this time grunge put a dead end on them.
U can't knock a beautiful timeless classic song like this they don't make them like this anymore one of my faves form the 80s I still get chills from listening to it I'm a sucker for big rock ballads like this love love love love it
Best wishes for you and your husband to have another 40 happy years.I'm in my early 60s and fell in love just about everytime that i was privileged enough to dance with a beautiful girl.I sure miss those times and this music.Continued happiness to you.🙂🙂🙂🙂.
I heard this on the radio in the Minneapolis when I was 16, in 1982, and it only played for about a week and I never heard again until about 7 years later. It was strange because I knew I'd heard it before, yet it was being played as if it were a new song. Now in the age of the internet, I learned the reason. It became a hit in Canada, where the band Sheriff was from in 1982, and when it was played in the US at the time, it didn't become a hit right away, so they stopped playing it. When the singer joined another band, Alias, is actually when the song become a hit. It was interesting and a little sad to note that they did not get royalties or benefit financially from it becoming a hit in the US 7 years later, I assume because the song belonged to a previous label or was under a contract of ownership by someone else at that point.
In 1983 I heard this song on the radio in Toronto and bought the cassette tape and took it home and started playing around school at resese and my teacher said that's a nice song who is it so I showed her the tape. fast forward six years later I was in 11th grade then and my teacher from elementary school said remember that tape you were playing when you were in school but they're playing it on the radio now as a new song LOL
Insane that the song didn't initially chart well in the early 80s in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, it was a decent success in Canada then, though, right? It's one of the best songs that I've ever heard. Thankfully, several years later it got a rare second chance and hit the top of the charts here. Glad that it was finally able to get the recognition it deserved.
It's crazy how things work out when it comes to chart success and longevity. It goes to show, too, that chart positions are often irrelevant. Look at the number of songs that have missed the Top 40 which are now regarded as classics. "When I'm With You" originally peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1983 (with a total of 7 weeks on the chart). It reached No. 8 in Canada, giving the band a notable hit record. When it was picked up again by a DJ in late 1988, it gained a lot of traction at radio, prompting Capitol to reissue the single. The song finally went to No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in early 1989 (and finally No. 1 in Canada, too). Imagine if it had never got a second chance at radio. I wonder if it would fit in that category of classic songs that have never made the Top 40 ... or would it have been forgotten? Nonetheless, it truly is a beautiful song, and it still sounds like a No. 1 record today.
freddy curci's voice....man oh man....makes a girl weak in the knees......felt (feel) that way...now....so many years....never told her....my secret....forever.....
♥️I was a teen in 1987 when I fell in love with this song in KISSFM with DJ Rick Dees ♥️♥️♥️🥰😍Good old days😍when I listen to it now in 2024, it takes me back to that era in Jr High with my friends ♥️♥️♥️ CLASSIC 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💋💋💋💋
Beautiful song performed by one of the most talented vocalist of all time. Loved Freddy in Sheriff and Alias. I hold onto a dream that I will get to meet him in person one day, and he’d perform this ballad.
I never needed love Like I need you And I never lived for nobody But I live for you Ooh babe Lost in love is what I feel When I'm with you Maybe it's the way you touch me With the warmth of the sun Maybe it's the way you smile I come all undone Ooh babe Lost in love is what I feel When I'm with you Baby ooh I get chills when I'm with you oh Oh baby my world stands still when I'm with you When I'm with you I never cared for nobody Like I care for you And I never wanted to share the things I want to share to with you Ooh babe Lost in love is what I feel When I'm with you Baby ooh I get chills when I'm with you oh O baby my world stands still when I'm with you oh oh Baby ooh I get chills when I'm with you oh O baby my world stands still when I'm with you When I'm with you When I'm with you
They didn't know what they had in '82 - and absolutely crazy how a random DJ found this again in '89 and basically re-released it to be the world hit and is never out of my mind my entire life!
Well you can see here that Freddy Curci was trained by a vocal coach, he's much better than almost anyone I can think of who were doing power ballads at the time. In the original album version of this song, he holds the world record for longest note in a pop song, with the final note lasting 26 seconds! I don't know any other male pop singers of that time (or today) who could hold a note that long, let alone in that octave without falsetto. Amazing, and it was good to see them live like this! :)
+Cory Kent Freddy is certainly well trained, I hope he never loses that voice..... And I'm loving the look of surprise he seems to have when some of those notes come out!
+Packo_ Hubu LOL calm down man. You don't have to yell in your words for other people to understand them. Besides that though, I have seen a huge of Arnel Pineda. First I saw the movie about him getting the part in the Journey. I saw him on RU-vid when he was covering Journey in his Filipino band. I saw him audition for the Journey men. I saw him in parts of 5 concerts. I saw him on half a dozen shows, and I've shared his videos and music with at least 5 people who didn't know about him. So you're completely wrong with that comment. I have seen him for sure. And secondly just in case you don't know, being able to sing songs from numerous different bands, doesn't mean he sings better than the quality of everyone. If the band's original singer doesn't have a good voice, being able to sing the band music like them means you don't need a great voice either. So anyhow, Freddy Curci sings better than the singers of Boston, Led Zeppelin, Europe, Survivor, Eagles, and all the other names you wrote. And I mean seriously you said Aerosmith? I mean Steven Tyler has almost the lowest quality vocal singing of anyone LOL.
I’ve never seen this video, and I’ve never heard this live version of this song. Not what I expected at all! This is been my wife’s and my song since it came out. It’s absolutely enchanting.
+Susan Szabo - It was a big Canadian hit in 1982-1983. However, when it was originally released in the States, it was not a huge hit. Got some major airplay in a few American cities (Minneapolis, for instance), but pretty much faded into obscurity... UNTIL late 1988, when a radio programmer (I think in Vegas...?) put it back into rotation. It got really popular regionally and the record label re-released the song. It eventually went all the way to #1 in early 1989. Even without the aid of a music video and the fact the band had already been broken up a few years earlier. A great lost 80s power ballad that hardly gets any airplay these days. Incidentally, the lead singer ended up in another band, Alias - who had a huge top 5 radio hit in the fall of 1990 with "More Than Words Can Say" (and a minor follow-up called "Waiting For Love" in early 1991).
This song brought magical vibes of everything . The lyrics , meaning , tone , voice . Pure of love feeling . It makes me chill and loving . Seeing the way Freddy sang it . The more I get touched . Thank you Freddy . My all time favorite song and singer ❤ .
Wow, brings back memories of a love of a lifetime that ended for me, when he broke off w/me….. this is the 1 song that always takes me back to Dan, the 1 who still holds a place etched DEEP within my heart FoReVeR!! And that is something that NO one can take away from me….
The album "Sheriff" was so incredibly good... and this song was my (our) our wedding dance song.... and probably many others from the early to mid 80's era. Even 90's. But the whole album was stunning. Best voice since Freddy Mercury. Even better.
I’ve always love this song. I never had a clue that tha song was from ‘82. Where I lived, in South Jersey, it became a hit in 1989-90..at some point. And it doesn’t sound like anything else from the early 80’s. Quite interesting.
