Yes, how true. Those magic years when the 50's singers gave way to the groups. I still love the Perry Como ballads, but suddenly it was the Beatles, Stones, RSG, TOTP, the pirate radio stations, Radio Luxemburg on the tranny. Completely out of touch with teenage stuff now, but even last night, still watching Tina Turner and all these wonderful videos.
Im 72 disabled elderly married pensioner who is in illhealth problems prostate cancer and heart disease which is to late to operate but i still have fond memories of the fabulous serchers band god bless you gentlemen always keep you in good health always and bless and protect you all and your family always Liverpool lives on good excellent bands
Yes. I went to a concert a few weeks ago. I was upset. Friends of 16 years had betrayed (we heard a recorded conversation (rant, diatribe) on their phone, which had accidentally dialled ours and kept on recording.). I actually went to the concert still physically sick from the betrayal and impending loss and thought, no, this makes no difference. I will just sit here as I have paid for the ticket. But, the concert sucked me in. It was The Searchers but also P J Proby, Wayne Fontana, Gary Puckett (without the Union Gap), and 3 of the Tremeloes guys. Yes, I had to accept we are now old along with these guys. Wayne Fontana's first joke was "Let's make you guys feel really old. Gary Puckett's "Young Girl" has just celebrated her 85th birthday. OK, desired effect. But it cheered me up. Young again? probably not.
The soundtrack of my life, I’m 76 now, those were definitely the best years, the best music, no woke idiots, you could leave your door open, there was a thing called respect, not very common these days, unfortunately.
Haven't heard this for decades, but as soon as the music started the lyrics just came into my mind. Music just lives deep inside of us. Wonderful years, wonderful sounds !
The searchers were a great band but not all the bands of today are crap! Go on check out Curse of Lono, Samantha Fish, Tom Kilner. And there are many more besides them.
Songs like this just send me straight back to my childhood. A simpler time. Harder and much poorer, but somehow more enjoyable and freer and the music of that time seems to capture that.
Have you heard that craps comming out of todays' radios???? What is it, too much drug, socialism; low IQs or what the heck is it that making those mad sounds what they call music....
You are so right, small things meant so much, now greed and money has taken over, but listening to this song captivates the good old past, because no matter how poor we were they were good times, and music and certain perfumes bring those memories back flooding the old tired heartstrings 🙏🙏♥️
Don’t feel sorry for them just because you don’t like their music. They like it and they don’t like ours from the 60’s so it’s just a matter of liking what you grew up to
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1964 I was born,...😢..why does this song make me cry? This beautiful song reminds me of times long gone never to come back....😩 Greetings and much love from Germany.
I'm 79 years young. Born in Netherlands. But living in Thailand. Every day I listen to my old RU-vid music. Music from the sixties and seventies. The best there's
Music is so evocative------I listen to this and I am transported back to my teenage school days----first girlfriends-----teenage love-----set to a great musical soundtrack. I'm 72 now and approaching probably my last decade, or so, but I wouldnt swap being a boomer for anything. Those were the days my friend we thought they would never end.......!!
Still sends shivers down my spine. It’s for everyone that remembers that first heart throb. I do recall it 65 years on and even his name. Love it, memories can’t be taken away and music brings it back so vividly. ❤❤❤
I often come back here to listen to this song. I met the love of my life in 1999 when these guys played in a small club, after they finished around midnight and I was finishing my drink ready to leave and a girl (young lady) walked in to the club, I stop and stared, she smiled. It took me an hour to pluck up the courage to say hello. It was instant, she was the one and the next twenty years were the best of my life. We both like The Searchers and saw them again this time as a couple soon after getting together. 20 years of bliss followed. In 2019, we played this at her funeral as the coffin disappeared behind the curtains, I lost her to cancer, she was only 41. Sitting back of an evening, I am in my happy place listening to this now.
This is one of the groups during my radio career I wish I would have seen in concert. One of the few groups who lasted 6 decades. No matter who they replaced, they still had that great sound. Thank you Searchers for some great flashback memories!
I saw them in the War Memorial Park in Basingstoke back in the early '80s, they were the headline band at 'Pop In The Park' in whatever year it was, which was always the last event of the old Basingstoke Carnival week which was discontinued by the Town Council in the mid-'90s. :(
A sad day day when they retired for our generation, understandable but a very sad loss for proper music lovers of real 60's bands. Miss you lads and hope you have a good retirement, just hoping for a comeback one off tour
OMG what a great song. I saw this line-up play this song. Back in the 60s I enjoyed The Searchers as much as The Beetles and The Hollies. And I still do today.
Every time I hear this song the hair stands up on the back of my neck I automatically drift back to the sixty's, hanging around the fairground just loving the great sounds as a 15yr old kid, the hollies .the Who, Small Faces. You just can't buy that history that some of us were so fortunate to be a part of.
This is my parents song!! It was playing when my dad was introduced to my mother in 1964, they were married in 1965. It is now 2021 and 56 years and 4 children later they are still going strong they hear this song and their world stops.
Always went out dressed smart suit and tie white shirt Windsor knot in the tie polished shoes had a good drink listened to the best music in decades I sit and sing all the sixties songs and think about those times with a tear in my eye we had the best none of this woke nonsense
After many decades still amazing. I feel very fortunated to have lived in such an iconic decade when music was something profound and magical. Wouldn,t trade 60,s & 70,s music for anything that has come since.
I discovered The Searchers about 25 years ago.We moved to S Wales & have seen them every time they've toured down here . It's always been a fantastic concert .
Me too best of times, so glad l was there too. Wouldn’t swap my age for the world . There’s been nothing like it since another universe another world . ♥️💫🎉
I saw the searchers live in 1963 at the winter gardens Blackpool they are like a good wine they have got better with age. Ironic the original version of this song was sung by an american songstress name of Jackie De Shannon Ive still got it nearly 60 years later. I wonder what ever happened to her?? Great music never ages unlike human beings.
Exceptionally well written and cleverly devised piece of popular music. We have Jackie Deshannon to thank for writing this observation of the thrills and traumas of infatuation. I particularly like the way the hook creeps up on you after several fairly innocent sounding bars of melody and then BANG, - the logic of the song is suddenly revealed in all its pyrotechnic glory!
Im 70 though I’ve the looks and energy of a 50 year old as I’m blessed with good genes and listening to music from my youth just keeps me young at heart Thanks for this video Brilliant! 🎶✨🙏❤️
They don't need to worry about the future. Their music is so nostalgic and wonderful to those of us who remember them so well. I feel so good when I hear their music! Truly a great Britband. I hope they keep this up forever.
only 14 years before this all happened.Liverpool was a bombed out city i n World war 2 taking huge hits night after night by the Luftwaffe. the people were having to listen to Vera Lyn singing about wishing wells in country villages while our docks were ablaze night after night. then as the dust settled the youth of Liverpool took it in their own hands to liven things up and bring happiness. it was truly remarkable how the bombed city went on to lead the world forward in modern music. like it or hate it...you cannot ignore the Mersey sound and what it did not only for merseyside or the country..but indeed the world. thanks guys!
Hello my friends! I'm 77 , but we are in the midst of "youth", Because American poet Samuel Ullman said " Youth is not time of life, It's a state of mind" So let's all go well ! From Japan
