‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’: The Righteous Brothers Make Pop History

Udiscovermusic ^ | December 12, 2025 | Paul Sexton

[dfwgator]

"I hate it when she does that."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That song brings me to my knees to this day!

We’ve all been there...

[ebshumidors]

Unchained Melody was our wedding song.

[FLNittany]

Glen Campbell (Wrecking Crew) on guitar on the studio version.

[Fiji Hill]

The song made its debut on the Hot 100 of December 12, 1964 at No.77, and was No.1 in the US by February 6, replacing Petula Clark’s “Downtown” for a two-week run.

It did a lot better in Southern California, reaching #1 just before New Years and then staying there for the next two months. For several weeks, "Downtown"--a song I didn't like at the time--was at #2 while "Lovin' Feeling" stayed at #1. Finally in the first week of March, "My Girl" by the Temptations knocked the Righteous Brothers out of the top spot.

[Fiji Hill]

Unchained Melody--Les Baxter (1955)--from the movie "Unchained."

[redangus]

The song I’ve probably danced to more than any other.

[Fiji Hill]

This version by a British invader got some airplay on KRLA, but didn't chart.

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling--Cilla Black (1965)

[Secret Agent Man]

Its a song I could handle never hearing again.

[knarf]

The first song I ever tried to seriously sing.

As a 17/18 year old, I had a fairly good diaphramic falsetto, but nothing like Bobby Hatfield.

I even had a workable harmony to Bobby.

I was crushed when I learned he had died.

Goin' to the bahba shop, gonn'a have 'im do me up . . . Justine !

https://youtu.be/GjRLwYs-FXE

https://youtu.be/N6O-fFgl5vE?list=RDN6O-fFgl5vE

[TexasGator]

“We’ve all been there...”

I was about 20 feet from their stage in Vegas.

[Zhang Fei]

Bill Medley had a great run with crowd favorites like this number, Unchained Melody and Time of My Life, and Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound almost a performer in its own right. Pretty tragic the way Phil spiraled towards the end. And, on a topical note, Phil died from COVID, one of a significant number of musical luminaries who went out that way.

[Zhang Fei]

[Its a song I could handle never hearing again.]

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Which do you hate more - this song or the Bee Gees-authored Islands in the Stream?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNGtgYwSsU

[kvanbrunt2]

youtube has some very good recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnYY9Mw2Fg

[Getready]

Originally sun by Todd Duncan, African American opera singer. Born in Kentucky. From movie “Unchained” in 1955.
Movie is about a prison warden who puts men who are in prison for various minor crimes in very minimal control. Wardens rules allow voluntary serving time. Men are free to leave. Warden was precursor to modern idealist prison reform. This was all before psychotropic drugs, kids without parents, and moral relativism. Movie based on warden Kenyon Scudder...who brought minimal control in Chino, CA. Prison.
We see how that worked out in modern times...total failure.
FYI...if you don’t already know.

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t really spend time rating songs this way. :)

I could handle not hearing either, again, though.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

The song I’ve probably danced to more than any other.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>....
For me that would be the Platters “Only You”. It was the trigger for several passionate love affairs which sort of contradicted the lyrics now that I think of it!

[Inyo-Mono]

This version by a British invader got some airplay on KRLA, but didn't chart.

KRLA, "Your Official Beatles Station" played a lot of good music back then. As a DJ there in 1963, Casey Kasem even played The Beatles "From Me to You" six months before they became popular in America on the Ed Sullivan Show.

[old-ager]

Dang that was a great song, performance and recording. Brings me back to being a kid “fixing” an old radio my dad gave me, in my cubby in the basement. KXOK AM 630.