"I hate it when she does that."
"I hate it when she does that."
That song brings me to my knees to this day!
We’ve all been there...
Unchained Melody was our wedding song.
Glen Campbell (Wrecking Crew) on guitar on the studio version.
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.
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling--Cilla Black (1965)
Its a song I could handle never hearing again.
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
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.
youtube has some very good recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnYY9Mw2Fg
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.
Really great song! Unchained Melody also.
I so remember when it was new. I had even bought “Downtown” as the 1st 45 I ever purchased on my own.
Dang, that was a bit ago...
Songwriters: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Wrecking Crew Musicians:
Don Randi on piano
Tommy Tedesco on guitar
Carol Kaye and Ray Pohlman on bass
Steve Douglas on sax
Barney Kessel on guitar
Earl Palmer on drums