I'm American Indian too, and my uncles sang and played this song for me at my request. One of my favorite songs along with kawlija and Strawberry roan. I miss my Uncles and am not offended when Indians are featured.❤
@@lynnmurphy1043I don’t understand how someone COULD be offended over a man singing about native Indians in a time where people of darker skin where purposefully bashed and hidden in media to promote certain stigma and distain for those people of both different colour and culture
This video is dated 12 December 1959. The Big Bopper, JP Richardson Jr., was killed in a plane crash in Iowa on 3 February 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot Roger Peterson. The Day the Music Died (Bye-Bye Miss American Pie). Sadly, unless it's his ghost, the background vocals we hear here aren't him.
Running Bear Johnny Preston On the banks of the river stood runnin' bear, young Indian brave On the other side of the river stood his lovely Indian maid Little white dove was-a her name, such a lovely sight to see But their tribes fought with each other so their love could never be Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die He couldn't swim the raging river 'cause the river was too wide He couldn't reach little white dove, waiting on the other side In the moonlight he could see her blowing kisses 'cross the waves Her little heart was beating faster, waiting there for her brave Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die Runnin' bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same And they swam out to each other through the swirling stream they came As their hands touched and their lips met, the ragin' river pulled them down Now they'll always be together in that happy hunting ground Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die
"Runnin' bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same" Must admit this line did make us chuckle when I read the lyrics online a couple of months ago. Being from the UK we're not familiar with the American version of 'dived' but that aside it's the doubling up in the same line with a word spelt the same but pronounced differently and meaning something else that tickled us. Not sure if it was deliberate or not but I guess the format of *his name-his thought/action-her name-her thought/action* kind of forced the narrative that way.🌊🧸🕊 I picked this up in a secondhand store amongst a rack of 7"s and in so doing it became the oldest record in my collection, topping The Shadows - F.B.I. by one year back from 1961 to 1960. I know this was released in 1959 in the US but it wasn't until the following year over here and that's the version I have (of 22 in total).📀
Love this song! We used to sing this in our karaoke bar in AZ. The folks who ran it developed a whole “performance” during this and it was such fun! I SO miss those days in the early 90’s! ❤️🐈
ftsjr I would say the PC police can pound sand or I can get more frank about the leftist/moron PC police. I grew up remembering this song as a little boy back in the early 1960's.
ftsjr Why? It's a love story about two native Americans from two families/tribes that were enemies. Romeo & Juliet / Jets & Sharks etc. It's just a sad love tale.
Yeah, people these days tend to disagree with white people exploiting Native American culture for money. Of course, it wouldn't be that way if white people hadn't enslaved and murdered 90% of them first. Oh well.
This is the very first piece of music I ever purchased with my own money. I bought the 45rpm version and had to spend a Benjamin Franklin 50 cent piece to get it. I hated parting with what I knew would be valuable coin one day but, I HAD to have this song. Loved it and still do.
i was like 9 or 10 the first time i heard this on Willies Roadhouse im pretty sure haha we were going to williams lake BC for salmon dipping and ill always remember this song for some reason idk why but its always in the back of my head
+jessie ramer If your grandpa was came from a Midwestern Indian tribe it means that he was a descendant of a shaman/doctor. Only shamans/doctors could have a last name of bear.
I love this song. In fact, my middle name is Dove, and my mom named my middle name after this song. I'm also native American (cherokee) and later after I was born, when i was a few months old i got my native American name "little bear" because I would always growl like a little bear cub when he'd come near me. I couldn't even talk yet. But it's funny that it's so coincidental that my middle name is dove and my Cherokee name is little bear.
my momma used to sing this for me and it seems to have nearly played out in RL for me except neither of us have taken that final voyage in the river yet
This song 🎶 bring back old memories, still listening in 2023 He have a soulful voice! This is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a fan of Johnny Preston…?
THIS song was written by JP Richardson or the big bopper but was not released to Jhonny Preston till after JP'S estate had been finalised after his death with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
This song 🎶 bring back old memories, still listening in 2023 He have a soulful voice! This is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a fan of Johnny Preston…?
Big Bopper wrote this song. As a matter of fact, the Indian sounds you hear are by the Big Bopper and George Jones, who happened to be in Pappy Daily's studio. I used to live next door to The Bopper's daughter, Deborah in Beaumont, Texas. She had many cool photos of her Dad with Bob Hope, etc. Said that they were watching TV when a soap commercial came on. It was a little, naked baby chasing a bar of Dove soap. And that's how "Running Bear Loves Little White Dove" came to be. Jack Pott !
running bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same , as they swam up to each other, thru the swirling stream thaey came ! as their hands met and their lips met , the raging river pulled them down ! now they'll always be together, in that happy hunting ground !
peter .farias live, what planet are you from. He was miming as they all did. The technology was not advanced enough for them to sing live to camera in those days. Radio mics were not invented and he wasn't holding one so that is the first giveaway.
I legit thought this song was written by a friend of my grandparents because my grandfather was native and his tribal name was Running Bear and my grandmother is white. They used to play this when I was a kid and I thought it was about them.
I keep playing this over and over again. It's so sad yet incredibly catchy. Wonderful.
Know what you mean
True love, so uncommon now.
Still listening to this #2024 ❤❤❤
No wonder he was such a success, a beautiful rendition of a beautiful song.
As a Native American I am not offended by this song at all. Its been stuck in my head for a week now.
😂😂😂
Glad I’m not the only one who gets earworms 😂
I'm American Indian too, and my uncles sang and played this song for me at my request. One of my favorite songs along with kawlija and Strawberry roan. I miss my Uncles and am not offended when Indians are featured.❤
@@lynnmurphy1043I don’t understand how someone COULD be offended over a man singing about native Indians in a time where people of darker skin where purposefully bashed and hidden in media to promote certain stigma and distain for those people of both different colour and culture
I loved this song. Dad would sing it to us girls.
That's the Big Bopper making the Indian sounds in the background of the song.
It was written by the Big Bopper too!
OMG hhheeeyyyy bbbaaaabbbbyyyy it's the big bopper speaking. Lol.
George jones too
Kinda sounds like "Oompa Loompa Oompa Loompa" lol
This video is dated 12 December 1959. The Big Bopper, JP Richardson Jr., was killed in a plane crash in Iowa on 3 February 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot Roger Peterson. The Day the Music Died (Bye-Bye Miss American Pie). Sadly, unless it's his ghost, the background vocals we hear here aren't him.
This is one of my favorite songs!! I'd listen to it on my mom's record and play it like 10 x's in a row!!
Running Bear
Johnny Preston
On the banks of the river stood runnin' bear, young Indian brave
On the other side of the river stood his lovely Indian maid
Little white dove was-a her name, such a lovely sight to see
But their tribes fought with each other so their love could never be
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die
He couldn't swim the raging river 'cause the river was too wide
He couldn't reach little white dove, waiting on the other side
In the moonlight he could see her blowing kisses 'cross the waves
Her little heart was beating faster, waiting there for her brave
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die
Runnin' bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same
And they swam out to each other through the swirling stream they came
As their hands touched and their lips met, the ragin' river pulled them down
Now they'll always be together in that happy hunting ground
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love big as the sky
Runnin' bear loved little white dove with a love that couldn't die
"Runnin' bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same"
Must admit this line did make us chuckle when I read the lyrics online a couple of months ago.
Being from the UK we're not familiar with the American version of 'dived' but that aside it's the doubling up in the same line with a word spelt the same but pronounced differently and meaning something else that tickled us. Not sure if it was deliberate or not but I guess the format of *his name-his thought/action-her name-her thought/action* kind of forced the narrative that way.🌊🧸🕊
I picked this up in a secondhand store amongst a rack of 7"s and in so doing it became the oldest record in my collection, topping The Shadows - F.B.I. by one year back from 1961 to 1960. I know this was released in 1959 in the US but it wasn't until the following year over here and that's the version I have (of 22 in total).📀
I love this tune. I still have my original 45 rpm record. As I am watching the video, Johnny is snapping his fingers off time!!
That's because the audio and the video aren't synced.
Love this! Came into my head while walking my dog this morning. My grandfather used to play it. He was Blackfeet.
The old tunes are the best tunes
When Music was Music & Singers were singers.😢 I miss those days. Welp! Onto The Bird 🐦 is the Word. 😂 Then La Bomba & then big bopper. 👍
I SAID STOP!
How sweet ❤
@@shannongs1526 Thank you! 💞🥰
It's been a long time since hearing this song! Love it!
Great to see this nostalgia 😀 the music my mum and dad loved thanks 👍👍👍👍😀😀😀
This was a very beautiful song!❤
I am 62. This was "Our Song". In my heart, it still is "Our Song"
Danced so much to this song. Love ❤️ it. Thank you 😊 a great song
I love this song brings back memories good one at that
Yep.
Born in '56 and I remember this song!!! Thanks for re-posting!
Running bear. Luv's little white dove. My favorite song!
Running Bear and/or Little White Dove should have taken a conoe to cross the raging River.
This is one of my ULTIMATE FAVORITE classics!!! Excellent song!! And I LOVE the story, Soo cute!!
My mom is walking around the house singing this. I thought she was making it up. Came to look it up. Cool song!
Brings back great memories! ❤️💕
Wonderful memories of this song lin and kathy and andy. What a wonderful world it was in exeter many moons ago hope you arr all safe and wellxx
I'm told I would dance to this song when I was a toddler. Looks like I had good taste in music!
Still do if youre listening to it now!! 😊
Lovely song and wonderful musical performance !
Still all good in 2020 but who else is listening
This was my parents' song & their funeral song. I am playing this to Mum now on her dying bed 😢
Oh my God sweetie 🥰❤😢😢😢
I love this song very extremely because my last name is Baer. I was an athletic while I was young but now I have arthritis knee.
Steve Baer I used to be an explorer like you but I took an arrow to the knee
Love this song! We used to sing this in our karaoke bar in AZ. The folks who ran it developed a whole “performance” during this and it was such fun! I SO miss those days in the early 90’s! ❤️🐈
I've always loved this song. If it was released today however, the PC police would scream.
ftsjr I would say the PC police can pound sand or I can get more frank about the leftist/moron PC police. I grew up remembering this song as a little boy back in the early 1960's.
No, it would lovers of good music that would scream.
ftsjr Why? It's a love story about two native Americans from two families/tribes that were enemies. Romeo & Juliet / Jets & Sharks etc.
It's just a sad love tale.
Yeah, people these days tend to disagree with white people exploiting Native American culture for money. Of course, it wouldn't be that way if white people hadn't enslaved and murdered 90% of them first. Oh well.
This is the very first piece of music I ever purchased with my own money. I bought the 45rpm version and had to spend a Benjamin Franklin 50 cent piece to get it. I hated parting with what I knew would be valuable coin one day but, I HAD to have this song. Loved it and still do.
My mom used to sing this to me when I was little! I forgot about it till recently, brings back good memories!
I SAID STOP.
I was 10 when this song came out, and always wondered who sang this song I loved so much.
When I was younger you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing this
This is the first song that I can remember hearing as a young boy and can even remember where I first heard it. I’m in my 60s and it still resonates
i was like 9 or 10 the first time i heard this on Willies Roadhouse im pretty sure haha we were going to williams lake BC for salmon dipping and ill always remember this song for some reason idk why but its always in the back of my head
I heard this song when I was in second grade, there was a young man who stood outside and sang like a pro. Feel in love with the song and the guy
He's gorgeous 😍
One of the BEST American songs to the slaves of this age!we obeye,we listened,we dont understand and think
nice melody... nice romantic sad song... great composition... great performance... evergreen... mooi... schön... bellissimo... baie mooj...bella cansion... bella canzone... magnifique chanson...great artist...
61, years ago now,!!!
must have seen Johnny with Bobby Vee in Sheffield just before he died both now at rest my wonderful memories of bygone music
This song was my grandpas favorite song plus runin bear was my grandpas Indian name 2
+jessie ramer If your grandpa was came from a Midwestern Indian tribe it means that he was a descendant of a shaman/doctor. Only shamans/doctors could have a last name of bear.
I love this song. In fact, my middle name is Dove, and my mom named my middle name after this song. I'm also native American (cherokee) and later after I was born, when i was a few months old i got my native American name "little bear" because I would always growl like a little bear cub when he'd come near me. I couldn't even talk yet. But it's funny that it's so coincidental that my middle name is dove and my Cherokee name is little bear.
That's cool!
My mum plays this in the car
my momma used to sing this for me and it seems to have nearly played out in RL for me except neither of us have taken that final voyage in the river yet
Romeo and uliet....such a sad song with a happy tune.
This song 🎶 bring back old memories, still listening in 2023
He have a soulful voice!
This is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a fan of Johnny Preston…?
So glad I listened to this on first day of the year!
This song was written by Jiles Perry Richardson better known as the The Big Bopper. It's release was held up due to him dying with Buddy Holly.
If the big bopper died why is he singing in the back ground
I love the style when he was singing
I LOVE LISTENING THIS SONG WHILE CAMPING IN BIG BEAR CALIFORNIA IN THE 196O"S .
PERFECT COMBINATION !
I have this song on a record my mom gave me back in the sixties!!!!
He looks way to happy to be singing about two lovers drowning.
fruityrudy21 too
it's a symbolism for love, even in death, still lives on forever. it's beautiful.
Binky Lozz
omg
chuck it bxbdbzdhsbj
THIS song was written by JP Richardson or the big bopper but was not released to Jhonny Preston till after JP'S estate had been finalised after his death with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
My dad used to sing this. I loved it then, now I listen, This is tragic
Love that song
My grand father was full charakee, 💚
Cherokee
@@judystevens7426 charakee, !! Have no life, !?
@@judystevens7426 🤪
U have life, ?
Cherokee beach !!,
Used to hear this song in the sixties
My cousin loved it She put the speaker in the window so everybody could hear it
My grandpa loves this song
when i was a young girl my grandpa would sing this to me and now hes sadly passed .
He looks nothing like his voice sounds. I imagined to be much older.
Love the beat of the song
When I was I in college, I had to stand on a chair at a fraternity party and sing this…1960.
This song 🎶 bring back old memories, still listening in 2023
He have a soulful voice!
This is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a fan of Johnny Preston…?
The Big Bopper is still sorely missed ( Ritchie and Buddy too).
E. Warrens favorite song!!!!
Can you imagine the outrage that this song would produce today in this PC atmosphere?
Mom played 8-tracks (Remember those?) during our Friday night penny poker games. One had this song. I remember crying at the end too.
Big Bopper wrote this song. As a matter of fact, the Indian sounds you hear are by the Big Bopper and George Jones, who happened to be in Pappy Daily's studio. I used to live next door to The Bopper's daughter, Deborah in Beaumont, Texas. She had many cool photos of her Dad with Bob Hope, etc. Said that they were watching TV when a soap commercial came on. It was a little, naked baby chasing a bar of Dove soap. And that's how "Running Bear Loves Little White Dove" came to be. Jack Pott !
My big brother was years older than me but he played this song time after time
Bonne version également, je connais grâce au groupe Mud Bonne année 2024
Great golden oldie
I'm part native and find this song is awesome and heart breaking 😢. Absolutely love it ❤ Not racist to me
Remember this one ,loved it.
i used to sing this in jail
It a great song
The futility of teen age romance back then. One was not to go "steady".
the song was written by the big Bopper , JP Richardson. I was a little kid when this came out but my 2 older brothers had the radio on all the time,
running bear dove in the water, little white dove did the same , as they swam up to each other, thru the swirling stream thaey came ! as their hands met and their lips met , the raging river pulled them down ! now they'll always be together, in that happy hunting ground !
another nice one and live too just great thanks Dave
thanks for stopping by peter
N
peter .farias live, what planet are you from. He was miming as they all did. The technology was not advanced enough for them to sing live to camera in those days. Radio mics were not invented and he wasn't holding one so that is the first giveaway.
Fantastic song
Paul Costello the irish fashion designer brought me hear reading about this song of his youth.22/7/2013.Irish time 19:07.Monday.
RUNNING BARE GETS COLD IN THE NIGHT!
R. I. P.
JOHNNY 🇨🇱 PRESTON
Running Bear dove in the water”. How could he?!
This is when sounds,were sounds,❤️❤️❤️
The Indian chanting in the background was by The Big Bopper, and the war whoops at the very end were by George Jones.
For the longest time I thought it sounded like JP was saying "Oompa Loompa Oompa Loompa" in the background
in away it's a sad song as they never get to be together
Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3
davidbspamboy 100%
White friends don't know any better.
Still beautiful👍
Not what i pictured. nice all the same
I want a love like that!
My nan is 70 odd and she remembers this song 👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻
I have always loved this song. I have the 45rpm that belonged to my mom.
My beautiful aussie in queensland Oz
I legit thought this song was written by a friend of my grandparents because my grandfather was native and his tribal name was Running Bear and my grandmother is white. They used to play this when I was a kid and I thought it was about them.
I SAID STOP
Everybody knew the lyrics to this song. And we sure loved our bubblegum. The gal at 1:48 looks a little like Lori Singer from Footloose.
remember this track from the that.lly be the day sound track
A love as big as the sky.
gives me chills
I remember doing the bunny hope to this for hours in the kitchen with my adopted sister
And i found my grandpa old dismusic😁