Still got it after all these years ! Thanks for all the great music I grew up with. The 60’s would not have been the same without these great tunes…peace❤
The song "Crystal Blue Persuasion" is about Tommy James and his band members accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Absolutely true. God bless everyone!!
And then Breaking Bad found a way to include it as part of the soundtrack. Personally, I thought it quite tastefully done regardless of the band's genuine design. Same episode used Going Down by the Monkees as well. I concede I followed their soundtrack like a lovesick puppy. LOL
"TOMMY JAMES YOU ARE SO AMAZING!!" You still have so much GREAT talent for a guy who will be 77 ON APRIL 29TH!! MY BIRTHDAY IS IN APRIL TOO!! When I was watching this video...some of these songs made me cry "TEARS OF JOY" because they were so "WELL DONE" and done in "STYLE!!" "Tommy James and the Shondells" music will touch my heart FOREVER!! EXCELLENT JOB TOMMY!! KEEP UP THE GREAT, WORK!!
If you love Tommy James and The Shondells you should read his autobiography, "Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells". It is a really good book.
Folks, I just look up how old Tommy is. He is 76 f'king years old!!! What a GODD! He is such an under-rated artist!!! The voice and the energy of a 20-year old!! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!
Saw Tommy play three times. Once at an outdoor festival around 1990 and once in a little bar in Providence, RI. So many years later, he's still going strong. Pretty amazing.
Brings back such wonderful memories memories so sad that this era of great music is almost gone we truly lived in the greatest time of music 60s and 70s there will never be another time like this
Just saw him in Wabash Indiana. He spent at least 10 minutes just walking through the crowd meeting and greeting everybody he could. Amazing performer.
Not too many can say they were out on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, reel to reel, cd and probably streaming services like Spotify... what an amazing career! My brother is the same age as Tommy and he had the 8-track in his old car when he was 18 or 19 so Tommy must have really started at an early age!
I grew up in Niles añd can remember them on sidewalk days and I still leasen to them and there's not a day that I don't have Motown on in 50 years growing up in the 60 and 70 we're the best
Even the Cowsills! Y'know, when I saw that Ringo was doing amalgamation tours ("All Starr Band"), I realized the '50s and '60s bus tours of 5 or 10 acts still had their place. This one, at sea.
When I was 9 y/o I was singing "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky" on a boat trip to the Canadian San Juan Islands. My mother said "Where have you heard that? On KJR with the transistor radio you gave me for Christmas. It was the beginning of my sexual odyssey and I owe it all to Tommy James and The Shondells.
I brought my young son to see Tommy when he was in San Antonio with Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits. He was great. Tommy encouraged my son to keep playing the guitar. My son took it to heart and now plays on our church’s youth worship team. Thank you for posting the video. It looked like a wonderful time for everybody.
Well, Richard. I loved Tommy James. Back when we were all young and beautiful. In the late 1960s. Great to see him again still Rockin'. And I must say Richard. I am quite impressed. With your video here. Yes it faked me out. I'm an audio engineer. And at first. It sounded so good. I figured, this is a board mix, feed. But then I realize. No. It's just your cell phone. Holy crap! This is about the best sounding, live video, PA recording. I've heard. I'm impressed. Hardly anything impresses me. And this was a lovely little montage you put together. Of his numerous greatest hits. Top 40, Radio Chart Toppers, all. And this cell phone recording sounds remarkably good. Your video also looks, Professionally captured. I don't know what kind of cell phone you have? You obviously got one of the best! I'm figuring it could be, and iPhone? But I've been wrong. Though, not often. And I'm impressed. So your video Richard, definitely took me back to my youth. I was a young teenager when the songs were on the charts. And I purchased his, greatest hits album. With a surprised expression on his face. Sitting in front of a Scully, 8 Track tape recorder. Which made me very proud. Knowing that 10 years later. I would be the QC Manager and Technical Troubleshooter, for Scully Recorders. And I knew that his stuff was recorded on them. The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix. So many other folks. And that gave me a great sense of pride. That they wanted me back in 1979. And requested, asked me, to go to work for them. It was a job I never applied for. And to know. How many great, rock 'n' roll songs. Albums and Artists. And were helped to make famous by Scully recorders. What an honor it was for me to work for them. When you're hired in as a Manager, in Charge. Of the entire production factory floor. Over 45 years ago. And to know. Cool guys like Tommy James. And I think he's a cool guy. He's that good old-fashioned Rocker. The kind like him they don't make anymore. A true Performer. And he can still kick out the jams! Yeah baby! As it helps to keep us all young. And I'm 68 now. I don't how this happened? I still feel like I'm 28. But my body is telling me otherwise. And saying schmuck! You're 68! Stop it! You're going to hurt yourself. Ugh! Too late. Time for a hot soaking bath. With lots of bubbles. I still have a couple of Scully's. I have to sell them. I've had them since they were new in the 1970s. I'm the only parent they have ever known. One I built at the factory. My first one I just purchased a couple years earlier. I love using those machines. They were the best! Great sound. A very responsive transport. Fun to use. And decent curb appeal. Yes Richard you did a really fine job with this. Great video. Great sound. The PA guys did a really nice job. It sounds to me like they may have been using, JBL, PA speakers? There is a certain sound to your captured video. That tells me it could have been those speakers. I could be wrong? I'm rarely, wrong. But lots guys don't use JBL. Because they don't, understand, JBL? As JBL made one significant difference. No other speaker manufacturer in the world, has done. And I can hear it. That's why, over the years, I've had over a dozen pairs of JBL speakers. For my recording studios. That's plural. Studios. This sounds wonderfully full and full-bodied. It's lacking a sound I hear from other cell phone recordings of PA systems. Which makes yours sound, Way Better. The microphones it has, you have, sound terrific. Like very expensive ones. I'm amazed. I mean it sounds like it was captured with, Neumann, KM-184's. Or, heck? Even older KM-84's. But I think it's just your cell phone? Superb sounding. I'm impressed Your montage editing was very nice. Nice dissolves. Great attention to detail. It's all spot on. Like you know what you're doing. I'm probably preaching to the choir? You're a, good old stoner like me. And you know how to do video and audio, very well. I'm impressed. This was not garbage. Though I would've loved to have heard their songs, in their entirety. But then you probably couldn't monetize it without the copyright. And TH-cam would not have accepted it. I understand. This is a great video. You did great. I loved it. Though? I may have been outside mowing my grass under the sun a little too long? But no, no. This looks and sounds good. Thank you. Here's one of my recordings. With no video. This is a Board Feed. It's coming off my Board. It's a very nice Board. Dave Grohl got one almost identical to mine. But his was originally, $9000 less than mine. He got the low-end deluxe model. And mine sounds something like this: soundcloud.com/remyrad/track08 Sounds a little different from a cell phone or camcorder recording. Ya think? But I was still very impressed with yours. And of course there's no lyrics in this cut. I do this stuff for Live Broadcast and Live Album, recording. I would've loved to have recorded Tommy James, live. I got to record Bobby Caldwell, live. Tony Bennett, Bush, Soul Asylum, General Public. So many others through the years. Primus with, Les Claypool. The Counting Crows. I would've loved to have recorded Tommy James. Dammit! And here's a little tip. Something you can try. With a little, solid-state, stereo digital recorder. Go up to the PA guide. Ask him if he can give you a feed for your little, recorder thingy. Some will. And then you just take that. And import it with your video. Sink that sound with the video sound. Mix the two together. It will blow your mind.. You'll freak! Like Yabaddabadoo! I've been doing that, for over 30 years. I used to use a portable DAT recorder for that. As I would have, 4 camcorders running. 3 of them locked down. I was running the other one. I got crazy great videos. I would do this for local rock fans. Keep up the great recordings my friend! RemyRAD
Thanks so much for the compliments and taking time to write. I just used my little iPhone 13. It's very easy when the sound is that good. I did something similar for KC and The Sunshine Band. I was so honored when their music director contacted me and asked if they could use some of it for promo. "Of course!!" Here it is:th-cam.com/video/sIs98s3zUhs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-NVihRDIfDI_D0SV. (I believe the dancers really helped make that show.) Oh, also I edit in Final Cut Pro on a Mac desktop. Super easy.
Sounding Good!! :)
Tommy will be 77 at the end of April, and he's still singing his songs in the original keys... Amazing. 😊
Yep
You must not play, a lot of these hits he’s doing are a key lower then the record.
@@mr.kite0535 Ok then, I'll go and listen to his old records and compare them to his concert versions. 😊
@@mr.kite0535 Gee you are so cool you must PLAY .
@@flamingseven8447 Thanks, I'm originally a drummer that studied, but I've been playing guitar for many years.
Go Tommy! Hard to believe that he is still not in the Rock Hall of Fame. Shame on them.
it's now the Rock Hall of Shame........no big loss...they've lost their roots and all credibility..
It's a bogus hall of fame
At this point, it’s probably better to not be in. Its a ridiculous joke.
There's a lot of true rockers that aren't in there, they're too busy putting rappers and other garbage in there.
I totally agree and the GoGos are🤣 what a joke
A Great 👍 Band
Tommy James still cranking out great tunes 50 years later, this music will never die .
Voice sounds great for a cruster……
How about 60 years?!
I’m 73 and always loved Tommy James! Great hits over many years! Should definitely be in the hall!
I met him after a concert several decades ago. He came out to sit with fans and watch the other acts on the bill. Total class.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Listen to this! He's still got it! Wow!❤
@August. And he'll be 77 on April 29th! 😊
What me worry?
Sounds good for a 76 year old. Love these songs!
Cool to see what's left of The Cowsills up there with them, nice touch !!
@@SirManflyluvd the Cowsills too.
I was thinking the same thing!
My thoughts exactly. Music that you can enjoy 🎉
Excellent!!!
Wow, im sorry i missed this !!! Looks like it was a fantastic cruise !!
It was fantastic!
Sounding Great! And so many amazing songs. Very cool.
Damn they sound good!
Man, we were teens cruising around our small town listening to these songs. What times!
"Wild" You Don't realize how many hit songs Old Tommy & The Shondells Had! A Lot!
I have his book. He's incredible. 🦇
Crimson and clover is one of my favorites from the 60s. Great song, almost an anthem! And unlike Frankie Valli, that's really him singing live!
Still got it after all these years ! Thanks for all the great music I grew up with.
The 60’s would not have been the same without these great tunes…peace❤
Wow!!! They sound amazing!!! Always loved their music..
My God, Tommy James first hit was back in 1966, keep on Rockin!
The year I graduated high school!
@@jerrydillard2430 Congratulations on a long life!
When these songs came out I was in high school the best times of my life!
Tommy still sounds great, these cruises look like a lot of fun!
It was awesome!
The song "Crystal Blue Persuasion" is about Tommy James and his band members accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Absolutely true. God bless everyone!!
And then Breaking Bad found a way to include it as part of the soundtrack. Personally, I thought it quite tastefully done regardless of the band's genuine design.
Same episode used Going Down by the Monkees as well. I concede I followed their soundtrack like a lovesick puppy. LOL
Saw him at Macomb center of performing Art s ,sterling has mich in think was early nineties ,very cool ! Sang them all
Songs of my childhood. Awesome
Tommy James wrote so many classic songs that are just as great today as they were then. Fun, good time, sing-along songs for the ages.
I saw Tommy James back in 1977 at the Top Deck Bar in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
He took a break and had a beer with me and my buddy.
Rock on Tommy just love him and his music. He is just an amazing talent at the age of 76.
"TOMMY JAMES YOU ARE SO AMAZING!!" You still have so much GREAT talent for a guy who will be 77 ON APRIL 29TH!! MY BIRTHDAY IS IN APRIL TOO!! When I was watching this video...some of these songs made me cry "TEARS OF JOY" because they were so "WELL DONE" and done in "STYLE!!" "Tommy James and the Shondells" music will touch my heart FOREVER!! EXCELLENT JOB TOMMY!! KEEP UP THE GREAT, WORK!!
Damn! I wish I had known about this! I would have love to gone on a cruise with Tommy James! My favorite song he does is "Sweat Cherry Wine".
Tommy James’ book “Me, the Mob, and the Music” is a must read.
Reading it now. It's good.
I am actually listening to them play the instruments and man they are doing good
Living history and still sounding top shelf!
Tommy James and The Shondells gave us some great classic songs!
If you love Tommy James and The Shondells you should read his autobiography, "Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells". It is a really good book.
Sounds AMAZING!!!! Love Tommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved this group , this has brought fond memories of the past.
i'm 68 this was my high school music still the best
Folks, I just look up how old Tommy is. He is 76 f'king years old!!! What a GODD! He is such an under-rated artist!!! The voice and the energy of a 20-year old!!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!
Damn ...he still sounds good .
Saw Tommy play three times. Once at an outdoor festival around 1990 and once in a little bar in Providence, RI. So many years later, he's still going strong. Pretty amazing.
Remember way back when how innovative they were with recording those hits. Good stuff.
Wow they had a lot of great tunes their first hit was my baby does the hanky Panky 1966😊
Nice to see the Cowsels join them at the end.
Awesome! Ty for sharing. My favorite Tommy James song. Dragging the line
Mine too, 8th grade memories
@@gregorylapointe4157 👍
You are welcome!
He and Peter Noone are the same age, and both sound very good and put on a good show. Kudos!!
Maybe they will both be like Tony Bennett and perform into their nineties. They are both a young 76 yo
Wow...he sounds great......God Bless!
its great that they have not changed the original tunes
Still great.
OMG! Tommy, you guys sound great. Coming from a forever fan
They Sound great and at 76 , Love Tommy James music 🎶🎸💮🚢
WOW! Still sounds great.
He sounds fantastic. I love his voice and personality
Long live Tommy James! Now THATS a cruise!! 👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
It was!
Brings back such wonderful memories memories so sad that this era of great music is almost gone we truly lived in the greatest time of music 60s and 70s there will never be another time like this
Just saw him in Wabash Indiana. He spent at least 10 minutes just walking through the crowd meeting and greeting everybody he could. Amazing performer.
Dude is handling the task! Great guitar playing and in an open tuning on Crimson…vocals strong and clear. Well done!
Great band! :)
We were there! It was a typical, great Tommy James concert. So much fun.
great music forever and ever!!!!!!!!!
Not too many can say they were out on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, reel to reel, cd and probably streaming services like Spotify... what an amazing career! My brother is the same age as Tommy and he had the 8-track in his old car when he was 18 or 19 so Tommy must have really started at an early age!
I saw Tommy in the early 1990s and he was great. So so many great songs. I mean the whole albums were good! Thank you !!!
Well done!
Pretty impressive band , Still after all these years.
Such a great guy on top of being an incredible musical talent. God bless you Tommy!
I grew up in Niles añd can remember them on sidewalk days and I still leasen to them and there's not a day that I don't have Motown on in 50 years growing up in the 60 and 70 we're the best
That must have really been something growing up in Niles and seeing him. I'm reading his book right now.
The voice is remarkably in tact…this would be a blast to see…so many great songs…
Great song writer. One of my favorite bands in the 60's. I was 14.
This Band will go down in history as one of the greatest bands of all time. Rock on Tommy James and the Shondells!
They still sound great. Blasts from the past ,
Soundtrack of my youth ❤
Soy de México 🇲🇽 siempre me fascina mucho Tommy James 👌🤟
Wow...bringing back the best in Flower Power❤🌻. Amazing how good he sounds. We need loads more flower 🌸 power in this world
His voice is still intact. He is such a talent.
Soooo many great songs.
Iconic pop songs of my youth.
TJ was Always a Great Musician and Song Writter!
Even the Cowsills! Y'know, when I saw that Ringo was doing amalgamation tours ("All Starr Band"), I realized the '50s and '60s bus tours of 5 or 10 acts still had their place. This one, at sea.
He and the band sound Great🙏♥🙏
congrats to all the band as well great job guys keep it alive!!!!!!! yea!!!!!
Thanks for recording and editing. What a great musician. This took me back 55 years. Then I looked in the mirror and screamed!
Ha ha. Don't let the mirror scare you. And you are welcome! Thanks to Tommy James for not blocking his concerts on TH-cam.
He sounds great! Powerful singer!
What a fantastic experience for you. Love Tommy. He's still rockin it !! I can dig it. Thanks for sharing.
When I was 9 y/o I was singing "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky" on a boat trip to the Canadian San Juan Islands. My mother said "Where have you heard that? On KJR with the transistor radio you gave me for Christmas. It was the beginning of my sexual odyssey and I owe it all to Tommy James and The Shondells.
Good story!
One of the greatest bands of all time.
HOF so screwed up
He and the band sound amazing! I would love to see him perform.
Far-freaking-out !!!!❤
I would love to see him in person
I brought my young son to see Tommy when he was in San Antonio with Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits. He was great. Tommy encouraged my son to keep playing the guitar. My son took it to heart and now plays on our church’s youth worship team. Thank you for posting the video. It looked like a wonderful time for everybody.
So many hits!! Totally Groovy!!!
AWESOME, I LOVE HOW THESE GREATS OF yesteryear ARE STILL THIS YEAR & STILL PERFORMING & SOUNDING GREAT 😊❤😊
Well, Richard. I loved Tommy James. Back when we were all young and beautiful. In the late 1960s. Great to see him again still Rockin'. And I must say Richard. I am quite impressed. With your video here.
Yes it faked me out. I'm an audio engineer. And at first. It sounded so good. I figured, this is a board mix, feed. But then I realize. No. It's just your cell phone. Holy crap! This is about the best sounding, live video, PA recording. I've heard. I'm impressed. Hardly anything impresses me.
And this was a lovely little montage you put together. Of his numerous greatest hits. Top 40, Radio Chart Toppers, all. And this cell phone recording sounds remarkably good.
Your video also looks, Professionally captured. I don't know what kind of cell phone you have? You obviously got one of the best! I'm figuring it could be, and iPhone? But I've been wrong. Though, not often. And I'm impressed.
So your video Richard, definitely took me back to my youth. I was a young teenager when the songs were on the charts. And I purchased his, greatest hits album. With a surprised expression on his face. Sitting in front of a Scully, 8 Track tape recorder. Which made me very proud. Knowing that 10 years later. I would be the QC Manager and Technical Troubleshooter, for Scully Recorders. And I knew that his stuff was recorded on them. The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix. So many other folks. And that gave me a great sense of pride. That they wanted me back in 1979. And requested, asked me, to go to work for them. It was a job I never applied for. And to know. How many great, rock 'n' roll songs. Albums and Artists. And were helped to make famous by Scully recorders. What an honor it was for me to work for them. When you're hired in as a Manager, in Charge. Of the entire production factory floor. Over 45 years ago.
And to know. Cool guys like Tommy James. And I think he's a cool guy. He's that good old-fashioned Rocker. The kind like him they don't make anymore. A true Performer. And he can still kick out the jams! Yeah baby! As it helps to keep us all young. And I'm 68 now. I don't how this happened? I still feel like I'm 28. But my body is telling me otherwise. And saying schmuck! You're 68! Stop it! You're going to hurt yourself. Ugh! Too late. Time for a hot soaking bath. With lots of bubbles.
I still have a couple of Scully's. I have to sell them. I've had them since they were new in the 1970s. I'm the only parent they have ever known. One I built at the factory. My first one I just purchased a couple years earlier. I love using those machines. They were the best! Great sound. A very responsive transport. Fun to use. And decent curb appeal.
Yes Richard you did a really fine job with this. Great video. Great sound. The PA guys did a really nice job. It sounds to me like they may have been using, JBL, PA speakers? There is a certain sound to your captured video. That tells me it could have been those speakers. I could be wrong? I'm rarely, wrong. But lots guys don't use JBL. Because they don't, understand, JBL? As JBL made one significant difference. No other speaker manufacturer in the world, has done. And I can hear it. That's why, over the years, I've had over a dozen pairs of JBL speakers. For my recording studios. That's plural. Studios. This sounds wonderfully full and full-bodied. It's lacking a sound I hear from other cell phone recordings of PA systems. Which makes yours sound, Way Better. The microphones it has, you have, sound terrific. Like very expensive ones. I'm amazed. I mean it sounds like it was captured with, Neumann, KM-184's. Or, heck? Even older KM-84's. But I think it's just your cell phone? Superb sounding. I'm impressed
Your montage editing was very nice. Nice dissolves. Great attention to detail. It's all spot on. Like you know what you're doing. I'm probably preaching to the choir? You're a, good old stoner like me. And you know how to do video and audio, very well. I'm impressed. This was not garbage. Though I would've loved to have heard their songs, in their entirety. But then you probably couldn't monetize it without the copyright. And TH-cam would not have accepted it. I understand. This is a great video. You did great. I loved it.
Though? I may have been outside mowing my grass under the sun a little too long? But no, no. This looks and sounds good. Thank you.
Here's one of my recordings. With no video. This is a Board Feed. It's coming off my Board. It's a very nice Board. Dave Grohl got one almost identical to mine. But his was originally, $9000 less than mine. He got the low-end deluxe model. And mine sounds something like this:
soundcloud.com/remyrad/track08
Sounds a little different from a cell phone or camcorder recording. Ya think?
But I was still very impressed with yours. And of course there's no lyrics in this cut. I do this stuff for Live Broadcast and Live Album, recording. I would've loved to have recorded Tommy James, live. I got to record Bobby Caldwell, live. Tony Bennett, Bush, Soul Asylum, General Public. So many others through the years. Primus with, Les Claypool. The Counting Crows. I would've loved to have recorded Tommy James. Dammit!
And here's a little tip. Something you can try. With a little, solid-state, stereo digital recorder. Go up to the PA guide. Ask him if he can give you a feed for your little, recorder thingy. Some will. And then you just take that. And import it with your video. Sink that sound with the video sound. Mix the two together. It will blow your mind.. You'll freak! Like Yabaddabadoo! I've been doing that, for over 30 years. I used to use a portable DAT recorder for that. As I would have, 4 camcorders running. 3 of them locked down. I was running the other one. I got crazy great videos. I would do this for local rock fans.
Keep up the great recordings my friend!
RemyRAD
Thanks so much for the compliments and taking time to write. I just used my little iPhone 13. It's very easy when the sound is that good. I did something similar for KC and The Sunshine Band. I was so honored when their music director contacted me and asked if they could use some of it for promo. "Of course!!" Here it is:th-cam.com/video/sIs98s3zUhs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-NVihRDIfDI_D0SV. (I believe the dancers really helped make that show.) Oh, also I edit in Final Cut Pro on a Mac desktop. Super easy.
Tommy and the Shondells are just stellar in concert. Diggin Greg Smith on bass. Stellar performers. Love you Tommy.
Yeah, Tommy is great! Always has been! The other guys? Just hired session guys. Or maybe Greg thinks he's an original Shondell too!
Oh the memories 😊
Yep!!!😊
Gee, it's nice to see them. They sound great! Saw them at the " Soap Factory in the 90's. Still rocking.
Dang! 76 and still sounds great.
I grew up a big TJ fan, then had the chance to interview him in 1986 about his biggest hits two decades earlier. A real thrill.
Loved this video. The original Shondells were from western PA.
Love this, saw him several times and he still has it. Cowsills! seen them too. Wish I was there. Thanks.
ThanQ
You are welcome!