This song might sound familiar because it’s been in many movies. One of the most famous is Forrest Gump when he and Jenny and walking through DC after the Vietnam War protest. This song epitomizes the 60s hippie culture. And I mean that in a positive way.
@@paulpeterson4216 What corporate America did was co-opt the "hippie movement". They saw money making opportunities and did what they do best - capitalized on it. They didn't fight it or defeat it; they used it to their own advantage.
When corporations took control of the airwaves replacing DJ's with preprogrammed music chosen by focus groups things went downhill. I miss those times when people played instruments and surround wasn't the rule of the day. That's why people like Rob Squad, Rick Beato, Jamel aka Jamal and Wings of Pegasus are important in introducing great music to a wider audience.
My mom and pops were original hippies. I remember asking my mom about the experience. She said, "We were just kids who thought we could change the world with love"
Your Mom summed it up well. Love is a good starting point, but life’s complexities can overwhelm people. Like Cat Stevens sang, “It’s hard to get by just upon a smile”.
I’m a 60’s child and thank God I was born in the greatest period of❤ music in American History. This song was what the 60’s was all about. What a shame that feeling is gone today
Take it from a self-proclaimed old hippie…this absolutely has hippie vibes! I remember it well…Youngbloods have more to offer as well. Thanks for the memories! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
I was 9 years old when this song came out, and was totally into the hippy scene even at my very young age. The "love one another" message is still with me to this day, It's heartening to see young folk like Rod Squad play the old music and carry the same message forward.
This is one of those songs that seems like every note, every drum kick, every harmony, every sound was 30 years in the planning stage!.....just a perfect song!
This is a song I've always enjoyed. And to think it's over 50 years old and yet is still relevant today. Great reaction and definitely speaks to what you both are about. Thank you!
This song was right up y'all's alley, wasn't it??!! An absolute rock classic!! Now you need to listen to The Byrds "Turn, Turn, Turn" if you have not heard it. Words from Ecclesiastes in the Bible and just as classy a tune!!
The greatest peace and love anthem of the 1960's. Another song with a similar vibe you guys should listen to is TURN, TURN, TURN by The Byrds. It's from the same era.
No. The greatest peace and love song from the 60's or any other time, is The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love. That is the song that started all the peace and love movement, and the most recognized peace and love song.
@@zq9m3xh8 And for millions of others. That song was heard around the world and The Beatles were seen as ambassadors of peace. The Beatles were at the forefront of the peace movement, especially John and Yoko. There is no denying that, and it all started with "All You Need Is Love", and continued with "Give Peace A Chance".
I was 17 when this song was released. I never get tired of the timeless lyrics. We are here for such a fleeting moment in time so why waste it with hate, war, and acrimony. When this was played today on the Sirius XM 60's channel I cried like I usually do. One of the best songs to come out of the 60's-70's era and it resonates today.
Amber, you should try listening to 5th Dimension "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" you will love it and I'm betting Jordan could get into it as well. It is very representative of the hippy era.
Great suggestion ! That song has such a high vibe. When I was a boy I heard that and thought “hippies are cool !” A few years later I was tagging along behind.
I remember when this song was originally released, it was stunning -- it absolutely stopped me in my tracks. But then it disappeared from the radio! I couldn't believe it. Later, it was re-released and was a huge hit. I always felt that depicted how much people's consciousness had changed between the original release date and the later one. That was part of the phenomena of music in that decade.
It didn't do much when first realed but became a top 5 hit when it was used in a radio public service announcement as a call for brotherhood by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
This song is probably on everyone's top 10 list who grew up during this period. Another great band from this era is Quicksilver Messenger Service. What You Gonna Do About Me, Fresh Air and a the love song Goodbye My Lady Love are worth a listen plus many more.
A great song 🎵 from the turbulent 60's where Vietnam and civil rights were on the agenda. Song first released in 1967 and later re- released in 1969 where the song than hit the charts at number 5. The song appealed to peace and brotherhood 🙏 and talks about the polarity of love versus fear, just a great meaningful song with a great sound and vocals.
Yes. I don't remember ever hearing it in '67 but it sure was a big hit in the summer of 1969! I had just turned 15, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, I was about to start 10th grade and "Get Together" was getting plenty of air time on AM Top-40 stations! What a great summer!
To me, this was always the hippiest of songs. It's amazing how all these years later we get further and further away from these ideals. Especially when the elders of the tribe, our senior citizens today, were once the hippies who believed in all this stuff.
As one of the elders you speak of, like all young people we were idealistic and actually did have an effect on things going on at the time. But as we grew older and took on responsibilities we dropped the ball and joined the "establishment" we all hated. Now things are much worse than back in those days.
finally after months & months of suggestion you play my favorite song that came out when I was born the summer of love 1967 & I recommend this tune to everyone because its what we need more of especially in todays world - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!
This was one of the songs associated with the 1967 Summer of Love, along with songs like "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie, "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas, and the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" album. Other popular songs from that era in a similar vein include the Young Rascals' "People Got To Be Free" from 1968, Stephen Stills's "Love the One You're With" from 1970, and of course the 5th Dimensions' "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from 1969.
Not forgetting "Fresh Air"/QMS, "Woodstock"/M. Southern Comfort, "Something in the air"/T. Newman, "Somebody to love"/J. Airplane, "This precious time"/PF Sloan. Great days!
@@appledoreman Dino Valente, founder of QMS wrote this song in early or mid 60s and sold the rights because he needed lawyer fees for a Heroin conviction.
This is one of the hippie anthems. It was written by Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service but he was busted for pot and got a year in jail so he gave the song to Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods.
The Youngbloods took their name from their leader Jessie Colin Young. I'm 74 and was in my twenties then this came out and there has been parts of it used in countless movies, commercials, etc.for 50 years. But for the gazillion times I've heard it, it wasn't until about ten years ago that a VERY key line comes in at 2:40. I became a Christian at age 51 so this line went in one ear and out the other before then. Go back to that spot and listen to that line. "When the One who left us here returns for us at last." It's about the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah! Christ wasn't His last name, it means Messiah or Savior in Hebrew He told his disciples he wouldn't leave them here alone like orphans after His Crucifiction but would send them a comforter, teacher, and helper, the Holy Spirit, until He returned to earth (the second coming) to take his Church home with him to Heaven! I personally believe that time is very, very close. That's why the Youngbloods are telling us now to get ready.
I knew you would love this! Jesse Colin Young never fails to make me smile. I went to multiple concerts of his in the 70s and he fed my soul with multiple albums as well. If I'm ever feeling down all I need to do is tell Alexa to play "Motorcycle Blues" for an instant lift! So goofy and cute and always just what I need. I love his rendition of "Jambalaya" as well, along with so many of his songs. 😍
Hadn’t heard “Ridgetop” for a long time and gave a try tonight. Boy, that’s a good song ! Forgot about that rippin’ sax solo - wow, I have to check who that was.
The Byrds “Turn, Turn, Turn” Perfect Sunday Hippie Vibes that will also take you to church with a whisper. You’d love love love this. It’s from scripture, but not a gospel song. It’s folk.
A song I remember very well as I was a Jr. at Illinois State University when this was played 24/7 on all the big AM 50000 watt radio stations..WLS, KOMA WABC etc...graduation came.70 ..then the war...Trained .Combat Medic.and .Op. Rm Surgery Tech First Army MEDDAC Dept.Surgery/ CMS Disabled Vn Era Vet Thank you veterans... for your service ! Dana.
Enjoying this again after so many years. Meant so much to us. And not just hippies but, most of us felt the lyrics were for us. Many have covered this but, no one covered the original as well as The Youngbloods. IMO. Still one of the sweetest melodies and the guitar interplay has no equal. Thanks for the memories!
My momma was born in 1950...so as a kid I grew up listening to her music...& in my opinion THIS is the ultimate “HIPPIE” song!!! Talking bout lovin’ your “brother”!!! I always said that I was born a generation too late!!!
It was wonderful to see these guys play a small nightclub gig in the late 80’s. Jesse can really sing ! My buddy was so thrilled - he saw them at Monterey Pop Fest and was so nostalgic that he got misty eyed.
You gotta remember this was during the riots of the '60's. You need to listen to the buffalo springfield song "for what it's worth"..same vein same time frame..you'll love it.
Great reaction, guys! I haven't heard this song in ages but it is still relevant today!! 🎶"Come on, people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another right now..." 🎶
One of the things I have loved checking out all of the reaction channels out there is seeing how much music unites us. It’s great to see how much we all really do have in common, and music brings it right down to where we all live. It doesn’t matter if the reactors have been black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything in between, the fact that I can go and listen to great music and see how it touches people from another culture and different life experiences than my own just blesses my heart. I’ve seen people laugh and cry over the music I grew up with, and it doesn’t matter if you grew up listening to rock, rap, country, R&B, or classical, great music touches the soul. I look at you two and I see how much you love one another and your kids, and it just blesses me. And there are other reactors out there, couples, male and female, that bless me just as much. And it’s sssooo great to escape to a place where no one is caught up in race, politics, or anything else that people will use to divide us. We’re all brothers and sisters, and like the song says, smile on your brother and let’s love one another right now. Thank you, J and Amber, for the smiles and the love. God bless you ❤️
I was on the way home from another fruitless day searching for survivors at Ground Zero in NYC when this song came on the radio. I was barely able to sing through my tears.
The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by the Kingston Trio in a live performance in March 1964 that was released on June 1, 1964. The song appeals to peace and brotherhood and talks about the polarity of love versus fear & captures the zeitgeist of the times. 1967.
This was , for those of us as young people in the 60s, our anthem! We all know every word, pause & instrumental & it will forever be in our hearts. This is a song we listen to from start to finish without pause any time it is played. I would never consider leaving or turning it off before the end. Thank you for a great reaction. It’s how we all felt back in the day.
I love the "you hold the key to love and fear, all in your trembling hand. Just one key unlocks them both; it's there at your command". I've known this song since it was new and I still wait for that line in the song.
Garth Brooks did a cover of this you made have heard it there, and it has also been used in a number of commercials. If you are looking for some smooth rock try "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
Love this song! Other songs with a positive, love one another Hippie vibe are "Reach out of the darkness" by Friend and Lover,(1968)"Crystal blue persuasion" by Tommy James and The shondells(1969) and "Everyday people" by Sly and the family stone(1969) ☺
Although the Youngbloods began in Greenwich Village, NYC, their song “(I’m Proud to Be a) Hippie from Olema” (1970) refers to a tiny town on the San Andreas Fault Zone, just SE of Tomales Bay, N of San Francisco. The song was a good-humored answer to Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee,” but not everyone saw it that way at the time. Merle himself was apparently good-natured about it, but in general, it was a time of considerable animus toward hippies and the countercultural movement.
Yay 😀 such great memories for me this song amongst whole lot of others…. My aunties & uncles singing all these great songs ,playing guitars, spoons , harmonica ,saxophone I’m 47 now so thank you family having us kids grow up with the best music & still keeping it real…
My father was a military recruiter in 1967 and about four times a year he had occasion to pick up material from an Armed Forces radio station in Nashville. I was 13 that year. He would always bring me a large cardboard box of 45 rpm records (google that) of demos (maybe google that, too) that record companies sent all over the country hoping their product would get favorable air time from regional DJs to promote and drive up profits. There were beaucoups of songs that never got played, and for good reason. Out of each box full only a handful might be worthwhile, and even less that became hits. Get Together was one that got my attention and become one of the few I kept. It was well over a year later that it started showing up on the radio and eventually climbed the charts to become one of the defining songs to represent the peace&love, stop the war anthems that are so often used in film and tv as time capsule soundtracks. This record, and “I’d Like to Get to Know You” by Spanky and the Gang are the songs that I remember most from those free boxes and boxes of discarded vinyls Dad would bring me.
This song came out at a time when America was blowing apart; riots in the streets, Viet Nam raging, neighbor kids drafted and sent to war never to return, families falling apart from generational differences... It was a bad time, and many people thought America was coming to an end.
Always loved this song. I sang it for a friend's wedding. Please check out The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man". It has an iconic guitar riff written by David Crosby.
From a generation when we were all trying to come together. I wish we could get back to that. Thanks for the love you guys spread. Another song with this theme is The O Jays, Love Train. Those were great days for our country.
I saw The Youngbloods perform this song at Golden Gate Park in 1967. It was a free, kind of spontaneous event and those were the days! Such a great song in every way.
You two have brought back great memories of my teenage years. This was one of the songs that I loved back then and still do. I have so many great memories that are intertwined with this song. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
For those of us who came up and were teenagers in the later 1960's, this was our anthem and it is forever carved into our souls!
Yes!
Yes! It's the living up to it that has been the hard part. Peace and love, people.
@@ediefolta9494 Exactly right!
Right On 👍 - This is the soundtrack of my life. Best time to ripen ✌
Yes! What a beautiful way to say it.
Turtles "Happy Together" is a perfect compliment to this song.
Good song choice to recommend
Yes! I love that song too!
Yes I love “Happy Together”😊 It’s an awesome song!
Another song to complement this song would be Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens. It’s always been one of my favorites.
Yes!!! I second the Turtles happy together !!
This song might sound familiar because it’s been in many movies. One of the most famous is Forrest Gump when he and Jenny and walking through DC after the Vietnam War protest. This song epitomizes the 60s hippie culture. And I mean that in a positive way.
The last 50 years has been a corporate-conservative reaction against 1960s hippie culture. We need to go back to the ideals of that era.
@@paulpeterson4216 What corporate America did was co-opt the "hippie movement". They saw money making opportunities and did what they do best - capitalized on it. They didn't fight it or defeat it; they used it to their own advantage.
When corporations took control of the airwaves replacing DJ's with preprogrammed music chosen by focus groups things went downhill. I miss those times when people played instruments and surround wasn't the rule of the day. That's why people like Rob Squad, Rick Beato, Jamel aka Jamal and Wings of Pegasus are important in introducing great music to a wider audience.
Are you musician Paul Peterson?
Especially the chorus - heard that a thousand times but rarely ever hear the whole song.
My mom and pops were original hippies. I remember asking my mom about the experience. She said, "We were just kids who thought we could change the world with love"
Your Mom is right... I know! 💕
Your Mom summed it up well. Love is a good starting point, but life’s complexities can overwhelm people. Like Cat Stevens sang, “It’s hard to get by just upon a smile”.
The song was released in the summer of 1967. The summer of love. That's why you got hippie vibes.
This song needs to be played today. Yes, we do need to love one another. I fell in love with this song when it out in the 70's, Peace!!!
Peace! Green Peace! Far Out!
didn't come out in the 70s this is from 1967
When we said “ Peace” we truly meant it too .
No peace with Biden!
@@michaelasay8587 Political statements are irrelevant here, fool !
I’m a 60’s child and thank God I was born in the greatest period of❤ music in American History. This song was what the 60’s was all about. What a shame that feeling is gone today
Take it from a self-proclaimed old hippie…this absolutely has hippie vibes! I remember
it well…Youngbloods have more to offer as well. Thanks for the memories! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Elephant Mountain by the Youngbloods is a beautiful album.
I was 9 years old when this song came out, and was totally into the hippy scene even at my very young age. The "love one another" message is still with me to this day, It's heartening to see young folk like Rod Squad play the old music and carry the same message forward.
Katherine,from one hippie to another,ILove how this song brings back memories and and a mind set that is what I still believe in.pease
👍🙏🙏✌️
This is one of those songs that seems like every note, every drum kick, every harmony, every sound was 30 years in the planning stage!.....just a perfect song!
This is what the 60’s/early 70’s was about, love!
Love & drugs
This is a song I've always enjoyed. And to think it's over 50 years old and yet is still relevant today. Great reaction and definitely speaks to what you both are about. Thank you!
Makes me sad that it's more relevant than ever.
@@jeanfrancis8121 Yes it does!
I'm so glad I had siblings born in the 50s ( I was 60s child) so I was able to hear songs like these when I was younger
55. I remember listening to it at the babysitters when I was in grade school.
absolutely agree
When I saw Santana and the Doobie Brothers 2 years ago, Carlos closed the show with this song. I think it sums up his entire philosophy beautifully
Yet another song that's been used in countless commercials due to the upbeat message offered.
Too bad people don't even come close to the words in this song... lousy Dems
This song was right up y'all's alley, wasn't it??!! An absolute rock classic!! Now you need to listen to The Byrds "Turn, Turn, Turn" if you have not heard it. Words from Ecclesiastes in the Bible and just as classy a tune!!
Pete Seeger wrote and recorded "Turn Turn Turn" in 1959. The Bryds did a cover of it 6 years later in 1965.
@@allengator1914 Yes indeed!
One of the best songs ever written. Love it.
The 60s was all about dropping our differences and love one another.Just like Jesus said.✝️😄👍
The greatest peace and love anthem of the 1960's. Another song with a similar vibe you guys should listen to is TURN, TURN, TURN by The Byrds. It's from the same era.
Yesss!!
YES!
No. The greatest peace and love song from the 60's or any other time, is The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love. That is the song that started all the peace and love movement, and the most recognized peace and love song.
@@mgonzales56 For you, yes.
@@zq9m3xh8 And for millions of others. That song was heard around the world and The Beatles were seen as ambassadors of peace. The Beatles were at the forefront of the peace movement, especially John and Yoko. There is no denying that, and it all started with "All You Need Is Love", and continued with "Give Peace A Chance".
I was 17 when this song was released. I never get tired of the timeless lyrics. We are here for such a fleeting moment in time so why waste it with hate, war, and acrimony. When this was played today on the Sirius XM 60's channel I cried like I usually do. One of the best songs to come out of the 60's-70's era and it resonates today.
Amber, you should try listening to 5th Dimension "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" you will love it and I'm betting Jordan could get into it as well. It is very representative of the hippy era.
Great suggestion ! That song has such a high vibe. When I was a boy I heard that and thought “hippies are cool !” A few years later I was tagging along behind.
Yes indeed Billy doing his gospel thing wrecks the HOUSE.
"Hippy" is an adjective about having big hips. It's "hippie." lol
@@allendesalme197 Oops... it was early and I hadn't had my coffee :-)
Awesome idea!!
Iconic song of the times. Sunlight from this group is a favorite.
I think that was by Jesse Colin Young after he left the Youngbloods. Can't remember if it was on his 'Song for Juli' album (a fantastic album, btw).
Try "He aint heavy, he's my brother" by the Hollies... Maybe a tear might flow.......
Also, "The Air That I Breathe" by the Hollies.
ahhhhhh... the days when people wrote beautiful songs about creating a beautiful world...
Good old 70s music - Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band 1971 & Cherokee People by Paul Revere And The Raiders
If they do Signs, they should do the original and the cover by Tesla.
Yes. The 5MEB is so underrated. Their "Absolutely Right" and "I'm at Stranger Here" a other good choices.
I was going to suggest Signs too! Awesome song!
I used to love Black and White by Three Dog Night when I was little. Also had a positive message. And totally 70's vibe.
Out in the Country is my favorite by them.
Black and White by Three Dog Night is awesome ❤️❤️😎
@@1nelsondj Ohhh yeah !!
@@1nelsondj I love 'Out in the Country'! Also, 'Easy to Be Hard' and 'Eli's Coming,' and most especially, 'Liar.'
@@womanbread ME TOO
I remember when this song was originally released, it was stunning -- it absolutely stopped me in my tracks. But then it disappeared from the radio! I couldn't believe it. Later, it was re-released and was a huge hit. I always felt that depicted how much people's consciousness had changed between the original release date and the later one. That was part of the phenomena of music in that decade.
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I remembered this song all my life from hearing it in 1969 at 7 years old. It is STILL in my all-time top 10.
It didn't do much when first realed but became a top 5 hit when it was used in a radio public service announcement as a call for brotherhood by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
This song is probably on everyone's top 10 list who grew up during this period. Another great band from this era is Quicksilver Messenger Service. What You Gonna Do About Me, Fresh Air and a the love song Goodbye My Lady Love are worth a listen plus many more.
Zephyr and McKendree Spring are also two often overlooked bands of that era with awesome songs
Absolutely. And Quick Silver Messenger Service was GREAT. So underrated.
QMS's "Mona", "Who Do You Love", "Maiden of the Cancer Moon" & "Calvary", all from THE HAPPY TRAILS album.
Loved QMS
"Ooh oo oo
Have another hit
Of fresh air
Ooh oo oo oo ooh... "
I remember fresh Aire have another hit of sunshine, yep acid babies
Wow! You have been doing songs I haven't heard in 40 and 50 years. Thanks for jogging the memory! ROCK ON!! Jeff
It’s been said here already, but has anybody noticed how relevant the lyrics are to songs from the 60s and 70s… Today?
I’m enjoying this one as well
YES!
A great song 🎵 from the turbulent 60's where Vietnam and civil rights were on the agenda. Song first released in 1967 and later re- released in 1969 where the song than hit the charts at number 5. The song appealed to peace and brotherhood 🙏 and talks about the polarity of love versus fear, just a great meaningful song with a great sound and vocals.
Yes. I don't remember ever hearing it in '67 but it sure was a big hit in the summer of 1969! I had just turned 15, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, I was about to start 10th grade and "Get Together" was getting plenty of air time on AM Top-40 stations! What a great summer!
Amber, another great 60s song to check out if you haven't yet - Abraham, Martin & John ...
My Daddy requested that this song be played at him funeral. He loved music and this one was very special to him. I think of him every time I hear it.
To me, this was always the hippiest of songs. It's amazing how all these years later we get further and further away from these ideals. Especially when the elders of the tribe, our senior citizens today, were once the hippies who believed in all this stuff.
Yep that's me! 💕 💪 I always related to... San Francisco by Scot McKenzie. It's the hippiest too! 🌹
As one of the elders you speak of, like all young people we were idealistic and actually did have an effect on things going on at the time. But as we grew older and took on responsibilities we dropped the ball and joined the "establishment" we all hated. Now things are much worse than back in those days.
A similar song with similar lyrics meaning wise, “Crystal blue persuasion”, from the 60s and the lyrics are relevant today
Love that song!!!
finally after months & months of suggestion you play my favorite song that came out when I was born the summer of love 1967 & I recommend this tune to everyone because its what we need more of especially in todays world - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!
This was one of the songs associated with the 1967 Summer of Love, along with songs like "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie, "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas, and the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" album. Other popular songs from that era in a similar vein include the Young Rascals' "People Got To Be Free" from 1968, Stephen Stills's "Love the One You're With" from 1970, and of course the 5th Dimensions' "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from 1969.
Great suggestions.
Not forgetting "Fresh Air"/QMS, "Woodstock"/M. Southern Comfort, "Something in the air"/T. Newman, "Somebody to love"/J. Airplane, "This precious time"/PF Sloan. Great days!
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Dino Valente, founder of QMS wrote this song in early or mid 60s and sold the rights because he needed lawyer fees for a Heroin conviction.
also the peak of Vietnam War
Cat Steven’s song … “Peace Train” would go over well with the both of you as well or his song “Father and Son”..
Yes, I think they would love Cat Stevens.
Oh Very Young , Wild World, Morning has Broken , Moon Shadow
I cannot hear Father and Son without thinking of Yondu
Another great hippie vibe and popular song is White Bird from the group called It’s A Wonderful Day.
Absolutely love that song!
When I read your comment, a bell went off and I had to go listen to that song. It was as thrilling as I remembered it. Came back to tell you so.
This is one of the hippie anthems. It was written by Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service but he was busted for pot and got a year in jail so he gave the song to Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods.
That explains a lot. lol I have always thought this sounded like something Quicksilver would do.
JCY overheard folk singer Buzzy Linhart practicing the song
Never knew that - thanks !
I was living in NY on 9/11 and the following day this song came on the radio and I cried like a baby
I love this song it never gets old for me ...we are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass.. reality check!! love one another right now perfect
This was our morning prayer my freshman year in 1970 at my catholic high school. We’d all sing it with all our hearts. ❤
One of the most iconic songs of my generation 🎶 ❤️
One of the hippie generation's BEST anthems!!! :)
Yep! and Scot McKenzie... San Francisco.
The Youngbloods took their name from their leader Jessie Colin Young. I'm 74 and was in my twenties then this came out and there has been parts of it used in countless movies, commercials, etc.for 50 years. But for the gazillion times I've heard it, it wasn't until about ten years ago that a VERY key line comes in at 2:40. I became a Christian at age 51 so this line went in one ear and out the other before then. Go back to that spot and listen to that line. "When the One who left us here returns for us at last." It's about the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah! Christ wasn't His last name, it means Messiah or Savior in Hebrew He told his disciples he wouldn't leave them here alone like orphans after His Crucifiction but would send them a comforter, teacher, and helper, the Holy Spirit, until He returned to earth (the second coming) to take his Church home with him to Heaven! I personally believe that time is very, very close. That's why the Youngbloods are telling us now to get ready.
I knew you would love this! Jesse Colin Young never fails to make me smile. I went to multiple concerts of his in the 70s and he fed my soul with multiple albums as well. If I'm ever feeling down all I need to do is tell Alexa to play "Motorcycle Blues" for an instant lift! So goofy and cute and always just what I need. I love his rendition of "Jambalaya" as well, along with so many of his songs. 😍
Hadn’t heard “Ridgetop” for a long time and gave a try tonight. Boy, that’s a good song ! Forgot about that rippin’ sax solo - wow, I have to check who that was.
My favorite song of all time.
The Byrds “Turn, Turn, Turn”
Perfect Sunday Hippie Vibes that will also take you to church with a whisper.
You’d love love love this. It’s from scripture, but not a gospel song. It’s folk.
Yes! From Ecclesiastes! ❤️
One of the greatest writing production and performance synthesis EVER EVER EVER.
"Carry On / Questions" by Crosby Stills and Nash for a super hippie classic.
A song I remember very well as I was a Jr. at Illinois State University when this was played 24/7 on all the big AM 50000 watt radio stations..WLS, KOMA WABC etc...graduation came.70 ..then the war...Trained .Combat Medic.and .Op. Rm Surgery Tech First Army MEDDAC Dept.Surgery/ CMS Disabled Vn Era Vet
Thank you veterans... for your service ! Dana.
You heard this in Forrest Gump when Jennaaay is tooling around California (Forrest is in Vietnam, then)
This was also featured on PBS's "Woodstock : Three Days that Defined a Generation" ✌️✌️✌️
And in Supernatural, when Jack was restoring humanity
@@colleenross8752 Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" brought me here ✌✌✌ ✌✌✌
@@colleenross8752 Super what?
I love this song. I'm a Vietnam Veteran and believe me when I say this brings back memories back in the 1960's.
Enjoying this again after so many years. Meant so much to us. And not just hippies but, most of us felt the lyrics were for us. Many have covered this but, no one covered the original as well as The Youngbloods. IMO. Still one of the sweetest melodies and the guitar interplay has no equal. Thanks for the memories!
My momma was born in 1950...so as a kid I grew up listening to her music...& in my opinion THIS is the ultimate “HIPPIE” song!!! Talking bout lovin’ your “brother”!!! I always said that I was born a generation too late!!!
An all time favorite song and soo very glad you got to hear it. The meaning is magical and Jesse Colin Young’s voice is soo beautiful.💖
This needs to become our new national anthem. This country needs to unite RIGHT NOW! Great song.
It was wonderful to see these guys play a small nightclub gig in the late 80’s. Jesse can really sing ! My buddy was so thrilled - he saw them at Monterey Pop Fest and was so nostalgic that he got misty eyed.
I love this song. Always have. The instrumentals and then the vocals and message. Wow! I will literally stop what I'm doing and listen to this.
You gotta remember this was during the riots of the '60's. You need to listen to the buffalo springfield song "for what it's worth"..same vein same time frame..you'll love it.
Definitely! 👍 a must! 💕
One of my all-time favorite songs
Great reaction, guys! I haven't heard this song in ages but it is still relevant today!!
🎶"Come on, people now Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now..." 🎶
One of the things I have loved checking out all of the reaction channels out there is seeing how much music unites us. It’s great to see how much we all really do have in common, and music brings it right down to where we all live. It doesn’t matter if the reactors have been black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything in between, the fact that I can go and listen to great music and see how it touches people from another culture and different life experiences than my own just blesses my heart. I’ve seen people laugh and cry over the music I grew up with, and it doesn’t matter if you grew up listening to rock, rap, country, R&B, or classical, great music touches the soul. I look at you two and I see how much you love one another and your kids, and it just blesses me. And there are other reactors out there, couples, male and female, that bless me just as much. And it’s sssooo great to escape to a place where no one is caught up in race, politics, or anything else that people will use to divide us. We’re all brothers and sisters, and like the song says, smile on your brother and let’s love one another right now. Thank you, J and Amber, for the smiles and the love. God bless you ❤️
The chorus has been used in several commercials and movies over the years!
This song always brings tears to why eyes. What a time to be alive . . .
Hey guys...Recovering from surgery and having a rough day, needed this...Thank you, love this song, so needed these days...Blessings of Peace
Sending healing vibes your way! Hope you feel better soon.
@@carlaharrington5120 Thank you so much, Blessings of the day to you
I was on the way home from another fruitless day searching for survivors at Ground Zero in NYC when this song came on the radio. I was barely able to sing through my tears.
The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by the Kingston Trio in a live performance in March 1964 that was released on June 1, 1964. The song appeals to peace and brotherhood and talks about the polarity of love versus fear & captures the zeitgeist of the times. 1967.
I didn't know that ! Thanks for the additional history!
This was , for those of us as young people in the 60s, our anthem! We all know every word, pause & instrumental & it will forever be in our hearts. This is a song we listen to from start to finish without pause any time it is played. I would never consider leaving or turning it off before the end. Thank you for a great reaction. It’s how we all felt back in the day.
I love the "you hold the key to love and fear, all in your trembling hand. Just one key unlocks them both; it's there at your command". I've known this song since it was new and I still wait for that line in the song.
Garth Brooks did a cover of this you made have heard it there, and it has also been used in a number of commercials. If you are looking for some smooth rock try "Southern Cross" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
That's a damn good song.
That is my all-time favorite song - it really speaks to me.
Southern cross is my favorite! ❤️
I have requested that before too!
THE DRAMATICS "WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET"..A MUST HEAR SOUL CLASSIC.
This was in Forest Gump, that might be where you heard it.
Awesome song.
So Good, another classic, definitely one of the best songs of that era.
If Fortunate Son is the stereotypical 'Nam song, then this is the same for the hippie movement.
The summer of LOVE was in 1967 and this song was right there in the middle of it. You two are awesome the way your faces express such happiness!
perfect song to go with this: the Hollies, "He ain't Heavy" .
Oh yes! another fav of mine.. love it ❤️❤️❤️
Wonderful lyrics, harmonies, and melody. What memories this song brings back! Thanks!
San Francisco by Scott McKenzie and The Weight by the Band are two more great songs with a hippie vibe.
Almost 50 years later this song still applies ! Better late than never ..,, Cmon people
Amazing how this song is still relevant today. Memories of the Vietnam era.
You're into my favorite years in music with this song. I love music from the 1965 era to 1972. Nothing better.
This song will never get outdated…..
Listening now. Love your response to a classic of this Vietnam era song.
It was all about peace.
Love this song! Other songs with a positive, love one another Hippie vibe are "Reach out of the darkness" by Friend and Lover,(1968)"Crystal blue persuasion" by Tommy James and The shondells(1969) and "Everyday people" by Sly and the family stone(1969) ☺
I love Crystal Blue Persuasion, and Crimson and Clover, too!
Great songs. Thanks for reminding me
Glad you and many others like it. One of the very best tunes from the latter 60's. Timeless...
"When the One that left us here returns for us one day!" Amen.
AMEN 🙏
So many great peace, love, and brotherhood songs from the 60s and 70s. I've watched you react to many of them. Great reactions.
One of the best songs ever! This song epitomizes ‘60s music. Another great song you MUST listen to is by Scott McKenzie and it’s called San Francisco.
My dad's favourite song was 'San Francisco.' Whenever I hear it, I always think of him, and lovingly remember him.
This is simply one of the best songs ever written.
Not a coincidence that it’s one of my favorite of all time!
Although the Youngbloods began in Greenwich Village, NYC, their song “(I’m Proud to Be a) Hippie from Olema” (1970) refers to a tiny town on the San Andreas Fault Zone, just SE of Tomales Bay, N of San Francisco. The song was a good-humored answer to Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee,” but not everyone saw it that way at the time. Merle himself was apparently good-natured about it, but in general, it was a time of considerable animus toward hippies and the countercultural movement.
Yay 😀 such great memories for me this song amongst whole lot of others…. My aunties & uncles singing all these great songs ,playing guitars, spoons , harmonica ,saxophone I’m 47 now so thank you family having us kids grow up with the best music & still keeping it real…
Jackie DeShanon Put A Little Love In Your Heart.
My father was a military recruiter in 1967 and about four times a year he had occasion to pick up material from an Armed Forces radio station in Nashville. I was 13 that year. He would always bring me a large cardboard box of 45 rpm records (google that) of demos (maybe google that, too) that record companies sent all over the country hoping their product would get favorable air time from regional DJs to promote and drive up profits. There were beaucoups of songs that never got played, and for good reason. Out of each box full only a handful might be worthwhile, and even less that became hits.
Get Together was one that got my attention and become one of the few I kept. It was well over a year later that it started showing up on the radio and eventually climbed the charts to become one of the defining songs to represent the peace&love, stop the war anthems that are so often used in film and tv as time capsule soundtracks. This record, and “I’d Like to Get to Know You” by Spanky and the Gang are the songs that I remember most from those free boxes and boxes of discarded vinyls Dad would bring me.
This song came out at a time when America was blowing apart; riots in the streets, Viet Nam raging, neighbor kids drafted and sent to war never to return, families falling apart from generational differences... It was a bad time, and many people thought America was coming to an end.
Like "right now"?
@@kensroswell kinda..we haven't had a Kent State yet though when our own government troops mow us down and no one is Ever held responsible ...
@@t.j.payeur5331 still going on for Black folks .
And white hetero men
Jesse Colin Young. Oh what wonderful memories you provided. Fell in love with the Youngbloods and his solo music.
Always loved this song. I sang it for a friend's wedding. Please check out The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man". It has an iconic guitar riff written by David Crosby.
The world should take this song to heart
The Association : Along Comes Mary: Never My Love are both good too.
From a generation when we were all trying to come together. I wish we could get back to that. Thanks for the love you guys spread. Another song with this theme is The O Jays, Love Train. Those were great days for our country.
I believe this song was actually brought to Congress to become America's new National Anthem.
I saw The Youngbloods perform this song at Golden Gate Park in 1967. It was a free, kind of spontaneous event and those were the days! Such a great song in every way.
Roy Orbison Oh pretty woman
Or "CRYING"
Yes!!
Yes! I've requested Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," too!
You two have brought back great memories of my teenage years. This was one of the songs that I loved back then and still do. I have so many great memories that are intertwined with this song. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!