The Flying Machine - Smile A Little Smile For Me

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  • @Lester-te3vb
    @Lester-te3vb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    76 years old and still listening to to this great music.

    • @josemoreno3334
      @josemoreno3334 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Right behind you, I'm 66 😄.

    • @vickicorbin2244
      @vickicorbin2244 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      me too.

    • @charleswestphal
      @charleswestphal 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Way to go Lester, keep going my friend, and love it now and all the time we're here, the way we did back then, Peace and Love,

  • @ellengregory-tx5qb
    @ellengregory-tx5qb ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Boy, does this song take me back. I remember listening to it over and over as a young girl. I'm 66 now, and I still get tears in my eyes, so beautiful.❣️😊

    • @retluoc
      @retluoc ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, this song became more popular than the group who sang it. It's just like Rosemary Goes and Edison Lighthouse. 😄 I wasn't alive for the British invasion, I was born in the Disco era, but I grew up in the 80s.

    • @LLcoolDel
      @LLcoolDel ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I am 65 and I have the 45. I am with you

    • @JCO2002
      @JCO2002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very sweet, darling.

    • @finance485
      @finance485 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      65 Here I agree!

    • @marieburke831
      @marieburke831 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love this song I was in 8th grage❤

  • @brianbancroft283
    @brianbancroft283 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1650

    This song was my first wifes and mine song before I went to Vietnam I was one of the lucky ones to return but Vietnam still haunts me not sure why maybe due to so many of my friends and classmates that did not make it back home alive. God Bless all of the Vietnam Vets and the Veterans from after all who have served.

    • @paulconnors2078
      @paulconnors2078 9 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      God Bless you Brian Bancroft for your service to our country at a time when brave souls like you were shunned when you returned. I am a retired US military vet who missed Vietnam, but I always stop and shake hands with those I see wearing Vietnam Vet apparel and make a point of saying "WELCOME HOME!" I remember about 15 years ago, I did so for one VN Special Forces vet while I was in uniform and he hugged me and broke down and told me I was the first person since he returned to say "welcome home." He hugged me and started weeping and I held him for a long time.
      You guys were and are the best and will ALWAYS be my HEROS!

    • @coastie378
      @coastie378 9 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Brian Bancroft Welcome home brother. I was there, '67 - '68

    • @vinnymassey4160
      @vinnymassey4160 9 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Brian Bancroft God bless you Brian! My husband and brother were both Vietnam vets like you. No doubt they feel what you do. You're not alone! Take care of yourself and thank you for your service! (Dee)

    • @roymoe43
      @roymoe43 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Brian you are the man - thank you

    • @brianbancroft283
      @brianbancroft283 9 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      +Roy Munnelly Thanks means a lot to me

  • @rosemaryhyser3564
    @rosemaryhyser3564 7 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    When I was 13 in 1973 our school bus driver use to sing this to me every day as I got on the bus. I was so embarrassed then, but now I cherish those memories. He was such a nice guy.

    • @tats5880
      @tats5880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He had to sing it to you, I was 15 in 73 and I would have done the same.

    • @trotptkabasnbi6655
      @trotptkabasnbi6655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Rosemary Hyser ".......
      Smile a little smile for me Rosemarie"...😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌

    • @edisonmirandilla7017
      @edisonmirandilla7017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TAT S 🌹💌 Rosemarie Hyser👌✌️😷🤭😀

    • @oscarschmidt571
      @oscarschmidt571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Rosemary Hyser
      I was your school bus driver then, you can sing Rosemarie Blue by Errol Sober on my tomb..

    • @lobo7792
      @lobo7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I went back and listened to the song and it made me sad thinking of your situation. At the time I can see your point but I would have done the same thing as him. Is he still with us?

  • @mikeveis9188
    @mikeveis9188 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I recall this song from 1970. I was 12 years old when this song was a hit. One of my favorite songs from the 1970s.

  • @msg238
    @msg238 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    There is a big difference between this song and modern pop music. The song lyrics express feeling, tenderness and sensitivity.

  • @oeb3847
    @oeb3847 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    I have not heard this song in decades---thank you for reminding me how much I like it.

  • @rainstein3680
    @rainstein3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Another iconic song that I cherish from my childhood!!!! God, I cannot explain the joy when I hear these magical tunes!!!

    • @earleneslay7977
      @earleneslay7977 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I feel the same way!!! This song 🎵 brings back so many good memories!!! 😇

    • @chilitoday
      @chilitoday 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was good stuff that holds up. The emotional connection to the teen years is amazing when you hear such a song.

  • @samaranightshade4077
    @samaranightshade4077 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    My mom used to sing this song to me. She would sing it to me when I was a baby and any time I was unhappy. Two days before she passed away I was upset because we knew she wasn't going to be with us much longer. She was humming this song to me because she wasn't able to talk. The day she passed away I was holding her hand and singing this to her. I think she did have a little smile on her face. I love and miss you mama. I'm trying to smile a little smile for you. 😊😢

    • @earleneslay7977
      @earleneslay7977 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I can relate to your comment!! 😢

    • @gracebeckwith1256
      @gracebeckwith1256 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’m so sorry for your loss. Sounds like a wonderful momma. 💗

    • @mandyandreopoulos2785
      @mandyandreopoulos2785 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Omg. You made me cry. God bless

    • @barbarathompson8559
      @barbarathompson8559 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      My mom died three years ago yesterday, her name was Rosemarie.I thought about her when I listened to it yesterday.

    • @brianbyczek-m6p
      @brianbyczek-m6p 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      how sweet and sad.....

  • @angelcharlie2012
    @angelcharlie2012 10 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    When I was younger my older sister and I shared a bedroom and she always had her radio on at night when we were in bed and this song was on every night . My sister ran away from home when she was about 15 and I cried myself to sleep . I woke up during the night and the radio was on and this song was playing and I knew that my big sister had come back home safe , My sister passed away on mother's day 2007 and hearing this song again brings back memories of her dancing and the night I woke up and knew she was safely back home in her bed . I miss her deeply and especially now hearing this song again after all these years , Thank you .

    • @suebee418
      @suebee418 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Tammy - that is incredibly sad. Sorry for your sister's passing but isn't it strange how when important and significant things happen in our lives and there is a song playing at that time - that we remember that song and always associate it with that event? I have a few songs that I associate with events.

    • @angelcharlie2012
      @angelcharlie2012 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you , and yes it is strange . There are several songs that affect me that way .

    • @quazy14
      @quazy14 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey Tammy, I may not know you but I really feel sad for you. You sure did have great memories with your sister. Bless her soul... Smile now.... :-)

    • @angelcharlie2012
      @angelcharlie2012 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much

    • @DonHermanDenver
      @DonHermanDenver 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sweet story. Thank you.

  • @blue1054
    @blue1054 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Sometimes I stay up late listening to the old songs and drinking a little too much trying to understand how all of our starry eyed idealism could have brought us to our current era of vitriol and shameless mendacity.

  • @billkohler6292
    @billkohler6292 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    It's amazing how this old song didn't stand out that much back then but listening to it now with the clarity of today's technical advancements gives me a chill up my spine, people who know how to play guitar and harmonize so well back then. I miss those early days with so many great groups putting out these one hit wonders.

    • @suebee418
      @suebee418 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      bill kohler yes they sound fantastic and harmonize great while some are worried about the keyboardist's teeth

    • @Robert-h3b4x
      @Robert-h3b4x ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This was a very well written ballad. It stood out back then because it was a big hit

    • @melvinsims5379
      @melvinsims5379 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Robert-h3b4xWhen this song first came out New York radio station 66 WNBC wouldn't let its number 1 DJ Wolfman Jack announce the name of the group singing. Therefore many of the fans assumed it was the Beatle's Swan song and ran out and bought it. My late brother Hal was one of them. To his chagrin, he found out it was The Flying Machine. But he loved the song anyway. Wish he was here today so I could wipe my crying eyes.😢

    • @stephenvalastro5678
      @stephenvalastro5678 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never see a song again like it

  • @maverickzero88
    @maverickzero88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I remember my dad playing this song on one of his cassette back in the days...I'm 31 now; so glad my dad introduced these little known gems to me.
    Cheers!

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your dad has great taste in music. 1969, I was 14 yrs old. Memories of my cute girlfriend. Love to return to 1969.

  • @reinacoffee8557
    @reinacoffee8557 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    One of the most cute and encouraging songs for all girls, especially all the Rosemarie's. A beautiful classic.

  • @johnstraka815
    @johnstraka815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Our vets from Vietnam deserve any dream they have to come true. Thank you 🙏 vets.

  • @lmt61251
    @lmt61251 13 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Smile a Little Smile for Me (Rose Marie) is a timeless piece of beauty that takes us back to 1969, the last year of America's innocense... to the time that Charlie Manson changed everything.

  • @tracyjacoby2382
    @tracyjacoby2382 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Wow, I haven't heard this song since the 1970's. I am 60 and thought the title was Rosemarie. I can't stand the music these days, no heart & soul, this song really touched me deep down, thanks for posting it!🥺🥰

    • @Mr.Avuncular
      @Mr.Avuncular 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is so true @63. Your right about no ❤️or soul
      In today's genre!
      I suppose we are much alike😎😎

    • @Mr.Avuncular
      @Mr.Avuncular 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is so true @63. Your right about no ❤️or soul
      In today's genre!
      I suppose we are much alike😎😎

  • @bruschmidt9943
    @bruschmidt9943 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This amazing song was released April 11, 1969. All the cherished memories come flooding back!

  • @josephbader1243
    @josephbader1243 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Best music of all time. 60s and 70s . The music with heart.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree. My 1st real kiss in Junior high school was slow dancing to this song. Love to be a teenager again.

    • @StarWarsMoments
      @StarWarsMoments 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So everyone else isn't trying huh?

  • @rosewritesallday
    @rosewritesallday 10 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Love the 60's music... nothing like it. So grateful to have grown up with these kind of songs!

  • @Cynthia-ht8ld
    @Cynthia-ht8ld 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    In loving memory of Bobby Rydell. April 26, 1942-April 5, 2022. Rest in peace.

  • @ProudlyphilippineMade
    @ProudlyphilippineMade 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +208

    Anyone still listen in june 2024??

    • @Bee-u3m
      @Bee-u3m 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I just did and I remember quite a few of the lyrics .

    • @TonyaDenton-ks8mh
      @TonyaDenton-ks8mh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes just this morning 6/16/24...I only listen to the old songs they are definitely the best 👍

    • @iwanttheoneicanthave11578
      @iwanttheoneicanthave11578 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes ako.

    • @paulduffin7616
      @paulduffin7616 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah me 😢

    • @Omar-0h1yn
      @Omar-0h1yn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      my high school crush was named Rosemarie 💞💔

  • @kalihiwarhomes2177
    @kalihiwarhomes2177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    1969 all over again, and it feels GOOD.

  • @lynns8057
    @lynns8057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brings back many memories. I dated a man in a band. It was 1972 and the guys would sing this song and would substitute my name (it just worked)for Rosemarie. A wonderful time to be alive and be a hippie.

  • @petemoss8522
    @petemoss8522 9 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I posted this on Facebook, and a 60-some-year old friend had his mind blown. He hadn't heard it in decades, but when he did, a flood of memories and emotions hit him like fireworks. It's definitely one of those time-capsule tunes.

  • @Eric-hq7cs
    @Eric-hq7cs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    My mom died in the early 1980's at 70 years old.She had a friend that she kept in touch with until she died that she had met in elementary school. Her friend's name was Rosemary.This song was Co - written by the great British songwriter Tony Macaulay.A few months after this song was out Tony co- wrote another fine song called "Love grows where my Rosemary goes." In this song ( that we are listening to here) the name is sung as "Rose Marie " and in the other song it is sung as "Rosemary". I have both vinyl 45s in my collection to this day. Thanks for indulging my personal memories.

    • @Unixilandia
      @Unixilandia 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another gem! Thanks for sharing this! :):)

  • @ronaldmartino2610
    @ronaldmartino2610 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I remember this so well. I just got my driver's license. I was 18 and was driving when I heard it for the first time. I was driving past a house where a girl named Rose Marie lived. It's indelibly etched into my memory and every time I hear it, it takes me right back to that moment in time. One of my favorites.

  • @josephgillette3278
    @josephgillette3278 9 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    Im 63 years old I remember this song from the 70s high school great

    • @MrCorrefox
      @MrCorrefox 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Spermwhale1000 me to im 63

    • @IAmAWealthyGirl
      @IAmAWealthyGirl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Joseph Gillette I'm 57 and remember it from 77 WABC-AM while in JHS.

    • @IAmAWealthyGirl
      @IAmAWealthyGirl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spermwhale1000 Him, and (remember his jingle?) DANINGRAM!
      (For YEARS I thought they were saying, "Dating Room!" LOLOLOL!)

    • @IAmAWealthyGirl
      @IAmAWealthyGirl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spermwhale1000 Oh, no kidding?! I grew up in Queens and anyway was "too young" to turn up at night -- or even OWN -- a radio! Different world, right? You hadda be at least a teenager to have a radio or record player.

    • @IAmAWealthyGirl
      @IAmAWealthyGirl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spermwhale1000 All the "Big Kids" had those; they were like a little bigger than a pack of cigarettes? Is that the one you mean? (I mean the radio, not the Big Kids; LOL!) We little kids would watch the teenagers walking around with those radios held up to their ears (forerunner of cell phones, eh?).
      I got this then-ancient patched-together "stereo" handed down from my cousins when I was maybe 13. It had a Garard turntable that played at 78, 45, 33, AND SIXTEEN!

  • @joegongora2200
    @joegongora2200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I remember this song in late 1969 & early 1970 when I was Junior High. Music was beginning to change & soon we'd have the new sounds of the 1970's. This is a great song of what music sounded like 51 yrs ago. Who is still listening in Dec 9, 2020 & since the year is about over, who will still be listening in 2021. This is a Timeless classic !!!

    • @dougefresh7435
      @dougefresh7435 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      June 2024 and still making me smile 😊

    • @Snarkapotamus
      @Snarkapotamus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here. Went into 7th grade and the girls on the bus would play this 45 on their portable record players...

    • @elvis13577
      @elvis13577 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Listening to it for ALL these years ! Oct ‘24

    • @joegongora2200
      @joegongora2200 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dispite I made my 1st comment in Dec 2020 and still listening 👂 on 10/11/2024. I’ll still be listening 👂 while I’m still living I’m 68 years old in another week and a half I’ll be 69 years old, and will continue to listen 👂. From Corpus Christi, Texas…Keep Rocking, Y’all !!!

  • @mattycooldude6462
    @mattycooldude6462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I wasn’t born until 1998 but I love this song. This music is timeless.

  • @Helivz
    @Helivz 16 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This tune came out in like, September / October of 1969, when I was in the third grade, eight years old, and wondered about what it was to be like a soldier in Vietnam. I came home to Lego sets, Erector sets and entertained myself.
    Thanks for your service to our great, U.S.A.
    I have several friends who served in S.E. Asia.

    • @marthagomez7335
      @marthagomez7335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did they have legos in 1969 ????

    • @Selvikus
      @Selvikus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@marthagomez7335 LEGO was founded in 1932, so yes

  • @dallasnewman3280
    @dallasnewman3280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I can remember my mother singing me this song once as a very small child. On the day she passed away, I woke up crying and this song was in my head. I love and miss you Mom....

  • @jonpierre1998
    @jonpierre1998 10 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This song brings back such pleasant memories of an era in my life when the world was a little younger and fairy tales somehow came through. Every day was filled with laughter, every day brought something new. Music is indeed epic. It has a way of taking you back to a place in your life where you can relive [if just for a moment] some of the most pleasant experiences. I Love the song in its simplicity.

  • @robertthacher
    @robertthacher ปีที่แล้ว +3

    From the fall of 69, this song climbed up to number 5 on the charts. I would graduate from HS in June. A nice memory! The only US hit for The Flying Machine!

  • @mandyandreopoulos2785
    @mandyandreopoulos2785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I’m a Rosemary. Sometimes Rosemarie. Lol. Thanks, mom. I love this song.

  • @urbansetter1
    @urbansetter1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This is the nicest song. It is the epitome of life in the late 60s and 70s. Every teenager loved this song.

    • @besura636
      @besura636 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think you mean epitome.

    • @trevormiles5852
      @trevormiles5852 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      kristy/besura. It is worth saying from a funny point of view what epidemy means (not really into correcting spellings, believe me I make my share of mistakes) . epidemic, decease. So, your sentence is funny. hope it made you smile Kirsti.

    • @urbansetter1
      @urbansetter1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the correction!!!!

  • @tuangtuangthong7852
    @tuangtuangthong7852 8 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I'm 62 . I played this single on a cheap portable turntable and thought I was in heaven!

  • @hectorfeliciano8183
    @hectorfeliciano8183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On October 8th 1969 I was 14 years old. Me and my best friend Clancy drove from our hometown of Salinas all the way to San Juan in Puerto Rico to see " THE RASCALS in concert at the "HIRAM BITHORN BASEBALL STADIUM"( is still standing by the way). On our way back home this song came on the radio and I just loved it! I" never forgot, so, it was October, not September like some people claim it was. My "BUDDY CLANCY" passed away and every time I hear it makes me "HAPPY" and "SAD". "I TREASURE" his memory. Not one single day of my life goes by without him in my mind. I miss him. Thanks for the promo film! GOD BLESS YOU ALL. THE OLD AGING HIPPIE

  • @stillbill6408
    @stillbill6408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One of my favorites from that era. Great melody, lyrics, vocal harmonies, story line with an outstanding, catchy chorus.

  • @lindaporter6896
    @lindaporter6896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Isn't it funny how certain songs take us back so many memories

    • @neosturm5288
      @neosturm5288 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's true, songs bring back so many memories - I think a lot of it is that there were no music videos back then, so we all had a little movie in our heads as to what the song meant to us personally. I, for one, preferred it that way...

    • @hmackie6823
      @hmackie6823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      songs can be time machines

  • @craigmitchell6591
    @craigmitchell6591 10 ปีที่แล้ว +680

    Back in the day songs like this made me feel so happy and hopeful. I just missed the hippie era being born in #63, but even as a black man damn did those hippies and the British invasion make good music. Disappointed about the way the vet's were treated though, they were only doing there job. I only mention my race to emphasize that i know good music when i hear it, no more no less. :-)

    • @montgomerydenzer8805
      @montgomerydenzer8805 10 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Good music is colorblind(just like great art) and that's the way it should be!

    • @robertlemuel3785
      @robertlemuel3785 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Very well said sir

    • @tonyclark8181
      @tonyclark8181 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Totally agree. Won't see the like again.

    • @bvptlp
      @bvptlp 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ***** the vietnam vets.

    • @classicguy53
      @classicguy53 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      ***** Having been in the Marines between 1971 and 1976, I experienced the rejection and disrespect from the civilian population, not those old enough to remember World War ll, but those younger, they were fed up with Viet Nam and took it out on us serving. It is totally different now, but then we were not appreciated.

  • @nicholassteiner2843
    @nicholassteiner2843 10 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    IF ONLY THE 60s COULD HAVE LASTED ANOTHER 30 YEARS.

  • @sherrykerley1594
    @sherrykerley1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I was a 60’s girl all through elementary I always LOVED the music on to high school..graduated in ‘73. I still love this music there is none better....listening to It right now!!!!

    • @richarddecker9515
      @richarddecker9515 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My wife and I are class of 73, time flew bye

  • @jimmyd10100
    @jimmyd10100 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    what a classic song from my days growing up in San Francisco. hearing this song really takes me back to the times and memories, and friends. I lost so many friends. grew up in the 1950's, 1960's in S.F. went to summer of love, in golden gate park 1967. all the hotrods, bikers, and people I knew. a magic time in history never to be repeated. went in the marines july 1971. vietnam vet 0311.

  • @roseannjosytewa1106
    @roseannjosytewa1106 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    My dad played this song to me when I was really down when my daughters dad left me. I love this song so much and it means alot to me. It always makes me feel better. I love you dad. :)

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Another one of those great soft rock songs from the 70s when every song on the radio was your favorite.

  • @bobsmith3217
    @bobsmith3217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Songs from 1969 and 1970 have a special sound. The energy and enthusiasm of the 1960s with a little bit of the production values of the 1970s.

  • @unamckillen7125
    @unamckillen7125 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    What a sweet song. I had forgotten. I am travelling back through all those sweet, tender songs - this one, "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes", "Silence is Golden", "Cherish", "Never My Love." I struggle to find modern equivalents.

    • @garyjones2561
      @garyjones2561 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about this new song called "Grip"? Excellent song with gripping lyrics: "grip...
      grip...
      grip"

    • @darkknight4756
      @darkknight4756 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lovely songs indeed

    • @stillbill6408
      @stillbill6408 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You won't.

    • @WOLFMANoct1963
      @WOLFMANoct1963 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      go luck looking, let me know when / if you find any

    • @usandthemx
      @usandthemx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      *****I struggle to find modern equivalents.*****
      Give it up There ain't NONE

  • @kalihiwarhomes2177
    @kalihiwarhomes2177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A crying shame that The Flying Machine only lasted between 1968 and 1970. Beautiful, timeless music that can never be replicated today.

  • @Jay-ji5cx
    @Jay-ji5cx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    This song is stuck in my head ever since I heard it yesterday. I was in the car with my mother and sister and my mother had the Oldies' station on the radio. Although I'm young, I love hearing the songs from the 60's and 70's etc.

    • @BadSneakers
      @BadSneakers 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Sarabella Turner I grew up with it and the chorus is all I remember, still love the song, but the chorus is epic

    • @Jay-ji5cx
      @Jay-ji5cx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The chorus is really addicting BadSneakers

    • @verticalhorizon4633
      @verticalhorizon4633 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Sarabella Turner Youth is fleeting. You'll be old, and wrinkled, and toothless before you realize it.

    • @magpieeye3239
      @magpieeye3239 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Sarabella Turner They were awesome years I lived them and don't listen to Vertical Horizon I still have all my own teeth and not too many wrinkles :)

    • @LuGerWolf
      @LuGerWolf 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Sarabella Turner HI,SARABELLA (NICE NAME) LIVE YOUR LIFE THE BEST YOU CAN AND ENJOY THIS MUSIC EVEN YOU DIDN'T LIVE THOSE YEARS.I'M 61 NOW AND I LOVE TO HEAR YOUNG PEOPLE SAYING THEY LIKE THIS MUSIC. CONGRATULATIONS ! NICE TASTE !

  • @raidensmamaw
    @raidensmamaw 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ahhh-priceless memories of my grandma (who was almost as wide as she was tall) swaying back and forth in the doorway "dancing". Love this song.

  • @o.miranda9726
    @o.miranda9726 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I smile every time I hear this song. Listening to it Brings back so many fond memories of high school and my first true love. (Who I'm still married to 47 years later).

    • @jenniferjohnson7279
      @jenniferjohnson7279 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too, met him 1969 fall and 55 years later still together.sweet memories with this song.god bless

  • @susanallen1929
    @susanallen1929 9 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    I had this '45 when it came out, and there was a skip where it was scratched. Funny to hear it now - I keep waiting for that skip!

    • @BugzKiller
      @BugzKiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      LOL I just posted the same thing almost......I bought the 45 when it came out on a Tuesday at Woolworths!

    • @tommyjames1726
      @tommyjames1726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      45..wow you must be 87 yrs of age now

    • @susanallen1929
      @susanallen1929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tommyjames1726 I just finished your book "Me the Mob and the Music". What a great story! And you are still rockin'! Hugs and kisses to you, and thanks for making my childhood a little more awesome.

    • @NellyHanky11
      @NellyHanky11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too - when I hear the part that skipped on our vinyl 45 back in 1969, I wait for it to happen again! Who knows - maybe we both bought the bad pressing from the same batch!!

    • @joyfulyes
      @joyfulyes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tommyjames1726 um, that's a 45 record

  • @ClassicCarMainiac
    @ClassicCarMainiac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have not thought about this song in decades and awakened at 5:00 AM this morning with it playing in my mind. Even remembered the words. This was released not long after my 9th birthday. My sister had it on 45 and I would play it over and over on her small portable record player.

  • @harleygal420
    @harleygal420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I remember my mom giving me a transistor radio for my 13th birthday. I also remember this song being one of the first I enjoyed hearing while holding the radio up to my ear while turning up the volume. I still have the transistor.

  • @Dave925
    @Dave925 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I woke up one September morning in 1969, early, it was 5AM, my Junior year of H.S had just started and this song came on. It haunted me then and it haunts me still because with just a note or two, I am back in what I feel now was a moment come unstuck in time. It is that real to me.

    • @suebee418
      @suebee418 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dave925 isn't that weird how some songs do that? That song about someone left the cake out in the rain was playing early morning when we were up early to go visit my oldest brother at boot camp since he was drafted and going overseas. Everytime I hear that song. It takes me back to that morning

    • @roberthetrick8849
      @roberthetrick8849 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was so well said they're certain blocks of time like that time I am can remember everything so well I was 10 years old but people places definitely the music I was not much for television somehow I just I'm still not but I can listen to this music over and over again and never get tired of it and they're two generations after me and my family I guess because if you want to call it influence they love it too but like you member waking up one September morning and hearing this song.
      I feel the same way waking up one September morning and heard this beautiful song by a group called Orpheus can't find the time it was so damn obscure and then I didn't hear it for the next almost 50 years sitting there one night bunch of us were watching them damn movie and yakking away and I heard Hootie and the Blowfish and they were singing this song and I had not heard it in all those decades I said how in the hell did they know about this song. So I went and found it somewhere probably on here and it all just comes right back that block of time another one from that era same exact time that is made like a come back so to speak that young people know about today because of TH-cam yeah Echo Park by Keith Barbour beautiful song I just totally forgot about today but because of this the young know about it beautiful song The Old man walks in Echo Park from bench to bench from morning till Dawn. For the Ducks some bread he brings wondering if he'll be here this time next spring crazy isn't it

    • @terryhomman141
      @terryhomman141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@roberthetrick8849 these old songs are all still on TH-cam even ones from the 40's and 50's I researched for my parents and I was born in 1956. Look them up.

    • @faithcarchia
      @faithcarchia 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Something funny is that this song was released 2 days after my dads G.T.O was sent to the Pontiac dealership.

  • @jackroper8829
    @jackroper8829 9 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    we were such romantics back in the 1970's. this song is a classic from my youth growing up in san Francisco. I must of been 16 years old in 1970. made us dream of girls! miss those days and times. you would of had to lived then to understand the times.

    • @thehoosierfortheUK
      @thehoosierfortheUK 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd do anything to live in that time for at least one month! A day at the least! Born in the 80s (1989 to be exact) and I LOVE this kind of music and those times when as you said were romantics, that's beautiful!

    • @jackroper8829
      @jackroper8829 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +thehoosierfortheUK hey there! I remember listening to this song in a car with a friend thinking about this girl. we were dreamers full of hope. you were born in 1989? I started working for the water dept. in 1989. I was 35 years old when you were born. I cannot believe how the time has passed. I wish also to go back in time also. would like to go back to the summer of 1964. unreal time for me then.

    • @dbd1353
      @dbd1353 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      where you go to school in SF?

    • @Kevinbobevin1
      @Kevinbobevin1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      must have....would have.... not must of....would of..... what school indeed....

    • @thehoosierfortheUK
      @thehoosierfortheUK 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be honest, I would love to have sex with a woman my age to this song!

  • @patrickrogers9499
    @patrickrogers9499 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Memories of my youth . Love the twang of the Wurlitzer electric piano . Great instrument indeed .

  • @alanrappaport9937
    @alanrappaport9937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    welcome home. !st Cav 69-70. I recall hearing this on Armed Forces Radio Vietnam

  • @googleuser1797
    @googleuser1797 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another one of those wonderful songs from the 1960's. Pop music back in the day was really special. You could put on the radio and listen for hours on end. I loved those times. But don't worry my people, God loved them too. They'll still be there when we get to heaven. Peace and love!!!

    • @priscillawilson2634
      @priscillawilson2634 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      and sing along and sometimes get the words wrong because they weren't written down anywhere, unless you had the album cover.

  • @petegarza2025
    @petegarza2025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I absolutely love this song...I was only 10 years old when it was released but it has made a big impact on my life that I will never ever forget...It reminds me of a good buddy of mine named Jimmy who grew up in a seedy neighborhood not too far from where I lived and Jimmy was always singing this wonderful song and I was always afraid of going to his neighborhood for fear of getting beat up Jimmy took me under his wing and made sure I was that I was always safe...Fast forward many years later as we both grew up and we both went on different paths... Tragically I found out one day that Jimmy was killed in a car crash leaving behind his wife and children...I was literally stunned when I found out about his death and now when I here this song it reminds so much of my dear friend...R.I.P. Jimmy and now every time I hear this song i remember the good old days and my friend Jimmy 🙏🙏🙏...😥😥😥...

    • @denonhall8723
      @denonhall8723 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So very sorry for your and his family's loss. 🙏🏻

    • @petegarza2025
      @petegarza2025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@denonhall8723 Ty so much for your support...I am now 63 and over the last 2 years I have lost a brother-in-law,and my stepdad to sudden illnesses so I know we are all mortal and now I try to live every like it was my last and thank God I'm in reasonable good health so life is good knock on wood...Ty again for your heartfelt support and please stay safe 🙏🙏🙏

    • @denonhall8723
      @denonhall8723 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@petegarza2025 you're welcome. 🙏🏻

    • @petegarza2025
      @petegarza2025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@denonhall8723 👍

    • @rozmarie1805
      @rozmarie1805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is so nice

  • @Theevil6ify
    @Theevil6ify 6 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I had a female friend in HS named Rose. We bonded in our love of classic rock bands (Beatles, Doors, etc) I found out after a while her dad was a legit hippie and actually named her after this song (her middle name was Marie). I had a big crush on her, but she was with this other guy for a long time. One day, when they'd broken up over some drama they had, she was pretty broken up about it. I sang this song to her and she nearly cried she liked it so much.
    We only stayed friends, we both found significant others, but she always said she loved me (as a brother or a best friend I guess).
    and I always told her the feeling was mutual. On graduation day she made me sing it to her one last time and she gave me a quick kiss and a hug and wished me the best. It's sad to have to give up on certain relationships, but I'll always hear this song and feel all warm just remembering her and the time we shared.

  • @Multi1628
    @Multi1628 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lived in New Orleans when this came out first, listened to WLS Chicago & NOLA's WTIX, WNOE, WBOK, & WYLD. New Orleans radio played everything ~ Love this song ~ Thanks, Cheers, DAVEDJ

  • @thehoosierfortheUK
    @thehoosierfortheUK 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm an 80s child (born in 1989) and I say this music is too awesome for words!!!

  • @TheCheese06z
    @TheCheese06z 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    there's something melancholy and sweet in the chorus and it just, hits me real hard in the heart.

  • @johnbrowneyes7534
    @johnbrowneyes7534 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Love to listen to these old classics! Brandy, Little Willy, Wildfire, Ooh Child, Draggin The Line, Sweet Mary, Candles In The Rain, Rock On, Evil Woman…….😍🎶

  • @LoveOldMusic808
    @LoveOldMusic808 16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My older brother bought the 45 when I was 8, man what memories, I loved this song back when I was a kid and I still love it today, thanks for posting it.

  • @teresagallonty6405
    @teresagallonty6405 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    For my best friend of 57 yrs. Rosemarie. She has been there for me through the good times, the bad times, and for all times. As i have for her. I love this song.

    • @derekkess8643
      @derekkess8643 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I sure do miss the 70s, 80s and 90s. The music🎶 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?

  • @carloscruz9663
    @carloscruz9663 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brian, I feel for you brother. My dad was there 68-69 two tours as a CWII gunship pilot(Huey). He lost many friends but was lucky to come back alive. He never was the same man that left us that September day in 1968. The man came back but not the mind. He's 87 now and still alive but Nam still has a hold of his mind. Thank you sir for your service and sacrifice.

  • @danielmarin6811
    @danielmarin6811 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Who is with me...It's 2020...This song was "HOT" in the 70's and it is still "HOT" Today...It's not really old...It's just pure Gold!

    • @gabrielandary587
      @gabrielandary587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i have always loved this song from the 60^s

    • @joegongora2200
      @joegongora2200 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Still listening on 7/22/2024 I still remember it, I’m 68 years old. I only listen to the good music 🎶.

  • @arielfortes4753
    @arielfortes4753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I was in school days I always listen to our old radio! And this is the song I always heard!

  • @billjenkins9634
    @billjenkins9634 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Songs like this really helped me get back on my feet after being dumped and other break ups along life’s journey. I always loved this song!

  • @mrcool665
    @mrcool665 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember when I was 8 or 9 (this was 1971/2) that I was driving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my family, late at night, and my father turned on the radio. For some reason, many years later, I still remember that moment. Could be the hook in the song :).

  • @garrettdavis6500
    @garrettdavis6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Listen, don't hate, I grew up in Connecticut, back in the late 1960's. I was in 4th. Grade when this was released. It's kind of like the Beatles for 9 year old's, ( like the Monkees, back then.) IT'S IN MY STINKIN' DNA !!!!!

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Ahhhhhh...Back in the day when the music was good and I was 21 years-young in 1970.

  • @musiccollector
    @musiccollector 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Awesome memories of CJME, Regina, SK in 1969. I will never forget.

  • @larrycrooks2783
    @larrycrooks2783 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Having been born in '52 I remember most of these songs. It amazes me how people have changed. Having lost my brother in the Vietnam War in '71 I have always had a sore spot in my heart as to their treatment. While I don't always agree with my government, I have always supported our troops. I will always feel that the war was lost due to political pressure, the press and the "sex, drugs and rock and roll," attitude. Don't get me wrong...I am a hard core "heavy metal-acid rock" fan, but I would give it all up to have my brother back.

  • @harponercam
    @harponercam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song was on a couple of hours of songs from WNAP radio I taped back in 1970 or '71 with alligator clips on the speaker connections and plugged into the Realistic recorder from Radio Shack. I later put it on cassette and had it for years. Always liked it. Thanks for the video.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those were the days, so simple. I really miss it. I'd go back to the 60s and 70s and stay.

  • @SuperBenblake
    @SuperBenblake 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Formerly known as Pinkerton's Colours. They deserved to have a huge hit and this was their huge hit. I love this song, but crazy as it may sound I was born in 1976 and later in teenaged years I became a full fledged hippie/MOD cat with long hair, psychedelic clothes, the whole thing. I started with the American stuff, but over time I found that it wasn't as good as Great Britain and Europe. Now I listen to almost entirely British and European music. Love this song and it has memories for me when I first heard it I was enthralled with it- Pinkerton's had a hit!

  • @Jehoshful
    @Jehoshful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    First heard this song when I was 11 yrs., and loved it from the start. So simple and yet, so good. It didn't hurt a bit, that my mom is called Marie!

  • @kemmererkid
    @kemmererkid 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    in 1969 I was getting ready to enter high school. As we all remember music was the fabric of our lives during our high school days and this song came along when rock was changing. Great song from a great one hit wonder.

  • @aday1637
    @aday1637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This song was pop when I served in the Army during Vietnam. Knowing the context helps understand what the lyrics mean. Many died and did not return to their loved ones. Most either don't know or forget.

  • @johnorlitta
    @johnorlitta 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Memories of listening to this song and many other classics on WCBS FM New York

  • @derekdiamond846
    @derekdiamond846 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tony, the singer is still singing with a Band called 'Pinkerton's', right here in the UK. They had to change the name to 'Flying Machine' for the US market , as 'Pinkertons' is US copyright, great band, still playing all the oldies and their hits. Peace.

  • @christinefowlkes1969
    @christinefowlkes1969 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was only 4 or 5 when I sang this song in front of my grandmother and family. Now I'm a grandmother and I just recently heard this song and it brought a tear to my eye cause most of my family is gone now. But I will always cherish it.

    • @robertbrowning1527
      @robertbrowning1527 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm feeling you these days! My family is all mostly gone as well.
      I'm sorry for your loss.

  • @frankfedi5751
    @frankfedi5751 11 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    in high school in the 70's I went to a dance in the gym where a local band named Orange Juice on Ice covered this...stays a lifetime.

  • @johnbowan3007
    @johnbowan3007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Still love this song even after all of these years

  • @andresmarrujo7797
    @andresmarrujo7797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am 69 years old I remember this song from my high school year,I miss those early days great song.

  • @oldmaidwhovianakanancyg4425
    @oldmaidwhovianakanancyg4425 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    OMG. I have such a nice memory associated w/ this song! My mom singing along w/ the radio in the kitchen while baking us cookies.

  • @paulmaurice8909
    @paulmaurice8909 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I love this song. It was in my 45s collection.

  • @RizkiAnjani
    @RizkiAnjani 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is timeless.

    • @alanspagnolia9474
      @alanspagnolia9474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Timeless for sure !! TOTALLY remember this song, when it first came out. It will NEVER grow old.....!! :)

  • @Edman910
    @Edman910 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is absolutely beautiful. Played with such sensitivity, great melody -so simple and lovely harmonies. One of the best pop songs ever I think . Love Flying Machines version of Baby Make It Soon also ... Thank you guys x

  • @dennislyons3710
    @dennislyons3710 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Made them do a couple of tours of duty over there! I can remember a few of the families in my neighborhood losing their sons over there and I can still remember the sadness that I had felt for these fine people who had just found themselves in a living hell! Anyway Thank You again!!!

  • @ruthdow2205
    @ruthdow2205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s been years sense I heard this song. I started singing the chorus to my granddaughter out of the blue today so I looked it up! Great song!

  • @philiptucci2458
    @philiptucci2458 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    beautiful music & great memories of life, top of the line solid gold standard of excellence, music at its very best, magnificent masterpiece

  • @pikaaapower
    @pikaaapower 10 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    I'm 18... Not many people my age know this song but honestly, it's one of my favorites! :)

    • @Wellch
      @Wellch 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      post it on your facebook account....and say little known but good song.

    • @Beautifulmusiclistnr
      @Beautifulmusiclistnr 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Good for you! This is a great song, and I've always loved it also! I'm glad someone as young as you listens to a song like this!

    • @eduardomaguiar9068
      @eduardomaguiar9068 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      É isso , bom gosto musical !!

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Good for you, the late 60s and 70s were a great time to be a teenager. If you like this song, you would have fit right in.

    • @eduardomaguiar9068
      @eduardomaguiar9068 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jacqueline Quiocho , esta música é linda !!

  • @listen2100
    @listen2100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had this 45 when I was a teeny bopper in the early to mid 70s Not sure where I got it,Mom may have got it at a thrift store, but I played it over and over,usually while pining for some boy. Good ol days. Great song!

  • @1royalpalm
    @1royalpalm 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was serving in the US Navy at Charleston, S.C., when this song came out (1969), listening to it on the local top 40 rock and pop radio station. I miss those days and times.

  • @lonestartx3147
    @lonestartx3147 10 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    I love this song for many reasons. One is that it is so beautifully done and so poignant. But the MAIN reason is, well, back when I was a freshman in high school so many years ago, back in 1972, it was something of a "tradition" for a senior girl to "adopt" a freshman boy and all. Anyway, I learned that she had an engagement broken off. She had always been so kind and helpful to me (and naturally I had a "crush" on her LOL), so I copied down the words of this song and give it to her the next time I saw her. The next day, she came up and gave me a big kiss on the lips. *smiles in recollection*...I cherish that memory, and often wonder how she is doing now. So many years ago, both of us now middle-aged, obviously, but some things endure. A wonderful song and poetry in the words.

    • @terryhomman141
      @terryhomman141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lonestar or anyone male or female if your single look the person up on your school on classmates.com you can see if your persons signed up and if so you can personal message them and see all 4 years of highshool info and clubs their in just look up the year they graduated look her up if your single. My guy friend did 40 years later☺💖

    • @wheneres6034
      @wheneres6034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i love too this song,

    • @georgequinn69
      @georgequinn69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ditto, Im 66 years old today in Marshall, TX and really miss the girls and friends from school that are not here today. The old music keeps me going and I love all you guys that support these vids, they bring back great memories and I love you all!!

    • @craigstd
      @craigstd ปีที่แล้ว

      Great story 👏

  • @alanestrada204
    @alanestrada204 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Best music ever, I listen to this music on my free time. Im all into rock and roll. Dont let rock and roll die people.

    • @rayevinn
      @rayevinn 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      According to Gene Simmons it is dead. :(

    • @Caban1970
      @Caban1970 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rayevinn Martin Gene Simmons is an idiot. HE'S the one that's dead... his brain.

    • @verticalhorizon4633
      @verticalhorizon4633 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Rayevinn Martin Easy to say when you don't need the cash.

    • @alanestrada204
      @alanestrada204 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      huh?