It was my mom's favorite too... and she named my brother Ben, who was born at this time! She didn't realize she named her son after a song about a rat, she just loved the song, and the way that Michael sang it, and of course, the name Ben! : )
I wished he'd returned to majoring on his amazing voice. Perhaps not trying, as he got older, to keep up the amazing dancing he went on to do in the 80s and 90s would have prolonged his life? 💔🙏🏿👏🏿🎤🎶
He was way more than a singer. HE CHANGED EARTH AND STILL IS. He was TRULY MAGICAL IN EVERY WAY. Never Never Land. NEVER EVER TOUCH OUR CHILDREN. A true GIANT OF A MAN.
I know this will be received by many as sarcastic and mean spirited. But only Michael Jackson could sing a song about a rat and have it become the mega hit that it did. And he did it with grace. Nobody else could have did this the way he did. What an incredible singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer and entertainer Michael Jackson was. He truly was a once in a lifetime talent. In my humble opinion music died the day Michael left us.
I am a big Michael's fan and I miss him greatly. Lucky lots of musicians learned from him. Try Simply Red. Mick Hucknall (born Michael James Hucknall) is also a composer and a song writer. An amazing dancer too. Stars is of of my favorites. You will not regret it! ❤✌
Ben, the two of us need look no more We both found what we were looking for With a friend to call my own I'll never be alone And you, my friend, will see You've got a friend in me (You've got a friend in me) Ben, you're always running here and there (here and there) You feel you're not wanted anywhere (anywhere) If you ever look behind And don't like what you find There's something you should know You've got a place to go (You've got a place to go) I used to say "I" and "me" Now it's "us", now it's "we" (I used to say "I" and "me") (Now it's "us", now it's "we") Ben, most people would turn you away (turn you away) I don't listen to a word they say (a word they say) They don't see you as I do I wish they would try to I'm sure they'd think again If they had a friend like Ben Like Ben (Like Ben) Like Ben
The Greatest Entertainer Of All Time was Talented Singing Kid prodigy too The Biggest Adult Mega Star in The World R.I.P King of Pop Rock and Soul Music
As a child I used to cry my eyes out watching Ben. And this song had such impact on me, even though I didn't understand the words, I understood the heart behind it and tried to sing it for my pets. Michael Jackson was one of a kind and I wish he could have had a peaceful parting from this world. I pray that all the children and vulnerable may have a chance for being cared and loved.
Gracias Michael por tu bellísima y hermosisima música, tu gran legado artístico y musical estará por siempre en nuestros corazones y pensamientos..... Desde Turen Portuguesa Venezuela saludos a todos
Me too. Especially as he said he liked the song and didn’t see the friendship in the movie as strange. It was written for Donny Osmond to sing for the movie but I think Michael was DEFINITELY the better pick.
Wow, that is one human being who was so destined to be a super star. Just look at him! He's so cute! How can any teen-ager have such perfect skin? Gleaming white teeth? Wow, you can just tell the "DANCE-FORCE" is powerful in this one. I mean, he's singing a ballad, but his supple frame is practically vibrating with such energy it's just yearning to burst into some really explosive dance moves. And... that incredible voice!
I was thinking same thing when watching this. I watched a video of producer Bobby Taylor proudly saying he had Michael in the Studio at this age up to 20 hours a day. MJ lived in a messed up world from the start. He was so controlled as a child, that he never found an inner self. And when he had independence he rejected everyone that had advice for him, because of that need to be in control. I just think it's the saddest thing ever, as he literally destroyed himself. I believe he was a good person but mentally and emotionally damaged beyond repair. The fame Thriller brought him was the worst thing to ever happen to him... It allowed him to drift away from reality. Sad. Just sad. 😕
Ability to Sing - Outstanding, Spectacular, Off this Planet Ability to Dance & Choreograph the Dancing - Truly gifted, a Perfectionist, Brilliant Ability to deal with the rubbish that other people say to you to get at you - Very Small - perhaps because he was touring all his childhood in the family group?
A natural entertainer who lost his childhood for his father’s ambitions. MJ would have dominated the music business in his teens or young adult-his talent was so uniquely huge.
Amazing of how Mister Jackson is young to performed his song called 'Ben' live at the 45th Oscars in 1973. Still, I never seen this performance since I was born in the late 90s (1998).
Oh, yes! Charlton Heston and Michael Jackson!!! Two of my favorites! I am SO fascinated how as as fan for thirty five years since the age of ten I am still learning about Michael Jackson to this day!!!
This is the amazing part his Oscar performance was in 1973 in nine years he would go on to record the top selling album of all time and become the biggest entertainer in the world. Two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and two time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Когда говорят о Майкле Джексоне то многие говорят о том как он танцевал. О его клипах. О хитах. Но мало кто говорил о его голосе. А ведь у него действительно хороший голос. Звонкий в детстве и необычный в зрелости. Но всегда в широком диапазоне.
This song is magical. It has always been mine and my brothers song. I still love it to this day, it was one of the few songs which he introduced me to Mj.
Just like Elvis, M.J. was born destined to live forever at the very very top of entertainers. Once in a lifetime generation may be to optimistic. There will never be another E.P. or never another M.J., or another one of you as well. Loved this song first heard as a kid and still love it as a old man today.
Elvis? No comparison whatsoever. White America packaged black entertainment in Elvis and called it rock. Elvis was a knock off of black dance moves and gay ass little Richard singing. MJ was born gifted and he was a continuation of the late James Brown. And white America is still stealing black culture to make it theirs, so get that Elvis bullshit outta here. Oh yeah, I failed to mention that Elvis was racist douchebag.
@@brianbelcher7279 My mother who is Africa- American was a huge Elvis fan growing up in the 60s and she told us the story years ago that she heard Elvis say that the only thing coloreds could do for him was shine his shoes. After that day, my moms destroyed all his records and tore up all his posters. He shattered a young black girl's heart. That's what he did.
@@LordCommandor www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2006/march.htm Idk. Y'all make it sound like he threw that same phrase around enough for their to be solid evidence that he said it. Yet there is none. In fact, this artical makes it sound similar to "leaving neverland." People claim he said it here. He was never here. People say he said it there. He was never there. Elvis had many close black friends who all said he wasn't a bit racist. Even in a time where racism was the norm
Eu não era nem nascido nesse ano, eu sou de 1984, mas amo a minha época. Tínhamos músicas de qualidade e verdadeiro amor entre as pessoas. Essa geração de 2000 para cá, não sabe o valor das coisas boas
My favourite michael jackson song when he died I cry michael jackson was beautiful human being kind loving sweet caring michael jackson is missed so much can't believe it be 14 years since michael jackson died
First time I heard it was in the movie theater. I was so happy and proud to hear him on the screen. Made it better because you could not see his face. My father took he to the record store the next day...They didn't have it and they didn't know he sung the song in the movie. I got the 45 record as soon as it was released. RIP Michael. Thank you for the good memories.
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Rip Michael. There are so many people that love you always.
Yes ❤
Sí. En el mundo entero. 🙌🥲❤️
@@Airefresco8387 True! Greetings from Germany from a Polish girl 😊🙋♀️
@@ewafischer3762 🇪🇦❤️ 🇩🇪!!!
@@Airefresco8387si ❤
These Stars watching mini Michael Jackson didn't have a clue that they've already witnessing the performance of soon to be THE BIGGEST STAR IN WORLD 👍
Sure they did! They had time machines back then.
Absolutely
Dominating the award shows Grammys, AMA’s VMA’s so many awards that’s why hes the most awarded artist of all time
He was the best.. :_)
Ofc they knew he was going to become The King
He's sing like a angel.
I agree
said the guy who heard an angel sing
Yees
Pity he was no angel.
Despite his personal issues,he was still one helluva entertainer!!! His legacy will never die!!!
Ben has always been my favorite Michael Jackson song
Actually I prefer his ballads you can tell he's singing from the heart
Me too as I own rattys which he is singing about Ben, the ratbin the movie Willard and Ben. Lol
This and Remember The Time are the songs I listen to the most
I always wondered if he had read the same book as me. I loved that song. The lyrics are spot on !
It was my mom's favorite too... and she named my brother Ben, who was born at this time! She didn't realize she named her son after a song about a rat, she just loved the song, and the way that Michael sang it, and of course, the name Ben! : )
The greatest entertainer of all time Michael Jackson
MICHAEL JACKSON'S song "BEN" is CLASSIC🎙️🎵🎶🎼
Perfection - He had too much talent!
I wished he'd returned to majoring on his amazing voice. Perhaps not trying, as he got older, to keep up the amazing dancing he went on to do in the 80s and 90s would have prolonged his life? 💔🙏🏿👏🏿🎤🎶
when you’re a kid and charlton heston announces you at the oscars, you know you’re going places.
When you’re a kid at the oscars you’re going places
Incredible & forever in my heart
People try to ruin your name but we the fans will always have your back RIP
I am in awe of how well he is interpreting the song at such a young age. You have to be highly sensitive to project the emotions he did while singing
I love this sing always move me to tears and the way he sung it 🥲
My man was really 14-15 at the oscars. Wow.
Michael Jackson is the most talented man of all time! Make no mistake of that. He's the King of pop and the gate to the modern R&B Era.
I agree
Prince
@@johnburns2940 Prince is great too, but it's hard to compete with Michael.
Damn since child this guy was separated from others.
By God given talent
what control and ease mj's voice had. so beautiful
45 years ago, today, Michael performed this... At Oscars.
You mean, the 45th Oscars (or the 45th Annual Academy Awards).
So he was young when he sang Ben
@Michael Myers crying
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@nancyduncan6594 obviously he was younger it was in the early 70s
こんなに子供の頃から…情感溢れる歌唱力…❤
完璧なプロポーション
既に…稀代のエンターティナー存在感❤🎉❤
He was way more than a singer. HE CHANGED EARTH AND STILL IS. He was TRULY MAGICAL IN EVERY WAY. Never Never Land. NEVER EVER TOUCH OUR CHILDREN. A true GIANT OF A MAN.
I remember Michael singing this song at the Oscars... such beautifully sung my him... amazing..
you mean miming this at the oscars, this is the studio version..
Annette Sonja Jesse, what year was it?
❤
I know this will be received by many as sarcastic and mean spirited. But only Michael Jackson could sing a song about a rat and have it become the mega hit that it did. And he did it with grace. Nobody else could have did this the way he did.
What an incredible singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer and entertainer Michael Jackson was. He truly was a once in a lifetime talent.
In my humble opinion music died the day Michael left us.
I am a big Michael's fan and I miss him greatly. Lucky lots of musicians learned from him. Try Simply Red. Mick Hucknall (born Michael James Hucknall) is also a composer and a song writer. An amazing dancer too. Stars is of of my favorites. You will not regret it! ❤✌
I agree my heart broke when I heard he died 🥲💔
Did he write it too
Ow, you wanna make me cry🥺
He is still The one and only Michael Jackson , even after he passed away more than 10 years.
Mona Winn, it's true you're absolutely right dear!
15 years has passed in the blink of an eye. MJ may never be surpassed. Miss him very much.
What do you mean?
How could there be a second Michael Jackson?
He always be a legend in my heart.
Love you Michael Joseph Jackson and I love all of your music ❤❤❤❤😢
He was such a brave human being. Just 14 years old here and he brought the house down.
Eu tinha 10anos neste ano.
Saudades desse tempo que não volta mais.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
MORE BRAVE THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE AWARE , BUT WILL FIND OUT SOONER THAN LATER...
AMEN!🙌🏽👑✨💯
@@jenjoseph9394 dot dot dot
@@Milkers777 he's not God
50 years ago, MJ peformed this at the Oscars!!!
March 27, 1973
My father 40th bday. Now he is 91.
As a little kid in Japan, not even knowing who Michael Jackson was, I cried when I heard this song. It’s still in a special place in my heart 🙂💕✨
I've watched this 100 times
Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me
(You've got a friend in me)
Ben, you're always running here and there (here and there)
You feel you're not wanted anywhere (anywhere)
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's something you should know
You've got a place to go
(You've got a place to go)
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
(I used to say "I" and "me")
(Now it's "us", now it's "we")
Ben, most people would turn you away (turn you away)
I don't listen to a word they say (a word they say)
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben
Like Ben
(Like Ben)
Like Ben
Thank you for the lyrics 🤗
One of the greatest talents ever, we miss you Michael
My God he was talented. Just incredible.
I love this song I was 13 now I'm 61 and loving it
The Greatest Entertainer Of All Time was Talented Singing Kid prodigy too The Biggest Adult Mega Star in The World R.I.P King of Pop Rock and Soul Music
its amazing how good he was! no one can reach that.
Sammy Davis Jr. holds that title.
@@Coowallsky Absolutely Not! MJ Holds That Title & He’s The King Of Music Truly The Greatest Music Artist To Ever Live Period!👑✨
Mozart? Beethoven?
My favourite song. What a beautiful voice...
As a child I used to cry my eyes out watching Ben. And this song had such impact on me, even though I didn't understand the words, I understood the heart behind it and tried to sing it for my pets. Michael Jackson was one of a kind and I wish he could have had a peaceful parting from this world. I pray that all the children and vulnerable may have a chance for being cared and loved.
Me too ❤💙❤💙❤
💕 ♥️ 💜 💙 🧡 ❤ 💕
Que hermoso pensamiento 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏🤗🤗🤗
Gracias Michael por tu bellísima y hermosisima música, tu gran legado artístico y musical estará por siempre en nuestros corazones y pensamientos..... Desde Turen Portuguesa Venezuela saludos a todos
I wish I could go back in time to hug him I miss him so much I never met him Rest easy Michael I love you
It's my favorite MJ song. Just beautiful
Ele não fazia ideia o quanto ele era lindo 🇧🇷
This is a beautiful #song and #MichaelJackson ‘s voice is majestic. Moves me to tears…
Jennifer Sopsic, It's true, I don't know the lyrics of the song, but it transmits an energy of suffering!
Me too. Especially as he said he liked the song and didn’t see the friendship in the movie as strange.
It was written for Donny Osmond to sing for the movie but I think Michael was DEFINITELY the better pick.
Wow, that is one human being who was so destined to be a super star. Just look at him! He's so cute! How can any teen-ager have such perfect skin? Gleaming white teeth? Wow, you can just tell the "DANCE-FORCE" is powerful in this one. I mean, he's singing a ballad, but his supple frame is practically vibrating with such energy it's just yearning to burst into some really explosive dance moves. And... that incredible voice!
Omg, the way you described it is just perfect!
Perfect skin?!
MJ was a strikingly handsome young man. Unfortunately his inner demons eventually did him in.
@@pensiveczar2239
He meant perfect blood, he would have liked to sample some, by the looks of things.
My favourite his song ever
MJ has big, beautiful hands!❤️❤️
This song is nice to lisen to relax
Já assisti mais de 100 vezes isso que é amar totalmente um cantor de verdade
Michael is the greatest.
Someone still listen? I could not find any singers sing this song like him.
Really sad to see how he started and how his life ended .
Ik it’s so sad 😭💔
I was thinking same thing when watching this. I watched a video of producer Bobby Taylor proudly saying he had Michael in the Studio at this age up to 20 hours a day.
MJ lived in a messed up world from the start.
He was so controlled as a child, that he never found an inner self. And when he had independence he rejected everyone that had advice for him, because of that need to be in control.
I just think it's the saddest thing ever, as he literally destroyed himself. I believe he was a good person but mentally and emotionally damaged beyond repair. The fame Thriller brought him was the worst thing to ever happen to him... It allowed him to drift away from reality.
Sad. Just sad. 😕
@@rebeccaharris2587 Well said. I miss this little Michael 😔
Illuminati can be cruel
Ability to Sing - Outstanding, Spectacular, Off this Planet
Ability to Dance & Choreograph the Dancing - Truly gifted, a Perfectionist, Brilliant
Ability to deal with the rubbish that other people say to you to get at you - Very Small - perhaps because he was touring all his childhood in the family group?
In tears right now.
Oh my goodness, this was perfectly sung!!! So beautiful!!!! Wow, he was always amazing wasn't he!!!!!! ❤️❤️
he was lip synching here :( but indeed he was so talented
Verdade 😭
A natural entertainer who lost his childhood for his father’s ambitions. MJ would have dominated the music business in his teens or young adult-his talent was so uniquely huge.
A beautiful song by a beautiful soul 😢😢❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love you Michael Jackson ♥️💋❤️
What a beautiful voice 🤩👏👏👏
The greatest performing artist to ever lived.
Every song Micheal Jackson sang in said this is my favourite. What an amazing artist✌
Mine as well
What a voice. Rest in peace Michael. Too bad you couldn't have stayed young forever.
MICHAEL ALWAYS ❤
Amazing of how Mister Jackson is young to performed his song called 'Ben' live at the 45th Oscars in 1973. Still, I never seen this performance since I was born in the late 90s (1998).
I love these old walking around stage props performances
Gente que voz linda ,perfeição 🤩
O maior de todos os tempos ! Que esteja em paz onde for que seja!
Sem dúvida o maior artista de todos. A humanidade foi cruel com ele. Uma pena.
Oh, yes! Charlton Heston and Michael Jackson!!! Two of my favorites! I am SO fascinated how as as fan for thirty five years since the age of ten I am still learning about Michael Jackson to this day!!!
Oh how I missed him 😔 what a great performer he is 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😘😘😘 he’s gone but his songs linger and touches everybody’s soul ♥️♥️♥️
Que Deus te guarde onde você estiver, meu amigo , só vc e Deus sabe o que passava no seu coração.
🌷🙏❤
This is the amazing part his Oscar performance was in 1973 in nine years he would go on to record the top selling album of all time and become the biggest entertainer in the world. Two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and two time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This was five years after MLK assassination too and the civil rights movements
Man, I wish he could have stayed just like this. ❤
Beautiful Michael.
Beautiful voice!❤️❤️❤️
Most people don't know this, but he went on to have a career in music.
Si hay vida en otras galaxias de seguro que Michel Jackson es también el preferido de todos ellos,sin lugar a duda
Beautiful song 🎵 makes me cry when i am 😔. Love u Michael 😢
He was the Jackson 5. We all fell in love with the cute kid❤️he stood out even then❤️💜
Muy jovencito entonces con una voz hermosa!😍❤️
Well performed! Rest well my friend. Your legacy is in tact.
Exquisite rendition from this angel! Moves me beyond tears!
Когда говорят о Майкле Джексоне то многие говорят о том как он танцевал. О его клипах. О хитах. Но мало кто говорил о его голосе. А ведь у него действительно хороший голос. Звонкий в детстве и необычный в зрелости. Но всегда в широком диапазоне.
Sem dúvida nenhuma Michael Jackson foi o Rei 👑 do Pop e continua sendo BEAUTIFUL LOVE FOREVER Michael 👑 👑 👑 ❤❤❤
This song is magical. It has always been mine and my brothers song. I still love it to this day, it was one of the few songs which he introduced me to Mj.
Heaven must be So beatiful with his voice.
Saudades de você meu amor ❤️ o mundo jamais terá um talento como vc criança 🇧🇷
what a sweet voice
The King Of Music Truly The Greatest Music Artist To Ever Live Michael Joseph Jackson!😇🙌🏽👑❤️💕🌟
My Mother let me stay up to watch this performance.. After seeing Ben in the theaters.. I miss him.. Inshallah and Peace..
Just like Elvis, M.J. was born destined to live forever at the very very top of entertainers. Once in a lifetime generation may be to optimistic. There will never be another E.P. or never another M.J., or another one of you as well. Loved this song first heard as a kid and still love it as a old man today.
Elvis? No comparison whatsoever. White America packaged black entertainment in Elvis and called it rock. Elvis was a knock off of black dance moves and gay ass little Richard singing. MJ was born gifted and he was a continuation of the late James Brown. And white America is still stealing black culture to make it theirs, so get that Elvis bullshit outta here. Oh yeah, I failed to mention that Elvis was racist douchebag.
Elvis ? Lol
@@LordCommandor elvis was racist? What'd he do?
@@brianbelcher7279 My mother who is Africa- American was a huge Elvis fan growing up in the 60s and she told us the story years ago that she heard Elvis say that the only thing coloreds could do for him was shine his shoes. After that day, my moms destroyed all his records and tore up all his posters. He shattered a young black girl's heart. That's what he did.
@@LordCommandor www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2006/march.htm
Idk. Y'all make it sound like he threw that same phrase around enough for their to be solid evidence that he said it. Yet there is none. In fact, this artical makes it sound similar to "leaving neverland." People claim he said it here. He was never here. People say he said it there. He was never there. Elvis had many close black friends who all said he wasn't a bit racist. Even in a time where racism was the norm
Michael you will always be in our memory and our hearts. You was the best. We miss you so much.
I’m starting to have sad feelings about this song. This was just another perspective of a younger Michael before he became the king of pop. R.I.P ❤️
Talent unmatched! Rest In Peace my love
Thank you for posting this.
Eu não era nem nascido nesse ano, eu sou de 1984, mas amo a minha época. Tínhamos músicas de qualidade e verdadeiro amor entre as pessoas. Essa geração de 2000 para cá, não sabe o valor das coisas boas
この曲、大大大大大好き💞😺💞😺💞 子供の頃に、土曜日のお昼「BEN」の映画をテレビ放送（テレビ大阪だったかな）していて、
ラストの方で流れてきて、映画の内容とこの曲で呼吸困難になりそうなくらい泣いたわ💘
初めて、歌を聴いて泣いたのがこの曲✨✨
Eterna criança.
We lost a great performer, actor and father
Ese fenómeno grandioso tenía como 14 años que grande es
Michael Jackson, the greatest of all time
My favourite michael jackson song when he died I cry michael jackson was beautiful human being kind loving sweet caring michael jackson is missed so much can't believe it be 14 years since michael jackson died
Never been duplicated! Priceless! Rip Michael 💕💕💕
First time I heard it was in the movie theater. I was so happy and proud to hear him on the screen. Made it better because you could not see his face. My father took he to the record store the next day...They didn't have it and they didn't know he sung the song in the movie. I got the 45 record as soon as it was released. RIP Michael. Thank you for the good memories.
I wish I was born when Michael stardom first came around. Everybody says he had the world in his hands at the time
So beautiful ❤️❤️👍
Gênio ! Talentoso amo demais 💕
this is a very beautiful, although a sad song about a creature despised and unwanted. Michael sang this with a depth of emotion that is heartbreaking.
Virou uma lenda sera lembrado por cem gerações...♥️♦️
The best version of Ben ever...Just before his voice broke.. wow absolutely wonderful.............................