Oh my goodness!!! This song I haven’t heard in years, I went back in time, lovely memories!!! Thank you Craig for recommendation and Harri for such a great reaction!! ♥️🎼👏🏻🌷🤩✌️
One of my favorites - I would go to the city pool all day every day in the summer that year - the radio was on the whole time and it was such a great summer for music!
This could be my favorite song from the 70s. Something about the crescendo vocals, the interplay of all the instruments. I just love this song. Thanks for the reaction!
I love it when one of my favorite commentators loves one of my favorite songs. This was from 1971, and as usual you nailed the time period precisely. It never got airplay as an oldie, although you do hear their much earlier first hit, :"You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine."
I had kind of forgot about this song. Funny the way the lyrics came back to me while listening. As soon as a line was completed the next line popped back to memory.
I remember the Fortunes ..... they had hits in the 60s and early 70s. They were a second division group compared to The Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Hollies but they were often around the charts with pleasant tuneful pop songs !
The Fortunes also recorded an early version of "Seasons in the Sun" in 1969 which later on was a huge hit for Terry Jacks in 1973-'74. The Fortunes' version was a hit in Holland. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/mnH-0QLFE70/w-d-xo.html
Just jumped off a plane to hear this great classic. Their 3rd top 40 hit in the US, this is just a melodic masterpiece which is timeless and classic. Lead singer Rod Allen, has the same vocal technique as Frankie Valli displayed beautifully here. The captivating harmonies, melodic guitar riffs, the xylophone and the beautifully arranged orchestration compliments the poignant lyrics. Made it to Number 15 in the US, Number 12 in Canada and Number 51 in the UK. Beautiful memory. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
This song came out during my senior year in high school and I have spent the entire time since then thinking this was Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons! I love the song and have heard it dozens of times and had the artist wrong. I feel rather foolish. Anyway, thanks Craig and Harri for setting the record straight 🌺✌️
Wow! I know this song -remember it well -but I guess I always assumed it was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons… sound quite similar to them! Thanks for straightening me out!
It’s so surprising to me that some of my favorite songs are sung by bands I’ve never heard of, lol. I can sing along with every word, but I’ve never heard of the Fortunes before today. Crazy, man!
I was out of town 700 miles from home and when I was ready to drive back home - I had been sleeping and when I woke up this song was playing in my head!! Great memories of this song…♥️
I recall this and other hits by the Fortunes and assumed for years they were black. Imagine my surprise when, fifteen years later, I saw them on an old pop tv show. Great stuff guys.
I am transported back to summer evenings in NC in the early 70s, I can smell the air, I can smell how the house my first crush lived in, I can hear thunder in the distance on a warm, honeysuckly Carolina July evening anticipating being with my first puppy love again. Siggghhh. Where did those times go????
In this particular song, they have a combination sound like The Archies and like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons... I'm old enough to remember watching them in the mid 60's... I'm an old man Harri😂 66-->keep bringing back good memories memories n more memories 😊 hey here's a good one for you Mr Best A group called Badfinger: song? 🎉I remember finding out about you🎉
Nice choice. This group was really a British invasion band; but really did not make it in the US & went back to England, where they continued to have smashing success. They spearheaded a sound know as "Merseybeat," (out of Birmingham UK) but as good as it was, with that percussion & harmony-driven sound ... it was these melodic, melancholy, orchestrated ballads (similar to the Moody Blues) that gave them US fame. Frankie Valli was being pushed as a solo artist and this song was so reminiscent of the Four Seasons. Just all the right pieces at the right time. Thanks again.
The Fortunes were an English harmony beat group from Birmingham. Their first big hit was "You've Got Your Troubles" in 1965. They had other hits such as "Here It Comes Again", "Storm In A Teacup", "Freedom Come, Freedom Go" etc. The Fortunes also recorded an advertisement for Coca-Cola in the US. First in 1967 "Things Go Better With Coke" & also in 1969 "It's The Real Thing".
Love that tune! have not heard that song since it was played on Saturday night at the seventies. there are so many wonderful memories in these long-lost gems. Thanks Craig and Harri.
Harri when you listen to this is just pure Beautiful, harmonizing music they were Fabulous, I Love when they sing the hit "" You Got Your Troubles I Got Mine " Thanks for the memory Harri.
This was one of the "summer songs of my life", of warm, muggy Carolina evenings, of puppy loves and first crushes, of the smell of honeysuckle on a languid summer's eve, of youth, possibilities and joy.This is a true, happy auditory gem from The Fortunes. God, but the 70s were LOADED with gems like this. The Rain ne coming again, but the feeling is one of pure JOY.❤😊Thank you, Gray D., for being a huge part of my life then. This is one of the songs we grooved to.
Oh my goodness!!! This song I haven’t heard in years, I went back in time, lovely memories!!! Thank you Craig for recommendation and Harri for such a great reaction!! ♥️🎼👏🏻🌷🤩✌️
You’re welcome!
I haven't heard this song in ages either. Great to hear it again! 👍
It's a great masterpiece and I wish I could go back to that time
Agree!!! A great recommendation!! The other reaction stations are really missing out.
@craigaust another one marked off my list. Some parts of this song the singer sounds like Frankie valli
Yea I can here that.
Thank you Craig for this one. Haven't heard it in years, what a great song.
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You’re welcome!
One of my favorites - I would go to the city pool all day every day in the summer that year - the radio was on the whole time and it was such a great summer for music!
Another masterpiece, a magical song, I feel the warm rain under my window, 💦 a good selection of songs, thanks Harri! Like!
This could be my favorite song from the 70s. Something about the crescendo vocals, the interplay of all the instruments. I just love this song. Thanks for the reaction!
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something about it---top 5 70s tune
I love it when one of my favorite commentators loves one of my favorite songs. This was from 1971, and as usual you nailed the time period precisely. It never got airplay as an oldie, although you do hear their much earlier first hit, :"You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine."
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I had kind of forgot about this song. Funny the way the lyrics came back to me while listening. As soon as a line was completed the next line popped back to memory.
Ditto
Gee. This is one i had totally forgotten about! Until I saw the title, and I knew what it would be. Thanks Craig!
I remember the Fortunes ..... they had hits in the 60s and early 70s. They were a second division group compared to The Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Hollies but they were often around the charts with pleasant tuneful pop songs !
I always thought they were comparable and as good as the four seasons...Great music 🎶
Today is John Lennons birthday 🎂. 83 years old. Do the Birthday Song By the Beatles. Thanks Harri 🌄✌️
It makes my heart warm😊
The Fortunes also recorded an early version of "Seasons in the Sun" in 1969 which later on was a huge hit for Terry Jacks in 1973-'74. The Fortunes' version was a hit in Holland. Here it is:
th-cam.com/video/mnH-0QLFE70/w-d-xo.html
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Just jumped off a plane to hear this great classic. Their 3rd top 40 hit in the US, this is just a melodic masterpiece which is timeless and classic.
Lead singer Rod Allen, has the same vocal technique as Frankie Valli displayed beautifully here. The captivating harmonies, melodic guitar riffs, the xylophone and the beautifully arranged orchestration compliments the poignant lyrics.
Made it to Number 15 in the US, Number 12 in Canada and Number 51 in the UK. Beautiful memory. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
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Always reminds me of Frankie Valli too. Great song. 🙂
I never really thought about it at the time, and haven't heard it in years, but he does sound a lot like Frankie.
I do remember this song now! Very nice.😃 Check " You´ve got your troubles " 😁😁
I always thought the lead singer sounded like Frankie Valli
This is one of the greatest songs ever written
Don't forget "You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine" by them. Easily, one of their greatest songs along with this. The group was very underrated.
gotta be in the top 500
Thanks Craig and Harri, have this on a playlist but I never tire of hearing it, just a great sound.
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You’re welcome!
0:50 and 1:22 always reminds me of Frankie Valli.
"You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine" is their best work.
What a beautifull song ❤ Thank you Craig for sharing 😇🙏🤩 Im not sure if I know the song, even though it sounds so familiar. And Thank you Harri
You’re welcome!
This singer reminds me of Frankie Valli!
this is one of the great pop tunes
Storm In A Teacup is another great track from The Fortunes, a band from my neck of the woods.
One of my favorite songs. You can almost call this song perfect.
“… misty morning eyes, I’m tryin’ to disguise the way I feel…” That’s pretty good early seventies bridge work, right there. Wild about Harri.
When music was music
The Fortunes are still going, I saw them earlier this year.
This song came out during my senior year in high school and I have spent the entire time since then thinking this was Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons! I love the song and have heard it dozens of times and had the artist wrong. I feel rather foolish. Anyway, thanks Craig and Harri for setting the record straight 🌺✌️
You’re not alone I just commented the same thing 😊
You’re welcome!
Very 4 Seasons vocal style. Remember this well, and loved it then and now.
Obviously knew sounding like FV&4S would work out well for them. One of my favorite old school pop songs for 50yrs +.
Love this one harry!!
Wow! I know this song -remember it well -but I guess I always assumed it was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons… sound quite similar to them! Thanks for straightening me out!
I used to think the same exact thing back then.
It’s so surprising to me that some of my favorite songs are sung by bands I’ve never heard of, lol. I can sing along with every word, but I’ve never heard of the Fortunes before today. Crazy, man!
Thanks, Harri and Craig. Haven't heard this in years. Awesome song!
very Frankie Valle and the 4 seasons vibe. I remember this one well. It got lots of air play on the radio.
Wow, I haven't heard this song since I was child in the early 70's. I had forgotten about it.
blue eyed motown
Always thought this was Frankie Vallie
........... mistaken....
Under the Cookaway Music publication.
Solid pick Craig. 👍 Great song. ✌
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Thanks!
Tony Maculay aka Little Anthony with Fortunes co writers Tony Cook and Tony Hardaway cowrote it.
This is such an amazing song. I haven’t heard it for a long time but it used to be one of my top plays. Thanks Craig and thanks to you, Harri.
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...sigh.... I was 14. Oh to go back and do it again - except to know what I know now!
Man, Harri U ARE the best in analyzing. Thanks Man. U got groove, others, IMO, look a bit trite.
I was out of town 700 miles from home and when I was ready to drive back home - I had been sleeping and when I woke up this song was playing in my head!!
Great memories of this song…♥️
Try The Poppy Family-Which Way are You Going Billy..the drums!
I recall this and other hits by the Fortunes and assumed for years they were black. Imagine my surprise when, fifteen years later, I saw them on an old pop tv show. Great stuff guys.
Back when singers crafted beautiful, pop songs designed to be played on top 40 radio...
And to draw interest to their albums..
I am transported back to summer evenings in NC in the early 70s, I can smell the air, I can smell how the house my first crush lived in, I can hear thunder in the distance on a warm, honeysuckly Carolina July evening anticipating being with my first puppy love again. Siggghhh. Where did those times go????
Yes you're right,and back when singers could really sing,pure natural talent no machines need to make their voices sound great,
In this particular song, they have a combination sound like The Archies and like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons... I'm old enough to remember watching them in the mid 60's... I'm an old man Harri😂 66-->keep bringing back good memories memories n more memories 😊 hey here's a good one for you Mr Best
A group called Badfinger: song?
🎉I remember finding out about you🎉
I remember this song from back in High School.
You are so cool I Feel The same way about the music keep smiling😂
Nice choice. This group was really a British invasion band; but really did not make it in the US & went back to England, where they continued to have smashing success. They spearheaded a sound know as "Merseybeat," (out of Birmingham UK) but as good as it was, with that percussion & harmony-driven sound ... it was these melodic, melancholy, orchestrated ballads (similar to the Moody Blues) that gave them US fame. Frankie Valli was being pushed as a solo artist and this song was so reminiscent of the Four Seasons. Just all the right pieces at the right time. Thanks again.
Would u class this as Northern soul? It's as good as any for me😅
What a great song!
Their best song and my favorite song of the 70s. I can listen and do listen it over and over. It never gets old.
The Fortunes were an English harmony beat group from Birmingham. Their first big hit was "You've Got Your Troubles" in 1965. They had other hits such as "Here It Comes Again", "Storm In A Teacup", "Freedom Come, Freedom Go" etc. The Fortunes also recorded an advertisement for Coca-Cola in the US. First in 1967 "Things Go Better With Coke" & also in 1969 "It's The Real Thing".
Sounds like Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons.
Always loved this song from the first time I heard it. Agree with your reaction. Thx!
Love that tune! have not heard that song since it was played on Saturday night at the seventies. there are so many wonderful memories in these long-lost gems. Thanks Craig and Harri.
I grew up in the 80s, which was great! I’ll bet growing up in the 60s was just as awesome!
Big Frankie and The Four seasons vibe with this classic.
Storm in a Teacup is another fav of mine
Harri when you listen to this is just pure Beautiful, harmonizing music they were Fabulous, I Love when they sing the hit "" You Got Your Troubles I Got Mine " Thanks for the memory Harri.
I could picture The Four Seasons singing this song.
A great song. I remember it was a hit in the sixties, when I was still a Child. How time flies. 👍🎶🎶
Even became a boot ad song.
Paul McCartney called Rod Allen the voice of the sixties. Great singer, up there with the best.
Best tunes ever. I think
One of my faves! ❤
It is so wonderful, i feeling so good
1 of my favourites
wonderful memories
ooo bop bop ooo bop bop
Smooth as glass
Good man.
love this song!
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I was born on a monday too. A lot of people dont Like that day by esotherical aspects. It doesnt mean Bad luck after all automatical
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This was one of the "summer songs of my life", of warm, muggy Carolina evenings, of puppy loves and first crushes, of the smell of honeysuckle on a languid summer's eve, of youth, possibilities and joy.This is a true, happy auditory gem from The Fortunes. God, but the 70s were LOADED with gems like this. The Rain ne coming again, but the feeling is one of pure JOY.❤😊Thank you, Gray D., for being a huge part of my life then. This is one of the songs we grooved to.
I adored this song on 1970/71 era, it was the time of my first crush and will be forever associated with that person...
Great song my first love I was 15 yrs old together for 2 years bring back lovely memories 67 now
Great vocals kind of like a Frankie Valli and Four Seasons rip off!
They put you in the mind of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME