Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion - 1969

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  • Studio version, music video, lyrics.
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    Look over yonder what do you see?
    The sun is a-risin' most definitely
    A new day is comin' people are changin'
    Ain't it beautiful crystal blue persuasion
    Better get ready gonna see the light
    Love, love is the answer and that's all right
    So don't you give up now so easy to find
    Just look to your soul and open your mind
    Crystal blue persuasion
    It's a new vibration
    Crystal blue persuasion, crystal
    Blue persuasion
    Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
    Every green field and every town
    All of his children every nation
    There'll be peace and good brotherhood
    Crystal blue persuasion
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  • @BIgDaddy-ow1zq
    @BIgDaddy-ow1zq ปีที่แล้ว +154

    This song is 99.1% pure

  • @jordyncantrell215
    @jordyncantrell215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    Just had my grandfather’s funeral yesterday. He didn’t want any fancy funeral service, he just requested that this song be played and that’s it. Miss him so much and needed to hear it again.

    • @ramonacoleman4608
      @ramonacoleman4608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sincerest condolences 🙏
      He is up there, singing his 🎵

    • @Ab_43336
      @Ab_43336 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

    • @Ab_43336
      @Ab_43336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My sympathies...same here
      And it's a beautiful. Morning the rascals.
      .my daughter doesn't care
      She hates me ..i grave life and a better life.

    • @williamflack5767
      @williamflack5767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I am so sorry, heard this in my Grandfather 1964 Ford pick up. AM radio was the only thing extra. I learned to drive on. The simple life. What happened to us ? Love you all ❤️

    • @joycecoletta7699
      @joycecoletta7699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He speaks thru music and at your quietest time.

  • @alanroy2228
    @alanroy2228 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    This song is 99.6% pure

  • @pammiller942
    @pammiller942 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I'm 69 years old and I'm still grooving on this song this is a great song I always have Crystal Blue Persuasion in my brain❤ 0:16

  • @MikeMizz
    @MikeMizz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Song isn't about drugs, it's about peace, loving your fellow man because we're all the same regardless of your, race, creed, religion, anything. I was born in 1963, and growing up it was so much simpler then. The world was a huge place, no smartphones, no internet. Phones were all hooked to the wall, and one color, with a heavy cord connecting the handset to the phone. You'd go outside and play games, not walk around with a phone in your face all the time. Now the world's become very small, with a lot more darkness known about thanks to progress. Not saying it's all bad, but if I could go back, I'd do it in a second and poof...I'd be back to such a better time...believe it

    • @terryomalley9669
      @terryomalley9669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      MikeMizz,
      Also, you could look at a woman back in the day, without worrying that she was going to either declare sexual harassment or even worse, kick you in the gonads. I would go back in a second.

    • @pedromeza2398
      @pedromeza2398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@terryomalley9669 the exception to looking at women back then, was that her husband, father had the rights to kick you in the gonads, now a days we get arrested for doing that to you perverts and fools.

    • @debbieh5620
      @debbieh5620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree 💯 😊

    • @charlesstevens6705
      @charlesstevens6705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mike you know what Eienstein the inventor said "Technology is going to make fools out of all of us if we dont corral it " .This is what has happened.I ride the train everyday and people no longer talk to each other anymore, they have headphones on their heads, or they are speaking on their phones. The "Twilight Zone " is no longer on television its on the streets of America. I went into a Stop & Shop and there was a huge robot moving about the store and about 9 people working inside the store !!!! 9 living souls in the store !!

    • @themagicalgamer6522
      @themagicalgamer6522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ok boomer

  • @doccarew9103
    @doccarew9103 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Drafted in 69, wasn't smart enough to say hell no I won't go. Many young Americans never had the chance to hear this great music. Hope they have a rock band in heaven.

    • @suerosner6539
      @suerosner6539 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is a beautiful song.Love the video.

    • @timalan1630
      @timalan1630 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry but the Iraq war as far as oil goes was the Bush's and only him, other people had other interest as far as artifacts from babylon, there are crates there that has stuff in them, marines was there that took that stuff out but where they took it nobody knows but it was not completely Oil. But like i said The Bush family was the only ones interested in the oil and the saudi's.

  • @SoftOceanBreeze
    @SoftOceanBreeze 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Who's here simply because this is a cool song and has never seen a single episode of breaking bad in their entire existence?

    • @fmdvkkrkrkrk
      @fmdvkkrkrkrk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Watch Breaking Bad

    • @SoftOceanBreeze
      @SoftOceanBreeze 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@fmdvkkrkrkrk but why tho?

    • @laurarosalia8399
      @laurarosalia8399 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I only watch my childhood memories wiith this song.

    • @bdlc6832
      @bdlc6832 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am. I remember this song from my childhood days.

    • @lizjarvis5449
      @lizjarvis5449 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      me!

  • @PhuongNguyen-zb2en
    @PhuongNguyen-zb2en ปีที่แล้ว +54

    This song is 94.7% pure

    • @christopherryan8
      @christopherryan8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      99.1%

    • @SrGreen02
      @SrGreen02 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      where's that number from?

    • @patriciastaton6182
      @patriciastaton6182 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SrGreen02 the movie

    • @SrGreen02
      @SrGreen02 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@patriciastaton6182 wich part exactly?

    • @patriciastaton6182
      @patriciastaton6182 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SrGreen02 not sure I watch the whole series and it was so good I'm ready to watch it again

  • @froggie6608
    @froggie6608 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    June 1969, I married my high school sweetheart. We left the church in my buddies 68 Dodge Charger, we were in the back seat. When Paul started the engine, this song was the first thing we heard on the radio. Really special meaning to me even after all these years.

    • @t-bone6864
      @t-bone6864 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was born in '89. im 26. i wish i coulda lived in your era. you have golden memories.

    • @davidsurnearsr8249
      @davidsurnearsr8249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The sixties and early seventies were a special time, it's hard to explain. Even with all of the unrest and political up heaval there was an innocence that rang through. The music was a message of love and hope that you don't find today.

    • @dennisriblett4622
      @dennisriblett4622 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Really ,You could hitch-hike anywhere and everybody stopped .

    • @t-bone6864
      @t-bone6864 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dennis Riblett my dad said him and his friends would hitch hike,and instead of holding out their thumbs,theyd hold out a big bag of weed

    • @catherinevaz6139
      @catherinevaz6139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, wonderful...I was definitely born in the wrong era...

  • @eldrizahn9511
    @eldrizahn9511 5 ปีที่แล้ว +772

    This was "our" song and the other part of "our" is sitting next to me and has been for the past 50 years.

    • @karentravis1575
      @karentravis1575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      So sweet, you brought a tear to my eye.

    • @walterfeely1092
      @walterfeely1092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That's amazing.
      Wishing you 50 more years

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      CONGRATS! BLESS YOU
      BOTH!

    • @delfinoguajardojr3165
      @delfinoguajardojr3165 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Look over yonder and what do you see and new day is coming! Woooooooooo!

    • @bryanleigh6497
      @bryanleigh6497 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@walterfeely1092
      Think he's gone 😄

  • @lehlohonolomakume2873
    @lehlohonolomakume2873 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    This song is 99.1% Pure

  • @slimanity35
    @slimanity35 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Jesse we gotta cook

    • @oledebraekeleer1710
      @oledebraekeleer1710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lets do it

    • @pureChem1calz
      @pureChem1calz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Say my name. Bitch.

    • @thenavigator2559
      @thenavigator2559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pureChem1calz You're Diesel

    • @BeileighCp
      @BeileighCp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was watching malcom in the middle 1x6 they have the song when Hal and Lois and sitting by a fire enjoying champagne

    • @HiyaEverybody.
      @HiyaEverybody. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol my comment was "Yo Mr White" 👍😎

  • @glennjohnso310
    @glennjohnso310 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    68 years old and still listening.

    • @7272goldy
      @7272goldy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you, stranger, a person who just passed by and shared a good mood!
      With just one sentence, you changed my mood, my day, gave me a little happiness.
      Thanks a lot!
      God bless you, sir.

  • @ldickerson8193
    @ldickerson8193 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Loved it in the 70's and still do in 2024, that was music back then❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @FKP_1510
      @FKP_1510 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      theres a band that makes music sounds EXACTLY like this style of music if you want to listen to 70s inspired music made today give this a check out! th-cam.com/video/Orlbo9WkZ2E/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=DeathGrips

  • @Kusoka1
    @Kusoka1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    My grandma gave me a transistor radio, under my pillow at night waiting for this song. 60 and still loving this song.

  • @dennismclaurin1487
    @dennismclaurin1487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This song IS worthy of a Nobel peace prize

  • @sheridan7303
    @sheridan7303 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    this s probably one of the most beautiful records ever recorded!! It has nothing to do with drugs. It is a spiritual song and one of his favorites. Tommy James said he was most proud of this recording and I am grateful he created it. It should be the National Anthem. God bless all souls whose hearts are this beautiful!!

    • @johnspencer772
      @johnspencer772 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, I, too, will count this among the very beautiful songs recorded.. I do remember liking this as a teenager all those many years ago.

  • @juanpaez6349
    @juanpaez6349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    1969-2019, 50 years have passed and this song is still beautiful.

  • @TheBob3759
    @TheBob3759 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    1969 was a great year for music.
    This song is one example why.

  • @michaelvarble4392
    @michaelvarble4392 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Born in 50s lived this music and it's all I listen to I don't think there's been anything ever that was better.

  • @garyt3358
    @garyt3358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    We don’t realize how great we had it in 1969!

    • @02_uw70
      @02_uw70 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I rly wish I was a teen during the 60s sometimes to experience the crazy times

    • @callahanburke8486
      @callahanburke8486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We never do.

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was the year my brother was killed in Vietnam and my Mom left us kids to fend for ourselves

  • @terrylembke8100
    @terrylembke8100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I wish they made music like this today . Maybe people wouldn't be so mean and angry .

  • @tyhliaaaa
    @tyhliaaaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Oh look! You aren’t the only one listening to this masterpiece in 2021 😉

  • @peteculver6063
    @peteculver6063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Who the HELL gave THIS song thumbs down?

  • @nanook5875
    @nanook5875 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Every Nation: They'll be Peace and good Brotherhood

  • @szuperrosszarcu
    @szuperrosszarcu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    - SAY MY NAME
    - uh... Tommy James?
    - YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT

  • @Moondoggy
    @Moondoggy หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    One of my top 10 songs of ALL TIME.

  • @ambersofia9681
    @ambersofia9681 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    We really need this song nowadays

  • @cdl1952
    @cdl1952 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ken : feel the same way , I just turned 65 and still think this song says it all ! All the best!

  • @KohiHD
    @KohiHD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    This comment section:
    75%- people relating the song to breaking bad
    25%- Nostalgic comments about past times

    • @davidknight2749
      @davidknight2749 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      put me in the 25% even tho i loved Breaking Bad. This song is LaDonna '69 and nothing else. My Brown eyed girl.

    • @rickylafleur9855
      @rickylafleur9855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Someday a psychiatrist should study the people who make those stats.

    • @jeice3714
      @jeice3714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rickylafleur9855 yes

    • @JuanIparraguirre
      @JuanIparraguirre 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO!!

  • @marykinard790
    @marykinard790 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Love this song! It brings back so many memories. Simpler and easier times. Hippies, love, and peace. Those were the days. If only I could go back to them. ❤

    • @prshr6145
      @prshr6145 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They were just riding off the hard work of those before them. That is exactly why we have an abundance of rich, leftist who horde their wealth and want the rest of all of us to pay for the social programs they support.

  • @brendafrasher8746
    @brendafrasher8746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This song was popular the Summer my father died. I was 9 years old and I still miss him every single day. 💔

  • @brettcurtis5710
    @brettcurtis5710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Over 50 years and still has The Message.....!!! Who's listening in 2020?

    • @nicolekatcher1612
      @nicolekatcher1612 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Meeee

    • @marianchacon5289
      @marianchacon5289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOD!!!
      THE APPROPRIATE LYRICS FOR THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS
      OF UNPRECEDENTED
      TIMES.
      MERRY XMAS!!!

    • @billharden7127
      @billharden7127 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Listening May 4th 2021.

    • @climax522
      @climax522 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Listening Downunder. August 2021.
      Look to your soul. Open your mind ...

  • @ronbarrett7724
    @ronbarrett7724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I'm 64 and was born in San Francisco. I just love this song. When they show the Haight -Ashbury sign in the beginning, reminds me of home. Be safe people, we will all be ok.

  • @pigtowski
    @pigtowski ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This song is over fifty yrs old and people still commenting…fine music ages like fine wine❤

  • @susanBaca107
    @susanBaca107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This was my Mom's Favorite Song. I miss you Mama.

  • @janetaldrich7747
    @janetaldrich7747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Oh, summer when I was a kid ... wish I could go back ...

  • @michaelluciano1980
    @michaelluciano1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Doesn't get much better than this, folks.

    • @7272goldy
      @7272goldy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Да, однозначно! Шикарная! Душа поёт, когда слышу эту песню.

  • @georgesmith3158
    @georgesmith3158 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    3 years to this day Marci passed, would still be here if the doctor listened 2 her ❤ a fib didn't shock it back into rhythm! Great Song we listen 2 it back 69' before I ship out.

  • @cynthiabennett405
    @cynthiabennett405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They don’t make music like this anymore…. 60 and 70 🎶

  • @mariemarie1505
    @mariemarie1505 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    As a young girl I remember coming upon a family of hippies sitting at the plaza. I felt the love and peace all around them that that was the day I wanted to be one of them.. Dad said go ask your mother and mother said no. After fifty years I can still see their faces .

    • @s_cuzz
      @s_cuzz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      who cares who thinks what? be what you want to be , if it doesn't mean damage for others then it sallgoodman

    • @mariemarie1505
      @mariemarie1505 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @UnSetMindLock I was only like ten years old. Although I did become a rebel years later lol

    • @mariemarie1505
      @mariemarie1505 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joseph Brennan Yes he was ❤️

    • @serenatwilite4005
      @serenatwilite4005 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mariemarie1505 Sounds like you benefitted just by picking up on their groovy energy and good vibes even if you couldn't join them.

  • @humbleevidenceaccepter7712
    @humbleevidenceaccepter7712 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My parents rented a summer cottage on Lake Huron in the earlier '70's. The radio was always on. Whenever I hear this song, the sun is just barely rising over the Lake. Dad and I are going fishing. Hardly a ripple and the poles are in the Yar Craft. Life is wonderful.

    • @michaeltowle2607
      @michaeltowle2607 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      HUMBLE, I like to read the posts that tell a story that relates to the song. And I like your story (love you Dad).

  • @MikePGalvan1991
    @MikePGalvan1991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Reminds me of my mom.. I Love and Miss you so much momma❤🎶🎶

    • @mysoul9726
      @mysoul9726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May she rest in peace

  • @ritahernandez8630
    @ritahernandez8630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    It’s 2021.... still listening to this song. STILL HOPEFUL. ♥️

  • @jthoen61
    @jthoen61 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Hard to believe this song is 50 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @timjones7547
    @timjones7547 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I recall sitting at a traffic light in my 67 GTO with this song playing. Back in the days when we believed music could shape the world, make it a better place! Youthful idealism......Love the song!

    • @DubDidit
      @DubDidit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think memories are a commodity that will soon be very valuable. write it all down, in depth, your feelings of the time etc...i do it, and post it online. just a way for people to live brief moments of my life in their mind...

    • @bebeautiful6613
      @bebeautiful6613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m 59 and I do really feel music shaped me. There is nothing like the music I grew up with 60-80’s. So much good and meaningful music. We were so fortunate to be young in that era ☺️😌

  • @Highheels4ever
    @Highheels4ever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Jeez, I still dance this song from the great Tommy James and the Shondells. Very nice song and rhythm too.
    Crystal Blue Persuasion is a classic of a great time, it is a song which is timeless. LOVE Crystal Blue Persuasion, just love it and I will continue dancing it. Let the good times roll! YAY!

  • @philstall6262
    @philstall6262 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    53 years old and sounds 👌good always and forever through time 1969

  • @donnielee4136
    @donnielee4136 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was in the basic training at Fort Knox 1969. We playied every night at the PX, my favorite song ever

  • @davidperez3256
    @davidperez3256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The 60's had the greatest music ever, no doubt about it!

  • @radiodazearchives-formemor7478
    @radiodazearchives-formemor7478 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In 1969, though I was only 7 years old, even I understood this song. Peace and love. More than just money and survival. Belief in something bigger than self. Look at what's happening now in 2023. What is wrong with people?

    • @MariaGazda
      @MariaGazda 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They repeatedly listen to 'angry' so-called music! Plus the shattering knowledge of corruption/greed at all levels...the de-volution of society as a whole. Makes it difficult to stay Loving and Positive...but we must rise above. LOVE IS the Strongest Power my Friends! Give a listen to a favorite song: "Samba Pa Ti - Jose Feliciano/Santana" The footage is old but sounds soo Good! Blessings...pay it forward ;)

    • @eggedon6112
      @eggedon6112 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People now live in fear. They only care for themselves and worship false idols.

  • @youtubecommentor4480
    @youtubecommentor4480 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This song has staying power!

  • @louisejohnson7336
    @louisejohnson7336 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    To me this song was about peace an l❤ve an togetherness !

  • @mebell1948
    @mebell1948 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I was in Vietnam during '68 and '69 on Swift Boats and loved this music back then.
    Mark Bell

    • @craigslistrro709
      @craigslistrro709 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember when it ended... I was like WTF? how does it just end???... The war was all I ever knew until I was 10 yrs old

    • @jsteelman1000
      @jsteelman1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hello Mark, I was in Viet Nam too in the 1960's I was in Da Nang.

    • @for8861
      @for8861 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Thanks for your service!

    • @isaacmarquez63
      @isaacmarquez63 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Careless whisper

  • @MsBee
    @MsBee ปีที่แล้ว +14

    When this came on in Breaking Bad, it was perfect

  • @lulugodzilla
    @lulugodzilla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I was a full-fledged Army brat during this war, 101st ABD. I wasn't supposed to like this stuff, but I did. And my sister and I would sing it. Long, long ago.

  • @fritzidler9871
    @fritzidler9871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    "Crystal Blue Persuasion" is the blue sky of summer to me. Laying on blankets on grass tanning next to the pool, watching cirrus clouds floating by high overhead, this song on the radio... so long ago, yes. A day like today, actually. My retired dad is visiting from Florida, siting outside, the house with the pool long gone. I'm going downstairs to chat and smoke cigars with him. Peace

    • @nbloom1189
      @nbloom1189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fritz Idler Makes me wanna cry. This song is so special. Make sure you play it now while you’re sitting in the backyard with your dad smoking cigars

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After my wedding we were so happy singing along with this song, riding along without a care in the world when a drunk hit us head on and my beautiful bride died in my arms. I miss you so much Susan.

    • @fritzidler9871
      @fritzidler9871 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dad passed away, last summer. He led a good life, missing his wife for 25 years. Together again.

  • @emanuelmota7217
    @emanuelmota7217 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Came here from Breaking Bad. Great song, amazing show.

  • @jerrywestermann4435
    @jerrywestermann4435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Well,I'm 63,a musician,still a hair farmer,as I wave bye bye to my disappearing youth,it's laughing at me & waving back,this song,probably more than any other,is bittersweet.Memories of girls with blonde bangs,hoop earrings,& blue eye shadow.Smoking ganja.Those were the daze.That's not a typo.

  • @EristiCat
    @EristiCat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I’m afraid the 60’s will never come again in my lifetime. What a time it was.

    • @ukrandr
      @ukrandr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      38 years to go. I won't see them either.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Vietnam war and civil rights movement. It wasn't all peaches and cream back then.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex Erami that is certainly true.

    • @jeffreyconner2937
      @jeffreyconner2937 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex Erami Former vice president and secretary of defense Dick Cheney received a number of college deferments during Vietnam.

    • @wastrel09
      @wastrel09 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffreyconner2937 so did Joe Biden

  • @julieerin115
    @julieerin115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The '60s might have been a crazy time, but it had the best music.

    • @laview360degree6
      @laview360degree6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't grow up in 60s BUT OOHH YEAH 100% HANDS DOWN
      I BET the dance halls
      And music spots were Poppin--!!!!!
      Hermans hermits
      Doors
      Stephen wolf
      Presley
      Tommy James and SHONDELS..
      James Brown I feel good

    • @robertmasina4610
      @robertmasina4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Early '60s music and that toward the later part of that decade was as different as night and day. Music from the early '60s was still 1950s'ish.

    • @AngelYRTS
      @AngelYRTS 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @tablerockkid8237
      @tablerockkid8237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robertmasina4610 yep. The music 'grew up' while we were growing up. So lucky to have grown up in those musical times. The very best ever.

  • @debberraharriman3332
    @debberraharriman3332 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    When life was better than today.

    • @MickHuerta
      @MickHuerta 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Better if you were white? Perhaps so ... but if you were minority/marginalized/female? Not so good.

    • @Hollywood49
      @Hollywood49 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When we sent 58,000 people to die in Vietnam for no reason and black folks were getting beaten in the streets. So much better!

  • @intercommerce
    @intercommerce 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Wonder where all these people are all now? Some dead, some old, some getting there. Others may remember the song, but not the vibe....which this song captures beautifully.

    • @ljre3397
      @ljre3397 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Oh I remember the vibe and it was wonderful, hopeful unlike today.

  • @kawikalee2076
    @kawikalee2076 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    When life was love and love was life...so simple

  • @dburch7894
    @dburch7894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This song can bring tears to my eyes.
    When this song came out I was in 10th grade in LA. My brother was in Viet Nam,” He’d do two tours.” We all had lost someone to war.
    This song represented a hope for peace and love in the world. I’d play this song over and over on the jut box at Gardunos on Whittier Blvd.
    Young people then really thought that our generation could and would, make a change.
    So, in 2018, when I re listen to this song, I sometimes cry.

    • @tammyhanson7843
      @tammyhanson7843 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      D DOLLAR Hello my brother in law did not come out of it sane. How could anyone , being a door gunner in a helicopter you kill kill kill. God bless everyone

    • @paulchristman2456
      @paulchristman2456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whittier Blvd.-----Bethesda, MD ?? Great town.

    • @dominicdagostino8464
      @dominicdagostino8464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless your bro cause of his and all his brothers sacrafices gave me the opportunity to serve my country for 21years in the usn god bless🇱🇷

    • @mr.bnatural3700
      @mr.bnatural3700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The world became what it is now when boomers were 100% in charge. This is the boomers legacy.

  • @albertchin1050
    @albertchin1050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "Maybe tomorrow, when He looks down, on every green field, in every town, all of His children, in every nation, there'll be peace and good, brotherhood..."
    Was my hope when I heard this song as a kid in the 60s. Still is.

  • @eileenjackson4750
    @eileenjackson4750 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Such a beautiful song…. So remember those times…

  • @tammyhanson7843
    @tammyhanson7843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Here I am again. Hi folks who just love this song or the people like me still trying to deal with the war. I’ve appreciated all the feedback from you friends. I don’t feel so alone in trying to digest this time in our lives. I’ll say this every time I comment, I had those white go go boots 🤦🏼‍♀️ peace be with you all🇺🇸🙋‍♀️🦋💜

  • @leannshelton8234
    @leannshelton8234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Got my first kiss with this song!!! I am 66 now and it brings back those special moments. Come on people let's get it together.be kind.be safe and do what's right in this country.crystal blue life forward

  • @rosspbarnett458
    @rosspbarnett458 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    One of my favorite songs of all time !

  • @RandysFiftySevenChevy
    @RandysFiftySevenChevy 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Loved this hearing this on KHJ radio while riding with my brother to High School

  • @jefft4098
    @jefft4098 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you breaking bad for introducing this classic song to a different generation "old soul". Love history and reading/listening about the 80's, 70's and 60's. Envious to those who grew up listening to this.

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeff Timoteo >>> It was an amazing time.... the music of that era spoke about those times. Political, social upheaval. The f*ing war. Yeah, amazing times....✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @miguelmontano637
    @miguelmontano637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This was music. 50 years later, sounds fresh and better than ever. 60s please come back!. We need more of this.

  • @crystalcheyenne9559
    @crystalcheyenne9559 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I was only 8 yrs young when this song came out in 1969. Not sure I understood what was going on in the World back then. However, I loved💗this song bcuz my name "Crystal" was in it. My close friends still call me "Crystal Blue"!💙
    This song will always be one of my favorites!🎵

  • @user-cj9lm3rh2g
    @user-cj9lm3rh2g 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    According to James's manager, James was actually inspired by his readings of the Book of Ezekiel, which (he remembered as) speaking of a blue Shekhinah light that represented the presence of the Almighty God, and of the Book of Isaiah and Book of Revelation, which tell of a future age of brotherhood of mankind, living ... That's what this song is about a reflection from the good old book The Bible 🙏

    • @mauricewascom658
      @mauricewascom658 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      THANK You for the Enlightenment❗ I was in Pre-Seminary in the 60s when the song came out. That sounds like it belongs together all right. The school I went to was rather strict and we didn't have a chance to discuss much rock and roll LOL. I will dig deeper into the scriptures you mentioned, but the glow of the Shekinah protected the children of Israel in the wilderness and the cloud gave them shade by day ❗✡️✝️🛐🙏🏼❤️
      I'm like Gramps here, was a good tune back in the day and I'm enjoying it now.
      RIP Gramps ❗❤️👍🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @smatthes2570
      @smatthes2570 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Amen ....

    • @user-mc9qh9xc6v
      @user-mc9qh9xc6v หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well it was a time, 1969, where there was a belief in the possibility of a brotherhood of man, a unity, an ethnic melting pot where we'd all mix in and become "coffee coloured children by the score"...
      With or without the Christian religion and other dogma. This song was an epiphany of those times.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-mc9qh9xc6vWhite people are the reason we're not one "coffee" colored people.

  • @anomaly2990
    @anomaly2990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Brings back memories of when my life was uncomplicated and fun.

  • @AmberDoubleU
    @AmberDoubleU 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Breaking Bad brought me here after watching the series all the way thru for the 3rd time. One of the best tv shows ever!!

    • @chord972
      @chord972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Only 3? I'm up to 8!

    • @AmberDoubleU
      @AmberDoubleU 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      T C I will go back a 4th time. Taking a break by catching up on season 3 of Better Call Saul. 😀

    • @searx6509
      @searx6509 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chord972 lol its my 2nd time. Since 1st watched it like 5 months ago. So hard to find other series that this level.

    • @dylanurbanski8014
      @dylanurbanski8014 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just about done round 4

    • @jamesadkins1507
      @jamesadkins1507 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yessssss

  • @randyjames4380
    @randyjames4380 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This was our song Debbie. You know who you are. Ill love you until my last breath. 😢

  • @MelvynLawes
    @MelvynLawes 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    I was only in my teenage Days when I heard this song and have loved since I'm 72 now

  • @KIZERVONZINGER
    @KIZERVONZINGER 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Nice hot summer day on the way to the Beach! Oh the Memories this song brings.

  • @rob-robi
    @rob-robi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Tommy James is a musical genius

    • @kingstv7196
      @kingstv7196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You got that right...

  • @charleswolf1066
    @charleswolf1066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I was fortunate to grow up during this time, I miss the 60's. There will never be another time like it again.

    • @johnsimth1606
      @johnsimth1606 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Due to meth we have anarchy

    • @jmarie92625
      @jmarie92625 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And we all survived without the internet or cell phones. At least songs like this live on and take us back to a much simpler time. I don't begrudge the medical advancements that we've enjoyed over the last 50 years, but our world is moving way too fast for my taste. Just think if we had seriously addressed climate change 50 years ago, instead of leaving a less than desirable planet for our loved ones to inhabit. It's sad but true.

  • @Angrybirdsshit
    @Angrybirdsshit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I think people should come back every 20 years and look back to the 60's and realize how shocking and rapildy the world is changing. And try to bring back love to their century...

  • @dianemillican9227
    @dianemillican9227 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1 yr.after this song my little bro.went to Vietnam & never came back!RIP MY BABY BRO.JAN.30TH 1970 I MISS HIM EVERY DAY!!

    • @williamosbornjr.3458
      @williamosbornjr.3458 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Diane, I was born on Jan. 30th 1954, I have an Older Sister named Diana. She was born on Jan. 30th 1953. My 16th Birthday, and my Sister's 17th were Celebrations. Being a Military Veteran of 22 years, makes me Never forget the Sacrifice your Brother Laid on the Altar of Freedom. I do Not know Your Brother's Name, But His Sacrifice will Never Be Forgotten in my Heart! I too lost a Younger to Cancer at age 28 in 1989. I miss him too.

    • @KvltKommando
      @KvltKommando 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      may he rest in peace

    • @allisterjanewoodstrover9931
      @allisterjanewoodstrover9931 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      diane millican so sorry to hear of your terrible loss.

    • @allisterjanewoodstrover9931
      @allisterjanewoodstrover9931 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So terrible.... Sorry for your loss. Awful.

  • @TheBob3759
    @TheBob3759 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Tommy James was celebrating his conversion to Christianity
    in this song.
    Beautiful song still.

  • @user-hf8pd5sk4l
    @user-hf8pd5sk4l 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    For he who has ears to listen let them hear what a spirit has to say always remember chapt 22revelation bless you all brethren and sisters in Jesus name just a voice crying in the wilderness

    • @Jeffs1980
      @Jeffs1980 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Amen and Amen - MARANATHA

  • @mellissamccadden3142
    @mellissamccadden3142 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Takes me back to another time. Don't want to relive the 60s but makes me remember

    • @skeeterblanton5226
      @skeeterblanton5226 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Makes me miss the 60's....I would go back right now.....

    • @edmundmcgrath213
      @edmundmcgrath213 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skeeterblanton5226 1860's?

    • @reidwilliams2046
      @reidwilliams2046 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skeeterblanton5226 The best and worst times of my life. went from being a hippie teenager to being drafted into the military.

  • @briangilstrap4043
    @briangilstrap4043 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Vince Gilligan is a genius

  • @cjweber6771
    @cjweber6771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A message that is very appropriate and much needed in the current time!

    • @anthonyd.8734
      @anthonyd.8734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking the same thing. That's why I came to listen to pay this song and see the comments. It's not elevator music; it's better than crap that's playing on the radio today. This song is very deep and was well written ahead of its time!

    • @jillsmcfarland2001
      @jillsmcfarland2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same syop running now

  • @williamwhite9946
    @williamwhite9946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Aug 2 1969 greatest day in my life when I married my wife Wanda.

    • @ovy830
      @ovy830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn nigga how old are u

    • @bloomcarrera5629
      @bloomcarrera5629 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ovy830 LMFAO

  • @jackkellydunn4079
    @jackkellydunn4079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "Maybe tomorrow when he looks down,on every green field,ooh ooh,and every town,all of his children,and every nation,They'll be peace and good,brotherhood," This song is based on Isaiah 9:7"To peace there will be no end."

  • @Rebecca-rw9us
    @Rebecca-rw9us 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Such great music..& no crotch grabbing, swaggering, gold chains swinging, posing or cussing. Just thrilling soul music.

  • @JonnyMG123
    @JonnyMG123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    This song came out 21 years before I was born but it just gives me absolute chills every single time I hear it. Almost like a nostalgia and yearning for a time I never experienced. Anyone else?

    • @usmc-veteran1955
      @usmc-veteran1955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 14 yrs old back in 1969 when this was hit. I'd go back and stay. So in love with a cute young lady in my neighborhood. And she was the 1st girl I ever kissed. 💏♥️

    • @KliKaeL
      @KliKaeL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehnsucht
      Look this word up my man. It's german.

    • @JonnyMG123
      @JonnyMG123 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KliKaeL Yeah sounds about right!

    • @JonnyMG123
      @JonnyMG123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@usmc-veteran1955 That's awesome!

    • @geneobrien8907
      @geneobrien8907 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Did you ever dream about a place that you can't recall ever having been to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination. Someplace far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there though, you knew the language, you knew your way around. That was the sixties." - Peter Fonda in the movie, The Limey
      I'm 71 now and that may best describe the 60's for those who were part of the counterculture. It was a very special time.

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    An unbelievable amount of chill, peace and optimism emanates from this song.
    Memories from a childhood I had forgotten, dreams of a future I have never seen.
    We need to build a pedestal for this song somewhere.

  • @ionlyplayps5530
    @ionlyplayps5530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    A fat joint, 4 of my homies in my red 64 convertible impala, crusin…..ssssssss

    • @tammyhanson7843
      @tammyhanson7843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes please🤭

    • @ionlyplayps5530
      @ionlyplayps5530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tammyhanson7843 slide through Tammy! Shaoooo!

    • @detiptv
      @detiptv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      63-64 Impalas one of the most beautiful cars ever made. Had a turquois convertible

  • @marycherry574
    @marycherry574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    My go to song... when life gets dark❤️😁

  • @pattyhouck8477
    @pattyhouck8477 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I've commented on this one a few times because the song ment so much to me. but maybe I should say more. if you grew up then, you would know what I'm trying to say. we were young and the world and all it's possibilities lay before us. yes different then. no so much crap confusing our minds like today. thank God I grew up then! say what you will! it was for me fun, easy, no real stress and just the fact that I looked forward to each new day without fear and so much joy. yeah, I grew up in southern California. ..what a great place to grow up in the 70's. Lord what I wouldn't do to do it again. just my experience I guess.. many remember it different I suppose. I'm truly thankful I had this time in my life. I'm 59 now and think of it alot. I watch my 14 year old granddaughter and she struggles with bullying and the whole social media bullshit. I try my best to calm her fears and tell her it will be ok. but I know it wont. she will deal with this till she is out of high school. that was not how it was when I was in school. man I hate this! and what about after school? will she be wrecked as a human being? I don't know. The world has gone to shit, folks! so guess what? some good ol medical marihuana for me and like the the song says, yeah I will be alright... I still believe in peace and good brotherhood. Crystal Blue Persuasion! ah ha! take care people out there and God bless! !

    • @zaid22287
      @zaid22287 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      as a 19 year old today i find this so pure and uplifting

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Patty Houck >>> kids your granddaughters age have to be smarter now. The challenges present now require crucial critical thinking skills and abilities. In an intelligent, unbiased way. You, Ms. Houck, must help your granddaughter by continuing to reassure her and encourage her to be a strong, independent young woman. And to get her education! Remember the activism of that era. The youth of today cannot become apathetic and stand by and not express themselves. Yes, I remember.... Those were, and these are, the GOOD OLD DAYS .... 📻🎶🎵🎶🎵✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @vivianconnors8996
    @vivianconnors8996 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Those were the best of times. !

  • @borisyelp5195
    @borisyelp5195 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Such a beautiful song during our worst time when the Vietnam war was raging and we just lost MLK and Bobby Kennedy.

    • @marjorie6573
      @marjorie6573 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If the song gave you peace it had its intended effect.

    • @williamtippins3651
      @williamtippins3651 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Ray of Hope" by the Rascals

    • @jessiem276
      @jessiem276 ปีที่แล้ว

      It wasn't our "worst" time. Things are a lot worse now.

  • @Malumbrus
    @Malumbrus 10 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Well, that's it.. now I have to cook.