The Vocal Genius of 'Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers Vocal Coach Reaction & Analysis
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Vocal Coach reacts to reaction to analyses analyzes analysis of breaks down The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
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In this episode, the host revisits the iconic 'Unchained Melody' by The Righteous Brothers after resolving previous copyright issues. The reaction focuses on deep vocal analysis, highlighting the technical aspects of Bobby Hatfield's performance, the song's history, and its original composition for a film score. The host also explains the breathing techniques and emotional expression behind Hatfield's rendition. Additional insights include scientific studies on body language in singing and a behind-the-scenes look at how the song became a hit despite being intended as a B-side.
00:00 Introduction and Context
01:25 History of 'Unchained Melody'
02:43 Breaking Down Bobby Hatfield's Technique
06:26 Breath Control and Vocal Techniques
08:06 The Spontaneity of the B-Side Hit
10:20 Emotional Expression Through Movement
13:53 Analysing the High Note
Songwriter: Alex North
Producers: Hy Zaret
Genre: Pop, Soul, Rock
Origin: Orange County, California, U.S
Performed by
* Bobby Hatfield - Vocals
* Bill Medley - Vocals and instrumental
Date and Location
NBC-TV's The Andy Williams Show in 1965
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Whatever that fight was about... bro don't wanna break up I mean he went all out-all out, he really wanna get her back.
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I will never get tired of hearing this song.
Bobby Hatfield - Making women swoon since 1962.
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Notice that Bobby moves his microphone closer to or farther from his mouth, to change the volume creating elegant fades. He's essentially "tuning" himself as he sings. That's practically a lost art today.
Beth Hart does it very well. See her live version of "I'd Rather Go Blind" with Joe Bonamassa.
lucy Thomas also does that, see her live performances on her concert !!
This might be my favorite reaction yet. I love the idea that solid technique opens the ability for spontenaiety and serindipity to create something special.
Actually the coin flip thing was another off the cuff remark. Both 'brothers' sang solos on their albums and Bobby chose this one. Bill produced it and, on the original version he played piano and even sang backup vocal on it ... you have to listen closely for it. For this, of course there is no backup vocal and it's the Andy Williams orchestra playing...
He makes it look effortless while giving me chills up my spine at the end. Thank you for your voice coach analysis.
My pleasure!
Beautiful classic song, you analys so well, i love watching you do your thing, you're the best.
Thank you Mario!
Oh my God, Beth, when you are into the music your beauty is multiplied fourfold. Your enthusiasm enhances your appeal.
This song never gets old!
Thanks Beth, you're a treasure. One would think there's not much more about this gem that hasn't already been said, but you managed it. It's a pity this outstanding pop tenor didn't score more big hits, but such is pop. RIP Bobby.
Bobby Hatfield sang tenor and countertenor. He sang doo-wop, blues, rhythm 'n' blues, rock 'n' roll, "blue-eyed soul" -- the term named for The Righteous Brothers, unusual ballads, popular songs, the Spector ballad hits, and more. My favorite music is The Moonglow Years and my favorite song is "For Your Love". Yes, Robert Lee Hatfield was an underrated wonderful singer. 🎶✨
@@marymichael1211 I loved him singing, Somewhere. But all his ballads were stunning. Bobby's singing made you feel warm and loved and special! But, he could also tear it up on some of his more rockin songs. So versatile, and talented and humorous. He is "The It Factor".
This performance is not a "third take". It was a live performance on a weekly tv show. The Andy Williams Show. When Bobby heard the acoustics in the hall during rehearsal, he decided to make some changes as to how he would sing the song. Perfect performance by a master performer!!❤
I remember this being done by Al Hibbler in 1955 and it got a lot of plays. The Righteous Brothers did it about 1965 and theirs is an all time classic. On a technical note, he held the mike so his mouth could be seen which helps make the words more clear to the listener. So many cover their mouths with the mike which makes the words less clear and might even distort the sound. Bobby Hatfield also had incredible breath control and creative runs and riffs which made it so easy on the ear.
Beth, again, I must tell you how much I appreciate the effort and research you put into these reactions. It's why I subscribe. OK. This is a great quality video considering the year and it's as live as it can be. The story I heard is that Bobby Hatfield was nervous during this performance because his mother was in the audience.
In 2002, while I was working at a 'Classic Hits' radio station in a very large market here in the U.S., I was tapped to emcee a Righteous Brothers concert. Before the show, I was able to hang out with the guys in the dressing room. While they were getting ready for the show, they acted like two brothers, they chided each other (hurry up, Bill, you're gonna make us late), swore at each other, not in a mean spirited way, but in a way that demonstrated how long they had been together. Didn't matter that I, a complete stranger, was in the room. I really cherish that memory, especially since, the very next year, Bobby Hatfield was gone.
They had a 41 year career. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and Bobby Hatfield left his life later that year at 63. 🎶✨
Fluid and flowing is such a perfect description of this song.
Thank you Beth. This song is amazing. 🙏🥰
Thank you!
Many fine artists have covered this song, but it will always be Bobby Hatfield's. This is one of the greatest live performances ever recorded. BTW when he sang this on the Andy Williams Show he was only 25.
Great analysis, presentation Beth. Bobby was one of the greatest singers ever. He and Bill Medley were inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and surely deserved it
You're absolutely right that a lot of people could hit that high note. Full credit to him for hitting it perfectly singing it live. I also noticed the movements of his mouth and jaw to kind of shape the notes and "riffs" that he created. I love this song and performance as much as you do ❤❤
This seems very likely to be the most classic love song of all time. Devoted, emotional and impassioned. It’s been capturing hearts for decades and always will.
One of the most beautiful love songs ever written...sung by one of the most beautiful voices that ever existed. I first heard this song on an album by John Gary...a phenomenal irish/American tenor from the 60's-70's...another beautiful version. BTW..John also sang 'Softly as I leave you' in 1968 or so....now there's another absolutely beautiful song (made famous by Frank Sinatra). BTW2...Bill Medley sings Unchained Melody in his Vegas show...saw it...for a bass/baritone, he did a pretty good job. Thanks for the redo, Beth 👍❤
Bobby Hatfield just had it, a counter tenor, control, range, emotion…..a wonderful singer.
You are the best vocal couch on youtube! your details on the reactions... just let us know how good you are. nobody else knows or detects all those details, and explain them so well as you do. I'm glad I found you.
that typo made me laugh out loud! thank you for that.
The song on the charts would have been the studio version not this live one, which some people believe is better. Shout out also to the beautiful orchestral backing.
Bobby had such a ANGELIC voice. He’s now singing in Gods Choir and in the front row
I love your inclusion of text explanations of technical terms and concepts. They are very helpful.
I love the explanatory pop-ups you added for this video. Well done!
Glad you like them!
This is the very top. No other live performance can match this, by anyone, ever.
Thank you Beth! That was an amazing reaction. And one of the very few that is meaningful. Lots of great info.
I cannot hear this song without tears. A perfect expression of the way the heart sometimes feels.
He had a cold that night. A COLD, PEOPLE!!!!! And still made one of the most beautiful recordings ever.
True. But I think I prefer The Platters version?
What's your point? If he had a cold (I doubt it) it had no effect on the performance. By the way, since this sounded exactly like the record, it is still disputed whether the performance was lip synced.
@@stevenmeyer9674 A head cold is difficult to sing around. Also, you're full of shit on the lip-synch allegation. You can hear the head cold in his voice, for fuck's sake. Troll somewhere else.
@@stevenmeyer9674 It was considered better than the studio recording which drove the speculation- "Recently, my producer Kyle and I reacted to an old clip of The Righteous Brothers (more precisely, Bobby Hatfield) performing “Unchained Melody” on The Andy Williams Show. While I had already seen the video, this was Kyle’s first viewing. In introducing the clip, I noted that, while there was a possibility that Hatfield was lip syncing, the vocal take was both different and better than the original studio version and was thus worth a listen regardless.
As we watched the video, I observed the performance closely, coming to the conclusion that Hatfield was not lip syncing. I announced my conclusions in the commentary, and Kyle agreed."
@@snorelacks7069 How do you explain the backing orchestra ? It was exactly the same as the record, and it could only be reproduced in a studio. I remain cynical of this performance being live.
nobody could sing this better.....its astonishing......just wow
Great reaction, Beth! IMO, one of the greatest live performances.
Thanks for bringing it up ❤
Beth, what a terrific video. The research you cite about what I would have thought to be an arcane topic: emotion-related head movements, fascinating. The animation of the rib cage and muscles of respiration, brilliant . The text that appears periodically to define terms, such helpful visual aids. The explanation of breathing techniques, wonderful. Who’d’ve thought?
My day job is as remote from singing as possible. But I am an educator, teaching and lecturing for close to 40 years. And I’m jealous of your teaching skills! You make learning about the science, emotion, and techniques of singing utterly captivating, fascinating and fun! And this episode may be the best you’ve released to date. Thanks.
Thanks so much!!
Austin Brown does this as a solo AND Home Free does the song too. BOTH are quite good.
Back then there was no auto tune, great voice
Just because there was no auto tune back then doesn't necessarily mean that it hasn't been auto tuned, more likely pitch corrected since? Sad but true.
Not every artist uses auto tune such a played out argument.
Thats the standard we're going by, that not every single singer used auto tune? So we don't have any argument or cant have the observation bc, well, not everyone was enhanced by auto tune?
Such a silly, played-out argument.
There's no argument. Some use auto tune some dont. That's just a fact. Are these live performances from 50 years ago auto tuned? No. You can hear that they are not.
You are correct!
“Originally, Auto-Tune was designed to discreetly correct imprecise intonations to make music more expressive, with the original patent asserting: "When voices or instruments are out of tune, the emotional qualities of the performance are lost." Auto-Tune was launched in September 1997.”
Actually HUNG ON YOU was the A side of Unchained Melody. Just once in my Life is another great song by them.
Another deep dive reaction and analysis by Beth, on this outstanding classic performance, of an already great song.
One of the few songs and performances that merit a "second look" - and you did a phenomenal job on this 'deeper dive"!
Love your analysis. Love the song. I remember hearing it on the radio as a child.
60 years later people still react to this song...
Bobby Hatfield is one of the best, if you enjoyed this you need to listen to him doing "Summertime"
Technically, this was a #1 hit for Les Baxter in 1955, but the Righteous Brothers' superior version reached #4 in Billboards Top 100. However, it may have reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary Charts.
Bobby was handsome, and a great singer. He sung this song beautifully. ❤
Did you know that was the last song that Elvis sing on stage (June 21 1977) before is death on August 16 1977. You can find this performance on youtube.
Such an iconic song. I never knew that it was named after a movie. I’ve always thought that the title was a reference to the freeness and fluidity of the melody.
Best reaction yet. Thanks for information
Awesome analysis. Wonderful job, Beth.
This live version is superior to the recording. Bobby Hatfield's falsetto is absolutely incredible. And performed decades before autotune. A masterclass in singing. Thanks, Beth, for revisiting the finest version of this song - ever.
Bobby's song forever! Love the moving-your-head thing. Instrumentalists do it, too, even on instruments that you might not think are conducive to it. I play violin (classical) and although somewhat hindered by the chinrest and necessity for fingering (so melody) to occur on the wooden environment of the neck and fingerboard, with the bow making the changes in dynamics, it still happens to express the emotion of the piece, even when you're not the soloist or are confined by reading music. My brother played upright bass. It's a huge instrument. He's a big guy at 6'4" and can move his whole body while playing, and still it is the head movements that are the most important in conveying emotion. Must be a human thing.
So talented, classy. Very handsome. Love this era.
I first heard of "The righteous Brothers" in an episode of "Cheers" where they sang for Rebeca "You've lost that loving feeling" on a side more important note, let me just say that you Beth, really know your stuff!
So beautiful! This is my platonic ideal of the love song...
Saudades de você Beth!❤ Não recebia notificações...
9:00 oh that's a bit of the story i hadn't known before, that's fascinating, I first encountered this song entirely from its piano instrumental in 5th grade jazz band and fell in love, it's cool to know more about where it came from (as my writing instructors put it, style is what you can't help doing)
We are so lucky to still be able to see these songs live.
I really do love your detailed knowledge of the human voice. I am a novice singer at best that has never been instructed in any way so its nice to hear why I do certain things. Kinda cool!
Don't just consider Bobby's high notes. Also look at the low notes in his chest voice. He had a five-octave range. And no, his high notes were not falsetto. That's why they're so rich and clean, his range went into counter-tenor.
if you did not hear the switch, i don't know about you.
An opera singer confirmed the countertenor as well as every reference to his range anywhere you look.
@toodlescae sure. Part of the range can still be falsetto
@@uliwehner But, it isn't here.😊
The countertenor range is G3 to E5. He ends here sharp of G5. His lowest note in this performance is D3.
[The totality of Bobby's range on his studio recordings is B2 to Eb6. That's the E above D. What he reached live?? Bill has said they never figured out high he could go. 😲]
He was OK but that was 59 years ago,I remember when it first came out !! !
Oh my word, I never knew there was so much technical stuff to singing 😮
Remarkable talent, no auto tune. No tricks.
I dont care.. you can react to this a thousand times, and I will watch it a thousand times and one
Wow Beth
What a beautiful smile
Its always so amazing watching you
Simply gorgeous 😍 ❤
HOLA PASAN LOS AÑOS Y ESTAS MAS HERMOSA QUE NUNCA . OK SI BOBY CANTABA MUY BIEN.. DESDE URUGUAY SALUDOS.
I really enjoyed your reaction. Great job. One thing you didn't mention and probably don't know is when this song got popular again because of Ghost they didn't have rights to it so they re-recorded it and both versions were in the top 40 at the same time on the billboard. They both stayed in the top 40 for many weeks.
Please react to Bobby Hatfield singing "Summertime" live performance 1965.
I did not know that! Thanks for the info!
Actually both versions were in the top 20 at the same time. The 1965 version at number 13 and Bobby's 50 year old version was number 19. But the 1965 version hit number one world wide in 1990.
Hello Beth, I know that in the past you reacted to Gabriel Henrique, a Brazilian singer who recently participated in the program America's Got Talent.
I would love for you to react again to him singing Mariah Carey's song "I Want to Know What Love Is"
I love your channel, you are very friendly and you sing very beautifully;
Bout time, girl. ❤
Señorita Beth se acaba usted de aventar un 10 una canción de las mas románticas según mi apreciacion solo es comparada del mito de una sirena tan hermosa bien coach 👏👏🍀🍀
Beautiful choose!❤
Great Reaction !
Occasionally, the Innocence Project in the US succeeds in overturning the death penalty for prisoners on death row. For me, this song was a long slow dance marvel in my youth. Now I think of it as an anthem for those wrongly convicted and ultimately released. Your analysis is the best, Beth.
His pitch control and breath control was unreal. What an incredible voice. And somehow he and the amazing voice of Bill Medley teamed up to create some of the best songs ever.
This live performance is actually vastly superior to the record/radio version…far more dynamic and it’s one of the finest Live vocal performances in TV history!
One of the best songs to dance with your lover with😊😊❤❤
Hell You Call A Dream - The Warning. You'll love it!
Bellissima e bravissima Beth ❤
Can I say that this might be one of those times where copyright issues actually benefits, us, the audience(?) because we got to see your reaction again and in more depth?
I don’t think there’s another song on the planet that more people have been conceived to
Would like to hear Beth sing one of the great songs all the way through.
This live performance is actually vastly superior to the record/radio version…far more dynamic and it’s one of the finest Live vocal performances in TV history
The "b side" recording of this song was the most radio played song of the entire 20th century. Spector got it way wrong. This live performance, with Bobby's mother in attendance, is considered by many to be the best live musical performance ever. I'm not sure of that, but there is no doubt that Bobby owns this song. A true one-of-a-kind.
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Lucy Thomas recently released this song and it’s amazing.
YES!!!! And she raised the bar more than a few notches !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yea, would love to hear Beths opinion about Lucys singing. 😊
@@TheGraemi It really does not matter as Juliet of the On Line Singing Coach has already reacted to it and said it was splendid, perfect and was all smiles. we have already heard from those that really know and matter !!! ! Beth here i more interested in promoting her songs and music, seems she is not that interested in reacting , it's just a way to promote her music using others !!!
@@TheGraemi Beth has reacted to Lucy and loves her singing, and it has been requested Beth react to Lucy's version of Unchained Melodies !!! Wait and see, it will be a great reaction !!!
Hmm, I learned something today about technique. I used to sing karaoke quite a bit and one of the songs I did was Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones and toward the end, there's a part where there is humming. I always had difficulty humming loud enough and found that I would end up not really humming as my lips would actually be parted, but I would have my tongue pressed against the roof of my mouth to make a sort of humming sound. Think of it like instead of humming and forming the M consonant, I'm instead humming and forming the N consonant.
I will have to try this the next time I sing karaoke, but it has been a few years, unfortunately, so I'm out of practice with my singing. Coincidentally, my girlfriend ran her own show and often picked out which songs I would sing due to my indecisiveness and once she put me up for this very song. I'm no Bobby Hatfield, but I think I was at least passable and she even told me that I did better than she would have thought.
Maybe you should do a reaction to Jay Black The voice performing Carol Mia in 2001 on PBS. You talk about voice control The man is personification of it. He can hit them and hold them all day long. Very good reaction really in depth.
I believe this is the 2nd most covered song ever
I would love to see a reaction to Randy Meisner of The Eagles Take it to the Limit. Live version. R.I.P. Randy.
I love your reactions videos about Rammstein! Please more reactions of them!
I would have loved to have heard Roy Orbison sing this.
They didn't just use this song in one movie but two. The second with this version.
Could you do a react and analyses to art Garfunkel 'bright eyes' and also The Rembrandts. Love the content.
Unchained Melody:
Bobby Hatfield live performance.
{The Andy Williams Show}-
Episode #4.5
Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965:
Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher countertenor voice ( in this performance his range is an incredible: D3 to G5 sharp) to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield each sang a song as a solo vocalist on their albums.
Both wanted to sing "Unchained Melody" for their fourth album, but Hatfield won the coin toss. As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song.
Sadly, on Nov. 5, 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack in a Michigan hotel room just prior to a Righteous Brothers performance, apparently in his sleep at age 63.
The Righteous Brothers version was , oddly enough a huge hit because it was recorded merely as a filler song for their fourth album, not for release as a single. Philles Records owner/producer Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip B-side to writers Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “) as to which side of his Philles single was the A-side.
The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley to make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and before he left he said, 'No, I can do it better.
’And I said, 'No, you can't!’ [Medley Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song."
This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did! In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,'
which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer.
I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B-side of a Phil Spector single 'Hung On You' but the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof."
Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’.
Also:
Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig”
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Your offering of information is appreciated, but the coin toss was a joke which became a rumor which became misinformation. Bill Medley has told the joke and told the truth at different times. Bobby Hatfield stated in an interview of them that he sang this song with his original group The Variations and "I had that one in my pocket". "Unchained Melody" was Bobby Hatfield's choice for his solo; and Bill Medley produced it, though Phil Spector toxicly claimed credit, as you delineated.
Hope sometime you’ll react to Soul and Inspiration sung by the righteous brothers.
What is 10 raised to the 23rd power? The number of women who have fallen bat-crazy in love with Bobby Hatfield when they heard this song
If you haven't you should watch the movie Ghost this song was a big part of that movie
Beth, check out Bobby Hatfield's cover of Summertime.
i thought Beth had already heard and seen this a year or more ago.
Watch what I say in the intro :)
Imagine if Bill Medley had won the coin toss and sang this. Would he have gone the other way and done it deep bass/baritone?
Truth is there never was a coin toss. Seems Bill years later (after Bobby's death) probably tired of being asked why he didn't sing it or why it wasn't a duet flippantly said maybe they tossed a coin. Previously he always said it was Bobby's song. Even before he met Bill, Bobby had been singing it with his group, The Variations. He really liked the song and brought it to the studio to be his solo.
By the way, in addition to being the producer, Bill played piano and sang the almost inaudible background vocals on the record. In that sense, it was a collaboration. 😊