in my opinion, this is one of the greatest performances in live muisc history. the shirelles only agrred to record this song in the studio if there was a full string accompaniment, because the felt the song was too raw and exposed without it. The fact that this live (all music and vocals are live - no tapes) version exists, is truly amazing. really shows off the vocal talents of the group. the first time the backup vocals come in, perfectly in pitch, melts my ears.
Gerry Goffin passed away today. Gerry and Carole King wrote this, the Shirelles made the world feel it. Thank you Gerry and Carole, and thank you to the Shirelles for making this incredible work of musical art heard around the world.
It's interesting that today's artistes with all the latest voice enhancing technology and expensive choreography still can't hold a candle to this. So evocative, so natural, so timeless. Wonderful song, wonderful performance.
This is so awesome, what makes it even more appealing is the lo-fi quality and the very very basic backing music which all puts so much more emphasis on their voices and how beautiful they are.
Unforgettable. 51 years have passed and I remember every word. The Shirelles personified music of this great era. An era where lyrics were simple, classic and genuine, and you needed talent to sing. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song. What impact it had. The lyrics are timeless and universal. 13 or 50--it's natural to question...Music of this era was created from the soul, sung from the soul, and touched your soul. Timeless. Incomparable. Not possible today.
I was a 12 years old boy in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the time. Hazel (a real knockout) wanted to ask me a question, but was too shy(?). So her friend Norma Jeane did it for her. It was the question in this title, a recoding of which Hazel was holding. I stupidly said "no", because I didn't want to look like a chump in front of my guy friends. In a rage, Hazel broke the record into pieces with her bare hands, and flung them at me. I was a chump.
so rare to hear a true, live performance of these great old tracks! Most of the TV shows had the recording paling while the groups sang into dead mics. This was awesome! Thanks for posting!
Oh wow, what a magical performance, a brilliant version of this song. You can still see the wonder and excitement in Doris Coley's (RIP) face in the backing group. Thanks for sharing this. Edit, the show is from the UK, a TV station called Granada and the show was called Don't Knock The Rock. It also featured Little Richard singing Houndog which can be found on youtube with the Shirelles jiving in the background. The backing band was called Sounds Incorporated.
I absolutley love this I have had it on repeat for an hour they were without doubt the greatest of all the girl groups of the 60's, pioneers of all that followed. Sung with feeling and a slight shyness, but they knew what it was all about its in the happiness of their voices, terrible guitar. Simply beatiful a captured moment in time RIP Micki and Doris you left a lasting legacy
Shirley is spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so are the other girls!!!! I love this vid. It's everything that we don't have now in the music and entertainment industries.
I was 16 years old when that song came out. I loved it then and, now 53 years later, I still think it was one of the best Rock "n"Roll love songs ever made.
I used to pay to see them at the Apollo in Harlem. Even met them after the shows-there were no Diva acts, only people meeting other people. Thanks for Posting this. All of the Ladies were down to earth and actually got embarrassed when you would ask for autograph or fawned over them. Just some high school girls from Passaic NJ. who happened to like to sing
A very fine song from Goffin and King, that never seems to date. The lyrics are simple and straightforward, but the moment is deep and timeless, universal. Great songwriting, good 60's video with the Shirelles.
And, it's live. The "Rap" heads don't know what their missing, for this is what music is all about. It's still Doo-Wop, the greatest sounding music to one's ear.
Since this record was made there has been tens of thousands of unforgettable rubbish, yet this song by the Shirelles sounds as good if not better than it did nearly a half century ago. If it has lasted so well over such a long period then it will go on forever, perhaps THE golden oldie of all time. They don't get any better
Terrific rare video & audio of the live Shirelles. I always liked 'em but I was taken with the shortest of the Shirelles, Beverly, who did much of the vocals on their very first hit, "I Met Him on a Sunday" back in the 1950's!
Shirley Reeves could kick it. This was real music. I remember riding in the back of a team bus on an out of town trip in 1960 singing this song. I really feel sorry for the kids now with Miley Cyrus and those other minimal talents when I grew up with Elvis, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee, The Shirells, the Drifters and Rick Nelson. As the Who would say now, "It's a Teenage Wasteland."
What a great video of one of the best songs ever. Shirley is so damn cute. Wow, I fell in love with this song when I was just a kid and has so many great memories for me. Love it.
!!! Beautiful heart and eyes !!! ... brave women at that time expresing their thoughts when times were abused by the color of the skin ... Can't take enough of this AWESOME video !!! Thank you !!!
I've always loved Micki's voice. She is sorely missed by those who love her. I was living in Atlanta when she passed away, would pass by the hotel where she had the heart attack, and remember her every time. (Wikipedia says "onstage"; at the time, everyone said at the time, in the lobby of said hotel, on the way to perform.
What a question! Angel, I think it must have been the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Of course, there are no pictures of the atrium inside so I can be sure (it was a lifetime ago!) I know it wasn't the Peachtree Plaza (or, as we called it back in the day The Portman Penis), it was across the street, and the only thing that looked like it might have been the hotel, was the Hyatt.
Of course, I wasn't "there" there, I wasn't in the atrium as she crossed through, but it's the detail that stuck in my mind at the time. There are varied accounts - some have it onstage, some have it backstage, but that's the version I remember from the day, day after it happened. It was also in downtown Atlanta that I got Lauren Bacall's autograph in her autobiography, but I don't think that was at the Plaza, either! :-)
Walker I It was at the Hyatt Reg June 10 1982 after the shows by the elevator bank she was like a mom to me and my best friend I travelled with her since I was 16. At the time of her death I was 26 still miss her!
Thanks for sharing your memories of that sad day. Also, thanks for confirming the story that I'd heard originally, but never had confirmed before. Blessings.
I think I was born in those days and probably my mother would sing this song many times. This is the reason why I love so much. Thanks Doris and Micki, wherever you are ... in heaven. Beverly thanks for making the flame of the Shirelles continue living. And thanks Shirley, I am still in love with you
WOW!!! I remember these Jersey girls.From Passaic,NJ,they were truly class acts.Not like the crap we have today.Thses babes truly rocked.Thank you for bringing back the memories.
I just love this. Great song to begin with and I love the little touches that aren't on the studio version. And they're beautiful and sexy in that classic understated way that is so much cooler than crappy skankiness.
Great to hear a version stripped of all the Phil Specter production...No doubt done for live versions...nice backing band pure talent on their own regardless what you think of Phil.
Another fine song of my youth I had not listened to in a lot of years. It is good to hear it fifty years later. I recall my freshman year in the University. Good times and this song brings to me so many remembrances of a time gone by.
this is in my top three all time favs prob no1 but my jury is still out. never a finer line in any song 'can i believe the magic of your sighs' cant be beat in my humble opinion. this song always, always without fail gives me goosebumps, the magic line just about kills me off, can i say anymore 'cept one of the finest songs ever written. i absolutely love it.
Great music and a great group, one had to be part of this era to know what it meant, this music will never die, if the music and the groups of today can last as long as this timeless magic then they can class themselves as great, but they never will. This was indeed magic and the groups like the Shirelles were class acts never to be surpassed.
They just don't make music like this anymore. My roommates all think I'm weird for listening to this "old crap" and don't understand why I like it, I can't understand why they don't
I envy those who had the chance to live through the 60's. Damn this music is good!! what the fuck happen to music??? It doesn't exist nowadays.. Lucky bastards all of you!!!
Why can't this be popular??? Oh yeah because people rather listen to people with no talent degrading women. In the words of Ginger from Sha Na Na "Makes sense to me"
Believe this is a Granada TV special in the UK as the backing band are Sounds Incorporated who livened it up a little. Little Richard appeared on the same show and the Shirelles can be seen dancing to Whole lotta shakin goin on.
On this day in 1961 {February 21st} the Shirelles performed "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' Exactly three months earlier on November 21st, 1960 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on Jan. 30th it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100 Was preceded and succeeded at #1 by instrumentals; "Wonderland by Night" by Bert Kaempfert {#1 for 3 weeks} and "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk {also #1 for 3 weeks} RIP Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
Why there is not groups like this anymore! this was so great, very simple but just awesome, I just love this music! remind me a lot of my aunts and uncles who lived in this period of music.
Over 60 years old, this has to be one of the true golden oldies. Deades away in the future when I am long gone, this song by the Shirelles, will still be rated as one of the all time greats. Can any body tell what the chart toppers were last week ?
To my dear friend Shirley Alston Reeves you are the best. Keep on doing what you do best. Singing and serving the Lord. Love your old friend.........Shirl
I saw a greatest hits album by them hrere in brazil, in a friend's house, my first though was, wow, how ridiculous... wtf is this? It was 2002. I took it home, fell in love and the cd belongs to me ever since. Love them.
Beautiful song. Now we have Born again star Leslie Grace from the Bornx. She sing this song so beautiful just like Amy Winehouse may she rest in peace. Nice to see a new generation to bring back memory from the oldies. I was just 10 year old at the time went this song from The Shirelies!
I am 20 and i wish i could be at your age (12-13) or at least be part of that generation when that great song came out.. really hard to find quality music these days...
in my opinion, this is one of the greatest performances in live muisc history. the shirelles only agrred to record this song in the studio if there was a full string accompaniment, because the felt the song was too raw and exposed without it. The fact that this live (all music and vocals are live - no tapes) version exists, is truly amazing. really shows off the vocal talents of the group. the first time the backup vocals come in, perfectly in pitch, melts my ears.
Its hard to believe this tape is 50 yrs old now, It really needs to be well preserved This is a great piece of history.
+ace bass Agree 100%. This video should be part of American music history.
This is so nice to see them all so young, so pretty singing their hearts out. Thank you for posting this of the Shirelles.
this live version gives the Shirrelles classic a whole different sound different but just as good!
Thank you for posting the actual live performance. All the others seem to be dubbed. This is priceless.
Gerry Goffin passed away today. Gerry and Carole King wrote this, the Shirelles made the world feel it. Thank you Gerry and Carole, and thank you to the Shirelles for making this incredible work of musical art heard around the world.
It's interesting that today's artistes with all the latest voice enhancing technology and expensive choreography still can't hold a candle to this. So evocative, so natural, so timeless. Wonderful song, wonderful performance.
beautiful song the lead singer is absolutely gorgeous.
Loved the studio version with violins but liked this livelier live version too. They looked like they were having fun. Thanks for posting.
I just absolutely love this version of their classic hit along with their bright personalities and huge talent.
This is so awesome, what makes it even more appealing is the lo-fi quality and the very very basic backing music which all puts so much more emphasis on their voices and how beautiful they are.
Unforgettable. 51 years have passed and I remember every word. The Shirelles personified music of this great era. An era where lyrics were simple, classic and genuine, and you needed talent to sing. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song. What impact it had. The lyrics are timeless and universal. 13 or 50--it's natural to question...Music of this era was created from the soul,
sung from the soul, and touched your soul. Timeless. Incomparable. Not possible today.
Shirley is so GORGEOUS!!!!
I was a 12 years old boy in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the time. Hazel (a real knockout) wanted to ask me a question, but was too shy(?). So her friend Norma Jeane did it for her. It was the question in this title, a recoding of which Hazel was holding. I stupidly said "no", because I didn't want to look like a chump in front of my guy friends. In a rage, Hazel broke the record into pieces with her bare hands, and flung them at me. I was a chump.
so rare to hear a true, live performance of these great old tracks! Most of the TV shows had the recording paling while the groups sang into dead mics. This was awesome! Thanks for posting!
Shirley is so Beautiful.... What a Gorgeous young lady she was back then. And a great Voice to match.... One of my favorite Girl Groups from the 60s
Oh wow, what a magical performance, a brilliant version of this song. You can still see the wonder and excitement in Doris Coley's (RIP) face in the backing group. Thanks for sharing this. Edit, the show is from the UK, a TV station called Granada and the show was called Don't Knock The Rock. It also featured Little Richard singing Houndog which can be found on youtube with the Shirelles jiving in the background. The backing band was called Sounds Incorporated.
The lead singer melts my butter. The camera man in this video obviously was interested in more than these lady's faces.
The Shirelles were John Lennon's favorite.
'Nough said.
too right
And his version of Baby it's you proves it.
Lennon aslways listened good music...
That's a cool fact.
yes, and The Marvalettes , too !
sweet babes and good song
I absolutley love this I have had it on repeat for an hour they were without doubt the greatest of all the girl groups of the 60's, pioneers of all that followed.
Sung with feeling and a slight shyness, but they knew what it was all about its in the happiness of their voices,
terrible guitar.
Simply beatiful a captured moment in time
RIP Micki and Doris you left a lasting legacy
Absolutely fabulous! One of the best Girl Groups of the 60's.
GORGEOUS and sounding beautiful Shirley x
Wow! Those of us who lived and loved in the 60's cannot possibly make today's mixed up lot understand what a fantastic era that was.
92 people are stupid...this is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!...(sorry Diana).
BTW....yes is will love you tomorrow...
She was so pretty girl
What a wonderful old video. A great live performance.
That lead singer is so beautiful and she has such a natural delivery. Great song.
Shirley is spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so are the other girls!!!! I love this vid. It's everything that we don't have now in the music and entertainment industries.
I was 16 years old when that song came out. I loved it then and, now 53 years later, I still think it was one of the best Rock "n"Roll love songs ever made.
good to hear it stripped down without the strings.those girls were real good
Great video.I had the honor of promoting a couple of shows for Shirley in the late 90's. Truly a class act.
I used to pay to see them at the Apollo in Harlem. Even met them after the shows-there were no Diva acts, only people meeting other people. Thanks for Posting this. All of the Ladies were down to earth and actually got embarrassed when you would ask for autograph or fawned over them. Just some high school girls from Passaic NJ. who happened to like to sing
WOW! Truly a classic from four of the most beautiful Jersey girls ever.
A very fine song from Goffin and King, that never seems to date. The lyrics are simple and straightforward, but the moment is deep and timeless, universal. Great songwriting, good 60's video with the Shirelles.
+michael pound Are you sure it's not from Carol King?
What a good song and the singers voices are very well suited to it. Very nice to hear and to remember so many things of over 50 years ago.
And, it's live. The "Rap" heads don't know what their missing, for this is what music is all about. It's still Doo-Wop, the greatest sounding music to one's ear.
Wonderful live version.
Interesting version. In just four years since the original, you can hear the evolution of soul music (specifically, in the guitar playing)
Just read that Shirley was one of Dusty Springfield's favorite Motown singers. I can see why. The Shirelles were so great!
John Lennon called the Shirelles one of his favorites
Still a great song to this day & they were awesome.
Since this record was made there has been tens of thousands of unforgettable rubbish, yet this song by the Shirelles sounds as good if not better than it did nearly a half century ago. If it has lasted so well over such a long period then it will go on forever, perhaps THE golden oldie of all time. They don't get any better
Terrific rare video & audio of the live Shirelles. I always liked 'em but I was taken with the shortest of the Shirelles, Beverly, who did much of the vocals on their very first hit, "I Met Him on a Sunday" back in the 1950's!
Shirley Reeves could kick it. This was real music. I remember riding in the back of a team bus on an out of town trip in 1960 singing this song. I really feel sorry for the kids now with Miley Cyrus and those other minimal talents when I grew up with Elvis, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee, The Shirells, the Drifters and Rick Nelson. As the Who would say now, "It's a Teenage Wasteland."
What a great video of one of the best songs ever. Shirley is so damn cute. Wow, I fell in love with this song when I was just a kid and has so many great memories for me. Love it.
!!! Beautiful heart and eyes !!! ... brave women at that time expresing their thoughts when times were abused by the color of the skin ... Can't take enough of this AWESOME video !!! Thank you !!!
I've always loved Micki's voice. She is sorely missed by those who love her. I was living in Atlanta when she passed away, would pass by the hotel where she had the heart attack, and remember her every time. (Wikipedia says "onstage"; at the time, everyone said at the time, in the lobby of said hotel, on the way to perform.
Yeah I've always loved her voice as well. She has such a charm that is so captivating! By the way which hotel in Atlanta was it?
What a question! Angel, I think it must have been the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Of course, there are no pictures of the atrium inside so I can be sure (it was a lifetime ago!) I know it wasn't the Peachtree Plaza (or, as we called it back in the day The Portman Penis), it was across the street, and the only thing that looked like it might have been the hotel, was the Hyatt.
Of course, I wasn't "there" there, I wasn't in the atrium as she crossed through, but it's the detail that stuck in my mind at the time. There are varied accounts - some have it onstage, some have it backstage, but that's the version I remember from the day, day after it happened.
It was also in downtown Atlanta that I got Lauren Bacall's autograph in her autobiography, but I don't think that was at the Plaza, either! :-)
Walker I It was at the Hyatt Reg June 10 1982 after the shows by the elevator bank she was like a mom to me and my best friend I travelled with her since I was 16. At the time of her death I was 26 still miss her!
Thanks for sharing your memories of that sad day. Also, thanks for confirming the story that I'd heard originally, but never had confirmed before. Blessings.
I like this live version the best because of the guitar.
I think I was born in those days and probably my mother would sing this song many times. This is the reason why I love so much.
Thanks Doris and Micki, wherever you are ... in heaven.
Beverly thanks for making the flame of the Shirelles continue living.
And thanks Shirley, I am still in love with you
Shes drop dead stunning, what a beautiful woman
WOW!!! I remember these Jersey girls.From Passaic,NJ,they were truly class acts.Not like the crap we have today.Thses babes truly rocked.Thank you for bringing back the memories.
Amazing performance! :)
I've always loved the timbre of Shirley's voice. And she's stunningly beautiful. What a great vid!!! Where's my time machine!!??
Shirley is LEGENDARY. Queen of the 60's Girl Groups FULL STOP. "Baby It's You" XXX
This is from police academy the movie at the Blue Oyster Bar
I just love this. Great song to begin with and I love the little touches that aren't on the studio version. And they're beautiful and sexy in that classic understated way that is so much cooler than crappy skankiness.
Listening to this music for 50 years and it just gets better.
Saw them live in 72. It was the perfect date.
wow look at Doris always smiling i love the shirelles RIP Doris and Micki
I've always loved this song. Love this clip of the four of them so young, pretty and singing up a storm! Thanks.
Fantastic girl group. Fantastic song.
These women are just fabulous- they have moves that so outdo anything I have seen from Beyonce....awesome!
That's how you do it when you have real talent and don't need auto-tune like the pretend singers today.
The Shirelles influence cannot be overstated to early pop. The Beatles loved them and in fact covered a few of their songs.
doesnt get too much better does it?
No, it doesn't....
Great to hear a version stripped of all the Phil Specter production...No doubt done for live versions...nice backing band pure talent on their own regardless what you think of Phil.
Another fine song of my youth I had not listened to in a lot of years. It is good to hear it fifty years later. I recall my freshman year in the University. Good times and this song brings to me so many remembrances of a time gone by.
One of the greatest girl groups of them all.
Four beautiful, charming, talented ladies--I could listen to this and watch this video over and over and over.
Makes me cry, so good!
this is in my top three all time favs prob no1 but my jury is still out. never a finer line in any song 'can i believe the magic of your sighs' cant be beat in my humble opinion. this song always, always without fail gives me goosebumps, the magic line just about kills me off, can i say anymore 'cept one of the finest songs ever written. i absolutely love it.
Shirley is absolutely beautiful. Those eyes knock me out.
Great music and a great group, one had to be part of this era to know what it meant, this music will never die, if the music and the groups of today can last as long as this timeless magic then they can class themselves as great, but they never will. This was indeed magic and the groups like the Shirelles were class acts never to be surpassed.
Shirley Owens was sooo freakin fine!!
They just don't make music like this anymore. My roommates all think I'm weird for listening to this "old crap" and don't understand why I like it, I can't understand why they don't
I envy those who had the chance to live through the 60's. Damn this music is good!! what the fuck happen to music??? It doesn't exist nowadays.. Lucky bastards all of you!!!
Why can't this be popular??? Oh yeah because people rather listen to people with no talent degrading women. In the words of Ginger from Sha Na Na "Makes sense to me"
All my love forever to Shirley and the Shirelles, hope your life is only good - from another girl from Passaic, NJ.
Believe this is a Granada TV special in the UK as the backing band are Sounds Incorporated who livened it up a little.
Little Richard appeared on the same show and the Shirelles can be seen dancing to Whole lotta shakin goin on.
Shirley was the prettiest out of all the girl groups back then
On this day in 1961 {February 21st} the Shirelles performed "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'
Exactly three months earlier on November 21st, 1960 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on Jan. 30th it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100
Was preceded and succeeded at #1 by instrumentals; "Wonderland by Night" by Bert Kaempfert {#1 for 3 weeks} and "Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk {also #1 for 3 weeks}
RIP Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
Why there is not groups like this anymore! this was so great, very simple but just awesome, I just love this music! remind me a lot of my aunts and uncles who lived in this period of music.
This will always be one of my favorite songs, words that actually mean something in music.
:21 - The light of love is surely in her eyes. Wonderful video, great song, super group. It brightens memories of a certain night........
Over 60 years old, this has to be one of the true golden oldies. Deades away in the future when I am long gone, this song by the Shirelles, will still be rated as one of the all time greats. Can any body tell what the chart toppers were last week ?
I loved Shirley's little ad libs at the end!
To my dear friend Shirley Alston Reeves you are the best. Keep on doing what you do best. Singing and serving the Lord. Love your old friend.........Shirl
To think that this tune was written by Carole King when she was barely in her 20s. Damn, talent will out. Great arrangement, too.
I saw a greatest hits album by them hrere in brazil, in a friend's house, my first though was, wow, how ridiculous... wtf is this? It was 2002. I took it home, fell in love and the cd belongs to me ever since. Love them.
Beautiful song. Now we have Born again star Leslie Grace from the Bornx. She sing this song so beautiful just like Amy Winehouse may she rest in peace. Nice to see a new generation to bring back memory from the oldies. I was just 10 year old at the time went this song from The Shirelies!
I am 20 and i wish i could be at your age (12-13) or at least be part of that generation when that great song came out.. really hard to find quality music these days...
This post is great. Pure un-spoiled AMERICAN music. Beautiful!
From the Brill Building the Shirelles must have made Scepter Records CLASSIC
Wonderful. A perfect example of just how good the girl groups from the early 60s USA were. Much appreciated by somebody from that era and the UK
Stunning girl group....WOW I love The Shirelles............Talent at its best!
I always liked this song, but wow, this is a great version!!! Thanks for sharing...
Thanks for existing, Shirley
This song was 50 years ago no.4 in the world charts #shirelles
nice to hear this old favorite which brings me back in time