Thank you for listening to my guys. I was 15 yrs old when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. Bobby owns this song. No one sings this better than he does. RIP Bobby. We miss hearing your beautiful voice. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for not stopping the video. It's a song the deserves to be listened to whole, since Bobby's voice and the arrangement build so well. Fun fact: Bobby was sick and running a fever when he sang that night. Thanks again, and I will be back to your channel.
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 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 were each allowed to choose a song to sing as a solo vocalist on their albums. 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. *In Nov. 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63. The Righteous Brothers version was a huge hit, but it was recorded with far more modest expectations. 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 to 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 a 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 if he could 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.' [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' and 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” th-cam.com/video/xIIvXYo5INo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OmBVdie7xz-GPuIh
Bobby had the same octave range as Whitney Houston just think what this song ment to all those women who had men in the Vietnam War back then I mean it was priceless
The White radio stations wouldn't accept them at first because the said they sounded Black. ,... It was Black Radio Air play who started playing them and made them Famous... The got their name because they were playing black clubs and one brother hollered out " YOU GUYS SOUND RIGHTEOUS!!!! "and that's how they got their name....
I just found your reaction channel. Wonderful reaction. You reviewed this so well, not speaking over the music and you sparkled with appreciation of this beautiful performance I am pleased to subscribe today. Well done.
Idea for a real talent. Now we need a great female singer, like a Pat Benatar to answer this song on a flip side in the same slow style. It would be a smash!
Thank you for listening to my guys. I was 15 yrs old when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. Bobby owns this song. No one sings this better than he does. RIP Bobby. We miss hearing your beautiful voice. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for not stopping the video. It's a song the deserves to be listened to whole, since Bobby's voice and the arrangement build so well. Fun fact: Bobby was sick and running a fever when he sang that night. Thanks again, and I will be back to your channel.
Never a voice equal to that of Bobby Harfield singing Unchained Melody. Heavenly. Not to be surpassed before or after.
This is magic.
Like an angel❤❤❤
A voice from above indeed best ever live performance ever rip Bobby ❤
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 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 were each allowed to choose a song to sing as a solo vocalist on their albums. 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.
*In Nov. 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63.
The Righteous Brothers version was a huge hit, but it was recorded with far more modest expectations. 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 to 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 a 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 if he could 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.' [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' and 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”
th-cam.com/video/xIIvXYo5INo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OmBVdie7xz-GPuIh
Bobby had the same octave range as Whitney Houston
just think what this song ment to all those women who had men in the Vietnam War back then I mean it was priceless
The White radio stations wouldn't accept them at first because the said they sounded Black. ,... It was Black Radio Air play who started playing them and made them Famous... The got their name because they were playing black clubs and one brother hollered out " YOU GUYS SOUND RIGHTEOUS!!!! "and that's how they got their name....
The best of blue eyed soul.
He was a gem 💎 and his impact is greatly missed ❤️❤️
Kaltaisillesi kauniille naisille tämäkin kappale on tehty ❤
This isn't music...it's magic and Bobby it's wizard...spun this spell 60 yrs ago and it's still ensnaring them just as strongly 😂😅
Bobby the wizard that cast a spell to the world and up until now we haven’t gotten enough of it 😊🤭
I just found your reaction channel. Wonderful reaction. You reviewed this so well, not speaking over the music and you sparkled with appreciation of this beautiful performance I am pleased to subscribe today. Well done.
Wow, thank you!😊
❤❤❤
Idea for a real talent. Now we need a great female singer, like a Pat Benatar to answer this song on a flip side in the same slow style. It would be a smash!