Mike.... I am speechless... This song is "virtually uncoverable" due to the original vocals being so high and perfect. You nailed this SO good, I actually had a tear from my eye. This is nothing short of %1000 amazing. I'm floored. Absolutely floored. All of your stuff is awesome... but THIS one is one of your top 3 easily. I always loved this song. Thanks for bringing it back to life. I'm off to Loudr or Patreon now...
When I was a little girl, the radio station would always play this song every day on the way to school and my dad used to turn it up and we would listen to it. I am 51 years old now and I have never heard a cover of this song, but you nailed it. This song is full of beautiful memories for me, but you have mad skills and a beautiful voice and thank you for one more memory bless you
This song was written about my life. I met the most beautiful and amazing woman 39 years ago at the lowest point of my life. I was broke, and broken. She introduced me to Jesus. That was a life changer. God gifted me by allowing me to marry her, and he has blessed us abundantly in all things!!!!!! We are now closer and deeper in love than ever. Loving God, loving my wife, family is priceless! We so enjoy listening to the 70s & 80s music, especially this song, when we go out cruising in the exotic speed machine I bought her a few months ago, simply because I like her. No exaggeration, all these years later she looks hotter than the car, and I don't mind that kind of problem! She is timeless! On top of that, we have 7 adult children and our 5th grandchild due soon. I am the most blessed man alive!!!!!
I guess I like to consider myself a big tough guy, BUT I must confess that this actually made my eyes water. Excellent, excellent excellent, Mike!! You have some serious talent.
From pizza joints to where you are now, I've been listening...Thanks for covering this one. As a sound geek (it's what I do, professionally), I gotta tell you, man...you've got a great ear for detail...
WOW!! The greatest cover of this tune I've ever heard. Love how you stripped it down to just piano and vocals...way cool! Thanks for keeping great tunes alive again.
Bravo! My wife and I were listening to this song on our way home from our valentine date last night...Right after listening to one of your other covers. Great job; thank you.
Mike, I love watching and listening to your stuff. I am so jealous of the people that have gotten to enjoy at their local pizza spot or what not. Wish I could have experienced that myself.
Another living prodigal man...born from the womb with the existing talent that you possessed from a previous encounter with life...brilliantly done friend...
Please come to the East Coast! Would love to see you perform live. You just keep adding additional layers to your talent (piano playing) that keeps me admiring you more.
Excellent again Mike! Really looking forward to seeing you on 01/04 2016 in London. I wish you and Jeff a safe journey over here, where I am sure a warm welcome awaits you both. Take care.
Mike is so very talented very easy to listen to.. I really hope he gets the big break he deserves.. You can feel his passion and frankly most of his remakes are better than originals... The Hey Jude idea is grand.. No idea this guy was so fluent on the keyboard.. Truly overlooked raw talent. All good things........
One of my favorite songs of all time. The guitar solo tone sent me on years of trying to emulate it. I was pretty sure it was a Gibson 335 :-) Man. how do you get those chorus walls to sound like that? I mean, they are dead on from intonation to effects to mix. Great song and superb rendition.
All time great song. Seriously top 3 for me ,and my wife. I didn't think Africa could be replaced as my favorite but I think you've done it. Thanks so much.
+rollints Thanks, man! I was hoping people would respond to this one. I really tried to capture the essence of that classic song. Like I said, second favorite for me (after Hey Jude).
Awesome Mike! Pray your feeling good, just hope you lost the weight by desire. I really believe there is no song you can't cover and most sound better than the originals due to your style. God Bless!
This song chokes me up bittersweet, as if viewing bliss from a parallel dimension. I wasn't expecting the background vocals, then 'BOOM', you got me! Spot on, Mike. I wish the camera had a dual shot with one constantly on the keys, as I want to learn this on piano. Thanks again for being a friend and covering this wonderful song!
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You son of a gun you hit that right out of the park, I love you I love the song .You really, really did a beautiful job🤩
You are the BOMB. BEAUTIFUL COVER!
Seriously this is one of the best performances I've seen in my entire life. Simply amazing.
When I get chills,its a good sign!❤
Mike.... I am speechless... This song is "virtually uncoverable" due to the original vocals being so high and perfect. You nailed this SO good, I actually had a tear from my eye. This is nothing short of %1000 amazing. I'm floored. Absolutely floored. All of your stuff is awesome... but THIS one is one of your top 3 easily. I always loved this song. Thanks for bringing it back to life. I'm off to Loudr or Patreon now...
Man, that's exactly my thoughts too Vince...!!! Rarely does music give me the chills but this one, WOW... oh yeah. Fantastic job Mike, Sir...!!!
Awsome , perfect
One of the most underrated love songs.
This guy is incredible.... done perfectly without a doubt. Keep up the songs.
Brilliant guitarist AND pianist AND singer. Reminds me a bit of Billy Joel. Lovely harmonies too.
Great cover Mike--our wedding song for almost 32 years!
When I was a little girl, the radio station would always play this song every day on the way to school and my dad used to turn it up and we would listen to it. I am 51 years old now and I have never heard a cover of this song, but you nailed it. This song is full of beautiful memories for me, but you have mad skills and a beautiful voice and thank you for one more memory bless you
This song was written about my life. I met the most beautiful and amazing woman 39 years ago at the lowest point of my life. I was broke, and broken. She introduced me to Jesus. That was a life changer. God gifted me by allowing me to marry her, and he has blessed us abundantly in all things!!!!!!
We are now closer and deeper in love than ever. Loving God, loving my wife, family is priceless!
We so enjoy listening to the 70s & 80s music, especially this song, when we go out cruising in the exotic speed machine I bought her a few months ago, simply because I like her.
No exaggeration, all these years later she looks hotter than the car, and I don't mind that kind of problem! She is timeless!
On top of that, we have 7 adult children and our 5th grandchild due soon. I am the most blessed man alive!!!!!
The background vocals are heart-melting, especially in the last chorus. Great job, Mike!
A very underrated, beautiful "oldy but goody". If they could only write music like this now. Brilliant! Thank you:)
Excellent. Energy, spirit of the song, and pitch PERFECT. Well done, Sir.
This song always makes me cry with happiness. I grew up on this stuff. It's the stuff of beautiful memories. I could listen to this forever.
Unbelievable version. I could listen to this over and over and over again!!!
The feeling is right from the soul.
Thank you Mike.
I guess I like to consider myself a big tough guy, BUT I must confess that this actually made my eyes water. Excellent, excellent excellent, Mike!! You have some serious talent.
Thanks, D. P.! I credit the excellent source material.
Everyone does until the meet someone tougher or hear a fantastic song. (Or watch Rudy)
You are one of my favorite musicians on TH-cam right now.
Bad ass bro !!!
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Wow!!! You Certainly Nailed It!!! I'm gonna have to try this one myself.
Truly impressed on the vocal. Such a hard song to cover and you better than nailed it.
Listening to this again after a long while. It's still my favorite cover of yours, Mike! Even more than "Africa", as awesome as that is!
It's a personal favorite song and cover of mine, as well. Thanks for the kind words.
@@mikemasse Awesome !!!!
Very nice cover. 👍
From pizza joints to where you are now, I've been listening...Thanks for covering this one. As a sound geek (it's what I do, professionally), I gotta tell you, man...you've got a great ear for detail...
Mike is one with the music and the music is one with Mike.
This is a one man MASTERPIECE!!! WOW!!
The Climax Blues Band seems to still be active with no original members. They need to look you up because that was perfect.
I love this song... your voice is so lovely and so perfect for this song..
Wow......B R A V O!!
Your vocals (including those harmonies), are amazing!
WOW!! The greatest cover of this tune I've ever heard. Love how you stripped it down to just piano and vocals...way cool! Thanks for keeping great tunes alive again.
Bravo! My wife and I were listening to this song on our way home from our valentine date last night...Right after listening to one of your other covers. Great job; thank you.
Mike, YOU ARE AWESOME. But of course you already know that! Beautifully done. And your voice.....W O W. God was good to you, sir.
Beautiful rendition.
Super duper !
Mike, I love watching and listening to your stuff. I am so jealous of the people that have gotten to enjoy at their local pizza spot or what not. Wish I could have experienced that myself.
So much talent for one man it's hard to believe sometimes. Wonderful as always Mike. ✌😎
Great Job Mike!
Another living prodigal man...born from the womb with the existing talent that you possessed from a previous encounter with life...brilliantly done friend...
I have to say... I love listening to you. my wife found your "africa" video for me due to its one of my favorite songs. great voice
what a voice ! like derek holt ..what a talent!
Please come to the East Coast! Would love to see you perform live. You just keep adding additional layers to your talent (piano playing) that keeps me admiring you more.
Really nice version! That was just our wedding song performed by the amazing and talented Mike LeCompt!
Your voice is so good that i can't explain it in words.......so good.
Amazing!👏🏼
Excellent job!!!
Omg!!! This is seriously amazing!!
Excellent again Mike!
Really looking forward to seeing you on 01/04 2016 in London.
I wish you and Jeff a safe journey over here, where I am sure a warm welcome awaits you both. Take care.
💯 perfection. Couldn't ask for a better cover.
Mike, you've proved again-you are TH-cams finest talent. Jut one thing-please dont lose
any more weight
Perfect cover. This is my song to my wife. She loves it.
Really great cover! The videography matched the quality of this recording. So well done on all levels. Thanks for sharing this!
Beautiful rendition of one of the greatest love songs...thank you.
Found it by accident, so glad I did. Great cover, great vocals, piano, etc. Just plain fantastic
Awesome! Great song for valentine's!
Loved it. And your piano-playing is quite amazing too! So inspiring.
Excellent Cover!
Mike is so very talented very easy to listen to.. I really hope he gets the big break he deserves.. You can feel his passion and frankly most of his remakes are better than originals... The Hey Jude idea is grand.. No idea this guy was so fluent on the keyboard.. Truly overlooked raw talent. All good things........
Look at you Mike! You look so healthy, what are you doing with yourself these days to make yourself so healthy? Oh, great song too!
Great bruv
This song is so amazing
May I just say... YOU ROCK!
I wish there was a good tutorial on this one great job sounds just like the original 👍💯
One of my favorite songs of all time. The guitar solo tone sent me on years of trying to emulate it. I was pretty sure it was a Gibson 335 :-)
Man. how do you get those chorus walls to sound like that? I mean, they are dead on from intonation to effects to mix. Great song and superb rendition.
That was simply beautiful!♥️
Wow! Amazing rendition of one of my all-time favorite songs! Really great, Mike! 👍
I havent heard any other voice that does this song justice as your voice does. Awesome.
Right in your wheelhouse Mike.
Who gives this a thumbs down? This is great!
Perfect
Totally ausome........... Very, very impressive. I like all your music and performances Covers.
Wonderful performance. You nailed this one. 70s👍👍
I'm blown away, you nailed the song to a tee...
BRILLIANT MIKE !!YOU ARE ABSOLUTLY ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS THEESE DAYS..REGARDS FROM SWEDEN.... EJE
All time great song. Seriously top 3 for me ,and my wife. I didn't think Africa could be replaced as my favorite but I think you've done it. Thanks so much.
+rollints Thanks, man! I was hoping people would respond to this one. I really tried to capture the essence of that classic song. Like I said, second favorite for me (after Hey Jude).
+Mike Masse Your right Mike you can never top a Beatles Song...Excellent Job on this one Perfect
+Anthony Pignataro he did a "hey Jude" cover years ago for his son
+julian063093 "let it be" not hey Jude
YES!!!, awesome, moved to tears, favorite song from my youth, just beautiful!
Mike, this is so awesome. I loved this song for years and you knocked it out of the park! But what is with all the weight loss? Don't disappear on us!
Awesome Mike! Pray your feeling good, just hope you lost the weight by desire. I really believe there is no song you can't cover and most sound better than the originals due to your style. God Bless!
JUST AWESOME! Brought me back to a wonderful time in my life
one of the world's great voices!
Excellent job! Amazing vocals, keyboard and mix!!!
Who in their right mind would thumb down
+Dave Hamman they had to bump the wrong one.
well there's 8 brainless peeps that don't have a clue as to what a talent Mike is. I'm sure there's more of them to come, ignore them.
They are not in their right mind.
This song is one of my favorite Bro ,and so sang it well ,,, so close to the original nice cover .
Man, what a show-stopper.
The absolute best version of this song. Actually it’s better than the original. Well done Mike. Incredible piano and vocals.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful...
GREAT cover one of my favs from 81
Derek would approve, well done sir.
He actually sent me a nice message on FB years ago telling me he liked it. 👍
This is one of my favorite songs. Hard one to cover. Awesome job Mike, I'm incredibly impressed! Keep the tunes coming dude 👌
This song chokes me up bittersweet, as if viewing bliss from a parallel dimension. I wasn't expecting the background vocals, then 'BOOM', you got me! Spot on, Mike. I wish the camera had a dual shot with one constantly on the keys, as I want to learn this on piano.
Thanks again for being a friend and covering this wonderful song!
Wow...yet another truly amazing cover! Such remarkable talent . Just...wow!
And yet again another outstanding and beautiful work. Thank you
You are amazing beyond words. Would love to see you live one day.
You continue to amaze me. I had no idea you were this accomplished on keys. Awesome.
You are fantastic, a true musician, greetings from Uruguay....
I fall inlove with this song all over again. Just Love... Thanks Mike.
I like you and the bass player, you guys are a real good duo. 5 cameras that's a good one.
I fan from FRANCE , très belle mélodie !
Thank you for that song! Get Well.
MIKE! One of my absolute all time favorites! Love your version!!! WTG!! 10+
Thanks, Mark! Happy to sing some harmonies with you on it sometime if MM8TR ever revives it. :)
Wow. Still years later Song is emotionally involved. Excellent job!!
One of my favorite songs of all time....
Better than the other two of my favorites --- Tesla & Original Climax Blues band