Steve Forbert "Romeo's Tune" | 1979 Video Shoot
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- Filmed in 1979 in a basement club up on 72nd St in NYC called Tracks. "Romeo's Tune" was the first US single from the album "Jackrabbit Slim" and reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"I don't ask for all that much, I just want someone to care" - oh, yes, so much! Thanks Steve, for getting it!
This song never gets old!! Every time I hear it, "everything's ok!" One of the most underrated musicians ever ♥️♥️♥️
I was just a kid when this song came out, but it stuck in my head as one of the greats from the '70s. Love it!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
1:28 D. Clinton Thompson on Rhythm Guitar & Lou Whitney on Bass & 2:50 Bobby Lloyd Hicks on Drums.
Brings back days of youth gone bey.
I was a radio DJ back in the day....this has always been my #1 favorite song of all time. Maybe I just wanted a guy that loved me as much as Steve loves in this song. (I did finally find him, and this quickly became one of 'our songs'.) The piano riff still gets me every time! So glad he's still touring!
10 year old me loved this song. 53 year old me does too.
This is a beautiful song. ❤❤❤
1979 comes flooding back to me in all it's pain and glory! Great memories.
Saw him in a basement bar in East Lansing when I was a student at Michigan State University, 1980 - ish. It was a great show!
Loved it then…love it now. Could play it over and over and dance.
Always liked this song and Little Steve Forbert.
Steve I do not know if you read these comments, dude I saw you perform this song with my friends and the memories just rush back, Thanks for your music !!!!
An absolute LEGENDARY performer and artist!!!!! STILL doin' it, I believe!!!
Indeed he is. Hoping to see him soon
This is one song I feel. Takes me back in time. Love it!
The Piano player is loving life...happy man...
Actually he's happy cuz he's playing with his organ... Not a piano
I saw him in a Bowling alley in Ramsey, NJ. 1984,;and and Tullamore rugby club, Ireland maybe 10/15 ?years ago. Still a fantastic songwriter ❤
From Elmwood Park. Used to hunt and fish near Ramsey
Great feel good song. Always brings back great memories when I hear it.
Such a great song
Who ever made this this video thank you so much
Heard last 30 secs or so of this on the radio the other day...only picked up "meet me in the middle of the day". Used to love this back in the day. Who is it? Steve Forbert came to mind. Sure enough it is. Such a blast to hear the whole song, live even!!
I wish we still heard music like this on the radio.
Always been one of my Favorite songs. I remember the first time I heard it on the radio in my Mom's brand new Boss 1970 Mach 1 . It had a great FM stereo for its time and my Mom and I used to crank this sound up loud.
Alas, that 1970 Mach 1 wouldn't have been brand new at the time of this song's release in 1979. But I appreciate the sentiment of the memory.
This song takes me back in time!
A year later and nothing has changed- a great, great song.
Aww wow the lyrics are beautiful! New fave song!
Just fabulous.
A brilliant and timeless song. Funny how Steve doesn't fit the role at all. He always reminds me of some kid in high school who is doing karaoke wishing he could play--and he can! Love this song. Takes me back to my youth. Thank you.
I love the song and love the piano!
What a wonderful song, my favourite 🌹 I remember my adolescence, I listened this song with my brother...He died 5 years ago 😓
I'm sorry to hear that. I too lost my baby sister and some things are still near impossible to see,hear, or do because of the memories that flood back...which feels happy plus not so happy at the very same time.... I just wanted you to know I feel for you about this song as well
peace be with you...
What sorcery is this, Guitar he's playing changed at 2:45....!!!
The magic of editing :)-
It's just reflection off the cameraman's shoes.
I just love it!
Already have tickets to the December Elkton Music Hall !!
Poznałem ten kawałek po obejrzeniu filmu " Synowie Mafii". 😮 to jest piękne! Pozdrawiam z Polski 🇵🇱
i also love his song "it is'nt gonna be that way"
What a great starter song for Summer.
最初にロミオの歌をきいていっぺんに好きになった、当時20代でレコード店員だった、次のセロファンシティは今も手元にある、
De mis favoritas de mi juventud.
Love this song and you too Steve. One of my great dreams is to run into you some day (hey, I can dream)
@Robin I thought you were dead!…
although Steve did a LOT of goood tunes this one was ALWAYS my favorite by far and 1 of my favorite songs of all time!
He starts with a red Strat, but about 2:45 it morphs into a white SG for about ten seconds. Then it’s back to the red Strat. Amazingly, the shirt stays the same through the switch. That’s musical genius.
beautiful
The very best
The song reminds me of the days when there was still hope for me. Great song!
Tower Theater
Upper Darby Pa Great Show way back when
I was in H.S working nites as a dishwasher in a restaurant, when this came on the whole kitchen was getting down with our bad selves...
The joy of the piano player is amazing. Does anyone know his name? Steve is iconic but had to many expectations placed on him.. Shame on Lester Bangs
Just noticed switch from Fender strat to Gibson SG and back to strat, repeat.
yes, i saw that too-- a very short gibson phase...😉
I had the good fortune of seeing Steve at Saratoga City Hall many years ago. It was in the early 1990s. This is such a solid bit of songwriting.
Iwouldlovetolovehim
Like I said.... I would love to love him.
He looks like someone aho figured as a kid you need 500 street fights to consider yourself a legitimate tough guy.
Great song.....a strange thing....same dress and 2 different guitars in the same video....a red Stratocaster and a white Gibson SG🤷
Can't say I liked this at the time or now . I know you have to play to people who contribute financially...however if you only do that . The music quality seems to be going downhill a bit ...🤷♀️ sorry . I know everyone has different taste . I mean that it is not criticism . I just feel like at the beginning . Great songs 🎵 classics . That seemed to last 10 minutes😂 . You know if a song seems to go on and on with nothing spectacular coming. At best a pop charts song . 😂 . Mediocre at best . Just my humble opinion ..There is SO many more classics to hear . I don't tune in as often . I check the songs first now ....Have you reacted to any Bob Dylan ? TO RAMONA has beautiful lyrics . Also The Pogues, Rainy night in soho ... Shane McGowan wrote this beautiful song . Amazing ...these are both slower but poetic lyrics ....Tom Payne,s bones .. The stray hens . A female trio tells the story of an English man Tom Payne who helped win the American and French Revolutions . George Washington gets all the credit ...unbelievably... when America was losing it was Tom Payne who travelled to France and borrowed weapons , money ,ships ... a lesser known fact is at the Delaware troops were deserting . Even Washington declared it was over. Tom Payne wrote the speech . That rallied the troops to cross the Delaware . The rest is history as they say. However Washington gets a rock face ..Tom Payne had 4 or 6 people at his funeral . He also was thrown in jail in France . As he spoke up about the people getting a bit guillotine happy . He asked them to exile them instead . He was thrown in jail . He wrote to George Washington to write him a letter . Which would pardon him . His friend he helped to gain American independence with . Wrote the letter eventually . It was to take him YEARS ! ! TOM PAYNE didn't want adoration or glory like Washington . When Napoleon was a young general...he turned up one night . Just to shake Tom Payne,s hand . He saw the modest way Tom Payne was living in a little room . Bed , washstand . That was it . Napoleon said there should be a statue of you in every City in the world . This great man's story has been lost in history . Without him America could still be under British control & Royalty ...King George wanted Tom Payne hung as a traitor . He wasn't he just didn't believe in colonisation and believed in freedom . He wrote The rights of man .He also wrote a pamphlet Commonsense that supported American independence 1776 ..selling 120 odd thousand pamphlets at a time when selling 200/300 was an accomplishment ... so he certainly started over a thousand people to see why America should not be run by the British and for that he couldn't go back or he would be hung for treason . He died June 8th in Newyork . I HOPE American schools acknowledge him ..He risked the noose for treason . He strongly believed in people's / countries right to Freedom ...A good man ...one of his most famous quotes was ...The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren , and to do good is my religion .. so I can,t afford to send money . I am also scared of using my cards on phones . If you have a postal address . I will send something Scottish 🏴 and music related ❤✌🏼 .
Absolutely timeless. Thank you for this gem of a song. It was released when I was 8. Loved it then. Love it still.
My brother used to sing this song at the local tavern. I took jackrabbit slim to college and infected my dorm buddies. 15 years later my brother Ron Sexsmith played a show with Steve and joined him on stage. Cool.
Meet me in the middle of the day
Let me hear you say, "Everything's okay"
Bring me southern kisses from your room
Meet me in the middle of the night
Let me hear you say, "Everything's alright"🎹🎶
One of those songs..first time you hear it you fall in love all over again Lol 😆
One of my favorite Steve Forbert songs! One question...why does the guitar change in the video?
It's variegated
My friend who is a drummer and producer produced his last two albums and when on the road with him and simply quit he said he was the biggest asshole of all time. If you do not believe me by his last two albums and see who the producer is John Allen he recorded those sessions in Toms River New Jersey😮
ALL LOVE for this guy & ALL his music!
Why does his guitar change at 2:47 in the video?
Truly a lyrical masterpiece!!
56 years young and still listening to this in 2023. Thanks Steve, wonderful memories attached to this ❤.