Once upon a time...a crisp sunny windy Spring day In 1981 this little humble band came to my university in upstate New York and everyone fell in love with them. With no expectations...they happily belted out song after song with pride and precision. You're Still the One, Dance With Me and Love Takes Time touched everyone one way or another. Larry led the band with his special humble brand of charisma and enthusiasm. I happened to be there with my girlfriend, happy, in love, up front basking simplicity and satisfaction of life. Little did we know....this would be the bands peak and our relationship peak as well. However, for one day, one performance, everything in life was perfect. People come into our lives for a reason... to give us hope, inspiration, and reaffirmation. To every member in the band---Larry, Wells, Bob, Charlie, Lance, etc...thank you...you did it! Forty years later, your special brand of music, hope, happiness lives on and inspires us today. Thank you for reaffirming...we don't have to wait....heaven is a place right here on earth.
One of these guys committed suicide so the optimism you have while in your sixth decade of life was not shared by him nor a lot of other people I have to wonder what you're taking to have so much optimism
Thanks for Sharing such a Wonderful memory I'm 62 an Love this Great American Band in Ontario Canada not far from New York.Orleans Was Too Great for such a Short Time .God Bless You from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸🙏🏼🎶🎶🎶
Agreed - well written, captures the “in the moment” essence… I was still in HS in a Syracuse suburb when this band was at the zenith of its popularity, but w/ older siblings attending Syracuse University just a few miles from our home, I use to spend a good bit of my free time up on the hill and even working at the marshal street bars (I was pretty big for a middle-aged teenager and eventually played FB there in the mid-80s), so I got to work a lot of the campus concerts at the university student union,Manley fieldhouse and ultimately the C Carrier dome… I enjoyed seeing this band live (2x)….+40 yrs later their music still resonates
I can close my eyes and I am back in 1979. When I would tell my parents “going for a bike ride “. Kids playing in the streets or in the parks. Everyone was home before it got dark. No need for cell phones. Gosh, Life was easier then. Great song! No profanity and no hired dancers to sell the product. This is real music. Thank you for producing this song, what a great expression of love, it takes time. What happened to Orleans ??
I remember all the things you just described😊. Not everything was so planned/regimented. We hung-out together, actually talked & interacted w/each other & had REAL friendships. Something mostly (& tragically) missing from society today.
I’m in my mid 70’s now. I first heard this song in 1979, and even today it remains my favorite rock song of all time. The message, the vocals, and the harmony will never be topped.
One night...many moons ago...I was in Albany, NY club-hopping as our group had the night off and we stumbled into a small place on Central Ave. called "Pauly's Hotel" and there was a $2.00 cover, so we paid and walked in....there was maybe a dozen people there and so we grabbed a table up front about 6 feet front the stage and the band came out and this guy walks up to the mic and says "Good evening..we are Orleans". Then they opened up and I was glued to my chair for the next hour and a half. Ever since then, I became a big fan of one of the finest groups I've ever heard.
Back in the day Albany was a stop between NYC and Montreal for Bands. JB Scott's and the Hulabaloo in Rensselaer were great venues for bands. Not to mention the RPI Fieldhouse and the Palace Theatre.
Classical music is known as "perfect music". The musicians attempt to perfectly recreate what the composer wrote. Great groups like Orleans are the same. When Larry Hoppen understood that his brain condition had robbed him of the Gift that GOD had given him, he could not deal with it. This song is the Gift that Larry Hoppen and Orleans has left for Us... treasure it. Love truly does "take time".
I met him at one of his speaking events here in Poughkeepsie. We had a quick discussion about his bass playing when he was in Kangaroo and the famous Who/ Doors concert he performed at in 1968. Super top guy !
WHO does this guy make you think of, who also has that POWERFUL SOARING voice... Not Roy Orbison or Steve Perry though; and I love their singing dearly. Maybe Bobby Hatfield from the Righteous Brothers, Jay Black from Jay & the Americans, and Gary Puckett from GP & the Union Gap I think. LH sells it and OWNS this song; NO DOUBTS.
So I’m a thirty something born in 82 and while listening to a 70s playlist on iTunes this song comes on and INSTANTLY I’m Hooked !!! Hooked !!! Hooked !!!!
The BEST music is TIMELESS, and appeals to everyone. In my case, I was born in the 50's, but I only moved FORWARD. That 30's & 40's stuff has NO hold on me.
Gosh... compare this to the trash-music in modern-times.... NO comparison!! The 70's was the very BEST in the music entertainment industry!! Orleans truly was 1 of the most OUTSTANDING bands of all time!
I was surprised to suddenly find tears falling from my eyes during this beautiful song. It must have struck some sentimental chord in me from long ago! Orleans is such a GREAT group! Thanks for posting it!
This song was not just an American hit. It was in fact an international hit at the time. It was well received across the world and rightly deserved it.
Incredible Band Made Such Beautiful Music 🎵🎵 at 62 Brings a Tear to Once Young Brown Eyes I was 18 when this Heart Wrenching Beautiful Song was all over Canadian Radio Stations across the Country.Thanks Orleans.Much Love from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶
As always, finding music from my younger days reminds me how much better life was in the 70s. Being 61 aint a bad thing! Todays noise will NEVER be this.
Awesome band, one of my 70s favorites, along with Poco, Firefall, Eagles, Pablo Cruise and Toto! Lead singer had an awesome voice! One of my favorite songs by them, as well!!!
I met the keyboard player, bald guy, while playing golf in Greenwich Connecticut years ago. Such a nice guy. He teaches music now and was so surprised when I knew who Orleans were. I mentioned this song and he lit up. Great guy
Bob Leinbach... A really class guy from all I've ever read! There's a neat video of him leading a youth jazz band on YTube. His passion for the music and teaching his kids really shines through! It is very cool that you got to meet him... If I'm ever that fortunate, he's got a free steak dinner coming his way with my complements!!! About the band... I've listened to them for many years and several band lineups...was very glad to update my Orleans albums with CD's when they became available. So much of their music was not only great to listen to but TIMELESS as well! The sad passing of lead singer Larry Hoppen, like Brad Delp of Boston, was so very tragic in so many ways... It's terribly sad that they could not truly know and feel the joy their talent brought to those hearing them sing...perhaps it would have made a difference! The world somehow became a lesser place when these voices went silent. Thankfully, they and their band mates left behind a great musical legacy that will live on far, far longer than any of us!
@@MIKET5609 another cool story... back in 2003 maybe was at a birthday party for a friend of my wife at the local knights of Columbus in Wappingers falls NY. It was a big party. He was a DJ years earlier her friend and guess who played at the Party? Larry Hoppen! I was floored. So cool. They were old friends too
Orleans was truly one the greatest vocal groups of all time. They had a unique blend of harmony, range, and vibrato that I have yet to hear elsewhere. The songs touched our hearts and souls like no one else before or since. Great work guys and I think this group was very under appreciated for being as talented as they were. You will remain in my car stereo forever.
Excelente grupo maravillosa musica, la disfrute en los 80s, ahora tengo 54 años y sigo emocionandome con ella, que distinta a la basura de música de hoy, si se le puede llamar música.
This takes me back, to 9 years old, play till the streetlights came, mom or call to come home for dinner, riding in the back of a pickup, you all know, what I mean.
@Sal Brothman Right. Except please be sure to call the latter by its correct title, just "Still The One," so people won't be reminded of the Shania Twain hit.
An incredibly talented band, they do this song live and sounds like studio recorded, awesome voice, backing vocals and listen to that beautiful bass....cant stop listening to this song,... perfect, thanks Orleans
@ Edgard: I don't believe this band has been forgotten at all. What has been forgotten is the *message* in the music. Awesome tune! Purchased my digital copy today!!!
For some reason this song popped into my head 40 years after the fact earlier today just out of the blue...Can't stop playing it...Sad to learn (researching Wiki today) that vocalist and band co-founder Larry Hoppen took his own life back in 2012...Left behind his longtime wife and 2 daughters...He was 61 yrs of age at the time...Sad to learn that but his life lives on thru his music...Orleans was on the radio non stop when a was a young kid in JrHigh, HS and Jr College..Great memories and great tunes from this group...
Awwwww man 💗😁 I haven't heard this song in years🎵 so I was listening to Sirius XM: The Bridge station, and this came on. Well, immediately after it played, I came to TH-cam and found this clip. Even though I hear the original version over this live performance, I'm glad they did it that way bcuz sometime I don't like the live version, yet I can see who the lead singer was & the other participants and what they do during the song. I must have played this at least 6 times in a row. And yes, I did save it to my TH-cam playlist along with their other song "Dance With Me". I love that 1 also 🧡❤ 👁👁One of'em is kinda' cute 😍😘😆
What song ,bring good memories, back to I was young ,I remember listening with my brother ( unfortunately)past away in 1994,I missed him every single day at my life,love you brother, where you are.
1979 estudiada 1mer semestre de odontología iba a clase en un bus blue bird y el chofer llevaba esta canción a todo volumen.me recuerdo como si es hoy y se me paran los pelos .tenia 18 años ahora 57.que linda canción
Larry Lewis Hoppen (January 12, 1951 - July 24, 2012) was an American musician who was a co-founder, vocalist and guitarist/keyboardist of the pop-rock group Orleans. Orleans was formed in Woodstock, New York in January 1972 by Hoppen, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter (and future member of Congress) John Hall, and drummer/percussionist
Sept 1979 and this song was in the air ....1st week of classes. I was a sophomore in HS in central NY. Star senior MLB was a crazy SOB. Had a few joints in his leather jacket pocket in his school locker... mid morning his locker is searched and he is immediately suspended and will soon be expelled. Just before noon, the General PA system sounds a page asking me to report to the principals office... I exit my class to the sound of my classmates mouthing off that I am in trouble etc..and head to the main office complex within the multiple building campus.. I get more of the same lip service from those I pass by as I head to see “Dr. Hershberger”. I am ushered in to the waiting room of his office and told to take a seat... I sit there having no clue as to why I am there, meanwhile other students peer into the room via the glass side windows.... finally I am ushered in to his office, where I join the principal, assistant principal, athletic director, head FB coach and our school police officer. I immediately think WTF?? and figure I need to call my Dad. Check that, as it turns out they have him on the phone.... turns out all of this bull crap was pertaining to the fact that I was being promoted from Jr varsity FB team to Varsity FB, to fill the role vacated by the dearly departed star and it was supposedly a big deal b/c in the schools 30+ yr history, it had never happened before, along with the fact that this particular year we were expected to win the league, sectionals and were a serious contender for state playoffs.... I was totally oblivious to it all and even when playing FB at my Div 1 alma mater, I never thought it was anything more than a great way to get a good education
Gosh, this sing just strums the strings of my heart and soul and I add my adoration of this song and its place in the soundtrack of my life. We may not personally know each other but the effects of this song touching us unites us! VIVA LA LOVE amongst us!
Looks like the late 80s through 90s lineup: Larry Hoppen, John Hall, Lance Hoppen, Bob Leinbach, and Pete O'Brien....with the 1979 studio version overlay. Nice work on this! Thanks for the post.
Love this tune! For Many years - well, it played today in Food Town SuperMarket, and I said to myself - I have to learn this tune for an open mic (I know daring as one guy!) Guess who co wrote this?...I doubt any one would ever guess......ready?......It is arguably their third most popular song overall, behind "Dance with Me" and "Still the One," and their most popular song without lead singer John Hall.[4] Written by Larry Hoppen and Marilyn Mason, it was the first track on the band's 1979 album Forever.[5] I was like, Marilyn Manson! wow.
I am 61 and remember making out with my girlfriend in my best friends basement with a huge mural that my friend and I painted on the wall from the Kiss Alive album. My best friend and first love are now in heaven. This song will always take me back to a time when my four brothers, sister, mom and dad and friends were all here! I will be in the seventies when I get to heaven!
I'm a grown man, but this song chokes me up every time I hear it.
AOR Forever Awwww 😊
64 years old here and I'm teary eyed right now after hearing this song.
Then the song did it’s job
67 and me too. An eternal truth.
Once upon a time...a crisp sunny windy Spring day In 1981 this little humble band came to my university in upstate New York and everyone fell in love with them. With no expectations...they happily belted out song after song with pride and precision. You're Still the One, Dance With Me and Love Takes Time touched everyone one way or another. Larry led the band with his special humble brand of charisma and enthusiasm. I happened to be there with my girlfriend, happy, in love, up front basking simplicity and satisfaction of life. Little did we know....this would be the bands peak and our relationship peak as well. However, for one day, one performance, everything in life was perfect. People come into our lives for a reason... to give us hope, inspiration, and reaffirmation. To every member in the band---Larry, Wells, Bob, Charlie, Lance, etc...thank you...you did it! Forty years later, your special brand of music, hope, happiness lives on and inspires us today. Thank you for reaffirming...we don't have to wait....heaven is a place right here on earth.
One of these guys committed suicide so the optimism you have while in your sixth decade of life was not shared by him nor a lot of other people I have to wonder what you're taking to have so much optimism
You have touched on the essence of Life. Music connects us to GOD
Stephen Pershing, MD
Thanks for Sharing such a Wonderful memory I'm 62 an Love this Great American Band in Ontario Canada not far from New York.Orleans Was Too Great for such a Short Time .God Bless You from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸🙏🏼🎶🎶🎶
@@davindampenwell I'm guessing he doesn't hang around with men like you Dave. Mr Sunshine.😂
Agreed - well written, captures the “in the moment” essence… I was still in HS in a Syracuse suburb when this band was at the zenith of its popularity, but w/ older siblings attending Syracuse University just a few miles from our home, I use to spend a good bit of my free time up on the hill and even working at the marshal street bars (I was pretty big for a middle-aged teenager and eventually played FB there in the mid-80s), so I got to work a lot of the campus concerts at the university student union,Manley fieldhouse and ultimately the C Carrier dome… I enjoyed seeing this band live (2x)….+40 yrs later their music still resonates
How many of us can relate to this musical masterpiece
Man the music was so great back then. Today's generation will never truly understand that. 70s and 80s...the best
Absolutely!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽
You are so right on!
When you could be fat and ugly but still famous because your music was good.
Definitely
when musicians were artists and songs had meanings
I can close my eyes and I am back in 1979. When I would tell my parents “going for a bike ride “.
Kids playing in the streets or in the parks. Everyone was home before it got dark. No need for cell phones. Gosh, Life was easier then. Great song! No profanity and no hired dancers to sell the product. This is real music. Thank you for producing this song, what a great expression of love, it takes time.
What happened to Orleans ??
Well worded! I'll never own a cellphone.
I just love this song, I have always love. It
@@nikkig7759 , there some innocence or is it simplicity of life that it touches me.
I remember all the things you just described😊. Not everything was so planned/regimented. We hung-out together, actually talked & interacted w/each other & had REAL friendships. Something mostly (& tragically) missing from society today.
They still tour. I saw them at Wildwood Springs Lodge in Missouri. They play smallish venues which is nice-you can talk to them afterwards.
I’m in my mid 70’s now. I first heard this song in 1979, and even today it remains my favorite rock song of all time. The message, the vocals, and the harmony will never be topped.
One night...many moons ago...I was in Albany, NY club-hopping as our group had the night off and we stumbled into a small place on Central Ave. called "Pauly's Hotel" and there was a $2.00 cover, so we paid and walked in....there was maybe a dozen people there and so we grabbed a table up front about 6 feet front the stage and the band came out and this guy walks up to the mic and says "Good evening..we are Orleans". Then they opened up and I was glued to my chair for the next hour and a half. Ever since then, I became a big fan of one of the finest groups I've ever heard.
Back in the day Albany was a stop between NYC and Montreal for Bands. JB Scott's and the Hulabaloo in Rensselaer were great venues for bands. Not to mention the RPI Fieldhouse and the Palace Theatre.
Amen ❤
RIP Larry Hoppen...what a voice! Also John Hall (guitarist) did fine work in Dutchess County (NY) as a congressman!
Classical music is known as "perfect music". The musicians attempt to perfectly recreate what the composer wrote. Great groups like Orleans are the same. When Larry Hoppen understood that his brain condition had robbed him of the Gift that GOD had given him, he could not deal with it.
This song is the Gift that Larry Hoppen and Orleans has left for Us... treasure it. Love truly does "take time".
I met him at one of his speaking events here in Poughkeepsie. We had a quick discussion about his bass playing when he was in Kangaroo and the famous Who/ Doors concert he performed at in 1968. Super top guy !
WHO does this guy make you think of, who also has that POWERFUL SOARING voice... Not Roy Orbison or Steve Perry though; and I love their singing dearly. Maybe Bobby Hatfield from the Righteous Brothers, Jay Black from Jay & the Americans, and Gary Puckett from GP & the Union Gap I think.
LH sells it and OWNS this song; NO DOUBTS.
Hall a “nice” deplorable hillary supporter HOPPEN a LEGEND
@@JOHNWLOUCKShe is a “nice polite” deplorable hillary supporter
So I’m a thirty something born in 82 and while listening to a 70s playlist on iTunes this song comes on and INSTANTLY I’m Hooked !!! Hooked !!! Hooked !!!!
The BEST music is TIMELESS, and appeals to everyone. In my case, I was born in the 50's, but I only moved FORWARD. That 30's & 40's stuff has NO hold on me.
I was 18 when this Beautiful song came out now I'm 60 an Old an Gray !! This Song Still Moves Me
Mee too
When songs, voices and music felt good and were worth listening to.
Yes indeed!
Amen
Gosh... compare this to the trash-music in modern-times.... NO comparison!! The 70's was the very BEST in the music entertainment industry!! Orleans truly was 1 of the most OUTSTANDING bands of all time!
Still playing drums for 64 years... so I guess I have the right to say- incredible vocals and harmonies. Great band.
Tim, I played drums for 40 + years and had to give it up from having a stroke at 50 years of age, Damn, I miss playing !!
You nailed that!
Such an under rated band!! They were and are awesome!
I was surprised to suddenly find tears falling from my eyes during this beautiful song. It must have struck some sentimental chord in me from long ago! Orleans is such a GREAT group! Thanks for posting it!
I absolutely love this band ❤
Me as well but I think mine were for my childhood that is long gone and this crap world we live in now.
Too Good... And so very true!!!❤
Boy does this song bring back some GREAT memories. It came out during my Senior year in High School in 1979. The harmonies👍👍
Love this song so much
I remember this years when music was music.
70s back please
My favorite song!!!. Miss those years
Rip 1979
just a great song. so sad Larry took his own life.... RIP
This song was not just an American hit. It was in fact an international hit at the time. It was well received across the world and rightly deserved it.
Incredible Band Made Such Beautiful Music 🎵🎵 at 62 Brings a Tear to Once Young Brown Eyes I was 18 when this Heart Wrenching Beautiful Song was all over Canadian Radio Stations across the Country.Thanks Orleans.Much Love from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶
Tom Hoppen... RIP...sad that he took his life. Such a wonderful gift from God.
I thought it was Larry Hoppen (the lead vocalist) who sadly took his own life.
As always, finding music from my younger days reminds me how much better life was in the 70s. Being 61 aint a bad thing! Todays noise will NEVER be this.
Ditto! on your thoughts. I too am 61 and echo your feelings whole-heartedly.
Yeah , the days when they played actual instruments
Robert Forrest I’m also 61 and I totally agree. 😊
My husband is also 61 and we just celebrated 39 years of marriage. This song has so many messages that can be used in today’s time and tomorrow’s too.
Love ❤ does takes Time. U really don't know what real love is untill it's gone.!!!🥰👍
Awesome band, one of my 70s favorites, along with Poco, Firefall, Eagles, Pablo Cruise and Toto! Lead singer had an awesome voice! One of my favorite songs by them, as well!!!
gtmobayer That’s a dang fine list!
Larry Hoppen ..RIP
Little River Band?
@@juanmadrigal4095 Them too! Daw r him at Parker's Lounge in Seattle, circa 1991-EXCELLENT!!!
People in their 50's and 60's should play music like this for their grandchildren. They'll probably enjoy it like we did.
I play it for mine! 56 years old.
I was a senior in high school in 1979 when Love takes time came out awesome song beautiful harmonies
That's real I'm frome Brooklyn but now I'm part of new Orleans god blessall
I met the keyboard player, bald guy, while playing golf in Greenwich Connecticut years ago. Such a nice guy. He teaches music now and was so surprised when I knew who Orleans were. I mentioned this song and he lit up. Great guy
Bob Leinbach... A really class guy from all I've ever read! There's a neat video of him leading a youth jazz band on YTube. His passion for the music and teaching his kids really shines through! It is very cool that you got to meet him... If I'm ever that fortunate, he's got a free steak dinner coming his way with my complements!!!
About the band... I've listened to them for many years and several band lineups...was very glad to update my Orleans albums with CD's when they became available. So much of their music was not only great to listen to but TIMELESS as well!
The sad passing of lead singer Larry Hoppen, like Brad Delp of Boston, was so very tragic in so many ways... It's terribly sad that they could not truly know and feel the joy their talent brought to those hearing them sing...perhaps it would have made a difference! The world somehow became a lesser place when these voices went silent. Thankfully, they and their band mates left behind a great musical legacy that will live on far, far longer than any of us!
@@MIKET5609 another cool story... back in 2003 maybe was at a birthday party for a friend of my wife at the local knights of Columbus in Wappingers falls NY. It was a big party. He was a DJ years earlier her friend and guess who played at the Party? Larry Hoppen! I was floored. So cool. They were old friends too
Orleans was truly one the greatest vocal groups of all time. They had a unique blend of harmony, range, and vibrato that I have yet to hear elsewhere. The songs touched our hearts and souls like no one else before or since. Great work guys and I think this group was very under appreciated for being as talented as they were. You will remain in my car stereo forever.
I grow up listening to a radio with 6 - A size batteries. This song always play on an AM band on weekends.
Excelente grupo maravillosa musica, la disfrute en los 80s, ahora tengo 54 años y sigo emocionandome con ella, que distinta a la basura de música de hoy, si se le puede llamar música.
Outstanding vocal and group. Man what voices. chills.....
Great song in 1979. Forgotten band
I forgot about all the great songs Orleans has!!! 😎🎵🍻
Hello,how are you dong,i hope your okay?
You didn’t know it then but those were the best times in your life ❤️
Their best song by far!!!
Fantastic, Always Fresh..... "I Saw A Twinkle In Her Eye"!!!
That dude can SING !! What a range.
I will always love it
This takes me back, to 9 years old, play till the streetlights came, mom or call to come home for dinner, riding in the back of a pickup, you all know, what I mean.
The good old days
I sure do.
Memories of the summer of 1979. Loved that summer.......
I remember seeing them live at GREAT ADVENTURES back in 1979 . Was in HS. That song stood in my heart forever😍👍
when times were simple.i was 12 years old old without a care in the world.they dont make music like that anymore.heartfelt music
This song takes me back to high school!
@Sal Brothman Right. Except please be sure to call the latter by its correct title, just "Still The One," so people won't be reminded of the Shania Twain hit.
1979 I was 11
@@allang1968 1979 I was 14. :-)
@@allang1968 me too
allan gedan , I was 15
My favorite song to married 30, years song so true, I give all the glory to God.
An incredibly talented band, they do this song live and sounds like studio recorded, awesome voice, backing vocals and listen to that beautiful bass....cant stop listening to this song,... perfect, thanks Orleans
@ Edgard: I don't believe this band has been forgotten at all. What has been forgotten is the *message* in the music.
Awesome tune! Purchased my digital copy today!!!
Thanks for posting one of the best bands of the seventies. Excellent music.....
Great single that is now 40 years old!
For some reason this song popped into my head 40 years after the fact earlier today just out of the blue...Can't stop playing it...Sad to learn (researching Wiki today) that vocalist and band co-founder Larry Hoppen took his own life back in 2012...Left behind his longtime wife and 2 daughters...He was 61 yrs of age at the time...Sad to learn that but his life lives on thru his music...Orleans was on the radio non stop when a was a young kid in JrHigh, HS and Jr College..Great memories and great tunes from this group...
The best song performed by Orleans
Still the One says "hold my beer"
Love love this song still!👏🏼👏🏼❤️
Awesome Song and Group 70s classic! May 2022!👍❤❤😀Love this music
Oh my ,there voices are great !!! Love them 😍 instantly 😁😁😍
Wasn't it growing up on this era...great music and we still stood and saluted our Flag
Awwwww man 💗😁
I haven't heard this song in years🎵 so I was listening to Sirius XM: The Bridge station, and this came on. Well, immediately after it played, I came to TH-cam and found this clip.
Even though I hear the original version over this live performance, I'm glad they did it that way bcuz sometime I don't like the live version, yet I can see who the lead singer was & the other participants and what they do during the song. I must have played this at least 6 times in a row. And yes, I did save it to my TH-cam playlist along with their other song "Dance With Me". I love that 1 also 🧡❤
👁👁One of'em is kinda' cute 😍😘😆
One of the best vocals ever!
This song is PURE MAGIC!!! Awesome song from '79. I think it's their best. Timeless.
One of the GREATEST songs I have EVER heard!
the blending of their voices is in incredible.
What song ,bring good memories, back to I was young ,I remember listening with my brother ( unfortunately)past away in 1994,I missed him every single day at my life,love you brother, where you are.
1979 estudiada 1mer semestre de odontología iba a clase en un bus blue bird y el chofer llevaba esta canción a todo volumen.me recuerdo como si es hoy y se me paran los pelos .tenia 18 años ahora 57.que linda canción
This song gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling
70’s and 80’s music can transport you back in time. The feelings… omg…. ♥️…………
This song is awesome i remember it from when i was a kid now im 51 still sounds good.
Same here, 51, also
One of the better songs from back in the day......never get tired of it...
R.I.P. Larry Hoppen
What a great song!!!!the 80's forever
This still lives on, so take it slow. Love takes time to grow.
Larry Lewis Hoppen (January 12, 1951 - July 24, 2012) was an American musician who was a co-founder, vocalist and guitarist/keyboardist of the pop-rock group Orleans. Orleans was formed in Woodstock, New York in January 1972 by Hoppen, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter (and future member of Congress) John Hall, and drummer/percussionist
This song brings back the happiest memories of my childhood. Thank you for posting.
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tremenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome song brings back many memories
Sept 1979 and this song was in the air ....1st week of classes. I was a sophomore in HS in central NY. Star senior MLB was a crazy SOB. Had a few joints in his leather jacket pocket in his school locker... mid morning his locker is searched and he is immediately suspended and will soon be expelled. Just before noon, the General PA system sounds a page asking me to report to the principals office... I exit my class to the sound of my classmates mouthing off that I am in trouble etc..and head to the main office complex within the multiple building campus.. I get more of the same lip service from those I pass by as I head to see “Dr. Hershberger”. I am ushered in to the waiting room of his office and told to take a seat... I sit there having no clue as to why I am there, meanwhile other students peer into the room via the glass side windows.... finally I am ushered in to his office, where I join the principal, assistant principal, athletic director, head FB coach and our school police officer. I immediately think WTF?? and figure I need to call my Dad. Check that, as it turns out they have him on the phone.... turns out all of this bull crap was pertaining to the fact that I was being promoted from Jr varsity FB team to Varsity FB, to fill the role vacated by the dearly departed star and it was supposedly a big deal b/c in the schools 30+ yr history, it had never happened before, along with the fact that this particular year we were expected to win the league, sectionals and were a serious contender for state playoffs.... I was totally oblivious to it all and even when playing FB at my Div 1 alma mater, I never thought it was anything more than a great way to get a good education
Great story! So, did y'all win?
Great story! What HS? I grew up in Oneonta, wonder if we played you guys?? I was an 8th grader then though!!
One of my favorite songs of all time - the vocals and all the instruments are great! The lyrics are great also! Love does indeed take time!
Absolutely love the 70's!!!!!!!!!!
How can any one like the crap they play now. I took my 15 year daughter and her friends to see Davy Jones. They loved the concert.
what an amazing song,omg i miss how great the music was in the 70s and 80s
Gosh, this sing just strums the strings of my heart and soul and I add my adoration of this song and its place in the soundtrack of my life. We may not personally know each other but the effects of this song touching us unites us! VIVA LA LOVE amongst us!
Hello,how are you dong,i hope your okay?
So good. Catchy and easy to sing with. Today's songs are terrible in comparison
Hello,how are you dong,i hope your okay?
I love this song a whole lot.
This song takes me back to summers in Northern Michigan
Looks like the late 80s through 90s lineup: Larry Hoppen, John Hall, Lance Hoppen, Bob Leinbach, and Pete O'Brien....with the 1979 studio version overlay. Nice work on this! Thanks for the post.
The 'proof in the puddin'' for me has always how well a band performs live - and man does this group pass that (my) requirement.
Had to look up this song. They keep playing it in the supermarkets i go to.
I remember listening and singing to this song when i was 10 years old.
Such a beautiful song
Wao memories … great song
Just another amazing song from back in the day. Miss these kind of songs.
Hello,how are you dong,i hope your okay?
Still listening to this song!
This song intro made me want to be a DJ, and I did. They don't make music like this ANYMORE❤
Love this tune! For Many years - well, it played today in Food Town SuperMarket, and I said to myself - I have to learn this tune for an open mic (I know daring as one guy!) Guess who co wrote this?...I doubt any one would ever guess......ready?......It is arguably their third most popular song overall, behind "Dance with Me" and "Still the One," and their most popular song without lead singer John Hall.[4] Written by Larry Hoppen and Marilyn Mason, it was the first track on the band's 1979 album Forever.[5] I was like, Marilyn Manson! wow.
I am 61 and remember making out with my girlfriend in my best friends basement with a huge mural that my friend and I painted on the wall from the Kiss Alive album. My best friend and first love are now in heaven. This song will always take me back to a time when my four brothers, sister, mom and dad and friends were all here! I will be in the seventies when I get to heaven!
Amazing, this is what youtube was created for ! Sharing important memories..
June 1979 I heard this song all the time
May 14, 2024 still listening. Love this song ❤
I was married 18 and she was 15. This is our love over and over again. Now he's in Heaven, and I wanted know if he loves me
So in love with this song. Bring back beautiful memories. 💞
Such a fantastic song !
This a great song. The lyrics are great.