Used to play this movie before little league opening day. Now I'm 18 and in college. Now I see bad news bears and want the open empty roads and the old America.
This song was placed so perfectly in this movie. Right after they got passed the cops and they were all happy, relieved, and having fun. This song added so much feel good affect to this awesome/fun movie. I’m one of those Bad News Bears fans that likes BNB Breaking Training better than the first BNB. On the other hand, the 3rd one was a train wreck.
I could not agree more. This was certainly the best of the three. Come to think of it, they should have just quit with this one. A great movie and even better song!
I used to think Breaking Training was the best of the three when I was much younger, but as I got older and learned to better appreciate good writing, especially comedy writing, the 1976 original remains the crown jewel of the trilogy. Breaking Training is actually pretty sappy and chock full of plot holes. BUT . . . it's still a fun watch for nostalgic reasons.
@@habovay3 I also appreciate good writing, especially comedy writing, and still enjoy Breaking Training more. Just like the other two people you responded to. While I realize that the original is held in higher esteem by the masses, personal taste is a very subjective thing. Admittedly, the 1st movie has a better story, and isn't just a comedy but a drama too. But to me Breaking Training was a lot more fun. While Walter Matthau is considered a better actor historically and his character was explored in much greater depth, I actually liked William Devane's character better. I also enjoyed seeing Kelly Leak and the other characters grown up a bit more and taking matters into their own hands.
this song has stuck with me ever since i first saw the movie. call it nostalgia,call it a yearning to a simpler time,a beckoning to lost youth,i don't know... all i do know is that this song makes me feel good. that's it.
Yes...when this song played in the movie that was one of the best scenes in the Bad News Bears franchise. Illegally driving along in a van with your teammates, no cares, no parental supervision, just boys being boys and having the time of their life.
smichaelb1980 I was a child of the 80s, not the 70s, but I believe both eras represent nostalgia, simpler times, and far more fun and personal freedom than what modern society offers.
I was just a little younger than the characters in this movie when it came out. This song brings up a well of emotion - a time when my father was still alive and young and healthy, a time of just being a care free kid - no worries, mortgage payments, or stress. I can play this song and go back to that time but it's very bittersweet.
dave21286 dave, you were a child of the 70s, I was a child of the 80s. I think it was a simpler time for both of us than what these kids have now. I far prefer my era to theirs.
What was great was that even though we had video games back in the late 70s, it didn’t dominate our lives. We would go to the arcade or the whatever store that had Pac-Man or space ace (space ace came out early 80s) & after an hour or so we played ball. We didn’t lock ourselves in our house for hours trying to beat king koopa. We played ball, tag, hide & seek, rode our bikes, & a lot of other things to keep us in shape. We played Star Wars all the time. Used flashlights as lightsabers & made costumes. That era of innocent fun & creativity is gone. In its place are tik tok, Twitter, Facebook, etc. kids nowadays are missing out on the real way to kill time & have fun.
Not a care in the world back then, our family was all young and still around for us and we felt safe and loved. Yet we as kids thought our parents were just so old, and now we find ourselves as old as they once were! Listenin' to teachers tell us how time will just fly by as we grow up, while all we wanted was for the clock in class to just fly by. Man, I truly do miss those times. It's sad we don't see how wonderful they are while we're living them, until we grow up and want them back. ~So sad~
That's not sad buddy sometimes it feels like it can be. But you lived it and you wouldn't trade it for nothing in the world. I used to feel just like that but one thing I learned is that there's gonna come a time as well when you look back you look back at the time you write this, or the time I write this and wish I could go back to right here right now..
Kevin Dowe “What about doing it for the Looper?!” Makes me cry every time I watch the movie and Tanner says that. He may be bad mouthed for an 11 year old but he had a heart
I wasn’t born until 1982 but I loved this movie as a kid, along with the original. It made me wish I had been born 10 or 15 years earlier. This theme has been embedded in my mind for nearly 30 years.
Yeah your more of a 90's kid. I bet you barley remember the mid 80's but hey when you die ask god to send you back to at least to 1975 like when I was born
Kids today don't know how great the 1970's were. I was only a child back then, but I thank Jesus Christ for living in those days. Imagine having no worries, no fears, no sadness, only joy to the ultimate dancing every morning you awoke to the sun shining. Yep that was the 1970's when everything was right with the world and Heavens. The music was a BIG factor and the sun did shine brighter back then. Thank you God for those days.
I totally agree. I was a 10 when this came out and I agree, the 70's was great as a child. I was so excited to wake up and hang out with my friends on my bike and skateboard. Time spent outside was the best. The music, the movies everything about it rock'd. Yes, Praise the Lord, I was alive as a boy then!!
eh....I lived thru them.....kids today don't give a shit God bless them just like you didn't really give a damn when your parents and grandparents told u their nonsense
If you forget the past, you will then repeat it. Be careful about thinking you know it all. You only get wisdom from living a long life. Your elders are wise.
In case no one has noticed, it has the same beginning notes as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. That was in keeping with the original movie's playing of classical music. It's been years since I saw this movie, but I think even the credits give some mention of Tchaikovsky, such as "suggested by" or some such thing.
The 70's sucked. NONE of the social conveniences taken for granted now. No smartphones, no debit VISA/MC cards to casually swipe, no PCs, no internet. The "phone company" ruled then in a monopoly--and were viciously expensive. You needed credit to get a house phone and had to wait days for them to hook it up. Everything was SLOW...you wrote letters that went into envelopes, which required stamps and were sent via 'snail mail'. What takes a day now, took weeks or months then. Life didn't begin to get interesting until the 90's when Nokia phones, the start of the consumer internet, and early PCs emerged.
@@weedermann Shit I went to the Liquor Store with a Silver Dollar and Bought all my Friend's there Hearts Desire in Southern California ..Back when Chico and the Man first came out .... And Liquor Store is what we now Call a Convenience Store .... I was like 7
@@weedermann Everything you listed is just another reason the 70s seemed great! People weren’t glued to their phones. People went out and lived, and socialized without being weighed down by social media/texting/calling.
@@weedermann the '70s were cool when you look back at them nostalgia wise but no one what we know now there would be no going back to them the people got complacent lazy and burnt out in the '70s that's why we're in the position we are now is that the adults of that decade got complacent and ignorant that led to the 1980s happening to us which was the downfall of society not technical logical-wise that's the only thing that is saved us but the attitudes that were created corporate-wise in the '80s with their roots based in the '70s that's what has killed us
OK, so out of the blue I was singing this song and my wife wanted to know "what the hell are you singing"? I just chuckled and said, nevermind! You either get it or you don't and not worth explaining why I would like this cheesy song!! Ahhhh memories!!
Which is quite sad, because it's more real than the BS they peddle today. Yes, the racist language is offensive. It was offensive back then too. But it's reality. People did and do talk like that. Some for racists reasons, some not. Not including this kinda stuff nowadays for PC reasons makes certain people feel better, but it's still not reality. That's what makes me appreciate the likes of say Quentin Tarantino. His movies are often blasted for offensive language and violence. But his movies are realistic wrt dialog. And when it comes to the Bad News Bears, the way the kids acted and talked was also more realistic than the cookie cutter dialog we mostly get today.
Such a great song mixed with a sprinkling of one of the greatest symphony pieces thrown in......so uplifting , memories of a day gone by. Don't get me wrong love my tech gadgets...but something went awry with the adaption of technology but the absence of anticipation.....when I was a kid we would all walk to the theatre to see a film cutting threw yards like war zones playing out characters. Or seeing commercials for a great holiday film coming on thanksgiving night! We would wait in anticipation for the first scene....now a days you can watch "frosty" in August....😵😱😖
This song reminds me of the 70s. It also reminds me of my little league baseball days. My oldest brother was the coach after his regular day job. Pretty good experience. I was not very good but I tried.
Mason park where they filmed these scenes was right down the street from my house on Mason Ave. in Chatsworth, Ca. The Baseball field has been modernized but still looks the same.
Those kids are a couple years older than me. When i saw this in the theater, I was mesmerized. Traveling halfway across the country without adult supervision to play baseball in the Astrodome? Nothing could possibly be cooler.
A good time...just as technology was becoming a major factor and convenience. Look at what we are doing now...searching for a song to hear and give public thoughts about. This was IMPOSSIBLE in the 70's..or the 80's or even the 90's.
I like the line that Ahmad says throughout the movie, when he says I knew it, I knew it, we're going to the joint for sure, to me, that line was SO FUNNY, I bust out laughing when I hear that, simply HILARIOUS :)
Last day of school in my 26th year. This song readies me for the summer. A tip of the cap to the 70s. for my time as a kid. Those memories cause me to envy my students some. I hope they look back at the 20s the same way 40 years from now.
That song "Life's looking good (for you and me)" was written by Composer Craig Safan who would later composed the score for movies in the 80s like The Last Starfighter, The Legend of Billie Jean, Warning Sign, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Stand and Deliver and Mr. Wrong.
totally agree dave -- just look at 70s/80s TV theme songs MASH, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, Magnum PI, Barney Miller, Different Strokes, etc..., good melodies -- now days the hook or branding dominates -- where's solid TV songs last 20 years? Even Friends/Seinfeld song better for branding than pleasing to ear -- my old fart opinion
Killer song! Thanks for the upload. Makes me want to throw on my Close Encounters T-shirt, Stormtrooper necklace, hop on my Mongoose Motomag and cruise over to Farrell's!
The first two Bad News Bears movies were my favorites as a kid. Would pretty much watch them in a constant loop and to this day I could probably recite every line from both of them. My question is... why didn't the Yankees play in Houston? They were the actual champs. I know, there wouldn't have been a sequel... but it's sort of a plot hole.
@@gamedaddy9323 Not really, at the end of the first movie, Lupus tells the Yankees, "Just wait 'til next year"; so, this sequel takes place immediately after the following season; and it's implied that the Bears defeated the Yankees (or whomever); thus, making themselves The California Champs. The Yankees were the '76 Champs while The Bears were the '77 Champs; and this sequel begins immediately after that championship game. It's smart they didn't show scenes of the game or the highlights because it would've slowed down the pace and rehashed basically the same story in the first movie; but with a different ending and predictable plot. However, in the sequel, when the boys visit a sick Lupus at his house, they go on about how he was the star of the ('77 championship) game and how he earned everyone's respect.
just the fact you have 12-14 year olds driving from CA to TX on their own and NOT getting into trouble and being responsible just to play some baseball is amazing!!!
I caught the movie on one of my obscure basic cable sports channels recently, after not seeing it since it was in the theater in the late 70s (I was born in 1970). HUGE nostalgia vibes (I immediately went on TH-cam afterward to find this end-credit song). Seeing the movie again corrected some of my flawed 7 year-old memories - I would have bet anything that it was Kelly who hit everyone in to win the game at the end, but it was the pitcher, Carmen (Sorry for the spoiler, but you had 44 years to watch it now).
Ah to be 10 years old, playing kids baseball, going to the drive in on hot summer nights, riding my bike with friends all hours while my parents and their friends partied. As Ray Liota (Henry Hill) said in goodfellas, it was a glorious time
"You trying to get our asses kicked?" "Look man, no warmup, no rosin, stinking field.. "BULLSHIT." I was 9 when this came out. This tune takes me back to when the sun seemed more bright, the air more fresh, and the girls more pure. Wistful memories of an old man? Probably. But you had to be there. Great innocent times.
Love this song, I was playing my second year of little league baseball at 11 years old in Savannah Georgia when this movie came out. Damn, looking back and hearing that song reminds me of how good things were and how simple life was as a kid playing a game I loved playing. Its amazing how a song can make you reminisce such good times.
Looking Good (Our Time Is Now) Music by Craig Safan sung by James Rollston -Versions of this song are available on The Bad News Bears Trilogy (CD's collection ) However, not this version as another one plays with completely different lyrics and there are 2 instrumental versions as well. I've loved this song since I saw the movie when it was in the theaters (summer of 1977) when I was 12 and it has hauntingly always stayed with me - incredibly nostalgic and the lyrics have also always stayed with me as I would sing this song often in my life when life is looking good: The road is open and we're rolling thru and life is looking good We got a dream that maybe could come true and life is looking good If we just stay loose now we'll come out alright There's something telling me our time is now It's just a whisper but I know somehow We've got to listen got to do it now Life is looking good for you and me The clouds have parted and the sun's come thru and life is looking good There's nothing that can beat all we can do and life is looking good If we hold together we're gonna be alright There's something telling me our time is now It's just a whisper but I know somehow We've got to listen got to do it now Life is looking good for you and me If we just stay loose now we're gonna be alright
Crazy song ID apps cant ID it, also the its not on Apple or Spotify. Who sings this? Craig Safan is a popular composer but this isnt listed on his IMDB.
@@nationalist818 Yeah you're not going to find this song anywhere but here -I've tried...also, it's sung by James Rollston (atleast this version is -there's another one out there) but that unfortunately won't help your search either. Glad it's atleast here on you tube...if you do find it let me know. Good luck.
This movie along with the other two movies is a testament of a simpler time. I was 10 in the summer of 1977 and everytime I hear this song, it brings back great memories from those days....ah, if only!!!
I like how the composer of this song intentionally quotes from the 1812 Overture, which itself was used often throughout the Bad News Bears series. (Listen to that melody when the background girls sing "There's something telling me the time is now.")
YES! I always wondered if anybody else picked up on that! It’s brilliant and probably had a lot to do with why true bad news bears fans love it sooo much.
In July 2012 I wrote to Craig Safan (composer of this song) and I asked few informations about this song. 4 months later he responded me.. "Hi Dan Thanks for your kind words about my music! Unfortunately the soundtrack of "Bad News Bears In Breaking Training" has never been released. I am hoping one of the soundtrack labels will make a cd of it and it will include the song "Lookin' Good". I wrote the music and Norman Gimbal wrote the lyrics. The singer was John Joyce. Best Craig Safan"
Hey the soundtrack has now been released in a 3CD set (one disc for each movie) on Quartet Records (Spain). The crying shame is that the movie version of this track has been left out! Only a studio version & some instrumentals :(. Must have been a copyright problem getting it licensed.
I still can't believe that Kelly got away with driving those kids all the way to Houston. Even after the cops stopped them, lol. Poor Ahmad...he thought they were going to the joint.🤣😂😅
One of the best songs, in a movie, ever.
No doubt it gets my vote for sure
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🎉 most definitely
👍
I lived in Houston when this came out. I still look at those locations used in the film with nostalgia. Especially the Astrodome. ❤
Let them PLAY!
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Used to play this movie before little league opening day. Now I'm 18 and in college. Now I see bad news bears and want the open empty roads and the old America.
Boy, is Houston different now! 🤮
This song was placed so perfectly in this movie. Right after they got passed the cops and they were all happy, relieved, and having fun. This song added so much feel good affect to this awesome/fun movie. I’m one of those Bad News Bears fans that likes BNB Breaking Training better than the first BNB. On the other hand, the 3rd one was a train wreck.
I could not agree more. This was certainly the best of the three. Come to think of it, they should have just quit with this one. A great movie and even better song!
I used to think Breaking Training was the best of the three when I was much younger, but as I got older and learned to better appreciate good writing, especially comedy writing, the 1976 original remains the crown jewel of the trilogy. Breaking Training is actually pretty sappy and chock full of plot holes. BUT . . . it's still a fun watch for nostalgic reasons.
@@habovay3 I also appreciate good writing, especially comedy writing, and still enjoy Breaking Training more. Just like the other two people you responded to. While I realize that the original is held in higher esteem by the masses, personal taste is a very subjective thing.
Admittedly, the 1st movie has a better story, and isn't just a comedy but a drama too. But to me Breaking Training was a lot more fun. While Walter Matthau is considered a better actor historically and his character was explored in much greater depth, I actually liked William Devane's character better. I also enjoyed seeing Kelly Leak and the other characters grown up a bit more and taking matters into their own hands.
The second one was the best. Never have seen the third one. From the comments I’ve read about it, I guess I’m not missing much.
Such a great song 🎶
I was playing Little League baseball for the first time in 1977 when that song and movie came out. What a great time to be a kid.
Same here. When this movie came out I had just got on my little league baseball team. Love the movie! It so captures the times!
I was ten years old in 1977 and it was my first year playing baseball also. It was the BEST TIME EVERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same here.
47 years old and I still love this movie!
I just turn 48 I still love this movie Let Them Play!
this song has stuck with me ever since i first saw the movie. call it nostalgia,call it a yearning to a simpler time,a beckoning to lost youth,i don't know...
all i do know is that this song makes me feel good. that's it.
Yes...when this song played in the movie that was one of the best scenes in the Bad News Bears franchise. Illegally driving along in a van with your teammates, no cares, no parental supervision, just boys being boys and having the time of their life.
smichaelb1980 I was a child of the 80s, not the 70s, but I believe both eras represent nostalgia, simpler times, and far more fun and personal freedom than what modern society offers.
I was just a little younger than the characters in this movie when it came out. This song brings up a well of emotion - a time when my father was still alive and young and healthy, a time of just being a care free kid - no worries, mortgage payments, or stress. I can play this song and go back to that time but it's very bittersweet.
dave21286 dave, you were a child of the 70s, I was a child of the 80s. I think it was a simpler time for both of us than what these kids have now. I far prefer my era to theirs.
Me too, I love this song.
Takes me back to living in "laid back" California in '77, a simpler time, when I was a kid. Star Wars that year, too!
FUCK YEAH! Star Wars!
It wasn't a simpler time in 77. At.least not for Adults ..
The 70s were the decade of the serial killers.
Cali was the place to be in the 70's
What was great was that even though we had video games back in the late 70s, it didn’t dominate our lives. We would go to the arcade or the whatever store that had Pac-Man or space ace (space ace came out early 80s) & after an hour or so we played ball. We didn’t lock ourselves in our house for hours trying to beat king koopa. We played ball, tag, hide & seek, rode our bikes, & a lot of other things to keep us in shape. We played Star Wars all the time. Used flashlights as lightsabers & made costumes. That era of innocent fun & creativity is gone. In its place are tik tok, Twitter, Facebook, etc. kids nowadays are missing out on the real way to kill time & have fun.
"Hey, what do mean biscuits and coleslaw are extra?"
Shut the damn door!
LOL
Engleburg and his KFC!
Lets call the Colonel!
Lol
One of my all time favorite movies.
How this wasn’t a #1 hit is completely beyond me.
Not a care in the world back then, our family was all young and still around for us and we felt safe and loved. Yet we as kids thought our parents were just so old, and now we find ourselves as old as they once were! Listenin' to teachers tell us how time will just fly by as we grow up, while all we wanted was for the clock in class to just fly by. Man, I truly do miss those times. It's sad we don't see how wonderful they are while we're living them, until we grow up and want them back. ~So sad~
That's not sad buddy sometimes it feels like it can be. But you lived it and you wouldn't trade it for nothing in the world. I used to feel just like that but one thing I learned is that there's gonna come a time as well when you look back you look back at the time you write this, or the time I write this and wish I could go back to right here right now..
It's a decade response you could probably answer now lol
LET THEM PLAY!!
"Let them play...let them play..."!!!
😂😂😂 classic!!!
Kevin Dowe “What about doing it for the Looper?!” Makes me cry every time I watch the movie and Tanner says that. He may be bad mouthed for an 11 year old but he had a heart
I wasn’t born until 1982 but I loved this movie as a kid, along with the original. It made me wish I had been born 10 or 15 years earlier. This theme has been embedded in my mind for nearly 30 years.
Yeah your more of a 90's kid. I bet you barley remember the mid 80's but hey when you die ask god to send you back to at least to 1975 like when I was born
I always get goosies when I hear that song. Makes me wanna win it for the Looper. ;)
NoelArtMedia This comment made me smile but also cry..
Always gives me goosebumps too.
Timmy Lupus? That booger eating spaz?
Kids today don't know how great the 1970's were. I was only a child back then, but I thank Jesus Christ for living in those days. Imagine having no worries, no fears, no sadness, only joy to the ultimate dancing every morning you awoke to the sun shining. Yep that was the 1970's when everything was right with the world and Heavens. The music was a BIG factor and the sun did shine brighter back then. Thank you God for those days.
I totally agree. I was a 10 when this came out and I agree, the 70's was great as a child. I was so excited to wake up and hang out with my friends on my bike and skateboard. Time spent outside was the best. The music, the movies everything about it rock'd. Yes, Praise the Lord, I was alive as a boy then!!
Amen brother ! You had the same experience as I. It was glorious back then. I wish I could return.
eh....I lived thru them.....kids today don't give a shit God bless them just like you didn't really give a damn when your parents and grandparents told u their nonsense
If you forget the past, you will then repeat it. Be careful about thinking you know it all. You only get wisdom from living a long life. Your elders are wise.
yall were all probably on drugs back then so it didn't matter
To go back to a time where things were so much simpler
"We’re goin’ to the joint! We’re goin’ to the joint for sure!"
I watch the bad news bears and this is always my favorite song of the flim and now I finally I found it....
You didn't find shit...lol....
This song is a reminder of the younger days playing little league ball wishing your team was the Bad News Bears.
In case no one has noticed, it has the same beginning notes as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. That was in keeping with the original movie's playing of classical music. It's been years since I saw this movie, but I think even the credits give some mention of Tchaikovsky, such as "suggested by" or some such thing.
Why I had to find this now? Longing for simple times like this song. Great time.
I haven't heard this song in decades... the 1812 Overture riff is what made it stick in my head.
Coach Eastland. . Oh, he's been around the fields for years!!!
Hello ... How are you?
@@mikemcq10 I'm fine thank you! How are you?
Classic, nothing come close to this!
Agreed 👏🏻
Born in the 80s, now in my 30s in the 2000s....and I know the 70s were probably one of the best times to live. Carefree like this song.
The 70's sucked. NONE of the social conveniences taken for granted now. No smartphones, no debit VISA/MC cards to casually swipe, no PCs, no internet. The "phone company" ruled then in a monopoly--and were viciously expensive. You needed credit to get a house phone and had to wait days for them to hook it up. Everything was SLOW...you wrote letters that went into envelopes, which required stamps and were sent via 'snail mail'. What takes a day now, took weeks or months then. Life didn't begin to get interesting until the 90's when Nokia phones, the start of the consumer internet, and early PCs emerged.
@@weedermann Shit I went to the Liquor Store with a Silver Dollar and Bought all my Friend's there Hearts Desire in Southern California ..Back when Chico and the Man first came out .... And Liquor Store is what we now Call a Convenience Store .... I was like 7
@@weedermann Everything you listed is just another reason the 70s seemed great! People weren’t glued to their phones. People went out and lived, and socialized without being weighed down by social media/texting/calling.
@@weedermann the '70s were cool when you look back at them nostalgia wise but no one what we know now there would be no going back to them the people got complacent lazy and burnt out in the '70s that's why we're in the position we are now is that the adults of that decade got complacent and ignorant that led to the 1980s happening to us which was the downfall of society not technical logical-wise that's the only thing that is saved us but the attitudes that were created corporate-wise in the '80s with their roots based in the '70s that's what has killed us
Just got chills listening to this song. Takes me back to my childhood...Good times!
Great song. Brings back such great memories.
According to the good old Internet, it's "Our Time is Now (Looking Good)" by James Rolleston.
Bummer .... I just looked it up on iTunes, and it is not available there!
Can’t find any info on him. It’s like the only song by them.
His voice sound like a woman
Shazam has no info either
Childhood memories kindled. Thanks for posting.
You are so welcome Daniel.
Remembering seeing the Bad News Bears movies in the cinemas...way back in the day. Loved the first two.
OK, so out of the blue I was singing this song and my wife wanted to know "what the hell are you singing"? I just chuckled and said, nevermind! You either get it or you don't and not worth explaining why I would like this cheesy song!! Ahhhh memories!!
This movie would not fly today. This is the best especially Tanner
Which is quite sad, because it's more real than the BS they peddle today. Yes, the racist language is offensive. It was offensive back then too. But it's reality. People did and do talk like that. Some for racists reasons, some not. Not including this kinda stuff nowadays for PC reasons makes certain people feel better, but it's still not reality. That's what makes me appreciate the likes of say Quentin Tarantino. His movies are often blasted for offensive language and violence. But his movies are realistic wrt dialog. And when it comes to the Bad News Bears, the way the kids acted and talked was also more realistic than the cookie cutter dialog we mostly get today.
Whenever I see this movie on tv this song is what I look forward to hearing.
Phil M Me too.
Such a great song mixed with a sprinkling of one of the greatest symphony pieces thrown in......so uplifting , memories of a day gone by. Don't get me wrong love my tech gadgets...but something went awry with the adaption of technology but the absence of anticipation.....when I was a kid we would all walk to the theatre to see a film cutting threw yards like war zones playing out characters. Or seeing commercials for a great holiday film coming on thanksgiving night! We would wait in anticipation for the first scene....now a days you can watch "frosty" in August....😵😱😖
Lookin' Good
Music: Craig Safan
Lyric: Norman Gimbel
Sung by: James Rolleston
Thank you for that!!!!!!!!! U are the man!
Yup, James also played Bass guitar and was in Pure Prairie League...
I think I've played this 30 times since Friday. I watched the movie yesterday. Just reminds me of being a kid. Great song!
This song reminds me of the 70s. It also reminds me of my little league baseball days. My oldest brother was the coach after his regular day job. Pretty good experience. I was not very good but I tried.
We play beizball too.
Lol, was just gonna post that.
We got scalped
this song rocks ! 70's style.
It seems life in the 70's was better and people had less stress.
If you were a kid then, that's very true. I was 12 when this came out and it truly captured that age in that era.
It's a classic!!! Back from more, flashing back to the 70's!!! Thanks!
Love it! Nostalgia for youth and the simple stuff.⚾
a 70's classic!!!
Mason park where they filmed these scenes was right down the street from my house on Mason Ave. in Chatsworth, Ca. The Baseball field has been modernized but still looks the same.
Those kids are a couple years older than me. When i saw this in the theater, I was mesmerized. Traveling halfway across the country without adult supervision to play baseball in the Astrodome? Nothing could possibly be cooler.
I’m glad my dad introduced the original bad news bears to us as kids. Much better than the remakes. What a childhood we had. I was born in 86
A good time...just as technology was becoming a major factor and convenience. Look at what we are doing now...searching for a song to hear and give public thoughts about. This was IMPOSSIBLE in the 70's..or the 80's or even the 90's.
Watched on ESPN last month just for the song. Love it!!
When Englebert says, "Hey Kelly!! Can you pull over soon!! I gotta go to the bathroom!" The kids reaction is priceless!!!
I like the line that Ahmad says throughout the movie, when he says I knew it, I knew it, we're going to the joint for sure, to me, that line was SO FUNNY, I bust out laughing when I hear that, simply HILARIOUS :)
Last day of school in my 26th year. This song readies me for the summer. A tip of the cap to the 70s. for my time as a kid. Those memories cause me to envy my students some. I hope they look back at the 20s the same way 40 years from now.
Just put me in that van for a road trip, back to my childhood. This song and film are things you never need to retouch. Perfect.
That song "Life's looking good (for you and me)" was written by Composer Craig Safan who would later composed the score for movies in the 80s like The Last Starfighter, The Legend of Billie Jean, Warning Sign, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Stand and Deliver and Mr. Wrong.
It's rare that a movie has a song this good in it now. It was very common for movies and tv shows in the 70's to have excellent music.
nah u OLD
totally agree dave -- just look at 70s/80s TV theme songs MASH, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, Magnum PI, Barney Miller, Different Strokes, etc..., good melodies -- now days the hook or branding dominates -- where's solid TV songs last 20 years? Even Friends/Seinfeld song better for branding than pleasing to ear -- my old fart opinion
And don't forget Corvette Summer. Mark Hamill's coolest flick. Wink.
I have seen this movie over 300 times, one of my all time favorite movies, and I just love this song. I saw this movie over 100 times at the theater.
+rayboy79 lol I think you should see somebody about this...But it is a good movie.
That's too cool!!!
I have seen it many many times as well! It is my favorite of the trio. This is just such a good song!
rayboy79 were you on drugs?
@The Truth yes I did, I was 16 years old.
I watched this movie when I was 14 . Great memories. I loved tanner. A little tough guy.
LOVE THIS MOVIE.
LOVE THIS SONG.
im 43 yrs old and the only thing i remember is watching this movie over and over back in the 70's on HBO when it first came out.
Killer song! Thanks for the upload. Makes me want to throw on my Close Encounters T-shirt, Stormtrooper necklace, hop on my Mongoose Motomag and cruise over to Farrell's!
and also watch In Search Of!!
This song and the movie make you remember why you loved baseball.
Great Theme song for a 70's Movie and of this nature.😎⚾️🍺👍
Great song - makes me yearn for childhood
Yeahhhh !!! I found it finally !!!! after so many years !!!! Thaaaaaaaaaanks !!!! greetings from ITA
I Am Lookin' Good Man
From Osaka, Japan
Those ain't the California champs... THOSE are the California champs...
You tell em, coach Leak!
wbmx1981 Love this song!
The first two Bad News Bears movies were my favorites as a kid. Would pretty much watch them in a constant loop and to this day I could probably recite every line from both of them. My question is... why didn't the Yankees play in Houston? They were the actual champs. I know, there wouldn't have been a sequel... but it's sort of a plot hole.
@@gamedaddy9323 Not really, at the end of the first movie, Lupus tells the Yankees, "Just wait 'til next year"; so, this sequel takes place immediately after the following season; and it's implied that the Bears defeated the Yankees (or whomever); thus, making themselves The California Champs. The Yankees were the '76 Champs while The Bears were the '77 Champs; and this sequel begins immediately after that championship game. It's smart they didn't show scenes of the game or the highlights because it would've slowed down the pace and rehashed basically the same story in the first movie; but with a different ending and predictable plot. However, in the sequel, when the boys visit a sick Lupus at his house, they go on about how he was the star of the ('77 championship) game and how he earned everyone's respect.
What do you Mean Coleslaw and Gravy are Extra ....
I love this song and movie
just the fact you have 12-14 year olds driving from CA to TX on their own and NOT getting into trouble and being responsible just to play some baseball is amazing!!!
I caught the movie on one of my obscure basic cable sports channels recently, after not seeing it since it was in the theater in the late 70s (I was born in 1970). HUGE nostalgia vibes (I immediately went on TH-cam afterward to find this end-credit song). Seeing the movie again corrected some of my flawed 7 year-old memories - I would have bet anything that it was Kelly who hit everyone in to win the game at the end, but it was the pitcher, Carmen (Sorry for the spoiler, but you had 44 years to watch it now).
Ah to be 10 years old, playing kids baseball, going to the drive in on hot summer nights, riding my bike with friends all hours while my parents and their friends partied. As Ray Liota (Henry Hill) said in goodfellas, it was a glorious time
"They wanna know if we play baseball."
This one them beautiful songs that makes me reminisce on good times as a kid playing ball with my friends and cousins!
I grew up with songs like this 😊
I love this movie.
Thank you for posting this song. Brings back so many fond memories of the 1970's.
These movie were on so much in the 80s early 90s it felt like I grew up in the 70s.
"Hey, Dad! Is 24 dollars all right?"
"Mmm...how many rooms?"
"One room, Dad."
"Get it!"
"You trying to get our asses kicked?"
"Look man, no warmup, no rosin, stinking field..
"BULLSHIT."
I was 9 when this came out. This tune takes me back to when the sun seemed more bright, the air more fresh, and the girls more pure. Wistful memories of an old man? Probably. But you had to be there. Great innocent times.
A classic!!!! Thanks for posting! Can't get enough of this song of the 70's!!!
makes me smile
Love this song, I was playing my second year of little league baseball at 11 years old in Savannah Georgia when this movie came out. Damn, looking back and hearing that song reminds me of how good things were and how simple life was as a kid playing a game I loved playing. Its amazing how a song can make you reminisce such good times.
These movies are a GenX staple!
“Take that rock away and you got nothin”
Looking Good (Our Time Is Now) Music by Craig Safan sung by James Rollston -Versions of this song are available on The Bad News Bears Trilogy (CD's collection )
However, not this version as another one plays with completely different lyrics and there are 2 instrumental versions as well.
I've loved this song since I saw the movie when it was in the theaters (summer of 1977) when I was 12 and it has hauntingly always stayed with me - incredibly nostalgic and the lyrics have also always stayed with me as I would sing this song often in my life when life is looking good:
The road is open and we're rolling thru and life is looking good
We got a dream that maybe could come true and life is looking good
If we just stay loose now we'll come out alright
There's something telling me our time is now
It's just a whisper but I know somehow
We've got to listen got to do it now
Life is looking good for you and me
The clouds have parted and the sun's come thru and life is looking good
There's nothing that can beat all we can do and life is looking good
If we hold together we're gonna be alright
There's something telling me our time is now
It's just a whisper but I know somehow
We've got to listen got to do it now
Life is looking good for you and me
If we just stay loose now we're gonna be alright
Crazy song ID apps cant ID it, also the its not on Apple or Spotify. Who sings this? Craig Safan is a popular composer but this isnt listed on his IMDB.
@@nationalist818 Yeah you're not going to find this song anywhere but here -I've tried...also, it's sung by James Rollston (atleast this version is -there's another one out there) but that unfortunately won't help your search either. Glad it's atleast here on you tube...if you do find it let me know. Good luck.
This movie along with the other two movies is a testament of a simpler time. I was 10 in the summer of 1977 and everytime I hear this song, it brings back great memories from those days....ah, if only!!!
In 77 I played First Base and we won the Series in our Town But My Heart was in BMX ...I Like Frist Base Lots of action not like BMX ....
I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG.
I like how the composer of this song intentionally quotes from the 1812 Overture, which itself was used often throughout the Bad News Bears series. (Listen to that melody when the background girls sing "There's something telling me the time is now.")
YES! I always wondered if anybody else picked up on that! It’s brilliant and probably had a lot to do with why true bad news bears fans love it sooo much.
a classic !! 70's were good
Man thats crazy ive been searching for this song for like a year and i finally found it thank you so much
Wonderfully entertaining movie. Enjoyed watching it with my son who plays little league baseball ⚾️
Amazing. I have been looking for this song for almost 25 years.
Dude...I'm only 39 and could pass for 29...but I'm glad you like this song and movie and yes the Bad News Bears 1976 is great !
A classic song!!! Love it from the 70's!!!
In July 2012 I wrote to Craig Safan (composer of this song) and I asked few informations about this song. 4 months later he responded me..
"Hi Dan
Thanks for your kind words about my music!
Unfortunately the soundtrack of "Bad News Bears In Breaking Training" has never been released. I am hoping one of the soundtrack labels will make a cd of it and it will include the song "Lookin' Good". I wrote the music and Norman Gimbal wrote the lyrics. The singer was John Joyce.
Best
Craig Safan"
Hey the soundtrack has now been released in a 3CD set (one disc for each movie) on Quartet Records (Spain). The crying shame is that the movie version of this track has been left out! Only a studio version & some instrumentals :(. Must have been a copyright problem getting it licensed.
Thanks so much for posting this! I just saw this recently and the song really sticks with you! Thanks again
Let them play! Let them play!
Sometimes we're the bad news bears, Sometimes we're just bad news lol
Like honey being poured straight into my ear.
Dude your a life saver, I was searching all over for the name of this song!! Great movie too!
It's sad how things have taken a turn for the worse. Man the 70's were good days.
The best!!!
To go back to a time when life was simpler
I’m Sorry But This Is My Favorite Bad News Bears Movies
I still can't believe that Kelly got away with driving those kids all the way to Houston. Even after the cops stopped them, lol. Poor Ahmad...he thought they were going to the joint.🤣😂😅
"Hes just a crummy pitcher throwing airballs." -Tanner
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