What people should remember, is that Bill & Bobby were extremely humble and enjoyed the fans like no other. If you have seen their concerts they loved the fans. Someone ask Bobby how many times did you sing unchained melody? He said" every time they asked me". Unchained melody is Bobby Hatfield's forever.
If you really wanted to sing like that, you would sing like that . It takes work . After working for years ( it usually doesn't take that long ) I sung "" Unchained Melody "at a wedding , I nailed it I was 69 years old and got nothing but positive feedback
Was able to see them live in Denver about 6 months before Bobby passed. Quite an incredible experience. Their long term friendship was so evident; they were able to play off each other. The vocals, too, were incredible. Thank you so very much RB for all the goodness you've shared with us.
Bobby was not a habitual drug user....Bill said he never witnessed this. His autopsy said he had severe coronary heart disease and included this as a major cause of death affected by the cocaine. Bobby was a family man and dedicated to his kids and wife who had Lupus ....read his Wikipedia for more.
Dittos for everything said previously.... I, too, wish I had had the opportunity to see the Righteous Brothers live. I have been reveling in their music more now than I did in the 60s and 70s.
I was fortunate enough to grow up listening to this great music, I played it at home with my kids who also grew up listening to my music and also loved it. Thank you Righteous Brothers for terrific songs, they still get played on a regular basis, you don't grow up to 60's music without it having a lasting effect on you.
Am so glad I got to see them in person when I was 15 at Louisville Ky fairgrounds!! Definitely I was star struck!! They wore light blue suits and were so good looking!! Took pictures but have no idea what happened to them!!! What a great night!!
I agree with the person who commented below that there should be a book about Bobby Hatfield's life: There should be a book about Bobby. Like everyone else, his life wasn't always a picnic but he was a stunning singer and had such a one-in-a-million voice. From what I have read he was reportedly a kind, gentle, loving and generous person despite his flaws. Personally, as a therapist and someone who reads people well, though Bobby was always smiling and joking, I believe he was running from some things that tormented him. Love him.
Maybe so, but he had a great wife and four great kids, who undoubtedly took him out of himself. They all adored him. Look at the website that his kids created to honor him on Facebook. Bobby was one a trillion, and we will never see his like again.
Bobby tem sempre uma atitude muito cordial e doce e respeito pelos colegas artistas. O mesmo não parece acontecer com Bill, talvez um pouco arrogante …
Bobby's wife suffered from Lupus, and he - Bobby - organized Bobby Hatfield's Classic Golf Tournament that gave millions to charities and labs working on R and D for help all those suffering seemingly incurable diseases. RIP Bobby.
@juvenilehall1979 I was happy to hear Bill mention "Lupe Lu" and thank Moonglow Records, and to hear the response that got from the crowd, because far too many people think their career began with Phil Spector and "Lovin' Feeling". The Moonglow recordings are among their best, especially vocally, and several of those songs became garage band staples.
Thank you for making this point. Their Moonglow Years music is my favorite, and I love their performances of some of those songs on the great Shindig. 🎶✨
35diamondgirl ... I agree what class from BOTH .. Bill and Bobby. Bill thanks Moonglow Records for Little Latin Lupe Lu .... sang it in 1963 in San Jose, CA in a parking lot at John's Drive-In. These gentleman never, ever forgot their fans. Bill once said, "every night the crowd wants to hear this song." They always delivered. What I would give to to just see them sing this LIVE one more time - Bobby Hatfield is so greatly missed by millions of fans. In God's hands now .....
Regardless of the drug use which was a big part of the 60s, you have to walk a mile in their shoes before you know how their life ended up that way, and be grateful yours was not lived ,where they were so prevalent and accepted. There was no "Just say no" then. Like Hendrix and Joplin, The Righteous Brothers, sadly ended their career on a sad note... But regardless of the mistakes they made… Their talent and music will live on forever. Loved them then, and love them still.
I think that listening to Bobby’s song Brother can show how hurt He was by Bill’s decision to leave him down. When interviewed He says he only wanted to rest and live in peace with his familly
Dear Super151206 .. Loved your post and wish you could have at least attended one live concert. I'm 63-years old now, and have been a fan since 1963. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame SPECIFICALLY ASKED Bob and Bill to sing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin." For two gentlemen at the age of 62-years old .... They came out and nailed it. This is the last "live" recording I can find of this song - and thanks to TH-cam for keeping it up so all of the new music fans can enjoy it. it. Roger C.
I agree. There should be a book about Bobby. Like everyone else, his life wasn't always a picnic but he was a stunning singer and had such a one-in-a-million voice. From what I have read he was reportedly a kind, gentle, loving and generous person despite his flaws. Personally, as a therapist and someone who reads people well, though Bobby was always smiling and joking, I believe he was running from some things that tormented him. Love him.
@@kathlelan I wish I knew the real story between him and Bill. From everything I have watched and read, he loved working with Bill and invited him to join in family celebrations, but according to Bill he was distant and did not want him to be involved out of the workplace. I just don't get it. But no matter, I love Bobby, always will, no matter what flaws he might have had.
@@nelitasciretta7101 I watched the video on YT where Bobby's daughter (and his son Dustin) are accepting an award for their dad in Orange County, CA. In it, Vallyn refers to Bill as "Uncle Bill". Doesn't sound like they were estranged. That video is (I think from 2014 or so). OCE award? Oh, by the way, there are all sorts of videos and articles on Google claiming that someone named Dustin Hatfield, supposedly Bobby's son, was accused of murdering his girlfriend and I don't see any way that that man could be Bobby's son. He doesn't look like his son Dustin, is covered in tattoos, is from the Midwest, lives in squalor and his age is all wrong. If people on YT and Google are promoting this guy as Bobby's son and he isn't then the family should sue someone about it. Just sayin'.
@@kathlelan I agree. And I have seen the video you are talking about, but in one of his interview videos, he says that Bobby did not want to socialize away from work. Strange... I also agree about his son, that is not his son, I'm surprised that whoever is promoting that has not been sued already!
@@nelitasciretta7101Yes, relationships can be very complicated and this seems to be more true in the entertainment business. We'll never know the real stories and truth about Bobby and Bill. And, let's face it, Bill would never have been the success he was without Bobby's talent. Oh dear. We could go on forever but Bobby is gone. Now a woman claims that she is Bob's illegitimate daughter given up for adoption in 1959. Wrote a book about it. I'm not too thrilled with her doing that since Bobby is deceased and she sort of forced herself on his family. If he was alive and gave her permission to write a book it would be a different story. But putting that into the public domain to make herself famous? No, not nice.
Boy, you got that right! Spector didn't want any of his singers in, he was afraid they would find out that they didn't need him. Bobby and Bill also deserve an honorary Grammy.
Bill deserves solo Hall of Fame for his Oscar, Grammies , crossing genres and so forth. After reading the qualifications, Bill certainly qualified both as a Righteous Brother, which he did with Bobby and as a solo.
I am very pleased with this video. Thanks. I regret that I have never attended a concert with the Righteous Brothers, as the distance between Europe and the United States was too large. And now ist Bobby gone.
I’m sad to hear somme bad coments on Bill ‘ s book about Bobby. The fact is that their frindship last until his death, and no doubts that Bill wouldn’t be so famous without Bobby’s Charisma. And sometimes I look his Fb page and it doesn’t give him the Credit He deserves as an artist , a singer and spetacular performer. And Maybe if He was left to impose his energetic personality He would gone much further. In his first vídeos He was really enjoying and happy, teasing Bill, what a diferent posture from when they begin to be famous. With a dynamic duo they wouldn’t be kicked out of stage by the Beatles in their joint tour !!
Yes, i noticed the similarity with Pesci voice. Sadly Bobby was brutally attacked in late 1988 outside the Hop, that left him with every bone in his face broken and having to need several painful surgeries. I believe, this caused his voice to change.
Thank you, Jakey. I just asked about that in another comments column, and then I read yours. In some of his pictures there seemed to be some traces of scarring, also some minute changes around his eyes. But he was as handsome as ever and I miss his beautiful voice.
@@dawnaberry8452 i heard that Bobby (doing a good deed) had tried to stop a bartender who worked at The Hop from drink driving and the drunk guy viciously turned on Bobby.
I think I know....from Oct 1994-April 1995 I lived with "Linda" who rented a room to me while I was going to Fullerton Jr. College in CA. She lived alone in a mobile home park in Huntington Beach. She LOVED her vodka!!!! I even had to watch her grandchildren one day because she was so drunk she couldn't.
Did Linda had grandchildren back in 1994 to 1995 during the time you stayed with her? Why was she living alone back then when she was still married to Bobby? Just wondering.
@@jakeywilliams I don't know about grandkids, but he was married to Linda until he died. She died a few years later. She had battled Lupus for years, and later, cancer. So lets get some facts straight before we are critical of them. We don't know what others are going through. Right, Miss fblancelot?
@@dawnaberry8452 I'm english so we're sarcastic. 😉 i was responding to her nutty deranged comment about mrs hatfield and i do know very well mr and mrs hatfield was married until his sad death in 2003. Mrs hatfield children would have been about 11 or 13 years in 1995 so i highly doubt nutty fblancelot babysat Hatfields grandchildren unless their little kids had babies! 😄
@@jakeywilliams Thanks Jakey, I understand. My reply was really for fblancelot. Bobby has at least one grandson, by Bobby Jr. And I believe the problems with his voice come from the attack by two thugs. He was in the hospital for a long time, he required a lot of surgeries on his face. As for Linda,, she adored Bobby. Her illnesses were so debilitating, and Bobby took care of her. I know what cancer can do to a person. And she had suffered from Lupus for years. For the the past ten years I have watched my son die from a rare blood cancer, and he went to the Lord on Dec. 3rd. So I suppose I 'm a bit sensitive. Love you Brits!
@@dawnaberry8452 horrible what happened to Bobby and i hope those thugs that had caused him grave harm served time in prison. Yes, i heard Bobby had a solid marriage and that he cared for his wife during all her years of illnesses. From what i read, he truly loved his wife. So sorry about your son Dawna.
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So glad Bobby lived to experience this. And so heartbroken that he died a few months later. What a beautiful person and epic talent.
What people should remember, is that Bill & Bobby were extremely humble and enjoyed the fans like no other. If you have seen their concerts they loved the fans. Someone ask Bobby how many times did you sing unchained melody? He said" every time they asked me". Unchained melody is Bobby Hatfield's forever.
I saw The Righteous Brothers when I was a teenager, I'm 63 now and still enjoy the pictures.
your unchained melody is unforgettable. Bobby you're eternal and one of the great singers in the history of music
I am so glad Bobby live to see him getting inducted into the Hall of Fame I am just so glad rest in peace Bobby
Bill the Hall of Fame is honored two have you two legends. The best duo in history.
Rose you're so right those two are just so awesome
Unchained Melody Bobby no one can sing that song better than you.. in the 60s OMG live with the orchestra that was Brilliant Beautiful and pure talent
@Mike Davis I know lol
@Mike Davisis sarcasm your only talent 😅😅😅
@mikedavis8008oh,Mikey….u made me literally laugh out loud!👏🏿😂
Two of the best singers ever. RIP Bobby.
Lovely and gracious, particularly after having to wait so long for this much-deserved moment.
I miss Bobby. I ADORED his voice. I wish I could sing like that...
If you really wanted to sing like that, you would sing like that . It takes work . After working for years ( it usually doesn't take that long ) I sung "" Unchained Melody "at a wedding , I nailed it I was 69 years old and got nothing but positive feedback
@@leonardlarrisey7525 I can't carry a tune from where I'm sitting to my front door wish I could sing
@@leonardlarrisey7525 everyone's drunk at a wedding, I wouldn't get carried away with false praise 😅😅
Was able to see them live in Denver about 6 months before Bobby passed. Quite an incredible experience. Their long term friendship was so evident; they were able to play off each other. The vocals, too, were incredible. Thank you so very much RB for all the goodness you've shared with us.
Bobby was not a habitual drug user....Bill said he never witnessed this. His autopsy said he had severe coronary heart disease and included this as a major cause of death affected by the cocaine. Bobby was a family man and dedicated to his kids and wife who had Lupus ....read his Wikipedia for more.
Dittos for everything said previously.... I, too, wish I had had the opportunity to see the Righteous Brothers live. I have been reveling in their music more now than I did in the 60s and 70s.
This the final performance I will always remember, because I never saw another in 2003. For me, this was the last.
So talented. So humble. 💪😊
I grew up listening to these two !! I their music it will live on forever ! RIP Bobby
I was fortunate enough to grow up listening to this great music, I played it at home with my kids who also grew up listening to my music and also loved it. Thank you Righteous Brothers for terrific songs, they still get played on a regular basis, you don't grow up to 60's music without it having a lasting effect on you.
Class act. Both of them.
Excuse me, but is this not a spectacular moment? And RIP our Bobby Hatfield...
Am so glad I got to see them in person when I was 15 at Louisville Ky fairgrounds!! Definitely I was star struck!! They wore light blue suits and were so good looking!! Took pictures but have no idea what happened to them!!! What a great night!!
Loved it when Bill ways Said "Thank God & it was a Blessing God & my fans kept us, What a talent & voices they had. Amazing
I agree with the person who commented below that there should be a book about Bobby Hatfield's life: There should be a book about Bobby. Like everyone else, his life wasn't always a picnic but he was a stunning singer and had such a one-in-a-million voice. From what I have read he was reportedly a kind, gentle, loving and generous person despite his flaws. Personally, as a therapist and someone who reads people well, though Bobby was always smiling and joking, I believe he was running from some things that tormented him. Love him.
Maybe so, but he had a great wife and four great kids, who undoubtedly took him out of himself. They all adored him. Look at the website that his kids created to honor him on Facebook. Bobby was one a trillion, and we will never see his like again.
@@dawnaberry8452 Yes. Good man. I'm so sad he died when he did.
Bobby tem sempre uma atitude muito cordial e doce e respeito pelos colegas artistas. O mesmo não parece acontecer com Bill, talvez um pouco arrogante …
Bobby's wife suffered from Lupus, and he - Bobby - organized Bobby Hatfield's Classic Golf Tournament that gave millions to charities and labs working on R and D for help all those suffering seemingly incurable diseases.
RIP Bobby.
@juvenilehall1979 I was happy to hear Bill mention "Lupe Lu" and thank Moonglow Records, and to hear the response that got from the crowd, because far too many people think their career began with Phil Spector and "Lovin' Feeling". The Moonglow recordings are among their best, especially vocally, and several of those songs became garage band staples.
Thank you for making this point. Their Moonglow Years music is my favorite, and I love their performances of some of those songs on the great Shindig. 🎶✨
35diamondgirl ... I agree what class from BOTH .. Bill and Bobby. Bill thanks
Moonglow Records for Little Latin Lupe Lu .... sang it in 1963 in San Jose, CA
in a parking lot at John's Drive-In. These gentleman never, ever forgot their fans.
Bill once said, "every night the crowd wants to hear this song." They always
delivered. What I would give to to just see them sing this LIVE one more time -
Bobby Hatfield is so greatly missed by millions of fans. In God's hands now .....
Regardless of the drug use which was a big part of the 60s, you have to walk a mile in their shoes before you know how their life ended up that way, and be grateful yours was not lived ,where they were so prevalent and accepted. There was no "Just say no" then.
Like Hendrix and Joplin, The Righteous Brothers, sadly ended their career on a sad note... But regardless of the mistakes they made… Their talent and music will live on forever. Loved them then, and love them still.
You're Right About That. We All Have Crosses To Carry So It's Best " Never " To Judge Anyone.🙏
You're absolutely correct I know cuz I'd live back then but I didn't do the drugs I was too scared
The Best.
❣️
I think that listening to Bobby’s song Brother can show how hurt He was by Bill’s decision to leave him down. When interviewed He says he only wanted to rest and live in peace with his familly
Dear Super151206 .. Loved your post and wish you could have at least
attended one live concert. I'm 63-years old now, and have been a fan since 1963. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame SPECIFICALLY ASKED Bob and Bill to sing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin." For two gentlemen at the age
of 62-years old .... They came out and nailed it. This is the last "live"
recording I can find of this song - and thanks to TH-cam for keeping
it up so all of the new music fans can enjoy it. it. Roger C.
so sweet.
Is there a book about Bobby or his life? If there's not, there should be! Bobby will always have my heart, wish I had seen him live😔
I agree. There should be a book about Bobby. Like everyone else, his life wasn't always a picnic but he was a stunning singer and had such a one-in-a-million voice. From what I have read he was reportedly a kind, gentle, loving and generous person despite his flaws. Personally, as a therapist and someone who reads people well, though Bobby was always smiling and joking, I believe he was running from some things that tormented him. Love him.
@@kathlelan I wish I knew the real story between him and Bill. From everything I have watched and read, he loved working with Bill and invited him to join in family celebrations, but according to Bill he was distant and did not want him to be involved out of the workplace. I just don't get it. But no matter, I love Bobby, always will, no matter what flaws he might have had.
@@nelitasciretta7101 I watched the video on YT where Bobby's daughter (and his son Dustin) are accepting an award for their dad in Orange County, CA. In it, Vallyn refers to Bill as "Uncle Bill". Doesn't sound like they were estranged. That video is (I think from 2014 or so). OCE award? Oh, by the way, there are all sorts of videos and articles on Google claiming that someone named Dustin Hatfield, supposedly Bobby's son, was accused of murdering his girlfriend and I don't see any way that that man could be Bobby's son. He doesn't look like his son Dustin, is covered in tattoos, is from the Midwest, lives in squalor and his age is all wrong. If people on YT and Google are promoting this guy as Bobby's son and he isn't then the family should sue someone about it. Just sayin'.
@@kathlelan I agree. And I have seen the video you are talking about, but in one of his interview videos, he says that Bobby did not want to socialize away from work. Strange... I also agree about his son, that is not his son, I'm surprised that whoever is promoting that has not been sued already!
@@nelitasciretta7101Yes, relationships can be very complicated and this seems to be more true in the entertainment business. We'll never know the real stories and truth about Bobby and Bill. And, let's face it, Bill would never have been the success he was without Bobby's talent. Oh dear. We could go on forever but Bobby is gone. Now a woman claims that she is Bob's illegitimate daughter given up for adoption in 1959. Wrote a book about it. I'm not too thrilled with her doing that since Bobby is deceased and she sort of forced herself on his family. If he was alive and gave her permission to write a book it would be a different story. But putting that into the public domain to make herself famous? No, not nice.
the choices for induction over the years, SOME of them, have made no sense at all. this one, however, does.
Boy, you got that right! Spector didn't want any of his singers in, he was afraid they would find out that they didn't need him. Bobby and Bill also deserve an honorary Grammy.
Bill deserves solo Hall of Fame for his Oscar, Grammies , crossing genres and so forth. After reading the qualifications, Bill certainly qualified both as a Righteous Brother, which he did with Bobby and as a solo.
I am very pleased with this video. Thanks.
I regret that I have never attended a concert with the Righteous Brothers, as the
distance between Europe and the United States was too large. And now ist
Bobby gone.
I think Bobby passed away just a few months after they were inducted.
8 months, on November 4th.
@@dawnaberry8452 it was November 5th when he passed away that's what they said
The BEST!
I’m sad to hear somme bad coments on Bill ‘ s book about Bobby. The fact is that their frindship last until his death, and no doubts that Bill wouldn’t be so famous without Bobby’s Charisma. And sometimes I look his Fb page and it doesn’t give him the Credit He deserves as an artist , a singer and spetacular performer. And Maybe if He was left to impose his energetic personality He would gone much further. In his first vídeos He was really enjoying and happy, teasing Bill, what a diferent posture from when they begin to be famous. With a dynamic duo they wouldn’t be kicked out of stage by the Beatles in their joint tour !!
LP
I thought Bobby sounds like Joe Pesci. lol
Haha I can’t stop hearing it now
Yes, i noticed the similarity with Pesci voice. Sadly Bobby was brutally attacked in late 1988 outside the Hop, that left him with every bone in his face broken and having to need several painful surgeries. I believe, this caused his voice to change.
I didn't know that happened to Bobby I just thought his voice changed because of the singing he had been doing over the years.
Thank you, Jakey. I just asked about that in another comments column, and then I read yours. In some of his pictures there seemed to be some traces of scarring, also some minute changes around his eyes. But he was as handsome as ever and I miss his beautiful voice.
@@dawnaberry8452 i heard that Bobby (doing a good deed) had tried to stop a bartender who worked at The Hop from drink driving and the drunk guy viciously turned on Bobby.
Bobby passed 8 months after this in November 1963, and NOT from a cocaine overdose.
You're right, it was from a cocaine-induced heart attack.
1963?
it was 2003
So Bobby died two years before he sang unchained melody live on stage?! Crikey, isn't life strange! 😊
@@edmundpower1250 He sang live in 64 and died in 2003 !! 40 years later !!!
I think I know....from Oct 1994-April 1995 I lived with "Linda" who rented a room to me while I was going to Fullerton Jr. College in CA. She lived alone in a mobile home park in Huntington Beach. She LOVED her vodka!!!! I even had to watch her grandchildren one day because she was so drunk she couldn't.
Did Linda had grandchildren back in 1994 to 1995 during the time you stayed with her? Why was she living alone back then when she was still married to Bobby? Just wondering.
@@jakeywilliams I don't know about grandkids, but he was married to Linda until he died. She died a few years later. She had battled Lupus for years, and later, cancer. So lets get some facts straight before we are critical of them. We don't know what others are going through. Right, Miss fblancelot?
@@dawnaberry8452 I'm english so we're sarcastic. 😉 i was responding to her nutty deranged comment about mrs hatfield and i do know very well mr and mrs hatfield was married until his sad death in 2003. Mrs hatfield children would have been about 11 or 13 years in 1995 so i highly doubt nutty fblancelot babysat Hatfields grandchildren unless their little kids had babies! 😄
@@jakeywilliams Thanks Jakey, I understand. My reply was really for fblancelot. Bobby has at least one grandson, by Bobby Jr. And I believe the problems with his voice come from the attack by two thugs. He was in the hospital for a long time, he required a lot of surgeries on his face. As for Linda,, she adored Bobby. Her illnesses were so debilitating, and Bobby took care of her. I know what cancer can do to a person. And she had suffered from Lupus for years. For the the past ten years I have watched my son die from a rare blood cancer, and he went to the Lord on Dec. 3rd. So I suppose I 'm a bit sensitive. Love you Brits!
@@dawnaberry8452 horrible what happened to Bobby and i hope those thugs that had caused him grave harm served time in prison. Yes, i heard Bobby had a solid marriage and that he cared for his wife during all her years of illnesses. From what i read, he truly loved his wife. So sorry about your son Dawna.