Being a Long Island girl I was blessed to have seen him live many times... each time an effortless beauty in that man's voice. The morning they announced he was gone... I dropped my husband at work ... drove around the corner from his job and cried my eyes out while The Maestro sang "I believe" There was no local charity that ever heard the word no from Johnny. His efforts like his voice were tireless. I now regret I didn't go to the East Islip church for his funeral mass. God Bless You Johnny!
I blasted this song as a 45 on my record player when I was 16, and now at 66 yrs. young, I still blast it. Johnny Masestro was one of the greatest . R.I.P. You're missed. Thank you for the wonderful memories.
A dead on, flawless performance from the late, great Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge...R.I.P Mr. Maestro, you were one of the great vocalists of our time.
I don’t comment about pop tunes very often, but this performance by Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge of the classic Jimmy Webb song is almost perfect. If you don’t dig the visuals just forget the cornball club vibe and just listen to the band & vocals. Also, check out the trumpet players singing backgrounds, playing keyboards then pulling off the horn parts on the fly. Those are the kind of musicians I want to be in a band with. RIP - John Peter Mastrangelo aka Johnny Maestro; May 7, 1939 - March 24, 2010.
I'd hear him sing and say,"how does he sound the same,even after all these years?" I guess simply put, Johhny was blessed as few singers are....having a voice that never quit. We were fortunate to hear him. RIP Johnny.
Sure was! He's from my parents generation but I grew up on oldies and Motown...I fell in love with him and this song.. I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert 3x in the late 1990s and actually met him and got his autograph....he was so kind and had fans from multiple generations, cultures, ethnicities ...amazing that a voice, song or person can bring so many different kinds of ppl together!
Johnny Maestro had an unbelievable range and he always seemed like a really nice man. I wish I had had the opportunity to see him in concert!!🥰I was born in 1947 and didn’t hear much about him owing to the fact that country and gospel in my home. I worked and raised my children and was never able to really hear him until this past year and I wish I could have heard him earlier, I simply love to watch him sing, I could listen and watch for hours and never get tired of him🥰💜
@@jessiem276 I loved to watch him sing he had a phenomenal voice and range 🥰 I rewatch his videos and I never get tired or bored listening to him 🙏🏻🥰💜😇♥️He is very much missed especially by me🥰
Hands down the G.O.A.T Doo Wop singer of all time. Go back and listen to The Crests and all the Brooklyn Bridge material. When you stop crying, thank God that we had Johnny and generations to come will have these songs. Every year this time I relive my youth ( now 70).
What a great singer!. He was the best up to the end. So sorry he is gone. Love his music and voice was the greatest. He was blessed with his voice. Wish he was still here. RIP.🙏🙏😪
Since I started listening to the song again after so many years, it’s in my head every day I wake up and it’s in my head and that’s not a bad thing. Love it love it.
Wow, you can't say enough about this guy what a beautiful voice, love and remember him very well thank you man for all the good music then, and still today R.I.P. Johnny 😥
Because it is run by how many seats they can sell for the event. It is an expensive event for a seat, trust me, plus it is run by young ones who could care less about those who led the way for them. But he IS the first one that was put into the EAST COAST HALL OF FAME! The Rock And Roll Hall of Shame isn't what it was supposed to be all about. People who dropped out of sight are in and Johnny is not.
Johnny was the Do Wop Maestro for sure. Never get tired of these great 50-60 slngs....greatest era to be a teen.OMG...what a voice....Johnny. Maestro- and Frankie Valli... two of the greatest!🎶⭐🎶
I listened to this on my transistor radio when I was 9 yrs old and still love it. I'm 63 now . I never get tired of this song or this era of music . Thank You .
He was the best and any attempt to replace him is nothing but an insult. No one can fill his spot, not now, not ever. I loved and still love Maestro and only Maestro. Rest in peace good brother.
Never got to see him...i'm only 32, but i discovered his music about 10 years ago. Oldies 100 in ocean county nj. Never knew til a few years ago that he sang 16 candles.
The day before the Jets and Joe Namath upset the Baltimore Colts in January of 1969, my high school basketball team won our conference tournament. I was on a high the next day and remember vividly listening to this song. If you lived in the 60’s you know that this group and this song was not typical of most of the music. You got a group with a great vocalist as the lead singer and awesome background harmonies like we heard in the Do Woo era but a big band with horns. They had like 11 members. This was the number 1 song in the country and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing while that song was playing that afternoon. Johnny Maestro is the best of all time.
I'm one of the "Baby Boomers", loved Johnny Maestro/Brooklyn Bridge, this video is the best of his live version of "The Worst That Could Happen", the pure sound of what a singing voice should sound like. This music never dies, the souls remember...Indefinitely. RIP Johnny.
On this day in 1968 {December 15th} "Worst That Could Happen" by Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on January 26th, 1969 it peaked at #3 {for 2 weeks} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100... Lead singer Johnny Maestro is a dual member of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame; first with the Crests in 2004 and with the Brooklyn Bridge in 2005... R.I.P. Mr. Maestro, born John Mastrangelo, 1939 - 2010...
@53Topanga well... I wasn't young then but my MOM was so she took me to see them when I WAS young and then again and again and again when I was older and my son knows them too... amazing how many generations are impacted by their music. I did have the plesure of meeting them and they are true gentlemen... what can I say but WOW!!!
I met Johnny and the group at The Cheetah Club on 54th Street in NYC. We became good friends actually. I had a baby and the group became the godfather to my son. I still [after 42 years] have the original carriage and mattress with the Brooklyn Bridge emblem on it...wonderful group, wonderful people. He will be missed.
Mizkitty1122, when Johnny passed the world lost not only a great tallent, with one of the most durable voices of all time, but also a true humble gentleman. The gates of Heaven automatically opened for Him.
March 30, 2010 I miss him so very very much! Rock & Roll Hall of Fame... come on. What are you waiting for? The older ones are dying, while the younger ones are inducted first! Johhny Maestro..... Pavoritti... Pavoritti... Rest in the arms of Jesus!
We lost the best of an era before his time- and that's the worst that could happen. We are struck dumb. Yet we will remain grateful for his impact on our memories and lives through his charm, talent and power and kindness.
I won't say better but very close was originally recorded by The 5th Dimension in1968. I still like Johnny better but give the 5th Dimension a listen. They were excellent.
Johnny maestro sang with all of his heart and soul I feel that it comes across in all of his music would have loved to have seen him perform live thank goodness we have his videos and recordings
I remember seeing Johnny Maestro in the Lindberg Ball room in New Jersey in the mid 60's. Fabulous then, fabulous till the day he passed...... he sang what people "felt". RIP Johnny Maestro.
What I find most amazing is that he sings this song from his heart, you can tell he feels the lyrics in his soul. He must have sung this song thousands of times during his career, yet he still sings it with all his heart and with a freshness of energy, as if singing it for the first time, faithful always to the original and always infusing it with full emotion. That can't be easy!
Im a 63 year old Male from Northern Calif. I lost a girl in about 1968 and have been so very DESTROYED by it all these years ..... First time I heard this was right after we split up .... Why is it we torture ourselves and listen to these things that Make us CRAZY ? ....... All I can add is like most everyone else here .... RIP Sir ..... You were quite a voice Johnny Maestro .
He should be in the Hall of Fame. Enough already, put him in ❤
Dear god yes.
Nobody else should be allowed in until he gets in.
Should be in Rock &Roll Hall of Fame
Being a Long Island girl I was blessed to have seen him live many times... each time an effortless beauty in that man's voice. The morning they announced he was gone... I dropped my husband at work ... drove around the corner from his job and cried my eyes out while The Maestro sang "I believe" There was no local charity that ever heard the word no from Johnny. His efforts like his voice were tireless. I now regret I didn't go to the East Islip church for his funeral mass. God Bless You Johnny!
How can 5 people not like this? His voice will live on forever.
I blasted this song as a 45 on my record player when I was 16, and now at 66 yrs. young, I still blast it. Johnny Masestro was one of the greatest . R.I.P. You're missed. Thank you for the wonderful memories.
Right there with ya' Gina!
@@BirchwoodBums Thank you :)
How could a voice not change in 40 years???? This is when singers could really sing! RIP Johnny. A true great and gifted artist!
Ha ha ha. Voices can get better for 40 years if you take care of them. I am at my singing peak now at 63
Singing to his own track
One of the best vocalists of the era, along with Jay Black & Gary Puckett.
How is Johnny not in the rock and roll hall of fame?
A dead on, flawless performance from the late, great Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge...R.I.P Mr. Maestro, you were one of the great vocalists of our time.
I don’t comment about pop tunes very often, but this performance by Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge of the classic Jimmy Webb song is almost perfect. If you don’t dig the visuals just forget the cornball club vibe and just listen to the band & vocals. Also, check out the trumpet players singing backgrounds, playing keyboards then pulling off the horn parts on the fly. Those are the kind of musicians I want to be in a band with. RIP - John Peter Mastrangelo aka Johnny Maestro; May 7, 1939 - March 24, 2010.
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I'd hear him sing and say,"how does he sound the same,even after all these years?" I guess simply put, Johhny was blessed as few singers are....having a voice that never quit. We were fortunate to hear him. RIP Johnny.
Johnny was a phenomenal singer and performer. His career was unbelievable and he was one of the Greatest Singers of all time as far as I am concerned.
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Yes he was I totally agree 🥰I listen to him every time I get the chance, love to watch him sing, he had such a fantastic range 🙏🏻🥰♥️💜💗😇
Sure was! He's from my parents generation but I grew up on oldies and Motown...I fell in love with him and this song.. I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert 3x in the late 1990s and actually met him and got his autograph....he was so kind and had fans from multiple generations, cultures, ethnicities ...amazing that a voice, song or person can bring so many different kinds of ppl together!
Phenomenal, every single song he ever sang. They'll always be one of my favorites.
Surely the Worst that Could Happen was losing you Johnny....Rest In Peace..RoeRoe
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Memories.
They go on thanks to music like this
It's not just that he hits the high notes, listen to the quality of his voice.
Right up to a few months before his death. I miss him so very very much. I am proud to say we were friends. Still makes me cry.
Beautiful - Sure he is hitting the high notes in heaven.
Johnny Maestro had an unbelievable range and he always seemed like a really nice man. I wish I had had the opportunity to see him in concert!!🥰I was born in 1947 and didn’t hear much about him owing to the fact that country and gospel in my home. I worked and raised my children and was never able to really hear him until this past year and I wish I could have heard him earlier, I simply love to watch him sing, I could listen and watch for hours and never get tired of him🥰💜
@@florawest9333 I saw him when I was only seventeen... and he sounded even better in person. His voice just blew me away!
@@jessiem276 I loved to watch him sing he had a phenomenal voice and range 🥰 I rewatch his videos and I never get tired or bored listening to him 🙏🏻🥰💜😇♥️He is very much missed especially by me🥰
Johnny maestro was the BEST.❤
Such a brilliant singer and entertainer.sadly missed by millions of fans.r.i.p.johnny. Thank you
😭😭😭💔 Oh how I loved this song. I always cried when I heard it and tonight I cried again. Beautiful voice and beautiful song.❤
Simply the best.no-one can match him for vocals.RIP Johnny,you’ll be sorely missed.
Hands down the G.O.A.T Doo Wop singer of all time. Go back and listen to The Crests and all the Brooklyn Bridge material. When you stop crying, thank God that we had Johnny and generations to come will have these songs. Every year this time I relive my youth ( now 70).
This song is a Masterpiece 💙
What a great singer!. He was the best up to the end. So sorry he is gone. Love his music and voice was the greatest. He was blessed with his voice. Wish he was still here. RIP.🙏🙏😪
Since I started listening to the song again after so many years, it’s in my head every day I wake up and it’s in my head and that’s not a bad thing. Love it love it.
His voice just gets better with age, like fine wine.
One of the Greatest of all times - Johnny Maestro
Wow, you can't say enough about this guy what a beautiful voice, love and remember him very well thank you man for all the good music then, and still today R.I.P. Johnny 😥
What an incredible contribution!
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Such a beautiful voice!
This man's smooth voice could melt jello!!! Purrrrrr!!!
Jimmy Webb and Johnny Maestro. One of the best songs of all time!
Why is this man not in the Rock and Roll hall of fame? What am I missing?
Because it is run by how many seats they can sell for the event. It is an expensive event for a seat, trust me, plus it is run by young ones who could care less about those who led the way for them. But he IS the first one that was put into the EAST COAST HALL OF FAME! The Rock And Roll Hall of Shame isn't what it was supposed to be all about. People who dropped out of sight are in and Johnny is not.
@@charousel2 disgruntled white woman...get over it.
Because the Hall isn't worthy of this level of talent.
Johnny Maestro , The Maestro Of Doo Wop
Johnny was the Do Wop Maestro for sure. Never get tired of these great 50-60 slngs....greatest era to be a teen.OMG...what a voice....Johnny. Maestro- and Frankie Valli... two of the greatest!🎶⭐🎶
I pick Johnny over Frankie, just saying. To each his own.
I listened to this on my transistor radio when I was 9 yrs old and still love it. I'm 63 now . I never get tired of this song or this era of
music . Thank You .
great sound...he had
Spectacular voice!!!
My group was the warm up group for the Bridge. I still get chills hearing the Worst That Could Happen. What a voice and a really nice guy.
Now this guy can sing!
Good Grief! This guy could really sing. My goodness he's belting it out, hitting notes few mortal men can reach, lol.
Johnny, when I take the journey I'll pack this song and bring it for you, it'll be "The Worst That Could Happen" to Earthlings...and me!
Incredible that he could belt it out like this at this age. Seriously amazing. Johnny was a beast.
He was the best and any attempt to replace him is nothing but an insult. No one can fill his spot, not now, not ever. I loved and still love Maestro and only Maestro. Rest in peace good brother.
Another Jimmy Webb masterpiece beautifully sung by Johnny.
Not in the hall of fame? Unbelievable!
One of the best voices in our era. Will miss you and your singing Johnny. 😢🙏🏻
Johnny Maestro is THE voice of rock n roll. Miss him. ❤
Loved his strong voice on songs prior to even Brooklyn Bridge. Loved their songs with Johnny at the helm! RIP Johnny!
The absolute best.
Never got to see him...i'm only 32, but i discovered his music about 10 years ago. Oldies 100 in ocean county nj.
Never knew til a few years ago that he sang
16 candles.
Love this song!!
Music lost a legend when Johhny Maestro died.
And he and the BB are not in the R&R HofF??? Unbelievable! What can we fans do to get Johnny and our BB in there???
I really miss him and his music Johnnie Maestro was a one of a kind, man what a voice!!! 1969.
Great singer, still touches my heart!
R.I.P. My brother. You are one of the greatest voices I've ever heard.
The Late GREAT Johnny Maestro the very best voice ever !
Best voice(singer) of all time. Nobody will ever be this good and for his entire life. He never lost his voice.
RIP Johnny. I used to go see you at The Bottom Line in NYC and you never lost your voice, or your gracefulness.
Wow.... what a voice.. What a great song (thank you Jimmy Webb!), and aside from all that, this is one (*#)(* of an amazing live performance.
RIP good sir!
Johnny & Ritchie Rossato (The Duprees), 2 f the best ever Doo Wop lead singers!
one of the best voices of all time period.....
I still get chills and tear up listening to this song!
THIS MAN COULD REALLY SING! R.I.P.
The day before the Jets and Joe Namath upset the Baltimore Colts in January of 1969, my high school basketball team won our conference tournament. I was on a high the next day and remember vividly listening to this song. If you lived in the 60’s you know that this group and this song was not typical of most of the music. You got a group with a great vocalist as the lead singer and awesome background harmonies like we heard in the Do Woo era but a big band with horns. They had like 11 members. This was the number 1 song in the country and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing while that song was playing that afternoon. Johnny Maestro is the best of all time.
I'm one of the "Baby Boomers", loved Johnny Maestro/Brooklyn Bridge, this video is the best of his live version of "The Worst That Could Happen", the pure sound of what a singing voice should sound like. This music never dies, the souls remember...Indefinitely. RIP Johnny.
I gotta agree this is the best version of this song by him. This and the PBS live performance....
On this day in 1968 {December 15th} "Worst That Could Happen" by Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on January 26th, 1969 it peaked at #3 {for 2 weeks} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
Lead singer Johnny Maestro is a dual member of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame; first with the Crests in 2004 and with the Brooklyn Bridge in 2005...
R.I.P. Mr. Maestro, born John Mastrangelo, 1939 - 2010...
one of jimmy webbs' greatest tunes!
Unbelievably good
Rest well, Johnny and thank you for the wonderful music!
The very same!! We were all so young!!
Johnny Maestro is the very best!!
@53Topanga well... I wasn't young then but my MOM was so she took me to see them when I WAS young and then again and again and again when I was older and my son knows them too... amazing how many generations are impacted by their music. I did have the plesure of meeting them and they are true gentlemen... what can I say but WOW!!!
THE BEST EVER, HANDS DOWN!! RIP JOHNNY!!
I met Johnny and the group at The Cheetah Club on 54th Street in NYC. We became good friends actually. I had a baby and the group became the godfather to my son. I still [after 42 years] have the original carriage and mattress with the Brooklyn Bridge emblem on it...wonderful group, wonderful people. He will be missed.
R.I.P. Johnny.....the epitomy of what every singer should be in every possible way....
I have to say the arrangement, the heartbreak when the famous wedding recessional plays…
how can people not like this? So much talent!
It's a sad day for rock & roll. Rest in peace Johnny Maestro.
Rip
Definitely one of the greats! He is missed...
I will always love this song. Johnny Maestro had a wonderful voice
Mizkitty1122, when Johnny passed the world lost not only a great tallent, with one of the most durable voices of all time, but also a true humble gentleman. The gates of Heaven automatically opened for Him.
Just a wonderful voice. We miss you Johnny
March 30, 2010
I miss him so very very much!
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame... come on.
What are you waiting for?
The older ones are dying, while the younger ones are inducted first!
Johhny Maestro..... Pavoritti... Pavoritti...
Rest in the arms of Jesus!
Would have just loved to give this paisan a hug before he left us. What a great voice with such passion. Rest in peace Johnny Maestro!
We lost the best of an era before his time- and that's the worst that could happen.
We are struck dumb. Yet we will remain grateful for his impact on our memories and lives through his charm, talent and power and kindness.
This 1988 version is the best one I have ever heard !!!!
saw johnny & the band live about 20 years ago. After the show got him to sign my 45 record of this song,, still have it.
How lucky you are, something to treasure!
What memories. Still poignant today.
Was there any better vocal performance in pop music history than Johnny Maestro singing this song?
George Michael singing One More Try.
Not likely, I think I've heard em all. Gary Puckett and him at the top IMO.
I would love to hear Chuck Negron sing this one. They both posess those one of a kind vocals. I know that everytime I hear him. RIP Johnny Maestro...
Chuck Negron too, is great like that..They can sing anything!..
I won't say better but very close was originally recorded by The 5th Dimension in1968. I still like Johnny better but give the 5th Dimension a listen. They were excellent.
I saw him in person a few years before he passed and it was just a phenomenal concert. he just got better with age his voice unbelievable
Johnny maestro sang with all of his heart and soul I feel that it comes across in all of his music would have loved to have seen him perform live thank goodness we have his videos and recordings
What a voice- up there with Jackie Wilson
R. I. P. . . . One of the BEST -- he'll always be remembered and respected.
Wow!!!!!
Sorry to have heard that he passed away today.Truly a golden oldie.The music will never die
That is about as amazing as it gets!
Reminds me of my youth. What a great entertainer. What a voice!
He was one of my favorites. Brings back a lot of great memories.
Ohhh Mannn...I Loved this song before "I KNEW WHAT LOVE WAS"...xoxo ❤️
One of the GREAT...and distinctive voices of the era. Always be remembered.
Thanks for the memories! RIP
I remember seeing Johnny Maestro in the Lindberg Ball room in New Jersey in the mid 60's. Fabulous then, fabulous till the day he passed...... he sang what people "felt". RIP Johnny Maestro.
What I find most amazing is that he sings this song from his heart, you can tell he feels the lyrics in his soul. He must have sung this song thousands of times during his career, yet he still sings it with all his heart and with a freshness of energy, as if singing it for the first time, faithful always to the original and always infusing it with full emotion. That can't be easy!
Im a 63 year old Male from Northern Calif. I lost a girl in about 1968 and have been so very DESTROYED by it all these years ..... First time I heard this was right after we split up .... Why is it we torture ourselves and listen to these things that Make us CRAZY ? ....... All I can add is like most everyone else here .... RIP Sir ..... You were quite a voice Johnny Maestro .
Maybe the
Most emotional sad love song ever makes u want to cry
Still my favorite Song of Songs!
I’m a woman to boot!
How funny!
I think that was1968
I was born in 57!
Guess I found that song later !