Great song....Great reaction!

He made every women there that day feel like he was singing to her. Thats how powerful his voice was.

This is Bobby Hatfield. The singer you don't see is Bill Medley. This is when love songs were really love songs and no one needed enhancements to sound great. ❤❤❤❤❤

His voice a God’s gift . Classic …. Bobby Hatfield is his name

This was live on the Andy Williams show. Bobby Hatfield sang this as a solo. He was ill with a cold and worried about being able to hit that note at the end of the song. Also, his Mom was in the audience and had never heard him sing live before. No pressure! The Righteous Brothers got their name from the Black Marines at El Toro base in SoCal. After a performance they yelled "that was righteous, Brothers!" The name stuck. Check out You've Lost That Loving Feeling, and Soul and Inspiration. His 'brother' is Bill Medley who sings bass/baritone. Bobby's range was tenor all the way up through the top of Countertenor. Most folks think it's falsetto but for him it's not. His voice is so relaxed he could get all the way up there. If you notice his jaw when he sings there is no tension there. No autotune, one shot at it: this is perfection. It's even better than the studio recording that was played on the radio. IMHO!

He gives a masterclass in vocal technique

This was called blue eyed soul!! A counter tenor he could effortlessly reach notes few men could. Best live performance ever...no re-takes, cut and paste, auto tune ...dont make em like that any more

Gwann Bobby - no one knows how that feels - go on with the generation it’s so so special - I feel so privileged!!!

What a good reaction. So many of us think and feel exactly like you do when we first saw Bobby's performance. He is unbelievable.

Listen to you’ve lost that loving feeling and you’ll hear the other half of the RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS. It’s great to know you kids like this you do need more of this nowadays

One of the most beautiful romantic love songs of all time, sang by a real dreamboat. So happy it moved you 💛💜

Yes, Bobby was one of those Artists that had Women saying "Please have my Babies !!!". As a fellow Vocalist ... Bobby Hatfield this is probably the best Live Performance ever performed of any Song ever. And yes, there are 2 "Giveret" ... but if you search for the intro to this performance with Andy Williams, you'll find out the story behind the Band name and why only Bobby performed this Song solo. Having been in Studios where we can "punch in/out" to get the best outcome and performed "live" as well, there are "choices" are made ... SO many factors go into it ... climate, mood, sound guys, et al. As an "old guy" a reminder that this was "pre-Auto Tune", Tube Amps and a Mic with far less dynamic range that what's available today. So few of us (and certainly not me) can hit high C ... post puberty (LOL and MJ could do it RIP). Utterly amazing IMHO. Just a "visual" note as well ... pre-MTV and the part where he begins to sing about how "lonely Rivers flow to the Sea" sync'd with the fade out with the yellow Globe bulb lights was SO cool ... again, IMHO. And BTW, Todd Duncan was the original release Artist in 1955.

There has never been a male singer like Bobby Hatfield. His live performance is a masterpiece, and the world lost him too soon.

Amoung the greatest live performances of all time! Bobby Hatfield was one half of the Righteous Brothers, the other member is Bill Medley. They flipped a coin to determine who would sing this song as only one of them could perform it! Bobby won the toss. This live version is actually better than the original studio version! RIP Bobby.

Sweet, charming, beautiful, soulful and talented Bobby Hatfield. This song hit the charts twice and this live version is even better. Bobby has done many solos like My Prayer and Summertime or Ebb Tide which also charted. Anything he and Bill Medley do as a duo is awesome like You'll never walk alone or Soul and Inspiration.

Pure vocal perfection! No tricks...no Autotune...no tricks!

You witnessed the best song and performance of all time. You have a lot of class just like Bobby Hatfield. I respect you a lot because you know what you are talking about. I subscribed right away. Be safe and take care.

Bobby Hartfield was a boss an unmatched . R.I.P.

OMG the late Bobby Hatfield! I was 15 yrs old when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. No auto tune, just pure raw talent! RIP Bobby! We miss hearing your beautiful voice! You need to play more music by the Righteous Brothers. They were awesome!!! 💖💖💖

This is where the term "blue eyed soul" came from.

I've watched tons of reactions to this song. Yours is the best of the best. Hell, im 70 now and remember this song Killin it back then. Now you have the same reaction. Craziness! Keep On Keepin On

His name was Bobby Hatfield who died in November 2003 at the age of 63. They( Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley) were not brothers. You can hear both their biggest hit " You've Lost That Loving Feeling". Sometimes they would do solos. Other songs: Soul & Inspiration ", Ebb Tide, You'll Never Walk Alone, Rock n roll Heaven, I Just Wanna Make Love To You" and many others.

Thanks! For understanding this music and why we loved our era of music.

This is why, people my age (a child of the 60's) still listen to the oldies. There is nothing that compares to the great artist of the time.

Amazing....he was sick when he sang this live! You can't really tell.....most can't sing this on their best day! Lol. Bobby Hatfield killed it! No one sang this better .....Imo.

Good to see this timeless performance still wowing people over 50 years later. There is just nothing like this today. Great reaction to an amazing performance.

I was 15 living 25 miles from him. Question where has the music gone?

This is Bobby Hatfield. The other part of the duo is Bill Medley. Bobby passed away in 2003. Check out "You've Lost That Loving Feeling", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Ebb Tide" and "Soul and Inspiration". This song was used in the movie "Ghost". They each did solo performances in each performance. I grew up with this music. No auto tunes. Just pure talent. The artists could actually sing, you could understand what they were saying and they dressed well. This was a TV performance. They were called Blue-Eyed Soul.

The very best!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, thank you for your openness and honesty. This is probably the greatest live performance ever by anyone in any genre. Bobby Hatfield had an insane voice. Great reaction.

It warms my heart to see you appreciate the music of my day

Best of his time??? 😂 He’s one of, if not the best ever live.

Talent was an absolute necessity in those days, and the Righteous Brothers had it

This was live...on the Andy Williams Show...(also a singer)...

You'll never walk alone on the Ed Sullivan Show really showcases both their voices

Must have learned to Sing in Church... Elvis and James Brown both had that Soul too.. These Men are Great Singers...

No altering of any kind, and done live. Just Bobby at his best. Cheers.

His name is Bobby Hatfield, and he was some kind of good. You are right about there not being music like his these days.

In the 60's, 70's & 80's, a period which I refer to as the Golden Age of Popular Music, if you did not have real talent, you did not get a record contract, PERIOD! All of the music from this era is top notch, even what was considered passe at the time. Music today has no soul.

This was live on TV.. The Andy Williams Show.. I was 18 when I watched this with my folks.

The Righteous Brothers were amazing, Bobby’s voice was sublime. 💕💕

Welcome to “Blue Eyed Soul”!!!! One of the greats!!! His mom was in the audience and his smile at the end was because he knew he killed it!!!

Just imagine No Autotune! Absolute TALET! That’s the music I grew up listening to! The best of the best!

You need to back this video up to see the humorous chatting with both Righteous Brothers and Andy Williams. They are all wearing pink that night because it was Valentines Day (1965). The Andy Williams show took place in a large studio with a live audience. In the chat scene, Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley talk about how they got the name, Righteous Brothers and that Bobby sings Unchained Melody by himself. Bill was kidding when he said he didn’t think it was going to be a hit. They had decided to include a solo on each album and flipped a coin to see who would sing that first solo and Bobby won. The studio recording from 1964 was an immediate and giant hit. I like this live version better because of the more dramatic ending. The song became a big hit again in 1990 when it was featured throughout the movie, Ghost.

So blessed to grow up with this kind of music…each of them agreed that they would do one solo record in each album and this was his. Every woman loves to slow dance to this song…

The amazing Bobby Hatfield. One of the finest voices of the 20th century. Supreme talent. RIP Bobby.

I was lucky enough to see the Righteous Brothers in concert nearly 60 years ago. Love them!❤ Listen to them sing I Just Want To Make Love To You and Summertime.

Nice reaction ... this must be the greatest ever live performance of a pop song by a male artist - it's truly magnificnet! Cheers

Young man you are so right about music nowadays isn't anything like it used to be. There are so many more voices from the past that you have yet to hear. Ask yourself how many singers in this day and age sound the same if not better live than they do in studios? One I can say in the present would be Chris Stapleton but I can't name any others. Just be open to honestly listening to anything suggested to you and it will open your eyes to endless possibilities. Also once you listen to a song check out who originally sang it because a lot of songs are covers of songs from long ago. One in particular was Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You which was originally written and sang by Dolly Parton. You will also hear a lot of covers for the song Crazy which was originally sung by Patsy Cline (another Angelic voice).

Thanks for giving this many his justly deserved praises. He was a legend of our times and he along with his brother were super singers of the times...

His mother was in the audience listening for the 1st time!!!!

The very best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I not only love this song from my era but seeing young people's reactions and loving it as much as I did in the 1960s. It does my heart good.

"Summertime" (also sung by Bobby) will completely knock your socks off.

This will always be the best performance of this song. Done live on the Andy Williams show 1965. Bobby Hatfield OWNS this song.

Dear, ask your grandma. She very likely loved them too. They were popular on both white AND black radio. You could hear their music in "black" clubs AND "white" clubs. We called these artists "blue-eyed soul", white groups that could sing with true soul. And yes, darlin', this is LIVE. We didn't have fancy electronics and computer fixes. You had to really SING or you couldn't make it. We old farts like to watch you kids listen to this because we know what's coming. You can see him smiling because he knows he's about to blow the roof off the mother.

Pro, you may have heard this song before but no one sings it like Bobby Hatfield!

Before they were famous a guy that use to come watch them sing told them they were some righteous hence the righteous brothers.

Bobby Hatfield turned down a pro baseball contract to sing instead. Lucky us!

G R E A T R E A C T I O N !!!!!! First time on this channel...and I'm Subscribing!! Say Pzo..You have THE BEST Reaction Video...uh, uh Format!!!! The Video taking 75% of the screen....with You live INSET ON THE PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAYUM....THE BEST OF ALL REACTION VIDEO FORMATS I've seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Yeah, Bobby Hatfield is a G.O.A.T. ....for sure. This one 57 year old recorded live performance...IS S O L I D G O L D. We are so lucky to have this LIVE recorded performance in such amazing condition. They say this song...Unchained Melody has been recorded over 1500 times by over 600 artists over these many years. Yet NO ONE has put this heart and soul...and AMAZING vocals into it. A bunch have tried..but no one has...and it is unlikely this performance will ever be even approached. Try Reacting to their (Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley - The Righteous Brothers) most played song of the 20th Century..."You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". It will blow you away too. Bobby's highs and Bill's lows...you'll hear and see!!! So glad you and members of your generation are visiting some of my generation's musical heros. Almost all have similar Reactions to Unchained Melody, this Solo by Bobby...and you can imagine what this performance does to women. Now...I'm going to watch your Reaction again.

I'd bet you'd like his brother as well...check out "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"...I think that Bobby puts in one of the greatest vocal performances ever on this song...but they bring it when they sing together on "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". Weirdly enough, Bill Medley isn't on this song he said because "I didn't think it would be a hit"...lol

Love, sensitivity, talent.....he was amazing.

Elvis also sang this song at his last performance weeks before his death

Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley were not' biological brothers but were magical together...and they got their name while playing in a club down south where a man did stand up and yell out 'that's righteous brother'...it was not at the El Toro base in SoCal. In 2003 Bobby Hatfield was found dead in his motel room in Kalamazoo Michigan and a coroner concluded that cocaine use had precipitated his fatal heart attack...so sad that such a beautiful man left the world the way he did...Thank You for sharing..peace be the journey !!!

Back in the day, they had the best music.

You are an old soul my friend😘!!!! IMHO this HAS to be THE best LIVE performance EVER!!!!! LUSH reaction......🔥😍🔥

Bobby Hatfield was just 25 years old in this video. He was a very rare counter tenor. Those high notes are not sung in a falsetto but his chest voice. He goes between high and low effortlessly. Check his performance of the song “Summertime”!

This performance was done by Bobby Hatfield on the Andy Williams Variety Show. He is one half of the Righteous Brothers, being that Bill Medley is the other half. They were both 25 years old then. I was 15 at the time and remember these boys and let me tell you that us girls were so in love with the Righteous Brothers. Can't say which brother won out over the other with the girls back then. I watched this performance on TV. Bobby's mother was in the audience behind him in the blue dress. He was nervous performing. But when he was done with that performance, he totally owned it!! There is an original version sung by Todd Duncan in movie called "Unchained" about an inmate singing to his love to wait for him. This became a hit in 55' and was nominated for the Academy Awards, didn't win but made it to #1 on the Billboard Charts. The recorded version of this song sung by Bobby Hatfield was on the B side of a record because the A side was supposed to be the hit song, 'Hung on You." This b side was most played by the dj's instead, which became the hit song and made the Billboard Charts at #4 in 65.' It later was re-released for the movie "Ghost" in 90' and became a hit all over again with another Billboard top 100. They got their name back when people and things were referred to as being 'righteous, brother.' So after their performance the crowd would yell out "that's righteous brother.' Hence, they decided that was a good name to call themselves. Bobby has since left us to join the Band in Rock n Roll Heaven. To this day no one has ever bested Bobby's version!!! RIP Bobby.

Blue eyed soul my Brother.🥰 Buttery smooth.

Check out the Righteous Brothers Soul & Inspiration (1966) and You’ve lost that lovin feeling. You will love those classics too!

You really need to hear summertime by him!!!!!

The lyrics mean so much more when you realize this was 1965 and the Vietnam War was in full swing. When he sings "Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much." - you can picture him in a fox hole terrified he won't make it home. When he sings "Are you still mine?" and "I'll be coming home, wait for me." it is heart wrenching because you know in the midst of the horror, all he wants to know is that she still loves him.

This song was song at the end of movie "Ghost " I got to meet Bill Medley who is the other brother( n of course they are not real brothers) Bobby here was one of the best tenor singer of all time hitting that high not at the end( most women singers can't hit that note) No Autotune just pure vocal. Listen to Soul and Inspiration n You've Lost That Loving Feeling n Rock n Roll Heaven( the 1981 version) n many more. Bill is still singing at 83 I grew up loving Righteous Brothers and Elvis. If you haven't reacted to Elvis you must( Bill n Elvis were good friends) Elvis sang RNR, Blues, Country n Gospel ( he got 3 grammys) Of all his music he loved gospel songs) I love all his songs( I think he sang over 500 songs I think) Suspicious Minds Vagus 1970 was one that showed all his moves gyrating I was friends with Charlie Hodge his confidant and best friend for years after Elvis died n he told me many great stories about his friend. I could write a book I even kept a journal. Well I won't bore you with anymore facts,I love your reaction n thank you for keeping the old songs alive.

Best slow dance song ever! Great reaction! Love watching young people discover my music!

They didn't have auto-tune back in the day! Just a pure, natural voice!

There were around 3 million babies born after this song came out. I know I had one!!

Always loved this song. So beautiful. It was all sung live with his mama in the audience.

G'Day from Australia. If you like this 'old' music then you need to turn up your radio- or You Tube- to the hits of the 1960s, 70s an 80s.There are many of them (mainly from Britain, America and my country of Australia)that were absolute gold. From Australia first check out John Farnham LIVE in concert. His singing is incredible!

The singer of unchained melody is The Great Bobby Hatfield may he rest in peace.

I have said, you can feel his voice in your soul.

Oh and Listen to ( You've lost the Loving Feeling) the Other Brother is in it. It was the Biggest hit they had...

Name of singer is Bobby Hatfield.

You are wise beyond your years young man. Keep that mind open and you will go so far in this life.

I love how you enlarge the screen of the artist during their performance!

Bobby Hatfield sang this live on the Andy Williams variety television show.

The ultimate love song. How many babies were born 9 months after this performance?

This song was sung by Roy Hamilton, the Righteous Brothers covered a lot of his songs. Mr. Hamilton was a black man and the Righteous Brothers sang mostly R and B. This man's name was Bobby Hatfield.

Thr lovely Bobby Hatfield. God-given talent.

Such a beautiful song 🥰🥰🥰 Great reaction! Esta es música que trasciende el tiempo y la época ¡Saludos, desde Argentina!

Go to the Andy Williams Show. The Righteous Brothers singing What'd I Say with Andy Williams. Then you can watch 3 great men of that day with their incredible voices. Remember live and no such thing as auto tune or anything like it. This is Bobby Hatfield the other one is Bill Medley.❤️❤️❤️

Listen to You've Lost That Loving Feeling. The other half of this remarkable group is equally as amazing.

Thanks Bro so encouraging to see your appreciation for what music can be and should be, BEAUTIFUL!

Back from the good old days when you got to enjoy the true talent of the artist ! Not like today where you get these mix and master dubbed and over dubbed production numbers ! You got the rich deep raspy voice of Bill and the amazing falsetto voice of Bobby that just melted together ! I will recommend something unusual today, a live duet performance from two young people of Unchained Melody on the streets of Dublin. Check out from 2 years ago on the KZfaq channel of Allie Sherlock, her and Cuan Durkin covering Unchained Melody, they'll blow you away, at least 37 million people think so !

Check out Bobby's other solos. He has many. "Summertime" will blow you away. Ebb Tide. Crying in the chapel. And many others.

when listening to this song, think of the soldiers over in vietnam, yearning for their girlfriends and wives....this song came out during that time in history....knowing this, gives it a deeper meaning.....i enjoy watching your reaction to these old tunes. the old hippie.

Listen to (You're My) Soul & Inspiration by the Righteous Brothers. You'll get to hear the other singer & he's phenomenal too. They aren't brothers, but they got their name RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS after a performance and someone yelled out "that was righteous, brother".

Give a listen to "Look Homeward Angel" from 1964 by The Monarchs. They performed this on American Bandstand when young men were in Viet Nam. "Look Homeward Angel". Beautiful vocals.

They got their name after a show down south when someone yelled out "THAT'S RIGHTEOUS BROTHER".

Billy didn't record this song with Bobby because he didn't think it would be a hit..So Billy is back stage ( kicking himself) that's what he said ..They weren't blood brothers but Brothers just the same.... Missing you Bobby...

Bill Medley is the other half of the duo.