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This was filmed ‘in color’ in 1965.😊 I watched it on Oct. 25, 1965 as a mere teenager.

This is probably one of the best live performances of all time

This was Bobby Hatfield’s signature solo song and he owns it! 😢No one sings Unchained Melody like Bobby Hatfield.

This TV performance took place on “The Andy Williams Show” on NBC in 1965, which was broadcast and videotaped in color.

Fun fact, his momma was in the audience that night. I couldn't imagine a prouder moment for a son, or a loving mother.

I was 10 years old when I watched this live on The Andy Williams show in November of 1965! It still brings chills and tears to my eyes. 58 years later, it is still, I believe, THE most wonderful solo performance of all time!

The incomparable Counter Tenor voice of the late great Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers. This greatest (Live) performance done on the Andy Williams Televison Show (58) years ago back in (1965). Was so good that it became the quintessential version of them all. Every recording artist and orchestra has used this arrangement of "Unchained Melody " ever since. No one has sung this song better than Bobby Hatfield and no orchestra has performed this song better than the NBC Studio Orchestra of the Andy Williams Show. It has become the greatest live television performance by a singer and orchestra ever. Brilliant!

As a 68 year old man, I’ve heard many versions of this song but this is by far the BEST!!

It wasn’t colourised, the Andy Williams show was broadcast live in colour. In my 63 years listening to music, going to concerts etc. I’ve never seen a singer with more vocal range that this man. The is raw unfiltered, talent.

This song came out in 65 as a lot of us young boys headed for Vietnam leaving our girlfriends hoping they would wait for us. I made it home after 18 months and she had fallen for another guy. This song really hit home for many of us 18 or 19 year-old guys just out of high school a couple of years. Still love this 58 years later.

This was done in 1965. No auto tune or gimmicks. Its pure voice. This song has been covered over 600 times. Check out their other songs. Their so good

This original film was in color on the Andy Williams Show. It was just refined. He was sweating because he is standing in the middle of a small stage surrounded by incandescent lighting. He really was that tanned color be cause he loved the beach and spent a lot of time there according to Bill. He got a lot of that sothern California sun.

I was in high school when I watched him sing this beautiful song on the Andy Williams show in 1965. His pure raw talent and no auto tunes. He owns this song. No one sang it better than he did. RIP Bobby! We miss hearing your beautiful voice. You need to listen to their other songs. They were awesome together. ❤❤❤❤

Live. No second take. NO auto tune. And, why are you reactors so surprised at the size of the microphone? It has one purpose, to amplify the voice. It's the way they were back then. They still did the job. Hundreds of people have sung this song but NOBODY does it like Bobby Hatfield. RIP Bobby.

Andy Williams' orchestra was most excellent as well

He didn't need a big microphone. He didn't need anything to help his voice. In fact he had a cold. If you watch the video where you can see Andy Williams with them (they were on his show), when Andy Williams asks about how they got their name, you can hear the congestion in his voice. He not only sang the heck out of this song he sang it with a head cold to boot.

That recording was not colorized. We had an RCA round tube color TV in 1963. I saw this performance live on the Andy Williams Show. What a wonderful voice; power from Heaven.

This version is by far the best…vastly superior and much more dynamic than the original radio/studios versions - sadly many have only heard those version and from “Ghost”. This performance is the best by far.

I have read on the Internet by other posters, that Bill Medley played the piano on the original recording of “Unchained Melody”.

Best version hands down of this classic song. Absolutely loved the Righteous Brothers. Sadly we lost Bobby Hatfield about 20 years ago. He had a beautiful one of a kind voice. This is a such a great live performance. No auto tuning like is used today by many artists. You really had to be able to sing & many of these older songs had beautiful romantic lyrics. Home Free recently did a great version of this song. And Austin Brown also did a very beautiful tribute of this song a few years ago.

I knew & loved the record, but it hasn't been heard until one hears this live version. Perfection. ❤

His mom was in the audience and that grin at the end, he knew he nailed it better than he ever hoped for.

This song had a special meaning to us that were going to Vietnam.

Bobby's solo performances were next level, right up until his death.

This performance was live on " The Andy Williams Show " , in 1965 !!!!! This was the most requested performance ever!!!!! Bobby Hatfield was WITHOUT ANY DOUBT AMAZING!!!!! There have been over 700 recording of this song and no one has ever equaled Bobbies performance !!!!!!!

Love your reactions! But I do think this is real live color tv, not colorized. But still one the best performances of the last century. Peace from Northern Michigan.

If you like Bobby singing this song. You might want to check out Summertime. He also sang solo but if you want some soul. It will draw you right into the song as if you were there. It's very impressive what Bobby could do when singing soul music.

Bill Medley sang back up, played piano and produced the recording of “Unchained Melody “

I'm pretty sure The Andy Williams Show was recorded in color on videotape, it was broadcasted on NBC, which led CBS and ABC in color programming. Being the leader in color programming, it used and still uses The Peacock (representing color) in its network logo. Your video source has been processed and maybe not as well as could be currently, but it was still recorded originally in color. Bobby Hatfield's beyond belief recorded live performance is probably one of the most reacted to and viewed videos on KZfaq. :)

They didn't "colorize" it; it was filmed in color - I believe there's a difference. He was actually wearing a pink/salmon jacket. I think they might have amped up his "tan" a bit, or the camera exaggerated it, but his eyes were just that blue. Yes, they had color wayyyyyyyy back in '65!

Bill and Bobby agreed to do solo songs on their albums together. Saw them in concert so long ago. When they sang, you were just glued to their harmony and words! Especially when Bobby sang this song live! You could hear a pin drop!

Yes, it was in color! The Andy Williams Show had a high production budget, and was filmed in color. Bobby was always tan, and their jackets that night were salmon. Bill produced the studio recording, and you can hear him playing the piano as well, but no vocals.

This was filmed in colour but some of the versions, like this one, are a bit shifted in colour. His jacket was pink and he didn't have a 'spray on' tan. Here is another number from the same show and you can see the difference kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMmheM2I29ClnWg.htmlsi=fDTjF7Fi_Bnla0lX Both the 'brothers' had good breath control and they were both serious athletes... Bobby played baseball and football and Bill was a competitive swimmer. Bill actually produced the studio version and played piano on it. Also, there is a backup singer on that version who is barely audible....and it's Bill 😊

The Andy Williams Show- Episode #4.5 Episode aired Oct 25, 1965 - [ ] Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher counter tenor voice to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield were each allowed to choose a song to sing as a solo vocalist on their albums. As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song. *In Nov. 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63. The Righteous Brothers version was a huge hit, but it was recorded with far more modest expectations. Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip to Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “)as to which side of a Philles single was the A-side. * The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley if he could make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and he left. He said, 'No, I can do it better.' And I said, 'No, you can't.' [Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song." * This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did. In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,' which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer. I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B side of a Phil Spector single 'Hung On You' and the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof." Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’.

Thank you for reacting to this song. Unchained Melody has been one of my favorite songs, from when I first heard it in Ghost. Angelina Jordan did a version at her concert in Portsmouth last month. There are a couple of camera phone videos of it on the interweb that might interest Big Angie Fans like you.

Fun fact they were asked if they wanted to be the opening act for a British band touring the U S. They said yes and opened for the Beatles. Half way into the tour they were contacted by a producer to make some records, they went and started singing for Phil Spector and the rest is history.

Love the reactions BUT !!! This is the original footage - NO colouration here,don't forget - there were many shows in the 60s that were in color. Great reaction though,and yes - Bill Medley didn't sing on this,but was actually the producer - and not Phil Spector who got the credit. The Righteous Brothers would often take turns singing lead vocals or do individual songs (as in this case)...this is still the ultimate performance of this song,and is probably one of THE MOST reacted to songs on KZfaq

Excellent reaction. Incredible performance.

Color tv's didn't out sell black and whites until the early 70's, but this show was broadcast in color.

“Unchained Melody” is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the little-known prison film Unchained (January 1955), hence the song title. •Though many think vocalist Bobby Hatfield sang in falsetto (he didn't) - he sang in a pure tenor on many Righteous Brothers tracks (with Bill Medley) & will always be remembered for his solo turn on their classic “Unchained Melody.” •They each had the vocal talent to perform as soloists. Medley sang the low parts with his bass-baritone voice, with Hatfield taking the higher-register vocals with his tenor. His voice reached the register of a countertenor.

My information is that this broadcast was made in color; no? Also if you are interested, most voice coaches I have heard reference this live show agree that his voice was not sung in falsetto, that was Bobby's natural range! I am an amateur listener from the 50's, 60's and onward. I heard this music as it happened and wish I had saved all of my vinyl to now enjoy; life happens and we all make mistakes. Rest in Peace Bobby, we will never forget you.

What a beautiful song you two bring everything to the table the music you bring and your reactions are like 🍒s on top keep up the outstanding work guys👍

I am old! I saw this live on Andy William's show back in 1965! It has been my all time favorite song ever since that night! Bobby's Mother was in the audience, and he was kind of nervous because it was her first time seeing him actually perform on stage! For many years I really thought no one would ever do this song better! Elvis, my all time favorite male vocalist, came close just before he died but fell short (maybe because he was very sick at the time)! Then in 2015 I was watching an interview of Angelina Jordan on Norwegian TV where she did a short version of Unchained Melody. I said at the time that she would some day set the NEW gold standard for this song! Friends thought I was crazy because of the hundreds of covers since Bobby's cover no one, and especially not a female, had come close to Bobby! A few weeks ago, and at 81 years old, I was down to only 2 things left on my life's bucket list! 1 - to see Angelina Jordan perform live, and 2- to hear her do Unchained Melody better than anyone had ever done it! On the night of Sept. 22 2023 the impossible happened! I had to travel 3000 miles, but I was setting in the Historic Music Hall in Portsmouth NH watching Angelina perform; and she started singing Unchained Melody!! She slowed it down and put more emotion into the song than anyone had ever done! Both my last two items were happening at the same time!! I cried like a baby from the joy of what was happening! I, and I believe, everyone that was there that night will agree Angelina set the new GOLD STANDARD THAT NIGHT FOR THIS SONG!!!

His beautiful sound was known in the 60's as "blue-eyed soul". His voice draws out emotions now, almost 60 years later, as much as it did then. Your reaction is priceless!!!

This is my most favourite song ever!! It belongs to the film called....ghost. A truly beautiful love story as you will both understand and see why!!!!❤🥲😇💕👏🙌🙏👍🎉

True blue eyed soul.

That live orchestra killed it too!

Was about 10 then, in 1965 NBC went all color. I have seen this clip for years, maybe fixed some, but does not seem that much. Old cathode TV's in early TV color, the studio shows were pretty bright on the set. And were film not videotape. The performance is one of a kind special.

Bobby was one of the greatest singers ever. U. Melody was actually on the B side of the 45rpm record. Hung on You was supposed to be the A side played on the radio. Stations said didn't have enough hooks so U.Melody was played and the rest is history. Huge fan of theirs since 64, they got inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and surely deserved it. Bobby passed in 2003. Bill now 83 or so is performing with Bucky Heard. Bill Medley is a fantastic singer also.

The studio cut was the B side of a 45 but the DJ's liked and played it and it charted twice. Flip side Hung on You is a duo release. Also Rock and Roll Heaven and You'll never walk alone. Check out Bobby's solo My Prayer or Summertime. RIP Bobby Hatfield you are missed.

When I was growing up the Andy Williams show that this was taken from was in color so this was likely not colorized.

Unchained Melody: Bobby Hatfield live performance. The Andy Williams Show- Episode #4.5 Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965: Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher countertenor voice to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield were each allowed to choose a song to sing as a solo vocalist on their albums. Both wanted to sing "Unchained Melody" for their fourth album, but Hatfield won the coin toss. As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song. *In Nov. 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63. The Righteous Brothers version was a huge hit, but it was recorded with far more modest expectations. Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip to Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “)as to which side of a Philles single was the A-side. * The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn't how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that's what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley if he could make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: "I punched that in and before he left he said, 'No, I can do it better. ’And I said, 'No, you can't.' [Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song." * This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did. In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,' which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer. I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B side of a Phil Spector single 'Hung On You' and the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof." Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’. Also: Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig” kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rq95qbuK1JutfqM.htmlsi=OmBVdie7xz-GPuIh

it is my understanding that this was actual color television in 1965. Over a couple of years between 1965 and 1967 TV networks gradually switched to color, a new technology back then. They may have doctored it up from the original color TV video tape.

Another unbelievable live performance Bobby did was also in 1965...when he did "Summertime"

These ;people actually know what they are doiing. They have done their homework instead of not even knowing the background or that Bobby is dead. Great Reaction!

Another duet Simon and Garfunkle did the same thing on Bridge over Troubled water Arthur Garfunkle sang it solo!!

Bobby sang this on the Andy Williams TV Show back in the mid-1960s that was in color, so it wasn't colorized from black and white. There is another video of this that shows Andy Williams joking with Bobby and Bill before he starts singing. I was in High school when this song and others of theirs we popular. Greatest singing duo ever with their Blue Eyed Soul.

Bobby sang his heart out even with his head cold...

He never strains his voice in the song

I worked at the front desk of the hotel that Bobby passed away in, I worked that day and the next.

Hey, I'm a Las Vegas local too. The story about unchained melody is they made an album together and they each did solos on it they flipped a coin to see who got to sing it and Bobby won the coin toss. I have that CD and the first song on it is UNCHAINED MELODY.

This is a Classic ! 👍👍👍🇸🇪💕😎

This was filmed, in Living Color, on The Andy Williams Show Valentines Day Special; Bobby & Bill dressed identically, Andy wore a casual pullover. At that time, Bobby was suffering from an upper respiratory infection, the 3 of them talked before he sang & he was huffing & puffing a bit, like he had ran up a flight of stairs. Bobby also suffered from extreme stage fright, losing his lunch before going on stage. If all that wasn't enough, his mother was in the audience, watching her 25yo perform live for the very 1st time and he was very worried about disappointing her. I think it is safe to assume that no one on the continent was disappointed with his masterful rendition. Many sang it before, many sang it after, bot no one ever has or ever will come close to equaling his masterpiece

This is called Blue Eyed Soul!! It really helped out the population of the US lol

As others have pointed out…it was originally in color. Bobby was pretty tan because he loved the outdoors and the beach…but people appearing on programs were also heavily made-up because of the cameras of the day.

Unchained Melody was written for a movie Unchained in 1955. Bobby covered it in 1965. They agreed that each would do a solo on each album. Bobby won the coin toss on this song.

And his mom was in the audience. No pressure lol.

❤ Hatfield is in Land of Prince Bishops of Durham County Durham his crest is there ❤❤

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This show was broadcast in colour. Yes, there were actually colour tv’s in 1965

Song was written for a movie. The character who sang it was an inmate. Hence, "Unchained Melody" for title. It was done 3 other times after and in the 50's it was in top 20 charts by two different artists. Nevertheless, Nobody has ever performed this song better than Bobby Hatfield. Not even close. In fact I have this as #1 love song ever performed live. No tech help, Just Bobby.

Piece and tranquility

Microphones were smaller back then because they weren't wireless. No batteries, receiver/transmitter etc.

I saw that on TV when I was sixteen.

back then mics were small so they didnt take away from seeing the performer...no distractions

This was a colored tv show,we had color tv back then

Bobby was 25yrs old at this performance. He was nervous because his mom was in the audience.

I don't believe this is "colorized". This was on "The Andy Williams Show". There is a longer version which includes a short interview/introduction of the Righteous Brothers by Andy.

The video was not colorized. He probably did have some stage make-up applied, however, it was a light touch.

I am only 57. I remember talking to old patients at a wellness center. Every woman and every man told me that this 1 song was a panty dropper!

They had color back in the 60 ya know.

🇨🇦 Not Colorized ! Live TV show in 1965 !

This clip is from an appearance on the Andy Williams Show.

I enjoy you two

I don't THINK that was colorized, I'm pretty sure that was transmitted in color even though a lot of TVs were black and white then. Some shows were in color and others were not. Check out both 'brothers' singing You'll Never Walk Alone!

If you go to the original recording with Andy Williams the color is perfect because the show was televised in color.

Not colorized, there was a fair number of TV shows that were broadcast in color in the 60's.

This is the original color broadcast on the Andy Williams show, they did not colorize this clip.

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This wasn't colorized. During the transition between B&W and color TV, pink was the 'safe' color that worked well in both systems. BTW, the Addams Family was primarily painted in various tones of pink. These came across in clean gray tones.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody and Chicago hard to say I'm sorry Bee Gees how deep is your love

I don't think the video was "colorized". There was color TV in the mid-1960s (not everyone had a color TV) and films had been in color since the late 1930s.

'The microphone is so tiny' 'or maybe he's really big'.Ha! Ha! No, Bobby Hatfield was a really Big talent.

David Bowe and Mick Jagger dance in the streets

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This was performed on the Andy Williams Variety Show, it was broadcast in color. Get the facts right!!!!!!!

It was in color to begin with the tape is just old. There is a better version on here that includes an introduction and some funny banter with the "brothers" and someone did a good job of restoring the color so the guys aren't orange.

This video was not colorized

This was not colorized - it was broadcast in color.......