Well said!

Well said, music is everyone's gift.

We grew up, on all of them

Absolutely sister

iam a woman 67 colour doesn’t matter it’s the music you are right

I've long had the feeling I was born either way too late or way too early...

@Hillary's emails to Lorne I tend not to blame entire generations for things any more than I would blame entire nations, people, ethnicities, etc. The problem is greed and it certainly isn't unique to any one generation.

43 here and yes they where

@@bonnienadinenewman I believe it is Basque in origin, though my full name is fictional, from one of my favourite writers. Also, yes it is a surname. The name is Rodel Ituralde.

@@bonnienadinenewman the writer was Robert Jordan and the series is called "The Wheel of Time". The first book is "The Eye of the World". A beautiful series if you like adventure fantasy akin to Lord of the Rings. Thank you for the invite. I will check it out.

Gives you chills doesnt it.

them blue-eyes do be singing like angels, hot damn!

​@@svenpoletka5236just like the different pitches in Gregorian chants

@@thetricksterpill It do be just like that!

That moment when a woman realises she was born into the wrong generation

If you're truly Black then you know they were, as White people, copying the Black sound and were socially acceptable to the White mainstream radio audience at the time. Put your comment into context of that time. You and I would be disappeared without a trace, remains never to be found. Don't kid yourself. In the 50's 60's and 70's, in the South. If you are really Black we both would be KILLED! DEAD! Elvis music flourished during this time especially in the Southern Confederate States. Pure, Unaltered Original Racism .100 percent!!

@@DaPurpleWeedMan that don't apply to me sweetie, you have to catch up, it seems as though you're lost. I'm not playing the race card, as I stated prior it's a lot of white guys that could and still sing today, I'm going to drop the mic on this platform, have a blessed day kiddo

@@gloriastuart7598 gloria..try listening to dusty springfield..try a few songs

@@ianharris879 I know about Dusty Springfield, I reiterate again you're lost and need to catch up to the era.

Yeah but if you don't know, and you hear them for the first time, you might assume they are black. That's exactly the point of the video, and its entirely the thing that makes the reactions in this video so damn cute. We need to try to just appreciate that shit and stop being so sensitive.

Yes.. KZfaq algorithms are acting up again.

Yes but it's odd to me that they didn't hear it before....

Yep. Still watched it though lol

Extra rando

Yep lol

I, as were many Black ppl, was raised to hate Elvis Presley as a racist song stealing tyrant. It wasn't until VERY recently that I found out that not only was this untrue, but that he spent his career trying to make what he knew to be a racist southern fan base, STOP giving him credit for things he learned from working with and listening to Black artists. He didn't like being called The King of rock and roll, because even he said what he was doing was just an attempt at what Black artists had been doing for years, and stated that no one could do Black music better than Black ppl. He intentionally went to music festivals on the nights reserved for Black ppl, bc he wanted to jam with the Black artists. He adored Black ppl and Black music culture, and wasn't ashamed to admit it. It only took 1 rumored quote to make the Community that fascinated him, turn on him. Someone told us he said "The only thing a negro can do for me is buy my music, and shine my shoes." It was easily confirmed by the venue he was said to be at when giving this interview, and the person he supposedly said it to, that it never happened, and that Elvis was in an entirely different place at the time, and had actually NEVER interviewed with this person or their publication. Unfortunately Elvis never addressed it (I'm assuming he figured it was a baseless rumor and would go away on it's own). For this reason he lost almost all of his Black fan base, as well as respect from the Black music industry. By the time he addressed it, it was too late. The lie had been passed on to children, and grandchildren. We were halted and told not to like Elvis as soon as we discovered him as children. Black hatred for Elvis Presley is a sad and unfortunate trope that has been passed down in the Black community for decades. Hating him is part of Black culture at this point. As a Black woman, I can say that it's unfair to his memory, that his love for our culture has been washed away and buried under a lie, and even worse, is it would be hard if not impossible to ever repair that relationship.

@@Undeniably_Me I find it very believable that an actual racist created this story to give Elvis a bad name because he was promoting a Black culture which seemed very uncultured to certain ignorant people at that time. A TRUE racist would have wanted to stop this culture from spreading out and 'infecting' the minds of youth so they concocted a story to stop it. The problem is that attributing this false story to an absolutely amazing artist is akin to the story of Michael Jackson being attributed to being a child molester. I still disbelieve he was one and have seen no proof he was one and will not believe any malicious rumors of another amazing artist who passed before his time. Now we can see how both examples work to pollute the truth by creating LIES and disinformation. LIES breed ignorance, distrust, and antipathy. Walking in the truth of the LIGHT of GOD is the only route to salvation. It is better to walk with a light to guide your path than to stumble around in blindness and darkness. What pisses me off is how the hell can a person listen to his songs bout LOVE LOVE LOVE all the time and find racism in this person without giving the story a second thought? ONE stupid story about Elvis which was false, wipes about all his songs about LOVE? Hundreds of them! Has anyone listened to the words of "LOVE ME TENDER" as he sang it? HELLLLLLOOOOO!!!! How much HATE do you have in your heart (to give the FAKENEWS of that era) so much weight I wonder?

PS: This post was directed to the world at large not you specifically. It is very rhetorical in nature.

@@Undeniably_Me very enlightened of you.

Wasn’t Elvis a racist before he said he wasn’t before he died?

That's right. Some are just born with soul, and some aren't.

Brother, they sold their soul to the devil for this song. You think they come up with this on their own?

soul is created through pain if it is channelled right .

@@1.21Gigawatts_ , you think people can't write or sing certain songs just because of their skin color? LOL!

@@madhatter217 , pain doesn't create Soul. Talent does. People can write songs about things they have never experienced. They just have to imagine what it feels like. I have written poems about things that never actually happened to me. Songs are no different. It just requires talent to do that.

and looking at those reactions, even 2 generations later they can still melt a womans heart

Amen 100%

@@gregryeii403 Really, good music is more or less immortal. People are still listening to music from known composers hundreds of years ago. And there's stuff that's far older where we don't necessarily know who it is that wrote it. People are still going to be interested in actually good music many generations down the road in most cases. It's mostly when music uses different systems like the pentatonic scale where it can be a more universally hard to listen to experience.

Most of them are pretending.

@@willdill4987 I'd hope so

Must’ve never seen Top Gun

@@aintsam9952 exactly ĺ

I also would’ve thought everyone knew who they Righteous Bros are. Unless they weren’t American,but even that would be too far fetched

Tell me about it...

SAME! And this isn't even technically my generation. I'm an 80's kid... but how can someone not know The Righteous Brothers. I judge their parents. They done f-ed up while raising them.

Me too.

Thank you for saying exactly what I’m thinking!

I'm 27 and I grew up listening to this type of music with my dad.

I like soul, whatever the eye color is. It moves me.

It goes to show how Blacks recognized talent above anything else.

Im so jealous! I would do anything to see them live :(

I watched an interview with them and they actually got their name after performing for a predominantly black audience. Several patrons after the show were complementing them and saying, "That was RIGHTEOUS BROTHER" and the rest is history :D

that is great you were able to witness this.

Most don't know that Elvis Presley and many other went to a black church to learned moves and technique. And yes the Righteous Brother was a nice surprise to me as well www.journalnow.com/archives/the-church-of-elvis-presley-family-regularly-attended-tiny-church/article_f9d40d97-c14a-59da-a634-b5a4e6ea232b.html

@Hillary's emails to Lorne People had soooooooooo much more class and decency and civility back then. Say what you will about gender roles, back then men knew how to be gentlemen and treat women as ladies, with respect and deference. Motown music reflected all that, all the time.

@Gemma Saint please appreciate whatever vintage Shakira you encounter

Frank Berst Besides the rampant domestic violence...

Check out Vulfpeck. Some of their modern stuff has a contemporary spin on Motown.

@@rbmgf71 😁👍

Truth!!

Did you say Thrill me... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7GkqNV_majJqZs.htmlsi=Ao1CBu-j1pbOuwxY

It depends where you were living. That was more or less the peak of social strife along racial lines in the US.

I think it's funny because I never really thought much about the racial identity of any of these groups. They were mostly releasing in an era when there was less of an emphasis on the video as a means of promotion. Sure, it definitely was a thing and it's why there are so many clips of these groups from various TV shows. But, radio was a larger tastemaker than it is now. Even in the '80s that's where I got my taste for a lot of these groups and while there were some that I knew were black, in most cases I had no idea, and didn't particularly care either.

Exactly !!!!

Ray Charles loved george Jones and the race hustlers used to get pissed when he said just that

Amen!

I guess that answers my itching question about Ray Charles and seeing colors while Tripping! 👍

@Algo Rhythm Does every "white person dancing" video online express racism? Chinese people eat hamburgers for 1st time? We shouldn't strive to be oversensitive. I remember pointing a friend out in a large crowd and referring to him as the black guy......The old white lady I said it to, seemed so uncomfortable by this......, So to make a point, I started listing his character traits........I asked her how much that helped her find my friend in the crowded room........I then pointed out.......that he was the only black person in the whole group, so my words were very efficient...............(over sensitive) All cultures collectively overlap at some point (Picture a Venn Diagram), so most racial stereotypes are just the parts of a Venn where the circles do not overlap. If totally unfounded as a culture trait, then sure, but this portion of the diagram doesn't get labelled as racism. See how many clicks "black people eat chitterlings" gets vs "white people try chitlins" Racism isnt implied or inferred. Racism requires prejudiced. Prejudiced; requires statements made outside of reason or evidence. Noticing that 1 culture is less familiar with an artist than another is by definition not even prejudiced....its just an observation.

Music! The universal language!

Amen!

Some do not realize this.

Ya but Americans don't understand that...

@@Mathuna1 Americans understand it better than most of the world. The USA is the most multi ethnic, multicultural country in the world. Where people from all around the world coexist and have created the most prosperous, most culturally dynamic nation in the history of the world. There is no other place on earth like it, idiosyncrasies, growing pains and all.

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They still are to this day. A perfect example of 'call & response' that's so heavily used by blues guitarists but they did it with their voices. They were lightyears ahead of their time vocally & their music absolutely smokes the music nowadays 👍

Neither does blues.

@@sallyshipwreck4315 or any music

Ditto

What about Northern Soul?

💯 this!!

That never stopped, they just call it fucking now.

And without synthesizers and auto tune.

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 that is funny as hell but cause its true.

When stalking was considered romantic...

Now its all about doing drugs and hooking with 100 guys

Quite a few I'd say haha

A lot

They used to play this at my teenage disco in the mid 80s and even the guys who had no one to dance with in a slow set would just stand around and sing in to a pretend mic, great song one of the best.

Same here. I'm 44. And I shown so much music all different genres. ❤

I get so sick of people complaining about white people being influenced by other groups. It's usually not as simple as folks like to make it out. There's plenty of room, especially these days, for everybody. I've heard some impressive albums made for under $1k, so it's not necessarily the case where it's even that expensive. I get the feeling that it's a lot less expensive the more talented you are and the more you work to improve the actual music being made rather than to use technology to cheat you to a good sound.

And it changed the world… Now we have to save the world again, for peace, love and soul.

#facts

Amen to that.

Spot on

quite the opposite soul have all the colors... every single one... and make no difference between them

No, it does not.

For real! It was like, she realized just then for the first time that that type of expressed devotion exists... and "oh my God where have you been in my life.". kinda felt like that was going thru her mind. I think hers was the purest and most meaningful reaction. Super pretty too.

@@bobhancock8630 she has her own reaction channel, it’s pretty good. (India Reacts)

Making women moist after almost 60 years

Amen!!

To be fair most women during that time were not bitches and being a hoe was shunned. Now we have hoes showing their bodies off for nothing but thumbs up and like on the internet for the whole world to see. And if you tell them that's trashy, they go full bitch mode. Times have changed and it hasn't all been for the better.

@@snakeinthegrak8969 you said it

No Amen - you'll have to settle for a Nudey Bottom

Amen right here. No auto tune. No bull. Just pure joy in the music. The telling of a man and his love for a woman. Just doesn't get any better than this.

Stevie Winwood and Hall and Oates are also blue-eyed soul.

me too, that guy was so cute in his reaction. Loved it. Loved the woman at the end too, her reactions.

That was Ty, the Modern Renaissance Man. Love his channel!

It’s about as funny as watching black people react to Dolly Parton singing her original “I will always love you” or the first time they hear Chris Stapleton!

@@epistte Why they calling that sound blue eyed soul? When it's black soul sound period. Just don't want to credit it as. Sound of the black culture music that many foreign white people listen to coming up . They even come to America and name the black artists they were inspired by. Like I've said all nonblack people with the black sound has always made it famous and topped the Elvis is one of many. We black people are amazing. I'm even in awh of our talent sometime.

Many do. It’s the obvious appropriating back then. While Black American artists had their songs stolen and given to white artists. 🤔

Ipwnkyle exactly!

Sahiry Gnobehi Nah honey this is how they do it and have for centuries- soul has no color!🦅🙋🏽‍♀️☀️🦅

@@sahirygnobehi6448 shut the hell up with that nonsense, you racist POS

@@chablebarrett8106 .. Chile, me racist. That's it. That's all you got. Hmmm #soundsaboutwhite 😂😂😂

Me too same thing 58 and my sister 7 of them were 10 years older than me! I was born in 1965 so I grew up listening to all the great music of 60, 70, 80,

72 here I listened to 40s and up but no country or rap dislike them both

Bill Medley - the best ever!

AMEN!!!!

Old school is the best school....bar none.

@@shamsulhisyam3037 eh. That’s debatable. Old school is great for what it was and it inspired later artists to do their own things, but it doesn’t mean it’s automatically better than later schools

Umm yeah I always thought the second singer was a black woman and I'm sitting here shocked it was a white man this whole time lol.

@@Gonk He hits just about the highest notes that a man can hit. Well, without going castrato, and that is some pretty hardcore stuff right there. I had forgotten about just how high some of those notes are.

Absolutely

How about this for a flashback: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lauVZqZj0pmziHk.html Yep, right there in a Hialeah warehouse...

So true !!

well yeah, if you pull out a 45 on the date I'm sure her reaction would be quite memorable!.. I don't know if flowers and a note would help much by that point though..

Get off my damn lawn.

@@markb.humble6945: Pretty sure she meant a Malt Liquor : ) (in case you're not being facetious!)

Understood.will be 75.

Dad, I hear you. But it’s not exactly that way. I am a recording engineer. They used an equalizer and a compressor and a plate reverberation unit on his voice. I have copies of this kind of vintage equipment which I use on modern records. It has a unique glow. Every record is engineered. Nothing but a documentary film is unaltered.

....71y.o....and...ditto..😎👍

@@audionmusic2787 Like we never knew this stuff back in the day. The difference was that engineered recordings back in the day were made to mimic live performances and eventually it started to go in the opposite direction. Nevertheless you still hear the odd music artist that just doesn't need the help. Back in the day live shows were always the preferred mode for listening to music because recordings just didn't have the same effect, live was always better. Not so much these days..

@@Theodorussfo Dark Side Of The Moon was made to mimic a live performance? Are you deaf? You are speaking to a mix engineer. You are trashing the entire art of mixing which is intended to make music sound better than live.

There still are in this generation

@@ikarimisu0184 was more referring to the use of auto tune after the year 1997.

This song in particular has melted millions of women into puddles. Great music does that.

🤣🤣🤣 I don't know how I ended up on this video but so glad because of this comment.

Am I the only person who HATED Top Gun, and have consistently since its release? There must be someone else...

Robert Wright 👋 👋 👋

@@salicemccool9186 Oh , thank you, person of good taste. I'm not alone..😁

Robert Wright Nor am I, though I’ve often thought I was!

Crush (Finding Nemo): RIGHTEOUS. RIGHTEOUS!

Top Gun was the first time I heard this song.

Righteous brothers make my eyes tear up because their voices are so beautiful, unbelievable

@Aþort Mən whats the name of your album? I’d like to compare

@ᴬᵇᵒʳᵗ ᴹᵉⁿ !̽ 𓂸𓌪 I feel you, definitely don’t soul your soul….it isn’t worth it.

@ᴬᵇᵒʳᵗ ᴹᵉⁿ !̽ 𓂸𓌪 awww your the best

Cringe.

This sounds like complete bullshit. Do you have a source?

Matthew Wall Google it. There are several sources.

X your cringe asf dipshit

I learned something new! Thank you 😊

Yup, the brainwash is disgusting.

Leave it to Progs creating their new version of "separate but equal." Sad.

It always puzzles me when I see people react like those watching this. What's race got to do with how you sing? Heck if you listen to those of that era sing. For that style of music. Most had that soulful sound. Your race doesn't determine your voice. Only your nationality (country you were born in) or region and the language you speak at home are indicators of where you have come from.

@@aldofromsf= sad idiot.

Hard to believe, that, in the not-too-distant past, THIS, was what real music sounded like, no foul language, no obscene gestures, no referring to women as "bitches" or "hoes", just an awesome combination of two dynamic and melodic voices, coupled with Phil Spector's "wall of sound", producing the most subline mixture of gospel and R&B ever recorded. I am pleased to see that this dynamic music still resonates throughout the decades. No doubt about it, whether you were alive in 1966, or not, this is "food for your soul". Can I get an "AMEN?"

And artists sang love songs, not the usurous and debased crap that is common today.

@@125AXer Right? I am still of the opinion that this is one of the causes of the skyrocketed divorce rates. Everyone today is mostly only surrounded by media that glorifies promiscuity, vilifies commitment and only mentions love if they are talking about heartbreak/being betrayed. So now people dont know how to find love, think they dont want it, dont know what to do when they get it or how to treat their partner with it.

@@125AXer They "usurous" should lower their interest: www.google.com/search?q=usurous+meaning&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS721US721&oq=usurous&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39i457j0j0i67j0j0i10j0j0i10.4351j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

YES YES YES 📣🥰🥰🥰💖❤❤❤❤

even today, most singers sing without auto tune

🤣 yea that’s funny

@Marie The song strikes a nerve in everyone's soul. Can't help it😊

They knew how to "ring that bell"

My panties fall off every time.

@Marie You've got the right!

Yes back when they used more than 2 words in the song. 👍

Why's everyone obsessed with autotune? It's pathetic. As for songs that "use more than two words", the utterly fantastic and 50 odd year old Surfing Bird by the Trashmen says hi.

Before videos we enjoyed all music it didn't matter if singer was black or white. Good music was simply good music. I can't believe the emphasis that is being forced on us today to take a stand for skin color. People are simply people.

So sick of this “back when” bs. I was born in the 70’s. There was great music before, during and since my generation. There was also a lot of crap from each one. The great stuff filters through and stands the test of time.

Nor was their a need for “explicative” warnings on their songs. It was good clean and pure talent.

Nothing stopping you! Hehe.

Richard Merghani ; folks, these are OUR artists, OUR songs. For many people, time started only when THEY came of age. No history!

Also the radio versions are actually kind of bland, these live versions are much better.

Right?

@Franz Klein I'm starting to realize that. Latinos play this stuff and so do polynesians. Oldies.

@@bigdaddymarketing6449 bland or not it's STILL the same famous song !!! It's totally incredulous that they haven't heard it before .

Plus all the songs they wrote for Dionne Warwick

I believe the period correct term is she was swooning something girls did back then I believe , It seems the demise of such a reaction was incorrectly reported, There are still girls out there with feelings who that simply surface at the right time.

@@stephencox4224 36 year old white dude and I swoon at these guys, some things can't be helped

YES!!!!!!!

Medley does the best "baby" to this day

Because these men had that great combo together.

I was born in 1993. Until i was watching a reaction compilation i thought these dudes were Ebony. Like The Inkspots haha

Same with Caldwell and the beegees XD

Honestly always thought they were black until 2 minutes ago when I clicked on this

Me too, thank God. When I was at the age to be influenced by popular music, there were no Beatles albums in our house. We either had Beethoven, Dvorak and Handel upstairs; and in the rec room it was Righteous Bros., Eric Burdon and The Animals, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, etc. When I cleaned out the house after my parents were gone I found an LP by The Monkees but it sure as hell wasn't me that bought it and no one else copped to it either. Maybe it was brought to a party by someone and forgotten.

Robert Nestor Marley

damn right

I have this tshirt

@Mowy You ruined it Mowy way to go....

@Captain: Or you feel a lot.

LOL RIGHT!!!

Agreed..Tom Cruise taught most of us this song. Lol

Yeah, this was one of my favourite songs when I was 8 and I can thank Maverick and Goose for that.

Well there was no black ppl in that in movie so why would they watch. Back in those black never got major rolls like that or even rolls to be a side kick like goose.

@@deandoxtator7137 there was a back person. Sundown the RIO who sang this song in the bar.

I wore out my fingertips & my push buttons on my AM car radio switching between radio stations to keep finding this song LOL

Not the Everly brothers! Try thr Righteous Brohers!

Dom Abalos those days may be unfortunately gone forever.......sad

@@rowdyrx6109 Now it's gone, gone, gone, whoa-oh. :(

AHAHAHAHA like that has ever happened

This music is it.

AMEN! but ya know what, those fuckers, they gunna invent Gansta Soul !! o0 sob sob

Amen to that!

TRUTH

Hallelujah Beautifully put my friend

@@LastForeverUno are you actually saying many white people don't have souls?

shouldn't ever matter what color your skin is. mine is olive, I'm half Italian, they used to call us wops (without papers). My Grandparents came here legally, their names are carved on the wall at Ellis Island. we all bleed red! it's our hearts that matter... God bless you all, whatever the heck color you are, who cares. ;) love the Righteous Brothers, they rocked big time. † ♥ #StopTheHate #Kindness is good! ♥ ♥ ♥

Guess they never watched Top Gun either lol

@@c1979h Its a pretty old movie now. ;o)

@@mikem9001 wouldn't have been out of memory though. If Top gun 2 had come out last year lol. It still came on alot last year. Damn Covid. If someone's 20 or older hard to believe they haven't seen it, it's like the breakfast club or back to the future, I blame it on the parents for not showing them the classics lol

@@mikem9001 pretty old movie? Watch Casablanca from the early 1940s. That's a pretty old movie...sigh

@@sigmaofOz pretty old movie? Watch King Kong from the mid 1930s. That's a pretty old movie...sigh

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Same here! 16 and now, 72…in two months.

Only 70 , 😂 , but I’m right there with you on that .

My definition of Great Music: "It transports you to another time/place....... and never gets "old".......

I still cry every time!!! To be loved like that!