Welcome to the music of the 60’s! What a decade of music and from a wide range of artists. It was a great pleasure growing up with this decade of music

We're all brothers of the human race. Music is our testimony to that truth.

Man, I'm a white dude. Matter of fact a fat white dude. If I get any whiter I'll be clear and that's a fact. Now let me tell ya where they got that from brutha. That blues,that soul...that shit comes from deep inside and it ain't defined by skin tone my friend. Think about this. What color is your mind? What color is that spark of life,that God given soul that lives inside you?....Go ahead and take your time. I don't mind waiting so tell me what color it is. When you realize the reality of what I'm saying and you can be truly honest with yourself, you'll have a completely new look on the world and your fellow man. Ain't but one race of people on this earth and that's the human race. Love to all my brothers and sisters around the world. Be the change and let's save this world y'all. It's burning down fast.

😎 *This is what COOL looked like in the 60's* 😎 I really miss the days when men used to sing to women, & not at them.....💗

Bill Medley is still performing and touring with a new partner as the Righteous Brothers.

Hard to believe the best R&B act in the 60's was the Blue Eyed Soul group called the Righteous Brothers.

"The Greatest Male Duo of ALL TIME!"

It is so adorable to see a young man try to wrap your head around the righteous brothers. ❤

Thank you for your reactions and so happy to see your generation discovering and liking the music we boomers grew up with. The Righteous Brothers were unique and versatile and earned the 'blue eyed soul' tag. RIP Bobby Hatfield you are missed.

Yes, The blues belong to the whole world. Not one country or person in this world has lived without experiencing the blues some time or another. The blues belong to everyone!

That was Glen Campbell on guitar … he was a master guitarist and a great singer in his own right. The Righteous Brothers were an R&B duo … rhythm and Blues. They did a lot of blues numbers … ‘B Flat Blues’, ‘I’m So Lonely’, ‘Harlem Shuffle’, ‘B Side Blues’….

"Thats Bill! That's Bill!"😂😂😂

Righteous Brothers & The Blossoms - Night Time Is The Right Time

Wow Glen Campbell❤❤ I always thought he was gifted playing his guitar in country music but he also excelled definitely in Blues with THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS

This is a cover of Etta James' version of the song originally written by Willie Dixon. Fun fact: Glen Campbell plays guitar on this track. Yes, that Glen Campbell.

Women threw their bras at Tom Jones in the 60s. But I'm pretty sure this song had all the women, including the married ones, of all races, going commando. Edit: This was written by Willie Dixon back in the 1950s, originally recorded by Muddy Waters. Etta James also did a version of it.

These guys were so awesome! I loved their musical talent. I'm 74 yrs old and never get tired listening to them singing this song. I have their greatest hits vinyl record album in my collection. ❤️❤️❤️

You can really hear that Bill LOVES blues. Bobby does blues well too. ut Bill BREATHES blues. I've read one of his big influences with singing was Ray Charles. They did this old Muddy Waters song some justice. Bill also does a VERY good job of this song solo. But then, Bill never does a bad job with a song.

That riff is ancient. They didn't invent it, but they sure rode it, didn't they. Love your love for this music. Exploring is fun, isn't it? Chris Stapelton is going to blow your mind.

When it comes to great songs it’s hard to miss from the 50-60-70- you have no Autotune just themselves showing you hard work pays off. 🎤🎹🎸🎷keep on the great song reaction video 👍

I love reactors who react! Thanks for this ♥️

Hearing them sing This song reminds me of BB King and Bobby Blues Bland two of the greatest blues singers ever

You need to hear Etta James sing ANYTHING!! HER VOICE WILL BLOW YOUR SOX OFF

Bobby does backup singing on this, and I tell you he could also get down and funky too!

I just smile through your reactions, while you are enjoying the music I grew up on. Thanks for these experiences.

They were/are, fantastic. We had so much good music when I was young. So glad you appreciate their music so much... ❤

Just think, just turn on the radio and THIS is the kind of talent the air waves gave you! The story gos that a fan yelled "that's righteous brothers..." the rest is history. A better name could not be found

You need to listen with headphones, the voices are going in and out on both ears, amazing. I love their voices togehter and your reaction is great.

The Righteous Brothers are so awesome! I love this song so much! The first time I heard this it blew my mind. Love your reaction!

Bobby was born in Wisconsin but he actually learned how to sing in Pittsburgh when he was 15 years old

This is the kind of music that my parents called “ belly-rubbing “ music! Liked and subscribed , Great reaction bro ❤️. Part of the journey is the beginning. Enjoy your journey.

If you want more blues, you should check out Bobby singing Summertime. It’s a very old lullaby and no one is sleeping through this one!

I genuinely love your reactions & your channel. I was born in the mid 50s & all these songs from my childhood & youth are such a pleasure to revisit. Good to know that they're appreciated so much by the new generations.

The riff is much older than the Righteous Brothers. Glad you finally reached back far enough to hear this. I've been tellin' you that you GOT to listen to this. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a 1954 blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters. Here's Muddy Waters on that 1954 recording: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpOkhdF9msuvZKM.html Here's the 1961 cover by Etta James: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9enpcZ9vODanqc.html The Righteous Brothers' cover was in 1964. Next, let's pivot to Billy Joel. Yeah, the "Piano Man" guy. Billy loved him some Ray Charles his whole life. He sings "New York State of Mind" in a 'Ray Charles' style. Later he wrote "Baby Grand" as a gift to Ray Charles and recorded it with him. Billy even gave his daughter the middle name Ray in honor of him (Alexa Ray Joel). When Billy Joel was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Ray appeared, spoke, and inducted him. Here's a great live version of "New York State of Mind"; at about 3:00 minute marker he definitely gets that Ray Charles sound. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7Nkf912yMe4e2Q.html And here's Billy with Ray, singing "Baby Grand": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrt-gtB_mL-6fGQ.html Still say you need to listen to the band Was Not Was doing their version of "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h6ynpbWW37KsioE.html

Wow!!!!!!!! Unchained Melody has been my favorite song since I was a teenager 40 years ago. but I thought it was sung by a black guy until a few years ago. I have never heard this song, but it is wonderful. Thanks for sharing it.

"I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon. In 1954, it was recorded by Muddy Waters,[2] and released as a single with the title "Just Make Love to Me". The song reached number four on Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers chart.[3]

"Bobby is from Wisconsin!?!?" Cracked me up! I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Love your reactions!

I've been listening to them since I was a kid and didn't know they sung this song. In the 70s it was covered by a rock band and it was good then as well.

Your reaction is fantastic!!!!! Isn't this one of the BEST renditions, ever!! The initial riff is Muddy Water's signature riff.

Bobby Died just 60 minutes from my house that night in 2003. I had almost bought tickets to the show but decided not to. I was bummed out as we used to say in the 1960's, all next day. That's Bill singing solo for sure. Check out Little Latin Lupe Lu. Bill wrote it, it was fun.

Shindig was a TV show in the sixties. Look up the Righteous Brothers and the Blossoms singing "The Night Time Is The Right Time" on Shindig. You'll love it. Also a must see is Bobby Hatfield singing Summertime live. Both are GREAT!!!!!

Your facial expressions right from the start, listening to this! Cracked me up; you knew what was coming, bro! LoL These cats were ahead of their time. And this song was considered risqué back in their day; I know some radio stations wouldn't play this. Willie Dixon wrote this. Check out "Rock and Roll Heaven" which was a tribute song to all the great music artists that had come before.

I'm really happy you liked this. Although I'm sure I wasn't the only one to recommend this song, I told you that you had to hear it. Some others you must hear are Roy Orbison doing (live) "Running Scared" and "Crying" and "Only the Lonely" and also Tom Jones doing (live) "I'll Never Fall in Love Again". Not the blues but all four fantastic.

Yes Glen Campbell was a studio musician just like the backup singers Cher and Marine love she was a backup singer for Phil Spector and the wall of sound and Leon Russell played piano it was called The Wrecking Crew what's the name of the studio musicians they call them in so they could do their magic on the records for making hits in the 60s

The Righteous Brothers track that I can never get enough of.

You should hear Lou Rawls' rendition of Tobacco Road, and the Righteous Brothers "Bring Your Sweet Loving Home to Me. They Both are "bluesy

Man, I have been waiting for someone to react to this song! Loved your reaction!

This was one of muddy waters most famous songs. Willie Dixon wrote it and played bass on it. You really need to listen to the originals, like muddy waters and howling wolf ( I asked my baby for water ; she gave me gasoline) and sunny boy Williamson II , Elmore James, BB, Albert and Freddy king. who were very well known to all of the British bands. The original blues singers were much more popular and respected in Britain in the 60’s than they were here in the US.

Love this tune so much, just wish it was longer.

That was the most entertaining reaction I've seen. Thank you.

PROPS.....GREAT REACTION!!!!! AND You have THE BEST Sound replay of this song..I've ever heard! I'm with you...just Unbelievable Blues vocals!!!

I love that you do research! Some sites don’t! I love to watch you experience new artists and music !

Bill Medley said in an interview he was influenced by Ray Charles' music.

They were the best duo of all time

The Paramours were basically inconsequential. I can't name a single song they ever recorded. The Righteous Brothers debuted with a song written by Bill Medley. The song, "Little Latin Lupe Lu," became a staple that every high school garage band in the '60s had to have in their repertoire. Philles Records was the product of legendary record producer Phil Spector (the Phil in Philles). Spector became known for a production style known as the "Wall of Sound," where he would pack the studio with twice as many musicians as most songs required. But the thick backing tracks became his trademark. You can certainly hear it on "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and most of the Righteous Brothers hits. But perhaps it's most associated with the Ronettes classic hit "Be My Baby" as well as "He's A Rebel" and "Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals -- all groups that Spector produced. Phil Spector even produced some songs for The Beatles in their final days recording together. If the name Phil Spector rings a faint bell in your head, it might be because he was in the news a few years ago for having killed his wife. Bobby Hatfield, the blonde tenor in the Righteous Brothers, as good as he was, never really had much commercial success on his own without Bill Medley, even though two of the Righteous Brothers' biggest hits featured Bobby solo -- "Unchained Melody" and "Ebb Tide." But after Bill left Bobby and the Righteous Brothers for a brief period in the late '60s, Bill had one minor solo hit in '68 called "Brown Eyed Woman." A fantastic version of it shown on The Playboy Channel with The Blossoms singing backup is on KZfaq. The song is about an interracial relationship, and was released just a few months after the Supreme Court's landmark Loving v. Virginia ruling that legalized interracial marriage in America. Then in the late '80s, Bill recorded a duet with Jennifer Warnes called "I've Had the Time of My Life," which went on to have huge success after being featured in the movie "Dirty Dancing." It also became the theme music for Carnival Cruise Lines commercials. In the mid '60s, the Righeous Brothers were a huge deal, partly because they were regulars on a prime-time ABC-TV show called "Shindig!" which was the first show of its kind that brought OUR generation's music into our living rooms on a regular basis. The Righteous Brothers' last big hit they recorded together came in 1974 when they reunited to record "Rock and Roll Heaven," a tribute to so many rock and roll superstars who left us much too young.

These are/were Orange County, California boys. Bobby's family moved to Cali when he was little. You should watch some of the clips from Shindig, a tv show they were featured 1964-66. Try, I Need Your Loving Everyday, or, You Need to Find A New Man

Both these boys went to high school together in Orange County, Los Angeles. Each of them separately had loved in imitated the blues for sometime. Each of them had their own band and band a friend introduced them to one another, and the rest is history!

You'll Never Walk Alone", "Ebb Tide", "Guess Who", "Soul and Inspiration".

Great reaction. They are phenomenal. You should check out more 60’s and 50’s. Gene Pitney, the Duprees, Johnny Maestro, Brooklyn Bridge etc. you will love it

You said you loved that “rift”. I think that same rift is heard when Elvis sings the song “Trouble.” Please react to Elvis in the movie “King Creole” I think the song starts with that rift.

I never heard this song, I only knew their hits, and I'm from that era. Thanks for introducing me to it.

If you want to hear more blues/soul you want to hear Bobby Hatfield’s ‘Summertime’, but as a Righteous Brothers solo. As noted by others the song followed the Muddy Waters type of riff.

This song makes you want to ( NEED to) step back & catch your breath

The Blues and Folk started rock. Everyone listened to it and were influenced by it.

Okay, since you mentioned it, on the subject of the band... The backing tracks on all the Righteous Brothers songs are the incomparable studio musicians of Los Angeles in the '60s who would become known as The Wrecking Crew. They played on the backing tracks for hundreds of recording artists from the Righteous Brothers to the Beach Boys to Frank Sinatra to the Mamas and Paps to Gary Lewis and the Playboys to Sonny and Cher to Glen Campbell (who was, himself, a member of the group before he went solo) to just about anybody who recorded in Los Angeles during this era, and were heard on literally THOUSANDS of hit records in the '60s, '70s and '80s. The good news for you is, there is a documentary film out there that you can watch about them, and for all you reaction channel people, I consider it a must-see, as it gives you some background on this music that you will find invaluable. You'll also hear snippets of hundreds of songs that you will sooner or later get around to reacting to, if you haven't already done so. I highly recommend watching "The Wrecking Crew." You can see it on KZfaq, right here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sN2Zh8SknJbUcaM.html If what comes up here is merely a 2-minute preview, then you can click the button to buy or rent the movie right here on KZfaq. (It's very inexpensive and worth every penny.)

Music crossed the color line long before the 1964 equal rights bill. Shame 'cultural appropriation' is trying to divide who can sing what now. We'd have lost these two if they were singing nowadays. I was blessed to grow up on radio where you didn't have to see who was singing, just what was on the inside of a singer.

I'm pretty sure this song goes back to somewhere in the 1950s, maybe early 60s. I just know I first heard it by a blues cat named Muddy Waters on an old Chess Records album in the late 60s. I'm not sure where that opening guitar riff comes from. It's been around for long time and probably used in a dozen different songs.

It also has a riff similar to " trouble man " and several others ~ Gr8 song, sung the way, Bill envisioned ~ Your reaction was " boss " ~ ///=^} ~

Etta James, Willie Dixon too anyone? She did it, but the brothers are in fact brothers for sure, soul brothers!

This song was originally released in the 50s by Muddy Waters. That's where they get the blues influence and the rift. It was first covered in 1960 by Etta James on the flipside of her record "At Last"

Good to see this generation experience raw music of the last generation. No bells and whistles needed.

Smooth like fine wine......out of the park good!!

We had it going on back at the beginning of rock! Blew us away, too.

Wow, the blues! ❤💯

Elvis - Stranger in my own Hometown...a badass blues song. Elvis recorded a ton of blues songs and is in the Rythm and Blues Hall of Fame.

My generation had the fastest cars and the best music!

I see some suggested Roy Orbison, now he also has great voice range "Pretty Woman" I believe was number 1 for 13 weeks. This song reminds me of BB King. Muddy Waters sang this song, blues for sure.

Pretty intense huh! 💕 It! So glad to have been alive in the sixties a seventies....

Bill heard Etta James' version of this Wiliey Dixon song and determined to make it their own. Both were highly influenced by black singers of the 50's and 60's. Both black and white audiences initially thought they were black.

They were born with this soul.

I be throwing all my clothes at them….lol….they are fire 🔥 straight up!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️ They got it even at 59 I listen to them a bunch!!!!! How can you not love them??? Lol 😍😍😍

That style of blues riff that you like - < duh nuh nuh nuh NUH > When I was a little boy < duh nuh nuh nuh NUH > At the age of five < duh nuh nuh nuh NUH > Hardly knew nothin’ < duh nuh nuh nuh NUH > I was barely alive, Till I heard some blues, baby, Tell you right now I got the blues etc. is called 16-bar blues and is a standard format in blues music. Easy to sing to and have fun making up all kinds of lyrics to also. 🎶

Bill was born in santa ana ca, orange county. Bobby moved to anaheim as a child. Began as a group , the Paramours. Broke off as a dou. One night, singing at a small club near El Toro Marine Base, a group of Black Marines were there, one of them shouted out, "Thats righteous, brother!" A short time later Bobby suggested they adopt the name. Ray Charles and the Black singers of that era were a great inspiration on them.

You need to hear TROUBLE by Elvis EVERYTHING the Righteous Brothers sang was GOLD !!!!!!!!

You asked for the blues..You got the blues!! 😬

Both are from Orange County, California (yes, where oranges are grown). Said they grew up listening to soul and blues.

FANTASTIC song and AMAZING reaction!! How about checking out some Elvis blues: Elvis Presley - Reconsider baby (extended sax version) (4:24) Elvis Presley - Steamroller Blues (Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu, 1973) (3:01) Elvis Presley - Down In The Alley (from the Spinout album) (2:51)

That's because Bill Medley is are said in an interview at one time that he was a fan of Ray Charles.

Written by Willie Dixon & first performed by Muddy Waters in 1954, Etta James in 1960, among a few others.

Now you know the reason their songs were referred to as "panty droppers"... You want to romance a woman, play The Righteous Brothers!

In the 60's we had the best music, cars, fashion and hair styles.

They do sing the blues I'm telling you they are great I know I was raised you know listening to him I'm 71 years old and honey day we're good then as they are now

You MUST HEAR THEM sing "B FLAT BLUES"!!! You will be beside yourself!!! I promise!!!

Bill has a low-lying voice with an arresting, steely edge in his upper register. Many bass/baritones have a voluminous voice but wooly high notes (that lessens the vocal impact). Bobby had a smoothly produced tenor voice that could sail easily to falsetto without ever losing power.

Its called blue eyed soul and they were the masters of it

the Righteous Brothers song style was known as the Blue Eyed Blues.

It was off the hook im only 62 born in 1961but I remember there music on the AM radio of my mom's 65 Rambler

As singers individually Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield were awesome, but together they were unbeatable. Their soul & blues songs were no doubt influenced by Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, James Brown, Little Richard, etc. that traces back into the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

That's an ancient riff probably spanning millennia, and is the heart of blues.

Study a little history...how many years have the blues been around? I'm 70, my daddy would have been 92, His daddy would have been 130 this year. All of us listened to and enjoyed the blues. The blues go way back and lots of people, of all backgrounds, listened to, enjoyed and sang blues all through their lives. No reason to be surprised.