FIRST TIME REACTING TO | The Shirelles | "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"

[@MattJocks]

This was the original recording but Carole King, who co-wrote it with her husband Gerry Goffin did a much different version -- quiet at the piano with James Taylor and Joni Mitchell (!) singing backup. Sort of a cover version of her own song. Gerry Goffin's ability to write lyrics from a woman's perspective -- this and Natural Woman, most notably -- was amazing.

[@brittreacts]

Thanks for the info!

[@victorsixtythree]

Love it! Written by the legendary songwriting duo of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Carole King later sang the song herself on her classic album "Tapestry".

[@ptournas]

Yes. Gerry Goffin wrote the words to most of the songs (including this one), and Carole wrote the music.

[@txhuntsman]

The Shirelles! Their voices were so silky smooth and Addie was so gorgeous. Miss these days of music.

[@markos_vault]

Great lead,great group one of the greatest songs ever recorded.Definetly timeless, 60 yrs old and individuals are still loving the song.

[@angelomaurizio1668]

Released in the Fall of 1960 and written by 18 year old Carole King who would go on to record this song 21 years later for her award winning album 'Tapestry'.

[@robbielux8353]

Shirley was absolutely gorgeous and still is….also audiences back were told not to go wild during tapings which explains the calmness. Shirellles were the biggest thing in the early 60s

[@randegelo3506]

The lead singer was Shirley Owens, later known as Shirley Alston Reeves. I saw her at a 60's revival show during the 80's. Unforgettable.

[@foofghtr]

Amazing person, how great was she?

[@randegelo3506]

@foofghtr When I saw her, she must have been in her fifties or sixties. She still sounded great.

[@walterpanovs]

The most successful girl group before the Supremes came along, with this being the first #1 (1960-'61) for a girl group in the rock era (written by a teenage Carole King and her writing partner/hubby Gerry Goffin). The ladies were only around 19 or 20 years old. That may explain some nervousness. They did go on to have a number of hits. The Beatles loved them and covered a few of their tracks in their early live live shows and on record. The name of the group came from a combo of lead singer Shirley Owens' first names and the common "-elles" suffix used by many groups at the time like the Chantels ("Maybe").

[@michaelavila9963]

This was the first black girl group to have a #1 song, and it was THIS one.

[@Nomad-vv1gk]

They were the first girl group of any ethnicity to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 Char. However, it only reached number 2 on the R&B chart.

[@debibailey2968]

Love the Shirelles! They were great!! So many other fantastic songs. This is Dedicated to the One I Love, Please Mr. Postman, Soldier Boy, Tonight's The Night, Foolish Little Girl, Mama Said and many more. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@randegelo3506]

Please Mr Postman was by the Marvelettes. Also a great song.

[@debibailey2968]

@@randegelo3506 my bad, somehow got that confused. Sorry 😔

[@stevesnow315]

Darlin', these angels are to me a national treasure. Everything they sang was/is magic. "He's So Fine" and "Sweet Talking Guy" would get in my head and I found it hard to sleep until I spun up the 45s. Just wonderful stuff. Thanks Britt.🤘😎❤

[@forwardpeace]

"He's So Fine" was by the Chiffons.

[@brittreacts]

Yes they are!

[@thomastimlin1724]

The singing and the string arrangement always send chills up my spine, just perfect record. Carole King and Gerry Goffin's songwriting was magical.

[@gloriamyers6917]

I was a teenager in the 60's. I watched these guys on the American Bandstand. Oh ya 60's. Great music.

[@FallenHellscape]

I love this era of music.

[@cog4life]

Omygosh this was such a great hit!!!! Still in my playlist! No one could sing like The Shirelle’s! 😊❤

[@Noelle0026]

Carol King wrote this song!

[@surlechapeau]

with husband/lyricist Gerry Goffin. Carole.

[@richardvincelette9741]

Beautiful song by these beautiful women ❤

[@mikecaetano]

The Shirelles were awesome. When you're ready for more from them also check out "Mama Said", "Foolish Little Girl", and "Baby It's You". And for some other sixties girl groups also check out The Chiffons "He's So Fine", The Crystals "Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)", The Angels "My Boyfriend's Back", The Ronettes "Be My Baby", The Shangri-Las "I Can Never Go Home Anymore", and The Chantels "Maybe".

[@texasron9131]

We all loved this tune back in the day! These girls could sing … no autotune.

[@nancy9891]

I will love this version forever. The one to remember! 🎶🎶

[@garyf45garyf45]

Pure talent. No technical help. What comes out of their mouth is the real deal.

[@tjrivers]

Sweetness galore! The sixties started it all!

[@anitawright7169]

This such an awesome song! The Shirelles are icons. Love your reaction!

[@berandrose]

This was a live performance from 1963 that was dubbed with the original studio recording. It was taken from an episode of Brian Henderson's Bandstand (Australian TV 1966)

[@randegelo3506]

The original audio for this clip sounds very different, but still good.

[@marthagavey9321]

❤❤I grew up in small town in Ontario! Times were simple, I was raised to take people as they were, not what color they were!! So sad not everyone grew up this way!! Shirley, Addie and the girls were amazing 😍 It was so wonderful to see this sweet group again! 💕🎶💕

[@pamagnolia]

Beautiful memory hearing this!! Goosebumps!! 😅

[@Mstribling67]

This was so delightful. What a treat this evening

[@megastardave]

Brilliant, love these ladies

[@elmarkothegreat]

Grew up to the music in the sixties as a very young kid with older siblings it was Magical perfect word

[@clarkgeiger4988]

now your playing what i grew up with thank you

[@v.j.3029]

You have to remember this was when TV was just invented since it was still in black and white. I think the audience was more camera shy back then and frozen by seeing themselves on the screen. I wasn't born in that era but I can imagine those people were just more reserved publicly and not necessarily racist towards the black artists.

[@donaldball3245]

The story is told about how the manager of the Apollo Theater in Harlem one day heard a group on the radio, doing a song that really caught his fancy- so much so that he immediately called up and arranged for them to perform at his club. Imagine his surprise when Buddy Holly and the Crickets showed up... the first white band ever to perform at the Apollo... when they came out on stage there was stone cold silence from the audience- but by the time they finished their second song the kids were dancing in the aisles. Just as with the Shirelles here... talent has no color. If you're good, you're GOOD- it doesn't matter if you're black, white, red, or green with purple stripes and pink polka-dots. (Remember the Righteous Brothers and "Blue Eyed Soul"?)

[@bobbartle]

I know The Skyliners had the first song by a white act to have a no.1 song on the R & B charts with "Since I Don't have You". I had thought they also were the first white act to appear at The Apollo. I didn't know about Buddy Holly and The Crickets being the first. Lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, said that before their Apollo performance, Jackie Wilson came into their dressing room to say hello and when he saw them he laughed and said "Oh you're with the other team". He said when they came out on stage the audience was hushed and there was murmuring among them. When they finished the song they got a standing ovation.

[@2299jsimon]

Great song... played on the charts in Houston for weeks.

[@dansavoie5087]

The music of the Fifties into early Sixties definitely had it's own sound. I like the Shirelles. Just a little before my time but I like this song. Yes Ms. Britt it was a different aura in acceptance back then. Music and Sports helped bridge that ugly divide. But we "all" still have much work to do.

[@samac81]

An explanation for what you noticed about the interest of audience is often the networks would just round up people to fill in the room. Which would be why you only saw a handful of young girls in front (who would probably be somewhat familiar with the group) and older people scattered throughout. They did the same with Elvis’ comeback special in ‘69. Often people didn’t know what they were going to see. It often happens with network TV pilots still.

[@sandrafryer4425]

Love this song, one of my favorites

[@donaldhynson4538]

❤❤❤ one of my most favorite songs

[@denniswhitt]

I like your taste in music and I always enjoy watching your reaction to it. I'm with you girl!

[@brittreacts]

Yay, thank you!

[@bradleymichaelme]

That lead singer is absolutely beautiful

[@francistobin7263]

I remember them on that performance . Truly lovely

[@Matthewpapin]

Another song written ( and performed ) by Carol King

[@deanroddey2881]

A lot of those early girl groups had some amazing tunes. A lot of songs from those girl groups were covered later by rock bands and they worked really well as rock songs as well. One that comes immediately to mind is Aerosmith's cover of the Shangri Las' tune "Remember Walking in the Sand." Obviously Amy Winehouse did a few. The Beatles did some.

[@Starwarslegorob]

Pure Gold

[@pffp6246]

My mums favourite ❤️ still listening today

[@williamwilson9283]

This song flashes me back to my childhood, love it❤❤❤

[@luckylady7542]

The girl groups were glamorous. This song is so beautiful.❤

[@mikerant4135]

They were strangers to 'fame', first big hit. There were a lot of these girl groups at that time, hundreds, and the radio stations were always clamouring for more. They were treated as 'disposable' as a result, and many never made it, many more had one or two hits, so the simplicity was born out of inexperience and necessity - but boy, could they sing! The fact that the vocals become the focus (something that is lost these days) is the difference between good music and good choreography - and often the line gets blurred now.

[@debbiefoster3025]

One of my favorite songs from the ‘60’s!

[@davidramrut5002]

The Shirelles and the Chantels were probably two of the best girl groups ever!

[@sharonsnail2954]

Britt: The vocal track is the original studio recording from 1960 which was a US #1 and UK #4 hit. The video is part of the "It's Little Richard" TV show from 1964 which was recorded at Granada Studios in Manchester, UK. So there is NO segregation at play here. The white population of the UK in 2021 was about 83%. In 1964 it would have been even higher so it's highly unlikely that there were any blacks in the audience at all. This is a famous TV show where the audience and performers were crammed into a VERY small TV studio. It is doubtful that Health And Safety regulations today would have allowed it to take place. Little Richard, The Shirelles and Sounds Inc. (who were the backing band) had hardly any room to move, let alone dance. The girls were basically performing on a narrow ledge !! Similarly, the cameramen had little chance to take any complex shots so they meandered around like uninterested Daleks. The audience itself were stacked up on scaffolding like goods in a supermarket. But they were very close to the performers and the atmosphere was electric. The video of the show is on YT. The audio is not hi-fi but it's a brilliant show. The Shirelles made loads of great records "I Met Him On A Sunday (Ronde-Ronde)", "Dedicated To The One I Love", "Mama Said", "Baby It's You", ...... BTW: Whoever synched the audio and video did a superb job. 💯

[@bobblynes3926]

in the 60s it was INTEGRATION! We were singin' & swingin' TOGETHER. Lead singer wasn't scared of bigotry. She was afraid they might fall of that small stage they were on!....

[@Thomas-mh4gr]

That's my recollection, as well. I'm an old white dude, and grew up in Detroit in the 50s & 60s. There certainly was segregation in a lot of areas, but musically, at least among the young folks, there was just good music. The riots in '67 changed a lot of that, and pretty much killed Detroit. As Dickens said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

OK, yes the song is reminiscent - but it's really more 1950s. It came out in 1960, so it really sounds more 1950s. We used to call it "bubble-gum" music. It was a style that was VERY popular at the time. My sister and I listened to it forever. Still do when it is playing.

[@pjb3583]

I love the girl groups of the sixties, and I feel like there were loads of them. The Shirelles, Martha and the Vandellas, Ronnie and the Ronettes, the Blossoms, the Marvelettes, the Shangra-Las and, of course, the Supremes were all landing spots on the charts. I’m sure there were more, but those are the ones that come to mind. It was lovely to see this video, thanks. Peace …

[@tammymcdowell1839]

This was all live. Band straight up singing. No voice over, dubbing the best.

[@FallenHellscape]

They were big in the late 1950s to the early 1960s. This song came out in 1960. I dont know when this performance was.

[@rcinsley]

The Shirelles were the first "girl group." They bridged the evolution from Do Wop groups to Motown. Everything they did was great...and the severe limitations of lo-fi AM radio didn't punish them as much as it did the male groups.

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

The DooWop of the 50s and 60s was quite literally great music. The groups Black, White and Mixed were so great to listen to. The music, the word, the meaning the harmony was amazing. You gotta' listen to everything you can get your hands on. You will enjoy and love it.

[@swimlaps1]

Dreamy song recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles. This B&W clip looks like 1960-63 styles & music sounds.... before The Beatles 1st came to US.

[@DazzleMonroe]

Our dear Miss Winehouse does a grand job covering this too

[@danastearns7939]

Martha and the Vandellas, The Chiffons, The Supremes - just to name a few. The Big thing you have got to remember concerning the music/singing/singers of the '60's - its pure, there is no auto tune, no computer adjustments - nothing but "what you see/hear is what you get!

[@billssmithy7352]

Enjoy your video choices, your reactions, your comments. They are one of my late-nite favorites. I have searched YT and can find no one who has reacted to Judy Collins doing " Farewell to Tarwathie" It has one of the most amazing vocals and a background you have to hear to believe. Even if you don't do a reaction, I encourage you to at least give it a listen.

[@paullosa5306]

I love this song. It seemed that the groups in the early 60’s had self respect and class which makes this song even more enjoyable

[@sharonstark1014]

A great song written by Carole King. Check out "Mama Said" and Baby Its You." Both GREAT SONGS by the Shirelles.

[@lindakinninger5500]

When you were a Motown artist,they controlled your look,clothes,choreography. The girl groups all had to attend charm school & etiquette classes… one step out of line & you were replaced.

[@laara1426]

The performances were focused on the music . It was all about the music , as it should be.

[@SandraSealySeawomanBDS]

Part of the excellent soundtrack from one of my fave movies "Dirty Dancing". You'd love it, Britt.

[@jimshirey2293]

Facebook won't let me like any videos right now 😢 so I came to comment instead. Great song and reaction video 😁

[@brittreacts]

Thank you!!

[@rickyork7089]

1st time i heard this song 1981 i was 11 years old local radio station 😁😃❤❤❤

[@TranslateToEnglish]

The lead singers brother was the lead singer for the Manhattans.🎶🎵🎼

[@surlechapeau]

The lead singers nephew through marriage, was the lead singer of The Manhattans.

[@pouet442]

I like this song! And your face too

[@foofghtr]

This always moved me, love it..l

[@BlueDragon53]

The audiences were told not to move or cause any disturbances as it was all taped Live and used for reruns later. Also it's Black and White as Color TV was not mainstream until the late 60s.

[@stevenlilelogistics6673]

The Shirelles were great, before my time but great.

[@BoxerRick]

This is super cool. Shirley was a cutie too

[@patsaylor8973]

This was one of my favorite in my preteens.

[@Roberto_79]

The ultimate first love… Love song

[@fiddiehacked]

Written by tune-smith Carol King. IIRC- Carol was still a teen!

[@surlechapeau]

Written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[@brgilbert2]

There was an article written many years ago, detailing some of the history about the music during the 50's and 60's and the artists of that time. "The Shirelles" were the most popular "girl group" of that time and the article concluded by comparing them to the "Supremes" who came after the "Shirelles". The difference between the two groups was the "Supremes" went on to become "Diana Ross and The Supremes while "The Shirelles" never became "Shirley Owens and The Shirelles" as if that made a difference between those two groups. Personally I preferred "The Shirelles"!!

[@MaryannTurton]

This is a classic! Also listen to Carole King’s version, it’s so tender, and her voice is golden!

[@Veritas-TheGoader]

Carol King is my favorite songwriter

[@Veritas-TheGoader]

Top ten song favorite of mine

[@thomasbarr5940]

Those sixties wigs are awsome

[@xmn12380]

This song was actually banned in some parts of the US because some of the lyrics were "too racy" back then.

[@andrewgleeson8862]

The lead singer is a beutiful looking woman heard that song so many times

[@LorenzoMilani-z2g]

Brit I would like to see your reaction to a singer that has been singing for the last 6 decades and still performing at the age of 86 .That is the Welsh female singer Dame Shirley Bassey

[@_Lily_777]

My mom lovessss this song

[@pfalzgraf7527]

I watched this because I had heard a rendition of the first few lines once by Tim Foust (the bass guy of Home Free): He did a mix of "Will Youi Still Love Me" and "Stay" (which you did a reaction to with Jackson Browne). Tim did this as a solo work where he sings all the voices and has that mixed together in the end. If you have space for it, here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpOxapWdrLdjeqssi=7G-Q6owAwQ0vg3N9

[@michaelavila9963]

If you haven't heard Durand Jones and The Indications, you should listen/react to "Is It Any Wonder" live, Paste Studios version. It will blow your mind. (They've only been around since 2017)

[@Nomad-vv1gk]

Britt, the choreography was restrained for several reasons. Women of the silent generation and Baby Boomer generation were brought up to be lady like at all times in public. That put restraints on their body movement. The TV studios back then were primitive compared to today. They had to hit their mark and remain on it during the filming of the performance. A local TV show may have had only 2 cameras filming show. The Ronetts were the first girl group to flaunt their femininity both on and off the stage. This song was released in November 1960 and hit number one on the charts in January of 1961. The were the first girl group to have a number one record on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

[@dagmar.6954]

Another one of the great girl groups from the 50's-60's. They had a lot of great songs such as "I Met Him On A Sunday", "Tonight's The Night", "Dedicated To The One I Love", "Soldier Boy", "Boys", "Mama Said", "Baby It's You", "Foolish Little Girl" etc.

[@jackempson3044]

This was big hit among White sand Blacks. My older White sister played the heck out of it. So did the AM radio stations. Audiences were more reserved in someplace back then. Especially on TV. White Singers and bands had the same lame audiences sometime.

[@Paladin70]

For a completely different, very soulful, and in my opinion the most beautiful version of this oft covered song, check out Dave Mason from his Mariposa de Oro album, featuring one of the smoothest guitar solos you’ll ever hear. Always liked this version too.

[@mikeplott4817]

Great Reaction 👍🙏💯😎

[@brittreacts]

Thank you!! 😊

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Another King/Goffin hit from the 60’s. Before Carole King was a recording artist.

[@LawrenceFogal]

Good job!

[@lc_pinheiro4808]

very good Britt. Obrigado / tanks... here's a suggestion Band Stories - Brother Louie 🖐

[@JCourts2k23]

Beautiful song, also Amy Winehouse did a cover of this i believe

[@doloreskrisky1670]

Great times. We were much more respectful and appreciated true musical talent. No one constantly spewing lies, to instill hatred and fear of others that are different from us.

[@JW-cmth]

It was the 60s and that could have been on a live TV broadcast so she coukd have been a bit nervous. Most videos I see from that era were from TV appearances.

[@RD-jc2eu]

Re: the very simple choreography... notice the VERY narrow stage they've got them on. I suspect they needed to restrict themselves to small movements to avoid slipping off the stage in those high heels.