New Colony Six - Things I'd Like To Say (Mercury Records - 1969)

[@Transterra55]

I was going to say this is one of the most beautiful songs of the 60s, but now that I think about it, it’s one of the most beautiful songs ever… The lyrics, the melody and chord progression, and an outstanding arrangement Create a truly heartbreaking song.

[@jrstansell4133]

Well said!!!!

[@markdinkel-uh2je]

They dont makem like that anymore but we, grew up with it

[@johnfachy393]

Gotta agree with you, a great song!

[@kayhansen9229]

One of my favorites, I used to listen to it all the time when I was 11 and 12 specially when it first came out. Little did I know that it would still break my heart some 55 years later. When I think about my first love who I never got to marry I never married anybody after that either. He loved me like this at one time.

[@lorileeann7623]

@@kayhansen9229 Same here, this song still breaks my heart, sadly I never got over it...I never trusted my judgement or anyone, really, after that...

[@jerrymcfarland56]

And now we are all grandparents and retired..what a ride...thank God we all had this magical time of music

[@bobwalker2781]

You are so correct. How time does fly by.😢

[@warrenwatkins9650]

I came across this song about 5 yrs ago and didn't recognize it at first. Played it and realized I was singing along with it about 2min into it. WOW, What a memory shock! GREAT SONG! I LOVE IT!!!

[@raycota4322]

I bet they never thought that people would be hearing this song for the first time 50 years later and falling in love with it .

[@jerrywalsh2099]

They might have dreamed it, it's hard to know. They recorded a very pretty song. It must have been a thrill.

[@KevinPriceLive]

I love this era of music but never was exposed to this song until a few years ago. I fell in love instantly.

[@bobwalker2781]

It's beautiful music

[@cocoaorange1]

So true, now their grandkid's friend like it! I recently passed by St Patrick's HS on a bus. I am an 80's teen but love timeless music. Some of the band went to St. Pat's.

[@kimberlymillerdietrich7715]

As a 12 y/o in 1969, the melody of this song brings me right back to a feeling of nostalgia. Even a tear to my eye.......

[@kevin104z]

Same here . I had the 45 . we're the same age..

[@michaelgasiciel9317]

Wow lots of 12 year old kids in 6th grade remember this song. Me makes it 3.

[@CaptKundalini]

I was 13.

[@agent-rj6jv]

3-8-57

[@mausolos8]

6-16-57

[@hsgamj]

Great sound of the sixties, the best of times

[@janetgaspari6626]

Still pulls at my heart strings after nearly 50 yrs

[@leighannconnell5077]

Me too! I woke up singing this song this morning! I will be 67 in 3 weeks, really thankful I can still remember wonderful songs like this!

[@judyg9976]

Great way to put it, you nailed it!

[@jimmybloss8453]

WOW! I love this song. my dad didn’t hang with me much, but I remember vividly how he would take me to basketball games and this song would come on almost every time. Love it!

[@GrimpleGromble]

@@jimmybloss8453 reading this while listening to this song inspires me to spend more time with my kids.

[@Alwaysherethere]

Same here. This is a quite beautiful song! Not what's out today.❤

[@chuckarthurhultz8483]

Yeah, I cried. Damnit. So many memories came flooding, charging into my brain, it was amazing. I went to see these guys in 1968,I think; they came to a small, but very cool town, Grand Haven, MI. and performed a two-set gig, and I was right up front. What a great show they did. I'll never forget it. Thank you for making it available to listen to their music once again, and relive some very good and happy times 55 years later. God, it's great to have the tech we do, and can enjoy sounds as I've never heard the quality of, ever. CA

[@phantomblott1]

Chuck, I'm from Michigan as well. did you ever go to "The Note" over at Gun Lake in the 60's? A band called, "The Jujus" with Ray Hummel out of Grand Rapids played there often, great times.

[@TyVerte]

Singer of this song was my Uber driver around 5 years ago in Evanston, IL and told me about this! Really nice guy!

[@warrenwatkins9650]

Uber driver? Wow, what a great experience!

[@TheRacerbrown]

Ronnie Rice??

[@cathystrachan4403]

how cool is that???!!!!

[@luckystar2841]

Such a timeless, beautiful song. One of the best of the 60’s - and you can’t do better than that.

[@jameswatts632]

One might call this a one hit wonder, but this the most wonderful, heartbreak song ever written, arranged and performed!! Period!!

[@lynneirish8606]

Reminds me of college and meeting my husband 55 years ago! Unbelievably still a beautiful emotional song. Great times gone by. 😢

[@billyhollister8768]

The musicianship, the melodic instrument sounds, the gorgeous harmonic vocals. One of the most incredible masterpieces OF ALL TIME.

[@craigleibbrand7761]

Well said

[@joemartra4825]

Absolutely 💯 agree!

[@cherierhynes8514]

Love love love it such a beautiful melody makes me feel happy and transported back to a simpler time when music made me believe in love.

[@joemartra4825]

Cherie I couldn’t have said that any better! Soooooo true, they were beautiful wonderful times ❤️

[@lyndaeads2778]

Ditto ❤

[@wa6roy]

Thanks to youtube so we can relive our 60s childhood

[@JoshLooperMusic]

One of the greatest records ever made.

[@tonycamasso1060]

This song is like a time machine, it takes me right back to days long past.

[@davidfyre2963]

Tony Camasso. Hey Paizano how ya doin. It takes me back to late 1968, Marine Detachment USS Saratoga. I still remember dancing to this song with a very beautiful English young Lady at a dance club in London. It,s hard to believe it has now been 48 years. And I hope she is still around and doing fine.

[@irisheyzgrl24murphy92]

Tony Camasso Music like this reminds me of sitting in the back seat of our station wagon.. My mom would sometime pick my brother & me up from school. He was in 10th grade ( sophomore ) and I was 11 yrs old & in 6th grade.. I adored the radio where my ears usually were & loving so many songs. Such great memories and mom was pretty cool about turning up the radio ! Lol !

[@basilmarasco1975]

@@irisheyzgrl24murphy92 Me too. 11 years old when this was a new song; 6th grade, loved the radio.

[@cherierhynes8514]

When music had the power to make me believe in love n

[@jcambrose1461]

After over 40 years I still get goosebumps to this one

[@shadoweng15]

Without a doubt

[@dalestroker4735]

I agree. I'm from Chicago and when this was released, I was 13.

[@jcambrose1461]

Am from Elmwood Park/Chi still love the melody. Always love hearing this one!

[@lindahannon4561]

Me too

[@57highland]

Over 50 years, and it could be 100 and I would still love this song ...

[@marionkitty5138]

When I was 14 I bought the 45 at Woolworths and played it over and over again. Such a beautiful song❤️❤️.

[@LimitlessThinker]

Same age

[@alexismcelhone9214]

Me too I was 14 & bought the 45 with my babysitting money 😊

[@Transterra55]

Same too….age 14

[@marystech1279]

@@Transterra55Me too! I bought my 45 at Woolworths in Detroit Lakes MN! Best nickel I ever spent!

[@alanbeckham9093]

Me too!! Woolworths in Mesquite TX

[@pigurine]

One day in the 60 s is worth a year today.

[@donnakuchas4057]

pigurine very well said ! Thank God for KZbin! (And LED Zeppelin)

[@DougCeleste]

Very nice reflection and thanks for sharing. I sure feel the same since i lived and loved in the 60's.

[@robertgieske4531]

I don't remember the 60's.

[@DougCeleste]

@@robertgieske4531 You don't know what you missed.

[@rogbrown1965]

It sure is. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

[@MrLatch0208]

I cant believe i have never commented on this song,but after reading everyone elses there is nothing else i can add except.......BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

[@terriauston3083]

This song touches my heart because I always think of my friend ❤

[@donaldware4374]

PEOPLE WERE WORKING AND MUCH HAPPIER IN 1969 GREAT TIMES

[@thomassmith8721]

I confess, the tender vocals of Ray Graffia and Ronnie Rice can soften the hardest of hearts and make a tear drop fall. You can hear and feel the emotions. A gorgeous ballad, like a pleasant dream.

[@shaunkelly7480]

Recorded and released in the fall of ’68, this heartfelt tune made it to the Billboard Top 20 during that December, peaking at #16. This single is for all those who ever lost at love and still carried the torch many years after, especially to those who remain tortured by the dream of what could have been, should have been, but was somehow mysteriously prevented from happening. The resolute sadness of this melody prevails, despite the uplifting string variation suggesting there is still hope for the broken couple, only to return to a somber reality and the unique and haunting piano ending. A stunningly beautiful love song from the quartet from Chicago, this is the kind of lost 45, which makes you say, “They just don’t make music like this anymore.”

[@basilmarasco1975]

Wow, that's a mouthful but it's all true. (I was 11 when this song came out, too young to really "get it", but it was a small part of an education.)

[@rayconnor]

They were, along with the Cryin’ Shames and the Buckinghams, great Chicagoland groups from the Wake of the Beatles, and wrote their songs, particularly the New Colony, who were actually seven members

[@lisaatkins9797]

What a beautiful response to this song...poetic in itself

[@daviddana-bashian1814]

On the Hot 100 the song actually debuted in the last full week of December 1968 and reached #16 in March 1969 .

[@dennismclaurin1487]

The sad part about this song is that they weren't even nominated for a Grammy

[@richgross3761]

This is one of the best love songs ever

[@davidhughes4448]

Musically this is a fascinating song. The body of the song is in D major with a sweet, flowing melody. The instrumental bridge moves to Ab major (!), coming directly off the D tonality, but it works perfectly. Then, via a II-V transition, Em7 to A, we get back to D major. The icing on the cake is the beautiful solo piano at the end. Nobody puts songs together like this anymore. The craft of songwriting, by and large, is gone in pop music now. Pity. This song is a true gem.

[@seancurran6727]

Actually, it's not gone. OK, most of the time. Check out Karma Police by Radiohead. More complex chord wise and actually a better song than this. Weezer is another band that really has great songs.

[@davidhughes4448]

@@seancurran6727 Thanks, Sean. I shall investigate.

[@2Uahoj]

@@seancurran6727 It's ok, but not nearly as pretty as this NC 6 song.

[@broadcasttttable]

Just yesterday read an online article by a digital musicologist who went back and listened to every number one Billboard song from 1958 through 2021. He was struck by how few key changes there are/were after the 2000's began, compared to the '50's through the '80's. He charted/graphed them all. He concluded the two biggest reasons were the rise of hip hop, and since the advent of digital software, the fact that songs are so much easier to compose nowadays, but the tradeoff is that the songs are composed vertically instead of linearly in the computer. He gave an example of one song where he laid down a bass groove for two seconds, then looped it 20 more times to fill out the chart. Doing that, if you wanted to change the key at some point you'd have to change all the other instruments/effects, their loops, etc. Just not time efficient.

[@davidhughes4448]

@@broadcasttttable I love your reply, broadcasttttable. Thank you. The fact is there are few true, old school musicians in the business now. Few know how to write out charts that sit on a music stand for real live musicians to play. As examples, we need more David Fosters and Berry Gordys today. So much of current pop music is sequenced, pitch-adjusted, tempo-tweaked, chopped, and channeled. Back in the day of this New Colony Six song there was imagination, talent, and work ethic in the pop music industry. Just listen to the arrangements of quality pop hits from 1955 to about 1980 (as you cite), you can hear it loud and clear. The only problem with songs from this period are those from Barry Manilow, who self-indulgently changed key (modulated) three times in every hit - a bit overboard and always predictable.

[@rhondapomeroy5695]

I was married to the love of my life 45 yrs and he passed away .. we loved this song. Memories ❤

[@craigmarasco4976]

When I was 15-16-17- life was good but I never knew they would be the best times of my life !

[@rmelin13231]

In my world, which consists of hundreds of "favorite songs", you folks can believe this or not - this song ranks as #1 Thousands of times I have listened to this over the years. I tear up, my spine tingles, and my life fills with sadness and joy each and every time. Thank you for the greatest song of all time, NC6. And I mean that sincerely.

[@catperson5358]

Ranks #1 in my book too, Roger

[@catperson5358]

I have the 45 and it's about worn out...my heart aches when I hear this song.

[@DDRICH5]

It's at the top of my list, too!

[@rmelin13231]

@@catperson5358 As does mine. Every word of this song rings true. It is a gem.

[@robinbittel9420]

I agree with you.

[@thegreatelfinko]

I concur. This is truly a masterpiece. Vocals, lyrics, Musical composition, musicianship, it's all there. This song will never get old.

[@dennismclaurin1487]

This song seems subtle- yet beautiful and heartfelt enough to sound like such a unique gem that can't be duplicated. BIG kudos to the New Colony 6

[@jeffreygrossi2800]

This song immediately throws me back to junior high days and my first love. It still gives me chills.....❤️

[@solarguy1702]

Yep, me too. 15 and first love. West Linn Oregon

[@mikemcgill4268]

Timeless....will sound great in another 50 years!!!

[@BradWright-y7m]

This is the most haunting Melody of the late 60s and early 70s. I was 13 when it came out in 1969 and it still evokes incredible emotions in me. I was just starting to recognize and experience feelings that were coming on with puberty. This song is unique in that it is a funeral March for a marriage that died before it ever happened. The beat of the drum as well as the minor key movements in the song evoke a sadness that is palpable. The bridge in the middle represents to me the hopeful feelings and emotions as they are reaching high but would not be realized. The piano at the end is like the final statement of this person’s feelings. It is such a beautiful number And so simple. I listen to it all the time still, and can remember that 13-year-old boy as he started to have feelings that would grow and develop as he passed into manhood.

[@kayhansen9229]

You really said that very well you must be a very artistic and evocative musician type of person. I was 11 or 12 back then and I felt the same way about it. Still makes me feel that way lately as I never married my first true love. And he loved this song too I think. At least he felt this way about me back then. Back then meaning about 19 74 and 75.

[@bobwalker2781]

I was 13 as well. It's sad how time flies by so fast. I'm 69 now, but this sound still touches me.

[@margaretcortez929]

WOW!!!! haven't heard this in centuries. Was 13 when it came out and adored it then. Had to look up and can't stop playing it. Absolutely love love this song. Thanks so much!

[@conithomson4409]

Ethelouise Smith yep I was in 8th grade and all these songs were the best.

[@calima3921]

Me too!

[@Roscoe309]

I was 12 and fell in Love with this song!

[@bengalgangster]

@@Roscoe309 i was 7 but rediscovered it recently my fav love song of alltime

[@vernacyrette1331]

I wish to go back to that time! When words and music had more meaning and life was so simple then! Think I was 12 almost thirteen but not quite! 😁🤣🤩🙃

[@davo2003hd]

I heard this on 60's Sirius XM today 9/22/21. It stopped me in my tracks . I have not heard this in decades , but I so remember it on the AM radio in the late 60's to 70's . Great song. I loved the "Baby Baby" as a 7 year old kid. Great video too.

[@57highland]

February 1969, a great time to be a kid loving the Top 40 ....

[@vernacyrette1331]

February of 1969 I was 13 in July I was turning 14 OMG 😂 that song sure was beautiful and I love it to this day!

[@DougCeleste]

I agree! I turned 16 in July of that year and was living in San Jose, CA. GREAT radio stations in the Bay Area at that time to groove to.

[@DougCeleste]

@@vernacyrette1331 I also LOVED their other big hit from a year earlier called "I Will Always Love You." I turned 16 on July 19th of that year. BOTH songs are GREAT and too bad this group did not have more hits.

[@vernacyrette1331]

Great it was a great time for me too I lived in the country in the wilderness at that time my grandpa always had the radio on! And it was nice and loud!

[@nrcg2317]

@@DougCeleste I was 12 in February 1969 in the 7th grade. I lived in the New York area and we had great disc jockeys on the radio. This song was played many times. What a wonderful time for music.

[@dennisowen4410]

A wonderful song and great lyrics. A great time in my life.

[@bluemoon472]

One of the first favorite songs of my childhood & all these years later, still in the top five!! Timeless

[@brianbrick4110]

Just saw them in concert last weekend - they still sing this, and sound great!!

[@margowakefield3295]

I didn't know they were still performing!😃

[@jeanshanahan6111]

Sang when in car driving along Chicago Lake Shore Drive while visiting Chicago way back in time, ended up moving there in fact for a nursing school program I was accepted to. No longer there as it was many many years ago. Such a wonderful touching song! As well as many others by them. Loved their music.

[@anthonypranckevicus2417]

If there is intelligent life 100 million miles out in the universe and they heard this song they would love it too

[@lorileeann7623]

One of my All Time Favorites... played this over and over...my heart's still broken

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

Mine too.

[@stringalongmike1953]

Me too,

[@macwess6098]

Mine too.

[@ronaldfinley2985]

My favorite song ,what an underrated band.

[@1066WatchGroup]

Music has had such an impact on my life, time is passing and songs like this bring me back to those memories, those girls, that young life. I wanted it to last and yet it ended without my knowledge. So glad others feel this way too.

[@patrickfrase5729]

My most treasured song of New Colony 6!

[@louisorr5065]

Brings me back to when I was an 11 year old,, kicking at the cans, and jumping fences, and climbing trees.

[@jeffmorse645]

The strings, the soaring harmonies the driving drum beat... incredible production.

[@charlielange3390]

Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound

[@basilmarasco1975]

Yes, those are the best parts of the song. Almost a "march"-style drum part. Kind of unexpected on a love ballad, but it works.

[@saguaroboy]

This song and its sister- I Will Always Think About You- are the most wrenching, skilled odes to loss and regret ever written. Artful and subtle. If you've never felt like this, brother you haven't lived.

[@davidhughes4448]

Spot on, Steve Carroll.

[@johnparker8588]

1967-1969 were the best years of my life and this song and others of the time period can take me right back there instantly. I can feel the same feelings I had then. New Colony Six and Buckinghams were just local kids who would have played at your prom for nothing.

[@MichaelMcConville-qb3oc]

Agree....

[@Blondigirlmymy2]

I spent hours sitting in the car turning the dial fishing for pieced of it to listen to again and again, I was insatiable, I needed this song, the music, the words, the notes, his voice it was so close to my heart, I loved him..

[@bboucharde]

Debbie, You are a good soul. The music that one loves tells a lot about a person.........

[@bobscafidi9184]

One of my favorite love songs of all time.

[@Gracerorwick]

I absolutely love this music. I’m 17 again and life is more simple. Thank you❤️❤️❤️

[@dagnabbit6187]

Who has caught up with this song in 2020 ? It ain’t nostalgia. It is re connecting with sublime beauty.

[@Mandrake591]

Well put. It isn't nostalgia for me either, here in 2021, realizing this song would and will sound amazing in any year!

[@joecalandriello8576]

I grew up in Chicago and I remember seeing them playing at my grammar school back in the late 60's.

[@louisramosLEFTYLOUIE]

I WAS IN THE 5 TH GRADE WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT !1969 EARLY. WINTER !50 YEARS AGO! WOW ! IT STILL SOUNDS GREAT ! LOVE IT !

[@basilmarasco1975]

I was in 6th ...

[@dianesingerman9650]

I’m your age. Loved the song even back then.

[@dalehoward3704]

I remember this song on a cool afternoon in NYC, waking up from my nap when a child.

[@norellpolk]

great song from the 60s.better than the crap of today

[@mohairellis6402]

Who listens to the crap of today, not me, nothing past 1990, except for a very few that I inadvertently heard>>>>!!!!!!!

[@conithomson4409]

Different time and place and it was great being a kid. Stephen Thorpe of New Colony 6 is a friend and I finally found the song, Steve. Loved music until the late 90s. Christian hard rock and grunge like AIC, Soundgarden, and other music like that was awesome and the classic songs like this 60s music. After that it sucks and I stopped listening. Nothing to do with age. Like everything else today just boring and superficial.

[@hetmanjz]

Love this song, AND there is plenty of wonderful music being produced today.

[@hetmanjz]

@hugbug67 Seriously, I neither sympathize with nor understand the "not like the crap of 2day!" reflex. Like, it's too close to a unqualified reductio ad absurdum (ad nauseam!) to be true: everything was great before; nothing is great now. Not that there *isn't* crap today (which was also true then), but it strikes me as a lame, lazy blanket assessment that just doesn't ring true to my own experience. Maybe I'm just more engaged in seeking out contemporary music of merit -- and open to appreciating the virtues of music that doesn't already directly resemble the music I've consumed in the past and come to love. Hopefully that remains the case as I pass 50. If anything, I listen to a far wider range of music now than I did when I was 20.

[@mjcamck]

No posts yet? OK, I'll start. I went through my teen years with WLS, WCFL & the local Chicago area groups such as New Colony Six (love their outfits). At the time, I was living in a very violent, emotionally abusive home. However, hearing uplifting rock 'n roll, especially soft rock, soul nurturing folk music plus good, caring friends allowed me to survive. THANK YOU for posting. Peace & Best Wishes To ALL.

[@ronniepacis2790]

Martha Mack to ,

[@JOHNSTIER23]

Martha Mack violence has been a part of the time for a long time it’s not t away imagine sixty years of it dice I have been five took like a man and well it is all bore ass from here

[@farodyoung]

Bless you ❤️

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Super CFL !!

[@heidifisher7693]

WLS ROCKS🤗🤗. I'm a Chi - town gurl 😍😚💪👍

[@kathleenbryant6125]

I love the New Colony Six.. The things I'd like to say.

[@johnaddeo2251]

One of the most beautiful and underrated one-hit wonders of all time.

[@John1948NineD]

I can't argue that. It's great!

[@boscokid9524]

They weren't a one hit wonder.

[@Mike-yg8ig]

@@boscokid9524 Right brother, "Pretty Ballerina" was a damn good song too.

[@Grundig305]

Wasn’t a one hit wonder, it was follow up to I will always think about you

[@Mike-yg8ig]

oops, my mistake, that was the "Left Banke". My keyboard must've been drinking.

[@kimadams7632]

This came out right before I went to nam , what memories

[@kande6916]

It all started by a disc jockey in Chicago that produced and discovered some of the best talent to challenge the British invasion. Amazing music by this band the Buckingham's, the ides of March ,early Chicago ect... Super talent by a bunch of kids. Wish I grew up in that era!!!

[@donaldmorrow3096]

This is just one of the best pop-rock singles ever recorded. It's message is pretty simple - if you don't love me, love someone. It is just delivered with such unmatched grace and intelligence that it sounds brand new every time I listen to it. And I've been listening to this since junior high. This record and the New Colony Six have that big a place in my heart.

[@57highland]

It has intensity and smoothness at the same time ... how'd they manage *that?*

[@heidifisher7693]

This song I dedicate to the love of my life, Jessie Lee Monroe. RIP😢. Baby Baby it's you I'm thinking of, from the moment I wake up and all day, every day YOU were my Rock. and Roll. 🎼🎵🎶🎸🎤🎼🎵🎶. God I Miss You.

[@pamelalarson5839]

Hadn't heard it since i was a kid. Forgot what a Beautiful song it was...Thanks for sharing such a masterpiece.

[@myronjenkins9788]

Bought this 45 when it came out, it was played on Arlington VA radio. I moved to Chicago in ‘73 and would frequent Lawrence of Oregano restaurant and watch the man in the bar entertaining the customers awaiting tables. That was Ronnie Rice, and he was a regular. He co-wrote this song and sang on the record when he was in the New Colony Six. I saw him several times later rejoining the group for one-offs here and there and playing local festivals, which he does to this day. See him if you can.

[@msr1116]

Are you familiar with Bob Sirott's channel 11 special on Chicago groups of the 1960s ? The NCS are a part of it.

[@cherylshaimas8238]

I haven't heard the group since I was a teenager,so long ago.

[@ramosa999]

This is the first song I looked for when I joined KZbin back around 2008, because I remembered it from when it first came out in 1969, and it was always hauntingly beautiful. I never forgot it...but couldn't remember the title, or who sang it, because I was only 9 at the time, and the oldies stations never played it.

[@policemomdeb]

Love this song, it just brings back memories of growing up and listening to it. Even now my son likes to listen to the 60's. I love the bubble gum music

[@sweetg12651]

My senior year in HS. What memories this song stirs up.

[@dales095]

I always loved this song. I just wish it was in any local Juke Boxes So many people have never heard it.

[@24sweetroller7]

I loved the harmonies of this song. I first heard it when it hit the airwaves in 1969 and it still brings happy tears to my eyes whenever I hear it. This song had to be one of the foundations for the soft rock or easy listening formats on radio at the time. I remember hearing it on some of our local pop stations at the time. Brings back wonderful memories.

[@Nighthawk5210]

An exquisitely lovely song, so moving and emotional--it always makes me tear up. One of the greatest songs of the 60s and all time for that matter.❤

[@richardkazmier9414]

The most beautiful outrow in all of 60s rock.

[@Thadmotor1044]

Lost classic , timeless and profound

[@stewartfox9603]

The sixties lots of good fashion great music

[@stewartfox9603]

Shickasha, Yes and them too.

[@nrcg2317]

And the best of music...

[@joeeaster5386]

I CAN REMEMBER LISTENING TO THAT DRAF T ON THE TV...IN THE BACK GROUND MY BROTHER WAS LISTENING TO WRKO IN BOSTON......THIS TUNE CAME ON......A GREAT SONG FOR A BAD TIME IN HISTORY....THANKS TO ALL OUR MILITARY FOLKS...

[@richardsmiers1016]

That night on TV, they pulled my birthday(Sept 14) as number 1. I finally was drafted on Nov 27, 1972, with a college degree in hand. My drill Sargent couldn't believe it. It all ended well two years latter.

[@stevengutierrez3510]

The sounds of the drums really brought out this great song. I remember it as a kid back in 1969. Stumbled on it by accident on my auto radio. Takes you so back.

[@walterguzek7210]

my freshman year of high school our youth school dances and first loves couldn't find a better time to grow up love this song

[@cherixbiggs5819]

I’ve said it before.....that cold start is perfect! Ronnie’s voice is so sincere!!! ❤️

[@BeatlesGirlKaren]

Such a great song still to this day ~ takes me right back to 7th grade!

[@57highland]

and me to 6th .....

[@joannehackney2947]

And me to 8th grade!

[@adalinebarkleyladewig3494]

The new cilony

[@rcapra123]

And me to the 9th!

[@johnparker8588]

I listened to this again. Immediately I was back in 1967 going to a high school basketball game. The feeling is so real.

[@kpyng]

I heard this song constantly on the radio and jukebox during middle school...

[@mjdace7816]

This song came out in late 1968. November to be exact I first heard that song from 🎶🎵 Music radio 77 WABC AM. They played it a lot.

[@hugbug4408]

Remember this played on phillies WFIL famous 56 in March of 1969 , I was turning 12 soon , and in the 6th grade. Vietnam was raging. The girls were cute and hip as anything. THE 60s!!

[@musiccollector]

Take me back to 1969, PLEASE. Released on December 14, 1968, reaching # 16 on March 22, 1969.

[@cherixbiggs5819]

So beautifully sad. Thank you, Ronnie Rice, for the beautiful vocal!

[@lauracook8231]

Wow, what a beautiful song...I almost forgot about it! 😀

[@ernestwheldrake]

Many thanks... these guys played at our junior prom back in 1970, down in southern Indiana... cost a lot of money, but it was well worth it. Not only did they play there's, but they played a lot of other people's music to comma and played it all well. Definitely not the first big band I'd heard...THAT dubious honour went to The Box Tops in late '68, but by god these guys were good.

[@debbielynn7881]

I'm 11 when this came out. Thought of over the years. Forgot about. I'm now 60 and it danced itself into my mind 5 min ago. I tune in here. It sounds pretty fresh to me and still so beautiful!!! Thank you.💗

[@basilmarasco1975]

Me too .... 11 when this song came out, about half-way through sixth grade.

[@nrcg2317]

What a wonderful time for music...it's the only thing that kept us going...

[@donnamarshall4486]

love it...takes me back to another place in time

[@BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971]

I haven't heard this song in years. So nice; really takes me back to 1969!✌️

[@fast4wood]

yes, one of the countless awesome one hit wonders from that era . The first 20 years of rock will never be equaled. It was a truly a musical renaissance. Glad i got to hear it first hand.

[@DougCeleste]

What a VERY memorable song of a much simpler life back then when I was a sophomore in high school in San Jose, CA.

[@AbbeyRoad52]

You ever hear songs that capture a certain time perfectly even though you weren't even alive then? Its like, just by listening to that song you can place yourself in that time. This is one of those songs. I always thought "Fresh Air" by Quicksilver Messenger Service did this as well.

[@jlrainone100]

One of the best songs of the 1960’s

[@ryanchin9231]

how times flies..

[@luiscalcano4359]

I was 12 years old wen this came out late winter / early spring 1969. Wfil philly played this alot and it's a fabulous tune. My have the years gone by. Saw many dudes coming home from Vietnam, and some were still there. Great times.

[@murphy60]

I close my eyes and I see the 60’s again.

[@jbyesterday3959]

The harmony on the bridge to this song is mesmerizing !

[@jpollardbookseller]

this is an absolutely beautiful song with a timeless message.

[@carmenlenmark5100]

Love this song as well, when songs were so sweet...

[@jeffswafford6017]

all these years I still have the original 45 record, I sort of fell in love with a lady, I wish she could here it, I was 13 when it came out on am radio, so beautiful

[@kimduckworth5047]

Wow! Haven't heard this for ages. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful.

[@kathybrattain5649]

This song just popped into my head. I had to find it and listen to it. I am so glad that I did. The memories.

[@maryzimmerman3713]

Same here!