I just donated convalescent plasma and a friend said "you are Superman!" So, here I am! Love R.E.M. 4Ever ✌💙
@chrisbrowne86452 жыл бұрын
Love that they performed with the guy who wrote the song
@sydneyzekley14 жыл бұрын
Dad immortalized. Thanks for posting this.
@souldeep693 жыл бұрын
Big fan of your dad's for forever, Sydney. Yellow Balloon, Fun n' Games, two of the best Grass Roots hits. Great songwriter. Really good to see him acknowledged and having fun. Glad you got to see it. Zekley/Bottler always meant magic to me.
@sydneyzekley-p4v11 ай бұрын
thank you so very much@@souldeep69
@lametube014 ай бұрын
He is Superman
@ineedanewname95959443 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs!!!! So glad to find it with the original writer! Too cool!!!!
@mbuchart29273 ай бұрын
Mr. Zekley out-Michaels Michael in showmanship in this performance!
@countrypaul6 жыл бұрын
Gary Zekley was totally under-appreciated in his time. Maybe this will help folks remember.
@Oh_I_Will3 ай бұрын
Maybe by you….F-idiot
@Issicra15 жыл бұрын
I love the Life's Rich Pageant era.
@stratboy5182 жыл бұрын
That’s a man having a blast. Imagine writing this song and decades later the biggest band in America records it. Fuq yeah!! 🤙🏼
@awbjr987116 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great show. REM from the 80s and 10000 Maniacs with Natalie. Awesome!
@RFC35143 ай бұрын
I like how seriously Stipe takes his "Superman" mime. "I must raise both arms so that deaf people know who this song is about."
@Blackscorpion19633 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs from R.E.M. The groooooooove of this song so rocks. And how about the harmonic vocals? Move it on over Beach Boys...
@dennisandvicki17 жыл бұрын
I'd do the happy dance too if I wrote this song. Absolute classic, thanks for posting!!
@sallybrown4947 Жыл бұрын
REM didn't write this song. This is nothing but a cover. It came out in 69 by the group Clique.
@maxc90453 жыл бұрын
Love watching old REM footage. Happy days from years gone by.
@nicoletisha16 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite R.E.M. songs. This video made me love it more! :D
@barrybland-hoven458211 жыл бұрын
It's not a silly song it is a song about being your own hero. Charting your own path and using your skill and superpowers to overcome obstacles in life.
@Strudelmill2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's not quite it. Happy Birthday, friend?
@robmunro10655 жыл бұрын
god bless the recording studio
@auggiepup9815 жыл бұрын
been rem fan since hs, and i agree the pageant era is the best, went to green tour with my pop, and now my kids are asking me to play "that superman song" again and again...thanks for info on the clique, have to do some long overdue research...how could this song NOT make a person happy?... and i love the spontaneity of live music...fire alarms? awsome, but so true, hilarious...
@kaisersteev13 жыл бұрын
everytime I look up a sweet early live REM song it's in my hometown two years before I was born.
@camlisa10012 жыл бұрын
Yeah, MS's voice is one-of-a-kind, deep, strong and haunting, but MM's voice makes me happy, it's got a sweet quality. Wished he'd sung lead maybe once per album.
@Turissss4 жыл бұрын
I agree with you
@gregcurtis38293 жыл бұрын
A Keith Richards kinda thang
@JStarStar002 жыл бұрын
He did sing lead about one song per album.
@Groundhog226516 жыл бұрын
Saw REM (first time) 1987 Knoxville TN. they played this song. 10,000 Maniacs opened, they kicked ass!
@denofbob Жыл бұрын
I was at this show -- a great moment captured!
@michaelsix96843 жыл бұрын
one of my favorite dance songs, such a great memory
@OleksiiM14 жыл бұрын
@TomFromJersey REMs 'Superman' is one of my all-time favorites too!
@keithm94014 жыл бұрын
I saw the same leg of that tour in Detroit. It was a great show, but I really only knew RFE, which they did not play. I had a midterm the next day, but I wanted to have some fun my first year at college. This was it.
@TonyLovell Жыл бұрын
A wonderful song, and Gary has an AMAZING voice and panache
@debby631 Жыл бұрын
❤2023 still enjoying this jem😊
@40klad8313 жыл бұрын
This music was used for the ending theme to a CSI:NY episode. And in this context it is very moving & emotional. It's Det. Flack & other NYPD officer in pursuit & capturing A bad guy, then shifts to the lab, where the CSI crew is analyzing data & collecting evidence. And I thought that was really cool, the Episode is called "Superheroes" , It affected me so much that I found tears rolling down my face!! Thank you REM & Thank you CSI:NY for creating for me a priceless memory.
@db6001415 жыл бұрын
I was there that nite. Stipe had the audience all doing his superman arm thing. Then tried faking us out near the end. Great stuff!
@PARKGRUBBS14 жыл бұрын
Yes, Gary co wrote and produced the Clique LP. SUPERMAN is the best thing on there and REM did a pretty good cover. Go find the original and listen to it as well.
@ec13855 жыл бұрын
Frankenstein on back-up vocals.
@subwaygoddess13 жыл бұрын
Today is 10/21/21 Happy Anniversary to this performance!! ✌🎵💙
@ineedanewname95959443 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing!!!!❤
@exocet200017 жыл бұрын
This is so cool. just having fun.
@brianmason93612 жыл бұрын
EVERY CHRISTIAN LION-HEARTED MAN WILL SHOW YOU. The Bee gees.
@michaelsix9684 Жыл бұрын
sure miss this band, the Ramones, the Cars -- really great acts
@smallchico15 жыл бұрын
I'm not a big fan of live videos but I love this one because of his enthusiasm
@TomFromJersey14 жыл бұрын
@quartzy One of my all-time favorites!
@SIRROSLYNPARKS7 жыл бұрын
This is a once in a life Tim Moment ! Wow FKING GREAT
@soulscanner6611 жыл бұрын
Dude! I totally, totally "get" your message; awesome!
@LTF616113 жыл бұрын
Wait. Neither of these guys sang lead on the original recordings. Mills sang lead for REM and Randy Shaw sang lead on the B side of Sugar on Sunday for the Clique.
@galoon11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely--I first heard REM's "Superman" at my first frat party when I was a freshman in college in 1988! You can hear the '60s sound in it, though--Gary Zekley originally wrote it for the Clique in '69. He had done some writing with Jan & Dean before that.
@sarahm.53562 жыл бұрын
Take a listen to this song, "Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man", by the Bee Gees. It's from their first album, from 1967. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3zdnHyHpNOZoZo
@galoon2 жыл бұрын
@@sarahm.5356 Great song! I'd never heard that one before--interesting how its harmonies and chord progressions in the chorus are similar to Superman. I like the echo too--saved it to my favorites--thanks Sarah!
@billysings12 жыл бұрын
I much prefer the original by The Clique from 1969 which is here on KZbin. It certainly works well for R.E.M. and even better for the great sunshine music band from Texas. Also, if you like that pop factor in this song, check the Clique version of "Sugar on Sunday". You will be haunted by its chorus.
@JStarStar0010 жыл бұрын
Ironic because late-period (1990s/2000s) Michael Stipe is a dead ringer for ... Lex Luthor.
@twasbrillig3310 жыл бұрын
aaha HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA!! so true!!
@reallyrarestuff12 жыл бұрын
And don't forget The Clique's other unknown track "I'll Hold Out My Hand"
@randyn9811 жыл бұрын
Why the hell is the camera on Stipe the whole time when Mills is singing lead?
@Lifeblesser7 жыл бұрын
Maybe 'cause no one has ever seen Gary Zekley before (unless they were Clique fans)?
@hsad123417 жыл бұрын
Wish Mike Mills sang leaad more often
@Jenni4Design14 жыл бұрын
haha, I can remember my little brother running around trying to jump off furniture whenever my Dad played this song
@die_melonbros95487 жыл бұрын
I AM I AM SUPERMAN I CAN DOOOOO ANYTHING AAAAANNNNITHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@lostmyshu Жыл бұрын
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
@paullagasse550425 күн бұрын
A little smug from mr mills this is the guy who wrote superman...and now were gonna make him rich .really mike ...awesome performance though always loved this song and love Michaels superman moves
@turntapzap17 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@meatcigars14 жыл бұрын
Do any of you know that the co-singer is the guy who wrote "Superman" back in the '60s for the band "The Clique"?
@snidelywhiplash17 жыл бұрын
He might be a goober, but he wrote the song. It's actually a cover of a song by a band called The Clique.
@sammytrip16 жыл бұрын
makes me happy too
@duanekuiper16 жыл бұрын
Good times! Freshman year at Wittenberg Univesity-1983-they played -fan ever since!
@HagerTX17 жыл бұрын
And if I got a chance to sing on stage with REM, I'd bet I'd spaz out even worse than that guy.
@MattHazardPS4 Жыл бұрын
🎸
@whatdidoursurveysay9 жыл бұрын
I'll say it. I like R.E.M.'s cover better than the Clique's original. Come at me.
@todds79jag6 жыл бұрын
No you’re right ... originals a lil painful
@reubenlouismusic4 жыл бұрын
noah hawley's cover throws both the original and this cover out of the window tbh
@Zenbuck24 жыл бұрын
Still like the original best. Love REMs but, the original was grittier and the awesome bass line was more prominent.
@dynjarren83554 ай бұрын
Too Cool for School! 😮
@rolando_j_ Жыл бұрын
Weird video. It's Mike Mills song and the video is on Stipe singing back up. Stipe even said as much before the song started.
@OleManBourbon16 жыл бұрын
There was a time when there was no internet. . . good times. . .
@sexobscura4 жыл бұрын
and you'd have no KZbin too
@charliestubbs61514 жыл бұрын
@@sexobscura so be it bro
@REMchout16 жыл бұрын
It's a pop song...'nuff said.
@TheProhetess4 жыл бұрын
yeah, so am I
@davepaine11664 жыл бұрын
That's exactly my That's exactly motherfuking right
@davepaine11664 жыл бұрын
There's no self in US
@doomrat Жыл бұрын
Gary has the ultimate dad dance moves
@sydneyzekley-p4v11 ай бұрын
Gary is my dad. And Yes his dance moves are Epic
@turksezen11 жыл бұрын
Nice cover, but I think I like the original version by The Clique better
@jamfab113 жыл бұрын
@harvestdanny I was there too.
@djtrixen14 жыл бұрын
@themooddisorders nope but the guy singing with them here did.
@TimTompkins17 жыл бұрын
that guys such a goober they're singin w/
@TomFromJersey14 жыл бұрын
@quartzy I actually like the lyrics a lot
@derhajnali62157 жыл бұрын
If I could do anything... REunion Member
@theyoungflyer17 жыл бұрын
i could kick myself for not going to this show go huskies! ; )
@atomeyes993 жыл бұрын
The 80s were a decade of musicians not knowing what the hell to do with their arms, wasn't it?
@AngieOwlglass9 жыл бұрын
@vegetablehead2 жыл бұрын
doing research, i have corrected myself. thought gary was a member of the clique. not so. gary died of a heart attack at age 53, ten years after this performance. way too young.
@鶴見五郎丸 Жыл бұрын
Gary は、The Clique のメンバーだった人だよね。
@TomFromJersey14 жыл бұрын
@meatcigars Yes
@themooddisorders14 жыл бұрын
@quartzy We all know REM didn't write this song.
@RamesesBolton8 жыл бұрын
Stephen Ireland
@quartzy491416 жыл бұрын
This song is just silliness. It's not very good lyrically, but it has a certain charm.
@allmenarepirates13 жыл бұрын
john bonham is the best drummer ever. this song is moving.
@charliestubbs61514 жыл бұрын
i know you posted this nine years ago but huh????
@Kapricorn112 жыл бұрын
this song is the ducking mutts nuts :-D
@maddymud15 жыл бұрын
Camper Van blown away? Never. Ever. I saw Camper Van blow that horrible spinner girl, 10,000 morons or something. Yech.
@bellahoughton842 жыл бұрын
"U don't really love that guy you're making with do you?" Ridiculous lyrics for 1986.
@minimcewen14 жыл бұрын
I saw them before they were famous playing a small college in Wilmington, N.C. in '85. Stipe was a 'wipe' back then, too. Getting upset b/c people were jeering during one of his prolonged intro's. If he's so 'touchy' perhaps they should have thought twice about playing at college's with drunk college students. Good music: wimpy people.