Phoebe Snow- "Poetry Man" (with Lyrics) (1080pHD)

[@feliciaeaves2996]

This is the beauty of these types of songs back in the day. I had no idea that this was a song about a woman who was "the other woman." when I was listening to this when I was a child back in the 70's. Now-a-days, the lyrics are so graphic and in your face that it takes all the fun out of listening to them. And Phoebe's voice was so mellow that that was all you were listening to. Continue to rest in heavenly peace Phoebe Snow.

[@WRHIX1967]

This is one of the very best songs of the 1970s

[@markkubiak8296]

A gorgeous voice singing a stunningly beautiful song. My god, Phoebe!!

[@debdessaso]

Phoebe Snow is another under-recognized singers in American history, though she was quite popular in NYC. Her unusually beautiful voice defied the music industry's tendency to typecast, thus she will always be one of history's truly original voices. RIP Phoebe.

[@bell-crank4949]

You hit the nail on the head, Deborah.

[@lindamccrary8414]

Deborah Dessaso I totally agree. I was teenager when this song came out. I thought she had the most beautiful voice.😘

[@rickbuck7336]

Beautiful voice!!!

[@gaylerocker]

You are 100% on point. She was phenomenal. I saw her in concert in 1983... what I loved about this extraordinary pre 7 or 8 level octive range singer was, she wasn't glamor girl. She came out with a T-shirt, Jeans, her untamed hair, guitar, and signature glasses and sent us into another world. Hearing her in person was an experience where one had to be there to truly appreciate her eccentric style and voice. We were all in awe when we left that concert.

[@sharonjoseph-dixon8895]

Yes.

[@pamelapurla7137]

That voice! Total ear candy!!!!!!

[@merlinadavis5456]

I love this song oh how it brings me back the wonderful 70’s … the best of times …🥰

[@mirnarackleff1999]

There will never be music like the 70's and 80's! :)

[@travis7310]

Mirna Rackleff The '70s had the best music! I don't like a lot of the music from my own decade that much. I was born in '90.

[@avdreader1]

There was great music before the 70s. Better in fact. After that, not much.

[@leahkelly3772]

Loving HER since 1970 or earlier

[@sharonjoseph-dixon8895]

Absolutely !!!!

[@jessecallahan480]

Thank you. I haven't heard this in decades. But I woke up singing it in my head this morning. Beautiful song.

[@rayetanner6207]

Phoebe: You make a song do what it do! So glad to have seen this incredibly talented lady of song in person at the Village Gate, NYC, back in late 70s - early 80s. She was amazing! She is missed terribly!

[@jimperreault5531]

THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL, GOOD OLE" DAY,S, SWEET MEMORIES, R.I.P. PHOEBE SNOW, GREAT SONG,A.PERREAULT LISTENING TO IN 2024,.

[@charlescopeland5848]

Phoebe snow, Janis Ian, tracy Chapman. Voices overlooked back then but remembered by those who knew greatness.

[@gat1240]

I dig the sax solo and looked up the credits. It was Zoot Sims,also involved were David Bromberg,Ron Carter,Teddy Wilson,Bob James, Dave Mason ,etc. This is an All World studio band and then there is Phil Ramone mixing! A real confluence of talent

[@NormaTD]

Thanks for this info. I was trying for so long to find out who the wonderful sax playing solo was played by!

[@RonSafreed]

Thanks Phoebe for singing that song!!!!

[@bmdumas49]

This is a beautiful song. Although old, it's new to my ears and I love it. RIP Phoebe.

[@kennyb9058]

She was so in control of her vocals. So natural.

[@noshadesista1924]

I'm an 80's baby and grew up loving her music and still. I was blessed to see her perform. I miss her. But enjoy her music still. Remembered forever

[@oliviasimpson7526]

She reminds me of my youth....such a spirited, flowing voice......

[@MichaelaH2059]

Beautiful, soulful song

[@DLSmith93]

"You know that you don't have to go..." My goodness I loved this woman's voice! At that point in our history, to find a unique sound was not easy. But there she was, lighting up my life with her music. Thanks so much for posting!

[@drh-ov7eq]

What a beautiful voice....rip Phoebe

[@shinjoki]

This song was before my time, but damn, this is REAL music! She had an awesome voice that just calms and relaxes you, and that acoustic guitar goes great with it.

[@454something]

I have a friend who I have loved for 52 years. Anything she speaks to me is poetry. "I'm not religious but I'm spiritual." I get along with animals better than people." "I really enjoyed cocaine back then." "Man was not meant to be monogamous." Hell, she could read from an old tattered phone book and I would be mesmerized. Pure sweet poetry!

[@travis7310]

She sounds like a trip!

[@chrissydoodle655]

I may be young but I love music from back in the day. The quality, the substance. I wish more music was like this! Phoebe Snow is one of my favorite artists. Love this song so much. I remember when I started falling in love with someone and this song still makes me go back to the very first time I got those butterflies when I would look at those brown eyes😊. Happiness. Beautiful music, amazing voice and such deeply relatable lyrics.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1976 {July 30th} Phoebe Snow performed "Poetry Man" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'... One year earlier on June 20th, 1975 she first appeared on 'The Midnight Special' and at that time also performed "Poetry Man"... The song peaked at #5 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Singles chart... Sadly, Ms. Snow passed away on April 26th, 2011 at the young age of 60... May she R.I.P.

[@tribeofjuda]

awesome info. Thanks!

[@cliffordcullen1687]

The good times, yet I was very young. Makes me remember the simpler times. Makes me smile when I here this record.

[@TCgirl]

I loved this song back in the mid 70s and didn't know till now it was about cheating with someone else's husband. But what a voice.

[@SirWrecksy]

longing for something you can never have....haunting,, poignant and beautiful

[@lonelycubicle]

i think you win, but the song would be ok with it if you did have, right? relationships r hard!

[@nicefella3]

great song... Her voice is so soothing....Love her music

[@BladMatyGorella]

Beautiful voice.

[@AnthonyMonetti-q1e]

Phoebe loved poetry man a great song When I hear it tears flow rip A soft voice

[@emiliopena6841]

Every person has a poetry life,with tears and happiness.....

[@avdreader1]

I absolutely adore this song. She had great personnel working with her on this album. Just wonderful!

[@cleanslate2004]

I've always honed in on Phoebe's vocals, back in the day, but the instrimental is so in sync, smooth & unique it just feels like an extention of her. It's like the perfect sound track to her if she were a movie. It doesn't distract you from her at all. It adorns her perfectly. Roberta Flacks Killing me Softly comes to mind as one of those perfectly rare songs.

[@cathysales2025]

what beautiful music

[@cpapa1]

What can I say, my heart always longs for the times when life was sooooo truly good and special. Kickn it wit my famz and listenin to a bit of Phoebe Snow. Yea that's the one.

[@litaneumann3931]

Thanks for this video. I am learning to sing this song. I found that several versions of the lyric are a bit different. Here it’s written in the chorus, “You’re the poetry man. You make things all right.” It kinda sounds like it too. But several other sources say the lyric is, “You’re the poetry man. You make things all rhyme.” It seems like she sings this in the live version, as well. And it also seems like saying “rhyme” instead of “right” goes with the theme of poetry as well.

[@fernandolimon2415]

To fall in love to this song

[@mkl62]

This hit by Phoebe Snow was the 248th #1 song on what is now Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts. It also hit #5 on the Top 40 charts and #4 in Canada. I have this on an LP from Ronco, Sound Explosion.

[@belindasisterb]

Brings back lots of memories of growing up! Classic I could listen to over & over! Keep Kool/Stay Frosty & Talk To Me Some more My Friends! : )

[@stevespencer7884]

Where power corrupts; poetry cleanses

[@charlescopeland5848]

A great end of summer on the beach at sunset song.

[@prudencemayes6938]

LOVE LOVE! Simply amazing!

[@spideraxis]

Very pretty song. I remember well when it was released, the brief but idyllic time it was on the charts and got some radio play. Today it is all but forgotten. Both the song and singer Phoebe Snow never got the credit for the genius each was. Each highly underrated.

[@avdreader1]

I agree wholeheartedly! Silky smooth. The kind of song I wanna listen to in my pitch dark living room, sitting in my recliner and thinking of nothing. Except for the beauty of this song.

[@infojoe8563]

CLASSIC !!! heard this when i was a kid my aunt played it all the time

[@Mr7galvin]

LOVE THIS SONG.

[@travis7310]

Marese Addams It's one of my all-time favorites!

[@Mr7galvin]

WHAT A GOOD SONG.

[@marianneyoungren4654]

When.i. hear this song I remember the love. Of my life.the man who broke me in pieces I can never forget him

[@Sebastianx007]

Such a beautiful song ... takes me back to my earlier stages of life 4 yrz old and im 40 now .... R.i.p Love u always Phoebe :(((((((((

[@donalddevore5012]

CLASSIC!

[@WheelchairGear]

Great song! reminds me of my high school days.

[@ManagerGuy1]

Love her too! RIP!!

[@travis7310]

@laughwithlife2012 It's about a woman (Phoebe) having an affair with a married man. ("You're goin' home now, home's that place you go each day to see your wife"). She stated that the song is about a friend of her dad. But, she obviously couldn't give the name, for personal reasons.

[@nanook5875]

Great song thank you

[@joyrose9597]

What year did this song come out?

[@travis7310]

@fiercelygifted She had a truly unique voice, that's very hard to to find these days.

[@CherylWhitestone]

A good man I used to know.

[@gaylerocker]

Hi it's you're the Poerty Man you make things all rhyme!!!

[@CherylWhitestone]

He told me Everything is going to be Alright. Is it ? I am still waiting and wondering...

[@LeifWikfeldt]

I think the bassist here is Chuck Domanico, not Carter. I agree, I love this album and production!

[@KarenEng]

Great video! Thanks for posting! :)

[@lisashelton8728]

Amazing tremalo voice and haunting music. She was indeed talented, however the subject matter knocks the wind out of my sails. I can't emphasize with the lovers in the song. He is a selfish cad, and she seems to have no regard for the betrayed wife. To me, true romantic love is selfless and mutually shared between only two people. Too bad her lyrics didn't reflect this same sentiment.

[@sgt.barnes5218]

I think she could have sung Opera with no trouble, what amazing voice control.

[@litostanskybrian]

best rock of all times , listen to 75 and 76 top of the rock ladder .Music now misses the rhyme of the soul and sweet emotion

[@jimmyd2519]

+litostanskybrian I agree totally I remember hearing this in my moms 69 toronado flying down the freeway doing 75 with no seat belts on. those were different times.

[@culturalcreativeguy1171]

litostanskybrian beautifully said

[@AnimalsAndReports]

Bashful boy? I think not - he's having his cake and eating it

[@travis7310]

@MegaYodels Thank you! I believe this is one of my best lyric videos. :)

[@travis7310]

@KarenEng Thanks, and you're welcome! :D

[@lizajane0bags]

oh yeah!

[@lorne2405]

im sure it was early 70,s i remember it in high school

[@thomasalderuccio890]

I think 1975

[@susancox4957]

Remembering you on your birthday, Phoebe.

[@peggysosa8436]

love it!!!

[@lorne2405]

when did this song come out?i remeber it in the 70,s mid? i forget lol

[@charliebe28]

Phoebe Snow's song "Poetry Man" was first circulating on radio around early-Autumn (i.e., Sept-Oct.) of 1974. Do understand that during that era -, individual radio-stations had much more discretion concerning when-or-if they would add a given song to their play-lists, than they have had since the mass-consolidation of the radio industry that has happened since the early-1980s. However, I DO clearly recall that in my home locale of Birmingham, Alabama -, that song received its initial airplay during the time period that I stated. ~ If you'd like to check further into the "chart history" of this song (or any other recent-decades "hit"), you could try researching that for yourself on the Billboard Archives website: www.billboard.com/magazine-archive

[@sheneversleeps222]

my poetry man is my sexy husband. no one has ever heard more beautiful love songs than the ones he writes for me. she wrote the perfect song for the way through which my eyes see him. and, without him, music could never again reach my ear and my eternity would be silence.

[@BladMatyGorella]

awhoooooooo ooooo yeahhhhh

[@GlowingBentley]

Four tasteless Phillistines dislike this video. What a voice.

[@Solutions3000]

@GlowingBentley : Off with their heads

[@Beardman29]

This is track 47 on the soundtrack of my youth.

[@travis7310]

@fiercelygifted Truly gifted was she!

[@michaelmaxfield3744]

Did Phoebe Snow write Poetry Man?

[@travis7310]

@Darknessinpit57 She left us too soon.

[@jonathan90060]

me gusta la cancion

[@ghostship85]

Roberta Flack, 2 years in a row. Great song,she wrote,she sung.

[@nikihealey467]

Love this song ma.mummas.jam

[@missmikkol]

Bombbay has got it right!

[@carolnelson68]

This song came out(I think) in late 60's!!!!

[@jimmyd2519]

+carol nelson 71 72 ish is what I recall.

[@travis7310]

jimmy d Released in late '74 and went to #5 on the top 40 in early '75.

[@dnjazz6840]

tell the truth phoebe!

[@PleasePRAYforPEACE_Yehowaah]

Very Sad Song 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@travis7310]

@laughwithlife2012 You're welcome. :)

[@marianneyoungren4654]

The sweetest Love affair of my life my sweet. Lenny

[@travis7310]

It would be very interesting to hear her sing a rock song, especially since she's dead.

[@Valerie-oq6gy]

travis7310 lmao

[@matejpribina2756]

I will be wondre, how she sounds when she will sing a rock song. It could be interesant, dont u think?

[@joyrenicks6817]

Matej Pribina lmaooooo

[@joyrenicks6817]

That was AWESOME

[@lenardshaw6037]

2✨0🌟2💫1❤

[@sbstnpofadder]

Running with scissors. The movie that brought me here

[@bonniebucklaw4143]

2:40

[@ghostship85]

Neck and neck with Roberts Flavor.

[@joyrenicks6817]

ghostship85 minnie ripperton

[@robertmalone3525]

Sounds like a white Roberta Flack

[@bell-crank4949]

Sent to please singer- We naughtied while Prose man away- Godzilla, No tip?! -Haiku man

[@barbieoldschool320]

for my fazzahawk

[@renezuehl2584]

lol

[@youtoo2233]

Too slow

[@travis7310]

It sounds fine to me. This is how I always heard it.

[@youtoo2233]

@@travis7310 check out a few of the other KZbin videos of this song and you can definitely tell a difference. This sounds like it's dragging a little bit

[@travis7310]

@@youtoo2233 The audio was ripped from a video on here and it sounds just like this. I don't know if it's still up, though.

[@youtoo2233]

@@travis7310 just give it a listen if you get time you can definitely hear this one is dragging

[@travis7310]

@@youtoo2233 It's faster than my turntable would play it. LOL.