Our Winter Love
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2008
- This is some of the imagery I visualize with the Bill Pursell song "Our Winter Love". I imagine it is nighttime and the snow is melting after the last Spring snow. The video was taken in the daytime so I had to alter the color & put in some other effects to create the illusion. This was filmed in my yard. If you like this winter video, you might also like my other romantic winter video entitled, "Footprints in the Snow" by Chris Rea
If you want to see the perfect imagery in a video of this song, I would tell you to visit the channel of 12mulligan. This is the link to his video on CZcams:
• Our Winter Love. Bill ...
Please go to this CZcams channel below to also leave your comments about this song. It is the CZcams channel for Johnny Cowell 's grandson. Johnny Cowell wrote this music played by Bill Pursell. I am sure Johnny and Bill would love your comments... / @zarudny84 - Hudba
This song brings back innocence, hope, and thankfulness. One Christmas Day, in 1962, I walked over to the Dearborn city ice rink. And there was a young man, with a parks and recreation sweatshirt on, going around the rink while holding onto the sides. When he came by me, I said "How did you get this job?" Because he couldn't skate. And he said, "they asked me if I had skates, and my father did. So I got the job." After 5 short years, waiting for my love to finish college and the marine corps, he was mine. He was my winter love.
This is a great story and another reason why this song has almost .75 million hits on CZcams
This song and Percy Faith's A Summer Place, the best!
Thanks for the comment. I also have a video here with "Theme from a Summer Place" as well as "Theme from the Summer of '42 ". I think you will like them also.
Also Last Date - Floyd Cramer
As a teenager, whenever I was sad I would go to my room , turn the lights out, close my eyes and let this song soothe me. It still affects me that way today. This song is such a special gift to all of us! Thank you.
Thanks for the comment. I too remember this song as a teenager when it first came out. This song created a very relaxing feeling which I tried to create in video. One image I had when I first heard this song was that of a young couple walking at night in a tree lined park while the snow was gently falling. I wish I had been able to find scenes similar to what I imaged.
Me too.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard in my 76 years. I never tire of hearing it over and over and over.
I agree 100%. I remember hearing it when it 1st came outback in the 1960s. Thanks for leaving the comment.
Absolutely most beautiful song ever. Takes me back to 1963, high school, cozy home with my crazy loving family, football games, friends. Wish I could re-live it all. Was truly wonderful & carefree. Miss it so.
Hi grammie! It’s Henry
I absolutely love this song. I first heard this song when I was 11. I actually cry everytime I hear it. It's so beautiful; it just hits my spirit. I'm in my 70's today. Thank you!❤
I was 17 when that came out. Thanks for leaving a comment.
Canadian composer and trumpeter Johnny Cowell, who composed this song, passed away in Toronto on January 22, at the age of 92. This song will always be his legacy.
Condolences!!! Timeless, gorgeous music. Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!
I always loved instrumental songs growing up in the 60s. From February, 1963, this one is my all-time favorite, hands down! I can listen to it over and over and over and not tire of it. Amazing sound! Thank you, Mr. Cowell for writing it and Bill Pursell for making it sound so wonderful.
I too remember this song very well back in the winter of '63. I remember hearing mainly at night; maybe that is why I try to make the video to appear to be at night. This is probably the most romantic instrumental song ever written.
I agree 1,000 percent! I love it!
For an in-depth history of just how this beautiful and haunting melody came to be, go to: m.czcams.com/video/0c45spFPiQE/video.html#dialog
RIP, Bill Pursell (June 9, 1926 - September 3, 2020), Grammy-Winning composer who had this beautiful hit song in 1963. Rest In Peace, good sir: your winter love still warms our hearts even now.
I just typed this in, it’s soooo BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@isoldeward3199 sounds like a Christmas 🎄 song
Sounds like a theme song for several somebodies❤
I'm 71 years old now and you can't believe the memories this song brings back. Thanks much, Dave
Ill be 75 on May 1st and I know exactly what you mean. Memories of growing up in New Jersey in the sixties bring tears of joy and an aching of times past everytime I listen to this song. You had to be there to understand I guess. Love it... thank you.
It's unfortunate that music like this beautiful arrangement hasn't been produced in several decades....
I agree 100%
And the days are gone when we used to enjoy beautiful movie themes which lasted for decades.
Think back....replay them...beautiful memories..soundtracks
@@DrinkingStar I am listening to at this moment November 19th in my house just wanted you to know that thinking of my wife Becky Etzwiler still miss her 💖🙏😪💏
...and the easy-listening radio stations from my childhood that I used to fall asleep to which played peaceful tunes like this have long since been switched over to endless talk radio, news and weather formats. Ugh.
@@christopheretzwiler5635 Thanks for sharing that incredible heart of yours Christopher!!!! Blessings!!!!
This song was written by my grandfather Johnny Cowell. I am glad to see so many people still enjoying this song over 50 years later. My grandfather just celebrated his 90th birthday and he loves when I show him the comments people leave. Thanks everyone
+Zarudny84 I am glad to hear from you. Thank you for the information that your grandfather was the songwriter of this song. I hope your grandfather has a chance to view my video with his song. I hope he will leave a comment. I am sure this information will add more interest in this song. Bill Pursell also saw this video and left a comment indicating he liked it.
My internet search indicated that Bill Pursell, while sifting through some demos, happened to come across your grandfather's mailing to a local publishing company. Your grandfather called the song, "Long Island Sound". I have often played your grandfather's song in the winter while sitting in my car overlooking Long Island Sound from Seaside Park in Bridgeport. It snowed today at Seaside Park. Maybe someday, using this song, I will make another video from the shore of Seaside Park showing it snowing over Long Island Sound. Many of my videos are of Seaside Park and Long Island Sound. I hope you decide to view some of them.
One
day, while sifting through some demos, Pursell and Justis came upon an
acetate mailed to one of the local publishing companies by a Canadian
songwriter named Johnny Cowell. It was called
“Long Island Sound.” - See more at:
mcantil.com/song-of-the-day-bill-pursells-our-winter-love/#sthash.AGqjksZ8.dpuf
One
day, while sifting through some demos, Pursell and Justis came upon an
acetate mailed to one of the local publishing companies by a Canadian
songwriter named Johnny Cowell. It was called
“Long Island Sound.” - See more at:
mcantil.com/song-of-the-day-bill-pursells-our-winter-love/#sthash.AGqjksZ8.dpuf
One
day, while sifting through some demos, Pursell and Justis came upon an
acetate mailed to one of the local publishing companies by a Canadian
songwriter named Johnny Cowell. It was called
“Long Island Sound.” - See more at:
mcantil.com/song-of-the-day-bill-pursells-our-winter-love/#sthash.AGqjksZ8.dpuf
+Zarudny84 What an honor to be able to tell you that this is truly one of the most beautiful tunes for ALL times. You must be so proud of your grandfather. What a rich heritage you have in this life. I envy you in a good fashion.
+Zarudny84 Your grandfather must be an amazing man. Please tell him "thank you" for this lovely song. It brings back so many wonderful memories for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
+Zarudny84 Tell you grandfather I am honored that he loves what I have done in making a video using the most romantic song ever written. Bill Pursell also saw my video and left an approving comment. I just wish I could make a video showing all the images that this song evokes in my mind. Sadly, my video does not do justice to the true beauty of your grandfather's song. But the who world loves this song and that is all the really matters
a national treasure
First heard this in the Winter of '63 (?) on 77-WABC in New York..... and it remains an all-time classic! THANK YOU! *****
YES!!! Good old 77-WABC... Palisades Park... GSP to the "SHORE"... Wildwood... OMG, what memories from the 60s!!!
Today I am, 87. What memories this brings back.
I am 75 and this song brings back some great memories
This is the most beautiful instrumental of all time.
We will never hear the likes of this again. Let's be happy that we were here to hear it.
I agree
@@kennethsmith7301 Me too.
Yes!
Brings me to tears everytime...thinking of family memories.
Agree it would have been played at my wedding if it had ever happened
I have to honestly say this is probably my favorite instrumental of all time. I absolutely love this song. I can listen to it Over and Over and NEVER get Tired of it. I just sent it to a girl that I love
You, myself and nearly 3/4 million others feel the same way about this song....and thanks for leaving your comment.
I was just listening to an air check from a radio station in Minneapolis circa 1962/63 and this was one of the songs where I heard the tail end. All of a sudden I had to find it because the DJ gave the name. I came to this video, listen to it, and all of a sudden I was transported back in time to a beauty parlor in the waiting room while my grandmother was having my and my sister‘s first haircut. The song was playing on the MOR station in the beauty shop. And through my life every now and then the tune would come to me but I never knew the name until tonight. One of the most beautiful instrumentals I ever heard.
What a simple and beautiful song. Pure love. Today's music promotes violence and hate. This song gives you the feeling of love and peace.
Thank you for leaving the comment. Yes, this song does leave a feeling of love and peace. I consider this the most beautiful and romantic instrumental song ever made. "Here I am" by Dionne Warwick and "Footprints in the Snow" by Chris Rea are 2 songs with the most romantic lyrics. I made of music videos of both songs.
@@DrinkingStar I will check it out, thank you.
That's the way it is Today...............very 😢😢😢
Yes..so well said. This music is loved by those of us who were fortunate to have grown up in more innocent times when music like this deserved to become classic treasures. What a legacy to leave! Thank you❤
Just saw where Bill Purcell passed away due to the COVID 19 virus . In September.
Fabulous pianist, musician, and by all accounts , a wonderful man and father.
Our Winter Love is my favorite- the winter of 1963 was a cold one, but this song made it warmer for me.
RIP
1965. Listening to the transistor radio at age 15. DJ HyLit on radiio 99 (WIBG) in Philadelphia talking romance to the teens with Bill Pursell in the background.
This type of Song will always bring melancholy memories of those special moments both good and bad. For me it was in 1963 my junior year in a new high school and I missed my old friends. I looked out the window of by bedroom and watched the snow falling while this song was playing on the radio. A similar situation happened when I returned home from the Army and thought of the friends that I had lost in Southeast Asia. A great arrangement which touches your soul. Ron
A lovely song. A song that make you wish for better times again.
Thanks for the comment. We all wish for better times.We often think the PAST held better times. I think you might like listening to the song, "The Way We Were".
This song was on the radio when I was in second grade 1965, it was snowing hard and school let out early, very rare in those days. Mom came to get me from her job at the telephone company and hand in hand we slipped and slid the 12 blocks toward home but first we stopped at the Genuine Cafe soda fountain downtown for a cherry coke. No one else was in the place. I felt so secure and happy. It was one of the sweetest memories of my childhood.
A great memory indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Happy times.
great story! simple times back then. I was just imagining my childhood from the 1980s! I want it back , it goes fast :O(
I was in the 3rd grade in northern Utah watching the snowfall out the window in 65. It sort of was a magical moment thinking how the song matched the view outside.
+Antonio Cognato . . . don't be sad . . . make good memories for yourself, your friends, your grandkids if you have them . . . you have much time ahead of you to cherish.
To all you military guys from the Viet Nam era and present day Middle East conflicts commenting on this post, God Bless all of you and thank you for your service to our country. Too many friends didn't come home and this song only deepens the sadness of their loss. This song is so damn Surreal in bringing back memories of the better times of America.....Thank you for preserving what is left of Her though.
Well said!
This song is heaven with a chorus of angels.
In this case the Anita Kerr singers
I love this song....so many happy memories in the 60's and this was one of them. The young folks of today have no idea what they missed!
You are so correct about the youth of today missing out on what we experienced
That's how I feel....
That is why we have the privilege, as well as the sacred duty, to set them right by bringing them this music.
This song allows me to time travel back several decades. Music is emotion and =Our Winter Love= really gets to me... I don't know quite how to describe it, .....One of my all time favorites.
I am glad you like the video. The song is one of my favorites too, especially when it is snowing at night.
Well said and well put, Mr Salter ! I know the feeling ! It's so incredibly beautiful !
GOD BLESS YOUR GRANDPA MY FRIEND,,TELL HIM THIER IS A SPECIAL PLACE FOR HIM IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY WHEN HE MEETS OUR FATHER,,,I BELIEVE 2 OF MY CHILDREN WERE CONCEIVED WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG ,,,PLEASE THANK HIM FOR ME 🙏👍
I'm crazy about this song, play it at least once everyday. I remember how it made me feel 50 yrs ago, still does. I love it.
RIP Bill Pursell. This song haunted my mind for decades before I finally found it by chance on YT.
I would love to go back in time. I would do it in a heartbeat. Relive everything. Life was so perfect. For me anyway. I'm so grateful for that. What would life be without music.......scary thought.
Life would be miserable without music. I listen to it everyday. I especially love listening to it when at the beach which is nearly everyday. By the way, 1 of my childhood friends was Henry Poirier. I wonder if by chance you are somehow are related.
This takes me waaaay back! I was about 8 years old when I first heard this on the radio in my older sister's car! She was 13 years older than me so I grew up with the 60"s music.
I was the same age as your sister when I heard this song.....and thanks for leaving your comment. You might like some of my other music videos on CZcams.. Many of them are romantic.
Man, what wonderful and gentler times we had back then............sigh...
Yes, they were gentle days and I loved them . The memories are great.I remember my lovely gentle wife . She still is such a wonderful person :how lucky I am.
This to me is like a hymn of nostalgia, to all the vanished lovely things of youth. The beautiful girls, the departed parents and relatives, places we remember, for me mostly gone now. We never realize what we have when we are young, but in age we do, when it is too late.
But is it "too late""? By the way it sounds like it makes you feel now... I repeat, "is it really too late"? I'll be 75 this May first... this song still brings a tear to my eyes and heart. I still cant figure out if it's from sadness or joy... but it's wonderful.
Absolutely one of best songs to be played near Christmas .... Hy Lit famous Philadelphia DJ played this a lot on WIBG 99 , R.I.P. Hy Lit
Thanks for leaving the comment. I agree with you. To me, it is the most romantic winter love song ever made. To see the video that I think is better than mine in capturing this sentiment, go to the channel of 12mulligan on CZcams. To me, the 2nd most romantic winter love song is "Footprints in the Snow" by Chris Rea which is here on my channel. I hope you view and like it also.
Thanks and yes Chris Rea 's song is great , But I have to mention Tommy Roe's "Its Now Winters Day" @@DrinkingStar
WIBG 99 AM radio. Hy Lit used this beautiful piece of music as a lovely background while he talked to us. Listening to our winter love brings back so many wonderful memories.
I watch and listen to this again and again. This song can spark any memory you want. I come here and watch and listen when I want to remember my dear departed grandparent and all of the love an good times they gave me.
Love this tune. Just makes my heart soar like a hawk.
mine to!!
I totally agree but the vocal version by the lettermen blew me away even more especially the video with the lyrics on it
@@dennishanson3671 Vocal version? Nah, this is a song that needs no words.
Best love song I ever heard. God bless you Mr. Pursell. I listened to this a thousand times and never tire of it. Best pianist of our generation. I am 63 years old. Will never hear one like this again.
A. Thankful listener!
@@SummerSong.17 You're a little late to the party pal, but pour yourself a drink anyway!!
In my estimation this is one of the most beautiful, romantic songs ever written. It is haunting yet so soothing.
Purcell this will live on forever! Thank you many times over man!
I get teary eyed when I listen to this song and then read the posts......I remember this song well in high school and my beautiful girlfriend, nicknamed "Kitten." We never married, but those memories. Priceless...........and we were so innocent then...
Best instrumental ever.Anita Kerr background vocals are beautiful.KXOK in St Louis.
Winter in Collinsville Ill in 1963.Could listen to this song over and over.
I agree 100 per cent !!
Listening to this on headphones right now........OMG, what a wonderful, beautiful song. Mr. Bill Pursell, what a great slow song to dance to. Just want to close my eyes and remember when I was young and had my whole life ahead of me. The years have flown by. I'll be 71 in a couple of weeks. My heart and soul are still back there when I was in my 30-s and 40s. My body, not so much. Getting old can be a horrible thing, the mind is willing........
I am glad you like the song. BTW, I am 2 years older than you(LOL)
After 50 some years this piece still breaks my heart. I have always loved this song.
+Dominic Joseph Radanovich It is beautiful indeed.
yes indeed i recall and cherish this song and those times. hauntingly beautiful truly music for the soul. ... Mark Osko
This song gives me goosebumps, a flood of memories of my childhood in innocent and happier times. Oh how I miss my childhood in the sunny Caribbean in the 60s
Keep the sun in your heart and enjoy the beauty of newly fallen snow. I am a beach bum who goes to the beach every day even when it snows. You might like some of my other music video which were filmed at several different beaches in my area of Connecticut.
Lovey this beautiful song Grandpa, thank you!!😍
Thank you leaving a comment. I appreciate that very much. I am a grandfather but I think you were referring to Bill Purcell who made this song a big hit or to Johnny Cowell who wrote the song and who played the trumpet which really made this song standout and unique.
Beautiful song.
I am glad you liked the song,,,,thanks for leaving a comment
Simple, beautiful, and timeless. Sometimes that's all it takes to touch your soul.
I am from the South.And would to love have winter like this.I thank of my frined from New York.We had so much fun.
Today, 2020/12/17 now at 7:15 AM, it is like what you see in the video at my home. The video was made at my home in 2008. I remember this song in January 1963 when it was released
The snow is fun your first winter...you get tired of it I lived in Iowa for over 50 years and that cold you won’t like it
@@billquinnett I understand. I was born and have lived in CT for 75 years. I still shovel snow by hand. I have 3 snow shovels whose metal is bent up from shoveling. It takes 1 hour of shoveling for each inch of snow that falls on my driveway and sidewalk. One snowstorm a few years ago took me 28 hours of shoveling. When it snows, I shovel snow instead of going to the gym. I only shovel if there is 2 or more inches of snow.
Remember when they used to play this on the radio? It was so nice to drive along and listen.
Then, you have today... and people wonder why those of us who were there want to go back. Sad thing is, you cannot tell them so they will understand. You had to be there.
brings back times that are gone forever.
+john mcnamara If you can still remember them and cherish them they are not gone!!
Not in our memories...
@@johnmccormick5702 this song does get playtime during Christmas time
Your so right
@@tonyallen6510 it is also a Christmas song as well
Best instrumental ever. As a teenager, I would stop everything when this song came on the radio. Thanks for the beautiful memories and great wintertime scene you've created to accompany this incredible song.
I am glad you like the video. I agree the song is incredibly beautiful
God bless your grandfather for writing one of my all-time favorite instrumentals! We just don't hear music this pretty anymore.
Anita Kerr, absolutely fabulous vocals on this and so many other classics of this era.
RIP bill. he was my composition professor in college for a while. wore shorts well into his 80s. played on bob dylan’s self portrait and said he played piano on yakety sax, though i’ve never been able to corroborate that second one.
Good ear. Bill Pursell did the piano, Jimmy Wilkerson on guitar, Henry Strzelecki on bass,Jack Greubel played drums.
I was a young airmen in the Air Force stationed in Omaha Nebraska. With my then girlfriend driving in the car and this song played on the car radio. What beautiful memories
I had a similar memory that sticks with me and I still remember where I was. It was in the late 1960s while driving in the winter night to college. I was alone but I was thinking of my "wife to be"( to whom I've been married to over 50 yrs) while I was listening to an instrumental song. The song was "Love is Blue".
Oh how I wish the music today was like this.
I play this song just as I get into bed. It makes me feel SO relaxed, peaceful and melts away stress and the cares of the day. It is so very romantic that it immediately brings a smile and warm memories of the love ( or loves ) of your life. Thank you so much for this short musical gift.
I remember this song when I was a high school senior. It was a big hit in the late Fall of 1962 and April of 1963. Bill Pursell saw my video and left a comment. The grandson of Johnny Cowell,who wrote the song, also wrote a comment. It is my most watched and most commented video here on CZcams. I am glad you liked it. Thanks
This is my husband's and my song. Married in 1968....still goin strong.
THanks for the beautiful work.
Donna Allman You are very welcome
Donna Allman May you and your husband have many more years of health and happiness, this record is a beauty
+Donna Allman Congrats hope your life has been one filled with love joy and respect for each other.
+Donna Allman Nov 23, 2015 it will be 47 years of marriage. Still get weepy when I hear this and see the beautiful pictures. I remember driving down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago about 3 AM with my boyfriend (before we married) and the snow was blowing across the drive, it was beautiful....and our song "Our Winter Love" was playing.
+Donna Allman You chose wisely, it's a great song. Thanks for sharing your memory it's cool.
Always a favorite last hour spin on the Terry Lee Show on WMCK in Pittsburgh. Elaine and I always knew it was near midnight (she had to be home) when this beautiful song was playing. Windows in the car all steamy, never wanting the nite to end. What a beautiful, romantic song. Thanks for bringing back some wonderful memories of young love.
Fantastic music Bill Pursell "our winter love" and Percy Faith "A summer place".
Two of the absolute best winter & summer love music.
Perfectly said.....
I totally agree with you. My two favorites of all time.
I agree completely. And throw in Floyd Cramer's Last Date.
In my opinion, "A Summer Place" has a much more interesting melody and a very beautiful chorus.
I agree, but would also add Soul Coaxin' by Raymond LeFevre. Three great instrumentals.
I heard this wonderful music just once, it was in the summer of 1967 on my '51 Chevy radio as I was pulling into the driveway after a date. I was 16. I told my mom that I'd just heard the most beautiful song ever but the radio station had not disclosed the name or the musician. It was 48 years later I found it right here. Thanks so much!
+Donn Valkenaar I am glad you were able to find the song by viewing my video. Bill Pursell also viewed my video of his song and left a comment he liked it. You might also like my other winter romantic music video, "Footprints in the snow", by Chris Rea.
+Donn Valkenaar . . . What a great accounting & recollection of your fondness for that song. Sometimes a tune is "just right" for a certain time or place. I am a 64 year-professional rock & roll musician, I grew-up on this music and I still prefer this kind of music to that of which I perform every night on stage!! Happy listening my friend!!
a beautiful memory
Donn Valkenaar beautiful.! I'm lucky that I'm listening it now
The music was way ahead of it's time. I first heard it in the summer of 1963.
Such a Beautiful haunting themed song. I just love this song and the winter memories it evokes from my HS year, 1963. Thank you for writing this Mr. Cowell. You couldn't have written a more fitting song for a winter love.
This is the best song ever composed thank God for Bill makes me remember my mom and dad at a tender age listening to this melody watching the sunset I love it Margery
This...Stranger on the Shore.....Theme From a Summer Place ..imo....the 3 greatest instrumentals.
I agree with you 100%. You left out the theme from the movie "Summer of '42" by Zamfir....and thanks for leaving the comment.
I can't believe I heard this tonight on the Comcast Easy Listening Channel. I guess they don't want us to forget the winter we had or how beautiful this song is.
This is what falling in love sounds like.
Yesssssss!
Such a masterpiece! Very soothing and calming!
Well said, wish I had said this.......
Falling in love...set to music. Well put, sir.
Amen!
It does not get any better than this, so beautiful.....Makes me think off.......
I still get a tear in my eyes every time I her this wonderful LOVE song. Those days are gone for most in the days after the 60s... and maybe 70s... but in the 60s there still was romance.
You are so right that those days are gone.
I fell in love with this song way back in 1963. I was four years old. I kept in touch with this song throughout my life. Always found cassette tapes and instrumental oldie tapes with this song on it. This
is my favorite instrumental of all time. I love the beautiful melody as well as the memories it brings back Thanks for sharing this beautiful song version and the creative homemade winter video
I am glad you like the video. To me, this is one of the most romantic songs of all time. It is beautifully crafted.
A song such as this awakens in me the memories of my deepest hopes and dreams. I too feel the sweet pain . . . of wanting to go back in time and fulfilling what I couldn't then . . . yet knowing that I can't. I can only hope to make my present as happy as I wish my past had been.
Beautiful heartwarming I loved it in 1963 still do, thank you 🙏
A masterpiece. Spring of '63, I remember hearing this for the 1st time, & running to the record store to get it. I still have that 45. Classic. Wolfsky9
"Our WInter Love"...a melody that washes away from the soul, the dust of every day life.
HAUNTING, AND BEAUTIFUL !
Well said... VERY well said!
There was a legendary DJ in Philadelphia Pa named Hy Lit who used to do a monolog to this song every Sunday night when he closed his show. Many great memories of him doing it, both happy and sad. This song brings me back to the wonderful days of the past and wonderful people who I have had in my life. I have often thought of putting words to this song, but its so beautiful as it is I do not think it should ever be changed. A song that will live with me forever...............
AJ, I too have many fond memories of HiSki doing his monolog to this beautiful song. It seems odd now to say now, the show was an "oldies" show. It was one of the first of its kind. He would always say something like, "If your with your best girl right now, take a hold of her hand and look into her eyes......" It was a great time in Philly.
A beautiful and classic instrumental hit from
the early 1960s.I've always liked this tune a lot and especially because it reminds me of Mama & Daddy.....
One of the best instrumental
This is the sweetest, most moving song from the golden age of pop music. It is my favorite instrumental of all time and it was songs like this that made my teenage years in the 60s so very special. Thank you so much for such a wonderful video and for sharing this memory with us.
Like so many of the songs/tunes of that bygone era, this one registers very high on the emotive meter. There's very little being composed and recorded today that stirs the heart like this. I don't think people can fall in love today the way they did when this kind of romantic music was popular.
I agree with you.
So true...so true. Sadly... I wonder how one can be romantic over a cell phone today? When is the last time you saw a young couple walking together holding hands? They are busy texting.
Great job! You hit the nail on the head.
My favorite instrumental of all time
RIP Bill...thanks for the music and memories
ahhh the good old days when instrumentals were high on the charts of pop music!
Mr Pursell, I've spent a lifetime listening to this piece and it is one of my top 5 all time favorites. My best regards to you for you great work!
Today it snowed in Seattle and I thought of this song from 1963! Beautiful then and now,
Thanks for leaving this comment. You are right. This song is still beautiful now and was beautiful when if first came out
BTW are you from Montclair N. J.?
This is the earliest use of a fuzz guitar that I know of.
this is one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard ,it makes me feel good evertime I hear it,i am glad I finally found it
Heard this many times on All night radio from Chicago in 1963 .
I was just 10 and in love with the girl next door
Great memories!
A small two story townhouse. My father raising my younger brother and myself now in high school in Ohio. That beautiful huge radio in the living room, its ivory dials and yellow light, dad making dinner , me sitting in the living room doing my homework and my brother Clifford at Junior High football practice. A cool dreary day typical of Ohio in the fall, but with this music and the three of us it was a warm special moment in time, never forgotten and Im 74 now and love this song just as much as I did in our small home back then.
I am glad this song and my video bring back happy memories. I am 75 years old and this song brings back winter memories when I was a teenager.
I, too, find this very moving and beautiful. It is what innocence sounds like to me, probably bc I loved it when I was innocent all of those years ago. Thank you for this moving song. It needs no lyrics.
I never looked at it as innocence but as the sound of pure young love. So I guess you can call it a song about the innocence of young love and life in general. If you want to see the perfect imagery in a video of this song, I would tell you to visit the channel of 12mulligan on CZcams. Here is the link: ttps://czcams.com/video/XNSHR0aUhw8/video.html.
And thank you for posting your comment.
BTW, it is the most popular video on my CZcams page. What is remarkable is the this song is over 60 years old and people still love it.
@DrinkingStar Wow! You understand! For me it is just about having a pure heart ❤️ even in love but for me more about the love our Lord has for us, how I love Him. I am definitely going to check out the link. And thank you. It is wonderful to know someone else gets what I said. In a word, Sublime.
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@@SummerSong.17 If you want to understand me, there are 2 quotes from the novel and the movie ,"The Razor's Edge", that I hope someday could be used, in part, to describe the person I hope to be:
How Somerset Maugham describes Larry Darrell in the opening lines of THE RAZOR'S EDGE
"The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature."
From the movie "The Razor's Edge" Somerset Maugham speaking of Larry
"Larry has found what we all want and very few of us ever get. I don't think anyone can fail to be better and nobler and kinder for knowing him. You see, Goodness is the greatest force in the world and he's got it."
I hope the above quotes could be used to describe you( just use your name in place of that of Larry)
BYW, I just noticed your name as SummerSong. I go to the beach everyday regardless of the weather. I listen to music while there. My friends call me "The King of the Beach" Chris Rea probably wrote that song about me. Many of his songs are about the beach and summer. I am a hardcore beach bum. Three movies describe me and all three main characters in those moves have my first name. The movies are "The Beach". "Lifeguard" and "Casablanca". I was named after Bogart's character in that movie.
Additionally, my name on flickr is knight_of_the_beach.
@@DrinkingStar I have not seen the movie. However I just looked into it. Larry sounds like a very thoughtful man. I think most people have parts of Larry in them. I also, was not too unlike both women he became involved with. I spoke of the innocence I had many years ago. Life has a way of putting us in a war, that is to say, sadly ugly seeps in whether we want it or not. I'd like to think there is still some of that innocence in me. But you go to war and you come home realizing you really can't go back. Larry knew that as he attempted to live life modestly. But his mistake was getting invovled with a woman who did not appreciate his beauty. She longed for the riches of this world. Then he falls for a woman with great conflict in her. Did he ever find himself? Did he find beauty again? I hope he did. The lesson I take from this is we can't really go back but there is still redemption to be found if your search is true. My search within at this age may find a naivety. It wasn't an intentional find but it is good to know I am not jaded by this world and what it loves. I am in the world but not of it. What is awesome however, is I played one of my favorite songs for over 60 years and I find a lovely comment from a gentle soul who understood exactly what I had commented about. How unexpected and sublime. I also love the sea. I live right off the Gulf of Mexico and I will never leave here because here is where I want to be. Too bad you aren't close by because I would enjoy the summer breezes on the shore with a stranger who doesn't seem strange at all.
@@SummerSong.17 Sadly we are too far apart to sit by the sea and learn something about life as we talk and listen to music. I believe there is much to be learned form others and I sure there is much to learn from you. I think it is because of spending time on the beach, especially if you have listened to music while there, that the beach and sea have allowed you to become the person you are. From what you have said, It appears you have read "The Razor's Edge" . If you decide to view the movie, be sure to see the 1946 version. It is that version that changed me into the person I am. I was 14 when I saw the movie. Another movie somewhat similar is the 1937 version of "Lost Horizons". I posted a video on CZcams with excerpts from that movie.
"Music is a revelation deeper than any philosophy"(Beethoven) revealing who you truly are if you have the courage to look deeply into that mirror of self-introspection while "pondering on fallen ideals such as romance & love" having learned "laughter is the key to the heart" and music the sound of the soul. (I took 3 quotes to make this into a single thought. The last quote is from the song "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes").
Released in January 1963...got to #9 on the charts on March 30, 1963. Spent 14 weeks on the "Hot 100"....CLASSIC!!!
It came out at the right time
We must try to hold on to memories for thats the only thing in this world that really matters as we get older. Sadly they are like sand on the beach,everchanging and fading.
I can't get over how great this song is. The song was a hit in 1963. Sounds as good today. The song is definitely timeless.
Along with " Theme From A Summer Place", & " Soul Coaxing", this is THE finest instrumental--& oh, so Romantic, ever, EVER, recorded. Timeless, & simply gorgeous. Wolfsky9, 63 y.o
This song is emblematic of a much better time.
I am into soft CHRISTIAN music now, but this secular song has stood the test of time along with SummerPlace. I loved it in 64 and still love today, no matter times I hear it. Mike Ludwig.
I meant to say, no matter how many times I hear it
I remember hearing this on the radio. I was in grade school. The scene of the snow is much like areas near our town. Such a beautiful song.
One of my favorites from my radio DJ days. That one bass note sends chills of my spine. Her name was Betty, and she owned me, but I really didn't impress her. She's about 67 now, I'll bet she's still beautiful
No Talk No Commercials Just music on your All-Night Serenade.
Love this song Heaven knew what was doing when this song was composed by God ALMIGHTY 👍🙏✝️✝️💖💖👍
You are not alone in how your feel about this song. BTW, thanks for the comment.
I heard the Lettermen's version of this song when I was 15...I couldn't believe I had never heard this classic instrumental version until now...I realize what a classic I have missed all these years.....
This Song Went To Number 9 On The Billboard Hot-100 Chart In 1963.
This wonderful composition was released in 1963 when I was a sophomore in high school. It was different than most other music of the time and even now. Soothing, beautifully composed and inspirational in its ability to create a sense of relaxation and detachment in a world that is often less than that. Music of this quality is never out of style or demand as demonstrated by the number of listeners and it will continue to deliver a soft, stressless presentation whenever one wants to escape the demands of life if even for just a few minutes.
I am glad you liked it. I was a high school senior in 1963.
Thank you for an incredibly thoughtful & perceptive comment !!