We used to slow dance to this song when I was in 9th grade and now I'm 73, 74, 75 and counting. 05.02.2021. 76 today, 04.14.2022. I'm still here my friends. It is now 4.19.2023 and I just turned 77. I'm hangin' on. Well my friends, today is April 14th, 2024. I am still here hangin' on and doing well. 78 today. Thank you all so very much for your past and future posts. I wish I could meet everyone of you personally and thank you but we know that can't happen. Life has been good to me. I would like to pass along some things that may help you get to where I am in life in case you don't hear from me again. 1. Give people the benefit of doubt. Forgive but don't forget. Guard your heart. Most people are good people and treat them as such. 2. Marry well and you'll live a good life. If a man treats his mother well, he'll treat you well. 3. Love your children and grandchildren unconditionally. None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes. Remember that when someone makes a mistake against you. 4. If you don't believe in a God, believe in something. It will help you get through the tough times in life in which we will all come across eventually. Hope to talk to you all next April. Tom
@@mrknotthall Good moms are hard to come by... And Dads as a matter of a fact. Hopefully that wisdom you gained over the years can be passed down. Have a blessed day.
Junior high dance, November 1969, a lovely girl asked _me_ to dance with her as this song commenced. To this day I don't know how I kept my composure when every part of me was vibrating like a tuning fork. I remember the smell of her Heaven Scent perfume, the light creating fine shadows on her perfect complexion and the streamers hung in the cafeteria for the occasion swaying gently as we danced. I got picked up from the dance by my father and the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck where Atticus Finch shoots a rabid dog was showing on The Saturday Night Movie when we arrived home; it must have been 10 PM or so.
When I was little, (early 70's), we had a black and white TV, but then we got a color TV, and I noticed that some of the old shows were still in black and white. So I asked why, and my mother told me that "everything was just black and white back then", so I naturally thought she meant _everything_ was black and white, and assumed that color was a recent invention.
"NOT MY RITCHIE!!!!!!!!!" Love this song, even 40 years after I first heard it, this master piece hits you in all your emotions. What a great song! This is a classic Chicano lowrider favorite.
Imagine that! You're in your bed in your apartment in Brooklyn in 1959 at 2AM and you hear this coming out of someone's window! The luckiest neighbors in all eternity!
Imagine you are in the middle of the desert, in another planet, on a carousel that only works when you get on it. And this song plays, brainwashing you.
This song came out arnd the time my brother died in a drowning accident on our last day of vacation. 63 yrs ago tody. He was such a gd kid. We never fought. Just luved ea other I hope I gt to see him in heaven some day. Miss him so much 😪
I just want to say, I am 27 years old and this song speaks to my soul like no other. I plan to dance to this with my fiancé in a few months. What a tune.
I'm 15, and this song makes me happy but sad, it makes me think of when I was younger, and life wasn't so stressful, when it was happy, and I know it only gets worse from here
I danced my girlfriend into the bedroom when this beautiful song was playing......We are 74 now and still play this masterpiece and still dance our way to the bedroom, ha.
The night before I joined the Air Force, I stayed up most of the night and early morning playing my 45 RPM record collection. "Sleepwalk" was the last record on the last stack. When it completed, ,I lifted the arm that holds the records above the spindle and let the song play over and over again. I probably played it twenty times, while reflecting on the past and what might be in my future. After completing basic training in Texas, they put a bunch of us on a bus heading for tech school in Mississippi. When we got to Beaumont, we pulled into a diner for lunch. As I walked into the place I heard "Sleep Walk" playing on the jukebox. It made me instantly home sick and I returned to the bus, miserable and waited for the others to finish eating and continuing our journey to Mississippi. That was 59 years ago. Still think about that day every time I hear the song.
What an amazing post. Put me right there with you as I love music and probably would've done the same thing... stay up all night listening to music before I left. Thank you for your service.
Don't need lyrics. I've always found the most soothing music to always be instrumental only. Something about speaking emotions without words is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. I can cry easier listening to music without words.
@@paultreadaway102 Call me crazy, but I've teared up hearing certain engine sounds lol. The combination of power steering pumps, hydraulic driven cooling fans, exhaust growl and of course the engine hum all working in harmony just makes me so happy that I tear up. It sounds like music. There's even major and minor note combos.
@@TheCRTman the heartstrings this one brings certain songs do aswell and others i get into it's weird how certain music the same styles go one extreme to another happy or sad
There is, if you look hard enough. And there’s a lot of this stuff on Spotify, and when you find it, it won’t stop coming in. If you want I can send you a few songs with this type of style that are all pretty new.
I feel like this is one of those songs that touches your heart no matter how old you are. Im 27 and I've played this song for the past 20 yrs (since little) whenever im at peace or when i'm down. It brings so much nostalgia and sweet memories. Even my nephew, 8 yrs old love this lmao
1959, met my husband and married my freshman year. Still love this beautiful song and other songs written in the mid 50s to late 50s and can relive a totally different and peaceful time for a little while. Thank you!!!!
@@petertristan5885 I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a parent is one of the hardest things to go through. I'm terrified of losing my mom, I won't have parents. 😪
This song is so strange, because it stirs so many emotions and feelings at once. Nostalgia, regret, sadness, joy, despair, hope, finality, relaxation, the feeling that you missed the one chance that you had, the feeling that you did the best you could, and it wasn’t enough. And the feeling that even though the previous statement is true, it’s all going to be alright.
Having lived in Hawaii I thought this sounded like an island tune. It seemed strange that an Italian family from Brooklyn, NY would somehow create a polynesian-sounding song. Turns out they were taught steel slide guitar playing by someone from the islands. This is from the wiki page: "Within two years, Santo was performing in amateur shows using a new Gibson six-string steel guitar and had started receiving lessons from a steel guitar teacher who had studied in Hawaii."
@@DougieFresh If you grew up in the islands you would have been shocked to find out it was not a local song - that's how accurate the style is. Santo was taught by an authentic player and had very good, careful attention to the style. He reproduced it exactly. When you compare the tune to traditional Italian music - which is very distinctive and a style all its own - Santo's "Sleep Walk" did not incorporate any aspect of traditional Italian music styles. It was as if he grew up in the islands, playing polynesian music - that's how good he interpreted it.
I listen to this song so much when driving, it brings a lump in my throat every time I hear it. I never knew this video existed until tonight. Tears came down my face. Such a powerful song...
As I walk through the valley of Music, I seem to find myself in the timeless classics... Life is still not a movie, it's a Dream. Dreams never get Old.
I'm 66 and every time I hear this song reminds me of my mom. She was an avid skater back in the day. She and the roller rinks' owner used to go out on the floor and skate a waltz to this song. So I've always been a fan of this song since it first came out. I still see those two ladies waltzing to this song today. Love you and miss you mom.
A BIG-TIME SHOUT OUT TO SANTO AND JOHNNY FARINA,WHO AS OF FEBRUARY 17,2021,ARE BOTH STILL ALIVE AND WELL.SANTO IS 83 NOW AND JOHNNY IS 79 NOW.THANKS YOU BOTH FOR A GREAT SONG THAT I STILL LOVE TO HEAR FROM TIME TO TIME.
Hell Yes... Memories that mean something... I saw today that this song was left off of a greatest Instrumental Hits list and I knew... Somebody needs to get fired...Ya think?
This was a nice visit to the past and enjoyed all the comments and reflections! Love this CZcams format for all the diversity of expression! Thanks to ALL! I can't imagine life without music!
Joe Aragon as a musician, it’s hard to describe it ...best way i can, it’s a discussion with your hands thru this instrument... and this is what they talked about at 2am ✌🏻
Born in 1962, I was not around when this was number one on the charts but it was a song my Mother played frequently on the cabinet record player we had. I just watched the movie Hearts in Atlantis and this song is featured briefly so I had to go listen to it fully. Lots of memories of my Mother dancing around to this while doing housework. Miss you, Mom! ❤
I think they were inspired by God to write this music! Wishing my hubby was here now so we could slow dance to this. Miss my honey who is in heaven now…
It's not the song that's so good, it's the way Santo and Johnny played it that's just superb! No other steel guitar players have ever played it anywhere near as good, and never will!!
I’m 75 So I was 14. I remember rushing home from school every day to turn on American Bandstand. It would always be in full swing. We wanted to wear what the girls wore and would copy their hairdo’s. I remember before you could get those big round rollers in the south we would save the roll in the toilet paper and cut it in half until we had enough for our hair and used Bobby pins to secure them when we rolled our hair on them. We knew all the regulars by name and of course getting the yearbook was a must. I still have mine and the dance contest winners are in it. One of my favorite couples were Joanie and Jimmy and I think they were winners but I don’t remember if they were 1st place.
Since this song was first released and this show aired on television, this has been a favorite ..... classic, irreplaceable, cannot be duplicated with the same emotions that came through.... I am 77 years old and this song lingers always in the back of my mind... slow dancing with the one you love is the epitome...... Thank you so much.....
Those people don’t understand how lucky they are to hear such beautiful music right in front of them Wow this song helped me through my depression last year, in my first year of uni, I’m in second year now and I didn’t see myself here tbh... thank you all for the comments and likes I’m glad I can see them. Thanks to these legends. I wish you all a happy new year 2020 🧡. 31/12/19
sylvia man... n they’re dead right? both of them. imagine if they were to see how many people know them and how many people love this. this is so sad to the point that it makes me wanna cry. may they rest in peace
briana I think of that but then I think would they even reconginse my love for them since I am a blk women and in those days I don’t even think they were allowed in the concerts but none the less they are talents i hope they were good people
It's funny that with less technology back then that music was better and more pure than it is today. It seems like the simpler things were back then the better true talent could be shown
This hits different when your sitting on a hill on a cool night with the gentle breeze brushing against your face while you stare up into the beautiful stary night 🌙 🎶 ✨
Such a thoughtful thing to do. It was the number one hit in September, 1959. I think anyone who grew up in the 1950's fondly remembers this beautiful song.
The perfect mix of feelings inside this tune. Mostly happy. Very relaxed. Basically focused. Definitely nostalgic. Undoudtedly Hopeful. Comfortably content. A little tired. And a slight tinge of sadness in knowing all good things come to an end.
I love reading the comment section in old classic songs, it’s full of awesome stories and flashbacks. Shit, I wish I had lived this time. If you’re a person that experienced this great musical era, and you’re casually reading this comment, I feel respectfully jealous hahaha. Thank you folks for sharing your memories with youngsters like me. 🙏🏻❤️
You have the right to feel jealous as it was a great time with even greater music. Being born in 1945 I grew up listening to 50s and 60s music which we loving call "oldies but goodies" now in 2020 and there has never been any better music made since then. That is why I still listen to it and prefer it over anything made in today's world. I lived in Memphis most of my life, the home of Elvis (King of Rock n Roll) along with Sun and Stax Records and so many great Memphis bands and entertainers. And yes I grew up doing those dances seen in the movie "Dirty Dancing" which had a great soundtrack of music from the 60s. I wish I could relive it all over again and again as I have so many great memories from that time. Thank you for loving my era and my kind of music!!
Alta Sanders I was born in 2004 and when I was around five or six dirty dancing was my favorite movie. I loved the soundtrack and still love and watch it to this day Probably shouldn’t have been watching it at that age but oh well 😂
I’m 12 and I literally am in love with this song. I am obsessed with classical music and so I decided to try out some newer but older music if ykwim and once I discovered this, I instantly fell in love. This is my favorite song. The 60s was so beautiful
Your on a gooood way to be normal of noing what is quality musik and not that ???? of today made by computer. Help me to know that the youth isnt lost!!!!!!
@@elfriedehein5002 No, I still like that kind of music. I really love all music but Classical music is my favorite genre. “Computer music” isn’t bad music. It’s just another form. It’s honestly not that big of a deal, man. The “youth” isn’t lost for listening to it, either.
Here in the Caribbean luckily enough hardly anyone complains about music..no matter the hour. .one of the tropical perks.Come to Curaçao...we would love to welcome you..
@@mikekaatman3194 I’ve been a couple times, my god is it beautiful there. If I could think of a solid solution to stay I would but there’s just so much uncertainty to it. It would be a dream come true though.
When our world ends, this will be playing in the final credits
Just a cut to black after I put something in the microwave. Who is the director and executive producer?
Yep
This comment needs like 100k likes
@@maddmaxxpain Justin Bieber
Nah
We used to slow dance to this song when I was in 9th grade and now I'm 73, 74, 75 and counting. 05.02.2021. 76 today, 04.14.2022. I'm still here my friends. It is now 4.19.2023 and I just turned 77. I'm hangin' on. Well my friends, today is April 14th, 2024. I am still here hangin' on and doing well. 78 today. Thank you all so very much for your past and future posts. I wish I could meet everyone of you personally and thank you but we know that can't happen. Life has been good to me. I would like to pass along some things that may help you get to where I am in life in case you don't hear from me again. 1. Give people the benefit of doubt. Forgive but don't forget. Guard your heart. Most people are good people and treat them as such. 2. Marry well and you'll live a good life. If a man treats his mother well, he'll treat you well. 3. Love your children and grandchildren unconditionally. None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes. Remember that when someone makes a mistake against you. 4. If you don't believe in a God, believe in something. It will help you get through the tough times in life in which we will all come across eventually. Hope to talk to you all next April. Tom
mrknotthall
Talk about nostalgia
Congratulations on making it so far to 73. We need more elders in the teaching of us younger generations.
@@wolfrickelly5148 Well, it wasn't for lack of partying. I did my share of it and I had a praying mom. I think that helped.
@@mrknotthall Good moms are hard to come by... And Dads as a matter of a fact. Hopefully that wisdom you gained over the years can be passed down. Have a blessed day.
Junior high dance, November 1969, a lovely girl asked _me_ to dance with her as this song commenced. To this day I don't know how I kept my composure when every part of me was vibrating like a tuning fork. I remember the smell of her Heaven Scent perfume, the light creating fine shadows on her perfect complexion and the streamers hung in the cafeteria for the occasion swaying gently as we danced. I got picked up from the dance by my father and the scene from To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck where Atticus Finch shoots a rabid dog was showing on The Saturday Night Movie when we arrived home; it must have been 10 PM or so.
How many listen to this gem in 2024
All day today I’ve had this song playing in my head and I’m so thankful I found it!!! I just love this song. It’s so soothing and beautiful… ❤️❤️❤️
me
Me
Looked it up after my nonna was listening to it
me
These gentlemen are still with us today in 2023 and I think I send a warm thank you, still, today for this beautiful instrumental. Just lovely, sirs.
santo passed away in 2021 unfortunately but johnny is still with us
@@SingleWingAcademysad that santo’s gone but can’t believe we still got johnny
I am love this music it sow nice loveling really
@@SingleWingAcademyWhere'd you get that? I can't find any records of his death
@@-Batman- I guess there's the mandela effect to blame for this. My sources don't find any hint on Santo's passing, either.
Proof that music never has an expiration date
Absolutely true!
That hits hard, damn
except today
Yep
Except maybe Limp Bizkit ?
It feels weird knowing that they could see color
Fake pastor bacon chicken Eating man yes bacon chicken...
Fake pastor bacon chicken Eating man and in better quality
Just blew my mind lol
When I was little, (early 70's), we had a black and white TV, but then we got a color TV, and I noticed that some of the old shows were still in black and white. So I asked why, and my mother told me that "everything was just black and white back then", so I naturally thought she meant _everything_ was black and white, and assumed that color was a recent invention.
@@slappy8941 Lol
I'm 89 and I remember dancing to this song in 1955 and I still.love it.
I want what you have mam. A long life and one in a time that seemed so much more genuine and authentic than the one we have today.
Absolutely the best song
I too remember and I am 76❤️
Then you have good taste 🤗🤗
i don't know what you were dancing to in 1955 but it wasn't this song...the song was released in '59
shhhh@@sirslugs
"NOT MY RITCHIE!!!!!!!!!" Love this song, even 40 years after I first heard it, this master piece hits you in all your emotions. What a great song! This is a classic Chicano lowrider favorite.
La Bamba !......ritchieee
Bob why not you ...
❤❤❤ same
Could never listen to this song without hearing "RITCHIEEE!!"
RichieEEEEE 😢
Imagine that! You're in your bed in your apartment in Brooklyn in 1959 at 2AM and you hear this coming out of someone's window! The luckiest neighbors in all eternity!
I know
Imagine you are in the middle of the desert, in another planet, on a carousel that only works when you get on it. And this song plays, brainwashing you.
I would have thrown a brick through their window and if that didn't shut them up would have kicked their door in and beat their skinny asses.
yeah bro
❤👌
This is the song that they play while you’re in the waiting room to get into heaven
And they play 'Macarena' in Hell's waiting room
This the song for bo2 diner
@@choobaka_Savage no it's not
Because it's precious
😂😂😂😂good one bro
STILL one of the prettiest melodies even in 2023
2024*
This song came out arnd the time my brother died in a drowning accident on our last day of vacation. 63 yrs ago tody. He was such a gd kid. We never fought. Just luved ea other I hope I gt to see him in heaven some day. Miss him so much 😪
Bless you and yours, Monica
@@rumahindahtropis thank u. My daugther is about to have a baby soon so that will b a 😊 joy
You will see him again, just trust in God. ✝️
Si lo volverás a ver porque Dios lo ha prometido y lo cumplirá solo tenga fé y confía en Dios y verás cosas maravillosas
My Grandma used to Crip walk to this
Respect...
lol xD
Wut!? Lmao!
😳😲😬😖 🤣😂🤣😂 😁😉
That shit is too good 🥴✨
Makes you feel things at 2 AM
Funny you say that, as I type this at 2 in the morning hahaha
That's accurate.
RICHIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, its only 1
Its when the big ideas hit
Appreciating wonderful music in 2024. Thanks.
I just want to say, I am 27 years old and this song speaks to my soul like no other. I plan to dance to this with my fiancé in a few months. What a tune.
I'm 15, and this song makes me happy but sad, it makes me think of when I was younger, and life wasn't so stressful, when it was happy, and I know it only gets worse from here
I danced my girlfriend into the bedroom when this beautiful song was playing......We are 74 now and still play this masterpiece and still dance our way to the bedroom, ha.
Будьте счастливы!!💕
What a lovely memory Tony.
love your comment i an 79 brings back great time we had first class music back in those day
You tricky devil! Keep on swinging ❤️
God Bless you both. Wonderful.
Shit the neighbors knew it was a hit thats why they didn't say anything.
Lol that's good .
They were sleepwalking on the boys 😆
And after it became viral they'll be like,,
"I F*CKING CALLED IT"
Helps relaxing, so to have a nice night's sleep.
underrated comment right here.
My fathers favorite song. Rest in peace dear old Dad. Miss you !
Sucks losing a parent, wasn't my mom's favorite but it make me think of her for some reason
The night before I joined the Air Force, I stayed up most of the night and early morning playing my 45 RPM record collection. "Sleepwalk" was the last record on the last stack. When it completed, ,I lifted the arm that holds the records above the spindle and let the song play over and over again. I probably played it twenty times, while reflecting on the past and what might be in my future. After completing basic training in Texas, they put a bunch of us on a bus heading for tech school in Mississippi. When we got to Beaumont, we pulled into a diner for lunch. As I walked into the place I heard "Sleep Walk" playing on the jukebox. It made me instantly home sick and I returned to the bus, miserable and waited for the others to finish eating and continuing our journey to Mississippi. That was 59 years ago. Still think about that day every time I hear the song.
Dad was in the Air Force back in the 50's and met Fat's Domino , just playing in a bar.
Thanks for sharing that story sir. 🙂
What was the diner called that y’all stopped at?
Thank you for sharing that moment , it was powerful for me , as I am older and understand how your moment is so significant in your life .
What an amazing post. Put me right there with you as I love music and probably would've done the same thing... stay up all night listening to music before I left. Thank you for your service.
imagine this song after the apocalypse
yeah, it has that feeling.
Miguel yo actually that feeling would be dope
cringe and unoriginal comment
this belongs in Fallout New Vegas
Imagine if someone cringed to this comment lmao
Some songs don’t need words this is one of them❤
Dichosos los que vivieron en esa época tan legendaria llena de verdaderos artistas que amaban la música y la hacían poesía...❤
Y mira a donde llegamos en este mundo con payasos como peso pluma
No me creerías si te digo que la primera vez que escuché esta melodía fue en una película de terror.
@@pablocipollone6516 ah cabron. Cual?
For a song with no lyrics it moves so many emotions absolutely beautiful
U get that with Instrumental i just made a tape of only Instruments no lyrics or vocals just another style with abit of Research it's wonderful
Don't need lyrics. I've always found the most soothing music to always be instrumental only. Something about speaking emotions without words is one of the most beautiful things I can think of. I can cry easier listening to music without words.
@@TheCRTman instrumentals can do that with all the emotions with only sound can do that
@@paultreadaway102 Call me crazy, but I've teared up hearing certain engine sounds lol. The combination of power steering pumps, hydraulic driven cooling fans, exhaust growl and of course the engine hum all working in harmony just makes me so happy that I tear up. It sounds like music. There's even major and minor note combos.
@@TheCRTman the heartstrings this one brings certain songs do aswell and others i get into it's weird how certain music the same styles go one extreme to another happy or sad
There will never be music like this again.
If there was it would be copyrighted.
Randy Coburn oh there will
There is, if you look hard enough. And there’s a lot of this stuff on Spotify, and when you find it, it won’t stop coming in. If you want I can send you a few songs with this type of style that are all pretty new.
Travis Harms name a few please
Travis Harms what are some of the songs?
I feel like this is one of those songs that touches your heart no matter how old you are. Im 27 and I've played this song for the past 20 yrs (since little) whenever im at peace or when i'm down. It brings so much nostalgia and sweet memories. Even my nephew, 8 yrs old love this lmao
Back when music was music I miss that time in my life
I imagine this song playing in the background when the world ends...
Richie!!!!
Ok
I’m more the of the first two minutes of the end by the doors
Why do I find that comforting?
I’ll die happily
This is the kind of music that makes you feel like you're in the era it was written in.
Random Things that was my growing up era, it was the best.
Random Things facts😂
1959, met my husband and married my freshman year. Still love this beautiful song and other songs written in the mid 50s to late 50s and can relive a totally different and peaceful time for a little while. Thank you!!!!
It's used as part of the background music of the behind the music episode on The Day the Music Died. The best episode of the series.
The music you hear when you come across 5 scary things etc this been used on so many shorts
I never heard something so deeply imbedded in my feelings as this. What a beautiful song...
What a great comment. I can relate. Those are the memorable ones.
This song reminds me so much of my father who passed away in 2022, brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
I feel the exactly way with my MOM 😢😢😢.. she passed away 2021.. COVID...
@@petertristan5885 I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a parent is one of the hardest things to go through. I'm terrified of losing my mom, I won't have parents. 😪
This song is so strange, because it stirs so many emotions and feelings at once. Nostalgia, regret, sadness, joy, despair, hope, finality, relaxation, the feeling that you missed the one chance that you had, the feeling that you did the best you could, and it wasn’t enough. And the feeling that even though the previous statement is true, it’s all going to be alright.
@Inevermiss the accuracy 👌🏽
Dammm this is 100% true
On point! 😫
@@chrisbeckzz7603 frrr
I feel the same 😔
Song is so beautiful yet has almost a depressing sound to it. Makes me think of life. Cheers to whoever sees this
Cheers to you too god bless✝️
Having lived in Hawaii I thought this sounded like an island tune. It seemed strange that an Italian family from Brooklyn, NY would somehow create a polynesian-sounding song.
Turns out they were taught steel slide guitar playing by someone from the islands. This is from the wiki page:
"Within two years, Santo was performing in amateur shows using a new Gibson six-string steel guitar and had started receiving lessons from a steel guitar teacher who had studied in Hawaii."
Greg Chase that’s pretty sweet if true! Thanks for the info! Cheers
@@DougieFresh If you grew up in the islands you would have been shocked to find out it was not a local song - that's how accurate the style is. Santo was taught by an authentic player and had very good, careful attention to the style. He reproduced it exactly.
When you compare the tune to traditional Italian music - which is very distinctive and a style all its own - Santo's "Sleep Walk" did not incorporate any aspect of traditional Italian music styles. It was as if he grew up in the islands, playing polynesian music - that's how good he interpreted it.
I concur with you.
I listen to this song so much when driving, it brings a lump in my throat every time I hear it. I never knew this video existed until tonight. Tears came down my face. Such a powerful song...
I get that, this type of music always gets me too. I’m only 44 and I don’t know why but it always does.
This song is so hauntingly beautiful. Melancholy. Always have loved this song. Transports me back to a time when I wasn't alive
This song makes wanna leave all my problems behind and head to the beach
ok this is my sign I’m heading to the beach
Leaving now!!
One time i was at the beach and this older couple next to us played this song from their car radio , got off, and slow danced :,)
What a classic, never knew the title till now
🥰💙
If I was their neighbor and I heard this at 2am, I wouldn't complain at all, just go back to sleep more relaxing
Miguel Mejia 😂
If I was their neightbor, I just would start to cry of sadness, then of happiness and then sleep
I'd go over and watch the show
@@linarey6485 u cute
Same last name
Decades later it still chills the emotions, stirs the senses and invigorates the mind.
Its crazy. I heard this as a kid watching LaBamba....and it still has a powerful deathly feel to it.
As I walk through the valley of Music, I seem to find myself in the timeless classics... Life is still not a movie, it's a Dream. Dreams never get Old.
i wonder if they ever thought for a second this song would last forever.
They did... it's why they got up in the middle of the night to write it down.
Who knew.
Ssargrettal Nosaj headass
damn i’m high as fuck n i felt this question
I'm 66 and every time I hear this song reminds me of my mom. She was an avid skater back in the day. She and the roller rinks' owner used to go out on the floor and skate a waltz to this song. So I've always been a fan of this song since it first came out. I still see those two ladies waltzing to this song today. Love you and miss you mom.
Que recuerdo mas hermoso ❤
A BIG-TIME SHOUT OUT TO SANTO AND JOHNNY FARINA,WHO AS OF FEBRUARY 17,2021,ARE BOTH STILL ALIVE AND WELL.SANTO IS 83 NOW AND JOHNNY IS 79 NOW.THANKS YOU BOTH FOR A GREAT SONG THAT I STILL LOVE TO HEAR FROM TIME TO TIME.
May god bless them to live a complete life
Hell Yes... Memories that mean something... I saw today that this song was left off of a greatest Instrumental Hits list and I knew... Somebody needs to get fired...Ya think?
@@garytaylortv EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET FIRED FOR THAT BLUNDER
Tell them if you see them I said hello! and thankyou! for the coolest rock and roll song ever!
So they were Italian-Americans? Nice
This was a nice visit to the past and enjoyed all the comments and reflections! Love this CZcams format for all the diversity of expression! Thanks to ALL! I can't imagine life without music!
I just love watching old videos,
make me feel nostalgic everytime
Good thing is they got up at 2am and wrote this song other wise we would never have this beautiful song
Imagine you're sleeping next door and you hear this coming out next door
@Tony Porter why you so mad
@Tony Porter salty much
@Tony Porter why
@Tony Porter your right its not a song its a tune
The originality of this song comes from a dimension beyond words.
"This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."
Yes
Some kind of God given thing. You wake up in the wee hours and this is just there in your mind? For real??
Joe Aragon as a musician, it’s hard to describe it ...best way i can, it’s a discussion with your hands thru this instrument... and this is what they talked about at 2am ✌🏻
No such thing as “originality” .. think about it !+*^
Such a beautiful song! Brings tears to your eyes! Reminds me of La Bamba every time I listen to it.
Born in 1962, I was not around when this was number one on the charts but it was a song my Mother played frequently on the cabinet record player we had.
I just watched the movie Hearts in Atlantis and this song is featured briefly so I had to go listen to it fully.
Lots of memories of my Mother dancing around to this while doing housework.
Miss you, Mom! ❤
Thank you for waking up your brother
After watching the plane scene in La Bamba this song hits different.
RITCHIE!!!!!!
@@TonyDracon Not my Richie!!!!
Fucking eitchieeeeee
Yes it does, doesn't it..
Ritchie!
I think they were inspired by God to write this music! Wishing my hubby was here now so we could slow dance to this. Miss my honey who is in heaven now…
God rest his soul and God bless you ❤❤
I listen to it over and over again, not only is it a masterpiece, it is the compilation of the universe and the immensity of the unknown...
If I die a slow death I wanna listen to this in my last moments
Wow!!!
bruh what a way to go
Same dude✨
Same
Same here.
Can anyone else imagine themselves just drifting through space listening to this?
You don't have to imagine. You're doing it right now; going thousands of kilometers a minute, on a giant rock.
I just imagine that im going to sample this golden piece.
ah totally
Just smoke some weed bro
@@noahcsa6470 just stomp on it lol
Tomorrow is NEW YEARS EVE , 2024 around the corner and this Song never gets old !! 🎉🎉
I swear, this song is a lifesaver when it comes to physical pain. I can't survive my period pain without it. Truly a therapeutic wonder!
At the time, those two young men had no ideal that this song would be an everlasting classic.
so did elvis
@@gabaghoul23 Elvis stole all his music. Great artist, but he was a hack
And that we would be watching them perform on YT 64 years later!
its the "abandoned places then and now" song
YES
This song makes me happy and sad at the same time.
Me too. Reminds me some memories...
There's a word for this : melancholy.
Change da world. My final mesage, Goodb ye
Dead.. it is
Good call on that. Absolutely.
It's not the song that's so good, it's the way Santo and Johnny played it that's just superb! No other steel guitar players have ever played it anywhere near as good, and never will!!
Mattress Firm brought me here even though I've heard this song before. It's so cool 😎.
I’m 78 and this tune still moves me as if it were yesterday that I heard it for the first time.
I love you, Richard
@@AdDelayed pfft that was random
God bless you 🙏
...me too, I'm an oldy too.
I love jazz songs, and i think life in the 1950s are far more simple
I’m 75 So I was 14. I remember rushing home from school every day to turn on American Bandstand. It would always be in full swing. We wanted to wear what the girls wore and would copy their hairdo’s. I remember before you could get those big round rollers in the south we would save the roll in the toilet paper and cut it in half until we had enough for our hair and used Bobby pins to secure them when we rolled our hair on them. We knew all the regulars by name and of course getting the yearbook was a must. I still have mine and the dance contest winners are in it. One of my favorite couples were Joanie and Jimmy and I think they were winners but I don’t remember if they were 1st place.
Wow, thank you for sharing Kathryn ❤️🥺
Thank you for sharing this ❤️
I’m 73 I know what you mean
so sweet
I think would’ve gotten together and been good friends ❤️
This music is so beautiful I've played it over and over I just love it .thank you .❤
This song makes me feel like I am missing a whole time I never experienced.
Wow,that's so spot on to describe it. I feel it
This is so fitting for The Irishman because that's exactly what Frank felt at the end
me too!
Same, it‘s like I feel the music and I want to travel back in time.
How did you explain that so well???
My dream is to have this song playing while I'm cruising in my 1950 Mercury custom on a late Friday night all by myself
can i join u
count me in too
You turn on your hi beams and there’s a deer 10 yards in front of you..
@@elliot2107 Sorry guys, he said he wanted to be alone. Lol, How about you and the lady above me carpool?
I drive my old 1981 GMC short box stepside and love to play this song. I am almost seventy and still love this song even after playing thousand times.
Since this song was first released and this show aired on television, this has been a favorite ..... classic, irreplaceable, cannot be duplicated with the same emotions that came through.... I am 77 years old and this song lingers always in the back of my mind... slow dancing with the one you love is the epitome...... Thank you so much.....
❤
3am! Just heard it again in a Anthony Hopkins film
Didnt know who sang it as im 'only' 65 and have loved it all of my life. Thankyou so much
Those people don’t understand how lucky they are to hear such beautiful music right in front of them
Wow this song helped me through my depression last year, in my first year of uni, I’m in second year now and I didn’t see myself here tbh... thank you all for the comments and likes I’m glad I can see them. Thanks to these legends. I wish you all a happy new year 2020 🧡. 31/12/19
sylvia man... n they’re dead right? both of them. imagine if they were to see how many people know them and how many people love this. this is so sad to the point that it makes me wanna cry. may they rest in peace
briana I think of that but then I think would they even reconginse my love for them since I am a blk women and in those days I don’t even think they were allowed in the concerts but none the less they are talents i hope they were good people
Infront*
@@briana8133 They are both still alive, and Johnny the guitar player still tours.
Any they're clapping on 1 and 3... thanks for ruining the song.
Anyone feel like screaming"Ritchie"
R.I.P Mr Valen
Sorry it MR VALENZUELA MEXICAN AMERICAN 🇲🇽🇺🇸
@@franciscogarcia39: Doesn't matter anyway, the song was written by ITALIAN Americans. lol.
Nonetheless, RIP Ritchie.
@@franciscogarcia39 We knew that already, thx.
😂😂
@@soytupadre7887 Mi padre!
It's funny that with less technology back then that music was better and more pure than it is today. It seems like the simpler things were back then the better true talent could be shown
Nowadays its all demonic... the 90s and early 00s were the last good music eras
SUCH A SUPER BEAUTIFUL MELODY, WOW, WOW, WOW!!!
My grandma's favorite song. We lost her on the 10th and it's be really hard. Makes me feel like she's with me
Aw 🥺❤️
May she Rest In Peace
Prayers 🙏
my condolences.
L
2019 and still get chills from hearing this.
Wow thanks for the likes, never had that many.
ASMR
2/3/2019
The warmness of this song will never die my dude
Yeah man, i just didn't know what word to use
same
This song will be here way after we're all gone. It's timeless, it cannot be topped, so simple yet so majestic.
Love that tune…
Easy listening .
"NOT MY RITCHIEEEEE!!!!" 😭....I cry every time I hear this song!
I was wondering if I was the only one who recognized this song from "La Bamba."
what a scene too, you felt her pain like if she really lost her son 😭
@@hellspawn328 Ritchie Valens we belong together
A movie too sad
The day the music died
I can’t listen to this song without going outside and yelling Ritchieeeeee
i was just thinking this. that part always gives me chills 🤣
La Bamba
Carlos Gutierrez you already know
lilchestdawg 23 hahahahahha
"Not my first, wont be my last." -Bob
I never knew the name of this until a friend mentioned the title and I looked it up. Gorgeous, gorgeous melody and feeling.
Love that kind of music. Sooths your peace of mind.
This hits different when your sitting on a hill on a cool night with the gentle breeze brushing against your face while you stare up into the beautiful stary night 🌙 🎶 ✨
*you’re
@@muffinsdawg shh 👀
@@joesamabinbiden6663 sorry I can’t help it
Ah
That's beautiful
Someone watching this in times of coronavirus?
Gabriel is tired.: Yes. 21Mar2020
@@ebayerr I am present & accounted for; Rollcall🎺🥁🎼🎵🎶 😄😅😁😂
March 23
✋
👋🏼😷
Thank you forever for your heart, your love, and your talent. This is my favorite song of yours. All my love to you.
I hope this song enters my head, when I take my last breath! What a beautiful way to exit stage left!.
Played this at my moms funeral in 2012. What a beautiful song.
Sorry for your loss
Hope your doing okay man
Such a thoughtful thing to do. It was the number one hit in September, 1959. I think anyone who grew up in the 1950's fondly remembers this beautiful song.
+LoveFlatfootin1 Thank you. She was born in 1956. I also just learned this beautiful tune on guitar. Love playing it, so relaxing.
+Billo1281 I'm sorry for your loss and I hope you are doing well.
I’m 15 and have discovered this song. For as long as I’m alive there will still be somebody listening to this. It is a masterpiece.
I'm 15 too. And I completely agree. It's nostalgic even though it's past my time
17 here, and boy when I grow old and grey I'll listen to this and show it to my grandkids (if i'm fortunate to have)
22, young bulls. Such masterful music captivates all ages and audiences. Glad some of the younger generation still has good taste
16 here, i absolutely love the part from 1:57 to 2:22
13 here, one of my favourite song ever
You can't call it a song because there's no words it's a tune but one of the greatest tunes ever performed I say.
The perfect mix of feelings inside this tune. Mostly happy. Very relaxed. Basically focused. Definitely nostalgic. Undoudtedly Hopeful. Comfortably content. A little tired. And a slight tinge of sadness in knowing all good things come to an end.
I love reading the comment section in old classic songs, it’s full of awesome stories and flashbacks. Shit, I wish I had lived this time. If you’re a person that experienced this great musical era, and you’re casually reading this comment, I feel respectfully jealous hahaha. Thank you folks for sharing your memories with youngsters like me. 🙏🏻❤️
Marcos Montoya i'm feeling the same way😂
You have the right to feel jealous as it was a great time with even greater music. Being born in 1945 I grew up listening to 50s and 60s music which we loving call "oldies but goodies" now in 2020 and there has never been any better music made since then. That is why I still listen to it and prefer it over anything made in today's world. I lived in Memphis most of my life, the home of Elvis (King of Rock n Roll) along with Sun and Stax Records and so many great Memphis bands and entertainers. And yes I grew up doing those dances seen in the movie "Dirty Dancing" which had a great soundtrack of music from the 60s. I wish I could relive it all over again and again as I have so many great memories from that time. Thank you for loving my era and my kind of music!!
i know right 🥺
Sad to think if we were Mexican we would’ve been racially abused
Alta Sanders I was born in 2004 and when I was around five or six dirty dancing was my favorite movie. I loved the soundtrack and still love and watch it to this day
Probably shouldn’t have been watching it at that age but oh well 😂
"RITCHIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
everybody is writing the same thing, what's that? what is that i m missing?
@@streaksilk5532 it's from the movie 'la bamba' which is about ritchie valens
@@bluephalanx Its also used in a film about vampires?
@@BradBrassman dunno most likely
@@bluephalanx its not...
My mother had this song in a 45 record! It's now in my collection!
Nice :)
This music is timeless and is unlike the meaningless crap we hear today. The music of yesteryear is worth EAR time to listen to. 😍😍
I want this played at my funeral
ight then
Well make it happen
we got you
+Siro Betancourt do this to my funeral plz
I got you bro
3 1/2 years ago I lost my wife of 47 years. If only I could dance with her one more time to this song.
That made me almost cry and the song synced to it and as I finished the comment the song had ended.
I def cried@@TotallyJuice
Hope you meet a new woman soon
@@donaldpump3072 no, just no.
I am so sorry for your loss
The most romantic tune ever made..❤
I love music so beautiful
Who else is watching this in 1959 ?
Me. Looking out my back window and wondering what's going on in that big exciting world out there.
Me at a.record hop in East London. 19 yrs old.
I will be 2 years old then so yeah I'll be watching.
Love Dick Clark and this song. 1959 Wow!
1947, suckaaaas
Hard to believe I was 16 when this came out. 77now and still can't get enough of it . Love this tune
amazing, im 18 loving this tune
I'm 16 rn
How was it back then ? It looked so chill like no one had to worry about anything
@@y0n3korpse48 you must be joking...
Did y’all see in color back then?
What great music that will live on forever. Very pretty.
I’m 12 and I literally am in love with this song. I am obsessed with classical music and so I decided to try out some newer but older music if ykwim and once I discovered this, I instantly fell in love. This is my favorite song. The 60s was so beautiful
Your on a gooood way to be normal of noing what is quality musik and not that ???? of today made by computer. Help me to know that the youth isnt lost!!!!!!
Try out Minnie Ripperton " Lovin You " and you will get your first love if you have one, good luck.
@@elfriedehein5002 No, I still like that kind of music. I really love all music but Classical music is my favorite genre. “Computer music” isn’t bad music. It’s just another form. It’s honestly not that big of a deal, man. The “youth” isn’t lost for listening to it, either.
Man I’m not even gonna complain if I was their neighbor.
Here in the Caribbean luckily enough hardly anyone complains about music..no matter the hour. .one of the tropical perks.Come to Curaçao...we would love to welcome you..
Right? I'd complain if it was one of these new pop fucks
@@mikekaatman3194 I’ve been a couple times, my god is it beautiful there. If I could think of a solid solution to stay I would but there’s just so much uncertainty to it. It would be a dream come true though.
Exactly my first thought!
@@alnoiseplaysmc if anyone finds a way to live life in Jamaica or similar countries I’d love to know