. This is one of the all time GREATEST transformations of an existing song.......Sedaka's shift from up-tempo to ballad, practically turned this into a COMPLETELY different, and MUCH better (in my opinion) song! .
This guy was typical of the 60's and 70's singer-songwriter. Talent out the kazoo, reads/writes sheet music, plays multiple instruments, and absolutely no mouth on mic shouting nonsense syllables...
No it'a not. Its boring compared to the original. And i don't mind a slow song, but c'mon you can't zap one of the greatest pop rock&roll records of all time of its energy and expect me to be happy about it
Oh my Lord, this song makes me want to cry each time I play it. I love this slow version and his voice is golden... Oh no, is that a tear? No, I won't cry...I beg of you, don't say goodbye...this is singing.
Played this version as an intro at a wedding in Virginia recently and it immediately put everyone in a good mood. I've played this song all my life and I hope that old Neil gets into the R&R Hall of Fame soon.
The slow version is melodically better. The slow version is emotionally concentrated, and has a massive effect on the heart. You can't dance this one off. A bittersweet end, but, that is how it goes most of the time....
What a great song... I remember sitting on the sofa and my father singing this to me with his heavy Puerto Rican accent. Brings back such wonderful memories. Thanks for posting this.
Here in March 2022 and woke up with "Laughter in the Rain" on my brain for some reason, and after listening to that, I had to come listen to this song! I was barely a teen when these two songs came out but I truly fell in love with Neil Sedaka's music, just beautiful and I always cried at the end of this song!❤️🥰🙏🏼
True, and imagine that there is Neil sedaka movie. if ever... Then the trailer use this song when she hugged her wife so tight and closes his eyes. lol
One of the best and most important songs of its era. So perfect in every way it is impossible to find all the great adjectives to describe it. Brilliant.
Beautiful song, love the slow version the best. Saw him in concert in Hartford Connecticut and he was amazing have been in love with his music all over again ever since.
Neil sedaka was classically trained at the Julliard School of Music and is a gifted composer which always come through with a beautiful melody. This slow version of Breaking Up is Hard To Do is beyond description. The feeling it projects touch the hearts of all those who have had to break up with a loved one. It has a "blueish" feeling by using the blues scales here and there adding to the sense of melancholy that the lyrics intend. Just a wonderful use of the musical language.
It is without doubt, one of the greatest love songs of all time. The lyrics, in my opinion just don't work in the faster pace version and yet here in New Zealand that is always the one played on the radio. It's as if they don't even know there is a slow classic version. I don't believe Neil has been admitted into the musical Hall of Fame as yet. Considering the length of his career and innumerable hits he has composed this is outrageous. Hopefully he will get the recognition he truly deserves soon ❤🤞🤞
Wow I never knew Neil attended Julliard.......regardless I recall the original version as a kid in the 60's....This version is "Off The Charts"....what a GREAT LOVE SONG !!!!!!!
Thank you so much for posting this version of one of my all time favorite love songs, luckysmusic. This is how this song should be sung, for breaking up a relationship hurts like hell. To watch the other versions with Neil smiling and singing it so zippy like, simply negates the beautiful, emotional and heart-felt lyrics. This version really does go straight to the heart!
Love both versions and with this change of pace from pop sixties to pop ballad it shows the strenght of Neils song writing talents and audience communication. Also brings back memories of someone "special" Warning. Be careful if you have a few beers and breakup with your loved one and listen to this song. Featuring in a future show Neil on my OZ TV show Jukebox Saturday night, amazing talent.
Happy 85th Birthday to Neil Sedaka. The Brooklynite may have succeeded Buddy Holly as the biggest nerd in rock and roll, but he was ahead of his time. He recorded a song titled “Stairway to Heaven” 11 years before Led Zeppelin did, and had a Top 10 hit with it. And he recorded a song titled “Bad Blood” and hit Number 1 with it 40 years before Taylor Swift did. And he had 2 very different versions of a song both hit several years apart, 16 years before Eric Clapton pulled off the feat with "Layla." He is still alive and performing.
On this day in 1962 {October 16th} Neil Sedaka performed "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... Four months earlier on June 30th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on August 11th it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100... Back-up singers on this version were the Cookies... Thirteen years later in 1975 he recorded a slower version of the song; and on December 13th it entered the Top 100 and it peaked at #8 R.I.P. Mr. Clark
I remember being a 9-year-old little girl watching this version on some variety show ( i believe). It shot right into my soul, and I have loved it ever since!
I would have loved to hear Karen Carpenter sing the slow version instead of the upbeat one. (Brother Richard arranged the strings on Sedaka's slow version.)
Though I was indifferent with the up beat original version, but I fell in love with this 'slow' version since the very first time I heard it played on the radio. Still love it.
No joke my earth science teacher showed us this not only because of weathering but because he sang this to his wife as he was proposing to her. Now I’m hooked 😂
Yes it is. I was in the United States Marine Corps when this was a hit. I was so in love with Teri H. in Jacksonville NC while I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina.
My absolute favourite version. Thank you for posting. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Does anyone out there have the PIANO SHEET MUSIC for this version???? Or is anyone clever enough to transcribe it for me???? I would love to be able to play this, but I learn music from printed sheets, not from listening. Please message me if you can help. Thank you.
How can one buy this version? Does he have it on a particular cd? Can it be purchased as an MP3? I've listened to the other slow versions but this one is the pearl.
My favourite version of this song............This is how it was meant to be sung.
Exactly
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This is one of the all time GREATEST transformations of an existing song.......Sedaka's shift from up-tempo to ballad, practically turned this into a COMPLETELY different, and MUCH better (in my opinion) song!
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I agree with Mark.
I think the original is superior
I get chills from the slow version of Breakin Hard To Do. Slow dancin with someone to that song is amazing. So slow and so sexy.
This guy was typical of the 60's and 70's singer-songwriter. Talent out the kazoo, reads/writes sheet music, plays multiple instruments, and absolutely no mouth on mic shouting nonsense syllables...
Has to be in the top 10 romantic songs. Slow version is the best version.
I agree. The arrangements on this song are fantastic. He should be in the Music HOF.
No it'a not. Its boring compared to the original. And i don't mind a slow song, but c'mon you can't zap one of the greatest pop rock&roll records of all time of its energy and expect me to be happy about it
The slow version is much more soulful.Mature. Amazing how the song is quite different in the two versions.
Oh my Lord, this song makes me want to cry each time I play it. I love this slow version and his voice is golden... Oh no, is that a tear? No, I won't cry...I beg of you, don't say goodbye...this is singing.
really like this song!
Love this slowed down ballad version of that old classic.
同じ歌でも全く別味で凄く旨い🍴😆✨最高😃⤴️⤴️ジャズ風ですね🎵流石です、お見逸れしました。😃
He sings this song beautifully, BRAVO 💕
I believe that THIS is the way this song SHOULD always be sung!
So many memories of the 1970s. Love to go back, I'd even repeat my 4 years in the United States Marine Corps.
nothing but...PERFECTION!
I love that version. Just beautiful!!
Played this version as an intro at a wedding in Virginia recently and it immediately put everyone in a good mood. I've played this song all my life and I hope that old Neil gets into the R&R Hall of Fame soon.
The slow version is melodically better. The slow version is emotionally concentrated, and has a massive effect on the heart. You can't dance this one off. A bittersweet end, but, that is how it goes most of the time....
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It's very simple and goes straight to the heart.
I remember 1975-76, it still hurts and I wonder what if.
For me me it was 1976. I was stationed at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina and so in love with a local young lady in Jacksonville NC. It hurt.
Sedaka is a musical master.
Beautiful song. Very well done
I love this version, he is so good
What a great song... I remember sitting on the sofa and my father singing this to me with his heavy Puerto Rican accent. Brings back such wonderful memories. Thanks for posting this.
Without question, one of the greatest pop melodies ever. Timeless lyrics. Brilliance that lives on. Paul McCartney said he loved this song.
Didn't know Paul dug it
I love THIS version of the song....
Here in March 2022 and woke up with "Laughter in the Rain" on my brain for some reason, and after listening to that, I had to come listen to this song! I was barely a teen when these two songs came out but I truly fell in love with Neil Sedaka's music, just beautiful and I always cried at the end of this song!❤️🥰🙏🏼
I sent this song to my girlfriend back in 1983 and it got us back together, Ill always remember that.
Oh Geez!Marvelous!!
This version is so beauty and makes me remember my teens's years.
Thanks for posting..
Imagine .....slow dancing to this with someone special ......you would never want it to end .
True, and imagine that there is Neil sedaka movie. if ever... Then the trailer use this song when she hugged her wife so tight and closes his eyes. lol
+Alries Sedaka try not to imagine ....please
+sheila andrews why?
+Alries Sedaka well between both of us on what we ...CAN imagine ... I like mine better . :)
+sheila andrews then share it please
One of the best and most important songs of its era. So perfect in every way it is impossible to find all the great adjectives to describe it. Brilliant.
Beautiful song, love the slow version the best. Saw him in concert in Hartford Connecticut and he was amazing have been in love with his music all over again ever since.
This slow version is sooooo silky smoooooth. Great song, great talent.
Seen Neil twice at the City Hall in Sheffield. Such a talented man and this song is indescribably wonderful.
Neil sedaka was classically trained at the Julliard School of Music and is a gifted composer which always come through with a beautiful melody. This slow version of Breaking Up is Hard To Do is beyond description. The feeling it projects touch the hearts of all those who have had to break up with a loved one. It has a "blueish" feeling by using the blues scales here and there adding to the sense of melancholy that the lyrics intend. Just a wonderful use of the musical language.
It is without doubt, one of the greatest love songs of all time.
The lyrics, in my opinion just don't work in the faster pace version and yet here in New Zealand that is always the one played on the radio. It's as if they don't even know there is a slow classic version.
I don't believe Neil has been admitted into the musical Hall of Fame as yet.
Considering the length of his career and innumerable hits he has composed this is outrageous.
Hopefully he will get the recognition he truly deserves soon ❤🤞🤞
Wow I never knew Neil attended Julliard.......regardless I recall the original version as a kid in the 60's....This version is "Off The Charts"....what a GREAT LOVE SONG !!!!!!!
A musical Jewel, brought by an absolute Master!
Geert Dehoux, classical pianist.
Belgium.
Dittoes, Mr Michael Towle! You've expressed it all and ELEGANTLY! This is TRUE soul music! It's a privilege to recall my youth this way.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!
Fantastic! Amazing he turned this into a beautiful slow song too. Love both versions, as well as Laughter in the Rain.
Wow, I so totally love this version. I think I still have an old 45 of this around somewhere! :-)
What an incredible talent- song writer, musician, and singer!
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Thank you so much for posting this version of one of my all time favorite love songs, luckysmusic. This is how this song should be sung, for breaking up a relationship hurts like hell. To watch the other versions with Neil smiling and singing it so zippy like, simply negates the beautiful, emotional and heart-felt lyrics. This version really does go straight to the heart!
Voice of an angel!
Love both versions and with this change of pace from pop sixties to pop ballad it shows the strenght of Neils song writing talents and audience communication. Also brings back memories of someone "special"
Warning. Be careful if you have a few beers and breakup with your loved one and listen to this song.
Featuring in a future show Neil on my OZ TV show Jukebox Saturday night, amazing talent.
I Love this Song😍😍😍
Happy 85th Birthday to Neil Sedaka. The Brooklynite may have succeeded Buddy Holly as the biggest nerd in rock and roll, but he was ahead of his time.
He recorded a song titled “Stairway to Heaven” 11 years before Led Zeppelin did, and had a Top 10 hit with it. And he recorded a song titled “Bad Blood” and hit Number 1 with it 40 years before Taylor Swift did. And he had 2 very different versions of a song both hit several years apart, 16 years before Eric Clapton pulled off the feat with "Layla." He is still alive and performing.
Beautifully sung
Que hermosa versión. Definitivamente prefiero esta versión que la conocida.
Sweet!
HIS VERY BEST
Esta canción y versión es la preferida de mi querida hermana. 👯♂️
Te quiero hermanita. 🌷💕🌺🌷💕🌺🌷
Thanks for posting....👍👍👍!
Great! Saw Neil at Chautauqua this simmer (2010) - in a word: DEVINE!!!
Neil Sedaka - a living legend!
Gorgeous song.
On this day in 1962 {October 16th} Neil Sedaka performed "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand...
Four months earlier on June 30th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on August 11th it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
Back-up singers on this version were the Cookies...
Thirteen years later in 1975 he recorded a slower version of the song; and on December 13th it entered the Top 100 and it peaked at #8
R.I.P. Mr. Clark
I remember being a 9-year-old little girl watching this version on some variety show ( i believe). It shot right into my soul, and I have loved it ever since!
i remembered the original version.. but when i heard this slower more blue version i fell again for this man ...
Fabulous arrangement / performance. Mr. Sadaka's voice is liquid gold, sooo smooth. 🌹
Beautiful voice ❤
ahhhhh....thank you. nice! i have my dad's album all this time.
One of the best songs ever
What a voice ❤
The best rendition of his best song.
Maravilhoso! pra mim esta é a melhor gravação
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I would have loved to hear Karen Carpenter sing the slow version instead of the upbeat one. (Brother Richard arranged the strings on Sedaka's slow version.)
Yes. RC is a master and Karen too of course.
Qué hermosa canción y ésta versión, lenta y sensual...carajo, qué voz tenía el gran Neil Sedaka
Gino's Uncle Vic told me he likes Neil Sedaka...Thanks for showing..
Wow! Flabbergasted!
My first gril friend broke up with me when the fast version was a hit. When this one came out I felt worse.
Aw ..You poor thing ! Damn them !
Woman !! Cant live with them, Pass the Beer Nuts !!
Love this version as well
I remember when this slow version came out in the 70s... it was a fun fast song once, but slow is the way it is meant to be sung.
I really like the slow version as much as the bouncy harmonies of the fast one.
Slow version was THE best.
BEAUTIFUL!
Love it ....hope you share the same positive emotion.
Soooo Sappy. Soooo Great!
Though I was indifferent with the up beat original version, but I fell in love with this 'slow' version since the very first time I heard it played on the radio. Still love it.
beautiful song
my favourite song ever
wonderful voice and beutiful voice
Wow 😊
beautiful i love the fast version too
Perfecto!!
No joke my earth science teacher showed us this not only because of weathering but because he sang this to his wife as he was proposing to her. Now I’m hooked 😂
Best make out song ever.
perfection.
Both versions are wonderful, though the slow one is obviously more romantic.
Yes it is. I was in the United States Marine Corps when this was a hit. I was so in love with Teri H. in Jacksonville NC while I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina.
HIt 1962 and 1975 love the string arrangement when is he conming back to Australia or I will check vegas engagement and fly over.
My absolute favourite version. Thank you for posting.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Does anyone out there have the PIANO SHEET MUSIC for this version????
Or is anyone clever enough to transcribe it for me????
I would love to be able to play this, but I learn music from printed sheets, not from listening.
Please message me if you can help.
Thank you.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
Because of this, I want to marry the man.
Sedaka Sings the BLUES>>>>>>>>>!
You can just see someone walking through NYC on a rainy night.
Love you...
Might be hard to see but some of this performance was originally pioneered by Liberace.
Beautiful dance song
How can one buy this version? Does he have it on a particular cd? Can it be purchased as an MP3? I've listened to the other slow versions but this one is the pearl.
WOW
cette chanson elle est trop bonne wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you played me long enough you didn't love at all just a game 😢
Brent Spiner's father? This guy had an amazing voice. (had, meaning back in the day, not that he's dead).
Neil sedaka