It is truly amazing what Joe Meek produced using primitive equipment and without the financial backing of a major record label. He was a great producer whose work has stood the test of time.
Like so many incredibly talented, Joe was incredibly troubled by mental illness and drug addiction. Imagine if he'd had access to the advanced treatments we have today. What could he have accomplished? Or would he have been one of the people for whom no treatments worked?
@@OofusTwillip He was also gay at a time when it was illegal in the UK. It was legalised in the year he killed himself (1967) and murdered his landlady but there was still a stigma.
@@wesleycook7687 Meek was absolutely gay. And 304 Holloway Road was not your typical "studio" ... it was a flat being used as a "studio". The echo chamber was located in the bathroom!
This is probably the song that shifted from the 50s to the 60s. I've not found a sound sounding more modern than this, that was produced or released any earlier than this song. This song started the 60s revolution. Followed by Del Shannon Runaway. Massive turning point in history!
There was a Bryan Ferry jazz doc recently. Joe Meek was a producer of Bad Penny Blues, a British jazz hit, which Macca was very influenced by for Lady Madonna. This was when Jazz was popular in the UK, and the success might have given Joe Meek a financial boost. Which enabled his subsequent success. Meek got a piano sound on Bad Penny Blues which the composer wasn't happy with, but it was one of the key features of the thing :)
I remember being on a school trip aged 10 in July '61. We were at Heysham Head, near Morecambe and Del Shannon's Runnaway was playing EVERYWHERE. I remember trying catch the eye of a schoolgirl I fancied whilst on the areoplanes...the things one remembers 60 years later! Great days though, esp for transitional rock!
@@theculturedthug6609 yeah he’d only have had to wait a few years before he’d have been embraced by people who like interesting music over what’s cool. Brian Wilson and Phil Spector were both considered has beens by the late 60s but then by the 70s people had already stated to appreciate their unique genius. I think the 60s counterculture just opened people’s minds to appreciate things that were eccentric and there’s been a place for those type of artists ever since
Joe Meek was one of the few music producers creating a complete new sound, still unsurpassed. When will a statue be erected in his honour? He did really not deserve such a sad ending of his days on earth.
anne sargison I only saw the last years of the 60s, but feel blessed I did. In the summer of '69 I grew six, and I knew, there would never be a better time in my life, and I was right. If we only could go back.
Holy crap wow. Talk about a song ahead of it's time. That's what I love about ballad songs like these from the 50's and 60's... You'll ALWAYS hear something you've never heard before.
I usually hate it when people say a song was ahead of its time because songs appear where they do because they are the result of the influences around them at the time. However, in this case, I have to agree. This song and its style, engineering, and even subject, was ahead of its time. I don't know why it did not get to the U.S. But just around then, the approximately five-year "Teen Tragedy" run of pop music was starting with songs like ""Moody River," 'Tell Laura," "Leader of the Pack," "Laurie," "Patches," etc.
Yes, it has been labelled as a ''morbid pop'' song, a trend in pop music of late 50s and early 60s. Although remaining pop song structure and melody, thematically those songs dealt with tragic death, usually car accident of the loved one.
I wouldn't swap my past 69yrs for another 69in the future I think I lived in the greatest era ever and thank the likes of my father who risked his life for our futures,your best years are surely your teenage years and the SIXTIES had it all!!!
My dads name is Johnny and I remember this song playing when I was a child and he was going away with the army it was a Sunday morning and my mum was crying her eyes out sad but lovely memories RIP Dad love you always XXX
I remember this song so well. It was the first song I ever got in to. I remember it coming on the radio and it would cut through the air like a knife. Still sounds good.
Dear anne, I too have wonderful memories of the 60s. The music was so beautiful. I can sing along to just about every song from the 60s, 70s and 80's.... But being 71 now... I forget why I went Into the kitchen......
John Leyton WAS the sixties. His appearance and music were the very best. He also was a movie star. By the way, all the young dolly birds in this video are grannies now. Time moves on, but greatness will always remain forever.
Good stuff, John Leyton was also known as one of the three prisoners to escape to freedom in the movie 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen. Leyton escaped in a boat with Chares Bronson. Great memories.
This song used to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, so haunting. I was a wireless mech in the RAF in East Anglia during the 60s part of my service. While working on snags in the aircraft, we used to drag out the job so we could listen to Radio Caroline which was anchored in the North Sea not too far from us. They played all our favourite pop music, not like the old-fashioned crap you got on the BBC Light Programme although the Beeb was great for comedy like Beyond our Ken etc. I loved the rock n roll which came out in the late 50s, too. Nowadays there are so many pop singers, it's impossible to remember them all! I now have loads of 50s & 60s music on my laptop and I play them while the bloody soaps and "reality" shows are on.
Joe Meek was the genius behind this song & some of the most memorable hits of the 60's. To think many of his hits were recorded in his rented flat on the Holloway Road! A flawed genius ten years ahead of his time.
Agreed. Sadly his mental instability led to him shooting his landlady and himself with Heinz Burt's shotgun. I knew Heinz during the '80s when he was a carriage painter at Eastleigh repair shops.
I remember listening to this in R Dorm at Clayesmore School, in the 60's - memories!!! I thought it the greatest sad song of all time - maybe I still do - not telling !
This is brilliantly produced. Joe Meek was undoubtedly one of the most influential and important music men ever from England. Im sure Phil Spector learnt quite a bit from him.
Quite possibly. This song does give one a replication feeling of Spector's later "Wall of Sound" technique. It's as if he heard this song and said to himself, "I've got to do that!"
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244Joe Meek was good but Spector was already doing his wall of sound in 1960 so Meek borrowed from him. I doubt if Spector ever heard of him. Meek probably knew that but decided to use Spector's techniques. Spector discovered the echo sounds before he with the Teddy Bears recorded his song "To Kow Him Is To Love Him"and the tape was made in the bathroom at his house. When the recording was picked up by a record company, Phil knew he had a real future. He built a small studio and added echo chambers and experimented with instruments and his employees were the singers. As time went on, the Wall Of Sound included the Righteous Brothers, the Rolling Stones and even the Beatles did tracks in his studio. He recorded Tina Turner's first solo record but didn't release it because of Ike's rage. Tina and Phil both acknowledged this and it's featured in Tina's bio movie, What's Love Got To Do With It. Too bad Leyton's record wasn't heard by Spector. He would have re-recorded it in Spector's studio and it would have been a major hit in the US. As such, it remained in England.
@@wesleycook7687 Joe Meek received a call from Phil Spector where Meek accused him of stealing his ideas. Not sure who the protagonist is however for certain Spector knew who he was.
My parents owned a pub in the 60s, and they had a juke box. As the songs were replaced, they kept the singles, and in the 70s, i found them, and this was one of them. You would not believe what else...a Stingray episode, Flintstones songs.
The sixties was the best decade for music,, such a genuine wealth of talent around in those days, very hard to pick a favourite but this was definitely one of the most memorable songs of that era,,,
I was not even a “twinkle” in the 60’s but thank you so much to my Dad who passed on his love for the greats of this era to me before he sadly passed. I was the only kid at infant school who was a Buddy Holly fan!
Yes!! I was so lucky to be growing up during those magical years. And I so grateful that 21st century technology allows us to relive them, A fabulous song which personifies the age. My thanks to whoever posted.
Well Stephanie, I was around in the 1960's, in fact I was thirteen years old when this song was first released, and I lost somebody very close to me. Indeed, it was the first time I had experienced such a great feeling of sadness. Somehow, this song helped me through this time.
You are so lucky to have lived through the 60's. So sorry to hear about your loss. At such a young age too... I'm glad this amazing song somehow managed to help you through such a difficult time.
There's one person who has never really got the credit they deserve for this track, and that is Lissa Gray who performed the haunting backing vocals that really made this recording what it is. There are several decent versions of this track, but only one has the Meek production sound and that girl's eerie voice. Joe Meek productions really come alive when played good and loud, and this one can still make spines tingle 54 years on. Compared to it's chart contemporaries in 1961 it must have sounded like it came from another world. Helen Shapiro was at #2 when this hit the top spot. Talk about chalk and cheese.
My 1st boyfriend at 15 yr old was called Johnny,wished I had stayed with him. He passed away with covid 2021 at 71 yr old, This song reminds me of him.so sad .
Fantastic voice!!!!! I remember the 60s as a very happy teenager. The 60s when a woman was aloud to be a women and they all looked beautiful with stunning figures!
Thomas Törnqvist Yes, a woman was allowed to be a woman, to stay in the kitchen and care for the children? And I like the dresses of the sixties as well, but I still prefer living in the modern times...
@alanrtment porter well in the early 60's the child would have been forcibly adopted and the girl sent to an institution to cure her of her delinquency.
I’m 38 and remember listening to this with my sister at my nana house on record. We played it over and over. Such strong memories of my wonderful nan ❤x
Definitely one of the GREATEST legendary songs. Whenever I hear this; Tell Laura I love her and Runaway. I suddenly find myself back in my teens. Who says there is no such thing as time travel? Our spirit ARE capable and often do time travel. I just wish our bodie could follow suit.
Beautiful song, and it hits home even more when you consider that the lyrics were changed prior to release to 'I hear the voice of my darling, the girl I love and lost a year ago' from 'I hear the voice of my darling, the girl I love who died a year ago'
My parents played this song often when I was a child, it depressed the hell out of me!! Started my existential angst at 6 years old!!! 😂 But it is a great song and sound and I now sing it daily to my dog! 🦝😂🦝😂
Remember going to the Earls Court Radio Show with my dad in September 1961and wherever you were in the hall, this seemed to be playing.Saved for 3 weeks to buy the Top Rank single, must have heard it 1000s of times but still love it , one of Joe's masterpieces, a perfect enduring pop record !
John had a brother, Tony, who owned a horse farm on Pork Lane, Holland-on-sea, U.K. I was an apprentice brickie and helped build a large house with swimming pool on the property, around 1962-63.
Just for the record (pun intended), I went to the same school as John, and I also did a recording session at Joe's studio in Holloway Road London. This was around 1962. I am still singing and recording at home. I sing songs by Adam Faith, Jim Reeves, Michael Holliday, Perry Como, and Buddy Holly, to name but a few!
@@Neal_Schier I only know what gets published on the internet or press if I read it. I am on some semi-private blogs (As in they can be read by any, but only members can write on them) but have not noticed anything for some time. Research is still ongoing is prob best way to say it for now
Love this song. It is hauntingly special - and even more so for me as it hit number one straight after I was born - and I got called Johnny when I was young. Don't understand why it doesn't get airplay these days as a classic
I remember waiting outside my local record shop to buy this particular record..wow..they were great days..great times too..thanks for posting this video
The '60s were the best days of my life. with songs like this.
1a
My sister no longer with us used to sing this to me when I was very young x Miss her so much ...
So sorry to hear that.
❤ xx
So sorry to hear this.
❤
Best Wishes 👍
It is truly amazing what Joe Meek produced using primitive equipment and without the financial backing of a major record label. He was a great producer whose work has stood the test of time.
A legend
And he was a nutter
Like so many incredibly talented, Joe was incredibly troubled by mental illness and drug addiction. Imagine if he'd had access to the advanced treatments we have today. What could he have accomplished? Or would he have been one of the people for whom no treatments worked?
@@OofusTwillip He was also gay at a time when it was illegal in the UK. It was legalised in the year he killed himself (1967) and murdered his landlady but there was still a stigma.
@@wesleycook7687 Meek was absolutely gay. And 304 Holloway Road was not your typical "studio" ... it was a flat being used as a "studio". The echo chamber was located in the bathroom!
This is probably the song that shifted from the 50s to the 60s. I've not found a sound sounding more modern than this, that was produced or released any earlier than this song. This song started the 60s revolution. Followed by Del Shannon Runaway. Massive turning point in history!
Good analysis, thanks :)
There was a Bryan Ferry jazz doc recently. Joe Meek was a producer of Bad Penny Blues, a British jazz hit, which Macca was very influenced by for Lady Madonna. This was when Jazz was popular in the UK, and the success might have given Joe Meek a financial boost. Which enabled his subsequent success. Meek got a piano sound on Bad Penny Blues which the composer wasn't happy with, but it was one of the key features of the thing :)
Joe Meek apparently...
I remember being on a school trip aged 10 in July '61. We were at Heysham Head, near Morecambe and Del Shannon's Runnaway was playing EVERYWHERE. I remember trying catch the eye of a schoolgirl I fancied whilst on the areoplanes...the things one remembers 60 years later! Great days though, esp for transitional rock!
@@gm4014 macca?! bwaa haa haa
Pushing 72 years of age now and I still remember the 60s like they were yesterday what a decade it was orgasmic
Bang on Mike, I'm shaw you enjoyed it all mate.
Sounds like you are coming on strong .
Pushing 77 , nothing beats the 50s/60s/70s .
One of the most evocative and timeless pop songs of all time, brilliant haunting production from over 50 years ago.
Absolutely - Joe Meek was such a tortured soul, yet so gifted.
60 now 😢
@@kyawkyawwin1 If only poor Joe would have waited the late 60s and 70s and 80s would have been his.
@@theculturedthug6609 yeah he’d only have had to wait a few years before he’d have been embraced by people who like interesting music over what’s cool. Brian Wilson and Phil Spector were both considered has beens by the late 60s but then by the 70s people had already stated to appreciate their unique genius. I think the 60s counterculture just opened people’s minds to appreciate things that were eccentric and there’s been a place for those type of artists ever since
was 50 now 60 🤯
Joe Meek was one of the few music producers creating a complete new sound, still unsurpassed. When will a statue be erected in his honour? He did really not deserve such a sad ending of his days on earth.
Agreed. A great talent. 😢
The 60s really were so fantastic, so glad I was part of it. 70 now though, but never mind, I've lived.
Me too Ms Anne,but wernt it fantastic times?
Robert Meadows
As I was saying to my young lady hairdresser today, isn't modern music shite? Fortunately, I've still got one ear.
at least racism isn't as bad as used to be in the 60's!
kenny grump It is still, but from another corner. If you were a Jew, you would know what I'm speaking about.
anne sargison I only saw the last years of the 60s, but feel blessed I did.
In the summer of '69 I grew six, and I knew, there would never be a better time in my life, and I was right. If we only could go back.
Great song!
It’s sad to die, but even sadder to get forgotten. ‘Please, remember me’.
No chance.
Hauntingly beautiful classic. This song has some special unique quality that's so different.
The 60's and 70's the 2 best eras of all time. So glad I was part of it
Hi Patricia
And the 80s
Holy crap wow. Talk about a song ahead of it's time. That's what I love about ballad songs like these from the 50's and 60's... You'll ALWAYS hear something you've never heard before.
I usually hate it when people say a song was ahead of its time because songs appear where they do because they are the result of the influences around them at the time. However, in this case, I have to agree. This song and its style, engineering, and even subject, was ahead of its time. I don't know why it did not get to the U.S. But just around then, the approximately five-year "Teen Tragedy" run of pop music was starting with songs like ""Moody River," 'Tell Laura," "Leader of the Pack," "Laurie," "Patches," etc.
this is not just another oldie , kitch or standard 60's rock, there is something wild , something else in this splendid song.
Yes, it has been labelled as a ''morbid pop'' song, a trend in pop music of late 50s and early 60s. Although remaining pop song structure and melody, thematically those songs dealt with tragic death, usually car accident of the loved one.
One of the best records of all time in my opinion
Check out Wild Wind , Kate.
Agree with Nic both a truly unique fabulous songs ❤
I come from Germany and I even know it:)
My alltime favourite. Alas I remember it from when it was first released. Play it most days.
@@davidmartin4613 Me too!😉
you can't beat 60s or 70s and also 80s but the 60s will always be the best music ever
I wouldn't swap my past 69yrs for another 69in the future I think I lived in the greatest era ever and thank the likes of my father who risked his life for our futures,your best years are surely your teenage years and the SIXTIES had it all!!!
Could not agree more Pete, I'm the same age , trouble is we did not appreciate just HOW good those years were in the best decade to be young !
Agree 100%
Didn't become a teenager till 1970 wished I was born ten years earlier, the only downside of that is I would be ten years older now.
LOL Lea..They were great days..
Yes all class songs .still playing now
My dads name is Johnny and I remember this song playing when I was a child and he was going away with the army it was a Sunday morning and my mum was crying her eyes out sad but lovely memories RIP Dad love you always XXX
Animo compañero, su musica siempre te lo recordara.
I just discover this original song. The singer has such a beautiful voice!!
Agree 100% and more, 67 now and we've had the best time, music wise. I was born when my dad was 42, better dad no body had. XXX
A haunting classic. Ridiculous this didn't come out here in the states back then.
I remember this song so well. It was the first song I ever got in to. I remember it coming on the radio and it would cut through the air like a knife. Still sounds good.
The 60's yeah. The best decade of the century. Good music, ground breaking, Mods and Rockers, pirate radio. Wow
+Jim Clapperton yea right Jim you old drunkard! (LOL)
+TheEvermouse ....I don't know what I said to get you all pissed off!
+lenspaulding You don't, then I suggest you read your own posts.
+lenspaulding grow up
+shirley williams ...wow Shirley! Sorry if I offended you....I thought I was being nice to old Jim Clapperton!
Joe meek what a genius, the sounds he created just incredible.
Meek, who was suspected of chopping up a guy and leaving him in suitcases? The guy that murdered his landlady? You mean that guy?
Dear anne, I too have wonderful memories of the 60s. The music was so beautiful. I can sing along to just about every song from the 60s, 70s and 80's....
But being 71 now... I forget why I went Into the kitchen......
That was great!!
great song gave me the chills
A gem of a song. Hauntingly beautiful. New fan of J. Leyton. Telstar- good movie.
My teenage years, so good to be able to hear them again, thanks to CZcams
Hello how are you doing?
John Leyton WAS the sixties.
His appearance and music were the very best.
He also was a movie star.
By the way, all the young dolly birds in this video are grannies now.
Time moves on, but greatness will always remain forever.
Absolutely brilliant was the sixties there will never be another era like it
Best ever!
👍 They don't make music like this today! 🎵=🗝️>❤️
Listening on a Juke box is the only way to listen to this all time classic.
Good stuff, John Leyton was also known as one of the three prisoners to escape to freedom in the movie 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen. Leyton escaped in a boat with Chares Bronson. Great memories.
The 60s, great memories and the best time ever for great music.
1961, I was 9 years old, and this song was one of my favorites. Had forgotten all about, until now
This song used to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, so haunting. I was a wireless mech in the RAF in East Anglia during the 60s part of my service. While working on snags in the aircraft, we used to drag out the job so we could listen to Radio Caroline which was anchored in the North Sea not too far from us. They played all our favourite pop music, not like the old-fashioned crap you got on the BBC Light Programme although the Beeb was great for comedy like Beyond our Ken etc. I loved the rock n roll which came out in the late 50s, too. Nowadays there are so many pop singers, it's impossible to remember them all! I now have loads of 50s & 60s music on my laptop and I play them while the bloody soaps and "reality" shows are on.
One of my favorites when I was in high school...the voice of the woman is outstanding - standing out!
lots of interesting things going on vocally with ghostly and wind like sounds, this is such an under rated song.
You can call it an usual song,i call this a masterpiece!
Oldies but goldies,deserve more respect,and much more views!
Joe Meek was and still is a genius! It still sounds ahead of it's time 50 yrs later, along with Telstar. Thank you for the music, Mr Meek, RIP :(
2024, and it's still better than most of today's rubbish.
Joe Meek was the genius behind this song & some of the most memorable hits of the 60's. To think many of his hits were recorded in his rented flat on the Holloway Road! A flawed genius ten years ahead of his time.
Geoff Goddard wrote this in 20 minutes.
meek production - Goddard song - Blackwell arrangement = some of the best Brit pop from the early '60s.
Agreed.
Sadly his mental instability led to him shooting his landlady and himself with Heinz Burt's shotgun.
I knew Heinz during the '80s when he was a carriage painter at Eastleigh repair shops.
sapper82
local boy Geoff Goddard wrote this.
Such a great lovely song sung really well 🎉🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🇬🇧 still sounds good today
Released in 1961 and still a beauty ! A jewel ! Thanks John !
I remember listening to this in R Dorm at Clayesmore School, in the 60's - memories!!! I thought it the greatest sad song of all time - maybe I still do - not telling !
This is brilliantly produced. Joe Meek was undoubtedly one of the most influential and important music men ever from England. Im sure Phil Spector learnt quite a bit from him.
Quite possibly. This song does give one a replication feeling of Spector's later "Wall of Sound" technique. It's as if he heard this song and said to himself, "I've got to do that!"
@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244Joe Meek was good but Spector was already doing his wall of sound in 1960 so Meek borrowed from him. I doubt if Spector ever heard of him. Meek probably knew that but decided to use Spector's techniques. Spector discovered the echo sounds before he with the Teddy Bears recorded his song "To Kow Him Is To Love Him"and the tape was made in the bathroom at his house. When the recording was picked up by a record company, Phil knew he had a real future. He built a small studio and added echo chambers and experimented with instruments and his employees were the singers. As time went on, the Wall Of Sound included the Righteous Brothers, the Rolling Stones and even the Beatles did tracks in his studio. He recorded Tina Turner's first solo record but didn't release it because of Ike's rage. Tina and Phil both acknowledged this and it's featured in Tina's bio movie, What's Love Got To Do With It. Too bad Leyton's record wasn't heard by Spector. He would have re-recorded it in Spector's studio and it would have been a major hit in the US. As such, it remained in England.
@@wesleycook7687 Joe Meek received a call from Phil Spector where Meek accused him of stealing his ideas.
Not sure who the protagonist is however for certain Spector knew who he was.
I was very proud to meet dear John a few years ago,a real Gentleman.We hugged each other too.No one can take those wonderful memories away from me.
Hello how are you doing?
My parents owned a pub in the 60s, and they had a juke box. As the songs were replaced, they kept the singles, and in the 70s, i found them, and this was one of them. You would not believe what else...a Stingray episode, Flintstones songs.
Superb song, sends shivers down my spine
Wonderful music we had back then. Still amazing today. Natural and untouched and easy to listen too.
Hello Sheron
Beautiful early British hit and can still have the power to get the memories coming back!
The sixties was the best decade for music,, such a genuine wealth of talent around in those days, very hard to pick a favourite but this was definitely one of the most memorable songs of that era,,,
I was not even a “twinkle” in the 60’s but thank you so much to my Dad who passed on his love for the greats of this era to me before he sadly passed. I was the only kid at infant school who was a Buddy Holly fan!
That'll be the day 😊😂
Yes!! I was so lucky to be growing up during those magical years. And I so grateful that 21st century technology allows us to relive them, A fabulous song which personifies the age. My thanks to whoever posted.
I so wish I had been around in the 60's! It must have been such a magical time, it's the best music EVER!!
indeed the best years of music ! also in the seventy,s
now i.am older i.am fan of metal !
Well Stephanie, I was around in the 1960's, in fact I was thirteen years old when this song was first released, and I lost somebody very close to me.
Indeed, it was the first time I had experienced such a great feeling of sadness.
Somehow, this song helped me through this time.
You are so lucky to have lived through the 60's. So sorry to hear about your loss. At such a young age too... I'm glad this amazing song somehow managed to help you through such a difficult time.
I love this song, too!
Ah, but if you were you would be so much older now....
He was gorgeous: great voice and a very handsome man. What a decade for music. Conjures up so many memories for we oldies.
The hairstyles of those teen idols (Leyton/Everleys/Fury etc) were like works of art!
Oh God.........what a gorgeous blast from the past. Love all of Joe Meek's records. Only 11 then but remember having a crush on John Leyton.
He became a massive film star in the far East in the 70's. Talented man.
There's one person who has never really got the credit they deserve for this track, and that is Lissa Gray who performed the haunting backing vocals that really made this recording what it is. There are several decent versions of this track, but only one has the Meek production sound and that girl's eerie voice. Joe Meek productions really come alive when played good and loud, and this one can still make spines tingle 54 years on. Compared to it's chart contemporaries in 1961 it must have sounded like it came from another world. Helen Shapiro was at #2 when this hit the top spot. Talk about chalk and cheese.
Loved this song when herd it as a teenager geoff steele. 76 24/5/23
OMG Johnny Leyton was so fit. So glad he is still with us. What a voice.xx
Hello my friend
This guy had it all,the looks ,voice and acting talent.Make the Muppets on X Factor look like half arse lemmings.50 Bloody Years ago.Look and Learn.
Weird that your first comparison went to the Muppets. Is there some connection?
mikelisacarb it implys industry puppets I think
My 1st boyfriend at 15 yr old was called Johnny,wished I had stayed with him.
He passed away with covid 2021 at 71 yr old,
This song reminds me of him.so sad .
A great moment from pop history. Just as good today as 1961.
Fantastic voice!!!!!
I remember the 60s as a very happy teenager.
The 60s when a woman was aloud to be a women and they all looked beautiful with stunning figures!
Thomas Törnqvist Yes, a woman was allowed to be a woman, to stay in the kitchen and care for the children? And I like the dresses of the sixties as well, but I still prefer living in the modern times...
@alanrtment porter well in the early 60's the child would have been forcibly adopted and the girl sent to an institution to cure her of her delinquency.
Did you notice the top four of the top ten? absolutely amazing records.
shows the high standard at that time.
this tune reminds me of my dad he loved this sort of music RIP
Hello how are you doing?
Always loved this, lovely to hear it again, real music.
My husband name was John he died 2019 we were married 43 years I will never forget him and there with be no one else for me no one can live up to h
Hello Michelle
I’m 38 and remember listening to this with my sister at my nana house on record. We played it over and over. Such strong memories of my wonderful nan ❤x
John Leyton was the actor who escaped from the POW camp with Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape".
Fabulous song…loved Jonny Leyton….as a young ❤teenager and still do….fabulous!
I just love the haunting "feel" of the song...
Love this song from my childhood 💕 makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck
Ain't heard this song for years. Stumbled upon it having a knees up. Glad I did. Anyway another tinnie.
This song came into my mind at about 9:35am today. Classic 50's music. born too late, 60's baby.
Definitely one of the GREATEST legendary songs.
Whenever I hear this; Tell Laura I love her and Runaway. I suddenly find myself back in my teens.
Who says there is no such thing as time travel?
Our spirit ARE capable and often do time travel. I just wish our bodie could follow suit.
A truly hanting melody good song ..
Happy 80 th birthday to John Leyton today x
GOD, My youth. Such memories thank you to the person that put this on here.
Hello Susan
60's, 70's were great times. Fab music, bell bottoms, platform shoes, polo neck jumpers and the wonderful mini-skirt!
Beautiful song, and it hits home even more when you consider that the lyrics were changed prior to release to 'I hear the voice of my darling, the girl I love and lost a year ago' from 'I hear the voice of my darling, the girl I love who died a year ago'
61 years later still masterpiece legends never die to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die stay safe everyone takecare xx
僕が高校時代にヒットした霧の中のジョニーですね😃
レコードも持っていましたが、この歌を歌ってる歌手の映像を動画で見れるのはCZcamsならではですね。素晴らしい❗️
My parents played this song often when I was a child, it depressed the hell out of me!! Started my existential angst at 6 years old!!! 😂 But it is a great song and sound and I now sing it daily to my dog! 🦝😂🦝😂
Another great hit single from 1961 as it is by John Leyton With Johnny Remember Me as it had topped the UK singles chart
Remember going to the Earls Court Radio Show with my dad in September 1961and wherever you were in the hall, this seemed to be playing.Saved for 3 weeks to buy the Top Rank single, must have heard it 1000s of times but still love it , one of Joe's masterpieces, a perfect enduring pop record !
a great reminder and share !
JOE was a true master , and what he achieved with the most basic equipment ! .
Ah yes......the sixties a magic period
Brilliant Song We all love it on the radio, pay respect, here today....brit pop on the advent of the beatles, Brilliant Brit Pop
Joe Meeks was so far ahead of his time.
A genius.
Listening in 2019 love this great music x
September 2019.
I love this Song,My Bros name is Johnny,And he's got Dementia,😰
Still listening in March 2020 & will for many more years to come! Classic
Hello Joyce
Saw him on Australian Bandstand in the 80's. Still bloody fantastic.
The girl I loved and lost all those years ago
So evocative and beautiful . . .
John had a brother, Tony, who owned a horse farm on Pork Lane, Holland-on-sea, U.K. I was an apprentice brickie and helped build a large house with swimming pool on the property, around 1962-63.
I will always be grateful to my parents for raising me on this music! I love the 60s music! I've always joked I was born 30 years too late!! lol
Just for the record (pun intended), I went to the same school as John, and I also did a recording session at Joe's studio in Holloway Road London. This was around 1962. I am still singing and recording at home. I sing songs by Adam Faith, Jim Reeves, Michael Holliday, Perry Como, and Buddy Holly, to name but a few!
@kitemanmusic are you an Old Cholmeleian? (Or were you at the same prep school? Hillcrest)
you might find your tape has turned up in the collection that Cherry Red Music have now acquired if your session was recorded.
It’s nice to read stories like this,my mate played bass for Johnny Kidd before he became famous. Regards Arthur.
@@highpath4776 Is there more information about the tapes that were purchased? Any record (also no pun intended) of who was playing on them?
@@Neal_Schier I only know what gets published on the internet or press if I read it. I am on some semi-private blogs (As in they can be read by any, but only members can write on them) but have not noticed anything for some time. Research is still ongoing is prob best way to say it for now
I was born in 1949 I’m 71 now so I was a teenager in the 60s oh baby what a decade so glad I lived it
Love this song. It is hauntingly special - and even more so for me as it hit number one straight after I was born - and I got called Johnny when I was young. Don't understand why it doesn't get airplay these days as a classic
This record features Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave fame on bass guitar. Chas died the other day, RIP to a very talented man.
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Something we can maybe agree on 😂
I remember waiting outside my local record shop to buy this particular record..wow..they were great days..great times too..thanks for posting this video
Heard this when I was six...haunting song...
So good it was twice a No 1 in the UK in Aug & Sept 1961....
i was just 3 when this came out..spent the rest of my life loving it