Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody Live, 1965 🎤🇺🇸 | European Reacts

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• AA

  @AaronandPetraReact · 1 month ago · pinned

  His voice is insane y&apos;all. Have you heard this before? <br><br>Thank you so much for tuning in! Check out the newsletter, Patreon account, and let me know if you have any video recommendations! 😁

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• MI

  @michaelstark2832 · 3 weeks ago

  Remember, people are watching your reactions to music they love. When you react(and that&apos;s why we are watching) try to do it at the end of a phrase or a pause in the music.

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• ST

  @stuballs42 · 2 weeks ago

  Try not to keep stopping this great song by this great man ! &nbsp; Please!!!

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• MR

  @MrLato2000 · 2 weeks ago

  Soul And Inspiration by These Guys is a Must!😊😊😊

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• TH

  @TheRootedWord · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  He has a knack for stopping &quot;at the best moments&quot;. Just let it ride and enjoy it. Comment after or play a second time and stop and comment. :-)

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• PV

  @PVBJR · 4 days ago

  I was 17 way back then, still get chills. Enjoyed your reactions. Thanks for sharing it.

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• RA

  @RAEverett-h3b · 2 weeks ago

  They were just great Friends.

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• HA

  @HarleyDavid-j1f · 1 month ago

  Bobby famously used his pure tenor range (not a falsetto) to belt out the soaring vocals on this song.

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• HG

  @HGWTPaladin · 3 weeks ago

  Sounds like Andy Williams was offered the song “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” but turned it down. It subsequently became a huge hit for Tony Bennett.—<br>Unchained <br>Melody:<br>Bobby Hatfield live performance.<br>{The Andy Williams Show}-<br>Episode #4.5<br>Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965 on the NBC network.<br>Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher countertenor voice ( in this performance his range is an incredible: D3 to G5 sharp) to Bill Medley’s, William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940) baritone, sang lead on this track. It was his idea to record it, since Medley and Hatfield each sang a song as a solo vocalist on their albums. <br>As Medley tells it, Hatfield knew the song well, and was a big fan of the Roy Hamilton and Al Hibbler versions of the song.<br>Sadly, on Nov. 5, 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack &nbsp;in a Michigan hotel room just prior to a Righteous Brothers performance, apparently in his sleep at age 63.<br>The Righteous Brothers version was , oddly enough a huge hit because it was recorded merely as a filler song for their fourth album, not for release as a single. Philles Records owner/producer Phil Spector considered it album filler and released it as a B-side. The single had &quot;Unchained Melody,&quot; with no producer credit on the label, as the flip B-side to writers Gerry Goffin and Carole King&apos;s &quot;Hung on You,&quot; but many DJs preferred &quot;Unchained Melody&quot; and played that one instead. This infuriated Spector, who subsequently left no doubt (actually calling DJs telling them to play “Hung On You” not “Unchained Melody “) as to which side of his Philles single was the A-side.<br> The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high &quot;I need your love&quot; line wasn&apos;t how the song was written. In an interview with Bill Medley, he explained that Hatfield did two takes of the song, then left. He would often reconsider his performance and come back later to change it, and that&apos;s what he did on this track, returning to ask Medley to make an edit. This was no easy task, since with a maximum of four tracks to work with, you had to record over part of the original take, but Medley accommodated and Hatfield delivered that soaring vocal line. Said Medley: &quot;I punched that in and before he left he said, &apos;No, I can do it better. <br>’And I said, &apos;No, you can&apos;t!’ [Medley Laughs] And I think it&apos;s a big part of that song.&quot;<br> This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector&apos;s label. Spector, known for his &quot;Wall Of Sound&quot; technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did! In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: &quot;You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced &apos;Little Latin Lupe Lu,&apos; &apos;My Babe&apos; and all that stuff. Then when we went with Phil, Phil asked me if I would produce the albums because it was too time consuming and costly for him to produce the entire albums. So he was going to do the singles and I would do the album. And so that&apos;s how that happened and that&apos;s how I produced &apos;Unchained Melody,&apos; <br>which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I&apos;m not a producer.<br> I know how to produce. But it&apos;s obviously not a Spector production. &apos;Unchained Melody&apos; was never intended to be the single... it was produced to be on the album. It was put on the B-side of a Phil Spector single &apos;Hung On You&apos; but the minute it was released &apos;Unchained Melody&apos; just went through the roof.&quot;<br>Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’……………………<br>In 1990, the Righteous Brothers&apos; re-release of &quot;Unchained Melody&quot; reached number one in the US and UK singles chart and was the UK&apos;s best-selling single of the year. It also reached number one in Australia, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. <br>The Righteous Brothers&apos; 1990 re-release of &quot;Unchained Melody&quot; was featured in the movie “Ghost”. &nbsp;<br>The Righteous Brothers&apos; 1965 version of the song reached number four on the US pop chart and number 14 in the UK. 
The 1990 re-release was the first time two versions of the same song, 25 years apart, were both in the Top 20 at the same time. <br>Also:<br>The Andy Williams Show performance was a family oriented show whereas the Shindig performance (below)<br>was geared towards teenagers, much like the TV show “American Bandstand.” with Dick Clark.<br>Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig”<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay6EC9s12p0">https://youtu.be/Ay6EC9s12p0?si=pgdrtkjYVEjPs2py</a>

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• FL

  @flosherwood · 6 days ago

  I &nbsp;LOVE &nbsp; YOUR REACTION &nbsp; Aaron &nbsp; and &nbsp; &nbsp;Petra

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• JO

  @johnrodrigues5974 · 3 weeks ago

  You can hear Both of them sing on:<br>You’ve Lost That Lovin Feeling<br>Soul and Inspiration

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• JO

  @JohnTucker-ut3xn · 2 weeks ago

  There was no studio tricks in this, no autotune

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