LETS GO BACK IN TIME - UNCHAINED MELODY - THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS + GARETH GATES
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2025
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I am revisiting the most iconic song to this day, Unchained Melody sung by The Righteous Brothers and Gareth Gates. Absolutely beautiful
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Bobby Hatfield............what an amazing talent. This song is just EPIC. Blue Eyed Soul. He and Bill Medley made such incredible music. RIP Bobby 💔💔💔
Bobby wasn't sick he was nervous because at the time his mom was in the live audience
My memory is back in the late 60s we would slow dance to this at our school dances.
This is & will always be Bobby's song.
This song was written for the 1955 prison film "Unchained". For complicated reasons the song didn't get its own name, so it is just called "Unchained Melody". The song is about a prisoner who has been locked up a long time. He misses his wife, and wonders if she still loves him, or has she moved on? The song has been covered too many times to count, and is considered one of the greatest of all time. This performance was 10 years after the film came out, and many consider it the best version.
A lot of people remember the Righteous Brothers version because it was used in the 1990 film "Ghost"
Great Video
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This clip was from the Andy Williams Show, the gentleman in the middle.
The second guy is NO Bobby Hatfield! No one can compare.
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Great Video :)
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Sorry no one is going to come close to Bobby Hatfield, a rare Counter-Tenor. You should also check out Bobby Hatfield - Summertime. He belts out notes even higher then Unchained Melody
@allenpierce4575 yes ofcourse Bobby is number 1
THIS IS A LONG REPLY:
Unchained Melody:
Bobby Hatfield live performance.
{The Andy Williams Show}-
Episode #4.5
Episode aired: Monday, Oct 25, 1965 on the NBC network.
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.
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.
Sadly, on Nov. 5, 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack in a Michigan hotel room just prior to a Righteous Brothers performance, apparently in his sleep at age 63.
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 "Unchained Melody," with no producer credit on the label, as the flip B-side to writers Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Hung on You," but many DJs preferred "Unchained Melody" 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.
The famous climax of this song where Bobby Hatfield sings the high "I need your love" line wasn'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'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: "I punched that in and before he left he said, 'No, I can do it better.
’And I said, 'No, you can't!’ [Medley Laughs] And I think it's a big part of that song."
This was released on Philles Records, Phil Spector's label. Spector, known for his "Wall Of Sound" technique, did not produce this - Bill Medley did! In a 2007 statement to the Forgotten Hits newsletter, Medley said: "You have to remember that I was producing our stuff before Phil Spector... I mean I produced 'Little Latin Lupe Lu,' 'My Babe' 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's how that happened and that's how I produced 'Unchained Melody,'
which Phil Spector apparently now takes credit for. He can have the credit. And I'm not a producer.
I know how to produce. But it's obviously not a Spector production. 'Unchained Melody' 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 'Hung On You' but the minute it was released 'Unchained Melody' just went through the roof."
Hatfield’s rendition of “Unchained Melody” although not the original, is the ‘gold standard’……………………
In 1990, the Righteous Brothers' re-release of "Unchained Melody" reached number one in the US and UK singles chart and was the UK's best-selling single of the year. It also reached number one in Australia, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
The Righteous Brothers' 1990 re-release of "Unchained Melody" was featured in the movie “Ghost”.
The Righteous Brothers' 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.
Also:
The Andy Williams Show performance was a family oriented show whereas the Shindig performance (below)
was geared towards teenagers, much like the TV show “American Bandstand.” with Dick Clark.
Bobby Hatfield live performance of “Unchained Melody “ on the TV show “Shindig”
ruclips.net/video/Ay6EC9s12p0/видео.htmlsi=pgdrtkjYVEjPs2py
There’s no one like Bobby Hatfield, but Lucy Thomas comes in a close 2nd with her rendition recently.
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The second guy is no Bobby Hatfield
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