His solo cover of a song he did with Fleetwood Mac. He even invited Christine McVie to sing backup vocals as on the original. So it does have a Fleetwood sound.

This song was first released on Fleetwood Mac's 1972 album, Bare Trees. Great album.

Been a Bob Welch fan for a minute. My favorite song by him was when he was lead singing for Fleetwood Mac entitled "Hypnotized" off their Mystery To Me record released in 1973. Unfortunately Bob Welch committed suicide in his Nashville home on June 7, 2012 (RIP). Must listen to next is "Ebony Eyes. Thanks for the always great reaction.

@rbking9296

2 жыл бұрын

Hypnotized , great pre Stevie and Lindsay Fleetwood Mac song

@jeffcobb2734

2 жыл бұрын

"Hypnotized" is definitely a great Fleetwood Mac song to check out. It sounds so much different than their later 70s stuff.

@patrickbuckley344

2 жыл бұрын

Hypnotized- is one of my favorite songs! I did not know that he passed away- I'm truly sorry to hear that, but thank you, for the information! RIP- BOB WELCH!

@BOOMNERD51

2 жыл бұрын

So sad to read of his tragic death. Beautiful voice and song.

@AndrewSmith-uz8bg

Жыл бұрын

He probably didnt commit suicide. The illuminati probably killed him and the news said it was suicide.

Wait! Are you kidding me?? This is another song I've been waiting for someone to react to, like forever. This song is pure butter love. Best way I can describe it.

@billb5260

7 күн бұрын

Amen, it's just that good and growing up hearing it on the radio you never forget, some songs leave a big impression and this is definitely one for me.

Bob Welch was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 71-74. I had some of his records when he went solo. All the songs on the "French Kiss" album are good. Some hits were "Hot Love, Cold World", "Ebony Eyes", "Precious Love", "Hypnotized' & "Sentimental Lady". Sadly he ended up committing suicide in 2012 at the age of 66.

@jacqueline4514

2 жыл бұрын

Hypnotized is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs; it’s got such a smooth “swing” to it.

Born in 1964.... goosebumps every time I hear this beautiful song

Ebony Eyes is my favorite Bob Welch tune but Hypnotized is a great tune also.

This song still gives me goosebumps when I hear it, have loved it since i first heard it all those years ago...♡

Ahh....such a great memory. I saw Fleetwood Mac with Bob Welch in Sacramento before Nicks/Buckingham joined. The Bare Trees album is EPIC Bob Welsh. Christine McVie was there and she has an amazing voice.

You've got to check out the original version Bob did with Fleetwood Mac in 1972 (from the Bare Trees album), when he was a member of that band. It has a warmer, more pure sound with a really nice second verse. There was something special about that sincere, early 70s sound!

@yockfromoz

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!

My favorite version of Fleetwood Mac was the Welch years. Liked his 2 Paris albums, too.

Fondly remember listening to both this tune & the amazingly catchy Ebony Eyes when they were first on the radio. Both songs have been staples in my '70s playlist for as long as I've had one.

Very good album as well, had a few hits on it - "Ebony Eyes", "Hot Love, Cold World".

yes, peter green was the original FM member whom bob welch replaced. when bob left mick needed a guitarist and found lindsey buckingham, who insisted stevie nicks joins with him. one of my favourite FM songs is bob's "hypnotized". and if my ears are correct, it sounds like christine mcvie on backing/respond vocal ("...all i needed...") here. always loved this song ❤

@lionheartroar3104

Жыл бұрын

It is her.

I like the Fleetwood Mac version because it has a 2nd verse, "You are here today, but easily you might just go away...."

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

F Mac recorded this aw well?

@carol-mariefleming8689

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions Yes, Bob Welch was in Fleetwood Mac then. It was on the album Bare Trees from 1972. Great version!

Ooh Yes! Great Yacht Rock Classic!! 🛥🛥🛥

Love this song! You def should check out Bob Welch's "Ebony Eyes" & "Precious Love"!!

There is an earlier Fleetwood Mac version although I like this one better. Christine McVie sings background vocals in both I believe.

@sandylee6025

2 жыл бұрын

She's definitely on this one. 🎶

@hardlines4

4 күн бұрын

As did Lindsey Buckingham as well

Lindsey Buckingham strummed the beautiful intro and sang backup with Christine McVie. Such a lovely song.

I have always loved this track! It makes me think of my beautiful dearly departed wife. Loving and happy memories coming from this. Thanks to Blondie and Dean-O on this request, you two have outdone yourselves! Great view on this Harri, and thanks for reacting to this one! Peace and Love!✌️❤️😃

Reminds me of my late teens. Great memories.... the 1970's

Bob Welch is the reason why I was glued to Fleetwood Mac. Starting with the album "Future Games" and then on to "Bare Trees". Also, "Mystery to Me" had the song "Emerald Eyes." "Hypnotized," 'Angel," and many more were classics by Bob. He went solo with other great tunes like "Ebony Eyes." Start with "Future Games," the first Fleetwood Mac with him. Then there's Danny Kirwan, another great singer from that period of Fleetwood Mac.

great memories

Bob and Christine up in Heaven singing this again. Miss you both SO MUCH. Peace to you! ❤ 2:59

Check out Bob Welche’s Ebony Eyes and Precious Love….RIP Bob and Christine🙏🏼🙏🏼

I loooove this song so much.

I remember being a little kid of 5 or 6, laying in my first bed, listening to this song and thinking it was the most beautiful piece of music ever recorded. (Well, this and “Music Box Dancer”!) Lol. Got all the lyrics wrong, of course. Still like it, but perhaps more for sentimental reasons, no pun intended.

@timandmonica

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Very similar story with me too. Did not expect to read a comment like yours!

A great song from my childhood. Love that chorus to this day!😎 Like you, Harri, if a song that I never heard before feels familiar, and has a great and/or catchy melody, I'm a fan of it🎹🎸🎶

Very good song

This is one of the songs my husband sang to me back in the day. He still does. Thanks, Harri.

Background singing Christie McVie, Fleetwood Mac, the song was a Fleetwood Mac song actually, see below. But fame was get to Bob Welch, his biggest hit.

Precious Love, a great song

Christy Mcvee from Fleetwood Mac, did the backup vocals in this song.

@hardlines4

4 күн бұрын

As did Lindsey Buckingham

another great song from Bob Welsh " ebony eyes "

Always loved this song. RIP Bob Welch and rest well. 😢

Beautiful song!

I've always loved it

Saw him back in 1978 for his tour supporting his album “French Kiss”, Dave Mason was the opening act, very cool evening, very cool 😎 Boston, Mass.

Interestingly, this seems the best channel to watch someone react to this particular song. Out of all the song reaction channels on KZread. Part of it was I looked up Bob Welch and found out how he died. So I just got the news even though he died a long time back. So it's suddenly fresh for me. The song popped into my head so I thought I'd look it up on KZread. I grew up with this song as part of my childhood in the late 70s and early 80s. And so this is one of the songs when I think of the places that I lived in when I was a kid, it takes me back not just in time but in geography. I can't think of Capitola, California without this being one of the songs that I associate with it

he has an earlier version with fleetwwod mac. he has another hit with Ebony Eyes

This brings me back to being a teenager. 💕

Harpsichord. Donovan and many groups used this old school instrument.

Loved it then; love it now.

A time when we had REAL music!

This falls right in that sweet spot when music was great. Haven't heard this in awhile, brings back the memories. Thanks for recommending 👍🙂❤️🎵

Harri, that's the beautiful Christine McVie on backing vocals. Christine is from Fleetwood Mac. Bob used to be in Fleetwood Mac

Bob was in Fleetwood Macs "second version" of the group. FM was around in the 60s and were a pretty big band, a lot of people prefer early FM over the 3rd version where they invited Lindsey and Stevie. They were a British Blues band who had #1 hits, Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer were in the band.

One of my favorite albums of the 70s. Part of the soundtrack of my life. Great songs start to finish. Hope you give it all a listen. It's so worthy!

I remember back in the day when I had this (and others like it) on Ktel records.

The kind of song that takes you away where life is so lovely. Thanks Hari.

All I need is ❤

I haven't heard this in a while!

In the very early days of Fleetwood Mac in the 60s he was a member of the band

This is one of those songs I have heard many many times and never paid attention to the artist. It’s really beautiful and it’s nice to hear it again. 🌺✌️

Mick Fleetwood , Lindsay Buckingham and Christine McVie all played on this song ....so yes , a very Fleetwood Mac-ish sound.

Harri, get a little more familiar with Fleetwood Mac and you WILL hear things the Fleetwood Mac you know, or will know. He did a version of this song with the group (Bare Trees album), and 1 after he left and went solo (on his debut album, French Kiss). The background singer in this is clearly Christine McVie, the bass player is her husband, John McVie and the drummer is still, yes, you guessed it, Mick Fleetwood. The only things that changed at that time in FM (Fleetwood Mac) is Bob Weston and Bob Welch left the group, and were replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Oddly enough, Christine McVie sang backup on both versions, Mick Fleetwood played drums on both, and his replacement in FM, Lindsey Buckingham, played guitar and did background vocals. However, even the Fleetwood Mac that you know had lots of songs written by and featuring Christine McVie. What's a shame is that people often ignore her contribution to the group, and the many hits they had with her at the lead, choosing to focus only on Stevie Nicks (and also ignoring Lindsey Buckingham's contributions too). In reality, Stevie is 1 dimensional and pretty monotoned ... not in the version of the group you know, but once she went solo. The reason for this is, Lindsey Buckingham. He was the one who came in and gave the group direction. He orchestrated and arranged all the songs, directed the band and added important nuances to each song, including Stevie's songs. In fact, even some of Stevie's huge hits with the band were voted down by the rest of the group, but Lindsey worked on them, adding parts, solos, background harmonies, etc. fashioning them into gold and begging the group to give her a chance. However, Christine had a wonderful, beautiful sound and wrote many of their songs before and during the Buckingham-Nicks era of the group.

Harri listen to this song when he recorded it with fleetwood mac it's even better he re-recorded it as a solo artist later I love both versions

I saw Bob with Fleetwood Mac when they were touring the Baretrees LP. Great concert. I love Bob's guitar sound. Great voice, too. I always liked this song with Christie McVie in the background. The song is a little more complex with Fleetwood. Harri, thanks for sharing.

Harri it does have a Fleetwood Mac sound, that’s Christine McVie on backup vocals and that chorus, Christine McVie is the other creative lady in Fleetwood Mac.

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Yea Rafael,ive just read F Mac actually recorded this too. Wow

Bob Welch was a major force in Fleetwood Mac for 5 albums. This version sounds more like Fleetwood Mac than the version he did with Fleetwood Mac because it has Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood like the Fleetwood Mac version, and it has Lindsey Buckingham.

“She’s Changing Me,” and “Silver Heels,” from the Fleetwood Mac album, “Heroes Are Hard to Find,” are great Bob Welch tunes…along with “Hypnotized,” from the album “Mystery to Me.” YOUR’E LIVING A DEPRIVED LIFE, if you don’t listen to Welch’s influence on The ‘Mac…you’ll love it/him…GUARANTEED!!!

Wow haven't heard this in years. Thanks.

Comes from the album the album Bare trees with Bob Welch try the song GHOST.

Been a while since I heard this song. A favorite for sure.

It sounds very much like a Harpsicord...

They is a Fleetwood Mac Version which sounds pretty good as well. I think Bob Welch actually covered The Fleetwood Mac Version. Still, I enjoy Both Songs.

Bob Welch , Ebony Eyes is another great song by this artist. Check it out!

From the mid-period of Fleetwood Mac which was pretty good. Actually, the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer was the absolute best! Check out "Oh Well", "Rattlesnake Shake", "Man of the World", "Although the Sun is Shining", "Albatross" "Love that Burns", "The Green Manalishi" and others.

Sadly, Mr. Welch left us in 2012.

back in the day in college our band did this song. it came out around the same time Fleetwood Mac's iconic Rumors Album in 1977. I read where a couple Fleetwood Mac members actually helped him with the recording and are playing on it...Mick Fleetwood also played the drums for the song on Welch's 1977 album. The re-recording of it featured Christine McVie [keyboards, and Lindsey Buckingham as backing singers[4] and producers (with Buckingham additionally doing the arrangement as well as serving on guitar). the keyboard has a harpsichord sound, it is not a harp.

You need to check out Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. Such a kick ass blues band!!

Ebony Eyes by Bob Welch, and Songbird by Christine McVie

HARRI, HARRI, HARRI, I also love the sound of a HARPSICHORD. I think of Lurch on the Addams Family TV show. GARY, GARY, GARY

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Howdy Gary!

@palm244

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions You're up late!! I was dozing. Hope you read my prescription. on another vid, if you're getting sick, looked like you were bundled up and coughing Vitamin C 3000mg 3 times a day, anytime you start feeling sick., you'll blow thru colds. Take care bro! And remember... It's all about the harp, bout the harp... No organ! **** I crack myself up!

My first Fleetwood Mac album was BARE TREES(1972), featuring Welch on guitar and vocals (including this song), so it sounds exactly like Fleetwood Mac to me. Thanks Harry! :)

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 I guess i have no idea of the early F Mac stuff

@cheampeake1680

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions Bob Welch's Fleetwood Mac was FM II. There was a FM I and you're most familiar with FM III. I loved FM I, liked FM II and then loved III until they were over played to the point of nausea.

Fleetwood Mac with Bob Welch cut a version of this song, before Bob Welch's solo version. A little less refined, but equally as good.

Fleetwood Mac originally did that song, and it is a great one. Of course, Bob Welch was a member of Fleetwood Mac for a time.

The female backup sounds like Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac I'm not sure

@007ndc

Жыл бұрын

It is the late great Christine Perfect McVie RIP

Harri? There was three distinct versions of Fleetwood Mac. This one with Bob Welch is the second

That instrument is either a harpsichord or a zither. I'm not sure which

This does sound like Fleetwood Mac when he was in the band. In fact, this was a Fleetwood Mac song. You should check out some Bob Welch era FM. They also did a song called Ebony Eyes that he covered. Besides those, Bermuda Triangle, Hypnotized, Bright Fire and Revelation are some good ones to check out.

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh i see..So they did stuff like this? Wow

I think it's a harpsichord you're hearing. Mozart used them... I think. Like a small piano.

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is..Cheers 😀

@John_Chu

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions Clavinet. Christine McVie often played one. As she does on this song, both in the Fleetwood Mac and Welch solo versions.

I believe Christine McVie is backing vocal...just sayin'...:)

Christened sang on this

Try Lindsay Buckingham, song trouble and countdown awesome guitar

Yeah.. Who tf is Bob Welch ?! -Stewie

Might be a harpsichord that high pitched piano type sound

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is

You need to give the original '72 version ... much better intro and his vocals are his best back then! Treat yourself to the original Fleetwood Mac as they were great and then went very commercial ... Almost 2 different bands!

a harpsichord! BW immediately scored anotherv hit with "Ebony Eyes."

Bob Welch had a very big album in the 70s called French Kiss. Unfortunately he committed suicide recently.

@HarriBestReactions

2 жыл бұрын

Oh lordy! Suicide??? Damn!

@skylightpoetry1724

2 жыл бұрын

Bob had serious - and very painful - spinal cord issues. After his last surgery, he was told he would never recover, and in fact his condition would soon lead to him becoming an invalid. In a note left to his wife, he said, "I'm not going to do this to you." Very sad.

He ended up with a big head and decided to leave Fleetwood Mac and failed. He committed suicide after Fleetwood Mac became one of the biggest bands of all times

Bob Welch really got screwed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who skipped over inducting him as a member of Fleetwood Mac. A travesty.

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I think it's a harpsichord?

The music of today is complete trash 🗑️ compared to the music of old . They played their own instruments back in the day ...