I love this Song , sounds like a mesh of Toto and Ambrosia.

@wildnites558

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Toto, Ambrosio + Hall & Oates.

@rhondaevans5435

3 жыл бұрын

And better than both!

@drivermxpedite3165

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Nice pull.

@brookeroothaan7731

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my God you nailed that you're right it is it like a cross between total and Ambrosia which I love them too

@carlosacevedosoto2326

3 жыл бұрын

All my life I thought it was toto and today I realized that it is not like that ... Great band

Franke went on to win an Oscar for best song from a movie. He co-wrote "I've Had the Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

Ай бұрын

I didn't know that.

I love 80’s music. I don’t care what music “purists” say about the era. I love it; always will & this song is in the top 5 of favorites during my fabulous 20’s…which was the entire eighth decade of the 20th century.

When it works, there is nothing like young love. Its simply the best...

I can’t get enough of this song. Then or now.

@keariewashburn4680

2 жыл бұрын

I keep wearing this song out! Way back and now!! 😃 just love it!! You cant help but sing along ya know 😁😃💗

@sonnyromes860

Жыл бұрын

Love it

@pianomanhere

Жыл бұрын

I love this song and love playing it on the piano too.

@bonasca

Жыл бұрын

Same.

@charlottearena

Жыл бұрын

It is one of my favourite songs I used to sing it to my dog

It’s 75 degrees outside, not a cloud in the sky, car freshly detailed, sunroof and windows open, and this blaring on the radio over and over again. I’m in my happy place. 🥰

Not many men can hit that vocal range like Frankie. Great tune from an even greater era.

NEVER.GETS.OLD

I still play this occasionally on my originally 45. Still love the song, then and now. Timeless, and they don't make them like this anymore. So glad to be a kid/teenager back then. Wouldn't trade it for the world. Be home by dark!!

Love this song even 40 years later.

Love this song. The type of song you can listen to on a Saturday night sitting on your back porch and relaxing.

Wow can’t believe it’s 2022 and I still can’t get enough of this song!!!

The ranges he hits with his voice are really something you don't hear anymore. Now that is talent! Sure miss the 80's!

@lindabergman3127

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right 😍 I think you would love the Chicago cover band Leonid and friends 😍 YT and fb check out Old Day's,25 or 6 to 4, all their songs sound exactly like Chicago 🥰😁

@gardenhen4155

3 жыл бұрын

@@lindabergman3127 Thanks!

@pressplay7918

2 жыл бұрын

Singers today would be screaming those notes and call it singing, like they do on shows like The Voice and American Idol and everybody will call it talent and applaud wildly.

@gardenhen4155

2 жыл бұрын

@@pressplay7918 I agree! They don't know what good music is these days.

@bogus696996

5 ай бұрын

he reminds me of Mickey Thomas with his voice...so good and great range

A real song by a real band. No computer generated tracks or auto tune over processed vocals. This was the end of a real era where you couldn't fake the music, you were real or you were out. I sing this song in my band and I always get positive comments from people who loved it then and now. But I will admit to do it justice I have taken it down a couple of keys from Dm to Bm. It sucks to get old but I'm still giving it my all.

@bluehornet6752

5 жыл бұрын

Ironically, the video is of them lip-syncing to the studio track...

@bluehornet6752

5 жыл бұрын

(But it's still one of my favorite 80's tunes, though.)

@sevfan1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bluehornet6752 They did it live on 'Fridays.' seems like almost everybody lip-synced on AB.

@careful__Icarus

4 жыл бұрын

@@sevfan1 And introduced by Larry David no less! Lol

@RezaBokeng

3 жыл бұрын

That's great

Frankie is an excellent singer. Didn't appreciate his ability back in the 80's. Listening to this now and he really brings it.

@barbieblue3336

2 жыл бұрын

Lip synching, though

@highwaymaintainer

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbieblue3336 yeah in this montage for a tv show, but dudes pipes are the real thing, he’s an excellent AOR singer and writer, dude and his band were amazing

Omg, I love this song, i could listen to it over and over.

@gardenhen4155

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@rj9617

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@martyklaus4594

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@tinajeppesen5948

4 жыл бұрын

I am lol

@lindabergman3127

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯🥰

I remember holding my best friend when she broke down after a bad breakup. This song was playing and she was trying so hard to sing it, but the sobs were too strong. That was 1982 and we were both 17. She's long married to someone else with children, but the pain of young love can scar you for life.

@rhondaevans5435

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right. Young love hurts the worst.

@starlightperkins330

Жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten about this song till I heard it the other day in of all places..the supermarket. First time I've heard it in over 30 plus years!!

@jamieslattery3796

Жыл бұрын

Geez, I teared up and couldn't swallow and reading this!

@poppaluv

Жыл бұрын

The pain is no easier for those at 52. The pain of mid life love of your life can scare you for life.

@DavidB-rx3km

Жыл бұрын

I lost a brief relationship at 41, love and loss never changes whatever the age.

What a SONG. What a VOICE.

Love this song..Came out the year I graduated..1981..If I could only close my eyes and be back ..When all was right in the world..😢

@pabloriveros8112

3 жыл бұрын

Me too... Esta Canción es una de las más importantes de mi vida, me define... Un abrazo querido amigo. I recommend the song: "No more fear of flying" by singer and songwriter Gary Brooker, it is the same by Procol Harum ... A hug dear friend.

@edwardsimon9702

3 жыл бұрын

Bring back the 80's....

@kelvinbryant7602

Жыл бұрын

Just read ur reply CW on the song Sweetheart by Frankie n the knockouts . What a great year that was in music. Man I miss those days

Wow this guy's got a beautiful voice 👏👏👏👏

@lindabergman3127

3 жыл бұрын

And he's a hunk 😜😍🤩😁😁whew!!

Am I the only one who is reminded of Mickey Thomas by Frankie's looks and to an extent his voice?

@michaelwallbrown3726

Жыл бұрын

not his looks but his voice

Although Frankie wasn't known for his singing chops, his writing was quite another thing. He wrote "Hungry Eyes" and "I've Had The Time Of My Life". He will never stop getting radio play.

@dreadrockadrian

3 жыл бұрын

uhhhhh - u listening to the same vocals the rest of us are?

@highwaymaintainer

2 жыл бұрын

Dude had real pipes he obviously was put up front because of them vocals and the band sounds great too

@sonnyromes860

2 жыл бұрын

Classic 1981

@sonnyromes860

2 жыл бұрын

I miss that music

@davidlazenby5382

2 жыл бұрын

Uh, what?

I played this on the radio in the 80's and even today! Killer tune Frankie & The Knockouts!!!!!

Please bring back that late 70's and 80's sound, the shit that is called music today...

@marksprunger8936

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! The shit that passes for music now is sooo freakin' sad. These kids today couldn't sing a note to save their lives. It's a shame that radio stations even bother playing it.

@rg2027x

4 жыл бұрын

what passes for 'humanity' has been dumbed-down & ruined just enough to willfully accept it. Media whores rule now this devolved decade of decrepit mediocrity not musicians

@kiekie1965

4 жыл бұрын

Big John No Kidding! It really was the best music wasn’t it?

@oped8423

3 жыл бұрын

I love you

@bradlewis6514

3 жыл бұрын

Omg so right on! In fact, what's considered music today obviously registers to the wrong people! And they're clueless!

The drummer here is Claude LeHenaff, who played on the band's first two albums(of 3), "Franke and the Knockouts" ('81) and "Below the Belt" ('82). Present day Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres played drums on "Franke and the Knockouts" third and final studio effort, 1984's "Makin' the Point". .... FACTS !

@jimflys2

Жыл бұрын

Pretty well correct with Claude and Tico, but the 2nd Below the Belt l.p. featured session drummer AL Wotton on drums. Neither Claude or Tico on those cuts. All fantastic drummers.

So smooth. So smooth. Could listen to it ten times in a row.🎶 🎤 🎹 🎸

@robertarnold6672

4 жыл бұрын

I just did! Haven't heard this song in years.

My wife and I started dating in high school in '81. This was "our song". Cool to see it show up in my recommendations....

55 years old still loving this song !! Reminds me hanging with my cousins, going roller skating every weekends at Crystal Lake or St. Louis Michigan.

@kmrnnj1

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@jeffbaker7251

3 ай бұрын

That's what I was doing also, on the door step of 56 , my family business was across the street from our Rollerdtome. I'm instantly back there at the first words of a dozen Songs. Lover boy, 38 Special., Take a minute or two back to it any time!

I love his voice and the background harmonies❤️

Man I’ve always loved this song; oh the memories!

@N4TCM

6 жыл бұрын

Thad L McMullen yeah, Summer of 81'. Some of us future 50 something's looking forward to our senior year......

@thadlm2698

6 жыл бұрын

timothy myers I’m 52 and I lived the 80s. What a great time to be a teenager and young adult!

@N4TCM

6 жыл бұрын

Thad L McMullen yeah 53 here. Guess some of us are stuck in the 80's. We had Bandstand on Saturday mornings. Solid Gold on ABC Saturday nights. I remember the first AB when Madonna did "Holiday". That's why I practically live on You Tube. I can go back to the Big 80's.

@thadlm2698

6 жыл бұрын

timothy myers Man I’m 100% stuck in the 80s. My adult children have no clue as to why!

@N4TCM

6 жыл бұрын

Thad L McMullen 1983, Thompson Twins, "Hold Me Now", still love that "new wave" sound.

I am now 55 and this was the song in the summer of 1981 after I was out of Pittsburg High School ..WOW, what a summer that was in the east bay !! GREAT TIMES 4 SURE !!

@robertallen5579

5 жыл бұрын

"81" Stl. Mo.

@jamiemassey6552

5 жыл бұрын

I graduated HS in 81 too...good times.

@tonyfriend7413

5 жыл бұрын

nicky depaola….58 and class of 1980...living in Bastrop,tx. then 1981..rainbow oilfield trucking.. 4/10/19 7.24 am cst usa

@storiedtbh

5 жыл бұрын

What a voice and just incredible band!

@LoudSoul78

4 жыл бұрын

YEAH THIS BRINGS BACK AWESOME AND BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN THE EAST BAY AREA CONCORD PLEASANT HILL PACHECO AND WALNUT CREEK MAINLY PLEASANT HILL WHEN I ATTENDED FAIR OAKS, STRANDWOOD AND VAL HALLA ELEMENTARY. I REMEMBER GOIN TO ALL THE FARRINGTON'S BAR SOFTBALL LEAGUE GAMES AND THEY WOULD PLAY ALL THE BEST 80'S MUSIC THERE WAS AS WELL AT THE BAR FOR THE AFTER GAME POTLUCKS FEASTS. GOD I CHERISH THOSE DAYS AND HOLD THEM CLOSE TO MY HEART. I SURELY MISS MY POPS AND THOSE TIMES WE SPENT TOGETHER. TURN BACK THE CLOCK. THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE. RIH GATO B ERNEST CAPUANO BENAVIDEZ.

This band is sooo underated & this song was a big hit for them BUT does anybody else ever listen to anything else from this album besides this "Sweetheart" tune that radio unfortunately ran in the ground & failed to play the OTHER 9 AWESOME songs from this lp. Franke & the Knockouts also had 2 other lp's in 1982: "Below the Belt" & 1984: "Makin' th' Point".........ALL AWESOME songs from ALL these lp's, too bad this group split up so early they were so talented.

Man, that swirling keyboard solo is incredible.

@PhynTrickSnipin

3 жыл бұрын

The Best In The Business

One of the best keyboard riffs I've ever heard......

one of my favorite songs from the early 80s

@davepitts9705

6 жыл бұрын

Good tune

@sherrirussell1365

4 жыл бұрын

Yea i wss 8 years old im 46 years old now

@sherrirussell1365

4 жыл бұрын

I was 8 years old now i feel old at 46 listening to this song

I have always loved this song. I still listen to the 45 on my turntable

I’m 48 years old. I definitely remember running to the radio when this song came on!

Most underrated singer

@Robocoppat

3 жыл бұрын

Agree with you 💯%

Was mine and my first girlfriends song....even today, it brings back the memory...

I've always loved this song!!

Great voice !

a genuine talented group that could *jam* and write great soulful _songs._ Miss that...

I love this tune! Can’t believe these guys didn’t make the big time forever….they were great, not to mention good looking dudes. We all missed out on a really great big time band!

This song got me my first “ hook up” way back in 1981. Thanks Frankie.

Omg! What beautiful memories with my 1st husband. Living on Elmendorf AFB starting our family and onto McGuire AFB. Many years of happiness. I want to go back. This song makes me happy and teary eyed. So emotional.

I love this beautiful song

1981 was great

What a vocal!

One of the greatest synth solos ever!!

Truly one of the greatest Songs of the Summer of '81! My Cousin & I discovered these & other bands that Summer along with REOs huge Hi Infidelity Album as we broke Records Riding the "Gemini" (Dream) Racing Roller Coaster 36 times in 1 day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio! We went 4 times & met girls all Summer as "Sweetheart" Blasted out on the Airwaves! All of a Sudden, It was late August & time to Start College!

Love Love Love the rhythm guitar tone in this song. Mixed with the keyboards is pure magic!!!

Wow! What a voice !!

I just heard this song yesterday and had to find it. I thought it was TOTO or Foreigner. Thank God I know how to capture lyrics and Google found it for me.!!! How did I miss this!!!!

@MsOneironaut

2 жыл бұрын

same here 🤩

That synthesizer solo at 2:20 really "Moogs" me ! .... lolz.

The wink at 3:27 is classic. So Jersey! I feel like Franke is an Italian version of my uncle from back in the day!

@matthewsims9469

Жыл бұрын

love your comment!

High school 1982! Loved this album!

Haven’t heard this one in years!

The 80's were the end of the best! Shit is exactly correct about most of today's noise, it's not music!

@michaelwallbrown3726

Жыл бұрын

music died with the hair bands late 80's early 90's

A damn great song! Good beat and rhythm

Such a good song love it

One of my favorites! ❤️❤️

I wasn't a fan of pop music in the 80's, I leaned more toward hard rock & metal. I wasn't till many years later a musician friend of mine turned me onto this. By that time my musical tastes had changed enough to open myself up to other genres of music, and I've loved it ever since.

No lip syncing either. I love this song. It's one of those songs that defines the 1980's.

@larryhinze9314

3 жыл бұрын

No. Sounds EXACTLY like the record. He was not doing it live.

@darinkelley116

Жыл бұрын

This is lip sync, watch it. Great song though, but not live.

Anyone else roller skate to this back in the day? 😊❤

Hadnt heard this song in yyearrs!! Wat memories.

This song is the bomb

Forever 1980 and 81!!!!

Heard this today on a lite rock station near Cleveland TN. Was such a surprise and had the speakers rattling singing along with this mostly forgotten 80's gem

An oldie but goodie!!

When bands performed and the vocals rocked you.

My father use to sing this song to me in 1988 when I was down!! When I hear this song , I cry all the time!!

"cuz you're the spark in my life! yeah, day and night!" :-* i love this song. wow. brings back great memories. thank you! xoxo

A song that just instantly takes you back to good times.

The guitar player gave me lessons in Boca Raton in 1986-87!

Great song. I got a Doobie Brothers vibe as well.

Absolutely right it does sound like Toto and ambrosia perfect!

Love this song!

I remember this song from when I was real young. So glad I was able to find it!

when i die instead of heaven i want to go back to the 80s

There's a live version of this from the show Friday's on KZread. Franke sounds just like the record on that live version. Incredible.

Wow what a voice.ll

Franke said this was the last song he wrote for the album, like an afterthought and it ends of being a hit! You never know!

This is a great song done very well by them! I'd like to hear the Doobie Bros. w/ Michael McDonald on lead vocals do a remake of this!!

Great memories!!!!

This was really good music!

I saw them in the 80’s at the Kentucky State Fair. I always loved them and they are still on my playlist.

Why wasn't he more famous?? Listen to him🔥

@wearitlikeadiva

8 ай бұрын

That’s what I asked him. He wrote I’ve had the Time of My Life and Hungry Eyes for Dirty Dancing and won an Academy award and Golden Globe for Time of my Life but Franke and the Knockouts should have been huge with a voice like that. He said Time of my Life became bigger than his band career. He makes 6 figures a year in royalties from that song.

PERFECT NIGHT TIME CRUISING SONG !

Love, Love, Love this song!!!!!😘

Great song from my freshman year -1981 at Northeastern University in Boston.Just came back into my life

Good song, back in the day!

Oh the feeeeeels!

What has happened to male singers like this one? Back in the day we had Steve Perry, Sammy Hagar, John Parr, Lou Graham, Mickie Thomas, and so many others that could just belt it out and had these strong, masculine voices. Today all we have is that shrieky-voiced Adam Levine. Same goes for the female singers. You could tell them all apart back then.

@jasonmumford5196

2 жыл бұрын

I love both; I love my Lou Graham and Steve Perry, but Adam’s voice is amazing too.

Brings back some great memories. I miss the 80s. Great times

You never hear this song on the radio any more,but I always loved it.One of my favorite tunes on the "High Voltage" compilation album.

Excelente melodía, la letra de amor típica de los 80s cuando la música romántica tenía sentido. Grupos como Toto, Styx, Ambrosia, Journey, etc. dejaron un legado imborrable

U nailed it ambrosia and toto keep on rockin out 80s forever

What a voice.

Was in love with Frankie the second I saw him and is clear eyes and that delicious voice.

@dreadrocksean

3 жыл бұрын

You need to get outta Dodge.

when players were real