A 25 year old young man, live performance, no auto tunes and his parents were in the audience. Just pure talent. Bobby passed away in 2003. Bill Medley is still living.

Ein Engel....Bobby, sieht so aus und singt auch wie einer.😇😇😇😇😇

Dude was swooning more than she was lol. Love it.

Top shelf blue eyed soul.

58 years and still breaking hearts what a voice simply incredible

Y'all are precious!

Two performers. Listen to Soul and Inspiration!!

This Bobby Hatfield performance is all the more impressive when you consider: - it's a "live" performance infront of an audience, no retakes - no autotune used because it had not been invented The Righteous Brothers were a "duo" act of Bill Medley (Bass-barritone) and Bobby Hatfield (Tenor). The twosome had a string of hit songs from 1962 through 1968 and again from 1974 through 1976, many of which are now classics e.g. Unchained Melody, Ebbtide, Soul and Inspiration just to name a few.

Bobby Hatfield live performance . The Andy Williams Show- Episode #4.5 Episode aired Oct 25, 1965: Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003) Bobby Hatfield, who had a higher counter tenor voice 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 were each allowed to choose a song to sing 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. *In Nov. 2003 Hatfield died of a heart attack at age 63. The Righteous Brothers version was a huge hit, but it was recorded with far more modest expectations. 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 to 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 a 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 if he could 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.' [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 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' and 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’.

Janis Joplin's "Ball and Chain live at Monterrey Pop " will leave you with your jaw on the floor. GUARANTEED.

This is Bobby Hatfield. The other "brother" is Bill Medley. Listen to You've lost that Lovin Feelin.

@stevesilsby5288

5 ай бұрын

I agree completely! Also listen to "Soul and Inspiration". These guys are such a great act. Their voices are so very different from one another but compliment each other perfectly. Bobby and Bill are not brothers. They originally performed under a different name. Because of their soulful sound they were mistakenly booked to perform with an all black road show. Other performers were skeptical about these two white guys when they showed up, but after hearing their performance the fisst night onstage, one guyfrom the next group others met them coming off the stage and excitedly complimented them saying, "Man. you guys are righteous, brothers!" They loved the sound of it and changed their name to that for all performances afterward..

Great reaction guys!

You had to have talent to sing back then ... no auto tune, no do-overs, no gimmicks, just pure God given talent ..don't make em like that any more ..check out You'll Never Walk Alone (duet)

Beautiful ❤️🔥🔥💕

There are two brothers. Only one sings this song. They have other songs.

@animalian01

5 ай бұрын

They are only called the Righteous brothers they are not really brothers😂😂😂