It moves me to tears. As you get older and you realize you're closer to the end than the beginning, it just hits you hard. Life is a precious gift.

@katherinegates1559

Жыл бұрын

🎶✨✨ Yes ...We must always... Embrace Life..✨

@jmrodas9

Жыл бұрын

Sure it is, so better try to make the best of it whilst we still have it. Regards.

@platoon108

Жыл бұрын

Damn, Rodolfo, You are so right. But you have experienced plenty I am guessing. And are still hear to tell and reminisce...You are still valuable. Even more valuable...

@petebondurant58

Жыл бұрын

There is no end, Rodolfo. There is only another stage of life.

@williamkablach7674

Жыл бұрын

Life is all...then nothing.I think of all the memories and realize that it was all real to and how wonderful and precious it all was Good blessed everyone with life.

The 45 people who give this a thumbs down obviously no nothing about music!!

I truly love this song. Whenever I feel "down", I play this song. It reminds me that there is a better place...it's over the rainbow... the other side. When I play this recording, I just stop whatever I am doing, and just listen to it. The Dimensions sing this song the best. The harmony is fantastic. This song will live on forever.

There aren't many songs that make you want to pull off the road, close your eyes, listen and Remember When... But... This is one of them!

@davidstout9829

4 жыл бұрын

Frank C. No kidding

@brucekline6532

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidstout9829 sax

@brucekline6532

3 жыл бұрын

This version is the most peaceful for the.inner soul.

@davidroberts1702

3 жыл бұрын

Well said: using an example which acts out the effect the song has on the listener; that's what writing is all about.

@rafaelsolorzano700

3 жыл бұрын

This is one of them....without a doubt.

One of the best rendition of this song...Glad it was apart of my teen years and has been part of life ever since!!

In these troubled times I'm grateful I have songs like these to reflect on. Very comforting. Feel sorry for today's young people----they are missing much!!

@barbaravanagas9909

5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@Henry09

5 жыл бұрын

You are so right on, miss those days & all my family & friends we lost on the way.

@salvatoreamerico2498

4 жыл бұрын

@@Henry09 In the end, if we're lucky, we have our memories, hope yours were nice. Stay Safe!! Andra' Tutto Bene !!!

@rossdemarco1206

3 жыл бұрын

@@salvatoreamerico2498 I say it all the time these kids today don’t know what they missed . I loved those times , everything today is so upside down . Dio ti benedica fratello

Fabulous, Iconic rendition by The Demensions. Absolutely one of my all time favorites.

This is the type of song I imagine you hear when you first entire the gates of Heaven. Absolutely breathtaking and beautiful.

@Henry09

5 жыл бұрын

That would be perfect & see all those you loved on the way.

@platoon108

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty Poison--do I have permission to quote your profound sentence concerning the appropriate music when one is about to enter the gates of Heaven?

@sallygal1996

4 жыл бұрын

@@platoon108 sure!

@nmulae

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree @Pretty Poison! Man now I’m actually curious to see those who I’ve loved that have passed, with this awesome song playing in the background and other fantastic wonders that are over the rainbow!! 🌈

@platoon108

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallygal1996 I am still caught by this song and your quietly subtle but profound interpretation of the value of this song. My distress is that a person would not be able to choose this song for eternity if he wasn't on the going to heaven list.

FANTASTIC sound....right up there with the Skyliners! Also, incredible amount of comments!

This is the best version of this song in my 75 years

I'm 84, experienced many beatiful RAINBOWS 🌈 in my life, LOVE MY GREAT PARENTS, DAUGHTER, SONS, GRANDPARENTS, GRANDDAUGHTER & EVERYONE ELSE❤

JANUARY 27th, 2024……Sounds as good today as it did when I first hear it! Outstanding!

My dad used to play this song. I miss my dad so much

Love this version, the best ever.

Laying here trying to sleep, yea like I am going to sleep with magic playing in my ear. Wow so proud to say yes people THIS is what I listened too growing up.

I just discovered this version of Over the Rainbow. It's almost other worldly. I've been playing it over and over.

Best version ever

This is what I call "singing"! Fabulous!

One of my all time favorites from Lenny Dell & The Demensions. A true classic!!!

I remember walking down a street in Portland Maine when on Vacation and a DJ said a great new song had just been releases and this came on the air....just a moment in my life I will never forget....

This song reminds me of all of my love ones who have passed. Tears, I cry like a baby every time I play this song and my brain goes into over gear with memories. I'm 76 years old and realize that every day is a gift, this song only becomes more precious to me. I love this oldie so much, I requested it be played for me at the appropriate time. Best rendition ever IMO.

Absolutely the best version EVER of Over the Rainbow

Those beautiful voices go right thru your soul.❤️❤️❤️❤️

@platoon108

2 жыл бұрын

Reginald Fordham...'Right thru your soul'...you have described this song and group penetrating my own soul.

@jamesmonroe6

Жыл бұрын

@@platoon108 live long and enjoy your life

@platoon108

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesmonroe6 Thank you James--And you also.

white,black, don't make no different, beautiful music.

@4410JONES

5 жыл бұрын

I was an oddball in jr. high & high school in the 70's because I LOVED this music. And still do. So sad of the trash 'people call music' now. I was born 20 years too late.

@walkergillette3918

3 жыл бұрын

But I'm glad they are WHITE

I’ll be 64 years old in less then 2 weeks. I’m posting my very first comment on any smart device. I live for rhythm Rather rhyme and harmony @ a very young age. It took 7 difficult years, but for the grace of God I can remember the missing parts through the music of the particular years. The year that I was born (1959), Bobby Darins hit song “Mack the knife “Was #1 on the charts. After a life time of only seeing my family once, back in 1972, music has and will always remain a source of comfort and inspiration. In the words of the late John Lennon…..”All we are saying……is give peace a chance” ❤

I can't play this too often because my eyes tear up every time. I'm serious. My brain reads it as a vocal image of hope when there is every reason not to hope.

@platoon108

Жыл бұрын

Bertillio, My hope is for you to keep your Hope. Your first name is distinct and strong. I don't even know you but you radiate something honest and good...Your last name is pretty distinct, too.

@bertilliozephyrsgate6196

Жыл бұрын

@@platoon108 Thank you PLT 108, but that name isn't my real one, I actually made it up to sound ridiculous. My real name is Thomas Niksa. Hope you like it as much. ☺

@platoon108

Жыл бұрын

@@bertilliozephyrsgate6196 Thomas Bertillio Niksa--I like the real name better. Niksa in unique. Maybe I was correct in my previous comment--You are honest. The made up name has many syllables and your Mother would have been tongue tied reprimanding you.

My absolute favorite for the times vocals impeccable harmonies none better thank you guys.

They had a great first tenor, Uncle Phil. He made the harmony what it was. 1960. Hard to believe how the years have passed.

Another song you will never forget once you hear it! Remembering all the really good times in days gone by. This is the song I want to blast if and when I am on my death bed.

This is the version that I'll always love.

@platoon108

6 жыл бұрын

Our young dreams, and what became our young lives, or did not...,

A great song, a beautiful rendition by The Dimensions.

One of the first records I ever purchased when I was 10 years old. Hard to believe it sounds just as good today!

@SavileRow65

7 жыл бұрын

"Hard to believe it sounds just as good today!" That's why it is a classic

@platoon108

6 жыл бұрын

Wade--Probably was a 45? Wonder what was on the B side? Though I don't consider any Demension's song a B side. Or any doo wop group of my youth a B side--My youth was a B side, not the music...Wade, your comment was inspiring.

I’m 70 yrs old, a black man, hearing these white people singing this song bought me to tears, GREAT PERFORMANCE.

@bruno8126

3 ай бұрын

Well, they are mainly Italian-American :) Like Marisa Martelli who is the female singer

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244

2 ай бұрын

@@bruno8126 The 50s really was the decade of Italian pop music in America, but we had other European ethnic-based music then as well, like Luciel Star, and Lola, but the most proliferate was the Italians. Who doesn't love Connie Francis? We must also remember that There was also a big Folk Music Revival going on, as well as Rockabilly, and others. What a rich decade!

@user-dq4cx1mx8n

Ай бұрын

Stupid comment. These singers in the group are Italian, not white. The girl in the group, whose name I've forgotten, was born in Italy.

The best version ever..my opinion of course! Great great vocals!

@billmadden9938

5 жыл бұрын

GREAT SOUND LOVE IT

@danielc.8875

3 жыл бұрын

Harmony is a forgotten art. It's all auto tune now. You can sing like a bull frog and still sell to morons who will buy any garbage. It's sad music has deteriorated to this level.

@platoon108

3 жыл бұрын

Steve dion--I missed this group as a young man--due to circumstances under my government's control--but later in my life I decided this original group was the best sound of the '66 -70 era and forever afterwards. They are the best and most unique sound of this oft repeated song...I can't stop listening to them...

@platoon108

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielc.8875 daniel--music has no real conscience now. The 70's was the end of innovative, crafted, earnest music...No talent is necessary anymore, marketing and media determines who gets the air time and it all stinks of something fake...Talent, Earnest desire, work, and actualTalent don't matter anymore. Everything has a dishonest, political, tinge these days...

@jeanraiola1309

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you.🖕❤

One song made their life in Epic Journey. even though the group broke up . they left us a hit ❤❤❤❤❤

Rest in heavenly peace Lenny dell your voice will live on

Best version ever of this song!

@kennethridout7471

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic performance

This song and I Believe does it for me. A different time, music, dancing, and style shared with many who have passed, not the same today!

loved growing up with these songs of the 50s and 60s.

so many versions of this great song...…...the dimensions version is right at the top!

The Demensions and the Baysiders each do a great job on this song. The blend of male and female voices is spot on.

@wadeschmaltz7486

7 жыл бұрын

Excellent point. I don't believe many people from the east coast have ever heard the Baysiders version, but it sounds exactly the same.

@marcosmith2501

2 жыл бұрын

It's always amazed me that the two versions with nearly identical arrangements were released simultaneously. The Baysiders' version soon prevailed in LA. The Dimensions had the popular side in SF.

The song, the group, their harmony, and the year -- all unbeatable.

My favorite song from the Doo-Wop days - thanks for sharing it !

To johnny.jules..juliano one of your favorite songs today is 11 years you left me now your over the rainbow 🌈🌈. Sleep in heavenly peace my brother I love and miss you everyday love Robert untill were together again 🌈♥️♥️♥️🌈

The tonal quality of Marisas soaring voice is a perfect fit for the guys...... Absolutely beautiful!

@josephpalermo4538

2 жыл бұрын

Lenny Dell was exceptional...and still is!!!

@sabatinonuzziiii4816

2 жыл бұрын

AGREED ESPECIALLY MARISAS ULTIMATE Falsetto, The cleanest most perfect and probably the highest one I have ever heard. Love the entire group!

I just imagine when I pass through this world..that all these beautiful voices will be singing in front of God.... what a picture

Great song one of my all time favorites . Amazing how the female hits the high note at the end . Amazing !

@michaelpalumbo1370

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Mauro that female. Is Marissa Martelli, listen to her on My Foolish Heart

Marisa has a golden voice, she reminds me with her looks similar to Janet Vogel of the Skyliners of the same period.

@marygabrielson6124

4 жыл бұрын

Did both of these ladies end in sad ways?

@Me112233

4 жыл бұрын

@@marygabrielson6124 I can't find much info on Marisa Martelli. I did find one article, written in 1997, about the group that lists a date of birth for Marissa, but no date of death. Yet, the article doesn't really say much about her beyond the time she left the group, circa1963. Almost seems as though all contact was lost once she left the group. Back in 1963, people would move a couple of times, and it would be about impossible to track them down. I''m guessing you know that Janel Vogel allegedly committed suicide at age 37.

@paokie2

3 жыл бұрын

@@marygabrielson6124 I'm from Pittsburgh and yes, Janet Vogel life sadly ended early from suicide around 40 years old, The last Skyliner, Jimmy Beaumont passed away around 2018

@jonathonspiers8397

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Donna Groom was the female Lea with the Skyliners….another immortal group…

If u grew up in the sixties I am sure u remember this song it brings back so many memories and great memories u will not hear music like this anymore this is a beautiful song remember the great times of your life

I saw The Demensions perform this song live at a Kenny Vance concert in Toms River, NJ a year ago. Got to meet Lenny Dell also. First heard this song on the radio as an 8-year-old in 1960. I've loved it ever since!

One of the most beautiful song EVER. Thanks to The Demensions for thieir version.

What a beautiful version of this iconic song. I was a young boy when I heard it for the first time and 63 years later, it still sounds wonderful

This song by this group is still so damn powerful, especially today....

@JbBrad-qj8ek

8 ай бұрын

What is platoon108

Oh my God this song is SO freaking good.

my number one song will always be Since i Don't have you , by the Skyliners , But Over The Rainbow by the Demensions .....even brought us closer ...Ed. M. Ah ! the summer of 1959 ...i'll NEVER forget.

Love the Demensions-vocals are amazing.

Like I replied to another gentleman about Marisa’s voice! Not only does she get up higher than anyone I have ever heard before but it keeps it so perfectly clean. Anyone liking this song, especially her high voice, If you have not heard it already listened to “my foolish heart” she gets up even higher and stays just is clean. The rest of the band is terrific and they’re even better and this song also! Check it out

Such meaning behind the words of this beautiful song, nostalgic!!

This has always been my favorite version of "Over the Rainbow" since you first recorded it. great memories! thanks!

The best rendition ever made in my opinion

Great Tune - They can take their "RAP" roll it up and do with it as you would a suppository

I love this type of vocal harmony!

I remember when The Demensions were at our local record shop autographing records of this song. The song was blasting over a loud speaker and could be heard quite a distance away. Still a fond memory from long, long ago.

@myroncoleman9825

2 жыл бұрын

Well gi gi you lived in a time when it was great music and so did I it don't get any b etter than this I remember my first time h earing it it just overwhelmed me what a g reat song that takes me back that time J udy Garland was good but the demensio ns are the best we had it all then.

@GiGi-po8yc

2 жыл бұрын

@@myroncoleman9825 Have you hears The Mystics version? Their harmony is fantastic. kzread.info/dash/bejne/paN7tqmiadfbfpM.html

@myroncoleman9825

2 жыл бұрын

@@GiGi-po8yc I will listen. Thanks

lived with this Music, hung out with a good friend, Gary Grazioso, RIP a Great singer/entertainer, spent his Life in the Music/Entertainment Business. I have a wealth of Music favorites This is #1 Thank You Gary for all the Memories

Compelling. The best group ever. Goddam amazing

The beautiful, seemingly immortal, gifts of memory, that can enliven in us the actual moments at the junior prom, or the freshman year in college when your eyes gazed upon a beautiful raven haired girl named Nydia…such are the gifts that defy the passing years, and ignite the spark of smoldering embers now over 60 years ago….

How Beautiful...

Cruzing in a 1959 Oldsmobile 88, with this tune blasting.

I Traveled from Queens to the Bronx by Train to help work on backup on that song (1964)

POSITIVELY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS EVER MADE-I KNOW I AM THE KING OF OLDIES, FORMER DJ IN PHILA. PA AT WRDV RADIO-RON CERELLI

Great Harmony. Love this version of a classic song

I. Just. Love. This. Song. And. The. Way. They. Sing. It. Just. Unreal. Bless. Them. For. All. They. Voices.

Marisa takes this song to another level

A beautiful song listen to this song when I was going to sleep thinking of someone special but couldn't fall asleep

FYI: This song was written in 1939 by Harold Arlen for the movie "Wizard of Oz" & sung by Judy Garland who made it famous. As great as Judy was, I have to admit that no one sings it as good as The Demensions!

@frankc.5430

Жыл бұрын

When you hear it you just KNOW you're not in Kansas anymore...

Drawn to this special Martelli harmony group. Marketing photo is precious of these young kid talented singers. So young to have such a long lasting impact on our lives, and theirs too. Still impacting me because of their special sound blend...Martelli being the pertinent sound, here.

I think we are all reaching right now over the rainbow for the bluebirds

I heard this song for the very first time tonight on Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Radio Show (77 WABC Radio, NYC). Amazing, amazing, amazing!

Loved this song when I was 16 and still love it now, when I am 16x4 (plus 3).

@platoon108

8 жыл бұрын

Greg--I'm not so good at math but am figuring you graduated HS in 65?Same as me, maybe. Our senior year was this Demension's debut on Bandstand....this group is the best. Hoping you are doing good...You are probably an Algebra teacher...

@HeroT

6 жыл бұрын

66

Brings me back to life was simple and happy

I don't even want to comment anymore...But this Demensions group is the best of All Forever. Martelli--Where are you these days? Are you okay?

Listening to this greatest Demensions song is like traipsing back into history. I used to hope I would just get lost forever in my youth, but now I appreciate just a fleeting moment of those high school times, before Vietnam, when everything was...what?, not so sure now what anything in life was about especially after you did it...without much or any choice...you just did it...

Bed-sty Brooklyn, grew up in the 60s, the best love song ever.

Such a great song its one for the a ge now and for ages o come I gte w up as a teen with this song and i t getd better every time I hear it it puts you in never neved land its jus t beautiful and the lady in the grou p with that high tenor or soprano g oodness its breathtaking love you Demensions.

It doesn't get much better than this anywhere in the world-Ron Cerelli

Goddamn...this group was the Best of All for just a little while. Excellent production and sound. Martelli was the angel voice that made the Demensions Great....

In this song what it means to me is in your search through life don't ever stop trying..

still one of the best renditions

Well I am back listening once again with all I have left are great memories, sometimes it feels great other times such sadness.

The late and great lead singer of The Dimension Lenny Dell died in 2021. What a great singer I play this great Doowoop song on my internet radio show the Doowoop Hour me The Masterblaster.

The number #1 version of this song….Marissa Martelli was absolutely fabulous

Just timeless beautiful music

MS. Martelli made this song. She had a voice to die for.

Saw Lenny Dell and The Dimensions about 10 years ago at The Count Basie Theatre in, Red Bank, NJ. And oh what a performance they put on singing this song. This is an awesome, fabulous song. One of the greatest recordings I ever heard :D.

Still the best version to me. This group was the best ever. Broke this song on Bandstand with Dick Clark in 65 I think.

@brunonpaulbielinski6226

6 жыл бұрын

It was 1960. It got a few spins on Oz radio where I was a War Baby. The Aussies call their country "Oz" these days. "Oz" means strength in Hebrew.

An appropriate, relaxing tune for the coronavirus epidemic happening now.

@Rob_430

3 жыл бұрын

George Rebovich Still here in September 2020, Covid 19, listening to what use to be.

@williamdrake6367

3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful rendition. As a singer myself, I wish my group could do it that way.

THEE BEST. I EVER HEARD. I cried...

In terms of pure talent, the best group of that era.

Sounds like Heaven to me.

This is the very first record I bought as a kid and amazingly still have it. So many memories of this song when it came out. I heard this on KJR in Seattle, Washington.