This song never gets old right?

@gli7utubeo

9 ай бұрын

exactly

@neverforget6523

8 ай бұрын

How could it. It becomes better from year to year. It will still be one of the greatest ever when we, who grew up with it, are gone.

@user-vv3po2wk2b

5 ай бұрын

I just loved how it flowed perfectly right to the very end.

@lokisan100

4 ай бұрын

Never!

Over 50 years later, this song is still one of the best.

The drummer, John Barbata, created and played some of the most tasteful and unique drum fills of that time. Both he and Dino Danelli were two of the most creative and unique drummers of that time, who added so much to their respective bands...The Turtles and The Rascals.

@amherst88

9 ай бұрын

Same John Barbata as in Jefferson Starship???

@wonsworld61

9 ай бұрын

@@amherst88 - Yup, The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (after Dallas Taylor), then J Airplane & J Starship.

@Dadgrug

9 ай бұрын

I never listened to his drumming all that carefully - gotta re-listen now... Thanks!

@jimroscovius

5 ай бұрын

"Happy Together" was the first song I ever played on drums. Still playing 53 years later 🙂

@gerardop9633

5 ай бұрын

Y Fernando Arbex,de Spanish group,Los Brincos ,drummer

The Turtles should be inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame!!!

@notwaiting

5 ай бұрын

They had to get Dolly Parton in first because everybody knows she did so much for Rock music. 🤓

@maryk446

5 ай бұрын

I said it in 1989 after I discovered the entire Turtles/Flo and Eddie catalog - that the Turtles/Mark and Howard are not in the Hall of Fame is a crime against the integrity of rock and roll.

@notwaiting

5 ай бұрын

@@maryk446 We need a new, bonafide venue that actually focuses on Rock n Roll.

@maryk446

5 ай бұрын

@@notwaiting I agree.

@maryk446

5 ай бұрын

@@notwaitingDolly is a treasure, but she's already in the Country Music Hall of Fame (which, of course, she's earned.)

hearing it after 57 years on 14th May 2024

@Letsdolunch2023

28 күн бұрын

Here on June 10, 2024! 🎶 🎵

I was a 10 y/o boy when I seen this on the Ed Sullivan show and lived in the country near Lodi California on a Philco color TV and now I'm 67 y/o in 2024. It's one of songs I sing with in my mind when I'm with friends wherever I go to.

I was a kid. The pop music was so uplifting!!!! We were happy kids.

@kb8939

9 ай бұрын

You literally read my mind at that very second! Lol I don't understand why parents now are allowing the ONLY carefree years of their kids' lives to be DESTROYED with adult matters shoved down their throats by ppl who are supposed to be teaching them to read, write and do math.😢

@jadezee6316

9 ай бұрын

this was during the peak of the Vietnam War

@sunnylife7934

9 ай бұрын

@@jadezee6316 yes and there’s been war ever since.

@kb8939

9 ай бұрын

@@jadezee6316 so you think parents should've updated their 6yos on the war every night instead of letting them be kids? You sound miserable. Sorry for whatever got you where you are that you think children should be miserable and deal with adult problems in childhood. Hope things get better.

@guystudios

9 ай бұрын

@@kb8939Teachers aren’t shoving adult matters down children’s throats. Internet access is.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the whole world could be happy together.🌍

@james-pierre7634

9 ай бұрын

It never was meant to be!

@mikeluke7417

9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@jeffreyedwards5262

9 ай бұрын

Wishful thinking. Sad to say.😒

@james-pierre7634

9 ай бұрын

Oh how boring that would be. John Lennon, was also a dreamer.

@santoshpss

2 ай бұрын

The surface of standing water doesn't bend. Take your ball Earth religion somewhere else.

Never get tired of this song❤❤❤❤❤

"Happy Together". The first record I ever bought. Still have it!

One of my favorite groups of the '60's! Love their happy carefree sound! The Turtles made two appearances on the Sullivan show. On this first appearance, they sang "Happy Together" and "She'd Rather Be with Me", the latter of which has already been posted, and is really fantastic too! "Happy Together" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was written by Garry Bonner & Alan Gordon. Fantastic post! Also, I've wanted to mention this for a while, to anyone who is interested, I'm the same Tom Smith who has been posting comments since near the start of the channel. When YT changed the handles, I chose Tom Elvis Smith as my new one because I thought it sounded more memorable than plain Tom Smith. :)

Your 14 and its 1967. Life is grand.

So sad the 60s had to end eventually

Shout out to Jim Pons, shown in white sweater at 1:30, background vocals and acoustic/bass guitar. He started in garage band The Leaves ("Hey Joe") Turtles from 1967--1970, in Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention in 1971, and with Flo and Eddie from 1971-- 1973. He is 80 years old, still doing fine!!!

Shout out to Mark Volman and his sweaters with stitched on ties. 😂 He's definitely a character.

@MrRoundwound

8 ай бұрын

The gay guy?

@wyrdness1

6 ай бұрын

While it doesn't matter, he did have two wives over the years and children by the first wife.

@dorcaslopez8052

5 ай бұрын

I don't think he's gay

@Liggie55821

5 ай бұрын

I’d like to get one of those tie sweaters on Etsy.

@drewzerna4087

4 ай бұрын

Very minimal screen time, like the producers have deliberately tried to cut hm out. Its odd, they show more of the drummer 🤔

Like I said before. We need music like this again. I love my generation ❤

Shoutout to the dude holding a trumpet who didn't touch his lips to it til the last 5 seconds of the performance. Very nice. 🤣👏🏻

R.I.P. Johnny Barbata.

به عنوان یک ایرانی واقعا عاشق این آهنگم هیچوقت برام قدیمی نمیشه 🔥🔥

Flo and Eddie had to start somewhere and it is still pleasant to listen to the old stuff

What an absolute pop music masterpiece. I really enjoyed the chubby guy’s (with glasses) antics. 😂

R.I.P. John Barbata!

Fantastic Memory! I was nine years old. 😊

By 67, some groups still played totally live (Doors, Cowsills) while others did live vocals over pre recorded backing tracks (Stones). I’m not sure who made the decision as to who did what. The live stuff was so much better and it’s a shame they phased it out.

@Ryan-on5on

Күн бұрын

This was probably more a function of the musical and instrumental complexity of the songs being performed than a strict policy by the Ed Sullivan Show. It's also helpful to remember that studio recording technology during this era was advancing at such a rate that sounds were being created on record that couldn't easily be recreated in live performance. Heavy-production songs like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" or "Good Vibrations" would've been all but impossible to perform live without the aid of some pre-recorded tracks. It would be interesting, though, to know who most often had the final say as to whether a backing track would be used or not.

Song's from 60s but when i closed my eyes while listening, goddamn.. i feel like this song is so new. This song is so ahead of its time!

I love The Turtles they sing that song on American Bandstand on Saturday April 1,1967😀👍🏿🎸🎼

That's when Music was Music !!

I remember watching this. And in 1983, Flo and Eddie, aka Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, the founders of The Turtles, were playing the Boston-Cambridge area, and my roommate and I went to see them; they sounded just as good.

Their SIGNATURE SONG on one of my favorite shows when I was a kid and teen. GREAT memories still after all these decades by one of the BEST groups of the 1960's!

the turtleneck with the knitted on tie is so cool!!!!!

Performance At 05:00 PM On Monday 2005-01-24 Which Is January 24, 2005

Loved them

I love this song ! I am 64 years old .... 👍🏻 🇫🇷

@paulgarner9475

3 ай бұрын

Me too 👍

@boricuadetorontocanada

2 ай бұрын

Vive le France, vive la liberté

@-RikoAmanai-

2 ай бұрын

@@paulgarner9475dementia kicking in

I Love the turtles!!! Hope there's more to come soon. I have seen this on KZread before, fingers crossed that this is much better quality!

Happy times should be like this for ever

I was a kidd then, but I remember these guys

Great Song and Swinging Rhythm,Wonderful Group of the 60's The Turtle's I Remember Them well !!!!

This song was a huge hit back in the day. I still have the 45. Well deserved. It still shines.

💕🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 🐢💕💋I always enjoy their songs!!

Such a fantastic song, arrangement, performance. Among the best of the 60’s

A classic that gets better as time goes on.

My big foster sister got me into the Beatles among other bands of the time! Was a great n wonderful world at the time! 8 yrs old n rockin' away the day!😎😎👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

The soundtrack of my childhood. So many good 60s songs to sing along to. Geek pop band The Turtles

Love how the trumpet is still going even after Mark Volman's already put the instrument down in the closing moments ;-)

@ccnoble1415

7 ай бұрын

Yes, way to much perfection in the studio version with all the perfect harmonies to oull off for one song,, it was 90 percent miming back then and the singers mike is turned off as well

@joes9954

5 ай бұрын

It seemed to me that only the singer was live. Certain segments of the song were different than the original record unless it was recorded earlier and used for the show. Which also makes sense why the other singer came over. He knew his mike wasn’t connected.

@drewzerna4087

4 ай бұрын

@@joes9954the guy in white seems a little erratic. He is quite animated and it’s quite noticeable how the producer seems to minimise his screen time, almost as if deliberately so. I have seen other clips where that guy carries on a bit. Would be annoying to be around 😂

@bigdaddycool6930

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, that was kind of Mark’s thing, carrying something that he only pretended to play 😂 one time he had a roll of tape and another a conductor’s baton as his “instruments”

@billdescoteaux

2 ай бұрын

@@drewzerna4087 But that kind of made the show, although it may have been a little much for ol' Ed. If you look at some of the videos of The Diamonds doing "Little Darlin"", one of the guys there is kind of similar.

Still one of best songs out there….always play it when taking my family away on vacations

These guys definitely were a 60s Band for the ages, what a song !!!

And thanks to Flo and Eddie for their great Happy Together music tours. Maybe the best concerts ever.

@recordguy4321

9 ай бұрын

they were horrible when I saw them about 15 years ago, Peter Noone and his hermits blew them away. All HowardKaylan and Mark Vollman did was rap about madonna. There was about 20 minutes of music and 30 minutes of corny jokes. And their backup band was lousy

I loved it, thank you

I love this song beautiful memories ❤

GREAT SONG AND BAND! RIP Jim Tucker

@adambomb3619

Ай бұрын

Which one is he in the video?

he would’ve known the turtles would have one of the best sullivan shows performances ??? this is so good!!!!

Anybody else happen to see The Turtles and The Grass Roots play in N'awlins back in the 90's at the Riverwalk? Great performances!

I was born in 74 and remember hearing this song as well as many others while my dad had the radio going on a local channel that played this era. I always felt I should have been in my late teens or early 20s to be able to be apart of this generation and enjoy it in person. Brings me so much joy listening to it.

I feel nostalgic for moments I never lived.

Always appreciated my home borough being represented by the lead singer. Yup, Howard Kaylan hailed from the only mainland borough of NYC.... THE BRONX!❤

Brings me back to winter 1967 when I was 5 lighting up ashtray cigarettes listening to the AM radio in a1963 Buick in the driveway.

@LarsRyeJeppesen

8 ай бұрын

That's fcked up

I LOVE THE TURTLES 🥰🥰🥰

So absolutely adorable, I can hardly believe it.

I love these songs 🎵 💕 from my youth wish I could go back my family was not perfect but the songs helped me get thru please 🙏 come back 60s 70s

That song is amazing....just flows.......

Oh. Didn't realize they performed this song twice on Ed Sullivan.

@TomElvisSmith

9 ай бұрын

This performance is the full song. In the second version on a later episode, which was posted awhile back, they sang a shorter version of the song.

Fantastic picture quality from 1967! And in NTSC!

@VirreFriberg

9 ай бұрын

The good thing about the Ed Sullivan show was that they did not wipe their tapes like many contemporary shows did

Flo and Eddie wound up singing in Frank Zappa's band.... Outstanding.

@recordguy4321

9 ай бұрын

I saw them with Zappa, 1970 at Music Hall in cincinnati. Anysley Dunbar on drums, they even did Happy Together at the end.

I was a young chiLd when this song came out in the Late 60's. It was & stiLL is, one of my favorites. Growing uP in the Late 60's & 70's was a HAPPY TiMe for me & my sibLings.

Amazing drummer , John Barbata !

Music that brings back good memories!! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

This is one of two of our songs! My husband and I danced to this one at our wedding and When a man loves a woman ! He said these are our songs. So cheeky but so good and carefree! We’ve been married for 33 years !

All I know is I worshipped the radio back then, God bless all you fellow radio worshippers as you reminisce back on the wonderful lovely times we experienced in our childhood!

@LarsRyeJeppesen

9 ай бұрын

MTV launched when I was 16. I was the last of the radio generation lol

One of my favorites as a kid… I was 12… I would play this on my record player and dream of a girl in my class I liked

I will always remember the feeling of optimism during this time which was epitomized by this song and all the other uplifting songs on AM radio in the mid 60s. It remains tangible to me every time I hear a song like this.

I loved this song when I was growing up in the 70s. Music back in the day used to make you daydream of the one you love. Thank you for sharing this cutest song in the history of music.

Best of all time

Love this time in music. ✨🇺🇸✨💙💜💚✨💃✨🎶

My new favorite song. Love singing and playing it on piano.

Really should've been an upload of their performance of She's My Girl.

@supmyd00d

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. Been waiting for it for a long time.

This song fills me with so much joy 😊. I love the comedy they added as well. TY for sharing this, God Bless You and stay safe 🙏 ❤️

Both good songs this and Vanilla Fudge song love that one

I feel is one of d best even Elvis hits I'm 78 now

Oh, were the current state of the world like it was back then. We would all be Happy Together.

@PaulaHendy-lj1mw

Ай бұрын

US troop buildup in Vietnam with thousands coming home in boxes, race riots in the US, the Cold War, the Six Day War in the middle east, etc. etc. The current state of the world is very much like it was in 1967!

He visto esta presentación muchas veces pero por primera vez con audífonos y es GENIAL la voz en directo.

Sould most of my lp's but this one I kept.

Great singer.

This was really live! No lip syncing! Sounds so much like the recording, too!

F# minor/major is the perfect key for this song.

Sounds MUCH better than the songs today !!!

This song is 67 yrs old now😢

that chorus melody is perfect

You made me smile and blush everyday

SIMPLY BEATIFUL!!!

Melody with a lot of strengh.

Good one song

What a great song by the turtles

I remember when my son Aaron performed this song on stage.

Fantastic.

The monkeys are a great group.Back in1966,year I was born.May Davy Jones,RIP, and Peter York,RIP💐

Yes!! Peace and love all

Classic song

Although it cannot be said that they were a One Hit Wonder band, this song is the one that truly identifies and places them in the history of pop music, and that ultimately led to their commercial resurrection after some beginnings, in the mid-60s, not very flattering. The song was written by Alan Gordon and Gary Bonner, who were then still members of The Unkown Magicians. "Happy Together” went to number 1 in the US and made them popular around the world. The song perfectly illustrated the group's sensational sense of rhythm and the phenomenal vocal harmonies of Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. “She'd rather be with me” (number 3 in the US and number 4 in the UK), performed in this same episode and published some time ago on the channel, was another of the hits that the Gordon-Bonner duo wrote for The Turtles. From other authors I highlight "She's my girl" (composed by those who would later make up the male half of the famous ABBA) or "Guide for the married man" (composed by the brilliant John Williams that you all know, and what is part of the soundtrack of the same title's comedy). These and other songs established the group in the elite of American pop. However, they no longer repeated a hit like "Happy Together" and before the end of the decade they officially disbanded, culminating one of the shortest careers in the pop elite. If you wish, you can enjoy two very different versions of this song on KZread, by Petula Clark (1969) and Jason Donovan (1991).

Unforgetable song and very good❤😂🎉😅😊

Exited to see them!