The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
An evening pause: Performed live in 1965 on the Andy Williams Show.
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We spent nearly a whole day awhile back watching YouTube “Reaction” videos to The Righteous Brothers. No one got away without chills …. several women wept openly, and men were stunned.
It was so cool to see people discover them who had never imagined music like this.
Nice to see the “real” television we were blessed to have in the 60’s. As I grew older I began to notice lip-synching done on The American Bandstand, so there was the crap side, too. This was live, warts and all, if someone made a flub it was real. Conversely if the performer did a wonderful job it wasn’t because they were good at lip-synching!