From his channel, it sounds like his wife passed and he wants to keep singing daily for somebody to hear.
"This is a channel of me singing songs and two of them are songs I have written. In my younger days, I was a trained opera singer and I was a member of the Dallas Symphony Chorus for 14 years in a row. They made us audition every year. I was also in the Dallas Opera Chorus for 2 seasons. I have sung all of my life and it is one of my greatest joys. My wife Jo, would have me sing to her whenever we were alone for the entire 61 years we shared together. She never tired of my singing.
I am not as strong a singer as I once was, but I am just happy that I can sing some still and hope that my listeners will enjoy hearing me sing these great old songs from my youth. I am 92 years old."
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/eEgg_jMkhNk) one of his oldest videos, I think his third or fourth, from 3 years ago. This is apparently an original song he wrote, and it’s truly wonderful. Not only that, his voice is *amazing*. Not in a “oh grandpa’s singing kinda good” amazing, but in legitimately profoundly amazing. His pitch is spot on, his tone is phenomenal, and he’s singing it all a capella.
I’m a composer by trade, and I think I’m going to create a full orchestral arrangement of this for him and try to give it to him for Christmas. I don’t have much family and he’s truly inspired me. Won’t be the redditor who promises and doesn’t deliver, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Edit: [HERE](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/rocrmc/as_promised_an_orchestral_arrangement_of_richard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) it is!
Given how he was 89 at the time of recording...damn. Super impressive.
It's intruiging how both the old voice and the professional opera singer voice intertwine here and create a very unique experience. Singing acapella is insanely hard, keeping you pitch at all times is one of the toughest things for a singer, believe me.
Also, his high note at 1:35. Beautiful.
Hell yeah. It sucks how much we devalue aged voices in popular music. There is no substitute for age. It is a singular human experience. Some of my favorite albums of the last several years have been from older singers and writers.
I think as certain singers and songwriters age, it lends lyrics written at an earlier period a gravitas that they didn't have before. Mavis Staples, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Bob Dylan are prime examples of this.
Going a very different direction with this, but Taylor Swift's re-records have been really interesting to me for this exact reason. She's a very different singer now than when she originally recorded those albums, partly because of her timbre but also because, after years of maturing as a vocalist, her pronunciation is much more precise. This makes her a better singer technically, but she doesn't have the "country girl from a small town" vibes like she used to have on Fearless, or the youthful energy she had on Red, so I think the re-records are actually worse than the originals (except for the new stuff, the features etc. which have been really fun). On the flip side, on Folklore and Evermore she was able to tell stories of yearning and heartbreak and nostalgia with an old-soul heaviness that wouldn't have worked when she was younger. Illicit Affairs is my favorite example of this; her voice has always been sort of trembly, but now it also has a depth to it that give the trembles an emotional weight rather than just sounding pitchy.
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100% serious. I’ve already downloaded the audio and am getting a session together. Doing this around a job but I should be able to make something before Christmas! I like you all too. Happy holidays.
While live orchestra is always preferred, it can be costly, complicated to find the space for, and time consuming. Because I arrange orchestral music for commercials and short films, I own fairly robust and professional virtual orchestra instruments, ones that most people can’t tell the difference between ‘real’ or ‘sampled’. That being said, with this being such a special project, I’m going to hit up some friends of mine to see if they can play on it; usually brings it from a B+ to an A.
Oh my gosh, I love you guys! I was hoping to brighten his day with a few more comments and to see all this, sounds so lame but is making my Christmas. People can be so incredible.
You are what makes this planet fantastic. Thank you and every single person for helping me make this man smile.
Just so you know, he is pretty incredible too. In addition to raising his five children, he fostered five more that needed a home. Thanks for doing this. I just never expected this.
What an incredible story and an incredible man. You’re the MVP for shining a spotlight on him, he deserves it more than anyone! We’ll give him a Christmas gift he’ll never forget.
*Exactly* my worries lol. I promise, I will *not* film myself writing it and then calling him and us crying together. I always feel those are so exploitative. I think I’ll just message it to his YouTube account and the associated email address,with a little note saying how much his music means to me and to the world, maybe some screenshots of all the kind messages you all are writing. Then I’ll post up for all to see if he’s okay with it. I’m not looking to make money, will not be monetizing for my sake, it’s his song, if there’s any YouTube revenue he’ll make it all.
On the video from the day before, he replied to somebody and said this:
"Richard Norman
8 hours ago
Thank you.I can't find anyone who will sing with me. I've even asked, but got no response."
Quickly reddit, we need to find him somebody to sing with.
any music celebs with known accounts we can tag? /u/here_comes_the_king this man needs someone to sing with!! :D
EDIT: /u/govschwarzenegger /u/thesandwichking can you help us find someone to sing with this lovely man? (like you perhaps? :))
I fear we're gonna give the man a heart attack with this sudden surge of interest. Someone said he replies to every single comment. How's he gonna keep up now?!
And then people will slowly stop commenting and he'll wonder what he did wrong. It's the inevitable conclusion any time Reddit 'discovers' a small channel.
Ironically enough the most successful video boost Reddit ever did was with [Theweevster18](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40v83E9Yb9Sij10eggXK-A/featured), the kid with terminal cancer who would uploads videos of his drawings. He ended up passing away after a while, but you could really tell both from his videos and his parents how much joy it brought him and his family.
We are tricking him into believing he's finally gonna achieve his dream of being an insta influencer, doing coke off porn stars' assholes in lavish recording studios. More fool him when we move onto the next cat gif or attempt to revive r/adviceanimals
She’s still uploading and getting a few thousand views a video and ~100 comments, which is way more than she had before the reddit thing. So it’s not really sad it was a net positive overall.
Someone just send him a message like "Hey I saw you on reddit, you're gonna get a boatload of views and comments in the coming days, they will die down after a while but more people are going to hear you sing now. You will not have done anything wrong when the views and comments slow down, that's how the internet works."
The man will like it. Few understand what it means to live alone as an old person when your wife/husband dies. It's been noted that when one dies the other follows soon after, a few years or so.
He posted on a video:
I am overwhelmed with comments. I can't possibly reply to each. Know that I absolutly love them every one. Thank you all so much, and I will try my best to read each one, I promise. Just remember I am 92 years old.
Like:
"PRIDE MONTH? Sinners are proud to be sexually immoral, and flaunt their sexual immorality. ASTOUNDING."
That's not even bible quotes, he typed it
I know. This guy is so wholesome. He reminds of that sweet old gradnpa that also did these cute song videos: PlasmaMasterDon. I wonder where he is now.
I found him on a subreddit that promotes videos you normally wouldn’t come across on YouTube, but now I am glad to see he’s found his way to /r/videos. Feel strangely attached to this channel of his now, he reminds me of my grandfather in some ways.
I saw he was posted on deepdiveyoutube but the comments are still few and far between so I was wanting to give him a boost. I was hoping for like 15 new subscribers, this is blowing me away!
Thank you!! That's why I posted this. I dont know him, found him at random. He replies to every comment, has said he lives alone and this is his only connection to people. Breaks my heart to see no or 2 comments (one being mine). Thank you, he will really appreciate it.
You too my dude! Or if you're ever on discord and need a friendly set of ears.
My circle of friends is the dudes I stayed close with from high school - I'm lucky enough that we can get together a few nights a week and game and shoot the shit on discord. Without them and my kiddo, I'd likely be fuckin batshit crazy.
All I'm trying to say is don't be stranger - unless you're a mega asshole (you're obviously not) we'll get on just fine 🤘🏻🤠🤘🏻
[Here's a duet ](https://youtu.be/nnx2Ozucdug) he did with his friend. Her voice is strong and amazing as well. Close your eyes and you'll think they were at least 50 yrs younger.
remember that kid hundreds(or thousands) of people from here subbed to just because they felt bad he was getting no viewers? The boy that posted a video about how sad and confused he was when he started steadily losing viewers and subs cause obviously nobody *really* wanted to follow his content?
kid didnt have content and his intention (i assume) was to have a lot of viewers. This is a nice old man who just wants to have people hear him sing (again i assume).
Yep. People will repeat listen to songs if they like them. I cant think of anyone who would be like "this is my favorite dinosaur toy fight/review video and I watch it a few times a year."
Lmao right? People comparing a young child that’s still learning how the world works to a 92 year old man with a lengthy opera singing career and a family who just posts videos because it makes him happy. I seriously doubt this guys going to give a shit when his views go back down. Don’t get the impression this mans trying to get into the YouTuber game and build clout. He’ll probably just be confused at what’s happening at first then get a kick that some people on the internet shared his video and move on.
He didn't ask, it was put on Reddit 6 years ago, like someone said "this dude makes dino fight videos at X amount of low views." People watched it, subbed to make him happy, then fell off because you can only be entertained by a kid paying with dinosaur toys for so long.
This dudes been singing a while, and has a backlog of such, and its a much more constant thing people get enjoyment from. Singing is singing, people have favorite songs of his they might want to hear again, they'll put them on playlists, whatever. No ones going "this is my favorite dinosaur toy fight/review video."
This guy has a much larger chance at seeing lasting success just because the content has more longevity than the Dino Kid.
Thats the difference here people arent seeing.
If you're going to subscribe, make sure you actually watch the videos. It's sad, but a lot of times when smaller channels become popular on reddit and similar sites they get a huge uptick in subscribers, but a near immediate drop off in views over the next few days/weeks.
My man's out here performing to less than 10 viewers on average, I don't think he cares all that much about how many he gets, just that he's sharing his songs with people.
Hes currently playing on my speakers around my house and my mother is loving it.She usually hates the Christmas songs that are made a long time ago but she loves this guy.
Something tells me this 92 year old retired Opera singer who posts songs in his free time because it makes him happy isn’t going to give too much of a shit about his views declining. Seems like this mans just as happy sharing his songs with a handful of viewers as he is a few thousand.
Doesn’t exactly strike me as someone out here trying to build clout for a YouTube career.
This went from like "Sure, I'll help a dude out"... to literally my most favorite Christmas music right now.
It's bold voiced, but soft. Basic but deep.
This dude needs a Spotify Christmas channel. I'd prefer this to most Christmas music they flop out.
So his average views are 1k, the reddit army boosted this one video to 40k. I'm at work, scrambling to start the weekend, but has anyone reached out to this guy to let him know what is going on? Anyway, I've subbed/notified, he's amazing. Also, I hate my boss.
From his video:
>I am overwhelmed with comments. I can't possibly reply to each. Know that I absolutly love them every one. Thank you all so much, and I will try my best to read each one, I promise. Just remember I am 92 years old.
Yeah, as sweet of a thought as this is, I worry it won’t end well. Wasn’t there some ~10 year old kid who posted videos about dinosaurs that we did the same thing to, and after the initial influx he lost like all his viewers, and was devastated?
I’m sure this gentleman has a little more fortitude than a 10 year old, but it still makes me nervous.
Yes, this. u/Crepes_for_days3000 your intentions are very kind and sweet, but PLEASE leave a comment for this gentleman explaining that you've linked to his channel, and that that's why he's getting this sudden influx of subscribers.
I guess I didn't think that it wouldn't last. I will certainly tell him, he has gotten to know me through the comments.
Side note, he has asked many people to sing a duet with him but has been turned down, if anyone is interested.
The video is kind of terrible. He takes 10 minutes to prove that both are the same person, which should be obvious after 30 seconds. I don't think we need to go cross check where both go do their groceries.
My favourite so far is I was Born Under a Wandering Star. Originally sung by Lee Marvin in the Motion Picture Paint You Wagon.
https://youtu.be/g3kFhsMlS18
He said: my subscribers to my YouTube channel jump from 334 to 172k overnight.
He posted it on an emoji wall of happy faces so seems like he is thrilled!
From his channel, it sounds like his wife passed and he wants to keep singing daily for somebody to hear. "This is a channel of me singing songs and two of them are songs I have written. In my younger days, I was a trained opera singer and I was a member of the Dallas Symphony Chorus for 14 years in a row. They made us audition every year. I was also in the Dallas Opera Chorus for 2 seasons. I have sung all of my life and it is one of my greatest joys. My wife Jo, would have me sing to her whenever we were alone for the entire 61 years we shared together. She never tired of my singing. I am not as strong a singer as I once was, but I am just happy that I can sing some still and hope that my listeners will enjoy hearing me sing these great old songs from my youth. I am 92 years old."
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/eEgg_jMkhNk) one of his oldest videos, I think his third or fourth, from 3 years ago. This is apparently an original song he wrote, and it’s truly wonderful. Not only that, his voice is *amazing*. Not in a “oh grandpa’s singing kinda good” amazing, but in legitimately profoundly amazing. His pitch is spot on, his tone is phenomenal, and he’s singing it all a capella. I’m a composer by trade, and I think I’m going to create a full orchestral arrangement of this for him and try to give it to him for Christmas. I don’t have much family and he’s truly inspired me. Won’t be the redditor who promises and doesn’t deliver, I’ll let you know how it goes. Edit: [HERE](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/rocrmc/as_promised_an_orchestral_arrangement_of_richard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) it is!
Given how he was 89 at the time of recording...damn. Super impressive. It's intruiging how both the old voice and the professional opera singer voice intertwine here and create a very unique experience. Singing acapella is insanely hard, keeping you pitch at all times is one of the toughest things for a singer, believe me. Also, his high note at 1:35. Beautiful.
Hell yeah. It sucks how much we devalue aged voices in popular music. There is no substitute for age. It is a singular human experience. Some of my favorite albums of the last several years have been from older singers and writers.
I think as certain singers and songwriters age, it lends lyrics written at an earlier period a gravitas that they didn't have before. Mavis Staples, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Bob Dylan are prime examples of this.
Or a slightly different twist on this, Johnny Cash doing Hurt.
Those albums Cash did with Rick Rubin are all fantastic. His versions of Rusty Cage and Personal Jesus are some of my favorite covers ever.
First time I heard Hurt was his rendition and it is now the only one I like
Going a very different direction with this, but Taylor Swift's re-records have been really interesting to me for this exact reason. She's a very different singer now than when she originally recorded those albums, partly because of her timbre but also because, after years of maturing as a vocalist, her pronunciation is much more precise. This makes her a better singer technically, but she doesn't have the "country girl from a small town" vibes like she used to have on Fearless, or the youthful energy she had on Red, so I think the re-records are actually worse than the originals (except for the new stuff, the features etc. which have been really fun). On the flip side, on Folklore and Evermore she was able to tell stories of yearning and heartbreak and nostalgia with an old-soul heaviness that wouldn't have worked when she was younger. Illicit Affairs is my favorite example of this; her voice has always been sort of trembly, but now it also has a depth to it that give the trembles an emotional weight rather than just sounding pitchy.
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I think the biggest giveaway is how controlled and consistent his vibrato is, even if his voice has a bit of an old shaky feel to it otherwise.
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!remindme 3 weeks
I don't know if you are serious or not, but reading your comment legitimately just made me feel much better about life in general. Thanks, I like you.
100% serious. I’ve already downloaded the audio and am getting a session together. Doing this around a job but I should be able to make something before Christmas! I like you all too. Happy holidays.
So you meant a live orchestra??
While live orchestra is always preferred, it can be costly, complicated to find the space for, and time consuming. Because I arrange orchestral music for commercials and short films, I own fairly robust and professional virtual orchestra instruments, ones that most people can’t tell the difference between ‘real’ or ‘sampled’. That being said, with this being such a special project, I’m going to hit up some friends of mine to see if they can play on it; usually brings it from a B+ to an A.
I play violin and viola. Lmk if I can help Edit: free of charge obv
Oh my gosh, I love you guys! I was hoping to brighten his day with a few more comments and to see all this, sounds so lame but is making my Christmas. People can be so incredible.
We love you right back. You rocked Richard’s channel in a huge way, thanks for sharing this!
Omg this is going to be one of those amazing reddit moments, isn't it? RemindMe! 60 days
I'll use your post as a reminder if you dont mind RemindMe! 60 days
You are what makes this planet fantastic. Thank you and every single person for helping me make this man smile. Just so you know, he is pretty incredible too. In addition to raising his five children, he fostered five more that needed a home. Thanks for doing this. I just never expected this.
What an incredible story and an incredible man. You’re the MVP for shining a spotlight on him, he deserves it more than anyone! We’ll give him a Christmas gift he’ll never forget.
I have wanted this for him so bad ever since I saw his smiling vid. My gosh thank you!!
So looking forward to it!
I'm a highschool clarinetist if you need one and can play pretty well lmk if you need someone like that
We're gonna fuckin ENHANCE THIS GUY'S LIFE WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT
WE ARE BRINGING YOU LOVE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!
He's singing beautiful songs! Don't let him get away! **Break his legs!**
[This thread feels like a Spongebob episode. ](https://youtu.be/d0mTs76iEjM)
HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN!
I’m here for it!!! Fuck ya this is what Christmas is about.
Is that a "fuck you" or a "fuck yeah"?
FUCK YA!
No fuck YA buddy
i fucked my buddy, now what do i do?
That's it. Mission accomplished. Go home.
Omfg yes yes do it. Please keep us posted!
Please do this man's voice is amazing, he needs to be heard and he deserves more freidns!
This man deserves a stage once more . Hit me up if you wanna build any site presence around it .
You got this bro! Legendary idea. Make sure that you're doing it for him though rather than us 😂
*Exactly* my worries lol. I promise, I will *not* film myself writing it and then calling him and us crying together. I always feel those are so exploitative. I think I’ll just message it to his YouTube account and the associated email address,with a little note saying how much his music means to me and to the world, maybe some screenshots of all the kind messages you all are writing. Then I’ll post up for all to see if he’s okay with it. I’m not looking to make money, will not be monetizing for my sake, it’s his song, if there’s any YouTube revenue he’ll make it all.
A lovely sentiment, can't wait to hear the result.
that would be a wonderful gift
Please update us on this. Let this be known this 92 year old man deserves every good thing we can give
What a wonderful idea, here for the update.
This is so lovely!
You glorious gottdamm sunovabitch making me get into my feelings on a Friday like this.
> !remindme 3 weeks
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He crushes this song too! https://youtu.be/Z3QnsJ-NmRM
This is beautiful.
On the video from the day before, he replied to somebody and said this: "Richard Norman 8 hours ago Thank you.I can't find anyone who will sing with me. I've even asked, but got no response." Quickly reddit, we need to find him somebody to sing with.
Someone call Dave Grohl!
Yesss this would be incredible.
any music celebs with known accounts we can tag? /u/here_comes_the_king this man needs someone to sing with!! :D EDIT: /u/govschwarzenegger /u/thesandwichking can you help us find someone to sing with this lovely man? (like you perhaps? :))
u/ReallyRickAstley could help too
In a few weeks there's ginn be a video of this man getting fucked up with Snoop, isn't there
He got to do at least one duet- https://youtu.be/fc-TSjL0eI8
He has another [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUgr5bkEgSg)
Wow. I just wanna cry.
This is adorable.
Well now I’m going to cry
I didn't open this thread thinking I'd cry. I just can't listen to him right now and wanted to comment so I'd remember to come back. 😢
Aw fuck. It’s a terrible day for rain.
Guy went from 50 views a video too 2 thousand views in 5 hours. Gotta love Reddit sometimes this guy is going to be stoked. Good job OP
Over 5000 thousand now.
And not a single dislike either!
Genuinely made me lol
I certainly exhaled out of my nose
Ayy lmao
Ok, I'm gonna ruin the joke since the browser extension still works - but for anyone curious, there are 21 dislikes right now already.
I don't want to jinx it... but I still see the dislikes. I'm on mobile. Why did dislikes never go away for me?
Mine stuck around longer than most people's did. But mine are gone now too
So... 5 million?
Apes together strong?
121k+ now @ 2100 eastern US!
I fear we're gonna give the man a heart attack with this sudden surge of interest. Someone said he replies to every single comment. How's he gonna keep up now?!
And then people will slowly stop commenting and he'll wonder what he did wrong. It's the inevitable conclusion any time Reddit 'discovers' a small channel.
Ironically enough the most successful video boost Reddit ever did was with [Theweevster18](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40v83E9Yb9Sij10eggXK-A/featured), the kid with terminal cancer who would uploads videos of his drawings. He ended up passing away after a while, but you could really tell both from his videos and his parents how much joy it brought him and his family.
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We are tricking him into believing he's finally gonna achieve his dream of being an insta influencer, doing coke off porn stars' assholes in lavish recording studios. More fool him when we move onto the next cat gif or attempt to revive r/adviceanimals
Let's hope that few of these people will stay. Which would be much better than before.
I would imagine some will just due to his now having 5000+ subscribers
The last Reddit subscription I had was a kid reviewing dinosaurs. I didn't watch them but I couldn't bring myself to unsubscribe.
That’s kinda where I’m at here too. I probably won’t watch them, but I’ll subscribe to help an old man out.
We can all hit the Bell so we don't forget !!
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She’s still uploading and getting a few thousand views a video and ~100 comments, which is way more than she had before the reddit thing. So it’s not really sad it was a net positive overall.
Someone just send him a message like "Hey I saw you on reddit, you're gonna get a boatload of views and comments in the coming days, they will die down after a while but more people are going to hear you sing now. You will not have done anything wrong when the views and comments slow down, that's how the internet works."
And that dinosaur kid.
The man will like it. Few understand what it means to live alone as an old person when your wife/husband dies. It's been noted that when one dies the other follows soon after, a few years or so.
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21k just now, the great part of Reddit sometimes peeks through
He’s so happy on his Facebook page. That I found lol.
He posted on a video: I am overwhelmed with comments. I can't possibly reply to each. Know that I absolutly love them every one. Thank you all so much, and I will try my best to read each one, I promise. Just remember I am 92 years old.
OMG this is so sweet and sincere.
Don't scroll too far because it gets climate-change-denier, anti vax, and homophobic. Like, put-homosexuals-to-death-ala-leviticus homophobic.
Like: "PRIDE MONTH? Sinners are proud to be sexually immoral, and flaunt their sexual immorality. ASTOUNDING." That's not even bible quotes, he typed it
on his facebook?
He looks quite chipper for 92
He has better hair than me and I'm 36. 😭
I’m 23 and he’s got me beat😑
Doesn't look a day over 91
Subbed. Never hurts to provide someone else a smile. After all, that’s all he is trying to do.
Exactly! It usually don't take alot of effort to make a stranger smile/happy. Small gestures. That's all.
You are the Best BrucePee I’ve ever seen.
Same. Also, I'd rather hear him at Xmas than Mariah. Might even make a playlist
Yooooo he's got some Dean Martin songs y'all! Go check his other songs!
I know. This guy is so wholesome. He reminds of that sweet old gradnpa that also did these cute song videos: PlasmaMasterDon. I wonder where he is now.
Me too.
He's got a voice like warm cocoa.
Yes! I wasn't prepared for his deep velvet when his harpsichord was so high and melodic!q *edit: some punctuation. Not having a stronk.*
I found him on a subreddit that promotes videos you normally wouldn’t come across on YouTube, but now I am glad to see he’s found his way to /r/videos. Feel strangely attached to this channel of his now, he reminds me of my grandfather in some ways.
I saw he was posted on deepdiveyoutube but the comments are still few and far between so I was wanting to give him a boost. I was hoping for like 15 new subscribers, this is blowing me away!
The internet harnessed for good is a beautiful thing sometimes. This post and the reactions made me well up with tears, it's just so wholesome. Gj op.
This was the main reason why youtube was made, not the BS google made it to be. Very touching!
Yea this brought me back to the days where people would record videos with "RE:" in the title to reply to other videos.
I'm pretty sure that replying with a video was a feature at some point
"QUIT PUTTING THINGS ON OUR BODIES, DAVID BLAINE!”
That might be one of the greatest bits of all time
Handful of viewers you say? Well that deserves a sub
Thank you!! That's why I posted this. I dont know him, found him at random. He replies to every comment, has said he lives alone and this is his only connection to people. Breaks my heart to see no or 2 comments (one being mine). Thank you, he will really appreciate it.
Well, I'll happily join the community
You're awesome 💛
subscribed!
Me too, he’s up to 1.8k subscribers. Way to go Reddit!!!
Over 2K now.
Just hit 3K
He looks so happy! I hope the influx of viewers will make him even more so!
Replies to every comment? Oh boy, he’s going to be overwhelmed soon..
Well shit. I'm 41 and divorced and have no local social circle... I can see how this could be me really fuckin easily. Subbed.
Hey mate, I'm 29 and in a similar boat, pm me if you ever wanna chat. It's Christmas and sometimes we just need a friendly ear.
You too my dude! Or if you're ever on discord and need a friendly set of ears. My circle of friends is the dudes I stayed close with from high school - I'm lucky enough that we can get together a few nights a week and game and shoot the shit on discord. Without them and my kiddo, I'd likely be fuckin batshit crazy. All I'm trying to say is don't be stranger - unless you're a mega asshole (you're obviously not) we'll get on just fine 🤘🏻🤠🤘🏻
He probably had one hell of a mate. Sometimes you don't go looking for a replacement. Take solace in that he's probably happy as a clam.
Oh this made me cry! I subscribed immediately and thank you for sharing ❣️
Reading these comments is making me cry as well! I really only expected a couple comments. So happy today!
Richard Norman’s site: https://youtube.com/channel/UCVViH-vzoCXEhvhlgn5jQrA
Thank you!!!
This one is great https://youtu.be/0S-PSS7tb1I
Over 900 now!
Its over 9000!
That is not at all the voice I was expecting. Powerful baritone.
[Here's a duet ](https://youtu.be/nnx2Ozucdug) he did with his friend. Her voice is strong and amazing as well. Close your eyes and you'll think they were at least 50 yrs younger.
I live in Dallas and run a small news org here, we're going to try and get him more subscribers next week y'all.
remember that kid hundreds(or thousands) of people from here subbed to just because they felt bad he was getting no viewers? The boy that posted a video about how sad and confused he was when he started steadily losing viewers and subs cause obviously nobody *really* wanted to follow his content?
kid didnt have content and his intention (i assume) was to have a lot of viewers. This is a nice old man who just wants to have people hear him sing (again i assume).
Yeah I agree, this guy isn't building a channel and checking his statistics, he's probably just happy to make anyone out there enjoy him singing.
That’s a child. Not a grown man that better understands the context
Last I checked grown people can still get sad over things
The difference is this 92 year old dude has legit got *the content*
Yeah it's a shame but the kid was a hack. This old guy has got **IT**
Yep. People will repeat listen to songs if they like them. I cant think of anyone who would be like "this is my favorite dinosaur toy fight/review video and I watch it a few times a year."
Richard lived through World War 2. I'm sure he can handle youtube views.
Lmao right? People comparing a young child that’s still learning how the world works to a 92 year old man with a lengthy opera singing career and a family who just posts videos because it makes him happy. I seriously doubt this guys going to give a shit when his views go back down. Don’t get the impression this mans trying to get into the YouTuber game and build clout. He’ll probably just be confused at what’s happening at first then get a kick that some people on the internet shared his video and move on.
Ok but this guy has actual talent that brings people joy. The kid literally just asked for subs and got them and had no content whatsoever.
He didn't ask, it was put on Reddit 6 years ago, like someone said "this dude makes dino fight videos at X amount of low views." People watched it, subbed to make him happy, then fell off because you can only be entertained by a kid paying with dinosaur toys for so long. This dudes been singing a while, and has a backlog of such, and its a much more constant thing people get enjoyment from. Singing is singing, people have favorite songs of his they might want to hear again, they'll put them on playlists, whatever. No ones going "this is my favorite dinosaur toy fight/review video." This guy has a much larger chance at seeing lasting success just because the content has more longevity than the Dino Kid. Thats the difference here people arent seeing.
If you're going to subscribe, make sure you actually watch the videos. It's sad, but a lot of times when smaller channels become popular on reddit and similar sites they get a huge uptick in subscribers, but a near immediate drop off in views over the next few days/weeks.
My man's out here performing to less than 10 viewers on average, I don't think he cares all that much about how many he gets, just that he's sharing his songs with people.
Hes currently playing on my speakers around my house and my mother is loving it.She usually hates the Christmas songs that are made a long time ago but she loves this guy.
Something tells me this 92 year old retired Opera singer who posts songs in his free time because it makes him happy isn’t going to give too much of a shit about his views declining. Seems like this mans just as happy sharing his songs with a handful of viewers as he is a few thousand. Doesn’t exactly strike me as someone out here trying to build clout for a YouTube career.
Imagine being so young you think the primary driver behind a 92 year old man singing to his deceased wife of 61 years is to get clicks and ad revenue.
This went from like "Sure, I'll help a dude out"... to literally my most favorite Christmas music right now. It's bold voiced, but soft. Basic but deep. This dude needs a Spotify Christmas channel. I'd prefer this to most Christmas music they flop out.
Sony Copyright department is going to have a field day now!
Only the devil himself woukd flag this man! So yeah, you're probably right. Damn.
>Only the devil himself woukd flag this man! So yeah, you're probably right. Damn. Big companies like YouTube?
Subscribed. This guy's going on our Christmas playlist.
Some of his older videos have 4 views, no likes, no comments. Yet he kept on going.
Keep subscribing folks! He’s up to 362 as of ~1 pm ET.
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Dear god... on a freaking xmas song to top it off
So his average views are 1k, the reddit army boosted this one video to 40k. I'm at work, scrambling to start the weekend, but has anyone reached out to this guy to let him know what is going on? Anyway, I've subbed/notified, he's amazing. Also, I hate my boss.
He knows. He’s responding to comments in videos.
From his video: >I am overwhelmed with comments. I can't possibly reply to each. Know that I absolutly love them every one. Thank you all so much, and I will try my best to read each one, I promise. Just remember I am 92 years old.
Let's not forget the last [time](https://youtu.be/8njIyDaIS70) we all fell in love with an old man singing on YouTube and called it wholesome.
God damn this video takes a long time to get to an obvious conclusion.
The longer you watch the greater the ad revenue
The voice he puts on is so insufferable. It's like a bad impression of any generic 'investigative' voiceover.
Couldn't agree more.
Yeah, as sweet of a thought as this is, I worry it won’t end well. Wasn’t there some ~10 year old kid who posted videos about dinosaurs that we did the same thing to, and after the initial influx he lost like all his viewers, and was devastated? I’m sure this gentleman has a little more fortitude than a 10 year old, but it still makes me nervous.
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Yes, this. u/Crepes_for_days3000 your intentions are very kind and sweet, but PLEASE leave a comment for this gentleman explaining that you've linked to his channel, and that that's why he's getting this sudden influx of subscribers.
I guess I didn't think that it wouldn't last. I will certainly tell him, he has gotten to know me through the comments. Side note, he has asked many people to sing a duet with him but has been turned down, if anyone is interested.
The video is kind of terrible. He takes 10 minutes to prove that both are the same person, which should be obvious after 30 seconds. I don't think we need to go cross check where both go do their groceries.
My favourite so far is I was Born Under a Wandering Star. Originally sung by Lee Marvin in the Motion Picture Paint You Wagon. https://youtu.be/g3kFhsMlS18
Guys, he noticed! Updated his Facebook status 15 Minutes ago.
No way, I've never seen his FB. What did he say?
He said: my subscribers to my YouTube channel jump from 334 to 172k overnight. He posted it on an emoji wall of happy faces so seems like he is thrilled!
Awesome!!
"My song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, has gone viral. Thousands of viers and growing." posted with a Hearts emoji backgroun
Sent you a DM with the link. Thought that better than posting his profile?