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I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾 Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️
Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!
Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body. Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏 Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃
Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤ Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖
I did not know Lionel Richie was a sax player. Must be a multiple instrumentalist like Prince. I have seen him on the piano. It was cool seeing Jeff Skunk Baxter shredding the congas on the Steely Dan stuff. I thought he was just a guitar player.
"Brick House" is a song from the Commodores' 1977 self-titled album (released as Zoom in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the UK Singles Chart. Lionel Richie stated that the song's title is a play on the expression "built like a brick shithouse," referring to a strongly built woman.
The audio is from the Commodores Live album Why you hear their voices before they even arrive on the stage. Program television for ya. Still a bad ass band and an awesome flashback shake it down 💃🏽🕺🏽 They performed 'Grease' with Frankie Valley on this same episode.
@@gregoryduncan3067 Lionel *did not* sing everything else that the Commodores did. He sang the ballads and some up-tempo songs, but Walter "Clyde" Orange also sang lead on more than a few of their up-tempo songs. He was definitely the right choice for this song, because his voice is more gritty and funky than Lionel's.
Nb7466, this is Walter "Clyde" Orange on this song. He also sang lead for some other Commodores songs on their albums. It always surprises me when people think that Lionel sang this song, because the vocal doesn't sound anything like him! 🙂
@@gregoryduncan3067 We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Lionel's voice is great, and I love it, but it's not as funky as Walter's, and "Brick House" is a hardcore funk song. It was made for Walter to sing.
