Don’t know why it matters that you’re white, lol. We are just people man. Black, white, we are all just humans . Race is a construct. There’s different cultures, but we are one race , humans. Love from North America to Ireland . Hope things are well🫶🏾
Yesssssss 💯 I remember watching the midnight special with a bunch of hippies in Wilton CT in 1974 I was a little black kid I didn't know that this group put out kick 🦵🦶 ass jam wow 😲😳
We’ve been hijacked by a mind virus that’s why. Division is being perpetrated to control the masses. Pernicious actors in prominent positions. One love bro.
I'm 66 and White. I Pooh-poohed this back in the day, along with anything else that wasn't The Who. Now I'm getting a realization of just how good the music was back during my youth, many gems passed by.
Funny you would make this comment. Back then, I'll be 65 next month, I would listen to this along with Parliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Mandrill, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix Jeff Beck and believe it or not; I even had Lynerd Skynerd's Pronounced in my collection!
Today's music can't touch even 10% of what this music was. We've lost a huge part of American culture once the Internet came around. Makes me so sad. Remember black people who weren't rappers? Such a good time to be alive.
I think its because tech advanced alot around then. Like people are nostalgic for the good ol' days of hacking (around the 80's) or the space race. It wasn't the "pinnacle", but sure as f*ck it was fun to see people like Wendy Garcia doing tech advances in music or just playing like Commodores and such.
You can’t call yourself a music fan if you can’t appreciate the level of awesome here. Regardless of your favourite genre, this one will get you moving.
This was a time when musical groups played musical instruments and created really terrific melodies. The Commodores were very talented musicians and had many hits. Unlike today's mediocre, untalented singers, and groups.
@@stevencoardvenice I'm not sure what you mean and I don't think this is the right term here ...anyways, it's just not as captivating and groovy as other Disco Funk, maybe I prefer the stuff that came a bit later. Oh and btw, you totally could've not been a douchebag if you hadn't posted that reply! Sorry, couldn't let you off without that ; )
Dimefan91 You're looking at it the wrong way. I look at old girlfriends on facebook that I thought looked good in those days and I'm going, what was I thinking? BUT, in those days they looked good, I looked decent, we liked the way we dressed and we thought we were cool and we had a blast. Personally, I think EVERYTHING was better than and absolutely the music was better.
Dimefan91 It can look kind of silly now, but truth be told, I appreciate how bands from that era ('74-'80) wrote and played great songs, bothered with costumes, dance steps, and showed a lot of love and creative spirit. When you compare that to the average 'artist' these days, with sagging pants, t-shirts and baseball caps, cussing and mumbling and barking, those 70's performers begin to look real admirable!
Lionel Richie was perhaps the main songwriter for the Commodores and he was great at it, but Milan Williams is responsible for writing this funky tune here...RIP, Bro!! 👍🏾
Its the year -014T and we are excited about this new concept called mass we hear it introduces a whole new dimension of possibilities especially in this thing you are going to call music, sending psychic vibes from the primordial hive mind -Xzorp342
I think I was like 12 and Im 56 now...I truly say the 70s was a epic decade for music. Havent been a decade like that decade in writing and performing the songs...true bands that played the instruments
I was 16 and I loved this song also much! I saw Lionel Ritchie with Mariah Carey in concert in Seattle a few years ago, it was Amazing! My favorite Commodore song is Zoom.
I was 12. My cousins had the 45. We used jam that tune all day. Around the same time as William Devon- Be thankful for what you Got. Stairway to Heaven and Rock The Boat (Hughes Corporation).
This song was produced in Muscle Shoals Alabama by the great team of Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey! After hearing this, Motown made Ivey and Woodford the first white Motown members. Unfortunately, in the Mid 80s, Latoya Jackson and her Entourage came to Wishbone to record. One night, something in the studio caught fire and the studio was almost completely destroyed. It was eventually re -built and local artists put it to great use.
Soul Train: The hippest trip in America. On Saturday morning, after cartoons, I stayed glued to the TV to watch American Bandstand, then Soul Train. I probably saw this performance. Thanks for the memories.
This is one of my favorite performances of all time!!! The Commodores were excellent!!! I am a Lionel Ritchie fan and most people don't realize how good of a keyboard player he was before he got huge notoriety as an excellent vocalist!!!
Absolutely funky guys. This was such a great era. I was only a kid when this first came out but I remember soul train and the commodores. That’s for sure. 👍👍
I’m Puerto Rican and i used to make sure I was at home at 12 pm so I could watch Soul Train...my favorite program in the 70...2021 and here I am still watching it on RU-vid...
Hoy soy 50 años viejo, era yo un niño cuando sonaba esta melodía..muchos de los jóvenes en el video que bailan ahí son 70 años viejos...EL INEXORABLE PASO DEL TIEMPO.
We hold the dear Cynthia-of-Brent by her shoulder ... as we utter an Amen by the gravesides of both Soul Train, The Commodores and dear Don-of-Cornelius.
this song was used as the intro to a weekly music video show in New Zealand called 'RTR' aka 'Ready To Roll' back in the 80's. aahh childhood memories... and what a kick-ass tune!!
70s sounds were so free and fun. Marvelous time and music. It was the decade of my childhood. What other time would have an Abba song as the school bell? 😆😆😆
Even decades later, you just might not feel you have got enough, dear Blackstonepros. This is the effect of The Commodores and a lot of artists of The 60s and 70s era.
i'm a white middle age man and i agree with you 100%...and since you're into funk i can suggest you to listen Betty Davis (yes she was the wife of Miles at the end of the 60's)..she's the real deal, the queen of funk, the first before many others..you can't go wrong with her..good vibes to you and keep funkin!
The cool thing about this wonderfully talented music is that it knows no color. I’m a 60 year old white dude and I was raised on Motown, Soul, and Funk. James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone, Commodores, The Jackson 5, and the list goes on. Nothin’ but the best! I have also been a drummer my entire life and there is nothin’ more fun then to be in the pocket playin’ a tasty Funk groove. I can’t dance worth a shit but I guarantee I can make you git up offa dat thang!
If you were my generation you could have gone raving. I'm 40. You would love it. It's all funky techno, house, disco and funk, all night long til 7am while you're wired on MDMA. Listen ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AVChgeZBP4Y.html This track is from 1999
In Brazil, in the city where I'm from (Porto Alegre), it was used by a local radio station as an opening for a 6pm radio show. Takes me back 20 years and I feel like I'm in my dads car again.
Man this is some great Old School Funk! That Rubber Band Bass sound he is getting is awesome! Lionel Ritchie tearing it up on the Keyboard! Great Stuff!
Que sonzeira da zorra,tempo bom que não volta mais ! A dança também fazia parte dos anseios da alma ! Todo mundo alegre sem pensar em nenhuma maldade !
Love the DISCO scene in Boogie Nights when Mark Wahlberg and John C Reilly are dancing to this. The Beastie Boys sampled this song for their track ‘Hey Ladies’.
Impresionante ritmo y fuerza que nos contagiaba allá x los 70 una banda que nos dejó grandes éxitos y los bailabamos juntos con nuestros amigos en la juventud saludos a todos los que vivieron esa época hermosa desde Uruguay
Por fin encontré este tema.... Desde el año 1978 ..lo escuchaba...en aquel entonces era un niño de 12 años y este Temazo era la Cortina Musical del Programa de Televisión , "El Festival de La Una", de Televisión Nacional de Chile......lo busque hasta estos años... Siempre quise saber como se llama y a quien pertenece esta joyita... A mis 54 años.... Puedo descansar en Paz....jajaja.... Saludos desde Santiago de Chile.....
This was the first song I ever heard from The Commodores before I was old enough to even get my learner's permit. I was a fan of late sixties and early seventies rock but this really grabbed my ear. Had the Sly Stone funk down. Loved the percussion (loved drummers who played double bass drums) and the keys. Proud they were from my home state too. I wish that Lionel would have done his solo projects but kept up his presence in the band. I was thrilled when they hit it huge again with Night Shift, but who knows where they'd be if Lionel would have continued on with them?
por fin encontré este temazo...después de 43/años......Recuerdo k era la CORTINA MUSICAL DEL FESTIVAL DE LA UNA DE TVN CHILE.... EN LOS AÑOS 1978/1979....GRACIAS POR EL RECUERDO...
Good music that made you dance even when you didn't feel like it. I am looking at those outfits back r than. We thought they were cool. Well that was my young generation and we had fun. Commodores forever.
Thank you for posting this. I miss growing up in the 70's. Probably the only era when you had multiple Funk/Soul groups performing that were at least 5-10 brothas deep. They would stay together for years too. We'll never see it happen again.
Have just watched boogie nights with my better half(saw this many years ago but still a classic)...this tune is epic, funk beyond funk absolute quality...and yes she still likes Mark wallburg!!
I can remember this hit when it first came out I was working in a discoteque. Dance floor packed up as soon as the first chords went out from speakers... Almost 50years ago...it cannot be...my goodness
funkg I'm afraid that corporations totally dominate the industry now and they've developed a situation where a good, real band will never make it big again. It's just churned out auto-tune garbage. Look at the top 40 in either the USA or UK to see what I mean. It's a fucking tragedy.
I'm hearing ya, but those days are just done. We just have to be happy we were around to experience it firsthand. I grew up in Maine during the '70s, and I thank God my mom was very music-savvy. While my friends' parents were exposing them to the likes of Tammy Wynette, Elvis, and Frank Sinatra, Mum's collection held everything from Maggie Bell to the Who... to some AWESOME funk and soul. I learned to appreciate Sly and the Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, Quincy Jones, The Temptations and yes, early Commodores while still in grade school. Funk is infused in my blood. THAT's the stuff! I'll be grateful to her as long as I live.
I remember hearing this instrumental a long time ago, played on our local radio station here in Asia. It was played as the opening and closing theme for a certain music programme which according to my memory was 'Now Music USA'. It was fantastic and I really liked it. But at that time I never knew that this was by The Commodores because I thought they played only songs and not instrumentals. This was a very outstanding rendition of keyboard artistry indeed!
