Crazy my mom loved this song so much she told us to play this song at her funeral because she didn’t want anyone to be sad. And years later when she passed we played it at the end towards viewing her her body and everyone went some being sad to happy dancing to the music to say good bye to her. She always wanted people happy even after she was gone.
Blessings to you and your family. Me and my baby sister were jamming. I left home fifty years ago, haven't seen my sister in forty years, she passed away and I think of her every time on this song.
Maaaaaaann, U already knoooow!!!! This is a ANTHEM 4 all the years 2 come 4sho.... I'm a 70's baby and I'm proud 2 have grown up on this, JAMES BROWN, THE ISLEY BROTHERS, BB KING, BOBBY WOMACK & BOBBY BLUE BLAND.L.... JUST 2 NAME A FEW❤💯✊🏾
I'M ROCKING THIS on June 1, 2024 just like I did in 1976. THIS JAM WILL NEVER GROW OLD. I lost my mind! I'd NEVER heard anything like this before, and to tell the truth I STILL haven't. I'm almost 72 now, and this still gets my body rockin'. Funkadelic and UNCLE JAM... I tell the youngsters all the time..."You had to BE there"....lol. LOVE IT FOREVER. I STILL GOT IT...
This is 1 of the best song that was ever made!!!! Will listen to this until the day I leave this earth, heavy rotation in my vehicles anytime I drive a long trip!
Hearing this takes me back to my youth when I saw him land the Mothership in Atlanta. You truly haven't been to a concert until you've been to a Parliament/Funkadelic concert. George Clinton... The most sampled man in Hip Hop history!!!
February,25 1980. The night before I went to Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego, I got my funk on . I listened to this song all night. It got me ready. I was 18 years old.I am 62 years old now and it never gets old in fact it gets funkier. The guitar solo is the shit
Dr Dwelle give a prescription for Saturday night of Life involving relaxation for you evening found her laying next to me tonight , I want you know that , that Dr. Dwelle is need of New Freak young Lady that live in the 313 if a freak in need of good looking man with life a 🏠 house and life thant work out good Holla @ Me young lady.
Because none of them play instruments. A majority of our modern artists are just vocalists. Even back then, if you were the headlining star, you still had a band. Music has never been more “produced” than it is now. It’s the reason why Beyoncé needs like 10+ people to write a song.
Come on, this is nonsense, Lil Pump? Kodak Black? Gucci Mane? Justin Bieber? Rich The Kid? They all been out since the 40s and they founded R&B and classic music but when they made classics with Mozart, man Mozart could not keep up and we knew that since 1962
I dont care what people say. For me, those back up female vocal session singers were the polish that really made this song come alive. Another freak of the Weee, Eeèeak ! They were fantastic and the men singing back up as well.
As a white kid growing up in the late 70s in rural Iowa, I played this record one morning as I was getting ready for school. It simply blew me away. BTW I was late for class :-)
These boys have no idea about dancing, 🥃🍻 keeping the rap game tight with the ladies. Their to busy 💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨 at each other because he 👀 at me. Sitting in prison because of a 👀. These young folks are 🤯. Afraid to fight with their 🙌🏼 instead of 💨💨💨💨
I’m 70 years old and love this song. I was going out to my car to get paperwork and a young man about 19 or 20 years was playing this and it brought back a flood of memories from being in the disco dancing.
No matter how bad you feel or depressed you are you put this song on I promise you you will start feeling very happy! Works everytime for me lol😂😂 LONG LIVE THE FUNK!!!
If a meteor was coming to the earth causing an extinction level event and destroying humanity forever...this is the song that should be playing as we take our final collective breath.
I pledge allegiance to the funk of the United States of Funk and to the Funk for which it stands one nation under a groove, indivisible, with rhythm and P-funk for all.
I was a 17 year old white girl when this first came out.. I loved it, couldn't stop playing it, couldn't stop dancing to it, our school dances were hopping when this song came on ! Great memories
I had my first-night party I was in the 8th grade. My older brother was the DJ he was 21 so his friends were there too and it WAS OFF THE HOOK until my mother realized they're was older people there. My father was cool with it but my mother had a fit especially when gum was found on her shaggy carpet and empty liquor bottles in the backyard. It was THE BEST OF TIMES!!! My mom is 94 yrs old now and still mad I never had a night party again. Old friends of mine still talk about that party. I'm 55 yrs old.❤❤❤🤣🤣🤣
I was six years old when this song came out. My older brother and sister used to bump it constantly. They imprinted it in my young brain. A decade later, still unable to get those melodies and all that funk out of my head, I went looking for it in record stores. My sister was so high when she used to bump the record that she couldn't remember what the exact name of the song was. She just called it "The Freak." Well, I went and bought every P-Funk album I could find trying to locate this song, not realizing that Funkadelic albums on Warner Brothers were out of print at that time, and no record stores were carrying them. I finally found a bootleg 12" copy pressed just for DJs, but not before I had bought up all their other music. Listening to all their other records, i became a hardcore fan and started studying all the liner notes and going to all their shows. I probably have a good 50 P-Funk shows under my belt at this point, in all their various iterations: P-Funk All-Stars, Bootsy, Original P, Bernie Worrell and the Woo Worriers, Maceo and Fred... P-Funk is the soundtrack of my life, and their shows have been some of the best memories of my life.
THAT's HILARIOUS!! WE USED TO CALL IT THAT... "...it's a freak!" .....AND SAME HERE - at the time, the only copy I found was on DJ pressed vinyl. What a time.
I was 11 when this was on the radio. My Mom & Stepdad were hardcore fans. We had a full size George Clinton cut out that my Mom won off the radio. My Stepdad would play this record on repeat for hours. I am a child of The P Funk. I'm also a hardcore fan of ParlimentFunkadelic. #PFunk
And to think that when this was in rotation, we use to dance the entire 15 minutes of this song.....................................non stop..........This is so classic..............Parliment/Funkadelic.............the most underrated group ever. People have made careers of this music
That's why u keep it pounding the speakers as u cruise a classic car - me and my hubby we be thumping in a rat rod style low rider - 1980 caprice classic 2 door edition - my hubby don't let nothing play but classic hip hop and funk music - all he does is pop lock as he travels all over
@@hattiegoodsoldier4448 LOL! 👍🎯 That's fantastic reading that you and hubby are enjoying the past as well as the present while building a future together! And cruising in a classic low-rider! I'm in a rice burner but hey....crusin, is crusin! Please continue to love and enjoy each other! God Bless you and your loved ones.
This is a whole vibe. Good music can change the mood of a room in about 4 seconds.....shout out to all the DJ's, MC's, hype men and generally funky people out here. I love ya'll.❤
OMG! Experiencing this at the Loft in NYC back when this was released. No cell phones, nobody posing for selfies or worshipping the DJ. It was tlet the music take you, tear off your clothes and sweat buckets dancing your ass off. Fantastic days they were. The music was off the charts.
I remember the day this aired for the first time on the radio in Saginaw, Michigan. The station was WWWS (W3Soul) and they were jamming all morning, then the deejay announced this new jam from Funkadelic. I was laid back in the driver's seat of a Cadillac and it was right before school was about to come back from summer break. I remember coming down the boulevard, cruising at about 20 miles per hour with a 40-Oz of Miller beer between my thighs when this song dropped. Just that intro alone almost made me wrap that Caddy around a telephone pole. Mannnnnnnn, I was so hyped that I couldn't sit still. I had to pull over in a convenience store parking lot to listen to the rest of this amazing groove. That was August of 1979 and on that day, this became my favorite song and still remains my favorite song even now. The brilliance of George Clinton's creativity, Junie Morrison's musicality, Michael Hampton's smoking hot guitar solo and Phillippe Wynne's ad-libs just made this an astronomical HIT! But here's a little something that many of you may have not known: If you've heard the song as many times as I have, you realize that the real star of this song is the drums. That beat was insane (especially at the intro), but did you know that the drummer for this song was actually Bootsy Collins? Yep, it's true. Long live the Funk.
Yes sir! How about that African Cuica? aka The Monkey Drum. This entire track is exquisite and introduced me to a new instrument. Just a masterpiece of musicality! NOBODY does it better.
@@juliansevin9109 Yep, in addition to being THEE FUNKIEST BASS PLAYER ON THE PLANET, Bootsy is a singer and drummer and he also played drums on "One Nation Under A Groove" in 1978. Funny thing is that even on some of the old MoTown records, people like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder played drums on other artists records. Just one of those little known facts that'll blow your afro back.
"Could this be me? Immersed in funk so deep?" What an absolute classic this is! A 15-minute odyssey of musical and lyrical excellence. George Clinton should get a Lifetime Achievement Award for his awesome body of original concepts and arrangements.
I knew I would find the answer to my question somewhere in the comments 😂…..I keep thinking 🤔 that latter solo part sounds like the guy from the Spinners and “ta da” I was correct….Philippe Wynne thanks 🤗
Goddamn masterpiece! It is an esteemed privilege to be able to witness mankind at its creative heights as demonstrated through this extraordinary example of Black Excellence. I feel anointed!
Hello” ,,,,was 17, 18yrs old in high School in Fay nc, to be exact Reid Ross high school….. now 63,Hot damn gotta love then , gotta” love it now!! Classic to infinity
I don't have to imagine. I can remember: Fall of 1979. Chicago. North Side. Seventeen years old, starting my first semester at North Park College on a Pell Grant. Taking the El and a bus back and forth every day. Heard this jam on WBMX and was immediately obsessed and enthralled; it made my heart soar. Bought the album as soon as I heard it existed (I was a P Funk Disciple from the time I was fourteen). No personal stereos yet, so I just had to listen to this jam on my radio and record player every chance I had, and let my brain remember every detail and part, focusing on the drum one time, the piano the next time, the backup singers the time after that, and replay it in my head whenever I could. That was the relationship to music you had to have in those days. You got to know a song deep in your bones. And now every time I listen to this, I can feel the chill of a Chicago winter approaching, hear the shriek and clatter of a rusty El train rounding a bend, see the gray back porches of North Side three-flats under a wet gray sky, taste the cheddarburger and fries from the Greek fast food stand down Foster Ave. from North Park, read the Puerto Rican gang graffiti etched into a plexiglass bus window, breathe in the fragrance of rain-soaked concrete and brick, and once again experience just how much this music meant to my adolescent self.
I heard the shortened version on V-103 in Atlanta while visiting my cousins. Blew me away. I heard the long version when I got back to Ohio and about lost my mind, lol!
@@josefkay5013that’s an interesting observation about how deep the relationship with music became, when it was essentially the only form of entertainment available
@@roddydykes7053 Well, there were movies (at the movie theater--VCRs weren't common yet), and TV (with about 7 available channels). And books and magazines, of course. But Americans didn't spend nearly as large a percentage of their income on entertainment as they do now, and spent far less time absorbed by media. They just couldn't. But those limitations made the experiences more precious. You spent more time REMEMBERING them, replaying them in your mind, precisely because you couldn't just access them at will, whenever and wherever you might choose. This gave things like movies and TV shows and recorded music an enormous mythic dimension they lack now.
I was only in kindergarten when this tune came out. I have to admit I was more familiar with lick sampled from the intro and used in the rap song ME, Myself and I by De LA Soul.
And not just in this one song! James Brown's music has been incorporated into an ENDLESS number of hip-hop and funk jams. If James were ever properly paid he woulda been a bilionaire!
Gotta b 1 of da longest baddast funk tunes ever done masterpiece ,way back n da day i had dis on 8 track when it first came out dis is 1 of my all time favorites 😊👍
I was a year old in 1979 when this song was out, I remember my parents playing this record and me bouncing up and down in my playpen. I felt this deep in my soul! 3 years later (1982) I would get this same feeling again once I heard my Aunt Jackie playing Prince & The Revolution album 1999!!! True story! I’m 45 today (2023) and this still get in my soul!
@@72vince27Yes! All true facts, it’s certain things I can still remember like my yellow and white playpen and I vaguely remember my parents having my older sister and I a double birthday party (we both share the same birth month) and someone holding me over a birthday cake with them glowing candles and I remember trying to take the party hat off and the rubber string kept popping under my chin and neck. That hurt! 😂
