Rick James - Ebony Eyes (Stereo) ft. Smokey Robinson 

Me lol

Me too!!!

😊I am.

Yes I am!!

🤚🏽 love this song forever ❤

Stupid video 😂

Sang his soul out!!!!!

eu

Yes beautiful ❤️🕊️❤️🕊️❤️

Eu

Aqui

Sedenir Freitas, AQUI 😍👏 vim após Trouble, Lindsay.

This joint has to be top 10 all time ballads..

He killed this!!

Laid it out !!

His voice does get lost in all the things he's done. What I didn't know is he had a acting role in the movie Life with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. I've seen that movie several times and didn't even recognize him. Just type Rick James in Life to check it out for yourself.

He's known for that also. He was a super Producer for Motown.

INCREDIBLE! The don't make voices that powerful anymore.

He sings like an Opera singer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No!!!! They Don't

That's because people are afraid to fall in love.

Michael Turman people are Afraid to master their Craft and love themselves who cares if you sound ugly , you’re more than likely Trying to sing like someone else when you’re singing , try actually listening to how your voice work and see how dope you are at it 😎 but sadly as the years go on our Youth are becoming Drained , that’s why it’s so different because our music aren’t receiving vibes like this or ENERGY like this , so that’s why you just gotta keep coming back to Classics , I swear it charges up yo Spirit

Yea you're right, it was amazing how they were able to make it work but then again it is Rick James and Smokey Robinson, 2 geniuses and extremely talented writers as well as artists.

Rick was gonna do it with Clarence Carter; but he wanted to fly the plane and Rick said next time when the weather is better.....

Simplesmente top

​@@Richard-wp4qm? where did you hear that at??

He had a Broadway/Operatic tone. Coulda done musicals

No we don't!!! HE HADE GREAT VOICE!!!

You're late for the party many of us knew Rick James was the shit man..

RIGHT NOW BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never seen the video...and im 46. This song took over DETROIT IN 1982.

#SilkSonic

@@brandnewcole tf?

Hahaha… indeed!

True Story Legendary

All they have to do is listen 👂

So true they will never know.

​@@junitobenitez414exacto 😢 nunca

RICK AIN'T IN?!?

Truth!

And the bassline for thriller practically

RICK NEED PPL TO PUSH FOR THIS TO BE IN THE ROCK OF HALL OF FAME

Wait you mean to tell me he’s not in it already? You’re joking right??

@Xavier Gonzalez Amen to that

agreed.

Who didn't know that Rick James's voice was fire? Cause most of us been knowing. 😊

@@misslynlynnc5002 : Some of us didn't know because in his most popular tunes his fine vocals were hidden by heavy beats and talk-singing.

Oh YES we’ve known for many years! James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. Aka, Rick James, Genius!❤

Yes

3 31 2024

Me

Absolutely I am ❤

😉🎵🎶🎵📀

Sho right!

big time!

I remember seeing the video I was in high school

​@@dellmiller5082 a NM 4

More now and still does!

Classic music old school

Show in Brazil , congratulation !!!

Present and accounted for ma'am! LOL!

Me!!!

I'm here 6/5/ 2020

mas música é arte

Yes

@@italocampos9344 o cara quer falar bonito sem ter costume, ai sai essas pérolas kkk

E das mais belas!!!! 🎤❤️

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Yes the hell he was

Smokey too

Smokey too

Genius

I gree with you ...he was a genius ...🎼🎶🎵👍

Exactly he was a Genius 💗💗💗

👍🫂

Yes he was

Rick James was very talented wrote produce arrange compose all his music

@@thepromiseman7745 yes was great. too bad he was a low life in reality

His voice is great! He sounds like him Opera singer!

Yeah rick was the man and he was making alot of noise in the music business with his funk even before prince but prince became that man afterwards

That's right tiches yea

Good post!🙂 Well said.

Smokey Robinson is my secret husband

I love him always and forever

Carinha passa $1

Mano esses cara ai de cima nunca viu Chris?

@@claudiasouzz aposto que não, só pelo nível acho que nem ouviram falar.

"pudia dar uma bulinada nela neguinho tem qui tentar" kkkkkk

@@insubmissoredpillado5593 mds gnt vcs nunca assistiram *"TODO MUNDO ODEIA O CHRIS"* na vida??? 😑😑😑 essa frase é em referência a série

Tamiko Walker Sing, write, compose, organize! A brilliant man of many talents!!! Legendary!!!✌️

Tamiko Walker This is one of the all time greatest love ballots especially for that special woman in any man's life!

Ay layke yuo. Maylover. Go greyze

right. in mary jane i didnt realise but when i first heard him hold his own with smokey on this track i was like damn he good

smokey was so calm and beautiful sounding as always then rick brings that classic build up

Still listening in 2023❤

Yeah this song brings good emotional tears thinking about how much I love my girl

Emotional is a true understatement!! I’m a Guy and this Diamond Cut “ ALWAYS BREAKS ME UP AND BUILDS ME UP AGAIN”!!

No capppp

Just discovered it today, and I’m hooked

Fr tho!

One if my favorite songs of all times

@@anthonyjsmithsmith9275 God I💗💗💗💗 Love This Song

Shit gave me chills

They put it in on that song, GREAT

I wouldn’t say reduced I would say added to his legacy

2022

@@sergiojuarez584 Exactly. For my generation, his appearance on Dave's show made him relevant again. Now that I'm older, I go back and study his music. But "I'm Rick James bitch!!" will always be apart of my childhood 😂

You Betta say that

I remember when this song came out in the fall of 1983! I was a freshman in high school! That song was in heavy rotation all over urban radio stations!! Then the video came out! Rick James and Smokey Robinson were so Cool!! A very talented Musician, Composer, Arranger, and Producer!! Motown was still pushing out Rick James projects!! Unfortunately after an argument in 1982 according to his former manager Kerry Gordy, with then Motown President Jay Lasker, Motown stopped promoting Rick James's music less and less!! His last successful project was this album "Cold Blooded." "Ebony Eyes" was on that album. Back then Rick James was clean and clear! If he was dabbling in drugs, it surely didn't show in the quality of the music, he was making! Smokey Robinson's melodic tenor voice was smooth as silk!! A perfect combination!! No matter what he did when he was alive...Rick James went down as a musical genius and innovator!! Rest In Peace, James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (February 1, 1948 - August 6, 2004)

Até hoje eu adoro uma peninha 🤣

@@JoaoPaulo-1985 .

😂😂😂

Classic

👍😘

that brought me here

yes ha ! that one halloween episode haha i was waiting for this comment

yesss only reason I'm here 2 bc i just saw episode

u

Lol. That's why I'm here also

you wont see that anymore today lmao what

🙌

Latisha Mitchell okay then Miss Michelle

That's a huge part of why I love this video so much!

Linda Haynes I love Smokey's background, Ooh! Ooh! Ooooohhh! Love that shit!!!!!!

I said the same thing @Papi.pharaoh. These are two Artist Extraordinaire.’ This was real music and Rick James was definitely a talented musical genius as you said, and I agree📣🤎

Beautiful song

The.. play... Son.

Actually, "Ebony Eyes" is from 1983, the "Cold Blooded" album.

Oh my god you're beautiful girl

Capanema Pará Brasil 🤗🎧🍫

Your name is "eyes" ?

@@paulwilson9281 Ebony ou "inteligente"

Very lucky indeed ... 🥰🥰🥰🥰🌹🌹🌹🌹

He had done calmed down a lot...

The media tends to prefabricate things of how a person really is.My take on Rick James is he's a realist and not pretentious.He was always one to say what comes to mind and played by his own rules,yeah alot was self destructive but at the same time he wasn't trying to be no ones puppet.

I definitely believe that.

@@deonnadyson no he hadn’t

@@MaryLou913 no you don’t

Rickjack

I remember when this song came out in the fall of 1983! I was a freshman in high school! That song was in heavy rotation all over urban radio stations!! Then the video came out! Rick James and Smokey Robinson were so Cool!! A very talented Musician, Composer, Arranger, and Producer!! Motown was still pushing out Rick James projects!! Unfortunately after an argument in 1982 according to his former manager Kerry Gordy, with then Motown President Jay Lasker, Motown stopped promoting Rick James's music less and less!! His last successful project was this album "Cold Blooded." "Ebony Eyes" was on that album. Back then Rick James was clean and clear! If he was dabbling in drugs, it surely didn't show in the quality of the music, he was making! Smokey Robinson's melodic tenor voice was smooth as silk!! A perfect combination!! No matter what he did when he was alive...Rick James went down as a musical genius and innovator!! Rest In Peace, James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (February 1, 1948 - August 6, 2004)

Amo essa música 😍😍

Fui muito feliz ao som dessa música

😢😢😢😢😢

Girl I know u know😢❤I still ❤him.

​@@loriapete5974Me too ✋🏾 😢

🤣🤣🤣

💯😆

Del S. Don't forget the natural berrys and juices that the islands possess. Lol.

Lmao...true

😆😆😆😆😆

Russell Adams ola

❤✌

That was very sexy! He was one bad boy! Luv him!

I'm obsessed with that hair flip!

ok

loved this comment

Yo, thanks for pointing that out, too pimpin'

have you heard Rick James sing Happy, or Dream Maker, or Hollywood? smoove as hell.

Yes Happy is one of my favorite songs

dream maker

+carlita smith u.r.the song person,k.

yes it sure is

DEUS TE AMA TAMBÉM

Yeah bra. The contrast of the two styles is awesome. Beautiful song in any era. Timeless...

Abousoluty! One of my favorite songs of all times.

The singing is exquisite. The song--simply superb.

Dia Akin YES, YES, & more YES!!!!!🙌🏾❤️

It does not get much better than this. Adored Rick James but Smokey......ummmm

Dia Akin yes it is,I call it the anthem for black women,I was so proud every time this song played,I felt as if they were singing to me....✌💟

😍🙋🏾‍♀️

Absolutely!

🙌🏾❤️

Yes Indeed AMEN

HE IS AMONGT THE SOUTHERN BLACKS

philip wilkins Exactly!

philip wilkins yes indeed you are so damn right.

philip wilkins 100 no 200% TRUE!!!

Honest and worth living

Dr.Smokey represented too,💎

Me

ME FRIDAY 5/21/2020

daily!

Ssshit me lol Now let's goooo....waaaaay...back....back into time😎🔥👊

Me!🇧🇷

❤

Vocally, Fire & Desire was a pretty good song for him, but this one blew me away. He holds his own against the velvet voice of Smokey. Too bad they never sung together again.

Elder Rondy Fleming HEY MR. FLEMING YOU'RE SO RIGHT THEY JAM THIS SONG!!!

He sung the hell out of fire and desire. No one today cn touch lady teena marie

He sounds like an opera singer man. He can hold his hard notes for a nice period of time

You need to listen to island lady by Rick James,let me know how you like it

Rick and Teena also

This song was never underrated

It’s a black classic!!!!

@@shannz9754 The comment was real, and true. Should not just have been a black classic. #Underrated

Agreeddddddd underrated 😒

@@miajackson41 o yeah from that perspective I see what you mean yeah you are absolutely right

Hey well at least you didn't leave this earth without having the pleasure to listen to Rick James and Smokey Robinson on a track together these two men were the greatest writers of all time they have written so many songs for people u wouldn't believe , don't be ashamed be grateful and go listen to Rick James and Teena Marie song called fire and desirer you gonna love it if you hadn't already heard it

😦

😳

I'm glad you heard this song. It's very beautiful 🥲🥲.

Wowww..what about "Fire and Desire" with Tina Marie?? The two of them set the mood...

❤ love this kind of music straight to my soul ❤

Coisas que só a mais pura arte é capaz

É para toda a eternidade

Man he killed this song 🔥

you are so right

xed I was 11 when this song came out and boy oh boy do I.miss that era of music!!!!

Damn how time has flown by.

YES INDEED AMEN!

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como está sua gota?

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Julius Rock kkkkkkkkkkkk

Julius Rock ahhgh

Present! This was a fantastic video of our culture, music, gifts and dreams. To name a few.

2024

2024!

2024 betchu didn’t know that lol

@@gracehopelove that devil can't romp wid mi!

Dj Calle

What a great duet. Love this. RIp Rick James. You go Smokey R.

Forgot how great a SANGER Rick James was. Top Ten when it comes to duets for me.🎤🎤🎶🎶🎵🎵

Angela Yeah Rick's great... But do.nt forget Smokey,...He.s a Musical GIANT...

@@denniswalker4820 I agree, but forgot how good of a singer #RickJames was.

Eu🇧🇷

Rio de janeiro

Escuto sempre pra matar saudades dos anos 80 quando eu era super feliz💖

🙌🏼

Love this song!!!!!!

PREACH!

I concur. Black Love is the only kind of love really worth having.

You definitely hit the nail on the head. Young folks today know nothing about this...

Yes, indeed..

victoria rook Hater. 🙂

Viraram caso

AMEN💚💙

That he was

Smokey are better , i'm fan him😁

Was he?

Not underrated

He was never underrated

From the head to the toes!!!!

Sorry for urrr lost🎉