We need some more HEART!!! ALONE WHAT ABOUT LOVE? NEVER STRAIGHT ON WHO WILL YOU RUN TO? ALL I WANNA DO IS MAKE LOVE TO YOU GREAT JOB BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only did this version hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100 but this little pale English guy with the crazy fountain of red hair won the Grammy for BEST R & B song, 1989 😊🇬🇧🇺🇸
It's a great cover, and a great song, but it's not better than the original, teddy killed it on the lead vocals and the harmonies were great as well. This was good though
When I first heard this, I had no idea it was a red-headed white boy. That's exactly why you don't judge a book by it's cover. This one goes down deep into your soul....and it's just another example of how music brings us all together as human beings.
I have always loved this song. I love this version. I have to admit that my love for Teddy Pendergrass started with this song when he was with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Teddy would sing this song with such passion. Simply Red did a heartfelt cover.
@@MsWhoDatFan yes I agree Teddy was the best. There has been many covers but Simply Red did do a good cover. There is no one in my book who can compare to Teddys voice. Pure soul!!!!! ✌
Love this song. Jamel, when I was a college teacher, I used to quiz the students during class. If a student took too long to answer, I'd start singing..."If you don't know it by now....you ain't never ever ever gonna know it."
Melvin and the Blue Notes are probably applauding this cover. This is the absolutely the Best cover of all time of this song. Thank You for playing this video.
As a child of the '80s, I heard this cover first after "Holding Back the Years.". I didn't hear the original until the 2000s. Overall, I prefer the cover, as good as the original is.
*This was the only song my kids' father and I danced to at my junior prom. He passed away Thursday in a tragic motorcycle accident. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES💜*
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. The past three years has been nothing but heartache...I lost my fiance, my brother, and my dad. But together, as good-hearted people, we have music that unites us in a very long and hard healing process. I'm not a "religious" man but I've never shunned away from saying a simple prayer for someone who is in need. We do what we can to ease that emptiness and pain from each other.
It's not just a cover...its an experience! And Yes I grew up with the original...But Red is Smooooooth! There's a story about his name, which was just RED...he was introduced at a performance as "simply" Red....the band liked it and kept it as their name!
Mick has the ability to take a cover and turn it into "his" song with his voice , instrumentation, composition. Please look at his cover of another great song You Make Me Feel Brand New, keeping in mind the original version by the Stylistics. The verses sang by two idividuals then joined by the group in the chorus. Mick covered the song wholey by himself and NAILED IT. Love your reactions
Simply Red ,great sound.Clear as a bell.He still has that beautiful voice.I like his video singing" Moneys too tight to mention".Love that bluesy sound.
As someone who grew up to R&B, Motown, 60s, 70s, 80s, and absolutely LOVES Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, I have to say Simply Red took this song and RAN all the way to the finish line with it!!!!!! This version is the better one hands down!!
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes grabbed my 15 year old heart with the original version and when Simply Red reintroduced it in my early 30s, I swooned. 😍
I am soooooooooooo glad I came on to your platform, I get to listen to all those songs that just had you sitting and reminiscing on good and even painful thoughts. Love the way Teddy sung it with Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes and Simply Red. As it is all good to me.
You asked your listeners to sing - I did and the world didn't explode and Mick didn't tell me to shut up - lol ! What a voice - thank you for that, had a great time.
I was surprised to love this cover so much. I'm not always a fan of covers of songs that are as perfect as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' version. I appreciate that he didn't mess with the arrangement and he had enough soul in his voice and presentation to give it the performance it deserves!!
If you love this one, you have to hear “Sunrise.” It samples a Hall & Oates song and it’s one of my favorite songs of all time…so smooth and reminds me of my ex-fiancé.
My step father LOVES Simply Red and subsequently turned me onto them during the 90's. And I had always just assumed up until I watched this video that someone from the band wrote the song but I stand corrected!!
Not only did this cover version out-perform the original by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (who reached #3 in the 🇺🇸), SR hitting #1 with it but SR’s version WON THE GRAMMY FOR BEST R & B song 1989!!! Yep the little pale guy with the crazy fountain of red hair won best R & B!! 😊🇬🇧🇺🇸
God.. when Simply Red came out with this song my jaw dropped. Now almost 30 somewhat years later... still crushes me when I left home and a girl I wanted to be with but she never really got to know me. I think of her sometimes wondering if she'd remember me...
I distinctly remember an MTV segment back in the early 90s that featured Simply Red that left me gasping with laughter. I can’t get my hands in it, but I swear I saw it. A clip from this song was played first. Soulful, intense, articulated beautifully. Then it cut to the lead singer taking to the press at the VMAs, and he says in the broadest North London accent ever: “If those doahn work owt, then sod it. I’ll just go back on the dole.” “Dole” being welfare. Say what you will, the man had a plan.
I am old now and am forever "Holding Back The Years" ... I have loved and will "Never Never Love Again" ... as "It's Only Love" ... even if "You Say You Love Me" now ... It's just a "Mirror" of my past ... but, "Something Got Me Started" ... because "You Make Me Feel So New" ... "You've Got it" ... It's a new "Sunrise", we've talked all night ... It's "The Right Thing" ... Let me create "A Song For You" ... I swear I did not fall "For Your babies ... "If you don't know me by now" ... "Home" and "Stars" ... "So Not Over You!". The End.
God...The man is gifted and his voice reverberates as a dying star with gamma-rays...And, we're still hearing it clearly when the song is done. This musician has the ability to crush through all the defenses of the soul to reach right in and make it dance with the mood and emotions some are not even aware are there. This calibre of art is a prayer or a weapon and I'm not exactly certain which one.
The first time i heard this song it was the cover by simply red but then i stumbled upon the original and cant go back now. Theres something even more genuine and powerful about the original.
While I like this version. I personally prefer Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass singing. There is just something about Teddy's voice that draws me in and makes this song come to life for me, there is a level of pain in Teddy's voice that makes it seem more personal to me. While this is a good cover, to me its just a cover, not something I would or have listened to over and over again. As a matter of fact it's only because I like your reactions that I listened to this version of the song after so many years. When I'm the mood to listen to this song and I play this song a lot, I listen to the original.
@@MARTIN-bd7gm That's your opinion of which you are entitled. However, your opinion does not invalidate mine. Music is about feeling not fact. And you saying this is the best version doesn't actually mean anything to me because it does not and will not change my opinion which is that I prefer to hear Teddy Pendergrass. Have a blessed day.
He is totally amazing. He is so good, I get very emotional in a good way. If you loved this, you gotta check out his cover of You make me feel brand new. He totally killed it.
