Why does everybody always assume that because you are a big family in the music business, that you are trying to be like the Jacksons. Trust me when I say they were other family singers than just the Jacksons, luv them all!!
Sylvers had it rough. Their father abandoned them. They had to live in Watts; They all slept in one room. Olympia was kidnapped, shot up with drugs; they were going to kill her, but she got away. She was never the same. Boogie Fever got them out of that hell hole. Whenever I hear this song, I remember this.
I just cant believe their father would want to leave a beautiful wife and children.Its amazing.Both he and his wife were college educated ppl.I heard he was hanging out with Ike Turner ( need I say more) and abandoned his family.If he was still around they would probably get the proper management and be musical icons equal to the J5.
Yeah I saw that segment on unsung about them. I know exactly what housing project they was living in. It's called Nickerson gardens. Or should I say the (Knicks) when I lived in California I had a co-worker that we helped her get out of there and she moved into an apartment where I live in Long Beach, those projects and Jordan Downs. You don't even mess with them
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As much as I looooved the Jackson 5 I would NEVER bash They Sylvers they are too fine cute and talented. If things had been different with their managment and record label its no telling how much more successful they could have been.
The Sylvers were a classical R&B old school group and their classics were so phenomenal. Little Brother Foster Sylvers man so talented. High School Dance in 76 my favourite classic of theirs. RIP Brother Edmund Sylvers
Some people don't know music, because they were so different from the Jackson 5 but people continue to compare them. Both groups are unique & have there own style. Now Foster & Michael sound alike, but the rest of the group of The Sylvers have a totally different sound nothing like The Jackson 5. However, both groups are different, with different style & different music!!
Thank you! To this day I see people calling them the bootleg Jackson 5. I had to check a dude once for saying that. Anytime I saw The Sylvers, I never thought The Jackson 5 at all. I just thought they were a bunch of talented and nice looking people. I enjoy their music from the first album on.
I agree !! a 100% im 19 years old, I wasn't born at that time to experience the BETTER music now a days it's just disgusting Chris brown , Beyoncé etc people always call me an old soul because I like music from my father's time. I love them they are WAY moreeeee talented than the Jacksons they have harmony and that is something the Jacksons can't compete with . my parents are sooo lucky to experience such FANTASTIC MUSIC!!!.
plus the Sylvers sisters were part of the group unlike the Jacksons they did some stuff together on their show and TV specials with the sisters but the sisters were not apart of the group and none of the Jackson sisters can't touch the Sylversr sister as far as singing and vocals go maybe Janet but the Sylvers harmonies are impeccable
Great looking family, especially the girls, Angie, Pat, and I had never heard Charmaine speak before this video, sexy voice, this talented Klan had it going on, R.I.P. Edmund and Momma Shirley...
@@lorraineburgess4802 Sure, I didn't forget her, I was just mentioning the sisters in this particular video. Olympia is the oldest of the four sisters...
Great singers! They sure didn't need any fire-crackers, dry-ice smoke, not even one single gimmick. Also, they respected their audience and actually dressed with so much class. Love them! So heart-warming to see they got out of that snake-pit. This generation today has gone mad! They can't take the heat so they turn to drugs.
There were a lot of family groups back then who were talented and I loved them all from the Sylvers, J5, Sister Sledge, Pointer Sisters, Osmonds etc. They all had some jams. Unfortunately through bad management the Sylvers didn't reach the status of the Jacksons but all 8 of them were still on point with their sound and their steps.
The Jackson 5 and The Sylvers my favorite two family groups I love them both made no difference between one of the two those were wonderful times back in the day seeing those two groups
The Sylvers are still amazing to listen to...they were able to do a song like this but also things like 'Fools Paradise', 'The Roulette Wheel Of Love', 'Free Style', 'Come Back Lover Come Back' and 'Let My Love Shine In'. I could go on but I will just say they were too young to be so talented and diverse.
I am consciously see the Sylvers for first time and was baby when they singing in 1973. Since I was so I couldn't actually seeing or hearing them, but I do remember seeing the Jackson 5 in 1975 or 1976? Anyhow, the Sylvers we're awesome!
I never thought "they sounded just like the Jacksons." They always had a sound all their own. It seems like, at this time, there was just room for two family groups: The Jacksons, and the Osmonds. Both families had hit albums, and hit TV shows.
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They did all of the Shows, this Show, American Bandstand and The Midnight Special. I'm not sure if they did any shows in the UK but if they did, it would probably be Top Of The Pops (UK) and TopPop (France). Their downfall was just as heartbreaking as The Jets.
The parents and some of the kids (before most of them where born) where on the Grocho Marc's. You bet your life game show from the late 50s ... they are so cute and sweet family then.
If I were running the music industry back then I would've developed a friendly rivalry between Edmund and Michael. Edmund would've been on The Girl Is Mine and Say, Say, Say track, with the approval of McCartney.
When this song came out and I heard it on the radio for the first time I thought this was by the Jacksons because at the time I personally didn't know who The Sylvers were
I like the Soul Train version of this song better than the Midnight Special version (1976). The video quality of the Midnight Special is better, but this one has the horns and the overall "feel" that the official album song has.
@PrincezzKay KeNyEtTa, there is a interview online that Foster Sylvers did with an independent journalist and he said that he sat down and had a conversation with Dick Clark before he passed away and Mr. Clark told him the powers that be in the music industry sabotaged the Sylvers as a group so that the Jackson 5 wouldn't have them as competition and knock them out of their spot at Motown. There was enough room for both groups to be successful and have flourishing careers in the music industry. Music Industry bullshiggity..... I remember the Sylvers from the movie "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" they came out on the basketball court singing the theme song in the fish box....
@SyrenniaLestrange Oh yea,i know that...that's basically what i said in my post...if you read it again...i did write that" they were trying to be those other people...oh yea the sylvers" meaning they were being "those people" meaning the Slyvers. I know they were not trying to be the Jacksons, but they were themselves.
@SyrenniaLestrange But i'm glad you are a fan as well...if you did not already liked the sylvers offical page on facebook, you should go check it out...the family actually runs that page....oh yea...good day to you too... us sylvers fans are a special type of group.
I am definitely in that group and ain't nobody comparing the Jacksons and them they both was very talented but they didn't have the right management I always been a fans of the Jacksons but to me if they would have the right management they had more Talent than the Jackson all of them to sing and write their own music but I'm so proud of both of them but they need to get more recognition than what they did they need to get their own
Was it coincidence that the Sylvers sound like the Jacksons or was there more to this or somthing we don't know???? I always have an still do think the Sylvers ar an awsome group!!!!
zolly b your right. Sorry but the Osmonds or the Partidge fam couldnt rong out the bad dancers luke rhevSylvers did and boogie fever...thet still play it and the 20 something's love it .thanx solvers you still rock the ceiling.
@@jodysmith7934 they had they same manager. But I don’t think they sound that much alike. The sisters were NOT part of the J5. Edmund kind of sounded like MJ but a much deeper voice.
@SyrenniaLestrange oh yea..if you are still not a believer, i'm pretty sure you can find my comments on many other sylvers's videos on youtube when i actually stated that i dont know why so many people compare the J5 and the sylvers since they were so different, or maybe posts about how rickey is sexy or how foster is a cutie pie or how charmaine be killing them moves or how james got the cuttest dimples, or how leon is the man, and how Olan and pat are beautiful, or how edmund cracks me up.
