when i was in high school in 1977, i was the only mexican in an all black members band i played the trumpet and we played this song .this started my music career now i'm retired from music but everytime i hear this song it takes me back to that very year it was great.hell i wish i could remember their names and thank them..
THESE GIRLS WERE SO SMOOTH WITH IT THIS SONG IS THE SHIT!!!!!!! im glad to have found it as an adult to really appricate the Grandness tht was the Emotions..now get down,,,
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I'm gonna go play 'Flowers' and get away from all this negativity. I almost didn't enjoy one of my favorite songs! What is a Root? Guess I'm NOT listening!
There is one line that to me exemplifies PROSODY - the artful melding of words and music: "You can't can't take love and just walk away/with the guilt that you carry/ you'll be back someday." I love that phrasing.
@HIPHOPMAN97 AGREED. 13 people on this page are either fans of the black eyed peas, outcast, beyonce, or rihanna...( I don't even BOTHER capitalizing their names).
@pstanberg Thank you for agreeing with me. I like Beyonce and Rihanna also. I don't know how people can go against the Emotions. I like the Three Degrees and Diana Ross also. It is very good old school music. I like soul music.
My MOM used to Play this RECORD OUT!!! Yes RECORD! We use to dance to this song for hours. loved the applause at the end!!! HOLLYWOOD! HHHAAAAAA. That's REAL MUSIC.
this is what makes me the FeMoGuL i am today.....keeping it real..i was doing the popcorn to this and the slide then i would i would break on down to the rock and drop it low when the chorus came.......thanks emotions $ouL$i$ta$
I'll forgive those 11 people who missed the like button. Apparently, they hadn't had their breakfast yet and had the shakes when they hit the "dislike" button.
RIGHTEOUS FUNK!!! FROM WANDA, SHIELA & JANETTE HUTCHINSON WIT EWF PLAYIN DA MUSIC, HOW COULD WE LOSE! OUR LOVE, THE EMOTIONS ARE MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FEMALE GROUP!!! THANK YOU LORD!!! FOR MY HOLY SISTERS!!! PEACE&LOVE!!! CMF-TRIBE!!!
As sampled by 2 Bad Mice on the '92 Hardcore classic 'Hold It Down' and at least one more hardcore track sample the same bit? - although I can't think who it was now
@hork111: How right you are.....and it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is for 'The Uniformed' to label things according to the way they see or understand it and then the rest of us are expected to fit into that mold or way of looking at things. Lol.....you're not off the mark.
I love the Emotions, EWF, Motown, Philly International, Stax, and "real music" like everyone else. But to say that hip hop is just pushing a button and that's it is misinformed. There are songs that are minimalist in hip hop, but you can say that about HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of songs before hip hop formed and afterwards. But there is just as much "FULL" music in rap as their is in any other genre. Not to mention lots of songs with loops and samples have real music in it.
What a great song. Anyone in Chicago who remembers The Bistro almost always heard this song immediately after The Undisputed Truth's "You Plus Me." The late great resident dj Lou Divito spun legendary dance sets that I remember to this day. Such great times!
There ARE good artists out there. You folks just are not supporting them, apparently because you don't know who they are. "Things" are not the same, #1 Radio is no longer your source for new music (the Internet is) #2 Record labels have absolutely no damned idea what they're doing.
Listen to artists on Hidden Beach Media (they have a page here)
@Shoney38 Word... You gettin that Goapele in too? We (the fans) are not doing a good enough job of supporting them. The only thing these radio idiots and record people respond to is youtube hits and cdbaby.com sales etc etc.
You know Angie Stone was in the Sequence Crew (Sugarhill Records), right?
@WJLH You're absolutely right. Amel gets moderate exposure and may be the best known name out of this group. I really feel if radio would spend TWO WEEKS just playing these artists twice a year the whole game would change. There is an entire generation of people under 30 or so that wouldn't know a melody if it shot them and the butt with a .45 Peace
@WJLH Yes -I agree with everything you just said...to add to your list: LeNora Jaye :-), Angela Johnson, Anthony David, Yahzarah, Heston, Avery Sunshine....we're here & we're doing our best to uphold the tradition of quality soul music....
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO Some of todays artists you name are indeed worth listening to. However, there is no comparison to the many, past artists of the 60's, 70's, and 80's that wrote, composed melodies, and played many of the musical instruments in their albums. I do like the artists that you mentioned though, and it is important that we support and listen to their music.
Umm... I'm pretty sure Hamilton and Scott are having no problem being recognized as household names, selling records, tickets to live shows and getting radio play. You're right though, they're making excellent music.
Tomorrow, go ask 10, 22 year olds who Jill Scott is they will know EXACTLY who you're talking about, then turn around and ask them who 'Liv Warfield is and prepare for the empty stare. Peace.
@GetThisThingCrunk Back when you had to be a musical genius to get a sniff at a record deal. I can't think of one act, group or individual that strikes me as a musical genius on the charts these days.
You might want to do a little research. Maurice White, prodigy. Larry Blackmon, prodigy. Peter Frampton, prodigy. Eric Clapton, prodigy. Marvin Gaye, prodigy. David Paich, prodigy. I could go on like this from genre to genre rattling off multi-instrumentalists that shaped the 60's 70's and 80's!
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO Yes there is good music out there. What you may be overlooking is that people tie music to certain milestones of their lives. Music is evocative, it resides in the emotional sectors of our brains. The music of today speaks to a younger demographic. We of the 70's generation don't understand this black infighting. This denigration of black women, black men calling each other bitches, this selling poison to black kids. I'm an old rooster but I will always love my black people.
@hork111 Maybe you didn't check... I'm 44. I can go as far back with this music as you like. Are you familiar with the artists that I cited? None of them are 'Gangsta Rappers'. They'd be right at home opening for Isaac Hayes or Donny Hathaway at a live show.
Hip Hop (1985-2000) "worked" because the music sample were some of the best musicians of the 20th Century. Lyrically I just tolerated that mess for the most part. People need to differentiate between entertainment and reality.
All respect, but I think many miss the mark as towhat happened to black music. Read "The Destruction Of Black Music by Lee Atwater". Just Google it and read the short treatise, very enlightening.
This was my jaaaaaammm! I was 10 when this dropped and forever cemented The Emotions as my favorite girl group of all time. They had the sickest harmonies ever!
@5x2dip B Angie B did a good remake, hers was louder and had more of a synthetic instrumentation sound. Nobody did this song like the original, it has to do with feeling, soul, and emotions (get it)? The Hutchinson sisters were some untouchable songbirds in their days with Earth, Wind & Fire. That's why they're considered one of the top female groups of all times. Angie B was good but she's not a legend, she copied the legends song.
Hey, can you still go out, and hear older songs such as this without dancing, rocking, or whatever we're still able to do. I wore my flowers in my hair, stayed sharp, and went to cabarets or parties every weekend. I know I had my share of breaking mens hearts. lol!
i'm 21 years old and i grew up on the emotions because my mom just adored them! I like the Jones girls too.....its funny because i'd rather listen to them than......wait a minute......are there still any all girl groups around???
Oh Somebody bring me to a club with a live band with a funky horn section like we use to have in New Orleans... Freddie's Chandelier was the place to be back in the day!!!! I can see a guy name Charles Perkins dancing right now and my ex behind the bar serving drinks and my late bro-in-law on the door taking the cover charge. Thanks for the memories... Thanks for the posting...
when i feel down, i listen to this song, et voila.. happy again. any sentient being who doesn't, at minimum, shake a tail feather or two, is not sentient at all.
The writer of this song is true poet !!1 Listen to the lyrics !!1 and off course Earth Wind & Fire slamming down in the background !!! . I still think it is a better tune than "the best of my love" just don't tell the ladies that ??!!!
I know I'm a youngin but this is my jam! I'm 22 and I just can't get with the music thats out today! I love old school music, it's what I was raised listening to!
I came out of high school in 76, and music seem to explode everywhere and these lady,s where head of the class. I know EWF had them but when they went on there own it was awsome, they could do fast or slow or even mid-tempo, it was so much fun to dance or just listen. What a great group.
@BlackPride1000 You just have to pay too many people to make this kind of music. That's the way the industry saw & sees it. They'd rather promote limited crap & loose out on the timeless rewards of truly composed & created music. Unless people like U & fans of real music REVOLT, even the best rap music will not be heard. People critique hip-hop conveniently forget that the best hip-hop samples the very best of soul, jazz, blues, and funk. (Part 1)
@BlackPride1000 The reason why you don't hear the best hip-hop AND real R&B today is exactly the same. The ball is ALWAYS in the court of the consumer. Educator your audience, especially the young people, and they'll stop buying crap. Just ask Vanilla Ice and Soldier Boy, they can't sell water in Africa. (Part 2)
lord where did the good music go! all people talk about nowadays is stupid shit!! this is real music and i aint even from this era. Please can we get some real artist thats not stuck on rims hoes and cloths. We need love not material shit. Real artists dont let the industry make them they make the industry. Black people stand up!!!
Oh, this song was so great, but it was really funny when the CHS pep squad played it and the b-ballers would stand and yell out "I play on the basketball team!" instead of the REAL lyrics, "I'll do the best to fulfill." Give it a listen. Classic CHS.
this is the jam! but ya' know?!! i saw b. angie b. sing this live (before i had ever heard her version) and she sang the sh!t out of this song! but it's hard to out-do the originals!
@crazychile128 Yeah. It sounds like Verdine's loose, slightly flatulent style. Also check out that signature slide at 1:53, exactly like the one he did in Getaway.
when i was in high school in 1977, i was the only mexican in an all black members band i played the trumpet and we played this song .this started my music career now i'm retired from music but everytime i hear this song it takes me back to that very year it was great.hell i wish i could remember their names and thank them..
betom62 3 hours ago in playlist old school r&b, rap,slow jams and spanish
THESE GIRLS WERE SO SMOOTH WITH IT THIS SONG IS THE SHIT!!!!!!! im glad to have found it as an adult to really appricate the Grandness tht was the Emotions..now get down,,,
SDeanAnderson1114 2 days ago
Love all three beautiful women...always listened to all their music back in the 70's!!!!Best music EVAH!!!! bet they can still blow!!! LOL!!!
0327babygirl 5 days ago
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MRjimmvinnburr 1 week ago
This still rocks!!
MrPistolMason 2 weeks ago
i just bought a re-edit.... on vinyl, so i bet you dont mean me with you folks.....
MrBillybonka 2 weeks ago
Now............this is real music. They dont and cant make like this anymore!
imsayindoe 2 weeks ago
@imsayindoe thank you Joyce is my grandmother; im only 18 and I couldnt believe this was my grandmother and grandaunts
AndreaM9250 1 week ago
My favorite Emotions cut!!!!!A Fan 4 Life From East St. Louis!!!!!:)
heluvsme11 3 weeks ago
@heluvsme11 thank you joyce is my grandmother
AndreaM9250 1 week ago
@those who tell us what we should listen to or are not listening to...I'll make up my own mind thank you very much. Stop Spamming us.
The Emotions...I dont need anyone to tell me to listen to them. They just rock!
rwarren58 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Those were THE DAYS!!! Best music!!
discoestella77 1 month ago 2
@discoestella77 thank you Joyce is my grandmother;[ thank you for being a fan
AndreaM9250 1 week ago
I'm gonna go play 'Flowers' and get away from all this negativity. I almost didn't enjoy one of my favorite songs! What is a Root? Guess I'm NOT listening!
jimarojfm 1 month ago
Love,love,lovr
MyTonyrobert 1 month ago
Love that song
matthewthefine 1 month ago
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THE BEST, THAT IS ALL YOU CAN SAY
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There is one line that to me exemplifies PROSODY - the artful melding of words and music: "You can't can't take love and just walk away/with the guilt that you carry/ you'll be back someday." I love that phrasing.
hork111 3 months ago
@hork111 So true ! Just like you can't UN-RING a bell,eh ?!
MsSunnysmith 1 week ago
Love the beat. Brings back memories of Studio 54. Their voices, their energy their passion is felt in every word.
prymtymbmw 3 months ago 3
I am saying it is inexplicable if people don't like the Emotions. Best Of My love, Flowers, I Don't Wanna Lose your love. This real soul music.
HIPHOPMAN97 4 months ago 2
@HIPHOPMAN97 AGREED. 13 people on this page are either fans of the black eyed peas, outcast, beyonce, or rihanna...( I don't even BOTHER capitalizing their names).
pstanberg 4 months ago
@pstanberg Thank you for agreeing with me. I like Beyonce and Rihanna also. I don't know how people can go against the Emotions. I like the Three Degrees and Diana Ross also. It is very good old school music. I like soul music.
HIPHOPMAN97 3 months ago
The 70's.... what a great music era!!!
MsNJLove 4 months ago 3
To the people above, less spatting and just enjoy The Emotions. This is just the JAM!
rwarren58 4 months ago
Earth Wind and Fire really get down on the music for this track!
citysims 4 months ago
You got my LOVE
skullcrush08 4 months ago
me and my girl stacey go way back...... remember this one stacey and the black jetta~~~good memories girl only the best......
DianeGuzman67 5 months ago
youngsters don't know about this stuff
armenta65 5 months ago 2
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Brings me back to my high school days! Yep, I'm old.
msosa1960 6 months ago
Brings me back to my high school days! Yep, I'm old.
msosa1960 6 months ago
best song evah!
bebenic 6 months ago
Want to hear The Emotions' new song, LIFE?? Check my station, ynpoetess! You know them as THE EMOTIONS. I know them as MOM & AUNTIES! ;)
ynpoetess 6 months ago
My MOM used to Play this RECORD OUT!!! Yes RECORD! We use to dance to this song for hours. loved the applause at the end!!! HOLLYWOOD! HHHAAAAAA. That's REAL MUSIC.
jaya34ish 6 months ago 8
@jaya34ish yes baby.... they where our Bomb!
SHERETTA123 4 days ago
me da ganas de bailar!
frannnn147 6 months ago
this is what makes me the FeMoGuL i am today.....keeping it real..i was doing the popcorn to this and the slide then i would i would break on down to the rock and drop it low when the chorus came.......thanks emotions $ouL$i$ta$
FeMOGUL 7 months ago
BRING BACK R AND B. Thanks for putting me down with where to go to listen. I got this album!
percy916 7 months ago
this cut was around with the Disco era and was the jam that got you out on the dance floor!
Its also when i was getting into the club scene at 14,15 yrs old.i was a different time then and it was fun!
cavs102000 7 months ago 2
wow listen to that melody line, seriously good writers. (Emotions were great too)
whatigot2say 7 months ago
i wish they still made music like this with live bands. i am sick of the fuck songs these no talent clowns put out
ballsdanglin 7 months ago
I'll forgive those 11 people who missed the like button. Apparently, they hadn't had their breakfast yet and had the shakes when they hit the "dislike" button.
DontGetMeStarte76 7 months ago
i am a fan of the real music and yet i have the voice to sound like any artist even myself and yet noone will give me the start to get it out there.
keesha309 7 months ago
hi im cassandrA AND IM TEN WANNA SAY THAT IN THE FUTURE I WILL BECOME FAMOUS AND HELP THE POOR BYE
antonio19454 7 months ago
THIS IS WHEN BLACK FOLKS USED TO JAM I CANT STOP MOVVVVING DAM NOW MY
FEETS MOVING MAN NOW MY HEADS MOVINGGG MAN I CANT STOP JAM MING SOME ONE STOP THIS JAM !
MrGeorgeda123 7 months ago
During the first chorus, it sounds to me like the vocals go 'I "DOE-NA" lose your love'
neepl8 8 months ago
How much did I used to love to dance to this when it came out? MUCHO
4bawbees 8 months ago
Remines me of Draskos,Dimond Dogs,and Babes,disco clubs in Auckland NZ.
MrTahana28 8 months ago
The Emotions were and still The BEST FEMALE group ever period......
l0wd0wn1 8 months ago
wow my mom was 5 years old when this was out!
luviindream 8 months ago
RIGHTEOUS FUNK!!! FROM WANDA, SHIELA & JANETTE HUTCHINSON WIT EWF PLAYIN DA MUSIC, HOW COULD WE LOSE! OUR LOVE, THE EMOTIONS ARE MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FEMALE GROUP!!! THANK YOU LORD!!! FOR MY HOLY SISTERS!!! PEACE&LOVE!!! CMF-TRIBE!!!
zarchild777 8 months ago
As sampled by 2 Bad Mice on the '92 Hardcore classic 'Hold It Down' and at least one more hardcore track sample the same bit? - although I can't think who it was now
ancientraver19881989 8 months ago
listen to the words, this song is GREAT!!!! definitley i dont wanna lose you love is my favorite, smile is second
11donkeydick 8 months ago
this is what i call fucking classy music
AstroJamProductions 8 months ago
@Smoothpants-U R So Right. Must Be Lil Wiener(wayne) Fans.
1blackmass 9 months ago
If anyone out there has a time machine I wanna go back... and stay there.
mikeypikey23 9 months ago
ｴﾓｰｼｮﾝｽﾞのｿｳﾙ･ﾌｧﾝｷｰﾅﾝﾊﾞｰ“I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOUR LOVE”～GOOD!
blackandtanful 9 months ago
wonderful music
tulsa4life 9 months ago
Another candidate for TV One's "Unsung"
bigrod8975 9 months ago
Timeless classic real singing!!!!!
tkmaw 9 months ago
I love this song, it reminds me a lot of Earth, Wind & Fire...maybe that's why they actually recorded together;
enicoleband1 9 months ago
@hork111: How right you are.....and it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is for 'The Uniformed' to label things according to the way they see or understand it and then the rest of us are expected to fit into that mold or way of looking at things. Lol.....you're not off the mark.
READY4REVELATION 9 months ago
I love the Emotions, EWF, Motown, Philly International, Stax, and "real music" like everyone else. But to say that hip hop is just pushing a button and that's it is misinformed. There are songs that are minimalist in hip hop, but you can say that about HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of songs before hip hop formed and afterwards. But there is just as much "FULL" music in rap as their is in any other genre. Not to mention lots of songs with loops and samples have real music in it.
TerraRyzinglives 9 months ago
shake um up music from tha good days! music that makes u smile!
tulsa4life 10 months ago
THIS SONG RITE HERE, RITE HERE...................BOY BOY BOY!!!!!
HAND ME MY HAIRBRUSH, I CLD SING ALL THREE PARTS. LOL
zbaby01100 10 months ago
@zbaby01100 haha, me too
funkysouldancer1 10 months ago
I hear they still perform.
kmcl11 10 months ago
What a great song. Anyone in Chicago who remembers The Bistro almost always heard this song immediately after The Undisputed Truth's "You Plus Me." The late great resident dj Lou Divito spun legendary dance sets that I remember to this day. Such great times!
dmd5201 10 months ago
There ARE good artists out there. You folks just are not supporting them, apparently because you don't know who they are. "Things" are not the same, #1 Radio is no longer your source for new music (the Internet is) #2 Record labels have absolutely no damned idea what they're doing.
Listen to artists on Hidden Beach Media (they have a page here)
-'Liv Warfield
-Angie Stone
-Kindred/Family Soul
-Raheem DeVaughn
-Kem
-Bilal
-THE ROOTS!
They are there, you're just not LISTENING!
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 10 months ago 33
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO hey don't forget about dwele and angie stone that my shit
Shoney38 9 months ago
@Shoney38 Word... You gettin that Goapele in too? We (the fans) are not doing a good enough job of supporting them. The only thing these radio idiots and record people respond to is youtube hits and cdbaby.com sales etc etc.
You know Angie Stone was in the Sequence Crew (Sugarhill Records), right?
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 9 months ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO - she was also in the 80's group Vertical Hold.
WJLH 8 months ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO - I would also add Adriana Evans, Amel Larrieux, Ledisi, Calvin Richardson, and Goapele...and the list goes on and on.
WJLH 8 months ago 8
@WJLH You're absolutely right. Amel gets moderate exposure and may be the best known name out of this group. I really feel if radio would spend TWO WEEKS just playing these artists twice a year the whole game would change. There is an entire generation of people under 30 or so that wouldn't know a melody if it shot them and the butt with a .45 Peace
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 8 months ago
@WJLH Yes -I agree with everything you just said...to add to your list: LeNora Jaye :-), Angela Johnson, Anthony David, Yahzarah, Heston, Avery Sunshine....we're here & we're doing our best to uphold the tradition of quality soul music....
LeNoraJaye 7 months ago
@WJLH I would also like to add the realest of them all Ms. Jill Scott, who put Hidden Beach on the map!
divvamonroe1 4 weeks ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO Some of todays artists you name are indeed worth listening to. However, there is no comparison to the many, past artists of the 60's, 70's, and 80's that wrote, composed melodies, and played many of the musical instruments in their albums. I do like the artists that you mentioned though, and it is important that we support and listen to their music.
jookinmus 7 months ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO You forgot Anthony Hamilton and Jill Scott!
agapereign 6 months ago
Umm... I'm pretty sure Hamilton and Scott are having no problem being recognized as household names, selling records, tickets to live shows and getting radio play. You're right though, they're making excellent music.
Tomorrow, go ask 10, 22 year olds who Jill Scott is they will know EXACTLY who you're talking about, then turn around and ask them who 'Liv Warfield is and prepare for the empty stare. Peace.
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 6 months ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO since when did record companies care about good music? they care about profits.
GetThisThingCrunk 4 months ago
@GetThisThingCrunk Back when you had to be a musical genius to get a sniff at a record deal. I can't think of one act, group or individual that strikes me as a musical genius on the charts these days.
You might want to do a little research. Maurice White, prodigy. Larry Blackmon, prodigy. Peter Frampton, prodigy. Eric Clapton, prodigy. Marvin Gaye, prodigy. David Paich, prodigy. I could go on like this from genre to genre rattling off multi-instrumentalists that shaped the 60's 70's and 80's!
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 4 months ago
@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO Yes there is good music out there. What you may be overlooking is that people tie music to certain milestones of their lives. Music is evocative, it resides in the emotional sectors of our brains. The music of today speaks to a younger demographic. We of the 70's generation don't understand this black infighting. This denigration of black women, black men calling each other bitches, this selling poison to black kids. I'm an old rooster but I will always love my black people.
hork111 3 months ago
@hork111 Maybe you didn't check... I'm 44. I can go as far back with this music as you like. Are you familiar with the artists that I cited? None of them are 'Gangsta Rappers'. They'd be right at home opening for Isaac Hayes or Donny Hathaway at a live show.
Hip Hop (1985-2000) "worked" because the music sample were some of the best musicians of the 20th Century. Lyrically I just tolerated that mess for the most part. People need to differentiate between entertainment and reality.
MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 2 months ago
@hork111
THANK YOU...Now this is what I'm talking about, Good decent BLACK KINGS!!!!!
meandmyself364 1 month ago
@hork111 thank you joyce is my grandmother
AndreaM9250 1 week ago
this is one of the best beats of all times.....bar none. these sistas knew how to bring it with precision.
READY4REVELATION 10 months ago
Thumbs up if 2 Bad Mice brought you here...what a sample!
CasparWilson 10 months ago
THIS IS MUSIC WITH A GROOVE.. Missed the 70's The Orchestration, Lyrics, and Voices are perfect.... We lost a Generation of Musicians and Singers..
Thank God for the 70's
cocosolo03 10 months ago
DAMM THIS IS GOOD!!!
bassmanjoe 10 months ago
A true blast from the past...Thanx!!!
sunnystone01 10 months ago
THANKS. I only want the audio.
supermandisco 10 months ago
love these women
PEORIA1959 11 months ago
All respect, but I think many miss the mark as towhat happened to black music. Read "The Destruction Of Black Music by Lee Atwater". Just Google it and read the short treatise, very enlightening.
Echo383 11 months ago
@5x2dip: You are right when you say B Angie B did a good job......but ain't nothing like the real thing. These sisters harmony is unmatched.
BLKSMOKE12 1 year ago 10
im only 15 but this is the song!!!! THE COOK OUT MUSIC LOL!!
kbk4231 1 year ago
This was my jaaaaaammm! I was 10 when this dropped and forever cemented The Emotions as my favorite girl group of all time. They had the sickest harmonies ever!
bronxbabi100 1 year ago
loved this song with the EWF horns pushing the groove !
richart58 1 year ago
B Angeie B sang it the best!
or at least she made the re-make sound good as the original or better she sure did'nt mess it up
5x2dip 1 year ago
@5x2dip B Angie B did a good remake, hers was louder and had more of a synthetic instrumentation sound. Nobody did this song like the original, it has to do with feeling, soul, and emotions (get it)? The Hutchinson sisters were some untouchable songbirds in their days with Earth, Wind & Fire. That's why they're considered one of the top female groups of all times. Angie B was good but she's not a legend, she copied the legends song.
RecordStr8 1 year ago
Hey, can you still go out, and hear older songs such as this without dancing, rocking, or whatever we're still able to do. I wore my flowers in my hair, stayed sharp, and went to cabarets or parties every weekend. I know I had my share of breaking mens hearts. lol!
micahlatasha19 1 year ago
As of this date, 8 people haven't a clue in the world.
smoothpants 1 year ago
They just make music like they use to! Now this is soul!
ceelgee36 1 year ago
One of home talent show singing contest jams
camfulable 1 year ago
the best time are the 70s so why not bring it back
7182683003 1 year ago 4
I don"t care how many re-makes come out. The Emotions will always sang it best.
Sexy48nana 1 year ago 5
I cannot understand how anyone could dislke this song!
mvperezpoet 1 year ago 2
The EWF rhythm section was really hot and tight. Listen to Al play that funky guitar!
You hear Maurice, I think, screaming Yeah and Hollywood at the end.
Check out Denice William's Free too. That's a beautiful tune.
ocean4315 1 year ago
GROWN FOLKS Music at its best
L281173 1 year ago 3
Bring it back Old School!!! Love it.
Jadin1107 1 year ago 4
love it!
MsAngeltalk 1 year ago
you just dont know... what you do to me..
this beats caffeine
americanqueer 1 year ago 3
@americanqueer HAHAHA . . . . your comment cracked me UP!!
MrPistolMason 1 year ago
This is the best girl group eeeeeeeeeeeever. No one else comes close. Luv em.
mscarsey1 1 year ago
i'm 21 years old and i grew up on the emotions because my mom just adored them! I like the Jones girls too.....its funny because i'd rather listen to them than......wait a minute......are there still any all girl groups around???
flyhi4ever 1 year ago
This song is just the mutha f*cking JAM!!!
rwarren58 1 year ago 2
Oh Somebody bring me to a club with a live band with a funky horn section like we use to have in New Orleans... Freddie's Chandelier was the place to be back in the day!!!! I can see a guy name Charles Perkins dancing right now and my ex behind the bar serving drinks and my late bro-in-law on the door taking the cover charge. Thanks for the memories... Thanks for the posting...
Sangria3 1 year ago 3
I remember when this join came out, SMOKIN!!!
ashastar 1 year ago 2
when i feel down, i listen to this song, et voila.. happy again. any sentient being who doesn't, at minimum, shake a tail feather or two, is not sentient at all.
bebenic 1 year ago
a lot this kind of music of the 70's was so great there was no place for music to go but down, maybe just a theory
nunile18 1 year ago 2
The writer of this song is true poet !!1 Listen to the lyrics !!1 and off course Earth Wind & Fire slamming down in the background !!! . I still think it is a better tune than "the best of my love" just don't tell the ladies that ??!!!
2maxxjazz 1 year ago
My JAAAAAMMMM! I was 10 when this came out and right then and there decided I wanted to be a vocalist. The Emotions were AMAZING!!
bronxbabi100 1 year ago
I;d dance until my Afro shrank. They are fabulous live also. Sounding so good.
SuperCleanheart 1 year ago 2
one of the best songs evah.
bebenic 1 year ago
Ohhhhhh...... Dont wanna loose your love.... Ahhhhhhhh......
ToneeTEE 1 year ago
I Love these beautiful women who can sang!!!!!
PEORIA1959 1 year ago 3
"Dinner's ready
And the wine is chilled
My baby's coming over
Well, I know just how I feel".
Great song/Great lyrics!!!
speedoflite1 1 year ago
sexy lead vocal!
44joints 1 year ago
Desint's child eat your hearts out lol..this is real music baby!!!!!!
carolinagal252 1 year ago
Damn, another masterpiece
groundpounder35 1 year ago
Miami '77... Carol City, American High...good times, even better music...big ups NW42nd @ 183rd...Luv ya Mitzie...**
outtlett 1 year ago
I know I'm a youngin but this is my jam! I'm 22 and I just can't get with the music thats out today! I love old school music, it's what I was raised listening to!
Shaylashay 1 year ago 2
I came out of high school in 76, and music seem to explode everywhere and these lady,s where head of the class. I know EWF had them but when they went on there own it was awsome, they could do fast or slow or even mid-tempo, it was so much fun to dance or just listen. What a great group.
vootetman 1 year ago
ALL THE MUSICIANS WERE ACCOMPLISHED BACK IN THE DAYS.
NOW DAYS WITH RAP ITS PUSH A BOTTON AND YOU GOT A HIT!!
YOU WILL GET 40 MILLON $ FOR BULLSHIT
BlackPride1000 1 year ago 39
@BlackPride1000 You just have to pay too many people to make this kind of music. That's the way the industry saw & sees it. They'd rather promote limited crap & loose out on the timeless rewards of truly composed & created music. Unless people like U & fans of real music REVOLT, even the best rap music will not be heard. People critique hip-hop conveniently forget that the best hip-hop samples the very best of soul, jazz, blues, and funk. (Part 1)
kronk99 1 year ago 2
@BlackPride1000 The reason why you don't hear the best hip-hop AND real R&B today is exactly the same. The ball is ALWAYS in the court of the consumer. Educator your audience, especially the young people, and they'll stop buying crap. Just ask Vanilla Ice and Soldier Boy, they can't sell water in Africa. (Part 2)
kronk99 1 year ago 2
@BlackPride1000
AMEN!!!
prayzrhymz 1 year ago
@BlackPride1000 that would actually make a good lyric in a song aswell
darrenbrown2007 11 months ago
@BlackPride1000 You Mean Steal Someones Beat & Hook From The 70's 80's & Ramble Over it Then Get A Hit LOL........
PigeonToedShawdy 9 months ago
Great music died when corporations took over the music business.
TheReturnOfStephan1 1 year ago 3
alright
15native 1 year ago
GO HEAD LADIES!
cgord37 1 year ago
Thanks for this. This is good.
01244308h 1 year ago
ran8704 i love it nothing better
cutetexas 1 year ago
lord where did the good music go! all people talk about nowadays is stupid shit!! this is real music and i aint even from this era. Please can we get some real artist thats not stuck on rims hoes and cloths. We need love not material shit. Real artists dont let the industry make them they make the industry. Black people stand up!!!
princessplatniumpuss 1 year ago 2
Oh, this song was so great, but it was really funny when the CHS pep squad played it and the b-ballers would stand and yell out "I play on the basketball team!" instead of the REAL lyrics, "I'll do the best to fulfill." Give it a listen. Classic CHS.
stephoniemack 1 year ago
Da Bomb!
ThaWigstar 1 year ago
1976 Infinity Disco, NYC !!!
chezlafem 1 year ago
this is the jam! but ya' know?!! i saw b. angie b. sing this live (before i had ever heard her version) and she sang the sh!t out of this song! but it's hard to out-do the originals!
csh042968 1 year ago
Dinner's ready and the wine is chill My baby 's coming over and I know just how I feel Have Mercy This is one of my all time favorites Sing it !!!!
sarahjeanluvsmusik 1 year ago
this has to be the best disco song ever.
bebenic 1 year ago
I loved these women!!!!
PEORIA1959 1 year ago
BLAM!!!
dannyp63 1 year ago
Geil !!!!!
crazyurmel2 1 year ago
sampled by 2 Bad Mice!
Ciaran55 1 year ago
@Ciaran55 Hold it down, class tune
captinweestain 1 year ago
@captinweestain and Ciaran55,
did you know the actual sample came from MC Shy D's Bust It?
It's on here too.
2 Bad Mice were on Flex fm talking about it just the other day.
staercky 1 year ago
Beg your pardon, it's Bust This. I'm sure you'd have found it anyway! :)
staercky 1 year ago
The greatest song of a super year, 1977! We did some naughty things at the parties where this jam played and we all danced to with such vigor!
donkuni 1 year ago 2
@donkuni Oh really?
LVishere 1 year ago
Patsy, I don't want to lose your Love, This is a great song! xoxoxo (-: Je vous Adore
MrJohnSolisHollywood 1 year ago
gah on girl.........good ole days
nurser11 1 year ago
The harmony on this song is unmatchable, and the flow of the lyrics with the bass has stood the test of time.
daboe0909 1 year ago 2
The Emotions are to R&B what The Clark Sisters are to Gospel!!!!
Beyoncefan1000 1 year ago 3
Caught these girls in (76) at the Coliseum in Richfield,Oh. opening for the Mighty Earth, Wind & Fire on The Spirit Tour! Damn those were the Dayz!!!
orlandoclaxton 2 years ago 3
Christina Millian sampled the chorus for her song "For" feat. Twista. Nothing beats the original though.
domtheodore 2 years ago
yeah!
redenchilada 2 years ago
Damn, this is soOOOooo GOOD!
waveslider11 2 years ago
Love how the rhythm guitar skips and dances right along with the bass
hork111 2 years ago 4
dirty lil hardcore sample love it!!!
botsnyke 2 years ago
Dear music industry,
I just bought this album because I heard it on Youtube. Never would have heard it otherwise!
Thanks WJLH.
limetwig2007 2 years ago 2
Chitown's very own !!!!!
MegaChicity 2 years ago
The bass alone on this song is bad! This song is a non-stop dance classic, a 1976 summer hit.
ddja57 2 years ago
Who is playing the bass, I wonder?
crazychile128 2 years ago
A member from Earth Wind and fire. I'll check back later to give you his name.
ddja57 2 years ago
Must be Verdine.
crazychile128 2 years ago
@crazychile128 Yeah. It sounds like Verdine's loose, slightly flatulent style. Also check out that signature slide at 1:53, exactly like the one he did in Getaway.
hork111 1 year ago
My FAVORITE by them. Audio only is OK
MusicalLyrica 2 years ago