On this date in 1975 {Jan. 25th} 'Express' entered the Billboard's Top 100 chart, eventually it peaked at No. 4 and spent a total of 15 weeks in the Top 100!!!
This tune always reminds me of `Crackers' a club in London's West End, in the mid 70's. A bunch of us use go there during our lunch hour on a Friday afternoon...had great times there...Bring back the FUNK...
i remember the first time i heard this song. It was a live concert at twin city skating ring when i was 7 years old. This song has stuck with me since. the bassline is monstrous!
@Littlewater Hey there, if my memory serves the base beat from "Ride The Rodeo" is from "JB's Monorail" by the JB's (you know, Fred Wesley and the JB's). Just my two cents, but its good to know you is listening...lol.....
@cuzinaddie I listen to that one...they sound almost Identical but This one has more bells and whistles (more layering) but that bass is the same...this one is a little faster as well...
This is a GReat Jam to say the least. I first heard this when i was 6 years old and thought this was the greatest music on the radio. I thought all the other bands followed the lead of this...Confunkshun, Ohio Players, Brass Construction, Commodores, etc. LOL...The memories etched in my mind due to this music is like DNA encoded deep in my subconscience the power of real music that will never go away.
Oh Yeah! remember hitting the roller rink dance floor to this one! Mirror ball and strobe lights! Bouncing and spinning all night long! I guess this new generation coming up will never know! Miss those days!
@marishea0silver . Hell i do the same thing your dad does everytime i hear this song. I stomp the floor and my girls think im crazy. This song never gets old. Well gotta go stomp lol
I remember this funky, discoish song at a dance after school (jr. high) in the cafeteria back in 1975 because there was this girl at the dance who could dance to this song very good and sexy like and that made me like this song for ever, Man!!!!, now i can't stop thinking of her!!!! Damn it!!
Got my Army jump boot skates......check. Got my towel having from my back pocket.....check. It's the late 70's and i'm crazy leggin' and big wheelin'.
Got my Army jump boot skates......check. Got my towel having from my back pocket.....check. It's the late 70's and i'm crazy leggin' and big wheelin'.
I love this song! It plays at the grocery store I work at every single damn day. Anyone who loves this song should check out the song "Up and Down I Go" by Pretty Lights. This song is heavily sampled in it and its super funky!
OMG ... this was my song back in the daywhen I was a young teenager ... going to the roller rink skating my azz off. One of the best skate dance songs as well as basement party banger. Man, I miss good ol' funk with live instrumentation. I actually had a dream last night and this song was playing in my dream. And here I am at 5am in the morning on YouTube looking it up and I found it. Thank God for YouTube ... allows many of us to go down memory lane. Thanks Serendipity for loading this.
Another classic old school song. Now the J.B.'s also recorded a slower version of this song, which was also pretty good but changed the title to Monarail. Not quite sure if it was a litte friendly competition or what but they both were good.
This is Black music at root level! This is just so much better than anything out 2day! I'm 41 this year and my dad would play this stuff when I was a kid growing up in the UK!
outside of groups like Gnarls Barkley and The Fugees there is nothing absolutely nothing to listen to If Alisha Keys can play more the three note chords she might be able to do something. PS why does everything Black now adays have to be Ghettoized anyway?
Goooone with your bad selves B.T.E!!!!!! OMG listen to the real instruments. hahahahaha. Y'all some bad mofos. Sorry we don't have this in black music today. White boys have bands and good ones, but I likezzzz me some soul music. Okay, back to work. i just had to listen some of that for a second. Woooo I can type letters, file briefs w/o ripping these attorneys heads off now. Now I just need to stop dancing at my desk. That was fun. Thanks Serendipity629!
@enoughsaidatl I remember when back in the sixties Richard Thompson brought his band to my Mama's house in the Sumner Projects in Brooklyn to practice. It was so loud, they almost kicked her out, Yeah Gabbie and Rose house, it was a party every weekend. Of course I'm sure he forgot about his first stop of sucess. Rock on B.T.EXPRESS!
Seems anything dealing with the arts has become bastardized with some machines especially when it comes to making music.. The real musicians of yesterday shall never be forgotten.
If folks are tinker with machines, can they at least BE musicians? Prince and Mtume made amazing music, but they have actual playing, composing let alone performance skills :) Mx
@MsMerising I agree with on that point. That's one of the sad things about some technological advances. People want instant gratification; From drum machines to a keyboard with all the musical sounds and what do we got, instant music. in a box ( computer software ) I too wish these guys were actual musicians. There's nothing like the sound of OMI " Organic Musical Instruments, "
Music got efed when the japanese came into the market and bought everything with their ef sony ef music And then they turned the industry into a honda, its cheap reliable and also very very dead,
i love disco and i am ............... 29. can we bring it back ? i think so so lets do it the sound like this . may need tweaked a 1/2 inch but keep it like this damn it
Smokin' hot funk!! funk yeah! This single reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and went all the way to no. 1 on billboard's r&b singles chart. 1975 - when music was Real! :D
I used to wake up to this song every morning as I got ready to go to school on foxy's103's morning express Augusta Ga. Home of James Brown 70"s FOREVER!!!
Hello. Actually, BT Express recorded "Express" in the summer of 1974 (it was released as a single in October 1974).. The JBs released JB Monorail in early 1975. I hope this answers your question.
The 70's rock still today. This song rocks. The whole era rocks. I agree with you soulcracker. And I like that name. I am HippieNiecey. I don't listen to a damn thing from today's music. I don't even like discs and DVD's. Still like albums and 45's cassette tapes and 8 tracks. How about you?
@wackernie2009 Right on, and proof that the poor fools who say they suck unfortunately rarely see because the jackies over at the radio stations don't play the good stuff! They are really missing out if you ask me.
this is real music not that garbage that is out today by these so called rappers who should be doing something constructive ,these record companies all they care about is making money ,any fool with a mike gets a recording contract
@maxpuerco Not all rap is 'garbage' - I assume your referring to the materialistic, misogynistic, macho, racist 'rap' you hear in mainstream media.
The truth is the music industry is dying, they haven't got a clue what kind of music people are listening to because no one pays for music these days. The shit they pump out today is the death throws of an entire era.
@Lorddoucheington well for the past 12 years i beleive it is .you will NEVER see a rap song as the theme for any mtion picture or record of the year ,its just not main stream enough for society ,most people associate that type of music with a lower class of people who are not sophisticated ,nonetheless i respect your opinion
@louheff Rap music is in lots of films! Your right that the association with African American culture and gangsterism has made it exclusive, but think about how RnB and Jazz infiltrated the mainstream - they all started in the black community.
Modern rap can be about anything and performed by anyone.
@Lorddoucheington yea you are correct to some extent ,but the mainstream will not accept songs that talk about selling drugs ,killing police ,raping women shooting people who did no pay for their drugs ,these are the crap they rap about ,not all but the black artists of the past had a higher standard and more self repect and morals when producing their music which was accepted worldwide
@louheff i totally agree, i think the 'rap' out today has failed to learn from their ancestors, I really wish the rap of this day and age was more about educating the masses and had lyrics which mean something
@JetJoeStudios well said ,sadly nowadays its greed for making money that drives recording artists ,but a lot of these rappers are gangbangers or ex drug dealers or individuals that can put sentences together trying to make it big disregarding the bad example they influence on today s youth
@Lorddoucheington I hope youre right, look I have Gnarls Barley Albums and such tbut where in our days intelligent creative and great musicans/vocalists were the norm, ow they are the exception and very hard to find out who they are.
AwesomeNESS!
FrankiexNYC 1 day ago
Alright here we go, grab your skates, let's all go to Screamin' Wheels in Gary, and skate backwards!
Kellieblues 1 week ago
fantastic
jasonptify 3 weeks ago
Great train song. Also listen to the James Brown take on this: "The J.B.'s Monaurail."
Buckeyecat2002 3 weeks ago
Don Cornelius, “Soul Train” R.I.P
ILoveFreestyleMusic 3 weeks ago
love the guitars
betom62 4 weeks ago in playlist old school r&b, rap,slow jams and spanish
On this date in 1975 {Jan. 25th} 'Express' entered the Billboard's Top 100 chart, eventually it peaked at No. 4 and spent a total of 15 weeks in the Top 100!!!
sauquoit13456 1 month ago
moovieeee ;)
miguel8613 1 month ago
LETS GO SKATIN<COME ON PEOPLE.CLASSIC ROLLIN HIT.
coalcaol 1 month ago
@coalcaol RIGHHTT????? I LOVE WHEN THE DJ AT MY JOB PLAYS THIS SONG.. ME AND ALL THE OTHER SKATE GUARDS BE GOIN IN ON THE WOOD*PAUSE*
djkoolaj96 1 month ago
bump this song "here comes thee express" choooo choooo
EFRENQUINONES14 1 month ago
Classic....
sinisterob1961 2 months ago
Hit #1 on the Billboard dance chart for 5 weeks in Nov 1974
theonlymoo5e 2 months ago
# 4 Express From Brooklyn through Manhattan to the Bronx.. NYC in the house !
coffeegirl5912 2 months ago 2
@coffeegirl5912
Westside!!! #2 - White Plains to Flatbush
obiwankanobi777 2 months ago
Looks like two people are riding the local.
dwill123 2 months ago
Try all out Funky Rollerskating like this Canadian/Asian man in United Skates of America in Buffalo in the 80's !!! what a blast workout !!!
djdonalddancer 2 months ago
This tune always reminds me of `Crackers' a club in London's West End, in the mid 70's. A bunch of us use go there during our lunch hour on a Friday afternoon...had great times there...Bring back the FUNK...
denallman1 2 months ago
i remember the first time i heard this song. It was a live concert at twin city skating ring when i was 7 years old. This song has stuck with me since. the bassline is monstrous!
AkbarHameed 3 months ago
I was real good friend with the one to the far left aw....I miss him
ladydiamon415 3 months ago
sounds funky damn
joe11350 3 months ago
Real musicians. Real talent. Support the arts in your local school.
videopimp1 3 months ago
Lawd have mercy, those violins make me wanna sign up for lessons!
BeautelligentDiva79 3 months ago
the horns and bass line hard thumpin hard hittin..
DBAD5382 3 months ago
soullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll trainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
nbtbest 3 months ago
So THIS is where "Ride the rodeo" got its base beat!!! wow...
Littlewater 4 months ago
@Littlewater Hey there, if my memory serves the base beat from "Ride The Rodeo" is from "JB's Monorail" by the JB's (you know, Fred Wesley and the JB's). Just my two cents, but its good to know you is listening...lol.....
cuzinaddie 3 months ago
@cuzinaddie I listen to that one...they sound almost Identical but This one has more bells and whistles (more layering) but that bass is the same...this one is a little faster as well...
Littlewater 3 months ago
I like the train whistle
transientvoltage 4 months ago
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wetcoom98 4 months ago
THE HORN SECTION IS THE BOMB! THE TRAIN'S CHOO CHOO IS DOPE TOO!
deejaycashmere 5 months ago
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Pure disco... thanks for posting...My wife and danced to this often back in the day..at the local club! Great arrangement.
pollysbuddy 5 months ago
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pollysbuddy 5 months ago
Thanks for puttin this up! I used to have this 45,now they call em a 7inch.
Cool ass song!
77dragonslayer 5 months ago
Tema clásico de 1974. Tenía yo 13 años. Cursaba Primero de Bachillerato en Bogotá, Colombia, dijo JORGE ALBERTO BARON.
jorgealbertobaron 5 months ago
Rollin' foo! This was horns before the disco whistle. Dig the train horn/whistle!
jb208028 6 months ago
THIS IS ONE OF MY SKATING JAMS!!! THAT BASS!!!!
MzSherice 6 months ago
Sounds like Bootsy's bass!
Ediabar 6 months ago
Man, B.T. Express, Brass Construction, Kool & The Gang, Tower Of Power, Earth Wind & Fire. Horns were power. Fantastic post.
doc2skate 6 months ago 10
@doc2skate Don't forget The Ohio Players. :) Especially with their song "Fopp".
Tsuruta1 5 months ago
Whose in TF would dislike this #Classic
get the Hell out here with that bullsh*t
CARIGAMIST 6 months ago
This is a GReat Jam to say the least. I first heard this when i was 6 years old and thought this was the greatest music on the radio. I thought all the other bands followed the lead of this...Confunkshun, Ohio Players, Brass Construction, Commodores, etc. LOL...The memories etched in my mind due to this music is like DNA encoded deep in my subconscience the power of real music that will never go away.
OQUENDO1968 6 months ago
this is my music. i'm 27 years old and never felt like my generation offered me anything good to listen to.
Piehooerseef 6 months ago
Oh Yeah! remember hitting the roller rink dance floor to this one! Mirror ball and strobe lights! Bouncing and spinning all night long! I guess this new generation coming up will never know! Miss those days!
keithko007 6 months ago
Everytime my dad hears this, he got to get his "Stomp" on,,,
marishea0silver 7 months ago 9
@marishea0silver . Hell i do the same thing your dad does everytime i hear this song. I stomp the floor and my girls think im crazy. This song never gets old. Well gotta go stomp lol
betom62 4 months ago
@marishea0silver ...so do i ..i love this song..i was like 13 or 14 when this song came out and it made me boogie woogie on the dance floor
betom62 2 months ago in playlist old school r&b, rap,slow jams and spanish
Love the beat in this...the flute...oh this was back in the day...!!! Still sounds great after all these years...
CrackHoe32 7 months ago
we used to pretend we were playing the instruments. Great. Loved it.
TheAngienorton01 7 months ago
Now this is music! Not like the junk that is played today! This is timeless and classic! Thanks for uploading it!
hunhun23 7 months ago 2
My dad used to jam this on the high fly system when I was a kid. Still sound good today. One of those get yo azz up and move cuts...
eyesley 7 months ago
I remember this funky, discoish song at a dance after school (jr. high) in the cafeteria back in 1975 because there was this girl at the dance who could dance to this song very good and sexy like and that made me like this song for ever, Man!!!!, now i can't stop thinking of her!!!! Damn it!!
ANSEL1960 7 months ago 2
1 guy is seriously on the verge of suicide.
dcaseng 8 months ago
Some software and a laptop. That's why you'll never see bands like these.
roscoegino 8 months ago
They dont make music like this anymore. LUV this music
faymx47 8 months ago
Seems like nearly all of these comments are from Americans.
But let me just tell u guys .... this was real big in the UK too ! Early days of disco.
I used to hustle & shuffle across the floor ~ remember what I used to wear too ! Lol.
Great track.... still DOES it for me. Great stuff. Timeless.
bootsamou 8 months ago
Used as the theme for WOR-TV's RACING FROM ROOSEVELT RACEWAY/YONKERS RACEWAY, back in the 1980's. Memories.
djo45f 8 months ago
@djo45f YESSSSS! I was a kid in the Bronx. Every weekend. After wrestling, I think. When the music stopped I went to bed.
roscoegino 8 months ago
One person got run over by the BT Express.
This track was always flava...
soulshower 8 months ago
ya hear dem intruments i luv it
hardearn2 8 months ago
watch ur mouth wit ur bad self
hardearn2 8 months ago
Got my Army jump boot skates......check. Got my towel having from my back pocket.....check. It's the late 70's and i'm crazy leggin' and big wheelin'.
Chitown .......Represent!!!!!!!!!!
brownhornet71 8 months ago
Got my Army jump boot skates......check. Got my towel having from my back pocket.....check. It's the late 70's and i'm crazy leggin' and big wheelin'.
Chitown .......Represent!!!!!!!!!!1
brownhornet71 8 months ago
I love this song! It plays at the grocery store I work at every single damn day. Anyone who loves this song should check out the song "Up and Down I Go" by Pretty Lights. This song is heavily sampled in it and its super funky!
TheGreatCarlintini 9 months ago 3
@TheGreatCarlintini Up and Down I Go is my favorite Pretty Lights song!
QuietQuakePro 9 months ago
BT hit #4 in Billboard, 3-29-75. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
DaveWollenberg 9 months ago
love this song. i remember the espinozas dancing to this in the dance contest on american bandstand. and them throwing glitter.
milehibear75 9 months ago
THIS IS REAL MUSIC Y'ALL!
djpaydro 9 months ago
OMG ... this was my song back in the daywhen I was a young teenager ... going to the roller rink skating my azz off. One of the best skate dance songs as well as basement party banger. Man, I miss good ol' funk with live instrumentation. I actually had a dream last night and this song was playing in my dream. And here I am at 5am in the morning on YouTube looking it up and I found it. Thank God for YouTube ... allows many of us to go down memory lane. Thanks Serendipity for loading this.
BLKFOX2000 9 months ago 2
creat picture .
TheAstrofighter 10 months ago
try to not move setting here, Didnt think so
securitycat11 10 months ago
Never made it to studio 54- I didn't need to... there was so much fun going on at the basement parties when this song was kicking in '74.
MrBillydoo 10 months ago
Get on that train.....THE BT EXPRESS TRAIN !!!.......This was the jam back then when I was a teen.......
cyclonexiv 10 months ago 3
Got to love the 70's,thank God i was born on the 60's
rob65ger 10 months ago 2
Ole Jam!
Change2be1 10 months ago
great song...great memories!!!!!...The bass was awesome in this song!!!!!
lisa070901 10 months ago
Another classic old school song. Now the J.B.'s also recorded a slower version of this song, which was also pretty good but changed the title to Monarail. Not quite sure if it was a litte friendly competition or what but they both were good.
pmb11000 10 months ago
The 70s did not suck at all because the music was the bomb
gemini19662010 10 months ago
where ever I end up some one always mention the garbage of today I agree tough because I lvoed th music of the 70s and also the 80s/
Springamatul 10 months ago
; Da Sooooooul Train!
12Zwolf 10 months ago
Gang Starr sampled this on their track Gusto.
blinkzone1 10 months ago
This is Black music at root level! This is just so much better than anything out 2day! I'm 41 this year and my dad would play this stuff when I was a kid growing up in the UK!
lupo0144 11 months ago
@lupo0144 My oldest brother would put this on blast. When I first heard this. I was with my sisters on a train.
Renagade70 3 months ago
these brothers where awesome back in the Day, and they played real instruments.
dixielatino 11 months ago
@dixielatino I feel sorry for the people who didn't grow up in the 1970s. I wouldn't have traded that time for anything in the world.
rayjr62 10 months ago 2
This takes me back to the Bull&Bear in Chicago on Friday nights after work! We used to get down on this one!
bestmusic96 11 months ago
you can run and tell that , run and tell that ,run and tell that, homeboy ,homeboy, home,home,homeboy
ledzeffla 11 months ago
0 dislikes.
unclefreddie70 11 months ago
dangerous FUNK level !!!
solstat 11 months ago
1974 too funky
01tnql 11 months ago
kashif power
karaibos 1 year ago
I played this song on alto sax over the record during a 7th grade talent show, and even took a monster solo. I became famous over night. Great song.
ICOMEOUTSMOKIN 1 year ago
A baseline that KICKS ASS!
FrankiexNYC 1 year ago 2
Glad to see that everybody caught the express train. God bless ya, for postin it!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
This song always made me think it should be a the beginning of a cop show or something along those lines. Wo Jo always comes to mind for some reason.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
Proper FUNK
Pistolk007 1 year ago
here comes the express
4SeasonsTaiji 1 year ago 2
I was not quite 4 years old when my half sister and me got this 45, and I tell ya what, dis shit Neva get old! lol :)
groofoot 1 year ago 13
outside of groups like Gnarls Barkley and The Fugees there is nothing absolutely nothing to listen to If Alisha Keys can play more the three note chords she might be able to do something. PS why does everything Black now adays have to be Ghettoized anyway?
EMB190Captain 1 year ago
@EMB190Captain AMEN!!
JerkVegas86 1 year ago
131 likes, 0 dislikes. Wow! I don't think it's possible for a human to dislike this song.
cloudeleven 1 year ago 2
Goooone with your bad selves B.T.E!!!!!! OMG listen to the real instruments. hahahahaha. Y'all some bad mofos. Sorry we don't have this in black music today. White boys have bands and good ones, but I likezzzz me some soul music. Okay, back to work. i just had to listen some of that for a second. Woooo I can type letters, file briefs w/o ripping these attorneys heads off now. Now I just need to stop dancing at my desk. That was fun. Thanks Serendipity629!
enoughsaidatl 1 year ago 26
@enoughsaidatl I remember when back in the sixties Richard Thompson brought his band to my Mama's house in the Sumner Projects in Brooklyn to practice. It was so loud, they almost kicked her out, Yeah Gabbie and Rose house, it was a party every weekend. Of course I'm sure he forgot about his first stop of sucess. Rock on B.T.EXPRESS!
Sexyone391 8 months ago
that is when MUSIC was music.so glad i am old enough to remember what good music is about.
dora5132ify 1 year ago 2
BRING BACK SOUL MUSIC
louheff 1 year ago 4
I used to have a 45rpm record of this song I bought at Valumart about 1975! Thanks for sharing TWE :O)
TimeWarpExplorer 1 year ago
Billboard's #58 song for '75. Hit #1 soul, #4 pop. God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
OMG. Take a brotha back to the 70's.
76grandprix 1 year ago
Wow..... Funky-Disco-Jazzy kind of feeling. Makes me remeber Mr White's orchestra.
Not a chance I could listen to something like his in today's radio.
J077535 1 year ago
Seems anything dealing with the arts has become bastardized with some machines especially when it comes to making music.. The real musicians of yesterday shall never be forgotten.
Darkenroom 1 year ago
@Darkenroom
If folks are tinker with machines, can they at least BE musicians? Prince and Mtume made amazing music, but they have actual playing, composing let alone performance skills :) Mx
MsMerising 1 year ago
@MsMerising I agree with on that point. That's one of the sad things about some technological advances. People want instant gratification; From drum machines to a keyboard with all the musical sounds and what do we got, instant music. in a box ( computer software ) I too wish these guys were actual musicians. There's nothing like the sound of OMI " Organic Musical Instruments, "
Darkenroom 1 year ago 2
Here it comes... the Express! Hit #1 soul, and #4 pop in Billboard. God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
O.M.G this one got away, it went full stem ahead
Mr5bean 1 year ago
DiscoFunk... Good combo!
discott75 1 year ago
BBoys BGirls Lockers Wackers Boogaloo, Poppers lets DANCE
HazeElements 1 year ago
If we were to our heart music would sound a lot better. Be original, dont copy!
jaybone484 1 year ago
Bboy's let's dance!!!
ZeKkOwalker 1 year ago
sencillamente genial...
geroz1000 1 year ago
How can you not get your 'Groove On' listening to this funk song especially during instrumental sections including guitars/flutes/brass solos !!!
dancerdonald1 1 year ago
Fabulous Dance Classic from the late 70s. Simply superb! Brings joy to my heart and makes me want to dance.
thefunkeyplanet 1 year ago 2
disco ? more funk , groove on ..........
BRO0KYN59 1 year ago
Love this song!
millymille1 1 year ago
This sounds a lot like "JB's - Monorail", but still very good
Qhuit8 1 year ago
This music remener my youth!
great music
This group was supported to Bob Marley in the Stadium in the 1981 in Milan
White Average Band
Feel good
by PZezzota
MrPezzotta 1 year ago
Magic music to my ears
burdymurray2 1 year ago
Music got efed when the japanese came into the market and bought everything with their ef sony ef music And then they turned the industry into a honda, its cheap reliable and also very very dead,
jingooz 1 year ago
why cant the white artists make this kind of music in any era?
louheff 1 year ago
@louheff
you need to check out AWB (the average white band)
Pick up the peices
Pistolk007 1 year ago
YEAH BBOOOOOOY
DAMONEWRIGHT 1 year ago
i love disco and i am ............... 29. can we bring it back ? i think so so lets do it the sound like this . may need tweaked a 1/2 inch but keep it like this damn it
jonneyd 1 year ago
Man those alto saxophones sure do hit the sweet spot........I used to dig those days back in '75 when music was music.....
cyclonexiv 1 year ago 4
nice and easy. Sway the arms, the upper body... now bobb the head.... sweeeeeet. Better than any drug! Enjoy!
relentless 1 year ago 2
Smokin' hot funk!! funk yeah! This single reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and went all the way to no. 1 on billboard's r&b singles chart. 1975 - when music was Real! :D
groofoot 1 year ago 3
Leaders of the New School - Sound of the Zeekers
joheki 1 year ago
A Nickel Bag Of FUNK!!!!!
Oldschool4evr 1 year ago 2
Dance music at it's best when you take early disco and add a hint of funk. Strings and horns rock!
discott75 1 year ago 2
Yes this is what you call proper dance music,remember dancing to this as a teen at the Mecca in Arundel rd Portsmouth in the summer of 75'
18cranleigh 1 year ago
If this jam doesn't make you wanna dance, then something's wrong with you! This is the hottest jam ever!!! Thanks for the upload!!
m7a7b725 1 year ago
Love the Flute Solos
wa2realj 1 year ago 2
253 to 310 close your eyes and ride that EXPRESS
wa2realj 1 year ago
I used to wake up to this song every morning as I got ready to go to school on foxy's103's morning express Augusta Ga. Home of James Brown 70"s FOREVER!!!
gbaniga 1 year ago 2
Download this song at vid2mp it explain the program by its self.
LiotjeSin 2 years ago
Sounds like JB's Monorail, without the lyrics. Is this a remake?.
Jaycool10 2 years ago
Hello. Actually, BT Express recorded "Express" in the summer of 1974 (it was released as a single in October 1974).. The JBs released JB Monorail in early 1975. I hope this answers your question.
macdance71 1 year ago 2
summer of 1975, at a club called the cloud 9 in far east asia, on the dance floor doing the bump.
zenamorpx5two 2 years ago
The 70's rock still today. This song rocks. The whole era rocks. I agree with you soulcracker. And I like that name. I am HippieNiecey. I don't listen to a damn thing from today's music. I don't even like discs and DVD's. Still like albums and 45's cassette tapes and 8 tracks. How about you?
HippieNiecey 2 years ago 2
One of the best songs to Lock to or just dance 2!
CrowdPleeza 2 years ago 2
Who thinks 70s was crap give me 70s music over pop idol crap that been pushed out now
SOULCRACKERS1979 2 years ago
(L)
Encoof 2 years ago
Further proof that the 70s didn't suck.....
wackernie2009 2 years ago 54
@wackernie2009 It sure didn't because those were the good old days
gemini19662010 1 year ago
@wackernie2009 Amen my brother!
retroguy50 1 year ago
@wackernie2009 Choo choo!
princeskipper1 1 year ago
@wackernie2009 Right on, and proof that the poor fools who say they suck unfortunately rarely see because the jackies over at the radio stations don't play the good stuff! They are really missing out if you ask me.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
Cool song. That train horn sounded funky
NYCman530 2 years ago 2
Yes u must have been there to do it , I did.
Jennifer McElwain age 53 in Indianapolis, now living in Los Angeles
MoRoo2 2 years ago
i need this songg
Simonnsan 2 years ago
this brings me right back to my prime. harlem in the house! it doesn't get cooler than this.
neworleanspsychic 2 years ago
thats what its all about, a driving bassline,,, AWESOME!!!!!!!!
thefourthfunkateer 2 years ago 3
And in Chicago is was all about the Bop....cause we were warming up for the Body language....lol
cojalean 2 years ago
this is real music not that garbage that is out today by these so called rappers who should be doing something constructive ,these record companies all they care about is making money ,any fool with a mike gets a recording contract
maxpuerco 2 years ago 37
@maxpuerco yessir!
jerzeymade 1 year ago
@maxpuerco Not all rap is 'garbage' - I assume your referring to the materialistic, misogynistic, macho, racist 'rap' you hear in mainstream media.
The truth is the music industry is dying, they haven't got a clue what kind of music people are listening to because no one pays for music these days. The shit they pump out today is the death throws of an entire era.
Lorddoucheington 1 year ago
@Lorddoucheington well for the past 12 years i beleive it is .you will NEVER see a rap song as the theme for any mtion picture or record of the year ,its just not main stream enough for society ,most people associate that type of music with a lower class of people who are not sophisticated ,nonetheless i respect your opinion
louheff 1 year ago
@louheff Rap music is in lots of films! Your right that the association with African American culture and gangsterism has made it exclusive, but think about how RnB and Jazz infiltrated the mainstream - they all started in the black community.
Modern rap can be about anything and performed by anyone.
Lorddoucheington 1 year ago
@Lorddoucheington yea you are correct to some extent ,but the mainstream will not accept songs that talk about selling drugs ,killing police ,raping women shooting people who did no pay for their drugs ,these are the crap they rap about ,not all but the black artists of the past had a higher standard and more self repect and morals when producing their music which was accepted worldwide
louheff 1 year ago
@louheff i totally agree, i think the 'rap' out today has failed to learn from their ancestors, I really wish the rap of this day and age was more about educating the masses and had lyrics which mean something
JetJoeStudios 1 year ago
@JetJoeStudios well said ,sadly nowadays its greed for making money that drives recording artists ,but a lot of these rappers are gangbangers or ex drug dealers or individuals that can put sentences together trying to make it big disregarding the bad example they influence on today s youth
louheff 1 year ago
@Lorddoucheington I hope youre right, look I have Gnarls Barley Albums and such tbut where in our days intelligent creative and great musicans/vocalists were the norm, ow they are the exception and very hard to find out who they are.
EMB190Captain 1 year ago
@maxpuerco u got that wright todays music SUCKS BIG TIME..
moteldale 1 year ago
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JerkVegas86 1 year ago
@maxpuerco Amen to that.No one is keeping it real anymore
gemini19662010 10 months ago