One of my faves from the SOS Band. I am an Old Schooler and have seen posts from youngstas stating that every generation thinks their music is the best music there is. What the youngstas dont realize is old school music was actually performed by MUSICIANS that honed their craft thru years of dedication to their chosen instrument thereby producing the "SOUL" of the music that the new school producers reach back for to create new school music. It takes longer to master a sax than a computer mouse!
I've never heard this song before until today. I wondered where Onra got the sample from. When I heard this it brought tears to my eyes. I LOVE both songs!!!!!
I saw Onra live a couple of months ago, and he started playing this then blended it into his version...it was so beautiful, I damn near cried...and then I danced!!!
S.O.S. Band has always been one of my favorites. They just don't have bands like this anymore. Do they have any R&B bands period anymore other than the classic ones??
Man I was 13 in 82 used to shock out to this @school disco's, then again in the mid 80's @nightclubs. Now 43 even my 15 year old and 13 year old son's love these vibes. Will be playing it again for the upcoming Summer garden barbecues good, good food & music, good people around.
@BlackPride1000 12 Sound, your channel is a reflection and testimonial of your Getto Riddim life. Simply stated, a life permeated with frivolities and triviality.
You and your fellow travelers are an embarrassment to all educated professional blacks that detest the societal reflection that you case upon our generation with your low rent JB nonsense.
Is this socioeconomic degradation all you have in your life?
There's no fool like an old fool. Flush Jim out of your craw 12 Sound.
This was no.1 way back when I was a soldier my first time overseas. I was 18 yrs. old. lol. We were all blue because we were in Germany missing our girlfriends. Called the states "The World".
I appreciate all music.i can hear a certain song and it takes me back to an era in my life.this reminds me of my aunta getting together playing cards on the weekends.LOVE It
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Lol good to see the youngins recognizing...i was born towards the end of 79' so this is right up my alley. Reminds me of riding around wit my daddy in his 928
I'm a white dude BUT THIS brings back memories!!! cruising crossroads in the summer of 83, lots of beer, girls with feathered hair even black girls and dancing, high rise jeans! Wish I could just step in a time machine.
this is the first song that ..JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS produced when PRINCE fired them...this is the very first song that put them where they are now
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis did'nt produce this song. Ricky Sylvers did, but Jam and Lewis did play some of the instruments on this song. Up until 1983, they only produced songs for Klymaxx. They were'nt fired from The Time until the spring of 1983.
@TheCurlyHairedDude : I was born in '64 so I really enjoyed this music during my youth.... My Ipod is still crowded with these tracks (SOS Band, Change, Shalamar, Delegation, Ray Parker jr & Raydio, Kool & The Gang..... ). I've got a child in '94...exactly like you but I wish he likes this music as you..... he's a bassist in a metal group...sigh!
@TheCurlyHairedDude You said it, i'm 29 now and since i am a teen i'm listening to funk. This is music at its best. I wonder if we all have the same ears when i see people enjoying today's crap music, what do we wait to come back to real good music like this...
@TheCurlyHairedDude You gotta remember this is back in the days when groups like the SOS band were skilled musicians and the melody of the music really mattered. I should know i am from this era and was around when songs like these were new and had air time on the radio.
On the real...! This has got to be one of those under appreciated songs i have on a very long list of. This easily could have been a bigger hit if the lable people pushed just a lil harder for air time I'm sure..Thankyou for into this FUNK..I appreciate you!!
ROLAND TR 808 Ya can feel the groove right here nahmsayin. Bangin back in the days. This was/IS the shit. No hate,no war,just lovely music but this kind of music makes a person without girlfriend (boyfriend <--for girls) sad.
Awwww shit. This was my Jam! How many songs are there out there today that when you hear them you can't help but get up and dance?? The SOS band was one of my favorite groups back in the day. I loved everything they put out but my personal favorite was "Weekend Girl" cuz that's what I was!
I don't think they produce this single (or album for that matter), because Jimmy and Terry were still a part of The Time when this came out back 1982. But, Jam and Lewis did produce The SOS Band 1986 release "Sands Of Time" which featured (one of my favorites by the group), the smash hit "The Finest" with Alexander O'neal doing the background vocals.
@MrJuly1990ish High Hopes" is the 6th charting single for The SOS Band. It reached number 25 on the R&B chart in 1982. It marked the first collaboration of producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with the group. [1] [2] They would go on to produce several more hits for the group during the 1980s.
Yeah, thanks for the info my cousin (who is a big SOS fan) reminded me Jam & Lewis did produce "High Hopes", lol!! I recalled now when Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis was on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson discussing on how they were fired from The Time do to the fact that they had produce & wrote certain songs for other groups/artist without Prince permission.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis wrote this song, but it was produced by Leon F Sylver's younger brother and Sylvers guitar player, Ricky Sylvers. The only songs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced prior to 1983 were Klymaxx and Trouble Funk. The team also wrote one song for Dynasty's fourth album as well as played the guitar and bass on that same album as well as SOS III.
Wow! It's been sooo long I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten how "BAD ASS" the SOS Band was. The lyrics really hit home now that we all got some "livin" under our belts. Boy we just took all that for granted back then.....and just moved on to the next without a second thought. Damn! ....... I'm pullin out all my vinyl today!...... Anybody know where I can buy a record player?.... Do they still make record players? Damn I'm old.
@thatguyfromImpanema - yeah man I got a record players and all the records to go with it. Man gt one on line and jam like i do. This is good music man and I just love the fact that all of us grew up during the time we did!!!
This is really funky..Nonetheless,if you ain't swaying to this something's definitely wrong.Lol !!!! Can you say REAL MUSIC ????????? This is it !!!!!!!!!! Thanks 4 the memories.
Im 35 and I feel sorry 4 my kids generation. They listen to their music and they think its good. Thats y I make sure I play some of my old school music so they know what real music sounds like. I catch em bobbin and singin along to some of the songs. They even know good music when they hear it. We keep educatin these kids on what real music sounds like and maybe just maybe they get it and improve on this garbage that they call music nowadays.
Music has changed so much from the 70's & 80's. That's why I had to force my self to listen to jazz. Then I heard Jazz that appealed to me. 90's had guy which was a spin off of the gap band. Good music is rare.
This song was Jam and Lewis' first collaboration with S.O.S. and it's deffo one of their best jams. Wish I could time travel back to the days of decent grooves when the clubs were cranking out tracks like this!!! I really miss those days.
Thank You for the info. It's just that back when this song came out, I remember reading about how Prince had "fired" them from The TIme when they missed a gig because of working with the S.O.S. band!
i listen to alot of funk and i definitely know what was happening in the day. im just saying, listen to someone like patrice rushen who does the same type of funk, but uses solos to make her songs more interesting
True fans don't forget THEIR music. People at one time laughed at me because I still have tapes with 80's R&B I recorded from the College radio station in my redneck town. The station only played "Black" music 2 days out of the week during the afternoon or late evening. Those tapes have music that hasn't ever been played on commercial radio. Now people want me to make them a CD from my tapes. Now who's laughing......
I really like this song, it just sounds so relaxing and makes me feel very comfortable. It really me makes feel really good inside. The tune to the song is very relaxing.
Hughesjr. What you know about that production credits[lol]. Gene Dozier was my Goduncle. He and my dad were tight. Unfortunately he died but, he was a Bad man!!!!!!
i can't even listen to the whole song right now i'm too stunned. my lord i haven't heard this song in so long i am shaking here. what this use to do to dance floors in dc. killer, killer song. one of the few sos band male vocals.
the good thing about this classy music is it never comes around again thats why it will always sounds as good as it taste..and one other thing you wil never find talent like this on some crapie tv show...england.
@flossydossy15 (Man.. I agree. This is like a drug. It makes me high. I don't drink, smoke or do any kind of drugs, but when I hear this song it does something to my system). If I was driving, I would get pulled over by the police for a DWJ (Driving While jammin) or a high speed chase, because I'd be so into the music, I wouldnt' hear their siren.
@thejukejoint I thought that I was the only one that feels like that when it comes to music. Im only 29 and this music gets me up out of my seat. SOS, Gap Band, groups like that, I will thake them any day over what my generation has put out.
@thejukejoint Listened to it a thousand times and you're soo right. It makes me high, gets me of this world..It DOES something to your system...starting at 0.36 when the full synth. chords come in..i'm in heaven..! Funny that music is able to do such things to a human being ;-)
Thumbin & pluckin on the bass! Back in the day seemed like everyone was forming "groups" and you had to know how to play an instrument either by "ear" or by "notes". Oh and someone in the group had to know how to sing for real!
Too right,this was probably their best track that Mary Davis never actually sang on,27 years ago this month i went to see em groovin in Hammersmith Odeon and they didn't dissapoint-SOS-SUPERB OFFICIANADOS of SOUL....
"OFF THE HOOK" track from one of the greatest r&b/pop bands of the 80's. I play it heavily in my car stereo while crusing on the highway on a clear day.
Pure class and this tune sums up the sound of 80's soul/funk.Youngsters of today listen and learn what real music is all about and not this plastic r&b tinny souless crap thats around today.
CLASSIC!!!
cresplove 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
One of my faves from the SOS Band. I am an Old Schooler and have seen posts from youngstas stating that every generation thinks their music is the best music there is. What the youngstas dont realize is old school music was actually performed by MUSICIANS that honed their craft thru years of dedication to their chosen instrument thereby producing the "SOUL" of the music that the new school producers reach back for to create new school music. It takes longer to master a sax than a computer mouse!
Chillzwell 2 weeks ago
Onra brought me here ;) A man with a great taste
CreativiDe992 2 weeks ago
I've never heard this song before until today. I wondered where Onra got the sample from. When I heard this it brought tears to my eyes. I LOVE both songs!!!!!
ladyxonjupiter 3 weeks ago
I saw Onra live a couple of months ago, and he started playing this then blended it into his version...it was so beautiful, I damn near cried...and then I danced!!!
kuriosity89 3 weeks ago
i finally got my swagga back!!!!
1blessedbrotha 1 month ago
@1blessedbrotha lol
MsNocoincidence 2 weeks ago
Thumbs up for Onra!
virgilsupreme 1 month ago 9
cookout food, monkey in the middle, cards, and summertime is what I think about when I hear these old grooves
manly525 2 months ago in playlist R&B
That intro blows my mind every time!!
PatrikStarFunk 2 months ago
great track! thx
komarbingo 2 months ago
And you don't stop, wuh?!!
libbaT 2 months ago in playlist funk n soul classics
i grow up to this kind of music,was a wonderful time................
schufi74 2 months ago
this is still the jam
WILDABROWN46 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The S.O.S. Band
This song brings back some happy memories man... skating rink!!!
cocoapeach 3 months ago
I love this jam always will
SuperPatrice13 3 months ago
Seven people didn't have High Hopes!
blacksnk 4 months ago
excuse my french this but this song is a bad mutha fucka..I mean bad!
RayDog9091 4 months ago in playlist RayDog9091's Favorited Videos
DANCE!!!!!!!!
1blessedbrotha 5 months ago
I love this track!!
homemixer 5 months ago
Onra brought me here :D
CreativiDe992 5 months ago
Bass line kicks ass!!
MrJbird1949 5 months ago
Brilliant tune a real classic
Happysundaze 6 months ago
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Back then you had true artist.
as26370 6 months ago
fuck my gen. I WANT THE 80SSS!!!!!
AlexGreenberg1 6 months ago
Aww yeah, flashbacks! I was the drummer in a funk band (early 80's), We used to hit this one in our set... better BELIEVE the floor was packed!! :)
sactiger 7 months ago
wow! what a song! and i found it by accident! made my day! :D
Caracortada4 7 months ago
I was born in 62 and I remember so much growing up, but I graduated from high school in the 80's and that year had the rocking music
ssbbw00 8 months ago in playlist My Greeting Videos
S.O.S. Band has always been one of my favorites. They just don't have bands like this anymore. Do they have any R&B bands period anymore other than the classic ones??
ewiz06 8 months ago in playlist Atlantic Starr/Midnight Star/SOS Band
This is the only song I liked from them that Mary didn't lead on!! I miss 70s 80s & some 90s music!!!
TyjaluvsChaka 8 months ago
now that'S HIGH QUALITY MUSIC no plastic "NeonPopRapHouseShiiiHighTecSpeedRobotSM" music from mtv. The music on mtv hasn't a genre.
LowRagg 8 months ago
Onra brought me here.
SocPsychUL 8 months ago
Memories of "THE GOOD TIMES" when tunes were TUUUUUUUNESSSSS.
snakehips16 9 months ago
This is the bomb, omg thanks for posting!!
bassway 9 months ago
chuck brought me here...
kendrell3233 9 months ago
chuck inglish brought me here...
lamidej 9 months ago 4
Seems like all of their songs were the bomb. Please check out my cover of Just Be Good to Me on my channel! Bless, KIA MUZE :-)
kiamuze 9 months ago
This is the JAM!!!!
newwavechic 11 months ago
this is the fuckin' grooove
MisterBone777 11 months ago 4
This is what I call the feel good music of the eighties .....MORE FANTASTIC ´80´s msuic at my channel!!! Take a look....
dot4design 11 months ago
Man I was 13 in 82 used to shock out to this @school disco's, then again in the mid 80's @nightclubs. Now 43 even my 15 year old and 13 year old son's love these vibes. Will be playing it again for the upcoming Summer garden barbecues good, good food & music, good people around.
RenKinRaM 11 months ago 2
Leon Sylvers III has to be one of the best producers of the late 70s and 80s.
BlackPride1000 11 months ago
@BlackPride1000 12 Sound, your channel is a reflection and testimonial of your Getto Riddim life. Simply stated, a life permeated with frivolities and triviality.
You and your fellow travelers are an embarrassment to all educated professional blacks that detest the societal reflection that you case upon our generation with your low rent JB nonsense.
Is this socioeconomic degradation all you have in your life?
There's no fool like an old fool. Flush Jim out of your craw 12 Sound.
BlackProfessor1990 11 months ago
Damn I wish I was born in the 80's to expierence the best party years ever!!!! :/
donnie1904 1 year ago 2
Man the Good Days
MrGreatguy50 1 year ago
Quality...
PeckhamExile 1 year ago
this song was the shit when it first hit the charts and radio airwaves. todays music doent compare to the music inthe 80s.
merlinbos1964 1 year ago
This was no.1 way back when I was a soldier my first time overseas. I was 18 yrs. old. lol. We were all blue because we were in Germany missing our girlfriends. Called the states "The World".
ZzFCNzZ 1 year ago
ONRA
gedbeat15 1 year ago 3
I appreciate all music.i can hear a certain song and it takes me back to an era in my life.this reminds me of my aunta getting together playing cards on the weekends.LOVE It
lakevam 1 year ago
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4oust 1 year ago
SOS is amazing. their sound is such a feeling.....
Not as good as original, but Pretty decent remake of the track by this french producer below for anyone interested. Onra
"High Hopes" [ft. Reggie B]
bobbychristman 1 year ago
Lol good to see the youngins recognizing...i was born towards the end of 79' so this is right up my alley. Reminds me of riding around wit my daddy in his 928
ToneProsPlaylist 1 year ago
I'm a white dude BUT THIS brings back memories!!! cruising crossroads in the summer of 83, lots of beer, girls with feathered hair even black girls and dancing, high rise jeans! Wish I could just step in a time machine.
interlake1234567 1 year ago
Some people look at me wrong cuz I keep music like dis around me at all times.......What da fuck is wrong with them....
FireeGee 1 year ago
Gives me shivers, awesome
timbojones23 1 year ago
the early 80s were ZA SHIIIT WISH I LIVED IN THAT ERA!!!!!!aaaaaaahhhhh fuck our generation is fucked up(musically)
Spankeedoodle 1 year ago 6
great song
DARKNESSMEANPOOP 1 year ago
Song was written By Jam & Lewis
Produced by Gene Dozier , Ricky Sylvers
Executive Producer - Leon F. Sylvers III
ArchieGe 1 year ago 9
@ArchieGe Nah im pretty sure a god wrote this.
Sojio 10 months ago
this is the first song that ..JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS produced when PRINCE fired them...this is the very first song that put them where they are now
peckerpeter1000 1 year ago
@peckerpeter1000
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis did'nt produce this song. Ricky Sylvers did, but Jam and Lewis did play some of the instruments on this song. Up until 1983, they only produced songs for Klymaxx. They were'nt fired from The Time until the spring of 1983.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
wow wow wow fucking wow
plunder23 1 year ago
Lol I'm born in 1994 and now I'm 16 and this shit rocks ! So much better than anything today, a beat you can jam to ! wow. Got this on repeat !
TheCurlyHairedDude 1 year ago 49
@TheCurlyHairedDude EXACTLY WE SHOULD GO ON STRIKE! LOL
Spankeedoodle 1 year ago
@TheCurlyHairedDude that is wicked to hear curly, 70's and 80's soul is where its at, real music, real singers, real talent
edgese1 1 year ago
@TheCurlyHairedDude
Well i'm from 1964 and it's good to hear people younger then me love this :-)
19caballo64 1 year ago
@TheCurlyHairedDude : I was born in '64 so I really enjoyed this music during my youth.... My Ipod is still crowded with these tracks (SOS Band, Change, Shalamar, Delegation, Ray Parker jr & Raydio, Kool & The Gang..... ). I've got a child in '94...exactly like you but I wish he likes this music as you..... he's a bassist in a metal group...sigh!
lucbuc64 8 months ago 2
@TheCurlyHairedDude You said it, i'm 29 now and since i am a teen i'm listening to funk. This is music at its best. I wonder if we all have the same ears when i see people enjoying today's crap music, what do we wait to come back to real good music like this...
TAYMOURofficial 6 months ago
@TheCurlyHairedDude You gotta remember this is back in the days when groups like the SOS band were skilled musicians and the melody of the music really mattered. I should know i am from this era and was around when songs like these were new and had air time on the radio.
jogmas12 1 week ago
@TheCurlyHairedDude I know what you mean........I was born in '84 and music nowadays can't even compare to tunes like this
bay2bay84 1 week ago
Oh My GOODNESS This was the JAM!!!!
willowdunc04 1 year ago
My home boy takes the lead on this one and a first class job he does! Abdul Raoof at his best and a first class trumpeter too! Sangit
adksaxplaya 1 year ago
So beautiful.
Essence123abc 1 year ago
this be slappin mayne
VoodooUprising 1 year ago 2
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Wow...1982, man where did those years go, will I ever stop dancing to sounds like this?
Livenumber1 1 year ago
Man.,..1982, where did those years go, will I ever stop dancing to this?
Livenumber1 1 year ago
Thats what I'm talking about! I'm an 80's baby and my mama got me and my sister on REAL music. This mess today is just what it is a HOT MESS!
msjaybee81 1 year ago 22
@msjaybee81 OH i hear you on that!!! Thanks mama and auntys! lol.
slimm66 1 year ago
Hot Stuff - forever
FrankDeluxe3 1 year ago
On the real...! This has got to be one of those under appreciated songs i have on a very long list of. This easily could have been a bigger hit if the lable people pushed just a lil harder for air time I'm sure..Thankyou for into this FUNK..I appreciate you!!
theracerbax 1 year ago
ROLAND TR 808 Ya can feel the groove right here nahmsayin. Bangin back in the days. This was/IS the shit. No hate,no war,just lovely music but this kind of music makes a person without girlfriend (boyfriend <--for girls) sad.
LowRagg 1 year ago
The drum roll gets me pumped up and once the beat goes in i feel like im in heaven!!!
805FiltrosFunk 1 year ago
@805FiltrosFunk This is how I feel listening to this song!
innie68 1 year ago
I USED TO LOVE THIS SONG WITH A PASSION. REMINDS ME OF LARRY FROM LOUISIANA.
maryleefisher 1 year ago
SERIO
celticlarry 1 year ago
OH MAN Recorded to perfection. Every last drop of it just sounds so perfect.
DonJuanDeMarco2 1 year ago
an everlasting funk tune....
ivantainment 1 year ago
Awwww shit. This was my Jam! How many songs are there out there today that when you hear them you can't help but get up and dance?? The SOS band was one of my favorite groups back in the day. I loved everything they put out but my personal favorite was "Weekend Girl" cuz that's what I was!
bronxbabi100 1 year ago
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creaper587 1 year ago
always beautiful
CactusLounge 1 year ago
but listen to that Leon F. Sylvers influnece. Even though Jam and Lewis produced it. I know u hear it.
mlampkins1 1 year ago
this song was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis I think. Great song
TheWssj 1 year ago
@TheWssj
I don't think they produce this single (or album for that matter), because Jimmy and Terry were still a part of The Time when this came out back 1982. But, Jam and Lewis did produce The SOS Band 1986 release "Sands Of Time" which featured (one of my favorites by the group), the smash hit "The Finest" with Alexander O'neal doing the background vocals.
MrJuly1990ish 1 year ago
@MrJuly1990ish Jimmy & Terry most DEFINITELY produced this...just listen 2 the groove!!!
OvrC59 1 year ago
@MrJuly1990ish High Hopes" is the 6th charting single for The SOS Band. It reached number 25 on the R&B chart in 1982. It marked the first collaboration of producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with the group. [1] [2] They would go on to produce several more hits for the group during the 1980s.
kingq01 1 year ago
@kingq01
Yeah, thanks for the info my cousin (who is a big SOS fan) reminded me Jam & Lewis did produce "High Hopes", lol!! I recalled now when Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis was on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson discussing on how they were fired from The Time do to the fact that they had produce & wrote certain songs for other groups/artist without Prince permission.
MrJuly1990ish 1 year ago
@TheWssj
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis wrote this song, but it was produced by Leon F Sylver's younger brother and Sylvers guitar player, Ricky Sylvers. The only songs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced prior to 1983 were Klymaxx and Trouble Funk. The team also wrote one song for Dynasty's fourth album as well as played the guitar and bass on that same album as well as SOS III.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
classic from 1982 by the sos band
mrsam2009 1 year ago
Wow! It's been sooo long I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten how "BAD ASS" the SOS Band was. The lyrics really hit home now that we all got some "livin" under our belts. Boy we just took all that for granted back then.....and just moved on to the next without a second thought. Damn! ....... I'm pullin out all my vinyl today!...... Anybody know where I can buy a record player?.... Do they still make record players? Damn I'm old.
thatguyfromImpanema 1 year ago 2
@thatguyfromImpanema - yeah man I got a record players and all the records to go with it. Man gt one on line and jam like i do. This is good music man and I just love the fact that all of us grew up during the time we did!!!
TONETONE69 1 year ago
i just ran across this and i'm glad I did, this was the song for me back in the day, the S.O.S band was da shit! I still know all thed words.
Tygerr30 1 year ago
this songs hell groovy
good 1 for a car
ralcock 1 year ago
ooh shit this song makes me sad and happy at the same time. CHECK THE BASSLINE !!!!!! This is so fucking amazing ! im in love.
SOS III is my fav SOS Band album. I can bump the whole album without skippin. this is LOVELY music ..love it
LowRagg 1 year ago
@LowRagg I AM TOTALLY AGREEING WITH YOU !!!!! The SOS Band was (and always will be) .... OFF THE METER!!! Totally feel their music for life!
MsDiamondz4u 1 year ago
@MsDiamondz4u u can say that again & u got the groove!! i rly love SOS band No homo! I wanna see them live !!
LowRagg 1 year ago
This is one of the best by SOS ya gotta love them, class and style without end baby!
Freds2964 1 year ago
found out about this through onra's dope cover version. turns out the original is awesome too!
sethwick23 1 year ago
Groovy,it still sounds really good.This is real music,clean & funky.Thanks
Grooveme321 1 year ago
This is really funky..Nonetheless,if you ain't swaying to this something's definitely wrong.Lol !!!! Can you say REAL MUSIC ????????? This is it !!!!!!!!!! Thanks 4 the memories.
Grooveme321 1 year ago
Im 35 and I feel sorry 4 my kids generation. They listen to their music and they think its good. Thats y I make sure I play some of my old school music so they know what real music sounds like. I catch em bobbin and singin along to some of the songs. They even know good music when they hear it. We keep educatin these kids on what real music sounds like and maybe just maybe they get it and improve on this garbage that they call music nowadays.
dpat2004 1 year ago
no more funk like this anymore, im 16 and my generation dont know anything about music
hillbillyfloyd 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this song. This was the best song that came out of the S.O.S band. haha, I'm only 21 and I love this stuff
moboi89 1 year ago
Love this song!! I sure did have High Hopes for you and me!
714Gfunk 1 year ago
Now THIS is good music...when the lyrics meant something.
thesoapseduction 1 year ago
@thesoapseduction Mhmmm ...I know thats right!
DullardGuy 1 year ago
@thesoapseduction It sure did
gemini19662010 1 year ago
Love this song. There is a remake of this song by "Onra" which is good sampling.
49hawk 1 year ago
Music has changed so much from the 70's & 80's. That's why I had to force my self to listen to jazz. Then I heard Jazz that appealed to me. 90's had guy which was a spin off of the gap band. Good music is rare.
rickames 1 year ago
I get tears in my eyes, hearing all these great Jam & Lewis tracks. They wrote the best stuff during the 80's. And the SOS Band was for me the top.
Heraing all this, brings back soo many beautiful memories ...
I wish i could turn back the clock. But fortunately, there are things like Youtube..
ovattion 1 year ago
REAL MUSIC...thats the only way to describe it.
casper909 1 year ago
High hopes.....high production! Absolutely brilliant tune.
23jordanian 1 year ago
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JRHINEHOLD 1 year ago
we were lucky to have this kind of music, why none performs such a kind of gemms today?
With love for Miguell & Toteh!
MadridSoulbrother 1 year ago
Jam & Lewis - best producers of all time - Period!
DJdefcon4 1 year ago
i love this songs the 1980s cranked so many hungry talented groups SOS band was one of them
MegaJuicyjuice 1 year ago
I'm feelin this...
Aciremet 1 year ago
This song was Jam and Lewis' first collaboration with S.O.S. and it's deffo one of their best jams. Wish I could time travel back to the days of decent grooves when the clubs were cranking out tracks like this!!! I really miss those days.
GazzTheFunkadelic 1 year ago 2
This is it !!!
claudiahd61 1 year ago
I got all of their records....I used to be all ove the place back then.....great music.
kax61 1 year ago
this is music i love it
peace from germany
Cydersnipa17 1 year ago
peace to you as well in the usa great music great times
petera41 1 year ago
Gotta be my favorite song of theirs, despite it not being the most popular. The Jam & Lewis thing is totally poppin' off!!!
ladyjae65 1 year ago
@ladyjae65 Actually Ricky Sylvers produced it. Jimmy & Terry wrote this version though. Top shelf mellow Funk.
stellarchordz 1 year ago
Thank You for the info. It's just that back when this song came out, I remember reading about how Prince had "fired" them from The TIme when they missed a gig because of working with the S.O.S. band!
ladyjae65 1 year ago
@stellarchordz What other version was there?
willowseeker 1 year ago
Great post. Thanks. This is a CHOON. Man there was so much good music around then.
MrTockTock1 1 year ago
Brings a tear to my eyes, i wish i could go back in time. Great tune.
JCS90000 1 year ago 2
Fantastic Track. I remember buying the 12 incher. Happy days indeed.
blondericky 1 year ago 3
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis:What a team.One of the greatest producers in music history.
MarkyCool67 2 years ago 2
back in the days well we were just coimng out of high school
petera41 2 years ago
song has a damn nice beat, but i think they could have juiced it up alot more, added some nice solos
adamkalle 2 years ago
@adamkalle don't mess w/perfection,
you had to be there to know what was happen in the day!!
55Medusa 2 years ago
i listen to alot of funk and i definitely know what was happening in the day. im just saying, listen to someone like patrice rushen who does the same type of funk, but uses solos to make her songs more interesting
adamkalle 2 years ago
this is what we use to call a cut, one of the greatest bands ever
freestyle5504 2 years ago
True fans don't forget THEIR music. People at one time laughed at me because I still have tapes with 80's R&B I recorded from the College radio station in my redneck town. The station only played "Black" music 2 days out of the week during the afternoon or late evening. Those tapes have music that hasn't ever been played on commercial radio. Now people want me to make them a CD from my tapes. Now who's laughing......
brainnopain 2 years ago 3
@brainnopain Allow me to laugh with you...HA HA HA HAAA HA HA HAA!!! I wish I still had my old tapes. I made the mistake of loaning them joints out.
HorusRising 1 year ago
yeah... my story! But guess what? I married her and after 23 years, the memories of the soire are still passionate--i got the girl!
jimdaddy65 2 years ago
a real smooth jam, but deep story...i love this song. thx 4 postin
Oracle0831 2 years ago
super awesome
tappy42 2 years ago 2
I really like this song, it just sounds so relaxing and makes me feel very comfortable. It really me makes feel really good inside. The tune to the song is very relaxing.
Ibusers1 2 years ago
This song is the one... fucking funky huh!!!
Nothing but soul throughout this whole song.
dfonzerrelli17 2 years ago 4
I JUST RAN DOWN STAIRS AND SHOUTED OUT ' I FOUND HIGH HOPES!!!!!' I forgot about this one! WOW!!
MrCardz1027 2 years ago 3
What a brilliant piece of music. So timeless, brings me back to a time when actual musicians made music, not some kid and his computer, lol!
Great upload!!
mrsoulboy75 2 years ago 5
I'm really happy that I was a young man durning on of the finest decades for black music. The S O S Band was one of the best of the 80's
flamdad 2 years ago
First SOS R&B hit written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (#26 R&B). Produced by Rickey Sylvers and Gene Dozier.
hughesjr 2 years ago
Hughesjr. What you know about that production credits[lol]. Gene Dozier was my Goduncle. He and my dad were tight. Unfortunately he died but, he was a Bad man!!!!!!
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croon3 2 years ago
i can't even listen to the whole song right now i'm too stunned. my lord i haven't heard this song in so long i am shaking here. what this use to do to dance floors in dc. killer, killer song. one of the few sos band male vocals.
daryllharris 2 years ago 2
This song is like a drug or the Duck Tales theme song, once you hear it once, it will NEVER leave your head!
RauMateriaul 2 years ago
the good thing about this classy music is it never comes around again thats why it will always sounds as good as it taste..and one other thing you wil never find talent like this on some crapie tv show...england.
lukeydoeslikey 2 years ago 4
A CLASSIC GROOVE from the SOS Band!
Glorify27 2 years ago 3
I was feeling down until I played this. Now I feel so good inside. This musiq is so beautiful mane.
flossydossy15 2 years ago 7
@flossydossy15 (Man.. I agree. This is like a drug. It makes me high. I don't drink, smoke or do any kind of drugs, but when I hear this song it does something to my system). If I was driving, I would get pulled over by the police for a DWJ (Driving While jammin) or a high speed chase, because I'd be so into the music, I wouldnt' hear their siren.
thejukejoint 2 years ago 24
@thejukejoint I thought that I was the only one that feels like that when it comes to music. Im only 29 and this music gets me up out of my seat. SOS, Gap Band, groups like that, I will thake them any day over what my generation has put out.
Tameka1980 1 year ago
@Tameka1980 ... feel sorry for you Tameka, but you are right...your generation sucks !!!!
Pakash8 1 year ago
@Pakash8 LMAOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry Tameka.
MsDiamondz4u 1 year ago
@thejukejoint Listened to it a thousand times and you're soo right. It makes me high, gets me of this world..It DOES something to your system...starting at 0.36 when the full synth. chords come in..i'm in heaven..! Funny that music is able to do such things to a human being ;-)
innie68 1 year ago 2
Thumbin & pluckin on the bass! Back in the day seemed like everyone was forming "groups" and you had to know how to play an instrument either by "ear" or by "notes". Oh and someone in the group had to know how to sing for real!
JayRockBass 2 years ago 4
Too right,this was probably their best track that Mary Davis never actually sang on,27 years ago this month i went to see em groovin in Hammersmith Odeon and they didn't dissapoint-SOS-SUPERB OFFICIANADOS of SOUL....
heatwave61 2 years ago 2
one of all my time favs,........listen to those strings....
hpber 2 years ago
i got high Hopes...........Bammmmmmmm
rdrnation 2 years ago
"OFF THE HOOK" track from one of the greatest r&b/pop bands of the 80's. I play it heavily in my car stereo while crusing on the highway on a clear day.
QuietStormMan 2 years ago 4
Music from back in the day tended to create a full atmosphere, while today's stuff is too "stripped down" and bare.
chuobio 2 years ago 6
The most Songs of the SOS Band are great, but for me, this Track is best !!!! Unforgetable and allways like to hear !!
Ingostar71 2 years ago
Nice groove!
sumosounds 2 years ago
Pure class and this tune sums up the sound of 80's soul/funk.Youngsters of today listen and learn what real music is all about and not this plastic r&b tinny souless crap thats around today.
MrGroover66 2 years ago 22
I hear you on that brother, well said
2bsure 2 years ago