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  • aww man, where did music like this go???

    The American music Industry traded its soul for the all-mighty dollar and now the only instrument these friggin artists know is the Auto-Tune!!! I'm 28 and I cant tolerate ANY of today's music DAGUMMIT :-(

  • Heard this song on episode 9 season 05 of Top Gear. sounded cool as hell. had to go find it and listen to the real thing. byt he way. im 27, i listen to techno and snoop dogg and i like this song.... must mean im crazy right?

  • If I ever saw Bill Withers sing this in person, I would have no choice other than to immediately have sex with him.

  • @maxwilkins1985 pussy is that easy how bout i play it lmao

  • Bill is an extraordinary indiviual.I love him.When him and his actress wife divorced,he said she tried to use him up so he leaned on her..Cracked me up.Down to eath and unpretentious.

  • any thoughts on which version is better...I am torn between Gladys Knight's version and this one.  Both brilliant.

  • Bill Withers is the only man on the planet that can make saying "Dadgummit" sound cool as fuck.

  • @dfesta a gunny and above make it sound cool as fuck as well

  • Y'all ain't ready for Bill Withers!!!

  • great song

  • Jackie Brown. this is my favorite song on that soundtrack. talk about smoooooth.

  • I was conceived to this song 32 years ago. Lol Tmi mom and dad and thanks for the soul music you two always played around me .

  • listen to the Henrik Schwarz remix, many of you know already I'm sure of it.

  • Wow what a great treat to still be able to hear great music. Thanks Bill.

    Also saw a special with You and Your daughter and you both were singing, Just proves the Fruit does not fall far from the tree. God Bless You and Your wife , daughter and Son...........

  • When a man has to say "dadgumit" to you, it's about to be some problems. LOL

  • There isn't much music better than 70's funk and soul

  • packed a bowl and blazing to this. what a great way to finish the work week.

  • what you said brotha Bill? ha! lol, sang that....love this one ..... Hotep

  • True Funk datgummit!!!

  • classic bill withersline" datgummit!

  • datgumit!!

    

  • This is Awesome!

  • Bill Withers = Legend!

    Da gummit da ~ who is he and what is he to you?

  • I love this song but can someone tell me exactly what does "Dagumitah" or whatever that word Bill is using means?  When I first started singing the song, I use say "Got Dammit, who is he and what is he to you? :)

  • @P90X490104 Maybe he actually wanted to say God Dammit but wasn't allowed to curse when making music back in 1973, so dadgumit is probably a substitute.

  • @tellavision01

    That's what I've always thought.

    The Temptations also say dadgumit on Papa Was A Rollin' Stone.

  • @P90X490104 It's a old-school, Southern phrase. Put a Dixie accent on it, it sounds proper

  • Check...

  • What a man!!!!!

  • You figure it out now what are you going to do

  • Bill Withers man! unlike no other

  • LL Cool J-"Phenomenon" & Cam'Ron-"Horse & Carriage"

  • Dagumitah

  • white wonka n I Inhale this potent delicious

  • Love this song!!

  • These guys were original thats why the artist of today have to go back to use their hooks . 

  • wicked awesome!!!!!!!!!

  • Love This Song.!!

  • real music deals with real life...

  • too much for one man but no enough for two-sing it bill-this is about cheating=homosexuality huh--sleeping with the enemy-man oh man -there's a lack of basic reading comprehension skills-oh and kabo-the enemy--comprehension skill inference, people who view their partner as the enemy are not great partners--wow-adult remedial reading classes are in order.

  • @zsugar19 iam trying to understand where u stand, have no idea if u are a man or woman but here is a run down. females are built to kill two birds with one stone, men are not which i why we will lose if we were to ever try and battle that. woman really feel like there are just SOOO much for one man to handle, but two men now that sounds like a ball game to them. another fact.. females are like the govenment :both never admit when they are wrong and neither EVER tell the truth, that just me tho

  • @kabol69 Sounds like you've been through some changes. If so, I hope things improve and you meet your soul mate...that is if you haven't done so already. Peace!

  • @malindaflowers thanks you, but its 2011 and they just dont make "em" like they used to. granted i was too young to know what "used to" is but lol u get where iam coming from. iam 23 years old and everything that females my age do either piss me off or just has be shaking my head at them. and they wonder why older woman are in (i refuse to call them a damn big cat) where are the females that have soul like jimm scott and lauren hill, anita baker, ect.to busy trying to be lil kim and trina iguess

  • @kabol69 Easy, soul bro. Finding love is a process, not an event. You sound like me, 10 years ago, when I found a lady who spoke just like you speak. Spread love. Eventually, it comes back. Bill Withers.

  • JUST UPLOADED A BILL WITHERS - AINT NO SUNSHINE COVER!! Check it out on my channel!!! LIKE (if you do) and COMMENT, ALL YOU BILLY FANS!! THANKS!! <3

  • listen to music like this and u start to see that there are going to be men that hear this song... and i hate to say it but get more truth about whats going between him and his o lady from this song then he gets from her, a man may have had this happen to him TO THE T and its ganna f*** him up. lil advice if u are that guy i am talking about no this. YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE so dont feel liek u are, and to those aout there who feel they woman are saints... might wanna listen to the song again! XD

  • who is he and what is he to u today thats a knew unfortunate dilemna and nowa it who is he and who is HE TO YOU?????????? gay gay gay

  • Love the way the tambourine drops in unexpectedly. Brilliant writing and arrangement. And topped off by Bill's voice of liquid Gold.

  • A part of life put to music

  • to bad this song happens to men everyday, worse part is we will live life never knowing, and there for men are "sleeping with the enemy"

  • sitting here with a joint on my ear listening to this song for the first time.

    FUCK YEA!!

  • My, my, my, now that is Soul wrapped in Attitude!

  • "your too much for one man... but not enought for two" coldest line ever!

  • @kabol69

    I've heard the same thing said about a turkey

  • Bill Withers is one of the most underrated musicians of all time. Of all the major hits he had, this song is the best thing he ever created. "Something in my heart and in your eye"

  • granted woman will NEVER admit this but i how many times this happened rightin front of them countless times... and you will never know... i know... it sucks, so MEN WATCH WHAT U LAY DOWN WITH!!

    JAMES MISSOURI

  • DATGUMMIT they don't make music like this any more.

  • maybe if he'd left those young things alone when there wasn't no sunshine when she was gone, he'd know - dadgumit!

  • Gangster.

  • dadgummit? what does it mean?

  • @Lortenerfrisk : like "daggon!" -- kinda a nice cleaned up "G-dammit"

  • @jinxthekatt right thank you

  • @Lortenerfrisk It's like a play on god dammit....~I think lol

  • "your too much for one man... but not enough for two" thats cold blooded right there... thanks god for bill withers. him and mr biggs just seem like the type of strong black men that sees the BS females be spittin, but not feed into them (like they want us to do) tell them what it is and leave it at that, iam sure there is a man that tried his WHOLE life to get ONE point across to his wife and he was put in the ground without getting it either so u can talk to you are blue in the face idm

  • thise song ....that bassline is gangster.

  • One of the funkiest basslines ever, both Lee Scratch Perry nd The Upsetters, (Da Ba Day?Kiss My neck), Puffy, Something Like A Phenomenon sampled it.

  • @shonha1

    yeah LL cool J - Something Like A Phenomenon. This song is badass!

  • @dn3000

    I think LL Cool J sampled the Creative Source's version of this song, not Bill's.

  • @SlickFunker HOW YOUNG ARE U

  • @ChefLaDale

    52 mate. I'm an old funker.

  • Sublime

  • Fuck me! What a song!

  • bill you know what it is... she is creeping sir... creeping indeed

  • @haulingturds trade the wine for yourself and see what you find there...

  • thats a bad tambourine....

  • oh this one right here! its almost to much for my ears and soul to take in... cant stop snapping my fingers to this one. i love how he tells alot about how these females will mess up and how they mess up. he is like mr biggs when it comes to bringing them hateful females back down to earth but still being a G about it. se this is the era in which i should have been born in.. not no damn 2000s, i still believe that his song "use me" is the story of my life

  • Oh yeah!  Umph, what can you say? ...True< The Great Bill Withers!!!

  • I love how, even without the lyrics, you can hear the suspicion and attitude and frustration in the guitar/bass riff. Bring the lyrics back into play, and this song REALLY speaks to you. Even if you haven't been cheated on (or just didn't realize it lol), you can feel where he's coming from. Damn good music... They don't make it like this anymore, and it's a shame...

  • this mans a legend! except no substitute's

  • Nice song heard it via the remix of Henrik Schwarz :)

  • Melts me every single time I hear it....bliss.

  • I'm a teenage..  Soul Music Rocks !!!

  • 1:08 Billy was packin some heat! LOL

  • jackie brown soundtrack.

  • there are 6 people who need to go find themselves a big phattie and smoke themselves into oblivion !

  • Daggummiittaaa

  • Hey bill your right on key this should be the national anthem 4 cheating song

    

  • Unique. Why is this quality of writing and performing not happening any more? God bless Bill and a long list of many others... 

  • not too many songs like this out there...period!!...touching a touchy topic with style.

  • Lazy Afternoon O.o

  • glass of Crown, but to each their own, and CHEERS TO MR. WITHERS

  • been there and seen that look, just saying

  • this is real music. the best of the best .

  • The true art of story telling, established July 4th, 1938. Thanks Bill for the mind-movie!

  • Is this the Rhytm?

    ofc it is

    Ty Mr.Withers

  • holly molly, that is just an amazing song. It plays on my every nerve, it makes me feel what he must have felt. So intimate and personal.

  • 1:53 too much soul 4 one picture.

  • this is relaxing,and very REAL

  • This song means more to me now that it ever did....watch those snakes fellas

  • I agree,he is so cool and amazingly talented. i love him..

  • fucking legend FACT!

  • I am very lucky to have a blue collar white southern gentleman as a dad. He introduced me to Percy Sledge, Bill Withers, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, all types of spirituals and the blues. He said this was the music of the feeling man. He taught me that I could live for years without a TV but I couldn't survive a day without music. Music, dance and art were regarded as the most important contributions of man.

  • love bill withers. when i was younger and listened to his music, i never had to know his name. i never had to know the song title. i never had to know anything except that his music made me feel. FEEL. anyone ever listen to ESHAM he sampled this bass line and beat for a song. (cant remeber the title, but its hook is "im on 7 mile ridin dirty.") i dont think bill realizes what he really means to music.

  • @kingkeefage remember the title now. 7 mile rd. on the album gotham city 1987

  • LOVE this song and LOVE Bill Withers. Recently watched a movie about him called Still Bill. Wish he would put out another album.

  • hey i made a video response to this song smapled the hook check it out

  • 6 people must already know who he is

  • j'adore !!!!!!

  • Perverted Monks _ Desperados prod. Curt Cazal sampled this marvelous song.

  • Badass song. Period

  • Man i love this kind of music

  • Preach Bill!!!!

  • awesome! This is music at it's finest! I wish there were more that took this craft seriously.

  • This man is a musical genius, i think the legend about him and Denise has kept him out of the public eye and we have lost something great. I say, if he di or he didn't we should give him the benefit of the doubt, asn as well learn forgiveness. I bet Denise has, if there was even any issues to forgive. Remember there may be more than one side to the story. Anyway, I hope and pray Bill is happy and healthy...daggummit!!!

  • @abranche59  Me too!!!!

  • Thumbs up if Sharkslayer send you here :D

  • thumb ups for Sharkslayer

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  • wow I LOVE Bill's work but reportedly this song and "Use Me" is suppose to be about his marriage to Denise Nicholas in which he abused her. Damn it's always the great artists look at Al Green hot grits didn't get thrown on him cause he was being sweet he's an admitted abuser.

  • @Charde1 I DONT CARE ITS JUST "GOOD" MUSIC

  • @DARIUSSR612 I wasn't asking you to care I still LOVE the music I was just pointing out the similarities between artists. I still find Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Hendrix, and countless others wonderful artists and their music is fantastic but I still know the HISTORY of what helps to MAKE these artists. Without the things of their lives I don't think they could've made such GREAT music. That's my opinion which I'm free to voice according to US law; so you can keep it moving.

  • @Charde1 I DIDNT ASK YOU IF YOU CARED IF I CARED, YET AGAIN STILL WHO CARES ABOUT "THEIR" PERSONAL LIVES ITS STILLGOOD MUSIC REGARDLESS, AND EVEN BEFORE THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS HAPPENED HE WAS A TERRIFIC ARTIST/MUSICIAN OTHERWISE HE WOULDNT HAVE GOTTEN A RECORDING CONTRACT, YES THEY MIGHT HAVE USED "SOME" LIFE EXPERIENCE IN THEIR MUSIC BUT THAT "ISN'T" WHAT "MADE" THEM GREAT ARTIST'S IT WAS THEIR TALENT !! IS THAT MOVING ENOUGH FOR YOU, OH BTW BILL IS "FAMILY"! KEEP IT MOVING, PEACE!

  • @DARIUSSR612 I'm glad Bill is your family fantastic tell him I said hello I'm a fan (which means I EXCEPT THE GOOD & THE BAD), but being an artist myself I happen to know that having talent is just one ingredient but not the main one to get a record deal cause we all know plenty of artist who have record deals and don't have talent or who have talent and don't have record deals. Also I never said that the life experiences were the only things that made the artist I said it "helped" to make them.

  • Domestic disturbance music

  • Bill Withers is Bill Withers the great!

  • GO Sir Bill XXXXXXXX

  • IF HE WAS ENGLISH HE WOULD BE SIR BILL!!

  • Makes you want to knod your head to the beat!...lol Yes, indeedy one of my favorites by Mr. William Harrison...aka.., Bill Withers.

    This song indeeds tells the story of someone getting 'busted' big time...lol And for some reason I feel the presence of Isaac Hayes in the house.

    All I want to know is how do you spell 'Daggummit'????

  • @cakeandthewine

    Harrison is his middle name. "Bill Withers" is not a pseuodonym.

  • @cakeandthewine you spell it - Dagguummiittaa

  • Turn it up and Crack a 40oz . to this jam,... Thanks for the post Homie..

  • the problem

  • was in the marines then. the black brothers --muslims played this. I had a fight with this brother and he broke my nose and cut my lip open. one bad mother fucker. I was as strong as him-but didnt really know how to fight. a lesson. keep humble-the poor see through the rich. semper fi- vietnan veteran.

  • @jimmyd10100 ...for some reason, i was feeling your story....bless you...

  • Now this is a STORY TELLING SONG!!!!!!

  • the tambourine at 0:56 ...love IT

  • you and i and i and he andd we and us an everbody around us. thank you so much.

  • I wonder if there are any popular performers (I hesitate to call them artists) today who will still seem cool 40 years from now...

  • @LakotaSapa No way!

  • 6 people are looking at the ground.

  • Dag gummit, uh

  • As cool now as in 1973. Luvin this.

  • 6 people, who are you? and you aint nothin to us

  • Can't get any smoother then this!!!

  • smooooooooth........

  • This IS the best!

  • Diis da best skate song

  • I have heard many versions of this song but I got to say........the Bill Withers version is the most funky out of all of them

  • @BrotherBlaccspider is track, but like you say.... this is the REAL deal. Bill Withers low down and dirty, serious soul , armed and dangerous.

  • I'm white and I never heard of Bill Withers until a friend sent me to this video and as I kept listening suddenly my feet started moving funny, and before I knew I was dancing like snoopy... fachizzle my nizzle dizzle... omg... wtf is going on...LOL

  • @Elenkhos

    It is so annoying when whites come on and say "I'm white."  Who gives a fig, just give your comment. You want a dog gone freakin' cookie.

  • @PatsBooks No you wanna banana?

  • what do you get if you put a duck in the microwave?

  • Bill Withers, brother you got me soooooooooo chilled out.

  • his beats are bangers

  • I could have handled this man in his prime. Seriously. "These men were men."

  • I now love this song

  • So old and yet so true in every aspect: meaning, word, sound. No excesses, no adornments, straight to the core feeling. More than just music.

  • Who disables embedding? Whats the point?

  • Classsssic!

  • Funky & a good Lyric to Boot...So rare these days ( unless you listen to underground Nu Soul/ "Alternative R&B..) Bill has that "Vibe"...

    Commercial Radio in the USA is a Joke...Who "Stole the Soul"?

  • epic. i said those exact words to a girl years before I heard the song. my head nearly exploded when I heard it in the song for the first time. thats the way the universe works

  • @Ace23 did you include the classic "dadgummit-uh" as well? That'd be truly epic!

  • Where the bleep is the repeat-button...this is state of the art. Always alive.

  • was in the marines in 1971, the brothers were playing this. had a stand up fist fight with a blk muslim. he broke my nose and cut my lip open. went home looking like a racoon with two blk eyes. but, great times back then. semper fi!

  • chuck norris has a Bill Withers collection

  • @comptongameLA to bad his choice in politice isn't good like his choice in music.

  • @comptongameLA Please, please don't tell Bill Withers please!!

  • @comptongameLA He would...LOL

  • @comptongameLA That's because Chuck is a true soulful badass!

  • @comptongameLA chuck norris has aBill Withers tatoo