Wow...I remember my mother used to play this song when I was little. The beat popped into my head a few wks back, never knew the name or the words, but I remembered that I liked the song. Can't believe I finally found it on here =] I am 23yrs old, and I am proud to say that I have not "missed the bus/boat" of good music =] Glad my mother expressed her music to me from a little kid to a teenager, cause I still love it as an adult =]
My dad use to love Jerry butler so much I miss you dad.We use to sit on the carpet on a sheet and listen to Jerry all day with me under his arm those were the days.I miss being daddy's lil girl.
Yes, YEs, YEEEE-ESSSSS; Understanding is so mellow with an eternal GRIP! May Faith be pleased to work with your u n d e r s t a n d i n g...as God the Father was pleased to work with the understanding of our Savior, the Lord Jesus! If you can receive it, this is the Faith Perfected. IT IS FINISHED"= "IT IS PERFECTED"
This is off the hook ! this song by Jerry & Brenda Ain't understanding mellow has come my over all like able song.Be fore this, it was your precious love.My thanks to all that played in putting this together.
This is one of my favorite I remember this back in the days and I still love this song I'm now 56yrs it was the time when you hear music it wasn't long before you learned the words, I can listen to this all day and still smile when I hear it like the first time
This is one of my very favourite slow song. What great harmony! Technology, or the poor use of it has spoiled singers. Machines are being used to try to replace the human voice chords - Impossible. Listen to Brenda Lee Eager and the Ice Man ---- and try to explain ...
Thanks bigbanks, this song reminds me of my mom and dad who are both deceased now. I learned about good music from the best, R.I.P ''Lil benn & Margo i'm sure you both are singing in heaven.
PLEASE!! BRING BACK REAL MUSIC! its pathetic what they put on wax now and try to call it music, musicians dont exist anymore.. their either retired or left this world already..
I thank GOD for this posting and for allowing me to experience this type of music back in the day. It was such a beautiful time in my life. We had so little material things but so much love!!! Thank you for this posting... Another beautiful duet!!!
Brenda Lee Eager is a choir director in Culver City Caifornia. She had quite an illustrious career as a backup singer, songwriter and musical theatre performer since working with Butler. She also performs a one-woman show based on her life called Grace.
Listening to this music makes me so glad my generation can pass something like this along to the younger generation. Just some of the great stuff to be used as a template for the future.
Brenda, you are an amazing woman and I am grateful every time I see that beautiful smile!! Much peace and many blessings!! Alan L. Lavitt - Agape Media Team.
i remember social dances at my dunbar jr high and horace mann senior high..when i was a young boy/man in pebble town ar.. ..then at philander smith...this brings back memories of my youth....now i really really understand the lyrics
The late Donny Hathaway was the pianist on this classic. The bassist was Cleveland Eaton, who would later switch to trumpet/trombone & join the Phenix Horns (played on many Earth Wind & Fire albums).
@MusicManKevin Thanx for that info. I never knew who was the pianist on this great cut. Props to the late Great Donnie Hathaway. This is a true Soul Classic.
man this brings back so many memories.. I was little when I heard this... I wish they made music like this today.. music today sucks so bad.. I have to quickly turn off my radio unless they play throwback music.. thanks for the upload!!!!!
This song speaks to the heart. When they're both singing I can feel their pain but the love bond they still share. Man I wish they still made music like this but now all the love songs are lust songs with no feeling like this one. The good old love songs can bring tears to my eyes, the new stuff just makes me wanna change the station.
its been said over and over again where the hell is this music these days!!!!the stuff you can trully feel all over your body .and can bring teas to your eyes i really miss this music and the people that knew how to bring it.
As an X electric bass player, My guess that the bassist is playing a fretless electric bass guitar. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think I'm right though.
For the "1" who does'nt like this song. "I thank God" for the "155" people who do like this song. Now that's "ain't understanding mellow". I love this beautiful classic.
I know it's been said hundreds of times, but again, ... When music was really music ...! If you were living and breathing back then, you know what I mean! -- Homefire5
@HOMEFIRE5 Music has always been music. If Mozart we're alive in the 60s and 70s, he would have criticized Jerry butler just like you criticize new music.
me again...my mom just talked to Brenda no less than an hour ago - my reason for posting this... she leads a choir in Los Angeles and is hoping to put on a one women show taking us back to our "roots". If you hear about it, support it .
Brenda Lee Eager sang in the choir an the Greater Nazaree Missionary Baptist church in Mobile Alabama and was my mom's best friend growing up. As a 3 or 4 year old, I remember sitting on her lap at church holding me while my mom got 'the holy ghost". Whenever i hear this song, it warms me inside because the "gospel" is still there.
I was in the Army when I first heard this song played and I was thinking some of us were going to Vietnam and Europe serving with NATO. For the first time I understood what my lady was saying when I boarded the plane to leave. The sad note she passed away while I was deployed and these words came back to me ain't understanding mellow
I remember listening to this song on the radio in Tallahasee in the Education Dept. at FAMU, when I was working there as a student assistant. It put me in a mood towards the end of the day to make it on down to the Savoy.
Thank God for the Iceman!!!! Jerry Butler can sing me anything!!! This is one of those songs that even if it was just an instrumental, that bass line is on fire!!!! It's music like this that makes me appreciate "Old School" Soul R&B. all this garbage that's out nowadays. These young "kids" have no idea about love, music, or pretty much anything........LOVE YOU JERRY B!!
I woke up with this song in my head. Didn't know the artist or the title...I just remembered that hook "understanding mellow". See youtube...has it's use because if youtube did not exist I would be calling the radio stations on who did this song...and really the dj's are way to young to remember this classic.track.
My father used to play this song when I was a young boy. I loved it then, and I love it even more now. I didn't understand it as a child, but now that I do it has taken on a different meaning. It's truly one of the best songs of all time.
I thank my mother for playing songs like this when I was kid in the 70s. Love, LOVE Jerry Butler. Brenda's voice is just mindblowing. So much passion and soul. The lyrics speaks volumes to what relationships were back in the day. Just love the message: we might fall out of love as lovers but we gain much more as friends. Now that's understanding mellow!
I was about 7 or 8 years old when this was a hit and I must say without bragging... I knew good music then when I heard it. I still love this song today and I'm now 46.
@bhossast You are exactly right, I was a junior or senior in high school and I am now 56. The good old days for sure. Why dont they make em like that anymore?
@lynn3027 You know, I lived then and now in San Francisco and then it seemed like things were better then but I was a kid. This reminds me of going to Summer Bible School and there was family then. Mother and Father and there was respect from the Kids. A lot has been lost.
@bhossast ~ Amen, amen, so much of those times has been lost forever, I was a young girl when I heard this song my mom was a true r & b fan, she used to play her 45's and cook and clean at the same time, I do that now but of course I use the computer or my Ipod...lol ~ But music like this during times like that just simply cannot be replaced, I'm soooooo thankful to God and my parents for giving me life in 1966 {October 14th}; I'm so grateful to have grown up and hear this great music...!
OH YES! " OOH-OH-OH i THANK GOD FOR YOU ..fOR iT'S vERY nICE tO sEE tHAT tHERE'S a mAN wHO uNDERSTNADS hOW hARD iT is ...." i alwaYS LOVED THIS TUNE. tHANKS!
grew up on this music. My mother has since passed, but this song just brings back so many childhood memories of her. she loved this song and now that I am an adult, have a child of my own, I've grown to listen to the late 60's, early 70's music and have passed it on to my daughter.
I remember when i was 13 my mother would keep playing this song back to back. I hated it. when i got into my 20's I was a real hip Hop head. But i listened to it especially the intro & i Was repeating the same thing my mother had did years earlier. Go Figure. You just cant front on good music. I wish real music would come back
I swear we played this song so many times we wore a hole in it. Still dancing cheek to cheek with the same man I was dancing with when it came out back in the 70s. We been married all this time. My One and Only love. Yes understanding is mello can't have this love without it.
epic! i am so glad to have found this, one of the GOAT. Jerry and Brenda blended a rich ballad unequaled. and that's the way we did it back in the day. you just dont get this purity today. thanks again!
When this song came out, I as a youngster took a while to catch on to the fact that they had come to an understanding that they were not meant for each other. As I grew, I realized just how rare true "understanding" really is.
The ICEMAN. Cool as the other side of the pillow.
doc2skate 11 minutes ago
Wow...I remember my mother used to play this song when I was little. The beat popped into my head a few wks back, never knew the name or the words, but I remembered that I liked the song. Can't believe I finally found it on here =] I am 23yrs old, and I am proud to say that I have not "missed the bus/boat" of good music =] Glad my mother expressed her music to me from a little kid to a teenager, cause I still love it as an adult =]
MissBeL88 1 week ago
My dad use to love Jerry butler so much I miss you dad.We use to sit on the carpet on a sheet and listen to Jerry all day with me under his arm those were the days.I miss being daddy's lil girl.
Akatsuki250 1 week ago
This song is heavenly. Thank you for posting this.
ric1ard 1 week ago in playlist Jerry Butler
Not just the song (although a great one) . . . . . listen to his voice, his delivery, classic
And Brenda compliments Mr. Butler so well Jazz at it's best
DuhThud 2 weeks ago
I'm speechless.
pdddddp1 2 weeks ago
Oh! I'm in love with this one, just what I needed at a time like this in my life.
char123808 2 weeks ago
I'm tryna understand how Kanye didn't sample this yet lol
mmmperhaps 3 weeks ago
Mellow, and smooth!
cjfulbright 3 weeks ago
This is definitely one of my top Five!
chinikfb 3 weeks ago
Remember returning from church and hearing this on WJLD, AM radio. You knew it was going to be a good day.
doc2skate 3 weeks ago
LISTENING TO THIS ON WVON ON FRI & SAT NIGHT, I WAS TO YOUNG TO GO OUT LOL
I DON'T KNOW HE STOPPED SINGING WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL VOICE
foxyweezy 4 weeks ago
I'm from Rhode Island, but when travelling we alway love the radiogoing through Philly!
intentionallyme 1 month ago in playlist Oldies for Intentionallyme
this song brings back sweet memories on oldies night on WDAS FM in Philly.
1968ronnie 1 month ago
I saw them sing this at the Philadelphia Spectrum...Wow it still sounds good and it brings back some wonderful memories...
IPMOFAFFOHEALTH 1 month ago
1 person ain't understanding.
Prostylefilms 1 month ago 2
take me back to blue lights in those basement house parties, slow draggin what a throw back I love it
MrBriskky 2 months ago
Ain't understanding mellow???? JAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!!
Elannaism 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@Elannaism Damm:
bbsexyazz 1 month ago
I can listen to this song over and over and over
valerieorangel 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
I have waited to hear this song for so long...It really does tell a story!!!!!
espanolahunter 2 months ago
Both sing this song with much love and soul. Too bad Brenda was so underrated because she had a voice that could make the hardest of thugs melt.
bromancollins 3 months ago
Great Song
ki2poetry 3 months ago
Quiet Storm Classic...
wlsn11359 3 months ago 2
I first heard this song in 1987 ...In the living room at Richard Lee III house in Okalnad Ca.. beautiful song
imagofly9 3 months ago
holy crap this record is like diamonds!
jeremybiggs 3 months ago
this is a very good song makes me think of the good old days.
sunneytemptation 3 months ago
Awesome, just awesome!
dwop57 3 months ago
Yes, YEs, YEEEE-ESSSSS; Understanding is so mellow with an eternal GRIP! May Faith be pleased to work with your u n d e r s t a n d i n g...as God the Father was pleased to work with the understanding of our Savior, the Lord Jesus! If you can receive it, this is the Faith Perfected. IT IS FINISHED"= "IT IS PERFECTED"
Torquemont 4 months ago
His voice just takes you to agood place.
chrisbar9200 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jerry Butler
I grew up listening to this wonderful music. This is the soundtrack of my childhood, songs burned into my memory.
manipool 4 months ago
They can REALLY sing, but his music normally isn't my kind of music but I LOVE this song.
153168st 4 months ago
OLD SCHOOL CLASSIC! i have this on a 2-cd set titled JERRY BUTLER ICEMAN THE MERCURY YEARS! They just don't make them this good anymore!
alexk2501 4 months ago in playlist Jerry Butler
Go Ice man!!!!!
333367777 4 months ago
damn she killing sends chills down your body
kdshenderson 4 months ago
@kdshenderson Yesss it does. Chills!
LolaFunnyGirl 1 week ago
This is when a man sings to a woman, or owoman sings to a man. Now people are singing directly to sex organs.
clavical1 4 months ago in playlist clavical1's favorites
love this song!
woo3131 4 months ago
jerry and brenda made ths song a old skool classic
1952jukebox 4 months ago
Thanks for shearing, I'am proud to say I have this album !
CharlesBarry 5 months ago
This is the best song EVER....!!!!
tricianfredrmarried 5 months ago
This is off the hook ! this song by Jerry & Brenda Ain't understanding mellow has come my over all like able song.Be fore this, it was your precious love.My thanks to all that played in putting this together.
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skaterpride100 5 months ago
No need to explain.....My My My!
wsgfreedomtv 5 months ago
2:17 AM, LIGHT RAIN--------149 MILES TO GO!
timpriddy73 6 months ago
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When music was really music and a mood would be created by just playing a song. I remember having this song sung to me . . .oh, the memories.
phatech2 6 months ago
When music was really music and a mood would be created by just playing a song. I remember having this song sang to me . . .oh, the memories.
phatech2 6 months ago
This is one of my favorite I remember this back in the days and I still love this song I'm now 56yrs it was the time when you hear music it wasn't long before you learned the words, I can listen to this all day and still smile when I hear it like the first time
MsBjsanders 6 months ago
This is one of my very favourite slow song. What great harmony! Technology, or the poor use of it has spoiled singers. Machines are being used to try to replace the human voice chords - Impossible. Listen to Brenda Lee Eager and the Ice Man ---- and try to explain ...
IBumpg 6 months ago 2
YALL AINT READY!
pparamore39 6 months ago 2
Thanks bigbanks, this song reminds me of my mom and dad who are both deceased now. I learned about good music from the best, R.I.P ''Lil benn & Margo i'm sure you both are singing in heaven.
celestehtkj27 6 months ago 2
God the frickin horns that explode in the middle of the verse bring tears to my eyes as Jerry croons over them.
soulsetsmysoulonfire 6 months ago 2
Beautiful Song! Your feel your soul is uplifted listening to songs of 60s-70s.
rossinibkk 6 months ago
I LOVE THIS! Smoothe, clean ...
HOMEFIRE5 6 months ago
beautiful keyboard
IDAKEEN 6 months ago
PLEASE!! BRING BACK REAL MUSIC! its pathetic what they put on wax now and try to call it music, musicians dont exist anymore.. their either retired or left this world already..
desiOSL 6 months ago
I thank GOD for this posting and for allowing me to experience this type of music back in the day. It was such a beautiful time in my life. We had so little material things but so much love!!! Thank you for this posting... Another beautiful duet!!!
Sangria3 7 months ago
Now this is what I call music. My God I miss lyrics like this, it represented real love!
2godbetheglory 7 months ago
This fo'my boy ICE MELO J.
Spango103 7 months ago
Brenda Lee Eager is a choir director in Culver City Caifornia. She had quite an illustrious career as a backup singer, songwriter and musical theatre performer since working with Butler. She also performs a one-woman show based on her life called Grace.
blackrocknutt 7 months ago
if more would understand that understanding is not only mellow but a RELIEF
abdul8096 8 months ago
So mellow
dercarsus 8 months ago
Listening to this music makes me so glad my generation can pass something like this along to the younger generation. Just some of the great stuff to be used as a template for the future.
doc2skate 8 months ago
Don't know about Brenda, but Jerry Butler is a City Comissioner in Chicago
bon1225 8 months ago
I love this song!!! I didn't know who was singing with Jerry Butler, but I love it!!!! Cleve Eaton is her in Birmingham, AL.Where are they now?
letsdance1978 8 months ago
I thank God above for this song, and for the two songbirds understanding mellow.
MultiMach5 8 months ago 6
What a great song that really tells a story. I love it and always will
sanandjazree 9 months ago 7
Great post truly a great duet that performed well together. Great sound, arrangements and background vocals.
endless441 10 months ago 3
ain't understanding mellow! the ice man all day long!
pamella757able 10 months ago 3
Brenda, you are an amazing woman and I am grateful every time I see that beautiful smile!! Much peace and many blessings!! Alan L. Lavitt - Agape Media Team.
alavitt 10 months ago
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alavitt 10 months ago
I became familiar with Jerry Bulter in Mobile, Alabama at the Amvet on Davis Avenue in Mobile, Alabama
333367777 10 months ago
this is from the old days check out that groovey bass line
sweeterv 11 months ago
@sweeterv Performed by the great Cleveland Eaton.
averypack13 9 months ago
To my frist,and only love Jeanie boy nelson Mobile,alabama I still love you after a 100 years .I remember the the Amvet on Davis Avenue in the70'S.
333367777 11 months ago
i remember social dances at my dunbar jr high and horace mann senior high..when i was a young boy/man in pebble town ar.. ..then at philander smith...this brings back memories of my youth....now i really really understand the lyrics
thanks for posting..
4MYNATHEGRATE 11 months ago
The late Donny Hathaway was the pianist on this classic. The bassist was Cleveland Eaton, who would later switch to trumpet/trombone & join the Phenix Horns (played on many Earth Wind & Fire albums).
MusicManKevin 11 months ago
I just bought a great album by Cleveland Eaton, and Brenda Lee Eager became a "friend" on Facebook this very week!
drwhatson 11 months ago
The late Donny Hathaway was the pianist on this classic.
MusicManKevin 11 months ago
@MusicManKevin Thanx for that info. I never knew who was the pianist on this great cut. Props to the late Great Donnie Hathaway. This is a true Soul Classic.
swt32567 10 months ago
I've posted things about this song in the past. It just makes me feel GOOD!!!!!
bhossast 11 months ago
man this brings back so many memories.. I was little when I heard this... I wish they made music like this today.. music today sucks so bad.. I have to quickly turn off my radio unless they play throwback music.. thanks for the upload!!!!!
jenellhasan1 11 months ago
I WANT TO HEAR WINDYCITY SOUL, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND IT?
wrlygus111 11 months ago
Than God for this song.
msangelayb 1 year ago
This song speaks to the heart. When they're both singing I can feel their pain but the love bond they still share. Man I wish they still made music like this but now all the love songs are lust songs with no feeling like this one. The good old love songs can bring tears to my eyes, the new stuff just makes me wanna change the station.
artbailly 1 year ago
That's an Electric Bass
msperc 1 year ago
its been said over and over again where the hell is this music these days!!!!the stuff you can trully feel all over your body .and can bring teas to your eyes i really miss this music and the people that knew how to bring it.
mrdwightgraves 1 year ago
As my mother say. That my song! And I think GOD
JACQUELINEJONESWILLI 1 year ago
thank you all that is good is from GOD
Idawa61 1 year ago
oh yesss
Floydalbert 1 year ago
As an X electric bass player, My guess that the bassist is playing a fretless electric bass guitar. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think I'm right though.
shorttimer77 1 year ago
Brenda Lee Eager is the unsung talent on this song.
drsick2727 1 year ago
This song made me appreciate what a Bass line can do for a song.
mstephens44 1 year ago
Jerry Butler and brenda lee are soul legends. What a soulful tune, it hits the core in the right spot. ; )
birdmanbenjibeat 1 year ago
For the "1" who does'nt like this song. "I thank God" for the "155" people who do like this song. Now that's "ain't understanding mellow". I love this beautiful classic.
MultiMach5 1 year ago
I know it's been said hundreds of times, but again, ... When music was really music ...! If you were living and breathing back then, you know what I mean! -- Homefire5
HOMEFIRE5 1 year ago 14
@HOMEFIRE5 I know exactly what you mean. Thank God we can understand that.
funkycandycool 1 year ago
@HOMEFIRE5 Music has always been music. If Mozart we're alive in the 60s and 70s, he would have criticized Jerry butler just like you criticize new music.
JDizz617 6 months ago
Really cool tune.
takemeback2 1 year ago
I grew up listening to this GREAT MUSIC on my mom's old 8 track stereo system that took up one whole wall in our living room, lol.
Talithapraiz 1 year ago
SO many memories!
philymike72 1 year ago
Classic
1illdrac 1 year ago
What a pairing. The melody the setting and most improtantly Jerry and Brenda at their best!!!
FlyinS4 1 year ago
This is so real......I'm feelin it so much.
lovetoo100 1 year ago
Strong lyrics....This kind of music is what the world need Now...Real Stong Music!!!!!!!!!!!
55doggs 1 year ago 9
Music Will never Be This Way Again!!!!!!!!! Wow~~~~
dwilliams0605 1 year ago
RIP ViV
Godisreal4me 1 year ago
wow is all i can say..this song really moves me
MsPacman27 1 year ago
THE ICEMAN COMETH!!!
ldwh2os 1 year ago
Dream state music ^5 thanks for uploading.
MrGoldfangaz49 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this song...haven't heard it in ages and I needed to hear it today.
atrest503 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this!!!!
Oc4ever12 1 year ago
me again...my mom just talked to Brenda no less than an hour ago - my reason for posting this... she leads a choir in Los Angeles and is hoping to put on a one women show taking us back to our "roots". If you hear about it, support it .
iustfse 1 year ago
Brenda Lee Eager sang in the choir an the Greater Nazaree Missionary Baptist church in Mobile Alabama and was my mom's best friend growing up. As a 3 or 4 year old, I remember sitting on her lap at church holding me while my mom got 'the holy ghost". Whenever i hear this song, it warms me inside because the "gospel" is still there.
iustfse 1 year ago
@iustfse where was Greater Nazaree Missionary Church located? I lived in Mobile inthe 70's. Was this church located across Broad Street in Mobile?
333367777 11 months ago
@333367777 - Yes, the church is located across Broad street.
iustfse 10 months ago
I love this song. It has everything in it. Words, melody, tempo, and harmony. Wow.
So happy to see it posted here, Thank you.
mofnn24 1 year ago
A beautiful duet....Thanks for this posting.
Sangria3 1 year ago
I love this song, it has such meaning, anyone who has ever love knows that "understanding is mellow"
SCgal56 1 year ago
Get Out! I have been wondering who was going to finally post this! Thank you baby! This is a classic and is going into my collection!
shaaronie 1 year ago
Old School Forever!!!!
ldwh2os 1 year ago
Even as a kid 50 years ago this song was beautiful and damn if it an't still beautiful "wow"
Dinya61 1 year ago
I was in the Army when I first heard this song played and I was thinking some of us were going to Vietnam and Europe serving with NATO. For the first time I understood what my lady was saying when I boarded the plane to leave. The sad note she passed away while I was deployed and these words came back to me ain't understanding mellow
GGS06SM 1 year ago
My mother took me to a JB concert when I was 5 years old, she was 23, I will never forget it. I am 46 now. This has always been an all time favorite.
jebrise 1 year ago
You are very lucky to have seem such an event I'm your age and I would of love to been in your place................lizzy v
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NGG4lyfe 1 year ago
I remember listening to this song on the radio in Tallahasee in the Education Dept. at FAMU, when I was working there as a student assistant. It put me in a mood towards the end of the day to make it on down to the Savoy.
55peachpie 1 year ago
Thank God for the Iceman!!!! Jerry Butler can sing me anything!!! This is one of those songs that even if it was just an instrumental, that bass line is on fire!!!! It's music like this that makes me appreciate "Old School" Soul R&B. all this garbage that's out nowadays. These young "kids" have no idea about love, music, or pretty much anything........LOVE YOU JERRY B!!
Diva2678 1 year ago
Another great song I always play when I log in.
GoGirlTaxicab 1 year ago
a thumbs down is a wish to go to hell
hagnuj 1 year ago
yeah this is a memory bringer.....Jerryt is so unappreciated and its a damn shame
talenteddragon 1 year ago
Always loved me some Jerry Butler
PrestonsRock 1 year ago
no words can describe this song, fantastic
sheilajean51 1 year ago
I woke up with this song in my head. Didn't know the artist or the title...I just remembered that hook "understanding mellow". See youtube...has it's use because if youtube did not exist I would be calling the radio stations on who did this song...and really the dj's are way to young to remember this classic.track.
Superfoot 1 year ago
@Superfoot they are too young to remember, but i remember perfectly albeit i was a small child with a young mother who loved the iceman.
jebrise 1 year ago
I wish the Ice Man would come back!
gkarlene501 1 year ago
My father used to play this song when I was a young boy. I loved it then, and I love it even more now. I didn't understand it as a child, but now that I do it has taken on a different meaning. It's truly one of the best songs of all time.
afharris68 1 year ago
One of the greatest duets ever. A true masterpeice.
lynn3027 1 year ago
This is one of the greatest duets ever recorded.
lynn3027 1 year ago
I thank my mother for playing songs like this when I was kid in the 70s. Love, LOVE Jerry Butler. Brenda's voice is just mindblowing. So much passion and soul. The lyrics speaks volumes to what relationships were back in the day. Just love the message: we might fall out of love as lovers but we gain much more as friends. Now that's understanding mellow!
royalsoulness 1 year ago
That bassist is Terry Bachman, the bass is a Fender Precision with LaBella Flatwounds @ the Chess/Mercury Chicago studios
withstrings 1 year ago
I was about 7 or 8 years old when this was a hit and I must say without bragging... I knew good music then when I heard it. I still love this song today and I'm now 46.
bhossast 1 year ago
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lynn3027 1 year ago
@bhossast You are exactly right, I was a junior or senior in high school and I am now 56. The good old days for sure. Why dont they make em like that anymore?
lynn3027 1 year ago
@lynn3027 You know, I lived then and now in San Francisco and then it seemed like things were better then but I was a kid. This reminds me of going to Summer Bible School and there was family then. Mother and Father and there was respect from the Kids. A lot has been lost.
bhossast 1 year ago
@bhossast ~ Amen, amen, so much of those times has been lost forever, I was a young girl when I heard this song my mom was a true r & b fan, she used to play her 45's and cook and clean at the same time, I do that now but of course I use the computer or my Ipod...lol ~ But music like this during times like that just simply cannot be replaced, I'm soooooo thankful to God and my parents for giving me life in 1966 {October 14th}; I'm so grateful to have grown up and hear this great music...!
tricianfred 1 year ago
This song makes you say Gotdamn! And muthafucka!
brooklynsfirstlady 1 year ago
This song in just so fucking ridiculous. Untouchable in so many ways. Brings back some great memories.
dkapone 1 year ago
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This song is just straight-up fucking ridiculous. Untouchable in so many ways. Brings back some great memories.
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dkapone 1 year ago
OH YES! " OOH-OH-OH i THANK GOD FOR YOU ..fOR iT'S vERY nICE tO sEE tHAT tHERE'S a mAN wHO uNDERSTNADS hOW hARD iT is ...." i alwaYS LOVED THIS TUNE. tHANKS!
Liyatastic95 1 year ago
This would be a tight song to flip
SuperNinjaDrummer 1 year ago
When love ws truly real.
KanyeWestluv4ever 1 year ago
grew up on this music. My mother has since passed, but this song just brings back so many childhood memories of her. she loved this song and now that I am an adult, have a child of my own, I've grown to listen to the late 60's, early 70's music and have passed it on to my daughter.
evamae1045 1 year ago
sounds like two adults to me ... can i get a amen or what?
gregoriosr1 1 year ago
I remember when i was 13 my mother would keep playing this song back to back. I hated it. when i got into my 20's I was a real hip Hop head. But i listened to it especially the intro & i Was repeating the same thing my mother had did years earlier. Go Figure. You just cant front on good music. I wish real music would come back
mrslideinsideu2 1 year ago
@mrslideinsideu2 hey you know what they say, like mother, like daugther:)
gregoriosr1 1 year ago
YES! The Iceman is legendary:D
IngridBergmanRocked 1 year ago
Thats a mean bass! I dont know why youtube keep taking this song off!
persleezy 1 year ago
ooooohhhhh, thank god for you
donnab4real 1 year ago
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EleanorHof 1 year ago
I bought this record but gave it my then- girlfriend, something I came to regret.
Thanks for posting this!!!!!!
jagpitt17 1 year ago
looking for it a long time, thanx
shawnswife1965 1 year ago
I swear we played this song so many times we wore a hole in it. Still dancing cheek to cheek with the same man I was dancing with when it came out back in the 70s. We been married all this time. My One and Only love. Yes understanding is mello can't have this love without it.
blkparis 1 year ago
This a truely beautiful song. The message, the music, the voices, the passion. They don't make meaningful songs like this anymore!
ztruth4u 1 year ago
Yes in deed! One of Chicago's finest.
lowendfella 1 year ago
epic! i am so glad to have found this, one of the GOAT. Jerry and Brenda blended a rich ballad unequaled. and that's the way we did it back in the day. you just dont get this purity today. thanks again!
tenkgent 1 year ago 2
Thank you for this post! i've been waiting for this.
Bev4ever 1 year ago 3
Just to have a love like the one they are singing about.
MRrich57 1 year ago
When this song came out, I as a youngster took a while to catch on to the fact that they had come to an understanding that they were not meant for each other. As I grew, I realized just how rare true "understanding" really is.
shelovesrb7777 1 year ago 4
this is real music thank you
apachaegirl 1 year ago 2
I loved this song. The Iceman was so cool...thanks for posting this.
indigirl86 1 year ago 14