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  • I remember having an 8 minute long version of this before anybody invented the 'remix'.

    Quality.

  • Oh and I'm STILKL playing it over and over again - over 40 years later! I guess that makes me an addict. ;-)

  • The most important difference between this version by the Nite-liters and the MFSB one is that the MFSB one sounds dated, whereas this one sounds as new and fresh as the day it first came out.

  • @ISS2010 Ironically, this version came out in 1971 and the version by MFSB was released in 1975!

  • @Meridian83West where is the irony ?

  • @ateball1 I was referring to ISS2010's remark about MFSB's version of "K-Jee" sounding dated when their version actually came out after the Nite-Liters' version.

  • @Meridian83West ah, indeed :)

  • This is indeed the original unbeatable version of K Jee. It's tighter, sexier and way cooler than any rivals. I was 12 when it first came out and I played it over and over again on cassette all the way down to the South of France in the Summer of 71 when my family (including my parents and four sisters) drove down there on holiday from London.. They never complained at all! So they must have liked it.

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  • Heavy, Heavy, Heavy + I like the MFSB version also!

  • Not many people know this but the opening 8 seconds or so were used for a Welsh T.V. News Programme at the time entitled ` Wales Today, hosted by John Daren `- probably ` lost` in their archives, no doubt. Still have the original 7 ins vinyl in pristine condition - being a true audiophile with the associated equipment to play same is someone who belongs to a dying genre. So sad!

  • It's that Johnny Graham on guitar...The same Johnny Graham that played with Earth Wind and Fire....????

  • THIS HERE IS SOME SUPERBAD SHIZNIT AND SUCKAZ DONTCHA FORGETZ IT! :)

  • According to the album liner notes the Horn section was referred to as the Nite-liters and the female back-up singers were called The Mint Juleps. When they were all together we knew them as The New Birth. Yeah I have to agree the great thing about this song is the horn section. It really drives this song.

  • This is better than the "Saturday Night Fever Movie Soundtrack" cool!!

  • @ByrowNeius: I would have to agree. I like the version by MFSB on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, but something about this one I like much better.

  • I got one thing to say.. HORNS!!!!.....

  • Brings back some good memories me and uncle used to jam to this

  • Thank you, I always love the original recording version and HaliB75 thank you for explaining the different btw remake and sampling. It crack me up when you heard this young kids say this song was made by blah blah and i have to correct them by saying no it was sample by.

  • didn't know that.... but does anyone remember that this is the song to which the Hispanic couple danced in the dance contest in the movie Saturday Night Fever?  and when John Travolta's character in the movie saw them dance, he gave them his winning trophy, because he felt they should have won?

  • Did anybody know that this group ended up becoming THE NEW BIRTH??

  • @tljones9 i think the two groups became an amalgamation

  • @tljones9 I had the pleasure of seeing New Birth in my hometown of York Pa back in the early 70`s. It was actually New Birth and The Nite -Liters.They were New Births backup band.

  • @tljones9 The New Birth was a forming of (Love Peace and Happiness) which consisted of The Wilsons Brothers and former Marvelettes singer Ann Bogan....together united with Funk & Soul Band (Nite-Liters)....Check out the (Love Peace & Happiness) jam (Don't Blame it on the young folks) a Bomb sleeper....ya dig....Thee R&B Beast peace....

  • I don't believe I'm hearing this again. WOW! Summer 1971!! I have the RCA single still but can't play it. No turntable. Absolutely unbelievable! I had a hard time convincing younger folks this is the original. djsweethots, my daughter says the same thing. She says she was born too late (1979). She loves this and Afro Strut like they are NEW songs...just like me back in the day.

  • @mikeeiland1 Glad to be of service mike and i can tell you all with my hand on my heart that this is indeed the original cut of this tune.The next best version i have listened to is on a jazz house lp from 1992 remixed by masters at work but this one here really takes some beating,you know what they say "if it ain't broke,don't fix it"i think that says it all.Keep the soul in your heart and the heart in your soul buddy.Cheers Lance.

  • Maaan, I'm really ready for someone to make a damn time machine. I was born in the wrong decade!!!

  • we're jammin to the oldies tonight!

  • This is the New Birth rythym section!

  • Choooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooon

  • nothing can touch this nowadays,a real classic

  • K-Jee was one of those mysterious songs I saw listed in Billboard Magazine, which I read often even while I was in high school. I had never heard it. Our local stations didn't play it. So I waited for it to show up on "American Top 40" sometime in the fall of 1971 (Sept-Oct) and fell in love with it. Some time afterward it played a little on our local stations. AT40 used the Billboard chart back then, so if a "mystery" song made the chart I got the chance to hear it and then go buy it.

  • Just found post..great tune thanks Stompieowl x

  • @smartypantsnancy..no probs nancy xxx

  • Day 5 and still grooving lol

  • Thanks Stompie for posting this

  • I think I have go K-Jee mad

  • Where can I get a longer than 4 min version please - i could listen to this all day long and groove my life away lol

  • Song reminds me of a 70's tv theme song :)

  • @CrowdPleeza think its the run down tune Alan Freeman played on his top forty radio show on a Sunday ,hope this helps

  • come on to Da Sellersville theater..thats in PA ya'll!!!!!!

  • Man I havent heard this in a long time

  • I have this on CD. "RHINO's Rock Instrumental Classics VOL3: The Seventies." It seems like this is more modern JAZZ with the horns, but that makes it great. R&B group from Louisville, Kentucky. K-JEE made it to #39 on the Billboard Charts in September of 1971.

  • MFSB doesn't do justice to this tune

  • Its an ok version by MFSB but this is the one that really grabbed me by the balls and threw me around the room,i think it just sounds more organic by the nite liters.

  • This just has it all - MFSB version was good but this is just in a class of its own - amazing - totally a 10/10 tune

  • I still have my Nite-Liters Album!!

  • Hello people.I am in the process of getting the Nite Liters BACK together.What I need from all of you people all over this country is to let me know if you want them to play in your city or town.I will need to check out the clubs and venues in your city.Every ONE ,holla back at me!

    Peace

  • See if you can get them to the St. Louis area.

  • As long as The New Birth is with them I mean the Wilson Brothers....Tha R&B Beast

  • @Onfre1 Be Beautiful if the New Birth can come back with them...Tha R&B Beast from southern Cali.....holla...

  • Go man go

  • FUNKY!

  • This is the ORIGINAL VERSION....case closed!

  • this is the original version!!!!!!!

  • brill sound ...love it ... Ktf

  • I just discovered this group the other day even though I have been a 70's music fanatic for a very long time. I love this band.

  • this is my favorite disco crusader track ! see my dance performance on my video !

  • hi please send me link to your dance performance !

  • What an excellent tune! Great memories!

  • MFSB didn't sample it, they rerecorded it and added disco strings. This is a far better version.

  • Naw. Gimme MFSB.

  • This could have been a perfect 1970's game show theme!

  • yeah one of the classix

  • Cracking Track!!

  • great funky tune awesome, well done for reminding about this one stompie.

  • I always the metal picture of a desperete fistfight w/ that tune as the soundtrack the verson that was on Saturday night Fever

  • this one is the best version !

  • this is 'THE ONE' ;o)

  • You are right - its got everything that I like about the three genres but its just an awesome Killier Killer track - i think I have now played it to death for 3 days solid - 300 plays or more and its fresh as ever. I just being on a beach with the woman I love just chilling listening to this

  • @troyleecanterbury without a doubt!!!

  • This is my favorite song of all-time, period. The guitar chords are hypnotic. They don't make them like this anymore.

  • thats because music is all about programing sequencers and quantizing these days,it's taken all the soul out of these kinda old school jams.

  • This is probably the best fusion of Soul, Latin & Jazz ever made and one of the all-time great instrumentals. I've never tired of it since it came out C.1972(?) Superb track.

  • You are right - its got everything that I like about the three genres but its just an awesome Killier Killer track - i think I have now played it to death for 3 days solid - 300 plays or more and its fresh as ever.

  • great tune dad says last heard this on Emperor rosko show radio one lunch time show 1970 "rave to grave with a musical slave and all that "

  • big damn tune.. XTRA LARGE

  • This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. I bought the record when it came out in the early 70s and played it over and over and over again. Utterly brilliant instrumental! Beats the pants off any popular music produced these days.

  • You are right - its got everything that I like about the three genres but its just an awesome Killier Killer track - i think I have now played it to death for 3 days solid - 300 plays or more and its fresh as ever. I'm hypnotised !!!

  • A Funky mixed race guy called Wayne from Leigh, used to dance to this in Ms, anyone else remember him?

  • So, so good to hear a brass section that doesn't sound like a synth. Excuse me while I shake it down.

  • shake away mr ward..i'm off to Wigan Pier to give it some.

  • even the comments on here are intruiging, hearing about all these 70's parties with great tunes like this. it's one of the few occasions in life when i wish i was a bit older to have sampled these great events. marvellous.

  • Why? Has Someone Already Sampled This?

  • yes. MFSB sampled it. i never knew who done the original, but the poster of this tune seems to know his eggs, so i'll go with that.

  • This is the original, bruh. Trust me. Both our High School marching band and my funk band jammed this in '72~-'73. I could probably pick up my tenor sax right now and play the solo just like it is on this record 2:20 - 2:58. There's also a longer version with the sax continuing the solo for another chorus. This one is probably edited down to be "radio friendly" in length.

  • Why are you guys calling it sampling?? There was no such thing as sampling. Sampling is replaying a recording that someone else recorded. A remake is actual musicians playing real instruments all over again. Sampling is a computerized replica of the original with no creative input from the one doing the sampling. Sampling is stealing the music from something that was recorded. This is real and MFSB's version played with real instruments by real musicians, not a computer.

  • you're right. a misuse of the english language on my part.

  • @HaliB75 If you don't think sampling requires any creative genius then I suggest you look up someone called "J dilla". Don't be ignorant.

  • @stefanheartmarsvolta Sampling as it is today has no creativity. The creative sampling stopped at around 2000. I suggest you research Prince Paul and listen to what he did with DeLa Soul's classic 3ft High and Rising album utilizing more than one song as a sample (multisamples) on one track and creating a totally different vibe. Many can't do that today because of sample clearnace issues and the money it costs to use more than one. I am not impressed with J. Dilla. To each his own.

  • @HaliB75  AAAAAABBBBBBsolutely

  • Man this song gets stuck in my head for DAYS.

  • me too man. nice talk.

  • Props to the "Camden High Marching Panthers"

    of Camden,New Jersey & across the bridge in

    "Philly" were it started from!:)

    Philly Phil

  • Tanto esta versión, maravillosa, como la versión de MFSB, son inmejorables. Me traen grandísimos recuerdos de mi infancia. Me siento muy feliz y encantado al escucharlas.

    Madrid. España.

  • I had been looking for this song under New Birth.

  • godamnit this is the shit... mf the mfsb version!!!the nitelighters own this mf!!!

  • It gotsta be the Nightliters all night long mate,just listen to the freakin brass...peace Stompie(lance) ;oD

  • fantastic post Stompie. i love the MFSB version but this knocked my socks off. can't stop listening to it.

  • Cheers mate,I like the MFSB cut but this just has a warmth that makes me feel soooo funkin good;o)

  • Always remember, The Nite-Liters made it first.

  • You should post this one as a video reply to the MFSB one....more people should know about this one! Thanks!

  • Jammin' in 1971!! This was huge in South Central. Those college days and those parties, OOO-Yeah!!!

  • I love it,it has a wicked chillaxed funkin groove that just makes you wanna smile and swing ;o)

  • We were jammin' over here on the East Coast in '71 too.We partied like these were the last days in time.Goto school, study, & party!

    Life was good back then.

  • I know you were! East Coast takes a back seat to no one!! Just a great time to be young, and ready for BIGGGGGG FUN!!!!!

  • I've always loved the guitar solo on this cut.....nicely done!

  • still like the original by the nite-liters better than MFSB rendition except for the sax solo

  • Used to have this on vinyl & wore it out - it was so very good! Just good memories. Thanks for posting.

  • Damn I love youtube, thanks for posting this piece of history my friend.

  • Once again I have to ask, why aren't oldies or funk like this played on the radio?

  • One of the very 1st "Jazz Guitar Solos" that I Learned As A Teenager!

  • i like both versions. very nice

  • "K-Jee" = K.G. = Kenny Gamble, as in Philly soul legends Gamble & Huff. He was down with these guys from childhood, and they decided to name the song after him.

  • this is the original version, it was so popular in the streets

  • Our high school band played this song and Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited. Great mucis in any era

  • BLACK POWER Salute!!!

  • Reminds me of a summer day in the early 70's

  • classic memories on this here joint!

    hott!

  • Shame on me~

    The version I heard first was from M.F.S.B

    (actually I enjoy em' both.)

    But- Props to the Original(of course!!)

    ~Thanks!!

  • Awesome...

  • The Nite-Liters were New Birth, minus the vocalists.

  • New Birth? What's that?

    Somebody knows which TV programs used this song?

  • New Birth was a popular Black band during the 1970's.

  • Actually, members of the Nite-Liters spun off into 2 groups, New Birth and MFSB (Philly soul studio rhythm section). The band also doubled as "Cliff Nobles & Co." on the single "Love Is All Right"/"The Horse".

    My memory of this tune was that the mix had a lot of echo (on the RCA 45 as it came out in the US). Where'd you get this?

  • Really ? Is this true?

    This tune is out of this world - its a 15/10 track - I dont seem to tire of it - its Day 4 and I keep playing this and I am not able to groove to anything as much as this. They created a masterpiece.

    K-Jee is named after Gamble ? That seems possible - how do I coroborate this Reggie?

  • @Sal1675 According to what's inside the cd cover, K-Gee was a play on the word "cagey", which was the nickname of one of the member's wife.

  • and this is the better version of this song even if it is remade

  • love t! mellow man ace is where I first heard this song used

  • I remember this song as the morning wake up song of radio station W O O K AM-1340 in 1971. I was a Jr. @ DuVal Sr. High School. I loved the jazzy undertones and la tiempo alegre. Great song, better memories. Thanx for posting this classic

  • Superb!

  • Great All Dayer memories of this one :O) tks - ktf

  • Sonido sabrosón.

  • I wonder if it was partly "rights issues" that led the producers of "Saturday Night Fever" to use MFSB's version over The Nite-Liters' in the film (no RCA tracks at all on the soundtrack). Also, is this the mono mix - I heard more pronounced reverb on the stereo 45.

  • I wish that this song was a bigger Top 40 hit than what it was, this song deserves a much higher chart rating than barely making the Top 40.

  • I am just happy i got a copy for under 20 pounds

  • Yet, I have a few copies of this classic on 45.

  • I've been looking for this song for two years and I am so glad I've finally found it, thank you very much for putting it on here :)

  • No probs Doobie...;)

  • Right On - the original and the bes

  • Its the best version without doubt.

  • Like you said its the best version out there.

  • The original and best! Knocks spots off the 1976 MFSB cover version.

  • Never heard of this great golden pop instrumental rhythm and blues oldie before. wish I had.

  • Glad you like it mate

  • OH YES, where`s my talc

  • brill track ***** from me ktf

  • Still my favourite version this 'un, i've heard most of the newer ones but they don't have the same swing as this one.

  • excellent Lance 10/10...D

  • Thanx Donna ;)

  • tighten up!

  • Oooooh Yeah!

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