I've heard this song was one of the main inspirations for the organ "groove" in "Where It's At" by Beck. I can definitely hear some similarities in the two. Nevertheless, this is a great song in its own right.
If you listen to The Undisputed Truth's version of Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, which is the original version of the song, the intro is a copy of Donny's The Ghetto.
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I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't mark this song. It actually looks like a minus seven, but I can assure you I didn['t mark the song at all, far less give it a minus seven.
Wow slickfunker, you call yourself slick and funky and gave this song -7? Come back to earth so our best scientists can get whatever fucked up programming those aliens did to you out of there!
LMAo.. HE said donny hathaway copied this from too short.. babski. im 14 and i know that too short took this from donny hathaway. this song was made in the 70's too short didnt start rapping till the late 80's.. and den how old must dude be down there you went to college in the 70's damn
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That's because Too Short knew that if he released his song first, Donnys song wouldn't have had a chance. Too Shorts version is THAT good. So good, he had to wait 20 years to release it. Not even the BEATLES could say that.
Alright mate.. have you heard of the saying "When you're in a hole, stop digging" ?
Donny Hathaway & Leroy Hutson wrote this. Get over it. Ya know what? Too Short wouldn't even like you saying this, because he appreciates the greats and what they have done. HE wouldn't even like you to say something like that.
But whatever you say... Too Short wrote a song that was released 20 years before his version.. sure he did.
Naw, Too Short did this song as a newborn, then Donny stole it. Donny got away with the theft because who's gonna believe a newborn baby over a grown man, who's an accomplished musician/singer?
To add insult to injury, Donny added the cries of baby Too Short (at 05:32 in this song)
Years later, when he became a rapper, Too Short remade this song, the first song he ever wrote, and everyone believed (falsely) that he "sampled" Hathaway's song when he was in fact reclaiming his own song.
I always loved his Raw Live feel even in his studio cuts, they were Jams...just in the Studio! I grew up in the "Varrio" and we had a few Bands in the Hood. This was "Borrowed" a few times! George Benson really did a good rendition of it. Cleaner anyhow. I think that is where Too Short got it from in his version.
Truly takes me back and really explains what the Ghetto is all about. Take a walk through it in your mind and you'll see what it's all about. Some young folks are truly missing the point of babies crying, drinking in a Juke Joint and working all week to see and feel the little freedom you have.
CombatPhotog yep...ppl my age(18) glorify what they think is the hard life to sell records...they dont know hard...i feel for ppl coming up when there was little hope for blacks in or outside the ghetto...now its cool to be poor and uncool to be prosperous or intelligent...sad
Soul music brought us some greats - Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Stevie, Otis, Bill Withers .. and loads more I haven't mentioned, but was there ever a voice like Donny's? Sublime. The fact that he played piano like a virtuouso, arranged, produced, wrote, orchestrated ... are just bonuses. One of the finest musicians of his generation.
donny hathaway is one of the people i look up to fo my music i put wut ive learned from him aretha tupac tina gladys and r kelly in my songs but i no i can never compare to any of the greats but i can put my heart into music lyk they did
When he sings this song it sounds like home to me. It takes me back when the village raised the all the kids and we stuck together. When kids played outside all day long and family renuions was a normal occurrence that couldn't be missed, cause you had to sample who cooked the best barbq that day and fun family bounding time. Shoot I miss it cause my family don't get together no more except for funerals or maybe a wedding. Time fly's & things have really change!
As sad as I feel about him dying/leaving us by way of depression, I would not have wanted him to stay around and get cracked out like David Ruffin and some others.
Real music that can be feel in the Soul, just pure authentic. Every time I listen to this jam, I remeber the hard times in the past... Mom struggling working hard as hell trying to make ends meet. The family barely had enough food to eat, but we rejoice as one because we knew one day the system live in will be defeat. Where is the sense of pride we had as a people went...
Reminds me of the Cob Cafe, Porthmadog, 1970, I was a 16 year old skinhead on holiday, staying at my cousins house, happy times, this song brings it all back, superb just superb.
Yep, although I dont wear braces, still listen to soul/reggae/new wave, I am happy so I do my own thing, never wore a base-ball hat or a shell suit, leave that kind of stuff to all the clones out there, boots and jeans appealed to me before skinheads appeared on the scene, clean, neat and direct just the way life should be, bye.
Such a tragic end at the height of his career and life. Depression is a devastating condition--one I deal with periodically. I am in a study now for a totally new class of antidepressant and it seems to be working! Take that, Cruise!
That was a well thought-out comment I bet. How long did it take you to come up with that one? My guess is, an entire day. He isn't really that good compared to whom? Be ready to battle when you come in here making comments like that partner.
There are 2 real types of musicians. The technical musicians that can do amazing things with their instruments. Then there are the 2nd type. I call them "feel" musicians and they mainly play and write with their natural intuition telling them what the song needs. I played drums for 10+ years. Never became a star, but I know musicians and hathaway was a guy that just had the touch of knowing what a song needed. Not more, not less, exactly what it needed.
that first type i dont call musicians....i knew this girl, as long as she had sheet music in front of her on her piano she could play like beethoven, amazing technically, sounded great, but if u asked her to compose something she wouldnt even be able to produce something as simple as 3 blind mice. she couldnt write a song if her life dependanded on it yet she could play like a pro....now is she a musician duck?
Performers and Composers are different sides of the same ability. You dont have the write music to be a musician. Your friend is simply a technical musician. While she might lack abilities in feeling the music, she is the type to be able to perform pieces that feel musicians cant perform without much, much practice. IMO, I think your friend is a musician..
My favorite bass line on the wurly ever. 2nd is What'd I say by Ray Charles. There has been no one better then Donny Hathaway on the wurly. He played all B3 and piano beautifully as well but on the Wurly he truly shined.
I have a collection of his greatest hits. He was an incredible talent, with a superb, soulful voice, and he left long before he should have. So sad...but he really is overlooked as a great contributor to the RB scene...
Thank you for posting this. One of the most soulful musical excursions of in history. I can't listen to the live version of this song while I'm driving because I literally want to jump out of the car and start partying!!!
I thought I was the only one who feels like this. I do stop and jump right out of the car and screem, dance,and shout! I am so glad this posted. Thankx
I shudder to think if there is a young person out there that calls themselves a singer and no one has hipped them to Donny. His delivery was beyond simplly singing or playing the keyboards he was wayyy before his time.
Yes, I love the version on "Donny Hathaway Live" too...the groove, the audience, the congas!!, everything! Speaking about that: "Everything is Everything" on the the same album is SO fantastic! 14 min! "The last movement" with "the baddest bass player in the country" is so cool :-P!
This version pales in comparison to the live 12 minute version off of "Donny Hathaway Live"! Like night and day! The live version is THE GROOVE of all groves!
You can't beat this, Donny's voice and song writing, and Phil Upchurch on guitar - one of my all time favourites (as is "You Can't Sit Down" by Phil Upchurch Combo, from really way back when...)
Donny was truly an under rated talent. I'm wondering why this St.Louisan doesn't have a star on The St.Louis Walk of Fame is beyond me. He's being robbed ! R. I. P. We in St.Louis still you with all our hearts.
TUNE
Thefunksoulbro 3 years ago
I just love this recording, it gets no better than this!!!
Bernblues1 3 years ago 2
I miss you MISTER Donny Hathaway!
jhassybrowneyez 3 years ago
hi, thank you--thank you I miss his music
terrybuffington 3 years ago
The voice at his best deep soulful track !! Love it....
Thefunksoulbro 3 years ago
I could play this and Bobby Womacks "Across 110th St back to back
kalif151byccrew 3 years ago 4
The 70's and memories of family reunions in the park latin jazz, soul and R&B music fused together . . . They don't make it like this anymore . . .
yourmom1972 3 years ago
I'm still so sad for his death
especially after watching "UNSUNG"
jhassybrowneyez 3 years ago 4
I know!! I didnt know he was sick... but still a legendary singer
tlauren0915 3 years ago
excellente musique il fait partie des grands
santcho131313 3 years ago
I've heard this song was one of the main inspirations for the organ "groove" in "Where It's At" by Beck. I can definitely hear some similarities in the two. Nevertheless, this is a great song in its own right.
rocknrollwerewolf 3 years ago
If you listen to The Undisputed Truth's version of Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, which is the original version of the song, the intro is a copy of Donny's The Ghetto.
SlickFunker 3 years ago
Donny Is here with us.
hotx50t 3 years ago 4
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I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't mark this song. It actually looks like a minus seven, but I can assure you I didn['t mark the song at all, far less give it a minus seven.
It's a classic.
SlickFunker 3 years ago
My bad my brother, guess I saw something that wasn't there. My apologies.
jrogers4072 3 years ago
No problem. I didn't know you could give a song marks out of ten on here.
SlickFunker 3 years ago
This is Wonderful truly wonderful, and thanks for posting. But this is not Little Ghetto Boy
It is a entirely different Tune, Post it when you can. ASAP THANKS".
jor99912 3 years ago
Real introspective to every degree. I wish Mr. Hathaway was alive to expand his musical wisdom, talent, & creativity.
markemerald 3 years ago 3
Wow slickfunker, you call yourself slick and funky and gave this song -7? Come back to earth so our best scientists can get whatever fucked up programming those aliens did to you out of there!
jrogers4072 3 years ago
LOL
Nappilocs 3 years ago
AWESOME!!!! Brings back loadsa memories of my visits to NYC.....lovely 'dark brown' voice..mmm
AhmadAmor 3 years ago
thats racist
ArcticSheep 3 years ago
sen-si-tive
ohboy321321 3 years ago
Brings back memories of my daddy playing his albums and singing.
B1gh3v 3 years ago 3
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This is dog shit.
Suki30933 3 years ago
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Oh dear, it would appear some of you don't recognise a wind up when you see it.
Hathaway also stole Lil' Ghetto Boy from Dr Dre!
Clearly Donny has no shame.
SlickFunker 3 years ago
wow .. worst comment ever.
ithakra 3 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA wooooooooow
jrocca22 3 years ago
just how in HELL Hathaway copied this song from Too Short, LOL this song was released in 1970 im sure Short was a kid then
ampp02 3 years ago 4
LMAo.. HE said donny hathaway copied this from too short.. babski. im 14 and i know that too short took this from donny hathaway. this song was made in the 70's too short didnt start rapping till the late 80's.. and den how old must dude be down there you went to college in the 70's damn
bsgdime123 3 years ago 5
This song helped to get me through college (Boston University) in the 70's... thanks for posting it.
yawhause 3 years ago
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He copied this song from Too Short
ChrisSSocal 3 years ago
More than likely that Too Short copied from Donnie Hathaway, since Hathaway died in 1979when Todd "Too Short" Shaw was 13 years old.
KudzuSmith 3 years ago 5
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That's how good Too Short is. He made his version of the song when he was 10 years old. Hathaway just stole it.
ChrisSSocal 3 years ago
no, chrissocal is right, Hathaway actually stole a lot of songs from Rapartists.
Eurobubble70 3 years ago
Um.. too bad that Donny released this in 1970... Too Short released their version in 1990...
M131A 3 years ago 3
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That's because Too Short knew that if he released his song first, Donnys song wouldn't have had a chance. Too Shorts version is THAT good. So good, he had to wait 20 years to release it. Not even the BEATLES could say that.
ChrisSSocal 3 years ago
Alright mate.. have you heard of the saying "When you're in a hole, stop digging" ?
Donny Hathaway & Leroy Hutson wrote this. Get over it. Ya know what? Too Short wouldn't even like you saying this, because he appreciates the greats and what they have done. HE wouldn't even like you to say something like that.
But whatever you say... Too Short wrote a song that was released 20 years before his version.. sure he did.
M131A 3 years ago 9
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Sorry to say but Chris S Socal is right, the secret was divulged on TV in America not too long ago.
Luckilius 3 years ago
Actually I saw it on the BBC too.
ChrisSSocal 3 years ago
youve heard of sampling correct? Too Short sampled this song.
rollershoer4life 3 years ago 3
Naw, Too Short did this song as a newborn, then Donny stole it. Donny got away with the theft because who's gonna believe a newborn baby over a grown man, who's an accomplished musician/singer?
To add insult to injury, Donny added the cries of baby Too Short (at 05:32 in this song)
Years later, when he became a rapper, Too Short remade this song, the first song he ever wrote, and everyone believed (falsely) that he "sampled" Hathaway's song when he was in fact reclaiming his own song.
thoomolong 3 years ago 2
now thats a conspiracy theroy for ya azz rolmfao i be bored my damn self but im never that bored u funny tho
MELLOWMADNESS88 3 years ago
I put donny Hathaway in the catagory of "Musical Genius" with Stevie Wonder!!!
ericvaughn40 3 years ago
simply WOW
pocket9 3 years ago 3
I always loved his Raw Live feel even in his studio cuts, they were Jams...just in the Studio! I grew up in the "Varrio" and we had a few Bands in the Hood. This was "Borrowed" a few times! George Benson really did a good rendition of it. Cleaner anyhow. I think that is where Too Short got it from in his version.
Peace Out.
-Philip.
usaved 3 years ago
I just looked up this guy he was pretty young.
axum3000 3 years ago 3
wen i was a youngn this shit wud hit me to the heart we wud listin to this in the city of sacromento on the southside of the twn
dazmona 3 years ago 2
i still remember this song from my childhood and it still holds some mysterious magic for me
it reminds me of the good ole days when my dad was still around and we would listen to this song on the ride towards our vacation spot =)
CrazyKraut20 3 years ago
donny is the car
luka974 3 years ago
My Main Man...Donnie Hathaway. Rest In Peace Brother - you are still #1.
MzCarnival123 3 years ago
Truly takes me back and really explains what the Ghetto is all about. Take a walk through it in your mind and you'll see what it's all about. Some young folks are truly missing the point of babies crying, drinking in a Juke Joint and working all week to see and feel the little freedom you have.
CombatPhotog 3 years ago 2
CombatPhotog yep...ppl my age(18) glorify what they think is the hard life to sell records...they dont know hard...i feel for ppl coming up when there was little hope for blacks in or outside the ghetto...now its cool to be poor and uncool to be prosperous or intelligent...sad
onceandfuture3 3 years ago
I too heard it first in Oakland on McArthur and Groove.
Williakj3 3 years ago
I first heard this when I was a skinny honkey boy living in Oakland.
Good times!
Lancealotbob 3 years ago
Rock on!!
paul51 3 years ago
this is very good song. you have to be old enough to appreciate\
Sorry for the young people
imbees2 3 years ago 2
no way i am pretty young and i do appreciate this song and this great artist
CrazyKraut20 3 years ago 2
mmmmm
whats missing in Jestofunks version?
back vocals!
Today producers don't respect the unity in music!!
And thats very sad!!
And is making the line of distinction even from the listeners! Dancing is cool but not enough, some of us want to dance and shout!
<3
pjubagoni 3 years ago
has anyone got donny performing love,love,love,?
AlistairAdams1 3 years ago
nice.
free40yess 3 years ago
great voice we kind of sound *alike*
man he can sing ,remind me of stevie sometimes:)
antemc2 3 years ago
i bet paul rodgers loves this guy
KronikKonekshun 3 years ago
This man was a one of the great voices of his time. A very tragic death.
will434usmc 3 years ago
great video
sole1948 3 years ago
tell it like it was.
poppiechulo9 3 years ago
Soul music brought us some greats - Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Stevie, Otis, Bill Withers .. and loads more I haven't mentioned, but was there ever a voice like Donny's? Sublime. The fact that he played piano like a virtuouso, arranged, produced, wrote, orchestrated ... are just bonuses. One of the finest musicians of his generation.
Jenjenilou 3 years ago 5
Im 22 years old and i'll say that this is definition of SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH!!!
It dont get any better, GOTTA HAVE SOUL BABY :))
dbosss86 3 years ago 5
simnply wonderful - even after all these years! Where has all this evocative music gone??
Toyboy789 3 years ago
the same place where musical integrity went... down the toilet.
Folks care about the SALES more than the ART.
TRUE ARTISTS see their art as an extension of their selves and would NEVER pimp themselves and their art to appeal to the base tastes of the masses.
marcdaddy33 3 years ago 2
Champion Music pound for pound a winner!
Jbazps23 3 years ago 3
donny hathaway is one of the people i look up to fo my music i put wut ive learned from him aretha tupac tina gladys and r kelly in my songs but i no i can never compare to any of the greats but i can put my heart into music lyk they did
TDiamond1993 3 years ago 4
Easily became one of my all time fav. Pure gut-bucket soul/funk
JoseyWales93 3 years ago 3
When he sings this song it sounds like home to me. It takes me back when the village raised the all the kids and we stuck together. When kids played outside all day long and family renuions was a normal occurrence that couldn't be missed, cause you had to sample who cooked the best barbq that day and fun family bounding time. Shoot I miss it cause my family don't get together no more except for funerals or maybe a wedding. Time fly's & things have really change!
girlneedingtruth 3 years ago 5
takes me back to when i was really liven
romeoshero69 3 years ago 3
me too
Sykopate27 3 years ago 3
wish i could buy a voice like that with mastercard.
GoodFellah69 3 years ago 4
the great donny rest in peace lovely song
themack010 3 years ago 2
i can 't stop playing this song
roosmr 3 years ago 4
sigh, if only music was also/still like this...
Sall80 3 years ago 7
Donny you are a Genuis.
cooperyahoo 3 years ago
This was the bomb song.
And it still rocks!
Whooo! Thank You!
1statone 3 years ago 3
Yeah,now thats wot im talking bout!!
Love dis song!!
aotearoablossom 3 years ago
There is so much pain in this tune.
eagillum 4 years ago 2
its hard to describe how great this track is, im like cryin..
tompaaz 4 years ago
its hard to describe how great this track is, im like cryin..
tompaaz 4 years ago
Rest in peace, Donny.
WayOutWardell 4 years ago
first bass riff i ever learned!
imajeepster 4 years ago 2
As sad as I feel about him dying/leaving us by way of depression, I would not have wanted him to stay around and get cracked out like David Ruffin and some others.
SAXYRIC359 4 years ago
TIMELESS CLASSIC 4 RE-AL.
tweetybirdloj 4 years ago
Thank God for the gift of Music
Thug1n3 4 years ago 2
THANX 1983CHAMPS.
silky1700 4 years ago
Real music that can be feel in the Soul, just pure authentic. Every time I listen to this jam, I remeber the hard times in the past... Mom struggling working hard as hell trying to make ends meet. The family barely had enough food to eat, but we rejoice as one because we knew one day the system live in will be defeat. Where is the sense of pride we had as a people went...
1983CHAMPS 4 years ago
jam over this with my guitar its very fun! =P
diecartin928 4 years ago
WHAT CITY WAS HE BORN IN?
silky1700 4 years ago
i believe chi- town
1983CHAMPS 4 years ago
He was born in Badassville : )
skellig66 4 years ago
Donny was one of a kind. . . thanks for posting!
domcal2 4 years ago 2
my mellow have you heard the live version of him playing it? GOD! HE IS AMAZING ON THE KEYBOARD!
GhettoKuumba 4 years ago
Reminds me of the Cob Cafe, Porthmadog, 1970, I was a 16 year old skinhead on holiday, staying at my cousins house, happy times, this song brings it all back, superb just superb.
mpc6857 4 years ago
so you're a 53/54 year old skinhead now?
abortbort 4 years ago
Yep, although I dont wear braces, still listen to soul/reggae/new wave, I am happy so I do my own thing, never wore a base-ball hat or a shell suit, leave that kind of stuff to all the clones out there, boots and jeans appealed to me before skinheads appeared on the scene, clean, neat and direct just the way life should be, bye.
mpc6857 4 years ago
i can play that bass riff!
imajeepster 4 years ago
THX, this is great, i love the man's music.
Donny Hathaway and Johnny Adams are my favorites.
THX YouTube.
.
Dutchcool.
amstelbavaria 4 years ago
such a masterpiece!
tompaaz 4 years ago
I love this and also The Slums from Extension Of A Man.
Both great songs!
Jellybeantiger 4 years ago
The greatest socially conscious song ever after "What's Going On" and "Living for the City" even without much words, lol!
timmy841212 4 years ago 3
Such a tragic end at the height of his career and life. Depression is a devastating condition--one I deal with periodically. I am in a study now for a totally new class of antidepressant and it seems to be working! Take that, Cruise!
lilarose1941 4 years ago 7
everything song this man made was great!!!
taully 4 years ago
I take it as a personal insult that no-one has taken the trouble, for four days, to post a comment about this marvellous ditty
jessetto 4 years ago
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he isnt really that good tho
Freckkaa 4 years ago
what makes him really not that good?...
theprimitive1969 4 years ago 3
freckkaa my child you have much to learn about the world of rnb/soul
JuveStriker 4 years ago 2
someone who is clearly clueless about soul let alone classic soul. it's not for wimps.
11moonelf 4 years ago
That was a well thought-out comment I bet. How long did it take you to come up with that one? My guess is, an entire day. He isn't really that good compared to whom? Be ready to battle when you come in here making comments like that partner.
monetja21 4 years ago
There are 2 real types of musicians. The technical musicians that can do amazing things with their instruments. Then there are the 2nd type. I call them "feel" musicians and they mainly play and write with their natural intuition telling them what the song needs. I played drums for 10+ years. Never became a star, but I know musicians and hathaway was a guy that just had the touch of knowing what a song needed. Not more, not less, exactly what it needed.
ducks668 4 years ago 4
and then there's the gangsta rappers and the emos.
BLaCkKsHeEp 4 years ago
that first type i dont call musicians....i knew this girl, as long as she had sheet music in front of her on her piano she could play like beethoven, amazing technically, sounded great, but if u asked her to compose something she wouldnt even be able to produce something as simple as 3 blind mice. she couldnt write a song if her life dependanded on it yet she could play like a pro....now is she a musician duck?
TakeTheRezaOutOfRasa 4 years ago
Performers and Composers are different sides of the same ability. You dont have the write music to be a musician. Your friend is simply a technical musician. While she might lack abilities in feeling the music, she is the type to be able to perform pieces that feel musicians cant perform without much, much practice. IMO, I think your friend is a musician..
ducks668 4 years ago 3
I gues you're right, without the performers with technical abilities the composer would have no tools, hare krishna, oh and check my funk vid out :)
TakeTheRezaOutOfRasa 4 years ago
I've always loved this one!
sellojelle 4 years ago 2
le son est vraiment incroyable ; un classic!!!
piimouss92 4 years ago
Cool.
dabigdikdangler 4 years ago
Questa si chiama MUSICA!!!
se oggi sapessero fare anche solo la metà della musica di quei tempi......e invece...
che tristezza!!!!
massimo916 4 years ago
Legend
richard79l 4 years ago
sends shivers down the spine love it
cocodrive 4 years ago 2
great song, thanx for add!!
GT4bandit 4 years ago
Great Artist
pdcband 4 years ago
This takes me back to the best time in my life.... Thank you for this.
yawhause 4 years ago 2
thanks the soulfubkist : it thanks to you that we rediscover good music and have a real good time.
NNAATTYY1974 4 years ago 2
J adore ! J adore ! J adore ! Ca grove mechant... J aurais grave kiffer les 70 : Bon son et pecou de oufffff
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amarezza34 4 years ago
If you can't bob your head to the bassline there's something truly wrong with you.
h2junkey 4 years ago
Something 'bout Donnie make you feel it right down to ya socks. I smelled boones farm and chicken when I hear dis song. Good music
soflyzeta 4 years ago
Thank you Thank you.This is soul at its best
charich1 4 years ago
he is a brilliant artist
SkateRocker12 4 years ago
i love this.. its amazing sound.. my niece just sent me his name. amazing sound.. love him.
artbybabz 4 years ago
My favorite bass line on the wurly ever. 2nd is What'd I say by Ray Charles. There has been no one better then Donny Hathaway on the wurly. He played all B3 and piano beautifully as well but on the Wurly he truly shined.
Wheatsolo 4 years ago
surement le morceau que j'affectionne le plus et ça me rappel de tres bon souvenirs ! :)
homere14 4 years ago
man o man this is dynamite, and donny builds on this until it explodes. these are the beats everybody---"THE GHETTO"
missb1217 4 years ago
I have a collection of his greatest hits. He was an incredible talent, with a superb, soulful voice, and he left long before he should have. So sad...but he really is overlooked as a great contributor to the RB scene...
imajeepster 4 years ago 2
I just look around and He was gone. I miss him. He suffered from depression. He kills us softly with his song.
saudah4 4 years ago
Donnie Hathaway Live, one of the best album's ever regarded. You just don't have artist with the imagination to create meaningful music anymore.
dmif3 4 years ago
thats not true at all
1peoplesun 4 years ago
I've always thought that George Benson was less soulful but jazzier version of Donny.....Hmmmmm!
36index 4 years ago
This is the best song Donny Hathaway has ever done!Makes me REALLY feel the energy of the ghetto.Get me a bottle of Wild Irish Rose and git there!
bumberclass 4 years ago
Thank you for posting this. One of the most soulful musical excursions of in history. I can't listen to the live version of this song while I'm driving because I literally want to jump out of the car and start partying!!!
grandpasun 4 years ago 2
I thought I was the only one who feels like this. I do stop and jump right out of the car and screem, dance,and shout! I am so glad this posted. Thankx
fajfred 4 years ago
Way too "Cool"!!
beatsbooze 4 years ago
pure genius
AMERIUSB 4 years ago
I shudder to think if there is a young person out there that calls themselves a singer and no one has hipped them to Donny. His delivery was beyond simplly singing or playing the keyboards he was wayyy before his time.
okonkwo69 4 years ago 3
You are sooooo right. His voice is like pure cream. His daughter Lelah has that very same quality.
fajfred 4 years ago 2
Yes, I love the version on "Donny Hathaway Live" too...the groove, the audience, the congas!!, everything! Speaking about that: "Everything is Everything" on the the same album is SO fantastic! 14 min! "The last movement" with "the baddest bass player in the country" is so cool :-P!
cellocarla 4 years ago
Hey and let's not forget the genius of Big Black on congos. Amazing!
fajfred 4 years ago
This version pales in comparison to the live 12 minute version off of "Donny Hathaway Live"! Like night and day! The live version is THE GROOVE of all groves!
Markkymark 4 years ago
This piece should be black folks' national anthem. I actually get "happy" when I hear this song. Donny, you were a genius. Gone but not forgotten!
abozmiller 4 years ago
You ain't even lying. I do consider this my national anthem. LOL you hit the nail on the head. RIGHT ON!!
fajfred 4 years ago 2
"ain't" - LOLZ
Wantabanana 4 years ago
kevi&fam...he is a soul king and i'm glad his daughter lalah followed his steps....
keviyana3 4 years ago
You can't beat this, Donny's voice and song writing, and Phil Upchurch on guitar - one of my all time favourites (as is "You Can't Sit Down" by Phil Upchurch Combo, from really way back when...)
stewarthome 4 years ago
Donny was truly an under rated talent. I'm wondering why this St.Louisan doesn't have a star on The St.Louis Walk of Fame is beyond me. He's being robbed ! R. I. P. We in St.Louis still you with all our hearts.
Gerri000 4 years ago
The Master!!!!!! What an amazing voice this man had....truly awesome!!!!!!!!
freshias 4 years ago
this song is just great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reeneegerman 4 years ago
love-respect-DONNY-Boas Ondas-Light-water
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Pabolinho 4 years ago
Man. RIP.
This is a sick song.
FunGirlWithMoney 4 years ago
WHO, has heard the LIVE concert CD from Donny?
i have the Japanese Import on CD and is a MUST HAVE, Kick-ass and SWEET! Let me know who wants it!
bambamdrummer 4 years ago
legend = genius
JustSayNaw 4 years ago
Donny....The true Master!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly gone but never forgotten!!!
freshias 4 years ago
Alll gotta say is check out Frank McComb i was at a show if his and he did this and i tell you......
I could not see a splinter of differance McComb is a living ledgend !!!
mamooooces2 4 years ago
Thats because Frank McComb used to sing backup for Donny Hathaway
neo22185 4 years ago
no heeeeeeeee didnt, i dont think???? he is just a star !!!
mamooooces2 4 years ago
Wow this song here takes me way back when I use to party with my home girls at La Raza Park in my hometown San Jose!!! Gotta luv it...
iouad0g 4 years ago