Music to my ears, I grew up in the 70s and dancing was dancing. At 53 when I hear these tunes I have to get up and move. My daughter appreciates some of the tunes of the 70s.
I did grow up in the seventies....... I danced to this when I was eighteen years old and had the time of my life and now I am fifty three years old and dance around my kitchen listening to Van Hunt with my grandchildren, I still love music and you can find inspiration and something new in every generation.
OH WOW THIS WAS THE GROVE IN THE 70S MY BEST FRIEND AND I WENT TO A CONCERT ON THE BOAT IN NEW ORLEANS AND WE WRAPPED A FIFTH OF RUM IN A SWEATER AND PASS IT OF AS OUR LIL BABY AND BOY DID WE ENJOY THAT BABY OF COURSE AT THE END THE BABY WAS GONE THOSE WERE THE DAYS
This man is one of the all-time greats! I'm so glad that he is still out there doing his thing. If you haven't seen him perform in concert; you NEED to!
Back in the day when I was DJ, It was incredible to see how this tune transformed everyone. It was as if everyone in the place was lifted. You could not escape the Groove, the Funk and the Soul. You could as we called it "Boogie" and if you really felt the vibe and very strong on Stepping you could cut a rug. Make no mistake about this cut. This is one of Roy's greatest creations.
Yo kids listen to what we're saying - what you got to look forward too eh? What we've got is this kind of music with soul, with feeling, with love and forever it will sound so today - gets better the older i get ......now nearing 50 - bring it on x
I have just listened to this tune twice and was transported back to another time Sunday afternoon roof down sun shining with this tune playing on JFM radio..........
i am still in my mothers womb and i still listen to this music and tell all my friends that this is real music and that im cool because i know who luther vandross is
No Video...but Iam seating with my Budweiser ....going down the Great lane...You see this Music was about love, piece, soul....It just made you feel that good old Soul in your heart and feet....no matter what color you were....just get down on the Funk...Yes...can you hear me..........?
I have needed to feel warmth and goodness for a while ,this took me back to when i was fresh, and music raised you up ,songs which everyone would get up and dance to including Grandma . Kids today wont be listening to Cheryl Cole and the like in 30 years time .Peace and Love
I was born in '74, didn't know about these tunes until the 90s. But let me tell you one thing, this is REAL music. Not factory mass produced brainless crap, the music industry has used its power and millions of dollers to force our kids to listen to garbage, and satanic garbage at that. btinsley1 hit nail on the head: songs spoke of love : ) Where's the love gone man? : (
First heard this particular Ayers tune on an 'Avalanches' breezeblock on BBC Radio 1. They played the LP version at 45 speed and it sounded wicked. I wish I was a part of music back in Ayers,AW&F amd the Kool time, when it was real. Gone are the days, gone are the times.
First heard this particular tune on the 'Avalanches' breezeblock, they played the LP at 45 speed and it sounded wicked! And i wish I was early 20's in '79, genuinely. Back when music was real. Oh gone are the days.
Roy Ayers was always a classy funky late 70s musician. Getting his tracks on 12" single was not easy. Great musician and entertainer....hard to believe he's 70 this year (2010). Keep it up Roy!
This man is the best! I got into his music around 1995. My attention grew and now there is still much to discover!!!! This one of my absolute fav tracks!!!!
I'm 28 and I like this tune slightly more than ARB082. And Jdem88, who was probably born in 1988 so that makes him the worlds first 21 or 22 year old who is 4, although I like song 7 times more than him, I respect him for his age-defying love of music.
see this is that head music...the young bloods ....they don't know nothing about that!..you call a cool cat ...a cool cat....dig!....becouse that is what it is.. cool ....feel me!
i know, i know, i'm an old head, but gather round you younguns and let me tell you about a time when THIS kind of music played at house parties.... picture it, 1979 when i was 18, no guns, no gang violence, girls (most of the time) acted like ladies, cars were made of steel, songs spoke of love, (not bangin' that thang), and people knew how to communicate...now put down that damn x-box, listen to this & learn something....know-it-all-whipper-snappa !
actually, gangs have been around since the dawn of time, but roy came on the scene in the early 60's....1962 to be exact. so you play this at parties? ya might wanna break out his cut Freaky Deaky if the appetite calls for funk
your rite they have been along since the dawn of time but i took it as you were referring to gangs suck as the cribs and bloods and in that case your wrong because the Latin kings started in the late 50's and broke out in the main stream in the 60's
then you took my inferences correctly son. gangs do suck in my opinion. don't be so literal....of course gang violence existed back then, but it wasn't as prevalent & doubly wasn't proudly displayed like these idiots of today. i know...i grew up in the 60s & 70s. i say learn a trade & get out of a comradery of crime & nonsense. oh yeah.... and do listen to roy ayers.
@btinsley1 So-very, very, very-true. I couldn't have put it better. One needs to look no farther than Facebook to see what's happened to today's kids (You wanted to know what it's like to be a porn-star? Well, guess what, honey? You are!). and I actually just finally got ON Facebook (I avoided it as long as I could). We're using all sorts of technology to connect with each other, and yet we've never been father apart. The "family-dinner" is a thing of the past.
@btinsley1 I'm 35 so technically this music is before my time, but I love it. All of the 70's music, disco, funk, soul......marvin, roy ayers, all of it.......do you know about the eighties ladies? It was a one off album that roy ayers produced, really good stuff....
@btinsley1 u got that right.. i was 19 and in the marines. every club on base was pumping this song and san diego... It was off the chain...... LOL..........
@btinsley1 Oh beautiful :) What i'd give to be in a time like that, to grow up in the 70's!!. so tired of the shit that's goin on these days. peace, love n light... Bless up
@btinsley1 Oh beautiful :) What i'd give to be in a time like that, to grow up in the 70's!!. so tired of the shit that's goin on these days. peace, love n light... Bless up
@Olduvai63: you get a thumbs up for that inquiry! holy ghost by the barkays, freaky deaky by roy ayers, keep it hot by cheryl lynn, reach for it by george duke, dazz by brick just off the top of my head....and for a mid-tempo "walk the floor" tune (that's a dance we used to do, long since vanished), "on your face" by earth wind & fire....
If this is disco, then I was born on Mars, defo 'funk' of the highest order, to many hand played components to even consider calling this disco.. perpetual... PEACE
i remember when i first heard this joint. i was visiting my grandparents in Missouri and me and my uncles were at this jukejoint. i thought it was the funkiest thing i'd ever heard. usually when i visit 'down south' most of the music they listened to was old to me. no one i asked knew who the artist was so when i returned home i frantically searched for it. when i found out it was roy ayers i was really blown away. i had always thought roy ayers was an easy listening/blues/jazz artist.
some moron at youtube from the now generation had the nerve to tell me that music is the same the last 40-60 yrs some better or worse, no difference. The moron actually thinks that the music today is the same as the 50's,60's,70's and 80's and told me I was narrow minded. When you listen to this song and roy ayers, YOU KNOW THAT FOOL IS ON CRACK! Old school is real music, today's music is DIGITIZED JUNK! Most kids need an EAR MAKEOVER! case closed! GANGSTA RAP is not music, it's JAIL TRASH!
don't be too hard on the young idiot...he knows nothing of the Ohio Players, Kool &the Gang (PRE-80s that is),Slave, BT Express,Earth, Wind & Fire, Boz, Phyllis Hyman, AWB, Isley Brothers,Brothers Johnson,Chic,Patrice Rushen, New Birth, L.T.D., Mandrill, Jean Carne, George Duke, too many more. Talent like that utilized REAL singing, REAL instruments, and sometimes self-arrangement and composition...I'm 47 & I feel you, but let's try to have hope for those who WILL LISTEN. peace bt
You coming down too hard on them, with that name drop..BE EASY! LOL
My father always tells me this and as I am growing I am understanding what he is saying...Music these days is horrible compared to that real music of the past...the lyrics, the instruments, the PURE talent that people have..everybody doing the same shit these days which gets OLD QUICK...
Its music like this that keeps people happy, afloat of life's trials etc....
You know, the black tradition kind of crashed after a certain point. This was a high point because you had well trained musicians who dabbled in blues, jazz. soul, funk, gospel, classical AND African influences. Therefore they were very well rounded AND always had an ear to the street. It was the culmination and build up of at least 50 years of recorded music it built up and crashed, hopefully we're rebuilding it now, but like Dr. King said, "I might not get there with you......"
What a groove! Just got me out of a bad mood! I remember hearing this on the radio in Detroit back in the day. This guy is so talented, I mean he did do "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", and "Running Away" that was on the radio too. Thanks for getting this one out there!
Roy Ayers was just funky with his music. He just was a bad boy. He just made quality music.
firetko14 3 days ago
Killer Tune
007Thebwoy 1 month ago
Music to my ears, I grew up in the 70s and dancing was dancing. At 53 when I hear these tunes I have to get up and move. My daughter appreciates some of the tunes of the 70s.
SuperAmethyst02 2 months ago
I did grow up in the seventies....... I danced to this when I was eighteen years old and had the time of my life and now I am fifty three years old and dance around my kitchen listening to Van Hunt with my grandchildren, I still love music and you can find inspiration and something new in every generation.
Geagle327 2 months ago
c,mon,how funky is this,broma,cannock
MrBazza360 3 months ago
wow i was 19 when this came out dam those were the days when you could really enjoy yourself wish i could go back in time. love this tune
DEE777OOO 4 months ago
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missfunkyss 4 months ago
sexyyyyyyyyy
missfunkyss 4 months ago
OH WOW THIS WAS THE GROVE IN THE 70S MY BEST FRIEND AND I WENT TO A CONCERT ON THE BOAT IN NEW ORLEANS AND WE WRAPPED A FIFTH OF RUM IN A SWEATER AND PASS IT OF AS OUR LIL BABY AND BOY DID WE ENJOY THAT BABY OF COURSE AT THE END THE BABY WAS GONE THOSE WERE THE DAYS
OLEEASH 5 months ago
ROY AYERS...PLEASE BELIEVE ME!!
mizzjuicy38 6 months ago
O.F.W.G.K.T.A
tendium 7 months ago
OFWGKTA !
TheNiggerXavi 8 months ago
No matter what the future holds; man HAS ALWAYS preservered..and came out on top! This song can apply to what's going on in the world today.
High gas prices; homelessness due to forclosure; racism; terrorism..its a long list, family..but you know what...
LOVE WILL BRING US BACK TOGETHER! I believe that...and if we all do...that will be a reality!
Love ALL OF YOU, Family!
Edd
EDDSMITTY1 8 months ago
ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL
GanjaTokesxRxUs 8 months ago
Man, whatever happened to great music such as this?
threeby8887 8 months ago
@threeby8887
I wish that I knew, friend...I really do!
Peace!
EDDSMITTY1 8 months ago
3 ppl never had love bring them back together
BlazinSkull209 8 months ago
This man is one of the all-time greats! I'm so glad that he is still out there doing his thing. If you haven't seen him perform in concert; you NEED to!
EDDSMITTY1 8 months ago
Sounds as good as when I first heard it played on the radio one night in the summer of 1979. SMOOTH GROOVE.
KOMET2006 9 months ago
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AndersonStarrArt 9 months ago
One of the very best....gets you movin n groovin in your heart :) peace & love to all x
AndersonStarrArt 9 months ago
@AndersonStarrArt Peace and Love to you too...nice.....
velvetindigonight 3 months ago
Back in the day when I was DJ, It was incredible to see how this tune transformed everyone. It was as if everyone in the place was lifted. You could not escape the Groove, the Funk and the Soul. You could as we called it "Boogie" and if you really felt the vibe and very strong on Stepping you could cut a rug. Make no mistake about this cut. This is one of Roy's greatest creations.
trt524 9 months ago
Odd future
15millz 10 months ago
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kmp3000 11 months ago
the groove is deep!
Gunnercv 11 months ago
Yo kids listen to what we're saying - what you got to look forward too eh? What we've got is this kind of music with soul, with feeling, with love and forever it will sound so today - gets better the older i get ......now nearing 50 - bring it on x
Scroobs 11 months ago 2
When I first heard this song, I thought it was Frankie Beverly.But after listening to the voice, I knew it was Roy Ayers.
luvinlamarr 1 year ago
I was right with you in 1979 @btinsley1! Those were the days...
Wrightlady 1 year ago
This is definitely a TRUE CLASSIC!!!
luvinlamarr 1 year ago
My Mom bought the 45 in '79, and to this day, the very special memories that go hand in hand with this song bring tears to my eyes.
Thanks for posting :)
snoops71 1 year ago 3
@btinsley Great tune..if you think there was no gang violence around in '79 you are dreaming!
felixdwilson 1 year ago
Great tune..if you think there was no gang violence around in '79 you are dreaming!
felixdwilson 1 year ago
Super slick,mate. Proper.
kmne11528 1 year ago
I have just listened to this tune twice and was transported back to another time Sunday afternoon roof down sun shining with this tune playing on JFM radio..........
I feel very warm inside now!
alch7 1 year ago
@alch7 JFM those where the days! lets not forget LWR ;-)
Metalspacebat 11 months ago
This was the music that I loved. Young folks need to come back to this music and be made whole agin. SOMETHING IS MISSING TODAY.
obastan 1 year ago
i am still in my mothers womb and i still listen to this music and tell all my friends that this is real music and that im cool because i know who luther vandross is
finch866 1 year ago
Wonderful post mate
Thefunksoulbro 1 year ago
OH MY GOD THOSE WERE THE DAYS FEELING SEXY FREE AND WILD AND FUNKY OOH YOU GO BABY ROY OOOOHHHH
DEE777OOO 1 year ago
Hi Btinsley.
I spin this kind of music once a month, and believe: everybody loves it, young old it doesn't matter! This makes you groove.
Paul Nescio
paulnescio 1 year ago 4
AWESOME BUT NOT OVERPLAYED OLD SKOOL KOOL
EEEEELAD 1 year ago
awesome
lalakookia 1 year ago
cant you see me,get on up get on down!
TheSummerof78 1 year ago 2
groovin!
TheSummerof78 1 year ago
Everybody hit the floor on this! Go Roy!
donnnamarq7 1 year ago 2
@donnnamarq7 yeah, doin the penguin, with your hands in your pockets, you go boy, you go girl! LOL
msmasterjam 1 year ago
WICKED !!! WICKED !!! WICKED !!!!!
donzi1505 1 year ago
quite possibly the finest funk tune ever.
graycrom 1 year ago
this is great we had some great music, we had it all and fun wow I forgot in 79 I 18 but who's counting
peggie50 1 year ago
too damn fonky!
cgord37 1 year ago
Sometimes, when you find that groove you just have to sit down in it.
TheBoneRanger1968 1 year ago 2
WOW, CAN YOU EVEN FIND SOMEBODY THAT CAN PLAY THE VIBES. I DOUBT IT ROY AND LIONEL THANKS FOR THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS INSTUMENT
MrMactab 1 year ago
No Video...but Iam seating with my Budweiser ....going down the Great lane...You see this Music was about love, piece, soul....It just made you feel that good old Soul in your heart and feet....no matter what color you were....just get down on the Funk...Yes...can you hear me..........?
Jessiebt 1 year ago
I have needed to feel warmth and goodness for a while ,this took me back to when i was fresh, and music raised you up ,songs which everyone would get up and dance to including Grandma . Kids today wont be listening to Cheryl Cole and the like in 30 years time .Peace and Love
Ashkenaziwatcher 1 year ago
I was born in '74, didn't know about these tunes until the 90s. But let me tell you one thing, this is REAL music. Not factory mass produced brainless crap, the music industry has used its power and millions of dollers to force our kids to listen to garbage, and satanic garbage at that. btinsley1 hit nail on the head: songs spoke of love : ) Where's the love gone man? : (
niteshift02 1 year ago 6
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October3074 1 year ago
@niteshift02 true words spoken bro
gemini19662010 1 year ago
btinsley +++ you are so right!
Mistamistadobalina 1 year ago 5
100% classic. i've heard this one a 100 times i think
lasse318 1 year ago
I'm going to loop this for the rest of my life
thejennerator 1 year ago
if a song like this is'nt touching you ............feel the love ...still not there? learn to love your self.
foggey 1 year ago
Hear Hear...still going strong.
SlickNick840 1 year ago
First heard this particular Ayers tune on an 'Avalanches' breezeblock on BBC Radio 1. They played the LP version at 45 speed and it sounded wicked. I wish I was a part of music back in Ayers,AW&F amd the Kool time, when it was real. Gone are the days, gone are the times.
adr0b 1 year ago
First heard this particular tune on the 'Avalanches' breezeblock, they played the LP at 45 speed and it sounded wicked! And i wish I was early 20's in '79, genuinely. Back when music was real. Oh gone are the days.
adr0b 1 year ago
this is forever and ever
MrDelma63 1 year ago
@ btinsley1 ..we have guns and gang violence since DAY one but u r right. I love the "steel-cars" and music back in the day was groovy.
LowRagg 1 year ago
Thanks sooo much veewee for putting my uncle's song on youtube! :)
KarJ4ever 1 year ago
Roy Ayers was always a classy funky late 70s musician. Getting his tracks on 12" single was not easy. Great musician and entertainer....hard to believe he's 70 this year (2010). Keep it up Roy!
truro007 1 year ago
Roy Ayers is such a phenomenal musician, I just can't understand why he isn't as well known as Stevie?
mcpduk 1 year ago
Classic. Very good!
dancing0being 1 year ago
Stepper Classic
MarkieG100 1 year ago
This man is the best! I got into his music around 1995. My attention grew and now there is still much to discover!!!! This one of my absolute fav tracks!!!!
harrygarciamusic 1 year ago
oh god this is going back wicked tune
DEE777OOO 1 year ago
Roy Ayres rocks!
Lollysunshine71 1 year ago 2
I'm 28 and I like this tune slightly more than ARB082. And Jdem88, who was probably born in 1988 so that makes him the worlds first 21 or 22 year old who is 4, although I like song 7 times more than him, I respect him for his age-defying love of music.
tacticlespasm 1 year ago 4
im 4 years old and i love this song!!! stfu
Jdem88 1 year ago
This is the jam. I used to pump this every Saturday when I was cleaning up the pad. Boogieing with ma broom and mop. Listen to that groove!
Artsyblack 1 year ago 2
This groove is the shit!
tatlas 2 years ago
This is definitely The Premier League!!! Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher.
JCG661 2 years ago 4
see this is that head music...the young bloods ....they don't know nothing about that!..you call a cool cat ...a cool cat....dig!....becouse that is what it is.. cool ....feel me!
omenra12 2 years ago
@omenra12 you tell em
gemini19662010 1 year ago 3
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juxtopotato 2 years ago
same for me and i am !5!
neostar0 2 years ago
This groove is rare!!!I can't stop singing and dancing...and i'm 28!!!!
nrittmann 2 years ago 4
lol 28 is old enough to know good music!!!
foxgirl100 2 years ago 3
@nrittmann:
Me too! It feels good to find old stuff you grew up with. Only I no longer sport afro puffs. LOL
SpankRamen2 2 years ago
i know, i know, i'm an old head, but gather round you younguns and let me tell you about a time when THIS kind of music played at house parties.... picture it, 1979 when i was 18, no guns, no gang violence, girls (most of the time) acted like ladies, cars were made of steel, songs spoke of love, (not bangin' that thang), and people knew how to communicate...now put down that damn x-box, listen to this & learn something....know-it-all-whipper-snappa !
btinsley1 2 years ago 199
@btinsley1
You summed it up perfectly. I wish I had a time machine, and I was only a toddler when this first came out!!
bellaalma 2 years ago 3
Amen to that, my friend
JCG661 2 years ago
gangs started in the 60's so there was guns but shit im 18 naw and i play this a party's
KiNgOfSuPrAs 1 year ago
actually, gangs have been around since the dawn of time, but roy came on the scene in the early 60's....1962 to be exact. so you play this at parties? ya might wanna break out his cut Freaky Deaky if the appetite calls for funk
btinsley1 1 year ago 3
your rite they have been along since the dawn of time but i took it as you were referring to gangs suck as the cribs and bloods and in that case your wrong because the Latin kings started in the late 50's and broke out in the main stream in the 60's
KiNgOfSuPrAs 1 year ago
then you took my inferences correctly son. gangs do suck in my opinion. don't be so literal....of course gang violence existed back then, but it wasn't as prevalent & doubly wasn't proudly displayed like these idiots of today. i know...i grew up in the 60s & 70s. i say learn a trade & get out of a comradery of crime & nonsense. oh yeah.... and do listen to roy ayers.
btinsley1 1 year ago 4
@btinsley1 Preach brother preach !!!
starfly7 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1 So-very, very, very-true. I couldn't have put it better. One needs to look no farther than Facebook to see what's happened to today's kids (You wanted to know what it's like to be a porn-star? Well, guess what, honey? You are!). and I actually just finally got ON Facebook (I avoided it as long as I could). We're using all sorts of technology to connect with each other, and yet we've never been father apart. The "family-dinner" is a thing of the past.
gangtwanger 1 year ago 4
@btinsley Say it like it is brotha! I remember...I was there! Right on right on...
blotoid 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1 lol, well said.
maumau68 1 year ago
@btinsley1
In '79 I was 5 lol but this is the only kind of music I really listen to. Good clean fun and musici with substance and real musicians.
October3074 1 year ago 2
@October3074 I was 13 in 79 & I remember this song very well
gemini19662010 1 year ago
@btinsley1 Now get off my lawn! Hehe...
droopusmaximus 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1 I'm 35 so technically this music is before my time, but I love it. All of the 70's music, disco, funk, soul......marvin, roy ayers, all of it.......do you know about the eighties ladies? It was a one off album that roy ayers produced, really good stuff....
heatmerchantz 1 year ago 3
@heatmerchantz
If you don't already it have pick up The Uno Melodic story....it's fantastic.
dylan240269 1 year ago
@btinsley1 BIG STATEMENT.... I could not put it any better myself.....
BRICK0071 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1 u got that right.. i was 19 and in the marines. every club on base was pumping this song and san diego... It was off the chain...... LOL..........
TKICEMAN217 1 year ago
@btinsley1
Sho nuff!! You spoke the truth! This is old school "feel good" music. Good clean fun! Dancing with a smile on your face! I love it!
October3074 1 year ago 6
@btinsley1 love it you are so right !!
traceyjane100 1 year ago 9
@btinsley1 ...Best statement ever
DANKANON 1 year ago 12
@btinsley1 I was with you comrade
kevintheshedend1976 1 year ago 6
@btinsley1 Preach On Bro
gemini19662010 1 year ago 5
@btinsley1 Oh beautiful :) What i'd give to be in a time like that, to grow up in the 70's!!. so tired of the shit that's goin on these days. peace, love n light... Bless up
cytvision1 1 year ago 25
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@btinsley1 Oh beautiful :) What i'd give to be in a time like that, to grow up in the 70's!!. so tired of the shit that's goin on these days. peace, love n light... Bless up
cytvision1 1 year ago
@btinsley1
You said it m8!
oODJFriendlyOo 1 year ago 7
@btinsley1 I saw this song live at a Roy Ayers concert about 2 years ago! The vibe you describe was pretty much it. Got to shake the mans hand!
benjwah 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1 THAT IS SO TRUE ON ALL POINTS
EEEEELAD 1 year ago 6
@btinsley1 I couldnt have said that better. Thank You For Putting in down like that!!
BlackPride1000 1 year ago 8
@btinsley1 You tell them bro because I was 13 back then & those were the days
gemini19662010 1 year ago 3
@btinsley1.... but in 1979 when u was 18 at those house parties u where trying to bang that thang :-)
MrTrigz 1 year ago
@btinsley1
I was a mere nut in the sack of one of the males at that party... :P
MsMerising 1 year ago 2
@btinsley1 I'd love to discover more music like this. If you were having one of those house parties who else would you play?
Olduvai63 11 months ago 3
@Olduvai63: you get a thumbs up for that inquiry! holy ghost by the barkays, freaky deaky by roy ayers, keep it hot by cheryl lynn, reach for it by george duke, dazz by brick just off the top of my head....and for a mid-tempo "walk the floor" tune (that's a dance we used to do, long since vanished), "on your face" by earth wind & fire....
peace & blessings, bt
btinsley1 11 months ago 3
@btinsley1 I'm 29, and I agree.
exzotik81 9 months ago
You try and keep still listening to this joint! Bet you can't. I definitely can't!
Baaad assss!
bigblkballr 2 years ago
@bigblkballr
Amen!
bellaalma 2 years ago
this is another great smash from Roy.....play this for your kids and grands...they need to know what real music is.
MelMediaServices 2 years ago 4
Damn straight... agree 100%
Shaydee70 2 years ago
beyond beasthood!!!!!!!!!!
mookiezebra 2 years ago
...dont make 'em like dis no more....
bigblkballr 2 years ago 2
very good
leonidas95400 2 years ago
they did a soul train line off this cut back in 1979!!!
hevyonez97 2 years ago 3
that's the last thing you need to tell me... I'mma track this down. LOL
nickfreshalive 2 years ago
I love this song, it make me feel so good, it reminds me at the 70ths. real cool funk
BIGeSTRING 2 years ago 2
If this is disco, then I was born on Mars, defo 'funk' of the highest order, to many hand played components to even consider calling this disco.. perpetual... PEACE
micljnes 2 years ago 2
SLICK AS NU-NILE
MrTYBO2020 2 years ago 2
SLICK AS NU-NILE
MrTYBO2020 2 years ago
Love will bring us back ! Church !!! 1
rerob52 2 years ago 2
true legend not BS pop idol trash. Timeless
Theocharides 2 years ago 21
oh what a song!!
brings back good old memories.
Danced and danced on this song.
Greetings fom Holland
Phase747 2 years ago 2
all i will say is that you can not teach people about quality music....you either have it or you dont....peace
TheAcidhouse88 2 years ago 2
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Is this a gay disco anthem?
davidn87 2 years ago
i think you need to learn the difference between funk and disco.
urmumsbaps 2 years ago
HE'S PLAYING WOMAD! YESSSSSSSSSS!
PaddyLong1000 2 years ago
pops thank u for letting me know how you used to get down...roy ayers got some grooves 4sho.....funky ish
jcmynt 2 years ago
man where the party at
jcmynt 2 years ago
i remember when i first heard this joint. i was visiting my grandparents in Missouri and me and my uncles were at this jukejoint. i thought it was the funkiest thing i'd ever heard. usually when i visit 'down south' most of the music they listened to was old to me. no one i asked knew who the artist was so when i returned home i frantically searched for it. when i found out it was roy ayers i was really blown away. i had always thought roy ayers was an easy listening/blues/jazz artist.
riskereb 2 years ago 3
some moron at youtube from the now generation had the nerve to tell me that music is the same the last 40-60 yrs some better or worse, no difference. The moron actually thinks that the music today is the same as the 50's,60's,70's and 80's and told me I was narrow minded. When you listen to this song and roy ayers, YOU KNOW THAT FOOL IS ON CRACK! Old school is real music, today's music is DIGITIZED JUNK! Most kids need an EAR MAKEOVER! case closed! GANGSTA RAP is not music, it's JAIL TRASH!
infantrygerbil 2 years ago 2
don't be too hard on the young idiot...he knows nothing of the Ohio Players, Kool &the Gang (PRE-80s that is),Slave, BT Express,Earth, Wind & Fire, Boz, Phyllis Hyman, AWB, Isley Brothers,Brothers Johnson,Chic,Patrice Rushen, New Birth, L.T.D., Mandrill, Jean Carne, George Duke, too many more. Talent like that utilized REAL singing, REAL instruments, and sometimes self-arrangement and composition...I'm 47 & I feel you, but let's try to have hope for those who WILL LISTEN. peace bt
btinsley1 2 years ago 2
PREACH IT!!!!!!!
You coming down too hard on them, with that name drop..BE EASY! LOL
My father always tells me this and as I am growing I am understanding what he is saying...Music these days is horrible compared to that real music of the past...the lyrics, the instruments, the PURE talent that people have..everybody doing the same shit these days which gets OLD QUICK...
Its music like this that keeps people happy, afloat of life's trials etc....
I love Roy Ayers..
Nina513 2 years ago 4
Nina53: let me get down off the soap box...i am glad to know you get what i'm saying...thank your pops for me !!! LOL
btinsley1 2 years ago
Will do LOL
Nina513 2 years ago
You know, the black tradition kind of crashed after a certain point. This was a high point because you had well trained musicians who dabbled in blues, jazz. soul, funk, gospel, classical AND African influences. Therefore they were very well rounded AND always had an ear to the street. It was the culmination and build up of at least 50 years of recorded music it built up and crashed, hopefully we're rebuilding it now, but like Dr. King said, "I might not get there with you......"
DiscoHank 2 years ago 4
One of the greatest funk tracks of all time.....nufff said.
dojufitz 2 years ago 2
GREAT!!!FOREVER!!!Chic Show...Brazil...1977...Tio(Tadeu)...Sobrinho(Marcelo)...Senai Roberto Simonsen...Brás...saudades....very much!
riverblue2 2 years ago
YES,YES,YEEEES! How could I 4get this gem? Thanks 4 the post!
GStrongRAW 2 years ago
If you planning funk lessons for the uneducated...use this PHAT CHOON!!!
nudge2012 2 years ago 2
for the children?? o_O
RapaTerntSanga 2 years ago
Yes...for the children who listen to all this ''bang bang kill your mum shite''. They need to learn proper music. This PHAT CHOON is proper.
nudge2012 2 years ago
bring back the funk!!!!!
barbie50a 3 years ago
amen Barbie!
Nonchalant82 2 years ago
..yo!..this is the funk,back in the day,our crew would rip up the floor!..cut a rug?..thats old folks..
cornergang 3 years ago
bet if ya ripped this @ a club today, the people would make a path to the floor...
btinsley1 3 years ago 2
such a groove
FingNoob 3 years ago
Love it .....thanks
TONIO2K8 3 years ago
So this IS Roy Ayers! I love this track. Fun to jam on with the key changes.
jasongogal 3 years ago
i love this tune. Old style Funk at its best.
funkyfox63 3 years ago 5
What a groove! Just got me out of a bad mood! I remember hearing this on the radio in Detroit back in the day. This guy is so talented, I mean he did do "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", and "Running Away" that was on the radio too. Thanks for getting this one out there!
DiscoCat78 3 years ago 3
roy ayers - the sunshine man - saw him live a few years back - awesome
slapmyfunkybass 3 years ago 2
Have this on vinyl :O)
esmereldatitswallop 3 years ago 3
still sounds good after all these years
loviedovie222 3 years ago 3
it's fantastic...without words...
benealfais 3 years ago 3
didn't brand new heavies sample this for BNH?
fineassb 3 years ago
At last!
Thank you so much for posting :)
Bevgoige 3 years ago
THE GREATEST x x x x
mistifox 3 years ago 2
Just purchased on vinyl...
djabhirama 4 years ago 3
Roy Ayers, one of the greatest of all time!
koolzainski 4 years ago 14
@koolzainski
You know it!
dylan240269 1 year ago