When i hear this all i can picture is like a like a long old skool lincoln or cadillac cruisin down a city block back in the day. Look all slick lol...
Junior Walker and fellow R&B great King Curtis never got their just due from the hardcore jazz guys, but they were great musicians all the same, and fabulous entertainers, too. This is where guys like the late Clarence Clemons came from...
I have loved Jr. Walker's music for as long as I can recall, and was privileged to hear him live back in the 1980s before cancer claimed him. What a wonderful and talented performer - pure class and an all-time great to be sure. This song is one of this best, and so atmospheric and moody...
a real good slow dance if you know what I mean, you can really get into to it. I loved it then and love just as much now, Oh it makes me feel so fine.
Jr. Walker's solo on the song 'Urgent' is one of the funkiest soul sax solo-13 seconds ever recorded...............it just sends you from Earth to Mars in about 2 Quasars of a 9th dimension.
@beaconmike: "Urgent" was a great hard rock tune, with Junior's sax fill - but it doesn't compare to his classic work. Do yourself a favor and pick up his LP "Shotgun" from his Motown days. You'll be glad you did. It has several other classics besides this one.
The absolute baddest Jr. Walker tune ever. If you were at a really good party with friends and someone played Cleo's Back and Cleo's Mood then your chances increased for a successful conclusion of the evening. I'm sure you know what I mean. In the trying, sometimes dangerous and violent times of the 60's soul was one thing that brought a lot of us together. Jr. Walker was a big part of it.
1st Track on the first album I bought,,, the album was shotgun,,, I think l played it out. I bought it in november 66,,, and l still have that album.... l saw Junior at the City hall in sheffield... England in 67.... one of the Greats...
Thanks for putting this one up. This guy was my inspiration and led to my semi-professional career in music. Saw him in '68 with pretty much the same band as on the b&w video except no bass player- the organ player was playing the bass on the B3 foot pedals (I think this studio cut of Cleo's Mood was also recorded that way).
@GalaxyGuy12 Thank you for saying it so nicely! G Guy 12 is probably saying the same thing now.The next best question is, Who will receive some great music via email, or just get some more motown and send??? All my family would love it, which is how i'm gonna spread the joy.ENJOY
Peculiar how death usually proves to be the prerequisite for fame.
In his earlier career at Motown and on into his latter career, Jr. Walker was regarded by Motown executives and the charm school crowd to be almost incidental, even 2nd tier in terms of his popularity and profit potential.
But genuine musicians 'knew' his musical ability, and respected it; -- alas, pop audiences always favor vocalists over musical instruments. He simply was 'not' a singer -- his one critical downside.
@loralie5974 Jr. passed away from cancer in 1995, but you may be right : If there is any kind of an afterlife, he's probably still wowing the crowds...
@loralie5974: Sad to tell you, he passed away about twenty years ago of cancer. I was fortunate-enough to attend one of his live performances before he died, and it was a very memorable experience, one of the best live R&B shows I've ever seen.
Slow dance. Deep groove. Grind. Sax stroking the night time air like lovers in passionate heat. Soul music when it totally earned the title Soul music, 'cause that is what that style of music reflected. Pure beauty on a 45 RPM disc(or 33 1/3rd). A song from Motown that didn't have the usual "Motown sound"-- it was all Jr.Walker and his boys, doing only what they could do best, laying it down for all to absorb, like hot fluid emollient soothing away the pains of our busy day, promising relief.
@sonwamac Yes I knew that already, though it is a useful fact to bring up for those unaware of it. When you really listen to Jr.'s work however, one realizes that a lot of it is much more bluesy or rough-edged compared to the slicker Motown-related releases of that era (The Contours were considered too "raw and blunt" for a Motown act as well). Later efforts like "What Does It Take" or "Walk In the Night", though somewhat softer in tone, contained a grit that differed from Motown's usual stuff.
@MrJamesrnolan it was said of Jr. Walker that Mr. Gordy said to "let Junior cut the way he is" it wasn't until What Does It Take or maybe some of the earlier cuts that his sessions were run in the usual "assembly line" production
@MrJamesrnolan A lot of Junior's songs didn't get the Motown "assembly-line" treatment.....the edict from Berry Gordy was to "let Junior cut the way he is" with his All-Stars, it wasn't until later songs like "What Does It Take(To Win Your Love)
Yea, total sex. If you like this listen to the X rated Sax of Monk Higgins's "Gotta be funky" it will turn your toes. Go on don't be a pussy try it !!
An angelic pearl white '64 Chevy Impala SS lowered to the earth with deep Astro supremes, ultra tinted widows and a Pioneer 8 track tape deck ... SoCal city lites and ... "Cleo's Mood" ;-)
Back in 1966 this song was terriffic to listen to and it still is. It will really crank up a stereo in the car or at home. You will have to get up and dance.
@MotownMaster: Motown Master, any chance you know the band behind Junior on the original recording? I've been a Motown fan for years, but haven't been able to track that down...
@GS455Stage1 I agree with you and also dont forget that cold beer or that cigarette too after a long day... just makes you wanna hold tight your lady and dance slow....
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Thanks for the positive response to my comment of Jr. Walker's "Cleo's Mood". I have always enjoyed the many songs by this great artist. Also, one of my favorites is "Cleo's Back".
Too bad this type of good music doesn't exits today. We're very thankful that there's a place to listen / enjoy / remember this good music.
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Yes, you're so correct. This song along with all of Jr. Walker's hits really made you want to get up and dance. There are a lot of really good things about growing up during this wonderful musical time in the U.S. Most of all being present and witnessing this lovely form of True "Soul Music" at its best. What's truly sad though, I believe we all thought as time went by, the music would get even better, however as we witness today, that's truly not the case.
@natepinto444: I don't have the tab handy, but you don't need them on this tune, whose guitar part is simple but effective. It's done mostly in single notes on the lower strings, using simple pentatonic patterns. The bass and guitar track together in part of the song, so if you lose your way, come back to the bass. It also always helps to figure out the basic chord structure and form of the tune. Good luck, and don't forget to mute with your picking hand as you pick.
Played this in the group to give the singer a break. Never failed to get the girl's dancing. Love the Hammond B-3 sound as backup and the reverb on the horn. Single note sax back up also distinguished a real horn player who could stand alone.
Great tune! Everytime I hear this I think of the young Jackson 5 performing in those night clubs when they were very young. This is the song they played on "American Dream" for a stripper as those young boys snuck backstage to watch. :)
By the way Jan9902 you are dead on about the two tracks "Cleo's Mood" and "Cleo's Back"...Cleo's Back" is wonderful but "Cleo's Mood" thrills me to no end...Never get tired of hearing it...can't get enough of it
Great tune! I had thought this was on Jr. Walker's all-instrumental album "Soul Session" but it turns out it was on the instrumental side of the LP "Shotgun." Both of those were fine albums.
love this song...but does anyone remember another record, can't remember the name of it, but just instrumental like Cleo's Mood, a great two-step record by Jr. Walker.I've tried all of the songs on you tube list,not there???
shellplanter first played cleos back on here, I told him there was Cleos mood, eventually he found it. cleos back is good but not as good as cleo.s mood
Great track...Jr Walker and the All Stars Cleo's Mood, sounds Even Better on a brand new CD. Has to be one of the best soul instrumentals on Motown. It'll give other Soul label, instrumentals a run for their money too!!
As a matter of fact this isn't even really a Motown tune...It was cut a few years before Jr. Walker was signed to Motown (it might have come out on the Anna label the one owned by B. Gordy's sister) but when Jr. Walker signed with Motown they took over ownership of many of his tracks done with his previous label including this one..however Motown 'specially in the early days cut many a funky track including some outright blues for Mary Wells the Temps and Marvin Gaye
thanks Jan9902 actually I was mistaken. someone i knew actually had an old 45 of it and its on the "Harvey" label. As in Harvey Fuqua the guy who brought Marvin Gaye to Motown. I had guessed Anna records because Anna was Anna Gordy who was Berry's sister and eventually married Harvey Fuqua. But Fuqua had a stable of artists on his roster and eventually many if not most of them came over to Motown as did many if not most of the artists on the Anna label.
@d820m Yes..and before that when Fuqua had "Harvey" records Gwen and Anna had a company together called "Anna" records . and some of those artists they had eventually came over to Motown too...it was all kinda Musically insestous
@sonwamac have you seen or purchased any of the recent CD sets on Motown....every last A and B sides, Promo cuts, songs that should have been hits, all the way back to the earliest days.....see Hip-O select .com for more info
I just Tweeted to Diddy that this is my theme song. I'm not nearly as cool as this song, but I've always aspired to be. I suppose it's how I see myself on the inside.
Unfreakin believable Feanic...I always thought EXACTLY the same thing...this track so should have been used in Pulp Fiction...I'll tell ya exactly where...it shoulda been used when Vincent leaves Lance's house on the way to pick up Mia after shooting the heroin...yup...I believe ideas exist in the atmosphere somewhere and our brains tune in to 'em...that's the only explanation for some things...except somehow Quentin Tarantino missed it
BTW y'all they're showing a bass player in theband in this footage but this beautiful walking grooving bass on this track is being supplied by the organ player and his foot pedals
Haunting...its definitely that...when this came out circa '63 or so the expression "soul music" wasn't quite a common one yet...this defines that expression as well as any song ever recorded...but the melody is haunting...AND mysterious...just who IS Cleo anyway
I heard this yeeeeears ago, loved it to bits..... and never found out who sang it or what it was called... just saw 'cleos mood on here and thought... hmmm that title sounds sorta familiar... i wonder! Yaay! cool I love it! Cheers! :)
Shell planter found this for me, he was playing Cleo's back and didn't appear to know about Cleo's mood on the first side of Shotgun. Don't diss him he was great and may have done this before you?
reminds me a lot "black magic woman"- santana!!
anitsirclol 2 weeks ago
When i hear this all i can picture is like a like a long old skool lincoln or cadillac cruisin down a city block back in the day. Look all slick lol...
halfasser 3 weeks ago
good job with the video... don't apologize.
Bamaboompa 3 weeks ago 3
i finaly found this awsome song.
Ticijaa 1 month ago
love this song and my dad still play it til this day
brownsugarlove24 1 month ago
Junior Walker and fellow R&B great King Curtis never got their just due from the hardcore jazz guys, but they were great musicians all the same, and fabulous entertainers, too. This is where guys like the late Clarence Clemons came from...
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
I have loved Jr. Walker's music for as long as I can recall, and was privileged to hear him live back in the 1980s before cancer claimed him. What a wonderful and talented performer - pure class and an all-time great to be sure. This song is one of this best, and so atmospheric and moody...
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
cleo mood and cleo back junior and the all stars this is music.
PASTORKable 2 months ago
Why doesn't this have more views?!!?
juliameretemork 2 months ago
superb
Jan9902 4 months ago
Awesome :)
AndyDeiu 4 months ago in playlist K-DST etc
Listening to the stereo edit, you can hear the organ more.
TheAudivisioner 5 months ago
<3 this
aceshighsays 6 months ago
I would have loved to hear Jr. Walker or Booker T back up Otis Redding instead of the Barkays.
Bamaboompa 6 months ago
@Bamaboompa That's a great thought. I'd never thought of that.
prettycountrygirl2 3 months ago
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snakeskin2u2 3 months ago in playlist Motown Classics
a real good slow dance if you know what I mean, you can really get into to it. I loved it then and love just as much now, Oh it makes me feel so fine.
richtoga 6 months ago
superb
Jan9902 6 months ago
So mellow, so much soul. No one will ever compete with his sound! A master of soul!
mkmason2002 6 months ago
the boat that rocked!
yertletheturtle4 7 months ago 3
Good stuff. Takes me back to the days before I was even born.
XtraXtraodinaire 7 months ago
Jr. Walker's solo on the song 'Urgent' is one of the funkiest soul sax solo-13 seconds ever recorded...............it just sends you from Earth to Mars in about 2 Quasars of a 9th dimension.
beaconmike 8 months ago
@beaconmike: "Urgent" was a great hard rock tune, with Junior's sax fill - but it doesn't compare to his classic work. Do yourself a favor and pick up his LP "Shotgun" from his Motown days. You'll be glad you did. It has several other classics besides this one.
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961 I do have all of his classic work..............thanks.
beaconmike 1 month ago
The absolute baddest Jr. Walker tune ever. If you were at a really good party with friends and someone played Cleo's Back and Cleo's Mood then your chances increased for a successful conclusion of the evening. I'm sure you know what I mean. In the trying, sometimes dangerous and violent times of the 60's soul was one thing that brought a lot of us together. Jr. Walker was a big part of it.
8House 8 months ago
1st Track on the first album I bought,,, the album was shotgun,,, I think l played it out. I bought it in november 66,,, and l still have that album.... l saw Junior at the City hall in sheffield... England in 67.... one of the Greats...
stopdong22 8 months ago
coo jam...
MrGalvez90 9 months ago
Coolest blues ever.
Carthsgtr 10 months ago
I am an old friend of Shellplanter.
Can you play Cleos back please
Jan9902 11 months ago
The Images don't have to match the sounds – it's pure Junior Walker at his best and that's all that counts.
tincHadra1gH 11 months ago
Correct. Organ pedal bass. Ain't nothin' like it! Also, the thing is in Ab minor! OW!
organfreak 11 months ago
7 people are deaf
lsbus 11 months ago
7 people do not understand cleo's mood
diamondzandpearls02 11 months ago
45's rule.
sclogse1 1 year ago
hey shell planter told you so 3 years ago. lol
Jan9902 1 year ago
I asked for Cleos mood to be put on by Shellplanter years ago. Eventually he did.
Jan9902 1 year ago
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snakeskin2u2 1 year ago
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Carthsgtr 1 year ago
Great song. Smooth and easy and that Sax has a sound all it's own.
Olenuff 1 year ago
Those that like Junior Walker thank you
7jack7 1 year ago
Thanks for putting this one up. This guy was my inspiration and led to my semi-professional career in music. Saw him in '68 with pretty much the same band as on the b&w video except no bass player- the organ player was playing the bass on the B3 foot pedals (I think this studio cut of Cleo's Mood was also recorded that way).
rorp1000 1 year ago
The FB weren't a backup back fool, the artist were the backup
xporiruaboy 1 year ago
love this song
rosetta821 1 year ago
I LIKE JUNIOR WALKER
grandmamaable 1 year ago
I got to see and meet him at one of his last shows before he went to the sax motherland in the sjy..................
markdam 1 year ago
Soul music,at its best,has Mystical powers......
postatility 1 year ago
@postatility Right on.... always felt that way.
Prostylefilms 1 year ago
I heard this song in a movie, but never knew who played the music. Love this song! Thanks this on Youtube!
3556111 1 year ago
battle of the sax....who would win? Junior Walker vs. King Curtis
d820m 1 year ago
@d820m Who will win? The people listening in, as they would probably hear songs so smooth, so good, that they must be from the realm beyond...
GalaxyGuy12 1 year ago
@GalaxyGuy12 Thank you for saying it so nicely! G Guy 12 is probably saying the same thing now.The next best question is, Who will receive some great music via email, or just get some more motown and send??? All my family would love it, which is how i'm gonna spread the joy.ENJOY
jmmkllj7 1 year ago
@d820m Maceo Parker.
TheRetltbcpd124 1 year ago
@d820m: Definitely a tie!
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
i want to have sex with this tune
djonin91 1 year ago
where is shell planter now?
we go back a few years
Jan9902 1 year ago
this is on my alarm clock for 3 years now, and I like it even more than I did back when I first heard it, you can't get tired of this, pure classic
djonin91 1 year ago
just raw funk, that is all i have to say
MrBlazer9ful 1 year ago
Awesome !! I think Marvin Gaye tipped his hat to Junior in naming one his tracks on his 1970's album Trouble Man after this.
bobbyh5362 1 year ago
Hey Jr God has blessed you with a brand new granddaughter. Her name is Emma.
arnied42 1 year ago
Peculiar how death usually proves to be the prerequisite for fame.
In his earlier career at Motown and on into his latter career, Jr. Walker was regarded by Motown executives and the charm school crowd to be almost incidental, even 2nd tier in terms of his popularity and profit potential.
But genuine musicians 'knew' his musical ability, and respected it; -- alas, pop audiences always favor vocalists over musical instruments. He simply was 'not' a singer -- his one critical downside.
groupshot 1 year ago
@groupshot well put it this way..he becam a credible "vocalist" but he really "SANG" on the tenor sax
sonwamac 1 year ago
nice video work.........
philburrell 1 year ago
thats the jam it does not get more OG then that
The85g 1 year ago
I love both of the Cleo's jams. "Mood & Back" Jr. Walker is a one of a kind.
jrock1764 1 year ago
Does anyone know what ever happened to Jr? I bet if he is still playing some place he still has an audience!
loralie5974 1 year ago
@loralie5974 Jr. passed away from cancer in 1995, but you may be right : If there is any kind of an afterlife, he's probably still wowing the crowds...
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
@loralie5974: Sad to tell you, he passed away about twenty years ago of cancer. I was fortunate-enough to attend one of his live performances before he died, and it was a very memorable experience, one of the best live R&B shows I've ever seen.
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
Sorry but who dislikes this? Wanna get their ears tested.......... fucking idiots!
TimClamp 1 year ago 2
Slow dance. Deep groove. Grind. Sax stroking the night time air like lovers in passionate heat. Soul music when it totally earned the title Soul music, 'cause that is what that style of music reflected. Pure beauty on a 45 RPM disc(or 33 1/3rd). A song from Motown that didn't have the usual "Motown sound"-- it was all Jr.Walker and his boys, doing only what they could do best, laying it down for all to absorb, like hot fluid emollient soothing away the pains of our busy day, promising relief.
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
@MrJamesrnolan technically this was NOT a Motown song...Motown bought the rights to it later but it was originally recorded on Harvey Records
sonwamac 1 year ago
@sonwamac Yes I knew that already, though it is a useful fact to bring up for those unaware of it. When you really listen to Jr.'s work however, one realizes that a lot of it is much more bluesy or rough-edged compared to the slicker Motown-related releases of that era (The Contours were considered too "raw and blunt" for a Motown act as well). Later efforts like "What Does It Take" or "Walk In the Night", though somewhat softer in tone, contained a grit that differed from Motown's usual stuff.
MrJamesrnolan 1 year ago
@MrJamesrnolan it was said of Jr. Walker that Mr. Gordy said to "let Junior cut the way he is" it wasn't until What Does It Take or maybe some of the earlier cuts that his sessions were run in the usual "assembly line" production
d820m 1 year ago
@MrJamesrnolan A lot of Junior's songs didn't get the Motown "assembly-line" treatment.....the edict from Berry Gordy was to "let Junior cut the way he is" with his All-Stars, it wasn't until later songs like "What Does It Take(To Win Your Love)
d820m 1 month ago
@d820m i now realize i posted something similar to this to you a while back....sorry
d820m 1 month ago
PURE FUNK !!!!!!!!! " MUSIC "
hapzap13 1 year ago
Yea, total sex. If you like this listen to the X rated Sax of Monk Higgins's "Gotta be funky" it will turn your toes. Go on don't be a pussy try it !!
bobbyh5362 1 year ago
absutely superb
Jan9902 1 year ago
SEX!!!
MyPersonalDrugs 1 year ago
♫♫♫ What a great groove. ♫♫♫
motownmaniax 1 year ago 2
great groove !!!
string0pearls 1 year ago
This song is baaad. Jr. Walker doesn't get near enough credit.
8House 1 year ago
terbaek.....
Moalhu74 1 year ago
Swing'n'roll!
Just listen to the drums and it can't be unheard! It's undoubtedly swing'n'roll :D
VolcanCZ 1 year ago
what a jazz tune :) fab init :)
polomintsaj 1 year ago
I always thought the title was "Cleo's MOVED".
prettycountrygirl2 1 year ago
An angelic pearl white '64 Chevy Impala SS lowered to the earth with deep Astro supremes, ultra tinted widows and a Pioneer 8 track tape deck ... SoCal city lites and ... "Cleo's Mood" ;-)
sparkyization 1 year ago
Back in 1966 this song was terriffic to listen to and it still is. It will really crank up a stereo in the car or at home. You will have to get up and dance.
Jr. Walker Forever
GS455Stage1 1 year ago 19
@GS455Stage1 and drive real slow cause thats what I do when I'm crusing to it
mannishboy69 1 year ago
@GS455Stage1 this song was originally released in 1962 on the Harvey label, and when Tri-Phi merged with Motown, it was rereleased in 1966
MotownMaster 1 year ago
@MotownMaster: Motown Master, any chance you know the band behind Junior on the original recording? I've been a Motown fan for years, but haven't been able to track that down...
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
@GS455Stage1 I agree with you and also dont forget that cold beer or that cigarette too after a long day... just makes you wanna hold tight your lady and dance slow....
TheTalentedMrRipley1 9 months ago
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Thanks for the positive response to my comment of Jr. Walker's "Cleo's Mood". I have always enjoyed the many songs by this great artist. Also, one of my favorites is "Cleo's Back".
Too bad this type of good music doesn't exits today. We're very thankful that there's a place to listen / enjoy / remember this good music.
Jr. Walker Forever
GS455Stage1 9 months ago
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Yes, you're so correct. This song along with all of Jr. Walker's hits really made you want to get up and dance. There are a lot of really good things about growing up during this wonderful musical time in the U.S. Most of all being present and witnessing this lovely form of True "Soul Music" at its best. What's truly sad though, I believe we all thought as time went by, the music would get even better, however as we witness today, that's truly not the case.
GS455Stage1 8 months ago
So beautiful !!!!!!!
♥♥♥
AprilSeventh95 1 year ago 2
what a tune
polomintsaj 2 years ago 3
love it love it love it! thanks a bundle!!!
tribecalofter 2 years ago 3
I love the beggining ! Such good stuff !
frenchienofrog 2 years ago 3
one word "Smooth"
Ballerfella2007 2 years ago 31
@Ballerfella2007 now this is the TRUTH
bluenile048 1 year ago
this is the best cruzin song.
eastsidepauie 2 years ago 2
man this has a killer groove to it ...what an over looked song ..best on motown i'd say
waylo4526 2 years ago 2
Does anyone know where one can find the Guitar Tabs for this song?
It's such a great song, I would love to learn how to play at least the guitar part
-thanks for posting =)
natepinto444 2 years ago
@natepinto444: I don't have the tab handy, but you don't need them on this tune, whose guitar part is simple but effective. It's done mostly in single notes on the lower strings, using simple pentatonic patterns. The bass and guitar track together in part of the song, so if you lose your way, come back to the bass. It also always helps to figure out the basic chord structure and form of the tune. Good luck, and don't forget to mute with your picking hand as you pick.
GeorgiaBoy1961 1 month ago
I was just listening to the soundtrack for 'Pirate Radio' and after hearing Jr. Walker there came and found this. Nice footage! Thanks!
michaelflanagansf 2 years ago
1965-The greatest Sax player. His music will always be remembered as smooth Soul music.
Sport67
GS455Stage1 2 years ago 2
muy avanzados para su epoca.Seguro que en su epoca no se comian un rosco.increible.
mailin1981 2 years ago
Cool stuff
mljansson 2 years ago 2
Im just tripin with it. It is sooooo good.
AhtoVaks 2 years ago 2
When music was music!.
Kdees 2 years ago 2
yea just watched it again it's the old film
ok watch it from a distance Al
aljoda 2 years ago
Played this in the group to give the singer a break. Never failed to get the girl's dancing. Love the Hammond B-3 sound as backup and the reverb on the horn. Single note sax back up also distinguished a real horn player who could stand alone.
trydreamin 2 years ago
@trydreamin I totally agree, He's my favorite saxiphonist of all times.
miraculus7 2 years ago
Great tune! Everytime I hear this I think of the young Jackson 5 performing in those night clubs when they were very young. This is the song they played on "American Dream" for a stripper as those young boys snuck backstage to watch. :)
Glendagenda 2 years ago 2
to dedwards921: the song you are looking for might be "Satan's Blues"
nutothis1 2 years ago
this videos the "what does it take" video. haha
greaserman44 2 years ago
yeah and the second half's from a David Letterman appearance that is so old Paul Shaeffer had hair
sonwamac 2 years ago
thank you for your reply, shell planter was here a long time ago, he was ok
Jan9902 2 years ago
By the way Jan9902 you are dead on about the two tracks "Cleo's Mood" and "Cleo's Back"...Cleo's Back" is wonderful but "Cleo's Mood" thrills me to no end...Never get tired of hearing it...can't get enough of it
sonwamac 2 years ago
u ok? aspergers?
Jan9902 2 years ago
don't get that...aspergers?...ya got me on that one...
sonwamac 2 years ago
paste and post?
Jan9902 2 years ago
sorry don't know why I said that
Jan9902 2 years ago
does not get much better
Jan9902 2 years ago
One of my all time favorite songs. period.
YaLoSabes14 2 years ago
Where is music like this today!
ruffin76 2 years ago 2
Great tune! I had thought this was on Jr. Walker's all-instrumental album "Soul Session" but it turns out it was on the instrumental side of the LP "Shotgun." Both of those were fine albums.
Westcoasttony 2 years ago
So rough! So tough!
JaySkulk 2 years ago 3
luv the way he played the Sax.
jazjett 2 years ago
love this song...but does anyone remember another record, can't remember the name of it, but just instrumental like Cleo's Mood, a great two-step record by Jr. Walker.I've tried all of the songs on you tube list,not there???
dedwards921 2 years ago
Try "Cleo's Back" from the same year , which was a similar instrumental, though not quite as good, in my opinion, dedwards921.
snakeskin2u2 2 years ago
shellplanter first played cleos back on here, I told him there was Cleos mood, eventually he found it. cleos back is good but not as good as cleo.s mood
Jan9902 2 years ago
Great track...Jr Walker and the All Stars Cleo's Mood, sounds Even Better on a brand new CD. Has to be one of the best soul instrumentals on Motown. It'll give other Soul label, instrumentals a run for their money too!!
alan49624 2 years ago
As a matter of fact this isn't even really a Motown tune...It was cut a few years before Jr. Walker was signed to Motown (it might have come out on the Anna label the one owned by B. Gordy's sister) but when Jr. Walker signed with Motown they took over ownership of many of his tracks done with his previous label including this one..however Motown 'specially in the early days cut many a funky track including some outright blues for Mary Wells the Temps and Marvin Gaye
sonwamac 2 years ago
thank you for the information, you say might have come out of the Anna label..What was his previous label?
Jan9902 2 years ago
thanks Jan9902 actually I was mistaken. someone i knew actually had an old 45 of it and its on the "Harvey" label. As in Harvey Fuqua the guy who brought Marvin Gaye to Motown. I had guessed Anna records because Anna was Anna Gordy who was Berry's sister and eventually married Harvey Fuqua. But Fuqua had a stable of artists on his roster and eventually many if not most of them came over to Motown as did many if not most of the artists on the Anna label.
sonwamac 2 years ago
@sonwamac Harvey Fuqua married Gwen Gordy, another of Berry's sisters....Anna married Marvin Gaye....
d820m 1 year ago
@d820m Yes..and before that when Fuqua had "Harvey" records Gwen and Anna had a company together called "Anna" records . and some of those artists they had eventually came over to Motown too...it was all kinda Musically insestous
sonwamac 1 year ago
@sonwamac have you seen or purchased any of the recent CD sets on Motown....every last A and B sides, Promo cuts, songs that should have been hits, all the way back to the earliest days.....see Hip-O select .com for more info
d820m 1 month ago
I just Tweeted to Diddy that this is my theme song. I'm not nearly as cool as this song, but I've always aspired to be. I suppose it's how I see myself on the inside.
Paulann7326 2 years ago
Jr Walker at his absolute best! Saw him in '67, and he still makes me sweat. Brilliant!!
joefromstafford 2 years ago
this is so 1960's nitetime coo lol
boobay2 2 years ago 2
Pure Sax.x.
Crackers1ify 2 years ago
jackson 5 american dream movie - stripper night club scene...great stuff. "mother will kill us...."
gibbonmusic 2 years ago
as I await my first grandchild and no-one appreciated this music back then and now some do I will just have to telll her!! Glad u guys do
Jan9902 2 years ago
dedcated to Charlotte 8ibs 2ozs 30/6/2009
from her nan.
Jan9902 2 years ago
what an ace tune ...
A Bronx Tale - What an ace movie!
Aarodin 2 years ago
in the bronx tale, scene where c see's jane on the bus
sogrozassasin 2 years ago
no, where he walks her home, mate!
Aarodin 2 years ago
damn! quentin tarantino should have put this track in pulp fiction!!!!!
Feanic 2 years ago
Unfreakin believable Feanic...I always thought EXACTLY the same thing...this track so should have been used in Pulp Fiction...I'll tell ya exactly where...it shoulda been used when Vincent leaves Lance's house on the way to pick up Mia after shooting the heroin...yup...I believe ideas exist in the atmosphere somewhere and our brains tune in to 'em...that's the only explanation for some things...except somehow Quentin Tarantino missed it
sonwamac 2 years ago
true
Jan9902 2 years ago
told you shell planter!!!!
some time ago ?
but thank you for that
perhaps listners might like cleos back
same sax
Jan9902 2 years ago
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put this on during sex
kngkhan 2 years ago
Any idea what kind of saxophone he is using in the song?
Jethyn 2 years ago
It's an air saxophone.
potaluca 2 years ago
Ah, thanks!
Jethyn 2 years ago
I think its an alto sax - but video is not.
snakeskin2u2 2 years ago
BTW y'all they're showing a bass player in theband in this footage but this beautiful walking grooving bass on this track is being supplied by the organ player and his foot pedals
sonwamac 2 years ago
I had this tune in my head for days and couldn't figure out what it was.. then it came to me.... Junior walker...
what a great tune... so full of.... what's the word ? someone help me out here...
mrbillhicks 2 years ago 2
The word is...SOUL
sonwamac 2 years ago
Yes of course soul and then some but I was thinking more along the lines of the tune having a haunting quality to it.
I met JW briefly many years ago back stage at the Astoria in London... He blew the house down that night.... Memories...
mrbillhicks 2 years ago
Haunting...its definitely that...when this came out circa '63 or so the expression "soul music" wasn't quite a common one yet...this defines that expression as well as any song ever recorded...but the melody is haunting...AND mysterious...just who IS Cleo anyway
sonwamac 2 years ago
It's even in stereo.... digg that!
john67elliott 2 years ago
I heard this yeeeeears ago, loved it to bits..... and never found out who sang it or what it was called... just saw 'cleos mood on here and thought... hmmm that title sounds sorta familiar... i wonder! Yaay! cool I love it! Cheers! :)
joemambo 2 years ago 2
Shell planter found this for me, he was playing Cleo's back and didn't appear to know about Cleo's mood on the first side of Shotgun. Don't diss him he was great and may have done this before you?
Jan9902 2 years ago
ah the memories!!
yetmost 3 years ago
Bad ass song! Love it!
Jawblues 3 years ago 4
Is this the original or what? I've heard this by every blues great I know.
eric601d 3 years ago
it does not get more original than this.
bugsweed 2 years ago
A great memory here. Thanks
DetroitD60 3 years ago
JUNIOR WALKER SHOULD BE IN THE
ROCKnROLL HALL LOF FAME. "SHAME" ON THEM.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 3 years ago
I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT
miraculus7 3 years ago
Thanks for the post.
joko9395 3 years ago
That