this song was dedicated to me from a special someone that i lost a little over 3 years ago. never understood why till the day he passed. forever you will be in my heart and very much missed.
This was a number one song in Pgh Pa in the 1960's thanks to the greatest DJ of all time Porky Chedwick on WAMO radio - he was the Daddio of the Radio!!!!!!
@cars8709 Yeah PORKY would play this at THE MARYANN BALLROOM in Burgettstown and everyone would be GRINDING. There's NO DANCE like a slow dance done by PITTSBURGHERS.
i love oldies, but i hate fukn cholos craking young girls making them like 5 or 6 kids, and they (girl) end up married with some paisa giving that guy fukn her 2nd hand shit while that cholo is doing time or dead.whats up with that, choolos dont have shit to offer but sex or drugs to this young nice looking girls, and look who pays the broken plates!!!!!fuk that!!!!!!!
clueless people hahahaha chicanos also made music that resembles this which is called chicano music.... also alot them grew up to oldies like this & i do mean alot i live in az alot of my mexican friends jam 2 this then & now & forever :) thx 2 them i listen & share with others that fall in love with it music sooths the soul
DAMN I HAD A PHATTY 4 PATTY AND I THINK I SENT U A SONG LIKE A SHIT LOAD OF TIMES...BUENO I HOPE U ENJOY IT. CAUSE THIS SONG IS A SMOKE SESSION SONG! ;) FROM: " BLAZN33" ON MY SIDE OF 23RD
He just celebrated his bithday yesterday 2/4/2010. He is in his 90's and what a cool cat and platter pusher! Because of him we heard the best damn music there was!
Who are you? I went to the Rink too...I went to Derry and graduated in 1963...we were SO lucky to be young at that time...and could we dance!!! I'm in NC now and no one can dance like we did...pity..
YOU GUYS QUIT ARGUEING,,,THIS IS GOOD OLD FASHION "GUT BUCKET' R&B. Without PORKY CHEDWICK in Pittsburgh playing it OVER&OVER&OVER it would have never been a hit.
WOW, just read some of these comments. Maybe I'm the odd one here, but when I listen to this and other music of this style, I never think of race . . . I think of the music / vocal. That is IT.
this song brings memories of 1972 of my 55 ford auto.trans.original with deep cragers, green big metal flake 19 coats of clear, my baby brother and two hinas by our side, he passed away the end of 99. R.I.P. Bro. Alex Ruiz
The number one most requested old song on the Porky Chedwick show. Listen now as the great Donnie Albert sings Have I Sinned. (This was the way it was over 50 years ago in Pittsburgh)
Blacks play a game that was invented by a white man. But Blacks have dramatically changed the way the game is played. Nothing has changed or been added to this music. These are the original recordings. Chicanos have made them a part of their culture without changing the music.
True about that, but Chicanos don't think of "Black people" when they listen to this music. I know, I've been to many, many house parties and these songs have become almost like Chicano folk songs. Black folks should consider that a compliment, but it's also a sad statement because Chicanos don't really create their own music...that's called COLONIALISM.
If they have added it to their culture that is fine. But to call it Chicano music is completely wrong. Even though some Blacks have adopted lowriding they don't calling it blackriding.
@luvureally true bro, looking at it that way, we keep this music lived ,,,us Chicanos,,not white or black, Mexican American make this music stay forever oldies.
@PANIKIADO12 It is great Chicanos appreciate the music of Black Americans, put money in the pockets of the musicians still alive. But it is and will always be Black music, no matter who listens to it. It is not Chicano music.
@luvureally no man, im not saying about the singers or race ,it makes no diference to me, i know most of this singers or bands r black but thats ok , what i meant what race keeps it more i live,, and u know its Chicanos or mexican americans, black people most listen now to rap they just went all in to it, wich is cool,,u know?!
@PANIKIADO12 Maybe in Cali it seems that everybody just raps. But in the east, where the majority of Blacks live, there are still lots of great singers. Black church still produces singers. The record companies don't sign them. And as I said it is great that Chicanos support the music. Only issue I have is when it is called Chicano music. The music can be "kept alive" without renaming it.
@PANIKIADO12it. It is soul/r&b, always will be. In the east it is still popular with Black people. Chicago steps to it, D.C. hand dances to it, Philly they bop to it, New Orleans they still swing out to it. Even if no Black person ever listened to or danced to it again, How can a song by a Black man, Donnie Elbert, being song in a style created by Blacks become Chicano music? Millions of Blacks eat Mexican food, its still Mexican!
@luvureally yea it will always be African American talent songs but like i said again in Cali the only black people that listens to this jams are over 40s and 50s, I remember in 99 my senior class Brenton wood gave a show at my HS, man all songs he sang every one at the rally their was no one soul that didnt sing his songs it was crazy and i said to my self even tough his black his a legend for us latinos, mexican food is for every body that likes it, like who ever likes this jams can enjoy 2
@PANIKIADO12 Agreed food, music, dance, art for all to enjoy. Millions of non-Italians love Italian food but everybody still refers to it as Italian food. Why the need to call classic soul/r&b Chicano oldies? That is calling it something it isn't. Bruce Lee is a legnend to many Blacks, but everybody knows he practiced Chinese martial arts, not African or Black. Look up "Strictly hand dance champions 2007. Youngsters carrying on the tradition - D.C. style. Styles vary by cities.
fourfif is a dumb ass. no one is beinng racist. music has already been in its own black and chicano catigory. latin oldies is all chicano. oldies chicano rap is all chicano. black is juss oldies and rap.
No. That statement is not racist. It's clear that Chicanos have an affinity for oldies. This is news to nobody. I don't think the gentleman is insinuating that Chicano's 'own' or created the music, but rather it was a superlative statement expressing positive feelings about a genre of music by.
What you said was racist, divisive, innapropriate and unnecessary. You sir, are a racist.
Whether you agree or like it, it was the truth. I have an affinity for Mexican food, that does not make it "straight up Black American food" no matter how much I like it.
If you it's black american food to you, then that's all that matters, and I'd say, "come, con gusto!" Generations of Chicanos have grown up to these firme oldies. Get over it. You seem like a very negative person since you'd rather 'correct' people with your lame ass opinions instead of being cool and enjoying the cuts like everybody else.
To quote Malcolm X "Just because you put kittens in an oven, it doesn't make them biscuits". Mexican food created by Mexicans, r&b/soul created by Black Americans. Different ethnic groups have contributed to U.S. culture and each should be recognized for that contribution. Its still American culture, but what made it should be remembered.
I think you are mistaking our embracing soulfoul music with us trying to approrpriate it. Instead of seeing this for what it is, a bridge that can help bring our communities together, you want to make divisive and petty arguments. You're like an angry kid pounding sand to make a point that nobody will ever agree with. I honestly just think you're a closet racist.
calling this "straight up Chicano music" is false and misleading. Chicanos have adopted this music into their culture and there is nothing wrong with that and its great that they appreciate the music and keep it alive. But true statement is "This is straight up Black American music". What is racist about telling the truth? Soul & r&b created by Black Americans, Donnie Elbert was a Black man who sang it, so how is it "straight up Chicano"?
LOL. You're like a broken record. You can chirp that nonsense until you're blue in the face, it won't change the fact that this is Chicano music. Take your hating ass to bed. You are wrong and that's it.
You're the one that keeps putting kittens in the oven and trying to pass them off as biscuits. The fact is and remains it is music Chicanos love and have made a part of their culture. To be Chicano music it would have had to be created by Chicanos. There is such thing as Chicano music, but this is not.
Who said he was from Compton? He was born in the Crescent City and moved to Buffalo as a youngster. Of course there is Chicano music. Every ethnic group has created music. Who said there wasn't? But this is not Chicano music.
It's Chicano music to the millions of latinos who grew up bumpin these jams for decades throughout Califas, Az, New Mexico, Texas.... It's all love homeboy. Take it for what it is.
Chicanos created the lowrider culture and adopted the music created by Black Americans like Donnie Elbert to go with it. It was a good match. But calling it Chicano music is stretching it. But it is a great compliment to the beauty and power of the music and the people who created it.
+1 on everything above. We need to come together in this country, black and brown. At the end of the day, we are alike in our status as perpetual cannon fodder for the criminal justice system and educational instution practices. But we both have rich and soulful cultures, and embrace them in a way others often do not understand or appreciate.... At the end of the day our differences (I hope) can also be seen as opportunites to build bridges between our communities. It needs to happen, imo.
Who is hating? Saying this is Chicano music is not a fact, its an untruth. Charlie Pride is a Black man who sings country music. That does not change the fact that he sings music that was created by people of English, Scottish and Irish descent. Because he sings it does not make it "Black American music. Just because others embrace and use that style does not change whose musical legacy it is.
we are not attempting to appropriate a musical legacy. I concede that for the purposes of a 'musical legacy' we have no stake whatsoever in the making of this great genre of music, but culturally, we have embraced it. Like a friend who is more like a brother. That's basically it.
I understand but if someone says Cuban or Chinese music one assumes those people created it. The Chicano community deserves much thanks and praise for keeping this music in the public's ears and restarting or prolonging the careers of many of these musicians.
Fair enough. All the musical credit deservedly goes to Mr. Donny Ebert, but you better believe that somewhere in heaven, he is leaning back, giving WSPFLATS23 a big thumbs up for hooking us all up with these classics and keeping his memory alive. So a special thanks to pflats for posting all of these firme rolas!! I just want to share my playlist with everybody I know, and hopefully we can all keep this great music alive for future generations to appreciate.
@KhemuLuxons yes, and making it more common to listen to these songs :) Cause if no one did, people would hide the fact (even more) that they like theese sappy, awsome oldies.
Dude, you Burgers have never had anything on Philly and not even Chicago where I was born and slow dancing ruled; but the slow drag was invented in Philly , grinding up against a hot shortie with the red light glowing and the sweat pouring. Back up Burger
I Fucken Love This Song
EseCh1no 5 days ago
Nice touch to this unique sound! Love it!
billeybop 3 weeks ago
RECUERDO CUANDO ESTABA EN LA SECUNDARIA ETI 24 AQUI EN MI TIJUANA BELLA QUE BELLOS RECUERDOS
chelita1965 3 weeks ago
BARRIO SO"SIDE"WHITTIER
ENANOS"13" IN THE HOUSE
JRSSWENANOS 1 month ago
I detacate this song to my daughter Brandi.
DiggerDi1 1 month ago
Ilove dis song
1408mommy 1 month ago
I want to detacate this song to Willie & Cuka Rangel from La Punte Betty Boop
lolwut8898 1 month ago
I DEDICATE THIS TO MY HYNA CHANKLA !
CrazyFreakyShitt 2 months ago
firme oldie to cruise to
stylow71 2 months ago
"Have I sinned?...Have I told a lie?...What did I do-ooh, to make you cry-yy-yy-yy?"
MrRayDarren 2 months ago
DAMN . . . this brings back so many memories . . .dancing with this idiot . . . yeah, well.
MrPistolMason 2 months ago
i am 10 and i like oldies and wat
01mrmig 3 months ago
PURO FUKEN OLDIES
nena5131 4 months ago
where are you dolores estrada miss you and love you
hernand991 4 months ago in playlist Queue (1)
Puro OLDIES .!! ♥
SierraSerna7611 4 months ago
wow i have not heard this for awhile,what a voice.thank you.
Tekstar61 5 months ago
danced to this at east pittburgh boosters with ernie,zimp, freck and the boys !
driver595 5 months ago
yeah buddy ..porky would always say" this songs goin out to all those boys down on the corner in larimer ave.!"
driver595 5 months ago
yes, a favorite of "pork the tork"
melkyjr 6 months ago
i love this song!!<3
ladydon34 7 months ago
^^^^^^^ I couldnt of had said it better myself.
EndangeredSS 7 months ago
Porky Chadwick your platter pushin papa on WAMO, greatest dj ever.
minecraftman5555 7 months ago
this song was dedicated to me from a special someone that i lost a little over 3 years ago. never understood why till the day he passed. forever you will be in my heart and very much missed.
namtr43 8 months ago
I lost my girlfriend one summer in 1958 and she never told me why? Did I sin? what did I do wrong? Cammie will always be in my heart.
mrod1943 8 months ago
PORKY CHEDWICK made this record a hit and YOU CHEATED by THE SHIELDS.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 8 months ago
puro oldies!!
calgirl213 8 months ago
This is the shit rite here!!! Best music ever 16 2 19
tochtlitacallan 8 months ago
this music is like no other......oldies rule forever.....
MsTGOD 10 months ago 2
this music is like no other......
MsTGOD 10 months ago
@lilsadboy14...it was said in American me. I agree though
AVoiceCryingOutt 10 months ago
i have to agree oldies are forever like said in blood in and blood out
lilsadboy14 10 months ago
This is why PITTSBURGH is the DOO WOP capital of the world.......
espringer1ed1 11 months ago
i've been loving this rolita since i was a 14 year old mocoso....and now ...well lets just say I subscribe to AARPP
archiebolas 1 year ago 9
Don't you just love that voice.....!
brian4858 1 year ago 3
good music
Cuauhtlat0atzin 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you ''crease'' your pants.
SellTheBenefits 1 year ago
DONNIE ELBERT ONE OF THE GREATEST
714ez 1 year ago
Love this song so much!
maleny81 1 year ago
I fkn looooooove this song!!!!
dingymami2010 1 year ago
N--i--c--e!!
qcveronique 1 year ago
This was a number one song in Pgh Pa in the 1960's thanks to the greatest DJ of all time Porky Chedwick on WAMO radio - he was the Daddio of the Radio!!!!!!
cars8709 1 year ago
@cars8709 Yeah PORKY would play this at THE MARYANN BALLROOM in Burgettstown and everyone would be GRINDING. There's NO DANCE like a slow dance done by PITTSBURGHERS.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 8 months ago
kickin back with your homeboys,bumpin oldies,talkin shit to eachother,playing cards and pounding some pisto thatsd wassup
CityLifeSA 1 year ago
Las Rolitas Viejitas Pero Bonitas
Alemanone92 1 year ago
This song is GREAT. Period........ Music has no colors or race. If it's good, people will like it..... and I LIKE IT!
tiranchula 1 year ago 2
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i love oldies, but i hate fukn cholos craking young girls making them like 5 or 6 kids, and they (girl) end up married with some paisa giving that guy fukn her 2nd hand shit while that cholo is doing time or dead.whats up with that, choolos dont have shit to offer but sex or drugs to this young nice looking girls, and look who pays the broken plates!!!!!fuk that!!!!!!!
PANIKIADO12 1 year ago
clueless people hahahaha chicanos also made music that resembles this which is called chicano music.... also alot them grew up to oldies like this & i do mean alot i live in az alot of my mexican friends jam 2 this then & now & forever :) thx 2 them i listen & share with others that fall in love with it music sooths the soul
nsanebird1 1 year ago
THIS ROLA IS FOR ALL THE SINNER'S!!!
fantastically0208 1 year ago
cali chicanos put this in the map wat u talking bout
luckey755 1 year ago
this guys voice has a high ass pitch its cool but can get irritating i suppose.LOL
cripbuddz 1 year ago
ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
badASSSSS song=]]]
HepkatsDopee 1 year ago
CHICANO PRIDE RIGHT HERE HOMIE!! VILLA BOYS PASADENA SGV SUR SIDE!
MrJrvbpasa 1 year ago
WHITTIER BEST B R MR FORTYLOK
fortylok1 1 year ago
oldieeees ! loverz
ROMAJAM 1 year ago
DAMN I HAD A PHATTY 4 PATTY AND I THINK I SENT U A SONG LIKE A SHIT LOAD OF TIMES...BUENO I HOPE U ENJOY IT. CAUSE THIS SONG IS A SMOKE SESSION SONG! ;) FROM: " BLAZN33" ON MY SIDE OF 23RD
pattymd33 1 year ago
this was an anthem in the "Burg" let's remember it that way, Porky Rules
akeoldies 1 year ago
What memories this song brings back!
rstory10063 1 year ago
have i sinned well everyday so be it
alb082383 1 year ago
wonder what ever happend to those old school gangsters on those east side story covers?
ChicanoTattooArt 1 year ago 2
Pork introduced this to the Burg, at 90+ Pork The Torgue is with us forever.
akeoldies 1 year ago
@akeoldies
Gotta love Porky..this was played at "the Rink" in Latrobe....what great memories!!
sharon102645 1 year ago
Damn good song!
TranzPink007 2 years ago
reminds me of teenage love back in the days....
lacuerpodeuva 2 years ago 2
@lacuerpodeuva luckky!<33
394missy 1 year ago
ive never sined that im gunner say
gar861646 2 years ago
yes i sinned on wabash st back 1965
hernand991 2 years ago
QUE VIVA PURO SOUTH SIDE x13
enoks24 2 years ago
FIRME OLDIES ESE !!
oldmemoriestj 2 years ago
1970 was the days in east L A
hernand991 2 years ago
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titoflorez 2 years ago
"what can I do" is a great song too.
DanMorgan98 2 years ago 12
Had Porky as a patient at Mercy Hospital long ago- I totally love this song - Danceland, The Rink - oh yea
lipstickgator 2 years ago
He just celebrated his bithday yesterday 2/4/2010. He is in his 90's and what a cool cat and platter pusher! Because of him we heard the best damn music there was!
billeybop 2 years ago
@lipstickgator
Who are you? I went to the Rink too...I went to Derry and graduated in 1963...we were SO lucky to be young at that time...and could we dance!!! I'm in NC now and no one can dance like we did...pity..
sharon102645 1 year ago
i cant even express how much i love oldies....ther so fucken SICK! oldies forever......hahaha.....
lsttls13 2 years ago 5
YOU GUYS QUIT ARGUEING,,,THIS IS GOOD OLD FASHION "GUT BUCKET' R&B. Without PORKY CHEDWICK in Pittsburgh playing it OVER&OVER&OVER it would have never been a hit.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 2 years ago
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z4p4t4 Vive browN Pride x4
MrMikeyloko 2 years ago
orrraaalleee
great song
whys everybody gettin on the issue of race just kick back and have a beer and chill.......no matter wut race u are
classicslover21 2 years ago 8
ahhhh, what a great sound. Ya gotta love it !!!!!
Get off the race issue and just listen to the music !
Thanks,
ken
kjboogie 2 years ago 7
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CROWBIGHAZARD13 2 years ago
WOW, just read some of these comments. Maybe I'm the odd one here, but when I listen to this and other music of this style, I never think of race . . . I think of the music / vocal. That is IT.
paul51 2 years ago 5
memories of a 1955 ford pick-up truck.
chevyvanfamily 2 years ago
this song brings memories of 1972 of my 55 ford auto.trans.original with deep cragers, green big metal flake 19 coats of clear, my baby brother and two hinas by our side, he passed away the end of 99. R.I.P. Bro. Alex Ruiz
chevyvanfamily 2 years ago
We Know no shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
deleonj 2 years ago 2
The number one most requested old song on the Porky Chedwick show. Listen now as the great Donnie Albert sings Have I Sinned. (This was the way it was over 50 years ago in Pittsburgh)
MrDavenn 2 years ago 3
Well then I guess basketball isn't part of Black culture either since it was invented by a White man named Joe Naismith.
TruthandJustice101 2 years ago
Blacks play a game that was invented by a white man. But Blacks have dramatically changed the way the game is played. Nothing has changed or been added to this music. These are the original recordings. Chicanos have made them a part of their culture without changing the music.
luvureally 2 years ago 35
True about that, but Chicanos don't think of "Black people" when they listen to this music. I know, I've been to many, many house parties and these songs have become almost like Chicano folk songs. Black folks should consider that a compliment, but it's also a sad statement because Chicanos don't really create their own music...that's called COLONIALISM.
TruthandJustice101 2 years ago 6
If they have added it to their culture that is fine. But to call it Chicano music is completely wrong. Even though some Blacks have adopted lowriding they don't calling it blackriding.
luvureally 2 years ago 13
@luvureally wat
alb082383 1 year ago
@luvureally true bro, looking at it that way, we keep this music lived ,,,us Chicanos,,not white or black, Mexican American make this music stay forever oldies.
PANIKIADO12 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12 It is great Chicanos appreciate the music of Black Americans, put money in the pockets of the musicians still alive. But it is and will always be Black music, no matter who listens to it. It is not Chicano music.
luvureally 1 year ago
@luvureally no man, im not saying about the singers or race ,it makes no diference to me, i know most of this singers or bands r black but thats ok , what i meant what race keeps it more i live,, and u know its Chicanos or mexican americans, black people most listen now to rap they just went all in to it, wich is cool,,u know?!
PANIKIADO12 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12 Maybe in Cali it seems that everybody just raps. But in the east, where the majority of Blacks live, there are still lots of great singers. Black church still produces singers. The record companies don't sign them. And as I said it is great that Chicanos support the music. Only issue I have is when it is called Chicano music. The music can be "kept alive" without renaming it.
luvureally 1 year ago
@luvureally yea but if they renameit its for a reason $ and they know who or what race buying those albums
PANIKIADO12 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12it. It is soul/r&b, always will be. In the east it is still popular with Black people. Chicago steps to it, D.C. hand dances to it, Philly they bop to it, New Orleans they still swing out to it. Even if no Black person ever listened to or danced to it again, How can a song by a Black man, Donnie Elbert, being song in a style created by Blacks become Chicano music? Millions of Blacks eat Mexican food, its still Mexican!
luvureally 1 year ago
@luvureally yea it will always be African American talent songs but like i said again in Cali the only black people that listens to this jams are over 40s and 50s, I remember in 99 my senior class Brenton wood gave a show at my HS, man all songs he sang every one at the rally their was no one soul that didnt sing his songs it was crazy and i said to my self even tough his black his a legend for us latinos, mexican food is for every body that likes it, like who ever likes this jams can enjoy 2
PANIKIADO12 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12 In D.C. area kids carry on the tradition of hand dancing to oldies and to new music.
luvureally 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12 Agreed food, music, dance, art for all to enjoy. Millions of non-Italians love Italian food but everybody still refers to it as Italian food. Why the need to call classic soul/r&b Chicano oldies? That is calling it something it isn't. Bruce Lee is a legnend to many Blacks, but everybody knows he practiced Chinese martial arts, not African or Black. Look up "Strictly hand dance champions 2007. Youngsters carrying on the tradition - D.C. style. Styles vary by cities.
luvureally 1 year ago
@PANIKIADO12 yuuup thats right tell it like it is
SARAHMONA2009 1 year ago
this song man brings back memories donnie elbert his songs man....
greasevgbdos 3 years ago
whatever he said he shoulda said chicanos or latinos keep this music alive more so than blacks...and that you cant argue with
masclatin 3 years ago
fourfif is a dumb ass. no one is beinng racist. music has already been in its own black and chicano catigory. latin oldies is all chicano. oldies chicano rap is all chicano. black is juss oldies and rap.
wickedloco13 3 years ago 4
well tell that to the dude who is saying we need to call this "straight up Black American music" estupido.
fourfif 2 years ago
im in love with this song
-salina
ANDREACERVANTEZ1 3 years ago 2
I can still hear the Platter Pushin' Papa of Pittsburgh's WAMO layin' down the hot wax of Elbert's HAVE I SINNED
kastellos 3 years ago
firme ass rola, bump this all tha way here in tha eastside valle of san fer
churrothalt 3 years ago
daim ! i got my babys mamas to get maried with me with this song !!!!
sombra1503 3 years ago
KLASS!
bluesgirl62 3 years ago
Hi bluesgirl you are KLASS too
DaFabiolous90 3 years ago
this song is thee shit!!!
westcoastsvcs714 3 years ago
whats up riverside just wanted to send out a big q-vo to all my homies and home girls in CASA BLANCA RIVERSIDE SOUTH SIDE FROM JESSICA SALCIDO
jessicaperez66 3 years ago 4
The definative doo wop song for Pittsburgh. Still gets played here every weekend on some stations!
steelguy04 3 years ago
thats right rep that HUB CITY OF COMPTON
CPT310 3 years ago
remeber hes a man not a girl.....
Shagster108 3 years ago 4
donnie elbert the oreginal.... no one dose it better!!!!patti differnt era!!!donnie still better then patti by far.....
Shagster108 3 years ago 5
this is the jam. some rubidoux gangster shit
ericandthewaves 3 years ago 2
bad ass rola homie!!!!have I sin.....
Shagster108 3 years ago 6
R.I.P. Mi primo Shanky de Calecia 13. Su rola mas firme. Thanx for posting it up!!!!
brujer1a3 3 years ago 3
dam i cant get bord of this song
PELONSOLDIES 3 years ago 5
can some one who has patti labelle version post it i can't find it.... would
ove to hear it...
2552655 4 years ago
Patti Labelle & The Bluebells recorded this before Donnie Elbert . . . both versions kick it. Thanks.
paul51 4 years ago
damn this is a jam 2!!! the patti labelle version is pretty bomb 2.... gotta luv these oldies tunez
oldiesLOVER329 4 years ago 2
love this..... would love to here the patti labelle version..
2552655 4 years ago
It is HOT too. Patti's voice at the time was extremely high too . . . piercing!!
paul51 4 years ago
Straight up Chicano Music... Firme!
TheHubCityofCompton 4 years ago
TheHubCityofCompton, no this is straight up classic r&b by a brotha.
luvureally 3 years ago 8
you a racist or something? wtf? who cares about that shit.
fourfif 3 years ago
"Straight up Chicano Music... Firme!" Is the person who made that statement racist? If not racist , a liar. Question that individual.
KhemuLuxons 3 years ago 9
No. That statement is not racist. It's clear that Chicanos have an affinity for oldies. This is news to nobody. I don't think the gentleman is insinuating that Chicano's 'own' or created the music, but rather it was a superlative statement expressing positive feelings about a genre of music by.
What you said was racist, divisive, innapropriate and unnecessary. You sir, are a racist.
fourfif 3 years ago
Whether you agree or like it, it was the truth. I have an affinity for Mexican food, that does not make it "straight up Black American food" no matter how much I like it.
KhemuLuxons 3 years ago 10
If you it's black american food to you, then that's all that matters, and I'd say, "come, con gusto!" Generations of Chicanos have grown up to these firme oldies. Get over it. You seem like a very negative person since you'd rather 'correct' people with your lame ass opinions instead of being cool and enjoying the cuts like everybody else.
fourfif 2 years ago
To quote Malcolm X "Just because you put kittens in an oven, it doesn't make them biscuits". Mexican food created by Mexicans, r&b/soul created by Black Americans. Different ethnic groups have contributed to U.S. culture and each should be recognized for that contribution. Its still American culture, but what made it should be remembered.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 12
I think you are mistaking our embracing soulfoul music with us trying to approrpriate it. Instead of seeing this for what it is, a bridge that can help bring our communities together, you want to make divisive and petty arguments. You're like an angry kid pounding sand to make a point that nobody will ever agree with. I honestly just think you're a closet racist.
fourfif 2 years ago
calling this "straight up Chicano music" is false and misleading. Chicanos have adopted this music into their culture and there is nothing wrong with that and its great that they appreciate the music and keep it alive. But true statement is "This is straight up Black American music". What is racist about telling the truth? Soul & r&b created by Black Americans, Donnie Elbert was a Black man who sang it, so how is it "straight up Chicano"?
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 11
LOL. You're like a broken record. You can chirp that nonsense until you're blue in the face, it won't change the fact that this is Chicano music. Take your hating ass to bed. You are wrong and that's it.
fourfif 2 years ago
You're the one that keeps putting kittens in the oven and trying to pass them off as biscuits. The fact is and remains it is music Chicanos love and have made a part of their culture. To be Chicano music it would have had to be created by Chicanos. There is such thing as Chicano music, but this is not.
luvureally 2 years ago 11
and Donny Ebert isn't from Compton, but you're not going out of your way to correct that assertion.
This will always be Chicano music, and saying otherwise won't change that fact.
fourfif 2 years ago
Who said he was from Compton? He was born in the Crescent City and moved to Buffalo as a youngster. Of course there is Chicano music. Every ethnic group has created music. Who said there wasn't? But this is not Chicano music.
luvureally 2 years ago 10
It's Chicano music to the millions of latinos who grew up bumpin these jams for decades throughout Califas, Az, New Mexico, Texas.... It's all love homeboy. Take it for what it is.
fourfif 2 years ago
Chicanos created the lowrider culture and adopted the music created by Black Americans like Donnie Elbert to go with it. It was a good match. But calling it Chicano music is stretching it. But it is a great compliment to the beauty and power of the music and the people who created it.
luvureally 2 years ago 14
+1 on everything above. We need to come together in this country, black and brown. At the end of the day, we are alike in our status as perpetual cannon fodder for the criminal justice system and educational instution practices. But we both have rich and soulful cultures, and embrace them in a way others often do not understand or appreciate.... At the end of the day our differences (I hope) can also be seen as opportunites to build bridges between our communities. It needs to happen, imo.
fourfif 2 years ago 5
Who is hating? Saying this is Chicano music is not a fact, its an untruth. Charlie Pride is a Black man who sings country music. That does not change the fact that he sings music that was created by people of English, Scottish and Irish descent. Because he sings it does not make it "Black American music. Just because others embrace and use that style does not change whose musical legacy it is.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 12
we are not attempting to appropriate a musical legacy. I concede that for the purposes of a 'musical legacy' we have no stake whatsoever in the making of this great genre of music, but culturally, we have embraced it. Like a friend who is more like a brother. That's basically it.
fourfif 2 years ago
I understand but if someone says Cuban or Chinese music one assumes those people created it. The Chicano community deserves much thanks and praise for keeping this music in the public's ears and restarting or prolonging the careers of many of these musicians.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 54
Fair enough. All the musical credit deservedly goes to Mr. Donny Ebert, but you better believe that somewhere in heaven, he is leaning back, giving WSPFLATS23 a big thumbs up for hooking us all up with these classics and keeping his memory alive. So a special thanks to pflats for posting all of these firme rolas!! I just want to share my playlist with everybody I know, and hopefully we can all keep this great music alive for future generations to appreciate.
fourfif 2 years ago 3
@KhemuLuxons real talk
Catch22ish 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons yes, and making it more common to listen to these songs :) Cause if no one did, people would hide the fact (even more) that they like theese sappy, awsome oldies.
Peiazjaeh 11 months ago
@KhemuLuxons Bravo bravo well said :)
perezsyms 10 months ago
Hey man, your main page sux! F this F that. Only a real Pittsburgher should post this song like I did. No need to use the foul language
Lionheartdays 4 years ago
yeah
dats why u a pussy fukin leva
ha
lil wet pussy mothafuker
dont hate puto
WSPFLATS23 4 years ago
@Lionheartdays fukk you man your such a stupid fukk who gives a shit about his main page just stop hating mutthha fukker
jojo31711 1 year ago
Slow,Sultry,Soul.Doesn't get much better than this.GREAT!!!!!!!
pharnes 4 years ago 5
This is great! You should post
My Confession Of Love....probably
Donnie's best!
raincheck1958 4 years ago
Sloooooooooooooooow dancin' in the Gym. This is the greatest falsetto R&B song ever recorded. A BIG hit in Pittsburgh.
Jim
South Hills High (NOT South Hills Catholic) Class of '64
No longer in Pittsburgh, but I still bleed Black and Gold.
kastellos 4 years ago 2
South Hills, class of 76!
mrstep2me 4 years ago
Slow Dance Capitol of the WORLD; PITTSBURGH,PA Why do you think ALL THEM GOODIES ON PBS WERE DONE "THERE" BENEDUM CENTER.
THEORIGINALMOJOMAN 4 years ago 2
Dude, you Burgers have never had anything on Philly and not even Chicago where I was born and slow dancing ruled; but the slow drag was invented in Philly , grinding up against a hot shortie with the red light glowing and the sweat pouring. Back up Burger
grovert1945 4 years ago
serio ese,thanks for posting dawg,mexicans right hear.
chalinosalazar1 4 years ago
simon ese
WSPFLATS23 4 years ago
i love this song. this reminds me of when my tio would take me crusin in his 64 impala back in the day.
tmsan74 4 years ago
Another KILLER oldie...A SCORCHER! ! !
blastingrod 4 years ago
This oldie is badass i like how it starts at the beginning
chicano67801 4 years ago
grasias ese
WSPFLATS23 4 years ago
GANGSTER OLDIE
b4byUgOt1t 4 years ago
simon
WSPFLATS23 4 years ago
great jam...thanks for posting
JELLOnomas 4 years ago
no ay pedo homes
WSPFLATS23 4 years ago