The Impressions were a great group and had many who tried to copy them but they were originals. This takes me back to Junior High School. Wow! Time has passed and I'm totally old school now. Geez! One of their best songs was "I'm So Proud". Hope to see it on YouTube one day.
Growing up in the 60s this group was right there with us. Through our turbulent times and our good times. Their music was great and their messages said a lot. What talent they had. Gypsy Woman, Amen, People Get Ready, We're A Winner, Woman's Got Soul, and at least another half dozen or so. I really enjoy listening to them who wouldn't. They remind me so much of The Rascals. Listen to these hits above and I know you'll agree with me!!!
Good dancing? Maybe not. But LOOK AT HOW BOTH BLACK AND WHITE YOUNGSTERS ARE TOTALLY INTO THIS INFECTIOUS, HAPPY AND SOULFUL SONG...THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE. Which is great because the late Curtis Mayfield stood for harmony and peace, and almost every song he wrote reflected this. We miss you, Curtis. Here's hoping you are singing to your heart's desire in the tenor section of The Heavenly Choir-tell Sam,L'il Sonny, Jackie, Willie,Clyde,Nat, and Luther "hi" for me! xoxox
Those girls weren't supposed to be technically trained dancers. They were go-go girls. The Gazzarri Dancers, specifically, from the famous Gazzarri's music club on the Sunset Strip. Check out some of the other clips from Hollywood a Go Go, and you'll see those babes could move pretty well -- even if they weren't exactly doing Bob Fosse choreography.
Awesome-sauce song. one of my all time favorites. but...BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! the3 dancing! especially the white guy and girl in front...you know which ones
November 1963........this song was playing on some kids transitor radio - setting ....my history class, on the desk of the teacher the Detroit News - front page - johh john saluting his dad's casket........
wow! :) i really like this song! it's not something you would hera in a 14-year old's iPod now a days, but it's gonna be on mine! :D i like this song! it's great
Ever since I saw Stephen King's 'IT' I have been searching for this song! Huey Lewis did a decent cover, but this is a completely different league! Thank you so much for putting it up!^^*hug*
oh lighten up...i was just kidding...i'm a white girl myself so if I wanna talk about us I can..hey those nerf guns on your page are pretty cool can you make me one?
Listen to what their saying...it's alright man! black,white,brown,yellow,red...it's alright. The black americans obviously can see how much we love thier music and rythmns...it's a god given grace. So thank you african america
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You can't compare different types of music, comparing metal and rock are too different things, they both have something special and unique about them, and if you really like music, you would like all type of genres, fuckin asshole.
Damn! Those no rhythm having white people. The only one's moving smoothly are the brothers singing. This entire video goes to show the unfairness in white people. This song was performed circa 1963 in the midst of civil rights movement. It just tickles me how these bastards could dance and enjoy listening to our music, but when it came to fairness, equality, and justice for all these people acted ignorant.
If you just want to hate, what I'm going to say won't change that, so don't bother reading it. But the young people in that video didn't create racial inequality, they inherited it. Saying that all white people acted or thought a certain way is just as ignorant as saying all black people act a certain way. It took both races to get us even to just the point where we are now. One big reason things began to change was the influence of the music on young whites. Where were you in 1963?
Hey bro', if you were there, you know that this was progress at the time. And it's not OUR music, music is for all to experience and share. The one thing beyond all others that can bring us together. And we DO have to live together. The Impressions, so smooth, great gospel spirit melded into r'n'b.
That is so cool little sister, I will quote you too. I am trying to organize a song writters Fan Club. Just for the very reason you mentioned. If my info is correct the writter is from Redbone. That is such a cool comment, do you mind if use your comment as a motto of sorts? Thanks Luna
Thanks, and I was wondering if you are also a song writer. Your name.... indicates that. If you have any ideas about a writters Fan Club let me know. I am doing it because quite a few from this era have gone un noticed, in my book it is all about the writting. Like which comes first, the fire or the smoke. Not that I don't absolutely love Singers, Performers, but you get me right? Later Luna
And a whole bunch of them spending money on their music. To me, it looks like everyone was doing just what the lyrics say..."It's alright, have a good time, cuz it's alright." The joke about whites not knowing how to dance is overdone and dated. I know of some famous exceptions...Fred Astaire comes to mind.
Seems like yesterday.Where did the decades go?? Wow.. I always loved this song and ran down to buy my 45 of this song . I remember there were some songs I wanted to listen to over and over!!
Dude me too! I saw it there on youtube and seeing it while they were using the shovels and such was awesome! I love to listen to this song when doing chores!
I hate lip synching, but I LOOOOVE this song! God Bless Brother Curtis. Saw him on a show with Edgar Winter in '73 and both acts blew the roof off the joint!
What's wrong is that it's ONLY white people, get it? Back then, if you were black, and you were talented, and you "behaved," then they'd put you onstage in a big white party, but it wasn't for you or your community. You were there to entertain them. To see a purely white crowd stirs some painful memories of segregation, that's all. We will know true integration when white society accepts and loves and cares for our black communities and PEOPLE, not just for their entertainment value.
You must have meant it would be better without the white people, who haven't an ounce of soul.. the whole world would be better off without a ton of the white people, isn't that what you meant
What bugs me ( I posted the vid and I'm white) is that its obvious good music is just good music and music fans don't care who's doin' it; Jimi H, Sly, Santana all played Woodstock and Otis Redding played Monterey. But he's right...Why in 1965 did the networks feel they had to
SHOW ON TV that "only" white folks liked music. And the dancing is soooo bad ...the girls are ok but that guy at the beginning (center of screen) what song is he dancing too?
It was a Cotton Club type thing. They didn't let black people in, but they used them for entertainment. They probably didn't let the Impressions enter or exit from the main entrance. It's a damn shame.
I'm a huge Curtis Mayfield fan. I watched the video before reading the comments and the fact that the audience was all white jumped out at me also. I do know how things were in the 60's, 70's, hell even now to a certain extent here in the south. That does not mean that "It's alright"....
Just remember:Michael Jackson´s Thriller was the first video of a black artist that was shown on MTV! This was in 1988!!! In those days Michael was still black, well quite a bit!
It's kind of nit-picky, but the thriller album came out in late 1982, a little over one year after MTV started and Billie Jean was his first video to be shown on MTV . There were lots of black artists on MTV by 1988.
Little help...Were there more than just 3 Impressions? I know Jerry Butler was once a part of the group, but I haven't seen him in any posted YouTube early performances.
It's hard to believe you're gone. It was love that we needed, and Man O Man, there's never too much love. Keep on pushing, Curtis, never let me go, Amen!
You Must believe me, All I ever wanted was Just one Kiss from You, I've been Trying and I Need You and Your Precious Love but I've been a Fool For You, I loved and I lost, You always Hurt Me and now we look like a Sad Sad Girl and Boy so This Must End
They are Talking about my Baby at the Meeting over Yonder. After Seven Years they say I Can't Satisfy her, But I tell her all the time -- "I'm the Won who Loves You and I'm so Proud of You," But she listens to their lies and says "You've Been Cheating".
This was a great group. They were known for their great vocal abilty. When other groups had elaborate routines this group would just stand up and sang!
There's still nothing on the market that beats this vintage track.....
Mrdeejay70 22 hours ago
The Impressions were a great group and had many who tried to copy them but they were originals. This takes me back to Junior High School. Wow! Time has passed and I'm totally old school now. Geez! One of their best songs was "I'm So Proud". Hope to see it on YouTube one day.
winsome1235 3 years ago
Growing up in the 60s this group was right there with us. Through our turbulent times and our good times. Their music was great and their messages said a lot. What talent they had. Gypsy Woman, Amen, People Get Ready, We're A Winner, Woman's Got Soul, and at least another half dozen or so. I really enjoy listening to them who wouldn't. They remind me so much of The Rascals. Listen to these hits above and I know you'll agree with me!!!
dakotajim11378 3 years ago
people who dance look to be crippled inside
GVHxC 3 years ago
Chicago's answer to Motown!
ItsudemoAibon 3 years ago
SWEET SOUL MUSIC!!!
7xrt463 3 years ago
Dancing? Who the F cares about the dancing? What about the great music? Good God amighty!
pdp1948 3 years ago 3
"day 26" should do a cover of this song.
biminibleu 3 years ago
i love songs like this in movies like dead presidents
jazzyfayy1983 3 years ago
The percussion on this song is OFF THE CHAIN!!!!
dnichols31 3 years ago
Good dancing? Maybe not. But LOOK AT HOW BOTH BLACK AND WHITE YOUNGSTERS ARE TOTALLY INTO THIS INFECTIOUS, HAPPY AND SOULFUL SONG...THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE. Which is great because the late Curtis Mayfield stood for harmony and peace, and almost every song he wrote reflected this. We miss you, Curtis. Here's hoping you are singing to your heart's desire in the tenor section of The Heavenly Choir-tell Sam,L'il Sonny, Jackie, Willie,Clyde,Nat, and Luther "hi" for me! xoxox
catheyeluvsmusic 3 years ago
Sorry, but this dancing just isn't alright!! lol.. It belongs in a Beach Boys video! ha!
romeroenrique 3 years ago
i love this song hahaha i grew up to the oldies its nice to hear them again though i must say the back up dancer's dancing is pretty funny
1232u 3 years ago
Fantastic! 5 stars ;)
2008einstein2009 3 years ago
I crackin up watching them dancers. They could dance if they life depended on it. LOL
sldougla 3 years ago
Those girls weren't supposed to be technically trained dancers. They were go-go girls. The Gazzarri Dancers, specifically, from the famous Gazzarri's music club on the Sunset Strip. Check out some of the other clips from Hollywood a Go Go, and you'll see those babes could move pretty well -- even if they weren't exactly doing Bob Fosse choreography.
scotpens 3 years ago
Times have definately changed. :P
sexiibisnitch 3 years ago
The girls at the top look like they're rowing a boat.
SexymamaP4 3 years ago 6
can't dance like shii
Otumfuo 3 years ago
That is some stiff as dancing! In Wisconsin we call this the Eric Hieden, name after the speed skater.
acuhypther 3 years ago
The people in the public cant dance neither. but the girls at top are the funniest.
I guess people liked those moves at that time.
Markbeats 3 years ago
Curtis Mayfield was a true poet. He and the Impressions told life's story in those times as well as anybody and better than most.
pdp1948 3 years ago 3
that one white guy in the very front looks like hes pickin a wedgie the whole time!
aloneno1 3 years ago
Haha...I actually kind of like the white-girl dancing, but I'm weird.
elementz1986 3 years ago
2:51 BRAIN FART!!!!!!!!
w1n5t0n12 3 years ago
Very nice
sildthur18 3 years ago
The first time i heard it was on the Movie Stephen King's "It". I love this song.
PrinceStyle1 3 years ago 5
just got finished watching "IT" lol!!!
beamo817 3 years ago 3
*random
raduz123 3 years ago
greatest song ever recorded!
hms0033 3 years ago 2
You got that right!!! The first time I heard this song was on Angels in the Outfield with Danny Glover and I was about 7 years old!!!!
laughandlive123 3 years ago 2
lol did ANY body catch what this guy said at the end? holy shit
chibears2005 3 years ago 2
It certainly Was'nt Holy %#&$....
ELRANDY11 3 years ago
love this song
but overshadowed by the horrific dancing going on in the background
Nickdude43 3 years ago 7
That "horrific dancing" is actually a turning point in dancing history! Its called "The Zombie with Led Arms And a Limp" and its AWESOME!!! *sarcasm*
w1n5t0n12 3 years ago
what the HECK did he say between 2:52-2:54. he was mumbling like crazy lol
Koolkj2018 3 years ago 3
koolkj2018 - lmfao! your right he just mumbles some roundom words.
raduz123 3 years ago
"Those are the impressins uhuh hollywood ago-go dhhsflasgflafgajf its all right..." FTW!!!!
w1n5t0n12 3 years ago
He says "Hollywood a go-go"
ddenuci 3 years ago
Awesome-sauce song. one of my all time favorites. but...BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! the3 dancing! especially the white guy and girl in front...you know which ones
SerenityAlways 3 years ago
LOL at the dancinhg! this was painful to watch lol :/ but lovely to hear i love this song
datgurlsmiilesz 3 years ago 3
November 1963........this song was playing on some kids transitor radio - setting ....my history class, on the desk of the teacher the Detroit News - front page - johh john saluting his dad's casket........
motowngirl65 3 years ago
Im 18 years old and i fell in love with this song ever since I heard it.
stephaniewazhere 3 years ago 4
It's odd where people hear the covers, Huey Lewis{he ain't got soul},cartoons,lol I'm feeling my age.
Floorbird 3 years ago 2
The one and only Curtis Mayfield baby!!!
street133 3 years ago 2
wow! :) i really like this song! it's not something you would hera in a 14-year old's iPod now a days, but it's gonna be on mine! :D i like this song! it's great
mizenglishrosesmile 3 years ago 4
"You got soul, and everybody knows that its alright..."
dkevinwalker 3 years ago 7
woah its all right
nickcrocker7 3 years ago 2
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"when you wake up early in the morning",
nickcrocker7 3 years ago
just as good as The Temptations
smoke576 3 years ago
Ever since I saw Stephen King's 'IT' I have been searching for this song! Huey Lewis did a decent cover, but this is a completely different league! Thank you so much for putting it up!^^*hug*
FelisTerras 3 years ago
This song is featured in the secret life of bees
can wait for the movie
you can look at the trailor by typing
"the secret life of bee"
stephaniewazhere 3 years ago
deep s o u l. coolest brothers in soul music. true orgin here of soul. church sound.
stymeid 3 years ago 3
lots of spirits dancing to SOUL music but its alright
ksmith1x1 3 years ago
This song is magic...it ran through decades without aging!Love this song...
mokacode 3 years ago
i like it because its alright
knotinsane 3 years ago
Ive been to hollywood ago go when it opened and wish i could have been there to see them .... thanks!
Mike2008and2008 3 years ago
Love this song :)
TheBlackCougar 3 years ago
The Impressions,the greatest Soul group ever,
Keep on pushing Soul Brothers!
JerkinTime 3 years ago
wow. can't catch a beat to save thier lives.
nubiantigeress 3 years ago
still it is...i'm impressed.
gazuaman 3 years ago
I wonder about how old Curtis Mayfield was then?
antiann52 3 years ago
Curtis I believe would be 22.22! So brilliant.
jameycruz 3 years ago
at the start it looked like they were doing the thriller dance
starwarsjohn13 3 years ago
white girls still don't get it
cyngriffin 3 years ago
LOL! ROTFL!!!
toochai 3 years ago
White Girls!! aren't they too funny?!! I couldn't keep my composure for laughing so hard.
deana717 3 years ago
RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheBlackCougar 3 years ago
Sorry, RACIST!!!! was to be to cyngriffin
TheBlackCougar 3 years ago
oh lighten up...i was just kidding...i'm a white girl myself so if I wanna talk about us I can..hey those nerf guns on your page are pretty cool can you make me one?
cyngriffin 3 years ago
cyngriffin, My bad, I live around a lot of racists. Thanks, what did you mean by "Make me one"?
TheBlackCougar 3 years ago
Do you think anyone in this video or
on stage was thinking: Gee I wonder who I
could swear at right now, so many idiots
abound now.
17865329 3 years ago
man stfu u dont no anything bout group old skool sings so stfu and go kill yo self and dont talk about things you dont even understand
smoke576 3 years ago
This is Chicago soul...living on forever
HOOOPDREAM 3 years ago
Listen to what their saying...it's alright man! black,white,brown,yellow,red...it's alright. The black americans obviously can see how much we love thier music and rythmns...it's a god given grace. So thank you african america
zanzibu 3 years ago 3
Well said. TX 4 your support and your honesty.
imshela2u 3 years ago
OH man oh man!!!!! Thanks so much for this. Great sound quality....Curtis is soooo young here. Miss you Curtis.
tahootz 3 years ago 5
great music .....now explain rap music and tell me its just as good
ackbarr89 3 years ago
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You can't compare different types of music, comparing metal and rock are too different things, they both have something special and unique about them, and if you really like music, you would like all type of genres, fuckin asshole.
Smaster116 3 years ago
Damn! Those no rhythm having white people. The only one's moving smoothly are the brothers singing. This entire video goes to show the unfairness in white people. This song was performed circa 1963 in the midst of civil rights movement. It just tickles me how these bastards could dance and enjoy listening to our music, but when it came to fairness, equality, and justice for all these people acted ignorant.
justinmo74 3 years ago
If you just want to hate, what I'm going to say won't change that, so don't bother reading it. But the young people in that video didn't create racial inequality, they inherited it. Saying that all white people acted or thought a certain way is just as ignorant as saying all black people act a certain way. It took both races to get us even to just the point where we are now. One big reason things began to change was the influence of the music on young whites. Where were you in 1963?
selmerd 3 years ago 7
amen selmerd and tahootz! peace
ed2oo8 3 years ago
thats right
dans420allday 3 years ago
Hey bro', if you were there, you know that this was progress at the time. And it's not OUR music, music is for all to experience and share. The one thing beyond all others that can bring us together. And we DO have to live together. The Impressions, so smooth, great gospel spirit melded into r'n'b.
tahootz 3 years ago 5
Yeah, I know, fuck them whities.
hollyGRAVY 3 years ago
your black and white power will be a crumblin tower...curtis mayfield
Eurobubble70 3 years ago
i hate rap music
nextkanye19 3 years ago
great harmonies and feel. you can see how bob marley was influenced by then in his early recordings
rastapontop 3 years ago
the greatest music combined with the worst dancing...nice
Eurobubble70 3 years ago 9
They don't make em like this anymore!! The Best!
msaulr 3 years ago 2
Alright, I'm a 15-year-old teenage girl and I don't mind being quoted saying
THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN 99.9% OF MUSIC OUT THERE!
DarkAngelWriter 3 years ago 8
That is so cool little sister, I will quote you too. I am trying to organize a song writters Fan Club. Just for the very reason you mentioned. If my info is correct the writter is from Redbone. That is such a cool comment, do you mind if use your comment as a motto of sorts? Thanks Luna
lunigal 3 years ago
Go for it! Heck, I'll even admit that after listening to the song on here I BOUGHT IT ON ITUNES. That's how into them I am.
But yeah. Go for it =D
DarkAngelWriter 3 years ago
Thanks, and I was wondering if you are also a song writer. Your name.... indicates that. If you have any ideas about a writters Fan Club let me know. I am doing it because quite a few from this era have gone un noticed, in my book it is all about the writting. Like which comes first, the fire or the smoke. Not that I don't absolutely love Singers, Performers, but you get me right? Later Luna
lunigal 3 years ago
Keep listening girl...you'll learn a lot from the music of yesterday...
mcbloomsss 3 years ago
I wish soul would come back and send rap/thug /hip hop back to hell from whence it came!
faroutlindsey 3 years ago 5
kudos........
thegreasyspoondiner 3 years ago 2
hell yeah faroutlindsey
nonoman290 3 years ago
Thank you dad for giving me this music to remember you by. I really miss you! Love, Anthony
afsanchez001 3 years ago 2
Makes me SMILE X
bubbledick 3 years ago 2
This guys are right!!!! The back girls dancing are not so right...ahahahah
gazuaman 3 years ago
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im lovin it
abaddon213 3 years ago
we're doing this song to my tap dance routine!!
weird dancing in the backround!!! lol
mandylele147 3 years ago
Have a good time cause it's alright.
ploit2 3 years ago
Ah, awkward white people awkwardly dancing. HAHAHA. Love this soulful music.
foureyednerd12 3 years ago
And a whole bunch of them spending money on their music. To me, it looks like everyone was doing just what the lyrics say..."It's alright, have a good time, cuz it's alright." The joke about whites not knowing how to dance is overdone and dated. I know of some famous exceptions...Fred Astaire comes to mind.
I love this soulful music, too. :)
CrescentMoonglow 3 years ago 2
I love this song, but I like the version by Ricochet just a little bit better.
shelton705 3 years ago
i like it
abaddon213 3 years ago
im 22 and i love this song i first herd it in the movie Stephen King's IT and i loveddd it
nonoman290 3 years ago 3
same here
its917pm 3 years ago
Seems like yesterday.Where did the decades go?? Wow.. I always loved this song and ran down to buy my 45 of this song . I remember there were some songs I wanted to listen to over and over!!
taratova 3 years ago
I LIK IT
themodel4u 3 years ago 2
*yawn*
I can't stand it when people use these clips of great songs for self-righteous polemic grandstanding.
knuteboy36 3 years ago
What a stupid comment.
barrettpj62 3 years ago
One of the best "BOP" records on the juke box at the "Hang-Out" in Panama City, Florida in '63. Classic stuff/ RIP Curtis Mayfield!
bloctontodd 3 years ago
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seellama sucks black dick and loves it....
amberada 3 years ago
You got Sooo
jcrist 3 years ago
Classic!!!
AbbottSupreme 3 years ago 2
I hear it first at the movie "Stephen King's It" and i love this song!
PrinceStyle1 3 years ago
Dude me too! I saw it there on youtube and seeing it while they were using the shovels and such was awesome! I love to listen to this song when doing chores!
criticalkids 3 years ago 2
sry i tried to reply to PrinceStyle1. I saw it on "It" too! on youtube. i want to actually see the movie though.
criticalkids 3 years ago 2
Classic song and performance! Excluding The Impressions, someone needs to get every single person in this video clip some rhythm! IMMEDIATELY!
SidewalksOfNY315 3 years ago
I hate lip synching, but I LOOOOVE this song! God Bless Brother Curtis. Saw him on a show with Edgar Winter in '73 and both acts blew the roof off the joint!
Bopalena 3 years ago
yeah they are offbeat, 'specially when they start clapping...
I have to say it hurts to hear such an amazing song and see absolutely no people of color dancing in there.
seellama 3 years ago
For that time in the United States history.....that's good. White people dancing to black music? What's wrong with that?
VegasEric 3 years ago 2
What's wrong is that it's ONLY white people, get it? Back then, if you were black, and you were talented, and you "behaved," then they'd put you onstage in a big white party, but it wasn't for you or your community. You were there to entertain them. To see a purely white crowd stirs some painful memories of segregation, that's all. We will know true integration when white society accepts and loves and cares for our black communities and PEOPLE, not just for their entertainment value.
seellama 3 years ago
everyone looks like they're offbeat
dvnstvn9 3 years ago
Can't you hear how special the music is? I guess you had to be there...
matsiouxno 3 years ago 2
no, i can hear it just fine. :)
it's astonishing.
this is when music was good.
christinaaa2 3 years ago 2
This is just awesome
bombalu5 3 years ago 2
amazing song. (: warms my heart.
christinaaa2 3 years ago 2
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It would be better without the black people.
stevennscash 3 years ago
what the hell?
christinaaa2 3 years ago
You must have meant it would be better without the white people, who haven't an ounce of soul.. the whole world would be better off without a ton of the white people, isn't that what you meant
julie713 3 years ago
your comments are fairly disgusting. two wrongs don't make a right
ed2oo8 3 years ago
APPROVED BY THE ANGEL OF MUSIC
TheAngelOfMusic1 3 years ago
thick marmalade soul
moonsafari4 4 years ago
thick marmalade soul
moonsafari4 4 years ago
lmao that video what the hell were they doing and that presenter at the end.;-)
PUNKASSFOOL 4 years ago
one of the greatest videos ever made!
hswatnik 4 years ago
am i the only one who thinks its effed up the entire audience is white?
the80sking1986 4 years ago
Do you honestly not know how things were in 1965? I've been trying to forget...
FlamingoReaper 4 years ago 2
What bugs me ( I posted the vid and I'm white) is that its obvious good music is just good music and music fans don't care who's doin' it; Jimi H, Sly, Santana all played Woodstock and Otis Redding played Monterey. But he's right...Why in 1965 did the networks feel they had to
SHOW ON TV that "only" white folks liked music. And the dancing is soooo bad ...the girls are ok but that guy at the beginning (center of screen) what song is he dancing too?
FairDealDan 4 years ago
I think he's dancing to Jungle lmao
PUNKASSFOOL 4 years ago
It was a Cotton Club type thing. They didn't let black people in, but they used them for entertainment. They probably didn't let the Impressions enter or exit from the main entrance. It's a damn shame.
TheRealCodeBlack 3 years ago
I'm a huge Curtis Mayfield fan. I watched the video before reading the comments and the fact that the audience was all white jumped out at me also. I do know how things were in the 60's, 70's, hell even now to a certain extent here in the south. That does not mean that "It's alright"....
neugene 4 years ago
Just remember:Michael Jackson´s Thriller was the first video of a black artist that was shown on MTV! This was in 1988!!! In those days Michael was still black, well quite a bit!
Never forget the past...It´s not that long ago!
EuropaBambarthaar 3 years ago
It's kind of nit-picky, but the thriller album came out in late 1982, a little over one year after MTV started and Billie Jean was his first video to be shown on MTV . There were lots of black artists on MTV by 1988.
zimagee 3 years ago
Curtis Mayfield is the man. RIP.
mkerwin1 4 years ago 2
This is real soul! So influential, never recorded a bad track - ever!
tonsils77 4 years ago
Little help...Were there more than just 3 Impressions? I know Jerry Butler was once a part of the group, but I haven't seen him in any posted YouTube early performances.
LAINVEST 4 years ago
a musical genius . curtis wrote gypsy woman at the age of 14years old.
tonnyy06 4 years ago
I did not know curtis wrote this at 14! COOL! I LOVE THE MAN AND WISH I COULD HAVE MET HIM.
faroutlindsey 4 years ago
It's hard to believe you're gone. It was love that we needed, and Man O Man, there's never too much love. Keep on pushing, Curtis, never let me go, Amen!
petergagu 4 years ago 3
You Must believe me, All I ever wanted was Just one Kiss from You, I've been Trying and I Need You and Your Precious Love but I've been a Fool For You, I loved and I lost, You always Hurt Me and now we look like a Sad Sad Girl and Boy so This Must End
leedsbulldog 4 years ago
They are Talking about my Baby at the Meeting over Yonder. After Seven Years they say I Can't Satisfy her, But I tell her all the time -- "I'm the Won who Loves You and I'm so Proud of You," But she listens to their lies and says "You've Been Cheating".
leedsbulldog 4 years ago
My Era My Music
leedsbulldog 4 years ago
this is song remembers me of my grandfather R.I.P ='(
zackswife17 4 years ago
R.I.P. my brother CURTIS.YOU STILL COME THROUGH LOUD AND CLEAR!
faroutlindsey 4 years ago
Think that was Curtis Mayfield
gadgethackwrench 4 years ago
Indeed it is.
pcam06 4 years ago
Soul is colorless,you either got it or you don't.
Grappa61 4 years ago
Man Lucky dancers!!!
kickassfan 4 years ago
ahh, how white people danced, clapped and swayed before hip-hop and contemporary r&b...
white folks "give your self a chance, you've got soul and everybody knows, it's all right" lol
good music
rye22 4 years ago
Friday nights @the Dolphin in Liverpool circa '82-'85, Tabitha, Lorraine, Karen, and all the sxc GirlMods from those days!!
loved them days!
loved them girls!
loved that music!
Liverpool Mods!!
stOOpid68 4 years ago
really luv dis song
2muchclazz 4 years ago
remember when white folks danced like white folks......this made me laugh my a..off!!!!
galfittish 4 years ago 2
This was a great group. They were known for their great vocal abilty. When other groups had elaborate routines this group would just stand up and sang!
triniman56 4 years ago
Thanks. That's what I was trying to say. It's exactly how it was back then.
The Larks did The Jerk (also The Skate) - on the Money label.
I think Mom's gone to the pictures ...
ggrayzee 4 years ago
Mom?
chele814 4 years ago
Can you tell me who did the JERK?
Was it the LARKS???
sasknj77 4 years ago
Yes, I believe it was
fredtor 4 years ago
lets do the jerk
fredtor 4 years ago