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  • Jackie Brown brought me here :)

  • this was truly a magic time all the songs were so soothing,just fell in love with them i dont dont think those times will come again

  • This is a the true Philadelphia sound. It is, as I like to say, an east coast sound...

  • These gentlemen did blow my mind w/songs such as this. The Delfonics/Blue Magic/Blue Notes/Chi Lites/Moments, and the Stylistics were a staple of groups that came out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. As Motown was to Detroit Michigan, the Philly sound was to Philadelphia. For a time in the late 60's to early 70's the Philly sound surpassed the Motown w/groups such as the Delfonics. Thanks to Thom Bell & Linda Creed for writing most of the music for these groups.

  • Yes...you are right!!!

  • If you didn't grow up in Southern Cali,you wouldn't have a clue on the beautiful life in the hoods driving Lowriders & hitting switches as a Black teenagers in High School...with these brothers Blowing doing their thang...The Delphonics one of the Greatest groups of all times....wish we could turn the clock back...

  • what ever happened to great music like this. todays music can not even come close to songs like this.

  • u aint kiddin!!

  • wow i cant believe all the things i said to my girl today... i truly love her more than anything now..

  • When I was a teenager in the early 1970s, I heard this on a PA in a public swimming pool and instantly loved it. The high roof and big space made the sound reverb, and weirdly, no matter all the times I've heard it since, I still hear it in my memory with reverb and smell chlorine!

  • What a neat memory......smoove stuff.

  • the best love song ever all time

    no wounder why it was featured in jackie brown

  • Jackie Brown baby!! Hot, hot, hot!!

  • Omg, I forgot about this song!!!! Oh! So awesome. See, THIS is why Youtube exists.

  • makes me think about my girl wen i hear this.....

  • If you like these top cats, give a listen to the Stylistics....Grade A stuff.

  • superb....

  • Killer, Killer, Song!..Mikey!

  • My favorite falsetto trio. They performed as well or better with three members than several groups with four or more members!

  • i lov this song its a great oldie!!

  • new kids on the block did a cover to this song its good

  • This song stole the Quinten Tarintino move "Jackie Brown"...

  • wordless!!!bye good times

  • one of the best songs ever!

  • Reminds me of high school. Loved African American music from this era. Can't stand the rap. Delfonics,Sly Stone,Marvin Gaye,and many others.

  • These are one of the many philly great philly soul groups of the 60's/70's, Not to Mention, The Intruders, Stylistics, Teddy Pendrgras and The Blue notes,So Muce talent in My town,Barbara Mason, and Kenny and Leon founders of TSOP can You dig it? Ojays struck it rich when the called up Kenny.And the Spinners. These are just some of the SOUL groups sdidnt mention the white groups yet. You all must be jealous so much talent from Philly Town.

  • This "white male" is not jealous, just enjoy the great music of this era from all races.

  • lol, at 1:29 they look like Metal Gear Solid characters from ps1.

  • Love this song!

  • Yep. They made it a huge hit, didn't they. :) I'll probably get a bunch of negs for saying that, but oh well, lol.

  • "south park version is way better" Syke! You sound pretty ridiculous.South park is a joke, and so are you for posting this stupid comment.How can you compare some stupid cartoon to this? This song is a masterpiece.

  • gosh just comparing both the songs and stating my opinion, you don't have to be such a big fat meanie about it

  • When you say South Park version, do you mean the one on the episode where Cartman formed a Christian group or something? I thought that song sounded familiar.....

    but the original one (this one) is like 10,000,000,000,000 times better. :D

  • Timeless song something me and my grandparent can listen to

  • muy buena esta cancion

  • These Cats and the Stylistics were the slow jam Kings hands down, I miss the days gone bye, but have been blessed to have been there, inspired by the values of that period. And just like my woman is my Queen I love Her dearly, all the loves past were Beautiful Black Women and Queens in there own! Shout to the Old Crew "Southcommons-Southside Chitown! miss roller skatin not much here in MN cept workin and crusin my Goldwing-lil mini Lakeshore drive lol

  • man this just feels good in ya sould when you hear music like this... a feelin of no drama... jus goodness, lol... wish music still was good like back in the day

  • lol i'm 21 and i like all mostly Hip-Hop and hardcore rock but this song is amazing :P

  • what an arrangement!!!!!!!

  • i'm 25 and i listen to extreme metal, but i really love this song. 1st heard it on the movie Jackie Brown w/pam grier (tarentino version). very beautiful song

  • Same here - got a great song and great movie at the same time.

  • Jackie Brown :) Great movie, one of the best. I had already known this song.

  • One of my all time favorit songs... Why is nobody doing music like this no more????

  • Everything is top-40 drivel,repetitive nonsense and "music" made by aural cretins for mental midgets. I,too,mourn the loss of good music.

  • There's good stuff out there, you just have to dig more these days as it all went out of popularity. Check out Sharon Jones or the labels ubiquity or daptone. Also Eldridge Gravy and the Court Supreme from Seattle, I hear that's pretty "fresh".

  • Just for you Mar x

  • Delfonics won an Emmy Award for this song in 1970 the song of the year.

  • I found this record at a thrift store...and played this cut 5 times in a row! (the first time I'd done that in years). Amazing stuff.

  • brotube2008: Totally agree! Absolutely beautiful; makes me cry. Evokes many memories! Thanks manuelworker!

  • I remember this song from when I was a kid. If that makes me old, I don't give a shit! What a beautiful piece!

  • Mannn this is some smooth shit...

  • DO I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!

  • I didn't know NKOTB covered this... no wonder it's the only song I like from'em. This version is WAY better

  • Wooo! Classic!

  • yup. they're pretty good.

  • Love this cut...days in East LA...wow thanks

  • I giggled, but hey everyone has his own opinion :)

  • ha-ha-ha-hell no!!

  • awesome song a lont with la la la means I love you oh the great oldies I grew up listening too. wow

  • awesome

  • absolute classic vocals and music

  • djhardrock.......very cool and acurate insight on Mr. Thom Bell and the brilliant mind he had for lush arrangements, behind vocals. I always loved the oboe/English horn,

    "signature" sound he used for The Stylistics

    hits.....very appropriate and beautiful.

    Hey manuelworker.....Great Post. THANKS.

  • lol, actually the "viking horn" is trademark Thom Bell productions. He was a flow blown classically trained arranger and producer. His work is almost alway lush and big. Somehow he always manages to stay out of the way of the vocals with 10,000 insturments playing very critical parts.

  • Aw quit thinking dudes just listen 'n feel it... it's something very very special, ya know it, that's why yr here!

  • right on!!..tell Him to "Stop Blowin' his own Mind"...this Time...its Sunday..the Vikings are gonna lose...

  • I love this song, but I wonder which one of them was like, "Hey guys, lets add some crazy ass viking horn sounds to the begininning of the song!" And the rest of them were like, "sure, ok" and they did that wierd ass shit.

  • hahaha, being a Minnesota Viking fan, I can't help but wonder if they scored a touchdown every time this song starts playing. lol.

    This is a great song though.

  • I love it. Hey that Purple Gang better put it back in order !!!!!!

    Joe

  • Too true, Joe.

    Personally, every victory is bittersweet. The coaching staff needs to go. I've felt that way since Brad Childress took over. The offense runs the same four or five plays, can't control the clock for garbage, they spent a second-round draft pick on an Arena-leauge back-up(Tar-Tar Jackson) and the special teams coach is a joke and a half.

    So, the short answer; The Purple Gang need to get a new coaching staff, save for the defense coordinator, Leslie Frazier.

    SKOL VIKINGS!!!

  • Evlin,

    LOVE YOU.

    MCMP 2008

  • lol 177,000 and counting love this song! This is music that means something. They could sing. You must be into talking fast--I mean rapping.

  • die

  • You must be about 10 years old.

  • well ya gotta understand that's the music they grew up on.

  • one of the best songs ever written

  • one the best love songs of all time

  • lead singer William Hart wrote most of their songs.

  • DIDNT I.....

  • nice

  • exellent

  • manuelabor, you have great taste in music, you like all the same songs I like, good job !! Lol

  • Someone sent me this and I almost died when I watched. I wanna dance with my grandma to this. Good times

  • i remember dancing to this song at the dances at the legion hall in pittsbugh when i was 13 this song kicks ass!!

  • I was doing the same thing in Duquesne! Brings back memories...

  • 100% class.....

  • Is that Kareem Abdul Jabbar in the middle of that photo with a big 'fro?

  • Lew Alcinder

  • this is a classic r.i.p uncle malik

  • I honestly never took the time to ever comment a video out of the lord knows how many thousands of videos i have watched over the years. But the fact that a young man the same age as me was sitting and bumping this song and wishing the same thing as me only a day before i did it....

    im faded and its pretty trippy =]

  • I'm a young guy(19) and I honestly wish music like this was still being made.

  • am 15 years old and i like songs like this. i wish they still made songs like this too.

  • I'm 19 also and I've always been a big fan of the oldies. Gotta give my mom and pops props for that one!

  • I'm a Soul man who Loves the MOTOWN SOUND 60's 70's. The Greatest Era in Music and Love Songs. The Best Music Ever Created

  • I can't stop watching this! Hadn't heard it in sooooo long, and haven't been able to stop singing it in my head, and out loud(to the detriment of those around meLOL) sent it to a lot of people and they can't stop singing it too!! GREAT SONG THANK YOU AGAIN MANUEL!! Should have posted this first time around!!!

  • Ya, Cartman's "Jesus Baby" song in South Park!!!

  • AHHHHH, slow dancing memories, sock hops LOL

  • Top of there game with this cut.

  • i like this version, but I LOVE NKOTB's version a lot more.

  • having just listened to the nkotb version, I'm going to have to tell you that you are crazy. Having rabid fans is no substitute for real talent, but I guess if some Worcester bar-hag has a crush lingering crush on a group of has-beens thats gotta count for something.

  • what's with the worcester part?

  • these are the types of songs that put you in a "feel good mood." I was V.I.P in their concert they had in Colo. and they still sound great

  • theres nothing quite like it.....awesome

  • i love these classics!!!!!!!!!im only 28 and i live for this kind of music.its the best, wait its the greatest!!!!!!

  • I'm 48 and I say bravo to you. Now you're really on the track. Growing up with these classics was a joy. It wasn't easy being white and catching hell from knuckleheads on the bus in the morning before school.

  • love it. I miss these songs (

  • im only 19 and love it!!!!

  • I could not agree with you more and I'm only 53......

  • Damn right, and I'm only 53, too! ;)

  • I have never heard such good harmony. I am 68 years old and it still gives me goose bumps. It takes me back to some great memories.

  • I could listen to this alllll day.

  • Cant beat the classics. This is one of the all time great ones.

  • One of my favorite songs, the melody is unlike anything I have ever heard.

  • dayum this song is awesome. dedicated to leslie salazar =/ <3

  • Hit after Hit, after Hit, after Hit.......

  • Whenever I hear this song, I can't help but think of Pam Grier and Robert Forster singing along to it on "Jackie Brown"...great song and great movie!

  • Wow this is when music was real. I am 27 and so remember my dad and uncles singing to this song and so many more timeless classics

  • This is a classic! 60s and 70s def the best. Not just cos I was a teenager in lurve!

  • Just love this for what it is?

  • Love this song in the movie Jackie Brown!

  • this song touches the hearts of many.......... an it is betta than wat we listen 2 2day we listen 2 a lot of wanna be's an so0o0o0o sad im 14 an i noe this wen r the adults goin 2 noe it :(

  • quit jibba jabbing about your hiphop

  • what the fuc keeping them out of hall of fame??????? Blown mind...

  • AMEN! DITTO! - Dr. Whatson a healthy dose of truism...thank you 'cause I'm so very tired of the (no-talent)non-music (RAP)

  • Thats rediculus. I strongly appreciate this music and yet I can also find enlightenment in the poetic sense of modern hip hop. If you think there is no talent in hip hop then you are clearly looking in the wrong places. I admit, hip hop that is topping the charts is mostly big studio fed and un-artistic. But if you search, you can find hip hop that is incredibly poetic, to the likes of Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots, and MANY others.

  • Umm...my comment was not meant to be taken that I dislike ALL rap...however, I'm TIRED of the majority of it!!! I stand by my statement of "no-talent"

    You are entitled to your oppinion which I respect...AND I'm also entitled to MINE!

  • watch ?uestlove from the roots drum and tell me he hasn't got any talent....the truth is these guys didnt rely on comptuers so much so people got serious tight on their playing and singing its a shame that anyone can get produced and get a record....but even with all that there is still some serious talent out there nowadays...but if it aint about killings niggas it won't get played... i recommend blacklicious' album 'nia' if you want to hear some hip hop with talent

  • Thank you for your comments. Truth is, I'm REALLY not listenting to much of ANY rap these days!!! Again, I never meant to imply that ALL rap is "no-talent", however, I feel that 95% of it is...I'm ready for something entirely different...something "fresh" (if you will) I do agree with many of your comments though. It does appear that what we hear on the radio is the most vile form. That is (partially) why I agreed with what "Dr. Whatson" stated in his comments one week ago...

  • I gave my heart and soul to you Baby....I am alone I never cheated on you Baby...I go to bed alone evey night wishing you were there...is this a dream I dream alone??

  • "All great art LASTS" (Dave Godin) This song certainly lasts, and moves me as much today as it did when I first heard it back in 1970! - in fact, given the parlous state of some of today's Black music, it sounds even better in retrospect. Plea to today's artists: Give up rappin', go back to church and learn to SING again - the world sure needs you!

  • co-signed

  • I love this song and I was born in the early 80's...lol

  • tree-men-duss

  • For all you "Sound Of Philadelphia" lovers...I've compiled some SUPER playlists of MASTERPIECES JUST LIKE THIS (on my humble channel)...ripe and ready for the picking! ENJOY!!!

  • Man, to the person who said that New Kids on the Block did this song better than the Defonics obviously didn't come up on this stuff, and doesn't know talent..This is the shit right here..Smooth,stone-cold slow jammin',slow dancin' with your baby. Nobody did it better than the Delfonics..This reminds me of my high school dances and my senior prom..Great, great stuff..Thanks for posting this and bringing back lots of fine memories..

  • Preah on maaan, preach on!!!!!

  • You are 100% correct on your comments. This song is done best by the original artist (Delfonics). These gentlemen in my opinion were the best of their day. All the best..

  • Much tragic beauty in this !

  • Fantastic song inspired me to start writing,listen carefuly at 1.08 the semiquaver run by the orchestra,the downbeat doesn,t come where expected,this bit almost written in 5\4.

  • To me, they were the best group of their era.

  • jackie brown

  • Yes! Quinten Tarantino new how great these gentelmen were. They were so good that he had their music put into the movie Jackie Brown. Matter of fact their music was played throughout the movie.

  • Can't look back just move forward- the Delfonics made history with this sound that still resonates till this day. I will always cherish the memories.Thanks Delfonics!!!

  • God......how I loved this song when I was a kid...still do!

  • Loved it when it came out, love it now. Thank you, Delfonics!!!!

  • Philly's own Delfonics. hot oh yeah. thank you...

  • Didn't I??

    When I meet the ONE this will be played at the Wedding**********

    ;PPP

  • and youre a fan of Ozzy?  hahaha

  • T.S.O.P

  • the first time I ever saw a live group was in Tucson, Az 1970 along with my gal Mary Hilyard. They blew my mind with how smooth they were and how good they sounded.

  • I miss the bells. LLcool J messed that up

  • I don't undertsand.

  • I LOVEEEEEEEEE THIS SONG :)

  • Great song, these guys have great voices.

  • loverz dis song on the realz ya feel me

  • music to fuck to...

  • deftones - digital bath, try that, I made love 3 times to that song, it's great.

  • Now this is the Jam!Thnaks for posting this here!

  • Can I get a little help peoples? What was the B-side of "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time? It may not have been quite the cut that the A-side was but nevertheless I smoothed the grooves o' that 45! I do recall a almond-eye houri figured in the equation.

  • JACKIE BROWN

  • 37 YRS ON STILL GREAt SOUND

  • thanks for this, I really love this song.

  • tight....

  • this song takes me allll the waayyy back i like this song a lot.... it puts me in the mind of my peeps back at home.....

  • I'm really feelin this joint right here. I'm gonna sing it at karaoke tonight. This stuff puts the folk on the dance floor. There ain't nothing like gettin close to your girl and dancing to joints like this. Somebody say something if they know what I mean. I want to do some Tempree's to, but they don't have'em. Not even one joint. The Delfonic's will get the job done. Trust....