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  • do u just want an encore of this video..love it much much.

  • love this FREAKIN video

    #closer then close

  • At 3:09, you can't tell that keyboard player NOTHIN'! lol

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  • loving it....a love song to our father......

  • I simply love it!!!!!!

  • Wow...Fred is a true worshipper. It's refreshing to see him shine amongst a dim light. I like Rubin but I feel as if he has some more maturing to do in the Lord. Thank you Fred for being an example of worship for all.

  • This song touches my Heart, with strong motivation and encouragement.

  • love it, it fills my spirit up : )

  • GLORIA A DEUS !!

  • AMEN!!

  • just  god!!!!!

  • is there a mp3 download for this track?

  • Man the feeling you get when you praise God.. You can't tell me that Jesus isn't real!!!!

  • @shawn10280 I know right! I love getting on my knees and pleasing Jesus!

  • This song is beautiful. i would like if my group BlessedAndHighlyFavored sing it we would sound good.

  • Thank you Jesus, just to be close to you lord is my heart's desire :)

  • This is my favorite fred hammond song. And the live version is soo hot

  • OMG, I can't help myself when I hear this song. PRAISE GOD!!!!! GLORY TO HIM, THE-MOST-HIGH!!!!!!!! God bless everyone.

  • LOVE THIS SONG!!!!! GLORY, GLORY TO GOD!! PRAISE HIS NAME ON HIGH!!!!!!!

  • How could You possibly dislike this song. ?

  • Another 1 of my favorite songs, what can I say...I just love all of his music!

  • WOW!

  • FATHER IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU FOR OUR LIFE, HEALTH, STRENGTH AND A STRONG MIND THANK YOU FATHER FOR USING US AS YOUR VESSEL WALKING TESTIMONIES ~diamondintherough~ ALSO THANK YOU LORD GOD FOR ALL YOUR PRAISE SINGERS WHO REALLY LOVE YOU NOT JUST PLAYING AND MAKING MONEY AMEN!

  • such annointing...this song is beautiful...thank you, Psalmist Fred

  • I really really really love this video it Ministers to me every time i hear it

  • Love this! This definitely needs to go down in Fred's long list of classics!

  • Fred Hammond could create his own arrangement of The Sesame Street song and make it SOUND INCREDIBLE and have you feel blessed after hearing it! He's so anointed & seasoned in Christ. You can see him try to throw Ruben some runs, and Ruben missed them, more than likely from nerves. But Fred just filled it in himself and kept right on going! Phenomenal arrangement, and they BOTH sound beyond phenomenal, along with the entire choir. Just WOW.

    Love & Light,

    C...xo

  • This instrumentals on this track are CRAZY!

  • That's definately Rubeen Studard at the begining, right?

  • @MilanLouboutin Yes. 

  • i love this jazzy gospel :)

    

  • THERE IS NOTHING LIKE BEING IN THE PRESENT OF GOD. JUST DNT LET GO!!!

  • What a great colabo! This is a lovely song. God has really annointed their voices!

  • love this!!!!!!

  • just wonderful...amazing

  • I LOVE it when men look, sound, and WORSHIP like MEN!

  • @wisdomworshipwealth1 aman!!!!!!!!

  • I LOVE it when men look, sound, and WORSHIP like MEN!

  • Wow, Stevie Wonder 1974-84!!! Synths, Jeff Beck Guitar

  • @FunkMan53 Yeah, yeah my thoughts exactly! Fred has learned from "the masters"! Fred knows well how to combine genius musicality with worship.

    Ps: And pleeeease don't anybody get sensitive about Jesus being The Master (capitals) ;)

  • @DutchessAMS Great reply Dutchess, you and I are on the same page musically :-)

  • @DutchessAMS LOL! Amen! I love that you said, "Please don't anybody get sensitive about Jesus being The Master." Jesus is most definitely The Master. I'm learning as time goes by, how angry and confrontational folks can get when presented with the Truth. And Christ is the Truth. Be blessed everyone.

    Love & Light,

    C...xo

  • I am a Fred head. It is a pleasure to witness the love of Jesus thru Fred's melody. I wish one day to met him and just say thank you. He has taught me to worship Jesus Christ and to love him thru service and music.

  • what a beautiful song

  • does anyone know where we can buy this one?

  • just a closer walk, it says it all.

  • I just Loveeeeee this song.AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

  • my Anthem

  • Amazing musicians arrangement and vocals. To God be the glory

  • AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

  • This is my love song to GOD! This is a good choice of songs to blend!

  • My God, My God, My God just to be closer to you is my desire.......

  • Just Can't get enough of this song!Oh Glory to God!!Just to be closer ..to be in his Glory,Hal! le! lu !jah!!!!

  • "So prone to stray..."

  • i feel like im part of the inside joke between Big Reu and fred hammond LOL :D

  • I started listening to Fred in 1997. God continue to bless him. His music has encouraged me to hold on to God. I 14yrs old when I actually started wanting to listen to him.

  • Go Fred with that smooth flow.

  • Bassman is killin!!!

  • 2:07 - 2:11 the guy bobbing his head GETS ME every time. love it.

  • @dtm876 I agree he was really feeling it...

  • @dtm876 He was feeling that thang.... lol...

  • it's the same 5 haters giving dislikes...maybe they are searching for fred flintstone or something. Fred has set the bar for gospel music by the anointing of Jesus Christ!

  • What an anointing!!!!I It,s like a sweet perfume unto the Lord.Glory!!!!!

  • What annointing!!!!I It,s a sweet perfume unto the Lord.Glory!!!!!

  • THis is a beautiful song praising God Almighty. I would like to sing this at mu church. Praise be to Lord Thy God.

  • My Lord Jesus! Couldn't hardly keep it together...these brothas sang! Such a sweet anointing...

  • ya'll betta sang!!!!!

  • Its too much....HEAVY ANNOINTING!

  • AWSOME...I LOVE IT...CAN LISTEN ALL DAY....GOD'S LOVE!!!!  HEART FELT!!!

  • 3:05 gave me the chills...OMG!

  • @JayJohn011 That's the best transition ever. I have heard this song well over 300 times and i always rewind that part

  • I love ruben's smile... he exudes so much energy and light through it!

  • Both of them are good STOP hating on my boy reuben.

  • Fred, your the best! I love you

  • does anyone have the words to the last part of this song?

  • Bass man is killin!!!

  • 2:29 is priceless

  • I LOVE TO HEAR THE BOTH OF THESE GUYS!! WHAT A NICE SONG.....:)

  • i love freddie!!

  • hey im better

    

  • SING RUBEN!!!!!

  • One of my biggest dreams...to work with Fred Hammond! This man is amazing!

  • GOD BLESS YOU FOR PUTTING THIS UP!!

  • The CuTTTT!!! with a capital T!!!!

  • Beautiful!

  • I had to bless you tube & my computer with this song. Amen.....you could feel literally God flow streaming through your skin - ugh! Hit mi!!

  • BIG DEAL IF REUBEN IS A SECULAR ARTIST....MANY SO CALLED GOSPEL SINGERS ARE IMMERSED IN SINFUL PRACTICES....I LOVE HIP HOP (HARDCORE) NONE A OOOHNU NUH PRAY TO JEHOVAH FERVENTLY & SINCERELY LIKE ME. HE SEEMS TO BE MORE HOLY THAN KIRK FRANKLIN - HE BEHAVES MORE GENTLEMANLY (DOESN'T USE GANGSTA SLANG WORDS LIKE KIRK FRANKLIN & OTHERS OF COURSE - WHO SEEM TO BE CONFUSED WHICH DIRECTION THEY WANNA GET TO GOOD OR EVIL) REUBENS DEMEANOR IS THAT OF A GENTLEMAN.

  • nieces song

  • Reuben is also a gospel artist. And maybe ur judging, maybe ur not. I'm just saying that it seemed u were comin off hard on him by saying "he can only offer what he knows" as if to say Reuben because he has sung about things outside the Kingdom, doesn't know the things of God

  • Who is on lead guitar, do you know any of the musicians?

  • DO you have any other videos from this performance?

  • Beautiful song. Give glory to the most high . Who's love last always.

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  • wherer can I get this dvd at!?!? I GOTS 2 GET IT!!!!!!

  • Beautiful song....gives me goose bumps. They should do an album together. It's like will downing & Luther Vandross together. Jesus is Love.....nothing tops that.

  • This is what happens when secular ppl sing with the ppl of God, they can only attribute what they know(of course he would throw in some secular stuff in there, YUCK!) Fred H, Commissioned will always be one of my fav groups...this is where I am "Just to be close 2 Him" I NEED HIM & CAN'T IMAGINEEE HOW LIFE WOULD B WITHOUT HIM ♥♥

  • @Sugabear1976 u dont know what his relationship w/ God is like so you cant judge him like that.not every1 can do gospel cuz its a CALLING like every other ministry. not every1 is called to that. & how else can you reach those outside of the Kingdom? cant get em all by staying in the "gospel" arena, you gotta get out 2 reach the masses! u dont know how many ppl came to this vid 2 c the "secular" artist and ended up getting blessed, that never wud have come if it was simply the gospel artist Fred

  • @gimmee411 I didn't judge him! I stated the truth, he IS a secular artist, & he can only attribute what he knows, HOW IS THAT JUDGING? I never addressed his heart nor did I say any1 was going 2 hell, DO U UNDERSTAND WHAT JUDGING IS? If I'm a doctor I can't offer ppl a disease 2 help them, I have 2 give them medication. Jesus NEVER offered ppl things of the world IN FACT He speaks against it. U reach the masses by offering the truth, the truth sets them free not LIES dressed up smh

  • @Sugabear1976 now days ppl seem to not understand what judging is. To judge someone if to make an assmption based on something you do not know; however if you are speaking truth it is not judgement is is mere fact. Fact Ruben is a secular artist and the Bible ask what does the light and darkness have in common, Fact we are to come from among them and be ye seperate. Fact we are to CRY LOUD AND SPARE NOT. Fact the people are offended by truth, but without out offense there would be no change.

  • Pretty sure that second song is " Draw Nigh" off of Spirit of David

  • This is real gospel fred is a beast hes the godfarther of gospel and the groove is just tight

  • this song is OD HOTT!!!... Fred Hammond my fav gospel singer!

  • LAWD.....that break down was so clean

  • Love this video and what they did with the songs. What I don't like, though it's common, is to notice when they -performers- are lip singing/syncing. Spark goes out the window the most when Fred puts his bottle down & not fast enough. Sry for the down low ppl, props still though

  • @dooup dude this a live concert, ruben is not normally singing with Fred so to say they are lip synching is crazy.

  • @cem65305 /Right I think I know what you mean. which is why in the begining i thought maybe it's just a video to audio error. But on this video when the meter hits 2:52 (you can click here = 2:50 = to see it good -if it's blue-) Notice> fred hammond puts the bottle of water down moving his mouth completely away from the mic and none of that made any difference to "his singing".. about it being live we well I can't say anything to that since I wasn't there... I would love to be wrong here though

  • This was a live recording and the majority of the vocals were probably used for the audio track that is heard on the CD and DVD. However in that particular instance and throughout the recording, Fred is such a believer in operating in the spirit of excellence that I'm certain they went back in the studio and did all kinds of overdubs, vocally and instrumentally. It does not take away from the presence of Holy Spirit in the house and all over the recording that night.

  • Thank you Lord for this song. Lord thanks for you wings, keep me close to you and safe. thank you Lord.

  • love this song x

  • Great song!!! But what I find is funny is the way the camera man focused on Ruben for a lot of the song like it was just him singing!

  • OMG... Ruben killed this... Fred is insane for this one... "I SING FOR JESUS"

  • smooth, lovely

  • Fred is a master at remixing his own classics. This is one of my favorite medleys. I could listen to this all day!

  • For those asking for album details:

    - 'A Closer Walk' - Somethin' 'Bout Love - Fred Hammond (2004) 0:00-3:06

    - 'Draw Nigh' (reprise) - The Spirit of David - Fred Hammond & Radical for Christ (2006) 3:06-5:28

    - 5:28-end - New - I researched & don't think this is previously recorded

    Also check out Ruban's 2004 Gospel album 'I Need an Angel'. He remakes several Gospel classics, plus new stuff. The duet with Fred, 'We Have Not Forgotten', is pretty tasty!

  • SOLID PRAISE!!!

  • Fred is Awesome!!!!!!!! We all need to be closer to Jesus

  • LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • This song used to minister to me on so many levels. Fred Hammond is anointed with the spirit of the Lord.

  • To be closer to you is my desire Lord!!!!

  • I Thank God, For Fred Hammond, he can sing like a angel. I love him to pieces, and Big Ruben.

  • Awesome! Good God Almighty! yO!

  • This Band is SICK!!!!! Just a closer with thee, for your love with make the difference in me...Thank you Lord!

  • MUSIC!!! Praise the Lord

  • fred hammond is THE best gospel male artist...i dnt care wat anybody says...

  • I AGREE WITH YOU, FOR SURE. HE'S THE BEST EVER,HE'S SO BLESSED.

  • @yaztaz101 he's my fav as well!!!

  • @yaztaz101 ...I agree with you 100 PERCENT!!!!!!!.....I also have an affinity for John P.Kee.....but I will admit that Fred has more diversity.

  • @yaztaz101 Yeah he got groove, but I don't think anyone is consistant enough for me to label them the best. Fred has been known for some real strong grooves, I can say that there's nothing I'm really disappointed by with him.  THIS bad boy though....wow....man what was that KEYBOARD player on!?!!?!??!!?!? Ever made that 'lemon face' before??? It's that face you make when you hear somethin that's like....'eeeewwwwww!!!'

  • @Riqtube what time was that?!?!? i dint see!!

  • @yaztaz101 oh nah man, it wasn't in the video. I'm talkin about when the keyboard player busted out the synth, it kinda makes your face go "eeeeewwwww"....aka lemon face

  • @yaztaz101 AMEN AMEN AND AMEN!!!!!!!!

  • God is so good. You people don't know me from the next but I sit here crying, feeling filled with love and feeling loved and I know it's God. Thank you for posting this and thanks to the artists that touched me this day.

  • i love this song man...hearing it live is wonderful!

  • 3:06-3:11 is not human-like cause he does all that without looking at all. These are some talented musicians

  • Cant even explain in words how much I LOVE this song! It has changed me for the better!!

  • just a closer walk is what we need these days i'm so loving this video

  • wow, this a truly a blessed performance.

  • i love this guy and his songs..always feel blessed after listening to them

  • How awesome is our God when He lives and dwell inside a true worshipper like these and they pour it out to and for Him. Praise on my brothers and sister. To God be the glory. I LOVE it.............

  • i pray he gets closer to God than ever before...this was a life changing experience for Ruben

  • What a blessing...the spirit of the Lord is all over this worship.

  • You can tell in the beginning of this song Ruben Studdard was getting caught up in the moment, just being next to a gospel legend Fred Hammond....Yea I would have the same reaction if I was on stage doing the same thing.

  • This puts me right where I need to be. Right state of mind!

  • fred has the best choir

  • I feel the guy on 2:08-2:16 he was jamming, this song made me do the same thing. lol

  • love the jazz background to this song...

  • I love these songs especially this live version! I love the raspy run by Reuben @ 5:13-5:16! Just awesome!!!

  • ~Making God Smile~Peaceful Blessings~

  • This cd "Somethin Bout Love" is hot! Everytime I listen to this cd I feel the love of God. It makes me want to fall in love with God over and over again!

  • love love love

  • <3<3<3 Father, Son, & Holy Ghost. THANK YOUUUUUUUUU! On my own, life wasn't getting better!

    C...xo

  • OMG, I love this song. Truly anointed!!!

  • My brothers...Thanks.

  • graciias por el sentimiento y espiritu de la musica de un musico de cuba les mando mi corazon

  • Beautifully arranged. The Holy Spirit echoes throughout this song. Perfection.

    C...xo

  • Beauftiful songs, amazing interpretation... Powerful.

  • WHERE IS THIS ON iTUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • just to be close! closer than close!

  • 2:00 nice little solo, 2:26 alright, 2:35 c'mon choir, 3:02 CHOIR CHORD, 3:05 OMGGGGGGGG, 3:08 let me break it down! AMAZING arrangement there. I love everything about it.

  • I simply love this song....this is another one of Fred's songs that will be a part of my wedding music.......The bridal party will march in on this song. Fred, may God continue to cover you in his favor and His anointed. For you are Anointed for Ministry. Luke 4:18

  • NICE!! Thank you Jesus! What's wrong with the 5 folks that gave this a thumbs down?!

  • Todah Yahweh! Now Look It Up YHWH This Is Where All Thanks GO! Praise Yahweh!

  • Love it

  • Does anyone kno if this could be made to mp3 form or if there is already one cause I would like to have this song on my iPod thanks and god bless

  • Love this!!!

  • JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!

  • Thank you Jesus for these brothers that have blessed me this morning!!! protect and continue to walk with them!!! Amen!

  • always loved fred hammond's  music! awesome!

  • AWESOME!!!

  • Ok tburse let me correct u on that hair situation the bible does not forbid n I guess u forgot god came to this earth n died for the old beliefs n brought new that is the reason y god came so our sins can be forgiven n so that we wouldn't have to follow the same old beliefs freds hair is not gonna stop his connection wit god at all

  • Awesome!!!

  • @olayemig Absolutely Awesome!!!

  • I love Fred and Rubben