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  • every kinda people except those i don't agree with.

  • Oops, didn't realize how much current adulation is here, which is a good thing. Someone said Curtis Mayfield...anyone for just be thankful, which is actually a William Edward DeVaughan Jr. joint? The video for that has been clipped here and there...keep it goin'!!!!

  • Hey treadlightlynow, you said it better than I ever coulda! "There's no profit in deceit." Hey You tube fans, keep the comments going. For better or worse, this is where old rock and roll songs go to get worshipped by us!!!! Write on. Matty B. Baltimore  When I check back in a few weeks I wanna see someone else lovin' Robert Palmer! Look for me at Boz Scaggs videos, and he's very alive!!!! And EVERY rocker - post your thoughts!!!!!

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    A W E S O M E !

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  • It doesn't look like Jamerson.

  • sounds like the album version to me

  • Timeless song. Love this version. Perfect.

  • Could it be Pierre " Pepe" Brock on bass?

  • classic song, lyrics everthing....so well done Robert!

  • Great song period

    Very Curtis Mayfield. Lifts your spirits.

  • Rest in heaven Robert you are missed!!!!!

  • This song always makes me cry... Too beautiful for words.

  • There are good songs. There are also bad songs. This is an exception. It is a great song.

  • 1978 Ocean City Md, I was 18 and got to see Robert Palmer in a small lounge called Finnigin's Rainbow. He sang all the Double Fun music. He was young, wicked thin and wearing an incredible italian suit. There was actually a small dance floor and people danced a couple feet from the stage. Seriously, best night ever....

  • Pierre "Pepe" Brock is the Bass player.

  • such graet music & singer 2 // song works on Ur gutt feelin' change shit & wanna tell it in this way / why the world refuses 2 listen i dont know! R0BERT 4EVER U ARE S0 G00D !! ©

  • great stuff

  • this looks like a live performance to me but sounds a little too perfect to be live. can anyone tell me definitely one way or the other? thanks

  • @godwit7777 It,s Top Pop was NEVER live was not possible,was the time that artist came to shows to promote their songs to shows like this,pre MTV>Took a lot of time for the artist to travel around for the promotion of just 1 song and for the programs to take the shots live, because if they want to take their own band you have to hanged the set/stadium for every single song/artist/band that simple took to many time and money for those day,s there are however a feww live songs singing

  • @godwit7777 Palmer nailed live performances. His voice was perfect. His hair was perfect and his dress more perfection when I saw him live.

  • veryyyy good song!

  • DAM D00D. THIS IS HOW ROBERT PALMER GOT GOING?l

  • thanks for posting, this is an ensemble performance

  • thanks for posting

  • Robert Palmer était un chanteur fantastique .... Je ne lui manquera.

  • What a song......Robert you are my idol forever...a symbol of great voice and class.

  • rw

  • deifintely not jamerson on bass. he only played with his right index finger. this bassist uses two and unfortunately i have no idea who he is. and yes brilliant bob babbitt cut for sure. love this song.

  • Love it..

  • In that region of your life when one is both young but old enough to be wise , cresting with the surging wave , that perfect place where love & realism meet & mingle with empathy & compassion...and we become immortals for a time at the peak of our powers .

  • @treadlightlynow thats profound!!!!!

  • Pure talent!!!!

  • :)

  • Super , trés belle chanson merci beaucoup.

  • Two words: Um, YUM.

  • gone to soon awesome song

  • He is Robert Palmer.

  • He was good fine!

  • Its obviously mimed, so this bass player could be the stage janitor,Doesn't matter really the song stands up even if the smurfs were backing him.RIP Robert.

  • My favorite song by Robert Palmer. Amazing how talented he was from his boogie woogie fatback days with Little Feat's players on "Sneaking Sally Through The Alley", his sizzling power pop rock with Power Station who rocked when I saw them in concert!), his sophisticated crooner of MTV 80's pop, & this stunning cover of Free's Andy Fraser's inspired World Music anthem of peace, love & brotherhood, infused with his inimitable blue eyed soul. So sad he left us so young. What a gifted souful stylist

  • @arweiss100

    True words, such talent gone too soon ...

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  • @arweiss100 Also my favorite song by Robert Palmer, what a long lost gem. Just heard one of the best stations in Seattle - JACK FM, play it tonight and looked it up on YouTube when I got it home. I'm sure very few radio stations play this song anymore. Never saw him LIVE, but wish I had. He died way too young.

  • @BridgetR72 I saw his first LA performance at the Roxy -- or one of the first. Palmer was absolutely captivating and quite the handsome one in his gray-wool tailored suit. His voice was amazing in the live performance. I was a freelance photog there for a shots, but ended up a lifelong fan. RIP Mr. Palmer. You were a fantastic artist!

  • You people are so beautiful

  • Excellent !!!!!!!!!merci thank you!!!!!!!!!

  • This song should be used for world peace

  • Amen. Every kind of people. Build a world of love. End War. Stop Hate. Increase Understanding. Share.

  • love this song. reminds me of being in new york. they play this in shops in manhattan all the time. i did a photo shoot in batley not too long ago. thought of him and smiled. his yorkshire accent was so stronng, they couldn't tell what we saying on usa tv. i had the same problem in the states-they thought the yorks accent was dutch! :) memories. he reminds me of being happy. all his songs for me have a beautiful memory. like the man himself. RIP Robert xxxxx

  • I remember when I heard that he'd died I thought it had to be some other Robert Palmer. I grew up listening to his music on the radio throughout the 70's and it just didn't seem real that his life was cut so short. He was an understated "star" who relied solely on his music and not on controversy like so many of the Pop tarts today.

  • heineken !

  • Great music and awsome bass with about as much of period disco as you'd expect. This is by far a real nice disco song and a slower one you can cut the rug too. Some of the disco was really cool and yes it does fall in other categories but it belongs in good ole Disco first.

  • brilliant ! but i'm killin my monthly usage keep watchin this lol..

  • yes he was a handsome dude Robert RIP

  • What a handsome dude he was!

  • Spectacular. It makes me sad that he was so under appreciated while he was here with us. RIP, Robert Palmer!

  • Still, it's sounds like MOwtown Records. The bass from James Jamerson and Marvin gaye Music!

    Anyway ..i like it....

  • roy west

  • Always a favourite. XXX

  • True Legend!

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  • I was 17yrs. old in 1976 when i saw Robert at the Masonic Temple in Detroit. I had never heard of him i was there to see Gary Wright but when i heard Robert Palmer perform i knew i was watching a very gifted singer. And of course he did go on to stardom!

  • @mrjubalo I was 14 wish I could go back in time.

  • I saw Robert as a warm up for Gary Wright in 1976 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit and he performed this tune. Rest well Robert you are missed!

  • This is Pierre "Pepe" Brock from Jamaica Bay on bass! He played with Robert for several years and albums around the Double Fun time period.

  • I remember seeing Robert in '72 when he was in the band Vinegar Joe. He was a class act even then & I always loved his cool style. In September 2003 he died in Paris at the age of just 54.

  • I like the way he pronounces the words. Catchy, typical r & b song, in a style that's unfortunately become rare. Today's r & b songs generally lack soul.

  • one of my faves by him the othe sneaking sally-w/ the nevilles/meters as the rhtym section

  • roy west

  • theres so many kind of people and i say...his one of kind.

  • this is one of his best songs ever

  • I have been in love with Robert since this song came out in 1978 when I was 14.

  • God, I wish they would let me re-colorize this video. It's one of the all time greatest sets.

  • @ChezKiva Whatever you have to do ro make that happen, DO IT!!!

  • How can we book this guy? He sounds perfect for our civil rights march... Too cool!!

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  • marvyn gaye-like funk soul-my fave palmer song

  • This is the Robert Palmer I remember. When he passed away the news kept showing the "Addicted To Love" video. He was so much more than that...

  • I miss him....Rest in Peace

  • When I was young & idealistic.... Part of that generation that thought we could save the world.. sigh

  • Pierre Brock is a wonderful bass player! I love the whole Secrets album, which is the record that followed Double Fun. His playing on Double Fun is fantastic as well.

  • somtimes i can only snap fingers on my right hand but listening to Robert Palmer songs makes it a whole lot easier to get the left going

  • RIP

  • I hear ya dude. I'd like to know who the bass player is too. That dude can really play. it's been driving me crazy too. Thought is was Randy Jackson when I saw the Saturday Night Live version, but now I know it's not. Damn ! Somebody please tell us.

  • @75tm400 I once heard it,s a Dutch guy because Palmer is on a Dutch pop show in this video and this was the time you did not drag your own band over the world to promote just one song so local people took their places. Maybe search for Robert Palmer and the name of the song and then toppop in google? But then again, read futher back, I believe his name is mentiont before;-)

  • WOW! WOW! WOW! all i can say....................Cool Class! something missing in today's music. GOD broke the mold with Robert!

  • Pretty Soon

    There are the lost people

    then there are the found

    Pretty soon

    People are not so different

    From each other

    Because in the end

    maybe life drags them down

    M.S. Morrison

  • Pretty Soon

    There are the lost people

    Then there are the found

    Pretty soon they are not so different

    From each other...

    M.S. Morrison

  • Pretty Soon

    There are the lost people

    Then there are the found

    Pretty soon they are not so different

    From each other

    M.S. Morrison

  • I am in love with a dead man! does anyone know how mary ambrose died in 2005?

  • I am in love with a dead man! Does anyone know how susan ambrose died?

  • Utter perfection. 

  • I miss the guy.

    He was f*cking brilliant.

  • i believe that's pierre brock, playing bass in this particular video.

  • mimed or not, it's an amazing song. rip robert, you're sadly missed.

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  • ty ROBERT from one disc jock to an artist----excellent piece---played THE HELL out of this whenever i was on the air ---also "can we still be friends, and mercy, mercy"....BRILLIANT!!!

  • What an amazing song sung by this amazing guy. Thank yo so much for posting.

  • It´s been a while since i heard this beautiful song.

    Thanks for posting it

  • ...there's no profit in deceit, honest men know revenge does not taste sweet....

    I think I'm in love w/ him.

  • @2012endofanerror

    Me too. Such a talented man with beautiful voice. Love Him!!!! MIss him even more, Robert Palmer forever!

  • Thank you so much for posting this video. It's one of my favorite songs.

  • Sadly, a class act like Robert Palmer would never make it in the music industry of today.

    Never cusses on stage? No songs about "bitches and Ho's"?

    And he wears SUITS on stage?

    The music industry and all of us listeners are poorer for it.

    R.I.P. Robert Palmer, you are missed.

  • This the BEST lip-sync mime performance EVER ! GREAT RECORD !!!!

  • @88cutty How do you know he's lip-syncing?

  • @MrLogoman007 As good as Robert was this is EXACTLY note for note,tone for tone like the original recording. No act can do that , Live performances are good because they vary. They did the best job making it look real.

  • @MrLogoman007 for starters, how about the fade-out? I've seen Pink Floyd do fade-outs live, but this isn't live. However, RP was the shit and probably had to do the performance this way for the show- no choice. Miss him.

  • @88cutty The basee player's name was Pete Brock. I don't know how to get hold of him anymore. I was married to the guitar player - kenny mazur and was present during the recording. I probably have pictures of this.

  • Hi I have a video from Germany who names him as Pierre Brock Lucky you to be Part of Roberts early career !

    the guy was my hero

  • who played bass on this song? and how do i get in touch with them?

  • They don't write songs like this anymore.... timeless classic

  • Lets count now 287 and counting love this song and only, I guess they are human maybe androids 6 give a down sign, now math says 287 versus 6 ? I'll stand with the 287 and counting - Go Figure -I guess every kind of people HUmmmm

  • I can't imagine singing this song any other way than Robert did. This is the only version of this song that matters. RIP

  • I know that Robert Palmer eventually got into a more sultry style, then did his gig with Power Station, but this is the way I will remember him. :-)

  • dayum...while listening 2 the chaka demus & plies version id seen this video...clicked on it and BAM!!!!!.... got hit with a dose of soul music...im young but they dot make good music like this deez daes...vry sad..RIP RobertPalmer thank you for making meaningful music

  • Yaaay sexy Yorkshireman .. so cool and understated.

  • @tferris It's true what @Choefoe stated - Robert Palmer had a solo career long before he recorded two albums with Power Station - and continued on his own after their brief collaboration. His career spanned 30+ years, covering almost every genre - soul, rock, pop, blues, Calypso, jazz, funk, Reggae, the standards. He was an innovative singer/songwriter who has been vastly underrated. Sadly, he was typecast because of his Palmer girl videos. The man should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

  • This is the best sounding...the best performance of this song on YouTube. Thanks a lot for uploading this. It's still one of my favorite songs.

  • The whole world should listen to this beautiful song again !

  • This song brings back such great memories and look at Robert Palmer - so young, sexy and sounding sensational; such a class act. Very sad that we have lost this great talent but we will always have the legacy of the music he's left behind. Thank you, sjilko, for sharing this video with us! Rest in peace, sweet Robert. ★☆❤♫•*¨*•,☾✩♪ ¸¸❤♫•*¨*•.¸¸❤♪♫•*¨*•☆♫♫

  • miss him greatly...the music world could use him right now...:(

  • R.I.P!:(Szeretem ezt az embert!Kiválló zenét játszott és nekem mindig is élni fog mint Michael!Ő is egy Király volt!Isten éltesse mindőrőkké!

  • Robert Palmer was such a classy, talented, soulful dude. The world lost a wonderful performer, but his music will shine forever. RIP, Robert.

  • Very good message in this song ! Good lyrics ! Robert Palmer looks so young and free in this video ! He was a great talent ! A friend told me just last night that Robert had died years ago ! It saddened me terribly ! Rest in peace Robert Palmer ! You are missed !

  • Worked in the record business when he first became known in North America...my roommate and I decorated our entire dining room in Robert Palmer press photos...and that was 1976! It was hot!

  • I was always amazed at how his voice is so different here from his days with Vinegar Joe. Awesome.

  • I loved this song back in the day. I still love it today. Rest in Peace Mr Robert Palmer. You are still missed and loved....When music was music.

  • This song just popped into my head after not hearing it for years......where the hell has my mind been? Beautiful song.

  • Love this!!! Thank you for posting it. :)

  • whoever hates this is an ass hat

  • This song brings back such great memories and look at Robert Palmer - so young, sexy and sounding sensational; such a class act. Very sad that we have lost this great talent but we will always have the legacy of the music he's left behind. Thank you, sjilko, for sharing this video with us! Rest in peace, sweet Robert.  ★☆❤♫•*¨*•,☾✩♪ ¸¸❤♫•*¨*•.¸¸❤♪♫•*¨*•☆♫♫

  • tferrisjr tell me ur r not a nob and r joking about the man mr robert palmer

  • This video is a hoax. Robert Palmer is the singer of the 80s Power Station, not some 70s solo singer.

  • @tferrisjr It,s the other way around, he IS a solo singer, Powerstation was a one time formed band with 2 guys from DuranDuran;-) just for fun

  • it could be james jamerson jr.... not sure, though

  • I felt the same way, too - still remembered exactly where I was & what I was doing when I read the news that he died - was breakfasting in my hotel in Barcelona.

  • i think that's james jamerson jr. on bass

  • i love it ....sing it robert!!!

  • wish you were still here you are thee man bobby i love you and will always remember you long live robert xoo

  • you'd think they would've at least plugged some fucken leads into the guitar  and bass, i mean ,

  • This guy oozes class

  • truly great

    sounds here very marving gaye

  • Written by Andy Fraser of FREE fame..my all time favourite musician and bass player.

  • OK, being a lifelong fan of metal and punk and crazy rock music, it takes a lot for me to admit this: Listen to the bass line here, driving it's way into the song like a stake being driven into the heart of a vampire. I heard this on the Muzak system every day for 11 years, working at Crapmas Tree Shops, and always thought, 'Listen to the bass on this one. That's fucking cool.'

  • Saw Robert on the Heavy Nova tour in 1989, at the peak of his 80's popularity. It was an intimate venue, and it was pure amazing. He sang songs old and new, and I was so thrilled to see this song done live.

    He came out in a 3 piece gray silk suit with a thin pink tie. I swear he didn't break a sweat all night.  He opened with "Some Like It Hot" and closed with "Simply Irresistible". I still have the tour program somewhere.......

    And I now realize how lucky I was.

  • @railynnelson

    I have to say, I am a lucky person too!

    I saw him at the Carowind's old Pavillion (NC, USA) and I only pay $5.00 beause I was in the park all day!!! can you belive it!!! It was the summer of 1989!! Labor Day weekend!!! OMGsh! what a steal!

    this classic man showed up in front of me in a 3-piece shiny gray suit and I melted!!!

    I was young, very young....but I knew then and now how much class he had.

  • Oh yes you really was

  • @railynnelson welcome home

  • how many rock and roll vocalists could sit in with the calibre of muscians making this video, and handle the remake of this iconic song with such unique class, soulful reality and elegance that he made it his own. thank you robert palmer.

  • @grazio599 Every Kinda People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    "Every Kinda People" is a 1978 song originally performed by Robert Palmer in his Double Fun album. It was Palmer's first hit song in the U.S., reaching the Top 20. The song was written by Andy Fraser.

  • I cant even get thry this song without crying, if the world would live by this song just think what a wonderful world we would all live in God Bless you Robert for the message,RIP

  • According to the great Gospel Evangelist St Paul, God filled the human heart with seven gifts. Each of us moves through these gifts as the need arises. For it "takes every kind of people, to make the world go 'round". When we operate via the Holy Spirit these gifts enable us to express our divine nature. St Paul infers that Jesus operated with all seven following the will of The Holy Spirit. Jesus says we can all do the same. When those gifts operate under the influence of sin we cause harm.

  • I don't even know how I stumbled across this vid, but man, what a nice treat it was. I'd forgotten how great and timeless this song was. "There is no profit in deceit, honest men know that revenge does not taste sweet." What a great line. That one has always stood out in this song for me. RIP Robert Palmer. Gone, but clearly not forgotten.

  • Funny thing about this life amazing things you can learn about people and where their hearts and minds are. I kinda get the feeling that people myself included just want to be loved and give love in return. Think it would be easy with 10 billion people walking around this planet. (NOT SO EASY UH.)

    lol

    Anthony Figgiani

  • palmer was a excellent musician! when this song was orginally released in the late 70" it really plucked geart strings, everybody wanted to hear this song everyday weather it was radio stations, clubs, or house party"s just had to have a little palmer in the mix to brighten everything up. PEACE! :-) D

  • Man crush. Honestly. He scares me. I like him too much!!

  • OMG this guy playing bass does look like the guy in marvin gayes video whats going on.

  • superbe chanson ki me rappel mon enfance

  • thankyou for that 

  • This song still sounds so new and fresh to me.  Hard to believe it's over 30 years old!

  • I believe the video here has James Jamerson Jr. sitting on the play along. I think he toured with Palmer as well in this era. It's amazing how much son looks like father.

  • @bkfindlay

    you're correct. that's him.

  • @bkfindlay This bass player is neither James Jamerson or his son James Jr.

    James Jamerson not only played with one finger but only played one bass his whole career. It was a 62 fender p bass sunburst with tortishell pick guard. Also known as "the funk machine" and it is not his son because In that era, James Jr did not look like that at all . He actually didnt start to look like his dad until his older age. I dont know who this guy is on the bass.

  • GREAT SONG.

    R.I.P. ROBERT PALMER.

    LOTS OF LOVE.

    Anthony Figgiani

  • I don't think it's James Jamerson. He used to play with one finger on his right hand, whereas in this video the guy's playing with at least two. You can see it at 1:30.

  • bellisimo!

  • it might be the version by Andy Fraser who wrote the song. He is also a bassist and was in the rock band Free, and wrote many of their songs as well.

  • He's one of a kind!

  • Alap zene mindenkine!

  • What a cool, classy, sexy, talented man! The type of man we seem to be sadly lacking in the music industry today...RIP, Robert Palmer. I miss you!

  • @ACF417 have you tried Ray Lamontagne?

  • @davster Yes! Just listened to "Trouble" this morning. Great song!

  • @ACF417 this type of man is lacking in more than just the music industry...