Frankie Knuckles Presents Satoshi Tomiie - Tears

[mj4mayor]

2 words Thank You..another 2 so much...my joint right here .. I used to put the baby powder on the floor in the back room and get the foot work in..ol' club heads know what I'm talking about !

[caseynicholemusic]

groovy sound awesome!

[damfazify]

probably my favourite year in all my 48 yrs,the music was and always will be with me.they just dont make them like this

[TheGeraldemerald]

@nycslumz Ummm... Robert Owens 'is an Israelite...' OK?!?!?

Frankie Knuckles (who merely happened to invent house music (even inventing the term 'house' - and changed my life entirely - is a "FAKE PRODUCER", er... m'key... who needs to 'jump off a roof'. Okeedookee... Your lithium pills are in the post freakazoid!

[nycslumz]

ROBERT OWENS IS A ISRAELITE,,,HIS STYLE IS LIKE NO OTHER!!!!!!!!

BUT YOU FAKE PRODUCERS LIKE FRANKIE KNUCKLES,,THAT CANT PLAY ONE NOTE!!!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NEED TO JUMP OFF A FUCKIN ROOF..AFTER YOU SHITTY SET!!!!,,,,,NEEVR TO DO ANOTHER GIG IN LIFE!!!

[nycslumz]

ROBERT OWENS IS A ISRAELITE,,,HIS STYLE IS LIKE NO OTHER!!!!!!!!

BUT YOU FAKE PRODUCERS LIKE FRANKIE KNUCKLES,,THAT CANT PLAY ONE NOTE!!!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NEED TO JUMP OFF A FUCKIN ROOF..AFTER YOU SHITTY SET!!!!,,,,,NEVR TO DO ANOTHER GIG IN LIFE!!!

[MegaAnn69]

This is the best. Happy times, best summer ever!!!!!...... the year this came out.

[Phume303]

This tune is a definition of House music... Frankie, Satoshi-san, and the fine vocals of the legend that is Robert Owens - It doesn't get any better than this !.. beautiful : )

[iluvmorrissey]

Love that bit at 3:21

[rgeezee]

Timeless. Classic. Pure Bliss. real music indeed.

[Keepsz]

LOVE IT !!!!!

[ash1234v]

goosebumps.  soooooooooooooooo goood.

[pontello3]

classy vibes!

[ItalLioness38]

Big shout to you all from 88/89 - Those were the dayz - convoying together, from one rave to the next..Best choon played just as the sunrised.. Goosebumps! Love this tune!

[sparkerparker70]

Frankie Knuckles I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this song!!!

[ghatch2442]

This is real music!!!

[bacardi167]

massive tuuunnneee!



[kayhannington]

memories!! classic

[arron031]

classic!!!

[Sims122luva]

What a dance track!!

[TheGrownasswoman]

So So Many Tears.....Miss You House Music...The Best...86-88

[VASTERAS7070]

there must be 7 deaf people,this man is the master!! if you were there in 88//89 you know what i am talking about. peace and love not crack and heroin.

[deudsert1]

gives me goosebumps even now, a masterpiece

[daddydeano68]

Could this be one of the finest house tunes ever ever ever made? Mr knuckles we salute you!!!

[teemotorsport]

never ever tire of hearing this, truly a great track.

[Nar3shPatel]

like like like!

[shevyonne]

I LOVE YOU FRANKIE KNUCKLES, WISH THAT I CAN MARRY YOU, ALL BEHIND THIS SONG.

CLASSIC, WHERE ARE YOU FRANKIE, WE MISS YOU, WE NEED MORE OF YOU NOWADAYS.

[mediaunit]

Gives me goose bumps everytime i hear this tune, my all time fave love it !!

[antoniosss100]

How can you dilike this tune??????????????? my tears are dripping and dropping.

[bluetheory2]

The Choice, Kilimanjaro, Sound Factory, Tunnel, etc

[antonio170863]

back in 89 ..soooooo beautiful

[artafootman]

I'm a real good actor, this is a heavy road, Our love's a script and you carry total control. Like a clown, I've been smiling, whenever people are around. But when the curtain comes down and the circus is through no one is left but me you and all my tears, so many tears, my tears . One word can wash them away, one word could take their place, tears.2) Regretting nothing but the pain, my heart, my life my world is filled with rain, I'm drowning, when the curtain comes down and the circus .

[jamescalero]

So much soul, this track was the bomb in Tdot underground house cyphers. At 17 years old, I watched and learned how to dance to house and we mashed it up for the next decade. This one had everybody moving all night long. I was a houser forever.

JimmyJames

[lavish88]

ffrr so many good tracks....respect

[MsCatherine100]

Oh my god, forgotten what pure class this track is - Wow!!!!!

[shevyonne]

@MsCatherine100 download realplayer, and you got it.

[ClintHards]

TUNE!!!! One of my all time favourites!!! Does anyone have a digital copy of this?

[vincenzo1101]

its really not dome like this no more

[LunaticsLowriderClub]

Vinylmania days....... love it

[tone912]

Damn i miss the Zanzibar !!!!!!! late 80 house all day

[LucaGiova88]

is a feeling....

[pinkpantrix]

So many memories..so many tears....takes me back...Sound Factory...Thank you.

[fiynsais]

LOVE THIS TRACKJ AND ALL THE MEMORIES....

[scruffjones]

What a sexy smooth groove , beautiful soulful piece of music, lovely vocals and production.. peace to all..

[Norfvespa]

One of the most important pieces of music in my lifetime. Thanks to Leisha the sexy raver for introducing it to me back in the day. Pills, good friends, kicking clubs and fantastic music. What a fantastic time to be alive back then.

[joeyduncan42]

one word to take their place

[akmoyer17]

satoshi is hot...try the "Glow" track.

funky shit...funny how Japanese guys can lay it down like that...

[chantillybass]

drippin' and droppin' && droppin and drippin.'

BRILLIANCE!

[MrDiego881]

Story of House music!!

[passodicorsa]

Pezzone! Robert Owens uber alles.

[julie223783]

yes monkey ill go back just to feel that time and come back lol - one of the best tunes

[gavb72]

heaven, love it

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

sweat sweat sweat non stop.

[ikarljoseph]

love the 44 bangin start to all frankie knuckles tuneshe pitches it way down around 118 too.

[neilmac1976]

Thanks for every thing you gave to me, thanks for being my inspiration to do good, just wish you could be here for the clam after the storm,thanks for always being there for me.

For my big Bro.

[FILABJBOY]

Bangin old skool house choon ........

[leticiabuckner1]

So many tears. I've been hurting for so long. Wash them away! Thank you my sweet caring husband. I Love You! You have neva left my side!! You are amazing!!!

[74wrighty]

This tune make the hairs stand up on the back of me neck.They don't get much bigger than this!!!!!!!!!!!

[racquel81]

What a blinder...

[FRIDOMW]

Angel voice... Thanks Mr Owens!!!

[bodoboi]

Never forget how lucky we were to have this in our lives

[margaroyla]

brilliant! perfect!. Robert Owens rules.. surely brings tears to my face ..

[2turbo4u]

Man Robert Owens can sing his ass off and bring "So many tears" down my face!

[yoyoyoo1234455]

such a tunee

[ceedcorp]

Rimini 1990

[polopowered]

Dripping and dropping, such a clever hook when your not expecting it. Fine production. This musics been made with blood sweat and tears :-)

[g3edsb12]

SUNY Old Westbury!!!

[Graham658]

Tripping and Dropping

Tripping and Dropping : )

[Kudrlin]

CLASSIC :)

[pixusbubblejet]

Satoshi Tomiie!!!!!!!!

[xiloves]

I forgot about this on thanks for post.

[emrgc]

if god could sing he'd be sound like this hahahah

[mayena]

The joy of memories between 1990-1991 when this was played almost everywhere. Car radios, pubs or bars, shops especially clothing stores.

[MrGrati]

Robert Owens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

The Club Choice in the Village was the Shit when Robert used to throw down there. and not many people know but bobby Conders was a monster throwing down house music at the club Choice. great memories of sweatin all night. thx

[rgeezee]

one of the most magical house records ever. true hypnotic bliss. this is house. totally agree with jimbabwee-perfectly said.

[OceansBoulevard]

robert owens's voice is great

[trumprosie]

I say that, to say Rob is the voice behind "Tears" and he had plenty of club hits that are impossible to find in today's MP3 format.......

[trumprosie]

....in the early 90's My boy took me over to Rob Owens apartment and I remember we went over to Rob's place in the east Village and got nice, damn - what memories those were the days....

[Gmancrap]

Nyc?

[Yaknshell]

When Junior would rock this back in the day at the Sound Factory [Well before his wack techno days] we would go nuts! This track represents the pure essence of house music. It takes me back to a time when house really was a a feeling and people came to the club to dance, sweat and love!

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

The sound Factory was large but the intimacy of the the Choice was the shit . Real underground spot in Delancy. Free fresh fruit fruit punch and no drugs. just sweat.

[edwmbellamy]

makes a man made of stone learn to feel again, this track is and allways will be the true essence of wot house is. love to all those who raved 88/93.

[80z90zhousemami76]

be it grl say it girl save me girl u are my world .......blast this dance by urself feel the music threw ur veins

[sidneywalsh]

world class

[DJBZAR718]

I love this track. But there is one mix that I can't remember. Sounds like it had some strings to it

[gspin25]

Strings of life.....

[Jimbabwae]

One of.. Perhaps THE.. Most heartwrenchingly beautiful house records ever created. Bliss.

[talismangroove]

classic and no more needs to be said

[534887]

Just don't make them like this any more. Massive massive tune from a time I can just about remember.

Respect to all the other Warehouse and Field ravers of the time - you all knew!

[cheeko203]

@534887 

[cheeko203]

@534887 I HERD DAT CUZ!!!! I PREFER THIS THAN 2DAYS HOUSE MUSIC IF U WANNA CALL IT THAT.

[bolabus]

ahhhhhh baby

[TrickDim]

..Hell I came out of high school in 1982 ..We DID NOT HEAR OF THIS HOUSE MUSIC...but now this is the shit I lve love this shit..GoHouse

[quimjuicemonkey]

time machine back to 89 please !!!!

[Tucomen]

@quimjuicemonkey I know thats right. The only problem I'd be too young. Like 6 years old

[JOANNJOSEPH]

@quimjuicemonkey u aint ly'in I was 1 of those house heads in NYC going to the Tunnel & the sound factory. Maaannnnn!

[TheGeraldemerald]

@quimjuicemonkey I was 14 in '89 and that's when I got the bug, can't believe it's been more than 20 years!!!

[sbrownie]

I 'M A REAL GOOD ACTOR...THIS IS A HEAVY ROLE...so drag, i love that line!

[blksag74]

I am just speaking from my generation of listening to house music and i've watched it evolve since the late 80's....i started out listening to more tribal beats and gradually moved towards underground house with vocals ie. Chris Brann, Roland Clark,Kenny Bobien, Michael Proctor, Tortured Souls etc.

[tomedian]

Hi / thanks for the recommendations..

[blksag74]

Frankie was the center of Chicago and Ny HOUSE back then...without question. This song is pure classic, the energy, the freedom, the spirit of house music was soooo alive back then...SOOOOO MANY TEARS....DRIPPIN AND DROPPIN AND DROPPIN AND DRIPPIN.. :)

[DEZINE5]

The time Frankie Knuckles was recording TEARS he was already relocated back home to his original roots of NYC learn the hiostory. He returned back to NYC in 1987 and was flying back to The Chi to do his weekend D. J., set at the Warehouse so learn it from a KLUB MUSIC OFFICIANADO Ya Hurd and he was not the center Ron Hardy, Farley Funkin' Keith, Marshall Jefferson was the center because they werew from Chicago and the South Shore (South Side), of the Windy Windy I know my Family are the Burtons!

[blksag74]

I never said Frankie was living in Chi-town when he recorded this...lol..I DO know my history, i know about all of the Dj's you just named. I will tell you this house music was born in Chi-town..but became LEGEND in NYC...

[DEZINE5]

The name HOUSE did become a LEGEND here in the MID 80'S, but not the MUSIC we have been on the MUSICAL GENRE SINCE THE 70'S and the &70'S preceeded the MID 80'S Ya Hurd it's just the name Chicagoans CALLED it WE ACCEPTED FROM THE CHI SO DON'T GET IT TWISTED. We are saying the same MUSIC GENRE, BUT WITH A DIFFERENT NAME I KNOW I LIVED THIS MUSIC SINCE THE EARLY 60'S WHEN I WAS A CHILD and BEFORE I WAS BORN I HAD RELATIVES SINGING WITH THIS SOULFUL MSIC. I grew up hearing them and watching them.

[blksag74]

Not just the name HOUSE became legend here in the 80/90's...but the music as well....of course the 'sound' resonated from the 70's that is the era of Larry Levan etc...who paved the way for artists of today. I am just speaking from my generation of listening to house music and i've watched it evolve since the late 80's....

[tanahacaprice]

Oh so true. To some it's lyrics & unusual music, but to us who have been touched it's our "Life blood". You simply just understand & embrace it with or without the need to dance. But when you do dance.....You're gone. Drowin' in all those tears. Drippin' & Droppin' INDEED. Long Live House!

[DEZINE5]

Nothing is left, but my TEARS

[ryuhouseismylife]

it's all about groove that comes from bassline and etc which we've lost today...

[rgeezee]

This is one of the defining house tracks of all time. This song still takes you to that place where "house is a feeling!" They kilt this... 4ever.

[ypsilonzz67]

Pure essence of deep house

[dmdees1]

This is truly an era that is missed. There hasn't been anything like it!

[originaldeftom]

Frankie Knuckles and David Morales are the most important names in house music: PERIOD!

Nobody can touch them and dance music will never be as romantic as it was back then.

[tlryan23]

This song means SOOOO much to me, I like to play Classic Soul Music, I am a radio show producer for a Gospel artist, and no matter how FAR I go into ANY music genre once I hear THIS song(TEARS), I get brought back to my ROOTS, back to a time that I found my LIFE, my SOUL and all the LOVES in my life, whenever I was down, I would play this song then get in a ZONE, I pick myself back up and LIVE again...

[DEZINE5]

This a POWERFUL SONG Be HAPPY LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL and GREAT!

[sergioescudero]

Nothing like the old days.....What happen 2 house music these days???  Somethings gotta change.

[edwmbellamy]

the innocents of this style of house will never come back. djays took too much control of the scene .they all went to progresive, forcing ever faster tracks, leaving no time for mellody. bastards.........

[acekingie]

well said

[grimegarage09isplop]

i agree...well said, dj b*stards think they are gods....

[blkhse1]

There dripping and dropping and dropping and dripping...Damn I close my eyes and bring me back to that special place and time!!!A true all-time classic

[tanahacaprice]

You ain't lyin! Oh, & don't let it rain that day while you're listening. Bliss......

[djdrew77]

This is house music at its finest- a true classic. doent get any better than this.

[tyobihigekikiippathe]

At first I think nothing but this song is darkness.

However this was good one on underground house scene.

[isaiahsway]

this song is virtually 20 years old and still sounds great. I can keep it in rotation and never get tired of it. The cadence takes me to an area of complete uninterrupted solace. wow, that's beautiful....excellent post

[chinita41]

true classic gem, thanks for shareing isaiah :)

[tanahacaprice]

We all feel you. It truly has a defined feeling & place, & nobody is "there" but you. IF others are around, they are...just in body. House 4eva!

[stevecitroen]

sweet surrender!

[barriesol]

I dont think soulfull house gets much better than this.Knuckles rules again and so do you my friend for posting this little gem

Bazza Brighton

[opiatefree]

Nice one! Beautiful

[80s90shousemami76]

why is it i blast this when im driving the high way???

[tanahacaprice]

It's the state of mind. A force that takes you somewhere. I even imagine myself at times on the GWB at night in the quiet rain, driving & feeling this thing...called house. I love it. You're not alone.

[blksag74]

sO u know what i'm talking about...i miss those nights when i would just spin and dance the night away...during my 'club hopping' days...man o man....lol

[JohnDaTech]

This was the voice of deep house back in the late 80's and early 90's. Deep house is too techy, if you know what I am saying. Even old school trance can't compare with today's garbage.

[1988matey]

old school will always rule ten city/sterling void/joe smooth/nightwriters/fingers inc/what have they got today no talent

[isaiahsway]

so true lol

[black2914]

This song makes me miss the Paradise Garage.Omg I am praying house music makes a comeback,because the crpa that passes for music these days does not even compare to the classic house music sounds.I met Robert Owens after he gave a performance at the legendary paradise garage back in the 80's,he was nice and down to earth.Drop it Rob.Tears! Work it out son!

[alkh3myst]

This didn't come out until two years after the Garage closed...post Loft even(pre Sound Factory/Twilo, pre Shelter). I heard Frankie himself play this at "the Choice", which was also the last "Loft" used by Dave, on E. 6th St.

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

@alkh3myst that s what im talkin about. nobody knows about the choice. free food and bobby conders or robert owens on the turn tables. thx . that was the most underground spot . no bangees. i remember ppl in sweat pants and slippers with hand towels to wipe the sweat. thank u for mentioning that spot. i was buggin that nobody went to the old loft.

[alkh3myst]

@HIGHPOSTERtown Yeah, the vibe there was great. Unfortunately, I was there the night some fool thought he was at a shooting range...

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

@alkh3myst the choice . the shelter , and the greekfest. no one knows about this stuff on this site . thats the real deal. underground and trendy all the way. u know ur stuff .

[HIGHPOSTERtown]

@alkh3myst the choice

[hyperrimi]

pure classic,much more better than the shit djs used to play for money,not for soul like these days :)deep house is not dead :)

[drenchoss]

what a tune the classics

[kobe10uk]

classic priceless times proper house music is the only way

[noddy420]

track takes u there ,class :)

[08yankee4ever]

OMG!!Memories...LOVE IT..House music is coming back!!!

[tambian]

sorry - i meant "rain"...lol

[tambian]

i,ve said it in 89, and i,ll say it again in 2008 - ROBERT OWENS has the best vocal delivery in emotional content i have EVER heard. Man can this guy sing!

As for *TEARS*...well its gone down in house history as THE song EVERYONE SINGS out loud when its played!

"Regretting nothing but the pain, my heart, my life, my world is filled with pain, im drowning.....

An emotion im sure most of us have gone through at some stage in our lives!

CLASSIC HOUSE AT ITS VERY VERY BEST!

[gingetheman]

truly goregusssssssssss vocals real house music and how old is this now 20yrs im glad i was around in 1988 true days of freedom and fun respect robert owens dropping and tripping

tripping and dropping

[jayjsmooth]

TUNE

[martinmk2]

TRIPPING IN CAMDENS

[80s90shousemami76]

one word ohhh sing it girl be it girl say it girl u are my world......move away all my tears

[Thfamous]

OMG!! What a song

[DrZEUS101010]

i have tears listening to this song....memories!

[trumprosie]

...Robert Owens Was BAD Back In The Day...He Had Some Bad Jams Being Played "UnderGround" But This Play On The Radio...Why In The World Aren't These Classics Available On iTunes...It's 2008 Already!!! Every Thing Else Is!!!

[formulaseries]

Cause iTunes Sucks! Don't get me wrong, I love everything Apple, but when it comes to buying TOP Tunes, Amazon kicks their Butt!

[chloemay75]

Thank you justonecaress.

This has to be one of my all time faves... haven't heard it for years.

[mrcrews]

another classic thanx

[sweetcaremami76]

i love this

[tanahacaprice1]

For those out there who still cease to understand & embrace the ATMOSPHERE of True House...ain't no need. No need for me to explain...it's pointless. Just listen, & let yourself be simply an individual. Be one with the music...or else just leave it alone. Leave it to me & others who truly know THIS, & what THIS Marriage with THIS music is about.

[panaplan]

coming home dripping sweat at the break-a-dawn TORONTO style. can i hear TAZMANIAN BALLROOM

[numnuts1010]

AMEN BRO tried to say it myself but braincells ain't what they used to be lol well said people will never understand how important this change is the musical zeitgeist was

[sweetcaremami76]

TRUE DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sweetcaremami76]

that is correct house is for the soul u have to feel it in u to understand it most people think its boring but when u put ur heart into it .....every house song has a meaning to it

[ericbrowne83]

great house track, love it