Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard

[diuga1]

From what year is this tune?

[bronze1914]

went to a gathering a couple of weeks ago...the music was TERRIBLE and the kids were jumping up and down to this corny souless music. They have absolutely no clue as to what really good music is like and that is so sad...Miss Rushen does a true number with this song. Its a song that makes you WANT to get up and do moves you never thought you had!! (and thats saying something for a 62 year old woman like me!) I would dance my butt off back in1979 when this jam first came out.

[tunnelratlt]

again i say it,this music makes the people say such great things,how anybody says bad things toi this,i hope they get a bad sinus infection,and their teeth rot,so they have to breathe through their mouth to show their ugliness,(wow,that was pretty good,I pat my self on the back for that comment,hahaha),love you beautiful people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[billeagle51]

"A gentle touch, a tender heart

A smile to brighten up my day

I need warmth and a lot of love

With kindness spread along the way"

Lovely!

[MsCargento]

pure gold!!!! they do not have artists like this anymore????

[phlypped]

At 4:15 I begin to cry because this music is so sweet. I'm in awe of the arrangements, such talent

[bronze1914]

@phlypped I knowwwww it is sooo amazing!

[Frankyhollywood68]

didn't she date Prince briefly?



[SaiiyahPooh97]

~This is the song.

[philaman1972]

This song is a gem.

[platadeluna]

Once I went to a house morning club at 7:00 am, and arriving at the DJ played this song from1979!

[cheapcape]

Disco rules and so do the 70's!

[mahone42]

Soul Train memories of Patrice Rushen, those were the days :o)

[coreyj98]

Believe it r nt she and  prince had a relationship bck in the day but this that funk here that made her known

[stevendforrest1]

Another beautiful song! Even though this song is uptempo it sounds emotinal by the way she sings it I love her for making this song she is very talented I used to listen to this song all the time when I was about 8 alone in my bedroom.This song makes me feel like making love to a beautiful woman who I could love who would also love me! Excellent! Steven Daron Forrest

[hoodybeatz]

House heads sampled this of course....very fitting. Oh yeah HOT!

[DirtyGameMafiaTv]

Let's Sample That Sound :D

[gosaintsgosaints]

Charles Hamilton "I Watch Alot of CNN (Gloves)" sampled this.

[TheJKVW]

Classic, Thanks.

[10Tuxedo]

Here I am Patrice!!! Loved this song since that day it came out

[funk231t]

Excellent song ! Thank you for this song. I have long searched for it. I love this song. The original is original. The song is beautifully played and sung it perfectly. Patrice Rushen is a great singer. Patrice Rushen is a nice woman. Great song. Thank you for this gem !!!!

[ThatGirlTita]

SHE PUT ON! I AM FEELIN' THIS! MY MOM PUT ME ON 2 HER A LONG X AGO!

[madmax6144]

Kirk Franklin used it too!



[sicilianotoronto]

fucking brilliant!

[EtherealScribe]

Will Smith and Kirk Franklin should PERSONALLY deliver her royalty checks AND invite her on tour to play HER songs! LOL!!

[MrJuly1990ish]

@EtherealScribe

Yeah and Zane should pay up too (aka their 1993 smash hit "Groove Thang" sample this) lol!!

[mslovelyleo1975]

tha'ts right michael ewing i've been looking for you this love wont hurt you but it will hurt you if you let it pass you by.

[detroitfirefighter]

Driving down Jefferson Ave., going to Belle Isle with the family... 80 degrees, and sunny all day... Top is down... Today, is a good day...

[angelwonrpc]

I was born in 81 and heard a house music cd with this song in it back in 98. It is now just days from 2012 and this song is still in my head, some music is just so timeless.

[Oddity4040]

This lady probably aint gotta ever lift another finger just living off the royalties, EVERYBODY has sampled her stuff. Gone girl!

[sicilianotoronto]

@Oddity4040 haha! you're so right! lucky her! 

[gepayton1]

All of her music is still on top after 30yrs Music that can stand the test of tim!!!!!!

[demarcos69]

5 Retards dislike this classic...

[mrbigkingcole]

Born and raised on this right here. This is when music was made with soul.

[MrBadassc8]

you kids no nothing . Go to bed!

[KyplayaZ4lyfe]

@MrBadassc8 I'm 19 you wanna fight? ha just playing. :D

[10Tuxedo]

@MrBadassc8 I'm 43, but I will take your advice and go to bed....have a great night.

[AIRSO97]

@MrBadassc8 know nothing* ... and im a kid

[2seink]

@MrBadassc8 apparently you don't KNOW how to spell... SUCK IT!

[redrebelmusiccanada]

did any hip-hop artists sample this?

[rupertreddle]

@redrebelmusiccanada stop talking about hip hop for fuck sake. hip hop is shiot. its killed soulful music like this

[ValleyGyrlTV]

@redrebelmusiccanada

I believe Kirk Franklin did..

[ValleyGyrlTV]

I remember listening to this as a child, about 12 years old, playing the cassette over and over ..great memories. I remember when Right On! magazine stated that Patrice Rushen and Prince were dating at one time. Oh, can you imagine the musical babies they could have had together?

[PeaceFan1]

5 people Obviously CAN'T hear ...xo

[ROCZTAR]

Ahhhhh yeahhhh!! Way back back into timeeeee

[skulasticsee]

sweet jesus this is music to me ears, Patrice Rushen is such an amazing, amazing musician...wow... one of the best of our time i swear

[rottenseed]

I had no idea she was so bangin'

[dilly5285]

IN MY BAD BOY DAY MAKING FIVE G A WEEK AND NOBODY KNEW HOW MUCH MONEY I WAS MAKING ON TH E QUIETSIDE

[durtyreddz]

@dilly5285 i feel ya what great times. 5G a week or more and a freash ride every 6 months in my 20's and the ladies ooooooooooo my my my. and sweet music like this a time tha twill never ever be reproduced.

[Luis1vo]

Yes

[kax61]

Patrice Rushen's a truly gifted lady musician playing this kind of funky jazz music in a predominantly male scene. I got all of her albums. It's fun listening to this once again!

[Raquel5750]

OMG! Great to hear this! wonderful memories, great sound... and also everyone on this page is sooo kool! Thank you Patrice, peace + love we're all missing our great 70's hits..... those were the days! xo

[bubblysunshine89]

kirk franklin used this for a gospel song. some people say that rap and r&b songs are secular songs, but some gospel singers use it in their songs. i dont get it.

[ThatGirlTita]

I LOVE THIS LADIES MUSIC! HAS THAT ENERGY! I AM FEELN IT!

[CoonNigga01]

i love this it reminds me of dizzy dee joanne mike cunt airs jenny backoff tommy nad of courst me rihno john and the club days bklyn under the 86 st l

[CoonNigga01]

i love this it reminds me of dizzy dee joanne mike cunt airs jenny backoff tommy nad of courst me rihno john and the club days

[millfordsange]

I loved her! We all wanted braids and beads like hers.

[THEMETAPHY]

lets go back to the "classics". this is Greatness here!

[dhothi22]

a gentle touch, a tender heart

a smile to brighten up my day

i need warmth and a lot of love

with kindness spread along the way.

[KrisSharrice]

Wow, takes me back. Kirk used this cut too

[DEZINE5]

THIS MULTITALENTED PRODUCER ARTIST IS STILL THE ABSOLUTE BEST AND A BEAUTIFUL DYME. I STILL HAVE THE HOTS FOR HER FINE SHORT GODDESS.

[MsCargento]

she was a child prodigy, her music clearly proves it....this woman is a musical genius!!!!!!

[BTNYCTBK]

BETE NYC TBK...WALKING TO 61ST ALONG 5THAVE AND HEARING THIS..1980 HISTORY.>>

[tiztiz12]

love this :)



[jsmybrother]

that's cool. thank for replying

[comm8062]

This song is amazing!!!!!!!

[Miloshevits]

Like a female Rick James, except with more talent and a wider range of musical taste.

[jsmybrother]

@Miloshevits Rick James was sllighty better. Sorry.

[Miloshevits]

@jsmybrother I was exaggerating but i don't know if you can say that rick james was better. They are different.

[minniedeluca64]

Love this music!!!!! This is how we rolled in the 80's!!!!

[PPNeeded]

My foot can't stop moving

[michellesavarese2470]

go Patrice, play that organ and everything else!!!!!

[tense154]

i swear this music is the bestttt i can dance dance all night lol the new artist better be paying they respects i swear ant no music like thiss minus the sex drugs and other bs we have today in music

[tense154]

his beatt and hook

[tokkeification]

Brings me back to the *Paladium disco in SF Cal. 1979 (*with two types of dancefloor) great times;-)

[bigbackdoor]

I was searching youtube to see if there is a video for a single I bought about 10yrs ago - Haven't You Heard by Indigo. My search leads me here - Indigo's version is a cover,and Patrice Rushen did it first ! I never knew. I've been loving the song for such a long time,but hearing Patrice do it so much better,makes me love it even more !

[rwarren58]

Forget that I had a crush on her, Her music is simply superb! I had to buy this album twice because I couldn't bear to be without it.

[emmettk]

@rwarren58 You weren't alone. Wrote and produced, sang AND played a mean keyboard. Sexy and multi-talented is hard to resist. She could have had me too if she wanted.

[c11393]

BLESSED AND LOVED SO VERY MUCH!

[eliasyoussef1]

she so Hot, gorgious :-) back in the day OMG" stunning :-)

[PodieDPG]

sweet´*****,,  ^^

[robertg92103]

Nobody worked those beads betta! Such a smart talent. I'm forever in love.

[Zaprheniah1]

Hey this is where kirk franklin got his beat from.

[34jcub]

@Zaprheniah1 he does that on half of all his albums. just gota listen

[Zaprheniah1]

@34jcub Really, I didnt know that. Wow.

[arweiss100]

I just adore this joyous beautiful song, what a timeless classic by the amazing Patrice!

[Gmoneyluv4u]

hung around the old heads when i was younger this is real music everything sounded different it moved you!!!

[solution777]

50 years old....and this still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up! Thanks for the posting...I thank you and all the girls that I played this to throughout my life while I was trying to undo their brastraps thank you too :)

[akaGOLDFINGER]

@solution777 well ur welcome 4 giving u ur 1st piece of ass...but U could at least shave ur back and neck at the age of 50 I feel a girl isn't asking 4 to much 2 look a little decent, and that smell is unbearable,..now U know why women fake orgasm,cuz we got 2 run and get hose down after jumping out of bed with yah

[solution777]

@akaGOLDFINGER You mean that the wookie look isn't fashionable? Dammit, no-one told me. But thanks for making me smile anyway :)

[akaGOLDFINGER]

@solution777 then my job is done here for putting a smile on ur face :)

[sagidirasuli]

that's jazz, disco, funk - etc. just great music -- her solo is sick! music with class. it is terrible what we put up with from the radio today!

[Ghaztoir]

That the Bird is the Word.

[BIGAMP2000]

4 PEOPLE!!!!! R U FOR REAL.....HAVEN'T YOU HEARD,,,,,THAT OLD SCHOOL MUSIC IS THE BEST MUSIC!!!!!!

[SuperSoulSeeker]

@BIGAMP2000

[pbailey01]

AWESOME!!!



[FarhadL4]

I've been looking for this! thanx

[pollution2000]

4 people cant hear!

[jjjay69]

Like the bassline !!!

[MegaDiva1999]

4 people just have not heard...

[MegaDiva1999]

Killa track.

[aGwEENapple]

OMG, I really love this song. It's so rhythmic! Makes me really want to jump around my room! LOL

Patrice Rushen is/was so beautiful.

[theladyjazmine]

Wow I was 10 when this came out! I remember it tho!!.. my cousins were always playin music real loud after my aunts and uncles would leave the house. So I always knew what was the latest songs and what good music was.

[AlliedWaste76]

now this is music damn shes hot and a great musican, can't beat that and thank you to all who try to bring back the 1970s and 1980s and to those who made this great music i what to thank you to people of 1970s the 2000s music era need to take notes and learn what music is

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[ddav2005]

very talented...haven't you heard?.....awesome

[xmpc9000XL]

Real pretty woman.

[felofeets]

How I miss real music

[2010pancha]

@felofeets this generation ..thank god for youtube..or else..they are really deprived!

[dolphus32]

It's not so much as hating on hip-hop. It's more like frustration with what is now more, imitation, sampling and watered down repackaging of the great music we (40+) crowd grew up on. What's original these days?

[laoladorada]

Beautiful piano interlude, that was the time when there still was a little bit of jazz in lots of songs.

[adangme]

3 People HAVEN'T heard decent music.

[AleekahTV]

Hmm, Kirk Franklin copied much? Always good hearing the original.

[mavafangu]

@AleekahTV He didn`t copy really, he used the beat and added the lyrics which are gospel. Daddy`s Favorite also copied-remixed this song and released it in 1998. Musicians do it all the time .. it`s called a cover. As long as it`s sounds good who cares!

[AleekahTV]

@mavafangu Yea, I agree.

[slideshowrod]

If music were food:

This: A lovingly prepared meal for two using only the finest natural ingredients and served outside on a still summer's evening.

Most modern R&B: a cardboard burger dripping with oil, scoffed standing up on a crowded train.

[soulboy351]

3 people must be deaf

[CABSCHBANG]

if you're at a party...you should be going CRAZY @ 3:30...

[Renley1]

Love the dissonance of those upper strings!!! wow!!

[latinaprincezza123]

Why are people hatin on hip hop, disco and hip hop aren't father and son. More distant cousins......

[thomasshelley41]

She is a musician. She plays more than one instrument and wrote many songs  inlcuding this one.

[mattt721]

holy shit those strings in the intro....=0...

[cireewol]

In my mind, "Hip-hop" ruined THIS kind of music! With technology, and greedy producers (you hear me Jermaine Dupri, Puffy, Farrell!!!) , you no longer needed true instruments...or singing! A computer could do it all for you!!! Thank God for youtube,com!!!!!

[kaplanyorks]

@cireewol So what computers did Grandmaster Flash, the Sugar Hill Gang and other early hip-hop artists use to produce their music?

[therhythmalchemist1]

@kaplanyorks where are those early pioneers today ???? exactly.....the point cireewol was making is that actual instruments have been replaced for the most part in alot of Generes of Muzik....as you also state in early hip hop too..."They" just happen to focus on Hip Hop....but it's bigger than that....it's in R&B, House, Jazz, Pop to name a few...Peace & Love

[koolfraser]

patrice played all the keys on this

[Geno224]

Shout to Teena Marie for her keys and baselines too!

[imperialshalom]

This where kirk got this from

[Mrtriumphchopper]

How can this be bad if it feels soooo gooood?!?! VIVE DISCO!!! It's not dead, it lives here!!!

[inxtrmis]

Look up the word Talent in the dictionary. There's a picture of Patrice Rushen next to it..  xo

[agrippa9]

this in the club wow out of here into space......... amazing

[12345OLB]

Wtf how the hell Kirk Franklin gone use diz beat 4 gospel wtf?? SINNER

[ENEMENCIO123VISION]

Alicia Keys and Kirk Franklin are Carbon Copies.  Patrice Rushen is the Real Deal.

[TheSingleVoice]

How many of you knew she dated Majic Johnson before he met Cookie? She was 4'10 and he was 6'8. Hollywood's odd couple

[ibreathemusic81]

@TheSingleVoice I know right lol..doesn't she and Cookie resemble each other in a way:)

[nvjharmonica]

Alicia Keys take notes from the master herself "Baby Fingers" Patrice Rushen.

[ks105900]

what a Beautiful Women! When I just learned about jazz and r&b it was

Al Jarreau and Patrice Rushen . Thank you so much and I pray the songs live on!!!!

[rpy76]

LOVE THIS JAM!!! STILL THE BOMB DIGGITY IN 2011!!!

[vknit1101]

BABY FINGERS PLAY ON !!!!!!!!

[keesimo]

Kirk Franklin is sampling

[76BomberGeez]

she's a one woman band i tell you magnificent what else can i say Hermosa y faboloso

[MoNicholasLaird]

3 dislikes? Really?

[MisterGee7]

@MoNicholasLaird

Poor, diluted souls. Sad really.

[larrybndc]

She is a professor at Berklee in Boston. Was the Music Director on a bunch of Awards shows and rock tours. This woman is a HEAVYWEIGHT... pretty hot, too.

[duodu2000]

This makes me want to grow and afro and boogie

[soap1919jt]

This song has such an awesome shuffle swing to it. Top it off with one of the greatest Fender Rhodes solos in the history of music, and you've got one incredible gem!

[sullivancountydays]

Does anyone know what group is doing the background.

[vehnasa1964]

@sullivancountydays Yeah, so, Prince Nelson Rodgers aka "Prince" work with Patrice on this album. Read about it in "Right On" and "Jet" magazine jsut B4 the album dropped back in the day. Prince does the solo keyboards also.

[maleadmirer]

I haven't heard this Patrice Rushen song in such a long time that it's a treat to listen to decent music in 2011. Thanks for posting.

[garyn1953]

Patrice ... keep on playin' and singin' !!!

[BassMasterSlovakia]

Haven't you heard? That the bird is the word? :DDDD BTW Amazing song!!!

[1TICKHAND]

NICE GROOVE 2 THIS SONG

[cigarlounge1]

No comparison between A. Keys and Patrice Rushen... not taking anything away from Alicia, but Patrice is one talented and underrated artist!

[MelMediaServices]

some bumping on the highway music...

[LovinSista]

@MelMediaServices SPEAK ON IT!!!!!!!

[snake42063]

she has a beautiful smile

[w2kas]

i think he said alicia because they look alike

[missv70]

She is definitely the best....no doubt about it.

[TheBerkeleyBeauty]

Alicia has a better voice. Aside from that Patrice leaves her in the dust musically.

[Natasita3]

nice beats!!

[mrhowardb]

What a cute girl she was too, look at those cheeks....

:)

[stoenyce]

NO COMPARISON

[PumaDown]

I see two people haven't heard!

[NJNupe1911]

@PumaDown

LMAO!!! OKK!

[MsTracie]

This song is the square biz! It is a stone cold jam! Don't shit like this anymore! Perfection! I have listened to this song 4 times in a row! 25 mins! Damn!

[MrSuperfrogy]

Thank you so much ... ( 7777 ) Its good people like you that keep alive for us to enjoy, and for that i say ,,, Bravo to you and all your hard work... peace and love to you and your family, you have class and style.. please keep the music flowin... your friend from California. God Bless. :)

[eclesio34]

OK

[LBMAAS]

Rihanna needs to take some damm notes

[BermudaEntrepreneur]

@LBMAAS Either that, or she needs to retire altogether. Untalented Illuminati puppet!