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  • grown folks music plain and simple im 17 and i know good music when i hear it this is a good example i feel bad for my peers who are around my age they have no idea what music is.

  • I'm zoominggggg,,,movinigggg....

  • I Love this cut!!!!!A Fan 4 Life From East St. Louis, IL!!!!!The second verse cuts deep.....Whoa i like to greet the sun each morning and walk amongst the stars at night i like to know the taste of honey in my life (in my life) well I've shared so many pains and I've played so many games AH BUT EVERYONE FINDS THE RIGHT SOMEHOW SOMEWHERE SOMEDAY.....What a classic!

  • @heluvsme11 i 4got WAY:)

  • @heluvsme11 Many times wish I could fly away I've had a lot of pains. I do not play games but games have been played on me. I am so strong now. I do wish the world was happy. I love this it is true.

  • @vase33788 The same here.....but 4 most people they do play games....:)

  • Da otha Red Tails

  • Great song... just get in da car and just start driving... wonderful.

  • just loving life to te fullest, in my world.

  • ZOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BABYYYYYYY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>­>>>

  • SOMETIME U JUST GET THAT FILLIN THAT U DO NEED TO ZOOM AWAY FROM WERE EVER THE HELL U AT....GOOD SONG IN MA HOMIE SUNG THAT SHIT..

  • Man u had 2 go and do this one.................... wow pure genius this song pure musical artistry

  • MAnnnnnn, this is the ISHT....everything that Lionel Ritchie touched; turned to GOLD.

    Every-thing?!? EVERY-THING!!!

  • When life was so easy and so care free... good memories

  • Happy mlk day share the freedom ZOOM

  • One of many alltime classic love songs...yes....

  • damn this is the shit!

  • wow this is the 80 's my first kiss lol and I zoom all that night ok its help me think why I write and everything just come to mind in a refeshing way smooth clear and fresh , you could get deep with this song it make you think about all the trouble you been in an came out without with the smile still on your face to Thank God for al the Good time in life really your mind just zoom

  • Just take a moment and let me dream my dreams ZOOOOOOMMM!!!

  • I'd like to fly away NOW!!! Much love to ORIGINAL ARTIST!!!

  • Ronald immediately rushed back to Birmingham Alabama, and went to her mom's house. Ronald says "Cathy somehow got out of bed and hugged and kissed me. I put her back in bed because she was in a lot of pain. Then she said "I'm so sorry we didn't have kids". I said "Dont worry, we'll do that later". She said "I don't think so". She died that night"............Edwin "Kiddo" Nyairo (OldSkoolFunk&Soul).

  • @13ewf What a sad story....thanx for sharing...

  • @13ewf That story put tears in my eyes. Now, these lyrics have a whole new meaning. I love this song.

  • Ronald LaPread says Lionel captured everything he was feeling. "The studio was very quiet when they did the final version, and when they finished we were all crying". A few weeks later Cathy got out of the coma, and the Commodores went for their British tour a few weeks later. During the tour, while in Glasgow, Scotland they received a phone call from Cathy's mother saying Cathy was in a coma.....Edwin "Kiddo" Nyairo (OldSkoolFunk&Soul).

  • The Commodores were already recording tracks for their latest album "The Commodores" and they got Cathy's words and Ronald LaPread and Lionel Ritchie together put some lyrics to finish the song. Lionel Ritchie says that was a sad time for all of them as they had to be at the recording studio while their best friend Cathy was in hospital in a coma. And when Ronald came to the studio with her poem they looked at the words and asked him "what's it called?", Ronald said "Its like..Zoom." Edwin Kiddo

  • This track by Commodores "Zoom" has a sad lining to it. It was written by the Commodores bass guitarist Ronald LaPread's ailing wife, Cathy in 1976. His wife was suffering from terminal cancer and she would pen her emotions, her fears and what the future would hold. She sadly passed on in 1977 at the age of 23 yrs.......Edwin "Kiddo" Nyairo (Old SkoolFunk&Soul group)

  • @13ewf Wow..thanx for the info...this song reminds me of my brother who died of brain cancer 3 yrs ago...he was young as well...he was and still is a beautiful soul..

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  • Author G D Grace says: "...I wish the word they call freedom, someday would come.... someday would come" -- In order for a song to be tied to my spirit, it has to touch in a certain way. Well, this one does it...

  • I would like to fly away with u baby

  • Lionel Richie & The Commodores- Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame 2013. Vote!!

  • They don't make music like this anymore... This is a good jam.

  • this song makes me think of a lot of places i would like to be and 1 place for sure is out of new jersey and down south in n. carolina, maryland, virginia me and my mom use to listen to this riding down 85

  • @zanayahable va is the place to be ,hometown

  • one of the greatest group ever.....

  • listens to this when I like blowwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • This song brought me through some major storms...had to make reference to it in my latest book...Remember What I Told You by Flo Logan....

    This IS what it is....

    Great job Commodores!!!!

  • to my grandma willie mae bivens i love you and miss you r.i.p

    

  • Hit the pause button; read the story behind this song; have a couple of drinks, come back and hit play.

    There will be tears.

  • we are all seaching 

  • @rwcantrell6911 yes we are and it's so hard to get through all this mess

  • reminds me of fort jackson, pvt. shelton always sang this song,the sounds of ALABAMA

  • laid back music

  • I made a beat to this to sick

  • That good ol' countrified SOUL that only some brothers from Alabama could make. lol LOVE the Commodores!

  • Zoom, dad. Zoom.

  • Damn, this is great music

  • Some of the best music of it's time. LOVE IT!!!!

  • yea....... "i wish the world they call freedom someday WILL CUM.!! 1 of meye favorite songs... speaks n volumes...

  • Awesome song!!

    

  • WOW A SONG THAT REALLY TAKES U AWAY FROM HERE... WHERE AM I, OH YEA HEAVEN...LOVE IT.. REPEAT TIME!!!!

  • thats good hope them 38 dumb asses keep zooming the hell away from here

  • 38 people didn't Zoom far away from here!

  • Good Riding Music!!!

  • @Yolireals1 Yes it is- I'm in Indianapolis & if I'm not careful - I'll end up in Chicago jamming to this - missing my d--n exit..

  • I mayb just a foolish DREAMER but i dont care , cuhs i no my happiness is waiting SOMEWHERE i love this song

  • @Damnyoubadd some how. some way. someday!

  • @Damnyoubadd this does just that the line - "PEOPLE CAN BE WANT THEY WANT 2 BE"  WHAT A LINE

  • I think it's really special that you two are sharing "the moment" as you "snap string beans" and she sings. God bless you, your daughter and your entire family. God bless America!

  • as for me, i could care less what music they're makin now. cuz i know music like this will never die. ya'll needa stop cryin bout the money hungry artists there is now

  • Zoom to me now would be to find a real love. The "real one", the man who will marry me. Wrong but I started thinking about that song..,"All I wanna do is put my zoom zoom zoom..."LOL rotfl...I'm honest...that really did just. I love this song.

  • @Jaylasplenty ~{"Zoom to me now would be to find a real love. The "real one", the man who will marry me."}

    Well, after God, this "Husband" would have to be #1 in your life.. Even above your MOTHER and above your girlfriends.. Are you ready for that?

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  • @VAIO294 I'm ready. My mom will be alright and all my friends are married or close to being married. I'm sure he would make me #1 after God as well.

  • @Jaylasplenty ~ I just looked at your vacation video.. Nice video.. But don't you already have children?.. If so, are you looking for a husband in men who also has children?

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  • I really do feel like this most of the time. I really was feeling it when I had a cubical job. I've since been delivered...but I would still like to zoom.

  • I LIKE TO FLY AWAY ZOOM ZOOM WELL I LIKE TO FLY AWAY

  • I freaking love this song. It always take me to a peaceful place all i to do is close my eyes.

  • @dionnefaulkes you mean not like the so called music today? no instruments, no soul, no feeling, no talent

  • Does this song have anything to do with a kids TV show "Zoom"? Maybe!

  • zoom to me REYNARD FULTON I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BABY 10/1/2011 IM FOREVER YOURS RAY RAY 

  • someday I'll find the right way Zoom!

  • I LUV THIS SONG !!!!! ZOOOOM

  • @MsPheener EVERY TOMORROW HAS A ZOOM IN IT. LOOK AROUND EVERY CORNER, YOU'LL FIND YOURSELF IN A CIRCLE WHERE ZOOM HAPPENS! BE GOOD TO THE ZOOM

  • True music from true experiences from a true brother..There's no substitute for songs from the heart!

  • my first love affair was with my phillips turn table with this vinyl on it.

  • grow up on this song

  • MUSIC.............YES......

  • happiness is somewhere! where everybody can be what they want to be. the truth!

  • its saturday.

    

  • Whoever hit "dislike" to this undeniable musical CLASSIC has a miserable pessimistic life and is probably an alcoholic

  • THESE MY SHIT THESE IS A BEAUIFUL SONG FOR A REAL MAN

  • Take me far away from here... beautiful video!

  • what year is this usic

  • @flevzz Summer of 1977!

  • RIP UNCLE ALBERT, SATURDAY,THIS WAS HIS ,SHIT,ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY IT FOR US

  • @marksaturday1965 Big ups to your Uncle Albie tappin his foot to this joint no doubt

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  • Zoom Zoom well i like to fly away

  • this song is easy better than "easy'. Lionel never brought this magic to his solo stuff.

  • How can anyone not like this song???????????????

  • all calssic

    

  • Old School music IS NOT GONE. You Teach your children. I have a three year old son, who sings along, and knows all the words to this joint.

  • great comment diuvwestcoastdrummer

  • Hopes and dreams that had never come to be. This song smooths it all over, ah, it's beautiful, man. It softens that hard hitting life that keeps coming at you.

  • No this song came out in in the 70"like 74 75;I was in high school;Good love making song,chilling with your lady or a friend,saw them to live at the Cap. ctr in D.C.

  • these brothers are serious business !

  • DAT CAME OUT IN 1966....I WAS STILL IN BROOKYN NY..CRYPRESS HILL PROJECTS...ANY ONE OUT THERE REMBER ME ..IM NICK...HOLLA...IM AT waltthomas28@yahoo...... SANDRA HOOLA BABY STILL LOVE U ...EVEN IF I AM IN OHIO...PEACE OUT YALL...

  • AAAaahhhh cruising downtown N.Y.C listening to this on the radio, this truly brings me back , Harlem was home and the country seemed a bit more innocent then . How I miss the 70's

  • Weekend Bid whist parties, and get togethers, buffalo fish, and catfish frying, and a big pot of homemade spagetti, bread, lemon-aid. incence and herb smoke fill the air. Laughter and good times with real friends and family OMG! the GREAT days! nothing like those days. SWEET ASS memories!

  • This song was the shit when I was in high school. To dislike this song your heart and soul must be black and charred. You know....

  • If anyone does not like this song, they have serious ear and soul problems. Please seek help, I fear for you.

  • This is a classic when I first heard this song it just made me stop in my tracks.

  • I REMEMBER PLAYIN OUTSIDE LISTENING TO THIS SONG N JUS ENJOYIN LIFE AS A 12YR OLD KID. MEMORIES R A GIFT, ESPECIALLY WITH MUSIC

  • this is a good cuti think the dayton family made a remix off this if any body knows who the dayton family is

  • @mrpleaseme1 fa sho im in memphis and i fucks with them dayton raiders!

    

  • this is a cutttt

  • i played sports all my life. i remember walking T.C. Williams hallway where I saw the music class as second Citizens, They were even lower than the hallway! i only guess in a chamber. We never heard them in the Locker room! I wasn't in the stands until i was older! So ZOOM for all the ones I didn't hear! Hint, when i walked by the music class i slowed to hear! So ZOOM

  • commodores - fantastic, ladies and gentermen...

  • one word music

  • Yo ...with all due respect to the brother BIG BUB ...from the r& b group TODAY ....there is only one LIONEL RITCHIE .... your remake wasnt bad but .......thats just one mans opinion ....... Im just saying

  • Who's zoomin' who?

  • Right behind the O'JAYS family reunion, zoom is right there on my all time favorite songs. Followed by Earth, Wind, and Fire--Keep your head to the sky!!!

  • @1964jthomas Good tunes for sure...

  • Beautiful outstanding real music take us home!

  • I'm sitting here snaping string beans with my daughter for Thanksgiving, listening to some GOOD music REAL music REAL instruments used. I'm 36 she's 12 and she's singing along, that's beautiful what a good feeling

  • @miamyamoe1 That's really special and very touching to me. I think it's wonderful that she gets the experience of listening to a song/songs during your era that really spoke to the heart. An history class in real-time! God bless you, your daughter and your entire family.

  • what good memories this song brings to me

    1962blessings

  • ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

  • wow what a tune i love this jam.... good music is never old timeless

  • I grew up listening to this kinda music....The Best!!!!

  • i couldnt wait 2 get home from school 2 sneek an play my mom records b 4 she got home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!real old school music!!!

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  • Classic

  • This is when music was just the best. I am in the UK and grew up in the 70s with all of this sould and disco stuff. It still means an awful lot to me. How anyone can 'dislike' this fantastic track is beyond me. Are they deaf?. The arrangement, the vocal, the sentiment, everything is just perfect.

  • So true dude. LOL how stupid can u be to not love Zoom.

  • ZOOM people. anything is possible. LOL

  • Im Young BUT Have An Very Old Spirit , These Songs Doesnt Get Any Better New School Sucks . OLD School Will Always Be Around .

  • Zoom Zoom I enjoy the sounds of the students of the old school. A little touch of the new school mix together Zoom Zoom riding my rice rocket and feel the passion of freedom. Aloha Nui from Hawaii

  • I close my eyes and I'm back in college, a slight beer buzz and slow dancing to Zoom... Life doesn't get much better than that!

  • Just close your eyes an just listen to this song.............

  • Love old school songs luv this one I feel it

  • This is one of the best songs by the Commodores

  • THIS IS THE MUSIC THAT MADE ME THINK AND DREAM ABOUT LIFE AND THE THINGS AROUND ME. TO BE CREATIVE . I WILL ALWAYS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT I CHOOSE AND WHAT'S FORCE UPON ME.

  • round bout 5:14 is where I zoom!!!! YESSSS!!!

  •  FREEDOM.

  • real talk this lets go half on a baby music

  • i THINK THE 36 PEOPLE WHO DISLIKED THIS SONG, EITHER HAVE HEARING PROBLEMS OR HIT THE DISLIKE BUTTON ON ACCIDENT....THIS SONG IS THE SHIT....SAD TO SAY THAT THE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN,THANKS TO YOU TUBE...PEACE OUT

  • @dluvwestcoastdrummer UBSD THEY MUST BE DEAF!!!!!

  • DAMN BRO I SAW U HAD 48 LIKES I JUS HAD TO MAKE IT 49...

  • @dluvwestcoastdrummer // NO IT'S CUZ ...of 1 of 2 things /// no.# 1) THEY ARE TOO YOUNG & STUCK ON 2K MUSIC (that sounds the same to everyone from 6 to 96 ) or # 2) LIFE SUCKED AND THEY WERE JUST LIKE THAT OLD 7-11 COMERICAL WHEN THE NICE GENTLEMAN SAID " GOOD MORNING " ,, they just turn around to u and roared ! For some music bring bad memeories back..BUT NOT FOR ME I LOVE THIS JAM !!!! LIFE WAS AND STILL GR8 !!!

  • @dluvwestcoastdrummer they disiked it maybe coz they dont know bout old music im 18 n i love old music cant deal with the music these days its bullshit

  • I love this song. I always have even as child.

  • I love this song.... my mom has a bunch of old records i dont even like new music and i was born in 1977 when this came out...what happened to music its not the same...

  • this is a classic

  • I always wondered why they didnt title this Album normally most bands self title their first album, but by 1977 this was like there 4th or 5th LP. But this was the album that Took them to the TOP. Great LP back when you didnt have to cuss on a song to say how you felt. Does anyone remember the Free Poster that came with the album? It was the same as the back of the LP with the group but just in B&W.

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  • TEDDY PENDERGRASS, MARVIN GAYE, BARRY WHITE, TINA TURNER, LISA STANSFORD, HALL & OATES, TYRONE DAVIS, THE STAPLES SINGERS, JEFFREY OSBOURNE, DAVID RUFFIN, GLENN LEWIS, BOOTSY COLLINS, GEORGE DUKE, D-TRAIN, ZAPP, PRINCE, BILLY PAUL, GEORGE BENSON, NEW EDITION, SWV, XSCAPE, EN VOUGE

  • THE COMMODORES, LTD, THE TEMPTATIONS, DeBARGE, THE JACKSONS, THE O'JAYS, THE SPINNERS, THE WHISPERS, THE GAP BAND, EWF, OHIO PLAYERS, LAKESIDE, MIDNIGHT STARR, AVERAGE WHITE BAND, ATLANTIC STARR, HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES, THE ISLEY BROTHERS, SWITCH, PARALAMENT, SLAVE, GUY, SIMPLY RED, LUTHER VANDROSS, TEVIN CAMPBELL, IMMATURE, AARON HALL, R.KELLY(OL SKOOL), BOYZ 2 MEN

  • @SOULJATWIN I FEEL YOU, PLEASE LET ME ADD: TINA MARIE, CONFUNCTION,SADE,STEVIE WONDER,SAM COOKE CHAKA KHAN AND TEDDY PENDAGRASS.

  • real music

    

  • this song is so deep on so many levels its timeless.

  • Strong, Heavy, deep, powerful, emotional  Song!!

    Great!

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  • classic

  • when i listen to songs like this i just say to myself what the hell HAPPENED to present music today. I think i no there are no groups over 20 coming out the only thing record companies seem to push and promote are 20 and under. the hell with 30 and over crown who want to hear quality music. WE NO SEX SELLS thats the only thing they seem to sing about not love owe well.

  • Great Music never, ever dies. You want proof-hear it is!!!!!

  • not the best they made with lionel, but close. Surely brick house is the daddy. well - i love the whole album - it takes me back...:)

  • i love this song

  • thanks 4 posting!!!!!

  • Zoom Baby!!

  • I cant listen to this song once ... I have to hear it at least twice!

  • I don't even smoke weed, but i swear this would make anybody wanna fire up a "j" and just chill.

    THANK YOU COMMODORES. for the music, for the memories.

  • must.....stop......hitting....­..repeat!!! lol

  • This is one of the realest songs I've ever heard. I have requested from everyone in my circle to play this at my funeral. May be morbid to some but listen to the words.

  • @gpeele59, I don't think it's morbid. It is REAL, as you said. When my time on earth is through, I've asked the same of my family. Peace.

  • This song came out during the time the black community was trying to bring themselves together with family, friends, and neighbors. The 70's was a prideful time, it was about cook outs, perfectly picked afros, stylish bell bottoms, smoking weed, playing spades, and custom made vans became very popular. I was very young but I remember all these things that I speak the best decade growing up until the 90's. The 70's was the baby making boom also all the good artist was coming out with great hits!

  • @gardenofedena101  yes.....

  • gud music

  • im jus glad to realise that im not crazy and that im not alone in this......I LOVE THESE CLASSIC SONGS!

  • I Love This I'm In The GROOVE Now!!!!!!

  • every  bodies gonna be what they wanna be! soooo tru.

  • I loveee Romantic Soul Music/ Funk or wateva this type of music is called!!! xxxx

  • I sooo love this song.

  • it dont get any better than this song thankyou .

  • Story of my life right now. Great Song

  • ...NICE...

  • Ultra-great frickin' tune from the old cool school of romantic soul. Excellent. Lionel was in his prime in these years far as I'm concerned. Thanks RUMnWINE; this was a 'pick-me-up.

    I was maybe 15 or 16 when this album came out. Lord, what memories from back then...