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  • ive been raised to this type of funk music and when i heard this song it remind me of my parents playing this album and this music takes me to make the ladies panties drop when this days females listen to this songs they ask me questions and i tell them to listen and go with flow big time san diego ,califas logan heights thirty street

  • Nice :) still sounding good vocally and the jazz horn was a treat

  • Listened it over a million times ,every time i do it makes me happier than the time before!! love AWB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • AWB were one of the Best Bands of the 70's. Most people didn't know they were Euro until they got the album. Nobody cared much anyway. AWB was the Truth.

  • @vytildie...thanks...I really appreciate it

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  • The sax is SUCH a sexy instrument! The Bass, however brings the funk and They were MASTERS!!!

  • I'm will be 42 as of Jan 13th...I remember listening to this on 98.7 kiss or wbls when I was a kid...one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard still to this day...like alot of ppl expressed music is color blind,soul and the groove is in the heart...I have always listened to music from my heart and will continue to do so...thanks 4 posting AWB...I will soon be putting on my iTunes to enjoy with the luv of my own

  • @shawnwiggidy Happy Birth Day!!!

  • Still gives me chills when I hear it, was in college then,many yrs ago

  • This goes to hard!!!

    

  • I so LOVE this group!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This one of the bands back in the day to put spice into their music. There are not to many that even knows how to put out music as this today that can offer that blend of favor. Takes me back to those that people were more in sync with character and had something to say that made some sense and a lot of people could deal with what was being put in the air waves. The best to you Average White Band.

  • Play that "FUNKY MUSIC" White Boyz!

  • 13 people, will never have a love of their own!

  • Sounds great, but miss Hamish Stuart

  • Between these lads, Frankie Miller, Maggie Bell, Maggie Reilly, Jim Mullen (of Kokomo), Lorna Bannon, and a host of others who had soul to burn but never made it, Scotland can claim to produce a lotta groups with tons of soul. Maybe it's the water--or the whisky...

  • Magical!

  • anybody out there know this line up?

  • THIS WAS THE ISH!!!!! DAM THEY SOUND GOOD!!!! I MISS MUSIC LIKE THIS!!!

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  • This is it right here.

  • That bass is poetry; not flash, not fast, just perfect.

    Whole sound is gorgeous and from the soul.

  • Dude is killing the bass!!!! And the way they break it down at 3:51 OMG! I almost screamed when I heard those chords on the keyboard!

  • I was 15..... When I first heard this Song... And Let me tell you, It sounded Good then! and It still sounds good TODAY! AND THAT WAS 35 YEARS AGO BABY! Iam A BLACK WOMAN! SOUL HAS NO COLOR @ GRIFITTI I TOTAL AGREE WITH YOU! "A LOVE OF YOUR OWN" THIS SONG IS 4 EVER!....

  • One of the best slow jams evah! Love me some white band and they are def more than average!

  • Music has no color, Im black, and I love these guys

  • One of my fav hits from 70's ....words are so true......

  • i still get chills listening to awb...forever in my heart.....

  • Lead singer looks like Jack Nicholson haha

  • Yes, lawd!!!!

  • when music was music

  • WOW!!!!!! TIMELESS! Listen that fucking groove! They just laying it! A lot musicians today over play! They just making love to the groove! Love the dynamics and falsesetto's! This so great!

  • Ima black woman and I have L O V E D  AWB from waaaaay back in the day. And I'm STILL lovin' these blue-eyed soul brothers. Soul is a feeling from within....crosses racial line. SOUL ...IS COLOR BLIND, baby.

  • These guys are somthin serious. Keyboard player is smooth, and Alan Gorrie is playing the hell out of that bass.

  • These guys are kickin ass on this song. alan gorrie is playin the hell out of that bass.

  • What happened to the music? I have always loved AWB and this is my all time favorite AWB song.

    Why is it that young black people today and young white people today can't produce this kind of music anymore?

    What has happened to the music?

  • KOOL , the E-Piano at the beginning is priceless very nice mane ckoool song fo real 

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  • for as far back as I recall, music was/is a huge part of my life. My mother sang everyday and played piano, radio or record player somewhere in the house (8 kids) was on. Both my parents loved to dance, we all danced from the beginning. Yes, music transcends beyond all colors, cultures, races and can be a bonding. Cool music.

  • THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND WERE WAY ABOVE AVERAGE IN THE SOUL DEPARTMENT. THEY WERE THE SH*T.

  • This is bad ass! Nice job

  • that was beyond amazing!!!!

  • gone my brothers....they are too amazing...whoa!!!

  • souuuuuuul....................­..............

  • like this song;;a real soul ;;;like AVERAGE WHITE BAND THANK YOU TO POST IT MEN ..WHITE MAN CAN DO THE REAL GOOD SOND..

  • like this song;;a real soul ;;;like AVERAGE WHITE BAND THANK YOU TO POST IT MEN

  • Thanks to Odack for posting this awe some song best ever !!! And People why we all ways have to code with race REPEAT WE ALL ARE HUMAN only in America they care about race, but back to thanks comments thanks again ODACK!!!!!

  • What can ya say? How about FUCKING AWESOME!!!

  • Please stop with the black/white comments.!! This is just good music!

  • these oys will forever be my favorite band you boys are the truly.. one only.. awb!!!!!!!!

  • Love these guys,,,,,,they still have it...

  • I remember when the first came out, everybody thought it was James Brown band, But we were wrong! These boys were and still are holding it down. If you an catch them live, you will be amazed!! AL O BROOKLYN.

  • The white boys are bad.... so much soul the is nothing average about this band. classic music... pick up the pieces was the jam back in the day... white boys bands dont flow like this these days :-)

  • I'm a black 19 year old KID and this song is awesome!!!!!!!!

  • I have a 35 yr old daughter and I use to play this song and other tracks by the AWB when she was a young child back in the 80's. My daughter told me about 2 yrs ago that she had just learned that the AWB was not a black / African American band. We laughed like crazy that afternoon and we still laugh about it to this day. Now that's when you know that the music is great music. When you don't who the artist and it doesn't matter who that artist is in order to enjoy and appreciate it.

  • Damn, this one of my favorite songs!!!!

  • the piano intro sounds more like ribbon in the sky by stevie wonder than a love of your own

  • Freddie V....Sax Man...awesome.

  • This band is so good... They are the best at BLUE EYE SOUL!!!!

  • Dont sleep on Hall and Oates

  • good music I love it

  • i was a teen when this hit the airwaves...i remember this at weekend parties, low lights, slow dancing, and carefree in my youth...some sweet nostalgia that i will always remember with a smile.

  • @btinsley1 oh yes i remember so well lol

  • That saxophonist is BADD!!!

  • This is one of the songs I grew up listening to and it had so much meaning then and now.

  • for a white group singin soul music, they rock and this has always been my "one day someone is gonna find me song"!!!

  • AWB is legit. I knew it from day one. They didn't merely imitate or patronize soul music; they MADE soul music. Race wise, it shows that they had a high regard for the African-American sound. They didn't make corny soul, because they revered the form of Soul. Kudos to them for that.

  • Real Music by Real Musicians Regardless of Race/Color....always loved some AWB

  • Love it!!

  • A true "blue lights in the basement" afterset jam!

  • THESE GUYS WERE BAD ASS FOR THE TIME

  • this is my jam. nice post!

  • you guys were smoking  the true real of soul

  • guys you are great

  • sounds so good after all these years ,.....". AWB " nothing but the best....

  • This concert version sounds just as good if not better than the original version. Beautiful song.......

  • @kmason685  SO true!

  • AWB needs to have a reunion of the original members...now THAT would be FIRE!

  • This song is the best of the Average White Band...so sweet and mellow...the sax gives me the chills....just sounds so very good.

  • I was right there with you cyclonexiv. Living for the weekend.

  • WOW!!!!!!! What a song.

  • Jeez, but he can play that horn!!!!!!!

  • 0:07 the keyboard/Synth sounds sooooooo cool man !!!

  • Ah, Freddie V, your sax solo was all too short.

  • @funkydrumr51 Freddie V??!

    thought he was Molly Duncan.... :-?

    you sure he is not?

  • @funkydrumr51 ..........Freddie V??!

    thought he was Molly Duncan.... :-?

    you sure he is not?

  • @piezoelettrico - Yes, his name is Fred Vigdor and he played with AWB for a while, from around 2000 through 2005 or maybe later. I've met him at jam sessions here in Atlanta and he's a fine player. (PS, I like your screen name!) ;-}>

  • awb you r some bad boys.

  • Blue eyed soul. Hot DAMN!!

  • These boys are the shit........ i cant say enough!!! They sound the same way they did back min the 70's. I know because i saw them at the Hollywood Bowl By the way i'm 52!!

  • These boys are the shit........ i cant say enough!!!

  • one of the best british bands ever AWB

  • This Song Never Get's Old,Just Get's Better Every Time I Hear It.Big Up's AWB.

  • White boys with SOUUUUUUUUUL!!! YES!

    I can't even imagine how WONDERFUL this sounds live. GHEEZ.

  • Makes me wish I was slow dancing with someone special:(

  • Sounding wonderful after all these years, true talent!

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  • I am a 29 year old black female and I have always loved AWB! My family loved it! race has nothing to do with anything, this is a wonderful song! I have my children loving this song! we don't see colors!

  • AWB is awesome!! Beautiful, beautiful song!!!

  • WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

  • Are you kidding me, I am 50, these cats are working at exactly the same intensity as I recall back in the 70s. Thank you AWB for decades of cool white funk and soul.

  • I think 11 people miss Hamish Stuart.............

  • Thank you for This Song....AWB is one of my all time favorite..... I was in the 8th when i meat my huband, He was in the 11th back in the 1970's. this was the first gift he ever gave me, AWB albumn. His first initial was A and his last initial was B , no middle. I was told that i was the W and we loved AWB........ We got married in 1980, I'm still shaped like a W, please believe me.....

  • THE AWB REALLY PUT THERE TALENT&HEART INTO THIS SONG,THEY SOUNDED BEAUTIFUL.

  • average

  • did not know they sang this song 1 of my favs of all time

  • I'm an AWB fan, but to claim that when white performers sing R&B they always do it better is racist bullshit, and you knew it when you posted that asinine comment.

  • Im so glad they still tour. I saw them a month ago and they put on a GREAT show. Theyre probably around their 60's now and they can still do it. I can only hope that im that cool when im 60.

  • yo my babydoll angie i love u girl even though things r the way they r ill always love u baby

  • i love this song i paint to it =)

  • I'm only 23 but I recognize that this song is epic.

  • im 26 and love this song did never know my dad just recently we've come together come to find out he loves this song he is 51

  • @Bakertoytoy im 57 and love this too just love great music from new to old age make no diffrence

  • what 11 people dont like this?????!!!!!!! its fantastic!!!!!

  • @factmaster...it's all good.

  • Which House of Blues was this performed at? And when? I just love it!!

  • Its funny how whenever whites decide to do black music, they do it way better! lol

  • @Factmaster2020M ...what make u think this is only black music?...music is just good music regardless of where it originated......maybe you should keep on listening to blue grass, or japanese, u dope..

  • @allout1034 i agree however...check out the Japanese band Hiroshima...very good music...good music is just that ... good music! origin does not matter

  • @nasharde ...my apologies nasharde....I checked out Hiroshima and they are GOOD!...i need to stop putting my foot in my mouth. Thanks for turning me on to them...

  • This is one of the best live versions of this song. This is not the original AWB but they do the song justice. The eleven who disliked the video must be on something. The vocals are tight, the sound is awesome and full. Just a dynamic live version. The House of Blues was rockin that night. Everything changes so lets enjoy what this version of AWB has created. I agree. Nothing like the original but time has moved on.

  • these white boys is jammin bra

  • One of my favorite groups back in the day...They made beautiful music to rock to and sway to...Remember going to a concert at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans with them singing "School Boy Crush" and "Person To Person"... We had whistles blowing and our umbrellas opened up inside the joint. You would get a contact just breathing the air!!! Everything was so beautiful back in the day...Thanks for this posting...

  • Aaahhh YYeeaaa... the SHIT...

  • turnin this on when gettin it ON!!

  • Watching Alan Gorrie play is strangely lewd... the look on his face is like he's in the middle of well, you know, "the act" -- maybe it's the sweat and the pained expressions... omg, help me for my wicked thoughts!

  • @SuddenSparkles Get help, dork!

  • @Factmaster2020M Kiss my heiny jerko xxx

  • @Factmaster2020M I love it. It's obvious that when white proformers cross over to black shit they are superior. May sound racist, but whenever we whites decide to sing black shit,{ from eminem to average whiteband] We do it badder and better! lol

  • @Factmaster2020M Look, music is universal. Anybody can have soul, black, white, yellow, purple, you name it. Race has nothing to do with it. This is a great song. Don't ruin it with nasty comments.

  • @TheCalebson Right On!!

  • @TheCalebson ...I'm white and played lead guitar in a funk band back in the day, never had a problem or heard any nasty comments. Everyone liked AWB back then as well, didn't seem like anyone noticed what "color" they were. Things sure seemed different back then..."soul" and "rhythm" didn't seem to know any race, it's what you had INSIDE you. Seems like a lot of people have lost sight of that...

  • @terryr55 RIGHT ON! And don't forget that 'Lady-T/Teena Marie's' first album was FACELESS, because Motown had no idea if black folk would ignore her, due to her skin colour and let's face it, that sista was/will ALWAYS be one of the greatest R&B singer/DIVA's,,,, EVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVER!!!!  R.I.P. Lady-T - J

  • In other words, us white boys done fell off.

  • @terryr55 exactly... people have gained sight of the superficial

  • @terryr55 very true, in high school my 8 tracks were everything from mott the hoople led zepplin to parliament funkadelic and ohio players. the radio stations dialed back the clock without telling us the crap the tried to pull in the 50,s. Music is the bridge to the soul of us all more than many people realize.

  • @DONNIMETROPOLIS313 ...absolutely....and this is music that you definitely "felt"!!!

  • @terryr55.... your right.

  • @terryr55 So true. I think the 80's kinda ruined that age of "color blindness". MTV had a lot to do with that downfall of good music production regardless of race of the artist. I remember the whites had MTV and the blacks had BET (to a degree). Funny how MTV2 is so hip hop now, but now the quality of music has died. I'm glad you were part of the 70's music revolution. It was a great great time for pure music, regardless of genre.

  • Classic!

  • this song helps to create human beings

  • The sound great :-)

  • wowwww... Im so mezmerized.. they still sound great.. even better.. when was this recorded?

  • I didn't know Jack Nicholson could rock vocals.

  • After All These Years The Average White Band Still Sound Good To This Day.Great Job Guy's.

  • scotlands finest

  • wow! they are awesome...song brings back memories

  • They have always been amazing, but you can''t beat the original line up, saw them four times .......what can I say....

  • The guy on the sax is kickin' it big time! Very good live version of a classic.

  • Way back in the late 70's....Husband was stationed at Chanute AFB. In Champaign on the billboard was this small AWB on the bottom...we were dumb...missed being in close contact as they performed. DOH!!!!

  • this song is tha shitt im 26 yr old female in love with this song

  • Wow! I always thought this was Earth, Wind& Fire

  • sorry! no average white band WITHOUT hamish stewart, just don't sound the fullest...my opinion!! can't help myself

  • @dhihabiwa so right .

  • Aint no sense in music soundin this darn good!!. Now they done got me drinkin again!

  • @slang1968 LOL!!

  • this song still gets me.....love it...thanks

  • Allan Gorrie and Onnie McIntyre rule! AWB forever!

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  • Awesome!! Some many people know "Play That Funky Music.." but don't know this one

  • @nupespr84 Got some news for you...... WILD CHERRY did Play That Funky Music

  • For the grown and sexxxy!

  • I am sitting here reminissing about my childhood listening to this song in my Dad's pimped out 72 Thunderbird... listening to this song on his 8 track!!!!

    Awww man I love AWB.!!!! True statement @RhondaMcl1 their music does transcend generations!!

  • @BMpowered11 awwww the memories right?!

  • THEY BRING THE TRUE MEANING TO MUSIC.EVERYTHING THEY SING ABOUT I HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE.KEEP ON GETTING DOWN BECAUSE YOU GUIYS ARE THE REAL MCCOY

  • AwB is tha best !!!

  • Love this band I could listen all day!!!

  • thanks... this is my wedding song

  • A wicked chune dis

  • Gosh, I love these guys! They just dont make good music like this anymore. I can actually sit back and listen to the whole song....

  • THIS THE ALL TIME HIT.... back in the day!!! I remember slow dancing to this... couple skating... backwards skating alone!

  • sweeettt n swell!

  • this is bluelights in the basement with a mean slow dance 

  • This song is just so transcending and beautiful just as the day I first bought the pink 8 track back in the '70's , so much reflection in those days when I took advantage of my youth and my innocence to a heavy level of experimenting with women, drugs and alcohol. If I had to do it over, it would be sober because of the regret that I wasted so many years under the influence not realizing how precious life was and now all I have are these beautiful old songs to remember....so...so precious.