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  • You Chi-Town drag queens always claiming shit. This NY/NJ sounds, you wannabe bitches

  • @gmccall22 chi-town can never compete with the NY/NJ SOUND .....our sound always has had more soul...because for us it's all about the vocals...the "attytude"...from SYLVESTER to MARTHA WASH to ADEVA to BARBARA ROY to JOCELYN BROWN...i could keep going on but i think you know what i mean....LOL....

  • @theiicemancometh True they can't touch NY/NJ. I like Chi-town sounds too, but they're not the creators

  • @gmccall22 no doubt....of course chi-town does have bad joints....it's just that they forgot where it all originated from......but it's all good...i can bang out with anybody who does appreciate this music and what it means and what it does....lol.....

  • I  ALWAYS LIKED THIS SHIttttttttttttttttt

  • yea,the black box in newark,new jersey !!!!

  • THE LAST SET OF KLUB ZANZIBAR 430 BROAD STREET NEWARK, NJ. THIS WAS A STAPLE SONG AND ANTHEM AS WE WERE ABOUT TO ENTER THE DAYLIGHT AFTER HOURS OF KLUB MUZIK. I MISS THOSE DAY'S BACK IN THE LATE 70'S AND 80'S. THE 90'S USHERED IN A NEW WAVE OF LESS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TRUE VOCAL JEWELS LIKE THIS HIT. DAMN CAN SOMEONE BRING IT BACK. TRUE TALENT IS MISSING TODAY.

  • @DEZINE5 what up dunn........this is another club banger...i love mixing this with my all time favourite..."let's get together"by pam todd....the remake of this by jomanda is banging too.......

  • You had to be there!

  • 9 thumbs up if ur from the CHI and u constantly replay the intro to this so u can PAN tha FUCK OUT!!!!!!

  • Deep Disco Chi City The Bismark Hotel

  • Deep Disco Chi City

  • @loveyou1952 AND U KNOW THISSSS!!!!!! AWWW MAAAANNN!!!!!! AINT NOTHING LIKE THE CHI

  • @tonyblair999 chic ricks, sawyers, the original warehouse, medussa's......chicago!

  • we started playing this as another form...or renamed it to our definition as deep house..chicago 1986-1987

  • oh damn i remember this thanx

  • One of my favorites timeless music GET UP ON THIS

  • Zanzibar! glad to see yall up in hurrrr

  • From That Timeless Classic New York City era when everything was truly all good!!!

  • greg carmichael with the magic touch

  • oh my goodness...!! takes me back to the Zanz'

  • People just love putting a tag on things, calling music by a different nake, pigeon holing it. Deep House, Funk whatever you want to call it ITS SOUL!!!!! As deep as you like AND SOME! Sounds Of Unity and Love!!!

  • CHICAGO or new york ! this is classic "DEEP DEEP HOUSE MUSIC" i love it.

    a HOUSEHEAD FOR LIFE ! all i remember is dancing 5 or 6hrs a night.............

    DAMMMM THIS FEELS GOOD !

  • i use to love this cut back in the day and still do real classic!

  • CLASSIC!!!!

  • I stumble upon this by accident. Awesome song except for one thing. The guitar player! Ugh! Why didn't he solo through the chord changes instead of that 1 note repitition crap? OH MY GOD, THAT PART WAS HARD TO LISTEN TO.

  • @brianofbluemethod

    I remember when this came out , the melodic chord was by design to "bop" , "new bop" to and or shuffle to (called stepping these days) was one of the many dances at that time. Songs of this sort had to be steady and mid tempo. The Rainbow Brown version doesn't have the guitar as much but plays up the strings and drums more.

  • @brianofbluemethod u would really hate paul johnson's no big thang

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  • Shaniques!!!

  • Was this track produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards from Chic ??? Anyone knows ..... Has a Chic sound to it

  • @deelowda1 No, this is produced by Patrick Adams and Greg Carmichael. This is very much their sound! Check out Phreek, Universal Robot Band or Musique for example, you will get it!

  • @N15man Oh Ok....these are the same guys that made up Bumble Bee Unlimited ....WOW ....these dudes were so underated as musicians and producers !!!

  • Scale of Eb

  • 70s REALNESS!!!!!!!!! REAL INSTRUMENTS. REAL MUSICIANS.

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  • Thanks for posting this joint on here. I was very young when I heard this on WBLS(107.5 FM). I'm gonna be 40 this coming Memorial day weekend.

  • ron hardy used to play this about 4 o'clock in the mourning when his buddies would start to hustle we would give them the floor and watch them get down and show the late people how to dance with finesse alright ronniee hardy may you rest in peace

  • I first got a taste of this at the Musicbox or the "Box" back in the day...talk about a major musical education! I wonder who wrote it cuz it's so well written and melodic

  • 1 dislike it must have been a BIG thing for them LMAO!

  • Sounds much better than Ten City's version.

  • Man I wish I could fo back to the 80's in chicago. I miss the old spots, Medusa's, The Bismark Hotel, Rivera's, AKA's, The warehouse, Edge of the looking glass, The reactor and many many many other spots. This generation will never understand back in the day chicago.

  • OH! Yes! a blast from the past. It sounds just as sweet today as it did back in it's day.

  • Love it!!

  • THIS IS A NICE SONG, IT WAS SAMPLED BY JOMANDA, A HOUSE TRIO FROM JERSEY.

  • @funkeemuzikluvr New Jersey actually, not the place in the channel Islands

  • Oh my god they used to play this song at Twin city skating rink in newark, what a nice way to put people ou when it's time to go, god I miss those days!!!!, I'm so thankful I found it on here

  • @tapsheabowman1 yea a track you can really zone to....kinda hypnotic.Broke the repeat button LOL

  • Respond to this video... 

  • I've never heard this song and never heard of this singer. She is good.

  • Wow!!! Aaaaaawesome!!!! Memories Of Back In The Day At The "PARADISE GARAGE" And "CLUB ZANZIBAR"

  • @ELEBONYEMIR ..could not have said it better!!!

  • Must gives props to club "Better Days" in New York City in 1978. Thank you Patrick Adams and Greg Carmichael of Harlem, New York City, for a great production.

  • Old sckool don't you love it .......

  • Lol....Port2344chester you are right and beside this song was a great when you have to let a chick go....just put it on your answering machine and let it do the rest...lol back then. No matter what the situation was going on in my as far as dating I always had a song if I could not find the words!

  • @hybuas14 Understood!

  • @port2344chester Yes my brotha!

  • @hybuas14 We sure did exp a classic bus ride... those golden classics... during a golden era in life!

  • I'm in love with this song! :)

  • Sooooooo good!!!!!

  • This jam makes me reminisce, and dont want to return back to the decade!!!

  • Warehouse stand up!

  • Back in the early 80tys at the Cheetha Club in Paterson,NJ on sunday was Tee Scoots night the Tee party and this was his first record he would play to start the night on the floor dancing by myself free styling.

  • @hybuas14 Would put ya in such a trance... 2days youth missed this classic bus....what fond memories.....nothing tops the classics!!

  • R.I.P. ....LARRY LEVAN I can still hear ya spinning those golden traxs & this was one of many on the wheels of steel. You are missed BIG TIME bru!...Again R.I.P.........

  • Listen up yongsters this is what ya call SOUL MUSIC... i was raised on this just like gov. cheese yes i was pour ...but man i would not change anything @ all. My family friends & i were/our RICH with peace love & soul..traxs like this dont exist 2day....winning a lottery ticket cant buy you soul...either you are born with it or you arent. Piece coming from a true NEW YORKER!!

  • WOW I HAVE HEARD THIS SONG SO MANY TIMES AT THE CLUB. TO PUT A NAME AND FACE WITH IT IS EVEN BETTER.

  • wow that is a huge track

  • SALUTE TO THIS ONE.....

  • WICKEDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

    

  • Many Thanks For This Post

  • i bought this record in 1980 to spin at parties,OMG the reaction I got when i first started to play it, was wtf is he playing,after a couple of more plays every sat nite, at same location, they caught on to it, dancing with their eyes closed, in a deep trance. I luv this song till 2day, it will never play out.

  • @twinzinc You are so right about this song it has never played out.

  • So smooth, hustle hour, morning music! Keep house alive! Let's say it together " Alrite Ronnie!"

  • Garage and Better Days.......party party party

  • deep underground house classic!!!!!

  • @garrett4429 I agree! This song took me back; deep house music forever!!

  • A definite N.Y. classic!

  • Love, Love, LOVE THIS SONG!

  • Does someone know where I can find the guitar chords for this song? I'm looking to play the part starting around 3:30

    Thanks!

  • This tune has me in a trance all over again.. im from the BIG APPLE & that era/time in life music will never be seen again. Hearing this joint blaring from a boom box or someones house window. In the BIG APPLE diversity was their.. latin grooves, soulful tunes boogie tunes, r & b..talent throughout. You could go into any of the 5 boroughs & have a block party or witness local bands jammin on stoops. Ahh miss ther golden days.

  • ...and these young'uns i work with can't understand why i miss the "good old days"....they'll never know what it was like to hear this in the GARAGE...all 2000 of us in a spell under the mirror balls........oh my......

  • @dirtyedna CLASSIC!!

  • Fantastic!! A real love groove.

  • I LOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEE This song.....Damn!

  • Lovely song...but as anyone got Mr Blindman by Donna Mcghee? If you have lay it on me...Please.

  • It ain't no big thing..... what a song! Especially the second half with the instrumental groove!

  • wheres the favorite buttton?

  • Heard Frankie Knuckles play this back in the day! I forgot about this track. Thanks for bringing this back to me.

  • This that Ol Skool House Music in the Chi. Where has music went to.

  • WS, SW AND NS. Let me see ya bop to this. LOL!

  • My bad. WS, SS AND NS. lol!

  • AKA's in Chi-Town.... Ooh-wee

  • I know cats from out west wasn't n2 the house scene like the south side, but I use 2 love this shit!!!

  • Ten City did a remarkable remake of this. I aint big on remakes but Ten City's version is better then the original.

  • THE GARAGE ON KING ST; BETTER DAYS ON 49th ST OLD SCHOOL ; THE YOUNG ONE;S TODAY DO;NT KNOW MUSIC BACK IN THE DAYS

  • Ahhh...yes the kids today don't know jack.  I sure miss those days especially Better Days stories for days.

  • @joehop1505 dont forget the buttermilk bottm. i loved the betterdays rip tee scott

    gamagan1

  • this song was the one the girls use to breakup with there men with at the clubs, zanzabar, sensations, doc's.wow how i remember that was the good old days.

  • @jacquiecassellayoung dont forget shaniques

    gamagan1

  • Shiiit !What a sound! rare groove !

  • Great rare groove!!!

  • Still loving this.Good stuff

  • Bang FM just played this, so thanks to Sly, the DJ for introducing me to a great track...

  • this music is a blesing. Brett "kevin Dixon" Wilcots

    Peace

  • Love this song, but the Personal Touch version of "It Ain't No Big Thing" on Patrick Adams' P&P label from mid-1977 is better I think, if shorter (7" only) Same backing track? I wouldn't be surprised!

  • @drwhatson I think Donna Mcghee's vocal control was better on her "Make it last forever" LP than her first group Personal Touch 1976. Her vocals were smoother and the arrangement tighter. Patrick Adams magic touch on 3 of the best covers on this song. Fonda Raes vocal cover in the Rainbow Brown LP are nice too , but Greg Carmicheal took heavier hand with the strings and the bass with guitar was played down. The Ten City's cover is missing that sultriness.

  • @tribaltee

    I'm impressed. I neither agree or disagree with your findings, it's just kool to see people still treating this music as an art form.Peace

    brett

    Gherkin Records

  • remember club NEW EXSPREINCE? TONY HUMPRIES NIEEM JOHNSON

  • jcsu93 how bout the peperment lounge are you from newark i am

  • son, what do you know about the mint?

  • Ain't this that Young Gunz(Jay-Z tribute)???

  • @skamatroy Sure is...Young Chris rapped on it. i still have it

  • thanx for posting..i enjoyed hearing that i even stood -up and boogied for a sec.. great sound and great memories.. dahhgg!!!

  • Oh yeah, I definitely remember. What about the infamous club "Shaniques"? Damn, those were the days. I get home sick, everytime I hear an old club song, from back in the day. Born and raised in Brick City...

  • oh my goodness how bout i forgot all about shaniques. thats when people were very shady lol gamagan1 are you from newark

  • Excellent!

    Thanku also to Jazz 63.

  • ohhhhh -nice memories of Rafters and the Ritz back in 78

  • Aaaaaaaaaaaah this was the shit at the zanzabar, the better days, buttermilk bottom, bonnie and clydes, the 9th floor and all the other hot spots in nyc and newark, does anyone remember hanging out at any of these clubs in the 80s and 90 holla back boomcc1

  • those were the days. and forever the peppermint lounge...

  • wow..THANKS for posting this...

  • thats right donna tell em fall the fuck back

    boomcc1

  • This is what you play when it's time to get rid of your man or woman, dance while you're throwing they're shit out!!! while singing the hook, that's what you tell them, hell, helped me trough some tough break-ups one listen I was instantly over my heartache back on the prowl. Now I will kindly tell him "It ain't no big thing that you're leaving" THANKS MS. DONNA!!!

  • Bad tune thanks for posting...been listening to soul for over 25 years but never heard this one...just goes to show!

  • hot

  • Chicago Deep House Classic!!!

  • @djdubie1 so true! im 37 from the Westside. and still House$ life. Plus im trapped in ATL

  • @djdubie1 I LOOOVE that intro at the beginning. Its 3am @ the Box, do u know where your kids are......LOL

  • @djdubie1 But I REALLY wish the pitch was faster, just a lil bit.

  • @attaalib That fast pitch is Chicago style. The pitch is perfect for NY. (LMAO) It took me a while to get used to my peoples from Chicago's tapes. They had the Sho'Nuff Jams, but Godt-Dayum, So FAST!

  • @attaalib The tempo is correct , it was a "bop" , "new bop" or shuffle song (like step in the name of love). And originally a ladies anthem at that time, like one of Beyonce's songs.

  • @ 3:28 on the track is when everyone would get there two step on w/ the slight hustle twist. the song still stands up after all these years wow

  • Whoa......I hears this alot on the house mixes back in the day. I just had a WKKC flashback (or was that WBMX?).

  • what a surprize!i think is like a miracle:a lot of years after this song sounds like a fresh cut.

  • My God this is sick, I keep finding more and more music from back in the day. I could listen to this all day. I need to start downloading these cuts.

  • 4 oclock am at the box........WOW

  • y'all need to look for Vivian Reed "Another Side" 1978 united artist records

  • ALSO looking for song titled, i think 'gotta find a way' by russ brown i believe plz post someone

  • my brother told me that this song was here and immediately i had to here it. sensations, sensations,sensations OMG

  • THIS SHIT IS BLACK AND DELICIOUS

  • @beatchemist2004 ...EXTRA!!!

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  • you gotta love that song

  • it aint no big thang

  • this is da shizznitzz...chitown dj....80sss 4 ever//

    hey i know how to convert reel tape to cd hit me up

  • A Ron Hardy classic

  • A Ron Hardy classic!!!!

  • Class.i love when the song switch to instrumentals.That was a beautiful interlude.Good stuff.

  • We were being born you old ass jerk. Just enjoy the music.

  • YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.NIGGA I WAS THERE IN THE "70"s. IT WAS COOL THAN A MUTHAFUCKA. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP TALKING ABOUT SHIT YOU HAVE NO IDEAS ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Where in the hell were you praises for this song back in 1988 when the 1970's were not so cool anymore?

    but umm . . . there was no You Tube in 88 so this is a moot point

  • i understand what you mean but you sound bitter.

  • WOW!!!!!

  • it use to love this..one of ron hardy cuts also

  • Know you didnt. Yes Ron use to pump this. it takes a sista back to the box day. I was crazy about this song... I may see another you but for know I m fine.

  • dis my shit Hell-Town.71trey

  • Man, I feel like doing the Bus Stop to this!!!! :P

  • LOL oh dayumm the bus stop? u bringing me back.. let's do it :)

  • This is the real stuff...Excellent post!

  • i know her. i talked to her on the phone before. she has a funny actcent

  • Old Skool Chicago Deep House... This record was so hard for me to blend! But I Mastered it!

  • Preach....

  • HA HA Yeaaaah. You just brought back memories with that statement. Really was quite difficult to blend this one. GREAT song nevertheless.

  • I used to blend Pam Todd Exchange's "Let get Together with this. I found it to be best song to use.

  • You are so right... I had an old tape cassette with that blend.

  • I used to dance to this song in the clubs with that mix. The singing styles were very similiar. Great song!!

  • amazing song. The version by personal touch (i assume just a name, same singer etc) is the one i know better, but there so similar anyway. Gorgeous

  • OMG...I love this song...thanks for the post!

  • This quite possibly might be the ONLY woman my GAY ass would turn STRAIGHT for.