Brenda Russell - Way Back When

[championcole]

I was living in the fast lane!! Her message fit some situations I was going through....Inglewood/Queen Street!! My friends father had a limo service...I miss THE BOYS!! YEAH!!

[rayygun]

..erm... this is massive, why the hell had i not heard it before... it's been in my mp3 collection since 2007

[nkechi64]

WAY BACK WHEN OOOH YEAH 

[gmaster771]

wow i was lookin for the name of this song ever since i heard at my fathers day picnic. i love this song.

[GodfatherXXI]

This is quickly becoming my favorite song.

[poppa8169]

I used to listen to this album every day. "Album"

[NiftyNataliePollock]

She is amazing......

[freechildgold]

love this fuckin song

[MrRealityone]

Her voice has that sweet n' nostalgic sound of past goodtimes n' can easily take you back when you hear it again!

[seshta]

@dna3d & hamishblues,

I see g8 minds think alike!!! Never been 2 NYC either but this always sends me there........ethereal in a big city kind of way

[littleappleable]

ah yea, this song takes me back to Ben's Chilli Bowl and Trio's for the best steak and cheese on the planet... and of WHUR....I miss those days....

[RosePreston6]

@littleappleable 

[RosePreston6]

@littleappleable DC-back in the day. I was spinning at the ClubHouse and we threw this one on the turntables and the energy was thru the roof!!!!!!

[2vent2011]

forget all those music machines they are using these days. ain't nothing like hearing real music instruments. YOU HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sithlord06]

Chi town house heads....stand up, Dating Game, Family Den, go crazy when this comes on

[stringfellow39]

I love the violins in this song. I wish I could have been in the studio when they were working on this selection. WOW...timeless...

[slapbush]

brenda is right up there with patrice and carol king great songstress underrated and unheard, a shame !!!

[creswell4]

I like this song, it kind of makes me remember when I was much younger filled with many, many dreams.

[SantucciPontarelli]

this is a mysterious sounding song it conjures up the good old days, a sweet gentle song a soft delightful song you can dance to or just listen to it is a dreamy song it makes you think of way back then, it time that we long for deep inside, a longing, a time that we know we can never live again, it is all a dream

[nkechi64]

i smile every time i hear. it is so smoooth. i just go limp. it relaxing my mind body and spirit. this is good music

[Renley1]

Love this song. Brenda is one of the best. Still trying to find "Something I Like To Do"

[MisterCrazyLegs]

wow, this so reminds me of days growing up on Capitol Hill in Wash, DC...walking home from school...smelling the pizza as I walked by Armandos on Penn Ave. & 7th St...Saturdays, hangin out at the swimming pool next to Eastern Market..and goin over my friend, James' house to listen to his brother's band playing in their basement... I can almost cry listening to this, because those were the most innocent care free days. And you never get those times back.

[CazK88]

@MisterCrazyLegs

LOL! Good memories man. I'm 22 years old now and I can remember hearing this song practically every morning on tape cassette when my father took me to school in the morning or to my babysitter's house back in the mid-90s. I tell you, the 90s were the best care free times of my life. I hope I/we can get times like that again before I die. Um, um, um...

[skyesthelimit2010]

@MisterCrazyLegs

YEP!! My sister use to listen to Melvin Lindsay on the Radio Back during this time!

[MisterCrazyLegs]

@skyesthelimit2010 WHUR 96.3, in the damm house.....to my DC peeps, holla atcha boy!

[levan73]

LOVING IT.

[frankjum]

Wow!

I consider myself a connoisseur of great oldies and had never heard this song until a few weeks back in...wait for it...a Chicago club! Just like others here have said. Love the lyrics, strings and her voice. Thanks for posting. This is going in the N97 via Amazon.

Love you Brenda

[reggiep671]

@frankjum - Heard this for the first time in yesterday here in Chicago at the annual Deep House Picnic thrown by the Chosen Few. Check my videos to see two short clips. The second song is awesome also "Into My Life (You Bring the Sunshine)"

[frankjum]

@reggiep671 Aw Dammit! I didn't get out there til around 5 p.m. so I missed it. Too bad for me, it's a really enchanting song. Whooooo...plenty of fine women out there tho...Anyways, keep bouncin!

[ANITJAY]

@frankjum Man, was the Picnic Da Bomb?!!! I hope you had a great time!!! I sure did!!! This is a very hot track!!! Bill Wither's "Harlem" is on youtube as well!!

[SeanStoneTSG]

I love this Song

[arobinson68]

I remember this album from my childhood. My mother used to play that album over and over. Those were the good old days really. How many albums now can you start at the first song, and let it play all the way through loving every song? Artist now need to pay close attention to these classic arrangements!

[sweettee627]

@arobinson68 LOL..my mother killed this album as well. I forgot all about it until something triggered a memory and I found it. Now I have it on repeat rotation1

[owsh123]

Brenda is in a class of her own - and this song demonstrates why. Great talent.

[flix4vix]

Yay!!!

[flix4vix]

Yes sir! Bonafied JAM!!!

[sconex]

The strings are so good.

[donahue478]

my favorite from brenda. In the airforce then stationed at travis afb.

[LokiDWolf]

The Chicago House Music scene is lovin' this song in a major way!!  I was there for a week last week and heard this in the club. LOVE THIS SONG!!

[DEFEND95]

F N LUV IT

[basquait1]

I thought I heard all of the hottest house trax from the 70's and 80's....still can't believe this one got passed me-30 years....Gee!

Confessed form a brother who listened to WBMX; partied at Musik Box; Dingbats; Maxwell Sweeney; the Congress.......Kudos to YouTube!..

[LokiDWolf]

@basquait1

I'm with you. Howl did people miss this until now?! This past week it was played and the house rocked!!!

[basquait1]

@LokiDWolf

Flashback to a time when the days and nites were young! Peace..........

[INGLEWOODambassador]

Great song. I got this LP in my collection and never listened to it. Thanx 4 the vid

[mikki81050]

F.Y.I.-She wrote this song to Al Jarreau, when not many people knew who he was.

I did, though...

Mikki

[pepperpod1]

Thanx 4 the FYI ; )

I was on here looking 4 the song "Jarreau" from her 1983 album "Two Eyes"

learned somethin' new ; )

If anyone has that song could U Pls post it ; )

[pepperpod1]

thank u hamishblues

 for posting this great gem! ; )

[jasonjarvis1988]

I have :)

[favery71]

@mikki81050 yeah, she had another song titled Jarreau!! Thought she was singing as a fan, maybe not huh!!??

[ristobenjie]

@mikki81050 That's is cool! I love that history right there. Al was on the rise at this time, 1979 and had done or was doing lead vocal for Freddie Hubbard "Little Sunflower". That's when I first heard him when I was 11. Love her and this track.

[kisslena]

For You J.

[allwins858]

My "comming of age" song. Hearing it pulls at my heart strings.

[bukemaster]

brenda, you are My favorite!

[DolceVita]

the tune is really hard to follow!!

[MIMI88998899]

@DolceVita

I GUESS IF YOU HAVE NO SOUL OR RHYTHM IT WOULD BE HARD TO FOLLOW.

[DolceVita]

@MIMI88998899 I wouldnt know love, I have plenty of soul and rhythm, spiteful mean-spirited goat!

[MIMI88998899]

@DolceVita

YOUR COMMENT MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE A TYPICAL SICK BASTARD.

[DolceVita]

@MIMI88998899 hahahaha!! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard - there was nothing sick or bastardly about my comment, I just happen to find that the song has a weird melody. No offence was meant , it was just my opinion - but you decided to behave like the typical cowardly internet idiot and make a rude and stupid comment. Its the behaviour I expect from 11 yr old boys whose balls havent dropped yet, or from internet racists!!

[MIMI88998899]

@DolceVita

YOU STARTED IT WITH THE NAME CALLING. CALLING SOMEONE A MEAN - SPIRITED GOAT IS BEYOND RUDE.

I RESPONDED TO YOUR POST IN WHICH YOU STATED THIS SONG WAS HARD TO FOLLOW. I DID NOT CALL YOU A NAME I JUST MADE A COMMENT TO YOUR POST AND YET YOU DECIDED TO RESPOND IN A VERY RUDE WAY WHICH GAVE ME NO CHOICE BUT TO RESPOND IN A WAY THAT YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND BASED ON YOUR POST TO ME.

AS FAR AS THE 11 YEAR OLD BOY COMMENT I GUESS THAT'S SOMETHING YOU WOULD KNOW ABOUT.

[DolceVita]

@MIMI88998899 You started with the insults, not me!! Don't try and pretend that was just a harmless comment, you meant to offend, you know it, so stop being fake.

ANyway, I am done. You don't know me but yet said i have no soul or rhythm, the comment was intended to offend, and was cowardly (like most mindless insults made on the internet). I said you were mean-spirited in response. We both know where each other are coming from so if you don't mind, I 'd like to leave it as that.

[TheMidcoast1]

I am so proud to know that there are other true music lovers out there like myself. I know that you all must be so glad to have born during a time when so much creative, real, music was produced and If you appreciate music like this, you must be some talented individuals yourselves.

[ryland511]

oooohhhh! this song is so 70's!

[pmd467]

Man O man! 1979.. what a great year! I remember partying at Ft. Ord..:-) Dianne, this was "our" song...:)

[airjor1]

You must have been in the Army. My older brother was stationed at Fort Ord in the mid 1970's. I was in the Navy from 1980-86.

[airjor1]

I've been looking for this song for years! Thank you!

[stephystills]

LOVE THIS SONG __ALWAYS HAVE!!!

[psiclist]

beautiful

[jooksy7]

luvileeee

[luckyc120]

i love the beginning...sounds really deep

[MoodyMan1978]

This ish is so hot. I go bananas in the club when I hear this song. Stand up house headz...Chi-town baby!

[1814Brandan]

I simply am MAD for this song!!

[upsstc]

Almost 30 years ago and still sounds good!!

[upsstc]

I still have this LP!!

[jdwizardgmail]

Brenda is the best... on par with nick and val

[bukemaster]

i love her, ilove her, ilove her,

[darrenhollanddj]

brilliant track pure nostalgia

[dna3d]

I was growing up in the bay area when this song blew up on KSOL radio but for some reason I always thought about New York City when this came on.

Love the strings on this!

[hamishblues]

Funny - Never even been that side of the pond - but I know what you mean.

[airjor1]

@dna3d KSOL 107.7, KDIA 1310, KBLX 102.9, KRE. I forgot the frequency for KRE.

[dogshit71]

reminds me of my mom

[mpjproducer]

Brenda Russell - a prolific songwriter!!! Refreshing!!

[mrsandreisrael]

Chicago Disco DJ's are playing this again...

[kobe10uk]

oh yea love this

[nebaioth]

one of my favs...lol...

[JGroove730]

This project was brilliant from the opening notes til the close... such a driving, great tune. She's one of the greatest writers of our time (don't believe me... check Big Pun & Luther)it was the begining for all to see how brilliant Brenda was (Way Back Then!

[erickliddell]

I didnt find out about this until `92

[kobe10uk]

tune damm love this

[alfjoey1234]

nice song, hamishblues.thanks for posting this. can you please post "in the thick of it" from the same album? thanks!!!!

[Aneba76]

very many thanks for posting this song. I brought this album when I was 16 in 1980 lost the vinyl. Brought a tape and the quality ain't all that. Thanks again.

[bassman490]

GET THE CD

[ginogreat]

i've been looking for this over a year. this is one of my favorite songs of all times. thank you

[miss226]

"You are my favorite"! ,Thank you for posting this song!!

[dmanLVN]

I have loved this song (and Brenda Russell in general) for a long-ass time. So good to hear it here. Thanks for posting this one.... Tom

[dcmetroman62]

I'd made love to this jam as a teen for the first time...it was so good...love her music.

[n2cora]

i fell in luv with this song as a kid!

[ultrafelicity]

pretty pretty pretty

[erickliddell]

family reunion 2k8?

63rd and hayes?

[TheGreatMozeek]

Smooth Song