see ppl now and dayz dont know this type of music and im only 12 and this is one of myfavorite songz from back then and i grew up listening to this type of music
It was 1977,Chicago,winter, I was 7 years old diagnosed with severe bronchial pneumonia to be placed in a plastic bubble at Wyler's hospital for children- very scared to death.I remember so vividly listening to WJPC radio station owned by Johnson Publishing Company when I heard this song by Brothers Johnson,"Strawberry Letter 23" playing.I forgot at that moment I was seriously ill and just let myself be lost in the music.To this day,at age,42,I still suffer with lung problems.I'm alive.
this song takes me back to when i was 8 years old. i'm glad my pre teen years were the 70's. i grew up listening to smash hits like this! and i'm a long haired white cracker hippie!!! to me the color of the artist is totally irrelevant. if you don't love this,, YOU HAVE NO SOUL!! THE CLASS OF 1986 IS STILL IN SESSION!! but,,i still don't get how you get strawberry letter 23,,??? or else they say it. somebody help me out here,,please?? would love an explanation!!
This was, strike that, is the best song ever. Brings back memories of friends and me, riding in the summertime. We were always trying to figure out what song was about. We all came to same conclusion, it was the best !!! Best of Times!!!
I have been trying to find out what the hell they are talking about for 30 years I thought just because I was so High when this song first came out I missed the meaning but even now I don't get it don't get me wrong yhis is a funk honor roll member but damn what the hell are they talking about
Yep, the 8 yr old calling him/herself hiphopcheerleader, has loads to learn! I'm so glad I wasn't born yesterday!!!!!! This is one of Brothers Johnson's finest songs. Who cares about today's radio static anyway............
Man this song brings back memories of cookouts, laughter and good time with family and friends. It's amazing how a song can take you right back to that moment like it was yesterday,
youtube game dogs of the past. TERMITE 13 an oh. 9 confirmed. 4 never scratched again.. a savage.. b4 every 1 he listened to this 1 kind a lloud. he knew. i knew.. only male dub gr ch ever.. what was it
I love this song! It reminds me of driving down to Florida when I was young with my two younger sisters and single mom, during warm rains in the summer. Good times!
@Nikh50 Yes, I am hard to aurgue with.. Cause, I really dont like fighting with the mentaly challenged.. I was always told its not their fault. You keep going, I will answer, and put you even more under the bus. So, euphemistically, I hope you do listen to music that isn't all voice computer controled, and all sampled.. I just can't wait for something original to show it's ugly head again. So remember it was 1993, and no the cafe isnt on fire.. The sample was from Kano, a song called I'm Ready.
@Nikh50 I love the name calling, it shows such a high Intelligence.. So, that sinks your credibility.. SO, I have one more Sesame Street letter for you.. F... Fries. As put in a sentence for you might comprehend ... "Would like fries with that?" As I bow out of this stimulating physical, mental, and emotional vigor of conversation.. Its been an educational few days with you.. Not saying I'm right, or your wrong.. You make that decision on your own.. Just watch the name calling.
@Nikh50 Learn to spell, type, and get back to me.. You're very mentaly unarmed to deal with my capacity of thinking of music. As for the "Flute" Stop watching American pie.. It's a movie not a documentary..
But. will answer a question of your Sesame Street thinking.. M is for music, S is for sampling, and O is for Originality.. Something that you have no Idea about.. SO, my advice to you, crawl under your drum machine until you change your attitude.
@Nikh50 You need to back off with the F Bombs on me. I have forgot more music than you will ever know, or heard of. You think sampled music is an art form? What about making something original? I guess you didn't think before you pulled your Mom's tit outa your mouth! Go back, and learn something. OR learn to read music, I can, learn to play an instrument, I can 5 of them. And when you get to where I am in the knowledge of music, {not sayin' I know everything} But, you 27.. I guess your short.
I GOTTA ASK,,HOW DO PEOPLE GET STRAWBERRY LETTER 23 FROM THIS???? IT'S STRAWBERRY LETTER 22?? LISTEN TO THE CHORUS!! I MEAN,,,HELLO?????? BY THE WAY,,THIS TUNE HIT THE AIRWAVES APRIL OF 1976. REAL BIG HIT IN ALL THE DISCOS.
@EXTIQUE Check your history. This song was first recorded in 1972, it wasn't a hit at that time. The Brothers Johnson recorded their version of it in '76-'77.
The great Louis Johnson on Bass. Guitarist Lee Ritenour did that fat Azz Guitar solo on this track. When this Album came out, I was a Junior at Mumford High School in Detroit Michigan. I was playing the Eelctric Guitar in Mumford's Stage band at the time. Kids back then took music very seriously as musicians. We had to study music. We had to take appiled music theory. And then practice our Azz off on our chosen musical instrument. And take vocal training as well. This was the norm then. MG
i hear you guys talking about schools/music programs. we wouldn't have quincy jones nor the brothers johnson if it weren't for public school music programs. CRAZY state of affairs.
I was in 8th grade when this song came out. It's one of the best! Music of that time was comparatively better than much of today's because artists were more cerebral. They knew how to take heady topics and present them to the masses in a way that was appealing. That's a true gift. When the music is better, society is generally better. I agree with VtachDJchris that children benefit from music education.
Im 28 years old and Ive loved this song since I was SEVEN YEARS OLD!!! Their playing it right now in a book cafe so I had to pull it up! McAWESOME<----
@TheESMERALDI I have also loved this song a long time, since I was about 17 -- when it first came out! I have to tell you I just accidentally clicked on one of your Youtube videos, but stayed and watched. The "drag queen" video is so great. Thank you. This 50-year-old White gay guy thinks you are adorable. AND fabulous!
@HipHopcheerleader yo man, this is the root of all the music today. this is the shit! if u dont like this song or this type of music, then you dont know what music is. this right here started our music in todays generation
He was about 25 years ahead of his time back in the 70's. I could not believe when I first heard the album Inspiration Information that it was recorded in the early 70's.
One of my greatest brothers of all time song!! Got nothing but love for him!! Do your thing Scottie Too Hottie!! One of my favs too!! Remember those days brother!! USDA
This was really a great tune.I remember coming from Ammendola's Pizzeria in Yonkers N.Y.I had my slice and then picked up the Daily News for mom and read that the Son of Sam had struck again.this song was playing in the pizzeria.My first thought was "well Iam 12 and not making out in cars yet so I hope they get this creep before I DO start making out in cars to great jams like this and many,many more.lol
I was in the 9th grade Jr. High School when I first heard this song and LOVED it so much that I bugged my cousin who is 8 yrs. my senior and in New York at the time to PLEASE send me the single to which was those 12" and it came in the color red(for Strawberry) and smelt like too! LOL! To this day when she hears this song she says: There's your Strawberry song! and strongly connects this to me for what will be the rest of my life! Awesome time period for music in those days. EW&F baddest band 2!
@SouhernNightingGale I had the Strawberry Disc too (and yes, it was strawberry scented)! Good memories o 1977! This song impressed me so much, I actually wrote the lyrics down. But, to my surprise, I found out in 2004 that they lifted this song from Shuggie Otis....The Brothers' Johnson's version is more dynamic, but I only wish that they had given credit to the original...
Hearing this takes me back to when I used to play this song on my mom's console stereo. I thought it was the coolest record I ever saw, a transparent strawberry colered 12 inch.
If only I had TIME MACHINE. I would go back to 1968 and continue to 1980. Then hit the Rewind Button. I would never leave that 12 year span. Just LOOP me over and over again. I'd never see 2010! hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@ddesign63 You so CRAZY! But the TRUTH is I feel the same way! Amen! Music like that is literally HISTORY and CLASSIC! Too bad todays' artist haven't a clue to what music like that is or even begin to comprehend it! It's a SHAME before GOD and mankind.
@catsduke Wow, that's quite an arsenal of musical weaponry you got. I have two guitars, used to have an accoustic ($300.00 US dollars) an in-law had given it away. It was a gift from my mother. Now, I have the Stratocaster (which, you can see my very rudimentary guitar playing) and an Epiphane bass guitar given to me by a musician with early arthritis on the promise I would care for it. I have not broken that promise.
...and they even used REAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!!! What the hell happened to music since then? R & B USED TO stand for rhythm and blues. I will never stop loving these grooves. It was a time when the height of creativity intersected with high fidelity.
...and they even used REAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!!! What the hell happened to music since then? R & B USED TO stand for rhythm and blues. I will never stop loving these grooves. It was a time when the height of creativity intersected with high fidelity.
@kidubyub--Shuggie Otis, who wrote AND played all of the instruments on the original, wrote Strawberry Letter 23 AS the reply to his girlfriend's Strawberry Letter 22.
So Glad to hear my music from back in the day!Man,this was great then and still is awesome.Kids have no idea today about real music,sad for them but not for me!(HEE HEE)
Who compairs to this today?? NO ONE, this era is classic shit that will never be replaced. Instead of introducing our kids to the "pop corn" culture music of today introduce them to this so they will always know what real music is.
when he mentions strawberry letter 22 then you know this letter that he's writen bac is strawberry letter 23 you have to think this where your adult brains should come in
50331- truly a testament to how music can touch and reach you. RIP to your mom! know that every time you listen to this song, your mom's eyes are on you now and enjoying it still through you!!
Us 12 year olds would hang out at Genaro's Pizzeria jammin'to this playing the pin ball machines.Yes,Iam old enough to remember the pin ball days,before computer games!I would never wan't to change that eithor.
I was eating breakfast in a restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This song came on the juke box and I ask the waitress to dance to it. We danced to it all the way to the end and then I thanksed her and sat back down and finished my breakfast. I went back almost everyday for a month until she would go out with me. She said she never forgot that dance in the restaurant and that became our song until I went away to Marine Boot Camp. Ah Memories!
Just wanted you to know that your mother wanted to tell you thank you for the laugh and the smell when you dance in your underware listening to this song and that she love you
I'm a rock guy and love this tune...70's r&b is is way better than today
ohmah70 3 days ago
Super-ultra pimptacular to the max yo.
jmag579 1 week ago
Smooth as can be!!!
edwardmoore1000 2 weeks ago
and my son proudly sports an afro that big lol
MsImthebestest 2 weeks ago
I still own this album
MsImthebestest 2 weeks ago
sry about my mis speaking on words was typing fast..... Love Love Love it!
shortywhipwop 3 weeks ago
Now this is music, i grew up on this loved it then and still love it now.... Good work
shortywhipwop 3 weeks ago
see ppl now and dayz dont know this type of music and im only 12 and this is one of myfavorite songz from back then and i grew up listening to this type of music
killakam201 1 month ago in playlist More videos from Goodfella0207
bad america went away from disco, but i suppose we all had to be tuff guys, lol
pbrown04330 1 month ago
I was a junior in High School summer '77 when this was a hit. Brings back fond memories.
cleandiaper 1 month ago
DISCO RULE!
USAisAntiWhite 2 months ago
It was 1977,Chicago,winter, I was 7 years old diagnosed with severe bronchial pneumonia to be placed in a plastic bubble at Wyler's hospital for children- very scared to death.I remember so vividly listening to WJPC radio station owned by Johnson Publishing Company when I heard this song by Brothers Johnson,"Strawberry Letter 23" playing.I forgot at that moment I was seriously ill and just let myself be lost in the music.To this day,at age,42,I still suffer with lung problems.I'm alive.
My7508 2 months ago 9
@My7508 Funk on,brother,for another 35 years at least. Vibrations DO heal.
ArgoLupus 1 month ago
pretty kool, but i came here 2 c the song-- that's a gr8 movie tho'
hollywoodsheraton 2 months ago
this is the best music of all time the funk
Xionaga 3 months ago
love the way you added the scene from jackie brown in the beginning. this song brings back great memories from back in the day! thanks!
BARBARALACERDA 3 months ago
great song
harriezee1 3 months ago
That Bass is Strollin...
walkertroy11 3 months ago
LOVE this song...... so smoothing...(love those actors...and loved that movie.)
obdiane 3 months ago
We aint going but to China Town. You won't be in here more than ten minutes :-)
horrorfan1 4 months ago 2
Long live Shuggie Otis!
guitarcosmic 4 months ago
21 people were in Ordell's trunk while disliking this
TheBoogieman0001 4 months ago 5
this some pimp shittt
MrZipcode6 4 months ago
It's not that the song is bad, perhaps, just play the dang song and skip the movie. Thanks.
PennyManning2 4 months ago
What's this song about? What's this song about?
It's a trip, that's what it's about.
Rusticating 4 months ago
great song takes me back to when i was a kid my mom jam to this kind of music
mixerdog79 4 months ago
this song takes me back to when i was 8 years old. i'm glad my pre teen years were the 70's. i grew up listening to smash hits like this! and i'm a long haired white cracker hippie!!! to me the color of the artist is totally irrelevant. if you don't love this,, YOU HAVE NO SOUL!! THE CLASS OF 1986 IS STILL IN SESSION!! but,,i still don't get how you get strawberry letter 23,,??? or else they say it. somebody help me out here,,please?? would love an explanation!!
EXTIQUE 5 months ago 2
@EXTIQUE Man who cares if you are a long haired white hippie. If you like the music, you like it.
SuperDominicd 4 months ago 2
I saw Brothers Johnson perform Live- and they were Great at the Tom Joyner Flashback Festival in the ATL.
AliciaBrown19882011 5 months ago
This was, strike that, is the best song ever. Brings back memories of friends and me, riding in the summertime. We were always trying to figure out what song was about. We all came to same conclusion, it was the best !!! Best of Times!!!
libbygirl420 5 months ago
I have been trying to find out what the hell they are talking about for 30 years I thought just because I was so High when this song first came out I missed the meaning but even now I don't get it don't get me wrong yhis is a funk honor roll member but damn what the hell are they talking about
ashqgirl 5 months ago
@ashqgirl maybe they was high when they wrote it they themselves might not know what it mean lol THE SONG is offfff the CHAIN tho.
walkinwitjesus 5 months ago
Yep, the 8 yr old calling him/herself hiphopcheerleader, has loads to learn! I'm so glad I wasn't born yesterday!!!!!! This is one of Brothers Johnson's finest songs. Who cares about today's radio static anyway............
anthonymelerovitas 6 months ago
Nope. Tis ant SO..
reissue 6 months ago
@Nikh50 2pac sampled this song.
ricovatoloco 6 months ago
this was my acid trippin song cherokee baby
SuperDaltonz 7 months ago
Man this song brings back memories of cookouts, laughter and good time with family and friends. It's amazing how a song can take you right back to that moment like it was yesterday,
Kree8tivity 7 months ago
this is what i listen too when i bring out the 85 Parisienne, in the newer cars it don't feel the same
StonezA844 7 months ago
youtube game dogs of the past. TERMITE 13 an oh. 9 confirmed. 4 never scratched again.. a savage.. b4 every 1 he listened to this 1 kind a lloud. he knew. i knew.. only male dub gr ch ever.. what was it
voodoo9606 7 months ago
How many letters did he send ?? 22 0r 23 ???
DowJones16WB 7 months ago
21 people are stupid!
ValeriesGal 7 months ago
I love this song! It reminds me of driving down to Florida when I was young with my two younger sisters and single mom, during warm rains in the summer. Good times!
Jeannified 7 months ago 3
Smooth as a gravy sandwich!
abk6418 7 months ago 2
Love 0:56 to the song's end. The Johnsons hit #5 in Billboard, 9-24-77. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
DaveWollenberg 7 months ago
i don't care what your "taste" in music is. how can you not like this?
i really don't see how someone could not like this
horrorfan1 7 months ago 38
@horrorfan1 i love the brothers johnson
playsbass1969 5 months ago
No argument. Best song.Ever. Back in my day.
frazilly1 5 months ago
@horrorfan1 thats what I tell people all the time man , like seriously ! how doesn't this make you bob your head
gfxkidfilms 4 months ago
1:07 a 1:18 excellent
Mrdegand 7 months ago 2
20 people who cant get funky
Disrupptive 8 months ago 20
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homewrecker66 2 months ago
@Disrupptive
22 people who can't get funky now LOL!!!!!
homewrecker66 2 months ago
@Disrupptive
Lol! Or maybe 20 people are too funky!lol!
meandmyself364 3 weeks ago
If you try to ask..or is it cool..or is it coool...!!!
Ridgid 8 months ago
my fav song evah!!!
ThaManDMB 8 months ago
I just need my skates
alphamoon65sun 8 months ago
@alphamoon65sun
damn you brought back some memories of MY skatin days and now I gotta find mine!
Talon805 7 months ago
@Nikh50 Yes, I am hard to aurgue with.. Cause, I really dont like fighting with the mentaly challenged.. I was always told its not their fault. You keep going, I will answer, and put you even more under the bus. So, euphemistically, I hope you do listen to music that isn't all voice computer controled, and all sampled.. I just can't wait for something original to show it's ugly head again. So remember it was 1993, and no the cafe isnt on fire.. The sample was from Kano, a song called I'm Ready.
VtachDJchris 8 months ago
whats the difference between strawberry letter 22 and 23?
DennyDigital 8 months ago
yes, the good old day's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gosh i was in high school! luv yuz then- luv yuz now
Cally, '78
karyndejohnette 8 months ago
love it 74 bird
missbirdy36 8 months ago
@Nikh50 I love the name calling, it shows such a high Intelligence.. So, that sinks your credibility.. SO, I have one more Sesame Street letter for you.. F... Fries. As put in a sentence for you might comprehend ... "Would like fries with that?" As I bow out of this stimulating physical, mental, and emotional vigor of conversation.. Its been an educational few days with you.. Not saying I'm right, or your wrong.. You make that decision on your own.. Just watch the name calling.
VtachDJchris 8 months ago
One of the best songs ever made
jboogie554 8 months ago 2
One of the best songs ever made
jboogie554 8 months ago
@Nikh50 Learn to spell, type, and get back to me.. You're very mentaly unarmed to deal with my capacity of thinking of music. As for the "Flute" Stop watching American pie.. It's a movie not a documentary..
But. will answer a question of your Sesame Street thinking.. M is for music, S is for sampling, and O is for Originality.. Something that you have no Idea about.. SO, my advice to you, crawl under your drum machine until you change your attitude.
VtachDJchris 8 months ago 2
@Nikh50 You need to back off with the F Bombs on me. I have forgot more music than you will ever know, or heard of. You think sampled music is an art form? What about making something original? I guess you didn't think before you pulled your Mom's tit outa your mouth! Go back, and learn something. OR learn to read music, I can, learn to play an instrument, I can 5 of them. And when you get to where I am in the knowledge of music, {not sayin' I know everything} But, you 27.. I guess your short.
VtachDJchris 8 months ago
That's some of the most badass old school funk bass you'll ever hear kids!
sevenheven7 8 months ago
@sevenheven7 :
lol! very true!
didaluv10 8 months ago
@sevenheven7 YOU KNOW IT BROTHER!!! I WAS 8 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS CAME OUT,,WOW WHAT A FUNKY HIT IT WAS!!
EXTIQUE 8 months ago
This is one of the greastest jams of all time my friends!
sgates68 9 months ago
THIS HERE PULP FICTION EXCERPT SCARES THE SHAGMELON SHITLESS THIS IS THE FIFT-NINTH TIME I'VE HEARD THIS SONG BTW
Shagmelon 9 months ago
This song makes me want to buy another Cadillac
ksears58 9 months ago 3
THANK YOU !!!!!!!
kinstube 9 months ago
I GOTTA ASK,,HOW DO PEOPLE GET STRAWBERRY LETTER 23 FROM THIS???? IT'S STRAWBERRY LETTER 22?? LISTEN TO THE CHORUS!! I MEAN,,,HELLO?????? BY THE WAY,,THIS TUNE HIT THE AIRWAVES APRIL OF 1976. REAL BIG HIT IN ALL THE DISCOS.
EXTIQUE 9 months ago
@EXTIQUE Check your history. This song was first recorded in 1972, it wasn't a hit at that time. The Brothers Johnson recorded their version of it in '76-'77.
harenchi 6 months ago
@harenchi absolutely correct...
67mrblack 6 months ago
This song is slicker than a babys chin!
jmag579 9 months ago
who sampled what because beyonce's id rather be with you has this rhythm
smaria2006 9 months ago
Nice intro. Love how the music comes in...
Apathesis0 9 months ago
this song is awsome listening to it on a vinal record with headphones
inkey2 9 months ago
Nize
spitchill 10 months ago
The Brothers Johnson were really cool cats. And the song is great
frosafelix 10 months ago
The great Louis Johnson on Bass. Guitarist Lee Ritenour did that fat Azz Guitar solo on this track. When this Album came out, I was a Junior at Mumford High School in Detroit Michigan. I was playing the Eelctric Guitar in Mumford's Stage band at the time. Kids back then took music very seriously as musicians. We had to study music. We had to take appiled music theory. And then practice our Azz off on our chosen musical instrument. And take vocal training as well. This was the norm then. MG
Basskat100 10 months ago
This is way before my time and i still prefer this over newer music
TheSweeet101 10 months ago
Intro & Outro are connected... Brilliant!!!
ArdaBTMKR 10 months ago
i agree the intro kicks some serious ass!!
Visalia13 10 months ago
@Visalia13
Yeah the intro was sick with it :).
Troublesome2008 10 months ago
DAMN that's good!
youarejinxed 10 months ago
Gangsta cutt right cheer...
josecalifas 10 months ago
Funk You Very Much!
zanefriedman83 10 months ago
one of the best
William3928 11 months ago
best part is the intro of the song!!!!love it...
UGAallDAY11 11 months ago
i listen to alot of genres. And funk is the best genre for bass playing without a doubt.
mrlee192 11 months ago
THIZ SONG DOES MY HEART SO GOOD
0nannette 11 months ago
Ohh hot momma
MrSamuelRice 11 months ago
Who the hell didn't like this great remake of a Shuggy Otis song Strawberry Letter 23?! Somebody does not know good or even great music!
kwkable11 11 months ago
I wish people would realize that the public education system does not care about exposing students to life enriching environments
SJMoscol 11 months ago
One of the great classic R & B love songs of the 70's. But to me it will always remind of
"Odell" getting ready to give "Beaumont" a long,long "dirt nap"! lol
LuckyLeBone 11 months ago
i hear you guys talking about schools/music programs. we wouldn't have quincy jones nor the brothers johnson if it weren't for public school music programs. CRAZY state of affairs.
intheekeyofcrime 11 months ago
Yes. Louis Johnson and Larry Graham were the shit on bass.
jumpnjm 11 months ago
The world would be a better place
If everyone picked up a bass
ApocalypseEon 11 months ago
Please, Bass players unite. If U can't get this put ur axe in the corner
n let it collect dust!
MrTruckdriver2011 1 year ago
I luv this song!!! classic music, talented musicians!!!
ahosch100 1 year ago
classic shit
billythekid4000 1 year ago
I was in 8th grade when this song came out. It's one of the best! Music of that time was comparatively better than much of today's because artists were more cerebral. They knew how to take heady topics and present them to the masses in a way that was appealing. That's a true gift. When the music is better, society is generally better. I agree with VtachDJchris that children benefit from music education.
FromUR2UB 1 year ago
i love the bothers of johnson.
marshmellow239 1 year ago
Shuggie Otis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PatrickOpalisky 1 year ago
Im 28 years old and Ive loved this song since I was SEVEN YEARS OLD!!! Their playing it right now in a book cafe so I had to pull it up! McAWESOME<----
TheESMERALDI 1 year ago
@TheESMERALDI
Cool :)
eddohan 1 year ago
@TheESMERALDI I have also loved this song a long time, since I was about 17 -- when it first came out! I have to tell you I just accidentally clicked on one of your Youtube videos, but stayed and watched. The "drag queen" video is so great. Thank you. This 50-year-old White gay guy thinks you are adorable. AND fabulous!
syrdojo 1 year ago
11 thumbs down fools who don't know good music.
HipHopcheerleader 1 year ago 26
@HipHopcheerleader perfect! an 8 y.o. tryin' to tell us what good music is!!!!!
MrTopgearguy1 6 months ago
@HipHopcheerleader yo man, this is the root of all the music today. this is the shit! if u dont like this song or this type of music, then you dont know what music is. this right here started our music in todays generation
macikar757 6 months ago 2
why didn't they have more hits??? this song and STOMP are off the chain.
thadxxx 1 year ago
I want this to be my wedding song
100thedannycash 1 year ago
BJ Rulz!!!!!!!!!!!!
parisel313 1 year ago
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
NovaDior 1 year ago
George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Lee Ritenour, Quincey Jones et al -
I salute you.
Again.
TroyConvers5000 1 year ago
ive been looking for this song for many years. i love it . thanks.
sweetgyy 1 year ago
The brother johnson were more than just gitar players than were writer,promoter
gifted and my band love them
patriciajones9416 1 year ago
@macksfischer
He was about 25 years ahead of his time back in the 70's. I could not believe when I first heard the album Inspiration Information that it was recorded in the early 70's.
curtisb3000 1 year ago
This was one of the first albums I ever owned back in the day.... Wow!
garrettwilh 1 year ago 2
Is this number about a inmate tripping in his crib?...........1 of the best funk songs ever
MrHanstar100 1 year ago
Not big on the double salute as the song starts but like the Movie (Pam Grier vehicle)REF and the Bro's J song of course is EPIC
markowenh 1 year ago
One of my greatest brothers of all time song!! Got nothing but love for him!! Do your thing Scottie Too Hottie!! One of my favs too!! Remember those days brother!! USDA
jrjones0327 1 year ago 2
Shuggie OTIS..............the originator
curtisb3000 1 year ago
This was really a great tune.I remember coming from Ammendola's Pizzeria in Yonkers N.Y.I had my slice and then picked up the Daily News for mom and read that the Son of Sam had struck again.this song was playing in the pizzeria.My first thought was "well Iam 12 and not making out in cars yet so I hope they get this creep before I DO start making out in cars to great jams like this and many,many more.lol
snake7154 1 year ago
I was in the 9th grade Jr. High School when I first heard this song and LOVED it so much that I bugged my cousin who is 8 yrs. my senior and in New York at the time to PLEASE send me the single to which was those 12" and it came in the color red(for Strawberry) and smelt like too! LOL! To this day when she hears this song she says: There's your Strawberry song! and strongly connects this to me for what will be the rest of my life! Awesome time period for music in those days. EW&F baddest band 2!
SouhernNightingGale 1 year ago
@SouhernNightingGale I had the Strawberry Disc too (and yes, it was strawberry scented)! Good memories o 1977! This song impressed me so much, I actually wrote the lyrics down. But, to my surprise, I found out in 2004 that they lifted this song from Shuggie Otis....The Brothers' Johnson's version is more dynamic, but I only wish that they had given credit to the original...
Hard4321 10 months ago
Dave Letterman often has his bandleader Paul Schaffer play 'Strawberry Letter 23' when they go off to commercial. They love this song!
Jgeneraledger23 1 year ago
Hearing this takes me back to when I used to play this song on my mom's console stereo. I thought it was the coolest record I ever saw, a transparent strawberry colered 12 inch.
msbernie1970 1 year ago
If only I had TIME MACHINE. I would go back to 1968 and continue to 1980. Then hit the Rewind Button. I would never leave that 12 year span. Just LOOP me over and over again. I'd never see 2010! hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
PEACE YA'LL
ddesign63 1 year ago
@ddesign63 You so CRAZY! But the TRUTH is I feel the same way! Amen! Music like that is literally HISTORY and CLASSIC! Too bad todays' artist haven't a clue to what music like that is or even begin to comprehend it! It's a SHAME before GOD and mankind.
SouhernNightingGale 1 year ago
sl23 are u out there?
sinjyn66 1 year ago
@Khultan Ibanese LR-10 Lee Ritenour Model, Schecter Telecaster, K.Yairi Earl Klugh Model Electric Gut Guitar, Fender Japan Stratcaster...etc
But, I don't have Gibson Les Paul "Black Beauty" as George.
catsduke 1 year ago
@catsduke Wow, that's quite an arsenal of musical weaponry you got. I have two guitars, used to have an accoustic ($300.00 US dollars) an in-law had given it away. It was a gift from my mother. Now, I have the Stratocaster (which, you can see my very rudimentary guitar playing) and an Epiphane bass guitar given to me by a musician with early arthritis on the promise I would care for it. I have not broken that promise.
Khultan 1 year ago
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Please check out our remix of this song: watch?v=PU8sx5wxJwM
CheesyBelgrade 1 year ago
A Backing Guitar, muted riffs effected by Mu-tron Bi-phase played by Lee Ritenour !!
catsduke 1 year ago
@catsduke You're a musician?
Khultan 1 year ago
@Khultan No, only an amateur guitarist. But a great fan of Lee, Brothers Johnson and Quincy.
catsduke 1 year ago
@catsduke What guitar do you have?
Khultan 1 year ago
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catsduke 1 year ago
i still have this album- it still sounds great
TheLeelee79 1 year ago
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...and they even used REAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!!! What the hell happened to music since then? R & B USED TO stand for rhythm and blues. I will never stop loving these grooves. It was a time when the height of creativity intersected with high fidelity.
fun9luv 1 year ago
...and they even used REAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!!! What the hell happened to music since then? R & B USED TO stand for rhythm and blues. I will never stop loving these grooves. It was a time when the height of creativity intersected with high fidelity.
fun9luv 1 year ago
@fun9luv exactly!! ;)
rickfan1964 1 year ago
@kidubyub--Shuggie Otis, who wrote AND played all of the instruments on the original, wrote Strawberry Letter 23 AS the reply to his girlfriend's Strawberry Letter 22.
behm777 1 year ago
Hey kidubyub. You rule! I never knew the significance of the title till now. Thank you so much.
stanxx999 1 year ago
Wow,so good<Thanx for the story kidyubyub
MrJoebolin 1 year ago
DA BOMB !!!!!!
rlmayville 1 year ago
Beautiful 'ol school. Love it!
vanessa4u4evr 1 year ago
So Glad to hear my music from back in the day!Man,this was great then and still is awesome.Kids have no idea today about real music,sad for them but not for me!(HEE HEE)
snake7154 1 year ago 2
Jackie Brown is the movie. Great flix BTW. Search the title and you can get a list of every tune played.
niaga3mta3 1 year ago
@niaga3mta3 Thanks I will get to search the tittle and get every tune.the movie was awesome and so was the music!
snake7154 1 year ago
what song plays when louis gets in the car after he shot melanie?
lbap94 1 year ago
whats the name of the movie?
joecool3535 1 year ago
@joecool3535 "Jackie Brown" is its name.
paradismile 1 year ago
@paradismile k thanks :-)
joecool3535 1 year ago
I saw the Brothers Johnson on stage do this piece when it first came out. Outstanding.
agape4tube 1 year ago
@agape4tube Hammersmith Odeon '77? me too !
70sfunkfan 1 year ago
A real classic. Funky and soulful with a hint of rebel. If this des not move your soul nothing will. Respect
thfcyidz 1 year ago
Who compairs to this today?? NO ONE, this era is classic shit that will never be replaced. Instead of introducing our kids to the "pop corn" culture music of today introduce them to this so they will always know what real music is.
llwevej 1 year ago
when he mentions strawberry letter 22 then you know this letter that he's writen bac is strawberry letter 23 you have to think this where your adult brains should come in
donnylovesayesha1 1 year ago
50331- truly a testament to how music can touch and reach you. RIP to your mom! know that every time you listen to this song, your mom's eyes are on you now and enjoying it still through you!!
stroh013 1 year ago
One of THE best funk/disco track,s ever produced, superb sound !!!
schuller51 1 year ago
this is the definitive version of this song
KarmasTooSlow 1 year ago
God Bless, great music!!!!!
classicaljazzica 1 year ago
Great song, wish I could find a vid of the Brothers Johnson actually doing this song.
Parrothead8675309 1 year ago
very well done vid
UPELKUCHEN 1 year ago
Us 12 year olds would hang out at Genaro's Pizzeria jammin'to this playing the pin ball machines.Yes,Iam old enough to remember the pin ball days,before computer games!I would never wan't to change that eithor.
snake7154 1 year ago
I was eating breakfast in a restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This song came on the juke box and I ask the waitress to dance to it. We danced to it all the way to the end and then I thanksed her and sat back down and finished my breakfast. I went back almost everyday for a month until she would go out with me. She said she never forgot that dance in the restaurant and that became our song until I went away to Marine Boot Camp. Ah Memories!
hoosierarcher 1 year ago 2
@hoosierarcher ......now that is a DOPE story! I bet she was fine. Was she?
Sounds kinda like the scene from the movie CAR WASH. hahaha
PEACE
ddesign63 1 year ago
@ddesign63 She was Hotter than a dollar pistol! As they used to say back in the day.
hoosierarcher 1 year ago
love it. good job goodfella.
lowell191 1 year ago
This is my absolute favorite song of all time.
sueskins 1 year ago
You go Goodfella0207!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!
snake7154 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL.
kazuewcv 1 year ago
another awsome oldie. sweet music.
dodgeboykev 1 year ago
Just wanted you to know that your mother wanted to tell you thank you for the laugh and the smell when you dance in your underware listening to this song and that she love you
sweets0526 1 year ago
I first heard this when I was about 15,,,, I bet I haven't heard this for 25-30 years
Still sounds fn great
jjac152904 1 year ago