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  • Damn!! I listened to this for the first time when I was about 5 years and loved it since. Sounds very elegant and cool. What I like the most is that instrumental coda, which can be extended for minutes and minutes and still you wouldn´t want the song to end. Well, at least the version we hear on the radio goes on and on. Perfect song.

  • this song is so smooth and soulful, Amazing!!!!

  • Bobby Caldwell is an amazing, soulful singer-songwriter. Many people thought he was black which made him all the more fascinating. He's written some surprising tunes -- "Next Time I Fall" (Peter Cetera/Amy Grant). No doubt that one paid some bills! Bobby looks like a Jewish doctor, now ... but here, in 1978, he was kind of hot!

  • love this tune...

  • hip hop was build on guys like this... white/black it doesn't matter every single culture has had a HUGE impact on HIP HOP!

  • go head white boy...lol

  • Man,I always thought this guy was black. The man's got soul. Love it.

  • I just love Bobby Caldwell.

    He will alway be the original "Cat in the Hat". Jay Kay, of Jamiroquai (whom I think is cool) owes this man a huge debt. I hope that he acknowledges it.

  • This song has been sampled more than a Church Bake Sale.

  • lol true

  • lol nice

  • my fav song of all time

  • This is the greatest motherfucking song of all time, madly tough track........Lyrics go deep aswell awsome

  • Will someone who knows how please put the longest version of this gem on youtube? What a nice groove that is.

  • The guy's got so much soul.. man he can sing a tune

  • I love this jam!!!!!!!! I love to hear Bobby Caldwell sing anything!!!!!!!

  • Daryl Hall has not soul in his voice like bobby

    im sorry but bobby got it

    close your eyes

    can't go for that or this  come on now lasigmaman

  • tupac found a hell of a track to sample... this is so smooth

  • Yo ForbezFuture Here and im going to promote him lol

    EVERYBODY TOLD HE WAS BLACK,I WAS SHOCKED

    LOOK AT HIS SWAG IN THE VIDEOS,HE'S ON POINT AND IN MELODY OF HE'S BODY MOVEMENT TELLS

    HES HAS A MELANIN POSSESSION,I LOVE THIS SONG AND IM A 18 YR QUEENS BORN.BLACK WHITE GREEN BLUE IT DOESN'T MATTER AS LONG AS IT'S POSITIVE BUT BOBBY CALDWELL IS IN MY BOOKS FOR THIS SONG.......FORBEZFUTURE

  • OMG I THOUGHT HE WAS BLACK

  • They refer to him as being "Blue Eyed Soul."

  • the reason all his album covers show a shadow of him is because he wanted to keep race out of it. thats part of the appeal for me.

  • very well said, and I agree.

    Bobby Caldwell has REAL talent but it was obvious that he battled drug addiction. He looks good and healthy now though.

  • it's a great song. it's not about skin color. peace to the human race!!!

  • well said.

  • Timeless

  • Lol, I love this song I'm 23 and I've been listening to the vinyl my whole life I always knew he was white.

  • this song does crazy things to me... def on my faves list.....

  • WHITE BOY GOT SOUL!

  • oh my fucking god he is black...i mean white fuck it he is a black man traped in a white mans body,,keep on fighting and singing brother the black man is bound to come out and when it those watch out white folks yall been then lost another in the racial draft 2009''lol

  • ROFL

  • When I first heard it, I tought it was a black singer. It sure does sound like it, and the rythem is straight SOUL. Also this is a great song to make love to. LOL.

  • Most of what people think is cool was made cool by Afro Americans. Not only in music have they United but if you really dig in to the history Afro Americans they have bridged the races in everything. All the things we say , "Hey man" , "Give me 5" , "Whats up" , "cool" , "Heavy" , "Big Time" , our culture...

    So this man might be white but he is singing a song wrote by a black man and a rhythm he could not undertsand with out the help of black soul ...

    But I know you kids already knew that ...

  • shut the fuck up

  • AMEN my brotha !¡!...

  • Bobby Caldwell wrote this song, dude.

  • Wow I would not have guessed in a million years that this man was white lol. But he is amazing! One of my favorite artists. I think he looks a bit like hugh jackman here haha

  • Is there any other artists like caldwell? he's amazing,also i love the songs my flame and one love classic!!!

  • light skinned?! hahahaha! This dude is white! White man CAN sing!

  • This is one of the best songs ever written, period.

  • classic

  • If he's not white, I'm the blackest Chinese man you'll ever meet. You go white brother!!

  • LOl!, O snap!

  • get in bobby, u got soul son!

  • great song but doesnt the beginning part sound a little like the theme from Benson? haha

  • My favorite song of all time. The greatest blue eyed soul singer and yes, as a kid I also though he was black. lol

  • Now he DOES get a run for his money from Daryl Hall! :)

  • @ lasigmaman, I do love me some Daryl Hall. But I have to admit...Bobby Caldwell has a better voice, in my opinion.

  • lasigmaman:  That's true. They're both so soulful!

  • This song is timeless. He could have been a Martian for all I care. He sings from the heart and that's real soul music!

  • yeah baby yeah dis be the shit!!!!!!!!!!!

  • you go Bobby Caldwell sing that song brother

  • He got soul for a white man

  • color doesn't matter, it's what's within

  • hes got soul man period.

  • he is not white, just light skin.

  • LoL! He just light skinded!!

  • the first beat iz from Z-RO MARYJANE check it out

  • Ha, loved this song since I was a kid, had no clue of what it was about but then, such as today, is one hell of a "sophisticated sounding song". Love the long instrumental fade out, makes you want to hear it again and again. Perfect song!!

  • this vid is so old and cheese'y. its a fantastic song one of my favorites never tire of hearing it. play it over and over sining along. am i a sad git?

  • My morning dose of soul.. Bobby Caldwell makes my heart melt.....! YEAH! Merry Chirstmas everyone...

  • never in a million years expected him to look like that, wow.  go bobby~

  • wow hes a white boy i thought he was blk lol damn he got soul man lol

  • My dad told me he remade this spng from a black band

  • The group is called Frankie Beverly and Maze

  • I was 13 when this song was out. I didn't know how to talk to girls yet, but they all loved this record. I remember riding the bus one day with the heart shaped single (yes on vinyl, lol) and I got a lot of conversation that day! Thanks Bobby!!!

  • some real blue eyed soul right here

  • I thought he was asian....?

  • I though he was asian...? lol

  • Man I miss Eighties Soul, the Quiet Storm Radio Format. All those low voice DJ's: 'KKJZ 103.3' your best in Magic Soul(cue thunder and lightning!) Up Next: The Whispers, Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson and The Commodores. We are here to cure your late-night-blues!! LOL

    I can still picture myself right under my parents Magnovox stereo!!

  • me too! i thought that was a black man!!! besides i love the song!!!! dont matter

  • I must admit I am 40 years old and i just realized he was white, i mean he really gets into it real soulful. Love this song.

  • "...and i just realized he was white."

    Same here. All these years I never knew.

  • una cancion pra relajarse y estar viendo un atardecer...... muy buena

  • Over in Japan he is the undisputed king for them when it comes to singing.

  • More blue eyed soul love this song he looks like Luke Perry from 90210.

  • Wow! I was 100% sure he was black:)

    Hmm... I guess I just learned something important right now:D

  • All this time I thought this was George Benson, but Bobby Caldwell as was said is DA BOMB on this song...I love it..makes me think of someone very special of whom I just sang a few lines of this to on last evening.. :-)

  • what the hell hes white???!!!!!!wtf

  • Yep, he's white and this song is still da bomb!!!!!!

  • yup and its one of my favorite

  • LOL!:D exactly my reaction

  • Still can't believe this was sung by a white guy!

  • It is all about soul. Black music helped erase the barrier between white and black. All cultures now that I think about it.

  • yes right on!!!!!!!

  • i know, the first time i heard this song i thought it was sung by a black dude! i love this song! i listen to it all the time.

  • Another song I can't believe the lead singer is white was At This Moment by Billy Vera & the Beaters

  • This is the first ever seing the singer, I'm floored! Soul is soul, Why to bring it!!!! Classic song!!!

  • this song was sampled so many times by my fav. rap artists but the original is the shit.

  • Damn I love this song!! You better sing that song Bobby

  • The single (45rpm) was heart shaped on red vinyl. Album on yellow vinyl. Crazy!

  • O' yesssss!

  • There used to be a better version of the video up that showed a bird in a cage on the bench at the end. No matter. The voice and the emotion and the "soul" in this song are still strong though decades have passed. He should be proud of this even if fashions and such have changed.

  • And i thought Michael mcDonald and Joe Cocker ad it sewn up.I've been playing this since it came out and i never knew.

    Regardless of his colour this is an black anthem,classic material of endless quality.

  • Blue eyed Soul baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Love it!

  • Love it, Love it!!!!!!!

  • Just look what was in still back then... with the extra wide tie...

  • I think it's hot and retro, and back when he was skinny and young he could carry it off.

  • one of all time favs, the lyrics are intense, love the vibe

  • Timeless classic! A lot of people thought he was black ( I sure did )!

  • Wow...that is so true. I just got a major shock!!

  • bobby c is da man

  • Fantastic arrangement and accompaniment. Flawless singing. Great song.

  • Robin Thicke you better work and match this! You too Justin Timberlake!

  • I'm not sure if that's possible for them.

  • LOL It might be but they need to man up their game!

  • man i lovve this song. first heard it on 2pac's Do For Love.

  • The strange thing is, now that I've seen him sing this song, I find it hard to imagine a Black man singing it now.

    Whereas before, as I'm sure was the case with most people, I thought he was

    Black.

  • lol at his dancing

  • "in my world, only you"

    great songwriting.

  • there no color in music he just blessed with soul like any indivdual would be who knows about music and his voice is beyond amzing very strong ,pwerful and sincere..just really beautiful hes not good he is excellent superb!

  • i grow up with this song and then tupac made and next version i love them both

  • still can't stop listenin, i feel like singing this to my ex... lol

  • I love this song.

  • This is going to sound crazy, but I always thought Bobby Caldwell was a black dude. lol

  • Not crazy, I did too, and I'm black!

  • Dude, imagine my surprise when I see a black dude introducing some white dude as Bobby Caldwell at a live session. I remembered thinking "Wait... so... he's white? O_o; WOW, was I mistaken! O_O;" XD

  • o m g me too. he sounds like one of the commodores but he's amazing.

    i adore this song!!!!!!!!!

  • So did I! I searched him on google and saw a picture...was really surprised.What an incredible voice!!!This is one of my favorite songs-I listen to it all the time.

  • I love this song.

  • i just got back frm a club its 4.30 in the morniing n i just have to listen to this tune a few more times...

  • I will NEVER tire of listening to this song. Loving you Bobby but you kind of looked like a hobbit back then.

  • So mean! He was kind of cute in that 'guy from the Scissor Sisters' sorta way! Bobby and Kenny Loggins had a similar look actually, maybe it's all in the look?

  • OH HELL YEAH!!!! A true classic!

  • This song takes me back to 1978-79 and being in love with a beautiful woman. Hell, I still love her but that's another story. We went our seperate ways in life. It had something to do with me living abroad for 20+ years and her being something of a home town type. This song also reminds me of long nights in the Buckhead/club district of Atlanta during that time and the exuberance and passion of youth. Oh to be 21 again.

  • Man you have been in love with this woman for 30 years?! She is lucky. I can't get a guy to love me for 5 minutes lol

  • Actually I have been married 3 times in the 30years since and am currently (for 14 years) married to a woman I love, but yes, I still love the woman from my past. You can (at least I can) love more than one person at the same time.

  • ciarrai3 and davide131 you both said it, this song is the shit and i can never hear enough of this song!

    i'm a big fan of hip hop n dnb few other stuff but can appreciate anything...

    i heard this playing in a store last week n i heard a dnb version samplin it few days ago, just come home played tune on repeat LOUD like 5 times went for a smoke... came back and i've had to listen to it on repeat while singing along (yes i'll admit it) another 5 times!!

  • is it me or does bobby look like hugh jackman? (the guy who played wolverine in the x-men movies) just with brown hair

    btw ive been a fan of this song since i was a lil boy

  • I thought the same thing. LOL. Great song.

  • dam thiz song iz the shit!!!

  • I can never hear too much of this song.

  • You know....Boy 2 Men has a version of this song on their "Throw Back" album. It's not as good as this ( The original ) but it's pretty good. The Albulm itself has a couple of pretty good old school remakes. You might wanna check that out....or....not.

  • wow wicked, i didnt even know this guy was white (not tht it matters, soul is soul) but still amazin voice!!!

  • From Anna,

    Hi all, This song has a breezy feeling to me.

    Your friend,

    Anna

  • this white boy sound good

  • I thought it was Earth, Wind and Fire and most people did because it had those elemnets that make EWF so great, sweeping jazzy Larry Dunn keyboards Maurice White -type lead vocal and Phoenix Horns sound that Caldwell got. The peaked at no.6 on the R&B charts, white acts hit no.1 on the charts with no problem so it must have been an American label who played mostly rock music, because AWB played on "Soul Train" and charted on the R&b charts regularlywith no problems.

  • THIS IS MY SHIT!

  • "you've tried everything!..." so so so so jammin'...

  • smooth

  • As I go to various B.C.sites it seems all most people are concerned with is the skin tone and it let's us know that we're still a

    bunch of FUCKING STONEAGERS!!!WAKE UP AMERICA

  • By the way - They love him in Japan... : )

  • i <3 Soul

  • Did I say David Peck..I meant Pack (Ambrosia).

  • Blue eyed soul..not too many of them out there (good ones), Michael Mcdonald,Boz Scaggs,Simply Red,Steve Winwood, and the latest Robin Thicke. Bobby C right up there with the best. (I know I left out many eg:Daryll Hall, Eric Burdon, David Peck etc..no room,please no hate)

  • right you are my man . .

  • Don't forget the chicks. I gotta hand it to them they were good. Dusty Springfield, Lisa Stansfield, Teena Marie...only they could pave the way for Christina Aguilera and Amy Winehouse.

  • When you're talking about blue eyed soul singers and chicks, no list is even a list without Joss Stone. I think she is better than Christina Aguliera or Amy Winehouse, especially she seems to be more mature than either of them, and she's only 21. Now, the list is complete.

  • check out the singer Nikka Costa-lots of stuff here on youtube and she is the real deal,too....

  • I'm going to do that right now. Just the name alone, Nikka Costa, has me curious. Costa is a Portuguese name, I'm Portuguese. In fact, I was born in Lisbon.

  • Check out Kenny Loggins:)

  • wow this cat is white.........well i dont care.......he a brother to me.........this brother is the only white boy i will call my soul brother.............amazing shit....love this song..........my dad would play this

  • I guess we can make Bobby an honorary brother. He's good.

  • Bobby Blue Eye's, Good Shit!

  • Bobby Womack originally did this song right?

    Phyllis Hyman covered it as well.

  • he is the man. He naturally sounds soulful without trying. He's definitely no eminem or vanilla ice. the jon b of the 70s. I thought he was black too. I read where his label didn't want to use his pic on the albulm cover, to hide his identity from rnb radio stations. It was revealed once he was seen on tv.

  • Booy is a super vocalist.

    Long live the king of blue eyed soul.

  • wow, i spent my whole life thinking this was a dark-skinned black man with a full grayed out beard! Guess i thought only blacks could sing with that much soul, boy was wrong!

  • LOL! Don't feel like the lone ranger. So did I.

  • I actually thought this was a black man singing this song for the longest while... i am shocked!

  • SERIOUSLY

  • ((((Straight to favorites))))

  • Amen brattitude..straight to favorites..

  • im a black man and this white man has soul..thats because GOD created all of mankind with a soul

  • when my parents had this album i thought bobby caldwell was black

  • If you love this song, you gotta hear "Oh Jamaica" his songs are the joint and that album from which this song is off of is great. Yes I remember when this song came out. Timeless and beautiful

  • timeless.

  • Did stevie wonder do backing vocals in this track? it sounds like him in there.

  • Jon B., Justin, Robin Thicke, pay attention. This song (along with joints from Mike McDonald, Joe Cocker, Hall&Oates, Teena Marie and others) is the DEFINITION of Blue-eyed Soul. RESPECT!!

  • in my world, only you......