when I hear the intro to this song with all the horns, it reminds me of the intro to the Michael Baisden show that comes on the radio here in DC.....this groove is the shit!!!! the younger & much younger generation don't know shit about this right here!!! real sounds & clean-cut fun!!!
This was one of my favorite non-disco/disco tune. It was Funky with a capital F. Didn't hurt in my mind that T.S. was Thelonius Monk's son. The group showed creativity and musicianship.I always thought T.S. and Chic were the best of that lot anyway. For me if it ain't funky...it ain't real. Gotta stay true to da funk if you want to move the crowd!
@MrBillc1023 Yes, and you also had TS's late sister Boo Boo (Barbara) on the left, and Sonny Rollins's nephew Clifton Anderson on trombone (right). Classic jam!
always will be a classic. just listen and you know why. people call me crazy for listening to old school music. Music now days will make you a devil worshiper
Eu me lembro de bons tempos, bons lugares e pessoas boas que não estão mais conosco. Mas enquanto a música continua a ser, então aqueles tempos, lugares e pessoas permanecem vivos em nossos corações! Obrigado por manter viva a verdadeira música!
Jams like this one just take you there! I remember good times, good places, and good people who are no longer with us. But as long as the music remains, then those time, places, and people remain alive in our hearts! Thanks for keeping the REAL music alive!
music is fucking dead period.that hip hop shit they try to feed us is all shit and they know it,we should burn that hip hop shit just like they did disco.fuck that hip hop shit ireal hate shit.
The rhythm feeds my soul. The chorus carries me back. This was around the time I was born, but I connect to it because I know my father was filling the walls of our home with this kind of music. Fantastic sound!
I remember my older sister and I went to the club one ladies night. I was a senior in high school, partying with the grown folks. . . that's when I knew I had arrived. What memories this song brings back!
My son is 22 years old and this came on Satellite Radio and he was so open, he bought it on I-Tunes I looked at him and I told him when the song came out! He was shocked now he is trying to find 80"s R&B! I try to tell that boy that this music that music that's out now is insulting!!!
I have to say, this is music!!! I love the new stuff, but this is homemade goodness that a lot of the music today just doesn't have. We don't see to many self contained bands these days and I really miss that. This is true soul and funk the lifts and stays with you forever. Rock On!
A true NEW YORK CITY CLASSIC. this is 4 all who are on the unemployment line due too the major funk ups that this country has gotten us into.. PLEASE GIVE US THE GOOD LIFE! SOMETIMES WE FEEL LIKE A STRANGER HERE. SOMTIMES WE FEEL LIKE NO 1 REALLY GIVES A DAM IF WE DROP DEAD RIGHT HERE ON THE SPOT...30 plus yrs later & the words moves more mountains than 1980... BUSH/OBAMA when was the last time u heard a trax like this GIVE ME THE GOOD LIFE..Thanks 4 the classic tune! keep ya head up
@lyric520 I know that's right.. I'm ready to go skaing. I grew up at the rink. For my father Managed Rosedale Skateland in Maryland. about 10 years of my life there.
NOW THIS IS MUSIC. BADDASS FUNK . LUV IT. TODAYS MUSIC SUCKS. HOW DO THEY STAY IN BUISNESS WHO BUYS THE CRAP TODAY. FUNK OR SOUL DOES NOT EXSIST TODAY. . THE RECORD COMPANIES SUCK TODAY AND WILL ALWAYS SUCK. PAYING NO TALENT FOOLS TO BLABBER
@feistychick70 107.5 W.B.L.S. and 98.7 KISS were on in my dial daily and nightly!!!! It was surely a good life then compared to the way we live and feel today. Have you noticed what they play on radio today is mostly negative, doom and gloom? Hey, let's not forget 99 X , it went to KISS right before 1980 I think, but their mixes were great then also!!!
I used to be a lightman at a club full of black folks and i was not only the lightman but the whiteman but i had a blast syncing the lights to this music , damn i wished i could have seen who was producing this music,! bravo~~~!!
This was the shit back in the day. It's a damn shame you can't a real band these days, playing real instruments and making feel good music like this. Damn I miss that 80's shit. Do ya'll not see this nigga playing the drums and singing at the same time? Get the fuck outta here.
@thughunglo Not much different than Steve Arrington of Slave.... When you think about it, it make perfect sense to do both if you can, Phil Collins....
After 30 years I still don't know what Bon Bon Vie means. Does anyone know if that is French or something? That said, this was originally released in 1980 by TS Monk son of the FAMOUS Jazz artist Theloneos Monk. I was 17 when this came out and sored up the R&B charts. Long live the 80's!
I know when I was growing up, when this song came out, my uncle used to call "Bon Vie" some sure fire weed. Even as I grew I used to hear "give that Bon Vie".
1978-1983 THE golden age of funk !Those years will NEVER be duplicated again the music today hip hop especially sold their souls to the record companies for the garbage they put out,now do you really think that crap will be playing 30 years from now ???
@7980COOL1 i really agreed with this!Jams like this will never duplicates nowadays.the drums,the guitars, bass,sax,synths and the vocals!!aahh man, Iam glad this music is still alive!
My God! incredible! that is a relic! I tanned excessively this music. good times It studied and it has left sixth and Saturdays the night! innocence times it remembers good times to me! I came back to the past!
@kk2008kk Hey guys I don't know what lenguage you speak , but in Cuba all that music was so demanded and enjoyed for the old cuban people generation, me included ok!
Meu Deus!! inacreditável !! isto é uma relíquia !! Eu curti demais esta música.. bons tempos ... Estudava e saia sexta e sabados a noite!! tempos de inocência ... me lembra bons tempos!! voltei ao passado !!
These classic tunes will never be duplicated @ all. These classic tunes stand with such a strong foundation. Its 30 something yrs later & we are leaning towards old tunes for an escape back to a time when we had less stress & no cell phones, pc's, no modern tech, which has created some good but also soo much debt... purchase something an its superseeded in 3 months, how they hell can one stay above water when big brother wants us to fail. Cars are made bad, gm is under water, no jobs, WTF!!!!!
Ladyjoan1 i thnk u for replying back to my comment.. i could go on for hrs but i
may have yt report me to the gov. lol
Music is a reflection of the current times & just listen to whats out on the air waves Garbage! Bitch this, whore that, bling bling, tats everywhere,piercings... male & females can fit under those categories i stated. I dont favor either side just dont like what i see & where we are going as one. This cntry/wrld = titanic & we are all going down. Miss the old school. Peace
if only i had a time machine, what great memomries!!! wow incredible, if on they knew back then how it would make future generations stiil feel good all these years later
All good, real music for the masses feed ur soul peoples.
LaitnFunkMob86 1 day ago
good muito bom,
gilportugal 1 week ago
when I hear the intro to this song with all the horns, it reminds me of the intro to the Michael Baisden show that comes on the radio here in DC.....this groove is the shit!!!! the younger & much younger generation don't know shit about this right here!!! real sounds & clean-cut fun!!!
RDC1ofDC 3 weeks ago
Now this is what we old school folks call, FUNK!!!..
MisterCrazyLegs 3 weeks ago
This was one of my favorite non-disco/disco tune. It was Funky with a capital F. Didn't hurt in my mind that T.S. was Thelonius Monk's son. The group showed creativity and musicianship.I always thought T.S. and Chic were the best of that lot anyway. For me if it ain't funky...it ain't real. Gotta stay true to da funk if you want to move the crowd!
MrBillc1023 1 month ago
@MrBillc1023 Yes, and you also had TS's late sister Boo Boo (Barbara) on the left, and Sonny Rollins's nephew Clifton Anderson on trombone (right). Classic jam!
Streamline09 2 weeks ago
Priceless!! Top Classic Tune
MasterHak 2 months ago
always will be a classic. just listen and you know why. people call me crazy for listening to old school music. Music now days will make you a devil worshiper
mssunshinegonzales 2 months ago
@mssunshinegonzales notice how every band during that time had a full band! The 'corporatization" of music got rid of the musicians
drloshead 2 months ago
My jam
MsLaLaProductions 2 months ago
"Put our last dime in dat blind man's cup!" And we won't be satisfied until we hear the sound go "DING!" lol
We've had a good time and did a good deed too! LMBO
devoutman 2 months ago
This my jam n i look hard for this song. Bon bon vie
MsLaLaProductions 2 months ago
Eu me lembro de bons tempos, bons lugares e pessoas boas que não estão mais conosco. Mas enquanto a música continua a ser, então aqueles tempos, lugares e pessoas permanecem vivos em nossos corações! Obrigado por manter viva a verdadeira música!
motoqueiro93 3 months ago
I want to just dance & have a big good time on this Jam! No way that I can sit hearing them Jammin! wooooooo Gimme The Good Life!
Gimme The Bon!
ymlong717 3 months ago
Jams like this one just take you there! I remember good times, good places, and good people who are no longer with us. But as long as the music remains, then those time, places, and people remain alive in our hearts! Thanks for keeping the REAL music alive!
Nurhyme 4 months ago
I still love this song. Stone jam!!!!!
DaFunkyAquarian 4 months ago
This is a typical feel good song from back in the day.
rebrouser313 4 months ago
another gem to represent my early youth.You know this is old school.Where the drummer is da lead singer.That action from the 70s.
visionkingdom 4 months ago
Was chillin in the 504 as a youth when this came out... will always be bomb!
hmurray1 4 months ago
CLASSIC JAM NICE LOVE THIS JAM
marcus8545 4 months ago
muito muito muthafuckin BEM! Me encanto this sonnnnnnnnnnng!
o0R3stless0o 4 months ago
OMG!!!!! I had FORGOTTEN this song!!! Did I jam to this one!!! Thank you.
mcoldskool 4 months ago
Someone please digitize this!
Kell1295 5 months ago
Waiting for "Terrordome" to come in
ganzitoism 5 months ago
killer version, kk!!
videoviksinn 6 months ago
This is a group of people having one heck of a party! Thanks for posting - classic!
Scorpion1054 6 months ago
I am diggin that chic in the yellow shawl.
Dashland13 6 months ago
music is fucking dead period.that hip hop shit they try to feed us is all shit and they know it,we should burn that hip hop shit just like they did disco.fuck that hip hop shit ireal hate shit.
raycargo78 7 months ago
I AGREE...THERES NO MORE SOUL OR FUNK IN TODAYS MUSIC...BUNCH OF AUTOTUNE CRAP....UGHHHHHH....DAMN SELLOUTS
XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX 7 months ago
my wife and i are doing the "bump" listening to this classic. our era had the best music in history... PERIOD!
vicmicver818 7 months ago
Reminds me of the goodtimes in the Big Apple(NY),listening to WBLS 107.5 fm...oh yeah!!!
djelawn 7 months ago
@djelawn YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! SURE WAS A GREAT TIME IN MUSIC/LIFE!
port2344chester 5 months ago
Classic !!!
Thanks for sending this track !!!.........Needed to hear this again !!!
sonofyah2726 7 months ago
GIMME THE GOOD LIFE!!!!!!
wefunc 7 months ago
I grew up with this music.
cyblues 8 months ago
WOW! Lift up your spirits today. Check this Vid! Oh yeah!
tonymusicluva 8 months ago
The rhythm feeds my soul. The chorus carries me back. This was around the time I was born, but I connect to it because I know my father was filling the walls of our home with this kind of music. Fantastic sound!
jmuhammad07 8 months ago
A blast from the past!
mrc302 8 months ago
I remember my older sister and I went to the club one ladies night. I was a senior in high school, partying with the grown folks. . . that's when I knew I had arrived. What memories this song brings back!
sweetthingvi 9 months ago
My son is 22 years old and this came on Satellite Radio and he was so open, he bought it on I-Tunes I looked at him and I told him when the song came out! He was shocked now he is trying to find 80"s R&B! I try to tell that boy that this music that music that's out now is insulting!!!
MissBrace1 9 months ago
@MissBrace1 I was trying to find this song on itunes. But I cannot find it.
tailtail75 8 months ago
Late 70's / early 80's at the His & Hers, Airport, Disco Cube, Zig-Zag, Disco 2001, etc.--Subic Bay, Philippines!
lesmorosi 9 months ago
Thank you for......Bringing the REAL SOUL music...I LOVE this song!!!!!!!
ladynitemd 9 months ago
I have to say, this is music!!! I love the new stuff, but this is homemade goodness that a lot of the music today just doesn't have. We don't see to many self contained bands these days and I really miss that. This is true soul and funk the lifts and stays with you forever. Rock On!
nessa1063 9 months ago
This song brings back alot of good memories,and good times.
fonijha 9 months ago in playlist lake poc 1
Warm it up, Kris!
daddycutsme 10 months ago
YESS! This is MUSIC, BABY! ^_^
schildno5 10 months ago
oh yeah we used bump this joint in Chicago back in the day. brings back a lot of good memories. CHI-CITY!!!
26Deacon 11 months ago
Blackstreet's "Good Life sampled this joint.
gahan101 11 months ago 2
@gahan101 EVERYBODY sampled this joint!
drloshead 2 months ago
Wow I just noticed that weird bust they are dancing in front of. ma boule
WilliamSelassie 1 year ago
i swear i think i played this song like 5 times back to back tonight
Pookie2419 1 year ago 2
<-- 10/15/1976 i'm glad i lived thru about half of this generation that produced great music.
Pookie2419 1 year ago
What fun !
theoduo 1 year ago
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arkansoul 1 year ago
Man...I Wish I Had A Time Machine....
2916316 1 year ago
welcome to the terrordome
jondoefolife 1 year ago
SONGS LIKE THIS BELONG IN THE SMITHSONIAN
provisionscatering 1 year ago 10
Great! Fantastic! The golden era of disco and Funk!
Essa com certeza marcou muito e ainda é uma das mais tocadas como flash backs nas melhores rádios
TioOrla 1 year ago
Love this song! Videos from the 80s and early 90s were so whack! LOL
ralexnicholas 1 year ago
Top Drawer! Great song! Nice job on the vid.
DJDiscocat 1 year ago
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A true NEW YORK CITY CLASSIC. this is 4 all who are on the unemployment line due too the major funk ups that this country has gotten us into.. PLEASE GIVE US THE GOOD LIFE! SOMETIMES WE FEEL LIKE A STRANGER HERE. SOMTIMES WE FEEL LIKE NO 1 REALLY GIVES A DAM IF WE DROP DEAD RIGHT HERE ON THE SPOT...30 plus yrs later & the words moves more mountains than 1980... BUSH/OBAMA when was the last time u heard a trax like this GIVE ME THE GOOD LIFE..Thanks 4 the classic tune! keep ya head up
port2344chester 1 year ago
Girl, I know I miss those days too, I wish I knew of a skating place in Maryland that just plays the old school music, do you know of any?
lyric520 1 year ago
WoW! What a party!?
belgradegiant 1 year ago
9th grade all over again....thank u.....nuthin but fun...this music is timeless
nelsonjyspd 1 year ago
ALL SKATE
lyric520 1 year ago
@lyric520 I know that's right.. I'm ready to go skaing. I grew up at the rink. For my father Managed Rosedale Skateland in Maryland. about 10 years of my life there.
DivaJacobs313 1 year ago
BACK IN THE DAY...ALL......SKATE
lyric520 1 year ago
Soul Train Line Song!
DatGirlG 1 year ago
My dad loved this song.
beastppk 1 year ago
Love this song!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!
hillarchives 1 year ago
i like the bon bon beat !!!!
thegoodkidd 1 year ago
i like the beat !!!!
thegoodkidd 1 year ago
Michael Baisden's break music Ha!
dismissed7 1 year ago
@dismissed7 LOL! Thats where I got hooked to this song I knew I had to find it
OlSchoolPaya 1 year ago
@OlSchoolPaya Lol Right!
dismissed7 1 year ago
this is the businesssssssss
BEATSLAPPA 1 year ago
Bunch of Grapes East 125 st. Disco .Harlem NY.
The Good Life.
prussell156 1 year ago
NOW THIS IS MUSIC. BADDASS FUNK . LUV IT. TODAYS MUSIC SUCKS. HOW DO THEY STAY IN BUISNESS WHO BUYS THE CRAP TODAY. FUNK OR SOUL DOES NOT EXSIST TODAY. . THE RECORD COMPANIES SUCK TODAY AND WILL ALWAYS SUCK. PAYING NO TALENT FOOLS TO BLABBER
XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX 1 year ago
fabulous !!!!!!!!!! I have'nt heard this song in 25 years.
Blackswandreamer 1 year ago
This makes your spirit dance!
Still sounds great almost 30 years later!
This is on my iPod for the gym!
Gets me a groovin' and a movin' every single time.
brandx01 1 year ago
WBLS and KISS fm (NYC)...
feistychick70 1 year ago
@feistychick70 107.5 W.B.L.S. and 98.7 KISS were on in my dial daily and nightly!!!! It was surely a good life then compared to the way we live and feel today. Have you noticed what they play on radio today is mostly negative, doom and gloom? Hey, let's not forget 99 X , it went to KISS right before 1980 I think, but their mixes were great then also!!!
hobokenwiseguy 1 year ago
@hobokenwiseguy You are so right.. well spoken!
port2344chester 1 year ago
9 plus minutes ... ouch @ disco feet!!! long versions used to be anticipated by record buyers, and stuff like this was very rare, even then
Mixxersmix 1 year ago
This is the real shit right here!!!!
mrdeedz1 1 year ago
NO FUNK ...IS SOULLLLLLLLLLL
cezinhaluiz 1 year ago
HEY!!!!
stewbie59 1 year ago
I used to be a lightman at a club full of black folks and i was not only the lightman but the whiteman but i had a blast syncing the lights to this music , damn i wished i could have seen who was producing this music,! bravo~~~!!
ThePajaro101 1 year ago 2
omg ... x..x
mordechaifrog 1 year ago
This was the shit back in the day. It's a damn shame you can't a real band these days, playing real instruments and making feel good music like this. Damn I miss that 80's shit. Do ya'll not see this nigga playing the drums and singing at the same time? Get the fuck outta here.
thughunglo 1 year ago
@thughunglo Not much different than Steve Arrington of Slave.... When you think about it, it make perfect sense to do both if you can, Phil Collins....
dj4monie 1 year ago
This was & still is dat shit. This reminds me of listening to WBLS getting ready for school
mrslideinsideu2 2 years ago
that's exactly what it means...bon (good) vie(life)...give me that good life!!!!!!
edredd701 2 years ago
@ 80s4ever63 ...I think it's french, I googled it, according to my understanding,...it's "bon vie", means "good life"
BLACKSTARSHABACH 2 years ago
Talk about jammin!
crysjumar1 2 years ago
After 30 years I still don't know what Bon Bon Vie means. Does anyone know if that is French or something? That said, this was originally released in 1980 by TS Monk son of the FAMOUS Jazz artist Theloneos Monk. I was 17 when this came out and sored up the R&B charts. Long live the 80's!
80s4ever63 2 years ago
@80s4ever63 They tell you in the song...Good Life....bon: good vie: life....
kiddfunknyc 2 years ago
yeah this is a Chicago classic.
26Deacon 2 years ago
@kiddfunknyc omg thank you lolol. i'm silly as hell because i should've kind of known since i'm haitian and in haitian creole bon means good lol
acedaface954 2 years ago
I know when I was growing up, when this song came out, my uncle used to call "Bon Vie" some sure fire weed. Even as I grew I used to hear "give that Bon Vie".
khaliamoon 2 years ago
1978-1983 THE golden age of funk !Those years will NEVER be duplicated again the music today hip hop especially sold their souls to the record companies for the garbage they put out,now do you really think that crap will be playing 30 years from now ???
7980COOL1 2 years ago 38
AMEN!!!!
cottoncandy1004 2 years ago
@7980COOL1 100% real!
alredope 1 year ago
@7980COOL1 You are so right. You wont be hearing half this sheet 10 years from now. That so-called music comes and goes.
jd7779311 1 year ago
@7980COOL1 yes....that's the truth.....Thank you for that comment....
lyric520 10 months ago
@7980COOL1 i really agreed with this!Jams like this will never duplicates nowadays.the drums,the guitars, bass,sax,synths and the vocals!!aahh man, Iam glad this music is still alive!
thanx for yhe post.peace!
GrazeeGroover 5 months ago
My God! incredible! that is a relic! I tanned excessively this music. good times It studied and it has left sixth and Saturdays the night! innocence times it remembers good times to me! I came back to the past!
Vandhola 2 years ago 9
@Vandhola é isso ai amigo, eu também curtir muito essa musica aqui em Belém do Pará.Abraços
kk2008kk 1 year ago 2
@kk2008kk Hey guys I don't know what lenguage you speak , but in Cuba all that music was so demanded and enjoyed for the old cuban people generation, me included ok!
bryantono451 4 months ago
@Vandhola ... Nesta época eu era feliz e não sabia !! rsrsrsrs
Vandhola 1 year ago
Meu Deus!! inacreditável !! isto é uma relíquia !! Eu curti demais esta música.. bons tempos ... Estudava e saia sexta e sabados a noite!! tempos de inocência ... me lembra bons tempos!! voltei ao passado !!
Vandhola 2 years ago
These classic tunes will never be duplicated @ all. These classic tunes stand with such a strong foundation. Its 30 something yrs later & we are leaning towards old tunes for an escape back to a time when we had less stress & no cell phones, pc's, no modern tech, which has created some good but also soo much debt... purchase something an its superseeded in 3 months, how they hell can one stay above water when big brother wants us to fail. Cars are made bad, gm is under water, no jobs, WTF!!!!!
port2344chester 2 years ago 6
Port2344chester you are so right you said a mouth full.
ladyjoan1 2 years ago 6
Ladyjoan1 i thnk u for replying back to my comment.. i could go on for hrs but i
may have yt report me to the gov. lol
Music is a reflection of the current times & just listen to whats out on the air waves Garbage! Bitch this, whore that, bling bling, tats everywhere,piercings... male & females can fit under those categories i stated. I dont favor either side just dont like what i see & where we are going as one. This cntry/wrld = titanic & we are all going down. Miss the old school. Peace
port2344chester 2 years ago 2
Nice soapbox, can I borrow it? ;o)
alkh3myst 2 years ago
LOL...Whats cookin alkh3myst? Everything cool with you bro?
port2344chester 2 years ago
ésta e outras músicas marcaram época, nigúem mais consegue não há nada igual. obrigada por ésta relíquia. Ligia BH
lisachif2000 2 years ago
They dont make music like this anymore, Good times, all about fun!!!!!!!!!
bbejr 2 years ago 26
I remember that dance they are doing, we use to do it in Jr high School. I can't remember what it called though. Good times though!!
skip1lp 2 years ago
Excellent Choooon, Love it for all time !
Hear more 70's 80's Jazz Funk, Soul Disco with us... :-)
FunkURadio 2 years ago
if only i had a time machine, what great memomries!!! wow incredible, if on they knew back then how it would make future generations stiil feel good all these years later
thecadillackid 2 years ago 2
this is a classic. very underatted.... checkout blackstreeet ... they sampled this song in tha 90's they call it the good life .. its tight..
ColdBeerKen 2 years ago
Public Enemy also sampled the intro for their song "Welcome To The Terrordome". in 1989.
blackwaxjh 2 years ago
T.S. Monk & the sound of the 80's!!!!! Reminds me of partying in NYC back in 80 & 81. Viva la musica siempre!!!!!!!!!
swt32567 2 years ago 2