It was 1984. O'Bryan released a edited version of "Lovelite" for MTV to play, but it refused so BET, Nite Flite, New York Hot Tracks, Music Video Connection and other programs picked it up. Like O'Bryan, videos by Evelyn "Champagne" King, Gap Band, Rick James, New Edition, Mary Jane Girls, The Whispers, Cameo, and Whodini were also not welcomed on MTV because they were too "black." MTV only played MJ, Prince, Ray Parker Jr, Pointer Sisters, Lionel Richie, just to name a very few
THIS USED TO BE THE SHIT. IMO, LOVE LIGHT WAS HIS BEST TRACK ALONG SIDE "I'M FREAKY",,, GOOD STUFF. I KNEW O'BRYAN BACK IN THE HOOD, SANTA ANA , CA. DUDE ALWAYS HAD MAD TALENT. DAMN THIS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. GREAT POST.
There was an edited version for this as well as "Breakin Together." The edited version of the "Lovelite" video had the library scene, but the model had her clothes on. The model in the powerplant (Monique Gabrielle) had a bra underneath the clothes she tore off (her dance scenes were edited out). The couch scene was only a few seconds long and they substituted it with a elderly couple dancing while playing scrabble. The edited version had more scenes of O'Bryan.
i remember jammin to this beat when i was 13 or 14 years old and str8 freakin da funk as a youngsta!!!Give much props to the true school funk for showing the way to real jammin!!Thank you B.E.T for showing the influence and wisdom to be a funkateer and rock on to make some seroius beats!!!!SOULROCK!!!!ZULU KINGS DESTROY!!!
@ 1:42 WHOA!!! I remember this video from back in the day but I don't remember that!! As Beavis and Butthead would say "This is THE COOLEST video I've ever seen!! LOL!!
@willowseeker This version was done solely for the Playboy Channel which was just coming online at the time. O'Bryan, Billy Idol and others shot and added "special scenes" for videos to accommodate Playboys format.
@obryanation Yes, and even the clean version was censored. I remember a version of this where the blonde dancer strips to reveal a blue bikini, and another where that scene was replaced by a reaction shot from the fat guy.
Man, I had a jacket like O'Bryan's back in the day. I was standing in front of the sheraton waiting for my brother to park the car. This motherfucker gave me his keys and $5 BUCKS. The Jerk thought i was valet parking. I threw his keys down, kept the $5 bucks and went to the seminar with my brother. lol
DAMN!!! I was blushing like I never saw titties before... I didn't expect to see that! I don't remember seeing that in the video when I use to watch it as a shorty, when it use to come on New York Hot Tracks! LOL!!! O'Bryan is a bad mutha (watch your mouth) ...but I'm only talking about O'Bryan!
It is the first time in 26 years that I had heard that song and it is the first time I saw a uncensored version of that video. On the edited version there was a old couple getting the Lovelite. On the video Rappin Ronald Reagan,the Reagan character said those words.
@withchza No need to wonder...and why would you? There are plenty of good reasons why a grown man/woman might disappear from public sight. Without going into details, O'Bryan is fine and always has been if you'd like to see him see and hear him today check his music page at myspace.com/obryanmedia....you can also message him on facebook.
so would i. Con ed needs to hire me immediately upon watching this video. It clearly states i am from the sun and i should be employed by the electric company.
Um...wait a minute! Did I miss something here? I don't recall THIS version of the video when I was younger. Since I was coming of age at the time, I think I would remember something like this.
@FBHOME1- U Right, I was just messin witcha-LOL we cool!
btw, Tiger Woods stupid ass can now see he is clearly Black to White people no matter how much mucho danierooo u have Tiger, wake the F up! LOL- peace
@FBHOME1 - man, one more thing FBHOME, I luv that damn chick that turns tha power on in the beginning of the video, I'll crawl thru glass to suck out of her you know what! LOL- peace
@princeskipper1 he fucked to many women unlike MJ and Prince, O' B was too busy stickin his dick in too many honies including Don Cornelius's wife. LOL
@tubucoco Oh wow! I did not know that. It is amazinging, that many things go on in entertainers lives. I guess they have so much money and fame, their ego is so high. They feel that they are on a pedastil. O'B sure made his rounds. These stars are hidding behind their true colors. They are just common people like everyone else. Let me know how you found out about O'B? I thought performing did'nt have anything to do with his life.
@princeskipper1 - I grew up in that era my friend and to make a long story short, O'Bryan was introduced to Cornelius when he was real young by a mutual friend of both, Cornelius being rich and powerful like he was back then saw O'Bryan's talent and was the driving force behind producing him!
@princeskipper1 - anyway the story goes like this, Cornelius and his wife who was beautiful I'm sure was at a party with O'Bryan being there along with other big stars, somehow, someway with all the liquor and drugs being there I'm sure, O'Bryan slipped off with Cornelius' wife to go do the WILD THANG! LOL
after that, that was it, Cornelius stopped producing him, and his career started to go downhill, probably from Cornelius blackballing him in the the industry! peace, my friend!
@soulchildsacomin - and one more thing soulchild, O'Bryan ain't much older than me, I grew up in that era and there was a news report on this story back then, that's where I got my info! Him and Cornelius split for a reason, just sayin! peace
I remember this song when i spent my summer in Washington D.C. on New York Hots tracks yes they showed New York Hot tracks down there to. But one thing Turned me off is that in the article of Right On Magazine back in 1984 is that he liked light skinned girls with long hair every since then I lost respect for him but anyway thanks for the memories.
Well Right On Magazine often twisted stories so you can't believe that hype. Thats the same magazine that said that Jeffrey Daniels of Shalamar pushed Stephanie Mills (who was married briefly to her in 1980-81) out of a movin car. Not sayin' what O'Bryan said was not true, but there are no facts behind it.
I was in Jr. High was this song was out. This was my jam! I remember staying up to watch Hottraxx and Video Soul. Never knew there was an X rated version. I was watching this like "I don't remember any nudity in the video. Why is O'Bryan so nonchalant in this mini porno?" I was too young to know those things at the time. Classic funk.
HIt #1 soul. Should've made the Hot 100, like 'the gigolo' did. Lovelite only made #101 in Billboard. How'd O'Bryan get his 1st name, anyway? God bless!
This was the best!! I remember dancing down the Soul Train line, at parties or in our mama's livivng room at home! Such a great beat and great memories!!
As much as I loved this song and wore the grooves off of it, I never knew there was a video and that it was this risque. O'Bryan really had it goin' on a lot better than I thought! Lol
I remember the controversy surrounding this uncensored video - that I'm actually seeing for the first time - back in the day. He really pushed the envelope.
I remember the video for this song, but there was no nudity. And the model in the library scene isn't Jenny McCarthy, she's 37, and would've been about 11 or 12 years old in 1984 when this video was made.
@ThePeachiePie this video only aired on the Playboy channel back then. At that time the nudity was included, and you are right, that is not Jenny McCarthy.
i didnt know they had a video for this song and i love this one next to his soul train theme song,, this is strickly classic west coast music obryan was ahead of his time and its a shame he got blackballed the video is cool too i remember the actuall model from back in the day very good-says uzipoloking of decatur
A unkwown then Karyn White appeared on the "Breakin' Together" video. Like "Lovelite", it was taped on two versions. However, they have played the edited version of "Breakin Together" on BET's Video Soul/Video Vibrations, Music Video Connection, and New York Hot Tracks. The uncut version just had two topless girls sitting on the pyrimid so it was'nt as X-Rated as "Lovelite."
Who were these uncensored videos aimed at? Where were people supposed to see videos like this in 1983? Just curious to know what O'bryan's thinking was for these videos back then.
Heres the story. Playboy Channel and some clubs in popular cities played the uncensored version of "Lovelite." The PG version of "Lovelite" was played on BET, New York Hot Tracks, Nite Tracks, USA's Nite Flite, Soul Beat, Music Video Connection, Rock America...mostly video programs in 1983-84 that played 50% or more black music videos. MTV never played this video because it was "too black"
Prince is more than 50% African American (I always thought he was 25% white and 25% Cherokee, but it was confirmed that his mother was half black and 25% Italian/25%Jewish). O'Bryan is African American, but he may be part Creole (Burnettee).
@soulchildsacomin Why be so dang PC? After all, the late James Brown didn't write a song called, 'I'm African-American and I'm proud.' and this is comin' from a white dude. God bless!
Did'nt mean to bring race into it, but someone asked a questionian(newcummer1 asked if he was part Asian) that seemed harmless (O'Bryan's ethnicity) and I was just confirming it. If you can't handle it then keep your replies to youself. Did'nt think being technical can offend anyone but if it did then sue me.
@soulchildsacomin - one other thing to blow your mind soulchild that not many people know, Prince's roots are from Louisiana even though he was born in Minny and considers it home because he lived there all his life, but his daddy was a musician from Louisiana who moved to Minny and married Prince's mom who was also mixed with Italian blood. Most people in Louisiana look like Prince, the whole state is mixed!
I remember this song so well!! For some reason the lady in this Video reminds me of the Actress who played the troublemaker Carmen on Y & R a couple of years ago.
i saw and have the original air tape from new york hot tracks (for those who remember what that is) and I never ever knew there was nudity. they must have showed this version in europe or something
I remember New York Hot Tracks (my dad taped alot of videos from the show in the early 1980's up until we got cable in the late 1980's). Unfortunatley, he did'nt tape any videos by O'Bryan. This version that you're seeing is not what New York ot Tracks, Friday Night Videos, Nite Flite, or BET would have dared to air. I heard that a local Bay Area show (The Westcoast's answer to Video Soul) got in trouble for playing this version of "Lovelite" and the show was cancelled.
Forgot to add, the show's name was Soul Beat! Only select dance clubs and Playboy channel (rumored, not yet confirmed) played the nudity version of "Lovelite" and "Breakin' Together." "The video for "Breakin' Together" was'nt as dirty as this...it just had two topless women next to O'Bryan.
They used to play the vid in a club that my band played at in the 80's. We couldn't wait for it to come on! The song is still bad ass funk! One of the best from that era!
this is my favoritr o bryan song ever ilove the video i never saw a man do so much with a sythesizer like o bryan has and pulled off the most tight music in the industry love the model that gets naked in the video(way ahead of its time and dont know why BET banned uncut, if you lok at flavor of love and separate housewives they do the same thing if not worse on PRIMETIME) says uzi polo-king of decatur
The girl in the video is not Nia Peeples. She was in Howard Hewitt's stuff. BTW, O'Bryan has some great new music out rite now- check him out on MySpace.
SamuraiClinton-Your Comments Are So On Point!! I Was Raised In The 70's And 80's As Well And The Music Did Have "Way More" Meaning Then What These Brain Dead Youths Listen To Today!!
Wow I love Obryan! I wonder who the hot girl
is in this video?
789tundra 3 weeks ago
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Hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart for 1 week on June 23, 1984
theonlymoo5e 3 weeks ago
Wow, didn't expect that in the video LoL!!! Love it!!!
CannedFunkMusic 3 weeks ago
baby turn on love lite your mind first then your body......real truth....
tboyosborne 4 weeks ago
I WORK WITH THIS GUY. He works at a whole foods in NC. HOLY SHIT this is the best thing ever. Also, good song.
jor223 1 month ago
i think Michael stole that jacket from O'bryan or he borrowed it or something, cause lovelite came out before we are the world.
stankbeeze 2 months ago
OMG!!! Yea I remember this, but NOT the 1st part!!! 2 HOT 4 TV!!! LMFAO!!! xD
Suavecita72 2 months ago
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Obrian looks like Smokey Robinson with a Michael Jackson suit!!!
DjCadot 4 months ago
Obrian looks like Smokey Robinson with a Michael Jackson suit!!!
DjCadot 4 months ago
INNNNNDEEEEEEEED!!!!!
rickydfcc77 5 months ago
Wow! I always skip this song on my Zune player. I won't ever skip it again.
karamalebro 5 months ago
Pretty bold to even make a vid like this and then try and get it aired:):)
SkorpionOne 5 months ago
Total shock! Lol!
Tonia682 5 months ago
So this is why it was banned by MTV....
koollatter 6 months ago
@koollatter
It was 1984. O'Bryan released a edited version of "Lovelite" for MTV to play, but it refused so BET, Nite Flite, New York Hot Tracks, Music Video Connection and other programs picked it up. Like O'Bryan, videos by Evelyn "Champagne" King, Gap Band, Rick James, New Edition, Mary Jane Girls, The Whispers, Cameo, and Whodini were also not welcomed on MTV because they were too "black." MTV only played MJ, Prince, Ray Parker Jr, Pointer Sisters, Lionel Richie, just to name a very few
soulchildsacomin 5 months ago 2
@soulchildsacomin In other words-Crossover artists!!!
MrJP75 4 months ago
Looks like Smokey
NIGHTWHMAN 6 months ago
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Never seen this on TV..and of course a super song....MORE FANTASTIC ´80´s music at my channel!!!! Take a look....
dot4design 6 months ago
caught off guard by the naked scene
dreamz2779 6 months ago
The girl in this video was so hot...
witchman67 6 months ago
that was funky as a mutha!
superstar1218 6 months ago
I USED TO JAM ON THIS~~~~DAMN O'BRYAN NEEDS TO COME BACK!!!!
leeloo1967 7 months ago
THIS USED TO BE THE SHIT. IMO, LOVE LIGHT WAS HIS BEST TRACK ALONG SIDE "I'M FREAKY",,, GOOD STUFF. I KNEW O'BRYAN BACK IN THE HOOD, SANTA ANA , CA. DUDE ALWAYS HAD MAD TALENT. DAMN THIS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES. GREAT POST.
rollwidme 7 months ago
for mah nurse..ahhh back in the day getting my boogie on...
thetruckernurse 7 months ago
I've seen this vid thousands of times, HTF did I miss this one?
lookielooo 8 months ago
a friend of mine met him..he works for Wholefoods Market now,,...
oddtimekeeper 8 months ago
@oddtimekeeper Ay, tell ur potnar dat he needs 2 get out & tour on weekends cause his songs r still hot. Make sure u tell him dat?
therealraybaby 8 months ago
wow, i had no idea these woman took their clothes off.
762ndTB 8 months ago
i sittin here like yeah i remeber this song then bam! titties and shit, damn! okay!
jasonbrewking 8 months ago
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG!!!!
feegio 9 months ago
Boy this video is ssmmookin!!!
kittkatt 9 months ago
Damn...this was definately not the Friday night videos version of this song.
responare 9 months ago
damn, this is new to me, even that it back in the video soul days!!! WHOA!!!
MrTeeboogie 10 months ago
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My, she is VERY pretty!
PelicanGuy 10 months ago
Until u give me a sign.
therealraybaby 10 months ago
And all of a sudden.....SEX!
Gold3n3y3 11 months ago
i miss this kind of music and cleancut classy looking women like her.
BigBaldheadedBaby 11 months ago
I have not seen this video since 1984, and I have not heard this song on the radio since 1997!
Thanks so much for the post.
witchman67 1 year ago
And my question is that does he have an edited version of the video?
90gjm 1 year ago
@90gjm
There was an edited version for this as well as "Breakin Together." The edited version of the "Lovelite" video had the library scene, but the model had her clothes on. The model in the powerplant (Monique Gabrielle) had a bra underneath the clothes she tore off (her dance scenes were edited out). The couch scene was only a few seconds long and they substituted it with a elderly couple dancing while playing scrabble. The edited version had more scenes of O'Bryan.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
that girl is fine
jayanthony5060 1 year ago
i remember jammin to this beat when i was 13 or 14 years old and str8 freakin da funk as a youngsta!!!Give much props to the true school funk for showing the way to real jammin!!Thank you B.E.T for showing the influence and wisdom to be a funkateer and rock on to make some seroius beats!!!!SOULROCK!!!!ZULU KINGS DESTROY!!!
4anzures 1 year ago
Thanks for your reply. It puts a different spin to it .
willowseeker 1 year ago
@ 1:42 WHOA!!! I remember this video from back in the day but I don't remember that!! As Beavis and Butthead would say "This is THE COOLEST video I've ever seen!! LOL!!
AvenueRants 1 year ago 10
@willowseeker This version was done solely for the Playboy Channel which was just coming online at the time. O'Bryan, Billy Idol and others shot and added "special scenes" for videos to accommodate Playboys format.
obryanation 1 year ago 7
@obryanation what other videos were on playboy back then along with this?
NY32986 1 year ago
@obryanation Yes, and even the clean version was censored. I remember a version of this where the blonde dancer strips to reveal a blue bikini, and another where that scene was replaced by a reaction shot from the fat guy.
Still a great song and video.
witchman67 1 year ago
BOOOBIES! FUCK YEAH.
Gonzaletron 1 year ago
@Gonzaletron
Kweer
Gonzalez2500 1 year ago
EVERYBODY UP & POPPIN' GETTIN' DOWN! :-)
therealraybaby 1 year ago
Man, I had a jacket like O'Bryan's back in the day. I was standing in front of the sheraton waiting for my brother to park the car. This motherfucker gave me his keys and $5 BUCKS. The Jerk thought i was valet parking. I threw his keys down, kept the $5 bucks and went to the seminar with my brother. lol
HALFDEAD66 1 year ago
Im confused. What was the point behind the nudity?
willowseeker 1 year ago
@willowseeker who cares!!! haha
714irie714 1 year ago
@714irie714 SMDH
willowseeker 1 year ago
Just heard the song on a Soul Train repeat and it made me remember how funky this song was!
djntt69 1 year ago
DAMN!!! I was blushing like I never saw titties before... I didn't expect to see that! I don't remember seeing that in the video when I use to watch it as a shorty, when it use to come on New York Hot Tracks! LOL!!! O'Bryan is a bad mutha (watch your mouth) ...but I'm only talking about O'Bryan!
Too2FarGone 1 year ago
Funky! Great song and amazing women.
alvaro1728 1 year ago
blast from the past!
joymonster 1 year ago
This is not the full version, which takes it to another level and was on the 12" single. It's on youtube.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
@hardcorehouse: Both versions of the video used the 7" single edit.
(I should know...I still have both the 45 and 12" after all these years and an off-air copy of the censored version of this video).
SeanElGatoTelevision 1 year ago
@SeanElGatoTelevision Forget which edit, just check the run times on youtube. Entirely different.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
en nog een ongecensueerde clip uit de ouwe doos ...
euvox 1 year ago
One word, nice!!
letdamonkeysout 1 year ago
What a natural sexy jam! This is how we all got here!!! I think I'm a Delfonics baby. Knockin' boots! yeah!
mrthundaboots 1 year ago
JOHNNY (JUST GOT PAID ) KEMP LITTLE BROTHER LMAO !!
VINNIE316 1 year ago
Great song...He also did Tenderoni. Never saw this clip in my country.. Good funk!
I love Youtube!
Therealanimale 1 year ago
brings back some serious roller skating rink friday night memories..thanks!!!
lightbearer87 1 year ago
This was the jam
brown547 1 year ago
Is he Black or Malaysian?
FedericoDonelli 1 year ago
It is the first time in 26 years that I had heard that song and it is the first time I saw a uncensored version of that video. On the edited version there was a old couple getting the Lovelite. On the video Rappin Ronald Reagan,the Reagan character said those words.
Soulthinker2007 1 year ago
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@withchza No need to wonder...and why would you? There are plenty of good reasons why a grown man/woman might disappear from public sight. Without going into details, O'Bryan is fine and always has been if you'd like to see him see and hear him today check his music page at myspace.com/obryanmedia....you can also message him on facebook.
obryanation 1 year ago
Man, this dude was cool back in the day. A more "manly" version of Prince. I always wondered what happened to him. I wonder if "da rock" got him?
withchza 1 year ago
We have a direct line to O'Bryan! Any questions you want answered with clarity and truth? Send here!
obryanation 1 year ago
so would i. Con ed needs to hire me immediately upon watching this video. It clearly states i am from the sun and i should be employed by the electric company.
brucekentnyc 1 year ago
Um...wait a minute! Did I miss something here? I don't recall THIS version of the video when I was younger. Since I was coming of age at the time, I think I would remember something like this.
SiamBlu 1 year ago
Love the song. Was this the real original version? Nudity. Get it O Bryan!
Meela234 1 year ago
good video and the song to boot i been looking for this for a long time and now
i found it.
hnlhnl13 1 year ago
hold up. did o'bryan's video just show x-rated stuff?
notaniceguy34 1 year ago
Soul Train classic!!! Titties at 1:43 watch out now!!!! and more titty at 3:13!!!! I'm suprise The Tube hasn't pulled this yet.
rockjohnson80 1 year ago
Soul Train classic!!! Titties at 1:43 watch out now!!!!
rockjohnson80 1 year ago
hmmmmm interesting! i don't see why anyone would think he anything but negro.
FBHOME1 1 year ago
@FBHOME1 -mixed negro, there is a difference! LOL
tubucoco 1 year ago
@tubuco o in the. Black community we don't make. Diifference.black is black it don't. Matter. .by the way he do play funk
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FBHOME1 1 year ago
@FBHOME1- U Right, I was just messin witcha-LOL we cool!
btw, Tiger Woods stupid ass can now see he is clearly Black to White people no matter how much mucho danierooo u have Tiger, wake the F up! LOL- peace
tubucoco 1 year ago
@FBHOME1 - man, one more thing FBHOME, I luv that damn chick that turns tha power on in the beginning of the video, I'll crawl thru glass to suck out of her you know what! LOL- peace
tubucoco 1 year ago
@alijn7 I ALWAYS FELT HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE NEXT PRINCE OR MICHAEL JACKSON. LOOK AT THOSE ALFITS. DIDN'T WORK HARD ENOUGH! NOT TO COMPARE THEM.
princeskipper1 1 year ago
@princeskipper1 he fucked to many women unlike MJ and Prince, O' B was too busy stickin his dick in too many honies including Don Cornelius's wife. LOL
tubucoco 1 year ago
@tubucoco Oh wow! I did not know that. It is amazinging, that many things go on in entertainers lives. I guess they have so much money and fame, their ego is so high. They feel that they are on a pedastil. O'B sure made his rounds. These stars are hidding behind their true colors. They are just common people like everyone else. Let me know how you found out about O'B? I thought performing did'nt have anything to do with his life.
princeskipper1 1 year ago
@princeskipper1 - I grew up in that era my friend and to make a long story short, O'Bryan was introduced to Cornelius when he was real young by a mutual friend of both, Cornelius being rich and powerful like he was back then saw O'Bryan's talent and was the driving force behind producing him!
tubucoco 1 year ago
@princeskipper1 - anyway the story goes like this, Cornelius and his wife who was beautiful I'm sure was at a party with O'Bryan being there along with other big stars, somehow, someway with all the liquor and drugs being there I'm sure, O'Bryan slipped off with Cornelius' wife to go do the WILD THANG! LOL
after that, that was it, Cornelius stopped producing him, and his career started to go downhill, probably from Cornelius blackballing him in the the industry! peace, my friend!
tubucoco 1 year ago
@tubucoco
Whoa. That stuff is not true. O'Bryan is on youtube right now and he is reading all comments on all his posted video clips so be careful.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin -well I'll just have to suffer the consequences, thanks for the concern, but honestly you don't know what is true! peace
tubucoco 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin - and one more thing soulchild, O'Bryan ain't much older than me, I grew up in that era and there was a news report on this story back then, that's where I got my info! Him and Cornelius split for a reason, just sayin! peace
tubucoco 1 year ago
I remember this song when i spent my summer in Washington D.C. on New York Hots tracks yes they showed New York Hot tracks down there to. But one thing Turned me off is that in the article of Right On Magazine back in 1984 is that he liked light skinned girls with long hair every since then I lost respect for him but anyway thanks for the memories.
alijn7 1 year ago
@alijn7
Well Right On Magazine often twisted stories so you can't believe that hype. Thats the same magazine that said that Jeffrey Daniels of Shalamar pushed Stephanie Mills (who was married briefly to her in 1980-81) out of a movin car. Not sayin' what O'Bryan said was not true, but there are no facts behind it.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
Nu Wave funk and r & b in 1984. New York Hot Tracks and BET. Those were the days.
memyself2k 1 year ago
I was in Jr. High was this song was out. This was my jam! I remember staying up to watch Hottraxx and Video Soul. Never knew there was an X rated version. I was watching this like "I don't remember any nudity in the video. Why is O'Bryan so nonchalant in this mini porno?" I was too young to know those things at the time. Classic funk.
TrueLifeDiva 1 year ago
HIt #1 soul. Should've made the Hot 100, like 'the gigolo' did. Lovelite only made #101 in Billboard. How'd O'Bryan get his 1st name, anyway? God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
@DaveWollenberg
His dad (O'Bryan Burnettee Sr.). O'Byran is his birth name.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
Wasn't he part asian?
MaxMikeLatino 1 year ago
Love this song! He kinda reminds me of Tiger!! ha!
wittytee 1 year ago
I like the boobies
Oksendal5 1 year ago
WOW CLASSIC!!!!!!
mzzvaughan 1 year ago
This is a groove for the ages - been looking for this for 20 years. Is there a version of the video that's SFW??
pianodog81 1 year ago
Ok wait a second, I remember this jammin synth funk groove but i do not, and i mean DO NOT remember ever seeing this version of this video.
marcusunlimited 1 year ago
Still one of my all time favorite songs. 80s R&B was tops....O'Bryan, Jeffrey Osborne, SOS Band, Atlantic Starr, etc.
There were NO naked ladies in the video shown on MTV.
srercrcr 1 year ago
This was the best!! I remember dancing down the Soul Train line, at parties or in our mama's livivng room at home! Such a great beat and great memories!!
Contessais4u 1 year ago
i LOVE THIS!!!!!
ekhyddan 1 year ago 2
Song is great, but what the hell was that nasty shit in the video - naked people.
crazydaysful 1 year ago
OMG, did this girl's cheechees just pop completely out of her top? Wow werent videos suppose to be more clean back then?? Gees!
derriffany 1 year ago
OMG They showed ass and titties in this video..
Sakkara1331 1 year ago
oooooooh! i'm telling!
glasscitadel12 1 year ago
What the hell was that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lord No wonder I never seen the video!
willowseeker 1 year ago
i've always loved this song. but never knew about the video until now.
this is video is so damn hoooorny! the grrl at the controls is so fresh!
thanks for uploading the funk!
boogiesaur 1 year ago
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boogiesaur 1 year ago
sexy x100!!!
thcsoul 1 year ago
i loooove this freakin song, i was a kid when this came out but i do remember this very well
prettybabysolomon 1 year ago
hahah i didn't know o'bryan got down like thiz!! haha siiickkk!!
Davide131 1 year ago
WTH! lol
unnownsoldir1 1 year ago
As much as I loved this song and wore the grooves off of it, I never knew there was a video and that it was this risque. O'Bryan really had it goin' on a lot better than I thought! Lol
Muziclvr07 2 years ago 2
I didn't know this version existed.
shellyshelly71 2 years ago 2
I remember the controversy surrounding this uncensored video - that I'm actually seeing for the first time - back in the day. He really pushed the envelope.
OlSkoolRulz 2 years ago
I remember the video for this song, but there was no nudity. And the model in the library scene isn't Jenny McCarthy, she's 37, and would've been about 11 or 12 years old in 1984 when this video was made.
ThePeachiePie 2 years ago
@ThePeachiePie this video only aired on the Playboy channel back then. At that time the nudity was included, and you are right, that is not Jenny McCarthy.
charteronebuf 2 years ago
Im literally dancing in the office on this cut. This was the SUGAR!!!!
DyvaNaye 2 years ago
haha 2: 46 there goes a hot hot Jenny Mccarthy...... :D
love this... funkin popsong
NAIVADA 2 years ago
was not expecting tits
Silentskip001 2 years ago
i didnt know they had a video for this song and i love this one next to his soul train theme song,, this is strickly classic west coast music obryan was ahead of his time and its a shame he got blackballed the video is cool too i remember the actuall model from back in the day very good-says uzipoloking of decatur
uzipolo 2 years ago
Ooohhh....TIDDAYS!!!!!
CayennePepper86 2 years ago
This Video & Song Are Pure Fire. I Keep Clicking The Play Button. Lol Bp
FonkPazzion 2 years ago 8
@FonkPazzion u too? lol
mzzvaughan 1 year ago
whoa! wasn't ready 4 1:45! i like the lyrics. 25 years ago it was just something to skate 2.
paoolyrebecca 2 years ago 2
1:40 LOL, she ripped her clothes off like the NBA!
IfritZero 2 years ago
i really want to cover this song....str8 up 80's funk!!!
lloydpopp13 2 years ago
I Love this videos and song
maureencora1 2 years ago
...WOW..! i love this version better..! haha..!
stewxl 2 years ago 3
HOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Like It!!!
MrFunkysizer 2 years ago
I rememebred seeing the clean version on " New York Hot Tracks" summer of 1984 , a great summer of Nu Wave R&B.
TheNewsoul2 2 years ago 3
I remember this video, but I don't remember seeing 1:43!!!
MrJP75 2 years ago
I SAID GOTDAMN!!!!! I don't remember that part either!
bigchip68 2 years ago 2
he looks like have asian and black
sierria64 2 years ago
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YOGGIJ 2 years ago
o'bryan jams! he looks like smokey!
bdelect 2 years ago
does anyone have "breakin together"?
Skat883 2 years ago
A unkwown then Karyn White appeared on the "Breakin' Together" video. Like "Lovelite", it was taped on two versions. However, they have played the edited version of "Breakin Together" on BET's Video Soul/Video Vibrations, Music Video Connection, and New York Hot Tracks. The uncut version just had two topless girls sitting on the pyrimid so it was'nt as X-Rated as "Lovelite."
soulchildsacomin 2 years ago
@soulchildsacomin
Who were these uncensored videos aimed at? Where were people supposed to see videos like this in 1983? Just curious to know what O'bryan's thinking was for these videos back then.
CrowdPleeza 1 year ago
@CrowdPleeza
I read earlier the adult version was aired on The Playboy Channel
chelcie3 1 year ago
@chelcie3
Ok, then that makes a little more sense. I didn't think MTV or Night Tracks would be showing his uncut videos.
CrowdPleeza 1 year ago
Heres the story. Playboy Channel and some clubs in popular cities played the uncensored version of "Lovelite." The PG version of "Lovelite" was played on BET, New York Hot Tracks, Nite Tracks, USA's Nite Flite, Soul Beat, Music Video Connection, Rock America...mostly video programs in 1983-84 that played 50% or more black music videos. MTV never played this video because it was "too black"
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
This must have been the "ON TV" version!!! Outfit is badass kida Hendrix at monterreyish....GO BASS PLAYER!!!
kaleba 2 years ago
Bass Player is Melvin Lee Davis!!! Can you believe it, this needs to be linked to him...
mrmack919 2 years ago
I remember ON-TV! PRECABLE
taylor4660 2 years ago
lol we're showing our age shhhhhhhhh ;-) remember Select TV and Spectrum?
kaleba 2 years ago
what is he a black chinese vietnamese?
newtcummer1 2 years ago
As I told everyone else, he is not mixed. Hes a full brotha that is lightskinned, like Prince and Lionel Richie.
soulchildsacomin 2 years ago
@soulchildsacomin um Prince is mixed,his mother is half italian & half black
Sakkara1331 1 year ago
Prince is more than 50% African American (I always thought he was 25% white and 25% Cherokee, but it was confirmed that his mother was half black and 25% Italian/25%Jewish). O'Bryan is African American, but he may be part Creole (Burnettee).
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin yopu gotta be so darn technical??? LOL
Sakkara1331 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin Why be so dang PC? After all, the late James Brown didn't write a song called, 'I'm African-American and I'm proud.' and this is comin' from a white dude. God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
@DaveWollenberg
Did'nt mean to bring race into it, but someone asked a questionian(newcummer1 asked if he was part Asian) that seemed harmless (O'Bryan's ethnicity) and I was just confirming it. If you can't handle it then keep your replies to youself. Did'nt think being technical can offend anyone but if it did then sue me.
soulchildsacomin 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin - one other thing to blow your mind soulchild that not many people know, Prince's roots are from Louisiana even though he was born in Minny and considers it home because he lived there all his life, but his daddy was a musician from Louisiana who moved to Minny and married Prince's mom who was also mixed with Italian blood. Most people in Louisiana look like Prince, the whole state is mixed!
tubucoco 1 year ago
@soulchildsacomin -Prince's Daddy was mixed and his mom white like spanish or Italian, your info is wrong.
tubucoco 1 year ago
Tits, FTW!!
sactiger 2 years ago
I remember this song so well!! For some reason the lady in this Video reminds me of the Actress who played the troublemaker Carmen on Y & R a couple of years ago.
laminage 2 years ago
I ani't never seen this version! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn! this is deep. (LOL) I like it tho. It's got some Rick James and Dolamite shit happening...
CoOlTy3000 2 years ago 3
Ah man i miss the 80's I wish they had this on dvd.
NateTe84 2 years ago 3
i saw and have the original air tape from new york hot tracks (for those who remember what that is) and I never ever knew there was nudity. they must have showed this version in europe or something
DavidCopahfeel 2 years ago 2
I remember New York Hot Tracks (my dad taped alot of videos from the show in the early 1980's up until we got cable in the late 1980's). Unfortunatley, he did'nt tape any videos by O'Bryan. This version that you're seeing is not what New York ot Tracks, Friday Night Videos, Nite Flite, or BET would have dared to air. I heard that a local Bay Area show (The Westcoast's answer to Video Soul) got in trouble for playing this version of "Lovelite" and the show was cancelled.
soulchildsacomin 2 years ago
Forgot to add, the show's name was Soul Beat! Only select dance clubs and Playboy channel (rumored, not yet confirmed) played the nudity version of "Lovelite" and "Breakin' Together." "The video for "Breakin' Together" was'nt as dirty as this...it just had two topless women next to O'Bryan.
soulchildsacomin 2 years ago 2
yay for boobies!
druckman 2 years ago
very,india.clothes!!! fuNk fuNk!!!!
310LAFUNK 2 years ago
I LOVE this version of the video! LOL!
DAYWALKER2370 2 years ago 2
This could've been uploaded to sound a little louder. This is a great song to hear. I have this on my Ipod.
Iwearthepants10 2 years ago
They used to play the vid in a club that my band played at in the 80's. We couldn't wait for it to come on! The song is still bad ass funk! One of the best from that era!
jjzuc 2 years ago
Whoa....this video was released where?? You couldn't show this on tv in the 80's. You can't even get this in MTV today...oh my!!!
garnetjewel 3 years ago 2
in night clubs only
taylor4660 2 years ago
this is my favoritr o bryan song ever ilove the video i never saw a man do so much with a sythesizer like o bryan has and pulled off the most tight music in the industry love the model that gets naked in the video(way ahead of its time and dont know why BET banned uncut, if you lok at flavor of love and separate housewives they do the same thing if not worse on PRIMETIME) says uzi polo-king of decatur
uzipolo 3 years ago
The girl in the video is not Nia Peeples. She was in Howard Hewitt's stuff. BTW, O'Bryan has some great new music out rite now- check him out on MySpace.
vaniti06 3 years ago
SamuraiClinton-Your Comments Are So On Point!! I Was Raised In The 70's And 80's As Well And The Music Did Have "Way More" Meaning Then What These Brain Dead Youths Listen To Today!!
olmec19 3 years ago
gotta love the moonwalk
lbcfunkaholic 3 years ago