I love this song. I was about 10 when it came out. I knew whoever was singing was the bomb and I was right! My aunt from the Bronx would play this when my mom would take this to visit her on the weekends. Such memories and later on when I hit high school Parliament was the bomb! I spent so many weekends dancing to them at house party's and going to Madison Square Garden in NYC to see these guys perform! Pure funk!
My dad had this song on his reel to reel, Sony 530, tape player. he sold the tape player when I was young, and it took me years to track down this song. I did not know the band. Then when I did find out who sang it I could not find the music in any stores! Thank god for the computer!
I was in 6th grade when this song broke out, the Cleveland top 40 stations played it to death and I was lovin' life. Sure wish I could turn back the hand of time!!!
1967 was a phenomenal year for music, one that had an impact that lasts to this day. "Testify" mixed together with the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with "Beggin'" and Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Van Morrison with "Brown Eyed Girl", "Incense and Peppermints" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock, numerous other things from the Monkees to the Raiders to the Turtles to the Young Rascals, the Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops, and all the other Motown and other great stuff.
your forgetting aretha franklin and countless UK groups like the pretty things, pink floyd and the small faces.....1967 is the greatest year for rock/pop music ever
I remember them as if it was yesterday. I was in grade school when this song hit the charts. More ironically I lived in the County next to where they grew up. I was in Somerset County and they lived in Union County. The grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. Joisy boys!
This song had the coolest sound to it when it came out... It was so different than what was on the radio during that time... it was just real cool ... who could have guessed that this group would have been the beginning of Parlament funkadellic?... surely not me...
Hey send me an E-mail Too Im from log beach Long Island ,an use to go too times square store there too wow. u r like family, remember that song GET DANCIN!!! DANCE NOW GET DANCIN >>
I was only 13 at the time. I didn't know there were other Time Square Stores around. I do know that was the place most people went to buy records. I'd say the store was equivilant to a Super Walmart, because it also had a grocery department on one end of it. I bought enough 45s to fill up my record case. Remember those record cases? I had one with a cool looking design to it.
I played this 45 over and over and over. I remember buying it at TSS (Time Square Store) in Levittown, NY in 1967. The going price for a 45 was $.63. That was the place to go for records in that neighborhood. Great memories. I remember the set-up of that record department. They kept the yellow record discs behind the counter, along with the transister radios and the tiny televisions with the 3" screens.
@ecam222 You are right. During that time, a seven inch 45 cost about $.63. I remember when I started buying records, in 1967, in New Jersey, when I 10 years old, I paid $.67 for the first record I brought "Let The Good Times Roll" by Bunny Sigler. I played the "B" side, "There's No Love Left (In This Old Heart Of Mine)" more than I played the "A" side. Bronx, New York City.
@ecam222 >TSS! I remember that store! I grew up in Babylon Long Island! I would go to TSS in West Babylon! LOL! I would visit my childhood friend who is still my friend for 40 years! She lived in Springfield Gardens and we would go to Jamaica and buy ten 45's and have change to buy Burger King! This song was my jam even as a kid! George Clinton was a great singer then and this band took you to church and back! We all have kids of our own now who do not remember when Parliament was NORMAL! LOL!
This music is still alive and well. I saw a group play this last night with a the most gorgeous singer just belting the lyrics out at the top of her lungs. I'm in love.
FrankP12 - This is my song. This is my song. Brings back fond memories of the summer 1967. I was 10 years old living on Fort Dix, New Jersey. Begged and begged my mother to ask her sister, my aunt, to buy it for me in New York City to bring to Fort Dix. My aunt brought it to me. I'm in tears now thinking about it. One of my favorite songs. I still play it continuously
@FPJYT < Wow! This is my song! In 1967, I was ten years old and my older brothers and I would dance to this down in the basement! When I became a teenager and discovered that Parliament became this funkly group! I saw them in NYC's Madison Square Garden in 78 and they tore the roof off the sucker! No one gives this band props for their vocals and their playing because they are tight! I have loved this band since I was a kid! Such memories of going to The Bronx back in the day to see my Auntie!
@FPJYT > Send me an e-mail. Your post brought back so many memories! I was the same age as you back in 67, I grew up on Long Island after moving there from Queens, NY. My parents loved music, had a load of 45's and Parliament was right there. We would have party's at the house and dance to all of these songs! along with Wilson Pickett and so many other soul singers. My children today listen to this song and many of the songs of those years just like I did. I do not understand today's music!
This is sooo rockin'! This is one of my favorite 45's of all time. Primo! The B-side is pretty good too; I Can Feel the Ice. Thanks so much for posting.
Love!!!
Nickie0016 1 week ago
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kmmanfredi 1 week ago
Oh, Yeah, Baby!!! Now THAT'S music!!!
aliacapone8129ad 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
SAM DEES....."Lonely for you baby"...stole this nugget...
frenzybee3 2 months ago
I listen to this on a battery operated record player, on the street corner in Akron, Ohio in 1967, West Jr Hi school library had the album.
MrBlackdeath58 2 months ago in playlist GREATEST HITS
WE USED TO ROLLER SKATE OFF THIS ONE ; ARCADIA 1967-DETROIT CITY
THEMRBASSPLYR 3 months ago
I love this song. I was about 10 when it came out. I knew whoever was singing was the bomb and I was right! My aunt from the Bronx would play this when my mom would take this to visit her on the weekends. Such memories and later on when I hit high school Parliament was the bomb! I spent so many weekends dancing to them at house party's and going to Madison Square Garden in NYC to see these guys perform! Pure funk!
debgirl12000 3 months ago
Great post,I remember listening to this song on the jukebox in 67.
vrobbie53 3 months ago
Bunny Sigler's There's no love left- one of the great "B" sides of all time
soulguy10306 3 months ago
and then something fell on George's head and everething changed :-D
21Blader21 3 months ago
all you people that lived when this came out, i'm so jealous!
at least i saw them live couple times
Funkdogg 3 months ago
I like Roger Taylor's version better.
AangRaj 4 months ago
@AangRaj no way man! i don't really like what he did with the song. but he gave it his own twist though.
parliament did another version of this song couple years later on 'up for the down stroke'album. that's my favorite version.
Funkdogg 3 months ago
My dad had this song on his reel to reel, Sony 530, tape player. he sold the tape player when I was young, and it took me years to track down this song. I did not know the band. Then when I did find out who sang it I could not find the music in any stores! Thank god for the computer!
Hotrodluvmut1 5 months ago
was a senior in high school when this song came. we called a buddy of ours testify because he was always was singing this damn song to himself. lol
bullramus1968 5 months ago
I was in 6th grade when this song broke out, the Cleveland top 40 stations played it to death and I was lovin' life. Sure wish I could turn back the hand of time!!!
crazyromanian1 6 months ago
1967 was a phenomenal year for music, one that had an impact that lasts to this day. "Testify" mixed together with the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with "Beggin'" and Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Van Morrison with "Brown Eyed Girl", "Incense and Peppermints" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock, numerous other things from the Monkees to the Raiders to the Turtles to the Young Rascals, the Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops, and all the other Motown and other great stuff.
FingerboardCorners 7 months ago 3
@FingerboardCorners and jimi hendrix played monterey festival!
Funkdogg 3 months ago
@FingerboardCorners
your forgetting aretha franklin and countless UK groups like the pretty things, pink floyd and the small faces.....1967 is the greatest year for rock/pop music ever
KIDAmnesiacBends 3 months ago
@KIDAmnesiacBends raido station CKLW on am.
sprintcarcrew1 1 week ago
I remember them as if it was yesterday. I was in grade school when this song hit the charts. More ironically I lived in the County next to where they grew up. I was in Somerset County and they lived in Union County. The grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. Joisy boys!
MrCarloBari 7 months ago
This song had the coolest sound to it when it came out... It was so different than what was on the radio during that time... it was just real cool ... who could have guessed that this group would have been the beginning of Parlament funkadellic?... surely not me...
bushrod72 7 months ago
this is a nice cut. thanks for sharing.
discomadness 7 months ago
Hey send me an E-mail Too Im from log beach Long Island ,an use to go too times square store there too wow. u r like family, remember that song GET DANCIN!!! DANCE NOW GET DANCIN >>
SuperJingo1 7 months ago
I'm old enough to remember when this was a hit on KGFJ AM in Los Angeles. Boy, am I old.... LOL
Windflier 7 months ago
it was all downhill from here.
fluffypope 7 months ago
love this song my fav of theirs!
rtfuhj 7 months ago
haha Georgie has always referenced dogs even at the very begginning
emile235 8 months ago
I was only 13 at the time. I didn't know there were other Time Square Stores around. I do know that was the place most people went to buy records. I'd say the store was equivilant to a Super Walmart, because it also had a grocery department on one end of it. I bought enough 45s to fill up my record case. Remember those record cases? I had one with a cool looking design to it.
ecam222 8 months ago
i got my copy of this record, classic
jody808 9 months ago
I played this 45 over and over and over. I remember buying it at TSS (Time Square Store) in Levittown, NY in 1967. The going price for a 45 was $.63. That was the place to go for records in that neighborhood. Great memories. I remember the set-up of that record department. They kept the yellow record discs behind the counter, along with the transister radios and the tiny televisions with the 3" screens.
ecam222 9 months ago
@ecam222 You are right. During that time, a seven inch 45 cost about $.63. I remember when I started buying records, in 1967, in New Jersey, when I 10 years old, I paid $.67 for the first record I brought "Let The Good Times Roll" by Bunny Sigler. I played the "B" side, "There's No Love Left (In This Old Heart Of Mine)" more than I played the "A" side. Bronx, New York City.
FPJYT 9 months ago
@ecam222 >TSS! I remember that store! I grew up in Babylon Long Island! I would go to TSS in West Babylon! LOL! I would visit my childhood friend who is still my friend for 40 years! She lived in Springfield Gardens and we would go to Jamaica and buy ten 45's and have change to buy Burger King! This song was my jam even as a kid! George Clinton was a great singer then and this band took you to church and back! We all have kids of our own now who do not remember when Parliament was NORMAL! LOL!
debgirl12000 8 months ago
I like the B-side, too.
mickindanny 10 months ago
THANKS THANKS MY WIFE AN I ARE LISTENING TO THIS SAT NITE
HAPPY EASTER , ALAN AND KIM
gstock427wagon 10 months ago
Funk Brother Bob Babbitt on bass!!
nighttrane1 10 months ago
@nighttrane1 Wow, really?! Do you have the whole personnel list?
bocuster 10 months ago
@bocuster I'll have to dig that up, I do know they recorded this in Detroit....
nighttrane1 9 months ago
got the 45, love it!!
SherryBucher 10 months ago
You know this is good music when it brings back so many great memories. It leaves in indelible mark on our souls.
peady64 11 months ago
This music is still alive and well. I saw a group play this last night with a the most gorgeous singer just belting the lyrics out at the top of her lungs. I'm in love.
rocknrollhoochiekoo1 11 months ago
GREAT SONG. I WAS STATIONED AT LANGLEY A.F.B IN VA. IN "67". BRINGS BACK GOOD MEMORIES.
theripster1947 1 year ago
@theripster1947 -- My father was stationed at Langley A.F.B. from 1964 to 1965. Those were good years for music. I was 7 and 8 years old.
FPJYT 11 months ago
@theripster1947 In 1967, my father was stationed at McGuire A.F.B., in New Jersey. We were there from 1966 to 1968.
FPJYT 9 months ago
GREAT SONG.
theripster1947 1 year ago
lovely drummer!
jasonpfinch 1 year ago
I HAVE THIS ON A 45...REMEMBER PLAYING IT ON A BATTERY OPERATED RECORD PLAYER IN THE DRIVEWAY....GREAT MEMORIES!!!!
RXmusic4YOU 1 year ago 5
My funk hero!
MyJaySeven 1 year ago
Grew up with this one....Love Bob Babbitt's bassline(one of the Funk Brothers)....
jzzlvrmee 1 year ago
FrankP12 - This is my song. This is my song. Brings back fond memories of the summer 1967. I was 10 years old living on Fort Dix, New Jersey. Begged and begged my mother to ask her sister, my aunt, to buy it for me in New York City to bring to Fort Dix. My aunt brought it to me. I'm in tears now thinking about it. One of my favorite songs. I still play it continuously
FPJYT 1 year ago 14
@FPJYT I bought this 45 in 1967 too. I even remembered the multi colored label. I certainly had no idea that I was buying the seeds of Funkadelic.
ColeHan100 11 months ago
@FPJYT ...pussy
Causimdoinyourmom 10 months ago
@FPJYT < Wow! This is my song! In 1967, I was ten years old and my older brothers and I would dance to this down in the basement! When I became a teenager and discovered that Parliament became this funkly group! I saw them in NYC's Madison Square Garden in 78 and they tore the roof off the sucker! No one gives this band props for their vocals and their playing because they are tight! I have loved this band since I was a kid! Such memories of going to The Bronx back in the day to see my Auntie!
debgirl12000 8 months ago
@FPJYT > Send me an e-mail. Your post brought back so many memories! I was the same age as you back in 67, I grew up on Long Island after moving there from Queens, NY. My parents loved music, had a load of 45's and Parliament was right there. We would have party's at the house and dance to all of these songs! along with Wilson Pickett and so many other soul singers. My children today listen to this song and many of the songs of those years just like I did. I do not understand today's music!
debgirl12000 8 months ago
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FPJYT 1 year ago
one of my favorite songs of all time... love it !!
gracekk 1 year ago
Oh my Brother TESTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CavenEdwards 1 year ago
G C p funk fantastic
mzimba1963 1 year ago
No one doesn't testify, one way or the other.
Bopvito 1 year ago
thank god someone remembers this :)
scorpivision 1 year ago
I remember hearing this on the radio back in '67, and it only gets better with every passing year!
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
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bootz225 1 year ago
GREAT GREAT GREAT SONG !!! I'll be seeing George et al in a few week in The D !
bootz225 1 year ago
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Kemetone 1 year ago
Johnnie Taylor recorded this song also. I think him and George wrote it together. His version is just as bad. I hope someone post it.
I was a young teen in those days, dam this is some good music.
Kemetone 1 year ago
@Kemetone George Clinton & Deron Taylor wrote is gem!
Only George went to Detroit to record this with studio backup singers & musicians
Heartbear 1 year ago
Still gives me chills after all these years!!!!
SewerName 1 year ago
Still gives me chills after all these years!!!!
SewerName 1 year ago
Still gives me chills after all these years!!!!
SewerName 1 year ago
I first heard this song on "CKLW ... The Big 8."
What a booming big signal that broke songs by all kinds of black groups in the late 60's and early 70's.
jetstreamguy 1 year ago
One of my favorite songs of all time... makes me wanna get up and dance ... and testify!!
gracekk 1 year ago
This is sooo rockin'! This is one of my favorite 45's of all time. Primo! The B-side is pretty good too; I Can Feel the Ice. Thanks so much for posting.
mickindanny 2 years ago