at 18 this was one of my favorite songs. I was visiting san diego, and downtown, blaring from a jukebox from a bar filled with sailors (a vrtual sea of white uniforms) was this song. unforgetable.
This song sounds better with each listen and yes..........much respect to Joyce Sims and Phoebe Snow who brought out a different element to the song. Music like this will never be made again.
This is my jam!!! She is one of the true back in da day singers...A beautiful voice that sounds like a song bird!!! I remember when girls use to swing out with girls and it was no big deal!!! So many sock hops and waist line parties... Those were the good times!!!
If love makes a woman it takes a REAL man to make it happen. When two come together a REAL relationship ultimately will turn into marriage, not cohabitation, then they work together to make one another, with of course the Holy Spirit guiding them. Without this no relationship will endure for long. I don't care how good the sex, how good he or she looks, or how much money or things one another has. If two don't come together for a REAL LOVE relationship, then expect disappointment and hurt.
@truth1disciple I have finally found true love at the ageof 61! He's 62! I looked for love in all of the wrong places! just as i gave up, he found me! We literally bumped into each other. It's wonderful because we are both spiritually grounded and have so many great values and other things in common. I thank God every day of my life for sending him to me.
@JazzyJ1318 Continue to endure, persevere and overcome the tests, trials and adversities that come with "forming, conforming and transforming" that God-sent relationship, into that which will glorify God Almighty. Yes, it is LOVE that makes a woman and a man. God bless you JazzyJ1318.
@truth1disciple You've said a mouthful, and a refreshing take on what people claim is love. You are so right. All of the elements mentioned in your comment was right on target. A real relationship takes work, and the work never ends. When people stop working at it, broken relationships and divorce is the outcome. It has to have a spiritual layer or level in order for the relationship to last, and this can only come from God.
@Boothroyd13, I have to agree with you. Wow does this take me back. Though only just a very young child at that time music like this was So Hot! When this came out we had one of the best Block Parties in NYC. I love it.
The best ever female vocal, she was incredible and this tune is so under rated and unknown. Todays music is so useless compared to songs like this. I love this song Rambo Ramsden
I've always been crazy about this song. Our radio station in Montgomery, AL always played this song on its day for songs categorized as "the blues". The lyrics are true. I know that love is what makes a woman!!!!
Thye used to rock this at Empire Rollerdome in Brooklyn and the Super fly in Brownsville during the hustle days. This song rocks from beginning to end. Once again today's black music has been diluted. This is SOUL!!!
back in the darst- webbe -peabody projects and all the old people in high school and this beautiful sister broke up with her 2 timing boyfriend and she sang this song i had no idea what was going on and the guy game just did not save him, being a man is hard for some i guess
HELLO EVERYONE, AND THANKU FOR ALL THE LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR MY MOM'S MUSIC AND VOICE! ALSO, FOR THE LOVE U ALL HAVE HAD FOR THE MUSIC MOM AND STEP DAD (EUGENE RECORD) WROTE TOGETHER.
I would like to know: WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE DANCE PEOPLE DID ON THIS JAM ? I'm curious to see if we all did the same dance!
I'm from Long Island, N.Y. we called ours "The Hustle"! Someone here called it "The Bop," Comando0110 called it "The Popcorn."I would think whatever you called it, it looked something like the Swing from the 50's! I think New Jersey called it "THE STATE-O"....... Write back and let me know what you called it ! ! !
@iladelphiachick You are the same age as my son. If I said Hustle to him, he would think I'm talking about John Travolta in Saturday Nite Fever. The Bop, did the guy hold your hand while dancing? Kind of like the 2-step or swinging?
I still want to "bop" when I hear this recording. The beat is so infectious. Love it!! To daughter: sincere condolences on your lost. I lost my mother last year. It's horrible to loose your mother. God Bless.
So many memories. Growing up in the San Francisco Fillmore district was wonderful.. Use to hang out at the Buchannan YMCA that was run by Yori Wada it was a great time to be a young person. Dances at Ben Franklin Junior High School all the girls dancing together. Mr. Toler, Ms. Hannah and the beautiful Ms. Teal were our role models. Memories flood back when I hear this song.
barbra may be gone r.i.p,but her music still lives on and always will do in the uk,this is still being played at northern soul nites all around the uk,classic track from a special lady.
Reading some of these I can remember well the when Barbera was played on the skate floor. Everyone jumped on the floor and it was wild people were skating their a.. off, and held it together as we went around the cruves Hey hey......LOL
Everytime I hear this song, I cannot help but dance, bop my head, or snap my fingers. It is electric! I was a small kid when it came out, but my older siblings wore this record out. RIP Barbara Acklin, and God bless your mother's soul Samotta.
@glorybee14 You and my mom both. Ma said this was the song when it came out. Every car, every house party, the song was all over the place when it came out.
Great Tune!!! If you have access to her less well known hit, "Someone Else's Arms", could you please post it? I think many would be surprised that this tune wasn't bigger for her.
that classic chicago soul sound... where is all the good music and where are all the good musicians who, if you know anything about music at all, were actually LISTENING to each other as they played??????
1968, I was 11 years old, when this song came out. They were doing a dance called "The Four Corner's", then later called the Typewriter..Berkeley, CA..what wonderful memories.
@mycalling52 We called it the same thing in L.A. and I was9...nice to know that we are both still here and listening to Barbara. P.S. Do you remember her song: "Am I the same girl?"
@ekocentric...No I never heard that song..I'll have to check it out...Yes, I love the music of that era...listen to many songs everyday..It is nice to know that someone else appreciates the best R&B music...It is sad that the music of the era is overlooked...They have or had a Oldies station in Sacramento....they play Alicia Keyes...So when has her music classified as "Oldies."
@mycalling52 - O wow - that's so Radical - I'm from the Bay Area, too. In fact, was a student at UCB at the time.
However, I was 19 when the song was out - funny thing is - before I read your post, I remembered we did the 4 corners -to this song - tried to do it - really funny!
This is a masterclass of how to interpret and perform a song which is now rightly ranked as a classic.I'm from the UK and Dusty Springfield released a cover of this--received great reviews- but just doesn't come close to BA.
Had the pleasure of touring with Barbara in 1968, She was a doll. Her dressing room was robbed in S.C. on that tour and she lost her purse, travel clothes and jewelery. She had the local press run the story and offered a reward. never found if she got her things.
this is a well produced track....it is full of vocal and musical surprises and retains its freshness after all these years....like Marvin Gaye's 'Grapevine' and Fontella Bass 'Rescue Me'
The Negro soars in songs like this.Rhythm, harmony and vocal beauty-and a love filled message.All the other races on earth should revel in and share this genius.
The first time I was ever in 'love' this was our song, her name was Amelia. It was at a camp in Vermont called COPA and I was only 14. Oh the memories!!!!!!!!
Sister Barbara Acklin has one sexy voice and she was top classic in her hits during the late sixties and early seventies, if my memory serves me right.
thanx for this great post. My cousin loved this when she came to visit back in the day, I got to send it to her and see if she remembers. I still have my 45.
Today black singers don't sing about love. Women just sing about men paying their bills and doing sexual things, same for the men. You don't hear about love anymore. We need to bring love back to our community and relationships. Today's music will never have the longevity of classics like this. I would hate if anyone sampled this song today. They would make a mess out of it. Leave genius alone!
It's a sad fact, but it's true. They really don't sing about love, the kind of love that kept us going through the years of discrimination and the Civil Rights movement. It does need to be brought back, big time!
I'm in my 20's and I love 60's soul. This is one of my all time favorites. It sounds good everytime I play it. It doesn't sound old at all. Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, Christina Milan, Ashanti, and the rest can learn a lot from the beautiful, classy black women who sung positive songs and provided positive images of black women. They were sexy without showing their behinds. Today's singers can learn a lot from Barbara Acklin, Tammi Terrell, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway, Patti Drew, and the rest.
Still 1 of my Favorite songs. I grew up on this song. I was only 6 when I 1st heard this song; now I'm 37.... What... Are you kidding me... I still love this song...
yes indeed,I am Jamaican,moved to NY in 1968, used to hear this song played all the time on Flatbush avenue and at parties .Thank god for the internet,now you can hear all these songs again. memories. Thankss.
Hello all, Its Barbara's offspring! thank you soooooooooooo much for the love. Mommies looking down smiling, Im sure! It still makes me cry to hear some of her songs. I just began to sing them on stage again about 2 years ago. She passed in 1998.
@barbaraAcklinJr Thank you, Barb, Jr. Please read my comment on your mom. I loved this song. In fact I bought the CD of her releases. I remember reading about your mom's passing. I was in shock. We really need to recognize all of our entertainers who really made an impression, and stop going with who's popular, or today's flavor. Keep mom's legacy going. She knew how wear her afro. God Bless you..really..that you will carry on.
Black woman looked so classy the way they use to dress and perform some of these hoochie dressing mama's can learn a lesson or two from these classy ladies!!!!!!!!
This Great Artist deserves so much respect. She was a pioneer & led the way for so many. Since Wigan Casino together with Top Of The Pops TV prog commercialised soul scene there is so much total B.S. written about history of soul in UK. Fact is because of total LEGENDS like Barbara that soul lovers established clubs - Twisted Wheel, Pendulum, Up the junction, The Torch! Long before Casino, & I can tell you this lady & track were held in highest regard, & I'm very sure influenced Motown greats.
I think you're right. Now, that you've mentioned it, it does sound as though Raphael Saddiq did do a little sampling on 'I Love That Girl'. Great catch!!
Barbara Acklin is one of our GREAT American vocalists!She was also a great & accomplished songwriter!I,m pretty sure she wrote "Whispers"by Jackie Wilson which was a big hit.
Hi everybody! Thankyou for the encouraging words. Stay in touch so that I can let you know when my extended family(Eugene Record's son Brian/wife and daughter Michelle)and I finish working on a project that Brian has the vision for. I will redo Love Makes a Woman, and am looking forward to it! Love, Peace and Happiness to all!
Aaaawww yeah! my all time favorite song. I remember singing in front of the mirror with a hair brush as my microphone. Love this song!
billiejoy100 3 weeks ago
at 18 this was one of my favorite songs. I was visiting san diego, and downtown, blaring from a jukebox from a bar filled with sailors (a vrtual sea of white uniforms) was this song. unforgetable.
radicright 1 month ago
AWWWW yes dancing with the door yea love it
carrmella48 2 months ago 2
cha cha gloria walker
montenharris 2 months ago
moultrie ga youth center what a song class of 68 this was before mr. ryce. william bryant high.
PASTORKable 2 months ago
oh, back in the day...unforgettable! Great voice.....this song as well as many will live on when we're gone!!!
Teaser0424 2 months ago
I love this version; I grew up listening to this version. But I must admit Phoebe Snow took it another level. Both versions are awesome.
MIMI88998899 4 months ago
R.I.P BARBARA A. LOVE YOU
smoothcandi1 4 months ago
This song sounds better with each listen and yes..........much respect to Joyce Sims and Phoebe Snow who brought out a different element to the song. Music like this will never be made again.
dkapone 4 months ago
I was only ten when this song was first out. I even bought the 45 single when I was 14. And of course, it was played on the radio a lot.
Forty-three years later, this is still a good song. I just love this song!
nanlisa 4 months ago
Just love this song reminds me of the old cabarets, BYOB, BABY!!!
sdickerson68 4 months ago
This is my jam!!! She is one of the true back in da day singers...A beautiful voice that sounds like a song bird!!! I remember when girls use to swing out with girls and it was no big deal!!! So many sock hops and waist line parties... Those were the good times!!!
Sangria3 5 months ago
Good love can make a woman.
TheMssharon65 5 months ago in playlist Sharon's Jam
I haven't heard this song in about 20 years. thanks
TheMssharon65 5 months ago
i love phoebe snow's version too
btinsley1 6 months ago
You would have to be a corpse in order to sit still off this song. Barbara Acklin's music legacy will live on forever!!!
tootieluvsmusic 6 months ago
I agree, a great bopp song. The bopp was the first 'partner dance ' I learned around the 5th or 6th grade.
ilar926 6 months ago 6
amazing they were able to transcribe this off of stone and wood
Trikle123 6 months ago
Are any of you still alive?
Jolazabal415 6 months ago
Yeah party !!!!! yaLL
ronaldkgardner 6 months ago
If love makes a woman it takes a REAL man to make it happen. When two come together a REAL relationship ultimately will turn into marriage, not cohabitation, then they work together to make one another, with of course the Holy Spirit guiding them. Without this no relationship will endure for long. I don't care how good the sex, how good he or she looks, or how much money or things one another has. If two don't come together for a REAL LOVE relationship, then expect disappointment and hurt.
truth1disciple 6 months ago 14
@truth1disciple I have finally found true love at the ageof 61! He's 62! I looked for love in all of the wrong places! just as i gave up, he found me! We literally bumped into each other. It's wonderful because we are both spiritually grounded and have so many great values and other things in common. I thank God every day of my life for sending him to me.
JazzyJ1318 6 months ago 2
@JazzyJ1318 Continue to endure, persevere and overcome the tests, trials and adversities that come with "forming, conforming and transforming" that God-sent relationship, into that which will glorify God Almighty. Yes, it is LOVE that makes a woman and a man. God bless you JazzyJ1318.
truth1disciple 3 months ago
@truth1disciple You've said a mouthful, and a refreshing take on what people claim is love. You are so right. All of the elements mentioned in your comment was right on target. A real relationship takes work, and the work never ends. When people stop working at it, broken relationships and divorce is the outcome. It has to have a spiritual layer or level in order for the relationship to last, and this can only come from God.
eyes2soul 3 months ago
@truth1disciple you telling the the truth....keep telling it....so excuse too many don't know
sweettea8534u 3 months ago
love this songggg
sweettea8534u 3 months ago
LOVE this song!!!
vm24seven365 6 months ago
Still soulful!
cindytee1 6 months ago
Ain't it the TRUTH!!!!
Sheila1775 7 months ago
true voice
latrcmzja 7 months ago
I always loved this record what talent!
ThunderMr308 7 months ago
強力ｱﾌﾛ･ｿｳﾙ･ｸﾗｼｯｸ名曲､まったく田舎では手にも入らなかった!～ﾊﾞｰﾊﾞﾗ･ｱｸﾘﾝ"LOVE･MAKES A WOMAN"～凄いｸﾞﾙｰヴ!
blackandtanful 7 months ago
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Classic, Classic, Classic! I remember my Mom and Dad bopping to this song as a kid! This brings back wonderful memories of my late mom and my dad!
theprincess9297 7 months ago
Classic, Classic, Classic! I remember my Mom and Dad bopping to this song as a kid! This brings back wonderful memories of my late mom and my dad!
theprincess9297 7 months ago
One listen and you know this is one of the great ones.
utubemusiccritic 8 months ago
so funky!
gator915 8 months ago
she goooooooooooood!
teesteven 8 months ago
Best bop song of all time!!!!!
brownmajic48 8 months ago
At the time, I was barely out of diapers BUT, this is the kind of music that was branded into our psyches. Ain't it marvelous that it was!
MzKarmel601 8 months ago
@Boothroyd13, I have to agree with you. Wow does this take me back. Though only just a very young child at that time music like this was So Hot! When this came out we had one of the best Block Parties in NYC. I love it.
MediaMom4u 9 months ago
The best ever female vocal, she was incredible and this tune is so under rated and unknown. Todays music is so useless compared to songs like this. I love this song Rambo Ramsden
Boothroyd13 9 months ago
Oh Yea....it is love that makes a woman...classic.
MsAngelsaint 9 months ago
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Old school is still very much alive and thanks to th beautiful that keep old school so that i children can hear what reAL MUSIC IS. THANKS
blackking53 9 months ago
Old school is still very much alive and thanks to th beautiful that keep old school so that i children can hear what reAL MUSIC IS. THANKS
blackking53 9 months ago
One of my all time favorite songs ever!
amytorresacim 10 months ago 2
I've always been crazy about this song. Our radio station in Montgomery, AL always played this song on its day for songs categorized as "the blues". The lyrics are true. I know that love is what makes a woman!!!!
selaine08100 10 months ago
Uuuummm hmmmm!!! Rock and roll and soul are here to stay! SIMON4186
simon4186 10 months ago
Hand dance time
bronzeroad33 10 months ago
when did she pass
MOthaGREAT1 10 months ago
hbarber.....I never heard this song before. Thanks for the heads up. SOUL, for sure!!
mholub 11 months ago
Thye used to rock this at Empire Rollerdome in Brooklyn and the Super fly in Brownsville during the hustle days. This song rocks from beginning to end. Once again today's black music has been diluted. This is SOUL!!!
hbarber 11 months ago
Its most certain Raphael Saadiq 's "Love That Girl" should be credited to this song.
Love makes a woman a timeless.
jPapa2008 1 year ago
this song always move me
MrRaclark 1 year ago
The likes should be used to erase each dislike on the video! 2 dislikes are ridculous!
msjordanielle 1 year ago
back in the darst- webbe -peabody projects and all the old people in high school and this beautiful sister broke up with her 2 timing boyfriend and she sang this song i had no idea what was going on and the guy game just did not save him, being a man is hard for some i guess
Idawa61 1 year ago
(･ ω ･)
hdnrLuminous 1 year ago
Girl we loved this song in the Kingsboro Projects in Brooklyn it was our National Athem. May all of our ole skool babies rest in peace!
mgdiamond18 1 year ago
This is still the jam!
Redeemed2000 1 year ago
HELLO EVERYONE, AND THANKU FOR ALL THE LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR MY MOM'S MUSIC AND VOICE! ALSO, FOR THE LOVE U ALL HAVE HAD FOR THE MUSIC MOM AND STEP DAD (EUGENE RECORD) WROTE TOGETHER.
barbaraAcklinJr 1 year ago 2
@barbaraAcklinJr
It's an honor. :)
Muziclvr07 1 year ago
I would like to know: WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE DANCE PEOPLE DID ON THIS JAM ? I'm curious to see if we all did the same dance!
I'm from Long Island, N.Y. we called ours "The Hustle"! Someone here called it "The Bop," Comando0110 called it "The Popcorn."I would think whatever you called it, it looked something like the Swing from the 50's! I think New Jersey called it "THE STATE-O"....... Write back and let me know what you called it ! ! !
DJslodragg 1 year ago
@DJslodragg , I know that in Philly we call it the Philly Bop.
iladelphiachick 1 year ago
@iladelphiachick You are the same age as my son. If I said Hustle to him, he would think I'm talking about John Travolta in Saturday Nite Fever. The Bop, did the guy hold your hand while dancing? Kind of like the 2-step or swinging?
ALLSAMPVIDEOS 1 year ago
@ALLSAMPVIDEOS Yes, the guy holds your hand. it's a six count step.
iladelphiachick 1 year ago
This is my song by Angie B
msangelayb 1 year ago
Great soul song from BLACK in the day. Kudos for posting such a Old-School Diamond.
anacondanoir 1 year ago
Im sorry to hear about Barbara passing. I love this song!! Then & now!! It's still relevant... such sweet memories...
Marsharees 1 year ago
this was the cut thanks for posting
1ricababy 1 year ago
This is a Great Dance Song..Love It BaBay !
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umaragauthami 1 year ago
Oh I can never get enough of this song! RIP Barbara...you brought us so much soul & joy that will live on.
1Fullaflava 1 year ago
Just a great song!!! This is music!
kanackenhundekopf 1 year ago
This song has Fire! to the daughter sorry for your loss. Great singer
bluekrypton1 1 year ago
still so fresh ! Still a great get up and move number !
miltsar 1 year ago
Bought this single when it first came out
and your right--=it still sounds great.
maddadram1 1 year ago
What two racist fools gave this a hands down????
young1s4u4 1 year ago
@young1s4u4 simple two racist fool's I'd say. or two ignorant asses.
MrGoldfangaz49 1 year ago
Barbara Acklin- one of the greats!
rscharles1 1 year ago
Soulful soul
malikjordan200 1 year ago
This song musta been #1 in NYC for about 6 weeks straight back on WWRL when AM ruled.
13NJJACK 1 year ago
I still want to "bop" when I hear this recording. The beat is so infectious. Love it!! To daughter: sincere condolences on your lost. I lost my mother last year. It's horrible to loose your mother. God Bless.
cdjblue52 1 year ago 2
So many memories. Growing up in the San Francisco Fillmore district was wonderful.. Use to hang out at the Buchannan YMCA that was run by Yori Wada it was a great time to be a young person. Dances at Ben Franklin Junior High School all the girls dancing together. Mr. Toler, Ms. Hannah and the beautiful Ms. Teal were our role models. Memories flood back when I hear this song.
ahsal2000 1 year ago
GREATEST BOP SONG OF ALL TIME.....
brownmajic48 1 year ago
@brownmajic48 Somebody else remembers the Bop...:-)
MotownMs 1 year ago 2
barbra may be gone r.i.p,but her music still lives on and always will do in the uk,this is still being played at northern soul nites all around the uk,classic track from a special lady.
soulmandave49 1 year ago
Reading some of these I can remember well the when Barbera was played on the skate floor. Everyone jumped on the floor and it was wild people were skating their a.. off, and held it together as we went around the cruves Hey hey......LOL
chilliard2201 1 year ago
Everytime I hear this song, I cannot help but dance, bop my head, or snap my fingers. It is electric! I was a small kid when it came out, but my older siblings wore this record out. RIP Barbara Acklin, and God bless your mother's soul Samotta.
ggordon10 1 year ago
I danced my ass off to this song as a teenager.Barbara rocked this one!
glorybee14 1 year ago 2
@glorybee14 You and my mom both. Ma said this was the song when it came out. Every car, every house party, the song was all over the place when it came out.
rufus317 1 year ago
@rufus317
She sounds like she was very happy and accomplished. Thanks for the reply.
glorybee14 1 year ago
Oh those memories!!!
NiceladyAmerica 1 year ago
super !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alain59200 1 year ago
Great Tune!!! If you have access to her less well known hit, "Someone Else's Arms", could you please post it? I think many would be surprised that this tune wasn't bigger for her.
1stgrandpa 1 year ago
This was the Jam that we you skate off
JoJo3729 1 year ago
that classic chicago soul sound... where is all the good music and where are all the good musicians who, if you know anything about music at all, were actually LISTENING to each other as they played??????
art1959lee 1 year ago 2
Skating music.....glidding around the rink in rythum, turning, dipping, just enjoying. Loved this song for partying back in the day and now!
agape4tube 1 year ago
Brooklyn in the sixties...great song!
JEThomTrilogy 1 year ago
cheers -- brill oldie ktf
dundee520 1 year ago
I can vaguely remember this song. It was released the year I was born but I remember hearing it as a child.
Msredhoney720 1 year ago
Feeling Mom's Spirit....One of her old Jams from My childhood days.....all good!!
MrDwalker813 1 year ago
I wore our shoes danicing to this tune. SUperb. thanks for giving me back some grooves.
JokevandenBooren57 1 year ago
OMG .. I REMEMBER THIS SONG!!!!!!! I am just going to have me a good ole fashion party ALL BY MYSELF !!!! With some REAL MUSIC!!!!
fulfillednchrist 1 year ago
THIS IS MUSIC
sapphiregem1981 1 year ago
This song was great on the skating floor.....Just the right smooth beat!
agape4tube 1 year ago
1968, I was 11 years old, when this song came out. They were doing a dance called "The Four Corner's", then later called the Typewriter..Berkeley, CA..what wonderful memories.
mycalling52 2 years ago
@mycalling52 We called it the same thing in L.A. and I was9...nice to know that we are both still here and listening to Barbara. P.S. Do you remember her song: "Am I the same girl?"
ekocentric 2 years ago
@ekocentric...No I never heard that song..I'll have to check it out...Yes, I love the music of that era...listen to many songs everyday..It is nice to know that someone else appreciates the best R&B music...It is sad that the music of the era is overlooked...They have or had a Oldies station in Sacramento....they play Alicia Keyes...So when has her music classified as "Oldies."
mycalling52 2 years ago
I meant to say, music of that era...and when has Alicia Keyes music been classified as an "Oldie?" That is just ridiculous!
mycalling52 2 years ago
@mycalling52 - O wow - that's so Radical - I'm from the Bay Area, too. In fact, was a student at UCB at the time.
However, I was 19 when the song was out - funny thing is - before I read your post, I remembered we did the 4 corners -to this song - tried to do it - really funny!
CheckMate657879 1 year ago
@CheckMate657879
Lol..you tried to do it..It that crazy..when
someone actually know what your talking
about. I don't live very far from UCB, and
now, Berkeley City College is right down
street.
mycalling52 1 year ago
This is a masterclass of how to interpret and perform a song which is now rightly ranked as a classic.I'm from the UK and Dusty Springfield released a cover of this--received great reviews- but just doesn't come close to BA.
Thanks for this.5* for you my friend
BelleVue1969 2 years ago
before stepping, there was bopping and this was one of the best bop records ever recorded!!
cdjblue52 2 years ago 4
Had the pleasure of touring with Barbara in 1968, She was a doll. Her dressing room was robbed in S.C. on that tour and she lost her purse, travel clothes and jewelery. She had the local press run the story and offered a reward. never found if she got her things.
ILIGANO 2 years ago
Did 1994g0 say "The Negro"?
CHolt1914 2 years ago
Yes they did. Where have they been for the last 40 years?
slnevels 2 years ago
This song still sounds great ....vintage soul.
ret23867 2 years ago 17
Amazing song
rdebs 2 years ago 5
Barbara Acklin and Eugene Record...Rest in Peace.
Cch092775 2 years ago 21
this is a well produced track....it is full of vocal and musical surprises and retains its freshness after all these years....like Marvin Gaye's 'Grapevine' and Fontella Bass 'Rescue Me'
Is the backing band from Motown?
matthew550 2 years ago 3
This Song Is A Timeless Classic, & One Of The Greatest Soul Records Ever Made!
poindexterqueef 2 years ago 5
true!!
rdebs 2 years ago 3
The Negro soars in songs like this.Rhythm, harmony and vocal beauty-and a love filled message.All the other races on earth should revel in and share this genius.
1994g0 2 years ago
A Timeless classic by any standard. Barbara's voice is sublime.Thanks for this fab upload.
Girlshine 2 years ago 4
Her recording, Please Sunrise Please, was her very best. She's one of the all-time greatest female vocalists and very under-rated.
diopian1 2 years ago
I still have the 45 that I bought in 1968!
view4evah 2 years ago 2
The first time I was ever in 'love' this was our song, her name was Amelia. It was at a camp in Vermont called COPA and I was only 14. Oh the memories!!!!!!!!
TheAlfredthegreat9 2 years ago
Somebody tell these girls to put some cloths back on look how sexy this woman looks,and she did'nt have to take her cloths off!!!
artistsixteen 2 years ago
Sister Barbara Acklin has one sexy voice and she was top classic in her hits during the late sixties and early seventies, if my memory serves me right.
Sister Barbara, you never ever be forgotten.
Thanks for the memories, Sister Barbara Acklin.
peasah2005 2 years ago 2
Say it again!
ilenecruz283 2 years ago
thanx for this great post. My cousin loved this when she came to visit back in the day, I got to send it to her and see if she remembers. I still have my 45.
rudielor 2 years ago
Found this in my dads records about 35years ago befor i started going wigan casion
day348 2 years ago
Today black singers don't sing about love. Women just sing about men paying their bills and doing sexual things, same for the men. You don't hear about love anymore. We need to bring love back to our community and relationships. Today's music will never have the longevity of classics like this. I would hate if anyone sampled this song today. They would make a mess out of it. Leave genius alone!
rhythmbluessoul 2 years ago 7
Amen to that!
john4951 2 years ago
thank you
Makiba08 2 years ago
rhythmbuessoul, you better say it! I searched for "Blind Alley" by the Emotions and could only find a sampled version. I was sooooo disappointed.
ValleyGold 2 years ago
It's a sad fact, but it's true. They really don't sing about love, the kind of love that kept us going through the years of discrimination and the Civil Rights movement. It does need to be brought back, big time!
57Will 2 years ago
I'm in my 20's and I love 60's soul. This is one of my all time favorites. It sounds good everytime I play it. It doesn't sound old at all. Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, Christina Milan, Ashanti, and the rest can learn a lot from the beautiful, classy black women who sung positive songs and provided positive images of black women. They were sexy without showing their behinds. Today's singers can learn a lot from Barbara Acklin, Tammi Terrell, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway, Patti Drew, and the rest.
rhythmbluessoul 2 years ago 2
BIG BIG TUNE
raregrooveman 2 years ago
Still 1 of my Favorite songs. I grew up on this song. I was only 6 when I 1st heard this song; now I'm 37.... What... Are you kidding me... I still love this song...
ChubyChic 2 years ago
this kind of real music makes me a woman ; ) today's music makes me feel nothing
browneyebaby 2 years ago
This song came out in late 1968 when I first moved to New York City. Still love it.
jamaicafirst 2 years ago
My mother came in '61; I'm assuming you're Jamaican like my mother by your username
tanyatmr 2 years ago
yes indeed,I am Jamaican,moved to NY in 1968, used to hear this song played all the time on Flatbush avenue and at parties .Thank god for the internet,now you can hear all these songs again. memories. Thankss.
jamaicafirst 2 years ago
Co-written by Eugene Record better known as the lead singer of the Chi-Lites.
rievans57 2 years ago
Hello all, Its Barbara's offspring! thank you soooooooooooo much for the love. Mommies looking down smiling, Im sure! It still makes me cry to hear some of her songs. I just began to sing them on stage again about 2 years ago. She passed in 1998.
Bless you All,
Samotta
barbaraAcklinJr 2 years ago
@barbaraAcklinJr Thank you, Barb, Jr. Please read my comment on your mom. I loved this song. In fact I bought the CD of her releases. I remember reading about your mom's passing. I was in shock. We really need to recognize all of our entertainers who really made an impression, and stop going with who's popular, or today's flavor. Keep mom's legacy going. She knew how wear her afro. God Bless you..really..that you will carry on.
nutothis1 1 year ago 2
Black woman looked so classy the way they use to dress and perform some of these hoochie dressing mama's can learn a lesson or two from these classy ladies!!!!!!!!
artistsixteen 2 years ago
Right On!
rhythmbluessoul 2 years ago
Our sisters should bring back their sexy flair they once had and stop disgracing themselves, because our sisters and a woman is all about her beauty.
peasah2005 2 years ago 2
@peasah2005
This song is dedicated to my future wife and sweetheart in Ghana, who means so much to me.
peasah2005 1 year ago
This Great Artist deserves so much respect. She was a pioneer & led the way for so many. Since Wigan Casino together with Top Of The Pops TV prog commercialised soul scene there is so much total B.S. written about history of soul in UK. Fact is because of total LEGENDS like Barbara that soul lovers established clubs - Twisted Wheel, Pendulum, Up the junction, The Torch! Long before Casino, & I can tell you this lady & track were held in highest regard, & I'm very sure influenced Motown greats.
CHEWDwivTHEinCrowd 2 years ago
Now I know how my parents felt when they heard a jam, do I got to get up and do my thang. Great Great Great
jo22338601 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this wonderful song on my birthday.
puremanna 3 years ago 4
Your welcome
snakeskate2000 2 years ago
Is it me or did Raphael Saddiq soooo sample this in " I Love That Girl"
hijklmnop06 3 years ago
I think you're right. Now, that you've mentioned it, it does sound as though Raphael Saddiq did do a little sampling on 'I Love That Girl'. Great catch!!
eyes2soul 2 years ago
Thnx 4 the co-signage,if not sample,interpolation but it's waaaaaaaay 2 similiar.
hijklmnop06 2 years ago
Doing the popcorn in New York City...Lord have mercy. The music was soooooooooo gooooooooooooood!! Make me wanna holler! Thank you Jesus!!
comando0110 3 years ago
Barbara Acklin is one of our GREAT American vocalists!She was also a great & accomplished songwriter!I,m pretty sure she wrote "Whispers"by Jackie Wilson which was a big hit.
soulfultony 3 years ago 2
Ms. Acklin is one of my favorite female vocalist, and everytime i hear this record it sounds as fresh as it did the first time that i heard it.
gmanjam 3 years ago
I can't say how much I love this song!
askmewhy51 3 years ago
remember this song,came out in 1968
jamaicafirst 3 years ago
Hi Erica, who are your parents? where do you live?(city)
8351runit 3 years ago
Pure talent. Imagine her and Aretha on the same stage. Bring the house down.
utubemusiccritic 3 years ago 4
Hi, My name is Erica Acklin I was told you are related to me.
Meckadamicrecka 3 years ago
Joyce Sims cover this song for her first album that came in 1988, and that was twenty years ago.
richlove404 3 years ago
Sorry that last message(8351runit) was from me,Samotta Acklin. I dont know how I ended up in someone else's box.
barbaraAcklinJr 3 years ago
Hi everybody! Thankyou for the encouraging words. Stay in touch so that I can let you know when my extended family(Eugene Record's son Brian/wife and daughter Michelle)and I finish working on a project that Brian has the vision for. I will redo Love Makes a Woman, and am looking forward to it! Love, Peace and Happiness to all!
8351runit 3 years ago 2
Though born in 1975, I Love it! My dad you to sing this and he would twist and dip me...good memories!!! In hindsight, good analogy!
Val880 3 years ago
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ElvisLivesUpstairs 2 years ago
This is a great song. Have any of you ever meet and talked with Barbara Acklin? Is she still alive?
kentstarchild 3 years ago
barnaraAcklinjr..your Mother left her positive mark on the world...give thanks.
I would love to emulate her
GReYSTOKE2012 3 years ago