and also the first people in the world were black so nobody can be truly white............... unless the listen the following katy perry kesha new boyz usher britney spears jennifer lopez justin bieber rebbeca black miley cyrus jonas brothers big time rush and selena gomez
Remember cruizin' my ole triple white 75 Merc. Cougar listenin' to this! Chrome everywhere, opera lights and windows, God.It was good with this coming through my 'Jenson' speakers!!!!!
Lol!!! Funny you should mention that, I was playing the Commodores "Sail On" at a family get together last year. My 21 year old nephew (has a lot to learn), thought the Commodores were a white country group and said "damn this song is by brothas?" Lol!! I have to say though, Boz Scaggs, the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, David Bowie, Hall & Oaks had some damn good music/songs back in the 70's. Let's not forget, music is universal, regardless of race.
The 70s was just a great time in history to be alive......we used to have so much fun to this song at the skating rink. Today's music is the only era of music i can't indentify with. It seems like real music died when we weren't looking.
That dirty, dirty, dirty lowdown...I miss real music, Thanks for posting MemphoTenn. and Tx 2 youtube for providing the outlet! This is the place where we can escape from the crap on the airwaves nowadays...
I keep hearing songs on the radio that I either don't have at all, or don't have in digital format. Thank Haruhi for YouTube, and thanks for putting this up MT. ^_^
Now if we could somehow talk the dinosaur music companies into realizing that AMVs help SELL music. How many folks heard this clip and said, "Damn, I want to own a copy of this"?
miharo tonu rawa atu . amazing i was dancing to this when i was 11 in 1971, and it still makes me wanna dance. just listened to another version of M biondi and chaka khan.... which i thought was wow but as my mind settles back into this era..... not even close. bring it on Boz!
Boz said that this song was a hit by accident but as a person who lived back then this song not only spoke to and about the times and events and how people lived but it also blended so well with all the other great music being produced at this time.
Everytime I heard this song, I would stop what I was doing and just move my head up and down back and forth to the beat! LOVE IT! Aww the memories...I wonder wonder what happened to music like this..Damn! I miss those days...Come on back around to the yesterdays of music! Keep sharing and singing this music from back in the day and this music will live on forever.. Peace!
Thank you @mokacode for sharing and putting a smile on my face!
This is arguably one of the coolest Blackest songs by a White dude. Everything from the snare drum intro to the electric guitar exit, this song permeates coolness.
I would come home on leave from the Navy and this album was the hot item. I brought it back east to the ship and turned them on. This is one of the most soulful beats of that time! Even now!
This song just chokes me up everytime. So powerfully emotional. One of the best guitar solos. Supreme musicianship by all members. I heard this back in 1976 and even now, it still excites me. I could go on and about this.
Please listen to it over and over and over. Like I do. You will hear something different all the time. I can only dream of playing (guitar) that good.
So right! Still blows me away after all this time. Boz has to be one of the greatest exponants of the genre I believe to be referred to as 'blue-eyed soul'
Ah! The long hot summer of 1976... (when I was 23...)
i think boz scaggs and donald fagan of steely dan were similar-anyway; i loved their music-and i thought boz scaggs was not white until i saw his album for "silk degrees"--aw man-awesome!
boz scaggs-the cool macho man-iwas in new york visiting my cousins-i had just gotten out the womens army corps in ft dix new jersey-getting ready to get married-when this bad-ass song "the low=down" came out-boz scaggs is ONE BAD BLUE-EYED SOUL DUDE!
In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the U.S. charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "i. A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, did not fare as well commercially as Silk Degrees
One of the all time best drum solo opening ever recorded
yea real.hey dude heard my old say that same shit.i thought music stay grounded to my hearings.not true .music is in flux.always movin and returnin to roots of that genre.you dont hear the same notes as me .we pick sections of songs out to relate to.
If You Want More Old Music Just Like This, Type Into Your Search Bar "pheneviox" To Find Playlists Which Have Over 150 Each From The 70s, 80s Or Other, Or Just Click The Name Under Or Above The Comment Left By Us// This Will Give You Access To // W.O.T.R. East Coast Old Time Radio CHANNEL.
In the dictionary under cool they need just a photo of Boz Scaggs. He has been the definition of that word for over 35 years long before there was Jay-Z, P-diddy, George Clooney, or whoever else they try to trump out as suave and cool. Boz wrote the book and he was just being himself, no image, just talent.
My Girlfriend And I Saw Him In Concert Last Night. It Was An Excellent Performance. Great Collaboration On The Images And Music In This One! Thanks Mempho Tenn!
I posted this thought on Lido Shuffle, but you gotta love a man who can sing like Kermit the frog and make it come out cool. Really, if you showed up on American Idol and sang like Boz, they would think you were joking and have you on the gag reel of disaster auditions. But he makes it work, real well.
do you have some imagination by boz i used to have it on an lp but alas it was lost when my basement flooded his wusic is so tight like steely dan and other s who had introcate melodys and catchy hooks
Boz Scaggs/Herp Albertson were always the Tijuana Brass in my book! Boz Scaggs was kind of the Joe Piscopo of 70s Al Jarreau style jazz-pop in that he was not really good, but serviceable enough to play "between the hits."
@hardlines4 All music is real it just has a tendency to evolve and change...It has evolved from some cavemen banging sticks on rocks to what it is today. I love all music new and old, one just only need to appreciate music for what it and or was
What is your issue bro??? You're the reason why this world is so narrow minded!!! You need to take a very chill pill from the north pole and hibernate with the polars DUDE!!! You were probably not even born yet!!! Get a life!
Let me get this straight. You say "The 70's is the ONLY era of music." Then you say "You're the reason why this world is so narrow minded!!! "? LOL. Do I even really need to respond to that?
sorry to tell you this but it is singing and songwritin was very good at that time becuz the person who was singin maybe wrote the dam thing lol it was a era that changed ever thing and thats y we so carzy now becuz thay was so carzy and ahead of there time bac in the 70's yea thay sold alot music bac then lol
The 70's is the ONLY era of music, back in the DJ days of 70's-early 80's is what music is all about. None of that yeng yang of today, you feel the music, you lived the music, it encompass you and of course all the young children of today were made by the hits of the 70's!!!! Y'all don't know real music until you lived it in the 70's...................
It's a great song. However, you don't have a f'n clue what you're talking about. You like a certain kind of music and you think that means it's the best of all because you had personal experiences with it. Please stop displaying your musical ignorance online, though. It's kind of embarrassing to watch you make an ass of yourself by making blanket statements like that.
@twhodat369 I feel bad for anyone who had to be subjected to the garbage of the 90s and 2000s. When I first heard rap and hip hop, I thought it was just there to annoy people. I figured it was a fad, but MTV kept it alive. It's like professional wrestling is to the world of sports. I can't lower my intellect enough to understand it's appeal.
@twhodat369 Punk rock was like that for me, I got into it in the mid-80's, First band for Me was the Circle Jerks. they were end 70's beginning 80's punk rock band. Boz Skaggs is the man, this song used to cheer me up when I was Locked up, I seen so many fools lose their minds worrying about their girl cheating on them when they were down, I just simply did not worry about it. I Had Boz haha.
Just listening to Shaft,a classic and Billy Squiers-the stroke, 70's were real good. I had beige corduroy flares, high heel "thongs" (i'm aussie) and a boob tube- cool pics, memories and great music
I think he was talking about his age when the song was first released. Or, maybe when he first heard it. This song brings back great memories for a lot of people.
Man. I'd like to hang with any of you guys. You guys are from a different ers. Man it would be neat to hang with you all really! Wish I could see what it was like back then in your days. I'm 23 and I'm from the Tupac Shakur era. Screw the other rap/hip-hop. Love yall!
We would've loved to hang with you I'm sure because you seem like a down to earth cat. We would cruise in our rides with the 8 track blaring, wearing our bell bottoms, sippin' a cold Schlitz tall boy, talking on our CB's, and best of all we'd have our loved one by our side the entire time.....The seventies were the kind let me tell you. Yeah, Boz played a big part of the cool seventies, believe that!!!
Oh my goodness, my ear got fouled for so many years until I watched the video. I thought Boz Scaggs was a Black Singer (not trying to be racial/racist or anything like that) but it took me 33 years to discover that. The same way when I heard Steve Wonder singing "Is'nt She Lovely" the first time, I thought it was a White Singer, but then I saw him performing live shortly after.
Now these days, everybody is trying to sound Cosmopolitan ;-)
blakmorth, its uncool to be mean , get with the groove and just listen to boz, it shows you have lotsa taste n style to listen to boz anyway- another good song is lido shuffle----70's ROCK!!!
I dislike your sarcastic remark. It seems that you are stereotyping me as somebody who dislike reading. You are wrong.
How the hell you expect someone to know an artist when on the radio, the hardly play his music and many times fail to mention the singer's name. I don't want to go any further because by reading your posting, I can tell immedialtely what kind a person you are. Just leave it right there because no further comments are necessary
i wouldn't waste your breath on this guy...i have noticed there are alot of very angry and negative people who have nothing better to do than try and ruin someones good time. I wish there were a way to delete the jerks from utube but the world is a place to say what you like whether it is nice or not.
Thank You for posting this. I was a little boy when this came out and used to hear this and "Lido Shuffle" all the time on the radio and brings me back to some great memories..
As a musician/guitarist myself, I have grown to appriciate all the different elements in his music. What an amazing song writter!
Once again... I love this song (although it's overplayed). And the video you made kinda captures the mood of the song. I like those slides you did when it got to the chorus. It's fine detail like that I can appreciate, because I do the same thing with my videos.
Now this is the ultimate old school lowrider joint! I can see it now...East L.A. Whittier Blvd, September '76 and a flotilla of Grand Prix's flying the colours of the day and this song on the 8-track!!!! Love the outro on the album version!!!
debfan, interesting point u make. i graduated HS 1976, my 2 fave albums of tht yr are Silk Degrees and The Royal Scam. never could understand the big deal about frampton, one of the most over-rated albums of all time.
Come on now - "Frampton Comes Alive" was an absolute landmark!
But to get in on that conversation with juandedios8, MemphoTenn and debfan74, maybe all those summer of 1976 songs were influenced by early Chicago - what do you guys think?
Look up Chicago & see when they first came onto the scene... & look up these guys & see when they first came onto the scene. Chicago was influenced by the Big Bands I believe... & again, Boz Scaggs was influenced by Jimmy Reed & other early Blues masters. Chicago was/is not Blues; they're more Jazz/Big Band. These guys weren't copying each other; I think their influences may be similar as far as what they listened to when they were younger. Read more about all of them & you'll see what I mean.
From my perspective, 1976 seems an "annus miarbilis" in the music, Boz(lowdown) ,Peter Frampton alive!,sweet (fox on the run),chicago x, starbuck(moonligth feels rigth),Daryl & oates(sara's smile),englan dan & john ford (really want to see you tonigth), dreamweaver, and a bunch of excelent music. lucky me to be there these summer and enjoy the bicentennial of independence celebration. :).
thanks for quote music definition on you youtube site, i had never heard any of them, and for me, longfellow's definiton is the straigthest, and victor hugo the finest.
I forgot about that quote! You're welcome. Longfellow's words have great meaning when you go to Memphis & see how many people from around the world visit simply because of the music. There's nothing else I can think of that unites people the way music can. I remember being in a store with my daughter one afternoon & a Ray Charles song came on... I started dancing & singing with two older ladies closeby. Just moments before, we were strangers. Music changes everything & brings people together.
I always sort of wondered if Steely Dan did not sort of cop this style...if you notice some of Steely Dan's music, they sort of had this tint to their stuff...I think they may have been influenced by Boz Skaggs
Hmmm... I don't know about that. Read about how, where & when Becker & Fagen started; they couldn't have been aware of Boz, nor Boz of them. I believe they all as young men in the early 60's were influenced by the Blues & Jazz that blared through their AM radios nightly. Boz, Donald & Walter were influenced by Reed, Coltraine, Davis, Monk, Ray Charles, etc. & the result was a fusion of lush, sexy, Jazz/Rock/Pop. Just products of their individual influences, but they didn't copy one another.
Definitely - I know what you mean. It was like they had their own trend w/ jazzy-infused Rock which sounded SO different from everything else @ the time. They did seem to share a kinship in their sound but it was because of what they grew up listening to on the radio. I love the story of Boz at a Ray Charles concert when he was about 15 (only white kid there). But everyone was SO moved by the music, the lady next to him grabbed him. Everyone was united in the music. He said that was IT for him.
Have you ever heard Boz's "Come On Home" album? I think it's from '97. It is more bluesy & raw... It hearkens back to the gritty Bluesmasters. I LOVE "Picture of a Broken Heart." It is like his salute to the masters of Delta & Chicago Blues he grew up listening to.
Oh, another thing I forgot was that in several albums, the same studio musicians were used. Boz had help from the guys who would go on to become Toto (David Paich, Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, etc.) and Steely Dan was ALL studio musicians except for Becker & Fagen. I forget which albums the Toto group backed them on. That may be why they have the same sound... It's the same guys!
Much of the song styling is shaped by what's cool at the moment, what stations will play & what record companies are willing to package & sell but these artists have never really changed their styles over the years. They've put out albums consistently & even tho not all have been top sellers, they've had a constant output - check their catalogs. The ages these guys are, they had the same influences: Blues, R&B, Big Bands, Pop, etc. of their youth - which would've been 40's, 50's & early 60's.
I do not think so at all. Look up Chicago & when they got started. They would not have been an influence. Boz Scaggs' website as well as Toto's & Steely Dan's websites chronicle their careers pretty well & I just don't think so as far as Chicago being an influence. You must be in your 20's or younger. Not meaning to be condescending, but the timeline just doesn't fit. Boz Scaggs was playing bands by the early/mid-60's. Chicago would not have been an influence. See my earlier response on this.
The way it reads, I would think "early Chicago" means the group. Boz Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas. He was born in Canton, but his roots are in Memphis. He didn't spend any considerable time in Ohio. His main influences were the early Blues artists like Jimmy Reed. (And I'm a Miss) :-)
funky song
VeeOma 1 week ago
GREAT SONG FROM A GREAT YEAR...I miss those times,,,,,,good times.
UBZUKI 3 weeks ago 2
I loved this song for so MANY years , am glad to have it again, not on vinyl.
regenadau 1 month ago
4 people are dire need of mental health treatment.
darqman82 3 months ago 4
IF YOU CAN'T MOVE TO THIS ONE,TAKE SOME DANCE LESSON AND GET BACK WITH ME LATER.THIS ONE GERE IS A ALL-TIMER.
MrTrackfreek 4 months ago
Sound quality is too low. But it's still my favorite song!
PennyManning2 4 months ago
if this song doesn't make your body move, you're dead!
wd4fny 5 months ago
too much noise reduction on the digital enhancement - the sound is pinched.
lundehund44 5 months ago
same old schoolboy game got you into this mess
learningrichard 5 months ago in playlist Boz Scaggs
and yes sadly i do know those people
josephirvin56 5 months ago
josephirvin56 5 months ago
2 people couldn't find the word "cool" in the dictionary
truffelsnuffler 5 months ago
That was a great album.
TCall2004 5 months ago
Yes, that's the band that became "Toto" backing him up!!!
HaloRckn 6 months ago
2 people were white and finished listining to kesha
josephirvin56 6 months ago
@josephirvin56
I'm lily white - on the outside - and have been loving and promoting cool, R&B, Soul and Funk ever since I can remember. Your thinking is outdated.
madamexfiles 5 months ago
@madamexfiles In your haste to correct my "error" you failed to realize I was joking...relax
josephirvin56 5 months ago
SWAG.
OohMitch 6 months ago
Remember cruizin' my ole triple white 75 Merc. Cougar listenin' to this! Chrome everywhere, opera lights and windows, God.It was good with this coming through my 'Jenson' speakers!!!!!
hydromorph1965 6 months ago
Timeless, like it was just 'waxed' yesterday!
hydromorph1965 6 months ago
2011- anybody,cant,tell,us,what,going,on,with,the,music,of,,today?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
sergechartrand64 6 months ago
It was in my head when I listened to the teacher. Man I loved this song. Big hit in the states! Love it still!
sweetkees 6 months ago
that funky, soulful, groove is the epitome of cool!!!!!!!!!!!!yeah!!
CoreaKixx420 7 months ago
Happy Birthday Boz! 2 people ain't got to be so bad, ain't got to be so cold....
nashtndawg 7 months ago
Sexy, sexy Boz.....what a first class performer!!!!
TrishBell1 7 months ago
Outstanding. Wonder who the two short bus riders were who gave it a thumbs-down.
LaughingMan0960 8 months ago
Im a brotha and I think this is funky
jlsone73 8 months ago
So lucky to be alive during this period.
ribblock1 9 months ago
2 dislikes WTF. Loosers.
bww1972 9 months ago
oui!
grandirensemble 10 months ago
This is the "blackest" song I've ever heard and it was written by a white boy! What?!
Charybdys 10 months ago 2
@Charybdys
Lol!!! Funny you should mention that, I was playing the Commodores "Sail On" at a family get together last year. My 21 year old nephew (has a lot to learn), thought the Commodores were a white country group and said "damn this song is by brothas?" Lol!! I have to say though, Boz Scaggs, the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, David Bowie, Hall & Oaks had some damn good music/songs back in the 70's. Let's not forget, music is universal, regardless of race.
MrJuly1990ish 8 months ago
Boz Scaggs is the coolest cat! Love his jams.
trucker69orso 10 months ago
i like! song...and your graphics...
vivandav67 1 year ago
The 70s was just a great time in history to be alive......we used to have so much fun to this song at the skating rink. Today's music is the only era of music i can't indentify with. It seems like real music died when we weren't looking.
BLKJEW01 1 year ago 2
That dirty, dirty, dirty lowdown...I miss real music, Thanks for posting MemphoTenn. and Tx 2 youtube for providing the outlet! This is the place where we can escape from the crap on the airwaves nowadays...
GloRob65 1 year ago
I keep hearing songs on the radio that I either don't have at all, or don't have in digital format. Thank Haruhi for YouTube, and thanks for putting this up MT. ^_^
Now if we could somehow talk the dinosaur music companies into realizing that AMVs help SELL music. How many folks heard this clip and said, "Damn, I want to own a copy of this"?
amrak63 1 year ago
I agree, this was when music was MUSIC!!!!!!
primo2316 1 year ago 2
Dig the Boz
kornbelt 1 year ago
miharo tonu rawa atu . amazing i was dancing to this when i was 11 in 1971, and it still makes me wanna dance. just listened to another version of M biondi and chaka khan.... which i thought was wow but as my mind settles back into this era..... not even close. bring it on Boz!
ngakaihiki 1 year ago
@ngakaihiki This didnt came out in 71,more like mid seventies,75 or 76 at least.
dcflava74 8 months ago
Boz said that this song was a hit by accident but as a person who lived back then this song not only spoke to and about the times and events and how people lived but it also blended so well with all the other great music being produced at this time.
SisterD7 1 year ago 2
guapo guapisisisimooooooooooooo
sunnycancun2006 1 year ago
Guapooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cuantos recuerdos !!!Y Lindossssss!!! De hace 30 años atrás !
Pattyben12 1 year ago
Guapooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Pattyben12 1 year ago
this is the kind of music that never dies !! Boz you rock!!
lynnine 1 year ago
Boz Scaggs: The dude you could walk up to and say "Hey dude, your music is awesome! Why don't we go out for drinks sometime?"
Dordracnor 1 year ago
Boz picked up the Grammy for Best R&B Performance of 1976 for his song!!!
94cadillacfleetwood 1 year ago
Amazing..just how good..Thank you..:)
irishbelle65 1 year ago
This song makes me want to go out and cruise RIGHT NOW!!!!!
94cadillacfleetwood 1 year ago
One of my favorites as a kid----Thanks for this post!
flygirlmom 1 year ago
wow i love this jam gotta give both thanks to 2009denisem & mempho tenn for sharin!
THRILLAKILLA187 1 year ago
Everytime I heard this song, I would stop what I was doing and just move my head up and down back and forth to the beat! LOVE IT! Aww the memories...I wonder wonder what happened to music like this..Damn! I miss those days...Come on back around to the yesterdays of music! Keep sharing and singing this music from back in the day and this music will live on forever.. Peace!
Thank you @mokacode for sharing and putting a smile on my face!
Thank you MemphoTeam for a pheomenal post!
2009Denisem 1 year ago 2
This is arguably one of the coolest Blackest songs by a White dude. Everything from the snare drum intro to the electric guitar exit, this song permeates coolness.
townesphd 1 year ago
Smooth as electrified liquid gold.......Boz I love you.
Aqene1000 1 year ago
Just fucking love this song. That bass...those sleek vocals. It's the shit.
theScytheofGod 1 year ago
brilliant stuff!!
steppypeter 1 year ago
This is an exellent song people.
stvbarb 1 year ago
base is bass .... cruisin' thru the rockies at night
08visualizer 1 year ago
man I love this clip...........Boz forever
newromantic888 2 years ago
love this song, grew up listen to Boz, My dad would play this record ova n ova. brings back best memories of my child hood " Peace out"
mtribe4eva 2 years ago
I would come home on leave from the Navy and this album was the hot item. I brought it back east to the ship and turned them on. This is one of the most soulful beats of that time! Even now!
terjecan 2 years ago
Great song...hips swaying..thank you
irishbelle65 2 years ago
Lots of childhood memories. Boz your awsome, very attractive younger photos.BTW. Im also a big Steely Dan fan too.
jetstarrmd 2 years ago 2
Great song allways last, to refresh our memories.
WORFMYDOG 2 years ago
Shit, me and my real fuckin homeboy Johnny Boy from da IRV used to close da bar down to this jam. I miss you bro!
49erider4life 2 years ago
is it so hard to get some quality sound of youtube? Great song, not so good quality.
nakedfrenzy6241 2 years ago
HELL YEAH!
rg2027x 2 years ago
Summer of 76. Listening to Boz on the am radio in my sisters 63 ford. Good times were had by all.
zorak1704 2 years ago 8
This song just chokes me up everytime. So powerfully emotional. One of the best guitar solos. Supreme musicianship by all members. I heard this back in 1976 and even now, it still excites me. I could go on and about this.
Please listen to it over and over and over. Like I do. You will hear something different all the time. I can only dream of playing (guitar) that good.
leegenix 2 years ago 15
So right! Still blows me away after all this time. Boz has to be one of the greatest exponants of the genre I believe to be referred to as 'blue-eyed soul'
Ah! The long hot summer of 1976... (when I was 23...)
4beatlefans 2 years ago
i think boz scaggs and donald fagan of steely dan were similar-anyway; i loved their music-and i thought boz scaggs was not white until i saw his album for "silk degrees"--aw man-awesome!
melollylolly 2 years ago
Always loved his music and I agree with the Don Fagan comment, I'm a big fan of Steely Dan.
1yogi2many 2 years ago
boz scaggs-the cool macho man-iwas in new york visiting my cousins-i had just gotten out the womens army corps in ft dix new jersey-getting ready to get married-when this bad-ass song "the low=down" came out-boz scaggs is ONE BAD BLUE-EYED SOUL DUDE!
melollylolly 2 years ago
Luv the guitar throughout...awesome soul music!
ICANDIGUOUT 2 years ago
In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the U.S. charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "i. A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, did not fare as well commercially as Silk Degrees
One of the all time best drum solo opening ever recorded
loosestudios 2 years ago 4
right on loosestudios, jeff pocaro was like buttah. RIP
flibideegibbit 2 years ago
EXCELLENT!!!!
AlexTube2006 2 years ago
1976 never sounded sooooo goood.
bds1167 2 years ago 3
amazing song
belligumdrop 2 years ago
I really like the artwork you used between the photos. Thanks for posting this.
flowergirlinWard17 2 years ago
yea real.hey dude heard my old say that same shit.i thought music stay grounded to my hearings.not true .music is in flux.always movin and returnin to roots of that genre.you dont hear the same notes as me .we pick sections of songs out to relate to.
feeldhand 2 years ago
A time when we had REAL music!!!
hardlines4 2 years ago 3
kicking it with the oldskool !!!
missjtrep 2 years ago
i like that late bass choke,at the intro ,this is a well produced album
feeldhand 2 years ago
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pheneviox 2 years ago
My Saturday morning, song to get me going and cleaning the house
honeybunch25bt 2 years ago
This reminds me of warm summer nights havinig a drink with friends and generally chillin out.
Great work MemphoTenn
spiderham24 2 years ago 2
In the dictionary under cool they need just a photo of Boz Scaggs. He has been the definition of that word for over 35 years long before there was Jay-Z, P-diddy, George Clooney, or whoever else they try to trump out as suave and cool. Boz wrote the book and he was just being himself, no image, just talent.
tomshea69 2 years ago 22
@tomshea69 Miles was pretty cool. And Charlie Parker. Mozart was possibly pretty cool too. And Boz is cool.
rawdonwaller 6 months ago
Boz. Gay? R U out of your headz? He's had his share of marriages, kids and tragedy. Gay? Definately not! Boz Rocks! xxxxxxx
racytracytracy 2 years ago 4
I Know People think hes gay but i also know that hes married, so i think itd allright that his music sounds a little strange
pheneviox 2 years ago
EXCELENTE, TODO...!!!!
solthero 2 years ago
If Boz had blonde hair and had glasses, he'd look exactly like Ray Manzarek of the Doors.
bixbyglaser 2 years ago
they forgot how to make songs that talk about everyday REAL shit
versalmighty 2 years ago 2
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pheneviox 2 years ago
My Girlfriend And I Saw Him In Concert Last Night. It Was An Excellent Performance. Great Collaboration On The Images And Music In This One! Thanks Mempho Tenn!
badoocee 2 years ago
Real music, real lyrics, real sangin, = REAL TALENT!!!
trocc3 2 years ago
type into your search bar "pheneviox" to find my playlist wich has 120 songs like this...oldschool
pheneviox 2 years ago
I posted this thought on Lido Shuffle, but you gotta love a man who can sing like Kermit the frog and make it come out cool. Really, if you showed up on American Idol and sang like Boz, they would think you were joking and have you on the gag reel of disaster auditions. But he makes it work, real well.
ytownteddy 2 years ago
THIS WAS A HUGE HIT IN CHICAGO!
vivecapatrece 2 years ago
this was a huge hit EVERYWHERE!
jayhovajigga 2 years ago 3
Uno de los temas que más me gusta de Boz...
Intérprete con una voz muy particular y una elegancia innata.
Enhorabuena por la elección.
Saludos,
Elsa.
lesatz4 2 years ago
A great chillout, smooth jivin, nightcrusin
rhythm drivin with a cherry on top.
MUSICOBLISS 2 years ago
do you have some imagination by boz i used to have it on an lp but alas it was lost when my basement flooded his wusic is so tight like steely dan and other s who had introcate melodys and catchy hooks
mrscjcsr 2 years ago
Just a wonderful upload MemphoTenn--One of the rare and underappreciated songs by Boz back in the late 1970s...Tysm from Mikey!
WarlordFeyd 2 years ago
Actually, this song was a monster hit - went to #3 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
hklinker 2 years ago
Boz Scaggs/Herp Albertson were always the Tijuana Brass in my book! Boz Scaggs was kind of the Joe Piscopo of 70s Al Jarreau style jazz-pop in that he was not really good, but serviceable enough to play "between the hits."
captainarchernx01 2 years ago
this sound is so cool
kalbahdjim 2 years ago
Thanks for the song, and all the background info. Boz is one of the coolest musicians around.
meowthno1 2 years ago 3
Yes, he sure is.... You're welcome!
MemphoTenn 2 years ago
When music was REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hardlines4 2 years ago 11
YES!
MemphoTenn 2 years ago
@hardlines4 , YES SIR all the way real!
bear022013 9 months ago
@hardlines4 All music is real it just has a tendency to evolve and change...It has evolved from some cavemen banging sticks on rocks to what it is today. I love all music new and old, one just only need to appreciate music for what it and or was
teca303 8 months ago
Some of the best drumming ever. Jeff Porcaro was unbelievable.
ncbeach22 2 years ago 2
Excellent video!!
Belladonna013 2 years ago
Nothin you can't handle nothin you ain't got put the money on the table ,drive it off the lot!!! Love it! Thanks for posting this MemphoTenn!
msstevie1951 2 years ago 4
You're welcome!
MemphoTenn 2 years ago 2
Siinew, Tw was just making a generalized comment, apparently He lived the vibes as I did!!The 70,s were awesome !
cptmccoy 2 years ago
oh so very tasty.. then, and still a kickin' ass groove today.
timeless cool.
marconuovo 3 years ago
Check out Climax Blues Band.........Like being in the old N.Y...when you would see people dressed in their own style...now everyones from kansas
lucybnta 3 years ago
What is your issue bro??? You're the reason why this world is so narrow minded!!! You need to take a very chill pill from the north pole and hibernate with the polars DUDE!!! You were probably not even born yet!!! Get a life!
twhodat369 3 years ago
Let me get this straight. You say "The 70's is the ONLY era of music." Then you say "You're the reason why this world is so narrow minded!!! "? LOL. Do I even really need to respond to that?
siinew 3 years ago
sorry to tell you this but it is singing and songwritin was very good at that time becuz the person who was singin maybe wrote the dam thing lol it was a era that changed ever thing and thats y we so carzy now becuz thay was so carzy and ahead of there time bac in the 70's yea thay sold alot music bac then lol
boobay2 2 years ago
The 70's is the ONLY era of music, back in the DJ days of 70's-early 80's is what music is all about. None of that yeng yang of today, you feel the music, you lived the music, it encompass you and of course all the young children of today were made by the hits of the 70's!!!! Y'all don't know real music until you lived it in the 70's...................
twhodat369 3 years ago 6
It's a great song. However, you don't have a f'n clue what you're talking about. You like a certain kind of music and you think that means it's the best of all because you had personal experiences with it. Please stop displaying your musical ignorance online, though. It's kind of embarrassing to watch you make an ass of yourself by making blanket statements like that.
siinew 3 years ago
I agree with you!
MemphoTenn 2 years ago
I agree. I was born in the 70s, but I think music from the mid 60s to the the early 80s was the best.
RetroJenny 2 years ago 2
@twhodat369 I feel bad for anyone who had to be subjected to the garbage of the 90s and 2000s. When I first heard rap and hip hop, I thought it was just there to annoy people. I figured it was a fad, but MTV kept it alive. It's like professional wrestling is to the world of sports. I can't lower my intellect enough to understand it's appeal.
mjpitche 1 year ago
@twhodat369 Punk rock was like that for me, I got into it in the mid-80's, First band for Me was the Circle Jerks. they were end 70's beginning 80's punk rock band. Boz Skaggs is the man, this song used to cheer me up when I was Locked up, I seen so many fools lose their minds worrying about their girl cheating on them when they were down, I just simply did not worry about it. I Had Boz haha.
RushNLV 1 year ago
boz!!! lowdown is a bad ass song!!!
Lapharro 3 years ago 2
10 yrs old, ah this song takes me back- boz is so smooth
jmc19669 3 years ago
This song is 33 years old, and it still sounds as good as it did when it first came out. The 70's, by far, was the greatest decade of timeless music.
davelip007 3 years ago 7
I agree man ! - 100%
phileustace 3 years ago
Just listening to Shaft,a classic and Billy Squiers-the stroke, 70's were real good. I had beige corduroy flares, high heel "thongs" (i'm aussie) and a boob tube- cool pics, memories and great music
jmc19669 2 years ago
I think he was talking about his age when the song was first released. Or, maybe when he first heard it. This song brings back great memories for a lot of people.
MemphoTenn 2 years ago
@davelip007 My first car-goin' off to college-first 8-track player- and this was my first tape-still as smooth as ever- timeless and irreplaceable!!!
trasherxtreme 1 year ago
I was a little girl when this song was new, but I sure do remember the teenagers listening to it in my neighborhood and getting their groove on!
darladanice 3 years ago 2
Ah summer of '76. Cruising in my dads '73 chevy with my sister and her crew. Listening to Boz Scaggs on the am radio.
zorak1704 3 years ago 2
Man. I'd like to hang with any of you guys. You guys are from a different ers. Man it would be neat to hang with you all really! Wish I could see what it was like back then in your days. I'm 23 and I'm from the Tupac Shakur era. Screw the other rap/hip-hop. Love yall!
sal70228 3 years ago
We would've loved to hang with you I'm sure because you seem like a down to earth cat. We would cruise in our rides with the 8 track blaring, wearing our bell bottoms, sippin' a cold Schlitz tall boy, talking on our CB's, and best of all we'd have our loved one by our side the entire time.....The seventies were the kind let me tell you. Yeah, Boz played a big part of the cool seventies, believe that!!!
tripleheshy 2 years ago
Tripleheshy, Thanks for the kind words!
sal70228 2 years ago
thx sal70228.
flibideegibbit 2 years ago
Oh my goodness, my ear got fouled for so many years until I watched the video. I thought Boz Scaggs was a Black Singer (not trying to be racial/racist or anything like that) but it took me 33 years to discover that. The same way when I heard Steve Wonder singing "Is'nt She Lovely" the first time, I thought it was a White Singer, but then I saw him performing live shortly after.
Now these days, everybody is trying to sound Cosmopolitan ;-)
hxc4328 3 years ago
don't worry, i just found out that he was a white boy at 34....i always thought he was black...stupid canadain girl can't hear things right.lol
lollypop1973 3 years ago
Try picking up a newspaper or magazine sometime
blakmorth 3 years ago
blakmorth, its uncool to be mean , get with the groove and just listen to boz, it shows you have lotsa taste n style to listen to boz anyway- another good song is lido shuffle----70's ROCK!!!
jmc19669 3 years ago
have you ever heard of reading
blakmorth 3 years ago
Blackmorth:
I dislike your sarcastic remark. It seems that you are stereotyping me as somebody who dislike reading. You are wrong.
How the hell you expect someone to know an artist when on the radio, the hardly play his music and many times fail to mention the singer's name. I don't want to go any further because by reading your posting, I can tell immedialtely what kind a person you are. Just leave it right there because no further comments are necessary
hxc4328 3 years ago
i wouldn't waste your breath on this guy...i have noticed there are alot of very angry and negative people who have nothing better to do than try and ruin someones good time. I wish there were a way to delete the jerks from utube but the world is a place to say what you like whether it is nice or not.
lollypop1973 3 years ago 2
Its all good, coming from a black dude, too.
I always thought it was like Marvin gaye opr someone. I was wrong too. LOL : )
jkbezo 2 years ago
Wow...
And till this day my memory of this song is-{1976?] the car radio playing this song as a neighbor taking us to get Ice cream at Carvel.
A Strange yet fond memory- but it kicks in EVERYTIME i hear this song.
68NYC 3 years ago
Thank You for posting this. I was a little boy when this came out and used to hear this and "Lido Shuffle" all the time on the radio and brings me back to some great memories..
As a musician/guitarist myself, I have grown to appriciate all the different elements in his music. What an amazing song writter!
BrianMauk 3 years ago
what a time back in the day ! song brings
back lots of good memories! oh the joy to be
young & irresponsible!
affirmed3 3 years ago 2
Once again... I love this song (although it's overplayed). And the video you made kinda captures the mood of the song. I like those slides you did when it got to the chorus. It's fine detail like that I can appreciate, because I do the same thing with my videos.
Braenchild82 3 years ago
Great song!
mhbrowning 3 years ago
Killer vid to a killer classic! *****!
IMTheMagicRat 3 years ago 2
Now this is the ultimate old school lowrider joint! I can see it now...East L.A. Whittier Blvd, September '76 and a flotilla of Grand Prix's flying the colours of the day and this song on the 8-track!!!! Love the outro on the album version!!!
94cadillacfleetwood 3 years ago 4
YAY! Hurray Ohioans and Music! :P
EbolaSandwich 3 years ago
debfan, interesting point u make. i graduated HS 1976, my 2 fave albums of tht yr are Silk Degrees and The Royal Scam. never could understand the big deal about frampton, one of the most over-rated albums of all time.
flibideegibbit 3 years ago
Come on now - "Frampton Comes Alive" was an absolute landmark!
But to get in on that conversation with juandedios8, MemphoTenn and debfan74, maybe all those summer of 1976 songs were influenced by early Chicago - what do you guys think?
Melidian1 3 years ago
Look up Chicago & see when they first came onto the scene... & look up these guys & see when they first came onto the scene. Chicago was influenced by the Big Bands I believe... & again, Boz Scaggs was influenced by Jimmy Reed & other early Blues masters. Chicago was/is not Blues; they're more Jazz/Big Band. These guys weren't copying each other; I think their influences may be similar as far as what they listened to when they were younger. Read more about all of them & you'll see what I mean.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
From my perspective, 1976 seems an "annus miarbilis" in the music, Boz(lowdown) ,Peter Frampton alive!,sweet (fox on the run),chicago x, starbuck(moonligth feels rigth),Daryl & oates(sara's smile),englan dan & john ford (really want to see you tonigth), dreamweaver, and a bunch of excelent music. lucky me to be there these summer and enjoy the bicentennial of independence celebration. :).
juandedios8 3 years ago
I've always felt that way too. In the words of Sinatra, that was a very good year - especially for music.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
thanks for quote music definition on you youtube site, i had never heard any of them, and for me, longfellow's definiton is the straigthest, and victor hugo the finest.
juandedios8 3 years ago
I forgot about that quote! You're welcome. Longfellow's words have great meaning when you go to Memphis & see how many people from around the world visit simply because of the music. There's nothing else I can think of that unites people the way music can. I remember being in a store with my daughter one afternoon & a Ray Charles song came on... I started dancing & singing with two older ladies closeby. Just moments before, we were strangers. Music changes everything & brings people together.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
I always sort of wondered if Steely Dan did not sort of cop this style...if you notice some of Steely Dan's music, they sort of had this tint to their stuff...I think they may have been influenced by Boz Skaggs
debfan74 3 years ago
Hmmm... I don't know about that. Read about how, where & when Becker & Fagen started; they couldn't have been aware of Boz, nor Boz of them. I believe they all as young men in the early 60's were influenced by the Blues & Jazz that blared through their AM radios nightly. Boz, Donald & Walter were influenced by Reed, Coltraine, Davis, Monk, Ray Charles, etc. & the result was a fusion of lush, sexy, Jazz/Rock/Pop. Just products of their individual influences, but they didn't copy one another.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
i didn't mean copy as in a bad way, just the sort of influences people tend to pick up and just keeping up with the peers around them
debfan74 3 years ago
Definitely - I know what you mean. It was like they had their own trend w/ jazzy-infused Rock which sounded SO different from everything else @ the time. They did seem to share a kinship in their sound but it was because of what they grew up listening to on the radio. I love the story of Boz at a Ray Charles concert when he was about 15 (only white kid there). But everyone was SO moved by the music, the lady next to him grabbed him. Everyone was united in the music. He said that was IT for him.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
Have you ever heard Boz's "Come On Home" album? I think it's from '97. It is more bluesy & raw... It hearkens back to the gritty Bluesmasters. I LOVE "Picture of a Broken Heart." It is like his salute to the masters of Delta & Chicago Blues he grew up listening to.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
Oh, another thing I forgot was that in several albums, the same studio musicians were used. Boz had help from the guys who would go on to become Toto (David Paich, Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, etc.) and Steely Dan was ALL studio musicians except for Becker & Fagen. I forget which albums the Toto group backed them on. That may be why they have the same sound... It's the same guys!
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
Much of the song styling is shaped by what's cool at the moment, what stations will play & what record companies are willing to package & sell but these artists have never really changed their styles over the years. They've put out albums consistently & even tho not all have been top sellers, they've had a constant output - check their catalogs. The ages these guys are, they had the same influences: Blues, R&B, Big Bands, Pop, etc. of their youth - which would've been 40's, 50's & early 60's.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
Could all of those bands just mentioned been influenced somehow by early Chicago?
Melidian1 3 years ago
I do not think so at all. Look up Chicago & when they got started. They would not have been an influence. Boz Scaggs' website as well as Toto's & Steely Dan's websites chronicle their careers pretty well & I just don't think so as far as Chicago being an influence. You must be in your 20's or younger. Not meaning to be condescending, but the timeline just doesn't fit. Boz Scaggs was playing bands by the early/mid-60's. Chicago would not have been an influence. See my earlier response on this.
MemphoTenn 3 years ago
Mr. 10 ,Does the cat mean the "group" Chicago or the style of music that came out of the city of Chicago?
ELRANDY11 3 years ago
The way it reads, I would think "early Chicago" means the group. Boz Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas. He was born in Canton, but his roots are in Memphis. He didn't spend any considerable time in Ohio. His main influences were the early Blues artists like Jimmy Reed. (And I'm a Miss) :-)
MemphoTenn 3 years ago