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  • this is certainly one of the soundtrack of our lives....this kind of music made us what we are today.....

  • This is certainly music...nothing today will ever touch it...this music will live on and on forever..I have the greatest memories, everyone got along and danced no matter what color or race we all looked out for each other. and the music OMG! The best I wish we can turn back the hads of time..but we can't so I will always cherish the great memories of the music and my friends from back in the day! Thank G-d for UTUBE.. Those were the days my friends..Peace...

    Thanks for sharing! xoxox

  • I was a youngster when this music was playing.. as a early veteran of Rap in the 70's, more specifically 1975 in NYC, these cats were my inspiration, I learned to write poetry and songs from listening to their's and other like them. This music was the heart and soul of the black generation thru the late 1960's and 1970's...

  • @ikbenmaxwell

    I was 12 when this song came out & the answer to your question is YES!!! This music was OUR music. This is what we grew up on & what we loved. Of course once Rap came along & the record companies began catering to that crowd, the game changed. Honestly, it's natural that future generations wanted music that was their own. The generation before this one didn't have a lot of nice things to say about 70s Soul & one rock critic actually called 70s Soul the worst music ever.

  • Saw Henry last year with Bobby Smith.

    Henry sounds the same, still smiles all

    the time and dances great, clowns Bobby

    for being a year older and lyyin' about it.

    These are the guys that made 70's Soul

    even greater, Doo Woppers my ass!!!!

  • Timeless !!

  • ANYTHING produced by Thom Bell or Gamble & Huff from the old school was PERFECT music ! the garbage that the current music execs call "music" & tries to force down my generations throat, via radio is HORRIBLE ! my generation DESERVES good music like this instead bullshit like lil wayne, "lady" gaga or skanky-ass beyonce & her pimp "jay z". todays artists ( EVEN THE ONES WHO SAMPLE) are totally CLUELESS what REAL music is & this song by the Spinners is an example of what REAL music truly is

  • I totally agree man! But I wonder if back then people of our age thought the same about this music or not.

  • The Bizz!!!

  • I'm white and this show beat Bandstand millions of times over!

  • Dont press up on my vines or step on my stacks you jive turkey mutha fuka(lol). I love the 70's

  • Were no white people allowed on this show?

  • They showed up on rare occasions. White artists already had plenty of shows they could go on anyway.

  • later on there were whites and other races on later shows.

  • Good music has no Color! I remember Hall & Oates, Elton John and David Bowie appeared on soul train.

  • Amen to that!

    EVERYONE grooved and danced to Hall & Oates, Elton John and Mr. David Bowie!

  • ..their sportcoats look like my mom's Buick Electra seats....God, I MISS THE 70's!!

  • This is that classic music! love it

  • You know what babsbat? OLD SCHOOL WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL IN MY HEART!!! soul rock pop doesnt matter!!!

  • im white to me you just cant buy them times back but this is pretty dam close

  • To Jeanine, with love.

  • The violins are CRAAAZZZZYYYYYYYY

  • NO..I think I mean the horns..Both I guess..Horns, violins synthesizers..all that!!

  • Yeah! how I long for the days of double-knit polyester! Not! the music was great, but putting on the clothes was like wearing your own sauna.You were fully steamed when you got to your date's house. thank God for cotton!

  • R & B at it's finest. Music of this era is so well written it just oozes life. Although we were dealing with the Viet-Nam war, racial strife and other issues we had Philly International, Thom Bell and others to return us to these sweet memories. Meet me in the lounge car of the Soul Train. Drinks on me. Party on Brothers!

  • This is so sweet!! I love it!!

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  • @ TheChanel2011 & saruman84

    There were a lot of tough times back then; it wasn't very rosy at times. But we did have a sweet soundtrack to life, good or bad.

  • it's the girl wearing white with the red pants dancing with the dude wearing the gray suit nearest to the stage.... .they are definitely the coolest among the dancers.....i could watch them all the time without a blink..

  • I'll take this over a reality show anyday...Soul Train Rules.

  • Magic ♥♥♥

  • wow what happend to soul music like this. now we have eminem, 50 cent, and nothing but profanity in this crappy junk they call rap. brilliant song writers like thom bell, norm whitfield, were geniuses

  • Music psyched itself out and feared it had nowhere else to go. It could have if it remembered to try. Inspiration is the key. Lok at the guys here; Pervis, Bobby, Philippe-awesome!

  • Wow!

    Doesn't get much better.

    What a beautiful time!

  • this used to be my jammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • i wish i was born around this time

  • @TheChanel2011 You and me both!

  • I can't stop watching this video! Man, we danced danced danced!!!

  • This is Soul music was all about.

    I always admired these fella's for sticking

    it out after 2 decades of mediocrity,left

    behind other less talented groups.

    Bobby Smith and Crathman (CP) Spencer

    are two of the most underrated singers of

    the last 40 years.

    I've had the honor of seeing Bobby & Henry live in 78,79 & 08.

    Few have more soul.

    Love you guys, your #1 fan in San Diego!

  • Timeless, wonderful music.

  • Outstanding.

  • luv it.

  • Great song !

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!

  • That's the boogaloo beat there. The best music ever.

  • Ditto thedesiresymposium's comments, an extraordinary decade for music no question what so ever, very glad I was there too.

  • A work of Art this video!

  • classic!

  • spin spinners and spin somemo spinners..........thanks

  • This is fucking 70's shit at its best......you won't get to see the likes of this anymore....ever.....

  • Yopu got that right! Good music and not like the garbage that is played today. Nice clothes. Not ones that have their pants hanging off their butt and no shirts that reveal a little too much and the then there was the natural look.

  • There will never be an era in music like this EVER - it was brief, it was amazing, and the talent was everywhere - just very grateful to have lived it - CLASSIC STUFF!

  • Up here in Canada it was all about listening to this music while driving wide open prairie highways. This was our music and memories too. Much appreciated.

  • Soon as i hear this music I think of my dad.I was little as hell in the back seat of the Caddy or Buick,whatever he was drivin' that year. Camden N.J. was poppin' when i was little. We were right across from Philly it was so soulful back then.I miss those days.What you know about playing basketball on a milk crate nailed to a telephone pole,cuttoffs and tank tops,pro-keds,afro's no shape up,BLACK PRIDE everywhere and alot of POLYESTER....LOL

  • I wish I lived through the 70's. I missed a good era of music.

  • junior in High School, dig the memories, one of the finest 8 tracks playin when I picked up the lady of the moment.....

  • Same here. This reminds me of growing up in pjs in the 70s. Everybody was looking out for everybody and there was respect for our elders and community. Sadly, those days may not come again. Thanks for the memories, Phillipe, Bobbie, Pervis, Henry and the other guy whose name escapes me at the moment. lol.

  • Whenever I hear this song on the radio it brings me back to when I was 6 years old.............childhood memories are the best!!

  • cracks me up that they make the performers lip sync on this show. why won't they let them just kill it on the mic?

  • God, this music quaolity seems to be unachievable nowadays

  • you're so right. why do they lip sync though? i know it's cuz of the producers of this show. today everyone hates on jessica simpson for lip syncing. everyone did it back then. i wonder why people weren't hating back then.

  • Because their was no doubt they could sing. It was easier from a production stand point for them to lip sync since this wasn't a live broadcast. It was all taped and strung together in post.

  • Why the concern over lip synching? Just about everyone lip synched on ST. What it boils down to is that when asked to perform these fellas could without the help of technology.

  • The best music I grew up to!

  • WHAT a song! Loved it then, love it now! Never gets old.

  • At 2:42, the guy on the left in the blue :P

  • @dudeokdude that dude was getting his Re-Run on, right?

  • Dude was gettin down LOL!

  • Wow!

  • r.i.p. felipe

  • *Sigh*

  • it doesn't get much better than this... :)

  • I loved it then. I love it now. They could sing, They could dance, They knew how to dress. *Sighs*

  • Makes me remember i first first fell so in love with someone.

  • i wish i was there!

  • Yeahh me too!

  • forreal!

    it just looks like they having so much fun

  • Cant remember the last time i heard the phrase 'Falling in love' in a song. As much as i love my rap music, we have come to a point where a man can't leave the house without making sure his pimp hand is strong! We need more romance people.

  • that's is my shit bra thanks for the post

  • bring back the real music, i luv the spinners. this song is so beautiful

  • That's when music was music.

    I miss those days.

  • I miss these days when people just went out to hear good music and dance.

  • there getting down.

  • the best Soul music ever.

  • YESS this true, I remeber that I lived in Queens clearing the yard and I kiss my first girl friend with an open mouth and thought I was in LOVE and was hurt when I found out she when bowling with another cat, so silly back then but that life and learning iisland

  • @sekouche WOW~!.. would love to hear more about your post..(0;)~ Did she ever apologize to you , did she ever know you knew what you heard about the other cat?

  • Hahahahaha that was 40 years ago, naw she lied about it, I had to represent her son in court, talk about life, she a single parent now and had a bout with crack, I expected much more but she broke my heart the way her life turn out. But with my family I still pull out the old stuff and play "Could I Be falling In Love" at the BBQs

  • Sorry to hear that,i know how you must of felt..This is the best Jam to play though =]

  • Naw the only thing that you have to feel sorry about is the fact I eat like its BBQ every "DAMN" day and now am going to AA meetings about BBQ and catfish and macrorni with a lot of extra sharp cheese and Eggnog and rootbeer. Now let let me tell you thats a struggle trust me.......so the Sppiners are still in my car so when I have long drive am grooving with a corn-dog feel me NOW.....

  • LOL!

  • SMOOTH...

  • my daddy's music

  • cool song i love it.

  • now it just couldn't get any better than that.....you get to have a taste again of what life was back then...and if the 70's wasn't the best decade of the 20th century....you tell me or i'll be a monkey's ass...

  • well nothing is as groovy and as original as this one....the philly sound at its best right there....

  • 70's Soul music rules !!!

  • I've been addicted to the Philly sound since '95, and these guys just carry it. Phillippe's vamps were the best, too. The last 90 seconds of "Mighty Love" is insane.

  • they always had females singing backgrounds on they songs

  • LISTEN TO THE BOYZ II MEN VERSION of this song!!!

  • I lived in Beaumont Texas when this song came out I was in the 2nd grade..(8 yrs old)...but had to move because my mother remarried.. This song was popular then, sound GREAT now!... Thanks for posting it! :D

  • Hey tell me something do you know Easy on Calder (I think) and do you know Broussared links and Ribs over on I think 11th and is Whiskey River still near Hollywood. I had stayed at Super 8. DAMN its a small world

  • this song came out in 1973

  • There is not one overweight person in the crowd. Loves this song so much.

  • For one, High Fructose Syrup wasn't in all the foods as it is today. Sad!

  • I know, the only heavy person is Billy Henderson (lighter skinned brother), but no one is obese

  • Could be Cornelius & the crew picked dancers by looks & let them in. Dick Clark did the same thing.

  • damn

  • @RTT8001 - Well said, thank you! :)

  • This is real music.Long for the 70s!!

  • See kids, there was a time when men sang about loving and respecting their women. What has happened to the state of music and talent in the last 20 years or so, I'll never understand. The popular music of the time is a real reflection of many people's mindset at that time, and that makes today pretty frightening. Thank goodness we have 60s & 70s music. to remember a real time of true talent, creativity, and originality.

  • @RTT8001.....Let them know!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • heh, trust me people havent changed, you're generalizing

  • There is great music out there but the Music Industry only markets for (((((($HOCK VALUE)))). It brings in more cash!

    Listen to the Neo-Soul stations on the internet like Neo-Soul Cafe......the music is excellent!

  • shock value = cash. Great summation, short and to the point. But, pathetic, isn't it?

  • Dam I Miss this Music of yesterday!!!

  • classic soul song. They just don't make music like this anymore.

  • @artemisgaia00

    Boy, you are right at that. I miss this music and that ear so much!

  • awesome......

  • im young and dont go to clubs either.guys back then were sweet and would'nt harm you.innocent like.dudes now days have lost all respect for women i hate too say it but its the truth.its like all you is too them is a bitch and hoe !!and a sex object to them that shit!! turns me off .

  • people were''nt trying to be hard and like everybody else it seem like everbody was just being themselve's not trying to empress other people doing their own thing

  • @strawberryiesable were you alive during the 70s? guys and girls havent changed. they're not gonna change for a long time

  • Men have lost respect for (some) women because (some) women have lost respect for themselves.

    Walking around dressed like hookers, sleeping with every tom dick and harry.

    Oh, and don't let me get started on the trifling men in and out of the penal system and hanging on the corners. sad sad sad!

  • by the way i wis people can still dance lie this i hate seeing people dancing bouncing there ass all up on a guy duck and a guy hodlin there waste and shyt u mind as well fuck ugh! people disgust me now a days this is why i dont go to clubs or nothing cuz all gus do is go there and get some ass action in dancing smh

  • LMAO damn has soultrain changed now soultrain all the girls look like sluts how they dress and dance smh this is a better soul train everyone having fun civilized dancing!

  • Exactly!

  • i had shirts like that!

  • I still have !!

  • @sdemon64 ROFLOL

  • me too..............

  • Lawd, I sure do love this!

  • A classic. I never get tired of hearing it.

  • The 70´ where Wonderful with soul music. look that dancing swing!!

    Excelente música. from Liverpool

  • This song always been #1 for me. It gives me such a warm feeling inside.

    Man, I love the oldies.

  • Real music, Real times, I also have a 20yr old son that adores the music I grew up on which confirms to me that my generation were very blessed indeed!

  • Um HOLD UP first of all honey People have always danced sexually even funk and dirtdancing so let's not bring that up music just got more graphic so it seems more sexually but plzzzzzzzz!!!! I'll. Agree the music got bad

  • the dying breath of the motor city..........

  • Phillipe Wynne, 'My, my,my. my'. Love him. RIP

  • A time when people danced danced and danced on the dance floor and not simulate having sex acts!!!

  • word up! i just made a post about that

  • There was not one person on that floor who couldn't dance. It's a long time since I've seen that ! Wicked song and also a timepiece video

  • im now 30 and when to this song it reminds of i was a teenager and would be on the phone with my girl until we both fell asleep. why can't we stay young forever! i would give up 4 years of my life to go back in the day

  • im 20 and i love all of this music, im so glad my parents raised me on oldies, this music is just too perfect

  • @Pat2119 my mom would play this and other songs too wheni was little kid and she would make me dance w/ her lol i feel u 100%

  • My daughter's 17 and this is what she grew up on!

  • hey hey hey lol

  • Yes! The groups with guys who could sing circles around many of today's artist and Boy Bands!

    Four Tops, Temps, Spinners, Stylistics, Dramatics, Delfonics, O'Jays, The Whispers, Chi-Lites, The Trammps

    All these groups...that DAMN GOOD!!

  • wish my 'fro could grow like that but its too puffed when long like that

  • I dedicate this one 2 my Mom who passed from breast cancer when I was 7 back in '77. Love U Joyce!!

  • Very nice dedication CimpleSypher. I think of the people I've lost too when I hear certain songs. This songs brings back lots of childhood memories for me in 1973.

  • this music makes me smile and want to go back to the old days. it makes me wish on those when i was 17 i would have stayed an extra hour at the park, with the girl of my dreams.

  • @deion27

    Hallo und Servus deion 27.

    Ich fühle mit dir. Die Musik bringt mich auch zum lächeln. Das war und ist meine Welt.

    Und meine Traumfrau habe ich bei der Musik

    vernascht.

    I love this Musik

    Grüße from Germany

  • It's interesting to hear that most of the background was really sung by females although the Spinners are the face of the group

  • @donv21117 Thom Bell, the song's producer, did that alot.

  • Bring back the 70's Afro Hairstyle.

  • This is without doubt among the greatest songs/recordings of all time. It's totally unbelievable fabulous.

  • I thought Phillipe Wynn, was lead vocals on this song......

  • alot of people think that, even music critics.

  • Music! this was pure music!

  • As a young composer / arranger in the early 70s, I "schooled" on Thom Bell and Linda Creed songs; and absolutely loved The Spinners. They were great in every way.

  • Dude in the glasses is rocking the house!

  • felepe winn..was his name . he also was the voice on parliment and funkadelic cut "nee deep"

  • A pure feel god song of happy times Classis 70s R&B.......thanks for this video

  • I grew up watching Soul Train.. even though I am a blonde white girl!

  • This song fills me with unspeakable joy. And it has since I was 10yrs old and that was 37yrs ago. Much love, peace, and soul to all YouTube Music Listeners everywhere!

  • I'm not falling in love I am In love with Shakima Ojeda Stokes

  • Could it be I'm Falling in love with you, with you,I don't need all those things,

    cause honey you will always be the only one for me,cause i am in love with you Each night I pray, heaven made you special for me,Old school best ,Smile & Peace

  • Daaamn, peep brotha in the shades at 1:58, he is gettin' down!

  • you can tell the lead singer isn't into lip-synching. look at his face

  • To think that acts like N'sinc and the Backstreet boys were formed on the same template as bands like these and the Four Tops, the only difference being that those current boy bands are white and not even 1% as talented as the Spinners and other soul acts.

  • This song was part of the soundtrack at the amusement park where I worked, always heard it in the evening but never got the name until now. :D

  • This song reminds me of my dad. I miss you daddy!!!!! These songs remind me of the best times of my life.

  • this is my cousin i never met him but my father talk highly of him i wish i knew more about him the one in the glasses can someone give me an idea of were to start please leave me a message

  • This came out when I finally got together with the first guy I fell for in High School - didn't last as a romance but we're friends.

  • Phillippe Wynne ended that song in perfection...

    I.........walk around with my heart in my hands, HEY!

  • didn't know eddie griffin was the lead singer....lol

  • Who is Eddie Griffin? The lead is Bobbie Smith.