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  • GOD BLESS THE 70"S

  • This was my favorite song back in the day ..Music not like this any more..This is it....

  • this takes me way back sounds so good

  • this is a very nice song

  • ohhhh so sweet this is my song i love this song...

  • nice slow jam from back in the day

  • Yes, Stax record Label released this.  I have an old album. dated 1979. It says the song was produced by Isaaac Hayes and David Porter.

  • This is sooooooooooooooo true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • just deep!

  • What record label recorded the "Soul Children"? I thought it was Stax Records in Memphis but I can't confirm that. I remember hearing this song alot on WDAI, so I naturally thought Stax released it.

  • @gclay40 Stax it was.

  • damn theres 3 dick head mutha fuckas that don't like this song what the fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could not like this unless your sum dumb azz rap luver and just don't understand

  • @durtyreddz Some people can feel deep like that.  They don't have Soul!!!

  • Anita, Norman, & Shelbra, are very much alive & well!!

  • The heavenly voices have long gone, I don't know what happened to BLACK SOUL, gee so sad, we had that if nothing else. Today it sounds like feeding time at the zoo, and stage

  • @groove2move222 I would like to go to another concert to see these soulful singers sing! Soul!!! 

  • @groove2move222 black soul music is alive and well in the black church....still organic and still sweet, no body does it more soulful than Gods children

  • ...r.i.p....j. blackfoot...[died last week] ...member of the soul children....'sweeter he is' ...the first tune i looked for on youtube....and found it....my 45 record was cracked.....such a cool tune....so many memories...

  • now this is the soul i grew up with

  • I LOVE THIS SONG

  • Wow, this is niceeeeeeeeeee

  • the menberies of when things where real, feel like reaching out and touching

    yesterday.

  • Shelbra Dean One of the singers is my 1st cousin so this music is in my blood! They are from Memphis my home town and baby when I say high rollers they knew how to party!! This is REAL soul music!! Thanks for posting this song! Very good quality!!!

  • @nanaeva1 Do you know if Norman West and Anita Lewis are still living I heard about J. today. what a great group, for some reason Move On Over, When Tomorrow Comes, I'll Understand never is heard on radio. But this Jam is great. saw them in DC in 1969 so i go back with this group one of my all time favorite groups out of Memphis

  • I really, really like this song! I believe this is the first time that I have heard of this group! Very nice, smooth, and soulful! I see that this group was called "The Soul Children" but there voices were very mature for their age! I LOOVE this song! REAL singing with REAL music! LOOVE IT!!!!

  • I remember this song from WEDR in Miami. It's so true.

  • YES INDEED!! REAL SINGING!!! LUV IT!!

  • @love6794 EXACTLLYYY!!! REAL soulful, singing voices! LOOVE IT!!!!

  • @ Dallaschitown Woooo weee! this is my kind of music! You recht back for this one huh!? Yeah I said recht hahahahah wow thank you so much. I love it!

  • DANG it !!!! I have not heard this song in like 30 years.... MISS the tunes 4 reals.... Crying pinche tears of JOY....

  • There you are my aries brother,I was wondering if you were still on here.

  • the sweeter he is, the longer the pain.... story of my life

  • The doors to the church are open!!!!!!!

  • @50spritsfree came out the spring of'70

  • Whenevr I hear this, it reminds me of the zeitgeist movies...

  • 1969

  • Yes indeed, this is MUSIC! Understand the words, know the meaning of the song.

    The only I can not remember is what decade this is from....70's/80's. Anyone?

  • @50spiritsfree the 70's back then a song was a life song

  • @50spiritsfree it came out in the 70's

  • The way she almost moans this note out at 1:00 really takes me in a serious state of agonizing nostalgia.But only in a desire to relive the past when true memories were being made from this kind of singing.

  • yeah and what would Oprah and Gail sy ___uck them yea cause yes the sweeter in that dept and the longer the pain is an understatement but i do miss the late 60's and early 70's then ya had disco and oh no now look what we got oh god no

  • mmmmmhuuummm -- real harmonizing designating this as a real soul song.here Remember as a young teen how much I liked this. This is great music never to be replicated and it is extremely definitive of an unforgettable music genre and era.

  • @kariebeez you know you got that right!!!

  • This is the shit!!!!Damn they can sing especially my boy J. Blackfoot

  • This is REAL SOUL MUSIC

  • This is why hits like this is called Soul music. It reaches you deep in your soul and takes you there. Real talk from real artists.

  • THIS IS MUSIC BABY.

  • @69SHEROCK yes so true!! you actually had to know how to sing back then!! lol

  • this song is off the hook,for those two who didnt like it.ya momma and daddy liked that wack crap back in the day,this is B.E,T,not elvis lolololol

    DOES ANYONE KNOW THE SONG THEY CAME OUT.IT WAS A XMAS SONG

    NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS,BUT MY PARENTS PLAYED IT BACK IN THE DAY,,,

    IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE THE SWEETER HE IS,IT WAS OFF THE CHAIN,HOLLA AT ME,,,,BLKKBLADE@VERIZON.NET,IF YOU EVER COME ACROSS IT ON THE NET,,,,,,YA GOT TO HEAR IT YALL,THE SONG IS OFF THE CHAIN LIKE THIS SONG HERE

  • @blkfromthepast I will check that x-mas song out & post the name & year here...

  • god how i love this song, it is so beautiful.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG MY AUNT HAS THE ORIGINAL LP TODAY

  • even after all these years this song still moves me. i love it.

  • @von1231000 oh yes it is, I Must Agree with you i remember listening to this song on a 45 record and i still love this song up to this very day

  • Harmony, real music! Just listen children!

  • This is one of the best groups, there singing is just beautiful.I use to play this back in the day. I will make sure my grandchildren get to hear this. I have it on a LP I hope I can find it on a cd. This is what soul is all about. Thank you dallaschitown for posting this I hope more young and old get to hear this.

  • The great music of the south...they don't sound like this anymore. thanks for posting the Soul Children. J. Blackfoot with the voice like none other

  • The great music of the south...they don't sound like this anymore. thanks for posting the Soul Children

  • The only one of the group i know if is the great J. Blackfoot, who also recorded "Taxi" as a solo artist in the early 1980s. Real Raw Soul.

  • Does anybody remember the names of the people in this group and what happened to them? Some of the vocalists sound like the ones in the group New Birth ... particularly the male singer.

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  • OMG!!!! I remember my sisters singing and playing this when I was growing up!!!!

  • Yes this is music, some of the best.

  • Owwww Weeee! J Blackfoot in the back, for thoese in the no!!

  • I got it and I thank GOD I do

  • Does anybody have "(all the shine)" I would love to hear it. Had the album but lost them all over the years. I don't anybody can make slow dancing music sound so church

  • Does anybody have "(all the shine)" I would love to hear it. Had the album but lost them all over the years.

  • music. music..sweet music.. it's a shame these girls and guys back then didn't get the recognition they desrved so peeps just big them up when ever u can.

  • The sweeter he is-- that first teenage boyfriend made my heart flutter, my knees get weak -- a feeling never to be duplicated with any subsequent paramours.

  • I first heard this song back in the early 80's, at a club my dad use to own, the older cats will play this song from a jute box. LOL! I love it.

  • THIS IS REAL DEAL SANGING (singing it what Beyonce and them do)....they don't do it like that ANYMORE!! WHEW.......

  • Samcom59 your so right. People this is what you call singing...soulful beautiful and powerful singing that you won't and can't find today. Anyone disagrees, let me know.

  • oh my, my, my! my mother played this all day long!! although i was 9, I enjoyed this music.. Bring it back!!!!!!

  • @khardelya I remember when my moms played it too! I just had to listen to this again and again!!!!

  • nothing but good memories

  • ENTERPRISE, AL.-COPPINSVILLE JR HIGH -OZARK-FT RUCKER-DODGE DART-OH WHAT A NIGHT-COACH PEAVY-MR. JOHNSON SHOP CLASS-SUNDAY NIGHTS

    AT COACH PEAVY'S JOINT-JUKE BOX IN THE BACK-FREDDY DAMON-TEDDY-WALT JR. (INGRAM)-BILLY-I WANT YOU BACK-MACH 1-CATALINA 2+2 POP TOP- YADA YADA YADA !!!!

  • My Aunty Trina always played this song for me when I was 3 I never forgot the lyrics Im from NY but this Chitown Soul is appreiciated up north nd Im in my early 20's

  • Oh yeah..now this is what I am alking about..I like this one..

  • oh, how I long for my youth!!! sweet, sweet memories!!!!!!!!

  • @sarroatoga77 Amen to that. It seem life was so simple then. The music was great and people really cared about one another...

  • Let me tell you. This song came out in the summer/fall of 1969 and I remember so well because I had started high school. This song is a classic and one of the best releases from STAX records. The memories of my youth, wow!!!! Love this song.

  • Work it Jay Blackfoot!!!!!! Sang the sung man!!!!!

  • Thanks a million for posting these great ballads...Oh, such memories.

  • WHEW! MEMORIES; i HAD BETTER NOT GO THERE!!! LOL!

  • WE can CreativeChakra look at your name and see how

    mathew 6:22 Ezekiels Wheel Jacobs Ladder and your inner name

  • Why can't we sing like this anymore, this is from the soul, love it

  • You right they were really singing from the soul,they don't sing like this anymore.

  • booker t & the mg's was stax records!! good job guys !!!

  • This song here....It's the truth! So glad no one tried to remake this.

  • @JerseyDiva55 I couldn't agree more,JerseyDiva55. The only thing more annoying than remakes of classic tracks like this is the remakes of movies that sucked when i was a kid.

  • Child, please!!!!! UM, umm, umm. That's all I have to say.

  • Ike Hayes and David Porter were the bomb...they wrote for the EMOTIONS, Sam and Dave and put the magic touch to the SOUL CHILDREN. MERCY..Thanks for the posting.

  • J. Blackfoot one of the all time great underated soul bles singers

  • I feel like slow draggin'.

  • I love motown, but baby I think stax was better on some levels

  • oh yes...Stax Records was superior in a lot of levels Motown Records wasn't. Not taking anything away from Motown for they appealed to a wider audience, but Stax/Volt recordings seemed to have more....grit and soul!

  • Yes my friend, so very true. The south was really where it was at.

  • no doubt about that!

  • @honeycone71

    You are very Accurate..Stax did have the most soul. then came MFSB and then motown for me

  • I'm living this right now....and it hurts. I wonder if I will ever get over him.....

  • keep your head

  • I didn,t ask to fall in love with you. Beautiful song, a sample of real music. It sooths my mind. See Tee i told you one day u would be wishing for me. Yes, u did hurt yourself too!

  • thank you for this timeless classic

  • YES... I found this SONG... I love it.... I grew up with my mom and dad playing this all the time... I had it on CD and some lady told me was too young to know about this (and I aint young at 29) but I LOVE it...

  • GOTTOE-MIGHTY LAWD!!!!! This is my song!!!! wooooo My dad used to play this song. The sweeter he is, the longer the pain is gonna last......oooh yes it will

  • OH the memories. Love this group. So good to hear parts 1 and 2 together without the break that was on the 45. LOL!! Tthose were the days. Great music.

  • they don't make music any more. You could fall in love with this kind music.

  • This is real singing. This is not computer generated,where they can make anybody sound good.

  • @samcom59 Oh please I'm training to be an Audio Engineer and I know what they did to vocally enhance these people minus the computer.

  • @TheTapeExam ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!

  • @TheTapeExam they had realers singers singing,natural enhancement.

  • Grown folks music....songs like these you dance very slow to.

  • I think this may have been sampled by Murs on the song "18 W/A bullet", sounds similar. I may be wrong.

  • this song is so so so sooooooooooo beautiful...it moves me every time i hear it....

  • GREAT SOUL MUSIC always the #1 on my chart .....lol ... thank you

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  • great classic

  • yes yes yes!

  • Yes it was... Check for Poison Clan's "Game Recognize Game"

  • JJ BLACKFOOT AND THE CREW-THESE SISTERS AND BROTHERS WAS SANGING- THE HOOK IS CRAZY...Cant believe a sample hasnt been blessed by this- if it has i havent heard it

  • Thanks for this post; it took me waaaay back...dancin' in the den with the lights low

  • EXTREMELY SOFTNESS!

    Twinkle Brothers got a nice Reggae1/Rocksteady version of dis tune..

    Nice up

  • make love tune..yes..

  • this is great muziek,thank you

  • i loved this song. it was on that classic "hey love" cd that came out. when they released "hey love" again, it was missing

  • so sweet and so cool great love song

  • Great old school song!

  • bodygurl127 your comment is really appreciated!

  • This song is the TRUTH! The sweeter he is the longer the pain...ladies, keep your emotions in check....then it won't hurt so bad..:)

  • I was a wild young teenager when this song came out and now an old man but it sounded good then and even better now. Feel the love.

  • this comment is the reason i like utube.

  • i was a wild teen to......but i still am not an old woman! and your not an old man if your feeling like the way this song makes me feel!!!!!!

  • doc. love. I THINK ABOUT MY BABY WHEN I HEAR THIS SONG.

  • I would like to see the video or here the song love is here

  • curtis love . I grew up on love music

  • I think that every body parents played this song: this was the jam. I probably was about five when this song came out. I remember my mom went to see the Soul Children in the 70's, at the Coliseum. The instruments, and just singing from the heart.... Those were the days.............

  • this is a bad azz tune its a shame that my generation do not have singers like this who put thier heart and soul into their music it makes me wanna cry. but i have this music 2 hold on to

  • This is really harmony at its best. I can remember this song back in 1969 in Rocky Mount, N.C.-Young Men's Progressive Club--Forever & a day to remember how sweet music really was back in the 60s. Simply Awesome

  • Hmmm....now that's what I'm talkin' bout!!

  • Oh how I miss melodious voices like the Soul Children blending together in soulful harmony. The harmony at 1:04 is to be compared to a good old-fashioned church choir....these cats are matchless!

  • oh my goodness.. wow. damn where are the songs like this grown folks music.. these young heads just dont know loll..all in fun.

  • Hey I'm 12 and I like this!

  • AWESOME, AWESOME.AWESOME. Caught em live in 1970 via MARK III CLUB BABY! THEY Was HOT off the PLATE & COOKIN ! Performing R&B Songs at their best wth RUFUS THOMAS , What a nite 2remember .Keep it coming YOUTUBE STAFF You are awesome thank-ya for sweet memories;

  • The Soul Children sound more like New Birth than The Five Stairsteps. J. Blackfoot and Leslie Wilson sound alike.

  • I had one of the greatest days this year, just listening to my Uncles n Aunties shairing life experience and giving advice. Thanx a ton for posting, this used to be on my bedtime tape as a youngin.

    Blessings in abundance.

  • werent they on whats happen are am i mistaken

  • Yes they were the ones on "Tell Me, What's Happening Baby." Heard the song this past Saturday on an oldies radion show in Atlanta...does anyone have this song available? If not, I will try to find it when I go home to Memphis to see my grandchildren...either at Stax Records or "Boss Ugly Bob's Records."

  • I remember this one from Philly's WDAS-FM (thank you, Butterball!). It's also tailor-made for cruising, East.L.A. style. Bravo!

  • it can't get better than thisthis is almost better that an orgasm,this music is the shit.some one dug deep in the closet for this one ,just can't get no better than this wow.

  • It's great to hear part 1 & 2 without having to flip the 45 over, lol

  • still the jam

  • An it continues,the beautiful Blackness

  • I 've just recently come across and mix cd that someone made and this song was on it my daughter is six and she loves it i mean they poured their hearts out on this song

  • J. Blackfoot is the male lead singer on this one. He also enjoys a solo career. This group has no similarities to Five Stairsteps. This is deep Memphis Soul, ala Ike Hayes. This one is an Isaac composition. Late 60s prior to the Disco Sterilization of Soul Music. 4/4 beats for the mainstream.

  • Very good comment. Someone said they sound like New Birth. Well, a little. You're so right about the sterilization (or disappearance) of Soul annd R&B from the late 70's and on. Ike was really a master of beautiful ballads. I like that 4/4 beat too.

  • The Soul Children and The Five Stair Steps sound alike, but we know that they are different. Both groups have nothing but classic and can sang. I love this kind of real music.

  • saw them many years ago at the howard theater in washington, d.c....couldn't get this song out of my mind...now i know why...

  • I saw them at the Howard Theatre several times,too. Were you there when Joe Simon folloewd them and was getting booed off the stage and people kept screeming, "Bring Back the Soul Children!!!!"?

  • i am 41 and i remember thi song when my mother and har buddies use to sit around and listen to music. THIS IS MUSIC!!!

  • Oh yes, this reminds me of college parties and slow grinding, sorry, but its true

  • we listen to these oldies but goodies and my little niece is only 15 and she sing the hell out of this song and i was wondering how on earth does she know what this song is about..i mean she nails this song with feeling and everything..lolll

  • One of my favorites....brings back memories from days @ Prairie View A&M

  • Now this is a super soul classic. Thanks!!

  • I think the Isley bros sang about 'the blacker the berry,the sweeter the juice.'

    I truly believe these country folk know a thing or two about the oral tradition.

  • I've been searching for this forever an d a day!!!! Thank you!!! Wonderful taste in music!!!

  • Classic soul. One of Stax's best groups.

  • I am with you slim, my parents used to play this during Blue Mondays. It brings back good memories. They dont make them like this anymore.

  • I'm 34, but I love this group. The gospel sound and the lyrics just take me over the top. This song is the truth.