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  • No one could sing like the old groups back when old school was the shit

  • This remind me of my ex boyfriend back in school i was just 16 year old he use to pick me up all the time on the week end i was so glad he come to get me just get out of the house

  • "if i saw you with somebody new, i'd be so helpless".....Real Talk!

  • well that means your from this era 821fayes...so you recognize...glad to hear someone that appreciates REAL MUSIC!...shout out to the OLD SCHOOL!

  • "now your acting so strange baby"...ha ha...it dont get no better.

  • Check my dude Will Hart go all out on this track...this that shit right here!

  • @stewartops Yes got that right go way back when i was in high school i love this song

  • Fellas, broken promises were never rolled out so eloquently.

  • PHILLY!!!!!....

  • thanks for posting

  • I love this song go way back when i was in high school

  • this song is the best...

  • <3 this song it takes me back to my days doing the slow dance with the one you loved

  • Reminds me of all the Set we crached and danced the Grid (500)... I would do it all over again

  • i love this song it brings back memories of me and faye turner,my 1st wife we were 17 and 16

    way back there in 71, so good then so long ago now in so many ways yet those were good nights to bad they ended so

  • i came here because of Snoop Dogg(:

  • me too x)

  • @holteyman Me too!!

  • Grateful I grew up listening to REAL TALENT. All genres..not manufactured bs

  • love this song <3

  • i first heard this song on the vid of snoop wake-and-baking, and now i wake and bake to this song too haha its so real....

  • i love this song, the delfonics are underrated, they are one of the best vocal groups.

  • Philly Style ALL the WAY!! RIP Randy Cain

  • Philly Style ALL the WAY!!

  • This is sweet.

  • So true.

  • oldies will never die

  • Love it! I fall in love with my husband all over again. I love u Franky <3

  • I think I got two of my kids off this classic great slow drag piece.

  • Oh man, what memories this song brings back. Nanci 40years is a long time but if you're still out there somewhere, I have never forgotten you

  • Sorry but the Chi-lites are out of Chicago.........

  • music need to go back to this...

  • one of my favorite songs

  • LOL...this album and this song especially reminded me of the day when I was at Fremont High School in early 90's my homie's and I stole a car from the guys from 38ST and drove it up to the San Bernardino Mountains. We picked up the homegirls at H.P high and rolled out blasting the "Delfonics" all the way to the mountains...good times...V.FLORENCIA 13 El Travieso

  • Greatest delfonics of all time,

  • I'm 18 and I blast this album frequently!

  • I'll never forget seeing the Delfonics at the Cheetah in New York in the early 70's along with the Manhattans. This was the show of shows ALL the women were so beautiful. Each women had their own unique quality...just beautiful each and everyone of them. Happy to say I had a good time before, during and after the show. Those were the days my friend.

  • Who ever disliked this doesnt know TRUE Music ♥

  • @barillasp Tell em!!!!!!!!

  • YOU GUYS AREN'T THE ORIGINAL  DELFONICS ARE YOU, I REALLY DON'T CARE U GUYS SING YOUR AZZ OFF. I;M JUST CURIUS.

    LOVE YOU

    CLEVELAND DTW T-SHIRT LADY

    DEONTAE78@YAHOO.COM

  • thanks frankeyhoboken thanks for taking it back old school i love the delfonics

  • I can remember listening to the Delfonics practice on my way home from school. They were on Media St in Philly. It was nice to hear to songs long before they were on the radio. There are no groups like that now. This is what needs to be taught in schools. How to actually develop into musicians.

  • Buddah Records had some amazing artists. Phyllis Hyman, Five Stairsteps, and The Delfonics just to name a few.

  • The Chi-lites were from Chicago, and the Moments were not from Philly either.

  • This has the same melody as "La La Means I Love You".

  • i was so young. a young pretty girl but i seen life ahead of time. i am blessed to be apart of this era/world. the delfonics was a love making record. just don't break your promise. D I.

  • Dreaming of a love of mine that passed away in 1990 I was so in love w/him. I miss him w/ all my heart! Up til now have not ever fallen for anyone else! I wish he would come back to me I'm so sad

  • ima say it again william motherfucking hart william motherfucking hart was a bad motherfucker u hear tht voice

  • just smoked a fat joint to this song and its still good :)

    

  • @crazymanjonchin

    My daughter told me to tag your ass she said tell ;em not me!

    She's 22.

    Sometimes i don't know how she know a lot of these oldies.

    Since youtube i thought she was hearing these songs for the first time.

    most of her memories are from the movies like Temtations, the Five heart beats

    The Dells and such. Most of them ARE listening when we think there not!

    DID SOMEBODY DO THE DELFONICS......LOL......LOL

  • I am 50 but these songs remind me of my brother in law 'Squeak' who died too young. I sometimes think of him and keep this secret to myself.. He's gone and I love him and yet nobody really knows how much he influenced me or what a big part of my life and heart he was. He was from Manhattan. Gregory Frazier. And I still love him for putting me on to all of these songs.. (Songs that his daughter, (my neice) thinks she is getting from me..) May I see you again in the resurrection.. Praise Jah..

  • These are definitely the jams that alot of people today have no clue what their about.Peace youngsters

  • See being that I'm 50 and still not missing a beat if you could see me or hear me talk you would swear that i was singing a song while never breaking a promise to you nor myself,...peace

  • I grew up in SE S.D. and the boys there did the same thing singing in groups these songs will never die!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This song here gives me a natural high....for real it does. Thinking back to my days growing up in Newark,NJ....we used to take turns singing in the halls of those old bldgs and this was my older brotha's choice to sing. I remember hearing the girls say to him "boy you really can sing"....he felt like the little ghetto celebrity. We used to have so much fun during this period. Many people are dead and gone now, but this music makes them seem alive in my mind and heart. Thanks for posting this.

  • The Delphonics are one of the greatest vocal groups of all time. While some groups of the 70's were just stumbling upon arrangements by chance, these guys were painstakingly and masterfully blending sophisticated harmonies and intricate orchestrations together to make music on par with the classics of classical music. The Stylistics, the Delphonics, Blue Magic and music producer Thom Bell are all manufacturers and architects of this classy sophisticated soul.

  • this is when music was real not all hyped up with electrical equipment to sound good. it was a gift and they shared it with the world

  • When I listen to these songs from the 70's like this one and others from the Delphonics, The Sylistics, Blue Magic and others, I think to myself, "Who were the women who inspired these lyrics and these songs?" Oh my lord, it's unreal!

  • OMG this is an awesome song man I wish they played music like this ....

  • its been decades since this came out. nd i love it . this is good musikk. like if ur listening to this in 2011

  • aww I haven't heard this in so long..

  • You will never hear music like this ever...they broke the mold....timeless

  • THIS SONG IS FOR bo MY BIG LILLTLE ROTHR THIW WONG IW YOURW I LOVE U MISS U WILL SEE U SOON U WERE OUR EVERYTHING I

  • Snoopy brought me here

  • DAMN I LOVE THIS SONG 

  • If I had a dime for everytime I played this song I would be a millionaire!

  • This song is the shit

  • Ahhhh, just the type of romantic song I loved as a young teen. Always liked the boys and loved listening to this music of my era. The Delfonics were one of my favorite smooth soul genre groups.

  • the 6 people that did not like this need eardrum transplants,then go back and try again!!!

  • old school rnb baby

    someone please make these ignorant kids knowledgeable of this good shitt

  • @crazymanjonchin Strangely enough, there are alot of teens out there that dig this stuff, and that makes this 52 year old white dude glad. I don't listen to any new music, so I can't judge it.

  • @takemeback2 Yes true, I just think this music deserves some airtime on the radio too! Ol' school RnB does not get half the respect it deserves.

  • after my exams i'm going to buy some weed and smoke it while listening to this

  • @msmocha11 WESTSIDE YOU GO

  • @msmocha11 WESTSIDE YOU GO I,m a old school from chicago i made it too

  • I love this song coming up in chicago in the hood as a oshotie i fell in love

  • i wasn't even born until a decade later, but I LOVE this song! The Delfonics and Stylistics are my favorite groups!

  • wow this is my jam, all 5 years old during this song came out, but moms played it to death.

  • Bring back the high pitched, falsetto singers. Yeah mang!

  • you broke your promise,so I found My New Love,'cause u were Trying to Make A Fool Of Me. but I Told You So,and u said Hey Love,Tell Me This Is A Dream,I'm Sorry. but Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time, i'll holla back, I'm going to Walk Right Up To The Sun,Ready Are Not,Here I Come...ain't trying to rhyme, but You've Been Untrue girl,and I've Tried Over And Over,but When You Get Right Down To It,He Don't Realy Love You.......(stoniedog)

  • @jdpatterson100 dawg U WEREbLUNTED OUT WERENT U

  • Saw the delphonics in Brunswick N.J. the truth.

  • i miss strings...

  • I'm with both comments!!!!!!!!!!

  • This was the Philadelphia sound at it's best.

    The Delfonics along w/groups such as: The Stylistics, the Moments, Blue Magic, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, The Chi-lites all came out of Philly and recorded for (Philly Groove Records).

    "There's no school like old school."

  • @54no more You can also add the O'Jays to that list of great groups came out of Philadelphia in the 60's and 70's. With their monster hit "Money, Money,Money." Priceless!

  • @54nomore 'Old School' beats the hell out of the crap that is passing for music these days! We have a generation that has to listen to so-called 'music' played by computers and not real instruments! I feel sorry for them.

  • @best music96 The lyrics, the melodies and the voices of the artist that came out of Motown & Philly will never be replicated. The 60's & 70's to me were the two greatest eras in Rock & Roll history. And these gentlemen were but, a part of that great history for which people like you and me counted ourselves lucky to be a part of.

  • this song is the shit!!!!!!!!

  • whu dis gize - me wantz to buy dem - take dem bak to DUBAI, sing to me CAMELS!

    dey sount so grayt . Merikan negros kan sing

  • we black folks are musical gods!

  • Bonita canción dijo JORGE ALBERTO BARON

  • Yep! Basement parties with red or painted black light bulbs. Sometimes they were Rent Parties and they charged you 50 cents to get in...And you bought a chicken dinner! Those were the days!!

  • this was the era for kissing slow dragging somehwere in someones basement party

  • It sure is. Did a lot of partying in Grove hall, Mattapan, up on ' the hill', skyler st., Chaney st. Woodrow ave. All over. We were ghetto all-nighters!

  • It sure is. Did a lot of partying in Grove hall, Mattapan, up on ' the hill', style st., Chaney st. Woodrow ave. All over. We were ghetto all-nighters!

  • Just magnificent street corner harmony.

  • use to slow jam to this up on Bluehill ave in the Bury(Boston) back in the day and wouldn't you know it....years later I have to live this song out in its entirety! In the 2000's. Always will be true. Oldies don't die and they don't lie!

  • @firstchoice1956 Grew up in Dorchester. My father bought all their records. Great song! Living in the Bury' now. Small world!

  • summer nights sitting outside with the speaker in the window listening to the beautiful sounds of the delfonics..how I wish I had those days back!!

  • Were do i start, if you had to pick one song and only one sone for this group, to help you explain to someone from another country about the Delfonics, this is the one baby! They should be right up there with the rest of the great groups of the sixties and seventies base on their body of work.

  • only 4 the real pimps city

  • only 4 the real pimps

  • 25 cent partyes red lights yea

  • THIS SONG MIGHT BE OLD BUT THAT SHIT STILL BE BUMPING FOR REALS

  • Lmfao. Did Anyone Else Notice "Buddah Records Lable" ?? That Explains How They Made Some Of The Best Music Ever, Kusz They Wer Hiqh !! :DD

  • :O. I sing this song nearly almost everyday at least once. (:

  • !990- I didnt have to ask..I KNEW she was gonna break her promises

  • and now u actin so strange

  • you said :(

  • I love the background violins in this song...

  • love my people , we have soo much to be happy for and we have all this great music that we should be proud of ,I wish that the younging will eventually get to know all ther black music that others seem to take as theres. No its ours not yours.

  • @bavmo

    Chill dude, I know, and so does a ton of other white guys appreciate the fact, that not all music by black artists is rap or hip hop. These guys here, like so many others gave the world a gift of wonderful music. Lets all enjoy it for the great music that it is

  • hi

  • @ chief true that

  • and now u actin so straaange, babey

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  • They Dont Make Cuts Like This No More

  • it doesnt matter when you were born you haft to have an ear for music to understand this

  • One of the best from a legendary group

  • They say that REAL men do not cry. A broken heart spares no one.

  • Glad I ran across this one; I had forgotten about it. I always liked this a lot and it goes waaaay back. Good Stuff. Thanks for a great post.

  • i LOVE this song...

    me n my bfs..

    && im NEVER gunna break my promise...

  • I love ALL FALSETTO singers.....This my Fav from the Delfonics. It's just a simple question, 'Are You Gonna Break Your Promise'.....We didn't have to do much talkin' back in the day, just put about 5 or 6 records on the turn table/HiFi and LET'em drop.....LOL!

  • @mssquirrely Can you listen to my recording and tell me how you like it. I was singing lead voice on it plus I wrote the song. I was only 12 years old. That was over 55 years ago. go to Utube my group was the Perinnals the title was I'm yours until the end. i'm a retired singer from one of the most famous singing groups in the Nation. I just want to know how I sound to others at 12 years old thank you so much

  • @TheLovemygod - One word....."AWESOME!!"

  • @mssquirrely I know thats right! and not only that the message was really clear, forreal and to the point! So if someone heard the message in the song and their heart was intuned then they knew where you were coming from. If they did not then they needed alot a help!

  • What a tearjerker! Thanks for posting.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG

  • 1 of the delfonics best songs. I saw them in Atlantic City. Why oh why did they have to leave and go away?

  • this my friends is the true heart beat of the strings of love . THE CORE OF THE UNIVERSE PULSATE WITH THE SWEET BITTERNESS OF THIS FRUIT OF THE GODS

  • wow now this is one of my favorite tenors back then, no one sing like that now, and that is a lost, and we lost one of the greatest falsetto in soul music Ron Banks past and that hurt me bad he was one of the best rest in peace my brother 

  • I love this song...

  • @soccerpro619 You sound like me exactly 10 years ago, when I was 18, and I first heard this song. I still love it and all their other songs also!

  • soccerpro619 You sound like me exactly 10 years ago, when I was 18, and I first heard this song. I still love it and all their other songs also!

  • THIS GOES OUT TO THE MAN I WOULD HAVE HAD 4 KIDS FROM ,I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU RIP ABRAHAM GUERREA FROM SFM,FROM SADGIRL THE MAIN GIRL ALWAYS DOWN FO YO ASS.I LOVE YOU

  • One of the best melodies I've ever hurd in my ole' life to date I'm 50 yrs. yong

  • i just smoked a fat blunt on this song...Perfect!

  • @DOPEBOYMARK im with u big bro

  • @DOPEBOYMARK SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA

    

  • There is nothing like that time of back in the day. The Delfonics were and still are masters of music from the heart and soul...it touches deep. real deep touching a part of life in the "Hood" that no one today could ever experience like we did back then.

  • My favorite of the Delfonics.My father used to play their jams when I was little.

  • Man, still sounds good after all these years.

  • just a wonderful feeling of great times when people cared about one another

  • yeah now you jammin wit this stuff.thanks for sharing

  • Bou I was blessed to be born in an era that product this and so many great sounds,I was in the 10th grade in high school and loving every minute of it. With  all the handsome older guys . It was like candy store all I could do was look, just to young but it was great times. Red light blue light parties

  • If you BREAK YOUR PROMISE to a BLACK WOMAN....

    a it will break her HEART

    b  she will NEVER forgive you

    c prepare to lose a TESTICLE

  • @teehonky That you for warning your fellow homeboys, so we won't have to!!! LMAO

  • @teehonky I actually considered your first post to be sincere as well as funny. I'm not sure where your going with this one, but I was referring to you warning guys not to hurt a black woman. Apparently you don't like black people by your ignorant reply back to me. I'll pray for you "Triple K" !

  • @ladyjae65 AND...? I dont post comments for the warm fuzzy feelings they may bring....point blank..BLACK WOMEN are animals....White Women dont put their men in JAIL

  • this bring back so many memories[ houston texas] beautiful ladies and( OST ) twenty grand night club. texas southern. unvi.

  • Thank GOD for the technology of recorded music. We can relive this for the rest of our lives. Tune out todays crap and take it with us to the end!

  • Reminds me of my younger years BBQ's pool side with the family!!!! OHhhhhh memories =)

  • auto tune ruined everything

  • works for me.

  • I remember " ginding on the wall, in the dark, with a total stranger," to this song. Now before we kiss, we have to exchange HIV results.Time is infinite, but WE do not have infinite Time. Our children and grands are fortunate to have us around, with all we know now. I hope our children live at least as long as us. Funny how all that dancing we use to do, the songs we remember and cherish the most, for generations, are songs like this, that sometimes defines our whole life. Love Songs, Peace!

  • Anyone who is really into classic Philly Soul probably recognizes the great Earl Young's signature drum intro that he used on early hits by the Continental Four, the Ambassadors and the Artistics, just to name a few. Check out his video, "Earl Young's Drum Lesson."

  • @Tweeter115 Did'nt know anyone else out there

    recognized this genius of Philly Soul!!

    Great call!!!!!!!

  • i love this song i wish the songs would go on

  • Thanks Frankey, for this music, it brings back so many memories, I was back in Memephis when this can out. I was singing with a group at that time. This bring back memories of my family, my mother brothers and sisters and a son and granson that I lost,. I am so sad, but thanks for the memories. I love these guys.

  • Apparently, the 4 people who dislike this song must like that bubblegum pop shit and have bad taste in music.

  • @hoodmistress you're right; probably someone in their teens voted 'down' on this

  • @gayle2020 Let me be a teenager one more time and I would've clicked on that like button until I got a cramp in my index finger. I spent part of my childhood/teenhood listening to songs like this.

  • Bad appa scrappa...romance, harmony, lyrics, arrangement....a Philly group I think, right? Where is my baby, time to do the Bmore slow drag!

  • Harmonies are smooth as silk and their highs are tight and bright !

  • Thank goodness that even though I was born in 94 I have a chance to experience music like this

  • vikki your a chola these is fuxken g

  • how could 4 people really dislike this song???!?!?

  • I was raised with this group they formed my chid hood I LOVE THEM

  • oldies rule forever.....by antman nessa's brother

  • Randy had the greatest voice RIP my man!

  • I need this song! but in minus one.. anyone who can lead me the way?

  • OMG!!! I really loved this song. I was only 12 when this came out, but was on a "love tip" early in life. The Delfonics........one of my favorite groups.

  • Oh man, how I loved the Delfonics. I had a buddy named Debby Gordon and we used to sing these songs all the time.