No one signs like this any more. Who has the remote control, I would like to rewind life back to 1980 and loop from 1980 to 1989 over and over! Am I the only one hearing the melodious keyboard pads and strings?
Because I love so much music, so many songs, it would be very hard to pick my very favorite song. But if I had to, it would be this song. There are hardly any other songs that have this much harmony like this song.
One my favorite songs, ever! I am a CHANGE fan from the beginning. David Romani is one of the baddest bassists to pick up the instrument. What I loved most about this group, is they - like CHIC (Good Times) - really knew how to layer a song like a well-made gumbo. For instance, at 2:53: just bass & guitar & drums (broth or base), then the keys come in at 3:26 (the roux) , then the voices come back at 4:26 (the meat and okra). Served up hot in ya ear & soothin to the soul. Feel me? :)
LOL! Yes, this base line IS Heaven Sent! And I happen to also to agree with the assessment of this album by allmusicguide. This album is an abolute must have for all Change fans. It is, by far, their best over all album, period. Adding THIS one to my favorites list. Thanks for posting. Audio quality is top notch!
idiots i agree..i was in the marine corps on a ship in the gulf of mexico when this album was out, and earth wind and fire came out with groove tonight. couldnt wait to get back to dry land and cop this! and yes i'm using this in a hip hop groove. along with others like stephanie mills put ya body in it........"OUT-HOUSE RECORDS...."WHERE WE DROP THE ISHIT!
@ArchieGe...Nile Rodgers himself told me he and Bernard Edwards put Change together...the similarities in their sound to CHIC is undeniable, right? Perhaps, Nile and Bernard hired the Italian gentlemen you mention in your post to produce the group.
@Mondawmindiamond Change was an Italian-American Disco/R&B group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949–1986) and Mauro Malavasi (1957). They were heavily influenced by legendary disco band Chic
oh my god what for a nice bassguitar, cool vocals and brilliant produced!!! classic for the next 500 jears! today you can not found any producers that have that feeling and that standard!!!
this is one of my favorite groups from my great college days. This group was the shit,fall 1980-spring 82. Luther was great, but "crab" was the voice of change.
I hear ya Mr./Ms. Late 40something. I was on my respective yard at the same time and everybody freaked when this second album came out. Ahhh those LP days when one actually had to lift the damn tone arm up.
No cd's, no dvd's, no vcr's, just vinyl and 8 tracks. I wouldn't change a thing.Fraternity life, beautiful girls,disco, Chic,Sugarhill Gang,Ronnie Laws; I came of age during this period.
Again, I can relate. I was doing the undergrad thing in Baltimore (MSU), but there were always roadtrips home to the NYC/NJ area to clubhop at The Garage; Zanzibars; The Loft; Justine's; etc.
This song is hot! But yes, C'est Chic. I would say that millions of Europeans that rocked out to this song need to thank Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers for the sound. Not that it's a rip off. I wouldn't say that. I'd say it's a hot song. But it's a pastiche on Chic.
Actually the original master at work was Kenni Burke and the Jones Girls. Listen to Nights over Eygpt, etc. IMHO the intro's marginally better! But thats what makes this track so awesome as its not as well known as Nights over Eygpt.
Jones Girls Nights Over Egypt is incredible too. But that's a producer operation as well: Gamble and Huff. The people that brought you "Love Train" by the O'Jays and countless other songs.
The reason you thought of Jones Girls is that this is early 1980's sophisticated music. And dude, get ready to like the album by Loose Ends with the song Hanging on a String! You'll trip out.
Yeah, I've got most of Loose Ends stuff. I met the lead singer in Brixton (london) in 1990. She was pushing her baby in a stroller. Loose ends were from the UK but used a lot of the same session personnel from the US too.
...one day they're gonna get smart and make GUITAR HERO BLACK-in a black box-no writing on it....all the Prince, Sly Stone, Rick James, Gino Soccio, EWF....breakin knuckles trying to play some of that....
Yes, Change is HOTT Cool song's from all of them. My fav is THE END. I was playing this song when i was low riding in the 80's . This what music is Not the Crapp they play now. Thank you from MR OLD SCHOOL.
@cemwen Learned this song note for note when it came out. it was 4 years before I found a group of guys who could pull this bass/guitar unison riff off without flubbing it. It sounds simple (and, musically it is) but, it is HELL to play perfectly. Hats off to Jeff and Timmy for pulling it off originally. No one much is aware of it now, but I'd love to see someone do it NOW.!!!
The bass on this song is by DAVIDE ROMANI, the principal bass player on all Change songs - and also writer and player for BB&Q Band and High Fashion, Revanche etc. Timmy Allen came later but also played on the same album, 'Miracles'... ROMANI also wrote and played on 'Lover's Holiday' and 'Paradise', 'Hold Tight', 'Searching' - no Timmy Allen in sight then...
My favourite Change song from their best ever album. James 'Crab' Robinson is one heckuva vocalist who also sang for Norman Connors ('This Is Your Life') and Lonnie Liston Smith ('A Song for the Children' and 'Love Is the Answer'), whose dulcet tones are showcased here to their optimum best. Props also to bass maestro extroadinaire Timmy Allen for slappin' some ultra tight funk into this track. Beautiful!
L'album c est "Miracles" , il etait et est toujours casse couilles à trouver celui ci en vinyl. Quel album de dingue avec " On top " + paradise ..... ENORME
The shame of everything is that shows like American Idol develop cookie cutter performers. I can only think of two artists, (Underwood or Studdard) who would have made it anyway. That show should be an insult to other singers because it shows you the mindset of Hollywood which is that we want cookie cutter voices to fit crap that writers and producers are making. You will not see a Alto, Tenor, Contralto, Baritone or Bass singer on Idol because it doesn't fit what they are selling.
Is it fair to blame the record companies for selling what they think people want to hear, e.g., the whole crossover thing? Shouldn't the blame be placed on the public for lapping up the mediocrity?
Spring 1981 - I had just met the woman who is my wife shortly before Change released Miracles. We were apart for several months while I was in school, but I would listen to this and dream of being with her. This takes me back to a time when we were young and dumb and in love and real life wasn't yet in the way!
thanks for the info archieGe and speakwhnspkn2. I just got my record collection down from the loft to check if james crab robinson featured in any other petrus and malavasi albums but no.
thank you mr ArchieGe - i thought i knew all the major Malavasi/Petrus tracks around that time but no - this track has got it all ; great bass riff, very tight and clear backing vocals (niles and rogers started this) and luther not going over the top - brilliant.
You're very right about James "Crabs" Robinson. Very underrated vocalist. The only other lead vocalist fronting an R&B band from that period that could touch him would be Howard Hewett of Shalamar and maybe Paulie Carmen of Champaign.
I wonder what James is doing these days. Is he still living. What a voice. This guy was every bit as good a vocalist as Luther.
Actually, MJ's Thriller album "killed" off R&B and Soul because everyone tried to emulate that "Pop" sound to crossover. Many failed miserably and disappeared. Even EWF had a hard time adjusting and went on hiatus from 83-87. That's when BET picked up the slack and had nice videos of artists that were still making real music. But that didn't last long because BET started going to a full rap format in 1990. From what I hear, Romani is still making dance music in Italy.
Again, good points I hadn't thought of. I've been trying to put my finger on today's neo-soul artists (Maxwell, etc.) for several years now about what makes them different. Is it that their vocals are recorded over computer generated music?
Stevie Wonder used loops on "Talking Book" but he knew how to humanize these machines to make it sound like a real musician and then he mixed in live instruments. The problem is that with computer generated music, you have to go through the pains of changing things up to make it sound real and that's what artists and producers don't do. They get lazy. Stevie's album "In Square Circle" was all done with synths and loops, especially "Go Home" but he added the Kurzweil and horns in the song.
Do you believe that the average music listener can tell the difference when artists and producers don't make their music sound real? I ask that because you say that a lot of artists disappeared when they tried to emulate MJ. Is that because their efforts were rejected by the market? Or did the record company suits decide it was over for them, or both? Thanks.
Don't get me wrong, I do like folk like Maxwell, Jill Scott and Lauryn Hill. It's just that their music sounds different than the soul of the 70s.
I agree with you about Kashif. I loved his stuff. I do remember a reviewer in the Washington Post years ago referring to Kashif as a "hack." I have no idea what spawned that opinion.
..as live instrumentation in our music became evermore scarce (at least on record) as the 80s came to a close.Think it may be unfair to blame Q & MJ who were simply making music rather than seeking to set a trend ('Off the Wall' having not prompted any slew of similarly crafted albums).The pressure from major record labels on artistes to 'de-blackenise' their sound was very much real (ie EW&F's 'Electromagnetic);just a shame few acts tied to majors resisted the 'crossover' tide.
What happened was two things with Dance/R&B. The introduction of MIDI technology and the cutting of R&B/Dance departments from record labels. R&B was costing too much to produce. It's not that RAP is popular. It's because it can be produced at a cheap price.
R&B became "Urban Contemporary" which wiped out real soul and R&B music. Todays R&B music is not real R&B. If you wanna still hear good music, you have to live overseas.
damnit; you got some good info there! I've never heard this arguement put this way; but it makes so much sense. Today's music (irregardless of brand name) is so corporate 'money makin' driven it makes it plastic and rediculous IMO. I have been totally sick with top 40 radio since the early 90s (repeating 10 tracks over and again as if so careful not to offend the general public with something too creative). WHAT A SPENDID ARGUEMENT you have! I can't say enough; thank GOD for satellite radio!
Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which virtually wiped out community radio which is where the hits were first generated. Groups started by using community radio as a platform. Even though you had Payola, community radio launched so many artists. Now, it's hard for an individual, not unless their backed by a major company to even get on the radio. Through community radio, the artist was really in touch with the community through local radio and was more accessible.
I think you've got a point, ethurst. So you're saying that to record those 9-piece funk bands (and pay each member) was ultimately unsustainable? And now the only way a real musician can make any money is to perform live, correct?
Some interesting comments ethurst2, compelling me to respond having been very been privy to the music changes you point to.Though 'Thriller' did have a significant impact in shaping r&b direction from 1983 on, with many Black acts watering down their sound in an attempt to secure that so-called 'crossover' (white audience) appeal, feel some of the problem lay with the overdependence on the new technology which saw a scaling down of bands (Cameo come to mind here), in which the art of...
You're right. If I saw a Yamaha DX-7 keyboard I would smash it! There was a burst in music technology and it seem like almost everyone was trying to fit the new technology into one album or recording. Frankie Beverly and Maze were one of the only groups to keep their base acoustic sound and record companies were cutting out R&B and soul departments. The crossover deal hurt a lot of artists because to me, it was just a matter of time before the door shut.
It was not on the "Greatest Hits" compilation because it was originally a 12" DJ release through the Sureshot Record Pool--Luther V. used to sing backup with them before his solo career took off.
When I first entered the Paradise Garage back in summer of '81, this was playing. From that point onward I knew that that club and this group was a force to reckon with.
What a great "back in the sho'nuff day" hit...Camp Pendleton, CA what:) E-Club...This one is sho'nuff dedicated to my "Red=Honey".....Thanks for the memories...
I went from trying to find a song off the "school daze" soundtrack to here... What great music - I have most of their albums - makes me want to go out and buy a turntable!
This is "groove "in it's truest form and "God Bless You Brother" for posting this as it was all so much more about the music back then . Today we hardly hear anyone acknowledge the existance of a good "Middle 8 bar"....Only the likes of good bands like"Slapbak" , "Mint Condition" and "Primus " to name a few who seem adamnant about relaying good music from the area that matters the "the soul" .....This is a good tune that never ever looses it flavour ...lve this
Actuall it is 'bufferz' father that has posted that comment and yes me and my wife was married by then so yes i do recall the performance so maybe nothing should be said at all.
remember buyin this album.use to love the song "angel" by them.never realized how much like chic they sounded.luther never got away from this sound.....just listen to any of his albums and listen to change same bass lines and vocals
Yes in fact is was produced part in NY as you correctly stated, and in Italy( Bologna ) by Mauro Malavasi and Jacques Petrus; most of the song were written By Malavasi , and other came from David romani, the same team produced also Peter Jaques Band, Macho, and BBQ and Band.
Malavasi is an Italian trumpeter, composer which later on moved to major commercial production after Petrus was assassinated.
Change & BBQ and band are amazing projects beautifully arranged and produced.
It was all about acques Fred Petrus & Mauro Malavasi. Great Production.I really love their work especially on BB&Q,High Fashion - Feeling Lucky. Ritchie Family - I'll Do My Best.Good Stuff
The follow up hits, Searching and the title song feature lead vocals by the then unknown Luther Vandross. The three songs combined spent 9 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Disco charts, enough to make it the #1 Disco album of the year and a million seller in the U.S. The success of Searching and The Glow Of Love exposed Luthers voice to mainstream and eventually led to a successful solo career starting 1981
I've been listening to Paradise non-stop (you can download it from a blog somewhere) but "Heaven" is THE killer boogie cut on this LP. As we say in London: This sh*t is DANGEROUS!!!
You can holla at bass player David Romani on myspace.
Oh, Yes! BIONIC BOOGIE. That was one of Luther's absolute first gigs. I have all of the BIONIC BOOGIE'S albums. Luther was the Disco King back then. Long live DISCO!!!
thanks for posting this. This is one tune I havent heard of from Change. This is music at its best. Music these sayd doesnt have as much soul or is as uplifting as the 80's era. Kids who listen to music these days dont know what they are missing!
Change was an Italian-American group formed in Bologna, Italy 1979 by the creative genius of businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949-1986) and Mauro Malavasi (1958-). They were heavily influenced by legendary disco band Chic.
3 haters don't know what a fucking amazing bass line sounds like!
gavotron 3 weeks ago
love this record the bass line is unmatched,memories much love CHANGE WHERE YOU ARE TERRILLO
terrillo1 3 weeks ago
No one signs like this any more. Who has the remote control, I would like to rewind life back to 1980 and loop from 1980 to 1989 over and over! Am I the only one hearing the melodious keyboard pads and strings?
MelodiousRhythm 1 month ago
This was the jam back in the ... What a groove..... It bring back some great memories
bigdaddyelove 1 month ago
YouTube.You're a "godsend".Thanks for the memories.
mrtracy1000 1 month ago
this my shit!!!!!!!
dcnyatl 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
was a buck private stationed in italy livorno that is used to jam at camp darby good times
bigant608 2 months ago
@bigant608 I was a E-5 stationed in Germany when I first heard this.. Good times..
skinsman3 4 weeks ago
one of my favorite dance songs...
1blessedbrotha 2 months ago
Because I love so much music, so many songs, it would be very hard to pick my very favorite song. But if I had to, it would be this song. There are hardly any other songs that have this much harmony like this song.
sbrute66 2 months ago
le meilleur groupe funk de tout les temps!
MrRicardo4610 2 months ago
ha check out
BRAINSTORM LOVIN IS REALLY MY GAME.
FOR THE ALL TIME DISCO JAM
richard10661066 2 months ago
Back in the day This was the jam.
and Still is.
and LV what a voice.
you dig...
richard10661066 2 months ago
ottima !!!!!!!!!!!!
MrMixbyalex 2 months ago
CLAP YOUR HANDS!!!!
1blessedbrotha 2 months ago
i use to play this at parties and people would ask who was that,man it was so smooth back then
macknate9 3 months ago
@JohnFatt
Way to let 'em know!
Muziclvr07 3 months ago
One my favorite songs, ever! I am a CHANGE fan from the beginning. David Romani is one of the baddest bassists to pick up the instrument. What I loved most about this group, is they - like CHIC (Good Times) - really knew how to layer a song like a well-made gumbo. For instance, at 2:53: just bass & guitar & drums (broth or base), then the keys come in at 3:26 (the roux) , then the voices come back at 4:26 (the meat and okra). Served up hot in ya ear & soothin to the soul. Feel me? :)
Muziclvr07 3 months ago
@Muziclvr07 yes,,,I feel ya...smokin'
lightandlove1910 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
LOL! Yes, this base line IS Heaven Sent! And I happen to also to agree with the assessment of this album by allmusicguide. This album is an abolute must have for all Change fans. It is, by far, their best over all album, period. Adding THIS one to my favorites list. Thanks for posting. Audio quality is top notch!
TheBigruss63 3 months ago
Pure Genius........my maths ain't that hot, but what time signature is that bass line???
Knighdt1 3 months ago
Pure Genius......
Knighdt1 3 months ago
Love Change.
TheJKVW 3 months ago
Oh my days!!!
What a great production...love it, love it!
VANITY80 4 months ago
Thank You for bring back good times don't stop
mcclint46 4 months ago
the samps....sampled this
nucleararab 5 months ago
I was living in Europe when Change was at their high point! A great time in music!
roybyrd3 5 months ago
idiots i agree..i was in the marine corps on a ship in the gulf of mexico when this album was out, and earth wind and fire came out with groove tonight. couldnt wait to get back to dry land and cop this! and yes i'm using this in a hip hop groove. along with others like stephanie mills put ya body in it........"OUT-HOUSE RECORDS...."WHERE WE DROP THE ISHIT!
outasightenergymf 5 months ago
@outasightenergymf
Semper Fi!
Muziclvr07 3 months ago
Has anyone samples this sucker for hip hop beat yet? If not they're idiots.
spetsnaz5 5 months ago
Beautiful song
keltonalexander 5 months ago
Hypnotic bassline, AWESOME!!!
magnnum100 6 months ago
my feet heard this song before my ears did......this cut is unbelievable...........
pdddddp1 6 months ago
my favorite change jam and i have finally found it, damn!!!!!!
bigant608 7 months ago
The first time I heard this a few years ago I almost doo-doo'd in my pants, it's just that unbelievably great! XOXO to this tune and to Change.
Hruundi 7 months ago
Funkiest shit this side of Mars!
whytryitstaken 7 months ago in playlist Change
One of Change's best songs. Excellent arrangement.
crenshawjohn 7 months ago
@ArchieGe...Nile Rodgers himself told me he and Bernard Edwards put Change together...the similarities in their sound to CHIC is undeniable, right? Perhaps, Nile and Bernard hired the Italian gentlemen you mention in your post to produce the group.
Mondawmindiamond 7 months ago
@Mondawmindiamond Change was an Italian-American Disco/R&B group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949–1986) and Mauro Malavasi (1957). They were heavily influenced by legendary disco band Chic
luckluc 5 months ago
This jam is tight!..listen james robinson's range at the end...goodness gracious
pdddddp1 8 months ago
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211bill 8 months ago
You can't help but to smile when you hear this..
skinsman3 10 months ago
smooth...hop cool ..what else is there to say
god i miss those days...
richard10661066 3 years ago
This is the freakin joint baby , groovalicious jam
prezzakid 3 years ago
This is my favorite song of all time. I haven't heard this song in years but it is always in my head. Thanks for posting this.
sbrute66 3 years ago
It sure would have been nice to see a video of these guys singing this aaaaamaaaazing song!!
TRUTHEXPANDING 3 years ago
oh my god what for a nice bassguitar, cool vocals and brilliant produced!!! classic for the next 500 jears! today you can not found any producers that have that feeling and that standard!!!
bellomarcello 3 years ago
this is one of my favorite groups from my great college days. This group was the shit,fall 1980-spring 82. Luther was great, but "crab" was the voice of change.
mybls 3 years ago
I hear ya Mr./Ms. Late 40something. I was on my respective yard at the same time and everybody freaked when this second album came out. Ahhh those LP days when one actually had to lift the damn tone arm up.
dburley 3 years ago
No cd's, no dvd's, no vcr's, just vinyl and 8 tracks. I wouldn't change a thing.Fraternity life, beautiful girls,disco, Chic,Sugarhill Gang,Ronnie Laws; I came of age during this period.
mybls 3 years ago
Again, I can relate. I was doing the undergrad thing in Baltimore (MSU), but there were always roadtrips home to the NYC/NJ area to clubhop at The Garage; Zanzibars; The Loft; Justine's; etc.
dburley 3 years ago
La classe ....
kuti319 3 years ago
thanks for posting!!
movinwaves 3 years ago
un vrai chef d'oeuvre!!!!!!!!!
6299elian 3 years ago
i dont know how times he escuchado this song increible increible.
juanmaneke 3 years ago
this is one hot cut.
Microjoey02 3 years ago
This song is hot! But yes, C'est Chic. I would say that millions of Europeans that rocked out to this song need to thank Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers for the sound. Not that it's a rip off. I wouldn't say that. I'd say it's a hot song. But it's a pastiche on Chic.
Edwards died from AIDS in 1987.
denierbud 3 years ago
Actually he collaspsed onstage from pnemonia and complications... died later than night.
true.. The guys made an awesome track.
danoba6 3 years ago
Actually the original master at work was Kenni Burke and the Jones Girls. Listen to Nights over Eygpt, etc. IMHO the intro's marginally better! But thats what makes this track so awesome as its not as well known as Nights over Eygpt.
danoba6 3 years ago
Jones Girls Nights Over Egypt is incredible too. But that's a producer operation as well: Gamble and Huff. The people that brought you "Love Train" by the O'Jays and countless other songs.
The reason you thought of Jones Girls is that this is early 1980's sophisticated music. And dude, get ready to like the album by Loose Ends with the song Hanging on a String! You'll trip out.
denierbud 3 years ago
Yeah, I've got most of Loose Ends stuff. I met the lead singer in Brixton (london) in 1990. She was pushing her baby in a stroller. Loose ends were from the UK but used a lot of the same session personnel from the US too.
danoba6 3 years ago
Je suis plus fan de soul des 70 mais ce morceau est vraiment trop fort.. Pour moi une des meilleures production de romani sinon la meilleure
kuti319 3 years ago
My fav change LP , this tune is outstanding, bassline so funky..
kuti319 3 years ago
...one day they're gonna get smart and make GUITAR HERO BLACK-in a black box-no writing on it....all the Prince, Sly Stone, Rick James, Gino Soccio, EWF....breakin knuckles trying to play some of that....
gqonline 3 years ago
Yes, Change is HOTT Cool song's from all of them. My fav is THE END. I was playing this song when i was low riding in the 80's . This what music is Not the Crapp they play now. Thank you from MR OLD SCHOOL.
Venger40 3 years ago
You know what?! God himself made this bassline!!!
cemwen 3 years ago 11
@cemwen Learned this song note for note when it came out. it was 4 years before I found a group of guys who could pull this bass/guitar unison riff off without flubbing it. It sounds simple (and, musically it is) but, it is HELL to play perfectly. Hats off to Jeff and Timmy for pulling it off originally. No one much is aware of it now, but I'd love to see someone do it NOW.!!!
raysan1234567 1 month ago
@cemwen MDR. Your right man, god himself compose this song
AikiJames78 1 month ago
The bass on this song is by DAVIDE ROMANI, the principal bass player on all Change songs - and also writer and player for BB&Q Band and High Fashion, Revanche etc. Timmy Allen came later but also played on the same album, 'Miracles'... ROMANI also wrote and played on 'Lover's Holiday' and 'Paradise', 'Hold Tight', 'Searching' - no Timmy Allen in sight then...
downjones72 3 years ago
Raah!! Thnx for tha info.
This track's even fonkier than Mutual Attraction and I heard Luther Vandross in the back ground.
Salute Fred & all the crew!
danoba6 3 years ago
This is a bassline! This is a tune!
nightwaxon 3 years ago
My favourite Change song from their best ever album. James 'Crab' Robinson is one heckuva vocalist who also sang for Norman Connors ('This Is Your Life') and Lonnie Liston Smith ('A Song for the Children' and 'Love Is the Answer'), whose dulcet tones are showcased here to their optimum best. Props also to bass maestro extroadinaire Timmy Allen for slappin' some ultra tight funk into this track. Beautiful!
Tchalla77 3 years ago 5
I wonder how many bassplayers learned this? you were the stuff if you and the guitarist was tight on this
chasplaybass 3 years ago
bah fo telecharger illegal, tant pis, le plaisir avant tout
dixneufcentquatrevin 3 years ago
terrible ce morceau!!! dire qu'il est pas disponible en mp3 pour des telechargements legales
swbsdavid 3 years ago
L'album c est "Miracles" , il etait et est toujours casse couilles à trouver celui ci en vinyl. Quel album de dingue avec " On top " + paradise ..... ENORME
dixneufcentquatrevin 3 years ago
I love this group so much!!!
tucanchik 3 years ago
magnifique Luther VANDROSS
melofunky 3 years ago
le lead chanteur n'est pas le maginifique Luther Vandross
mais james 'crab' robinson
aussi un grand chanteur :)
ArchieGe 3 years ago
Mais il n y a plus qu en france qu'on fait survivre cette beauté de musique ?
dixneufcentquatrevin 3 years ago
@dixneufcentquatrevin You're right, for some reason France has an undying love for pure funky music.
coolrunning101 7 months ago
I LOVE this song.
Change was one of the greatest bands EVER!!!!!!!
IngridBergmanRocked 3 years ago 2
this is my favorite of change with old tight!
xxs78 3 years ago
This is my favorite disco/funk song. Bar None!
"I so glad that you're the angel of my heart....."
fizzytinki 3 years ago
meilleur titre funk de l'histoire de la funk, extrait du meilleur album, tout simplement !!!!
trainfantome 3 years ago
Pure perfection. The BEST album ever.
drjeffamatrixx 3 years ago
prom night june 1981. brings back great memories.
croncook1972 3 years ago
Arguably the best Change track ever recorded!
Haze1Music 3 years ago
I feel it was, Burgess did his best......
n2hops 3 years ago
I LOVE IT!! STRAIGHT FIRE!! They will never make these quality songs again! That's why I have my old internet radio where I play these 24/7!!
coolflex 3 years ago
best dance song EVER!!!!
alanrowekelly 3 years ago
Perfection from beginning to end, as for every song from this album. Music in its purest form.
downjones72 3 years ago 2
thanx for this ..that bass line is the bomb
kamelgee 3 years ago
Can somebody post the title track Sharing Your Love from the Sharing Your Love LP. Excellent vocal performance by James Robinson.
ethurst2 3 years ago
I agree
that's why i posted it already :)
watch?v=1_LwpqIRva8
grtz RGG
ArchieGe 3 years ago
The shame of everything is that shows like American Idol develop cookie cutter performers. I can only think of two artists, (Underwood or Studdard) who would have made it anyway. That show should be an insult to other singers because it shows you the mindset of Hollywood which is that we want cookie cutter voices to fit crap that writers and producers are making. You will not see a Alto, Tenor, Contralto, Baritone or Bass singer on Idol because it doesn't fit what they are selling.
ethurst2 3 years ago
Is it fair to blame the record companies for selling what they think people want to hear, e.g., the whole crossover thing? Shouldn't the blame be placed on the public for lapping up the mediocrity?
leroydubya 3 years ago
Spring 1981 - I had just met the woman who is my wife shortly before Change released Miracles. We were apart for several months while I was in school, but I would listen to this and dream of being with her. This takes me back to a time when we were young and dumb and in love and real life wasn't yet in the way!
leroydubya 3 years ago
But it s the same producer
tall2metr 3 years ago
Mistake is what you did ArchieGe and it s the title of this song by the BB&Q band...
tall2metr 3 years ago
thanks for the info archieGe and speakwhnspkn2. I just got my record collection down from the loft to check if james crab robinson featured in any other petrus and malavasi albums but no.
1themaestro 3 years ago
James Crab Robinson
has made a solo record in 1987 for Tabu records "Guilty"
so maybe u can find it anywhere
good luck :)
ArchieGe 3 years ago
thank you mr ArchieGe - i thought i knew all the major Malavasi/Petrus tracks around that time but no - this track has got it all ; great bass riff, very tight and clear backing vocals (niles and rogers started this) and luther not going over the top - brilliant.
1themaestro 3 years ago
You're welcome Maestro
One point of interes
The Male leadsinger is
James Crab Robinson who imho never got the credits he deserved
maybe because people might confuse him with luther :)
ArchieGe 3 years ago
You're very right about James "Crabs" Robinson. Very underrated vocalist. The only other lead vocalist fronting an R&B band from that period that could touch him would be Howard Hewett of Shalamar and maybe Paulie Carmen of Champaign.
I wonder what James is doing these days. Is he still living. What a voice. This guy was every bit as good a vocalist as Luther.
speakwhnspkn2 3 years ago
Actually, MJ's Thriller album "killed" off R&B and Soul because everyone tried to emulate that "Pop" sound to crossover. Many failed miserably and disappeared. Even EWF had a hard time adjusting and went on hiatus from 83-87. That's when BET picked up the slack and had nice videos of artists that were still making real music. But that didn't last long because BET started going to a full rap format in 1990. From what I hear, Romani is still making dance music in Italy.
ethurst2 3 years ago
Again, good points I hadn't thought of. I've been trying to put my finger on today's neo-soul artists (Maxwell, etc.) for several years now about what makes them different. Is it that their vocals are recorded over computer generated music?
leroydubya 3 years ago
Stevie Wonder used loops on "Talking Book" but he knew how to humanize these machines to make it sound like a real musician and then he mixed in live instruments. The problem is that with computer generated music, you have to go through the pains of changing things up to make it sound real and that's what artists and producers don't do. They get lazy. Stevie's album "In Square Circle" was all done with synths and loops, especially "Go Home" but he added the Kurzweil and horns in the song.
ethurst2 3 years ago
Do you believe that the average music listener can tell the difference when artists and producers don't make their music sound real? I ask that because you say that a lot of artists disappeared when they tried to emulate MJ. Is that because their efforts were rejected by the market? Or did the record company suits decide it was over for them, or both? Thanks.
leroydubya 3 years ago
I'm not sure if u are saying u like Maxwell or not
I for one like Maxwell's work a lot,
and i think his cooperation with Stuart Mathewman (SADE, Sweetback) makes his songs even more soulfull/organic
I don't think It's about the instruments,
I loved most of Kashif's work & productions
and that is also mostly electronic :)
To me it's because they got soul or atleast put feelings in their music, or have love for their work
ArchieGe 3 years ago
Lot's of artist and records are products of the "Jumping on the bandwagon mentality"
of record companies and are molded to artists who are having some kind of commercial succes at the max 25 years olds at that time.
ArchieGe 3 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I do like folk like Maxwell, Jill Scott and Lauryn Hill. It's just that their music sounds different than the soul of the 70s.
I agree with you about Kashif. I loved his stuff. I do remember a reviewer in the Washington Post years ago referring to Kashif as a "hack." I have no idea what spawned that opinion.
leroydubya 3 years ago
..as live instrumentation in our music became evermore scarce (at least on record) as the 80s came to a close.Think it may be unfair to blame Q & MJ who were simply making music rather than seeking to set a trend ('Off the Wall' having not prompted any slew of similarly crafted albums).The pressure from major record labels on artistes to 'de-blackenise' their sound was very much real (ie EW&F's 'Electromagnetic);just a shame few acts tied to majors resisted the 'crossover' tide.
Tchalla77 3 years ago
What happened was two things with Dance/R&B. The introduction of MIDI technology and the cutting of R&B/Dance departments from record labels. R&B was costing too much to produce. It's not that RAP is popular. It's because it can be produced at a cheap price.
R&B became "Urban Contemporary" which wiped out real soul and R&B music. Todays R&B music is not real R&B. If you wanna still hear good music, you have to live overseas.
ethurst2 3 years ago
damnit; you got some good info there! I've never heard this arguement put this way; but it makes so much sense. Today's music (irregardless of brand name) is so corporate 'money makin' driven it makes it plastic and rediculous IMO. I have been totally sick with top 40 radio since the early 90s (repeating 10 tracks over and again as if so careful not to offend the general public with something too creative). WHAT A SPENDID ARGUEMENT you have! I can't say enough; thank GOD for satellite radio!
Billy44472 3 years ago
Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which virtually wiped out community radio which is where the hits were first generated. Groups started by using community radio as a platform. Even though you had Payola, community radio launched so many artists. Now, it's hard for an individual, not unless their backed by a major company to even get on the radio. Through community radio, the artist was really in touch with the community through local radio and was more accessible.
ethurst2 3 years ago
Thanks for this info.....Bill wasn't all that.
fizzytinki 3 years ago
I think you've got a point, ethurst. So you're saying that to record those 9-piece funk bands (and pay each member) was ultimately unsustainable? And now the only way a real musician can make any money is to perform live, correct?
leroydubya 3 years ago
Some interesting comments ethurst2, compelling me to respond having been very been privy to the music changes you point to.Though 'Thriller' did have a significant impact in shaping r&b direction from 1983 on, with many Black acts watering down their sound in an attempt to secure that so-called 'crossover' (white audience) appeal, feel some of the problem lay with the overdependence on the new technology which saw a scaling down of bands (Cameo come to mind here), in which the art of...
Tchalla77 3 years ago
You're right. If I saw a Yamaha DX-7 keyboard I would smash it! There was a burst in music technology and it seem like almost everyone was trying to fit the new technology into one album or recording. Frankie Beverly and Maze were one of the only groups to keep their base acoustic sound and record companies were cutting out R&B and soul departments. The crossover deal hurt a lot of artists because to me, it was just a matter of time before the door shut.
ethurst2 3 years ago
It was not on the "Greatest Hits" compilation because it was originally a 12" DJ release through the Sureshot Record Pool--Luther V. used to sing backup with them before his solo career took off.
Lady Bass Player DG
Drogyne 3 years ago
Rien à dire....La classe...
Justsimplyfunky 3 years ago
This song isn't on the Best of Change CD.
ARJD9972 3 years ago
Yeah..This is the one I had a hard time trying to find by Change. This was the joint when I was in college, I love this song..Thanks
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vonzblue 3 years ago
When I first entered the Paradise Garage back in summer of '81, this was playing. From that point onward I knew that that club and this group was a force to reckon with.
dburley 3 years ago
What a great "back in the sho'nuff day" hit...Camp Pendleton, CA what:) E-Club...This one is sho'nuff dedicated to my "Red=Honey".....Thanks for the memories...
voices6162 3 years ago
Change is a one of the best funk band, listen to their first album "the glow of love" ! So great and David Romani grooves !
Musique84 3 years ago 2
Thank you, WHUR, in Washington, D.C., for picking this as your favorite back in the day. Good taste is hard to come by.
sueskins 3 years ago 2
FUNKY BEAT . GREAT BASS! I LOVE CHANGE>
antblue363 3 years ago 2
I went from trying to find a song off the "school daze" soundtrack to here... What great music - I have most of their albums - makes me want to go out and buy a turntable!
bigbenz64 3 years ago
Two turntables! It is fun to "mix" this one.
sueskins 3 years ago
que bajos genial maravillosa composicion me gusta so much...........
juanmaneke 4 years ago
Hey a real live Brazilian. Juan you know music
valpwashington 3 years ago
This is "groove "in it's truest form and "God Bless You Brother" for posting this as it was all so much more about the music back then . Today we hardly hear anyone acknowledge the existance of a good "Middle 8 bar"....Only the likes of good bands like"Slapbak" , "Mint Condition" and "Primus " to name a few who seem adamnant about relaying good music from the area that matters the "the soul" .....This is a good tune that never ever looses it flavour ...lve this
candyfunk 4 years ago
I can't get enuff of this song. It bring back very fond memories of club hopping back in the days.
CycoMyco562 4 years ago
I remember i saw Channge and Imgram performed
at King George's Park in Wandsworth, London when they has James Robinson on lead vocals.I think it was 1984/85. FANTASTIC!!!
bufferz 4 years ago
According to your profile in 1984/85 your father hadn't even met ya mother yet.
Lewphil 4 years ago
Actuall it is 'bufferz' father that has posted that comment and yes me and my wife was married by then so yes i do recall the performance so maybe nothing should be said at all.
bufferz 4 years ago
I was only joking with you mate. Class groove though eh !
Lewphil 4 years ago
This song is so Chic, Outside the door this stands for you the best...I love it!
kremlin7 4 years ago
I want to hear Change with Luther Vandross out front - can anyone post those please. Luther ruled on those songs.
mpmikemp 4 years ago
Luther rules everything! :)
skuzboll 4 years ago
remember buyin this album.use to love the song "angel" by them.never realized how much like chic they sounded.luther never got away from this sound.....just listen to any of his albums and listen to change same bass lines and vocals
anyhu4u 4 years ago
What a timeless masaterpiece. Toally fantastic.The comments are so enlightening. Thanks to you all. My respects to the main man ArchieGe:)Big up.
hercegferdi 4 years ago
Dam Funky... i'm addicted to this song....replay !!!!
pymt 4 years ago
Great track !
CHANGE was signed in 1980 at the same record company (Atlantic) as CHIC.
You can find some vocals and background vocals of CHIC (Luther Vandross, Diva Gray, Fonzi Thornton, etc...) on the 2 first CHANGE LP.
Part of the records (vocals) was also recorded in the same studio than CHIC, the Power Station.
Obviously CHANGE was first inspired by CHIC, but it was never produced by legendary Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers.
As a totally CHIC Fan, I love CHANGE works too.
Frenchiic 4 years ago 3
Yes in fact is was produced part in NY as you correctly stated, and in Italy( Bologna ) by Mauro Malavasi and Jacques Petrus; most of the song were written By Malavasi , and other came from David romani, the same team produced also Peter Jaques Band, Macho, and BBQ and Band.
Malavasi is an Italian trumpeter, composer which later on moved to major commercial production after Petrus was assassinated.
Change & BBQ and band are amazing projects beautifully arranged and produced.
Hxs28 4 years ago
It was all about acques Fred Petrus & Mauro Malavasi. Great Production.I really love their work especially on BB&Q,High Fashion - Feeling Lucky. Ritchie Family - I'll Do My Best.Good Stuff
CHISELESQ 4 years ago 2
can someone please post stop for love... by change ... it's also a great cut ! please?!!!
stevedream717 4 years ago
Somewhere the "Chief Rocker" is smiling down on us whenever one accesses anything from this group. Same holds true for Chic, Luther, and MFSB.
dburley 4 years ago
ça bouge bien ça, bonne musique...
pistard25 4 years ago
The follow up hits, Searching and the title song feature lead vocals by the then unknown Luther Vandross. The three songs combined spent 9 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Disco charts, enough to make it the #1 Disco album of the year and a million seller in the U.S. The success of Searching and The Glow Of Love exposed Luthers voice to mainstream and eventually led to a successful solo career starting 1981
loosestudios 4 years ago
I agree with earlier comments .. James Robinson is outstanding as lead vocalist
cosmicwarlord2002 4 years ago
there's a reason they sound a lot like chic...does anyone know why... I do :-) Also note that the great Luther Vandross also performed with Change
lorettab77 4 years ago
Okay, Lorettab77,
I'll take the bate. Why does Change sound like Chic?
sistalinda 4 years ago
x 2
Finnsnor 4 years ago
Yeah... Spill the beans.
I've been listening to Paradise non-stop (you can download it from a blog somewhere) but "Heaven" is THE killer boogie cut on this LP. As we say in London: This sh*t is DANGEROUS!!!
You can holla at bass player David Romani on myspace.
Salviarecordings 4 years ago
...and, AND Luther also fronted Bionic Boogie
dburley 4 years ago
Oh, Yes! BIONIC BOOGIE. That was one of Luther's absolute first gigs. I have all of the BIONIC BOOGIE'S albums. Luther was the Disco King back then. Long live DISCO!!!
DISCO AL
lefreak79 3 years ago
thanks for posting this. This is one tune I havent heard of from Change. This is music at its best. Music these sayd doesnt have as much soul or is as uplifting as the 80's era. Kids who listen to music these days dont know what they are missing!
jimmy181167 4 years ago
I have not head this song since the mid-80's,
but the music never left me. When I came
across their "Greatest Hits" I was upset to
find this song not there.... Now, can someone
put the Sothern Cal. female group Perri on
YouTube Please? I know they were discovered
by Pat Matheney
M5abAssaultrifle 4 years ago
Change one serious band! BRAAP!
NIKIMBO 4 years ago
tkeitt43
I was searching the album b/4 the radio stations found this song I was playing it first........
tkeitt43 4 years ago
Thanks 4 posting this great hit ArchieGe love this song.....
tkeitt43 4 years ago
Grande Change!!!
retrodisko1 4 years ago
merci!! trop fort la funk!!
ka69davidfunk 4 years ago
the reason why this song reminds so many of Chic, it was produced by Nile Rogers and Benard Edwards
winhawk23 4 years ago
It may sound like they are influenced by Chic,
but the production was done by Mauro Malavasi & Jacques Fred Petrus.
and imho
there is a big difference between chic & change.
ArchieGe 4 years ago
Change was an Italian-American group formed in Bologna, Italy 1979 by the creative genius of businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949-1986) and Mauro Malavasi (1958-). They were heavily influenced by legendary disco band Chic.
loosestudios 4 years ago
This is again a fantastic song. It remainds me the Chic..
sutisonni 4 years ago
Excatly this is the sound and beat I like so much. The woman voices singing in the backround, reminds me a little on CHIC.The Bassguitar rulez
Zausel911 4 years ago
you damn right this is the jam! woohoo :-)
the bass player is sho nuff gettin' a workout right now...
efunkadelic 4 years ago