Forever Came Today - Jackson5 - Larry Levan Remix

[SuperDadoc]

The bottom line was that Larry Levan just loved playing this track in the Paradise Garage! If you ever heard this song at the Garage it sounded so spiritual !

[takeitea]

this is off the Moving Violation Album back in 1978. It was done at Motown.

[sjr10011]

Turn it up!!!

[Alfredosaved]

Boy do this a brother back, I remember getting my first membership to the Garage , every Saturday me and my boys would get together and do our Thing, Larry was the Man, to this day he the best DJ, i ever heard and I'm 51. I miss those day the unisex bathrooms the crowd, the roof top. the performers from Sylvester to Denroy Morgan. Those were the Days RIP (Larry)

[sjr10011]

Turn it up!!!

[Chasson0318]

They used to rock this on WBLS back in the day. Back when "If WBLS wasn't on your radio, your radio wasn't really on!"

[tagger1970]

wow-what a record-is there anything made in last 20 years that can compare to the soul,musicality and general OMG! that records like this had??

[omibreezy]

interesting

[dirtyedna]

...you're right about the Saint !! By the early 80's I was in college in Philly but now couldn't afford the trip to NYC as often....but as a white kid with lots of black friends I can vividly remember (especially in Philly and Atlantic City) while I had no trouble getting "memberships" to the "better" clubs, my black friends would be barred at the door or hassled for ID,etc. (this being the early to mid 70's)..owners said the blacks would only dance and not buy drinks !

[spinradiofm]

@dirtyedna I'd love to do an article on YOUR take of the club scene!!! Send me a note!

[imnewman1]

for me Nicky Siano worked this like a mad man He taught me how to use a crossover and that d/j ing is a performance

[rudolfforever]

I love it

[MrBudduz]

When I go back to these days, I feel so happy yet so sad because many great people died before thier time, like larry levan, Micheal brody, linear sound Richard long, why does tradgedy happen, My husband Paul the finest bouncer that worked the club. It make me sad to see them gone! they made me very happy. These were the happiest times of my life, and my the spirits of the poelpe live on threw the Paradise Garage!

[Jaycool10]

Bang that shit

[dirtyedna]

...and most of the white gay crowd didn't like Larry's music (they went to Flamingo) But by the time I satrted to go, Tee Scott (Better Days) and Larry were playing and that's why I sais it should be mentioned it was primarily Black and Gay on Saturday nights. Don't forget Blacks and Hispanics (and women) weren't really welcome at most clubs back then which is why it IS important to point out the fact ..

[HowSilly1]

@dirtyedna I was the DJ that replaced Tee in 1981. I played five nights a week till 1988 when John Gotti bought Better Days and turned into Bedrox. Better Days had a very similar crowd to Larry. Ofetn people would begin their nights at Better Days (we had a bar and $3 entry got you two free drinks. B)) and then head off to King Street when I closed at 5 or 6 AM. I usually went with my crowd, mainly Saturdays..

The "Garage" for white gay guys was The Saint, an amazing club in its own right.

[Latinsoul65]

@dirtyedna  You got that right!! the majority of the crowd on Saturday's were black and Puerto Rican and gay and on Friday's the demographics were the same but it was more straight/mixed crowed. The Loft was another club that mostly black/puerto rican gays went to. Better days was off the hook but did you ever go to Flamingo? if so, how was it?

[Multi1628]

Still love this song! davidcwolf2003@yahoo.com

[jody808]

i always like this version of this song, mix sounds the same

[daryllharris]

this is NOT a larry levan mix of this song. this is simply the funk brothers (motown house band) original lp mix, & it was like having a religious experience when it was played in the garage, clubhouse, catccombs & any number of underground soulful house, disco, & r&b venues throughout the country, possibly world. simply put, IT KILLED A DANCE FLOOR

[byrd1nypa]

You right about about that... I believe this was mixed by BRIAN HOLLAND and L.T. HORN...

[dirtyedna]

@daryllharris .....you should mention that those clubs were all basically Black and GAY...people need to know that we can look back with pride and respect,if for no other reason than to remember all the thousands of us who are not here now TO look back and remember, because we remember them.......

[ijace1]

@dirtyedna many hispanics and straight people hung out at the garage as well and not only on Friday nights. I went there on Saturdays and I'm straight and hispanic.

[dirtyedna]

@ijace1 ...well, for one thing, it is nice to look back to a time when we ALL could hang out together in a club like the Garage. I'm now reading a book Love Saves The Day/Tim Lawrence( a history of american dance culture,1970-1979) which goes in a great deal of history of the Garage as well as all of the club scene in NYC...apparantly the Garage was almost a failure in the beginning because they couldn't get the fickle white crowd..the place was empty alot.

[byrd1nypa]

@daryllharris I don't think this is the Funk Bros. I played on a couple of songs on this album, and I'm pretty sure this was James Gadsen on drums, John Barnes keyboard, Maybe Ben Benay guitar, Wali Ali, guitar, Sylvester Rivers, keyboard, Maybe Anthony Newton on Bass, because that was who Brian Holland was using a the time.

[spinradiofm]

@daryllharris A lot of people called it the Larry Levan remix because that was a way to get the song more airplay, credibility or simply because HE made the song a hit. Or because if he played it and word got out that Larry broke and/or played this then it was ON! I remember Frankie Crocker and Larry being tight enough that Frankie took a lot of these songs to WBLS-his station of many years-and to the Apollo and the band reinterpreted them.

[daryllharris]

no disrespect to larry, luv'd the garage too, but it's incorrect that he "broke" forever came today. it came out n 75, garage opened in 76. by that time, forever came today had already been a bonifide hit in clubs better days, the loft, (nyc), & several underground dance music clubs up/down eastcoast.i dj'd at one such unsung clubs n b'more "childrens place. luv that garage's legacy has lead to a better understanding & appreciation for club music, but there were many ships in the sea. all good.

[dirtyedna]

@daryllharris love your comment,especially "many ships in the sea !!" You're right...all good! We carried on as much in the Nickel Bar or any other little dump as much as when we went to the Garage......no matter what town,there was a club back then, and we worked it for all it was worth !!!

[DiscoDub74]

This is the shit!! I have never been to the Garage, but I heard Larry would kill this!!