Okay, if you think this is the McDonalds of music, you get up there and sing it better. I've never heard of this group but I think they did a great job. And by the way, I was a teenager during the 1960's and heard every version that came along. They did just fine.
I don't think people are getting this, for one the are not comparing to the great Jimmy Ruffin or Joan Osborn. These guy are paying tribute to them. Sure they are doing a great job or else Motown would of not selected them to do this. Motown is very picky on who or whom plays tribute to there music..
they suck... each person singing a part that suits themselves... they can't measure up to Jimmy Ruffin... It took five voices to make it sound good while it only took jimmy just ONE to make this song AWESOME....
i dont get you peoples comments on this......i dont know if you hate it or not.......you are all a bit...like contradictorry....personally this version is my favprite perdormance of it....i mean when do they sing out of tune like your all saying..oh and btw....this band...yehh they are THE most succesful band in the world....yehh exactly...not even America have a better band!:-)
@xXTinaXx94 I am mostly with you on this one. Don't think the match Jimmy Ruffin or Joan Osborne for that matter. However, there is no need for the hate and discontent shown by some of the "lesser" people who have commented. Such people limit themselves in so many ways. I love many forms of music and artists. I must admit to a severe dislike of rap but it in itself is based on hate and degredation. Most of it is truly worthy of disgust. I do like "My Baby Got Back."
Ok this is a covers group, a money machine that saturates the music industry leaving little room for emerging talent with fresh ideas and exciting approaches to music. This is the McDonalds of music, cheap processed junk that's marketed so heavily everyone believes it's ok to consume in abundance. It's numbingly boring. Also the term 'hater' is now just another overused online word that gets sprinkled around carelessly when that person can't gather their own thoughts together.
spiral741 how can you call this a boy band they play not instruments all the do is sing so i would call them a singing group like most of motown was even though these kids are not motown but my point show me some instruments in the hands of these kids
What the hell does color have to do with artistic performance. Do you really think that when motown artist sang songs that it's taboo for anyone else to sing them. Stop being small minded and ignorant. That's like it use to be said White Girls couldn't dance. Some of them have put sistas to shame strip dancin. Like white men can't fight or have small penis or black men have tails. Realize that ppl are ppl and one group does not have the market on talent or anything else.
what the haters don't realise when they are dissin pop/boy bands these days, is that they are by extension bad mouthing there predecessors, the beatles, Temptations, Jackson Five, etc. Don't get me wrong im not heavily into pop music like i used to be in school, but im not going to trash them either
Why are you people hating? I personally loooooove the original song. I'm glad Westlife didn't "ruin" it. XD I love Westlife! Wish I were alive back in the 60s to hear great true, real artists live.
for all the boyband haters, you guys are too late for that now. Westlife are no longer a boyband. they're a matured pop band. They always respect the original singers for any songs that they've covered. They made the songs even better. Lady Gaga, Kesha are the type of artist that you guys should hate. But not Westlife. They have lots of great and beautiful songs.
I wish these bands (I say bands I mean cheap cruise ship entertainers) would leave classic songs alone. Really there is no soul in this, it's all acting and eyebrows. . Get back on your karaoke boat, pack it full of x-factor winners and sail right off the end of the earth...
so let me get this right....IF a black performer does a song by a white artist he ruined it? These young men seem to understand what Motown had in mind when the come up with the "boy band" (sure they need a little more soul to their sound), but it's got to be said, "they did pick a great cover song to do!".
What an honor to have someone sing a song which was and always will be great. This is what you call a tribute and paying respect, something you don't understand. Your language is OFFENSIVE as well as your comment.
LOLOLOL on notice from you doesn't mean much. I believe they ruined it, as is my opinion, they dont have that soul feel and I believe the butchered a great song. Their tribute, where it was hear felt, was a piece of shit to listen to.
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should had one of the black back ups sing this instead of these faggots. THEY FUCKING RUINED THE MOTHER FUCKING SONG WTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Can I Just apologize to anyone that may have been offended by the responses by myself towards the remarks by ddsharper. I feel that westlife should not have recorded this song, but in saying that they along with any other singer/band that are willing to pay royalties to the music company and writer have that right whether white or black
@Janissi42 Why because some boyband ruined a ballad sung by the great Jimmy Ruffin?.I have a question for you and anyone else who thinks MoTown was just for black people, why then is the most celebrated music honored by all races in the UK, why is it that great soul singers like willie mitchell ,edwin starr, martha reeves, the contours and numerous others came to the UK to perform in the Northern Soul Clubs? because they knew they were loved there that's why!! Music is Soul & Soul is Music
@ddsharper Sorry white guy here who grew up on MoTown and altho this is an absolute insult to MoTown and the great Jimmy Ruffin might I just point out that one of the greatest singers,songwriters and producers of MoTown music was none other than MR R DEAN TAYLOR who was as white. This music is not just black music it is everyones music !!!! whether we be Black, white,blue, it's music that is from the soul and by that I mean everyones soul. Music crosses the boundaries of color my friend
@maplc this is what every white person says about black music. but his is our history, our legacy and our song. these are lyrics from the souls of black men and that white producer means nothing to me. i hate white people stealing our culture and then, let lanquish the millions of blacks who suffer under this system of white supremacy through eugenics, planned parenthood, prison through sentence disparities and health care through experiments by the government.
@maplc white manifest destiny extends everywhere, including africa, being raped by those who say, africa belongs to everyone. We are africa, not europe. these are our lyrics, our song. everyone loves what the souls of black people produce, but they steal it and eventually our history is buried in obscurity and whites claim to be the creators. Motown was black, the artists were black and these songs weren't even a part of white america until they first passed through us.
@ddsharper where do you live? the good old US right? well if you are Africa why aren't you over there ? you make me sick with this vitriol , again you need to look back into Motown history and recognise that it was not only black writers and singers there were also white writers/singers/producers and not every song was about black struggle in fact the majority of songs were about love .Not slavery or any type of violence against anybody. We all cover songs even black singers
@maplc jesus dude, this is not vitriol, this is our history, like karate is asian history. you effin totally missed the point, all of the points. i do not believe your iq scores are what they report. there is something fundementally missing in white psyches. i'm done dude. this is the same thing all over the web. it's like talking chinese and hindi. i actually pity whites, i really do. have a good life dude, no need to respond. i effin give up.
@ddsharper OMG you idiot you still don't get it do you we all have a little of every color in us!!! we all come from the same place !!! the cradle of Humanity AFRICA sweet Lord almighty, and my friend it is vitriol to sit here and spit hatred about how the whites did this and how they did that .lmao how do you think native americans feel? whites and black who served in the US army took their lands away from them and some still to this day live on resevations. Slavery ended 145 yrs ago
@maplc these white boys make me sick and so do you, talking about it belongs to everyone. if our music, our essence, our story told through our music, our hearts borne in our music belongs to everyone, so then do our sorrows and struggles. Any claims their. You whites put on and take off black to make money and pretend you can do our music justice. but at the end of it all, you go back to your whiteness.
@ddsharper so every song that any white guy wrote for a black singer is your's right? no you're wrong pal and you might want to wipe that chip of your shoulder there , you along with I have every right as a free man to love any type of music remember without people paying for their love for music you would not be able to celebrate any kind of music
@maplc a white man did not write this song or any motown songs. these men were not even allowed on white stages until later and then had to go through the back doors. you don't tell me I am wrong you minion. yes, you are free to do as you like in a system of white supremacy but hell has a special place for you. anything sacred to people of color you decimate and steal. from africa's wealth, while leaving the people starving to indian burial grounds,
@ddsharper LMAO read and weep my friend Richard Dean Taylor, (born in 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1]) is a singer, most famous as an recording artist, songwriter, and record producer for Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny, Taylor "remains one of the most underrated acts ever to record under the Motown aegis".[1] Wikipedia
@ddsharper you are an absolute moron you don't even know Motown history and sit here and spout that you do??? my suggestion to you my friend is to go ask you mom or your dad who R Dean Taylor is and on which label he recorded, racism takes all forms my friend and what you are spouting is exactly that racism . Might I also point out that you might want to re read your history books as it was the Black Africans who sold their own people into slavery and it was the white man who perpetuated it
@maplc leaving the people out in places of desolation. we don't need you to celebrate our music. we were doing that before you even knew of motown, when black artists had to begin their own companies due to racism in all facets of the industry. pat boone stole immediately from little richard
@maplc until rock and roll was credited to desolate whites. crooning to frank and dean and now this?even hockey as it's played today was pioneered by exslaves in canada and that legacy was stolen too. It is very difficult not to hate white people, very difficult indeed. the worse thing is the total disregard for the rights and histories of non-whites that you people all seem to have.
@ddsharper Like I said before you sad little person I am part native american, you are African American right? so what part of africa did you come from ? or should I ask what state are you from as you seem to think all whites are racists
@maplc you reduce this to a chip? a effin chip on the shoulder?? nothing is sacred to the euro clowns. trying to expect whites to understand truth and other people's point of view is like trying to get Satan to repent. Therein lies the problem of deceit. our songs come from black souls,not euro souls.
@ddsharper I'm American you idiot , euro clowns wow how offensive is that? NO WHERE IN ANY OF MOTOWNS SONGS DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS SLAVERY, ABOUT HOW AFRICAN SLAVES WERE MISTREATED, SHOW ME ONE INSTANCE. How can you as a black person actually claim that? what is love an exclusive black thing now? and can I also say you were not a slave and never have been and I as a white American was never a slave master and could never be as my son-in-law is black LMAO
@maplc you people cannot write our lyrics or phrase like a black person unless you are imitating or stealing. these white boys have millions of white songs to sing. you sing it like you are capable of feeling like we feel or stating what we state. that is bs. breaching motown is unconcionable to blacks but, you whites are supreme and do what the hell you want anyway. Hard not to hate that kind of pride and arrogance.
@ddsharper funny that as R Dean was hired early on at motown and I quote "In Detroit, Taylor was hired by Motown Records in 1964 as a songwriter and recording artist"
@maplc you are thieves, predators and to you, nothing black is sacred. Nothing wrong with loving black music, everything wrong with stealing it. White people steal our words, chords, phrasings and song to hide the stone cold hearts and wretched brutality that you impose on those who produce it. How sick is that?
you really need to see a therapist, no where is anyone stealing anything , jeez if that was the case everyone would be suing everyone else, how many black singers have sang beatles songs or stones songs and the have been some. you see anyone complaining. You for one will never be able to tell me what I can and can't listen. this band in my opinion didn't deserve to sing this song but alas they were allowed to and MoTown along with Jimmy were paid royalties so hey to each is own.
We all (white kids with transister radios! ha!) listened to Motown back in the day...God's little way of letting us all know that color is only skin deep. ;)
Not a bad cover version.....I'm impressed with the fact that they actually sing this great old tune and don't screw it up with idiotic rap or hip hop.......
Um..what? No no no sorry. Motown and boybands are not compatible. You leaches find something else to get famous off of please. Seriously, Motown is too scared.
I like the cut of your jib young fella me lad.. Proof indeed that you can't always be pretty and have a great voice... While we have them lined up is there any chance of wheeling in a firing squad....
I never heard of this group untill today, don't know one from the other,,,,but...OMG they are cute! and can sing, Who;s the one second from the right????
haha are you tired and moody or just some obsessive westlife nut? haha ur the pathetic one taking somethink a completly random person ses to heart like that lol your making me sick in my mouth..would you like me to bottle some of it and send it to you? x
p.s i watched the video thinking it was actualy a motown song by a motown legend instead i get this
only one of them can sing...and no one would listen to anything that came out of their mouths if they werent so terribly cute. Pretty boy pop..yippee!
first time i heard this song was this one , by westlife, and i loved it. ^^ love their voices and arrangements at that time. they look like having fun in this video.
check out Joan Osborne's version from the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown. I won't say it is better than Jimmy's, but it is pretty damn close
I LOVFE THE KIDS MAN THEY ARE AWESOME AND LOVE RUFFIN MY ERA,......and joan osborne and the funk brothers wow great rendition Thanks for the upload NAMVET Douglas
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..mmm....a nice cluster of youthful melodic voices
with happy resilent eyes supported by inane toothy grins...to quote my favorite transexual seamstress:.....".YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS !!!!!!!!!!!" ......imho prefer Joan Osborne's cover
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REAL Soul music has less to do with race and more to do with feeling and emotion. There are many people, (black, white, and others) that can sing the soul STYLE, but there is no true feeling or emotion that comes through in the performance.
why does it take 5 guys and a gospel style chorus to sing a song done BY ONE VOICE? leave the remakes to the people that can actually sing the song with out this much help
I don't care white ,blue green or black these guys did a nice job with this song. I am 51 year old black man and grew up listening to Motown and by the way Motown had a few white artist who sang there ass off. We call them back in the days Blue Eyes Soul Singers.
Agree! Blue Eyed Soul at its best. One of the early Motown singers who can still get down is the lovely Teena Marie. Beauty, soul, color, right and wrong don't have no color. Talent is talent and folk just ought to give credit where credit is due.
@redwalls76 Name one, I am older than you. the only blue eyed soul singers were tom jones and that group that did that song in ghost. I am not one of those blacks that like white people stealing our culture. I hate it in fact. they did it in Africa and i america and blacks are so desperate to be liked by them, they don't see their history being buried in the meantime. look at the video, black ice by the fostey brothers, canadians. there are vids on youtube about it. same with tap dance & gospel
@redwalls76 that awesome brother I am 51 and grew up on motown mixed breed 80's guitarman and these guys are cool and did it real justice so they should be proud were talkin about em haha - peace
@ambersmom90280 I am 59 years old. I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Motown and Tom Jones.
This song is really a tribute to the power of Jimmy, Berry Gordy and all of the wonderful performers like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Ritchie, The 4 Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Funk Brothers, The Jackson 5 and others too numerous to list. Without MoTown, these kids in Westlife would not be anywhere near as good. MoTown is an American institution!
@ambersmom90280 Jimmy Ruffin sang "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" something awesome. Unforgettable.
These kids did a great job, with a little help from computer and electronic enhancement. And those moves and singing, well they have MoTown written all over them. They didn't steal anything. They learned from African-Americans. And that is great! And a great compliment!
Okay, if you think this is the McDonalds of music, you get up there and sing it better. I've never heard of this group but I think they did a great job. And by the way, I was a teenager during the 1960's and heard every version that came along. They did just fine.
PinkLederhosen 2 days ago
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ElenorBrettps118 2 months ago
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CheriHuongmo646 2 months ago
Love is the Humanity of Life!
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jackiek2007 3 months ago
lool i love uk
caitlinbrayer54545 3 months ago
is this Westlife?
deerocks80s 4 months ago
@deerocks80s Yes it is
Trip7300ER 3 months ago
This is borderline blasphemous for a group like that to cover this classic hit
Goatoftheforest 4 months ago 2
Much better than the over-hyped Human Nature group!
DavisNetPromos5550 5 months ago
I don't think people are getting this, for one the are not comparing to the great Jimmy Ruffin or Joan Osborn. These guy are paying tribute to them. Sure they are doing a great job or else Motown would of not selected them to do this. Motown is very picky on who or whom plays tribute to there music..
ramirez42 5 months ago
they suck... each person singing a part that suits themselves... they can't measure up to Jimmy Ruffin... It took five voices to make it sound good while it only took jimmy just ONE to make this song AWESOME....
kheejlis916 7 months ago
bunch of bottom fuck holes
sfbuddie 8 months ago in playlist random-2
oh they mime so well
heysista321 9 months ago 2
Westlife got to stop taking classics ....... kinda not their sound ... they should stick to their "15 minute fame songs"
solosays 9 months ago
spent a penny and only farted
wotasod 9 months ago
i dont get you peoples comments on this......i dont know if you hate it or not.......you are all a bit...like contradictorry....personally this version is my favprite perdormance of it....i mean when do they sing out of tune like your all saying..oh and btw....this band...yehh they are THE most succesful band in the world....yehh exactly...not even America have a better band!:-)
xXTinaXx94 10 months ago
@xXTinaXx94 I am mostly with you on this one. Don't think the match Jimmy Ruffin or Joan Osborne for that matter. However, there is no need for the hate and discontent shown by some of the "lesser" people who have commented. Such people limit themselves in so many ways. I love many forms of music and artists. I must admit to a severe dislike of rap but it in itself is based on hate and degredation. Most of it is truly worthy of disgust. I do like "My Baby Got Back."
lookingback62 6 months ago
"The McDonalds of music" - brilliant!!
heriotsfullback 10 months ago
Ok this is a covers group, a money machine that saturates the music industry leaving little room for emerging talent with fresh ideas and exciting approaches to music. This is the McDonalds of music, cheap processed junk that's marketed so heavily everyone believes it's ok to consume in abundance. It's numbingly boring. Also the term 'hater' is now just another overused online word that gets sprinkled around carelessly when that person can't gather their own thoughts together.
happyjays123 10 months ago 10
spiral741 how can you call this a boy band they play not instruments all the do is sing so i would call them a singing group like most of motown was even though these kids are not motown but my point show me some instruments in the hands of these kids
TheGarry3 1 year ago
It's a great song , how can anyone mess up a great song as this? Long live good songs!!
taratova 1 year ago
What the hell does color have to do with artistic performance. Do you really think that when motown artist sang songs that it's taboo for anyone else to sing them. Stop being small minded and ignorant. That's like it use to be said White Girls couldn't dance. Some of them have put sistas to shame strip dancin. Like white men can't fight or have small penis or black men have tails. Realize that ppl are ppl and one group does not have the market on talent or anything else.
coporal4 1 year ago
If you are gonna cover a tune you must be very careful!!
goofywilly 1 year ago
what the haters don't realise when they are dissin pop/boy bands these days, is that they are by extension bad mouthing there predecessors, the beatles, Temptations, Jackson Five, etc. Don't get me wrong im not heavily into pop music like i used to be in school, but im not going to trash them either
JessicaHayes02 1 year ago
good group, but they trash this great record.
wampach20 1 year ago
Why are you people hating? I personally loooooove the original song. I'm glad Westlife didn't "ruin" it. XD I love Westlife! Wish I were alive back in the 60s to hear great true, real artists live.
ImTheAsianChick13 1 year ago
@ImTheAsianChick13 there are still great artists out there. just not as many as there used to be
JessicaHayes02 1 year ago
for all the boyband haters, you guys are too late for that now. Westlife are no longer a boyband. they're a matured pop band. They always respect the original singers for any songs that they've covered. They made the songs even better. Lady Gaga, Kesha are the type of artist that you guys should hate. But not Westlife. They have lots of great and beautiful songs.
aizat27 1 year ago
Haha, well done Westlife~~~ Nice song~~~~~
winsenken 1 year ago
I can't say this really cuts it but I bet a bunch of kids are going to know who Jimmy Ruffin is after this and grow to appreciate him.
Lennon4life1968 1 year ago 2
I wish these bands (I say bands I mean cheap cruise ship entertainers) would leave classic songs alone. Really there is no soul in this, it's all acting and eyebrows. . Get back on your karaoke boat, pack it full of x-factor winners and sail right off the end of the earth...
happyjays123 1 year ago
@happyjays123 thank you
sfbuddie 1 year ago
so cool...
1985JustinaKhoo 1 year ago
Adorable young men ...! This music is great.
Barbie8051 1 year ago
Who r these people?
luvmichaeljackson 1 year ago
@luvmichaeljackson Haha really??? This is "Westlife" they are like one of the biggest boybands in the UK.
hlfsinger 1 year ago 3
@hlfsinger ohhh maybe its because i live in america xD
luvmichaeljackson 1 year ago
@luvmichaeljackson really they dont have westlife over there? its like the backstreet boys? lol
hlfsinger 1 year ago
@hlfsinger lolol i guess??
luvmichaeljackson 1 year ago
@hlfsinger
Really...? this is a motown classic - NOT to be done by any boyband - from anywhere
sfbuddie 1 week ago
they ar so good and cute
jeannebyal 1 year ago
they ar so cute
jeannebyal 1 year ago
I love this so much!! :D
amazing performance!
Monis993 1 year ago
this aint good compard to the temptations :P
Ataria1989 1 year ago
what agreat sounding and nice looking group!!!!!
linda1ify 1 year ago 3
so let me get this right....IF a black performer does a song by a white artist he ruined it? These young men seem to understand what Motown had in mind when the come up with the "boy band" (sure they need a little more soul to their sound), but it's got to be said, "they did pick a great cover song to do!".
glasses2see 1 year ago
should of had one of the black back ups sing the song THEY FUCKING RUINED THE MOTHER FUCKING SONG WTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
humm1na 1 year ago
@humm1na
You just don't get it chump !!
What an honor to have someone sing a song which was and always will be great. This is what you call a tribute and paying respect, something you don't understand. Your language is OFFENSIVE as well as your comment.
You are on notice punk !!!
DaPoncher 1 year ago
@DaPoncher
LOLOLOL on notice from you doesn't mean much. I believe they ruined it, as is my opinion, they dont have that soul feel and I believe the butchered a great song. Their tribute, where it was hear felt, was a piece of shit to listen to.
humm1na 1 year ago
@DaPoncher
If you want an awesome rendition of this song then listen to Joan Osborne sing it.
humm1na 1 year ago
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should had one of the black back ups sing this instead of these faggots. THEY FUCKING RUINED THE MOTHER FUCKING SONG WTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
humm1na 1 year ago
Can I Just apologize to anyone that may have been offended by the responses by myself towards the remarks by ddsharper. I feel that westlife should not have recorded this song, but in saying that they along with any other singer/band that are willing to pay royalties to the music company and writer have that right whether white or black
maplc 1 year ago
wtf. blacks in the backgrd. the audacity. motown? black people. this is how your history is stolen,
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper Yes, this is what our history has become now.
Janissi42 1 year ago
@Janissi42 stolen legacy, just like african history, that's finally coming to the forefront.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@Janissi42 Why because some boyband ruined a ballad sung by the great Jimmy Ruffin?.I have a question for you and anyone else who thinks MoTown was just for black people, why then is the most celebrated music honored by all races in the UK, why is it that great soul singers like willie mitchell ,edwin starr, martha reeves, the contours and numerous others came to the UK to perform in the Northern Soul Clubs? because they knew they were loved there that's why!! Music is Soul & Soul is Music
maplc 1 year ago
@ddsharper Sorry white guy here who grew up on MoTown and altho this is an absolute insult to MoTown and the great Jimmy Ruffin might I just point out that one of the greatest singers,songwriters and producers of MoTown music was none other than MR R DEAN TAYLOR who was as white. This music is not just black music it is everyones music !!!! whether we be Black, white,blue, it's music that is from the soul and by that I mean everyones soul. Music crosses the boundaries of color my friend
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc this is what every white person says about black music. but his is our history, our legacy and our song. these are lyrics from the souls of black men and that white producer means nothing to me. i hate white people stealing our culture and then, let lanquish the millions of blacks who suffer under this system of white supremacy through eugenics, planned parenthood, prison through sentence disparities and health care through experiments by the government.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@maplc white manifest destiny extends everywhere, including africa, being raped by those who say, africa belongs to everyone. We are africa, not europe. these are our lyrics, our song. everyone loves what the souls of black people produce, but they steal it and eventually our history is buried in obscurity and whites claim to be the creators. Motown was black, the artists were black and these songs weren't even a part of white america until they first passed through us.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper where do you live? the good old US right? well if you are Africa why aren't you over there ? you make me sick with this vitriol , again you need to look back into Motown history and recognise that it was not only black writers and singers there were also white writers/singers/producers and not every song was about black struggle in fact the majority of songs were about love .Not slavery or any type of violence against anybody. We all cover songs even black singers
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc jesus dude, this is not vitriol, this is our history, like karate is asian history. you effin totally missed the point, all of the points. i do not believe your iq scores are what they report. there is something fundementally missing in white psyches. i'm done dude. this is the same thing all over the web. it's like talking chinese and hindi. i actually pity whites, i really do. have a good life dude, no need to respond. i effin give up.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper OMG you idiot you still don't get it do you we all have a little of every color in us!!! we all come from the same place !!! the cradle of Humanity AFRICA sweet Lord almighty, and my friend it is vitriol to sit here and spit hatred about how the whites did this and how they did that .lmao how do you think native americans feel? whites and black who served in the US army took their lands away from them and some still to this day live on resevations. Slavery ended 145 yrs ago
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc these white boys make me sick and so do you, talking about it belongs to everyone. if our music, our essence, our story told through our music, our hearts borne in our music belongs to everyone, so then do our sorrows and struggles. Any claims their. You whites put on and take off black to make money and pretend you can do our music justice. but at the end of it all, you go back to your whiteness.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper so every song that any white guy wrote for a black singer is your's right? no you're wrong pal and you might want to wipe that chip of your shoulder there , you along with I have every right as a free man to love any type of music remember without people paying for their love for music you would not be able to celebrate any kind of music
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc a white man did not write this song or any motown songs. these men were not even allowed on white stages until later and then had to go through the back doors. you don't tell me I am wrong you minion. yes, you are free to do as you like in a system of white supremacy but hell has a special place for you. anything sacred to people of color you decimate and steal. from africa's wealth, while leaving the people starving to indian burial grounds,
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper LMAO read and weep my friend Richard Dean Taylor, (born in 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1]) is a singer, most famous as an recording artist, songwriter, and record producer for Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny, Taylor "remains one of the most underrated acts ever to record under the Motown aegis".[1] Wikipedia
maplc 1 year ago
@ddsharper you are an absolute moron you don't even know Motown history and sit here and spout that you do??? my suggestion to you my friend is to go ask you mom or your dad who R Dean Taylor is and on which label he recorded, racism takes all forms my friend and what you are spouting is exactly that racism . Might I also point out that you might want to re read your history books as it was the Black Africans who sold their own people into slavery and it was the white man who perpetuated it
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc leaving the people out in places of desolation. we don't need you to celebrate our music. we were doing that before you even knew of motown, when black artists had to begin their own companies due to racism in all facets of the industry. pat boone stole immediately from little richard
ddsharper 1 year ago
@maplc until rock and roll was credited to desolate whites. crooning to frank and dean and now this?even hockey as it's played today was pioneered by exslaves in canada and that legacy was stolen too. It is very difficult not to hate white people, very difficult indeed. the worse thing is the total disregard for the rights and histories of non-whites that you people all seem to have.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper Like I said before you sad little person I am part native american, you are African American right? so what part of africa did you come from ? or should I ask what state are you from as you seem to think all whites are racists
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc you reduce this to a chip? a effin chip on the shoulder?? nothing is sacred to the euro clowns. trying to expect whites to understand truth and other people's point of view is like trying to get Satan to repent. Therein lies the problem of deceit. our songs come from black souls,not euro souls.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper I'm American you idiot , euro clowns wow how offensive is that? NO WHERE IN ANY OF MOTOWNS SONGS DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS SLAVERY, ABOUT HOW AFRICAN SLAVES WERE MISTREATED, SHOW ME ONE INSTANCE. How can you as a black person actually claim that? what is love an exclusive black thing now? and can I also say you were not a slave and never have been and I as a white American was never a slave master and could never be as my son-in-law is black LMAO
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc you people cannot write our lyrics or phrase like a black person unless you are imitating or stealing. these white boys have millions of white songs to sing. you sing it like you are capable of feeling like we feel or stating what we state. that is bs. breaching motown is unconcionable to blacks but, you whites are supreme and do what the hell you want anyway. Hard not to hate that kind of pride and arrogance.
ddsharper 1 year ago
@ddsharper funny that as R Dean was hired early on at motown and I quote "In Detroit, Taylor was hired by Motown Records in 1964 as a songwriter and recording artist"
maplc 1 year ago
@maplc you are thieves, predators and to you, nothing black is sacred. Nothing wrong with loving black music, everything wrong with stealing it. White people steal our words, chords, phrasings and song to hide the stone cold hearts and wretched brutality that you impose on those who produce it. How sick is that?
ddsharper 1 year ago
you really need to see a therapist, no where is anyone stealing anything , jeez if that was the case everyone would be suing everyone else, how many black singers have sang beatles songs or stones songs and the have been some. you see anyone complaining. You for one will never be able to tell me what I can and can't listen. this band in my opinion didn't deserve to sing this song but alas they were allowed to and MoTown along with Jimmy were paid royalties so hey to each is own.
maplc 1 year ago
these guys are killin a classic!
beasley8701 1 year ago
Man, I'm 64, and the music never had a color to me. It was how it made ya feel! We had the best.
Monkmaster1969 1 year ago 3
Man I can imagine how good music was back then!! Omg Motown is it for me lol I always get chills, this is real music :P
GirlyGosselinFan 1 year ago
We all (white kids with transister radios! ha!) listened to Motown back in the day...God's little way of letting us all know that color is only skin deep. ;)
Staymewithflagons 1 year ago 15
@Staymewithflagons On our A.M. only radios lol...
daspudster01 1 year ago
@Staymewithflagons racist fuck!
kenmur39 4 months ago
I LOVE THIS SONG
ikeicetea 1 year ago
Tell me please.
MyMatt63 1 year ago
Not a bad cover version.....I'm impressed with the fact that they actually sing this great old tune and don't screw it up with idiotic rap or hip hop.......
canrockfan 1 year ago 2
whats the name of the orginal artist of this song????
phalafel00 1 year ago
@phalafel00 Jimmy Ruffin......one of the great Motown singers of the '60's.....this version doesn't come close to Jimmy....
canrockfan 1 year ago
@phalafel00 Jimmy Ruffin
thecitizens 1 year ago
great video of an old song
MegaWillsr 1 year ago
It is just a STRONG song that I guess just about anybody could sing it and it wouldn't suck.
juliebabyjulie 1 year ago
Omg this is so good:)
xXTinaXx94 1 year ago
i like Didi benami's version.....
dmitrivenko 1 year ago
u ar super
jeannebyal 1 year ago
u ar super
jeannebyal 1 year ago
WOW!i love this song i played this song over and over again
973ljohnson75 1 year ago
Some songs should be left alone. Especially by These guys.
35150Alabama 1 year ago
okay this is sooo cool. and lead singer is cute. im singing part of this song in choir. and buying it on itunes. luved it.
missamazing000 1 year ago
i love it guys ar so cute
jeannebyal 1 year ago
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Um..what? No no no sorry. Motown and boybands are not compatible. You leaches find something else to get famous off of please. Seriously, Motown is too scared.
JurisArcane 1 year ago
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JurisArcane 1 year ago
amazinggg x
AbsxVal 2 years ago
Utter bollocks!
fannycraddock99 2 years ago
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I like the cut of your jib young fella me lad.. Proof indeed that you can't always be pretty and have a great voice... While we have them lined up is there any chance of wheeling in a firing squad....
mrbillhicks 1 year ago
what
973ljohnson75 1 year ago
of course..Westlife had to do a "Cover" :/
AligBograt 2 years ago 2
I agree with sfbuddie but at least the backround singers were black
mojoman0195 2 years ago
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NEVER MIND THEIR COLOR!!! This is a "singing group" made up of 5 guys...WHY WOULD THEY EVEN NEED BACK UP SINGERS FOR????
rioboy13 2 years ago
can't imagine a more white bread, twink, faggot, homogenized version of a great motown classic
sfbuddie 2 years ago
It's simple. If it isn't Jimmy Ruffin, it's Joan Osborne. But don't trust me - go to the youtube video and be blown away.
DG in Toronto
desgilling 2 years ago
really good but only shane is good i definatly dont prefer this to good old Jimmy Ruffin and i dont think you should slag off people from UK!
osanath 2 years ago
wow keep the boy bands away from motown
rcowboy4 2 years ago
this is a disgrace.
ob20091 2 years ago
And now... I will go watch Jimmy Ruffin..Thanks anyways.
gaatooor 2 years ago 2
I believe that most Brits are born with a "soul" gene
nonashorty926 2 years ago 2
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just because these faggots from UK
doesnt means they´re not a boyband
and i dont give a shit if their different from backstreet boys or w/e UK is a whore country
and boyzone sux anyway ,,, any UK whore who says their good must be fucking retarded
rbx22 2 years ago
SO GOOD!!
DETERUMULIGT 2 years ago
the best of the best! Indeed!
genevawest 2 years ago
This group does a lovely deliverance of
this great song. Is this David and Jimmy
Ruffin, no it sure as--- is not. But you are
making a comparison to the best of the
best.
U4Know2 2 years ago
They did this great! It difficult to do a remake,I like this!
4shys2 2 years ago
I never heard of this group untill today, don't know one from the other,,,,but...OMG they are cute! and can sing, Who;s the one second from the right????
SavannahSmiles29 2 years ago
Thats Mark. He is cute and he is one of my faves along with Nicky (the one in the middle).
flyseventeenthirtytw 2 years ago
LOL they're an Irish band called "Westlife"...
Ward117MG 2 years ago
IT'S GOT NO SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rickerfred 2 years ago
westlife fuck me right off mate..bunch of singin twats!!
lfbcru 2 years ago
Then why watch this vid then u retard!!!! Ur pathetic!!!
MsKianEgan 2 years ago
haha are you tired and moody or just some obsessive westlife nut? haha ur the pathetic one taking somethink a completly random person ses to heart like that lol your making me sick in my mouth..would you like me to bottle some of it and send it to you? x
p.s i watched the video thinking it was actualy a motown song by a motown legend instead i get this
lfbcru 2 years ago
wash ur filty mouth filty
eden4031 2 years ago
Overall nice
GreenBlackKojiGoh 2 years ago
only one of them can sing...and no one would listen to anything that came out of their mouths if they werent so terribly cute. Pretty boy pop..yippee!
quietdepths 2 years ago
Really Nice Rendition!!!!
So happy....to see young people, bringing Motown music back!
YESSSSS!!!!!!
cczazz 2 years ago 7
me loves SHANE !! :p lol
sandy3663 2 years ago
first time i heard this song was this one , by westlife, and i loved it. ^^ love their voices and arrangements at that time. they look like having fun in this video.
followingit 2 years ago
Nothing can touch jimmy Ruffin's version. But they didn't do too bad. Just need to get some rhythm or not dance. Looks like everyone is having fun!
uway59 2 years ago 2
check out Joan Osborne's version from the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown. I won't say it is better than Jimmy's, but it is pretty damn close
mikeyJR86 2 years ago 2
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I cant belive this shit! can someone remove this so people dont get sick looking at it.
WilliamP3 2 years ago
Black or White doesn't matter. Talent does. Turn this shit off and listed to the version by Joan Osborne or the great original by Jimmy Ruffin.
cincydavid1963 2 years ago
These guys are great!!
GHSABC 2 years ago 4
N'sync sucks ass...
jb0177 2 years ago 3
this song is originally of Jimmy Ruffin ,... really!... uhmm! xD!
Cokain3 2 years ago
I LOVE THEM!!!
MiiszFeliiciity 2 years ago
hate to see a bunch of pretty white boys in prada do a motown classic - sacrilege
whatever metrosexual/homogenic sound they may have - lets put this in perspective and hope they simply wanted to pay homage to Jimmy Ruffin
sfbuddie 2 years ago 2
I hope so too. shit was that bad!
WilliamP3 2 years ago
I LOVFE THE KIDS MAN THEY ARE AWESOME AND LOVE RUFFIN MY ERA,......and joan osborne and the funk brothers wow great rendition Thanks for the upload NAMVET Douglas
dgmexe 2 years ago 3
WESTLIFE ARE THE BEST
westBSBlife 2 years ago 4
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..mmm....a nice cluster of youthful melodic voices
with happy resilent eyes supported by inane toothy grins...to quote my favorite transexual seamstress:.....".YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PAIN IS !!!!!!!!!!!" ......imho prefer Joan Osborne's cover
fargonebewdy 2 years ago
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They say knew instead of know. xDD
Very nice sound, I liked it.
KyotaIzuma 2 years ago 2
i love it, thanks.
cneelycoke 2 years ago
good song they did ok singing it great song
TallmadgeChoirBoy 2 years ago 3
I love Jimmy Ruffin's version but I think Westlife put their stamp on this and made it their own!
2004mojo 2 years ago
I don't care whether it is original or cover. I love the way they sang this song....
Nice performance! Westlife Rocks!!!
Ilovetiger2009 2 years ago
well i can definatly say they ruined the song :|
themasterdj1 2 years ago
word!
solar80 2 years ago
good
liverpool4546 2 years ago
Jimmy Ruffins motown-version is much better in my opinion !
Firbenet2 2 years ago
Very true to the real feeling of motown!!! Auto tune, td6- drumsounds and that performance... Wow!!
pillipersson 2 years ago
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anyanaja 2 years ago
they great
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horsieluvr4lyf 2 years ago
Soul has no color, soul is just what it is -- S-O-U-L. Look into any eyes to "see" the soul!
These guys did a great Motown/Soulful job!
Love and light to all!
charissw 2 years ago 3
REAL Soul music has less to do with race and more to do with feeling and emotion. There are many people, (black, white, and others) that can sing the soul STYLE, but there is no true feeling or emotion that comes through in the performance.
ranhill 2 years ago
why does it take 5 guys and a gospel style chorus to sing a song done BY ONE VOICE? leave the remakes to the people that can actually sing the song with out this much help
rbnyy 2 years ago
nice version :)
i heard this song from Kai kalama an AI contestant
and i rly liked it
J0hnBryan 2 years ago
great song
nainai1214 2 years ago
i ♥ dis song!
yuperoni8 2 years ago
I don't care white ,blue green or black these guys did a nice job with this song. I am 51 year old black man and grew up listening to Motown and by the way Motown had a few white artist who sang there ass off. We call them back in the days Blue Eyes Soul Singers.
redwalls76 2 years ago 14
Agree! Blue Eyed Soul at its best. One of the early Motown singers who can still get down is the lovely Teena Marie. Beauty, soul, color, right and wrong don't have no color. Talent is talent and folk just ought to give credit where credit is due.
blewis9505 2 years ago 5
@redwalls76 Name one, I am older than you. the only blue eyed soul singers were tom jones and that group that did that song in ghost. I am not one of those blacks that like white people stealing our culture. I hate it in fact. they did it in Africa and i america and blacks are so desperate to be liked by them, they don't see their history being buried in the meantime. look at the video, black ice by the fostey brothers, canadians. there are vids on youtube about it. same with tap dance & gospel
ddsharper 1 year ago
@redwalls76 that awesome brother I am 51 and grew up on motown mixed breed 80's guitarman and these guys are cool and did it real justice so they should be proud were talkin about em haha - peace
ambersmom90280 1 year ago
@ambersmom90280 I am 59 years old. I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Motown and Tom Jones.
This song is really a tribute to the power of Jimmy, Berry Gordy and all of the wonderful performers like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Ritchie, The 4 Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Funk Brothers, The Jackson 5 and others too numerous to list. Without MoTown, these kids in Westlife would not be anywhere near as good. MoTown is an American institution!
SpikeSmudik 1 year ago
@ambersmom90280 Jimmy Ruffin sang "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" something awesome. Unforgettable.
These kids did a great job, with a little help from computer and electronic enhancement. And those moves and singing, well they have MoTown written all over them. They didn't steal anything. They learned from African-Americans. And that is great! And a great compliment!
BTW, Tom Jones is aces in my book!
SpikeSmudik 1 year ago
@ambersmom90280 I remember when Stevie Wonder was Little Stevie Wonder. And speaking of Detroit, I remember Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
I saw a lot of Motown groups and Tom Jones live. MoTown made my life better!
SpikeSmudik 1 year ago
they usually withdraw and stop giving
MYJESUSROCKS 2 years ago
i Love Thisss..
iLoveMySelfAre 2 years ago
this is amazing!!!! :}
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64768647 2 years ago
i love the way motown artists dont even sing this.
WiremuH 2 years ago
No, it wasn't soulful like Jimmy, but pretty good for a group of boys. They gave it a "pop" twist.
bejess2 2 years ago