Narada Michael Walden - I Shoulda Loved Ya (1979)

[dwsh1]

Take it from me-

1979 WAS ONE HELL OF A TIMEFRAME!

THOUGHT IT WASN'T?

[zdoll12]

i remember this!!!!

[comptonraven]

bass bass rift



[helie333]

love it!..brings back so memories!!

[TheTuneseeker]

fabulous tune



[tirimtimtish]

Bass...muting...so...epic...

[HouTown1]

1979... good times... an era with MUSIC and no stupid ass reality shows.

[fryelee11]

This song still kicks ass!

[phillybass101]

A great song for developing your right hand for funky fingerstyle. When I first started playing it I couldn; get through the whole song. This will help build your endurance.

[schoolchiic]

hey this groove takes me back to nlon ct 1979 while i was in the navy bought the album brought it back home with me to okc my bro heard it for the !st time fell in love with it so much he named his 2nd son after the great artist forewver gold im still jamming this popps220d@gmail.com

[hork111]

@schoolchiic I first heard it in college, University of New Orleans '78. A heady time, thought I was headed to law school. Fate had other plans, but I'm here today, healthy, I count my blessings.

[Gigchick]

Heard it on New York's WBLS radio station this week- still a great groove!

[MrFacebookhater]

Remembering the day I did roll skate while listening to this song..........

I am sorry! I think I am about to cry!

What a great time 1979...... People actually moved more, laugh more and definitively

LOVE MORE.........

[geupelboi]

@MrFacebookhater Awwww... Yes, I understand you. The 1970s were such an INNOCENT time, in a way. Definitely a more fun, free-spirited time and looking back can be almost unbearable bittersweet. Oh, dear. My heart is with you! Now, let's do THE HUSTLE!!!

[4threconmarine]

Always thought this was a white boy with soul.

[phil14true]

Aretha F,Phylis H the list goes on and on great music arranger song writer

[pstanberg]

DAMN!!! The Bass just about CARRIES the entire song. Beautiful.

[SIGMAMAN69]

@pstanberg What I like so much about this jam is that you can distinguish every instrument and they're all good! The horns and guitar stand out just as much!

[secondchances3128]

I loved this song I was seventeen or eighten when this song came out I went out and bought it with money. thanks youtube

[TheAlexgroove]

Thanks Narada per tutte le canzoni belle che hai composto!Sono passati tanti anni ma io propongo solo e sempre queste!!! Thanks for the Disco Funk!!!

[Crimestick]

That's T.M. Stevens on bass.

[devigister]

La Musica, con la M maiuscola

[didierdijon21]

Quel fabuleux artiste, j'adore !!

Didier

[ajdubbz]

hottt!!!



[sonofyah2726]

Grown folk's Music !!! 

[TheSRalston]

RANDY JACKSON ON BASS!!!

[TheSRalston]

Oh, I am sorry, he is NOT!!

[FezTickle]

why duz this video only have 66,936 views??

[symehawk1]

fantastic thwe real deal jazz funkl thew best bass guitarr intro iof all time?

[ColumRogers]

Damn that bass is soooooooooo funky!!

[MrMunchee1]

FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS ONE ANOTHER GREAT ARTIST THAT REALLY KNOWS MUSIC TAKE A LOOK AT WHO HAS WRITTEN FOR AND PRODUCE THANKS MY FRIEND.

[FezTickle]

it just doesnt get any funkier than this...BASS

[jackdabear]

this brings back so many memories for me....a quality album performed by amazing artists.......

[free2bpoppie]

T.M. Steven's opening bass line is the joint here!

He is still smokin' 'dem strings!

[bakic21156]

Sexy. Spiritual, Soulful!!!

Thank you Brother!!!!!!

This one could still today save so many relationships from going to hell!

Cuts both ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crozwayne]

now THIS IS DANCE MUSIC! if your feet dont move to this, your dead! xxx

[OGGilmoregirlz1]

AWWWWWWW YEAH!!! DA BASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hanzi63]

TOP !

[MrKappakool]

Narada Michael Walden is a genious!!!

[FezTickle]

BASS

[doctafonk101]

fonkay!!!

[RamonaFromPomona]

Hot !!!!!!!!!!!!

[farrodread]

Classic chune....!!!!!!!!!!

[katswhiskas83]

brill song brings back good memories of friends that are sadly no longer with us

[purplelove010]

he used to produce mariah carey! how amazing!

[EDVIDEOGOD]

Narada is the man. No need to quantize or pitch correct this.

[denny5545]

Awesome Track :)

[4oust]

just wona cry hhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wats happend to music dam

[sprintbass]

i can play this bass line..its so fun...

[greenstreet1955able]

@sprintbass I just bought me a brand new Dean Edge !

[Sididouche]

The bass is great !!

[justine13622]

love it tuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. thankyou.

[Sididouche]

I SHOULDA LOVED YA !!

[Spiderwebsider]

Back in the late 70s and early 80s I thought the music would last forever...then one day it was gone!

[gemini19662010]

@Spiderwebsider It"s so sad that the music has dissappeared

[coolsmoothie1]

Love this, still a jam!!

[eugenemcgirt]

I admit, not familiar with Narada's other work... I need to do more research.

[91FroSt91]

I absolutely love this ... I need to find the bass tab

I wanna play it so hard .. I can't get it out by ear :(:(:(

This is just brilliant ... I can't believe I have never heard of that :S

I just keep wondering .. what happened to the disco... Why did it just die like that ... it was an amazing genre ... and then it just disappeared :S

I truly wish that the disco gets back like it was in the 70s and 80s ...

Thank you so much for uploading such a masterpiece :D

[CRYSTALLTAY]

@91FroSt91 lets go back when every group seem to sound like nile rodgers and chic! you lead i will like hell i will follow!

[westpalmbeach5]

Why United States radio stations don't play this song?

I heard it first in Panama whe I was 6 years old...... Then I heard this song again in Holland 2 weeks ago....!

[hollywood9810]

THE BASS LINE IS VERY DEEP BA-DA-BING

[djdavemick]

Get out those roller skates! One of my all-time top 1000.

I'd be happy if someone posts his "I Don't Want Nobody to Dance With You"

[91FroSt91]

@djdavemick Haha I might just do that if you want XD

[westpalmbeach5]

I've been looking to hear this song in USA for so long cause i didn't know the name, till today in Holland while listening to a disco radio heard it again......

I am lucky to hear this song again..........

[TumblingDice1972]

nice,was in a poor area,but i loved the song,away now,god bless

[aiammaiaaiam]

So good. Second only to Outstanding, gap band, and Didi cheb khaled

[eugenemcgirt]

I remember this tune... this guy is a "one hit wonder" like Anita Ward who sang 'Ring My Bell'.

[ndahpocket]

@eugenemcgirt Hardly a one hit wonder, Google Narada Michael Walden. Excellent producer-songwriter, percussionist!

[rmbXrpm]

@eugenemcgirt

Not really, seems you're not familair with his string of LP's...... and he produced most of Whitney houston's hits

[kenrokycb]

So classic , ......nice song to dance to, ...incredible song.

[aiammaiaaiam]

unbelievable, the funk, the soul

[Chrissie908]

brilliant still jumping to this 30 years on .love it

[bigdaddy45able]

This is real music,real funk.I miss it so much.1979 was a great year for r&b and funk.Real musicianship please come back.

[bkwiley]

It was late November/December 1979, in college, went home for the weekend, and heard this song, I went CRAZY, took it back to college, and of course we danced like it was going out of style.

[robrozzie69]

Very Bernard Edwards like, even the clap track sounds like Chic....awesome stuff!

[soyabean4]

damn... fine tune this is still, thnx N.M.W.

[airager]

I bought the 7 inch back in 79 loved the tune but this version is something else! Thanks for posting.

[TumblingDice1972]

my youth thank you

[godfather147]

Narada,

You should re-release this and rearrange it!!!!!

Its a great song!!!!!!

[DaddyGrand414]

@godfather147 Don't you dare touch this classic. It's like part of my youth.

[SIGMAMAN69]

Narada before his superstar producer days.

[tunnelratlt]

@SIGMAMAN69 ahhh I see someone knows their stuff,good for you !!

[soyabean4]

@tunnelratlt thnx this is helping to keep my sanity ha x

[Leosw4]

One of the greatest dance tunes EVER!

[supa4dupa]

Loved since I was a youngster love the funk and upbeat, dance floor queen!

[123christop]

I have this JAM on vinyl but found hid greatest hits CD a few years ago. Still SMOKIN!! Thanks

[lucbuc64]

spettacolare giro di basso...mette i brividi...

[harveyknicks]

Funky Music,,that Pumping Bassline is the Best...brings back so many good memories ,this tune does!

[WIZKID403]

although i don.t c a video, i grew up listening to this FANTASTIC MUSIC of michael"s 4 those of u who don't get it ya missed it sure wish u were there!!!!!!! sure wish guyz like nike,jaurreau, and those people would do something now....what a relief it would b to here the real goo stuff again!!!!!

[WIZKID403]

narada allwayz had it right on da money..... very happy 2 hear such quality muzik.....this iz hot stuff he wuz a winner from da start

[hughesjr]

When Narada's first two albums flopped, Atlantic Records told him that if he didn't have a hit with the next one, it would be curtains for him. So he came up with the hits "I Don't Want Nobody Else (To Dance With You)" and this one.

[lmiketenn]

They are probably still paying the bass guitarist a salary even now. Fabulous work!!!

[flatlineSixx]

does anybody know where i can find a bass tab for this song?

[ShowtimeJohnnyPal]

TM Stevens be fonky! (He created the dazzling, funky bassline). Yo, funkin and poppin! Johnny Pal

[maddsri]

this bassline is ridiculous. phenomenal tune overall. narada's own stuff is better than the great stuff he's known for producing. hate to say this but i wish i was OLDER and i grew up with this stuff as a teenager... must be that indian spirituality mixed with his modest, black upbringing in michigan that did this...magic. oh, screw israel and zionism and war for profit and expanding capitalism around the world. and, of course, the obligatory god bless america!

[242XYZ]

Thank you 4 this song a good one.

[maddsri]

no silly it's realist :)

[thestevo46]

thank you,i had the 12 of this,god bless the usa

[toejam523]

thumping tune.great times,great memories...EC

[ohshin11]

big tune dance hit

[MINDERS91]

great tune, in the Chic and Sister Sledge bracket...

[free2bpoppie]

I always disliked the fact that thiis song was listed in the "DISCO" bins, this man's music ws so far beyond that crap, that it sould have been criminal for this to have taken place.

The bass line alone is worth a grammy!

Check out "shake it off" fom "looking at you, looking at me". Randy Jackson is cruising to the outer reaches on that one!

[MsG5730]

@free2bpoppie What's wrong with disco? Disco is & will always be HOT! Don't hate, get up and BOOGIE!

[hardcorehouse]

@free2bpoppie Very soulful party music at it's BEST. At that time there were plenty of bands with this vibe. And of course, everything was lumped as "disco" just as at the Disco Sucks riot in Chicago in '79 some geniuses were bringin Marvin Gaye records because it was um..."disco"..what happens is that whatever the predominant music of the day is, everything gets shoved under that name by know-nothins. Chic for example, HATED disco but that's what some call it.

[hardcorehouse]

@free2bpoppie Very soulful party/energy music at it's BEST. At that time there were plenty of bands with this vibe. And of course, everything was lumped as "disco" just as at the Disco Sucks riot in Chicago in '79 some geniuses were bringin Marvin Gaye records because it was um..."disco"..what happens is that whatever the predominant music of the day is, everything gets shoved under that name by know-nothins. Chic for example, HATED disco but that's what some call it.

[maddsri]

wow didn't realize there was such great music at this time. sorry i'm kinda young. and sorry for how bad american music is now. it's not our fault, it's the jewbags that run the industry. nothing makes a jew drool quite like the sight of millions, but more importantly a continuous stream of money. white plutocrats are no different. but you get them in every race i guess just more in some than others. so i guess this guy narada is into indian spirituality and hinduism. i may do the same.

[dabong1]

nice......never knew what this track called.

cheers 4 upload

[Mzthang61]

wow, 18 again, sitting on the patio chillin. or in the basement of my parents home jammin this as loud as i can.

I forgot all about him.

Thanks for the memories!!

[SouthSideSoul]

Still sounds good today as the first day it came out. One of my favourites. Love it to death. xx

[XSGAME4U]

One of the greatest 'feel good' beats of all time: This song made you want to get up and dance, no matter how cool you thought you were.

I can see myself now: out on the dance floor; cuttin' a rug to this bad ass jam, back in the day. Before some b*tch mother fu*kers put the crack in the way.

If I had known back in 1979, that I was witnessing the demise of "Message Music', I would've poured out a drink, and threw some tennis shoes up on the telephone wires for the death of real music.

Sad.

[maddsri]

damn straight...fuck money-hungry, two-faced jewbags and zionists.

[tunnelratlt]

@XSGAME4U hahaha,that is soooo true,and you must be from brooklyn or staten island,with the sneaker comment,lol,it aint sad,`cause we have the chance to capture all this great stuff,thanx to you tube,so lets keep on jammin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[greenstreet1955able]

@XSGAME4U Dude, You ain't NEVER Lied !

[hardcorehouse]

@XSGAME4U There **IS** still some very good music out there being made, very much like this feel but it's much harder to find it. A good DJ who knows where to find it is key these days.

[jjazproject]

thirty years on this still works

[SteveTheAtheist]

Great song, I bought "The Dance of Life" album because of songs like this. :)

[windigo2001]

Listen to the bass player. This is Randy Jackson from the judge panel in American Idol !!

[Begnoc]

I think it's TM Stevens before he was Shocka Zulu. But Randy did play on some of Narada's albums.

[free2bpoppie]

NOt Randy, it's T.M. Stevens.

[Akjepsen]

Never really thought of this as Stevens style, not that I don't believe you. But it is just much more randys way to play, if you know what I mean ?

[maddsri]

this shit is great...narada can really make some damn good music. screw israel and zionism. screw war and old, rich, white dipshits. hooray for funk!

[juliem772]

Still sounds good after all this time!!! :-)

[LBMAAS]

Classic

[tomc1167]

blast from the past - its still slammin

[jms5969]

great song! Thanks for posting Blast from the past!

[responsemedic999]

i was marching across dartmoor listening to this record in 79 in the Army it brings back Memories so I fell in love with it

[schuller51]

Like fine wine, this track ages superbly, an absolute classic !!!

[lorret90]

this is my favourite bassline ever!! ah to be 18 again!!

[L3sClayp0ol]

very good bassline and funkstyle aahahah

[ricduga]

I'm 50 and still love it! good memories Tahanks for posting!

[joshoreefe]

Hehe- I'm 62 and this makes me rock!

[LBJTV]

@ricduga ;) I'm 15 and still love it!

There's nothing like the good ol' days..

[purplelove010]

you are not alone i'm 19 and i love this song! its ashame that us young folks have to good back in time just to listen to real good music!

[Kingcire72x]

@purplelove010 I'm 38 and I was a Little kid 1st grade when this came out

Good music starts inside of you first. Do not accept the junk they feed you it's not good for you.

I love all music but we have to know that if it feels good and it is posetive music play and don't be ashamed of it.

[greenstreet1955able]

@ricduga This is my sophmore COLLEGE shit right here !

[Kingcire72x]

@greenstreet1955able

I was in 1st grade... I loved this song then & still do.

I remember that summer was mad hot and the roller skating was the best at bear mountain Upstate NY

[bladesaint21]

OMG Now I'm 19 yrs old again! Thankyou!! Thank you!!! *LOL*