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  • All I can say is I loved this song when I was young & still love it toady!!

  • "And love me like you tried before." Is this song about erectile dysfunction?

  • Back then music had soul.

  • I like the guitar intro. Or is it a sitar ?

  • @trdidion I think it's a sitar, but I"m not certain.

  • Wow, still sounds brilliant!

  • Out of all the songs that came out in the 70's... this is a solid classic, that represents all the great music of that decade.

  • After all these years this is still a great song......smiles

  • Dig those enormous afros! The 70s were so cool.

  • ..."cold" as in fine like aged wine, that is!

  • She was my girlfriend when I was in the first grade...And she's STILL cold!

  • You shouldn't make such a concrete statement like this. There are still a few of us women out there who possess class and style, have morals and values, and not only respects themselves but respects others as well. I am proud to say that I am one of them - and I am also beautiful. Ms. Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" is a classic. No one can sing it better. It brings back so many memories, although I was only four years old when it came out.

  • @msnicensweetful Good for you..u must be 1 out of evert 1000 women then..

  • DAMN WHAT HAPPEND? THERE KNOW MORE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN LIKE THIS WITH CLASS AND STYLE RESPECT AND MORALS FOR THEMSELFS.ALL IS LEFT IS WOMEN WHO DONT KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THER OWN NATURE

  • Yeah, she's an amazing singer. But sadly not the best lip-syncher.

  • She was such a Beautiful woman back then

  • good northern soul!!!

  • I love Freda, nothing like a 5 year old with a crush (in 1970) that has never gone away!

  • It was number 1 in the uk on 21st Sept 1970, That was the week i was born

  • i was 9 or 10 when this song was on the pop charts!

  • Invictus Records was really coming into their own back then, too bad it didn't last

  • gosh isn't Fred beautiful!!!

  • 16 years later Bonnie Tyler would cover this classic.

  • I love youtube, you can find anything :) thanks for uploading :)

  • Freda was FINE!

  • Evergreen!

  • i been searching high and low for this song! I love it and i feel like i was in that era...

    Beautifully sung!

  • this song was written by the 2 dudes who wrote most of the Motown hits. I cna't think of their names - they were brothers. Dozier maybe? they quit Motown in a dispute and this was one of the first songs they wrote afterwards that was a hit but I don't think they had too many hits afterwards. Holland and Dozier. too bad they didn't have more hits for this hot piece of ass!

  • @IkilledassholeJFK Your are thinking of the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier!

  • CLaSSiC! CLaSSiC! CLaSSiC! xo)

  • I was 10 when this came out. Remember it well. Still just as great today!

  • This song is really catchy. I love it!

  • she sounds like the lead singer from the honeycones..maybe they are related..

  • I am SO in love....

    

  • Freda Payne Abbott was married to singer and sex symbol Gregory Abbott singer favorite for the song (Shake You Down)

  • @aletia2005 REALLY, gregory "shake you down" abbott?

  • @aletia2005 True. But after that she was with Edmund Sylvers who was a lot younger lol!! I love this diva!!!

  • chicago soul rocks

  • DETROIT SOUL ROCKS!

  • I saw this woman sing at a church this evening in Pasadena, CA on 9-11-2011. The service was dedicated to anti-war and peace activism. When the pastor introduced Freda Payne I said to myself "Freda Payne, Freda Payne. Where have I heard that name?" Then I thought "Band of Gold!" So here I am at home, come to You Tube to make it was the same woman and song. Amazing. This old soul music is unbeatable: the songs, lyrics, musicians, production, singers. Everything about this music is class.

  • @bapyou yes and she still looks and sounds great after 40 years

  • This is before Sould Train got really wild. They dance really tame here. Later on in the 70's the moves got really funky. The splits, the wild hand movements, etc.

  • Gold! Gold! Gold! Pure Top 40 Gold!

  • One of the best songs EVER..... i was born in England 1973 and 70's music in my country has a bad name * think glam rock * but Motown well what can i say.....

  • She looks like she doesn't like lip sync.

    Thats one nice looking woman and a great singer.

  • Her hair looks like someone just came and plonked it on her head.

  • Cool song.

  • 8 dislikes? thats LiL wayne & young money. SMH

  • Who's Everyone?, Zulu4real asked a simple Question, Not everyone is over 60 & knows this stuff, Silly Old Fart

  • Cliff Richard - Soulicious - Songs Preview - 2011

    Saving A Life - Cliff Richard & Freda Payne

    /watch?v=tKGZ7radvS4

  • 1 hot hoochie momma

    i was 9 in 71 alway loved this song it takes me back to the days i will always cherish

  • @edward88yahoo I know. I was like 10 when this came out. That summer I was in summer camp & those were some fun times. I remember the jokes & regretfully the abusive camp counselors. Those bullies are now old men if they're not dead & they know what they did.

  • I was 15 when I used to listen to it on the radio and hearing it now makes me feel like I did then. Love this song.

  • 1971 was a great year for hot pants! I was 12 years old and we all wore hot pants to our school dance. Those were happy times indeed.

  • I was born in 1970, but this has always been one of my all time favorite songs...I just want to know, if they just got married, where on earth did he go on their honeymoon??!!

  • @TheVoltorch The meaning of a 'place' is metaphorical. The feelings were gone from the moment they were married. Unfortunately some couples are like that. I think it has to do with 'feelings' being gone. "The dream of what love could be..." in other words if they had love. You can be 'with' some one physically,yet be apart mentally I think is the meaning the song. A 'band of gold' {wedding ring} does not always mean 'happiness'.

  • I was 12 when this song came out.Reminds me of my mom RIP.This was her favorite song.Use to ride horses in the summer to the swimming hole.Carefree,no stress,just pure fun.

  • Loved me some Freda Payne,she had a sister too what was her name?

  • @TheZulu4real Scherrie Payne is Freda's sister, Scherrie replaced Jean Terrell in The Supremes in 1973

  • @TheReturnOfBigBear Everybody knows that.You just finding it out?

  • Great outfit - i want it!

  • I was 11 when this song came out. Seems like yesterday. Those were the days.

  • was the reporter a man or a women ......... or both? lol

  • 6 people have bands of copper!

  • This song takes me back to my childhood.

  • This song has played in my head for 40 years now.

  • @gotch09 I just heard it on the radio a week ago.

  • this song is so amazing... and obviously can't be a true story. There is no man so insane he would do that to a wondrous creature like the beautiful Freda!

  • wow that's some doo. I wonder how much it cost.

  • @cheengators With that hairdo, she looks like Reba McEntyre when she had big hair...

  • She is so beautiful. Still one of my fav. songs.

  • Why is everything about this clip so right? Damn Freda!!

  • yes

  • A stone cold classic. cuts across all genres. Thanks for a massive clip!

  • She kind of looks like Vivica Fox here. She's not a bad singer either. Not bad.

  • She's lip syncing here, but the studio sound is raw, which is unfortunately a thing of the past. Now we have Britney Spears.. Sad.

  • What a classic song this one is !! reminds me of a old friend i had we use to dance to this on the dance floor and we loved it when this came on 

  • brings back memory's of AM radio hits,,this is one of the best

  • @dbcooper714 a.m. radio was great back when. beatles followed by stevie wonder followed by frankie laine followed by linda lydell followed by you name it. now it's just right wing religious retards spouting hate and tax evasion.

  • So fine

  • I thought I remember hearing this song in June '70.  I graduated so it was on my mind what was playing.

  • I needs to get me a big black beautiful sister so I can have some soul.  Living in a world of white bitches has no fun to it. I need to get my lilly white ass funktified.

  • hard to believe this was 40 years ago.

  • She has the best hair there

  • Yaaa, certainly this was a huge hit in 1970 (at least here in Denmark, that is) when I was 17 and my discoteque era began... LOL

  • I know Freda paynes  daughter LoL

  • You gotta love the lip singing back then, I love this song though.

    

  • Beautiful woman and a great singer!!!

  • home girl detriot mich we put out the beautiful women

  • Great track...minds meh of bein a tiny boy...

  • Get if Freda! Dropping it like its hot in 1971! Nothing new under the sun. I was five and this song brings back fond, fond memories of a happy, free life with no stress and responsibilities! JUST LIVING, LOVING AND BEING LOVED!

  • @clydesdale35

    It sure does, I too was 5 then !!  46 Today!

  • that woman is fine!

  • Classic miming to the music, as was the regular practise then.

  • She looks bored out of her head!

  • @Bananadiva1 Ahm SURE you'd see what her "looking bored" RELLY lookes like...if you caught her reading your comment (but...mind you,saying that,ahv juss realised...that would be an impossibility...as you MUST be 'vision impaired' to think that you saw what your comment says!!)Oh well...waste of time writing this as well relly...as you're prolly thinking this is a poem or some shit!!Au revoir...twit

  • @TheMrMarilyn DO ONE FUCKWIT!

  • I would Jump her like a dead car battery.

  • I think I got Jungle Fever.

  • Beautiful woman, beautiful song. A perfect moment in Pop history.

  • @ManilaSyndicate Great song, and a great hit for her, but must give her a failing grade on her lip synch.

  • she is beautiful

  • Didn't realise that this chick was so hot.

  • @Zyworski

    They all lip sinc'd then. The best example is Iggy Pop in Australia @3.01.

    v=o4zQpFSYCJ0

  • Freda Payne is beautiful and man could she sing and "dance up a storm" as well!

    ROCK AND ROLL IS HERE TO STAY!

  • Lip sync on a live performance? At least she can fall back on her good looks.

  • @Zyworski ...Its the way they did it on ST and American Bandstand. The mistake is doing a close-up of the face during the performance. LOL.

  • Was that Jeffrey Daniel @ the beginning of the video?

  • @itsADT I believe so. If my memory serves me correct, in the UK, we had our own (short-lived) version around 25 years ago and he was one of the presenters. The reason why this video was showing then was because every week they'd show an act from the past

  • Simply beautiful, I think if they did a movie about her life,actress Thadie Newton should play her.

  • Many thanks to whomever invented hot pants.

  • Banned in my house which is a pity cos I love it. Reminds my wife of her Grandad.

  • Freda's Newest Vid Recorded 2-2011 makes this performance look "Comotose"

    Ms Payne's Body doesn't age!!

    ONE finnnnnneeeeee, very finnnnnneeeee lady****

  • I'm female, but this song REALLY makes me want to be a drag queen!

  • @spershall Then go on and do it! 

  • Remember this while I was in Dondonald Camp, Troon Ayrshire. Remembered Senga Haye. Memories are good for the soul

  • i love this song and im 21. Its came on the radio when i was driving and i was like yeah full blast. no one looke at me strangley i was in hipster broooklyn

  • FREDA====Beautiful, Talented Woman!

    What A Gift To Us All******

  • i loved this song as a kind and still do!

  • yeahI agree she was extraodinary and still is.

  • Check out the outfits - pink shorts with a bib and straps..... is that legal in all the states?

  • I LOVE THIS SONG...

  • Freda Defies Age!

    The PBS special with Lou Rawls hosting, Proves that.

    She's smoking HOT and her Body, well that's something to see!

  • the Woman That Don't Need A Pillow....

  • I saw Michael Jackson on soultrain on a saturday afternoon he was about 8years old!

    This song is one of my all time Fav"s!!! I wore out this 45rpm which was only $0.49 wow music was cheap then!

  • thnx ! Freda Payne performs beautiful vocals in "band of gold". Outstanding vocals with great lyrics, definite (thumbs - up). As for the three dislikes... either your heart must really be hurtin' honey or 3 people never listened to the song. Listen to the song. It is a wonderful work of art. ***** Freda Fan For Forty yrs. Vote YES.

  • She hated the lyrics, some song though

  • My favourite all time song.....guranteed to get everyone up on the floor.

  • she could of picked a better wig .but what a voice.....

  • it's amazing how she has kept her self in such "amazing shape" since this recording. it's like she is timeless......and yea, i was there then. all of us would take her home today, in a heart beat. yeeeeeeaaaa!

  • LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!!!!!!!

  • She's gorgeous! And what a song.

  • check out Freda's "band of gold" on pbs now! Her performance is "breathtaking" among other words......yummmmm yummmmmm......she doesn't get older

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  • Want to jump into that video and dance along..

  • Please come watch the video of me singing this!

  • Classic Gold!

  • I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SONG

    HARD TO FIND FOR ME TO DOWNLOAD

  • @AngelesValle23 Found it yet?

  • love this song

  • I rather Kimbely Locke.

  • @tabatho You must be young.

  • Classic ! was fit totty than .............

  • My fav Freda Payne is The easy way to Fall Stand by the one you love

  • Thank you Freda Payne for this awesome song that I get lost in when I listen to this song. Gives me goose bumps listening to this amazing song

  • she was a hottie in the seventies

  • What ya mean was .... she still is a beautiful black woman

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  • @Jimmy1tooth Oh...ah bet she's juss DYING to let you as well...fukkin twat

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  • @Jimmy1tooth Depends bbe...if yo 9in or over!!If so...yeah...ahll give ya a GOOD sukkin...

  • @Jimmy1tooth Depends bbe...if yo 9in or over!!If so...yeah...ahll give ya a GOOD sukkin...

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  • Some top natty clothes in that little lot

  • Ok chuch, I'm sorry I said it was a bad video...how about we just enjoy the music

  • This is probably the worst "lip syncing" performance I have ever seen...absolutely horrible....GREAT SONG THO

  • @LeoVinceR1 you leo..are a moron. it's not THAT bad, but maybe it's cause u have only watched two other lip sync's...fact is..on soul train..the music is played on the speakers in the studio so everyone can dance to it, but on this video,,it is a different recording set to the video..thus a different track...not what she is hearing. Thank God ur not a judge or on a jury for anything.

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 Chuck u r complete retard and should delete your youtube profile completely. How am I suppose to know what Freda can and cannot hear when she is singing? BASED ON THE VIDEO that I just watched, it appears as if she cannot lip sync worth crap.

  • @LeoVinceR1 OKAY..i will remove my channel cause u say so... NOT. how are you suppose to know?..first of all, don't make negative comments about something that's perfectly fine in the first place. that's how.

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 OK im sorry chuck for insulting ur video

  • @LeoVinceR1... it takes a good person to apologize.

    i just try to educate people,,, with the little brains i have left.

    peace-out.

  • Brings me back to my childhood when I first heard this great song. Time does fly

    indeed!

  • ...this to me sounds like a DISCO song...no?

    but i know that.... 'rock the boat' or 'fly robin fly'...were the first....later like 74?

    what genre is this considered to be?

    i wonder.

  • @iiiCHUCK1969 Yeah, it kinda does have a Disco sound to it. This is what some folks call 70s R&B; it's not quite soul, not quite funk, not quite Motown, not quite Stax. This sound eventually led to the Disco sound a couple years later when producers extended the bridges of the songs and sped them up so folks in the clubs could really dance to them. (This song was a big hit in '71, if I'm not mistaken, before much of that started, but its fun to hear how the sound was evolving).

  • @christiandior1947,,,,thx for the elaborate answer to my question.

    this is other channel. You sound like u may have been in the music business yourself. I know the sound of soul, motown, and funk, gospel, but what was Stax?

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 Stax Records was a record company based in Memphis in the 1960s/70s. The "Stax" or "Memphis" sound was more bluesy, soulful and gospel-flavored than Motown. Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Aretha, The Staple Singers and others helped popularize it, even when they recorded for other labels. By the mid-70s, it was replaced by the Philly Sound (Teddy Pendegrass, The OJays, The Spinners) which set the stage for Disco.--- I'm just a music history buff; that's all.

  • @christiandior1947u sure splain things clearly. i was 18 in 1969 and i know all artists u named. i was lucky enough to have lived those gold years of music. i saw all great rock shows, but i failed to seek out the motown sound when or where they hit L.A. but i did love them. when i later learned about how Berry Gordy turned that house studio into the 2nd largest music company in the USA, he became one of two idols... for going from nothing to something tremendous. gene autry is the other.,,,thx

  • I am from Europe i heard this song first time in my life now,and i cant stop listenin it.

  • I always loved this as a kid in the 80's

  • Summer of 1970 not 1971. This song was on the charts along with Close to You by the Carpenters. Freda was and is still gorgeous.

  • omg! her ZsaZsa Gabor wig is like totally fallin off!

    hA!

  • i love 70's music.. man i wish i born back n these days.. the music was so cool & the clothes..

  • This was the best song for 1970, this song was all over the airwaves!

  • she was divinity personified

  • Some songs are made for certain people. This song was made for Freda Payne

    and she never dissappointed. I could listen to her forever!

  • I remember this being a big hit in 1970 when I was in the Army.

  • THE FIRST SONG I LIKE, IN 1970 I HAVE JUST ARRIVED IN USA. GREAT SONG!!!