THE COLONEL IS TEACHING HOW MUSIC CAN RAISE ONES CONSCIOUSNESS OR MIND TO A POSITIVE THOUGHT.PUTTING OUT MUSIC THAT HAS HIGHER VIRTUES AND A POSITIVE MESSAGE CAN CHANGE HATRED INTO LOVE. THOUGHT MUSIC CAN COMES TRUTH,KNOWLEDGE OF SELF OR FALSEHOOD,MISUNDERSTANDING OF SELF.PEACE.
what is the person saying below me. i cant hear him because the music is too loud. nobody is talking about music of today. Music of yesturdays is what its about I'm not hating
Of of the classic early 80s NYC underground jammies that very clearly were the basis and inspiration for Chicago house music. These NY productions were all over Chicago radio, clubs and record stores.
MUSIC IS THE ANSWER ,SATIN IS BREEDING HATRED,LEWDNESS,MURDERS,ETC, IN TODAY SO CALL HIP- POP AND BAD RAP MUSIC. WE NEED TO PUT HIGHER VIRTUES IN HIP -HOP AND RAP MUSIC ETC ,WE CAN NOT GIVE UP HOPE.
@WilderelAchaiah I still think there is great stuff in Rap today! You just have to know who is creating masterpieces! Hip Hop will always have high virtues!! That's why we know you like it:)
i remember how difficult back when he came out with these vids,to find a tv show to display them.only would show them would be "BET"other than that it was nothing!
I hear you.......OMG.........great, Buttermilk Bottoms, Shelter, Loft, Garage....This made us crazy!.......DANCE, DANCE, OMG Yes, Zansibar JC. PG was the best place....Could not stop dancing
im 48 now from Newark New Jersey zanz, Garage, Shelter, Loft. those was the days Man going to the club with your sweat clothes in a bag, spinkling baby powder on the floor, the brothers from Alvin alley Dance theater, would spin an we would dance all nite
@724Baker I started hanging in the Zanz when I was sixteen and didn't stop partying until I was in my mid twenties.... These VA peeps don't know nothing bout club music for real.
@melopy yes i am feeling you on that on cuz i am from Brick City and VA don' t know nothing about this. When i play this type of music they can't relate!!!
I remeber one night at the Zans", Tony Humphries and Timmy Regisford were remixing the hell out of this track.. I saw people pulling their hair and screaming!! what time in the life of...
You New Yorker's Stop Trippin, Yes This A New York Made Cut. But The Chi Took It To Realms New York Couldn't Fathom. And Please, Please, No More Where House Music Come From! Be Real, We Are, Do You See Us Fussing About Where Rap Come From? Just Chill House Music Forever Baby!
HOW TIMES CHANGE! GREAT TIME IN STREET CULTURE AND NITE LIFE. WAS BI-COASTAL...PARTIED IN NYC AND CHICAGO, ALSO LONDON & JAPAN DURING THIS PERIOD...DAMN
House baby!!! I remember, cause I was there (NYC) in the 80's. Clubs like Bonds, The Paradise Garage, The Loft, The Red Pariot.....Etc. We knew how to party and have a good time back then. It was all about the music , the women, and...fill in the blanks. LOL
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@bonecrusher307 Oh no doubt Chi did their version but what's sad is that since house began the masses have assumed that house was an original concept, whereas in reality is was simply a continuation of what was true underground and unknown to most, in NYC.
As far as producing in their houses uses synths, ya that's great but FYI what most outside of NYC never knew was they were doing this there also-before Chi.
@HowSilly1 Brother you speak the truth. House was conceived in the underground NYC clubs. It was also called "House" at the time. The reason being was that you only heard this type of music "in house" meaning the underground clubs not in most clubs and defineitely not on the radio until it blew up and became commercialized. Thank you for sharing.
@hardcorehouse I agree with you as far as Knuckles deserving credit. But its still a Chitown vibe on house music. NY had a trump on Chi because more major record lables were there to turn it up. Chi's DJ's and creative artist who played with 808's and synths in their basements and home made studios had influenced house into a universal vibe. NY is always trying to take the credit for house music. The first song that ever said 'house' was made in Chi and I got a felling you know who it was. Peace
@bonecrusher307 Oh no doubt Chi did their version but what's sad is that since house began the masses have assumed that house was an original concept, whereas in reality is was simply a continuation of what was true underground and unknown to most, in NYC.
As far as producing in their houses uses synths, ya that's great but FYI what most outside of NYC never knew was they were doing this there also-before Chi.
Frankie Knuckles didn't bring house music to Chi though he is well known and respected. House music originated in Chicago by the many talented Djs of the time when music was comming up in the city. House music exploded in the late 80's and 90's developing into a variety of versions like Acid, Club, and Underground House. This was a one jam mixed into the flava of house music and was big in Chi. House music gets its name from Djs mixin music at house parties and city basements. VRP...INC.
@bonecrusher307 That's absolutely true that the term house started in chicago-but the vibe didn't. Jams like this by the Colonel were ALL OVER chi radio and club mixes and local record stores. It's NYC that gave chi the idea of house years and yeas earlier, no doubt about it.
@bonecrusher307 Well actually Knuckles is credit by many many brothers and sisters in chi as the originator, and what he did was simply import the existing NYC vibe to Chi. Sorry to burst your bubble but don't feel bad-only those few in NYC and visitors from the rest of the planet to NYC really saw the big picture. As far as late 80s, that's 15 years after the explosion started in NYC! NYC, the incubator for most of today's main dance musics, including rap, hip hop electro and house.
@Decastagnal I think you are correct. Anyway, if you look at the vinyl label on Les Sun Rae - Revelation (1988) it shows Jason Smith as a co-writer but also says "Dedicated in Loving Memory to Jason Smith", so unfortunately he must have died in 1987/1988.
@jarvass I realized my mistake shortly after I wrote the previous comment. At the time that The Music Got Me came out, the buzz in the clubs was that it was Colonel Abrams singing lead in this group.Not to mention, I am a Paradise Garage Alumni and was privy to a lot of the back of the scenes gossip back in the day. I'm sure there is more than a tinge of truth to the story.
How come no one has the song, The Music's Got Me, by this group called, Vision, who Colonel Abrams was with before he went solo? We used to tear up the floor in the club when this record came on!
@moidounltd2 I think you're refering to a 1983 track by Visual called 'The Music Got Me'. The singers do sound VERY similar. I've never seen any literature or record cover info that 100% confirms it is Colonel Abrams though, unless anyone else knows for sure.
@jarvass Actually it was Jason Smith on all the Visual records. They're easy to confuse and both NYC based singers sang in the style that was later the basis for house music in Chi. Abrams only sang on some unreleased Boyd Jarvis tracks, which created an underground buzz and led to this 12". The beginnings of house, in NYC plain and simple. I met the Colonel in 84 as they did the rounds of NYC records stores with this track which they played prior to it's release.
@LEGSUDESIRE No idea where you're going since you didn't make a point but the truth is Timmy's early sound from which he became known might as well have been called the Boyd Jarvis hour. That was the main difference in his mixes and those of other DJs.
A Most Awesome House Beat - "It takes me back to the 80s clubs. I went from erotic stripper to bartender to head bartender in 7 years - How Many Remember Coconuts at Berwyn and Broadway? "Talk To Me....... Lusciousblkman47
I saw CC Rogers, Cherrell and Colonel Abrams at Club 88 in Newark. I think it was New Years eve 88. I have the time of my life. I remember the club was so back with folks dancing that the dance floor up stairs was bouncing up and down. The floor was literally throwing folks in the air.
Yea baby, he sang this at O2 last week. Colonel is absolute quality! James "D Train" n "Colonel" same "Before i let go". Wow! Amazing. Thanks guys. xx
"On December 12th 2009, The Colonel played a live set at the 'Indigo o2' venue in London, U.K. and performed very energetically with excellent dance moves and that strong voice cutting through the night. He was introduced on stage as the originator of House/Garage (which he is) and received a riotous reception from a sold-out show. The white overcoat he came on stage with looked as if it cost a million dollars and as usual, his dress sense was immaculate."
man i tell you we will always miss that place and the way things were then but at least we had them and can appreciate the memories and you tube helps us reclaim some of the songs and mixes from that era
you guys are silly.... i am from Chicago..i went to Lindblom Technical Highschool 6130 South Wolcott from 1979-1983 Steve Hurley was 2 years ahead of me..and he was a BEAST THEN..so the origins of house music cant be disputed..morons logic is borderline ridiculous...does going to two or three mambo clubs in new york make me a damn mambo authority?
@jroberts2 ///Tell these People, This song may gave you NY'ers a certain feel, But we took it to a Whole Notha Level! Music Really was the Answer in the Chi! Take it from a brotha that lived on 61st and Wolcott!( 6109 So. to be exact! )Gage Park HS in the House!!!!!!!!
@ahtnap Not really, house was simply a continuation of NYC jams like this, that wrere all over chi radio and clubs before house. Frankie Knuckles brought that NYC vibe with him from NYC to Chi.
doesn't mean they invented partying NYC,Philly.NJ, Black people knew how to party all way back to the 30s and 40s the homosexual did invent get down either
i wish they can play this music at the clubs i go to- just getting down and have plan old-fashioned fun- no nasty lyrics and don't have to drop it like's it hot. just move ur feet, feel the music and dance.
I agree with miscsquared. I am from Chicago and In the late 70's we listening to Disco and Funk. In the early 80's we listen on the radio to Dance Music(Friday night live ain't no jive Dance Party.....BMX). DJs like Jesse Sanders help start house music. The music really gained momentum when Chip E came out with Time to Jack. That song same out I believe in 1985. I got a chance to hear that trax before It came out.
Chicago wasn't doing house in the 70s, there are NO house records before 1984-85. The first pressing in 85 was a direct BITE of this track-it was called music is the key by jm silk, even the lyrics were similar.
When i visited Chicago in early 85 before Chicago was makin their own records, their record stores and radio mixes were nothin but NY and Euro records. Even the original tracks were made in NY but weren't heard outside of NYC.
Frankie Knuckles DJ at the Warehouse is from NYC LOL
Thank you MISCSQUARED for Schooling these wannabes. THE CAPITOL OF THE FUCKING WORLD. NY, NY. you heard??? so put an H on ya backs and handle that shit. NY RULES.
chicago was doin house in the 70's before this song. just because the music is similar don't mean chi copied. that's like sayin hip-hop started in brooklyn when it started in the bronx. most house music and original trax WERE from chicago. this nigga is from detroit so you gon claim him too? similar music and similar music scenes, don't hate. don't start that shit, everybody know chicago is the home of house, give it up. we respect n.y. jersey and london, but the house scene is chicago's!!!
yes fellow Jersian new of him back when I was a teenager !! love it ! I wish music was like this now !! this shit they make now is undescribeable!!! someboday please rescue us from this dream or should I say night mare of hip hop!!!
please tell what was this loft vs. the garage? you could´nt dance at the loft garage style and you coul´NT dance loft style at the garage. what the fuck!i just like to dance back then.
Hell yeah the Zanzibar on Broad Street with the Lincoln Motel attached. I'd get lost in the crowd because I am only 4"10". We walk home to B.T. lit up early in the morning
Finally some people that remember the red parrot with the huge parrot in the middle of the dancefloor or maybe i had to much to drink LOL the loft, ones, bonds, Gothams west, roseland, tunnel, 1018 and so much more. I don't know where i found all the energy back then :) Those were the days..
Does anybody remember the name of Club Vynal (Vinal) in 1990's before it was given that name. West side highway, no alcohol, juice bar I think, house music.
I been to Paradise Garage, The Red Parrot, Zanzabar, Nells, the Loft and later to Club Vynal. Never been to club Mars. When was it hoppin' and where was it?
They need to bring those clubs back and play some old school..
If anyone use to club in the fun house, they are having an 80's reunion and they'll be playing some classic house and 80's freestyle, i think with jelly bean benitez dj'ing.
Please tell me more about the reunion! OMG, I would love to go. Love JellyB. Where and when? Thanks for the info chinita41. I lived in Roseland. I rem gettin to clubs before they charged girls. I rem one day telling a cabbie we were the Cover girls to get there on time. How lame! But we were students and broke looking to release the student blues! LOL
lol @ student blues hehehe oh the cover girls live :) thats so funny, that reminds me of pretending i was lisa lisa all the time hehehe. Well i love youtube, one of my old time friends from roseland, coney island and even elementary school recognized my pic on you tube. I can't wait to reminis and catch up with her.
Will do, i'll let you know about the funhouse reunion, time and place. I have to check on jellybeans and the funhouse's myspace.
I met Lisa and hung out with her brother Eladio. He took me his mothers apartment and she was there. He also took me to see her perform in a small venue. Kid from Kid and play was there too! She was dating a rocker at the time and got into promotion in rock. She performed as his back up. Eladio was a good dancer. This was in the 90's. I think I met him in Rascles if I can remember the name. He was a nice guy. We didn't drink or anything of the sort just danced! I hope he is well! Great memories!
Oh wow thats cool, i was a huge fan of lisa lisa. I got to see her perform live in the funhouse and that was the closest i got :) funny you mentioned Kid. i was watching the one hit wonders (count down) show on vhi last night and saw Kid pop up talking. I couldn't believe it was him because he looks so old LOL well he just didn't look like the kid in kid and play anymore lol
I remember this from the days at the Loft on the Lower East Side in NYC when this came on nobody sat down. Those were the days of real good music. Now its souless house with no feeling or flavor of any sort. HOUSE IT UP. BUST IT OUT. Those that have ears let them hear.
breakdancing to this song at rainbow wow the memories!
scarce3370 5 days ago
"Jack-your-Body' People...House Music All Night Long!
DaMaydasTouch 4 weeks ago
i used to be obseeeeeeesed with this song
tushay67 1 month ago
It a jáaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmm
pavynaty 2 months ago
classic chi town house
houseofjrk 2 months ago
@houseofjrk NYC Original Underground thanks Larry Levan and Boyd Jarvis
clinicrecording 1 month ago
So good I played it twice!:)
waynecoolj 3 months ago
Classic song! Still sounding great in 2011:)
waynecoolj 3 months ago
Loved this jam....I was in tip top shape bouncing around the dance floor to this, those were the dayz.
mssquirrely 4 months ago
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BASSREEFLEX 4 months ago
I love his voice.
LeeAnn20008 5 months ago
Turn it up!!!
sjr10011 5 months ago 5
I miss this kind of music, nothing like it. I am also from Newjersey and this is what I grew up listening to.Love it...
Chocolatesmiles7 5 months ago
Zans was known as Abe's first, then all broke out when Zans opened. But those who party from Newark should remember Le Jaques.. Need I say more???
ralph459 6 months ago
THE COLONEL IS TEACHING HOW MUSIC CAN RAISE ONES CONSCIOUSNESS OR MIND TO A POSITIVE THOUGHT.PUTTING OUT MUSIC THAT HAS HIGHER VIRTUES AND A POSITIVE MESSAGE CAN CHANGE HATRED INTO LOVE. THOUGHT MUSIC CAN COMES TRUTH,KNOWLEDGE OF SELF OR FALSEHOOD,MISUNDERSTANDING OF SELF.PEACE.
WilderelAchaiah 6 months ago
what is the person saying below me. i cant hear him because the music is too loud. nobody is talking about music of today. Music of yesturdays is what its about I'm not hating
naseemah100 6 months ago
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Nice!!!!!!
BRINGS ME BACK TO MY TEENAGE YEARS.
THIS SONG IS WORDS I LIVE BY.
GREAT WORDS & WHAT A BEAT.
I 'AM JAMMIN.
♫♪♫♪ Anthony Figgiani ♫♪♫♪
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BRINGS ME BACK TO MY TEENAGE YEARS.
THIS SONG IS WORDS I LIVE BY.
GREAT WORDS & WHAT A BEAT.
I 'AM JAMMIN.
♫♪♫♪ Anthony Figgiani ♫♪♫♪
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Nice!!!!!!
BRINGS ME BACK TO MY TEENAGE YEARS.
THIS SONG IS WORDS I LIVE BY.
GREAT WORDS & WHAT A BEAT.
I 'AM JAMMIN.
thx for the post.
♫♪♫♪ Anthony Figgiani ♫♪♫♪
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BRINGS ME BACK TO MY TEENAGE YEARS.
THIS SONG IS WORDS I LIVE BY.
GREAT WORDS & WHAT A BEAT.
I 'AM JAMMIN.
thx for the post.
♫♪♫♪ Anthony Figgiani ♫♪♫♪
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afiggiani1558 7 months ago
Of of the classic early 80s NYC underground jammies that very clearly were the basis and inspiration for Chicago house music. These NY productions were all over Chicago radio, clubs and record stores.
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afiggiani1558 7 months ago
MUSIC IS THE ANSWER ,SATIN IS BREEDING HATRED,LEWDNESS,MURDERS,ETC, IN TODAY SO CALL HIP- POP AND BAD RAP MUSIC. WE NEED TO PUT HIGHER VIRTUES IN HIP -HOP AND RAP MUSIC ETC ,WE CAN NOT GIVE UP HOPE.
WilderelAchaiah 8 months ago
@WilderelAchaiah Back your words 100% thee devil music of today is promoting hatred & disrespect!
hail up the geniuses of yester year constaintley spreading the love !!!!!! Lena J@Y
MultiDancer7 7 months ago
@WilderelAchaiah Grow up.
BiodegradeableMan 6 months ago in playlist Dee jamz
@WilderelAchaiah I still think there is great stuff in Rap today! You just have to know who is creating masterpieces! Hip Hop will always have high virtues!! That's why we know you like it:)
waynecoolj 3 months ago
i remember how difficult back when he came out with these vids,to find a tv show to display them.only would show them would be "BET"other than that it was nothing!
=8^(
pheet 8 months ago
I hear you.......OMG.........great, Buttermilk Bottoms, Shelter, Loft, Garage....This made us crazy!.......DANCE, DANCE, OMG Yes, Zansibar JC. PG was the best place....Could not stop dancing
herdessa01 8 months ago
im 48 now from Newark New Jersey zanz, Garage, Shelter, Loft. those was the days Man going to the club with your sweat clothes in a bag, spinkling baby powder on the floor, the brothers from Alvin alley Dance theater, would spin an we would dance all nite
TewaheDo21 8 months ago
Zanzibar right next to the Licoln hotel .....House baby .... movies downstairs and slamming house upstairs with a banging system
miknice59 9 months ago
Saw the Colonel live at the Garage way back in the mid 80's
DamianJoel 9 months ago
Man, taking me back to WBMX and the Hot Mix Five!!!!!!!!!!
eyesley 9 months ago
@724Baker I started hanging in the Zanz when I was sixteen and didn't stop partying until I was in my mid twenties.... These VA peeps don't know nothing bout club music for real.
melopy 9 months ago
@melopy yes i am feeling you on that on cuz i am from Brick City and VA don' t know nothing about this. When i play this type of music they can't relate!!!
divacalledbeth 8 months ago
Classic House
Jaycool10 10 months ago
PARADISE GARAGE - Anthem
romealloveragain 10 months ago
chitown baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
larryjames4life 11 months ago
This is Zanzibar Music right here!!!
Brick City Baby!!
I remeber one night at the Zans", Tony Humphries and Timmy Regisford were remixing the hell out of this track.. I saw people pulling their hair and screaming!! what time in the life of...
724Baker 11 months ago
This is Zanzibar Music right here!!!
Brick City Baby!!
724Baker 11 months ago
This was IT! Shout Out , Rialtos, Waterworks, Fosters, the Pub, Powerplant!
blkguyjusttryn 11 months ago
This was IT!
blkguyjusttryn 11 months ago
YO THE CHEETAH CLUB ALL NITE BABY!!!!
lennymac100 1 year ago
You New Yorker's Stop Trippin, Yes This A New York Made Cut. But The Chi Took It To Realms New York Couldn't Fathom. And Please, Please, No More Where House Music Come From! Be Real, We Are, Do You See Us Fussing About Where Rap Come From? Just Chill House Music Forever Baby!
ahtnap 1 year ago
talk to me talk to me that's musick lisen to the words life is still the same and this song is old...
nelsito290 1 year ago
HOW TIMES CHANGE! GREAT TIME IN STREET CULTURE AND NITE LIFE. WAS BI-COASTAL...PARTIED IN NYC AND CHICAGO, ALSO LONDON & JAPAN DURING THIS PERIOD...DAMN
TheColkevin 1 year ago
House baby!!! I remember, cause I was there (NYC) in the 80's. Clubs like Bonds, The Paradise Garage, The Loft, The Red Pariot.....Etc. We knew how to party and have a good time back then. It was all about the music , the women, and...fill in the blanks. LOL
kmiles8176 1 year ago
Why would HCH's response be flagged? Here it is reposted:
@bonecrusher307 Oh no doubt Chi did their version but what's sad is that since house began the masses have assumed that house was an original concept, whereas in reality is was simply a continuation of what was true underground and unknown to most, in NYC.
As far as producing in their houses uses synths, ya that's great but FYI what most outside of NYC never knew was they were doing this there also-before Chi.
HowSilly1 1 year ago
@HowSilly1 Brother you speak the truth. House was conceived in the underground NYC clubs. It was also called "House" at the time. The reason being was that you only heard this type of music "in house" meaning the underground clubs not in most clubs and defineitely not on the radio until it blew up and became commercialized. Thank you for sharing.
pluggedin2u 1 year ago
I don't care who started House!~ If Chi town did so be it. I am a native of New York and it's popular here also. I love the sound of it.
719kai719 1 year ago
TUNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
geeaiye 1 year ago
@hardcorehouse I agree with you as far as Knuckles deserving credit. But its still a Chitown vibe on house music. NY had a trump on Chi because more major record lables were there to turn it up. Chi's DJ's and creative artist who played with 808's and synths in their basements and home made studios had influenced house into a universal vibe. NY is always trying to take the credit for house music. The first song that ever said 'house' was made in Chi and I got a felling you know who it was. Peace
bonecrusher307 1 year ago
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@bonecrusher307 Oh no doubt Chi did their version but what's sad is that since house began the masses have assumed that house was an original concept, whereas in reality is was simply a continuation of what was true underground and unknown to most, in NYC.
As far as producing in their houses uses synths, ya that's great but FYI what most outside of NYC never knew was they were doing this there also-before Chi.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
The colonel was and is still a great artist
waynecoolj 1 year ago
Frankie Knuckles didn't bring house music to Chi though he is well known and respected. House music originated in Chicago by the many talented Djs of the time when music was comming up in the city. House music exploded in the late 80's and 90's developing into a variety of versions like Acid, Club, and Underground House. This was a one jam mixed into the flava of house music and was big in Chi. House music gets its name from Djs mixin music at house parties and city basements. VRP...INC.
bonecrusher307 1 year ago
@bonecrusher307 That's absolutely true that the term house started in chicago-but the vibe didn't. Jams like this by the Colonel were ALL OVER chi radio and club mixes and local record stores. It's NYC that gave chi the idea of house years and yeas earlier, no doubt about it.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
@bonecrusher307 Well actually Knuckles is credit by many many brothers and sisters in chi as the originator, and what he did was simply import the existing NYC vibe to Chi. Sorry to burst your bubble but don't feel bad-only those few in NYC and visitors from the rest of the planet to NYC really saw the big picture. As far as late 80s, that's 15 years after the explosion started in NYC! NYC, the incubator for most of today's main dance musics, including rap, hip hop electro and house.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
@bonecrusher307 Preach Bone!
ahtnap 1 year ago
MAN THIS IS THE SHIT
sexytrannienj 1 year ago
Oh this jam used to make me dance like somebody else...uh uh
CieCieBaby 1 year ago
this was the house song of all house songs for me....If this song was playing the only place you could find me would be the dance floor.
I'd like to hear a remix of this song today!
Tygerr30 1 year ago
Colonel Abrams is NOT the singer of Visual. It's Jason Smith. Anthony Malloy will leave the group to sing (Anthony & the Camp, Temper)
Decastagnal 1 year ago
@Decastagnal I think you are correct. Anyway, if you look at the vinyl label on Les Sun Rae - Revelation (1988) it shows Jason Smith as a co-writer but also says "Dedicated in Loving Memory to Jason Smith", so unfortunately he must have died in 1987/1988.
jarvass 1 year ago
Is Colonel Abrams from Detroit or Chicago?
Soultourist 1 year ago
@jarvass I realized my mistake shortly after I wrote the previous comment. At the time that The Music Got Me came out, the buzz in the clubs was that it was Colonel Abrams singing lead in this group.Not to mention, I am a Paradise Garage Alumni and was privy to a lot of the back of the scenes gossip back in the day. I'm sure there is more than a tinge of truth to the story.
moidounltd2 1 year ago
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jarvass 1 year ago
How come no one has the song, The Music's Got Me, by this group called, Vision, who Colonel Abrams was with before he went solo? We used to tear up the floor in the club when this record came on!
moidounltd2 1 year ago
@moidounltd2 I think you're refering to a 1983 track by Visual called 'The Music Got Me'. The singers do sound VERY similar. I've never seen any literature or record cover info that 100% confirms it is Colonel Abrams though, unless anyone else knows for sure.
jarvass 1 year ago
@jarvass Actually it was Jason Smith on all the Visual records. They're easy to confuse and both NYC based singers sang in the style that was later the basis for house music in Chi. Abrams only sang on some unreleased Boyd Jarvis tracks, which created an underground buzz and led to this 12". The beginnings of house, in NYC plain and simple. I met the Colonel in 84 as they did the rounds of NYC records stores with this track which they played prior to it's release.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
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LEGSUDESIRE 1 year ago
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LEGSUDESIRE 1 year ago
@LEGSUDESIRE No idea where you're going since you didn't make a point but the truth is Timmy's early sound from which he became known might as well have been called the Boyd Jarvis hour. That was the main difference in his mixes and those of other DJs.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
first time at the paradise garage...colonel abrahms performed...the dance floor shook....
ezmiket 1 year ago
yo kid that looks like the garage behind you
NeneLindo13 1 year ago
It's low quality. Fuck this post.
2qoncept 1 year ago
This brings back memories.You can definitely hear Teddy Pendergrass' influence in his vocals.
vlovesrafa 1 year ago
A Most Awesome House Beat - "It takes me back to the 80s clubs. I went from erotic stripper to bartender to head bartender in 7 years - How Many Remember Coconuts at Berwyn and Broadway? "Talk To Me....... Lusciousblkman47
luciousblkman48 1 year ago
Remember the house parties at Mendel?
chiteach2 2 years ago
Now thats going back a minute
ezb4noon 1 year ago
now this is a track .......10/10
S1ipp3rs 2 years ago
fridays at better days!!! Saturdays at the Garage!!!!!! Yeah
divasdiva27 2 years ago
@divasdiva27 Better Days ruled. B)) (See the Better Days Facebook page..)
droopusmaximus 1 year ago
Who remembers club 88 and cosmo's.
12missypoo 2 years ago
I saw CC Rogers, Cherrell and Colonel Abrams at Club 88 in Newark. I think it was New Years eve 88. I have the time of my life. I remember the club was so back with folks dancing that the dance floor up stairs was bouncing up and down. The floor was literally throwing folks in the air.
Freedomx22 2 years ago
*sang*
missstarmag 2 years ago
Yea baby, he sang this at O2 last week. Colonel is absolute quality! James "D Train" n "Colonel" same "Before i let go". Wow! Amazing. Thanks guys. xx
missstarmag 2 years ago
I love this guy:
"On December 12th 2009, The Colonel played a live set at the 'Indigo o2' venue in London, U.K. and performed very energetically with excellent dance moves and that strong voice cutting through the night. He was introduced on stage as the originator of House/Garage (which he is) and received a riotous reception from a sold-out show. The white overcoat he came on stage with looked as if it cost a million dollars and as usual, his dress sense was immaculate."
dominatus84 2 years ago
I remember this at the Garage on Varick St in NYC
m60morales 2 years ago
that's King Street
mxb125 2 years ago
You are absolutely correct !! Thanks, it was a long time ago but it was at 84 King St. I miss that place. Happy Holidays!
m60morales 2 years ago
man i tell you we will always miss that place and the way things were then but at least we had them and can appreciate the memories and you tube helps us reclaim some of the songs and mixes from that era
mxb125 2 years ago
Zanzibar.......Newark NJ Great dance track remember bringing your towel to the club because you danced so much
miknice59 2 years ago
Bloomfield college 79-81....
ralph459 2 years ago
Bloomfild College DJ WESS N JUAN THE 80S...CLASSIC!!!
mtcats 2 years ago
and while you're sleep..wait until you hear what these chicago guys did to james brown and roller skating music
jroberts2 2 years ago
you guys are silly.... i am from Chicago..i went to Lindblom Technical Highschool 6130 South Wolcott from 1979-1983 Steve Hurley was 2 years ahead of me..and he was a BEAST THEN..so the origins of house music cant be disputed..morons logic is borderline ridiculous...does going to two or three mambo clubs in new york make me a damn mambo authority?
jroberts2 2 years ago
@jroberts2 ///Tell these People, This song may gave you NY'ers a certain feel, But we took it to a Whole Notha Level! Music Really was the Answer in the Chi! Take it from a brotha that lived on 61st and Wolcott!( 6109 So. to be exact! )Gage Park HS in the House!!!!!!!!
ahtnap 2 years ago
@ahtnap Not really, house was simply a continuation of NYC jams like this, that wrere all over chi radio and clubs before house. Frankie Knuckles brought that NYC vibe with him from NYC to Chi.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago 2
Yessssssss, ,, zanzabar,,,,,,,,,,, happy birthday tony at zanzabar!
penikad 2 years ago
Chi-town started this whole house thing......gotta love it. I like how it took other forms in Detroit, Baltimore, Europe, etc.
Spencernine 2 years ago
chi town started house thing
doesn't mean they invented partying NYC,Philly.NJ, Black people knew how to party all way back to the 30s and 40s the homosexual did invent get down either
if you saying cause Chi town had alot of gay club
They are not party central
loosestudios 2 years ago
gay /straight/leaning to the side like a pimp hat, who give a fuck when house music is in the air. Now, do u all heard!!!?
BKLoveSonja 1 year ago
i wish they can play this music at the clubs i go to- just getting down and have plan old-fashioned fun- no nasty lyrics and don't have to drop it like's it hot. just move ur feet, feel the music and dance.
NiVeA5678 2 years ago
totally feel ya,,, words to live by!!!
penikad 2 years ago
I Should have done a spell check
jaylani03 2 years ago
I agree with miscsquared. I am from Chicago and In the late 70's we listening to Disco and Funk. In the early 80's we listen on the radio to Dance Music(Friday night live ain't no jive Dance Party.....BMX). DJs like Jesse Sanders help start house music. The music really gained momentum when Chip E came out with Time to Jack. That song same out I believe in 1985. I got a chance to hear that trax before It came out.
jaylani03 2 years ago 2
Chicago wasn't doing house in the 70s, there are NO house records before 1984-85. The first pressing in 85 was a direct BITE of this track-it was called music is the key by jm silk, even the lyrics were similar.
When i visited Chicago in early 85 before Chicago was makin their own records, their record stores and radio mixes were nothin but NY and Euro records. Even the original tracks were made in NY but weren't heard outside of NYC.
Frankie Knuckles DJ at the Warehouse is from NYC LOL
miscsquared 2 years ago 2
Thank you MISCSQUARED for Schooling these wannabes. THE CAPITOL OF THE FUCKING WORLD. NY, NY. you heard??? so put an H on ya backs and handle that shit. NY RULES.
mariocoello100 2 years ago
@miscsquared thousand finger man by rinder and lewis. is proto type of house ,but dont tell people from chicago that.
dosx78 4 months ago
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miscsquared 2 years ago
ok takes me back to my glory days at bloomfield college, OMG partying in Newark and Orange at what was that place called Doops? OOO lawd!!
Iamhischild09 2 years ago
damn doops I remember that spot.
HEATWAVE79 2 years ago
Thank you! I have this song on cd somewhere. It's probably my favorite from him.
nickj12 2 years ago
One of the quinetessential NYC Garage jams copied in Chicago and relabeled house music. This is where they got the idea people.
miscsquared 2 years ago
chicago was doin house in the 70's before this song. just because the music is similar don't mean chi copied. that's like sayin hip-hop started in brooklyn when it started in the bronx. most house music and original trax WERE from chicago. this nigga is from detroit so you gon claim him too? similar music and similar music scenes, don't hate. don't start that shit, everybody know chicago is the home of house, give it up. we respect n.y. jersey and london, but the house scene is chicago's!!!
patg074 2 years ago
ooooh my god got to this video and i am dancing in my computer chair takes me back to my wild college days
mike1096277 2 years ago
Paradise Garage... Zanzabar...
Nuff Said!
bomarquest 2 years ago
mutha fn zanzabar!!!!!!!!
arjomdenis 2 years ago
CHICAGO, HOUSE! LOVE THIS SONG!
greedygretch 2 years ago
club sensation im newark
mcqueenbitch 2 years ago
This was kicking back then ...Did he sing 'Someday' because i got that on tape and it sounds like him? (that's another club hit)
The Bronx
JonasJudah 3 years ago
nah,Someday is by CeCe Rogers
Ruffrob 3 years ago
yes fellow Jersian new of him back when I was a teenager !! love it ! I wish music was like this now !! this shit they make now is undescribeable!!! someboday please rescue us from this dream or should I say night mare of hip hop!!!
dcclay72 3 years ago
This Takes me back to the days in Chicago at the clubs The Warehouse Coconuts and AKA's good times
Derrickt1960 3 years ago
do you know Tweety the best dancer at those parties he is light skin and dances mostly by himself
raineyns07 2 years ago
damn rihgt the zanzibar was the spot. we also used to hit the club on branford pl. what was the name of it? was it club america or club 88?
defx1229 3 years ago
i know zazibar and club 88 was crazy with it!!!
arjomdenis 3 years ago
Brilliant Tune thanks for sharing!
Kalydosos 3 years ago
does anyone have running for another lover?
demarcos69 3 years ago
I miss his shoulder pads
looseassociation 3 years ago
Saw Him At The GARAGE! BACK IN THE DAY!!!
bigslick45 3 years ago
Lol, The Loft, Bonds International, Justine's, Bentley's, The Encore in Queens...They were all the spots.
sblizzy 3 years ago
please tell what was this loft vs. the garage? you could´nt dance at the loft garage style and you coul´NT dance loft style at the garage. what the fuck!i just like to dance back then.
arjomdenis 3 years ago
If you never partied at the Loft in NYC you aint never partied!! back in the 80's real club heads underground play ground.
rachelj110 3 years ago
Greg Riles Yvonne Turner Apache Ramos Winston Jones....
First played by Larry Levan the Keith Herring Party at Paradise Garage..he played it 10 times...Music is the Answer.
GregRiles
rilesent 3 years ago
I remember the Colonel not only Zanzibar, is was in Club 88. Its funny how Jersey new of the Colonel for a long time before anyone else...
Keithb465 3 years ago
This joint was also massive in London England at the time.
It was one of the great "12 records of the day because the B side was the sumptuous
Leave The Message Behind The Door which proved The Colonel was more than a one trick pony.
eamcas67 3 years ago
All I got to say is ol skool Mendel High School, on the south side of chi near 111th.
Waaaay back in the day.
laro1141 3 years ago
Chicago .. the Rialto!
blkguyjusttryn 3 years ago
Rialto's under the EL on Van Buren
Ahh those were the days
ICON9INE 3 years ago
Ah yes... Friday and saturdays nights.. lewis, drell, michael fields on the tables... miss the place ... kinda.
blkguyjusttryn 3 years ago
DC/Baltimore peeps. The Colonel will be @the paradox 08/09/08
dubfunk 3 years ago
to all u brick city peeps i only have to say one word..."ZANZABAR"
holidaystyles1 3 years ago 2
i grew up in newark nj but moved when i was 10. i couldn't wait to get older so that i could go to the zanzibar....LOL. memories...
phe2daphi 3 years ago
Hell yeah the Zanzibar on Broad Street with the Lincoln Motel attached. I'd get lost in the crowd because I am only 4"10". We walk home to B.T. lit up early in the morning
sandreapadgett 3 years ago
j.m. silk...ten city...and the Colonel...
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
this was off the chain back in the 80's...true partying & fun with no nonsense....just fun
JohnCJohnston3 3 years ago
Finally some people that remember the red parrot with the huge parrot in the middle of the dancefloor or maybe i had to much to drink LOL the loft, ones, bonds, Gothams west, roseland, tunnel, 1018 and so much more. I don't know where i found all the energy back then :) Those were the days..
chinita41 3 years ago
Great post;
In '86 I was a resident DJ at a club (Malibu) in Hong Kong i killed them with this record.
Omoade1 3 years ago
Zanzabar, The Silver Shawdow (NYC), Club 88/Brokers, Bogies. Yeah, that was nice. House music, Colonel Abrams forever !!!
budfoxfd 3 years ago
Does anybody remember the name of Club Vynal (Vinal) in 1990's before it was given that name. West side highway, no alcohol, juice bar I think, house music.
seelois 3 years ago
i have been trying to think of the club you talking about and i hate when my mind goes blank :(
chinita41 3 years ago
This is before my time... but man this stuff is so awesome
shaylaboomboom 4 years ago
Who remebers the Red Parrot? Jersey Stand up!
udaman38 4 years ago
yo, i remember the red parrot! never been but i remember hearin bout it tho! 92 WKTU. carlos de jesus, and Paco. feel me?
murdawg187 3 years ago
No doubt! The only reason to listen to KTU was Carlos. Classic. Bentley's, Nell's on Sun nights, MARS, those were clubs.
udaman38 3 years ago
I been to Paradise Garage, The Red Parrot, Zanzabar, Nells, the Loft and later to Club Vynal. Never been to club Mars. When was it hoppin' and where was it?
seelois 3 years ago
Mars was hopin back in 90-92. 12 ave and West Side Hwy. Like 4 blocks up from the Tunnel.
udaman38 3 years ago
I wore the Red Parrot out & the Garage. Those were the days(sigh)
Moodysid 3 years ago
The Parrot was always off the meter! And the women.... Those were the day! True that!
udaman38 3 years ago
They need to bring those clubs back and play some old school..
If anyone use to club in the fun house, they are having an 80's reunion and they'll be playing some classic house and 80's freestyle, i think with jelly bean benitez dj'ing.
chinita41 3 years ago
Please tell me more about the reunion! OMG, I would love to go. Love JellyB. Where and when? Thanks for the info chinita41. I lived in Roseland. I rem gettin to clubs before they charged girls. I rem one day telling a cabbie we were the Cover girls to get there on time. How lame! But we were students and broke looking to release the student blues! LOL
seelois 3 years ago
lol @ student blues hehehe oh the cover girls live :) thats so funny, that reminds me of pretending i was lisa lisa all the time hehehe. Well i love youtube, one of my old time friends from roseland, coney island and even elementary school recognized my pic on you tube. I can't wait to reminis and catch up with her.
Will do, i'll let you know about the funhouse reunion, time and place. I have to check on jellybeans and the funhouse's myspace.
Have a great weekend
chinita41 3 years ago
I met Lisa and hung out with her brother Eladio. He took me his mothers apartment and she was there. He also took me to see her perform in a small venue. Kid from Kid and play was there too! She was dating a rocker at the time and got into promotion in rock. She performed as his back up. Eladio was a good dancer. This was in the 90's. I think I met him in Rascles if I can remember the name. He was a nice guy. We didn't drink or anything of the sort just danced! I hope he is well! Great memories!
seelois 3 years ago
Oh wow thats cool, i was a huge fan of lisa lisa. I got to see her perform live in the funhouse and that was the closest i got :) funny you mentioned Kid. i was watching the one hit wonders (count down) show on vhi last night and saw Kid pop up talking. I couldn't believe it was him because he looks so old LOL well he just didn't look like the kid in kid and play anymore lol
chinita41 3 years ago
club 88, sensations, zanzabar! good ole days in NJ.
eleetsnypaz 4 years ago
club oscar,ks motel,i-muda gooood old days in ibadan.
ibadanman 3 years ago
I remember this from the days at the Loft on the Lower East Side in NYC when this came on nobody sat down. Those were the days of real good music. Now its souless house with no feeling or flavor of any sort. HOUSE IT UP. BUST IT OUT. Those that have ears let them hear.
hawkfist69 4 years ago 2
Legendary!
Thanks for posting!
trcysttt 4 years ago
straight club zansabar, newark nj
bullock40 4 years ago
u sure right the zanibar was the shit back then bullock40
srdjersey61 4 years ago
can someone upload the instrumental
rattler067 4 years ago
j.m. silk...ten city...and the Colonel...
hunn89 4 years ago
I should have known that he sung this jam! Reminds me of Chicago back in the day when they played the hot mixes on Fri and Sat nights on the Radio.
Starrlite77 4 years ago
Awesome song,tight production,classic house 1984 style,far cry from the way house and club music now.
dcflava74 4 years ago 2