If you grew up in Paris France, this was MASSIVE in our soul music club behind Palais Royal, "La Plantation". Best of times! It's still in my heart. I was a happy kid!
When I think of how they WORKED this song on dance floors all over NY and Philly for YEARS, and how those dance floors would be PACKED with twisting, gyrating, hustling, splitting, just CUTTING UP DANCERS, then Lord, I want to thank you, Heavenly Father, for Shining Your Light on me, and having allowed me to be such a part of the GREATEST CLUB ERA the world has ever known...
@njplr MAN, I REMEMBER JAMMIN' TO THIS, IN A "SWEAT BOX" IN SOUTH JERSEY. FORTUNATELY, I GREW UP WITH THESE TRACKS, AND RAP AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON THE ORIGINAL...
thx 4 tha memories. You've been good to me and I've been good to you and I've been all so true, Heeeey .....Doobeedoo Run Run Run. Where's my volume, yeah that's better
Bumbles Wood Green circa 77, me there with my bro, my sister (RIP) her boyfriend who later became her husband & my girlfriend (RIP) and a whole host of friends all dancing and having a great time of it! Those were really the days for sure!
such a classic that is still good today, found it when I was listening to this a Larry Levan set from 1982 at the paradise garage...
always curious what they played back then, I was 1 when this partied happened, I think I would have loved to have been there, not in my diaper of course lol
@littlemsbludress Paradise Garage made you forget planet earth. Larry Levan kept you in the stratosphere with music like this spinning. Larry would go deep into the vault and lace a spin like this with something he Re: tooled, constructed, configured..you take your pick. and just as you thought you were coming down..he put your behind back into the clouds. That was Paradise Garage and Larry Levan was the archetype of all house music. As an old alumni of PG wanted to share that .
@Petravision2000 thanks for sharing that, its sounds surreal, I have experiences like that but not on a consistent basis really, I think thats why we continue clubbing, to find that perfect night once again where everything comes together to make you feel like you are in heaven!
Nostalgia is a bad thing sometimes. But This song invokes so much of it ..At the time we seen a brighter and better time in the future...God help... us look at the music and society today...Not kinda what I expected LOL
@aboverim White Lines wasn't sampled, but it was a cover of a NYC underground by another group called Liquid Liquid. No sampling there, it was an Oberheim drum machine and synth.
Oh how this brings back 1978...now 32 years on I still have to dance (and sing)whenever I hear this (lets hope it is not some where public!!) Roy is just talented and timeless... keep going Roy......last saw you in Kentish Town can't remember the year!!!!
Start of the jazz funk era, what a time Rafters in Manchester!!
I still have this on compilations in the car, mixed in with 50, david guetta, black the ripper, prof green, plan b and tinie tempah (last 4 top UK guys for you US guys :) )
whomever says this song is not disco is wholly & heavily mistaken. I should know, I bought the LP in '77 right smack in the middle of the disco craze. if the telltale era doesn't slap a pair of slacks and a nik-nik print shirt on your back, then i suggest you had better listen closely to the drums....they've got a disco ball spinnin' right above 'em...roy just, in his inimitable & customary way, adds his jazzy mayo on this thick sammich....chomp!
@jonneyd Sorry you are wrong, this song isn't even close to being a disco trax.
This is classic rb from the early 80's from a very awesome rb, jazz musician that was very prevalent during the 70's. He was like Carlos Santana in how he was interchangeable with his music and the people who played with him back then.
@jonneyd This isn't even close to being disco. He is a RB/Jazz musician that's like Carlos Santana in how he flows back and forth btwn the 2 genres. Never the same band, never the same singers outside of his leading vocals.
randomly clicked on this thinking it might be a cover of sly stone's 'running away' - boy is this a surprise, and a great one at that. thanks! now to hunt down the 12"...
WOW BEEN SEARCHIN THIS FOR THE LONGESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT time hahhahaha, DESCRIPTION OF A FOOL HEHEHEHEHE A.T.C.Q. ; )
Noise in general has been mocked copied or sampled since the beggining of man.Music is a survival skill .from the eary hunters manipulating sounds to attract prey to Ventalating the built up emotions of modernised living. This is far from Original in Sound .Inovative trully. if im not mistaken i hear some Blues
First of all, we must love really good music or we would'nt have came here to enjoy the classic genious of Roy Ayers. So we all have more in common that we might think. I used to think sampling was stealing too and that the new guys were talentless. I think differently now. A new genre has been creating through sampling. Now most of it is pretty bad but the standouts like Kanye , Pharrel , Pete Rock and a few others make amazing music for the hip hop community. There is room for both you guys.
Here's a question for you guys. I was watching a documentary about Jay-Z and he showed some studio time with Timbaland. At one point he loosely referred to himself as the best producer ever. Do you guys think new school producers like Tim and Kanye should be put in the same category as guys like Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield and Roy Ayers? Does that comparison even work at all since newer producers sample so much?
I dont think they can possibly be in the same boat there not as original with there stuff like Roy Ayers and Quincy, and Herbie,and Stevie and so on and so on.......nope!
you have seen the light. thing is tho; kanye makes tracks like "when i get my money" and brags about his many materialistic likes. unfortunatley this for me illustrates a lack of "soul" in both the mind set and spiritually, aswell as in the origins of the music, it more about dj premier and j dilla. producers with a bit more integrity. props for the pete rock shout tho! ha
Man,, t his song takes me back to when I was a bitty lil person, and this song would be playing at some body's party. The older folks used to cut a rug to this song too, and the kids would be trying to get their dance on, too. Boy, this takes me back!
I had this on a 45 rpm record when I was 11 years old. side B was a really dark sounding track. I cant remember the name. I played the hell out of this record.
im 27 and I do to....... And to the older people who were there and hate hip hip for sampling these records, if it wasnt for hip hop I wouldnt have discovered all these songs
Habib24202: In your case, I'm very glad hip-hop afforded you the chance to learn of the songs I listened to when I was your age. The problem I have with hip hop (that genre, BTW began in my mid 20s) is that its' supposed essence demands sampling is just a lazy ass excuse. What happened to creativity & independent concept? If sampling is the essence, what happens when everything has been sampled? People, PUT DOWN your x-boxes and learn to play an instrument...it's our only hope...
I guess you would have had to been born in my generation to understand. Im pretty sure when you were my age you and your Parents didnt agree on music....and now here we are today. Hip Hop is creativity but unfortunately I wouldnt be able to get you to see that and Im ok with that because its not for you.
Habib24202: What you say holds some truth & i appreciate your clear observation, but I'll say this...I get the whole "creativity" thing associated with hip-hop, but much of today's music is centered around image more than substance. That said, there ain't much sizzle without the steak....
i see more than you think my man...just wait until you're 10 years older & see what music will (again) evolve into...then you may begin to see where I'm coming from...
I already see what your saying now believe me, but at the same time I can't turn my back on hip hop as if I haven't been listening to it my whole life. This is substance in hip hop its just not on the radio or TV. good talk man peace
nor should you turn your back on the genre you grew up with...just know the substance that you love is rarely original. that's all i'm saying. Cling to that which you love... yes, good talk, peace2u2....
That is your opinion, it is not a fact. So when it becomes a fact, it will gain respect. Other than that it is a mere opinion, how are you going to dictate what is original and what is not? no mater what you say music will speak for itself...I rest my case.
What I say is fact, and fact is you cannot prove me wrong. The truth doesn't hurt, you're just an annoyance who has yet to learn when you are wrong, all of what you said lacks truth, because of your biased thinking you close out on seeing where you are wrong, as far as temper.. please nothing you can say will get me mad, you're on a computer bro get real. Just go and learn your shit before you try to come on here preaching your, "Hip hop isn't original music." Bs, and go learn what a concept is.
I don't see things the way you see things, period.
I care not if you become emotionally attached to a youtube comment, honestly if you feel that low about my argument in contrast to yours go do some soul searching..
Your self righteous rant is the greatest of mirrors. If you take a look at it, you'll see a rigid, frustrated and angry man. You need to reach out to a higher power. Try an electrical outlet... Cheers!
The question remains since you are such a critic about everything what do you do? I've struck a nerve have I? Right about now you are probably stuck at your computer just waiting until I send this comment. Lol grow up bro honestly, if you came on youtube to tell people what music is original and what music isn't you are a clown, either that or you must just be the best musician ever created... I highly doubt it..
it's how you sample it, what you sample, and what you do with what you sample. it's supposed to reflect the past while brightening the present while in the mirror of the future.
but again, if the essence of hip-hop demands sampling, what happens once everything has been sampled? i like your optomistic outlook, but my god, while everyone's sampling, our musical skill, application and lyrical importance is getting rusty as decades go by. Ever seen the movie "The Time Machine" which shows how a future society became apathetic, unskilled and complacent because of decline in learning? That's all I'm saying....we need to stress music in our schools. Roy would agree. peace
Word, but on the contrary unlike most who that may apply to, I know how to play several instruments, piano, bass guitar, drums. etc. but my love and passion is chopping records, it's just the soul of it, and man i have so many records i will never go through them all, and my collection is steady building. I also am an emcee, having started out as so, due to lack of production i began to create my own sound.
one must follow their passions...agreed, but my god, if you possess that much knowledge (to what degree, i don't know), it would be a shame to let that go untapped. Just think, you, like many others (to a fault), are attracted to something already created, when you may well have the skill to do so much more than piggy-back an existing creation well aged over 20-30 years...
i miss the days when there were musicians / vocalists that brought this original music to the table....sigh
Hey man, doing your own thing in music is original. There is nothing easy about what I choose to do, many can argue that it is, but they don't make a new sound from it. See I am but 19 years of age and there are many others who are older than I, that put down sampling, it's not just sampling. It's taking the time to have an appreciation for the record/song. It doesn't even have to be much of a song taken, just a piece. It's really hard to explain what it is like to chop samples man foreal.
I don't let it go untapped, as I have mentioned, I put all of my musical abilities to use. I even sample my own sound!!!! It's just being creative my dude, I think you need to peep out some Pete Rock, better yet DJ Premier. But to answer what you're saying It's not piggy backing, think about it a range of music even back then had reflected early aspects of others. People take ideas from others and go forth onto something bigger with their own ideas. It's like branching out you know?
I know about PR, and more than that...genuis & originality arise from lone concept...sampling is not concept, nor can I say that using "reflections" of other's music from way back is what I'm talking about here...it is piggybacking, but it's alright. do your thing...just know that the current way of devising music is not as authentic and collaborative as it used to be. I'm sorry, but that is not a good thing on the real and collective side.
No fuck that, you make it seem like I am biting, I bite off no one, sampling is a concept otherwise no one would have thought of it in the first place! A concept is a thought. People think thoughts every millisecond, every beat I have ever made has been stemmed from a concept, every verse I have ever written has stemmed from a concept. That is "genius & originality." Because no one has ever made the exact same beat as I, why? because you'd have to steal my brain in order to do so...
agin good line of bull but you'll never fool me for 1and I will never spend a penny on any of that garbage - you steal from those that created the original sounds it's that simple ! Get your own sounds and your own life!
What the fuck do you know about anything. How the fuck you gonna tell me what is and what isn't original... hip hop aint original!?!?!?!? mothafucka are you stupid or just crazy, cats like mos def, talib kweli, big daddy kane, run dmc, nas, az, niggas like fu shnickens, ice t, they paved the way for cats like me, i aint talkin bout them sell outs like lil wayne and drake an all that weak shit. you wouldn't even begin to understand sampling bro, it's not just stealing peoples work..you gotta know
you gotta know your shit. its that simple, i create my own sound, as well as sample if you can fuckin read all i said was that i like to sample from oldies. but i do create my own sound without sampling as well. so you can shut the fuck up talkin sideways to me when i never was talkin to your mark ass anyway nigga.
This ass-clown says hip-hop and rap are original - then 3 comments later he says he samples what he feels - classic BS double-talk - get an original idea without sampling and only then will you get respect - your facts are BS - grown the F up - these rap people are nothing more than thieves stealing grooves, beats , sounds created before most of them were born!!!
I am but a mirror reflecting that music you are saying was original in bringing forth to the table. You have to be attracted to some form of genre of music to branch out into something else is what I am saying. I didn't get in the game to be like everybody else, I got it in it to express myself through music, so everything I do is what I feel. So when I sample it is because what was on the record I felt, When I rap it's what because of what I feel, you get the idea.
I purchased a low end mpc, the 500 because many downed it, I use it and I love it. I have become one with my machine so I myself am an instrument. People trap their minds behind limitations, my limitations opened up the doors to an endless creative imagination. There forth, taking a sample and making something that sounds nothing like what you've sampled is in it's own right original. I wish many others could see why we love to sample. And believe it or not it takes alot of work to chop samples.
@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656
@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656
@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656 THX!
@july1656 violent verses? these tracks were heavily sampled by peeps like tribe called quest (check out "description of a fool"), it doesn't get any more chill than them and you know it, one love
I close my eyes and i'm transported to my days as a teen cruisng East Los Angeles in my 73 Chevy Lowrider being with all the people in my varrio. With those I loved back then,most of them gone now. Funny how music can act like a time machine. It makes me see things so clear as if were just yesterday. Roy Ayers was always playing in the cars on Whittier Blvd.on Saturday nights.
I was 14 when this was out. Brother could walk to the local basement party (there were about 3 every friday) and not have to dodge bullets. We just wanted to hit the dance flo. Straight Class. The beauty of being raised by parents and not baby mama's and baby daddy's.
Hey I'm 49 and my youngest son is 17 and believe me he did'nt have a choice but to listen to my music when he was little but now when I come home, him and his friends are in the basement jammin to my music makes an old man feel good.
This ain't disco roy was into jazz fussion funk dance music better known as party music. disco picked up on a lot of funk party dance music with an upbeat twist. This here is pure party music that's my opinion
THIS song is BEYOND excellent. good friend of mine has a son who used to run to her often thinking that his singing 'stars' of today had come up with a new sound. she had to sadly inform him, MO, that was out when i was growing up. the BIBLE is 'OLD' but is STILL the BEST thing going!!!
F'kin sad but true... Hey these kids are being mugged by today's record companies - just my opinion. But some young 'uns are seeking the classics.. seek & ye shall find!
My God I havent heard this in decades , I LOVED THIS CUT ,, you feel the music in your soul ,in your heart . The just dont make it like this anymore . How I miss Gay NYC 70s . Barefoot Boys , The Loft , Hollywood , Better Days ,,
1977. Hard funk disguised as disco. It's got the disco beat but I never knew another disco song that got straight to the point like this. Really tribal too!
Absolutely incredible! This music is timeless. Gritty, funky, nasty. Tribe Called Quest sampled this well with "description of a fool" on their first joint.
love me some roy!!!
sheryl919 1 month ago
Listen to Roy play them vibes. Pure classic track. Pure ear pleasure.
Renagade70 1 month ago
San Andreas
ARIQULE77 2 months ago
definitely bumped this on grand theft auto san andreas
TrueEmcee203 4 months ago
I LUUUVVVVVVV THIS SONG!!!! BRINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!
THANKS FOR POSTING.
bskeete 4 months ago
Rafters, Manchester, England.
I still have this in the car now and it stands up against US crap out at the moment.
SPARTAThisis 4 months ago
Victor V brought me here
Humza21 5 months ago
@Humza21 I wear baskets on my head sometimes .
bonda130 5 months ago
If you grew up in Paris France, this was MASSIVE in our soul music club behind Palais Royal, "La Plantation". Best of times! It's still in my heart. I was a happy kid!
I really miss my youth.
inxtrmis 5 months ago
DOO BE DOO .. RUN RUN RUN
jazlova1 8 months ago
When I think of how they WORKED this song on dance floors all over NY and Philly for YEARS, and how those dance floors would be PACKED with twisting, gyrating, hustling, splitting, just CUTTING UP DANCERS, then Lord, I want to thank you, Heavenly Father, for Shining Your Light on me, and having allowed me to be such a part of the GREATEST CLUB ERA the world has ever known...
njplr 8 months ago 5
@njplr MAN, I REMEMBER JAMMIN' TO THIS, IN A "SWEAT BOX" IN SOUTH JERSEY. FORTUNATELY, I GREW UP WITH THESE TRACKS, AND RAP AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON THE ORIGINAL...
ALTON1959 7 months ago
LARRY LEVAN...PARADISE GARAGE...NUFF SAID!!!!!
lennymac100 9 months ago
thx 4 tha memories. You've been good to me and I've been good to you and I've been all so true, Heeeey .....Doobeedoo Run Run Run. Where's my volume, yeah that's better
mssquirrely 10 months ago
Bumbles Wood Green circa 77, me there with my bro, my sister (RIP) her boyfriend who later became her husband & my girlfriend (RIP) and a whole host of friends all dancing and having a great time of it! Those were really the days for sure!
swingoutsista1 11 months ago
@swingoutsista1.... I loved bumbles...and did you go to charlie browns too..... (and royalty?)
bushthegardener 8 months ago
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@swingoutsista1 Loved bumbles,... you go to Charlie Browns too? and royalty?
bushthegardener 8 months ago
tha best mix of this piece I've ever heard is on D.J. Danny Tenaglia's cd "Back to Mine".
1blessedbrotha 1 year ago
OMG!!!!!!!! the song that was playing when I walked up the "ramp" and into the Paradise Garage in NYC for the very first time.
man2actor 1 year ago
such a classic that is still good today, found it when I was listening to this a Larry Levan set from 1982 at the paradise garage...
always curious what they played back then, I was 1 when this partied happened, I think I would have loved to have been there, not in my diaper of course lol
littlemsbludress 1 year ago
@littlemsbludress Paradise Garage made you forget planet earth. Larry Levan kept you in the stratosphere with music like this spinning. Larry would go deep into the vault and lace a spin like this with something he Re: tooled, constructed, configured..you take your pick. and just as you thought you were coming down..he put your behind back into the clouds. That was Paradise Garage and Larry Levan was the archetype of all house music. As an old alumni of PG wanted to share that .
Petravision2000 1 year ago
@Petravision2000 thanks for sharing that, its sounds surreal, I have experiences like that but not on a consistent basis really, I think thats why we continue clubbing, to find that perfect night once again where everything comes together to make you feel like you are in heaven!
littlemsbludress 1 year ago
@Petravision2000
Wished I could have visited P.G.....WOULD HAVE FIT IN
sometimes350 9 months ago
One of the best jams ever!!!! EVER!!!
harleydd 1 year ago
Hip hop fans check out The Last Poets...way ahead of it all.
bteiv676 1 year ago
Hip hop fans check out The Last Poets...way ahead of it all
bteiv676 1 year ago
2:45 all the way to 4:40 is my favorite part of the song.
mav4000 1 year ago
im 23............. and i truly love this song and all of the old school artist how layed the foundaition for hip-hop and new school R&B
KingHenrie69 1 year ago
Wow, it's been a long time since I heard this little gem. It took me back down memory lane.
AzucaNegra16 1 year ago
Love this, get me nodding, swaying then dancing
flexiblefeet5 1 year ago
Nostalgia is a bad thing sometimes. But This song invokes so much of it ..At the time we seen a brighter and better time in the future...God help... us look at the music and society today...Not kinda what I expected LOL
BIGPREZY 1 year ago
shite sound quality wash ya ears out FFS
guussi 1 year ago
Even the song 'White Lines' was sampled, and that was back in 1981.
aboverim 1 year ago
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@aboverim White Lines wasn't sampled, but it was a cover of a NYC underground by another group called Liquid Liquid. No sampling there, it was an Oberheim drum machine and synth.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
Get those Jazz Shoes ready all !!!
donzi1505 1 year ago
true superstar saw him live in manchester about 20 years ago very intimate gig only about 200 people there no more than about 4ft from the great man
mancfusion 1 year ago
Da LOFT! HEY Mista David Mancuso, where are you? (L)ove does indeed (S)ave the (D)ay!
fairalways 1 year ago
Where did I hear dis beat b4 oh yeah A tribe called quest a track off their first album.
MAR26116 1 year ago
Oh how this brings back 1978...now 32 years on I still have to dance (and sing)whenever I hear this (lets hope it is not some where public!!) Roy is just talented and timeless... keep going Roy......last saw you in Kentish Town can't remember the year!!!!
turolu 1 year ago
Start of the jazz funk era, what a time Rafters in Manchester!!
I still have this on compilations in the car, mixed in with 50, david guetta, black the ripper, prof green, plan b and tinie tempah (last 4 top UK guys for you US guys :) )
Nametaker08 1 year ago
This track is awesome Ive got this albumn!
jstew345 1 year ago
whomever says this song is not disco is wholly & heavily mistaken. I should know, I bought the LP in '77 right smack in the middle of the disco craze. if the telltale era doesn't slap a pair of slacks and a nik-nik print shirt on your back, then i suggest you had better listen closely to the drums....they've got a disco ball spinnin' right above 'em...roy just, in his inimitable & customary way, adds his jazzy mayo on this thick sammich....chomp!
btinsley1 1 year ago 2
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@btinsley1 Man you're clueless-you bought it during the disco era therefore it's disco bwahahaha what kind of logic is that.
hardcorehouse 1 year ago
love disco
jonneyd 1 year ago
@jonneyd Sorry you are wrong, this song isn't even close to being a disco trax.
This is classic rb from the early 80's from a very awesome rb, jazz musician that was very prevalent during the 70's. He was like Carlos Santana in how he was interchangeable with his music and the people who played with him back then.
29lowell 1 year ago
@jonneyd This isn't even close to being disco. He is a RB/Jazz musician that's like Carlos Santana in how he flows back and forth btwn the 2 genres. Never the same band, never the same singers outside of his leading vocals.
29lowell 1 year ago
I loved this song back then and love it now .
wildflowerchicago 1 year ago
This is the one I like the most!! (From Roy) Remember the kinda shuffle dance we used to do to this hahahah!
viniwear 1 year ago
randomly clicked on this thinking it might be a cover of sly stone's 'running away' - boy is this a surprise, and a great one at that. thanks! now to hunt down the 12"...
Poppycockify 1 year ago
this music is timeless. Tribe Called Quest did a great thing when they sampled this.
ltinsley2 1 year ago
I remember this song when I was in the 10th grade and just starting going out to dances.
BOO2NU 1 year ago
WOW BEEN SEARCHIN THIS FOR THE LONGESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT time hahhahaha, DESCRIPTION OF A FOOL HEHEHEHEHE A.T.C.Q. ; )
akuTee2010Elle 1 year ago
Greg Edwards .. Soul Spectrum.
Man alive ! I'm right back there !
bootsamou 1 year ago
@ Habib - too right, like the lyric go's "You gotta hear blue note to dig def jam"
Iarflaith 1 year ago
psychedalex,
you should get out more
thomgrub 1 year ago
love it
thomgrub 1 year ago
Yo the tribe sampled this joint. I love this original too. Golden tune.
LordFerrand 1 year ago 2
WOW I never knew this was Roy Ayers! no wonder why I like it and want to dance everytime I hear it!!
amarvinwinansfan 1 year ago 2
this is a classic!!!!!!
11972886 1 year ago
Noise in general has been mocked copied or sampled since the beggining of man.Music is a survival skill .from the eary hunters manipulating sounds to attract prey to Ventalating the built up emotions of modernised living. This is far from Original in Sound .Inovative trully. if im not mistaken i hear some Blues
psychedalex 1 year ago 7
First of all, we must love really good music or we would'nt have came here to enjoy the classic genious of Roy Ayers. So we all have more in common that we might think. I used to think sampling was stealing too and that the new guys were talentless. I think differently now. A new genre has been creating through sampling. Now most of it is pretty bad but the standouts like Kanye , Pharrel , Pete Rock and a few others make amazing music for the hip hop community. There is room for both you guys.
walkthnyt2000 1 year ago 3
Here's a question for you guys. I was watching a documentary about Jay-Z and he showed some studio time with Timbaland. At one point he loosely referred to himself as the best producer ever. Do you guys think new school producers like Tim and Kanye should be put in the same category as guys like Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield and Roy Ayers? Does that comparison even work at all since newer producers sample so much?
walkthnyt2000 1 year ago 2
definately not! they arn't the best producers of this generation either.
dinosarus 1 year ago 2
I dont think they can possibly be in the same boat there not as original with there stuff like Roy Ayers and Quincy, and Herbie,and Stevie and so on and so on.......nope!
amarvinwinansfan 1 year ago
@walkthnyt2000 Hell effen no!!!
Khultan 1 year ago
@walkthnyt2000 definitly not those producers...
xBiGRoB619x 1 year ago
you have seen the light. thing is tho; kanye makes tracks like "when i get my money" and brags about his many materialistic likes. unfortunatley this for me illustrates a lack of "soul" in both the mind set and spiritually, aswell as in the origins of the music, it more about dj premier and j dilla. producers with a bit more integrity. props for the pete rock shout tho! ha
peace man
rawchillin 1 year ago
Could not have said it better rawchillin, Peace.
Creamslove 1 year ago
@walkthnyt2000 Yo, don't leave out Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizard Theodore, Kool Herc, beastie boys, and the list goes on
Khultan 1 year ago
Man,, t his song takes me back to when I was a bitty lil person, and this song would be playing at some body's party. The older folks used to cut a rug to this song too, and the kids would be trying to get their dance on, too. Boy, this takes me back!
jarbon5 1 year ago 2
A proper tune that deserves the highest respect.
knobber 2 years ago 2
The 'Ad Hominems' are crazy in HURR! LOL
PatrickOpalisky 2 years ago 2
faggots the both of ya!!
mugphish 2 years ago
I had this on a 45 rpm record when I was 11 years old. side B was a really dark sounding track. I cant remember the name. I played the hell out of this record.
BallinMafia 2 years ago
run run run
tanyatmr 2 years ago
what a Tune * * * * *
villiemack 2 years ago
heavy
Fnix 2 years ago
TUNE! Roy is god!
Nomisnitram 2 years ago 2
I played this out when I was Djing last year. Classic song and it still is funky today. Roy Ayers is a legend!
strictlyriddim 2 years ago 4
I am 22 and I listen to this stuff every single day. ROY AYERS ROCK!!! I freaking love this song. 2:45 part is just amazing.
vibravibra 2 years ago 5
im 27 and I do to....... And to the older people who were there and hate hip hip for sampling these records, if it wasnt for hip hop I wouldnt have discovered all these songs
Habib24202 2 years ago 27
truly -agreed
soulshakedown909 2 years ago 2
Habib24202: In your case, I'm very glad hip-hop afforded you the chance to learn of the songs I listened to when I was your age. The problem I have with hip hop (that genre, BTW began in my mid 20s) is that its' supposed essence demands sampling is just a lazy ass excuse. What happened to creativity & independent concept? If sampling is the essence, what happens when everything has been sampled? People, PUT DOWN your x-boxes and learn to play an instrument...it's our only hope...
btinsley1 2 years ago
I guess you would have had to been born in my generation to understand. Im pretty sure when you were my age you and your Parents didnt agree on music....and now here we are today. Hip Hop is creativity but unfortunately I wouldnt be able to get you to see that and Im ok with that because its not for you.
Habib24202 2 years ago
Habib24202: What you say holds some truth & i appreciate your clear observation, but I'll say this...I get the whole "creativity" thing associated with hip-hop, but much of today's music is centered around image more than substance. That said, there ain't much sizzle without the steak....
i see more than you think my man...just wait until you're 10 years older & see what music will (again) evolve into...then you may begin to see where I'm coming from...
peace
btinsley1 2 years ago
I already see what your saying now believe me, but at the same time I can't turn my back on hip hop as if I haven't been listening to it my whole life. This is substance in hip hop its just not on the radio or TV. good talk man peace
Habib24202 2 years ago
nor should you turn your back on the genre you grew up with...just know the substance that you love is rarely original. that's all i'm saying. Cling to that which you love... yes, good talk, peace2u2....
btinsley1 2 years ago
That is your opinion, it is not a fact. So when it becomes a fact, it will gain respect. Other than that it is a mere opinion, how are you going to dictate what is original and what is not? no mater what you say music will speak for itself...I rest my case.
OGKaine 2 years ago
Please also understand that what you say is also an opinion....definitely remember that, okay? case rested....
btinsley1 2 years ago
What I say is fact, and fact is you cannot prove me wrong. The truth doesn't hurt, you're just an annoyance who has yet to learn when you are wrong, all of what you said lacks truth, because of your biased thinking you close out on seeing where you are wrong, as far as temper.. please nothing you can say will get me mad, you're on a computer bro get real. Just go and learn your shit before you try to come on here preaching your, "Hip hop isn't original music." Bs, and go learn what a concept is.
OGKaine 2 years ago
that's really mean dude. don't take yourself so seriously...no-one else does
btinsley1 2 years ago
I don't see things the way you see things, period.
I care not if you become emotionally attached to a youtube comment, honestly if you feel that low about my argument in contrast to yours go do some soul searching..
OGKaine 2 years ago
That's so insulting, I have no choice but to laugh at your anger....(or go make myself puke) Cheers !
btinsley1 2 years ago
I'm not angry, do what you wish, just come with facts next time..
OGKaine 2 years ago
Your self righteous rant is the greatest of mirrors. If you take a look at it, you'll see a rigid, frustrated and angry man. You need to reach out to a higher power. Try an electrical outlet... Cheers!
btinsley1 2 years ago
Nope, I see a man who makes original music.
The question remains since you are such a critic about everything what do you do? I've struck a nerve have I? Right about now you are probably stuck at your computer just waiting until I send this comment. Lol grow up bro honestly, if you came on youtube to tell people what music is original and what music isn't you are a clown, either that or you must just be the best musician ever created... I highly doubt it..
OGKaine 2 years ago
it's how you sample it, what you sample, and what you do with what you sample. it's supposed to reflect the past while brightening the present while in the mirror of the future.
OGKaine 2 years ago
but again, if the essence of hip-hop demands sampling, what happens once everything has been sampled? i like your optomistic outlook, but my god, while everyone's sampling, our musical skill, application and lyrical importance is getting rusty as decades go by. Ever seen the movie "The Time Machine" which shows how a future society became apathetic, unskilled and complacent because of decline in learning? That's all I'm saying....we need to stress music in our schools. Roy would agree. peace
btinsley1 2 years ago
Word, but on the contrary unlike most who that may apply to, I know how to play several instruments, piano, bass guitar, drums. etc. but my love and passion is chopping records, it's just the soul of it, and man i have so many records i will never go through them all, and my collection is steady building. I also am an emcee, having started out as so, due to lack of production i began to create my own sound.
OGKaine 2 years ago
one must follow their passions...agreed, but my god, if you possess that much knowledge (to what degree, i don't know), it would be a shame to let that go untapped. Just think, you, like many others (to a fault), are attracted to something already created, when you may well have the skill to do so much more than piggy-back an existing creation well aged over 20-30 years...
i miss the days when there were musicians / vocalists that brought this original music to the table....sigh
btinsley1 2 years ago
Hey man, doing your own thing in music is original. There is nothing easy about what I choose to do, many can argue that it is, but they don't make a new sound from it. See I am but 19 years of age and there are many others who are older than I, that put down sampling, it's not just sampling. It's taking the time to have an appreciation for the record/song. It doesn't even have to be much of a song taken, just a piece. It's really hard to explain what it is like to chop samples man foreal.
OGKaine 2 years ago
I don't let it go untapped, as I have mentioned, I put all of my musical abilities to use. I even sample my own sound!!!! It's just being creative my dude, I think you need to peep out some Pete Rock, better yet DJ Premier. But to answer what you're saying It's not piggy backing, think about it a range of music even back then had reflected early aspects of others. People take ideas from others and go forth onto something bigger with their own ideas. It's like branching out you know?
OGKaine 2 years ago
I know about PR, and more than that...genuis & originality arise from lone concept...sampling is not concept, nor can I say that using "reflections" of other's music from way back is what I'm talking about here...it is piggybacking, but it's alright. do your thing...just know that the current way of devising music is not as authentic and collaborative as it used to be. I'm sorry, but that is not a good thing on the real and collective side.
done...
btinsley1 2 years ago
No fuck that, you make it seem like I am biting, I bite off no one, sampling is a concept otherwise no one would have thought of it in the first place! A concept is a thought. People think thoughts every millisecond, every beat I have ever made has been stemmed from a concept, every verse I have ever written has stemmed from a concept. That is "genius & originality." Because no one has ever made the exact same beat as I, why? because you'd have to steal my brain in order to do so...
OGKaine 2 years ago
temper, temper.... the truth sometimes hurts....facing it helps to heal...
btinsley1 2 years ago
agin good line of bull but you'll never fool me for 1and I will never spend a penny on any of that garbage - you steal from those that created the original sounds it's that simple ! Get your own sounds and your own life!
phase901 1 year ago
What the fuck do you know about anything. How the fuck you gonna tell me what is and what isn't original... hip hop aint original!?!?!?!? mothafucka are you stupid or just crazy, cats like mos def, talib kweli, big daddy kane, run dmc, nas, az, niggas like fu shnickens, ice t, they paved the way for cats like me, i aint talkin bout them sell outs like lil wayne and drake an all that weak shit. you wouldn't even begin to understand sampling bro, it's not just stealing peoples work..you gotta know
OGKaine 1 year ago
you gotta know your shit. its that simple, i create my own sound, as well as sample if you can fuckin read all i said was that i like to sample from oldies. but i do create my own sound without sampling as well. so you can shut the fuck up talkin sideways to me when i never was talkin to your mark ass anyway nigga.
OGKaine 1 year ago
This ass-clown says hip-hop and rap are original - then 3 comments later he says he samples what he feels - classic BS double-talk - get an original idea without sampling and only then will you get respect - your facts are BS - grown the F up - these rap people are nothing more than thieves stealing grooves, beats , sounds created before most of them were born!!!
phase901 1 year ago
I am but a mirror reflecting that music you are saying was original in bringing forth to the table. You have to be attracted to some form of genre of music to branch out into something else is what I am saying. I didn't get in the game to be like everybody else, I got it in it to express myself through music, so everything I do is what I feel. So when I sample it is because what was on the record I felt, When I rap it's what because of what I feel, you get the idea.
OGKaine 2 years ago
I purchased a low end mpc, the 500 because many downed it, I use it and I love it. I have become one with my machine so I myself am an instrument. People trap their minds behind limitations, my limitations opened up the doors to an endless creative imagination. There forth, taking a sample and making something that sounds nothing like what you've sampled is in it's own right original. I wish many others could see why we love to sample. And believe it or not it takes alot of work to chop samples.
OGKaine 2 years ago
@Habib24202 agreed im 15 and i love funk and hip hop infact ive dedicated my channel to funk check it out for sum rare grooves!
TheFUNKSTARR 1 year ago
@TheFUNKSTARR
Just checked and you have good taste young man. Shame you missed out on 77-78!!
crowhillian58 1 year ago
@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656
july1656 1 year ago
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@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656
july1656 1 year ago
@Habib24202 Hey Habib! this is a MEMBER of the "OLDER PEOPLE" you mention in your comment! GUESS WHAT? This "OLDER PERSON " doesn't hate "HIP HOP" for "SAMPLING" (as you call it) these records, I simply have a problem with the fact that you very talented (YOUNG & PASSIONATE ONES) have a tendency to use our historical music to play to the MASSES OF NEGATIVITY! Please, Please, listen to the message of these GREAT MUSICIANS before you DESECRATE THEIR MEMORY WITH YOUR VIOLENT VERSES! july1656 THX!
july1656 1 year ago 33
@july1656 ALL RAPPERS ARENT VIOLENT!!!....I see we both dont understand each others worlds
Habib24202 1 year ago
@july1656 violent verses? these tracks were heavily sampled by peeps like tribe called quest (check out "description of a fool"), it doesn't get any more chill than them and you know it, one love
alphanumerik 11 months ago
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Reiralicious 3 weeks ago
ha ha I'm 22 too. <3 Roy Ayers
missaquaboogie 2 years ago
I close my eyes and i'm transported to my days as a teen cruisng East Los Angeles in my 73 Chevy Lowrider being with all the people in my varrio. With those I loved back then,most of them gone now. Funny how music can act like a time machine. It makes me see things so clear as if were just yesterday. Roy Ayers was always playing in the cars on Whittier Blvd.on Saturday nights.
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago 17
@LosAngeleno1959 Well said!!
trojanluck88 1 year ago
I was 14 when this was out. Brother could walk to the local basement party (there were about 3 every friday) and not have to dodge bullets. We just wanted to hit the dance flo. Straight Class. The beauty of being raised by parents and not baby mama's and baby daddy's.
pforeverfunk 2 years ago 5
Wow bring back memoirs. Love to party off this.
Go Roy Ayers
sexyblkcic 2 years ago
Hey I'm 49 and my youngest son is 17 and believe me he did'nt have a choice but to listen to my music when he was little but now when I come home, him and his friends are in the basement jammin to my music makes an old man feel good.
abston60 2 years ago 10
I guess this is what The group BRICK, meant by Disco - Jazz by terming their brand of music DAZZ. Disco, Jazz
JGfitzz 2 years ago
JGfitzz---------1970s JAZZ FUNK later labeled as SMOOTH JAZZ
nola2laca 2 years ago
This ain't disco roy was into jazz fussion funk dance music better known as party music. disco picked up on a lot of funk party dance music with an upbeat twist. This here is pure party music that's my opinion
vootetman 2 years ago
THIS song is BEYOND excellent. good friend of mine has a son who used to run to her often thinking that his singing 'stars' of today had come up with a new sound. she had to sadly inform him, MO, that was out when i was growing up. the BIBLE is 'OLD' but is STILL the BEST thing going!!!
tofelt 2 years ago
A true classic. People nowadays don't have the relax and chill music that you can just vibe to. Young people, really check out the old school.
damos718 2 years ago 4
The vibes solo halfway in kills me... :-)
MadBillyWhiz 2 years ago
wow such an 80s funk vibe x
morningsnoopy 2 years ago
Yeh! Hades @Cliftonville with Spencer Williams or Atlantis Margate with Pete Tong . Them was the dayz...
tombstonemark 2 years ago
its really from the 70's though :D
6garbageman9 2 years ago
i dare you.
finitolamusica 2 years ago
Crazy Roy Ayers!!!! I let this funk ride all day......
Neva knew about this tune...its wen A Tribe Called Quest sampled it on "description of a fool" ....their first album....
jlajikal 2 years ago
this isnt on san andreas
jmydn 2 years ago
it's on Driver Parallel Lines. I can honestly say I would rather play any driver game than GTA just because there are so many awesome tracks
Thunderdome616 2 years ago
Wrong! That's where I first heard it and learnt about it! LOL Check the soundtrack again homeslice. :)
tall32guy 2 years ago
love Roy - saw him at Hammersmith odean all those years ago! still souynds good!!
Lauracb1000 2 years ago
Just sublime. Hustle all night to this.
alkh3myst 2 years ago
what a track! love this feel good track every time i hear it. Then people will listen to that rubbish they release our day
wisheywashywhitey 2 years ago
Music truly lost its originality
Mchild7 2 years ago 3
F'kin sad but true... Hey these kids are being mugged by today's record companies - just my opinion. But some young 'uns are seeking the classics.. seek & ye shall find!
MadBillyWhiz 2 years ago 15
so true fam I love old soul classics always searchin and then I found this gem and had to post it!
schoolemk 2 years ago
Im 22 and lovin the Old School Jams
Alexpmcny 2 years ago 2
i seek, i find, i conquer.
OGKaine 2 years ago
LOL! Yeah you does make a person feel like that!
kell7wlt 2 years ago
lol
OGKaine 2 years ago
LOL my wife dont love me like she use to.either after 44 years. so i have to find me another woman :( LOL
whitesno2 2 years ago
good luck wit that mate sure urel find the perfect woman!
mrfundah 2 years ago
were did all the good music go :( when there was a meaning to a song :)
whitesno2 2 years ago
My God I havent heard this in decades , I LOVED THIS CUT ,, you feel the music in your soul ,in your heart . The just dont make it like this anymore . How I miss Gay NYC 70s . Barefoot Boys , The Loft , Hollywood , Better Days ,,
Boricuaplanet 2 years ago 2
This is not disco man this soul party music real bump and grind music love Roy ayers
tkpruel 2 years ago
tkpruel--------------yep ur right......1970s JAZZ FUNK later labeled as SMOOTH JAZZ....
nola2laca 2 years ago
i loved listening to this song on driver parallel lines while driving the black colonna the sound of the engine and this song went together
motoC290 2 years ago
The baddest G-flat bassline of all time. Clicckin!
jeremyshockey234 2 years ago 2
this song is so damn difficult to locate....but I'm glad I found it
LaydeeTee0890 2 years ago 3
cool song
lifeofbyrd 2 years ago
heard this song on ellen ,thanks tony the dj!
spewwwin07 2 years ago
This song still rips!
jankins24 2 years ago
I first heard this on 'Top Gear'..( UK car show )..took me ages to find it.
celt67 2 years ago
guessing ya did the same as me for a while by searching 'dibby doo'
RenegadeOfSociety 2 years ago
Hahaha, exactly the same thing.
celt67 2 years ago
I saw it on a b-ball documentary so I just waited for the song list on the credits and took a guess....but the song is sick
nailaakileh 2 years ago
Wow! This is classic oldskool rare groove.
Smooth, and delicious track.....Is it 1979?
Unfortunately never got this one on vinyl.
But have it on other formats.
TheDelightfulmiles 2 years ago
1977. Hard funk disguised as disco. It's got the disco beat but I never knew another disco song that got straight to the point like this. Really tribal too!
DiscoHank 2 years ago 3
You got that right DiscoHank!
greenmean1 2 years ago
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manuel030393 2 years ago
Absolutely incredible! This music is timeless. Gritty, funky, nasty. Tribe Called Quest sampled this well with "description of a fool" on their first joint.
ltinsley2 2 years ago 5
true that! timeless my friend!
schoolemk 2 years ago
fab track, this dude is a genius! The beat is so funky & chunky! I just wonder who is more of a genius, Roy Ayers or Curtis Mayfield?
foxgirl100 2 years ago 2
I know that this song had to be a disco classic. It was crafted before my time, but I can feel disco all over this. It's just groovy like that:)
jarbon5 2 years ago 6
The lead and background vocalists are Edwin Birdsong, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Sylvia Cox. They did all the vocals on the Lifeline album (1977).
mayena 2 years ago
Thankx for the long version, my friend.
Brings bak so many memories.
bootsamou 2 years ago
Mannnnnnn....., I miss this period in time! Back when music had CLASS! Let's do it again Black People!
PEACE
ddesign63 2 years ago 8
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noodIes0up 2 years ago