My love is alive (Gary Wright ) original version

[DSSimpson66]

I was 9 !

[270billybob]

GREAT SONG GREAT SINGER THEY CAN'T MAKE MUSUC LIKE THIS ANY MORE THEY HAVE TO SCREAM MOST CAN'T SING NOW DAY'S

[stdppy]

THIS ALBUM IS FANTASTIC...EVERY SONG IS GREAT NOT ONE BAD SONG....

[pursuee1]

SOME TUNES ARE TIMELESS,THIS IS ONE OF LITERALLY 100'S FROM THE INNOCENT 70'S. GREAT MEMORIES FROM JR HIGH IN FREMONT,CA! THANKS FOR QUALITY UPLOAD!!

[MrVeesworld]

@pursuee1 You are welcome. I loved the Bay area in the 70's.I grew up in Mtn View, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Cupertino during this era.

[catjoyyoung]

One of my all time favs

[gunner420ful]

Great tune.....loved it then and now!

[stationranger]

Sampling is ripping off the work of one artist with or without permission (mostly without) and not paying or giving credit on their recording. How do they (rappers) get away with it? What if the original artist objects to his or her music being sampled? Where does the law stand on this? It's one thing to do a cover version of someone else's song where the original artist is acknowledged and paid a fee for the right but Sampling someone else's work is blantant unabashed thief in my view.

[djryansnow]

I like the Chaka Khan cover.

[NijhtOwl]

Classic song. Joe Cocker did a great cover of this on his 1990 live album.

[tobaker70]

this and dream weaver, i remember as a kid my mom playing this over and over...still sounds great today

[SuperMoon789]

I heard this song in the waiting room of my son's dermatologists office a few weeks ago. The local radio station was playing it-I had forgotten about this song and how freaking awesome it is. Took me back in time for sure!

[davfrui]

AND FOOLS OF TODAY THINK RAP IS COOL???

COME ON.. ANYONE CAN SPIN AN ALBUM BACKWARDS AND SPIT IN A MIC.

[Bionicjulius]

This beat was sampled. Belly soundtrack....Mya, Reakwon, Noreaga  1998

[wingman572]

turn it up!!!!!!!!!!

[Wamz1978]

Jim Keltner is such a badass... listen to that drumming

[psnitz14]

Awesome song, loved it then and still love it know. they don't make music like this anymore. what ashame!!! thx for sharing!!

[DohaRoha]

3rd Bass samples this beat. I don't know what you're talking about.

[MrVeesworld]

@DohaRoha Gas Face? Okay they were a novelity of sorts at the time but I do not remember their sampling of this song and I did not buy their records as I was too busy listening to Too Short and Tribe Called Quest at the time.

[jserrano95205]

@MrVeesworld  the song is "words of wisdom" that sampled this

[epsons25]

@MrVeesworld they sampled this in "Wordz of Wisdom"

[iwantoldschool]

A young and plagiarist Duran Duran clearly listened very closely to the middle eight of this one.

[simonesmitten]

I was only a year old when this song came out... I LOVE IT!! I play drums and I just love to play this song... it's a classic... nuff said!!! :D

[6218mazz]

awesome song awesome.......................­.

[akretowicz]

I was 15 when this came out, loved it then, and still love this song today. Thanks for postiing.

[MrVeesworld]

@akretowicz You got it. Pleasure was all mine.

[davfrui]

@MrVeesworld I WAS 18 the 70's rocked !

[yogananada]

@davfrui me too chief. listened to this album in India. This album was in honor of one Indian guru called Swami Parmahansa Yogananda who came to USA in 1917. Read his book "Divine Love". Amazing. God bless us all.

[kenatboynton]

@yogananada Indeed, did you read the "autobiography of a yogi"? You should if you haven't...what a superb human and his mentors were simply amazing. I wish we had more of what he offered in this world, it might have been a better place to live in! Peace.

[testizel]

this nigga looks like a zombie lmao

[nakedfaves]

I had the LP once. I was reading the back of it one day and I read the following "type of message".

Except for the drums, vocals, and Ronny Montrose Guitar on 1 specific song...every other sound that can be heard on this album is from keyboards. No woodwinds, no brass, no acoustic strings, no percussion, nothing. Drums, vocals, 1 guitar on 1 song, and keyboards. That's it.

[MrVeesworld]

@nakedfaves I also remember reading that ab out this album when I bought it.

[fennitch]

@nakedfaves

It's interesting that no one ever sites his influence on electronic music.

Apart from Depeche Mode or Kraftwerk, there weren't a lot of synth-purist bands out there.

[phukpasswords]

I am sad when I listen to the crap my teen and pre-teen kids are listening to these days! I remember my older sisters listening to this. (Sigh) Some days I feel like I could lay in a big field of grass and smoke a joint while watching the clouds go by. This songs and songs from that era just represent a simpler and more peaceful time. But I suppose bad shit was happening back then too. Thank God for this music! Gives us an escape during shitty times in our lives...........

[Thadesgal]

@phukpasswords Take your ipod, get a fatty from your kids and drive out to that state park way out in the middle, walk about a 1/4 mile into that field, lay down, plug in and light up. For the next three hours or so DO NOT MOVE. If it's cold, take a blanket. If it's warm well, I envy you. Peace.

;o )

[7466309change]

used to ly in the grassey lawn listening to this forever.

[scooter1161]

Gary wright was such a awsome mmog keybord player . he influenced me so much !!! i got now 3 full keybord albums under my belt . Thanks again gary . jeff macdonald .

[4444ThinLizzy]

Remember My brother(now with The Lord) and his friends picking ME up from grammar school all "lit up" on "things" and my Mom not knowing they had her car ! Great song ! Thanks !

[ElvisBluntman777]

3rd bass...wordz of wisdom

[chipawaue123]

'71 Mach 1, I was the stuff. Even had a stereo with crappy 6" spkrs, LOL

[ZefreyLove]

Children today will never know what freedom was really like, I feel lucky to have experienced it, otherwise would never know the difference....

[ZefreyLove]

@ZefreyLove Today's technology infringes on privacy,In which can control one's success or controlled to demise one's ability.

[raynbo7]

I was 9 & very much a country music fan. I grew up listening & watching country music on TV. But, I was also the youngest of 7. & had 5 older bro's. All in2 Rock n' Roll. So I definitely herd it & listened 2 it. I remember this song in the beanfield picking beans & on the radio while camping. Brings back good memories of my childhood. Didn't realize it was Gary Wright, the same guy who did Dreamweaver, who sang this song til now. Cool!

[ZefreyLove]

Nothing like the Old Days,, this song will get your blood flowing,,, one of my all time favorites...

[PJ3usa]

execellent song. music used to be GREAT. we need it back

[Discoboy504]

The 70s Ruled. To me everything since has been "less than" in comparison. Thank the Gods I was a kid back then.

[Discoboy504]

Just Awesome....real music.

[MSLTUL]

Oh, yeh. This is a good one I had forgotten about.

[MrVeesworld]

@MSLTUL Go listen to these old school gems:

"Under cover Angel" and "Magnet and Steel"

[candi770]

My man sent this to me-totally in love!

[ezdno]

The first record my grandfather ever bought for me was the Dreamweaver 45...much to my surprise...this was the flipside! Changed my outlook on music forever.

[snickersnafu]

yeh,...my love is alive...luv for this song...is immortal

[fairlanejay]

I was 13, loved hearing this song on the fm radio... dam im old... lol

[MrVeesworld]

@fairlanejay No you are not old, just seasoned baby!

[dave25239]

@MrVeesworld The older the fiddle the sweeter the music!

[MrVeesworld]

@dave25239 Yes sir!!

[ZefreyLove]

@fairlanejay LOL,, I was 9, it is one of the best songs of all times.

[raynbo7]

@fairlanejay  LOL Rn't we all, my friend.

[7466309change]

@fairlanejay you,re wiser then most remmber that.Carry on my friends.

[Charma34]

@fairlanejay And I was 22, doing the nasty bump-n-grind on the dance floors to it. Still can get down to it.

[dave25239]

@fairlanejay I was the same age we`re not just well seasoned!!

[FATHERKNOSEBEST]

Saw this guy at Balboa Stadium back in 75. they opened for one of those mega concerts with Santana, Chicago or Rod Stewart. Can't quite remember, I was really drink at the time.

[eddieg671]

I HAD A EVIL KINEVIL BIKE BACK THEN

[MrVeesworld]

@eddieg671 Me too. My dad bought me one from KMART in 1976.

[plainolddavid]

The 70's was definitely a unique decade with some outstanding music.

[51Thundersticks]

I remember driving through the So. Cal. hills hunting at night listening to this song.

[51Thundersticks]

I remember this song kicking ass, listening to it on a small radio in my bedroom. 

[stationranger]

Someone build a time machine or find a wormhole to transport me back to 1975.

It wasn't all great back then but the music was better, I was 36 years younger, partied like there's no tomorrow and got laid (a lot). My youth, gone too soon may it rest in peace.

I really miss that last part.

[1973mhc]

Our Ecomony is worse than the late 70's....Maybe the coefficent of good music will improve. Good luck and God Bless!!

[MrVeesworld]

@1973mhc Yep it is down the crapper right now and I truly hope and pray somebody recreates good music and does away with this synthetic mindless talentless garbaush that they call muzak.

[toonzguy]

Ah, the 70's...the LAST really good decade from FRONT TO BACK....I was a kid then, but I WAS THERE!!!!! LOL! Things went downhill after 1984, imho....

P.S. Don't give these flavor-of-the-month rappers the idea of stealing THIS one, yo? LOL!

[MrVeesworld]

@toonzguy That is right!!

[divisorplot]

pumping good!

[NatamCohen]

Chaka Khan covered it way back in 1984 to awesome results. Give it a spin.

[TheColkevin]

Yep..The 70's were cool...Even tv

[MrVeesworld]

@TheColkevin You know it was good if we said the that TV was good. Since when have you see na good tv show since the 70's. NEVER! We had the best of times as kids back then for sure.

[mikeflbiker]

This was sampled by Tone Loc in 1989 on the album Loc'ed After Dark.. the album that had Funky Cold Medina and Wild Thing. The song was called "Cuttin Rhythms" and wasn't released as a single.

[tahitigirl1962]

for you Bill rest in peace my love !

[TheNativewine43]

@arkady714...you got that right, its what you make it...if we didn't have this we would not about love is alive...my love is alive! SEXY music :) cheesing!

[TheNativewine43]

Its gravy baby...this is what it what music is about! My heart is on FIRE!

[amerrittification]

Whenever I hear this song, all I can picture is Arwen washing a car from One Night At McCools.

[MrMikej413]

I can't believe no hip hop or rap artists(or anyone for that matter)haven't sampled this either. I actually thought about it being good for that.

[jfk71589]

more cowbell!

[coaytch]

Bring this shit back around. Lot of soul for a white boy......hell,a lot of soul for anybody!! Miss these days!!

[MrVeesworld]

@coaytch So damn true!!! This beat and the vibe is so frickin bad ass I can hardly stand it. Buddum. buddum bumpp bumpp!!

[TyjaluvsChaka]

@coaytch I so agree!!! Even though I'm one Chaka's biggest fans this the definitive version!!! I'd rather listen to this version!!!

[davfrui]

@coaytch no shit.. todays rap sucks a big one..

[Lazer721]

Great 70's tune rocked this out in high school.

[fiddlewon]

yea it was sample by somebody

[Mastophales]

Growing up in the Pittsburgh Area, and watching the team that all other NFL Dynasties are measured by... It truly was the Super 70's !!

[MightyZarkon]

My fav song of all time....ever!

[AMP1fy3000]

Totally dig this tune! This will motivate you to get off your butt and get busy doing something.

[JackFox13]

say what you will but everyone loved this song, rednecks included.

[glowrella]

This song is so bad...My love is so alive.

[HEARTHEANGELSVOICES]

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE UNORIGINAL VERSION? ANYONE KNOW?

[jackjuicepicklebrain]

One dislike! Always one Richard Cranium in a crowd.

[odinscousin]

But Damned the Gods' We were Free!!

[matthewhanhauser]

great but could use a tad more cowbell.

[wagionskeet]

1 person's love is dead

[brbigdaddy]

It has been sampled Words of Wisdom 3rd Base 89 or 90

[dalepetersenjr]

the pioneer of looping. He obtained every sound from his keyboard/ synthesizer

[arkady714]

Say what you want about the 1970s...Qiana shirts, platform shoes, a decade of bad hair, leisure suits, bad television, crap politics, energy crisis, stagflation and recession...

But, heck, the music was unreal

[MrVeesworld]

@arkady714 HI FIVE ON THAT ONE!!

[Fishtale63]

@MrVeesworld  AGREED!!! The 70's KICKED ASS!!!

[guyp9964]

@MrVeesworld ...Nothing like that s**t in most of today's music...

[cadoey]

Damm Right Those Were The Good Old Days....

[nameless6113]

@MrVeesworld Well at leaste the politics are the same!

[cadoey]

@arkady714 Oh Hell Yea......

[snowy16100]

@arkady714 lol..but we all miss the 70's,and this is one of "oh so wonderful" songs from that era. I'd give you the entire 80's and 90's combined just to have the 70's back! Gary Wright was one talented dude.... (you forgot bubble shirts,buckskin fringed jackets,and really big peace signs drawn on everything...Far Out!)

[arkady714]

@snowy16100 Mood rings, pet rocks, Mexican weed (the dry stuff that you had to "clean"), clothing with your name on if, men getting perms, flavored rolling paper, quadrophonic stereo, roller disco...

[Havencheese]

@arkady714 Sport was better though, way better.

[raynbo7]

@arkady714 U know it! 

[calicuz]

Actually a rap group called "3rd Bass" sampled it back in 89' on a track called "Wordz of Wisdom", they even threw in a little "Dream Weaver", it's not a bad sample given the time period but it just makes me want to hear the original even more. This song is just plain "TOUGH"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Q4JULY33063]

IM so old i have this on 8 TRACK TAPE (click!) track 2 lolol

[denjr99]

100th straight thumbs up!!

[willtrac]

wwwwhhhhhoooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhh­h!!!!!!!



[78MamaKat]

3rd Bass sampled this on their first album!

[doctorwintercold]

...I love the way you close your eyes !..

[patrickwayne]

JURASSIC 5 SAMPLE!!!

[calicuz]

@patrickwayne Which track?

[Hot100daze1976to1997]

This song - Love Is Alive - By Gary Wright peaked at # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart on 07-22-1976

[zomett]

west of the rockies call .....

[MrVeesworld]

I wonder who is going to give the 100th straight thumbs up to this?

[ingridaaa]

@MrVeesworld me. ha!

[MrVeesworld]

@ingridaaa DING DING DING!!! You won the prize!!!

[MrVeesworld]

Everyone that came here deserves a thumbs up!

[Herbicide420]

I just thought of the perfect mash up;

This music to Peter Gabriel singing "Sledgehammer"

[crimson1667]

thank you! i hate the joe crocker version...

[jillgivler]

my heart is on fire . . . my soul's like a wheel that's turnin . . . my love is ay-live . . .

[jillgivler]

my heart is on fire, my soul's like a wheel that's turnin . . . mu love is ay-live . . .

[MrVeesworld]

Thumbs up if you were around when this song came out in 1976.

[smokinjoe1128]

@MrVeesworld and dream weaver is the song everyone knows..........what a shame.....

[MrVeesworld]

@smokinjoe1128 I know right? Ssme with Baker Street, most don't remember" Right down the line."

Or "I am in" You by Frampton.

[MrVeesworld]

Respond to this video... Looks like one person here is not Alive!!

[Puseye2]

@MrVeesworld Isaw Gary Wright at Maple Leaf Gardens when he toured this set. He was the opening act for Jethro Tull. Great show.

[JRBL1A1]

@MrVeesworld I was 3 years old, but remember hearing it on the radio when I was 5 or so ( I was in school). :)

[MrVeesworld]

@JRBL1A1 Welcome to the club my friend. Iwas..gulp...10 then.

[cranie4]

@MrVeesworld I was 8 ;) How groovy was 1976? We weren't quite sure what the Bicentennial was all about but we loved putting all the red white and blue streamers and stuff on our bikes...

[timthehippie]

@MrVeesworld I turned 9 that april~

[dreampolice65]

this is timeless, i dare say that about the MUZAK being made today...

[MrVeesworld]

@dreampolice65 It will never happen.

[kurtzie1956]

This song is dedicated to someone special! Sharon

[groovechaser]

I wish someone would make music like this these days. That growly Moog bass gets me every time I hear this album.

[Ezwider109]

gary wright-spooky tooth.. 1968-1970.. check it out

[Michiganborn1969]

Such a shame they don't make music like this anymore. I turn on the radio & listen to music (rock format from 2000 to current) & the sounds coming out of the speakers are just boaring. No wonder I'm in to the oldies, classic and country.

[HoppyRoss]

This Album and the sound was ahead of Its time!! I dont think I could ever get Tired Of hearing It once Or twice A day!!  This coming from an accomplished studio musician & Artist Ryan Ross Munizza! Be Blessed Its A very short LIFE!!

[MrVeesworld]

@HoppyRoss Guerss what? I am too a songwriter,drummer, and producer. I have always felt a strong connection to this song and "Baker Street" by Jerry Rafferty. As I have gotten older, I strive to write these types of masterpieces. Way ahead it's time. As a matter fact it came out when I was 10 and I heard brand new and was like wow, this a cool song!!

[RawNuTube]

Thanks for this version. This song, plus Hare Krishna(Alchemist Project) , My Sweet Lord, and Amazing Grace, keep me sane...

[donn409]

Back when music still mattered.

[MrVeesworld]

@donn409 Yep......way back when.

[LutherRayable]

@donn409 YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!DAMN the face of music changed-Back then music changed my world.In fact that's why i'm here revisiting this lost classic.Because i grew up in that day and it still has power to change.

[donn409]

@LutherRayable I hear so many young people saying they hate their generations music and they refuse to listen to Gaga, Spears and the rest. They listen to the music of previous decades.

[KURTHUNT]

Heard this on the radio ealier today and just now realized how good it is. Had no idea who sang it.

[rainingcolors]

I THINK IT IS TIME TO GET READY TO REALIZE WHAT I HAVE FOUND

[MrVeesworld]

@rainingcolors Damn right!

[chele815]

3rd Bass remade it. Wordz Of Wisdom.

[PhysicalGraffiti10]

One of the grooviest songs ever. I really want to make a song of my one using funky ass chords using this beat and rhythm 

[mightymissi]

@MrVeesworld: Old School HipHop Band 3rd Bass have sampled this song in their 1989 "Wordz of Wisdom" song.

[MrVeesworld]

@xra1nxdr0px So damn true! I still play this on my ipod.

[debbol1]

Great song!

[sportknitter]

love the song

[MrVeesworld]

@sportknitter Me too it's one of my all-time favs.