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  • This song and photos brought me to tears, thanx. One my favorites from back in the day, when we had REAL neighborhoods...

  • jimm

  • so cool

  • i can relate to this song will be going thru a divorce this year. all i know he is losing a good woman and wife his loss.

  • This use to be the sooong still is, thanks for the post

  • so true what you telling me

  • "Lea-ving meee! SICK!!! So much emotion in one word! They just don't sing 'em like that anymore!!

  • nothing but the truth i still feel those songs the new ones just dont have that same feeling go 70s

  • thank you this one of my mothers favorite songs thanks for the memory

  • this is my mutha fuckin shit!

    

  • This is pretty great. It sounds like it also inspired the vocal and string arrangement of "Let's Do It Again," which came along a few years later.

  • I was definately born at the right time 1960!! I grew up on the best music known to man. Thank God!!!

  • The photos are awesome! Thanks.

  • i guese the 7 folk tha tdislike this song are deaf and are just mad because no one is giving and nobody is here to interpit it for them using sign language. either your just deaf or plain dumb or sum stupid rap lover.

  • Takes me back, wow this song was on my mind

  • This is one hot jam, I was at the car window repair shop today and met Maurice Jackson from the Independents, Cool cat.. Funny dude, it was a pleasure spending a couple of hours with him while waiting to get my window fixed. Made it an even better experience, hes a Chicago Native. I really like the photos and construction of this video, Very Soulful!! Im sure he would appreciate seeing it, if he have not seen it already.. Got his email address and number, thats how down to earth the brother was.

  • Total Flashbacks, simple Awsum

  • omg, this took me back...those pics where perfect for this song, I had to listen a few times, oh man this took me back, when I did not have much but felt like I had it all, just hanging with friends....

  • If only you knew how long I've been looking for this song..THANK YOU!!

  • sweet soul music

  • i am from back then and i loveeeeee it. aint nothing like old school and i put thr old in it. just had a birthday yesterdat and i thank god

  • good time yup like there's the ghetto.

  • DIS DAT LOWRIDING SHIT HERE. L.A. IN HERE WHOOP

  • just sippin' and jammin' SHAAA 

  • ever week a group of us choose a sample to chop up - the independents tracks was this weeks sample. see sundaysample com ssc#32

  • check SV - Chillin' (Instrumental) on youtube!

  • black is beautiful, lets not let these kids forget that, just by listening to todays music it's obvious they have no sense of self worth. we didn't have to degrade each other back in the day to sell a record, they make more money but have less value...how ironic. long live the dusties!

  • @dOLOSTIMULUS YOU HAVE SAID A MOUTHFUL

  • This is the JAM! Love this song, thanks so much for posting, couldn't find it for years!! Yay!!! Listen to the words, this was back in the day when songs had meaning and you could dedicate them to someone...my kids love oldies and this is why!!!

  • This is the JAM! Love this song, thanks so much for posting, couldn't find it for years!! Yay!!! Listen to the words, this was back in the day when songs had meaning and you could dedicate them to someone...

  • I was a junior in high school in New Jersey when this song was being played on the radio. I haven't heard this in YEARS!! Thank you for this great post and the wonderful memories it brings back. I'm so glad there is someplace I can come and hear REAL music rather than the absolute crap played on the air today. I feel so sorry for the young people today who will have no music to give them peace and comfort or to share with their grandchildren when they get older. Once again, thanks.

  • I've never heard of the Independents and had never heard this song....but I really, really, like it. I love all 70's music! Thanks sooo much for posting!

  • The good times... love the photos. Thanks for posting!

  • @maryandmoody

    You're welcome, thanks for the comment.

  • I saw them perform this live in concert along with their other great songs in February of 1973 in the Fieldhouse of Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio! That is how much of an impact this song and this group had on me! God Bless them all.

  • @DetroitLives313 Wow good to see a fellow BullDog!!!!! class of 1971 yes I love our 70's music!

  • @brownbomber323 AHHHH! Small World. Yes the Bulldogs and Scott High FOREVER RULE! I am in New York now ,but get back home a few times a year. They've completely renovated the school, but it still there better than ever. Yes the 70's were the bomb! Check out my channel when you get a moment.

  • @DetroitLives313 Yes it is a small world, I live just outside of Cleveland,Ohio and get home a few times a year as wel,Il still have a lot of family there, and yes I will check out your channel.

  • @brownbomber323 Yes check me out! I suppose you've heard about L.C. being from the Class of '71 huh? I'll private message you soon. Take care.

  • OMG!!!! this was played in my house sooooooo much.. mommy and her friends singing and laughing.. probably imagining their no good men were singing this to them as they walked out the door..lol..i wouldnt change my childhood for nothing..

  • sorry to say today's youth are caught up in a money trap..."get rich or die tryin"?well..looks like they died already...

  • although i was born in 78. when i see those images and i hear this song i feel a sense of black pride. damn if only i was of age back then

  • i really miss the 70s innovative times

  • Wow, I used to play this song so much! Where did this time go! Music was music and black was Black! Man I am so glad I was brought up in the 60s and 70s...Thank you for reaching back for this one! I subscribed to your channel keep me posted! Good luck in life!

  • This was and is still one of my favourites from the dy it came out. In those days I was managing a record store on 125th Street Harlem USA The owner was Mal Lucas. I think he was related to the super gangster Frank Lucas but that was only rumour. Anyhow I still have the LP and still play it. Soul is Love and love is soul

    paddy corea / Demon Fuzz

  • @paddycorea Hahaha that brought a smile to my face wehn you mentioned a Record store! Actually we said Reca Sto'! smile.. Man I lost all my music in sorage and poeple brought in to our house while we were moving! anyway I am grateful to you tube cause I have found some good channels to keep me plugged in to the old school. they don't do it like his no mo'! thanks for your post! Peace out!

  • this was a sunday after-nooner from back in the day. I remember when it came out, it really wasn't a huge hit because every other song on the box and every group all had pretty much the same sound. It was a remake, but another song we could slow drag and grind too

  • remember this song from back in the but did not know who sang it...thanks for posting!!

  • @leniebabe44

    You're welcome.

  • Love it love it love it. Remember listening to radio when they only played this real soul music once a week, if you miss it you would have to wait till following week. I'm gonna have a dance with my wife. Love ya. XXXXXXXX

  • Getting ready for school with my bestie in the 10th grade. we would be jamming this joint!

  • Swing now!

  • I could not remember why I liked this song so much, but now I do. I used to laugh laugh laugh (even after I was grown) at the end of the song! "and you know how the neighbors talk. Ol' Tom over there... he want you to leave me anyhow!  And Ol' Mary down there, she dont know what she talkin' bout!" I feel tickled right now.

  • This song sounds great in this monetary system.. It would sound better in a resourced based economy

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  • Saturday morning in North Mississippi.......my grandma cleaning fish she had just caught, no tv on just the radio...... this song and other blues blasting.......calling up all my cousins on the ROTARY phone and telling them, "we finna eat fish after while, ya'll betta come on!" Memories......

  • Oh my what a flashback to my youth in the early seventies .

  • ThaGrooveallegiance: THANKS FOR THE INFO ABOUT THE GROUP!

  • Fresno California, the 80's, I was a kid, parents partied, block parties, Blacks, Mexicans, Whites, Asians, they all partied together playing this kind of music as us kids all played together. Hot August night's, kids running through the neighborhood, getting into all kinds of innocent trouble. Thank's Ma and Pop, you raised us RIGHT!!!! I'll be handing these type of songs over to My wife and I's 2 beautiful baby girls, and your memory will live on! Love this jam!!!

  • @ETJLMET

    Right On!

    

  • MAN WHERE ARE GUYS AT? I LOVE THIS SONG. IT BRINGS BACK SO MANY

    MEMORIES.

    DTW CLEVELAND OHIO T-SHIRT LADY

  • @damyon55

    Cool.

  • I have tears in my eyes-i'm 24 and this song combined with everybody's nostalgic comments give me the sense that in the past we were actually more together as a race in comparison to today:UNITY is KING!!!!!!!!!

  • @DeepSetEyesDance

    We were, and we can be once again.

  • @DeepSetEyesDance - I was about 13 ish when this came out. Back then if you had a friend ... they were that to the end. The concern and compassion that we SHARED was in good and bad times. ROOTS had cause a resurgence of LOVE of family and the family was the WHOLE hood. Them wuz the good old days.

  • @DeepSetEyesDance that was real black pride we didnt call our women hoes and bitches we respect the black woman she is uor back bone

  • @lwilliams2609 I couldn't have said it no better. Those were the good days.

  • @lwilliams2609

    Preach!

  • @DeepSetEyesDance then you should look up the independents "didnt hear nobody say"

  • @DeepSetEyesDance yea baby we were. I was going to school when the panthers wer strong, and King was doing his thing, Berkeley was a school of revolution, and blacks looked out for one another. I miss those days myself. I was born in 1958, 53 now and thank God all the time for being raised at a time such as these to give my kids a sense of pride. Your post touched my heart.

  • where they were they from?

  • @719kai719

    The group was based in Chicago, Chuck Jackson was from Greenville, SC, The Late Rev. Marvin J. Yancy, Maurice Jackson and Eric Thomas were from Chicago, Helen Curry was from Clarksdale, Mississippi.

  • Brings back memories of a fun and exciting time.

  • @markgab

    Cool, I can dig it.

  • The singers today including Beyonce, Rihanna and all the rest of those non talented souless singers have really did a job on destroying black soulful music.

  • I really miss the 70's it was a great time!

  • @lovelysnowangels

    You ain't never lied.

  • @lovelysnowangels yes it was.

  • This had to be around 72 or so , what a flash back.

  • This hd to be around 72 or so , what a flash back.

  • this song was DEFINATELY A HIT!!!!

  • @mazaratialbum It sure was!!!!

  • MAURICE8840 DITTO.......I FEEL THE SAME ABOUT MY DADDY....THIS WAS HIS SONG......I MISSSSSSSSSSSSS YOU DADDY...AJB

  • Here's a Reminder! There's no Soul in RAP! We are now living in a Soul less Society! and that's a very scary thought~This !~song here is about love, and you have to have a Soul to Experience, Express and to Accept LOVE! This is SOUL MUSIC FOR REAL! If the art of Singing don't come back~we in BIG! trouble! The Black community we better get back to singing~again! or we gonna do a whole lot more crying, than we are now<and it's already to much crying! love songs come back and HURRY!~

  • GOOD MUSIC.....HIT YOU TO CORE OF YOUR SOUL!!!!

  • it was continental tralways bus line i us to go to school in sedalia right outside of greensboro in the 60's and that was the only transportion back then that or cabs

  • HEY MZ LOVIN ME...ME AND MY MAMA DO THE SAME THING...I AM 44 AND SHE IS 66.....WHAT MEMORIES

  • this is me n my mama jam!!!im 25 n she is 59!!!but baby we put on our ol records n jus groove!!!

  • I love this song. I can ride to this all day. When my lady and I get into it. I play this song. Then we go to the room and make up. Lol!!!

  • Love songs & platform shoes....WOW !!!! I remember this like yesterday.....

  • this song brings back all the 70s memories for me

  • How u gonna dislike this song u must be deaf

  • Thanks for posting, this is a rare oldie and I absolutely love it!!! I'm forwarding this to be FB page :)

  • Oh man...I was 10 when this came out....riding my "chopper" bicycle with the big slick tires, sneaking in to blue light parties in the summer time, my pops frying fish in the back yard, all the neighbors drinkin' beer, gettin' buzzed and givin' us young kids money....good times.

  • Lisa n Giggles those dayz.....

  • HEY !HEY!HEY ! WHATCHA GOT TO SAY!!!! LISA'S HOOD...LISA HOOD SWINGIN'!

  • LEAVN MEEE

    ...CANT BE.....WHATCHA TELLN ME......CANT BE.

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  • I was getting on the plane one day and was humming this song. The flight attendant chased me down the aile and asked me what was tthe name of that song. After I told her she thanked me and said her mother had recently passes and she was always humming the tune but never the words. Know she finally knew. I still feel good when I think of that moment.

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  • leavin me u lost baby what u tellin we'll soon see baby

  • I REMEMBER LISTENING TO THIS SONG WHEN I WAS A LIL GIRL,WEN MOM WAS GETTING HER BOOGIE ON LOVED IT THEN LOVE IT NOW

  • Yeah..this is the biz right here.....

  • The Independents hit #21 in Billboard, 6-2-73. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! RIP, Marvin Yancy.

  • When you hear the opening to this song you realize what is missing in so urban music of today...the blues...

  • Music when guys PRAISED the sisters! All of the voices are just great! Wow! A trip back to the past when I heard this!! WOW!!Augustushoward

  • Truly soul to my soul. Thanks for posting.

    Rossinibkk

  • I love this song. In the day, I play this song over and over.

  • brings back memories riding with dad in the grand torino really miss my dad

  • @cani3232

    Cool.

  • wow i rember that song my daddy usse 2 sing that ridding down the street i missssssssssssssss my daddy so much i love u dad

  • Love it :) 70's and 80's

  • that's the bomb

  • yes baby sing it

  • oh the memories of the basement dances, slow dragging and reaching up to unscrew the light bulb!

  • love this son

  • THIS THE JAM HERE

  • Man I can't explained the cord this song strikes in my soul.

  • @tri2beatme i know right. it hits you right in the middle of the soul.

  • @tri2beatme I know. Isn't that annoying? Sometimes you wonder if other people feel the way you do about a song, or if you are the only one, but how do ask when you can't explain the emotion? Then you wonder if the artists feel what you feel, did they intend that chord to be struck? Alas, there are no words, because such an experience simply cannot be deconstructed enough to fit into them! (You'll have to forgive the drama; I'm very high right now. But I'm right.)

  • i love this old music beautiful music

  • Ya know what sucks kinda? Hearing these oldies all crisp and clear. I'm just now realizing that there was something special about the muffled old cassettes my dad used to play. The crackling of the record he recorded it from, the banter of DJs if he taped off the radio, that steady hissing sound, the muted tones... I hated all that when I was a kid sitting in the back seat of the car, now I miss it. Still, it's nice hearing the music the way it was intended to be heard.

  • Perfect arrangement, perfect production, perfect songwriting, perfect vocals.

  • nice song and lol at the pick at 0:55

  • looove that bridge

  • wow!! you just made my day with this one!!!! the 70s was so good.!!!

  • @Southerngirl675 mine too!!

  • These was the days when black love was real

  • Oh wow! this song takes me wayyyyyyyyy back.....a straight classic!!!

  • working at the car wash....brings back memories.

  • This song sounds just as good as it did over 30 yrs. ago. Chuck, Maurice, Eric and (of course "My Star") Helen, I love you guys and miss you from the stage. It's been too long. Helen, "Baby, I've Been Missing You."

  • @C4of9 where r they now? I luv the lead guy voice. he's so cool, almost too cool to be belivable.... I'm smiling as I write this. " I'm sick baby.... sick aw naw!!!

    lol "u know the neighbors talk.... then ending is funny they think Im cutting up on ya baby but I swear.

  • No autotran ... Sing fellas!

  • Now this is what you call an oldie, but goodie. When you hear the first couple of notes, it just makes you want to say, "Aaaaaahhhh yeeaaah, this is the jam right here."

  • OMG!!! This was a jam when I was a teenager! Man, it brings back so many memories...

  • 72' Torino...nice. 302 ?

    

  • @DYNODONNY

    I 'm not sure.. I would think that's what it has.

  • @DYNODONNY 1973----THE GRILL IS FLATTER--72 HAD A SUNK LOOK!

  • @DYNODONNY So right, that is the jam.

  • ...i remember my moms and cousins would meet at port authority to catch carolina trailways to n.c.; me and sisters used to hate the travel but my family always travel with music; o yes on that very same bus my family would rock cuts like this one and get their drink on; wow i can still smell those fried chicken leg and pork chops samiches...lol....great song...great memories..

  • @boise150 trailways....now thats back in the day...but yes this song is fro's,hair grease, and trailway busses.....lol

  • @boise150

    Testify then bosie150.. Our Family cookouts were good food, good music and good company "Family". You bring back some memories of how we use to travel from Texas to Mississippi, by Continental Trailways Buses my mothers fried chicken was bucklin', and made that long journey on the "Silver Eagle" a lot less stressful..

  • @boise150 I feel Ya...Nice post!!!

  • @loveblind thanks so much....I feel like a po' chop samich now....lol....

  • @boise150 Did yall forget the pound cake on the kitchen table and the jelly cake

  • @boise150 wow what a great memory!!

  • Sir Charles Jones GOT IT!!! Check him out!

  • This song is a year older than I am. O been tryin ti find out who sings it for a while now. Thanks.

  • I heard this song on the radio on Sunday morning on the archives of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem from June 23, 1973.

  • @airjor1 

    Cool.

  • We were blessed to lived during the 50's, 60's and 70's when a soulful spirit embody the young, gifted and black generation. We witness the gifted and talented, we heard and felt raw unadulterated vocalist, lyricist, musicians and producers who gave in the natural and purest form of soul.

  • @herbertw2

    Amen!.. the formula is still there; all the youngin's need to do, is follow it.

  • you know how long it took me to find this song and who made it. I'm so feeling it right now.

  • @lglpn09

    Cool. It's one of those songs.

  • Wauw

  • @deschuur1974

    Yes.

  • This is SOUL!!!

  • @SuperXavier30

    Right on!!

  • this is one of the songs that not only takes you back but you can imagine bell bottoms,lava lamps,and platforms

  • @satisfy25

    I can dig it

  • AMEN YES BABY

  • @SUGA4ONE

    Yes, indeed.

  • Wow...Straight Classic Gold!!! Takes me back to Sunday Nights in Philly listening to oldies on WDAS FM with "Harvey Holiday"! Great post...thanks

  • @TDPROMO

    Cool, you're welcome.

  • wow

  • @oldschoolhenryc53

    I feel ya',

    .." WOW"

  • i love this song i was 13 year's old when it came out never forgot it

  • @embracesme

    Solid!

  • johnnie taylor did this song to never knew they did it too good looking out

  • Yes indeed ....

  • @bigbankX

    Indeed, yes.

  • No words better put, I couldn't said it better myself and some songs when i get in that certain place, I can see the smiles on the faces of my love one gone on. I can almost feel the Mississippi sun on my face and smell the air. Thank God! My teenage years were the Best! It gave me the strength to make it through Hell. I'll always love, Long Creek Ele. and McAdams High, "Go Bulldogs"!

    SFC (RET) Evans

    U.S. Army

  • what a song love it