Rare Earth - (I Know) I'm Losing You - long version

[bigfootshoottokill]

how was that? im goin to bed now, see ya all tomorrow, and i leave you with Iron Butterfly inagadadavida!

[bigfootshoottokill]

You guys still with me? cause im gettin ready to rock your fuckin universe with some Grand Funk Railroad!!!!!!

[UltraRareBreed]

I forgot all about the long version......totally grew up to this. I LOVE EVERY SECOND. ( I can almost smell my dads weed even )

[oskamadison]

This KILLS!!!

[shicrapt]

I wish I could like this song but it just sounds too much like Tom Jones. Just listen to the Rod Stewart version.

[MrNeeceGuy]

this is great!! thanks for posting! i have the album, just need a stinkin' record player!!

[robincoes]

circa it's time intro

[taypar11]

What I love about Motown is they let white musicians come on board in spite of how whites had treated blacks in the music industry. Rare Earth and the Funk brothers were a special breed in Detriot in the 60's. RIP Eddie. I saw RE in 1970 in San Antonio and it changed my drumming life. Peter and Gil rocked like crazy. The show was so inovative that Pete was playing this song and in the middle of it, he rose from the traps and Eddie eased in while Peter went to finish it on the bongos.

[BadNews88]

@taypar11 That WAS a great show, I'm sure. (saw 'em 2 times : once in Chicagfo, & once in Ohio)

Not forgetting R.I.P. John & Producer Norman

[1962drob]

This is a great song!!! These guys ROCK!!!! Wish people could make music like this today!!! It's a lot better than today's music!!!

This is what Classic Rock is all about folks. Playing Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Drums and vocals.

[RicOshayed1]

This is some good shiitttt, maannnnnn !

[ciako65]

great !!

[CHARLYKINGjazzy]

circa ?

[bze2nlz4]

@CHARLYKINGjazzy Not sure what you mean. Year of the song? It's 1970 :)

[CHARLYKINGjazzy]

@bze2nlz4 no it's the song in the skate video "circa it's time" :)

[bze2nlz4]

@CHARLYKINGjazzy oh....ok. I see it, thanks!

[TalDap]

It's Time!

Adrian Lopez, Windsor James and Peter Radmondetta Rocks !

[TalDap]

Windsor James and Radmondetta Rocks !

[TalDap]

Yes !

it's the intro song

[ABlastFromYourPast]

All time trippy song in head phones

[rossmethven2]

PS. I am the 15 thousandth viewer of this video. Am surprised I am not the 15 millionth, if that's a word.

[rossmethven2]

This is up there with Freebird

[lostwolf31]

Masterpiece of Rock!!!

[judahwom]

Thankyou for this postr these guys could actually play music!

[27bucher12]

This song will rock you, lets say natural alchohol form honey, a good girl by my side and pure sex, thx Rare Earth

[stumiller]

And let's not forget the great voice and drumming of Peter Rivera who is still among us!

[TrickShot1100]

Great tune from a great band in a great era.

GREAT UPLOAD WORK.....Thanks my freind

[1962drob]

This song rocks!!! Wish they made music like this today. Musicians really put their heart and souls into their music back in the '60's and '70's. Not like today's bands, you can't even understand what they're saying, and most new music (sorry to say) has no real meaning to it, or no soul. Just a bunch of kids screaming their heads off.

I'll get off my soap box now, and say that Rare Earth Rocks, and still sounds good, even today!

[rrdxing]

wow seen them perform this long version in concert just out of high school wow just classic rock thanks for the quality video

[spacebullseye]

I never knew there was a long version of this... awesome....

[critter0561]

I was a sophomore at WV Wesleyan College when RARE EARTH played there in 1974 with original memebers except for the drummer and saw them again at the 70's superfest concert in Morgantown at Greem Pavilion in the mid 80's. Now that I am 56 it is delightful to hear this music again. This music was and still is great, plan to see them this summer, thanks for keeping the music and memories alive. Freddie Potter, Bridgeport, WV

[RG4242421]

Thank You bze2niz4! You do not know how long I have been waiting for this,Years!I am with dwcdaid....Lived it and I Loved it with my Boots,Bell bottoms and my Sly Stone T-shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dwcdaid]

This long version is one of the all time greats from that era. That 70's Show, lived it, loved it.



[chtichat]

mmmmm masterpiece !

[MrBuckwilliam]

wow, i was born in 10 57 :)

great recording. i think i still have the LP

great post, thanks for sharing

[supersoulmusiq]

Epic !!

[popecheynik]

This is fuckikin' great!!!

[MrBuckwilliam]

this is a very nice post to have come across, man, we've had some great music and this is pretty up there on the list. thank you for posting it :)

[bze2nlz4]

@MrBuckwilliam You are welcome and thanks for the nice comment :)

[MrBuckwilliam]

@bze2nlz4, lol, i'm back again. too bad we can't like'em again with the little thumbs up. i think our watching it only registers once too. that's why i decided to let you know i was back :)

[DonVila]

This cut from "Ecology" is the definitive version. Though I think the long version of "Get Ready" is equal to this tune, Ecology was the best album they ever made.

[Rottyman63]

First time I heard this ..it was bein spun by Cousin Brucie out of WABC NY.

[1962drob]

@Rottyman63 Dude, I was born in New York, Man!!! I used to listen to 77 WABC constantly, and I remember Cousin Brucie!! Also, Harry Harrison, Dan Ingrum, Ron Lundy, just to name a few!

Now this was back in the day when Top 40 radio played music I can listen to, not the BS music you hear today (if you can even call it music).

Small World, Dude!!

[bluejay4480]

three versions... this is it though

[rbkpetroleo]

OMG! I almost lost this good memory!!!!!

[psysteve69]

I NEVER FORGET 2 TIMES IN ZÜRICH I BIN ON THE CD MADE IN SWITZERLAND GREAT LIVE ALBUM

[GoatBeach]

Such a fine version...my favorite by far.

[1962drob]

These guys rock!!! They don't make songs like this anymore. Today's music is crap. Most music today have no meaning to it. I also dig their version of "Get Ready". Now this is good time music!!! I wish it were the '60's and '70's again. Granted, I was born in '62, but from '64 into the '70's that's when music was great!!!

[GuzzMon]

Yes, this was great music. I still have the LP Rare Earth in Concert released 1971. The problem today is the corporate music culture. You can still find great music today but you have to keep your ears open and search for it. Maybe not the same genre but check out String Cheese Incident, Rusted Root or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for some great music.

[1962drob]

@GuzzMon Cool, thanks! Groups like Rare Earth rocked the '70's. You're right. There is some good music today, not quite like Rare Earth though. For example, I do like Lenny Kravitz. He did a decent version of "American Woman", originally done by The Guess Who, who I like very much as well. My favorite from Lenny Kravitz is "Fly Away", which came out circa 1998.

My favorite from Rare Earth is "Get Ready", which I think they did a better version than The Tempations.

ROCK ON BRO!!!

[1962drob]

These guys rock!!! They don't make songs like this anymore. Today's music is crap. Most music today have no meaning to it. I also dig their version of "Get Ready". Now this is good time music!!! I wish it were the '60's and '70's again.

[BadNews88]

God Rest the Souls of ALL the Departed who contributed to this Masterpiece:

Bassist John Persh, Percussionist Eddie Guzman, and of course the composer & producer Norman Jesse Whitfield.

And of course THANKS & KUDOS to the HAPPILY STILL WITH US Pete Hoorelbeke, Gil Bridges, Rod Cox (Richards) & Kenny Folcik (James).

This RULES.

Thanx fer this, m8..

'Nuff Said!!!!

[bze2nlz4]

@BadNews88 You are welcome :) Nice comment and tribute!

[rossmethven2]

@BadNews88 Legends, every last one of them. What a tune!!

[Mgarguemare]

Wow I was a sophomore in high school when I first heard this song, the only time we heard the long version to any song was when we listened to KEXL-FM then later it became KZEP (classic rock). I loved all those brass groups of the 70s.

[bze2nlz4]

@Mgarguemare Thanks, Mary...I have fond memories of this as a 'party' song! And that IS around the time we were all starting to listen to the great longer album tracks on FM!

[thespeez]

@Mgarguemare When I first heard this version about 1986, two radio stations in the Baltimore Washington area would play it. WQSR-FM and WCXR-FM northern VA. Thanks for posting and who's singing lead?

[bze2nlz4]

@thespeez The great Peter Rivera on lead vocals and drums :)

[thespeez]

@bze2nlz4 - First off, thanks for the info.

Am I correct to assume that this was from their album "Ecology"?