TheWorfster's channel

There's a very short list of non-black musicians with "soul".... this man is on that list. I'd pay money play with him just once... Months pay easy...

Worf

Never heard this version before, it's absolutely amazing. I do this song myself with my band and I'll have to rethink our version again...

Worf

He sold the hell out of that one... great song.. dead audience... Sigh.

Nice quote in the song from "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out". Deeper than I expected.

Worf

Pure unaldulterated genius.... I heard this song years ago... so simple, so sad... so sweet. I cried thin... I'm crying now. Thanks for posting.

Truth be told... Curtis was almost a musical illiterate. He picked out the melodies and tunes simply on a cobbed up guitar. Johnny Pate, jazz musician and superb arranger put the love and soul into Curtis' songs. Johnny said in an interview that he and other jazz cats laughed at guys Curtis, but ...

For you young bloods out there... imagine this song is being sung by a Vet, Viet Nam or WWII who's discovered that the world... the whole world does not hate him merely for the color of his skin. This is the tale this song tells to me. Back here, in the mud and blood he reminices on a much sweete...

Times were rough back then, assasination, riots, Viet Nam... but OH what a mighty time. I thank god I was alive to see it all.

Worf

Like a rocket sled on rails!!!! Listen to that band!!!! That Orchestra!!!! Oh what a mighty time!!!!

Worf

Never heard this cover before. It's beautiful. I've always appreciated the love you folks across the pond had for Motown. She holds her own wonderfully on one of fave Smokey compositions. I also just discovered her "On A Magic Carpet Ride", wonderful stuff.

Worf

Mandrill, Tower of Power, Santana early Kool & the Gang were all contemporaries. However only Mandrill and Santana tried to deeply mine the Aftr/Latin Rock vein and each did to varying success. There's no single musciian in Mandrill that was/is Carlos' equal or superior, however Mandrill to me is...

Back in the the day, we slow danced with women now I don't know what the kids do. Sucks getting old. Ride on James, rest in peace.

Worf

Heard this tune in the late 60's mebbe 73'? What it showed me was that the Brothers in Jamaica had THEIR OWN thing cooking. This was funky as it comes and I'm glad they carried it forth.

Worf

Absolutely he most bizarre thing I've see in decades. How could Nimoy agree to something so sad?

Worf

This minor hit on the soul charts was surprising not because it was from one half of the Righteous Brothers but because of it's subject matter. No one, least of all me, expected to hear a song in the 1960's wherein a White man was visibly begging a Black woman to forget all the hate and predjud...

When you have a voice of operatic power as Levi does, he learns early to turn his head from the mike when he "hits it"! Of course kids today don't sing they auto-tune so they never learn these tricks. Sad.... so sad...

Worf

Of all the classic soul singers only MarvinJunior of the Dells could come close to Levi's pipes and he didn't have Levi's range but more power. I tell people all the time that of all the Mowton Singers Levi could've sung opera with ease had he chosen to. Without a doubt.

Worf

A classic cut, album cut no less, of proto philly soul. Many of my rocker friends think this stuff is boring... I tell them to find a girl, learn to slow dance, put on this song then COME BACK to me and tell how boring romantic soul is. These songs had a purpose, to get young men and women toge...

Holy Crap!!!!! I went to a millin shows at the Apollo and the Alden in Queens but I never saw the Dells live. And to see this song is mind blowing. Marvin Junior only challenged by Levi Stubbs or Teddy Pendergast for sheer volume and blistering heat!!!

There will always be poeple that "don't get it". I feel sorry for em. When it "hits" like Marley said "you feel no pain". This is sharp as a razor and funky as nine cans of shaving powder. Good God!

Worf

I'm old school. But I can dig the new breed thing (I guess not considering how old this video is) but this is flat out one of my top 5 vids of all time. The song is slammin' and the juxtapostion of the two time frames is marvelous. Having lived through both I can only state that whoever designed...

The shot of them singing this with Licoln in the background amazing. Phenomenal.

A nice version but the one on Donny Hathatway Live is superior. Willie Weeks on Bassm, Cornell Dupree on guitar and Donny on piano. Different and better, check that one out as well.

Worf

One of the best bass performances ever done. An absolutely first class example of melodic and rhythmic bass playing. Donny's voice is also phenomenal. One of the finest live albums ever made.

Worf

A truely different song than the one done by the Jackson 5 years later. I'm so glad that Berry Gordy and Company were not averse to letting different acts try the same song at different times.

Worf

WTF??? Laura Nyro attacked by "Up With People"? Are you kiddin' me? Mebbe I'd be less critical if the recording was better but right now ths sounds like a crime against a great song writier and one of her classics. Never thought you drain the soul out of this song but they managed to do it.

Love the cover and the COVER of the album, but gimme me Laura's version please. I think the background horns are week and uninspired, but the background rhythm section is a kickin'. Gotta love the drummer.

I was a little black kid living in the "40 Projects" of New York City when this album hit. It struck us like a revelation, like a thunderbolt. I was only 2 years older than Michael and here was a kid who looked like me, on the Ed Sullivan Show, on the cover's of "Teen Beat" and "Tiger Beat" Magaz...

There's only a coupl.e of other bass lines I'd put above it. Perhaps Willie Weeks work on the live version of "Little Ghetto Boy" on Donny Hathaway Live. That bass line kills but this is quite good as well.

That was very nice and beautifully done. Must have somethng in my eye... Not good, making an old man cry like that.

Worf