James Jamerson! The man was a genius! The hook! The feel, groove, the rhythm, the funk, everything about that legendary bassist was sooo timelessly amazing! The Funk Brothers were absolutely incredible…..each and every one of them! But as a bass player, James was the GOAT and influenced EVERYONE during and after him! Long live the Funk Brothers! Long live Motown and its astounding musical heritage with the musicians and artists!

I know that I'm late to the discussion, but Montel Jordan is so underrated!! Love Him!!❤❤❤

I am 76 years old and at least once a week I still turn on this site to listen to MY music and MY growing years..... It STILL send shivers up my spine and tears to my eyes.... If you listen to these sounds and not go with the flow.... then you just dont get IT and don't understand this IS Music and SOUL "at its best ....." and will never die. "Thanks Funk Bros..... Thanks Motown"

I have the VHS video and I never tire of watching the grestest band of all time THE FUNK BROTHERS

Love it

I'm 63 years old and I grew up listening to all of the artists involved and in the motown sound. I never knew

The magic sounds that came out of that basement at hitsville was surely incredible and never can be reproduced nowhere on Earth

The funk Brothers one of the greatest bands ever played I wish they'd put it back on MTV again I lost it with a fabulous group of musicians no others like them in the world Jerry Metairie Louisiana

The greatest live track ever recorded for Motown fans. Memories of 60 years rush through your body. The most brilliant music ever played by true champions.

I grew up with Motown music & I still love it today at60yrs old

The lifelong UK love affair with Motown (and the Motown influence) continues unabated in 2022 and beyond.

Joan Osborne is Amazing, fabulous, and there's NOT ONE WHO could come close to her greatness!!! I love you Joan ❣️ Always have been always Will be .. AWESOMENESS!!!!! You're unchallenged! YOU GO GIRL YOU GO WITH YO BAD SELF!!! 💛💚💙❤️🧡♥️💜 You made the funk brothers pop!!

Anyone know why Berry Gordy wasn’t part of this?

It's a shame it has taken all these years for this ensemble to be recognized for their greatness.

Wow! That's Tammy & Marvin if I ever em.

Detroiters are still so proud we feel this specifically belongs to us not N ew York not chi town its something that no one can take away from us we will always be part of musical history thanks to Berry for the dream Smokey ,Mickey Stvenson

My name is Marlon I grew up on all this I'm in my 60s and this just gives me goose bumps every time I see it I was born and bread in the D and it gives me the chills that Motown and Berry Gordy change tecumseh of American music as we know it. So proud to be from Detroit

The music of my childhood-oh my where did soul music go?!

Back then we didn’t care who was playing the music all we was concerned about was the singer.. The music you knew was Motown but we never questioned who.. Barry kept them secluded from us in a sense .. We knew that’s Marvin Gayes sound, The Temps, Supremes, The Four Tops with Levi Stubbs, Martha and The Vandellas, and on and on, but we never thought who making this tailor made music to each artist. You knew when they came on the radio or record that the Tempts.. That’s Miracles.. and all these Motown kept them in the closet but never too late. And I’m so glad they introduce us to them. I bought the DVD so I could listen to it anytime.. Barry got the best out of all then singer musicians he made history that will last long after he’s gone.. LB2022

Chaka Kahn a great lady ...Come back in France please

I grew up across the street from Hitsville USA and would see the Motown artists come and go on a regular basis.

I'm 73 I grew up listening to the motown sound. But never knew the Funk Brothers. Where responsible for the incredible sound. Until about fifteen years ago. They literally made motown. Simply greatest musicians of all time.

If this wonderful music doesn’t move you then I feel very sad for you!!!!

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I love the funk brothers

MAN WOW! WHAT A GREAT MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT. I UNDERSTAND IT JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER...... IT'S SI MAGICAL AND TO ME A LITTLE SOUTHERN GIRL. I THOUGHT IT WAS MAGICAL HEAVENLY. AND IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOUTHERNERS TO PLAY ....

This was back when music was done by actual musicians. Not like the junk we have now.

1:46 gives me chills every time!

When all those legendary song names came raining down towards the end, I burst into tears. So beautiful.

The Funk Brothers are the G.O.A.T. They are the 🐐 the best that ever played any instrument.🎶🎵🎼🎹🎷🎺🪕🎻🥁

The funk Brothers were the best

My first ever love, that Masterjam Gatefold sleeve Chaka with the strawberry :) 11 years old... you know what I mean.. still gorgeous!

I was raised on this music and I knew as a young boy as I do an older man that it was something very special. Hitsville was like this musical utopia that transcended all things. Such talented musicians that gave us so many beautiful memories. I cried when I watched this. Thank you Funk Bro’s for the phenomenal ride. Love rules

I am 68 years old and grew up with the greatest sound ever, in Motown, but, I always thought that Gordy was the genius behind the sound, BUT, it was the Funk Brothers, God bless them for giving me so much joy through all my years.

i enjoyed it

HIS NAME IS EDDIE "BONGO" BROWN YOU PUTTZ...NO RESPECT...

Fantastic sound Motown has happy memories for me in the sixties in the UK, Motown lives on.

Well.... there you go. THATS what you get when black and white people get it together. Amazingness.

Both these musicians and those on the west coast known as The Wrecking Crew deserve so much more credit than they ever received back then.

I was just watching it online. But then the audio got cut. Biggest reason? Copyright. Because that's what we need. We need copyright to ruin our online movie watching experiences, because in reality, watching movies online is extremely illegal, and we should be in jail for it. What seems so innocent and fun, is actually criminal activity. I don't want to believe this. Please someone prove me wrong.

With a great song, you have to first have "cake" before you can ice it. This movie is cake, watch it.

At about 4:10 be prepared to be taken to church...

Fuck Obama with his puke mouth!!! This is what races are about!!!!

@Mark Delsing I appreciate you brother, you hit it exactly right. I came up in the 70's, learning my guitar, my craft. Every day, unless I had the record, I'd sit and listen for Tears Of A Clown, Mercy, Mercy Me (which I still to this day cannot hear w/out crying...Marvin was prophesying and he was uncannily correct) I Wish It Would Rain and all the others--Once I picked out that first chord, the rest would usually tumble out with it. But people, especially those who aren't musicians, don't realize how complex some of these tunes were. Mercy, Mercy Me, for instance; it's no "Oh, that's an F#m..." These were Jazz chords. So, the Funk Brothers were my teachers. I had to expand my horizons if I wanted to play these treasures with my own hands. Never would have become a Chord Junkie, heh, if I didn't have to doggedly find those Inside chords, those Cmaj9 and things you weren't EVER going to run across playing rock, no disrespect to Rock and Roll, it's just not that kind of pond. As a white kid, I realized very early on that every thing that was going on was springing out of what Black musicians and Soul, R&B, and Funk were putting down first. There would have been no Beatles, Rolling Stones, if these young Brits weren't turned on by the "race music" that was frowned upon and they had to DIG for to hear. Coming back to the 70's, the phenomenon of Disco music would not have happened, again look at the singers and musicians and the Music itself; under that "bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp," steady beat that Immediately identified a song as a Disco tune, there was a sophistication in the orchestration and rhythms (I love just playing rhythm guitar on Disco songs, you just have to smile) and it irks me that Disco also never got the props for that. Getting back, appropriately, to the Funk Brothers-- I'd like to add on to another comment I made on this video; Barry Gordy, who deserves praise for his vision of Motown and being a place where Black aritsts could go w/out crawling hat in hand...that being said, he must not have heard the phrase I grew up with In my ears, "Don't forget, you meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down." I said Mr. Gordy should be ashamed. That a man who helped make his empire had to buy a ticket from a scalper to attend Mowtown's 25th Anniversary, when he should have been ONSTAGE is a travesty. Mr. Gordy forgets that in this wild and crazy Evening we call our Lives, a check is dropped on the table at Evening's end, our Tab. We all have to pick up our own Tab-- In the End it's always Dutch Treat. Take care, Mark.

I have the CD (standing n the shadows of Motown and I play it all the time :)

I just can't get enough of this ! Motown just puts me in a good mood,

Can James Jamerson be seen in this video? Or was he dead already?

At about 4:10 when the choir joins in, if you don't have tears in your eyes and a lump in your throat, then you just don't get it.

What a wonderful tribute to an everlasting legacy... so few remain, and yet they are all with us every time we hear a Motown song. God bless them all for what they gave us.

these Somgs are all with tears in my eyes ! SOO wonderful!