ARPEGGIO Love and Desire

[@gypsyladee55]

I feel so fortunate to have been able to experience the Disco era first hand. Spent many nights at the various clubs in and around L.A. during my early to late 20's! Still love to hear the music!

[@Dik09]

THE VERY BEST MUSIC!!!!!!!!!

[@josephscovitch2701]

Great sexy disco thumper in 79. Eurodisco and soul and moog synthn laser gun with cowbells. Great combo mix and quite danceable. Thanks, Arpeggio. Vive les disco freaks...

[@guscalderon5186]

Just thinking about my Beautiful friend Jessica Williams and what comes out on this app. Love and Desire. Such a nice treat to see Jessica Williams on Soul Train. She is still performing and hanging out with all her Disco Divas. Miss you my friend. Disco Gus

[@MrRaymchopper]

Mr Barnes, that is a REAL shame that you never rcv'd a dime off of this HUGE dance club hit. My third ALL-TIME favorite clubbing song.

[@alexandre210613]

In 1979. It was crazy here on the dance floor. Our tight orange shirts on pants in tall sizes were soaked and impregnated with the smell of stale smoke! We can not forget your pipe ! Big thank you from France Sidney !

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1979 {March 17th} Arpeggio performed "Love and Desire (Part One)" on the syndicated Saturday-afternoon program, 'Soul Train'... At the time "Love and Desire" was at #82 on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart, four weeks later it would peak at #44 {for 2 weeks} and it spent nine weeks on the chart... And the following month on April 14th the trio would appear on the ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand', were they performed "Love and Desire", at the time it was peaking at #44 on the Hot Soul Singles chart... May Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.

[@dfbinet1]

Sidney, you should be compensated cause this music was such a smash and it played on every station.. Don't let them bring you down....

[@ajr0988]

soul brother soul this world needs more of it

[@agente_ai]

@SidBarnes1941 i am so very sorry you got cheated as so many of the best artists did - but you should know this song was my everything at the time. i still have a special place for it, your voice and those days forever in my heart, Mr. Barnes. thx for posting so i had the chance to tell you this.

[@j.carlosaguilar7326]

60,s 70,s 80,s la mejor época en música y baile. lo de hoy no sirbe. waaa.

[@SidBarnes1941]

Hey I'm not mad, money is cool but I get my satisfaction from knowing so many people enjoy what I do. I'm blessed and not hurting for anything, at least I can sleep good at night, and I hope those that cheated me out of all my royalties through the years sleep good as well. But I'll bet they don't. Cheers to all the music lovers throughout the world.

[@801Luciouss]

Esta cancion fue y es de mis favoritas trae un resto de recuerdos comenzando desde la secu hasta el bahillerato . SOS

[@1964Maritio]

Sid , this one great Hit I am proud that I was one who grew up in disco years . thank you for such one great hit .

[@designermusicmax]

No habia oido esta version remezclada, me encanta los sonidos, la bateria electrica, esta excelente este tema.

[@emiliohabibi179]

Hermosa la epoca disco,no hay tiempo mejor...Vivan los 70s!

[@discotime79]

beautiful voice sid!!! ""love and desire"" was one of the top disco songs of the era. to this day when i go to dances that have 70's or disco nite. when they play love and desire by ARPEGGIO.the crowd go nuts. no empty seats everybody is on the dance floor.

[@ovidiogonzalez8797]

This good dancing music reminds me of a prestigious private club my family belong to when we lived in either Palm Beach County or Broward County, Florida.

[@victormurrieta1756]

Clase categoria originalidad hermosas fragancias

[@alexandre210613]

Thanks a lot Sid for having given such nice moments on the dance floor all over the world, especially here in France. :-)

[@nonaking1]

Danced this in 1979 in McAllen Texas at the Etc. Etc. CLUB!

[@oldangel61]

bellissima canzone... bei tempi

[@tiituk]

Thank you for posting this video! This totally changes my way of Arpeggio to see how the dancers hustle with this music. Without the video i thought this is just another silly eurodiscosong

[@tony72tony72]

thank you for posting the song, I've been looking for the song for 25 years.randomly came across it while looking at other disco songs thank you. So oz cugines

[@williewill037]

I love this jam and still have album from 1979 in tact.

[@supermandisco]

This is a good video. I can tell by the dancers.

[@fairalways]

@SidBarnes1941 I bow to you. Maybe my favorite disco tune ever. I was a dancer back then (messed up my knee auditioning for "Breakin'" in the early '80s. Someone nicknamed me Danny Terio's younger brother-hated that. Also hated when the dance teahcer Luigi, who taught Travolta, said I reminded him of JT. I was way better than both.). Anyway, just an amazing dance tune. I probably owe you a lot of money for all your trouble. Tore up my Capezio's and my Crayons to this. Peace and MUCH love.

[@broxxx1138]

This was our song.

[@MrNcordon]

Love it I still have this record since the frst time it came up

[@DarkAcrobat]

@SidBarnes1941 Sidney, congrats, these are great vocals, I own this vinyl since 1979, at the age of 9. Cheers to every lover of this awesome music and wonderful era !!

[@luisalbertovicuna375]

Eso es musica de lo bueno que se escuchaba antes y era la gente mas sana y no como ahora que solo escuchan cualquier porqueria de misica.antes se bailaba sanamente sin malisia ni se apegaba la gente cuando bailaba

[@fairalways]

Everybody who watches this, show Sydney Barnes the LOOOOVE!

[@ChristianZ28]

@SidBarnes1941 WOW !! This is one of my ALL time favorite Disco songs . Your vocal is hot on this track . Can't belive you did not make any money off this record NOT RIGHT ! Hit me bacl when you can my man , you helped me wan tto be a vocalist I used to sing along with this record in the car back in 78 !! I was a Kid then and no I won't tell my age now LOL!!

[@DiscoLover79]

Respect Sidney, sorry to hear you lost out on this, but we are still groovin to you my man! Best Regards from the UK.

[@papi420chulo]

LOVE IT!!!

[@DECOLORES1861]

LO MEJOR DEL DISCO!

[@fernandocontreras50]

WOOW!.. ESTO ES ES CLÍMAX DE LA ONDA DISCO!😍

[@JosselesXX]

Yo tambien..... fui pocas veces a la secundaria en esos dias.

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Great memories.Wepaaaaaaaaaaaa🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇺🇸🙏🏻.

[@mariobarrios6546]

This was 1 of my best times florentine gardens los angeles.ca.

[@medinacelli]

estaba yo en secundaria cuando esta mùsica estaba en su apogeo, y aunque pocas veces fui a la disco, si me empezò a gustar este ritmo.

[@GuillermoGarcia-bc9fs]

ESTA SI ES VERADERA MUSICA Y NO LA PORQUERIA QUE HAY HOY EN DIA.

[@aordazg]

SE ACUERDAN DE FIEBRE DE SABADO POR LA NOCHE, QUE CONDUCIA "FITO GIRON" NO MANCHES QUE SUPER ROLA LA BAILABAN EN GRUPOS DE 4 O 6 CHAVOS, EXCELENTE, SALUDOS DESDE XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO.

[@denissegonsalez7859]

se me enchina el cuerpo con esta musica

[@dreampo0926]

lo mejor de la musica disco, que tiempos aquellos

[@DenverFootMan]

wow! genius!

[@leoguy1979]

@SidBarnes1941 This is one of my favorite disco songs from that era and it is sad how they took advantage of a lot of talented musicians back in those days. Those who pepped hits like this and never saw a dime of it specially now that a lot of this music is sooooo used in commercials and in movies. This was a very special time in music and I love every track that came out of the disco era no matter how cheesy it was but this is a GREAT JAM....always put me in the mood to dance =)

[@victormurrieta1756]

Hermosos efectos de sonido y sintetizadores

[@fmaykall]

amazing

[@Mr487699]

everlasting hits.

[@ESPERANZA800]

hummmm que tema tan estupendo se disfruta al maximo

[@Mmucht]

I remember 1980.

[@tampico63]

Mr. Barnes, it's so sad to hear that you didn't make any money with this recording.... Someone made a bunch of it, that's for sure, Perhpas Simon Soussan.... btw, I always had the idea that Simon Soussan was of African American Descent, but by the interview I noticed him quiet light skinned.... This is an awesome Disco Production..... The Best...Sincerely, Rene. and btw, you guys sold so many records in Mexico.....

[@getsumharley]

AWESOME ERA

[@JosselesXX]

Este disco de 33 rpm fue mi primer disco NO NEGRO, era amarillo con lasers multicolores , algo asi como los brillos de los Cds.

[@norbertozuniga6741]

Si es cierto de colores brillantes 💃🕺🏼

[@SidBarnes1941]

This is me Sidney Barnes, I'm actually the male voice on this recording, I also wrote it with my buddy Joe Cash. That's Mona Lisa Young singing with me. I never made a dime off this record and it was a Disco smash. Well, that's show business.

[@victormurrieta1756]

Es una belleza hermoso Universo

[@tutubeas10]

This is fucking Disco Power! I miss those days!

[@ismaellucas9124]

asy se debe vivir la vida como si fuera el ultimo dia

[@ririkcmo22]

OMG I had forgotten about Fioruccis. I used to shop there when ever I had the extra money.

[@bourgeoisdubois8320]

I can vouch for what Mr. Barnes is saying. My mother also lent vocals to this hit and "Let the Music Play." This was basically an early version of Milli Vanilli or C&C Music Factory. She has told me on a few occasions about how random people were brought in to be the faces on the album cover. The business is indeed shady.

[@robertdanaher6730]

This is only a picture of me at the midsection of an oak tree on E4TH ST. and Ave.C !

[@broxxx1138]

This was our song.I miss her so much.

[@UNEVERMINE]

hypnotic and psycheledic disco

[@jjeg84950]

uuuuuffffffffffff old so i remember

[@williewill037]

I remember FIORUCCI on 59th street a great store.

[@EmpressElizabeth1920]

I have the 12 inch version of this song on yellow vinyl.

[@doradiaz5528]

Good Times Wow L and D 🎉🎊🎊

[@Mallymal1914]

@SidBarnes1941 Q-Tip from ATCQ said it best: "Industry Rule #4080, record companies are shady" This joint is on fire! Sue their asses and get your royalties!

[@ramboram03]

@futuristfood yeah your right , the set is from that time.

[@misstweakaturner]

Sidney, when I was 13 years old this song rocked me out!! and has influenced many of my own song writing ideas. Simply put there has never been anything that sounds like love and desire. I especially dig the r&B fusion with the pure excitement of disco. I hope you find a way to make money off of this maybe on itunes or something?? Did you make anything off of Panic and french kiss??? Miss Turner

[@SkrillerYar]

esta chido

[@00stobart]

With the title and the fact it pinches the elements from Stronger than her Love by the Flirtations methinks this is a Simon Soussan production. Dx

[@hector4930]

back in the day raves hahah

[@hassan1814]

today they call it electronica then we just called it disco.

[@misstweakaturner]

I wonder is the female vocalist on Love and Desire the same singer that sang the vocals on Shame Shame Shame??

[@Ryoga2K]

@SidBarnes1941 That is crazy, you have writing credits on the song, it is amazing you didn't receive at least some money from that O_O did you publish the rights trough the producer? that would explain it.

[@ramboram03]

this is not 1979 , this is 1976-77

[@BeatBoxingBryan]

i turned into my dad while dance to this

[@denissegonsalez7859]

para que se den un quemon chavos

[@njplr]

Well, the rapaciousness of the music industry is well documented, so your story, sad as it is, is all too common. This song was a HUGE smash in NY and Philly and Down the Shore.SHOULD have earned you .a handsome chunk. Well, the record companies are now getting theirs - the Internet has now made music so easy to steal (free of charge) that record sales have been plummeting. So carry on pridefully, just KNOWING how much your talent has really been appreciated over the years.

[@rgianatos]

That story has a familiar ring to it, Sidney. Hmmmmmm. That Simon Sousson. Too much.

[@broxxx1138]

Oh k-dog...your b-rox misses you..

[@Mixxersmix]

@SidBarnes1941 it is a great vocal performance. its too bad you guys didnt get paid. acutally I think your sound was usurped by a group called LIME that came out after you but used this same sound , but had more hits, race could have played a factor in that success. but either way this is still a great dance track

[@zkkorpio]

...and today's music is more monotonous also

[@RAYCHAPA]

sounds better than ever-ray

[@masclatin]

blow your whistle!

[@mtk170]

Sidney this is a great track but it sounds like Dennis and Denise Lapage bit your style to become the group Lime. They keyboards down to the mixdown down to the female vocal. They made some cash of this track so go and get your money.

[@drwhatson]

I'm saddened but not at all surprised to read that veteran Soul man Sidney Barnes didn't receive a penny in royalties from this record. Simon Soussan is a well know conman and bootlegger from way back, and has apparently ripped off everyone he's ever had dealings with. He's even ripped off part of the melody from the Flirtations' Northern Soul hit "Stronger Than Her Love".

[@fernandopuente7249]

POBRE MUCHACHA, LA DEL PRINCIPIO QUEDO TODA MAREADA HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@raymh1]

0:25 looks like Obama! haha

[@ra91342]

So this group is just lipsyc to some other people voice? Just like Millie Vanilli really? I would sue just like Martha Wash did and she won .