Bobby Caldwell- "What You Won't Do For Love" -SUBTITLED

[@pecatoribus64]

A true masterpiece, viva Bobby, well done !!!!

[@babygirlwade]

Booby Caldwell has soul....Prime example of a blue eyed soul singer. I love this song...his voice is timeless....

[@TheDarryl76]

It's a shame we have to trek back so far to hear beautiful music like this.Truly timeless!!

[@SDGirl05]

Its all about the dollar now and not the soul. So many people sold their souls that's why we don't have soul music anymore. Just carbon copies and empty music across the board.

[@AVAtticus182]

I've heard this song a million times, and regardless the color of the singer this song amazes me every time.

[@martynreed3562]

1979, what a year for soul and jazz.we were so lucky to be part of that! Still have the treasured Vinyl LP.cheers for the posting.

[@DollBadBaby]

A beautiful timeless song.I've loved this song since I was a teenager now I'm 52 & it sounds just as good now as it did then!!!

[@jaarmen3]

Great song. Reminds me of cruising down the boulevards in my 64 with my old lady.

[@bmjx55]

Superb orchistration, grooving, brass organs , smoothing ........this song it's a medicine for healing souls..........never never boring........

[@mariothepookster]

One of those songs/tunes I dug from the get go! When this tune came on the radio the volume went up! The best cover band I ever heard doing this tune was a group called Tobacco Road playin' at the old Red Onion in Redondo Beach in the early 80's.

[@Arcalot]

A great classic! We´ll never grow tired of this song... Lyrics on the video!

[@nyriiwav3y630]

Mitsubishi brought me here This is real music , the best music will always be the old school music . Music like this is what needs to be brought back to the young people's ears . They should be exposed to music that speaks to their soul .

[@leeliol]

R.I.P Tupac...Big up Bobby Caldwell for this blinding original too. Love it.

[@gellison93]

Title, lyrics say it all.... I agree a timeless love song. What we won't do, do for LOVE.

[@Fischize]

This totally blew me away, when I saw he was white. I love this song, regardless of what color he is. The smooth beat and lyrics are amazing!

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1979 {March 10th} Bobby Caldwell performed "What You Won't Do For Love" on late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... Three months earlier on December 23rd, 1978 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #9 and spent 20 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #6 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart... Was featured in the 1997 movie "Donnie Brasco"... R.I.P. Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012} and Mr. Caldwell will celebrate his 62nd birthday this coming August 15th...

[@Sound4daMasses1]

This song is just...Wow! I can't even find the words. The comments posted say it best masterpiece,timeless & amazing...When this song hits the 3:26 mark that melody on the keyboard just gives me chills. This song definitely would make my classic's list.

[@shellrob12]

I remember my uncle bought this 45 and it was red shaped like a heart,I played it and this is what I heard,ahh the memories!!

[@thetman102771]

one of my favorite songs growing up back in the 70's/80's...

[@PrincessDrRe]

Perfect! Real music days....

[@CharaZzify]

Dedicate this to that one and only not just for Valentines but for all eternity :)

[@PrinceKlutz]

I searched this out after hearing on the radio for years, thought it was the Commodores or EWF. love that trumpet line

[@AliseMosley]

This is one of the first covers I sang for a gig with my dad and his band :) Loved it then and I still love it now.

[@TheJagclaw]

I remember when this song was released. After hearing this song I became interested in Jazz music. This has been a favorite in my music library since. Nice work Bobby!

[@LilMansMom040506]

It doesn't matter if he is white. This song is a CLASSIC! This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES! Get down Bobby!

[@perryphd9744]

Go Bobby...Go Bobby...I am rocking to this.

[@CushionsList]

Blue-eyed Soul Brother. I love this song!

[@PublicNewSense]

This song needs a love button

[@MultiGuarddog]

Best of the best Classic !!

[@shellrob12]

For years I thought he was black,lol. I love his vocal delivery,the bass line and the horns made the song!!

[@sallymacyable]

One of my favorite songs ever

[@LitconflickRecordings211]

Beautiful 🔥💯

[@BradleyDScott]

Beautiful.

[@frietob]

i love this song,,my boy friend GT always sang this song for me:)

[@WeareLightmusic]

Baby makin' music.

[@AMORDEGENERATE]

You people are silly. I (somehow) knew he was white from when I started to listen to him, which was when I was about 4 years old. xD But I absolutely love Bobby. Could NEVER get tired of his music.

[@oscarflores1980]

I LOVE THIS SONG. PERFECT 4 A CLOUDY DAY

[@jnew09ful]

Hall of fame!

[@cebm07]

loveee this song

[@DavidHitchcockJr]

ME TOO!!...LOL......MAN THIS MY ALL TOME FAV CLASSIC HERE!!!

[@cushman1111]

Love this

[@Doughmain1337]

so much soul in this soung

[@Kerrfull2011]

love it...thanx!

[@davidmeyer1157]

Great song...very bluesy.

[@Multi80schick]

I'm 47, and I hear ya!

[@Zar_Zieg]

One of the few songs I would attempt to sing to.

[@bear022013]

tHIS CAT IS TOPSS MAN......got to see him in person before i go.

[@00Snake77]

THANK GOD, I FINALLY FOUND IT!

[@RobertDeMiedo]

Bravo!

[@jamin4556]

Song is awesome...

[@tamaragaddy3305]

Same thing its crazy that Mitsubishi commercial made me have to hear the whole song love it

[@mykolaalexander967]

That's so funny - that's why I'm here - lol.

[@KambizSayari]

Mykola Alexander me too

[@LilJay7015]

I love it

[@mykolaalexander967]

Like many of you the Mitsubishi ad brought me here - and I was so surprised - I always thought the singer was black! Funny. An icon of classic rock royalty who could sing soul so well is Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Many people remember them for their later songs but they started out in the early 60s doing soul on stage. Mark was - and still is - amazing. He could do any genre of music. Check out the CD with their early songs called "Mojo Workout". It's amazing.

[@maxifori_4713]

Wow... WOW ,wow WOW! I love this song and Im only 11!!! :D

[@SANFRANCHINO]

good work

[@Arcalot]

@BayFlow408 Thank you!

[@ProfessorMonkeyFonix]

bobby is simply ..AMAZING.. i love to c a white boy get down like this.

[@benHodah]

memories, memories

[@bhaktipurnamasari770]

i'm listening...and it's 2013 :)

[@bear022013]

Yes.

[@19kaykaybaby]

damn im young gurl and i love this song soo much!!! :P

[@TiffanyNT02]

never would have thought this song was made by a white guy. been loving this song for so long

[@yguaray]

Despite that the fact that (see below) most of you probably know this tune from what I call disco stations; you may be surprised to hear that the first time I ever heard this tune was performed live at a concert I recorded at the Santa Monica Civic (but I don't sell i.e. bootleg my tapes) played by a band called "Reconstruction". That band "Reconstruction" got its name rather from the post-Civil War instead from the reunion of indeed black and white folks in the band namely; principally the late Merl Sauders (black) on keyboards and Jerry Garcia (white of Grateful Dead fame) on guitar and Jerry's usual bass player the late John Kahn (white) who played with him in almost all of his non-Grateful Dead bands (except the earliest ones, one of the last of which was from where he previously played with Saunders and the partial reunion of one of his earliest bluegrass ensembles). This band (which only played over the course of the year 1979) also included a black drummer, a white trombonist, and a black sax player Ron Stallings who also was the one who sang this tune! Hence, mistakenly for some time I thought it was composed by him. However even though I eventually elsewhere learned I was as I just said, mistaken (as I'm always happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) as well as another somewhere else indeed, did I learn not only that is it also co-written by Alfons Kettner; moreover intriguingly that Bobby Caldwell interestingly can play a little bit of guitar, which makes me have a little bit more respect for him than I do for folks who can't or even if they can play some instrument, but don't on stage, (yet who knows for this studio version(?)) as he actually does for some but not all performances, that otherwise I've seen on here, actually play a bit of keyboard and maybe on other tunes as well?) Which is for one thing (see below near the end) despite Michael's lack of instrumentalism, at least with some of the them, why I went to see the Jacksons in concert! (Meaning like in his relatively recent performances with his own band as opposed to as I'm about to describe.) To my shock this does not include his very earliest days when he played drums including on as I had forgotten, given as they are in my vinyl collection which is presently in storage in terms of not remembering his name regarding the first one mentioned ahead until I was reminded, thanks to another video posted here to which again to my amazement, and by which I must in all fairness retract some of what I wrote in terms of what it seemed at first was his apparent lack, and then only little bit, (as I said above), of instrumentalism; that is for his early primary role as principal drummer and later as backup percussionist (F.E. at the end of this sentence below) which then came back to mind yet I as I just said still for the other don't recall even though I have both them namely; Johnny Winter And "Live" and The Allman Brothers Band (a band that if you don't already know had already without him two principal drummers) "Live at the Fillmore East" which if you don't already know, are very legendary to say the least!) Yet since I try to, (for which I know you'll be shocked despite as I am for most other things not such a snob, but when it comes to good or in this case, bad music I admit I tend to be a bit offensive but in any case, remember as is written at the very end below), if it's up to me which obviously often times it's not, avoid listening to disco in that I'm sorry but much of which, yet not all that is played on those disco type stations or the somewhat more tolerable so-called "Smooth" (my rear end) to which I refer as fake pseudo-jazz stations (such as Stevie Wonder (a genius) whom I've seen live more than once and a bit of "Earth Wind and Fire" (for the same reasons I stated in regards to the Jacksons) and likewise Ray Charles etc. neither of which by the way, do I consider derogatorily as disco) otherwise as far as I'm concerned for the most part sucks! Especially the male falsetto (a term from opera (which I also mostly but again not all, hate)) singing, like for example the late Michael Jackson even though I saw as I said above, the Jackson 5 on their last tour at the L.A. Coliseum in the early '90's(?), (you probably remember when, better than I). Most importantly, as Duke Ellington said "There's only two kinds of music good and bad"! Augy, San Diego

[@jjkhawaiian]

there are plenty of old school songs where we think the singer is black, like Wild Cherry's Play that funky music and Boz Scagg's Lido Shuffle. This is no exception. That's the mark of a great soul/R&B singer. In contrast, some blacks guys sound white, like Al Green, among others.

[@PublicNewSense]

@dxsmackdown8 I know I just now found out myself. I don't know why I'm so shocked but I've loved this song since it came out and always thought he was Black. Awesome song.

[@dataznboy35]

no dislikes? how good can this get? XD

[@GrahfUnleashed]

Wow....I didn't know Tupac used this instrumental in his song "Do For Love" pretty cool.

[@pabonilla73]

i didnt know bobby is white ...........i always though he was black,,,he has soul man, one of the best songs i ever heard,period...

[@alexluna1992]

music has finally lost its soul

[@WestDuval904]

I Had The girl of my dreams and lost her heart.I tried everything but im not gonna give up baby till i have you back again! i Swear...you make me do for love what i would not do

[@bigmac2703]

classic

[@miniroo612]

@BayFlow408 Hell yea dude!!!

[@smoothjazz1907]

I like bassguitar sound

[@kweezylg]

no joke Tupac brought me here, his songs are based off many selections of genres of music

[@Hotgirl170]

Big black and steelobrim brought me here :D

[@jdeppsmakesloveangel]

My "FAVE!!" song!!! when I was "YOUNG!!","DUMB "BLONDE!!!",...MORE "BLONDE!!",NOW!!!,...They just call "THEM!!" "BLONDE!!" "MOMENTS!!!",..ha!!!,ha!!!,...By "thw "Way!!"side!!??",...duo any of You "Beauty!!"People!!" EVER see "Donnie Brasco??!!",...this Song plays on Johnny Depp's Caddie Radio while Him & Al Pachino r "Smacking!!",...it's "Faintly!!" in the Background!!,...You REALLY have to "TURN "IT!!" UP!!! Johnny "Hand-Picked!!" ALL of The Songs to be Played in those Scenes!!! His FAVE!!!

[@TheTolz0]

And people thought tupac was a thug....my god if they could only see where music did go they would have embraced him!!

[@sam2stu]

Wow I had no idea Caldwell was a white guy lol I love this song

[@peppermint383]

Sounds like Boz Scaggs!

[@17eleon]

@aMpXtremeGaming & Z-RO!

[@deniseguzzardo]

@jparhum13 I agree

[@EVS2585]

@dxsmackdown8 huge shock eh?

[@MrBentyWenty]

He and 2pac should have made more songs together

[@orianaxxx]

all my life in 4:48 min...........

[@kevlar8686]

@BLUEtrafficLIGHT It took you that long?

[@098priscilla]

holy shit i thought bobby caldwell was black!! XD GOOD SONG THOUGH

[@TheOnlyWalterWhite]

What is this girl on and where can I get some

[@Gboox8488]

@Tmonie1986 Too Right

[@ClubSodaSkids]

This reminds me of house.. Is that wrong?? Lol

[@ShelszTvChannel]

Aaliyah sampled "Gotta thing for you and i can't let go" part (:

[@AMORDEGENERATE]

@treestar Well, I was like, 4 years old at the time when I started to listen to him. I didn't know for sure, but I just naturally assumed he was white. xD Didn't know how to distinct white voices from black ones. lol.

[@ebb1atlanta]

: )

[@AVAtticus182]

2013 lol

[@Xenite]

I've heard this song a million times, and I always thought the singer was black.

[@neshee36]

all these years i didnt know Caldwell was white wow

[@Proceed999]

Not sure about your case, but sometimes leaving is releaving ...

[@LeandraEthan]

@TiffanyNT02 I was surprised he was white too.

[@drelle504]

Get the eff outta here! He's white?!? LOL I had no idea. This is just like the time years ago when my mom found out Teena Marie was white. This song is still in heavy rotation on old school R&B stations. Go Bobby!

[@jparhum13]

thanx for posting the original the remakes are crap and im tired of hearing random people TRYING to sing it. Only the original will do so stop trying to make it your own.lol.

[@frylock456]

You're 26....

[@julies3807]

Oh Lord I thought this brotha was black...for fifteen some years...