Brick House - The Commodores | The Midnight Special

The Commodores appeared November 9, 1979
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[@kevingoins9858]

Drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange on lead vocals. He was the chief songwriter of this classic.

[@Dan-nt2yb]

I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾 Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️

[@rideon1956]

1963 and yes

[@bmw3842]

August of 1962 I was born, you are absolutely correct. We got in at the right time

[@lloydmoss217]

Class of 62 year as well… That will never be repeated on network television… Especially not lip sync

[@1313s]

Old school at it's highest level of Commodores brick house gold

[@adrianlyord5300]

The mighty mighty Commodores!!!! Definitely one the greatest Funk Bands of all time!

[@davidwilliams5497]

1:40 Bass player forgets they’re supposed to be pretending to play the song and just starts dancing. Guitar does same thing a few seconds later. 😂

[@ScottWozniak]

1:47 Even the women dancing are making the "stank" face! 😂 Lionel Richie on sax! Great stuff! 👍🏻

[@LOV2ROK2VINYL]

Wow,didn’t know Lionel played saxophone 🎷

[@mando7558]

me neither, very talented man

[@kevingoins9858]

Yup. Doubled on keyboards and sax.

[@bennyscissorhands6477]

he can dance on the ceiling too!!!😂😂😂

[@tomh9315]

Eddie Money too

[@mbrownie22]

@@bennyscissorhands6477good one and all night long too

[@FPSOP57]

They are miming to the track from their 1977 Commodores Live album.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body. Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏 Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃

[@deathproofpony]

Ronald LaPread is killing it on bass.

[@that70sgirl90]

Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤ Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@StephanieJeanne]

😅Yes, the roller rink as well as dance floors! 🙌😎✌️

[@that70sgirl90]

@@StephanieJeanne Absolutely! 👌

[@davidryder3374]

I wonder if kids even go to roller rinks any more? Our elementary school even had a monthly skating party night! Great memories.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Great funk song! You couldn't stop people from dancing when this song was played at dances and in clubs, myself included! 😎🔥

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

Saw them when Lionel was the sax guy back in the late 70's👍🏼🇺🇸🥃

[@Sincopare]

Still the best roller skating song of all time. At the right rink, with serious sound and lights, I'm right back in the 80s.

[@TheSunTheSea]

Can we make America Great again? These were the glory days! Let’s go back!

[@ChedricBigby]

I agree 💯 if we can go back til 1979 right now😊

[@gilbertcarrizales7592]

It’s impossible to sit while this song is playing!

[@jorgeponce5512]

Couldn't agree more.

[@rockndisco3874]

Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!

[@Gatorbaitress]

YES!!!!! Shook my booty to this song many, many times!!

[@tonycanabal1659]

It sounded "live" but they are lipsyncing to the live version of the song that was on their live album.

[@rockndisco3874]

Just the prelude, they weren’t not lip syncing at all

[@OzMan9989]

They don’t make em this anymore! Pure energy and soul!

[@MA_808]

when this song comes on the sound system at Walmart everybody stops and listens up....

[@KittyGrizGriz]

& starts dancing down the “soul train” aisle 🎉 😅

[@JerjerB]

I saw Lionel Richie perform with Tina Turner and it was that most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my life.

[@Belexes]

The guy behind the drums is so good, he's invisible. 😂

[@CJH71587]

Classic from 1979! ❤️‍🔥

[@Jeffrey.Seelman]

This is great stuff. Too cool for School. I grew up listening to bands like this.

[@tommcgeethree]

Now that's a party. Oh yeah. 😎🍺👍

[@brianvasko5048]

If this doesn't get you movin', you're friggin dead! 😅

[@crlaw75]

Nice to see a clip of Lionel with a saxophone here.

[@flicewatter]

How Awesome is that.! 😎

[@Ibrian8888]

Keep them coming! Thanks mr Sugarman!

[@svzoom12]

The audio is from the Commodores Live album Why you hear their voices before they even arrive on the stage. Program television for ya. Still a bad ass band and an awesome flashback shake it down 💃🏽🕺🏽 They performed 'Grease' with Frankie Valley on this same episode.

[@mrbeefhead]

now this was entertainment!

[@Mungo10]

I liked how they even played the fade out.

[@inconsiderate_weasel]

and without a drummer

[@johnstrawberriusfields]

next time they should try having a drummer play to the canned track :)

[@lunnouxhinds8464]

One of the best bands ever.

[@lynnjames6629]

Nice‼️💯🎶🙂💃🏻🕺🏻

[@amilcarodrigues]

This is funk!!

[@michaelschmidt9708]

The groove in this one just KILLS!

[@The_momur]

I love this song!

[@JacquesTreehorn]

I did not know Lionel Richie was a sax player. Must be a multiple instrumentalist like Prince. I have seen him on the piano. It was cool seeing Jeff Skunk Baxter shredding the congas on the Steely Dan stuff. I thought he was just a guitar player.

[@BC99]

Feel good music.

[@glennhfriedman4571]

slamming to this second .. Old Lionel play ing the sax ..... College friends too. ...

[@slide_drexler]

My People carry on! DANG!

[@damamae950]

Awesome

[@fmaykallb]

great song

[@RickyLangley]

"Brick House" is a song from the Commodores' 1977 self-titled album (released as Zoom in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the UK Singles Chart. Lionel Richie stated that the song's title is a play on the expression "built like a brick shithouse," referring to a strongly built woman.

[@gregoryg3256]

🌠Oh Yeah !!!

[@skooter72]

Lionel on sax!

[@ChickenLittle956]

Had to get up and dance!

[@vandalorianvandalorian4769]

From Sax to leading man, The Rich Lion!

[@Oscar_Hector]

ce groove monstrueux c'est à pleurer tellement c'est beau

[@robertjovitaoperton7061]

The bass is thumping! As the bass is thumping it starts thumping again!

[@stephaniecannon410]

Aww❤❤"Commodore's."🍓

[@The_momur]

Tasty bass!

[@ELIOSANFELIU]

Have a good time¡¡¡Cool¡¡

[@edwardrojo7175]

I wish this was LIVE.

[@theevn7]

Legends

[@LP23D6]

I didn't realize Lionel played sax.

[@rgs4x]

No auto tune here! Didn't know that Lionel Richie played the sax!

[@williamdrijver4141]

Announcer sounds like Wolfman Jack?

[@kevingoins9858]

It is!

[@nb7466]

I always thought Lionel sang that song

[@gregoryduncan3067]

I think he has sung it. He sings everything else they do.

[@christianman73]

@@gregoryduncan3067 Lionel *did not* sing everything else that the Commodores did. He sang the ballads and some up-tempo songs, but Walter "Clyde" Orange also sang lead on more than a few of their up-tempo songs. He was definitely the right choice for this song, because his voice is more gritty and funky than Lionel's.

[@christianman73]

Nb7466, this is Walter "Clyde" Orange on this song. He also sang lead for some other Commodores songs on their albums. It always surprises me when people think that Lionel sang this song, because the vocal doesn't sound anything like him! 🙂

[@gregoryduncan3067]

@@christianman73 It would have worked just as well with Lionel on the vocals.

[@christianman73]

@@gregoryduncan3067 We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Lionel's voice is great, and I love it, but it's not as funky as Walter's, and "Brick House" is a hardcore funk song. It was made for Walter to sing.

[@gregoryduncan3067]

Maybe TMS will upload them and Frankie Valli doing Grease together. That would be insane.

[@kevingoins9858]

Yes!!

[@StephanieJeanne]

Do you know something we don't? Did they actually do that on one of the episodes?

[@gregoryduncan3067]

@@StephanieJeanne They did! Frankie and Lionel did a duet. They've actually released that clip before on one of their DVD collections.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@gregoryduncan3067 Wow! I'd love to see that!

[@ChristopherLaw-qv4ou]

They must all be grandparents

[@stevejones6247]

I didn't know that Lionel played the sax

[@davidfernleigh]

Is that Wolfman Jack as MC?

[@gfunk1506]

where is the drum track coming from?

[@Tapoutkingg]

Where's the drummer on Brick House?

[@BobGeogeo]

Miming it but having fun. No drummer or mics on the horns.

[@Joel-j3t]

I didnt but IT made sens

[@bingeltube]

Poor sound quality!

[@scottwhitt9379]

And people think Slipknot has a lot of members. Odd ending,

[@saulcontreras4287]

RHCP grandpas

[@essiejames9492]

Walter was as good as Lionel just didn't get the recognition

[@mattdylan664]

lionel richie was one badass mofo in his day

[@johnshields6852]

I was 19 huge rock fan but they made some great music too, this was around the time of disco sucks chants.

[@jamesgraham3116]

Lip syncing no drummer Clyde plays drums but not on this particular song on the album.

[@ikefork2606]

Lip-sync and phantom drummer? WTF? Miming to a prerecorded sound track piped to the mixing board….😢

[@iodian]

That's a whole lot of faking it. They didn't even both bringing out a drummer for the illusion.

[@rockndisco3874]

The drummer was singing