Cymande - Bra (Extended mix)

Another one of those J.D. Records remixes and respect to the label.

[@notmebutyou8350]

It's 2023, and I'm still jamming to this song. I LOVE it!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@matthewdavis8398]

At a time when brothas and sistas just got along....in the park with congas and cowbells much weed and plenty of wine

[@brendatugwell7384]

Oh yeah, for the good old days...

[@shawn11361]

YES!!

[@theharvest5366]

Back in the 80's at the block parties when, they played this, we Lost our minds!!!! The Good Old Days!!!

[@genemcbride3452]

I'm 59yrs old and this jam is still BAAAD baseline and the breakdown

[@jeromeravenell9763]

That was the 🎟 ticket back in the days and it's still rocks.....timeless!!

[@Renee-ln9mp]

Word Up! 💃🏽🕺🏽

[@jurgeneckert1472]

To mrsm222...yes the Garage!!! That was theee jam! Larry mixed the shit out of that! Memories that last a lifetime! Today...club goers...have no idea what a club IS!!!

[@Musicfiend4ever]

Run this to the death! And folk just couldn’t get enough! Good times.

[@mrsm222]

2:48. That break right there! Maaan, Larry would loop that break over and over and over and we danced to it forever. I thought that was the whole song for years. Thats a Paradise Garage dance classic. Took me a while to find out what the rest of the song was. Heard the entire song at a party many years later and when that break came in I almost lost it! 😂

[@merlegraham627]

I love this song and the music. It's a very danceable song. Listen to that cow bell. Awesome!

[@codedlAnguage]

This is the ultimate subtle drop. 🍄

[@Ethereal1567]

Yeasss that break was and still is everything at some clubs where real music like this continues in 2023

[@plnewton1]

🤣😂🤣

[@williamhorton1837]

Larry at "paradise garage"ny CHILD BOO..Merveilluse

[@SS-ii6nz]

Every block party or what we called JAMS in the the parks in NYC lost it when the DJ's played Bra. The whole darn 10 minute version. Yees 🕺 💃 😅😊 Shout out to Cymande one of the greatest legendary bands that came from the era of professional musicians. ❤❤

[@WWEENETWORK]

Cymande is a British funk group that was originally active in the early 1970s. ... originating in nations including Guyana, Jamaica, and Saint Vincent.

[@Renee-ln9mp]

Wow Never knew. Thanks!

[@beverlywilliams4281]

Thanks for the information!!! Funk comes from all corners of this world!! Thank God!!

[@DJSCORPIO925]

Thanx for this Information...keep the Funk alive

[@jameswhitfield2878]

Sure Right

[@50ways2sunday]

BACK IN DA DAYZ IN THE BOOGIE DOWN BRONX IN THE PARK BREAK DANCING AND DOING THE HUSTLE...BELMONT PARK...CENTRAL PARK......SUMMER BLOCK PARTIES....WOW....THOSE WERE THE DAYZ.......TODAYS YOUNG CATZ DONY KNOW ABOUT THAT...THEY WERE NOT THERE...........WORLD CLASS DJ....MIXMASTER TONY T. LAPORTE

[@dimitrijackson9474]

I was!. Harlem all day!!!!

[@Joseph-ro6wq]

So very true!!! Stick all and spin the top, man I miss those peaceful days

[@eddionehawk]

Tt

[@ross1880]

I was at a rave in San Francisco 1995 and the DJ played this at 6am. It was perfect!

[@sauls164]

SHTT you missed out for DAMN neer over 20 yrs of this good sht . You need too get up on LOVE 💕 IS THE MESSAGE mfsb

[@soudontsay886]

I was at a dance in nyc a couple of Saturdays ago and the DJ only played 20 seconds of this song😞, I almost threw my shoe @him was so dissatisfied with him, this song needs to be played entirely even as we approach 2020😀

[@at4080]

2020 yes.

[@ross1880]

That would sucks only 20 seconds of this masterpiece. I was at a rave in San Francisco 1995 and the DJ played this at 6am. It was perfect.

[@mrsm222]

Hahaha! I know the feeling. This is the jam! We're used to hearing good music play out. They think it's cute to tease these little tiny snippets. Its horrible! Sometimes by the time you get on the dance floor the cut is over and you're standing there looking stupid. If I was there with you it would be two shoes 🤣

[@richard1849]

new york city staple, period. Was a working DJ for 19 years, can't sleep on this track

[@larrylynch3848]

Master Disaster in the house...I'd rock this jam like 20 minutes

[@michellehiggs4539]

The Garage NY and they kept mixing it and kept mixing it and kept mixing it 💃🏾 wore you out! 😂 good ole days

[@AfroBaggins]

This song brings back joyous memories with goosebumps brought inbound from late 70s, 80s, 90s....... NYC clubs like the Garage, Silver Shadow. Ones, Palla dium, Bentleys, Leviticus, Pegasus, to name a few -- so many others I can't recall but remember the locations. You had to grab someone and get on that dance floor when this break loop came on. I wish I could go back in the past 1 to a million more time.

[@davidmoransr9694]

The Red Parrot,Sound Factory,Studio 54 on a Thursday night and the Baseline AKA 21 Hudson on a Saturday night.

[@KEVINALI]

Zanzibar, Club 88

[@BadBalenax]

I have been blessed to have 1. Frankie Crocker/WBLS. 2. OLDer sister 3. Mom for that LOUD silver FISHER stereo... I don't know what was 1st, the radio plays or STARES at thee CYMANDE album!! Love THE BREAK yes, but still ADORE the whole song!! In my top 50 of all time...out of thousands! but its ALLRIGHT!!

[@jaesengibbons8710]

That beat will never go out of style EVVVER!!!!!

[@WandaPalma]

STILL HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS IT DID WHEN I HEARD IT FIRST ON WLBS IN BROOKLYN, NY.

[@haroldcampbell-jk5du]

Bringing back memories, fam. Unforgettable bass line. If I had a dollar for everytime I played this beat in my head I'd be extremely wealthy.

[@DrNoahBoddy004]

This record was blaring outside someone’s car stereo in 1972 Philadelphia, when I received my first bloody nose from an intimidating bully. I’m a click from 60 now, and pack intense heat. Now, I love this track. We’ve come a long way, Cymande. (And we have still gone on!)

[@tommykeith7093]

WAS THIS BULLY WILBUR SMITH? FRM. WEST PHILLY?? HE PAKS A PUNCH I HEARD??

[@DrNoahBoddy004]

@@tommykeith7093No, this attack occurred in far N.Philly (Oak Lane) Interestingly enough, he was a different Smith…. One, Tyrone.

[@albertrosa8771]

This was the joint back in the days when everything was carefree.

[@jareklotz]

"25th hour" main music in club scene !!! Yesssss !

[@dimitrijackson9474]

Foh clown with that bum ass movie; We talking and doing real world shit on here!!!!

[@sebastienmarcone5183]

What a movie !! Thks to Spike

[@franciscolopez9707]

RD🇩🇴 It’s the better soundtrack what I hearded in my life...!

[@coolmans4607]

@@dimitrijackson9474 oo

[@coolmans4607]

@@dimitrijackson9474 [[

[@blueguitar411]

this is the only song with the appropriate amount of cowbell

[@jaysteve8048]

The D.J. would always jam this favorite at the Friday nights dance given by the Student Council at the Lincoln High School Jersey City, N.J. gymnasium. PARTY TIME!!!!

[@roxanne5766]

Jersey City ❤❤❤

[@RnBMistress]

The break in this song is just too much. I remember how my bro. DJ Ron use to use the 'break' in this song at the BBQ parties & the crowd would go bunkers. Remember the dance, the BUMP!!!

[@italianblackmale]

This is the Bra mix I love!

[@kolokamari]

"But its all right we can still go home"......The Soul of Rasta!!!

[@deeboycarter7912]

Boogie down Bronx in the house...Stardust Ballroom inside your mind....Babydoll

[@dimitrijackson9474]

Harlem up in this piece!!!!

[@MichaelSmith-mm3fd]

Takes me all the back to 1977. PS. 297 playground. Park Ave. between Marcy and Tompkins. Brooklyn. 16 years old and finding out that I could compete for the girlies. Lots of fun back then. DJ's would bring the music, and somehow everyone knew. Didn't even need cell phones....

[@Musicfiend4ever]

This shit right here..........Primal, Transcendental, timeless.....if this don't make you move you are hopeless!

[@jacquelinerobertson6738]

Memories if being a little girl on a 100 degree Summer Day..In Brooklyn..Confined to the stoop..And somebody jamming this song somewhere.

[@Malan56]

Only the real G's listen to this classic !

[@cyndilunsford5714]

Let's go Fencewalk after this! Yes to Mandrill!

[@cyndilunsford5714]

And then some Soul Makoussa..Hell .yeah!

[@georgejohnson5789]

@@cyndilunsford5714 I started with Mandrill Fencewalk and Can you get it? Then came THIS here....

[@georgejohnson5789]

I'm George so I guess I'm a real G....

[@thomasharrison6701]

4 REAL. What it is, Is Where it is, All the way live, All Day Long. This Jam set it off for me,Now and way back then, Yes Indeed.

[@RSerious]

Boogie Down Bronx ....back in tha Day!!..........heard this jam in the parks and block parties............yes!..................RSerious.

[@vonnedavienwilson8150]

RSerious i wish i coulda been there to hear it

[@djdedan]

i remember being at the world and the dj (was it frankie knuckles - dont remember) played the extended break, and extended the break for like 10 - 15 minutes... everytime the drumroll was about to peak the bassline would drop again! it was crazy! he probably could have kept it going forever... one of my favorite cuts of ALL TIME! Thanks to Danny for extending it, thanks to cymande for making it!

[@georgejohnson5789]

2019. December 25...I bought this in 1977(?)... the message has found me again...

[@marksingleton3337]

Back in the days NYC Bronx, Harlem ,queen,s. Brooklyn NYC .

[@shelfpup]

I first heard about Cymande from Paul Winley`s Super Disco Brakes which were bootlegs. I then proceeded to buy as much as I could from the band. If it wasn`t from a bootleg then I might never of known about them. I think it`s more important that labels are stopping tracks being played on KZbin when it is one of the only ways that people will get to hear classic tunes and then go out and buy them. We`re in danger of losing good music for ever. Record labels and publisher`s take note!!

[@donnacrews7931]

YESSSSSS! TAKES ME BACK TO SUMMER TIME, JAMS IN THE PARKS, BLOCK PARTIES & THE HIMALAYA AT CONEY ISLAND!!! THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLE DAYS!!! BROOKLYN IN THA HOUSE!!!!!

[@MuhammadAli-Lateef]

Donna Crews Beekman and Flatbush Ave here

[@Naystaxxxxxx]

right on

[@kennethjackson1771]

Red hook pj's coffey park

[@RoseSanchez709]

Yes 🎉🎊

[@kimberlyanita1006]

Hollis Queens/Flushing Main St.

[@waltermichaelmasonmason5650]

I'm 75yrs N hands down nothing like that Today!!! 🐼

[@2ube4jhr]

Frankie T. (Brooklyn NYC in ATL 1978!) would remix Bra with Herman Kelley’s ‘Let’s Dance’, ‘Soul Makousa’, ‘Hollywood’ by the Village People, ‘Apache’, & more matching up the percussion almost seamlessly. Hassan of Brooklyn, would have the microphone spontaneously rapping dance directions. I’ve thought of these dance moments thousands of times through the years, reliving them in my head, projecting them onto an imaginary dance-scape

[@drstevie]

Stone cold KILLER !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@melissajomama7815]

Love that damn cow bell! This jam drove us wild as we be bumping to this, sweating like hell at La Martinique NYC!

[@Hotdocwat]

I've been singing this song for Forty Years Strong!!! The heart of break beat music, beat boy dancing to the break beats of these wonderful song. The Father of Hip Hop!!!!

[@fizzytinki]

Wow. It's amazing when you come across a tune that you haven't heard for a long time.The 25th hour movie - bar scene brought me here!

[@sandrapatterson2916]

I first heard this at the 'BUTTERMILK BOTTOM' in downtown Manhattan. Listening to this brings back the times when we would dance freely, let loose, in a group or with partners. When we left the club we were soaking WET and loving it. manoman those were some great times.

[@denisemitchell8477]

ALRIGHT now I was VIP with my Sista the chemist with the cooler Icon DJ Nicky Siano bass up bass out treble in losing 5 lbs WHAT Larry threw him off the Richard Long one night that's my club right there Panorama Zanzibar Loft Peter Rabbits Melons Better Days

[@markhabersham4153]

@@denisemitchell8477 Mellons !! The Gallery !! Area/the SHELTER/Vinyl , Ones , Trax (w. 19 st.) , Galaxy 21 , Funhouse , Infinity , Ce Soir , AM/PM , the Constellation , the Mudd Club , Starship Discovery , Magique , the Underground .........

[@kyle4345]

Jammin/feel good tunes like this is timeless more from recent generations should appreciate

[@marlenesheffield8777]

I fell in love with this banger at thee age of 10 years old growing up in Buffalo, NY, and heard it on a car commercial the other day. My sister and I never knew the name of this song -- we just remembered the beat. I had to research and so glad I found it. There was a documentary done on the band last year and the UK newspaper, the Guardian, did a very nice article on these brothers which you can find online.

[@samueldinkinsiii2686]

That break was it, Brooklyn in the House!!! SD3

[@sm1tty031]

I just listened to that break 4 times ins a row...the birth of every mix ever

[@austinmonroe3894]

Best mix of this song. By faaaaaaar!

[@melissajomama7815]

YES 💯

[@justval03]

Love the cowbell sounds❤❤❤

[@TheDebgirl12000]

My Junior High School jam! During our lunch breaks and during study hall, my friends, and siblings would put this jam on and we all would all be dancing, even the teachers! Black, white, Latino guys and gals! Great happy memories of my school years!

[@tinaeasley2397]

so true.

[@mizpahboy7513]

makes you wonder....where did it all go?

[@dimitrijackson9474]

Yes.... Indeed... And thats whats missing now. Not just in schools now; But in this fake ass Société here in america!!!!

[@ross1880]

Sounds like a good time.

[@JeffreyWJeffJones]

Baddest break beat ever

[@XavierCoolDude]

First heard this sample in DelaSoul 3 Feet high back in 89, then heard it in 25th hour. Now I just heard on Car Gurus commercial. Incredible song

[@victorjohnson2135]

1970,s Seven Crowns,11th Div,running through 40 projects 15 and loving NYC

[@TheBrianagw]

bass line is groovy baby

[@debradavenport7832]

Yes I went to camp when this was out I went to Fishkill NY

[@will-i-amT63]

Larry used to kill this back and forth on the 1 & 2's take me back to paradise garage🎧🎶🎚️🔥🎵

[@charlzg880]

Spanish Harlem Young Saigons 13th Div. the Dojo the joint would come ALIVE when this song was played talk about community that joint can take me back every time its played.

[@georgejohnson5789]

I was attracted by the album cover. I had an ect bedroom I used as a sitting room to listen to music and enjoy cannabis and play chess. The walls were covered with alb covers, incl this group. ..

[@darrylsamuel7208]

I was on 116th bet 5th & Lenox!! Some of my classmates & friends from Foster rocked The Saigon's colors

[@margaretvera7150]

the best song ever love the bass its banging right on point

[@tommysmalls2198]

Classic break beat still remember cuttin this up on the 1200's.

[@dimitrijackson9474]

These bums out now dont know nothing about SP12's

[@michaelchukueke8563]

Oh Damn!!!! I remember the Dj in the park, up in The Bronx, Edenwald projects!!!!

[@tommysmalls2198]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@DjJerryO]

wow i was reading the post and got the answer it is back in my crate baby long live house

[@kristianhuttaldrich8506]

2:48 The Clubs Rewinded This Over And Over And Over And It Kept Everyone Dancing!

[@kevinfernandes9397]

Legendary

[@DiscoMood]

Very nice extended mix. All the best qualities of that break. Awesome.

[@Jadehawk2864]

Totally playing this at my wedding! 👌✌💓🎶🎵🎷🎧🔊🥁🎺

[@james7496]

one of the deepest groove jams that's proper😎

[@tomasmorey1269]

Awesome track. Best from Majorca.

[@DE-gb3wq]

Cowbells and combs dela brought me here loving this

[@italianblackmale]

The cowbell was on point!

[@tinajackman3296]

This is one of the Badess Beats on planet Earth . Get on down. With Bra and Tina

[@abrahamsmith9344]

Y'all know these are Jamaicans singing and playing the music.

[@a6ftcowboy36]

YES YES YES! Y'aLL - had to use the extra yes!!!!!!

[@silentsteve63]

freaking master jam...

[@sharonlamarr801]

Boogie Down doing the “hustle”

[@courtneyamunmuhammad7343]

Wow! Brings Back The Past...Block Parties The Basements Yo! We Use To Cut This Up The Hook is at 2:34 BKLYN's Own Bed-Stuy Do Or Die... M.F.S.B Love Is The Message!

[@womackin]

"And You Know That"... "We Had The Best Of The Funk".

[@floydpotts2438]

+Courtney Amun Muhammad Remember this, mixed with love is the message, dance to the drummers beat for hours block parties in Flatbush 77-78.

[@Jaimebugs]

That was the *Joinsky*! Ditto for the HUGE Eastern Parkway Labor Day Block Party!!!! Best of times!!!

[@bus579]

Damn I'm feeling this

[@denisemitchell8477]

+Jaimebugs Empire Roller Ring

[@djhotday2868]

Queensbridge Park jams in the late 70s, with this song rocking from the disco twins RLA sound system 🤯

[@winermilo]

A Disco Joint with a Hip Hop Break Beat ..CLASSIC

[@kevinlewis3898]

Needs more cowbells

[@mustbelyrical]

LOWER EAST SIDE LOVED THIS IN THE YEAR IT CAME OUT ,,, DANCING SOLO AGAINST SOMEONE OR DOING THE BUMP WITH SOMEONE,,, I WAS GOING TO THE DUKE MUST OF BEEN ABOUT 14 YEARS OLD OHHH YEAH AND IT STILL BANGS LES 4 EVER LES 4 LIFE,,,,, LOWER EAST SIDE OF MANHATTAN NYC BABY

[@Jaimebugs]

But it's all right, we can STILL go on!!!

[@michaelbeasley1704]

Facts Bro.

[@jeffreyharris4519]

Back in the '70s DJs be jamming in the park

[@stevenwebb6027]

Take me back ya'll - Hey Bronx Park work! My feet still move when I hear this.

[@roberthobbs1433]

DOC 109 Fabulous 5 tripping out while painting the trains

[@PrinceTheSigma]

Even before Kool Herc, you could hear this in Brooklyn through Grand Master Flowers.

[@keithfolk8729]

Yes this song Bra by Cymande always rocked the party after Love is the message

[@jawariag1860]

Props for remembering GMF!

[@PrinceTheSigma]

@@jawariag1860 That's my era.

[@dimitrijackson9474]

Foh. Kool Herc all day... You know the deal!!!! Harlem up in this bitch!!!!

[@carlagirl7]

Thank you so much to the person who posted this!!!!! I have been looking for this song for so long....Brings back amazing memories of Junior High in Philly!!!! Pure music!!! They don't make 'em like this anymore!! Wow, Wow, WOW!!!!

[@krismcclendon6032]

Hey Cuz!!!!!! I cant believe I'm reading this while we're talking on the phone!!!! Love you!!

[@hh5141]

carlagirl7 ////Philadelphia 4 Life...

[@corneliusbrown737]

carlagirl7. so ture

[@cyndilunsford5714]

Yessssssssssss! I don't know were this band is from but it was definitely a Philly classic.

[@lorrainejohnson5461]

Still digging this in 2024!

[@carlstokes3563]

Grandmaster flash use to slice the hell out of this record back when they use to rock in the parks damn I miss those days

[@michaelpratt3429]

Philly in the house! an o.g. is still jamming this in 2018!

[@mannypintado8349]

Now 2019 or back in the 80's This will always be a funky beat.

[@cmanhatan4]

Born in 86 and love this

[@LEGSUDESIRE]

HEY DIRTYEDNA LONG TIME ...........YES THIS IS SOMETHING SPECIAL LOL AND YESSSSSS THOSE WERE THE DAYSSSSSSS

[@summerdiva1]

Blasting this right here in 2021!

[@kennydowning4369]

I am a real OG. I have 42 years experience as a dj.

[@aarontsanderlin]

That song brings me back so many memories I heard it on a car commercial today and flipped! Remembering us kids, making up a dance routine to get quarters from the old heads...

[@gordonduncan3032]

good music good times bklyn at its best

[@TheRubberduck36]

LOVE THIS BIG TIME!!!!

[@rcg1743]

If you ain't been to The Garage or Bonds Intl, you dont don't know what's up...🤷🏽‍♂️

[@manlynash6302]

Yes only the REAL GEES listen to this type of CLASSIC Tunes. And talking about Real GEES, Cyndi Lunsford take a bow cos your your stuff period. I was in Secondary school in Ghana and as I recall I couldn't wait for my pocket money to go buy Cymande album. Yes for discos, just like Cyndi said earlier, you play Bra, followed immediately by Fence walk by Mandril then Soul Makoussa by Manu Dibango then I get Lifted by KC and Sunshine. By this time the crowd is getting wild and screaming for more so make a decision whether to keep it Up Tempo or drop to mid tempo for smooching bank then. Hmmm

[@shanetelfair5560]

This was a Jam you heard at all the parks, yes yes and you don't Stop.😁

[@CRUSHENGLISH]

Black British funk/soul bands from the 70s and 80s got zero credit. Broke me heart when once said "Paul Young was the best British soul voice of the 80s"!

[@MrKefisher42]

Start of a new Era, NYC, the MC and Dj, also we always loved listening to the older folks music as well 😀

[@jerryaldeens3903]

This song creates a mix tape masterpiece every time...just so musically aerodynamic that you can thread infinite possibilities in and out of it segue-wise. A blessing of a number when it comes to tonal quality and unyielding unconditioned love...

[@bobbyhorsman9963]

Jerry’s licked!

[@burtonbeale2733]

This that BK in the Park wayback in the Dayz💯🔥💯

[@LEGSUDESIRE]

we have been left outside............But it's alright

[@Jaimebugs]

We can still go on . . . .

[@LEGSUDESIRE]

+Jaimebugs but its alright...we can still go on.... yessssssss

[@dimitrijackson9474]

They dont overstand the lyrics Queen Mother.

[@waltergeorgesr9172]

You are so right. I drank plenty of wine