Lou Rawls - Dead End Street

[@recordguy4321]

Aah my favorite Lou Rawls song of all time. The cat was just too hip at this point in his career. What a monologue and a great captivating riff. He also did a great version of this at Monterey Pop but havent seen any video of it yet. Just imagine him and Sam Cooke back in the Soul Stirrer days. Whew!

[@HermanMcghee]

He was the man 4:03 😂😂😂😂.

[@Richardbr1000]

This is what brought me into Lou Rawls. I loved it.

[@ollieboogaloo]

this has gotta be the coolest thing on youtube. this guy for me is the deffinition of cool. i grew up on the mean streets of suburnaban lon and still get the message. LISTEN!

[@PlasticGangsta]

Perhaps the most soulful voice in the business, him or Tyrone Davis. Love you Lou, RiP, thanks for the memories. Yee Haa

[@mechcavandy986]

TYRONE! Seen him a lot in Mississippi! 💙

[@6motion6]

I have the original 45 of this that I bought when i was around 14. This music video most definitely epitomizes Lou Rawls at the height of cool for recording this song

[@Osc1llateW1ldly]

hey, I just bought this 45 in Amsterdam yesterday by accident actually. But lemme tell you what a happy accident it was!

[@williamdowning1552]

I grew up on the streets at the end of the street, 😎

[@meganmerlyne4757]

What a song, what a voice!!

[@gomezesmorticia]

I didn't live on a dead end street. We lived on 53rd and Dorchester on the Southside, Hyde Park in an apt. bldg. It was so windy and cold in the winter that there was ice on the inside of the windows, you could hear the wind whistle between the frame. There was a boiler and we had radiators. If the boiler was broken we had no heat. I went to bed with my clothes on and yes no shoes I too had shoes with buckles on them. This was in the 50's

[@paulcolucci.jcolucci2360]

lord have mercy

[@porkscratchings5428]

Loved this song since hearing it in the 80’s on Soul Cellar on the radio in the UK. Awesome tune !

[@kpitt1204]

He really was mad cool for days!

[@DrMandarino]

This man couldn't get better!! and let's not forget contribution of the producer-arranger David Axelrod with that soul´funk-jazz sound so muc apperciated by the future hip hop samplers

[@billybandol]

You are right. I just heard "the bottle", amazing. This music was critical and cool.

[@johnmass9421]

Life Is Hard With Love You Can Make It

[@sammaghett]

America's greatest rapper

[@unique74muzik]

Cold Lou..yeeeah buddy

[@bluv6]

@chrisart23 He's talking about growing up poor in Chicago, where the weather is very cold and windy in the winter. It's so windy there that the winter wind has a name: "the hawk" (and that IS what a lot of folks in Chicago call it). Because they were living at the end of a dead end street, the wind hit his family's house directly. He left Chicago ("caught the first thing smoking"), went elsewhere and became successful, went back for his family, but they wanted to stay in Chicago.

[@lifelife6973]

Love you I love this music I grew up on this music and I'm 63 now and I still listen music in my house every day everyday I listen to music

[@bwt167]

Bad Ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sammaghett]

America's greatest rapper bar none

[@melodysanger103]

Remembering Louis "Lou" Rawls (December 1, 1933 - January 6, 2006) (12/01/2020)

[@williamdowning1552]

From the hood with love 😎

[@williamdowning1552]

Sharing with love from the hood 😎

[@chrisart23]

@bluv6 thanks so much for the deep view into those lyrics. i really appreaciate this (sorry 4 my engl. ;)

[@johnmass9421]

Their Is Always Hope Don't Give Up On Hope That Is A Good Thing To Have Love Is Life And That Is Real

[@LadeeMelodyNo1]

Incredible, talented, and dedicated artist. A very distinctive voice - within 15 seconds (or less) of hearing him you know ... "That's Lou!" Sad that in his private life his temper got the best of him and domestic abuse was common. RIP Lou Rawls.

[@janicejohnson6438]

Doesn't even need mentioning. Let's just remember him for his awesome voice.

[@johnjarou2357]

windy city.Lou Rawls Chicago soul.

[@6motion6]

love the lyrics and the jazzy music accompanying the lyrics. I liked Lou Rawls more during this period of his career than with his later stuff, although I'll say his voice always remained good, it was just the type of stuff he sang

[@TonyErizia]

Great man, much missed.

[@DrMandarino]

superb!!!

[@paulcolucci.jcolucci2360]

my hero

[@MegaYabes]

Ooooooooooh Yeeeeeeeeah This Is Muuuuusiiiiiic

[@Tampa0123456789]

Wow I allwayse will like loue. He just had class. Didnt need to showboat and carry all that bling. Just did his stuff.

[@Zeph100]

Chase and status have used this sample on the track 'against all odds'

[@lance007lance]

Nice. Can someone upload the clip of Lou Rawls singing when he appeared and episode of Mannix called Lifelines Here is the info -------------------------------------------- Lou Rawls as a singer involved in a dope pusher's murder---and now a target himself. Lou sings "His Song Shall Be Sung." Mannix: Mike Connors. Gloria: Ta-Tanisha. Lt. Dan Ives: Jack Ging. Juanita Logan: Florence St. Peter. Bolo: William Marshall.

[@merseymain]

Thanks to Karl for linking this to me via Facebook. black man cool as ever

[@dr.6314]

Thanks, @Stan Dad! ,~) @huzone

[@Mrvinylboy]

Live at Playboy After Dark

[@jorben866]

no tiene precio

[@soulfoodie1]

Remembering Lou on the tenth anniversary of his death

[@lawshawnharrison7825]

The tv show Power brought me here...

[@mechcavandy986]

Is that Merry Clayton with the long hair?

[@P90X490104]

Anyone know where the venue Lou was singing this at? At first I thought it was Playboy After Dark since people sung live there and it had that party atmosphere with people hanging out, but I didn't see Hugh Hefner or Barbi Benton so I assume it was somewhere else. It just reminds me a lot of PAD with the atmosphere.

[@5737irvingpark]

The set looks different than the Playboy After Dark set. Who know's?

[@ChewingToons]

Shit hot!!!

[@TheJayblaze3]

He was childhood friends with Sam Cooke growing up in Chicago

[@kingediii]

That is fcking Dom Deluise dancing in the background!

[@notoriouslizw]

Is that Charo?

[@kingediii]

Bill Clinton is in this video at 03:21. Guy at the top of the stairs clapping super hard.

[@billybandol]

I too think that he is the best rapper.And the first.For example: Curtis Blow (a master)came decades later.

[@souzzza]

LOUCURA!!! FUDIDO ELE!!!

[@averypack13]

@bigbuse87 He's not exaggerating my brother. Ask anyone that lives there about the weather the last couple of weeks....lol.

[@chrisart23]

what the hell is he talking about before he starts to sing? can anybody write down for me? thats damn to fast for my weak english skills!

[@gedeaosantos2743]

SOMEBODY GET THIS LYRICS? SEND FOR ME.IF POSSIBLE COMMENTED LYRICS.POST HERE.THANKS!

[@VonBeest]

Al might hawk

[@MakesiGaither]

Now that's what you call ..."Swaga" cooler than a polar bears toenails""""u don't want to freezzze in your sleep...Real stories Real intro's Music of today is BS that is classic shi****....Roots music ....

[@estherwiserich3321]

Nhhh

[@louiswilson7773]

If this isn't hip I don't know I don't know what is brother.

[@blackmore4]

It definitely is... and thank goodness it isn't 'hop' too.