Odyssey - Native New Yorker (Audio)

"Native New Yorker" by Odyssey
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Chorus:
Oh, oh, oh (Oh, oh, oh)
You're a native New Yorker
You should know the score by now (you should know by now)
You're a native New Yorker
(New York girl, ooh, ooh, ooh)
#Odyssey #NativeNewYorker #OfficialAudio

[@MVR326]

As a ''native New Yorker'' this song always made me proud, and it still sounds beautiful all these years later, but I have to admit it makes me sad of a simpler time and friends from the past. Where DID all those yesterdays go??

[@TisEyerish1]

I am a native New Yorker...I love this song. It brings back so many memories of what my life was like back in the 1960s when I was young, vibrant, and had the world on a string. The string broke, sadly, and life became something much different than I thought it would be. I guess this probably applies to all of us, and it's what we do with our circumstances that matters. I will always remember the New York City girl that I was with a great deal of fondness and a smile on my face. I thank God for the great memories I have...and I thank Him for all the blessings I have in my life today, as well.

[@RM-lj8bv]

God Bless You, You'r still A New York City Girl. Best Wishes From Scotland, I love New York. Visited many times while working on The QE2 Cruise-liner Back in the 80's and many times since.

[@goliaboi]

God bless you indeed!

[@TisEyerish1]

@@RM-lj8bv ...Thank you so much and you're right...once a NYC girl, always a NYC girl. I love the Scots as much as I love the Irish, I believe we are interchangeable! BTW...I was never notified of your comment, otherwise I would have responded sooner.

[@TisEyerish1]

@@goliaboi ...Thank you very much...and God bless you, as well! Stay healthy!

[@allegrovivante1966]

Amen!!

[@zgord-nb1zi]

Bronx boi here, Went to PS 6 when i was a kid. Moved to Ct after i went to college. Then to LA. Now living in Europe. However. my fondest memories was running the streets of the NYC. The sights. The sounds. The smells. Eating pizza slices for 25 cents. Going to Yankee games. Sneaking into the Bronx Zoo. There is no where like it on earth. Wasnt' always easy but still proud to call NY home.

[@amyleigh8394]

I can't imagine being a Native New Yorker and being so charmed by this song, what an amazing feeling that must be

[@MarkAnthonyDemartino-l5p]

It is

[@dpimpernell4050]

You can or you can't imagine. Make up your mind women

[@nancygaither7581]

It feels good ❤

[@mels8990]

Being a Native New Yorker myself..when I’m someplace else you better believe that NYC is there TOO 😊

[@ferdinandfigueroa5027]

this was the anthem for house parties and block parties.

[@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017]

I've often thought how groovy it must be to be a native New Yorker!

[@mikebratton2751]

Trust me it is

[@mels8990]

Yes it is and believe that a Native New Yorker is someone from the 5 Boroughs.

[@BobBaker-v9v]

WTF is wrong with you? NY is crime ridden and filthy

[@mandolinwind]

I dare say , center of the Universe😎🥂 , 🗽 . Sadly, it changed drastically, and not for the better..sigh

[@jeromeosills6522]

No matter what part of the earth you lived, hearing this song made any and everyone a native NewYorker.

[@marcellaoreilly2730]

I'm not even American and this gives me a strange nostalgia that I can't explain x

[@topenglish6674]

Because it's bittersweet. It's about always yearning for something else, imagining something more exciting is just around the corner instead of living in the moment then suddenly you realise...life and the chances you were offered have passed you by because you were so dazzled that you weren't paying attention to what was in front of you. The vocalist (whom I thought at first was a man) is spot on with the emotions she conveys. It's deeply soulful, despite being a disco record, it straddles the two because if souls is about anything, it's about feeling. I know this song thanks to the film The Stud. Like any true classic work of art it is of it's time and speaks beyond it's time.

[@marcellaoreilly2730]

@@topenglish6674 I’m only 30 but yah I know what you mean xxx

[@roystonrogers2350]

You hit the nail right on the head

[@10starsgal]

It's the melody and lyrics, and I'm a native Californian! I grew up in the 70's.

[@sirjer73]

​@@topenglish6674Well said, im proud of you!!!!

[@bennieparson3539]

Sitting here in 2024 reminiscing what a beautiful time to live in the 70’s wish I was ‘Native New Yorker!!!

[@bennieparson3539]

‘where did all those yesterday go’ reminiscing about the 70’s being 70 ☺️

[@ValerieJohnson-nl9wu]

I love this song too that's why I'm playing it but I'm a Cali girl so love wherever you are❤

[@Unglue]

70s New york was terrible

[@chatman2a]

⁠@@ValerieJohnson-nl9wu I’m a transplanted Cali guy (from southern Cali). But I’ve worked & lived in NY City since 1989. Despite all of the negative happenings that occur in the city, I LOVE it here!!! I may not be a NATIVE NYer (by birth), but in heart & spirit, I am & will forever be a native New Yorker. 😎

[@microwavedsarcasm]

Wendy might have brought me here- but the original absolutely hits!✨✨

[@samuelrivera2800]

"Where Did All Those Yesterdays Go?" Life doesn't always turn out like we plan but it is great to go back to a simpler time (albeit in music) and remember all those times in my Native New York. The 70's and 80's Rock. Disco was King!!!

[@studiosfifty4]

Yes, absolutely !

[@sylviaholmes5225]

True That❤

[@ashalorena8906]

my mum loved this song, my was Jamaican born in England, and since her passing in December, the song has followed me to shops, on the local radio (not common to hear) and now this randomly popped up on KZbin after watch a vlog... Little signs :) sending love to everyone listening!

[@natalieabreu7758]

Sorry for your loss.

[@diaclethian1]

When you're a native New Yorker like me, this jam hits different

[@HoweyJR_]

Buffalo >

[@thugpiece8038]

Period💯 Harlem 142nd Bway🥰‼️

[@GIGI_NYC]

Bronx baby ❤❤❤❤

[@mounibathmani8657]

All my life is want to be a native New Yorker , and this my dream to get aout from my country and go to new living there I hope some day we meet 😊

[@jordanthomas7764]

True so am I

[@catman2629]

British Heavy Metal fan here , but I still love this track so beautifully crafted

[@MrMarmarsFilms]

Timeless cut to true native New Yorkers!

[@felixjones1375]

I'm from Baltimore, but her singing about New York is straight fire 🔥... Brings back so many childhood memories.

[@MarkAnthonyDemartino-l5p]

Good taste in music brought me here

[@LisaFonseca-k8r]

I'm A Native New Yorker That Remembers When This Song Came Out A Teenager With Lots Of Dreams ❤

[@marielxsmith1997]

Thank you, Victoria Secret for finding me this song. ❤

[@shaundaeallen7329]

Thank!! I’ve finally found this song.❤❤

[@ivanking569]

"What you waiting for,...no one opens the door for a Native,... Native New Yorker." Love is song. It takes me back to a really great time in life. RIP - Uncle Andrew

[@WiZZpopp]

that is the part where wendy williams flops it :OOO

[@TisEyerish1]

How sad! There was a time people did open doors for others in NYC. In fact, I once had a construction worker jump out in the road to stop the traffic so I could cross the street. I guess he got tired of seeing me hop off the curb, only to hop back on it again because I chickened out. That was in the late 1960s before Women's Lib ruined chivalry. Pity. I did NOT like that movement!

[@stevewoodson4635]

First rule of Long tall money Ain't nobody gonna be above suspect get the private investigator jobs of the case technically the credentials for the test results from the heifers cliques

[@cravendubose8179]

​@@stevewoodson4635can you please me what you're trying to say..?

[@flsealrms]

I remember the first time dancing to this song at a disco . I will never forget it ! What a great song to dance to ! And the girls!! They would just come over and dance with you, what a time to live!!! I wished it would never end

[@sylviay.5863]

goose bumps love it❤

[@jeromeosills6522]

Were did all those yesterday's Go?

[@allison88888888]

this song should've been in saturday night fever!

[@Arcid]

YES!!

[@carminabarrios5676]

En México una tienda de ropa usaba está canción para promocionar el muy visto y usado traje estilo Travolta y con un chico bailando al ritmo de esta canción. Cómo lo recuerdo tendría 10 años yo.

[@JuanCruz-j6d]

Thelma from Good times brought me here.Proud to be a native New Yorker East Harlem

[@BobBaker-v9v]

WTF

[@JuanCruz-j6d]

@BobBaker-v9v I was watching in episode of Goodtimes and Thelma was dancing to this song with her beautiful self

[@daisydottie9252]

this song is seriously a bop thanks Wendy

[@michaelcutcliffe437]

Soooooo good!

[@DCee15]

The moment I first heard this song while I was at work, I began dancing out of nowhere and I ain't really a dancer! But the thing is, I work as a Security Officer in a hotel. Could you imagine how silly I looked? Haha! The power of this song is just FIRE! I'm a 90's kid and a father of 3 btw. Haha😂

[@paulcrisp9861]

I am so outgoing myself I would dance 🕺 to myself to this song whilst shopping, so you aint on your own. Great song great memories of a different era 👏 🙏❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 jan twenty ✨️ five ✨️

[@MelxncholyMermxid]

Little vampin'

[@kingsleyrechards9753]

hahaha

[@Skullkidjynx]

Ooh ooh ooh

[@MuglerBoy]

💋💋💋💋💋

[@thasukisonyahsone1323]

Dfntly...

[@michaellnbnj]

Born & raised in northern NJ right across the Hudson River river from NYC. I remember mornings getting ready for high school in late 77 when this song was a hit. Even though not technically a native New Yorker, when you grow up in close proximity to it, you totally get this song. And Odyssey nailed the vibe of the city! Special song for me. Where did all those yesterdays go! :-(

[@dentatusdentatus1592]

Jersey City right? Or was it Hoboken? 🤔🤔🤔

[@michaellnbnj]

@@dentatusdentatus1592 Jersey City.

[@paullangsbury5913]

Fabulous song 👍

[@chibuzoanyanwu202]

As a Jersey Girl who grew up in Hackensack, I absolutely agree

[@SandraLNeely]

I’ll never forget the first time I heard this song. Thelma on the show Good Times danced to it. Awesome performance!!

[@JuanCruz-uu5lr]

Thelma is a real native NewYorker.

[@javiercruz4144]

Nice song,real classy

[@michaelglickman1300]

For those wondering, the other musicians are backing vocalists Around McCuller, David Lasley, Susan Collins, Bobby Linzer, Charlie Calello, Jr., Monique Calello, Stephanie Linzer, and Tonny Selco; guitarists Cornell Dupree, Eric Weissberg, Hugh McCracken, Jeff Mironov, and John Tropea; bassists Gordon Edwards and Will Lee; drummers Charles Collins, Ron Tierno, and Terry Silverlight; percussionist Sandy Linzer; vibraphonist-marimbist David Carey; keyboardist-arranger-conductor Charlie Calello; keyboardists Pat Rebillot and Richard Tee; French horn players Fred Griffin and Jim Buffington; reed players George Marge and Michael Brecker; trombonist Tony Studd; bass trombonist David Taylor; and trumpeters Lew Soloff and Randy Brecker.

[@leonguisburg413]

New York heavyweights. Legends. Sadly sone have passed on

[@leonguisburg413]

@blue star These are the musicians that played on this album. Without them you wouldn't have this tune

[@Nellefad1]

They had a whole audience with them ⊙⁠.⁠☉ rofl

[@va6899]

Thanks dude, credits are super important.

[@thereviewingforce7294]

@@va6899 🤓☝

[@vpking77]

This is the quintessential disco song. It captures the era perfectly.

[@125ZJK]

As a child songs like this drove me to visit NYC.

[@uriyahbonafide4194]

I hope you had a good experience while there.

[@mikeks3701]

This song hits all the right places for me. Just put me in a happy mood. 😄 🎶 Absolutely timeless. ✌🏽

[@petesmith9608]

Wow!, what a beautiful comment.

[@tiffanypleasure5230]

As a Native New York 🔥🔥🔥🔥always been my song as a kid

[@iuv4enzo]

Ahhhahh 🔊 a little vampin 🧛‍♀️ ooh ooh ooh 💫🌪️ oooh-ahahaha 🌞 *snort* 👃 (oop-) yorkerrr 🗽 and guess what? 🧐 No one opens the door 🚪🔑 nuh-uh 👏 for a native 🌇 New yorker 🚕🚇 here I go 🤸‍♀️ ohohohoh 🥰 Ahhhhh 👄

[@thornredwind4910]

LOOOOL

[@mariuspoppFM]

Cut your drugs

[@danny___928]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@logan5326]

Born in Bklyn, raised in Queens, went to school & worked in The City & had a gf from The Boogie Down …🗽🍎⚙️✨

[@shanethetrain8132]

Where's the boogie down?

[@GIGI_NYC]

@@shanethetrain8132the Bronx lol ❤

[@edgarcordova9500]

That intro makes it all worth while.

[@imetaboyiusedtoknow8308]

Shout out to my fellow native New Yorkers no matter where you live now. You can leave NYC but NYC never leaves you. Manhattan, the Bronx (hey), Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

[@kimwright8768]

Good Times Brought Me Here One Of My Favorite Odyssey Songs Native New Yorker 1977 ❤🔥

[@jamesrobert1681]

The 70s, happy music. Lovely Song.

[@wendyholley967]

Born in 1974, I loved seeing Thelma dancing to this song! Nothing like the 1970s

[@John-wn4ow]

Still a banger of a track for all New Yorkers.

[@sammiebutler3187]

How peaceful music was,In the 70s.❤.❤❤❤❤

[@sandman9000]

The feeling this song gave me growing up in Brooklyn.......1974

[@DamianTheLightskin]

I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 but I want to hear this in Times Square and dance my arse off! 😂

[@thecapricorn11]

times square s terrible now like disney fucking world

[@DamianTheLightskin]

@@thecapricorn11 really cos in the movies it looks fuckin ace 😂

[@thecapricorn11]

@@DamianTheLightskin trust me

[@JCPen28]

You don't have to be a Native New Yorker.....this song transports you to a Classy era when people dressed up to go out. It was an affair to remember, not ripped jeans and tennis shoes😂. I miss those days❤

[@hanselbaker179]

Still a great classic song! This song was played on Good Times when Thelma was performing a dance! I still enjoy this song too everywhere all of the time! Long live this great song!

[@muffs55mercury61]

BerNadette Stanis she was beautiful.

[@RainbowUnicorns2023]

This song is sometimes forgotten, because it was being played at the height of Saturday Night Fever popularity . This song just makes me feel so alive!😊😊😊😊😊

[@muffs55mercury61]

Yes but still it's reached #21 which was respectable.

[@marcuslloyd8218]

82 baby here just heard this for first time this year. What! This is gold! My jam now while rollerblading at 5 am in the morning before anyone is up to see my crazy behind lol

[@KUqdah]

😅😅...

[@JCPen28]

I was in High School 😂enjoy our music. It was a great era for music❤

[@kbobdonahue1966]

I have cousins who live in New York state but this is about New York City. Love the song. I ❤️ NY.

[@richlitton7862]

The drumming is tight.

[@lbcn04sloc28]

I'm not even a New Yorker and here I am bopping to this jam.

[@homelesshannah50]

I HATE New York and would never, ever live there but I like this song, I grew up listening to it

[@billsmith1730]

RIP MS LOPEZ...SUCH A BEAUTIFUL TALENTED QUEEN❤️💯💯💯

[@garyvernall5688]

It's got to be the coolest song ever

[@4yoeyezonlee540]

I live on Pluto, and this song makes me want to visit NY in the 70s.

[@erickasule5822]

I am happy to say that I have now been introduced to a completely different range of music and I am so happy

[@paulabarros7954]

This was my disco song of all time!! In the club, I would dance my a** off to this!! Thank you Odyssy for this song!! Happy Heavenly Birthday Queen Louisa Lopez!!

[@VideoSnipsChannel]

Who's listening in 2024? Happy New Year New York ! ♥

[@misterbigs]

❤️👍❤️👍❤️

[@BobBaker-v9v]

WTF cares

[@maurocorrarati]

Everyone who has a soul and an heart ....

[@supernatural2029]

I am from Mexico and I feel nostalgia for that time, I cannot imagine how was life in New York in those times when this song was popular on the radio.

[@mels8990]

As a True Native New Yorker…someone who was born and raised in the 5 Boroughs…this song hits ALOT different…I can go anywhere in the world and NYC will be there with me 😊

[@manuelwindecker2524]

Where have all those funky Yesterdays gone? :(

[@lindawilson4345]

they're right here

[@supafly200]

I agree

[@glennfjenkins2702]

Manuel Windecker they all went to KZbin🤣👍

[@GIGI_NYC]

I’m a native New Yorker and this song makes me smile every time ❤❤❤❤

[@cliffbunsam]

POSE final season brought me here. LOVE this classic!!!

[@andychuang9160]

Same!!

[@mohamedfawzy9945]

Same 💞💕💕💞

[@2259r3z]

Until today I hadn't heard this song since it was on the charts in early '78. I lived in NJ then and NYC radio stations naturally played the crap out of it. I live in SoCal now, and today I happened to turn on the radio while a rebroadcast of Casey Kasem's Weekly Top 40 show from 1/28/78 was playing. I was in the car long enough to hear most of the songs from #28 to somewhere in the top ten, and this was one of them (#26). Every song brought back a lot of memories of that cold a** winter. The Nor'easter of '78 was on Feb 6 - 7, just a little over a week after that Top 40 show aired and while this song was getting a lot of airplay.

[@michaellnbnj]

Great memories. I'm right there with ya!

[@muffs55mercury61]

I'm from the desert of Arizona and we were having a '50 year flood" then and when it made it to the east it was a blizzard.

[@Giolee000]

This was my grandmas favorite song when I listened to it i cry

[@williamparker5867]

Who’s listening 👂 here now in 2024 ????🤗

[@kimwright8768]

I Am Love This Beautiful Song ❤️

[@jduwayne1]

This song has a profound meaning to me...I'm from WDC and when I got married, we had our honeymoon in New York...As I was crossing bridge entering Manhattan this song came to my mind...

[@BTritone]

The late and grea tMike Brecker on tenor sax solo! Legendary sax player of our time on millions of recordings and commercials ! As well as solo albums and with his brother Randy on trumpet from "The Brecker Brothers band" Also performed , with James Taylor, Aerosmith ,Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and many more!

[@Mariano21882]

This songs brings memory of growing in the Bronx with my family as a kids. For sure no one opens the door for a naive New Yorker we just push on through .. lol

[@melvindavis1369]

As A Norfolk VA Girl This Has Always been my song as well. Still Dreaming of exploring new York in this life time ❤❤❤❤❤❤Mrs Q

[@BobBaker-v9v]

Lol. Why? NYC is filthy and crime ridden

[@junejones9819]

Spanish Harlem E 111st 10029...ok NYC Rock Period.!!!!. Thank You Odyssey For this Beautiful Song 2023 To Infinity and Back.😭😭❤️🗽

[@davewhiteford6511]

This made me smile inside and out! I was 16 again for 4 minutes, superb 💕 💕 💕... X ❤️

[@oscarreid208]

This is pure pop brilliance, time to get it on!

[@booth2710]

I live in London and get such a good vibe from this song !

[@benbanares]

September 17, 2021 and still lovin’ this. ❤️🎶

[@jonremymusic5192]

What a GREAT band and what a GREAT song!!! I've been a fan of Odyssey's since I heard this song in 1977 while in college.

[@joycetoney5938]

I am just hearing this song from pose when Electra was on the pier ....I love it absolutely love it can't stop dancing

[@kentkizer9145]

Bought the single ...Then the album in 1977... Gave me true insight of NYC then ☺️ !!

[@JohnCroasdale-m9i]

Just wondering hearing this great track January 2025. 🎉😊❤

[@Dsky40]

I spent the 70’s on roller skates to this and many other songs

[@Diamond-bc3xb]

Memories goals😂😂🎉❤❤❤❤

[@BackUp-sb6qn]

Thelma From (Good Times) Dance Performance Brought Me Here! What A Beautiful Song! 🥰❤️🌹

[@StefanosSoderstrom]

Superb tune! Takes me back to my salad years. Glasgow....not New York! A young uni student who loved this sound!

[@mcoulson9]

A great song, and time.

[@SamuelGriffin-zt1ze]

Coney Island Brooklyn NY eating Nathan's food listening to Odyssey Native New Yorker good times wonderful memories

[@dawnpaige3648]

I remember this song Native New Yorker by Odyssey I had their album and WBLS use to play this song all the time. I love this song as well. This song will never get old.

[@davidallen2518]

I love this song.

[@gladysriggs4603]

Absolutely, Miss Wendy brought me here with this song & return of the mack but, if you are an oldie but goodie, ain't no lacking with that because, you will always be bk to that great oldie but goodie! you know when hear an old school song, doesn't matter where you are, what you doing, you know we gonna stop dead in our tracks and say: oh snap, that's my jam!! LOL! I'm just saying! 👋👋👋 Thank you Miss Wendy from bringing us bk!

[@shaninegittens2491]

My taught me how to do the hustle dance. off this song from Brooklyn ny I’m a native New Yorker yeah I learn that dance at 12 years old n I would tell my mom to play it over again n when she would start that record player omg dam I miss my mother so much 🥺😢😭

[@hboyce85]

I am a native of Detroit, but have always loved this song. I want thank whomever posted this for toning down that high hat. It was too prominent in the original.

[@yvonneburns2786]

Still got this album, the first one my dad bought me to play on my record player, and indeed as the song asks " where did all our yesterdays go?"

[@joecarter3614]

Good Times!!!

[@edwardhackett3988]

This song was out when I was 11 years old. 👍👍🙂🙏

[@gigiatlas2364]

Had completely forgotten this song until this morning - Thank you Graham Norton!!!

[@MusicLoverPearson]

Yes I'm a native New Yorker been living here all my life

[@Sindarin721]

The last time I heard this song, like analog tape through an FM radio you actually have to pull/push the physical buttons on to auto tune to the station listened to it, was in a Camaro with no Limited Slip with an ass end practically hanging off the Williamsburg bridge in a snowstorm.... Good fuckin' times, thank YOU W-B-L-S!

[@eddiellouallen2137]

YEAH!!~ QUEENS, N.Y.C.!!-BRINGS BACK SOOO MANY MEMORIES!!

[@laurenlocd3180]

Heard this on a perfume commercial and fell in love. I’m from Chicago but been to New York twice . It kinda feels like home but still so different .

[@blackfeet60637]

Same here! Chi-Town!!

[@RuiCâmaraPina]

Having lived there for a few years, I love listening to this song.

[@sunshowerzo]

Im from Memphis but this song touches my heart

[@Zephaniah3verse17]

Always loved this song, I can identify with the feelings even though I've never been anywhere near New York and even though "Native Colcestrian" somehow doesn't quite cut it...

[@gregorydurden2012]

I had this album back in the 70;s. There was another good song on it, though I can't remember the name.