ADDICTIVE!!! I could play it over and over!!! Horns, Organ, Tambourine locked, PIANO RIFF!!! Junie on the lead! Drummer tight, sax solo........ALL GOOD!!! Ive been glued to this cut thru my lifetime!
@jeasonjones864411 ай бұрын
I ACTUALLY DO PLAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN
@Petrolpelican8 ай бұрын
Thats church, this track is an experience that everyone deserves to have ❤
@feeleffect7 ай бұрын
I have played it over and over again as well😂
@feeleffect7 ай бұрын
Many of us played it over and over because it was only a 2:27 minute teaser slow jam. The short time made us wanted more of the song😂😂😂 Smart move Ohio Players. Along with E,W,&F and War they were the top “Crossover Funk Bands” of the mid 70s.
@feeleffect7 ай бұрын
Check out the horn riff on O-H-I-O. This band was BADDD!!!!!!
@my2cents3618 ай бұрын
Junie’s crying lead vocals always fascinated me. So damn soulful and intense!
@tboyosborne4 ай бұрын
Soul Spirit 🎤 Singing
@troybrown62182 жыл бұрын
60years old and still jamming
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
Get Em Troy!!!
@alparkerjr50483 жыл бұрын
Whoever dislike this song is void of funk. As a drummer, there's no tighter pocket then this.
@kimberlygray6993 жыл бұрын
You said it
@TheEntreMusician2 жыл бұрын
D U D E
@alparkerjr50482 жыл бұрын
That tambourine has been driving me crazy for years. from the first day I heard it.
@thesunlightcaller1548 Жыл бұрын
For me it’s the piano and the organ.
@kevinamin9362 Жыл бұрын
bass
@stevenalex69693 жыл бұрын
There's something about this song that I find absolutely addictive.
@kimberlygray6993 жыл бұрын
Omg yes indeed
@kerryeberrie65873 жыл бұрын
Thought it was just me...i play it over and over. Always was my jam
@TheEntreMusician2 жыл бұрын
Extremely! I mean that tambourine is ENTICING!
@zacherystone74152 жыл бұрын
Me to Steven I'm addicted to this song it takes me to a place where I just can't explain it!!
@zacherystone74152 жыл бұрын
@@kerryeberrie6587 I play it over and over and over lol
@jamalharrison4564 Жыл бұрын
That bass line is life❤
@patrickwashington38682 жыл бұрын
This jamm really packed the dancefloor back in the day. These brothers put OHIO on the map. Ya Heard Me? Holla Back!
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
Ohio Players
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
I was only 10 but I was a funk lover then a funk lova NOW!!!
@fredaholman94215 ай бұрын
I'm here...Toledo...JW Scott Bulldogs..Class of 77...Wassup❤.....Day 1 over here😊...BUCKEYES FOREVER ...coming from Cali
@DownbeatThe3 ай бұрын
Still doin the funky worm off this badd a** funky jamm here in Albany NY, where the Players worked out their act in 68-69, then “Pain” hit the charts and the rest is R&B history!
@terryblow923619 күн бұрын
I.AGREE..This is one of the BEST, IF NOT THE BEST SONG with an Amazing BEAT ..THAT WILL.NVRRRR EVERRRRNGO OUT OF STYLE!
@simplyme64833 жыл бұрын
STILL LOVE this song, man takes me back to simpler times!!! 70s forever!!!!
@juliemaven212 Жыл бұрын
ITS NOTHING LIKE 70 MUSIC
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
70s is Where My ♥ Lives
@dianewhittington58794 ай бұрын
I'm never forget this song lyrics ❤😂
@robertbrown98024 жыл бұрын
All I can say is junie Morrison is funky funky funky
@angiefromChi2 жыл бұрын
And Sugarfoot!!!!
@calvinbealer7264 Жыл бұрын
50 Years Ago today AUGUST 1973 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇.
@dwaynelivingston59284 жыл бұрын
Doesn't get much better than this. The initial note hold 39 seconds in... I'll never, never leave you, baby! Music may never be created like this again.
@MikeSmith-ju1hb4 жыл бұрын
I understand ❣️
@nbaoldhead46663 жыл бұрын
No lies 👨🏿⚖️
@angiefromChi2 жыл бұрын
You are right !!!! 🎵 ❤️
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
That's been a Proven Fact & I'm ok w that.
@familystone7733 жыл бұрын
Walking home from Football practice back in '71. Damn!! I still got some gangster hats, Any grown people still here🐼
@msonione16613 жыл бұрын
On the soundtrack from the movie Come back Charleston Blue.
@fostermac7170 Жыл бұрын
This song, of course, was released in the fall of '73.
@fostermac7170 Жыл бұрын
@@msonione1661 Huh? i thought the soundtrack for that movie was written and performed by Donny Hathaway. Plus 'Charleston' was released in 1972. This song was released in 1973.
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
@@fostermac7170 Donny Hath... Back together Again That was another summer blazin song
@fostermac7170 Жыл бұрын
@@pearlywhite-oq9sv Yep. In 1980.
@ronalston9571 Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs of all times a real R&B classic
@Demeach3 жыл бұрын
That man is serious about his love for his woman! Need more of this in the world!
@jeanbarnett47682 жыл бұрын
That's when men loved their women, especially Black men.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😇💖🙏🏽
@yvetterodriguez9411 Жыл бұрын
I feel like a junky every time I play this song, repeat, repeat, REPEAT. I just can't get enough. 😋😋😋💯❣
@user-wg9yl3gt8s4 ай бұрын
That's real shit
@my2cents3613 ай бұрын
Back when Ecstasy was a natural drug😁
@carolynmashhood9455 Жыл бұрын
Everytime I see leave a comment,I say okay. You have to be a music lover to appreciate the sound . When I listen to this song I have to hit replay to hear it at least 2 more times. Do not judge me cause everyone has music they love. Came up in the 70 era. Ohio players, Isley bros,temps,sly and the family stone. What more can I say. Do not forget the boss Diana Ross.
@waynepolk41793 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite songs of ALL TIME! Just magnificent!
@philipjohnson74704 жыл бұрын
THIS MIX IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SOULFUL. THIS SONG BLESSES MY SOUL EVERY TIME I HEAR IT. I LOVE THIS MIX. IT IS PERFECT !!!!!
@Nclght4 жыл бұрын
I've been using this song as the ringtone for my wife for over ten years....Needless to say, I love when she calls me.
@joylannetter24514 жыл бұрын
Okay! I was 13 when this came out.listening to this take me Right back Jr. High school.... When music was...
@sonyacousins17473 жыл бұрын
First time hearing this and I Love It.
@dougjones7609 Жыл бұрын
This to me is their best mix of soul funk and a touch of church vibe
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
True
@shawnswife19653 жыл бұрын
Biggie and JayZ brought me here. Always love this classic
@vanderbiltrockerfeller88192 жыл бұрын
The is straight 🔥 💯 funk!!! This is an example of BLACK EXCELLENCE ⚫ This the theme musuc on the waiting line in the ", UPPER ROOM"
@carrienixon66633 жыл бұрын
Love this extended version. I will never do without you. 💕
@gijoni1004 ай бұрын
I heard this song on the radio this week, and I had not heard it in years. This brings back such good memories, like it was another lifetime in a different dimension.
@darnellwebb76094 жыл бұрын
This is the early 70s style of the Ohio players pain ecstasy jive turkey skin tight brake pad great band
@geraldrios29363 жыл бұрын
Big influence on everyone who followed..Rick James, Prince, everybody!
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
🔥 Too!! Hot To Death
@rm1368265 ай бұрын
Pleasure too..takes me back to college jammin in the dorms after hours...
@DownbeatThe4 ай бұрын
Doin the funky worm off this jamm! 🪱
@Marv4MoBeats2 жыл бұрын
Junies exit song to the Mothership
@tadah212 жыл бұрын
Yup exactly or Pain part 1 I think?
@zianijanots3 жыл бұрын
This song is nothing other than a TURIE I had to hear it only once this 8.10.20 to be addicted to it Thank you for this long version because the original is really too short long live the funk and all its fans
@AnoymousUnionSoldier2 жыл бұрын
Amen
@tedkay37502 жыл бұрын
This ani't ole SCHOOL!!... THIS IS SCHOOL!!!!
@carolynmashhood94554 жыл бұрын
Thought I'd never do without you! Loving you is Ectasy To Me! This Song Is Fire. I can listen to it All day .
@mariethjohnson71883 жыл бұрын
I do!
@tboyosborne2 жыл бұрын
Straight fire
@fayd.edmond4666 Жыл бұрын
This song is DEFINITELY 🔥 FIRE!! I LOVE ME SOME OHIO PLAYERS. ONE OF MY FAV BANDS!! HANDS DOWN. I use to and still dance to this song. 70's Jam!! 🎉🎉🎉This is my SONG! LOVE IT ❤❤❤
@patrickwashington38682 жыл бұрын
That Bass Line & Billy Beck is ecstasy to me! Ya Heard Me? This was the jamm at the hood parties back in the day.
@andreacheney35932 жыл бұрын
I don’t think Billy was a member of the band as of yet. I think Junie was the keyboardist, pianist, organist and Billy was hired to take his place when Junie left the band.
@saxyric8992 Жыл бұрын
You are correct Junie was still here. This was his last album with them. Diamond was subbing at this time but really in the band as well right now.@@andreacheney3593
@milomarshall39699 ай бұрын
No billy beck wasn't in the band yet, He took junies place
@joecampbell3317 Жыл бұрын
I don't see how the rock in roll hall of fame have ignored this group for as long as they have.
@ehunt Жыл бұрын
Rock n roll hall of fame can't validate these brothers...
@stanleygrayson318610 ай бұрын
Straight up RACISM,If you're not a "Swifty"you don't exist.
@NathanBrooken9 ай бұрын
Amen
@lavernerobinson73058 ай бұрын
It is tragic t hey are not in the hall of fame in rock and roll. Shame on them!
@stanleygrayson31868 ай бұрын
You're right on the money Laverne.😊
@mariethjohnson71884 жыл бұрын
Best song ever! The longer, the better!!!!
@nbaoldhead46663 жыл бұрын
EVER!!
@R1nni_2 жыл бұрын
@TheIndigenous1 the longer, the better.... I kould not agree more! #dishytgo!
@tboyosborne2 жыл бұрын
Let music play forever
@MrRandyr10003 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite "non traditional" love songs. Thank you.
@Ms.ClarmstrongPlus32 жыл бұрын
The musical arrangements in this song is cold and crispy!!! Still fresh...
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
Estacvy
@floydskinner59453 жыл бұрын
A MASTERPIECE
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
Yes
@pearlywhite-oq9sv Жыл бұрын
Yes Indeed
@silvesteragurs21023 жыл бұрын
Yeah this extended mix is 🔥 🎧
@valeriejeangrimes69672 жыл бұрын
yes...
@mugpush48162 жыл бұрын
Rest in paradise, Junie!
@anthonyholmes27998 ай бұрын
One of the Best Bands Ever
@urmacade-watson92364 жыл бұрын
This song is the Best! Love the Soulful beat..the organ and the tambourine take you to church! Named my daughter after this song!❤❤❤❤
@geraldrios29363 жыл бұрын
Great review.. exactly!! 👍🤩
@fostermac71703 жыл бұрын
You named your daughter Ecstacy?
@urmacade-watson92363 жыл бұрын
@@fostermac7170 Yes, but with a different spelling and a different meaning to me. ; ) Joyful, Beautiful..During the time I named her it wasn't the name of a drug. : )
@fostermac71703 жыл бұрын
@@urmacade-watson9236 gotcha.
@cbridges12023 жыл бұрын
The Great Junie Morris
@jamesstewart39152 ай бұрын
I'll be 65 in October, this came out when I started high school 1973. LOL 😂💯💯😎🔥
@ear4funk8142 жыл бұрын
Love Junie at vocals .... take the lyrics and just read them ... nothing .... add the Junie vocals with funk, and it really pops!!
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
Soul Spirit Singing
@ErinDeNis8 ай бұрын
@@tboyosborne 💯💯💯
@calvinbealer72642 жыл бұрын
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2022.
@MzJanuary2 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly!!! They should have been inducted long ago.
@acbrown Жыл бұрын
The biggest problem with this song is that it is not long enough! Love it!
@garyanderson44024 ай бұрын
63 and LOVING It. Give me the days when friends brought the albums to the party and EVERYONE HAD A RIGHTEOUS TIME NO FIGHTS WE ALL WENT HOME SAFE AND SMILIN 😊😂😅😊
@paulalee1616 Жыл бұрын
Touches your soul. If it doesn't there isn't hope for you.
@tboyosborne Жыл бұрын
You know it soul music that right
@anthonybutler19314 жыл бұрын
This is a funky funky classic
@mableblackmon89112 күн бұрын
I had this 45. 8th grade. I absolutely loved Junie’s voice. At 64 years old I still play it over and over.❤
@leojohnson16623 жыл бұрын
This man is one of the old schools that I've ever seen back in the day coming through come through them 70s and look ahead 80 ladies I am now 66 in boiling ahead this funk you're still the funk and they get here with the funky worm and skin tight and I'm going to tell you this kind of old school music never disappears it still lives on in the CDs Yonkers today don't know nothing about that they don't know nothing about that this is just old school at his best piece brother Leo from say towel
@mr.anthonym.leavysr.75128 ай бұрын
12/4/23 STILL HITTIN!!!! ✊🏾👊🏽👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@altonpettijohn21898 ай бұрын
Jay Z and Biggie Small’s Brooklyn Finest brung me here
@eldiggidiggiel81455 жыл бұрын
Ain't nothing but the gad damn Truth...
@harrymuhammad9835 Жыл бұрын
If you're not listening on a silver face receiver from the seventies,you're not gettin it. Speakers A and speakers B in the form of a crescent and you sittin in the middle.
@avon_mack2 ай бұрын
I'm getting goosebumps... omg what a heavenly perfect sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@seanbrick28864 жыл бұрын
What happened was the world forgot how to dance
@kwaseb4 жыл бұрын
Musicians are not trained in the art.
@Sakazhua4 жыл бұрын
I did not!
@DownbeatThe3 ай бұрын
Not me, I’m 71 and still doing the funky worm off this killa jamm !
@willardlockejr2965 Жыл бұрын
Still feelin' the groove on this old school gem in August 2023.
@thomasshampton Жыл бұрын
The ebony & ivory 🎹 combo’s are screamin 🔥
@theresabonds3914 жыл бұрын
I love it bring back the school songs..thinking about my baby.....
@tlaw89924 жыл бұрын
Straight outta my Granny's basement with the guns on the Pool table !
@tlaw89924 жыл бұрын
@@retromousex5118 True Facts and that Joe Cockrr "Woman 2 woman "
@gene3636 Жыл бұрын
My College Jam...I still move when this come on....love me some OHIO PLAYERS from the jam PAIN to this one...
@jamalharrison4564 Жыл бұрын
Also that church organ❤
@Collapsus283 жыл бұрын
They way that track builds up man!
@eddixon9730 Жыл бұрын
The Ohio Players showcase several instruments in a masterful composition featuring powerful organ Virtuoso reminiscent of Jimmy Smith but playing funk proving the organ is a vicious keyboard instrument not taking a back seat to the piano or synthesizer electronic keyboard This group had the best album covers poster size The 70’s best music ever era
@willardlockejr2965 Жыл бұрын
Their album covers were memorable and truly legendary.
@CynthiaEaster-cq9ri2 ай бұрын
While listening to my play list, I told the dancing thirty yr old this song was more than fifty years old, it made her dance harder and me laugh harder. Enjoy the enjoyable. She had it in a loud speaker.
@OnlySOMETINtodo3 жыл бұрын
Love will never do without you
@user-vb6sk6re7s3 ай бұрын
Im n a zone it just makes me forget about everything n puts me n another place n time u would have to live the era to understand how times were back then best years of my life wish time could had stood still 😢
@supabe45 Жыл бұрын
This is jam, here! Is off tha charts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Petrolpelican8 ай бұрын
So much pure joy and love in this track. As if no one can harm me or anyone else. Grateful for the opportunity to listen to it over and over again 🙏
@valeriejeangrimes69672 жыл бұрын
This song should have been 5 mins not 2:27. to short .. I play this over and over. I have the 45... and yes it still sounds great.. great condition
@williesquire1303 жыл бұрын
I remember dancing to this song those was the days 😃
@seansullivan86704 жыл бұрын
For the hiphop heads. Jay-Z sampled this song on the Reasonable Doubt album
@DrDookieDrawls2 жыл бұрын
Brooklyn !!!
@1oxcharger33 жыл бұрын
Finally! Someone got down! 🎶🍺😎
@johnblack99212 күн бұрын
2024. Still HARD! OLD G. OLD SKOL!
@fretzkenite135311 ай бұрын
This song is the shit, it csn get a whole room bouncing 🔥
@user-kq3ij2sq9r6 ай бұрын
When this came out I played it so much they were mad at me. Love it
@dougjones7609 Жыл бұрын
Too much funk for one song
@mrgreyfox1185Ай бұрын
Amen.
@abagidea4u18 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 👍🏽
@luanagarrison612514 күн бұрын
That part!!!!
@freespirit21newyork3 жыл бұрын
Wow nice TUNE never heard this B4 👠♈🍷🍾💋
@johnblack99212 күн бұрын
Ok, well to the club.You've got good taste in music. I'm a 63yrd old African American Man who grew up in the 70's and I listen to Led Z still PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA WAMO WDVE 😂
@CraigBelton-uz9vv3 ай бұрын
Satch blew the hell out of the sax man! Real talk!😃🎵
@douglasford22573 жыл бұрын
Classic Lp its great to hear it again, sweet and beautiful memories of) life ❤ and fad clothing, such as platform shoes and Bell bottom pants.
@anopeninvitationwithsheila43483 күн бұрын
Damn, they bought that heat! 🔥🔥🔥Definitely using in my IG reel! 2024!!!
@supabe45 Жыл бұрын
Remembering Brooklyn’s Finest!! Way up!!! Blazin’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨
@user-S1146 ай бұрын
"The Man is Deep about His Love!❤
@megabkny2 ай бұрын
Brooklyn’s Finest
@bojohnson55202 жыл бұрын
"Wow" - "My Singing Group Opened With This Song in 1973" - "It Made Us Think We Were The Shit"
@feeleffect7 ай бұрын
This song hit me at the age of 12 right away and now I see the great arrangement today in 2024 to make me appreciate it more than any of the pop stuff they did later on with Mercury although they had some classic dance and romance tunes with them as well.
@ericstokes5889 ай бұрын
this a pocket beat that can go on all night Bass holds it down
@jasongist37918 ай бұрын
This has got to be the ultimate jam session. The way this song builds up perfectly I don’t think they could ever recreate it. They lucky they got it on wax they way they did.
@blakeeldridge24663 жыл бұрын
Organ riiiings
@arthurjohnson22813 жыл бұрын
A real dance cut.
@williamcorgile98233 жыл бұрын
Awesome keyboard licks !
@ErinDeNis8 ай бұрын
That’s Junie baby
@williamcorgile98238 ай бұрын
You look too young to know about Junie ! : ) @@ErinDeNis I'll have to check you out !
@micro16032 жыл бұрын
This was sampled by Jay-Z song Brooklyn's Finest ft. The Notorious B.I.G.
@kerryeberrie65873 жыл бұрын
Ohhh..more of this song is so much better..my cut!!! Thank u👍
@Valerie-et2iw2 ай бұрын
Remind me of Pain its in my heart.. Ohio Players....SugarFoot
@Vincent507 ай бұрын
I still have this record from way, way back then. I was a Junior in high school when this came out. It was a hit at dances and parties. Aaahhh to turn back the hands of time.
@oskamadison8 күн бұрын
I had to bang this joint on my way to work. Damn near caught the Holy Ghost, lmao…
@ezekieleazyrollins-tx4pl5 ай бұрын
Remembering going to Henry Clay Jr, High School House Parties Platform Shoes Bell Bottom Pants and all the fun we had back then.
@kevinedwards1728 Жыл бұрын
Chi town STEPPING FINEST🎩💯
@angiefromChi3 жыл бұрын
JAM !!!!! 🎵❤️🙌🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
@tyroneharris875510 күн бұрын
Fire 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
@ericbyam91803 жыл бұрын
They don't make them like this no longer
@Nclght4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@valerienettles45575 ай бұрын
As a you good my back neighbor used to blast this song and just recently found it again! Oww!!’🎉🎉🎉