Papa Was A Rolling Stone (The Wattstax Edit)

This is the original Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe audio remix featuring The Pioneers, The Temptations & New York Community Choir. I have replaced the Soul Train visuals I originally used back in 2009 with some from the movie 'Wattstax' (1972). Please remember, everything on this channel is only for discovery and delight and there is nothing to buy or sell here. If you like what you hear and see then pay it forward by buying stuff from the original artists.

[@Pexman-hu7zw]

Anyone my age 😅55 or older 😅😅😅lets go back ❤😂whose with me 2024

[@JohnsonNorthman]

56😉🇩🇪

[@tijanimostafau232]

54🇲🇦😁

[@amangogna68]

Yes I still have the original LP that sounds this good and treat it like a gold record ! ❤

[@RichardkPriore]

We’re right behind you 🥱

[@mobeenmahomed818]

@62 I'm blessed to have and enjoy all the music I ever listened to from my childhood, with this amazing new technology ..... I'm having the best time of my life..... great stuff 👍

[@conniemoore3848]

I'm 65 years old. It was all about the party 🥳🎉 y'all. We didn't come to fight😊.

[@dilya576]

@@conniemoore3848 la almiar 65 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿🍸

[@EarthlingY2k]

That is so true! You can actually feel the love happiness and good vibes!

[@normahade9856]

Amen sister!!!

[@Psalms144_1_2]

I hear you brother, our generation was about groovin, partying and having a good life, Now a days, they are lost. I'm 62.

[@cutiepatootie4521]

No weaves, no fake eye lashes, no bbls. Just beautiful natural black women.

[@киррик-о4ъ]

ага! с одинаковыми причёсками)))) и мозгами))))))))))))))

[@michaelbaja1854]

Not an obese one in the house either...

[@ianperkins5082]

@@michaelbaja1854 That's cos we had real home made fresh food not processed crap

[@michaelbaja1854]

@@ianperkins5082 That is pretty much all I do right now. It may not be as convenient, but make it your self and you will be happier and healthier in the long run.

[@debbieJ-zq2sx]

Truth

[@lanelane838]

when people wanted to dance,not shoot each other.

[@eddiebitmail]

Thats particular view of point. What about Vietnam in those times?

[@susankern5449]

I know right 🤦💔

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍😊

[@thankyou4416]

👏👏👏

[@chrislaymon4638]

I was actually there. LA coliseum 7 years old with my Parents. Remember it like it was yesterday. Isaac Hayes had a gold chain shirt on.

[@athorpe630]

Your so lucky what awesome memories you much have.Wish I was there.

[@gogoyubari366]

Lucky you!

[@apd2194]

They could not let this happen that’s why they broke up the THE BLACK FAMILY THIS WAS TO POWERFUL

[@tommos2967]

OMG, what an ivent. A concert that marked a milestone, and u where there! Gratulations!

[@noeltracy1982]

Only those that were in those days know how good it felt and the dances yo steps had to have skills wow!!

[@hello_04]

A child born in the 70s this video reminds me we will NEVER be as cool as our parents were🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️. Got to give the root the credit!

[@EricReisAzevedo1655]

I'm Brazilian, white and I simply love black American music. The natural choreographies in the dances emerged from within the soul, the music moves the spirit of each one, women are not artificial like they are today. The music of the 70s is unsurpassed.

[@sandrafranks7627]

Yes we’re older now, but just look at what we had. Not a fight or gun in sight. It was all about being neat, sharp, and Party.

[@shufflingutube]

You're the best generation ever. All I have is full respect for you. 100% spontaneous, real, and authentic. Truly magical times.

[@MaryHartman-ei9pv]

Beautiful 😍 ❤😢 I miss when the world was normal!!!

[@TheFevernight]

Simply beautiful!!! Peace, love and respect and carefree days. Music is life!💃🎵💃🎶💃🎼💃🎧🤩😍👍

[@nikolaosmonokandilos5375]

1

[@fatface9191]

I got one question... How did we as American black people become so damn fat?.. I counted one .. one obese person in that entire video and he was moving really well.😅.. This video was beautiful it was everything 3:24 I thought I would never see a woman take my childhood crush Thelma from Good times" away, however the lady in the blue @3:24. just did. wherever you are I hope you are alive and well❤

[@growing367]

Look at how everyone is just happy, dancing and celebrating We need this back

[@киррик-о4ъ]

нет не надо. вам надо в гето! маис и кукурузу выращивать. и ноги раздвигать перед нами!!!!!!!!!

[@Drkblu58]

So let's get it!

[@carole-annedekalbermatten9451]

❤ Absolutly ❤

[@bertroost1675]

@@Drkblu58 Go forgive and then work on yourself

[@adolfmagnus1255]

Das stimmt, bin 86 und bei dieser Musik kommen ich immer noch aus dem Sattel

[@dawnburdette3001]

Yes I was there and I remembered the concert was so awesome and it was my first concert that I went to back in the early seventies ❤❤❤ seeing and the people running on the field and dancing , it looked like a huge party on the field from where I was sitting , it was a wild thing to see in person 😮🎉❤❤❤

[@jamesberry1145]

Look at all those Beautiful Black people having fun , dancing singing coming together with love and soul ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-kz8dq1gk1u]

They know the true meaning of joy and love ❤

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍.

[@philmatoph]

Sadly this is gone forever.

[@Oojjffaaa]

@@user-kz8dq1gk1u and one white man

[@glennmorris8787]

The most beautiful people..

[@TerrenceWilliams-z2m]

Wow this is very powerful ..our people to see us all together like that...brought tears to my eyes black love 1970s ...

[@yvesherzog313]

It put tears to my eyes too and I’m not even black.

[@lanelane838]

this had to be in the 70s,no one is shooting each other!!

[@stephentoner2902]

Great years, great music, great company, just furkn great times

[@AP-nl4gs]

Back in the day... When it was all about looking good, digging the music, the beat, and the dance moves. I know.... because I was there.

[@jimmynibbs6746]

Isn’t it amazing that in 1972 most of the people were not overweight or obese.

[@lavalgarner4580]

I'm hip

[@TheSmitty60]

It is so nice to see our sisters wearing their natural hair. A lovely sight.

[@KiantraHall]

I was there in my Mamas belly😊❤😊❤

[@киррик-о4ъ]

и как там?

[@KiantraHall]

​@@киррик-о4ъ Mama was pregnant with me when she attended this event😊😊😊😊

[@robertosborne7542]

Hope you were kicking in time to the music!

[@KiantraHall]

@@robertosborne7542 I sure was that era was the best I'm so nostalgic everything I do today is 70 s😊😊😊😊

[@dugsykes]

What a song, makes old funksters like me believe again, knockout.

[@stevefinn618]

Hypnotic bassline to make you dance all night long genius

[@rafeikasratali213]

Go mang speak ur truth

[@zsuzsannakruj3531]

The Temptations 1972

[@KemmyYou]

Rt on.

[@JAB58]

Look at all my people having a good time beautiful queens ❤️

[@swilliamson105]

Just A Good Ol Time! 😢❤ I Love Us, Bring This Era Back!!!✊🏿

[@robertoarroyo140]

The sync between video and audio is amazing, like this was the live video from the concert

[@federicogonzalez6880]

This video shows how beautiful and how important youth is.

[@johnwevans]

❤

[@ernietab7714]

This is freaking awesome seeing people just enjoying wowwww...

[@jayjay-oz7dx]

the girl at 3.20 is so cute ... omg

[@peerperemans897]

I wouldn't trust anyone who remains untouched by these things.

[@williamj.dovejr.8613]

People need to come together and get all the way down like this again..no protests, no fighting, just love! Music is universal!

[@JoseMSantos]

Esse tempo era bom demais!

[@pjguer-coe3071]

music is not universal, it makes clashes and fights and bring hate.

[@boogienights828]

Beautiful black people 🖤

[@sandrafranks7627]

Young people, take a look, mind you this event went on all day. No Fights & No Death. Every lived to talk about it the next day.

[@TMIAI]

Mama in the polka dot dress has been living rent free in my mind since I first saw this years ago

[@MaryHartman-ei9pv]

Is she not beautiful😂❤ and she kills it🎉🎉🎉🎉😂 I wonder where she is today????

[@Johnmag1976]

She is on all films of the festival.

[@youlamatou]

@ΤMIAI She most likely lives rent free in a bigger place since she is 10 years older than I am now and I am 63.

[@mk202]

Miss Polka Dot Dress most definitely understood the assignment. 💯

[@stacierobertson8306]

She looks like Chaka Khan to me

[@yannickb.9237]

The young girl at 02:26 is amazing !

[@stevefinn618]

Love the lady in orange dress really getting into it must have been an amazing day

[@h7eds]

Pure gold.. WTF happened to society !!!. Respect all ❤️

[@cassconner6023]

TPTB (the powers that be) decided to destroy it, destroy all culture and melt everything into one. Which makes us easier to rule and enslave.

[@MaryHartman-ei9pv]

Maaan, across the board....what happened to the world??? Everybody is losing their minds😢😢😢😢😢it's fricking sad🙏💔😢God help us ALL 🙏😢

[@mzuvendi]

The Hollywood industry has changed the world with its junk media!

[@jasonluchowa2453]

Drugs

[@theghettoracle]

George H .W Bush's C.I.A. and J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I. . .Precisely!

[@SGH-rt6ci]

What is that awsome event ? I am from Europe, can someone explain ❤. Thank you

[@braveheart77799]

Internet

[@gordonlewis9377]

It was a concert held in Los Angeles California in 1972.

[@efrainmorales759]

Now this is music love my 70s

[@reachlove6779]

Back when no one could keep us from dancing 💃🏿

[@MarekFarkas-dq9jz]

❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@MarekFarkas-dq9jz]

Very nice dance people like it 😂

[@ronnieb1958]

I'm a L.A. boy who remembers Wattstax. 9th grade, Soul Magazine, KGFJ-AM radio! Those were the days!

[@chriso8193]

Scoop newspaper....

[@SDiskic]

One of the greatest songs of all time. If that can't get you on the dance floor, nothing will!

[@jorismous1422]

Damn so many beautiful people

[@conniemoore3848]

I know right 👍😊

[@bigowl71]

This real FUNKY...💯🎷🎶 Gotta Luv'it ✌🏿

[@scottchambers7087]

I saw a G. I've seen it all. Dope describes my rhymes, making all you emcees cold drop like dimes. You know MCSC is back again, and battling me on the microphone is like committing a sin. Peace and blessings to Saturn. Scott the California Seer King MCSC MCSC the California Seer

[@balauruldeaur1271]

Black dance matters

[@twelve-gatesii6056]

Man just enjoying each other.. I love my people..

[@conniemoore3848]

I know right 👍 😊

[@danozman1695]

Beautiful my beautiful people ❤️ 💕 ♥️

[@conniemoore3848]

I know right 👍 😊

[@danozman1695]

Whising that i had a time travel machine I'd go back to this exact day and time ❤​@@conniemoore3848

[@mrst2lpn-rn-bsn519]

Wish we could come together like this to build schools, banks and businesses.

[@fresiacarmonaibarra872]

Excelente 👌

[@conniemoore3848]

Fighting and shooting was unheard of back then 😮. When we came together. Black men wasn't killing each other in those days. Unlike today 😢.

[@cleberferreira6292]

Tenho meu momento anos 70/80, uma vez por semana; Se tiver compromissos no mês, quinzenal, então. Foi um tempo de dança, romance, sonhos e início de carreira.

[@IanGreen-xh1qi]

They were the good old days😅

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍. I miss those days 😢

[@christophertheproducer4186]

No cell phones. So beautiful.

[@vanjones1749]

Agreed life seemed to be better with less technology

[@киррик-о4ъ]

прям каменный век. и хлопок собирают)))))

[@guillermoespinosa1051]

Very sure

[@IHT.369]

@@киррик-о4ъ Screw you

[@IHT.369]

@@киррик-о4ъ

[@oscarxavier1640]

Incredible song! Incredible public!

[@wr34l-15]

The times where people kept it real ...☝🏾😎💯🔥

[@EastCoastGal66]

This is Badass! I’m sending it to my daughters who are beautiful black queens❤️

[@rondeneef]

german dj..

[@rondeneef]

david morales +.....

[@MauroMaxwell-wm2dd]

Hello dear how are you doing ❤❤❤❤❤

[@nrnpwr]

Look at all these beautiful people

[@jackv2244]

Nice editing, I saw that movie and still that was awesome, that was a very simple time a break from all the mess going on today! 😢😢

[@ravisingh-br1ym]

WTF , i,'m lovin it!! Wish i was there!!

[@constantinparaschiv6013]

Șmekeră melodia a fost, este și va fii! Sunt de origine ROMÂN ,Când scriam, în timpul ăsta, mergea melodia prima dată când am auzit-o eram la mine în țară România eram bowyling, se asculta muzica Americană, muzica SOUL! ❤❤❤ ,ACUM melodia asta o ascult,aici în Londra ,și în ROMÂNIA, când merg, la mine în concediu !

[@carlycarlucci1301]

Love the 70s visuals, I was born in the 80s and I'm obsessed w/the 70s

[@bluethunder6801]

Same. Except I was born in 70s lol

[@Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy]

Same here, I was born in 1962

[@CodyCole80]

Born right between in 1980. I enjoy both decades. 👍🏾

[@pdx27]

Me too.. 😎 Born in the seventies, but I was way too young back then to enjoy 70s music. Radio stations are obsessed with the 80s for about 30 years now, 70s music is very much underappreciated.

[@frankmaureltik528]

Born 98. Obsessed since childhood with 70,80 &90 🔺

[@veronicaknight-h3u]

I used to blast this out everytime I got in my car with my kids.

[@francklemesle-mi6rn]

Incroyable,....le son,le rythme,les dances,,.La liberté de s'exprimer,.,....

[@olafhillmann7379]

0:45 Hot Hot Hot 👍

[@rolledupaces2003]

I come back to this vid once in a while. Love this thing

[@Raellives]

Isnt it crazy how while technology is intrusively convenient, we look back and yearn because we can. What a time to be alive!

[@roscoehall4554]

That look like one hell of a party I wish I was there that brother who was throwing down in the first 36 seconds man he was moving

[@christopherevans7785]

Dance like No one is watching ❤❤❤

[@theghettoracle]

This is something special. Whoever captured this event of the time and era did a wonderful justice. Soul Power✊🏾

[@MarkSimmons-u2j]

Always loved the music, but the visuals bring it to another level. Thank You Very Very Much !

[@Czar1925]

Wodstock África 🤘🎸🤘

[@jamal_eddineelmejhed9832]

Who can forget those sweet times?

[@gaston72]

Groove Groove y más Groove… está en su ADN ❤️🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿

[@SorayaRodriguezUzaga]

Todos disfrutando de la música sin complejos, ni criticando, lo mejor del mundo sin duda😘👍

[@lancalotspratt]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 how it should always be in our hearts

[@mohmoudfarah1897]

I do not think I have heard of this version of Papa Was A Rolling Stone, but hey, I ❤ it!

[@lesliegreenhalgh5478]

These are the black brothers and sisters I identify with - Loving that Soul - whatcha mean i a white boy - course iam -

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍 😊.

[@point2822]

NYCC VOCAL ROYALTY Ever since i can remember this old man has been the same / he worked hard for his chi ldren / he carried his hurt within/ whenever you needed a helping hand /just call on this old man/ ever since IIIIIIIHHHHIREMEMBERRRRRRRTHIS OLD MAN HAS BEEN THTE SAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMME NYCC RCA RECORDS TO BE YOUNG GIFTED AND SOOOOOHMUCHMOOORE .28 LEAD SINGER EARONS NYC BAND

[@PP-xg1je]

So much love and humbleness in this video and crowd disbursement onto the field just to dance and without any acts of violence shows how much life has changed. If that was to happen today the security would be heavy handed and call it a riot

[@joebassel347]

thank you thank you for sharing beautiful

[@carlosss891]

Dance moves at its best❤

[@jhonebertviafararivas2131]

❤

[@conniemoore3848]

I know right 👍 😊

[@76proud76]

Love, peace and funk ! So cool ...

[@axl2398]

AWESOME 😎

[@themythuk]

3.24 in blue ... ridiculous...in fact the whole damn thing is ridiculous 💃🎧🤩😍👍

[@alexanderthegreatoz5945]

❤

[@luce-ei3ey]

Das michelle obama, dude

[@acesmoka]

My people are so beautiful ❤️

[@Andrew-uc7hj]

The LA Coliseum was not to far from my house then. It's hard to believe that was 52 yrs ago.

[@mekraus123]

Aww dang I would have LOVED TO HAVE BEEN THERE!!! Loooooooooove this! Chills and goosebumps!

[@MauroMaxwell-wm2dd]

Hello dear how are you doing ❤❤❤❤

[@georgechilidis8446]

I’m a white Greek growing up in Canada and loved to watch soul train and American bandstand on Saturday learn some steps and the black sisters in school was asking me where did I leaned to dance soul

[@Cryptoinvestor-pv4fy]

Just having fun, you gotta love it nothing like the 70's and 80's

[@conniemoore3848]

I know that's right 👍

[@gordonlewis9377]

You mean 60s and 70s 80s sucked..

[@stevefinn618]

My African grey parrot goes nuts when he heres this tune no stop dancing he loves it😂

[@DrHeinzFunkenpumpe]

that i'd like to see

[@davidBarrel]

is loosing video quality, don't let them down! :) masterpiece

[@codzymajor]

This is just breathtakingly beautiful. Bring this back! Do anything to bring this back! What could have been if it was for the C👁️a ...

[@keesaben3883]

Men neme een oud nummer, zet er een andere beat onder en kassa. Tegenwoordig hebben ze zelf geen goede ideeën om zelf een nummer te maken, waardeloos dit.

[@michaelbyrd3880]

Can't attend a concert like this anymore!

[@txbluesguy]

If you go to a blues festival it is possible to see it. Especially if you go to one that doesn't book any rock-blues bands.

[@michaelbyrd3880]

@@txbluesguy you understand, just not safe anymore!

[@alisalah4017]

Wow, dance like the last dance 🕺 with some challenge!!

[@jaschaschaub676]

This got me feeling like the usa was better of than now.. all the people looking are healthy..

[@hoppytahi]

For Soul and Heart. Thanks Funkenpumpe

[@milesappelt1105]

Beautiful times 😍

[@conniemoore3848]

I miss those days 😢

[@AFRICASIAEURO1]

Black power. Excellent performance..

[@IamTaliaIsrael]

I should have been present at this concert I had just arrived I feel I arrived to late always have felt that way I should have been born in the 40's so I could have really seen what was really going on those were the days

[@juniourst3ven596]

Most people think they were born in the wrong decade ☺️

[@murselselvi7342]

The afroamerican peopel are the best in music ,dance, sport…..

[@jl233]

genial , que de bonnes intentions dans cette foule en delire....une sacree epoque