Papa Was A Rolling Stone (The Wattstax Edit)

[@daveberry2177]

very nice, its time to live life, im 64 and still dancing, its 3,45 early morning, the wifes asleep and i still feel like dancing, any night owls out there feeling the same, respect and love to all from the UK peace on earth

[@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!

[@TyneBridge90]

if this video was shot now you would see 500,000 mobile phones in the air📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱 and lots of pouting fish lips 💋 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@ronnieb1958]

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

[@chriso8193]

Scoop newspaper....

[@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 😮🎉❤❤❤

[@SeydouOuedraogo-p7g]

Quelle chance d’avoir vu ce grand show! Bravo!

[@beverlygannon4141]

Lukky U being there 👍👍

[@SJKM]

THAT IS WILD! So cool.

[@carlitodn6880]

Grandiose wouhaou bellissima ❤

[@thecrii8r471]

Wow. Had to be fun

[@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!!

[@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

[@loganreddy1972]

People having good clean fun no violence FANTASTIC ERA

[@CharlitaJohnson-h4y]

This Is Great The 70's Were The Best People Are Dancing Clean Thank KZbin For Sharing This Video!

[@mickydub3]

The young lady at 3:28 secs on the Right with the Afro is my Sister . She was 17 in 1972 . she 69 yrs old now ..With 3 kids an 5 grandchildren . Her name is was Janet James back then ..... Her name now is Janet Collins and she lives in the Virgin Islands .

[@johanes_aurel]

Woah! So happy reading this ! Hope y'all are good ! 😇😇

[@mickydub3]

Yes Johanas .... Janet has had a Blessed life for real . Thank you for your kind comment . 😇

[@federicogonzalez6880]

This video shows how beautiful and how important youth is.

[@johnwevans]

❤

[@jeffdamon1098]

Lovely women😊

[@TheFevernight]

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

[@nikolaosmonokandilos5375]

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[@AnePatriciaFerreira]

Sensacional 😊🎼🎼🎼🎼🙏👏👏👏👏👏🍾🥂 Amo ❤

[@lucielou55]

My parents had this record too and I remember it from a very early age…I’m almost 69 now

[@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

[@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 👍

[@twelve-gatesii6056]

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

[@conniemoore3848]

I know right 👍 😊

[@dfritisp]

Este tema nos remonta a nuestra niñez mirando la serie los Dukes de Hazar

[@AhmedNemili]

Anyone in november 2024?

[@ajbrownmiscellaneous3720]

🫡🕺🕺

[@johnny38597]

No we are too old😊

[@mariobulian7516]

Me

[@swilliamson105]

💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

[@AntonioTornatore]

Energy 💥

[@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

[@theghettoracle]

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

[@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 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿🍸

[@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.

[@beverlygannon4141]

​@@Psalms144_1_2yeh. I'm a 69 yr old woman UK . ,loved the music 👍💯

[@peerperemans897]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@gillehrer2824]

Em bom português: Música não tem cor, não tem raça!

[@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!

[@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 🔺

[@TheSmitty60]

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

[@MiaTarvila]

Olen valkoinen kuin lakana ja suomesta.tämä on upeaa.❤❤❤❤

[@terryedwards171]

Women did wear makeup, wigs and false eyelashes but they were a "certain type."

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@enrriquemurillo7391]

Correcto solo vivir plenamente bailar disfrutar.. nuestra generación si q fue la mejor..

[@robertoarroyo140]

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

[@lanelane838]

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

[@andremazens8767]

Seule la musique peut réunir les hommes de cette façon Peut importe la race la religion la couleur de peau... Cette vidéo symbolise un moment de partage et d'amour Merci a toute cette jeunesse

[@jamesberry1145]

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

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍.

[@philmatoph]

Sadly this is gone forever.

[@Oojjffaaa]

@@user-kz8dq1gk1u and one white man

[@jrmcbeth2267]

Beautiful

[@MaryHartman-ei9pv]

Fantastic ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 1 of the best remixes on here!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇲

[@josephsinclair5482]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 er

[@AP-nl4gs]

Dr. Heinz Funkenpumpe... you did a wonderful job mixing these images with the music. The music fits the dancing. As they used to say back then... Right On!

[@MrAllie-bf6zt]

No cell phones, no social media. People interacting with eachother.

[@joebassel347]

thank you thank you for sharing beautiful

[@mrst2lpn-rn-bsn519]

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

[@silence3916]

Exactly ...We always dancing, shucking and jiving...

[@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

[@mikeconnor3602]

The basketball team I was on came out of the lockerroom to this song in 1971. Good times

[@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.

[@SunStar2111]

So much natural creativity and Style.

[@mekraus123]

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

[@MauroMaxwell-wm2dd]

Hello dear how are you doing ❤❤❤❤

[@glennmorris8787]

The most beautiful people..

[@stephentoner2902]

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

[@JUSAGUYNKY]

This is going in my favorites‼️‼️THanks for sharing‼️🙏🏼‼️‼️

[@laurenchambers7119]

when life was good those were the days keep the faith

[@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 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@hoppytahi]

For Soul and Heart. Thanks Funkenpumpe

[@SDiskic]

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

[@ernietab7714]

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

[@jamal_eddineelmejhed9832]

Who can forget those sweet times?

[@veronicaknight-h3u]

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

[@heatherromero7956]

Im an 80's child, man I wish I could have experienced this!!! 😩😭 If concerts were like this, I'd actually go to one- so fun seeing people jumping the fence & everyone's dancing together! (& LOVE the natural hair! The big fros are beautiful! I had one in the 80's, but mine was a perm & Aqua net lol.) Wish these times would come back!

[@JAB58]

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

[@Kato6996]

Simply beautiful, well done!

[@Gloomy.Sunday217]

62 now and this would still get me up on the floor. God bless the wonderful Sylvester 💃

[@alisalah4017]

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

[@francklemesle-mi6rn]

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

[@swilliamson105]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@76proud76]

Love, peace and funk ! So cool ...

[@ziggydedi1122]

No comment 👍la classe 👍👍👍le temps passe et les souvenirs restent 👍🥰🥰

[@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..

[@debrahmcshane977]

Good music im 17years old dancing in a night club in Central London! Thanks x

[@gordonlewis9377]

Dance on then

[@mohmoudfarah1897]

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

[@edalmomendonca8143]

PLANT A TREE - SAVE THE PLANET! 🌳

[@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 😢.

[@delfin025]

Free people, that's all I see! Free people!!! Fantastic! New generations unfortunately are not even close to this!

[@jimbeyerl875]

So you stand and dance. No one behind you can see. When I was young , we would have hollered, DOWN IN FRONT !

[@MarkSimmons-u2j]

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

[@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 ...

[@waynefoster2233]

Bring it back . Agree with all that has been said. Great times great years.

[@oscarxavier1640]

Incredible song! Incredible public!

[@gerryhooper2794]

How the fuck have we regressed from the beauty of then to 2024????

[@Goodkidjr43]

Rejection of Christianity..............God bless

[@gerryhooper2794]

Still scanning da crowd for a fat m/for. Can't find 1. ?,???

[@AFRICASIAEURO1]

Black power. Excellent performance..

[@octavbarbulescu9147]

I really like black Americans, and especially their rhythmic music from the '50s-'70s, the dance but also the southern accent. They have something special that whites can't imitate. What a huge stadium!

[@colincampbell5206]

Class song... fantastic dancing

[@sojiadamo5212]

Straight up Africans, there is no getting away from it! 💯🔥✊🏾❤️

[@wr34l-15]

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

[@maximuss1740]

Fabulous! Their voices sound much better live than those recorded in the studio! Pure talent, this was 80’s and 90’s music.

[@gordonlewis9377]

Not at all this 60s and mid 70s.

[@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😊😊😊😊

[@RcMarciano]

Excelente....Soy de Córdoba, Argentina. Con diez años , en el 74 escuche por primera vez a los Jackson, y desde allí empecé a interiorizarme de esta música y fui encontrando ritmos y bailes de esa era disco, donde el soul, funk y el Rhythm & blues me fueron gustando y hasta al dia de hoy. Y este tema en particular de The Temptations, es parte de mis favoritos. Un saludo para todos.

[@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 😂

[@MartheBarbat-c8n]

Thank you, encore une soirée cool et enrichissante. Quel musicien, j'imagine le personnage 👍

[@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

[@ele4984]

I Feel more at ease knowing that there were people who did justice to this music back then with their body.

[@boogienights828]

Beautiful black people 🖤

[@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

[@alexandragatto1898]

And I'm 60 years 🎉🎉🎉❤ great Song!!

[@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 ☺️

[@FEDUPGANGSTALKED]

Awesomeness!!!...luv the dancing❤❤...energizing

[@zwarupa]

Gorgeous.

[@GrooverRPM]

A wonderful edit of a beautiful song and an even better video, man, those guys and gals could dance, absolutely awesome.

[@nrnpwr]

Look at all these beautiful people

[@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!

[@rickykingi5191]

Can’t stop watching this.. they gotta be the coolest race on the planet.. mean 🔥🔥

[@conniemoore3848]

U got that right 👍

[@rayalexander411]

Ooozing with cool. All those beautiful people, music is power.

[@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.

[@stevefinn618]

I could dance all night to this rytmical tune