Rufus Thomas in "WATTSTAX"

[@erickbleskan3608]

Rufus Thomas was an all American ambassador of goodwill, you can't help but love this man. He was America's Oldest Teenager !!!

[@johnl.2314]

His daughter Carla was a great singer also❤❤

[@johnl.2314]

I'm pretty sure those were the Bar-Kays backing him up❤

[@drstew1]

He did have Jr after his name…

[@alliwishis_2]

​@johnl.2314 Yep that's exactly who the backing band was

[@johnl.2314]

@@alliwishis_2 they also did some gigs with Otis Redding in other words that was that fantastic STAX record machine 💯🔥🎼🎼🎶

[@davidshareefChTPhD]

Black people back then did not give AF we moved how we felt and that was dancing!

[@pamelatenn2890]

FACTZ!!! Good Times.Could dance All Night. ALOT of FUN BACK THEN, WITH NO VIOLENCE. GREAT HOUSE PARTIES!!!

[@derekstovall9268]

So true no fights no killings just black fokes enjoying there self wish time could stand still n the 70s in

[@Auntkekebaby]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ 💯. I'm try to be that again. Do what your body tells you.

[@MustafaSav-cb2cp]

Believe me this music made us non blacks feel and dance to it, too….yesterday, today and forever….

[@JamesSmith-po6di]

Back in Day was ....like That...Black power.....AFRO....Bell bottoms....Happyness....Soul......Soul .Soul

[@frijolero6048]

Don't foreget charisma, talent, creativity and HARD WORK.

[@toshak4534]

SoulPower

[@corrynthiaiam9205]

Afros, bell bottoms & platform shoes...I wish I could visit the 70s. I was born in 83.

[@pumadocaca8813]

EU NASCI EM 63 E TENHO O MESMO SENTIMENTO.. TÍNHAMOS QUE TER NASCIDO EM 53 HAHAHAHAHA

[@HARLEMU.S.A.]

Man it was and still is, Our Greatest Musical, Period ! Social and Black Awakening awareness & Power... don't forget them Mod styles outta England, Micro-mini SKIRTS, tight bells & Elephant bell bottoms, (I had a purple long sleeve shirt with big polka-dots). Back then school's made sure everyone participated in P.E. so everyone was in decent physical Shape..you HEARD !!

[@JAMESMOM1989]

@@pumadocaca8813 I was born in 63. Same feeling. 70's music is great. My son listens to 60's, 70's some 80s music. There is some 50's music.

[@alisalah4017]

Even today 2023 black people still in clean 😊

[@Terrance-vu2jg]

😂2024

[@emusic96785]

I was there at the concert. It was fabulous 🤩

[@mikehollingworth2262]

liar

[@WilliamGaskins-uk4xu]

I love him he gets you working 🎉

[@straightouttacontext2134]

I had such high hopes for us in 1974.... now 2021 I'm just sad with the pain of my people 😭

[@mcdonoghrahloh459]

You're a quitters we haven't yet begun to fight.

[@HopeIanHope]

So right. Peace

[@HopeIanHope]

Happy music, happy times, all dancing having fun, unlike today's gangster rap ete.

[@alexmac101]

Unfortunately the CIA had it’s own plan of action too💊💊💉💉💊💊

[@ceciliawells1099]

Me too

[@JosephJohnson-n6i]

Wow. Mr. Thomas was a very good man. It was fun to hear his funky sounds back in the day. Thank you America. Herrmausmann

[@demetriusdion3804]

It was promoted on a local L.A. radio station KGFJ as the "Dollar Concert," yeah, it just only cost a buck! 1972!

[@rodneylusk4325]

Look like some good fun

[@stevedijkhof3109]

2 cts for an Ice Cream in 1923 and 5 cts for a Bottle of Coke oh oh way back in the day...

[@alliwishis_2]

​@stevedijkhof3109 You also have to understand a lot of people did not earn that much back then as well.. 5 cents was a lot back in 1923

[@vnonkwinn6233]

That Was "SOUL Unleashed with No inhabitions.

[@harriettmitchell2540]

The dance to this song was something else. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Arthur-Silva]

Hands down the coolest video on KZbin!!!!

[@santosdellior6917]

Doc dre was a beast for using this classic beat for Easy E's album...."My name is Eazy and you know it's true"🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@curtsTube1]

Soul Brothers and Sisters.

[@saraharahatv3603]

My African people are know how to have fun and enjoy them selves anywhere they at? Bless up and R.I.P Rufus Thomas... BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL INDEED!

[@marvinroney9191]

Yes indeed We are Beautiful 2022 let's get it together SISTERS AND BROTHERS

[@nosdamnamur9126]

Why we cannot have fun like this anymore?!

[@saraharahatv3603]

@@nosdamnamur9126 tell me about bro!

[@marvinroney9191]

Right on Black is LOVE ❤ for sure

[@garycollier6950]

Before Africa was I am. Before America was I am. I am a Black Man. 5 million years old.

[@saj8]

Rufus Thomas with Confunkshun as the backup band.

[@nottavictim5]

Who’s on guitar here?

[@saj8]

@@nottavictim5 Michael Cooper.

[@cartierbrown9143]

THAT WAS THE BLACK WOODSTOCK

[@residentgang489]

Thats was far from anything like Woodstock

[@marklayne1781]

He had more soul than Soul Train 🚆.

[@mattyjones4270]

You’re right. It was better​@@residentgang489

[@ARTIST2C]

Everytime I watch this I get excited and smile all the way to the end!

[@jazzbuff630]

I've been crushing on the young lady in the red polka dot dress since 1972, when I was 12. I'm 64 now, and still think she's a bad mamajama. We were different then and had more pride...and the music is still bangin' today. Not a mention of the "b-word" or the "n-word. If I tried to do the "Funky Chicken" now, folks would think I was having a stroke or a seizure. This was an excellent time .

[@gtoneyprice5293]

Throwbacks

[@daxterclark5092]

Facts!!

[@rozmcleod6361]

😅😂

[@foreveryours7464]

My Lord that's was lot of good energy out there.

[@kaharold]

RUFUS THOMAS Was A Cool Old Man , HIM And POP STAPLES.

[@rozmcleod6361]

Yup

[@mich2171]

He was amazing and a very kind man ,in 1970 I spent a wonderful week with him and his family...

[@mikehollingworth2262]

liar

[@foreveryours7464]

I still have hope for us. King David said I WAS YOUNG AND NOW I am old. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED BEGGING FOR BREAD. Please don't lose faith, my people. The Most High God has something good for his people. Stay prayed up, read your Bible, and most of all trust God who is THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. We're coming out of this wilderness in Jesus Name Amen!

[@luieloo6612]

This dude is too cold🤩

[@lakanjalaroberts8278]

My favorite part is the whole concert!

[@THECLARENCES]

Long live the memory of the late, great Rufus Thomas. xoxo The Clarences

[@norakat]

Everyone look so wholesome

[@BridgetWilson-hi2uo]

Take me back 58 now this was in the 70 yes love this look at people clothes hairs the dancing yes i was doing the Fucky chicken people was having a good time 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@neosneos3680]

R.I.P. Rufus Thomas

[@crystalward5076]

Hey!!!! Can I ask you something ain't I'm cleannnnn!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

just brilliant,stax love love it,great footage

[@jelly7310]

Everyone gettin up on the good foot.

[@kwasikwakwa4418]

Happy Anniversary Legend Rufus Thomas.🌟🔥🥰

[@rjgamble2551]

Timeless Classic

[@kimberlysmith579]

I Love this, pre crack, pre opioid, pre Meth ... everyone looks healthy and happy 😃

[@3nathan]

#factz.. the government plan to kill off blacks werking...

[@kimberlysmith579]

@@3nathan You know I truly believe that too!

[@norakat]

Pre - Monsanto..

[@kdmac7425]

Opioid was popular then. I was at this $1 concert that lasted 12 hours I was 13 now I'm 61 now. Issac Hayes turned in out. Look how thin everyone was back then.

[@ARTIST2C]

This is a moment in black history that I wish I could go back to.

[@daviszuze6872]

The golden decade of good music and life, the seventies!!!!

[@rodneylusk4325]

A time machine would be fun

[@ronschaffer5959]

That was great.

[@puffinmakaha5437]

I met Rufus and his daughter Carla backstage in 1965. . He was M C. The event. He asked me if I knew the Mississippi Blues. One weekend later he smuggled me down to Beale Street to a small club by the Mississippi (Beale St was "off limits" to young military). He took me to eat Cornbread, catfish and grits ( a real southern meal and introduced me to Muddy Waters ... Who truly taught me about the blues. I'm 77 now, but that man changed my life and I am forever thankful Bless you Rufus... Both father and daughter, such a gift to us all ❤

[@johnallen7259]

Wow! I was in elementary school wish I could have been there.

[@JimmyBahia]

Me and big brother was blessed with being there!

[@paulofarkas8147]

PARABÉNS FOI O BIG SHOW LOTADO. BRAZIL 🇧🇷

[@Wally-H]

Great stuff. The organisers got into some very hot water over the field invasion, but the people that day created a marvellous piece of music history.

[@JasonDaHater]

I believe it is confunksion playing

[@otiswhite5757]

It Is@@JasonDaHater

[@doviebraxton1483]

I was there in the coliseum, I was at the 1st one at the park too in the 70's, my boyfriend took me. Now my husband, my uncle in LA thought I was crazy😂😂

[@mistersmith3986]

That babe in that short red dress has got me hooked!!!

[@eduardosantiago6540]

This woman formulated the concept of beauty and a beautiful woman for me... At a party or wherever I went, she was the one I, naively and uselessly, looked for. Today I know that she was a dream!

[@nola3058]

It was called "sizzlers", a very short skirt of thin silk-like material with matching underpanties, there was no sexual hangups in those days and men didn't sexually harass or molest the women who wore them either.

[@debbravann297]

I loved Rufus Thomas!!!❤️ Those were the best days. My community knows how to make the best out of anything.

[@ehughes8829]

The sound mix is brilliant. 😊 All the instruments are clear.

[@JacquesMesrine94]

One of the most wonderful videos ever... I wish I were in my youth at that time... 2:34 beautiful song, beautiful time, beautiful Lady...

[@fw1194]

I bet she still fine.

[@youngsyung3140]

I like how he combined Ain’t and Am. 😂🤣😂

[@drstew1]

Oh my me. Rufus C Thomas Jr R.I.P at the Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. Los Angeles.🙏🏾

[@vnonkwinn6233]

ER Body seems to be having the Best times. Just so happy and Free, That was a Beautiful Milstone.

[@michelyannakopoulos8924]

I still have this album it was a double plus another double it is fantastic they both are one of my favorites you just can't take it off the table let this part rapp to you for a while

[@theattitude]

Now I know where Morris Day got SOME of it from...

[@brunocoulibaly26]

Quand je pense que beaucoup d'entre eux ne sont plus de se monde, cela m’attriste. Ce fut la belle et bonne musique ou tout le monde pouvait se trémousser sans gêne. Merci.

[@cater10]

We used to have fun together in this country, I remember these times, what happened, sad 😥

[@mjpthetrucker9485]

prople who don't sit online crying about the old days still have a good times. Put your phone down. Enjoy life.

[@cater10]

@@mjpthetrucker9485 ??? Didn't you just reply in some technical way?? Thx for making my point jackass, we can't just have fun, somebody, LIKE YOU, always has to start something.

[@360Warlock]

Whole stadium of black is beautiful and great music 🎶

[@michelleharris3857]

Omg!!. Boogie woogie on down. I got, James Brown vibes. Long live soul 💓💯👍🙏✊🤟🤘✌️👌🙌👏😊🔥❤️💙💜🕊️🎊🎉☮️🆒😎🌟⭐💥💋

[@terrylaissy3313]

Super soul 70 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@polly8844]

Another Great One!

[@tylane-vj8dz]

Life was somehow different back then. Wow i bet they had fun!!!

[@jeanheard4615]

I love to see and hear him walking the dog and when walked the dog git down wit it

[@mimmoleonardi8643]

Amazing Rufus, 💪 very soulmen and funky

[@CWolf-wg3ux]

Love to see people having so much fun.❤

[@philipmozea2441]

I love the hair of the ladies so natural,so beautiful.So good to see the brothers and sisters so happy.I wish to live that era again.

[@tesfalemabraha627]

Good music doesn’t have an Expiration date. I Love it .

[@michaelscott5814]

James Brown style. Very good

[@keeslubberding471]

4:09🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@collectoroffrance]

Only +4000? A shame for this legend!

[@demetriusdion3804]

It was about 1000,000!

[@Law-hi8un]

Look at my Beautiful People boogieing without a care in the world. Such a sight to behold

[@michaelcarson4548]

I was there!! Had a blast. It was hot 🥵 but we had a great time. No problem. I think the tickets were under $10

[@alexc.c.4025]

Most looking slim, fit and nice of all that funky chicken dancing! =)

[@herbertlyles190]

Fun classic black soul music love it happy black power times togetherness ,good good times black empowerment👍

[@tommcclelland119]

That takes me back…. I’m an old, white man whose first girlfriend was a redbone in Alabama named Louise. we had the best time in life, but boy was it tough to be a mixed couple in Alabama. we went our separate ways in life, and her husband served with me in Vietnam. Louise contracted breast cancer and passed away in 1994. she had four kids and two grandkids when she passed. her husband, who we called Bo, passed away in 2011 from kidney failure caused by Agent Orange. Their first grandchild was named Stefan, and he lived with us until he graduated the university of Colorado at Boulder. Such a fine young man. I miss them both very much. Stefan will always be partly my son. I miss them very much…. Bo and Louise were the best of America, and it hurts me deeply to think about them.

[@2bigbufords]

Funkiest man ever

[@yokevscott]

I love my people ❤

[@essaali1982]

So sad brothers and sisters today's not acting like before 50 years ago.

[@TheNobbynoonar]

BRING BACK THE BIG HATS! THE WORLD NEEDS BIG HATS!

[@philipmozea2441]

Rufus Thomas, the father of chaka khan.He came to NIGERIA in 70s.He was a guest at the Art Alade Show.Great soul singer and performer.I remember him being asked about his daughter chaka khan and him saying next time he visits,he will come back with his daughter.Great family.

[@nola3058]

Wherever you got that information from, you'd better correct them because, Rufus Thomas ISN'T the father of Chaka Kahn (Evette Marie Stevens), he's the father of Carla Thomas who was a singer in her own right, you would do yourself a favor by researching stats first before posting, ijs!

[@michaelg.512]

Weltklasse! Geile Mucke, geiles Outfit, geile Stimmung, mehr geht nicht, Top 😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@andresferreira4431]

2024 and RUFUS STILL ROCKIN !!!!

[@tdb3039]

Life seem so peaceful back then

[@victorparker308]

It was. Compton High class of '72

[@alliwishis_2]

It only seemed like that because there was a lot of gang violence just outside of the Colosseum around in the same area

[@paulawoyale5301]

Beautiful serenading timeless music.

[@rickhope2825]

His background band is Con- funk-sion

[@putzengiler]

I like the UFO hat on the guitar player..

[@Wally-H]

Yeah, couple of the dancers sporting one too

[@arthurralstonwakeupblackpe5940]

The women back then were way more naturally beautiful then the artificial ones we got today..

[@andre-zx7qe]

Today they just aren't pretty any more with or without make up

[@MisterWade74]

Yeah and the men were more athletic and healthy. Now men have pot bellies, dumb ass haircuts, stupid baseball caps instead of cool hats, dumb ass tee shirts instead of cool ‘70s shirts. Modern men listen to their monotonous hip hop instead of this cool, soulful, groove music. The men today are dumb and barely able to communicate via 120/160 character messages.

[@ALIENDNA14]

@@andre-zx7qe Speak for yourself... There are still plenty of fine ass women around.

[@Misslotusification]

Without counting that most people are overweight nowadays...

[@bridgettramjohn564]

That when black men loved the ground women walk on!

[@rubenjones1225]

Look at the young band CONFUNKSHUN CLYDE AND MICHAEL COOPER had just come from California were very talented they were called Project soul back then backed up Mr Rufus and the Soul Children

[@darylhillard627]

What happened to these times.

[@VolkXue]

@In it To win it you watch too many youtube videos my dude.. In reality you had guys coming back from Nam and a hardcore heroin epidemic starting around the same time this concert filmed. 70s,80s and 80s had way higher murder rates than today

[@VolkXue]

@In it To win it you want to talk about music or real problems? Because art imitates life and it always has. Damn, they played Super Fly at this same concert lol

[@javierjimenezmartin1283]

Joeer esta música nod la ponian em la Universidad laboral de Huesca en los años 1974 -1979. Naci en 1960 .Saludos y Salud

[@joinerperearamirez6400]

Is amazing, is a party 🎉,

[@therawproduct]

Pure Brilliance

[@martysmith5260]

Do da Funky Chicken!!

[@timbrandt711]

Love it!! thank you so much!

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Incredible!!!! Thank you for sharing this Caleu Ahoi. I subscribed :)

[@richarddrake6094]

Mikey likes it too? Add to the playlist...soul bluest

[@marciofig8541]

Fui assistir a exibição desse filme no MAM nos anos 70 fantástico.

[@kofoblue3172]

Great footage

[@stevenford1828]

When we blacks were young respectful and had dancin n fun together...I was 13 back then!

[@vnonkwinn6233]

So much soul, where has it all gone?

[@webbgems67]

4:08 Re run Fred berry at his best 🤗

[@tabbazzseaye7549]

Members of the Soul Train Dancers are doing the dam thing....

[@carolynstarkey8889]

God Bless my people! ❤

[@steveyapuncich6317]

Takes me back to Funky Chicken and the Ladies wearing Afro style.

[@michaelmuzafarov8125]

super best

[@matthewbattaglia7329]

When people were self sufficient and disnt have money but had dignity and community .. ..and soul ....and a soul