SECRETS OF TIME - Cameo

From their 1982 Mercury album "Alligator Woman".

[@7SKYBALLER]

UNDERRATED CLASSIC. And still RELEVANT over 30 year's later...

[@donaldedmondson5230]

HELLO Y’ALL FROM MINNESOTA

[@tameekaivory8274]

YES!!!!!!

[@user-ho6oy2ni9w]

HEY .?😊

[@prezlarryrogers494]

Damn near close to 40 years ago and it STILL GIVES ME GOOSE BUMPS!!!! WOW MAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER

[@ronhaywood171]

Who will tell the story that's yet to be told Who will tell the children that they too grow old When will we learn that nothing is forever Realizing all men must live together Seekers of truth we must all be Opening the eyes of those yet to see

[@nebiolinonews5036]

Short and intense Cameo masterpiece, emotions!

[@mikea3594]

One of the best songs in the universe to me!

[@patrick22683]

The harmonizing is fantastic #cameoforpresident

[@bradquery779]

saw these guys 3 weeks ago in vegas.. sounded fantastic.. talked with tomi jenkins after the show.. great guy.. i asked him about this song.. said he wrote it thinking about the future..... great song by one of the best bands of all time.. in any musical genre

[@beccac4359]

Oh my GAWD! Loved this song back in my college days. This whole album was very underrated!

[@DONMASON45]

I just seen Cameo in Vegas a couple weeks ago and they opened with Alligator woman and I was like ' I know they are not about to do secrets of time'. They didn't but the concert was an A+.

[@bradquery779]

saw the same show. they sounded fantastic. larry was not at the meet and greet after the show, but i chatted it up with anthony lockett and tomi jenkins- both super nice guys

[@LYBism]

"How can you stand there and let people do what they do when you know that it can't work for us all? WOW!!! Those words are so true. . .

[@oranperkins5807]

Lolita Brown it’s “when you know that they’re the gain and hurt for us all!”

[@lb8471]

@@oranperkins5807, I'm JUST seeing your response!!! I've been my Cameo kick for a couple of weeks now, and this song came to me today and I was scrolling through the comments and came upon our exchange, LOL. Thanks for the correction, but I'm pretty sure the lyrics are; Who will tell the story that's yet to be told? Who will tell the children that they, too, grow old? When will we learn that nothing's forever; Realizing all men must live together? Seekers of truth we must all be, Opening the eyes of those yet to see, Cause if we are to know and love one another, Secrets of time we must discover. How can you stand there and let people do what they do when you know that it can't work for us all? Time is short, and we must pass secrets of time, The world's your's and mine. . .

[@rogerblewett5595]

Real spill 💯

[@bryantrose2256]

This song was a Hit!!

[@vladdivincii5560]

remember falling in love in high school to this song...thought we was going to b together forever...the good old days of believing in true love

[@sophisticatedlady3376]

I sure wish this were longer.

[@donaldedmondson4240]

Me Too

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

DEFINITELY!!!

[@SimonePhoenix]

That's the SECRET of the musical interlude...always leave 'em wanting MORE 😉

[@Mr-Keyes]

Sophisticated Lady - That's what she said 😃

[@FWCC1]

Brings tears to my eyes also around 1982 in High School experiencing this album

[@asiaroberts7340]

this song brings tears to my eyes for some reason. Love this . The chords capture the sound of sorry lost in secrets of time. What we know and don't share and what we miss when we don't care to ask about the wisdom of others.

[@7SKYBALLER]

ASIA ROBERTS Prophetic lyrics...Just like Marvin Gayes' "What'sGoing On"

[@Kemet3.0]

Yes... It expresses that we all get old and understand time waits for no one!

[@Macndav2u]

Super

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

This is one of those soul touching songs that I love... It gets you all in your feelings!!!

[@funkrocker8011]

The song I remember impacted on me emotionally when I first heard it back in 82.

[@TheKenex357]

Always wish this jam was much longer. I feel sorry for this generation of "mumble rap" black youth who know nothing of the greatness of real music we as black people had at such a time.

[@Mr-Keyes]

True Words. Even when I had bad times, I had great music to pull me through.

[@tameekaivory8274]

One of Cameo's BEST JAMS EVER!!!!!!

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

🎵🎤Secrets of time, the world's yours and mine... Beautiful song... One of my FAVORITE Cameo songs!!!

[@raygass370]

I am an old school Cameo fan... One of my favorite song... DEEP DEEP

[@tommershon7104]

they don't get enough credit in mainsrteam America!!!! this song alone shows just how deep they could be with the pen.!! Also in many of their songs the elements of jazz is always present, real band!!!!

[@sevendaggers4678]

+tom mershon AGREE TOTALLY - they have always had something special - maybe my all time favourite funk band - carl g

[@bradquery779]

+seven daggers - im with u... its a tie for me.. along with SLAVE

[@cortchiewelch9492]

agreed. before cameo went mainstream, larry and co. were topnotch lyricists.

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

EXACTLY... Cameo is fire!!!

[@cdchenderson]

alligator woman album........... masterpiece........just listen

[@bradquery779]

WAY WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME

[@MikeBerbano]

another timeless underrated classic from these talented guys in the vain of the previous album tune called "Is This The Way". both of those songs described the world we lived in back in the 80's and is more pertinent now than ever. fo' ever , fo' real, Cam-e-o

[@cortchiewelch9492]

lol everybody likes is this the way. it's a bit too much like ewf's that's the way of the world, in my opinion.

[@MikeBerbano]

@@cortchiewelch9492 not enuf artists singing about the signs of the times... m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnrZo6ysltOVf8k

[@mrjrobv5496]

I concur.

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

Still fire in 2019... Alligator Woman is my FAVORITE Cameo album!!! 6-27-19

[@MrKoolkh]

ALLTIME CLASSIC.MY FAVORITE GROUP

[@sevendaggers4678]

+MrKoolkh mine too - great funk and funky ballads from them - imho the most creative and original funk band - and - i will never look for love - great ballad

[@harryedwards2534]

Must to discover It doesn't get any better than this OLD SCHOOL YES SIR!

[@toniajames-morris8310]

I had the pleasure to meet Cameo, in 2014 at the Soul Festival In South Florida,What A Good Memory!!!!!

[@twomenyfacez2]

i bumped this so hard when i got my first boom box damn laway was a great thing back then evertthing iz buy now no more laway

[@JohnnyC718]

At the end of 2017 this song is still timeless!!! Much Love!!

[@7SKYBALLER]

UNDERRATED "B" SIDE CLASSIC

[@mxnfx]

Back in the 80's we used to drive to Arizona....my brother was locked up in the Pen there....and on our way we'd jam this, the drive thru the desert amplified its meaning....

[@dayesonny]

Thought provoking and hauntingly beautiful...very ambitious for a funk band to record this jam...I wonder what the story is behind it?

[@sonjikennedy9615]

Wow!! This is one of Cameo's greatest songs.You had to have this album back in the day!LOL🤣🤣Bring back memories😉

[@deadchannel9378]

scopin with the red dot lil gin

[@juliangonzales744]

Still got my LP!

[@danawells729]

They knew what time it was...especially around the bridge/break....that piano roll...coming from a dude born in the 80s...if this masterpiece don't hit your soul I don't know what'll hit it...lighters up on this joint...Secrets Of Time...The World's Yours And Mine...

[@RaceIsOpen]

last time I heard this song was in 1985! thanks for posting this!

[@waynefoote3781]

These songs are the reel ones that deserve Grammys!!!!!!!

[@BESM1984]

Holy carp I never would have thought this is Cameo. Amazing

[@Macndav2u]

2018 and it's cracking. I searched for this song

[@larryluvewf]

Needs to be a lil more longer!!!!! WOOO-WEEE!!! DAMN ILOVE ME SOME CAMEO!!!!

[@dreadstock]

this song at this time in 1982 after they had first dropped 'Alligator Woman' which upped the ante and answer back to Rick James 'Super Freak', this song part of the culture then when you listened and were nice surprised by each song This one out-did Prince's effort at jazz fusion and rocker music and then still was way Funky and mack-ish... Watching cats smoke sherm to this jam and kick it like lamp-posts in the Filmore, and the hard rock cats trippin too on Cameo, Wow, 80s folks dont hear bout

[@JohnnyC718]

Has been a favorite of mine from the begining!!! Thank you for the post! Much love everybody!!

[@ernestbenavidez8462]

YES INDEED THIS SONG IS UNDERATED. GOT TO BE MY SECOND FAVORITE BY CAMEO, "FOR YOU" IS NUMBER ONE ON MY LIST FOR CAMEO GOTTA BE THE BEST BALLAD BY CAMEO!

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

I love both of those... Feel Me and I Never Knew are also 2 of my FAVORITE songs by Cameo!!!

[@monicagillaspie6798]

And stil listening in June 2024🎶🤎🎶❤️

[@discomusic1966]

@varaques Yes Vanity was used on this album cover and the "she's strange" one as well

[@ONECSALL]

This reminds me when you bought a album put it on and let it just play...Every song a jam.

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

EXACTLY... Alligator Woman is my FAVORITE Cameo album!!!

[@discomusic1966]

in 1982 when this was released on vinyl it was on the chocolate city records label one of their last for Casablanca before going to their own Atlanta Artists record label THANKS FOR posting this,it always seemed like a longer song which got cut off for some reason

[@bobbydazzlersmokez]

i can listen to the alligator woman lp from beginning to end...there isn't one weak song on the album...

[@sant748]

Back in the day I had a Hommie who slowed this down on his turntable and recorded it and it literally changed the whole vibe of this jam. The intro became even more haunting and eerie and the guitar solo and vocal harmonies towards the end would actually move your soul!! Mind U we were smoking skunk weed and sipping 40’s and he had a state of the art sound system crammed in a 5.0 mustang!! Damn those 80’s were the days!

[@ksager123]

sant748 three 6 mafia - mind state sampled this

[@anthonyljefferson7927]

sant758 Did U Try Slowing Down The Playback Speed On KZbin Here To 0.75? I Just Did & 1, It Made It Longer & My Heart Wrenching!!!

[@MrKoolkh]

THIS WAS MY SONG BACK IN A DAY..............I WAS TWENTY THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS........KOOLPOST.

[@dividedsouls1]

I WAS 10 WHEN MY UNCLE HAD THIS TAPE. WHEN HE HAD HIS CRIB MY MOMS USED TO DROP ME OFF THERE FOR THE SUMMER. HE WOULD PLAY THIS WHILE ROLLING UP ONE.....BACK IN THE DAY!!!

[@shedrickhorton5628]

Musical expression

[@casinomar100]

the guitar man killed this jam

[@matthewgeeblountjr8992]

casinomar100 Charlie Singleton y'all

[@harolddickey3268]

The best band of the seventies

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

UNLOCK THE SECRETS

[@iluvinnovativemusic9072]

SO Glad I was in tune with stuff like this when I was a Adolescent ...They used to laugh at it because for all observations they did not know....Now 2019..This is their Jam. I feel fortunate to have had the musical influences in my life to teach me and appreciate good pieces of music ...Not to be contrite for Music is for everyone

[@JohnnyC718]

2020 Anyone??? If not why????

[@JohnnyC718]

On 11/ 2018 Still kicking this Much Love !!!!!

[@henryg.thompson3726]

great song, that's not long snuff

[@herbertwells6097]

WOW....Vanity was the right person for this album cover

[@henrythompson5853]

I never did understand how they got that tied in with the song alligator woman and then all the sudden this song comes on

[@trentyoungersr.4478]

Tomie Jenkins must've channeled the Beatles for this banger!

[@cortchiewelch9492]

agreed. maybe a little bit of queen's we are the champions as well.

[@dogontribe8333]

Definitely cause even sounded British when he said realizing 😂

[@alvinnelson7539]

The Beatles?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@daphneedoss9128]

I Love It❤❤❤❤❤

[@kaylastarks5592]

Cameo's...FINEST!!!

[@rthominc]

Lucky for you, its the best album Cameo did as well as one of the best R&B albums done.

[@marcellax4556]

rthominc Cameosis is the best album Cameo ever made. A mood lifter, for sure😉

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

@rthominc I STRONGLY AGREE!!!

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

@@marcellax4556 That was a good one too!!!

[@dnasty65]

ABSOLUTELY THIS

[@MrJambiggs]

love songs

[@DominicClark-cy8mq]

Amazing part 3 of the cameo triology. Secre..........

[@kincamell]

Gratitude.

[@marcellinosmith9162]

CAMEO REAL SHIT WITH TRUE HEART IN IT !!!

[@Debbie_George]

I haven't heard this song since my freshman year of college.

[@Debbie_George]

My roommate had this album on repeat.

[@RSuban1]

Underated.....

[@bombvideosbyadx]

AGREED, I literally had to resurrect this track for my friends who forgot it

[@darrelynmccloud6812]

I'm a failed short musician. Still got taliant though.

[@JohnnyC718]

2020 Anyone??? 🤔

[@Bigbasssix1972]

Cameo.. Prog-Rock!

[@sudoroman]

This was the first tape I ever purchased - Aligator Woman

[@bradquery779]

U HAVE GREAT TASTE!!

[@henrythompson5149]

Just love this son should have been long. 🗣👁

[@kincamell2]

Heaven Yes

[@BigBrotherBalboa]

Rhythm 'n' Prog...R&P!

[@Mr12345678g]

THE ONLY CONCERT I WENT TO WAS CAMEO AND I HAD A GREAT TIME THERE. THE SECRET OF TIME I GUESS CONCERT. 1981 OR 1982

[@heidezaragoza3588]

that says it all, right there, I don't need yo go on.

[@claycox1829]

I feel you on that sista, what else can you say?

[@heidezaragoza3588]

That I'm strange amd I like it......also I can be that alligator woman who don't care. I know I know its not. Fair. To quote only songs from Cameo, but darling dear dont ya lnow, the best compliment around is when you can move to the sound There you asked me what else I could convey Play your music loud make it tremble & boom Make the people listen tto what your song say It will make you feel goood when they smile You just made someone happy if only for awhile

[@Atomsk0192]

LETS DO THIS!!!!

[@ItsDomeno]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Bigbasssix1972]

#quarantine playlist..

[@radiohead93]

It's scary how much he sounds like Jack Black in Tenacious D lol. I love this song.

[@nellanitaw]

Nice

[@TheBlackbudda08]

I remember Halloween one year (years back) Pittsburgh Pa (Garfield) Out front of a Club called Crossroads. .There was a Woman made up like the Album Cover...

[@funkrocker8011]

I was never a lover of ballads. As a kid when playing the records I use to always skip over the ballads and played all the funk songs only but this song really grabbed me back then. Does anyone know if it's Charles Singleton on vocals.

[@Dagoat1970]

❤️

[@keoshia01]

love this shit

[@AncestralCapital]

"BLACK Bands" Rarely get remembered for songs with conscious themes. Using EWF as the go to example for versatility isn't enough. It diminishes our creative history. Many are surprised when they hear a Black recording artist say they weren't "allowed" or were discouraged from "writing them deep songs". Now... not every non commercial song produced is on the level of Angelou, Dunbar or Baldwin. But with such a rich culture of revolutionary literature you'd think we'd highlight our conscious side more. This short tune is followed by "I Owe it All to You" on the album. The two songs closing the album are speaking simple truths. Not necessarily deep. But they leave you in a better place of hope and gratitude.

[@Bigbasssix1972]

Yup.

[@kaylastarks5592]

D'Best

[@JohnnyC718]

For real nobody in 2020??? Damn

[@JohnnyC718]

2021 Anyone????

[@dayesonny]

@RazerForce I know it well, it called "I owe it all to you".

[@scvmlxrd7119]

Red dot

[@ksager123]

"you try to run I'ma cock my gun and blast you!"

[@archerx68]

Good evening Kandyman. Where can I find this song in it's entirety? Thanks for this song. it's has this nostalgic message from the good ole days.

[@michaelmatullo4366]

Fu 2 this is its entirety for years you couldn't ever download it without being run into by alligator woman from that album. no you can get it alone. short buy one of my favorites like seasons no reason to change by gap band

[@archerx68]

Michael Matullo Thank You Mr. M&M

[@MrTrock19]

Fu 2 on the album it Alligator Woman/Secrets of Time

[@Sailor-Alpha]

is that a picture of vanity

[@LYBism]

Yes.

[@henrythompson5853]

No it's not

[@tikinov]

Charlie Singleton

[@HangarFry]

Acoco

[@SuperWorlds1]

A bad jam!! To bad did not get more air time.

[@kathysilkyyhayden7176]

It got plenty of play at my family's house... They had the album... We listened to it all of the time!!!