THE C.O.D.'S - MICHAEL (THE LOVER) VIDEO FOOTAGE 1965

THE C.O.D.'S - MICHAEL (THE LOVER) VIDEO FOOTAGE 1965
MEMBERS ARE: LARRY BROWNLEE (WHO WROTE THEIR SONGS) ROBERT LEWIS, CARL WASHINGTON
YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THIS GROUP HERE: www.allmusic.co...

[@johnvergara2636]

The lead singing in the middle "Robert Lewis" is my father in law living in Elgin Illinois !!! Amazing Human being !!! I'm honored to know him and spend time with his family especially on the Holidays !!!

[@richardleonard4281]

I think you are mistaken, his name is Larry Brownlee, he wrote the song and sadly was shot dead in Chicago may years ago.

[@Tom-PlaylistKing-Smith]

Both Larry Brownlee and Robert Lewis were members of this trio. The other member was Carl Washington.

[@richardleonard4281]

@@Tom-PlaylistKing-Smith thanks for the info .

[@JoeyBidenmcsleepy]

Yeah, Larry Brownlee died with a intruder. Someone broke into his home and shot him to death at 37 years old. Carl Washington is the one on the right of middle Larry. Other one is Robert Lewis. Carl died in 2008 due to natural causes. Robert idk.

[@susanwhaley2483]

Oops seems like someone pointed out the wrong father in law

[@judithhenderson9647]

That was my husband Michael,until I got to him. And now I ‘m Mrs. Michael R.Henderson. Have been for twenty-eight years!😂

[@woldoog1]

Wonderful!!!

[@cashew515]

Don’t you have your own name? Women aren’t called Mrs whatever the man’s name is!😁😁😁

[@schlomogoldstein606]

A good women will do that to a man.

[@user-um6lz9hg3r]

I never, ever get tired of this video. I love everything about it.

[@tomgeauvreau7099]

Remember this being a hit in Detroit

[@Allen-xu2wv]

A hit in New Jersey also! Like Chaz Marsh said music has no color

[@robertbright2057]

This song reminds me of The Impressions, I could definitely hear them singing this.

[@johngreenwood8146]

Yes, a take off!

[@freddiebrown9075]

January covid-19 2020, Chicago Good job fellas! I believe The C.O.Ds. are from Chicago. Locally "Michael the lover" was a hit. It's lyrics were real catchy, teen-clever. It had a nice snappy Groove too. I can reminisce back to the summer of my youth 1965. I just started Waller High School as a freshman. Man! if your name was Michael that was automatic with the girls checkin' you out. The song was your introduction calling-card without saying the word. I could sing the song Good but, My name just didn't work in place of Michael.

[@JoeyBidenmcsleepy]

They are and all of them are now passed sadly. Poor Larry got shot and robbed in 1978 in his own home in his mid 30s. Robert died in 2008. Carl just vanished without a trace.

[@stevenlitos9416]

@@JoeyBidenmcsleepy thanks for the update!

[@JoeyBidenmcsleepy]

@@stevenlitos9416 np

[@MichaelBentley8946]

I'm a Michael from St. Louis and this song came out a year after I graduated from high school. Too bad it didn't come out my senior year. I would have had a lot of fun with that.

[@Powerfulchange712]

😂😂😂😂

[@geraldthomas8241]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@rodgergilbert5790]

I was 10 years old when this song came out, and it was the first song I recorded on my little reel to reel tape recorder. Their voices were just as smooth as the Impressions!!

[@bbrother92]

That's incredible story I want to know more about that time

[@Sistarful]

me do; damn this new world ...shit I gotta be a spit'n fire DINO_SAW_ESSEEZZZZzzzzzz!!!! LOL

[@MauriceHolmes-ko8cn]

HEY so did my BROTHER

[@deborjhablackwell6162]

This was seriously popular in DC when I was in high school. The boys in my classes would sing it in the halls. ❤️

[@corlisslowery4835]

Yazzzzz those were the days

[@nirkann]

In elementary school for me in D.C. One I'm sure we heard on WOL!

[@PapaEli-pz8ff]

It was also very popular in NYC during that same period 🎶👍🏾

[@USAtoElsewhere]

These are great memories. There should be more oldies venues where songs like this are played regularly so they don't stay in obscurity. I'd like to start a nightclub for oldies music.

[@susanwhaley2483]

@@USAtoElsewhere that would be awesome! ALL types of music 👍🏿❤️

[@michaelwilks6268]

I'm the youngest in a family at that time which consistent of six somewhat rambunctious children. So you can somewhat understand my plight. We are a loving family but as all families large and small sometimes do we tease and rub each other the wrong way at times. When this record came out I was probably 4 or 5 years old. And my oldest brother especially but all of them partook in it from time to time. Would sing this song, Michael the lover, Michael the lover until I would start crying and tell them I'm not no lover, ha, hahaha, hahaha. I had no idea what a lover was at the time but my youthful sensibility told me that I wasn't one, ha, hahaha, hahaha. Since then you can somewhat reasonably deduced that I have revised my opinion on the matter exponentially since 1965. And I now consider myself as the song describes as a full-fledged lover before me there was no other other, ha, hahaha hahaha.

[@mrstanbmw]

Larry Brownlee later joined another group out of Chicago Lost Generation and wrote their smash hit. Sly, Slick and the Wicked.

[@beverlyhoward3512]

Things were sooooooooo different ❤❤❤❤

[@michaeljrender1247]

I REMEMBER THIS SONG WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY GROWING UP IN THE HOUGH Area in Cleveland ohio everywhere i go people use sang this song to me here comes Michael the lover i just smile everytime some would say to me its Michael the Lover guess what folks My name is Michael and I'm still Michael the Lover 😊

[@earlgoodlett7593]

great song

[@Richnsoul]

Often heard at the London 100 Club All Niters back in the day . Keep the Faith pure class. R

[@juanitawoods8899]

I was with Robert (the one in the middle) yesterday. He’s my cousin on my grandfather’s (my mother’s father) side of the family. I was just a baby and didn’t even know he even a part of any singing group until now. I just decided to google it and wow 😮 there he is. Amazing!!

[@deborahcouncil214]

This was one of my late grandmother's favorite songs

[@muddy4492]

This was My Grandaddy Song R.I.P Michael Porter 😎💪🏾🙏🏾🖤💙🔱💯💯 #Chicago

[@JoeyBidenmcsleepy]

Jesus, they are so beautiful, my heart skips a beat with nostalgia got damn this is beautiful im finna cry.

[@rosendamoore9378]

What a great song still today! Love their performance on this film of the COD’s. Today I actually sang this to my beaux and he loved it!! Just for Valentine’s Day!

[@fd10801]

I used to hear this on WIBG in Philadelphia in early 1966

[@CatherineRhoadsNC144]

wow! Flashback!

[@irishpatti2736]

Frank DiSalle Hy~Lit was My Favorite DJ 🍀😇🍀

[@fd10801]

@@irishpatti2736 And Joe Niagara!

[@bobwatson1162]

And Georgie Woods on WDAS.AM

[@aaronharris2911]

Back in the day I was 10 years old and we had a line dance called Michael. And one of us it was her job to call out the different steps to it it was fun

[@midnightflower7820]

I was 4yrs old in 1965, I remember this song when I was a little girl, so many memories ☺

[@tueremwandishi8968]

I was too!! ☺️

[@ldav2006]

Loveit! Great song! Miss the 60's. Glad to be around at 76!!!

[@yolandawray7153]

I just heard this song for the first time today, this song came out in 1965 and I was 11 years old, cool song and it's a song that reminds me of the sixties not like that crap we have today , today's music is not music

[@DetroitLives313]

This one was my 8th Grade teacher and basketball coach's favorite record. Dedicated to the late, great Michael Jones!

[@josephharris6062]

1965 had some really great music!!!! this was a great hit and here we are in 2017 and i finally learn who recorded this song!!!!!

[@irishpatti2736]

Dedicated to My Brother Mickey (Michael) Milligan, A South Philly (Pa) Boy❣️. He sure was Michael the Lover~Always had a Pretty Girl on his Arm! May He Fly with the Angels & be Dancing in Heaven 🍀😇🍀

[@vaughnchauncy8360]

I recall being in elementary school in the south all the lids loved this and any kid named Michael was given the tag the lover.the guy and girl way in back to the left are jamming with their hands behind their backs...so cool

[@kathylewis6177]

I was in elementary school when this song was released. Good memories! Thanks.

[@nelsonrasmussen6942]

Man! I haven't heard this song in YEARS! It's great!

[@waynejackson3162]

Growing up in the 1960s, I know that the dance, that the girl in the background is doing, is called the "hard bop", and she is doing it, exactly like she is supposed to.

[@theresadavis3956]

I was 9 when this record came out …. I loved it … and my youngest sons name is MICHAAEL 😂

[@glannapolisteam8681]

What a great tune. These guys were great. Love the way they trade off the lead vocals. Kind of like the Impressions. Great stuff! Looks like it's fun to dance to as well!

[@basbury1]

Reminds me of Jr. High. Great tune!

[@TJSzabo-wh4fj]

OMG, Remember dancing at Wagner's Ballroom with Jerry Blavet. I'm a kid again listening to this. Fantastic!!

[@bobwatson1162]

Big record in Philly

[@kpitt1204]

T.J. Szabo, it really must have been a great time. I’ve heard stories. I heard that Wagner’s attracted the best dancers.

[@CatherineRhoadsNC144]

OMGREAT GOD! The Geator with the heater, the big boss with the hot sauce, puttin down a pound of sound! The Wagner walk, The Che Vous walk, desert boots! I watched his show after school! Philly rocked!

[@77cobaltblue]

Philly in the House!

[@williamredding333]

Chez-Vous & Wagner's were the hot spots!

[@kentcarmona9521]

You have good ears that is THE IS THE CHICAGO SOUND

[@byronbenguche]

This was a staple on WKKC with Sweet Smooth Steve my late mom used to listen to him

[@alanfair4415]

Transcendent soul, on those moves, those voices, those moments

[@monicabella7894]

& SOUND

[@shirleymuhammad8936]

Sweet memories! Boppin in Chicago. Boys singing Doo Wops outside your window. The best times. I just sent this to my friend Micheal on his birthday. Thanks for posting.

[@quentinkirk3870]

Only Heard this Song Twenty minutes Ago on V-103 and it's already one of my favorites.

[@calvinjackson538]

THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. These guys made some great moves. Love the song. Still have the 45!

[@debora.426]

WOW REALLY, IMPRESSIVE

[@michaelknowler3057]

I am 71 years old now. And I still have the 45 seven inch single.

[@beverlyhoward3512]

I remember michael pain,Would always start his show with this song WJMO SHOUT OUT CLEVELAND OHIO Love them days

[@beverlyhoward1824]

Wjmo radio station Cleveland Back in the Day, Michael Pain theme song♥️

[@williamhester2976]

So true I remembered that

[@alandhopewell]

When we were little, I told my younger brother Michael that the song was about him.

[@cherylrobinson6718]

Just stared Jr. High, love this song, DJ Mike Payne played this when he came on the air in Cleveland

[@danielgadzinski3643]

Discovered this wonderful gem this morning on Sirius Xm SoulTown. What a beautiful tune, gives me such Motown vibes 💗

[@miketheshanmanmangan]

Truly The Sound of THE WINDY CITY CHICAGO!

[@anniedarlasson2084]

Danced to this at the goldhawk club shepherds bush .love it still.

[@lolanthecornelius5980]

As a youngster, I love listening to the old records. With my older sisters.

[@almclambsr995]

I'm 59yrs old and I remember my two sisters playing that record over and over i was only 3 years old then 1965

[@richardleonard4281]

Never heard this before, great tune! And all the dancers are excellent!

[@cathstubbs4830]

what a pleasure to see these old videos of northern !!

[@jimy0803]

Those ol' scholl groups were soooo smooth and polished. I really enjoyed this video!

[@1computernew]

Me, too. I watch it over and over and over.

[@deborahbrown6408]

@@1computernew Me too!! It makes me want to dance, ahh, to be young again😘🎶💓🎶❤️🌟❤️

[@QueenAnitaSoul]

Me 2

[@davidgreen7024]

Still Sounds good today.

[@jeanetteomidvar7420]

Love this better than the x factor. Classic and makes me want to dance. Sometimes I think I'm not moving on but hey I'll think I'll stay. Thank you for grounding me. Brilliant ❤🙏

[@elaineford39]

I named my son after this record!! Always loved it.

[@jrgardmore]

This was the 1st 45 record I bought as a young teenager. (That and “Cool Jerk” by the Capitols)

[@gayleloisel703]

Love Cool Jerk!!!

[@oranpayne1007]

this was the first record I bought in 1965 at 11 years old as soon as I heard it on the radio. I was listening to KDIA IN OAKLAND when it was played. then I ran to the record store and bought it. The COD'S sound very good. see that's that street corner harmony singing for the girls and don't forget PASS THE WINE. Those street corner groups could out sing any group today. the reason why I said that IF YOU COULDN'T SING THE PUBLIC WOULD LET YOU KNOW YOU SUCK. But if you were down here comes the tips. I know for sure cause my best friends brother was in a DOO WOP GROUP. I was like 10 or 11 when I was mesmerized by their singing ability. so I became the official WINE RETRIEVER. In those days the stores never I.D. YOU AT ALL. So since they were making some money they didn't want to stop and go to the store for wine. So they sent me. And instead of me getting paid, or drinking some of the wine, all I got was a front row seat and my second job was to collect the girls phone numbers that they would get. 10 years old and I was getting robbed everyday. I didn't even get one of the girls. A girl tried to give me some play, but I told her I hate girls. She told me in a few years you will know what to do with a girl and believe me YOU AIN'T NEVER GOING TO HATE GIRLS EVER AGAIN. SHE WAS RIGHT. At age 14 I started chasing women and have been on a serious mission for 48 years.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😉😂😂😉😉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertoday7526]

Oran Payne hey I wanted to ask you a question cause you got some fine taste in music. Do you know the track walking up the one way street by willie tee and the track teasing you and thank you jhon by willie tee. I want to ask you how massive were those hits,those tracks in the states at the time. My dad a soul music connoisseur and record collector and used to go record searching in record crates as a young teenager in deep snow and blistering cold in the late sixties for hidden soul gems in London in the west end. I wanted to ask you about those soul hits of the mid sixties and the vibe at that time. Do you know the track the entertainer as well by Tony Clarke. The soul singers were slick back then ,had style,and were real talented . there was no digital studio gimmicks back then as they are now that are manipulated to make singers sound better than what they actually and naturally are. The youth culture influences how the kids dressed in thoes times my dad was a slick dresser and liked to wear suits and looking at these videos of the impressions and the temptations I get a liitle glimpse to what was going on.my dad Michael was a a very young teenager around this time I wish I could ask him about those times as a teenager and if he knew of this track ,as Michael my dads name the name of this track.i wish I could ask my dad about this track. It's been one year and a half since man and its deeply painful and it doesn't get any easier as the days transpire . Take care . Take care

[@1061andy]

soul !

[@oranpayne1007]

Andy Lockett No I haven't heard of those songs or the singers who sung the songs. I guess I must have either missed that one or those songs were only released overseas and not in the U.S. YOU know that some songs are only released overseas or in the U.S. and not place else. So I guess I missed those songs.

[@Paulann7326]

Hi, just stumbled on your comment about Willie Tee. That's Carolina Beach music, you can still hear them and the Tams on Myrtle Beach to this day.

[@iyana1172]

I had Michael and he sure was a lover! Xxoo

[@vernahooks2003]

Those dancers who were almost steppin were so kool!!

[@williamdrafts1719]

thats what i notice the couples on the left side!! took it over that WHITE couple that was hand dancing (thats what we call it in Baltimore Md.)they were on target

[@cassandrag3974]

I remember the song I haven't heard this song in years years oh my goodness I'm from Detroit all my goodness just remind me of the Impressions all the gold group back in the day yes love it

[@blossomgardner2297]

I am a huge Impressions/Curtis fan and never thought of this... especially the Johnny Pate muted horn sound as well as the voices... Good for you...

[@Pizzagirl917]

I used to sing this to my cousin. RIP my Michael 💕💕💕

[@annettefranklin7182]

I grew up Loving this Song. I remember the 45 record 🥰❤️

[@QueenAnitaSoul]

I Played This So Much I Love It

[@corrinesmith7741]

That's my dad in the middle

[@QueenAnitaSoul]

Is He Still Here ?

[@corrinesmith7741]

@@QueenAnitaSoul yep.

[@buckets212]

I thought the lead was Larry Brownlee, who died in 1978. Was your dad Robert Lewis, or Carl Washington?

[@radiobutch2]

VERY COOL

[@williamredding333]

Was he in the group?

[@malcolmmilliner7827]

HA...THE 60s...THANK GOD FOR THE BEAUTIFUL ART FORM CALLED MUSIC...THE GROOVE THAT OPENS THE HEART TO A HIGHER LOVE...GODS SOUND, LIGHT, AND INTELLIGENCE...I SANG IN A GROUP IN THE 60s IN CHI TOWN CHICAGO CALLED THE TRENDELLS ON THE WESTSIDE OF CHI AND THE MAGIC OF THE EXPRIENCE IS WITH ME STILL...LESSONS IN BROTHERHOOD, HARMONY AND LOVE...PREPARING ME FOR SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT...A GIFT FROM GOD...MAY THE BLESSINGS BE...BARAKA BASHAD...ECK

[@REGROY1913]

I've loved this song since I was a teenager back in 1965.

[@leejoliver]

I've known this song for decades but I'm ashamed I didn't know this was the original - great tune

[@aidansemple6355]

fantastic song and vid... love the dance moves... wonderful

[@expatmarc6611]

Cleveland, Ohio, WABQ, Mike "the lover" Payne opened his show every day, with this jam.

[@naimahkabir6108]

Yes ! I remember that but I thought it was WJMO but at any rate it was the best of times great memories

[@williamhester2976]

Exactly!! sometimes they would repeat it.

[@GoldFinger34]

@@williamhester2976what year was Mike Payne DJ-ing on WJMO? Was it when this song was out in ‘65 or later?

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

I was born in '52. This song was a pretty melody (and my name isn't Michael).

[@barrieganderton4174]

These guys were cool,great track. Geno Washington had a good crack at it also. Keep on dancing.

[@EvaMariaLucas]

C.O.D"S Michael, the LOVER :-D

[@gayleloisel703]

Forgot about this song! Love it!

[@v.hayworth9563]

For the longest time i thought the Impressions made this song.

[@Preacherboy49]

This song was the sheeitt! Man o man. This song alone when I'd cut a slice of rug on the dance floor made me certifiably cool!!! Like no other 🤣🤣🤣

[@byronstevens1035]

Another Big Smash from back in the day.

[@lenachavez1456]

Wow how iimmensely. Congraulation. Send him my best regards.

[@paulbarber9599]

Great soul record

[@jerryferko8309]

COIRRINE ............THIS TUNE ........ONE OF THE BEST OUT OF THE SOULFUL SIXTIES , THANKS TO YOUR DAD AND THE C. O. D. "S the theme song for michael " the lover " payne .............tiger radio ........W A B Q .....cleveland , ohio .............dee-jay ........... we thought we were steppin to this music at benedictine high school sock hops back in the sixties ......but we were probably doing a " faster stroll " the growing up music we had ...was the best ...thanks ILMJXXX..........this music makes u smile

[@USAtoElsewhere]

Havent heard this since they stopped playing it regularly.

[@michaelknowler3057]

My name is Michael and I am the ❤️ lover. 🎉 I am 71 years old now and I still have this 45 seven inch single. There is a British cover version by Geno Washington.

[@sjmd2613]

Played this on my record player as I did all my recordings along with "Malinda" and "Anna" long live the 60s

[@ukeggs1]

Amazing...great song..great memories

[@danjay6783]

Kids today would be sitting on the floor, tapping on cellphones as the group sang.

[@mschuman1953]

I was 12 when this came out. Middle school was hell.

[@billkelly1120]

The music I grew up, great lyrics, danceable and no bitches and hos or profanity in the lyrics.

[@debora.426]

IKR BTW That ain't music its weaponry. Its 440Hz attacks heart chakra, stimulates ANGER & RAGE. THAT'S Y SO MUCH, BLK ON BLK BLK CRIME, ALL BY DESIGN😭

[@hertstraveller]

Great song - and a great version by Geno Washington and the Ram Jam band in 1967

[@botvinnik64]

This is a sure shot hit!

[@kenmorgan6641]

Remember the COD`s They were so cool

[@mdt007]

This song is dedicated to all the Michaels of the world. I'm one too!

[@paulbarber9599]

Great talent have record in my collection

[@marcusk.6151]

My god I love this song!

[@tammyammons195]

Great beach music song here in Carolina!

[@shorelineboy]

Excellent I bought the Geno version back in the day love this as well😎

[@charlesbatts3676]

SILKY SMOOTH R&B OF THE 1960s, NOTHING LIKE IT. CLASS AND FINESE'.

[@rudieloraine]

I heard Jackie Wilson was a very cordial kind hearted person. Some friends were traveling with another group and they never forgot how nice he was. Stopped and chatted with them for a minute.

[@jdyerabasilincolinave8444]

Love this.I can understand the words

[@boomerang905]

smooth as silk

[@sharjamison3245]

Yasssssss! I agree.

[@Sheven718]

1965 was a great year for me too ! all the great motown songs came out in 65 ! happy memories

[@nadinebriggs5841]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO, I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE DANCERS IN THE BACKGROUND. SMOOTH VIDEO, NOTHING LIKE THIS NOWADAYS.