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...
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@johnvergara2636 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Both Larry Brownlee and Robert Lewis were members of this trio. The other member was Carl Washington.
@richardleonard4281 Жыл бұрын
@@Tom-PlaylistKing-Smith thanks for the info .
@JoeyBidenmcsleepy Жыл бұрын
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.
@susanwhaley248310 ай бұрын
Oops seems like someone pointed out the wrong father in law
@judithhenderson96476 жыл бұрын
That was my husband Michael,until I got to him. And now I ‘m Mrs. Michael R.Henderson. Have been for twenty-eight years!😂
@woldoog16 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!!
@cashew5153 жыл бұрын
Don’t you have your own name? Women aren’t called Mrs whatever the man’s name is!😁😁😁
@schlomogoldstein6063 жыл бұрын
A good women will do that to a man.
@user-um6lz9hg3r7 ай бұрын
I never, ever get tired of this video. I love everything about it.
@tomgeauvreau70992 жыл бұрын
Remember this being a hit in Detroit
@Allen-xu2wvАй бұрын
A hit in New Jersey also! Like Chaz Marsh said music has no color
@robertbright20573 жыл бұрын
This song reminds me of The Impressions, I could definitely hear them singing this.
@johngreenwood81462 жыл бұрын
Yes, a take off!
@freddiebrown90752 жыл бұрын
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.
@JoeyBidenmcsleepy2 жыл бұрын
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.
@stevenlitos94162 жыл бұрын
@@JoeyBidenmcsleepy thanks for the update!
@JoeyBidenmcsleepy2 жыл бұрын
@@stevenlitos9416 np
@MichaelBentley89465 жыл бұрын
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.
@Powerfulchange7123 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@geraldthomas82412 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@rodgergilbert57902 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
That's incredible story I want to know more about that time
@Sistarful Жыл бұрын
me do; damn this new world ...shit I gotta be a spit'n fire DINO_SAW_ESSEEZZZZzzzzzz!!!! LOL
@MauriceHolmes-ko8cn Жыл бұрын
HEY so did my BROTHER
@deborjhablackwell61624 жыл бұрын
This was seriously popular in DC when I was in high school. The boys in my classes would sing it in the halls. ❤️
@corlisslowery48352 жыл бұрын
Yazzzzz those were the days
@nirkann2 жыл бұрын
In elementary school for me in D.C. One I'm sure we heard on WOL!
@PapaEli-pz8ff2 жыл бұрын
It was also very popular in NYC during that same period 🎶👍🏾
@USAtoElsewhere2 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@USAtoElsewhere that would be awesome! ALL types of music 👍🏿❤️
@michaelwilks62682 жыл бұрын
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.
@mrstanbmw8 жыл бұрын
Larry Brownlee later joined another group out of Chicago Lost Generation and wrote their smash hit. Sly, Slick and the Wicked.
@beverlyhoward3512 Жыл бұрын
Things were sooooooooo different ❤❤❤❤
@michaeljrender124710 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
great song
@Richnsoul4 жыл бұрын
Often heard at the London 100 Club All Niters back in the day . Keep the Faith pure class. R
@juanitawoods889911 ай бұрын
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!!
@deborahcouncil2146 жыл бұрын
This was one of my late grandmother's favorite songs
@muddy449210 ай бұрын
This was My Grandaddy Song R.I.P Michael Porter 😎💪🏾🙏🏾🖤💙🔱💯💯 #Chicago
@JoeyBidenmcsleepy2 жыл бұрын
Jesus, they are so beautiful, my heart skips a beat with nostalgia got damn this is beautiful im finna cry.
@rosendamoore9378 Жыл бұрын
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!
@fd108014 жыл бұрын
I used to hear this on WIBG in Philadelphia in early 1966
@CatherineRhoadsNC1444 жыл бұрын
wow! Flashback!
@irishpatti27364 жыл бұрын
Frank DiSalle Hy~Lit was My Favorite DJ 🍀😇🍀
@fd108014 жыл бұрын
@@irishpatti2736 And Joe Niagara!
@bobwatson11624 жыл бұрын
And Georgie Woods on WDAS.AM
@aaronharris29116 жыл бұрын
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
@midnightflower78203 жыл бұрын
I was 4yrs old in 1965, I remember this song when I was a little girl, so many memories ☺
@tueremwandishi89686 ай бұрын
I was too!! ☺️
@ldav2006Ай бұрын
Loveit! Great song! Miss the 60's. Glad to be around at 76!!!
@yolandawray71533 жыл бұрын
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
@DetroitLives3134 жыл бұрын
This one was my 8th Grade teacher and basketball coach's favorite record. Dedicated to the late, great Michael Jones!
@josephharris60627 жыл бұрын
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!!!!!
@irishpatti27364 жыл бұрын
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 🍀😇🍀
@vaughnchauncy83609 ай бұрын
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
@kathylewis61772 жыл бұрын
I was in elementary school when this song was released. Good memories! Thanks.
@nelsonrasmussen69424 жыл бұрын
Man! I haven't heard this song in YEARS! It's great!
@waynejackson31622 жыл бұрын
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.
@theresadavis395610 ай бұрын
I was 9 when this record came out …. I loved it … and my youngest sons name is MICHAAEL 😂
@glannapolisteam86818 жыл бұрын
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!
@basbury15 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Jr. High. Great tune!
@TJSzabo-wh4fj6 жыл бұрын
OMG, Remember dancing at Wagner's Ballroom with Jerry Blavet. I'm a kid again listening to this. Fantastic!!
@bobwatson11625 жыл бұрын
Big record in Philly
@kpitt12045 жыл бұрын
T.J. Szabo, it really must have been a great time. I’ve heard stories. I heard that Wagner’s attracted the best dancers.
@CatherineRhoadsNC1444 жыл бұрын
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!
@77cobaltblue3 жыл бұрын
Philly in the House!
@williamredding3333 жыл бұрын
Chez-Vous & Wagner's were the hot spots!
@kentcarmona95215 жыл бұрын
You have good ears that is THE IS THE CHICAGO SOUND
@byronbenguche2 жыл бұрын
This was a staple on WKKC with Sweet Smooth Steve my late mom used to listen to him
@alanfair44155 жыл бұрын
Transcendent soul, on those moves, those voices, those moments
@monicabella78943 жыл бұрын
& SOUND
@shirleymuhammad8936 Жыл бұрын
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.
@quentinkirk38708 жыл бұрын
Only Heard this Song Twenty minutes Ago on V-103 and it's already one of my favorites.
@calvinjackson5385 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. These guys made some great moves. Love the song. Still have the 45!
@debora.426 Жыл бұрын
WOW REALLY, IMPRESSIVE
@michaelknowler3057 Жыл бұрын
I am 71 years old now. And I still have the 45 seven inch single.
@beverlyhoward35123 жыл бұрын
I remember michael pain,Would always start his show with this song WJMO SHOUT OUT CLEVELAND OHIO Love them days
@beverlyhoward18243 жыл бұрын
Wjmo radio station Cleveland Back in the Day, Michael Pain theme song♥️
@williamhester29762 жыл бұрын
So true I remembered that
@alandhopewell2 жыл бұрын
When we were little, I told my younger brother Michael that the song was about him.
@cherylrobinson67182 жыл бұрын
Just stared Jr. High, love this song, DJ Mike Payne played this when he came on the air in Cleveland
@danielgadzinski3643 Жыл бұрын
Discovered this wonderful gem this morning on Sirius Xm SoulTown. What a beautiful tune, gives me such Motown vibes 💗
@miketheshanmanmangan3 жыл бұрын
Truly The Sound of THE WINDY CITY CHICAGO!
@anniedarlasson20842 жыл бұрын
Danced to this at the goldhawk club shepherds bush .love it still.
@lolanthecornelius59804 жыл бұрын
As a youngster, I love listening to the old records. With my older sisters.
@almclambsr9953 жыл бұрын
I'm 59yrs old and I remember my two sisters playing that record over and over i was only 3 years old then 1965
@richardleonard42818 жыл бұрын
Never heard this before, great tune! And all the dancers are excellent!
@cathstubbs48306 жыл бұрын
what a pleasure to see these old videos of northern !!
@jimy080310 жыл бұрын
Those ol' scholl groups were soooo smooth and polished. I really enjoyed this video!
@1computernew6 жыл бұрын
Me, too. I watch it over and over and over.
@deborahbrown64085 жыл бұрын
@@1computernew Me too!! It makes me want to dance, ahh, to be young again😘🎶💓🎶❤️🌟❤️
@QueenAnitaSoul4 жыл бұрын
Me 2
@davidgreen7024 Жыл бұрын
Still Sounds good today.
@jeanetteomidvar74202 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I named my son after this record!! Always loved it.
@jrgardmore3 жыл бұрын
This was the 1st 45 record I bought as a young teenager. (That and “Cool Jerk” by the Capitols)
@gayleloisel7033 жыл бұрын
Love Cool Jerk!!!
@oranpayne10078 жыл бұрын
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.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😉😂😂😉😉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@robertoday75267 жыл бұрын
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
@1061andy7 жыл бұрын
soul !
@oranpayne10077 жыл бұрын
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.
@Paulann73267 жыл бұрын
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.
@iyana11728 жыл бұрын
I had Michael and he sure was a lover! Xxoo
@vernahooks20035 жыл бұрын
Those dancers who were almost steppin were so kool!!
@williamdrafts17197 ай бұрын
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
@cassandrag39743 жыл бұрын
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
@blossomgardner22973 жыл бұрын
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...
@Pizzagirl9172 жыл бұрын
I used to sing this to my cousin. RIP my Michael 💕💕💕
@annettefranklin71824 ай бұрын
I grew up Loving this Song. I remember the 45 record 🥰❤️
@QueenAnitaSoul4 жыл бұрын
I Played This So Much I Love It
@corrinesmith77414 жыл бұрын
That's my dad in the middle
@QueenAnitaSoul4 жыл бұрын
Is He Still Here ?
@corrinesmith77414 жыл бұрын
@@QueenAnitaSoul yep.
@buckets2124 жыл бұрын
I thought the lead was Larry Brownlee, who died in 1978. Was your dad Robert Lewis, or Carl Washington?
@radiobutch23 жыл бұрын
VERY COOL
@williamredding3333 жыл бұрын
Was he in the group?
@malcolmmilliner78273 жыл бұрын
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
@REGROY19133 жыл бұрын
I've loved this song since I was a teenager back in 1965.
@leejoliver8 жыл бұрын
I've known this song for decades but I'm ashamed I didn't know this was the original - great tune
@aidansemple6355 Жыл бұрын
fantastic song and vid... love the dance moves... wonderful
@expatmarc66114 жыл бұрын
Cleveland, Ohio, WABQ, Mike "the lover" Payne opened his show every day, with this jam.
@naimahkabir61084 жыл бұрын
Yes ! I remember that but I thought it was WJMO but at any rate it was the best of times great memories
@williamhester2976 Жыл бұрын
Exactly!! sometimes they would repeat it.
@GoldFinger34Ай бұрын
@@williamhester2976what year was Mike Payne DJ-ing on WJMO? Was it when this song was out in ‘65 or later?
@Unfamous_Buddha2 жыл бұрын
I was born in '52. This song was a pretty melody (and my name isn't Michael).
@barrieganderton41744 жыл бұрын
These guys were cool,great track. Geno Washington had a good crack at it also. Keep on dancing.
@EvaMariaLucas9 жыл бұрын
C.O.D"S Michael, the LOVER :-D
@gayleloisel7033 жыл бұрын
Forgot about this song! Love it!
@v.hayworth95635 жыл бұрын
For the longest time i thought the Impressions made this song.
@Preacherboy4910 ай бұрын
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 🤣🤣🤣
@byronstevens10359 жыл бұрын
Another Big Smash from back in the day.
@lenachavez14563 жыл бұрын
Wow how iimmensely. Congraulation. Send him my best regards.
@paulbarber95992 жыл бұрын
Great soul record
@jerryferko83093 жыл бұрын
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
@USAtoElsewhere3 жыл бұрын
Havent heard this since they stopped playing it regularly.
@michaelknowler3057 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Played this on my record player as I did all my recordings along with "Malinda" and "Anna" long live the 60s
@ukeggs13 жыл бұрын
Amazing...great song..great memories
@danjay67835 жыл бұрын
Kids today would be sitting on the floor, tapping on cellphones as the group sang.
@mschuman19534 жыл бұрын
I was 12 when this came out. Middle school was hell.
@billkelly11206 жыл бұрын
The music I grew up, great lyrics, danceable and no bitches and hos or profanity in the lyrics.
@debora.426 Жыл бұрын
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😭
@hertstraveller2 жыл бұрын
Great song - and a great version by Geno Washington and the Ram Jam band in 1967
@botvinnik645 жыл бұрын
This is a sure shot hit!
@kenmorgan66417 жыл бұрын
Remember the COD`s They were so cool
@mdt0072 ай бұрын
This song is dedicated to all the Michaels of the world. I'm one too!
@paulbarber95992 жыл бұрын
Great talent have record in my collection
@marcusk.61518 жыл бұрын
My god I love this song!
@tammyammons1955 жыл бұрын
Great beach music song here in Carolina!
@shorelineboy6 жыл бұрын
Excellent I bought the Geno version back in the day love this as well😎
@charlesbatts36767 жыл бұрын
SILKY SMOOTH R&B OF THE 1960s, NOTHING LIKE IT. CLASS AND FINESE'.
@rudieloraine Жыл бұрын
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.
@jdyerabasilincolinave84449 жыл бұрын
Love this.I can understand the words
@boomerang9057 жыл бұрын
smooth as silk
@sharjamison32457 жыл бұрын
Yasssssss! I agree.
@Sheven7187 жыл бұрын
1965 was a great year for me too ! all the great motown songs came out in 65 ! happy memories
@nadinebriggs5841 Жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS VIDEO, I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE DANCERS IN THE BACKGROUND. SMOOTH VIDEO, NOTHING LIKE THIS NOWADAYS.