Brick House - The Commodores | The Midnight Special

The Commodores appeared November 9, 1979
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[@1313s]

Old school at it's highest level of Commodores brick house gold

[@skooter72]

Lionel on sax!

[@Dan-nt2yb]

I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾 Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️

[@rideon1956]

1963 and yes

[@bmw3842]

August of 1962 I was born, you are absolutely correct. We got in at the right time

[@lloydmoss217]

Class of 62 year as well… That will never be repeated on network television… Especially not lip sync

[@JonathanStarks-z6o]

November 1962 here- '70's was a great era for music!

[@kevingoins9858]

Drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange on lead vocals. He was the chief songwriter of this classic.

[@SongmanKK]

Not really, it was written by all six Commodores, look at the song credits.

[@ScottWozniak]

1:47 Even the women dancing are making the "stank" face! 😂 Lionel Richie on sax! Great stuff! 👍🏻

[@TheSunTheSea]

Can we make America Great again? These were the glory days! Let’s go back!

[@ChedricBigby]

I agree 💯 if we can go back til 1979 right now😊

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

Saw them when Lionel was the sax guy back in the late 70's👍🏼🇺🇸🥃

[@deathproofpony]

Ronald LaPread is killing it on bass.

[@Heretic_Hero]

He’s miming it. You can tell in the beginning of the song. He stops playing for a sec and bass keeps going. Camera catches it.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Great funk song! You couldn't stop people from dancing when this song was played at dances and in clubs, myself included! 😎🔥

[@Sincopare]

Still the best roller skating song of all time. At the right rink, with serious sound and lights, I'm right back in the 80s.

[@OzMan9989]

They don’t make em this anymore! Pure energy and soul!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body. Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏 Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃

[@that70sgirl90]

Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤ Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@StephanieJeanne]

😅Yes, the roller rink as well as dance floors! 🙌😎✌️

[@that70sgirl90]

@@StephanieJeanne Absolutely! 👌

[@davidryder3374]

I wonder if kids even go to roller rinks any more? Our elementary school even had a monthly skating party night! Great memories.

[@terrorhero-h9y]

Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!

[@robertjaime6808]

The Commodores were the BEST funk/ soul band during the 1970’s, they just had style & a great sound!

[@LOV2ROK]

Wow,didn’t know Lionel played saxophone 🎷

[@mando7558]

me neither, very talented man

[@kevingoins9858]

Yup. Doubled on keyboards and sax.

[@bennyscissorhands6477]

he can dance on the ceiling too!!!😂😂😂

[@tomh9315]

Eddie Money too

[@mbrownie22]

@@bennyscissorhands6477good one and all night long too

[@JerjerB]

I saw Lionel Richie perform with Tina Turner and it was that most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my life.

[@Gatorbaitress]

YES!!!!! Shook my booty to this song many, many times!!

[@gilbertcarrizales7592]

It’s impossible to sit while this song is playing!

[@jorgeponce5512]

Couldn't agree more.

[@SongmanKK]

The peak of fun, with one of the hardest funk songs ever, a supreme live performance and several willing beautiful women in the audience.

[@alexvideoediciones]

I have no words to describe the emotion to watch this 70's material in so very high Quality! Thank you very much!!!

[@Jeffrey.Seelman]

This is great stuff. Too cool for School. I grew up listening to bands like this.

[@adrianlyord5300]

The mighty mighty Commodores!!!! Definitely one the greatest Funk Bands of all time!

[@davidwilliams5497]

1:40 Bass player forgets they’re supposed to be pretending to play the song and just starts dancing. Guitar does same thing a few seconds later. 😂

[@svzoom12]

The audio is from the Commodores Live album Why you hear their voices before they even arrive on the stage. Program television for ya. Still a bad ass band and an awesome flashback shake it down 💃🏽🕺🏽 They performed 'Grease' with Frankie Valley on this same episode.

[@gogoyubari366]

My favorite Commodores song!

[@crlaw75]

Nice to see a clip of Lionel with a saxophone here.

[@lunnouxhinds8464]

One of the best bands ever.

[@michaeldean9338]

Whether it was Rock, Soul/Funk, Country or Pop, these were the days when music was MUSIC! PERFORMED (often written/arranged) by MUSICANS that played their INSTRUMENTS and sung without all the 'doctoring' and filtering.!! ALL of this seemed to have vanished at the beginning of the '80s. With very few exceptions today, the late '60s through the '70s was the last period of actual BANDS! Damned computers and 'music'-kits (and a few other things) brought this type of entertainment -- and venues (Kirshner, Midnight) to a screeching halt! I Remember watching this. Salute to venues like Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Sound Stage and Austin City Limits. This magical era of MUSIC is LONG gone! Learn to either play an INSTRUMENT (or sing), dammit!

[@Ibrian8888]

Keep them coming! Thanks mr Sugarman!

[@FPSOP57]

They are miming to the track from their 1977 Commodores Live album.

[@michaelschmidt9708]

The groove in this one just KILLS!

[@brianvasko5048]

If this doesn't get you movin', you're friggin dead! 😅

[@flicewatter]

How Awesome is that.! 😎

[@tommcgeethree]

Now that's a party. Oh yeah. 😎🍺👍

[@Mungo10]

I liked how they even played the fade out.

[@inconsiderate_weasel]

and without a drummer

[@CJHarrison87]

Classic from 1979! ❤️‍🔥

[@Belexes]

The guy behind the drums is so good, he's invisible. 😂

[@claudiofuentes3388]

FUNK!!!! The Commodores... Sublime!!!

[@The_momur]

I love this song!

[@JeraldPlunkett-lg3ro]

Awesome song. GREAT BAND

[@tonycanabal1659]

It sounded "live" but they are lipsyncing to the live version of the song that was on their live album.

[@terrorhero-h9y]

Just the prelude, they weren’t not lip syncing at all

[@daviddealaman]

@@terrorhero-h9yyes they are. There is no drummer either. Not hard to see

[@mrbeefhead]

now this was entertainment!

[@lynnjames6629]

Nice‼️💯🎶🙂💃🏻🕺🏻

[@XNTN808]

when this song comes on the sound system at Walmart everybody stops and listens up....

[@KittyGrizGriz]

& starts dancing down the “soul train” aisle 🎉 😅

[@fmaykallb]

great song

[@JacquesTreehorn]

I did not know Lionel Richie was a sax player. Must be a multiple instrumentalist like Prince. I have seen him on the piano. It was cool seeing Jeff Skunk Baxter shredding the congas on the Steely Dan stuff. I thought he was just a guitar player.

[@glennhfriedman4571]

slamming to this second .. Old Lionel play ing the sax ..... College friends too. ...

[@BC99]

Feel good music.

[@GerardoMendez-p9c]

Es otro clásico gracias por compartir estos éxitos 80s recuerdo de juventud

[@damamae950]

Awesome

[@amilcarodrigues]

This is funk!!

[@charlielaudico3523]

I used to watch that show on Friday nite

[@RickyLangley]

"Brick House" is a song from the Commodores' 1977 self-titled album (released as Zoom in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the UK Singles Chart. Lionel Richie stated that the song's title is a play on the expression "built like a brick shithouse," referring to a strongly built woman.

[@ailtonsantos6449]

Música de verdade instrumental de verdade vozes humanas ao Groove 👍🏾😅

[@gregoryg3256]

🌠Oh Yeah !!!

[@edwardrojo7175]

I wish this was LIVE.

[@ChickenLittle956]

Had to get up and dance!

[@vandalorianvandalorian4769]

From Sax to leading man, The Rich Lion!

[@stephaniecannon410]

Aww❤❤"Commodore's."🍓

[@christinopessoa2145]

Lendários!!!!!!!!!

[@The_momur]

Tasty bass!

[@slide_drexler]

My People carry on! DANG!

[@rosaatuprodutorasnegras1956]

Impecável.

[@ELIOSANFELIU]

Have a good time¡¡¡Cool¡¡

[@theevn7]

Legends

[@johnstrawberriusfields]

next time they should try having a drummer play to the canned track :)

[@josehenrymarchenamatarrita3854]

Cálidad de grupo el mejor

[@Shoem999]

Wait a minute, L Richie on the sax? Damn how did I not know this.

[@robertjovitaoperton7061]

The bass is thumping! As the bass is thumping it starts thumping again!

[@LP23D6]

I didn't realize Lionel played sax.

[@gregoryduncan3067]

Maybe TMS will upload them and Frankie Valli doing Grease together. That would be insane.

[@kevingoins9858]

Yes!!

[@StephanieJeanne]

Do you know something we don't? Did they actually do that on one of the episodes?

[@gregoryduncan3067]

@@StephanieJeanne They did! Frankie and Lionel did a duet. They've actually released that clip before on one of their DVD collections.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@gregoryduncan3067 Wow! I'd love to see that!

[@cavernaheavysound896]

Lionel ❤❤❤

[@rgs4x]

No auto tune here! Didn't know that Lionel Richie played the sax!

[@2541ErGeFo]

Announcer sounds like Wolfman Jack?

[@kevingoins9858]

It is!

[@nb7466]

I always thought Lionel sang that song

[@gregoryduncan3067]

I think he has sung it. He sings everything else they do.

[@christianman73]

@@gregoryduncan3067 Lionel *did not* sing everything else that the Commodores did. He sang the ballads and some up-tempo songs, but Walter "Clyde" Orange also sang lead on more than a few of their up-tempo songs. He was definitely the right choice for this song, because his voice is more gritty and funky than Lionel's.

[@christianman73]

Nb7466, this is Walter "Clyde" Orange on this song. He also sang lead for some other Commodores songs on their albums. It always surprises me when people think that Lionel sang this song, because the vocal doesn't sound anything like him! 🙂

[@gregoryduncan3067]

@@christianman73 It would have worked just as well with Lionel on the vocals.

[@christianman73]

@@gregoryduncan3067 We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Lionel's voice is great, and I love it, but it's not as funky as Walter's, and "Brick House" is a hardcore funk song. It was made for Walter to sing.

[@ChristopherLaw-qv4ou]

They must all be grandparents

[@gfunk1506]

where is the drum track coming from?

[@Tapoutkingg]

Where's the drummer on Brick House?

[@davidfernleigh]

Is that Wolfman Jack as MC?

[@stevejones6247]

I didn't know that Lionel played the sax

[@peacefrog0521]

Shikhar Dha Shikhar Dha Shikhar Dhawan 🏏 Shikhar Dha Shikhar Dha Shikhar Dhawan 🏏

[@BobGeogeo]

Miming it but having fun. No drummer or mics on the horns.

[@hihats]

I didn't know Lionel played sax

[@Payne_Inc.]

Mannn if only Lionel had stayed with them. They sho wuz FUNKY!

[@davidemanuel3982]

Damn always thought Lionel song this

[@damamae950]

Nothin' better than this

[@krisscanlon4051]

Wish they would of stayed a band and evolved with Walt and Richie...good leaders. The sum and parts saying...take Jagger out of the Stones its not the same

[@xxphactor]

Who's playing drums?

[@Joel-j3t]

I didnt but IT made sens

[@johnshields6852]

I was 19 huge rock fan but they made some great music too, this was around the time of disco sucks chants.

[@jamesgraham3116]

That was a lip sync, but it was still fun.

[@icecream9576]

it s not live because the drummer is si nging in front and no drummer behind

[@scottwhitt9379]

And people think Slipknot has a lot of members. Odd ending,

[@essiejames9492]

Walter was as good as Lionel just didn't get the recognition

[@saulcontreras4287]

RHCP grandpas

[@someguydino6770]

I met the woman that these guys are singing about once ; but she was "all about money" so it was not to be

[@bingeltube]

Poor sound quality!

[@mattdylan664]

lionel richie was one badass mofo in his day

[@edwardprice140]

2024 Adjusted for inflation she's 36-24-46