WINDJAMMER - STAY

[@lnapjr76]

Oh man...another New Orleans native here...I was a little kid when this and Groove City would put me to sleep along with other classics played by Poppa Smurf. Finding this song has made my day. Straight up classic. This is like finding a long lost friend.

[@tiffanystevens5808]

Who else is still listening to this in 2024?? ❤

[@rhondawalker6732]

{This was posted a long time ago} Yep its now 2024! I fell in Love with this Song back in the Days, and it still sounds good and brings back memories.

[@tiffanystevens5808]

@@rhondawalker6732 same here!

[@qeenhelene]

Was looking for windjammer on Spotify (you get the best of my love?) But found this and others. It’s been a minute but sounds so good!

[@tiffanystevens5808]

@@qeenheleneyes it sounds so good!

[@earlmartin100]

I am love this song brings back memories good ones😅

[@karmella72]

Formed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Windjammer comprised of: Kevin McLin (guitar / producer) Roy Paul Joseph (guitar) Chris Severin (bass) Darrell Winchester (drums) Carl Dennis (lead vocals) and Fred McCray (keyboards).

[@SimplyCiCi894]

My husband just told me that this group was from my city. I've been thinking about this song all week but didn't know the title or the name of the band. Thanks for sharing this information!!!

[@JLJ504HD]

They were discovered by Tito Jackson (J5/The Jacksons)

[@jermainemason2012]

This my Nawlins.....the 80's....dam I miss it!!!❤❤❤

[@itirajackson8028]

Carl was my neighbor across the street, so o did get all the raw from when I was younger. Fascinated then and even more when you hear this song. I also worked at XU with K. Mcklin's wife. Great people, good music!❤ Last a lifetime...

[@DexterCarter25]

Darrell Winchester is indeed one of the most talented unsung producers of all time. Here's to you Primetime!

[@reestad1]

I am crying now. I have been looking for this song for years. This is my all time favorite song.

[@tiffanystevens5808]

Mine too ❤

[@msdeedy66]

WENT TO SLEEP LISTENING TO THIS SONG ON FM 98.5 IN NEW ORLEANS ,LA WITH THE ONE AND ONLY POPPA SMURF AND MELLOW MOODS.

[@myoshisingleton2255]

I've been looking for this song for over twenty years!!!!!!!! I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will never lose it again! Great music! I really miss this kind of music!!!!!

[@andrehamilton8426]

Same here. I just found it last night. When I was young I won tickets off of this song.

[@LadyDee972]

Aweee, this is my song! It moves me every time I hear it. This track can be grooved to by every generation. I am an original New Orleanian. Proudly born and raised in the beautifully incomparable city of New Orleans. A city where we took pride in our good food, families and music. Thanks for bringing it Windjammer!

[@rolloutcarlo]

New Orleans own…Windjammer👊🏾💯

[@happywithdrawal]

i'm glad to see that everybody had the same experience finding this song! of course, in true new orleans fashion, it had to be impossible to track down! my mom and i have been searching for this for YEARS, and by chance we finally managed to find it the other day! as celebration we replayed it for HOURS! LOL

[@angelaclaverie2282]

Wow! What a beautiful song! Growing up in New Orleans was the bomb...

[@avery0704]

Yes! Where did you grow up?

[@dis504girl]

yesssssssss

[@xavier1400]

❤️❤️❤️ I love hearing these type of stories.

[@takohsNtquila]

Even after 39 years this song still gives me chills! 🥶🥺🤧

[@RegD007]

Same Here, Chills!!!🥰

[@earlmartin100]

@@takohsNtquila love this song ,girl I was dating at the time turn me on to them Karen if you see this thinking bout you

[@robertocamilo9217]

I love all the music of this band, I miss the 80's

[@RayWilliams-eu1uq]

I'm a NYer always loved this jam old School.👍🏾

[@vam3203]

OMG! I also had been looking for this song since forever. I tried to goolge the words to the song, with no luck. This is 1 of my favorite songs from my high school days. I swear I've listened to it over 75x since I found it! Thanks to WYLD FM 98 in New Orleans my playlist is complete.

[@angeladavis7639]

Likewise

[@xavierx3597]

Same here!!!👍👍👍

[@shirleysneed5833]

I did the same thing lol. I searched until I found it. Never knew who sung it. A high school song for me too

[@charlesw.clarkiii151]

Maaaan this was o e of my favorite Skate Country songs. Not to mention chillin on the Lake Front on a Sunday afternoon. I truly miss this music and songs like it. What an awesome song and group.

[@ParisNSD2010]

Clearly a NOLA resident :-) I completely identify! This reminds of how special our city is!

[@sylviabrown9819]

lol...i know right!

[@dubya504]

New Orleans own Windjammer Yall!! Put some Stank on it!!!!!

[@gfxkidfilms]

I just got back from New Orleans for my first time on tuesday, I was jamming Windjammer when I was there.

[@Bigthawk]

I was just on a quick visit to New Orleans this week to see Janet Jackson in concert and rediscovered this lost Jam playing on WYLD 98.5 at about 5:45 in the evening. Now look at the similarities, I'm from New Orleans and back home visiting for a Janet concert and hear this song again which is a New Orleans group and was managed by Joe Jackson. I tell you life is now good since hearing this again.

[@Bigthawk]

+Derek Levy New Orleans radio is the best. Had to download WYLD 98.5 on my IPad

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

RIP JOSEPH JACKSON

[@gittemal]

Man, that old school NOLA r&b was so far under radar! Living in Florida I would play this and Groove City, and people be like "who's this?" And I'd be like '"don't worry about it!" LOL!! Remembering groups like Windjammer, Chocolate Milk, Family Players, Louisiana Purchase, Jam Enterprise and AGB(All Girls Band)!

[@sylviabrown9819]

Jame Enterprise~~~ I went to school with those guys! Julius Brinston and Sam Allen, forgot the rest!

[@aragin66]

WDKX here in Rochester plays this usually every Saturday morning on their Old School Classics. I didn't know who made this..and I had to pull over to the side of the road and write the words down..then Google it. Glad I did..love this song.

[@cdltesterla]

Windjammer is the Name of the group A new orleans group

[@YungTsundere]

I live in Rochester too! I got this from wdkx

[@aragin66]

This is a constant on my mix list cds

[@101unsure]

I heard it today on WDKX I live in the ROC

[@67donnalynn]

Shout out Rochester! I guess i should start listening again to Memory Lane.

[@DEVINEJUSTICEALLAH72]

This was the joint back in the 80's.Great song!!

[@eddiefrancis06]

This is such a classic in New Orleans!!!

[@charlie-ez-brown]

Pontchartrain Park, playing every where you went, what memories.

[@funkbox1000]

im in the park right now jamming it

[@NativeAmerican10]

This is my slow skate backward s jam. I have been looking for this for 20 years. No body plays this any more. Omg yess

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

Still have this on vinyl!New Orleans forever!!

[@ernestomartinez-johnson9694]

Mr. Kevin McLin and Windjammer did it nice and smooth with this classic original New Orleans groove. Kevin McLin also served as Asst. Department Chair of Communications and actually taught Music Studio Production at Dillard University, New Orleans during the 80's when I attended and graduated from Dillard University. It was always cool to kick it with him and learn the music industry game and also hear those "Five Heartbeats" type stories LOL 504-Windjamner-4eva

[@chromael]

Damn Souldade, you made my day! Some years ago i searched high and low with no luck. I even knew the name of the group and the song, still to no avail. This stroll back in time will renew my efforts . Thanks again. PS. I think the very act of posting this song probably indicates that you knew some folks somewhere needed to hear this. .... and you were so right!

[@sylviabrown9819]

STILL A CLASSIC! THIS SONG MAKES ME SMILE!

[@nalawright9745]

This song is amazing !!! it has a 60s, 70s vibe too it ...just amazing.

[@mssue2011]

remember.... WAIL105FM it was like 78'-82' maybe thats where i used to hear all the jams back then. i miss those days

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

mssue2011 Barry Richards

[@karolandrus7068]

Omg I remember this song ...I use to sing it all the time when I was like 15 and I'm 42 now ... Hadn't heard it in forever glad I came across it on KZbin ... Luv this ole Skooll song

[@karmella72]

During 1977, Kevin McLin broke into a hotel and gave Tito Jackson, of The Jacksons, a Windjammer demo tape while riding an escalator. Two years later Jacksons' father and manager Joe Jackson signed them to his management company. A debut single 'Stay' sold well around New Orleans before the group were signed by MCA in 1982. In 1983, their first album 'Windjammer' was released.

[@MsSophia003]

I heard this song on the radio and had to find it ! Thanks!

[@Nomyndgamez]

I've been looking for this song for years. I knew some of the lyrics but no one could remember this song. I've listened to the song 5 times in the last hour! This was the JAM!!! Now only if I could get it on Spotify.

[@ladieofmagicful]

I'm hoping for the same thing

[@Notagain44]

Me too! Been looking forever!

[@MrSmith6224]

Wow!!!! I am from Indianapolis ,Indiana and I remember riding on the school bus and the bus driver would turn on the radio on the bus and this song would be playing all the time. brings back so many great memories!!!! one of the greatest and heart warming songs. make you feel good musac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks so much!!

[@juelinahaywood757]

I’m from Indy too We were lucky to have this song!

[@trentyoungersr.4478]

USA East!

[@rhondawalker6732]

Nap town in the House. Indianapolis In! USA Skating Rink East

[@67donnalynn]

OMG! I had forgot all about this song. This is THE JAM!!! Takes me so far back. In my opinion it NEVER got enough air time!

[@d.winchester5625]

Hi,you can see us perform on Top Of The Pops in London,type in Windjammer "Tossing And Turning!,,,DW,Thank You Much!So we're older but we still keep in touch with each other /all of us are going private projects!

[@salliewaredaughter]

I freaked when I heard this on the radio the other day...had to find it...Thanks!

[@rodneygoddard752]

In my top 10 slow jams!!

[@ctcmonk]

Thank You souldade... for posting that's my daddy singing lead....

[@Bigthawk]

Your daddy voice is smooth as Silk. Him and Bobby Debarge was about neck and neck.

[@ctcmonk]

+hawkins investments It's funny you say that I called him the missing debarge the other day😂... appreciate the compliment

[@Shaolin913]

Yeah he killed that. much respect

[@regie309]

Beautiful voice, beautiful song..love it

[@dellawashington27]

regina watso

[@kimmiecolton09]

I love this song they played on the radio 98.5 in New Orleans

[@tlcharle]

I've been looking for this song for 25 years; everywhere also. Great song. Thanks for posting.

[@prettykeedy03]

OH MY GOD I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG.I definitely grew up on this song being that I’m from New Orleans.

[@504Diva]

Shout out to A.D. Berry and the crew at FM98 in New Orleans for playing this song today.

[@davidmason1638]

My high school days 1980's

[@mrtapp1]

Will always treasure classic R&B groups like this. This is gooood music.

[@brucewilliams6526]

Reminds me of my days in the early 80's. Running wild in the clubs all over New Orleans. Across that canal at Mor's, The Sand Pit, The Rendezvous! and The Togetherness Lounge where they would be fights every week. Than hanging out on Claiborne at clubs like The Bottom Line, Spades, they had seats like swings at the bar, that was really cool in those days. Crystals across the street and The Basin Street Lounge, they never close, so that was our after hour spot. Then I made it to the east where Chicago's was my spot. Didn't really like Whispers but they were always crowded. Then Adeauxs came along and that was my spot until the 90's hit. I was a dancing machine in those days. So much fun.

[@charmaineholmes72]

I'm also from New Orleans I first heard this song on 98.5 also Papa smurf

[@connieestaves5316]

OMG !! how I remember this song ... Boys from the 9th ward...

[@rudygasper4069]

Yes 1 Love came from Stay

[@latishawilliams5896]

I’m so here for it Nov 2022 ❤❤❤ Ahhhhhh real music that mean something

[@seancoolredd]

Zero dislikes!!! Now that's what's up!!! Everybody digs timeless music.

[@itirajackson8028]

😊❤The lead vocalist Carl Dennis was my neighbor. This guy has a voice of the gods. I was always amazed then and even more now every time I hear this song....

[@mzmel4308]

Thanks for posting this song! Been searching for it for a long time. So many memories are attached to this song for me and I cherish them all. Shel, I miss your smiling face...

[@richardskillz2]

So very pleased to rediscover this #nola classic

[@dishingoutflavor_LowCarbStyle]

Wow I miss those days of just jamming on the lakefront

[@octarveandersonjr7175]

Noice! 80's local hit! New Orleans

[@dellawashington27]

Dmx

[@dellawashington27]

Dmx

[@joz411no8]

Haha!!! What up, Peenie! It's Joey. I had to read down the list of names to see if I knew anyone. The song popped into my head and I knew I'd find it here. I kept thinkin' Suave sang this somewhere, but I'm probably wrong. I hope ya'll are all good, brother. Much love.

[@droiduser3054]

Those damn guitar strings get me EVERYTIME! MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!

[@Nawlinsfanforlife]

St. Mary Academy school dances would play this song back in the 80's and sisters would roll up on the brothers to dance. LOL

[@marlonmanning8803]

I cried on this song for my girl to come back home😢

[@lesliemiros6743]

Riding down Chef Menteur Hwy. listening to this song for the first time since I was little .

[@pamilynbibbs9119]

I'm miss those days watching you guys practice in the back wade

[@45andFly]

This is one of the most beautiful songs from the 80s, and I wish I could find a copy to purchase. I'm happy to find it here.

[@joz411no8]

This song just randomly popped into my head. It reminded not only of how much I loved hearing it as a kid, but also how much I hated being too young to hang out with my older brother and sister. I feel like my brother sang this song live with his group, Suave. LOL

[@BeautifulMind504]

I love this song!!!! Hadn't heard it in ages. Thanks for sharing!

[@candypeach0103]

Brings back so many memories !! Reminds me of my uncles who had a sweet harmony when they sung together. All of them along with my mother and aunt would perform for any and everyone who came to visit. Missing the good old days in the N.O.

[@ladieofmagicful]

If this ever becomes available on a streaming service someone let me know. TIA

[@girraud]

I've been looking this song for a while also; everywhere actually. It is a great song. I've played it 20 million times so far. I'm about to play it 30 million more times.

[@seancoolredd]

FINALLLY!!! My search is over. I been on a mission trying to track this song down. Each time I heard it on the radio it was almost over, and the dj never announced the groups' name. Drove me crazy. Im so glad I finally found it, I LOVE THIS SONG!!! And now that I know they were formed in my hometown I love it even more.

[@MaretiaAnderson]

This song is so beautiful

[@Malik5491]

man i had know idea that this group was from New Orleans... sweet!

[@mcage98036]

Songs like these are of the past. That what the young people say, but that all I like to listen to.

[@jameshhenderson8243]

This was the song back in the day.

[@absurdism-coffee-camus]

Finally got Windjammer II on cd through amazon. I had Windjammer I & III on vinyl. I can't imagine not discovering this group on casette. Thanks for posting.

[@Brwny444]

OMG I have been looking for this song for so long, heard on radio at the age of 14 when they use to play all those really good old love song that had meaning

[@regie309]

I looked for this song for years...all I knew was the words..oh oh oh 🤣so glad I found it

[@cherharrison1413]

This is the kind of music brings back so many good memories!!! l love you Nazareth!!!

[@nicolebrown8041]

I haven't heard this song since I left WYLD....WOW!!!

[@abeenalove1931]

I can't believe this song is here!! I have searched everywhere I could possibly think of to find it. I am in your debt!! Thanks for uploading!!

[@abeenalove1931]

Same!!!!!

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

RIP Joe Jackson! Thanx for these fellas

[@karmella72]

In 1984, 'Windjammer II' featured 'Tossing And Turning', a UK Top 20 hit. The song was remixed and re-released by Debut Records in 1989. In 1985, a final album for MCA was released, entitled (you've guessed it!), 'Windjammer III'. The group have adopted a low profile since that release.

[@SimplyCiCi894]

Hi, are you a music journalist? If so, I'd like to know what and how you studied about music. Hope this message finds you well.

[@ladynastailgic]

New Orleans, the big 504, Algiers and the West Bank A.K.A Best Bank for life............really.

[@jamesdelgado6661]

you from that west bank,what ever happen to that rapper BUST DOWN!!!!

[@ladynastailgic]

sorry, James, I never heard of him. I'm not a rap fan.

[@tcollins29tc]

james delgado bust down still around doing shows n what not

[@dishingoutflavor_LowCarbStyle]

+ladynastailgic Hey just asking but where in Algiers did you come up? I lived in the Fischer. I'm just asking though.

[@tcollins29tc]

Slidell & LeBeouf St. Went to Landry til 89

[@tootie904]

So remember this song growing up as a little girl in the N.O.!!!!!!!!!

[@TheBerni740]

that's the reason. that i love soul music from the 70'th and 80 'th the voices are so sweet,

[@robertocamilo9217]

The radios nowadays only play country songs and others, I don't listen to the old songs anymore, a pity!

[@TonyDuplessis]

Before I knew this group was from New Orleans, this became one of my alltime favorites. Being from New Orleand,meeting Carl Dennis, and finding out that Windjammer was a local group was such a blessing and inspiration. Carl Dennis is just good people through and through!

[@geraldobarbosa7022]

Nice Melody!

[@AverageGenericN.O-Resident]

From Chocolate Milk to WindJammer. The official N.O blues baby.

[@Problems_Solutions4Life]

One of my all time favorites

[@BELOVETHAGREAT]

I slept on this one.A defenite classic and actually hits harder than most of the mess thats out now......I LOVE IT,!

[@darlenejacobsjohnson4674]

I am so glad I heard the DJ said who made this song one Sunday evening driving on the CCC in New Orleans.

[@keyawashington2977]

I love this song still WDKX plays it during our oldie but goodies on Saturday mornings I love this song!!!

[@ernestmyers7884]

Great song from my high school years!🔥

[@deansdesigns]

One of my absolute favorite home town groups and songs! I have both albums 😊

[@SamuelWilliamsSoulful]

I have been looking for this song for the longest!

[@CarlosHerrera117]

Man Windjammer..A Great band from New Orleans... This was my jam.. They was signed to Joe Jackson's Record Label...

[@abemcg3803]

As someone who's in his early 20's who sorta remembers this band from a rare pre-teen memory, this is one of my parent's favorite underrated band that they still remember from the 80's. My mom's favorite is Tossing & Turning. They’re not from NOLA, but resided in Memphis while listening to them.

[@tammy1792]

I love this song. Havent heard it since i was younger. Will download to my phone

[@mssue2011]

damn!!!! another long lost treasure i loved this as a kid i thought Switch sang it though. thanks for posting !!!!!!!! finally after all these years

[@loveneedandwantu]

thank you so much for posting this song. I have loved this song forever. So many great memories of high school!!!!!

[@ingriddickson7071]

Great Oldie

[@ginashine]

Still a Hit in Nov 2018 and I Love it!!

[@wilfredjones8851]

Ginai u r so right. This song is better than 95% of songs that are out today. Hands down.

[@45andFly]

This song is absolutely beautiful. I remember being in college and chillin' with this song on. Mmm mm mmm