No joke when I worked in Best Buy years ago after school I would use this song for audio demos. I can’t tell u how many bookshelf speakers/receivers/ soundbars I’ve sold cause of this song. This song payed for my paycheck as a kid. Its timeless
I was a teen all through the nineties when sampling was a huge thing for 90s music snd my dad being a HUGE music guy and lover of ALL genres of music would always be quick to say “you know this is from another song right?” And he would always show me the original. RIP Wes 1949-2002. You taught me so much and I miss and love you everyday. This literally takes me back to the 90s and the feeling of nostalgia I had for my dad’s time if that makes sense. Double whammy!!!!
Thanks for sharing your lovely memories. I hope that my musical legacy to my kids will be the same. Good music doesn't have to have a genre and I have always enjoyed how 90s music paid homage to past greats. I have to say though that I cannot hear this original without hearing 'Summer, summer, summertime, Time to sit back and unwind'! Will Smith might have thought 'The smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia' but a few notes of a good tune can do the same.
That's pretty cool, having those memories with your dad... Music lives forever, Everytime you hear something I bet you just smile like, "I know my dad would approve of this"... 😁 Keep jamming, this one's a classic
Listening to this with a proper headset... you can literally hear how the vibes quickly switch from the right to the left ear. Like a wave softly splashing on your ears. Amazing.
This song makes me think of my daddy. He used to lay on the floor with the record player and the big ole black speakers and play this song. I can hear the sound from the speakers. When he was in hospice the day before he died, we had a spa day. I remember shaving his beard and cleaning his nails and this came on. He couldn’t speak anymore, but we shared a special moment . What lovely memories I will always hold. I love you daddy, love PoPo❤❤
How could I forget? This song meant summer for me. A time to buy that bikini, hot pants and hip hugger jeans. This was a song to smoke weed and drink wine in the park after eating steamed crabs in Washington D.C back in my day
@@tripcode1722Baby Boomers - 1946-1961 (oldest boomer was 28 when this came out, youngest was 13) Gen X - 1965-1980 (oldest Gen X was nine) Millennial/Gen Y - 1981-1996 Gen Z - 1997-2012 Gen Alpha - 2013-2028 5 generations.
@@SirGoat-wr9ky no guarantee there weren't some older folks of the silent generation enjoying it either too lol they were between 28-45 when it came out
@@georgemartinez3684 somebody could have it playing in their home stereo with the windows open or parked cars in their neighborhood.. You can picture this song playing in the neighborhood..the 1970's.. beautiful summer evening in New York, the sun setting.. kids playing & riding their bikes through the streets.. True nostalgia
My cousin was a DJ and after every show/party, he'd play this and I'd walk around and check his speakers and subs to make sure he didn't burst nothing... I lost cuz almost 3 years ago 🤕 but I can still feel him and hear him thru certain songs.. 1 time for DJ Chuckie So Fresh 💪🏽😎💙 I miss u and I love u cuz
I get what you mean completely but I’m only 20, this song’s too old to sound nostalgic for any time I was alive. Makes me wish I could just spend a day in the 70s though. My dad was 16 when this came out, I’m so jealous of him sometimes lmfao
Man...I remember my granny used to bump this 24/7 in the car when I was little. I would be in the backseat just daydreaming away lol.....not caring about where we were going so as long as she kept the AC blasting and the music loud. Hey y’all? We’re blessed to grow up on music like this fr...I mean it shapes the entire way you move through life.
I love the mother and the daughter. If they are consensual. Anyway, your granny had a lot of taste for good music. I mean... 24/7, maybe, is a little to much... but, with this stuff in the sound system, the point is made clear enough.
Honestly, this could still almost pass for a modern indie/synthwave/chillout track in 2021. It's amazing how much ahead of its time this particular track was. 😮
I first heard this song when I moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. The local FM radio stations were playing it. I remember spending the night at my new girlfriend's apartment. Her name was Cherie. She was in the bathroom, the lights were turned down low, and I was waiting for her to come to bed as this song was playing softly on the radio. It was a good moment, and it was a good song for that moment.
It's a shame the general public only remembers Kool & the Gang for Celebration. Honestly I think this is their best song hands down. No other song I've found by anyone has given me the vibes this song does. It's just so special and unique.
I would not consider this their best work, but it is most certainly an underrated work, as is the entire album that it came from, and it also proves that they can play music with meaning equally as well as they can with making it with both music and singing, Bernie Boy.
I heard this first in the original ROCKY. During the Pandemic it was a hot summer and I was home and chatting in a group chat. I followed up on this song and we all sat back and chilled.
My Best Friend turned me onto this Jam, when we were 6 his dad had it on Wax,,I'm 50 now an he is Gone ,,,RIP Frankie not a day goes by I dont think about you Bro ✊🏽🙏
I absolutely adore this beautiful instrumental!!!! Back in the 70's I participated in Beauty Pageants. In the first one I was selected Miss Talent, in the second one I didn't receive anything but in the third one I was voted Miss Congeniality and the title Miss Black Fincastle in Virginia. I performed a creative modern dance routine to SUMMER MADNESS. I will always love this Masterpiece of music along with the memories it provides ❤ ❤
I'm soon to be 70 and this was the lick..life was good.. At 20 I was living life. That's what time it was no drugs... definitely no drugs for this Oakland native...
This was the cutting edge, where soul met synth, where funk was the introduction to digital new era using synthesizers and keyboards and expanding soulful expressions over all dimentions, physical and digital. This is some of the most connected music ever made, soul connected. Thank the universe for this song, it's made my life better for hearing it. Put me in that lay back and fire up a fatty, and close my eyes...
Gage, when I first heard this song I guessed it was recorded in 1981. Utterly shocked beyond belief to find this to be a 1974 recording. I always thought I could tell the early/mid 70s sound from the early 80s sound. I'm stumped. My whole belief system has been challenged.
@audiosamples Yeah, but how do you explain that this is even a cleaner recording than Van McCoys the Hustle? When I hear the Hustle, or I dunno, More More More, it totally has a stained '70s sound. I feel this recording is very transparent. Why weren't theirs? Sorry to be a pain.
This tune haunts me like no other. It is so deep in my memories and it always makes me miss the time when we were all so into music, life and each other. The 70's and 80's gave us a life of magic that may never come our way again. I miss it more than words can say.
This song was always playing at the mall while I would buy soft pretzels and lemonade during the summer. Now as soon as I hear it, I can almost smell that fake butter smell of soft pretzels and hear the arcade around the corner from the pretzel place. It's such a specific association, but it always happens as soon as I hear this song. I miss that carefree freedom.
Grand theft auto vice city days!!!! I miss that time in the world. Everything made sense and was perfect to me😅. I was only 13 so what did I know lol. And older version of myself is screaming stay a kid for as long as you can. I know you guys are gonna relate to what I’m saying. Ice cream with ya family days not knowing you would grow up and miss it as much as you do. I’m 34 now and this takes me back for 4 mins and some change to my childhood. Thank you gang!!!!
Just recently I was going through my video library and started watching Rocky. This track comes out at the beginning of the movie when Rocky comes home after a fight. As the scene was unfolding with this track playing in the background, I got goosebumps. It’s amazing the effect that music can have on our state of mind. This timeless classic by Kool And The Gang is proof of that.
Foreal there’s all those types of people u show these songs to and they’re just like wtf? This shits legit can’t believe anyone would wanna diss such a dope track
As I am typing this, I’m living life, just graduated high school, being single at 19 and given the circumstances that my culture gets married very young, and I don’t regret dating or marrying anyone right now, and I couldn’t be happier with myself. This summer been treating me good so far, by far one of my best summers ever! Summer 2021! Plus, this song adds more of a feeling of freedom. 🤙🏽
When I hear this track, tears of joy and pain literally fall from my face. It brings back years of so many memories of lost loved ones, summertime block parties back in Brooklyn, New York and of course couples only skate at the roller rink. So beautifully composed and arranged. A timeless classic. Thank you Kool & The Gang.
One of the best instrumentals of all time jazz , fusion, easy listening all into one with great baseline, guitar and keyboards, why has no one cone near to making tracks like this
I was 7 when this track came out back in the 70's. And it still sounds so fresh in 2019. It takes me to another world. It makes me feel 20 years younger listening to this track.
When my Dad would pick up my sister and I on the weekends after my parents divorced in the late 70s, he would pick us up after he got off of work on Friday's. We lived in San Francisco/Daly City border and he lived in the East Bay in Concord and he would play this song when we'd drive across the Bay Bridge. The memories I have of this song (and album because he recorded his records on cassette (remember those?!) of listening to this song while watching the city lights, cars zooming past, boats on the Bay, lights from Alcatraz is all I see whenever I hear this song. The power of music is real.I also think it's funny that the only Will Smith song I like (post DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince) is 'Summertime'. I was lucky enough to have a Dad who listened to all kinds of music.
I had this on repeat in my Cadillac on a rare, wet and rainy Friday night driving through the west side of LA and I felt blessed to be able to have this experience 🙏🏾
Here in Detroit in the 80's, WNIC 100.3 had a segment called "Pillow Talk," hosted by the late, great Alan Almond. His deep, soothing voice and this song he always started the show off with this song... Plus I remember all the other soft rock songs he played on that show ... Man, takes me right back to bedtime in my childhood. Cozy little bungalow in our cute little neighborhood on the east side, summer time, windows opens, warm breeze blowing the curtains, the sounds and smells of summer evenings blowing in with the breeze, listening to this as I drift off to sleep. Good stuff. ❤️
Definitely remember Alan Almond's "Pillow Talk"...I recall he played a lot of Christopher Cross tunes. I grew up east side Detroit too, around Alter/Jefferson near Grosse Pointe-Detroit border. Good memories.
This song hit me like a dump truck yesterday and only managed to find it with some help today, and vague memories of Pillow Talk hit me. I couldn't remember the name or the name of the segment but I'd always listen to Pillow Talk while winding down for the night as a kid. Good times.
No words, no story. Just music letting you go to a place in your mind. At any point in the song, the band could've broken into a show off fest of solos, but instead they kept the vibe going. This music works so perfectly for many situations. Perfect for when you're with someone you love, or completely alone. You can tell the band was really feeling it too.
So far I heard this song in: Vice City( Fever 105), Boyz n the hood trailer, Rocky, Baby Boy, Tony hawk and when Izzy Adesanya used it as his walk out. I can't escape it!
Que rico leer los comentarios en inglés y ver que no importa el idioma que hablemos o de donde seamos, esta canción nos hace sentir lo mismo a todos. Saludos desde México.
Saludos amigo, así es!, que importa el idioma si la música no tiene fronteras, y está mucho menos porque es una joya bellísima, y también es como para escucharla entre amigos de todas las naciones..Te mando un gran saludo también desde la Baja California Norte..
In a thousand years I hope we still have Summer Madness - a classic from the 20th Century X Hello by the way - if you're reading this in the 32nd Century - do you like this music?
Ahhhh, the good old days where you didn't even NEED any words and the song STILL told a story! The music alone grabbed a hold of you and took you places mentally! Listen to the instrumentation on this track! So soothing how these brothas just got together and jammed out to produce this timeless classic!
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No joke when I worked in Best Buy years ago after school I would use this song for audio demos. I can’t tell u how many bookshelf speakers/receivers/ soundbars I’ve sold cause of this song. This song payed for my paycheck as a kid. Its timeless
cleverrrrrr
Game Changer - You had a gift to know this and be Blessed !
easy win
Smart af. You earned that check!
Give this man a raise.
The vibe of this song is unreal. Ahead of it's time.
It did, and I was there
This was way up my street back then
Nope it was in it's time
Retrospective
pls suggest us some music like this
Rockstar Presents: GTA VI
God I hope so.
seems like they'll just remake gta v till the end of times lol
Its vice city
would be so cool
“Stop.......don’t give me hope.....”
This is exactly what the 70s would translate to in music. So mellow. So many memories. This song will never die.
YES!!! What a time!!
This song was decades ahead of its time. Insane how much this passes the vibe check almost 50 years later
Better believe it 🙂
Omg bmusic
Yes, Great music never dies.
What do you mean with ahead of its time? Like music gets progressively better or worse with time? It doesn't work like that
Exactly Brooke.
A moment of silence for those who still haven't found this song.
searched almost all the GTA Vice City songs to find this
Took me 2 years to find this song omg
Looked at a lebron commercial to find this
Unoriginal comment. Try again
@@joshuabowden5626 lol! Rip bowden boys Chicago IL!
Thanks to GTA Vice City for showing me this masterpiece. A track ahead of its time, and such a vibe!
Yea
San Andreas not Vice City
@@SteveJobs1216 hi! This song was on Fever 105, a radio station from GTA VC.
@@juangrifoni yes...VC made you feel like you were in the 80s....along with all the other soundtracks
Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit.
How many years old this song has? Still actual and modern a master piece
Who is enjoying on 2024?
Just seen this perfomed tonight live in Liverpool superb so many memories ❤
Exactly 50 years! 1974!
Me😊 It's sad we have to go back and really listen to good music without listen to derogatory words.🎶🎼🎵
@@Karen822I'm 66, check out the other versions too
🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
I was a teen all through the nineties when sampling was a huge thing for 90s music snd my dad being a HUGE music guy and lover of ALL genres of music would always be quick to say “you know this is from another song right?” And he would always show me the original. RIP Wes 1949-2002. You taught me so much and I miss and love you everyday.
This literally takes me back to the 90s and the feeling of nostalgia I had for my dad’s time if that makes sense. Double whammy!!!!
Thanks for sharing your lovely memories. I hope that my musical legacy to my kids will be the same. Good music doesn't have to have a genre and I have always enjoyed how 90s music paid homage to past greats. I have to say though that I cannot hear this original without hearing 'Summer, summer, summertime, Time to sit back and unwind'! Will Smith might have thought 'The smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia' but a few notes of a good tune can do the same.
That's pretty cool, having those memories with your dad... Music lives forever, Everytime you hear something I bet you just smile like, "I know my dad would approve of this"... 😁 Keep jamming, this one's a classic
Your dad sounds like he was a G ❤️❤️❤️
RIP Wes.
Cool comment. Nice memories for you about your dad! I do that to my boys now when their music has a piece in it from something older. Peace
Listening to this with a proper headset... you can literally hear how the vibes quickly switch from the right to the left ear. Like a wave softly splashing on your ears. Amazing.
Music is always better with headphones.
Great mixing!!
Well put Bro (In particular the Fender Rhodes Piano) Fab.
Which headset are you using ?
Mélanie DUPELIN use NC headphones with bass boost. You’ll feel it.
This is what a sunset sounds like
Yup beautiful. And it fits the song
You got it ! 😎
Well said!😌
Great comment 👌
In the words of Steve Wilos,"YOU,told the truth".
This song makes me think of my daddy. He used to lay on the floor with the record player and the big ole black speakers and play this song. I can hear the sound from the speakers. When he was in hospice the day before he died, we had a spa day. I remember shaving his beard and cleaning his nails and this came on. He couldn’t speak anymore, but we shared a special moment . What lovely memories I will always hold. I love you daddy, love PoPo❤❤
brother i feel what you are descriping... may them rest in peace... my dad gone in 2018
How could I forget? This song meant summer for me. A time to buy that bikini, hot pants and hip hugger jeans. This was a song to smoke weed and drink wine in the park after eating steamed crabs in Washington D.C back in my day
@@1soFortunateI was too young at the time but i remember hearing it on my radio in early mornings or late nights on 93.9 or 95.5!!
@@tripdrip4174 thank you!! Same to you ❤️❤️
@@hiyakutakeMy Dad died in June 2023. I can relate.
Without even a single word being spoken, this track says so much.
Absolutely
Cannot wait for the night during summer that when the sun is setting, I'll look off into the distance and blare this song from my car.
@@3ShotTGK ye man that's the vibe. I try reserve it for moments like that too, not the kinda song I play too often
YESSIR...IF YOU LET IT.
SMOOOTHLY.......
Totally Amazing on god bro
this song makes you sit back and think about a lot of things.
true
Charles Harrison Jr , Yes I agree, a lots of thinking.
example?
aleko957 try by yourself duh
MrEagleDesert Well you see, not everybody has a life
Hard to believe this gem came out in the 70's.
Truly ahead of it's time.
why? this is who we were in the 70's.
Sounds 70's to me.
We gave yall the blue print RESPECT
Why is it hard to believe? Some of the best music is from 60s and 70s
A lot of gem's from the 70's
5 Generations have vibed out to this song, this is a TRUE classic.
I don't think you quite know what a generation is, lol.
3-4 generations were probably created during this song or the samples from it...
@@scottpeterson4873 There's a slight possibility of that, considering we're theoretically now seeing the birth of Generation Alpha.
@@tripcode1722Baby Boomers - 1946-1961 (oldest boomer was 28 when this came out, youngest was 13)
Gen X - 1965-1980 (oldest Gen X was nine)
Millennial/Gen Y - 1981-1996
Gen Z - 1997-2012
Gen Alpha - 2013-2028
5 generations.
@@SirGoat-wr9ky no guarantee there weren't some older folks of the silent generation enjoying it either too lol they were between 28-45 when it came out
The fact that this song will be 50 years old next year and still a hit! No words just vibes from coast to coast
THIS SOME BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TO RELAX AND CHILL WITH 😊😊😊
I remember hearing it at the beginning of Rocky (1976) and was hooked.
From coast to coast, always loved that line!
50 years of God music... and another 50 years beyond that!
Something that we have all experienced.
How can a song with no words say so much to so many people. Amazing and timeless. Thank you
This song makes me feel an emotion that doesn't have a name.
Danillo Fleetwood well said bro..
It has name
Nirvana
essential trance celestial jive spirit and soul
Pensive or melancholy probably
Or you just don't know the name yet
Crazy how this was released in the 70's and this beat was amazingly ahead of it's time
I can imagine people in the 70s just riding thier bikes in the city while the sun is setting while listening to this
I how would they listen to this without any portable listening device? Just curious
@@georgemartinez3684 I dont know why I said 70s i should have put 80s
Oh fo sho
@@georgemartinez3684 somebody could have it playing in their home stereo with the windows open or parked cars in their neighborhood..
You can picture this song playing in the neighborhood..the 1970's.. beautiful summer evening in New York, the sun setting.. kids playing & riding their bikes through the streets..
True nostalgia
Transistor radio if a station was playing It
A song WAY ahead of it's time
And stands against time.
I feel like it matched the time period
It was release in 74 but sounds like the 80’s, that’s crazy
way way ahead, sooo god damn good!!!! it makes u float
Simply time less
One of the most calming songs ever created
Facts
until the end
@@derekwatson8211 wym the end is chill
Absolutely beautiful music 🎶 Nice instrumental 😊I love it ❤
My cousin was a DJ and after every show/party, he'd play this and I'd walk around and check his speakers and subs to make sure he didn't burst nothing... I lost cuz almost 3 years ago 🤕 but I can still feel him and hear him thru certain songs.. 1 time for DJ Chuckie So Fresh 💪🏽😎💙 I miss u and I love u cuz
Rest in peace D.J Chuckie!!!!!!❤❤❤
Rest in Peace!!
Sorry for your loss man.
Sincere apologies 💔🙏🏿🧡
My condolences.
This song is way ahead of it's time even for today, what an absolute masterful track
#Masterpiece
@Walter Hurtado-Mentor*For Real!!!
This song makes me kinda nostalgic.
It makes me think of a time when life was easier and I don't had any problems which you get when you're an adult.
I get what you mean completely but I’m only 20, this song’s too old to sound nostalgic for any time I was alive. Makes me wish I could just spend a day in the 70s though. My dad was 16 when this came out, I’m so jealous of him sometimes lmfao
Exactly!!!!
I’d always hear this on old movies and feel good vibes listening to ,it good times
@@CoolDrifty crazy to think abt what life would be like then huh? music helps takes us back tho:)
Back when music was good and rappers could rap the year 2041 is trash
This song makes you think about life in general especially right now.
SO TRUE MY BROTHER !!!!!!
So true man. I am just wondering where all the people left i knew before.
Accept the past. Make peace with it. Your future's waiting baby.
@@rooneyrythm Some of the best advice I've heard in a while!!!!!!😎😎😎😎
Yup yup
It's officially summer 2024! Time to play this all day.
Man...I remember my granny used to bump this 24/7 in the car when I was little. I would be in the backseat just daydreaming away lol.....not caring about where we were going so as long as she kept the AC blasting and the music loud.
Hey y’all? We’re blessed to grow up on music like this fr...I mean it shapes the entire way you move through life.
You are too adorable!
Bang on, truth right here peeps, its certainly shaped my soul, and my spirituality, blessings
I love your story.Amen.I love it, too,peace,blessed
Well said....love the synth portamento
I love the mother and the daughter. If they are consensual.
Anyway, your granny had a lot of taste for good music. I mean... 24/7, maybe, is a little to much... but, with this stuff in the sound system, the point is made clear enough.
This masterpiece should be on everyone’s Summer Soundtrack. Every year forever.
And is certainly on mine.😊
a vibe that never gets old ✨️🎶
It's on mine
Agreed
It’s on mines and It’s way before my time
This was a lofi beat before lofi beats were even a thing😂
Lol the 70s and 80s were full of songs like this. Also "lo fi" beats were called "trip hop" in the 90s. It's not anything new.
your picture made me want to listen to slimerre again, thank you
Adult swim bumps 🎵
Lo fi is just new age jazz 🗿
This is not lo fi though
Who's listening to Kool and The Gang in 2024? ME!!!!!❤
Honestly, this could still almost pass for a modern indie/synthwave/chillout track in 2021.
It's amazing how much ahead of its time this particular track was. 😮
I honestly thought it was before I listened to it fully.
Fuck 2021 and the music out
Half a century old soon Huylo :o
Honestly, this song doesn't need to pass for anything. Great music transcends genres and time
dungmaker there is some amazing new music out there. Just gotta search with a keen ear
I first heard this song when I moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. The local FM radio stations were playing it. I remember spending the night at my new girlfriend's apartment. Her name was Cherie. She was in the bathroom, the lights were turned down low, and I was waiting for her to come to bed as this song was playing softly on the radio. It was a good moment, and it was a good song for that moment.
Double D cherie lives!
Can’t say no names bro that’s telling lol
Sounds about right
I'm also Cherie 🤣🤣
Imma get it one day😥
It's a shame the general public only remembers Kool & the Gang for Celebration. Honestly I think this is their best song hands down. No other song I've found by anyone has given me the vibes this song does. It's just so special and unique.
Too hot is very good too
Really...lot of people are not familiar with the early catalog which is full of mind blowing music!!!
This is most definitely there best song .
I’m not positive, but don’t think this song even made it
to the Top 40. Sad!
I would not consider this their best work, but it is most certainly an underrated work, as is the entire album that it came from, and it also proves that they can play music with meaning equally as well as they can with making it with both music and singing, Bernie Boy.
I heard this first in the original ROCKY. During the Pandemic it was a hot summer and I was home and chatting in a group chat. I followed up on this song and we all sat back and chilled.
This must have sounded like the future in 1974.
No question it did...
It still is
This sounds like the future nowadays.
It still sounds like the future in 2020.
❤
Famous last words: “Oh lord”
Yezzir yezzir
😂😂😂
Lmaoo bruh
"He won't get in the water." It turned out he would get in the water.
If ykyk😂😂
My Best Friend turned me onto this Jam, when we were 6 his dad had it on Wax,,I'm 50 now an he is Gone ,,,RIP Frankie not a day goes by I dont think about you Bro ✊🏽🙏
Rip to your pal frankie
Rip
he was wunna tha good wunz
Dude this is so sad
Frankie is a legend
I absolutely adore this beautiful instrumental!!!! Back in the 70's I participated in Beauty Pageants. In the first one I was selected Miss Talent, in the second one I didn't receive anything but in the third one I was voted Miss Congeniality and the title Miss Black Fincastle in Virginia. I performed a creative modern dance routine to SUMMER MADNESS. I will always love this Masterpiece of music along with the memories it provides ❤ ❤
Did you stay in dance?
This is the greatest song with no words of all time.
Debatable
I think it’s one of the greatest w/out words another one would be Moments in love by The Art of Noise th-cam.com/video/cen22TBHo9M/w-d-xo.html
@@ms.mystique4388 they say some words
@@ms.mystique4388 you know music it’s this verse art of noise
i just made it 69 likes 😎
I never been outside of Europe, but this is how i imagine california feels like...
@Timotheus...👍👍👍👍
Can confirm
No, this is Philadelphia!!
Used to feel like... Cali isn’t what it used to be
Just like I remember it, back in 1981.
If "self-reflection" was a song, this would be it.😂
yup. perfectly said
Exactly !
Randy Savage looking out over the water listening to this
IKR :)
Cassandra Parker man what..
A moment of silence for my father who passed away , But would always ask me to promise him that we would play this at his funeral 😢 I love you dad ….
My condolences. 🙏🏽
Sincere condolences 💔🙏🏿❤
We played this at the funeral for the father of my kids/love of my life ❤️
Condolences 🙏 to you and your family.
Beautiful Women, Peace is the settlement. It illuminates in you....thanks for sharing. My condolescene. Luv ya!
Rest In Peace Dennis Thomas, your music will last forever
He went away in the most peaceful way
There's smooth jazz, and then there's smooooooth jazz.
RIGHT ON BROTHER...….(SMILE).
Jaaaaaaazzzzz... Nice.
@@goodgogoodgo It's gets no better than this. Instant Goosebumps. 😮
I'm slipping all over the place to this smoothness
and then there is smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth jazz
Summer Madness
Or what's usually referred to as: that one song in every hood movie ever.
Nobody calls it the hood song lmao everyone I know knows this song as the gta vice city commercial song
@@Gameprojordan nah Nike commercial song
Will Smith sampled this for his song Summer time.
a west coast hood song...........vato!!!!!
Summertime by the fresh prince is a great remix of this song
Easily one of the most well put together musical compositions of any time period!
This is the kind of music that may miss an entire generation, if you don't share it with your people.
I'm so glad I'm 20 and learnt music right from the womb. This song is a masterpiece...
We used to listen to this song every day at my old dojo as background music memories of the past year are all in this song
This gen doesn't even know what gender they are f them
*GTA Vice City entered the chat*
I have my grandchildren listen to this all the time.
If this doesn't chill you out then you ain't Human. Love it.
Total relaxation, baby. Total relaxation
Right
Make a bad moment's a great day
Love this song always will
The hour long version may do it
This is the very definition of beautiful music. You feel this in your heart and soul
Wow…well said!
Yes indeed!
I'm soon to be 70 and this was the lick..life was good.. At 20 I was living life. That's what time it was no drugs... definitely no drugs for this Oakland native...
not even some "grass"? lol thats what yall called it back then right? nothing wrong with a little mary j
@@alexbellington9243shidd ain’t nothing wrong with crack everything is fine in moderation💯
@@HoweyJR_ idiot, nobody listen to this guy 🙄
Great times!!!
@@alexbellington9243 if u smoke a mary j and listen that music you just need appreciate the trip
One of the most beautiful soul songs of all-time. Truly ahead of its time.
Agreed!
Oh hey Beet.
better say' TIMELESS!
This was the cutting edge, where soul met synth, where funk was the introduction to digital new era using synthesizers and keyboards and expanding soulful expressions over all dimentions, physical and digital. This is some of the most connected music ever made, soul connected. Thank the universe for this song, it's made my life better for hearing it. Put me in that lay back and fire up a fatty, and close my eyes...
Well put sir.
Gage, when I first heard this song I guessed it was recorded in 1981. Utterly shocked beyond belief to find this to be a 1974 recording. I always thought I could tell the early/mid 70s sound from the early 80s sound. I'm stumped. My whole belief system has been challenged.
@audiosamples Yeah, but how do you explain that this is even a cleaner recording than Van McCoys the Hustle? When I hear the Hustle, or I dunno, More More More, it totally has a stained '70s sound. I feel this recording is very transparent. Why weren't theirs? Sorry to be a pain.
I heard this in that smooth ass voice that's always on TV doing the commentary.
RIGHT ON!!!!
Probably the best instrumental of all time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎼🎵🎶
Indeed👍👍👍👍👍🙇
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ALAN H hahah good joke
Nothing will ever compare to 70’s music
Victor Rogers 🔥🔥😁
This and Art of Noise - Moments in love are my favs
I discovered this thru a new friend at our pool. I never would have guessed it was Kool and the gang. The jazz sound is great
This tune haunts me like no other. It is so deep in my memories and it always makes me miss the time when we were all so into music, life and each other. The 70's and 80's gave us a life of magic that may never come our way again. I miss it more than words can say.
This song was always playing at the mall while I would buy soft pretzels and lemonade during the summer. Now as soon as I hear it, I can almost smell that fake butter smell of soft pretzels and hear the arcade around the corner from the pretzel place. It's such a specific association, but it always happens as soon as I hear this song. I miss that carefree freedom.
This is a classic and will never get old. Ear candy, mind relaxing 😎
Dang how old are you guys
Makes you want to cry don’t it?
I feel cheated, I wish I was born in the 60’s
This the type of song you play late night ridin through the city 😎💯👌🏾
Brandon Bowling for real cuz
+C.J Jay I agreed bro
Brandon Bowling Passing through Albuquerque, NM. about 12:15AM and this was playing. Felt invincible for a short time.
And a bit boozed after a party.
And I have, in Los Angeles, coming from the club, riding west on Wilshire Blvd. with the windows down, and a smile on my face. ~Pure Magic
This tune still sounds so fresh today. It's like it never went out of fashion.
It’s cause it’s jazz
Good music never get old
And it never will. Peace my friend
Right. Because it has not.
Yeah
Grand theft auto vice city days!!!! I miss that time in the world. Everything made sense and was perfect to me😅. I was only 13 so what did I know lol. And older version of myself is screaming stay a kid for as long as you can. I know you guys are gonna relate to what I’m saying. Ice cream with ya family days not knowing you would grow up and miss it as much as you do. I’m 34 now and this takes me back for 4 mins and some change to my childhood. Thank you gang!!!!
Just recently I was going through my video library and started watching Rocky. This track comes out at the beginning of the movie when Rocky comes home after a fight. As the scene was unfolding with this track playing in the background, I got goosebumps. It’s amazing the effect that music can have on our state of mind. This timeless classic by Kool And The Gang is proof of that.
love that scene and thats what got me hooked to this song
Precisely what brought me here!
I heard it watching Rocky just now and looked this up
I know this song well , I love it , I had no idea it was I. Rocky !!
Rocky's soundtrack helped make the movie what it is, it's essentially a character in it.
If you like these songs you’re chill asf. 💁🏻♀️☺️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
💯👀
Love these songs always have
Foreal there’s all those types of people u show these songs to and they’re just like wtf? This shits legit can’t believe anyone would wanna diss such a dope track
4 real sweedy😍😙
As I am typing this, I’m living life, just graduated high school, being single at 19 and given the circumstances that my culture gets married very young, and I don’t regret dating or marrying anyone right now, and I couldn’t be happier with myself. This summer been treating me good so far, by far one of my best summers ever! Summer 2021! Plus, this song adds more of a feeling of freedom. 🤙🏽
Wish you the best man glad life is treating you good stay strong
Rock on dude best of luck
Wish the best for your future stay bright and keep that energy
Nice pic my dude.👍🏻
Keep doing what you're doing. Stay on your path!🙏🏾💙🙏🏾
FINALLY! I FOUND IT! I FCKING FOUND IT
Nice jobs Bro👍
Real asf 😂😂
I feel u I’ve been looking for this song for ever now
I KNOWWWW!!!! Me Too .
Relatable, listened this very often 3 or 4 years ago and then just forgot the name for some reason, finally found it
When I hear this track, tears of joy and pain literally fall from my face. It brings back years of so many memories of lost loved ones, summertime block parties back in Brooklyn, New York and of course couples only skate at the roller rink. So beautifully composed and arranged. A timeless classic. Thank you Kool & The Gang.
damn bruh...im a youngin but i first heard this on gta vice city in 2002.. It stayed with me since
😪😪😪
Im not even Where you From, But I feel you Bruh
This song does something to my body.
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@@shizukisonicthehedgehog8795 if you don’t understand you are only listening with your ears.
Yeah like amsr type feelings. It's cool
Makes you feel more alive
Make me wanna 🤤
One of the best instrumentals of all time jazz , fusion, easy listening all into one with great baseline, guitar and keyboards, why has no one cone near to making tracks like this
R.I.P. George Brown. Thank you for the great music.
This had got to be one of the baddest instrumentals ever made!
TashaJuanna Muhammad dj will has some tight ones too, check out quiks part 2, something to rip to
I was 7 when this track came out back in the 70's. And it still sounds so fresh in 2019. It takes me to another world. It makes me feel 20 years younger listening to this track.
Man I’m 25 and I feel 20 years younger listening to this
So your like in your 60s
jamal hodges 50s dumbass
And will still sound fresh in 2000 years, what orgasmic sound
Fabulous sound love it
Song is nearly 50 years old but doesnt sound a day old, Thats how you know this piece inspired many things to come out today.
Yep
it sounds a bit old, but that dont matter, its an amazing song
No its sounds old lmao. This us the vintage sound that alot of artists now try to create 😂
This song was way ahead of time, it still gives me goosebumps !
This is the original Lo-Fi
TooDamnClean nah Nujabes is the original Lofi, no hate to this song tho
@@alans4715 this song came out the same year Najubes wss born. Coincidence? I think not.
Dude yes, I have been listening to a newer version of this and always liked it, who knew it was all the way from the 70s haha
Yeah except it's so unbelievably hi fi
@@alans4715 nah dilla created
When my Dad would pick up my sister and I on the weekends after my parents divorced in the late 70s, he would pick us up after he got off of work on Friday's. We lived in San Francisco/Daly City border and he lived in the East Bay in Concord and he would play this song when we'd drive across the Bay Bridge. The memories I have of this song (and album because he recorded his records on cassette (remember those?!) of listening to this song while watching the city lights, cars zooming past, boats on the Bay, lights from Alcatraz is all I see whenever I hear this song. The power of music is real.I also think it's funny that the only Will Smith song I like (post DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince) is 'Summertime'. I was lucky enough to have a Dad who listened to all kinds of music.
THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY.....THANK YOU FOR SHARING😊
You put images in my head, mann. That was beautiful.
That's awsome man
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No, thank you for reading! I rarely comment on TH-cam but this song, along with Breezin by George Benson, just brings back so many good memories.
I had this on repeat in my Cadillac on a rare, wet and rainy Friday night driving through the west side of LA and I felt blessed to be able to have this experience 🙏🏾
Your comment reminds me of "the white shoe slaying" case in L.A. Noire
RIP kobe
the small feelings..
yeah.. the world is so vast and so rich.. some nights makes us realize that all moments are blessed.
I can imagine 🙏🙌
I'm 69 year old white boy I got funkafied in the army in 1974 the rest as they say is history
Nice.
I sur am 67 and i must say we had the best.
Beautiful
u are not a boy if ur 69
I am a 65 year old afro american love this mellow vibe.
Listening to this while high is the best way to do it
Why does one have to be high to enjoy beauty. Let your mind, spirit and imagination take you anywhere you want to go. Blaze dat!!
johnny malone jr Hit the blunt too tho! ^_^
***** you know it maaate
***** Why do people have act as if they are having a huge stick up their asses. Lose the fuck up for gods sake.
***** So I asume you are one of them who doesn't smoke or ever get drunk?
This will always remind me of cruising around Vice City in an Infernus.
Good times
+David komla Kakrada koala fam
+ Gggmanlives your great reason
Yes good times good times
Me also. Great memories of playing that game! Only played it through all the way once, but still remember it. Probably 10 or more years ago :)
This song is amazing with headphones on.
Yes indeed !!!!
Listening right now with headphones on and loving it.
AemiliaJacobus the vibe thoo
Yeah
AemiliaJacobus
Chills up and down your spine! Music dancing from one ear to the next, it’s awesome!!
Spent years just hoping id come across this song. Hired a new guy at work at this is the first song he puts on the playlist. Legend.
Here in Detroit in the 80's, WNIC 100.3 had a segment called "Pillow Talk," hosted by the late, great Alan Almond. His deep, soothing voice and this song he always started the show off with this song... Plus I remember all the other soft rock songs he played on that show ... Man, takes me right back to bedtime in my childhood. Cozy little bungalow in our cute little neighborhood on the east side, summer time, windows opens, warm breeze blowing the curtains, the sounds and smells of summer evenings blowing in with the breeze, listening to this as I drift off to sleep. Good stuff. ❤️
Definitely remember Alan Almond's "Pillow Talk"...I recall he played a lot of Christopher Cross tunes. I grew up east side Detroit too, around Alter/Jefferson near Grosse Pointe-Detroit border. Good memories.
I came here to read this comment! That’s how I heard this song living in Detroit
This song hit me like a dump truck yesterday and only managed to find it with some help today, and vague memories of Pillow Talk hit me. I couldn't remember the name or the name of the segment but I'd always listen to Pillow Talk while winding down for the night as a kid. Good times.
Got it going on
That’s how I remember it, Detroit and Alan Almond!
This dropped the summer I graduated from HS 1974. Our class was born in the middle of the Baby Boom (1956). Right on time. Timeless.
My parents graduated then too. They grew up with such great music.
Style Bender has great taste in music.
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This. MMA highlight of 2021, you know!
1974 my God 15 years before I was born lol
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@Julez Carinito he didn’t say he was the first to use it, just said he had good taste. negative ass
BEST SONG ON THE PLANET ❤
One of the greatest songs ever
EVER!
the vibe
No words, no story. Just music letting you go to a place in your mind. At any point in the song, the band could've broken into a show off fest of solos, but instead they kept the vibe going. This music works so perfectly for many situations. Perfect for when you're with someone you love, or completely alone. You can tell the band was really feeling it too.
that late night cruizing in L.A...
There is another song by Kool and the Gang that is similar; "Winter Sadness". It's a Kool song also. Check it out.
One of the BEST if not, the GREATEST laid back & chill beats ever!
lebay
I've officially listened to this song for 50 yrs, my, how the groove hasn't lost it's power.
It’s 2022, summer is here again. Time to bust out this masterpiece.
I did I am playing this priceless jam on the 4th of July 2022!!!!!!!
Fax bruh
💯💯💯
😭😭🖤
Yes 🙌🏾
So far I heard this song in: Vice City( Fever 105), Boyz n the hood trailer, Rocky, Baby Boy, Tony hawk and when Izzy Adesanya used it as his walk out. I can't escape it!
Sir you are an intellectual
And lebron's Nike commercial
Where was it in Rocky ?
You got served had this song in the movie too ❤️
ice cube, you know how we do it
Que rico leer los comentarios en inglés y ver que no importa el idioma que hablemos o de donde seamos, esta canción nos hace sentir lo mismo a todos. Saludos desde México.
La música es un lenguaje universal✌🏾
Musica no tiene fronteras
Es que es un roloon único...poca madre...una joya.
Saludos amigo, así es!, que importa el idioma si la música no tiene fronteras, y está mucho menos porque es una joya bellísima, y también es como para escucharla entre amigos de todas las naciones..Te mando un gran saludo también desde la Baja California Norte..
Mexico rocks! Can't wait to go back!
RIP John Singleton, this songs for you man... wish you were still alive.
🙏💎😍💎 yeah man..
John made great movie about us.
@@conradford7493 Too bad he couldn't do a new one "all eyes on me " for tupac....
This song was in john singleton's movie baby boy when jody shuts the door.
He is in spirit! R.I.P. John! Miss you... 🎶 🎹 🎶
In memory of Kool and the Gang co founder Dennis “DT” Thomas. Thank you for the music and Rest in Power.
This makes me nostalgic for summers working in the USA in the 80s which I never did.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂💥👌
WTF same af broo
hello, I once heard that sound but there were women singing, it sounded like Britney spears or something, can you tell me what is this sound?
@@akirasaad9748 "Summertime - Will Smith"
This song penetrates deep down to the roots. Soul fasho❤
Who still gon be bumpin this in heaven an the year of 3019 🤣🤣🤣
I hardly doubt this world will continue on as the way it is for another hundred years but this is a good song
Probably everyone who can love
In a thousand years I hope we still have Summer Madness - a classic from the 20th Century X
Hello by the way - if you're reading this in the 32nd Century - do you like this music?
KingKongBrodie Johnson amen my dear fellow
More like in the year 2074 on earth i'll still be alive and be 73 years old to celebrate the century of this song
Ahhhh, the good old days where you didn't even NEED any words and the song STILL told a story! The music alone grabbed a hold of you and took you places mentally!
Listen to the instrumentation on this track! So soothing how these brothas just got together and jammed out to produce this timeless classic!
I always come back to this song when I need to calm down. Absolutely magical.
Factz💯💯
The right musical notes, the right tones, musical vibrations and the COLORS of each musical note must be COMPLIMENTARY.
🥰😊🥰
Low-key made me wanna work at Best Buy just to do this
EXACTLY 💯
This song is turning 50 this year.
😮
The noise switching between the ears is, *M A G N I F I C E N T*
Most tracks don't do that anymore. Sad but at least it makes this track stand out.