Exactly! I too, was a kid back in the 1970's and I remember so much of the music back then. I remember hearing this song a lot when it came out in 1973. I was four years old at the time and it was played a lot on the radio. Such great memories and such different times!
This song takes me back to my first years of marriage to my late wife. We wed in 1970 and parted in 2010 when she died in a freak accident. We had many happy years together but those first years were our honeymoon years and I still cherish my memories of them discovering each other. God bless her she was my one true love since the age of 16.
I have lost far too many beloveds including my forever 32 y.o. son. I will keep you in my thoughts as you continue your journey. May you find love again.
I think I was 7 or 8 years old when this song was released. I remember going to bed at night with my radio on just waiting and hoping to hear this song. 5o years later it still has the same effect on me. I just love it.
When the camera does an extreme close up on Maria’s face, notice her almost totally natural look. No cut crease or smoky eye eyeshadow. A little eyeliner and some mascara. She looks killer!
I’ve always loved this song, I first heard it when I was 14 back in ‘75. Had so much fun growing up in the ‘70’s. The music was so good. I look back now and can really appreciate being a kid and living so carefree. I wouldn’t change that time of my life for anything. ❤️🤗
This song is magical to me. When I was a very little little girl, not even 6 or just that, my mom would listen to all this gospel music. This song was the exception, she would listen to this one secular song and go into a trance when ever it came on the radio or she played it on the 45s they use to make for single songs back then. I.m in my late 50.s now. Hearing it makes me think of my mom every time. It was the era of the singer songwriter and back then they called this type of song "blue eyed soul". I was little and didnt really understand the lyrics so I would sing "midnight at the old aces" and wondered how you could send a camel to bed 😅. RIP mom, I love you always ❤. Thank you for introducing me to this song still one of my favorites as it was yours. Thank you for the music Ms. Maria Muldair.
You guys can all eat your hearts out ... Way back in the when I was stationed in San Diego ... just back from a tour of Nam. My step-sisters invited me to a party and said "dress nice". I wasn't going to go, but they said "Come on. You'll have fun!" Well, alright, I went. They were both nursing students at the time, but I had no idea they hung out with this crowd: Muldaur, Gabriel, Collins, Crosby, just to name a few. Well I showed up and we all drove to this really nice house and went in. Jeez ... I was such a kid back then. I'm drinking light because I recognized a few of those faces and I am absolutely star-struck. And then, there she is ... it's HER HOUSE. Maria Muldaur comes out with this 3-person band and does this song !!! I remember thinking "okay, I can die peaceful, right now." You turn right, you turn left .. you go through life and things like the Nam happen to you, and things like being so close to Maria Muldaur while she sings this song happen to you. I could have reached out and touched her (thank God I didn't, but I did say hi later).
Damn, you poor man, if I was that close to her I would HAVE to kiss her. Even if I got my ass beaten and thrown out the door. She was my first love start at age 12 ..lol
The way Maria scales across those high notes with skill and finesse reminds me of a great surfer catching a great high wave and riding it all the way to shore.
The hip wiggle and the little bounce she does is adorable. Such a difference in performance styles compared to today’s singers and the true musical Artists Maria was.
Hearing this song as a kid in Georgia on the radio at night, through the humidity and occasional breeze blowing through the open window in my bedroom, the sweet smell of wisteria and jasmine wafting into the house on a moonbeam, and subsequent sweet dreams that I'll always remember.
I was stationed in England and heard this for the first time in a bar called “The Running Buck” in Ipswich. I immediately loved it and play it on occasion. It transports me to a very special time in my life when I was a 19 year old Air Airman.
Another one that takes you back to a simpler time, carefree days, living new experiences every day...62 and still love it...but miss those days even more!
I was 7 or 8 when this hit came out and I loved this song! I'm heading out to have lunch with her right now! So blessed! There was, indeed, a more light feeling to those days. Let's bring back the 70's spirit!!!!
I threw a morning paper route in the summer of ‘74 when I had just begun to date the little girl that dominated my thoughts throughout my sophomore year of high school. That little girl loved this song, and I would dream of her when I drove through the neighborhoods during the early morning when this song would play on the radio. This was a popular song that summer and it played almost every morning. She and I have been married now for 44 years. Just came back to hear it one more time. The summer of ‘74 may still be the most magical, innocent time of my life. Such sweet memories. Thanks to TH-cam for the short nostalgic opportunity to revisit it.
I remember this song as a child but I never listened to the words, what a SEXY SONG🤗🎶🎶🎶🔊I love it even more as an adult, what a way of seduction😉😆! Love and light to everyone! 2023 in a fect😉! Looking for songs to send long distance to my Twin-Flame 🔥!
As an African American kid growing up in DC always loved this jam, I hear to tell I don't care what genre of music the 70s was the greatest decade of music this country ever experience and I'm not saying this because that decade as my coming of age its fact.
Amazing tune. Actually, believe it or not, the chords are all basic Major triads(until the very last chord on this live version), but what gives it its unique sound is that the bass is playing a whole step above the root of the chord most of the time, or in more musical lingo, is playing the 2nd or added 9th of the chord. I really don't know of any other pop song where they use that "voicing" so often. So cool, and will always be considered a hip tune!
This song never fails to put a smile on my face. 70s music was let it flow and feel good. Girls were slim waisted and natural, many wore their hair long and parted in the middle. Everyone knew at least one Lisa, Diane, Sharon or Stacy. Love's Baby Soft perfume, frost lipgloss that came in a small pot, bell bottoms, and twisted hair ribbons like a cotton ball string. Pastel leisure suits and long sideburns for the guys. Dayglow flower power stickers, football team bumper stickers, cars that had personality (gremlin, pinto) and painted in all colors not like today's bland lineup. Your refrigerator was either cornflower blue, chocolate brown, sunflower yellow, avocado green or cream.
@@missayawk Or the Maverick, Cutless, and Moms Delta 88 with burnholes in the seats because we didn't clean our stash very well! Midnight Movie Maddness at the theater and Cheech and Chong!! Things were MUCH different back then.
@@1773JC And some of them had a lot of beauty outside!! So many girls showing off great mid-sections back then. No piercings, no tattoos...nothing but nice!
You're supposed to play this through a 70's era receiver which has a mono switch. That combined the two channels of a stereo signal, feeding a mono signal to both speakers.
The 70s was a great time for me . Girls were great back then laid back . Didn't need much money to have a good time. Those growing up now will never know what they missed 70s 80s 90s.
You're Right, I always tell my Children & Grandkids, you haven't lived unless you lived in the 70's! One of the Best Times Of My Life, everybody was more laid back. Especially going to High School, you enjoyed going to school, everybody were Hippies, the Teachers were cooler, because they were no older than we were, they even dressed like we did!
@@libramoon5013 I had an absolute BLAST in the 70s in DC- constant parties, every Thursday night piling into 2 cars and going dancing to oldies at Deja Vu, tons of potluck dinners, outdoor weddings, craft fairs, lots of friends, cheap rent, and job openings everywhere.
Little piece of magic right there. The tambourine playing alone is more than noteworthy! Dont you just love hearing a sound so unique and spine tingling. Shes right up there with the best of the 70's indeed, a personal favorite of mine.
I would request this song every night on the radio. I just loved it from first hearing it….shared with a friend the other day and he told me how he loved it as a teen……
I had the opportunity to meet her around 1997. She was warm, personable and quite beautiful, 20 years after this video was filmed. I was in college when this song surfaced. Quite wonderful memories...
A very, very much underrated singer. MM was one of the great voices of the period. Sexy as all hell too in her day - but she should be primarily recognized for her voice. Distinctive with great timing, tone, intonation... An all time classic album....
I remember this song....mid 70's, lots of friends in Columbus OH, and Cincinnati OH, dancing, dining, drinking, whiskey sours.... and then my boyfriend and I got engaged in 1974 and lived "happidly every after".....
@@jimfraher2166 Why would you say such a mean thing? And, even if it were true, it would not diminish the greatness of her art. Muldaur was fabulous in every conceivable way, from beginning to end, not just here but in all of her work.
Out of nowhere, this song stuck in my head upon waking on Saturday, January 4, 2020. Must be from when I was 5 years old in 1974, with my cherished AM transistor radio, wrist strap hanging off the handlebars of my red Huffy, with the banana seat, listening to 68RKO Boston, back when they spun top40... ❤
JasonEasthamCC I was 12 years old in 1974 but I did the same thing you did Jason transitor radio on handlebars I will take that memories to my grave and beyond I hope some day we will get back to that wonderful and special time
Right there with you man, albeit in Akron, Ohio on the Fairlawn border. I would turn 8 in Nov of 1974 and remember riding around from the Fairlawn lanes bowling alley to the Summit mall, etc. This tune was everywhere and created of picture in my mind never to be erased, good times.
@@jamespfitz we used to listen to WLS all the way down in Alabama, but we could only pick it up after sundown. We would keep the radio on all night and wake up to only static in the morning.
I remember having a banana seat and a sissy bar on my lime green Schwinn taped a transistor radio with electrical tape to my handlebars and pedal around the neighborhood rocking out to 93 KHJ in Los Angeles California
I was 9 years old when this song came out, but now I'm 54. I had a little radio that I would let play all night and this song would come on each night. It always reminds me of the good times I had in the 1970s. This is the song that inspired Spyro Gyra's "Morning Dance."
WOW..didn't know that about Syro Gyro but now I can hear the influence!! Best money and time spent in my 68 yrs living was on 70-80s music....true, there was a lot of good stuff before it but nothing ever even close to it since!! It was magic!
Boy, this brings back great memories, the jug band lived together on the plateau on Mission Hill in the BackBay in Boston in the middle sixties- my wife & me got to meet Jeff in Houston in May'16.
That dag gon Algorithim does it every time LOL This just popped in my mind today so I had to listen to it! Great Childhood Memories! I miss the 70s music!
The first time I heard this was 1973/74 on WLS in Chicago. I was immediately in love. Her voice is so playful and happy. Try to sing this song and not find your face smiling. Still a favorite song. Kids who grew up in the 70's had the best music 🤣
I was in grade school when this was popular. Never knew what happened in the desert. Lol. 1970’s music is eclectic and special at the very least. Lots of flavors
I enjoyed this song "back in the day," but appreciate it even more now for the poetic beauty of the lyrics, such as "...I know your daddy's a sultan, a nomad known to all.." And, of course, Maria's beautiful voice and performance.
It's amazing, how some songs, are just ICONIC of an era. Sidenote. I thought Minnie Ripperton sang this. Sister Girl Maria Muldaur, wearing the bell bottoms, proper!
what is seen here is a real artist. Actually the thing abut an artist- performer that lives in their performance is their spirit. Her gorgeous high energy spirit is so visible. She is singing for the pure joy of doing it. This is what we fall in love with.. Some never have it.
As an Indie kid coming from south of Jakarta, I can say the vibe of this song is 60 years ahead of it's time and also a great art piece that mainly local scene musicians can learn from ❤❤❤🏢🏢
My memory of listening to it over and over as it came on my car radio. Leaving home and family behind, my graduation leave gone, I was on a journey to the oasis of an airbase in the central Valley of Arizona. Dust storms. Colonels as Sultans. The moon clear from horizon to horizon. Shadows sharp as razors. Giant cactus with arms pointing the way. My brand-new automotive camel. On it went, my reality in that evocative new song on the radio. It filled me with strong emotion-- fear, longing, excitement, and loneliness on my journey thru the night into the desert. I still feel that today. Just with swirls of Nostalgia.
I had the pleasure to see her perform 4 months ago.She can still sing great and has a wonderful stage presence. She was my favorite when I was 16 ...She played with Jim Kweskin's Jug Band(fiddle and vocals) and was talented and beautiful.As a 16 year old dark haired Italian hippy girl -she was my idol!(she's also Italian/American!!!)
Good to see and hear her performing this song live from around the time it was a hit. I remember the first time I heard the record and being blown away by the uniqueness of the song and the singer.
I was standing outside at night in the summer time. the song would play on the radio. All the people in cars would crank up the radio. I was a teenager in the early 70'S...Rock on people.
Man do I wish I grew up in the 70s. I was born 2 years after this came out. Love everything about this decade. The music was incredible and the musicians were true artists. Unlike most of the crap that we see today. For all those who grew up in this era you are truly blessed and lucky
I remember being very young hearing this song, maybe a teenager. The voice so smooth, yet both strong and tender. I wanted to vist the place she sang about. This would be a place where no one would ever hate you, you could be black or white, young or old. It would be a place where you could relax and chill. Nothing but, peace and love, soul jazz vibes. It's nothing like the so call music of today. I sure hope the singer Maria knows how special it was.(and still is)❤❤💐🦋
💥💥 And in addition to Maria’s beautiful presence here Jimmy Page once said that Amos Garrett was one of his favorite guitarists in the 70s. So much greatness going on here.
I am 73 and loved this song the first time I heard it. Seeing her live is a real treat. Her movements are fantastic. Her band is really good. I also like her song "don't you feel my leg" Didn't know she was born in the Village in NYC. I lived there for many years
Ever since I first heard this song, whenever I listen to it, I'm transported to a dimly-lit bar in Las Vegas, around midnight. Everyone in the place is blissful, and I've had a few scotches to improve my mood even more... it's just a beautiful, mellow and relaxed feeling in a town that understands that every person wants to cut loose every now and then...
In the summer of 1974 this song fit so well in Panama city, Florida. It seemed to be coming from every corner during the day. While I was only 7 y/o that summer I remember how this seemed so magical and exotic.
This song takes me back to being a kid.
Nobody can appreciate the 1970's unless they lived through them. Great times back then.
Exactly! I too, was a kid back in the 1970's and I remember so much of the music back then. I remember hearing this song a lot when it came out in 1973. I was four years old at the time and it was played a lot on the radio. Such great memories and such different times!
CKLW out of Windsor played this all the time. Great memories
everyone wanted to go back to the 1950s in the 70s
Yes! Definitely reminds me of my childhood, my mom used to play this often. Ahh the good ole days! R.I.P. mom
There was magic back then, lucky to be in this club.
This song takes me back to my first years of marriage to my late wife. We wed in 1970 and parted in 2010 when she died in a freak accident. We had many happy years together but those first years were our honeymoon years and I still cherish my memories of them discovering each other. God bless her she was my one true love since the age of 16.
Brings me back to my childhood. The female singers were gorgeous. They hardly ever wore makeup
Sorry for your loss, but happy for your joy with her. A cherished memory, indeed.
You experienced true love. A blessing others may never know, but you did.
Wish I could have had that memory too
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I have lost far too many beloveds including my forever 32 y.o. son. I will keep you in my thoughts as you continue your journey. May you find love again.
I think I was 7 or 8 years old when this song was released. I remember going to bed at night with my radio on just waiting and hoping to hear this song. 5o years later it still has the same effect on me. I just love it.
I’m 60 years old and this is the first song that made me realize the music was cool I didn’t know she was so beautiful either lol
I was 22 but it still has the same effect! Not only a brilliant song, but also viagra for advancing years!
@@chrisrigby582 and for women too
Same but I was 5. This song...Loving You by Minnie Riperton and just about anything by Joni Mitchell gave me that feeling.
Me too
Years ago I used to sleep with an am/fm radio, grew up to this music.🙂
AM radio! Love it!
WSSV am, yes I remember!!
71yrs old loved this song from the first time hearing it. Have had a crazy crush on Maria ever since.
When the camera does an extreme close up on Maria’s face, notice her almost totally natural look. No cut crease or smoky eye eyeshadow. A little eyeliner and some mascara. She looks killer!
yea, i agree , give her a 2024 haircut she would be a babe
Love the way Maria sings it here, so expressive. And I've forgotten what a gorgeous woman she was back then, classic 70s babe.
She was very cute
The flower in the wild hair, the hip huggers, the natural gypsy look. SO 1974! I miss those days.
14yo 1977 . couple skating with my girlfriend Suzi to this great song. Made her chuckle everytime. That summer never seemed to end. Wow.
I’ve always loved this song, I first heard it when I was 14 back in ‘75. Had so much fun growing up in the ‘70’s. The music was so good. I look back now and can really appreciate being a kid and living so carefree. I wouldn’t change that time of my life for anything. ❤️🤗
Yes..welcome fellow...Boomer. those were the best of times..
Amen
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely, music was awesome in the 70s
this song could have easily been covered by steely dan, or heck even written by them -- wouldve sat nicely next to the FEZ from 76's royal scam
This song is magical to me. When I was a very little little girl, not even 6 or just that, my mom would listen to all this gospel music. This song was the exception, she would listen to this one secular song and go into a trance when ever it came on the radio or she played it on the 45s they use to make for single songs back then. I.m in my late 50.s now. Hearing it makes me think of my mom every time. It was the era of the singer songwriter and back then they called this type of song "blue eyed soul". I was little and didnt really understand the lyrics so I would sing "midnight at the old aces" and wondered how you could send a camel to bed 😅. RIP mom, I love you always ❤. Thank you for introducing me to this song still one of my favorites as it was yours. Thank you for the music Ms. Maria Muldair.
No auto tune,no Botox,no enhancements. Simpler times. I miss the 70’s.
You guys can all eat your hearts out ...
Way back in the when I was stationed in San Diego ... just back from a tour of Nam. My step-sisters invited me to a party and said "dress nice". I wasn't going to go, but they said "Come on. You'll have fun!" Well, alright, I went. They were both nursing students at the time, but I had no idea they hung out with this crowd: Muldaur, Gabriel, Collins, Crosby, just to name a few.
Well I showed up and we all drove to this really nice house and went in. Jeez ... I was such a kid back then. I'm drinking light because I recognized a few of those faces and I am absolutely star-struck. And then, there she is ... it's HER HOUSE. Maria Muldaur comes out with this 3-person band and does this song !!! I remember thinking "okay, I can die peaceful, right now."
You turn right, you turn left .. you go through life and things like the Nam happen to you, and things like being so close to Maria Muldaur while she sings this song happen to you. I could have reached out and touched her (thank God I didn't, but I did say hi later).
Damn, you poor man, if I was that close to her I would HAVE to kiss her. Even if I got my ass beaten and thrown out the door. She was my first love start at age 12 ..lol
You deserved such a sweet bit of serendipity, for going to Nam. I'm going to smile about your story, always.
You are so lucky! This is my absolutely favorite song of all time, and will be played
at my funeral...
...and...then you woke up?
That is one great story . You must be living right my friend . 3 tours i did and coming home was so disappointing to me .!!
The way Maria scales across those high notes with skill and finesse reminds me of a great surfer catching a great high wave and riding it all the way to shore.
pitchy as hell though
@@noneyerbidness And it works.
@@bongodave13 ..if you're deaf.
The hip wiggle and the little bounce she does is adorable. Such a difference in performance styles compared to today’s singers and the true musical Artists Maria was.
I like it too🤩
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Back then it was real people being themselves. Now it is huge corporations with phony choreographed bullshit. Big companies ruined the media.
Awesome music!
@@stickman1742 So true. And it's all lip-syncing with no instruments playing. I can't stand it.
One of the great songs of the 70's.
Hearing this song as a kid in Georgia on the radio at night, through the humidity and occasional breeze blowing through the open window in my bedroom, the sweet smell of wisteria and jasmine wafting into the house on a moonbeam, and subsequent sweet dreams that I'll always remember.
Beautiful memories ✌️
❤❤. Myself and tons of friends back in 1974 good days of party's lots of dancing thank you sooo much.. great voice and ❤this song
I was stationed in England and heard this for the first time in a bar called “The Running Buck” in Ipswich. I immediately loved it and play it on occasion. It transports me to a very special time in my life when I was a 19 year old Air
Airman.
Thank you for your service
There was a local bar called the "Oasis". N this sing was #1 on the juke box. We never got tired of it!!
Another one that takes you back to a simpler time, carefree days, living new experiences every day...62 and still love it...but miss those days even more!
I was 7 or 8 when this hit came out and I loved this song! I'm heading out to have lunch with her right now! So blessed! There was, indeed, a more light feeling to those days. Let's bring back the 70's spirit!!!!
@@joanmichele2147What? Having lunch with her is that true?
I was about 10 or 11 when I heard this on my transistor radio.
Seems like there wasn’t much to worry about then. Easier times.
I was 12 when this song was released. The 70’s were the best. It’s been all down hill since then 😢
I love the flower in her hair.
I threw a morning paper route in the summer of ‘74 when I had just begun to date the little girl that dominated my thoughts throughout my sophomore year of high school. That little girl loved this song, and I would dream of her when I drove through the neighborhoods during the early morning when this song would play on the radio. This was a popular song that summer and it played almost every morning. She and I have been married now for 44 years. Just came back to hear it one more time. The summer of ‘74 may still be the most magical, innocent time of my life. Such sweet memories. Thanks to TH-cam for the short nostalgic opportunity to revisit it.
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Great story !
So, how little was she?
This beautiful woman with such a tender delicate voice should never had aged a day. WE LOVE YOU MARIA. Long live your spirit.
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I dig her
@@elvis616 She's still alive and well btw. But long live her spirit too!!
I remember this song as a child but I never listened to the words, what a SEXY SONG🤗🎶🎶🎶🔊I love it even more as an adult, what a way of seduction😉😆! Love and light to everyone! 2023 in a fect😉! Looking for songs to send long distance to my Twin-Flame 🔥!
Amen brother ! Amen
One of the most unusal and beautiful voices. Miss the 70s
As an African American kid growing up in DC always loved this jam, I hear to tell I don't care what genre of music the 70s was the greatest decade of music this country ever experience and I'm not saying this because that decade as my coming of age its fact.
This song is series of absolutely beautiful chords changes that never fail to entice me. It's sublime.
Its difficult to do, and to make look easy, that's even harder.
Awesome chords!
Her voice even cracks in tune...
I Agree!! Amazing.
Amazing tune. Actually, believe it or not, the chords are all basic Major triads(until the very last chord on this live version), but what gives it its unique sound is that the bass is playing a whole step above the root of the chord most of the time, or in more musical lingo, is playing the 2nd or added 9th of the chord. I really don't know of any other pop song where they use that "voicing" so often. So cool, and will always be considered a hip tune!
Such a relaxing song!
I was in high school when this song came out.
I loved and still love this song.
Thanks for the bittersweet memories Maria. I was 24 in 1974 and loved this great song well. The 70s was quite an adventure. 😊 ☮️
This song never fails to put a smile on my face. 70s music was let it flow and feel good. Girls were slim waisted and natural, many wore their hair long and parted in the middle. Everyone knew at least one Lisa, Diane, Sharon or Stacy. Love's Baby Soft perfume, frost lipgloss that came in a small pot, bell bottoms, and twisted hair ribbons like a cotton ball string. Pastel leisure suits and long sideburns for the guys. Dayglow flower power stickers, football team bumper stickers, cars that had personality (gremlin, pinto) and painted in all colors not like today's bland lineup. Your refrigerator was either cornflower blue, chocolate brown, sunflower yellow, avocado green or cream.
Dont forget the Pacer ( car) and the naturalness of girls didn't stop with the hair on their heads( 😉)
@@missayawk Or the Maverick, Cutless, and Moms Delta 88 with burnholes in the seats because we didn't clean our stash very well! Midnight Movie Maddness at the theater and Cheech and Chong!! Things were MUCH different back then.
You call this innocent? Well, I guess by today's standards, you're right. But I'm surprised this was allowed on radio. It's crammed full of innuendo.
Your comment made me smile with nostalgia for all those things 70's. Plus macrame belts, owls & purses.
this made me smile 🥲 i truly missed my era!
One of those songs that epitomizes the 70s , imo. Love the flower in her hair. 🎼🌹
That was emblematic of that decade. She must have been in San Francisco.
One simple flower is all those 70'S ladies needed.. No frills, overdressed or under dressed to get attention. Their beauty came from inside.❤❤❤
@@1773JC And some of them had a lot of beauty outside!! So many girls showing off great mid-sections back then. No piercings, no tattoos...nothing but nice!
my right ear enjoyed this song immensely
Lol, i hear u, pardon the pun 😁
I thought It was my headphones going out🤣🤣
You're supposed to play this through a 70's era receiver which has a mono switch. That combined the two channels of a stereo signal, feeding a mono signal to both speakers.
@@keensoundguy6637 Yeah sorry I don't have one of those on the laptop that I use to watch youtube videos.
@@keensoundguy6637 Wow, I forgot all about that.
This song takes me back to lazy sunny afternoons in Southern California in the 70’s. Hearing this song on the radio.
her voice was,, next level-,, control!! had no idea she sounded that great live,,-
The 70s was a great time for me . Girls were great back then laid back . Didn't need much money to have a good time. Those growing up now will never know what they missed 70s 80s 90s.
You're Right, I always tell my Children & Grandkids, you haven't lived unless you lived in the 70's! One of the Best Times Of My Life, everybody was more laid back. Especially going to High School, you enjoyed going to school, everybody were Hippies, the Teachers were cooler, because they were no older than we were, they even dressed like we did!
You are so right Libra Moon! The dress code the schools have now my teachers in the 70s wouldn't pass the code today let alone the students.
It was a magical time!
@@libramoon5013 I had an absolute BLAST in the 70s in DC- constant parties, every Thursday night piling into 2 cars and going dancing to oldies at Deja Vu, tons of potluck dinners, outdoor weddings, craft fairs, lots of friends, cheap rent, and job openings everywhere.
YOU MEAN THE 1960'S AND 70'S (90S SUCKED)
I was an innocent ten year old boy when this song came out but i desperately wanted this wonderful songbird to be singing this beautiful song to me. ❤
Little piece of magic right there. The tambourine playing alone is more than noteworthy! Dont you just love hearing a sound so unique and spine tingling. Shes right up there with the best of the 70's indeed, a personal favorite of mine.
Her hair is so soft n' pretty
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@@elvis616 She looks exotic, maybe part Latin or American Indian as well as European
@@twistedgamer9167She's Italian American.
Yeah I’ve always thought the tambourine player makes the song.
This song just makes me happy. Even though I’ve heard it more than a hundred times. Never gets old!! She is such a natural beauty 🌺🌺
I would request this song every night on the radio. I just loved it from first hearing it….shared with a friend the other day and he told me how he loved it as a teen……
I had the opportunity to meet her around 1997. She was warm, personable and quite beautiful, 20 years after this video was filmed. I was in college when this song surfaced. Quite wonderful memories...
It's a great thing to hear a song that you do not hear for 40 years and suddenly be sent back in time. How she rocks those bell bottoms :)
I saw her with my boyfriend multiple times in S.F. & up & down the Bay Area in the 70s! Love her! ♥️♥️♥️
This is the most beautiful in song for the 70s I was at a great place in my life then. Always makes me Happy 😊 xxx
A very, very much underrated singer. MM was one of the great voices of the period. Sexy as all hell too in her day - but she should be primarily recognized for her voice. Distinctive with great timing, tone, intonation...
An all time classic album....
There is nothing underrated about this performance also this song was a major hit and why do folks use the word underrated on TH-cam so darn much
@@anthonytaylor7928 Your comment is underrated.
@@bhbluebird thank u I agree
She’s not underrated! 🙄
@@anthonytaylor7928 Just be glad they didn’t write, “And NO autotune! Amazing!”
Fantastic. The good old days of the 70's.
she flicks her voice like her tambourine - a wildly brilliant vocal performance
I remember this song....mid 70's, lots of friends in Columbus OH, and Cincinnati OH, dancing, dining, drinking, whiskey sours.... and then my boyfriend and I got engaged in 1974 and lived "happidly every after".....
yasuitme this song reminds me of the '74 tornado.
I like how she tosses her voice around so effortlessly. Flawless. Engaging.
What a great description! I totally agree.
I believe she's under the influence....
@@jimfraher2166 Why would you say such a mean thing? And, even if it were true, it would not diminish the greatness of her art. Muldaur was fabulous in every conceivable way, from beginning to end, not just here but in all of her work.
Midnight after you’re wasted...
@@jimfraher2166so we’re half of the musicians back then😂
I had the chance to see her perform recently. She sounds better than ever, and looks great!
What, she.s still alive? Performing where? I want you see it.
Her voice is so 70's cool!
She's also 2023 cool.
At 52, I can't ever remember not loving this song.
I came back from the war, got a job as as a mover...helped her move an apartment....she tipped us well....
Cool story!
Wow back then they didn't have cameras that easily would have been a great portrait
Sweet
Love her dress style, love the way she dance like that, love that beautiful lady.
Out of nowhere, this song stuck in my head upon waking on Saturday, January 4, 2020. Must be from when I was 5 years old in 1974, with my cherished AM transistor radio, wrist strap hanging off the handlebars of my red Huffy, with the banana seat, listening to 68RKO Boston, back when they spun top40... ❤
JasonEasthamCC I was 12 years old in 1974 but I did the same thing you did Jason transitor radio on handlebars I will take that memories to my grave and beyond I hope some day we will get back to that wonderful and special time
Right there with you man, albeit in Akron, Ohio on the Fairlawn border. I would turn 8 in Nov of 1974 and remember riding around from the Fairlawn lanes bowling alley to the Summit mall, etc. This tune was everywhere and created of picture in my mind never to be erased, good times.
11. Schwinn hand-me-down. Same radio, same song, but The Big 89 WLS Chicago.
@@jamespfitz we used to listen to WLS all the way down in Alabama, but we could only pick it up after sundown. We would keep the radio on all night and wake up to only static in the morning.
I remember having a banana seat and a sissy bar on my lime green Schwinn taped a transistor radio with electrical tape to my handlebars and pedal around the neighborhood rocking out to 93 KHJ in Los Angeles California
There really is such a thing as 'The Good Old Days.' This proves it.
I enjoy the carefree feeling of this video
Good old days before the constant ringing of a cell phone! You could go somewhere without your phone annoying you at the worst time!
Great song! I miss missing the 70’s. I didn’t make my appearance until 81, but I feel some weird way about missing this and a simpler time.
Remember listening to this on a summer day, floating in a swimming pool. Now I’m in the Fall of life, but this transports me back to my Summer.
I was 9 years old when this song came out, but now I'm 54. I had a little radio that I would let play all night and this song would come on each night. It always reminds me of the good times I had in the 1970s. This is the song that inspired Spyro Gyra's "Morning Dance."
I was 12 and this was all over Radio.
WOW..didn't know that about Syro Gyro but now I can hear the influence!! Best money and time spent in my 68 yrs living was on 70-80s music....true, there was a lot of good stuff before it but nothing ever even close to it since!! It was magic!
I love this song, 1974 was a great year for music. This song peaked at #6 on the top 40 charts.
She was one beauty! 🎉❤
GREAT song.
GREAT voice.
Beautiful woman!
Thanks Re Mi
Thanks also to Dave Smith!
Continuing my thanks to ejb1972!
Boy, this brings back great memories, the jug band lived together on the plateau on Mission Hill in the BackBay in Boston in the middle sixties- my wife & me got to meet Jeff in Houston in May'16.
I was walking around humming this today and it shows up on my feed. Always one of my favorites.
That dag gon Algorithim does it every time LOL This just popped in my mind today so I had to listen to it! Great Childhood Memories! I miss the 70s music!
I used to lay in my bed as a boy and fall asleep to this beautiful song!
I did also on some AM radio station that played through my little transistor radio.
can still do that today ... Maria possesses that hypnotizing, haunting & eternal quality
How she works the falsetto on this just makes it.
The first time I heard this was 1973/74 on WLS in Chicago. I was immediately in love. Her voice is so playful and happy. Try to sing this song and not find your face smiling. Still a favorite song. Kids who grew up in the 70's had the best music 🤣
I was in grade school when this was popular. Never knew what happened in the desert. Lol. 1970’s music is eclectic and special at the very least. Lots of flavors
Music is both a time machine and a healer. What a trip down memory lane ❤
I enjoyed this song "back in the day," but appreciate it even more now for the poetic beauty of the lyrics, such as "...I know your daddy's a sultan, a nomad known to all.." And, of course, Maria's beautiful voice and performance.
What a beautiful flower. And the one in her hair too.
"MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS"! ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES FROM THE 70"S FROM MARIA MULDAUR! the dj
It's amazing, how some songs, are just ICONIC of an era. Sidenote. I thought Minnie Ripperton sang this. Sister Girl Maria Muldaur, wearing the bell bottoms, proper!
Yes, similar voice and vibe
Yes reminds me of her too. Such beautiful melody
Totally different voice and style 😊
I've always loved that song, but I never seen her until now! What a Cutie Pie!❤
what is seen here is a real artist. Actually the thing abut an artist- performer that lives in their performance is their spirit. Her gorgeous high energy spirit is so visible. She is singing for the pure joy of doing it. This is what we fall in love with.. Some never have it.
Heard this on the AM radio all the time when I was a kid. I had no idea the lady who performed it was such a knockout! Wow! 😍
As an Indie kid coming from south of Jakarta, I can say the vibe of this song is 60 years ahead of it's time and also a great art piece that mainly local scene musicians can learn from ❤❤❤🏢🏢
I'm so fortunate to have lived in the day.
Think it was Mid night special. There were hip huggers everywhere. Thoose were the days my friend
My memory of listening to it over and over as it came on my car radio. Leaving home and family behind, my graduation leave gone, I was on a journey to the oasis of an airbase in the central Valley of Arizona. Dust storms. Colonels as Sultans. The moon clear from horizon to horizon. Shadows sharp as razors. Giant cactus with arms pointing the way. My brand-new automotive camel. On it went, my reality in that evocative new song on the radio. It filled me with strong emotion-- fear, longing, excitement, and loneliness on my journey thru the night into the desert. I still feel that today. Just with swirls of Nostalgia.
I had the pleasure to see her perform 4 months ago.She can still sing great and has a wonderful stage presence.
She was my favorite when I was 16 ...She played with Jim Kweskin's Jug Band(fiddle and vocals) and was talented and beautiful.As a 16 year old dark haired Italian hippy girl -she was my idol!(she's also Italian/American!!!)
I so remember hearing this song being played for the first time on KLIV radio in San Jose, CA. Fantastic bands of the early 70's.
I was pretty young when this song came out. I liked it then but now that I'm older(63) I can really appreciate it's greatness. She was truly talented.
Always have Loved Maria Muldaur Love the classic Midnight At The Oasis. Great Lyrics
Good to see and hear her performing this song live from around the time it was a hit. I remember the first time I heard the record and being blown away by the uniqueness of the song and the singer.
My mother liked this song. This is a good memory. Love the seventies.
I was standing outside at night in the summer time. the song would play on the radio. All the people in cars would crank up the radio. I was a teenager in the early 70'S...Rock on people.
Where have all the good times gone?! This has always been a fav. ❤❤
Simple lyrics. Simple life. Oh back in the day.
It only seems simple, try those chord changes and singing those tricky slidey notes, you have to be real good to make it seem simple.
I am in my oasis, Morocco, merzouga 2 nights ago. Magical as ever. Khadija
Man do I wish I grew up in the 70s. I was born 2 years after this came out. Love everything about this decade. The music was incredible and the musicians were true artists. Unlike most of the crap that we see today. For all those who grew up in this era you are truly blessed and lucky
Darn, you were doing so well, but then there it was, the “unlike today’s crap” comment. sigh
I remember being very young hearing this song, maybe a teenager. The voice so smooth, yet both strong and tender. I wanted to vist the place she sang about. This would be a place where no one would ever hate you, you could be black or white, young or old. It would be a place where you could relax and chill. Nothing but, peace and love, soul jazz vibes. It's nothing like the so call music of today. I sure hope the singer Maria knows how special it was.(and still is)❤❤💐🦋
Still listening in 2020. Great music never dies!
I wish I had a time traveling machine all about the 1970 and nothing but excellent times
💥💥 And in addition to Maria’s beautiful presence here Jimmy Page once said that Amos Garrett was one of his favorite guitarists in the 70s. So much greatness going on here.
I am 73 and loved this song the first time I heard it. Seeing her live is a real treat. Her movements are fantastic. Her band is really good. I also like her song "don't you feel my leg" Didn't know she was born in the Village in NYC. I lived there for many years
what a gorgeous looking woman. Every bit as beautiful as the voice!
Great looking but voice isn't that great. I think she kills this song anyway
Ever since I first heard this song, whenever I listen to it, I'm transported to a dimly-lit bar in Las Vegas, around midnight. Everyone in the place is blissful, and I've had a few scotches to improve my mood even more... it's just a beautiful, mellow and relaxed feeling in a town that understands that every person wants to cut loose every now and then...
I love this song from my younger days. Love her voice then and now, so genuine and beautiful, a relief from the over produced music today.
Listing to WABC in a New Jersey suburb, we were drenched with great music, even on AM radio !
Such a great song and Maria Muldaur is a wonderful singer. "You won't need no harem, honey..." You betcha he won't.
This song, she exercise her vocal cords so delightful so unique. Never stop singing Maria, your voice is so cool it got me in a trance. Love it.
In the summer of 1974 this song fit so well in Panama city, Florida. It seemed to be coming from every corner during the day. While I was only 7 y/o that summer I remember how this seemed so magical and exotic.