I graduated in 1980 from an 80% black student body high school. White boys snuck out to attend underground funky disco parties that made the dance lines on Soul Train look tame. This 70’s porno riff was throwed down with Gap Band, Rick James, and more. I can still feel the funky love at our class reunions from a brief period where we laughed at our differences and the way society at the time wanted us to be divisive. The fun music brought us together ❤️🩹
I believe much of their enthusiasm was amplified by a product made from leaves, processed in mountainous jungle labs located in the southern hemisphere then brought to the US in 2.2lb sized blocks.
Many moons ago , Someone put this on at the end of study hall one day and I swear everyone started dancing right in the classroom !! The teacher was even bobbing her head too. The first time a girl ever asked me first to dance was to this song and it was in that class and I did not disappoint. No fighting , no guns , no drama , just having a good time !!
Holyshut Up!! We played this SONG 10X in Art class. At the Corcoran school of art in Washington DC. EVERYBODY went crazy! We then went into a paint fight ( like a food fight, but w/ paint!) Throwing Acrylics, every colors at the male NUDE posing. Filmed on super 8mm. CRAZY DAYS!!😵💫!!! (Love to see that clip today!) ☮️
Watch the other version with Carlo Driggs. Now that's one coked up performance! BUT HEY, if it wasn't for that, that other video performance perhaps would have been as tame and ho-hum as the moves of that red guitar guy.
This is utterly weird and magnificent. The hairy chested dancers, the fluorescent background jelly, the green piano, the guy with the tube in his mouth… the creativity knows no bounds, this video belongs in a museum for modern art.
@lopony7944 - Sorry to disappoint you. The background vocals for this song are sung by a White and Latino men and women known as The Wildflowers. I've seen their picture. There are NO black females singing. Look it up for yourself.
Next time I go to a wedding and everyone gets on the dance floor- I'm gonna do the FOXY GET OFF DANCE and show them who's the disco KING of the Planet !
I was 8 years old when this song came out and all my life I could have sworn that this was a black group. This is what makes the 70’s and the music from the disco era great. I’m dying here!!! 😅
Been listening to this song for literally decades - always thought the artists were a female group! First time i have seen a video - colour me shocked .... and stunned!
"@Freya262" I only dimly recall this song. But Yes, I would have thought it was a female band. The boy band Hanson had a hit called " MMMbop" (I think in the 90s) and since I was already well past my teens at that time I was not paying strict attention to the latest young pop group, but I thought it was some young female singing the lead but I found out years later that Hanson was an all-boy band ..
@@trevorjennings35Gmail funny you should ask! Nope, it got me! I got Covid in the form of a long lingering cold.😣Feeling better now tho, thankfully for Christmas. Happy holidays to you!
Wild AF 😂. I LOVED it. It had a little bit of everything. Silliness and humor and gaiety (and broken necks lol). These dancers must have trained in every field of dance. And they just GOTTA have some kinda background in ballet to execute some of these crazy a&& moves they were doing. 😅
How on earth did I live to this age without hearing this song or seeing these dancers?!? Never mind their clothes or the fashions, these boys and girls were giving it their all!
Don't care what nobody ever ever says music of late 70s early 80s was the best of all time! But got to admit women today make the disco chicks back then look like waifs.
This is when DISCO was still BLACK music, and all the cheesy knockoff groups started coming out! These guys were really bringing the funk, the way REAL fans wanted it!
@@futurefind674Naw naw my disco kindred! Foxy's main hits came out in 1977-78. Disco was a phenomena cause WHITE FOLKS got into dancing/clubbing really from about 1974 until all that hateful shit in 1980 (and Ronald Reagan). Yes us black folks are STILL into it now - cause then came rapping and hip-hop! There wuz so many disco fly-by-night groups back then like Foxy. Shit remember we thought Chic and Prince were gonna be one-hit wonders and Nile Rodgers is still jamming today! They all made it the most liberal fun times in recent memory as compared to the hateful cultural bullshit we got today! Only thing is women today is way finer than chicks back then (when did white chicks start growing booties!?).
@woodrowpreacely7521 Uhhh no...lol. WE never even CALLED it "Disco"! Lol. It STARTED as a groove, first visible in the early works of NORMAN WHITFIELD and then mastered by the GAMBLE and HUFF days of PHILLY SOUL, in which whole orchestras were used to back up the core band. The O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and later Teddy Pendergrass, etc. laid the foundation for what would later become Disco and be taken over by Whites and Hispanics, who sucked the soul out of it, which led to that whole racist cave animal display at Comiskey Park back in 1980, and the destruction of black music which wasn't even RELATED to Disco! If it had a black face on the cover, it was to be destroyed! THESE dudes tried to be the real thing, but even WHITE people wouldn't allow them to be serious! That's too bad for them, but it's all done to fw US! 🤷🏾♂️😒🤣
The summer of 1978 I turned 15 that August and this was my second favorite behind Rick James’s You and I. Actually I had this album. Got me through some tough times
I was 15, a freshman in HS, and I loved it. Dance Corps did a routine to this song in a Pep Rally, and it was played at lunch in our commons area where we often danced. Classic.
NYC, 1978. This song was everything, everywhere all at once. I couldn't dance well in those days, but I could bobb my head to the music. Didn't know how to hustle, never did but I enjoyed watching other people getting off, on the dance floor.
No wonder your generation ruined society, if this is your idea of great no wonder credit scores, trickle down economics, and a war on drugs were a good idea...
@@ronschmidtling3946 It was all about the music, the song, the sound. That is why it was so great. Music videos just limit the interpretation of the song to what you see to a great extent.
Watch the other version with Carlo Driggs. Now that's one coked up performance! BUT HEY, if it wasn't for that, one supposes, that other video performance perhaps would have been as tame and ho-hum as the moves of that red guitar guy.
I was born in 1969 and can say this is exactly how I remember the 70's , I understood it just as well back then as I do today , and that is not at all ??????????? LOL .
It's so funny how they'll be told how "great" they are, just off of their "passion", alone! Meanwhile, BLACK people have to be actually GOOD to get half tbe amount of praise! Good thing we dont GIVE A F*CK about cauca-praise! 👋🏾🤣
I mean!! I never would dreamed they looked like this! I am speechless! This is definitely hilarious. We danced to this song all through high school.😂😂😂
We are fortunate this video was ever filmed ,because this video was not filmed by the band or its record company ,this video was filmed by spanish television channel TVE and its dancers promoting an appearance by the band Foxy and its song on their show.The lead dancer Manuel Bandera is still around and is working on bringing A Chorus Line to Spain.
I’m a child of the 70s. In the black community we had lots of cook outs, block parties and family gatherings. I can tell you there weren’t many songs by whites that were being played. Yet, I do remember this one being played. It had a really good rhythm to it. We had our own dance moves unlike the corney steps in this video. Over all we jammed to it. Also I didn’t know they were a all white band until now. Correction! I’m sorry they’re Cubans! That’s kool, now it makes sense.
I suspect there really are black singers on this song. Why don't they show the female back up singers in the video? The female backup singers sound black to me ... and I love their sound, too.
This song was a hit even in Colombia, South America. I remember this song always was played at the parties in those good old times. ❤ BTW, first time I see the video, and all of the dancers are superb!! 🎉 ✌️🤩
Wow! Im going back to my first week starting 8th Grade in junior high school with this jam. Saw them perform on American Bandstand with this jam as well.
Just like Bobby Caldwell, a JAM from folks that you wouldn't have thought put it together!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️💯🔥 I remember being a kid in the Bronx at a disco party grooving to this in the late 70s!😆😆😆
I was thinking the exact same thing. Bobby Caldwell what you won't do for love. I always thought he was black until I saw the video recently. Awesome music!
i was 17 when this came out . going to the under age discos and school dances i remember getting down to this. but damn - i never thought this is what the band looked like!
This is the best, coolest, funkiest, lady-killer video ever in the history of all music videos - I'm going to practice the dance and then head straight down to the club and lay it down
I’ve scrolled and scrolled. Why is no one talking about the crystal Christmas tree spinning in the background? What does it have to do with anything else in that video? WHY IS IT THERE.
I'd have broken my neck trying to dance like that, their energy alone is off the chain.....that was one of my favorite skating songs in the very late 70s when I was a teenager
Este tema se lanzó en Julio de 1978 por el sello propiedad de T.K. (Fundado por Henry Stone a principios de los 70 y situado en Hialeah, Florida), Dash Records en su segundo álbum de estudio. Llegó al puesto 18 en el Billboard Hot Disco de aquél año aunque en el Billboard Hot Soul llegó al número 1. Foxy fue una banda de música disco de finales de los 70 en la que todos los miembros eran cubanos. Destacaban el fundador Ish Ledesma (que en 1979 sacó un tema suyo propio llamado "Don't Stop") y el hijo de Tito Puente, Richie Puente a la batería. Su primer álbum se lanzó en 1976 conteniendo sus éxitos "Get Off Your Aaahh And Dance" y "Let's Love". Al año siguiente sacaron una cover de "The Way You Do The Things You Do" popularizada por The Temptations en formato doce pulgadas para T.K. Disco y en 1979 lanzaron "Hot Number". Un tema muy parecido estructuralmente a "Get Off". El grupo se desintegró en 1980, justo cuando ocurrió el principio del fin de la era de oro de la música disco, dando paso a la era Post-Disco. Las vocalistas femeninas eran un grupo de sesión que había trabajado con Peter Brown (otro artista de T.K. que en 1977 sacó un tema con Betty Wright llamado "Dance With Me") y que se llamaba Wildflower. Este grupo en 1977 lanzó una versión Disco del tema interpretado por Ray Noble en 1939 "Harlem Nocturne" en formato doce pulgadas a 45 RPM para T.K. Disco en el número de serie TKD 55.
This was possibly the greatest era of music. So many choices, and really the end of disco. But of all my choices, and some of these groups are still touring, this was the first officially licensed cassette I ever bought for, wait for it, my huge boombox as a middle schooler, living on an Air Force base in Okinawa, Japan. I had bought plenty of pirated cassettes, but this was my first real purchase. It was certainly a different time back then.
@@BroughtyYeah.. you must’ve been in a coma during the 2010’s apparently. You can honestly argue that with any decade of music in the last 50 years. Even now, the radio plays all sh_t.
When I was in 4th grd 1979, I saw them in Beaumont Tx opening for Sister Sledge and The Jacksons for the Destiny tour. Still one of the best shows I'll ever see. Tix were $8 a piece!
That was the thing about the 70s - colourful, and you could find yourself listening to all sorts of mad stuff as well as the great music of that decade. Real life could be pretty drab at times but the entertainment was bright and fun.
I grew up in the 70s (born in 69) and although I wasn't a teen then, I watched a lot of TV and for a music video of the time this one has really good choreography, fades and timing. It's actually very impressive. Never heard of them until today.
If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic cars, movies, music & concerts of the best pop culture era, YOU were very blessed.
This fancy and flamboyant successful 20th century video just reinforces my opinion that there had been absolutely nothing wrong with Billy Squier dancing around the room in his video.
🤯 All these years, and I'm just seeing this video for the first time??!! Nahhh, this was recently made as a joke, right? 🤣 How could I have never seen this? Mind blown...
Ive seen other videos of this song....weak. its like the band was blessed with a great party song but couldnt live up to it. This is what the song needed, party dancers. Sure today their styles are outdated, but the energy these dancers give here is what the song needed.
Thank you, TH-cam. I always thought this group was black. They look white however, and were way ahead of their time! Thanks for sharing, and God bless you!
I love the hair swanging hair at the beginning! Love all of it! Can't get enough!! Keep watching over and over.Takes me way back!! Thank you for posting!!
My guess is that it was a TV show from someplace in Europe, where artists lip-synch, and pretend to play their instruments along to the pre-recorded album track. Kind of like "top of the pops" in the UK, or "solid gold" in the US. US television shows at this time would not have allowed that specific type of dancing with those specific outfits, and probably would have objected to these lyrics on broadcast TV. Given that this TV show clearly had the budget for a dance troupe, and what would have been very cool video effects for the time, I'm surprised they didn't also have a fake set of female back up singers pretending to sing the female voice sections instead of having the band members, pretending they were singing those sections.
I will never be ashamed or embarrassed of anything I’ve ever done after watching this.
Ha ha ha!
IK, right? 🤣 Those dancers are cringe-worthy. Yikes.
I guess this was considered cool and hip back in the 70's, today this would make an SNL skit.
You mad me laugh, and you're , right. Everyone who did this video - though it was cool.😂
😂😂😂
I’ve known this song all my life, and I’ve never pictured them to look like this. Hilarious!
Yes a bunch of white men. Huh ?
The guys all look like various incarnations of Greg Brady.
@@ViolettaD1485 lol
Me neither.
@ @ViolettaD1485 Hahahahaha! They do! 😂🤣🤣🤣
You can never enjoy life more than being a disco bass player in the late 70s.
And you got chicks a'plenty.
OMG, they were white!
@@luzvargas9033 Actually, they're Cuban (Cuban-American).
lol
Truer words...😂😁🖤.
I graduated in 1980 from an 80% black student body high school. White boys snuck out to attend underground funky disco parties that made the dance lines on Soul Train look tame. This 70’s porno riff was throwed down with Gap Band, Rick James, and more. I can still feel the funky love at our class reunions from a brief period where we laughed at our differences and the way society at the time wanted us to be divisive. The fun music brought us together ❤️🩹
❤❤❤❤ Long live the music! The dance! And the unity it brings! 🎉❤❤❤❤
Tell me it was an high school in l.a.u.s.d
Los angeles unified school district
I don’t think I have ever seen anyone as committed as those dancers. They are giving 5000%.
I believe much of their enthusiasm was amplified by a product made from leaves, processed in mountainous jungle labs located in the southern hemisphere then brought to the US in 2.2lb sized blocks.
😂 You should watch Heather Parisi singing Maniac in an Italian tvshow..
This is the Spanish TV dance group. The choreographer was American
Watch the other video of this song. You will see more commitment. Trust me.
Less is more.
Many moons ago , Someone put this on at the end of study hall one day and I swear everyone started dancing right in the classroom !! The teacher was even bobbing her head too. The first time a girl ever asked me first to dance was to this song and it was in that class and I did not disappoint. No fighting , no guns , no drama , just having a good time !!
Yes wonderful times.
Nice!
Magnífico!!! Eso sí es un buen y bonito recuerdo!!!❤
Today,kids would either have their heads looking down at their cell or fighting over who's the best dancer....with Guns🥺
Holyshut Up!! We played this SONG 10X in Art class. At the Corcoran school of art in Washington DC. EVERYBODY went crazy! We then went into a paint fight ( like a food fight, but w/ paint!) Throwing Acrylics, every colors at the male NUDE posing. Filmed on super 8mm. CRAZY DAYS!!😵💫!!! (Love to see that clip today!) ☮️
The hair! The clothes! The dance moves! The music! I'm in heaven!!!
Mee, too.
Then Parliament Funkadelic must put you in GOD'S LAP!!! 😂🤣
The joy and fun is without equal!!
@@futurefind674 🎯😉
@@futurefind674Parliament is BADDDDASS !!! ESPEC knee deep !
They permeate through the air out my car windows all the time 😃👌🌠🎵📻🎵📻🎵👍👍
Like my mom once said: "You can't go wrong with a lime-green baby grand piano in a Cuban-American funk band". Rest in peace, Mom.
Your mom was SO RIGHT!❤
Mom was wise beyond her years.
❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂
Best laugh I've had in a while. Thanks man...
Awww great memory ❤
My life is now complete.
Mine will be when I can dance like that.
😂
For those of you still concerned, the first dancer has successfully cleared the concussion protocol.
That's encouraging... now how's his whiplash doing????
I now feel like I'm the one with brain damage.
@@ANYHOO0I am a qualified lesbian
@@ijustdidahugeshit same!
@@ANYHOO0 I am a woman
Wow! It’s incredible how young Borat still looks after 45 years. 😮
🤣🤣🤣
I didn't know he played a mean bass
😂👍
Or Richard Ramirez 🤫
@@memelc5655😂 That's not nice 😂😂
Can’t believe all these energetic ‘youngsters’ in the vid are now in their 70s or 80s … if they are still around. Life is short, live it!😊
Dancers, AMAZING ! But for all the WRONG reasons !
'TIE ME UP AT YOUR PLACE' sounds like. (45 seconds)
Sadly, 2 of the singers died, one way back in 2003 and then in 2018, but the rest are still alive
Watch the other version with Carlo Driggs. Now that's one coked up performance!
BUT HEY, if it wasn't for that, that other video performance perhaps would have been as tame and ho-hum as the moves of that red guitar guy.
This is utterly weird and magnificent. The hairy chested dancers, the fluorescent background jelly, the green piano, the guy with the tube in his mouth… the creativity knows no bounds, this video belongs in a museum for modern art.
It was the 70's, year of acid trips
3:44 @@toxichammertoe8696
And jello video backgrounds
@@toxichammertoe8696More about coked-up directors who thought they were genius at thinking up these images .🙄
@@toxichammertoe8696 Acid trips were about 10 years earlier!
The tube thing is a talkbox. Herbie Hancock, Roger Troutman, Peter Frampton
Love this song, takes me back. This video is so ridiculous that it's fabulous!🥸
Yeah, ESPECIALLY the fact that ...
Black people are singing 🤔
I was 14. Aww..the great memories!!🤗
@tameramares5785 I too was 14 then😊
@@cynthiad4443 Such a great time!!
@lopony7944 - Sorry to disappoint you. The background vocals for this song are sung by a White and Latino men and women known as The Wildflowers. I've seen their picture. There are NO black females singing. Look it up for yourself.
Next time I go to a wedding and everyone gets on the dance floor- I'm gonna do the FOXY GET OFF DANCE and show them who's the disco KING of the Planet !
😂😂😂😂 you couldn’t tell those people they weren’t out there shaking their ass. It was hilarious.
For five weeks in 1978 all you heard was, "Woo oo ooo ooo ooo oo ooo oo!' Really.
Yep.
That about sums it up!
@@mogadon7 You're in luck! th-cam.com/video/RbzyBviLmnE/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
This is everything I ever needed in a video . I never have to watch another video again .
😂😂❤❤❤
I was 8 years old when this song came out and all my life I could have sworn that this was a black group. This is what makes the 70’s and the music from the disco era great. I’m dying here!!! 😅
Disco was from Black people. What the studios did was speed up the cords from funk.
Same. Still some of the funkiest fare ever served.
Tambien yo 😅
Check out Wild Cherry and Redbone.....
Me too, I was 14 at the time when this song came out.
Been listening to this song for literally decades - always thought the artists were a female group! First time i have seen a video - colour me shocked .... and stunned!
"@Freya262" I only dimly recall this song. But Yes, I would have thought it was a female band.
The boy band Hanson had a hit called " MMMbop" (I think in the 90s) and since I was already well past my teens at that time I was not paying strict attention to the latest young pop group, but I thought it was some young female singing the lead but I found out years later that Hanson was an all-boy band ..
THIS IS NOT THE BAND!!!!
@@obscurelyvagueNo one knows who these people are It's not the band!
Yeah, thought they were black women! Hah!
@@RebeccaLynnMusic No, it's definitely the band. They have interviews on youtube talking about how the song came about.
The choreography is insane and yet fascinatingly mesmerizing!
Hello Elizabeth, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
@@trevorjennings35Gmail funny you should ask! Nope, it got me! I got Covid in the form of a long lingering cold.😣Feeling better now tho, thankfully for Christmas. Happy holidays to you!
It's Putin, attempting mind control
Never pictured the band to look like this. The dance interpretation is wild too.
Wild AF 😂. I LOVED it. It had a little bit of everything. Silliness and humor and gaiety (and broken necks lol). These dancers must have trained in every field of dance. And they just GOTTA have some kinda background in ballet to execute some of these crazy a&& moves they were doing. 😅
Ha!
‘Dance interpretation’, I’ve never really heard that term but I like it. Thanks
Wow, I thought they were black artist. Amazing that they are Latinos. Great song
I thought it was women 🤣
THIS WAS THE JAMM BACK IN THE DAY!!! YES THIS WAS A BIIIIIGGGGG HIT BACK THEM AND STILL IT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD TODAY!!!
True! Still sounds so good!
I agrée! It’s great!
Still holds up!
I just forget if I used to dance or skate or both to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember buying the album when I was a teen and I would just stare at the cover because every single member of Foxy was a snack!
How on earth did I live to this age without hearing this song or seeing these dancers?!? Never mind their clothes or the fashions, these boys and girls were giving it their all!
The clothes and the fashion are what make this video legendary 🤩
Dang this song was the bomb back in the day😂😂 you never heard of this ?? For real??!!
@@winniejohnson5559 I googled it and found it was only released in the USA, and I live in Ireland.
@@winniejohnson5559 I googled it and found it was only released in the USA.
Damn ! What a versatile band....men that can sing AND play instruments, AND sing the female backing vocals to boot ! That's so FOXY !
I was wondering, where are the background singers. Interesting that this is FOXY! Wow.
Excuse me, but why would you want to boot the backup female singers?
They seem o.k. to me.
The lipsyncing is really bad.
It makes the video awesome! It's like they don't know the words to their own song! I love it!!
😂😂😂Please stop making me laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@shawndabirch1947😂😂😂😂😂
How did the backup dancers not get whiplash dancing like that? 😂😂
How did the female dancers' tops stay on?
I think medical science says that kind of motion is seriously bad for the brain. Hopefully not so bad if it's just for a song or two.
Doctors were standing by
Especially the guys dancing in those shoes.
They're all in nursing homes and wheelchairs😂
When this was a huge disco hit in its heyday I was touring with earth wind and fire. Fantastic job ❤
EW and F my favorite of all time ❤❤❤❤❤
Don't care what nobody ever ever says music of late 70s early 80s was the best of all time! But got to admit women today make the disco chicks back then look like waifs.
This is when DISCO was still BLACK music, and all the cheesy knockoff groups started coming out! These guys were really bringing the funk, the way REAL fans wanted it!
@@futurefind674Naw naw my disco kindred! Foxy's main hits came out in 1977-78. Disco was a phenomena cause WHITE FOLKS got into dancing/clubbing really from about 1974 until all that hateful shit in 1980 (and Ronald Reagan). Yes us black folks are STILL into it now - cause then came rapping and hip-hop! There wuz so many disco fly-by-night groups back then like Foxy. Shit remember we thought Chic and Prince were gonna be one-hit wonders and Nile Rodgers is still jamming today! They all made it the most liberal fun times
in recent memory as compared to the hateful cultural bullshit we got today! Only thing is women today is way finer than chicks back then (when did white chicks start growing booties!?).
@woodrowpreacely7521 Uhhh no...lol. WE never even CALLED it "Disco"! Lol. It STARTED as a groove, first visible in the early works of NORMAN WHITFIELD and then mastered by the GAMBLE and HUFF days of PHILLY SOUL, in which whole orchestras were used to back up the core band. The O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and later Teddy Pendergrass, etc. laid the foundation for what would later become Disco and be taken over by Whites and Hispanics, who sucked the soul out of it, which led to that whole racist cave animal display at Comiskey Park back in 1980, and the destruction of black music which wasn't even RELATED to Disco! If it had a black face on the cover, it was to be destroyed! THESE dudes tried to be the real thing, but even WHITE people wouldn't allow them to be serious! That's too bad for them, but it's all done to fw US! 🤷🏾♂️😒🤣
The summer of 1978 I turned 15 that August and this was my second favorite behind Rick James’s You and I. Actually I had this album. Got me through some tough times
I was 13 at the time, this and You and I were two of my favorites also, great music.
I was 15, a freshman in HS, and I loved it. Dance Corps did a routine to this song in a Pep Rally, and it was played at lunch in our commons area where we often danced. Classic.
In fact, it almost sounds like Rick James did background vocals in some parts of this song.
That's 🥜🥜
I was 16 Jr Varsity Football 🏈 #1 hit traveling to Road games 70% Black team who played it repeatedly to and from games. 😂 great memories
NYC, 1978. This song was everything, everywhere all at once. I couldn't dance well in those days, but I could bobb my head to the music. Didn't know how to hustle, never did but I enjoyed watching other people getting off, on the dance floor.
I have this on 12 inch vinyl, and proud of it! Still gets folks on the dance floor.
In the streaming era your vinyl became a treasure!
I had it too, but no more 😢
I graduated high school in 1978 and I remember this song well. It was a great party song because it got everyone up and dancing.
🎯👍
No wonder your generation ruined society, if this is your idea of great no wonder credit scores, trickle down economics, and a war on drugs were a good idea...
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I literally only learned of this song and video about 5 mins ago. I officially think it’s one of my fave videos of all time. Loving the 70s corniness!
This song was big and very original, everyone is amazing in this video.
@@MrMelgibstein totally agree!
The “Miami sound”, I believe is what it was called.
@@Sandra-o3l Miami Sound
Most of the stuff back then was less corny than this. I used to think of this as a notorious 3 day hit. Real big and then nothing.
I am not ashamed to say as a seventeen year old boy in jersey i loved and danced to this song a million years ago.
I've heard this song for many years but never saw this video before, interesting how many new old videos are popping out the woodwork
Same here- but never saw the band. I never would have imagined---This! :0
@@ronschmidtling3946 It was all about the music, the song, the sound. That is why it was so great. Music videos just limit the interpretation of the song to what you see to a great extent.
@@valentinr.dominguez2892Very very true.
Watch the other version with Carlo Driggs. Now that's one coked up performance!
BUT HEY, if it wasn't for that, one supposes, that other video performance perhaps would have been as tame and ho-hum as the moves of that red guitar guy.
Those dancers, the song and video put a smile on my face.... better times.
bass guitarist Arnold Paseiro, was my music teacher in the 1990s when I was in 6th grade at W.J. Bryan Elementary School.
@@myBquest He was a tall guy. Very nice.
This bass line is very good !
Where's that?
@@johnschwab3749 It was in South Miami.
He really looks like a middle school teacher actually
I was born in 1969 and can say this is exactly how I remember the 70's , I understood it just as well back then as I do today , and that is not at all ??????????? LOL .
70’s Borat going hard on the guitar! 😂😂
VERRRYYYY NIIIIICE
Bass guitar*
Yeayass hesss slappiN Da Bayss, salappin da bayssssss
😩🤭
IKR?! Borat has had a long and varied career!😆
Oh my gosh, those dancers are freakishly motivated
Coke😂😅is 😅
It's so funny how they'll be told how "great" they are, just off of their "passion", alone! Meanwhile, BLACK people have to be actually GOOD to get half tbe amount of praise! Good thing we dont GIVE A F*CK about cauca-praise! 👋🏾🤣
@@arturopalos2739lmao. No no, practice practice practice is it.
It's the real thing!
Lol! 👍
I mean!! I never would dreamed they looked like this! I am speechless! This is definitely hilarious. We danced to this song all through high school.😂😂😂
When you don't see the video of the song is great to dance to I did as well. But now that I sold the video I'm like what the hell!??😂😂🤣🤣
We are fortunate this video was ever filmed ,because this video was not filmed by the band or its record company ,this video was filmed by spanish television channel TVE and its dancers promoting an appearance by the band Foxy and its song on their show.The lead dancer Manuel Bandera is still around and is working on bringing A Chorus Line to Spain.
Thanks for the info, as I had never seen a music video for this song. Glad they made it! 😸
@@larrycj4382 There are other videos for this song by the band, but not with this choreography and energy, the spanish took it to another level.
Thank you for the explanation. This explains why the dancers didn't seem to have the same "touch" as Americans from the disco era.
@@millana100 Youre Very Welcome
D'oh. I just posted up asking about the origins of this thing. Didn't see this. Oh well. Great video. 😊
I’m a child of the 70s. In the black community we had lots of cook outs, block parties and family gatherings.
I can tell you there weren’t many songs by whites that were being played.
Yet, I do remember this one being played. It had a really good rhythm to it. We had our own dance moves unlike the corney steps in this video. Over all we jammed to it. Also I didn’t know they were a all white band until now. Correction! I’m sorry they’re Cubans! That’s kool, now it makes sense.
I suspect there really are black singers on this song. Why don't they show the female back up singers in the video? The female backup singers sound black to me ... and I love their sound, too.
They are Latino.
I had always thought the band was black....
Corney is not even the right word to describe that dancing
Actually, they're Cuban.
This song was a hit even in Colombia, South America. I remember this song always was played at the parties in those good old times. ❤ BTW, first time I see the video, and all of the dancers are superb!! 🎉 ✌️🤩
This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen or heard.
🎵 its 2023 and I still can't figure out how these disco musicians were able to compose a hit funky disco song ! They deserve a
Disco Hall of fame
This is a reminder that reality and parody are one in the same. Absolutely fantastic!
This is the wisest thing I’ve read in a while.
Wow! Im going back to my first week starting 8th Grade in junior high school with this jam. Saw them perform on American Bandstand with this jam as well.
👆🎯💯 THIS!
Just like Bobby Caldwell, a JAM from folks that you wouldn't have thought put it together!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️💯🔥
I remember being a kid in the Bronx at a disco party grooving to this in the late 70s!😆😆😆
Remember WABC AM radio? They played all the good music there! 😁
I was thinking the exact same thing. Bobby Caldwell what you won't do for love. I always thought he was black until I saw the video recently. Awesome music!
@@randumb2020 I think that most of us thought that he and they were black as well.
I love this song! In the late 70s we had the best music. And it was music that everyone dancing! 🎉🎉❤❤
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i was 17 when this came out . going to the under age discos and school dances i remember getting down to this. but damn - i never thought this is what the band looked like!
ditto! same age... underage discos. good times.
Opposite! In a strange twist, I knew what the band looked like before I ever heard the song. And that was a decade after "Get Off"'s prime.
This is the best, coolest, funkiest, lady-killer video ever in the history of all music videos - I'm going to practice the dance and then head straight down to the club and lay it down
😆😂❤
😂 go get it!
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. Turned a so so night into an amazing one. Go get it! 🎉
Are you on shrooms?
Just f awesome
I’ve scrolled and scrolled. Why is no one talking about the crystal Christmas tree spinning in the background? What does it have to do with anything else in that video? WHY IS IT THERE.
I'd have broken my neck trying to dance like that, their energy alone is off the chain.....that was one of my favorite skating songs in the very late 70s when I was a teenager
I'd crank this up after leaving traffic court getting out of my many moving violations. With a rolled-up joint in the ashtray, of course!
This choreography is really ... something.
😂😂
It's something alright.... lmao
Ridiculous😂
...and something else.😅
Your comment made me LOL. I was thinking the same. And I can’t stop watching it.
Searching for a synth instrumental for years. Accidentally ran into this one. Another one I've been searching for. Thanks
This is cheesy magnificent greatness! Fight me!
im obsessed with this choreography.. I cant stop watching it
me too. I watch it every weekend at happy hour
The amount of funk in this song is off the charts. One of the best music videos on You Tube. Hands down.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Maaaaan....you white people say the most HILARIOUS shit!
Funk yeah 😂
The song - Agreed. The video - No!
This is such a great song.
Este tema se lanzó en Julio de 1978 por el sello propiedad de T.K. (Fundado por Henry Stone a principios de los 70 y situado en Hialeah, Florida), Dash Records en su segundo álbum de estudio. Llegó al puesto 18 en el Billboard Hot Disco de aquél año aunque en el Billboard Hot Soul llegó al número 1. Foxy fue una banda de música disco de finales de los 70 en la que todos los miembros eran cubanos. Destacaban el fundador Ish Ledesma (que en 1979 sacó un tema suyo propio llamado "Don't Stop") y el hijo de Tito Puente, Richie Puente a la batería. Su primer álbum se lanzó en 1976 conteniendo sus éxitos "Get Off Your Aaahh And Dance" y "Let's Love". Al año siguiente sacaron una cover de "The Way You Do The Things You Do" popularizada por The Temptations en formato doce pulgadas para T.K. Disco y en 1979 lanzaron "Hot Number". Un tema muy parecido estructuralmente a "Get Off". El grupo se desintegró en 1980, justo cuando ocurrió el principio del fin de la era de oro de la música disco, dando paso a la era Post-Disco. Las vocalistas femeninas eran un grupo de sesión que había trabajado con Peter Brown (otro artista de T.K. que en 1977 sacó un tema con Betty Wright llamado "Dance With Me") y que se llamaba Wildflower. Este grupo en 1977 lanzó una versión Disco del tema interpretado por Ray Noble en 1939 "Harlem Nocturne" en formato doce pulgadas a 45 RPM para T.K. Disco en el número de serie TKD 55.
Excelente información...
Nunca imagine que fueran cubanos!siempre creí que eran de EEUU
Gracias por la información ..saludos desde España
Gracias por la información ..saludos desde España
Sublime!
At first i was thinking "who are these dudes in the high heels?" NOW i get it...Excellent dancers! great video!
Whoever wrote the lyrics to this song is a genius! It must have taken a lot of late nights to get it right.
You Tube needs a sarcasm font.
@@dumfriesspearhead7398 It really does.
Your post should have thousands of Likes! They must've missed the humor in it. LOL
Writer’s block
I think the main message of the song is to “get off” or something or other. 🤔
Bad ass, infectous song with badass funk-dancing!!
This was possibly the greatest era of music. So many choices, and really the end of disco. But of all my choices, and some of these groups are still touring, this was the first officially licensed cassette I ever bought for, wait for it, my huge boombox as a middle schooler, living on an Air Force base in Okinawa, Japan. I had bought plenty of pirated cassettes, but this was my first real purchase. It was certainly a different time back then.
This is the worst era of music and it’s not even close.
Yes, it was the greatest era of music, just not shite like this!
@@BroughtyYeah.. you must’ve been in a coma during the 2010’s apparently. You can honestly argue that with any decade of music in the last 50 years. Even now, the radio plays all sh_t.
This is amazing!!! Hahaha omg dancers are killing it!!!
When I was in 4th grd 1979, I saw them in Beaumont Tx opening for Sister Sledge and The Jacksons for the Destiny tour. Still one of the best shows I'll ever see. Tix were $8 a piece!
Tengo 62 años. Y aprendí a bailar con esta música. Qué recuerdos!!!!
That was the thing about the 70s - colourful, and you could find yourself listening to all sorts of mad stuff as well as the great music of that decade. Real life could be pretty drab at times but the entertainment was bright and fun.
Disco was just so much fun.
I have danced to this song in the clubs!! Loved the beat...
❤I,m seriously feeling this trax...like for real real 🎉
Quando eu era pequena tinha uns vizinhos q curtiam demais o Foxy.Grandrs lembranças, ótimas músicas,tempos bons q não voltam mais.Sdds!!!!
There is so much going on in this video. I think this is one of the best videos ever made!
I grew up in the 70s (born in 69) and although I wasn't a teen then, I watched a lot of TV and for a music video of the time this one has really good choreography, fades and timing. It's actually very impressive. Never heard of them until today.
Me too because I am a qualified lesbian
Props to that guy for holding the piano that way. Those things are heavy as hell, yet he's still able to play it.
We all just need to give it up for the dancers in the video for probably suffering the rest of their lives with whiplash
My neck hurt just watching it.
If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic cars, movies, music & concerts of the best pop culture era, YOU were very blessed.
I remember loving this song as a kid in the 70's. It was one of those songs that every time I played you had to get up and start moving.
Yes this was jam back in the day lol we would go off.
This fancy and flamboyant successful 20th century video just reinforces my opinion that there had been absolutely nothing wrong with Billy Squier dancing around the room in his video.
This is amazing. We knew how to have actual fun in the 70s and 80s
Fun.
Todays young people look miserable
Wow I remember this at the clubs but thought it was Cameo!! Great dance beat!!
At all of my high school dances, this was the song, amongst many others.
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🤯 All these years, and I'm just seeing this video for the first time??!! Nahhh, this was recently made as a joke, right? 🤣 How could I have never seen this? Mind blown...
I was nine when this came out. I still love disco music. Some of the best bass lines in disco.
Ive seen other videos of this song....weak. its like the band was blessed with a great party song but couldnt live up to it. This is what the song needed, party dancers. Sure today their styles are outdated, but the energy these dancers give here is what the song needed.
I was 17,when this came out. This was the🤬,everybody would hit the dance floor!!
Thank you, TH-cam. I always thought this group was black. They look white however, and were way ahead of their time! Thanks for sharing, and God bless you!
I don't know if I love or hate the choreography but the song is great
Oh the 70s what a great time😊
We tore this song up back in the day, both on the dance floor and at the roller rink.
Let’s see y’all youngsters top it!
Hello Pretty, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
Totally! 🛼
This is FANTASTIC. I need to know more about Foxy.
Imagine showing this to your grandkids. "Yup, that was your grandpa, with all those dance moves." 😊
I love the hair swanging hair at the beginning! Love all of it! Can't get enough!! Keep watching over and over.Takes me way back!! Thank you for posting!!
I'm a 70's kid and this was one of my favs. I didn't know till seeing this video that this song was not a black group jam..... and it was a hit💯
Exactly, of course we didn't care about that, just the music.
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I love this song. I was in 5th or 6th grade. Disco was so much fun and still is.
This is so HORRENDOUS all the way across the board….it’s AWESOME!!!
U ignoring the song?
I was 12 when this came out. Bought the 45 single and used to play it on the roller rink juke box.
The dancers, the rehearsals, all the work that was put into this. Help me to make sense of this.
Perhaps Alan Carr was producing...
My guess is that it was a TV show from someplace in Europe, where artists lip-synch, and pretend to play their instruments along to the pre-recorded album track. Kind of like "top of the pops" in the UK, or "solid gold" in the US.
US television shows at this time would not have allowed that specific type of dancing with those specific outfits, and probably would have objected to these lyrics on broadcast TV.
Given that this TV show clearly had the budget for a dance troupe, and what would have been very cool video effects for the time, I'm surprised they didn't also have a fake set of female back up singers pretending to sing the female voice sections instead of having the band members, pretending they were singing those sections.
@@Leftatalbuquerque😂😂😂😂