William DeVaughn ~ Be Thankful For What You Got 1973 Disco Purrfection Version
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- The first time I heard this one I thought it was going to be Timmy Thomas "Why Can't We Live Together". After opening with a similar bongo rhythm, the churchy organ and James Jamerson-like bassline take the song into another direction with a classy laid back groove. Then the cool vocals of William DeVaughn come in preaching about what is really important in life. The combination of the orchestra and vocalist/writer was pure gold.
William is a Jehovah's Witness who had written a song and then invested $900 to record it at Omega Sound in Philadelphia, a vanity production house. Omega's pitch was they would record your song but you had to pay up front. In 1973 DeVaughn was living in Washington DC answered an Omega ad in Billboard. An agent from Omega came up to see him and then they sent him to Philadelphia for a second audition. They agreed to record his songs if he could come up with $1400 for the session, but they accepted the $900 he was able to scrape up.
Omega relented and contacted producers Frank Fioravanti and John Davis to put together a session and hire musicians. Well, that studio ended up being Sigma Sound, the home of The Sound Of Philadelphia. Davis got Earl Young (drums), Norman Harris (Guitar), Larry Washington (Congas) and Vince Montana (Vibraphone) all key members of MFSB. John Davis himself handled the organ and directed the session facing the other musicians.
Omega VP Frank Fioravanti knew the song was something special, but record executives in New York shunned the song saying "it was the worst thing they ever heard". Not wanting to give up, Frank went to LA to shop the song and got three offers in one day! The winner was Wes Farrell of Chelsea Records who signed DeVaughn to their Roxbury label. Entering the chart at #89, it quickly scaled the charts, peaking at #4 pop and spent one week at #1 R&B. Even at the height of his popularity, DeVaughn was still going door to door in Washington DC canvassing and taking donations for the Jehovah's Witnesses. - เพลง
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I'm gonna be 85 in a couple months , and all I've got to say is : BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE GOT !!
This tune makes me glad I was a kid in North Philly -- back in the '50s.
We were ALL brothers and sisters, regardless of our skin color -- it's too bad that America has fallen victim to extremist propaganda.
Yes, BE THANKFUL for what you've got -- and be wary of the extreemist people that want to take it all away.
HELL YA MY DEAREST BROTHER! Cheers From SoCal GOOD BUDDY!😜🥰🍺🍺🎼🎼🌹🌹🌹
I remember when this first came out...I was stationed in Germany..we played it over and over...here I am..69 yrs old still groovin to this magnificent tune
fatima🔯✝️ 🙏🏽
Yo Steve john , were you a 13 BRAVO ??
Amen...me too, @ 67yrs. PRAISE GOD, be blessed, Amen. 🙏
@@fatmamenidjel7940 🙏✌❤🙌🤝
@@NoMercy-qd7os 14 alpha was my call sign in wolfenbuttle
When music brought us together instead of separating us.
My partner passed away last week. This song means a lot to me right now, it's helping me to try and accept the situation, without them. ❤️🙏
Please accept my sympathy. I hope you will be able to overcome the grief and am glad that I can help in some small way. hugs
aguante!!! sis!!!!!
God bless you .. last year was terrible for everybody but I couldn't imagine losing my soulmate.. there are no words just know you are not alone.. that we all love you... And without a doubt you will be reunited again God bless!
I'm sorry to hear that.
Your doing right, feel it in full, Mom O.D' in '89 and marvin gays "What's goin' on" helped me mourn. Peace and out.
R&b like this will never come again
Laying here in the Hospital with Myloid Lukimia remembering all the Good Times .65 yrs old and still thankful for what i got !
Hey darlin Rosie Revelez I luv u all the way from Arkansas. Dad gum it if don't drive a great big cadellic I drive a purdy mustang I come pick u up sugar. I hope u feel better soon sugar👍😸
@@juliemcalister2557 Thank You 😊 just put a smile ony face !!!!
Rosie l love you I pray for Us.Amor 🇵🇷
@@hectorrivera5867 Thank You my Love 😘😘💋💋
U hi ppp
In high school in LA in 1973 when having fun was all that mattered. Gas was 35 cents a gallon, no serious crime, no divisions, just hanging at the beach chasing the girls and deciding what to do when we "grow up" in a few years. Boy that sure went by fast !!!!!
Thanks for the memories Harry. Cause that's exactly how it was in our hood. It's a damn shame that was something for us to want to be or have. But really nice things were rare in my hood. I'm thankful to be alive and well. September 19th,2022. Be blessed, peace out.
@@charlescurry5549 Yup. life, liberty and great memories. All going away as we get older. Im ceratinly thankful for what I have....not a lot, but better than some !!
Jacksonville Florida 1974
Old school music is still the best music of all
Most of them was coming from the heart n souls !
@Zolar Czakl
Me atendió y tu casa mihija 😄😄😄😄😃 unsaludo 🙂
@Zolar Czakl is it "old" or is it "school"?...1+1 still equals 2
@Zolar Czakl troll much? can we stop using labels and just call it music?
@Zolar Czaklwhy do you feel compelled to admonish people? Address the issue not the person, troll boy
I was a kid when this song came out, and I dug it. Now, I'm an old fart and this song STILL resonates with me. "Just be thankful for what you got." Yes, Lord!
Damn this song is as good today as when it first came out. Classic.
soul is eternal
Just as good now I'm 60
I agree!!!
I love this music so much. I leave it playing for my house plants and I feel like they grow greener and bigger with it. Have a wonderful day you who read this comment and those of you who pass it by.
Have they grown even more
@@aprayerandpositivethoughts9308 yes they have! :) One of them even multiplied! I was surprised lol
Im trying this on my plants thanks You chose a really good song for them
Have a blessed day friend.
I believe it when you say the plants grow faster
Because I talk and sometimes sing to my plants and they seem to get all gitty and greener lol
It's unfortunate all the highly talented black musicians don't make music like this anymore
Ain't nothing like laying in bed early on a Sunday morning listening to Superb Old Skool Hits! Grew up with this at a young age in the 70's. Still here ~ ain't going nowhere! Texas in da House!!! May 2023
Some of the best advice you will ever hear: Be thankful for what you have. Can you see? Can you walk? Can you hear? Simple things like that are what we take for granted, until something is taken from us.
Amen my Friend 💯👍
I listened to his music as a teenager in the 70' s with no car walking and riding a bicycle!!! Now in my 60's!!!!
That must have been fun times man. Im a teenager now and I love listening to all these classics, soul funk and reggae from 70s.
Im thankfull for the sol
fatima🔯✝️ 🙏🏽
The way music should be 🙏
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449 foolish people gave this classic song a thumbs down. Unbelievable. Love this one
Some people have no taste
Fools fuh sho...in 1974 an El Dorado with a sun roof top diamond shaped rear window driving with a cool gangsta lean was real...btw don't forget the hat and a pretty girl next to you...fools better ask somebody...
449 FOOLISH CLOWNS WHO DONT HAVE EARS TO APPRECIATE A TIMELESS CLASSIC!! This is one of the chillest illest groovy songs ever! And I’m not the only one who thinks so...!!!
I love this song!
But remember what's beautiful to one may be ugly to another
Them suckers dont have no taste in good old school 70s music. I'm listening to this right now the LONG VERSION. I just listened to the STYLISTICS( people make the world go round) next it will be (why can't we live together) TIMMY THOMAS. The SPINNERS, OH HONEY by DELEGATION, DO FOR LOVE Bobby Caldwell Caldwell ect 70s old school 4ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song helped me get through 1974 after my breakdown. Circa 2021, older, wiser, more thankful than ever. Not alot but enough.
So glad you made it over!💛
@@gold-in-melanin7488 that's a true heart!
Rock on Scott!
Groovy, that's the spirit...
Sometimes you just find one song that keeps you going. So pleased you found yours and it got you through the rough times. Take care hun x
When Music Has A Positive Meaning And Message..Peace 2022
Gratitude is when you realize what you have is sufficient! Then other things will be granted to you!!!!🤔
You said it so right !
You are so right sweet heart
Thy Grace is Sufficient for me.🙏✌
Well said... ✌️
Amén
I'm here with 25 years old in the middle of amazonia listening this track. Got to pay respect for this classic.
His faith, trust, and belief in Something greater than himself was worth more than all the money he could make.
This is bringing many tears to my eyes! I still feel this CLASSIC!!! Many people used to look down on other people who didn't have nice clothes and gangster hawgs Cadillacs! But in my eyes they ALL STOOD TALL without all the bling and flash!! Young BLACK PEOPLE OF TODAY DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE. BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GOT!!!!!
All ppl tho
And in ALL THINGS, give thanks 🙏. 1 Thessalonians 5:18.
I would give everything to go back to the 70s....didn't know what we had....awesome simple...
Me too
I agree too ! !
We are, women can’t choose what to do with their bodies anymore🤬
The 70s was a great time to be young.
Yes it was
I remember the first time that I heard this song ,the summer of 73 and I was in New York. I fell in love with the song cause he was telling us to be thankful for what you got and at 10 years old I understood exactly what he was saying..
We use to cruise to this song and the beautiful young ladys use to jump in and make us look beautiful in Ontario Califas.
I'm 58 and this is this first time I heard this song in completion, I remember back in the day on the radio but I live in the sticks and never heard the whole song until now......WOW.....I was just a little boy, but with a memory like a elephant, or what they say. I was jamming on a old tube radio at my grandparents house then.... Best music ever when I was over there.... I really miss them and the old school days.
When I noticed this video prompted on my phone, I clicked on it with a quickness. For those of us who have heard "Be Thankful For What You Got" by Billy DeVaughn before, we know how much happiness this song brings.
The World needs Music. Music like this...💖🙏🌱 Feb2022
When I would go to the club, everyone on the dance floor would be singing this song.Word for word.Good times.
I used to peak out My bedroom door when I was little and watch my mom and dad with ther friends doing the bump dance drinking and smoking weed,... for the grown folks only..... thanks Mom and Dad!!!
Great music. You don't hear music like this anymore.
You are right, damn right. Today rhere is only bullshit around.
Say that then
Bullshit. Look harder.
Sorry I didn't mean to be so crass. It's there, you just gotta look harder than you did back then
@@bulkfuel1 I second this, i can't trust people who think today's music is crap especially when they don't take the time to actually notice a lot of these "underappreciated" artists.
This reminds me of one summer I had as a 15 year old teen in the early 1970s. This song had just came out when I had to move to Carmel by the sea CA. for the summer to stay with my bro in Iaw and sister to get away from my mentally abusive dad. Such a beautiful place living carefree watching huge sunsets on the white sandy beach every night. I felt such a pleasing and beautiful peace in my soul and listening to this song takes me back to that same peace again. Thank you William DeVaughn!
Yea........ Do... I know 15. Life.. stank.. I heard. This. After my. Kids grew Up..This song was good to hear. Now.... I love this Still,.
Hope life turned out ok for ya buddy. Love from England
Lucky you had somewhere to go. Listening to this music is where I found some peace ☮️ koo song tho.
I grew up in Monterey in the same time period. It was a great time to be young!
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You may not have a car at all but remember brothers and sisters you can still stand TALL ...Just be thankful for what you GOT ! This my JAM!!!!
Tingles all over🙏❤️ What a message to all of us 🌎☮
A hell of a message
I had just joined the Army when this came out. It helped me, 9th inf Yea!
This jam make you wanna drive in your car until it is finish. Still cruising in 2021.
Songs like this were an antidote to the racism, bad economic conditions as well as helping survivors of sexual abuse/incest in way too many 'homes', regardless of actual race/ethnicity. They gave people a sense of hope.......
People out there with this message are censored & banned & deplatformed & disparaged now - especially by the music/media/government industry control over messaging. It's HORRIBLE the way they're socially engineering young people into chaos & hatred & sloth & entitlement.
Wow. I didn't think many people remember this one. Excellent 😊😎👍
I can appreciate these lyrics now as an adult...how sway ✊🏽✊🏽
I brought up this song tonight with friends at dinner, when we were discussing classic soul songs. Listening to it as I write this - giving me goosebumps!! I became a professional musician because of songs like this....Thank you, William. Oh, and Marvin of course, and all the artists on Motown & Philly. I could go on forever...
This is one of the best songs of all time that my cousin made a huge hit record in 1974 almost 46 years ago!!!! And it was a number one song it's called Be Thankful For What You Got by William DeVaughn!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!! I love the 70s!!! Can you dig it!!!!;
I wonder if you know what’s he talking about he is one of Jehovah witness brother and sister so am I and I love this song and my spiritual brother
Yes i can dig it. Listening to this summer 2021. Bobbing my head enjoying this awesome song.
I love that Tune, as a young DJ i would play it all the time .. it just had that thing that made you want to dance .. Bless you brother ..
@@stevejohno Ty so much!!!!
You know something everybody when my cousin made this record a long time ago back in the 70s it was one of the best songs of all time!!! I want to say thank you William your music is uplifting and spiritual and shines through!!!
I like the 🎸 guitar work in this song😃
Priceless memories 💖
Ain't that the truth. You have to thank the Most High for Alllllll you got. The good, bad, ugly indifferent, etc.. All Praises to Him!✌
All praises 🕎🙌🏾🥰🙌🏾🕎🙌🏾
Amen for this music you all HAPPY THANKSGIVING YOU ALL OUT THERE!!! 2021 HANGING IN THERE WITH YOU ALL !°°
Amen you all !!
What a voice, so smooth
The music of my generation!❤️
Well said 👏love the 1970.s
I'm 83 years old, and I'm here to tell you that this is music for ALL generations !!
I am thank full to hear this again....😃👍
One of the greatest R&B/soul tracks ever made-and this was from an obscure even back-in-the-day artist! Mr.DeVaughn had a blend of Marvin Gaye,Curtis Mayfield and Ray Parker Jr. in his voice,this song and this recording-this arrangement could have been used in cuts by Messrs.Mayfield,Gaye or Parker! All these artists had the same smooth groove! Wish today’s cats could do it!!!
Good post!🙂 Well said.
@@ellisisland1374 Thank you!!!
THIS IS ONE OF THE CHILLEST ILLEST GROOVY SONGS EVER!!! Woke up dreaming of this melody...
Another Masterpiece from 1973!
So true 👍
so many!
Actually I believe it came out In 74
Can't stop listening to this great tune. I was stationed in Germany when this came out. I would play it on a cassette player sitting in a park. German Girls would come and listen along me and my Amigos. So much fun back then. 69 years old now but will keep this as a TREASURE along with TOWER OF POWER. Marvin Gaye, War, AL Green, Santana ect.
Loved it!🥰
One of the great soul classics of the era
Still a relevant song to this day classic soul!
This song puts all things in perspective.Being thankful . Thanks for sharing.💐🌺🌼💖♥️
Still listening in 2021. Big tune
✌🏿Same here, July 2021, and still ❤️it.
To see William DeVaughn perform in the 70s was a great time for music!
I was 13 when this song came out and so into the slow jam. Grooving to the beat waaaay beyond my years! My parents knew I was gonna be trouble.
I’m thankful for everything and I love this song. Old school forever.
I am thankful to God for HOPE for healing from Lyme disease! I am open to healing and open to LOVE!! This song is amazing!! 🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏🌈☀️☀️
Meditation. This song is a gift
Timeless. Song brings tears to my eye thinking of wonderful memories.
Great stuff. I like this long version
This is a very good just be thankful song !!!
This classic tune defines the essences of what humanity should be. Be thankful for what you got. This inspirational song delivers "Godly " lessons that is lacking immensely in today's computer culture.
Nice comment 👍🏻
Amen to God goes ALL the Glory!
Perfectly said!!! This music is a classic, I am young, but sure love this music. I always tell myself, I was born in the wrong era.
Awesome song, and awesome time in history to reminise the origin of this recording.....A time when people were genuinely caring for one another.
You can't beat the 1970,s
@@johnknowles1382
Yes you can
With the 60'ssssssssss😂🤣😁💃🏽💃🏽🌹🌹
True that... there was also a word widely used called "Decency"
Makes my day! Some people are still decent today, but this song inspires me now. Have lost family and friends due to politics and COVID years but still keeping the faith and dream alive for a better future that this music means to me.
Bought this on a 45 rpm vinyl and STILL have it! This extended version is absolutely Perfect!
They'll never be a time like this...ever!!!
This song could be played in church and it wouldn't bother me a bit.
Remembering my mema, mama and all her nine brothers and sisters who were diggin the scene with the gangsta lean! They was lit in those cadillacs! Rest easy mama love and family. See yall when I get there 🙏🏾❤
Still an amazing and timely message
This is an all time favourite
Tune rolls so beautifully..
Can listen on replay endlessly ...
Truly Soulful..
Words So fitting for today....🕊🌿🕊🙏💙
I'm Diggin' the Scene too. Since it came out in 1973 when I was 13.
Peace to you.
@@AJFar-tm7dn We grew up in the same era
A Beautiful time..
A different world back then..
The 70s..💙🙏
My favourite decade..
This tune
One of my top ten favourites..
soul is forever
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Beautiful song 😁,beautiful vibe, beautiful remix ❤️
Just be thankful for what you have.
DJDiscoCat: Well, you've done it again. Taken a great song and made it fantastic. The message here by Mr. William DeVaughn is: There is sooo much to be thankful for in this life and now with all the troubles that we (as a nation) are facing, is as good a time as ever to count our blessings and focus on what is really important...Love your fellow man and no matter "what you got" there is always something to be thankful for. Be it family, friends or just someone who could use a helping hand or even just a smile and a kind word. Trust me it will go a long way to making someone's day a little brighter.
Amen🙏 Amen🙏Amen.....
"God is Good All Day Everyday!" Be Blessed💕
I thank the Lord everyday for what he has given me. Thank you my good Lord🌈😃🌈
Absolutely. Kindness is a free gift 🎁 u can give 2 anyone . God bless.
Beautiful comment. I've been diggin' this song since it came out the year I graduated high school. 1st song that popped into my head this Thsnksgiving. Peace.
I remember being 13 I used to wash my brother in-laws 70 Caprice Impala just to drive it around the block bumping this 💎 jam now my kids are bumping oldies dam I miss the good old days much love & respect to the OGEES stay up 🎶✊😎🇲🇽
You have to love these songs.they take you to a different place and time.
This old school speaks for every day that we are living in now no matter What the circumstances may be just be thankful
The words are so true thank God to bless me with my peace of mind.
AMEN!!!!
Peace of mind is wonderful blessing !
Amen girl
God.Bless you and your family
@@charlesa5192 CZ
I've always loved this song...I was in the 5th, 6th, or 7th grade when I first heard this song..."Just be thankful for what got." "Dimond in the back, sunroof top, diggin the scene with a gangsta lean woo woo wawoo... " 😎😎😎
Ain't no song like this one for me. Funky and still romantic as hell. Man, gotta miss that feeling of grooving it out with someone who's into you just as much as you are with them without a problem in the world, except on who's buying the next drink
Best song ever written ❤️ love this beautiful song
One of the oldies but goodies....R&B forever!
I was ten years old when this song came out, And I still love it like I was ten years old, love 💕 all my old school music 🎶, That’s all I listened to,
This song is a masterpiece 🌟
This is so smooth and relaxing
True!🙂
When I was young, cool
and poor 🤣,
Diamond in the back, sunroof top, digging the scene with the gangsta lean, 😎
It was the 70s. Everyone was poor so we didn't even think about it. I didn't know everyone I knew was poor until I went to school outside of
our community in 1980. But no one equated self worth with money so it didn't matter.
There are only a few songs that stand the test of time and this is one of them!
Good Dance Sound 💜
He nailed the 60's and 70's life style for alot of US. THANKS
When i ever here this memories of the 70's come flooding back... I was born in 61... Ya see where im going with this??? WOW... THANX
One of the ultimate old school tracks. Magnificent.
I remember hearing this for the first time in 1974 and thinking what a wonderful song and what great lyrics, couldn't get enough of it then and still enjoy it today!
I remember this song in my teens!
Ah yes,let`s be thankful that this music is still here to listen to,Gratitude for sharing & bringing back the great memories of my 70`s!
Always will be a classic forever& ever
Absolutely love this song by the marvelous William DeVaughn❤️
Omg !! What beautiful song!! Brazil here. 🇧🇷❤
What a wonderful piece
Beautiful !
Perfect soul music , timeless, once pf the best…
this song is a criminallly underprescribed depression cure
This Vintage Classic R&B Smooth Soul Quite Strom Stressfree tunes music they dont make anymore.
Gotta love the 4 seconds of funky drumming beginning at 10:30.
I had thought for decades that "Diamond in the Back" referred to "his girl", or fiancé. Never thought about the diamond etchings in the glass. Learn something new every day.
Must not have lived in the city in the70's! I actually remember the lean( the way you sat in the car!) Diamond in the back was the cut of the back glass window
You must have not grew up in the hood. Diamond in the back was a cut out of the back window shaped like a diamond. Gangsta lean you leaned on the armrest as much as you could to the passenger side.
Ah, I thought so too always. Thanks for the info.
Still sounds good in 2021 😊
Love this song