Carol Douglas - Doctors Orders
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Carol Douglas - aka Carolyn Strickland and Carolyn Cooke - was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. She is the daughter of Minnie Newsome, a jazz performer who has been cited as the inspiration for the Cab Calloway classic "Minnie the Moocher"; Douglas' father was a mortician. Sam Cooke was Douglas' cousin. At the age of 10 Douglas was a contestant and winner on the game show Name That Tune and says "Ebony followed my career for the next three years".
Douglas attended the Willard May School for professional children and afterwards the Quintanos High School for young professionals alongside Gregory Hines, Bernadette Peters, Carol Lynley and Patty Duke. While in high school Douglas sang in a female trio named April May & June who were signed as a management client by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Douglas made a one-off recording in 1963 for RCA Victor cutting the single "I Don't Mind (Being Your Fool)" under the name Carolyn Cooke: becoming pregnant with her first son at age 15 ended RCA's interest in promoting her.
Douglas also cut several jingles for TV commercials - "[I] used to do voiceovers for Ideal Toys and General Mills with Bernadette Peters" - but recalls: "I never thought I would be a singer", and for most of the 1960s Douglas pursued an acting career, appearing in an episode of her classmate's The Patty Duke Show but mostly acting in theatrical productions beginning with One Tuesday Morning starring Clarice Taylor. Later Douglas understudied Jonelle Allen in the off-Broadway production of The Life of Mary McCloud Bethune and co-starred with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in the play Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. - เพลง
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Shout out to anyone else who loves Charlotte
In here because of her :D
She was my fav as a kid ❤️
@@femalesupremacistoverlord6800 a!
this is so accurate
❤️ Charlotte
This is when Disco was BLOWING UP in NYC, at its peak, and THIS SONG was a massive hit in NYC Clubs.
You go Charlotte York!
+Aristeo GutHer Thankfully, I don't have to rely on pop culture shows to discover excellent songs.
excuse us who weren't borne in 1963
starting at age 4, when my son was in pre-k, i consciously decided to shield him from the vulgarity and smut of (c)rap "music" which was mega popular among his school mates. i introduced him to the cartoon "yellow submarine" and havent looked back since. he passed me up a long time ago and is now listening to dixieland and other forms of jazz from 50 to 100 years ago and everything in between. i taught him that there are dozens of genres worldwide. and now with the availability of youtube and the internet THERE IS NO EXCUSE to be restricted to corporate dribble like britney and m&m put out year after year and re-hashing of songs from video games, tv commercials, and dumbin-down popular movies....lil bro
@@sacollectiblesii I have news for you. When the bands and musicians you refer to first came out, they were just as well regarded as "junk corporate dribble" by people who only highly praised the music that came out before them. Everybody's stuck on nostalgia and thinks the past is better than the present. Meh... just enjoy it all and be glad you had or have it.
@@mehxxx yeah forreal...they just sound arrogant lmao
"How many cocktails has she had?
"Only a couple, why?"
Roxanne Love it ❤️😂
Im watching Sex in the City episode now. I had to listen to an oldie but goodies.
Thank you!! ❤️🦄
Sex in City triggered me to find this song!!! My mother’s music :)
SATC
This song cures depression.
Glad it does!
I was a teenager in 1970,and i will never stop listening to disco.I love it.
Good for you and me neither!!!! God bless us teenagers back then!!
Did you also wore auntie's shirts, stockings for gloves and sang into hairbrushes?
My sister, cousin and I loved putting on those "shows". Disco, Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Gloria Gaynor and of course the Queen herself; Donna Summer were our favorites!
Oh glory days!
We had much better and more wholesome times without internet junk and the trashy, skanky filth that is today.
Hair brush my 🎤
@@wolfhaven9312wish l could have hooked up with you gals...you sound Soooo much fun...we could have had a blast!!! And you know ALL The cool artists as well... London Soul Boy...❤
I come from Austria. I am 61 years old. Today two years ago my husband went away. He died. I could cry. I often danced with him to this song .
I love disco music !
I miss him and this beautiful time when I was young!!!
❤️
😍🙏🙏🙏🙏
🙌🥂
I'm 61 now and I'm dancing to this song today...6-30-21. Very upbeat and fun!!!
Same here girl will always miss those days and my husband
I IOU I on
Staten Island 🏝 & Charlotte York
😊😊😊
1974 brought me here .
I remember this song when I was growing up in the 70s
Me too , Linda.
Sunny Leslie original and best
for sure nothing is like it was then
I was about when this came out. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Pure vintage disco❤ To those who were able to experience this genre at the time this song was very special and inspirational. We never thought it would end.😊
Disco will never die!
Clark Kent never!!!
NEVER
Neeeveeeerrrrrr 💯
Neverrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy and uplifting music.
DISCO LIVES!!!!!
peace and love.🎶🎶
the 70's were alot of fun! thank god i was born 1960!
+Joseph Pizzo Yup there.
Me too!!
Yep! Same here. 💗
ME TOO!
And me tooooooooooooooo
Never forgot the summer of 1975,I was 14 and dance and at 61 enjoy now as much as back in 1975 🤗
I was 17 years old when they played this charming song in 1975; The beautiful, original and catchy melody plus the divine, playful and dreamy voice of Carol Douglas penetrates deep to the bone... A true journey back in time towards those unforgettable, idyllic and unrepeatable years....
Greetings from Buenos Aires!
I love this long version, and marvel at the bass during the break when isolated!
I was 19 back then! Great memories!
I was16 much better times. Back then good memories
Nice said
Charlotte dancing to this
The guy that says "Hello" - perfect !!!
Love this song, beautiful, they don't make stuff like this anymore, I'm a 65 year old white guy from Chicago.
Preach it, brother! Best times of my life, going to the dance clubs back then in good ol' Chicagoland, and Milwaukee!!! Saw it on here, and I agree: God, I miss Disco!!!! :-(
Im 71 still going strong. Boy I remember that song!!
We didn't need to know what colour you are!
Facts
Robert Medina I wake up to this song in the morning...... every morning and I’m 47 years old lol
All you haters please listen! When this song came out it was a revolution that started the whole disco era. She was and I hope IS, still alive and singing. This girl had the balls and moxie to get us all dancing! Give her the respect she deserves! Carol you will always rock my life. I will play your music always! Love you!! Danny
Totally agree
Hey Danny. .why are there so many haters out there? I don't understand it. I guess you have to have been a young person(I was 24)back then to get into the disco thing. I sure can't stand the stuff that comes out now; it's oldie stations for me.
Love her n love this song. Going to the clubs. Disco times😅
loved this song as a kid and still do
Yup and respect the founders of this thing we called disco!
The song encapsulates My Time growing up in the seventies...it touches my soul with a ghostly haunt whenever I hear it... What an Era!!!.. 70s BEST!!!
A time when you would go out every weekend to your favorite disco and dance the night away like there was no tomorrow . Oh how I miss those days !!!
Me to Alan me too
I Never Can Say Good Bye!
I used to go dancing in Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays too!!!
What a tune
yes-when im dancing ---i dont think of anything else except keeping with the beat.
Dancing drunk in Staten Island listening this song. Something that I want to do some day :D
Lol yes Sex and the City
Haha! Charlotte for the win!
Hans Christian Rodríguez a two person cocaine roller disco around your living room is the equivalent.
YES! CHARLOTTE! I actually live in Manhattan, and I want to go take the Staten Island ferry tomorrow and listen to that song in Charlotte's name!
Leo G. Rivera could yo repeat this scene? :D I want to see some pictures!
When this song came out, you could not get on the dance floor! We requested this song over and over and still today, one of the BEST songs ever!! Thank you Carol!!!
Thank you for the love ! ❤❤
Ever since I heard it on the sex and the city series, I haven't stopped listening to it
A forgotten disco song that brings back so many great memories of dancing with so many beautiful girls! Angel Flights, silk shirts, platform shoes and trying out the new dance steps……memories forever!
How is it forgotten? I am listening to it while I am typing this for you---just for you!
* Charlotte York dancing drunk *
Charming scene
Loved the scene😂
I was a DJ back in those days this was one of the greatest songs that ever played
agree!
I was at the disco's when this came out... loved it!
It was No. 25 in the Top 100 for 1975.
Me too, club DJ, mid-70's, Albany, NY
This and how about Don't leave me this way? Before 1977 and all the great music that followed in 77-78 and 79 people flocked to the dance floor for these great songs. I still love them!
Oooohhh love this song, brings back memories💖💖💖💖💖70's
Enjoy it!
I was 19 when this song hit the charts, it is terrific.
I was too young to go out to the clubs, but, I’d watch my older sister and cousin dance the hustle, and though I was only ten years old in 75, I LOVED DISCO, and danced it out on the block in my neighborhood, EVERY SINGLE DAY IN THE SUMMERTIME, and in my apartment ALL WINTER LONG!!!❤
A monster hit, from the truly Early Days of Disco. The vocals, the rhythm, the orchestration - it's all REAL here, not sound beats out of a computer, like dance music today. We hustled our ASSES off to this, in so many different fierce clubs. SO glad I lived where and when I did, that NYC 70s club scene will NEVER BE EQUALLED. I went out five nights a week then, but with music like this, it's no damn wonder. (re-posted)
i would love to have seen the citys nightlife in that era did u go to paradise garage -studio 54 ?
***** Not to brag - well, okay, maybe a little - I was a regular at the Garage (Garucci's, we called it then), EVERY Sat, from 79-83. Got into 54 a couple times, the first time being in 79, admittedly AFTER the 78-79 celebrity heyday. But I also hit ALL the big clubs then: Xenon, Limelight, the Gallery, the Loft, New York New York, Infinity, Danceteria, Roseland, the Red Parrot, Better Days...the list is LONG. Because there were SO MANY good clubs then; EVERY night of the week, there were three or four hot spots to choose from (most discos had particular nights that were best there). It was a Time and Place that feels another world today. EVERYBODY, it seemed, got dressed up and went out, every night of the week. Sometimes, when I think about it, I almost question whether it was REALY that great on not - but I KNOW it was. And EVERYBODY who lived it too (and made it through, cause MANY didn't) knows that I speak the truth. Wish you could've experienced it...
***** Must have been nice not to have to work and instead go out 5 nights a week. The rest of us suckers had to work our asses off so we could afford 2 nights a week.
Rachegotter Hell no! I worked and STILL went out every day of the week during those days!!!! The first time I heard this was at Keith's in Hallandale, FL... and I danced my ass off to it.
njplr Haha! That's why we were in shape. You see these younguns today. Especially the girls. Their belly hanging over their pants with tight shirts on. Yuck! Looking like their 30 and over
Who's listening now???? Me and my baby sis while decorating our tree 🎄
THIS IS A GREAT SONG FROM THE GREATEST DECADE....
I WAS DRIVEN HERE BECAUSE JUDGE MILIAN HAD ON THE MALE SINGER FROM THE SONG...
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I !
WHEN HE SANG SOME OF IT, I SAID, I REMEMBER THAT SONG !
I DIDN'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT I KNEW THE SONG....
HE WAS BEING SUED BY HIS MANAGER !
THE MANAGER SAID SHE WAS DRIVING AROUND IN HER CAR WITH CAROL DOUGLAS !
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD CAME ON THE RADIO....
THE MANAGER SAID I LOVE THAT SONG....
CAROL DOUGLASS GAVE HER THE MALE SINGER'S PHONE NUMBER....
THAT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE MANAGER SUING THE MALE SINGER (I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME)
(THERE'S ALSO A FEMALE SINGER ON THAT SONG)
JUDGE MILIAN LOVES DISCO & SHE GOT GOOSEBUMPS WHEN SHE HEARD THE NAME CAROL DOUGLASS & WHEN SHE HEARD THE GUY SING HIS SONG....
BOTH DOCTOR'S ORDERS & THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD ARE GREAT SONGS THAT TODAY'S SINGERS COULD NEVER MATCH !
Loved it back in ‘74...and still do 45 years later!
❤
This song was one of the best to dance to,really miss the 70s!
We will never miss the 70's, forever in our heart and memories!
Carol Douglas (born April 7, 1948) is an American singer
whose 1974 hit "Doctor's Orders" (#11 Billboard Hot 100, #9 R&B,
#2 US Dance) was a pioneering track in the disco genre. It was from her 1974
debut album, “The Carol Douglas Album”.
Thank you
I can't help but see Charlotte dancing to this song🎉🎉❤❤
This song makes me smile.
Glad it does!
I can remember my older cousin had a K-Tel album compilation with this song. I was around 11 and would play that album, which contained "20 Top Hits!: Of course, you'd have to flip the album after 10 songs. My cousin's only caveat was, "Don't scratch my records." LOL. Good memories.
Could just imagine this blasting at Studio 54 ❤️
Drunk Charlotte FTW! :D
lipping, "I'm just missin' my man...
@@princesschanluv read it as soon as she said it
It even sounds like it's Charlotte singing it x
@@sukitten1 omg it kinda does now that you mention it hahaha
@@dixienormous6969 Lol :-) x
Sex and the city in Quarantine 2020. LOOOOOVE this song so much 🥰😍
Sex and the City Quarantine. 2021 !!!
This is what brought me to this Song
Charlotte makes me want the out it is n loud and Dance 🍸🍸🍹🍹💃💃💃
Thats where I seen it only last week I was a dj for years and never heard it and its class mate she could make a fortune she has another song you may know it look it up yellow label
@@deannalynch7092 Same!! Was watching Charlotte today and came here instantly!!
Charlotte .... lol
yes)) 2022
This is one the best disco songs ever.
I just love this song, takes me back.
Love this song.
The glory days
This was a disco gem. Her voice was lovely, and the lyric rhyming beyond clever!
Glad you like it!
@@caroldouglas6913 I've loved this song for many years! Just such a nice song and you sang it so wonderfully!
@@caroldouglas6913 We had a social club for kids on the lower east-side back then, and it was left up to the kids to put their favorite records in the Jukebox. This song was so beloved that we wore out the vinyl on the 45's like a half-dozen times and had to keep buying new ones. Same for Midnight Love Affair. I still tell kids Donna Summer (RIP) was not the first Queen of Disco; Carol Douglas was. Thanks for these early Disco classics, Carol, still two of my favorites. God bless.
@@caroldouglas6913 LOVE LOVE LOVE thank you
Oh My God this is from the seventies. Makes me remember my college days!
Wow! Just took a trip back in time! I haven't heard this song in over 30 years. Heard a clip playing SongPop and had to come here and listen to it. What memories!! Can we please go back to those days???
Great song
Glad you like it!
Such a great and classic 70's song! Take me back, please!
Glad you like it!
@@caroldouglas6913 Like it? I LOVE IT! Thank you for the reply.
I've got to give lots of kudos to the sound engineers at Midland International Records for the excellent sound qualities of this recording. Carol Douglas is an excellent singer, too.
" Says in my condition..love's the best physician"...
Probably the best rhyming line in a song ever. absolutely magnificent.
physician - i thought it was "position"
absolutely uplifting....I'm all about it.... I love disco music from this era
It's a lovely song played again n again after 42 years
I too...
GOD!! I MISS DISCO!
I well remember when this song came out, I still love it to this day.
Glad you like it !!
This reminds me of the good old days, I was 12 yo and my only responsibility was doing my homework!!! I never had it so good
We used to bring the old 45's for junior high dances. This jam would fill the floor if you knew how to dance. Beautiful lady and a classic jam.
This song reminds me so much if my fiance who died last November it was our favorite song together. I miss my bookie
Treasure the memories my friend. Remember the happy times.
So sorry to hear my husband also passed he was her keyboard player Michael Myers good old days our memories bring smiles
Back in the day, I saw Miss Carol Douglas perform in Club Bachelor in San Juan Puerto Rico, she was amazing...🤓
A lot of y'all remember this song from SATC but i remember my mother having this 45rpm i'm definitely showing my age here, but i was first introduced to House Music in Chicago with this song.
THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE HEAR MUSIC FROM THE PAST IS...
THROUGH COMMERCIALS & MOVIES & TV SHOWS !
IF THEY HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY WOULD LISTEN TO RADIO STATIONS THAT PLAY 50s MUSIC UP TO THE 90s OR 2000s !
OMG Take me back,. take me back!!! I hope I make it to Heaven----and when I enter, I hope there is a giant disco ball!!!
Seems appropriate to shout an Amen to that sweet wish. I'll be wanting to stand in line for that gate too... Doctor's orders.
Moi aussi!
Franklin Morgan oh yeah we had the club jams so good🙄
Franklin Morgan Haha
We I get to heaven I am going to dance to this with Jesus ,Mary and Joseph & Elda
I’m 25, and I bought a $2 record from goodwill, “Steppin’ Out” a disco compilation. This was on it, absolutely obsessed.
Takes Me back a million years to THE ERA OF ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS MUSIC!
Yes it was and still is to this day!!!
Fantastic memories from those days
I was just watching an old SATC episode and found my way here. I fuckin loved this song back in the day when I was 12 years old (1974)
Me fuckin too! Ha
When Carol swings into the chorus, the key modulates upward, the strings swell in jubilation...disco itself peaks in that instant.
Very well said, Doug.
Nice observation. Song written by the late, great Geoff Stephens who wrote so many of the great songs of the 60s and 70s.
Adoro esta música...adoro cuando Charlotte la bailó en la disco con unas copas demás...fue fabuloso!!!😍👄
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I adore this song, and also want to get up and dance, sing loud, and dress up and go
to a disco. Too bad it was long ago, but it was a load of fun.
I thought I was the only one
Same here. It just takes me back to the best of times
Why does it have to end?! They are places that still ply Dico music! Just need to find them, or just dance at the best place ever.. Your living room!
Me too 💃🏻
Take me back to the seventies, for just one night. The best time of my life.
Great memories. Amen 🙏🏻 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💃💃💃❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻.
Playing it full blast!! I'm back in Yorkville clubs in 1970s.
Thank you!
"The last days of disco" brought me here .....
love it 😚
Love the background bass guitar. This is great tune to dance to. Don't hear this kind of good music nowadays. Just trash on the radio and rap crap. What a waste. So many great black singers and groups from the 50's, 60,s and 70,s. Glad I grew up in the 60's.
+elkhunter4817 I love old school rap.
+elkhunter4817 Shut up ya dumb hick and quit dating your sister. Oh, and I love classic rap artists.
Ulysses North Ice cube for one.
Saw her live at the Palladium in NYC and she was wonderful.
Love the way she sing this song is wonderful she has this sweet voice
How I love this songs how i wish I could have those days ago.
Love this song💖💖💖
❤️
Well girls looking back loved seeing you girls dancing round the the hand bags now 64 still smiling ❤❤
Just saw her on Judge Faith. First time listening to her music! Really Really Good!!!!
I'm here for Charlotte ♥ hahaha
One of my favorite songs to listen, the bass is out of this world awesome singing by Carol Douglas and great music.
I agree. The song is great in so many ways, including the sublime bass line and muted horn(s) or like during the break.
I couldn’t get the lyrics to this song out of my head so I had to come to TH-cam and request it. It definitely is not disappointing. I used to listen to this over and over singing along as a teenager❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love,love,love disco:) Happiest times in my life:)
Those strings are fantastic
I remember when this hit...45 years ago...where the hell does the time go. Classic disco. The doctor has prescribed bed rest!
haha! Good one
I cannot believe I forgot this song, I love it so much, oh those nights at the disco... the memories and it still holds up... love love love
Kristin Davis dancing, aww!! (loveSATCforever)
+RNR013 basstastic I know right shes so precious . HOW MANY COCKTAILS HAS SHE HAD WHILE SAMANTHAT WENT OFF W A FIREMAN
and exquisite ❤
great song great playing whoever played on this record real musicians making great music!
This was huge when I was in high school&I still love it!!!❤❤❤❤ The 70's were so great&we were so innocent!!😊
I love songs like this that have talking in them...fantastic song from back in the good old days...at least in my opinion!
Drunk Charlotte is so cute.
Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like *this* but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. Those who didn't understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great, and too much fun, to be gone forever! It's got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.
Fantastic times
I love this song!!!! So much love in this song! This songs sure what real love should be all about!
Man this song is such a guilty pleasure.
cut it with that guilt bs, we're not catholics
@@arefriendsaseptic 🤪
C'était le bon temps j'avais même pas 20 ans j'ai eu une merveilleuse période dans les années 80 je regrette rien
Gotta love Carol, great song....
Thank you!
DISCO will NEVER DIE! It was the most fun I ever had in my life!
Same! Greatings vom Hamburg/Germany!
Music back then was and always will be BETTER than any now days. Love It
Great song for disco dancing. It brings me back to the 70’s decade.
Hey there-Exxon-Mobile!
I loved this song 🎵 back in the day, just brings me back to the same feelings and emotions I felt then 💞
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Who would even dare say that they do not love this classic It is part of music history in the 🕺 Memories.
Was this the first disco song I remember how alive I felt when I first heard it still do sing or play,this if your ever feeling low you'll get better instantly
Love this song so much:) I was 15 when it was popular:)
The Best years of my life.,...
You couldn't have said it know better