I heard an old wise man say....If they open the old clubs back up and played this style of music that it would change the mindset of America. The belief is the music and the message will make others feel GOOD and move forward through anything in their LIVES. Just to EXPERIENCE THESE DAYS AGAIN#
As a child of the 80's watching WTBS Night Tracks, Friday Night Videos, Video Soul, Radio 1990, and all of the video shows before every cable company finally started carrying MTV I remember Colonel Abrams being one of the ones who inspired me and being the reason why I was blessed to be a career musician.
Im late but...46yr old brotha here. i been trying to find this song for about 35 years.And i never remembered his name from this song he performed on soul train. Always wondered who this rare brotha was that long ago. Is all i know and remember. I jus vividly remember and it stuck with me all these years like a unsolved mystery.No Joke.
This was a Bad Brother. His style set the Club on FIRE. I play this music frequently. Colonel Abrams. Yes Sir. Players and Hustlers know this game. Youngsters take notes and learn something about romancing a Queen.
To know he was homeless on the streets of NYC before he passed makes me so sad. I loved his music. I hate how the music industry makes these artist then breaks them, and not help them to invest for after they throw them away. Artist are better off working for themselves in clubs, and private shows. R.i.p! Colonel Abrams.
True story here we were a dance group based in London uk and in 1985 we were hired to dance for colonel abrams on the tube show which was a live show every Friday up in Newcastle on channel 4 I think it was, unfortunately, we were held up in traffic and by the time we arrived he had already performed and left the building we were so gutted, this is the first time I have heard of his passing and I'm upset knowing he spent his last years in misery how did a man so talented and handsome end up homeless how??
@@bettyboo8214 I don’t get the feelings I got from the music back then from the music of now. I was blessed to have been there when this music and the people who made it were affecting the whole world. A truly great time to be alive 🇮🇪
It has changed into something that we do not know or recognize! The city council in my town passed an ordinance requiring security guards at every club, event, party, etc. The shootings were getting out of control! 👏⭐️👍🏽
NYCEnforcer I wish we could start this up again, where we people went out and smiled and liked to dance to artist who could sing,had originality,played real instruments and people actually dressed nice. We need to get this real soulful house music thing started again in the states; Europe already is on it and been on it (cub Music forever). I like Hip hop (but it is simply unattractive to me for the pass 10 years) don't get me wrong but this music will always be in my heart and soul.
When I first heard Colonel Abrams, he sound like Teddy Pendergrass. When my grandmother heard him sing for the first time, she claimed that he was a teddy Pendergrass wannabe. My mother had a tape of that album with this track on here. Both my mother and grandmother has gone on. Rest in peace Colonel Abrams. By the way, this all took place when I was a little girl. My favorite song from that same album is nameless.
Listening to Colonel Abraham hit takes back to Nostalgic memories I shared with my father when I was young, my father played Colonel Abrahams cassettes in his Car as we drove around Town.
Yo! See nobody in the music industry said anything on mainstream media about this! Ain't' that some shit?!! Rest in Peace, Colonel! You will never be forgotten!
They didn’t mention it richelle. I am learning about his passing in these comments! So sad! Yes! NEVER FORGOTTEN! Rest in peace! I am playing his 🎵 songs right now! ❤😎🌼🌸🩵💚💜🤍🩷🩶🧡💛💙🤎🖤💕🩵🌼🔥⭐️👍🏽❤️👏😎🎶💟💜🤍💙
+Venu337 ROFL Well Bobby Schmurda is in jail and there's njo way in hell we could dance off of the crap that's out today like we did back in the days LOL
I've felt IN love WITH him in 1989. God bless the person who introduced me to his album.... AND. IT'S GOING TO BE WITH ME FOREVERMORE....(RIP) U LOVE YOU
3:26 that really really hits home. When you realize something you love doesn't exist no more or things won't ever be the same. This guy was awesome and this songs still kicks
Classic from 1987! ❤️🔥
Rest in Peace Colonel Abrahams
37 years later 2024 i'm here listening.
R.I.P. Colonel.
Me too!
Absolutely!!!! I keep it in rotation!!!
Why do I start doing that marching dancing like him and flailing my arms whenever I hear this song????😂😂
💯
Yes
R.I.P. Colonel. I know that you and Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles are up in heaven producing great club mixes for everyone to club to.
RIP Colonel Abrams. Absolutely underappreciated. He was a brilliant artist
Yes Byron! I agree! ❤👍🏽👏😎
Who is still jamming to this in 2023? 🙋🏾♀️
Yeah! Great artist.. heroin got him..he cought a hot one...sad. RIP my brother...we met a few times at the platinum. And foxes JC..
You have to ask?😂
my jamm all weekends .............canivore Naii...kenya!!!
And still in 2024!
Also 2024
We will never forget you colonel, your music will rest in our hearts forever. ❤❤❤
One of my favorite artist. Hope he’s singing his heart out in heaven. ❤❤❤❤‼️‼️‼️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
10/17/2024
So many songs that were underrated but I'm glad to hear them again. Adding to my playlist
Me to! My playlist is long as well! 😎❤️👏⭐️🎵🔥👍🏽🎶💟🌼🌸
Thiss son is straight New York, you can feel and taste the city. Rest in Peace to my uncle Richard, a true Brooklyn nite
I will always love this man for the rest of my life. This song is a classic. Has no expiration date.
I feel the same way❤🎤🎶👍🏻
@@evelynprice7065 me too.
Rip
Cam4
am sure he not look at you twice
Another brillant & criminally underrated Groove from one of the most talented, smooth , unique & underrated vocalists in history...
Is just unbelievable a person who had this kind of life, but he died Homeless in the street of new-york
Wow really dam never knew that always wondered what happened to him
Always give charity........it means alot........uhu
RIP in heaven I love your music I listen to it everyday
Wow,are you serious,...homeless?
. . I never knew that ! The Colonel was a big part of my life , I wish I could have helped . . 😢
R.I.P. Colonel. You were under appreciated. Maybe they will feature him in an episode of Unsung...they should.
I did not even know he passed. So-so sad. I loved his music. I will always remember dj'ing his work
Amen to that
ONE of a KIND! 💯 R.I.P. Colonel Abrams 🙏🏿
true q0
Truth!
This guy was a legend! The house Teddy Pendergrass! 🎙🎤
yup, i agree.
Great singer
He was so talented! I am 62 and it took me back to the 80’s! What a great era of music!🎵 😎😎👍🏽👍🏽👏👏🔥🔥⭐️⭐️❤️❤️
And he looks like Ken Norton
Woo woo woo woo woo… that’s all I needed for real 😂 ❤❤❤❤❤ I just love this song
Wonderful, song and Colonel, timeless.
Who in 2024? This song won't never die! Greetings from Brazil and you? 🇧🇷🔥
I really like this video.
80's gotta love it...miss it so much...wish we could bring it back
We will never see it again! The 80’s were so unique! We just have to enjoy these songs in 2024! 😎👍🏽👏❤️⭐️🔥🎶🎵🌼🌸🎤
I heard an old wise man say....If they open the old clubs back up and played this style of music that it would change the mindset of America. The belief is the music and the message will make others feel GOOD and move forward through anything in their LIVES.
Just to EXPERIENCE THESE DAYS AGAIN#
I BELIEVE 💓
Yessss
Absolutely! 👍🏽😎❤️⭐️🔥👏🎵🎶💟
This guy was underrated
❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉ABSOLUTELY another great one KING 👑 MUSCLE 💪 MUSIC 🎶 APPRECIATE YOUR GIFTED GIFTED RIPOWER 😢😊🎉❤
As a child of the 80's watching WTBS Night Tracks, Friday Night Videos, Video Soul, Radio 1990, and all of the video shows before every cable company finally started carrying MTV I remember Colonel Abrams being one of the ones who inspired me and being the reason why I was blessed to be a career musician.
Yes! Facts!
WBLS mr.majic..breaking the ice!!!!waaaah!! Gotham City...manhattan boy here!!!
❤ Soul Music 🎶 🎵 ♥️ Best sounds of the 80s
New York Hot Tracks.. Woooweee… those were the BEST times growing up in the south Bronx! Col Abrams did it for us❤️
Im late but...46yr old brotha here.
i been trying to find this song for about
35 years.And i never remembered his
name from this song he performed on
soul train. Always wondered who
this rare brotha was that long ago.
Is all i know and remember.
I jus vividly remember and it
stuck with me all these years
like a unsolved mystery.No
Joke.
colonel's music was loved here in south Africa. He was and sill regarded as one of the house music legends who have ever lived. RIP Col Abrams!
This was a Bad Brother. His style set the Club on FIRE. I play this music frequently. Colonel Abrams. Yes Sir. Players and Hustlers know this game. Youngsters take notes and learn something about romancing a Queen.
Yea, and that grandaddy 2-step is a classic.
His vocal is Teddy Pendagrass with Eddie Lavert.
Yes! He sounds good and the hat is fire!❤😊
RIP Colonel, the King of House. I kept many a dance floor jumping with your jams back in the day.
This and trapped are amazing songs.
And speculation
The Truth is my number one
Wooo woooo wooo 🗣🗣🗣🗣
So Nostalgic.
How soon we forget, Colonel Abrams belted out Iconic songs but sadly didn't get the recognition he deserved.
Rest Easy Col Abrams ✊
agree
Should have lived in a castle and got some medical help.
Naii floor filler !!!!!!!!!!!yeiei!! mathree-southB....hahaaaa!!
Yes! RIP! ❤
This is real dance music ...."love we had before doesn't exist no more ........"
How soon we don’t forget the COLNEL
Never! Ever.
RIP Colonel Abrams...your music will live on
For sure
THAT'S RIGHT
I skated to this track at Bury St Edmunds roller rink in the mid 1980s - hearing it again, the years roll back!
Rest in my brother C.A.
In Loving Memory of Colonel Abrams.
To know he was homeless on the streets of NYC before he passed makes me so sad. I loved his music. I hate how the music industry makes these artist then breaks them, and not help them to invest for after they throw them away. Artist are better off working for themselves in clubs, and private shows. R.i.p! Colonel Abrams.
It’s a very volatile and exploitative industry and most people are very fickle when it comes to music.
You're so right! I saw him before he passed away downtown btwn 46 nd 7th ave. He was in wheelchair. I wept.
Wow...this makes me sad.
True story here we were a dance group based in London uk and in 1985 we were hired to dance for colonel abrams on the tube show which was a live show every Friday up in Newcastle on channel 4 I think it was, unfortunately, we were held up in traffic and by the time we arrived he had already performed and left the building we were so gutted, this is the first time I have heard of his passing and I'm upset knowing he spent his last years in misery how did a man so talented and handsome end up homeless how??
😞
I met this dude one day on the NYC subway very tall to..
This man had talent buy the bucket load🇮🇪
He really did. Amazing voice
@@bettyboo8214 I don’t get the feelings I got from the music back then from the music of now. I was blessed to have been there when this music and the people who made it were affecting the whole world. A truly great time to be alive 🇮🇪
need to bring the club era back
it hasn't stopped, just changed
It has changed into something that we do not know or recognize! The city council in my town passed an ordinance requiring security guards at every club, event, party, etc. The shootings were getting out of control! 👏⭐️👍🏽
Sad to hear he had fallen on hard times when he died. Grateful for his music.
he was the first person i saw rock a high top fade circa 1986
WHY HAVE INEVER HEARD THIS INCREDIBLE SONG UNTIL NOW?
It was so much good music in the 80's that it was hard to keep track of it!
You would love "Trapped" and "I'm Not Gonna Let" by Colonel Abrams!
NYCEnforcer
I wish we could start this up again, where we people went out and smiled and liked to dance to artist who could sing,had originality,played real instruments and people actually dressed nice. We need to get this real soulful house music thing started again in the states; Europe already is on it and been on it (cub Music forever). I like Hip hop (but it is simply unattractive to me for the pass 10 years) don't get me wrong but this music will always be in my heart and soul.
His music was the Jam! R.I.P
RIP MR. ABRAMS.....BRICK CITY WHERE I FIRST HEARD HIM.....ONLY ON WBLS.....U KNEW IF U BELONGED........1
I like mr abrams voice
R.I.P. May you and Prince make heavenly music together.
Always thought that he was from England good music memories rest
RIP to the Colonel...you will be missed and remembered my dude....
mookeychase0907 yeah u are right dookeychaser🤣🤣🤣
He was a great performer and had his own style of dancing, I was and still is in love with that legend. Still listening to his music and videos.
Sleep in peace, Colonel Abrams. Your jams will live on!
tmontyb10011 Absolutely!
No!!!!!! When did he die??? I was hoping he would be on a throwback tour
@@mediacenterman8583 , He died on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016.
I didn't know Colonel Abrams had passed🤫 I remember him from my high school years in the mid-80s. I liked his music. Sorry to hear that😒 R.I.P. 😇
I met him at a club here in Chicago in the late 80's. Love his music. RIP Colonel 🙏
Another one from the 80's has gone. He was HUGE in the mid to late 80's! Rest In Peace my brother.
Forever colonel 😭😭 !!!
When I first heard Colonel Abrams, he sound like Teddy Pendergrass. When my grandmother heard him sing for the first time, she claimed that he was a teddy Pendergrass wannabe. My mother had a tape of that album with this track on here. Both my mother and grandmother has gone on. Rest in peace Colonel Abrams. By the way, this all took place when I was a little girl. My favorite song from that same album is nameless.
That was actually the follow-up single off the same album, but that didn’t do nearly as well as this song, even with the urban market.
@@RocStarr913 no wonder why I never heard it on the radio. I have heard this one often. Specially on video soul.
This stayed in HEAVY rotation on Video Soul. I can still hear Donnie Simpson announcing this video. RIP Colonel Abrams...
I'm sitting in my bath tub, remembering my big brother would play this all day and night. Just thinking of you R.I.P. J.T,
Me too, bruh: (RIP) Anthony Munsel "Tony" Cannady"Big Bruh"! :))
This Particular Track Would Fill The Dance Floor At A Local Night Club In Lusaka Zambia Back In The Eighties I am Still Dancing In 2022
Happy Heavenly 75th Birthday Colonel Abrams May 25 1949 - November 24 2016
Wo,Wo,Wo,Wo, 'Let's Go Party
People in the House',
MATTERS PEOPLE
PEACE&LOVE
Looking how things play out now. He didn't sale his soul. That mean they didn't push his career. I'm still playing his music.
I loved his songs when growing up .
I was a house maniac back in the day! This brings back a lot of those memories!
Say word!!!
Loved this back in 1989s
Colonel Abrams great legendary black excellence artist. Always will be remembered
r.i.p....thank you for sharing your talent with us.
This is what a man sounds like.
Listening to Colonel Abraham hit takes back to Nostalgic memories I shared with my father when I was young, my father played Colonel Abrahams cassettes in his Car as we drove around Town.
Yo! See nobody in the music industry said anything on mainstream media about this! Ain't' that some shit?!! Rest in Peace, Colonel! You will never be forgotten!
They didn’t mention it richelle. I am learning about his passing in these comments! So sad! Yes! NEVER FORGOTTEN! Rest in peace! I am playing his 🎵 songs right now! ❤😎🌼🌸🩵💚💜🤍🩷🩶🧡💛💙🤎🖤💕🩵🌼🔥⭐️👍🏽❤️👏😎🎶💟💜🤍💙
I'm ready to go out to the club....oh wait it's 2015 and the good club era is over! Damn!
I hear you sis. Let me sit my old ass down , lol.
+Venu337 ROFL Well Bobby Schmurda is in jail and there's njo way in hell we could dance off of the crap that's out today like we did back in the days LOL
+Keith Miles LMAO
+Venu337 lol
+Venu337 here in N.Y.C the clubs were happening especially here in Manhattan lawd have mercy
Colonel Abrams, WOW, whatta name, RIP brother, I used to love your songs
My favorite cut of the Colonel. RIP
This song brought back so Many memories! Colonel sounds like T.P.
Produced and directed by Francis Delia in NYC with cinematography by Frank Byers.
So underrated, keep my maxi vinyl preciously
The Colonel's music was dope back in day. Danced my ass off to this tune here!
Fantastic! Goosebumps all the way.. R.I.P Colonel
He was one of the best and yes we still rock this ole school for life rest in piece CA
The King of Garage Music, the Soulful One, Colonel Abrams-Rest In Garage Heaven my brotha!
When this came on everybody on the dance floor...Good times!
Very underrated as an artist, When I think of 80’s dance music/ House, He’s the first one to come to mind.. RIP Colonel..
"LOVE HIM........... THE 80S WAS THE BEST AND THE LAST DECADE WHEN IT COMES TO ARTISTS' ORGINALITY AND THE SONGS THEY SANG!"
Never saw the video of this song. The Colonel Rocks!
RIP to the great 😩😩😩
"How Soon We Forget" is the song that made me a fan of his! I never have seen the music video for this song. I love it!
I've felt IN love WITH him in 1989. God bless the person who introduced me to his album.... AND. IT'S GOING TO BE WITH ME FOREVERMORE....(RIP) U LOVE YOU
My main man, listening in 2020!
a woo woo woo... WOO woo...
You will never be forgotten. Rest in peace. You were a powerhouse back in the day.
I agree! What happened is my question. All of a sudden, we wanted crap music in the U.S...... take me back please to the 80;s!
RIP to this man I listen to trapped not gonna let and speculation daily and now this in my rotation 😩
3:26 that really really hits home. When you realize something you love doesn't exist no more or things won't ever be the same. This guy was awesome and this songs still kicks
Oct. 2021
😥
Like how much i love him and now he doesn't exist no more😭😭😭💔💔💔
Sadly it is very difficult for young people exposed to lousy music to hear about or remember this good music.
Yep! Its truly sad, cause this music.
+Neisha C An ironic title for this song.
DIMP11 Yep
I'm 24,Hope isn't lost
SAD BUT TRUE
What a legend. One of the greatest dancers ever, without trying too hard d. My man! May he rest well!
Am setting up a mobile sound biz to focus on real music that went under the radar..this is one of the gems
Wowwww This Brother always spitting Fire at The Red 🦜 Parrot back in the 80's...
Colonel Abrams is better than you know.
Damn this is fire. Glad I discovered this....so smooth