So many memories dancing to this at nightclubs... and it was a HUGE hit on the dance floor. Everyone got up to dance. And when I was going to clubs, this song was already over 20 years old!!
First time I heard this, I was 13 years old jamming out to this in GTA EFLC in 2012. 12 years later, it slaps just as hard. Thank you Rockstar for introducing me to music I would've otherwise never heard of
All these years later it is STILL one of the best funk , disco, dance songs EVER ! Brings back memories of Bed Stuy, Bklyn, NY, when WWRL & WBLS were at their all time best and all those REAL block parties!! Who needs this rap / crap so- called hip hop music.
Classic 70s funk , memories of my childhood . A white boy from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) who loves black music , soul / funk / disco / Rnb . One of my favorites is "Lady T" , Teena Marie (R.I.P) a white girl from cali with soul !!!
Sure George micheli love black music also. Music is music dont care red yellow it music.goerge recive a Grammy for a black song. Alot mad black poeple that night.
Who knows what the future holds? It just might. After a number of years of plasticated nonsense clogging up the charts, it's high time that more organic music like this made a comeback.
All the best music, soul funk reggae dub disco rock punk...was in the 70s! I loved dancing to this back in the day, at the Top Rank disco!!! Another great track of theirs is Wicky Wacky!! Love it. GREAT clip.
Bloody fantastic. Can anyone out there keep still to this?! Real music! I grew up in this era.My teen son listens to 80s music because he says there’s no comparison with what’s out there now.
Dont stop...keep the Grooooove....OMG I can remember getting on down and losing my young soul to this fab track way back in the mid 70s in the New Penny Disco in Queens Road Watford near London England....I hope the DJ from that club and that time is still alive today to tell the story from his side....Glory days boys and girls thats what they were....and I want to go back and do it all again....P&L....Clive....
same here but for me it was The Green Gate in Ilford. chicken and chips in a basket and a pint of lager for a quid with hammering in my ears. Oh happy days when all you lived for was the weekend and the hope of a pull.
The best part is that this video was posted precisely on my 13th birthday. 8th Feb 2006. I just turned 13 then. But anyhow, that's not what brought me here. GTA 4 TBOGT is the only reason I know about this song. God bless Luis Lopez and Tony Prince.
I DJ'd at a New Years Eve House Party 2007/2008 and I play this. THE PLACE WENT NUTS!!! All ages were up dancing.........soon as the intro started they were on the floor. Timeless!!!!!!!!
Respect the old school, you are only 16yrs old & have not touched the surface of life yet. Hopefully you will come to life & understand that these types of classic funk tunes are classic & most if not all bands from the 70's played for the love of music & had more talent on their pinkys than most if not all artist of today. "RESPECT THE OLD SCHOOL"
Thanks LARRY GRAHAM for making the bass the lead instrument, the instrument that everybody just loose their minds and booty's too. THE FATBACK BAND was the group that took this mans lesson seriously and literally, this monster of bass playing is not disco but have the drive that disco has but with none of it's commercial and hated signature, instead it's one of the most infectious groove funk ever has come up with. Let me quote "try and walk across the room normally when listening to this".
Since when did Paul McCartney try to popularise funk music? 😂😂😂 BAHAHAHAHA You do understand what MELODIC means, don't you? Dude, stop trying to blame all white people of ripping off black music. It's called SHARING cultures, dude! Or weren't you ever taught about sharing cultures and respecting each others cultures for what they have to offer. And making it into something new and great, regardless of the colour of your skin. Good grief, some people are clueless when it comes to respecting great music from around the world.
Wow can't believe I'm still here in 2020 & re loving this all over again. As a kid I spent hours doing the dance. Listen to the musical instruments, the clothes the moves. Outstanding.
Man...I was 4 years old when this came out. Inherited the 45, and it cracked in several places...I've got to get this one again! If today's musicians took a tip from the older ones and built upon what was already in place, and truly enjoyed what they did instead of focusing on their advances and how much bling can be bought, you'd see music advance like never before! After all, it's not about how much equipment you have but what you can do with it!
A while back, I had an immobilizing back injury that laid me out for three weeks. When I finally started to get better, this song and Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady" would run through my head. When I'd fully recovered, one of the first things I did was dance to this shit. Invigorating.
Great song, I heard this when I use to go to tiffany's in piccadilly many years ago now but they were great days I met Robert there I was with my friend Heather great days great music 😊😊
good happy music & good happy memories of a good happy time ... try and walk across the room normally when listening to this .... they should play it as people get on and off buses.
I was 9 years old, I could not sleep. I had a radio, listening to the radio, this song was played. As I listened to this song, I was dancing in my bedroom at 2 AM
What great memories dancing to this when I was a teenager. Black people have all the beats and grooves. Such a talented band. Just love them. Also love the Stylistics too!!! ❤❤
Yeah, and notice how the musicians are happy! No posing and trying to look tough, just feeling the music they're playing and loving every minute of it! Those who listen feel the vibe being transmitted, and it spreads. That's why music was better then. I remember! My prescription is that the world will be better if we get real music and take the focus off looks and money. Am I right? Can I get an Amen?
Amen Sister! I woke up with this tune in my head and struggled to remember who sang it and googled it. Found it and have played it all day. Absolutely brilliant! Xxxx
I dedicate this song to a brilliant friend of mine that was the Queen of our school dances. We decked ourselves out in fashionable flower pants. Good times. Dig.
Street funk at its best, saw this band in 1985 at Hammersmith Odeon, Steve Walsh was compare and Radio London was there too. What a night, the whole place was moving, RIP Steve Walsh, you what, you what you what😊
Donna, I was just telling my friend about all the cool music from seriously funky bands that had been overlooked, including this song. I had no ideal there was a video. So happy.. and girl you are so fine in the vid (was that song written about you?) Do you remember recording any other videos? You and the guys were seriously grooving and you looked liked you enjoyed the day. Thanks for the grooves..Wish you guys had more promotion in the big northern cities then my friend wouldn't have said did you say "Flashback Band", no it's FATBACK Band.
lady you look so cool in this video, i would dance with you to this track, i am white and english, but i do love a good funk tune, thank you for being in a classic tune, and you are one smokin sister, i wish you peace and goodwill to you and your family. massive fan of the fatback band. stay safe take it easy sister.
This is just sick. Thank you for posting this. Honestly, the internet has given me a gift which a suburban white kid from northern cali will be greteful for for the rest of my life. As a guitar & bass player, I feel as though I was born in the wrong era. I love this music, and am so thankful it is still able to be heard.
Went see these last night. What an amazing gig. Stepped on the funk mothership and was abducted for a marathon funk session! Still aint touched the ground yet!
You cannot I listen to this song and stay still. So good! They had a line dance to this is Cleveland when I was a kid. I never learned it, but it was so cool. I hate you can’t see more of their feet.
In the summers of the 70s, the Fatback Band had us dancing in these streets. Great times with and memories of family and friends, block parties and cookouts!
It makes me remember my youth age, in Benin City Edo State Nigeria. When Nigeria was peaceful, while we were growing up as youths, having party here, party there. Inter House sports in schools. Good old days.
Big Disco, Soul, Gold welcome to Bill Curtis of The Fatback Band. Here is some classic Fatback from 1975 where it reached #37 US R&B; #18 UK charts .Still a jam & what a classic .
I like how a friends grandpa is involved in this somehow - his name is Ernst Zacharias and he invented the Clavinet that can prominently be heard in this tune (and others..) :)
I heard this in Costas coffee. Nice to hear again. The young in costas had no idea of what the music was. It could of been lift music to them. We had such good times in the discos dancing to this.
Born in 68. Grew up with 70’s parents. Nothing is like the best.
May 20th here. Yes watchin my parents dance watchin soul train to these funk greats are some great memories.
wow so did l😃 👍
Best FUNK in the 70's. I was there!
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Me too !!!! Lucky us !!
I feel lucky that I WASNT there. Lol
I think I would of loved to have been born in this era
Absolutely true Jill, I often listen to it. But What has replaced funk and disco? In reality nothing has replaced all that positive energy.
Oh God!!!! I know I was born in the right era.... woooo thank you Lord. I grew up in a time when the best music was made.
So many memories dancing to this at nightclubs... and it was a HUGE hit on the dance floor. Everyone got up to dance. And when I was going to clubs, this song was already over 20 years old!!
This was my era, I was in the clubs in the 80s. There has never been anything like it since .....
Agreed! Nothing! The feeling when this came on, and we ALL and I mean ALL got up to dance! Memories!! xo @@harmony3395
Unbelievable Epic Masterpiece!!🤣☺. So many happy, beautiful memmories. They were the Best days. GOD BLESS AND everybody keep doing the BUS STOP.
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This.was.the 70's
Still dancing, forty years later. He said he'd tell me when to stop. But he never did.
Lmao😂....well if he ain't say nothing then keep dancing 💃😊🎆
@@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433 haha
@@aandrfreeman5085 am I right?
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You wasn't really waiting sonny buck!
Was You punk?
First time I heard this, I was 13 years old jamming out to this in GTA EFLC in 2012. 12 years later, it slaps just as hard. Thank you Rockstar for introducing me to music I would've otherwise never heard of
All these years later it is STILL one of the best funk , disco, dance songs EVER ! Brings back memories of Bed Stuy, Bklyn, NY, when WWRL & WBLS were at their all time best and all those REAL block parties!! Who needs this rap / crap so- called hip hop music.
I absolutely love this era of music, they knew how to have fun, entertain and keep people on the dance floor.
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Sooo true
bet you cant listen to this without your legs moving and your head nodding!!! its brilliant
What a tune! So glad to have grown up on Fatback, Parliament, Blackbyrds and so many more of the greats!
They don't make music like they used to! That was some real music back then.
That bass line though...🔥🔥🔥
Yep - it's like sugar, so sweet
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I'm gonna play it on my bass !
Right On 👏💜
I ways love live bands playing their tunes
Love these bands from the 70’s- so much talent, it’s unreal.
Classic 70s funk , memories of my childhood . A white boy from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) who loves black music , soul / funk / disco / Rnb . One of my favorites is "Lady T" , Teena Marie (R.I.P) a white girl from cali with soul !!!
Sure George micheli love black music also. Music is music dont care red yellow it music.goerge recive a Grammy for a black song. Alot mad black poeple that night.
Just saying I hnow what your sa⁷saying. That's all.
Now what. Is this my date pull i>
Who doesnt like black music? Its the best of the best
That’s a band dammit. Pure musicianship. Every single sound you hear is from an instrument.., nothing digitized or computerized. 🔥🔥
except the moog in the background. It's got an IC. :^)
Great hearing the Fatback Band again, this song brings back memory's of when I was the Program Director of WGCI-FM, Chicago.
Nice, it was a good station!
Great band used to dance to their stuff back in the seventies.Every record of theirs is so unique.
Saw these at Hammersmith Apollo in the 70`s. Oh those really were great times! IF IT MOVES - FUNK IT!!
I don't know why but this song just makes me happy, thank you gta :P
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THOSE WERE THE DAYS !!! THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS !💃💃💃
Funk music needs to come back... with a real band, real horns, real drums and REAL SINGERS.... best funk was in the 70s
The one and ONLY funk was played back in the late 60's and mid to late 70's, everything else are just...meh!
watchout somethings coming :)
bohannon.
What you waiting for, bring it back then 🕺🕺
Who knows what the future holds? It just might. After a number of years of plasticated nonsense clogging up the charts, it's high time that more organic music like this made a comeback.
This never gets old ❤❤❤
It's nice to see performers looking like they're genuinely having fun.
A bass line so solid you could build a house on it!
All the best music, soul funk reggae dub disco rock punk...was in the 70s! I loved dancing to this back in the day, at the Top Rank disco!!! Another great track of theirs is Wicky Wacky!! Love it. GREAT clip.
So you were really Uptown Top Ranking..🤩 Didn’t realise it was a venue tbh
To prove how funky it is, feel the beat of the computer sound boxes in the table!!
Fatback Band is the best!
Bloody fantastic. Can anyone out there keep still to this?! Real music! I grew up in this era.My teen son listens to 80s music because he says there’s no comparison with what’s out there now.
Thanks GTA 4 "Episodes in Liberty City: The Ballad of Gay Tony" for met me with that great music! So cool!
very true
They had tons of great song
Dont stop...keep the Grooooove....OMG I can remember getting on down and losing my young soul to this fab track way back in the mid 70s in the New Penny Disco in Queens Road Watford near London England....I hope the DJ from that club and that time is still alive today to tell the story from his side....Glory days boys and girls thats what they were....and I want to go back and do it all again....P&L....Clive....
same here but for me it was The Green Gate in Ilford. chicken and chips in a basket and a pint of lager for a quid with hammering in my ears. Oh happy days when all you lived for was the weekend and the hope of a pull.
Great memories of groovin to this in 70's discos. 😊
The best part is that this video was posted precisely on my 13th birthday. 8th Feb 2006. I just turned 13 then. But anyhow, that's not what brought me here. GTA 4 TBOGT is the only reason I know about this song. God bless Luis Lopez and Tony Prince.
One of my favourites since the 70s!
Oh my the 70`S I remember doing my funky dancing , i would love to see a group of youngsters dancing to this a lot of kids today are brilliant dancers
Yes, me too
I DJ'd at a New Years Eve House Party 2007/2008 and I play this. THE PLACE WENT NUTS!!! All ages were up dancing.........soon as the intro started they were on the floor. Timeless!!!!!!!!
lol ... this brings back 80s school disco memories!!
very cool...they use to play this at my school discos back then...still sounds awsum!thanks for sharing this wicked track...
The Fatback Band. Classic. Thanks for the upload. Blessings
Respect the old school, you are only 16yrs old & have not touched the surface of life yet. Hopefully you will come to life & understand that these types of classic funk tunes are classic & most if not all bands from the 70's played for the love of music & had more talent on their pinkys than most if not all artist of today. "RESPECT THE OLD SCHOOL"
Great memories of seeing these guys live in the 70s~Brilliant👌🏼
this song was huge in Australia and we danced to it at the discos in the 70s
… and in Sydney in the 80s and 90s !
Great sòng, used to dance at the Birdcage Hoyland Common Barnsley. Earley 70s loved that era of discos.xx
Nowadays these guys don't seem to get the recognition they deserve for how innovative and influential they were....
Fatback Band came to the UK in around '75 or '76 and I saw them at Central Hall, Chatham, Kent. They were awesome. What a party. Thanks for this
I was there to as soon as they started to play everybody was up in the aisles and never sat down BRILLIANT
More FUNK than disco
Bless them both !
TALENT!!! a rare quality in the music industry today.
Thanks LARRY GRAHAM for making the bass the lead instrument, the instrument that everybody just loose their minds and booty's too. THE FATBACK BAND was the group that took this mans lesson seriously and literally, this monster of bass playing is not disco but have the drive that disco has but with none of it's commercial and hated signature, instead it's one of the most infectious groove funk ever has come up with. Let me quote "try and walk across the room normally when listening to this".
No words should be added.... I totaley agree with you,well said !
Yeah record collection time
Paul McCartney also helped popularise melodic bass.
Paul McCartney popularized ripping off funk players and making it white
Since when did Paul McCartney try to popularise funk music? 😂😂😂 BAHAHAHAHA
You do understand what MELODIC means, don't you?
Dude, stop trying to blame all white people of ripping off black music.
It's called SHARING cultures, dude!
Or weren't you ever taught about sharing cultures and respecting each others cultures for what they have to offer. And making it into something new and great, regardless of the colour of your skin.
Good grief, some people are clueless when it comes to respecting great music from around the world.
SO FUNKY! I'm a teenager of the70's...we had SO MUCH FUN!!!!!
Wow can't believe I'm still here in 2020 & re loving this all over again. As a kid I spent hours doing the dance. Listen to the musical instruments, the clothes the moves. Outstanding.
Never gets old . The best era for music . When music was real
Man...I was 4 years old when this came out. Inherited the 45, and it cracked in several places...I've got to get this one again! If today's musicians took a tip from the older ones and built upon what was already in place, and truly enjoyed what they did instead of focusing on their advances and how much bling can be bought, you'd see music advance like never before! After all, it's not about how much equipment you have but what you can do with it!
Just why is it that nowadays nobody can transmit a groove like this...awesome-as-can
A while back, I had an immobilizing back injury that laid me out for three weeks. When I finally started to get better, this song and Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady" would run through my head. When I'd fully recovered, one of the first things I did was dance to this shit. Invigorating.
Great song, I heard this when I use to go to tiffany's in piccadilly many years ago now but they were great days I met Robert there I was with my friend Heather great days great music 😊😊
good happy music & good happy memories of a good happy time ... try and walk across the room normally when listening to this .... they should play it as people get on and off buses.
that is an impossible task :D defo love the bus stop idea though
I was 9 years old, I could not sleep. I had a radio, listening to the radio, this song was played. As I listened to this song, I was dancing in my bedroom at 2 AM
What great memories dancing to this when I was a teenager. Black people have all the beats and grooves. Such a talented band. Just love them. Also love the Stylistics too!!! ❤❤
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Yeah, and notice how the musicians are happy! No posing and trying to look tough, just feeling the music they're playing and loving every minute of it! Those who listen feel the vibe being transmitted, and it spreads. That's why music was better then. I remember! My prescription is that the world will be better if we get real music and take the focus off looks and money. Am I right? Can I get an Amen?
Amen Sister! I woke up with this tune in my head and struggled to remember who sang it and googled it. Found it and have played it all day. Absolutely brilliant! Xxxx
@@sheilamitchell2215 Thank you!
@@bikesandcampswithcats You are more than welcome my dear lady. Great comment! X
I dedicate this song to a brilliant friend of mine that was the Queen of our school dances. We decked ourselves out in fashionable flower pants. Good times. Dig.
I'm still waiting for the bus, but when it sounds this good i'm happy to wait.
Funk music : collective music for collective people ! The best in the history of modern music
I am now 50 and I saw them in Baileys a nightclub in Leic England.Everybody were dancing on the Tables.Was´nt allowed but we did it.Cool.
This is the real rare groove , Excellent
Saw the fat back band back in the day in London Hammersmith odien great band ..
Not only this tune hard but I'm in love with the lady in the group.
Donna McGhee
Street funk at its best, saw this band in 1985 at Hammersmith Odeon, Steve Walsh was compare and Radio London was there too.
What a night, the whole place was moving, RIP Steve Walsh, you what, you what you what😊
this is the best song ever, i have many internal problems with bus stops and this song really helps . Thank you fatback band!!!!!! Aqua Out
+briana moreno Oh you're welcome baby
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Remember dancing to that, loved it!! What actually was 'The Bustop' lm thinking now 40 years later!!!
Thanks so much Funkonaut for the share, this was my first recording ~ the guys and I had a blast recording this LP and the video.
Donna, I was just telling my friend about all the cool music from seriously funky bands that had been overlooked, including this song. I had no ideal there was a video. So happy.. and girl you are so fine in the vid (was that song written about you?) Do you remember recording any other videos? You and the guys were seriously grooving and you looked liked you enjoyed the day. Thanks for the grooves..Wish you guys had more promotion in the big northern cities then my friend wouldn't have said did you say "Flashback Band", no it's FATBACK Band.
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lady you look so cool in this video, i would dance with you to this track, i am white and english, but i do love a good funk tune, thank you for being in a classic tune, and you are one smokin sister, i wish you peace and goodwill to you and your family. massive fan of the fatback band. stay safe take it easy sister.
That song was made in 75 or 76 and you still look good!I love this song.
Donna you are a legend for us, dj's of the adriatic scene in italy! god bless you and your sweet voice!! Marioromario Colonna from italy
Get the funk outta my face. Outrageously funky tune, still sounds good after all this time. Get ya groove on🤩🤩
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This is just sick. Thank you for posting this. Honestly, the internet has given me a gift which a suburban white kid from northern cali will be greteful for for the rest of my life. As a guitar & bass player, I feel as though I was born in the wrong era. I love this music, and am so thankful it is still able to be heard.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕💕💕
Do not remember this tune, love it and chakan khan version does it justice surprisingly.
That was a awesome music from 1975.
I remember when r&b was r&b and now rap is called blues . This is pure disco music
It is this track that taught me to listen to and make music! Big up to Bill Curtis and the Fatback band! Mythic!!!
Bought this record the day it came out in Contempo music London. Play it now still goes down well CLASSIC
Memories loving it Thanks, giving some nice inspirations for new songs
This would have to be the best dance song ever written to get a party started!
Thank you for upload, i heard this for the first time in my life 4 years ago and it's always a treat to listen again.
Went see these last night. What an amazing gig. Stepped on the funk mothership and was abducted for a marathon funk session! Still aint touched the ground yet!
haha omg I been stuck on this song for years. need more music like this and the world be a better place
So good - many thanks Funkonaut for posting this - quite, quite wonderful :)
This was stuck in my head I had to find it 💜 Happy 40th to me ☺️
Incredible! Reminds me of when popular music was created with love by humans and not soulless computers.
You cannot I listen to this song and stay still. So good! They had a line dance to this is Cleveland when I was a kid. I never learned it, but it was so cool. I hate you can’t see more of their feet.
YES ! THIS IS SO VERY MUCH TOO GOOD !
Damn that just wouldn't quit - I honestly could listen to a 20 minute version of this and be as pleased as punch.
First heard this in the Get Down. A shame Netflix cancelled it and didn’t promote it. Really good music.
In the summers of the 70s, the Fatback Band had us dancing in these streets. Great times with and memories of family and friends, block parties and cookouts!
Bygone days of the sounds of Real Funky Jem that you could really dance to 👍👍👍👍
La belle époque que des souvenirs , nostalgie, beaucoup de bonheur
I love this song!
It makes me remember my youth age, in Benin City Edo State Nigeria. When Nigeria was peaceful, while we were growing up as youths, having party here, party there. Inter House sports in schools. Good old days.
Big Disco, Soul, Gold welcome to Bill Curtis of The Fatback Band.
Here is some classic Fatback from 1975 where it reached #37 US R&B; #18 UK charts .Still a jam & what a classic .
Thank you for sharing. Funkiest track aver. Bass-line just blows my mind
The horns but those guitars, tho..... Brooklyn, New York!!
You can even hear the crackle of the record at the beginning. What a wonderful time, no telephone but lots of friends.
So..much...swag
Class of 75 here. I remember this song very well.
I like how a friends grandpa is involved in this somehow - his name is Ernst Zacharias and he invented the Clavinet that can prominently be heard in this tune (and others..)
:)
Such a feel-good tune, always feel like dancing 🕺
I luv the funk..always did
I heard this in Costas coffee. Nice to hear again. The young in costas had no idea of what the music was. It could of been lift music to them. We had such good times in the discos dancing to this.