As a young teen, I sung this song to a girl I use to pass in the school hall all the time... she came over that night... we were parents nine months later... we married... lasted 28 years until her unfortunate demise. ❤I still love this song❤
Melvin Riley....lead singer of RFTW wrote it and produced it. It's "Love You Down". I'm am a 48 year old white boy and I loved RFTW. Melvin is my age now!
I was 17 when this song came out, back in those days was a drama free world where everyone got along with each other. I would like to go back in time knowing what I know now.
this kind of music is still being made but record labels are buying up all the radio time and artist like my self who do this kind of Music have to be found online and at our own concerts. come to my page on youtube and watch and hear my new music videos with this style of rnb. also add me on Facebook and Twitter my name is Bobby Washington.
A lot of moving comments on here. some funny ones too. All greatly appreciated. It feels good to know, after all these years, this song was felt by so many. Thank you all.
ROBBIE HARRIS I STILL REMEMBER WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT WHEN THERE WAS ONLY VH1 MTV AND THE JUKEBOX(WHERE IT WAS PLAYED THE MOST) BEFORE BET WAS EVEN THOUGHT OF!!!!!!! STILL LISTENING IN 2019 AND MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE YEARS TO COME!!!!!!
This takes me back to my senior year in high school summer 1987l! My boy had just got his first whip, a 1987 ford escort pony with cellular phone! Lol!! Those were the days!! Good Times!! You couldn’t tell us nothing back then!
I always remembered this song. I had just started high school, and this song just stuck in my mind. Jams like this are like Cadillacs, they never go out of style!
This was background music to a couple of my 7th grade crushes lol. i remember thinking that this was NE at the time til i saw the music video. Nostalgia puttin a lump in my throat now 😳Sigh...
Yes, it has aged very well! Better than modern day viagra! 😂 Just add sexy conditional , sexy female stir well and add K-Y jell and in 9 months=1 Baby! Child support , diapers and baby food sold several!
Lol at can you say stalker... But i dont think you could know what a stalker was in the 4th grade. Lol.. That was just da kinda things girls did back then. Da good ol days. I feel you though. I think i was in the 6th grade when this came out. The 80's and 90's were the last good decades in music.
this came out in the 80's....sorry.....i remember when this came out i use to b at the animalhouse...on 367 when i first heard it and i was like 12 r 13 then.....I'm a o.g now
2023 baby! This is better than Any trash they call music nowadays. Y’all know what I’m talkin bout!! Let’s get & stay on these loving vibes y’all. Too much nastiness in the world today! Let’s take these youngins back & teach em how to love!!
These guys were supposed to be the second coming of New Edition, but it just didn't work out for them. I remember this well. Back then, my friends and I were die-hard New Edition fans and although we liked this song, we remained faithful to Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike and Ralph. :) At fifteen you don't understand that you can love them both. LOL
I definitely remember them! I not only lived in their neighborhood in LeFrak City, Queens, we harmonized together (along with some other friends) in the summers. We were blowing until about 2 or 3am. Damn, those were the days! They all were some down-to-earth brothers.
You can clearly hear the Melvin Riley production behind this dope track!! New Edition had to turn down this track because it was considered by their management as being too risque for their bubblegum image at the time.
It so heart breaking to know that music is not what it use to be? This was when artists could sing without a machine altering their voice so they can sound good. I miss this music so much. Wish I could go back in time. This new generation is truly missing out on what it mean to listen to good music and be in love.
@@robertjackson2163 sometimes memories becomes so vivid that you feel like you are back in that very time. Hold onto those beautiful memories, they're the closest thing we have to remind us of the good times.
I just saw that video to Cool It Now by New Edition...I was like 17 when that came out, with ALL that talent..Tres, Bell, Biv, Devoe, and Bobby...that was our dancin tunes back in the early, mid 80s...Candy Girl...miss those days...
I'm glad I bought this on CD (yes, it was briefly a CD in longbox) when it first came out in 1987. I was in college! Now it's a hard-to-find, very expensive collector's item. I must have made tapes with this song for half the damn campus back then!
I had this cassette tape back in the late 80's. So many favorites on that album. I held onto that thing well into the mid 2000's. I never got around to putting it onto a cd and now it's gone forever. I would love to blast "Fingertips" in my car.
Wow. I haven't heard this since I was 16. I met the guys at in store in ATL @ Peppermint Records in '88 and took a picture with the whole group. So bugged out to hear this after so many years.
4 by four never got the recognition that they so respectively deserved back in the 80s and 90s because they were an very good group with talent and this song proves that.....
memories as a kid when I thought I was in love!!!! lol I always wondered if Melvin Riley wrote this, always thought this joint reminded me of, Tonight! Peace ppl!
SO GLAD THAT I GOT TO ENJOY THIS MUSIC WHEN IT WAS (STILL IS) POPPIN. i WAS BORN IN THE 70'S PLAYED INTHE 80'S BECAME A MOM IN THE 90'S. NOW IM A GRANDMA STILL LISTENING IN 2018
Too the people who’s here in 2024!!❤️
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Missing oldies but goodies ❤
To*
Folks these days can’t even understand how hard this song goes‼️. No profanity, no disrespectful lyrics. But smooth as hell, and they loved it❤
SHO NUFF ❤
2023!
Exactly ❤
Still here 2023
PREACH!!!The best decade ever!
As a young teen, I sung this song to a girl I use to pass in the school hall all the time... she came over that night... we were parents nine months later... we married... lasted 28 years until her unfortunate demise.
❤I still love this song❤
My condolences
❤
That's a touching story. Praying for your peace and comfort.🙏
😢😢
My condolences.
Melvin Riley....lead singer of RFTW wrote it and produced it. It's "Love You Down". I'm am a 48 year old white boy and I loved RFTW. Melvin is my age now!
+scott “Rollie” J that GHETTO LOVE album by MELVIN RILEY was the bomb diggedy
+Harley amen
LOVE your name!!!!
Well I'm a 50 year black woman and if you listen to this, we might need to get married now...lolol
Color is a problem.....I luv ,every body
I was 17 when this song came out, back in those days was a drama free world where everyone got along with each other.
I would like to go back in time knowing what I know now.
so was I....good years
the members... Damen Heyward, Lance Heyward, Steve Gray and Jay Jackson. thanks for the compliments. God bless you all.
You lead singer sir
Still a fan! Good singing never gets old.
I did a show with Ready for the world when I was a teenager.4 by 4 need to put this back out now.
@@masaielectro1 ..Yes, they need to. They could sit on a stage and lip sync for all I care. I just want to see them sing this song.
Still a fan..... Stay in rotation
Thumbs up from everyone still listening to this in 2020
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Rite on
2022 lol
Oh yeah baby, I'll never forget baby.
N beon
I wish this type of music was still being made today......total tragedy!!!
this kind of music is still being made but record labels are buying up all the radio time and artist like my self who do this kind of Music have to be found online and at our own concerts. come to my page on youtube and watch and hear my new music videos with this style of rnb. also add me on Facebook and Twitter my name is Bobby Washington.
I totally agree with ya..
I'm a metal / Rock guy.
But i grew up on 80's - 90s Rnb
Ready for the World my favorite ..
Those day and magic are gone..
Where can we find your music?
Cjay Feacher I know you right❤️
You right.... Romitra indpls ind
8th grade late night phone conversations hoping mom or dad won't be listening lol memories.
I know exactly ? U talking about, I did da same!! Lol
Melvin Riley killed this Production 🔥
Influenced by Prince 💜🙌
Melvin Riley from ready for the world he sung at philando castile's funeral
Melvin always RFTW
Different groups
I never know Melvin Riley produced this song 😅!! I should’ve know cause it sounds just like a RFTW song 👍🏽
I was 23 when this came out and now I'm 55 and it still sounds good.2019
We're the same age. I'm right here in Flint the were Giants here back then. I we still em
I thought this came out in 87. I was 14 and I'm 49 now
They can't or won't I don't understand how to respect this time music
Sometime music is patient with you is for people to understand themselves this type of musically lovely because silly
If I delivered the last message please forgive me Sunny's grocery the soul Horsham on your body or spirit
I remember in junior high I would sing this loud and confident and I was all out of tune but you couldn't tell me I wasn't killing it. lol
That's funny
When the 80 in 90 music left the world left. No love only wickedness and sadness. This music was what had to hold on to when we hD nothing.
I HEAR U BRUH😂😂✊🏿
Currently 17 good music
Man them days was epic
A lot of moving comments on here. some funny ones too. All greatly appreciated. It feels good to know, after all these years, this song was felt by so many. Thank you all.
You're more than welcome
Jay Jackson yea we remember this what u guys doing now
Jay we need more of this kind of music. Come on and show these newbies how to do it.
Jay Jackson can you put this on Itunes?
Your welcome
Old skool music. ... (Bow your heads) Praying:Lord thank you for allowing me to be born in a time where I got to experience this music.Amen and Amen
Amen
+joe boyles I couldn't agree with you more brother. May God be in our hearts and minds forevermore....
+joe boyles AMEN!!
THANK YOU
EXACTLY!!!!!
got that ready for the world sound
Melvin Riley of Ready For the World produced song.
+Al Cheeks yes he did too bad capital records did them dirty
Sure does.
Man..I'm white, and I had my boody pinchin CASSETTE back in the latter 80s, and RFTW and Melvin was ALL over it....
thats cuz melvin riley produced it
THIS when falling in 💘 luv was sooo reall...❤😌...
So true
YES
This bring back so many memories damm I miss my teens
Amen to that
Sooooooo very true
Love this song! Brings me back to days when life was not chaotic😞
Biggfactz
Melvin Riley did his thang back then, he wrote some great tracks
I CAN HEAR HIS STYLE. GREAT WORK.
Didn't know he wrote that but my 1st thought was it sounds like
Ready for the world.
Never noticed it back then though.
Right on.
RFTW's Gently
Tarja Williams I still listen to Melvin Riley from R.F.T.W to his solo projects
Wrote all the panty droppas
They popped into my head yesterday while I washed dishes. I didn't realize how Ready For the World-ish this sounded. I used to love this.
Melvin Riley of ready for the world wrote and produced it
@@davidrobertson3270Thanks for this info! ❤
I honestly thought it was Ready for the World
Still do.high school memories of yesterday,oh boy have time flew bye.
True. Timeless music.
WHEN B.E.T PLAYED REAL R&B
YA KNOOOWW?
You had to be in this era of music to understand and appreciate!
ROBBIE HARRIS I STILL REMEMBER WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT WHEN THERE WAS ONLY VH1 MTV AND THE JUKEBOX(WHERE IT WAS PLAYED THE MOST) BEFORE BET WAS EVEN THOUGHT OF!!!!!!! STILL LISTENING IN 2019 AND MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE YEARS TO COME!!!!!!
@@tamekagibson6264 MTV started showing videos in 1981, BET in 1982, VH1 premiered in 1987
Right
I use to wait to catch it on the radio so I could record it.
i remember those days brah
you a preacher now right??. (lol)
Lol, yeah. I have a renewed mind not a new mind. I still remember.
Amen!
Haaaaaaaa Remember putting the toilet paper in the top two spaces the pressing Play an record at the same time Haaaaaaa. That means were old now :)
When music was still good and had feeling
Amen
You can tell Melvin Riley did this. Sounds just like " Slide Over" he sang for RFTW!!
Yop
Slide over...dont make me wait too long....
You got it
Yesssss...
Influenced by Prince 🎸
This takes me back to my senior year in high school summer 1987l! My boy had just got his first whip, a 1987 ford escort pony with cellular phone! Lol!! Those were the days!! Good Times!! You couldn’t tell us nothing back then!
I always remembered this song. I had just started high school, and this song just stuck in my mind. Jams like this are like Cadillacs, they never go out of style!
True-Dat!
This was background music to a couple of my 7th grade crushes lol.
i remember thinking that this was NE at the time til i saw the music video. Nostalgia puttin a lump in my throat now 😳Sigh...
yes it was.....i remember them days
Kevin Bernstein yep I was only sixteen man how time fly by
This song still sounds good! this use to be my JAMM when I was 17!!!!!!! I'm 47 now!!!!
Hope that you are enjoying your 50th 2021🎉
Yes indeed
45 and still on it!!
Yes, it has aged very well! Better than modern day viagra! 😂 Just add sexy conditional , sexy female stir well and add K-Y jell and in 9 months=1 Baby! Child support , diapers and baby food sold several!
Real Spill! And That's 💯
Damn man i need a time machine
Real talk it's nothing like it real music
Me too. Seems like when we are young, we truly screw up everything
I know right...so real..so smooth.soo true..
Orlando Matthews Good music...Good memories
Brenda Gutierrez yes we do
fuck it basement party my house rightnow!!
lol, Summer of 87'
Oh the memories!!
Terry Anthony You chargin'? Lol
Terry Anthony BOL!!!
Terry Anthony on the way.. Lights off, right??? Lol 😂🎼🎼🎼🎼📻🍺🍺🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🍺🍺
I'm down 4 Dat!! 🤣🤣🤣
Melvin Riley deserves his flowers!!!!!
I remember being in like 4th grade and calling my crush and playing this on the phone when he answered and then hanging up. Can we say STALKER. lol
Maria Music Maria LOL
Lol at can you say stalker... But i dont think you could know what a stalker was in the 4th grade. Lol.. That was just da kinda things girls did back then. Da good ol days. I feel you though. I think i was in the 6th grade when this came out. The 80's and 90's were the last good decades in music.
Maria Music Maria lol so did he come over?😆😂😂
Girl No! My Daddy would've whooped my butt and his. We was just in grade school. lol
Maria Music Maria lol d'awww
I remember as a teen playing this song over and over on my walkman until i felt asleep (daydreaming of a crush)☺️
Hell yeah SIS!!!! I did the same thing. I eventually got the nerve to approach her. Been married 27Years and counting!!!
!!This was one of my favorite songs in the late 80's, ok i thought the early 90's I forgot all about. "Celebrities that died brung me here".
this came out in the 80's....sorry.....i remember when this came out i use to b at the animalhouse...on 367
this came out in the 80's....sorry.....i remember when this came out i use to b at the animalhouse...on 367 when i first heard it and i was like 12 r 13 then.....I'm a o.g now
Deseree Bryant saaaame!!
Deseree Bryant me too.. Real music, feel like dancing..
Deseree Bryant omg me too didn’t even match the video...but first time I heard this song n I love it..I’m 26 yrs young n LOVE OLD SKL MUSIC DEARLY💕😘
2023 baby! This is better than Any trash they call music nowadays. Y’all know what I’m talkin bout!! Let’s get & stay on these loving vibes y’all. Too much nastiness in the world today! Let’s take these youngins back & teach em how to love!!
Another high school memory......sigh
Wow! 80s vibe. Brought me back to my youth.. Rnb and jazz have practically dried up. Thank you for keeping the vibe alive 👍
I remember rewinding this all the time being in love with my boyfriend.
This is the jam in our day
Me too! Whew honey! Good ole teenage love 💕🖤💕
I. Used to wonder who made this song but I finally got in 98 it was hard to find but been had it
I still have this on my cassette tape! Let that be our secret!;)
Yeah this has Melvin Riley and RFTW written all over it.
JUST SAYING .
For real
music will never be the same
Thank you
You rigth about that
These guys were supposed to be the second coming of New Edition, but it just didn't work out for them. I remember this well. Back then, my friends and I were die-hard New Edition fans and although we liked this song, we remained faithful to Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike and Ralph. :) At fifteen you don't understand that you can love them both. LOL
They would've gave NE a run for their money if they came out in 1984
This song was written for New Edition originally
I'm here all the time not just for the 80s or 90s I'm here all the time music is not like this no more 💯✌️
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wow.. I use to listen to this storm on the quiet storm back in the 80's never knew who sang this song... love it..
Why all these years later I'm just discovering that they sound like a cross between New edition and ready for the world??
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL
here in 2019👍
But not as beautiful as you
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sad i heard this song on black actors who died too young. but i am in love with this song. im a 80s baby late 80s im 28 and im tearing up to this song
Ashley Burton I cried too girl. makes me miss those days so much!!
same hear thats how i found it
Don't tear up
Love this song! If only music was still like this!
What you said!!!
Omg havent heard this in over 30 years
2019 still
I definitely remember them! I not only lived in their neighborhood in LeFrak City, Queens, we harmonized together (along with some other friends) in the summers. We were blowing until about 2 or 3am. Damn, those were the days! They all were some down-to-earth brothers.
+SlimDaddy9 where are they now???
That's that Hunching Music . Back in the day you started out hunching with your girl until she gave it up.
bruce oxendine back ťhen girls didn't give it up......ştop lying!!!!
bruce oxendine 😂 ...to all the real hunchers 😂😂
@@lhdollbaby there was at least ONE pregnant girl at my school lol...
Hunching.. Lol!!! That's ol' skool for real 👍
Facts 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
This is soo smooth and POWERFUL, makes you sit back and think deeply. its a shame music like is NOT made anymore..
Biggfactz bro👍👍👍👍
I LOST MY VIRGINITY 2 THIS SONG MY MOST FAVORITE SONG N THE WORLD
-K.T.
Anyone else listening in 2019??
ABSOLUTELY!!
2024😊
yes beautiful
A young lady, much younger than me, just reminded me of this song.
GREAT VOCALS,MELODY ARRANGEMENT AND BEAT !
True
I can't believe I found this song brings back good memories for me
I use to play this when I was a teen-ager falling in love wow beautiful song.
You can clearly hear the Melvin Riley production behind this dope track!! New Edition had to turn down this track because it was considered by their management as being too risque for their bubblegum image at the time.
Oh okay
O wow
This definitely should have been Ready For The World's frfr!
Real classic R&B Ya Heard Me
Yes baby
It so heart breaking to know that music is not what it use to be? This was when artists could sing without a machine altering their voice so they can sound good. I miss this music so much. Wish I could go back in time. This new generation is truly missing out on what it mean to listen to good music and be in love.
I can listen to this song 1001 times and it will never get old
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG...ALWAYS!!!
Loving this one. Smooth and relaxing.
Yes indeed it is relaxing
Check out the writer Melvin Riley’s other stuff, like slide over and other RFTW songs.
@@calvinl9727 yes he co-wrote this amazing joint
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omg I been looking for this song smh 👍
so meeeeeeeeeeeee for years
Love it
me too All I knew was "come over" but I was determined to find it and it sounded like little boys lol I HATED THIS SONG young "love" ugh lol
Yes yes me too
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Yes, im loving old school, so many memories, if only the body could transform back to those days just as the memory
If only
@@robertjackson2163 sometimes memories becomes so vivid that you feel like you are back in that very time. Hold onto those beautiful memories, they're the closest thing we have to remind us of the good times.
All I can say is, Saturday night,Silverwings Ballroom Skating Rink. This song takes me to my happy place..
You just made me smile from nostalgia.
brings me back.....I miss these days
Best days when music was music
I was looking for this song for years, I was in the seventh grade!!!
True dat. 7th grader over here at the time too.
MEMORIES, MEMORIES....SWEET SWEEEEEET MEM-ORIES...
terresa kearse me too
The background, " baby bring ya love to me" kills it every rip
Send chills down my spine. Great song
Oh my God, another oldie but goodie, forget about this one
Why isn’t this song on any streaming services ? Somebody should still be getting a check
Still here 2019🥰😍🤩
1987! My boys and I performed this our senior year in high school!
I just saw that video to Cool It Now by New Edition...I was like 17 when that came out, with ALL that talent..Tres, Bell, Biv, Devoe, and Bobby...that was our dancin tunes back in the early, mid 80s...Candy Girl...miss those days...
STILL LISTENING IN 20/20 during the CORONA-VIRUS
I'm glad I bought this on CD (yes, it was briefly a CD in longbox) when it first came out in 1987. I was in college! Now it's a hard-to-find, very expensive collector's item. I must have made tapes with this song for half the damn campus back then!
Sophomore year, we use to compete to see who had the best slow music, lol
I'm 35 now and still like it. Now I know what it means. LOL!
Still listening in 2019
It's 2021 and this song was playing in my mind all day.
I had this cassette tape back in the late 80's. So many favorites on that album. I held onto that thing well into the mid 2000's. I never got around to putting it onto a cd and now it's gone forever. I would love to blast "Fingertips" in my car.
Request it on iTunes or search amazon
+pashaun Pride how you do that
Marcus Downs to request www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
Marcus Downs or you can see if anyone is selling theirs on here www.discogs.com/4-By-Four-4-By-Four/release/1581371
If only love could be this beautiful 24/7. ❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. I haven't heard this since I was 16. I met the guys at in store in ATL @ Peppermint Records in '88 and took a picture with the whole group. So bugged out to hear this after so many years.
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My dude! Damen_heyward on instagram!
4 by four never got the recognition that they so respectively deserved back in the 80s and 90s because they were an very good group with talent and this song proves that.....
I'm still listening In 2019!
memories as a kid when I thought I was in love!!!! lol
I always wondered if Melvin Riley wrote this, always thought this joint reminded me of, Tonight! Peace ppl!
Yes, he wrote it
I remember crushing on this boy so bad ,This song reminds me of that feeling ..I always loved this joint !
Sweet old song. Almost 50 still playing it.
Songs like these make me feel younger and not older..good ol days....miss them days...
I’ve been looking for this song for years I couldn’t think who sung this song... I’m happy I found it...,
sounds like Ralph tresvant from New edition
Arcell Green a
Arcell Green yaassss
I mean, i wrote 'Ralph Tresvant' and it brought me here😆!
Arcell Green no sounds like Micheal Jackson
Arcell Green yes
Ahhh if I could go back in time to my Middle school days....
Definitely The The Music You Can Listen To Forever Nothing today can match these Love Songs
Biggfactz
It's 2021 and I'm still listening to this like it came out yesterday. I'm having my own Quiet Storm
This song takes me back to high-school and my 1st love.
I turn 50 this September to all the ladies & gentlemen that rocked this music our era is the truth 💯💪🏾 solid r & b I love it
I can't move shit.. my mind went back in time
Yes! I finally found this song again!
Beautiful song! ❤️
Man I was 10 years old when this came out 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
80’s music made you feel different ❤
SO GLAD THAT I GOT TO ENJOY THIS MUSIC WHEN IT WAS (STILL IS) POPPIN. i WAS BORN IN THE 70'S PLAYED INTHE 80'S BECAME A MOM IN THE 90'S. NOW IM A GRANDMA STILL LISTENING IN 2018