I met Papa Dee back in the mid '80s after their show in Houston with Rare Earth and Vanilla Fudge. What a fantastic musician... Much love to your family.
A “lowrider” is a car with modified suspension allowing it to “ride low”. Originating in Los Angeles, California, and mostly by the Mexican-American community, it developed into a full culture of expression. “Low and Slow” is their slogan. A majority of lowriders are made from vintage American cars, mostly from the 1950s through 1960s. There are lowrider clubs, conventions, even a dedicated magazine. You may enjoy the extended, remixed version from the Best Of War greatest hits album. It’s available on TH-cam, along with dozens of excellent fan remixes. It’s an iconic song.
A low rider is more than a car club with cool suspensions and fantastic paint jobs. A low rider- the person- is a way of life living one day at a time taking the time to do what comes your way without being in a rush. You have a low profile not living life in the "fast lane". Do everything that needs to be done that day and relax for tomorrow is another day. The cars just make the days go by better with fantastic music to cruise with.
Cisco Kid, Spill The Wine, Why Can't we be Friends and THE WORLD IS A GETTO! So glad you got to WAR Karri! I've mentioned them a time or two. Great Group!
Other War songs you should check out: Why Can't We Be Friends, Me and Baby Brother, Slipping Into Darkness, and of course the song that started the War train, their epic collaboration with Eric Burdon, Spill the Wine. Enjoy the ride!
I remember when my daughter was teen, in her 30s now, and she played this song for me telling me I needed to listen to it lol. I told her I'd been listening to it before she was even thought of. Also, George Lopez Show theme song
Low riders are/were cars that have been modified to be very, very low to the ground and often to have hydraulic modifications that enable the driver to make them buck and raise different sides independently. It's a phenomenon originally associated with Hispanic cultures of southern California, where it started in the 1960s, but it spread far and wide. In 1975 when this song was released, low riders were especially popular.
yesss I love this song and not just because I love Cheech & Chong “Up In Smoke” but I do picture the movie every time i hear it 🤣😂🤣 I love “Spill The Wine” w/Eric Burdon from The Animals also 👍👍😎🚬
Low Riders are those old cars, from the 1930s to the 1960s, that people cut the suspension down, bring them down low to the ground. Hispanics from California most often created them. Often, (later), with hydraulics to flip them back up.
OMG. Not enuf reactions on TH-cam to the War songs! The long version of The World is a Ghetto, is fantastic. So is The Cisco Kid. So is their Summer song. I love this band. Pick one with lyrics for hearing Cisco Kid! One linein it is hard to catch. Thanks for hitting them!!!!!!!!!
70's classic! We used to groove to this one big time back when I was a kid (and beyond). Others have already supplied lists of names of great songs by War, so instead, here is an incomplete list of great songs from back then with similarly related funkiness, some which you might have heard before: Donny Hathaway "The Ghetto", The Chambers Brothers "Funky", Sly & The Family Stone "Everyday People" and "I Want To Take You Higher", Santana "Oye Como Va", "Evil Ways", "Black Magic Woman", "Samba Pa Ti", Pete Rodriguez "I Like It Like That", The Temptations "Papa Was A Rollin Stone" and "Ball Of Confusion", Curtis Mayfield "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go", The Spinners "It's A Shame", ZZ Top "Cheap Sunglasses", "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide", and "I Thank You", Chicago "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "I'm a Man", and "Saturday in the Park", Tommy James & The Shondells "Crystal Blue Persuasion", Malo "Suavecito", Steely Dan "Do It Again", The O'Jays "For The Love Of Money", Edwin Star "War", The Doobie Brothers "Jesus Is Just Alright With Me", Steve Miller Band "Living in the U.S.A.", "Space Cowboy" and "Fly Like an Eagle" ...
While living in Germany, my best friend and I would ride down Main St, in the small town we lived in, with this song blasting. The germans, for the most part, did not care for it, but there is no other way to listen to this song. 😝
I thought it was a type of motorcycle!? 😆 Probably because my son had a motorcycle toy that played this song when you press down on the back tire? Lololol
The official film clip speaks volumes by shopping the Low Rider's and their hydraulic suspensions bouncing along to the song. Seeing Cheech and Chong in that picture you have up also explains alot too lol
Eric Burdon of the Animals was with War on their first two studio albums. The big song from his era was "Spill the Wine." Another great song from after Burdon left was "Slippin' into Darkness."
A low rider is a car that was hydraulics that allow front end and rear end of the car to be raised and lowered. California is the home of the low rider. These cars parade around town showing off their moves. They are very low to the ground!!
My husband has/is a Lowrider! He has a 1967 Chevrolet Impala with Air Bags instead of hydraulics, custom paint with shimmer, carpeted interior, big sound, gold wire spokes, 13” White Walls. Wish I could send you a picture! He is part of a car club in the Bay Area!
The Lowrider, car "low and slow". The lyrics, "Low-ri-der don't use no gas now. Low-ri-der don't drive too fast". Lowrider cars ventually developed into installing hydraulic lifts to raise the car on all four wheels, tilt the car front-to-back, or side-to-side, and eventually hopping the front end off the ground, powered by a trunk full of car batteries. All of this topped of with a classic paint job that expressed the the feeling of the owner. It's all for show. Watch Lowriders here: th-cam.com/video/5GTl-HMtEXs/w-d-xo.html
Low riders were cars that practically sit on the ground. They were big in the 70s and 80s. There is a low rider car club there in the UK with old American cars. It surprised me to see that culture made it all the way across the pond.
I’m throwing my hat in the ring with those requesting “ Slippin Into Darkness” 🙏 a low rider is a car/truck customized to have the frame low down close to the street
LOVE the Group WAR! So many incredible songs! Cisco Kid. Why Can't We Be Friends? and Slippin into Darkness..are 3 more of their FANTASTIC songs. ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦
Personnel: Charles Miller: Vocals / Alto Saxophone Lonnie Jordan: Keyboards Lee Oskar: Harmonica Howard E. Scott: Guitar B. B. Dickerson: Bass Thomas "Papa Dee" Allen: Cowbell / Congas / Percussion Harold Ray Brown: Drums Produced by Lonnie Jordan / Howard E. Scott / Jerry Goldstein Recorded: @ The Sound City Studios, Studio B during 1974 in Van Nuys, California USA
Those drums that you like, Harry, are Timbales. The song is about cruising in your modified car (with the coolest guy you know, the "Low Rider".) War's biggest hits, this, Why Can't We Be Friends, and Spill the Wine, with Eric Burdon on lead vocal.
It's played in the movie "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong, which you should watch, it's so funny. War was a great band; please do some of their other songs.
Remember that Eric Burdon, (House of the Rising Sun) put together and produced this band of E. Los Angeles musicians back in ~1970. "Eric Burdon Declares War" was their first album.
Ok, this is cool. I haven’t this song on the radio for a year or two. I went to the store an hour ago to pick something up and it was on the radio. Just now I go on TH-cam and you’re reviewing it.
Outlaw is one of their biggest hits. There's also Galaxy, The World Is A Ghetto, Peace Sign, Baby, It's Cold Outside, and You've Got The Power from their MUSIC BAND album.
Harri, part of the reason you thought it was a jingle - people started SAMPLING, parts of popular bands songs, and a lot of it is great older music! I grew up on this- and I'm 60☺
War sang with Eric Burton when Eric left the Animals. The Animals and Eric are famous for House of the Rising Sun. War and Eric are famous for many tunes including Spill the Wine.
Song as cool as it gets I was raised on a street right off of Hollywood blvd and watched the low riders cruise right by Hollywood and.Vine every Friday nite the low riders cruised by rough lookin dudes and pretty girls I was 12 still remember this song pumpin in the air on a hits summers nite
Any song off their The World Is A Ghetto album is total gold! We'd listen all the way through on 8 track, and not replay the track, lol! A low rider car is one of those cars you see that are set low to the road and the body bounces up and down on the suspension.
WAR is mainly made up of African American musicians. The picture shown is Cheech & Chung's movie, I think the song was in it. Mexican Americans started the trend of low-rider cars in California.
That's Eric Burden of the Animals fame! You can Que up pictures of low riders in L.A.They even have parades,of them bouncing up and down with their hydraulic shock absorbers on the Net!
A low rider is a car that has been modified with a hydraulic suspension built into it so with a flick of a switch the body of the car can be raised or lowered.
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My grandpa was the percussionist for WAR. RIP, Papa Dee. Miss you.
The LBC
Loved your grandpa's work he drove a hard beat
WOW!
Big respect to him. In at the birth of latin funk.
I met Papa Dee back in the mid '80s after their show in Houston with Rare Earth and Vanilla Fudge.
What a fantastic musician...
Much love to your family.
A “lowrider” is a car with modified suspension allowing it to “ride low”. Originating in Los Angeles, California, and mostly by the Mexican-American community, it developed into a full culture of expression. “Low and Slow” is their slogan.
A majority of lowriders are made from vintage American cars, mostly from the 1950s through 1960s. There are lowrider clubs, conventions, even a dedicated magazine.
You may enjoy the extended, remixed version from the Best Of War greatest hits album. It’s available on TH-cam, along with dozens of excellent fan remixes. It’s an iconic song.
well said... nice pic
Their is a video that goes to this song fromvwhenbit was recorded showing lowriders from that time.
I would say thru about 1967.. ♠W.G.
A low rider is more than a car club with cool suspensions and fantastic paint jobs. A low rider- the person- is a way of life living one day at a time taking the time to do what comes your way without being in a rush. You have a low profile not living life in the "fast lane". Do everything that needs to be done that day and relax for tomorrow is another day. The cars just make the days go by better with fantastic music to cruise with.
They still have many low riders....been in Puerto Vallarta for awhile so dont know, lol
Cisco Kid, Spill The Wine, Why Can't we be Friends and THE WORLD IS A GETTO! So glad you got to WAR Karri! I've mentioned them a time or two. Great Group!
Gypsy Man, Me and Baby Brother, Summer
Yes yes yes 👍👏👏😊
And “All Day Music “.
With Eric Burdon on STW!
War band didn’t get the recognition that they deserved. A very popular song when it was released. Also very cool 😎
They were VERY popular back in the day. What fun song this is. Out of the park, they hit it.
Harri, you should have caught the "official music video" for this one. The cars are neat to watch in it!
Other War songs you should check out: Why Can't We Be Friends, Me and Baby Brother, Slipping Into Darkness, and of course the song that started the War train, their epic collaboration with Eric Burdon, Spill the Wine. Enjoy the ride!
yesss “Slippin Into Darkness “🔥🔥🔥
What???? No "Cisco Kid"?????
SHAME!
@@oldmangimp2468 Cisco Kid was a friend of mine!
@@esdel1955 Very much so, often forgotten great music and commentary.
@@oldmangimp2468 Forgot it my bad!
Been listening to this song for over 45 years. It NEVER gets old. This is a prime example of simple elegance. Low Rider is timeless...
I remember when my daughter was teen, in her 30s now, and she played this song for me telling me I needed to listen to it lol. I told her I'd been listening to it before she was even thought of. Also, George Lopez Show theme song
Damn kids! 🤣
Too funny!! I can't hear this song with out seeing Cheech with his pants pulled up to his chest.
WAR Is A Legendary Large Multi-Ethnic Band With A Huge Catalog Of Great Music,, They Often Toured With Santana & Malo.
Low riders are/were cars that have been modified to be very, very low to the ground and often to have hydraulic modifications that enable the driver to make them buck and raise different sides independently. It's a phenomenon originally associated with Hispanic cultures of southern California, where it started in the 1960s, but it spread far and wide. In 1975 when this song was released, low riders were especially popular.
A low rider is a car with hydraulics to make the car go up and down. Another song from my teenage years.😎😎😎😎
Some go up n down, most just ride low.
Great reaction Harri! Eric Burdon of the Animals had a great 1970 hit with War - Spill the Wine.
yesss I love this song and not just because I love Cheech & Chong “Up In Smoke” but I do picture the movie every time i hear it 🤣😂🤣 I love “Spill The Wine” w/Eric Burdon from The Animals also 👍👍😎🚬
TA can relate to the max!! The Horns are insane Great tune fingers poppin’
You mean Eric Burdon from The Animals and "Eric Burdon and War," their original name.
Low Riders are those old cars, from the 1930s to the 1960s, that people cut the suspension down, bring them down low to the ground. Hispanics from California most often created them. Often, (later), with hydraulics to flip them back up.
It's been said before, and I'll say it again: Cisco Kid and Why Can't We Be Friends are two of War's other great classics that you should check out.
You've got to see them bopping down the street in their sweet low riders. There must be videos. They're cars that have crazy hydraulics. Very cool!
OMG. Not enuf reactions on TH-cam to the War songs! The long version of The World is a Ghetto, is fantastic. So is The Cisco Kid. So is their Summer song. I love this band. Pick one with lyrics for hearing Cisco Kid! One linein it is hard to catch. Thanks for hitting them!!!!!!!!!
LOL - that picture is Cheech & Chong :D :D :D This song was probably used in "Up In Smoke".
70's classic! We used to groove to this one big time back when I was a kid (and beyond). Others have already supplied lists of names of great songs by War, so instead, here is an incomplete list of great songs from back then with similarly related funkiness, some which you might have heard before: Donny Hathaway "The Ghetto", The Chambers Brothers "Funky", Sly & The Family Stone "Everyday People" and "I Want To Take You Higher", Santana "Oye Como Va", "Evil Ways", "Black Magic Woman", "Samba Pa Ti", Pete Rodriguez "I Like It Like That", The Temptations "Papa Was A Rollin Stone" and "Ball Of Confusion", Curtis Mayfield "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go", The Spinners "It's A Shame", ZZ Top "Cheap Sunglasses", "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide", and "I Thank You", Chicago "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "I'm a Man", and "Saturday in the Park", Tommy James & The Shondells "Crystal Blue Persuasion", Malo "Suavecito", Steely Dan "Do It Again", The O'Jays "For The Love Of Money", Edwin Star "War", The Doobie Brothers "Jesus Is Just Alright With Me", Steve Miller Band "Living in the U.S.A.", "Space Cowboy" and "Fly Like an Eagle" ...
This would be a great playlist!
The fact that he asked what a low rider is blows my mind💯🤯
While living in Germany, my best friend and I would ride down Main St, in the small town we lived in, with this song blasting.
The germans, for the most part, did not care for it, but there is no other way to listen to this song. 😝
Lowrider or Low riders is a customized car with a lowered body. They're fitted with hydraulics that allow for raising and lowering the car body
I thought it was a type of motorcycle!? 😆
Probably because my son had a motorcycle toy that played this song when you press down on the back tire? Lololol
No. Alfred Miller is correct. The car can actually bounce up and down.
There were some lowriders that were merely slammed without hydraulics.
Another great one by War that no one reacts to is Summertime is here. The song really captures that summer vibe.
Indeed, I love that song, takes me back to such a great time
The official film clip speaks volumes by shopping the Low Rider's and their hydraulic suspensions bouncing along to the song.
Seeing Cheech and Chong in that picture you have up also explains alot too lol
Eric Burdon of the Animals was with War on their first two studio albums. The big song from his era was "Spill the Wine."
Another great song from after Burdon left was "Slippin' into Darkness."
War spit out a number of great tunes. After their work with the Animal's Eric Burden they found their voice in a groovy way...
Always have loved this song. Never gets old.
Great reaction. An excellent song to check out by War is “Spill the Wine”.
A low rider is a car that was hydraulics that allow front end and rear end of the car to be raised and lowered. California is the home of the low rider. These cars parade around town showing off their moves. They are very low to the ground!!
Yeah, they make the car body bounce up n down
try spill the wine with eric burden and war
One of my favorite songs, just for that funky beat.
My husband has/is a Lowrider! He has a 1967 Chevrolet Impala with Air Bags instead of hydraulics, custom paint with shimmer, carpeted interior, big sound, gold wire spokes, 13” White Walls. Wish I could send you a picture! He is part of a car club in the Bay Area!
This song makes you move! Great reaction Harri! Great pick!
"All Day Music" is one of the most beautiful tracks you'll ever hear.
This song never gets old!
The Lowrider, car "low and slow". The lyrics, "Low-ri-der don't use no gas now. Low-ri-der don't drive too fast". Lowrider cars ventually developed into installing hydraulic lifts to raise the car on all four wheels, tilt the car front-to-back, or side-to-side, and eventually hopping the front end off the ground, powered by a trunk full of car batteries. All of this topped of with a classic paint job that expressed the the feeling of the owner. It's all for show. Watch Lowriders here: th-cam.com/video/5GTl-HMtEXs/w-d-xo.html
Low riders were cars that practically sit on the ground. They were big in the 70s and 80s. There is a low rider car club there in the UK with old American cars. It surprised me to see that culture made it all the way across the pond.
It’s from the movies. Look up Cheech and Chong. A low rider is a tricked out car.
“Up In Smoke” 🔥🌿😂🥲😂🤣
Love the expression !!! Great reaction Got you going!!!
Cisco kid was a favorite of mine
I'm so old, I cruised the Blvd in Calif. to this song. Great song and great group.
I’m throwing my hat in the ring with those requesting “ Slippin Into Darkness” 🙏 a low rider is a car/truck customized to have the frame low down close to the street
Totally agree with you. Songs take right back to places and people and experiences. Very quickly❤️
This is another one of my love to drive songs!
thanks, Harri! this is amazing, the "low-rider" is described below... !
What a vibe Harri .
Eric Burden understood their groove .
LOVE the Group WAR! So many incredible songs! Cisco Kid. Why Can't We Be Friends? and Slippin into Darkness..are 3 more of their FANTASTIC songs. ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦
WAR belting out that Chicano rhythm!! Love it, thanks Harri!! So many great tunes: Summer, World is a Ghetto, and Slippin into Darkness.
My brother-in-law used to manage War in the day. Love, from the Great State of Oklahoma, USA 🤍
When I took ballroom dance classes years ago, we called this song the cha-cha that never ends.
This was one of those songs that you couldn't help but sing along such a groove
spill the wine
This song is in the movie "Gone In 60 Seconds" with Nicholas Cage!!! Excellent movie with lots of great music!!!🎵🎼🎶🎧🥁🎸🤘
To this day when I hear this, I still recline the seat a bit & chill my speed..
‘Spill The Wine’ by Eric Burdon & War, ‘Summer’ by War and ‘Outlaw’ by War are three other essential songs for you react to. 🙏
The video is everything as it features the East LA Lowrider culture as well as the band itself.
Personnel:
Charles Miller: Vocals / Alto Saxophone
Lonnie Jordan: Keyboards
Lee Oskar: Harmonica
Howard E. Scott: Guitar
B. B. Dickerson: Bass
Thomas "Papa Dee" Allen: Cowbell / Congas / Percussion
Harold Ray Brown: Drums
Produced by Lonnie Jordan / Howard E. Scott / Jerry Goldstein
Recorded:
@ The Sound City Studios, Studio B
during 1974
in Van Nuys, California USA
Those drums that you like, Harry, are Timbales. The song is about cruising in your modified car (with the coolest guy you know, the "Low Rider".) War's biggest hits, this, Why Can't We Be Friends, and Spill the Wine, with Eric Burdon on lead vocal.
The percussion and bass are fire! The melody you recognised was a harmonica and saxophone playing together .
When the song 1st came out, it played a lot on the radio.
It's played in the movie "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong, which you should watch, it's so funny. War was a great band; please do some of their other songs.
Dave's not here, man!
😂😂😂
Remember that Eric Burdon, (House of the Rising Sun) put together and produced this band of E. Los Angeles musicians back in ~1970. "Eric Burdon Declares War" was their first album.
Ok, this is cool. I haven’t this song on the radio for a year or two. I went to the store an hour ago to pick something up and it was on the radio. Just now I go on TH-cam and you’re reviewing it.
Hi Harri , I knew you would play this sooner or later , its the best song ever
Wow. Someone who has never heard this song. Hope you have fun with it. It's super grooving!
There also was a Official Music Video Promo! Features the group riding around in Low Rider cars! It's from Why Can't We Be Friends.
This song always makes me think of the movie, “Dazed and Confused”! 😂🌺✌️
Outlaw is one of their biggest hits. There's also Galaxy, The World Is A Ghetto, Peace Sign, Baby, It's Cold Outside, and You've Got The Power from their MUSIC BAND album.
Your Going To Like This One ! Party On !
War had a bevy of hits in the 70s-cisco kid, all Day Music, spill The wine, Summer, the world is a ghetto etc.
Harri, part of the reason you thought it was a jingle - people started SAMPLING, parts of popular bands songs, and a lot of it is great older music! I grew up on this- and I'm 60☺
War has many great songs. like Why Can't We Be Friends and Summer, My Time Of Year.
War has also collaborated with Eric Burton, the lead singer of The Animals..
I've Also Requested This One Many Times Myself,, As Well As Other Greats By WAR..So Glad To See You Get To Them.
Saw them in concert..so good.
War sang with Eric Burton when Eric left the Animals. The Animals and Eric are famous for House of the Rising Sun. War and Eric are famous for many tunes including Spill the Wine.
Nicely done Harri!
Song as cool as it gets I was raised on a street right off of Hollywood blvd and watched the low riders cruise right by Hollywood and.Vine every Friday nite the low riders cruised by rough lookin dudes and pretty girls I was 12 still remember this song pumpin in the air on a hits summers nite
Spill tje wine by war is amazing too
I could tell you really liked the song!
The song had such deep cultural impact - it is still used in adverts 48 yrs after release. Lasting footprint on U.S. culture.
Slipping Into Darkness is a super choice!✌🏻
Oh goodness! Keep on digging darling 😘
We get funky you know! Right on
A low rider is a car. You customize it to lay lower to the ground. Enjoy your comments. Funky song. Always liked it and also loved the bongos.
Any song off their The World Is A Ghetto album is total gold! We'd listen all the way through on 8 track, and not replay the track, lol! A low rider car is one of those cars you see that are set low to the road and the body bounces up and down on the suspension.
WAR is mainly made up of African American musicians. The picture shown is Cheech & Chung's movie, I think the song was in it. Mexican Americans started the trend of low-rider cars in California.
Used in the Movie.."Ferris Bueller's Day Off"....Great teen flick....
The band War Just celebrated 50 years together yesterday
That's Eric Burden of the Animals fame! You can Que up pictures of low riders in L.A.They even have parades,of them bouncing up and down with their hydraulic shock absorbers on the Net!
War and Rare Earth are two good bands to hear.
I don’t know anyone who couldn’t love this band.
A low rider is also a guy that keeps his cool.
Peace Harri!
A low rider is a car that has been modified with a hydraulic suspension built into it so with a flick of a switch the body of the car can be raised or lowered.
Funny you chose to react to this today. I was watching an earlier reaction of yours (Steppenwolf- Born to be wild) that reminded me of this one!
As everyone else has said, a low rider is a lowered car, but it’s also a person who drives one. This song is about that guy.
Still see WAR in Pomona CA every year. Never let you down.
They also play the song , Spill The Wine , its a person just laying back in your vehicle & cruising slowly , jammin on music
This song was featured in one of Church and Change movies,I think it a was Up in Smoke