Truth this is the way the world use to be all united as one ..none of this crazy bullshit going on take me back every one gone crazy and off there rocker ..
Los Angeles in the 80’s seems like a magical time. I’m sure those people had no idea that a random day for them 40 years ago that people would be watching them.
yes, that people would be watching their normal day and thinking it was the best thing ever. And they are right. it's easy to corrupt a simple freaking concept.
Lot of people don't know this but, The Gap brothers were really talented and it was a pleasure working with them and seeing it all unfold. Charlie would do all his vocals in one take, unbelievably talented! I laid all of the ground tracks on this one at Capitol Records studio in Hollywood back in 1983. I remember this session like yesterday. R.I.P. Robert and Ronny!
That's so cool! What an accomplishment. I just want to say thank you for having a hand in bringing their music to the masses. It's not a party until the Gap Band starts playing. It's also scientifically impossible to be sad when listening to their music.
This is the America that I know and love...we are one nation of many cultures..let's try to love each other..this world 🌎 would be a better place if we give it chance 😊
Exactly. The media has brainwashed everyone to hate each other. I guarantee you could not do a video like this today without some dumb knuckle head starting trouble.
Every once in awhile I have to comeback to this video and remember that incredible day on Venice Beach. The only thing that makes being 65 tolerable are the incredible and fantastic memories of Los Angeles in the 80's and being part of it.
Yep, you definitely won out in the game of life in regard to timing. You were not only old enough to remember all of the 80s, but you got to enjoy it as an adult too! OMG, the fashions, the music, the quality of manufactured goods, the purchasing power of a dollar, the coke without any fentanyl in it.. and you get to check out from natural causes well before the world is destroyed from climate change. Good times.
Were you there during filming? They probably closed-off a section of the beach, and had hired actors, but see most of the Extras were from the general public, must've been so much fun. Met the 'All Aboard' guy several years ago, still working the Beach! Love that place
And that is why snoop dogg and other artists put Charlie Wilson in there song it sounds ten times better with him in it, I can imagine the whole group together on snoop dogg songs that would be fire
A friend of mine asked who's better earth wind and fire or gap band i immediately said my gap band. Just listen to their songs. Greenwood, Archer and Pine for life
This was the true free America with everyone getting along and having fun. I am sorry people in their 20's will never experience how it felt back then.
Yeah they have totally stripped away soured the minds of the young part critical race theory the other part with too much I've just everything being powered by batteries or the internet and not nothing of their imagination so they're unexperienced and dumbed down.
Ah, back in the day when Venice Beach was a safe and fun, and slightly weird place to be, in a good way. And yes, I'm 62 and the Gap Band still makes me want to get up and dance. I've not heard a song in a long long time, that makes me want to dance.
If it were realistically possible, I would pack all my shit and leave the present day to return to those days. No internet, cell phone, GPS Navigation screen in autos, etc....and DEFINITELY no cancel culture and all the racial strife of the present. Sign me up for the "Party Train"...destination: the 70's
I'm 77+, & I used to work at a club called "Dance Your Ass Off" in downtown San Diego...there was NO getting service from the wait/management staff when this jam came on. We might've had a couple dozen folks working, but they'd all throw down what they were busy with & invade the postage-stamp-sized dance floor en masse(pardon my inability to effectively use the hybrid Swedish/Japanese/Martian dialective conglomeration in which my pet rats were raised back in the day-) with manic enthusiasm. It could get awkward. It could become most definitely painful. Some of us would fall down, repeatedly, but nobody seemed to mind. Many billion yrs later(+ -👀), those memories help to keep this old shaky-booty-being being one. Thank you, Lord, thank you, dear Gap Band, & thank you to my{alleged} brain!!! 🎶Y'all stay joyful & SAFE.🎶
This era of music is the best hands down. Long songs, not degrading towards women and curse word free. Can’t beat that!!!! Still dancing around my house to these songs in my 50s
I'm using my husband's phone but we're in our late 50s now and love being part of Gen X. No cell phones, Internet, we got out and met people, went to parties and clubs and danced, everyone was in shape too bc we were out doing stuff unlike some ( not all) kids today. Great times, wish I could go back but at least I enjoyed it once 🎉 God bless everyone reading this
I'm 52 and I jamjamjam out to this stuff. No substitute for the brothers and their bass. It lives on. I live in Tulsa - Greenwood Archer Pine area is my old hood and my late grandfather was a trumpet player in the original gap band.. Sadly, I never heard their music cuz I'm stuck on these guys!
I always say the best music has already been made. Seems like yesterday, huh? I was only 8 when Thriller came out but I had the double hologram special edition!
This was my Granddaddy's favorite song...We lost him last week💔...Today 1/13 is your birthday..You would've been 78 yrs young...Happy Heavenly Birthday Granddaddy wishing you was here...I love you💙
This song is almost 40 years old,watch the video , a bunch of beautiful people having a beautiful time together. Back then we would all go out and nobody ever said “ we’re going out with our black friends or or white friends, didn’t matter , we were all friends and still are . Makes this ol guys heart hurt to see what has happened. Get on the Party Train, we’re all the same and life goes by fast, have fun, laugh lots, love lots none of us gets out alive. ❤️
@@linwoodavenue4300weirdo. But if you get the same number of rural Texans to do a Gap Band music video for the same price, I'll give you a hundred internet dullars.
Holy shit I miss those days I was so young raising hell I still have this album I love these guys , Why cant we have music like this anymore . Now in my late 60s still makes me feel young and old at the same time who is listing in 2024?
What we need again are 80's only clubs, skating rinks, and bowling alleys. Growing up in the 80's was the best. Both music and the world felt so much more innocent and fun!
Those were fun times! Great music from both the 70s and the 80s. Yes, they were more innocent times but that was before "social media". Sadly I don't think folks are capable of going backward...I mean ...[generalizing here] you wish for a return to those times which were mostly giant cellphone free, no one had a computer. We'd get our news from tv/radio, newspapers and magazines. Guys would actually have to wander out of their parents basements to find the young lady he was interested in to talk/hang out and go to her parents house to ask for a date. How on earth would we even be able to go back to all that without some messed up scenario? LOL.
This song came out before my time, but I loved it because my mom would play it all the time. This video brings back a memory of me driving somewhere as a teen in the early 90s, with all the windows down blaring this song on a beautiful day, and being in the best mood. Good times.
I miss this whole era. This dancing and music beats anything done since this music was made. And the tunes? Fuggggedddbowdit! Gap Band Rocks it hard!! Everyone having a good time. All the people.
Heard this in the grocery store last week. Found this and cranked it. Been playing this twice a day for the last week. This has to be one of the most infectious grooves ever! How can you not want to dance to this and jam out too?
@@michaellofthouse8066 This band just was so extremely good. Solid. Intact and frankly killer. Heard them in the 70's and they still dominate. Dominate.
Those Wilsons got that North Tulsa Power Funk going on pretty hard. It's a pretty unique power chord sound that really resonates and sticks with you. I don't recall anybody else that sounds like these cats.
I was 19years old when this song came out this is when music was outstanding love me some gap band I am 59 years young and still listing to the gap band music today in 2024 uncle Charlie is the only one left from the gap band and he is still outstanding miss you Ronnie and Robert Wilson keep rip
I agree, people are now too mean and are unable to laugh at themselves because they don't have a sense of humor. Glad I got a chance to live through it.
I miss the 80's, in this video... Black, White, Asian, Latino, Indian, Hindu, Jewish, Middle Eastern...WE were all getting down. A fun time to meet friends and an economy with PLENTY of jobs and low gas prices.
Here it is November 2024, 66 year's young and I'm still loving it and dancing to it, lol, great group, love all of their music and great performers ❤❤❤❤
Charlie Wilson sang backup for Stevie Wonder's I Ain't Gonna Stand For It. I wish they would have done some serious songs together. A match made in heaven. They have the same range.
Rest in Power, Ronnie. Thanks for the great tunes with Robert and Charlie (my sincerest condolences to Ronnie's wife and family, and to Charlie Wilson). Y'all provided a soundtrack that's "Outstanding"!!!
@@lostinmusik666 Am a 47 y.o. Born American and songs like this I remember as kid of 5 y.o.-10y.o. my Mama and Daddy dancing in the middle of the living room floor. BEST MEMORIES!!!
@Apple Let's just say late 40's I was a breakdancer in 1983-85 I was one of the 'cool kids' in my junior high BUT I was treated like a total loser in early high school, when breakdancing went 'out of style' after 1984. I stuck with it because I was hitting my teenage strength and was getting better and started to be able to get the harder gymnastic moves like windmills. So, I gave it up. In a way, it's too bad - about 10 years ago, I was in Hollywood and I saw the new generations of Breakers and they were FANTASTIC. They were doing moves that I could only visualize in my imagination.
Same!! Alwyss loved this video since I was a kid in the 80s. Such awesome vibes from ALL walks of life just getting together and having a good time at the beach..Venice looked much more vibrant back then. LOVE it!!
The first time I heard this is when my late husband was playing it in his truck, back in 1986. Old skool......i loved it then and I still do. Makes me want to get up and dance. I miss you baby....RIP Darrel. 3/25/1965-3/15/2018
January of 1984 I was in the USAF and was getting a new partner/roomate during my para-rescue training. I came home that night and there was a boom box so big you couldn't put it in the back of a small pick-up...Dude had to be gone a few days for orientation so i pushed the PLAY button.....YUP...This is what was in there...LOL...Have a good day people
Was this about your experience with the song, or just a convenient way to brag to everybody about being an Air Force paratrooper, way back when everyone else was having real fun?
SillyPuddy2012 Aren't all soldiers proud of their job? Except the conscripts, but for the rest. I don't know a single soldier who isn't proud of serving his country and having a nice job.
Who is dancing with me in July 2020? Listening from Motown, Disco, Rock to modern Pop and everything in between!!! Nothing like music to get you feelin' good!!!
@@kurtbudd5981 Hi Kurt!!! There is so many genres of great music from the past. So glad that some of the younger generation is enjoying!!! Have a great one!!!!
These old Gap Band tracks hold up great today. If you spin this and it doesn't get butts out of seats you might want to make sure you didn't plan your party at the morgue.
@@bluesax7335 I HATE MY PHONE - IT'S AN ANDROID...I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT....I HATE IT ! AND, I HATE TRYING TO TALK WITH ANYONE WHEN THERE IS A PHONE CONSTANTLY IN THEIR FACE....GRRR! LOL!
Who the hell are the 4.6K people that disliked this thing? Gap Band was right up there with a lot of music acts that really defined what the 80's was musically, and the song is just plain cool.
WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER, PLAYED AND PARTIED TOGETHER IN THE '70'S & '80'S. THIS WAS OUR GOLDEN AGE...DIDN'T MATTER YOUR SKIN COLOR OR RELIGION - YOU WERE JUDGED ON HOW YOU TREATED OTHER PEOPLE ! AS @BLACKCATS MATTER SAID, "We were a colorblind generation because we partied together. " I PRAY SOMEDAY SOON WE CAN SEE THIS LOVE FOR ALL MEN COME BACK FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN !
I'm 58 years old Nelda. You're right on the money. Seemed like less hate and more optimism then. Easy for me to say though cuz I'm white. Seemed like every race was happier then though.
@@depaola63 57 Here too!! SoCal born & raised, I MISS it all, God........... life was good back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still a JAM in 2024.
Indeed.
Don't miss that train 🚂🚂😂
120624 yeah🎉
18 december 2024
Trop bon !
You have to be a soulless demon to not feel this funk and wanna move!🔥🔥
"Even White boys have to shout"(Sir Mixalot) and yes I am White and fat and I will shake my a$$ to this one!
Sometimes I feel like a soulless demon..
then I realize souls and demons don't exist.
I
@PuffInTheWind
You got that off your chest, you good now?
😂😂😂❤
Truth this is the way the world use to be all united as one ..none of this crazy bullshit going on take me back every one gone crazy and off there rocker ..
The whipeouts in the rollerrink to this song... wouldn't trade
Yeah lol
Los Angeles in the 80’s seems like a magical time. I’m sure those people had no idea that a random day for them 40 years ago that people would be watching them.
yes, that people would be watching their normal day and thinking it was the best thing ever. And they are right. it's easy to corrupt a simple freaking concept.
🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾💯
Why does the air seem cleaned and better tho 😂 like what
@@oneluv72 🤠☝️
That's because it was a Republican state
2024 , still kicking ass!
Hell ya!!
Yeah, this was a much better time.
I'd say this was Nirvana, everybody was cool with each other and beefs could be squashed without bloodshed.
This is real music 🙃
I just realized Craig Munson was in this video.
i was born in 2000 but thanks to my parents the gap band is still kicking incredible amounts of ass
Lot of people don't know this but, The Gap brothers were really talented and it was a pleasure working with them and seeing it all unfold.
Charlie would do all his vocals in one take, unbelievably talented!
I laid all of the ground tracks on this one at Capitol Records studio in Hollywood back in 1983.
I remember this session like yesterday.
R.I.P. Robert and Ronny!
They started in Oklahoma.
@@mrwayne3121 Yes they did!
I knew them well, worked with them everyday for 7 years ;).
First name Charlie, last name Wilson. Ha ha.
What a voice, and these songs will never get old.💜
That's so cool! What an accomplishment. I just want to say thank you for having a hand in bringing their music to the masses. It's not a party until the Gap Band starts playing. It's also scientifically impossible to be sad when listening to their music.
What were they like as a live act?
This is the America that I know and love...we are one nation of many cultures..let's try to love each other..this world 🌎 would be a better place if we give it chance 😊
You are awesome!
@@amyboone125 ..You're too kind ☺
Naw...just respecting you in this time of hate. Love EVERYONE until they give you not a reason. Peace!
I'm an old white girl that loves everyone snd LOVES music !
Agreed!!!!!
Kids will never know this greatness ❤❤❤
come on... glass half full kids know ❤❤
100% true
Truth ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Never
Black,white,Asian,indians,,all races having fun,,that's wat America is missing 😢
Social media took over. Every one has to big of egos now certain people think they are bigger than other.
well said heck yes
Exactly. The media has brainwashed everyone to hate each other. I guarantee you could not do a video like this today without some dumb knuckle head starting trouble.
It's like this in most large cities. The bigotry is in the country areas.
That's how it used to be !!
Every once in awhile I have to comeback to this video and remember that incredible day on Venice Beach. The only thing that makes being 65 tolerable are the incredible and fantastic memories of Los Angeles in the 80's and being part of it.
Great song still ❤❤❤
Yep, you definitely won out in the game of life in regard to timing. You were not only old enough to remember all of the 80s, but you got to enjoy it as an adult too! OMG, the fashions, the music, the quality of manufactured goods, the purchasing power of a dollar, the coke without any fentanyl in it.. and you get to check out from natural causes well before the world is destroyed from climate change. Good times.
Were you there during filming? They probably closed-off a section of the beach, and had hired actors, but see most of the Extras were from the general public, must've been so much fun. Met the 'All Aboard' guy several years ago, still working the Beach! Love that place
Hands down. This is 1 of the Hardest Bands ever. Gap has a unique flow. That most of today's artist will never understand. Respectfully
And that is why snoop dogg and other artists put Charlie Wilson in there song it sounds ten times better with him in it, I can imagine the whole group together on snoop dogg songs that would be fire
Yeah man Charlie is a real talent. Snoop knew what he did with signing Charlie to his label@@n1k3inthehouse
My six year old daughter loves the gap band. My two year old dances too.
hail yeah
A friend of mine asked who's better earth wind and fire or gap band i immediately said my gap band. Just listen to their songs. Greenwood, Archer and Pine for life
This is groovy 42 years ago amazing !
This was the true free America with everyone getting along and having fun. I am sorry people in their 20's will never experience how it felt back then.
Yeah they have totally stripped away soured the minds of the young part critical race theory the other part with too much I've just everything being powered by batteries or the internet and not nothing of their imagination so they're unexperienced and dumbed down.
If you can't jam to the Gap, see a counselor... quickly! 😅
Isn't that the truth.....I never tire of this song.
It's as high energy as you can get.
💯💯💯
Absolutely true!!!!!!!!
Ya get the juice in your system when you listen to this tune like no other.
😂😂😂😂😂
This only proves that Gen X had the best music ever.
70s/80s were the golden age of pop music.
I don't know, there was some young boomers jamming to these great songs.
@@20thCenturyMan80 most of our Gen X's music is Boomers so yeah.
These are Boomers making the music. But yeah, Gen X grew up listening to this.
Aye
Party Train. Definitely my favorite song: Stephanie Cannon Aka Ladybug”101”
Ah, back in the day when Venice Beach was a safe and fun, and slightly weird place to be, in a good way. And yes, I'm 62 and the Gap Band still makes me want to get up and dance. I've not heard a song in a long long time, that makes me want to dance.
I’m so glad I grew up in the eighties. Great music ran like a river constantly. The Gap band was right up front everytime.
Me too! Love disco music! Bring it back. This hip hop rap is shit.
🙋
Disco was fun. It brought people together not like gangsta music which is just talking to music. Most of it is inspired by thugs and crime.
Great times
Damn we had fun back then didn’t we?
I don't know I don't remember you
Je confirme !😉
Yes you did, keep it going, don't ever stop, all the way
Damn right we did! All over the country, we had a blast!
If it were realistically possible, I would pack all my shit and leave the present day to return to those days. No internet, cell phone, GPS Navigation screen in autos, etc....and DEFINITELY no cancel culture and all the racial strife of the present. Sign me up for the "Party Train"...destination: the 70's
Definitely my favorite song Stephanie Cannon AKA Ladybug “101”
This always gets me up & dancing. ALWAYS. I'm an old granny 66_ still rolling
I'm 77+, & I used to work at a club called "Dance Your Ass Off" in downtown San Diego...there was NO getting service from the wait/management staff when this jam came on. We might've had a couple dozen folks working, but they'd all throw down what they were busy with & invade the postage-stamp-sized dance floor en masse(pardon my inability to effectively use the hybrid Swedish/Japanese/Martian dialective conglomeration in which my pet rats were raised back in the day-) with manic enthusiasm.
It could get awkward.
It could become most definitely painful.
Some of us would fall down, repeatedly, but nobody seemed to mind. Many billion yrs later(+ -👀), those memories help to keep this old shaky-booty-being being one.
Thank you, Lord, thank you, dear Gap Band, & thank you to my{alleged} brain!!!
🎶Y'all stay joyful & SAFE.🎶
@@ElizabethSnyder-BaldonadoMeds
This era of music is the best hands down. Long songs, not degrading towards women and curse word free. Can’t beat that!!!! Still dancing around my house to these songs in my 50s
PREACH that! 64 here in my basement movin' da' best my ol' cripple bones will allow to Uncle Charlie Wilson!
@@WilliamE.TannerKeep on movin’, Willie! Never stop! ❤❤❤
Go Dawn! ❤❤❤
I'm using my husband's phone but we're in our late 50s now and love being part of Gen X. No cell phones, Internet, we got out and met people, went to parties and clubs and danced, everyone was in shape too bc we were out doing stuff unlike some ( not all) kids today. Great times, wish I could go back but at least I enjoyed it once 🎉 God bless everyone reading this
There were fat kids back then, but it never stopped them from being out riding bikes or playing sports with the neighborhood kids.
Rocking still!! 2024
I'm crying because the funk is gone! I will be 64 and this music is nothing but a distant memory for me.
Elle reste dans nos mémoires sur youtube 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤ MAGNIFIQUE
I'm 52 and I jamjamjam out to this stuff. No substitute for the brothers and their bass. It lives on.
I live in Tulsa - Greenwood Archer Pine area is my old hood and my late grandfather was a trumpet player in the original gap band..
Sadly, I never heard their music cuz I'm stuck on these guys!
I always say the best music has already been made.
Seems like yesterday, huh?
I was only 8 when Thriller came out but I had the double hologram special edition!
@@rainebow96 I heard Uncle Charlie is really sick, it's making me sick.😢. He's the last of the great brothers of this awesome band.
funk is not gone, every weekend you can hear old school funk at our local car cruises.
Charlie Wilson one of the most underrated vocalists
FOUND HIM! THAT ONE DUDE WHO GOES ON ALL TH-cam TO TYPE "UNDERRATED"
@@ltcolumbo9708 Yes
He still puts on an energetic show.
So smooth
no...everybody with a fine music mind knows that....
I NEVER GET TIRED OF THE GAP BAND!!!!!
Yup they are timeless
Likewise here; part of the Parliament/Funkadelic family (Bootsy Collins is a cousin of the Wilson Brothers; a.k.a.: The Gap Band).
What
Yes!!
Thanks for loving my tracks!
This band is from Tulsa. Great music from the 70's and 80's.
All Aboard THE PARTY TRAIN. Love you guys you Rock my world back then and NOW in 2024 💋💋💋💋
Look at all those happy folks. So many different styles of dance. I'd love to jump into that video!
Hello Lori, How are you doing?
Real America
Back when it was about having fun not just fighting or getting high
I wish I was 30 years younger... Fun Times.... I'm 60 now.... Still loving this song 💕
Ditto.
me to...
Im 59. I love it! Did you know that is Snoop Dogg's uncle?
Also this was long before Newsome let that beach go to hell.
@@janetphillips2875 Wow ,, weird 👍
This was my Granddaddy's favorite song...We lost him last week💔...Today 1/13 is your birthday..You would've been 78 yrs young...Happy Heavenly Birthday Granddaddy wishing you was here...I love you💙
Ronnie: thanks for making such a badass song...RIP friend.
I listen to them for 2 days and today I find out that Ronnie died....
This song is almost 40 years old,watch the video , a bunch of beautiful people having a beautiful time together. Back then we would all go out and nobody ever said “ we’re going out with our black friends or or white friends, didn’t matter , we were all friends and still are . Makes this ol guys heart hurt to see what has happened. Get on the Party Train, we’re all the same and life goes by fast, have fun, laugh lots, love lots none of us gets out alive. ❤️
Amen!! Evil has really taken hold. Never thought I would say that never thought it would need to be said.
Yes your right. Dusty
Absolutely right Dusty
Well Said 👍
No fake crap ☮️😎
This video is a true example of how good music brings ALL people together.
Exactly.
Paid extras
@@linwoodavenue4300weirdo. But if you get the same number of rural Texans to do a Gap Band music video for the same price, I'll give you a hundred internet dullars.
This is my Favorite song for opening of Sales Meeting's , love it
I grew up in ‘70s. The funk and the rock were some of the best jams ever!
Holy shit I miss those days I was so young raising hell I still have this album I love these guys , Why cant we have music like this anymore . Now in my late 60s still makes me feel young and old at the same time who is listing in 2024?
Their music always makes me happy. 🤗 Amazed for all those in the video how everyone looks thin, fit and healthy compared to now.
What we need again are 80's only clubs, skating rinks, and bowling alleys. Growing up in the 80's was the best. Both music and the world felt so much more innocent and fun!
facts!!
Yesssss!
Those were fun times! Great music from both the 70s and the 80s. Yes, they were more innocent times but that was before "social media". Sadly I don't think folks are capable of going backward...I mean ...[generalizing here] you wish for a return to those times which were mostly giant cellphone free, no one had a computer. We'd get our news from tv/radio, newspapers and magazines. Guys would actually have to wander out of their parents basements to find the young lady he was interested in to talk/hang out and go to her parents house to ask for a date. How on earth would we even be able to go back to all that without some messed up scenario? LOL.
Im a 90s baby and i looove the 60s 70s 80s and 90s!! I desperately wish the 80s style rollar rinks would come back
@@91pixiegurl same!
Looks like people really, really enjoying themselves. Damn I miss the 80's!
I grew up in the 80's and loved every dam bit of it...
Love DETROIT SOUL...i miss the MOTOWN MUSIC pouring out into the streets n everyone singin to the BEAT 🎶🎶🎶🎶😎
Amen!
Me too.. miss those days so much!!! 😷🙄😔
Me toooo!!!
@@shelleybanning257 we are not alone
This song came out before my time, but I loved it because my mom would play it all the time. This video brings back a memory of me driving somewhere as a teen in the early 90s, with all the windows down blaring this song on a beautiful day, and being in the best mood. Good times.
If people listened to good music like this and danced more often, maybe we would all get along better.
And a lot thinner!
Yep LOL.
Everybody all aboard LOL!
Turn social media off simple and have a funky dance
@@OllyMoe87Yep LOL!
🥳🎉
No stupid face tattoos no color lines...just a great song and people smiling...what happen to us
I wish I knew 😢
Greatest song ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
100% - the then unknown glory years now we lament
Greed and hypocrisy.welcome to the new generation
I'll tell you what's happening with out the old classic music from the 90s and this young people who don't have no taste that is what going on
A 27 year old metal head over here and I still love gap band
Noah... Good for you 👍
I'm a 52 year old headbanger! What a song!
50 year old metal man over here and I know that this song RULES!
Right there with you exactly bro!
The beat to this song is where Kid Rock got his guitar riff beat, and tempo for "Fuck You Blind" listen carefully.
This is one of my listen songs in life along with other songs I listen to everyday. Never get tired of this song.❤😊
I miss this whole era. This dancing and music beats anything done since this music was made. And the tunes? Fuggggedddbowdit! Gap Band Rocks it hard!! Everyone having a good time. All the people.
What a mix of people of all races...and character. Unity!!
David Veatch
David Veatch amen !
Black, white ,purple , green . we are all equal IN GODS EYES.. all aboard get on that train!!
Because nobody gave a rat's little ass back then
We worked hard and partied hard
One Nation Under a Groove
We are all family
David Veatch
But what happened?!’
Heard this in the grocery store last week. Found this and cranked it. Been playing this twice a day for the last week. This has to be one of the most infectious grooves ever! How can you not want to dance to this and jam out too?
Just twice?
@@michaellofthouse8066 This band just was so extremely good. Solid. Intact and frankly killer. Heard them in the 70's and they still dominate. Dominate.
E, this song is a party, a feel good and life's awesome anthem!
Those Wilsons got that North Tulsa Power Funk going on pretty hard. It's a pretty unique power chord sound that really resonates and sticks with you. I don't recall anybody else that sounds like these cats.
One of the greatest songs ever! :) 1980's music is forever!!! :)
I lived that decade and never heard this song. Its not great but its okay. It definitely beats all the rap crap music these people put out these days.
the video celebrates diverse beauty and talent, they were ahead of their time and still needed today
Daphne L McBride Agreed
WE DANCED! THAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE REAL FUN WITH GOOD MUSIC AND PURE JOY!
How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship
Interesting, people still dance today but what do they dance to? The EDM thing is so impersonal.
Charlie Wilson came from a long road. Many years. Ago...a blessing he overcome the struggle no one ever imagined blessed he is❤
I was 19years old when this song came out this is when music was outstanding love me some gap band I am 59 years young and still listing to the gap band music today in 2024 uncle Charlie is the only one left from the gap band and he is still outstanding miss you Ronnie and Robert Wilson keep rip
I'm glad I was young growing up in the 70's and 80's when music was GREAT!!!!! Rest in Peace Ronnie and Robert!!
Rip fun days
When this song came on, no one could stop me from getting on the dance floor!
Same, and if no one came with me I was FINE dancin with myself. What a great song.
Now it's your knees lol
58 year old Disabled Vet, walk with a Cane, but if I was able to l, I'd be on the floor Dancing too. Lol!😂👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻
Sooo baby that was so much fun we had every one love to enjoy the lifestyle 💕 ❤️ ♥️ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it was much happiness all around ❤️
The 80s. What a great decade!!!!
Sgt803 yes the good old days
Music seemed to have a more uptempo positive rhythm in the 80s. Hopefully that style comes back.
70s
@@andrewenciso139 Umm the music video production etc and sounds nothing like The 70's
sgt803 it was good times then
This video is pure genius! Sad we'll never get days like this back again ...
I agree, people are now too mean and are unable to laugh at themselves because they don't have a sense of humor. Glad I got a chance to live through it.
I miss the 80's, in this video... Black, White, Asian, Latino, Indian, Hindu, Jewish, Middle Eastern...WE were all getting down. A fun time to meet friends and an economy with PLENTY of jobs and low gas prices.
Here it is November 2024, 66 year's young and I'm still loving it and dancing to it, lol, great group, love all of their music and great performers ❤❤❤❤
Yaaaas, Ms Melissa…58 years young here and still jamming! I love our Gen X! ❤❤❤
The 1980’s were freaking awesome! 🇺🇸
70's were better.
I'm 70 years old,my guys the gap band and kool and the gang...best ever
Word.
Just found the Gap Band in 2024. Wow I love it
yes so true..
This is my upbringing in the 80s🥰 completely colorblind ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤠🤠
Charlie Wilson sang backup for Stevie Wonder's I Ain't Gonna Stand For It. I wish they would have done some serious songs together. A match made in heaven. They have the same range.
The 80's was so much fun! I miss those days...being a kid in the 80's was the best childhood ever. ❤
Say that again 😌
To Some;Maybe.
Amen brother 🙏
I Bc was born 79!
damn u just made a ninja tear up because yep you are 100 per cent correctomundo
I grew up during the 80s. I think my generation had more fun.
+cloudform Hah! Glad u think so, I always think we had far more fun in the 50's!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Best music ever and always a party somewhere
+cloudform me too at 43 i miss the 80s so much compare to music today Uncle Charlie in my opinion was hotter with his brothers hes still my idol
Everyone TRIES to copy or be retro... Glad to be a kid in the 80's. A lot more fun and less hate.
+cloudform Me to! the 80s were the best, the best part being the early 80s though. :)
Rest in Power, Ronnie. Thanks for the great tunes with Robert and Charlie (my sincerest condolences to Ronnie's wife and family, and to Charlie Wilson). Y'all provided a soundtrack that's "Outstanding"!!!
I'm sharing and don't care if my Church people see me grooving. I'm alive and God did it! 🙏🏾💪🏾❤❤
We never knew how good we had it Back in the eighties Music was at its best
The 80s....THE LAST GREAT DECADE!!!!
@@jamessneed5560 So sad, not lived this decade. Music sucks now (25 yo french man)
@@lostinmusik666 Am a 47 y.o. Born American and songs like this I remember as kid of 5 y.o.-10y.o. my Mama and Daddy dancing in the middle of the living room floor. BEST MEMORIES!!!
@@jamessneed5560 So lucky, I am nostalgic every day of a period of time I've never lived
Yep
What a FANTASTIC song by The Gap Band !!!❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I was a 13 year old breakdancer when this came out - it became my favorite song to dance to. A Funky Dance Classic
They had some real breakers in that ring,,,IE Boogaloo , shrimp , Turbo to name a few..
@Apple A little bit - I can still do windmills although I probably won't try a headspin anymore
@Apple Let's just say late 40's
I was a breakdancer in 1983-85
I was one of the 'cool kids' in my junior high
BUT I was treated like a total loser in early high school, when breakdancing went 'out of style' after 1984.
I stuck with it because I was hitting my teenage strength and was getting better and started to be able to get the harder gymnastic moves like windmills.
So, I gave it up.
In a way, it's too bad - about 10 years ago, I was in Hollywood and I saw the new generations of Breakers and they were FANTASTIC.
They were doing moves that I could only visualize in my imagination.
I was 13 too. Awesome times.
Very Funky. DJ screw should have touched this up. Houston, Tx
One of the best jams in my time!! They play or dance like this anymore!
That's when someone has natural talent and music is in their blood. no matter how simple the lyrics, it moves you
simple things are the strongest.
Sho you right
Please mention the black cowboy hat 🙋🏻♂️😂🥳
This video is so unpretentious and positive. It brings tears of joy to my eyes. Even when they go in the ring, they don't fight. How nice!
That video looks like fun to me. They got it right.
Love to see the brothers exit the car and start steppin'! Charlie, keep on keepin' on without your brothers! Love you, mamafifi
Same!! Alwyss loved this video since I was a kid in the 80s. Such awesome vibes from ALL walks of life just getting together and having a good time at the beach..Venice looked much more vibrant back then. LOVE it!!
It's Glorious & Fantastic. 😍😍😍😍
To all my Fighters (Boxers), I have them all X8 (2 Females), jump rope to this song....
This song epitomizes perfectly the 80s: a time full of fun, style, innovation and coolness!
Rip coach mingo!!! Dont Miss that train son he would always tell us that!!!
still here 67 yrs old.
This is one of the REAL JAMS!!!
The first time I heard this is when my late husband was playing it in his truck, back in 1986. Old skool......i loved it then and I still do. Makes me want to get up and dance. I miss you baby....RIP Darrel. 3/25/1965-3/15/2018
My condolences.
Sorry for your loss 💔. My late husband loved the gap band as well, as do I ❤️
We are free when we die
@@katherinelewis1903 How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your nice comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship?
Awww! Man I love this Group my jams
January of 1984 I was in the USAF and was getting a new partner/roomate during my para-rescue training. I came home that night and there was a boom box so big you couldn't put it in the back of a small pick-up...Dude had to be gone a few days for orientation so i pushed the PLAY button.....YUP...This is what was in there...LOL...Have a good day people
***** Not sure what crack has to do with it but yea, ^5 Black Sabbath !
Was this about your experience with the song, or just a convenient way to brag to everybody about being an Air Force paratrooper, way back when everyone else was having real fun?
SillyPuddy2012 Bragging was not my intent but that is up to the individual reader to decide. Am I proud of it, yes indeed I am. Have a good day.
***** LOL To be honest with you the thought never entered my mind. I was always preoccupied trying to keep from " HURLING"
SillyPuddy2012 Aren't all soldiers proud of their job? Except the conscripts, but for the rest. I don't know a single soldier who isn't proud of serving his country and having a nice job.
I cry inside with love listening and remembering what I was doing when this came out in 83 MAN!what a life what a life.
This is what America needs again. Fuck Politics, and hate. We need music like this, to bring us together. Everybody All Board!
LABallin247 We Agree with you 110 percent. To tell. Da truth this could bring a world together ☺☺☺
Who is dancing with me in July 2020? Listening from Motown, Disco, Rock to modern Pop and everything in between!!! Nothing like music to get you feelin' good!!!
How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your nice comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship?
@@jamesluis1767 Thank you for the awesome compliment. However, I am only here to enjoy great music with other music enthusiasts. Have a great day!!!
@@barbr8012 would you mind if we become good friends and get to know each other more better.
2021 and in only 35
@@kurtbudd5981 Hi Kurt!!! There is so many genres of great music from the past. So glad that some of the younger generation is enjoying!!! Have a great one!!!!
what a groove big fan man theymake ya wanna move outasight
It's 2020. I'm definitely voting for Gap Band. I " Don't wanna miss that train"
These old Gap Band tracks hold up great today. If you spin this and it doesn't get butts out of seats you might want to make sure you didn't plan your party at the morgue.
I remember this was one of the few R&B videos MTV would actually play back in the day. I was glued to the set anytime they played this classic!
200 years from now and this will still be one of the songs that just grabs your soul and makes you happy
Perfect from start to end.
I loved the Gap Band-Party Train was one of my favorites!!!
Back when you had everybody's full attention. Nobody looking down at a phone. Damm I miss this.
PHONES HAVE TAKEN THE PLACE OF FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION ! I WOULD LOVE TO THROW ALL PHONES IN THE TRASH !
@@neldasmith4811 as you use a phone to communicate...
@@bluesax7335 I HATE MY PHONE - IT'S AN ANDROID...I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT....I HATE IT ! AND, I HATE TRYING TO TALK WITH ANYONE WHEN THERE IS A PHONE CONSTANTLY IN THEIR FACE....GRRR! LOL!
@@neldasmith4811 likewise lol
0:18 1934 Auburn Speedster or most likely replica.
This is real music for everyone, how can you listen to this and not want to move and feel the groove!!!
IKR ! Love this !!!
Amen!!! Love ❤️ 😍
You know it!
And not full of swear words
Bad ass dancing music, my shoes would get to smokin, call the fire dept to put them out.
Who the hell are the 4.6K people that disliked this thing? Gap Band was right up there with a lot of music acts that really defined what the 80's was musically, and the song is just plain cool.
Those people suck shit!!!! This is extremely perfection
Those who do not know what real music is.
The crackheads
WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER, PLAYED AND PARTIED TOGETHER IN THE '70'S & '80'S. THIS WAS OUR GOLDEN AGE...DIDN'T MATTER YOUR SKIN COLOR OR RELIGION - YOU WERE JUDGED ON HOW YOU TREATED OTHER PEOPLE ! AS @BLACKCATS MATTER SAID, "We were a colorblind generation because we partied together. " I PRAY SOMEDAY SOON WE CAN SEE THIS LOVE FOR ALL MEN COME BACK FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN !
Amen!
Nelda Smith I’m 57 in 60 days 🌈. Those 2 decades were wonderful to have been young indeed ❤️❤️
@@depaola63 YES, IT WAS ! WE WERE BLESSED. IT'S SO SAD TEENAGERS TODAY DO NOT KNOW THE FREEDOM AND FRIENDSHIP WE HAD !
I'm 58 years old Nelda. You're right on the money. Seemed like less hate and more optimism then. Easy for me to say though cuz I'm white. Seemed like every race was happier then though.
@@depaola63 57 Here too!! SoCal born & raised, I MISS it all, God........... life was good back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the all time classics from this great band..
Love them
Why can't we all live like this together now? 😢😢
I'm so thankful I grew up in this era. This is real music people.
We do
Right ❤
Can't we all just get along?? 💔😭🙏2024 and beyond!!!