Jr Walker & the All-Stars Funk Brothers "(I'm a) Road Runner" My Extended Version!
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Yet and STILL (as Mary Wilson says)....my FAVORITE Jr Walker and the All-Stars track...with added stretch by Motown's Fabulous Funk Brothers.
Today's music cannot compare. This is the real thing.
Facts
I saw Junior Walker and the Allstars in 1967 at the Howard Theater in Washington DC. My date and I were just a few of the white people there. What a great concert. What a great time!
Lets hear it for MOSOGOTAM for having that musical ear to re-create this stunning soul sound...It is soo goooodd!... the drums have that quintessentially re-tro sounding "dustbin-lids" effect.
Young fresh and earnest.Thank you MOSOGOTAM ...
MOSOGOTAM will not only be remembered but referenced.👍
For me ROADRUNNER and Itchin In My Heart say MOTOWN SOUND more than anything I've ever heard !
I went to an all boy all white middle class public school and I was the ONLY pupil who played music by Black musicians.Why? Because it was so wonderful to dance to and so marvellous to listen to and most importantly SO Sixties!
Any reactions from fellow students and staff?
Junior Walker was a brilliant musician who didn’t get the respect that was due him. He was in a league all by himself. Love the music he produced.
I agree 100 percent. When you hear mentions of Motown and the other many great acts, Junior Walker and the All Stars aren’t really even mentioned. So sad because he was like the only Motown act that played a instrument and sung. The other acts were toe-tappin singers.
@@a.b.sproductionsllc What about Stevie Wonder? Marvin Gaye?
@@paulweir5031 I freaking LOVE Stevie Wonder’s music! From the 60’s until now! And other than harmonica it seem like a lot of his early performance was standing and not playing. Seem like later by the early 70’s he was more so on the Clavinet and playing other instruments.
Yes he was..great musician mind
Agree totally, Junior's sax (and Stevie's harmonica sounds) were so distinctive, so easily recognisable
Bass, baritone sax out of this world, then there’s that characteristic choppy guitar, probably a Telecaster- this band were just magic.
I'm a 74 year old road runner. Got me a new knee in January so I can still keep dancing to Jr. and the all stars.
I appreciate your new knew my RoadRunner Dancer of all time! When Jr. Blew that sax, it just shook our world, however , I am so happy Jr. finally sang "what does it take to when your love in 1969"! My all time favorite from Junior Walker and the band!
The Best music. Not like the garbage of today.
When Junior Walker plays his sax, he wakes the dead. Man, this guy had it all. Love his energy.
YES HE DID!
AMEN
Who's still listening to this in 2020 still sounds good to me play that sax Junior Walker rest in peace your music is still alright with me today I'm sure I'm not the only one now play it
i am !!!
I listen to it everyday over and over. Genius
We made real music.
@@mireillerogge933 me too!!! Be Blessed
Best music ever. I have been listening since the 1960s. Just now hearing about the wonderful Funk Brothers.
@@ganymeade5151 they played on most most of motown's 60s hits. the bassist, james jamerson. is particularly outstanding. Be Blessed
I was 13 years old when this came out. Got into trouble at school for playing it repeatedly in a 40 minute lunch break . I still love it.
play it even longer
This is the only place that this version exists. I created it. Thanks so much!
Screaming fabulous 10,000 times over. Thanks.
What a superb job you did, aye 👍🏽😁🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🤘
Its tremendous!
Listening to this over and over . . and the horns !
This song was in the 60s when my parents would be there friends and family members having themselves a good time and put all children in another room when they be partying after a long week of work O how miss those days wow
Saw Jr. twice live and he brought the house down every time. Brilliant singer, songwriter and legendary sax player. Bomaye ❤️
I saw them play in Northampton, in around 72 ,they were brilliant 👏
That sax just blows me away..Jr Walker once said...I sing some..I blow some...and then some brother...and then some
Mike Terry steals the show on this jam! That man is the reason I picked up a baritone sax. Nobody else has that ripsaw growl. RIP.
That driving Bass & Baritone Sax with Jr Walker's Tenor Sax...classic Motown!
It doesn’t get any better than this 😊
I'm 63 and have loved Jr since I was around 2 . ❤
You do not hear this kind of music anymore.You will never hear this style ever again. I'm so glad that I grew up in that ERA. This is who we are SOUL PERSONAFIDE 100% The music today is TRASH, EMPTY and SOULESS.
I think I'd like to hear Road Runner the day I die cuz to me, this song is all about COURAGE...
I was 10 years old in the first heard the song and I remember it very clearly I give thanks to the Funk brothers and Junior Walker All-Stars
First soul record I’ve ever heard, it blew me out of my mind, still does. Must have been 55 years ago...
Thank God for the beautiful souls of the Funk Brothers.
Right on...🎷🎺🎸❤️🎸🪘🎹❤️🎵🎶🎼
Seriously....NO ONE writes anything even CLOSE to this EXCELLENT today...also the FUNK Brothers- and Holland-
Dozier-Holland .....incredible geniuses....all of them. Makes this old white chick Grandma....so very happy to rock on and on and on!!! Thank you!
I remember seeing an interview with Jr Walker..he just said I sing some..I blow some...hell yea and then some..
Raised on Motown, now 66, love these remixes makes it all so new & fresh
68 brought up on this....nothing else....oh yeah some food in between dancing
Jr Walker and the Funk Brothers. Does not get much better than this folks.
Jamerson is killing that bass line.
So the AllStars didn't actually play on this track ?
@@marcopiaggesi8768 Same people I believe .. Funk Brothers was the name for the studio band fluctuating .. All Stars some of them , Saw the Funk Brothers live on thier last round , Fantastic
This Beautiful Man!!!!!
100%
The Great Jr. Walker. One of the greatest songs of all time.
Jr.Walker was the greatest sax player of all times Soulful and like me,he was a roadrunner love U Jr. Always anf thank U!!!!
I am so sorry to learn that mogostam passed away from Covid....if that's true...posted on another song. HE did fantastic extended plays. Even the snippets of studio chatter he included. RIP, brother.
You outdid yourself with this one, Mosogotam. Thanks for doing it.
I seen Junior in San Jose, CA in 1972. He was so nice, I asked him about Hunter Hancock the disk jockey.
I just never tire of Junior's music. It is like at times I crave it. Today is one of those days.
I do have one album of his and it is pretty worn out. My favorite song by him is "What Does It Take".
Here we again i,m a road runner baby god bless jr walker and the stars
Jr Smoked this tune!! Loved it from the time it was released!! It will NEVER GROW OLD!!!!!!!
Man these guys can slam it down and just get after it now. Sure does bring back some good memories. Man oh man what a saxophone player, Jr Walker, one of my all time favorites
lm 60 years old and played in a band growing up. kids today think there in the driver seat with there music, but what they do not know is our generation built engines.
Anyone that heard an old muscle car knows that they had a different atitude.
So true Ron and this song is the best example !!
I like it!! Well versed. They know how to press computer keys but not piano keys.
goddamn right! and they were better engines mister!
Yes!
Good old school music. grew up as a kid listening to this song.........................Dec ,2019
Bad Ass Jamm.....As a child, My Family Party Song would IGNITE the Dance Floor
Great song...greatest group~ The Funk Brothers....why can't anyone write music this good anymore???? Is this Holland Dozier and Holland? Incredible writers....geniuses!
He was straight up,no bull s..t.😎
That Sax still gives me chills!!!! TURN IT UP I JUST CAN'T HOLD STILL !
Jr Walker played sax on Foreigner s Urgent
Junior Walker and them all stars was unique and equip with the right touch to make the type of music that was alright*
As Baad as Jr. Walker was on tenor, one could argue that "Motown" Mike Terry on baritone MADE this record a hit! Thanks for this remixed version!
WORD, read my comments above.
NO DOUBT BUT THE BOTH OF THEM BROTHERS COULD BLOW ! 🎷
My husband say's that Mike Terry was The Bari -Man a legend who played simple 8 bar solo's on over 800 Motown hits....He Doubles Jamerson on Thomas
On this SONG. 🎼🎸😎👍
and didnt even get a mention in Stand in the shadows of motown doc. unforgiveable that and the Andantes
The best time of our lives...
If this Jr. Walker & The All-Stars doesn't get you off your behind running for the dance floor, you don't have a pulse! Shake and finger poppin' to this extended version, John!
AMEN, BROTHER!! Can't sit still during this!!!-----------------WolfSky9
@@Wolfsky9 I AGREE 100 %
These songs are dance floor fillers.
So happy to see that there are no "thumbs down" for this. There were 74 "thumbs up" when I came on, and I'm adding number 75 right now, then back to dancin'!
76 checking in !!, u GO JR!! . blow brother BLOW!! Rodion I'll see u on the floor!!
There are 66 people who claim they don't like this song. Haters gotta hate !
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@@kemetstry they got a hole in their soul
Just beautiful..Mike Terry on the bari with James Jamerson keeping the grove with "the hook" on bass...go Junior and the Funk Brothers!
Quintessential hard hitting Soul from Junior and the funk Brothers who deserve all the recognition they get ...thankfully I saw him and his brothers of Soul at Wigan Casino what a privelege....play that Sax 🎷 wow mind-blowing ✊🎷
Speechless. White dude who grew up in the D.C. area in the 60's. Can this get any better? Doubtful.
No Way my Man this is the stuff we love !
Damn fabulous and then some!!!!!! I am dancing now with my beau!!!!!
Many white suburban kids listened to Motown back in the 1960s, and we are still listening.
MOTOWN’S MOST UNDERRATED GROUP !!
JR. WALKER & THE ALL-STARS (Vic Thomas, Willie Woods, & James Graves) SHOULD HAVE BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK and ROLL HALL OF FAME
D E C A D E S AGO !!
Their OMISSON is indicative of EVERYTHING that’s WRONG with The HALL !!
Jr Walker & the All Stars ! They just get a 10!
This is timeless, & Motown at it's finest. -------------anyone who sits still during this ------is long, DEAD ! -----------And, Ya Damn Right, on my gravestone : I'm A Road Runner!! -------------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
OMG, I just NEVER------EVER-----tire of this Masterpiece, from the fall of '65. -----------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
Gets you right there don't it, whenever I hear this track so many great times just come back, all nighters etc,what a sax player
As a young drummer, I just couldn't get the funk Brothers groove. 65 now and doing it fine. Love these dudes ❤. RIP to all, especially Benny 🙏
No school like the old school..🎷🎺🎸🪘🎹❤️🎵🎶🎼
I can never get enough of the Motown sounds.
That baritone sax is too nasty.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MOTOWN'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT CELEBRATION
ALONG WITH THE LATE AND GREAT
JR. WALKER AND THE ALL STARS
WITH THEIR #1 HIT SONG
"THE ROAD RUNNER" YES
THIS GENUINE CLASSIC HIT SONG IS TRULY ANOTHER MOTOWN SOUNDS GOLDEN CLASSIC ALONG
WITH SO MANY OTHER HITS HE
RECORDED LIKE "WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN YOUR LOVE FOR ME"
AND "THESE EYES"
If this music doesn't give you chills and make you move, need I say more !!!!! FABULOUS !!!!!!
+Suze Rainer Thanks, Suze!!
we used to say that Motown was like being punched in the stomach, it was that good!
MOVE!!!!
Suze Rainer MOVE
the baritone sax hook is just K I L L E R!!!!!!
These good people built music
The greatest ever!!
I can't leave ! 🎷
Mike Terry KILLED it!!!!
@@TheIrishrogue68 JR. WALKER/ALL STARS....'WORKIN' THAT ROAD RUNNER'
I remember when songs had to be limited to only 2 or 3 mins long to fit into am-radio space. Love this extended version, Thank You for posting!
forgotten gem. sound of the sixties. timeless. don`t get any better.
I agree...... I remember this great classic.......
a truly mind-blowing version, as GOOD as R&B or 45 singles ever got -- a MUST HAVE version! this easily makes my top 100 pop songs..
I was just listening to the original version in my car while driving in Brooklyn today. I love this version too!
"All my life I been like this, if you love me it's your own risk",.... Damn,....cold blooded !!
Still listening in 2020! Saw Junior at the Shades in Northampton circa 69/70 - absolutely brilliant.
2 years later but totally agree to last comment. If u don't want to dance to Junior well forget it
My feet are moving------hands are clapping --------can't sit still ! ------------Fall of '65, I LOVED this ! ---------thank-you so much for this extended version ! --------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
If you can be still on this cut, you are DEAD!!!!
This is with out a doubt the definition of what the Funk Brothers' musical talents encompassed..Jr. Walker's riffs are INSANE thanks to your remix!!! THANK YOU!!
+Mark Rocovich Mark....thanks a whole lot!!
Happy memories of my teens.
1965 : Motown Ruled !! --------and this Bad-Ass sax man was THE Boss !! --------------Wo9lfSky9, 72 y/o
Motown = always Summer n Jnr is a GOAT❤
Still the hottest Sax ever-------& The Funk Bros at their finest. ------------Fall'65, I was 19 y/o, & knew this song would be on my gravestone!! -------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
I heard that that Moto passed away so no more remixes but if true he’s left so much to this 69 year old born in Detroit grew up on Motown
Jr. Walker was the James Brown of Motown. His music was more bluesy with a strong funky beat. And his singing was more down home like. But his saxophone playing was phenomenal.
Loved your extended version. Genius lyrics...gonna live the life I love and I'm gonna love the life I live, Also what every woman wants is brutal honesty...don't want no woman to tie me down...you can love me at your love your own risk. What's not to love about the best sax player ever.
this song and 'Tune Up' which was the B side were the first songs i played for dance gigs when i was 16 and got payed!!! --thank you Jr. Walker ....still love this cut so much!
A floor filler when I was a dj. Wish I had had this version. Would have played it all night.
I am skating to this in the park on my cell phone with my blue tooth blaaaaring, and the people are looking @ my moves. Lord if they only knew I am 75 years in age and still killing it!
THE BEST Junior Walker of ALL TIME!
I bangs this shit . I'm young dude. Its funky as hell. Just imagine if this was on now technology. Wow!
one of my favorites, sometimes I play it four times in a row, never gets tired!
You sir are a genius, you have taken musical perfection to a whole new level, pure ecstasy!
THIS IS ONE THOSE 60'S HIT THE DANCE FLOOR AND GET DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! MOTOWN DYNAMITE!
Impossible not to shake whatever you got to this groove.
THIS MUSIC IS TIMELESS ,MAN , I WILL BE ANOTHER YEAR OLDER IN A FEW DAYS, THIS SHIT STILL WORKS
Always loved 😍🍷 JR WALKER and the funk Bros.i like this better than Shotgun. Are the all ⭐ stars different than the funk brothers.😁👍🤗😯
Just brilliant
I never could get enough of this when It was played on the radio in my high school days. You have expanded it masterfully. Thank you!
Back when this was going on, I was more attending to Iron Butterfly or Quicksilver Messenger Service. Now, all these years later, I find that I like this tight Motown sound better than a lot of other things, then or now.
That sax just makes it ..
I wish I could give this another THUMBS UP! Its just sooooo goooood!
I mean, really... MAN DOES IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS?
Another Mosogotam extended Masterpiece. Just brilliant work. Remember seeing Jnr Walker and the All Stars at Nottingham Palais de dance about 1969.The place was packed to the rafters and Jnr blew the roof off! Great days that we will never see again but thanks for these extended Motown tracks. You’ve got soul for sure John!
I can listen to this over &over and never get tired of this jam.
Saw the Clash and Toots and the Mytals at the Hammersmith Palais . How sad it was knocked down .
Thanks so much Mosogotam for this extended version of one of my favs by Jr. Walker and His All-Stars. I was so thrilled to hear this song that I jumped right up in front of my computer and started to do the dance we did here in Philly, "The Road Runner" or "The Chuck" from 1966. Now I have an extra 2 minutes plus to get my dance groove on.
incredible dynamo soul. never was nor will be another JrWalker
Roadrunner makes a soul statement like no other and that's that!!!