I posted this song for people to appreciate the music. The music is for everybody to enjoy regardless of colour or race. This is not a forum for abuse, if you actually listen to the song all the way through, you will realise the message is for everybody. Thank you
I'm a 67 year old white dude, who got married for the first time at age 60. I tracked down the 12" extended single of this and had the DJ at our wedding reception play it. Yes - it's an incredibly life-affirming and positive message that EVERYONE should hear. Our friends and guests were a mix of white, Caribbean, Hispanic, Asian, and African-American folks. EVERYONE loved it.
Just transported back to 1983 Lloret de Mar 18-30s holiday, 22 years old and really living my best life. 61 now fat, recently widowed. Bless you and thanks for the memories of happier times 🖤🤍🤎
Just brilliant. I bought this 12" single as a young boy 40 years ago in Glasgow, Scotland. Still have it somewhere. The rhythm, the beat... captivated me. I learned every word on the back of the sleeve... and now have just reeled it all off again! Magic.
This tune is Awake up to all .. listen to the words... Stay United and not divided... I'm 53... This is my tune 😊.... Love it always .. what a message to humanity if only people listen. Xx
I am 59 years old and this just reminds me of how much better our lives were. we did not have much all we wanted was the music and getting pissed on a fiver. it makes you wanna cry.Kimmy B
Human skin colour should never have any bearing. Every human is equal. Been lucky to know many peoples from Asia Africa Middle East Europe. Everyone has great value. Great respect and regard.
I am from Britain and my dad played this when l was a toddler. My books told this very story and reinforced what Gary Bird rapped about! I am forever grateful to both my father & DJ Gary Bird!
My colour is incidental. Bought this on my 18th birthday in 83 and it spoke to me and still does. Be proud of who you are whoever you are. Respect and love each other. No time for hate life is short.
i last posted about this song around 6 years ago.. I went to an 80s night last weekend and the dj played the intro to this song and i was the only one who got it !! And i still know every single word.. Well impressed and so was he !!
In 2022. This song is a timeless classic, my dad introduced me to this song! I still feel people don't appreciate the history that this song covers. One of the best ever
songs like this are still being played and listened to 32 yrs later dont think many songs that are getting released now will still b played in 2047 really glad i grew up in the 80s
megaphoenix2001 Fully agreed with what u said. Music of the 80s the best ever !!! Never getting tired of listening to them..... Alot do bring tears to my eyes...... they go deep down my soul......
I’m here on 20 June 2021 listening to this masterpiece.. 38 years later I’m still loving it .. 80’s a decade to remember and how lucky I was to live to every moment ❤️
I was staying in London when I first heard this. If you were in the clubs this was banging! Then when I came back to the USA, few had heard of this song. I was so disappointed. Had to bring it back with me from England.
There is a generation of people born in the mid 60s who when hearing this just know. Youre in the presence of others of the same generation. No words are needed just a simple nod. You know dont you? We were there and will never forget. Gee what a time
I loved this way back. Have it on 12" vinyl. The message is so powerful and still as relevant today. Like the man says, " We all have a crown in place" wear yours with pride. ❤️✌🏽️🌏
Co written by Stevie Wonder & Gary Byrd who sing & rap on this mega hit of a track, retelling the story of the coming of modern civilisation, paying homage to the Alkebus, the Romans, the ancient Greeks, Neffertiti, king Tut, the Sphinx, Cleopatra, Alex Haley, Roots, Muhammad Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Louis, Malcolm x, a history class but in a rap format
This song is a great experience for my ears. And great to hear. Stevie. Wonder They don’t and never will make music like this any more. I’m so honoured to have been a youth when this song was out. I remember. Very hot summers and snowy winters as the seasons should be. I wish I could go back even just for an hour. Didn’t know we had it so good. No need for mobiles. 💛💚❤️💛💚❤️⭐️🌙🌈⭐️🌞🌈🌏⭐️🌈🌏💫🌛⭐️🌈🌙🌍🌟🌈🌞🌍🌟🌈💫☀️🌙🌏🌈💫☀️🌙🌈
My mother would play this record over and over and Im so glad that she did! It fed me!!!! This song takes the cake for the music thats out today which I wont even listen too! Thanks mom!!!! :)
Wish they’d release this digitally, this is probably my favorite old-school hip hop jam of all time. Before late 80s hip hop and gangster rap, this was the business, with a great message for all races.
Thanks for posting this song which is an integral part of my musical taste. Love it all those years ago and still do now in 2022. Definitely has stood the test of time. ⌚⌚⌚⌚
Brother Gary Byrd is the self-conscious rap mentor ever. This definetely is such a deep self-conscious track, that teaches our true life story about how we built our realities that was totally denied. Brother Gary Byrd is the greatest ever rapper, mentor, DJ and hero of all-time and this hip-hop classic, twenty-nine years, says it all.
What a song!! It was powerful and Stewie's voice was honey and awesome .The lyrics are so good. An old goodie of the seventies. I want to give Stewie and Gary Byrd a crown because they deserved it!!
As a Stevie fan, I immediately bought the 12" at Tower Records the day it was released. But Stevie only wrote the music and produced it. This was one of my favorite tracks from '83 because of the words; the history and information it taught. I only wish kids today would listen to and learn from songs like this...instead of songs that repetitively talk about cars, jewelry, money, and sex, sex, sex.
One of my favorite 12 inches. Then again I don't think there's any song from this era that I don't have. What an animated and fun time to grow up! I wish I was still young, but not if I would lose the knowledge of this musical era.
Still to this day such a great song to listen to .. I remember Gary Byrd being on BBC Radio 1, doing the US Top 40 countdown every Saturday, this was back in 1985 or 1986... Talented guy
this is one of my fondest memory music-wise from 1983. I was in Austria, working and this song was blasting out of the radio and it was such a breath of fresh air. Little did I know that Stevie had a finger in it at the time. Today this track is so relevant and also a great musical contribution as well, love this track!
I was 20 when this was released, absolutely loved it. Am now 59 and recently widowed after 35 years of a happy marriage. Taking comfort in sounds from over the years,suddenly thought of this one today, so glad I did, what an underrated classic 😀
So sorry to read this. I was 13, and it was first introduced on radio 1 as 'the finest song I've ever heard' by the dj, can't remember who it was now though! May have been Simon Mayo? Now I know what it actually means and the efforts that Stevie Wonder went to in order to be impartial and yet an activist, I appreciate it all the more. Oh, and my sister is also called Heidi 😎
1st heard this on the car radio, early 80s. We got into the multistory carpark and all sat there listening until the end. Must have been radio 1, and a fab dj for playing it's entirety. Years later (mid 90s) I found the disc, rummaging through a box at folkestone market. Later in the 90s I gave it to a dj friend, I hope he still has it @djreadybreak but I still recall most of the lyrics. Finding this today has made my day,week,month etc, so thankyou. xx
Gary Bryd is a highly respected radio broadcaster from NYC since the 60s . Been listen to Gary Bryd since the late 60s since wwrl 1600 am and I'm 65 yo today . Love this tune .
What a truly an amazing record that was way back in the days, brings back some great memories of my childhood times. Yes dont think there will be many in around 30yrs could say that about the music of today lol we had it you will not.
Temaso me canse de buscarlo ..y hoy de manera insolita lo encontre lo tararie en gogle y para mi sorpresa di con el despues de 37 años ,encanta ,con un grande steven wonder la mejor musica ...
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, i bought this 12 inch wahayyyyyy, trouble is, that makes me....................... BLOODY OLD, dammmmn haha, keep rocking all, how can my 2 daughters NOT like this !!! i didn't train em well enough.
Boogie yr so right haha, Steve, luckily enough my 2 girls don't like all that Sh*t haha, so i will forgive em for not liking this, guys, keep rocking !
Seriously Black in the 80's was the second 'Harlem renaissance'. This song had a profound impact on so many. Stevie's verse is bad!! Pure educatinment.
Love the lyric, "you don't wear the crown just because you're black, Every body in the world has a crown in place, It becomes their culture and their face," So it's not a black thing; it includes all the beautiful races of the world! yeah....
It's actually rather cool that this track is ten minutes and fourty two seconds long when most songs don't make much more than three minutes. Such is the genius of Gary Byrd and the legend that is Stevie Wonder.
Just so F****** Great - Stevie Wonder made it really big back then and it stills moves my feet quite fast when turning it up these days - Så fresh, so funky, so true, so amazing, just so very lovely
Oh,wow..., just, WOW !!. Loved this track as a kid, back in the 80’s... played it over and over. I knew it was significant back then, but, never got the lyrics till now. I wear the crown !!!.
My 1st ever 12" single and simply a classic.Amazes me when my kids now say "what the hells this your listening to" Do they not realise it all started here!!!
hope you told em' off for cursing. lolz And I hope you told them that this whupps anything that modern artists can produce or have produced cause all they can do is imitate. Oh and there's few legends more legendary than Stevie Wonder! yeah baby.....
Us of a certain vintage never tire of hearing class tunes This crosses the devicive divide of today's society Fab fab let's start getting our world back xx
We are all doomed to be forced upon commercials constantly. Even if we pay for it. Btw i got myself at least one car commercial. While i was typing this.
Early 80s frequented ‘The Crown’, Edinburgh Sq., Midhurst where everyone ‘delighted united’ in singing along with the chorus as loud as poss when Jon & Jan played this - what a tune of happy memories❤
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I posted this song for people to appreciate the music. The music is for everybody to enjoy regardless of colour or race. This is not a forum for abuse, if you actually listen to the song all the way through, you will realise the message is for everybody. Thank you
Nice one Timmo.
I have the original 12" vinyl which i bought when it came out 1983 i believe. Thank you for the upload...I love this song.
merci
The music is for everybody, but the message is to our own black people....
Well said my friend. Peace. Love. God bless.
I'm a 67 year old white dude, who got married for the first time at age 60. I tracked down the 12" extended single of this and had the DJ at our wedding reception play it. Yes - it's an incredibly life-affirming and positive message that EVERYONE should hear. Our friends and guests were a mix of white, Caribbean, Hispanic, Asian, and African-American folks. EVERYONE loved it.
Awesome 👊🏽😎 🇬🇧
Love this song, love your story more..(nearly 😉❤) X
Really if u telling the truth respect 👊👊💯❤️❤️❤️
I loved this the first time I ever heard it. Never been a time since that it didn’t excite me!
Love this Tune,58 yr old woman from Britain, Still know the Words 👍👌🙋🏼♀️🇬🇧
Me too! We could do a duet 😂🎤🎶 Still one of my absolute favourites 💯❤️
@@tanyabagpuss2342 Proper tune.Gospel music at its best, even if you ain't religious. I used to have it on vinyl
57 yr old English dude still feeling this! Bought it on vinyl yesterday for £2 at a vinyl fair. Result. 🙂👍❤️
Still listening in 2024!!😊😊😊😊
Me to
Fantastic song
IM STILL JAMMIN TO THIS SONG😎😎
Almost in tears........this song used to make me so happy as a kid! That chorus just brings back childhood memories!!
Me to mate
I love all you people who love this song - this song is REAL THINGS! 🙌🏽
Just transported back to 1983 Lloret de Mar 18-30s holiday, 22 years old and really living my best life. 61 now fat, recently widowed. Bless you and thanks for the memories of happier times 🖤🤍🤎
Just brilliant. I bought this 12" single as a young boy 40 years ago in Glasgow, Scotland. Still have it somewhere. The rhythm, the beat... captivated me. I learned every word on the back of the sleeve... and now have just reeled it all off again! Magic.
I did too, but lost the 12" somehow
I did the same thing, around the same time, but in Edinburgh 😉
One of the best songs of all time
This tune is Awake up to all .. listen to the words... Stay United and not divided... I'm 53... This is my tune 😊.... Love it always .. what a message to humanity if only people listen. Xx
I am 59 years old and this just reminds me of how much better our lives were. we did not have much all we wanted was the music and getting pissed on a fiver. it makes you wanna cry.Kimmy B
+Kim Bennett :-) :-) you know it swet x
+Kim Bennett lol sweet
+Kim Bennett agreed
spot on kim. im 50 & i was boppin 2 this yrs ago. fiver got u out, pissed & a chippy meal👌
+Kim Bennett yep 54 now and still have the vinyl,,,some soul moving music,,memories,,,think of the cars we were driving,lol
Human skin colour should never have any bearing. Every human is equal. Been lucky to know many peoples from Asia Africa Middle East Europe.
Everyone has great value. Great respect and regard.
One of the best tunes ever made. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Not wrong there brother… will never get old
No question Phill
@@tonyjlorns1727 great stuff
It’s not in question Phil
I am from Britain and my dad played this
when l was a toddler. My books told this
very story and reinforced what Gary Bird
rapped about!
I am forever grateful to both my father &
DJ Gary Bird!
Should have a 1 billion likes ! It’s that’s good
you are not wrong!
Stevie Wonder has been such an important figure in the soundtrack of my life. A true gift. Thankyou for everything Stevie !
King-man ❤🙌🏽
My colour is incidental.
Bought this on my 18th birthday in 83 and it spoke to me and still does.
Be proud of who you are whoever you are.
Respect and love each other.
No time for hate life is short.
+Billy McKirdy spot on bud well said :-)
+Billy McKirdy REAL TALK!!!
respect man
#muchrespectbro!!!!!!!!!!!
Billy McKirdy good man GEEZER........X
Hands up if you're still listening in 2019? joy....
Hands WAYYYY up!
Yessss...today 17-11-2019 !!! Still cool !!!
What a great song, in every aspect. Still listening, in Norway :)
Still listening France. Love this song
Absolutely 🙂
i last posted about this song around 6 years ago.. I went to an 80s night last weekend and the dj played the intro to this song and i was the only one who got it !! And i still know every single word.. Well impressed and so was he !!
In 2022. This song is a timeless classic, my dad introduced me to this song! I still feel people don't appreciate the history that this song covers. One of the best ever
Didn't realize Teena Marie did backup for this - I love it even more for that. Her voice just gives me strength.
I never knew that
@@DaveMcleanJrNor Me❤
Teena is amazing
LOVE TEENA!! 😍 ABSOLUTE CLASS! 💯
Lots of Hotep business, but one of my favorite songs from my youth. It's among the songs which send me on my journey to seek knowledge.
It is bang out of order to disrupt any songs with adverts, does any one else agree?.
This is funk. I learned very word when I was 16 by listening to it endlessly - the Stevie Wonder break is incredible.
Oh mate Stevie interlude is classic bro 😊
Sublime
songs like this are still being played and listened to 32 yrs later dont think many songs that are getting released now will still b played in 2047 really glad i grew up in the 80s
megaphoenix2001 The saddest thing is that they WILL be played, and they'll be remembered as classics.
megaphoenix2001 Fully agreed with what u said. Music of the 80s the best ever !!! Never getting tired of listening to them..... Alot do bring tears to my eyes...... they go deep down my soul......
Obrown Ojay
lesley love I agree - I have moved to Cambodia and had to download all my old 80s songs and still can dance around to them - still feel 25 years old!
megaphoenix2001
xxx true say my friend
Love this song so much especially when Stevie Wonder kicks in ... what a gem 💎 ✨
Stevie the Godfarther
I’m here on 20 June 2021 listening to this masterpiece.. 38 years later I’m still loving it .. 80’s a decade to remember and how lucky I was to live to every moment ❤️
I totally agree
Still love this and I am almost 70!!!
Mike Shaw good stuff Mike age isn’t a barrier for a great tune im 51 and still love this
age must not play a role in music
Mike Shaw good ol' boy ...
Me too.
Now your 75 congrats hope your still there🙏🏽❤️
17 years old ,48 now still remember the words
Ffffffantasic !!!@. Turn 40 years back
i was 14 when i bought this,54 now and i still love it !
This tune must have lifted you up when you were 17
I remember this from the UK in the 80's my gawd this was so good.
I was staying in London when I first heard this. If you were in the clubs this was banging! Then when I came back to the USA, few had heard of this song. I was so disappointed. Had to bring it back with me from England.
Very true it was banging in the clubs in England then,totally unique and original record
USA Chicago IL we jam this song
I love stories like these...the unkown hits. It is strange how this song never became no 1. In the US. Strange indeed
There is a generation of people born in the mid 60s who when hearing this just know. Youre in the presence of others of the same generation. No words are needed just a simple nod. You know dont you? We were there and will never forget. Gee what a time
I loved this way back. Have it on 12" vinyl. The message is so powerful and still as relevant today. Like the man says, " We all have a crown in place" wear yours with pride. ❤️✌🏽️🌏
prob worth a few quid now I'm sure...:-)
Dave Jones it's not worth anything
***** damn I thought it would of been cos I think they stopped pressing copies of that decades ago...
Sorry mate I picked up a copy for 25p just yesterday
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Co written by Stevie Wonder & Gary Byrd who sing & rap on this mega hit of a track, retelling the story of the coming of modern civilisation, paying homage to the Alkebus, the Romans, the ancient Greeks, Neffertiti, king Tut, the Sphinx, Cleopatra, Alex Haley, Roots, Muhammad Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Louis, Malcolm x, a history class but in a rap format
Glad you mentioned this .
I used to jam to this chune nuff times but had no idea of the lyrical content.. wow! Thanks for pointing this out 👏🏽👏🏽
@@streetcat1510 Me too! I’m normally a lyrics person, but somehow these passed me by..
he wasnt "paying homage" to the romans OR the greeks
This song is a great experience for my ears. And great to hear. Stevie. Wonder
They don’t and never will make music like this any more. I’m so honoured to have been a youth when this song was out. I remember. Very hot summers and snowy winters as the seasons should be. I wish I could go back even just for an hour. Didn’t know we had it so good. No need for mobiles. 💛💚❤️💛💚❤️⭐️🌙🌈⭐️🌞🌈🌏⭐️🌈🌏💫🌛⭐️🌈🌙🌍🌟🌈🌞🌍🌟🌈💫☀️🌙🌏🌈💫☀️🌙🌈
This is just timeless.2024..love the Stevie Wonder bit..😊
moi aussi je suis un fan de stevie wonder
20th june 2020 still sounds fresh. this record is under played.
2021
I wonder why...🙄
@@auldreekie7768 omg same
Heard this last night in a bar floor filler 🎸🎸🎸🎙🎙🎧🎧🎧🎵
Énorme souvenir funky waouh gigantesque indétrônable inoubliable planétaire formidable fantastique incontournable fantastique magnifique
My mother would play this record over and over and Im so glad that she did! It fed me!!!! This song takes the cake for the music thats out today which I wont even listen too! Thanks mom!!!! :)
My elder brother Charlie fed me Barry White so glad he did. What a gift xx
Just an incredible tune. Educational, socially conscious, positive. We need to get back to this
absolute perfection! you wont hear a better tune than this. pure class!!!!
Timeless classic untouchable
I'm a 69 year old white British woman and still love this song and it's lovely positive message
This is real music. One of my faves ❤
absolutely brilliant, remember who produced it, the musical genius that is Stevie Wonder!
The genius he certainly is
The best rap of all time and the message is so strong and true,thanks for this brilliant song
One of the best songs of the 80 s
Buffalo NY been in the house give us our respect
Completely timeless music. That's the mark of a great song
Wish they’d release this digitally, this is probably my favorite old-school hip hop jam of all time. Before late 80s hip hop and gangster rap, this was the business, with a great message for all races.
I to bought this in 83. now i am 53 and still loves it i tells ya!!!!
Thanks for posting this song which is an integral part of my musical taste. Love it all those years ago and still do now in 2022. Definitely has stood the test of time. ⌚⌚⌚⌚
An all time favorite. I just love this.
WOW!!!! This song is so ahead of its time....the lyrics is Amazing
*L E G E N D A R Y*
Brother Gary Byrd is the self-conscious rap mentor ever.
This definetely is such a deep self-conscious track, that teaches our true life story about how we built our realities that was totally denied.
Brother Gary Byrd is the greatest ever rapper, mentor, DJ and hero of all-time and this hip-hop classic, twenty-nine years, says it all.
Rap that makes sense. Compare this to (c) rap that came afterwards.
I absolutely LOVE this song and have ever since I heard it for the 1st time back in the 80's!
Me too! As fresh today as the day it was released.
A masterpiece Tim
What a song!! It was powerful and Stewie's voice was honey and awesome .The lyrics are so good. An old goodie of the seventies. I want to give Stewie and Gary Byrd a crown because they deserved it!!
As a Stevie fan, I immediately bought the 12" at Tower Records the day it was released.
But Stevie only wrote the music and produced it. This was one of my favorite tracks from '83 because of the words; the history and information it taught.
I only wish kids today would listen to and learn from songs like this...instead of songs that repetitively talk about cars, jewelry, money, and sex, sex, sex.
I gave my 12" to the thrift store.....I'm still crying about it now!
ya gave it to a thrift store...damn id of paid you goood money for it...goood money.... lolz smh
oh mate, it's worth a bomb on the vinyl DJ circuit
Sorry for you mate, I still have mine 😯
Inspirational music!! The opening just sends me to tears, as I know how Special this song is;)
I jus love it ol Skool is better than today music, ❤️❤️❤️🤙🏽😎
Oh my god, this takes me back to my funky days of the 80’s. I have this on 12”.
One of my favorite 12 inches. Then again I don't think there's any song from this era that I don't have. What an animated and fun time to grow up! I wish I was still young, but not if I would lose the knowledge of this musical era.
Push For Bros was pretty darn ordinary though, I do recall.
One hundred years from now it will probably still sound as good. Timeless classic; they don't make 'em like this anymore!
Who is here 2023 ❤🎉
Still to this day such a great song to listen to .. I remember Gary Byrd being on BBC Radio 1, doing the US Top 40 countdown every Saturday, this was back in 1985 or 1986... Talented guy
this is one of my fondest memory music-wise from 1983. I was in Austria, working and this song was blasting out of the radio and it was such a breath of fresh air. Little did I know that Stevie had a finger in it at the time. Today this track is so relevant and also a great musical contribution as well, love this track!
I was 20 when this was released, absolutely loved it. Am now 59 and recently widowed after 35 years of a happy marriage. Taking comfort in sounds from over the years,suddenly thought of this one today, so glad I did, what an underrated classic 😀
So sorry to read this. I was 13, and it was first introduced on radio 1 as 'the finest song I've ever heard' by the dj, can't remember who it was now though! May have been Simon Mayo? Now I know what it actually means and the efforts that Stevie Wonder went to in order to be impartial and yet an activist, I appreciate it all the more. Oh, and my sister is also called Heidi 😎
@@matthewstier8394 thanks Matthew, not so many of us Heidis around now. Stevie Wonder made this song complete
me 56 south london still goosebumps
brilliant song, one of the first rap songs ever. its been downhill all the way since!
True
Listening 2021..well isnt this the. Most profound truth . The. Crown is the trinity you are the crown
Still listening to this 2023, still a top tune..
This takes me back to the 80s when I was in my 20s. Love it
My cousins had this on vinyl, I used to demand they play it whenever I visited. I love the message.
das waren noch goldige Zeiten in Deutschland . die musik the Crown ist echt geiler sound
2021 and I'm still loving this as much as the day I bought the 12 inch ❤
1st heard this on the car radio, early 80s. We got into the multistory carpark and all sat there listening until the end. Must have been radio 1, and a fab dj for playing it's entirety. Years later (mid 90s) I found the disc, rummaging through a box at folkestone market. Later in the 90s I gave it to a dj friend, I hope he still has it @djreadybreak but I still recall most of the lyrics. Finding this today has made my day,week,month etc, so thankyou. xx
This is relevant to all people everywhere. A joyous piece of music and much needed, especially nowadays. Enjoy!
Omg so many memories just been dancing in the Kitchen, love it ❤🇬🇧🙏 October 2021
Gary Byrd brought us to be inspired, thirty-three years ago with his rap classic.
Kwame Aboagye absolutely sir
Gary Bryd is a highly respected radio broadcaster from NYC since the 60s . Been listen to Gary Bryd since the late 60s since wwrl 1600 am and I'm 65 yo today . Love this tune .
So glad my mum showed me this song when I was 7. I'm 16 now and still obsessed with it
Loved this song I will always remember Whitney Houston taking over radio 1 in 1991 playing this as one of her favourites xxx😊
What a truly an amazing record that was way back in the days, brings back some great memories of my childhood times. Yes dont think there will be many in around 30yrs could say that about the music of today lol we had it you will not.
The best style of music, funky music for all the time 👍
Loved it then and love it even more today. What a tune and what inspirational lyrics. 😍
Just ace , best played loud , bought it in 1983 , absolutely ace .
Driving through the streets of Accra, caught the tail end on radio 2! I must have lost kilos back in the day dancing to this, wish I could do it again
Temaso me canse de buscarlo ..y hoy de manera insolita lo encontre lo tararie en gogle y para mi sorpresa di con el despues de 37 años ,encanta ,con un grande steven wonder la mejor musica ...
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, i bought this 12 inch wahayyyyyy, trouble is, that makes me....................... BLOODY OLD, dammmmn haha, keep rocking all, how can my 2 daughters NOT like this !!! i didn't train em well enough.
+Darren Wallings Way we used to roll :)
Boogie yr so right haha, Steve, luckily enough my 2 girls don't like all that Sh*t haha, so i will forgive em for not liking this, guys, keep rocking !
+Darren Wallings Don´t sweat it, bought a copy second hand the other day. Good and positive tunes live on :)
+boogiel01 we sure did, i hate that word, DID haha
+Stephen M haha, luckily its a NO there Steve haha, i think i would knock THEM out if they liked him haha, only joking there haha
This is education,soul and Knowledge All on one classic.
I have the 7 Inch vynal somewhere.
BLESS.
Seriously Black in the 80's was the second 'Harlem renaissance'. This song had a profound impact on so many. Stevie's verse is bad!! Pure educatinment.
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This song kinda helped forming my outlook on the world and the people in it, when I was about 16. And I’m thankful for that.
STEVIE KILLED IT💯
Love the lyric, "you don't wear the crown just because you're black,
Every body in the world has a crown in place, It becomes their culture and their face," So it's not a black thing; it includes all the beautiful races of the world! yeah....
It's actually rather cool that this track is ten minutes and fourty two seconds long when most songs don't make much more than three minutes. Such is the genius of Gary Byrd and the legend that is Stevie Wonder.
and that 10:42 passes so quickly when you're listening to such audible gold.
Just remember who was first.
@@U2QuoZepplin Tell you more...you Don't want it to end
Excellent song, such a groovy history lesson. Love it!!!💞💞💞💖😎
Just so F****** Great - Stevie Wonder made it really big back then and it stills moves my feet quite fast when turning it up these days - Så fresh, so funky, so true, so amazing, just so very lovely
10.42 of Musical Heaven.
Oh,wow..., just, WOW !!.
Loved this track as a kid, back in the 80’s... played it over and over.
I knew it was significant back then, but, never got the lyrics till now.
I wear the crown !!!.
My 1st ever 12" single and simply a classic.Amazes me when my kids now say "what the hells this your listening to" Do they not realise it all started here!!!
hope you told em' off for cursing. lolz And I hope you told them that this whupps anything that modern artists can produce or have produced cause all they can do is imitate. Oh and there's few legends more legendary than Stevie Wonder! yeah baby.....
Us of a certain vintage never tire of hearing class tunes
This crosses the devicive divide of today's society
Fab fab let's start getting our world back xx
Only TH-cam could ruin this classic with stupid ads in the middle!
With a Hamilton commercial at that.
We are all doomed to be forced upon commercials constantly. Even if we pay for it. Btw i got myself at least one car commercial. While i was typing this.
Agreed 😠😡
Stop fuckinf moaning
Heah,I hope its not a new ploy to get people to go ad free...
Early 80s frequented ‘The Crown’, Edinburgh Sq., Midhurst where everyone ‘delighted united’ in singing along with the chorus as loud as poss when Jon & Jan played this - what a tune of happy memories❤
i first heard this when i was 14,and the next day went out to buy the 12 inch.. Played it to death.. Brilliant song
early 80's. Every song had a chance. I own this. I'm 55. Wouldn't change a thing.