This song is still being played by marching bands with musicians who weren't even born when this song was written - and they LOVE IT!! I still love the original
Yes. This song always reminds me of high school and college marching band during stands and parades. “SOS” and “Backstabbers” by The OJays were always crowd pleasers.
1979/80 walking into the club and hearing this blasting before we could get thru the door. The party started right there. We dance our way thru the door straight to the dance floor dancing with each other and everybody else on the floor 😄 OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!!😂this takes me back in a good way. In the U. S . NAVY, at that time, San Diego California!!!
Im 39 years old ( 85 chi town baby) i grew up listening to old school music thst my mom and dad had me listening to and my dad used to play the sos band greatest hits on cd the first song I heard is this and weekend girl and tell me if you still caretill today I still jam to this at home and in my truck 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I still have this song Dit Dit Dit Dash Dash Dash Dit Dit Dit and the album S.O.S. on the original ivory yellow cassette tape released in 1980 from Tabu/CBS Records. This is a real C-L-A-S-S-I-C groove from one of the best groups in this genre of music S.O.S. Band!!!!!!
Chiiiild my former high school band was jammin this in the years 80-81 and they sounded just like the SOS Band Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach Florida
One of their early hits that sparked a movement to many generations and the R&B industry. Remember like it was yesterday as a young teenager. Miss those days.
I'm with you in thought. I miss those good old days when we can party til daylight, and not have to worry about getting shot by some crazed teen with a gun.
This is very SERIOUS groove. In addition to the synthesizer being on fire..there are so many jammin'hooks in this song, its craZzy-awesome-bopping-cool!!!!
I remember when i was 15yrs old in Stockton, Cali. Playing handball at stribley park listening to this jam while everyone was enjoying themselfs; Cruising around the park blasting this, at bbq pits, it was beautiful time in my life as well as others, I just wish the kids today could have experienced the same,i feel so blessed to experience the whole lowrider movement and it wouldn't have been the same if the Music wasnt right, So thank you Sounds Of Success
When this song first came out back in the early 80s I was in high school I went to Pacific Palisades High School in California heard this song on the radio I almost lost my mind , with just the way it starts out it's just incredible This Groove is a Groove that you can just get down on the floor and roller skate I read some of the comments and just like they said I'm all up in my feelings about this song cuz it brings back so many good memories especially when I was with Uncle jamm's Army back in the days . YES , HELLO BABE !!!!
Reginald T Hammond Sr Great Comet Reginald. My father wrote this song. It made me smile to see such a wonderful complement. I am also from Los Angeles I went to Hamilton. I also went to uncle Jim’s army LOL
@Barbara Dyce I read your comment thank you so much & it was an honor & Pleasure to put a smile on your face to the person who father wrote this song I always love SOS band right along with a lot of different other Artists & Bands back in the (70s 80's 90's) . All these 3 decades was truly a huge explosion of R&B & funk . It will never ever be the same again . May God continue to bless you & your family❗️❤️ To The Sounds Of Success❗️👍🏾😎✊🏾
While in band, I was auxiliary, I looked up all the original songs we played and this original song is lit and Awesome Sauce in itself. One of my favorite stand songs and just songs period 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
i was in 6th grade when this came out and was obsessed and mead OBESESSED to the point i would call every radio station in mpls and ask to play this track cuz i felt everyone should hear this jam. im dacing and typing this. LOVING YOU for this
THIS Was the Song that GOT The S.O.S. Band NOTICED by The MUSIC World ! I Got The DEBUT Album my Senior Year of HS. I KNEW this Band Would Be a MAINSTAY.
Mohmar-Kwesi Nosakehne' Great song! However you are incorrect. Take your time do it right was what made the world hear THE SOS BAND Check out the producer and writer SIGIDI Abdullah. Rest in peace Daddy.
I used to go there; or African Square Park, National Guard Armory, Disco City, Miami Jackson and Northwestern High School dances. Kind of miss those days.
Meenn this was the REAL DAMN MUSIC. When this song was released I was only 6 years bro, however, I am a true lover of this music because of my father. I GREW Up in this music flow I even imitated my dad's funky dance style. Can't forget it.
I was recently exposed to this group and they are truly phenomenal. I've always loved "groove"as a music style. The talent & range that this group has is "above". The instrument and layering range of sounds, just is 'music' for the soul & body to move🕺🏾💃🏽🌟💃🏽🔆🌛🔥🔥🎊💎🥰🤩〰️〰️🌟🌟
This particular song was hard to find at one time, not being on any of their collections so if you didnt have the cassette tape or original album...it was impossible to get! So finally they reissued the album on cd, and I was able to buy it...so yippee!!!
I feel you guys I know exactly what you was talkin about I was a young buck running around myself doing this time that was one of those records that I jammed to
Quand tu fais un morceau pareil ça veut dire que tu as tous compris à la musique du pire son ta3 les ouffffs dingue de groove de style de funky sound dû pure son venu d ailleurs merci SOS BAND pour ces morceaux inoubliables 😬🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I loved this song. My high school band played this. So many marching bands HBCU and high schools all over the world played this. Still slamming in 2019 December to be exact!
Walked in foot locker today and i heard this funky beat i ask the guy what is that bad song and beats. He said sos band . I love them. I had never heard this jam before. I liked it.
FYI… You sound they do in the tune is correct: dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit. (S O S). There are no dashes in Morse code anymore. “Dots and dashes” describes the days of the old clicker telegraph transmissions. Today, there is a tone generated for the code and the appropriate term for it is DIT ( formerly dot “.”) and DAH (formerly dash “-“). Confused? Listen to the tune again because they got it right. Technically, perfect code has a dah three times longer than a dit. Frequently the sounds are generated by a semi automatic key. When an old style manual key is used and the code is sent by hand, nothing there is a certain individuality and characterization of the senders “fist“, as the jargon refers to it. It isn’t unusual for the recipient translating the code to be able to identify the person sending it from the “swing“ or rhythm of how they form their characters when they are using a manual key.
First heard this song being played by the Hampton U. Marching Force when I went there in the 90's. Then I saw an old episode of Soul Train with them performing this song live. They are definitely the pioneers of the Atlanta sound.
Aww shit nah!!! Here come them mighty carol city chiefs ,yall bulls move out the way,them rockets too!!! All the way from miami carol city fl. C/o 1996
This song is still being played by marching bands with musicians who weren't even born when this song was written - and they LOVE IT!! I still love the original
My father wrote this
@@barbaradyce3853 that’s awesome! You should hear FAMU’s version of this song.
The beat is fire 🔥🔥 old school forever☝🏾
Yes. This song always reminds me of high school and college marching band during stands and parades. “SOS” and “Backstabbers” by The OJays were always crowd pleasers.
@@GVocalz3 That's so crazy, i was just showing this to my buddy yesterday and he said "WE PLAYED THIS AT FAMU!!!" hahah, it was a great moment.
1979/80 walking into the club and hearing this blasting before we could get thru the door. The party started right there. We dance our way thru the door straight to the dance floor dancing with each other and everybody else on the floor 😄 OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!!😂this takes me back in a good way. In the U. S . NAVY, at that time, San Diego California!!!
MARINE CORPS CAMP LEJEUNE SAME THAAANG 😂
Officer's Basic (T.O.B.C.), Ft. Eustis, VA-and stationed @ Ft. Dix, NJ after basic. I still have the cassette!!🕺💃🏻
We was blasting this when I was in the US Army in Germany at the American & German clubs as well! Oooo-weeee wha cha know about that youngsters!?!?🎉😂❤
😅
What you said you heard
I sure wish these bands would come back...now this was music where you actually played an instrument. Those were the days!
Gggv
marching bands like mine still play this at games
absolute legends
Im 39 years old ( 85 chi town baby) i grew up listening to old school music thst my mom and dad had me listening to and my dad used to play the sos band greatest hits on cd the first song I heard is this and weekend girl and tell me if you still caretill today I still jam to this at home and in my truck 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thumb up if you are still feeling this funky jam in 2017 and beyond
Thumb up if you are still feeling this funky jam in 2019 and beyond
Junior Hamer Yaasssssss!!!!
Lovin it to funky to the max
Try 2020 :-) Turn it UP!!
@@johndonaldson3619 oh yehhhh
This is an HBCU standard. I couldn't wait to play it in college.
CSU BABY MY HBCU WILBERFORCE OHIO WHOOP WHOOP 👍🏿😎
I feel you 🤗
How the homework got started and finished.
@@jgsmiles7726 My Pops wrote this song
@@landonprice5656 My father wrote this song
This was their funkiest record. I used to play that 45 over and over again.
1980, London/New York aged 14½. ❤️🎶
💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
i was 10 in '80. great year.
FAMU baby ..been playing this since 1980 !! Recently turned it out in Paris with this jam!! S O S
Class of 81....I totally remember this jam
My Lord over 40 yrs. and still banging!!!
SOS band is the greatest band from Savannah and Atlanta GA . The SOS band is the greatest band of all time . I LOVE their live performance even now .
I wouldn't say that being that brick is from atlanta
I still have this song Dit Dit Dit Dash Dash Dash Dit Dit Dit and the album S.O.S. on the original ivory yellow cassette tape released in 1980 from Tabu/CBS Records. This is a real C-L-A-S-S-I-C groove from one of the best groups in this genre of music S.O.S. Band!!!!!!
Chiiiild my former high school band was jammin this in the years 80-81 and they sounded just like the SOS Band Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach Florida
London,England checking in......Club Royalty....North London 1980....massive tuuuuune
Clive Alexander right on!
Haven't heard this in years. I'm in my feelings right now....
One of their early hits that sparked a movement to many generations and the R&B industry. Remember like it was yesterday as a young teenager. Miss those days.
I'm with you in thought. I miss those good old days when we can party til daylight, and not have to worry about getting shot by some crazed teen with a gun.
the greatest introduction of a song I ever heard.
Totally Agree.
Except for Rose Royce Get up off your fat
For real!!!!
This is very SERIOUS groove. In addition to the synthesizer being on fire..there are so many jammin'hooks in this song, its craZzy-awesome-bopping-cool!!!!
You are so right Soul Diva
Yup
YES!!! Even though they had great success with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, this to me is the true identity and potential of the band!
Never mind my last reply!! I just read the credits and JJ & TL were involved with this too! My Bad!!
I remember when i was 15yrs old in Stockton, Cali. Playing handball at stribley park listening to this jam while everyone was enjoying themselfs; Cruising around the park blasting this, at bbq pits, it was beautiful time in my life as well as others, I just wish the kids today could have experienced the same,i feel so blessed to experience the whole lowrider movement and it wouldn't have been the same if the Music wasnt right, So thank you Sounds Of Success
Damn,what memories! Played this in my freshman year in 1981 of high school band.
When this song first came out back in the early 80s I was in high school I went to Pacific Palisades High School in California heard this song on the radio I almost lost my mind , with just the way it starts out it's just incredible This Groove is a Groove that you can just get down on the floor and roller skate I read some of the comments and just like they said I'm all up in my feelings about this song cuz it brings back so many good memories especially when I was with Uncle jamm's Army back in the days . YES , HELLO BABE !!!!
Reginald T Hammond Sr
Great Comet Reginald. My father wrote this song. It made me smile to see such a wonderful complement. I am also from Los Angeles I went to Hamilton. I also went to uncle Jim’s army LOL
Yes I feel ya on that nothing like it. Miss those days on the real.
Memories love my family in our station wagon to Texas jammed the whole cassette..
@Barbara Dyce I read your comment thank you so much & it was an honor & Pleasure to put a smile on your face to the person who father wrote this song I always love SOS band right along with a lot of different other Artists & Bands back in the (70s 80's 90's) . All these 3 decades was truly a huge explosion of R&B & funk . It will never ever be the same again . May God continue to bless you & your family❗️❤️ To The Sounds Of Success❗️👍🏾😎✊🏾
One of my greatest band groups, 18yrs old when this was bumping and it's still alive bumping 2020
While in band, I was auxiliary, I looked up all the original songs we played and this original song is lit and Awesome Sauce in itself. One of my favorite stand songs and just songs period 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
2020 we still here!
Didn't realize there was an extended version of this song. Dang it woman!!! You did it to me AGAIN!!!!
Yup
now this is music , no cussin r dissin , goood clean music [ yea baby ]
Damon Brown
*I know, right"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!??........* 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
This song is still the shiznit
Awlreddy mane!!! WHEWWW!!!
That's how you get to dancing!!! Real MUSIC!! Thank You Auntie Soul!!!
Thankyou!! :p
I did this song with my band Malachi in Indiana in 1982. Brings back memories.
i was in 6th grade when this came out and was obsessed and mead OBESESSED to the point i would call every radio station in mpls and ask to play this track cuz i felt everyone should hear this jam. im dacing and typing this. LOVING YOU for this
THIS Was the Song that GOT The S.O.S. Band NOTICED by The MUSIC World !
I Got The DEBUT Album my Senior Year of HS. I KNEW this Band Would Be a MAINSTAY.
Mohmar-Kwesi Nosakehne'
Great song! However you are incorrect. Take your time do it right was what made the world hear THE SOS BAND Check out the producer and writer SIGIDI Abdullah. Rest in peace Daddy.
the sos band is always my favorite! !
Don Cornelius: And it is The S.O.S Band on the Soul Train with big one everybody sure nuff digging they call this one S.O.S
Yup i saw it i love the band in this song.
I remember hearing this version on "Disco Friday Nights" on a local station when I was a little kid! Thanks for sharing!
Horns are killing on this
Horns killing it..
The very first time I heard this song was back in 1980 on a Spanish station in Miami, WQBA!
Watched my big brother skate to this at THE SUPERSTAR ROLLER TECT in Miami Florida.79 st & 2nd ave.REST IN PEACE BIG MIKE
I used to go there; or African Square Park, National Guard Armory, Disco City, Miami Jackson and Northwestern High School dances. Kind of miss those days.
John Howell carol city chiefs in the house.
Aint nothing like this one right here
S.O.S Band at Lamar's Regal Room. Campbellton Road. Atlanta,Ga!! back in the day
They from the A...
HBCU bands love playing this!💯
Man, I LUV the way this song starts off...👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
This song put me all the way in the middle of the dance floor at the Hershey Bar in New Orleans. Such great memories!
Boy do I remember this one. It’s like SOS kept pumpin out the hits in the 80s!!!
Meenn this was the REAL DAMN MUSIC. When this song was released I was only 6 years bro, however, I am a true lover of this music because of my father. I GREW Up in this music flow I even imitated my dad's funky dance style. Can't forget it.
I think I was either 7 or 8. I miss music. I don't turn my radio on anymore.
I was recently exposed to this group and they are truly phenomenal. I've always loved "groove"as a music style. The talent & range that this group has is "above". The instrument and layering range of sounds, just is 'music' for the soul & body to move🕺🏾💃🏽🌟💃🏽🔆🌛🔥🔥🎊💎🥰🤩〰️〰️🌟🌟
This particular song was hard to find at one time, not being on any of their collections so if you didnt have the cassette tape or original album...it was impossible to get! So finally they reissued the album on cd, and I was able to buy it...so yippee!!!
Great roller skating song
this is classic funk I was a yung buck coming up so many memories of this song
I feel you guys I know exactly what you was talkin about I was a young buck running around myself doing this time that was one of those records that I jammed to
Much respect to this band. Always one of my favs
Quand tu fais un morceau pareil ça veut dire que tu as tous compris à la musique du pire son ta3 les ouffffs dingue de groove de style de funky sound dû pure son venu d ailleurs merci SOS BAND pour ces morceaux inoubliables 😬🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I loved this song. My high school band played this. So many marching bands HBCU and high schools all over the world played this. Still slamming in 2019 December to be exact!
I still have the 8 track of this! What memories! ❤❤I saw this band singing Take Your Time at a club in Youngstown, Ohio, before they became famous!
The memories of fun skates and jams.....,....diss still poppin!!!!!!
this is their baddest cut....pure funk. real shit!!!!!
cool E-Piano-Chord Progession and heavenly performed, cool Groove and Sound
Underrated, unsung JAM! But I never forget about these kinds of tracks.
THIS IS MY FAV SOS song.....its lit!
In times the record cover always matches the music the song is a classic🍒😎
Loved them from the start! You don’t hear good stuff like this anymore!
grew up on this great funky shiite, can not take shit music anymore...ny phone is filled with over 4100 songs like this.still jammin to it.
One of my favorite skating rink songs 😊❤
SOS Band Made Great Music,This One ls My Favorite.
This is great music
That thirty second stretch from 2:52 - 3:22 is LEGENDARY
Still jamming and slamming in 2020 and you know this!
Saw them in concert inn Denver in 1980 as a Sr in HS. Dang this opening song and seeing them was like Damn!
Musical Geniuses!!! Pure Magic because that’s what we are!!!!
They will be in concert this weekend in the ATL along with Cameo and Cherelle.
Archangel0263 all of them was on that tabu label.
Wish I was there.
Walked in foot locker today and i heard this funky beat i ask the guy what is that bad song and beats. He said sos band . I love them. I had never heard this jam before. I liked it.
Super sound of success still in 2018.
I almost ruptured my spleen dancing off this. I went to poppin too hard. Lmao 😅😅😅😅
Hott ! Flashback Party Jam, that's sure to get the dance floor humpin,
OLD SCHOOL
SOS BAND
CLASSIC JAM
Back in the day music still in my soul heeyyy
Love old school music.
One of many first cassettes I bought when I was about 16/17 💖
Still feeling funky in 2018.
Intro sounds like a Heatwave groove, then they just explode with some funky stuff... A +..
true classic 80s
Du lourd très lourd puissant chefs d'œuvre absolu immense du grand art 👍🌹🥂🇨🇵🇺🇲 c'est pas la nullité d'aujourd'hui qui pue grave 👎👎👎. Dany 53 ans
In 2021 still jamming to a old school fav
Brings Back Great Memories!!!😁.
This was when my music life started, can somebody up there turn back the clock please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please let me know when find somebody. :)
My favorite rhythm and blues band next to loose ends
STILL Feelin' it in 2019!!!
"🎶👏🏻Dit Dit Dit 👏🏻Dash Dash Dash 👏🏻Dit Dit Dit!👏🏻🎶"
they still had disco in 1980? i thought it died in 1979.
My Jam!!!!! EVERYTIME I hear this song, I just got to at least shake my head ❤ The days gone by we were jamming on this 😊
2020. What a good song!
I remember putting this in the mix in the 80's Dj Ham Baby !!!!
Great track from a great band.
My absolute favorite song to play in marching band @ Hampton University’s The Marching F.O.R.C.E. 🔥🔥🔥
FYI… You sound they do in the tune is correct: dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit. (S O S). There are no dashes in Morse code anymore. “Dots and dashes” describes the days of the old clicker telegraph transmissions. Today, there is a tone generated for the code and the appropriate term for it is DIT ( formerly dot “.”) and DAH (formerly dash “-“). Confused? Listen to the tune again because they got it right.
Technically, perfect code has a dah three times longer than a dit. Frequently the sounds are generated by a semi automatic key. When an old style manual key is used and the code is sent by hand, nothing there is a certain individuality and characterization of the senders “fist“, as the jargon refers to it.
It isn’t unusual for the recipient translating the code to be able to identify the person sending it from the “swing“ or rhythm of how they form their characters when they are using a manual key.
This is a musically creative band!(🎶Big range🎶)
These dudes are badd!❤
(🎶they gave you your money's worth each time)🎶
FAMU Marching 100 - S.O.S
Search it
My favorite 100 song
James S. Rickards High School band ! Southside drummers.
Lord Fourth shout out to mr.richard beckford famu marching 100 alumni and carol citys finest
Yessir! A Classic 😎
First heard this song being played by the Hampton U. Marching Force when I went there in the 90's. Then I saw an old episode of Soul Train with them performing this song live. They are definitely the pioneers of the Atlanta sound.
WoW..I had forgotten about this Song..I'm Glad I found it...
SOS Band Were Great Back ln The Day,And They Still Are.
we gotta play this song in my marching band i'm so excite
This where it all started baby perfection...
SOS to me say's keep striving onward for success . A very good song for the dance floor.
Aww shit nah!!! Here come them mighty carol city chiefs ,yall bulls move out the way,them rockets too!!! All the way from miami carol city fl. C/o 1996
My band play the heck out of this song
Post up your band jammin' out this one right here bruh! Let's see what ya'll got!! Bring that SOS HEAT!!!
@@PABallin48I'd love to hear it!
WHO IS LISTENING 👂 IN 2019 THO ?!?
2020 🙂
20k20 and still listening to this one......
I'm still listening in 2020 ❤️