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Oh that is David Bowie singing all right. Bowie is Rock's chameleon. Changing styles as the world changes, giving the people what they want, even before they knew what they wanted. This great album came out in the mid-70s and blew a lot of people out of the water. The man exudes charm, talent and was always on the leading edge.
And that’s Luther Vandross leading the background singers.
Not just a rock chameleon - it's not a rock album
And he was doing buckets.of cocaine around this period 😮
Would sneak in my brother's Roy's room and play David's albums!😊
PLEASE do yourselves a favor and listen to Bowie's 'Rock and roll suicide's live in Tokyo...will bring you goose bumps
One of Bowie's best songs, great back up singers, including a young Luther Vandross
There is a video of Bowie singing this on the Dick Cavett show from December 1974 with Luther among the back up singers.
man hearing that just thru me back to my young teenage years and hearing this on the radio
Vandross said it was one of the hardest jobs he had ever had. The video "David Bowie - Right (1975)" shows them counting out the beats on sheet music.
@@antwaun9763There’s a clip of that session somewhere here in TH-cam where they are trying to sing those complicated verses.
Actually I think the “official” video for this shows Luther w/ the other BG singers. Even there he exudes the undeniable soul-warmth he always had. I knew someone who sang back up for him for many years, all of her stories just confirmed what I think all listeners/watchers knew about Luther; he was a beautiful man with huge heart & soul
It was Bowie's soul period. Showcases his amazing talent and gloriously versatile voice.
This album was recorded in Philadelphia when Bowie was enamored with Philly Soul. In the mid-70s, America was in turmoil with the resignation of Nixon, the end of the Vietnam War and continuing struggles for civil rights and women's rights. There was a lot of confusion and dissatisfaction. The song is about how young Americans were facing these changes and struggles. It is social commentary to a funky soundtrack. As far as Bowie sounding different, he was a chameleon who changed styles, genres and delivery with virtually every album.
Well stated!
Yes! There is a lot to say about 1974!
Bowie sang this on Soul Train, the first white performer ever to appear on that show. Blew them all away.
HE SANG FAME ON SOUL TRAIN FIRST TIME BACK IN THE 70S!! HE ADMITS LATER HE FLUBBED UP THE LIP SYNCING!! I ALWAYS WATCHED SOUL TRAIN BACK THEN,, WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WOMAN,AND STAY AT HOME MOM. I REMEMBER THIS SHOW!!
You know I watched this episode. The crowd went crazy when he sang Fame.
For us die hard Bowie fans, we recognised him straight away, as we understood his varied music styles
I don't think you have to be a die hard David Bowie fan to recognise his voice cause his voice is wonderfully unique.
@@sarablack2547 oh for sure. I'm just saying us fans know his voice in a heartbeat, whilst some may take a minute to work out who it is
@@eviekelpie1 I get ya.
I thought his voice was easy to spot and that he doesn't sound that different on other songs.but I guess if your just listening to a song once and others on the same day and doing the same every week taking a while to get back to him then maybe in your mind he'll sound different to what you remember?
Don't worry I wasn't getting at you just having a different opinion 🙂
@@sarablack2547 No worries. No I wasn't offended 😁
@@eviekelpie1 👍🏻
David Bowie was a chameleon. He changed everything for every song. He was amazing... Yes, that was him singing. 🙂
"Took him minutes, took her nowhere" Brilliant line! Please take a look at 'Moonage Daydream' or 'Alladin Sane' from his 'David Live at the tower Philadelphia' album bloody stunning!
David Bowie = Change. You should expect nothing less from this genius. Thanks for your reaction and interest in him. R.I.P Mr. Jones. ✌
David ALWAYS surprises brilliantly!! No one comes close to this man.
People these days need 10 writers and 15 producers to do a song that is memorable for 15 minutes, Bowie and so many others did it all for tunes that will last forever.
David Bowie was an English singer-songwriter & actor. He constantly reinvented himself to stay current over nearly 5 decades. His first big hit was "Space Oddity" in 1969. He has had a lot of great songs including "Starman", "Ziggy Stardust", "Rebel Rebel", "Changes", "Fame", "Ashes To Ashes", "Under Pressure", Let's Dance", "Modern Love", "China Girl" etc.
Thanks for that info,no one has ever heard or knew anything about Bowie
This line just blows my mind. "We live for just these twenty years. Do we have to die for the fifty more"? Especially
the older we get. This man is a musical chameleon. You might not like some songs but every one is so completely
different that you're bound to find some you like. Bowie is an Icon and a Legend in my mind. I love this artist!
Luther Vandross is singing background vocals on this song, this was told by producer Nile Rogers
Nile produced this song?
I was watching an old Sesame Street with my daughter the other night and Luther was singing on it..
You can see Vandross in the song video.
Luther is the big guy in the video
@Julie A No he didn't.
David Bowie was a musical genius. He could do many different types of songs, and he did them all extremely well. His music will want you to get up and dance. I am so glad you liked it.
Bowie.....one of the most creative and imaginative artists to ever grace this planet!!! Take care guys and thank you for another great reaction.
I remember this song. Bowie had many sounds and ways he presented his vocals.
Young Americans is my favorite Bowie album. (Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 through RCA Records. The album marked a departure from the glam rock style of Bowie's previous albums, showcasing his interest in soul and R&B.)
I can’t believe how nobody hasn’t reacted to Ashes To Ashes by Bowie yet, it’s an all time classic Top Ten song, I’d do it immediately if I were you two. All art is inexhaustible.
Very few reactors have done it
Love, love love that song!
Banger....the follow up to Space Oddity...over a decade later.
My favorite mtv video. Very interesting.
That might be my fav Bowie tune and there are a bunch!
Guys David Bowie is a legend and not only did he have great songs like Starman , Space Oddity , Changes and Under Pressure (his amazing duet with Freddie Mercury), but he could also act . To me his best roles are Labyrinth , Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Man Who Fell To Earth
This came out in 75. Bowie (as he often did) made a complete turn of direction with this album. He had just come off of the dystopian ‘diamond dogs’ album and while touring that decided he wanted to do a soul record…or as he had called it…’plastic soul’. It was pretty shocking for us fans, but is a fantastic record. I highly recommend the whole album but might take acfew listens to get used to the change. Yes that is luther…whomwas unknown at the time. The guitar player brought him in. Luther broughtba song calked ‘funky music’. Bowie rewrote the lyrics and they recorded it as ‘fascination’. Fantastic track…should have been a single. Other greatbones are ‘win’, ‘right’ (sick vocal arrangements) an ‘somebody up there likes me’. Oh…and ‘fame’ was a major hit….but i like these other better 😁
This is from the 70s, after his Ziggy Stardust days. David was living in San Francisco then.
Remember, David always reinvented himself and kept up with the times. You may like to know, as you didn't do the video...a very young Luther Vandross was one of his background singers here! After that Luther was certainly recognised
Would have loved to see him in SF back then!
I saw a cabaret show of Bowie's work and it took 6 different singers to pull off all his voices and characters.
A + B, ya'll need to react to David Bowie's "I'm Afraid Of Americans".
YEAH HE WAS VERYYYYY DIFFERENT AS AN ARTIST WITH PLAYING DIFFERENT CHARACTERS AND COULD CHANGE HIS VOICE 😊, AND THIS ALBUM ( YOUNG AMERICANS ) WAS RIGHT AFTER HIS CONCEPT ALBUM YOU GUYS ( ZIGGY STARDUST ) , THE BIG HIT BEING : SUFFRAGETTE CITY 😊
This was unmistakably Bowie, and yet an ever shifting chameleon
some classic 70's Bowie
This was his 1975 soul album. He used the 'cut up' technique of writing lyrics. Which means he would write out many lines of lyrics on a sheet of paper. Then he would get the scissors and cut out each line and then rearrange them on a separate piece of paper. Entirely random. It's no good analysing them really. He used different voices for different albums
No he didn't he used some of that technique when writing diamond dogs
Another funky Bowie song which you'll love is Panic in Detroit, from the Aladdin Sane album
That is a great song, great album! Got ready to go out at night playing this, or whenever I needed to get pumped up , ready to get a move on ! All his albums were so freakin great.
Love, love, love this man. Bowie had so many hits. One of the most diverse artists of our time (in my opinion). Love the lyrics and cool vibe in this tune. Thanks so much for posting and reacting to this one guys!🧡
The whole album is so good!
Great song! 70's ..amazing vocals
Young Americans came out during Bowie's soul era. The "Fame" album isn't usually hailed as one of his best, but saying that the title song FAME was a number 1 song on the charts in 1975 and co-written by John Lennon. There's a lot of groovy cuts on it like "Fascination" (my personal favourite) and "Somebody Up There Likes Me."
He recorded this at Sigma Sound Studios in Philly and you can definitely here the 1970's "Philadelphia Sound"!
Love David Bowie! Also saw him back in the 80’s. What a concert he puts on. Absolutely incredible!!
1 thing that you might not know is that David Bowie and Peter Frampton were friends and classmates from elementary and would play guitar together from that young age. Both incredible talented chaps and their friendship lasted until David's passing.
True. Actually, I actually saw Peter Frampton on Bowie's "Glass Spider Tour" in the 1980s. Huge fan of both men and was blessed see them live a couple of times. I met David Bowie in 1985. Really showing my age here.😂😂
Unmistakable voice of one Mr David Robert Jones from Brixton south east London aka David Bowie.
One of the wonderfully talented generous, gentle men of the music industry, sadly missed
David was the ultimate chameleon! His looks and his music. He was a true artist.
Asia, They were Crazy Lyrics, but masterly performed
David Bowie can sing many styles.
"Aint there one damn song that can make me, break down and cry?"
This album was recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. That was the studio used by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and was where they created The Sound of Philadelphia. Among the bands they produced at Sigma were the O'Jays, the Stylistics, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the Spinners, the Delfonics, Billy Paul, the Soul Survivors, and the Intruders. Hall & Oates also recorded some of their early albums there. Studio owner Joe Tarsia, who died recently,. once told the story of taking the Jackson Five home during a recording session so his wife could cook them dinner.
Bowie is so unique.
Great horns, great backing singers, great groove
There is an actual music video, with him singing, the band and backup vocals.
he tried to explain years ago that it was the story of his time spent in America in the 70's, you should check the rest of the album out also. what he calls plastic soul and was recorded at sigma sound in philly, home of TSOP, young Luther Vandross as backing vocals and John Lennon on guitar and backing on Fame.
I think this is quintessential Bowie, maybe because I grew up with this. Live version shows Luther
His songwriting technique was one he learned from William S. Bouroughs that was clipping a bunch of words from magazines to create several different verses.
GREAT song...GREAT vocals....and GREAT lyrics. David Bowie was that dude. Also that's Luther Vandross on background vocals before he blew up....
Asias face when he sang “Break down and cry”. Loved it. I purposely looked at her to see her reaction because I knew there would be a reaction there. What a treasure this song is, and Bowie was of course.
Bowie was truly an enigma!! He sang in many different October, often within the same songs! A real singer and untouchable icon!! R.I.P,
Autocorrect. I meant different Octives.
Being a Bowie fan since Ziggy Stardust came out ,I was not quite 20...he changed thru the years. This is a much later album and much different Bowie from his Spiders From Mars days !👍
You can never take Bowie literally. He tells stories, creates a visual painting so you form your own images. It's about everything. Killer song.
Oh! Bowie! The 70s! 10 yrs old. Learned every word to this song. Had no idea what I was singing about, it's's one of my Karaoke Jams too, and I still don't know it's about. 🤣
This was the title track from Bowie's 1975 album Young Americans. Bowie sang in a higher register a lot back then. This was a commentary on American culture and the youth culture of the time. It is a timeless masterpiece. This if from what Bowie's fans refer to as his "Thin White Duke" soul period of the mid-1970's. He was in his late 20's and his voice was still off the chart incredible.
It's a stream of slashing images and emotion, inspired I heard, by Bowie's first US visit. Put youth in the center of that storm, trying to carve themselves out amid rough urban life.
After Bowie passed, the radio stations were playing this song and the Beatles line: I Heard The News Today Oh Boy, just hit too damn hard.
he also added a line from as Bowie referred to Lennon, 'My greatest mentor', from the song A Day in the Life, 'I heard the news today oh boy'. Also on this album he covered Lennon's song 'Across the Universe' and they cowrote 'Fame' which Lennon sang and played on.
FAME if ya haven't yet......great song!
About his vocal stylings - Bowie was the Anthony Newley of rock. Anthony Newley was mainly a theatrical singer and actor. The sort of performer who would star on stage in a musical. Since he was doing theater first, he would always push unusual vocal contortions to grab the audience's focus. He was popular during the 60s and 70s and would do one man shows in the same vein as Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Sammy Davis Jr. etc., but Newley's style was always more theatrical. If you look up videos of Anthony Newly live the influence will be evident and Bowie's vocal contortions might make more sense.
That brilliant saxophone player is david sanborn. He was huge in the 60's and 70's.
Fortunate to have seen him on his 1st tour at Radio City Music Hall with t&e Spiders From Mars( Mick Rinson and bandmates) and later ,Madison Square Garden ,Serious Moonlight Tour and one other can't remember now...50 yrs ago...wow!
HEYYYY NOWWWWWW!!! 😊 BACK IN 75 ASIA FROM MY FAVORITE BOWIE ALBUM ( YOUNG AMERICANS ) 😊 THE OTHER BIG HIT BEING : FAME
Robin Clark, Fonzi Thorton, Luther Vandross. They were at session as guests of
Robin's husband Carlos Alomar who was band leader for Bowie's soul sound.
Luther heard the song and sang the answer part to Robin, and Bowie came over
and said "can you do that again"? Then he said "can you go in the room and sing that"?
The rest is history. They ended up on every song on the album.
That is definatly David Bowie , when this came out I was 18 years old . In an early interview David described his self as a story teller .
I still have my vinyl copy of this. Greatest of all Bowie's albums. Not one bad song in the mix. Heavy on the soul music in those days. He's awesome at it.
Think Bowie was admiring American energy in the youth culture of the early-mid 70’s.
He was front and center in the “Mod” movement based in London.
Bowie brought to music what the Impressionists did to blow up Art-He deconstructed and mocked modern music while employing all of the classic jazz/blues techniques along with fabulous RnB Melodie’s!!😻His falsettos are angelic in clarity and tone!!
Thanks! From m6 favorite Bowie album! 🥰 You two are wonderful, as usual! 🤗
Bowie was going for the Philly R&B/Soul sound. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philly. He plays Sax on this tune!
David Sanborn plays sax on this; Bowie played sax on Changes, though.
That’s Bowie alright. Same as on Fame or Golden Years. Or any of his dance disco songs.
My favorite Bowie track .....but he's got a TON of great hits and songs. RIP
David Bowie did a song on the movie Cat People 🤔??
Putting out Fire 🔥 ?? Unique and unusual but I enjoyed it 😉✌️❤️
This is Bowie..You guys are young..It's the 70's ...get with the message.. love your channel ..shout out from from the old metal head from Detroit!! Check out "Panic in Detroit" from the "Aladdin Sane"..record..You guys are great!!
I've never had trouble identifying Bowie's voice. Been a die hard fan since 1974, aged just 12. Sorrow was the first song I heard Panic in Detroit is one of my favourites! The whole Aladdin Sane album is tops
Politics politics and history. Today's music often just seems to be about love and sex. But it wasn't always like that. Sure those things were used the most, but other topics came up in pop music. So sometimes with this stuff you've got to look at the culture and politics of the time to really understand it.
There is a very good documentary about the music and politics of 1971. I would check it out. It gives you some great context for what was going on in the 70s.
He reinvented himself for every album. The chameleon.
That sound/voice is totally Bowie and this album the voice is much the same as here. That's one of my favorite albums. Luther Vandross took a lead on a lot of the arrangements as well as singing for this album. This was before he went big-time.
God Bless David Bowie think of the times this is some heavy flow. Absolutely Amazing song
bowies got soul !!!!! god rest his soul....this song is dated a bit because it was the 70's but its reflection is timeless
He was a chameleon.
That was a great song. so many lyrics in that.
Bowie is a chameleon. He's changes personas and his sounds throughout his career. This is Bowie during his Philly Soul phase as the Thin White Duke persona. Luther Vandross sings back up vocals on this album.
This was the transition from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke
Watch the actual video on TH-cam. David Bowie's tribute to American Soul. As a result he appears on "Soul Train." This song features the signature saxophone of the great David Sanborn, who is of 1000s of famous recordings from James Taylor, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and soundtracks like "Lethal Weapon". The sax you hear throughout that film is him! Also featured in background singing are the soon to be famous, Luther Vandross, and Robin Clark. Also, Robin Clark's husband guitar great Carlos Alomar, David Bowie's longtime guitarist and music director on tour. Be sure to check out "Fame" as well.
I think it best to enjoy the music and read the lyrics later.
Brilliant artist!😮
Also "let's dance" is great
Several gems on this record, win,fascination and fame. But would like see your reaction on «can you hear me» from the same album
Mid 70s Bowie great track👊
David Bowie confronted MTV live why are there are no black musician on MTV after they said there reason David Bowie said really you can look this up... David got all of his other musical friends promising to pull all videos after that it all changed to show all music the rest is history.
It’s an Englishman’s homage to the Philadelphian R&B grooves of the time of the 60’s and 70’s.. 🎼🙏🏻❤️
Sounds exactly like Bowie , young American came out in early 1975 , It's the America I grew up in . You guys are young , you are not aware of Bowie's history " music " Check out David Bowie and the " Ziggy Stardust " spiders from Mars , that will blow your mind .
Nice work guys.
My favorite Bowie album and my favorite song from him. This is the title cut of an incredible album. This song is a critique of American values and life during the time. Every cut on the album is incredible. Check out Fame which was co-written with John Lennon who sings backup vocals and plays guitar. I think you will enjoy it!!!
Luther Vandross sang backup on this...in my top 10 forever
This was from a period in the 70s when Bowie was out of his mind on cocaine. He probably doesn't know or remember what the lyrics mean. He has admitted that he does not remember making the Station to Station album. Luckily he was able to quit drugs in the early 80s then quit drinking in the early 90s.
In the documentary you see him just drinking milk for food, during those days. No wonder he was so skinny! One of his musicians said he was only 95 lbs, then. That's just about 40 kgs for my measurements. Tiny!
Luckily, he cleaned up his s act once he went to Germany
Interesting fact....David Bowie had Luther Vandross singing backup during several session of this song. This was before Luther's amazing solo career.
I think Luther Vandross was one of the backup singers on this song.
This my favorite Bowie song ❤
Bowie was an absolute artist till he died.
My favorite Bowie tune. 🙂