Man it was and still is, Our Greatest Musical, Period ! Social and Black Awakening awareness & Power... don't forget them Mod styles outta England, Micro-mini SKIRTS, tight bells & Elephant bell bottoms, (I had a purple long sleeve shirt with big polka-dots). Back then school's made sure everyone participated in P.E. so everyone was in decent physical Shape..you HEARD !!
I've been crushing on the young lady in the red polka dot dress since 1972, when I was 12. I'm 64 now, and still think she's a bad mamajama. We were different then and had more pride...and the music is still bangin' today. Not a mention of the "b-word" or the "n-word. If I tried to do the "Funky Chicken" now, folks would think I was having a stroke or a seizure. This was an excellent time .
I still have hope for us. King David said I WAS YOUNG AND NOW I am old. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED BEGGING FOR BREAD. Please don't lose faith, my people. The Most High God has something good for his people. Stay prayed up, read your Bible, and most of all trust God who is THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. We're coming out of this wilderness in Jesus Name Amen!
Take me back 58 now this was in the 70 yes love this look at people clothes hairs the dancing yes i was doing the Fucky chicken people was having a good time 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I met Rufus and his daughter Carla backstage in 1965. . He was M C. The event. He asked me if I knew the Mississippi Blues. One weekend later he smuggled me down to Beale Street to a small club by the Mississippi (Beale St was "off limits" to young military). He took me to eat Cornbread, catfish and grits ( a real southern meal and introduced me to Muddy Waters ... Who truly taught me about the blues. I'm 77 now, but that man changed my life and I am forever thankful Bless you Rufus... Both father and daughter, such a gift to us all ❤
@@mjpthetrucker9485 ??? Didn't you just reply in some technical way?? Thx for making my point jackass, we can't just have fun, somebody, LIKE YOU, always has to start something.
I still have this album it was a double plus another double it is fantastic they both are one of my favorites you just can't take it off the table let this part rapp to you for a while
Opioid was popular then. I was at this $1 concert that lasted 12 hours I was 13 now I'm 61 now. Issac Hayes turned in out. Look how thin everyone was back then.
Quand je pense que beaucoup d'entre eux ne sont plus de se monde, cela m’attriste. Ce fut la belle et bonne musique ou tout le monde pouvait se trémousser sans gêne. Merci.
This woman formulated the concept of beauty and a beautiful woman for me... At a party or wherever I went, she was the one I, naively and uselessly, looked for. Today I know that she was a dream!
It was called "sizzlers", a very short skirt of thin silk-like material with matching underpanties, there was no sexual hangups in those days and men didn't sexually harass or molest the women who wore them either.
Rufus Thomas, the father of chaka khan.He came to NIGERIA in 70s.He was a guest at the Art Alade Show.Great soul singer and performer.I remember him being asked about his daughter chaka khan and him saying next time he visits,he will come back with his daughter.Great family.
Wherever you got that information from, you'd better correct them because, Rufus Thomas ISN'T the father of Chaka Kahn (Evette Marie Stevens), he's the father of Carla Thomas who was a singer in her own right, you would do yourself a favor by researching stats first before posting, ijs!
Look at the young band CONFUNKSHUN CLYDE AND MICHAEL COOPER had just come from California were very talented they were called Project soul back then backed up Mr Rufus and the Soul Children
Yeah and the men were more athletic and healthy. Now men have pot bellies, dumb ass haircuts, stupid baseball caps instead of cool hats, dumb ass tee shirts instead of cool ‘70s shirts. Modern men listen to their monotonous hip hop instead of this cool, soulful, groove music. The men today are dumb and barely able to communicate via 120/160 character messages.
Este video es una maravilla.y estoy impresionando con la versatilidad del cantante y la banda y lo espectacular de los Afro sus movimientos son sensacionales una notaaaaa woaoooo
@In it To win it you watch too many youtube videos my dude.. In reality you had guys coming back from Nam and a hardcore heroin epidemic starting around the same time this concert filmed. 70s,80s and 80s had way higher murder rates than today
@In it To win it you want to talk about music or real problems? Because art imitates life and it always has. Damn, they played Super Fly at this same concert lol
Before the drugs were brought into OUR Communities family. Love this film even after all these years. Because We Were a Beautiful people is why These haters had to destroy us. What a treasure of Talent too! 🤒🥰
No heroin was really heavy back then as well SOO WAS the gang violence aswell it's just that there was no heavy proliferation of guns back then but there was definitely a lot of gangs and drugs
I was there in the coliseum, I was at the 1st one at the park too in the 70's, my boyfriend took me. Now my husband, my uncle in LA thought I was crazy😂😂
Break it on Down, that's when we're UNITED- ISN'T IT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT TO SEE-UNITED WE STAND 🖤 DIVIDED WE FALL 🖤 BLACK LOVE-LOVE BLACK 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 WHEN WE AS BLACK KNEW OUR PLIGHT AND UNDERSTOOD OUR QUEST- I WAS TAUGHT TO ASK FOR WHAT I WANT-SO I'M ASKING EVERY BLACK MAN AND WOMAN TO STAND UP-BE COUNTED AND HEARD-UNDERSTOOD AND RECOGNIZED - DON'T BE DETERRED-DON'T BE AFRAID -THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO OUR BLACK PEOPLE AND CULTURE-THE LAST THING WE SHOULD BE-AND THAT'S AFRAID-EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN DONE TO THE BLACK MAN SHOULD "MAKE" BLACK COME TOGETHER AT ANY MEANS NECESSARY- RESPECT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS RESPECT YOURSELF IS ALWAYS FIRST-LOVE YOURSELF FIRST🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 SUPPORT BUSINESSES AND CULTURE 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
That takes me back…. I’m an old, white man whose first girlfriend was a redbone in Alabama named Louise. we had the best time in life, but boy was it tough to be a mixed couple in Alabama. we went our separate ways in life, and her husband served with me in Vietnam. Louise contracted breast cancer and passed away in 1994. she had four kids and two grandkids when she passed. her husband, who we called Bo, passed away in 2011 from kidney failure caused by Agent Orange. Their first grandchild was named Stefan, and he lived with us until he graduated the university of Colorado at Boulder. Such a fine young man. I miss them both very much. Stefan will always be partly my son. I miss them very much…. Bo and Louise were the best of America, and it hurts me deeply to think about them.
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Rufus Thomas was an all American ambassador of goodwill, you can't help but love this man. He was America's Oldest Teenager !!!
His daughter Carla was a great singer also❤❤
I'm pretty sure those were the Bar-Kays backing him up❤
He did have Jr after his name…
@johnl.2314
Yep that's exactly who the backing band was
@@alliwishis_2 they also did some gigs with Otis Redding in other words that was that fantastic STAX record machine 💯🔥🎼🎼🎶
Back in Day was ....like That...Black power.....AFRO....Bell bottoms....Happyness....Soul......Soul .Soul
Don't foreget charisma, talent, creativity and HARD WORK.
SoulPower
Wow. Mr. Thomas was a very good man. It was fun to hear his funky sounds back in the day. Thank you America. Herrmausmann
Afros, bell bottoms & platform shoes...I wish I could visit the 70s. I was born in 83.
EU NASCI EM 63 E TENHO O MESMO SENTIMENTO.. TÍNHAMOS QUE TER NASCIDO EM 53 HAHAHAHAHA
Man it was and still is, Our Greatest Musical, Period ! Social and Black Awakening awareness & Power... don't forget them Mod styles outta England, Micro-mini SKIRTS, tight bells & Elephant bell bottoms, (I had a purple long sleeve shirt with big polka-dots). Back then school's made sure everyone participated in P.E. so everyone was in decent physical Shape..you HEARD !!
@@pumadocaca8813 I was born in 63. Same feeling. 70's music is great. My son listens to 60's, 70's some 80s music. There is some 50's music.
I was there at the concert. It was fabulous 🤩
liar
I love him he gets you working 🎉
It was promoted on a local L.A. radio station KGFJ as the "Dollar Concert," yeah, it just only cost a buck! 1972!
Look like some good fun
2 cts for an Ice Cream in 1923 and 5 cts for a Bottle of Coke oh oh way back in the day...
@stevedijkhof3109
You also have to understand a lot of people did not earn that much back then as well.. 5 cents was a lot back in 1923
He was amazing and a very kind man ,in 1970 I spent a wonderful week with him and his family...
liar
Doc dre was a beast for using this classic beat for Easy E's album...."My name is Eazy and you know it's true"🎯🎯🎯🎯
Soul Brothers and Sisters.
Black people back then did not give AF we moved how we felt and that was dancing!
FACTZ!!!
Good Times.Could dance All Night.
ALOT of FUN BACK THEN, WITH NO VIOLENCE.
GREAT HOUSE PARTIES!!!
So true no fights no killings just black fokes enjoying there self wish time could stand still n the 70s in
❤❤❤❤❤❤ 💯. I'm try to be that again. Do what your body tells you.
Believe me this music made us non blacks feel and dance to it, too….yesterday, today and forever….
I had such high hopes for us in 1974.... now 2021 I'm just sad with the pain of my people 😭
You're a quitters we haven't yet begun to fight.
So right. Peace
Happy music, happy times, all dancing having fun, unlike today's gangster rap ete.
Unfortunately the CIA had it’s own plan of action too💊💊💉💉💊💊
Me too
Even today 2023 black people still in clean 😊
😂2024
Everytime I watch this I get excited and smile all the way to the end!
Long live the memory of the late, great Rufus Thomas. xoxo The Clarences
Rufus Thomas with Confunkshun as the backup band.
Who’s on guitar here?
@@nottavictim5 Michael Cooper.
The dance to this song was something else. 😂😂😂😂😂
RUFUS THOMAS Was A Cool Old Man , HIM And POP STAPLES.
Yup
That Was "SOUL Unleashed with No inhabitions.
My Lord that's was lot of good energy out there.
The golden decade of good music and life, the seventies!!!!
My favorite part is the whole concert!
Hands down the coolest video on TH-cam!!!!
I've been crushing on the young lady in the red polka dot dress since 1972, when I was 12. I'm 64 now, and still think she's a bad mamajama. We were different then and had more pride...and the music is still bangin' today. Not a mention of the "b-word" or the "n-word. If I tried to do the "Funky Chicken" now, folks would think I was having a stroke or a seizure. This was an excellent time .
Throwbacks
Facts!!
😅😂
Happy Anniversary Legend Rufus Thomas.🌟🔥🥰
This dude is too cold🤩
My African people are know how to have fun and enjoy them selves anywhere they at? Bless up and R.I.P Rufus Thomas... BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL INDEED!
Yes indeed We are Beautiful 2022 let's get it together SISTERS AND BROTHERS
Why we cannot have fun like this anymore?!
@@nosdamnamur9126 tell me about bro!
Right on Black is LOVE ❤ for sure
Before Africa was I am. Before America was I am. I am a Black Man. 5 million years old.
Timeless Classic
I still have hope for us. King David said I WAS YOUNG AND NOW I am old. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED BEGGING FOR BREAD. Please don't lose faith, my people. The Most High God has something good for his people. Stay prayed up, read your Bible, and most of all trust God who is THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. We're coming out of this wilderness in Jesus Name Amen!
just brilliant,stax love love it,great footage
Look at my Beautiful People boogieing without a care in the world. Such a sight to behold
I loved Rufus Thomas!!!❤️ Those were the best days. My community knows how to make the best out of anything.
ER Body seems to be having the Best times. Just so happy and Free, That was a Beautiful Milstone.
Take me back 58 now this was in the 70 yes love this look at people clothes hairs the dancing yes i was doing the Fucky chicken people was having a good time 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Everyone look so wholesome
Amazing Rufus, 💪 very soulmen and funky
Oh my me. Rufus C Thomas Jr R.I.P at the Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. Los Angeles.🙏🏾
Omg!!. Boogie woogie on down. I got, James Brown vibes. Long live soul 💓💯👍🙏✊🤟🤘✌️👌🙌👏😊🔥❤️💙💜🕊️🎊🎉☮️🆒😎🌟⭐💥💋
R.I.P. Rufus Thomas
The sound mix is brilliant. 😊
All the instruments are clear.
THAT WAS THE BLACK WOODSTOCK
Thats was far from anything like Woodstock
He had more soul than Soul Train 🚆.
You’re right. It was better@@residentgang489
One of the most wonderful videos ever... I wish I were in my youth at that time... 2:34 beautiful song, beautiful time, beautiful Lady...
I bet she still fine.
Me and big brother was blessed with being there!
PARABÉNS FOI O BIG SHOW LOTADO. BRAZIL 🇧🇷
I met Rufus and his daughter Carla
backstage in 1965. . He was M
C. The event. He asked me if I knew the Mississippi Blues. One weekend later he smuggled me down to Beale
Street to a small club by the Mississippi (Beale St was "off limits"
to young military). He took me to eat
Cornbread, catfish and grits ( a real southern meal and introduced me to Muddy Waters ... Who truly taught me about the blues.
I'm 77 now, but that man changed my life and I am forever thankful
Bless you Rufus... Both father and daughter, such a gift to us all ❤
Wow! I was in elementary school wish I could have been there.
Great stuff. The organisers got into some very hot water over the field invasion, but the people that day created a marvellous piece of music history.
I believe it is confunksion playing
It Is@@JasonDaHater
Whole stadium of black is beautiful and great music 🎶
We used to have fun together in this country, I remember these times, what happened, sad 😥
prople who don't sit online crying about the old days still have a good times. Put your phone down. Enjoy life.
@@mjpthetrucker9485 ??? Didn't you just reply in some technical way?? Thx for making my point jackass, we can't just have fun, somebody, LIKE YOU, always has to start something.
Everyone gettin up on the good foot.
I still have this album it was a double plus another double it is fantastic they both are one of my favorites you just can't take it off the table let this part rapp to you for a while
Super soul 70 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Beautiful serenading timeless music.
I Love this, pre crack, pre opioid, pre Meth ... everyone looks healthy and happy 😃
#factz.. the government plan to kill off blacks werking...
@@3nathan You know I truly believe that too!
Pre - Monsanto..
Opioid was popular then. I was at this $1 concert that lasted 12 hours I was 13 now I'm 61 now. Issac Hayes turned in out. Look how thin everyone was back then.
This is a moment in black history that I wish I could go back to.
Quand je pense que beaucoup d'entre eux ne sont plus de se monde, cela m’attriste. Ce fut la belle et bonne musique ou tout le monde pouvait se trémousser sans gêne. Merci.
That was great.
Love to see people having so much fun.❤
Fun classic black soul music love it happy black power times togetherness ,good good times black empowerment👍
A time machine would be fun
Joeer esta música nod la ponian em la Universidad laboral de Huesca en los años 1974 -1979. Naci en 1960 .Saludos y Salud
That babe in that short red dress has got me hooked!!!
This woman formulated the concept of beauty and a beautiful woman for me... At a party or wherever I went, she was the one I, naively and uselessly, looked for. Today I know that she was a dream!
It was called "sizzlers", a very short skirt of thin silk-like material with matching underpanties, there was no sexual hangups in those days and men didn't sexually harass or molest the women who wore them either.
Now I know where Morris Day got SOME of it from...
Good music doesn’t have an Expiration date. I Love it .
I love to see and hear him walking the dog and when walked the dog git down wit it
Rufus Thomas, the father of chaka khan.He came to NIGERIA in 70s.He was a guest at the Art Alade Show.Great soul singer and performer.I remember him being asked about his daughter chaka khan and him saying next time he visits,he will come back with his daughter.Great family.
Wherever you got that information from, you'd better correct them because, Rufus Thomas ISN'T the father of Chaka Kahn (Evette Marie Stevens), he's the father of Carla Thomas who was a singer in her own right, you would do yourself a favor by researching stats first before posting, ijs!
Another Great One!
So sad brothers and sisters today's not acting like before 50 years ago.
4:08 Re run Fred berry at his best 🤗
I love the hair of the ladies so natural,so beautiful.So good to see the brothers and sisters so happy.I wish to live that era again.
I like how he combined Ain’t and Am. 😂🤣😂
Life was somehow different back then. Wow i bet they had fun!!!
Look at the young band CONFUNKSHUN
CLYDE AND MICHAEL COOPER had just come from California were very talented they were called Project soul back then backed up Mr Rufus and the Soul Children
Hey!!!! Can I ask you something ain't I'm cleannnnn!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2024 and RUFUS STILL ROCKIN !!!!
Only +4000? A shame for this legend!
It was about 1000,000!
I like the UFO hat on the guitar player..
Yeah, couple of the dancers sporting one too
The women back then were way more naturally beautiful then the artificial ones we got today..
Today they just aren't pretty any more with or without make up
Yeah and the men were more athletic and healthy. Now men have pot bellies, dumb ass haircuts, stupid baseball caps instead of cool hats, dumb ass tee shirts instead of cool ‘70s shirts. Modern men listen to their monotonous hip hop instead of this cool, soulful, groove music. The men today are dumb and barely able to communicate via 120/160 character messages.
@@andre-zx7qe
Speak for yourself... There are still plenty of fine ass women around.
Without counting that most people are overweight nowadays...
That when black men loved the ground women walk on!
I love my people ❤
Fui assistir a exibição desse filme no MAM nos anos 70 fantástico.
Life seem so peaceful back then
It was. Compton High class of '72
It only seemed like that because there was a lot of gang violence just outside of the Colosseum around in the same area
So much soul, where has it all gone?
Este video es una maravilla.y estoy impresionando con la versatilidad del cantante y la banda y lo espectacular de los Afro sus movimientos son sensacionales una notaaaaa woaoooo
4:09🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
BRING BACK THE BIG HATS! THE WORLD NEEDS BIG HATS!
Rufus Thomas il mio cantante preferito
Weltklasse! Geile Mucke, geiles Outfit, geile Stimmung, mehr geht nicht, Top 😎😎😎👍👍👍
When people were self sufficient and disnt have money but had dignity and community .. ..and soul ....and a soul
When we blacks were young respectful and had dancin n fun together...I was 13 back then!
What happened to these times.
@In it To win it you watch too many youtube videos my dude.. In reality you had guys coming back from Nam and a hardcore heroin epidemic starting around the same time this concert filmed. 70s,80s and 80s had way higher murder rates than today
@In it To win it you want to talk about music or real problems? Because art imitates life and it always has. Damn, they played Super Fly at this same concert lol
James Brown style. Very good
What an entertainer. He is a legend.
God Bless my people! ❤
Most looking slim, fit and nice of all that funky chicken dancing! =)
Before the drugs were brought into OUR Communities family. Love this film even after all these years. Because We Were a Beautiful people is why These haters had to destroy us. What a treasure of Talent too! 🤒🥰
No heroin was really heavy back then as well SOO WAS the gang violence aswell it's just that there was no heavy proliferation of guns back then but there was definitely a lot of gangs and drugs
Love it!! thank you so much!
SO TOO LATE RUFUS!!! DYNAMITE GOOD RUFUS!!! WE,LL NEVER FORGET YOU, WE PEOPLE OF THE SEVENTIES. REST IN PEACE BROTHER.
I was there in the coliseum, I was at the 1st one at the park too in the 70's, my boyfriend took me. Now my husband, my uncle in LA thought I was crazy😂😂
Pure Brilliance
Michael Jackson was in the audience 😀🎼🎼🎼🎼
I saw Rerun but not Michael Jackson 🧐
@@purposeawaken8374 realy can u tell me more what else do u rember
Break it on Down, that's when we're UNITED- ISN'T IT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT TO SEE-UNITED WE STAND 🖤 DIVIDED WE FALL 🖤 BLACK LOVE-LOVE BLACK 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 WHEN WE AS BLACK KNEW OUR PLIGHT AND UNDERSTOOD OUR QUEST- I WAS TAUGHT TO ASK FOR WHAT I WANT-SO I'M ASKING EVERY BLACK MAN AND WOMAN TO STAND UP-BE COUNTED AND HEARD-UNDERSTOOD AND RECOGNIZED - DON'T BE DETERRED-DON'T BE AFRAID -THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO OUR BLACK PEOPLE AND CULTURE-THE LAST THING WE SHOULD BE-AND THAT'S AFRAID-EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN DONE TO THE BLACK MAN SHOULD "MAKE" BLACK COME TOGETHER AT ANY MEANS NECESSARY- RESPECT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS RESPECT YOURSELF IS ALWAYS FIRST-LOVE YOURSELF FIRST🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 SUPPORT BUSINESSES AND CULTURE 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
His background band is Con- funk-sion
No Way 😳
That takes me back…. I’m an old, white man whose first girlfriend was a redbone in Alabama named Louise. we had the best time in life, but boy was it tough to be a mixed couple in Alabama. we went our separate ways in life, and her husband served with me in Vietnam. Louise contracted breast cancer and passed away in 1994. she had four kids and two grandkids when she passed. her husband, who we called Bo, passed away in 2011 from kidney failure caused by Agent Orange. Their first grandchild was named Stefan, and he lived with us until he graduated the university of Colorado at Boulder. Such a fine young man. I miss them both very much. Stefan will always be partly my son. I miss them very much…. Bo and Louise were the best of America, and it hurts me deeply to think about them.
I was there!! Had a blast. It was hot 🥵 but we had a great time. No problem. I think the tickets were under $10
2:35 now that is gorgeous...
Bobby Lashleys mother