My mother would act coy when my father would pat her behind - horrified me at that time...My partner/husband of 26 years does similar things with me, and he does so in front of my mother! Respectful affection goes a long way in life, and teaches children that parents are people who fell in love, and "enjoyed" the process. Best
Amber's reaction was so sweet when she realized with the song really meant! Now it finally dawned on her that her dad saw her mom has the sexiest woman on the whole planet! He was singing his little Heeeey baaaaby song to her and making sure she knew how attractive he felt she was. That's so important for a woman to feel that, especially after having children. I'm sure that Amber knows this since she's a mother. I hope she doesn't feel embarrassed now that she's aware of what it means. She should feel happy and lucky and her parents was ACTUALLY SINGING PRAISES about their attraction to each other! When you think about it, that is pretty cool! XO 😃😏❤️🎵😎🤘
All this time i thought Lionel Richie sang this. No idea Lionel Richie played the saxophone. I have listened and grew up with listening to the commodores. I feel really stupid that I didn't know this Lionel Richie very gifted. Musician. Put to you this way i was around 16 and now I'm 62yrs old. 46 years ago. Learning something knew all the time.
The original expression was "she's built like a brick shithouse." The song cleaned up the saying, but everyone knew exactly what they were saying. I was blessed to see the Commandors several times in concert in the 70's. Lionel Richie went on to have a brilliant solo career. BTW he is Nicole Richie's father.
@@maryreilly5092 Yep, and that's why there's the brief pause between the words "brick" and "house". Obviously they were giving the listener a space in which to mentally insert the "sh#t". ;)
Weird fact....back in the late 1970's and early 80's we were big into roller skating. When this song came on, It would get to the part that says, "She's a brick...." and everyone would yell, "say what?" We were really dumb kids...lol
Some of the band's biggest hits are "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Nightshift"; "Brick House", "Fancy Dancer", "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", and "Too Hot ta Trot". Love Kool and the Gang thats a must also.
Don't forget "Sweet Love"! That is so soulful and almost has a gospel flava ha LOVE the Commodores, they were a HUGE part of my growing up in South Central L.A. Music was some if not 90% of all my fondest memories of my childhood.🥰💖🙌🏻🙏🏽
The commodores were on fire! Loved dancing to this when it came on in the club. They still played it even years after it was released! About 15 years ago a friend got a new phone & asked what my ringtone did I want for when I called. Without thinking I said Brick house. We still laugh at it today.
I'm 62 years young LOL and every time I went somewhere "back in the day" where there was a dancefloor, THIS song was playing at some point, and EVERYONE got up and DANCED! What a great song!
I'm 62 as well and you've got that right. I was in Denver Colorado at the time and stopped in at a huge discotheque called After the Gold Rush. You'd have thought the roof was going to come down. :-)
Play this song anywhere, and every girl in the place will get up and dance. "Easy Like Sunday Morning" is another great Commodores song. Lionel Richie had quite a solo career in the 80s too.
this song definitely classifies as FUNK!!! You just can't deny that groove. All funk music has that groove that instantly makes you want to move! Another group who is top tier funk: Parliament-Funkadelic
This song was indeed The Commodores FUNKIEST tune, ever! And lovers of THICKNESS can, did, have & always will RELATE! Yes, I know you guys are young, but ya HAD to know this one... it's an American Funk Classic!
You’ve just got to love the Commodores and Brick House. Can’t believe Jay never heard of the Commodores, but that means he’ll enjoy diving deep into their catalog. The Commodores were led by Lionel Richie. I think Sweet Love and Still are two you absolutely need to check out!
The Commodores is one of the best of the seventies R&B/funk bands! They had so many hits like Easy, Zoom, Still, Three Time A Lady, Sweet Love, etc! Lionel Richie sang lead on most of their hits in the seventies then he went on to a successful solo career in the eighties! This song was led by another band member, Walter Orange, and it was a huge hit in the late seventies! It was my oldest sister’s theme song and it reminds me of her so it holds a special place in my heart!❤️❤️
How can they just sit there? This song pulls me out of my chair, even today. The original saying was "built like a brick sh*t house". Loved me some Soul Train.
I saw an interview with the guy who "wrote" this song. They needed 1 more song for an album and he only had 1 night to come up with it. He said he fell asleep on the couch with the notepad on his lap. When he woke up, the words for Brick House were on the pad. While he was sleeping, his wife wrote it. She wanted him to write a song for her, but he hadn't yet. She got tired of waiting, so she wrote one. He thought it was great.
Wow👏🏽👏🏽 it funny you say that, because they asked Lionel how the group came about. Simplest answer ever "To get the ladies" not knowing every time I hear Easy I think of Sunday mornings at my great grandmoms. Some of the most peaceful days ever .
I love listening to you guys! I am probably the same age as your parents, Amber! They taught you all the music I listened to and still love! I am 64. Lynn, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Love your channel!
The movie Jordan was thinking of is Undercover Brother. Brick house is without a doubt the best song to dance to. My first wife loves this song. Truly made me smile. Call it funk, or just good music.
Not all of their music, but this song is Funk. I think you should give Funkadelic or Parliament, both led by George Clinton, a listen. Great music there!
The Sax player is Lionel Richie. He also sings. Some hits he sung with them are… Sail on Easy Still. He has an amazing solo career. You can’t go wrong choosing any Lionel Richie song, everything he sings is a hit. I’ve seen him in concert twice. ❤️ He’s one of the judges on American Idol.
Are you absolutely sure that was Lionel Richie playing the sax. I know thats him in the video but did he really play sax on stage???? Or was it just a prop. They do that a lot.
@@rossadams1405 Yes, I saw them live and indeed, Lionel did play the sax. Not on all the songs, but definitely in this one. Walter Orange, the drummer sang lead on this song and a few others.
Love the Commodores! I grew up in the 70’s, they were one of many of my favorite bands. I saw them live about 3 years ago. They could still get their groove on! Lol
I love this guys voice. I love this beat. I love the brass. This came out when I was mid-elementary. I had a 45. I used to dance to this, alone in my bedroom...night after night!
There's an old phrase, "She's built like a brick s---thouse, which means she's really "stacked." So maybe that's why there's a pause between brick and. house. Couldn't put the s word in, if they wanted to get airplay. I learned the phrase from my WWII era parents, so it goes back at least that far, if not farther.
The Commodores are, along with the Tuskegee Airmen, the pride of Tuskegee, AL. Brickhouse is solidly funk but most of their catalog is more just soul. Need to bring more funk, bands like Parliament, The Gap Band, The Dazz Band and even later stuff like Cameo.
The Commodores are awesome. When Lionel Ritchie, one of the members, went solo, it got even better. Lionel Ritchie has some of the best music ever. He also wrote Kenny Rogers' monster hit Lady. And tons of other amazing songs.
This is one of the Commodores biggest hits but they had so many others. They had so many different sounds. Lionel Ritchie is iconic. Try Stuck On You or Hello or even Endless Love (with Diana Ross)
About 40 miles for me (I'm in Montgomery). It was a big deal back in the 70s whenever the Commodores' white limo was spotted on the interstate heading to Montgomery. Great days, those were!
I saw Lionel in Little Rock, years ago. His plane was late and most of the crowd had gone home, but stayed and played for the handful of us left. It was like our own little concert. He was awesome!!
Awesome reaction! I grew up hearing 'she's built like a brick s&*t house'... the wooden ones tended to collapse or fall apart (exactly what happened to uncle Walt's, while he was in it) with use, but the brick ones were well built, sturdy, stood the test of time and looked nice.
Loved your reaction! I have loved this song since it came out (the same year I graduated from high school - showing my age)! The Commodores were awesome - and I still have to dance if this song comes on. As a matter of fact, just last month I danced to this on an Alaskan cruise (it was 70's night for the DJ).
Originally Lionel Ritchie wasn’t the lead singer, this dude was, but is that Lionel Ritchie in the orange suit on the Sax, looks like him never saw that before, he was in the band, but not as lead singer OG. 🤘 It’s RnB Funk, Soul, Disco, everything basically except hard rock, or country 🤘 Ya all wanna check out an react to - Champagne “ How about Us” as well sometime. You get all your fav Piano/keyboards Electric guitar and amazing Saxophone as well as incredible chemistry in one song! def do more of the Commodores though they were one of my fav Funk Soul Bands, sorts gutted at the time when Lionel Ritchie left to pursue a solo career, these dudes just oozed COOL back then.
This band was so good. Contemporaries with Earth,Wind, and Fire, and other great great groups. Positive message in their songs, super organized, fantastic tours, classic songs. But groups like this were also expensive from a producer point of view and producers found that it was cheaper to put a Rapper and a DJ on stage with a small light show, plus easier to tour. So all of the groups like this went away in favor of hiphop within a very few years. Glad to see you are looking back to appreciate some of these earlier bands and their amazing work.
I remember when this came out. Somebody called me a Brickhouse and I had not heard the song. It didn't sound like a compliment. But boy, when I heard the song! I was in high school. The Commodores are one of my favorite R&B groups!
You have not done U2 yet (You have earned world iconic band status when your lead singer is known by one name only and the world knows immediately who it is [Bono])- start with New Years Day and let it shake you to your core & close your eyes and let it take you on a journey. Another along those lines is Pride [in the name of love]. Other great choices are Where the streets have no name, sweetest thing, beautiful day, One, with or without you, Sunday bloody Sunday, angel of Harlem, Desire & the list goes on as the rabbit hole is super deep!
Slick Rick: He came up with Doug E. Fresh before going solo, so I would say it’s imperative to check out at least La Di Da Di by Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick, and The Show by them is also excellent. Slick Rick was the 3rd artist signed to Def Jam Records, after the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. Solo songs I’d recommend are Children’s Story, The Ruler’s Back, and Mona Lisa. Kool & The Gang: The main thing to know about them is their career basically has two different eras. Early on, from 1969-1978, they were largely an instrumental funk band. They had a few songs that members of the band would sing on, but they had no dedicated lead singer. Great songs from this era include Soul Vibrations, Dujii, Summer Madness, Funky Stuff, Jungle Boogie, and Hollywood Swinging, By 1978 their popularity had waned, so they changed things up, added a dedicated lead singer, and changed their sound to a more commercial pop sound and their popularity exploded. Songs from that era to check are Ladies Night, Get Down On It, Cherish, and Fresh. Everybody’s gonna recommend Celebration, but I’d be amazed if both of you haven’t already heard it, it’s been played at practically every sporting event the last 40 years when the home team wins.
I was in the 9th grade when this song came out. I remember driving to school and The Commodores would be playing loud and clear on the radio. My foot would be tapping and I would be singing along. Damn those were the days.
Kool & The Gang is the bomb. I’ve seen them a couple times at corporate events. Everyone loves them so they get invited back a lot. So many great songs.
How can you even ask that? Genre was absolutely R&B soul and funk, the Commodores lit up the R&B Soul charts with the funk while their ballads did also and a few hit the pop charts also in the 70’s and the 80’s.
I remember dancing to this song at a club in Dallas in 1977. My senior year in high school. Seems like only 40ish years ago. YIKES! Love you guys' reactions. Keep 'em coming!
My all time favorite song…..just is the soul beat of all I love about music…goes to your nerves then to your feet…..I grew up on this and stay young with it…💕
This is another song that takes me back to a particular time in my life. When I was in the NAVY, my roommate and I listened to this song SO much. I was tall and very thin and she was tall and built like a BRICK HOUSE!! This definitely counts as funk These guys got together while they were in college!! Best group ever for their time!!
Love this song! The Commodores met when they were students at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.. Being from Alabama myself, I felt a sense of pride in them. AMBER AMBER AMBER!! The sax player is Lionel Richie, who went on to have a great solo career. I love his voice.. One of my favorite songs is "Hello". He also did a duet with Diana Ross, called "Endless Love".
I grew up on this music and it's great when another generation can enjoy actual music... With instruments and vocals - no auto tuning here... And, I hadn't heard this song in a while until - though, I use to catch it every so often on Sabrina, the teenage witch...
I love how innocent you two are. Oh that everyone still had that trait. There are so many songs you listen to and see the innocence in them but you tend to forget the era. We listened to this during a disco era too. But this was a hippie era still too.
The Commodores used to be the opening act for the Jackson 5, Lionel Richie sang lead on most of their hits, then he left and had an even better solo career , he co-wrote “We are the World” with Michael Jackson. He also is the only artist in history to have a song go number 1 nine years in a row!
Amber and Jay, From what I've been able to find, The Commodores were considered a rhythm and blues/funk group that began in 1967.Lionel Ritchie (seen here playing the sax) was one of the founding members.He played saxophone, keyboards, and sang lead vocals (though not on this song, the lead was their drummer, Walter Orange ).They had so many great songs over the years. Sail On, Easy, Nightshift, and Lady (You Bring Me Up) are some of my favorites.
The Commodores are playlist. Another songs although to many to remember, “Easy”, “Flying high” (my favorite), “Sailing” and “ Three times a Lady”. Lionel Richey had a great solo career after the band spilt as well. Thank you for reacting to this. ✌️😎🎵
Lionel Richie wrote this song and mostly all of the Commodores hits. They actually released Lionel from the group because they knew he became too big for them, even though he didn't want to leave the group. Their biggest hit without Lionel is Night Shift a tribute to Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye.
@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT Lionel was becoming too big for the Commodores and although successful, they were becoming jealous of Lionel getting all of the credit.
GENRE = FUNK The Commodores were the second band to become my favorite. (I first fell in love with Simon & Garfunkel!) I saw the Commodores on the Midnight Special and they did "Sail On" and "Still." They. Looked. AWESOME. I became a fan on the spot. Lionel Richie would go on to be one of the biggest solo artists of the '80s. He wasn't my _favorite_ (I was into Eurythmics by then) but I sure bought a bunch of his solo albums. He was fantastic, but a lot more of a smooth singer of romantic songs with a few bangin' dance songs thrown in.
Played in a band for years and years. We did a gig at a literal mansion once for a fund-raiser for a local politico, and we were assigned to the patio. Everyone else was inside, except for one fellow. There is a whole back-story about us doing this as a favor for one member of the band going through a nasty divorce, so we were doing it for free (in lieu of additional payments to his lawyer.) Anyway, since there was only one person listening to an 11-piece band we decided to do about an hour of songs we knew that we could do in the key of E (without a single stop.) They recorded this in A, but it is easy to change keys, and you can go to MANY other songs out of this rhythm and beat. Think "Car Wash", then pick anything else similar. We did it! And had fun with one listener!
Cool story! In the early 90's I was in a group that opened for them at a small town fair. Halfway through our first song we lost our main amp. We were done, then they're sound man came in with a new one out of nowhere, and we were only down for 10 minutes. What a great bunch of guys. Can't tell you how nice each of them were. Wish I had met them when Lionel Richey was still there.
There was an expression in use back in the 70's that "she's built like a brick sh*t house", referring to an outhouse build of bricks, not sticks. I've heard the song lyrics originally included the sh*t but was removed prior to recording it to make it playable on radio.
Ohhhh my..Guys would sing this to me as I walked by as a Senior in high school...It would totally make me 😊 blush...I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG AND YOUR CHANNEL...!!! BTW the Wife Speaking here...
Aww Amber’s reaction when she realized the true meaning was hilarious. Her childhood memories keep being changed with each song she revisits.
My mother would act coy when my father would pat her behind - horrified me at that time...My partner/husband of 26 years does similar things with me, and he does so in front of my mother! Respectful affection goes a long way in life, and teaches children that parents are people who fell in love, and "enjoyed" the process. Best
Yes! I'm loving it imagining the phone calls after, lmao.
Amber it’s ok you only saw the love
EASY, Lady , Three Times a lady
My three favorites
Amber's reaction was so sweet when she realized with the song really meant! Now it finally dawned on her that her dad saw her mom has the sexiest woman on the whole planet! He was singing his little Heeeey baaaaby song to her and making sure she knew how attractive he felt she was. That's so important for a woman to feel that, especially after having children. I'm sure that Amber knows this since she's a mother. I hope she doesn't feel embarrassed now that she's aware of what it means. She should feel happy and lucky and her parents was ACTUALLY SINGING PRAISES about their attraction to each other! When you think about it, that is pretty cool! XO 😃😏❤️🎵😎🤘
Never thought of Lionel Ritchie as a Saxplayer. Something new i learned today. Always good. Great pick. More of Commodores and Lionel please.
Yeah he was part of the horn section in the beginning, lotsa people think Lionel sang this song.
All this time i thought Lionel Richie sang this. No idea Lionel Richie played the saxophone. I have listened and grew up with listening to the commodores. I feel really stupid that I didn't know this Lionel Richie very gifted. Musician. Put to you this way i was around 16 and now I'm 62yrs old. 46 years ago. Learning something knew all the time.
Lol I knew Lionel was part of the group but yes playing a horn I wasn’t expecting.
Rob Zombie did a great cover of this song with Lionel Ritchie.
@@dominrael8658 yeah !! I forgot about that. Imma pull it up now.
Definitely more Commodores!
Lionel Ritchie too. That's Lionel playing the Sax.
I just posted the same about Lionel in the background! Ha!!!
@@woodyheywood8792 I don't know if they realize he was even in the band. 😆
Shoot, you beat me to the punch! Lionel Ritchie!!!!
Are we sure that they know who Lionel Richie is? I hope so, he's only the best!
@@deniseriley6622 lol
The original expression was "she's built like a brick shithouse." The song cleaned up the saying, but everyone knew exactly what they were saying. I was blessed to see the Commandors several times in concert in the 70's. Lionel Richie went on to have a brilliant solo career. BTW he is Nicole Richie's father.
OMG I had totally forgotten Lionel was in the Commodores!
Yes, Tupelo Honey, that is the full expression I've heard men say back in the day!
@@maryreilly5092 Yep, and that's why there's the brief pause between the words "brick" and "house". Obviously they were giving the listener a space in which to mentally insert the "sh#t". ;)
@@davepeterschmidt5818 YES, Indeed! You got it! 🧱 🏠 😄
Weird fact....back in the late 1970's and early 80's we were big into roller skating. When this song came on, It would get to the part that says, "She's a brick...." and everyone would yell, "say what?" We were really dumb kids...lol
NOOO This was big in 1976 I was their
Some of the band's biggest hits are "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Nightshift"; "Brick House", "Fancy Dancer", "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", and "Too Hot ta Trot". Love Kool and the Gang thats a must also.
great songs
"Sail On" is my favorite Commodores song.
Still and Night Shift are my ABSOLUTE FAVORITES!!
Oohhh. YESSs. Kool and the Gang too!!
Don't forget "Sweet Love"! That is so soulful and almost has a gospel flava ha LOVE the Commodores, they were a HUGE part of my growing up in South Central L.A. Music was some if not 90% of all my fondest memories of my childhood.🥰💖🙌🏻🙏🏽
"Easy Like Sunday Morning" and "Three Times a Lady" are wonderful.
Easy best Commodores song
I remember three times a lady was one of my favorites as a teenager early teens
Holy words, bro....
"Zoom"is another one of my favorites.
Both beautiful songs
Did anyone notice Lionel Ritchie playing his horn in the background? So cool. Thanks for the memories.
Yep. This is where he got his start, before he went solo. Amazing artist.
Yes if you know of him. He wrote that song "Lady" for Kenny Rogers
Lionel Richie sings a beautiful song "Hello"
The official video really shows the beautful story...a must see...award winning.
The commodores were on fire! Loved dancing to this when it came on in the club. They still played it even years after it was released! About 15 years ago a friend got a new phone & asked what my ringtone did I want for when I called. Without thinking I said Brick house. We still laugh at it today.
I'm 62 years young LOL and every time I went somewhere "back in the day" where there was a dancefloor, THIS song was playing at some point, and EVERYONE got up and DANCED! What a great song!
I'm 62 as well and you've got that right. I was in Denver Colorado at the time and stopped in at a huge discotheque called After the Gold Rush. You'd have thought the roof was going to come down. :-)
Me too I’ll be 62 this year. This song was played at every dance and every wedding to get everyone up on the dance floor.
Play this song anywhere, and every girl in the place will get up and dance. "Easy Like Sunday Morning" is another great Commodores song. Lionel Richie had quite a solo career in the 80s too.
This and Brown eyed girl.
Also Earth , Wind & Fire - September , K.C. & The Sunshine - Thats The Way I Like It
That's no lie, every woman will get out on the dance floor when this song comes on. EVERY LAST WOMAN!! Even the rich ones!! LoL
"Easy" also has one of the top 20 guitar solos in all of pop music in my opinion.
Faith No More did a nice version of Easy
I’m pretty sure I’ve danced to this at every school dance and wedding I’ve ever attended…and I’ll get up and dance to it as long as I’m able. 🧡
I’m right along with ya❣️
Saw them in Daytona beach, fla in 1977! Excellent group! You cant sit still to this funky beat!
Love the t-shirt Amber. Been listening to them for 34 years. Love this song too.
this song definitely classifies as FUNK!!! You just can't deny that groove. All funk music has that groove that instantly makes you want to move! Another group who is top tier funk: Parliament-Funkadelic
Got to see a reaction to “Mothership Connection”!
Wild Cherry, too. Also Average White Band.
This is exactly what I was going to say. This is funk, a musical genre characteristic of the 1970s.
Too smooth to be rock or pop, not cheesy enough to be disco. Funk is Soul.
Ohio Players also!
This song was indeed The Commodores FUNKIEST tune, ever! And lovers of THICKNESS can, did, have & always will RELATE! Yes, I know you guys are young, but ya HAD to know this one... it's an American Funk Classic!
NOPE, THt honor goes to FANCY DANCER in a land slide!
FANCY Dancer isby far, theCommodores best!!!!!!
FANCY DANCER #1
Listen to easy like a Sunday morning, lionel at his best.
did you see him in this video I had no idea he played the sax !
Gotta hear it!
Once, twice, three times a lady-my favorite.
I used to sing this song all the time when I was little. I think I was about 3y/o when it came out. I still love this song!
I’ve over many MANY years heard this song at LEAST 1,000 times and still love it.
You’ve just got to love the Commodores and Brick House. Can’t believe Jay never heard of the Commodores, but that means he’ll enjoy diving deep into their catalog. The Commodores were led by Lionel Richie. I think Sweet Love and Still are two you absolutely need to check out!
The Commodores is one of the best of the seventies R&B/funk bands! They had so many hits like Easy, Zoom, Still, Three Time A Lady, Sweet Love, etc! Lionel Richie sang lead on most of their hits in the seventies then he went on to a successful solo career in the eighties! This song was led by another band member, Walter Orange, and it was a huge hit in the late seventies! It was my oldest sister’s theme song and it reminds me of her so it holds a special place in my heart!❤️❤️
Zoom is a new favorite of mine. I listen to it like everyday.
They stirred up so much stank that they had to shut down all of South Alabama for six weeks!!!
We as 70s Brats had the best dance music EVER EVER EVER EVER PERIOD
Commodores fans if your new check them out after Lionel Richie left they had a great song for the movie Night Shift also big hit
Oh me!! Used to dance to this each weekend at the local club... we did a dance called "the Bump" What wonderful memories!!!
I couldn't love it more that Amber's Dad sang this to her Mom! 🕺🏿❤️🔥💃🏿
This another of my favorite dancing songs. I'm 69 and can still shake a leg. I love we to sing and dance.
How can they just sit there? This song pulls me out of my chair, even today. The original saying was "built like a brick sh*t house". Loved me some Soul Train.
Kool and the Gang 'Ladies Night' and 'Celebration' are must listens.
Yes, for sure!
Awe the Commodores they are amazing, but so is Lionel Ritchie's' solo stuff. My favorite song "easy like Sunday morning"
I saw an interview with the guy who "wrote" this song. They needed 1 more song for an album and he only had 1 night to come up with it. He said he fell asleep on the couch with the notepad on his lap. When he woke up, the words for Brick House were on the pad. While he was sleeping, his wife wrote it. She wanted him to write a song for her, but he hadn't yet. She got tired of waiting, so she wrote one. He thought it was great.
That's a great story!👍
Wow👏🏽👏🏽 it funny you say that, because they asked Lionel how the group came about. Simplest answer ever "To get the ladies" not knowing every time I hear Easy I think of Sunday mornings at my great grandmoms. Some of the most peaceful days ever .
Wow so Cool 😎 I hope she got the credit for this song 👏👏👏👏👏👏💟☮️
Great bit of trivia. Never knew this.
I grew up listening to the Commodores on my mom's vinyl. They're still on my playlists today.
I love listening to you guys! I am probably the same age as your parents, Amber! They taught you all the music I listened to and still love! I am 64. Lynn, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Love your channel!
This song has been played at nearly every single wedding reception I have ever attended. Good times!
The movie Jordan was thinking of is Undercover Brother. Brick house is without a doubt the best song to dance to. My first wife loves this song. Truly made me smile. Call it funk, or just good music.
"So. OJ didn't do it." Dead silence. Danny funny movie
I love that movie, the devil white woman Denise Richards gets Eddie Griffin to eat mayonnaise. So funny.
Oh sh*t ! "Undercover Brother" is without a doubt, one of the silliest movies I've ever seen and it's crazy funny! 🤣🤣🤣
His name is Jay, not Jordan!!
Kool and The Gang songs to do "Too Hot" "Ladie's Night" "Celebration" I'd also suggest doing Cameo "Word Up" and "Candy"
“MISLED” VIDEO !!!!!!!
Get some Morris Day and the Time in here ! Sooooo much fun to watch.
Ooooooo, YES!!!! Cameo, "Word Up!"
Joanna
Two other Kool and the Gang songs to react to: "Get down on It," and "Fresh."
@@Allencartercomix She's Fresh.......Exciting
Another great song from my childhood . This was the kind of great music I would listen to in summertime. Love this stuff.
The Commodores where a very very popular group that had some amazing hits.
Lionel Richie is a must listen, both with the Commodores and on his own.
AGREED
Sail On is a song they should review...lol...I love the messaging in it.
Sail On and Still. Two great songs amongst many.
Not all of their music, but this song is Funk. I think you should give Funkadelic or Parliament, both led by George Clinton, a listen. Great music there!
You as reviewers need to investigate the whole FUNK category
The Sax player is Lionel Richie. He also sings. Some hits he sung with them are…
Sail on
Easy
Still.
He has an amazing solo career. You can’t go wrong choosing any Lionel Richie song, everything he sings is a hit. I’ve seen him in concert twice. ❤️ He’s one of the judges on American Idol.
Are you absolutely sure that was Lionel Richie playing the sax. I know thats him in the video but did he really play sax on stage???? Or was it just a prop. They do that a lot.
Yes, that’s Lionel Ritchie
@@rossadams1405 Yes, I saw them live and indeed, Lionel did play the sax. Not on all the songs, but definitely in this one. Walter Orange, the drummer sang lead on this song and a few others.
Love the Commodores! I grew up in the 70’s, they were one of many of my favorite bands. I saw them live about 3 years ago. They could still get their groove on! Lol
I love this guys voice. I love this beat. I love the brass.
This came out when I was mid-elementary. I had a 45. I used to dance to this, alone in my bedroom...night after night!
There's an old phrase, "She's built like a brick s---thouse, which means she's really "stacked." So maybe that's why there's a pause between brick and. house. Couldn't put the s word in, if they wanted to get airplay. I learned the phrase from my WWII era parents, so it goes back at least that far, if not farther.
Your explanation is absolutely correct about being built like a brick sh*t house and the vocal rest appropriately placed. No maybe about it.
Yes but... I always thought it meant well-built in general. As in, a brick out-house is built better than the typical ones.
You beat me to it.
In the early 70's...when the ladies were present....we would refer to as "Built like a brick pizzeria!"
That’s what I always heard - built like a brick sh*thouse.
Between these guys and Earth, Wind and Fire, we have everything we need. 🔥❤️
I loved Earth, Wind, and Fire! My mom had several of their albums. Just had to be sure not to do The Bump too close to the record player, lol!
Never forget Kool and the Gang too! So much funk!
@@jasonsabbath6996 Ooooh, another great group! ❤️
@@leahsunbury9639 🤣
The Commodores are, along with the Tuskegee Airmen, the pride of Tuskegee, AL. Brickhouse is solidly funk but most of their catalog is more just soul. Need to bring more funk, bands like Parliament, The Gap Band, The Dazz Band and even later stuff like Cameo.
GO TUSKEGEE! An Honor, Indeed!!
"sail on" is great love song ...speaking of love I love you both!!!!
"Easy" was my fav from back in the day, but we did a lot of dancing to all of the Commodores music.
The Commodores are awesome. When Lionel Ritchie, one of the members, went solo, it got even better. Lionel Ritchie has some of the best music ever. He also wrote Kenny Rogers' monster hit Lady. And tons of other amazing songs.
There is a video of Lionel & Kenny doing this as an un-rehearsed duet.
Kenny Rogers' version of "Lady" is one of the most beautiful songs ever sung.
This was a must play at any party in the 70's. Every woman no matter the size swore she was a Brickhouse, lol!
This is one of the Commodores biggest hits but they had so many others. They had so many different sounds. Lionel Ritchie is iconic. Try Stuck On You or Hello or even Endless Love (with Diana Ross)
The Commodores started about 35 miles from my house in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Robert, I’m from Muscle Shoals
We’ve had amazing music come out of our neck of the woods!
About 40 miles for me (I'm in Montgomery). It was a big deal back in the 70s whenever the Commodores' white limo was spotted on the interstate heading to Montgomery. Great days, those were!
Y'all are such fun to watch. I found ya yesterday and I CAN'T stop watching.
I saw Lionel in Little Rock, years ago. His plane was late and most of the crowd had gone home, but stayed and played for the handful of us left. It was like our own little concert. He was awesome!!
Wow what a treat
Lol. This is my daughter's ringtone on my phone.
Commodores are considered R&B/Soul and Funk.
Awesome reaction! I grew up hearing 'she's built like a brick s&*t house'... the wooden ones tended to collapse or fall apart (exactly what happened to uncle Walt's, while he was in it) with use, but the brick ones were well built, sturdy, stood the test of time and looked nice.
Most people have never heard the whole phrase.😂
Poor Uncle Walt 🤣🤣
I was about to post that younger listeners didn't know the entire expression.
Loved your reaction! I have loved this song since it came out (the same year I graduated from high school - showing my age)! The Commodores were awesome - and I still have to dance if this song comes on. As a matter of fact, just last month I danced to this on an Alaskan cruise (it was 70's night for the DJ).
Extensive catalog of hits. Dive in and enjoy! Soooo much great stuff! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Originally Lionel Ritchie wasn’t the lead singer, this dude was, but is that Lionel Ritchie in the orange suit on the Sax, looks like him never saw that before, he was in the band, but not as lead singer OG. 🤘
It’s RnB Funk, Soul, Disco, everything basically except hard rock, or country 🤘
Ya all wanna check out an react to - Champagne “ How about Us” as well sometime.
You get all your fav Piano/keyboards Electric guitar and amazing Saxophone as well as incredible chemistry in one song!
def do more of the Commodores though they were one of my fav Funk Soul Bands, sorts gutted at the time when Lionel Ritchie left to pursue a solo career, these dudes just oozed COOL back then.
The sax player definitely looks like Lionel, I was just going to look that up...
That’s him alright.
Lionel was always in the band
Sax and vocals
Seeing Amber in the groove dancing in the chair, accomplishes your goal. Makes me smile to see the groove!
This band was so good. Contemporaries with Earth,Wind, and Fire, and other great great groups. Positive message in their songs, super organized, fantastic tours, classic songs. But groups like this were also expensive from a producer point of view and producers found that it was cheaper to put a Rapper and a DJ on stage with a small light show, plus easier to tour. So all of the groups like this went away in favor of hiphop within a very few years. Glad to see you are looking back to appreciate some of these earlier bands and their amazing work.
I remember when this came out. Somebody called me a Brickhouse and I had not heard the song. It didn't sound like a compliment. But boy, when I heard the song! I was in high school. The Commodores are one of my favorite R&B groups!
When this came out this song was played at every dance, club and skating rink. Everyone danced The Bump to this song.
Hell yeah! Lionel Ritchie playing sax! He wrote so many of their songs - went on to have an amazing solo career.
Hey check out Sly, and The Family Stone: Family Affair, and Everyday People. Please
Let's not forget "If You Want Me to Stay" 😉
Good call 😉
And Dance to the music
"Just to be close to you" is one Amber's gonna love.
I love this song and Lionel Ritchie
Thanks for playing this video!
If anyone asks "What is funk?", just play this for them... that bass line is pure funk!
One of my all-time favorite songs 🥰☮️✌️
You have not done U2 yet (You have earned world iconic band status when your lead singer is known by one name only and the world knows immediately who it is [Bono])- start with New Years Day and let it shake you to your core & close your eyes and let it take you on a journey. Another along those lines is Pride [in the name of love]. Other great choices are Where the streets have no name, sweetest thing, beautiful day, One, with or without you, Sunday bloody Sunday, angel of Harlem, Desire & the list goes on as the rabbit hole is super deep!
I think the Red Rocks version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday"" th-cam.com/video/EM4vblG6BVQ/w-d-xo.html
U2's label blocks nearly everything.
U2 sucks.
I don't think they've done any Creed either, that's a satisfying rabbit hole for them to tumble down.
Slick Rick: He came up with Doug E. Fresh before going solo, so I would say it’s imperative to check out at least La Di Da Di by Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick, and The Show by them is also excellent. Slick Rick was the 3rd artist signed to Def Jam Records, after the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. Solo songs I’d recommend are Children’s Story, The Ruler’s Back, and Mona Lisa.
Kool & The Gang: The main thing to know about them is their career basically has two different eras. Early on, from 1969-1978, they were largely an instrumental funk band. They had a few songs that members of the band would sing on, but they had no dedicated lead singer. Great songs from this era include Soul Vibrations, Dujii, Summer Madness, Funky Stuff, Jungle Boogie, and Hollywood Swinging, By 1978 their popularity had waned, so they changed things up, added a dedicated lead singer, and changed their sound to a more commercial pop sound and their popularity exploded. Songs from that era to check are Ladies Night, Get Down On It, Cherish, and Fresh. Everybody’s gonna recommend Celebration, but I’d be amazed if both of you haven’t already heard it, it’s been played at practically every sporting event the last 40 years when the home team wins.
Yes! Kool and the Gang "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging" are My Favorites
This was one of the happiest but sickest dance numbers in the seventies. What a groove.
Played at every event!, Yup we’ve all danced to it at some time or another!! Thx guys! SMILE😀😀
I was in the 9th grade when this song came out. I remember driving to school and The Commodores would be playing loud and clear on the radio. My foot would be tapping and I would be singing along. Damn those were the days.
Kool & The Gang is the bomb. I’ve seen them a couple times at corporate events. Everyone loves them so they get invited back a lot. So many great songs.
How can you even ask that? Genre was absolutely R&B soul and funk, the Commodores lit up the R&B Soul charts with the funk while their ballads did also and a few hit the pop charts also in the 70’s and the 80’s.
Loved The Commodores and Earth, Wind and Fire and Ohio Players back in the day!!
I remember dancing to this song at a club in Dallas in 1977. My senior year in high school. Seems like only 40ish years ago. YIKES! Love you guys' reactions. Keep 'em coming!
Amber, Kool and the Gang is a good idea. 👍
Celebration is a good one to start with.
I'd suggest, Ladies Night.
KOOL AND THE GANG. OH YEA!!!
"Get Down On It" is a great dance song.
Let It Whip by The Dazz Band is another JAM!
Also "Swoop" by The Dazz Band
My all time favorite song…..just is the soul beat of all I love about music…goes to your nerves then to your feet…..I grew up on this and stay young with it…💕
This is another song that takes me back to a particular time in my life. When I was in the NAVY, my roommate and I listened to this song SO much. I was tall and very thin and she was tall and built like a BRICK HOUSE!! This definitely counts as funk These guys got together while they were in college!! Best group ever for their time!!
Love this song,the Commodores were a sample of the 70’s and 80’s....The 60’s,70’s and early 80’s to me was by far is the best music era
😁🙌🏼💯 YES IT WAS!!!
Ya but this was the 70s 1976
I haven't heard this song in years. I forgot how fun it was.
Love this song! The Commodores met when they were students at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.. Being from Alabama myself, I felt a sense of pride in them. AMBER AMBER AMBER!! The sax player is Lionel Richie, who went on to have a great solo career. I love his voice.. One of my favorite songs is "Hello". He also did a duet with Diana Ross, called "Endless Love".
I grew up on this music and it's great when another generation can enjoy actual music... With instruments and vocals - no auto tuning here...
And, I hadn't heard this song in a while until - though, I use to catch it every so often on Sabrina, the teenage witch...
I love how innocent you two are. Oh that everyone still had that trait. There are so many songs you listen to and see the innocence in them but you tend to forget the era. We listened to this during a disco era too. But this was a hippie era still too.
Fun song! Everyone hits the dance floor!!!!
My favorite Commodores song is ‘Three Times A Lady’. It’s a TOTALLY different vibe.
The Commodores used to be the opening act for the Jackson 5, Lionel Richie sang lead on most of their hits, then he left and had an even better solo career , he co-wrote “We are the World” with Michael Jackson. He also is the only artist in history to have a song go number 1 nine years in a row!
Amber and Jay, From what I've been able to find, The Commodores were considered a rhythm and blues/funk group that began in 1967.Lionel Ritchie (seen here playing the sax) was one of the founding members.He played saxophone, keyboards, and sang lead vocals (though not on this song, the lead was their drummer, Walter Orange ).They had so many great songs over the years. Sail On, Easy, Nightshift, and Lady (You Bring Me Up) are some of my favorites.
The musicianship on this song is so amazing. Listen to those drum crossovers. The bass line. And the horns are thorough!
The Commodores are playlist. Another songs although to many to remember, “Easy”, “Flying high” (my favorite), “Sailing” and “ Three times a Lady”. Lionel Richey had a great solo career after the band spilt as well. Thank you for reacting to this. ✌️😎🎵
Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores are amazing. As a band, and then his solo career they’re 🔥
Lionel Richie wrote this song and mostly all of the Commodores hits. They actually released Lionel from the group because they knew he became too big for them, even though he didn't want to leave the group. Their biggest hit without Lionel is Night Shift a tribute to Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye.
@Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT Lionel was becoming too big for the Commodores and although successful, they were becoming jealous of Lionel getting all of the credit.
GENRE = FUNK
The Commodores were the second band to become my favorite. (I first fell in love with Simon & Garfunkel!) I saw the Commodores on the Midnight Special and they did "Sail On" and "Still." They. Looked. AWESOME. I became a fan on the spot.
Lionel Richie would go on to be one of the biggest solo artists of the '80s. He wasn't my _favorite_ (I was into Eurythmics by then) but I sure bought a bunch of his solo albums. He was fantastic, but a lot more of a smooth singer of romantic songs with a few bangin' dance songs thrown in.
There is so much funk, Rick James is rolling in his cocaine filled grave.
It's FUNK, man!!! And that mustachioed light-skinned dude on sax is Lionel Richie!! GREAT band!!!
grateful to see you young'ns gettin hold of some of these rare gems / masterpieces before they're gone with the wind. cheers
Played in a band for years and years. We did a gig at a literal mansion once for a fund-raiser for a local politico, and we were assigned to the patio. Everyone else was inside, except for one fellow. There is a whole back-story about us doing this as a favor for one member of the band going through a nasty divorce, so we were doing it for free (in lieu of additional payments to his lawyer.) Anyway, since there was only one person listening to an 11-piece band we decided to do about an hour of songs we knew that we could do in the key of E (without a single stop.) They recorded this in A, but it is easy to change keys, and you can go to MANY other songs out of this rhythm and beat. Think "Car Wash", then pick anything else similar. We did it! And had fun with one listener!
Cool story! In the early 90's I was in a group that opened for them at a small town fair. Halfway through our first song we lost our main amp. We were done, then they're sound man came in with a new one out of nowhere, and we were only down for 10 minutes. What a great bunch of guys. Can't tell you how nice each of them were. Wish I had met them when Lionel Richey was still there.
Lionel Richies’ “Penny Lover” is lovely..he is such a great song writer
Of course he wrote Lady for Kenny Rogers…so many more. Love the fam! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
There was an expression in use back in the 70's that "she's built like a brick sh*t house", referring to an outhouse build of bricks, not sticks. I've heard the song lyrics originally included the sh*t but was removed prior to recording it to make it playable on radio.
This is true. Heard that expression so many times in the 60's and 70's.
Ohhhh my..Guys would sing this to me as I walked by as a Senior in high school...It would totally make me 😊 blush...I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG AND YOUR CHANNEL...!!! BTW the Wife Speaking here...
I am glad I got to see The Commodores once. They were playing a festival in the late 80s.