Why does everybody always assume that because you are a big family in the music business, that you are trying to be like the Jacksons. Trust me when I say they were other family singers than just the Jacksons, luv them all!!
Sylvers had it rough. Their father abandoned them. They had to live in Watts; They all slept in one room. Olympia was kidnapped, shot up with drugs; they were going to kill her, but she got away. She was never the same. Boogie Fever got them out of that hell hole. Whenever I hear this song, I remember this.
I just cant believe their father would want to leave a beautiful wife and children.Its amazing.Both he and his wife were college educated ppl.I heard he was hanging out with Ike Turner ( need I say more) and abandoned his family.If he was still around they would probably get the proper management and be musical icons equal to the J5.
Yeah I saw that segment on unsung about them. I know exactly what housing project they was living in. It's called Nickerson gardens. Or should I say the (Knicks) when I lived in California I had a co-worker that we helped her get out of there and she moved into an apartment where I live in Long Beach, those projects and Jordan Downs. You don't even mess with them
The Sylvers were a classical R&B old school group and their classics were so phenomenal. Little Brother Foster Sylvers man so talented. High School Dance in 76 my favourite classic of theirs. RIP Brother Edmund Sylvers
sorry to be off topic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost my password. I would love any help you can offer me.
@Madden Seth Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
As much as I looooved the Jackson 5 I would NEVER bash They Sylvers they are too fine cute and talented. If things had been different with their managment and record label its no telling how much more successful they could have been.
Great singers! They sure didn't need any fire-crackers, dry-ice smoke, not even one single gimmick. Also, they respected their audience and actually dressed with so much class. Love them! So heart-warming to see they got out of that snake-pit. This generation today has gone mad! They can't take the heat so they turn to drugs.
Great looking family, especially the girls, Angie, Pat, and I had never heard Charmaine speak before this video, sexy voice, this talented Klan had it going on, R.I.P. Edmund and Momma Shirley...
@@lorraineburgess4802 Sure, I didn't forget her, I was just mentioning the sisters in this particular video. Olympia is the oldest of the four sisters...
The Jackson 5 and The Sylvers my favorite two family groups I love them both made no difference between one of the two those were wonderful times back in the day seeing those two groups
Some people don't know music, because they were so different from the Jackson 5 but people continue to compare them. Both groups are unique & have there own style. Now Foster & Michael sound alike, but the rest of the group of The Sylvers have a totally different sound nothing like The Jackson 5. However, both groups are different, with different style & different music!!
Thank you! To this day I see people calling them the bootleg Jackson 5. I had to check a dude once for saying that. Anytime I saw The Sylvers, I never thought The Jackson 5 at all. I just thought they were a bunch of talented and nice looking people. I enjoy their music from the first album on.
I agree !! a 100% im 19 years old, I wasn't born at that time to experience the BETTER music now a days it's just disgusting Chris brown , Beyoncé etc people always call me an old soul because I like music from my father's time. I love them they are WAY moreeeee talented than the Jacksons they have harmony and that is something the Jacksons can't compete with . my parents are sooo lucky to experience such FANTASTIC MUSIC!!!.
plus the Sylvers sisters were part of the group unlike the Jacksons they did some stuff together on their show and TV specials with the sisters but the sisters were not apart of the group and none of the Jackson sisters can't touch the Sylversr sister as far as singing and vocals go maybe Janet but the Sylvers harmonies are impeccable
There were a lot of family groups back then who were talented and I loved them all from the Sylvers, J5, Sister Sledge, Pointer Sisters, Osmonds etc. They all had some jams. Unfortunately through bad management the Sylvers didn't reach the status of the Jacksons but all 8 of them were still on point with their sound and their steps.
I never thought "they sounded just like the Jacksons." They always had a sound all their own. It seems like, at this time, there was just room for two family groups: The Jacksons, and the Osmonds. Both families had hit albums, and hit TV shows.
The Sylvers are still amazing to listen to...they were able to do a song like this but also things like 'Fools Paradise', 'The Roulette Wheel Of Love', 'Free Style', 'Come Back Lover Come Back' and 'Let My Love Shine In'. I could go on but I will just say they were too young to be so talented and diverse.
I am consciously see the Sylvers for first time and was baby when they singing in 1973. Since I was so I couldn't actually seeing or hearing them, but I do remember seeing the Jackson 5 in 1975 or 1976? Anyhow, the Sylvers we're awesome!
They did all of the Shows, this Show, American Bandstand and The Midnight Special. I'm not sure if they did any shows in the UK but if they did, it would probably be Top Of The Pops (UK) and TopPop (France). Their downfall was just as heartbreaking as The Jets.
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The parents and some of the kids (before most of them where born) where on the Grocho Marc's. You bet your life game show from the late 50s ... they are so cute and sweet family then.
If I were running the music industry back then I would've developed a friendly rivalry between Edmund and Michael. Edmund would've been on The Girl Is Mine and Say, Say, Say track, with the approval of McCartney.
When this song came out and I heard it on the radio for the first time I thought this was by the Jacksons because at the time I personally didn't know who The Sylvers were
@PrincezzKay KeNyEtTa, there is a interview online that Foster Sylvers did with an independent journalist and he said that he sat down and had a conversation with Dick Clark before he passed away and Mr. Clark told him the powers that be in the music industry sabotaged the Sylvers as a group so that the Jackson 5 wouldn't have them as competition and knock them out of their spot at Motown. There was enough room for both groups to be successful and have flourishing careers in the music industry. Music Industry bullshiggity..... I remember the Sylvers from the movie "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" they came out on the basketball court singing the theme song in the fish box....
I like the Soul Train version of this song better than the Midnight Special version (1976). The video quality of the Midnight Special is better, but this one has the horns and the overall "feel" that the official album song has.
@SyrenniaLestrange But i'm glad you are a fan as well...if you did not already liked the sylvers offical page on facebook, you should go check it out...the family actually runs that page....oh yea...good day to you too... us sylvers fans are a special type of group.
I am definitely in that group and ain't nobody comparing the Jacksons and them they both was very talented but they didn't have the right management I always been a fans of the Jacksons but to me if they would have the right management they had more Talent than the Jackson all of them to sing and write their own music but I'm so proud of both of them but they need to get more recognition than what they did they need to get their own
@SyrenniaLestrange Oh yea,i know that...that's basically what i said in my post...if you read it again...i did write that" they were trying to be those other people...oh yea the sylvers" meaning they were being "those people" meaning the Slyvers. I know they were not trying to be the Jacksons, but they were themselves.
@SyrenniaLestrange oh yea..if you are still not a believer, i'm pretty sure you can find my comments on many other sylvers's videos on youtube when i actually stated that i dont know why so many people compare the J5 and the sylvers since they were so different, or maybe posts about how rickey is sexy or how foster is a cutie pie or how charmaine be killing them moves or how james got the cuttest dimples, or how leon is the man, and how Olan and pat are beautiful, or how edmund cracks me up.
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Why does everybody always assume that because you are a big family in the music business, that you are trying to be like the Jacksons. Trust me when I say they were other family singers than just the Jacksons, luv them all!!
Where the others at then?
Because the Jackson 5 was the black Beatles of that time Need me to say more
Yes like Jimmy Briscoe and the little beavers,
@@slambamthankugirlpoogieboo1369 They weren't family, but I would put " Ebony Princess" up against ANY song from that era and after.
Duh?
The days when there was real talent..
There's still talent going strong, but clone-like production, Auto-Tune and other turd polishing really hurts music from a fan's perspective.
Wish I could go back to these times and stay.. Life was so much easier then, and fun
Sylvers had it rough. Their father abandoned them. They had to live in Watts; They all slept in one room.
Olympia was kidnapped, shot up with drugs; they were going to kill her, but she got away. She was never the same. Boogie Fever got them out of that hell hole. Whenever I hear this song, I remember this.
I just cant believe their father would want to leave a beautiful wife and children.Its amazing.Both he and his wife were college educated ppl.I heard he was hanging out with Ike Turner ( need I say more) and abandoned his family.If he was still around they would probably get the proper management and be musical icons equal to the J5.
Yeah I saw that segment on unsung about them. I know exactly what housing project they was living in. It's called Nickerson gardens. Or should I say the (Knicks) when I lived in California I had a co-worker that we helped her get out of there and she moved into an apartment where I live in Long Beach, those projects and Jordan Downs. You don't even mess with them
Those afros. Are everything😊
Strength💪🏿
Yes, lovely. 🙂
Watching Soul Train was the best way spend a Saturday afternoon..❤❤❤❤
REMEMBERING EDMUND SYLVERS
(JANUARY 25, 1957 - MARCH 11, 2004)
[01/25/2024]
44 years now,this jams been kicking ass.
Doctor Lock those were the days sir yo are absolutely correct there're still kicking ass.
The Sylvers were a classical R&B old school group and their classics were so phenomenal. Little Brother Foster Sylvers man so talented. High School Dance in 76 my favourite classic of theirs. RIP Brother Edmund Sylvers
Look at all that talent! They deserved more love than what they got!
sorry to be off topic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account?
I stupidly lost my password. I would love any help you can offer me.
@Jadiel Marvin Instablaster :)
@Madden Seth Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im trying it out atm.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Madden Seth it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thanks so much, you saved my account !
@Jadiel Marvin happy to help =)
The SYLVERS were poetry in motion. The ALL have and had talent! Sincerely, Crys, The Song🕊
As much as I looooved the Jackson 5 I would NEVER bash They Sylvers they are too fine cute and talented. If things had been different with their managment and record label its no telling how much more successful they could have been.
They should have been on Atlantic
The Sylvers were great...They had style,great singers , fantastic dancing...Just all around great performances...
The dancing was embarrassing
They were adorable kids too.
Beautiful family. Love The Sylvers.
Yes,, the SYLVERS! I am still watching and listening in 2021.
Forever a fan!
Rest in power: EDMUND SYLVERS
Me 2
Me too. It's almost 2024.
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame & Hollywood Walk of Fame should be next in line for this Talented family......
Amen
Exactly they deserve to be in those entertainment Hall of fames
The 1970s had the best music.
Proof you don't have to be "gangsta".
Beautiful young women and talented group over all.
Great singers! They sure didn't need any fire-crackers, dry-ice smoke, not even one single gimmick. Also, they respected their audience and actually dressed with so much class. Love them! So heart-warming to see they got out of that snake-pit. This generation today has gone mad! They can't take the heat so they turn to drugs.
Them afros they take many of us back in time mine didn’t get that big
Such an attractive family ! I grew up listening to them!
My 4th grade teacher in L.A. was they're Godmother. I used to wear out their album. They were so talented.
How lucky you are! ❤❤
That's awesome!
A #1 hit for The Sylvers in May 1976. It also went to #1 on the Rhythm & Blues charts and in Canada. It went to #4 in New Zealand and to #7 in Canada.
8 moving as one... The choreography was spot on...
Great looking family, especially the girls, Angie, Pat, and I had never heard Charmaine speak before this video, sexy voice, this talented Klan had it going on, R.I.P. Edmund and Momma Shirley...
Don’t forget, there was also Olympia Sylvers as well
@@lorraineburgess4802 Sure, I didn't forget her, I was just mentioning the sisters in this particular video. Olympia is the oldest of the four sisters...
Their choreography was on point 🕺
Beautiful family ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
The Jackson 5 and The Sylvers my favorite two family groups I love them both made no difference between one of the two those were wonderful times back in the day seeing those two groups
I agree and would add DeBarge to the list.
Some people don't know music, because they were so different from the Jackson 5 but people continue to compare them. Both groups are unique & have there own style. Now Foster & Michael sound alike, but the rest of the group of The Sylvers have a totally different sound nothing like The Jackson 5. However, both groups are different, with different style & different music!!
Thank you! To this day I see people calling them the bootleg Jackson 5. I had to check a dude once for saying that. Anytime I saw The Sylvers, I never thought The Jackson 5 at all. I just thought they were a bunch of talented and nice looking people. I enjoy their music from the first album on.
I agree !! a 100% im 19 years old, I wasn't born at that time to experience the BETTER music now a days it's just disgusting Chris brown , Beyoncé etc people always call me an old soul because I like music from my father's time. I love them they are WAY moreeeee talented than the Jacksons they have harmony and that is something the Jacksons can't compete with . my parents are sooo lucky to experience such FANTASTIC MUSIC!!!.
Because The Jackson's 5 was the standard at that time The 1st black global teenager Group
I agree
plus the Sylvers sisters were part of the group unlike the Jacksons they did some stuff together on their show and TV specials with the sisters but the sisters were not apart of the group and none of the Jackson sisters can't touch the Sylversr sister as far as singing and vocals go maybe Janet but the Sylvers harmonies are impeccable
I remember hearing this on the radio back in the day. Happy music! Now I look and I hope they all got paid. A lot of people splitting up the money.
Teenager music 🎶 I remember dancing off this jam ❤️🎶
Miss the days back then
Great music in the 70's lots of listening at 🎶at parties and in cars
Great musician god bless the silvers
Love this! Still my all time favorite disco song! 💟
There were a lot of family groups back then who were talented and I loved them all from the Sylvers, J5, Sister Sledge, Pointer Sisters, Osmonds etc. They all had some jams. Unfortunately through bad management the Sylvers didn't reach the status of the Jacksons but all 8 of them were still on point with their sound and their steps.
Don't forget the 5 stairsteps
And there was Five Star but they made it big in the 80s I love all of them...
DeBarge
The Emotions were sisters
I never thought "they sounded just like the Jacksons." They always had a sound all their own. It seems like, at this time, there was just room for two family groups: The Jacksons, and the Osmonds. Both families had hit albums, and hit TV shows.
The Jackson's just have that sound that can't be matched..the energy pizzazz is al there
HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY
CHARMAINE SYLVERS
(MARCH 9, 2024)
The Sylvers are still amazing to listen to...they were able to do a song like this but also things like 'Fools Paradise', 'The Roulette Wheel Of Love', 'Free Style', 'Come Back Lover Come Back' and 'Let My Love Shine In'. I could go on but I will just say they were too young to be so talented and diverse.
RememberTheTime09 I loved them. I had posters all over my wall.
I am consciously see the Sylvers for first time and was baby when they singing in 1973. Since I was so I couldn't actually seeing or hearing them, but I do remember seeing the Jackson 5 in 1975 or 1976? Anyhow, the Sylvers we're awesome!
Talented family, Love The Sylvers
Very popular song - well identified with the Disco Era - maybe one of the 1st Disco Hits. #1 April 1976
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Still sounds great today.
Choreography extraordinare!!!!!!!
That's James Jamerson on BASS!! he aslo played on the hit, Rock the Boat by the hues corporation.
There is not a group past or present that could outsing these folks!!
j5
Look at the flawless afro on Edmund...omg
HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY CHARMAINE SYLVERS (MARCH 9, 2019)
N ricky to there bday on the same day love them all rip edmund love his voice so sexy
I was 8 years old when I saw them on SOUL TRAIN. I ❤ loved them then and now.
HAPPY 61ST BIRTHDAY ANGELIA "ANGIE" SYLVERS (04/11/2021)
Just imagine this type of unity today
Beatiful. And. Wonderful. Song the. Band.Silvers
Still such a sweet groove.
I Like The Sylvers.
This is great. Love them. Miss this time.
R.I.P Edmund and Don
The choreography in the beginning damn
They did all of the Shows, this Show, American Bandstand and The Midnight Special. I'm not sure if they did any shows in the UK but if they did, it would probably be Top Of The Pops (UK) and TopPop (France). Their downfall was just as heartbreaking as The Jets.
Great song, I never knew it was the Sylvers that sang it!
Try are amazing stuff so very much beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I loved this song and brought this disco lp! The brothers were so fine Edmund and Foster!💋😍😍
They gave the Jacksons a run
No
Never.
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Charmaine can dance!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Smooth choreography!!!
2022: still 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
The parents and some of the kids (before most of them where born) where on the Grocho Marc's. You bet your life game show from the late 50s ... they are so cute and sweet family then.
Memories it was 13 of us
Don Cornelius is one smooth cat.
So was dick Clark he n don still supports them even when going through there contracts
If I were running the music industry back then I would've developed a friendly rivalry between Edmund and Michael. Edmund would've been on The Girl Is Mine and Say, Say, Say track, with the approval of McCartney.
I was in love with Foster
When this song came out and I heard it on the radio for the first time I thought this was by the Jacksons because at the time I personally didn't know who The Sylvers were
That tell you Something J5 Where the biggest
Honest mistake I think many of us made back then.
Great song
pop & mom sylvers really had a lot of fun if you know what i mean. 10 kids wow.
Those were the days black families had eight to ten kids everyone a close-knit families.
😊
The era before birth control 🤦🏾♀️
i love it!!!!
Best song ever 👏.
Right On!
WNEW NYC 5(Now WNYW FOX 5)showed this.
@ninetine62 i think they should've been as big or bigger then the Jacksons. They had talent too.
PrincezzKay KeNyEtTa that would never happen lol
@PrincezzKay KeNyEtTa, there is a interview online that Foster Sylvers did with an independent journalist and he said that he sat down and had a conversation with Dick Clark before he passed away and Mr. Clark told him the powers that be in the music industry sabotaged the Sylvers as a group so that the Jackson 5 wouldn't have them as competition and knock them out of their spot at Motown. There was enough room for both groups to be successful and have flourishing careers in the music industry. Music Industry bullshiggity..... I remember the Sylvers from the movie "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" they came out on the basketball court singing the theme song in the fish box....
All n step on time
Light skin with big afro naturals, man we was hot for the Sylvers. The sisters were cute too, but the brothers, yes sir! The Jackson who?
Google the Jackson Their numbers are crazy They still play to Jackson 5 Music Don't hear these guys that much Come with lol
I like the Soul Train version of this song better than the Midnight Special version (1976). The video quality of the Midnight Special is better, but this one has the horns and the overall "feel" that the official album song has.
James Jameson on the bass.
The Sylvester J5 The Osmonds
j5 sold more records
So they performed this song on Soul Train on two different occasions?
A funked up version of Day Tripper by The Beatles.
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There’s more of these guys that two sets of Earth, Wind and Fire.
When we had dignity like today's Sade
@SyrenniaLestrange But i'm glad you are a fan as well...if you did not already liked the sylvers offical page on facebook, you should go check it out...the family actually runs that page....oh yea...good day to you too... us sylvers fans are a special type of group.
I am definitely in that group and ain't nobody comparing the Jacksons and them they both was very talented but they didn't have the right management I always been a fans of the Jacksons but to me if they would have the right management they had more Talent than the Jackson all of them to sing and write their own music but I'm so proud of both of them but they need to get more recognition than what they did they need to get their own
love forever
they call it disco fever
❤
@SyrenniaLestrange Oh yea,i know that...that's basically what i said in my post...if you read it again...i did write that" they were trying to be those other people...oh yea the sylvers" meaning they were being "those people" meaning the Slyvers. I know they were not trying to be the Jacksons, but they were themselves.
8 Siblings ! WOW!
..there were 10 sibs..an older sister, Olympia, dropped out of the group..the youngest sib, Christopher, never performed with them
WHY AREN'T THEY AS FAMOUS AS THE JACKSONS😭😭😭😭
Watch Unsung
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Don is looking for Olympia. He had his eye on her from their first appearance on the show....
wonder why in all the videos for this song, the little brother was kept to the side with his sisters
I like you as Noah Edmund slybers
@SyrenniaLestrange oh yea..if you are still not a believer, i'm pretty sure you can find my comments on many other sylvers's videos on youtube when i actually stated that i dont know why so many people compare the J5 and the sylvers since they were so different, or maybe posts about how rickey is sexy or how foster is a cutie pie or how charmaine be killing them moves or how james got the cuttest dimples, or how leon is the man, and how Olan and pat are beautiful, or how edmund cracks me up.