Man....oh man....JT was the man. And to think he once said he really didn't like the song but Sam Cooke suggested that he sing his version of it. And he killed it. JT was one one the most underrated singers that ever lived. But he was a giant to me. RIP JT
When,was this,that He did,nt like it,History Has It that He always Loved This Song,He Hope Wrote The Song,I Heard Him Say Himself,That He Loved The Song,I think You Have Your Facts Wrong
Thank you Lord for allowing us to experience & Enjoy Johnny Taylor. & Thank you.💕 Mama for introducing me to the beautiful music R&B. I'm so proud to be BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL.
Johnnie Taylor sang lead after Sam Cooke for The Soul Stirrers. Sam Cooke mentored Bobby Womack & his brothers & they were on his record label Bobby also played in Sam's band. They did not preform together for The Soul Stirrers
They WERE mostly all Soul Stirrers. You are right! I would also throw in David Ruffin & Marvin Gaye. I don't think they were Soul Stirrers . It's more, but can't think of them now!
This live version is Johnnie's best performance of this song in my opinion. This is better than both his and Sam's studio recordings...Credit must also be given to that KICKING BAND.... Clarence "GATEMOUTH" Brown is the bandleader. The show was called "THE BEAT" The announcer was the great BILL "HOSSMAN ALLEN, of WLAC Nashville Tennessee fame. This show was shot in Nashville for only 1 year.....1966. It highlighted soul singers and their great music contributions. Little Milton and a host of soul singers enhanced their careers on this show. I was upset when it did not come back the next year.. It was AWESOME. BILL was so famous for playing "black" or "soul" or "race" music as they used to say on the AM radio late at night. The station carried hundreds of miles at night, and I listened intently for years as a teenager in Louisiana. For years I thought he was black because of his sound. So did many other folks. He truly loved soul music, and because of him, many black artists got their start. Thanks Johnnie and HOSSMAN for this once in a lifetime piece of footage. I treasure it. I go back over and over to hear it again..... AWESOME! I don't want to talk bad about Johnny's dancers behind him, but for all the good they did, they could have stood on the sidelines and picked their noses, or got themselves other jobs. HOW ABOUT SOME BEAUTIFUL WOMEN TO ADD SOME CLASS AND STYLE??!!
OMG! Loving this live performance, the one and only Mr. Johnnie Taylor. Sanggggg Johnnie, with your fine self! Johnnie was a young tenderoni right here, LOL! 🔥❤🎤
Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Womack have reunited with each other in heaven and their legacies will have to live always and forever ♾ and live forever ♾ more!
Johnnie Taylor is ALL of that 🔥💞😍! He could sing a nursery rhyme and have me mesmerized. He oozed swagger, undeniable talent, and was smooth as silk. I miss him 💝2024 and beyond I'll still be listening to his music....so soothing.
This is awesome..........so many versions of this song......all of them are amazing.......rip Johnnie Taylor, not unlike Sam Cooke, neither of you ever received the recognition you deserved.
Don't, honey don't, go away, no no Don't you hear, don't you hear, What I say, what I say Give me time, give me time I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine But I know Rome wasn't built in a day Now, you know that I love you dear with all my heart I know that you didn't love me from the start But I planted a lil' seed in your heart I know And it just needs time to grow, baby Don't, honey don't, go away, no no Don't you hear, don't you hear, What I say, what I say Give me time, give me time I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine But I know Rome wasn't built in a day Listen to me honey now How would Romeo feel if his Juliet Had turned down his advances and played hard to get He wouldn't have let this bother him, this I know Because where there's light there's hope Oh! Baby, don't go away, no no Don't you hear now, don't you hear now, What I say, what I say Give me time, give me time I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine But I know Rome wasn't built in a day Don't you hear me telling you that Rome wasn't built in a day Don't you realize that Rome wasn't built in a day
Johnny Taylor was cool. I remember in probably the late 60's when at a factory in Illinois, a group of women machinists were all on cloud nine that Friday night--Johnny Taylor was about to marry somebody's cousin!
Marion Hempstead well if this is true ,then it had to be Harriet,Johnnie jr. and Sabrina,s mother ,because he only had two wives,the first one in Chicago and the second one he met in Los Angeles,calif. and married in Dallas,Texas her name was Jerlean.
Johnny was cruising around in a LAC with the 8-track pumped puffing a cigar, vodka and orange juice in plastic cups headed for a dive for a plate of catfish and fries with a case of Stroh's in a cooler in the trunk! Car full of homies talkin' shit lying our asses off guzzling the screwdrivers and catfish, enjoying life as we could! Good times!
@Benjamin Shulman Right, to be honest I had never heard this song until I watched this video the first time. Soon as he stated singing I said it's almost like listening to Sam he must have written this song.
Good ears👂🏻☺️... Sam Cooke wrote this tune & also recorded a version of his own!✴️... I L⭕oooVe This song and this performance!!!💥...GREAT & Tight Band Too!! 🎷 🎺 🎷 ShaLom Music LoVer🎶 05/15/25
I can hear all the great raw talent. You don't get that sound anymore.
I really can't stop watching/listening to this...Johnnie is so damn koo. Dude got charisma for days.
He was also very handsome!!!
Same here!!!!!!!
Lord I just love this man singing. JT Had the perfect voice that could sing anything. I miss you JT. RIHP. ❤️💜💚💙
The background dancers got me lmaooo!😂
Two steppping their lives away 😂😂😂
They tried, but he could've left them home.
Kevin Brown They were Not his background Singers,they were hired by the beat for the show
@@deemichelle 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
“Dontttttt honey don’t go awayyyyy, do u hearrr do u hearrrrr what I sayyyy” #classic #jt
Sam Cooke was his mentor... You can hear it in his early music... Love that suit
Yes, he was always well dressed
Sound just like him lol and he originally signed to Sam’s label as well
Yea
U can hear Sam's voice in his!!!
Yep...can fo Sam Cookes Runs and everything
How is that and they came out at the same time ? Johnny just replaced sam with the soul stirrers
Man....oh man....JT was the man. And to think he once said he really didn't like the song but Sam Cooke suggested that he sing his version of it. And he killed it. JT was one one the most underrated singers that ever lived. But he was a giant to me. RIP JT
When,was this,that He did,nt like it,History Has It that He always Loved This Song,He Hope Wrote The Song,I Heard Him Say Himself,That He Loved The Song,I think You Have Your Facts Wrong
Reginald, I rate Johnny Taylor as my fifth (number 5) greatest singer of all time. 🎶🎵🎼 👍
@@johnbarron2269 ok
You're telling the TRUTH ‼️. He's a GIANT to a lot of people ‼️. You can believe that. (2024)
@@johnbarron2269 Curious. How does your list go?
JOHNNIE TAYLOR WAS THE BACKYARD COOKOUT OR FISH FRY WITH A COOLER FULL OF BEER AND SPADES BEING PLAYED UNDER THE SHADE TREE
LOL 🤣 🤣🤣 🤣🤣 🤣🤣 🤣😂 😂👍👍👍☀️
Thank you Lord for allowing us to experience & Enjoy Johnny Taylor. & Thank you.💕 Mama for introducing me to the beautiful music R&B. I'm so proud to be BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL.
agreed 👌👍💪
Patrick Kelly n
AMEN, SISTER 👑
Johnny put that southern soul in it.
Yes he did
He put all kinds of soul in the style
It will never be another jt 🙏🏽 that voice...real music...rest on legend...
His voice was amazing very legendary
What a sensation. I also dug the back up dancing & harmonizing group. And yes, I hint the spirit of the late Sam Cooke singing ' Chain Gang '.
When he said baby dont u leave me by myself I felt that shit
🎵 I don’t want, and I don’t need, nobody else - baby 🎵
imagine if Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack and Johnny Taylor in concert together. Every man that came there with a woman would leave woman-less.
They were all with the soul stirrers, so they actually did perform together.
@@mingram7748 I am glad someone knows that they were in a group together. I was recently call a lie, when I said that.
Johnnie Taylor sang lead after Sam Cooke for The Soul Stirrers. Sam Cooke mentored Bobby Womack & his brothers & they were on his record label Bobby also played in Sam's band. They did not preform together for The Soul Stirrers
@@earldickerson5203 didn't at one time Bobby Womack brother put of a record or two ?
They WERE mostly all Soul Stirrers. You are right! I would also throw in David Ruffin & Marvin Gaye. I don't think they were Soul Stirrers . It's more, but can't think of them now!
The amazing J.T man never sang a bad song.
This is just the kinda clip that I've been looking for.
This live version is Johnnie's best performance of this song in my opinion. This is better than both his and Sam's studio recordings...Credit must also be given to that KICKING BAND....
Clarence "GATEMOUTH" Brown is the bandleader.
The show was called "THE BEAT"
The announcer was the great BILL "HOSSMAN ALLEN, of WLAC Nashville Tennessee fame. This show was shot in Nashville for only 1 year.....1966. It highlighted soul singers and their great music contributions. Little Milton and a host of soul singers enhanced their careers on this show. I was upset when it did not come back the next year.. It was AWESOME.
BILL was so famous for playing "black" or "soul" or "race" music as they used to say on the AM radio late at night. The station carried hundreds of miles at night, and I listened intently for years as a teenager in Louisiana.
For years I thought he was black because of his sound. So did many other folks. He truly loved soul music, and because of him, many black artists got their start.
Thanks Johnnie and HOSSMAN for this once in a lifetime piece of footage. I treasure it. I go back over and over to hear it again..... AWESOME!
I don't want to talk bad about Johnny's dancers behind him, but for all the good they did, they could have stood on the sidelines and picked their noses, or got themselves other jobs.
HOW ABOUT SOME BEAUTIFUL WOMEN TO ADD SOME CLASS AND STYLE??!!
I agree with everything you said.... except.. Johnnie has another live video of him singing Rome.. it's bad to the bone..LOL 🤣🙂🤣
Great history 👌
Lol @ what you said about Johnnie's dancers
@@asill.6668 They we’re NOT Johnnie,s dancers ,They we’re hired by the beat.
OMG! Loving this live performance, the one and only Mr. Johnnie Taylor. Sanggggg Johnnie, with your fine self! Johnnie was a young tenderoni right here, LOL! 🔥❤🎤
This makes me smile so much! Love Johnnie's voice!
I love Johnnie Taylor and I love when he sings this song
Men back then had a voices that stuck with you man since i heard this man JT sing this song at 14 his voice has stuck with me i am now 19
JESUS! That rock and sway he has takes me to my knees. Lord have mercy.
My husband stole my heart when he serenaded this to me.
That man is sanging his soul out.
If you ever had to see him in person, you got your money worth and more. When hit DC area, I was there, never miss a show.
He got the SWAGG he liiit smooth
Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Womack have reunited with each other in heaven and their legacies will have to live always and forever ♾ and live forever ♾ more!
Pure soul ! No dancers needed 🎤.
Just hearing this Clearly shows how much of an influence Sam Cooke had on him & how much he mentored him when he was just getting started.❤
Johnnie is the man. Very soulful
His voice🌹
Gone too soon, but left a legacy! His Music!!!
Johnnie Taylor is ALL of that 🔥💞😍! He could sing a nursery rhyme and have me mesmerized. He oozed swagger, undeniable talent, and was smooth as silk. I miss him 💝2024 and beyond I'll still be listening to his music....so soothing.
Miss this kind of music. R.I.P. 🌹
This is awesome..........so many versions of this song......all of them are amazing.......rip Johnnie Taylor, not unlike Sam Cooke, neither of you ever received the recognition you deserved.
This is my favorite version. I converted it to mp3. 😄
Angela M I agree with you 100 percent
JT's version is THE BEST‼️. Hands down ‼️. (2024)
@@theimmaculatecrownBecause it's the BEST VERSION. You know good sanging when you hear it.
Good ol' soul music..Classic..
J.T.REST IN PEACE,ANOTHER ONE OG THE GREATEST SOUL BROTHER SINGER
Ultimate voice - brilliant singer - sublime!
what! so where has this been all my life?!
Good evening 🌆 I asked the same question.🎺
J. Taylor = Straight Legend!! 💯
I have been looking for this for so long....so glad you shared it, thanks so much
easily my favourite jt performance
This is the best ish ever. What a voice and delivery by Johnnie!
I’m just proud to have the bloodline .My 3rd cousin ..Rip cuz💜
Whatever you say.
Don't, honey don't, go away, no no
Don't you hear, don't you hear,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day
Now, you know that I love you dear with all my heart
I know that you didn't love me from the start
But I planted a lil' seed in your heart I know
And it just needs time to grow, baby
Don't, honey don't, go away, no no
Don't you hear, don't you hear,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day
Listen to me honey now
How would Romeo feel if his Juliet
Had turned down his advances and played hard to get
He wouldn't have let this bother him, this I know
Because where there's light there's hope
Oh!
Baby, don't go away, no no
Don't you hear now, don't you hear now,
What I say, what I say
Give me time, give me time
I'm gonna make your love as strong as mine
But I know Rome wasn't built in a day
Don't you hear me telling you that
Rome wasn't built in a day
Don't you realize that
Rome wasn't built in a day
Can any girl imagine being with this. 🔥 Daddy, nice every which way 👄💕
That man had a voice!
True hard to tell if he sounded like Marvin or Sam
A mixture off both, but his own unique voice xxx sadly missed xxx
I ❤️ me some Johnnie Taylor, Rome wasn’t built in a day 💕
Best music in world
Do you hear what I say,,,,,Rome wasn't built in a day..... Love you Johnnie Taylor.... Sang in that heavenly choir Pete...
Rome wasn,t built in a day,take time for love 2 grow
Love this version.
JT was the man. I listen to this man's voice all the time...
He was HOTT! in the 60s and 70s!
I never realized how much he and Sam Cooke sound alike...wow. lol
All of the soul stirrers sound similar.
May I suggest Sam Cooke sound alike Louis Williams: czcams.com/video/mPTjgRyMpMc/video.html
Sam wrote the song, and Johnny was singing on Sam's label
@deezy duffus where johnny Gets his voice from
Mmm Burritos no cap just look him up and yea they sound so much alike it’s scary 💯😭
Dallas definitely claimed JT as our own! Great talent who never disappointed.
Great band n dancer
amazing voice
His emotives are pure Sam Cooke at this point, once JT got into the soul bag, his tremendous vocal talent got even stronger.
Don't hurt me Johnnie Taylor!
Amazing voice and performance. Blessed with a gift from God.
So awesome
I love this shyt. The ORIGINAL JTS!
Johnny Taylor was cool. I remember in probably the late 60's when at a factory in Illinois, a group of women machinists were all on cloud nine that Friday night--Johnny Taylor was about to marry somebody's cousin!
Marion Hempstead well if this is true ,then it had to be Harriet,Johnnie jr. and Sabrina,s mother ,because he only had two wives,the first one in Chicago and the second one he met in Los Angeles,calif. and married in Dallas,Texas her name was Jerlean.
Marion Hempstead And it was Not in the late sixties ,it was in 1956, the first marriage and 1970 the second .
Miss you JT
I Love This Song Bring Back So Many Good Memories For Me
JT was Special with his blues you Choose he brought the righteousness out in the Music that we love to hear🎩*
This should have been a bigger hit than it was.
Johnny was cruising around in a LAC with the 8-track pumped puffing a cigar, vodka and orange juice in plastic cups headed for a dive for a plate of catfish and fries with a case of Stroh's in a cooler in the trunk! Car full of homies talkin' shit lying our asses off guzzling the screwdrivers and catfish, enjoying life as we could! Good times!
RIP JT🌹🎈🙏Amen
I've never heard of him but his voice is smooth
Good evening🌙 I agree with you. Never heard of it.😥
u can hear the Sam Cooke lol
L truthteller yes he was also Sam Cooke’s replacement in the Soul Stirrers. Then he got signed by Sam Cooke to his record label
Issa blessing that Johnnie's vocals were amazing because the background dancers were horrendous
Not a great choreography to work with!
ABIELLA YISRAEL terrible 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Looked like they didnt want to be there..wow
James Brown would have fined they asses
The dancer to the left of the screen stopped moving his arms several times. The trumpet section was bad too!
you can really hear Sam's influence on this tune.
Yes, influence, but he does not 'sound' like him.
@Benjamin Shulman Right, to be honest I had never heard this song until I watched this video the first time. Soon as he stated singing I said it's almost like listening to Sam he must have written this song.
@@theimmaculatecrown he definitely has a grittier sound but he does sound quite similar to him.
He was Sam’s first protege
@@Kingjay_ATL Wow, so much history!
His tone timbre was special!
Who TF GAVE JOHNNY TAYLOR THUMBS DOWN PLAY WITH YO MAMMY NOT THE 👑
WOW-
nice guitar work on this one
Too cool
JOHNNIE fly as fuck!
That suittttttt
That don,t make music like this any more soul music
Arkansas Soul Singer
Amen!!!!!
Sam Cooke the GREATEST song writer,EVER,R.I.P.
RIP🎈🌹🙏Amen
think about how few people in world history were cooler than Johnnie Taylor
Sam Cooke and Mr. Taylor had the same style.
Love ❤️ it
Thank.you.johnnytaylor.samcook.for.this.music❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
He sound like Sam Cooke
Good ears👂🏻☺️... Sam Cooke wrote this tune & also recorded a version of his own!✴️...
I L⭕oooVe This song and this performance!!!💥...GREAT & Tight Band Too!! 🎷 🎺 🎷
ShaLom Music LoVer🎶
05/15/25
Thanks for the insight…however Johnny has his own personal opinion… my pox loved this one
great talent really missed
I love this performance. I come back to it quite a bit. He's obviously paying homage to Mr. Sam Cooke, while putting his own thing on it.
Wow.... yeah, so like Sam ❤️
Dallas Texas
💎💎💎
Sam Cooke vibes all over that song which JT recorded on Sam Cooke’s label SAR Records in ‘62, two years before the death of Sam Cooke in ‘64
RIP
The background dancers were not needed...
They added nothing.🤷🏽♀️
@@deemichelle Exactly!
Good evening🌙 You're entitled to your opinion.😥
I would love to have heard Otis Redding cover it.
Classic! 💯👌👊
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