sniperjay0916 OMG You just hit a home run with those comments TRUE DAT! ! Those were the good old days carefree indeed Thank God for UTUBE that's my time machine 4SURE! ! MEMORIES WOW! !
@ Had to tell my best friend my son was conceived when he and my ex were together listened to this for ever can we find a way we truly were not over each other this song let's me know make sure it's over people get hurt in love triangles
I was the "you" in these lyrics. That was 35 years ago and if I go down that road it's still painful! But by the grace if God I made it through that sad period of my life.
Yes I feel the same way and this wasn't the only song that I really like as a kid I also like atlantic-starr-secret-lovers even though I didn't understand the meaning of these songs until I became an adult
My mom would leave the old school radio station on her alarm clock on at night, I’d wake up in the middle of the night laying in bed at age 6 staring at the ceiling taking in the beautiful music. Now I feel nostalgic
My mother use to listen to these type of songs as she got ready for work.. not knowing it would sink into me & this type of r&b is in my soul love & miss mom❤️💔
RADIO STATION WBLS NEW YORK CITY... has been playing this Song from Fridays to Sundays on loop... Day and Night ... from 1984 until NOW - 2024. This Song is a Master Piece ❤
The SOS band came to perform at my place of employ when I was a college student in my college town. It was a restaurant. I remember the restaurant owner being upset because not enough Ticket sales.
karameldreem Tawatha can sang and she is gorgeous fine and curvy I’m wondering how did mtume keep it together singing next to her those outfits she wore classy but u can tell she s curvy but I also respect her singing
1-10-2022 - Rest In Power, Brother Mtume. Thank you for providing a wonderful soundtrack to our lives through tv, movies, and of course, on the dance floor. May God grant blessings of Comfort and Strength to your family and other loved ones.
Do y'all understand how fantastic this song is? The instruments, the sound, style, voices and lyrics....the message Take some time to appreciate the timeless sounds of Mtume
Do you notice how music like is timeless? Amazing how no matter what decade you are in, the experiences of what is communicated in songs like this applies to situations of today. 30+ years later still applies. Even my children who are teenagers listen to this and say...I understand what is going on. suggestion, do not force your kids to listen, just start cooking in the kitchen and play some of your old stuff and watch their reaction....it is priceless!!!
@@joshbrinson9246 Same homie. 24 yrs old, but I was raised around nothing but old school. And to this day I cant listen to anything other than old school.
Wow! This takes me back to 1984 when I was fresh out of Navy boot camp and partying at the Marines base in San Diego, Ca! What's so crazy is that me and a fellow shipmate were jamming up to cousins and this song came on so I asked the one my friend was feeling for a dance and the rest is history! She said she was glad I made that decision to ask for that dance. Hard to believe it's been nearly 37 years! A lot has happened in that time but one is the same, good music that makes the memories sweet!
Thank you for all of the answers I got about juicy fruit and now I'm going to ask you about this song it's called shake you down but I like the song give me your answerit's from Greg I don't remember his last name but I know his first name was great it's called shake you down
Yup, this song is deep and very groovy. The irony is that this R&B classic wasn't written as a 'break-up' song. The lyrics are about a couple trying to reconcile infidelity in order to save their relationship. Kinda like trying to stop a cruise ship from sinking by sucking up the water through a soda straw. Damn.
God had to add Mtume to his ultimate music collection in heaven! Masterpiece/masterclass of a most harmonious, soulful, lyrically meaningful, body moving, treasure of a R&B song! Even the saxophonist is making the Saxophone sing! Lord have mercy type of once in any lifetime music!
And before any of this he was the percussionist in Miles Davis’s innovative funk fusion bands of the early to mid 70s czcams.com/video/VGXmaY_GEkU/video.html
All time classic, poetic, ballad, and R&B masterpiece/masterclass song of love! The lyrics, the musicians, the instrumentals (especially the saxophonist), the singers, and the overall production! The duet is magnificent and fantastic! 1980s R&B music/songs will always be the best! Even the creativity and classiness of this video was ahead of it's time! The men are debonair in their tuxedos/suits, and the women are absolutely elegant in their dresses! 1980s was one of the greatest decades/era ever! Respect and salute to Mtume!
@@HolyRollerTV 1980s R&B! The best! Please go debate someone else! Respect the memory if the late great: composer, singer/songwriter, musician, arranger, humanitarian and a man amongst men! James Mtume! God bless his soul and rest in glory forever. Salute!
I forgot all about this song. I would take oldies but goodies any day. Songs like this really have you thinking 🤔 it's really taking place in our lives now.
OMG Leasha You just hit a homerun with those comments 4SURE!!!!!! .What a MASTERPIECE AMEN ❤ 💖 🙏 Still listening how about December 07 2021 Real music with meaningful lyrics u can understand 4REAL!!!!!❤
HALLIGALLI I know what you mean. I am as white as can be but I will belt out this song with all of my heart! I was a young teen when this came out and I still love it to this day.
Them drums hits like a hammer in this jam.Classic soul,this is the essence of the black experience of my era.Sorry to you all that missed it .Sadly it won't be ever duplicated again,people and times has changed.
Still playing this in 2024❤
Indeed- alot of ppl have really missed out on this
Me too, girl😊
Loud and proud💯
Of Course !!!!!
Yes best generation ever. 70s and 80s
I have never heard this song a day in my life but 17 year old acting like somebody grandpa got me to checking this out 😂
Same reason I'm here
Lmao! That’s how I got here too. I really hate the internet
Same 😂
Me too!!!!!
Same 😂
Grown folk music … they don’t make a music like this no more and everybody nowadays forgot about the saxophone!
RIP, James Mtume. Your music will always live on.
Facts
We lost a very good one.
Music for for the soul ❤️
Ain't nothing like that Old School Music.
Amen..!
I forgot all about this song...
Who is still listening in 2020?
Every weekend love old school
I do
Yasss
This one of them quiet storm jams
I can't never forget any 80's R&B, too many smooth tracks. just way too many GREAT Artists!!!! I still listen everyday
Me
I understand why I’m stuck in the 80’s
Great music
They won't leave us alone the 80s soo good
I don't think I'll ever leave. Haha.
Been stuck back there for the last 35 years. No music can touch this era.
Osmond Bramble definitely understand..you felt
every word
2024 still listening 🔥
It’s 2023 still listening, music like this is not made anymore…R.I.P. J Mtume
Damn thats some sexy ass quiet storm sht!Miss them good ole days.
sniperjay0916 OMG You just hit a home run with those comments TRUE DAT! ! Those were the good old days carefree indeed Thank God for UTUBE that's my time machine 4SURE! ! MEMORIES WOW! !
We took that stuff for granted, and one day we woke and all the good R and B was gone!
Emmanuel A. Otiko sad but true bro!
I remember Quiet Storm with Delilah lol
@@penelopepitstop762
Yes in deed
This is what you call music.
NuFinancial Behold, All Things Become NU Right 100% True Classic
Right
Good music
@ Had to tell my best friend my son was conceived when he and my ex were together listened to this for ever can we find a way we truly were not over each other this song let's me know make sure it's over people get hurt in love triangles
Yes indeed
Very thankful for the contributions of James Mtume (rip) to the sound of Black music history. 🕊💓🕊
In real life
Brother Mtume!!
@@latiapickens5466 oolplplppp
SALUTE 😎 RIP
Love the song bring back good old memories
I was the "you" in these lyrics. That was 35 years ago and if I go down that road it's still painful! But by the grace if God I made it through that sad period of my life.
This is what we called today "toxic"- ;-)
This song is scandalous but it's old school, I love it ❤
Jessica Pettaway yess I’m thoughts exactly 🤣
Right!
Yes but it's so nice.....guess we're scandalous. 🤭
Everyday situations... Whether it's he or she...
😂😂😂
Damn to be 10 in 84 wow! Loved this as a little girl. Didn't quite understand it but I knew that was too many players--You,me & he...
Real talk. We knew the words as kids but didn't know the meanings until adulthood. No Google in the 70's and 80's
@@rayr271 and 90s 🤭
That Saxophone player ain't playing***
😄😄😄😄😄you knew something wasn't quite right. Til this day, you still cant agreeably have your cake and eat the pie too. Something got to give!
Yes I feel the same way and this wasn't the only song that I really like as a kid I also like atlantic-starr-secret-lovers even though I didn't understand the meaning of these songs until I became an adult
My mom would leave the old school radio station on her alarm clock on at night, I’d wake up in the middle of the night laying in bed at age 6 staring at the ceiling taking in the beautiful music. Now I feel nostalgic
SONG CAME TO ME FROM "LET ME KNOW..." HAD TO HEAR IT
Good Days💋💋
@@Prettygirl-xp9hp o
Real music!!!
This kind off songs u cant find lovely song that puts u to sleep
My mother use to listen to these type of songs as she got ready for work.. not knowing it would sink into me & this type of r&b is in my soul love & miss mom❤️💔
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Lawddddddd bring back the 80's!!!!!!!
I AM MELANIN GODDESS OMG I'm with you all the way on those comments TRUE DAT! Ode skool music soothes the soul can I get a AMEN! !
I AM MELANIN GODDESS Thank God for UTUBE that's my time machine 4REAL! !
Just the music not the cocaine and crack 😂
WHAT U SAID💯
❤😂🎉❤❤❤❤😢
She was one of the first chicks to have a "Side Dude". Smh and Lol
I love R&B ...This music from the 80's was some of thee BEST music! 😍
Right
Brave
Naw, she's just the first woman to go public. 😂
LOL too funny.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
RADIO STATION WBLS NEW YORK CITY... has been playing this Song from Fridays to Sundays on loop... Day and Night ... from 1984 until NOW - 2024.
This Song is a Master Piece ❤
I’m an 80s baby. Man, this song hits different when you in your zone 💯♥️
Agree
I’m 1980 January. Agreed
July 1980!
She asked him "What WE gonna do baby"....and men think they pimpin....😂😂😂😂😂
Mz. Gemini lol
Say it again 😂😂
Yo!! 😭
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
That intro.... Dammmmmmmmm
IKR, that's a great 41 seconds I can listen to over and over and over
Golden
Amazing
AWESOME
Aramat Jackson lit as hell
Her vocal skills are on another level.
She is underrated!!
Tawatha Agee. She was a studio singer on Luther Vandross’s first few albums along with Cissy Houston (Whitney’s mom).
Song still slappin’ in 2023 till infinity ❗️❗️❗️
I LOVE ME SOME MTUME AND THE SOS BAND
yep my favorite too
I never knew who made this but always loved it...still do
Yes SOS,Mtume, Atlantic Starr, Alexander O'Neal and Cherrelle
The SOS band came to perform at my place of employ when I was a college student in my college town. It was a restaurant. I remember the restaurant owner being upset because not enough Ticket sales.
Yes..lol
Props to Mtume for forcing the label execs to put majority black people in the video.
mrcabone god bless to him.and I love his community segment with Reverend Al sharpton's ,hour of power.
He was on some Black Power type stuff for real!
That's Wazzup
@user
Defend your point with the solo acts & you will never be able to do so
Your observation hardly holds up with the all-Black Groups
@@destressfrlyf843 ??????????
That sax player was 🔥🔥
Why does this only have 1 million views? This is a classic! Especially this version.
I know right doesnt make sense😭😥
for a song that was mostly on black radio, and almost 40 years old, it's doing pretty good
Ikr?!😂
Unsung classic.
Right this song is so DAMN GOOD 😊
This is when music had a meaning!!!
Facts mama
Mytume in
For real
For real
This song is still stellar, it's a classic. I love Tawatha Agee.
karameldreem Tawatha can sang and she is gorgeous fine and curvy I’m wondering how did mtume keep it together singing next to her those outfits she wore classy but u can tell she s curvy but I also respect her singing
Thigh Ride 💖
Tawatha went on to decent solo career and then sang background vocals for Luther Vandross for years until his death along with Lisa Fischer...
She can blow!!
@@derrickcrawford2581 Tawatha was thought by one of the best Sissy Houston.
One of the best love songs ever written!!!
♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥
James Mtume has so many hits under his name. He should truly be spoken in the same conversations as Smokey...
80's greatest era for music. That sax breakdown in this song is everything.
Word.
People my age (late 30s) always say 90s r&b. 80s is where it's at. They sampled all this from the 80s
Agreed
Always had thing for the Sax, omg, what it did to body
And I think he was the same player on Phil Collins one more night.
2020- Can't Leave This Hit Alone.... Timeless!!!
Me niether
1-10-2022 - Rest In Power, Brother Mtume. Thank you for providing a wonderful soundtrack to our lives through tv, movies, and of course, on the dance floor. May God grant blessings of Comfort and Strength to your family and other loved ones.
Smokin a blunt and listening to it now
Do y'all understand how fantastic this song is? The instruments, the sound, style, voices and lyrics....the message Take some time to appreciate the timeless sounds of Mtume
Vibes
RIP MTUME! What beautiful music!!🎼🎶🎻⛲🎻🎹🎵
Just like u said appreciate mtume.
Love it!
I agree with you wholeheartedly
Do you notice how music like is timeless? Amazing how no matter what decade you are in, the experiences of what is communicated in songs like this applies to situations of today. 30+ years later still applies. Even my children who are teenagers listen to this and say...I understand what is going on. suggestion, do not force your kids to listen, just start cooking in the kitchen and play some of your old stuff and watch their reaction....it is priceless!!!
James Simmons yes i feel the same way I’m only 24 but i feel like i can still relate to this song this song is timeless 🤯
I hear what you are saying, that's how I got to appreciate this music & my pops would tell me that, as I get older, I'll be more in tuned. RIP Dad
💯❤️😍 I don't have kids but I teach my nieces & nephews
@@joshbrinson9246 Same homie. 24 yrs old, but I was raised around nothing but old school. And to this day I cant listen to anything other than old school.
I agree cousin :)
RIP....rappers sampled the hell out of this man's music and one of the greatest percussionist that never gets his full props.
Wow! This takes me back to 1984 when I was fresh out of Navy boot camp and partying at the Marines base in San Diego, Ca! What's so crazy is that me and a fellow shipmate were jamming up to cousins and this song came on so I asked the one my friend was feeling for a dance and the rest is history! She said she was glad I made that decision to ask for that dance. Hard to believe it's been nearly 37 years! A lot has happened in that time but one is the same, good music that makes the memories sweet!
Thank you for all of the answers I got about juicy fruit and now I'm going to ask you about this song it's called shake you down but I like the song give me your answerit's from Greg I don't remember his last name but I know his first name was great it's called shake you down
This is the granddaddy of all break up songs. If you're going through a break up, it will have the hardest cat crying his eyes out.
Yes
Yup, this song is deep and very groovy. The irony is that this R&B classic wasn't written as a 'break-up' song. The lyrics are about a couple trying to reconcile infidelity in order to save their relationship. Kinda like trying to stop a cruise ship from sinking by sucking up the water through a soda straw. Damn.
@Keith The Faith Show you Right!!!!
This and secret lovers by Atlantic star with came year after and as we lay by shirley Murdock
U said granddaddy lol
I keep this on my rotation, it's definitely a classic
Kelly Rufus yes indeed
I'll always play it
Songs that told a story. A mini movie in a song form. ❤️
Jarrett Billups made me come here!🤣🤣🤣
Great Unsung on James Mtume tonight, miss this kind of music !!
Lawrence Davis i saw it too. I knew the music but never knew about James Mtume. Learned a lot.
Me Too!
Damn that sax is too smooth 🔥
No doubt. The brotha was smooth with it😎
God had to add Mtume to his ultimate music collection in heaven!
Masterpiece/masterclass of a most harmonious, soulful, lyrically meaningful,
body moving, treasure of a R&B song!
Even the saxophonist is making the Saxophone sing!
Lord have mercy type of once in any lifetime music!
bumping this in my vehiculuh
lolllll
Who's still listening to this jam in 2020?
Apparently not you , keep listening to the lost music
Fool we listen daily
I am miss a lot of those songs
👐🏾🎶💃🏽🕺🏽💃🏽🎶2021
@@astinmartin413 me too
Classic !!!! Who agrees???
A classic example of being torn between two lovers
R.I.P. To Legendary James Mtume, Thanks for the beautiful music!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼😪
Come through with this classic!!! Let’s bring back real music like this in 2018!!!
I think so!
lets start appreciating our music better than what were doing now pls
RIP James Mtume; thank you for leaving us with all of your great songs.
Love Love Diss Song still listening 2024 disss is what ya call music 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Good music is undeniable!! 👏👏👏👏1980's baby
MTUME.... Music director for the show "New York Undercover".
And before any of this he was the percussionist in Miles Davis’s innovative funk fusion bands of the early to mid 70s
czcams.com/video/VGXmaY_GEkU/video.html
He was and is still nice with the production and instrumentals!
The music was fire on that show
RIP James Mtume! Great musician/songwriter 🙏🏾🕊❤️
Yes
I love Everything about this song 🎯🎯🎯🎯
Unsung brought me here! Mtume was the shit. 🔥
I remember this from the 1980s and I’m still listening in 2018 and enjoying it 😊👍🏾
BDFann classic#80sjams
Me too the back ground music was the reason I like listening to this song in the early years
2019 🙋
Me too! Here I am listening (to it) in 2019.
2019
2023 still listening too this 💞💞💞💞
Rest in everlasting peace the musical genius of yesteryear that is Mtume 🙏🏾....I salute your catalogue of music 🎶 🎵
All time classic, poetic, ballad, and R&B masterpiece/masterclass song of love!
The lyrics, the musicians, the instrumentals
(especially the saxophonist),
the singers, and the overall production!
The duet is magnificent and fantastic!
1980s R&B music/songs will always be the best!
Even the creativity and classiness of this video was ahead of it's time!
The men are debonair in their tuxedos/suits, and the women are absolutely elegant in their dresses!
1980s was one of the greatest decades/era ever!
Respect and salute to Mtume!
@@HolyRollerTV 1980s R&B!
The best!
Please go debate someone else!
Respect the memory if the late great: composer, singer/songwriter, musician, arranger, humanitarian and a man amongst men!
James Mtume!
God bless his soul and rest in glory forever. Salute!
Wow what a song, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck rise when I listen to it, 34 years later
PavementWarrior ,I'm with u on that
U right
It’s because of all the space between things and every little sound that comes in is perfect
Absolutely!!
2023 and this still hits ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Rest in Power James Mtume 🕊🕊🙏🏾🙏🏾
Are You Me and He still listening to this Jam in 2020?
2023
My favorite song by Mtume!!! #classic
R.IP brother. Thank you for the love you poured into your music.
We know why SOME of y'all are here! 😂😂
Yep 🤣🤣 Young man got an old soul and good taste in music ❤
I’m lost
@@Riqdakid Then you must not be part of the SOME. 🤣
Came before my Time ", no expiration date!!.😊
@@Riqdakid.s 😊
Sounds of the black household. Absolutely beautiful music.
Yes
hahahahahahaha @ 4:13
God I want to be 10 in 1984 again. So much good music!
I was 10 also in 84.'
I was born in 84
LMAO
Me to Vic lol
victornewman06 cool
Video of the young man singing this on Instagram bought me here 😂😂
Me too😊
R.I.P. James Mtume. 😔
I am playing this during the quarantine stuck in the house
JEDASE me too
Me too. What a coincidence. I just ran across the name James Mtume in Supermensch. Never heard of him before. Now I’ll have to look up his Unsung bio.
@@MsSuperSuds oh oh I will probably check that out
Same
Yass I’m working out now 🙌🏾🙌🏾😂🎤😜😒
This so reminds me of my childhood. #80sBaby
TheDark&Lovely 1 YO me too my mom hopped me to this!
Me too. I didn’t understand the song until I got older.
Mine too! I LOVED being a kid in the 80's!
@@butterflylovenj7300 my 5 yr old butt did!
0ToleranceWhatsoever 0 Yep!
Who else revisited because of that hilarious young black boy on Tik Tok/Twitter? 😂😂
Ohh my gosh!!! What beautiful music!!! I'm back in the eighties...love it! True musicians and singers. Thanks Mtume for this beautiful classic.
This song take me back 1984.
Still rocking to this in 2020 ♥️
I forgot all about this song. I would take oldies but goodies any day. Songs like this really have you thinking 🤔 it's really taking place in our lives now.
OMG Leasha You just hit a homerun with those comments 4SURE!!!!!! .What a MASTERPIECE AMEN ❤ 💖 🙏 Still listening how about December 07 2021 Real music with meaningful lyrics u can understand 4REAL!!!!!❤
Rest In Peace & Power to the great James Mtume🕊🕊🙏🏽
@1:00 chills - Tawatha's vocals are just incredible.
Yes...she's incredible!!
🎻, 🎹, drums, 🎸, and that 🎷 made this song a badass jam.
terry tyler yess....
One of the most innovative songs ever made. Definitely ahead of it's time!
Rest Peacefully. Little pieces of my childhood being chipped away little by little. Love this jam. 🙏🏾❤
True CLASSIC! This song ain't gonna neva get old to me!!!
I love this song!! especially the instruments
@Leslie Levert [Vision Services] just out of curiosity where did you find instrumental, Thank you and good morning Ma'am.
Me too
The highschooler with the long slides reminded me of this classic. Vehicler 😂
This is classic for sure!!! This was the true R&B sound!! This era really had u thinking about ur relationship!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I am a White man,but I think my Soul is black and funky;-)
HALLIGALLI I know what you mean. I am as white as can be but I will belt out this song with all of my heart! I was a young teen when this came out and I still love it to this day.
Well I'm a black man and I can admit that alot of white singers were jamming in the 80's!!!! Mainly Madonna and Phil Collins!!!!
Jam white man, this is some good music. Music has no colour
@@nickj3513 and hall and oates
@@midwestking100 good point!!!!
I miss this kind of music it's so soulful ,2020 who's else agrees with me 👌👌👌
2023 🙌🏾
Carla Linton Another one of my Favorite songs by Mtume is called. You, Me and he. This is one of my favorite Old School Jams back in the day.
Great song....
Them drums hits like a hammer in this jam.Classic soul,this is the essence of the black experience of my era.Sorry to you all that missed it .Sadly it won't be ever duplicated again,people and times has changed.
I agree 👍
Mtume, legendary r & b love it im so blessed to be born in 67 .
Amp,thefreethinker, I feel ya on that! Jan 1967 for me.
Amp,thefreethinker July 67
Amp,thefreethinker old school for life
08/24/1971
Yes Lawd best times
I loved this song when it first came out. A true classic and real music never dies.
80's and 90's music 🎶 is still the best music ever. 70's baby here. 1976!