At the places I went to in the winter of 1975 this song sounded so original and energizing - nothing else sounded remotely like it. Even people that didn’t dance wanted to dance. There was definitely something in the air during those times. And alternating between wide flared jeans and black platform shoes and painters pants with blue and yellow suede sneakers. What style the 70s had!
I enjoyed this song so much! Was a little girl about to grow up fast and dance dance till I dropped! So glad to have had the good times that would get me through hardships....memories are not us living in the past they help us if we remember the good more than the bad.🙏❤❤
My Dad used to put this on when I was kid (years after it came out) and danced around the living room with me and my two brothers following him! Happy Memories!! Made me fall in love with this song!!!
At the Zodiac Lounge in Trenton New Jersey in 1975 this song would come on and energized everyone in their flared jeans and painters pants and those translucent ribbed plastic belts that were such a thing at the time. And platform shoes though I think they were on their way out by then. And the way the word “disco” was now used as something edgy and fresh.
Shirley was from New Orleans, La. Her first hit was "Let the Good Times Roll" with a childhood friend named Lenonard Lee. (As Shirley and Lee.) She's buried in Mt. Olivette Cemetery in the Gentilly area if New Orleans. I've been gathering info on her life, which was fascinating. I see a book in it!
This song has such a chokehold on my childhood, her speaking voice and the scream always made me laugh and it's such a pleasure to revisit it again now~
The real power of this great song is not so much that choppy beat, but the extraordinary vocals of Jesus Alvares - what a singer. Hats off and thank you man
That's your opinion, Blood. I happen to love Ms. Shirley's voice. I had the pleasure of meeting her on several occasions and you will never meet a more warm and living lady. A true class act IMHO! If this song really annoys you that much, don't listen! Plain and simple!
WOW, forgot about this tune-- that's what makes CZcams so awesome, re-discovering a song like this! I play songs I know and like, and see a link to another song with title/artists I don't know of, click the link, and find another classic!!! Brilliant!
I listen to the oldies but hadn't heard this song in years. While in Pittsburgh, PA last year in April we walked into the Hotel at Station Square where this song was playing for a private party. It was fantastic and I stayed within hearing distance until the song finished. Thanks for posting, now I can hear it again and again.
shirley was popular in the 50s. also, you tube "tuba skinny" and watch young people dance to music of 1920s. we can't tuba s. back in new orleans because europe has entrapped them.
The movie "Pride" brought me here. I thought ...how great it might be and how much fun to play this song live somewhere. People would be jumping off shit.
I am known as a soul/rock 'n' roll DJ, and this is always a shoo-in. People's footwork matches the huge smiles on their faces. It cannot be duplicated. It is nothing but a celebration. Trivia? Look up Sylvia Robinson, and also, go find out what a "diamond in the back" is. Sheesh, the 1970s...
Yeah. Jason Alvarez made it electric. I know it was him that hit the high note at first and the second. If you listen to it carefully, that was Shirley Goodman on the second part.
A great song from Shirley & Company! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '70s" (from February 22nd, 1975), & was the #35 song. Bravo, Shirley & Co.!
@@LeeLeeWilliams-1908 You know. I analyze it more. That second shout during his time in the verse, Shirley Goodman was the one that returned that high note. I thought it was Alavarez! But this shows that both of them did a great job for the song.
J'ai envie d'chialer quand j'entends cette chanson 😔😭 elle me rappelle ma maman qui avait le 45 tours et qui l'écoutait en boucle sur son petit tourne disque. Maman......🙏❤❤❤ Je t'aime au delà des ⭐⭐⭐
Yes Pride the movie brought me here ... Wow heard this song when I was a kid ... Loved this song... Thank you to the folks that complied the soundtrack to this film... Bravo
+Diane Evans Same here Diane, I was a DJ at the time and I wore that record out cause people loved it so much... First disco record that started it all...
A #1 hit for Shirley & Company on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 318th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #12 on the Top 40 charts. It also hit #1 on the US Dance charts and in Germany. It went to #6 in the United Kingdom.
David Hamilton had this as his Record of the Week on Radio One when it first came out on the All Platinum label in spring 1975. The single release peaked at #7 on the UK charts as well.
Hadn't heard this one for some forty years. A nice bit of Johnny Otis/Bo Diddley rhythm to back up a superb treatment. Thanks for the posting, man. My foot just dropped off again.
Bonsoir je lis vos messages, oui, je confirme, c était une merveilleuse époque et une merveilleuse chanson, pleine de rythme de joie de vivre, j étais jeune et belle et je me déhanchais !!! Ah le bon vieux temps!!
Seventies disco ! Drive the Cortina down to the pub & have a few pints of Watneys Red. Play a few tunes on the juke box & try to chat up the barmaid (sorry, barperson !) before driving home & watching Dave Allan & Benny Hill on the telly ! Good times & good music !
"God I missed disco."
x PRIDE x
So, you are not Welsh, right?
;-)
Internationale7 MISS
Internationale7 He's going to teach me to be a women magnet
Carl Evans
Youre gays have arrived!!!
I remember when my mom brought this home on a 45 and played and played and played it...I miss my mom. RIP Mom...hope to see you again in Heaven!
👍👍👍
Amen
Девчонка ,я ,старый ,я с ТОБОЙ!!!!!
Now that's what I call music you can dance to ❤
I think if you don't at least tap a foot or pop a shoulder there's something wrong with you.
I am chair dancing as I hear thus again after so many years.
@@rebeccalaird4124👍👍👍
Those were the best days . What a song
Couldn’t agree more ! Our local youth club disco played some great tunes , remember this one growing up in Dublin !☘️
Yasss
Already 2020, and I'm still watching "Pride", and always remember this song, and "God, I missed disco" 😂
Yes 😂👍
Exactly! I came here after watching Pride and it's 2022!
Old is but eternal is^^ haaaaa wèèèè ce son redonnera le moral toute personne l'ayant perdu😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Bein Siempre. Aye dios mio .. Hermosa corazón .. bendiciones . Papi ..❤️💯🙏🏾
I first heard this in a museum in Mexico. The display was a bouncing yellow ball in a room by itself. My friend started dancing.
At the places I went to in the winter of 1975 this song sounded so original and energizing - nothing else sounded remotely like it. Even people that didn’t dance wanted to dance. There was definitely something in the air during those times. And alternating between wide flared jeans and black platform shoes and painters pants with blue and yellow suede sneakers. What style the 70s had!
Yes !! ❤
This song kept you on the dancefloor 🎶❤🎶👍🎺
I enjoyed this song so much! Was a little girl about to grow up fast and dance dance till I dropped! So glad to have had the good times that would get me through hardships....memories are not us living in the past they help us if we remember the good more than the bad.🙏❤❤
My Dad used to put this on when I was kid (years after it came out) and danced around the living room with me and my two brothers following him! Happy Memories!! Made me fall in love with this song!!!
COvid got him?
This song is in scene in film Gifted so can just imagine you all x
U was lucky. My dad was a misery and a tyrant ❤
De la joie et de la bonne humeur ! Super chanson ! un retraité âgé de 66 ans .
😊😊😊
How did this song slip past me growing up in the 1970s with disco, pop/rock, and soul? LOVE this!
One of the greatest in the disco era
Oui !!!! Cette chanson me rend dingue 😜
The disco era gone not forgotten
This was on our Whopper greatest hits in Australia in 1975 one of my first albums I ever heard - and wow how fabulous is this song 🥰
At the Zodiac Lounge in Trenton New Jersey in 1975 this song would come on and energized everyone in their flared jeans and painters pants and those translucent ribbed plastic belts that were such a thing at the time. And platform shoes though I think they were on their way out by then. And the way the word “disco” was now used as something edgy and fresh.
Shirley was from New Orleans, La. Her first hit was "Let the Good Times Roll" with a childhood friend named Lenonard Lee. (As Shirley and Lee.) She's buried in Mt. Olivette Cemetery in the Gentilly area if New Orleans. I've been gathering info on her life, which was fascinating. I see a book in it!
Pride brought me here, and some of the best disco dancing in a small Welsh mining Workingmen's Club.
The Welsh men don't dance do they!? 🤣
Don't forget Dominic West - sex on legs 😄
Hi Jeremy. My family ancestry is Welsh. How are you all doing over there? Good music knows no boundaries. Keep on dancing.
My favourite song from the disco era. Catch me if you can😊 i feel like a teenie again. I grew up in the 70's, what a great time that was!
This song has such a chokehold on my childhood, her speaking voice and the scream always made me laugh and it's such a pleasure to revisit it again now~
one of the best disco songs of its time
Standing at Redfern Station dancing and I aint a shame to dance .... this songgggggg is LIT!! 💣💥💎❤❤
You go girl!
CHOOOON!!! Song of my youth. Although at the time I always thought it was "Shame shame shame - SHAME ON YOU! IF YOU CAN'T LASSOO!"
I Was 2 years at this time
I remember this song, it's cool 👍🌞
GREAT song!! A real classic!!
Como é o nome desta música?
"Got my sun-roof down, got my diamonds in the back". Fabulous 1975 memories. Released on December 28, 1974, reaching # 12 on March 29.
The real power of this great song is not so much that choppy beat, but the extraordinary vocals of Jesus Alvares - what a singer.
Hats off and thank you man
The memories this brings back! This was disco at its best.
That's your opinion, Blood. I happen to love Ms. Shirley's voice. I had the pleasure of meeting her on several occasions and you will never meet a more warm and living lady. A true class act IMHO! If this song really annoys you that much, don't listen! Plain and simple!
WOW, forgot about this tune-- that's what makes CZcams so awesome, re-discovering a song like this! I play songs I know and like, and see a link to another song with title/artists I don't know of, click the link, and find another classic!!! Brilliant!
I love and miss The Sopranos. RIP James Gandolfini.
I LOVE this song, and the beat !!
I listen to the oldies but hadn't heard this song in years. While in Pittsburgh, PA last year in April we walked into the Hotel at Station Square where this song was playing for a private party. It was fantastic and I stayed within hearing distance until the song finished. Thanks for posting, now I can hear it again and again.
Моя молодость. Лучшая песня 1975.
Great song God bless you sweetie forever
Way word good old days.I was tall,lean,handsome,well hung.I had a wonderful time.These days married,children,slippers,coffee,chilled out.
This is the definition of nostalgia. Quite literally, like, dayum.
Jamming to this at Lowe’s this morning working. Had to look it up. 28 years old in November!!
Was 16 when this hit the charts. Came out December 28, 1975 one day after my birthday
BANGING Tune frome a great band and era, not to mention its on the movie Pride. Excellent scene with Dominic West..
Those were the good old days of disco and 70s music.
hell yes!!!!
shirly goes back to shirly and lee in new orleans in the 50s.
I have never seen young adults between 21 and40 dancing off of the music of the 60 s and 70 s music with soul and beat!!!!!!!!.
shirley was popular in the 50s. also, you tube "tuba skinny" and watch young people dance to music of 1920s. we can't tuba s. back in new orleans because europe has entrapped them.
The movie "Pride" brought me here. I thought ...how great it might be and how much fun to play this song live somewhere. People would be jumping off shit.
It was on Sky movies in the background..... Felt my hips shaking lol awesome
I am known as a soul/rock 'n' roll DJ, and this is always a shoo-in. People's footwork matches the huge smiles on their faces. It cannot be duplicated. It is nothing but a celebration. Trivia? Look up Sylvia Robinson, and also, go find out what a "diamond in the back" is. Sheesh, the 1970s...
Sylvia ushered in a whole new age.
reginald barnes same
Great little tune, love the screamer, thank you.
Yeah. Jason Alvarez made it electric. I know it was him that hit the high note at first and the second. If you listen to it carefully, that was Shirley Goodman on the second part.
A great song from Shirley & Company! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '70s" (from February 22nd, 1975), & was the #35 song.
Bravo, Shirley & Co.!
Love how Jesus Alvarez comes in with his vocals the brother can SANG!! 🙌🏾 💃🏾
I would have thought he was black! He's got SOUL man! One of the best singers I have ever heard in my life!
@@NoOne-kr4jc Haha I thought he was black too 😆
@@LeeLeeWilliams-1908 You know. I analyze it more. That second shout during his time in the verse, Shirley Goodman was the one that returned that high note. I thought it was Alavarez! But this shows that both of them did a great job for the song.
@@NoOne-kr4jc In this video it looks like he's hitting the note… czcams.com/video/U0mjlDDk3tE/video.html
I remember in '75 listening to this on the AM radio, dreaming of buying my first car and having my sunroof down and my diamond in the back...
J'ai envie d'chialer quand j'entends cette chanson 😔😭 elle me rappelle ma maman qui avait le 45 tours et qui l'écoutait en boucle sur son petit tourne disque. Maman......🙏❤❤❤ Je t'aime au delà des ⭐⭐⭐
Yes Pride the movie brought me here ... Wow heard this song when I was a kid ... Loved this song... Thank you to the folks that complied the soundtrack to this film... Bravo
I love this song!
I was 14 that time and I used to listen to this hit so often! Thanks a million for posting this memory.
Good taste of music brought me here.
me too!!!
Me three!
Me 4 lol
Meeeeeeeee
Ya,let's Groove.if you can't pass 2am.just three words!!!.
This lady Shirley was a bomb... with those unforgettable years...
Excellent tune, thanks for the memories!!
one of my favorite songs growing up, bless my mom's disco compilations vinyl collection
The ending of pride makes me cry
This song should be played at funeral, people would rise to dance, we could save lots of people :o
Great idea hehe .. gonna play it at mine, might bring me back for 1 last boogie \\0//
SO SO SO true! Peiole need uplifting feelings, music, movement, joy, lightness...not medicines, scary news, passiveness... Let's celebrate life!
GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE NEW YORK WAS HOPPING TO THIS SONG IN SEPTEMBER OF 1974. WOW WHAT A SONG. FAN IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
oh my gosh, this brings back such good memories!
+Diane Evans
Same here Diane, I was a DJ at the time and I wore that record out cause people loved it so much... First disco record that started it all...
LOVVVVED it then as a kid and still LOVVVE it :) I always sing it too LOL ---love that diamond in the back
I listen to this song every morning. Reminds me to celebrate life! DANCE!
A #1 hit for Shirley & Company on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 318th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #12 on the Top 40 charts. It also hit #1 on the US Dance charts and in Germany. It went to #6 in the United Kingdom.
What a great song. The late 70s were a lot of fun. Listening to Hollywood Nightshift with Frazier Smith and the guys from Firesign Theater...
It remembers me my best friend in school…we were 15 years old in 1975… Eduardo Ve..... Longings.
1975...I was 15! :) I remember dancing to it at..."afternoon" disco lol
I was 5 years old yes I Rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran Desert we are all African
David Hamilton had this as his Record of the Week on Radio One when it first came out on the All Platinum label in spring 1975. The single release peaked at #7 on the UK charts as well.
Not usually a great fan of disco, but this is sensational!
This was the shit the radio played this over and over back in the day!!
How the Hell can 109 people NOT be absolutely crazy about this amazing record???
because there are a109 people you won't know what good music was if it bit them on the butt and left it's calling card😂😂😂
That song brings back so many memories of my youth!
Me to
Carmela: "Him with those ducks!"
Me too…I was 10 wishing I was old enough to go dancing : /
Love the 70s my time as a teenager when life and music was fun.
this song is catchy as hell!
THIS FOR ALL OF US WAKING UP THIS MORNING & HEARING THE NEWS OF LAST NIGHTS REFERENDUM - SHAME SHAME SHAME!
Hadn't heard this one for some forty years. A nice bit of Johnny Otis/Bo Diddley rhythm to back up a superb treatment. Thanks for the posting, man. My foot just dropped off again.
Mitica ed insuperabile per quegli anni favolosi ( 70 ) ......................................
Wow Love this Song sooooöo much 👍👍👍
That funky guitar riff!!! ❤️🙌
I absolutely love this song and for more reasons than one!!!!
Fantástico até hoje!
Miss this kind of music
Can't sit still when listening to this top tune 👍
👍👍👍
One hit wonder this is the best decade of music 4 me the 70's shame on you if u can't dance sounds like if it was yesterday love this classic
i remeber this song use to get thrashed by my sister in my younger days..and to still hear it today brings back those fond mems of old music i love it
40+ but remember the funky songs of the time as a girl whew! just dancing with my headphones;)
And 50+ now and shaking it down
Still listening this timeless song, on december 22th, 2019 !
2020 Hell Yea
BOUGHT THE RECORD WHEN IT CAME OUT. I WAS 14 YRS OLD AND WORE THAT RECORD OUT!
Awesome music.
Too bad they don't play this kinda music no more
Beautiful memories!
Great song. Love it rocking it in 2023. I was 19 back goid rimes and music not like todaya rubbish
I still remember Shirley and Richard Nixon on the album cover when that was released. Best marketing gimmick, yet!
Pride !
Pride bought me here!
Bonsoir je lis vos messages, oui, je confirme, c était une merveilleuse époque et une merveilleuse chanson, pleine de rythme de joie de vivre, j étais jeune et belle et je me déhanchais !!! Ah le bon vieux temps!!
Victory to the miners
that movie brought me here lol
The haters lost there others.shame shame shame cause they just can't move to the groove
Sorry Bill. They lost. Everything.
"Perfect, let's bring down the government." Not sure if I got it right. 🤣
That's what brought me here too!! I remember this song but haven't heard it in absolutely ages - til tonight. I love this track so much!
146 deaf people arrived here and couldn't hear it.
This is great stuff.
It's a shame this isn't on Spotify
Spotify sucks!
you tried music youtube?
It is now...
What's spotify?
Shame shame shame
I Love Disco!
just heard this on the Ronnie Wood show first timeheard it for years. Why isn't music as real as this these days
god i miss disco!
Ellie Rue pride the film ?
David Clark yep
Ellie Rue thanks Ellie ::)
Great tune - Takes me back- happy memories - this one is my record collection somewhere must dig it out - thanks for the upload.
Seventies disco ! Drive the Cortina down to the pub & have a few pints of Watneys Red. Play a few tunes on the juke box & try to chat up the barmaid (sorry, barperson !) before driving home & watching Dave Allan & Benny Hill on the telly ! Good times & good music !
First heard of this song when I was in Bath & Body Works store weeks ago. I'm listening to it rn, and it is a jam. 👌
Greatest rhythm guitar ever