Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way (Extended Mix)
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Extended Version of Thelma Houston's hit: Don't Leave Me This Way (1976).
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Who needs drugs when you've got music like this!!!!
Not trying to sound dramatic but this played in the supermarket today and I'm being honest I had to stop myself walking in a strut rhythm
This isn't a song... It's an ANTHEM. An anthem of the 70's
Good Point. So true
Pure 70's!!!! Love it!
Used to go to dance clubs in Denver when this was THE song. It would be played at the start of the night, the 'rush hour' of the night and it was one of the last to be played before last call. Those were the DAMN DAYS!!!!!!
Top of the day to you. Right back at ya 🤗🆗. I agree with you A million percent WORD UP 👍 Yes in deed I feel what you felt about this Disco Master Piece 🆗 I have been there and done that 👏🤛 BOOGIEING 7: days 24 : HR 365 da yr. 😁👌 Back in the days of Disco Dad , we were totally Sprung 😁😳 Strung out 😳😲😀 Crazy funny Huh? Those memories will always be here with me 👏 U are very kind and special ❤️🤗 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❣️ Music as much as I Do 🤛 Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you and I really appreciate it very much 👏👌🔊📢 Your insight about this song is magnificent beautifully well said 👍 Have a bless day or night and stay safe JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️GOD bless everyone who's listening to this song . Keep on Boogieing 💃🦶🙋
True story !
46 YEARS OLD TUNE and still rocking!!!
57 years old and kickin it old school :)
I couldn't have been too much more than 5 or 6 when my aunts took me to a block party down the street from my grandparent's house. It turned out to be more like a full blown disco right there in the street. There was a DJ set up at the end of the block with strobe lights going off, and the street was absolutely packed with people dancing to this song. They were going OFF! People were screaming and singing along with the chorus. Smiles and long hair flying everywhere. It was one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life.
The way you described it made it so easy to see and feel. Thanks for sharing a beautiful memory
Debió ser muy bonito esa época de finales de los años 70S y principio de los 80S. Yo no lo viví porqué soy de los 90S. Y por cierto es buena música!!!
Talk about an impromtu flash mob! What a description.
Nothing in modern rock touches this!!!
You were part of pure magic ❤❤❤
If the 70s and 80s ask me to go back, I'm oughtta here!!
I just can’t get tired of Disco. Growing up in Ft. Lauderdale, Disco was everywhere. Born in ‘67, I started listening as soon as I could. I loved it and still do !! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Yes, it's in the blood lol
Yea Ft. L beach 18yrs old dancing all night 78 cost me nothing oh wha a night
August 21 , 1967
We Rule
The first time I heard this son I immediately thought "Perfection!" This is the perfect disco song. Will live forever!
❤ you know I can only really enjoy the music I grew up on and I love music it's universal I love all spectrums of it but I really don't know what the hell some of this music is really saying but who am I to judge every generation has its music movies and technology.
Fuck it 60s 70s 80s music was the best hands down ❤
Here is arguably one of the finest productions and disco songs to emerge from the whole 1970's. A masterpiece that will stand the test of time, from the brilliant and powerful vocalist, Thelma Houston. This is her shining moment showcasing the work of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert, all part of Philadelphia's international library. For 1976, "Don't leave me this way'" speaks of production and vocal excellence. This recording will live on forever.
Yes Steve, a real musical masterpiece that will last forever.
i am 72 this song still move me to do dads dancing happy days
Agreed!
Imagine being in a packed Disco with this music cranking out of huge speakers. Feel the bass!
Bigg bass speakers loved it .Those speakers pounds feel that thumping bass in ur chest. DISCO WILL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN. THIS GENERATION HAVE NO IDEA LIFE IN LATE 1970S.THOSE WERE GOLDEN DAYS .IF I ONLY HAD TIME MACHINE.
Heck yes 🙌 it'd be awesome ,so good
The feeling of the coke wobbles as you're surrounded in Denim aftershave and Vanderbilt perfume
A Huevo
Disco heaven!
Gamble&Huff the heart of Tamla Motown, pure soul an' spirit. And Mrs Thelma oh what a voice!
One of the best dance and club songs of all time IMHO. If this song doesn't stir something in your soul, then I don't know what to say. One of my top 20 favorite songs.
Totally agree, girl friend just turned me onto it, a couple years ago. Lol🤷🖖👍
Back in 79 the clubs in Panama City beach Florida, this song played quite a bit . I love the music from back then
Dear Sean Closs: I agree: Good song, well arranged and performed.
most definetly one of the original songs responsible for the disco phenomenon. A good time to be alive !!!
Last Call!
This isn't a song, it's more like a religious experience! LOL! Great song! One of my faves!
Justin W that is EXACTLY what I was thinking LOL!!!!!!!!😂
Abso-f**king-lutely! :)
I can't pick a favorite version...both Thelma and Teddy do great jobs on both their versions of this song
Absolutely!!
One of mine to!!
Most great songs are!
Nothing beats the '70s in music; this hit by Thelma Houston proves it.
I'm straight and I love disco, I don't care what people say..full of energy
Valeu querido manda ver
The way she holds that note @ 7:18 is one of the most majestic pieces ever of vocal artistry
I'm sure it's stretched a little..
@@Dim67 Sure, but still what a beauty 💎
@@stipetv1548 I don't think Johnno has ever been in a studio to see what technology exsists now....a real long note can be seen by James something or other "say what you will", he holds a note for a good 20-30 seconds live
@@stipetv1548 it is
its been extended,,,, she didnt hold that note that long,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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BTW, I had to sue a company with the letters "GAE" in there name, with a second name that looks like LOVE and they shouldn't be able to negotiate terms, but am I bitter? Absolutely, but I won every appeal THANK YOU 4TH DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALI JUDGES, I got almost 40% in Compensatory and a bit over Double in Punitive Damages, so even though much of my time has run out, many of my closest friends and charities will be well taken care of (ASPCA, Humane Society of Kanawha Valley, WV, Flagler County/Palm Coast, Fla, Volusia County, Fla, The Keys Humane Society, plus two new charities for teenage suicide prevention and homes for children that have been kicked out of their homes by their parents with 2 years of college and rent paid, as well as a new charity that promotes the adoption of older, maimed or just plain...not that cute cats and dogs, please adopt the ugly but loveable pets, they never get adopted, everyone wants pretty pets. "Linda's Cottage" in my moms memory, will be a real home, that can be rented out with real furniture and with whole property is screen enclosed and animals will live the rest of their lives in these homes with TVs and a kitchen for people to use, as if it was a real home, for the ones that no one finds pretty anymore or perhaps only has three legs, lol. ) sorry got off track,...continuing....and have pretty much Carte Blanche with Creative Control, I probably wont last to see them air (Perhaps the stage play), "Trapped" is based on my life, focusing on my life as a DJ in Central Florida (Daytona Beach/Yum Yum Tree, Landmark Complex, ORLANDO/P-House, Full Moon Saloon, Firestone Club, Cellblock M, Disney's Mannequins, Jacksonville/College Station Ft Lauderdale/S.Fla, The Copa, Backstreets, Tackys, Shangra la, Club 21, The Warsaw Ballroom, Fire and Ice, I-Beam, Eagle, Ramrod, Cubby Hole, Cathode Ray, Club BC, Montreal, Que/TRAXX, La Marielle, I Bar Ste Catherine, NYC/Tunnel, USA, Limelight, The Saint, Windows on the World NEWHOPE/BUCKS COUNTY, PA/PHILLY, The Cartwheel, Key West, The Bike Stop, and other clubs in Allentown, Pa , Hyannis, Mass, P-Town, Rehoboth Beach, De, Savanah, Ga, Backstreets, Atlanta, Atlanta Eagle, and too many I cant think of but much of it focuses from age 16 to 33. It all stops in 2000, I'm trying to finish the most crazy part of my life that included my spouse poisoning me for life insurance, going to jail for someone I cared for (Until I went to bond out and realized they did shit in 7 counties and I was like, NOPE, I'm not THAT kind! God Bless Everyone... and remember, tell your momma you love her every day. Stop having so much hate, I know its hard, especially with half the country losing their effing mind in the past 4 to 5 years. (WTF was/is that shit about? People literally elected an airhead that went on camera and said the wildfires in Cali were started by lasers in space made by Jews! When I hear all of this, I kind of feel bad for you all when I go. I will tell you, If some of these haters are correct (Yeah, that was me coughing a lung up) and I end up in hell, then one of two things will happen. I know who I am, what I have done, havent done, what breaks my heart and whos back Ive always had and Im not saying any of us deserve God or Heaven, perhaps something else, but if I go to hell, then that wasnt the God I thought he was and I can assure you, all of you with the hateful, usually closeted mouths, you now who you are, the ones with the families but are at your local BK Gl** Hole on your way home to the kids, while myself, I simply was getting a burger and fry, so Im sure I will see you all as well. And please, dont give me no lip, Im dying, I dont give two sh"ts what you think, you are most likely a closet case, miserable in life, hurt animals and children or worse. See ya on the Flip Flop and dont forget to ..."Let the Music Play, Turn the beat around and a white witch enchantress once said, "There are Poets, and they are Priests of Nothing, but they are Legends"
ORIGINAL
These kids don't know what fun is... This was when clubs were fun, no ID, no law, no attitude, no REALLY dangerous drugs, $3.35 per hour and we were rich. 25¢ drink nights, $2 beer bust, 99 cent Dennys Grand Slam Breakfast after the night. Strippers and drag queens doing shows down the aisle at Dennys or Waffle House.... NO HATE... GOOD TIMES... ALL GONE
Clubbing still exists and the kids are alright, and far more informed than your generation ever was at that age. No "really dangerous drugs"? LMAFO, pretty sure coke, quaaludes, and whatever that shit Cosby used to take advantage of people in the worst way possible were dangerous.
No drugs ..lmao juat club 57 and good coke out the wazu
I remember making $3.35 per hour. I saved $4000 in the bank during that time. How did that happen? I can't save hardly anything now.
@@annabellem.4014 Cost of living far exceeds wages..
Absolutely sendsome me down memory lane to the good ole days!
I'm 61 and still love this song like in the days ;) XX In my head, I'm stuck at 28 years old ;)
We Love old Disco YES!
I can't stop dancing this is still everything in 2022 thank you Thelma Houston
Love how it's 9 minutes long, but the record says "Short Version"
Honestly, it's hard for me to accept in the mind that the 70''s and 80's are over. When something is the best why does it have to change. I wasn't thinking back then that it would never end, but I surely didn't think what has come along now to replace it, would become the norm. If there was a 70''s and 80's Planet or World you could go to and stay as long as you want....Lol I'd be outta here tomorrow!
Me too life was fun everyone did their on thing.
I AM WITH YOU ...I HAD THE LOVE OF MY LIFE BACK THEN,
Iam there when i play stuff like this
Look behind you, I'm going back with you.
Wouldn't it be great if there were 70's & 80's based theme parks, where everything was set at the prices they were then, fashions & technology were of the times & of course plenty of clubs playing this kind of iconic music?! God I'd never leave!
1976 was a good year!!
Foi excelente dois anos após estava me casando ❤
wow so beautiful❤❤🌹
These was the good old days.... when you could go out and have fun and enjoy the moment...😂full of energy....
40 yrs later and this song still brings the kids out into the dance floor. true blue classic, one of my favorites.
it sure does
Richard Sanchez yes!
Def makes me feel like i were 16 yrs old all over again, before NYC became Disneyfied
Richard Sanchez
40 yrs? Wow! I'm still running around clubbing and Rollerskating- back in the Day my g/f and I had a (skating) Dance routine to this that took uf from County to State Competition.....Oh, the best days....
That humming she dose in the beginning of the song is what gets me.
to be perfectly honest, out of all the disco songs that we've lost track of, because there's so many of them...this is truly one of disco's anthems.
Disco is a league out of now...
💋 Those of us who were there, know what you say is true..
Taught Disco Dance to this song and has always been my go to for performance...Still rocks and feeds mu soul..
Agreed!!!
A real soul delivery from a REAL disco era woman . Thelma, I love you !!
This song is the best of the best of Disco. It never gets old.
Close your eyes Tilt your head back & just GO THERE
Sing it Thelma, sing it!!😎😎
Hard to believe but the producer did not think this song would be a hit, muchless that it would end up being Thelma's signature hit. Just shows that the Public knows what it likes.
Im sti chilling up. It just takes me back! It was my best life!!!
I forced my 15 year old daughter to listen to this. Under much sufference she finally agreed. Once it was finished i said to her "Well ? " Her reply..."Wow"
This song is a spiritual experience, whether sung by Thelma or Teddy. Absolute masterpiece.
iI WAS JUST 9 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS SONG WAS RELEASED AND I STILL LOVE IT NOW IN 2024!!!!! 😄😃😀😁😆
Man if could have been in NYC in the disco era, I'd be out every weekend
I am thankful I got to experience the 70s! The GREATEST music of that Era. Can't compare to the trash "music" of today
This is DISCO!!!! i Llove it!
Timeless anthem and is still rocking in 2022, awesome jewel of Disco music💯💯💥💥💥💥👌👌👌👌👌
Thelma was seriously underrated. She had one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments. Perfection...and this song is EVERYTHING.
sbrownie when I was 10 years old and loved everything I could get a hold on regarding music, this artist stuck out. I remember how Whitney was just beginning and I knew it wasn't her mom, naturally cause of the "Greatest Love of All" video. So I thought it was her aunt. Funny. This song might have been a little inspiration to a younger Whitney, even if different from the last name.
Where do you think Whitney Houston got her Soul voice?
Near end she holds ME FOR 60 SECONDS OR MORE. WHO DOES THAT?
She's singing about a personal experience , GOD BLESS HER ! SHE MADE HER MARK, NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT FROM HER. AMEN ! 🤷🖖👍
@@brettbyars5451 if it wasn't, it should have ! just sayin, love Whitney's must retake as well. 🤷🖖👍😎
Still gives chills in 2018
My frigen FAVORITE!!!! I'm in my 50's now but will dance to this great music till I can't move anymore!!! Have to dance now! BYE
I agree! In my 50’s also. Classic, this song will never be forgotten
Who's still listening in 2019...I am💕...oh well. Here's 2021 January anyone listing if you are a legend..blessed and😷
Always,
I sure am!
I am too
EVERYBODY.
Me too RT
I first heard this song on “General Hospital”.
It was with Holly and Luke. Fell in last be with it then.
Really??? This song was played on GH?! I may have been too young to remember. I would love to see that episode!
You love it because the BASS is the lead! Holy shit! What a melodic miracle of syncopated joy! That electric piano is also like the voice of an angel on your shoulder… so funky and immaculate.
OMG, I am about to lose my mind!!!!!
The definition of a classic.
I love this song. Outstanding. I was 11 years old when this song broke on AM radio and It shook the airwaves. It still does. Its part of me now.
11 years old? I was dancing since 5!💃
The lighted dance floor. Lights flashing...synced to the music. The bass throbbing to the beat. Thelma ' s intoxicating voice. My boy's arm wrapped around my waist, and our bodies moving together as one. He tells me not to leave him this way.Trust me, I won't.
Boy I miss all the good music and times back then ,today's music is so disappointing ☹️
She was the queen of disco until Donna came and took it over in a massive way ,I liked to hear both of them .Two A1 singers for sure.
Glass of wine, some cheese and this song...Got me out of my chair and dancing like it was 1976...WOOHOO
Always LOOOOOVED this song...especially this version!
Bring it back good old days I miss it 🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹👍👍👍👍
Who would not want to relive these moments?
those were good times!!
wow!
Man oh man this was REAL music
Not a disco lover, but this song is AWESOME!!! Been lovin' since the 70's!!!
Jesus Christ!!!... This is too much!!!... What a memories!!! I need a drink.
I am just having one
exactly!
The great Thelma Houston.. Disco nights at Club Ichabods..in Dallas TX With my late brother DJ Tony D...throwing down..
fool
Quique Rojas o
When this came on at the clubs, everyone ran to the dance floor
Oh yeah
yeah & Saturday night, sunday morning
Even as late as Sunday afternoon in some cases :) Good times, classic times.
Especially in the Gay Clubs-just like Donna Summer & Diana Ross-all the Great Disco Divas!
I'm 63 now and moved to San Jose from Toledo Oh 12 yrs ago-don't like the Gay Disco here, better in Austin Tx!!, lived there in the 80's!
this is the only song my cat will let me hold him and dance with him😂
Mine too!!
Love this song 👍🌹💯
This is much more than a disco song
Thelma rocks the house.
Common sense & great taste brought me here !! 💃🕺🏿🎸🥁🎷🎤🏴 😍🥰
100 % pure unadulterated disco music
this song...oh...talk about dancing, one of the best
Great TASTE Flavors this WORLD! Tune-Luv @ U from 'me!'
Monica Violette yeah baby
yeah me too of course
My clubbing days!!
Best feeling was to dance to this!
Seriously why would anyone 👎this?!? I give it 100! 👍😍
2018 still going strong omg
Best Disco song EVER!!!
This is what disco is all about. Happy i was there to live it.
The strings are just gorgeous...
thank you contra
lol
I love to listen to this and the version from Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the song is so brilliant that there could never be too many versions. Thelma sings it like she means every word
Such a great song!!!!! Both versions Teddy
Not just one of her best, one of the best of the disco era! Club Classic extraordinary.
Originally part of the lyrics output of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Thelma Houston made this a global smash in March 1976
N.Y. was the place to be! So many concerts, the hustle and bustle with friends, block parties and non stop good times! I miss those days!
The opening sounds of this tune was the Pied Piper calling us all out to the dance floor- pure magic under the mirror balls -
I am 65 years old and for some reason this song makes me want to get out of my chair and move. oh hell yes !!
Ahhh Miss Thelma always brings up the mood. :)
Isn't it amazing, she records it for Motown's Tamla Label that was inspired by The Debbie Reynolds Movie "Tammy" yet the folks who wrote it were Motown's Biggest Competitors of Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff who helped to epitomize Philly Soul. In The UK, Philly Soul is synonymous on TV Series, Soap Operas, and Boy Band/Girl Groups doing Covers of their songs.
This was a good time in my shit show of a life but this is good years
She sure does
Dat bass!!!!!
JT Attenborough Good
Sad that nobody noticed the incredible bass in 6 years.
I just received the 45 record today off of eBay , brings back a lot of memories on my vintage stereo set up.
Great hustle dance classic for couples, a forgotten golden era of class and fashion for the in crowd 73-77.
9 minutes of pure bliss....there's no doubt
southernman429
There's no doubt......... That you have good taste!
Makes me cry happy tears :') I love this song!
deadseriousforsure ññ
deadseriousforsure, wow! I thought that I was the only one to shed tears to this song! I love this song to the bone.....my favorite!
Yep.
deadseriousforsure Yes. Hi. No. Good. Bye
This was a lifestyle....for me....back in the day. We danced...we partied our asses off. We got high.....danced......sexed each other. We DID the damned thing!
Would have to be one of the best songs from its era. Never tired of listening to it. Timeless
From the first notes 🎶 hit,l launched myself onto the dance 💃 floor, and l danced until l was dizzy, that belle époque,disco engraved forever in my heart ❤️ 🪩🙋♀️
It was so much fun dancing at the discos back then. The pounding bass, the hot shirtless guys on a crowded dance floor, passing poppers around...
Those were the days...... a little MDA and acid.......🤤
I was there.. amazed im still here
Sweet memories of Oxford St
I love Disco Music-I don't know why that era just faded out. It was so fun with great music.
I keep it alive by listening to these great singers like Thelma Houston, Candi Staton, Yvonne Elliman, the Bee Gees etc.
I don't think disco really died, but it definitely went back underground then evolved to house in the late 80s to early 90s (eg CeCe Peniston, Robin S, LaBouche). Some of the dance-pop hits you hear on the radio are just watered down variations of disco to sell to suburban 10 year olds. But this is just my observation.
Oh I totally agree with you on this , Yvonne Elliman had a smash doing if I cant have you !
@@danbozo and disco was poppified soul, and soul was... and so it goes
Add Jocelyn Brown, Deniese Williams, Melba Moore, Irene Cara. What an array of vocalists
'THELMA HOUSTON'/🎤🎤🎤 WORKIN' OUT OF CONTROL🔥🔥AND DESIRE FOR YOU🎶🎶🎸🎸
It's a dancing revelation experience!
This is the best version of this particular song. I remember dancing in discos to this back in the 70's! Great fun and memories!
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes version is awesome also.
We need a disco revival and it needs to start with "Don't Leave Me This Way"...I danced til the wee hours back in the day..the day when music was really music..
YES!
You said a mouthful!
Or " Come On And Dance With Me"
Yes definitely I'll be there!!!
Yes
The production on this song...the orchestration...outstanding. You will never see this again. Anywhere. Ever.
I'm back!! I need a dose of this every once in a while!! Takes me right back to a much happier time!
One of the best!!😉
My wife and I were Seniors in high school. Remember like if it were yesterday.
Eternal blessings to you and your family!!!!
thelma houston rules!
Most beautiful lovely music you must grinding in the past 🧚
THELMA HOUSTON:et la TAMLA, en 1976,à réveillé le monde et le soleil de leurs musiques nous à transformé en bombes dansantes dans les discothèques ,quel merveilleuses périodes.
MERCI À TOUS POUR VÔTRE CRÉATIVITÉ,CHANTEURS ( E ) PAROLIERS, MUSICIENS, ARTISTES PRODUCTEURS, MAISONS DE DISQUES, pour nous avoir apporté ce bonheurs de vies. Respect 👍.>🇲🇫🗽 liberté.