Junior Walker was the finest R&B singer/instrumentalist of the 60s. "What Does it Take (To Win Your Love)" is a smashmouth winner groove that can never be duplicated or surpassed!
I was born in 1945, so I got to hear an incredible amount of great artists and songs from the 50's through the 70's in particular; some great 80's as well. I loved, loved, loved this song; that sax just blows out pure soul. I love these reaction videos to see young people grooving to some of these older songs.
Junior Walker was an American saxophonist & vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 60's. He had a lot of great songs with his group "The Allstars" such as "Shotgun", "(I'm A) Road Runner", "Shake & Fingerpop", "Come See About Me", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Pucker Up Buttercup" etc.
1969 a high school senior growing up in the projects. We had a hamburger stand not far from our neighborhood. The juke box was outside and when this played it was so nice. So, when you said your grandfather had a juke box, it really brought back good memories. Although those were some struggling days for our freedom/rights, they were such happy days too. Everybody was like family and looked after each other…where did those days go! Continue enjoying and reacting to such soulful, clean, and good music!
My dad would play this and other great music on Friday his day off from work, love this music and the good times of growing up listening to it tears me up just hearing it. May my Farther rest in peace, same to you and your Grandpa.
This brings back memories of the oldies radio I used to listen to in the 80's. What an excellent song and his voice is amazing. I've been waiting for someone to do this video, thanks.
The summer of ‘69. I was seven. Songs and music in general had a poignancy and ethereal quality to my ‘’little guy” ears. Songs like this were like an electric current running through my little brain. It was a time when I didn’t yet understand the rudiments and theory, I just knew that those changes, rhythm, and vocals went through me like a current and a beam of light. Learning these songs was a spiritual epiphany for me, as I’m sure it is for everyone. Music like this is long gone, but I’m grateful to my maker for allowing me to live in the era I grew up. Heavenly.❤❤
You have opened up a treasure trove here, Jr. Walker & The All Stars have incredible music. Not many people play brass instruments like this anymore and songs to get you up & dancing. I’ve been a Motown girl since the 60’s!! 🥰💓 🪄🎷🥁🎹🎸 Jr. Walker music was always played at get together !!
This was 1969. I was 15 at the time and I was blown away. It is one of my all time favorites songs and it never fails to invoke memories of my teenage days.
About 1970 or so we would all get my cousin's convertible and drive down the back roads, top down this starts playing on the radio. About a half dozens kids in that battleship having summer
I love this song just as much today at 65 as i did when I first heard it when I was as 10. The way Jr Walker plays the saxophone just hits you right in the heart absolutely amazing.
If it feels like he's in the room with you, then he IS in the room with you, prolly enjoying your reaction like we all are. He's proud of you and looking out for you.
“I feel like he’s in the room”; EXACTLY! I feel like I’m with my father when I play this one ❤. I’m 55; guessing your Grandfather was of my Father’s generation 😊. Mom and Dad had me when they were 19, so I grew up listening to all their great 60’s and 70’s music across the genres; blessed! Thank you for reacting to this classic! 🙏. First time I heard it? Probably was about 3 😂.
Manooooooooo, sou brasileira, 61 anos e encontrei alguém que ouve, ama, sente, se emociona, se arrepia ao ouvir Jr. Walker and All Stars exatamente como eu ❤ Uhuuull 😍
I was I elementary school and they had Saturday roller skating. Me and my buddies would go and skate from 11 am til 1:30 pm. Mr Sanders would get the old record player and he played this. It was 1968 and I treasure those days listening to a lot of Motown music growing up. Thanks Mr. Sanders for the music on Roller skating Saturdays.
It’s 5 in the morning and I’m jumping off the sofa! I was only 10 when this came out and it was wonderful!! The older girls in the neighborhood danced and we looked on with such envy. When they left we turned it back on and danced like they did! Music❤️
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 If I had to pick one band to listen to for the rest of my life it would be Jr Walker and the Allstars. A pure thrill that takes me back to my teenage years in the 60s and 70s.
The greatest years to live through 16 years old down the local dance hall motown what does it take to win your love I thought I was hip .brings back great memories to.
You are wronh....Soul Music was very alive and well in the 70's too. Motown was still kickin' it, and The Chi-lites , K.C. And the Sunshine Band, The Whispers, The O'Jays and many solo artists: Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass, and many more. It wasn't until the 80's that music moved on from Soul and Disco and the orchestral background sound. Too bad, but we still have the music and it's getting a rebirth with all the reaction channels.
I'm an early 80s baby I fell in love with the Motown sound in the early 90s as a little kid at my grandparents house! This is my anthem and has been every morning for 20 years, I just wish I had got to see this dude blow that sucks live cuz he was good to The bitter end 🥹🙏🏿
I was 6 years old when I first heard this song, flying down the highway with my daddy, no seatbelt of course. There was no seatbelt law or speed limit. It was love at the first note and 50+ years later I still love this song.
1969 the year I graduated from High School. Excellent music. You mentioned Michael Jackson, from Gary, IN, my my picked them to play at their HS dance. Of course this was before they were famous outside of the area. My wife loved the soul groups like Jr Walker and the Allstars, Sam Cooke was still popular, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and many more.
You are correct. This was one of the last great r&b songs as psychedelic music became popular. I was 18 and this song takes me back to Myrtle Beach, shagging and drinking PBR Beer.
Cheesy story, but here in the UK, the first national pop radio station started in 1967. I was on the way to work clutching my new radio which cost almost 5 weeks' pay! When I first heard Road Runner by Junior Walker I just new I had to become a DJ. A year or so later I was working full time in the Birmingham night clubs playing Motown & Soul.
Some other awesome groups from that time.. The Drifters, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson ( Cruisin my fav ) The Temptations, Franki Valli & the Four Seasons, Percy Sledge ( solo) The OJays
The background vocals are by The Originals and the female group The Andantes, not the band featured here. This was a clip from a TV show where Jr. might have been the only one singing live. Jr. Walker was no joke - he, King Curtis and Jimmy Castor were the greatest saxophone players of that age. Please check out Shotgun", "Walk In The Night", "(I'm A) Road Runner", "Shake & Fingerpop", "Come See About Me" (especially the version with The Supremes), "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Pucker Up Buttercup."
I was 16 when this came out Jnr walker one of the best of All Time and For me Still Is.. No One and I Mean No One Plays Sax and also sings Like Jnr Walker Once Bitten In 69 Never Left me to this Day....Glad you enjoyed his Music.. It will Now Stay with you As Well.. More The Merrier.
Soul music came in with Ray Charles in the 50s, A lot of black people did not like Ray singing secular songs with a gospel feel. Black people weren't into Rock like The Beatles or Dylan, Soul morphed to Funk in the late 60s, early 70s, you have to do Sly Stones' Woodstock set. How about checking out Grant Green, "Hurt So Bad", thanks, great reactions.
Bob Dylan and the Beatles saw their "heyday" in the 60s, not the 70s. And soul music was very big in the 70s, having evolved from 1950s and 1960s Soul and peaking in popularity around the mid 70s.
You should see Motown the Musical if it ever comes back to Broadway. It was fabulous!🎉 the making of the cast album of the original Broadway show is somewhere on RUclips.
Your Grandfather had a Man Cave cool. You may remember me as charles davis you tube messes up and I give in to another crazy name but not really a name. I was the subscriber that asked for this Mugs.
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One of the most beautiful saxophone lines in history
No matter how many years go by, this song still makes me cry with joy!!!
I could listen to this song all day long. Love that sax.
@@edwardbrady1737 so I could
Junior Walker was the finest R&B singer/instrumentalist of the 60s. "What Does it Take (To Win Your Love)" is a smashmouth winner groove that can never be duplicated or surpassed!
One of the greatest of all time Love Junior Walker
I was born in 1945, so I got to hear an incredible amount of great artists and songs from the 50's through the 70's in particular; some great 80's as well. I loved, loved, loved this song; that sax just blows out pure soul. I love these reaction videos to see young people grooving to some of these older songs.
Thanks for listening
Junior Walker was an American saxophonist & vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 60's. He had a lot of great songs with his group "The Allstars" such as "Shotgun", "(I'm A) Road Runner", "Shake & Fingerpop", "Come See About Me", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Pucker Up Buttercup" etc.
We just called it Soul music.
I love love love this song, listened to it at work on my Walkman over and over and over before i retired, freakin fantastic tune, ✌️🌺🌸🌺
LOVE me some Junior Walker and All Stars!! That Sax!!
1969 a high school senior growing up in the projects. We had a hamburger stand not far
from our neighborhood. The juke box was outside and when this played it was so nice.
So, when you said your grandfather had a juke box, it really brought back good memories.
Although those were some struggling days for our freedom/rights, they were such happy
days too. Everybody was like family and looked after each other…where did those days go!
Continue enjoying and reacting to such soulful, clean, and good music!
Thanks for your story I completely agree with you I was there 1971❤❤
Great reaction thank you, their sound was off the charts...oh that sax.
I was 13 in '65, I just can't get enough of this, man, I just can't get enough! I loved it equally when it first took my heart, yeah baby, in '69.
What a great moment, when your grandfather popped into your head…. He is smiling upon you as you enjoy. Very powerful moment.
One of my all time favorites! Thanks for keeping great music alive!
My dad would play this and other great music on Friday his day off from work, love this music and the good times of growing up listening to it tears me up just hearing it. May my Farther rest in peace, same to you and your Grandpa.
We heard all this music from the 50s from our parents and Grandparents and even though we were youngsters we liked all these groups.
Yes!!!! This is my music back when I was in high school.
This brings back memories of the oldies radio I used to listen to in the 80's. What an excellent song and his voice is amazing. I've been waiting for someone to do this video, thanks.
I love Junior Walker and the All Stars. They had a string of hits that still sound great.
Great music will always sound good.
The summer of ‘69. I was seven. Songs and music in general had a poignancy and ethereal quality to my ‘’little guy” ears. Songs like this were like an electric current running through my little brain. It was a time when I didn’t yet understand the rudiments and theory, I just knew that those changes, rhythm, and vocals went through me like a current and a beam of light. Learning these songs was a spiritual epiphany for me, as I’m sure it is for everyone. Music like this is long gone, but I’m grateful to my maker for allowing me to live in the era I grew up. Heavenly.❤❤
Man does this bring back memories. This was another cruising jam.
You have opened up a treasure trove here, Jr. Walker & The All Stars have incredible music. Not many people play brass instruments like this anymore and songs to get you up & dancing. I’ve been a Motown girl since the 60’s!! 🥰💓 🪄🎷🥁🎹🎸 Jr. Walker music was always played at get together !!
This was 1969. I was 15 at the time and I was blown away. It is one of my all time favorites songs and it never fails to invoke memories of my teenage days.
About 1970 or so we would all get my cousin's convertible and drive down the back roads, top down this starts playing on the radio. About a half dozens kids in that battleship having summer
One of the greatest songs 🎵 ever, love it..😎
This was a staple of radio and juke boxes right through the 70s
Motown was still extremely popular through most of the 70s
I love this song just as much today at 65 as i did when I first heard it when I was as 10. The way Jr Walker plays the saxophone just hits you right in the heart absolutely amazing.
This song in 1969 was probably my favorite song coming from my little transistor radio. I was 9 in that year and I loved soul music already so much!!❤
This is good music right here
Welcome to my world. I grew up listening to this music 🎶🎶🎶 loved it then and treasure it today 😎☮️
Mmm…love that late 60’s/70’s soul music. Goes straight through and fills the body with such a warm groove. Happy y’all discovered Junior ❤
If it feels like he's in the room with you, then he IS in the room with you, prolly enjoying your reaction like we all are. He's proud of you and looking out for you.
“I feel like he’s in the room”; EXACTLY! I feel like I’m with my father when I play this one ❤. I’m 55; guessing your Grandfather was of my Father’s generation 😊. Mom and Dad had me when they were 19, so I grew up listening to all their great 60’s and 70’s music across the genres; blessed! Thank you for reacting to this classic! 🙏. First time I heard it? Probably was about 3 😂.
I was 15 in 1969 and remember this song on the radio, stopping to sing along whenever it played, so soulful and melodic and lovely.
I was 11. Loved it then and still do now. Beautiful
The bar, the music, and the friends and good times probably his pride and joy!
Manooooooooo, sou brasileira, 61 anos e encontrei alguém que ouve, ama, sente, se emociona, se arrepia ao ouvir Jr. Walker and All Stars exatamente como eu ❤
Uhuuull 😍
JUNIOR DID NOT LIKE THIS SONG BUT RECORDED IT ANYWAY
AND WAS HOS BIGGEST HIT EVER !
I WATCHED THIS ONE CLIMB THE CHARTS TO NUMBER 2. ! JUNIOR AT HIS FINEST ! THEY DID THAT !
How lovely that this kind of music takes you back to great memories.....like most music does I suppose..x
Us lucky ones were listening to this as these tunes played out ...
What a time
I was I elementary school and they had Saturday roller skating. Me and my buddies would go and skate from 11 am til 1:30 pm. Mr Sanders would get the old record player and he played this. It was 1968 and I treasure those days listening to a lot of Motown music growing up. Thanks Mr. Sanders for the music on Roller skating Saturdays.
It’s 5 in the morning and I’m jumping off the sofa! I was only 10 when this came out and it was wonderful!!
The older girls in the neighborhood danced and we looked on with such envy. When they left we turned it back on and danced like they did! Music❤️
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 If I had to pick one band to listen to for the rest of my life it would be Jr Walker and the Allstars. A pure thrill that takes me back to my teenage years in the 60s and 70s.
Great music by Jnr what a talent
Imagine growing up with these tunes narrating one's life- awesome time
The greatest years to live through 16 years old down the local dance hall motown what does it take to win your love I thought I was hip .brings back great memories to.
That's Junior playing that wicked sax solo on Foreigner's "Urgent.". The solo alone makes it worth reacting to.
You are wronh....Soul Music was very alive and well in the 70's too. Motown was still kickin' it, and The Chi-lites , K.C. And the Sunshine Band, The Whispers, The O'Jays and many solo artists: Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass, and many more. It wasn't until the 80's that music moved on from Soul and Disco and the orchestral background sound. Too bad, but we still have the music and it's getting a rebirth with all the reaction channels.
I'm an early 80s baby I fell in love with the Motown sound in the early 90s as a little kid at my grandparents house!
This is my anthem and has been every morning for 20 years, I just wish I had got to see this dude blow that sucks live cuz he was good to The bitter end 🥹🙏🏿
I was 6 years old when I first heard this song, flying down the highway with my daddy, no seatbelt of course. There was no seatbelt law or speed limit. It was love at the first note and 50+ years later I still love this song.
Also, ‘Shotgun’ played a major role in the conception of my second child about 20 years later. That was the last time I went out dancing. lol
JR Walker and the all Stars WDITWYLFM one of the greatest songs ever love it
This song feeds my soul.
I first heard this when I was 16 and it was new on the radio while driving alone for the first time
Great reaction, good memories recalled like your grandfather.
1969 the year I graduated from High School. Excellent music. You mentioned Michael Jackson, from Gary, IN, my my picked them to play at their HS dance. Of course this was before they were famous outside of the area. My wife loved the soul groups like Jr Walker and the Allstars, Sam Cooke was still popular, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and many more.
Ah! I LOVE 60s music... 😍 they dont make music like this anymore 😥 ❤
That’s for sure
I just wish this song went on longer ,it’s amazing ,
What's not to love?!?. This was my kinda of music as a.redheaded white teen girl growing up in a coal camp in WV.
Thankyou
You are correct. This was one of the last great r&b songs as psychedelic music became popular. I was 18 and this song takes me back to Myrtle Beach, shagging and drinking PBR Beer.
It is everybody's music. Your granddad had taste. I am 75 and a white dude and I love good music.
Love my Motown sound born raised in Detroit 6 Mile and Woodward . Good times
Cheesy story, but here in the UK, the first national pop radio station started in 1967. I was on the way to work clutching my new radio which cost almost 5 weeks' pay! When I first heard Road Runner by Junior Walker I just new I had to become a DJ. A year or so later I was working full time in the Birmingham night clubs playing Motown & Soul.
Some other awesome groups from that time.. The Drifters, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson ( Cruisin my fav ) The Temptations, Franki Valli & the Four Seasons, Percy Sledge ( solo) The OJays
This is Motown! That B3 in full carnival right with the sax. Moves deep
I heard rumors that Junior Walker taught himself to play the saxophone
The background vocals are by The Originals and the female group The Andantes, not the band featured here. This was a clip from a TV show where Jr. might have been the only one singing live. Jr. Walker was no joke - he, King Curtis and Jimmy Castor were the greatest saxophone players of that age. Please check out Shotgun", "Walk In The Night", "(I'm A) Road Runner", "Shake & Fingerpop", "Come See About Me" (especially the version with The Supremes), "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Pucker Up Buttercup."
It did have an early 60's vibe more so than the latter 60's music.
I love it to darlin', couldn't do it any better
I was 16 when this came out Jnr walker one of the best of All Time and For me Still Is.. No One and I Mean No One Plays Sax and also sings Like Jnr Walker Once Bitten In 69 Never Left me to this Day....Glad you enjoyed his Music.. It will Now Stay with you As Well.. More The Merrier.
I remember seeing him back in the day. Lots of great songs, but "Cleo's Mood" is sexy as hell.
Class act
It doesn’t get any better then this
Too cool
This was the 60's.
I'm 69, played this so loud cops came. After the black cop listened for a bit ,he turned up the volume!
Soul music came in with Ray Charles in the 50s, A lot of black people did not like Ray singing secular songs with a gospel feel. Black people weren't into Rock like The Beatles or Dylan, Soul morphed to Funk in the late 60s, early 70s, you have to do Sly Stones' Woodstock set. How about checking out Grant Green, "Hurt So Bad", thanks, great reactions.
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Bob Dylan and the Beatles saw their "heyday" in the 60s, not the 70s. And soul music was very big in the 70s, having evolved from 1950s and 1960s Soul and peaking in popularity around the mid 70s.
Check out "Cleos' Mood," to continue the groove that you feel right now!!😉😉😉😉😉
Funk brothers were the band for all Motown songs , house band for Motown
You should see Motown the Musical if it ever comes back to Broadway. It was fabulous!🎉 the making of the cast album of the original Broadway show is somewhere on RUclips.
Men in the 60’s could dance with you . They could dance and k we how to hold you on the floor
Bands could sing , no auto tune and they played instruments
60's ✌️
That’s some Good shit bro
Your Grandfather had a Man Cave cool. You may remember me as charles davis you tube messes up and I give in to another crazy name but not really a name. I was the subscriber that asked for this Mugs.
My favorite of theirs. Hated to see less soul no more organ just synthesizer. Now at age72 I see it was just a shift and growing pains.
this is sheet music.... music for the sheets!
SHOTGUN WAS HIS FIRST HIT AND IT WAS HUGE ! BLACK MUSIC WAS REVERED AROUND THE WORLD ! IT WENT STRONG UNTIL RAP AND HIP HOP TOOK OVER !
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Got a surprise for you please look up Humble Pie .. Black coffee …
Your grandpa sounds cool
TRY: THESE EYES ! BY JUNIOR.
Sax.....all day!!!
JUNIOR DID NOT LIKE THIS SONG BUT IT WAS ONE OF HIS GREATEST SONGS ! ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES !