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I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾 Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️
Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!
Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body. Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏 Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃
Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤ Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖
The audio is from the Commodores Live album Why you hear their voices before they even arrive on the stage. Program television for ya. Still a bad ass band and an awesome flashback shake it down 💃🏽🕺🏽 They performed 'Grease' with Frankie Valley on this same episode.
I did not know Lionel Richie was a sax player. Must be a multiple instrumentalist like Prince. I have seen him on the piano. It was cool seeing Jeff Skunk Baxter shredding the congas on the Steely Dan stuff. I thought he was just a guitar player.
@@gregoryduncan3067 Lionel *did not* sing everything else that the Commodores did. He sang the ballads and some up-tempo songs, but Walter "Clyde" Orange also sang lead on more than a few of their up-tempo songs. He was definitely the right choice for this song, because his voice is more gritty and funky than Lionel's.
Nb7466, this is Walter "Clyde" Orange on this song. He also sang lead for some other Commodores songs on their albums. It always surprises me when people think that Lionel sang this song, because the vocal doesn't sound anything like him! 🙂
@@gregoryduncan3067 We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Lionel's voice is great, and I love it, but it's not as funky as Walter's, and "Brick House" is a hardcore funk song. It was made for Walter to sing.
It’s impossible to sit while this song is playing!
YES!!!!! Shook my booty to this song many, many times!!
I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️
1963 and yes
August of 1962 I was born, you are absolutely correct. We got in at the right time
Class of 62 year as well… That will never be repeated on network television… Especially not lip sync
Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!
Classic from 1979! ❤️🔥
Drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange on lead vocals. He was the chief songwriter of this classic.
Great funk song! You couldn't stop people from dancing when this song was played at dances and in clubs, myself included! 😎🔥
Wow,didn’t know Lionel played saxophone 🎷
me neither, very talented man
Yup. Doubled on keyboards and sax.
he can dance on the ceiling too!!!😂😂😂
Eddie Money too
@@bennyscissorhands6477good one and all night long too
Old school at it's highest level of Commodores brick house gold
Saw them when Lionel was the sax guy back in the late 70's👍🏼🇺🇸🥃
Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body.
Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏
Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃
Ronald LaPread is killing it on bass.
Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤
Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖
😅Yes, the roller rink as well as dance floors! 🙌😎✌️
@@StephanieJeanne
Absolutely! 👌
I wonder if kids even go to roller rinks any more? Our elementary school even had a monthly skating party night! Great memories.
1:47 Even the women dancing are making the "stank" face! 😂 Lionel Richie on sax! Great stuff! 👍🏻
Still the best roller skating song of all time. At the right rink, with serious sound and lights, I'm right back in the 80s.
They don’t make em this anymore! Pure energy and soul!
I saw Lionel Richie perform with Tina Turner and it was that most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my life.
Keep them coming!
Thanks mr Sugarman!
This is great stuff. Too cool for School. I grew up listening to bands like this.
If this doesn't get you movin', you're friggin dead! 😅
Awesome
One of the best bands ever.
when this song comes on the sound system at Walmart everybody stops and listens up....
& starts dancing down the “soul train” aisle 🎉 😅
ce groove monstrueux c'est à pleurer tellement c'est beau
Now that's a party. Oh yeah. 😎🍺👍
Nice to see a clip of Lionel with a saxophone here.
The guy behind the drums is so good, he's invisible. 😂
The groove in this one just KILLS!
I love this song!
How Awesome is that.! 😎
I liked how they even played the fade out.
and without a drummer
This is funk!!
Can we make America Great again? These were the glory days! Let’s go back!
I agree 💯 if we can go back til 1979 right now😊
The audio is from the Commodores Live album
Why you hear their voices before they even arrive on the stage.
Program television for ya.
Still a bad ass band and an awesome flashback
shake it down 💃🏽🕺🏽
They performed 'Grease' with Frankie Valley on this same episode.
1:40 Bass player forgets they’re supposed to be pretending to play the song and just starts dancing. Guitar does same thing a few seconds later. 😂
now this was entertainment!
Feel good music.
Nice‼️💯🎶🙂💃🏻🕺🏻
great song
It sounded "live" but they are lipsyncing to the live version of the song that was on their live album.
Just the prelude, they weren’t not lip syncing at all
🌠Oh Yeah !!!
I did not know Lionel Richie was a sax player. Must be a multiple instrumentalist like Prince. I have seen him on the piano. It was cool seeing Jeff Skunk Baxter shredding the congas on the Steely Dan stuff. I thought he was just a guitar player.
From Sax to leading man, The Rich Lion!
Have a good time¡¡¡Cool¡¡
Had to get up and dance!
Aww❤❤"Commodore's."🍓
Lionel cracks me up.
I wish this was LIVE.
next time they should try having a drummer play to the canned track :)
Legends
Tasty bass!
Lionel on sax!
I didn't realize Lionel played sax.
They must all be grandparents
I always thought Lionel sang that song
I think he has sung it. He sings everything else they do.
@@gregoryduncan3067 Lionel *did not* sing everything else that the Commodores did. He sang the ballads and some up-tempo songs, but Walter "Clyde" Orange also sang lead on more than a few of their up-tempo songs. He was definitely the right choice for this song, because his voice is more gritty and funky than Lionel's.
Nb7466, this is Walter "Clyde" Orange on this song. He also sang lead for some other Commodores songs on their albums. It always surprises me when people think that Lionel sang this song, because the vocal doesn't sound anything like him! 🙂
@@christianman73 It would have worked just as well with Lionel on the vocals.
@@gregoryduncan3067 We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Lionel's voice is great, and I love it, but it's not as funky as Walter's, and "Brick House" is a hardcore funk song. It was made for Walter to sing.
Maybe TMS will upload them and Frankie Valli doing Grease together. That would be insane.
Yes!!
Do you know something we don't? Did they actually do that on one of the episodes?
@@StephanieJeanne They did! Frankie and Lionel did a duet. They've actually released that clip before on one of their DVD collections.
@@gregoryduncan3067 Wow! I'd love to see that!
Announcer sounds like Wolfman Jack?
It is!
The Wolfman is back.....Jack!!
Live on RUclips 😂😹😂😹
I didnt but IT made sens
Miming it but having fun. No drummer or mics on the horns.
Walter was as good as Lionel just didn't get the recognition
where is the drum track coming from?
And people think Slipknot has a lot of members. Odd ending,
I was 19 huge rock fan but they made some great music too, this was around the time of disco sucks chants.
Poor sound quality!
That's a whole lot of faking it. They didn't even both bringing out a drummer for the illusion.
Lip-sync and phantom drummer? WTF? Miming to a prerecorded sound track piped to the mixing board….😢