So much so, McDonald's approached them to use their #1 R&B hit as a theme for their commercial celebrating the Big Mac sandwich's 21st birthday in 1989.
legends never die and diamonds never fade! true music lovers will always appreciate timeless gems like this. greetings to beautiful New Jersey from germany.
He wrote it, but L.A. Reid was producing the glossy sound, all the bells & whistles and playing drum sounds. Notice Babyface dropped that 'hook-laden' sound once they no longer worked together in the studio but continued only on paper because they had LaFace and were running it together as business partners only. Bbayface without L.A. is more emotion and sentiment and less flash.
My Dad was a DJ in my teens while he wad in the US Air Force. He was the entertainment director at Kadena AB (his side job) and booked many famous acts while we were there. This song came out after he retired. He passed away in September. He was really good at finding hits. I remember him telling me about this song and several others that came out around the same time. He always played a variety of music when I was growing up. R&B, Country, Disco, Bluegrass, Rock, Calypso, Regae, Soul, and anything else that was out except gospel music. He was not a religious man in any way. I will miss him and his ear for music. Love you and miss you Dad ❤.
Fresh as it was in 1988.. it was a club hit then.. and at 16 we headed on over to quasars, Cornwall colloseum, for dancing and pop.. no alcohol yet lol.
The lyrics to this song 🎵 😢💚when I 1st heard this song I cried the words touch my heart so much💚💜 ❤any1 here listening to this classic in March 2024 let me know have a beautiful day everyone 💚💜🫶🏻🫶🏻
It's 2023 and I love this song as much today as the first time I heard it. I sing it at the top of my lungs every time I hear it. This is what timeless music sounds like.
Am listening to this Classic song in March 2024. I grew up listening to this great Jamz in the early 90's in Ayilara SURULERE Lagos. Wahoo time really flies. God is good. RUclips thank you for all the good memories of my childhood.
I'll be listening to this in 2044 if the Lord allows me too! Dance with your lady while both of you smile simply because you having a good time and fun!
No black people certainly aren't the only ones with soul but how many records would you want to play over the last 50 years had black artists not been included? There is a certain sound/emotion/soul that black artists are able to convey that very few white artists have, some white artists can turn an urban sound into something completely different and equally compelling ala Sting, Paul Weller, Teena Marie, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan etc who are up there with the best black artists but I don't believe that you can say that white people have the same sound as black people when it comes to making urban music. I also think that mainstream music has gone down the crapper since record labels have excluded urban black musicians and singers from mainstream music.
I’m 26 and I thank my mom and family for letting me listen to old school songs from the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s. All these songs are amazing!! I miss this in 2020
Same here I’m 26 and I’m the only person of my friends who listens to this music . I think if you was raised in a black family then this is your joint lol all my friends have never heard it lol I was brought up in a black household so these tracks and soul and rnb was the regular thing !! Thanks god I got to experience it
@@ajaytranter2655 Thank you for loving the music of my generation having been born in the late 50's it does my heart good to know that the younger generation (some ) Love the music
Another brilliant track written/produced by the dynamic duo of Babyface & L.A Reid during this period. You can tell right away it's their distinctive sound with that classic late 80's drumbeat and great vocal arrangements.
No doubt.. I seem to think that this song was written with the intent The Whispers would record it for their Just Gets Better With Time album.. Budget or something like that made them pass on it. The Mac Band did an excellent job with and I'd have it no other way, but you've gotta admit you could see it being sung by The Whispers!
Shane Anthony I truly find it amazing how only two guys (Babyface & L.A Reid) can write and produce so many hits and classic songs. They're a gift from God.
I can't listen to this JAM without remembering a simpler time when I had girlfriend thinking about my junior prom and what I was going to do after high school, man what a time to be alive💯
Almost the end of an era. Golden era of R&B. Now, we’re stuck with Migos and Cardi B. Thank You to Hollywood for pushing that garbage through the radios.
@@TezzTezz11 Rnb became Rap and bullshit. Since the major record companies started promoting Rappers trying to sing and stopped putting money in developing the next generation of RnB.
It couldnt have been anymore electronic, (Linndrum drum machine, DX7 synth) to be honest BUT the reason you think it isnt is because it is real soul music.
Bet y'all didn't know this was Babyface again --- lord, that boys had his tentacles all over the music of the 80s, 90s and into continuum! This joint was slammin' all over town during the summer of '88! #puremagic #didntevenknowitwasFace
Babyyyyy who listening to this in 2023. As a dump truck driver this is one of my jams I listen to to get my day started. Think of my little one when I hear it. I love you baby. Mommy is doing it all for you babe. Building our dream now so we can live it later 💪🏾
@@kevinpayton2664 LA and Face along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis made a few New Jack Swing type songs too....Teddy Riley took the baton and ran with it, though!
My late uncle was playing this a lot I'm so glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s R.I.P Uncle D. Thank you so much for teaching the old school jams my playlist is full of them
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Who is still listening in 2024??!
This song and video is 🔥🔥🔥…them brothers look like they had fun shooting this
Me!
Mee
I am!
🖐️
Sounds just as amazing now in 2023, as it did in 1988! Brings back so many memories.
This song hit #1 on the R&B charts 35 years ago.
Fond memories❤
Loved it then. Still love it now. 07/07/2023
@@myraharryson3499pi qqAaaaaaa
@@myraharryson3499pi qqAaaaaaa
if you're listening to this song you have IMMACULATE taste in music!
Hi I bought this tune when First came out a 12 inch record I still play it ❤
Who's still listening 2024
Meee
😅😅
February 11, 2024 🎉 🥁🎷🎤🎧❤
Everyone
Putting this on my chill play list
WHEN I'M DEPRESSED I GO PLAY ALL THE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC I GROW UP ON AND IT TAKES ME BACK TO SEMPLER TIMES
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❤❤
Man, where did the time go😢...never again will you get music like this again
Say that again!! But it's 2024 and we still jammin it!!!
The Mac Band very underrated
So much so, McDonald's approached them to use their #1 R&B hit as a theme for their commercial celebrating the Big Mac sandwich's 21st birthday in 1989.
Still rocking this legendary track in 2022! LET’S GO!!! 💪🏾
One of my Favorite Songs Uplifting .Thank you Jesus for Music.
I LOVE IT
Totally … decades of love ❤for this song!
Yes honey this was the jam 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
And in 2023!🙂
Who still listens to this song 2020? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👀👀👀
U no it in Washington D.C. 👍🏾👍🏾
me on 4-7-2020 and the song is timesless
7-7-2020 LOVE this song!
legends never die and diamonds never fade! true music lovers will always appreciate timeless gems like this.
greetings to beautiful New Jersey from germany.
🙋🙋🙋💃💃🕺🕺🤸🕺
Babyface's production was so funky and polished.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This does sound like a "After 7" track
He's income from publishing gotta be crazy
He wrote it, but L.A. Reid was producing the glossy sound, all the bells & whistles and playing drum sounds. Notice Babyface dropped that 'hook-laden' sound once they no longer worked together in the studio but continued only on paper because they had LaFace and were running it together as business partners only. Bbayface without L.A. is more emotion and sentiment and less flash.
@@cameron_fairchildI have no idea how someone would come to know so much specific info like that but that's p cool
Now children, this is what music 🎵🎶 is all about!
"Girl I love you, just for being you. And the special way you always touch my heart..." best verse & chords ever!
Def sounds tight
My husband loved this song we got married in 1988 and he always played this song RIP,we would have been married for 28yrs we were young and in love
Stacey Ebekweh RIP to yur husband
dear Stacey, your husband had an excellent taste. Sorry to hear that you have to miss him. I wish you strength.
Amen...
God bless u, Stacey...Re u nigerian??
I pray that he continues to rest in peace. May God continue to bless and keep you!
A song that automatically makes you want to get up and dance with a big ass smile on your face!
That shit bumps! Flat out!
😂😂📠
yep
My everyday Jam😂😂, who is here 2024??? 80's music era was the best. Life was much beautiful, pure fun and happiness😁😁
This song deserves a billion views, cmon guys lets do this😊
I have just three words: this is music
Anita Bosse Hell yea
Yes yes
Outstanding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
8 words
This was 4 yrs ago and Stranger Things 4 came out this year, holy shit my guy, you just predicted one of the line of Stranger Things, well done
Thank You Babyface and L.A. Reid for this great production.
My Dad was a DJ in my teens while he wad in the US Air Force. He was the entertainment director at Kadena AB (his side job) and booked many famous acts while we were there. This song came out after he retired. He passed away in September. He was really good at finding hits. I remember him telling me about this song and several others that came out around the same time. He always played a variety of music when I was growing up. R&B, Country, Disco, Bluegrass, Rock, Calypso, Regae, Soul, and anything else that was out except gospel music. He was not a religious man in any way. I will miss him and his ear for music. Love you and miss you Dad ❤.
RIP to your Dad. He must have had an exquisite taste in music
Real music never dies Straight up classic
No Doubt
This doesn’t get old.
ETERNALLY ⭐
I agree with you
Classic
Fresh as it was in 1988.. it was a club hit then.. and at 16 we headed on over to quasars, Cornwall colloseum, for dancing and pop.. no alcohol yet lol.
exactly
The lyrics to this song 🎵 😢💚when I 1st heard this song I cried the words touch my heart so much💚💜 ❤any1 here listening to this classic in March 2024 let me know have a beautiful day everyone 💚💜🫶🏻🫶🏻
3 days later...
💯💯💯
I first sent this to someone and they cried 😢 they loved the words so much 💜💚💜💚
July 2024
It's 2023 and I love this song as much today as the first time I heard it. I sing it at the top of my lungs every time I hear it. This is what timeless music sounds like.
Muito bom ótimo em família
what happened to these dudes?
@@lisabradford8180 Time
It's 2024. Still listening and sounds just as good as it did back then ❤
Ayeeee! Jamming at work early in the morning by myself!
oh my Good God it's such a blessings to be a child of the 80s
My God, that is so true....
Yasss!
Yep 👍
Yyyyyesssss!!!!!❤
Same
This has LA Reid and Babyface all over it. Classic
Or larry blackmon
For real mate?
LA and Babyface did wrote and produce that cut
@@thunderthumb59 yes they is
Face & LA, Teddy Riley & Bernard Belle, and Jimmy & Terry. They ruled the mid/late 80s and 90s imo.
Am listening to this Classic song in March 2024. I grew up listening to this great Jamz in the early 90's in Ayilara SURULERE Lagos. Wahoo time really flies. God is good. RUclips thank you for all the good memories of my childhood.
I was in my twenties when this was hot. I knew a dj that would sell mix tapes to fitness instructors. Mac Band was it!!
I'll be listening to this in 2044 if the Lord allows me too! Dance with your lady while both of you smile simply because you having a good time and fun!
2024 Retro lovers
Me
This SLAPS!!! This song is SOOOOO underrated!💯
Babyface wrote this with la reid
Yes, it certainly is.
@@kingsports1113 This sounds like a song that Babyface would write. Lol.
Not underrated, it was a hit but no sellout, this is real soul even though its commercial.
@@maccagrabme babyface wrote it
I have never seen the simplest dance moves look so smooth. They was on point!
The clothes make it stand out too. These guys are all fly even by today's standards.
TT un
Ti😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅gx
A legendary, very under rated , never duplicated, unique sounding , one of a kind band.
Thank you Anthony!
@@raymccampbell7588 You're welcome Sir. When and where are you guys going to have an Old School tour? It's overdue.
@anthonyjones7192 I would love to hit the road.
I absolutely love this song. I love old school music. Music today has no meaning.
Not to much.
🧢
💯💯
Uhg😅
1988 - great year for music.
what else in 1988? In music for sure...
LA-Babyface, Jimmy Jam-Terry Lewis, and the New Jack sound. R&B in the late 1980's was different from what we have heard before and it was great.
@Osito De Peluche It's great that they all became good friends...
And hip hop
@Osito De Peluche TEDDY RILEY had em ALL SWEATN! and dont forget the criminally underrated KYLE WEST
❤❤❤❤❤ So glad I was born in 88 my parents raised me good to listen to great music...My type of man I like the way their dressed and how they dance
Still rocking in 2024 thanks for uploading
My Brother Loved this Song. RIP VINCE. TN
This was one of my favorite 80s songs. It’s 2020 and I’m still jammin’ this. I love it!! 💃🏼💖✨
👍🏾👍🏾👌🏾
Alright now always jamming this 1👍🏽
Well go head on with your bad self, girl.
And beyond.
Still jamming to this song in 2023
Now THIS is Black Music. Quality track.
Sevronee sho you right!
No black people certainly aren't the only ones with soul but how many records would you want to play over the last 50 years had black artists not been included? There is a certain sound/emotion/soul that black artists are able to convey that very few white artists have, some white artists can turn an urban sound into something completely different and equally compelling ala Sting, Paul Weller, Teena Marie, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan etc who are up there with the best black artists but I don't believe that you can say that white people have the same sound as black people when it comes to making urban music.
I also think that mainstream music has gone down the crapper since record labels have excluded urban black musicians and singers from mainstream music.
@Marc Stocken shut up you lil bitch and enjoy the Black music
@Marc Stocken just like chinese music is Chinese, and classical is of white european heritage, this is black american music
JAM.
I was listening to a sports radio station and for some reason they threw this song on. It brought back memories and brought me here. Awesome song.
This song sounds so good we need music like this back 2023❤❤❤❤❤
Underrated .... perfect song, amazing voice, romantic lyrics,
I’m 26 and I thank my mom and family for letting me listen to old school songs from the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s. All these songs are amazing!! I miss this in 2020
Me too.enjoyed them.my dad used to play them.mehn my/our childhood is awesome
Same here I’m 26 and I’m the only person of my friends who listens to this music . I think if you was raised in a black family then this is your joint lol all my friends have never heard it lol I was brought up in a black household so these tracks and soul and rnb was the regular thing !! Thanks god I got to experience it
@@ajaytranter2655 Thank you for loving the music of my generation having been born in the late 50's it does my heart good to know that the younger generation (some ) Love the music
@@stephaniejones4749 ❤️❤️ it’s good for my soul ❤️❤️
@@ajaytranter2655 ❤️❤️
We had the BEST music in the 80s!!!!❤❤❤
YOU KNOW WHAT MUSIC IS AMSTERDAM LOVE IT
Still jammin it as an opener in my 80s DJ set!
Still bumping in 2021! !!
Another brilliant track written/produced by the dynamic duo of Babyface & L.A Reid during this period. You can tell right away it's their distinctive sound with that classic late 80's drumbeat and great vocal arrangements.
+Shane Anthony yeah that' that late 80s la reid and babyface beat! always recognizable!
No doubt.. I seem to think that this song was written with the intent The Whispers would record it for their Just Gets Better With Time album.. Budget or something like that made them pass on it. The Mac Band did an excellent job with and I'd have it no other way, but you've gotta admit you could see it being sung by The Whispers!
djkrushinphx very true somewhat sounds like Rock Steady .
According to LA & Face, the Whispers had to chose one or the other. They went with Rock Steady. That's how Mac Band got this one.
Shane Anthony I truly find it amazing how only two guys (Babyface & L.A Reid) can write and produce so many hits and classic songs. They're a gift from God.
I met the lead singer waaaay back then, and he was the nicest most humble guy. We talked about everything except for music for about 30 minutes.
Cool
Still hot in 2024.
This was a time when men still sang songs embracing love for their woman. Them good old days.
Shout out to Gen X
The question is who will continue to listen to this track in 2023? The answer is. ME!!!! Classic!!
Me too it's February 2021 and still listening 👍🏾
It's April 2021! 🙋🏼
2021?? This will be played during my funeral in maybe 45-50 years 😁
Meee
Me 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️❤️❤️
Babyface production. Love the vocals. Just heard it on 102.3 in Los Angeles. Been a lotta years👏🏾👏🏾✅
Goooooood
def has the LA REID hard drums and layered in & out cymbals on it
I thought so 😅🔥
Face is one of the GOAT
This here is Old School music and I still love it don't y'all agree?????
Yepp
I can't listen to this JAM without remembering a simpler time when I had girlfriend thinking about my junior prom and what I was going to do after high school, man what a time to be alive💯
Shout out to them muhfuggin 1980s damnit! These folks jammin they azz off!!
+Louis Broadway right tho!
And we bout to come back!
sure you right!!! damn I miss those days
+Ray McCampbell no disrespect but I don't think no one including you can out due this one. much love though....
A perfect song for Valentine’s Day ❤️🌹🍫
Most underrated song of the 80's
I can hear Laface production anywhere! A real banger.
Almost the end of an era. Golden era of R&B. Now, we’re stuck with Migos and Cardi B. Thank You to Hollywood for pushing that garbage through the radios.
Run out of Ideas, Such Useless Acts, SMH 🤦♂️
Neither one of them are rnb artist…
@@TezzTezz11 Rnb became Rap and bullshit. Since the major record companies started promoting Rappers trying to sing and stopped putting money in developing the next generation of RnB.
Hehe
1.9k likes would be givin to U from ME 👍👍👍👍💖 for this....This right hair 👆
I can never ever get bored listening to this classic
STILL IN 23 Y'ALL ...OLD BUT GOLD...GEOWN UP WITH THIS KINDA REEEEEAL MUSIC🎉🎉🎉🎉
2021 in the house , one of my jams of all time it never gets old
exactly
YES. It never gets old...I could listen to it over and over. Such a special sound, base is good
Me and u both with yo pretty self! I love this song!
@@J-ZIM u ain't lying I just literally listened to it on repeat until the next day!.. but did take some breaks in between lol
DAMN this took me back in that time machine when things like pay phones cost a dime? those were great days..
It made getting that phone number on a dance night extra special. Damn dating in the 90s was fun
those were the dayz
+gene gleeson for sure!
In fact, I get all the joy and happiness in the world when I listen to this song. There is no way this can fade out.
Born in the 60s lived the 80s still to this day 2023 still the sound that brings joy 😉🏴🙏🏻
Absolutely, born 61 hell yeah😎.
Who's listening in 2019 Talented underrated group during their moment to shine.
me
Here here in Washington D.C. 👍🏾
Me
dont remember hearing it when it first came out but love the song and video with that fine lady
ill do anything to prove to you i care for you, even if i have to catch a falling star . beautiful words.
Pure nostalgia...doing my 80's thing today sheer bliss
2024 who searched for this !
The one that have the ear for good music south melodious heart
I fell in love to this 'back In day' things were JUST SWEETER Back then .!!!!!!!!!
That was real raw talent with instruments no computer 80s golden generation
Actually computers were more of a crutch to the production rather than a go to for everything.
This beat was made using a drum machine and synth pads all 80’s music was digital revolution.
It couldnt have been anymore electronic, (Linndrum drum machine, DX7 synth) to be honest BUT the reason you think it isnt is because it is real soul music.
It’s 2021 and I am dancing to this beautiful evergreen jam!
Real Music! That’s why we’re still listening it.
Roses are Indeed Red!
This is still the jam! I was on stage with them in concert...lol...they pulled me up....great times!
You're beautiful sis so why not!! 😃
OMG, I don't have words to praise this beauty and perfection!!!!!
The roses are still red and violets,blue in 2024
Still , a Feel-good tune all these years later. This guy had a great voice. 2024 and goin' on my MP3
THE JAM STILL DESTOYS 99.8% OF THE TRASH OUT NOW
Love this song . The 80’s was the very best and 88 man..
1988 was the best year of my life! Young, healthy, great job, friends and family intact and in LOVE!😍❤💋
@@cyn88true92 no doubt, you just summed it up🙏🏿👋🏿
Still jamming to this August 2023!
I'm here in 2024 🎉
OMG!! Had this song in my head for days!!! This used to be my jam!! 💘 🌹 🌈 🎶 🌻 🎸 🍎 🌷 🎹 🚗 🎷 💃
Me too. I had to come home to put it on
I still this Jam.
Sorry, I meant to say this is still my Jam.
Sure sure, you say that shit about every song
Who is still listening to this jam in 2019?
Lovin this tune still
Oct 2019❤🖤
I do and it will never get old.
Wow. Just saw them sitting in with Curt Jones of Aurra in Grapevine Tx about 2 weeks ago. Damnit is ALL I can say.
Me!🙋♀️
Now that boy will know his music I can tell u
I was so little dancing with my auntie God rest her soul off this. Memories man !! When things were simple. LOVE YOU AUNT SHEEN!!! ❤❤❤
Everything Babyface touched was an instant classic
This song will live on for generations. #Classic
Educating the children through isolation with classics like these!! 💪🏽❤️
Bet y'all didn't know this was Babyface again --- lord, that boys had his tentacles all over the music of the 80s, 90s and into continuum! This joint was slammin' all over town during the summer of '88!
#puremagic
#didntevenknowitwasFace
Babyyyyy who listening to this in 2023. As a dump truck driver this is one of my jams I listen to to get my day started. Think of my little one when I hear it. I love you baby. Mommy is doing it all for you babe. Building our dream now so we can live it later 💪🏾
Written and produced by L.A. Reid & Babyface!!!
Honestly I thought that it was a New Jack cut, not LA and Babyface.
@@kevinpayton2664 LA and Face along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis made a few New Jack Swing type songs too....Teddy Riley took the baton and ran with it, though!
@@BigDapPacino You can't go wrong with either LA-Babyface, Jam-Lewis, or Teddy Riley. The late 1980's were a great period for R&B music.
Who Else!!! The master Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
@@kevinpayton2664 this does not have a new jack swing sound
This song takes me back to my childhood😍😍😍
My late uncle was playing this a lot I'm so glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s R.I.P Uncle D. Thank you so much for teaching the old school jams my playlist is full of them
when I was playing tunes in pubs this was 1 of my favs.respect to everyone who likes it❤nuff respect
You can't get more 80s than this. The dance is everything. U got to love it 😻
Music was in the 80's and 90's. what we have now is just laughable when you hear tracks like this.
80s R&B didn't get much better than this track. Def an all time fave. Vid is super smooth too
80' s sweet sweet music.. no following decade can compare to 80's music.
I agree!!!!!!
Jesus is Our Savior He is always there for us and He Loves us .
Amen alléluia 🙏
Amen
I Was 12 Years Old When This Song Came Out I Love This Jam By The McCampbell Brothers Roses Are Red 1988❤️🔥
This song has one off the best bridges ever 👊🏽
My love for old skool music!
Good music is timeless....
Im 22 years old and this song is amazing I hate today's music so cheap and nasty no style or emotion whatsoever but this kind of music has everything!
Excellent Observation 👏✊🙏💪⭐
You're a classy, distinct and very intelligent 22yr old. God bless you always.
Old school music 🎶 is still hot 🔥🔥
Dont have no soul
Good taste has no age, this is a Babyface and LA Reid production, they're still and always will be 🔥