@@bmuhamad In the early 90's We were honoring his father.So he came and performed in Wiggins Park in Camden N.J I was working in Jazz Radio in Philly W.R.T.I.90.1 FM.And it was so awesome for me to see all of Jazz Artist in the area show up and fellowship and at the end.They all came on stage and did one of his fathers cut together.Shirley Scott,Johnathan Blake,Tony Williams,and others.And yes the brother can play them drum's😊😊😊P.S.And a special Thanks to the Camden County Board Of Free Holders who sponsored the Event..
A raise that they never gave us. WE BETTER ONLY BELIEVE YAHWEH JEHOVAH GOD IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR PLEASE ONLY BELIEVE IN GOD BECAUSE HE RAISED HIS SON JESUS FROM THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE EVERLASTING 🙏
Thelonious Monks wife Nelly saved my daughters life by instructing us to give her fresh carrot juice for her urinary infection In 2 weeks she was cured The Dr laughed at us but Nelly knew about Doctor Walkers book of juice cures Used in the 1920s in the south by black people who didn't have access to antibiotics. We love Nelly Monk! At least I helped write this song for her son and daughter!! L.Russell Brown
Childhood memories of living in NYC (East New York, Brooklyn) Yankees baseball, Central Park, Empire Skating Rink, The Bronx Zoo, the Museums, The circus at MSG and the Knicks, Coney Island, Roberto Clemente State Park, Flushing Meadow Park and Mets Baseball, riding those noisy trains that can bust your eardrums, and etc at the time. I can never forget this song. It made life in the Big Bad Apple that much sweeter. 🍎⛸️🥲
@kishasole01 My late mother worked through the ranks at the daycare center right there on New Lot's & Van Siclen Ave. She became boss around 1986 until she retired in1993. Sheffield Avenue, Highland Park, PS 72, IS 292.
Im officially turning into my damn parents! Im 29 y/o and I literally been looking for this track because my dad use to play this song every Saturday. Lol
@@anthonytaylor7928 , it's because of the bombardment of 'music' I'm hit with constantly and repeatedly. It's as if 2024 has no idea of what T.S. Monk's music sounds like.
This was my cousins favorite song.back in the early days of hip hop my cousin was light years ahead of himself and so was this music.Yah bless you Monty Frierson
Mine too! She say momma I didn't know people made songs like this. I told her that's what mommas are for. To show you the good music!❤ this classic so much.
My senior year in high school. OMG (Do the math). Still one of my favorites from that era. The list goes on and on. Zapp, Dazz Band, Confunkshun, Cameo, LTD, The Commodores, The BAR-KAYS, Earth Wind and Fire. I wonder why these producers and record labels won't do this type of music anymore. They sample from it. Why not just do it , just saying my generation put 5:13 out a helluva product. Real musicians playing real instruments. Guitars, horns, piano, real drummer, no computers or machines.
Enjoy it in West Africa. Listening to my favorite music from 70’,80’, thinking how nice was life back then in Europe and US. All changed, but our music and memories are still there❤
OMG! The 80s were the Good Life, when it came to music. Damn! I wish I could be transported back to the 80s. And to hear that the two ladies on this track, one being TS Monk sister (Barbara Monk)passed away, one after the other is heartbreaking. All that I’ve been through in this lifetime, I continue to keep on pushing myself. God is great and merciful.
After all these years of hearing "Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)", I thought I'd give the rest of the album a listen. I heard "Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)" on KQ 1060 AM and KXAM 1440 in Phoenix. I was a freshman at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix and then transferred to Carl Hayden High School in early 1981. I will be turning 56 this May.
I lost my heart my friend my mother deç 22 2021 day after my birthday at our home in her room I was with her whole time She was a fan of this song Missing you mama ❤️😘❤️😘❤️😘❤️ Tupac voice dear Mama 🙏🙏💞 and the best besides God 🙏 blessed 🙏
I was reading an article on August Darnell of Kid Creole and the Coconuts fame. The piece described Darnell’s persona of Kid Creole as "a flamboyant, devil-may-care bon vivant". The term, ‘bon vivant’ (Fr.: well living) reminded me of the funk/jazz song “Bon Bon Vie” by TS Monk. And that’s how I got here. True story.
I'm so addicted to the chorus melody. The minor key, the funky optimistic chords on top of the melancholic trumpets just gives me a nostalgic feeling of my own childhood memories. "Give me the good life." 1:11
I remember this growing up in NYC. It’s still very relevant today. It sounds more like funk. This song has been in my head all day. It’s time for a vacation✈️☀️🏖️
I found it. I heard it when d-nice was playing it on Instagram. I haven't heard it since the 80's when my parents was partying to this It's still ill. I'm in here two stepping like I was back in the days. Thanks!
Takes me back to 1981 while listening to "The Soul Show" on the Pikes Peak Community College radio station KEPC in Colorado Springs, CO. I was stationed there for 2 years starting in January, 1981 and this was it for an R&B music on the radio. 3 hours daily, 7 days a week. Really, it wasn't bad at all.
Takes me back to the early days of mom and dad in NYC.im in North Carolina now, but I still myself listen to music like this if I'm not pumping hip hop or Gospel. Jeff to the left. Aka Pop
I am so dancing this so magnificent music 🎹🎷🎺🎸. I had not heard this song in years and at my 64 years, I was hearing CBS 880 in NY and in between weather and traffic they put this song OMG. Found it here and what a blast back to the most best years of music and dancing and enjoying life. Dancing this is feeling young again. ❤😊
I love hip hop and sampling but I really love hearing where the music came from! Big up to M.D. Illegal Rap Radio/ Lessons in Jazz for playing the old to the new.
Who remember this hit song by T. S. Monk? WBLS use to play this song left and right as well. Every time this song was being played on WBLS? I would be out on the floor dancing I also had their album as well. This song will never get 2 old. I still love this song 2 this very day. Give me the good life!!!
I came looking for this track to soothe my heart. Every lyric took me through my life, and careers both bad and good. This song, It has changed my life battery up once again! Thank you Lord 🙏🏿 in Heaven, and to to you TS Monk. You are ahead of you time.👍🏿🇺🇲🇩🇴
I use to be crazy about this joint back in the day. I don't even remember the year it came out but it still works today. I always felt that this tune was ahead of it's time. Superb nasty funk!
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T.S. Monk was ahead of his time. This joint still ROCKS today.
Just remember who was his father.The Late Thelonious Monk.Just remember.The Apple Doesn't Fall to Far From The Tree😊😊😊
He couldn't help but to be ahead of his time pops made sure of that.
@@leonardbrown2219
Disco funk band formed by New Yorker Thelonious Monk Jr., the son of the legendary and revolutionary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.
@@bmuhamad In the early 90's We were honoring his father.So he came and performed in Wiggins Park in Camden N.J I was working in Jazz Radio in Philly W.R.T.I.90.1 FM.And it was so awesome for me to see all of Jazz Artist in the area show up and fellowship and at the end.They all came on stage and did one of his fathers cut together.Shirley Scott,Johnathan Blake,Tony Williams,and others.And yes the brother can play them drum's😊😊😊P.S.And a special Thanks to the Camden County Board Of Free Holders who sponsored the Event..
Indeed, still a cut 12/8/2024
Nothing like Old School Music! Gives me the good life! ❤️
Yes maekae941
YOU SAID IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohhh yesss lawddddd! Always and forever!!🎧🎧🎧
Always!!!❤❤❤
The man promised me a raise! Checking in for 2024!
A raise that they never gave us. WE BETTER ONLY BELIEVE YAHWEH JEHOVAH GOD IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR PLEASE ONLY BELIEVE IN GOD BECAUSE HE RAISED HIS SON JESUS FROM THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE EVERLASTING 🙏
I’m here 2024
@@richellej3746😅
Sorry bruh ... inflation came calling.
I Am Love This Song 💕
Never gets OLD!
🎉🎉🎉❤4SHO
70's and 80's was the business
Old great funk old school cool
I just found out that this is the son of legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk
Thelonious Monks wife Nelly saved my daughters life by instructing us to give her fresh carrot juice for her urinary infection
In 2 weeks she was cured
The Dr laughed at us but Nelly knew about Doctor Walkers book of juice cures
Used in the 1920s in the south by black people who didn't have access to antibiotics.
We love Nelly Monk!
At least I helped write this song for her son and daughter!!
L.Russell Brown
@@l.russellbrown9732 l. russell brown! thank you for all your iconic tunes of this era! “use it up and wear it out” is also my jam
I am trying to tell every marching band I know about this song!
This a classic NYC jam, that makes me missed NYC
Still Relevant In 2022.🔥🔥🔥🔥
IT'S 2024 AND WE STILL LISTENING 🎧 TO THIS SONG BECAUSE WE LOVE ❤ IT
🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤oh yeah
Childhood memories of living in NYC (East New York, Brooklyn) Yankees baseball, Central Park, Empire Skating Rink, The Bronx Zoo, the Museums, The circus at MSG and the Knicks, Coney Island, Roberto Clemente State Park, Flushing Meadow Park and Mets Baseball, riding those noisy trains that can bust your eardrums, and etc at the time. I can never forget this song. It made life in the Big Bad Apple that much sweeter. 🍎⛸️🥲
Don't forget a club called The Loft on Spring St in Manhattan
New Lots Ave ❤
@kishasole01 My late mother worked through the ranks at the daycare center right there on New Lot's & Van Siclen Ave. She became boss around 1986 until she retired in1993. Sheffield Avenue, Highland Park, PS 72, IS 292.
One of my all time classic songs 🎵 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🎹🎶🎹🎤🎤👍🏾
Yes!!!
Im officially turning into my damn parents! Im 29 y/o and I literally been looking for this track because my dad use to play this song every Saturday. Lol
Glad you found it aintcha!!! 🤣
We not holding it against you!!!!😂❤
Same, thanks Pop!
One of the coldest jams back in the day TS monk is underrated and the brother brought the goods,respect
Man they were a straight up CLASS ACT
Love this song BOSTON
Why folks use the word underrated on RUclips so darn much
@@anthonytaylor7928 , it's because of the bombardment of 'music' I'm hit with constantly and repeatedly.
It's as if 2024 has no idea of what T.S. Monk's music sounds like.
That man tellin Tha truth!😩 “Boy I’m so tired of punching that clock every [Goddamn] day”.😤🥴
Welcome to the Terrordome!!!
Hard to believe R&B in this day and age is non-existent. Fortunately we have a HUGE library that runs from the 50’s to the early 2000’s!
If your HERE you literally had to be looking for this track🤣
Yes!!! You right so so true.
Factzz!!! 😂🕺🏾
Fa Sho
Definitely!!! All my life I thought they were saying Bumble Bee!🤣🤣🤣
Yes I was. And I'm So Grateful to have Finally found it!!!😁😁😁🖤🖤🖤🖤
I'm still singing it all these years later. One of the best disco songs out there!
I love this!! My disco nights!!
This was my cousins favorite song.back in the early days of hip hop my cousin was light years ahead of himself and so was this music.Yah bless you Monty Frierson
This song is song funky. Got my kid jamming with me.
Mine too.
All three of my kids are "old souls"...age range early 30's to single digits...
They love my music more than Today's R&B & TRASH 🗑
Mine too! She say momma I didn't know people made songs like this. I told her that's what mommas are for. To show you the good music!❤ this classic so much.
@@echomercilesssamoah yes ma'am, mama keep exposing them to something worthy of being listened to. 🙏🏿💪🏿🖤
My senior year in high school. OMG (Do the math). Still one of my favorites from that era. The list goes on and on. Zapp, Dazz Band, Confunkshun, Cameo, LTD, The Commodores, The BAR-KAYS, Earth Wind and Fire. I wonder why these producers and record labels won't do this type of music anymore. They sample from it. Why not just do it , just saying my generation put 5:13 out a helluva product. Real musicians playing real instruments. Guitars, horns, piano, real drummer, no computers or machines.
My jam...living the good life. Born and raised in New York City. 😊
The anthem for us retirees!!
“The Good Life” Damn!! It’s good!!😂😂
I will GLADLY second that! Enjoy your retirement as I am mine. God bless!!
🏆🏆🏆 oh yes sir!!! 😂😂😂
Absolutely 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
Enjoy it in West Africa. Listening to my favorite music from 70’,80’, thinking how nice was life back then in Europe and US. All changed, but our music and memories are still there❤
We all gotta be tired of our current situations in life to be vibing to this wonderful masterpiece 😅
Thank God there is still GOOD MUSIC!!
Bumping this in the 76 seville my own concert
the hook on this song is crazy good!
OMG! The 80s were the Good Life, when it came to music. Damn! I wish I could be transported back to the 80s. And to hear that the two ladies on this track, one being TS Monk sister (Barbara Monk)passed away, one after the other is heartbreaking. All that I’ve been through in this lifetime, I continue to keep on pushing myself. God is great and merciful.
Oh Oui, Bon-Bon-Bon-Bon- Bon-Bon- Vie! (smile)
This is the jam!
Real Talk 👑
After all these years of hearing "Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)", I thought I'd give the rest of the album a listen. I heard "Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)" on KQ 1060 AM and KXAM 1440 in Phoenix. I was a freshman at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix and then transferred to Carl Hayden High School in early 1981. I will be turning 56 this May.
Time flies! I remember sitting on the sofa on a Saturday afternoon watching, Buck Rodgers, Doctor Who and Little House In The Prairie.
Senior week in Binghamton, May 1981, me and a great newfound gf danced to this. This song 🎵 makes sense...even to this very day !
I lost my heart my friend my mother deç 22 2021 day after my birthday at our home in her room I was with her whole time
She was a fan of this song
Missing you mama ❤️😘❤️😘❤️😘❤️
Tupac voice dear Mama 🙏🙏💞 and the best besides God 🙏 blessed 🙏
Loved this song as a kid!!! Yeeeeeesssss!!! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🔥
Slick classic right here! That intro Public Enemy used on Welcome To The Terrordome
This song reminds me of growing up in NYC. I met my first boyfriend around 86th and Central Park West.....Aaaaaaah BAE.
This was my jam back in the day...and still is!!!! ❤✌🏽❤
I was reading an article on August Darnell of Kid Creole and the Coconuts fame. The piece described Darnell’s persona of Kid Creole as "a flamboyant, devil-may-care bon vivant". The term, ‘bon vivant’ (Fr.: well living) reminded me of the funk/jazz song “Bon Bon Vie” by TS Monk. And that’s how I got here. True story.
This music is not seen or heard today. Sad.
It needs to we had fun... Instead of shooting at parties.
🎉
I'm so addicted to the chorus melody. The minor key, the funky optimistic chords on top of the melancholic trumpets just gives me a nostalgic feeling of my own childhood memories. "Give me the good life." 1:11
You can really hear where Pharrell drew inspiration from.
There’s a track on “N.E.R.D in search of..” that seems derivative of that chord progression.
@@dragonlotion1789 Thanks
😍😘
One of those uncovered gems!!!!
T.S. Monk open to me a new world in the music and his different expressions. Style, voices, musicalization and real disco glam ❤
Great original music. Wish more of type music today
One of the Illlest beats ever!
I remember this growing up in NYC. It’s still very relevant today.
It sounds more like funk. This song has been in my head all day.
It’s time for a vacation✈️☀️🏖️
I found it. I heard it when d-nice was playing it on Instagram. I haven't heard it since the 80's when my parents was partying to this It's still ill. I'm in here two stepping like I was back in the days. Thanks!
That's the same place I heard it after decades. That's Crazy!
I remember when this song dropped I was so young 😮
Wow it still got that same feeling and vibes
I got so much trouble on my mind
Refuse to lose
Here's your ticket
Hear the drummer get wicked
yes indeed
If your listening to this track you had a blast in the eighties. 🎉
Yes sir ❤
This is my shit damn I haven't heard this in a long time I was a baby when this dropped damn good old days for real
That's fantastic song!
Sometimes I feel like they don’t really give a damn, if I drop dead right here on the spot!!!
One of my favorite workout jams; keeps the adrenaline flowing! Never goes out of style for me. You can't fake the funk. LOL
I just love this track I remember being 17 laughing and skating feeling free ❤
Back in the days I used to love to wake up to that song 😊
Still makes my mood go up !! ❤
I hear this classic for first time in a long time...Had me dancing to myself
This came out over 40 years ago a straight classic this was a popular Pop Locking record in LA at the time
Oh snap I'm dancing with myy❤
Skating music and stepping
Barbeque music (picnic music)
EMPIRE SKATING RINK in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 🛼🛼😁😁
Talent definitely runs in the family
Takes me back to 1981 while listening to "The Soul Show" on the Pikes Peak Community College radio station KEPC in Colorado Springs, CO. I was stationed there for 2 years starting in January, 1981 and this was it for an R&B music on the radio. 3 hours daily, 7 days a week. Really, it wasn't bad at all.
Thelonious Monk. Great Jazz Pianist. This is him and DEFINITELY NOT anyone else.
This is the son. The great jazz drummer. Pops was the pianist
@@yerusha777 Nope. That is T-Monk himself.. The father! and DEFINITELY no one else!
Thelonious Monk was retired when this song was released. It is his son & daughter (background voicals). Classic song for the skating rink. ⛸️⛸️⛸️
@@dalemcilwain I truly wish it were true....but this Thelonious Monk himself. DEFINITELY not his son and daughter.
@deejaytrizay Sorry Fam…you outta touch with reality
This is a classic jam packed with pure funk
This is true
10-22-24 This is the jam that spans time 🗽 NYC . 😎 😊🎸 🎹 🎶 🕺 🎤 💃 🚘 🍷 💯 🎯 🌴
Takes me back to the early days of mom and dad in NYC.im in North Carolina now, but I still myself listen to music like this if I'm not pumping hip hop or Gospel. Jeff to the left. Aka Pop
Can't find this on spotify 🙄🤦
Old school to the fullest love it club jam👏🏾👏🏾💯🎯
I am so dancing this so magnificent music 🎹🎷🎺🎸. I had not heard this song in years and at my 64 years, I was hearing CBS 880 in NY and in between weather and traffic they put this song OMG. Found it here and what a blast back to the most best years of music and dancing and enjoying life. Dancing this is feeling young again. ❤😊
One of the funkiest songs in history!!
What a jam from back-in-the-day when I was a kid. I wish today's music was this good!!! Luvin' the French lyrics!!!👍🏽
My son is 17 years old.
Loves this song and he knows his French...
He said mama that’s French vie means life non means good...
@Ras Krishna vie is life bon is good, I don't even know french lol
Man!That into alone deserves applause!!
I love hip hop and sampling but I really love hearing where the music came from!
Big up to M.D. Illegal Rap Radio/ Lessons in Jazz for playing the old to the new.
Who remember this hit song by T. S. Monk? WBLS use to play this song left and right as well. Every time this song was being played on WBLS? I would be out on the floor dancing I also had their album as well. This song will never get 2 old. I still love this song 2 this very day. Give me the good life!!!
I think I first heard it on A.M WWRL
Kenwood speakers on the front stoop back in the day
My jam!
THIS IS WHERE IM FROM. THANK YOU FATHER. MAXXFACTS!
Second best song on the album…."Can’t Keep My Hands To Myself" was the best! Less commercial, killer bass line, awesome vocals & arrangements
This song rite here.. Still da song❤
This was the jam!🎉❤
I came looking for this track to soothe my heart. Every lyric took me through my life, and careers both bad and good. This song, It has changed my life battery up once again! Thank you Lord 🙏🏿 in Heaven, and to to you TS Monk. You are ahead of you time.👍🏿🇺🇲🇩🇴
This song just instantly makes me want to smile and dance. True bon bon music!
Feeling Good Song!🤩
YES !!
@@anthonymeans7439 Yes!
Anderson Paak's Am I Wrong reminds me so much of this classic cut. STILL rocking this joint in 2024
Feel good music, nothing better!
Feel the music in your bones history in the making
Love it ❤️
Friday night 🌙 grooves mid Saturday morning 🌄 sunrise.
ChicagoQueen 🎧 checking in.
Still a #1 funky soul when you LIVING the GOOD LIFE! 🎉
Awesome funk
I want that good life thanks t.s. monk and company for the happy jam
I use to be crazy about this joint back in the day. I don't even remember the year it came out but it still works today. I always felt that this tune was ahead of it's time. Superb nasty funk!
It came out in the spring of 1981.
1980 is when it came out
It was released in 1980 came out in 1981 my bad
@@carolannewray7865 Thanks. God bless 🙏
stumbled upon this cuz I hadn't heard of T.S Monk, banger
I awoke to this AWESOME song in my head. Haven't heard it since my mom packed up her vinyl. Backstreet did a remix, but it's not the same.
You can't stop the original with a copy!
Love the public enemy horn intro. Welcome to the terrordome
T.S and Boo Boo Monk 💯
Classic!!!! Always loved this jam!! Born and raised in Nyc!!!
🏙🛼🛼🛼
I loved this song as a kid. It still gives me the same good vibes. ❤
2024 im 45 years old this song is lit give me the good I said give the bonnnnn yeahhh good music im dancing in the car lol😂