This is beautiful....those kids rushed that field just to dance. They couldn't hold it in any more...the soul and funk coming from that stage was so overpowering. No fighting, no hatred...nothing, just togetherness and music!!!👊✊✌
Real talk. I was blessed to born in 1972. That's when people enjoyed being together. I wish I had a time machine to go back to the 70s. That was real music back then
Nowadays, people get shot over a piece of chicken at a fast food restaurant. Who knows what mayhem rushing the stage to dance the funky chicken would bring!
Bob Schlitz Damn you are lucky woodstock ,wattstax and liveaid 3 historical concerts to be remembered forever . anyone who attended these shows are lucky.
Omg! I was back in 1974 I was a Sophomore in HS. This was Hot fun in Summer time Musuc concerts like this was so much fun! This one it took me back to the days of my youth I was always dancing, and enjoying myself! I'm orginally from LA Ca. Myself I came up in Dance & theater i knew all the crew on soul train dance was my major HS student as Dorsey HS. It was so much fun to share some history with the fans.. One day I had the pleasure of meeting Rufus! He and Don were going around to Local HS in LA to seek dancers for the new show Soul Train Don was so fine He rocked as a man in my eye I was just a kid all the girls liked him!! And the brothers thought he was cool too! Don & Rufus loved us kids and wanted to help us succeed in our Education We Loved us some Rufus Thomas knew how to reach people he was close friend to Don Cornelius founder of Soul Train. Rufus had a plan with Don to do workshop concerts all over and this would pull out the true kids that had The best talent they were looking for. They did group auditions for dancers skills to put on the Soul Train Show. Slick!! It worked we were just kids and didnt care about the money at the time most of us still at home with our parents lol. We just wanted to dance!! But its all good, if you made it yo Soul Train like many of us did you got exposure to grow and party with the hippest trip on TV the soul Train there never be another! Im thankful I had some of the best times in my life along with experience to succeed to your highest dream! 💰💰💲💲🥁😍👍🏼🎶🎶🎤Those were the true day of fun!
This came on the jukebox at work today and I heard it for the first time. What a joy! Then I found this video. This has to be the feel-good video of the century
My God parents frank and Annie, used to have adult beverages and have me doing the funky chicken around 8 or 9 years and be bofl at me. Childhood memories are coming back to me now.😂😂😂😂😂
Did you see the brother in the white shirt run and automatically go into a double split 🔥🔥🔥 dancing and having fun, this was the black power era, powerful music powerful people.
I am not black, i am not beautiful but i love this music. When i starting collecting music, soul was a big part of my collection lables like Stax, Atlantic, Gordy, Mowtown, Okeh. And i just wanna thank to Soul cause you gave a lot when i had nothing! Thx from germany
One of the very very greatest funk artists, and with a tremendous danceable backup by utterly brilliant musicians. Rufus Thomas and James Brown were the funkiest men ever!!
하지 분쇄하는 야만인 ok so white people can't like R&B? I played blues and R&B for years in bands. What an ignorant point of view. Music is a universal language-I also like African drumming and lots of other music that isn't part of my culture like Inuit throat singing. I suppose I should get upset if non Europeans like classical music !
I was 13 back then and we had so much fun dancin and whatnot. Now young black people can't have fun like this because we let the devil take over your Culture!
Young black brothers and sistas, if you're reading this post this is for you- notice everybody pants are up? Notice "no violence of any kind"? Notice the black women are adorned and not disrespected? Do you see and feel that Black Power? And know that Rufus Thomas was a "Goddam Genius"! With real showmanship, a real man in the art and hearts of many , waaaay better than lil Wayne who by the way couldn't hold a candle to Rufus Thomas.
"...makes you feel like doin somethin nasty, like pouring chicken gravy on your shirt, right down front..." Rufus Thomas, lines from studio recording "do the funky chicken". Rufus was sho nuff funny, lol yet profound in the cosmic philosophical sense .... deliberately pouring chicken gravy down the front of your short is the pillar for dissent and freedom
Amazing Artist Amazing Video! Amazing Tune!! Big Respect for the great artist Rufus Thomas!!! Respect for this time too .... it was the big time and big music and big big festival!!!
We need a worldwide movement to fight for the right to do the funky chicken anytime and anywhere ! All must work for our various national constitutions to include this right !
That’s not even the whole outfit. Check out what he’s wearing when he first hits the stage. ruclips.net/video/KCFyKRtlLOI/видео.htmlsi=aTEN54phH6opkRla
...and you only wonder who brought that shit up.... that's right: Thugs. Should I take it a step farther and mention what race started it? Nah, I think you can figure it out on your own....
Ojalá, hubiera podido estar en ese concierto,Perdón,No hablo inglés pero si escucho Música, esto no era mi estilo, pero cuando lo ví, me enamoré de esto,....muchas gracias por compartir esta música ,
Usa Google Translate. Yo hablo español y tambien ingles, pero a veces me topo en RUclips con gente que hablan frances o portugues. Sencillamente traduzco de ingles a su idioma y me entienden bien. Paz.
I miss being surrounded by harmless fun loving black folks always ready to get down and dance and have a good ole time like never before!!! Epic excitement!!!!!!
I couldn’t imagine people in this era being so in the moment and free like that. They would be too busy holding their phones up taking pictures and singing into the camera and such a like.
You haven't been to many concerts recently if any have you? You don't think if they had cell phones in the 70's they wouldn't record a concert? lol. You sound like an old person.
No dancing in arenas like that, though. Stop being mean. A different era with different values for enjoyment in the moment. If you're lucky, you'll get old too.😘
Love to see my people having a good time and it no violence there back in that era, I which I was back in that era, I wish I was born in the 1950s,maybe 1957 Lol, I an 80s baby it was also good in the 80s,90s,early 2000s, kinda now but the oldies are the best, Love it :)
1971 I was a quiet girl at library college, The lecturer walked up and down, hands thrust in his tweed jacket, elbows out. Then ,to emphasise his point he flapped his elbows and I called out "Do the Funky Chicken"..... I knew it was very wrong, but I couldn't help it.
Besides, Rufus, being a genius, what I love about all the stax artists, including the late great Otis Redding, is that the band was mixed, making music together on the stax 3:49 label in memphis tn.
RUFUS was the man when it came to putting out a record that taught fans a new dance. Funky Chicken, Breakdown, Funky Penguin and The Dog are the 4 that I remember. I did all 4 dances back then during my teenage years.....THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!😊
Great movie 1972 Wattsstax I love it.
Must be hard to see your grandparents was cooler than you
+Kafarskenvadeder Being a grandparent i would highly agree...lol..I just don't see kids today funkin' out like this..
Ladies in hot pants. One guy in a tank top so short, it looks like a sports bra.
Kafarskenvadeder
greatest comment ever, lol.
Oh, yeah!
That lil girl in purple tho...💃🙌👏
This is beautiful....those kids rushed that field just to dance. They couldn't hold it in any more...the soul and funk coming from that stage was so overpowering. No fighting, no hatred...nothing, just togetherness and music!!!👊✊✌
Absolutely Top comment 🏆Cheers from Perth Australia 🐨and stay Lucky 🍀🙏
If it happened today guaranteed it would have been so packed people would have died. This was back when people had sense
Real talk. I was blessed to born in 1972. That's when people enjoyed being together. I wish I had a time machine to go back to the 70s. That was real music back then
Of course, that was before we sold our “Soul” for pennies on the dollar, and moved from the Motor City to L.A….
Nowadays, people get shot over a piece of chicken at a fast food restaurant. Who knows what mayhem rushing the stage to dance the funky chicken would bring!
Rufus Thomas was da Man!
RIP Sir
Nothing but Reapect
Good to see this, nothing but beautiful black people having fun.
roosevelt johnson III amen!
roosevelt johnson III yessss
Yes‼️
AMEN, AMEN AND AMEN.....
With a little soul with it❤❤❤
Yes, sir! :-)
I was at this and am in the video dancing.
oh wow!! i bet this was history to you in fact you were in history what did u had on ?
dan bent He was the only white guy. Hippie at the beginning lol. This looked like a fun show to be at though, I'm envious.
Bob Schlitz Damn you are lucky woodstock ,wattstax and liveaid 3 historical concerts to be remembered forever . anyone who attended these shows are lucky.
AL Dunbar I saw Rufus all the time in Memphis. He was usually backed by Booker T., the Memphis horns and them.
thought so Bob..Picked you up in a heartbeat..lol..no dis, just messing..
Salute To the late ,Singer (Rufus Thomas)" who had A groovy ("Band )back then
Omg! I was back in 1974 I was a Sophomore in HS. This was Hot fun in Summer time Musuc concerts like this was so much fun! This one it took me back to the days of my youth I was always dancing, and enjoying myself!
I'm orginally from LA Ca. Myself I came up in Dance & theater i knew all the crew on soul train dance was my major HS student as Dorsey HS. It was so much fun to share some history with the fans.. One day I had the pleasure of meeting Rufus! He and Don were going around to Local HS in LA to seek dancers for the new show Soul Train Don was so fine He rocked as a man in my eye I was just a kid all the girls liked him!! And the brothers thought he was cool too! Don & Rufus loved us kids and wanted to help us succeed in our Education We Loved us some Rufus Thomas knew how to reach people he was close friend to Don Cornelius founder of Soul Train. Rufus had a plan with Don to do workshop concerts all over and this would pull out the true kids that had The best talent they were looking for. They did group auditions for dancers skills to put on the Soul Train Show. Slick!! It worked we were just kids and didnt care about the money at the time most of us still at home with our parents lol. We just wanted to dance!! But its all good, if you made it yo Soul Train like many of us did you got exposure to grow and party with the hippest trip on TV the soul Train there never be another! Im thankful I had some of the best times in my life along with experience to succeed to your highest dream! 💰💰💲💲🥁😍👍🏼🎶🎶🎤Those were the true day of fun!
For real. That was a fun time. That Breakdown line on Soul Train. Still marvelous after all this time. ❤
I love the African American culture with all my heart. You folks gots the groove!
American Indian culture
👍👍🔥
Great. Can we live next door to you?
This came on the jukebox at work today and I heard it for the first time. What a joy! Then I found this video. This has to be the feel-good video of the century
My God parents frank and Annie, used to have adult beverages and have me doing the funky chicken around 8 or 9 years and be bofl at me. Childhood memories are coming back to me now.😂😂😂😂😂
Did you see the brother in the white shirt run and automatically go into a double split 🔥🔥🔥 dancing and having fun, this was the black power era, powerful music powerful people.
I am not black, i am not beautiful but i love this music. When i starting collecting music, soul was a big part of my collection lables like Stax, Atlantic, Gordy, Mowtown, Okeh. And i just wanna thank to Soul cause you gave a lot when i had nothing! Thx from germany
You may not be black but I bet you are beautiful. Don’t let anyone (especially yourself) tell you any differently. Cheers from the U.S.
One of the very very greatest funk artists, and with a tremendous danceable backup by utterly brilliant musicians. Rufus Thomas and James Brown were the funkiest men ever!!
he was a soul and RB artist.
Let's add funk in there.
My mother was young and wearing an Afro and then I was born in 1973!!
Me too!!!!!!!
@@NancyDenise My mother taught me to do the "Funky Chicken" and I was born in '73 but in November. 👍
That's when kids was in good shape. Look how they climbed that fence
Beautifully filmed! Makes me wanna have fun and relive my childhood!❤
❤
OMG!!! What happened to the good Ole days!!! ✌ & ❤
That young girl in the white and purple put that groove right in her pocket!
Selease Rodriguez she sho did
1:28 She gettin it
MacroX1231 she popped it "right quick" and put that funk back in her pocket. LOL
yeah she totally ripped it.
Yeah yeah ....I went back on this video several times just to watch her in the groove......
When life was peaceful..
Tru nah deed 😅
I could have sworn that I saw Demita Joe from Soul Train dancing in the field
This is our culture
Memories.....LOVE THIS!!
If you have't danced the funky chicken what you waiting for? Been my go-to since '72.
People sure dressed better then, even when going casual.
what an incredible live sound. The bass player right in the pocket. The drummer simmering-just incredible R&B
....says the white dude.
하지 분쇄하는 야만인
yeah so?
none sense
Kinda funny how I spotted that one a million miles away. Your virtue signaling post glares like a spotlight.
하지 분쇄하는 야만인
ok so white people can't like R&B? I played blues and R&B for years in bands. What an ignorant point of view. Music is a universal language-I also like African drumming and lots of other music that isn't part of my culture like Inuit throat singing. I suppose I should get upset if non Europeans like classical music !
none sense My mom was a white woman, and all she listened to was this msic
Wow i just love being black!!!!!
This was before guns and drugs and violence took over our neighborhood's I still love my race of people!!!!
No drugs? Lollll. You Rick James played that show right? 😂😊
I was 13 back then and we had so much fun dancin and whatnot. Now young black people can't have fun like this because we let the devil take over your Culture!
The Funky Chicken. The Breakdown. The pink shorts and boots. The girl in purple. That was an awesome day. Well remembered. ❤
My mom's generation had be the best era, music, and moments.
They had crack also 😎
Young black brothers and sistas, if you're reading this post this is for you- notice everybody pants are up? Notice "no violence of any kind"? Notice the black women are adorned and not disrespected? Do you see and feel that Black Power? And know that Rufus Thomas was a "Goddam Genius"! With real showmanship, a real man in the art and hearts of many , waaaay better than lil Wayne who by the way couldn't hold a candle to Rufus Thomas.
Mark Upton Rufus never called any women bitches and hoes. I saw him all the time in Memphis. He was always a gentleman and always entertaining.
+ Andy Behave like a gentleman and you'll be considered and treated as such in return. As simple as that.
Hello Channel I know this. If you want respect. You gotta give respect. RESPECT.
Indian Andy Respect Man 👍👌
Great comment.
I got the biggest smile from everyone running down. ☺️
This makes me so happy 😁 ❤
Beautiful right on right on those were the days loll.
I can’t stop watching this. The music is contagious. Makes me so happy to hear this but sad I was born after this time. I hate today’s music
"...makes you feel like doin somethin nasty, like pouring chicken gravy on your shirt, right down front..." Rufus Thomas, lines from studio recording "do the funky chicken". Rufus was sho nuff funny, lol yet profound in the cosmic philosophical sense .... deliberately pouring chicken gravy down the front of your short is the pillar for dissent and freedom
It is soo good too see us happy at one point..Were happy in one place having a good time..
the funky chicken will save your soul !
I learned the Funky Chicken back in 1968. Man, has it really been that long? Dayumm!
Seen Him in Worms NCO Club (Germany) it was FUN….
OMG this is awesome. I am so glad I found this video! Rufus you rock!
That was so beautiful to see . God bless Rufus .
This is great to see my ppl takin a break from all that marchin n rioting to just cut loose n have a good time
Amazing Artist Amazing Video! Amazing Tune!! Big Respect for the great artist Rufus Thomas!!! Respect for this time too .... it was the big time and big music and big big festival!!!
Amazing 😁👍👍
We need a worldwide movement to fight for the right to do the funky chicken anytime and anywhere ! All must work for our various national constitutions to include this right !
I love this!! Everything about this! Tearing up…tears of joy!
Caint nnoobody pull off white boots and a carnation pink short set.
Nobody.
He got it.
👍🏾💕🎶
That’s not even the whole outfit. Check out what he’s wearing when he first hits the stage.
ruclips.net/video/KCFyKRtlLOI/видео.htmlsi=aTEN54phH6opkRla
@cireravilob
I don't click links..what's the title so I can look it up..I gotta see this😂
Respect from Campinas Brasil for love groove
Shoot these days folks jump the fence and kill each other. What we gotta do to get back to this!? 🖤🌺 this is the magic of music.
This is lovely video, all black people having a dam good time
Kids, look at your grandparents and great grandparents.
Look
Mu time we got down i did the funky chicken too family party in the 70 Good time
I am willing to bet that not one gun was fired, no one died, and no fight broke out... a better era.
...and you only wonder who brought that shit up.... that's right: Thugs. Should I take it a step farther and mention what race started it? Nah, I think you can figure it out on your own....
and no mass shooters
Keep dreaming...while your at it... do the funky chicken.
@@SlickRick4EVER doesn't matter who started it, it's still here, and btw it's not only black people doing it, it's THIS generation
Beautiful!!! To see all my people enjoying themselves without violence!!!
I needed this. Now that I’m Rufus’ age i only hope i can bring my peoples to the yard like this
What a life. Looks like a damn good time
RIP Mr. Thomas just saw Bobby Brown playing you on American Soul. Looking at this video shows how good if an entertainer you were.
Look at the documentary. Rufus was a comedian and funny LOL
Ojalá, hubiera podido estar en ese concierto,Perdón,No hablo inglés pero si escucho Música, esto no era mi estilo, pero cuando lo ví, me enamoré de esto,....muchas gracias por compartir esta música ,
Usa Google Translate. Yo hablo español y tambien ingles, pero a veces me topo en RUclips con gente que hablan frances o portugues. Sencillamente traduzco de ingles a su idioma y me entienden bien. Paz.
❤
One of the greatest visual musical clip ever😮😊
And here I was thinking that I would never get to see a middle aged man dance around in pink polyester shorts and white gogo boots.
I think it was actually RED polyester... LOL
We're all the better for this
aw.. You youngins just missed a great era is all.
funeeee ! oooh baybeeee
I was wondering what was up with those boots lol
The music growing up in the sixties and seventies got me through a very square and brutal foster home
Im glad it brought you through,and so did your own strenghth
I miss being surrounded by harmless fun loving black folks always ready to get down and dance and have a good ole time like never before!!! Epic excitement!!!!!!
What a party!
1:29 She has got it going on. So cool
I love when the people ran down said fuck this i'm gonna my groove on and started dancing.
The Afros 😍!!!!
so eine schöne zeit es mal war ,wen ich eine Zeitmaschiene hätte würde ich sofort zurück gehen
❤
man I love watching those old videos
Those people dancing are in their seventies now and have grandchildren
Quelle rythme funkyyy chicken gogogo
I used to listen to Rufus every Sunday morning live on WDIA, Memphis, Tn.
I thought Sundays was all gospel Sunday. Well must have been a long time ago. I was a young one.
Yaaaasssss !!!!
Ms Brenda put this song 10 years ago my hood
I was 8 when this song came out and 10 at this time of this video. Good grief I'm old but we sure knew how to have fun
Get on down with your bad self. That's real music in your face.
I couldn’t imagine people in this era being so in the moment and free like that. They would be too busy holding their phones up taking pictures and singing into the camera and such a like.
Then you're not looking in the right place... Sucks
You haven't been to many concerts recently if any have you? You don't think if they had cell phones in the 70's they wouldn't record a concert? lol. You sound like an old person.
No dancing in arenas like that, though. Stop being mean. A different era with different values for enjoyment in the moment. If you're lucky, you'll get old too.😘
1:27 the realization that you will never be as cool as that kid
That girl was GITTIN it!
Love to see my people having a good time and it no violence there back in that era, I which I was back in that era, I wish I was born in the 1950s,maybe 1957 Lol, I an 80s baby it was also good in the 80s,90s,early 2000s, kinda now but the oldies are the best, Love it :)
1971 I was a quiet girl at library college, The lecturer walked up and down, hands thrust in his tweed jacket, elbows out. Then ,to emphasise his point he flapped his elbows and I called out "Do the Funky Chicken"..... I knew it was very wrong, but I couldn't help it.
Besides, Rufus, being a genius, what I love about all the stax artists, including the late great Otis Redding, is that the band was mixed, making music together on the stax 3:49 label in memphis tn.
Bobby Brown was on BET'S episode of American Soul playing Rufus Brown and singing Do the Funky Chicken..😂😂😂
Rufus Thomas, THE showman of all showmen.
That 'little girl' at 1:28 is getting down!! She is about age 56 now!
The ultimate funkster that Rufus and his bad ass band!
America soul brought me here, this was a Kool dance.
The people in the sixties and seventies were so cool and chill
I'm always amazed at how thin people were back then.
Not a lot of fast food and people still walked.
Before all of the crap was allowed in our food.
I was 1 in 1972, but I'm sure I was doing the funky chicken 😄
Clean times!! Awesome!!
RUFUS was the man when it came to putting out a record that taught fans a new dance. Funky Chicken, Breakdown, Funky Penguin and The Dog are the 4 that I remember. I did all 4 dances back then during my teenage years.....THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!😊
Way cool. If only today's concerts were this cool.. :-)
I'm just imaging the people who were actually there, showing this video to their grandkids and pointing saying, "There, that's me right there!" ^_^
I remember the funky Chicken when I was a teenager 😎😜
0:22
Man, those people haven't changed in decades.
The cops in the background are all like "Shit, we give up." XD
Legendary video, and performer, RIP sir thomas!!!
Absolutely Beautiful and Fantabulous Jamming session with a chicken🏆💯💯💯🙏Cheers from Perth Australia 🐨
Love this, My Memphis bud showing his stuff, GO R!!!!
He took charge and kept it.
PAY ATTENTION HOW NO ONE FOLLOWS DIRECTION WHEN HAVING A FUNKY GOOD TIME. IT'S SAD AND GLORIOUS AT THE SAME TIME
My beautiful people. The Children of Israel...God's chosen people. Often imitated never duplicated. I love my people...
🤣🤣🤣 children of Israel 🤣🤣🤣
Children of Turtle Island
That's highly debatable but I appreciate your sentiments 😁
@@mikeurbanmu It's not debatable when it's the truth. Do your research if you desire. You chimed in on me, I did not initiate this conversation.