On one hand, you're young and still have your whole lives ahead of you. But on the other hand, I feel sorry for you for not growing up in the time when songs like this were played on the radio all the time! For us older folks, this song is part of the soundtrack of our lives! 😊
Once again, I will admit to anyone who will listen that I LOVE DISCO!!!! It was just so upbeat, funky, and enjoyed with your whole body, not just your ears!!!!!
I wish you all could experience what it's like at a club and a song like this comes on, and the whole crowd yells and runs to the dance floor! This song is a classic!!
Exactly what it was When out dancing all the time my disco days It does bring back great memories plus no one I knew Hate it like everybody else so I hate disco but I love my tisco and I love my eighties rock glam bands everything So certain people didn't understand it cause you're just supposed to be one or the other I guess to them But I go out dancing disco and then go to a party and listen to Van Halen and at that time they just came out
First year of college. Everyone in the dorm studying. Midnight. Someone sticks their speakers in the hall and plays this (and Rick James). Doors open. Dancing happens. 15 mins later, everyone goes back to their room and studies resume. Good times. Met my future husband in that hallway (married 41 years)
Jay & Amber, Sukiyaki" was their other top 10 hit! Janice-Marie Johnson, vocals and bass co-wrote this song. Great song, those ladies can play some guitar!!!
She wrote the English lyrics, the score was written by Japanese Jazz composer Hachidai Nakamura. The original Japanese version by Kyuu Sakamoto hit the US top 100 in 1963, back before Clear Channel ate American radio and enough independent stations would take a chance on a. non-English song to push it onto the charts.
Kyu Sakamoto's version of Sukiyaki was originally titled "Ue o Muite Aruko" in 1961, The American and British DJs couldn't pronounce it so the Label named it "Sukiyaki." It was derogatory to say the least, but the song was an international hit. I remember hearing Sukiyaki on LA Pop and Rock 'n Roll stations. Mr.Sakamoto perished in a Japanese airline disaster of 1985.
Jay and Amber, you have to listen to the live version of this song. One of the ladies sings and plays bass guitar and the other lead singer. She plays guitar. It's awesome to watch
My fav song by them is definitely Sukiyaki. You won’t regret it. Their smoothe voices really make that classic song all their own. Def check it out for a female Friday song. Very different from this but their other huge hit. Think you’ll love it. This is a great get up and dance song. Very feel good song.
That sound you're hearing that you think might be kazoo is actually a clavinet, the same instrument you hear Stevie Wonder play on a number of songs but which you'll particularly notice in the intro to his song, "Superstition." A clavinet is similar to a piano but smaller, electronically amplified (because otherwise it's super quiet), and makes its sounds in a similar but slightly different way than a piano, giving its notes more of a metallic sound. The clavinet is basically a modern version of a clavichord, a keyboard instrument invented in the 14th century and which was a precursor to the harpsichord, a bigger, louder keyboard instrument you hear a lot in classical music from the 18th century, like Mozart, Bach, etc. In the middle of the 20th century, Ernst Zacharias decided to update the clavichord by making it electronically amplified and the clavinet is the result. TWO FUN FACTS ABOUT CLAVINETS: (1) Stevie Wonder has referred to the clavinet as "my electric guitar," because it gives him that gritty, funky, metallic sound he can't get with any other instrument; and (2) because the clavinet is electronically amplified, you can attach FX pedals just like for a guitar, including things like wah-wah pedals and overdrive pedals. In fact, some modern clavinets even have a whammy bar for aggressive pitch-bending. It's a cool instrument with a very unique sound. Of course, these days, you don't need to actually buy a clavinet. Most synthesizers and computer music programs have at least one setting or sample that mimics the sound of the clavinet.
This was a huge hit in 1978 and it still slaps. What you heard were guitars, bass, and synthesizers. They were just as good live. You must also check out their song “Sukiyaki” .
One of my favorite boogie songs! Oh boy do I have news for you! Those girls could rock the funk! I wouldn’t sit until they played this song a few times! We all loved it!!💕💕💕💕
I was 8 or 9 years old in the late 70s when I begged my mom to order a K-Tel "disco hits" record I saw advertised on TV. This song was on that record and it's still one of my favorites! Along with Alicia Bridges "I Love the Nightlife"
I was dancin right along with you! This was magic on the 70's dance floors. Jay, you stopped the video right where she sang "listen to my bass yeah" so you didn't get the full effect of the intro to the bass break!. Jay and Amber, go back and listen to it again and get the full effect! Back in the day, I was one of the dancers that blew a whistle at the breaks, and that bass break.....Heaven! ✌️🎶💙
That's the type of music that doesn't have an expiration date. It will live forever. Most people make fun of the Disco era but I think they were some of the most talented artists that we've ever had.
Guess you just had to be there to get the full picture... and feel.. but the music is so fun and energetic. You can just dance with no bad agenda intended but to have fun ... fantastic music and era
I love this disco era female duo! The played those guitars like masters! So funky and female empowering! I wish you would have played one of their performances of this song…the are a few out there! Also, try their hit “Sukiyaki”!❤❤
There's a great live performance of them performing this song on "The Midnight Special" in 1978 that is a must-see, the audience disco-dancing like there's no tomorrow and the ladies snapping on their guitar and bass. That sound y'all thought might be a kazoo is an electric guitar played by one of the women, and it looks great and sounds just as good in the live performance clip. Another really funky female group from this period is Stargard, who had a radio hit in 1977 with "Which Way is Up?," which is like Funkadelic funky.
My babysitters keeping me up way too late with this one.. and my mum none the wiser to how much fun they were!!!! lol Then them teaching little me all the latest disco moves!!! Soooo many great disco songs.. so many fun weekends.. and great memories from them super fly fun girls!!! hahaha
I've recently come to realize that 1978 was probably the greatest year in music in my lifetime. Boogie Oogie Oogie was #9 on the Billboard Charts that year. Saturday night fever came out in December 77. The 1978 charts had five of the top 10 songs from one family.(BeeGees had 3, Andy Gibb had 2) it was the year the movie Grease came out. Another great song from that year was Love Will Find a Way by Pablo Cruise. Summer 78 was the season of Baker Street and Donna Summer's Last Dance.
1978 was very notable. Van Halen’s first album was released in 1978. It was self titled. Also released was The Cars first album, also self titled. Also released was Foreigner’s Double Vision album, and Infinity from Journey, as well as others.
How the hell has this not been played at a cook-out or family reunion for you all. You got to have some old heads like me who know WHAT THIS IS. Music baby
Amber! You are one of the best chair dancers of reactors. you get such a fun swag and giggle out of this older stuff. You pick up the little sounds and so make complex rhythm dancing moves. you ever think of trying the drums?
Janice-Marie Johnson, lead vocals & Bass Guitar, Hazel Payne, vocals, Lead & Rhythm guitar collectively known as A Taste of Honey had their own funky style. Check out their version of Smokey Robinson's song I'll Try Something New along with the Ladies of The 80's album.
I hear the bass, at least 2 guitars, that super fuzzy guitar solo (I think it might be through a talk box, like Peter Frampton made famous), a Hammond organ, and drums. Absolute classic disco track.
This song came out when I was 7 and my little sister was 2. This was her favorite song. I still remember her holding on to the coffee table because she had to hold on to dance or she'd just fall on her butt ❤️ Good memories
Omg you gotta be kidding me!! I was going to email you this evening & request you both to listen to this song for female friday!! I was going to say Jay will love the bass & both of you would love the singing. This is so funny!! I am gonna email you about another song. I haven't watched this yet. I can't wait to watch it. My sister & I use to sing this together when it first came out!! I love you both! ❤️ ❤
I love this song! You should have used the live version to see the women play the guitars! They are amazing! Their other hit was Sukiyaki an English version of a very popular Japenese song. its funny because when it came out everyone was singing it but no one knew what the song was about!
Back in the day, I DJ'd in a Disco in Dallas in the late 70s, and this song was always huge. I still have many of the Vinyl LPs from that time. So much fun.
This is one of the outstanding songs from the Disco era. Danced to this at the clubs lots of times. 💃🏻 🕺 but this group was pretty much a one hit wonder. You guys still need to check out the big Disco classics from K.C. the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight and That’s the Way I Like It.
Jay and Amber, this is a banger LIVE! You miss most of the impact and magic happening with these artists who play bass and electric guitar as they sing! ❤
Sooo glad you guys finally got to this classic jam!!! There is a live performance version of this when A Taste of Honey was on an old music and dance program called 'Solid Gold'. It's great to see these talented women rock the bass and standard electric guitars. Also very cool to see the old school Solid Gold Dancers on the stage doing they're thing to the music. :)
I've suggested them for _Female Friday_ a few times, and it's nice that you got to them and enjoyed them. 🙂 The "kazoo" sound may be a synthesizer, but I've seen video footage of them playing live, and Hazel Payne made that sound with her guitar. Janice-Marie Johnson plays bass. My dad played a little of the bass solo for me a few years ago. His bass guitar was in their guest bedroom and I asked if he still played. He said once in a while. I basically dared him to play something funky right then and there. I told him he was old and rusty and probably couldn't play a thing. He gave me "the parent stare", told me to move out of the way so he could get his amp. He showed out. The house was bumping with that guitar. 😄 My step-mother asked why I did that to her because she knew he'd be up all night playing, and it had been ages since she had to go through that. 😄 He did stay up late playing, and thanked me for helping him get back to playing. 😊 I suggest listening to their song "Sukiyaki", next. If you watch them actually perform, you'll see one of them playing the Japanese instrument called a Koto. I love the sound of it, and one of my favorite jazz groups, _Hiroshima_ features it in their song "One Wish" and others. The late Japanese singer, Kyu Sakamoto, released "Sukiyaki" in the late 1960s. His version is really pretty.
This song takes me back to being a little kid. The nostalgia of the 70s disco era. Leather jackets, bell bottoms, and side burns. I was a little kid but can’t forget it.
Oh this will and has always been a favorite of mine since 1978. "Sukiyaki", "I'll Try Something New"(A Smokey Robinson cover) and "Rescue Me" are wonderful songs by A Taste Of Honey worth a listen. Other songs from various albums are also great.
I have this album! This was magic and you could not move on the dance floor!!! Great memories!!!! The sound you don't recognize is a synthesizer, really big in the disco era!!!
This song has disco written all over it! I used to disco dance until my legs were sore and this is one of the songs along with KC and the sunshine band and a few others
This takes me back to my college days when we bought every new funky Disco and R&B 45 record that came out from New York Spotlight and Sound record store or Buzzards Nest Music store. When this song ( along with the group CHIC's) new songs came out, we bought them even though we heard these songs every weekend at the disco and at the skating rink 🎵
So smartly constructed, this song. That long lead in lets you throw back your drink and head out to the dance floor if you weren't already out there, and the gentle lead out that the DJ can easily fade out into the next song. SO GOOD.
Oh wow, how I'm digging watching the sheer joy across your faces as you listen to this.. it reminds me of when I first heard A Taste of Honey back in the late 70's. I wasn't much of a disco fan, but music like this, KC & the Sunshine Band and the all-time king of disco anthems "Disco Inferno"- wait a minute, maybe I WAS into disco! ;-)
Thank you so much for doing this because I sent this for you to react to! These ladies ain't no joke! One of the women plays the bass and the sound that you are wondering what it was is the lead guitar by the other woman. Also check out Rescue Me by them too! Came out in 1980.
Jay and Amber...so glad you guys got around to these beautiful, talented ladies. Since you reacted to the audio version, now go watch their live performance. You will be amazed at what you see because they both play their own instruments! They are extraordinary!
This was one of those songs that had heavy rotation at literally every dance anywhere during the 1970's and early 1980's. This was my generation's "13 Going on 30" scene where everyone is dancing to "Thriller". Man, what great memories (and yes, we sweated a lot dancing ... but who cared??).
Amber, the lover of horns, you should also listen to the song A Taste Of Honey by Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass from 1965. It’s all brass horns, drums and a little guitar, right up your alley. It was also included with vocals on a Beatles album two years earlier, but Herb’s instrumental version is better and even won him three Grammy awards in 1966. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Oooooh you got me going! Love the live version, this was a great hit at our house parties back in the day. Such great memories with burgundy lipgloss, frizzy hair, tube top, bell bottom pants and platform shoes!
One of the best, funkiest bass lines ever written. Guaranteed boogie! Singing and playing bass and looking super hot all at the same time. Another band of boss ladies that rock is Fanny. Fanny was the first all female rock band signed to a major label.
You didn't see a lot of woman playing guitar or bass. But with this band, they killed it. They also covered a 60's song called "Sukiyake". New lyrics (Not just translated to English) These ladies were terrific.
Love this song. Jaws, you're right. I saw them in an interview explaining how it came to be (telling my age). Reminds me of why Wild Cherry wrote their hit "Play that funky music white boy", they were told not to play any funky music by a black band.
The sound wen you said "What is that? I don't know!" was a guitar solo played through a fuzz box. You can hear the same effect in the Isley Brothers' "Who's That Lady?"
oh boy, how I wish you saw this group playing this song live, you'd have love the way they perform that base and lead guitar, while singing it at the same time, great song and as usual a great reaction
The parties my mother had in the late 70's featured a lot of this style of music and for some reason this made me think of George Benson "On Broadway." Love the chair dancing! ❣
I come back to your channel again and again to watch you discover the music I first heard growing up. Case in point, this song came out when I was in high school and yes, it was that song that united everyone on the dance floor. You two prove the joy of good music is timeless, whether it's classical, rock, r & b, country or even disco!
You know that Sukiyaki was originally charted in 1963 by Kyu Sakamoto and was a huge international hit, sung entirely in Japanese reaching all the way to #1 in the U.S.
The live version..you can see the amazing ladies with the guitar playing you hear on the audio. Definitely worth watching, even on the side. Talented and beautiful too. Everyone knows the beginning of the song, just a few notes ..next thing the floor is full..can’t help but boogie!
A long forgotten gem (I haven't listened to it in years!). Thank you so much for playing it. Here's another from A Taste Of Honey, it's titled "Sayonara". A few more you could react to are: Rod Stewart singing "Baby Jane" (A favorite of mine), Brian McKnight with "Back At One", Eternal singing "Oh Baby I" and "Stay", and Jon .B. featuring Babyface singing "Someone To Love". Thanks for all you do, it's greatly appreciated. Have a blessed day!
I think I was 15 or 16 when this song came out. It was one of my absolute favourites! It always, and still does, made me dance. It sure brings me back. Thanks guys!
Great musicians. The bass player and lead vocalist Janice Marie Johnson is something else. She's also very beautiful. Really talented and underrated duo.
Classic disco tune from the soundtrack of my life. Had me moving and gyrating from head to toe. I'm 58, by the way. It made me feel like a teenager. Boogieeeee!
Another great R&B disco tune that made this era perfect! That bass kicks. Lace up those skates. Roller skating rinks around the country were like disco clubs on wheels. The lights, sounds and people having a great time was. a staple. I was too young to be in the clubs back then but skating was where it was at.
The sound you thought was a kazoo is really the guitar player making a quick strum that gives you that sound. If you watch the live version you can see her do it.
I figured it OUT!! This is why the world is in the state of chaos that it is in-no one is playing this great disco music from the 1970s.💪🏼👍🏼🙌😬🤣😆😂😎. Play this on the radio, in your homes, in the elevator.🥹🤣😂. This is guaranteed to make people smile again. Of course I am kind of joking.😐🧐😬. Well, not really. The world needs disco again. I know I do. 💪🏼. Thank you two for putting a smile on my face. Now let me go back and pretend I am 17 again .😏😏😏😏
Y’all should watch a LIVE version - she’s slapping the BASS while dancing around in stiletto heels! 🙌🏻
And singing lead. :-)
Absolutely! A treat for the eyes and ears.
Beat me to it. Well done 👍.
It’s GLORIOUS 🔥🔥🔥
Yup she did that! Also not to mention Clarita on that guitar ain't too shabby either! These girls were bringin it! 🙌🏽☺🎸🎸🎼🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶
On one hand, you're young and still have your whole lives ahead of you. But on the other hand, I feel sorry for you for not growing up in the time when songs like this were played on the radio all the time! For us older folks, this song is part of the soundtrack of our lives! 😊
THIS SONG!!! Still fabulous after all these years. I feel like strapping on my roller skates now 😆
This song took me right back to the roller rink too!
Ohhhh yesss!🥰👌
All skate, reverse!
Same!
Right! : )
Once again, I will admit to anyone who will listen that I LOVE DISCO!!!! It was just so upbeat, funky, and enjoyed with your whole body, not just your ears!!!!!
No shame in that 👍
I have always loved disco and always will! And NO shame in my admitting it!👍🙂
So do I. My coworkers dog me out so bad because I’m always singing old disco songs 😂
Yas!
@@kimberlinibambini1988 I won't tell anyone...shhhhhh.......
I wish you all could experience what it's like at a club and a song like this comes on, and the whole crowd yells and runs to the dance floor! This song is a classic!!
Miss clubbing!
Exactly what it was When out dancing all the time my disco days It does bring back great memories plus no one I knew Hate it like everybody else so I hate disco but I love my tisco and I love my eighties rock glam bands everything So certain people didn't understand it cause you're just supposed to be one or the other I guess to them But I go out dancing disco and then go to a party and listen to Van Halen and at that time they just came out
I know exactly what you mean. So much fun.
Good times 🍻🍻
IKR .. Funny on the dance floor
This song just exemplifies how awesome the Disco era was. The music just made you want to move!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Easily one of the funkiest and most memorable bass lines ever! This band rules!
listen to "Delicious" by Pure Sugar and tell me if it sounds familiar.
First year of college. Everyone in the dorm studying. Midnight. Someone sticks their speakers in the hall and plays this (and Rick James). Doors open. Dancing happens. 15 mins later, everyone goes back to their room and studies resume. Good times. Met my future husband in that hallway (married 41 years)
Love this story
Jay & Amber, Sukiyaki" was their other top 10 hit! Janice-Marie Johnson, vocals and bass co-wrote this song. Great song, those ladies can play some guitar!!!
She wrote the English lyrics, the score was written by Japanese Jazz composer Hachidai Nakamura. The original Japanese version by Kyuu Sakamoto hit the US top 100 in 1963, back before Clear Channel ate American radio and enough independent stations would take a chance on a. non-English song to push it onto the charts.
I loved their version of Sukiyaki. It was such a sweet song.
Don't even think of doing their cover of Sukiyaki without first doing Kyu Sakamoto's version first.
Kyu Sakamoto's version of Sukiyaki was originally titled "Ue o Muite Aruko" in 1961, The American and British DJs couldn't pronounce it so the Label named it "Sukiyaki." It was derogatory to say the least, but the song was an international hit. I remember hearing Sukiyaki on LA Pop and Rock 'n Roll stations. Mr.Sakamoto perished in a Japanese airline disaster of 1985.
I loveeeee ❤
You've got to watch a live version. These two women ROCK on their respective guitars and that ain't nothing but the truth.
I remember dancing to this song back in the day. I’m so glad I grew up when I did from hippie Woodstock to disco. 💜💜💜
That was an amazing period of so much great music!
Exactly!
Me too,great days !
Me, too! I have to think that when I'm feeling old! Ha ha! 😅😅😅❤ Love this!
Spot on Jeannie... Ditto. ❤
The "kazoo" sound you heard was actually a guitar being played through a foot effects pedal called a Tube Screamer.
Jay and Amber, you have to listen to the live version of this song. One of the ladies sings and plays bass guitar and the other lead singer. She plays guitar. It's awesome to watch
My fav song by them is definitely Sukiyaki. You won’t regret it. Their smoothe voices really make that classic song all their own. Def check it out for a female Friday song. Very different from this but their other huge hit. Think you’ll love it. This is a great get up and dance song. Very feel good song.
The bassist, and lead singer on this song, Janice-Marie Johnson, was inducted in the Native American Music Association Hall of Fame in 2008.
Those women singing are also playing the bass and the guitar. Super talented. Huge hit at the time - and timeless.
This was a number 1 hit back on the 70s, and you can hear why. Oooh the memories. ❤🎶🎼
That sound you're hearing that you think might be kazoo is actually a clavinet, the same instrument you hear Stevie Wonder play on a number of songs but which you'll particularly notice in the intro to his song, "Superstition." A clavinet is similar to a piano but smaller, electronically amplified (because otherwise it's super quiet), and makes its sounds in a similar but slightly different way than a piano, giving its notes more of a metallic sound. The clavinet is basically a modern version of a clavichord, a keyboard instrument invented in the 14th century and which was a precursor to the harpsichord, a bigger, louder keyboard instrument you hear a lot in classical music from the 18th century, like Mozart, Bach, etc. In the middle of the 20th century, Ernst Zacharias decided to update the clavichord by making it electronically amplified and the clavinet is the result. TWO FUN FACTS ABOUT CLAVINETS: (1) Stevie Wonder has referred to the clavinet as "my electric guitar," because it gives him that gritty, funky, metallic sound he can't get with any other instrument; and (2) because the clavinet is electronically amplified, you can attach FX pedals just like for a guitar, including things like wah-wah pedals and overdrive pedals. In fact, some modern clavinets even have a whammy bar for aggressive pitch-bending.
It's a cool instrument with a very unique sound. Of course, these days, you don't need to actually buy a clavinet. Most synthesizers and computer music programs have at least one setting or sample that mimics the sound of the clavinet.
I think they were talking about the electric guitar solo.
This was a huge hit in 1978 and it still slaps. What you heard were guitars, bass, and synthesizers. They were just as good live. You must also check out their song “Sukiyaki” .
One of my favorite boogie songs! Oh boy do I have news for you! Those girls could rock the funk! I wouldn’t sit until they played this song a few times! We all loved it!!💕💕💕💕
Their version is a cover. They need to hear the original Sukiyaki first!
@@breckrichardson390 no they need to hear their version!
@@breckrichardson390 The original #1 song "Sukiyaki" 1963 was not really the same song, but I recommend it as well.
Back in my high school years (79-83), this song was a standard. Those parties were so much fun. Watch the live version of this song, you'll love it.
I was in high school those same years! Class of "83" rocks!
@@MysticLunaDream I graduated from Sacramento High School, Class of 83.
Foley High school, Alabama of 83.
84 parties more 🎉😂❣️ Just wished the bars played more disco when we became 21. Remember the t shirts that said Disco Sucks?? 😂
Without the video, you won't be able to fully appreciate how amazing the two ladies are whilst playing the guitar and bass and singing.
Yes!
YES! You MUST see the video.
EVERYBODY hit the dance floor in the club when this started playing! Still makes me move!!!
I was 8 or 9 years old in the late 70s when I begged my mom to order a K-Tel "disco hits" record I saw advertised on TV. This song was on that record and it's still one of my favorites!
Along with Alicia Bridges "I Love the Nightlife"
I love the nightlife.....awesome pick
I had that same K-tel album😂😂
Somebody's gotta react to "I Love The Nightlife" great tune 🎶
Yes!! I had that same record. I didn't have a lot of records growing up so those K-Tel compilations were like gold to me.
I had to rely n my older brother's collection, but luckily, he has great taste!
Thank you for playing this song, this is what made disco in the 70s so great.
I was dancin right along with you! This was magic on the 70's dance floors. Jay, you stopped the video right where she sang "listen to my bass yeah" so you didn't get the full effect of the intro to the bass break!. Jay and Amber, go back and listen to it again and get the full effect! Back in the day, I was one of the dancers that blew a whistle at the breaks, and that bass break.....Heaven! ✌️🎶💙
That's the type of music that doesn't have an expiration date. It will live forever. Most people make fun of the Disco era but I think they were some of the most talented artists that we've ever had.
Guess you just had to be there to get the full picture... and feel.. but the music is so fun and energetic. You can just dance with no bad agenda intended but to have fun ... fantastic music and era
The ones who made fun of it were mostly insecure because they couldn't dance.🎶🎸
I worked at a radio station in the late 70's when disco was becoming popular. This one was fun to play.
I love this disco era female duo! The played those guitars like masters! So funky and female empowering! I wish you would have played one of their performances of this song…the are a few out there! Also, try their hit “Sukiyaki”!❤❤
they were MASTER Musicians, even back then in the LATE 70's.
There's a great live performance of them performing this song on "The Midnight Special" in 1978 that is a must-see, the audience disco-dancing like there's no tomorrow and the ladies snapping on their guitar and bass. That sound y'all thought might be a kazoo is an electric guitar played by one of the women, and it looks great and sounds just as good in the live performance clip.
Another really funky female group from this period is Stargard, who had a radio hit in 1977 with "Which Way is Up?," which is like Funkadelic funky.
'Which Way Is Up' is a banger, I bought it! A forgotten gem.
Absolutely agree the live performance is a great watch!!
My babysitters keeping me up way too late with this one.. and my mum none the wiser to how much fun they were!!!! lol Then them teaching little me all the latest disco moves!!! Soooo many great disco songs.. so many fun weekends.. and great memories from them super fly fun girls!!! hahaha
Long Live DISCO! So much fun. How you were vibing with the music brought a smile to my face.
It’s alive and well with me! ❤❤❤
They should do Alicia Bridges I Love the Nightlife.
I've recently come to realize that 1978 was probably the greatest year in music in my lifetime. Boogie Oogie Oogie was #9 on the Billboard Charts that year. Saturday night fever came out in December 77. The 1978 charts had five of the top 10 songs from one family.(BeeGees had 3, Andy Gibb had 2) it was the year the movie Grease came out. Another great song from that year was Love Will Find a Way by Pablo Cruise. Summer 78 was the season of Baker Street and Donna Summer's Last Dance.
Hard to argue with that!
Yep. I’m going back to the 70s when I die. For sure.
1978 was very notable. Van Halen’s first album was released in 1978. It was self titled. Also released was The Cars first album, also self titled. Also released was Foreigner’s Double Vision album, and Infinity from Journey, as well as others.
How could I forget that 52nd Street from Billy Joel came out in 1978?
Wow, did you ever just bring back some memories. All good ones!
That is one of the most famous bass lines in music history. You have to watch them live.
That Bass Was Soooo 🔥🔥🔥🔥I Can See Jay Really Luuuuv The Bass Guitar. Great Reaction Y’all 👍🏾💯👍🏾
How the hell has this not been played at a cook-out or family reunion for you all. You got to have some old heads like me who know WHAT THIS IS. Music baby
The song was played at a lot of weddings I attended back in the 70s and 80s
My god I forgot how much I loved his song and how great it was! Thanks for taking me back! 😁
Disco is such a fun genre. This song especially makes you want to put on your boogie shoes
Amber! You are one of the best chair dancers of reactors. you get such a fun swag and giggle out of this older stuff. You pick up the little sounds and so make complex rhythm dancing moves. you ever think of trying the drums?
These ladies are great! The Live version is amazing
Janice-Marie Johnson, lead vocals & Bass Guitar, Hazel Payne, vocals, Lead & Rhythm guitar collectively known as A Taste of Honey had their own funky style. Check out their version of Smokey Robinson's song I'll Try Something New along with the Ladies of The 80's album.
I appreciate your mentioning Hazel Payne. She's talented too.
I hear the bass, at least 2 guitars, that super fuzzy guitar solo (I think it might be through a talk box, like Peter Frampton made famous), a Hammond organ, and drums. Absolute classic disco track.
Hoehner clavinet.
Nah, it's just an OctaFuzz, like the Isley's "That Lady".
No. It's all done with a kazoo
@@marningritaguy Mellotron for sure.
@@triggerwarning5762 Yup, it's fuzz guitar in the solo. The counter-rhythm to the rhythm guitar part is a Hohner clavinet.
This song came out when I was 7 and my little sister was 2. This was her favorite song. I still remember her holding on to the coffee table because she had to hold on to dance or she'd just fall on her butt ❤️ Good memories
Omg you gotta be kidding me!! I was going to email you this evening & request you both to listen to this song for female friday!! I was going to say Jay will love the bass & both of you would love the singing. This is so funny!! I am gonna email you about another song. I haven't watched this yet. I can't wait to watch it. My sister & I use to sing this together when it first came out!! I love you both! ❤️ ❤
The Moog Synthesizer is the sound you're hearing. Remember well when this first came out.
My era!! love this song, good dancing song. Disco Yes!! Please play Level 42 Something about you thanks!!
I am glad you both like this song. I have been posting in the comments that this song should be on female Fridays. I love this song.❤
Found out a while ago that this song was #1 on the charts the day I was born
I love this song! You should have used the live version to see the women play the guitars! They are amazing! Their other hit was Sukiyaki an English version of a very popular Japenese song. its funny because when it came out everyone was singing it but no one knew what the song was about!
Back in the day, I DJ'd in a Disco in Dallas in the late 70s, and this song was always huge. I still have many of the Vinyl LPs from that time. So much fun.
That's what was so cool about life in the 70's, there was so many different kinds of music evolving at the same time.
This is one of the outstanding songs from the Disco era. Danced to this at the clubs lots of times. 💃🏻 🕺 but this group was pretty much a one hit wonder. You guys still need to check out the big Disco classics from K.C. the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight and That’s the Way I Like It.
Jay and Amber, this is a banger LIVE! You miss most of the impact and magic happening with these artists who play bass and electric guitar as they sing! ❤
Sooo glad you guys finally got to this classic jam!!! There is a live performance version of this when A Taste of Honey was on an old music and dance program called 'Solid Gold'. It's great to see these talented women rock the bass and standard electric guitars. Also very cool to see the old school Solid Gold Dancers on the stage doing they're thing to the music. :)
I've suggested them for _Female Friday_ a few times, and it's nice that you got to them and enjoyed them. 🙂
The "kazoo" sound may be a synthesizer, but I've seen video footage of them playing live, and Hazel Payne made that sound with her guitar. Janice-Marie Johnson plays bass.
My dad played a little of the bass solo for me a few years ago. His bass guitar was in their guest bedroom and I asked if he still played. He said once in a while. I basically dared him to play something funky right then and there. I told him he was old and rusty and probably couldn't play a thing. He gave me "the parent stare", told me to move out of the way so he could get his amp. He showed out. The house was bumping with that guitar. 😄 My step-mother asked why I did that to her because she knew he'd be up all night playing, and it had been ages since she had to go through that. 😄 He did stay up late playing, and thanked me for helping him get back to playing. 😊
I suggest listening to their song "Sukiyaki", next. If you watch them actually perform, you'll see one of them playing the Japanese instrument called a Koto. I love the sound of it, and one of my favorite jazz groups, _Hiroshima_ features it in their song "One Wish" and others.
The late Japanese singer, Kyu Sakamoto, released "Sukiyaki" in the late 1960s. His version is really pretty.
Kotos are amazing Instruments
@@marylee7467
I agree. They bring such beautiful sounds, plus I enjoy watching people play. 🙂
You're correct Amber - we definitely stayed on the dance floor for this one!
And this is why I so appreciate being a young kid when this song first came out, nothing like growing up with 70s and 80s music
This song takes me back to being a little kid. The nostalgia of the 70s disco era. Leather jackets, bell bottoms, and side burns. I was a little kid but can’t forget it.
You got that right… This was disco city!
Roller skating Saturday nights!!!
Dont forget the white belt and the platform shoes!!!
@@michaeltacker9465 Yup!!!!!!!
This song was a huge hit for them back in the disco era of the 70s.
Oh this will and has always been a favorite of mine since 1978. "Sukiyaki", "I'll Try Something New"(A Smokey Robinson cover) and "Rescue Me" are wonderful songs by A Taste Of Honey worth a listen. Other songs from various albums are also great.
Mahn...I am so glad I was a kid in the '70s and a teen in the '80s! I love my Disco.🥰
Ooo, and you guys played the extended version too...ahhh school days🎉
Here in Canada, this song was no. 1 on the charts for sooooo many weeks! Of course I bought the record. Gorgeous, talented women.
This was certainly a radio play from back in the day!!!!! A constant hit. 💥
I have this album! This was magic and you could not move on the dance floor!!! Great memories!!!! The sound you don't recognize is a synthesizer, really big in the disco era!!!
This song has disco written all over it! I used to disco dance until my legs were sore and this is one of the songs along with KC and the sunshine band and a few others
The live version on Midnight Special is so much fun. Iconic disco. The women are gorgeous too.
This takes me back to my college days when we bought every new funky Disco and R&B 45 record that came out from New York Spotlight and Sound record store or Buzzards Nest Music store. When this song ( along with the group CHIC's) new songs came out, we bought them even though we heard these songs every weekend at the disco and at the skating rink 🎵
So smartly constructed, this song. That long lead in lets you throw back your drink and head out to the dance floor if you weren't already out there, and the gentle lead out that the DJ can easily fade out into the next song. SO GOOD.
This is fabulous
A Disco classic!
The live/studio version is fire 🔥
Oh wow, how I'm digging watching the sheer joy across your faces as you listen to this.. it reminds me of when I first heard A Taste of Honey back in the late 70's. I wasn't much of a disco fan, but music like this, KC & the Sunshine Band and the all-time king of disco anthems "Disco Inferno"- wait a minute, maybe I WAS into disco! ;-)
Thank you so much for doing this because I sent this for you to react to! These ladies ain't no joke! One of the women plays the bass and the sound that you are wondering what it was is the lead guitar by the other woman. Also check out Rescue Me by them too! Came out in 1980.
Jay and Amber...so glad you guys got around to these beautiful, talented ladies. Since you reacted to the audio version, now go watch their live performance. You will be amazed at what you see because they both play their own instruments! They are extraordinary!
This was one of those songs that had heavy rotation at literally every dance anywhere during the 1970's and early 1980's. This was my generation's "13 Going on 30" scene where everyone is dancing to "Thriller". Man, what great memories (and yes, we sweated a lot dancing ... but who cared??).
This was huge in the day. People who weren’t dancing were dragged up to dance. So much fun.
Very first album I ever bought! Thank you for acknowledging these gifted artists 🙏🏽💞
The live version is absolutely epic. Both women can really play guitar. Fantastic.
Amber, the lover of horns, you should also listen to the song A Taste Of Honey by Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass from 1965. It’s all brass horns, drums and a little guitar, right up your alley. It was also included with vocals on a Beatles album two years earlier, but Herb’s instrumental version is better and even won him three Grammy awards in 1966. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Good old Whipped Cream album! Jay would appreciate the cover art.
A TASTE of Honey!!! Absolutely Funking OUT!!! and the song is still being played today!!!
Oooooh you got me going! Love the live version, this was a great hit at our house parties back in the day. Such great memories with burgundy lipgloss, frizzy hair, tube top, bell bottom pants and platform shoes!
The bass is great. the guitar is great. fun lyrics and great voice!. Everything you need for an amazing song/ Ive loved this song since I was kid!
One of the best, funkiest bass lines ever written. Guaranteed boogie! Singing and playing bass and looking super hot all at the same time. Another band of boss ladies that rock is Fanny. Fanny was the first all female rock band signed to a major label.
You didn't see a lot of woman playing guitar or bass. But with this band, they killed it. They also covered a 60's song called "Sukiyake". New lyrics (Not just translated to English)
These ladies were terrific.
Love this song. Jaws, you're right. I saw them in an interview explaining how it came to be (telling my age). Reminds me of why Wild Cherry wrote their hit "Play that funky music white boy", they were told not to play any funky music by a black band.
The sound wen you said "What is that? I don't know!" was a guitar solo played through a fuzz box. You can hear the same effect in the Isley Brothers' "Who's That Lady?"
oh boy, how I wish you saw this group playing this song live, you'd have love the way they perform that base and lead guitar, while singing it at the same time, great song and as usual a great reaction
I love this song. This elegant high form funk is undeniable.
The parties my mother had in the late 70's featured a lot of this style of music and for some reason this made me think of George Benson "On Broadway." Love the chair dancing! ❣
Remember me a lot of Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers too.
I come back to your channel again and again to watch you discover the music I first heard growing up. Case in point, this song came out when I was in high school and yes, it was that song that united everyone on the dance floor. You two prove the joy of good music is timeless, whether it's classical, rock, r & b, country or even disco!
You know that Sukiyaki was originally charted in 1963 by Kyu Sakamoto and was a huge international hit, sung entirely in Japanese reaching all the way to #1 in the U.S.
Yes, Sukiyaki was not originally their song, and they wrote different English lyrics to it. I love the original by Kyu Sakamoto.
👍👍👍👍Janice Marie Johnson/the lead singer on this classic track. is ONE of the most underrated BASS players of all time.
That sound you guys think might have been a kazoo was an overloaded electric guitar. The Isley Brothers played one in "Who's That Lady"
Exactly!! I knew it was an electric 🎸 & it took me right to who's that lady by the Isley Brothers. 👍🤘😎
Yeah. It's an OctaFuzz pedal in both songs.
The live version..you can see the amazing ladies with the guitar playing you hear on the audio. Definitely worth watching, even on the side. Talented and beautiful too. Everyone knows the beginning of the song, just a few notes ..next thing the floor is full..can’t help but boogie!
A long forgotten gem (I haven't listened to it in years!). Thank you so much for playing it.
Here's another from A Taste Of Honey, it's titled "Sayonara".
A few more you could react to are:
Rod Stewart singing "Baby Jane" (A favorite of mine), Brian McKnight with "Back At One", Eternal singing "Oh Baby I" and "Stay", and Jon .B. featuring Babyface singing "Someone To Love".
Thanks for all you do, it's greatly appreciated.
Have a blessed day!
I think I was 15 or 16 when this song came out. It was one of my absolute favourites! It always, and still does, made me dance. It sure brings me back. Thanks guys!
Great musicians. The bass player and lead vocalist Janice Marie Johnson is something else. She's also very beautiful. Really talented and underrated duo.
Classic disco tune from the soundtrack of my life. Had me moving and gyrating from head to toe. I'm 58, by the way. It made me feel like a teenager. Boogieeeee!
Takes me right back to my childhood. Love it!
Another great R&B disco tune that made this era perfect! That bass kicks. Lace up those skates. Roller skating rinks around the country were like disco clubs on wheels. The lights, sounds and people having a great time was. a staple. I was too young to be in the clubs back then but skating was where it was at.
The sound you thought was a kazoo is really the guitar player making a quick strum that gives you that sound. If you watch the live version you can see her do it.
I think they were talking about the guitar solo where there guitar had gone through some crunchy fuzzy distortion and EQ
I figured it OUT!! This is why the world is in the state of chaos that it is in-no one is playing this great disco music from the 1970s.💪🏼👍🏼🙌😬🤣😆😂😎. Play this on the radio, in your homes, in the elevator.🥹🤣😂. This is guaranteed to make people smile again. Of course I am kind of joking.😐🧐😬. Well, not really. The world needs disco again. I know I do. 💪🏼. Thank you two for putting a smile on my face. Now let me go back and pretend I am 17 again .😏😏😏😏