Excellent group I have always loved the Village People especially YMAC. The Construction worker was and is my favorite. Keep up the excellent entertainment
I was lucky enough to see them at the Marina Grande club. Vargas State Venezuela. Such a beautiful concert. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Since I had no means to return to Caracas, I stayed all night near
My compliments to the producer and camera crew for avoiding showing the group as much as possible so people wouldn't realize this isn't the original Village People
@@MrGregsanderson22 No they are not, the Indian is definitely not! Filepe Rose. And the army guy is not Alex Briley, NON of the guys who kept the band name going for 40 years are there. The A hole cop was the original singer on the early hits.
@@MrGregsanderson22 No that is not Felipe Rose. Victor Willis is the only original on stage. Randy Jones, David Huto, Glenn Hughes (deceased) Felipe Rose, Alex Briley are no longer with the group.
@@christinebarker3091 And Felipe Rose had his own version of the Village People that only recently had stopped touring allowing Victor Wallis to tour with his version of the group so there was no confusion.
The Village People performing the iconic disco classic hit "Y.M.C.A." from 1978. This is from the broadcast of Steve Harvey's New Year's Eve 2020 on Fox. The audience does it with the group. It was filmed in Times Square on December 31, 2019.
Sad part is I used to love this group. The lead singer is my neighbor. The wife only seem to come out to scream at people if their dogs get too close to her property.
No it's not...in the 70s and nearly 80s the YMCA was place kids could go for athletics that was cheap, and the YMCA assisted poor kids...tooooooo many people believe because it was the disco era it was a gay song because the Village People sang it...they also did a religious song called Sodom and Gemorhha
Through legal maneuvering, Victor took the band back over and kicked everyone else out. These things happen in business, but to read his quotes in various articles is pretty sad. Basically, in his mind, he's the entire group and nobody else matters.
I’m not certain but I believe the lead singer (cop) is Victor Willis, and the Native American is Felipe Rose. I know the cowboy and the leather man are not originals (the latter, Glenn Hughes, passed away).
Doing well ,getting paid their royalties, Glenn the original leather man died from cancer and was replaced by Eric Anzalone years ago, victor Willis the original lead singer finally got control of the band and sued for millions in publishing money he was finally owed, it took decades but now he owns the group
Victor now owns the rights to the name and licensing for the group since that license expired in 2017. In 1987 5 original members (Alex, Felipe, David Hodo - construction worker, Glenn Hughes - leather man, and cowboy Randy Jones) along with Ray formed their own company Sixuvus and bought the rights to the group and associated trademarks from Morali and his business partner for a 30-year deal. Victor's legal team then wrangled that away when the time came up for renewal. Victor essentially fired those who had been performing as VP for the past 35+ years, including Felipe and Alex. Jones and Hodo had quit twice previously. Jones left when Morali wanted to change their look to a bizarre New Romantic image (with Steve Strange makeup and poofy clothes). He was replaced by Jeff Olson. Hodo left after that album (Renaissance) bombed. Willis would return for the Fox on the Box album, never released in the States, but would be replaced again for the last (for the long time) official VP album, Sex Over the Phone. At this point the group was essentially finished but then Jones reached out to the others, including Simpson, to buy the rights and re-form the group. They released a few singles but never got a new record deal. Jones left again in the early 90's, to be replaced by Olson, who stayed until 2012-13ish. Hughes announced in 95 he had contracted lung cancer (he would pass away in March 2001), and handpicked his replacement, Eric Anzalone, who stayed until Willis took over. Hodo retired at age 66/67 from performing altogether in 2013 or 14, and has been quietly (and privately) enjoying retirement ever since, rarely making public appearances. Jim Newman and Bill Whitefield respectively replaced Olson and Hodo permanently as the cowboy and construction worker. Felipe Rose announced his departure about the same time Willis re-took the reins. The Sixuvus group now tours and performs as The Kings of Disco, when not being hounded by Willis for copyright infringement. They have to be extremely careful in how they promote themselves legally. For awhile they used the parenthetical "(Featuring former members of Village People)," but I think Willis has quashed that too. If they've worked out a deal, I'm unaware of it. It's sad because Victor has been so vindictive about the whole thing. I'm glad he cleaned up his substance abuse issues and criminal record, but this current incarnation he leads (the official group) is nowhere close to the originals or even the last one. For someone who has, and continues to, adamantly insisted the songs are not "gay" themed and that people just read more into them, currently fronts a group of musclebound himbos who couldn't land a gig with a second-rate Chippendales male stripper revue. I watched a recent 2023 show and was disgusted at the obvious stripper tropes the guys did, ripping off shirts, caressing muscles, tweaking, etc. Not saying the originals did dance "sexy" just not blatant.
Glenn is the only one ,was replaced by Eric Anzalone the others are still with us, victor fired everyone who was still performing , randy the cowboys is doing well
@@charlesanzalone5846 nothing will ever beat the original line up a lot of people think the group was campy and a novelty maybe a bit true but the music was stunning as were the vocals and the production disco at its veery very best glenn was my fav and the two lead singers!
Solamente el cantante policía pero la cosa es tenía mucho contraversia como la historia cuando so murió disco in los 80s hay muncho envidia hasta la raza latino son contra su propio raza
I love the fact that the symbolism is there to usher in a new decade the village people before mainstream usher in an era of middle class people, are they hay or not? All i can say is that they're an equal opportunity org like the ymca who helped young men get another chance... This was 2 months before the event and now in 2022 keep an eye on the super bowl, before y'all regret it.
I like when the people who are the host of new year’s eve in 2019 got the NYPD police to dance to ymca and I wish I could see the NYPD mounted police and the Royal Canadian mounted police do the ymca dance while there on horseback and get the police horses to dance 💃 to ymca
@@shawnw8717 absolutely not,, been seeing these dudes for a long time., never was no Army dude., even groups parody this groups never had a army dude., google America Got Talent and shows a guy doing YMCA and no Army guy.,
@Justin Calvert he left the group very early on and had to resort to litigation to steal it back, then fired all original members. He can’t even sing anymore.
Who is Justin Calvert? Victor Willis, the original lead singer, got the rights back in 2017 to the name and licensing and back royalties for co-writing the songs on the 3 albums he sang on before leaving in late 1979n, and fired those who had been performing as VP for the past 30-40 odd years, including Ray Simpson (his replacement), Felipe Rose (native American), and Alex Briley (the GI). Those guys now perform as the Kings of Disco, still hounded by Victor's legal team over copyright infringements.
![[SFM] Risky Recital](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RzNkY1_Nk3o/mqdefault.jpg)
Love this group forever they know how to make feel good
Their voices didn't change. Still a great performer.
What are you even talking about? Do those guys look like they were even alive in the 80’s
@@TobiasTheWolf YES! SOMEONE THERE IS OLD AS F..., AND ALSO TOURED WITH THE ORIGINAL GROUP BESIDE THE LEAD SINGER.
@DrPlagueProductions the vocalist was not OG, it was Victor Willis
@@suave-rider That IS Victor.. dummy..
Excellent group I have always loved the Village People especially YMAC. The Construction worker was and is my favorite. Keep up the excellent entertainment
Ymac?
*YMCA
That song brings me good memories 🙂
I was lucky enough to see them at the Marina Grande club. Vargas State Venezuela. Such a beautiful concert. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Since I had no means to return to Caracas, I stayed all night near
My compliments to the producer and camera crew for avoiding showing the group as much as possible so people wouldn't realize this isn't the original Village People
I think the same, they are not the originals. The only one is the cop, the singer, Victor Wallis.
Unfortunately, several of the originals are gone.
@@MrGregsanderson22
No they are not, the Indian is definitely not! Filepe Rose. And the army guy is not Alex Briley, NON of the guys who kept the band name going for 40 years are there. The A hole cop was the original singer on the early hits.
@@MrGregsanderson22 No that is not Felipe Rose. Victor Willis is the only original on stage. Randy Jones, David Huto, Glenn Hughes (deceased) Felipe Rose, Alex Briley are no longer with the group.
@@christinebarker3091 And Felipe Rose had his own version of the Village People that only recently had stopped touring allowing Victor Wallis to tour with his version of the group so there was no confusion.
VILLAGE PEOPLE WERE ABSOLUTE LOVE - EVERYTHING THEY DID WAS LOVE
I wonder how over half of those people in the audience in NY think of this song now? 😂😂😂😂USUSUS #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Major fun!!!!!! So why can't we all have this much joy all the time!!!!! Who's with me????😊😊😊😊😊😊
Saludos a village people desde Chile vivan los 70. 80
....the cops lost all professionalism. I love it. You've gotta loosen up sometimes on duty. Awesome.
สนุกจริงๆๆ
Why?
They thought they better do it since there was a cop singing.
🎶There's no need. To. Be. Unhappy!🎶
2020: hold my Corona
This is on the List of all Songs to be Played TBA
It will be like WIXX was years ago. Very Few Commercials. William LeMay would remember.
They should make a navy ad for this generation, we need it
Keep the same song by them tho.. In the Navy
Очень за него рада,он жив-здоров !!!!😍😍😍😍😍
Es como un refresh de vida
I love 💗 when the whole entire million people in New York City 🏙 in new year eve 2019 village people ymca dance
Спасибо большое за видео! Жаль, что группа не сохранилась в полном составе.
I love 💗 watching the NYPD mounted police 👮♀️ unit and NYPD police 👮♀️ dance 💃 to YMCA
I like how the they got the NYPD police 👮♀️ to do the ymca dance 💃
Eu do Brasil amando esse grupo 👏👏🥰
The Village People performing the iconic disco classic hit "Y.M.C.A." from 1978. This is from the broadcast of Steve Harvey's New Year's Eve 2020 on Fox. The audience does it with the group. It was filmed in Times Square on December 31, 2019.
Sad part is I used to love this group. The lead singer is my neighbor. The wife only seem to come out to scream at people if their dogs get too close to her property.
Is the dude at least nice??😂
🤣🤣🤣
Y que se cuenta Don Víctor? xD
She’s married to a Karen ?
@@willywallie48he
10 months later and I AM STILL DYING!!!😆😆😆😆
Wow...gronk can bust a move...fashion plate too...God bless
Village People are: James Kwong, James Lee, Jeff Lippold, Ángel Morales, Jeff Olson & Víctor Willis.
Thanks I was just about to google
yeah i was like, the leather daddy is hawt but not the one i know
this is the most coolest group ever
Fantastic! Apenas um envelheceu! 😆😆😆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
na vdd o vocalista é o unico da formação original
Amaba al grupo original, en especial al obrero y al indio, todos super sexis❤
2020 New Years Eve YMCA but from the living room
The front singer is the same, but he replaced the entire band.
The former band members have a separate band named Kings of Disco.
Half these folks don't even know it's bout sex and cruising lmao
I realize people this is someone hi I like your videos
U go to go
No it's not...in the 70s and nearly 80s the YMCA was place kids could go for athletics that was cheap, and the YMCA assisted poor kids...tooooooo many people believe because it was the disco era it was a gay song because the Village People sang it...they also did a religious song called Sodom and Gemorhha
The real.Ginyu Force.
This made me laugh
Lo mejor de todos los tiempos, amo a estos hombres ❤
The bassist is real funky
He is playing a simplified version of the original bassline.
Bass players are always the most funky 😎
What year was this?
Glad to see Victor back! Where’s Felipe and Alex?
Through legal maneuvering, Victor took the band back over and kicked everyone else out.
These things happen in business, but to read his quotes in various articles is pretty sad. Basically, in his mind, he's the entire group and nobody else matters.
Victor finally after decades got the publishing millions he deserved
My boys are amazing!
Why didn't they also play New York City by the Village People?
Isto é sensacional
It’s now trumps dance
This is perfect!
Yeah, I am pretty sure everyone was NOT doing the YMCA dance. Record falsely broken!!!!!
Yeah, maybe half of them, and barely at that. Still beats the record.
What years was this? Just curious
Ray Simpson was the best lead singer after Victor
Oh I love The Village people
How adorable is Gronk!
Master Gronk is in the house!
Very nice to see people happy and dancing w gay music. Love it!
How many of those members are the originals?
2
I’m not certain but I believe the lead singer (cop) is Victor Willis, and the Native American is Felipe Rose. I know the cowboy and the leather man are not originals (the latter, Glenn Hughes, passed away).
Here? Just Victor Willis.
I got an autograph from the black soldier. Greetings forever 💛💙❤️🏳️🌈
Lets do it !!! The dance is amazing
What a time!! I miss so much...
is there any original members left?
What happened to the original members of this group?
Fabulosos 💛💙❤️
Discoteca que preza tem que ser isso aí
Wau como.estan de diferentes llano puede ni bailar el bocalista los años no.perdonan dice el dicho y es una gran realidad
Awesome!! Was this b4 Glen the biker passed away?? Never saw till now
Where is Village People?...Ray(cop), Felipe(Indian), Alex(G.I), Jim(Cowboy), Billy(Construction) & Eric (Leather man)
Doing well ,getting paid their royalties, Glenn the original leather man died from cancer and was replaced by Eric Anzalone years ago, victor Willis the original lead singer finally got control of the band and sued for millions in publishing money he was finally owed, it took decades but now he owns the group
Victor now owns the rights to the name and licensing for the group since that license expired in 2017. In 1987 5 original members (Alex, Felipe, David Hodo - construction worker, Glenn Hughes - leather man, and cowboy Randy Jones) along with Ray formed their own company Sixuvus and bought the rights to the group and associated trademarks from Morali and his business partner for a 30-year deal. Victor's legal team then wrangled that away when the time came up for renewal. Victor essentially fired those who had been performing as VP for the past 35+ years, including Felipe and Alex.
Jones and Hodo had quit twice previously. Jones left when Morali wanted to change their look to a bizarre New Romantic image (with Steve Strange makeup and poofy clothes). He was replaced by Jeff Olson. Hodo left after that album (Renaissance) bombed. Willis would return for the Fox on the Box album, never released in the States, but would be replaced again for the last (for the long time) official VP album, Sex Over the Phone. At this point the group was essentially finished but then Jones reached out to the others, including Simpson, to buy the rights and re-form the group. They released a few singles but never got a new record deal.
Jones left again in the early 90's, to be replaced by Olson, who stayed until 2012-13ish. Hughes announced in 95 he had contracted lung cancer (he would pass away in March 2001), and handpicked his replacement, Eric Anzalone, who stayed until Willis took over. Hodo retired at age 66/67 from performing altogether in 2013 or 14, and has been quietly (and privately) enjoying retirement ever since, rarely making public appearances. Jim Newman and Bill Whitefield respectively replaced Olson and Hodo permanently as the cowboy and construction worker. Felipe Rose announced his departure about the same time Willis re-took the reins.
The Sixuvus group now tours and performs as The Kings of Disco, when not being hounded by Willis for copyright infringement. They have to be extremely careful in how they promote themselves legally. For awhile they used the parenthetical "(Featuring former members of Village People)," but I think Willis has quashed that too. If they've worked out a deal, I'm unaware of it.
It's sad because Victor has been so vindictive about the whole thing. I'm glad he cleaned up his substance abuse issues and criminal record, but this current incarnation he leads (the official group) is nowhere close to the originals or even the last one. For someone who has, and continues to, adamantly insisted the songs are not "gay" themed and that people just read more into them, currently fronts a group of musclebound himbos who couldn't land a gig with a second-rate Chippendales male stripper revue. I watched a recent 2023 show and was disgusted at the obvious stripper tropes the guys did, ripping off shirts, caressing muscles, tweaking, etc. Not saying the originals did dance "sexy" just not blatant.
كل الناس بتحب امريكا الشعوب كلها بتحب امريكا والرئيس بوتن قاءد عظيم وروسيا داءيما بتساعد الضعيف بصراحه الرءيس بوتن قاءد العالم من وجهه نظري
Ah, mano. Se fosse no Brasil n teria ngm parado kkkkkkk
Start of the corona
I'm not mad with the new people in the background, but i like the OG
Bet Planet Fitness didn't like a competitor performing the main stage under their banner lol
Super
super bravo
Great song but some of the original guys were no longer alive that is sad i loved the original guy glen
Glenn is the only one ,was replaced by Eric Anzalone the others are still with us, victor fired everyone who was still performing , randy the cowboys is doing well
@@charlesanzalone5846 nothing will ever beat the original line up a lot of people think the group was campy and a novelty maybe a bit true but the music was stunning as were the vocals and the production disco at its veery very best glenn was my fav and the two lead singers!
Son todos los originales.?
no
Solamente el cantante policía pero la cosa es tenía mucho contraversia como la historia cuando so murió disco in los 80s hay muncho envidia hasta la raza latino son contra su propio raza
El army Guy también pero se mira similar in 1979
3:45 - 3:52 - wait for it
The key is now Concert F Major.
Its fun to stay at the YMCA 💃👯💃
There's one cop who's on the Donut Squad
Do you all notice everyone is smiling?
Gronk a Robot 😂
This fucking thumbnail made me thought they replaced the black dude from the village people with steve harvey...
I'm very happy their are still alive 🥰
Beautiful
You can tell he’s sick of singing this song but needs to paycheque
The roach on the native needing to be adjusted. 🙈
Oh hell naw, not this song again. I didn't go looking for this.
I love the fact that the symbolism is there to usher in a new decade the village people before mainstream usher in an era of middle class people, are they hay or not? All i can say is that they're an equal opportunity org like the ymca who helped young men get another chance...
This was 2 months before the event and now in 2022 keep an eye on the super bowl, before y'all regret it.
Gronk can't even do the YMCA the right way. They should have given it up when Glenn left in 1996.
America has to be like this.
I like when the people who are the host of new year’s eve in 2019 got the NYPD police to dance to ymca and I wish I could see the NYPD mounted police and the Royal Canadian mounted police do the ymca dance while there on horseback and get the police horses to dance 💃 to ymca
I went to the YMCA to learn to swim!
This is s Brand .....😊😅
Is that Victor Willis?
Who’s the Army dude.,?? Only was 5 dudes originally.
Always has been 6. Cop, cowboy, Indian, GI, construction worker, and biker/leatherman. Since 1978.
@@shawnw8717 absolutely not,, been seeing these dudes for a long time., never was no Army dude., even groups parody this groups never had a army dude., google America Got Talent and shows a guy doing YMCA and no Army guy.,
0.95 Pitched Sound
مصر جاهزه في اي وقت
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Que duros son para bailar .Lo hacen sin ganas 🙄
Wow the original VILLAGE PEOPLE were so much better and more committed to their image and output, what happened?
Litigation
Still so sexy
@Justin Calvert he left the group very early on and had to resort to litigation to steal it back, then fired all original members. He can’t even sing anymore.
@Justin Calvert and the song composer.
Who is Justin Calvert? Victor Willis, the original lead singer, got the rights back in 2017 to the name and licensing and back royalties for co-writing the songs on the 3 albums he sang on before leaving in late 1979n, and fired those who had been performing as VP for the past 30-40 odd years, including Ray Simpson (his replacement), Felipe Rose (native American), and Alex Briley (the GI). Those guys now perform as the Kings of Disco, still hounded by Victor's legal team over copyright infringements.
Big difference compared to today. :(
I know, this video for me..
Thank you so much & Love U..
🎀♥️♥️♥️😘😘😘🎀🙏🙏🙏
(RANDOM)..👊🤘
Shame EVERYONE! was doing the M wrong, it's NOT over the head like a monkey sign, it's M in front of your chest.
love it x
I like the slow versi... wait is that gronk
steve harvey looks ai generated