I find it weird that young people say " bring back real music. This old school is better than anything we have today". We never said that in 70s, 80s, 90s,
Pebbles is stunning. Her dresses are sexy and classy. Her voice is pure gold some of the best of the late 80's They dont make music like this anymore, this song has class and attitude, and you can actually listen and hear the words of the song! Its amazing. Most of todays music has gone down the whole. Music is not like it use to be. At least we have these awesome classics to always fall back on and remember the memories of the good old days. 80's ROCK!!!!!!
Back in 1988, I was 24, and I bought my first brand new Mercedes - Black/Gray Leather 560SEL - This song was a hit for Pebbles and when it would come on the car radio I would blast it! Every time I hear it it takes me back to those happy days - oh yeah, its now 2010, and I still have the Mercedes!
Shawn N She doesn’t look hot anymore. She’s sexy but I don’t think she’s turning heads. That’s my opinion based on her appearance on Wendy’s show. She looks More like a bitter past middle age white woman. LOL
OMG she is beautiful! I bought this album in 89? for this single and being a metalhead venturing out into new areas of music, this was just great. This song came out now.......Number one for sure.........
I listen to all kinds of music, all genre's, all decades. And I gotta say.....the 80's friggin' rocked...it didn't matter what you liked... alternative, club, metal, punk, hair bands, R&B, pop, old school...they were all unique and everlasting. And let's not forget MTV...back in the day when they actually used to play music videos. No wonder the 80's music gets sampled so much. Thanx for the song. Brings back good memories.
most of her tracks were R&B and/or Freestyle. If you went to a club playing any freestyle Lisette Melendez you would always hear these tunes at the same time.
oooooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaaaa the 80's when you could have a different Mercedes for every day of the week. when you could have a matching outfit to match your interior YES LONG LIVE THE 80's
Pebbles rocked those outfits. The way she throws her head back @ 4:38 and then smiles with a bit of attitude.. uff! Love this song. Thanks for loading the extended video.
+Priscilla Quao Yes. I use to wonder what happened to him. Then found out he went through a sex change. He's is now she..."Lana Houston". There is RUclips video of him in a stage play. I was in shock. No wonder I couldn't find him. who knew?
This song was definitely the jam I use to listen to this song on America's Top 10 w/Casey Kasem, Soul Train w/the late Don Cornelius and Night Tracks on SuperStation TBS It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years ago that this song was #1 on the R&B/Soul Chart and #2 on the Pop & Dance Charts God Bless Pebbles and BTW, this song was out when Full House, A Different World, Square One TV and Classic Concentration were still on the air and CBS Saturday Mornings became known as Saturday ROCKS
The extended version is preferred version in my book. Damn, this song was made like over 20 years ago, but it actually sounds good right now... I got bump this in my ride.
Awesome song. And I'm just a 28 year old white boy. But, there was a definite soul/pop vibe about the songs that were produced during this era. It has such a clean almost airy sound to it. I dig it. Makes me think of my childhood growing up in Blackhawk Country Club in the late 80's-mid-90's. God, what kick ass memories.... Reminds me of my mom's 560 SL Mercedes back in the late 80's.
Some of y'all youngin's out there don't know nothin' bout this !!!! this is MAJOR throwback !!! Pebbles back in the day - when music was REAL - there were talented singers then !!! Loved Pebbles then and now !!! She is now a pastor in Atlanta - she got saved and now also records gospel music !!!
With all due respect, the comments should be focus on Pebbles,how beautiful she looked and what classic-funky- jam this was and still is --- not about hate, or anything towards a dancer that Janet, Pebbles, Atlantic Star used in the mid to early 90's..I am just thankful that my favorite video of all times is available for Pebbles fans & me to watch at my lesure when we did not get BET to play the long version ( that what this should be about )
aww this was a good song! Still is. I love the way the music and the videos were made in the early 90s! Much better and MUCH different fromda today! *sigh* Pebbles is an awesome singer and pretty!
This song was good 👌 back in the day when music 🎶 was music 🎶 😊 on the radio station like wgci b96, and wbmx them was the good days came out in 87, the era i came from my generation im a seventies baby and a eighties child that sister can sing love her music 🎶 and her work.
I remember when I was a child, visiting my grandparents in Charleston SC, and this song was on non-stop down there in 1967! My nana and Poppa loved them Wilson Pickett, and so do I! ❤
The brother that was in this video as Pebbles' companion was a lucky man🤩 . He was in this video with Pebbles in 1987 and before that he was in Janet's What Have You Done For Me Lately video in 1985. Plus, he rehearsed for quite some time in 1985 with Janet during the choreography/rehearsal portion of her Control album.
She should have been paid by Stuttgart for this song.. So many people studied and worked so hard to afford a Mercedes after this song. . I know I did. I'm enjoying my 2022 SL 63... Thanks, Pebbles.
Back in 1988 you were considered cool if people heard this song playing on your car stereo. Back then I was young and having fun...and I would blast the volume up really high on my car radio so people could hear how cool I was listening to a Pebbles song. LMAO.
Remember when they played those remixes on the radio late nights on school nights I be up all night trying to record them off the radio stations just trying to catch the songs
That was around the time LaFace records started in ATL wasn't it? I heard it was off the chain back then and the music industry was very small back then, so people knew people who knew or worked with these artists and there were a lot of parties going on. I bet it was something else. I didn't move to ATL until 2006, and things definitely changed there
I would agree.. I would love also to have all of her videos, TV apperences, the 12 inch versions, and some concert footage..however, great folks on youtube has made it possible to get what we have of Pebbles!!
Lets keep it real...Pebbles is a beautiful, talented, and intelligently gifted individual! What has happened with Pebbles and TLC is a perfect example of how Hollywood and the music industry capitalizes on exploiting women. There are many women in the music industry...Toni Braxton, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Blondi, Vanity, Tina Marie, Freda Payne...just to name a few...have been exploited and left to take the blame for someone else s wrong doings. I admire the courage that it has taken for all of these women to be able to identify themselves as having a unique style that has allowed each of them to contribute to the history of music. Each of these women have a rare form of class that is taken for granted, and people need to give credit where credit is due....These women are fabulous!!!
This song has flavor and it tags the era it was created in. Thanks for the background info on the dancer, asktheStrawboss. I hope she is still a dancer. I picked up a few pretty boys in my Mercedes before I realized they were pretty for a reason. Wink.
Thank you..she actually did discover them, without her influence and connects in the beginning they probably would not have even made it. Have any of you all thought about that? Pebbles did not need their money she had her own as well as a wealthy husband and she was hot back then! I wonder if any of these people commenting negatively have actually taken the time to listen to Peb's side of the rumor? smh ~their business
Pebbles - Karyn White - Tyler Collins - Nia Peeples -- together as a Freestyle group, imagine that! Mercedes boy i love the way you love me, but it's girls nite out, cause you spell trouble!
Ahhhhhhhhhh, what a great ol'club favorite!!!!!!!!! These days are very precious to me, just to remember all the good times that were had, thanks for posting this song!!!!!!!!
@@armorgan2 The song was made because of her. She was involved with 2 members of the group. This was BEFORE she was Pebbles but still using her real name, Perri.
On this day in 1988 {May 28th} Pebbles performed "Mercedes Boy" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #34 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and working it's way up; six weeks later it would peak at #2* {for 2 weeks} and it spent 18 weeks on the Top 100... On the same 'Bandstand' show she also performed "Girlfriend", it was at #53 and working it's way down the chart; five weeks earlier it had peaked at #5 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the Top 100 for 20 weeks... And both songs peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart; "Girlfriend" for 2 weeks on April 14th, 1988 and "Mercedes Boy" for 1 week on May 15th, 1988... Pebbles, born Perri Arlette McKissack, will celebrate her 53rd birthday in three months on August 29th {2017}... * The two weeks "Mercedes Boy" was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "The Flame" by Cheap Trick...
Love both songs and yes, I was a former Casey Kasem Top 40 countdown listener when Hall and Oates guest hosted that week she was at number 2. I know some things too. Anyway, loved both songs by Cheap Trick and Pebbles. I always felt The Flame should have been #1 for one week and she the following week before Richard Marx knocked them both out of that spot. Again, I know some things too.
Hi everyone, Thank you for your comments. This song was released almost 20 yeas ago but still attractive, danceable and emotional isn't it? I really want her comes back to the music scene.
I find it weird that young people say " bring back real music. This old school is better than anything we have today". We never said that in 70s, 80s, 90s,
Listening to this again you can hear how much "Mercedes Boy" inspired Oliver Lieber to write Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract".
Wow! You can hear it clear as day.. didnt know that.
Wow that's awesome video and Wonderful Job 👌👍
Omg you can hear it!!!!
💯
Love this song
This song was definitely the jam back in the day. All over radio.
Made to both the pop and r&b charts in the spring of '88.
Still FRESH! Pebbles is PERFECT!
We used to jam to this back in high school ('88).
8-10-2023 and I'm dancing in my living room- we had the best music in the 80's
Shout out to all my gen-x sisters!
Along with the best clothes & the best hair ;D
Shout out right back to you! 👋😉👍✨️
❤❤
Pebbles is stunning.
Her dresses are sexy and classy.
Her voice is pure gold
some of the best of the late 80's
They dont make music like this anymore, this song has class and attitude, and you can actually listen and hear the words of the song! Its amazing. Most of todays music has gone down the whole. Music is not like it use to be.
At least we have these awesome classics to always fall back on and remember the memories of the good old days.
80's ROCK!!!!!!
She was so gorgeous. I always wanted to look like her.
She is gorgeous and so are you 😘
Right and I wanted to look like her too. 🥰😍
The 80's were the best! This song takes me back. I remember being in love with this song when I first heard it at 8 years old.
Ultimate" Yelo - girl" !
Back in 1988, I was 24, and I bought my first brand new Mercedes - Black/Gray Leather 560SEL - This song was a hit for Pebbles and when it would come on the car radio I would blast it! Every time I hear it it takes me back to those happy days - oh yeah, its now 2010, and I still have the Mercedes!
808 cowbell, Stevie Wonder klavinet,funky bass line, beauiful Pebbles singing. Man this song had it all.
The first song I played when I got my first Mercedes! Thanks alot Pebbles you are so responsible for my expensive taste! LOL
Same
Damn the women were so classy back in the day.
Not just 'classy'...also INTELLIGENT and no-nonsense!!
There isn't a straight boy that grew up in the 80's that didn't want to ride in Pebbles' Mercedes. I still do.
lol
Big Facts
My first crush as a kid!! Dreamt I had a girlfriend that looked like her!!!
Same here
Shawn N She doesn’t look hot anymore. She’s sexy but I don’t think she’s turning heads. That’s my opinion based on her appearance on Wendy’s show.
She looks More like a bitter past middle age white woman. LOL
So friggin 80s. I love it!
3:19 That shoulder dance is fire.
My mama used to bump this when I was a kid . I like this song
Hello young lady. How you doing? Does your distant life time help you cope?😇
I remember this music old school
Great stuff. Miss these days.
I love 80s music.
OMG she is beautiful! I bought this album in 89? for this single and being a metalhead venturing out into new areas of music, this was just great.
This song came out now.......Number one for sure.........
THATS THE DUDE FROM JANET JACKSON'S "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY" VIDEO. HE MUST HAVE BEEN THE GO TO MODEL-VIDEO BOY BACK IN THE DAY.
yeah he was in all the videos
I think Pebbles may have borrowed Janet’s hat from the video also!
Hé a woman now!
I listen to all kinds of music, all genre's, all decades. And I gotta say.....the 80's friggin' rocked...it didn't matter what you liked... alternative, club, metal, punk, hair bands, R&B, pop, old school...they were all unique and everlasting. And let's not forget MTV...back in the day when they actually used to play music videos. No wonder the 80's music gets sampled so much. Thanx for the song. Brings back good memories.
Gm it's 4:50 am and Workin out 2 this song and yes I 💕 loved the 80's and I'll never stop listening 🎧 to it have a great day everyone
I like how she incorporated freestyle into some of her late '80s tracks. This mix kicks ass!
I didn't pick up all that son but you know last couple of me the Tino
Yes. It really does!
most of her tracks were R&B and/or Freestyle. If you went to a club playing any freestyle Lisette Melendez you would always hear these tunes at the same time.
'Boy, I'll give you anything, cruising's all you have to do!'
One of my favorite lines in the song!
One of the Most beautiful woman I've ever seen...
I LOVE THIS SONG
IM TELLING YOU ALL THE MUSIC BACK IN THE DAYS R THE BEST
I love you Pebbles!!! You can ride in my Mercedes anytime!!!
So good! Pebbles was so cool and beautiful!!! I miss this kind of music!
oooooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaaaa the 80's when you could have a different Mercedes for every day of the week. when you could have a matching outfit to match your interior YES LONG LIVE THE 80's
now that's what I'm talking about
I love those big earrings from the 1980's.....hahah
Girls are still wearing them if you haven't noticed...
Produced by Charlie Wilson. That bass line is so funky! Great track.
Did Charlie Wilson produced this album?
@@rooseveltmccarter6087 I know he did that song.
One of the greatest videos ever. Peebles is so beautiful.
NIA Peebles?
No not her.
The best song in 1988！ I fell in love deeply with this song 😊😊
Pebbles rocked those outfits. The way she throws her head back @ 4:38 and then smiles with a bit of attitude.. uff!
Love this song. Thanks for loading the extended video.
this is the original...we danced to it at clubs in the 80s. :)
+kittensugars This was the version that most of the Dj's use to play in the 80's but it not the original version.
Thats the same dude in Janet Jackson's What Have You Done For Me Lately. Lol he's everywhere 😂
+Priscilla Quao Yes. I use to wonder what happened to him. Then found out he went through a sex change. He's is now she..."Lana Houston". There is RUclips video of him in a stage play. I was in shock. No wonder I couldn't find him. who knew?
+jmusic45 Omg 😔😨. Just looked it up. Wow. Thanks for letting me know 👍 I never knew that, really shocking
+Priscilla Quao He had his sex change.
WTF😲🤤
@@jmusic45 Nooooo, tell me it's not true!!!
This song was definitely the jam
I use to listen to this song on America's Top 10 w/Casey Kasem, Soul Train w/the late Don Cornelius and Night Tracks on SuperStation TBS
It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years ago that this song was #1 on the R&B/Soul Chart and #2 on the Pop & Dance Charts
God Bless Pebbles
and BTW, this song was out when Full House, A Different World, Square One TV and Classic Concentration were still on the air and CBS Saturday Mornings became known as Saturday ROCKS
Now this song is almost 35 years ago!!
My favorite Pebbles song
This one and Always are my favorites. ❤
She is still beautiful. The 80's was a cool era.
The extended version is preferred version in my book. Damn, this song was made like over 20 years ago, but it actually sounds good right now... I got bump this in my ride.
80's Forever and ever. And from now.
Awesome song. And I'm just a 28 year old white boy. But, there was a definite soul/pop vibe about the songs that were produced during this era. It has such a clean almost airy sound to it. I dig it. Makes me think of my childhood growing up in Blackhawk Country Club in the late 80's-mid-90's. God, what kick ass memories.... Reminds me of my mom's 560 SL Mercedes back in the late 80's.
Some of y'all youngin's out there don't know nothin' bout this !!!! this is MAJOR throwback !!! Pebbles back in the day - when music was REAL - there were talented singers then !!! Loved Pebbles then and now !!! She is now a pastor in Atlanta - she got saved and now also records gospel music !!!
The choreography in this video was on point. Sharp and tight and nothing too fancy, just good old fashion choreography.
With all due respect, the comments should be focus on Pebbles,how beautiful she looked and what classic-funky- jam this was and still is --- not about hate, or anything towards a dancer that Janet, Pebbles, Atlantic Star used in the mid to early 90's..I am just thankful that my favorite video of all times is available for Pebbles fans & me to watch at my lesure when we did not get BET to play the long version ( that what this should be about )
If this ain't 80s, I don't know what is.
I LOVE PEBBLES
Thanks for posting. Always liked the extended version better. I mean, this was it, this was what 1987 - 1988 sounded like.
Pebbles, Jodi Whatley, Taylor Dayne...loved them all in the 80s!!
Ahhh, the '80's! What a decade to come of age! This brought back such great memories. Thanks for sharing.
The 80s r&b was lit
aww this was a good song! Still is. I love the way the music and the videos were made in the early 90s! Much better and MUCH different fromda today! *sigh* Pebbles is an awesome singer and pretty!
Charlie Wilson produced the hell outta this
yes indeed
Pebbles was the Bomb,Y'all can say what ya want to about her.
This was one of the few records I had! LOVED this song!
BAM BAM! I want some Pebbles.
One of my favorites from my time as a club DJ back in the day. She was absolutely gorgeous.
This song was good 👌 back in the day when music 🎶 was music 🎶 😊 on the radio station like wgci b96, and wbmx them was the good days came out in 87, the era i came from my generation im a seventies baby and a eighties child that sister can sing love her music 🎶 and her work.
Love that cabbage patch dance
I remember when I was a child, visiting my grandparents in Charleston SC, and this song was on non-stop down there in 1967! My nana and Poppa loved them Wilson Pickett, and so do I! ❤
Like this version BETTER!!
This was da CUT then !!! Pebbles got saved - you go girl !!! She now pastors a church in Atlanta, GA :)
SHE SHOWS ALOT OF CLASS
Pebbles is such a hot woman.. Beauty and brains.. Back then and now.. She was blessed with great genes.
This is another one of my favorites!!! Do u wanna ride? LOL.
Summer 88 after graduating from JH school. Great memories.
Happy 50th Birthday Pebbles
lmfaaoooo
Man I miss this kind of music
This has to be the 2nd best mix.
The brother that was in this video as Pebbles' companion was a lucky man🤩 . He was in this video with Pebbles in 1987 and before that he was in Janet's What Have You Done For Me Lately video in 1985. Plus, he rehearsed for quite some time in 1985 with Janet during the choreography/rehearsal portion of her Control album.
why isnt there 10hrs of this song
She should have been paid by Stuttgart for this song.. So many people studied and worked so hard to afford a Mercedes after this song. . I know I did. I'm enjoying my 2022 SL 63... Thanks, Pebbles.
I like this version BETTER!!
Best era of music hands down ❤
She was a baaaaad bisssh
Yaaaaas lawd #Pebbles
Queen B before .... well you know
Mmmm hmmm! Thats what you aint lying about! HELLA FOYYYNE!!
LOVE this song! and the 80's! Wish I were back there again :D
Back in 1988 you were considered cool if people heard this song playing on your car stereo. Back then I was young and having fun...and I would blast the volume up really high on my car radio so people could hear how cool I was listening to a Pebbles song. LMAO.
including the new kids on the block. Good old days huh!
Remember when they played those remixes on the radio late nights on school nights I be up all night trying to record them off the radio stations just trying to catch the songs
Love 80s dance music!
Pebbles was the Beyonce of the late 80's and early 90's in the music industry😷😎
I still want that hat! I can work with that! Just moved to ATL around this time, good times.
That was around the time LaFace records started in ATL wasn't it? I heard it was off the chain back then and the music industry was very small back then, so people knew people who knew or worked with these artists and there were a lot of parties going on. I bet it was something else. I didn't move to ATL until 2006, and things definitely changed there
+shoppingdivami2011 dats indeed one fine hat, fo sho
I still got the record. Classic
Bring back guitar solos in Rnb songs🙌
I couldn't agree more where did they go 😢
Production changed in early 2000s
I would agree.. I would love also to have all of her videos, TV apperences, the 12 inch versions, and some concert footage..however, great folks on youtube has made it possible to get what we have of Pebbles!!
Lets keep it real...Pebbles is a beautiful, talented, and intelligently gifted individual! What has happened with Pebbles and TLC is a perfect example of how Hollywood and the music industry capitalizes on exploiting women. There are many women in the music industry...Toni Braxton, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Blondi, Vanity, Tina Marie, Freda Payne...just to name a few...have been exploited and left to take the blame for someone else s wrong doings. I admire the courage that it has taken for all of these women to be able to identify themselves as having a unique style that has allowed each of them to contribute to the history of music. Each of these women have a rare form of class that is taken for granted, and people need to give credit where credit is due....These women are fabulous!!!
Go now preach it!
This song has flavor and it tags the era it was created in. Thanks for the background info on the dancer, asktheStrawboss. I hope she is still a dancer. I picked up a few pretty boys in my Mercedes before I realized they were pretty for a reason. Wink.
Hot as pure fire
Mercedes Boy is my favorite Pebbles song
Pebbles - Mercedes (extended Version) 1988
OLD SKOOL MAN.
Pebbles beauty
Love it
Thank you..she actually did discover them, without her influence and connects in the beginning they probably would not have even made it. Have any of you all thought about that? Pebbles did not need their money she had her own as well as a wealthy husband and she was hot back then! I wonder if any of these people commenting negatively have actually taken the time to listen to Peb's side of the rumor? smh ~their business
Pebbles - Karyn White - Tyler Collins - Nia Peeples -- together as a Freestyle group, imagine that!
Mercedes boy i love the way you love me, but it's girls nite out, cause you spell trouble!
Ahhhhhhhhhh, what a great ol'club favorite!!!!!!!!! These days are very precious to me, just to remember all the good times that were had, thanks for posting this song!!!!!!!!
She is amazing and helped so many careers, she does not get enough credit
what about with group TYC. did she take their money? just asking
Except the fact she she ripped off TLC
Ultimate" Yelo - girl" !
Morning felt like going back way back the 80s. I was in Jr high on this one.. I will miss that decade, things were simpler and fresh and new.
Pebbles..the reason why "Love's Train" by Confunkshun was made. 😝 Still bumping this in 2019 but in my bimmer though!!
Huh? Love’s Train was made 5 years before Mercedes Boy.
@@armorgan2 The song was made because of her. She was involved with 2 members of the group. This was BEFORE she was Pebbles but still using her real name, Perri.
Stunner ❤ great voice
License to drive got me here!
Favorite Movie And myfavorite car is anyting Mercedes lol
well good cause she's a bad girl just like Beyonce
On this day in 1988 {May 28th} Pebbles performed "Mercedes Boy" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #34 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and working it's way up; six weeks later it would peak at #2* {for 2 weeks} and it spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
On the same 'Bandstand' show she also performed "Girlfriend", it was at #53 and working it's way down the chart; five weeks earlier it had peaked at #5 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the Top 100 for 20 weeks...
And both songs peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart; "Girlfriend" for 2 weeks on April 14th, 1988 and "Mercedes Boy" for 1 week on May 15th, 1988...
Pebbles, born Perri Arlette McKissack, will celebrate her 53rd birthday in three months on August 29th {2017}...
* The two weeks "Mercedes Boy" was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "The Flame" by Cheap Trick...
Love both songs and yes, I was a former Casey Kasem Top 40 countdown listener when Hall and Oates guest hosted that week she was at number 2. I know some things too. Anyway, loved both songs by Cheap Trick and Pebbles. I always felt The Flame should have been #1 for one week and she the following week before Richard Marx knocked them both out of that spot. Again, I know some things too.
Hi everyone,
Thank you for your comments. This song was released almost 20 yeas ago but still attractive, danceable and emotional isn't it? I really want her comes back to the music scene.
This brings back memories of me and my cousin drivng around in her 1987 Cougar, those were the days