My Dad used to put this on when I was kid (years after it came out) and danced around the living room with me and my two brothers following him! Happy Memories!! Made me fall in love with this song!!!
This song has such a chokehold on my childhood, her speaking voice and the scream always made me laugh and it's such a pleasure to revisit it again now~
At the places I went to in the winter of 1975 this song sounded so original and energizing - nothing else sounded remotely like it. Even people that didn’t dance wanted to dance. There was definitely something in the air during those times. And alternating between wide flared jeans and black platform shoes and painters pants with blue and yellow suede sneakers. What style the 70s had!
Shirley was from New Orleans, La. Her first hit was "Let the Good Times Roll" with a childhood friend named Lenonard Lee. (As Shirley and Lee.) She's buried in Mt. Olivette Cemetery in the Gentilly area if New Orleans. I've been gathering info on her life, which was fascinating. I see a book in it!
At the Zodiac Lounge in Trenton New Jersey in 1975 this song would come on and energized everyone in their flared jeans and painters pants and those translucent ribbed plastic belts that were such a thing at the time. And platform shoes though I think they were on their way out by then. And the way the word “disco” was now used as something edgy and fresh.
I enjoyed this song so much! Was a little girl about to grow up fast and dance dance till I dropped! So glad to have had the good times that would get me through hardships....memories are not us living in the past they help us if we remember the good more than the bad.🙏❤❤
I listen to the oldies but hadn't heard this song in years. While in Pittsburgh, PA last year in April we walked into the Hotel at Station Square where this song was playing for a private party. It was fantastic and I stayed within hearing distance until the song finished. Thanks for posting, now I can hear it again and again.
The real power of this great song is not so much that choppy beat, but the extraordinary vocals of Jesus Alvares - what a singer. Hats off and thank you man
A great song from Shirley & Company! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '70s" (from February 22nd, 1975), & was the #35 song. Bravo, Shirley & Co.!
WOW, forgot about this tune-- that's what makes RUclips so awesome, re-discovering a song like this! I play songs I know and like, and see a link to another song with title/artists I don't know of, click the link, and find another classic!!! Brilliant!
The movie "Pride" brought me here. I thought ...how great it might be and how much fun to play this song live somewhere. People would be jumping off shit.
I am known as a soul/rock 'n' roll DJ, and this is always a shoo-in. People's footwork matches the huge smiles on their faces. It cannot be duplicated. It is nothing but a celebration. Trivia? Look up Sylvia Robinson, and also, go find out what a "diamond in the back" is. Sheesh, the 1970s...
Yes Pride the movie brought me here ... Wow heard this song when I was a kid ... Loved this song... Thank you to the folks that complied the soundtrack to this film... Bravo
That's your opinion, Blood. I happen to love Ms. Shirley's voice. I had the pleasure of meeting her on several occasions and you will never meet a more warm and living lady. A true class act IMHO! If this song really annoys you that much, don't listen! Plain and simple!
shirley was popular in the 50s. also, you tube "tuba skinny" and watch young people dance to music of 1920s. we can't tuba s. back in new orleans because europe has entrapped them.
A #1 hit for Shirley & Company on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 318th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #12 on the Top 40 charts. It also hit #1 on the US Dance charts and in Germany. It went to #6 in the United Kingdom.
+Diane Evans Same here Diane, I was a DJ at the time and I wore that record out cause people loved it so much... First disco record that started it all...
David Hamilton had this as his Record of the Week on Radio One when it first came out on the All Platinum label in spring 1975. The single release peaked at #7 on the UK charts as well.
J'ai envie d'chialer quand j'entends cette chanson 😔😭 elle me rappelle ma maman qui avait le 45 tours et qui l'écoutait en boucle sur son petit tourne disque. Maman......🙏❤❤❤ Je t'aime au delà des ⭐⭐⭐
@@LeeLeeWilliams-1908 You know. I analyze it more. That second shout during his time in the verse, Shirley Goodman was the one that returned that high note. I thought it was Alavarez! But this shows that both of them did a great job for the song.
Hadn't heard this one for some forty years. A nice bit of Johnny Otis/Bo Diddley rhythm to back up a superb treatment. Thanks for the posting, man. My foot just dropped off again.
Yeah. Jason Alvarez made it electric. I know it was him that hit the high note at first and the second. If you listen to it carefully, that was Shirley Goodman on the second part.
Seventies disco ! Drive the Cortina down to the pub & have a few pints of Watneys Red. Play a few tunes on the juke box & try to chat up the barmaid (sorry, barperson !) before driving home & watching Dave Allan & Benny Hill on the telly ! Good times & good music !
Absolutely brilliant! And WHAT a VOICE!..move over Gloria Gaynor! Shirley's singing is just as good if not even better than G.G's Yet another one of my 70'favourites turned up for me here on Y.T. Thank you for posting!
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I remember when my mom brought this home on a 45 and played and played and played it...I miss my mom. RIP Mom...hope to see you again in Heaven!
👍👍👍
Amen
Девчонка ,я ,старый ,я с ТОБОЙ!!!!!
Who brought here because of gifted movie
What movie?
My Dad used to put this on when I was kid (years after it came out) and danced around the living room with me and my two brothers following him! Happy Memories!! Made me fall in love with this song!!!
COvid got him?
This song is in scene in film Gifted so can just imagine you all x
U was lucky. My dad was a misery and a tyrant ❤
"God I missed disco."
x PRIDE x
So, you are not Welsh, right?
;-)
Internationale7 MISS
Internationale7 He's going to teach me to be a women magnet
Carl Evans
Youre gays have arrived!!!
Already 2020, and I'm still watching "Pride", and always remember this song, and "God, I missed disco" 😂
Yes 😂👍
Exactly! I came here after watching Pride and it's 2022!
Lmao me today 2024
Now that's what I call music you can dance to ❤
I think if you don't at least tap a foot or pop a shoulder there's something wrong with you.
I am chair dancing as I hear thus again after so many years.
@@rebeccalaird4124👍👍👍
Those were the best days . What a song
Couldn’t agree more ! Our local youth club disco played some great tunes , remember this one growing up in Dublin !☘️
Yasss
I first heard this in a museum in Mexico. The display was a bouncing yellow ball in a room by itself. My friend started dancing.
This song has such a chokehold on my childhood, her speaking voice and the scream always made me laugh and it's such a pleasure to revisit it again now~
At the places I went to in the winter of 1975 this song sounded so original and energizing - nothing else sounded remotely like it. Even people that didn’t dance wanted to dance. There was definitely something in the air during those times. And alternating between wide flared jeans and black platform shoes and painters pants with blue and yellow suede sneakers. What style the 70s had!
Yes !! ❤
How did this song slip past me growing up in the 1970s with disco, pop/rock, and soul? LOVE this!
Shirley was from New Orleans, La. Her first hit was "Let the Good Times Roll" with a childhood friend named Lenonard Lee. (As Shirley and Lee.) She's buried in Mt. Olivette Cemetery in the Gentilly area if New Orleans. I've been gathering info on her life, which was fascinating. I see a book in it!
Pride brought me here, and some of the best disco dancing in a small Welsh mining Workingmen's Club.
The Welsh men don't dance do they!? 🤣
Don't forget Dominic West - sex on legs 😄
Hi Jeremy. My family ancestry is Welsh. How are you all doing over there? Good music knows no boundaries. Keep on dancing.
This was on our Whopper greatest hits in Australia in 1975 one of my first albums I ever heard - and wow how fabulous is this song 🥰
At the Zodiac Lounge in Trenton New Jersey in 1975 this song would come on and energized everyone in their flared jeans and painters pants and those translucent ribbed plastic belts that were such a thing at the time. And platform shoes though I think they were on their way out by then. And the way the word “disco” was now used as something edgy and fresh.
I enjoyed this song so much! Was a little girl about to grow up fast and dance dance till I dropped! So glad to have had the good times that would get me through hardships....memories are not us living in the past they help us if we remember the good more than the bad.🙏❤❤
I listen to the oldies but hadn't heard this song in years. While in Pittsburgh, PA last year in April we walked into the Hotel at Station Square where this song was playing for a private party. It was fantastic and I stayed within hearing distance until the song finished. Thanks for posting, now I can hear it again and again.
De la joie et de la bonne humeur ! Super chanson ! un retraité âgé de 66 ans .
😊😊😊
One of the greatest in the disco era
Oui !!!! Cette chanson me rend dingue 😜
My favourite song from the disco era. Catch me if you can😊 i feel like a teenie again. I grew up in the 70's, what a great time that was!
This song kept you on the dancefloor 🎶❤🎶👍🎺
This is the definition of nostalgia. Quite literally, like, dayum.
Old is but eternal is^^ haaaaa wèèèè ce son redonnera le moral toute personne l'ayant perdu😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Bein Siempre. Aye dios mio .. Hermosa corazón .. bendiciones . Papi ..❤️💯🙏🏾
The real power of this great song is not so much that choppy beat, but the extraordinary vocals of Jesus Alvares - what a singer.
Hats off and thank you man
"Got my sun-roof down, got my diamonds in the back". Fabulous 1975 memories. Released on December 28, 1974, reaching # 12 on March 29.
Standing at Redfern Station dancing and I aint a shame to dance .... this songgggggg is LIT!! 💣💥💎❤❤
You go girl!
GREAT song!! A real classic!!
Como é o nome desta música?
I love and miss The Sopranos. RIP James Gandolfini.
A great song from Shirley & Company! This was a featured track on "American Top 40 - The '70s" (from February 22nd, 1975), & was the #35 song.
Bravo, Shirley & Co.!
The disco era gone not forgotten
WOW, forgot about this tune-- that's what makes RUclips so awesome, re-discovering a song like this! I play songs I know and like, and see a link to another song with title/artists I don't know of, click the link, and find another classic!!! Brilliant!
The movie "Pride" brought me here. I thought ...how great it might be and how much fun to play this song live somewhere. People would be jumping off shit.
It was on Sky movies in the background..... Felt my hips shaking lol awesome
I am known as a soul/rock 'n' roll DJ, and this is always a shoo-in. People's footwork matches the huge smiles on their faces. It cannot be duplicated. It is nothing but a celebration. Trivia? Look up Sylvia Robinson, and also, go find out what a "diamond in the back" is. Sheesh, the 1970s...
Sylvia ushered in a whole new age.
reginald barnes same
Jamming to this at Lowe’s this morning working. Had to look it up. 28 years old in November!!
Was 16 when this hit the charts. Came out December 28, 1975 one day after my birthday
I was 14 that time and I used to listen to this hit so often! Thanks a million for posting this memory.
Yes Pride the movie brought me here ... Wow heard this song when I was a kid ... Loved this song... Thank you to the folks that complied the soundtrack to this film... Bravo
CHOOOON!!! Song of my youth. Although at the time I always thought it was "Shame shame shame - SHAME ON YOU! IF YOU CAN'T LASSOO!"
The memories this brings back! This was disco at its best.
one of the best disco songs of its time
That's your opinion, Blood. I happen to love Ms. Shirley's voice. I had the pleasure of meeting her on several occasions and you will never meet a more warm and living lady. A true class act IMHO! If this song really annoys you that much, don't listen! Plain and simple!
Those were the good old days of disco and 70s music.
hell yes!!!!
shirly goes back to shirly and lee in new orleans in the 50s.
I have never seen young adults between 21 and40 dancing off of the music of the 60 s and 70 s music with soul and beat!!!!!!!!.
shirley was popular in the 50s. also, you tube "tuba skinny" and watch young people dance to music of 1920s. we can't tuba s. back in new orleans because europe has entrapped them.
I LOVE this song, and the beat !!
Way word good old days.I was tall,lean,handsome,well hung.I had a wonderful time.These days married,children,slippers,coffee,chilled out.
It remembers me my best friend in school…we were 15 years old in 1975… Eduardo Ve..... Longings.
A #1 hit for Shirley & Company on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 318th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #12 on the Top 40 charts. It also hit #1 on the US Dance charts and in Germany. It went to #6 in the United Kingdom.
oh my gosh, this brings back such good memories!
+Diane Evans
Same here Diane, I was a DJ at the time and I wore that record out cause people loved it so much... First disco record that started it all...
David Hamilton had this as his Record of the Week on Radio One when it first came out on the All Platinum label in spring 1975. The single release peaked at #7 on the UK charts as well.
J'ai envie d'chialer quand j'entends cette chanson 😔😭 elle me rappelle ma maman qui avait le 45 tours et qui l'écoutait en boucle sur son petit tourne disque. Maman......🙏❤❤❤ Je t'aime au delà des ⭐⭐⭐
This lady Shirley was a bomb... with those unforgettable years...
Love how Jesus Alvarez comes in with his vocals the brother can SANG!! 🙌🏾 💃🏾
I would have thought he was black! He's got SOUL man! One of the best singers I have ever heard in my life!
@@NoOne-kr4jc Haha I thought he was black too 😆
@@LeeLeeWilliams-1908 You know. I analyze it more. That second shout during his time in the verse, Shirley Goodman was the one that returned that high note. I thought it was Alavarez! But this shows that both of them did a great job for the song.
@@NoOne-kr4jc In this video it looks like he's hitting the note… ruclips.net/video/U0mjlDDk3tE/видео.html
I remember in '75 listening to this on the AM radio, dreaming of buying my first car and having my sunroof down and my diamond in the back...
The ending of pride makes me cry
THIS FOR ALL OF US WAKING UP THIS MORNING & HEARING THE NEWS OF LAST NIGHTS REFERENDUM - SHAME SHAME SHAME!
How the Hell can 109 people NOT be absolutely crazy about this amazing record???
because there are a109 people you won't know what good music was if it bit them on the butt and left it's calling card😂😂😂
Good taste of music brought me here.
me too!!!
Me three!
Me 4 lol
Meeeeeeeee
Ya,let's Groove.if you can't pass 2am.just three words!!!.
That funky guitar riff!!! ❤️🙌
THIS IS THE JOINT RIGHT'CHERE DAWGZ!!!!!!! YA DONE DIGGGGZ??????????
Моя молодость. Лучшая песня 1975.
Hadn't heard this one for some forty years. A nice bit of Johnny Otis/Bo Diddley rhythm to back up a superb treatment. Thanks for the posting, man. My foot just dropped off again.
Great little tune, love the screamer, thank you.
Yeah. Jason Alvarez made it electric. I know it was him that hit the high note at first and the second. If you listen to it carefully, that was Shirley Goodman on the second part.
Mitica ed insuperabile per quegli anni favolosi ( 70 ) ......................................
I listen to this song every morning. Reminds me to celebrate life! DANCE!
BANGING Tune frome a great band and era, not to mention its on the movie Pride. Excellent scene with Dominic West..
LOVVVVED it then as a kid and still LOVVVE it :) I always sing it too LOL ---love that diamond in the back
This song should be played at funeral, people would rise to dance, we could save lots of people :o
Great idea hehe .. gonna play it at mine, might bring me back for 1 last boogie \\0//
SO SO SO true! Peiole need uplifting feelings, music, movement, joy, lightness...not medicines, scary news, passiveness... Let's celebrate life!
one of my favorite songs growing up, bless my mom's disco compilations vinyl collection
What a great song. The late 70s were a lot of fun. Listening to Hollywood Nightshift with Frazier Smith and the guys from Firesign Theater...
Seventies disco ! Drive the Cortina down to the pub & have a few pints of Watneys Red. Play a few tunes on the juke box & try to chat up the barmaid (sorry, barperson !) before driving home & watching Dave Allan & Benny Hill on the telly ! Good times & good music !
Not usually a great fan of disco, but this is sensational!
That song brings back so many memories of my youth!
Me to
Carmela: "Him with those ducks!"
Me too…I was 10 wishing I was old enough to go dancing : /
I still remember Shirley and Richard Nixon on the album cover when that was released. Best marketing gimmick, yet!
I Was 2 years at this time
I remember this song, it's cool 👍🌞
Victory to the miners
that movie brought me here lol
The haters lost there others.shame shame shame cause they just can't move to the groove
Sorry Bill. They lost. Everything.
"Perfect, let's bring down the government." Not sure if I got it right. 🤣
That's what brought me here too!! I remember this song but haven't heard it in absolutely ages - til tonight. I love this track so much!
It's a shame this isn't on Spotify
Spotify sucks!
you tried music youtube?
It is now...
What's spotify?
Shame shame shame
GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE NEW YORK WAS HOPPING TO THIS SONG IN SEPTEMBER OF 1974. WOW WHAT A SONG. FAN IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
just heard this on the Ronnie Wood show first timeheard it for years. Why isn't music as real as this these days
One of John Lennon s FAV. songs of the 70s! The song 'Dear Yoko' is essentially the same foundation.
I love this song!
Pride !
Pride bought me here!
First heard of this song when I was in Bath & Body Works store weeks ago. I'm listening to it rn, and it is a jam. 👌
1975...I was 15! :) I remember dancing to it at..."afternoon" disco lol
I was 5 years old yes I Rastafari Tucson Arizona Sonoran Desert we are all African
BOUGHT THE RECORD WHEN IT CAME OUT. I WAS 14 YRS OLD AND WORE THAT RECORD OUT!
Rob Wolchek----
"YOU'RE IN...THE HALLLLLL OF SHAME!"
Cher's cover of this on the Cher Show brought me here. Love it.
this song is catchy as hell!
i remeber this song use to get thrashed by my sister in my younger days..and to still hear it today brings back those fond mems of old music i love it
Makes me dance my old ass off!!! HAHAHAHA!!
Ein Superlied,hat mir schon vor Jahren gefallen !!!
I remember CBS played this at the start of Celtics/Bullets playoff game. Jo Jo White was tying up his green Converse. So cool
Great song God bless you sweetie forever
I absolutely love this song and for more reasons than one!!!!
Erinnerungen an Marion U. aus Wilnsdorf, die ich nie vergessen werde 💘
Oh yeah, what a shame 🥰
Beautiful memories!
Fantástico até hoje!
Miss this kind of music
Please, let me go back to those days!
146 deaf people arrived here and couldn't hear it.
This is great stuff.
Absolutely brilliant! And WHAT a VOICE!..move over Gloria Gaynor! Shirley's singing is just as good if not even better than G.G's
Yet another one of my 70'favourites turned up for me here on Y.T. Thank you for posting!
Bowie and Lennon loved this song so much they listed the "shame shame shame" descending vocal and turned into "fame fame fame' on "Fame." True.
i feel this sung throught my bones damn the feelings are very strong to this song
Love the 70s my time as a teenager when life and music was fun.