This is one of those songs that comes on and everything else just stops. You don't want to miss a single note. It's a great song, but when Percy Sledge puts his emotion into it...perfection to the ear and heart.
Simply the most truest song ever written before or since. Every word I think as a man it's sung from us all from a time when we just couldn't see why they would ever ever leave us
What a great song! Perfectly sung. I saw Percy sing this a few years ago in downtown Baton Rouge...in front of an all white R&B band. It was GREAT! RIP Percy...and thanks! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Rest in peace Percy Sledge and thanks for that wonderful song. There is so much soul in it. I think your lady actually left you and changed her mind after she find out that you have a hit record.
Danced my first slow dance to this song when I was 13 years old, in the summer of 1966, at a birthday party of one of my school friends. Still brings me to tears today, and the memory of the emotions of that dance are still clear as a bell!
One of the greatest records ever made. Nobody could sing that song as wellas Percy. Nobody. Also Quinn Ivy was an honest and decent man who did not steal from Percy as far as I know.
Maybe the ONLY, producer, to ever not steal. Especially, the white ones! Back in those days, the problems for black recording artists, were still bad. Especially for, a country boy like Percy. He was blessed, to find a producer that, helped him develop his song into a sellable record and, treat him fairly. Percy, did the rest. What a singer!
@49jubilee Music was still good. We were just flooded, with bullshit for sale. Commercially directed, shit. That was produced to appeal to the mass markets, no virtuosity needed. The producers used to say, go ahead, make mistakes. We'll just edit them out. We'll make you sound like, a million bucks. That's why, we thought that, the music sucked. There were stations like: WNEW FM, WLIR FM, and whoever had Album Oriented Rock formats, on New York radio where you still heard, REAL MUSIC.
So she leaves(for a better job) and doesn't tell him? All the same. She left him. At least Percy was able to turn his heartache into a career-changing event.
She left went to another state for a better job??? But didn't tell him and they were in a relationship??? Was something wrong with Rotary telephones back then??? Looks like she heard money and came back running.
@@patriciaburgess4257 That's a defense mechanism talking because in some way or another you recognize you're lacking in some quality to win the yearning, loyalty, and devotion of a man.
@@alevine1951 Good insight, but I misread the previous response. I thought the person was saying that they never yearned for someone like that. I don't think I would mind being the yearnee.
There will NEVER be a truer song written and no one can sing it with the feeling that Percy does. I've certainly been in this boat and You just can't understand how You can feel. this way about someone and they cheat on you behind your back. When you finally find out and confront them ,they act like it's no big deal. I told my son to just think about Adam and Eve. She had everything and STILL wasn't happy!
@@smalltownusa3124 That's the Muscle Sholz, Rhythm Section. I think, they were all white too. Even us white boys, know what good soul music is. Without the black musicians, we'd never have had it!
I was born, raised and still live in Tuscumbia, Alabama. It sits right beside Muscle Shoals. I wasn't born when this came out but this song will never lose it's relevancy. We love Mr. Sledge and even named the street he lived on in Leighton, after him. There have been a lot of songs come out of Muscle Shoals but it isn't well known. The area still has it's "small town" feel and while you can find yourself a bit bored from time to time due to the lack of things to do, it has been a wonderful area to have lived in. Fits me perfectly. Kudos to the geniuses who put such a moving song together. It is timeless.
Nice story. I love to hear stories behind of songs people write. I myself love music alot. And when I listen to songs of people I meet and some songs reminds me of how I felt. Music to me like therapy, when I feel sad or down I listen to it.
Hahaha 😂 that crack me up I guess getting stabbed and shit happens every where and here’s marty mcfly trying to go back in the future lol no thanks I don’t want to get stab lol 😂
REAL MUSIC, PPL! I hope his children and family got rights to the master copy, and receives royalties rather than so record company or other people! UGH!!
That song is so so true when a man loves a woman he'll sleep out inside the Rain if that's what she wants him to do, And he'll turn his back on his friends for a good thing he found, yes he will think about fellas we do crazy things over a woman.
The same thing happened to me. But later I found out she had moved and given a letter to her brother and never gave be it to me. Years later. After we had a girlfriend and she had a boyfriend. We both had a family. I had a daughter and she had lik 4 kids. We got together for a while. But we still friends till this day.
Maggie Edwards I would have went there to see the studio. The Sands hotel in Vegas which the rat pack Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin made famous met the same demise.
as soon as that woman found out there was a song and maybe some money if she plays Percy right, she says she didn't leave him at all. Run from that money chaser, fast
When A Man Loves A Woman: If you are a man who has never loved a woman like Mr. Sledge has, you have NEVER truly been in love with that woman. PERCY TYRONE SLEDGE (1941-2015).
We know she was full of s***, she did leave him because if she hadn't left him then why wouldn't she tell him she was moving for a better job......... She changed her story after he came out with a hit song, gold digger anyone 🤔
Great song, but Sledge had absolutely no business being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He didn't sing rock and roll, and he only had one big hit!
Can you imagine writing such a powerful song and then find out she never did leave you. My god she must have been so heart moved to know those words came from her man! There's no way you could say "I love you" any more powerful than that! It just leave me dumbfounded.
She sounds like a narcissistic bitch. I mean, they were seeing each other, and she just fucked off to another city for a new job, WITHOUT telling Percy! Either she was too stupid to care about his feelings, or she lied her ass off about the whole thing once the song made Percy famous, just to get her hands on that sweet money.
Just as all men are cheats and incapable of fidelity right? There are terrible women AND terrible men. Takes courage to step past hurt and keep searching for the right one.
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No truer words have ever been spoken in “When a man loves a woman”. I have loved mine for 34 years and would give my life for her in a heartbeat.
The best love songs are painful. This is one of the greatest of all time.
This is one of those songs that comes on and everything else just stops. You don't want to miss a single note. It's a great song, but when Percy Sledge puts his emotion into it...perfection to the ear and heart.
Simply the most truest song ever written before or since. Every word I think as a man it's sung from us all from a time when we just couldn't see why they would ever ever leave us
What a great song!
Perfectly sung.
I saw Percy sing this a few years ago in downtown Baton Rouge...in front of an all white R&B band.
It was GREAT!
RIP Percy...and thanks!
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I have only fallen in love once ...it's been fifty years and it's still good.
Simply awesome.Cheers
God bless you . It's a rarity. Now days.
Congratulations and, God Bless.
You, are one of the; fortunate ones.
Love and miss Percy Sledge I'm58 been listening as far back as I remember. I will still hear him for ever👍👍☺😍💝RIP from Louisiana USA
Rest in peace Percy Sledge and thanks for that wonderful song. There is so much soul in it. I think your lady actually left you and changed her mind after she find out that you have a hit record.
Natural talent + the right people around you to support = SUCCESS
Metro 4652387 yes I am still looking for the right people
Danced my first slow dance to this song when I was 13 years old, in the summer of 1966, at a birthday party of one of my school friends. Still brings me to tears today, and the memory of the emotions of that dance are still clear as a bell!
Best Song Ever!!my all time Fav,Love All Percy's Songs
He is my kids cousin on their grandmother side from Alabama!! I always loved this song!
That just added a whole new dimension to this song
One of the greatest records ever made. Nobody could sing that song as wellas Percy. Nobody. Also Quinn Ivy was an honest and decent man who did not steal from Percy as far as I know.
Ditto. Couldn't have said it any better myself. A classic.
Maybe the ONLY, producer, to ever not steal.
Especially, the white ones!
Back in those days, the problems for black recording artists, were still bad.
Especially for, a country boy like Percy.
He was blessed, to find a producer that, helped him develop his song into a sellable record and, treat him fairly.
Percy, did the rest. What a singer!
I'm really glad Percy was treated right by the industry.
His Songs Will Always Live.
Love that song when i was growing up in the 70s and still love it today
Fun Fact! This was the number one song here in the US the day I was born (5/29/66).
Mine is 5/28/66. I grew up listening to this song with my parents. Still touches me.
I was born in 1966 too. It's a blessing to still be able to reflect on memories when music was simple.
That awesome. I am a fellow generation x’er born in January of 66’.
My birthday is 03/29/1966
That was a great song. RIP Percy Sledge
Shit that live cut of him singing broke me into tears immediately
When music was great.
@49jubilee Music was still good.
We were just flooded, with bullshit for sale.
Commercially directed, shit. That was produced to appeal to the mass markets, no virtuosity needed.
The producers used to say, go ahead, make mistakes. We'll just edit them out. We'll make you sound like, a million bucks.
That's why, we thought that, the music sucked.
There were stations like: WNEW FM, WLIR FM, and whoever had Album Oriented Rock formats, on New York radio where you still heard, REAL MUSIC.
Love this song
So she leaves(for a better job) and doesn't tell him? All the same. She left him. At least Percy was able to turn his heartache into a career-changing event.
She lied. Once she found out he had a hit record it was all a "misunderstanding I could never leave you." Yeah right.
The only thing I didn't like about Michael Bolton...he said he never heard Percy Sledge do this song...
@@peachesb-georgia1125 Kelly of Destiny's Child didn't know of a Patti Labelle song she was singing too. But Michael Bolton?🤔
She left went to another state for a better job??? But didn't tell him and they were in a relationship??? Was something wrong with Rotary telephones back then??? Looks like she heard money and came back running.
@@queenofsheba9025 yep
You can see his purity.
Spot-on!
A work of art, done in poetry, and put to music. It doesn't get any better.
Killer classic! It will live forever! Hes right, the feeling, makes the song!
A song of loss that touches most everyone's heart...
Thank top 2000 another gem
I grew up with this on the radio and it still gives me goosebumps. And what a nice man Mr. Sledge seems to be. 🤗❤💝
Percy is so humble - God smiled on him the day he put the pen to paper and wrote that song.
The song lives on.
Damn. Im not.sure Ive ever been yearned for like that..
And I hope I never will.
@@patriciaburgess4257 That's a defense mechanism talking because in some way or another you recognize you're lacking in some quality to win the yearning, loyalty, and devotion of a man.
@@alevine1951 Good insight, but I misread the previous response. I thought the person was saying that they never yearned for someone like that. I don't think I would mind being the yearnee.
@@patriciaburgess4257 Oh, how the turns tabeled
Love the mono! 🎶
Great song. Timeless 👏👏👏.
@Michael Walter LMFAO!
TRUE CLASS Loved this BIG SONG Forever
Awesome Beyond Words.
There will NEVER be a truer song written and no one can sing it with the feeling that Percy does. I've certainly been in this boat and You just can't understand how You can feel. this way about someone and they cheat on you behind your back. When you finally find out and confront them ,they act like it's no big deal. I told my son to just think about Adam and Eve. She had everything and STILL wasn't happy!
Women will never understand the love a man has for woman, when he really loves her. This song lets you all know.
The brass section rocks.
IKR? They just grab you. The song is powerful. Percy is full of emotion. Then the horns come in and just add one more level of greatness.
@@smalltownusa3124 That's the Muscle Sholz, Rhythm Section.
I think, they were all white too.
Even us white boys, know what good soul music is.
Without the black musicians, we'd never have had it!
Fantastic story!!!
Legend.
I was born, raised and still live in Tuscumbia, Alabama. It sits right beside Muscle Shoals. I wasn't born when this came out but this song will never lose it's relevancy. We love Mr. Sledge and even named the street he lived on in Leighton, after him. There have been a lot of songs come out of Muscle Shoals but it isn't well known. The area still has it's "small town" feel and while you can find yourself a bit bored from time to time due to the lack of things to do, it has been a wonderful area to have lived in. Fits me perfectly. Kudos to the geniuses who put such a moving song together. It is timeless.
Born in Russellville, lived in Muscle Shoals til I was 12. I go back home at least once a year.
Nice story. I love to hear stories behind of songs people write.
I myself love music alot. And when I listen to songs of people I meet and some songs reminds me of how I felt. Music to me like therapy, when I feel sad or down I listen to it.
Percy you make Alabama proud miss you RIP
A classic song that wouldn't exist if they had had cellphones.
So powerful you can just feel it coming from deep inside his soul and see it in his eyes wow
"People used to get stabbed and shit....back in the 50's." Nice...
and that was on a Wednesday night lol
*stevemre1989 nice*
Hahaha 😂 that crack me up I guess getting stabbed and shit happens every where and here’s marty mcfly trying to go back in the future lol no thanks I don’t want to get stab lol 😂
Why would that be nice?
@@BrianSmith-vl7xu 😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣
Excellence!
Love you Mr Percy 💙🙏🙏 🙏😇
REAL MUSIC, PPL! I hope his children and family got rights to the master copy, and receives royalties rather than so record company or other people! UGH!!
Mercy mr percy
percy the best ever
She was NEVER yours anyway, it was just your turn.
Boss Dog 🤣
You hit the nail, right on the head.
The best thing ever hard🙏🙏
Nice
One of the greatest songs ever made, had heart brake of an women in my early 20's
THE GREAST SONG EEEEEEVVERRR !!
Amazing!
Thanks Burt!
So glad she left I never would’ve been born lol.
That song is so so true when a man loves a woman he'll sleep out inside the Rain if that's what she wants him to do, And he'll turn his back on his friends for a good thing he found, yes he will think about fellas we do crazy things over a woman.
The same thing happened to me. But later I found out she had moved and given a letter to her brother and never gave be it to me. Years later. After we had a girlfriend and she had a boyfriend. We both had a family. I had a daughter and she had lik 4 kids.
We got together for a while. But we still friends till this day.
Quite a relatable song for me
Definition of 💘. Can't google that. 🖥 😉
Why knock down the studio to make a parking lot, where is the history in America?
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"
Derek Bainbridge exactly 😤
Maggie Edwards I would have went there to see the studio. The Sands hotel in Vegas which the rat pack Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin made famous met the same demise.
Because this is America, damn it and that's just what we do.🤪🤯🤣
@@sweetcaroline2060 There are exceptions where tourists flock to, New Orleans, San Fran and that's about it!
A SONGWRITERS DREAM..
100%
Best
Nobody's can't never ever take his place
Imiss him
So... what happened after they talked? Left me wondering!
as soon as that woman found out there was a song and maybe some money if she plays Percy right, she says she didn't leave him at all. Run from that money chaser, fast
ART Pro VLA 👏
First thing i saw hahaha
Percy just put in a song the real face of women... I wish I'd learned from him back then... MGTOW, RED PILL. for ever.
When A Man Loves A Woman: If you are a man who has never loved a woman like Mr. Sledge has, you have NEVER truly been in love with that woman. PERCY TYRONE SLEDGE (1941-2015).
did they pay him?
esse canta Nada Não!!!
Who are you? The man or the woman?
How can she leave me, because I gave her my last dime.
But then I found out, she was just a concubine.
I was last to know . .
Seems like everyone knew he was cheating except me😁
He said blind eyes can't SEE
"Loving eyes can never see". And "Oh, 'tis true, 'tis true ".
We know she was full of s***, she did leave him because if she hadn't left him then why wouldn't she tell him she was moving for a better job......... She changed her story after he came out with a hit song, gold digger anyone 🤔
And now to watch.....
.. Kean, Somewhere only we know.
Not! 😂
So ... the wrong story was the right story ...
1:06 wtf?
Have to say that a man with a prominent gap between his upper front teeth seem to be smarter or wiser than the average man, if I do say so myself. :)
Thumb nail looks like Eddie Murphy doning a fat suit and disguise a la an aging Mr. Klump!
1:31
My man looked like a bangladeshi farmer 😁
Great song, but Sledge had absolutely no business being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He didn't sing rock and roll, and he only had one big hit!
Which was a classic
@@sthembisomthembu395 Yes, but not rock and roll, and just one hit
@@EPA18 he had more than one hit song they may have not been big as when a man loves a woman but he had other hits
That's a Wonderful Song it took him straight to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
@@sugaloveCAFE take time to know her was his other hit
Did not know white guys were involved.
Can you imagine writing such a powerful song and then find out she never did leave you. My god she must have been so heart moved to know those words came from her man! There's no way you could say "I love you" any more powerful than that! It just leave me dumbfounded.
She sounds like a narcissistic bitch. I mean, they were seeing each other, and she just fucked off to another city for a new job, WITHOUT telling Percy!
Either she was too stupid to care about his feelings, or she lied her ass off about the whole thing once the song made Percy famous, just to get her hands on that sweet money.
All women are the same. They don't ever love YOU. They just love what you can DO for THEM.
Just as all men are cheats and incapable of fidelity right?
There are terrible women AND terrible men. Takes courage to step past hurt and keep searching for the right one.
@@bossdog1480 Not all.
However, I haven't found the one to prove you wrong. Yet! LOL
@@julielvsliason Exactly!
Being hypercritical and, not trying to move past the pain, makes the whiners look weak.
“People use to get killed in there,stabbed&shit‼️” 🤦🏽♂️🤣 3:17