Used to go to dance clubs in Denver when this was THE song. It would be played at the start of the night, the 'rush hour' of the night and it was one of the last to be played before last call. Those were the DAMN DAYS!!!!!!
Top of the day to you. Right back at ya 🤗🆗. I agree with you A million percent WORD UP 👍 Yes in deed I feel what you felt about this Disco Master Piece 🆗 I have been there and done that 👏🤛 BOOGIEING 7: days 24 : HR 365 da yr. 😁👌 Back in the days of Disco Dad , we were totally Sprung 😁😳 Strung out 😳😲😀 Crazy funny Huh? Those memories will always be here with me 👏 U are very kind and special ❤️🤗 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❣️ Music as much as I Do 🤛 Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you and I really appreciate it very much 👏👌🔊📢 Your insight about this song is magnificent beautifully well said 👍 Have a bless day or night and stay safe JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️GOD bless everyone who's listening to this song . Keep on Boogieing 💃🦶🙋
I couldn't have been too much more than 5 or 6 when my aunts took me to a block party down the street from my grandparent's house. It turned out to be more like a full blown disco right there in the street. There was a DJ set up at the end of the block with strobe lights going off, and the street was absolutely packed with people dancing to this song. They were going OFF! People were screaming and singing along with the chorus. Smiles and long hair flying everywhere. It was one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life.
Yeargh, I let her slip away like 30 years ago... 😞 She just slipped into a coma, and never came back again. She was so beautiful and was everything that I ever wanted, but yet she was not meant to be with me. What a cold, cruel, and harsh world this is; to see others tightly embraced in the arms of the ones whom they truly love, but yet NOT be able to do the same for yourself. 😥 This song has a gross and sickening beat, that goes straight to your head and makes people CRAZY. Now everytime whenever I hear this tune, I just get the urge to DESTROY something or KILL someone! 😫
Here is arguably one of the finest productions and disco songs to emerge from the whole 1970's. A masterpiece that will stand the test of time, from the brilliant and powerful vocalist, Thelma Houston. This is her shining moment showcasing the work of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert, all part of Philadelphia's international library. For 1976, "Don't leave me this way'" speaks of production and vocal excellence. This recording will live on forever.
You can be anyone and love any music you want to. Right now that's more important than ever! Be yourself, live yourself, do your bad self! But above all else, LIVE!!! Enjoy, brother!
Bigg bass speakers loved it .Those speakers pounds feel that thumping bass in ur chest. DISCO WILL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN. THIS GENERATION HAVE NO IDEA LIFE IN LATE 1970S.THOSE WERE GOLDEN DAYS .IF I ONLY HAD TIME MACHINE.
I just can’t get tired of Disco. Growing up in Ft. Lauderdale, Disco was everywhere. Born in ‘67, I started listening as soon as I could. I loved it and still do !! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
One of the best dance and club songs of all time IMHO. If this song doesn't stir something in your soul, then I don't know what to say. One of my top 20 favorite songs.
Kalihiwarhomes2177, the seventies, and, eighties, ARE, NECK-AND-NECK. I would give it to the seventies,(70's) because, they came BEFORE the, eighties.(80's) There's nothing like, "big brother."
Honestly, it's hard for me to accept in the mind that the 70''s and 80's are over. When something is the best why does it have to change. I wasn't thinking back then that it would never end, but I surely didn't think what has come along now to replace it, would become the norm. If there was a 70''s and 80's Planet or World you could go to and stay as long as you want....Lol I'd be outta here tomorrow!
Wouldn't it be great if there were 70's & 80's based theme parks, where everything was set at the prices they were then, fashions & technology were of the times & of course plenty of clubs playing this kind of iconic music?! God I'd never leave!
@@stipetv1548 I don't think Johnno has ever been in a studio to see what technology exsists now....a real long note can be seen by James something or other "say what you will", he holds a note for a good 20-30 seconds live
40 yrs? Wow! I'm still running around clubbing and Rollerskating- back in the Day my g/f and I had a (skating) Dance routine to this that took uf from County to State Competition.....Oh, the best days....
At 77 I remember 1979 or 1980 when everyone was dancing n falling in love to this record. I think Barefoot Boy next to the Spanish Club on E 39 Street was the hit spot where Truman Capote used to go to see the young gay Puerto Rican boys dance when Greenwich Village n Upper East n West Side gay clubs weren't as accepting except the sleazy, ok, hustling places.
I forced my 15 year old daughter to listen to this. Under much sufference she finally agreed. Once it was finished i said to her "Well ? " Her reply..."Wow"
❤ you know I can only really enjoy the music I grew up on and I love music it's universal I love all spectrums of it but I really don't know what the hell some of this music is really saying but who am I to judge every generation has its music movies and technology.
In the summer, I would stay up late and listen to far away AM stations. I was 11 years old. The first time I heard this song was played on WABC out of New York, that I could pick up all the way in central Michigan.
Hard to believe but the producer did not think this song would be a hit, muchless that it would end up being Thelma's signature hit. Just shows that the Public knows what it likes.
The lighted dance floor. Lights flashing...synced to the music. The bass throbbing to the beat. Thelma ' s intoxicating voice. My boy's arm wrapped around my waist, and our bodies moving together as one. He tells me not to leave him this way.Trust me, I won't.
UPDATE MAY 16,2021..."Geeze, I never could have imagined so many comments and still coming three years later. Ive since been diagnosed with Lupus and Cancer and do not have much time left, but I wrote a book, a sit-com based on a period in the book and also the screenplay to the book and all were just purchased with my working title at this time being "Trapped in Paradise" , While I was negotiating those, I wrote and sold a 22 episode dark hour long drama called "Jon Doe: Barely Legal" and the pilot and 10 episodes will be produced at once, akin to many Streaming Services, however, one of the more, first Pay-Tv services purchased the rights and I wrote a 38K word stage play called "Blinded" which is very sad, but inspirational. Even though my credits range from Writer, Creator, Co-EP, (My lawyers fought, screamed and swore over shit like a parking spot near all production sites! WTF? I left the buildings and walked midtown Manhattan and went to an estate sale and let them duke it out. BTW, I had to sue a company with the letters "GAE" in there name, with a second name that looks like LOVE and they shouldn't be able to negotiate terms, but am I bitter? Absolutely, but I won every appeal THANK YOU 4TH DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALI JUDGES, I got almost 40% in Compensatory and a bit over Double in Punitive Damages, so even though much of my time has run out, many of my closest friends and charities will be well taken care of (ASPCA, Humane Society of Kanawha Valley, WV, Flagler County/Palm Coast, Fla, Volusia County, Fla, The Keys Humane Society, plus two new charities for teenage suicide prevention and homes for children that have been kicked out of their homes by their parents with 2 years of college and rent paid, as well as a new charity that promotes the adoption of older, maimed or just plain...not that cute cats and dogs, please adopt the ugly but loveable pets, they never get adopted, everyone wants pretty pets. "Linda's Cottage" in my moms memory, will be a real home, that can be rented out with real furniture and with whole property is screen enclosed and animals will live the rest of their lives in these homes with TVs and a kitchen for people to use, as if it was a real home, for the ones that no one finds pretty anymore or perhaps only has three legs, lol. ) sorry got off track,...continuing....and have pretty much Carte Blanche with Creative Control, I probably wont last to see them air (Perhaps the stage play), "Trapped" is based on my life, focusing on my life as a DJ in Central Florida (Daytona Beach/Yum Yum Tree, Landmark Complex, ORLANDO/P-House, Full Moon Saloon, Firestone Club, Cellblock M, Disney's Mannequins, Jacksonville/College Station Ft Lauderdale/S.Fla, The Copa, Backstreets, Tackys, Shangra la, Club 21, The Warsaw Ballroom, Fire and Ice, I-Beam, Eagle, Ramrod, Cubby Hole, Cathode Ray, Club BC, Montreal, Que/TRAXX, La Marielle, I Bar Ste Catherine, NYC/Tunnel, USA, Limelight, The Saint, Windows on the World NEWHOPE/BUCKS COUNTY, PA/PHILLY, The Cartwheel, Key West, The Bike Stop, and other clubs in Allentown, Pa , Hyannis, Mass, P-Town, Rehoboth Beach, De, Savanah, Ga, Backstreets, Atlanta, Atlanta Eagle, and too many I cant think of but much of it focuses from age 16 to 33. It all stops in 2000, I'm trying to finish the most crazy part of my life that included my spouse poisoning me for life insurance, going to jail for someone I cared for (Until I went to bond out and realized they did shit in 7 counties and I was like, NOPE, I'm not THAT kind! God Bless Everyone... and remember, tell your momma you love her every day. Stop having so much hate, I know its hard, especially with half the country losing their effing mind in the past 4 to 5 years. (WTF was/is that shit about? People literally elected an airhead that went on camera and said the wildfires in Cali were started by lasers in space made by Jews! When I hear all of this, I kind of feel bad for you all when I go. I will tell you, If some of these haters are correct (Yeah, that was me coughing a lung up) and I end up in hell, then one of two things will happen. I know who I am, what I have done, havent done, what breaks my heart and whos back Ive always had and Im not saying any of us deserve God or Heaven, perhaps something else, but if I go to hell, then that wasnt the God I thought he was and I can assure you, all of you with the hateful, usually closeted mouths, you now who you are, the ones with the families but are at your local BK Gl** Hole on your way home to the kids, while myself, I simply was getting a burger and fry, so Im sure I will see you all as well. And please, dont give me no lip, Im dying, I dont give two sh"ts what you think, you are most likely a closet case, miserable in life, hurt animals and children or worse. See ya on the Flip Flop and dont forget to ..."Let the Music Play, Turn the beat around and a white witch enchantress once said, "There are Poets, and they are Priests of Nothing, but they are Legends" ORIGINAL These kids don't know what fun is... This was when clubs were fun, no ID, no law, no attitude, no REALLY dangerous drugs, $3.35 per hour and we were rich. 25¢ drink nights, $2 beer bust, 99 cent Dennys Grand Slam Breakfast after the night. Strippers and drag queens doing shows down the aisle at Dennys or Waffle House.... NO HATE... GOOD TIMES... ALL GONE
Clubbing still exists and the kids are alright, and far more informed than your generation ever was at that age. No "really dangerous drugs"? LMAFO, pretty sure coke, quaaludes, and whatever that shit Cosby used to take advantage of people in the worst way possible were dangerous.
You love it because the BASS is the lead! Holy shit! What a melodic miracle of syncopated joy! That electric piano is also like the voice of an angel on your shoulder… so funky and immaculate.
This song brings back so many awesome memories! The first time I heard this, I was at an amusement park on the beach at Wildwood NJ . I was getting on to a wild & crazy ride and this song started to play. Talk about a head trip! lol Excitement of the ride and this song....awesome! This is the song that got me into becoming a DIsco Queen! lol I went dancing for the first time after hearing this & didn't look back! lol
I love to listen to this and the version from Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the song is so brilliant that there could never be too many versions. Thelma sings it like she means every word
Not just one of her best, one of the best of the disco era! Club Classic extraordinary. Originally part of the lyrics output of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Thelma Houston made this a global smash in March 1976
I love Disco Music-I don't know why that era just faded out. It was so fun with great music. I keep it alive by listening to these great singers like Thelma Houston, Candi Staton, Yvonne Elliman, the Bee Gees etc.
I don't think disco really died, but it definitely went back underground then evolved to house in the late 80s to early 90s (eg CeCe Peniston, Robin S, LaBouche). Some of the dance-pop hits you hear on the radio are just watered down variations of disco to sell to suburban 10 year olds. But this is just my observation.
I remember this magical track played by Larry at the Paradise Garage… We were brought to our knees by the mercyiless throbbing beats of this masterpiece!!!! Wave after wave of Thelma's vocals were crashed over our writhing bodies, helpless we rhythmically moved to her command…. This track is a main line of the holy sprit to the core of anyone who is open to this magical beat!!!
Would give anything to jump in a time machine and go back to the Paradise Garage. As a 35 year old now it (and The Gallery) were 2 places I felt I should have been a part of 😥
I was in a club that had servers which would sing. Been going there for weeks. One of the singers sang this song, walked over and sat on my lap. She owned me.
I loved this song, I was in the Navy and remember dancing to this in Naples, Italy along with these, my favorites also. Diana Ross - Love Hangover Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
When I hear this song I think of the warm summer nights hanging with my friends on a street corner. It brings me back to the cool air of a disco when you first get inside... by the time the music begins to pump up and get going the air is hot, full of fog and pretty girls dancing in their sexy dresses or bell bottom jeans. Great memories!!!! Leave politics out of this and just remember the times you had when this song was spinning on a platter of a dee jays turntable.
I was painting the bedroom. Three walls white, one blue. As I started the blue wall, realized I was going to run out of blue. This song had just played on the tape deck. It was bouncing thru my brain as I ran/jogged/bounced to Home Depot a mile (and change away.) Made it back, hit the play button, picked up where I left off. This song MOTIVATED me! (It was the 90's.)
One of my favorite disco songs. My late husband and I saw her perform as a surprise guest at the Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco several decades ago.
The greatest gay anthem of all time!! Never got to the Tracadero...... but I heard a lot about it from my late partner ...... We had 9 great years together......but I lived to love again....... hope you have, also!
This brings back the Disco days and the parties at Studio 54 and The Ice Palace on 57th Street, NYC. I am getting chills up & down my spine listening to this song. It was great then and it is still great.
no cabe duda los que vivimos esa decada del setenta lo mejor de la humanidad y miles de canciones en ingles y que me dicen los bailes que hacian en Guayaquil-Ecuador es para no olvidarlo jamas....gracias mi Dios por haberme permitido vivir esos lindos años los mejores de mi vida...1975..1976..1977...1978..1979..ahora en el 2022 ya cumpli 66 años y las escucho y veo por internet.
We need a disco revival and it needs to start with "Don't Leave Me This Way"...I danced til the wee hours back in the day..the day when music was really music..
They don't make good music like this anymore.
Yes, they do, dip shorts. Oh, wait, that was just your opinion.
AND YET THEY COULD..........BUT WONT???????? its the best
U kinnit' good youks😂
This isn't a song... It's an ANTHEM. An anthem of the 70's
Good Point. So true
Pure 70's!!!! Love it!
Used to go to dance clubs in Denver when this was THE song. It would be played at the start of the night, the 'rush hour' of the night and it was one of the last to be played before last call. Those were the DAMN DAYS!!!!!!
Top of the day to you. Right back at ya 🤗🆗. I agree with you A million percent WORD UP 👍 Yes in deed I feel what you felt about this Disco Master Piece 🆗 I have been there and done that 👏🤛 BOOGIEING 7: days 24 : HR 365 da yr. 😁👌 Back in the days of Disco Dad , we were totally Sprung 😁😳 Strung out 😳😲😀 Crazy funny Huh? Those memories will always be here with me 👏 U are very kind and special ❤️🤗 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❣️ Music as much as I Do 🤛 Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you and I really appreciate it very much 👏👌🔊📢 Your insight about this song is magnificent beautifully well said 👍 Have a bless day or night and stay safe JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️GOD bless everyone who's listening to this song . Keep on Boogieing 💃🦶🙋
True story !
I couldn't have been too much more than 5 or 6 when my aunts took me to a block party down the street from my grandparent's house. It turned out to be more like a full blown disco right there in the street. There was a DJ set up at the end of the block with strobe lights going off, and the street was absolutely packed with people dancing to this song. They were going OFF! People were screaming and singing along with the chorus. Smiles and long hair flying everywhere. It was one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life.
The way you described it made it so easy to see and feel. Thanks for sharing a beautiful memory
Debió ser muy bonito esa época de finales de los años 70S y principio de los 80S. Yo no lo viví porqué soy de los 90S. Y por cierto es buena música!!!
Talk about an impromtu flash mob! What a description.
Nothing in modern rock touches this!!!
I fucking wish I was there! Too dope!
Not trying to sound dramatic but this played in the supermarket today and I'm being honest I had to stop myself walking in a strut rhythm
To the one ..r u listening??!!
I love your reaction to it!
strut that funk
😂
Not enough drama if you ask me😊
Who needs drugs when you've got music like this!!!!
Eu dancei muito essa música na época da discotecas tenho exelente lembrança daquela época
Yeargh, I let her slip away like 30 years ago... 😞
She just slipped into a coma, and never came back again.
She was so beautiful and was everything that I ever wanted, but yet she was not meant to be with me.
What a cold, cruel, and harsh world this is; to see others tightly embraced in the arms of the ones whom they truly love, but yet NOT be able to do the same for yourself. 😥
This song has a gross and sickening beat, that goes straight to your head and makes people CRAZY.
Now everytime whenever I hear this tune, I just get the urge to DESTROY something or KILL someone! 😫
well this plus some good drugs is even better though ✨✨✨✨
Me!
I remember a time in my life when I had both. The drugs are a distant memory, but the music remains.
Here is arguably one of the finest productions and disco songs to emerge from the whole 1970's. A masterpiece that will stand the test of time, from the brilliant and powerful vocalist, Thelma Houston. This is her shining moment showcasing the work of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert, all part of Philadelphia's international library. For 1976, "Don't leave me this way'" speaks of production and vocal excellence. This recording will live on forever.
Yes Steve, a real musical masterpiece that will last forever.
i am 72 this song still move me to do dads dancing happy days
Agreed!
Still right, 7 years later!
THE BEST
Party. Boogie. A short disco nap and repeat!
I'm straight and I love disco, I don't care what people say..full of energy
Valeu querido manda ver
You know what, this is true of myself. stereotyping is cruel.
You can be anyone and love any music you want to. Right now that's more important than ever! Be yourself, live yourself, do your bad self! But above all else, LIVE!!! Enjoy, brother!
46 YEARS OLD TUNE and still rocking!!!
57 years old and kickin it old school :)
These Youngsters Today will NEVER know how GREAT We had it without Cell Phones
Curse on soceity
Except for the ones who are seeking😊
Amen to that... still rocking in 2024!
Excited with our notes instead of a phone.😅
If the 70s and 80s ask me to go back, I'm oughtta here!!
Wait for me because I am with you.
@@oldskoolscat3925 Let's fire up the wayback machine now!
That humming she dose in the beginning of the song is what gets me.
The bass line does it for me. Just a tremendous song!!
Imagine being in a packed Disco with this music cranking out of huge speakers. Feel the bass!
Bigg bass speakers loved it .Those speakers pounds feel that thumping bass in ur chest. DISCO WILL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN. THIS GENERATION HAVE NO IDEA LIFE IN LATE 1970S.THOSE WERE GOLDEN DAYS .IF I ONLY HAD TIME MACHINE.
Heck yes 🙌 it'd be awesome ,so good
The feeling of the coke wobbles as you're surrounded in Denim aftershave and Vanderbilt perfume
A Huevo
Disco heaven!
My dad owned a bar when i was a kid i would clean on Saturdays he always played this song on the jukebox great memory i was 10!
I just can’t get tired of Disco. Growing up in Ft. Lauderdale, Disco was everywhere. Born in ‘67, I started listening as soon as I could. I loved it and still do !! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Yes, it's in the blood lol
Yea Ft. L beach 18yrs old dancing all night 78 cost me nothing oh wha a night
August 21 , 1967
We Rule
Me either sexy and beautiful
Yes!
One of the best dance and club songs of all time IMHO. If this song doesn't stir something in your soul, then I don't know what to say. One of my top 20 favorite songs.
Totally agree, girl friend just turned me onto it, a couple years ago. Lol🤷🖖👍
Back in 79 the clubs in Panama City beach Florida, this song played quite a bit . I love the music from back then
Dear Sean Closs: I agree: Good song, well arranged and performed.
most definetly one of the original songs responsible for the disco phenomenon. A good time to be alive !!!
Last Call!
These was the good old days.... when you could go out and have fun and enjoy the moment...😂full of energy....
You betcha! Not like today when kids stay inside and stare at their phones and hang around Facebook. Haha
Nothing beats the '70s in music; this hit by Thelma Houston proves it.
Kalihiwarhomes2177, the seventies, and, eighties, ARE, NECK-AND-NECK. I would give it to the seventies,(70's) because, they came BEFORE the, eighties.(80's) There's nothing like, "big brother."
😮
I can't stop dancing this is still everything in 2022 thank you Thelma Houston
to be perfectly honest, out of all the disco songs that we've lost track of, because there's so many of them...this is truly one of disco's anthems.
Disco is a league out of now...
💋 Those of us who were there, know what you say is true..
Taught Disco Dance to this song and has always been my go to for performance...Still rocks and feeds mu soul..
Agreed!!!
Awsome song
iI WAS JUST 9 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS SONG WAS RELEASED AND I STILL LOVE IT NOW IN 2024!!!!! 😄😃😀😁😆
I was 10 my dad played this song on jukebox in our bar while we cleaned on Saturday am's.
I was 16 when it came out. Loved it then, love it now in 2024!
Me to… heck yeah!
Honestly, it's hard for me to accept in the mind that the 70''s and 80's are over. When something is the best why does it have to change. I wasn't thinking back then that it would never end, but I surely didn't think what has come along now to replace it, would become the norm. If there was a 70''s and 80's Planet or World you could go to and stay as long as you want....Lol I'd be outta here tomorrow!
Me too life was fun everyone did their on thing.
I AM WITH YOU ...I HAD THE LOVE OF MY LIFE BACK THEN,
Iam there when i play stuff like this
Look behind you, I'm going back with you.
Wouldn't it be great if there were 70's & 80's based theme parks, where everything was set at the prices they were then, fashions & technology were of the times & of course plenty of clubs playing this kind of iconic music?! God I'd never leave!
My frigen FAVORITE!!!! I'm in my 50's now but will dance to this great music till I can't move anymore!!! Have to dance now! BYE
I agree! In my 50’s also. Classic, this song will never be forgotten
The way she holds that note @ 7:18 is one of the most majestic pieces ever of vocal artistry
I'm sure it's stretched a little..
@@HendrikD67 Sure, but still what a beauty 💎
@@stipetv1548 I don't think Johnno has ever been in a studio to see what technology exsists now....a real long note can be seen by James something or other "say what you will", he holds a note for a good 20-30 seconds live
@@stipetv1548 it is
its been extended,,,, she didnt hold that note that long,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
N.Y. was the place to be! So many concerts, the hustle and bustle with friends, block parties and non stop good times! I miss those days!
Never been to N.Y. But in New Orleans, Louisiana and London, England in 60's and 70's, it was awesome.
40 yrs later and this song still brings the kids out into the dance floor. true blue classic, one of my favorites.
it sure does
Richard Sanchez yes!
Def makes me feel like i were 16 yrs old all over again, before NYC became Disneyfied
Richard Sanchez
40 yrs? Wow! I'm still running around clubbing and Rollerskating- back in the Day my g/f and I had a (skating) Dance routine to this that took uf from County to State Competition.....Oh, the best days....
I first heard this song on “General Hospital”.
It was with Holly and Luke. Fell in last be with it then.
Really??? This song was played on GH?! I may have been too young to remember. I would love to see that episode!
Man if could have been in NYC in the disco era, I'd be out every weekend
I was!!
@@lynns7262❤
At 77 I remember 1979 or 1980 when everyone was dancing n falling in love to this record. I think Barefoot Boy next to the Spanish Club on E 39 Street was the hit spot where Truman Capote used to go to see the young gay Puerto Rican boys dance when Greenwich Village n Upper East n West Side gay clubs weren't as accepting except the sleazy, ok, hustling places.
Im sti chilling up. It just takes me back! It was my best life!!!
This version is hot again ❤❤❤❤
Who would not want to relive these moments?
I am 65 years old and for some reason this song makes me want to get out of my chair and move. oh hell yes !!
I forced my 15 year old daughter to listen to this. Under much sufference she finally agreed. Once it was finished i said to her "Well ? " Her reply..."Wow"
thank you contra
lol
I just received the 45 record today off of eBay , brings back a lot of memories on my vintage stereo set up.
This song is the best of the best of Disco. It never gets old.
This isn't a song, it's more like a religious experience! LOL! Great song! One of my faves!
Justin W that is EXACTLY what I was thinking LOL!!!!!!!!😂
Abso-f**king-lutely! :)
I can't pick a favorite version...both Thelma and Teddy do great jobs on both their versions of this song
Absolutely!!
One of mine to!!
Most great songs are!
The first time I heard this son I immediately thought "Perfection!" This is the perfect disco song. Will live forever!
❤ you know I can only really enjoy the music I grew up on and I love music it's universal I love all spectrums of it but I really don't know what the hell some of this music is really saying but who am I to judge every generation has its music movies and technology.
Fuck it 60s 70s 80s music was the best hands down ❤
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I love this song. Outstanding. I was 11 years old when this song broke on AM radio and It shook the airwaves. It still does. Its part of me now.
11 years old? I was dancing since 5!💃
I first heard it at 16. I can remember the night! I danced like crazy to this song!!!
In the summer, I would stay up late and listen to far away AM stations. I was 11 years old. The first time I heard this song was played on WABC out of New York, that I could pick up all the way in central Michigan.
Hard to believe but the producer did not think this song would be a hit, muchless that it would end up being Thelma's signature hit. Just shows that the Public knows what it likes.
The lighted dance floor. Lights flashing...synced to the music. The bass throbbing to the beat. Thelma ' s intoxicating voice. My boy's arm wrapped around my waist, and our bodies moving together as one. He tells me not to leave him this way.Trust me, I won't.
Boy I miss all the good music and times back then ,today's music is so disappointing ☹️
I'm 61 and still love this song like in the days ;) XX In my head, I'm stuck at 28 years old ;)
UPDATE MAY 16,2021..."Geeze, I never could have imagined so many comments and still coming three years later. Ive since been diagnosed with Lupus and Cancer and do not have much time left, but I wrote a book, a sit-com based on a period in the book and also the screenplay to the book and all were just purchased with my working title at this time being "Trapped in Paradise" , While I was negotiating those, I wrote and sold a 22 episode dark hour long drama called "Jon Doe: Barely Legal" and the pilot and 10 episodes will be produced at once, akin to many Streaming Services, however, one of the more, first Pay-Tv services purchased the rights and I wrote a 38K word stage play called "Blinded" which is very sad, but inspirational. Even though my credits range from Writer, Creator, Co-EP, (My lawyers fought, screamed and swore over shit like a parking spot near all production sites! WTF? I left the buildings and walked midtown Manhattan and went to an estate sale and let them duke it out. BTW, I had to sue a company with the letters "GAE" in there name, with a second name that looks like LOVE and they shouldn't be able to negotiate terms, but am I bitter? Absolutely, but I won every appeal THANK YOU 4TH DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALI JUDGES, I got almost 40% in Compensatory and a bit over Double in Punitive Damages, so even though much of my time has run out, many of my closest friends and charities will be well taken care of (ASPCA, Humane Society of Kanawha Valley, WV, Flagler County/Palm Coast, Fla, Volusia County, Fla, The Keys Humane Society, plus two new charities for teenage suicide prevention and homes for children that have been kicked out of their homes by their parents with 2 years of college and rent paid, as well as a new charity that promotes the adoption of older, maimed or just plain...not that cute cats and dogs, please adopt the ugly but loveable pets, they never get adopted, everyone wants pretty pets. "Linda's Cottage" in my moms memory, will be a real home, that can be rented out with real furniture and with whole property is screen enclosed and animals will live the rest of their lives in these homes with TVs and a kitchen for people to use, as if it was a real home, for the ones that no one finds pretty anymore or perhaps only has three legs, lol. ) sorry got off track,...continuing....and have pretty much Carte Blanche with Creative Control, I probably wont last to see them air (Perhaps the stage play), "Trapped" is based on my life, focusing on my life as a DJ in Central Florida (Daytona Beach/Yum Yum Tree, Landmark Complex, ORLANDO/P-House, Full Moon Saloon, Firestone Club, Cellblock M, Disney's Mannequins, Jacksonville/College Station Ft Lauderdale/S.Fla, The Copa, Backstreets, Tackys, Shangra la, Club 21, The Warsaw Ballroom, Fire and Ice, I-Beam, Eagle, Ramrod, Cubby Hole, Cathode Ray, Club BC, Montreal, Que/TRAXX, La Marielle, I Bar Ste Catherine, NYC/Tunnel, USA, Limelight, The Saint, Windows on the World NEWHOPE/BUCKS COUNTY, PA/PHILLY, The Cartwheel, Key West, The Bike Stop, and other clubs in Allentown, Pa , Hyannis, Mass, P-Town, Rehoboth Beach, De, Savanah, Ga, Backstreets, Atlanta, Atlanta Eagle, and too many I cant think of but much of it focuses from age 16 to 33. It all stops in 2000, I'm trying to finish the most crazy part of my life that included my spouse poisoning me for life insurance, going to jail for someone I cared for (Until I went to bond out and realized they did shit in 7 counties and I was like, NOPE, I'm not THAT kind! God Bless Everyone... and remember, tell your momma you love her every day. Stop having so much hate, I know its hard, especially with half the country losing their effing mind in the past 4 to 5 years. (WTF was/is that shit about? People literally elected an airhead that went on camera and said the wildfires in Cali were started by lasers in space made by Jews! When I hear all of this, I kind of feel bad for you all when I go. I will tell you, If some of these haters are correct (Yeah, that was me coughing a lung up) and I end up in hell, then one of two things will happen. I know who I am, what I have done, havent done, what breaks my heart and whos back Ive always had and Im not saying any of us deserve God or Heaven, perhaps something else, but if I go to hell, then that wasnt the God I thought he was and I can assure you, all of you with the hateful, usually closeted mouths, you now who you are, the ones with the families but are at your local BK Gl** Hole on your way home to the kids, while myself, I simply was getting a burger and fry, so Im sure I will see you all as well. And please, dont give me no lip, Im dying, I dont give two sh"ts what you think, you are most likely a closet case, miserable in life, hurt animals and children or worse. See ya on the Flip Flop and dont forget to ..."Let the Music Play, Turn the beat around and a white witch enchantress once said, "There are Poets, and they are Priests of Nothing, but they are Legends"
ORIGINAL
These kids don't know what fun is... This was when clubs were fun, no ID, no law, no attitude, no REALLY dangerous drugs, $3.35 per hour and we were rich. 25¢ drink nights, $2 beer bust, 99 cent Dennys Grand Slam Breakfast after the night. Strippers and drag queens doing shows down the aisle at Dennys or Waffle House.... NO HATE... GOOD TIMES... ALL GONE
Clubbing still exists and the kids are alright, and far more informed than your generation ever was at that age. No "really dangerous drugs"? LMAFO, pretty sure coke, quaaludes, and whatever that shit Cosby used to take advantage of people in the worst way possible were dangerous.
No drugs ..lmao juat club 57 and good coke out the wazu
I remember making $3.35 per hour. I saved $4000 in the bank during that time. How did that happen? I can't save hardly anything now.
@@annabellem.4014 Cost of living far exceeds wages..
Absolutely sendsome me down memory lane to the good ole days!
This is what disco is all about. Happy i was there to live it.
S am I I was 10 but I got it
Timeless anthem and is still rocking in 2022, awesome jewel of Disco music💯💯💥💥💥💥👌👌👌👌👌
This song is a spiritual experience, whether sung by Thelma or Teddy. Absolute masterpiece.
You love it because the BASS is the lead! Holy shit! What a melodic miracle of syncopated joy! That electric piano is also like the voice of an angel on your shoulder… so funky and immaculate.
One of the hottest dance songs during the fabulous disco era. I spent many fond hours dancing to this hot song!
This song brings back so many awesome memories! The first time I heard this, I was at an amusement park on the beach at Wildwood NJ . I was getting on to a wild & crazy ride and this song started to play. Talk about a head trip! lol Excitement of the ride and this song....awesome! This is the song that got me into becoming a DIsco Queen! lol I went dancing for the first time after hearing this & didn't look back! lol
A real soul delivery from a REAL disco era woman . Thelma, I love you !!
The opening sounds of this tune was the Pied Piper calling us all out to the dance floor- pure magic under the mirror balls -
Gamble&Huff the heart of Tamla Motown, pure soul an' spirit. And Mrs Thelma oh what a voice!
Close your eyes Tilt your head back & just GO THERE
Thelma was seriously underrated. She had one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments. Perfection...and this song is EVERYTHING.
Where do you think Whitney Houston got her Soul voice?
Near end she holds ME FOR 60 SECONDS OR MORE. WHO DOES THAT?
She's singing about a personal experience , GOD BLESS HER ! SHE MADE HER MARK, NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT FROM HER. AMEN ! 🤷🖖👍
@Brett byars if it wasn't, it should have ! just sayin, love Whitney's must retake as well. 🤷🖖👍😎
@@billsteinbach1254 FROM GOD, AMEN. She set the bar, another gone too soon. Rock on sweetie.
I love to listen to this and the version from Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the song is so brilliant that there could never be too many versions. Thelma sings it like she means every word
Such a great song!!!!! Both versions Teddy
Where did the years go to???and wonderful music you could actually dance to??
She was the queen of disco until Donna came and took it over in a massive way ,I liked to hear both of them .Two A1 singers for sure.
Not just one of her best, one of the best of the disco era! Club Classic extraordinary.
Originally part of the lyrics output of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Thelma Houston made this a global smash in March 1976
Disco night for me. It's gonna be Thelma, Donna, Sylvester, Spinners, Gloria for a start.
I'm back!! I need a dose of this every once in a while!! Takes me right back to a much happier time!
One of the best!!😉
Would love to go out and have a retro disco night!
My mon dies just before this song wass released and the lyrics fits the mood I was feeling at the time
It was a grand time. I fondly recall the sounds, lights, people, and energy.
I love Disco Music-I don't know why that era just faded out. It was so fun with great music.
I keep it alive by listening to these great singers like Thelma Houston, Candi Staton, Yvonne Elliman, the Bee Gees etc.
I don't think disco really died, but it definitely went back underground then evolved to house in the late 80s to early 90s (eg CeCe Peniston, Robin S, LaBouche). Some of the dance-pop hits you hear on the radio are just watered down variations of disco to sell to suburban 10 year olds. But this is just my observation.
Oh I totally agree with you on this , Yvonne Elliman had a smash doing if I cant have you !
@@danbozo and disco was poppified soul, and soul was... and so it goes
Add Jocelyn Brown, Deniese Williams, Melba Moore, Irene Cara. What an array of vocalists
Great hustle dance classic for couples, a forgotten golden era of class and fashion for the in crowd 73-77.
Lucky enough to live it !!!
lets not forget Harold Melvin and the Blue notes but what a voice Thelma xx
I remember this magical track played by Larry at the Paradise Garage… We were brought
to our knees by the mercyiless throbbing beats of this masterpiece!!!! Wave after wave of
Thelma's vocals were crashed over our writhing bodies, helpless we rhythmically moved to her command…. This track is a main line of the holy sprit to the core of anyone who
is open to this magical beat!!!
Awesome experience. David Morales played it at Stereo Nightclub in Montreal.
Yes! The Garage!
Mmmm................
Would give anything to jump in a time machine and go back to the Paradise Garage. As a 35 year old now it (and The Gallery) were 2 places I felt I should have been a part of 😥
You missed the best parties on Planet Earth: The Paradise Garage, The Loft... omg. You kids know nothing about good times.
Glass of wine, some cheese and this song...Got me out of my chair and dancing like it was 1976...WOOHOO
Not a disco lover, but this song is AWESOME!!! Been lovin' since the 70's!!!
GOOD MUSIC thelma houston COMUNARDS JIMMY SOMERVILLE - congratulations from LIMA PERÚ
She was great ..love her
It was so much fun dancing at the discos back then. The pounding bass, the hot shirtless guys on a crowded dance floor, passing poppers around...
Those were the days...... a little MDA and acid.......🤤
I was there.. amazed im still here
Sweet memories of Oxford St
This music is from one of the greatest musical eras of all time, an era when your car did not have to have an 8 track, just a radio, am or am fm.
OMG, I am about to lose my mind!!!!!
I was in a club that had servers which would sing. Been going there for weeks. One of the singers sang this song, walked over and sat on my lap. She owned me.
I still play this 45
Would have to be one of the best songs from its era. Never tired of listening to it. Timeless
I loved this song, I was in the Navy and remember dancing to this in Naples, Italy along with these, my favorites also.
Diana Ross - Love Hangover
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame
A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
This is the best version of this particular song. I remember dancing in discos to this back in the 70's! Great fun and memories!
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes version is awesome also.
Hi.g.l. I have your new ! Channel I like this song I will put this in my library so keep the songs coming Your new ! No.1 fan
Danced many Nights in the Eagle's Nest, Wiesbaden, Germany. Truly a CLASSIC
When I hear this song I think of the warm summer nights hanging with my friends on a street corner. It brings me back to the cool air of a disco when you first get inside... by the time the music begins to pump up and get going the air is hot, full of fog and pretty girls dancing in their sexy dresses or bell bottom jeans. Great memories!!!! Leave politics out of this and just remember the times you had when this song was spinning on a platter of a dee jays turntable.
Yep in Brooklyn 😁😊👍👍
The production on this song...the orchestration...outstanding. You will never see this again. Anywhere. Ever.
The definition of a classic.
I remember ditchin school with a group from Clinton HS and Walton HS. We listened to this classic song over and over!
I was painting the bedroom. Three walls white, one blue. As I started the blue wall, realized I was going to run out of blue. This song had just played on the tape deck. It was bouncing thru my brain as I ran/jogged/bounced to Home Depot a mile (and change away.) Made it back, hit the play button, picked up where I left off. This song MOTIVATED me! (It was the 90's.)
One of my favorite disco songs. My late husband and I saw her perform as a surprise guest at the Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco several decades ago.
The greatest gay anthem of all time!! Never got to the Tracadero...... but I heard a lot about it from my late partner ...... We had 9 great years together......but I lived to love again....... hope you have, also!
This brings back the Disco days and the parties at Studio 54 and The Ice Palace on 57th Street, NYC. I am getting chills up & down my spine listening to this song. It was great then and it is still great.
Yeah my house no. is 54 same my age 🎉 with a puff and some good speaker cerwin vega sounds brilliant
Studio 54..aah! Different scene every couple hours, Different flavors of people. Oh, let's not forget the purest coke back then! LOL
True 😃😃 LOL@@rubenascenciojr6223
Who's still listening in 2019...I am💕...oh well. Here's 2021 January anyone listing if you are a legend..blessed and😷
Always,
I sure am!
I am too
EVERYBODY.
Me too RT
Beauteful song and nice voice of Thelma,baby understand dont leave me this way!love baby please.Who listeng 2020?.-
You are amazing
no cabe duda los que vivimos esa decada del setenta lo mejor de la humanidad y miles de canciones en ingles y que me dicen los bailes que hacian en Guayaquil-Ecuador es para no olvidarlo jamas....gracias mi Dios por haberme permitido vivir esos lindos años los mejores de mi vida...1975..1976..1977...1978..1979..ahora en el 2022 ya cumpli 66 años y las escucho y veo por internet.
1976 was a good year!!
Foi excelente dois anos após estava me casando ❤
wow so beautiful❤❤🌹
We need a disco revival and it needs to start with "Don't Leave Me This Way"...I danced til the wee hours back in the day..the day when music was really music..
YES!
You said a mouthful!
Or " Come On And Dance With Me"
Yes definitely I'll be there!!!
Yes
If this doesn't make you want to groove, you ain't got no soul!
good times that will never come back