Bobby Caldwell, Rick Astley, Darryl Hall, and Michael McDonald. Listen to IN THE GHETTO by Elvis Presley, too. Not because he sounds black but because he sings about black people. Then again, that sounds kinda condescending and shit. I dunno. Black people do black music better than white people, period. Despite the success of blue eyed soul. When it comes down to it, I guess I'm just trying to get you listen to white folk music. :)
I already knew that Steve Winwood was white, but if you didn't know you might think he was black. "Gimme Some Lovin' ", recorded in the 1960s when he was a teenager, sounds like it could have been a Motown song.
This is what is known as blue-eyed soul. In 1997, Mick Hucknall won an Outstanding Achievement award from the Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO Awards) despite being white. There ya have it! ;) Simply Red is timeless.
A forever classic ! His voice will forever be beautiful 😻 so much .. Fun fact he wrote this song at 17 yrs old ! Stunning this is real music ! This hits you right in the chest / heart
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam the "world" Means nothing. Thanks God BAD world Is NOT the majority thinking that stupid way, Brother!!! Love from Florence 🇮🇹
Mick said the song is: "about that moment where you know you have to leave home and make your mark, but the outside world is scary. So you’re holding back the years".
He wrote it at 17 added the chorus when the Simply Red version came out. It's about his childhood and his mom leaving him and his Dad when he was 3. His Dad Reggie raised him alone
This song is a true story the singer wrote as a teenager. It's so sad because his mother left him when he was 3 years old. He waited all his life for her
@_Steve _ what you mean prince had the best vocal range a man could have and ive always heard him LIVE in performance and always was great unlike some. Not a prince fanboy just call it how i see it.
The story in the video is he was in an abusive home as a kid. He is just now leaving the town as an adult, probably because he kept holding on the memory of his hard childhood. The lady is his teacher that he remember seeing with his father or somebody she shouldn't have been caught with.
Simply red are from manchester England. Uk about 40 minutes drive from where I live. They have been around for many years, great video my friend, sending best wishes from ENGLAND uk
Dude check him out on YT interviews!🥰💖 Gets his inspiration from Motown Jazz Soul-sings from the bottom of his Heart & Soul! That song is about his mom leaving him & his dad when Mick was 3 years old. Devastated him. but he never gave up. Check him out: 'Angel' with Quincy Jones (or separately)', his concert vids from 90s to the present. 'Drowning in my own Tears' 'Grandma's Hands'. Loved your expression when he got to the best part 💞 IMO - THE MOST PHENOMENAL VOICE ON THE PLANET!!! He's also known as the Blue Eyed Soul Singer. YES- you don't want the song to end - THAT VOICE!!! 💘💟💖
His live performances thru the decades are incredibly virtuosic- react to those too! Mick Hucknall is so good. His mom left him and his dad when he was a little boy- this is about that.
See, the funny thing is that we were all white, listening to a white artist, feeling blue about our situation and not feeling any different to any one of any skin colour. To be honest we just loved Simply Red, we were young, we were English and we felt it was our thing. Ps fkn love any artist of any colour.
Back in the day, Michael McDonald (of the Doobie Brothers), Kenny Loggins, Bobby Caldwell, Michael Bolton, and Mick Hucknall (of Simply Red) were burning up the airwaves. These white dudes are all "Soul Men". They are dangerously talented and can sang! They were all in that "Blue Eyed Soul" genre. Oh yeah, and Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates) got that soul vibe too!
Back in the 80's you had a crop of British singers who sounded so soulful its was frightening. He along with Lisa Stanfield were the most popular. Going further back there was Dusty Springfield. ...I highly recommend her she reminds me of etta james.
Another great jazzy soulful song that came out in 1978/79 Bobby Caldwell “What you won’t do for love” amazing amazing song very soulful jazzy awesome!!! Soul has NO COLOR!!!
I have loved Simply Red since the 80s when this song was released yes he is a British Artist he actually wrote this song when he was 17 years old he should be around 61 now because we are around the same age it never amazes me how people always think so pertains to Black Ashley in the UK they have a lot of white Soulful singers more than in the US when the US started to focus on rap Great Britain was still focusing on songwriting and vocals and instruments
I'm gonna buck the trend and give an opposite: a musician you'd never guess *wasn't* white. My grandmother was a huge fan of Charlie Pride, her favorite song being "Kiss an Angel Good Morning". I thought he was white until I was an adult.
When you listen to that very American music genre: blues, you realize it was heavily, heavily influenced by Celtic music -- it was the music of the common man in most areas of the US.
Sure is whitby. Currently. Sat home. In. Whitby. Not. Much. Has. Altered. Including. The. Steam. Train...!!! Wow. Mr. Hucknel's. Vocals tho. Stay. Safe. Xx
It's not about being picked on generally. It's about conflict with his parents, especially his dad. Dad throws him out of the house The Irish and the Welch are centuries famous for great singing voices.
Barely hholding on. I lost my son to suicide on March 15th and I still can't get a grip. I had this played at his services and has it dedicated to all his friends with a message to never give up. It hurts the ones u left behind and there's no other pain like burying your only child. He was only 25. RIP My baby.❤💔
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam this the one yr anniversary of losing my son. I just got home from the cemetery and it was so hard to leave even though I know he's at peace now but it still feels so surreal he's not here on earth with me. Thank you for reaching out. May God Bless you and your family.
Phil Collins is another prime example, he sounds soulful and I think he may be from the UK as well, not really sure about that but he is very good as well. Check him out, he is giving me Phil Collins vibes.
Society is a horrible environment... i mentioned your comment i. A different way at the end of my video i hope you watched the whole thing...... anyway thanks for commenting
Hola no entiendo el ingles pero lo unico q si entiendo esq mick era un papasito en todo el sentido de la palabra siendo conciente q no se como era en si como persona pero en los videos q he visto se veia un hombre tierno dulce y sensual me encanta 😘
I have some more Blue Eyed Soul for you. Check out the " Righteous Brothers " - You've Lost That Loving Feeling & Unchained Melody. This is from " 1965 ". Enjoy.
It's cool, but man it kinda sucks that some cultures have "own" certain attributes or its considered a shocker. White boys that grow up in the hood can ball, black people that go to good schools are educated, intelligent, and successful, its all environment and experience. Blinders we wear are dividers in more ways than one and I'm guilty of it too
And to think he was only 17 when he wrote this magnificent song. To my mind, he doesn't sound "black" at all - his song is soulful but nothing like black artists, John Lee Hooker for eg. whose soul comes from their guts.
Be quite this song when he was 17 years old. The song is about his father (Pater) and his mom (Mater) His mom left when he was 3 years old and never returned. He kept holding on ...
=X-D.... "No.. No.. no.." Bamboozled.... hoodwinked.... led astray..... what a marooon.... what an ingnoramous..... what a tar-ra-ra-gooondia!! =X-D Bugs Bunny!
I thought he was black wnd also a female but I'm 90s baby plus Angie Stone did a version on Love and Basketball but Mick definitely sang the fuck outta this song thats 1 bad mf
I very much dislike these reaction guys who mislead us into thinking this is th first time hearing a song. Which is it, we’re surprised he was white or is this your first time hearing it? Can’t be both. One more “authentic” guy checked off the list.
PS: it’s just a title sad that some of american society labels how people “MIGHT SOUND” based on race🤦🏽♂️ good music is good music
Bobby Caldwell, Rick Astley, Darryl Hall, and Michael McDonald. Listen to IN THE GHETTO by Elvis Presley, too. Not because he sounds black but because he sings about black people. Then again, that sounds kinda condescending and shit. I dunno. Black people do black music better than white people, period. Despite the success of blue eyed soul. When it comes down to it, I guess I'm just trying to get you listen to white folk music. :)
Lisa Stansfield, Diana Krall, Teena Marie, Adele, RoneyBoys!!
Michael McDonald.
michael mcdonald rick ashley and a female singers teena marie and the lead singer of nu shooz
I already knew that Steve Winwood was white, but if you didn't know you might think he was black. "Gimme Some Lovin' ", recorded in the 1960s when he was a teenager, sounds like it could have been a Motown song.
Talent is talent no matter what a person looks like.
Most definitely! Thanks for commenting
Color doesn't matter, he's a wonderful singer, and 80s-90s music sound so much better then today's crap.
Color most definitely doesn’t matter and if the music is good it’s good no matter who sings it and todays music is horrible thanks for commenting
>80s-90s music sounds so much better than today's crap.
Debatable
@@podomuss debatable I agree
This is what is known as blue-eyed soul. In 1997, Mick Hucknall won an Outstanding Achievement award from the Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO Awards) despite being white. There ya have it! ;) Simply Red is timeless.
Awesome
A forever classic ! His voice will forever be beautiful 😻 so much .. Fun fact he wrote this song at 17 yrs old ! Stunning this is real music ! This hits you right in the chest / heart
You can't judge a book by it's cover man. Mick has one of the greatest voices ever.
Most definitely can’t but the world does
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam the "world" Means nothing. Thanks God BAD world Is NOT the majority thinking that stupid way, Brother!!!
Love from Florence 🇮🇹
American soul music made a big impression on the working class youth of northern England, and they created some excellent versions of their own.
Awesome
Well said
Dusty Springfield is a prime example.
I can vouch for this comment being working class and from the North West of England (Manchester) myself! 👍🏻👌🏻
This album is called Picture Book and it came out in 1987, it masterfully blended together Soul, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, and Rock.
SImply Red fills the soul with all you'll ever need. Loved this music since I was kid.
His music is brilliant
He sings exactly the same now bro. Incredible.
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Thats awesome imma check some of his recent performances
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfamyes!!!
Mick said the song is: "about that moment where you know you have to leave home and make your mark, but the outside world is scary. So you’re holding back the years".
He wrote it at 17 added the chorus when the Simply Red version came out. It's about his childhood and his mom leaving him and his Dad when he was 3. His Dad Reggie raised him alone
This song is a true story the singer wrote as a teenager. It's so sad because his mother left him when he was 3 years old. He waited all his life for her
Sad
Duffy singing Mercy. Had no idea she was British until I saw her on a talk show and heard her speak. Mind blown.
The single greatest male vocalist of all time
He is pretty great
Great but he aint prince or terrence .
He's right up there with Freddie Mercury !
@_Steve _ what you mean prince had the best vocal range a man could have and ive always heard him LIVE in performance and always was great unlike some. Not a prince fanboy just call it how i see it.
Opinions vary as to that statement 🤔
Written about his mother at 16/17. Cant help but feel that.
Good music is good music no matter who it comes from I always say... thanks for commenting
Hucknall's mother left the family when he was three: the upheaval caused by this event inspired him to write the song
Its actually about his mother who left him as child.
Mine left me with a step dsd who hated me.
It was pure hell.
He lives nextdoor to me after 45 years and i struggle daily.
You beat me to it.
The singer wrote this song when he was 17. Hard to believe, but it's true.
Awesome
Yea it was about his childhood growing up without his mom around Mick definitely did his thang
simply red wrote like 50 songs hes still touring in 2022 in england i love him saw him live even better in person
The story in the video is he was in an abusive home as a kid. He is just now leaving the town as an adult, probably because he kept holding on the memory of his hard childhood. The lady is his teacher that he remember seeing with his father or somebody she shouldn't have been caught with.
Thanks!!
Simply red are from manchester England. Uk about 40 minutes drive from where I live. They have been around for many years, great video my friend, sending best wishes from ENGLAND uk
Awesome... best wishes to you as well
His mother left him and his father when he was three , he held on waiting for her but she never came back !
Smooth soothing soulful beutifull master piece 😊
Still Holding On to my 80s music
Dude check him out on YT interviews!🥰💖 Gets his inspiration from Motown Jazz Soul-sings from the bottom of his Heart & Soul! That song is about his mom leaving him & his dad when Mick was 3 years old. Devastated him. but he never gave up. Check him out: 'Angel' with Quincy Jones (or separately)', his concert vids from 90s to the present. 'Drowning in my own Tears' 'Grandma's Hands'. Loved your expression when he got to the best part 💞 IMO - THE MOST PHENOMENAL VOICE ON THE PLANET!!! He's also known as the Blue Eyed Soul Singer. YES- you don't want the song to end - THAT VOICE!!! 💘💟💖
Awesome will definitely check out his other works... thanks for commenting
I am 74 y/o and I just love to hear him sing.
Pure Music with Feeling and Pain in his Voice perfekt
He sounds as good today as he did 40 years ago. FABULOUS! Listen to if you don't know me by now, Simply RED!
His live performances thru the decades are incredibly virtuosic- react to those too! Mick Hucknall is so good. His mom left him and his dad when he was a little boy- this is about that.
See, the funny thing is that we were all white, listening to a white artist, feeling blue about our situation and not feeling any different to any one of any skin colour. To be honest we just loved Simply Red, we were young, we were English and we felt it was our thing. Ps fkn love any artist of any colour.
Meeee tooo ...good music is always good music no matter who sing it...thanks for commenting
Back in the day, Michael McDonald (of the Doobie Brothers), Kenny Loggins, Bobby Caldwell, Michael Bolton, and Mick Hucknall (of Simply Red) were burning up the airwaves. These white dudes are all "Soul Men". They are dangerously talented and can sang! They were all in that "Blue Eyed Soul" genre. Oh yeah, and Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates) got that soul vibe too!
And Hall and Oates!
This is the finest English blue-eyed soul, Soul has nothing to do with race
Back in the 80's you had a crop of British singers who sounded so soulful its was frightening. He along with Lisa Stanfield were the most popular. Going further back there was Dusty Springfield. ...I highly recommend her she reminds me of etta james.
Oh wow definitely will look them up thanks for commenting
☮️💙💙💙always holding on!
Got to🤙🏾
Another great jazzy soulful song that came out in 1978/79 Bobby Caldwell “What you won’t do for love” amazing amazing song very soulful jazzy awesome!!! Soul has NO COLOR!!!
Soul definitely doesn’t have color wish the world could see that 😞
You should listen to Bozz Scaggs. He is one of my idols.
Will definitely give a listen.... thanks for the recommendation
Oh, and by the way, I am one of your new subscribers. Love your channel!!
Thank you ...my channel is pretty random lol
And this is why NOBODY should listen to the media🤷♂️ WE ALL HAVE SOUL🤷♂️🏴🇬🇧
Thank you someone watched till the end of my explication
I have loved Simply Red since the 80s when this song was released yes he is a British Artist he actually wrote this song when he was 17 years old he should be around 61 now because we are around the same age it never amazes me how people always think so pertains to Black Ashley in the UK they have a lot of white Soulful singers more than in the US when the US started to focus on rap Great Britain was still focusing on songwriting and vocals and instruments
Is a Welsh Caucasian red head his music is timeless
His music is 🔥
This song gives me goose bumps. Timeless. Also, please check out the live performance of the Righteous Brothers singing Unchained Melody. Flawless.
Will definitely check it out thanks for commenting!
1965 live version.
His live performance of this song ...boooul
If you love Simply Red then you'll love Bobby Caldwell, Jon B and Teena Marie!
This is my music. Never gets old.
Bobby caldwell!!
Soul is soul. It’s deeper than our surface layer aka skin. There’s a resonance. G-d owns it. We borrow it.
This was epic,
Good content keep it up
Thanks!!!
❣❣❣ ********EVERY SOUL HAS A COLOR, AND MICK HUCNALL'S, IS SIMPLY RED******** ❣❣❣
I'm gonna buck the trend and give an opposite: a musician you'd never guess *wasn't* white. My grandmother was a huge fan of Charlie Pride, her favorite song being "Kiss an Angel Good Morning". I thought he was white until I was an adult.
Awesome I’m going to do some research thank you for commenting and as I like to say good music is good music no matter who it comes from.
Yes I grew up with Charlie pride music in our house, my dad was a country man,great music and memories, a warm hello from new Zealand ✌🌏
It's Whitby, Yorkshire, U.K.
Speaking of holding on..about a decade earlier Ambrosia had a hit called Holding on to Yesterday beautiful soulful song
When you listen to that very American music genre: blues, you realize it was heavily, heavily influenced by Celtic music -- it was the music of the common man in most areas of the US.
Brother, all a man can do is hold on.
Faith in Christ alone!
🙏🏾
I was like in 1st grade when this song came out. The music was lit at that time!
This dude still making hits today
God I was in college thanks now I am feeling ancient
Looks like this video is set in Whitby; that's the ruins of Whitby Abbey in the background.
Thanks for commenting
Sure is whitby. Currently. Sat home. In. Whitby. Not. Much. Has. Altered. Including. The. Steam. Train...!!! Wow. Mr. Hucknel's. Vocals tho. Stay. Safe. Xx
It's not about being picked on generally. It's about conflict with his parents, especially his dad. Dad throws him out of the house
The Irish and the Welch are centuries famous for great singing voices.
Can you believe the voice in this song it’s a hit 2021
Good music last a lifetime
Mick aveva già una voce meravigliosa da giovanissimo
e la sua canzone è stupenda❤❤❤
You saw him in the 80’s now watch him in the 2000s - try Sunrise (official music video)
I’ll definitely check it out
We're not in 2000s. We're in the 2020s. You've gone in a time machine by 2 decades
@@PR7-82 the song and video I’m talking about was in the 2000’s
Barely hholding on. I lost my son to suicide on March 15th and I still can't get a grip. I had this played at his services and has it dedicated to all his friends with a message to never give up. It hurts the ones u left behind and there's no other pain like burying your only child. He was only 25. RIP My baby.❤💔
Just saw this my condolences and i hope you and your family find or continue to have strength in your grieving process
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam this the one yr anniversary of losing my son. I just got home from the cemetery and it was so hard to leave even though I know he's at peace now but it still feels so surreal he's not here on earth with me. Thank you for reaching out. May God Bless you and your family.
Mick Huckneai, aka, Simply Red, was a black person in his prior life...😊
Good song. Well liked. By many😊
I have read in comments that his mom left him and dad when 3 years old. That which could never be.
Phil Collins is another prime example, he sounds soulful and I think he may be from the UK as well, not really sure about that but he is very good as well. Check him out, he is giving me Phil Collins vibes.
its almost as if singing voices aren't conducive to race and thinking they are would be racist
Society is a horrible environment... i mentioned your comment i. A different way at the end of my video i hope you watched the whole thing...... anyway thanks for commenting
His mother left him that what song about
Oh wow
Hola no entiendo el ingles pero lo unico q si entiendo esq mick era un papasito en todo el sentido de la palabra siendo conciente q no se como era en si como persona pero en los videos q he visto se veia un hombre tierno dulce y sensual me encanta 😘
Pls react Simply Red "You Make Me Feel Brand New"
On the list!!
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam Thank you 😉
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He gives his all in this cover of You Make Me Feel Brand New. The emotion just pours out. Better than the original in my opinion.
@@222wylie I agree with you, Mick once said that "You Make Me Feel Brand New" is the most difficult song he has ever sung
When the BBC got hold of this record they thought it was Eartha Kitt.
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No his mom left him when he was young
I have some more Blue Eyed Soul for you. Check out the " Righteous Brothers " - You've Lost That Loving Feeling & Unchained Melody. This is from " 1965 ". Enjoy.
Will check it out thanks for commenting
Ireland hence simply Red thanks for review Chris Issac wicked game next
Hate when people say "sounds black" what does thst actually mean?
My thoughts exactly...... “society”started these labels.... if it sounds good its sounds good no matter who its from.... thanks for stopping by
Try......Sad old red! 🇬🇧❤️
It's cool, but man it kinda sucks that some cultures have "own" certain attributes or its considered a shocker. White boys that grow up in the hood can ball, black people that go to good schools are educated, intelligent, and successful, its all environment and experience. Blinders we wear are dividers in more ways than one and I'm guilty of it too
#facts
blue eyed soul
Until just recently I thought Billy Ocean was white. 🤷🏼♀️ Good music is good music.
Thats what i always say…. If it sounds good i listen
And to think he was only 17 when he wrote this magnificent song. To my mind, he doesn't sound "black" at all - his song is soulful but nothing like black artists, John Lee Hooker for eg. whose soul comes from their guts.
Either way he sounds good and you can’t deny good music.... thanks for commenting
Right now it's 3/26/21 have you heard it you think you're lonely now by simply red
Be quite this song when he was 17 years old. The song is about his father (Pater) and his mom (Mater) His mom left when he was 3 years old and never returned. He kept holding on ...
I would sell my soul to the devil if I could sing like this.
🤙
1985 i was a teenager when this song came out
For all you fellow British the trumpet player Is max branning 😂
I miss buying albums.....
Ofcourse you thought it was a black man cuz that's the only ppl that can have soul right??!! Smdh fr💯
😢 i really wish you would have watched the ending explaining the stereotype or read my pinned comment
Made me almost cry lol
Check out
Church Mouse , reggae artist from Birmingham Uk 👊🏼
Whitby, North Yorkshire England.
=X-D.... "No.. No.. no.." Bamboozled.... hoodwinked.... led astray..... what a marooon.... what an ingnoramous..... what a tar-ra-ra-gooondia!! =X-D Bugs Bunny!
You can make this your own the best is always open....miss real talent.
JOJO has got soul
Thats for sure…. Good music is good music
@@MikhailSimmonsmikfitfam yes
React to Simply Red if you don't know me by now.
On the list!
Every single person in history had the exact same reaction lol. Great voice!
Van Morrison. (if I hadn't seen him)
Peace, Belfast, N.Ireland
Music as no colour
Thats for sure
What's good, my boi
What up!!
He sounds like a male version of Janis Joplin.
I thought he was black wnd also a female but I'm 90s baby plus Angie Stone did a version on Love and Basketball but Mick definitely sang the fuck outta this song thats 1 bad mf
I very much dislike these reaction guys who mislead us into thinking this is th first time hearing a song.
Which is it, we’re surprised he was white or is this your first time hearing it? Can’t be both. One more “authentic” guy checked off the list.
Actually can be both but ok... have a good day!
Can you please react to Lisa stansfield song called People hold on
Please
What,No way you never heard it before?
Check out Boz Skaggs
Definitely will thank you
Sounds black ??