Isn’t it amazing how the music of the 60’s & 70’s is still as good as it was back then!!! Songs like Whiter shades of pale, Oh girl, Nights in white satin, Have you ever seen the rain, we would have dances like Prom, Homecoming in the gym, were we couldn’t wear shoes on the gym floor. Us jocks would call those slow songs “ panty droppers” lol. Class of 72.
True that! Have you ever tried to find out what happened to the black R&B music of the era? I never hear any of it playing anywhere. There was loads and loads of it, beginning in the 1960s. 😊☺😇😎 Once, while serving the internet, I ran across one artist of the era. And what emerged from the algorithms were loads of those old tunes waiting to be forgotten? Strange.💯 Class of 75.
WOW! I always heard the song a lot. I knew it was very, very@@austinteutschmuch. I like it. And hearing it again. I like it again and I thank you so very, very much. It made me feel good all over again. God bless you.
To be honest, this is the first time I hear this song, although I was around in the '70's. But I'm on a memory lane travel on YT, and this came in view. And I like it, even if it's more than 50 years too late. That's the best of YT, lots of people saved this kind of recordings and took the trouble to post it here for people like me to enjoy.
@@alanhughes5868 When you have 78 candles on your birthday cake, you may not think a person aged 81 years is old. Anyway, "Band Of Gold" never gets old ☮️ brother
@@alanhughes5868 What a blessing to even get old because the only ones who stay young are the ones who died young. Ms Freda ought to be able to share some nugget of wisdom she has gained in her 81 years.
This song was on 20 Dynamic Hits in Australia. My Mother bought it for us along with some other compilation Hits albums of the day. "Band of Gold" made a huge impact on me as a 10 yr old.
@@yvonnepeters1914 , oh a 45mm, oh wrong era,, I get ya,,! I couldn’t find those lil red plastic thangs too that made records play ,,it centered my 45 double sided records , now u might get shot saying my neighbor is playing his 45’s again too loud,,,
Hell yea! Nothing like the 70's! All the different styles of music was better back then, Motown, pop, country, disco, you name it! The 70's had so many different styles of great music back then. Great dance music in every category! 70's👍
73yrs old and still loving this, please please take us back to these times, love the outfit, gorgeous woman. No obesity in sight, we all did our exercising on the dance floor to music like this, no need for gyms we baby boomers were soooo lucky❤
This was in the next to play for my RUclips session - I think Freda Payne still looks good many years later - ruclips.net/video/_oYpqgYdjq8/видео.htmlsi=PA-6s2ETUWb2JFem
Listening to this, oh my God, i miss music like this. Tearing up big time! I'm 70 yrs. old. Music like this is gone forever! When i leave this earth, this will be one o the songs that will be played ar my memorial. Music like this is FOREVER! 🙏😇😉👍😎😍
Said that again I always tear up in the beginning then I get happy remember this song it 1970 when I was 5 living in a hippie house with blacks and white in west phila on 63 st
I was so lucky to have this type of music in my life throughout my childhood. It got me through some pretty tough times in my teens when my parents separated and the family disintegrated. Thank god for 60's-70's music. Great memories.
65 y.o. Raised in Philly and the sound of soul. This tune reminds me of the summer we spent in Atlantic City. 5 of us kids, having fun. Wow, so long ago. Sigh
Loved this song and of course Freda since the first time I heard it on AFN in Germany. Man have I managed to get old but the years seem to fall off when listing to tunes from back then, at least for a little while.
I got to duet with this beautiful lady on uk tv back in 1971 a great honour she was so coooool thanks FREDA jve ps Holland- Dozier-Holland the best in the business back in the golden times, bless them.
Brilliant song sung by a beautiful singer with a great voice! Oh we were so blessed then back in the 60s and 70s with all the vibrant music being released. This song and the artiste are truly authentic. The song - one of the greatest hits ever made!
@@Deborah-so8mv No, that is incorrect - it's not about marrying a gay man. Read what the composer said: Dunbar continued: "They said this song is a smash in the gay community. And I said, gay community? They said, yeah man, it's a smash. And I says, why is it that? And they said, well it's what the lyrics are saying. She said the guy couldn't make love to her so they figured he had to be gay! And I said oh no! And I remembered when they said that to me and I listened back to the song and there was a part in there... because I remembered when we were editing that tune, it was too long, so we had to cut a section out of the tune so the section we cut out of the song really brought the whole song [story] together." The lyrics which Dunbar cut in the final edit which he was referring to were made to reduce the length of the single from three minutes 43 seconds down to the final two minutes 53 seconds. These were taken from the first verse - "And the memories of our wedding day, and the night I turned you away" - these were effectively substituted with, "And the memories of what love could be, if you were still here with me"; and a larger bridge - "Each night, I lie awake and I tell myself, the vows we made gave you the right, to have a love each night." - which is repeated again later in the song, cutting 18 seconds twice over from the song. With further refinements in the arrangements, including a heavier, richer bassline, and a different vocal take, a further 14 seconds were shaved off the final released seven-inch single.
This song ruled the first month and a half of the Summer of 1970 on the airwaves. Great school vacation song leading up to my Senior year in high school. That Summer was packed with hits. Parochial school usually ended around the 2nd Friday in June and around then this song came out of nowhere an kicked off vacation time.
I was 16 when I first heard this song - I’ve loved it ever since. We did grow up in the most wonderful musical era and we were so lucky!!! We got to experience all of this great music first!!!
My mother use to play this song nonstop on the record player!!!
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When I was a kid, (I'm in my 60's now) but Freda Payne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Eden, Lola Falana, Diane Carroll, Audrey Landers, Jayne Kennedy, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Davis, Chelsea Brown I could go on Susan Anton, there are more, but those women tripped my trigger! Lawd have mercy! That's why I know racism is taught because I didn't see what color they were, I just saw how BEAUTIFUL they all were, and still are. Beautiful memories from my youth! 👍
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Who’s still listening to Band of Gold in 2024? Thumbs up please.
Thumbs up
Still listening to this gem!👍✌️
@papatutti59 Put a sock in it goose.
Leagues above any of the rubbish made today
@papatutti59 Your comment is utterly pointless.
First time I've actually seen her, wow, what a beautiful woman !!
Yeah, same here. I know the song, I hear it on the radio all the time. But WOW! She is gorgeous.
I was going to say the same.
Me too. Loved this song when it came out in the UK. 🇬🇧
Always loved this song. Great talent, and I didnt remember how "smokin hot" this woman was!!!
Thinking the same thing. No MTV till 80. Then we saw them all 🎶😊 Aaa...the good ol days😅
2024 - 68 yrs old - still know the lyrics. I miss Motown! One of the greatest eras in American music.
Amen ! Im proud & Blessed to be from Detroit where all that great music came from
Not technically Motown.
64 years old love Motown and miss it a lot, to me this is Motown too…
@@Ogma3bandcampit’s Motown to me even if it isn’t from Detroit
@@gabeeaglesland1378 True dat !
Isn’t it amazing how the music of the 60’s & 70’s is still as good as it was back then!!! Songs like Whiter shades of pale, Oh girl, Nights in white satin, Have you ever seen the rain, we would have dances like Prom, Homecoming in the gym, were we couldn’t wear shoes on the gym floor. Us jocks would call those slow songs “ panty droppers” lol. Class of 72.
Right on! Class of 73. I search for these classics to remember the girls I made love to way back when.
True that! Have you ever tried to find out what happened to the black R&B music of the era? I never hear any of it playing anywhere. There was loads and loads of it, beginning in the 1960s. 😊☺😇😎
Once, while serving the internet, I ran across one artist of the era. And what emerged from the algorithms were loads of those old tunes waiting to be forgotten? Strange.💯 Class of 75.
WOW! I always heard the song a lot. I knew it was very, very@@austinteutschmuch. I like it. And hearing it again. I like it again and I thank you so very, very much. It made me feel good all over again. God bless you.
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So true, so true - Elton John proves that all on his own - but I imagine every generation feels that way. Perhaps everyone's right.
'78 👏👏 is great!
I met my wife when I asked her to dance to this in 1970 still married.
Nice! 👌🏽
So cool!
Very cool
Really, wow
I love that story!
We are still listening to this great song in 2024
To be honest, this is the first time I hear this song, although I was around in the '70's. But I'm on a memory lane travel on YT, and this came in view. And I like it, even if it's more than 50 years too late. That's the best of YT, lots of people saved this kind of recordings and took the trouble to post it here for people like me to enjoy.
Why wouldn't we?RUclips is an archive.
Was in the Army then.
So do I. Marvellous music!
She’s Beautiful! The 1970’s were truly Amazing! ❤
That’s for sure!!!❤
You're so right, back then people had natural beauty. It was a good time.
@@SB-mm9zh Natural beauty with wigs and makeup, as well as plastic surgery. But I get where you're coming from.
True, but in retrospect - for the most part - the clothing left a lot to be desired.
If you remember the 70's you weren't there.......
These were some of the best songs ever.
Freda was a knockout
You Bet! She Had Some Moves!
She very pretty lady
Was she a one hit Wonder
Tell me 'bout it. I started fantasizing about her at 11 years old.
Saw her perform recently and I can assure you she still is a knockout ... at 80!
Great song and look how gorgeous she was too ❤
Beautiful woman. Great voice. Great backing band. How did we lose all these wonderful memories
The songwriters/producers and musicians were all from Motown! I play in a cover band and we still play this wonderful song.
I'm still in love with Freda 54 years later.
Gorgeous woman! Proof, you can be beautiful and sexy and still be a lady.
the band elwood
We haven't lost the memories, we just lost time!
Damn! I have loved this song all my life, ever since I was a kid in the 1970s. But I never realized Freda Payne was so gorgeous!
I just said the same. She really was a beauty.🥰
I’m totally with you on this!
Still beautiful in 2024
My all time favorite since childhood on my portable record player 😁😎 First time I can remember actually seeing her.
A massive hit for the Detroit lady. She's 81 years young.
Whenever a young person calls an old person young, that means that the young person thinks the old person is really old.
@@alanhughes5868
When you have 78 candles on your birthday cake, you may not think a person aged 81 years is old.
Anyway, "Band Of Gold" never gets old ☮️ brother
@@alanhughes5868 What a blessing to even get old because the only ones who stay young are the ones who died young. Ms Freda ought to be able to share some nugget of wisdom she has gained in her 81 years.
I loved this song when it came out. Still love it today!
She must've been 28 yo when it first came out in 1970
This song was on 20 Dynamic Hits in Australia.
My Mother bought it for us along with some other compilation Hits albums of the day.
"Band of Gold" made a huge impact on me as a 10 yr old.
I’m an Aussie and still have the album, was 12 at the time.
67 years old and remember this big time!
Ha gotcha beat by one year 😊
Ditto!
I'm 67 too. I had that 45 record back in the day. 😊
67 years young I am,, the best music for me,, music was about Love,,
@@yvonnepeters1914 , oh a 45mm, oh wrong era,, I get ya,,! I couldn’t find those lil red plastic thangs too that made records play ,,it centered my 45 double sided records , now u might get shot saying my neighbor is playing his 45’s again too loud,,,
The bass is bassin'...
Freda is a wonder of the world...❤
Boompin Bass
Hell yea! Nothing like the 70's! All the different styles of music was better back then, Motown, pop, country, disco, you name it! The 70's had so many different styles of great music back then. Great dance music in every category! 70's👍
Best years of my life. I would love to go back.
Me too
David Bowie
Greatest decade ever for music
Beautiful voice from a Beautiful woman 🇺🇸🤙
Singing along to every word! I was an 8th grader when this came out. Gym dances! Lol. I forgot how beautiful she was/is.
Heard the song a million times but now I have a beautiful face to go with it 🎉
One of my favorite songs, but I never saw her. It was worth the wait.
I was having similar thoughts. She is damn purty.
Yup
No autotunes , no BBLs , face lifts just naturally beautiful and talented people came from this era🙏🌞🔥💯 Happy Easter to everyone 🤎🧡💛
Freda Payne = pure fire
73yrs old and still loving this, please please take us back to these times, love the outfit, gorgeous woman. No obesity in sight, we all did our exercising on the dance floor to music like this, no need for gyms we baby boomers were soooo lucky❤
This was in the next to play for my RUclips session - I think Freda Payne still looks good many years later - ruclips.net/video/_oYpqgYdjq8/видео.htmlsi=PA-6s2ETUWb2JFem
Yeah 👍🏻 ❤
I will go with you back in time. I really do wish I could do it.
Whaddya mean "were" sooo lucky. Vegan and still m o v i n g, 373 years old here.
Listening to this, oh my God, i miss music like this. Tearing up big time! I'm 70 yrs. old. Music like this is gone forever! When i leave this earth, this will be one o the songs that will be played ar my memorial. Music like this is FOREVER! 🙏😇😉👍😎😍
Said that again I always tear up in the beginning then I get happy remember this song it 1970 when I was 5 living in a hippie house with blacks and white in west phila on 63 st
70 too.
I don't!
58 years old and all I can say to your posts is❤❤❤❤.
Isn't she just drop-dead gorgeous!
hell yeah!
It’s incredible to see how beautiful, classy and graceful (especially) black singers were back then versus today.
Absolutely classy❤
❤❤❤❤ oldies but real music
I was so lucky to have this type of music in my life throughout my childhood. It got me through some pretty tough times in my teens when my parents separated and the family disintegrated. Thank god for 60's-70's music. Great memories.
65 y.o. Raised in Philly and the sound of soul. This tune reminds me of the summer we spent in Atlantic City. 5 of us kids, having fun. Wow, so long ago. Sigh
WDAS
yes me too south philly go birds
Back when music was worth listening to,watching it performed and by artists that were simply GREAT! Ah,the memories.
First record i ever bought,still love it to this day .
A true classic! Fantastic voice! Beautiful lady!
Known this song for years, but wow, Freda was seriously gorgeous.
The '70s were the greatest time for music 🎶 period.
Loved this song and of course Freda since the first time I heard it on AFN in Germany. Man have I managed to get old but the years seem to fall off when listing to tunes from back then, at least for a little while.
A gorgeous song sung by an equally gorgeous Freda Payne.
I am when I come across it! I love the clothes ❤
When the only hit you have becomes a timeless classic , you only need one hit , right ? Freda really was the perfect voice for this melody.
Just leaving school and straight into the 70s what a good life
I was 24 when this record came out and it still sounds great to me. Better than all this rap rubbish.
I got to duet with this beautiful lady on uk tv back in 1971 a great honour she was so coooool thanks FREDA jve ps Holland- Dozier-Holland the best in the business back in the golden times, bless them.
Lucky you!
I have that episode, I got it from YT but sadly there is no audio for some reason. Only one episode posted now, shame.
J vincent edwards from the hitsong “Thanks” ( to the lord)? Loved that song!
thanks mate love and peace. jve@@janmahulete5172
that's for sure love and peace jve@@BGK2223
What a bombshell!!!🤩
What a beautiful song ..Thank you...one of my favorites 😊
I always liked this song. Freda Payne: very attractive woman.
One of my all time favourite I'm 74 now and still love it..
In England this was a big hit on what we called Northern soul in the 70s
ah, Wigan Casino !!
Yes, it was a number one around September1970 in the UK for around 5 or 6 weeks.
I am 75, life was better back then, and music was wonderful. $1.00 went so far.
Love this song forever
Stunning woman and still going strong at 81.
I'm 63 and this music still sends shivers down my spine.
75 here in 2024 and still listening 0:58
I was 6 years old when this was playing on radio station childhood memories kdia
Class is permanent ❤
I Still Miss Freda !!!!! ..... I fell Madly in Love With Her in The 70"s ❤❤❤
Me too.😂😂
Same here
Well, seems like she still is around, 81 years old.
How could one not fall in Love with her?
Super great early 1970s song & very pretty lady
I grew up listening to this song and I never get tired of it.I love Freida Payne
Utterly brilliant music!!!
Brilliant song sung by a beautiful singer with a great voice! Oh we were so blessed then back in the 60s and 70s with all the vibrant music being released. This song and the artiste are truly authentic. The song - one of the greatest hits ever made!
So beautiful..oh my..❤
would love to go back there,away from the doom and gloom of these times.
I am 71 god we were so lucky 🎉
Same age and I agree!
I used to love this song and I loved her too😂❤👍
Classic song. Timeless and beautiful. Never ages. Loving it still 🎉
Will always bring back memories of my first girlfriend while on a gliding course at RAF Slingsby in 1970
Happy days
Music will do that ;)
The lighting in this is spectacular, and they’re barely trying by today’s standards.
UK tv.
I think everyone has heard and loves this song, and Freda Payne just leaves me speechless .. every man's dream❤
Haven't heard this in ages.... Takes me back to my childhood.
I still have this record from Belgium that I given by a friend.
A blast from the past!
A true 70s classic
I’ve still got my 45 of this I bought back then.
Excellent song.
Freda was gorgeous back then.
FINE! FINE! Blew my mind!
What a singer!!! Why wasn’t Freda a much bigger star? She was fantastic! One of my first crushes as an 11 year old boy.
Me, I remember this song in the projects in real time..., 👏 !!!
Great memories n I graduated in 1970. Those are priceless times. Great singer n beautiful lady.
...great song, great gal, great time...
Brilliant stuff!
Freda was a head of her time with her songs. She had an awesome voice . Miss her music.
Best song about a woman married to a a gay man. Way before it’s time.
@@Deborah-so8mv No, that is incorrect - it's not about marrying a gay man. Read what the composer said: Dunbar continued: "They said this song is a smash in the gay community. And I said, gay community? They said, yeah man, it's a smash. And I says, why is it that? And they said, well it's what the lyrics are saying. She said the guy couldn't make love to her so they figured he had to be gay! And I said oh no! And I remembered when they said that to me and I listened back to the song and there was a part in there... because I remembered when we were editing that tune, it was too long, so we had to cut a section out of the tune so the section we cut out of the song really brought the whole song [story] together."
The lyrics which Dunbar cut in the final edit which he was referring to were made to reduce the length of the single from three minutes 43 seconds down to the final two minutes 53 seconds. These were taken from the first verse - "And the memories of our wedding day, and the night I turned you away" - these were effectively substituted with, "And the memories of what love could be, if you were still here with me"; and a larger bridge - "Each night, I lie awake and I tell myself, the vows we made gave you the right, to have a love each night." - which is repeated again later in the song, cutting 18 seconds twice over from the song. With further refinements in the arrangements, including a heavier, richer bassline, and a different vocal take, a further 14 seconds were shaved off the final released seven-inch single.
Such a GORGEOUS woman 😍
Yes! She's is still gorgeous. Today
Loved the song as a kid in the 70's. I think I love it more now. Thumbs way up! Thank you so much! GREAT song, super pretty lady.
I’ve loved this song ever since it came out!
I was born and raised on Detroit for 45 years, I can't believe I didn't know she was from Detroit! Beautiful woman!
This song ruled the first month and a half of the Summer of 1970 on the airwaves. Great school vacation song leading up to my Senior year in high school. That Summer was packed with hits. Parochial school usually ended around the 2nd Friday in June and around then this song came out of nowhere an kicked off vacation time.
As a 9 yr old listening to WLS Chicago Am radio heard all the great music down here in Tennessee
Beautiful
I was 16 when I first heard this song - I’ve loved it ever since. We did grow up in the most wonderful musical era and we were so lucky!!! We got to experience all of this great music first!!!
Takes me back,good days👍👍🫠🫠🫠👍👍
Came back from Nam May 1970 🙏🏼♥️🇺🇸🙌👍🏼🎶
Love The 70's!
Her sister was one of the Supremes both brilliant singers
This song brings back memories Freda Payne is so good!
Amazing....she just sings with real feeling..,and melts the screen with her looks and moves.
Great song wonderful voice❣️☺️
Classic. No more will this ever be again.
Still love this song!! Such great memories return to me!!😄Thank you Freda Payne!👏♥️
I can only imagine what some guy who is chucked over into Vietnam back than would have felt upon hearing this song....😥
Loved this song as a 10 year old in 1970. Still love it!
Love love this song one of my favourites along of remembers holidays 😂
My mother use to play this song nonstop on the record player!!!
When I was a kid, (I'm in my 60's now) but Freda Payne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Eden, Lola Falana, Diane Carroll, Audrey Landers, Jayne Kennedy, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Davis, Chelsea Brown I could go on Susan Anton, there are more, but those women tripped my trigger! Lawd have mercy! That's why I know racism is taught because I didn't see what color they were, I just saw how BEAUTIFUL they all were, and still are. Beautiful memories from my youth! 👍
Memories from Mrs Payne