SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA SMACK A B*TCH (Obscure 1960s soul music)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025

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  • @ForgottenGrooves
    @ForgottenGrooves  3 месяца назад +36

    Merch! -
    forgottengrooves.printful.me
    For more Reginald watson, check out his newly rediscovered hit and part two of his"Smack a B*tch" trilogy. "Sometimes You Gotta Smack a B*tch Again"
    ruclips.net/video/bulfb-Af8KU/видео.htmlsi=WVtPzjdK_L6n5VPL

    • @itzhakbentov6572
      @itzhakbentov6572 Месяц назад +4

      I’m excited! I had the good fortune to see Reginald Watson in Philadelphia at “Harmonies & Hoes”. When he played “Sometimes You Gotta” he had the entire crowd cheering.

    • @armandoacevedo6978
      @armandoacevedo6978 Месяц назад +3

      Hey I went to “Harmonies and Hoes”. They don’t have music festivals like that anymore!
      Epic!

    • @doggystyly
      @doggystyly 21 день назад

      🤪😎😜🧐😝

  • @smallshadow3856
    @smallshadow3856 3 месяца назад +298

    A pimp named Slickback approved

    • @therealsyxx
      @therealsyxx 3 месяца назад +1

      😂😂😂💀

    • @02Tony
      @02Tony 3 месяца назад

      That is something Mr slickback would say?

    • @smallshadow3856
      @smallshadow3856 3 месяца назад +13

      @@02Tony "No no, it's 'A Pimp named Slickback' you got to say the whole thing." 🤣

    • @02Tony
      @02Tony 3 месяца назад

      @@smallshadow3856 can we say slickback for short?

    • @smallshadow3856
      @smallshadow3856 3 месяца назад +8

      @@02Tony "NoOOo no ni@@a! It's A Pimp named Slickback!!"

  • @leehammer6956
    @leehammer6956 3 месяца назад +155

    He opened for Sinatra in 1966 at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

    • @ForgottenGrooves
      @ForgottenGrooves  3 месяца назад +27

      @@leehammer6956 Yes he did. Great fun fact. After the show they went to the peppermint lounge and Reginald was once again arrested for battery in an altercation with one of the female dancers. He was a real life of the party type guy.

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 3 месяца назад +10

      I'll bet it was Sinatra who taught Reginald how to smack somebody. 😊

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 3 месяца назад +4

      @leehammer Not only that, but he would fill in for Sammy during Rat Pack shows, if Sammy unexpectedly got sick. 😊

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 3 месяца назад +5

      "Im as good as man as they make today". Reginald was known for his kindness and generosity. You want spent 3 hours by the side of the road helping a man fix his car so he could get to his lawyer to file for divorce.

    • @texking8101
      @texking8101 2 месяца назад +2

      @@ForgottenGroovesI can’t tell if this is satire or not

  • @NigelWelch-x3h
    @NigelWelch-x3h Месяц назад +80

    Reginald liked his beer like his violence
    domestic

    • @Walkerwitchyworld
      @Walkerwitchyworld 6 дней назад

      @@NigelWelch-x3h 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝 love it 😂😂😂

  • @oliverclytus7559
    @oliverclytus7559 2 месяца назад +118

    This is some old school pimp sh*t, imagine playing this in the car with the speakers on full blast 😂😂

    • @StickyLeaf-News
      @StickyLeaf-News 2 месяца назад +6

      Wait till i am at the Beach on my Deck next time. Let that blast out the Speaker while cruising smooth circles etc😂😂😂

    • @mcole442
      @mcole442 2 месяца назад +4

      The story of his life👈🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @domperiani
      @domperiani 7 дней назад

      I’m actually about to do that ::::: soon as i get off this plane ✌️⛪️🥂😭😭😭

    • @EricSchryver-v8o
      @EricSchryver-v8o 6 дней назад

      Imagine? Shit...

    • @Mike-qo8nm
      @Mike-qo8nm 2 дня назад

      Can't wait for June July Aug to do just that lol

  • @petethehawk5186
    @petethehawk5186 21 день назад +30

    I joined the Columbia House Record Club just so I could get this album.

  • @thetruthhurts8618
    @thetruthhurts8618 2 месяца назад +71

    This is the song me and my wife dance to on our weeding anniversaries!! We been married for 25 years! I also played this song at church because it talks about heaven! I took it as a church song but I was the only one dancing and singing along😞I now have a new church!

    • @itzhakbentov6572
      @itzhakbentov6572 Месяц назад +7

      I get it. I’ve heard it played at weddings and also at the Oprah interview of Kamala’s campaign.

    • @DeVille08Concours
      @DeVille08Concours Месяц назад +5

      What's a weeding anniversary ??

    • @Chris-OBrien
      @Chris-OBrien 21 день назад

      @@DeVille08Concours The yearly celebration of when you first weeded.

    • @goddessofpeacelove5341
      @goddessofpeacelove5341 4 дня назад

      @@DeVille08Concours😂😂😂

  • @Suddenlyits1960
    @Suddenlyits1960 3 месяца назад +118

    Reginald was nicknamed the Mohammed Ali of domestic abuse by Ebony magazine.

  • @02Tony
    @02Tony 3 месяца назад +124

    This was Sean Connery's favourite song. 😂

  • @EDDIETRUJILLO-q8p
    @EDDIETRUJILLO-q8p 3 месяца назад +373

    Fun Fact: Ike Turner wrote this song.

    • @stevedallas4942
      @stevedallas4942 3 месяца назад +23

      Roflmao! And 20 years later, Tina wrote "Ya Bettah be good to me".... And nobody knew where Ike was!

    • @5825-i7s
      @5825-i7s 3 месяца назад +15

      This song was written as a promotion for isotoner gloves

    • @FabianKawau-cq5bw
      @FabianKawau-cq5bw 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@5825-i7syeah i thought dat🤙🏼🤙🏼

    • @FabianKawau-cq5bw
      @FabianKawau-cq5bw 3 месяца назад

      "FUN FACT" he use to Krack her😢

    • @maryc.757
      @maryc.757 3 месяца назад +9

      😅😂, hell 2da naw naw😂

  • @artisticAJ91
    @artisticAJ91 2 месяца назад +31

    This is a certified all time classic!

  • @Tsmowl
    @Tsmowl 2 месяца назад +23

    "I'm as good a man as they make today."
    One of the realest lines in all of this.

  • @DiscouragedGentleman
    @DiscouragedGentleman 2 месяца назад +33

    Part of me wants to play this at the senior home; they'd probably get a kick out of this🤣

  • @marcoperez6599
    @marcoperez6599 3 месяца назад +86

    This is what Freedom of speech and expression should be like today. Free artist and actors to be real again.

    •  3 месяца назад +8

      The irony being that this was created by AI. Nothing REAL about it.

    • @VenomLeon
      @VenomLeon 3 месяца назад +17

      Wh.. What are you talking about? Watson's music and me go a long way back. Don't make him come out of his grave and smack you.

    • @Joseph-wf4qg
      @Joseph-wf4qg 3 месяца назад +3

      A I keeping in Real

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 3 месяца назад +5

      It wasn't created by artificial intelligence,it was created by a fancy computer program being used by and doing what a person told it to do. When a computer is able to think on its own,become conscious and able to create,write and arrange things like this entirely on its own,then it will be "artificial intelligence"

    • @haroldsdodge
      @haroldsdodge 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Suddenlyits1960 Are you certain it's NOT artificial intelligence? Some of the music AI has come up recently is spookily good. Yes it couldn't have done this five years ago, or even six months ago, but the speed of its improvement is frightening.

  • @llgoo740
    @llgoo740 3 месяца назад +59

    This shit got my damn stomach hurting from laughing 😂😂😂😂 omg...

    • @travissloan6864
      @travissloan6864 4 дня назад

      I feel you, I had tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard.

  • @Kxngko
    @Kxngko 13 дней назад +3

    The effortlessness transitions between Church deacon and Iceberg slim is to be studied !

  • @westro26
    @westro26 2 месяца назад +15

    Reginald Watson was an absolute sensation back in the day. A real ladies man!

    • @frannyk88
      @frannyk88 9 дней назад

      He is also infamous for his domestic abuse of women

  • @andrewlong4894
    @andrewlong4894 3 месяца назад +31

    possibly one of the greatest songs created since neanderthals were banging rocks together

  • @JoeNovak-qp8vs
    @JoeNovak-qp8vs 3 месяца назад +32

    A.I. Songs are getting better better everyday

  • @scrumpstitch1120
    @scrumpstitch1120 2 месяца назад +17

    I want an animated version where a pimp named slickback is dancing to this

  • @phyrexianjudgement
    @phyrexianjudgement 14 дней назад +7

    Damn hidden tracks be bopping

  • @NunyaBusiness-b2k
    @NunyaBusiness-b2k 3 месяца назад +40

    I confess as a woman I have felt this 😢😮😅😊🎉😂😂😂

    • @mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573
      @mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573 2 месяца назад

      I have to ask, was it undeserved or was it earned?
      (I'm not a hater, but since you commented publicly, I HAD to ask the most OBVIOUS question!)

    • @NunyaBusiness-b2k
      @NunyaBusiness-b2k 2 месяца назад

      @@mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573 MYOB

    • @greasyzach
      @greasyzach Месяц назад

      @@mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573 of course it was earned

    • @dangriesemer3710
      @dangriesemer3710 23 дня назад +1

      ​@mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573 my question is "Did she learn from it"?😅

    • @marine76a
      @marine76a 16 дней назад +1

      Maybe you should have been less lippy, lmao

  • @RANDYJR72
    @RANDYJR72 8 дней назад +1

    I remember my dad singing this in his car when he put his 8 track on driving to Spanish Harlem back in 77

  • @Randystudio217
    @Randystudio217 12 дней назад +2

    This joint SLAPS

  • @JayeNott
    @JayeNott 10 дней назад +2

    Im in tears from laughing so hard.... Thank you for this song...

  • @DJRAVER420
    @DJRAVER420 22 дня назад +3

    My heart wrote this song decades ago, but now it's been put into words!!!

  • @Okthenkiddo
    @Okthenkiddo 2 месяца назад +5

    Awesome inspirational hymn

  • @JimmyCobbOfficial
    @JimmyCobbOfficial 3 месяца назад +7

    A new favorite.

  • @James_Barris
    @James_Barris 17 дней назад

    This brought tears of nostalgia to my eyes as I recalled dancing to it at my senior prom many years ago…..thank you.

  • @WaldoFlame
    @WaldoFlame 3 дня назад

    😂😂😂im over here in 😭 why nobody told me music was dis good back n the gap

  • @adarbarrush
    @adarbarrush 3 месяца назад +84

    I played this at a feminist rally, now they back in the kitchen

    • @lilblackduc7312
      @lilblackduc7312 3 месяца назад +7

      not THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!

    • @frank-ko6de
      @frank-ko6de 2 месяца назад +4

      They felt the threat and they acted accordingly. Hahahaha.

    • @winstonturnage2900
      @winstonturnage2900 2 месяца назад +1

      @@frank-ko6de😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @jcash49
      @jcash49 24 дня назад

      That you, Nick Fuentes? You ain't learned yet to stop talking bad to women? 😂

    • @edwardheyman5467
      @edwardheyman5467 3 дня назад

      😂👍

  • @shawnmandeville1490
    @shawnmandeville1490 День назад

    RW was named Best Backhand in the Jet Magazine September 12th 1963 edition

  • @UncleClaudeSportsandThangs
    @UncleClaudeSportsandThangs Месяц назад +9

    Making America great 🇺🇸

  • @LiberationMindedMediaB1
    @LiberationMindedMediaB1 24 дня назад +2

    I grew up to this shit right here!...good times

  • @LukeLovesRose
    @LukeLovesRose 3 месяца назад +12

    Motown was never the same after this gem. Ray Charles was desperate to cover this but the producers threatened to sue

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 3 месяца назад +3

      @lukelovesrose In case you're not aware, Reginald's follow up hit was titled: Sometimes You Gotta Smack That Ass. 😊

  • @masonpucci4710
    @masonpucci4710 3 месяца назад +12

    The intro kills me

  • @jeffhendricksen7945
    @jeffhendricksen7945 3 месяца назад +6

    Love it, he definitely was ahead of his time. Not that it’s right it’s just a song. He’s keeping it real, people play so nice in front of people and then treat their partner like crap behind closed doors, that’s what he’s talking bout 😅

  • @MeCooper
    @MeCooper 2 месяца назад +5

    Obscure 60s trivia; This is Sean Connery's theme song.

  • @JoeyFrezza-zr7ek
    @JoeyFrezza-zr7ek 8 дней назад

    I can't believe this,but it's so funny.I'm listening to more of these oldies.

  • @Polones12
    @Polones12 3 дня назад

    Eternal wisdom.

  • @PariahThistledowne
    @PariahThistledowne 3 месяца назад +1

    I was jumped into Piru by this Falla's Nephew ..1984...it was alot of fun!

  • @teddyjackson1902
    @teddyjackson1902 9 дней назад

    My mom and dad danced to this at their wedding in 75.

  • @WTFCHUCK9920
    @WTFCHUCK9920 4 дня назад

    DOLEMITE on production 💪🏿

  • @TonyManenetti
    @TonyManenetti 3 месяца назад +7

    Loving this lol

  • @UnrestForementor
    @UnrestForementor 3 месяца назад +7

    They cant control the weather, therefore they cant control whether i can weather through this emotional storm with or without having to slap a...

  • @ronnielobosmith4870
    @ronnielobosmith4870 3 месяца назад +6

    Damn Reggie 😮 simma down nah!!

  • @innertubez
    @innertubez 3 месяца назад +7

    Little-known fact: The lyrics to this 60s classic are adapted from the biblical verses in the Book of Reginald 12:1-29 (Apocryphal).

  • @darylwinzar2201
    @darylwinzar2201 3 месяца назад +5

    Bet this is the Diddlers favourite tune, I wouldn't have wanted to be a woman in the studio with him & they played this song.

  • @Addict-sw2wr
    @Addict-sw2wr 2 месяца назад +1

    Amen brotha!

  • @jamesyoung4508
    @jamesyoung4508 2 месяца назад +2

    Ooh snap lol 😅 I just listen to this song

  • @TheIronMonkey616
    @TheIronMonkey616 21 день назад +1

    Iceberg Slim approves this message.

  • @TheoryTuckerMusic
    @TheoryTuckerMusic 12 дней назад +1

    im fuckin cryinnnnnnn i wanna sample this shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Maj-Brittski
    @Maj-Brittski 10 дней назад

    Love it!

  • @Goblin420-og
    @Goblin420-og Месяц назад +1

    This songs fire 🔥

  • @chickendog9957
    @chickendog9957 Месяц назад +1

    I love it. Sounds like Suno. They're supposed to improve the vocals V4 soon.

  • @TrueNorth1809
    @TrueNorth1809 Месяц назад +2

    Grew up to this when I was in my youth, and have been trying to find this song for the past forty years and counting.
    Thank you, @Forgotten Grooves. for keeping these rare old skool flames a burnin'.
    They/them, you, me, and he, plus she, and her super cute gf, simply don't make soul/funk classics like these anymore. Keep on keepin' on digging in the crates and bust out the gems! 💎

  • @Kside22
    @Kside22 3 месяца назад +4

    What a good cristian he became❤️😅😎🤣

  • @mcfreshosby5375
    @mcfreshosby5375 6 дней назад

    Every Now & Then

  • @orvelorten5586
    @orvelorten5586 2 месяца назад +7

    This is Will Smiths song to live by.

  • @stevenminor2241
    @stevenminor2241 14 дней назад

    THIS IS CLASSIC...

  • @markmarkofkane8167
    @markmarkofkane8167 3 месяца назад +3

    Beautiful. Despite it's implications.

  • @MrMatador29
    @MrMatador29 2 месяца назад +1

    these are so fun on bus 😂😂😂😂

  • @coreydraper6661
    @coreydraper6661 8 дней назад +1

    Sean Connery would have love this song.

  • @rtt1961
    @rtt1961 3 месяца назад +4

    Actually, the rumor stands that "Rockin' Reggie" was set up on that murder charge. In fact, the previous six wives testified on his behalf.

  • @Davewutsup
    @Davewutsup 27 дней назад

    This has got to be AI,, it's really funny though,, I love it keep up the good work. And try not to smack no bees

  • @Bladeworkssystems
    @Bladeworkssystems 9 дней назад

    Just discovered this. Holy shit i havnt laughed this hard in forever

  • @MorleyBruxton
    @MorleyBruxton 19 дней назад

    Sir Sean Connery had this track on the loop until the day he departed.

  • @lilblackduc7312
    @lilblackduc7312 3 месяца назад +3

    Back in the day, I was a member of a tribe of brothas in Atlanta named "Slap-a-hoe". Tribe of brothas, for real...🤔😳

    • @The4cp
      @The4cp Месяц назад

      I'm a member of the Slap-a Hoe Tribe in Ohio. Most times, pills go flying on impact.

  • @Moonlava722
    @Moonlava722 24 дня назад

    Slick Velvet my man

  • @VersusArdua
    @VersusArdua 2 месяца назад +2

    This is genuinely really good lyrically. Like beyond the ironic memey-ness its so fucking listenable that I'm pretty sure ive played it every day this week, and ive never even smacked a bitch.

    • @estebansolis6807
      @estebansolis6807 Месяц назад

      Reginald Smacked enough for all of us brother, R.I.P

  • @HennaLove-n5k
    @HennaLove-n5k 3 месяца назад +9

    That's crazy! LMFAO, so wrong though....

  • @poogie4812
    @poogie4812 2 месяца назад +8

    Was this when America was great???

  • @PassportKingMarineVet
    @PassportKingMarineVet 14 дней назад

    AI needs its own Spotify

  • @robertschuck
    @robertschuck 3 месяца назад +5

    OG much respect this soul music 🎵🎶 should of hit in the million AKA Conejo

  • @chrismurray203
    @chrismurray203 20 дней назад +1

    Ike Turner's favourite song.

  • @ronaldparker68
    @ronaldparker68 Месяц назад +8

    I love it💯💯 he saying what most men be thinking 😂

  • @phlegm2141
    @phlegm2141 Месяц назад

    I’d live to make this my ring tone.

  • @loupasternak
    @loupasternak 5 дней назад

    Michael Jackson loved this one, played it all the time

  • @JoeNovak-qp8vs
    @JoeNovak-qp8vs 3 месяца назад +2

    THANK GOD!!!!!!The P.M.R.C. Wasn't around then😂

  • @chrismoltasanti
    @chrismoltasanti День назад

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Pain-FreePosture
    @Pain-FreePosture 3 месяца назад +1

    WOW

  • @standardofexcellence
    @standardofexcellence 20 дней назад

    I play this at the end of every month when aunt flow is visiting the gf

  • @DJRAVER420
    @DJRAVER420 22 дня назад

    FACTS!!

  • @CharlkiaChaney
    @CharlkiaChaney 16 дней назад

    I'm convinced this was just made😂😂😂😂😊

    • @billylangston6971
      @billylangston6971 14 дней назад

      Nah this came out in 1965,Ike Turner co wrote it

  • @LazlotheInstigator
    @LazlotheInstigator Месяц назад

    I told her... I prayed... but a pimp gotta do pimp things

  • @1027th-Channel
    @1027th-Channel 3 месяца назад +4

    yall ruin my 16 year old life im 16 and I love listening to soul and I want more and realistic sounding.

  • @daskommandantkrieger2503
    @daskommandantkrieger2503 2 месяца назад +1

    Sean Connery approves.

  • @lfader
    @lfader Месяц назад +1

    I read where Stevie Wonder tried to buy his catalog but the deal fell through
    Supposedly there's a bootleg acetate of him doing this song
    with a 2minute harmonica solo 🤷

  • @josephfrezza5822
    @josephfrezza5822 2 месяца назад +1

    Where is his song "Lord, Let Me Kill This..........." ? I had heard the master was being kept in a warehouse, that mysteriously caught fire two days after he recorded it. Maybe he smacked someone too hard??

  • @zakeefortune8952
    @zakeefortune8952 3 месяца назад +7

    Decades ahead of his time alot of raunchy singer back then😫😆

  • @raymonddodd9048
    @raymonddodd9048 2 месяца назад +2

    Al Bundy's favorite song .

  • @fleafarts3576
    @fleafarts3576 11 дней назад +1

    Al Greens B side…🤔😂😂😂

  • @dantanskymonsterhunter
    @dantanskymonsterhunter 3 месяца назад +1

    Damn

  • @ronbarnhardt5201
    @ronbarnhardt5201 4 дня назад

    I always thought that this was sung by the Slapaho's. 😂

  • @ricardobimblesticks1489
    @ricardobimblesticks1489 22 дня назад

    I feel sorry for the modern generation, their music just doesn't compare to this the music of my youth.
    Beep boop boop.

  • @pauliefromphilly
    @pauliefromphilly 2 месяца назад

    Sean Connery.... truth spoken

  • @SouloSmith
    @SouloSmith 2 месяца назад +1

    Listening to this with my auntie ma.. we both Christians ✝️ 🤪

  • @monty2020-i5d
    @monty2020-i5d 15 дней назад

    😍👍

  • @AlRivera-v2t
    @AlRivera-v2t 2 месяца назад +1

    Wtf is wrong 😢with me why is this therapeutic 🎉😂😅😅☠️☠️☠️🤪🤪😵‍💫😵‍💫🤦, I'm fn ded it's soo wrong and primitive 😢😢😢but I'm dying of laughter 😅 help .......

  • @machomarty8238
    @machomarty8238 3 месяца назад

    Big influence on Sweetback Willie.

    • @ForgottenGrooves
      @ForgottenGrooves  3 месяца назад +3

      @@machomarty8238 They toured and partied together many times, as well as did time together for domestic battery