SOUND GREAT! I know it does not matter at all but I'm an African American sister (black woman) and I love that 70s music and I was driving to work and landed on an oldies station and this song played. Had forgot this one -- always had that FUNKY BEAT!! LOVE IT!! GREAT JOB -- sound GREAT!!
ANGEESOUTHERNBELE I'm with you, I'm a northern "belle" (Detroit). Our city is in mourning over the passing of our queen Aretha Franklin..but this 70's music is the sound I will always enjoy listening to!
Wow! That was one of my favorite songs when it hit the airwaves and here it is, (how many years later?!) and they played it and sang it just as it was recorded! Even in the same scale! As a drummer myself, I was always amazed at the ability of the drummer in this song. At the time, this drummer was doing something ahead of many. I practiced it as often as I could but there's a place in the song where the drummer does this shuffle and I just could not get it right! In fact, I never did get it right and years later, one of the bands I played in during an "Open-Mic" night at a club, played this song. So, when I got to the part of the song for that shuffle-riff, I did a a similar shuffle that I had worked on but not the exact same one. When the song was over, the lead singer praised all the musicians in that gig and then said something like "...and Rich, you must've played that song 100 times because you nailed it lick for lick..." LOL, I thanked him even though I was pretty sure that there must've been at least one other drummer in the club that knew I didn't quite "nail it"... FWIW, Rich
I can't believe that this band wasn't more successful, the lead singer has a fantastic soulful voice, when I first heard this song I thought they were a black group, wonderful Talent.
John Townsend still sounds amazing. As noted by others this performance suffered from what I think might have been a lack of preparation or technical glitches. Compared to how tight this song was originally. IMHO it's among the of the best of all '70's songs. We've got the "Midnight Special" version which is perfect.
High School(9th grade)1977..... Loved this song since its debut 1\1\77! 🤗 🎶 I'd just like to know do you love him or just making time By filling his glass with your fast flowing bitter-sweet wine. 🎶
Unbelievable John Townsend hit every note!! His band is slack,,,but his voice is still there!! God bless him.. in 1976 I knew I was listening to one of the most powerful voices in the business,,,this dude can sing,,,always wondered why he never hit it really big
Gregg Bissonette on drums and Mike Anthony on Bass...now that's a rhythm section. I could have done without the harmonies though, John delivered all by himself!
Intersting that the Midnight Special version the cameras never figured out who Ed Townsend was (right in the center) but zeroed right in on John Sanford. Here they have no idea where John is. Still love the song.
Dammit!!! Whoever the horrible sounding person who is trying to harmonize with the singer RUINED IT!!! The singer could have carried it by himself!!! Love this song!!!
It's the "back up" singers that detracted from that performance. They should have backed up from their microphones. Absolutely agree, origsinger nailed it alone!
John Townsend still sounds good - not as good as when he was at his peak of course - but the band's performance here is light years away from that of the original crew's. Compare this to the live Midnight Special performance of this song in 1977, showing on RUclips.. There's a huge difference in quality between that performance and this one here.
I disagree entirely with your assessment of John. He did the tune in it's original key and pretty much nailed it. The highest notes had the tiniest bit of scratch but he sailed through 99% of it. The only thing that failed here was the background vocals but John has NO apologies to make.
The music, the lyrics, the meaning of the song are all still there etc, but l agree with those that made comments about the sound and video people get rid of them, the video and sound was horrible
Also couldn't hear the backup singers in the mix. Which might have been nice to have, since the non lead singing namesake member was sounding a bit rough. The main vocalist (not sure which is Sanford and which is Townsend) still freakin' has it though!
I have to apologize to Sanford and Townsend for what I'm about to say, but I am a long time musician who covered this song when it was released. The original band was tight as hell, incredible, actually. This performance sucked and the entire band was hideous. Just being honest.
I completely agree with the backing vocals and especially the lead guitar. He didn't even try to emulate the studio or Midnight Special session. It was like he had never played the song before and was making it up as he went along. He needs to be in the studio learning how to play.
Michael Anthony living his best life makes my day
I thought that was him. Michael Anthony is a treasure, we should all be as happy as him.
Seeing this made me smile......great songs truly live on forever.......Bravo Sanford Townsend Band!
Lifespan of a current pop song: 3 to 5 weeks. Lifespan of a classic rock song: 3 to 5 DECADES
Michael Anthony is such an underrated musician. He has played with some of the best musicians of our time.
S-T Band still sound great! And I noticed Michael Anthony, formerly of Van Halen and Chickenfoot holdin' down the bass!
Wild!
And Gregg Bissonnette on drums!
I thought that was him!!
It is Mikey! Looks like he was having a blast
How can he possibly sound this good 40 years after this phenomenal song came out?!
SOUND GREAT! I know it does not matter at all but I'm an African American sister (black woman) and I love that 70s music and I was driving to work and landed on an oldies station and this song played. Had forgot this one -- always had that FUNKY BEAT!! LOVE IT!! GREAT JOB -- sound GREAT!!
Nice to read your comment. If you love 70s funk, check out Brothers Johnson, Ohio Players, and of course the phenomenal O'Jays.
ANGEESOUTHERNBELE I'm with you, I'm a northern "belle" (Detroit). Our city is in mourning over the passing of our queen Aretha Franklin..but this 70's music is the sound I will always enjoy listening to!
Amen sister. Good music is just good!
The Beautiful thing about music is, we are without color in enjoyment of the true thing...
Amen, Sister Angee! Music has brought us together more than any other thing behind G-d.
Holy smoke. John Townsend can still kill it live!
Sanford not so much
Wow! That was one of my favorite songs when it hit the airwaves and here it is, (how many years later?!) and they played it and sang it just as it was recorded! Even in the same scale! As a drummer myself, I was always amazed at the ability of the drummer in this song. At the time, this drummer was doing something ahead of many.
I practiced it as often as I could but there's a place in the song where the drummer does this shuffle and I just could not get it right! In fact, I never did get it right and years later, one of the bands I played in during an "Open-Mic" night at a club, played this song. So, when I got to the part of the song for that shuffle-riff, I did a a similar shuffle that I had worked on but not the exact same one.
When the song was over, the lead singer praised all the musicians in that gig and then said something like "...and Rich, you must've played that song 100 times because you nailed it lick for lick..." LOL, I thanked him even though I was pretty sure that there must've been at least one other drummer in the club that knew I didn't quite "nail it"...
FWIW,
Rich
The guy can STILL belt that out! very impressive vocals!!
How cool to have one of the best bass players in the world, just decide to sit in with this band!!! Classic!!🙂
How this guy wasn't more successful I will never know
I can't believe that this band wasn't more successful, the lead singer has a fantastic soulful voice, when I first heard this song I thought they were a black group, wonderful Talent.
Real music from a simpler time.... and it’s as good as it’s even been.
LONG LIVE THE 70S!!!
BEST DECADE EVER!!!!!
John Townsend still sounds amazing. As noted by others this performance suffered from what I think might have been a lack of preparation or technical glitches. Compared to how tight this song was originally. IMHO it's among the of the best of all '70's songs. We've got the "Midnight Special" version which is perfect.
That is what is great about a live version ~ it is not perfect.
@@sartainja Agree.
Yes I agree vocal arrangements weren't good
They still sound just as amazing. 💕 So proud to be a Townsend. Love you Unka Johnny
one of the greatest 1 hit wonders
High School(9th grade)1977.....
Loved this song since its debut 1\1\77! 🤗
🎶 I'd just like to know do you love him or just making time
By filling his glass with your fast flowing bitter-sweet wine. 🎶
Great song and band
Takes me back to 1976 in a flash!
From the great city of Tuscaloosa in my home state of Alabama. What a great song and ROLL TIDE!
Blue eyed soul !! One of the greatest songs from maybe the greatest music decade.
...just gotta tap your feet or pat your knee!! love this tune!
Great music from a couple of Alabama’s sons. I have always loved this song. My 12 year old just learned to play it.
One Of My Favorite Songs
Michael Anthony on Bass!
White Ninja playing like a knucklehead?
All of the except the drummer are playing it like they listened to it an hour before the performance.
White ninja. He has good taste in music that is why. Even though this sounds nothing like the original it still is a great song.
I THOUGHT HE LOOKED FAMILIAR!!!
I had no idea he was so short...and could actually play a moving bass line!
No Van Halen, No Chicken Foot, got to make those house & car payments some how.
Love this song. Nice surprise to see Michael Anthony on the bass!
That guys voice hasn't changed. Awesome.
Gregg Bissonette on drums...he is so rock solid!
Probably the best "One Hit Wonder" song of all time.
I agree 100%.
Johnny sounds great! The sound guy and video guy need to be fired.
Who shot this video ? A five year old on his iPhone 4?
Highly Agree!!
LOL I was thinking that same exact thing 😂
I agree! The sound guys goes first.
always thought he sounded like Darryl Hall
He would say, other way around :-)
never thought about it...but yes he does
His vocals at peak blew Daryl Hall out of the water!
Unbelievable John Townsend hit every note!! His band is slack,,,but his voice is still there!! God bless him.. in 1976 I knew I was listening to one of the most powerful voices in the business,,,this dude can sing,,,always wondered why he never hit it really big
Gregg Bissonette on drums and Mike Anthony on Bass...now that's a rhythm section. I could have done without the harmonies though, John delivered all by himself!
FREAKIN AWESOME
I went to a Marshall Tucker concert in Indianapolis just because they were the lead in. I have loved this song since it was first released.
Thats Michael Anthony on bass!
Vocals still sound great!!
Lara42011 donALDFAGANIGY
What a great song. Sorry I missed this one in the seventies. Thanks for posting it.
Intersting that the Midnight Special version the cameras never figured out who Ed Townsend was (right in the center) but zeroed right in on John Sanford. Here they have no idea where John is. Still love the song.
oh ya ....that was worthy ! thank ya'll !! you guys kicked butt back in the day as well.....
The singer still has it!
Dammit!!! Whoever the horrible sounding person who is trying to harmonize with the singer RUINED IT!!! The singer could have carried it by himself!!! Love this song!!!
That was tortuous
Pretty sure it was the guy on the end or #2. Both? End guy looked like he'd never heard the song before.
It's the "back up" singers that detracted from that performance. They should have backed up from their microphones. Absolutely agree, origsinger nailed it alone!
Ugly!
Don't blame Anthony lol yeah that dude couldn't sing
Michael Anthony Sobolewski is an American musician who was the bassist and backing vocalist for the hard rock band Van Halen.
Voice....still kicks!!! Awesome song!
STILL sound great.
That’s is a really good tune and it still goes over great today!
Love this song!
40 camera angles and can’t find the singer with one of them?
One great song!!!
Love,love this song
That's got to be my favorite song. Like ... I'm belting it out in the shower where acoustics are raw! 😄
To my Divine Twin !
Michael Anthony? Van Halen? Nice! One of the best harmony singers ever!
I would tend to agree with you on that.
Did you hear it, a song you could hear and understand all the lyrics. Who knew?
all those smiles
Not quite the same without the horns but it's one of the all time great songs in my book.
Great sound!! Awesome song!! ROFL at the horrific camera coverage and directing. "Um. Which guy is singing?"
No kidding; took me like the first 30 seconds of the song to find him.
Michael Anthony and John awesome!
I love the black page @3:25. Reminds me of Zappa. This is really good stuff.
Its like the camera man doesnt realize who is singing. Come on. Amazing performance.
Was the microphone working for the sax player? It sounded so muted. Singer/piano John Townsend still has it.
❣️🎶
Has anyone ever covered this song? Not that they’re not great. One of the best one hits ever!
Conway Twitty, I believe actually.
dam,right.this song is to my ex wife, julia,and sister bredea thank god pain is over. 😎
Is that the bassist for Van Halen good music
Sure looks like Michael Anthony.
Lyle Workman on the gold Strat...!
♥️
One of theee best bands of the 70s
Who did the introduction?
Talk much???
John Townsend still sounds good - not as good as when he was at his peak of course - but the band's performance here is light years away from that of the original crew's. Compare this to the live Midnight Special performance of this song in 1977, showing on RUclips.. There's a huge difference in quality between that performance and this one here.
I disagree entirely with your assessment of John. He did the tune in it's original key and pretty much nailed it. The highest notes had the tiniest bit of scratch but he sailed through 99% of it. The only thing that failed here was the background vocals but John has NO apologies to make.
Yes, great breakdown! John's voice is very similar, but a little more raspy and worn! Still, to be 70 he is still incredible!
Is that the bass player from Van Halen?
I didn't know Michael Anthony was in Sanford-Townsend Band??
The music, the lyrics, the meaning of the song are all still there etc, but l agree with those that made comments about the sound and video people get rid of them, the video and sound was horrible
Who is “Mark in the Morning”? Radio show? If so where?
Is that Michael Anthony from Van Halen playing bass?
Is that mark anthony from van halen playing the bass?
I noticed he dropped an octave from his high notes
I wished they would have focused more on the Singer! He is the band! Not the 3 tweekers in the middle.
Mike Anthony on Bass
Looks like Gregg Bissonette on drums too...
Is Michael Anthony on bass?
All I had to do was read the comments duh
Sure looks like him
The singers are perplexed, tempo is too fast, and the guitarist is overplaying. That said the singer is killing it.
Still got a great voice...too bad he is almost hidden on stage !!
Roger Johnson?
I feel for the sax player….what’s the sound man doing?
is that Michael Anthony on bass???
Is that Gina Grad from the Adam Corolla Show doing the introduction?
looks like her and she has the same huge bosoms
I believe it is. Check out their YT page, "The Sound" She does many other interview vids.
whoa, somebody is flat on the backing vocals, ouch
michael anthony proved he can play with anybody , van halen needs to stop talkin shit about him
I can’t hear the sax! :(
Fire the lighting crew!....and the sound crew too can barely hear the Sax!
Sound men are notorious for burying sax players in the mix.
Also couldn't hear the backup singers in the mix. Which might have been nice to have, since the non lead singing namesake member was sounding a bit rough. The main vocalist (not sure which is Sanford and which is Townsend) still freakin' has it though!
And Marc Bonilla on guitar?
70s girlfriend angst
Stephen King on Sax
Darly Hall
Poor sound mix.
Mm
I have to apologize to Sanford and Townsend for what I'm about to say, but I am a long time musician who covered this song when it was released. The original band was tight as hell, incredible, actually. This performance sucked and the entire band was hideous. Just being honest.
Should have been arrested for loitering on stage.
backing vocals are flat, lead guitar crap, sounds disjointed.....
that was the guy videoing that was singing along.. he ruined it lol
I completely agree with the backing vocals and especially the lead guitar. He didn't even try to emulate the studio or Midnight Special session. It was like he had never played the song before and was making it up as he went along. He needs to be in the studio learning how to play.