I think I saw this clip on UA-cam a few years ago but I have no idea why it was removed. Oh well, I'm gonna repost it. Hope you enjoy this great song! :-)
Well I guess that you never pay attention to them, because dis are the ORIGINAL when music was music that you could dance to it nice n slowly holding the woman close to your body tight
@@leobutler3571 listen closely, you can hear Marvin singing background on this and their other hit, when I hear the bells. They were his background singers when he was on tour.
This is what all vocal groups should do this way if the lead vocal decides to leave the group the entire group does not die. Look what happend when Diana Ross left the Supremes or When Smokey Robinson left the Miracles.
@Francesa yes,I am 64 I grew up in this era, The music was real( orchestra or live bands)....Yes and singers sang from their painful experiences in life.....straight from the heart ❤️
@@cescalyonsYes, They do and I for one Have grown Tired and Fed up with How Females are degraded and not given any RESPECT I am only willing to listen to music 🎶 that lifts up the Female persona and brings Happy feelings!
I sang this song in my 8th grade talent show. The 2 back up singers chickened out at the last moment. I had to sing it myself. That was 1968 and I was 12 years old...the girls afterwards though...lol
Funny. There are no back up singers. All these men are leading the song. Were you going to sing everyone's parts? Lol! They probably got mad that you wanted to hog the song. Smiling.
Hey. Gerald. For real, they all gone? Seen them in rehearsals at the 20 grand. In Detroit. Dang those guys could sing. All the girls came out of there dreamy eyes. Oh yes me also.
So do I this was music if they talked about sex you didn't know it but the music they have today you know about it and they some that's why our young people are so lost and out of control
My best friend from the Bronx told me one day, he had something special for me to hear. He played the Originals "Baby I'm For Real" and I was absolutely blown Away with so much honesty and truth they imparted in their vocals, and the lyrics to this very special song...
I agree with all of you.This song will never grow old. I appreciate all of your heartfelt comments. It takes me back to the year 1971 when I graduatedfrom high school. Thank you. Teresa from Millbrook, Al.😊
These were songs that captured the heart and soul of a woman!! They are as revelant today as days past. The sad part is that hearts of so many women have been fractured by some of us men that they find it incredible to accept when some of us men speak from our hearts! Let's all be for real!! God bless.
Yes, if we just had real men that would share kindness, compassion and RESPECT our world 🌍 would be a lot more together and sad games people try to Play!
Actually they weren't discovered by Marvin. Freddie Gorman, the first man to sing lead, was a songwriter with Motown in the early days. He co-wrote "Please Mr. Postman" for the Marvelettes in 1961 and originally part of a songwriting team with Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, who would later become Holland-Dozier-Holland. Gorman left Motown for a brief period only to return in 1966 with the Originals where they recorded their own material, but mostly provided background vocals on hundreds of songs. Marvin, who felt groups like the Originals weren't getting the attention from Motown, decided to produce the guys and thus the song here is a result.
Love this song. It's great to finally see a video of them performing it because I always thought it was just two of them singing lead. That really shows that there is talent all through this group.
OMG, this was the "jam" back in my day! And do y'all hear those violins and that harp?! Beautiful vocals, beautiful love song, what a fantastic arrangement and production!!
Didn't he though! To folks back then, when they heard it for 1st time, That was my Q to try and sing that part. They'd get mad at me and had me play it from the start. Great oldy days.
What an awesome group, The Originals, a group who left ballads indelibly etched in our hearts!!!!! All of these fine brothers, all of which were GOD gifted, talented, with awesome vocals, nothing like A BEAUTIFUL spirited, GOOD MAN!!!!!
LORD HAVE MERCY!!! 4 lead singers with equally amazing voices and here I sit tears in my eyes and pain in my heart that there is no going back to those days back in the 60s when I used to listen to my friends trying their best to imitate these brothers in perhaps one of the acoustic environments that was to be found in the Lobby of the NYC projects.
"Unreal" how vocally emotive The Originals were. The 4 part harmony aside from the 1-2 vocal trade from CP to Hank was just unreal how solid they sounded, you hear their songs one knows exactly who it is though you may not recognize the group. Aside from this and "The Bells" , their finest works on "Once in My Like" or "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" demonstrate what unusually perfectionists they were.
Wow,nothing but the CLASSICS. We had so many great groups back in the '70's. What an era to have grown up in. I wouldn't change it for the world. None of this foolish rap, but real singers and entertainers.
I was stationed in Thailand in late 1969 or early 1970 when I first heard this song. Outstanding music. I bought a 12 volt cassette player and bought the tape and wore it out listening to this and the bells.
05/25/2019 Steven sang this song to me ,he was 16 & I was 15 and for 30yrs till death did us part! Baby was for REAL! Loving you forever! Rest on Husband !
@@billyballard8389 Gosh I am about in 😢 tears right now but it's all good though because this song holds a very special & significant place in my 💗very well sung The Originals and yes Marvin absolutely delivered this song Baby I'm For Real with full 🎇 power 🎇 11-19-19
Thank you so much for posting this. This is the first time I've seen the faces of the Originals and I thought I'd never see them before I die. I thought only one member was singing the entire song but this video proved I was so wonderfully mistaken. Truly amazing! Thank you so much!
I too thought only one guy was doing all the vocals. And this clip was truly a pleasant surprise. Loved this song all these years ever since I heard it in my elementary years.
The very 1st love song that I fell in love with back in 1969 when I was only 6 years old.Thank you for your greatness Originals.God Bless you.Rip to those group members who've gone on to Glory.For the one remaining member of the group.May you have many more years to come to continue your greatness.
A very under rated group. I still get goose bumps when I here, We got a way out love. I think it was on the album, titled, Green Grow The Lilacs. I can remember reading an interview in Blues & Soul. When the group was in the UK. A great vocal group, Motown should have written and produced more music for them. Just like the Fantastic Four.
baby im for real was played on the jukebox by a friend to express how he felt since then until today i have never gotten over the feelings i experienced that evening in the early 70s
I've been listening to this track on and off for 40 years or more and its beauty and power never fades. Those glorious individual voices wrapping themselves around a sweet and soulful Marvin Gaye lyric and the result is a thing of beauty. The Originals never seemed to get their rewards for producing a wonderful body of work, check out California Sunset written and produced by Lamont Dozier a wonderful album, but this is something else...a perfect love song, sung with all the passion and skill that a work of art deserves. Thank you guys....
This Song like Got to be there, has character, mystery and a love devotion, back then people sang from their hearts and anything from the heart is pure, instant gold, God blessed me for I`ve grew up listening to beautiful music like this ...Amen.
Marvin Gaye, Wrote this song, He was a great writer and producer.When you listen to this cut you can hear how Marvin, gave some of his harmony and backgrounds the same way that he learned from the group "The Moonglows" when he was a member with, Harvey Fuqua. He also wrote "Dancing in the streets. I was Marvin Gaye's, Personal Assistant. I
MotownMagic1959 I thought I'd add a late comment to thank you DiscoNights1987 for putting this clip on, I was a fan of The Originals since they started all those years ago I wish they were around today!! that was the thing in the 60's and 70's every artists had individual talent especially at Motown etc that seems to be missing quite a lot today don't you think? I used to do a Motown Disco here and it was SO popular back in the 70's. Many thanks to all. JOHN
I know when my dad passes away (i hope not soon) this song is gonna break my heart so bad because my dad use to play this song all the time when i was a little girl..i will forever keep this song as a memory of my dad... im a mother and hes the reason i want my child to remember such great music and to have a song like this for my child to remember me by❤❤
Jasmine Marie PLEASE let me know if you get this or read this young lady . Let me tell you I understand. This song is just hard to describe. Beautiful. Also check out Michael McDonald’s version . It’s a another classic . GOD bless you and your Father as well . Joey
MotownMagic1959 They worked as background singers for Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmie Ruffin, in the early times, even the girl groups too! This record topped one million sales in the US and after "The Bells" came "God Bless Whoever Sent You" all thanks to Marvin Gaye brilliant eh? to think Freddie Gorman as I often tell people, was a postman once and who should write "The Marvelettes first hit on Motown's Tamla label but Freddie..... "Please Mr Postman" superb in every way. Cheers, JOHN
I first head Baby I’m for real when it was introduced on WAMS Wilmington,Delaware a week after I moved to Newark,Delaware on June 27,1969 as a hit bound, it climbed the hit charts real fast. It’s great that I can hear it on you tube. The song was so very popular in the Philippines in 1974 when I was first there. I heard the song the day I met my late wife of 31 years on January 16, 1975, I was in the Navy then. Baby I’m for real is a song that has staying power. My late parents loved the song. I heard my father hum it many times & my mother sing & even hum it as well.
I can still remember this band The original singing this song they had a good album that year I still have it and I have the CD and still jamming out to all these old school oldies love songs.. I know all you people out there that are still old school keep it real and keep it original... Baby I'm for real...lol..
Flashback To The Pass when music was for real!” When love ❤was for real!” I haven’t heard this song in many years. It’s a miracle how I still remember all the lyrics. My grandkids freak out how I still remember after so many years. To my grandkids it’s mambo Jumbo music. Sadly they’ll never know what true music was 😢 i’m glad for technology now where we can look up any song that takes you back to memory lane.
People keep saying " they just don't make music like this anymore " (while the truth is) it's timeless & can never truly be duplicated, so no-1 should ever try to take away the love of a artful exhibition that's so meaningful, and turn it into a everyday thing that would never have the true effects on the people that it does.
If you young people born after the 80's would only go back to the times of romantic music such as songs of this sort. Maybe the crime that plagues your era, the drug use, breakup and breakdown of the family, and slutty ways of modern females who ignorantly call themselves "b.....s" and guys calling themselves "dogs", when change. Just hopeful thinking on my behalf.
Amen! I live this comment brotha! 110% agree with ya! I'm 16 years of age and I absolutely adore all old fashioned music but most dearly the romantic beautiful pieces of art like this!!!
Jake Cudnik Jake thanks for the positive reply. Dude, when you're with your girl and you want to take her to a higher level "romantically" play this song, and any of the Whispers any great slow songs, such as Great Day". Bring back the art of olde school romance Jake and blow your female friend's mind.
Will do man! It's been going really well talking to this one girl that I love. I'll make a promise to you man that I'll play that when I'm with her! Great thing is she loves that type of music and really any of the music I listen to!
It's not like people from that era are saints either. I bet at least one member of this group was hooked on cocaine. You have to remember that since the baby boomers the WORLD population has doubled so crime had to at least double. Also more crime is reported now because it is easier to record and spread I bet people back then got away with some really heinous crimes. Last and not least who raised my generation? Don't they deserve some credit with what is wrong with society today?
I'm only 20 and I was born in 98", raised with this music and I plan on never letting it go. Can I get some props lol.
David Rodriguez I’m right there with you man we got to keep it alive and pass it on.
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Good for you young man. That era of music was the best. Nothing today comes close. I’m so blessed to have grown up in that era.
Certainly have
Those blues parties
All these years I never knew it was 4 different guys singing lead, that's talent.
Ha! I thought the same thing! All my life i thought it was just ONE guy singing.
Me too.
They all have different voices
Wow....all these years. This was a well kept secret 🎉
Well I guess that you never pay attention to them, because dis are the ORIGINAL when music was music that you could dance to it nice n slowly holding the woman close to your body tight
RIP GUYS YOU BROUGHT LOVELY SONGS to a grateful generation.
Song was recorded 50 years ago & I'm still banging this. CLASSIC TIMELESS
You have style
The best😊
All of these brothers had great lead vocals.Produced and Written by:
Marvin Gaye. Motown Magic!
Marvin wrote this awesome tune ?
@@leobutler3571 listen closely, you can hear Marvin singing background on this and their other hit, when I hear the bells. They were his background singers when he was on tour.
This is what all vocal groups should do this way if the lead vocal decides to leave the group the entire group does not die. Look what happend when Diana Ross left the Supremes or When Smokey Robinson left the Miracles.
My baby daddy ❤❤❤
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My parents rocked this back in the 70's. I loved it then and I still love it in 2023. Classic. Perfection.
I was 5 years old when this came out golden classic 👍
How could anyone not like this kind of music. FANTASTIC
They sound like they're really singing from their heart too. They sound so sincere. Beautiful song and orchestration.
I agree it's so beautiful and true....
In those days all groups sang from their hearts. Todays music is so disrespectful towards women.. Especially, Rap. Women do it too.
@Francesa yes,I am 64 I grew up in this era, The music was real( orchestra or live bands)....Yes and singers sang from their painful experiences in life.....straight from the heart ❤️
❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉💯🏆✍🏽📖
@@cescalyonsYes, They do and I for one Have grown Tired and Fed up with How Females are degraded and not given any RESPECT I am only willing to listen to music 🎶 that lifts up the Female persona and brings Happy feelings!
When music and singing was an art. No technogy just pure talent at its best.
What's the name of the tall guy, 2nd from the left wearing a black jacket singing "baby,baby,baby"?
You are so correct DG no computer generated voices or instruments pure raw talent not like the crap of today timeless my brother
57yrs later and this song still has the same spell over me! Classics never Die!
Agreed!
I’m just getting this song and I played it and had to send it to my fiancé. This song brings chills to me because I love her for real.
54 years later, still one of the most beautiful love songs ever. I was 9 years old when this was first released, and loved/dug it immediately.
Written by Marvin Gaye.
@@MorganGates-zu3bh Seriously?!! Never knew that!
I was 16 Rip
Singers back then made it look and sound so easy. Pure gold.
Real talent. The singers had charm, soul, swag and charisma. They were also great performers, and they dressed impeccably.
Yes
Phresh Ideas + Designs nqw
Absolutely!!!
Real deal here,these groups really sang
from the heart!!!!❤love it here in San Antonio tex!!!! They Inspire the groups that came out of San Antonio!!!
This song has so much meaning especially when you're in love with that special person 💘
Yes indeed! Yes indeed!😊
Absolutely true!! Pure Clean, Beautiful Music and Singing!!!
A proper vocal group up there with The Dells. They all sing their individual parts beautifully!
I love The Dells too. And I also love "I'll Never Hear The Bells" by The Originals as well. I still get goosebumps when I hear those two songs. 🤗💕
Absolutely!!! You called it.
All of these Guys have Lead Singing Qualities.
I never seen nothing like those great singers and groups of those days amazing, sing, dance, dress good looking those days will never be relived.
Amazing correction, you know what I mean, simply wonderful.
Amazing correction, thank you!
That's a good song
@@maryallen5288 oldies but goodies are and will always will the# 1 songs
This song is over 40 years old, but, whenever I hear it, it STILL sends a chill up my spine!! R.I.P. Freddie Gorman and C.P. Spencer...
Still listening in March 2023
I get high just swaying back and forth . No drugs just the best soul music on earth.
And now it’s over 50 years old, and it still gives us chills!
Are u still around ? This was 14 years ago this post
Straight up...simply one of the greatest love songs ever recorded....
You said it‼️‼️And you are right in Target! Only song that ever made me start crying ,when someone played it to me !!
Yes I agree!
True
I sang this song in my 8th grade talent show. The 2 back up singers chickened out at the last moment. I had to sing it myself. That was 1968 and I was 12 years old...the girls afterwards though...lol
michael samuels great story and memory
@Michael Samuels: "You da man"!!!!!
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I know thats right!
Funny. There are no back up singers. All these men are leading the song.
Were you going to sing everyone's parts? Lol! They probably got mad that you wanted to hog the song. Smiling.
So very, very sad they don't make music like this for today's youth!!! Thank "God" I grew up in the 60's-70's best music ever!!!!
Man this was/is music at it's finest!
It’s real music. Doesn’t get any better.
Lisa this is what true love really is
This was music at its finest.And every word is clear and you understand it.RIP guy's.
All are dead except Hank Dixon..
Gerald Summers every word is clear and understandable... lol... that was amazing lol
Hey. Gerald. For real, they all gone?
Seen them in rehearsals at the 20 grand. In Detroit.
Dang those guys could sing. All the girls came out of there dreamy eyes. Oh yes me also.
Marvin Gaye wrote for and produced these guys.
Cap
So beautiful!! I so wish music was still this smooth.
that's why these songs are still being heard by people like you and I... the beauty of the music, the times and memories are everlasting ...
from1970 you had good music to listen to I was born in 1953 I put all that good shift on
I'm afraid those days are gone like the dodo bird.
Halla
So do I this was music if they talked about sex you didn't know it but the music they have today you know about it and they some that's why our young people are so lost and out of control
This made the year I was born 1969. This is what true soul sounds like.
My best friend from the Bronx told me one day, he had something special for me to hear. He played the Originals "Baby I'm For Real" and I was absolutely blown Away with so much honesty and truth they imparted in their vocals, and the lyrics to this very special song...
I agree with all of you.This song will never grow old. I appreciate all of your heartfelt comments. It takes me back to the year 1971 when I graduatedfrom high school. Thank you. Teresa from Millbrook, Al.😊
So glad to have grown up to this incredible music. A 70s child ~
We was blessed
Facts 💯.
After 7 did it too Babyface and his brother’s
Well actually my a 50’s Child…Got to really enjoy this 🎶🎶❤️❤️✌🏾
If only if only music was this great today!
These were songs that captured the heart and soul of a woman!! They are as revelant today as days past. The sad part is that hearts of so many women have been fractured by some of us men that they find it incredible to accept when some of us men speak from our hearts! Let's all be for real!!
God bless.
Yes, if we just had real men that would share kindness, compassion and RESPECT our world 🌍 would be a lot more together and sad games people try to Play!
God bless you too ❤😊
These fellas were disovered and produced by Marvin Gaye , so simple, yet , but unique.
+Roy T. Boyd Who knew? Thxs.
@Will Rich Only a true Marvin Gaye fan knows this info.He also wrote and produced The Bells for this same group too👍
Will Rich WOW!
Actually they weren't discovered by Marvin. Freddie Gorman, the first man to sing lead, was a songwriter with Motown in the early days. He co-wrote "Please Mr. Postman" for the Marvelettes in 1961 and originally part of a songwriting team with Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, who would later become Holland-Dozier-Holland. Gorman left Motown for a brief period only to return in 1966 with the Originals where they recorded their own material, but mostly provided background vocals on hundreds of songs. Marvin, who felt groups like the Originals weren't getting the attention from Motown, decided to produce the guys and thus the song here is a result.
@@bradleyscarton3931 And Marvin and Anna Gordy-Gaye wrote that title.
Love this song. It's great to finally see a video of them performing it because I always thought it was just two of them singing lead. That really shows that there is talent all through this group.
OMG, this was the "jam" back in my day! And do y'all hear those violins and that harp?! Beautiful vocals, beautiful love song, what a fantastic arrangement and production!!
This is one of the most beautiful Songs ever made. Especially the part at 1:30 the way he just belts out those heart wrenching lyrics. So beautiful
YES, YES, YES...
Written and produced by the one and only Mr. Marvin Gaye
Didn't he though!
To folks back then, when they heard it for 1st time, That was my Q to try and sing that part. They'd get mad at me and had me play it from the start.
Great oldy days.
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@ Washingtond girl like the name where this DMV stuff come from lol U street NW 4 every
This is utterly amazing, I've heard this song all my life and never knew it was a four part lead.
Same Here!
Neither did l. I thought it was a 2 part melody
What an awesome group, The Originals, a group who left ballads indelibly etched in our hearts!!!!! All of these fine brothers, all of which were GOD gifted, talented, with awesome vocals, nothing like A BEAUTIFUL spirited, GOOD MAN!!!!!
Some of the best songs ever sung. We were Blessed by all these old school songs. Enjoy everybody.
LORD HAVE MERCY!!! 4 lead singers with equally amazing voices and here I sit tears in my eyes and pain in my heart that there is no going back to those days back in the 60s when I used to listen to my friends trying their best to imitate these brothers in perhaps one of the acoustic environments that was to be found in the Lobby of the NYC projects.
THIS IS OLD SCHOOL AT IT'S BEST (THE ORIGINALS)
Pure gold. Pure singing. And that fro and shades 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👏🏿👏🏿
I may not be born in those times but I'm very proud I have old school in me. Oldies por vida!
agrees with you on that beats todays crap
+Rick S FOR REAL haha
The same brother
THANK YOU YOUNG MAN
I'M 62 YEAR OLD I LOVE MY
OLD SCHOOL MUSIC
"Unreal" how vocally emotive The Originals were. The 4 part harmony aside from the 1-2 vocal trade from CP to Hank was just unreal how solid they sounded, you hear their songs one knows exactly who it is though you may not recognize the group. Aside from this and "The Bells" , their finest works on "Once in My Like" or "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" demonstrate what unusually perfectionists they were.
Benny don't forget "God bless whoever sent you" that's my favorite.
Perfection Indeed 😊
Could not agree more, true vocal masterpiece., Hank to CP. lead trades with Freddie bringing up the base.
that's when man really know how to treat a lady.
latoya sims
You anit never lying... Had rap so smooth.
😀😀😀📻📻
..And also when ladies acted like ladies so that men can be chivalrous.
Yes yes yes
After all these years I still love this song. It really ministered to me while I was home on leave and on my way to Viet Nam in October 1969
This is the first time I have seen a video of them singing this song. I never knew all 4 four of them sang lead. Great harmony.
How does anyone hit dislike on this classic??
we call them IDIOTS !! LOL
Amber Graham One of the greatest songs ever recorded
Amber Graham ..I feel you miss Amber👍👍👍👍
That's what I said !!
Amber Graham
They don't understand Love songs.
The best opening ever, straight to the heart.
one of my best olides what a love song. this is when groups really sung their hearts
Oh my damn...this is singing! Love these songs forever.
Wow,nothing but the CLASSICS. We had so many great groups back in the '70's. What an era to have grown up in. I wouldn't change it for the world. None of this foolish rap, but real singers and entertainers.
I love this song
When I first heard this song, I was a little girl, and my mother use to play it over and over, now I love this song to the fulliest.
After 7 did this song great justice by leaving it mostly in its' original style. Great original and cover version of the song.
Sherrick great version
Exactly
YES INDEED
Instablaster
Maybe so, but it's nothing like the original
This is TRUE CLASSIC MUSIC. The groups back in the day made women feel loved and wanted. Thank you !
I was stationed in Thailand in late 1969 or early 1970 when I first heard this song. Outstanding music. I bought a 12 volt cassette player and bought the tape and wore it out listening to this and the bells.
It is now over 50 years and it is still great.
05/25/2019 Steven sang this song to me ,he was 16 & I was 15 and for 30yrs till death did us part! Baby was for REAL! Loving you forever! Rest on Husband !
That's sooo beautiful.
How can you not miss the 60's and 70's 😢
This was composed by no other than the great Marvin Gaye for this group of fine gentlemen ❤
if you don't think this is one of the most beautiful love songs ever, I would prefer to not breathe the same air as you
well said,,,true story
Gene Clauson ,
Real Talk!!!!!
Agree
Gene Clauson it is dumb ass
All these guys could blow.what a romantic tune.i love their music.does anyone remember this classic.
if I could just be young again and go back to my DC days. There will never be music like that. it gets into your heart and soul and melts it. SMH
We're blessed to have had it. The music, the men and the experiences. How many dear young women will be able to say the same?
susie keyes ...How sweet the sound is to this **amazing song**👂👂👂
This song is better then ice cream. And I love ice cream.
this is ( to me ) the national anthem of old school, the Originals sang from their soul
A Marvin Gaye penned original
That's right. Marvin Gaye promised them a hit. Did he do it!!!
Marvin and Anna, wife 💖💖
@@billyballard8389 Gosh I am about in 😢 tears right now but it's all good though because this song holds a very special & significant place in my 💗very well sung The Originals and yes Marvin absolutely delivered this song Baby I'm For Real with full 🎇 power 🎇 11-19-19
Thank you so much for posting this. This is the first time I've seen the faces of the Originals and I thought I'd never see them before I die. I thought only one member was singing the entire song but this video proved I was so wonderfully mistaken. Truly amazing! Thank you so much!
I too thought only one guy was doing all the vocals. And this clip was truly a pleasant surprise. Loved this song all these years ever since I heard it in my elementary years.
The very 1st love song that I fell in love with back in 1969 when I was only 6 years old.Thank you for your greatness Originals.God Bless you.Rip to those group members who've gone on to Glory.For the one remaining member of the group.May you have many more years to come to continue your greatness.
This song was the real deal back in the day. All of these brothers have passed. Rest in Peace....
+gua117 the best ever
I could play these songs all day... and sometimes I do... Love it, love it, love it...
I think Hank Dixon is still alive..his daughter is in the group now..
+Michael Miles Yes, Hank Dixon is still alive and leads the group today.
gua117 Really They’re gone. How sad. I love their sweet voices. Thx for sharing.
VOICES STILL STRONG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! NOT MANY GROUPS MAINTAIN THEIR STRONG VOCALS. THANK YOU, BROUGHT TEARS TO EYES. LOVE LOVE THIS AND THEM!
which one of them are still alive because i think just about all them are dead..
Darron Felix Hank Dixon, 2nd from the left in the black suit with the powerful baritone-voice, is the sole-survivor who leads the group today.
A very under rated group. I still get goose bumps when I here, We got a way out love. I think it was on the album, titled, Green Grow The Lilacs. I can remember reading an interview in Blues & Soul. When the group was in the UK. A great vocal group, Motown should have written and produced more music for them. Just like the Fantastic Four.
Marvin Gaye founded this group in Detroit in 1966. Not surprising at all!
baby im for real was played on the jukebox by a friend to express how he felt
since then until today i have never gotten over the feelings i experienced that evening in the early 70s
I've been listening to this track on and off for 40 years or more and its beauty and power never fades. Those glorious individual voices wrapping themselves around a sweet and soulful Marvin Gaye lyric and the result is a thing of beauty. The Originals never seemed to get their rewards for producing a wonderful body of work, check out California Sunset written and produced by Lamont Dozier a wonderful album, but this is something else...a perfect love song, sung with all the passion and skill that a work of art deserves. Thank you guys....
This Song like Got to be there, has character, mystery and a love devotion, back then people sang from their hearts and anything from the heart is pure, instant gold, God blessed me for I`ve grew up listening to beautiful music like this ...Amen.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS SONG!!! PURE PERFECTION!!! Thank you for this post.
Marvin Gaye, Wrote this song, He was a great writer and producer.When you listen to
this cut you can hear how Marvin, gave some of his harmony and backgrounds the same
way that he learned from the group "The Moonglows" when he was a member with, Harvey
Fuqua. He also wrote "Dancing in the streets. I was Marvin Gaye's, Personal Assistant. I
+Kitty Sears Show u right.
Kitty Sears Wow! Thanks for that information!
@Shadow Play in the Woods
No. Martha And The Vandella's classic Dancing In The Streets
One of the best songs
CLASSIC PERFORMANCE ! I BROUGHT THIS SONG JUST BECAUSE IT WAS A MOTOWN SOUND ! I LEARNED TO LOVE "THE ORIGINALS" THIS WAS A TREASURED ITEM !
How many people actually thought upon hearing this song back in the day that there was only lead vocalist throughout the entire song?
Real Shit I Thought The Same Thing Lol This A Amazing Performance Fr Modern Rnb singers not even close to singing live fr actually sounding good.
Yass!🤣
jiimy0803...I always thought there was only one singer...lol..wow.It wasn't til I saw this video that I came to know the shared leads!!
@HM H I thought it was one lead also. They all were dynamic voices
The brother on the end, sends it up!!! I never seen a video of them before.
MotownMagic1959
I thought I'd add a late comment to thank you DiscoNights1987 for putting this clip on, I was a fan of The Originals since they started all those years ago I wish they were around today!! that was the thing in the 60's and 70's every artists had individual talent especially at Motown etc that seems to be missing quite a lot today don't you think? I used to do a Motown Disco here and it was SO popular back in the 70's. Many thanks to all. JOHN
Still listening in 2021. What fantastic singers.
And 2022
I know when my dad passes away (i hope not soon) this song is gonna break my heart so bad because my dad use to play this song all the time when i was a little
girl..i will forever keep this song as a memory of my dad... im a mother and hes the reason i want my child to remember such great music and to have a song like this for my child to remember me by❤❤
:(
Jasmine Marie funny thing is that I play this for my 2 year old daughter and she absolutely loves it
keep on listen keep you dad in your heart soory.
Jasmine Marie PLEASE let me know if you get this or read this young lady . Let me tell you I understand. This song is just hard to describe. Beautiful. Also check out Michael McDonald’s version . It’s a another classic . GOD bless you and your Father as well . Joey
This is one of my favorites, hands down!
Highest of the highest quality singing!!! Pure talent!
MotownMagic1959
They worked as background singers for Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmie Ruffin, in the early times, even the girl groups too! This record topped one million sales in the US and after "The Bells" came "God Bless Whoever Sent You" all thanks to Marvin Gaye brilliant eh? to think Freddie Gorman as I often tell people, was a postman once and who should write "The Marvelettes first hit on Motown's Tamla label but Freddie..... "Please Mr Postman" superb in every way. Cheers, JOHN
+John G Byrne and Jr Walker and the All Stars.
As the history buff that I am, I really appreciate the nugget of info!
John G Byrne as a former DJ you have given me great background information we learn something every day thank you l love this group
Another good jam, shiiiit.
Thanks for that knowledge! Interesting.
This song takes me back to some fun loving times in my life.
Loved this song back in the day, love it even more so now!! This is the Real Deal, True R and B✨✨
I first head Baby I’m for real when it was introduced on WAMS Wilmington,Delaware a week after I moved to Newark,Delaware on June 27,1969 as a hit bound, it climbed the hit charts real fast. It’s great that I can hear it on you tube. The song was so very popular in the Philippines in 1974 when I was first there. I heard the song the day I met my late wife of 31 years on January 16, 1975, I was in the Navy then. Baby I’m for real is a song that has staying power. My late parents loved the song. I heard my father hum it many times & my mother sing & even hum it as well.
I can still remember this band The original singing this song they had a good album that year I still have it and I have the CD and still jamming out to all these old school oldies love songs.. I know all you people out there that are still old school keep it real and keep it original... Baby I'm for real...lol..
I grew up with this and I wouldn't let it go beautiful music 💎
I remember hearing this song back in 1972. As a kid everything was together
Flashback To The Pass when music was for real!” When love ❤was for real!” I haven’t heard this song in many years. It’s a miracle how I still remember all the lyrics. My grandkids freak out how I still remember after so many years. To my grandkids it’s mambo Jumbo music. Sadly they’ll never know what true music was 😢 i’m glad for technology now where we can look up any song that takes you back to memory lane.
Great Song!🎵😎60s 70s 80s and early 90s is my generation of music. ✌🇺🇸
Wowww Memories,Memories,Memories ....Love it !!!! The best music in the best era EVER !!
This music is the BEST! You can understand the words and the meaning. WONDERFUL! !!!
Rosita Rogers OMG You just hit a home run with those comments TRUE DAT! ! Rosita MEMORIES WOW! !
This was a 1st dance with my future husband ,in 1969. We are still dancing to it 51 years later.
A great group and this song will always have a positive impact on my life. I still listen to it as often as I can. I love all of their songs.
Timeless classic . Music like this reminds me of my grandparents . 8 years still feels like yesterday, miss them dearly . 😔
This is what made the 70s romantic. I used to listen to this song with my girlfriend Debbie Padilla
Yes David, romantic and hopeful..... exactly what's missing today ❤😊
Lord I got chills on my arms hearing this song. Whew! Amazing. Just Amazing. 😌😌
People keep saying " they just don't make music like this anymore " (while the truth is) it's timeless & can never truly be duplicated, so no-1 should ever try to take away the love of a artful exhibition that's so meaningful, and turn it into a everyday thing that would never have the true effects on the people that it does.
If you young people born after the 80's would only go back to the times of romantic music such as songs of this sort. Maybe the crime that plagues your era, the drug use, breakup and breakdown of the family, and slutty ways of modern females who ignorantly call themselves "b.....s" and guys calling themselves "dogs", when change. Just hopeful thinking on my behalf.
Amen! I live this comment brotha! 110% agree with ya! I'm 16 years of age and I absolutely adore all old fashioned music but most dearly the romantic beautiful pieces of art like this!!!
Jake Cudnik
Jake thanks for the positive reply. Dude, when you're with your girl and you want to take her to a higher level "romantically" play this song, and any of the Whispers any great slow songs, such as Great Day". Bring back the art of olde school romance Jake and blow your female friend's mind.
Will do man! It's been going really well talking to this one girl that I love. I'll make a promise to you man that I'll play that when I'm with her! Great thing is she loves that type of music and really any of the music I listen to!
It's not like people from that era are saints either. I bet at least one member of this group was hooked on cocaine. You have to remember that since the baby boomers the WORLD population has doubled so crime had to at least double. Also more crime is reported now because it is easier to record and spread I bet people back then got away with some really heinous crimes. Last and not least who raised my generation? Don't they deserve some credit with what is wrong with society today?
Raul Cipriano
Still beautiful in 2024
Thanks for reposting!!
I love this real music!! ❤
Reaches the deep part of the soul..
I was 13 years old when this song was made and I still love it