My mother played this song so much when I was a child. I heard it the other day and almost busted out in happy tears. So many memories come with song. It is a classic!
He was one of my favorite singers of all time. Saw him live twice in New York when this album was out. You could cut the atmosphere with a knife. The energy was so electric. It was surreal. what an honor to witness him twice in his prime. And I stared my first "man child" in the eye, has got to be one of the most deepest lines in any song he ever recorded...
this performance is historical, pure moment of truth and happiness where gifted and blessed Al Jarreau spreads love and peace of mind from the deepest part of his soul... this medicinal video makes our world a better place. thank you Al Jarreau and Oan01 for having posted it.
This is one of the most powerful performances that I have ever watched. Piano, drums and a bass. Simple and pure. This video put the spotlight on Al Jarreau's truly unique talent for creating joy.
That was FREAKING BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank Mr. Jarreau! Thank you for being on earth to share with us your beautiful God gifted voice! And thank you oan01 for posting this soul stirring music which was chicken soup for the soul! Thanks!!!
My sentiments exactly! I feel blessed when I listen to "We Got By". This is why I like reading the comments, to get confirmation that there are other people feeling the same way.
I mer Al on a flight from LA he was headed to Canada for a concert. He allowed me to take a picture with him i will cherish it forever. Al gone too soon! Peace! I love this song!❤
I love it! At 5:23 Al says "thank you 'retha (Aretha Franklin) thank you Sly (Sly Stone) you also helped me to get by." I so love Al's passion and free expression.
Woke up this morning with this song running around in my head. Helped me to get out of bed, being reminded that we're all dealing with stuff and doing our best to get through it. P.S. Thanks to the uploader for this amazing performance. I came to UA-cam tonight looking for the audio and found THIS!
One of Five Male Vocalist, to maintain my interest over the course of my 70 plus years ,revisited 27 September 2023❤ To my parents, Who gave Me the Best Head Start in Life , I Would Have,With a Heartfull of. LOVE, R I P ❤❤ JOHN BARNETT AKA DOBIE.WAN KANOBIE ❤
🥰 Feeling so much listening to Jarreau’s heart and the great artistry of the musicians bringing it with him. My beautiful loving mother raised four children alone. We got by on Chicago’s south side.
When I saw Al Jarreau perform years ago when I was college, that was an experience because of his style of singing and all of the special effects and sounds he would perform as he sung.
I remember the SNL performance of We Got By. He sang it into a commercial break at the end of the song and when they came back live after the commercial, he was still singing the end of the song. Went on and on and everyone was spellbound. It's when I fell in love with Al Jarreau!
Thats where I first heard it. But it was in the 80s when they were syndicating the reruns of the original 'not ready for primetime' cast years. Such a soulful performance. Its one of the songs that always makes me tear up.🎶 😑
Saw this on TV freshman year of college, back when you didn't even go out until after SNL went off. This was my introduction to Al.This is one of those albums that seemingly EVERYBODY had. I still love this dude.
Oh my goodness truly missed Al jarreau was something else my favorite vocalists I hear this song in my car everyday when I hear it it just brings a tear to my eyes to see this live it's something else you're truly missed 👁️ ILOVEIT 😉👌🏾💞💞💞
I really can't remember the first time I heard Al but I know it was after this song. But once I heard this one I knew I would love him and his music forever.
The emotion in this song is palpable. It pulls on my heart strings, makes me happy. I was listening to his works from way back. RIP Al. You were wonderful to listen to.
Agreed. I’m in my 50’s now. I think I was 15 or 16 when I viewed this episode for the first time and I felt like I was witnessing a miracle. I dare say that his successful performance was a great help to the over all success to SNL. I saw him in concert when I was 27 at the Greek. He did not do disappoint. R.I.P. I miss you brother. 😢
I was a freshman in college when I first saw Al on SNL and it blew me away. Still brings a smile to my face! "Thank you 'Retha, thank you Sly, you helped me get by!"
I was 12 years old when my older sister watched this on SNL I was hooked like a fish. I meet Mr Jarreau at Capital Jazz fest Baltimore Md. 2009 during a Q&A what a beautiful soul.......
my deceased sister introduced me to this music when this album came out in 1976.norman Connors/the isley brothers were on my hit list.everything I hear this album I remember her.rest your soul, Latonia a.johnson.never forgotten..
Now bye and bye, I am back home in the 3rd Grade, 1963 at the dinner table of commodities, powdered milk, powdered eggs, dried navy beans, and spam. " Momma this milk taste...., I said. " Boy stop, this is all we have to eat. One day you will be grown. Make sure your children have what they need to eat," then and now her words make me tremble. Thank you momma for the bye and bye!
oan01: thank you for posting this gem! Takes me back to ‘78 when Al’s double live album came out and I was living back in Honolulu. This tune was one of my faves from that wonderful set.
Love his voice. I love his side of blues and jazz togetherness like no other. Al will beTruly missed. I love the world please. Its our only future. Peace and happiness❤
I was stationed at the US Naval yard Philadelphia while in the USMC saw him at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia WOW WOW this a Christmas song to me it reminds me of soooo much stuff and he introduced Angelo Bofill who's music l love also
first heard this when my bro brought it home on break from Berklee, double album set, recorded live in Germany. Wow! blew my mind, changed my mind, made up my mind about possibilities. went out and preached this stuff on the boom box. it was a great era when guys would no sooner finish digesting a spat of outlaws, "green grass 'n high tides forever" then they'd be serving up a course of Al's "we got by" or "you don't see me". oft miss the old party days and wide open music flavored ways.
A friend gave me the album on cassette (it apparently wasn't at *all* what he expected when he bought it). It floored me then, and it still does. Jarreau's way of blending straight vocals, vocalese & scat, his ability to phrase like a front line soloist, his astonishing range of timbres and musical ideas, plus the unusually hip settings for a singer, were like nothing I'd heard before. Finally being able to watch these performances adds yet another dimension, an emotional depth of field. And this version of We Got By, in particular, is just breathtaking in that regard. It's a compelling musical, and social, and personal/emotional history all wrapped up in one hard-won, but ultimately triumphant package. Wow.
Interpretation - presentation of anything he sang was different showed his imagination! A step outside the circle - Gone too soon but glad he was was here!!
Happy Birthday Al! I don't know why but this is my favorite of all your songs. I like everything about it. You are so very missed, but thank you for the music you left behind.
My mother played this song so much when I was a child. I heard it the other day and almost busted out in happy tears. So many memories come with song. It is a classic!
Mine too
We heard this on Saturday mornings and we knew it was house cleaning time ❤️❤️
Ain’t that the truth ❤
WOW
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.
IT'S A COOL SONG
ALTHOUGH I WANT TO
WELL YOU KNOW
THANKS FOR YOUR POST ❤❤
Thank God for your Mother.
His sincerity is so palpable...being poor but not knowing it because love filled the gaps..
He was one of my favorite singers of all time. Saw him live twice in New York when this album was out. You could cut the atmosphere with a knife. The energy was so electric. It was surreal. what an honor to witness him twice in his prime. And I stared my first "man child" in the eye, has got to be one of the most deepest lines in any song he ever recorded...
One of the greatest live performances of all time ❤
this performance is historical, pure moment of truth and happiness where gifted and blessed Al Jarreau spreads love and peace of mind from the deepest part of his soul... this medicinal video makes our world a better place. thank you Al Jarreau and Oan01 for having posted it.
modernsunrecords He sung soo naturally and didn't force it. He had soo much fun improvising and making a song a hit all over again!!
I couldn't agree more. I've played this so many times and each time it eases my contact with the rest of life.
Absolutely ♥️🎼🙏🏽
OMG!!! Mr. Jarreau !!!!!!!!!!!💜💜💜💜
One of the best recorded album
This is one of the most powerful performances that I have ever watched. Piano, drums and a bass. Simple and pure. This video put the spotlight on Al Jarreau's truly unique talent for creating joy.
After going through a drug addiction my sister always supported me with this fine song.r.i.p.latonia a.johnson.i miss your soul.march2021.
Yeah you got by
That was FREAKING BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank Mr. Jarreau! Thank you for being on earth to share with us your beautiful God gifted voice! And thank you oan01 for posting this soul stirring music which was chicken soup for the soul! Thanks!!!
My sentiments exactly! I feel blessed when I listen to "We Got By". This is why I like reading the comments, to get confirmation that there are other people feeling the same way.
This is still one of my favorites after all these years.
I mer Al on a flight from LA he was headed to Canada for a concert. He allowed me to take a picture with him i will cherish it forever. Al gone too soon! Peace! I love this song!❤
What a beautiful song of inner peace
This song by him is for all the family born poor but with love we some how got by......
So beautiful. Are the 21 thumbs down from the tragically tone deaf?
A concert of pure, blessed, huge art. When everything is perfect and comes out of your heart and soul. Thank you Al
Lord I miss AJ!😢. I wore this song out back in the day.
I love it! At 5:23 Al says "thank you 'retha (Aretha Franklin) thank you Sly (Sly Stone) you also helped me to get by." I so love Al's passion and free expression.
Al Jarreau....Words can hardly describe his awesome talent..
Don't make me cry! I miss him so much...
Same here. Whenever I feel down and face the nonsense in life, i listen to this very song.
Word, Every Day.
Amen to that!😢
50 years... still love this... " fell deep down in my soul " the last note is chilling... only love can describe what Al has and is doing for so many.
Woke up this morning with this song running around in my head. Helped me to get out of bed, being reminded that we're all dealing with stuff and doing our best to get through it.
P.S. Thanks to the uploader for this amazing performance. I came to UA-cam tonight looking for the audio and found THIS!
One of Five Male Vocalist, to maintain my interest over the course of my 70 plus years ,revisited 27 September 2023❤ To my parents, Who gave Me the Best Head Start in Life , I Would Have,With a Heartfull of. LOVE, R I P ❤❤ JOHN BARNETT AKA DOBIE.WAN KANOBIE ❤
We Got By!!! Yes, thank you Al Jarreau you definitely helped us get by!!!
You have idea how true that is.
🥰 Feeling so much listening to Jarreau’s heart and the great artistry of the musicians bringing it with him. My beautiful loving mother raised four children alone. We got by on Chicago’s south side.
My husband and I used to listen to this song but we got by miss you so so much Richard!!!!!
God Bless You Cynthia Smith.
I wish I had someone to share this song with!!!
🙏🏾😥
When I saw Al Jarreau perform years ago when I was college, that was an experience because of his style of singing and all of the special effects and sounds he would perform as he sung.
This is the late Al Jarreau at this fines such a beautiful song of survival the hard times of life, the mention of his mother poetic justice.
Omg i will never get enough of listening to this song 🎵 😍 ❤
I've always loved this song.
Wow. Rest in peace, Al. I'll never forget you playing this on SNL in the 70s.
I remember the SNL performance of We Got By. He sang it into a commercial break at the end of the song and when they came back live after the commercial, he was still singing the end of the song. Went on and on and everyone was spellbound. It's when I fell in love with Al Jarreau!
Me too 💔💔💔
@@nancycerutti5672 , that was nice, “When I fell in love with Al Jarreau” 😢
Thats where I first heard it. But it was in the 80s when they were syndicating the reruns of the original 'not ready for primetime' cast years. Such a soulful performance. Its one of the songs that always makes me tear up.🎶 😑
@@nancycerutti5672 I would love to see the video of this
Know what year it was? I think the Peacock app has every season of SNL on it.
His natural, understated grace and glamour STILL inspire me.
Saw this on TV freshman year of college, back when you didn't even go out until after SNL went off. This was my introduction to Al.This is one of those albums that seemingly EVERYBODY had.
I still love this dude.
Brilliant, remarkable vocal instrument!
YES! YES! RIP TO A JAZZY LEGEND AL JARREAU! I LOVE THIS SONG WE GOT BY! AND MADE IT TO 2020!
Deep beautiful talent, a singing soul, soul singer.
Still love it in 2020
Me too!
Brings a tear to this old fan's eye
Undoubtably the best song and performance I’ve ever heard.
Everything about this performance-the musicianship in this performance is the epitome of music…Players played the song and Mr Jarreau sang the song!
Genius.
and Al hits a 20 second long note at 5:31 to 5:51
Just heard this live recording on local Jazz station, for the first time and I had to hear it again. Pure genius.
Oh my goodness truly missed Al jarreau was something else my favorite vocalists I hear this song in my car everyday when I hear it it just brings a tear to my eyes to see this live it's something else you're truly missed 👁️ ILOVEIT 😉👌🏾💞💞💞
I really can't remember the first time I heard Al but I know it was after this song. But once I heard this one I knew I would love him and his music forever.
This song is so true!
I didn't know this song until it was mentioned in the Unsung episode. Thanks to Al Jarreau for giving us such a great performance.
Saturday Night Live for Me I Miss This Man /Instrument. I Cried My Heart Ached When He Was Called Home🔥😥
Saturday Night.
The emotion in this song is palpable. It pulls on my heart strings, makes me happy. I was listening to his works from way back. RIP Al. You were wonderful to listen to.
This arguably one of the best live recording in T.V. history . R.I.P. Al much love M
Agreed. I’m in my 50’s now. I think I was 15 or 16 when I viewed this episode for the first time and I felt like I was witnessing a miracle. I dare say that his successful performance was a great help to the over all success to SNL. I saw him in concert when I was 27 at the Greek. He did not do disappoint. R.I.P. I miss you brother. 😢
I was a freshman in college when I first saw Al on SNL and it blew me away. Still brings a smile to my face! "Thank you 'Retha, thank you Sly, you helped me get by!"
@@sayresteven Same here. Freshman year. Watched this on SNL and then went out on campus looking for parties.
Divine Message!
RIP Al.
My favorite song I play it all the time
His getting by (the Blk Male experience) molded the most soulful and versatile singer in MUSIC...,THERE I SAID IT!
I love this voice and all his songs. Miss you so much, dearest Al.
I was 12 years old when my older sister watched this on SNL I was hooked like a fish. I meet Mr Jarreau at Capital Jazz fest Baltimore Md. 2009 during a Q&A what a beautiful soul.......
my deceased sister introduced me to this music when this album came out in 1976.norman Connors/the isley brothers were on my hit list.everything I hear this album I remember her.rest your soul, Latonia a.johnson.never forgotten..
I was buying Earth, Wind and Fire, Rufus and Chaka Khan. But I need some Al Jarreau, too.
incredible ... absolutely incredible
Sounded like my life story from June to June
Yes same here
14 in Detroit I was blessed to hear this
He was singing for the angels ...when he was HERE!!!
When it's special, you know it, you feel it
Rest in peace Al Jarreau you will be missed but your music will always be here with us forever
What a song... what a singer....
Awesome just awesome still listening radio2021 amann
I like this song! I like how he sings it! He left this world 3 years ago today, but is still very much alive in the music. Thank you Al!
R. I.P. Al Jarreau
He passed on 2/12/17
Omgggg, things are really gonna be alright. Thanks aj
Now bye and bye, I am back home in the 3rd Grade, 1963 at the dinner table of commodities, powdered milk, powdered eggs, dried navy beans, and spam. " Momma this milk taste...., I said. " Boy stop, this is all we have to eat. One day you will be grown. Make sure your children have what they need to eat," then and now her words make me tremble. Thank you momma for the bye and bye!
I saw him at Pine Knob in Clarkston Michigan and this song will always occupy rent in my head.
Thank you Al Jarreau forever
Such beautiful music! Reminds me of the time I saw him live in Nashville TN with my best friend and line sister. The music lives on....
Forever gold
oan01: thank you for posting this gem! Takes me back to ‘78 when Al’s double live album came out and I was living back in Honolulu. This tune was one of my faves from that wonderful set.
One of the best!!! Hey All go listen to " Lock all the gates!" Epic!!
Love his voice. I love his side of blues and jazz togetherness like no other. Al will beTruly missed.
I love the world please. Its our only future. Peace and happiness❤
@cooljazzlady Thanks. I agree with you. It's an incredible performance, may be, one of de best.
How we survived COVID-19, etc...we got by! My favorite of his songs.
Omg🎶🎶🎶🥀
I was stationed at the US Naval yard Philadelphia while in the USMC saw him at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia WOW WOW this a Christmas song to me it reminds me of soooo much stuff and he introduced Angelo Bofill who's music l love also
This song is my Mama many a Sunday afternoon.
My dear toni(big sis)happy birth-day to you .i will never forget.april 8,2019
I get goosebumps ☺️
THE most loveliest man!
God is the GREATEST!!!
first heard this when my bro brought it home on break from Berklee, double album set, recorded live in Germany. Wow! blew my mind, changed my mind, made up my mind about possibilities. went out and preached this stuff on the boom box. it was a great era when guys would no sooner finish digesting a spat of outlaws, "green grass 'n high tides forever" then they'd be serving up a course of Al's "we got by" or "you don't see me". oft miss the old party days and wide open music flavored ways.
A friend gave me the album on cassette (it apparently wasn't at *all* what he expected when he bought it). It floored me then, and it still does. Jarreau's way of blending straight vocals, vocalese & scat, his ability to phrase like a front line soloist, his astonishing range of timbres and musical ideas, plus the unusually hip settings for a singer, were like nothing I'd heard before. Finally being able to watch these performances adds yet another dimension, an emotional depth of field. And this version of We Got By, in particular, is just breathtaking in that regard. It's a compelling musical, and social, and personal/emotional history all wrapped up in one hard-won, but ultimately triumphant package. Wow.
Everytime I hear this song I think Al is talking about growing up in the great city of milwaukee.
So bitter sweet
Incredible!
Man I know I’ve of only commented in this already. But I always comeback to it. Those blue notes he gets. Damn. Miss you Al. Hate to see you go
You are the greatest jazz singer of time...R.I.P brother.
Absolutely amazing. I saw him at The Radio City Music Hall
Interpretation - presentation of anything he sang was different showed his imagination! A step outside the circle - Gone too soon but glad he was was here!!
Does anyone possess Al Jarreau in Milan 1983
Chills down my spine, neck, head, everywhere---
Saw him with David Sandborn.
Me, too: Orange County - So Cal ‘86?
Saw Al in the late 70's with Dave Sanborn. Unbelievable!
Who would downvote this??
Gonna be 65 June 10th 2021 listening to the man sing this WOW still means the best to me
Happy Birthday Al! I don't know why but this is my favorite of all your songs. I like everything about it. You are so very missed, but thank you for the music you left behind.
Be quoted that this one the best live recorded albums
oooo shit! Jarreau!
little did they know what they beheld on that stage.
Love this voice it's its own instrument
(It should say my older sister and I)
RIP Al.
This is how legacies are started