Imagine being a young Black kid, seeing and listening to all of this great music every Saturday. Soul Train reenforced being proud to be Black and beautiful. ✊🏿
I remember every Saturday night watching Soul Train then goin to school on Monday to talk about the episode. The music was just different back then. Wouldn’t trade it for nothing in the world.
Just watching your reaction brings tears to eyes.The younger generation should really reach back as far as they can, i promise you it won' t disappoint.70s was Dope.
@@MsBeaBea they are Both Dope to me !!! my older brother used to play both I love how New Birth take pop song & make em blacker👊🏾🧑🏾🚀🤣🖤🤘🏾🔥 I call them gospedelic
@@ronpaizley9349 "Gospedelic" interesting name, yea New Birth infused Soul into songs. Watching all of them groups perform live, I will pleasantly take to the grave.
The lead singer for New Birth is Leslie Wilson. He is a beast of a singer. They have another jam called "Been Such A Long Time". They took this old song to soulville the vocals and the arrangement is just on point.
This is not a old country song, and the arrangement is exactly the same as the original (the only difference is the extension of the song on the end). Donnie Gerard's original vocal is soulful and smooth, great voice. The original is considered by many to the beginning (first) power ballad.
@@shottut You are correct the song was originally recorded by the Skylark. The first time I heard it was by a country artist and I fell in love with New Birth's version. My bad
70's music was the TRUTH. So much passion, so much talent, great bands, great vocalists, great perfomances, and live music was off the charts. It is without question once of the best eras for music ever, if not THE best!
New Birth was the TRUTH! Fronted by the great Leslie Wilson! Great vocals and unmatched musicianship! They SURELY don't make music like this anymore! Try their remake of the Bobby Womack classic "Can You Understand It"!
Yeah, Jamie is aware of the "classic" jams of the past!...New Birth also have a very "funky/soulful" track titled: "I Can Understand It" that's ("a real biggon that you gon' be diggin'"), as Soul Train host "Don Cornelius" would say! It's 6:23 seconds of upbeat soul to get your blood pumpin'!....Good reaction!
My song 🎵 ‼️ It’s me through and through. You are appreciating it with kindness. Your reaction is doing the song tremendous justice. Thank you, Ashley. ❤
Oh Ashley...Ashley you have no idea how much we got down back in the day!😂😂 We'd party have the night away with songs like this. Got a couple of The New Birth albums along with many others from back then and still enjoy them. Check out their song I Can Understand It. You'll love it! Another group from back then you'll love is The Ohio Players. Songs like Skin Tight, Love Rollercoaster, Sweet Sticky Thing, Heaven Must be Like This, and Fire. Really enjoying you enjoying all this old school music🤗
Yaaasss, love this group and this song! Between the break down/rap at the end and the tight background harmonies, this song is fire! Now you have to react to their song Dream Merchant 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great group of singers and musicians! Had the pleasure of hanging out with the Wilson brothers (Leslie and Melvin) and Londee after their gig in ‘74. The Album It’s Been A Long Time is one of my fav.
Babies were definitely the results of this type of music. Since you're digging the Isley Brothers then please check out the song " make me say it again "
Welcome to my childhood. I was born in 85, but learned what this was as early as i could remember. This song is straight 🔥. The INSTRUMENTS! The VOCALS ❤❤❤❤
Same here. I was born in 83 and was raised by music from the 60's & 70's from parents, aunts, and uncles. Hip-Hop played a big part of my childhood too but Soul/R&B holds a special place in my heart.
I'm 61 baby... That man could have lied, cheated , stayed out all night... Along with the " I'm sorry, bro put this song on, 😮 girrrlll,,, instant baby..😂😂
Love this song then and Love it even more today 💗 It reminds me of my beautiful Mother who has since passed on.😢😢 She had one of the most genuine souls that God has ever create🙏🏽 Nothing but beautiful thoughts of her when I listen too song as she was my Flower 🌹🌹
I first heard this song...the original version, by a group called 'Skylark' David Fosters group. The lead singer was Donnie Jerrard (sp?) out of Canada. The Ojays thought that he was a white dude trying to sound black and they hated it. So more Black groups did a remake adding 'more' soul to make it a bigger hit than what it was. But I for one just LOVED the black guy Donnie's from Skylarks version more.
She thought she was ready for dat GROWN FOLKS SHHT...but, of course...she was NOT. SOOOOOO many babies was made from this song. The absolute BEST music was made from 1970 to 1988...no disrespect to this present generation. New Birth was pure soul music at its FINEST...ya dig ?? 💎💎💎💎💎💎
"ya dig" go on with your bad self, jive turkey! My goodness in my mid 60's now, I feel so honored to have experienced that era. Retired to the tropics now but every morning I work out in my backyard while singing along with the music of my youth.
I remember watching soul train back in the 70s. I was a very young child, but I didn't realize what I had back then in that music. The times, and music has changed tremendously, and most of my loved ones from then had either died or are nolonger in my life anymore. But part of me really misses those more simpler days. My home i had,my family i had, the music i loved, ...part of me really misses them all. Whatever.
Hi Ash. Would love to see your reaction to the original version of Wildflower. It was written by Doug Edwards in 1972. Doug was a Canadian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-creating the hit song "Wildflower" for the pop/rock band Skylark that he was a member of. New Birth's rendition features enhancements to the original melody, including a more instrumentally complex introduction, later directly sampled in Jamie Foxx's hit song "Unpredictable," and a spoken monologue from lead singer Leslie Wilson during the bridge.
Just found you and here to stay ❤ I’m 65 wildflower was one of my all time favorites. Nice to the younger generation discovering our music and enjoying it ❤
This one was so “dangerous”, it was in the stack of albums that we kids weren’t allowed to listen to. But we heard it anyway, because every time her girlfriends came over, they played it!
Classic love songs from my generation I bought this album 3 times wore it out and I still play it on my record player nothing like black wax records 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯💯💯💯💯💯
I attended Fla A and M in.Tallahassee, saw them there the got off stage band stop playing and dude just eas blowing no music everybody in the gym went wild,good show
This group really got down the background the background singers were fantastic too codoos to them and codoos to you for playing this song thanks 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Please react to the following - 1. The Chi - Lites - Have You Seen Her 2. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) 3. The Futures - Ain't No Time Fa Nothing 4. Switch - I Call Your Name 5. Delegation - Oh Honey 6. The Main Ingredient - Let Me Prove My Love to You
Uhhh ohhhhh! Now, please react to Black Girls Rock! 2012. Anthony hamilton, Eric benet & luke james kills this cover. OMG! This was a cover too. The original was very different, but I can appreciate it.
This was the first record played at my house party with the black lights and my Capricorn glow in the dark poster. Slow dancing against the wall. New Birth was everything in this fabulous time of music. 50 cents sodas, a dollar to get in. Everything had to end at 11pm. but I remember making loads of money when New Birth Wildflower was playing.
New birth took this song to another level, this is a remake, it was made by a white guy, earlier, and the ojays did it live, but this the best version,love the horn section and when the singers start to chase each other when they break it down,, this was always music with a story, that’s why we love the old school, and listen you can hear all the singers voices, the chase
Baby girl got the "stank face". Like lawd....what don happened here? Um hmmm...chile I'm a late 60s baby and an ex bf turned me on to them in the year 2000. I had never heard it and I'm a music junkie. This man was my equal in his love for music. This that joint that hit you, HARD!!!!😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
Imagine being a young Black kid, seeing and listening to all of this great music every Saturday. Soul Train reenforced being proud to be Black and beautiful. ✊🏿
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I remember every Saturday night watching Soul Train then goin to school on Monday to talk about the episode. The music was just different back then. Wouldn’t trade it for nothing in the world.
Had to get the chores done early on Saturday mornings, then pancakes, cartoons and Soul Train. That’s living!
Those were the years, wearing my converse my Fro and taking in some Soul Train. Oh, where has time flown!
@dj4080....this white girl (now 77) was all over this music...and STILL am.
Just watching your reaction brings tears to eyes.The younger generation should really reach back as far as they can, i promise you it won' t disappoint.70s was Dope.
The talent in this group!! Horn! Operaretic tones!!
"Skylark" is the original version but new birth's cover took it to the next soulful level still 1 of greatest songs ever written !!!
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@@MsBeaBea they are Both Dope to me !!!
my older brother used to play both I love how New Birth take pop song & make em blacker👊🏾🧑🏾🚀🤣🖤🤘🏾🔥 I call them gospedelic
Have you heard the O’Jays cover of this song 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@ronpaizley9349 "Gospedelic" interesting name, yea New Birth infused Soul into songs. Watching all of them groups perform live, I will pleasantly take to the grave.
@@Jaime-u5m "GOSPELL-DELIC" excuse my typos 😉
Her facial expressions says it all. Respect ✊🏿
Skylark wrote and performed the original. They gave it to New Birth and as a large band they KILLED IT.
The lead singer for New Birth is Leslie Wilson. He is a beast of a singer. They have another jam called "Been Such A Long Time". They took this old song to soulville the vocals and the arrangement is just on point.
@@themajicman745 He also sang with LTD after Jeffery left. That was in the 80's. I did know he sang with the Dazz Band thanks for telling me.
This is not a old country song, and the arrangement is exactly the same as the original (the only difference is the extension of the song on the end). Donnie Gerard's original vocal is soulful and smooth, great voice. The original is considered by many to the beginning (first) power ballad.
@@shottut You are correct the song was originally recorded by the Skylark. The first time I heard it was by a country artist and I fell in love with New Birth's version. My bad
He was a great singer. So was the women singer, don't know who she was but she's a great singer. Remember no should affects here all vocals.
The pain of love is my jam
Ain’t nothing like the music of the 70’s girl you would have had to be there whewwwww! CLASSIC JAMM! 💞💞💞
70's music was the TRUTH. So much passion, so much talent, great bands, great vocalists, great perfomances, and live music was off the charts. It is without question once of the best eras for music ever, if not THE best!
Now that’s harmonizing! That’s true music!
I get chills when I hear this love song! ❤
This song gets me emotional and im out time to cry and the passion of this song is so classic. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤🥺🥺🥺🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽✨💫💫💫💫💫❤️❤️❤️🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️🌺
New Birth was the TRUTH! Fronted by the great Leslie Wilson! Great vocals and unmatched musicianship! They SURELY don't make music like this anymore! Try their remake of the Bobby Womack classic "Can You Understand It"!
7:30 Is The Climax Of The Song. He Let Out Every Emotion. What A Performance. Bravo!!
Yeah, Jamie is aware of the "classic" jams of the past!...New Birth also have a very "funky/soulful" track titled: "I Can Understand It" that's ("a real biggon that you gon' be diggin'"), as Soul Train host "Don Cornelius" would say! It's 6:23 seconds of upbeat soul to get your blood pumpin'!....Good reaction!
This is the music that made the old school women the cleanest in the WORLD! Every Saturday morning the chores were done to this music!
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I love that you at your age can appreciate great music .
When this song came on the radio I stopped what I was doing and listened it. It gave me so much joy.
We had the jams in the 70sand 80s ❤😊
My song 🎵 ‼️ It’s me through and through. You are appreciating it with kindness. Your reaction is doing the song tremendous justice. Thank you, Ashley. ❤
A Classy Classic! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Oh Ashley...Ashley you have no idea how much we got down back in the day!😂😂 We'd party have the night away with songs like this. Got a couple of The New Birth albums along with many others from back then and still enjoy them. Check out their song I Can Understand It. You'll love it! Another group from back then you'll love is The Ohio Players. Songs like Skin Tight, Love Rollercoaster, Sweet Sticky Thing, Heaven Must be Like This, and Fire. Really enjoying you enjoying all this old school music🤗
Im 67 years old.....dats EXACTLY why our mommas, auntie, uncles, and grandparents had so many damnnn kids, listening to this kinda tishhh!!!😂🤣🤣😘
70’s Soul right there✊🏾
OMG This has been my jam for over 50 years
Yaaasss, love this group and this song! Between the break down/rap at the end and the tight background harmonies, this song is fire! Now you have to react to their song Dream Merchant 🔥🔥🔥🔥
A old time classic. Never get tired of listening to to this song
Great song👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊
Great group of singers and musicians! Had the pleasure of hanging out with the Wilson brothers (Leslie and Melvin) and Londee after their gig in ‘74. The Album It’s Been A Long Time is one of my fav.
I use to sing this to my 4 daughters! Still bring tears to my eyes every time i hear it.
Babies were definitely the results of this type of music. Since you're digging the Isley Brothers then please check out the song " make me say it again "
You're in for a real treat they sound amazing😂😂😂
Great Song
Those violins are just magnificent
Welcome to my childhood. I was born in 85, but learned what this was as early as i could remember. This song is straight 🔥. The INSTRUMENTS! The VOCALS ❤❤❤❤
Same here. I was born in 83 and was raised by music from the 60's & 70's from parents, aunts, and uncles. Hip-Hop played a big part of my childhood too but Soul/R&B holds a special place in my heart.
Another 1 of my favorite songs, groups BADDD!!! They were. Part of my collection. Love this song!!!
What a beautiful piece of music. Wow, wow, wow. What can one say? So beautiful and beautifully done. Brings tears to my eyes. 😊 ❤
Their song cal until it's time to go is amazing, with the voice of a young lady
Classic soul music!❤
The original was done by Canadian band Skylark in 1972
OHH! GOD! I CAN'T STOP CRYING 😥😔💐
Ash, this is a masterpiece! A perfect ensemble! So much work, beautiful details, passion and all in sync.
As a grandma, I'm enjoying your reaction to the soundtracks of our teenage life!
Ash you must listen too the 1973 first version of wildflower it’s heart touching.❤
This group was a sleeper hit from the late 60’s. Finest version of Wildflower ever sung!❤
I'm 61 baby... That man could have lied, cheated , stayed out all night... Along with the " I'm sorry, bro put this song on, 😮 girrrlll,,, instant baby..😂😂
Great reaction, great video, great music.
Bam!!!!!!! My jam!!!!! Glad to see the younger generation rocking this..Listen to that soouuuulllll
New Birth is killing it. Just for your info, this is a cover. The original was by Skylark.
Love this song then and Love it even more today 💗 It reminds me of my beautiful Mother who has since passed on.😢😢 She had one of the most genuine souls that God has ever create🙏🏽 Nothing but beautiful thoughts of her when I listen too song as she was my Flower 🌹🌹
I first heard this song...the original version, by a group called 'Skylark' David Fosters group. The lead singer was Donnie Jerrard (sp?) out of Canada. The Ojays thought that he was a white dude trying to sound black and they hated it. So more Black groups did a remake adding 'more' soul to make it a bigger hit than what it was. But I for one just LOVED the black guy Donnie's from Skylarks version more.
This was one my Mother's favorite songs. She passed away on Valentine's Day. I can't listen to it without crying.
I feel you. My Mom... always paying for a debt she never owed. Our Moms gave us the gift of loving music.
Bring back slow dancing and romance!!!!!!!!
Sugarae Just Subscribed Today!!! Much Love My Queen..
Choke hold trouble sounds funny, but you’re so right. We sometimes wrongfully believed the words coming from dangerous sweet talkers. 😂❤
Yes indeed!
She thought she was ready for dat GROWN FOLKS SHHT...but, of course...she was NOT. SOOOOOO many babies was made from this song. The absolute BEST music was made from 1970 to 1988...no disrespect to this present generation. New Birth was pure soul music at its FINEST...ya dig ?? 💎💎💎💎💎💎
"ya dig" go on with your bad self, jive turkey!
My goodness in my mid 60's now, I feel so honored to have experienced that era.
Retired to the tropics now but every morning I work out in my backyard while singing along with the music of my youth.
Yea yea! 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so true.
If that finish didn’t do it for ya, you don’t have a pulse. Thx for the memories my dear Ashley!❤
I remember watching soul train back in the 70s. I was a very young child, but I didn't realize what I had back then in that music. The times, and music has changed tremendously, and most of my loved ones from then had either died or are nolonger in my life anymore. But part of me really misses those more simpler days. My home i had,my family i had, the music i loved, ...part of me really misses them all. Whatever.
Oldies por vida 💯 keep going down this rabbit hole. I got over 4,000 rolas in my library.😎
Hi Ash. Would love to see your reaction to the original version of Wildflower. It was written by Doug Edwards in 1972. Doug was a Canadian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-creating the hit song "Wildflower" for the pop/rock band Skylark that he was a member of. New Birth's rendition features enhancements to the original melody, including a more instrumentally complex introduction, later directly sampled in Jamie Foxx's hit song "Unpredictable," and a spoken monologue from lead singer Leslie Wilson during the bridge.
Thank you for not disrespecting this song.
Thank you.
They also have a song named ‘Been such a long time’ you should react to that one also.
Just found you and here to stay ❤ I’m 65 wildflower was one of my all time favorites. Nice to the younger generation discovering our music and enjoying it ❤
Emotions brings out ur nature 😊
A Whole Garden!!!😮😮😮😢😢😢😢
Marvin Gaye I want you. Will not disappoint
Also Marvin Gaye Save the Children and Just to Keep you Satisfied
SUPER 🥶
I love the rasp in his voice I wish I could sang like him.
I came up in the 70s and the music back then was fire ! I miss the music of 60s and 70s.
Imma keep saying this... The Wispers "Say Yes"
This one was so “dangerous”, it was in the stack of albums that we kids weren’t allowed to listen to. But we heard it anyway, because every time her girlfriends came over, they played it!
70s kid here.😃 Great music!Great memories.
Play Been Such A long Time by new birth and Mr dream merchant. Beautiful ballads.
Keep digging sugar. Yesterday’s music will have scales falling from your eyes😂 He goes deep into a woman.♥️♥️♥️🌺
Classic love songs from my generation I bought this album 3 times wore it out and I still play it on my record player nothing like black wax records 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯💯💯💯💯💯
7:00 He started to let loose and express himself 100% He gave his all. Vulnerability at the highest peak
7:30 He Can't hold it in no more. 🥹🥹🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🥲🥲🥲🥲
now this one Ashley i hope that your ready for. because this song simply breaks a woman down where shes completely captivated
Loved New Birth during my college days.
I attended Fla A and M in.Tallahassee, saw them there the got off stage band stop playing and dude just eas blowing no music everybody in the gym went wild,good show
This!!!!...you kept the same facial expression through the whole song. I love it😂. This music touch ya soul lol
Leslie Wilson is one bad brother in this great band.
This group really got down the background the background singers were fantastic too codoos to them and codoos to you for playing this song thanks 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Hey hey hey here we Go. Yesssss some draws dropped when this song was on the record player.
Please react to the following -
1. The Chi - Lites - Have You Seen Her
2. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
3. The Futures - Ain't No Time Fa Nothing
4. Switch - I Call Your Name
5. Delegation - Oh Honey
6. The Main Ingredient - Let Me Prove My Love to You
I love how he says I Love you girl!
Uhhh ohhhhh! Now, please react to
Black Girls Rock! 2012. Anthony hamilton, Eric benet & luke james kills this cover. OMG! This was a cover too. The original was very different, but I can appreciate it.
Toast to You! You've landed on a great song.
Thanks for this one. It's been a while since I heard it. Definitely one of my all-time favorites. When music was music.
This was the first record played at my house party with the black lights and my Capricorn glow in the dark poster. Slow dancing against the wall. New Birth was everything in this fabulous time of music. 50 cents sodas, a dollar to get in. Everything had to end at 11pm. but I remember making loads of money when New Birth Wildflower was playing.
This has to be the greatest song ever.
If you can please listen to Enchantment they had a lot of great hits and their harmonies were crazy.
The old heads at work got me listening to this 😂
New birth took this song to another level, this is a remake, it was made by a white guy, earlier, and the ojays did it live, but this the best version,love the horn section and when the singers start to chase each other when they break it down,, this was always music with a story, that’s why we love the old school, and listen you can hear all the singers voices, the chase
I know this from Skylark who took it to the top of the charts
Thanks!
I just discovered this song about a month ago and can’t stop listening to it! I’m 55 omg I love it
Skylark's version is very good. It's the original.
Both versions are awesome! oh, the great era's of music.
Baby girl got the "stank face". Like lawd....what don happened here? Um hmmm...chile I'm a late 60s baby and an ex bf turned me on to them in the year 2000. I had never heard it and I'm a music junkie. This man was my equal in his love for music. This that joint that hit you, HARD!!!!😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
New Birth did a good job, but this is a cover. The original was done by a group from Canada call 'Skylark'! The O'Jays also did a cover of this song.
Ashley...
Lets hear your thoughts on (Poison - Unskinny bop) you'r going to get a kick out of it. So much fun to watch.
Omg!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😮I love this song girl Ashley do it!!!😭😭😭😭DANGER!!!!
One of my all time favorites
This song was first song by the Canadian group "Skylark". This one is a cover.