Stories - Brother Louie (Audio)
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
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About Us was released in 1973 and features Stories' hit cover of "Brother Louie" on side two.
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Heard it first when I was 7 y-old. Now I'm 57 and still rock to this 2024...Anyone else?
I'm 55 and loved it as a kid...!
OOOFF Course man. Glad you like so much. Boy---and I say that humorously; jokingly---I'm 68 and love it too. So, I was 17/18 when I heard it and listened afterwards. Keep listening to it and the plethora of the awesome music from those years----I do.
Me! Also 57
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Sea dog 66
This song went to number 1 on the Billboard chart in 1973.
I was a lover of Top 100...but I started in 1980...missed this one. Didn't know it reached to the top! THANKS!
I hear people talking about years like 1973 but I didn't even exist before the 2000s
Very similar to Carole King's It's too late.
@@conniecano2782 Connie, they said the song was released in 73!
One of my best memories is from 1986ish. My Mom, Dad, and I lived in an apartment in Brooklyn and that weekend we were painting the apartment. (Landlord gave my dad a discount if he did it himself). He always listened to WNEW (WHERE ROCK LIVED, rip wnew) and this song came on. I remember I fell in love with this song and begged my dad to buy me the cassette, which he eventually did. Now every time I listen to this song I remember the smell of the paint, my dad in his overalls, and my mom cooking some chicken for dinner.
Thanks sharing beautiful story
Greatest memories!?! Here’s one…… in 1981 I was visiting a buddy up in Larkspur,Ca. Nice spring day, windows open when I begin to recognize a song I’m hearing out in the distance. “Moondance”/Van Morrison. I ask my friend if he hears that & he calmly says “yeah, I do. It’s Van Morrison playing. He lives up the block on the side of that hill”…. naturally, I go out & walk up the street, find myself a better spot on the curb to plant my ass so I could continue listening to the free music!!! And, no…… I didn’t bother Van that day but till it’s day I wish I did!!!!!!!! Long live rock!
@@kennypeterson6896 thanks Kenny for sharing your stories I enjoy reading posted from people
Awesome stories guys!
Sweet and beautiful memories bring tears .
It's a shame that we can't make music that sounds as good as what these guys pulled off in 1973 with a fraction of the technology we have now.
Well no one wants to hear it anymore. If you're an old bastard this is woke bullshit and if you're a kid you're listening to this but as a rap song.
Well said friend 👏
You all preachin' to one of the choir boys here, when I was younger in the 70s and this all coming out I had my favorite groups and singers, like rod stewarts' older stuff before blonds, linda rondstadt till she went opera, dr hook, and the radio didn't expose to some stuff like this and it's taken me this far and keeping on finding more as I go, we had the revolution of rock's beginning and evolution in the 60s and 70s and so much to choose from, there is a few good thing coming in today and some retro, so live, love and enjoy what and try to be tolerant
Sure we can. Plenty of people out there sound way better than this today.
Playing a song with instruments as a band is so much different than having everything be digital. Tech alone won't provide you this kind of experience.
I am 57 years old and only until 02/25/2024. Did I know this song was talking about an interracial relationship! OMG, I don't listen to the lyrics and only hear melody and beat of a song. I'm really blown away.
The epitome of bigotry!
2024!!!
Lyrics are very important because some lyrics you don't want to listen to they're not good for you good for you
Same here. I'm almost 59 and hadn't heard this song in over 40 years but it's always been stuck in my mind.
I looked it up today and that's the first time I've ever really heard all the lyrics
Your daughter will marry an African man!!!
As a Black man I heard every single lyric. Same as with Janice Ian’s societies child. At least they didn’t ban this like they did hers
If ever we needed to hear this song. Especially the line, "Ain't no difference if you're black or white, brothers you know what I mean".
Nowadays black people have to be reminded of this
@@jamiepasquariello2652 I'm glad you said it because you're absolutely right!
@@jamiepasquariello2652
Ecclesiasticus 12:10
“Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness.”
I never really understood this song. I do now. Black is beautiful. White is beautiful. Brown is beautiful. I see no color. Just love.❤️
you just listed a bunch of different colors though.
😂
Es la historia del hermano Luis que murió⚰💀 por la novia de color
Simplemente el amor❤😘 no tiene color pero a Luis lo mataron por una mujer de color😊
Eso es correcto✅
Just graduated high school in 73 when this came out. Loved it then, love it still now decades later.
I was about 9 when I first heard this on the radio.....and loved it. I'm, ahem, going on 54 now and...WOW...it brings me right back there, to a simpler time.
We were the lucky ones, with the absolute BEST soundtrack, playing in the background of our lives.
CHEERS
Here! Here! These were the best times to be alive! We had all that could be hopefully wished for when it came to music.... I too am 54, about to hit 55... I still listen to this music! You should see the stares I get from the "youngins" when I crank this up! Be safe, be well, and above all else: Keep the music alive in your heart!
vee elle this is a great song
We are music fam I am 53 Brooklyn N.Y.C 11208
I was 10, growing up a pretty crazy kid in NJ.
How empty life has been since.
Me too. A child born in '65.
Love this song, and cherish 70's ✌🌍🎵
I remember listening to this song on the radio, when I was a kid. Love it.
My aunt Ann and Uncle Cliffy song when I was a kid. He call her Louie
Me to. Bad ass song
I remember this 🧒
ME TOO
I was listening to this song back in 1973 on a $3.00 small am radio
1973, I am 10 years old and my dad is teasing out neighbor (Louie) about this song. I miss those days
our
You and I are the same age. Summer '73!
😊 🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Me too!
We teased my younger brother with this and told him he was adopted and his real name was Louie. He cried and cried. Lol
This song was for the times we lived and continues to be the topic of today.
Heading back to the year 1973 50 years already wow time flies
I love the music and the lyrics, it shows that real love is color blind.
Amen. I grew up when black and white didn't mix. Then songs like this came along and made us all see how stupid that is/was. I'm white. When I see a pretty or fine black girl, it's on! Not because of her skin color, but because of her beauty and brains. Black America killed all of that. Protest? Fine. Going fucking crazy? No way in hell!! All of the greatest we built up wiht Dr. King and Medgar Evers is lost in the greed and bullshit of the black people of America. I know. I was THERE from 1960 to now. YOU did it and it sure hurts.
Yes friend, i am in love with a black woman and am white. She has charms white women wish they had.
Except when your parents Are racists
@@austinteutsch: That takes the biscuit for the most racist comment that doesn't think it's racist. You sound insufferably arrogant. "When I see a pretty or fine black girl, it's on!", you say, like Ted Nugent or Trump. Odious, hateful. Men like you don't often attract women anyway, as you no doubt know. And now you think all black people are greedy? You're a disgrace.
I have always loved black men but my daddy didn't accept that. Daddy was a good man and I miss him..
Greatest era to grow up! 🤗💯
it was interesting.
For sure!!
Another mega classic of a golden era in music. Such a good rhythm , melody, and above all a history and message., ingredients which make this classic timeless.
You ain't lying.
One of the best One Hit Wonder
Man listening to this makes me wish i had grown up in the 70s like my Dad
Music was WAY BETTER back then!
Same here!
It's worth being older now to have been young back then. ✌🏽🎶🎵👩🦳 Check out LIVE version on The Midnight Special. Or 1973 Soul Purrfection/longer version! Good music never gets old. Glad that new generations are diggin it too!!
Robbie, the 70s and 60s had so many artists, many with great talent and new songs, new instruments to experiment with and many used older instruments and even a big band sound backing like van morrison in And it stoned and other earlier, just explore, so much of it is available as retro is coming back, again
Music WAS way better back then!...and you're ahead of all of your friends that you know this piece of wisdom. God bless!
I love growing up as a kid in the '70'$ it was the very best of times.
Esa melodía es una joya de la buena música, hoy con tanta tecnología los grupos de hoy en día no hacen música como los de antes, no son nada originales, tenía 12 años cuando la escuché y ahora que tengo 62 la escucho como si fuera la primera vez, fue una época inolvidable que no volverá.
Saludos desde Costa Rica.
Completamente de acuerdo.
First heard this song in the '70s when I was a kid. I still love it!!
Married a southafrican Xhosa girl in Mexico. Me half german, half mexican, white as milk, and I have never been happier. There is only one race, the human one.
Preach!
🔥💣💥💯💥💣🔥
I'm in Torreon Mexico con mi esposa. I'm white trash from a trailer park in Alabama. My mom was a hippie and I was never taught the way of treating anyone differently. Especially of color of skin
One of the hottest songs of the 70's !!
This song is amazing, can't believe we never heard anything else from them...
I'm 59 youngest of 7 so I heard lots of music grew up a 80's kid about to retire in a couple of years and will always here good music ❤
Luv this jazzy soulful thought they were black great jam😅❤
Marriage to a Black Woman is the best thing that ever happened to me! After 11 years we are in love like the first day we met.. Love you Regina
One of my favorite songs of all time! Period.
Man! They don't make music 🎵🎶 like dey use to💃💃💃💃,a whole vibe,Who's still listening in 2023?
I've been vibing it since it was released.❤
Unfortunately, they don't make music like the no mo''. Yes fo'' sure I listen all the time and will 'til the lawd cums to take me to the turntable in the sky
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2024 for me!!!
Amen
Even though I was a teenager during the 80's I gotta say that the 70's were the best
This song is a pretty damn cool thing to come out in 1973 with Great sounds and Great vocal range and I love it so much.
I remember buying the 45 of Brother Louie for $2.98 in 1973…I still have some great memories of playing it to death! Anyone else remember the song Brother Louie by Stories? I sure do!
$2.98? damn...my recollection is these went for like $1.25 back then
@@michaelpowell9608 I thought the same thing when I saw that!😂😂
Yea there are some beautiful black girls out there, same as beautiful white girls too out
@@larynbolinger7409 I am white! I would take a "Beautiful" black woman over a white woman all the time!!!!
I remember 89 cents for some of them; plus the approx. 5% sales tax at the time....
Race is factor in the human condition, but we love who we love. Hopefully, this next generation will learn to judge one person at a time.
The human race is one! Many nuances of the same species!!!
But we are trained to see color in this society. I think if children grew up together without talk of race, they would just get along.
I loved her and my mother didn't want me with her but I keep fighting for her to be Accept it. And I Finally one we've been married for many years and we have three beautiful children thank you mother❤
Im sure your mother loves those grandchildren. 😉
Yes she does ❤😢@Musicfiend4ever
I looked for this, heard long time ago, finally happy to find, all the best for you all
Written by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of UK band Hot Chocolate. This version wasn't released over here and at 62 this is the first time I've come across it. It's the good thing about youtube methinks. I like this a lot, totally different.
Hot Chocolate steered away from this kind of relevant and gritty material and shifted very much to the chart pop music of the mid 70's through to the early 90's. A good move commercially, but in my opinion they never reached the heights of this song.
I have ALWAYS loved this song and how Stories perform it.
The first time they let me go to a party and I dance with my crush and I said I WILL REMEMBER THIS SONG FOREVER, AND I DO, IT MAKE ME SO HAPPY, MY LIFE HAS BEEN JUST MARVELOUSE. THANKS GOD.
Does anyone also remember Isaac Hayes "Shaft"? And the Ozark Mountain Daredevils "Jackie Blue" And Three Dog Night's "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog". And Jim Croce's "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"? And Eric Burdon and War "Spill the Wine"? All great early 70's songs :)
Of course. Those were main top 40 songs.
Terry Lopez have all them and more on vinyl good will and thrift stores can be gold mines
Jackie Blue is the shit. Great song by O.M.D.
OOOOHHHH YEAH! I jammed with Jim Croce once when I was a teenager, (I'm 60) and still rockin'..... like me they are the "Oldies" LOL.
All my favorites.
The girl I loved this was her favorite song. I will always love you abby
I was 3 when this song came out...and I still remember bopping out to it in the car. 70's-80's BEST music!
Love this song it was about racial harmony. No matter what color you was if you loved each other it didn't matter, way ahead of it's time .but got the meaning and still did it, love my mixed cultures that's what's life's all about, get on board!!!
Nicely done.
Preach!
Great song
I love this song and the Beat too.. 💜 this song is the best today and Forever..
Eric came across a great song with a meaning behind it too, stevie wonder's living for the city
My mother loved this song! God rest her soul. Love u mommy;'( xoxo rach-nicole
A classic from the good 'ole days Awesome tale.
That Soulful Voice and funky ass music plus the message! I love this Song! Heard it at work and fell in love! They play the same Songs over & over again at work 💜
Im old enough to remember when this sort of story was common place when i was a
child. Now im middle aged im glad to say i haven't heard anything like it in the last 20 years.
Fantastic song.
Thank God for my hearing this song by chance. It was early 1985, and Tommy Vance (UK DJ) had Lou Gramm and Mick Jones as guests on Into the Music, the AOR show he presented on Thursdays. Tommy asked them how Ian Lloyd had come to sing back-up on Foreigner albums, MJ explained, then TV played this. I was INSTANTLY in love with the song. Ian Lloyd does sound similar to Rod Stewart here, but he doesn't on many other numbers, which is interesting. The lyrics still resonate.
I had forgotten all about this tune and how good it is. Heard on XM this morning and now I'm playing it over and over. Reminds me a lot of someone very special in my past, but we just couldn't make it work. We tried very hard but it fell apart, though I still sometimes dream of him some 40 years later. Pleasantly.
This was such a heart wrenching song.
Yes. Art.
I graduated from school at 16 years old when this song came about. I just loved it then & and I'm still loving it now. The music is so cool. GB everyone. Peace.
I remembered hearing this song as a child. I love it. This song has made it to R&B charts.
I remember listening to my dad play this on vinyl... I love this song. Pure nostalgia, here, lol. Now we share his record collection. And I'm only 17. (18 in 7 days. (June 8th.))
Now, you're 20. 😨
@@NoBandwidth-0 ....yeah...
@@gojifan54gaming15 Don't feel bad, I'm 19 now. 😔
@@NoBandwidth-0 oof
@@NoBandwidth-0 same here 19
L.A.Born in 83's and I can remember hearing all these mid 60's - 70's music. My migrant Salvadorian parents had SOUL bc I remember we had vynles "Richie Valens", RUN DMC, BEASTY BOYS, And Other Latin and English. For the cars I remember they had these BIG ol Box SHAPE "A" Track CARTRIDGES (Iron Maiden,KISS, R.S).
Love his voice unconditional.
One of the best people I’ve ever met in my existence was a dude named Louie ! My baby ! We had so many good times ! We listened to this song so many times. Love you my little Louie forever !
Lou Turner introduced this song to me..... R. I . P Lou tag Turner
Im 61
Love good music
I was obsessed with this song when I was young!
この曲は時代を超えて永遠に生きる､クソ素晴らしい曲です。ロッドに歌って欲しかったなぁ😂🎉💇®️
Grew up racist, this changed me, I married a black woman and had two beautiful black daughters, changed my life
Wishing continued happiness!
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Love knows no color....love the one you with!
I love this song from Stories.
I remember hearing this on the radio while doing the driving part of driver's ed. Great song!!! I loved that our driver's ed teacher let us listen to the radio while driving.
As I sit and listen to this amazing remaster of this song. I am thankful to be alive to hear this version. Sam Cook would be proud of this rendition.
My change is coming every day, trust in the process, the journey is the growth and fulfillment. Change is this moment. Realize it!🎉❤
Great song and bluesy vocal. In '73, Stories played on a bill with BOC, Focus and one more act. In my hometown of Nashville. Good times, I was 16 and the world was wide open. Take me back...
Rediscovered this tonight! Wow! Blast from the past! Thank you BOOM 97.3 also, LUV the comments♥️
October 2024 and this song is still talking about our ccurrent situation.
Very true! Hello from Tyler Texas!
I was 13 when I first heard this song and had no idea it was about black and white racial things. I thought it was the best song I ever heard and still think that to this day..plus I have a lot friends of all color.
Beautiful song.
Me gusta el ritmo y el sonido de guitarra bajo y violines... en fin tooodooo... gracias por encontrar mi disco de mi adolescencia... saludos desde Lima-Perù🎶
Es una mezcla de rock con sinfónica, también te saludo desde Lima..
Aclárenme por favor
Existen 2 canciones diferentes llamadas
Brother Loui?
Gracias
La de Stories y Hot Chocolate es la misma. Por cierto la de Hot Chocolate es la original.
Saw them in concert in the 70s. Wow....great. great.
how were they?
Lucky you! I'll bet they were beyond awesome! I'm happy for you friend!
R.I.P. MY BROTHER IN LAW LOUIS GILCES ... YOU WILL BE MISSED BUT "NEVER" FORGOTTEN, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING, THAT CRAZY FUN LAUGHTER AND JOY YOU BROUGHT US THROUGHOUT YEARS, ... I LOVE YOU CUÑADO... FELIX ALEJOS
Oh those sweet 70s!
It's weird how a top 40 hit becomes so forgotten after a few decades.
This song come out in 1973. I thought it was Rod Stewart at first.
Congratulations. You are not a member of the club of musicians.
I was 11 then. Loved this. Means more now than ever. They were making a statement, & we are just grasping it’s significance.
I loved Stories Music 🎶🎶🎶
I remember when this song came out. I was only 14 years old. It was being played on black radio stations. I knew that for a fact because that was the only kind of stations I listened to at the time. I liked the song, but I didn't learn the meaning of the song until I became an adult.
Louie approves of this version.
is there another ? which one is the original?
@@charles727727 Original is by Hot Chocolate
Thanks for posting this music! I had a sister nicknamed Louie (though I called her by her given name). After she passed away, the grandkids named our new puppy after her. Every time I say the dog's name, I think of this song, but couldn't get the lyrics straight. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and never realized what this song was about. So sad it was, and still is in some places, this way with the races. One day I wish everyone in the world was mixed, then we wouldn't have any races at all! Of course the down side of that is we are already losing so much beautiful culture.
I remember this song, I was 17 , and we were faszinated of our youth, the fire we had inside an our remarkable beauty and best friendships in life.
She was Darker
than the Night....
Enough Said!
Perversity!
🗣 Brother Louie Big *HIT* group from the 70s I got this album in the early 80s.
Hey.. Nathaniel just remembering our dance together. And the pink butterfly.. this song brings it all back. Long live our young dreams. Where ever you are I hope you are happy.thanks for the memories.
Preach to me, brother! Yes! Let's all get together and Love one another!
I found out as an adult that both my parents had black lovers before they met and had me... if 20th Century America were more supportive I would be half black, for both relationships might have been forever!
😂
If you want to see a dark comedic view of what may have been, try the movie "Carbon Copy"
Unique song...Love his voice and the instruments.
I always loved this badass song and never really payed close attention to the lyrics. This shit is deep.
I love this song. I too remember it when it was played on the radio. Good times.
I remember hearing this song as a kid in the 70's and realized it was a reflection of things that I witnessed in real life. Great song, and message, always wondered if it was a personal account of the lead singer.
It was written by two members of UK soul/rock band Hot Chocolate. In their version, black parents were racially prejudiced against a white girl - Errol Brown, singer, is black. Stories inverted the story, so, in each case, they're blaming their own race for ignorance.
always a bad ass song!
A bad what?
"Ass song."
OK. Got it.
Love this song, brings back memories in tne Bay Area Berkeley
Great rock jam. Lyrics are off the chain .
I was 13 when this song came out, I knew exactly what it was talking about. I was a lyrics kid. There was a magazine called “song hits“, I would take my allowance and buy it and learn the lyrics to the songs.I also used to read the liner covers of the albums that had the lyrics in them.
Great song, Great memories! ✌🌍🎵
Im 68 and in a jude box a heard so many times that special song, for me . I was young and with my friends spend our evening drinking in the Old Montréal , Then play pool Baby foot and eating hot dogs ....lol...
My girlfriend loves this song, that's why we have a Louie, because this song was playing when he was born.
I was an teenager now i wii be 65 years old in august. These brothers had soul. Me and my husband vof 44 years used to dance to this song at house parties.❤❤❤
Stories covered this very nicely.
GREAT SONG. NEVER JUDGE ANYONE. SHAME THERE IS HATE ON BOTH SIDES OR PREJUDICE. ONE THING FOR SURE THE ELITES HATE ALL KEEP THST IN MIND.
Wow this song is still Bad as hell, as you young folk might say, fire, I thing. This music is so thought provoking. What got me her in 2022 is a friend a male friend named Louie just transitioned. There is no relation between this song and this person, but in my mind when ever this person came around my mind played this song, and I played my air guitar. LOL. The song is awesome and Louie was a beautiful male person. May he rest in peace. Now I will play this song more often, and bless Louie's beautiful spirit. RIP Louie!
it was a brilliant idea to put strings on this record...beautiful string arrangements.
Oh, beloved Magnavox transistor radio, where are you? I miss you!
I had one too. Lol
Some say we're evolving. I'm positive we're degenerating
Ebay
@@RICHIECOQUI Wishing I had mine. Sentimental value.
And you heard it on AM, too, huh?