Junior Walker plays Cleo's Mood ~ I have put this up for those that like Junior Walker. The audio and video don't match I know, but at least you get to see Jr. Walker. Enjoy : )
I grew up on MoTown! When Black men idolized and loved their Woman and they weren't called "Bitches"! When Marvin Gay sang about Peace and Love between Races and not Busten a Cap ! When Machismo wasn't the Main Theme of Manhood but Way Down Home and Gramma's Hands and I color him 'Father" pointed to what's REALLY IMPORTANT: FAMILY!
I love soul music! The reason is, that I had been raised by black people off and on on my life since I was 6 years old. That's how I started blocking toll and wanting to sing like them too. They say I do a damn good job. Hail the soul music
Mr. Walker jr was is and is still the man he looked so great he looked like Cleveland Williams a powerful boxer playing the sax with grace and poise and power and any sax player got to recognize amen!
I have loved Jr. Walker's music for as long as I can recall, and was privileged to hear him live back in the 1980s before cancer claimed him. What a wonderful and talented performer - pure class and an all-time great to be sure. This song is one of this best, and so atmospheric and moody...
Back in 1966 this song was terriffic to listen to and it still is. It will really crank up a stereo in the car or at home. You will have to get up and dance. Jr. Walker Forever
I saw him in philly in the late seventies at "The Starr Club". He was gratious enough to talk to me for a few minutes and autograph the sheet music for "Shoot Your Shot". He was great thet night and I'll never forget it.
I remember seeing jr in 1970 in Washington DC my buddy and I where the only 2 white persons in the hole place but hell I didn't care He was the man I still listen to him today my favorite song was way back home but I liked them all I am 66 now
Saw him live at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. He was the back-up for the Temptations. He was so popular after one of the breaks that the audience booed the Temptations to stay off the stage. Junior Walker did not back-up the Temptations after that performance. He was just soooo gooood.
This conjures up images of the 50s and early 60s in Detroit, Hastings Street, the Black Bottom neighborhood, Detroit-style chili dog stands and roiling, dark smoky nightclubs. Saw him live in San Antonio in 1982, the crowd went apeshit, wouldn't let him leave the stage!
You got that right ! Detroit was Detroit when ' everything was everything,Man !!! Walk outside then, you could feel the electricity flowing throuhh every street,in the air!
I MADE THE MISTAKE of listening to this while getting ready to go running.. Now I'm just walking on this trail wishing I had a joint 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
As long as I live I will never get tired of hearing this song. I first bought it in 1964 and have played it a thousand times ever since. I had it on 8 track cassette in my first car and it was perfect for cruising around on a summer evening.
A Bronx Tale brought me here :) when "C" is walking Jane to her neighborhood, A cream colored Impala stops right in front of them and this song starts to play. I LOVE this song, 2 minutes and 41 seconds of pure FUNK. Just sit back and enjoy. But you can't hear this song just once :D
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS SONG? IT'S NOT LONG ENOUGH!!!I COULD LISTEN TO THIS FOREVER, ON & ON,MUSIC LIKE THIS WILL NEVER BE AGAIN, SO GLAD I WAS BORN IN 1963,AND GOT TO GROW UP WITH THIS, I LOVE JR.& THE ALL STARS ✌💖🌠🌹😎
Jr. Walker's solo on the song 'Urgent' is one of the funkiest soul sax solo-13 seconds ever recorded...............it just sends you from Earth to Mars in about 2 Quasars of a 9th dimension.
Brilliant. as always! 😎 Love this one from the "Cooley High" soundtrack, it is so on and poppin'!🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷 Thanks for sharing! 💋💋💋💋💋 The loss of another great. Tragic. 😐
Junior Walker and fellow R&B great King Curtis never got their just due from the hardcore jazz guys, but they were great musicians all the same, and fabulous entertainers, too. This is where guys like the late Clarence Clemons came from...
+Gabriel Lopez - you can easy! Paste the share link into here; convert2mp3.net/en/index.php Turn the UA-cam video into an MP3 file and then load it up to your mobile - simples!
I was about 8 yrs old when this out and we used to go to Rodeo's and this would be all you would hear.My best friend and I would run around watching the cute boys and and them catching us, and the best bar-b-q and a soda, back then we called them sodawater lol...Those were some of the days when kids stay out until the street lights came on, riding bikes,playing jax,dodge ball...WHEEE ! those were the days.
My mother loved the music 🎶🎵🎶 of Jr. Walker and The All Stars!!! She played those old vinyl 45's on the stereo so much that as I grew up, I learned to love this Soulful Jazz Music too!!! STAX Records! The KING record label, if I'm not mistaken, had James Brown's name on it! Westbound had The Detroit Emeralds! Capitol records had Nat "KING" Cole! MEMORIES of Beautiful Music!!! My mother's taste in music influenced my spirit! I used to love listening to WJZZ and WGPR in Detroit back in the day!!! TSOP; The Sound of Philadelphia, The Motown Sound! The Electrifying Mojo of the 1970's & 80's! Martha Jean The Queen!!! MEMORIES!!!
The absolute baddest Jr. Walker tune ever. If you were at a really good party with friends and someone played Cleo's Back and Cleo's Mood then your chances increased for a successful conclusion of the evening. I'm sure you know what I mean. In the trying, sometimes dangerous and violent times of the 60's soul was one thing that brought a lot of us together. Jr. Walker was a big part of it.
Love the way this track is featured in the film, "A Bronx tale"....The soul brothers cruising in their car, mad dogging caulaginal...the Italian, "C"... He's walking the colored girl, "Jane" home from school..And, they dig each other... Nice scene, in that particular part....👊
This is a wonderful song, but very melancholy. Whenever women had me down about something I would listen to this for hours back in the 60's when I was a teenager. I still listen to it often now. whenever I do, I just stop everything else I'm doing like watching the Eastbank Tennis tournament, and just totally focus in on the haunting sounds. My all time favorite saxaphone song. Cleo's back is incredible too. :-0 This is the first time I have actually seen Jr. Walker. Thanks. UA-cam ROCKS!!!
I had this single, when it came out and haven't heard it since. Didn't realize it was a blues song. For some reason it reminds me of something John Mayall would do.
Thanks for putting this one up. This guy was my inspiration and led to my semi-professional career in music. Saw him in '68 with pretty much the same band as on the b&w video except no bass player- the organ player was playing the bass on the B3 foot pedals (I think this studio cut of Cleo's Mood was also recorded that way).
I once heard this on Pirate radio Caroline just before the news in the 60s I was never got the title. I thought it was great. Then after many months I bought The LP Motown Magic. I was so pleased when l heard it. Wonderful track one of his best brilliant .
Slow dance. Deep groove. Grind. Sax stroking the night time air like lovers in passionate heat. Soul music when it totally earned the title Soul music, 'cause that is what that style of music reflected. Pure beauty on a 45 RPM disc(or 33 1/3rd). A song from Motown that didn't have the usual "Motown sound"-- it was all Jr.Walker and his boys, doing only what they could do best, laying it down for all to absorb, like hot fluid emollient soothing away the pains of our busy day, promising relief.
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Thanks for the positive response to my comment of Jr. Walker's "Cleo's Mood". I have always enjoyed the many songs by this great artist. Also, one of my favorites is "Cleo's Back". Too bad this type of good music doesn't exits today. We're very thankful that there's a place to listen / enjoy / remember this good music. Jr. Walker Forever
We used to get asked for this in the night club I played at - though could only do it when we had the right guest musicians with us - piano, bass, drums and sax. It was a tight squeeze due to the small stage and dance floor.
The absolute BEST Saxophone Player Who EVER LIVED, was Junior Walker! He must be using a 7 reed that most men can't even BEND, not less get a note out of! Bow down before the BUDDHA OF LOVE! and Compassionate Wisdom!
my name is larry brown. met jr walker when i was about 15 yrs old. he was a life long friend. he truly was one of the greatest sax players of all time. im proud to say i own one of his Selmar Mark VI tenor saxophones. i just wish to ?God i could blow it like him. he is truly missed but he left us some great great music.
Use to party to this at CLEO'S CLUB on Williams Street in Portland, Oregon at Miss Cleo's Wednesday nite 'oldies set' during summer of love 1967. Junior and Portland had a love affair way back then!
Yes of course soul and then some but I was thinking more along the lines of the tune having a haunting quality to it. I met JW briefly many years ago back stage at the Astoria in London... He blew the house down that night.... Memories...
On the bad-as-ass saxophone dance field were Earl Bostic, Sid Austin, Sam "The Man" Taylor, and, yes, JR. Walker (and King Curtis) from whom David Sanborn got his growls and altissimo overtone high notes. This period, early/mid and late 1960's, saw Jr. Walker - with King Curtis - as the Heavyweight Champion of the world on Pop, RnB and Soul as well as Rock 'N' Roll and Smooth Instrumentals. "Oh, Bring Back Yesterday", says Matt Monroe.
I remember listening to this in the Student Union at Auburn way back in the Sixties. Have never forgotten it. So sexy and evocative! This recording is an example of why I love instrumentals, especially this one.
1965-The greatest Sax player. His music will always be remembered as smooth Soul music.
Sport67
Everything Jr. Walked did was absolutely great, including this one!
I grewup 10 miles from Hitsville USA !!!
I grew up on MoTown!
When Black men idolized and loved their Woman and they weren't called "Bitches"!
When Marvin Gay sang about Peace and Love between Races and not Busten a Cap !
When Machismo wasn't the Main Theme of Manhood but Way Down Home and Gramma's Hands and I color him 'Father" pointed to what's REALLY IMPORTANT: FAMILY!
True that******
What
Happened
Stop blaming the white man standing up and be a real man
Real music
So mellow, so much soul. No one will ever compete with his sound! A master of soul!
Thereeeeee Best !!!!!
We will not see another like him in our time.
Jr. Walker at his finest. Simply an R&B masterpiece ❤
I love soul music! The reason is, that I had been raised by black people off and on on my life since I was 6 years old. That's how I started blocking toll and wanting to sing like them too. They say I do a damn good job. Hail the soul music
one of the best hornblowers of all time
You are right the king of the tenor sax is Jr Walker and never forget King Curtis
This is one bad ass song. Jr has that sax wailing!!! Loved those 60 instrumentals.
Amen brother... take me back ;)
This song is sexy AF
Yeah I love that dude and his sound live on God!
Agree💯
Mr. Walker jr was is and is still the man he looked so great he looked like Cleveland Williams a powerful boxer playing the sax with grace and poise and power and any sax player got to recognize amen!
I have loved Jr. Walker's music for as long as I can recall, and was privileged to hear him live back in the 1980s before cancer claimed him. What a wonderful and talented performer - pure class and an all-time great to be sure. This song is one of this best, and so atmospheric and moody...
this is on my alarm clock for 3 years now, and I like it even more than I did back when I first heard it, you can't get tired of this, pure classic
He was truly an underappreciated talent! I miss him!
Back in 1966 this song was terriffic to listen to and it still is. It will really crank up a stereo in the car or at home. You will have to get up and dance.
Jr. Walker Forever
One of my favorite songs from yesteryear.
I saw him in philly in the late seventies at "The Starr Club".
He was gratious enough to talk to me for a few minutes and autograph the sheet music for "Shoot Your Shot".
He was great thet night and I'll never forget it.
as they use to say back in the day ...this is a bad ass jam.
I remember seeing jr in 1970 in Washington DC my buddy and I where the only 2 white persons in the hole place but hell I didn't care He was the man I still listen to him today my favorite song was way back home but I liked them all I am 66 now
Amen
Still is !
Saw him live at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. He was the back-up for the Temptations. He was so popular after one of the breaks that the audience booed the Temptations to stay off the stage. Junior Walker did not back-up the Temptations after that performance. He was just soooo gooood.
This man made me love music, i was lucky enough to see him 3 x, in front of very appreiative audience's. love love him.
I got to see him live mine hero 🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷
This conjures up images of the 50s and early 60s in Detroit, Hastings Street, the Black Bottom neighborhood, Detroit-style chili dog stands and roiling, dark smoky nightclubs. Saw him live in San Antonio in 1982, the crowd went apeshit, wouldn't let him leave the stage!
You certainly paint a great picture!!
You got that right !
Detroit was Detroit when ' everything was everything,Man !!!
Walk outside then, you could feel the electricity flowing throuhh every street,in the air!
I MADE THE MISTAKE of listening to this while getting ready to go running.. Now I'm just walking on this trail wishing I had a joint 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
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I bet you looked cool brother
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂❤
As long as I live I will never get tired of hearing this song. I first bought it in 1964 and have played it a thousand times ever since. I had it on 8 track cassette in my first car and it was perfect for cruising around on a summer evening.
A Bronx Tale brought me here :) when "C" is walking Jane to her neighborhood, A cream colored Impala stops right in front of them and this song starts to play. I LOVE this song, 2 minutes and 41 seconds of pure FUNK. Just sit back and enjoy. But you can't hear this song just once :D
A Bronx Tale brought me here too
soprano803 facts
Perfect music to listen while chillin outside and drinking coffee
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS SONG? IT'S NOT LONG ENOUGH!!!I COULD LISTEN TO THIS FOREVER, ON & ON,MUSIC LIKE THIS WILL NEVER BE AGAIN, SO GLAD I WAS BORN IN 1963,AND GOT TO GROW UP WITH THIS, I LOVE JR.& THE ALL STARS ✌💖🌠🌹😎
Jr. Walker's solo on the song 'Urgent' is one of the funkiest soul sax solo-13 seconds ever recorded...............it just sends you from Earth to Mars in about 2 Quasars of a 9th dimension.
My folks listened to jr back in the day , still a good jam fr !!!
Featured in Robert De Niro's "A Bronx Tale". Sounds so good!
Yes one of my favorite movies of all times along with Jr. Walker as we'll💝
Let me see now, the best way to describe this peice🤔 TIMELESS DEEP DIAMOND BLACK INNER CITY SOUL!
YES INDEED!! THE BEST OF THE OLDIES BUT GOODIES!!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The annointed one
Music like this will always kick Ass, I am glad I grew up with this music 👍
ONE OF THE BEST OLDIE BUT GOODIE!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This song was played at Barborahs play house skating rink in the 60s in Gary Indiana this was and still a kick ass song ,forever!
Brilliant. as always! 😎 Love this one from the "Cooley High" soundtrack, it is so on and poppin'!🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷 Thanks for sharing! 💋💋💋💋💋 The loss of another great. Tragic. 😐
I love this music it heals the soul
That's because it is SOUL !!!! In fact Junior was on the Soul Label for Hittsville USA!!!!!!
Love it brings back so many memories ♥️
Junior Walker and fellow R&B great King Curtis never got their just due from the hardcore jazz guys, but they were great musicians all the same, and fabulous entertainers, too. This is where guys like the late Clarence Clemons came from...
I THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO REMINDS ME OF MY AUNTS WHO GONE, BUT STILL HERE IN SPIRIT, WOMEN WHO WASN'T AFRAID TO ENJOY LIFE.
i had forgotten about this song..very smooth!
This song was featured in the 1975 movie Cooley High.
My favorite movie
He was an underappreciated genius! Emphasis on the word GENIUS!
That is one Bad Azz Brother on that Sax... Smooth Soul. Incredible!!!
I heard this song in a movie, but never knew who played the music. Love this song! Thanks this on UA-cam!
I wish I could have Junior Walker's Cleo's Mood as a ringtone
+Gabriel Lopez - you can easy!
Paste the share link into here; convert2mp3.net/en/index.php
Turn the UA-cam video into an MP3 file and then load it up to your mobile - simples!
This wasn't a big hit for Jr Walker. But, I had the 45rpm back in the day, and wore it out!! 🎶🎵👍🏼
I booked Junior Walker for an appearance in the early 1980's. Great show as you might expect & a decent guy. Can you say TALENT!!
A band so gifted, they didn't need lyrics.
I was about 8 yrs old when this out and we used to go to Rodeo's and this would be all you would hear.My best friend and I would run around watching the cute boys and and them catching us, and the best bar-b-q and a soda, back then we called them sodawater lol...Those were some of the days when kids stay out until the street lights came on, riding bikes,playing jax,dodge ball...WHEEE ! those were the days.
My mother loved the music 🎶🎵🎶 of Jr. Walker and The All Stars!!! She played those old vinyl 45's on the stereo so much that as I grew up, I learned to love this Soulful Jazz Music too!!! STAX Records! The KING record label, if I'm not mistaken, had James Brown's name on it! Westbound had The Detroit Emeralds! Capitol records had Nat "KING" Cole! MEMORIES of Beautiful Music!!! My mother's taste in music influenced my spirit! I used to love listening to WJZZ and WGPR in Detroit back in the day!!! TSOP; The Sound of Philadelphia, The Motown Sound! The Electrifying Mojo of the 1970's & 80's! Martha Jean The Queen!!! MEMORIES!!!
That sax just digs deep into my soul. I had the opportunity to see him once live.
Cleos back is just as good if not better appreciate the posting
The absolute baddest Jr. Walker tune ever. If you were at a really good party with friends and someone played Cleo's Back and Cleo's Mood then your chances increased for a successful conclusion of the evening. I'm sure you know what I mean. In the trying, sometimes dangerous and violent times of the 60's soul was one thing that brought a lot of us together. Jr. Walker was a big part of it.
Timeless soul.
Haven't heard this in ages - - - still sounds great - thank you for posting.
YOUR welcome
Love the way this track is featured in the film, "A Bronx tale"....The soul brothers cruising in their car, mad dogging caulaginal...the Italian, "C"... He's walking the colored girl, "Jane" home from school..And, they dig each other... Nice scene, in that particular part....👊
cleo mood and cleo back junior and the all stars this is music.
This was a favorite of Don Imus, he played it on his morning radio show regularly
This is a wonderful song, but very melancholy. Whenever women had me down about something I would listen to this for hours back in the 60's when I was a teenager. I still listen to it often now. whenever I do, I just stop everything else I'm doing like watching the Eastbank Tennis tournament, and just totally focus in on the haunting sounds.
My all time favorite saxaphone song. Cleo's back is incredible too. :-0
This is the first time I have actually seen Jr. Walker. Thanks. UA-cam ROCKS!!!
I had this single, when it came out and haven't heard it since. Didn't realize it was a blues song. For some reason it reminds me of something John Mayall would do.
as I await my first grandchild and no-one appreciated this music back then and now some do I will just have to telll her!! Glad u guys do
Thanks for putting this one up. This guy was my inspiration and led to my semi-professional career in music. Saw him in '68 with pretty much the same band as on the b&w video except no bass player- the organ player was playing the bass on the B3 foot pedals (I think this studio cut of Cleo's Mood was also recorded that way).
I once heard this on Pirate radio Caroline just before the news in the 60s I was never got the title. I thought it was great. Then after many months I bought The LP Motown Magic. I was so pleased when l heard it. Wonderful track one of his best brilliant .
Sweet music 💙
Keep the glory coming.❤
The warmth of this sound is nurturing.
LOVE IT❤
Him, Curtis, and Parker were the guys back then for playing soul music with their saxes. They were bad to the bone!
Awesome! 😍👏...
Slow dance. Deep groove. Grind. Sax stroking the night time air like lovers in passionate heat. Soul music when it totally earned the title Soul music, 'cause that is what that style of music reflected. Pure beauty on a 45 RPM disc(or 33 1/3rd). A song from Motown that didn't have the usual "Motown sound"-- it was all Jr.Walker and his boys, doing only what they could do best, laying it down for all to absorb, like hot fluid emollient soothing away the pains of our busy day, promising relief.
i'm a big fan of jr walker is music is class love it .
I wore out the track on this song!
@TheTalentedMrRipley1 Thanks for the positive response to my comment of Jr. Walker's "Cleo's Mood". I have always enjoyed the many songs by this great artist. Also, one of my favorites is "Cleo's Back".
Too bad this type of good music doesn't exits today. We're very thankful that there's a place to listen / enjoy / remember this good music.
Jr. Walker Forever
Pendant 4 ans (1981-1985), c'était le générique de mon émission "Saute-Maton" sur radio Gilda à Paris....
We used to get asked for this in the night club I played at - though could only do it when we had the right guest musicians with us - piano, bass, drums and sax. It was a tight squeeze due to the small stage and dance floor.
junior the most soulful sax eva!!!
Where is music like this today!
The absolute BEST Saxophone Player Who EVER LIVED, was Junior Walker! He must be using a 7 reed that most men can't even BEND, not less get a note out of! Bow down before the BUDDHA OF LOVE! and Compassionate Wisdom!
Yeah soulful sax Jr Walker still lives
Junor may you forever rest in peace.
You was a one of
One that highlighted my teenage years
absolutely gorgeous
everything gels
but now the sounds of the 60's appear
After all this time this song stillllllllll sound goooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Ernestine M.
STILL GREAT TODAY THANK YOU FOR THIS
Damn, damn. damn...
my name is larry brown. met jr walker when i was about 15 yrs old. he was a life long friend. he truly was one of the greatest sax players of all time. im proud to say i own one of his Selmar Mark VI tenor saxophones. i just wish to ?God i could blow it like him. he is truly missed but he left us some great great music.
Thank You. 'Awesome' Song. Means 'Everything' to me during 'Childhood'. Stay 'Blessed'...
boy can he caress that sax... top sound....
I'm guessin that 10 people didn't wanna groove with us :)
soprano803 they're over checking out Pat Boone.. forget them !
Use to party to this at CLEO'S CLUB on Williams Street in Portland, Oregon at Miss Cleo's Wednesday nite 'oldies set' during summer of love 1967. Junior and Portland had a love affair way back then!
Yes of course soul and then some but I was thinking more along the lines of the tune having a haunting quality to it.
I met JW briefly many years ago back stage at the Astoria in London... He blew the house down that night.... Memories...
23 yrs and I love the song it makes me want to dance even though i cant dance
superb
love this song and my dad still play it til this day
A Bronx Tale
it shows from the response how greatness lives amongst us. Listen love and enjoy...
HOLLLLAAAHHH! YEP!
Another great tune by these guys!
Simply Talented ❤
excellent song-musicians=well done=Trinity bless everyone with good safe days
The great Cooley High soundtrack brought me here. 🎼🎶🎵
On the bad-as-ass saxophone dance field were Earl Bostic, Sid Austin, Sam "The Man" Taylor, and, yes, JR. Walker (and King Curtis) from whom David Sanborn got his growls and altissimo overtone high notes.
This period, early/mid and late 1960's, saw Jr. Walker - with King Curtis - as the Heavyweight Champion of the world on Pop, RnB and Soul as well as Rock 'N' Roll and Smooth Instrumentals.
"Oh, Bring Back Yesterday", says Matt Monroe.
still one of my favourites
I have always loved this
my fave jr walker song....love them all and have worn out 8track tapes and cds tells u how old i am
I remember listening to this in the Student Union at Auburn way back in the Sixties. Have never forgotten it. So sexy and evocative! This recording is an example of why I love instrumentals, especially this one.
This music is awesome
JUNIOR WALKER SHOULD BE IN THE
ROCKnROLL HALL LOF FAME. "SHAME" ON THEM.
the Boat that rocked...
good music the jr and the allstars.