She absolutely mesmerizing on that stage. Almost hypnotic. And her voice is like that of an angel. It can be powerful and commanding and then it can be soft and gentle.
Chaka Khan can "SANG". She reached those octave ranges like no other. I have always said that Chaka Khan was/is probably the best singer from the ol' school. And trust me, we had some baadd Black female singers. (i.e.) Aretha, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle, Natalie Cole, and later Whitney Houston; to name a few. Plus Chaka Khan was sexy and the men used to go crazy over her.
Flawless beauty that excudes from the inside out, and her voice.. her natural hair, the way she feels the music with her dance.. This is the real music.
This song was on the charts when I was 13. I'm 49 now; where has the time gone? I can remember going to Maui and standing on the lava rocks, watching the water crash on those rocks, through my toes, and hearing this song in my head. I looked at the island of Molokai across the water. What memories! Thank you, Chaka Khan.
I'm 66 in 2023. Grooved to soul since 1969. The bands I was in wanted to play such things as "Smoke on the Water", "Sister Golden Hair", "Frankenstein", and Jerry Lewis tunes. Later jazz with a funk twist even with tunes going back to the 1930's. I want to dance if I'm not playing. Chaka A+++.
Chaka Khan was then and is still one of the best singers of our time - like it or not! Some one commented on whether or not she was lip syncing - she was and the reason for not seeing background singers live or taped, is because Chaka did her own background singing, thats why she was then and is now one of the best singers of our time, everybody cannot sing both the lead & background believe me, I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!
Dem dudes from Rufus were sick with the musical arrangements & the writing!! We all know Chaka is one of the greatest that ever did it!! These artists of today don't know how to sing with passion & delivery!!
There have been so many great female singers who sang the heck out of a slow jam. The Late Great Aretha Pattie Gladys Natalie Denice Williams Mary J Stephanie Mills The Late Great Whitney Houston The Boss Beyoncé and the list goes on with greatness. I think after all these years Chaka still got the crown for Sweet Thing
Agreed. I think it's because this is what we used to call a "bump and grind" song. Not too many female singers had those that were big hits. Maybe Betty Wright with "Tonight Is the Night" or Jocelyn Edwards of Mothers Finest with "Changes", Teena Marie's "Portuguese Love" come to mind and one or two others. Of course, none of the others had a killer Funk unit like Rufus. I suspect that last part is the key.
I met her once, at the funeral of a mutual friend. Shes truly like 4 feet tall!! Amazing how that big wonderful voice can come from such a tiny package!
@@UnderHisHand That’s a lie! Chaka is 5’0 tall! I’ve taken pics with her and I’m 5’4….and she was wearing heels and I was still taller than her! Stop believing Wikipedia
@@dametaylortyler4975 Yeah, you're right about wiki..They get it twisted. I'll stop believing 'em. Also, I'll thumbs up your comment since you did 😄 be blessed!
Takes be back to my childhood, lower ninth ward of new orleans. My dad would block the street off and we would have a block party. Dancing and having a good time to this song and music like it...
No homo but chaka body is banging plus her voice. This is the true definition of a singer, you can tell there was no struggle in her voice she's a natural born singer.
🔥 *EVERYone* who contributed to this song performed on an incomparable level! 👏🏽 That’s what makes this a bona fide classic. The _entire_ band made magic. • Chaka Khan - lead vocals 🎤✍🏽 • Tony Maiden, who wrote the song with Khan - guitar & backing vocals 🎸🎤✍🏽 • Bobby Watson - bass & backing vocals 🎸🎤 • Kevin Murphy - keyboards 🎹 • André Fischer - drums 🥁
On this day in 1975 {December 12th} Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan, performed "Sweet Thing" on the late night weekly NBC-TV musical variety program, 'The Midnight Special"... A little over two weeks later on December 28th "Sweet Thing" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #82, thirteen weeks later it would peak at #5 {for 1 week} and it spent twenty one weeks on the Top 100... And on February 15th, 1976 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... Between 1973 and 1984 the group had twenty-five records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, twelve made the Top 10 with five reaching #1, besides "Sweet Thing", their four other #1 records were "You Got Love" for 1 week in 1974, "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)" for 2 weeks in 1977, "Do You Love What You Feel" for 3 weeks in 1979, and "Ain't Nobody" for 1 week in 1983... In addition, they had two records peak at #3, "Tell Me Something Good" {1974} and "Hollywood" {1977}... May Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.
Chaka khan would appear in Jet Magazine on occasions during my boyhood. My Brother and I would fight over who would get to view the photos first. I have literally been listening to this woman's voice for over 40 years.
I sooo miss the music of yesterday. Damn, Can we get it back? When real music was talking about something. So, glad I grew up on this music. I remember cleaning up the house on a Saturday and bumping Rufus and Chaka. Good Ol Days! LOL
It’s just so amazing cause this voice just does not match her body & she sings this song with little to no effort. Love the fact that she’s literally in her element & feeling every note in her bones 🤤
I blasted this tune at my folks place when I was 10, and still do 50 years later. Miss Khan, the Empess of FUNK kickin it and diggin it. Thanks, eh ✌️🎗️⚓
Every guy wanted that number in the 70's aaallllll the waaay up to now!! And we are not looking at "Girl Power" here cause that's all Woman right there! And if that fact didn't win ya, the "voice" finished you off!!
Trust me when I say some people who were kids when this song came out say the same thing; they would be in their late 30's early 40's now. Personally I like the both of them I was either 8/9 when this came out depending on what month it hit the airwaves.
I bet Chaka had to beat the guys off her. She was gorgeous. Still a mature beautiful woman. Women's beauty changes over the years with wisdom. That girl had some hair too. She and Selena could have sold some bustiers!🤣🤣
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 crazy crush as a child. Like a lil ass kid. I knew this was not a regular woman. And to this day, l go after women who have her aesthetic features.
Classic music being sung by a classis entertainer. Chake is still doing her thing today. The best will always last forever. Good music & good talent. This performance looks like it was going on quite well!!!!
Shes all natural look at her perfect shape! and her beautiful smile.lips fo dayz
Yes
Indeed!
@@thaole-ei6cb absolutely 💯!!!!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees OMG❤
And Cherokee
I’m so glad I grew up with this music.
Facts....
So much fun, just high on the music
Me too. I loved Rufus!! And of course, Chaka. The 70's were so smooth.
Who ever at Rolling Stone Magazine thinks that Mary J. Blige is a better singer than chaka Khan needs to get fired
Child please, that’s a laugh. 😂
Amen, in capital letters.😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly!
Mary who???😒😒
The objective is to undermine Black/African American culture introducing lower standards hence.
Sultry, Sexy, Groovy, Amazing Voice! Pure Talent! There is only ONE CKAKA KHAN!💜
I'll never get tired of this song, brings back beautiful memories
This was a smooth ass groove
Yes and played on a nice Rickenbacker 4001.
Wow she wrote that song.. People are really sleeping on Chaka
As a little boy in the seventies, she and Gladys knight made me fall madly in love with black women.
She absolutely mesmerizing on that stage. Almost hypnotic. And her voice is like that of an angel. It can be powerful and commanding and then it can be soft and gentle.
That's why she's the one and only Chaka Khan. 😊
Chaka Khan can "SANG". She reached those octave ranges like no other. I have always said that Chaka Khan was/is probably the best singer from the ol' school. And trust me, we had some baadd Black female singers. (i.e.) Aretha, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle, Natalie Cole, and later Whitney Houston; to name a few. Plus Chaka Khan was sexy and the men used to go crazy over her.
Flawless beauty that excudes from the inside out, and her voice.. her natural hair, the way she feels the music with her dance.. This is the real music.
One of my fave songs of all time. Still as good as it was decades ago. Classic
She was so magical with Rufus!
Gorgeous voice, gorgeous face, gorgeous body, and I'm a woman and I think she's one of the sexiest singers ever.
I don't know about the gorgeous face. Just keeping it Tesla.😅😅😅😅😅
Damn Chaka's Body was BANGIN!
This song was on the charts when I was 13. I'm 49 now; where has the time gone? I can remember going to Maui and standing on the lava rocks, watching the water crash on those rocks, through my toes, and hearing this song in my head. I looked at the island of Molokai across the water. What memories! Thank you, Chaka Khan.
NatureGirl62 Lanai was listening too🤙
Damn you ancient
I'm 66 in 2023. Grooved to soul since 1969. The bands I was in wanted to play such things as "Smoke on the Water", "Sister Golden Hair", "Frankenstein", and Jerry Lewis tunes. Later jazz with a funk twist even with tunes going back to the 1930's. I want to dance if I'm not playing. Chaka A+++.
Chaka Khan was then and is still one of the best singers of our time - like it or not! Some one commented on whether or not she was lip syncing - she was and the reason for not seeing background singers live or taped, is because Chaka did her own background singing, thats why she was then and is now one of the best singers of our time, everybody cannot sing both the lead & background
believe me, I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!
Most did that on soul train, that's no big thing
❤ Beautful!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL
I preferred the songs to be the original studio recordings anyways.
Back when melodies were catchy and talent was HUGE......Such A Sweet Thang!
Dem dudes from Rufus were sick with the musical arrangements & the writing!! We all know Chaka is one of the greatest that ever did it!! These artists of today don't know how to sing with passion & delivery!!
EDDIE BIG Q. Yeah what he said😎
Speaking nothing but facts
There have been so many great female singers who sang the heck out of a slow jam. The Late Great Aretha Pattie Gladys Natalie Denice Williams Mary J Stephanie Mills The Late Great Whitney Houston The Boss Beyoncé and the list goes on with greatness. I think after all these years Chaka still got the crown for Sweet Thing
Agreed. I think it's because this is what we used to call a "bump and grind" song. Not too many female singers had those that were big hits. Maybe Betty Wright with "Tonight Is the Night" or Jocelyn Edwards of Mothers Finest with "Changes", Teena Marie's "Portuguese Love" come to mind and one or two others. Of course, none of the others had a killer Funk unit like Rufus. I suspect that last part is the key.
Don't forget Alicia Myers and Phyllis Hyman 🤣👍🏽💯💯💯👍🏽👍🏽
I saw Rufus and Chaka Khan in the 70's and she set the place on fire! The men in the audience were going crazy because she was so beautiful and sexy.
Now this is what I call SOUL music, because it truly touches and inspires my soul.
Love chaka...
Yeah man!, Chaka has and will always be one of the greatest singers of all time!!!! This is my favorite of her songs.....go Chaka!!!!! Sexy!!
Chaka is a Goddess!!!
Seriously one of the most perfect, beautiful songs ever
Black is still beautiful in 2024✊🏿
Man the energy she showed gives me energy just watching her. She was a natural beauty in every sense of the meaning.
I met her once, at the funeral of a mutual friend. Shes truly like 4 feet tall!! Amazing how that big wonderful voice can come from such a tiny package!
It's not about the Stature of Man God says
She's 5'-4", but yeah.
@@UnderHisHand That’s a lie! Chaka is 5’0 tall! I’ve taken pics with her and I’m 5’4….and she was wearing heels and I was still taller than her! Stop believing Wikipedia
@@dametaylortyler4975 Yeah, you're right about wiki..They get it twisted. I'll stop believing 'em. Also, I'll thumbs up your comment since you did 😄 be blessed!
The epitome of talent, sexiness, class, beauty!!! I miss musical talents like this!
Here it is 2022, Her music is still Certified Gold 🎶
Hit #1 soul, #5 pop in Billboard. God bless!
She was the best of the best! The 70;s were great
I remember playing this song over and over before it became a hit song
We are blessed to still have Chaka present well&thriving and still wailing those notes into the strasphere!!
She looked good.
The lovely, the incomparable, Chaka Khan and her band Rufus. This song never gets old. a timeless classic from the 70's.
Takes be back to my childhood, lower ninth ward of new orleans. My dad would block the street off and we would have a block party. Dancing and having a good time to this song and music like it...
No homo but chaka body is banging plus her voice. This is the true definition of a singer, you can tell there was no struggle in her voice she's a natural born singer.
If I knew those days would never come again. I would have cherished them more.
This is my song that I personally can listen to ALLLLLLLLL Day & Never get tired of. Shout out to my gurl Chaka
🔥 *EVERYone* who contributed to this song performed on an incomparable level! 👏🏽 That’s what makes this a bona fide classic. The _entire_ band made magic.
• Chaka Khan - lead vocals 🎤✍🏽
• Tony Maiden, who wrote the song with Khan - guitar & backing vocals 🎸🎤✍🏽
• Bobby Watson - bass & backing vocals 🎸🎤
• Kevin Murphy - keyboards 🎹
• André Fischer - drums 🥁
Thank you for acknowledging all the band members ❤
On this day in 1975 {December 12th} Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan, performed "Sweet Thing" on the late night weekly NBC-TV musical variety program, 'The Midnight Special"...
A little over two weeks later on December 28th "Sweet Thing" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #82, thirteen weeks later it would peak at #5 {for 1 week} and it spent twenty one weeks on the Top 100...
And on February 15th, 1976 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
Between 1973 and 1984 the group had twenty-five records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, twelve made the Top 10 with five reaching #1, besides "Sweet Thing", their four other #1 records were "You Got Love" for 1 week in 1974, "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)" for 2 weeks in 1977, "Do You Love What You Feel" for 3 weeks in 1979, and "Ain't Nobody" for 1 week in 1983...
In addition, they had two records peak at #3, "Tell Me Something Good" {1974} and "Hollywood" {1977}...
May Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.
Chaka khan would appear in Jet Magazine on occasions during my boyhood. My Brother and I would fight over who would get to view the photos first. I have literally been listening to this woman's voice for over 40 years.
I sooo miss the music of yesterday. Damn, Can we get it back? When real music was talking about something. So, glad I grew up on this music. I remember cleaning up the house on a Saturday and bumping Rufus and Chaka. Good Ol Days! LOL
Back in the day, Chaka was a fine ass young thang
Haha my guy john!!
💯
word
With body!
Three words...Beau-ti-ful.
Yes you can understand what they were singing about years ago today I'm not too sure!
Rufus and Chaka,..some good ole' throwback in the day, she was bad then and still bad
now, you go girl!!
It’s just so amazing cause this voice just does not match her body & she sings this song with little to no effort. Love the fact that she’s literally in her element & feeling every note in her bones 🤤
I think that it helps that Chaka wrote Sweet Thing alongside her band mate Tony Maiden.
Sexy-ass song. Even now. These young ones need to know what soul, sexy, love is.
This song is about being a side chick
I blasted this tune at my folks place when I was 10, and still do 50 years later. Miss Khan, the Empess of FUNK kickin it and diggin it. Thanks, eh ✌️🎗️⚓
What a Body! to go with that Voice!!!!!
chaka's hair says it all!!
good stuff :)
I seriously envy her hair!!!!
We,rmfm
Lover her pipes & her range! Maybe it's b/c I'm Gen X, but I've not found any female lead who comes close to her.
It doesn’t get better than chaika
I am thankful I grew up when I did. It was as good as it got.
I was so in love with her. She has that look that you could never forget. She was the group and needed to get away from them. 😊
She was perfect as a woman can be here physically and vocally
The JAM💜💜💜💜💜CANDI CANE
Her voice is like heaven
I remember this song and plus I had the album Rufus featuring chaka khan. This song never get old. 2 this very day I still love this song.
Her beauty is timeless.
I know chaka is old enough to literally be my grandma but damn she was fine as hell back in the day
Absolutely marvelous!
One of the greatest female singers (second ONLY to Ree Ree) & one of the greatest songs!
She's beautiful . . . . no matter what !!!
Wat a beautiful creation and still is
I know it's nearly impossible to pick a fav but.... I'm in love with this sweet thing
Man she'd kill about 98% of female singers now a day's ...Chaka is a legend!~!
"CHAKA KHAN"....'Sweet Thing/Body on Lock'💋🔥❤🔐💯💯
What an funky group. What a hottie Chaka was back then n b4
Good God... That woman is beautiful.....
I have loved this since I first heard it in the 70s....... and yes in little ole New Zealand...
✊🏿LEGENDARY ❤️🖤💚💪🏿🤎
luv luv funk. cant get any better than this.
Still listening in 7/24/23!!!
Chaka body is crazy...
Even though I know it, I don't care that it's playback. I love this. Chaka is beautiful
Every guy wanted that number in the 70's aaallllll the waaay up to now!! And we are not looking at "Girl Power" here cause that's all Woman right there! And if that fact didn't win ya, the "voice" finished you off!!
my favorite song in my entire life .
I saw her of all places in a country bar! Shes rad!
Einfach super, diese alt gute Musik aus den 1970er und 1980er Jahren, richtig gut war das noch
THIS JAM -RIGHT C'HERE...IS STILL THE JAM...RIGHT C'HERE!!!
LOVE Me Some Chaka Chan Baby!!!
🙂💜
goodness what a beautiful woman...
Sweet Memories! I wish I could go back in time☺
We were blessed to live in an era where music was rich with lyrics and melodies.
She was our Beyonce
Still is, dawg!!!
Lester Jordan shaka kan can be my grandma but shes still my beyonce
Beyonce got nothin' !!
I know what you mean, musically speaking Chaka's phrasing is so great. She could cover a lot of musical territory, great live performer!
I wish I could travel to 1972 she’d be my sweet thang!
this is real music🥰😍🤩
She was fiiiiiine!!!
I remember seeing on soul train when it came out, me and sisters and brothers watch this I was the young at ten years old.
Good times!
Trust me when I say some people who were kids when this song came out say the same thing; they would be in their late 30's early 40's now. Personally I like the both of them I was either 8/9 when this came out depending on what month it hit the airwaves.
yes Chaka you are a sweet thing with a sweet voice, you belt it out like no one else
Chaka is still doing the same side today 😂2023 & she still sounds the same! Now that’s Legendary!🔥🔥
2020 and beyond
Chaka Khan you still rule
Effortless!!!
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💋
I bet Chaka had to beat the guys off her. She was gorgeous. Still a mature beautiful woman. Women's beauty changes over the years with wisdom. That girl had some hair too. She and Selena could have sold some bustiers!🤣🤣
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 crazy crush as a child. Like a lil ass kid. I knew this was not a regular woman. And to this day, l go after women who have her aesthetic features.
Man man man,... ik was 15 toen i het voor het eerst hoorde... nog steeds geweldig
Classic music being sung by a classis entertainer. Chake is still doing her thing today. The best will always last forever. Good music & good talent. This performance looks like it was going on quite well!!!!
I was so in luv wit here back then. I cried cause my pops wouldn't let me go to her concert in the 70's, I was a kid wit a mad crush in GA.