Very talented group. I remember hearing this song in the cold Chicago winter of January 1984. Wow, what a smooth song. Why didn't this group make more hits? Outstanding. Bulls fan, but I liked it when the Sixers won in 1983!
I’m hearing this song in the cold Berlin winter of January 2024. It just came on the radio. Wow, indeed a very smooth song. The best songs are those with the most beautiful memories.
Dr. J, Moses Malone, Andrew Toney, Bobby Jones, Mo Cheeks, plus the rest of the team and coach Billy Cunningham + Pieces of a Dream. What a wonderful time it was to live in Philly. I loved the city and the music, miss it very much.
I was feeling that Philly Vibe down in Baltimore that year, but the Orioles got the Phillies a few months later in the World Series...still hell of a vibe
I remembered the lyric when I heard the news - finally found the song. Sixers swept my Lakers 4-0 in '83 and boy was I ticked. Fist Dawkins and now Moses. RIP
I automatically thought of this song when I heard of his passing, 83 was a great time to live in Philly and to witness Moses coming to Philly and promised a championship! With some help though among the other greats on the team. RIP Moses.
I remember hearing this track, on our now defunct radio station WJZZ here in Detroit, right after the 76'ers won the NBA championship. Winning their 3 series fo, fi, fo.
Great memories. I remember seeing this video as a kid on BET's Video Soul with Donnie Simpson. Isn't the title from a Moses Malone prediction that the 76er's would sweep the 83 playoffs "Fo Fo Fo"?
Straight from philly peices of dream were talented young jazz brothers, this song was dedicated to the philadelphia 76'ers the dr. J and moses molone won the playoff and championship run in 4 5 and 4.
I haven't seen this video since 83. I used to watch it on BET video soul stationed at FT Gordon Ga. Shots out to the Doc, RIP Moses, Daryl Dawkins don't forget Andrew Toney for the greatest 76ers team ever.
I hate to mention this but Daryl Dawkins never played on the 76ers championship team he was part of the trade along with Caldwell Jones and another player to get MOSES !
I was only in second grade when this song came out. But I have remembered it since I heard it. I have vivid memories of my dad driving around with this song playing on the radio. I see from the comments that many people are mentioning Philly. I was born and reared in Houston, TX, so I don't have all of the background info that you all have. But this song is a classic in my mind. I never knew if they were saying 4-5-4 or 4-5-0. Now I know. Thank you for posting!
Very well done!!!...Such a great classic R&B tune!!!...Peaked at #15 on the R&B charts, yet only made it to #107 on the US charts in Feb 1984!!!...Good job!!!, Fredo Zico!!!...Yours, RO / Portales NM USA
Saw these guys at Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore when I was about 10. I’m 52 now and it still bangs! I saw the dude in the glasses go into the bathroom with a groupie after the set! Life is good!
Pieces of a dream 454 back in the day was just like living in Philly in a nice juicy Philly cheese steak back in the day where the Philadelphia 76ers with Moses Malone helping Dr J when the NBA title !
Aw I haven't seen this video since video soul on BET. And much love to 82 83 76ers. MY favorite team of all time. Rest in peace BIG MO! but don't forget Andrew Toney! philly, it took yall to get DREW and MO to get past celts.
Wow--haven't seen this in years----I thought it was filmed in Detroit or something, because the song was a small hit there. The group, Pieces of a Dream, were noted at the time for being a full-fledged jazz group at such a young age--they were just into their early twenties when their debut album came out either 1982 or '83 (when I first heard the song) and they went on be to be a well known jazz group thoughout the '80's---this song was one of their very first R&B hits. I thought it was Luther Vandross singing it, because it sounded so much like his style at the time. Always loved this song---takes me back to my childhood days of having my ears glued to the radio.
Also saw the lead guitarist, one Cedric Napoleon, play with Grover Washington (Roberta Flack was the opening act) back in 1992 at a live Chene Park nighttime concert in Detroit, right on the river---it was so beautiful. The funniest thing I remember was that when it started to rain on that cool summer night, people in the speedboats floating nearly in the Detroit River listening to the concert just pulled their tarps up over the boat and kept on listening to the concert!
In the bay area ( this tv show called “magic number video” on ch 48 ) Isaac Stevenson was the v j and it premiered this video ! Classic 76er basketball 🏀 with doctor j & Moses Malone highlights 🤟🙌⭐️👏👊
@@guleet75 Basketball player who's quote inspired this classic tune. Moses Malone was from Mississippi so he pronounced it fo fi fo referring to the NBA championship run. And you can hear his actual voice in the song.
Continued peace, Moses. And peace on, Cedric Napoleon, one of the baddest bassists, ever, and who sang that iconic "Moses Malone [said] to Dr. J" line....!
That's my jam.cranking n the ride these days!! Just not ln the DMV. Thank goodness l got my go-go cds ready when l start missing trouble funk and chuck brown crankin.......
1983 back to work after 3 years of layoff. I ask my god of the east to bless with the jack pot so that I would not suffer unemployment again.he kept me working 30+ years. I am not ungrateful.but just once my god from east before I pass on.
Just imagine being a teenager when this came out and during the Sixers championship run.....no words can explain it, you just literally HAD to be there.....
There's something about the chords and sound of this song that feels like its from the future. It's like I've heard it before in another lifetime. Extremely jarring
There’s Big Mo and Lil Mo the Dr. Andrew Toney and Ivaroni no bologna! 82-83 76ers live on in my memory as well as 66-67 Wilt the Kangaroo kid Hal Greer Yes lets bring back in 2019 Sixers
Hard to believe that it's been almost 40 years since this song was released. I was so happy that Dr J finally got a ring, and then this tune commemorated the title. Great music, and I still love it today!
I'm a son of a Philly kid my dad is south Philly til he dies and he made sure I knew this song and the history of this song and I think that's dope the 6ers was really the squad back in the day and they have a song to prove it (and it's groovy haha 🔥)
I am 55 years old, and have been feeling this groove for the last 3 1/2 decades!!
Good stuff bruh!! Believe dat!!💯💯👊🏿👊🏿
Just got the used wax.. for Fo-99.
Song is about that old.
Dont blame u bro. This jam and video are awesome. THEY did a great job coming up with the scheme in the video. And the music and song awesome
YEA!!!
Man the music was great in the 80's. My grandmother said it was called Soul. Take care everyone much Love from Houston. JY Lions.
I haven't seen this in years. I remember this on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson.
Yes me too
And the year that the 76ers won the championship they played this non-stop that summer on the Philly radio stations. Lol.
RIP Moses. This song will forever be a tribute to you & the Sixers!
Yes Moses Malone came to Philadelphia and pardon the Red Sea to give the sixers and NBA title and made Dr J A champion finally 👍
Facts!! I remember that 1983 Philadelphia 76er's season!! Moses led them to the "promised land"!!
Classic....I have this album on vinyl... Real music never gets old or expires.. Damn I miss this kinda music 💯💯💯✌💗
This was my jam back in the day
Me too bruh!!👊🏿👊🏿💯💯💯
Are they from Philly?
Yes. Good music. Timeless. I miss it too ❤
I no longer have any albums, but I had it back in the day and loved this song.
Another monster 80's Classic!
Very talented group. I remember hearing this song in the cold Chicago winter of January 1984. Wow, what a smooth song. Why didn't this group make more hits? Outstanding. Bulls fan, but I liked it when the Sixers won in 1983!
Chicago Native here ... I heard this on Video Soul in 1989... I was about 9 years old then... love this song!
I’m hearing this song in the cold Berlin winter of January 2024. It just came on the radio. Wow, indeed a very smooth song. The best songs are those with the most beautiful memories.
Chicago here🖐🏼 listening to this now let's me know that my musical taste back then as a preteen was impeccable!
@@GoldenLarkVoiceI remember this being play on Video soul back back in 1983 & 1984
@@sarahsimpkins1311 Wow! Where you from? DC?
Gone but most definitely not forgotten.
RIP MOSES MALONE
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARDS
Dr. J, Moses Malone, Andrew Toney, Bobby Jones, Mo Cheeks, plus the rest of the team and coach Billy Cunningham + Pieces of a Dream. What a wonderful time it was to live in Philly. I loved the city and the music, miss it very much.
I was feeling that Philly Vibe down in Baltimore that year, but the Orioles got the Phillies a few months later in the World Series...still hell of a vibe
Speak on it!!!! 82-83 76ers DOMINANT!!!!
Me too!
My fav sixer team!!👍
The ABA was STRONG with that team.
This is one of those songs that gives you a chill down your back, a goosepimples. Yeah. Good music'll do that to you.
Couldent of Put it better myself
80's music was my era with great music
Such a dope song. The instrumentation is so smooth ;)
I’m so happy I rediscovered this today👌🏾
OH YEA!
Thank GOD for timeless old school music. Take care everyone. May GOD continue to bless you all.
I remembered the lyric when I heard the news - finally found the song. Sixers swept my Lakers 4-0 in '83 and boy was I ticked. Fist Dawkins and now Moses. RIP
Imagine being a kid in Philly when this came out. The pandemonium in the city and surrounding our greatest Sixers team ever!!! Had to be there!
A tribute to the 1982-1983 Sixers 65-17 NBA Finals Champions!!!
This song would be a hit in today time
It should be, unless it's sampled by cardi b, it's done by bad bunny or somebody it wouldn't be
Remember seeing the video back in the day on BET. Wonderful song
I automatically thought of this song when I heard of his passing, 83 was a great time to live in Philly and to witness Moses coming to Philly and promised a championship! With some help though among the other greats on the team. RIP Moses.
+Brian Rowan So did I! RIP
+Brian Rowan me too, I certainly got tears in my eyes
+Brian Rowan i was a big time sixers fan love that song and moses with out moses they would not won no championship bow down to the king rip
Me too! And then I realized that the video was filmed in my home town, Upper Darby - Garrett Road & 69th Street area.
+Brian Rowan one of best teams ever.
R.I.Paradise 'Nard. This groove has been in my head since 1983 is my Nebraska days. Will be playing this again a lot this summer 😎🎶💔💔🎧🕯
Wanna go back to 1983!!!!😅
I’ve been looking for this song for decades. It should be a classic.
Remember this as a kid and I'm 47 ...timeless..
Haven't seen this video in 32 years. Great memories from watching it on New York Hot Tracks though
Fucking crazy. I can't believe i found this song. Because i have a very weird superstitious inclination for 454. Significant number. This is bad ass.
Haven't seen this vid in THIRTY years! Only place I saw it was on Channel 60 in Chicago...they had a daily afternoon video hour. Thanks for sharing!
I'm always old Skool. The Best music from the 70's & 80's.
RIP Moses Malone!
Im 42. I love this kind of music . RIP Cedric.
Now that I'm 50, years old, this song is played weekly in my home! Good Memories
I remember hearing this track, on our now defunct radio station WJZZ here in Detroit, right after the 76'ers won the NBA championship. Winning their 3 series fo, fi, fo.
R.I.P. to the legend Moses Malone and may this song set the scene for the summer! Happy Summer everyone!
I watched this in 1982 on Channel 61 in Phoenix. The 1st low power TV station in Phoenix. I was 26 and had a lovely girlfriend, Kathy. Good memories.
The video didn't debut until 1984 because Philly didn't win the championship until 1983.
Great memories. I remember seeing this video as a kid on BET's Video Soul with Donnie Simpson. Isn't the title from a Moses Malone prediction that the 76er's would sweep the 83 playoffs "Fo Fo Fo"?
Straight from philly peices of dream were talented young jazz brothers, this song was dedicated to the philadelphia 76'ers the dr. J and moses molone won the playoff and championship run in 4 5 and 4.
I haven't seen this video since 83. I used to watch it on BET video soul stationed at FT Gordon Ga. Shots out to the Doc, RIP Moses, Daryl Dawkins don't forget Andrew Toney for the greatest 76ers team ever.
I hate to mention this but Daryl Dawkins never played on the 76ers championship team he was part of the trade along with Caldwell Jones and another player to get MOSES !
I was only in second grade when this song came out. But I have remembered it since I heard it. I have vivid memories of my dad driving around with this song playing on the radio. I see from the comments that many people are mentioning Philly. I was born and reared in Houston, TX, so I don't have all of the background info that you all have. But this song is a classic in my mind. I never knew if they were saying 4-5-4 or 4-5-0. Now I know.
Thank you for posting!
H-Town over here too. I remember hearing this on Majic 102 and KTSU.
@@chriscaruthers4268 Me too! I think my Pops was a fan Moses. lol
Old school finest groove.
Had this Cassette. WJZZ rocked this cut. Love the video.
great story behind the Fo-Fo-Fo, and how it became fo fi fo
Hasan x that story involves the Milwaukee Bucks! Lol
RIP Moses Malone. Petersburg, Va hero
Roosevelt Harris The Burg!👊🏾
Very well done!!!...Such a great classic R&B tune!!!...Peaked at #15 on the R&B charts, yet only made it to #107 on the US charts in Feb 1984!!!...Good job!!!, Fredo Zico!!!...Yours, RO / Portales NM USA
Randy Obenhaus Disgusting . It deserved a better chart fate on both ends.
I'm betting it was number one in Philly and Central Jersey...IJS.
Very cool. It has a fantastic jazzy sound to it.
This group had every thing including my attention.aug2020.
Saw them play at the Concert by the Sea. Awsome music..🍾🍸😎
Wow, Redondo Beach!🎹❤️
This song had heavy rotation on BET Video Vibrations and Video Soul
I've always loved this song!! Brings back great memories. Thanks for the post.
Saw these guys at Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore when I was about 10. I’m 52 now and it still bangs! I saw the dude in the glasses go into the bathroom with a groupie after the set!
Life is good!
Man, I love smooth jazz, riding from Georgia to New Jersey the music was soulful and soothing! I'm 51 now and still play this song. Good Memories
I used to watch this on the legendary Magic Number Video back in Jr High. classic song, and some really genius music to me.
Pieces of a dream 454 back in the day was just like living in Philly in a nice juicy Philly cheese steak back in the day where the Philadelphia 76ers with Moses Malone helping Dr J when the NBA title !
Aw I haven't seen this video since video soul on BET. And much love to 82 83 76ers. MY favorite team of all time. Rest in peace BIG MO! but don't forget Andrew Toney! philly, it took yall to get DREW and MO to get past celts.
Very very good sound 1983 👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏🙏 peace of soul funk
This and Mt. Airy Groove (the rap version too) were my favorites from them.
Wow--haven't seen this in years----I thought it was filmed in Detroit or something, because the song was a small hit there. The group, Pieces of a Dream, were noted at the time for being a full-fledged jazz group at such a young age--they were just into their early twenties when their debut album came out either 1982 or '83 (when I first heard the song) and they went on be to be a well known jazz group thoughout the '80's---this song was one of their very first R&B hits. I thought it was Luther Vandross singing it, because it sounded so much like his style at the time. Always loved this song---takes me back to my childhood days of having my ears glued to the radio.
Also saw the lead guitarist, one Cedric Napoleon, play with Grover Washington (Roberta Flack was the opening act) back in 1992 at a live Chene Park nighttime concert in Detroit, right on the river---it was so beautiful. The funniest thing I remember was that when it started to rain on that cool summer night, people in the speedboats floating nearly in the Detroit River listening to the concert just pulled their tarps up over the boat and kept on listening to the concert!
I grew up in Ypsilanti Michigan.....I remember this on WDRQ
I had this on a VHS tape at the end of an old Video Show. Makes me miss the 80s. Living wasn't exactly great but the music was wonderful.
Moses say....'"I gotta go to the boards. He can't check me." GREATEST OFFENSIVE REBOUNDED EVER!!!!
I was kid living in brooklake apartments in the DEC..when I first saw this...But I loved the Sixers finally got that Title!..A Real Cool Song😅😅😅
Thank u so much for sharing! I lost this video in 1991 and i thought I would never see it again Peace.
In the bay area ( this tv show called “magic number video” on ch 48 ) Isaac Stevenson was the v j and it premiered this video ! Classic 76er basketball 🏀 with doctor j & Moses Malone highlights 🤟🙌⭐️👏👊
RIP Moses Malone :-(
Fredo Zico is that the singer ?!
@@guleet75 Basketball player who's quote inspired this classic tune. Moses Malone was from Mississippi so he pronounced it fo fi fo referring to the NBA championship run. And you can hear his actual voice in the song.
Fredo Zico 🙏🏾🏀
Fredo Zico well said 👍
@@watsonholmes3703 He's from my home town, Petersburg VA. Not Mississippi. Just clarification.
Mais Quelle style , quelle classe pour l'époque ! Magnifique .
Continued peace, Moses. And peace on, Cedric Napoleon, one of the baddest bassists, ever, and who sang that iconic "Moses Malone [said] to Dr. J" line....!
That's my jam.cranking n the ride these days!! Just not ln the DMV. Thank goodness l got my go-go cds ready when l start missing trouble funk and chuck brown crankin.......
they don't make music like this , any more 😥
Not even close!!!!
Yes they do. Your Just not looking in the right places.
They do.....but you have look hard to find it. All is not lost.
@@joynerstephen Yep ! Not even close !!
@@colormegeeky Where ?
Always loved these guys! Huge fan from Canada.
Hell of a song right here!
1983 back to work after 3 years of layoff. I ask my god of the east to bless with the jack pot so that I would not suffer unemployment again.he kept me working 30+ years. I am not ungrateful.but just once my god from east before I pass on.
Remember this this video. Here in Chicago old video show MV50 played this a few times.
Introduction is a classic, dr.j raising the trophy 👍🏾👍🏾
Late to the party...I NEVER knew there was a video for this!!!!! POAD lookin like members of New Edition! They were babies 💛
My man has the K.I.T.T. car LOL!!
James Lloyd and Curtis Harmon are my Facebook friends and I communicate with them often. Wonder why Cedric was dismissed from Pieces Of A Dream.?
Rest In Peace Big Mo , You will be Truly Missed But NEVER Forgotten!
Just imagine being a teenager when this came out and during the Sixers championship run.....no words can explain it, you just literally HAD to be there.....
I was Stuck on the MTV,…RIP Moses Malone✝️💟
Love this tune, as well as the Lincoln Continental in the end.
Moral of this is dont give up on yourself so quickly I had to learn this!
There's something about the chords and sound of this song that feels like its from the future. It's like I've heard it before in another lifetime. Extremely jarring
Cynthia Biggs wrote this song. Sister of Tyrell Biggs the boxer. Love this song.
RIP to the creator of pieces of a dream and singer of this song. You will be missed Cedric
I Miss the 80 s
Back when black people still learned how to sing and play instruments. This song will always be for the 1983 Philadelphia 76ers.
Never gets old jamming.
GOOD SOUL BLACK BROTHERS
Don’t disturb Me, I’m listening to this on repeat….
My hot jam !!!
This video brings back good memories. Thank you for sharing!
There’s Big Mo and Lil Mo the Dr. Andrew Toney and Ivaroni no bologna! 82-83 76ers live on in my memory as well as 66-67 Wilt the Kangaroo kid Hal Greer Yes lets bring back in 2019 Sixers
I’m a total Old School fanatic 🎵🎵🎵
GREAT JAZZ GROUP, GREAT VIDEO, GREAT SONG
Gotta have this bass that also plays guitar solos!!!
Lol
Thy guitar solo and intro/ haunting/ the gods of the east speaking to me/lord Buddha/ancient pharaohs/precious ones I hear you!
You might have went over the head's of our brother's and sister's who are still in the dark.
Hard to believe that it's been almost 40 years since this song was released. I was so happy that Dr J finally got a ring, and then this tune commemorated the title. Great music, and I still love it today!
I'm a son of a Philly kid my dad is south Philly til he dies and he made sure I knew this song and the history of this song and I think that's dope the 6ers was really the squad back in the day and they have a song to prove it (and it's groovy haha 🔥)
why wasn't I born in 1983 to be apart of this great era lol?
Reminds me of Moses and The Sixers!!!!!!! Cant hate on that squad!!!!!!
London boy living and working in Philly saw Moses Malone and Dr. J in that great 1983 Sixers season. Great memories!
4:19-4-28... CONGRATULATIONS
EAGLES the salt was real wasn't it
PHILADELPHIA IS BLESSED 💚
WE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL💚
Classic BET in 1984! I was a teen.