In the early 80's I lived in Roxbury, just west of the gay neighborhood and up a hill. If you left before the subway started....you walked. One Sunday morning, clothes still damp from the dancing the night before, I'm walking home from my 'overnight accommodation' with the sun breaking over my back illuminating the city, singing this number in my head... Life was so much simpler then.
My favorite Thelms Houston! I opened for her the night before Hurricane Andrew in South Florida at The Pink Tuxceedo, it was an AIDS fundraiser. Nobody showed because they were all busy getting ready for the storm. She sang this directly to me that night. Afterward she said that she'd never seen anyone so happy to hear her sing that song! It is consumate morning music! Of course I was thrilled!
was checking out an episode of dear white people on Netflix, and this tune was played. wonderful party song, but strangely, I'm from the 70s era, but never heard this one ... feels like a brand new song for me; great song... bigtime thanks to dear white people producers for bringing Ms. Houston's hit back to life 40 years later... AWESOME !!!!
i remember this song from the club second story whomever the dj was was one of the best ever don't forget cher's song take me home and the three degrees let me down easy
Thelma Houston is such a great singer, so soulful with a great range and even though she was not happy with the songs given to her at times, but they were so good almost all of them.
very few songs touch me on a personal level, but this one does. It reminds me of disco's golden days in the 1980s when I would drag myself home Sunday mornings still wearing the clothes I'd worn out discoing the previous night. Those clothes would be saturated with sweat, spilled drinks, cigarette smoke, and other odors I think I'd rather not mention here. And I always always ALWAYS wish Thelma Houston had also taken a shot at another Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song, "Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". I bet she could have killed it.
A very true comment of that era. We partied, I was a part-time DJ, and our clothes would stink when we got home. They were tossed into a corner, or into the washer. This video is added to our Club Continental!
It was an era of romantic music, with strings, piccolo, flutes and brass and it forced you to feel it. when we left the clubs, as Andrew Holleran wrote in 'Dancer From the Dance', men looked they had just seen Divinity. Joy was not foreign to us back in the day. It's foreign to people now, though. Remember how, when the dj started to segue into a certain song, the whole place would hear the new song coming in and let out a roar? Where do you EVER see that in dancers now? They dance, but they're silent: they don't have "communion" as we did in 1976 with each other, where you could look into the face of another dancer and you'd both be beaming at each other.
Hearing this song from Dear White People brought me here, and this song honestly made me feel so free that I ended up singing and dancing to it lol I love 70s, 80s, and 90s music even more than I like dubstep and techno music sometimes 😂
Any one remember Big Leo, at 12 West. He was 52 at the time, and still doing it. I said I hoped I would still be doing it at 52.....I'm 66, and still doing it...Thank you, Leo...R.I.P. big guy.....You inspired me.
+Joe Cacciatore yes, and then we'd hit Moonshadows (I was more into 12 west than Saint in my mind to tell the truth. More intimate - I'm also 66 - we were there together!)
I came here because of the game SongPop. This song came up in the hits for 1978-79. All I heard was about 8 seconds of the song and the lyrics we're very familiar to me so I had to come look this up. I sang this in a dance band in 1979! I literally forgot about this song. Here I am singing along with this video as it's all coming back to me now. Night clubs, dance floors lit up & surrounded by brass railing, all the girls wearing pretty disco dresses or DanceSkin wear. Guys dressed up real sharp, with a trans am parked outside and his small library of cassette tapes for his car stereo. Would we do it again???
This hit nationally in the summer of 1979, riding in on the very tail end of disco. That notwithstanding, It did well on the pop charts; better on r&b. Thelma Houston's vocals make the song!
memories of Trocadero Transfer, early 1980's, this was always one of the songs Bobby Vitteretti would start up after a break. such wonderful memories, and with many guys who are no longer with us. RIP.
I remember those days as well. I remember the Trocadero as the place people went (in the beginning) after an evening at the I-Beam, which opened what, 3 months before Trocadero??
After her worldwide smash with a great cover of Harold Melvin's Dont Leave Me This Way in 1977, Ms Houston followed up 2 yrs later with this club hit in 1979, on the Motown label , produced by Hal Davis
Gosh, Had to think for a moment...hard!!!... but finally remembered this song the more I thought the more I remembered. So many fantastic songs coming and going in the seventies..... fast! World wide disco party for over 10 yrs. What an awesome time it was.
I remember this great song I was traveling with my friend Victor Ruiz on the Ringling brothers circus we went across the country listening to this what memories I miss the circus and victor
My friend once danced so much to the house version of this song that his big toe nails actually fell off when he took his shoes off the next morning..😂😂 (The T Empo version). He was wired on a gram of beak so he didn't feel any pain or discomfort.. the wonders of cocaine eh?? 😂😆🤣
The second single from Any Way You Like It was Houston's rendition of "If It's the Last Thing I Do", a standard written by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn; the track had been recorded and prepped for single release in 1973 but canceled. The impact of "If It's the Last Thing I Do" was far less than that of "Don't Leave Me This Way", as the former fell short of both the R&B Top Ten and the Pop Top 40. With the lead single from her 1978 album The Devil in Me: "I'm Here Again", Houston returned to the style of "Don't Leave Me This Way" without recapturing the earlier single's success. Houston did enjoy considerable commercial success in 1978 via the inclusion of her track "Love Masterpiece" on the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack album which sold double platinum but her own album release that year Ready to Roll again failing to consolidate the stardom augured by "Don't Leave Me This Way". The album's second single: "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", gradually accrued airplay entering the national charts in March 1979 and ascending as high as #34 (#19 R&B) that June. "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" was issued on a new album by Houston: Ride to the Rainbow but the track's relative success was not enough to forestall Houston's planned departure from Motown.[1] 1980s Houston continued recording music into the 1980s
12 West, at 7;30 AM...... big Joe singing to me, waving his hands to the sun light streaming down from the skylights..... Thought I was in heaven..I Was.
Empalmando, querida Thelma, el sábado por la noche con el domingo por la mañana al ritmo de esta bella canción, desde un gin-tonic a un chocolate caliente con churros. ¡Bravo!
Child... just dancing at the Parade on Richmond Ave. Late, very late or early in the morning? I had never heard this song. I do remember 'feeling' it. Later at my friend Tony's house our group was chillin', he put this on and said.... Here's your song girl. You know the one you turned into a Drag Queen dancing to. Nuff said!
6 AM, every Sunday morning, Greg's Blue Dot on Highland Ave., Hollywood, just before everything went to crap...this played on and on, mixed endlessly, while dancing went to the extreme. LEGIONS of really hard partying guys all descended on the place after even the after-after hours joints closed,to carry on until they dropped...and drop they did, one by one. This was our "church," and this was our anthem. Great times, horrifically sad memories. WTF is Dear White People? Friggin' Millennials....
Dear White People, thanks for bringing to my attention this wonderful gem from Thelma Houston, who already sings arguably the best disco song of all time with Don’t Leave Me This Way.
In the early 80's I lived in Roxbury, just west of the gay neighborhood and up a hill. If you left before the subway started....you walked. One Sunday morning, clothes still damp from the dancing the night before, I'm walking home from my 'overnight accommodation' with the sun breaking over my back illuminating the city, singing this number in my head... Life was so much simpler then.
Happy days ❤❤❤ can we step back in time when life was sooo good ❤❤
My favorite Thelms Houston! I opened for her the night before Hurricane Andrew in South Florida at The Pink Tuxceedo, it was an AIDS fundraiser. Nobody showed because they were all busy getting ready for the storm. She sang this directly to me that night. Afterward she said that she'd never seen anyone so happy to hear her sing that song! It is consumate morning music! Of course I was thrilled!
I would be just like you...lucky!!
Wow. Cherish that moment.
Epic!
was checking out an episode of dear white people on Netflix, and this tune was played. wonderful party song, but strangely, I'm from the 70s era, but never heard this one ... feels like a brand new song for me; great song... bigtime thanks to dear white people producers for bringing Ms. Houston's hit back to life 40 years later... AWESOME !!!!
I had this vinyl , brings me back when I was 19, when I was dancing in the club x
45 rpm
Me, too!
dear black people thank you for the joy you bring me by the way!!!!
When I was growing up I saw her walking out of Motown Records in Detroit.... yep sure did. ❤️
i remember this song from the club second story whomever the dj was was one of the best ever don't forget cher's song take me home and the three degrees let me down easy
Thelma Houston is such a great singer, so soulful with a great range and even though she was not happy with the songs given to her at times, but they were so good almost all of them.
very few songs touch me on a personal level, but this one does. It reminds me of disco's golden days in the 1980s when I would drag myself home Sunday mornings still wearing the clothes I'd worn out discoing the previous night. Those clothes would be saturated with sweat, spilled drinks, cigarette smoke, and other odors I think I'd rather not mention here. And I always always ALWAYS wish Thelma Houston had also taken a shot at another Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song, "Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". I bet she could have killed it.
A very true comment of that era. We partied, I was a part-time DJ, and our clothes would stink when we got home. They were tossed into a corner, or into the washer.
This video is added to our Club Continental!
Ron DayVoo One Sat night I left home weighing 168lbs. Next day I was 164. :).
It was an era of romantic music, with strings, piccolo, flutes and brass and it forced you to feel it. when we left the clubs, as Andrew Holleran wrote in 'Dancer From the Dance', men looked they had just seen Divinity. Joy was not foreign to us back in the day. It's foreign to people now, though. Remember how, when the dj started to segue into a certain song, the whole place would hear the new song coming in and let out a roar? Where do you EVER see that in dancers now? They dance, but they're silent: they don't have "communion" as we did in 1976 with each other, where you could look into the face of another dancer and you'd both be beaming at each other.
Hearing this song from Dear White People brought me here, and this song honestly made me feel so free that I ended up singing and dancing to it lol
I love 70s, 80s, and 90s music even more than I like dubstep and techno music sometimes 😂
This is my very favorite favorite old skool song of all time!!!! 2017
Any one remember Big Leo, at 12 West. He was 52 at the time, and still doing it. I said I hoped I would still be doing it at 52.....I'm 66, and still doing it...Thank you, Leo...R.I.P. big guy.....You inspired me.
+Joe Cacciatore yes, and then we'd hit Moonshadows (I was more into 12 west than Saint in my mind to tell the truth. More intimate - I'm also 66 - we were there together!)
I haven't heard this song in Years! Wow !
Dancing to the last night - so true "Saturday night is shining on my Sunday morning face!"
I can't beleive that today is the first time that I heard this song. Love this. Thank you for posting.
Moms amazing music taste brought me here (:
I came here because of the game SongPop. This song came up in the hits for 1978-79. All I heard was about 8 seconds of the song and the lyrics we're very familiar to me so I had to come look this up. I sang this in a dance band in 1979! I literally forgot about this song. Here I am singing along with this video as it's all coming back to me now. Night clubs, dance floors lit up & surrounded by brass railing, all the girls wearing pretty disco dresses or DanceSkin wear. Guys dressed up real sharp, with a trans am parked outside and his small library of cassette tapes for his car stereo. Would we do it again???
This hit nationally in the summer of 1979, riding in on the very tail end of disco. That notwithstanding, It did well on the pop charts; better on r&b. Thelma Houston's vocals make the song!
Shivers up my spine❤️🎶❤️🎶
This is what I call a 'Forever' song!
Still an amazing track in 2022!
memories of Trocadero Transfer, early 1980's, this was always one of the songs Bobby Vitteretti would start up after a break. such wonderful memories, and with many guys who are no longer with us. RIP.
I remember those days as well. I remember the Trocadero as the place people went (in the beginning) after an evening at the I-Beam, which opened what, 3 months before Trocadero??
my name is Rich Nelson. What's yours?
Glen MacLeod
Harry Varjean
i used to go to the Troc too and also the I Beam and Oil Can Harry's.
After her worldwide smash with a great cover of Harold Melvin's Dont Leave Me This Way in 1977, Ms Houston followed up 2 yrs later with this club hit in 1979, on the Motown label , produced by Hal Davis
woohoo memory lane all over again!!
This makes me wanna go to the dance floor, right now; find a partner and get busy!
Gosh,
Had to think for a moment...hard!!!... but finally remembered this song the more I thought the more I remembered. So many fantastic songs coming and going in the seventies..... fast! World wide disco party for over 10 yrs. What an awesome time it was.
Me too! After I saw episode 8, I immediately googled this song and this was the first entry!
I remember this great song I was traveling with my friend Victor Ruiz on the Ringling brothers circus we went across the country listening to this what memories I miss the circus and victor
those were the days i believe i still have some of those tapes we made i can't believe this was 5 years ago wish i seen it sooner love always Tony
The best early morning music I remember dancing at probe in Los Angeles at 5:30 am yo this love it.
Uma das mais lindas do "disco music". Thelma Houston tem uma voz potente, maravilhosa.
👏👏👏
This tune takes me back to the Early Caister weekenders and the Soul all dayers and just to a good place!
Reuben Padayachee just got back from a caister !! And that's what brought me here too...
Let the music play as it knows no boundaries ...
Great song! I still have this long version album!!
a song which when u hear it u gotta get up and dance!
My friend once danced so much to the house version of this song that his big toe nails actually fell off when he took his shoes off the next morning..😂😂
(The T Empo version). He was wired on a gram of beak so he didn't feel any pain or discomfort.. the wonders of cocaine eh?? 😂😆🤣
Total Classic!!!
Never old still listening in 2023 love disco sounds
yo my mum this another one of your jams love you an all my beautiful aunties that put time into our lives... "MR MARK,CUZYZ&KIDZ"
Dear White People brought me here too! Work, Ms. Houston! I love you and disco!
HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY THELMA HOUSTON (MAY 7, 2017)
She delivered the best disco hit of all times for me "Don't leave Me This Way"
One of my alltime fav;s..xx :)
The second single from Any Way You Like It was Houston's rendition of "If It's the Last Thing I Do", a standard written by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn; the track had been recorded and prepped for single release in 1973 but canceled. The impact of "If It's the Last Thing I Do" was far less than that of "Don't Leave Me This Way", as the former fell short of both the R&B Top Ten and the Pop Top 40. With the lead single from her 1978 album The Devil in Me: "I'm Here Again", Houston returned to the style of "Don't Leave Me This Way" without recapturing the earlier single's success. Houston did enjoy considerable commercial success in 1978 via the inclusion of her track "Love Masterpiece" on the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack album which sold double platinum but her own album release that year Ready to Roll again failing to consolidate the stardom augured by "Don't Leave Me This Way". The album's second single: "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", gradually accrued airplay entering the national charts in March 1979 and ascending as high as #34 (#19 R&B) that June. "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" was issued on a new album by Houston: Ride to the Rainbow but the track's relative success was not enough to forestall Houston's planned departure from Motown.[1]
1980s
Houston continued recording music into the 1980s
Outstanding rocking it in South African night clubs
12 West, at 7;30 AM...... big Joe singing to me, waving his hands to the sun light streaming down from the skylights..... Thought I was in heaven..I Was.
so so true go 12 west and sunday morning light yeah
Lembrei-me dessa cantora e pesquisei no Google. Que bom que soube que ela está viva. Muitos ídolos dos anos 70 já se foram. Linda música!
Empalmando, querida Thelma, el sábado por la noche con el domingo por la mañana al ritmo de esta bella canción, desde un gin-tonic a un chocolate caliente con churros. ¡Bravo!
Dear White People also brought me to listen. I LOVE IT
ME TOO LOL
Last record played at the Railway way club Bolton soul night.✊
wow :D classic!
THANK YOU SO MUCH I CANNOT FIND THIS SONG! LOVE IT!
BRINGS BACK GOOD MEMORIES
+LORETTA HAWKINS i didnt know this existed but god am i glad i found it im awestruck
1979 American Bandstand dancers during the disco era.
single version entered Billboard March 17, 1979 ..reached #34
Paul trouble Anderson brought me here.. ❤️❤️Bobbi and Steve tribute..
Recuerdos de adolescencia Disco...
I still have this record in storage!
Second Side Up on the BBC brought me here! x (Yes -seek)
Sunday morning at around 5am at the Trocadero Transfer in 1982 after a night of dancing
Stunning just perfect xxx
Love it !
Dear White People brought me here!!! #LoveIt
GiGi S me too!! Love it!!!
Same 😃
As much as I love Disco, never heard this one. Thanxx Dear White People
Child... just dancing at the Parade on Richmond Ave. Late, very late or early in the morning? I had never heard this song. I do remember 'feeling' it. Later at my friend Tony's house our group was chillin', he put this on and said.... Here's your song girl. You know the one you turned into a Drag Queen dancing to. Nuff said!
This sound is more befitting for 1976 than it is for Mid 1979
Trágame mar y regrésame a los 70’s. 💚
Thank you, 'Dear White People'!
ME TOO LOL
blast from the past
love this
My favorite , muito show..........!
i've been there many times did i say many comming home early now you nothing good is in those hours
The original 👍keep the faith never lose it
HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY THELMA HOUSTON (MAY 7, 2016)
6 AM, every Sunday morning, Greg's Blue Dot on Highland Ave., Hollywood, just before everything went to crap...this played on and on, mixed endlessly, while dancing went to the extreme. LEGIONS of really hard partying guys all descended on the place after even the after-after hours joints closed,to carry on until they dropped...and drop they did, one by one. This was our "church," and this was our anthem. Great times, horrifically sad memories.
WTF is Dear White People? Friggin' Millennials....
Schoner Classic...................................!!!!!!!
I've got this record too.
big big tune!!!
muy buen sonido todo un clasico
Great disco groove
Those were the daze' s baby😎😃😆
yes those were the days I still love you
Classic soul remember me the 1980 age
Triệu like
yay
SOUL ANTHEM............
For Dan Smith, I would love to talk with you. 12 West was THE BEST. One big family.
kool song
Dear White People, thanks for bringing to my attention this wonderful gem from Thelma Houston, who already sings arguably the best disco song of all time with Don’t Leave Me This Way.
Caister 1996 ! Sunday aftn's ! Say no more!
Daum we all think alike them bars were flame
SOUL WEEKENDER ANTHEM.......
💃🕺💃🕺❤❤
Thelma Houston - Saturday Night,Sunday Morning
l'ho ordinato alla galleria del disco pisa
....1980...reno nevada....mgbgt...
...now, these were the DAZE!!...hehehehe!!...
CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
Hay un video de este lindo tema musical, pero me gustaria verlo por favor.
I guess I'm the only one who remembers this in the clubs. This is Whitney Houston's auntie
Its crazy how hearing this song on Dear White People brought so many people to this song. Love it.
quality tune........usually get a current dj to re-work a classic like this ...hint hint ( Sean McCabe pleaseeee )
This song is the business…@2:17 the hairs stand up on my neck..