I'm 52 and I jamjamjam out to this stuff. No substitute for the brothers and their bass. It lives on. I live in Tulsa - Greenwood Archer Pine area is my old hood and my late grandfather was a trumpet player in the original gap band.. Sadly, I never heard their music cuz I'm stuck on these guys!
I always say the best music has already been made. Seems like yesterday, huh? I was only 8 when Thriller came out but I had the double hologram special edition!
This era of music is the best hands down. Long songs, not degrading towards women and curse word free. Can’t beat that!!!! Still dancing around my house to these songs in my 50s
This is the America that I know and love...we are one nation of many cultures..let's try to love each other..this world 🌎 would be a better place if we give it chance 😊
And that is why snoop dogg and other artists put Charlie Wilson in there song it sounds ten times better with him in it, I can imagine the whole group together on snoop dogg songs that would be fire
A friend of mine asked who's better earth wind and fire or gap band i immediately said my gap band. Just listen to their songs. Greenwood, Archer and Pine for life
Lot of people don't know this but, The Gap brothers were really talented and it was a pleasure working with them and seeing it all unfold. Charlie would do all his vocals in one take, unbelievably talented! I laid all of the ground tracks on this one at Capitol Records studio in Hollywood back in 1983. I remember this session like yesterday. R.I.P. Robert and Ronny!
That's so cool! What an accomplishment. I just want to say thank you for having a hand in bringing their music to the masses. It's not a party until the Gap Band starts playing. It's also scientifically impossible to be sad when listening to their music.
Exactly. The media has brainwashed everyone to hate each other. I guarantee you could not do a video like this today without some dumb knuckle head starting trouble.
I miss this whole era. This dancing and music beats anything done since this music was made. And the tunes? Fuggggedddbowdit! Gap Band Rocks it hard!! Everyone having a good time. All the people.
Every once in awhile I have to comeback to this video and remember that incredible day on Venice Beach. The only thing that makes being 65 tolerable are the incredible and fantastic memories of Los Angeles in the 80's and being part of it.
Yep, you definitely won out in the game of life in regard to timing. You were not only old enough to remember all of the 80s, but you got to enjoy it as an adult too! OMG, the fashions, the music, the quality of manufactured goods, the purchasing power of a dollar, the coke without any fentanyl in it.. and you get to check out from natural causes well before the world is destroyed from climate change. Good times.
I was 19years old when this song came out this is when music was outstanding love me some gap band I am 59 years young and still listing to the gap band music today in 2024 uncle Charlie is the only one left from the gap band and he is still outstanding miss you Ronnie and Robert Wilson keep rip
If it were realistically possible, I would pack all my shit and leave the present day to return to those days. No internet, cell phone, GPS Navigation screen in autos, etc....and DEFINITELY no cancel culture and all the racial strife of the present. Sign me up for the "Party Train"...destination: the 70's
Los Angeles in the 80’s seems like a magical time. I’m sure those people had no idea that a random day for them 40 years ago that people would be watching them.
Damn what a jam. Gap Band baby. Music still holds its own in this day with its string bass note. You can't help but move when you hear this great music.
I'm 77+, & I used to work at a club called "Dance Your Ass Off" in downtown San Diego...there was NO getting service from the wait/management staff when this jam came on. We might've had a couple dozen folks working, but they'd all throw down what they were busy with & invade the postage-stamp-sized dance floor en masse(pardon my inability to effectively use the hybrid Swedish/Japanese/Martian dialective conglomeration in which my pet rats were raised back in the day-) with manic enthusiasm. It could get awkward. It could become most definitely painful. Some of us would fall down, repeatedly, but nobody seemed to mind. Many billion yrs later(+ -👀), those memories help to keep this old shaky-booty-being being one. Thank you, Lord, thank you, dear Gap Band, & thank you to my{alleged} brain!!! 🎶Y'all stay joyful & SAFE.🎶
Thanking God for giving my big brothers another year of life!! Gemini Kings Kevin, Lateef & Joe!! Enjoy in good health, happiness, joy, safety, abundance, love, success & life longevity, Fellas, & the family loves you all!!❤😂❤😂❤
This song is almost 40 years old,watch the video , a bunch of beautiful people having a beautiful time together. Back then we would all go out and nobody ever said “ we’re going out with our black friends or or white friends, didn’t matter , we were all friends and still are . Makes this ol guys heart hurt to see what has happened. Get on the Party Train, we’re all the same and life goes by fast, have fun, laugh lots, love lots none of us gets out alive. ❤️
What we need again are 80's only clubs, skating rinks, and bowling alleys. Growing up in the 80's was the best. Both music and the world felt so much more innocent and fun!
Those were fun times! Great music from both the 70s and the 80s. Yes, they were more innocent times but that was before "social media". Sadly I don't think folks are capable of going backward...I mean ...[generalizing here] you wish for a return to those times which were mostly giant cellphone free, no one had a computer. We'd get our news from tv/radio, newspapers and magazines. Guys would actually have to wander out of their parents basements to find the young lady he was interested in to talk/hang out and go to her parents house to ask for a date. How on earth would we even be able to go back to all that without some messed up scenario? LOL.
This was the true free America with everyone getting along and having fun. I am sorry people in their 20's will never experience how it felt back then.
Yeah they have totally stripped away soured the minds of the young part critical race theory the other part with too much I've just everything being powered by batteries or the internet and not nothing of their imagination so they're unexperienced and dumbed down.
@@lostinmusik666 Am a 47 y.o. Born American and songs like this I remember as kid of 5 y.o.-10y.o. my Mama and Daddy dancing in the middle of the living room floor. BEST MEMORIES!!!
I agree, people are now too mean and are unable to laugh at themselves because they don't have a sense of humor. Glad I got a chance to live through it.
Heard this in the grocery store last week. Found this and cranked it. Been playing this twice a day for the last week. This has to be one of the most infectious grooves ever! How can you not want to dance to this and jam out too?
@@michaellofthouse8066 This band just was so extremely good. Solid. Intact and frankly killer. Heard them in the 70's and they still dominate. Dominate.
+French Quebec Thanks for replying when i saw in my messages that someone replied to my comment i didn't expect it to be about this video but now thanks to you I'm enjoying my jam that i haven't heard in a while :)
This song makes work so much more enjoyable while working on a 'Finish' with my Dad. He loves playing The Gap Band on Pandora. Today we were having lunch in the work truck and he says "You go Charlie!".
2023 I'm here a 40year 1st generation El Salvadorean Born in L.A. This times in L.A. we was all united loving each other. No gangs, division, or any hate. Just LOVE!
@@mr.elastomeric1787 Maannnn, he was only the founder and primary songwriter, of the Gap Band... Oldest of the three brothers. He was also their keyboardist and played the flugelhorn and the trumpet.
This song came out before my time, but I loved it because my mom would play it all the time. This video brings back a memory of me driving somewhere as a teen in the early 90s, with all the windows down blaring this song on a beautiful day, and being in the best mood. Good times.
@Apple Yet. The "Brick" by Motorola was freakishly large and expensive. 3 or 4 grand. Rich boy toy. To big to put in your pocket, but if you had one, everyone knew you were loaded, like driving a Bentley.
Rest in Power, Ronnie. Thanks for the great tunes with Robert and Charlie (my sincerest condolences to Ronnie's wife and family, and to Charlie Wilson). Y'all provided a soundtrack that's "Outstanding"!!!
Those Wilsons got that North Tulsa Power Funk going on pretty hard. It's a pretty unique power chord sound that really resonates and sticks with you. I don't recall anybody else that sounds like these cats.
@@bluesax7335 I HATE MY PHONE - IT'S AN ANDROID...I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT....I HATE IT ! AND, I HATE TRYING TO TALK WITH ANYONE WHEN THERE IS A PHONE CONSTANTLY IN THEIR FACE....GRRR! LOL!
Same!! Alwyss loved this video since I was a kid in the 80s. Such awesome vibes from ALL walks of life just getting together and having a good time at the beach..Venice looked much more vibrant back then. LOVE it!!
@@Pureimagination200 I'm following right behind you on that one LOS ANGELES in the 70's and 80's is where any and everybody got along....as long as you had good smoke, music, and drinks the party was on, and nobody gave a DAMN what color you were.
This video never gets old ! Im glad I got the privilege to see uncle Charlie perform in all places Baghdad Iraq in 2008! # Camp Liberty! RIP Ronnie and Robert love y’all!
@Apple Let's just say late 40's I was a breakdancer in 1983-85 I was one of the 'cool kids' in my junior high BUT I was treated like a total loser in early high school, when breakdancing went 'out of style' after 1984. I stuck with it because I was hitting my teenage strength and was getting better and started to be able to get the harder gymnastic moves like windmills. So, I gave it up. In a way, it's too bad - about 10 years ago, I was in Hollywood and I saw the new generations of Breakers and they were FANTASTIC. They were doing moves that I could only visualize in my imagination.
I don't care what people say these guys got the job done if you had a really bad day listen to the gap band I did and changed my life I listen to heavy metal but these guys definitely put me in a great mood I used to watch girls dance to this blew my mind great song hands down
heavy metal signatures arose from real funk and disco written by real musicians. thats' why even hardcore metal heads find themselves bobbing to great songs like this and many others tracks.
WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER, PLAYED AND PARTIED TOGETHER IN THE '70'S & '80'S. THIS WAS OUR GOLDEN AGE...DIDN'T MATTER YOUR SKIN COLOR OR RELIGION - YOU WERE JUDGED ON HOW YOU TREATED OTHER PEOPLE ! AS @BLACKCATS MATTER SAID, "We were a colorblind generation because we partied together. " I PRAY SOMEDAY SOON WE CAN SEE THIS LOVE FOR ALL MEN COME BACK FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN !
I'm 58 years old Nelda. You're right on the money. Seemed like less hate and more optimism then. Easy for me to say though cuz I'm white. Seemed like every race was happier then though.
@@depaola63 57 Here too!! SoCal born & raised, I MISS it all, God........... life was good back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss the 80's, in this video... Black, White, Asian, Latino, Indian, Hindu, Jewish, Middle Eastern...WE were all getting down. A fun time to meet friends and an economy with PLENTY of jobs and low gas prices.
The first time I heard this is when my late husband was playing it in his truck, back in 1986. Old skool......i loved it then and I still do. Makes me want to get up and dance. I miss you baby....RIP Darrel. 3/25/1965-3/15/2018
WHO ELSE ON THE PARTY TRAIN IN 2024
Choo Choo
I'm here May 18th, 2024 @7:59 pm Pacific Time in the high desert of Nevada. Party down!
😂❤❤
SQUAD UP
ME!!!!!
I'm 70 years old,my guys the gap band and kool and the gang...best ever
Word.
I'm crying because the funk is gone! I will be 64 and this music is nothing but a distant memory for me.
Elle reste dans nos mémoires sur youtube 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤ MAGNIFIQUE
I'm 52 and I jamjamjam out to this stuff. No substitute for the brothers and their bass. It lives on.
I live in Tulsa - Greenwood Archer Pine area is my old hood and my late grandfather was a trumpet player in the original gap band..
Sadly, I never heard their music cuz I'm stuck on these guys!
I always say the best music has already been made.
Seems like yesterday, huh?
I was only 8 when Thriller came out but I had the double hologram special edition!
This era of music is the best hands down. Long songs, not degrading towards women and curse word free. Can’t beat that!!!! Still dancing around my house to these songs in my 50s
PREACH that! 64 here in my basement movin' da' best my ol' cripple bones will allow to Uncle Charlie Wilson!
This is the America that I know and love...we are one nation of many cultures..let's try to love each other..this world 🌎 would be a better place if we give it chance 😊
You are awesome!
@@amyboone125 ..You're too kind ☺
Naw...just respecting you in this time of hate. Love EVERYONE until they give you not a reason. Peace!
I'm an old white girl that loves everyone snd LOVES music !
Agreed!!!!!
Hands down. This is 1 of the Hardest Bands ever. Gap has a unique flow. That most of today's artist will never understand. Respectfully
And that is why snoop dogg and other artists put Charlie Wilson in there song it sounds ten times better with him in it, I can imagine the whole group together on snoop dogg songs that would be fire
Yeah man Charlie is a real talent. Snoop knew what he did with signing Charlie to his label@@n1k3inthehouse
My six year old daughter loves the gap band. My two year old dances too.
hail yeah
A friend of mine asked who's better earth wind and fire or gap band i immediately said my gap band. Just listen to their songs. Greenwood, Archer and Pine for life
Lot of people don't know this but, The Gap brothers were really talented and it was a pleasure working with them and seeing it all unfold.
Charlie would do all his vocals in one take, unbelievably talented!
I laid all of the ground tracks on this one at Capitol Records studio in Hollywood back in 1983.
I remember this session like yesterday.
R.I.P. Robert and Ronny!
They started in Oklahoma.
@@mrwayne3121 Yes they did!
I knew them well, worked with them everyday for 7 years ;).
First name Charlie, last name Wilson. Ha ha.
What a voice, and these songs will never get old.💜
That's so cool! What an accomplishment. I just want to say thank you for having a hand in bringing their music to the masses. It's not a party until the Gap Band starts playing. It's also scientifically impossible to be sad when listening to their music.
What were they like as a live act?
Black,white,Asian,indians,,all races having fun,,that's wat America is missing 😢
Social media took over. Every one has to big of egos now certain people think they are bigger than other.
well said heck yes
Aye
Exactly. The media has brainwashed everyone to hate each other. I guarantee you could not do a video like this today without some dumb knuckle head starting trouble.
💃🕺💃🏾🕺🏼🕺🏾💃🏾💃🏼💃🏽🕺
I miss this whole era. This dancing and music beats anything done since this music was made. And the tunes? Fuggggedddbowdit! Gap Band Rocks it hard!! Everyone having a good time. All the people.
This video is a true example of how good music brings ALL people together.
Exactly.
I loved the Gap Band-Party Train was one of my favorites!!!
Is anyone else still listening to this iconic song in 2024?? ❤
Home town guys ! Tulsa, Oklahoma
Absolutely…..!!!! What a jam 😮💨
Still Need This lol
@@victorcastro1205ù like
Hell yeah!!! Rocking it OLD SCHOOL in 2024!!!
I NEVER GET TIRED OF THE GAP BAND!!!!!
Yup they are timeless
Likewise here; part of the Parliament/Funkadelic family (Bootsy Collins is a cousin of the Wilson Brothers; a.k.a.: The Gap Band).
What
Yes!!
Thanks for loving my tracks!
This only proves that Gen X had the best music ever.
70s/80s were the golden age of pop music.
I don't know, there was some young boomers jamming to these great songs.
@@20thCenturyMan80 most of our Gen X's music is Boomers so yeah.
These are Boomers making the music. But yeah, Gen X grew up listening to this.
Aye
Every once in awhile I have to comeback to this video and remember that incredible day on Venice Beach. The only thing that makes being 65 tolerable are the incredible and fantastic memories of Los Angeles in the 80's and being part of it.
Great song still ❤❤❤
Yep, you definitely won out in the game of life in regard to timing. You were not only old enough to remember all of the 80s, but you got to enjoy it as an adult too! OMG, the fashions, the music, the quality of manufactured goods, the purchasing power of a dollar, the coke without any fentanyl in it.. and you get to check out from natural causes well before the world is destroyed from climate change. Good times.
If you can't jam to the Gap, see a counselor... quickly! 😅
Isn't that the truth.....I never tire of this song.
It's as high energy as you can get.
💯💯💯
Still listening 2024 🙌🏾
May 26 2024
I’m so glad I grew up in the eighties. Great music ran like a river constantly. The Gap band was right up front everytime.
Me too! Love disco music! Bring it back. This hip hop rap is shit.
🙋
Disco was fun. It brought people together not like gangsta music which is just talking to music. Most of it is inspired by thugs and crime.
Great times
I'm 58 years old. This is IT yall 🎉😂
I'm a bout to turn 58..
This song is always it.
67 and love it!
I was 19years old when this song came out this is when music was outstanding love me some gap band I am 59 years young and still listing to the gap band music today in 2024 uncle Charlie is the only one left from the gap band and he is still outstanding miss you Ronnie and Robert Wilson keep rip
Damn we had fun back then didn’t we?
I don't know I don't remember you
Je confirme !😉
Yes you did, keep it going, don't ever stop, all the way
Damn right we did! All over the country, we had a blast!
If it were realistically possible, I would pack all my shit and leave the present day to return to those days. No internet, cell phone, GPS Navigation screen in autos, etc....and DEFINITELY no cancel culture and all the racial strife of the present. Sign me up for the "Party Train"...destination: the 70's
Charlie Wilson one of the most underrated vocalists
FOUND HIM! THAT ONE DUDE WHO GOES ON ALL UA-cam TO TYPE "UNDERRATED"
@@ltcolumbo9708 Yes
He still puts on an energetic show.
So smooth
no...everybody with a fine music mind knows that....
Los Angeles in the 80’s seems like a magical time. I’m sure those people had no idea that a random day for them 40 years ago that people would be watching them.
Damn what a jam. Gap Band baby. Music still holds its own in this day with its string bass note. You can't help but move when you hear this great music.
I grew up in the 80's and loved every dam bit of it...
Love DETROIT SOUL...i miss the MOTOWN MUSIC pouring out into the streets n everyone singin to the BEAT 🎶🎶🎶🎶😎
Amen!
Me too.. miss those days so much!!! 😷🙄😔
Me toooo!!!
@@shelleybanning257 we are not alone
The 80s. What a great decade!!!!
Sgt803 yes the good old days
Music seemed to have a more uptempo positive rhythm in the 80s. Hopefully that style comes back.
70s
@@andrewenciso139 Umm the music video production etc and sounds nothing like The 70's
sgt803 it was good times then
Their music always makes me happy. 🤗 Amazed for all those in the video how everyone looks thin, fit and healthy compared to now.
All Aboard THE PARTY TRAIN. Love you guys you Rock my world back then and NOW in 2024 💋💋💋💋
What a mix of people of all races...and character. Unity!!
David Veatch
David Veatch amen !
Black, white ,purple , green . we are all equal IN GODS EYES.. all aboard get on that train!!
Because nobody gave a rat's little ass back then
We worked hard and partied hard
One Nation Under a Groove
We are all family
David Veatch
But what happened?!’
Look at all those happy folks. So many different styles of dance. I'd love to jump into that video!
Hello Lori, How are you doing?
Real America
Back when it was about having fun not just fighting or getting high
This always gets me up & dancing. ALWAYS. I'm an old granny 66_ still rolling
I'm 77+, & I used to work at a club called "Dance Your Ass Off" in downtown San Diego...there was NO getting service from the wait/management staff when this jam came on. We might've had a couple dozen folks working, but they'd all throw down what they were busy with & invade the postage-stamp-sized dance floor en masse(pardon my inability to effectively use the hybrid Swedish/Japanese/Martian dialective conglomeration in which my pet rats were raised back in the day-) with manic enthusiasm.
It could get awkward.
It could become most definitely painful.
Some of us would fall down, repeatedly, but nobody seemed to mind. Many billion yrs later(+ -👀), those memories help to keep this old shaky-booty-being being one.
Thank you, Lord, thank you, dear Gap Band, & thank you to my{alleged} brain!!!
🎶Y'all stay joyful & SAFE.🎶
Thanking God for giving my big brothers another year of life!! Gemini Kings Kevin, Lateef & Joe!! Enjoy in good health, happiness, joy, safety, abundance, love, success & life longevity, Fellas, & the family loves you all!!❤😂❤😂❤
Ronnie: thanks for making such a badass song...RIP friend.
I listen to them for 2 days and today I find out that Ronnie died....
This song is almost 40 years old,watch the video , a bunch of beautiful people having a beautiful time together. Back then we would all go out and nobody ever said “ we’re going out with our black friends or or white friends, didn’t matter , we were all friends and still are . Makes this ol guys heart hurt to see what has happened. Get on the Party Train, we’re all the same and life goes by fast, have fun, laugh lots, love lots none of us gets out alive. ❤️
Amen!! Evil has really taken hold. Never thought I would say that never thought it would need to be said.
Yes your right. Dusty
Absolutely right Dusty
Well Said 👍
No fake crap ☮️😎
When this song came on, no one could stop me from getting on the dance floor!
Same, and if no one came with me I was FINE dancin with myself. What a great song.
Now it's your knees lol
58 year old Disabled Vet, walk with a Cane, but if I was able to l, I'd be on the floor Dancing too. Lol!😂👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻
If people listened to good music like this and danced more often, maybe we would all get along better.
And a lot thinner!
Yep LOL.
Everybody all aboard LOL!
Turn social media off simple and have a funky dance
@@OllyMoe87Yep LOL!
🥳🎉
A 27 year old metal head over here and I still love gap band
Noah... Good for you 👍
I'm a 52 year old headbanger! What a song!
50 year old metal man over here and I know that this song RULES!
Right there with you exactly bro!
The beat to this song is where Kid Rock got his guitar riff beat, and tempo for "Fuck You Blind" listen carefully.
What we need again are 80's only clubs, skating rinks, and bowling alleys. Growing up in the 80's was the best. Both music and the world felt so much more innocent and fun!
facts!!
Yesssss!
Those were fun times! Great music from both the 70s and the 80s. Yes, they were more innocent times but that was before "social media". Sadly I don't think folks are capable of going backward...I mean ...[generalizing here] you wish for a return to those times which were mostly giant cellphone free, no one had a computer. We'd get our news from tv/radio, newspapers and magazines. Guys would actually have to wander out of their parents basements to find the young lady he was interested in to talk/hang out and go to her parents house to ask for a date. How on earth would we even be able to go back to all that without some messed up scenario? LOL.
Im a 90s baby and i looove the 60s 70s 80s and 90s!! I desperately wish the 80s style rollar rinks would come back
@@91pixiegurl same!
This was the true free America with everyone getting along and having fun. I am sorry people in their 20's will never experience how it felt back then.
Yeah they have totally stripped away soured the minds of the young part critical race theory the other part with too much I've just everything being powered by batteries or the internet and not nothing of their imagination so they're unexperienced and dumbed down.
The 1980’s were freaking awesome! 🇺🇸
We never knew how good we had it Back in the eighties Music was at its best
The 80s....THE LAST GREAT DECADE!!!!
@@jamessneed5560 So sad, not lived this decade. Music sucks now (25 yo french man)
@@lostinmusik666 Am a 47 y.o. Born American and songs like this I remember as kid of 5 y.o.-10y.o. my Mama and Daddy dancing in the middle of the living room floor. BEST MEMORIES!!!
@@jamessneed5560 So lucky, I am nostalgic every day of a period of time I've never lived
Yep
The 80s were great
Much better than nowadays.
@@janthomson7697 How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship
This is my upbringing in the 80s🥰 completely colorblind ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤠🤠
This video is pure genius! Sad we'll never get days like this back again ...
I agree, people are now too mean and are unable to laugh at themselves because they don't have a sense of humor. Glad I got a chance to live through it.
just everybody having a good time!!
Heard this in the grocery store last week. Found this and cranked it. Been playing this twice a day for the last week. This has to be one of the most infectious grooves ever! How can you not want to dance to this and jam out too?
Just twice?
@@michaellofthouse8066 This band just was so extremely good. Solid. Intact and frankly killer. Heard them in the 70's and they still dominate. Dominate.
E, this song is a party, a feel good and life's awesome anthem!
40 years ago. Still a jam!
71 year old, still love party train 2024💕
The 80's was so much fun! I miss those days...being a kid in the 80's was the best childhood ever. ❤
Say that again 😌
To Some;Maybe.
Amen brother 🙏
I Bc was born 79!
damn u just made a ninja tear up because yep you are 100 per cent correctomundo
This is one of the best videos ever made
+French Quebec Thanks for replying when i saw in my messages that someone replied to my comment i didn't expect it to be about this video but now thanks to you I'm enjoying my jam that i haven't heard in a while :)
yeah
+Beth Howard To me music has no age limit , good music will always be good music
Yeah I toldly agree with you
absolutely!
I'm glad I was young growing up in the 70's and 80's when music was GREAT!!!!! Rest in Peace Ronnie and Robert!!
Rip fun days
The whipeouts in the rollerrink to this song... wouldn't trade
the video celebrates diverse beauty and talent, they were ahead of their time and still needed today
Daphne L McBride Agreed
GAP BAND music never gets OLD...
Never ever 🔥
@@DLaveaux neva eva eva eva neva baleedat
We need a band like this now a days my generation would love this 💕💕💕
Dabuell Band from France doing throwback sound. Check them out
@@wegap2012I’ll check them out thanks 😊 I love old music and soul/motown music
Charlie Wilson was extremely talented. He had it all. Cool vocals and sex appeal. He understood the camera
I'm back in 2020, still on this party train. Who's riding with me ? ⬇️
I'm jamming in the coach!🚅🎵🎶
I’m in the bar car boozing it up on the party train!!!! Whoo hooo
ALL. DAY!
I am!!! Let's have some fun!
Eu
Looks like people really, really enjoying themselves. Damn I miss the 80's!
This song makes work so much more enjoyable while working on a 'Finish' with my Dad. He loves playing The Gap Band on Pandora. Today we were having lunch in the work truck and he says "You go Charlie!".
2023 I'm here a 40year 1st generation El Salvadorean Born in L.A. This times in L.A. we was all united loving each other. No gangs, division, or any hate. Just LOVE!
I grew up during the 80s. I think my generation had more fun.
+cloudform Hah! Glad u think so, I always think we had far more fun in the 50's!
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Best music ever and always a party somewhere
+cloudform me too at 43 i miss the 80s so much compare to music today Uncle Charlie in my opinion was hotter with his brothers hes still my idol
Everyone TRIES to copy or be retro... Glad to be a kid in the 80's. A lot more fun and less hate.
+cloudform Me to! the 80s were the best, the best part being the early 80s though. :)
SEE THE 80 MUSIC WAS THE BOMB.
That's when someone has natural talent and music is in their blood. no matter how simple the lyrics, it moves you
simple things are the strongest.
Sho you right
Please mention the black cowboy hat 🙋🏻♂️😂🥳
WE DANCED! THAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! WE KNEW HOW TO HAVE REAL FUN WITH GOOD MUSIC AND PURE JOY!
How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship
Interesting, people still dance today but what do they dance to? The EDM thing is so impersonal.
Rest in peace, Ronnie Wilson. We will forever enjoy the music you and the whole Gap Band gave us. Thank you, eternally.
Rà
Great comment! From one David to another.
Who was Ronnie Wilson; just was comment on how 11/21 I'm still cooking and baking to this jam
@@mr.elastomeric1787 Maannnn, he was only the founder and primary songwriter, of the Gap Band... Oldest of the three brothers. He was also their keyboardist and played the flugelhorn and the trumpet.
THANK YOU
This song came out before my time, but I loved it because my mom would play it all the time. This video brings back a memory of me driving somewhere as a teen in the early 90s, with all the windows down blaring this song on a beautiful day, and being in the best mood. Good times.
Why can't we all live like this together now? 😢😢
I'm so thankful I grew up in this era. This is real music people.
We do
Right ❤
Black people,white people,old and young having a good time,love it
system diviz....now
This is how it should be, but the media doesnt like that.
The 80's were awesome. Cell phones weren't around yet.
@Apple Yet. The "Brick" by Motorola was freakishly large and expensive. 3 or 4 grand. Rich boy toy. To big to put in your pocket, but if you had one, everyone knew you were loaded, like driving a Bentley.
The media has split the American people up
back when sisters were sexy and kept it classy.... man i miss those days. Gap Band classic for sure...
One of the greatest party songs of all time
I remember this was one of the few R&B videos MTV would actually play back in the day. I was glued to the set anytime they played this classic!
Rest in Power, Ronnie. Thanks for the great tunes with Robert and Charlie (my sincerest condolences to Ronnie's wife and family, and to Charlie Wilson). Y'all provided a soundtrack that's "Outstanding"!!!
The 80s were lit
There was something truly special about the music in the 80's across all genres of music!
Those Wilsons got that North Tulsa Power Funk going on pretty hard. It's a pretty unique power chord sound that really resonates and sticks with you. I don't recall anybody else that sounds like these cats.
I'm glad I decided to revisit this group.I had almost forgotten what fun their music was! Party on!!!
Back when you had everybody's full attention. Nobody looking down at a phone. Damm I miss this.
PHONES HAVE TAKEN THE PLACE OF FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION ! I WOULD LOVE TO THROW ALL PHONES IN THE TRASH !
@@neldasmith4811 as you use a phone to communicate...
@@bluesax7335 I HATE MY PHONE - IT'S AN ANDROID...I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT....I HATE IT ! AND, I HATE TRYING TO TALK WITH ANYONE WHEN THERE IS A PHONE CONSTANTLY IN THEIR FACE....GRRR! LOL!
@@neldasmith4811 likewise lol
0:18 1934 Auburn Speedster or most likely replica.
This video is so unpretentious and positive. It brings tears of joy to my eyes. Even when they go in the ring, they don't fight. How nice!
That video looks like fun to me. They got it right.
Love to see the brothers exit the car and start steppin'! Charlie, keep on keepin' on without your brothers! Love you, mamafifi
Same!! Alwyss loved this video since I was a kid in the 80s. Such awesome vibes from ALL walks of life just getting together and having a good time at the beach..Venice looked much more vibrant back then. LOVE it!!
It's Glorious & Fantastic. 😍😍😍😍
To all my Fighters (Boxers), I have them all X8 (2 Females), jump rope to this song....
The Gap Band introduced me to this type of funkalicious music and I've never looked back... the SOOG Train rides with em'
Wow, what great memories does this bring back! Always loved these guys!! Thanks for such great music!!
No race no color everyone got along where can I sign up for those days
Los Angeles is a place we are got along and loved each other in the 70’s and 80’s
@@Pureimagination200 I'm following right behind you on that one LOS ANGELES in the 70's and 80's is where any and everybody got along....as long as you had good smoke, music, and drinks the party was on, and nobody gave a DAMN what color you were.
they still do ITS the trouble makers doing all the distruction
The good old days when people were not all butt hurt all the time
@@gingerelvira6587 Amen
We literally need Gap Band to save us in 2020 with this jam.
Absofreakinlutely
All aboard! This track was off the chain. This song still makes you want to get up an party. I
Tee-hee hee 👁️👁️💗😍💗👣💜😎💜
@@stacybrownlee7921 Venice Beach back then certainly doesn't look like that now.
💙💙💙💙💙💙💯💯💯💯💯
When music used to bring people together ❤
This video never gets old ! Im glad I got the privilege to see uncle Charlie perform in all places Baghdad Iraq in 2008! # Camp Liberty! RIP Ronnie and Robert love y’all!
If The Gap Band doesn't make you smile you're dead
so true!!!
The best gap band
Absolutely!! 🤣❤
Is he not cutest little fella ever in this video?!!!
And dance !
I was a 13 year old breakdancer when this came out - it became my favorite song to dance to. A Funky Dance Classic
They had some real breakers in that ring,,,IE Boogaloo , shrimp , Turbo to name a few..
@Apple A little bit - I can still do windmills although I probably won't try a headspin anymore
@Apple Let's just say late 40's
I was a breakdancer in 1983-85
I was one of the 'cool kids' in my junior high
BUT I was treated like a total loser in early high school, when breakdancing went 'out of style' after 1984.
I stuck with it because I was hitting my teenage strength and was getting better and started to be able to get the harder gymnastic moves like windmills.
So, I gave it up.
In a way, it's too bad - about 10 years ago, I was in Hollywood and I saw the new generations of Breakers and they were FANTASTIC.
They were doing moves that I could only visualize in my imagination.
I was 13 too. Awesome times.
Very Funky. DJ screw should have touched this up. Houston, Tx
No silicone everywhere, no n word, no f bombs, no calling women ho, no negativity, no violence, no tattoos, no glorification of crime. How nice.
Yes. A much better time in California, socially....
I agree
no racists either lol
Lots of anabolic steroids though... And of course, they sent all the ugly folks home... 😂
All Broad, welcome to the party train 😂
Loved dancing to this
This is real music for everyone, how can you listen to this and not want to move and feel the groove!!!
IKR ! Love this !!!
Amen!!! Love ❤️ 😍
You know it!
And not full of swear words
Bad ass dancing music, my shoes would get to smokin, call the fire dept to put them out.
I don't care what people say these guys got the job done if you had a really bad day listen to the gap band I did and changed my life I listen to heavy metal but these guys definitely put me in a great mood I used to watch girls dance to this blew my mind great song hands down
heavy metal signatures arose from real funk and disco written by real musicians. thats' why even hardcore metal heads find themselves bobbing to great songs like this and many others tracks.
I lived at Venice beach for a long time. Great to see it as it was, fun and open and free! Can’t stop shaking my ass to this funk dance classic
Oh this is still a JAM! Back in the rarly 70's they used to play with Leon Russell, a fellow Oklahoma man!
WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER, PLAYED AND PARTIED TOGETHER IN THE '70'S & '80'S. THIS WAS OUR GOLDEN AGE...DIDN'T MATTER YOUR SKIN COLOR OR RELIGION - YOU WERE JUDGED ON HOW YOU TREATED OTHER PEOPLE ! AS @BLACKCATS MATTER SAID, "We were a colorblind generation because we partied together. " I PRAY SOMEDAY SOON WE CAN SEE THIS LOVE FOR ALL MEN COME BACK FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN !
Amen!
Nelda Smith I’m 57 in 60 days 🌈. Those 2 decades were wonderful to have been young indeed ❤️❤️
@@depaola63 YES, IT WAS ! WE WERE BLESSED. IT'S SO SAD TEENAGERS TODAY DO NOT KNOW THE FREEDOM AND FRIENDSHIP WE HAD !
I'm 58 years old Nelda. You're right on the money. Seemed like less hate and more optimism then. Easy for me to say though cuz I'm white. Seemed like every race was happier then though.
@@depaola63 57 Here too!! SoCal born & raised, I MISS it all, God........... life was good back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss the 80's, in this video... Black, White, Asian, Latino, Indian, Hindu, Jewish, Middle Eastern...WE were all getting down. A fun time to meet friends and an economy with PLENTY of jobs and low gas prices.
I did not know they were brothers. That’s good to know. Love all aboard train.
this joint neva gets old!!!!
People who party together don't hate! Get me on the Party Train!
Come on! get on board the party train.
I'm coming with you on the party train lol :)
nailed it
No time to hate when you're partying.
Just having fun together regardless of race or religion, the best time.
We need this today.
Fuck yeah get me on that fucker lol.i grew up on rap I guess that's what the gap band isl
The first time I heard this is when my late husband was playing it in his truck, back in 1986. Old skool......i loved it then and I still do. Makes me want to get up and dance. I miss you baby....RIP Darrel. 3/25/1965-3/15/2018
My condolences.
Sorry for your loss 💔. My late husband loved the gap band as well, as do I ❤️
We are free when we die
@@katherinelewis1903 How you doing gorgeous, I'm sorry for infringing on your nice comment and beautiful profile. do you mind friendship?
The Gap Band knew how to "Throw Down" !!
so great !!!! one of my favourite music in discotheque in 1986
It's 2020. I'm definitely voting for Gap Band. I " Don't wanna miss that train"