I'm a MEXICAN from Southern California and we bumped this and believe it was not only a black thing it was for everyone who likes good soul music shout out to all the families who get to still have reunions
Oh Your Sooo Very Lucky ,Treasure each Day-Precious Oh Lord Jesus Such Precious Moments,,I’d Give Anything To Have My Sweet MaMa Back,it’s been 2 years now-2 years to long…Miss You MaMa😢
Straight black folks shit!!! Makes me cry remembering this song on in the 1980s in Compton Ca dressed up nice BBQ smelling up the air, kids playing getting to no each other and just that good ole black folks chilling dranking and choking on some good good!! Just a peaceful day
This song never gets old,May 28,we celebrating my mother's 90th Birthday !!!!Hey yall her mind is sharp,she can get around good and she can still drive her own car. LOL🙏🙏🙏🙏😂😂😂
this song is very important to me. it makes me think a lot of memory back in my days with my family that has passed away. God bless everyone who has lost someone. family reunion pays back a lot of memories
May 31,2024 we will celebrate my Mother's 92nd Birthday. We have been so blessed to have her here with us . She still drives her car,❤😂LOL! GOD HAS SMILED ON WE😂❤😂
That s incredible that people that old can still do things like drive a car etc it just shows that age is just a number anybody can do anything at anything age
Whether they're blood relatives or not what matters is how they love and care for but the main important thing is what's in their hearts that's where our true soul essence comes from
Jesus I lost two sisters in nine months we gave a family reunion my brother Jr took a picture by me my whole family this song they played now he is no more but he is in my heart thank you
@DianaGuyton-xm7vt Sorry for the losses of your two sisters and brother in such a short period of time. Please take comfort in one of God's many promises...With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” 5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also he says: “Write, for these words are faithful and true." - Revelation 21:3, 4
The O'Jays Family Reunion is a song that always brings me to tears. I've loved this song since I was a teenager. Now with my Mom fighting her struggles with Dementia, I,know how important family are and love and support to your ailing parent or family member. Thank you O'Jays.
WORD and there's all different groups at the family reunion but WE all be family even if you are not related you family that day,even white folks and WE could black panther party and Black people in America are the only ones who do that
Sure do miss Family Reunions...music playing, the older generation spitting knowledge and wisdom, and everyone dancing, someone always got some spades or dominoes, BBQ, yams, mac n cheese, kids acting up, memories being created...Soon
Yes sure do miss those times but the ones that have the reunions are either to old now or deceased. The generations now just not in to it but it needs to be carried on so family can get to no one another 🤩👁️😂🥳🎉🥰😎💞🤗🖐️🎶
There is nothing more important than your family and friends, gather on special occasion, with this song playing, singing, dancing eating all your favorite foods, remembering all those who have pass on.
Yes, we must do this. I am going to reach out to family that I have not seen in years. I want us to come together and meet each other again...I need that connection, we all do. Cook, laugh, cry, love....this is so important, I am praying for this.
Young people in 2021 listen and start living by this and show all our this what life about stop the foolish thing in the streets and become real men for the kids God bless us all Memphis
I am 74 and believe me the meaning that song sends to the world is so true in everyone lifetime a family is the so have love for one another God has Memphis
This song makes me happy remembering our family gatherings at the parks every summer. Some times there'd be free performances at Fort Dupont Park. Loved those! And for the 4th of July/cookout we'd gather over one of their houses, a long long time ago. ❤ We had a super large family, and some of our close friends who felt like family always joined us😊 Now "most" of them have gone on to be with the Lord. So I cry and smile inside every time I hear this - remembering! Yall - enjoy your loved-ones now, even those that may be a little challenging. Make the most of their presence. Love on them, laugh, dance and hug them often. We did. A lot! Wish I'd / we'd done it even more. 😢
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
My mom's name is Ernestine Chappell and she'll be 84 on Sunday July 7 God gave her another chance to celebrate another birthday God is definitely good no doubt
We just buried my oldest brother Saturday and our mother just two years ago. This song really hits home. Love your family because you never know when they’ll be gone 🙏🏿
In today's world, ain't no more of any type of "Family Reunion"...I went to only 2 in my lifetime, the last one was August, 1979, in Toledo, OH, on daddy's side of the family! I played this record a few weeks ago, and a tear or 2 fell down my face, while listening to The O'Jays talk about "making plans... maybe next year..."! And, the world will be a much better place to live in!!
Smh I wish I had a family with much love my circle is small I wish so much to have this ...but hey this is the life I was dealt I lost all my family 😢...there's just a few of us smh ....I just wish I could all of us together to gt a family reunion it's so special..maybe in my next life time
I won't lie. Everytime I listen to this and Eddie Levert hits the "Oooh Oooh Oooooooh Oooh Wooo", I lose it. Straight bawlin' my eyes out. This song reminds me of the family I love, but not close to.
It's unfortunate that we don't spend more time with family. We need one another to learn, grow and share love as it was designed by the creator. The young desperately need guidance from the elders. Miss the old days...
The sun will always remind me of my mom and dad it was one of my dad's favorite song that he rest in peace everytime I hear it I Cry because this was his idea of what family is and that's how I feel some songs just make you cry because it gives you memories and not sad tears they're happy tears that's why I raised my children to have that type of love for each other family is everything Families First if you have a family that loves you you should be so lucky because not everyone does
Going back home this weekend after being gone for a long time. My grandparents and parents passed away before I was nine years old. It’s going to be painful, but beautiful. I am a very strong man, but I can’t stop the tears from flowing. GOD is amazing, and that is a understatement
Wow!!!!! That's a very strong and emotional statement you just made there, but my Brother sometimes God allows certain things to happen in our lives because of a certain Journey he has for us or to reach a certain Blessing, but keep your hands in God's hands my Brother because he won't let you go astray because he loves you so much!!!!!!
My mother and father play this music O'ay on Christmas why my mother cook on Christmas eve she will make macaroni potato salad collard greens fried chicken pig feet with a lot of hot sauce why my father play The O'Jays and have a little drink why the kids are in the bed and on Thanksgiving my aunt you to cook a lot of food and the house in Jamaica Queens 179 everybody died bro my father died when I was 8 years old and that was his song The O'Jays life is too short you're on a scary so we really got a whole lot and pray to God
As I walk halfway down the staircase, look over at my Madea, it was a very cold 1976. I had lost my first child. Only 15yr old, little girl in the projects. But family everywhere, my uncle always had music, company and fun going on. The love. Madea would cook big pots of food. Lol. Miss these days. Live and learned
This song is very relevant for what's happening in our world right now. But I say to everyone love your family now.dont wait until they take their last breath we must understand people make the world go around.
This song played on “repeat” at my aunts funeral back in 2015. Makes me cry and smile all at the same time. MAN I LOOOOOVVVVEEEE THIS SONG. R.I.P Auntie
Man, I know "...if grandpa was here, I know he'd smilin' from ear to ear; to see what he has done...on the offsprings of his daughters and sons"...sho' would be nice to see him again!!
We lost a big part of the family and everone started going there own way not careing about family and it wz a sad sith to see so now i have sacrifice myself for family i would rather have them all mad at me if it bring them together to talk about me cuz im doing it for the love of family because moma is turn over in her grave because they or fussin among each other and God will fix it believe that happy holidays to all
My mom passed this pass December'21...God! how I feel so empty without her. I listen to this song often and I think how nice it would be if my family would get together and I think about my Mom how she loved all of us together .
My mom passed Mar 1, 2001 my heart broke the night she passed and love just seem to have gone ,until I started to remember the things she taught me about keeping family and good friends close God bless her for all she taught us
That’s WHY IS SOO IMPORTANT FOR US TO TEACH OUR YOUNGER GENERATION TO INSTILL IN THEM THOSE VALUES THAT OUR PARENTS INSTILLED IN US!! PASS IT ON MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS !! Time flies !!!!
Family are so important. Even though my Mom pass almost three months ago and my Dad passed three years ago it’s been rough, but this song reminds me of our family .
I played this song on Thanksgiving. This year. This song makes you appreciate your loves ones and their lives ❤ We all have suffered so much loss . 2020 has been brutal !!! Appreciate what you have and who you have left .
We no longer have family reunions since shortly before my mother passed. I do miss those days of togetherness. Times were so much simpler. RIP Momma and all my loved ones that have gone on.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT "A FAMILY IS"!!!IF HUMANS CAN TREASURE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS A "FAMILY" LIFE WOULD HAVE A BETTER MEANING 🔥 This song transforms "THE OJAYS"one of the Best music group ever...just this song...they explain "THE FAMILY"👏
This is my dad's most favorite song.. I miss him oh so much. I listen to this song when I want to hear his voice in my head, he sang this ALL the time. RIP Dad, I miss you 😢😊.
Boy this reminds me of the family reunions,fish frys,cookouts when everybody was still alive me,daddy,grandma sometimes I just look up at the sun and listen to this and think about everybody wish grandma was here.
@@rickygee9094 you are so right things aren’t what they use to be I remember when I was a young boy and my grandma would trow a Christmas party and everybody exchanged gifts every year she would plan the family reunion all that but when she died and family done went left it’s a mess we can’t agree with each other on the simples stuff.
People that have families left , celebrate while you can !! Need to remember the good times !! Teach what you can to the young so they can keep The family going on for many years to come !!😊
You are so right Billy! I won't miss mine either. Covid has made me look at my family in a new light!! I miss all of them especially during the holidays!!
I know exactly what you mean. Black families were so close back then. Your neighbors were family. The cookouts, basement parties.....What in the world happened? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
The genius of Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff! The Sound Of Philadelphia at its best! The mighty O'jays pumping it out! Back when the black family had it together! T.S.O.P. 4EVER!!!
Today's generation NEEDS this
Well stated!!!!!
❤
Southernersunderstsnd
Go to sleep, wake up, and say that AGAIN!!! You better preach!!!😂💯
Yes ❤🎉😅
This song should be all played at all family reunions black, white or any other race
@@keepgoing4903 I hear ya Now matter what race it is We Are Family We're a part of God's great family
@@williamchappell9858 no
Why are u being so negative stop being that way
Thanks the family is the basic element of all nations ❤❤❤
@keepgoing4903 look at the picture on their song
I'm a MEXICAN from Southern California and we bumped this and believe it was not only a black thing it was for everyone who likes good soul music shout out to all the families who get to still have reunions
It's a Wordly Things for all Races & Cultures.
Yes this song is for everybody
@@tommorales8725 so true
À a ²awààaa2a1a😊@@Earle-uf3tq
Perfectly put!❤
This song is so powerful this , my mother, turned 93 years old, 6.15.23
Oh Your Sooo Very Lucky ,Treasure each Day-Precious Oh Lord Jesus Such Precious Moments,,I’d Give Anything To Have My Sweet MaMa Back,it’s been 2 years now-2 years to long…Miss You MaMa😢
Sorry for your loss 😢
@@Michael24797may her beautiful soul keep resting in peace ❤
Wow, I hope her 94th will be even better my Mother will be 92" May 31,2024.❤
Blessed!!!
Don't wait till you lose your loved ones and call it a family reunion Stay united
Family is EVERYTHING
That's right
Best comment.
🎉
True that.
Straight black folks shit!!! Makes me cry remembering this song on in the 1980s in Compton Ca dressed up nice BBQ smelling up the air, kids playing getting to no each other and just that good ole black folks chilling dranking and choking on some good good!!
Just a peaceful day
Right on Bruh
Sad😢
Bring it back 😅
You right but everyone else wants to tap into our sh*t with their phoney BS,yet they always hating on US
thats a good memory bruh, thank you.
We just had our family reunion July 24th through July 27th in Charlotte NC. We played this song and danced, reminisced, laughed and cried!!! ❤
2024🎉
My mom passed in 76,but before she was thinking of a family reunion, but never lived to enjoy it.
She still lives because of you, and will be ever present at any reunion you have now, and in the future.
Ditto.
This song never gets old,May 28,we celebrating my mother's 90th Birthday !!!!Hey yall her mind is sharp,she can get around good and she can still drive her own car. LOL🙏🙏🙏🙏😂😂😂
May 28, would've been my Dad's 70th Birthday. Enjoy it I know I would've enjoyed my Dad's 70th Birthday. Take care
Great music, created by wonderful people. Continued by the same. Peace Milton out.
God is faithful...
Celebrate Your Mom's Birthday and Keep Smiling!!!
Just let grandie do what she want to do n love it
This song will never grow old and definitely should be played at all family gatherings..a classic♥️
Exactly
One of my favorite Black family anthems. ❤️
Truly a cultural classic!!
Black family reunions or gathering wouldn't be the same without this song. Family, Love, and fun.
💕
I agree and sister sledge
Canton, Ohio love, I’m from where they from!!
@@marcwalker6499here from Akron. We just celebrated our family reunion this wknd
Well said
Don't You wish We could go back to when this song was made? When everyone was happy, and having fun.
OMG! Absolutely
Absolutely
YESSSSSSS!!!!
YASSSS OMG!!🙌🏽🫂🙌🏽🤷🏾
Makes me soooo happy n sadd too!!🙏🏽❤️🤷🏾😝🥹
AT A FAMILY REUNION RIGHT NOW IN 2024 GOD BLESS 🙌 ALL MY FAMILY WHERE EVER YOU ARE
I cant LISTEN to this at work 😢tears just run down my eyes so heavily because i miss ALL my love ones
Hello My beautiful Family and Friends love Faith in Jesus 🙏 ❤️
I miss those days when this music was played
Every Black family reunion song played this at the Barbecue, Birthday parties etc.. New to some old to us we always loved this beautiful song ❤❤❤❤..
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Amen!!!! Love This Song, It Brings Back Great Memories Of Our Family Reunions ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This song never gets old, and played at every reunion ❤
Every single one.
And that's so true
I play it too at our family reunions.
this song is very important to me. it makes me think a lot of memory back in my days with my family that has passed away. God bless everyone who has lost someone. family reunion pays back a lot of memories
4:56 @@visionspeakconsulting
This song always always makes me feel happy and sad all at once 😂♥️
Me too
Me too ...my father has been gone a long time but this for some reason reminds me of him.
Most of my family are gone now so I'm waiting on a family reunion in heaven. The 60s - 90s were great decades to grow up or be a young adult. 💖
60s -90s were indeed our golden years. We had it all FAMILY, COMMUNITY, WORK, SCHOOLS, CHURCH, and HIGH HOPES
Your Family although Physical Not here are STILL with You and Us.
Tap into the proper frequencies and they will appear.
It's nothing like seeing a BLACK FAMILY come together...💕❤️🤗🙂👍💯
@@jonprue7364 yes yes true words spoken
And you'll be there..
Enjoy!!
Every time I hear this song it makes me wanna cry. They played it at my family reunion and I'll half of the people are gone
I'm 64 I grew up in the Bronx I always have my boombox on the stoop listening to the oldies and still listening I love it real deeply❤🌹💞💗🎉
❤❤❤❤
My song I listened to everyday when my daughter was in my wife’s stomach 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿Anticipating her arrival 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
May 31,2024 we will celebrate my Mother's 92nd Birthday. We have been so blessed to have her here with us . She still drives her car,❤😂LOL! GOD HAS SMILED ON WE😂❤😂
Happy birthday to your mom , what a blessing!!!!
Blessed Indeed ❤❤❤!!!
Happy birthday to your mother may God always bless her ❤❤
That s incredible that people that old can still do things like drive a car etc it just shows that age is just a number anybody can do anything at anything age
Nothing touches the heart and spirit like this classic. Try to get through the entire song without tearing up. I dare you. 💔🙏🏾✨️
Yesterday, I did not....
Yes!!! It touches the deepest part of my soul! It tears me up all the time💯❤️
I feel ya!
Only those who have SOULS
Amen
I love this song. Family is always important.
😀😁😂
Hey I feel you on that so true
In tears
Whether they're blood relatives or not what matters is how they love and care for but the main important thing is what's in their hearts that's where our true soul essence comes from
Yes it takes the family
Jesus I lost two sisters in nine months we gave a family reunion my brother Jr took a picture by me my whole family this song they played now he is no more but he is in my heart thank you
@DianaGuyton-xm7vt
Sorry for the losses of your two sisters and brother in such a short period of time. Please take comfort in one of God's many promises...With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” 5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also he says: “Write, for these words are faithful and true." - Revelation 21:3, 4
3:33 “Heaven knows it’s good to see youuuu” 🫶🏾
This song brings tears to my eyes,lost a lot of family members...love
This song is beyond beautiful, it's astoundingly legendary.
Family is everything.. it saddens me now that most families don’t see each other until a loved one has transitioned.. we’ve got to do better. 😢
@@princessrucker4966 This is so true!
The O'Jays Family Reunion is a song that always brings me to tears. I've loved this song since I was a teenager.
Now with my Mom fighting her struggles with Dementia, I,know how important family are and love and support to your ailing parent or family member. Thank you O'Jays.
WORD and there's all different groups at the family reunion but WE all be family even if you are not related you family that day,even white folks and WE could black panther party and Black people in America are the only ones who do that
Sure do miss Family Reunions...music playing, the older generation spitting knowledge and wisdom, and everyone dancing, someone always got some spades or dominoes, BBQ, yams, mac n cheese, kids acting up, memories being created...Soon
(Exactly)!! I remember them. much love to you!
@@easygoing6397 yes definitely!!!
Yes sure do miss those times but the ones that have the reunions are either to old now or deceased. The generations now just not in to it but it needs to be carried on so family can get to no one another 🤩👁️😂🥳🎉🥰😎💞🤗🖐️🎶
@@sandrareese15 Yes that's so true.
We need to start it back up
It's our job now to keep doing it! Time to grow all the way up now.
We have our family reunion on august 8 th 2024
Dedicated to my grandmother that is still alive !
This will be amazing
Wow mine is August 10 2024 I hope you have a blast 🎉
We are all brothers and sisters in Christ. 1 God 1 love 4 Everyone 4 Ever. Much Love Fam
There is nothing more important than your family and friends, gather on special occasion, with this song playing, singing, dancing eating all your favorite foods, remembering all those who have pass on.
That's right
Yes, we must do this. I am going to reach out to family that I have not seen in years. I want us to come together and meet each other again...I need that connection, we all do. Cook, laugh, cry, love....this is so important, I am praying for this.
Young people in 2021 listen and start living by this and show all our this what life about stop the foolish thing in the streets and become real men for the kids God bless us all Memphis
I"miss it & my ❤ is💔
I am 74 and believe me the meaning that song sends to the world is so true in everyone lifetime a family is the so have love for one another God has Memphis
This song makes me happy remembering our family gatherings at the parks every summer. Some times there'd be free performances at Fort Dupont Park. Loved those! And for the 4th of July/cookout we'd gather over one of their houses, a long long time ago. ❤ We had a super large family, and some of our close friends who felt like family always joined us😊 Now "most" of them have gone on to be with the Lord. So I cry and smile inside every time I hear this - remembering! Yall - enjoy your loved-ones now, even those that may be a little challenging. Make the most of their presence. Love on them, laugh, dance and hug them often. We did. A lot! Wish I'd / we'd done it even more. 😢
My feelings exactly....❤️
This made me cry man so true
This song makes me realize how sad when you start missing pieces of the puzzle and the worst feeling is being alone😢
Blessings
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
My mom's name is Ernestine Chappell and she'll be 84 on Sunday July 7 God gave her another chance to celebrate another birthday God is definitely good no doubt
@@williamchappell9858 Happy Birthday to your mom! That is truly a blessing! 🎂🎁🎈🎉
Happy birthday Ms . Ernestine, wishing you blessings for many more.
God bless her and you ❤❤
hope your mom had a wonderful birthday
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY 💐🎊🎉🎂
We just buried my oldest brother Saturday and our mother just two years ago. This song really hits home. Love your family because you never know when they’ll be gone 🙏🏿
True
@@michaelsweeney280
Exactly!
Very true!
U are so right
so sorry for your loss
Makes me reminisce about my family.
Nobody's left but me, my sister & 1 nephew!!!!!😭💔😭 (2023)
In today's world, ain't no more of any type of "Family Reunion"...I went to only 2 in my lifetime, the last one was August, 1979, in Toledo, OH, on daddy's side of the family! I played this record a few weeks ago, and a tear or 2 fell down my face, while listening to The O'Jays talk about "making plans... maybe next year..."! And, the world will be a much better place to live in!!
I always start crying when I hear this song thinking about all my family members that are no longer with me at this time.God bless them all..
Smh I wish I had a family with much love my circle is small I wish so much to have this ...but hey this is the life I was dealt I lost all my family 😢...there's just a few of us smh ....I just wish I could all of us together to gt a family reunion it's so special..maybe in my next life time
I won't lie. Everytime I listen to this and Eddie Levert hits the "Oooh Oooh Oooooooh Oooh Wooo", I lose it. Straight bawlin' my eyes out. This song reminds me of the family I love, but not close to.
It's unfortunate that we don't spend more time with family. We need one another to learn, grow and share love as it was designed by the creator. The young desperately need guidance from the elders. Miss the old days...
𝚁𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝
Singing from the deep depths of the soul .😎
The sun will always remind me of my mom and dad it was one of my dad's favorite song that he rest in peace everytime I hear it I Cry because this was his idea of what family is and that's how I feel some songs just make you cry because it gives you memories and not sad tears they're happy tears that's why I raised my children to have that type of love for each other family is everything Families First if you have a family that loves you you should be so lucky because not everyone does
DITTO
Going back home this weekend after being gone for a long time. My grandparents and parents passed away before I was nine years old. It’s going to be painful, but beautiful. I am a very strong man, but I can’t stop the tears from flowing. GOD is amazing, and that is a understatement
Wow!!!!! That's a very strong and emotional statement you just made there, but my Brother sometimes God allows certain things to happen in our lives because of a certain Journey he has for us or to reach a certain Blessing, but keep your hands in God's hands my Brother because he won't let you go astray because he loves you so much!!!!!!
Oh
Hope your doing well today brother.
HUGS!!!
@@dennismcfadden9842 woo thats beautiful love that f mike s
This song always makes me Emotional....I truly miss my Family!!!
Me too...5 sisters, 3 brothers, & both parents! 3 of us left!🥲🥲🥲💜🙏🏾✝️
Yes so do I! There was nothing like those good ol days when everybody was still here! RIP to everyone!
@@brendajones1226 RIP to your family members that passed. I miss my passed on loved ones too. I miss those good ol days when everyone was here.
Me Too i keep bursting out crying because ive lost alot of family members
I love this song
I was taught by my Mama that family is all we have to forgive and moved on 🥲 don’t wait until it to late 🥰❤️💞💜
I've love this song always about the grand partners
@@jessepender45 my mom was a bitch
Nah, my piece of mind is more important!!! ❤❤
To not forgive and move on? You okay?@@AnastasiaBeaverhousn
The O'Jays are one of the most classic Groups of all time.🎵🎶🎧🎤
🤣🤣🤣luv family
Love. Money
My mother and father play this music O'ay on Christmas why my mother cook on Christmas eve she will make macaroni potato salad collard greens fried chicken pig feet with a lot of hot sauce why my father play The O'Jays and have a little drink why the kids are in the bed and on Thanksgiving my aunt you to cook a lot of food and the house in Jamaica Queens 179 everybody died bro my father died when I was 8 years old and that was his song The O'Jays life is too short you're on a scary so we really got a whole lot and pray to God
Fact's
My Family was The Best To Me God how I Missed Mine A Very Very Lot I Had Beaty I Had Beautiful in My Life Thank God For Jesus
Yeah family is very important, it's really nice to see family, n it's not a funeral or anything sad but real fun and good times.
I agree! It's great to see family on good circumstances!
I always love this song
…and they don’t have to be blood
As I walk halfway down the staircase, look over at my Madea, it was a very cold 1976. I had lost my first child. Only 15yr old, little girl in the projects. But family everywhere, my uncle always had music, company and fun going on. The love. Madea would cook big pots of food. Lol. Miss these days. Live and learned
Girl you are so beautiful 🥰😍😘😇
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
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Very beautiful song! Johnny GO LAKERS
Miss my mother and grandparents.. .
Every time I hear this song it makes me cry because my family is gone and we had so much fun and love when we got together
The melody’s is so soothing makes you want cry , black people know how move a soul
I hope tears of joy for all the wonderful and happy moments you all shared together. Those moments live in your heart
GOD. LORD HAVE MERCY ON THOSE WHO ARE NOT FORTUNE ENOUGH TO HAVE A FAMILY. FAMILIES ARE VERY IMPORTANT. LISTEN TO THE LYRIC. THEN U WILL KNOW
Me too
Mines too i feel ya 100%
I dedicate this 2 my late grandma & my late grandpa.May u both R.I.H.😰😢😓😥
2o21 may17 it wonderful
Jj
Same both my grandparents are gone 😢
2o21 June 2o I'm sorry once again may God bless you amen
This song is very relevant for what's happening in our world right now. But I say to everyone love your family now.dont wait until they take their last breath we must understand people make the world go around.
Amen.God bless you and your family.
So true
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Real talk one of the biggest mistakes we as humans make is thinking we have time!!!
My mom is 88years old, she is my rock, this song makes really appreciate her.
This song played on “repeat” at my aunts funeral back in 2015. Makes me cry and smile all at the same time. MAN I LOOOOOVVVVEEEE THIS SONG. R.I.P Auntie
I feel you on the crys and smiles at the same time.
PUT IT ON BRUHHH.IM ON IT AND LOVE TEARS 😢
Music is like warm cinnamon buns coming from the oven. Makes us go back to our happy place our memories. May god provide u comfort.
God bless 🙏 u
I recall precisely where I was when this song (album) was released in 1975. It is as powerfil today as it was then. That's the definition of timeless.
No matter how many times I hear this song I cry wishing my daddy and mama was here
Me too Bro
Man, I know "...if grandpa was here, I know he'd smilin' from ear to ear; to see what he has done...on the offsprings of his daughters and sons"...sho' would be nice to see him again!!
I grew up listening to this song. My mom, dad, brother, and both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles gone😥
Family is very important. To spend time with one another. Family Reunion.
Beautiful, praise God, i love it's 😂❤
THIS SONG MOST DEFINITELY BRINGS A TEAR TO MY EYES EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT
We lost a big part of the family and everone started going there own way not careing about family and it wz a sad sith to see so now i have sacrifice myself for family i would rather have them all mad at me if it bring them together to talk about me cuz im doing it for the love of family because moma is turn over in her grave because they or fussin among each other and God will fix it believe that happy holidays to all
My mom passed this pass December'21...God! how I feel so empty without her. I listen to this song often and I think how nice it would be if my family would get together and I think about my Mom how she loved all of us together .
I'm praying for you and your family I lost my mom on Mother's Day 2004 I still cry all the time I'm crying now God bless you
My mom passed Mar 1, 2001 my heart broke the night she passed and love just seem to have gone ,until I started to remember the things she taught me about keeping family and good friends close God bless her for all she taught us
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I'm so very sorry. My mom recently died too GOD BLESS
My mother passed in 2018 i love this song.I know God is with us and love each other as family
That’s WHY IS SOO IMPORTANT FOR US TO TEACH OUR YOUNGER GENERATION TO INSTILL IN THEM THOSE VALUES THAT OUR PARENTS INSTILLED IN US!! PASS IT ON MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS !! Time flies !!!!
This song is so deep,and relevant. Definitely makes me miss my family!!!!
U right
This Is
LIFE! BLESSINGS & WORDS FROM GOD! ❤
Family are so important. Even though my Mom pass almost three months ago and my Dad passed three years ago it’s been rough, but this song reminds me of our family .
Love this song reminds me of the good old days living in the country
Yes
This is a beautiful song that you take your mind to any time in your life. You can laugh, you can cry. And then again you can just be satisfied
If we all as people could do what the O'Jays said in this song, the qorld wpuld be a great place.
I played this song on Thanksgiving. This year. This song makes you appreciate your loves ones and their lives ❤
We all have suffered so much loss . 2020 has been brutal !!! Appreciate what you have and who you have left .
We play it every year at our family reunion. The Darden Family Reunion held every Thanksgiving. Had to play it on zoom Thanksgiving 2020.
2o21 March 11PM maybe things will get better amen thank jesus
Love family so much
Play it when Im lonely missing love ones
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Bless everyone who has lost someone these last past years I know how it feels I pray for everyone
I love this song. In the times we living in today family SHOULD come together instead of dividing. Family is very important.
now you see what this song realy stands for
We no longer have family reunions since shortly before my mother passed. I do miss those days of togetherness. Times were so much simpler. RIP Momma and all my loved ones that have gone on.
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It's up to you now , to start anew. Get together and form a committee with those who are interested.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT "A FAMILY IS"!!!IF HUMANS CAN TREASURE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS A "FAMILY" LIFE WOULD HAVE A BETTER MEANING 🔥
This song transforms "THE OJAYS"one of the Best music group ever...just this song...they explain "THE FAMILY"👏
This song is VERY DEAR/CLOSE to me. My parents, grandparents, great grandparents and further back, are all apart of ME!
If you have any family let them know you love them because tomorrow is not promise to none of us especially what we going through in 2020 .
Amen
I absolutely know where you stand wow and my Heart goes out to you with much 💘
If u 25 and up
25 and up
That's so true
My daddy just died and this was one of his favorite songs
One of the greatest songs ever
This is my dad's most favorite song.. I miss him oh so much. I listen to this song when I want to hear his voice in my head, he sang this ALL the time. RIP Dad, I miss you 😢😊.
There's nothing so beautiful like getting together with the ones you love no matter how big or small it's the love that counts coming together 💕
AMEN!!!!! That was beautifully spoken of by you!!!!!
Victor & Evans
Family Reunion
A Whole Bunch of Us.
Amen!
What if they done you wrong over and over.
Rip mom n grandma i miss y'all so much
Boy this reminds me of the family reunions,fish frys,cookouts when everybody was still alive me,daddy,grandma sometimes I just look up at the sun and listen to this and think about everybody wish grandma was here.
Indeedy fam. We hitting it. And its groovy baby!!
@@rickygee9094 you are so right things aren’t what they use to be I remember when I was a young boy and my grandma would trow a Christmas party and everybody exchanged gifts every year she would plan the family reunion all that but when she died and family done went left it’s a mess we can’t agree with each other on the simples stuff.
@@ForyeaHLM damn!
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Family Is Everything!
Girl you are so beautiful 😇😘😍🥰
People that have families left , celebrate while you can !! Need to remember the good times !!
Teach what you can to the young so they can keep
The family going on for many years to come !!😊
This song always bring a tear to my eyes. Thinking about so many family members that have gone before us. May they rest in peace!!
Hopefully we can get back to family reunions. I will make sure I won't miss them .
You are so right Billy! I won't miss mine either. Covid has made me look at my family in a new light!! I miss all of them especially during the holidays!!
Happy new year
It reminds me of so many beautiful weekends at my Grandparents with relatives
I know exactly what you mean. Black families were so close back then. Your neighbors were family. The cookouts, basement parties.....What in the world happened? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Family is the key to our lives.
God Blessed Us, Grandma -Grandpa R.I.H. You Too Mommy R.I.P. Amen Testimony Thank You Jesus Amen.
My Mr. LaVert began to define the family such beautiful words. And then he started singing again. Beautiful voice. Beautiful voice.
Thanks for sharing this most loved song.Ain't nothing like FAMILY
This song makes me wanna say a little prayer thanks mighty O Jays.
I love this song. Brings tears to my eyes..
I would play this song every day
The genius of Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff! The Sound Of Philadelphia at its best! The mighty O'jays pumping it out! Back when the black family had it together! T.S.O.P. 4EVER!!!
Salute To Rudy And Judy l love And Miss Yall So Very Much RIL AND PEACE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
😢 a family reunion is not for someone to fight and argue or get together. that's what is all about some angel. love you all
This song means a lot to me cause of all the older people in my family who aren't here anymore but we carry on and keep God first
This song makes me cry and happy at the same time 😢😊❤