Bobby Caldwell, What You Won't Do for Love, San Francisco Ca. June 2009
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2009
- Bobby Caldwell performs his Classic Hit " What You won't do for Love" live at The Rrazz Room in San Francisco's Hotel Nikko. Bobby still has that majic and just gets better with age.
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Singer and songwriter Bobby Caldwell, the man behind the 1978 platinum hit "What You Won't Do For Love," has died on March 15, 2023 at age 71, his wife Mary confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
He was a world class songwriter who also happened to possess the kind of mellifluous voice that made him soul music royalty. Today we say a sad goodbye to legendary singer and songwriter Bobby Caldwell, a four decade star best known for his now-iconic hit "What You Won't Do For Love."
I'm so sorry to hear about Bobby Caldwell's death. Although he's gone from this world, he will never be forgotten. May he 😪😪rest in peace.
Love this! I bought your 45 back in 1983 for my girlfriend and now she my wife!
What an intro to his monster hit. Saw Bobby perform this on the Soul Train Awards 2013 show. He still has the magic and needs to get the wide recognition he so richly deserves!
I agree........
Your totally right, one the greatest artists from America in my opinion..
Yes he is. He is not only Smooth Jazz - I hear a Fabulous Blues Groove and I want to hear more. ......as in 'Lilac Wine', 'Someone to watch over me' and others by Gershwin.
Lanette Suggs Do you know ''I dont want to lose your love '' from Bobby? You shoud look it up.. That's song is one of my favorites of him.. Especially after a hard day at work, or when you just need some soulfood..
+marknorthwest93 Do you know ''I dont want to lose your love '' from Bobby? You shoud look it up.. That's song is one of my favorites of him.. Especially after a hard day at work, or when you just need some soulfood..
Fascinating voice. Almost a bass when speaking but seemingly effortless access to a silky-smooth, ultra controlled high register.
+GunBug Bit yes
Very true!
What a voice....!
SO DAMN COOL to hear Bobby Caldwell singing his iconic song, such a fantastic voice, and this hipped out arrangement, really living and breathing, developing and morphing, showing a totally different perspective that only maturity can bring.
He still got it :)
Perfection....damn you goosebumps !
What greatness this man gave the R & B jazz world with this one of a kind masterpiece. Today he left us & I have played every version of this song nonstop today. This recording is a prize I never before caught. Thank you.
LOVE this song!!!! Had no idea he is "vanilla"! :o)
Babe wtf
"Vanilla" got soul. You ought to see him live. Good stuff.
Blue eyed soul at it's best baby you better believe it
This is so fucking groovey it's rediculous! The soul just eminates. Happy dayz..
Forgot to mention Bobby's guitar player really does a great job on this great song.. In this solo he reminds me of the great Wes Montgomery from my state of Indiana!...
Great guitar octaves!!!! 🎸
GREAT Guitar player!
Michael Jordan killed it on the guitar
I almost spit out my in n out burger reading this 😂
🤣🤣
So good to see him enjoying his retirement
Yes he did..but that’s not his name!
Norman brown on the guitar❤❤
Bobby is the best! I love his voice!
@**jeans: Yep. It's a master class for upcoming crooners. And indeed..this is how timeless music is made.
What you won't do for love, like Bobby Caldwell is such a classic. Bobby Caldwell's live performances always generate excitement, so the whistling & noise is just a given. The man is just phenomenal.........
Thank you so much for posting! Exciting …even watching on utube!! Wish I could have been there!
He sounds amazing.
ha that's another great great song in your name!
brilliant piece , so versatile . Bobby and his music lives for the rest of time .
When you say "piece" are you talking about his toupee? He is awesome, & this song is timeless.
Cool..... such a beautiful song and love his messing around...... ;)
Maxine Elizabeth I agree and thank you for this live version... Bobby is awesome, what a voice!...One of the greatest, most moving songs, ever!... First heard it on the radio in 78 or 79, Ican't remember and ran right out to buy it and still have the LP..! The song moves me, I can't explain it and still one of my all time favorites!...
Yes ..I agree! Moves me like none other!
Love you, Bobby! Always will.....! Your sensual voice, sense of humor, and your beautiful smile! Always look like you're having a great time. You gave me a look out side the world of RnR and I got the message! Thank You, Sweetie!
Maybe Bobby will have that 2nd BIG hit before too much longer.....never know! I'm surrounded by some of the greatest songwriters in the world.....Muscle Shoals, AL & Nashville TN. I'm always keeping an eye out for something that will suit all the great things he has to offer! ........and will continue to do so!
Lanette Suggs He's written hits for other singers.....Boz Scaggs...Al Jureau....etc...
You're exactly right! In fact 'Heart Of MIne' is one of my very favorites that Boz did! And so many others...but as it remains for me....Bobby does his own tunes better than all the others put in one!
Lanette Suggs YUUUUUUUP
Luv luv bobby great song
Wow superstar 🤩🤩🤩 Yacht Rock
Sounds great! Still!
In the 🌍🌎🌏🙏
Enormous talent
Music's favorite black white guy
Thank you for posting! This is exciting to watch …even on utube! Wish I could have been there!
Actually, this one of the most Exciting Vids I’ve seen……Thank you again!
Bravo!!!! Bobby! You got dude!👏🏼👑🔥🎶🎵🎸🎷🎺🥁🎹
Wonderfully well-written song, nice performance too!
This is THE shit, right here!! Pay close attention kiddies, this is how it's done!!
I'm so excited to be seeing him in August this close up at Ramshead Onstage in Annapolis, MD!!
Oh Bobby is a class act!!!!! Thanks for posting this video from 2009; I only saw him once live in San Diego at one of the jazz festivals we would have in the Gaslamp District, around 1997 or so, anyway, he sounded perfect then and he does now, listen youngsters to a class act with a class voice, & yes, he is funny, too!!!!! Thanks for posting once again, I appreciate it, MaxineElizabeth1
Smooth as silk. Hey bobby let varinia know if you need background singer. I don't sing I sang
phlebocpt1@gmail.com
Bobby Caldwell is a class act fam!
@Maxi! Golden stuff. BC *still* has mad chops--ageless. Thanks for sharing a gem.
He put on a good show for those black ladies they were really happy lol
Especially THIS one.😉
@@Jabberwalky42 I get the feeling that there's a story behind this comment.
Why single out the “Black ladies”? I see other colors of people too….I’m not Black, but I love it also! Wish I could have been there!
The original catfish 😭😭😭 amazing❤️
Thank You for posting this 😉
Very Boz Scaggs-like. Soulful, smooth.
Bobby is the better, more musical singer, by a long shot.
3:09 - 3:14 effortlessly lol!
NO HORNS ???? WOW!
😢
Despite that the fact that (see below) most of you probably know this tune from what I call disco stations; you may be surprised to hear that the first time I ever heard this tune was performed live at a concert I recorded at the Santa Monica Civic (but I don't sell i.e. bootleg my tapes) played by a band called "Reconstruction". So firstly in light of what I just said does anyone know exactly when in 2009-6-? this was recorded? Thanks a lot!
That band "Reconstruction" got its name rather from the post-Civil War instead from the reunion of indeed black and white folks in the band namely; principally the late Merl Sauders (black) on keyboards and Jerry Garcia (white of Grateful Dead fame) on guitar and Jerry's usual bass player the late John Kahn (white) who played with him in almost all of his non-Grateful Dead bands (except the earliest ones, one of the last of which was from where he previously played with Saunders and the partial reunion of one of his earliest bluegrass ensembles). This band (which only played over the course of the year 1979) also included a black drummer, a white trombonist, and a black sax player Ron Stallings who also was the one who sang this tune! Hence, mistakenly for some time I thought it was composed by him.
However even though I eventually elsewhere learned I was as I just said, mistaken (as I'm always happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) as well as another somewhere else indeed, did I learn not only that is it also co-written by Alfons Kettner; moreover intriguingly that Bobby Caldwell interestingly can play a little bit of guitar, which makes me have a little bit more respect for him than I do for folks who can't or even if they can play some instrument, but don't on stage. Which is for one thing (see below near the end) despite Michael's lack of instrumentalism, at least with some of the them, why I went to see the Jacksons in concert! (Well I hope I'm not damned but wow, he actually does for this performance actually play a bit of keyboard and maybe on other tunes as well?) (Meaning like here in relatively recent performances with his own band as opposed to as I'm about to describe.) To my shock this does not include his very earliest days when he played drums including on, as I had forgotten, given as they are in my vinyl collection which is presently in storage not remembering his name in terms of the first one mentioned ahead until I was reminded, thanks to another video posted here for which again to my amazement, and by which I must in all fairness retract some of what I wrote in terms of what it seemed at first was his apparent lack, and then only little bit (as I said above) of instrumentalism; that is for his early primary role as principal drummer and later as backup percussionist (F.E. at the end of this sentence below) which then came back to mind yet I as I just said still for the other don't recall even though I have both them namely; Johnny Winter And "Live" and The Allman Brothers Band (a band that if you don't already know had already without him two principal drummers) "Live at the Fillmore East" which if you don't already know, are very legendary to say the least!)
Yet since I try to, (for which I know you'll be shocked despite as I am for most other things not such a snob, but when it comes to good or in this case, bad music I admit I tend to be a bit offensive but in any case, remember as is written at the very end below), if it's up to me which obviously often times it's not, avoid listening to disco in that I'm sorry but much of which, yet not all that is played on those disco type stations or the somewhat more tolerable so-called "Smooth" (my rear end) to which I refer as fake pseudo-jazz stations (such as Stevie Wonder (a genius) whom I've seen live more than once and a bit of "Earth Wind and Fire" (for the same reasons I stated in regards to the Jacksons) and likewise Ray Charles etc. neither of which by the way, do I consider derogatorily as disco) otherwise as far as I'm concerned for the most part sucks! Especially the male falsetto (a term from opera (which I also mostly but again not all, hate)) singing, like for example the late Michael Jackson even though I saw the Jackson 5 on their last tour at the L.A. Coliseum in the early '90's(?), (you probably remember when, better than I).
Most importantly, as Duke Ellington said "There's only two kinds of music good and bad"!
Augy,
San Diego
+yguaray 1978 written and recorded by Bobby Caldwell, Billboard #1 hit, voted best new black artist 1979. Etch, etc
There is still black artist awards. Check it out on UA-cam.look up bet music awards 2013.bobby sang got a standing ovation.
That`s a song for when idy one day they will play that right after ``HAPPY DAY`` never new the name of the author of heard this one just before going to bed . I was 14 almost...
pas mal je veux en savoir plus....
Makaveli lives on...
In this performance was he intentionally trying to sound whiter? Love the original tho.
he created a different arrangement years later which he performed sometimes...still as soulful and no, not trying to .
sound "whiter" This performance was at a club none for jazz, broadway and soul....
Dude is a black man in a white man body when sings.
✌🏾
he invited to the bbq right?
He looks weird there
He has to be damn near 80 years old time didn't stop in the 70's we all will change🤦🏽♀️
Your going to get old too, when you do, do you want ppl thinking these things about you?
Nothing wrong with way he looks to me!