A lost 45 from October of 69. I was in my last year of HS. Life was special then. I was still a kid! This was a one hit wonder!
@bartleywalton1888
3 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest soul classics of 1969
@LyonsArcade
5 жыл бұрын
The genius of this lyric is very under rated. They work about 10 euphemisms into 1 song.
@lillizita
12 жыл бұрын
One of the funniest breakup songs ever. The sports metaphor was pure genius.
@janisbush230
2 жыл бұрын
Even better when he can't have all of me until SHE is gone!
@neicey2831
4 жыл бұрын
I used to sing the hell out of this when I was a kid 😂 I have an old soul
@robertthacher
Жыл бұрын
You must have been reincarnated!
@user-tr5ss8no2r
Ай бұрын
Me too 15 years old
@robertthacher2660
Жыл бұрын
From Fall of 69, this fun song was on my car radio in my senior year of HS. You have to be old to find something special about that!
@darnellwebb1671
7 жыл бұрын
Mel and Tim R&B 1969 what a great year for R&B music
@pavelusa3423
3 ай бұрын
Another song was by a lady..casanova
@kwillow12
8 жыл бұрын
Great song. I loved it when it came out, still do!
@carolynjones5330
7 жыл бұрын
I remember on Sundays my mom used to give me fifty cents to put in Church. of that fifty cents a quarter got put in the jukebox every Sunday, just to hear that song. I laugh every time I hear that song now. I'm sorry mom. they don't make that kind of music. ALL of the 70s. great music back then. miss it ever so much.
@ABlackCountryWoman
8 жыл бұрын
WHERE'D THE SOUL GO???? THIS is music!!!
@DLBlckwl
5 жыл бұрын
There was still plenty of Soul left in late 80s early 90s R&B. Check 'em out. Start with Keith Sweat and go from there.
@timmit3579
11 жыл бұрын
We gotta educate these "kids" about "old school" music!! I try to relate stuff l ike this to 'em, and they just look at me funny....!! This is the good stuff; not to be forgotten!!
@universallanguage59
Жыл бұрын
Just came across this post of this one, years after the fact. I think your point is well taken, I've gotten many of the same reactions from the younger set of music fans. I suppose maybe because it doesn't have more crude lyrics or the hip hop beat. Or maybe some of us are just showing our advanced age by appreciating good harmonies and well- constructed Pop R&B with actual drummers, bass players and horns, without digital machines. Hopefully the music world is large enough to appreciate all of it, though I suppose 'in the right place at the right time', might apply. Good stuff, as you say, here, indeed. Quite the catchy tune from the obscure Bamboo record label. Certainly illustrates how times have changed, methinks...
@timmit3579
Жыл бұрын
@@universallanguage59 Yep.
@universallanguage59
Жыл бұрын
@@timmit3579 Well, in this house, anyway, "we can't hardly sing, but we dance just as good as we walk" (or want, depending on who you ask)", or at least we think so...
@williammclean5040
Жыл бұрын
Yes! The Softtones!
@dinobrya2
5 жыл бұрын
They were discovered in Chicago but they are from Northern Mississippi.
@sauquoit13456
12 жыл бұрын
JUST MADE IT.... In 1969 "Backfield In Motion" peaked at No. 10 thus just making Billboard's Top 10 and it spent a total of 14 weeks in the Top Hot 100!!! Reached No. 3 on the Billboard's R&B chart...
@JohnBrown-nf7br
8 жыл бұрын
dancing with the computer , sad but true , awesome music
@donnanash8920
8 жыл бұрын
+John Brown Oh yeah.. with your backfield in motion ya gotta dance with a computer or whatever ya got there. Used to clean my house dancing with my broom to this a lot!!
@omarshabazz9610
8 жыл бұрын
This was real nice when it came out, I ran out and brought the lp. This was the good old days.
@calclack3517
7 жыл бұрын
I met Mel in Waikiki when myself and two other buddies flew over to the island to surf and have fun for a couple of weeks. Mel would party down with us on a nightly basis. He played this for us one night after we were pretty high on Maui Wowie, in 1967. He asked how we liked it. We said a lot, then commenced to smoke a few more zeppelins before calling it a night. Mel was a good guy.
@robertthacher-dv4kn
Жыл бұрын
A memory from my senior year. A fun song from the fall of 69. Came out in time for football season and was a big hit!
@valeriajackson1669
Жыл бұрын
Back in the day when people got along better and the music made you feel so good
@marilynfosseen1541
8 ай бұрын
I freakin' love this song.
@lindawelch1878
2 жыл бұрын
Love this song...the 60s was a great decade...glad I got to live it...
@robertthacher
Жыл бұрын
This was almost 1970
@knowmater
5 жыл бұрын
The first album I ever owned! Super nostalgia. Sweet harmonies!
@fabucat
12 жыл бұрын
Saw them on Soul Train when I was 12 years old, living in the 'burbs! Always love it and never forgot it!:)
@debbiecole9534
3 жыл бұрын
Great music. The 60 really had good music. Those were great times. 😊
@lillianwhite2011
7 жыл бұрын
GOOD memories, this song!!! Love listening to it--can just see the old 45 spinning 'round the turntable.
@nealcarver2446
9 жыл бұрын
Sweet northern soul
@choclochonclo
Жыл бұрын
Won a t shirt once for knowing this song at rock club back in 1983. This still one of favorites.
@SirNOSAJ
11 жыл бұрын
amen to this song
@gibby6904
6 жыл бұрын
I wore this 45 out when I was a kid! Great music....my generation was so fortunate to have so many amazing musical artists!
@jerryb19531953
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a white guy and motown was great music with some soul. Great dancing music too. Temptations, Four Tops, The Supremes. I grew up in the early 60's and Motown and Surfin music and the British invasion happening at the same time. Now that was music man.
@morrisman64-22
8 жыл бұрын
Bring back great memories thanks for the post
@1taliaoct
11 жыл бұрын
Good ole jams from back in the day!! Chicago jams to me!!
@bobnyswonger2978
8 жыл бұрын
Great bass line!
@louiesalinas4720
7 жыл бұрын
OH YEA GREAT!!!
@pamelastretton7394
9 жыл бұрын
Love, Love, Love this
@wendelladair127
7 жыл бұрын
Instead of Hank Jr., this should be Monday Night Football theme song
@jazzman688
4 жыл бұрын
LOL Barry Sanders highlight reel
@user-tr5ss8no2r
Ай бұрын
I had this 45 on akids turr table still the Best thank you
@moosic2i
2 жыл бұрын
Northern Soul, keep the faith!
@samuelgriffin9364
4 жыл бұрын
Backfield in Motion by Mel and Tim released in 1969 didn't have another hit until 1972 called Starting All Over Again
@smoothcandi1
10 жыл бұрын
Old skool forreal
@irisheyzgrl24murphy92
3 жыл бұрын
I love this song still. Reminds me of riding on the school bus and this always played on the radio. I was 12 and thought I was so grown up.
@DAS603
11 жыл бұрын
This song should be dedicated to National Football League.
@essesosaya4431
7 ай бұрын
What a cool song
@mariehmarieann
9 жыл бұрын
My favorite music.
@bartleywalton1888
4 жыл бұрын
One of my personal favorites.Gene Chandler produced the million seller
@jimteu3608
Жыл бұрын
This song is awssssssssssssome
@lindanorwood9678
3 жыл бұрын
Love, Love,Love, This Song To This Day.
@funone8716
4 жыл бұрын
Motown FOR EVER!!
@AljoniMusiCo
11 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, all R&B cover bands played this one!
@ColiGoreski-hh8kj
6 ай бұрын
Good song got it on cd💿
@faithistheonlyway
11 жыл бұрын
How can anybody not like this song?? It's one of the best :) Thanks for posting it!
@luismolina5252
11 жыл бұрын
now this is the stuff you need to get you started at leased it did back in the day
@tejaswoman
8 жыл бұрын
just quoted in an old episode of Hill Street Blues
@sierria64
7 жыл бұрын
my jam
@cathymoreno8711
3 жыл бұрын
One of my favs when i was a kid i had it on 45..
@Linda98671
12 жыл бұрын
YOU GET A GREAT BIG SHOUT OUT....AMEN FROM ME!!!! WE WERE HAPPIER THEN....GOD LOVE YA!!!
@FormerSaint80
11 жыл бұрын
The Roseanne Baar movie brought me here!
@archiecarrik3490
2 жыл бұрын
Memories
@richieroller67
13 жыл бұрын
Solid gold oldie , but goodie !
@franwellman5654
2 жыл бұрын
I love love this song!!!!
@gtelm
12 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking of this song and had to look it up. This got some airplay on the Top40 stations back then, I remember adults thought it scandalously suggestive. Thanks for the upload.
@MrSuperfrogy
12 жыл бұрын
This shout out is for.. ( GetWittl100 ) Thank you so much for the upload, its good people like you that keep music alive for us to enjoy and for that i say Bravo!! for all the work you have done for us to enjoy, you have class and style, God Bless, and please keep the music flowin.many thanks... Northern California.
@cynthia6637
12 жыл бұрын
Will ever get tired of dancing.... Never.... Fantastic If you can dance.... Dance.....
@jeschavjr451
6 жыл бұрын
Cynthia's Channel And if you can't dance. Dance anyway.
@jazeekat2
10 жыл бұрын
I sing this when I watch football lol
@KingCast65
5 жыл бұрын
WTF is wrong with 32 people? I remember this song when I was a yoot. Love it.
@hawsug4614
3 жыл бұрын
"Melvin McArthur Hardin" and "Hubert Timothy McPherson", back when gifted black men had real names.
@hollidayevery
11 жыл бұрын
I know Detroit and Chicago are geographically close to each other, but their sounds are different. This song is more of a Chicago production, being produced by one of the most famous of Chicago music, Gene Chandler!
@hollidayevery
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the rare information... I'm always fascinated by this kind of info!!!!
@lovelygivan1442
5 жыл бұрын
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!
@gjohn4235
11 жыл бұрын
Mel of Mel and Tim is a DJ in my cafe which Dejavu2 cafe in St. Louis Mo when he djing i put pic of him on the screen
@darnellwebb7609
4 жыл бұрын
Did a lot of dancing to this hit and frosty f inreeze hamburger standBroadway and imperial Los Angeles California 1969
@jeffroberts1455
3 жыл бұрын
Amen
@brownmajic48
10 жыл бұрын
St. Louis own!
@missuma2
12 жыл бұрын
Not to sound conceited, but since I got a lil "junk in my trunk" I think they wrote this about me ! This is one of my favorite oldie but goodies - thanks Mel & Tim and Getwitit100 !
@sheka216
13 жыл бұрын
now this is music
@samuelgriffin4167
Жыл бұрын
Song should be played at many family functions
@sprague49
12 жыл бұрын
Great, great record! I have it on both vinyl and CD. This sounds like the vinyl mix which is the best IMO. The CD has the piano mixed way up and the horns down.
The way the Lions are playing, they need to get their backfields in motion.
@francesmathews8396
3 жыл бұрын
Love it
@annetteb2432
8 жыл бұрын
Off side and holding. 💋
@TheAudivisioner
7 жыл бұрын
IF the front, center and side fields are in motion, ' THE BACKFIELD BETTER NOT BE LAYING DOWN ON THE JOB!!!!!!
@alanstrong55
9 ай бұрын
The dame got caught. Her loss. Now Mister is entitled to find another love. Time for Maria to take a letter and send it to Mrs. Dirty by Pronto mail. R. B. Greaves should not mind my borrowing that line from his song.
@joehall5896
5 жыл бұрын
This was a great song in topless bars,dancers could really work it,with their backfields inmmotion
@jeffroberts8636
8 жыл бұрын
Amen tara
@jeffroberts1455
3 жыл бұрын
Great taste niecey
@JimSowers
6 жыл бұрын
Dedicated to Garrison Keillor :-)
@armorybrunotjr.3204
3 жыл бұрын
Backfield In Motion Backfield in motion, yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you! Backfield in motion,baby, you know that's against the rules! Offsides and holding,yeah, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Baby. Offsides and holding,yeah,holding on to someone else! You know you're cheating,baby,faking the vow, You know you're balkin' baby, yeah, strike three, you're out! And I caught you with your backfield in motion. Yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you! Backfield in motion,baby,you know that's against the rules! First down! You've been cheating on me! Second down! I've been too kind, you see. Third down! You know I love you so. Fourth down! I gotta let you go because I caught you with your... Backfield in motion,yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you! Backfield in motion,baby, you know that'sagainst the rules! Now you will see just I how I felt, You better believe it baby. You beat to me to the punch honey, but you hit me below the belt! And I caught you with your backfield in motion,yeah. I'm gonna have to penalize you! Backfield in motion, you know that's against the rules!
@kevinharrissr5255
7 жыл бұрын
I caught cha girly. oh yea
@QuaaludeCharlie
9 жыл бұрын
it's Mel & Tim :) QC
@QuaaludeCharlie
9 жыл бұрын
He he he he :) QC
@whocares4thekids
12 жыл бұрын
@wasteofspace20 I know...nostalgia is dangerous. Hard to believe - but things have only gotten BETTER since those times. Do we need to make progress - OF COURSE! But to forget how unfair, cruel, and nasty things were in the 60's just because you hear an upbeat song (not happy, btw, the song is about a woman cheating) is naive.
@justinhall5425
5 ай бұрын
After all the years are listening to this song I just now realized it was about sex😂😂
@southcoastmod
12 жыл бұрын
Anybody got the Anthony Swete version? I've not seen or heard it since I sold my collection 30+ years ago.
@kalosglamour2409
2 жыл бұрын
Urban Meyer says hi.
@vickipetrotta8167
10 жыл бұрын
dated their band cousin drummer, very genious creativity,
@001GenLee
9 жыл бұрын
Wow! Lucky you!
@ChinaSukaNolan
12 жыл бұрын
Deep down dusty for all the old steppers in the house!
@sljunkie57
13 жыл бұрын
AMEN N DA HOUSE
@universallanguage59
Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed, certainly a classic, and the double-entendre lyrics seem awfully tame compared to modern day 'parental advisory' tunes, methinks... and one of the best 'one-hit wonders' from CKLW, at that time, the folks in this old house have agreed....
@samuelgriffin9364
4 жыл бұрын
Mel and Tim had more hits besides the two I knew
@RaiderVidz
12 жыл бұрын
@avia1541...LMBO and I so agree!
@gtrgod65
11 жыл бұрын
talk about the lou yes stl and mel and tim
@kriskarlton4051
10 жыл бұрын
She wasn't kicking back to da house...ask king salmon
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