This song and Marvin's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" are by far two of the best songs to come out of Motown in the '70's.
@bigdaddykp1108
4 жыл бұрын
you are white....who cares what you think trump supporter!
@EphemeralProductions
4 жыл бұрын
K P : i know many white people who are NOT trump supporters
@dinorockwell7670
8 ай бұрын
I was born in 1960. Came up in Taylor dive Chicago. Shot, beat, cut, just enough for Chicago.
@susanh63
8 жыл бұрын
He sang the truth for most black Americans who were living just enough to keep a roof, food, clothes, and love in their homes. This was a time when every black person were brothers and sistas. Where are they today?! Strangely enough I miss those days when life was hard but good at the same time. We honored one another the Church was respected along with our elders. Living just enough kept the community together. Thanks Stevie for such a true message.
@iTroyful
7 жыл бұрын
I agree although God blessed my family, we have always been upper middle class, financially secure, my friends thought I was rich,lol. In my mind I thought everyone lived as my family, shopped when ever we wanted, utilities paid in full, no arrangements or payment plans, wonderful holidays, traveling all over the country,etc. It was this record that humbled me so much, I went to Spelman, had the privilege of meeting a young lady that was dirt poor. Her FAM was super poor, she invited me to her home for dinner, I went but I didn't eat BC it wasn't enuff food for the others. After visiting her home I thanked God for everything that nite,lol.It was 14 ppl living in a 2 bedroom house, one level. lt blew my mind,it was shocking.I resided in a 5bedroom home, large back yard filled w/nice expensive furniture & appliances. I never wanted for nothing.After visiting my roommate home I decided to save some of my extra shopping cash and I mailed it to her mom anonymously. Her FAM wasn't trifling they were just poor, I mailed money to them&began to mail my gently worn clothes as well. My point is we must learn to help each other, if everyone in our community tried to help 1 person, our entire community would benefit from it.
@susanh63
7 жыл бұрын
Troy Katzenberg Praise God that you saw a need and did something and asked for no recognition plus you saw that not everyone comes from the same back ground but all want the same thing which is to live and provide for their loved ones. You are so true about coming together and lifting each other up rather through finances gently warm clothes a hot meal or shelter and especially love and respect topped off with much prayer because the prayers of the righteous goes all across the world and God will honor our prayers and go in places we don't get to see. May God bless you and your family
@tracydukeplump
7 жыл бұрын
Troy Katzenberg 11 God bless you
@susanh63
7 жыл бұрын
tracydukeplump Bless you also.😊
@melloLL4722
7 жыл бұрын
I'm happy she was not living 'Just Enough for The City'..Wow what an humbling eye opener, thanks for caring.. and sharing your story.
@archy2frank2
8 жыл бұрын
Song still so relevant.
@flyinspirals
8 жыл бұрын
The games are different (worse) the suffering is the same or greater.
@kimilaadubois9416
6 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@kddavis5492
3 жыл бұрын
Even more so in 2021
@Haywerth
14 жыл бұрын
I was only maybe 6 or 7 years old and I remember watching my dad listen to this song with so much passion. I'd always ask what the song was about because I didn't understand. And he'd always say that he was working to make sure I never had to worry about that. Love you, dad!
@popomatic1970
15 жыл бұрын
Stevie Wonder has been keeping it real for 40 years. The man is a musical genius we should never take for granted.
@peterross1666
9 жыл бұрын
Her clothes are old, but never are they dirty. Time changes nothing. 40 years ! !
@Our_Sole_Pusch
10 жыл бұрын
The word is thrown around an awful lot today, due to a lack of imagination or whatever but Stevie really is a musical genius.
@Davett53
9 ай бұрын
I'm 70! & retired.....in 1973,.....I was in college. Shocked I'm still alive. Weed is legal half of the states in USA. Wow.
@chination1796
7 жыл бұрын
This song always remind me of growing up in Chicago's Cabrini Green projects back in the day cause I heard this song a lot on the radio back then
@davisdavis468
6 жыл бұрын
Like legit Good Times shit bro? I wanna interview you
@cherrylynn7173
9 жыл бұрын
This is music that feeds my soul! The older I get the more I love music with meaning and purpose. I couldn't hear Stevie when I was younger but now I'm listening to him all the time. One of my favorite artists of all time
@chriswalker6208
12 жыл бұрын
I wish this generation would listen to Stevie Wonder. People my age would open their eyes.
@misstra_knowitall
4 ай бұрын
I know this comment was made 11 years ago, but I agree with this. I'm a teenager and I listen to Stevie Wonder all the time, and I think kids my age would probably enjoy it.
@ArthurMrgan
3 ай бұрын
@@misstra_knowitallSame. Makes me sick people would rather listen to Nicki Minaj.
@skellymom
10 жыл бұрын
Remember listening to this when I was young growing up in Detroit. The songs story might have been in Mississippi, but could have fit in my city, Philly, NY or any other. Loved listening to Stevie while growing up.
@ammarnapata2193
10 жыл бұрын
41 years later, still the same.
@Anglynn74
4 жыл бұрын
I was born months before Nixon resigned, too young to remember it, but old enough to remember the late 70s
@sonyaransom56
13 жыл бұрын
THIS SONG GOES OUT TO EVERYONE IN A STRUGGLE (GOD BLESS.) STEVIE IS A LEGEND .... HE STILL HAS IT GOING ON RIGHT NOW TODAY .... LOVE YOU STEVIE.
@selenawilliams2219
9 жыл бұрын
I adore Stevie Wonder!!! One of the greatest!!!
@aldershot5100
10 жыл бұрын
This video should be used for the history of Americana
@rufusleakin163
9 жыл бұрын
I'm from Hard Time, Mississippi. I can relate!
@KamDoggyDog187
15 жыл бұрын
I've never heard this before but I gotta say this is fantastic!!you can't compare todays music with masterpieces like this!!
@dinorockwell7670
8 ай бұрын
Check out Stevie.
@anonymousinternetcowardmcq4967
7 жыл бұрын
his parents give him love and affection to keep him strong and moving in the right direction
@philbradmore8798
4 жыл бұрын
Happy 70th Stevie. Legend.
@wmorris3484
8 жыл бұрын
"If we don't change the world will just be over"
@twistedlogic182
7 жыл бұрын
W Morris soon*
@wendiawheeler1111
11 жыл бұрын
real music with thought-provoking lyrics--- something SORELY lacking in "music" today!
@jasonwhite7452
4 жыл бұрын
You know I can honestly hear where Prince got a lot of his inspiration from! I know everyone thinks it’s James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone But I hear Stevie in a lot of his work!
@prpapas
4 ай бұрын
A true genius, in his prime. Just so good...
@patszer8314
4 жыл бұрын
God Bless Stevie Wonder. What a genius!
@nicolelecompte2420
7 жыл бұрын
I can never be more grateful for Stevie Wonder! !! xoxo
@barrysrutherford
16 жыл бұрын
Brilliant brings back great memories of 1972 !
@Olinolan190
15 жыл бұрын
I love Stevie Wonder, because what he can do with no eyes, many bands with 5 members and individual instruments cant beat. Long Live Stevie!!
@jerichoe
15 жыл бұрын
This song crosses all barriers of color, plight and time. It's just a beautiful song....PERIOD.
@nykola1234
10 жыл бұрын
Wow, love Stevie. adore this man and his music.
@nykola1234
10 жыл бұрын
love, love, love this. x
@isidorembianda7504
6 ай бұрын
Tears just rolled down my cheeks....music died...thanks to all my legends and pioneers...Donny Hathaway, Stevie,Herbie Hancock, Marvin Gaye, etc.....resonates
@lilgorgor
Жыл бұрын
It's my favorite Stevie Wonder song. My heart squeezes when I hear it. Pain, strain, climbing, and stumbling when the road is steep and rocky. And maybe, just maybe, you leave the path easier to walk for whoever comes behind you.
@jordanhunt4867
7 ай бұрын
Oh, the song, the era, the trends, makes me wanna cry with nostalgia (even though I was born in the 90s), if I had lived through the 70s, then I think I would shed a tear or two, you just don't get things like this anymore, so sad
@007roller
13 жыл бұрын
This song has power. We city people can feel it.
@dinorockwell7670
8 ай бұрын
My Chicago feet to street mantra. Sliced, beat, shot, wrongly incarcerated...63, I'm still here. Can't okeedoke this MFer
@darktownlight2
8 жыл бұрын
Very relevant!
@RXRXRXDB
10 жыл бұрын
oh my god my parents used to play this in the house when they were cooking or cleaning. i still remember my dad singing this off beat. Such a fantastic track.
@7USARMoorish
9 жыл бұрын
wow I could remember this song be played in new orleans on wyld 98.5 fm and I was 3yrs old in 1973
These motown capsules are incredibly well put together, totally awesone
@harolettedepriest3791
7 жыл бұрын
Still living just enough for the City(2017)...
@NupeWD1993
9 жыл бұрын
The depth of Stevie Wonder's music is INCREDIBLE!!! Music today pales in comparison to masterpieces such as this!
@mkl62
12 жыл бұрын
Another #1 hit for Stevie Wonder on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 281st #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It was the last #1 R&B song of 1973 and first of 1974.
@tomgebarowski8156
Жыл бұрын
This song proved Stevie Wonder was more than just your average pop Motown act. It's gritty urban style & message was timely r&b for the troubled times in this country coming out of the tumultuous 1960's. His early 1970's albums raised public consciousness & gave us all a reality check. Plus the songs were just really cool and fun to sing and dance along to.
@bbe388
8 жыл бұрын
we still living just enough for the city... Happy Birthday from Memphis,TN #Icon
@rjjcms1
8 жыл бұрын
True.
@ITILII
3 жыл бұрын
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, the 2 greatest all around musical talents of the 20th century
@rikthomas2489
12 жыл бұрын
definitely a man of his era-----what a fuckin musical genius, listened to hours and hours of his music!!!!!!!
@ayndowney9401
2 жыл бұрын
No truer words have wrung out for the entire 🌎 world!
@gasparyanga3580
11 жыл бұрын
2013, this song and video shows how much we are regressing, Lord have mercy on our souls.
@Jackknuckleson
16 жыл бұрын
Damn! I love this song. To me it is Stevie's best song. Living just enough just enough for the CiTaaayyy!
@katg7965
5 жыл бұрын
Michael Jackson called Stevie a musical prophet. I love that. So true.
@musicchick1717
9 жыл бұрын
Never knew it had a video?! Love this song listening to it growing up in Compton. Especially on the long version.
@musicchick1717
9 жыл бұрын
Haha , I miss those days. Especially in the summer nights!
@bertielis
15 жыл бұрын
You know, I get the feeling not much has change since Stevie wrote this. Now ain't that sad now we're living in the 21st century.
@tammytoon4344
9 жыл бұрын
This Is one Of My Favorite Stevie wonder Jams! Kinda reminds me of jungle Fever. Just Enough For the City Sangggggggggggggggggggggggg! stevie. 3/16/15.
@ant1595
14 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS SONG!! i was in a serious good song mood until 2:02 then i had to burst out in laughter LOL
@EphemeralProductions
10 ай бұрын
Me too! lol. Too funny
@guitfreaker
15 жыл бұрын
70's GoGetAhh!i understand your situation.been out 7months myself!have heart and survive.remember to keep a stevie song in your head.seems to fill me with hope.that's the power of stevies music!!
@chibi1chi1chi
13 жыл бұрын
This song is real unlike so many songs we have now. It used to scare my sister and I (the one w commentary in middle) when we were little, it makes you realize how things sometimes work in this world. But that's what I like about it
@DannyEastes
14 жыл бұрын
I was in a performance of this at a school concert before. it felt amazing playing the synth solo part. i love stevie!
@MasterEd68
11 жыл бұрын
great music never gets old
@randallblakely3566
12 жыл бұрын
Stevie Wonder is nothing short of brilliant and always will be......
@animfan1100
13 жыл бұрын
September 11, 2011 was the first time I heard "Living For The City" on the radio during the Super 70's Weekend on K-earth 101.
@TomBoston191
14 жыл бұрын
Stevie has TONS of great songs, but this one is the best. Other people shouldn't even bother trying to cover it. This is Stevie's, and Stevie's alone.
@Tiberius291
3 жыл бұрын
A watermelon relay race, i don't think that would fly in today's climate ( 2021 ) 🍉 A great song by Mr. Wonder.
@TempeSoldier123
11 жыл бұрын
I was born i 1972 so all this great music and great times were when I was too young to know or remember it.
@dinorockwell7670
8 ай бұрын
Aint nothing but the city. Stop giving just enough for the city! Its not just a song!!!
@Momoarienai4
14 жыл бұрын
This song has THE best bridge in the entire world.
@TheThutt1
13 жыл бұрын
I remember this time, it was hard for everyone back then. It was like the world changed for us
@Gitsie007
13 жыл бұрын
Fantastic song and it is timeless. It certainly applies today as well.
@oolongoolong789
2 ай бұрын
Gritty song. Classic.
@tastylove53
11 жыл бұрын
This Song Is 40 Years old Hot Dam! This Was The Jam Back In The Day go Head Stevie. 11/17/13.
@GoGetAhh
15 жыл бұрын
Thank you cctaximan for posting this. I'm black female, educated + work experience....+ I'm a SUPER single parent (ALWAYS have been)...not even any family support. The unemployment rate just hit 10.4% where I live (& yes it's a BIG city that's SUPPOSED TO BE "the promised land" type of thing...used to make $31.00/hr...my last job at a toy store I made $8/hr & haven't found ANY job yet fo the past several months. Originally from the ss 4 real hard part of Chicago but grew up in suburbia in the...
@YorkieLad
14 жыл бұрын
it amazes me how this song was made in 1973 and the lyrics are so true today 2010 has they was then.boy we come along way .what a screwed up world
@Peoria3165
13 жыл бұрын
This is Stevie goin' street! Love this one! "Livin' just enough...just enough for the City!"
@waltd.952
7 жыл бұрын
AMEN BROTHER! This is timeless!
@aldershot5100
11 жыл бұрын
What a record and the earliest I heard a synthesiser
@mims1221
11 жыл бұрын
i'm 18 and grew up on this stuff thanks to my mum's love for it... if you don't want the younger generations to grow up without great music then pass it on!
@19JAKEtheSNAKE99
11 жыл бұрын
I'm lucky that Stevie was my dads favorite musician. I'm 13 and I grew up on this stuff :)
@sandybryson1211
2 жыл бұрын
As a 60's Kid, I have listened to this songs more times than I can possibly count. In my 60 Years I have come to Believe that the 70's Was one of the Greatest Generations of Musicians in Music History. I am not taking anything from Previous Musicians or Groups but there is just something Special about 70's Music I can't explain. While many of the Songs had Great Meaning such as this one, I have said Many Times, I could listen to the Music without Lyrics, This Era of Music was just Moving.....It just makes you want to get up and Dance.Thanks so Much to Stevie Wonder and ALL the Musicians involved in creating this Song.....Absolute Geniuses.....All of Them. Thanks CCTAXIMAN for Bringing it to us on KZitem.
@TheJogo75
11 жыл бұрын
This is an old-school, jammin, bad-ass jam!!!!!
@barrjail
14 жыл бұрын
i love it when they played this in jungle fever when wesley snipes was walkin lookin for gator and alll the clockers and pushers and stick up kids were hollerin at him. that was classic shit there.
@josette4231
12 жыл бұрын
I had the key of life in a cassette. I loved it. I must get it in the c.d.
@coffeemonster84
14 жыл бұрын
love stevie saw him in hyde park this year WHAT A F****** LEGEND love this vid the bit at 4.01 cracks me up everytime!!!
@dpat2004
15 жыл бұрын
Stevie is a pure genius. Nuff said.
@Fordie47
3 жыл бұрын
6 million years ago: I just heard this new album from Stevie Wonder and it's way, way, way ahead of its time!
@DoctorOrion1
12 жыл бұрын
The woman dropping down in the "puddle" was hilarious. Brilliant!
@Ambitiousstar
13 жыл бұрын
Um who could ever not like this?????!!
@danielmchale9793
2 жыл бұрын
the video and song perfect together. 1973
@HebbleTyson
12 жыл бұрын
I love Stevie--he is without a peer, unique. But I also love James Durbin's version of Stevie's "Living For The City" on Idol last year. Just wonderful! But Stevie is Stevie. There ain't no one like him.
@ingot77
12 жыл бұрын
When I made this film back in '86, I tried to capture editorial spirit of Stevie Wonder's comment on the early 70's. Alas, it seems as pertinent today as it was then.
@cawttu
14 жыл бұрын
I thought things would get better, but they only got worse. I bet we are living 70's standards 40 yrs later! grrrrrrr....do love this song though
@katefryer4663
12 жыл бұрын
If you don't like this song don't listen to it!!! ABSOLTELY AMAZING SONG!!!
@roamlikekane
16 жыл бұрын
God Bless Martin Luther King Jr. and all his work that he had done for civil rights. God bless Stevie Wonder for making such a politically astute statement with this great song. This video is amazing.
@rondeco30
12 жыл бұрын
Wow New York , just like I pictured it ... skyscrapers 'n'everything !
@retrogamelord3763
6 жыл бұрын
LIVING IN THE CITY
@alexirabone
14 жыл бұрын
This is THE GREATEST SONG EVER!!!!!!
@surgey74
13 жыл бұрын
this song is so underrated!!!
@musiclover59
16 жыл бұрын
You are so right to say these are his three greatest albums -- even greater than Songs in the Key of Life, which was pretty terrific.
@Wiseguy453
10 жыл бұрын
This is a really good song as there is a lot of soul in it. I heard this playing during Jungle Fever when Flipper went to the Taj Mahal to find his brother, Gator.
@wmorris3484
8 жыл бұрын
Try the 7.23 version. It's the real deal! The police and the system has not changed
@sean311973
12 жыл бұрын
Damn this was the era when there was something to fight for. All we have now is Occupy Wall Street.
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