Bill Withers "Lovely Day" C/D

I still prefer "Use me", though.

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if you already have it buy another copy.

it does not have "Lovely Day" on it.

there's one on "hope she'll be happier" on that live CD that may well be longer and even more stunning.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE KEYBOARDSD ON THERE. It was Horns, strings and pianos.

The S.O.U.L. System, a Clivilles & Cole side project that was supposed to keep their hold in the pop market while they worked on a second C & C Music Factory album. It did not achieve said goal.

Easy now!

Let me see you move!
(Left & right!)

Groove!
(With your might!)

'CAUSE MUSIC IS MY LIFE!

I'm going to hell now, aren't I? But seriously, poor David Cole. Bill Withers can cure a broken heart (true!), but some ills cannot be fixed by music alone.

That is indeed what killed him. Definitely sad. C & C get a lot of revisionist drubbing, but there was a time when they owned house music.

p.s. i still fucking love the song

With featured vocals from Michelle Visage, who later became RuPaul's co-host on VH1. I have to admit, I like their version even better than Bill's. (Luther's cover on Dance With My Father is pretty dud, though.)

I just got this a few weeks back, am listening to it, and am willing to agree (well, ONE of the best, cause, y'know, James Brown). Amazing stuff so far and by god this one comment from him, introducing "Grandma's Hands" and talking about his grandma's church:

"It wasn’t one of them sad churches where they sing them songs that make you wish you could just hurry up and die and get it over with...at the funeral, they used to have to tie the caskets down!"

Kills the audience, just brilliant.

a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

One of the greatest songs of one of the greatest songwriters.

a loveley daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, April 18, 2003 3:45 PM (Friday, April 18, 2003 3:45 PM) Bookmark Link

^^^ out of character lulz

the K2 Edits White Label version of "Lovely Day" is also quite sublime. too bad not many have heard it-- may upload soon if there's a clamor?

rev otm

ttitt, please upload

please upload

clamoring

as close as many of us will touch the divine in this life. oh bill. old grey whistle test or some such show where he played 'ain't no sunshine' has ruined me for life.

oddly, Paul Morley admires the bassline.

last wedding i was at Lovely Day played during dinner, and my entire table (well, all the ladies) got up for an impromptu dance session.

yeah, it's that kinda song. if you don't get up and dance, then you are communist, etc... bill withers is sacred. i dunno, kevin rowland namechecks him in the same breath w/Otis, Jackie Wilson

whenever a MN sports team does well, my favorite local sports talk show does their bumper music/audio highlight reel to this song. makes me happy : )

"the K2 Edits White Label version of "Lovely Day" is also quite sublime. too bad not many have heard it-- may upload soon if there's a clamor?

-- the table is the table"

noooooooooooo. i am not feeling it. just play the original if you want to play it. it doesnt need edited, it doesnt need a house beat behind it, it doesnt need remixed. it just needs to be played and everything is good. what a track, i love bill withers.

alright, i fucking love the song but for devil's advocacy i'll say dud because of its sale to the Gap's ad people.
-- ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:58 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Alright, but the Gap ad version also interpolates the bassline from "I Hear Music in the Streets," which is the coolest thing ever.

Heard this in a cholesterol medication ad last night.

pipecock otm

this song came on the TV for that cholesterol medication ad AT THE EXACT MOMENT i noticed the thread title on ILM

sorry, pipecock, i disagree. you sound like the guy who told me i shouldn't have posted octave one's remix 'jaguar' simply because the original will always be better-- that isn't the fucking point. it's just another take on a track. your purity clauses are startling to me sometimes.

and come 8:30 am, we're sitting in Burger King eating some breakfast.

Live At The Carnegie Hall At Burger King

oddly, Paul Morley admires the bassline.

-- the pinefox, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:07

Elderly popist OTM.

Can you do that long note?

I know I can.

this song came on the TV for that cholesterol medication ad AT THE EXACT MOMENT i noticed the thread title on ILM

-- iiiijjjj, Friday, May 9, 2008 7:54 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link
Has there ever been a thread for these kinds of surgically precise coincidences?

Yes.

Coincidences, Whoo.....

"sorry, pipecock, i disagree. you sound like the guy who told me i shouldn't have posted octave one's remix 'jaguar' simply because the original will always be better-- that isn't the fucking point. it's just another take on a track. your purity clauses are startling to me sometimes.

-- the table is the table"

speeding it up and sticking a house beat behind that track is kind of just a joke, really. the song loses its groove and its feeling, it totally ruins why you would want to play that shit in the first place. sometimes a piece of music gets it perfectly right the first time, it doesn't need anything else done to it to make it "more effective" or anything. that edit is for deejays who are too afraid to play something outside of a 120 BPM four on the floor beat in a "house" set. and it is too bad, i like Karizma's recent album a whole lot but that edit is pretty poopy.

I own a 'best of' cd and this song is not on it.

therefore i think my best of is slightly dud (not the good tracks on it though).

i totally fucking pulled this off at karaoke tonight. even the eeeeeeeeeeeeeexxxtrrraaaaaaaa long note

Awesome.

was so winded when i got done i couldn't sing anything after that

Seriously, who could possibly say 'dud' here? I'm sure even Charles Manson gets up out of his seat and does a little dance when he hears it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, June 13, 2005 3:33 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

this is such a great mental image

This is quite possibly the best song ever. Beyond classic.

a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

― Lingbert, Thursday, May 8, 2008

my kids favorite road trip song since we all see who can sustain the note the longest

Also, still the best Gap commercial ever and I still wish they had released a full version of this "I Hear Music in the Streets" mashup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPWqy4XUMQ

i thought this was bumped b/c of the terrible feel-good insurance radio commercial that plays some dude ("a street musician, from atlanta") covering it

I wouldn't know anything about that, but holy shit this song is flawless.