Released in 77, this song, to me, is beautiful. Loved this song all my life. We know all about E,W&F being all over this, but the vocals are so sweet and pure. The music is bangin', the production and the performances, music and vocals, are top notch. This is how a ballad is done. This song doesn't get much love, and I find it to be very underrated, like people have forgotten about it. That's cool though. Wanna see who on here digs this song.

blackguitaristz said:

Ah shit BG, you went way back for one of my favorite slow jams but its cool. The three part harmony in this song was on point. The sistas put their heart in this song when singing it.

"Don't Ask My Neighbor. Come To Me."
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MadameS said:

That's EXACTLY what I'm saying! The Emotions always sounded sexy as hell anyways, but, they really brought it on this.

blackguitaristz said:

Maurice White was on it with this production.....

I dig this jam very much!! I've put it on a 2 disk comp. I've simply titled "Romance", along with songs such as "I Wanna Get Next To you", Golden Touch", "Cause I Love You", "So Amazing". Each song was carefully hand picked. It would not be complete without "Don't Ask My Neighbors" .

funkpill said:

Yep.

blackguitaristz said:

blackguitaristz said:

I have always dug this song, and didn't know who sang it, until now.

psychodelicide said:

Cool.

blackguitaristz said:

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My favorite Emotions Tune!! written by the late Skip Scarborough, who also wrote classics like "Love's Holiday", "Can't Hide Love" and "I'll Write a Song For You" for Earth Wind and Fire, , "Love Ballad" for LTD, "Love Changes" for Mother's Finest, "Come What May", for Patti Labelle, and "Giving You The Best That I Got", for Anita Baker....

.. he was also the producer for Con Funk Shun...Skip was a bad boy...



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paligap said:

Yeah he was!

This is one of my favorite songs of all time!!!

The production, the melody, their voices.....

There's something about their harmony that is just otherworldly..... i think they're just doing simple major triads but somehow it sounds.... bigger, fuller..... words can't really explain.

And especially the vocal "turns" on the word "Love" in.... "You'll find I Loo-oo-oo-ve you "

Just started trying to play it be year last week.... making some progress! (yay!)

Harmoniously Balanced

blackguitaristz said:

R U crazy? They always play that song on the "quiet storm" mixes on my urban station "89.9 KMOJ Minneapolis, St. Paul..The People Station!!"

I only know the best of my love (thanks to the boogie nights movie)

paisleypark4 said:

There is a "quiet storm" segment on 93.1 FM in Cleveland, Ohio too, and they seem to play this song a lot.

GaryMF said:

I can dig it!

"Don't Ask My Neighbor" is an excellent song. The Emotions brought it!!! The girl group Jade did a pretty decent remake of it in the early nineties

A year or so ago,Maurice White said that he was in the studio producing a new CD for the Emotions! I hope it gets released someday.

That's definitely a classic.

Bobby Caldwell also recorded a good version of it. It's on his Soul Survivor cd that was released in the mid-90's.