http://www.youtube.com/wa...FHlorF02Xo

I haven't heard this song since 1977! It got alot of airplay on our local R&B radio station back then.Anyone else remember this rare,forgotten single?

I can't see the video but the song title sounds very familiar.

vainandy said:

i know you remember this song...it's about a woman who decides that she should leave her no-good boyfriend because the relationship isn't working out...


If it don't fit,don't force it
just relax and let it go
Just because that's how you want it
doesn't mean it will be so

Back in 1977,my mother would turn this song up when it came on the radio while she was driving.Thank God for Youtube! I hadn't heard this song since then.

Those lyrics sound more and more familiar. I remember that song being a jam.

it's a trip hearing a song that you haven't heard since the time it came out.

Other rare singles I'm dying to hear...

***"If You Want It" by ??--a slow jam from the summer of 1979 (Finess knows who sings it),it goes...

if you want it (if you want it)
you can get it (you can get it) with your loooovvvve

That's what I was loving the most about the old "Soul Train" episodes. They played a jam I remember from 1980 and it was by M Tume. I used to love the song and never knew who sang it. I had always thought M Tume's first song was "Juicy Fruit" in 1983. I see I was wrong.

I also loved hearing "Come and Go With Me" by Pockets for the first time since probably 1979 and "Saturday, Saturday Night" by Zoom for the first time since 1981.

That's why I was disappointed with last week's episode. All the songs have been played to death over the years.

Zoom?! So,that's who sings "Saturday,Saturday Night"!! Thanks! I've been looking for that song forever but I never knew the name of the band.

Yep. They played it on the episode with The Time performing. I hadn't heard the song since 1981 and I hollered when it came on.

vainandy said:

that's how I felt when I heard Skyy's "SuperLove" during the Patrice Rushen episode hearing these songs is like seeing an old friend!

And the funny thing was, you already had "Super Love" in your collection.

vainandy said:

I heard it on Soul Train,grabbed a pen,wrote down the title,said to myself "I gotta find this song!".After coming to the Org and asking about it,I discovered that it's already on Skyy's greatest hits CD,which I already own!

That's happened to me before but never with uptempo jams because they are the first things I look for on an album. There have been a ton of old slow jams I have re-discovered that I had in my collection all along though....such as "Say Yes" by Lakeside. Back in the old days, my needle stayed on the fast jams 90% of the time and I didn't even listen to entire albums all the way through unless they were somebody like Prince or Rick James.

vainandy said:

I bet you missed ALOT of cool slow jams,focusing only on the uptempo songs.I bet you never even heard "Baby I Confess" and "I Had A Choice" by Sun!

Not until I got their greatest hits CD. The only Sun album I had back in the day was the one with the song "Reaction Satisfaction (Jam Y'all, Funk It Up)", and that's the only song I listened to on the entire album.

I had heard "Radiation Level" a few years earlier but didn't know who the group was.

I listened to a lot of slow jams by many of the funk groups back in the day but they were mostly the slow jams that got a lot of radio airplay. I never was one to sit through an entire album and listen to it in it's entirety. I always put the needle on a song, listened to a few seconds, and that's how I decided if I liked a song I had never heard before. Over the years, you look back and see that a lot of those songs got better after you let them play for a little while.