Brick House - The Commodores | The Midnight Special

The Commodores appeared November 9, 1979

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[s]

Old school at it's highest level of Commodores brick house gold

[kevingoins]

Drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange on lead vocals. He was the chief songwriter of this classic.

[Dan-ntyb]

I was born in 1962 and got to watch ALL of these fabulous shows while entering my teens and realizing how f’n great music was in the 70s.😃👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you Burt….thank you for saving these treasures.❤️

[LOVROK]

Wow, didn’t know Lionel played saxophone 🎷

[TheSunTheSea]

Can we make America Great again? These were the glory days! Let’s go back!

[ScottWozniak]

1:47 Even the women dancing are making the "stank" face! 😂 Lionel Richie on sax! Great stuff! 👍🏻

[robertjaime]

The Commodores were the BEST funk/ soul band during the 1970’s, they just had style & a great sound!

[davidwilliams]

1:40 Bass player forgets they’re supposed to be pretending to play the song and just starts dancing. Guitar does same thing a few seconds later. 😂

[AChef-n-BBQ]

Saw them when Lionel was the sax guy back in the late 70's👍🏼🇺🇸🥃

[StephanieJeanne]

Great funk song! You couldn't stop people from dancing when this song was played at dances and in clubs, myself included! 😎🔥

[OzMan]

They don’t make em this anymore! Pure energy and soul!

[thatsgirl]

Yes, Indeed... this just transported me back in time to one of the places I frequented as a teen, the roller skating rink! Dale, the DJ, knew how to pack the house. This song would come on, and the skate floor would be packed! We would tear up that floor! Good memories... the best of times for sure! ❤
Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[Sincopare]

Still the best roller skating song of all time. At the right rink, with serious sound and lights, I'm right back in the 80s.

[gilbertcarrizales]

It’s impossible to sit while this song is playing!

[KittyGrizGriz]

Always got us up on the dance floor & kept us in ‘Brick House’ shape. Dancing is so free feeling & great for the mind~body.
Love their choreography~clothes and that horn section; shake it down~shake it down down 👏 👏 👏
Have their album (bought at a thrift store) never used & included a full size poster of the band, them were the days!! 😎 💃

[rockndisco]

Back in 1977, I saw them performing “Brick House” at Los Angeles Forum as closing song, Walter “Clyde” Orange was excellently soloing his timbales before singing it, everyone cheered that night!!!!

[michaeldean]

Whether it was Rock, Soul/Funk, Country or Pop, these were the days when music was MUSIC! PERFORMED (often written/arranged) by MUSICANS that played their INSTRUMENTS and sung without all the 'doctoring' and filtering.!! ALL of this seemed to have vanished at the beginning of the '80s. With very few exceptions today, the late '60s through the '70s was the last period of actual BANDS! Damned computers and 'music'-kits (and a few other things) brought this type of entertainment -- and venues (Kirshner, Midnight) to a screeching halt! I Remember watching this. Salute to venues like Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Sound Stage and Austin City Limits. This magical era of MUSIC is LONG gone! Learn to either play an INSTRUMENT (or sing), dammit!

[crlaw]

Nice to see a clip of Lionel with a saxophone here.

[claudiofuentes]

FUNK!!!! The Commodores...
Sublime!!!

[FPSOP]

They are miming to the track from their 1977 Commodores Live album.