Backfield in Motion - Mel & Tim - Amymarie Gaertner - w/lyrics

Mel and Tim were an American soul music duo active from 1969 to 1974. They are best known for the hit songs "Backfield in Motion", "Starting All Over Again" and "Good Guys Only Win in the Movies".

Melvin McArthur Hardin and Hubert Timothy McPherson were cousins from Holly Springs, Mississippi, who traveled to Chicago, where they were discovered by Gene Chandler. Yolanda Hardin (who was Mel Hardin's mother and McPherson's aunt) along with their cousins Walita, Catha, Donny and Darris Maxwell, helped the duo with songwriting and publicity.

Yolanda, formerly a singer, signed them to a recording contract with her Bamboo Records, and they recorded their own song, "Backfield in Motion". The record was immediately successful, reaching number 3 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart and number 10 on its pop chart in 1969. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Their follow-up record was "Good Guys Only Win in the Movies", which was also the title of their first album.

Hardin and McPherson subsequently moved to Stax Records, for which they recorded a second top 5 R&B hit, the ballad "Starting All Over Again", released in the United States in June 1972. The record climbed to number 19 on the Billboard pop chart and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. Five months after its release, it was their second million seller. It was also the title track of their second album, released in 1972, recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by Phillip Mitchell. Mel and Tim performed at the Wattstax charity concert that year, but later recordings could not repeat their earlier successes.

Tim McPherson died in 1986.

"Starting All Over Again" was covered by Hall and Oates in 1990 for their album Change of Season.

*Amymarie Gaertner
Professionally, Amymarie Gaertner is a self-taught American dancer, choreographer, actress, and social media star who earned popularity for showing her freestyle dancing moves in six-second-videos on Vine. She learned dance steps all by herself and is also able to dance to any tune.
Likewise, she has also co-hosted the Halloween edition of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ in 2015. In the following year, she also appeared in the episode ‘A Sudden Duet!’ from the web series ‘Sanders Shorts’ directed by fellow Viner and internet personality Thomas Sanders. Later on, she appeared on Thomas’ eponymous comedy and music series for a couple more videos.
Since a kid, she started dancing the first time she listened to music. Moreover, Gaertner’s earliest memory is of dancing around the kitchen and the house at the age of four. She started practicing dancing in the basement of her house as the stereo system was installed there. Since she has been dancing there and has made a little studio for herself there. She was never shy to dance in front of the public, which is why she then, she eventually began participating in talent shows and performing at events.
Gaertner launched her self-titled YouTube channel on March 1, 2008. However, she started posting little clips from her performances at various talent shows in early 2011. On her YouTube channel, she shares dancing, singing, vlogging videos on the channel.
In January 2013 after Vine came out, she became one of the first people to try out the new platform by March that year. She started her first Vine, a stop-motion video, from her basement and proceeded to make videos of her dog, her cat, car rides, and her visits to concerts to receive with the handful of her followers, mostly friends.

After she uploaded a video of her dancing, it went viral, and her Vine profile drew about a million fans within a month. She had an awesome 4.5 million followers on Vine before the app was shut down by parent company Twitter in January 2017. Currently, she boasts more than 1.5 million followers on Instagram, 560k subscribers on YouTube, and 511k fans on Facebook.
Her first vine video was a stop-motion video titled “Dylan, and I spend Monday nights”. Shortly after she also collaborated with Jake Foushee. Together, the duo shared a Vine video named, “That throwback song you can’t sit still to”. Besides that, she has done some exclusive collaborations as well. Similarly, the dance video collaboration with the winner of “So You Think You Can Dance Season 10″, with Du-Shaun Stegall.

Additionally, she has played the role of Vanessa in the YouTube Red original movie ‘Dance Camp’ in 2016. In 2017, she even appeared as Elektra in an episode of ‘The Boonies’ and acted as Audrey March in three episodes of ‘Guidance’. Further, she got a nomination for the ‘Dancer of The Year award’ at the ‘5th Annual Streamy Awards’ in 2015 and became one of the Finalists in the Dance category of the ‘8th Annual Shorty Awards’ in 2016.

[dianewood]

Perfect for the up and coming weeks! Awesome 😎 🏈!

[sodonbaytor]

Great video and as always a joy to watch And its always a pleasure to see Amymarie displaying her amazing talents truly one of a kind Great video to be sure !

[KL-fstv]

That was a fun and positive up beat to a tune that Ive only heard this version of a few times. the video had nice flow to it, the fine lady in the video was nice too, made for a cool video for me, enjoyed watching that after a very good but darn cold day out fishing. Guess I cant complain, sounds like sit freezing butt cold in your neck of the woods. Stay Warm.

[marryannlamb]

Thanks Keith . Have a great day stay warm we getting snow Friday and Saturday. Are you gonna get any?

[davidkleinthefamousp]

Uh, too young to have heard this song before. Good song, but like the Macarena, it’s never coming back. Mores the pity.