One of the band members wife was on tour with them and complained of stomach pains, when they got home a week later the doctors informed her she had stomach Cancer and gave her @2 months to live. The next few nights he wrote the song with his wife by his side. Then he took it to the group and Lionel Richie sang it. That song had a deep meaning for the Commodores

@pattyduke3079

10 ай бұрын

I knew the story by the song, but I didn't know what type of cancer she had. Thanks for the info. RIP dear lady.

@Ramonafloyd

10 ай бұрын

Ron Lapread wrote this song his wife had cancer ..

@TasDAmour

Ай бұрын

@@Ramonafloyd Thank you for Voicing that fact. The band's Bass player, Ronald LaPread... his wife Cathy was the inspiration for this song.

THIS! This is the best Commodores song ever! I have worn this song out in every medium produced!

@blackblake3658

10 ай бұрын

I remember listening to this blasting in my sister's candy apple red Trans Am with the T-top. Magical.

@garymcbride9698

10 ай бұрын

Say yeah is good one to and sweet love

@carltonbakerii8274

10 ай бұрын

@@blackblake3658 Oh, yeah! This *had* to be blasted on the road...in whatever car. you were in!

@ericdavis6261

3 ай бұрын

exactly 💯

So glad you finally reacted to this beautiful song. It's one of my favorites by The Commodores. Even more so once I discovered the meaning behind it. Ronald LaPread actually began composing this song after his wife, Cathy, was diagnosed with cancer. And was given 2 months to live. She was the inspiration for the song and even helped him with the melody. Ronald couldn't finish it so Lionel helped. To get the full story as told by Ronald you should check out Chicken Soup For the Soul: The Story Behind the Song. It's really worth reading. Thanks again for your reaction!❤

@acen2709

10 ай бұрын

Also they haven’t played “oh no”

@miltonslocum8957

10 ай бұрын

@@acen2709 Yeah, they haven't. I certainly would love to hear more from The Commadores and Lionel.

@GoldenLady1007

9 ай бұрын

I never knew this. I LOVE this song. Thank you for sharing. 💛

@miltonslocum8957

9 ай бұрын

@@GoldenLady1007 You're welcome! It definitely gives the song a new perspective.

@GoldenLady1007

9 ай бұрын

@@miltonslocum8957 Without a doubt. It was always very poignant to me anyway; now I know why. 💛

She is so GOOD with her understanding of what songs are saying! She is is an EXCEPTIONAL listener.💯💯

@craiglawrence2808

11 күн бұрын

She is excellent. Very gifted in her critique of songs .

So glad you guys did this song! This is definitely one of my favorites from them. Lionel Ritchie just showing off with his incredible vocals! A song for those who dream that dream and hopefully make them come true.

@joellenglass2344

10 ай бұрын

Yyyaaassss!

@kellyrooni

10 ай бұрын

It is my favorite as well. The Commodores were my first concert. I saw them live in Cologne West Germany.

@mrantdagreat

10 ай бұрын

@@kellyrooni That must have been a great experience.

@jimmoore8951

10 ай бұрын

On an album with Brick House and Easy, Zoom is what kept this album on my turntable

@fligler

6 ай бұрын

This album brings back so many memories. 17 years old and my first real love and heartbreak.❤

Zoom is one of my favorites by the Commodores, Sweet Love is another classic that I know you guys will enjoy!!

@chalmapatterson544

10 ай бұрын

Sweet love was on point.

This is my favorite Commadores song!!! I'm so glad you've reacted to this. Keep them coming!!❤

@yousexymf

10 ай бұрын

Mine too

@primeminister66

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, all time classic, Commodores at their best

@gabrielmcdonnell8699

10 ай бұрын

Yup, to me THIS song IS The Commodores. 🙌🏽

@Jagangela

10 ай бұрын

Still and Three Times a Lady are my two favorites!

When this album came out, Zoom was the slow dance song. It was either to set the mood or the last song of the night. It was unique and so romantic. And the vocals....Zoom Zoom...Zoom.

@kualua6612

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I remember the last slow dance of the night, never wanting it to end!

To hear this song is bitter, sweet. My mother, God rest her soul loved this song. She took her own life when I was nine years old unfortunately. When I heard this song again as an adult and listening to the lyrics, I understood just how sad she really was. How much pain she was going through and how much she wanted to leave it behind. Thank you for the reaction ❤

@pjsopinion8028

10 ай бұрын

Bless her soul… until someone comes to that dark place in their life, there is no way they can understand how very sad and helpless it feels. I am glad to hear the compassion in your voice for where she must have been. She is proud of you, no doubt! ❤🙏🏼

@michaelasay8587

10 ай бұрын

So sorry...she's happy in heaven because this world is very dark. I'm not in the US anymore....but u guys have to vote right over there!

@anjiharrell6175

10 ай бұрын

@@pjsopinion8028 Thank you. 🙏🏽

Their best song by far. A classic song that means something. I listen to this song like it just came out.

Another one of their sounds is Gospel. "Jesus is Love."❤❤❤❤

FINALLY! Zoom. My favorite Commodores song. I was a college student when this song came out. I would listen to this song to reduce my stress.

Real music by real musicians. Just vocals and instruments.

Love this song. Definitely one of my favorite Commodores song.

Thanks, J & Amber. Song *STILL* slaps 4 decades later. Take in all the talent that played on THIS song!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚 (Thanks, Amber, for shouting out the Boho crew ✌🏽)

This was when the lights dimmed at the house party! Listen to "Jesus is Love" You should check out some of they're faster stuff "Too Hot To Trot" and "Slippery When Wet" Lionel Richie by this time was the creative person behind the band. The songs were slower. Not a bad thing but different from where they started.

My fave Commodores song.

And this wasn't even released as a single here in the U.S.!! Just goes to show you that they and Lionel Ritchie were so much more than just their singles! He has such a smooth voice and is in total control of it!! Amazing.

@pattyduke3079

10 ай бұрын

I never knew that! It got some much air play in the US, I thought it was one of their singles. I had the album, so it got a lot play at my house.

There is a Live album from the Commodores that features this song. The entire album is fantastic but this is definitely a highlight. I remember getting the double album for my birthday and I wore that thing out.

@GoldenLady1007

9 ай бұрын

"I'd like to fly away. Zoom, zoom."💛

I can't believe I've never heard this song before I love it!

One of my favorite all time songs Thank you for your reaction.

Amber is a FLOWER CHILD from the 60s..You guy's really feel these songs..I enjoy your reactions. ZOOM is a cool jam to play while driving anywhere. 😎👊🏽🎼🎶🎵

I was in high school when this album came out. Lionel had and still has a great voice.

To me this is the greatest song they ever did, smooth as butter both vocals and song. Lionel conveyed the message of the lyrics perfectly. This is one of favorite songs of all time. "I wish the world were truly happy"

My favorite Commodores song! Was hoping you guys got around to this sooner than later

@GoldenLady1007

9 ай бұрын

Mine, too. I wore that album out. 😅

the production...Enough said!

One of my favorite songs. So, so good!

My favorite Commodores song!

Great reaction 😃 this is my favorite song of the album. 🎶 I was in 10th grade when this came out, brings back awesome memories 🥲 thank you, the Commodores also are an awesome live band, great shows 😄 Thank you Peace! 🙏

First time I ever heard the Commodores was this song zoom off their first album and the rest is remarkably great history! Had the opportunity to see them see them in person… Now that’s a happening because they are even better in person! Such fond memories with wonderful Great music😊

@pattyduke3079

10 ай бұрын

Actually, Zoom was not off of their first album. It was off of their fifth album, titled Commodores. Their debut album was Machine Gun. Singles of that album was Machine Gun and I Feel Sanctified. Both worth a reaction.

Always love the Commodores, that awesome spund!

I am so glad you did this song. After decades of hearing this song I still close my eyes and it takes me to a beautiful place in my mind. I think it's the best song the ever wrote. Thank you for listening to this masterpiece.

I’d like to nominate “Sweet Love” for your next Commodores reaction.

I don't remember many Commodores songs, mostly solo Lionel Riche songs only. But this is a beautiful song. This has to be in the late '70s.

@blackblake3658

10 ай бұрын

Yes. When they and Earth Wind and Fire were mostly relegated to "black radio." Some of their best music came before the studio made them more palatable to the masses.

"Zoom" was a track from the 1977 "Commodores" LP, no charting stats for the title on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the R&B chart.

YASSS. Give this song to your kids … make them memorize it …. It will keep them inspired for life !

My favorite song by the Commodores and one of my favorite slow dance on skates songs of the 70's....SMOOTH! This was also a great cruising song. Check out their kicking live version of "Slippery When it's Wet"

Extremely happy for this reaction! "ZOOM" ..when you bought the album a huge poster included! Awesome!

The song is a masterpiece.

This is playing when the bbq has slowed down because everyone has eaten, the spade games have just started & the kids are waiting for the ice cream to finish churning!!!

I do love The Commodores! Shades of my childhood here. This was played at the grown folks parties ❤

When I was in high school in the late 70s/early 80s, Zoom was THE slow jam song at high school dances.

Great song!!! I love this one so much. Great pick, J & Amber!

There are so many glorious, quintessential hits in the Commodores’ discography you must hear: Three Times A Lady, Just To Be Close To You and Still!

love the song too!! Lionel Richie is an icon❤

Grown-people music, one of my personal favorite songs, an classic Commodores hit. I'm glad you two can appreciate what the song brings to one mind.

What a great song this is. But you MUST MUST MUST listen to their live version of this song off the 1977 live album. The horns are fantastic!!!!!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER!! ❤❤❤❤

Lionel was like hot butter on toast on this song.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for THIS SONG!!!! This song is transportation to a place and space other than HERE. It is meant to be peaceful, bring peace and solace to those going through whatever one is facing. After decades of not hearing this song upon rediscovering this masterpiece last year I wept. It brought memories and an age of the 70s back to me. Thank you. 💫

@michaelasay8587

10 ай бұрын

In this terrible world today...u gotta vote right over there!

Omg you reacted to one of my favorite songs!!! This song takes me back to when me & my sis went to their concert & when they sang this song!!!! MAN!! It brings tears to my eyes since now my sis deals with Parkinson's. 😢

@earth2kosmickitty

10 ай бұрын

Thank u so much for sharing that wonderful memory...May God bless you with many more happy moments/memories with your sis. Enjoy and cherish each and every day...🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽

Yall hit the motherlode with this one. My family always played this song in the house when I was a child and I immediately latched onto it. The songwriting, arrangement and Lionel Richie are perfection! This is one of the best and I still play it at the cookout!

Thanks for that blast from the past. I remember seeing them perform this in concert in the 70’s at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh PA and all of these silver metallic balloons went flying up from the stage all over the stadium. Great Concert.

My favorite song from them I was in highschool when this came out pure R and B 🔥🔥

CLASSIC...NUFF SAID!!

The Commodores are always such a vibe! Loooooove this! ❤❤❤

Lionel Ritchie.. one of the best songwriters ever!

@l.brandehilton7107

5 ай бұрын

Indeed !!! UHHKAAY !!!

@thewomble1509

Ай бұрын

He didn't write this one..............................

I love this song!! It’s a beautiful song! I love Lionel Richie’s voice! ❤❤

My all-time favorite from them. Great vibe of a song but also sad in a way because he is singing of a world that doesn't exist, but he wants to Zoom away to a time or place where those themes are in place. Glad you got around to it. I have to suggest "Happy Feelings" by Maze.

The fact that you have failed to do "Three Times a Lady" , yet, blows my mind!! Please, do it, you will love it.

@ZacCostilla

10 ай бұрын

YES

@michelelaraia7358

10 ай бұрын

SUPERMAN TOO

@pjsopinion8028

10 ай бұрын

Agreed!!!

@ajt62

10 ай бұрын

Every time I hear that, my weird old brain jumps to SNL, around 1982 - Eddie Murphy as Buh-weet - “Unce, Tice, Fee Times a Mady…”

@brianmcmaster5112

10 ай бұрын

@@ajt62 So, you're admitting that you are old?? Lol. I remember that, too...Shhhhhhhh!!!

Another gem by Lionel Ritchie worth a listen is called, "Oh no".

Go Commodores!

You have to do "3 Times A Lady" I think its their most pooular song, and Lionel is fabulous in it. A beautiful love song. ❤🎼

@chalmapatterson544

10 ай бұрын

It popular but not their best. They should review it though.

Lional Richie “YOU ARE” is a great one!

This song reminds me of my uncle when he used to play the song and look at me and my brothers and say... "Boy you don't know nothin about that".

You two need to get a copy of COMMODORES LIVE. They do a fantastic version of ZOOM and Brick House. The whole album is a treasure.

I forgot all about this song, it's wonderful. Thank you for reminding me how great the Commodores are

Best song from the Commodores 😊

Thanks for reacting. Check out Commodores "Still", "Just To Be Close To You" "Oh No" to name a few...

@carltonbakerii8274

10 ай бұрын

I second "Just To Be Close To You"!

@earth2kosmickitty

10 ай бұрын

@@carltonbakerii8274 And I third it!!! Also "Sweet Love" is another nostalgic fave and masterpiece.

@emiliarodriguez1364

10 ай бұрын

@@earth2kosmickitty Yes!!! ✨💜✨

One of my favorites from them

This is a deep track that didn't get much airplay but a great tune.

"Just to Be Close to You" is also a good one.

@whatyousaywhatihear9858

10 ай бұрын

The first 45 I ever bought. Just to be close to you. I gave it to a girl I went on a date with.

@rhondaatkins1776

5 ай бұрын

They MUST do this one!

@l.brandehilton7107

5 ай бұрын

Indeed !!!

If you are interested in more songs along the lines of “A Boy Named Sue” or “The Cover of The Rolling Stone”, I’d like to suggest the song “Uneasy Rider” by The Charlie Daniels Band, if you liked “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” you will probably enjoy “Uneasy Rider” too! Have a wonderful evening everyone! 😀👍🏻 PS. I wanted to add another song that I think that you’d get a kick out of and I believe that you would love all the instruments and country flavor of this song, “Milkshake” by The Cleverlys, performed live at Pucketts. That video is available on KZread. Just look for The Cleverlys, Milkshake, live at Pucketts. I promise that it’s worth a watch and listen even if you don’t choose to react to it. 👍🏻

@kenqb5450

10 ай бұрын

What about "Marie Laveau" by Bobby Bare, also written by Shel Silverstein.

Great stuff!! I loved it and I hadn't heard this one before!! J and Amber ... Thank you for sharing!! Love you two!! ❤😊 @RobSquadReactions

Lionel Ritchie, the greatest writer of love song in the R&B/R&R era. This is my favorite down tempo song Lionel wrote while he was still with The Commodores. This song is well known by pretty much every black woman of a certain age. Next please do "Still", "Truly", "Penny Lover", Ballerina Girl", and "Three Times A Lady".

Its funny cause I played the commodores a couple days ago. They music it so smooth and sophisticated

Jay/Amber, you'll love their "Three Times A Lady"!!! I predict "Three Times A Lady" will be your favorite Commodores song!! (With Lionel!!) ALSO, you'll love Lionel's "Truly" and "Endless Love" (with Diana Ross) !!!!!

@primeminister66

10 ай бұрын

Not on level with this song

Loving You by The Commodores is another soulful song like this one

Best Commodores song ever. To come up with a song title "Zoom" and put so many emotions on a plate. Beautiful.

I love watching you guys, especially at the beginning of a song, knowing what's coming. Thinking to myself, "They have no idea what they're in for". This one of those songs. From the name, to the introduction, you are lulled.. and then Zoom!!

Thank you so much! My favorite Commodores song.

My favorite Commodore song

This is one of my favorites from The Commodores! Such a smooth track. Fergie actually did a sample of this song on her Duchess Album called "All that I've Got" back in 2006. It's also another great song paying homage to this original. I highly recommend everyone to give it a listen.

@gabrielmcdonnell8699

10 ай бұрын

TLC “Waterfalls”, 1994. I’m sure more have sampled “Zoom”.

@TubeMySwag

10 ай бұрын

@@gabrielmcdonnell8699 Yeah there's hundreds of Artists that have sampled this song but I wanted to recommend Fergie's version because she uses the same exact instrumental and its underrated in my personal opinon.

@gabrielmcdonnell8699

10 ай бұрын

@@TubeMySwagDidn’t know the song but I liked it. Fergie was channeling her Wild Orchid Days. 👌🏾

@TubeMySwag

10 ай бұрын

@@gabrielmcdonnell8699 Hell yeah! I'm glad you like it. She definitely added some soul into that track and that whole album is near perfection. Almost no skips. Cheers!

Another great Commodore song. Reminds me of driving with the top down , the sun setting, just wanting to "zoom" away. The live version is just a wonderful rendition. In fact, giving the whole album a listen would be worth your time. Released back in the days when bands weren't afraid of releasing live LP's (usually double albums). 🎶🎶🎶🎶

This a drive down the road with the top down kinda groove. So glad I got see them live in concert back in the day.

One of my favorite jams to slow drag to with that special someone back in the day! Everyone was on the dance floor when the DJ played this Commodore’s classic!

I was around ten years old when this was released, and I remember many times being in the living room or den with my family, including grandmother, great-grandmother, aunts, etc, or just my parents, their friends and my brother, all sitting very quietly and listening to this beautiful song. Even at that age, it touched me emotionally and made me feel like crying, but also peaceful as it does to this day. My grandmother loved this song, and when she passed away two years ago, I listened to this song and felt that she'd be free as said in the lyrics. ❤ We chose to have another of her favorites by them during her wake... "Jesus Is Love". I miss her, my mom and great-grandmother. 😢

Commodores! One of my favorite groups growing up!

"Sweet Love", "Still", "This is Your Life", Just to Be Close" just to name a few other songs by The Commodores. 💛

I was a DJ in the 70’s when disco was huge. Towards the end of the night I would always play this song. The dance floor would be full of couples chilling out and just winding down in each others arms..

More Lionel, please. "Love Will Find A Way"❤

Easy and Night Shift are a couple of good ones by this group. And the "doodle doodle doo" sound is a comb of strings and flute.

Commodores~~ Oh No~~ Is a great song

Great reaction. Thank you. We are indeed blessed by you and your videos. And it’s so cool that you are on this musical journey and learning. Just FYI: when you hear a huge *string section* or orchestra like that, it’s *not* just violins, but the entire family of strong instruments, which is violins, violas, cellos and string basses. It would be like hearing a huge choir and saying, “there’s the sopranos”. That’s one voice among the family.

OMG! Love this song. I have seen the Commodores Live three times. I had all their music. Zoom always been my favorite. My Mother loved this song. She loved Lionel Richie's voice. She passed away on Dec 23, 2006 of bone cancer. This song makes me emotional. Love It though.

Great hearing some Commodores after too long. Thanks for the Reaction, You Guys! :)

My absolute favourite of theirs is Nightshift. I worked at night for years and that was my theme song! I still think it’s their best.

Can never go wrong with The Commodores.

Y'all my Peeps!

By far one of my favorite songs by the Commodores. Driving in the car and listening to this loud. Man nothing like it.