Song was written by a 17 yo kid about 22 love letters his girlfriend sent to him. Shuggie Otis is a musical genius. Brothers Johnson cover is fire. RIP Thunderthumbs.

@Feanor026

Ай бұрын

Not 23 ? :D I'm here thx to Six Feet Under (TV show)

@swhip897

Ай бұрын

Thanx

@ultramet

Ай бұрын

@@Feanor026 His letter in return (the song) was the 23rd letter.

@Feanor026

Ай бұрын

@@ultramet oh I get it now :D thank you.

@ultramet

Ай бұрын

@@Feanor026 I forgot to mention that’s why the song begins “hello my love, , I heard a kiss from you” it is another love letter. In the lyrics, strawberry letter 22 refers to her previous letter.

When music was fun and positive ! Still lovin' it in 2024 !

@ayndowney9401

Ай бұрын

YES 😊😅🎉😂❤!

@latonyag.401

Ай бұрын

Yaaaaaaassssss!!

@user-kx4dy7xz6w

13 күн бұрын

True. Have a listen to '110th street' by Bobby Womack. Also the song 'Remember Me' by The Trinikas. Pump up the volume too when you do.

Hearing this on giant Pioneer speakers in 1977 is something I can't get out of my head.

@deenasmusicbox

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! The ethereal sound back then was new and captivating, the bigger and louder the speaker the better , Pioneer RULED the 70’s.

@snoops5581

2 ай бұрын

Yes I miss those giant 601 Bose speakers that made music sound Crystal clear.

@robintorres7287

Ай бұрын

My hubby has a 77 tbird juiced up on 13s

@johnjeffery6638

Ай бұрын

I wanna go back!!

@maryjernigan7335

Ай бұрын

​@johnjeffery6638 Oh me to! That was the best of times!

The young generation don't know nothing about this song a classic hit 👍🏽 🔥 🔥🔥🔥

@leethomas5830

Ай бұрын

Shugga Otis originally composed it his version awsome

@davidrichter9164

Ай бұрын

@Ta81184,,, actually, my young niece and nephews, who are in their late teens, love this song and many others like it from the 70s and 80s. Sooo...

@ShAySlIm130

Ай бұрын

Yes we do! I'm 34...Been listening to this since I was 8

@leethomas5830

Ай бұрын

@@davidrichter9164 go leafs

@roserichardson9832

Ай бұрын

My all time fave song for the last 20 years, I’m now 30 😃🔥🔥🔥

their afros are glorious works of art

@sickagain7541

3 ай бұрын

YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE FROS OF THE SYLVERS. ALL OF THE BROTHER'S FRO'S ARE PERFECT ALSO.

@yoavzilberdik6871

Ай бұрын

fu*cked up afro!!

@josweetlove1537

8 күн бұрын

The most fitting and beautiful hairstyle for all African originated people all over the world. Its always looks good.

Look at how far we've fallen from this GLORIOUS MASTERY!!!!!

@djm8341

Ай бұрын

But it’s still alive! Grooving to the right now. 👍

Probably the smoothest song ever made. Mama used to play this and just sing along.

@LIONTAMER3D

Ай бұрын

Silky

The writer was seventeen when he wrote this. Wow!

@opensesame19

Ай бұрын

😱🤯

@kevinflynn4519

Ай бұрын

Shuggie's version of this is on KZread... Check it out.. it's alot more raw and not as polished as this.. Quincy Jones polished this one nicely, but the raw version is beautiful in its emotion.

I used to listen to this song over and over in a loop as a teenager. I couldn’t get enough of it! It’s like it put me in a trance! 😊

@lyricsfromsweden

3 ай бұрын

It still does that to me!

@deenasmusicbox

3 ай бұрын

SAME!!

@deidregill4469

3 ай бұрын

I’m like that now.. i can’t stop listening to it!

@ejude83

2 ай бұрын

My most prized possession is a 12” single of SL23 in strawberry red transparent vinyl. I bought it used during the pandemic so I could play it over and over like I (also) did when I was a kid. Like I said, I bought it used, and on the cover, scrawled in magic marker, is the name, Cheryl. I don’t know Cheryl, but I am pretty certain that she used to do the same thing with this record - and when I close my eyes and listen to it over and over as a 58 year old, I will not only think about Cheryl, and me, but now also all of y’all - going on our magical, musical, mind trip together while scattered all across the country - with the Brothers Johnson.

@ayndowney9401

2 ай бұрын

This is and always be an Excellent presentation of Some of the Natural Essence of these True Artists that were Really Devoted to their Craft😊😅🎉🎉❤!

my uncle ray brought me here. he used to listen to these guys. RIP Uncle ray..

@billstewart8968

2 ай бұрын

Uncle Ray was a fine fella I'm sure

My dads good taste in music brought me here

@lindadennies5760

7 жыл бұрын

BOOOM coOkieS Same here my parents were young newlyweds and raised me an my two brothers on this music.

@alicemangam23

7 жыл бұрын

:)

@serialchiler

6 жыл бұрын

el cucuy brought me here

@beagle-dad2925

5 жыл бұрын

amen!

@diamondperry4215

3 жыл бұрын

Cookies My mom taught me this too 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

You won't believe this I used to race Motocross and have this in the back of my head going over the roughest terrain downhill at 60 what a great funk band

'Strawberry letter 23' and 'Stomp' are my favorites.

@Jgeneraledger23

5 ай бұрын

they had another one "Good To You"

@daryntisset6495

8 күн бұрын

Wow did the brothers do stomp?

About 10 years ago I had the privilege to see them perform live at BB Kings blues club in time square. I was working there as a waitress while I was in college and was assigned to keep the dressing room stocked with beverages and what not. When George played that guitar solo in that song it sent me into a trance. I literally felt like I levitated off the floor. They were so amazing and gracious and Louis had the heart of an innocent Child. They were constantly bickering with each other (like blood brothers tend to do) It was so cute and weird to watch. I think the bickering and ego is what broke them up ultimately a long time ago. I got to hang with them the whole night I took them this late night joint on the upper West side for an early breakfast at 3 o'clock in the morning. The next day I got a call from their manager and they sent a car over to pick me up to bring me to their Brooklyn concert. They were total gentlemen. I was very very sad when I heard that Louis had passed. Such a sweet man

@freddieradley7639

7 жыл бұрын

Wow! You are so lucky to have had that time with them. As you say, "total gentlemen".

@Trish-fx8sf

7 жыл бұрын

what a wonderful memories ♡♡

@perincito

7 жыл бұрын

I used to work in that area, at the American Airlines Theater, two doors or so down from BB Kings. so, I know the lifestyle of working in that area well. i can't say i miss the smell of exhaust, burning meat and sugary nuts, but i can always visit if i have a craving. I was there 2002 / 2003. Great story & thanks for sharing.

@russelllamberg

7 жыл бұрын

Cool story.

@hopegoldman3060

7 жыл бұрын

wow that is great story.

My wife got me listening to this genre of music. It's amazing. I'm kind of an 80s punk rock guy. 70s rock guy. We love to dance together..my wife is the coolest chicken on the planet

@ronduanthony9667

3 күн бұрын

Your wife is very smart! Hold her close and enjoy the ride🙏🏾🫡

I remember listening to this song in the back of a taxi when my parents first arrived to this country on a hot July the 4th in NYC...always will remember the first song I ever heard in this country...the beautiful America

@marisamichelle2522

3 күн бұрын

Those were truly the days and when coming to America was the greatest blessing

40 years later still sounds fantastic...

My 8-year-old loves this tune 😂😂😂

I was thinking how sad it is that black people are treated so bad and in spite of it make such beautiful music! With smiles on their faces!

@trevorjameson3213

12 күн бұрын

Yes it IS sad, because in my life experience of nearly 60 years, I've found that black people are the nicest, most down to earth people around. They always treat a stranger (even a white guy like me) as if they've known me for years. This happens all the time to me out in public places. Black people are good people!

@trentonwalker8602

6 күн бұрын

You poor victims!

I , love this song i listen to it over and over beautiful voice.❤❤

One of the smoothest songs I've ever heard, thanks Dad for sharing this era of music with me as a child!

Effortlessly perfect. Such a great song.

Another Quincy Jones production. Love it! 🎉

@DerekFromBK

4 ай бұрын

Shuggie Otis Wrote/Composed /and Performed the original so it's easy to remake an original. Give the Brothers Johnson and Quincy some props but all of the credit goes to Shuggie Otis.

Beautiful inspiring tune from my youth @1977 !

They don’t make music like this anymore. Boy ole boy

@trevorjameson3213

12 күн бұрын

This stuff was REAL funk! Smooth as silk, uplifting and awesome. That beat, the perfect bass lines, and that heavenly chord change right after the first verse, wow love it!

look at how happy these friggin guys are playing this tune ! AWESOME!

This is an absolutely beautiful song. It’s easily one of the most underrated and overlooked songs of the 70’s!

These Brothers were out of this world in music its 2024 still grooving to their music

This is High Performance Groove 👌

This song made me want the album. I bought it with my mom. My mom was the best!!!

I find my self going BACK in time for quality music. That guitar riff gets replayed each time I listen!! 🎉🎉

Brothers Johnson - gods of funk

@tlbt777

Ай бұрын

Where do you hear bass playing like this, these days?!

@MariaWestworth

22 күн бұрын

18 years old Dancing To Stomp ❤62 now Happy days and no drugs needed

The Brothers Johnson Are Incredible ~

One of the best songs made I haven't listen to music in months and this my first song that I listened to since

Beautiful people, beautiful music.x

What a great song, sound, melody, vocals, lyrics, performance. I heard this song on the radio when I was little…great memories!

Jackie Brown brought me here :)

@69DangerousD

7 жыл бұрын

Same and this track sits on my youtube playlist after Kano - Garage Skank lol, I'm surprised I enjoy this but I really do.

@relaxrelax3240

7 жыл бұрын

Yes me too

@FatherStack

7 жыл бұрын

One of the best movie soundtracks ever!

@mohamadasap1689

6 жыл бұрын

gumis1581 Me too, and it took me through many other songs from that movie like the midnight confessions

@ryancummins8067

6 жыл бұрын

Me to👍✊

I ❤ this song! I was 3 1977

That bass jumps grabs you and wraps you around like a blanket!

@tlbt777

Ай бұрын

Incredible bass playing. Doesn't exist much, these days!

Real soul music 😊

otherworldly and haunting cool in a way words can't remotely describe

I woke up from a 2 hr. nap today and was humming Strawberry letter 22. I had to google it and it all came flooding back. I was 15 yrs. old when this came out. Wonderful feel good tunes. Man, that was a good sleep I had. xoxo

@Jgeneraledger23

5 ай бұрын

awesome memory.

Late Show host David Letterman used to always play this song for some reason haha

@lynnschnekenburger7270

4 ай бұрын

Letterman was just cool!!!!😎

Fine taste in music brought me here.

RIP Louis. Your bass was magical!!!

Now this is the most amazing song of all time! My name is Juliet Donnan and no other song will ever move me like this! Don't ask me why....I just love it 😍xx

@user-jn3px2oc9k

2 ай бұрын

This song came out on Senior Prom night 1977 It was in SF

Strawberry 23 was one of the first songs that started my love of music- and Rick James! I was 17! Thanks guys for the the great tunes! R.I.P💐

The 45 of this song had a strong strawberry scent on the record sleeve. I was so excited to get this as a kid - I wanted the 45, but when I noticed the scent, I _begged_ my mom to buy it 😄. Amazingly, the scent lasted for several years before it finally faded away. I still have the 45. 😎

Her letters were written and she kissed me with strawberry lip gloss... Max Factor? Still True Love always! Biggest kisses. Thanks Brothers Johnson and Baby Shampoo... maybe? (I was not 17, I was 10 or 11 by then in 7th grade and she was in 8th and the story is more complex... maybe tell you later.

KZread just randomly recommend this to me and my mind is blown. Speechless.

Fantastic and never out of my mind. My birthdate tells me I'm not 20 anymore but my body disagrees. Fantastic era, unequalled still. Wish I could go back and stay there.

@jujujupiter

3 ай бұрын

Semper Fi to you semperfidelis2970

The year I graduated HS, love this song brings back some wonderful memories! Thank you ☺️

I was only 10 when this came out. Still remember my father and his brothers crowding around the radio to listen to the awesome bass playing and guitar solo. Real talent with real musicians. RIP Louis Johnson.

@leetate977

7 жыл бұрын

dean roa I love it too. I turned 14 that summer of 1978 when this hit. My only disappointment was when I found out that guitar riff solo towards the end was not George playing. It was jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour in the studio. But all bass work was played buy Louis

@christyloomis6183

4 жыл бұрын

I ssssooo agree with you on this band. I slept with a transistor radio then. This group would wake me up and give me my soul back

this is truly the best

This songs brings such a warm and wonderful feeling to my soul. I share these songs with every younger person I know hoping they will share it with their friends it's the only way to keep it alive - God blessed the 70's 80's and 90's 😍 When the world was a kinder place and we made love not war♥️☮️🇺🇲

Great song ! Good times !!

oh dear....the groovey 1970's ! the memories! Heavenly bygone era!

My black people 💯💯💯✊🏿♥️♥️♥️♥️

@endtimesclips896

Жыл бұрын

Right !!

Still have this album! Great song

That intro - such a killer!

Had a date lined up for the after graduation party. He stood me up. He was my prom date. Glad he showed up for that. Anyhow went to the party alone. Had a ball.

@user-bu2rx6qi9t

2 ай бұрын

Right on girl !

Those guitar chords in the middle of the song and bass line are epic!

Beautiful song thanks to Shuggie Otis and beautiful afros. I wanna go back.

What can you say perfection 👌🏾

Those days are past gone. Very hard to match.

Since 79 I am listening to this. And I still do totally get the meaning of all the lyrics! Still, as fresh as it was back in the glorious days when FUNK was bass guitar! 😜

This is why i love being a black men. Where literally cold at everything 😊

@danielinnis6837

2 жыл бұрын

YES tell them ✊🏿♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

@endtimesclips896

Жыл бұрын

Right

@user-jp7qo2gr8b

4 ай бұрын

Not in 2024. We use to be

@presone2077

2 ай бұрын

Huh in everything try to be good fathers gtfo …

One of those songs that linger in your mind, with no idea how to find it, and one day you do, and all is good in the world!

I never had the privilege to see them but with I could one day.

Can't hear this song enough.

@packerjip9665

5 жыл бұрын

Gotta love your musical tastes.

Thunder thumbs and lightning licks the best

Brings back great memories!

Legendary Brothers Johnson. ☺

Bought this 45' when i was in 6th grade, the cover was Strawberry scented. Still love this song.

Hello, my love I heard a kiss from you Red magic satin playing near, too All through the morning rain I gaze - the sun doesn't shine Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind In the garden - I see west Purple shower, bells and tea Orange birds and river cousins dressed in green Pretty music I hear So happy and loud Blue flowers echo from a cherry cloud Feel sunshine sparkle pink and blue Playgrounds will laugh f you try to ask Or is it cool? is it cool? If you arrive and don't see me I'm going to be with my baby I am free - flying in her arms, over the sea Stained window, yellow candy screen See speakers of kites - with velvet roses diggin' freedom flight A present from you - Strawberry letter 22 The music plays, I sit in for a few Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh... A present from you - Strawberry letter 22 The music plays, I sit in for a few Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...

@brianjobs9895

6 жыл бұрын

Anna hallikainen thanks..I never knew the words lol

@ChuckTay23

6 жыл бұрын

Straight poetry man

@kimroberts7458

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a little LSD.

@kevinwhelan2880

6 жыл бұрын

God's Music

@farrahc7055

5 жыл бұрын

Anna hallikainen Thank you so much, I can tell you're a true fan. 💜 (16.10.18)

Always Love this Perfectly crafted song!! 💖💖💖💖🍓 💌 23

The Brothers Johnson were good entertainers love their music which still lives on in the hearts of many many fans.I was saddened to hear of the passing of Louis Thunder Thumbs Johnson.he was an awesome bass player rip Louis. we miss you

The soundtrack to my youth in the 70s

Shugie's lyrics to this tune are the most beautiful for describing that 'Heaven on Earth' feeling you only get when you are "In Love". Of course, George and Louis' rendition brought it to the masses. I just miss this stuff, cause their groove was infectious. I don't care who you are, if this don't move you...you're in the grave.

RIP Louis Johnson.Boy can they sing and play the guitar. My favorite song of their's especially the long version. Music from the 70's still the best.

Back in the day, I remember playing this song over and over as a teenager it was so smooth and hypnotic it just put me in a trance practically! A beautiful song and that Trippy guitar 🎸 solo. I was just was mesmerized by this great song. And now it still sounds good years later only now I know this isn’t the original version even! I just listened to the original version and it’s pretty good but I prefer the Brothers Johnson version the best! I’m glad it’s held up after all these years!

I grew up with this awesome music.

Some of the greatest music ever.

This jam will always be a fave...soul, funk, smooth, what a fabulous combination.

Total class

There may be more complex and relevant forms of music, but DISCO is pure joy. Its job is to make your body move, put a smile on your face and warm your soul. What could be more relevant??

Takes me back to 1977 😂 my favorite year! I was 16 and listening to all the awesome songs such as this one 👍

@Jgeneraledger23

5 ай бұрын

I remember I was like 5 or 6 when this debuted, and we used to go to the automatic Car Wash with this blasting on the AM radio!

2024 let's go

god I miss real talent .

@OneMan-wl1wj

7 жыл бұрын

Chuck Jones You got that right 👍

@beagle-dad2925

5 жыл бұрын

true story....its all garbage now

@lestermoore9827

5 жыл бұрын

About to light up a fat one

@execatty

4 жыл бұрын

We all do

Beautiful Fro's on these brothers !

I have listen to this music since I was 10 years old and still listening...never gets old!!

Está canção alegra minha alma😃❤

takes me back waaay back to the day the Jackie Brown soundtrack got released :p

@kenrichards3658

7 жыл бұрын

Three game of thrones T

These guys were so cool, I loved this song , had a lot of good music back then

I remember chilling out to this song with my high school bestie in her strawberry-coloured room. Sweet times..!

Great sound 'n groove. I love this song. Top!

This is my favorite BJ tune. I got to see them live in the late 1970's at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, CA. That's one concert I'm glad I didn't miss !

I remember this song like yesterday playing at the skating rink when I was a kid.

old school sound nothing like it!!!

@Mamaofthehooligan

5 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of mother's finest song baby love I think you might like it

@jimpickett6813

5 жыл бұрын

Got that right Harold!

This is a all time classic