I'm 60. I grew up with this..... i love watching these young kids discover great music.

@jerrybowers3174

3 ай бұрын

60 here as well. We had the best youth.

@Edman116

3 ай бұрын

54 here. It gives me hope and I love seeing their face when it hits their souls.

@KingCobra1968

3 ай бұрын

56 here. I agree.

@keithmcknight954

3 ай бұрын

62… so glad to have been a teenager/early 20s during the 70’s to early eighties.

@peterokeeffe8307

3 ай бұрын

61 here - and absolutely agree. The best period for music and its great to see the younger crowd enjoying what we grew up with.

God this reminds me of my husband. I put this song on they tape player on our wedding night after we got to our hotel. Married 40 years before I lost him. We would listen to it on our anniversary well into our 60's.

@aerogain

4 ай бұрын

ouch

@alohakittymon

2 ай бұрын

❤️💔❤️

@kitschmygrits4836

2 ай бұрын

Please share how you found him. Some of us haven't been able to pick the right one even after 50...

Grew up in the 70s and I get such a kick out of seeing young people dig on real music.

@andrewparise7471

16 күн бұрын

Me too! This was standard FM radio for us and to see these kids get turned on for the first time is a kick!

70's ROCKED OUT!!!!! No better decade to grow up in!!!! You would have loved it, Britt!!!!

@justchillin4065

4 ай бұрын

💯

@MrZocor

4 ай бұрын

Except you would be close to death now. LOL Best time ever. Way too short though.

@Arfy900

4 ай бұрын

69s and 70s

@kbrewski1

4 ай бұрын

This is pure marshmallow soft pappy crap dreck. Go shop at the mall.

@dalenikolitch4627

4 ай бұрын

YEA!!!!

The 70's were the best.

@ronhall5395

4 ай бұрын

I turned 16 in 1970. So I agree!

@naudianeels1328

4 ай бұрын

Hell yeah! ❤️

@spot878

3 ай бұрын

Best ever nothing like the 70’s music …

@brahmmauer7437

24 күн бұрын

70’s and 80’s. BEST time to grow up.

@bobbyarnold5555

23 күн бұрын

my 20s were the 80s and nothing beats the 1980s :)

I’m 60 and the music I grew up listening to was the best. I wish everyone could have experienced that time in history. People loved eachother, no race problems

The 70's had the BEST music EVER!! SO glad I was a teenager then!!

@sixslinger9951

4 ай бұрын

I agree. I grew up in the 70s and early 80s

@donnievanwie5143

4 ай бұрын

I have youthful flashbacks when I hear 70's music... The best!

Jimmy Stokely (Blondie) OWNS this song! He sings it like he means it! So incredibly intense and passionate!

The smile on her face says she's hooked on this music and it's great!

I can still remember riding in the car as a child in the 70's with this song playing on a single dash speaker broadcast over AM..!! Music created back when people still had HOPE that life would be rewarding..!! The overall quality of life was so much better back then..!! I'd gladly give up computers, cell phones, and 24hr shopping to have those times back..!!

@kangakong

3 ай бұрын

In a heartbeat! 💓

@hyacinth4368

3 ай бұрын

You betcha!!

@nancy9478

3 ай бұрын

Yes!

@darkangel72-ge6sc

3 ай бұрын

In the blink of an eye. Click the heels of ruby shoes together 3X...I'm gone!

@Michelle-in5on

2 ай бұрын

Me too, get me a time machine!

“ Good music is good music.” You said it, babe. A lot of us who were around in the 70s are now realizing just how fortunate we were. We just didn’t know it at the time. It was great to be alive and livin’ back then! Keep the vibe going!

The 70's were great because there were so many styles of music coexisting together and there was something for everyone. Sampling different styles, it just worked

This song was a hit in summer 1978 by Exile...45 1/2 years ago.

@user-sm3ii5dk1u

4 ай бұрын

Are ya callin' us old...? lol

@jeffreymosher6334

4 ай бұрын

Yep, ... which is why the video Thumbnail confused me SO much. 50 years what?! I sadly suppose from a 2024-hyper-current-focus, in a stretch, you COULD sorta say that, BUT for a Gen X viewer that's the difference between a song from when I was 4 to a song from when I was 8. For a music enthusiast, that's a range when MOST of the DISCO era happened from 1974 to that later point of going #1 in early autumn 78. For someone who lived through it, music had evolved so much in those 4 1/2 years. At the same time, the thumbnail worked and got me to watch, so there's that.

@user-sm3ii5dk1u

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffreymosher6334Happy to be old lol, we had so much great music the youngsters won't ever discover, and new music, doesn't need discovery.

@howiewarren243

9 күн бұрын

Ahhh yessss i was a Freshmen in High School when this hit the Radio

Jimmy Stokley, the lead singer and founding member of Exile passed away in 1985 at age 41 from Hepatitis. He was absolutely fabulous! I grew up around them here in Kentucky. They are still making music! You need to listen to their country music!

@ku4uv

2 ай бұрын

I live in Richmond, where the band was formed. I have never met any of the current members, but my brother's mother-in-law is friends with J.P. Pennington's sister. We attended one of their concerts with J.P.'s sister. I was a restaurant one night, and Exile's original drummer, Ronnie "Mac" Davenport was in there, so I briefly said hi to him.

Good music can only be found in the 70's and 80's (mostly) What a awesome reaction, the best I have seen in a long time from anyone!!

@user-sm3ii5dk1u

4 ай бұрын

The 60s had a couple of moments too lol...

@gregjames9875

4 ай бұрын

1940-1980s, were the best.

@christarpley6861

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the 60s as well plus the 90s too anything after that isn't that great

You are HALARIOUS! I remember when this song was first released. The 70's were awesome!

The Eagles. “I Can’t tell you why” is a must listen. Much love form the UK

@Reclining_Spuds

8 күн бұрын

Except everything Eagles gets blocked. 😢

My mom used to rock out to this album at home. I literally grew up hearing this song.

@laurashelton5942

4 ай бұрын

Me too.

@robertgarcia3031

4 ай бұрын

Your mom has good taste in music.

one of my favorites from back in the day...

This is the most loving song ever. He absolutely loves his lady or wife. He puts her needs above his and knows he would be nothing without her and they are more together than the sum of their parts.

The 70s music was the very best. Great rock music, great soft rock music.

@jeffreymosher6334

4 ай бұрын

Yep, and I guess you classify Exile as a general American music band (all over the place). This is definitely a rock song but they made their career as a Country band. Saw them in the 90s when I was working in radio. A #1 and the 5th biggest song of 1978 in a year dominated by the Bee Gees.

This was the only number 1 song on the pop charts but they had 10 on the country charts in the 80's.

The lead singer loves his job More than anyone I've ever seen! He had a right to harm whoever cut his hair!

Back in my day..nobody could do you like Exile could do you...hit song

It's fascinating to watch your reaction to this because this at least in my memory was kind of a one-hit wonder but it was during my first girlfriend when I was in 9th grade and she was in 10th grade and we spinned a lot of vinyl but she was always just on fire about this song. It really turned her on. And so I definitely have nostalgic memories about it and it was amazing to see your first reaction to it all these decades later.

@frankmj9631

4 ай бұрын

You rock brother!

@roywall8169

4 ай бұрын

In the 80s, Exile had a stint in country music.

Generations of people were made due to the hippy love music of the 60's, the rock of the 70's, the rock ballads of the 80's, the R&B of the 90's......... This is a rollerskating song, for a friday night.

this song was a massive hit! admit it! you didn't think it was a white guy! and that makes it even better!

Nice rich full sound. A whole group coming together to make music sounds so nice. The difference in looks between the different band members is wild. It's like the lead singer just dropped in from another planet.

@PapaFixit

4 ай бұрын

He did

@nancywutzke5392

3 ай бұрын

😁😁😁 He could drop in on my planet any day!

Wow i was 17 when this song came out , i remember going to the high school dance and asking this girl to dance, i can still remember to this day how sweating my hands was from being so nervous lol great memories

I was a 8 YO kid when this came out and I could not understand why all my friends moms got mesmerized when this song came on the radio.

A lot of people only know Exile for this one song. You'd never know it but they are actually a country band from here in Kentucky. I was lucky enough to work as the photographer for their 2023 4th of July show and people were blown away thinking that they were more of this pop/disco genre. They still got it, by the way, but the original lead singer sadly passed just a few years after this song was recorded.

Adam Sandler has a great rendition of this song in Happy Gilmore. 😂

This, Baby Come back, the Bee Gees, and others, were the beginnings of the Disco era. Except for Blues and Jazz music began a long slide down in the late 80's, and it's never recovered. It's also the time I quit my music career as a drummer after twenty years.

@jeffreymosher6334

4 ай бұрын

This, Player, Bee Gees, and Exile were the PEAK of the Disco era. Disco began in late 1973, hit the music charts in 1974, and the New York media considered it a dead cultural FAD by early 1977, BUT THEN the Saturday Night Fever sent DISCO into HYPER-Popularity and overexposure. No SNF movie and the LATE 70s would have been vastly different. Considering this was a September/October 1978 #1, and DIsco DIED in July/August 1979 it's REALLY near the END of the disco era. But the overall spirit of your answer is certainly a cultural expression that matches the opinion of many of us. Peace Out, and have a great weekend.

I haven't heard this song in years! I need to put in my mp3 player. Back in the late '70s I saw Exile open for Nazareth, what a great night that was. I'll never forget. Great reaction Britt! "His body is here but his mind is on the other side of town". Hahaha. Well said.

"Good music is good music", yes it is.

I was 15 years old when this was released. The 70s were the best time of my life. You young lady are very beautiful, wish you were alive at that time I would have loved to have kissed you all over.. Nothing but respect for you. Fine Dining and loving. 💗🥰🧨❤️

Many a late night with this in the background back in the day. Love your reaction from a newer generation! Your reactions are the best! Absolutely love your laugh, it is so infectious.

Jimmy Stokley lead singer from Richmond Ky. Left the band in 1980 and passed away in 1985 from a liver disease. This was by far their biggest hit as it was number 1 on charts for four weeks and was #5 all time for 1978

Britt, try the band band Bread(Best of Bread Album). In the "70's", it was the album we put on at the end of the party, when people were "pairing up", and curling up on something warm & soft.(try "Make it with you, or Everything I own, or It don't matter to me, or Baby Im-a want you), either will do the trick. ;)

@pollynicklas5220

4 ай бұрын

Agree, that's a great album!

I was around 15 when this song came out. My friends and I would melt at that opening, ending with the "yea-eh." Chills -- every time. lol

Love this band. Between late 1983 and early 1988, Exile charted ten number-one singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Harmonies like that made '70's music so good. I wish the music writers would work more of that sort of thing back into music today.

I grew up in this era, loved the 70’s here in the UK 😊❤️🇬🇧xxx

The Midnight Special was the greatest show!!! The Midnight Special (TV series)- The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series originally broadcast on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman.

About to watch. This was a radio-friendly hit that I as a rocker am ashamed to admit I liked back in the day. Edit: Britt, you should have been a child of the 70's. Every day a new banger like this came on the radio and we barely put down our tomato and cheese sandwiches.

Another singer from this time you will like and most likely add to the PDC is Eddie Rabbitt.

Exile in the 70's and early 80's was a hit machine with two careers. In America they were mostly a country band but in Europe they were known as a rock band. They left behind a trail of hits but this was their apex.

The band Exile was formed at Madison Central High School in Richmond, Kentucky in 1963. Richmond is my hometown, and I went to school at Madison Central. I have occasionally run into former band members from Exile. I have attended many of Exiles concerts here in Kentucky. Great band, and great bunch of guys!

Britt, YOU LADY, are the BEST at detail, I love your review, GOD BLESS YOU AN FAMILY!!!!!!

A great era for music..

Love your reactions Britt!!! You’ve got an old soul, meaning, you feel good music as we felt it when it came out ❤

I grow up listening to Exile they are from Kentucky They just celebrated 50 years together the remaining living members

One of my favorites..... along the same line of groove....Hot Chocolate-"Everyone's a Winner" You'll love it

I love this girl! She ROCKS!!!!

I had no business loving this song so much as a 12 y/o when it came out, but this is one of those songs that I can't help but crank if it comes on in the car.

@nancywutzke5392

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, hormones are flying at 12. 😁😁😁

@dalecaswell4217

Ай бұрын

I was a horn-dawg at 6, apparently. And didn't even know it. But I loved this song as a 6 year old. Never stopped. The only songs that inspired my kiddie mind in ANY way like this one: Seals&Crofts Summer Breeze, McCartney's Let 'Em In, Elton's Don't Go Breakin My Heart, & several of the hit songs by Chic. I still got a lot of great music I remember loving in those young, young years, but those ones always struck the child's mind the hardest.

This song was number a number one hit for a reason! 🔥

1978 was the top of the 70's it's. 70's rule the music.

Music is timeless, a lot of radio stations refused to play it because they thought it was dirty

Absolutely love this song.

Wow I miss the 70’s so bad, Jr High and my High School years the best cars best music ever .I am 63 now and I sat down with a couple of my friends that we went from Grade school Jr.High , High School , and Graduated together and our Senior trip was Marine Bootcamp and had a Lady listening to us and she looked at us and said you guys really miss it don’t you. We laughed and said what the hell happened 😂Oh I forgot the best Clothes as well

Oh my … this song takes me back to my late teen years and some really hot moments. Wow!

This brings back great memories. Walking/and dancing in a ballroom/ with the disco ball over head. I met my hubby in a place like that. Hard to believe all men had hair that long......Women ratted their hair/and wore white lipstick. Excellent song, it was always on the jukebox in these cool ballroom/disco's. Thank you..I so enjoy your personality.

This is what a #1 record sounds like back in the day.

@kbrewski1

4 ай бұрын

This is what a record we took off the turntable in HS, threw it against the wall shattering it, sounded like. Replaced by ELPs Karn Evil 9. Then the party started rocking.

I remember listening to this back in the 70s, loved it then and still do! These guys can sing sensual.

Exile was a greatCountry band and this song was their massive cross over hit. All of their love songs are awesome

Thank you so much for the memories...and OH THE MEMORIES ! Lol

OMG! This song is amazing--but this video and your reaction had me howling. "he bent down and got his eagle on". I fell out of my chair. The hair flip, the white coat, the arms swinging around, the blue unitard, and the the voice that you never expected to come out of that man....such a classic in so many ways. Enjoy the day.

When my folks heard it they said ‘what does he mean kiss you all over, that’s silly’ and I just thought they were old fashioned and didn’t understand my generation. I was about 16 when it came out and I still love this song, never saw the video until later but I loved dancing to this with my lover at the disco and we had two babies so it worked on us. Today I play it to recapture that beautiful feeling of first love.

I sang it into my ring camera, Happy Gilmore-style

I had no business, at 9 years old, to love this song as much as I did!🤦🏼‍♀️😂 Here I am at 54 still loving it! Nice reaction, Britt!

Parents had a *fit* when this hit the air waves. They considered the lyrics wildly inappropriate at the time.😂 Believe it or not they're known as a country band now. Their genres are listed as R&B/Soul and Country.

I used to drive for a food service company back when this was out and I remember one of the restaurants on my route was a strip club and this song along with Nick Gilder's "Hot Child In the City" was always on when the girls were dancing. So you should do that one next Britt for all those hard working girls out there.😉

@matthewdooley7855

4 ай бұрын

Never thought of this as a strip club song, "Hot Child In the City" makes sense. The laid-back strip club song certainly has its place!

The 70s ROCKED!!! So did the 80s... What a great time period to grow up in. Glad I was around to hear some of the best music ever created as it was happening! And YOU "squirrel" crack me up!!! Just subscribed 😂

I'm 60 and grew up wearing bell bottoms and tie dyes, concerts and arts and craft shows. Man, I really miss those times....

1970’s Music Is The Best

I crack myself up too and quite frequently😆

"Night closes in" means it's getting later in the evening.... Interesting note, before Exile went country they were a rock band.... they played at my high school about a year before this came out.

Great song from a great band. Love Exile’s music. May Jim Stokely the lead singer with long hair RIP. He went thru so much in his life. Sad

It's what we call a bedroom voice!!💜💜💜

So for some reason had this song in my head today. Came on YT to listen. Saw there was a BrittReacts for it. Had to listen, cause she does fun reaction videos. Not disappointed. I was a Junior in HS when this song came out. This song was the theme song and responsible for more than a couple of teen pregnancies.

One of my husband's and my favorite songs. We were married in 1978 and had 30 years before cancer took him. He used to sing this to me. ❤

@user-lw9ns5dq2v

3 ай бұрын

Blessings for sharing this beautiful memory of your man and the music you enjoyed together 😊❤ take care !

I love your reviews and your on point and love your attitude and you can reconize great music, thank you.

Absolutely love your reaction. Thank you for sharing.

I won’t disagree with you Britt, the 70s is the best decade for music Barr none that’s my opinion as well take it or leave it I’m good!

The 70's, greatest time to be alive in the history of mankind!

Great song and reaction Britt! Exile went on to become a huge COUNTRY music band in the 80's!

I met these guys back in the 80s when i .was 18 . They were awsome .

I tell you what young lady..... you are one of my favorite channels to watch. You are an original...... just like no life shaq. Keep doing you!

Interesting fact: This song was a hit on the pop/rock charts, but after some personnel changes, the band transitioned to country, and had more chart success in that genre.

This song was written by Australian songwriter Mike Chapman who is still living here in Queensland.

Gotta listen to this one imagining your at the top of your game in roller skates. This was me in my first school skate with Melinda. I might have been 7, and it might have been 1982 but this song just made those things happen earlier than usual.

I just love your reactions Britt. To see you find joy in music I grew up with, is awesome...

LMAO Beth here, your killing me , i'm 60 yrs old and i loved this song when i was like 13 yrs old, and now i look at the video and im like wth was i thinking , but ya man i love the vocals still, so funny.

"the night closes in" refers to the illusion of the night "engulfing" us .... closing in from all sides.

They were from my hometown here in Kentucky. I got to see them live in concert back in the late 2000's at Lake Reba for the 4th of July. They are AMAZING!!

I LOVE THIS SONG! I haven’t heard it in over 30 years! Thank you for this reaction!!!😊

"Til the night closes in" is an archaic literary device referring to pre-dawn. Just fyi

I was 8 yo when I first head it and LOVED it. I never knew what they looked like and last year I saw it and I play it loud ALL THE TIME!. I LOVE the lead singer and also love his vibe!! He does the splits at the end! I can't get enough of it. The lead Jimmy Stokley is awesome!

I think Steve Miller said it best. I am paraphrasing here. He said “We played that game of getting a string of hits. Alot of the success of pop records hinged on if you could craft and write a song with “5 hooks”.

You are so much fun Britt. Your reactions bring us joy. Blessings.