"I'm not gonna make hamburgers for you!" Bless this man. First for this song, then for that quote!

This song is still the bomb

@johnpeters3600

3 жыл бұрын

It will always be the bomb.

@franknada8235

2 жыл бұрын

Great to - after all tjis time - realize the überpop song was TOTALLY based on JAZZ!!! FFS, I play and sing but never payed attention. Too busy dancing and grooving to it, lol!!!

@Soul03

2 жыл бұрын

It's still the bomb brother🤘🏼

@bbangel6935

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah 🤟🏾

worth it just to see him do the solo

Michael Sembello, the finest songwriter and musician most people in the UK have never heard of sadly!

@TonyMontanaDS

2 жыл бұрын

That's because he only had 1 hit.

That was the best Michael Sembello interview. Great player too.

His still sounds great.

@markeinstein5630

3 жыл бұрын

and looks great too

Heisenberg Sembello is the one who knocks!

Carousel, one of the outtakes from Thriller was also written by Sembello. He's featured in Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life documentary by Classic Albums and is absolutely hilarious. Respect to you sir.

Michael Sembello is one of my favorite singer / songwriters of all time, Maniac is a great song, but he's got so many great songs on his albums. I still listen to Bossa Nova Hotel. Without Walls on a weekly basis. I listen to Caravan of Dreams on a daily basis. There's a song called Sahara that was released on a foreign version of Caravan of Dreams, I've been looking for that song for years. If you can get in contact with Michael, tell him to Please Release that song on KZread!!!! Update on Sahara! A cool guy from Japan sent me the record on FaceBook 😭👍🏾

One of the best songs ever

I parked in a truck stop years ago overnight, and some goon in the cab next to me played this at full volume repeatedly until the early hours. This song always reminds me of that night.

great guitar solo on this song

when he shreds during the interview. so good.

What a youthful sounding voice he has. Wow

Before rock and metal came to the fore within my then teenage brain, a driving pop song ably emboldened with a fitting guitar solo really hit the spot. That's why BBC Radio2 has it on fairly regular rotation too. If the royalties let him live the life he wants to live, you can't argue with that. In fact, I sincerely welcome it

Wow, he looks absolutely nothing like how I imagined based on his voice.

@PowerRedBullTypology

2 жыл бұрын

how did you imagine him?

@christopherdieudonne

2 жыл бұрын

@@PowerRedBullTypology Like a pretty boy, if Prince were white.

@oddities-whatnot

2 жыл бұрын

@@PowerRedBullTypology Glen Medeiros. He looks how Michael sounds.

@bimrebeats

11 ай бұрын

That was the beauty of the 70s and 80s era, people focused on the music first

@christopherdieudonne

11 ай бұрын

@@bimrebeats Absolutely!!

Sembello was a great session musician back in the day like Lukather or Jackson Jr, he played a lot of amazing guitar tracks

Wow. I want to hear that version of "Maniac" that he is playing if he ever released it. Never knew he was a Jazz artist. Always related to Maniac as an 80s power pop record. 🤯🤯🤯

@MrLefty27

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH992Lhwm9DeiZs.html

@MrLefty27

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH992Lhwm9DeiZs.html closest version to the just the guitar version of it

I remember when he performed this song on American Bandstand... and the second verse are the deepest I've ever heard in the song in awhile

@xeropunt5749

5 жыл бұрын

CJ Meiko Agree!

@user-df4yl3cs6q

Жыл бұрын

Lip synced you idiot lol

I want to hear the serial killer version!

@DarkSideofSynth

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! Me too!

@jasonwhite7452

4 жыл бұрын

Dark Side of Synth I’m with you! I was hoping to find that demo somewhere online!

oh man.....a 7yo child dancin on this one with dad ...it was me ! 43yo today and very happy to know what's the 80s ^^ LOVE FROM BELGIUM ^^

This guy is just casually mentioning he played with stevie wonder when he was 17

@watchinboats

3 жыл бұрын

And that he was only there to watch Miles play the pre-shows 😅

@stedebassett1523

3 жыл бұрын

He was very good to be playing professionally with Stevie at 17. He has a beautiful voice and really understands music.

Best songs are always written in a jacuzzi!

@adamsasso1

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully on an acoustic ⚡️

@Jabongify

5 жыл бұрын

'jazz'cuzzi :)

@honeybuzzard2843

4 жыл бұрын

Best Fuckin aswell😛

@honeybuzzard2843

4 жыл бұрын

SAVAGE

The only reason for watching FlashDance is for looking at that babe Jennifer Beals and the music!

Holy shit it's Heisenberg! No wait it's the Maniac guy!

@robvaughan4336

4 жыл бұрын

Say my name!

A genius with the voice of an angel

Ive been a Michael Sembello fan soy of my life and bought Bossa Nova Hotel back in the mid 80's . I still own it today as its one of the finest albums from that entire decade in my view. The production is second to none and Michael is a fabulous singer and player. I own Without Walls and his Lost Years CD both are just as good. its a shame he has not had more recognition here in the UK. Also I would love to get hold of Caravan Of Dreams here but try as I have its impossible. He recently released a single called The Weight of the World which is on amazon to buy and my review of it says it all. Michael again at his best!

Love his voice!

The chords are just beautiful. Love it.

The song also has killer haunting life-lesson lyrics. Thanks for the memories

Just a brilliant musician.

Never realized how brilliant he was. Brilliant song. Amazing changes. ~V~

4:26 This version needs to be released !!

@MrLefty27

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH992Lhwm9DeiZs.html Closest to the the jazz version. Sounds like his voice.

She's a maniac, she's a maniac that fooo sure and she's dancin' like she never danced befooo - Willie

Yes Micheal a spectacular wonderful voice wow singing and Speaking so humble and graceful Blessings Overly

So iconic! This song has the a lot of FORCE today! I just love it!

Wonderful guys!

Fantastic track! Always loved it

That tasty guitar lick! Damn!

Excellent song to listen cranked up !!

great cinematography!

WOW..............That was great ...........

Brilliant combination!

The song aged much better than the movie.

This was fascinating to watch. Good for him for staying on his own path. I love that line about not making hamburgers.

THIS JAZZ VERSION IS GENIUS

Great song. great video clip

what a time capsule!

brilliant song .....just brilliant

Brilliant song

I love the acoustic version of if

Michael also wrote and performed the theme to another movie called " Summer Lovers ".

Nice voice

My first knowledge of Michael Sembello is the song: "Love will come someday". I believe it was on "As We Speak" album of David Sanborn. He did a very good job.

The last name says it all. Sembello. That's Italian, plus he's a jazz musician :-) Like Prince, he gave the WB suits a big old "No Pizza For You!"! Lol

J adord. Merci beaucoup de souvenir 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🤪🤪🤪🤪👍❤️

I want to hear the original so much

Michael i love you so much

🤯🤯🤯🤯... That was Musicorgasm...

J adord toute ma jeunesse 👍🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷👍❤️

*Still pictures Groundskeeper Willie singing the hook and throwing water on himself*

@RADIO1990

4 жыл бұрын

" you ungrateful Bas...!" LOL

He sounds like a 14 year old boy when he sings like he can easily cover do any he can be like a one-man boy band

J adord j avaie. 25 ans. Génial 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵😂👍💕maikel

😂Just brilliant.

La France aussi 🇫🇷👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

It's a great song, I guess I understand a bit better now why it appealed to me the way it did.

one of the greatest ! michael please come back ! lol ! where are f...you ?

I love the more jazzy version of the song.

@kickbiker7920

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH992Lhwm9DeiZs.html This is a slower version he did Quite listenable ...

J adord 👍🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷❤️

So he is still alive!!!

@JNo-sk5mz

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly his brother Danny sembello passed away

J adord c étais 1 belle epoque. 👍💪💪💪🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷❤️

Rock on

Still better than anything out in the last 20 years.

J adord je te suie depuis mes 16 ans 👍🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wow

"I'm not gonna make hamburgers for you!" Lol

If you build a thousand bridges...

All these guy that live off a song... lucky them

@bubbleballgirl

4 жыл бұрын

It isn’t usually just luck.. it’s also hard work and passion for their craft

@ub4079

4 жыл бұрын

bubbleballgirl agree!!!! He studied in schools, he plays guitar, keyboard. He deserves it!!!!!! Unlike today’s celebs like kardashian who did nothing for the money

He is a musicians, musician

Was there a temp track the director used during the dance rehearsals and shooting and then Sembello had to bump up the tempo to match what was shot?

How can i contact him? 😍😍😍😍

I hardly believe my ears he mentioned Giorgio Moroder pioneer of synthesizers use in music!

Record the jazz version of the song please. I knew, even in the 80s, that this track had "bones".

@rykovvladimir

5 жыл бұрын

He always did it ,look for maniac(new version) from lost years 2003 album

@JNo-sk5mz

4 жыл бұрын

There's a jazz version, you can probably find it on KZread

Without that music Flashdance bombs. Sembello once said: "It was nominated for an academy award and was disqualified according to 'academy rules' because the song was changed from the original and was not originally written solely for the film, which pisses me off to this day."

@cnfuzz

4 жыл бұрын

Apart from the great songwriting it is the moroder sound making it a hit , the drummachine and underpinning synthbass giving it drive and the 32 note clap going krrr krrr makes it

@JNo-sk5mz

4 жыл бұрын

@@cnfuzz Phil Ramone did a great job producing that record, Moroder did other records with Sembello, like Its Over from Bossa Nova Hotel but it's the hook that made it hit IMO.

@mrpacdan

4 жыл бұрын

@@JNo-sk5mz Although Moroder produced several songs on the soundtrack, "Maniac" was produced by Phil Ramone.

The movie in question was William Lustig's "Maniac", which is a hilarious thought, that such a popsong would grace one of the most vile horror films.

Can someone cover Maniac with the chords he played at 4:20 please

where is he now?

When I 1st heard him sing, I swore up & down he was black lol. I call him Stevie Wonder Jr cuz he also often wrote & sung songs in his style. Many sing in Stevie's style but few write songs in his style & then have the ability to sing it let alone be close enough to get Stevie to be a feature. Its not super duper copying neither so you can truly appreciate it & call it genuinely inspired music.

"He's a maniac, that's for sure He'll kill your cat and nail it to the door" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

CONTUSION!!!!!!!

His muscles?

So where the hell did Hall and Oates come into it?

Wait a minute there ! One doesn't simply string together 'I would like to write a song about a serial killer" and "we were in the jacuzzi" in the same paragraph !

This movie replaced 'The return of the Jedi' in Aug. 1983... & did better at the box office here

She's some sort of a maniac, apparently.

rix SHEARER ism This kicks ass ! ! : 4:30 This sucks!! : 0:43

I thought the idea behind this song was from him seeing the movie (TTCSM) with the heroine in the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

damn how the hell he has that singing voice so different than his speaking voice? He sounds like a babyface teenager and looks like a west farmer in the interview

is he italian??

Automatic Man \m/