Remarks:
One of my all-time favourite songs. The Christion cover was one of the first songs I posted on this blog. This is the original. It came out at the end of 1976 and went to #3 on the US R&B chart.
The video shows me trying to get with Tracy Reed, back when I used to work at an LA car wash. Just kidding! The video comes from the film “Car Wash” (1976), for which Rose Royce did the music.
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Lyrics:
Sittin here in this chair
Waitin on you
aaahhh baby to see things my way
But not a word do you say
You won’t even look my way, yeah
Girl I’m spendin my dimes
Wastin my time
Talkin til I’m black and blue
Uh can’t you see
I wanna get next to you
Dreams of you when I go sailing by
When ever your eyes meet mine
Your so fine
And girl you make me feel so insecure
You’re so beautiful and pure
Why must you be unkind
And tell me I’m not your kind
Blowin my mind
Girl my, my money is low and I know
That I can’t take you to the fancy places
You might wanna go
Still I wanna get next to you
I wanna get next to you
Baby yeah
Aah aah aah aah aah
Aaahh yeah
Girl you can bend me, shape me, make me
What ever it takes to please you
I’m willing to do
Cause you’re my dream come true
And I wanna get next to you
Baby yeah
I wanna get next to you
I wanna make you mine for all of time
(I wanna get next to you)
I promise I’ll never make you blue
I wanna get next to you
So let love begin between me and you
(I wanna get next to you)
Girl I’m in love with you
(I wanna get next to you)
Source: A-Z Lyrics.
Music was sooooo good back then!
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“The video shows me trying to get with Tracy Reed, back when I used to work at an LA car wash.” – Abagond
LOL, you are a damn phool! Do you still sport the afro and sideburn?
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I was in 3rd grade when this song was released and I was obsessed with it. It remains one of my favorite love songs.
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@ blakksage
LOL.
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Sigh, back in the day when boy confessions of love made a girl feel special…
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This song also is reminiscent of “Cruising” I think by Smokey Robinson.
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Ah yes!…That’s all I can say about this song lol.
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I like their song, Wishing on a Star. It sounds so 70s and yet timeless at the same time. It has this trippy, sexy feel, kind of like Strawberry 23, but like if you went into Space, this would be the first song you would kiss to in a small cafe on a first date on one of Jupiter’s moons.
That trippy. And I’m not even high. Love that song.
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@ abagond
Ha ha! Did you look anything like this guy in the 70s?
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@ Paige
LOL. I was a complete nerd back then.
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