BRASS CONSTRUCTION

Formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968.

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Formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968.

Brass Construction were the brainchild of keyboards player and singer Randy Muller (b. Guyana). In 1975, their debut album changed the face of dance music and is still a huge influence some 30 years on.

Randy originally formed the band in Brooklyn, New York, under the name of Dynamic Soul. Renamed Brass Construction, the nine-piece group were signed by United Artists in 1975.

The members included:

Michael Grudge (b. Jamaica) and Jesse Ward Jnr. (saxophones)

Wayne Parris (b. Jamaica) and Morris Price (trumpets)

Joseph Arthur Wong (b. Trinidad; guitar)

Wade Williamson (bass)

Larry Payton (drums)

and percussionist Sandy Billups

With their tight horn section and brief, chanted vocals, the group's first release, 'Movin', topped the R & B charts and was a pop Top 20 hit. It was followed by 'Changin', 'Ha Cha Cha' (From Brass Construction II) and 'L-O-V-E U', which were all best-sellers.

Jeff Lane produced Brass Construction's albums up until the 1982 'Attitudes' set, at which point Randy Muller took over the production chores. Brass Construction's albums all sold well and they even endured the lightweight Disco era.

Randy also wrote for and produced New York disco group Skyy and was the string arranger for the group B.T Express.The group moved into the 80's with less pop hits, however, club interest was as high as ever.

The remix craze brought numerous versions of their early hits into the clubs in 1988, including 'Ha Cha Cha (Acieed Mix)'. Randy then moved into producing one off 12" singles including B.C. Underground's 'Let The World Dance'.

Incidentally, Randy Muller is a classically trained flautist and has recorded a classical album utilising the instrument.

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They will forever be the tightest group.

Changin'
Brass Construction Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Changin'' by these artists:

Carnes Kim (Kim Carnes/Dave Ellingson) Just before you go could we tal…
d gray-man Just come on motherfucker, you just gotta do it already…
Good Posture Life is changing, do do do Can't you see, do do do I’ve been…
Ms. (Sharon) Ridley Your love keeps changin on me. When we first met, we…
Nona Reeves 今度 Sing a song! High low high low, sweetly smile High low…
Pete Forty-four Bulldog make em get back I got all these damn…
TheSecondSex I couldn′t feel what was right in Right in front of…
Vince Vaccaro It’s always when the night seems to fade Nothing like...it…
ステファニーハートみたいな雲が形変えてくようにいつかは僕も変わるのだろうわかれ道の真ん中一人立ち尽した影法師静かに消えて…

ステファニー feat. 田中ロウマハートみたいな雲が形変えてくようにいつかは僕も変わるのだろうわかれ道の真ん中一人立ち尽した影法師静かに消えて…
ステファニーfeat.田中ロウマハートみたいな雲が形変えてくようにいつかは僕も変わるのだろうわかれ道の真ん中一人立ち尽した影法師静かに消えて…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Brass Construction:

Can You See The Light Hey It's that time again Everybody won't you get up right ab…
Get Up to Get Down Hey It's that time again Everybody won't you get up right ab…
Love L is for the way you look at me. O is…
Movin' Got myself together, yeaheah Gonna get higher Oooh! And I…
Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing Let the music makes you feel like moving Makes you wanna…
The Message The Message (Inspiration) Now everything is going to be alr…
Walkin im in love with miya she's in love with…
Walkin' The Line im in love with miya she's in love with…
Walking The Line im in love with miya she's in love with…

We Can Work It Out We can work it out We can work it out We can…

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Comments from YouTube:

@paulterhaar4862

6y↑217

Thank you Rockstar for putting this song in GTA V.

@clarkkent8054

4y↑4

sounds cool in GTA V

@conabirus1523

3y↑8

Thats y im here

@jeanedwards2497

3y↑5

@@conabirus1523 wat a classic classic classic tune ever from you guys were in the day. 😀😀

@Etcher

3y↑5

Thank you preemo for sampling this 25 years before GTA

@davidlees4322

3y↑2

Absaloot class

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@AzTony51504life

5y↑19

It was 1975 and I was a Freshman in High School in Phoenix and this great music came to life...All the great Funk and Soul was changing our lives and this Italian American White Boy loved it baby....

@woodrowpreacely7521

2y↑1

Music of the '70s period - was baddest of all time!

@patrickadisi5128

All time memory shaker

@drraphaelworks4188

3y↑38

Their horn section was one of the best ever!

@woodrowpreacely7521

Amen!

@williamk.fisherjr5408

7y↑10

Wow... This is the song that cemented my legacy as a professional DJ at the Chez Paree nightclub in Atlantic City,New Jersey in 1975. After being in a jam packed nightclub on a Saturday night for an hour and nobody dancing, I asked the manager could I replace the DJ just so I could get the people dancing.Changin' was the first song that I put on the turntables and that song filled the dance floor and I kept it that way until the end of the night. The Chez Paree was the hottest nightclub on the East coast in 1975. That's how I got hired and the rest was history.

@lisabrown8811

7y↑1

The hottest club on the East Coast, must not have included New York City Clubs...

@jeffreychandler8666

2y↑21

During 1975, when this was released, this song was inspirational to many of my generation. We graduated from high school, that year. A unique time, and the "BRASS" carried us to another reality. A big change to many of us.

@BKDotDavis

2y↑1

Pure, unadulterated facts ♥️🎶

@tech83studio38

4y↑31

I'm 37 I absolutely love this !
My late uncle was apart of the legendary group Sons of Slum and was a fantastic guitar player, that continous guitar set makes me think of him playing and feeling it.
RIP Uncle Wade I hear you playing 🙏

@TurboMan51

3y↑2

Sorry for your loss yesss your uncle Wade was🔥on the guitar.👍💯😎

@clydebarrow505

39w

@teresadavis6605

32w↑1

Your Uncle Wade was my neighbor in the 70s.

@joebundus9757

33w↑1

When life was good the brass construction made unforgettable. Put happiness in millions of people life, smile in their face.

@Khalidi0302

3y↑4

Changin 45 years old song! Listening in COVID-19.

@conrettaharold2925

3y↑12

Bass line and horns so funky and hypnotic it puts me in a trance, now and then 45 years. Dancing and swinging with bellbottomed bros with big fros' at the disco. On my way out I'll be groovin to this music on memory train. "Heaven must be like this.."

@brucehaywood5248

2y↑12

Great music with a fantastic Bass line.

@MrTeerexable

10y↑36

talk about music that captured one of the most magical times...so happy I was a part of it

@sheilamiller7068

5y↑3

These were the days of real music! I'm still jamming to this today. I'm 63!

@davebrown9714

4y↑1

@@sheilamiller7068 me too still jamming & im 63 64 in December 👍🏾

@lindamesa4993

32w↑2

Wow!!! This song reminds me of my time in the military!!! Love this!!!

@monesangiu86

3y↑14

2021 that's still relevant!!!!! What a track!!!!

@MrLaurenceDunn

4y↑41

I bought this album back in 1975 when it was big in UK soul clubs, and I still play that same copy, sounds as fresh as ever 45 years later!

@virgilwyatt4632

2y↑2

Doo doo doo, doo doo, Da doo doo doo, da doo doo......and the beat goes on 45 years later and beyond!

@anthonybrown5753

13w

Djantbro; Brass Construction, was one of the most "Awesome and Dynamic Soul, Funk Disco Bands in the Land"!, back in the 1970s & 80s"!

@jeepman-nu9ls

2y↑4

That funky bass intro brings back a lot of memories, getting that 8 track to play this song over and over.

@jerrywilliams2325

10y↑94

The horn section of this group was the bomb! I played this one until it was scratched. The days. I need a Hot tube time machine to go back. Good music! Damn that, Great music!

@suddenfootloss1337

9y↑2

Jerry Williams Buy yourself a new horn dude!

@jeanedwards2497

3y↑1

Well said jerry can I jump in that time machine with you..... What a tune, its timeless.....in comparison with the crap nowadays like Ed Sheeran gaarbish lol... Take care with the pandemic going on...

@alexrowson5698

4y↑25

Who’s still funkin’ to this 2020?

@tedemmanuelvidal9607

4y↑4

Oh sure!!!! still funkin' in 2020

@coffeedata7107

4y↑1

Yeah

@jeanedwards2497

3y↑1

Me Alex !!!! Still funking on...

@alexrowson5698

Funkin’ Movin’ Peekin’ Changin’.

@stuckinnebraska

10y↑24

Brings me back to my Disco DJ days in the Caribbean. this album was always being requested. Not just one song, ALL of the songs.

@carolynntubman1461

stuckinnebraska I remember playing this album constantly

@AlfredoVenero

6y↑3

There is not a bad song on this album

@luckyssoul3136

4y↑6

Brass construction well what can I say when I first heard moving I was a school kid and it changed my life forever

@davidboniche4787

9y↑96

My then girlfriend, Clara, & I would watch Brass Con practice sessions, summer nights 1976. Invited by a friend, Rick, who was backup bass player. Brass, randomly jam practiced, in the basement of one of the players home, just off Pennsylvania Ave, East New York, not far from Thomas Jefferson HS. It would be crowded with the local neighborhood kids, enjoying an awesome free concert preview........ Great memories for a then 19 year old!

@suddenfootloss1337

David Boniche Thats really cool man

@Jeff-OB1

9y↑2

+David Boniche wished you could have recorded those sessions

@Jeff-OB1

8y↑1

+Earle Fowler B.T. Express' "Express" string arrangement was written by Randy Muller, and he also produced albums for Cameron and Shirley Caesar

@Jeff-OB1

+Earle Fowler Not really a correction, just adding to what you said. Randy Muller was and is indeed a very talented individual.

@focusnfunguitar5874

Great Tune here only flaw was the disco-esque string arrangement. Horns are purest funk !! Lloooooove those horn chords!!

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@drraphaelworks4188

3y↑3

What a classic in 1976. The best!!!!

@carmenakua6693

23w↑1

Back to the time when musicians in a band actually played their instruments, for vinyl albums and live performances.

@ladytellison4754

11y↑24

Music of my time! and I still jam to this song!

@lavernhiggins6255

44w↑2

Love, love, my Brass Construction ❤

@TrashCanBoiBoi

33w

"Peekin' at their songs"

@FlashTracer

2y↑14

After all these years this music still kicks in and very well!

@reginalddavis7987

4y↑1

Played this in oceanside, California while on the beach!, I was U.A., from camp Pendleton!!..loving life!

@OGK_Show

7y↑82

Bass line sittin' in that pocket. School is in session kids. This is how it's done.

@lawrencebarr3820

6y↑6

xfunkster BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES. OMG! THEY JUST DONT GET IT.

@jamesburton247

5y↑6

Brass Construction Changed the Game Smack Dab in the Middle of the R&B ERA this was a Explosion we never heard a Band that Could Hold A Groove Like this for the Entire Song and Everybody Got Some !!!

@Etcher

4y↑2

Primo recognised back in 89 and he was in his early 20s then ;)

@virgilwyatt4632

4y↑1

@@jamesburton247 Parliament!

@RandyDrayton

That funkentelechy. Yw

@maureenelliston3461

8y↑6

Yes, music has changed - can't beat Old Skool (as we say in London England)!!! Love it love it love it.

@Heathrowsteve

5y↑7

Absolutely brilliant. Funk at it's absolute best....

@songserenade2210

4y↑3

A funk and brass game changer,and the strings they compliment the groove.Wowwww.👍👍👍🎺🎺🎺🎻🎹🎸🎷🎷📱😁😁😁

@charliecarter9812

10y↑10

Life, times and music was so good in my era, we loved it all

@jtmoney2000

33w

❤ When good music was really great!!
And when you heard it, you had to move and groove to it!! Those were the days!!❤

@soberravefest3657

5y↑7

Great memories, still got the album

@donnaneeley2488

I do too....

@chrisboyer2984

4y↑24

I love the big brass sound of these guys & the Ohio Players!

@cscdriver1645

2y↑3

Add the Blackbyrds too.

@MrFunkater

And the kay-gees

@drstew1

11w

I’ve always loved this picture

@markhudsonsr.2282

6y↑4

Pure Greatness, by Bass Construction during there thing , from way back in day. And today the group can’t be touch.

@pamelabraden5176

4y↑2

Baaaaad Azzzzzzes!!! Great brass and strings! When bands could play beyond 2 minutes and earned their place in time.

@garystones9446

6y↑8

What an album this was. Pure gorgeousness.

@julianisfan9596

7y↑32

BT Express, RickJames' Stone City Band, Parliament, Slave, Bar-Kays, I can go on... These are on my Brass Playlist.

@carolynntubman1461

Julian Isfan Good list

@pierre-augusterenoirparmas7480

6y↑2

I was born and raised in the Detroit area back in the 70s and man it was great! Best years of my life, Great music, Great people and Great fun! 'Mowtown Baby'

@djolskool1968

6y↑2

Julian Isfan, I forgot all about BT Express! I gotta pull that one out the box! Right on dawg!

@Ready2ReadU

4y↑2

Mandrill, War, Cool & The Gang, A.W.B., Slave, Con Funk Shun, Fat Larry's Band, Undisputed Truth, The Dazz Band, Brick, Brother's Johnson

@mannypintado8349

5y↑3

What a Great Disco Classic. Love that Funk.💜🎶

@brighteyes704

22w↑1

What a journey…….. like a musical gastronomic thirty course feast.

@kirkharris9055

7y↑4

Music like this isn't made, produced, or appreciated these days...

@MegaFlarez44

6y↑2

It is being made. It's just that it isn't appreciated, and the majority of people don't look hard enough.

@EduardoMontenegrotheoutsider

22w

Amazing! I love this sound of Funk-Soul-Disco

@cecilabrooks1267

5y↑4

77 let's go great year

@Edison73100

9y↑34

Great band, great music, great time.

@lynettemcqueen4927

8y↑132

Back in the day when you can be proud of Black music. Pure talent.

@carolynntubman1461

6y↑6

Lynette McQueen Exactly!

@prentissbelton7508

5y↑3

ahhh yeah

@garrettmiller1384

4y↑3

This was the anthem for me coming out of grammar school heading on to Junior High and it was like the horns were telling a story look at all the adventures and things you saw coming out of grammar school from beginning to finish and you haven't even begun

@virgilwyatt4632

Garrett Miller I DO dig your vision, Man! Totally most excellent imaginative thought!

@virgilwyatt4632

This should be the opening theme for the movie “Bad Boys For Life.”

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@timelessmusicfamilymusic9175

4y↑2

Solid Soul along with Disco & Funk combine into one.😀🎷🎺💖👍

@beselbic

6y↑7

Dope groove, love the bass line.

@zarkopetkov7372

#1 !!!! Marvelous, Top, Gorgeous, Real and DREAMED ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !!

@corthofler2007

3y↑3

I like the violin riffs !!!

@brendagrayson2238

2y↑1

WHAT A CLASSIC AND TRUE TODAY!!!! CHANGING TIMES🥳🥳🥳🥳♥️♥️♥️♥️

@danieldow6463

5y↑3

My all time.JAM !

@jeanedwards2497

What a tune Daniel still dancing now, to ur all-time jam.....U deff no your music.... Take care with the pandemic and all.....

@Douken

5y↑36

This song with good quality headphones is a trip by itself. Just close your eyes and enjoy

@shawnedmonds9131

2y↑1

Exactly what I'm doing. You soooooooo right. 😁😁😁

@CrossBonesAlex

7y↑34

Super funky bass line ;-)

@1995RangeRover

5y↑3

Sweet Music!!!❤❤❤❤

@danieldowcoldchillin

2y↑1

My jam still jamming this in 2022 !! 😎

@abhikdas8464

1y↑1

Have been searching since i heard in biker boyz movie almost after 15 yrs found 🙏

@nosmile47

10y↑17

When there were REAL bands playing music

@seventhchild8476

3y↑2

One of my older brother's brought this album home in late 1975. We were still dancing to it in the Heatwave Summer of 1976. SE London for me was the place to be. Big tune in the Glengall Thursday night Disco for the kids in Peckham, and I heard in the Lyceum Ball Room, central London. Of course I was too young to go there. Now listen to Moving by Brass Construction. HAPPY DAYS 👍🏾👍🏿👍🏽👍🏼🧡

@kfullman

9y↑5

Another one from Brass Construction that was a time I would love to revisit. Great album.

@luckyssoul3136

4y↑5

Man what a bass line brass-construction are legends

@gwaterswaters4602

8y↑11

Old Skool Rules...Hands Down!!!

@lt6664

Still rocking 2023

@BABYCNO16

10y↑11

That's good music of my era

@michaelharrison697

46w

The 70 was so great 👍

@jakesell4492

4y↑2

Will Funk ever make a return? I'd take it over anything today. If funk ever made a wild comeback into this world I would drop to my knees and praise god.

@cecilabrooks1267

5y↑3

77 here we go the jam always

@MsCharlieBrown78

1y↑1

I remember Randy once telling me how they took the strings and played them like they were horns. That is what gave them this sound. it was new at the time.

@camillelourde4008

8y↑2

LOVED THE LONG VERSIONS OF THESE GREAT SONGS!!!

@jamesclark6443

6y↑2

Sitting here at work listening to this. WOW what a time to grow up to the best JAMZ of all time!!!

@lonnjones6368

great music lives forever.......this is real music

@randyspaceship

5y↑2

the soul of the r&b 91.1

@Jeff-OB1

9y↑8

Plain and simple...good music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@harlemonmymind6682

5y↑2

Oh the Brooklyn days!

@darrylslaughter649

5y↑5

At a roller rink in ohio called " Roller World ,Bus Stop on a skate floor that was built for speed skating this cut use to get killed floor packed and folks jamming like crazy.

@giorgiomulas2070

I Bra Construction bella musica un funky favoloso sono sempre stati i primi in classifica della Hit parade internazionale e mondiale sono veramente bravi un grosso Complimenti a questa band siete fantastici ciao !!!!!!!

@rickjason1786

No question about it....... Grandmaster Flowers!

@ayorindeadenekan8981

Changin' was a huge crowd puller at parties in those days. You'll hear guys humming "Alade Huwo" to the beat.

@alessandropozzi9339

bough used vinyl today, cool just for the cover…the listening is a very gentle funky trip 🤙🏻

@helderpina1279

21w

Just got my first vinyl, and I deciede to got for something that I had no idea about. The cover was so captivating and cool that I had to grab it. Don't regret one bit. Just need a vinyl player

@sultry09

7y↑23

This music is so addictive.

@sulaimanabdulsalam4625

Sure it is.

@MrAntiSellOut

7y↑4

Auntie Soul, thanks for uploading this joint. You're really taking me back to my kindergarden days with it.

@AuntieSoul34

7y↑2

Hi MrA! Thanks! Still sounding just as awesome too! :p

@MrAntiSellOut

7y↑2

AuntieSoul34 I couldn't agree with you more on that. :)

@TheAudiostud

6y↑2

Used to play this at a club in NW London called THE BANDWAGON it was a real hard core dance floor!

@lealssikes3465

5y↑8

You know it was a band that ment bizniss when they had 9 guys in the group..

@danablake6863

The BC rocked hard nonstop!! One of the coldest album covers ever too!

@michaeloneill1226

4y↑2

This is so good music

@M.O.G.

5y↑2

1975 Arrowhead Stadium. 18 artist...$9.
One of those things that will never happen again.

@errolthomas9426

5y↑4

Auntie Soul, I love it when you upload one of the most coolest old school joints for anybody to enjoy. You should also check out Ms. Charlie Brown. She too always upload one of the most coolest old school joints.

@AuntieSoul34

5y↑2

Thankyou!!

@errolthomas9426

5y↑2

@@AuntieSoul34 You're welcome :)

@andrewinstre

46w

@@AuntieSoul34 I so believe AuntieSoul must have a cool Afro! . Bless her!😀

@bernicelopez8293

3y↑1

I love this band

@jamesburton247

5y↑4

And Don't forget Randy Muller was a Boss he said let's Keep the Party Going Straight Into the 80's with Skyye!!

@olivers7119

4y↑1

The 70's had some great ass music. Too bad I wasn't there to see it, smh.

@Head_On

6y↑3

That's what I'm talkin about
Real funk

@koolhub7007

my kind of music, these younger people need to groove off of this,

@cdawnie

On today March 19, 2022....I say must agree and say YES times are changing!!! However, I have good memories.

@cassieledexma6156

5y↑1

LOVE this

@markrimedio5085

love the way this song starts

@The_Alpha_E

22w↑2

Michael after his family move out: I still can't get used to the silence in this house

the house in question: 🗿🗣 3:20 🔥

@davidburgoa9099

en realidad un super grupo con mucha creatividad ¡¡¡ excelente rola ¡¡ saludos desde mty ¡¡¡

@michaelharrison697

46w

I love the band it's all that

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