No cellphones then, just a girl with a boombox and midnight star. A group of guys breakdancing. What memories. Millenials don't know what they're missing

@jonnuanez2843

3y↑220

The neighbors called the cops on me for playing this too loud. The cops gave THEM the ticket for complaining about this classic electrofunk jam.

@cmcd3174

47w↑7

😂

@gunnyakdo1653

46w↑5

Lol

@user-uq3iz3zf1f

46w↑3

@@cmcd3174
K

@taylorward8002

44w↑3

Then everyone clapped

@alexistrejo-gonzalez2836

44w↑3

(Applause from Audience) 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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@gre6821

4y↑180

I was crazy about this back in the 80s...and still am.

@deniseberry3778

2y↑11

And FREAKAZOID!!

@CaslavTomovic

2y↑6

because its f*cking great song.

@lisatrosclair7824

Mine too CRAZY 🤪 FOR THIS MF

@mlvnadams

2y↑4

I saw them in san antonio a few weeks ago it was great

@donnyd257

2y↑3

Me too

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@emmafaiva3169

5y↑68

I don't care where I'm at. I just start dancing. The 80's for me was a classical era that's unforgettable. 70's, 80's, 90's. Incredible

@SunnyIlha

2y↑1

2:45

@ajcastillo999

2y↑7

I am so thankful my dad showed me this as songs … I grew up listening to this while we bbqd … && now I do the same && my boys dance all over the yard to these jams..

@NostalgiCrazy

20w↑3

I will never stop wishing I could've experienced the 80s. My parents are so lucky

@stereohype1

19w

The music & pop culture was so great but the conservative parties in power and their awful policies throughout all that decade...not so much

@SANE172

9w↑2

We are luckiest 😁

@stereohype1

9w↑1

The music was great, the economy even greater but the politics of the era and social inequality not so much. The 80s might look like fun from a distance but conservative politics were dominating everything and making life miserable for most of the rest of us. Thats why the music was so great...its all we had to grab onto to mentally escape from all their bs. And here we are in 2024 and they're at it again trying to stop anyone from having any fun or from simply just existing!

@lucienp7316

5y↑105

One of the greatest dance tracks ever!!!

@VladaSerbiaEurope1

1y↑1

That is same style of music like this https://youtu.be/i-jdhorGtQI some kind of "funny funky" 😂 with Gospel dance, Breakdance, Hip Hop, RnB...
My favorite music since 1980 👍

@davemarks1136

51w↑1

1000% agree my dude

@martinwedge7732

32w↑11

If any younger person asks what the 80s were like just send them to this video 👍

@noahpartic7586

39w↑3

Gen X from '72 here.
What's not to love about this.
With 21st century smart tech, all to easy to stay connected to this kickass jam😎.

@SANE172

9w↑1

'72 gen x also

@fabioalvez8954

21w↑4

Discovering new old school things in 2023 😍

@MaximizedAction

2y↑134

I’m an 80s addict and yet I heard this song for the first time today…this tune is one of the most 80s things ever. How many more gems from that time are still out there to discover

@markosmi81

1y↑12

so many.check Freakazoid and No Parking On The Dance Floor and Body Snachers

@deanjohnson7683

1y↑5

Plenty

@1964gry

😲

@scottcurry4886

1y↑4

Planetary Invasion too.

@primebeef3938

1y↑3

LOTS!

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@GFunk4YoTrunk88

3y↑152

Electro funk at its finest. That synth bass patch bumps.

@anthonybaker7433

2y↑6

They had some hot 🔥 ass beats

@VladaSerbiaEurope1

1y↑1

That is same style of music like this https://youtu.be/i-jdhorGtQI some kind of "funny funky" 😂 with Gospel dance, Breakdance, Hip Hop, RnB...
My favorite music since 1980 👍

@shellyj987

7y↑30

I can see my best friend Prepping off this. She could dance her face off! Damn, I get chills hearing this thinking about all of the great times we had. God is good. What a great time I have had so far in this life.

@patrickarkesteyn68

1y↑51

One of my favorites back in the eighties. Sounds timeless modern !

@scottheffner7117

25w

good music of the 1980s at reflections east dance club in troy ny

@male3339

3y↑5

Who all lived in Southern CA. remember the AM station "The Mighty 690" used to play the ish outta this and other Midnight Star songs..

@gagahernandez7544

4y↑87

Love that 80's funk.

@brendas.1374

5y↑14

Damn I miss the 80’s!!! I was a teenager during the Reagan era. Those were the best years of my life.

@crystalbrown1945

4y↑3

I remember seeing this on MTV, and Friday My Videos. Love Ms. Lilly Thomlin as the operator with the 1940s hair do. Good times 😆☎️

@progressive59

2y↑2

Best time ever!!!

@matta7593

3y↑30

Feels so good to relive the 80s.. my teenage years!!!

@SANE172

9w↑1

YES!

@FoxsitoTaquito

7y↑15

Have to say, back in those days you didn't know have to know every major dance out there. You moved to rhythm and that was it, you had fun and there was no judgment.
Now every song has a specific dance routine, you don't know it and people get all high and mighty.

@melodiefrances3898

No one cared how anyone danced, it was all just good clean fun.

@oneal7365917

45w↑1

Im 33, born in 1990 and my aunt use to jam Midnight Star when she use to babysit me and let me tell ya!!!!

@christopherhennessey8991

1y↑2

I love how the videos from way back in the 1980s, which is so interesting to watch as well as enjoyable.

@bessiestephens3353

2y↑3

I jam off of this during my workout, I am 57 years young & God is good!! Thanks a million

@mkl62

9y↑19

A #1 hit for Midnight Star on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 519th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It was also the last #1 R&B song of 1984 and the first of 1985. What will the R&B scene be like in the new year? Stay tuned.

@ADAMBOMB2DETONATE

43w↑1

And the bigger the Jambox, the badder you were! Unforgettable time's 😊

@eternalise

7y↑100

This, "Midas Touch" and "No Parking On the Dance Floor" were among my first and favorite new 45's bought with my own money. They sound just as fresh now as they did then.

@kiwisen

4y↑1

Yeah Operator. Midas. And parking r the beeeest. Just a rocket

@Tamar-sz8ox

3y↑1

Love both those songs ❤️

@compound00

2y↑5

Don't forget " Wet my whistle " lol

@angiebega2444

2y↑1

I love those songs especially midas touch i can replay that over and over😄👍

@joannwilson9097

Night Rider is my favorite

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@SouthernGirl999

39w↑12

One of my all-time favorite music videos! Love it! ❤

@tommymagnusson

4y↑59

The sound and tunes so good still jamming to this in 2020

@joannwilson9097

2y↑3

Me too in 2022

@louiedelgado2693

40w

Keepin it going! 2023

@Dopefish1337

20w↑2

wow, where has this song been all my life

@user-gm9he1os5o

14w

1985...Build a time machine. Go experience it.

I did.

@kylacoleman5027

2y↑7

I'm 14 and I've been loving midnight star since I was little and that will never change they rock

@volvo24091

I doubt you understand who an Operator was and the power they wielded back then

@vernonmeadows6773

1y↑1

Saw them in concert 4 x. Best ever. Nobody can ever match their talent and music.

@catholicdad

1y↑1

They don't rock, they FUNK!

@catholicdad

@@sweetsunnyvibes The only limits & distinctions to Funk are AWESOMENESS!

@catholicdad

@@sweetsunnyvibes Amen! Rain, shine, don't mind. We're ridin' on the Groove Line tonight.

@RokPodaro

7y↑51

When I Go To Disco,I want music like this to play all night.....

@rickyparker4436

3y↑2

This is FUNK!!!! Not Disco.

@skumnjepf

3y↑2

But where to find clubs to play that great music?

@WaveBloom

2y↑2

@@rickyparker4436 considering the name he/she's using the word as short for 'discotheque,' aka night club.

@markgrant7798

2y↑30

i am 52 and this music still rocks .... new age age take a lesion

@tyanarutledge8746

1y↑2

I’m 31 and my 6 year old and I are jamming

@Sniper-xg8wg

1y↑2

I'm from 2000 and this is fire ❤🔥🔥✨make me dance

@kingsleyboateng3156

1y↑2

I’m 53 and 80’s was the best, the world was such a happy place

@hibasobh

5y↑28

I am officially watching this on repeat 💕💕💕

@tunayzone8747

1y↑1

Was für ein geile Beat. Bass. 💓💓💓 . TUNAY ZONE. 80er Magie

@lateshiachilds3640

3y↑9

This is an amazing group I been a fan since I was about 5 in 1987.

@quincyyoungbloodakajudah4-486

2y↑2

I was 9

@kw4433

3y↑17

Never saw this video before. Still have the LP on vinyl, and it still is a CLASSIC.

@SunnyIlha

0:12 😁

@trufantom21

50w

Same. I first heard this on the dance floor back in the day. Never saw the music video.

@Awetopsy1703

1y↑2

how many nights in the 80s i spent drunk or high jamming to this stuff on the radio

@chris080270

8y↑18

MS hit #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 2/2/85. Thanks for posting it! :)

@Wally-H

2y↑2

Typical of the hip hop influenced funk that started to emerge in 1984. Good track.

@elizabethhusted2042

2y↑3

Driving down the street with a big ass subwoofer in the trunk listening to this jam. A good dedication song to all doctors. One line in this classic song made me think. Long live the jams.

@Jameslopez5682

1y↑1

Hello Elizabeth how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

@dariomendoza191

31w↑1

So CREATIVE the Song,!!!!!! video Ahead of its TIME with no EXPIRATION DATE!!!!!!

@JefersonHengler

7y↑33

OMG, this beat is perfect!!!

@sandraalmeida8641

7y↑37

Melhores momentos da minha vida!
Anos 80 inesqueciveis

@Ozziemints

These kids today will never know...😉🙂. 🔥🔥🔥💯🔥🔥🔥

@markjackson6642

8y↑28

What a classic!!!

@aminzaibi7592

3y↑3

Crazy electo funk 😎😄

@CaslavTomovic

absolute bliss ✨

@angelafluker

8y↑53

The 70, 80,90s was great I will miss those days it was great. Better than now. 2000s.

@tguthrie6

5y↑1

you mean 2010's (if youre talking decades)

@hibasobh

I love this song so much! 💕

@thurnishaley6796

We in the 2020s now

@artmellon8852

2y↑2

Was Jamin to this back in '82'.... The 80s were so dam awesome!!! At 55 I still love this stuff!!

@AdamBorseti

7y↑20

4 (!!!!) Prophet-5 synthesizers! Awesome.

@aramiderufus3318

8y↑11

Evergreen track, stays fresh forever. Just love Belinda Limpscomb, she is great

@beb5407

3y↑5

2021 2021 can't touch this era this is real music this is art right here. This is real talent yes I'm a 90's baby and grew up on all this great music back then

@Jameslopez5682

Hello Beb how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

@bernardogonzalez7508

3y↑14

I was feeling down one day but when I heard this song on the radio I started dancing in my car.

@CyberP100

6y↑7

Time of the Synthesizer bass.. timeless like D-Train and many more .Great times indeed

@dancefloor9032

1y↑1

This is called Moog bass.

@insanelook

8y↑283

you .... can't .... beat .... the ..... 80's..... !

@autumndae5774

7y↑15

100% CANNOT

@lateshiachilds3640

7y↑5

insanelook nope not at all

@monte4974

7y↑2

💖💖

@manuelmreule2752

6y↑6

70,s were best! Fact!

@raymondfallssr.8587

6y↑5

70s was the greatest music in history! FACT! GOOGLE IT!

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@rachelplows3001

1y↑1

I love the 80s! Probably the last era with any innocence left!

@1974kaplan

8y↑1

Yesss thats music best music ever on this world.

@dmtom9619

5y↑7

I saw them live and they give a high energy performance. Started in college at Kentucky State

@gimmefuel7268

2y↑2

MAN, Friday nights at the skating rink in the 80’s, this was the JAM!!!!! 😁😁

@VoiceEncoder

9y↑15

Roland SVC-350 Vocoder!!!

Midnight Star will be at the Oriental Theatre on Saturday, July 25th!!

@thomasklier8010

3y↑5

No sound can beat those +/-80ies jams!

@ernierobles3122

2y↑1

fucccccccccccc memories of being out man dammmm enjoying life and the best fkn music 🎵 love from Salinas california baby west and now reside in east side same city

@FoxRivers778

3y↑2

Remember back in the 80's when BET would show videos like MTV? I had a chance to see Midnight Star live a couple years ago. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't go.

@quincyyoungbloodakajudah4-486

Video soul 1987

@aristothree5689

2y↑2

One of the best party song around doing the day party on party people LA style 💕 Aristo Three Pittsburgh style He'll yea

@deder8881

Gawd, that was fun dancing to that song in the "good old days".....

@floundermsu

9y↑19

Hot jam!

@michaelmass5894

9y↑12

thank you Midnight Stars !

@rokrok-ud1cx

47w↑1

Definitely this is going straight into my favourites list.

@deniseruffin4343

Young folks don't know what they missed so many memories iam 54 will love to go back to the 70sand80s the stuff ain't nothing now

@roaajasa8149

48w

You dare not sit when ever this song comes on ❤😂😂🎉🎉🎉

@ronaldserwanga7576

9y↑114

Love it love it those were the days when music was music.

@natashamoore423

9y↑4

Ronald Serwanga Very true!

@sylkstarks6595

Music is still music

@nihonam

Ha-ha! Tell it to true hardcore jazz lovers. And classic opera fans.

@bobby1970

Ronald Serwanga - Oh yeah. I was only about 11 or 12 years old.

@emirtheart

Music is still music if you are popping dancer

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@omosoja9371

2y↑2

This was always in every party back then.

@henryramirez9213

8y↑8

excellent pop locking song.....midnight star was cool.....

@salvadoramaya8642

3y↑5

51 and still jamming to this.

@rsanchezibz

9y↑21

what a bass omg

@RodrigoPereiraInTheMix

7y↑9

clássico dos anos 80!!! lembro bem dessa eu era pequeno e já ouvia acho que era 1984 / 85

@leomitchell201

🤤

@kurtadams3021

4y↑2

The LEGENDARY Midnight Star

@mrnnangammbi9442

9y↑73

NOW that was the damn serious beat

@williammeyers2934

6y↑2

Nganeavhutshilo Nangammbi .amen

@ruthboykin9873

20w

Wow hadn’t heard this in years!
🎶🎶🎶❤❤🎶🎶

@trufantom21

50w↑2

This was a hit on the dance floor whrn I first started going to nightclubs at 15.

@mi-da2920

1y↑3

I still have a random memory of my childhood involving this song. It was the summer of 1996 and I was watching "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" with my brother in the living room. Windows started rattling and this song was playing in a car at full blast. My aunt was at the driveway and coming over to pay a visit, along with her then boyfriend. My mom was pissed because the music was really loud and didn't want the neighbors to think we were "ghetto." That memory still plays in my head 26 years later when I hear this song. I love this song!

@stereohype1

19w↑1

Your aunt sounds like the coolest aunt ever

@mi-da2920

15w↑1

@@stereohype1 She indeed was the cool one out of all the aunts.

@Jerrel71

4y↑3

Lets go back in the days and dance

@FrozenRemix1

Ay this joint MEAN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️

@tonihughes9470

6y↑8

I love the 80's

@FIFIMIMI-nq7fr

31w

Ha ha ha....love that story. Those cops knew about good music that's eternal!!💎💎💖💥💖😎😍💅

@ratesforless

42w↑1

A great song and fun video to watch. The way they flow together, even on their dance steps, looks like nothing but a fun time for all...

@waleshoola

7y↑8

wow bangin' 100%

@djjubert2180

25w

I'm 46 years old but my big cousin who's 56 use to bump this song all the time and when i woke up this morning this song was playing in my head why? I don't know but it's good to hear it after all these years😊

@christophermau1447

2y↑2

I've heard this track today for the first time on 80s80s Radio in Germany.

What a GEM... 🥰🥰🥰🥰

@donniejohnson3553

2y↑2

Heaven

@alisanarcisse4880

52w

Now listen to that bass in the background. These songs today cannot touch those songs back in the day. Always my favorites.

@Atom-bt5ij

50w↑1

Dude, white peeps groove to this..... might make the brothas laff tho (don't be too hard on the working white. We don't have it no better but we will always stand with our African American Brothers

@sidneidornellesdasilva4352

2y↑2

Midnight made a esplendous success here in Rio de Janeiro Brasil, very talentous group GOOD TIMES! FREAK A ZOYD!! DON'T STOP ON DA DANCE FLOOR!!

@csjobson7763

8y↑16

Gawd, if I heard this song one more TIME when I was little! #80sbaby #90skid

@lateshiachilds3640

7y↑2

Shardae Jobson same here I remember seeing the video on BET back then I was 4 or 5 years old.

@nickfreshalive

5y↑3

YEAH! they played this to damn death.

@tommymc9791

9y↑12

the best of the best

@kd1s

5y↑2

Oh yeah - I remember when this came out. I bought the album in the mid 1980's and used to play it on my radio show back then.

@anettejager4955

2y↑1

This is Techno! Wow!!!

@hiphopluvva1

7y↑1

80z was the best rnb hands down

@robertdieder4178

2y↑2

This sends me back. I want to get my funk on at the roller rink. Great times!

@thenigeriannomad

3y↑2

still jammin gin 2021

@TheDantheman1969

6y↑1

Oh hell! I want the 80s back😎

@silverspaulding514

Roller skating to this....OMG !!!!!!

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