You Used To Hold Me
Ralphi Rosario, aka Ralphie Rosario is a leading deejay in the house music … Read Full Bio ↴Ralphi Rosario, aka Ralphie Rosario is a leading deejay in the house music scene. He virtually coined the phrase House Music along with the crew of Chi-Town radio show Hot Mix Five. Through this channel, he was able to blast Chicago's airwaves with the new and exciting sounds of house music for most of the 1980s. In 1987 Rosario released the house music anthem, "You Used To Hold Me," with the vocals of Xavier Gold. The track marked a pivotal point in house music history and helped the genre break into Europe and later in the United States.

Rosario has worked his remixing magic on artists, including INXS, the Shamen, Jomanda, Culture Beat, Gloria Estefan, Dee-Lite, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Michael Bublé, Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin, Kelly Clarkson and Pussycat Dolls. Recently he has returned to his underground house roots with several releases on the Afterhours imprint. "Gotta New Love" is remixed by Classic Music co-owner Derrick Carter and is blessed with Donna Blakely's diva tones. The "4 am Bonus Mix" of "Timbalin" is a tough primetime track with some sublime freeform keys.




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@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

I like the singer and the conga player.

I remember this from about 1984. It clearly shows where disco changed into house. Sorr of like where early rock and roll is obviously blues in a metamorphosis. The Rolling Stones, for example, particularly the early records from the 1960's.

I liked when it runs into a straight four on the floor drum beat at 3:30. That way, us white folks don't get lost, lol.

I'm here because I'm teaching music in drums, vocals and other instruments. Most of my history is in Classic Rock, starting with Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Pink Floyd when I was a kid. Rhythm-wise, you have extremely complicated and busy (Santana) with a kit drummer, a conga player, and timbale guy. SRV also had a phenomenal drummer. Then you have Pink Floyd, who's always had Nick Mason. He plays very boomy and obviously. Think Steve Smith of Journey and Phil Collins. I like it because as a singing drummer, it's possible to actually sing and play it at the same time. Nobody ever does that with Rush. If you even tried it, I'm betting it would take you 6 months to learn to breathe with it.

Classic Rock generally requires a decent drummer with a solid four on the floor (the boom boom boom of funk, rap, disco and dance music, including house), but you don't have to be Buddy Rich or Rush's Neil Peart to get anywhere. That part is kind of nice, because it allows more people to be able to play. Kind of like punk is rock and roll sped up and often played sloppy by guys who never went to music school or took lessons for 10 years.

So, in order to expand people's minds on music and what they listen to, you have to go get them where they are and show them stuff they might not ever have heard before. Knowing music also helps you write music and you can tell when something was made just by how it sounds.

An example: the movie Sing Street is about a kid who starts a band to get a girl (good idea, actually). So, they familiarize themselves with all kinds of great music, and wind up intentionally ripping off "Maneater" by Hall and Oats to write "Drive it Like You Stole It," with a cool chord change in the pre-chorus. But it's still obviously a newer song written to emulate the 80's by how it's mixed. The obnoxious keyboards don't even give it away (an 80's dead giveaway). For the newly dedicated musicphile, you could hear a lack of tape hiss in the intro. Anything 80's and before was recorded on 2 inch tape, and tape makes noise. So, that makes this song both cleaner and colder, because tape is a warmer sound.

At any rate, I like knowing all my music history and sound engineering stuff as much as possible. Most important: if you can play anything with anyone at any time, you'll always be working in music (go to lots of jam nites), know your music, and be able to write and read it fluently. Especially if you're a kid. Get all that boring stuff out of the way now, because you learn WAY faster than any adult. And forget the complicated stuff because if you can make a simple straight beat believable ("China Girl" by Bowie is a great example), you'll work more than the guy who only wants to/can play Rush-level drums or intense heavy double bass stuff (metal). Play whatever's on the radio, not just "your station." Pick up PCRadio app and float around the "dial," and play to that. Get a metronome and make friends with it from 40bpm (beats per minute) to however fast you can stand. Music is evolving again into something post-alternative.

"Alwats get the girls dancing. Then, you'll always work."

-Bernard Purdie, legendary drummer, Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin...

And NEVER be a jerk. Music and life depends on being liked. Never know where those connections can take you.



All comments from YouTube:

@onceuponatimeintoronto891

1989, what a great yr that was, think it was 89 lol, we were rolling in the VW Scirocco blasting Chicago house....this is cocaine speaking, jack your body, playing the air piano smoking weed driving downtown Toronto to Jacks House.. Yeah baby.....

@albertrosa5716

This jam always reminds me of the Sound Factory in NYC. Dj Junior Vazquez used to jam this and the place went bananas, especially when the part of the song says, you use to, Junior Vazquez would turn down the volume and everyone in the club would yell F me. So, it would go, you use to F me, you use to F me, etc. Fun times at the ol' Sound Factory NYC.

@JonnyRootsDem

Sounds like fun, tunes used tear the place up here in London aswel in the good old warehouse raves...Happy days bro 👊🏽

@kevinverspoor4796

A extremely well put together thread of late 80’s
HOUSE!

“House Music All Night Long”

@nicholasvanorton7840

COVID 19 brought me here to remind me of a world I once knew.

@davidv672

Exactly my feelings. It will never be the same. I feel sorry for the kids today, they will never dance like we did. Imagine 2000 people jammed together sweating, rubbing and getting down to this shit...Cov1D, kiss my ass!

@itneverrainsfunk4808

Glad we made it .. wouldn't have without the 🎼🎶

@kaylaaguilera6896

Now this is music....memories from back in the day.

@BJSteigner

Correction...This is REAL music.

@skfj67

LOL, i am so glad to hear that from you, a few years ago they did an interview with CHARM KILLINGS and when asked what type of music she liked...she said almost anything BUT HOUSE!!! LOL

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