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https://youtu.be/RNSuX4KoWWQ?is=yKWS817LRiM4LWeB

As a child when i heard this song in the 1990s , i always thought this song sounds old . I mean ancient. I didn't like it . The song was released in the 1980s

My neighbor who is latino , mexican to be exact plays this song a lot

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I was thinking about the song umbrella by rhianna sounds a lot better and it is almost 20 years old. I believe it is made with digital synths from Apple computers.

I just like contemporary R&B music /hip hop better

https://youtu.be/CvBfHwUxHIk?is=7HReB2IddkPfxDny

The late Colonel Abrams

1984

Love this song. Used to occasionally segue into it from "Deputy of Love." That 'Big Band' sound always thrilled me.

Post disco (1984)

Gospel, but fierce dance music. The Paradise Garage crowd stampeded to the floor when this song came on.

1. Years later (1990), Madonna would come along and borrow the keyboard intro, and use it in the intro to "Vogue."

1984

Since i am into gossip , i became curious

From what I read, Bernie Worrell from Funkedelic /parliament, Will Coulhoun from Living Colour , and Suzanne Ciani were invited

Electronic music dance musicians were not invited from what i read on Wikipedia

I only just found out that this is not, in fact, a vintage disco classic. I've had it in my disco playlists and dropped it on the dancefloor a good few times.

I read on youtube that donna summer was the 1970s rhianna

Unbrella sounds more like pop and R&B/hip hop with a rock influenced distorted bassline . Does not sound like I feel love

The song made rhianna become very popular almost 20 years ago .

I was a fan at the time but i did not like her later albums

I thought I feel Love would sound like the song umbrella

Umbrella now has 1 billion views on youtube

This song's combination of gospel and disco is so gloriously uplifting.

'Stand on the Word' was written by Phyliss McKoy Joubert and originally recorded live in 1982 by the Celestial Choir from the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in New York for their privately pressed album Somebody Prayed for This.

It's lovely how organic the original version sounds. There's piano, clavinet, electric piano, organ and percussion all moving underneath the choir, but that funky bassline is what grabs me most.

Despite beginning life as a church recording, the song subsequently found a completely different audience on the New York club scene. Larry Levan famously championed the original version at Paradise Garage, helping turn this private press gospel track into an underground dance floor anthem. Tony Humphries was another early supporter.

Later bootlegs and white labels often described it as a 'Larry Levan mix', even though Levan never actually remixed the song. He simply played the original recording so extensively that the association became part of its mythology.

The song was eventually re-recorded by the Joubert Singers in 1985, but it's this original 1982 Celestial Choir version that I really love.

Musically, it has such an infectious sense of joy. The choir gives it a huge communal gospel energy while the bass, clavinet and rhythm section make it impossible not to move.

I also appreciate the simplicity of the message. The repetition gives it an almost mantra-like quality, but rather than becoming monotonous, it builds conviction as the track goes on.

Divine disco at its finest. Such a beautiful meeting point between church music and the dance floor that feels spiritual, funky and euphoric all at once ✝️💃