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Artist:Staple Singers [ more ]
Song:Respect Yourself
Album:Be Altitude: Respect Yourself [ info ]
Released:1972
Last Played:Apr 23, 2013 - 23:33
Avg. Rating:7.6  (Total Ratings: 381)
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Lichenia,
Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 12:13 

Yeah, the seventies B-) 
 
Zep
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 16:15 

 bchartier wrote:
Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
 
Zed's dead, baby.
shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 16:11 

Oh yea!!!  {#Notworthy}
1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 13:51 

 just git out the way boy, and let the gentleman do his thing wolfkiss wrote:
There is no relationship between carrying a bible and deserving respect from oneself, let alone others.
 


btt
(firmly ensconsed in the Beautiful B.C Interior)
Posted: Mar 10, 2012 - 09:35 

Well , I  , for one , do give a good cahoot .
So there . 
wolfkiss
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 16:27 

There is no relationship between carrying a bible and deserving respect from oneself, let alone others.
kcar
Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 21:37 


 bchartier wrote:
Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
  
 
daveshel4 wrote:


I was just thinking the same thing.  Damn him.
 
Not to add to your pain, but I think this is pretty sacrilegious: his version is on a "Best of Motown in the 80s" anthology: 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/20th-century-masters-the-millennium/id3575567
You also have to ding Bruce for being in so many dumb action movies where he bellows "NOOOO!" at least once. I think that line's in his contract. 

 
citybiker
(Chicago)
Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:31 

I have a Bruce Willis cover of this on a 45. Almost as good.


daveshel4
(Seattle)
Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:30 

 bchartier wrote:
Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
 

I was just thinking the same thing.  Damn him.
Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 16:39 

 WonderLizard wrote:
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson
 Drive-By Truckers founder Patterson Hood is David's son, the song continues...

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 21:18 

 cc_rider wrote:

Buncha white dudes, if you can believe it. From North Alabama to Motown, those cats have quite a story.

 
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson


cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 17:47 

 tompoll wrote:
We get to see Mavis in a small place here in Seattle in late October. Should be wonderful!
 
Coolness!  I think wilco is in order now, since JT produced Mavis' new LP!!

tompoll
(Seattle WA USA)
Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 17:39 

We get to see Mavis in a small place here in Seattle in late October. Should be wonderful!
vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:50 

 cc_rider wrote:
'twas a joke. Referencing another RP thread.
 
Sorry!  I sit corrected. . .


cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:27 

 vandal wrote:

Slap yourself!

This isn't a "Christian" song. . . its an R&B icon. . .

{#Devil_pimp}

  'twas a joke. Referencing another RP thread.


pannaramma
(here and there)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:26 

 sandpebble wrote:
Much better than the Office Depot Singers!
{#Drunk}...........................................sorry
 
It's OK. I laughed.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:26 

 bchartier wrote:
Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
 
Who?

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:25 

 RParadise wrote:
Except they were never with Motown.  They were in Memphis, with Stax.  That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track.
 
Buncha white dudes, if you can believe it. From North Alabama to Motown, those cats have quite a story.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:25 

 morgsy67 wrote:
OH MY GAWD!!! Another Christian song on RP!!!!
 
Slap yourself!

This isn't a "Christian" song. . . its an R&B icon. . .

{#Devil_pimp}


nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 08:24 

Respect!
sandpebble
(near Paradise)
Posted: Mar 13, 2010 - 17:35 

Much better than the Office Depot Singers!
{#Drunk}...........................................sorry
etcarroll
(stuck among the Amish)
Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 04:18 

And backing them STRONG, if I may say!

 
RParadise wrote:


Except they were never with Motown.  They were in Memphis, with Stax.  That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track.
 


Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 17:35 

 bchartier wrote:
Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
 
           Huh?
bchartier
(Toronto, Ontario Canada)
Posted: Dec 09, 2009 - 08:58 

Bruce Willis ruined this for me.
RParadise
(Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 11:01 

 Shesdifferent wrote:

Yeah! Love that your playing this! Motown forever! Good choice!
 

Except they were never with Motown.  They were in Memphis, with Stax.  That's the Muscle Shoals studio band backing this track.
unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 11:01 

 cstetler wrote:
We love the Staple Singers here at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music!!  Come Visit!!!

I have visited, and your house ROCKS!  Got a 50th anniversary CD set of Stax tunes, too, with over a dozen killer tunes.  Great slice of history next door to Beale Street and the Gibson factory/museum. 
Bleyfusz
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:47 

 oilydwarf wrote:
Love it!!!
 
Yikes! My favourite self esteem anthem.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home)
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:46 

 redeyespy wrote:
The real deal.
 
Yeah! Love that your playing this! Motown forever! Good choice!
newwavegurly
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:45 

I've always thought that this would make a good pairing with ZZ Top's "Thank You"—there's something similar about the groove of the two of them to me.
rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 10:45 

 jadedragon wrote:
I am ancient...... remember listening to this on a transistor radio...
 
Holy smokes! Your profile says you were born in 1901. You are ancient.

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