Dramatics, The - I Was The Life Of The Party Lyrics

Everybody was a jump in and a pumpkin and a skipping around

Snoop Dogg brought me here

Memories!...sweet memories! Of my youthful yrs. growing up n D(roit) when life was somewhat innocent😏

Rudy Valentino of the 313- It'sa Dramatic experience to be born and raised in Detroit Is my era 4 Lover's Only....Happy Holidays to my kings and especially "Queen s"....Spending Xmas with my baby in Chi-Town....WCCCD..

THIS SONG SO Damn cold 🥶 2020

They say you never miss ya water till ya well runs dry ! They definitely put this one 2gether ! Go Dramatics..,....💥💯

Ron banks voice is so smooth soft and very. Sexy yes.

2019 the days.stepping and rapping.basement partys and cruisen.cleveand ohio.

The life of the party best time on my life what a JAM😁

On this day in 1976 {April 3rd} the Dramatics performed "I Was The Life of the Party" on the Saturday-afternoon nationally syndicated television program, 'Soul Train'...
At the time the group's "You're Fooling You" was at #36 on Billboard's Soul Singles chart, five weeks earlier it peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and it spent sixteen weeks on the chart...
"I Was The Life of the Party" would reach #49 on the Hot Soul Singles chart...
Between 1971 and 1989 the Detroit soul group had thirty-six records on Billboard's Soul Singles chart, nine made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "In The Rain" for four weeks on March 19th, 1972...
R.I.P Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012}...

Yea and ťhey killed IT!!!!

WattsStacksDavinaTreadwell

Kuyon my Uncle ILove u unc pimp in peace

Tina Marie the first album I was between fifteen & eight teen perhaps 19 or 20 my sister Alecia Arnold spelled with a E Capital A a extra special intelligent musician and Rapper ORIGINAL GANGSTER who introduced me to her first album she was my style of a musician and singer I give LADY T excellent singer I dearly miss her but I never stop playing her music 5 stars is not good enough too rate the lady Tina Maria +
(Marie) so I give her a award for outstanding performance a thrillion stars

Its aways a sheer pleasure ,to listen to true talent .

There were so many Artist from this tyme Bobby Womack could spin a web and capture u(me) forever with his love ballads. As all of these great greatartist were & still r what's up with music!

Dont forget lenny mays he did a lot of the lead also. i just loved them all.

YUP Lenny DID all vocals HE WAS a saver!!!

Ashley🌹

I love this song, good to go back and feel good for a moment. I remember this song I was so young and in love hahah

Aww Man! Ron Banks and LJ Reynolds!!

0-for 2. Feb. 2013. Gonna key up "Love Don't Love Nobody"; turn it up load; listen to the words and be happy I didn't get stuck with some "fake" baggage.

Well, the party is over! Can't do it no more...won't do it no more. Wishing my past good luck, but looking forward to the future with childlike excitement. I see myself as more than your personal entertainment. The word for today is "Self respect." I got it and you can't take it away. Find me @ Isley Bros. "Highways of My Life."

O K ! THATS ALL I CAN SAY.

I'm in love with this song.

thumbs up if you think this is the best song ever too :-)

Most unfortunately folk way back up in the boonies donot get to hear certain tunes until way after they have been released for years elsewhere. For instance Just my imagination didnt come out in the south until way after Paul had offed himself.

No One Cares About The Dolphins .... What You Puttin' That Shyt On Here For ?????????

I hope u mean smile! ;-)

Please let me know, I had all their albums and now I don't, I'm collecting the cd's now, I need all their albums released on cd!!! My favorite group of my teenage years

Hey ya'll. Scribin' to u from Asheville, NC.. Ain't no fun being the life of the party...I can be a funny MF'r...however it really hurts when you "sisters" go for that "yak-yak" talk. Really...you can't be that shallow???...

When the HELL is Drama V going to be released on CD

Pentecostal, Dramatics, school, young black man you had all you needed to live a good life. And you carried it over into today. SMART African American man. LOVE YOU. Sister Leslie.

Who can say that they have a voice like any of these brothers in this day?

LOVED THIS CUT! STILL LOVE IT! DRAMATIC...SMH!

When it came 2 dancing 2 me they were better then the TEMPTATIONS thats my opinion

Uh I don't know blue magic was ruff n tuff to BUT temps and these cats TOP shelf surely and them whispers n spinners man where DO they GO!!!!

Jr. High 1971-72, Senior High 72-76

My God ! how time flies. This song makes my heart sing. I love this song. Like so many people we had a group back then called Black Rain. this i one of the songs we covered. I did the part of Ron Banks. R.I.P. my Brotha. Much Love

These were my neighbors when I grew up in Detroit...too bad this era of music will only be known to people like us

I'm still jamming to this song in Detroit

Unknown fact - all the musicians on this album are part of the "Funk Brothers" from the Motown house studio band....Hearing this album started me on my musical path! Thank you Dramatics and Thank You God!

Sing it Ronnie.

@MAHDEER I'm hooked too! I'm 53 years old and joined the Air Force in 1976 (fresh out of the Pentecostal Church). The AF was a boring life for a young black man back then. My hobbies were going to school and going to the record store every pay day to buy 4 albums. Yessssssss! I have their entire collection, well preserved on vinyl and still enjoy them today

@2vent2011 I'M WITH U ALL THE WAY

Thanks for posting this. I love this song!

THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYED ON THIS ALBUM (DRAMATIC THEME) TREAT ME LIKE A MAN , DRAMA V HAS THE BEST COLLECTION OF SONGS 4 SONG , THAN ANY OF THERE ALBUMS , NEVERTHE LESS MY BOYS 4 EVER ,WILLIE, LENNY, SQUIRREL, L.J & RON .

This was the one of the greatest groups out of detroit,these fellas were the dudes
I grew up on this music great era One love the to late great ron banks and the rest of
the group.classic era

Can you believe that the first time I heard this song, it was being performed by Leslie Uggams!! She did a great job with it also. I think this is one of the Dramatics best cuts ever!!! Mr. Banks, Ford, Mays, Demps, and Reynolds were amazing and their group name, DRAMATICS, is so appropriate!!

wow. love how they sped up the drums for the hook, representing his external/ internal struggle of him

omg I tell you I love the Dramatics I soooo remember this song back in the 70's I played this song out

I love Ron Banks and the Dramatics. i am so sorry to hear about his death. RIP. I came here today to listen to his music not knowing he had died. I lost my mom on 9-29-09 So i too am sad. To his family I am so sorry for your lost. Great voices.

YES, I spoke to him occasionally; he was so humble and kind.

One of their greatest album sides.....Ron has left us with a wealth of his lead vocals......one of the greatest vocal groups ever.

@77757891 the dramatics was well known for that

Studio edit! they both sung the verses and we just faded one over the other.

lotta feel good power in that chorus

Absolutely!!!!! I thouht I was he only person who'd ever heard it!!!!

Beautiful!

Wow - - I love both the Drmatics & Five Special! No wonder Five special's harmony was so good on "Why Leave Us Alone".

The Isley's

today im ' just very grateful, for my life..and that i can still just come here ..and listen to good music.....

And oh yeah, you think the Corporation (Berry Gordy's writing team for the Jackson 5) sued these cats for them licks, Hell No, because its was commonplace a common practice now everybody wants to complain about hip hop but real producers are payin' these cats.

As a young music maker Id like to point out that early music at its foundation was based off of standards, covers, an improversation, that is groups imitating or rearranging known songs to make new recordings Ray charles did it with gospel, so did Motown, stax did tons of covers Isaac hayes, Otis, etc, so my point is is that older people need to consider that it was deliberate conspiracy in the lifestyle changes in Black America that hurt us that hurt our music not SAMPLING not young muscians

This is the shit right here love it, love it, the Dramatics have good albums song for song,this song and Happy by
Eddie Kendrics off the Hitman album just blew me away first time I put the needle to the record man, talkin' bout FEEL GOOD, those songs are awesome....1:25 that change, magic sounds like ABC by the Jacksons but the background vocals are amazing an the story the writing these cats are masters....Im buyin' this for my computer amazon mp3' i Need this already got the record...

They made some great hits that will go down N my memory from a child growing up N the early 70's.When it came 2 stepping they 2 me were just as good or even better than the temptation thats my opinion.

I remember a friend introduced me the Dramatics music back in 1979. My heart was broken and all I coiuld do was weep for her..oh that love.londo didn't seem so great those days..I became a Dramatics fan from the time I heard IN THE RAIN.

Funny how love has changed.I no longer think of her,but the music remained.

FANTASTIC song!! Wish I had been around during the 70s because the music from that era was truly magical. Now that MAGIC and SPARK is currently lacking in today's music. What happened to it?? Can someone PLEASE bring it back??!! Lol...anyhoo, thanks for this post! I've been listening to this non-stop since yesterday! :-)

This entire album was great. I fell in love with "Just Shopping" day one and went and bought the album which I still have today. I'm just now starting to post to my account. Take a visit sometime or another.

Nice song. HUH, is that the eBay symbol? lol

We had gold!

used to go to sleep on the Dramatics albums every nite, could not understand why my buddies slept on the Dramatics, they were from the neighborhood so disrespect was rampant i guess?.. had to semi-hide my enthusiasim, but did see them every time i could at Cobo Hall, Masonic Temple, etc...what a period that was for me. look at their body of work, it is 2nd to none...name 1 other group of young men that put out 1 album every year for 2 decades while charting locally AND nationally, you can't

thank you for the post you just don't know how it took me back this use to be my song god was i in love those were the days to old now to love like that but i can sit here and smile and think back to a wonderful time in my life so young and naive sucha good time i know to much now smile

Great Album! Yes, I got it too. The Dramatics were/are a great group. They were my "Temptations"

great song thx 4 post

This album was/IS the bomb!!!!!!!

michael henderson on the bass,see him live