Martha & the Vandellas - Mike Douglas Show (1969)

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  • @coreymiller6302
    @coreymiller6302 11 місяців тому +8

    Her voice is beautiful Matha sings from her heart you can't teach that in the studio.

  • @cinematicmoviedude
    @cinematicmoviedude Рік тому +8

    Martha singing live to the track. Love this song

  • @shuroom57
    @shuroom57 4 місяці тому +4

    Big crush on Martha. So beautiful.
    Mike Douglas' Show is very underrated, if not completely overlooked.

  • @marvelousmartian5379
    @marvelousmartian5379 2 роки тому +10

    This was my first LP by them back when I was a youngster, bought it at Woolworths in the mid-70's. Yes I bought old records when I was a kid! There were no hits on here but there should have been!

  • @anthonypatterson6619
    @anthonypatterson6619 6 років тому +28

    I love how the fans argue about these groups. They have such strong feelings and passion for these performers.

  • @lyndajay4407
    @lyndajay4407 4 роки тому +13

    Those pantsuits are everything !!!

  • @laurence8209
    @laurence8209 10 місяців тому +4

    Martha,I met once. Nice lady and so we're the vandellas.

  • @boomerang905
    @boomerang905 4 роки тому +19

    I saw these ladies perform at the old Regal Theater in Chicago. Forget the Supremes, imo. These were our favorites along with the Marvelettes. The Lead singers could SING!!

    • @FriendofDorothy
      @FriendofDorothy Рік тому +1

      pop music success does not require technical skills as a singer. it requires great material and the right sound/image. The Supremes toned down the gospel and soul vocals in order to appeal to all young people. not just those into soul music. And it worked like magic.

    • @boomerang905
      @boomerang905 3 місяці тому +1

      @@FriendofDorothy you don't know anything about their tone and how they took it down. So how were they gospel and soul? Diane had a pop voice from the start. What are you even talking about?

  • @MelodyMaker151
    @MelodyMaker151 7 років тому +46

    She looks really pretty here I like the shorter hairstyle. She had lovely features.

    • @bufb
      @bufb 6 років тому +1

      MelodyMaker151 like her hair

    • @ronwilliams717
      @ronwilliams717 6 років тому +2

      She was as skinny as Ross and as good but Berry wasn't going to let her be no one like Ross.Those moves wow!!! Oh, them Girls were bad and mad sexy I remember seeing them live at this time.

    • @loveyu2778
      @loveyu2778 5 років тому +1

      I like the wig ass well..it looks good on her

    • @theronedawson3236
      @theronedawson3236 4 роки тому +1

      @@ronwilliams717 She had a shape .

    • @wsmith2873
      @wsmith2873 3 роки тому

      @@bufbin great voice..

  • @thesilentdiva
    @thesilentdiva 5 років тому +11

    These old vids r really gems

  • @MotownMaster
    @MotownMaster 5 років тому +22

    Sandra Tilley was flawless

  • @mistersoul6016
    @mistersoul6016 7 років тому +21

    I love the voice of Martha Reeves and i love this Group too !!

  • @waynebrasler
    @waynebrasler 8 років тому +23

    The album was pieced together from unreleased singles and still smoked!

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 7 років тому +5

      Also, by this time as you notice from this video that the Vandellas had become quite interchangeable. Sandra Tilly and Lois Reeves were not around when Martha and the Vandellas were releasing their major hits. During the hit making years, the Vandellas had a pretty consistent line up. Martha Reeves, Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly. Betty Kelly replaced Annette Sterling in 1964, but that was the only personnel change between 1962 and 1967, the classic hit making years for Martha and the Vandellas

    • @kenmills4739
      @kenmills4739 2 роки тому +2

      @@jackanthony976 I love it when personnel changes are described for any singing group despite circumstances as the reason, as long as singing group members can cooperate, communicate, and keep things moving along musically.

  • @nancymiller584
    @nancymiller584 5 років тому +7

    Wow, how did I miss these songs? Fantastic. Great to see the interview, too. Thank you Ramardo.

  • @MotownMaster
    @MotownMaster 5 років тому +8

    RIP Sandra

  • @mistersoul6016
    @mistersoul6016 4 роки тому +4

    La flambe à l'état pure , j'adore ce morceau !!! ❤❤❤

  • @scotttaylor6184
    @scotttaylor6184 4 роки тому +9

    She was seriously sangin!

  • @wilfordfraser6347
    @wilfordfraser6347 3 роки тому +4

    Always loved this song

  • @yolandasession8158
    @yolandasession8158 3 роки тому +3

    Martha is really beautiful

  • @xavierdh2000
    @xavierdh2000 7 років тому +20

    martha is so pretty

  • @wilfordfraser6347
    @wilfordfraser6347 7 років тому +6

    Always liked this song

  • @TheJohnnymotown
    @TheJohnnymotown 6 років тому +4

    Jus great...…………..awesome...…...and a great song...……...

  • @drstevie
    @drstevie 7 років тому +5

    Fantastic !!

  • @sickvokals
    @sickvokals Рік тому +6

    1969, Martha's "comeback" after her break from what Motown called "exhaustion". Songs from the Sugar N Spice album, which were songs recorded between '67-68, not intended as singles, per say. But, with Martha recovering, she could not work on new material. This resulted in a sweep decline in the group. Hate it happened. They were great!

  • @xavierdh2000
    @xavierdh2000 7 років тому +16

    Martha is very pretty specialy with that short hair

  • @jimmyjohn5502
    @jimmyjohn5502 4 роки тому +2

    As fine as wine Martha & the Vandellas

  • @pieroangelo2
    @pieroangelo2 8 років тому +3

    meraviglioso..Amazing!!

  • @alexmullins8539
    @alexmullins8539 8 років тому +11

    Wonderful preformance! Such perfect choreography, I also think this was when Martha was suffering form her drug addiction.

    • @RamardoTHunt
      @RamardoTHunt  8 років тому +8

      You are right, she also suffered a nervous breakdown.

    • @NaturalElicia
      @NaturalElicia 8 років тому +3

      Ramardo T. Hunt I didn't know that I grew up in my fathers records and I played that jimmy mack out🙈

    • @bretterry1347
      @bretterry1347 6 років тому +7

      She never had a drug addition someone spiked a drink of her's. Her first drug was PRESCRIBED valium. Unless you know things as a matter of fact, be careful of what you say or write. Does she look or sound like she's on drugs? Hell no.

    • @VincentL7
      @VincentL7 6 років тому +4

      Bret Terry: If her first drug was prescribed 'valium', then there were other drugs, but she never became addicted to them, right? In this video Martha doesn't even look like she ever took a single drug in her life, she looked marvelous! Whatever negative thing they say about her I won't believe it.

    • @sandrahavis5741
      @sandrahavis5741 3 роки тому +3

      She had a serious drug addiction and 2 nervous breakdowns

  • @MrPeclo
    @MrPeclo 7 років тому +5

    Super Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

  • @Mongo76
    @Mongo76 6 років тому +12

    Mary J. Blige looks a lot like Martha does here. This was a fantastic look for Martha..... so pretty.

    • @davidbetsey2437
      @davidbetsey2437 5 років тому +5

      Martha Reeves does really look good, but I be damned if Mary J. Blige look like her. Both ladies are beautiful but in their own right.
      Why is it that Martha Reeves, being the lead singer, never let Lois or Sandra lead or sing any songs, & nothing is said, same w/Patty LaBelle & The Bluebelles or any other female singing group, but when it comes to The Supremes, Diana Ross is chewed up one side & spit out the other side because Florence, Cindy or Mary never was allowed to sing lead. That's double standard & besides, isnt that left up to the owner/record company C.E.O.?
      It looks like the whole world is against Diana. Ive heard The Three Degrees' Valerie Holiday put down Diana Ross for never having The Supremes sing lead like her group.
      Before u put anyone down, shouldnt u first get all the facts before u put ur foot in ur mouth?

    • @tobiaschristopher6863
      @tobiaschristopher6863 4 роки тому

      Hear, hear! I saw Martha perform at the Opera House in Manchester, 20 years ago, she had her hair up for the finale when she joined Edwin Starr and Mary Wilson on stage... the point: I was distracted 'cos I couldn't think of who it was she reminded me until she took centre stage for a bow, then it hit me; Mary J. Blige. My friends said they couldn't see it, now 20 years on I feel vindicated 😂 I thought then, and still think, if these 2 legends got together for a collaboration, they'd tear it up!

    • @marvelousmartian5379
      @marvelousmartian5379 2 роки тому +2

      It's the eyes. I noticed that when Mary J. first started out.

    • @HardCold-Alquan
      @HardCold-Alquan Рік тому +1

      @@davidbetsey2437 Well, it IS Martha AND the Vandellas.

  • @DIONLIVE
    @DIONLIVE 3 роки тому +2

    We love Martha Reeves

  • @berniceivery
    @berniceivery 3 роки тому +2

    April 12, Happy Birthday Lois Reeves of Martha Reeves @ivery5000 👠👠 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @coreymiller6302
    @coreymiller6302 11 місяців тому +3

    The best female vocalist at motown in the 60s.

  • @gbalelabasketteuse9417
    @gbalelabasketteuse9417 6 років тому +7

    martha was finnnne !

  • @juniebe4
    @juniebe4 8 років тому +6

    These Got It. Just like The Marvelettes The Moves

  • @cloud78freedom93
    @cloud78freedom93 4 роки тому +6

    Martha still can sin today

    • @FriendofDorothy
      @FriendofDorothy Рік тому

      she could blow the roof off on songs like "Heat Wave" back in the day but time and age do have their effects on voices...

  • @ethanc2711
    @ethanc2711 5 років тому +2

    hypnotic

  • @jackanthony976
    @jackanthony976 4 роки тому +3

    Martha has her new "Vandellas" standing way in the back behind her singing. Martha had just fired her hit making Vandellas, Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly. When Rosalind and Betty were singing with Martha, they never stood behind Martha and they always had a hit on the top 40. After Martha fired Rosalind and Betty, Martha and the Vandellas never had another top 40 again.

    • @thatgirlteateagang9193
      @thatgirlteateagang9193 4 роки тому

      Barry change the writer from Martha an Vann Martha was a very good singer Barry start focusing Daina Ross only

    • @kellygreen5556
      @kellygreen5556 2 роки тому

      I don't think the groups difficulty getting hits had much to do with who Martha Reeves had as The Vandellas. By 1969 many groups had difficulty ( The Marvelettes, for example, couldn't chart in 1969 and 1970) Even Diana Ross and The Supremes could not be assured every release would zoom up the charts and Miss Ross had Motown's backing. Martha wasn't even informed when the company moved to Los Angeles. Also. Martha had a nervous breakdown.
      The Vandellas were her employees ( not the record companies) according to Martha so she decided who would stay and who would go. It is understandable that Betty Kelly would leave the group- her hearing was damaged standing near the live loud music. And Motown ( Gordy, Tamla) already started using the Andantes on the records instead of the real groups. ( The majority of The Marvelettes were so upset by that, they refused to be on the cover of their last album in 1970) . I am not saying that Martha did not act like a prima Donna but how much clout she had , I don't know. I would be a prima Donna, too seeing how Diane Ross ( Diana) was put out front of The Supremes.
      " Takin My Love ( and leaving me)" was a good song. Too bad it wasn't a hit. Another Martha Reeves and The Vandellas release " I Should Be Proud" was boycotted by some radio stations because of it's anti Vietnam war message. It seemed like the group just couldn't get a break in those later years, but I still bought all their records till the end.

    • @radd6352
      @radd6352 Рік тому +1

      @kellygreen5556 Agreed. Things totally changed for all the girl groups at Motown when HDH left. By this time, Gordy was preparing Ross for her solo career and working extensively with the Jackson 5. In my opinion, Motown didn't push the Marvelettes nor Martha and the Vandellas after 1967.

  • @VincentL7
    @VincentL7 6 років тому +13

    Martha was beautiful, I love her eyes, her face, her voice...I wish I would've been twenty back then and ask her to be my girl, but I guess I was still on diapers.

    • @iluvrachellef
      @iluvrachellef 4 роки тому +1

      I was in diapers too ha and my Birthday is the same as Martha's.....eat your heart out. 😀

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому

      @@iluvrachellef she was the boss pop princess at Motown for half a decade.

    • @HardCold-Alquan
      @HardCold-Alquan Рік тому

      I would have asked her for more than that! I would have put the clamp down on that! She's still around now. If she would drop 70 pounds - she might get lucky! lol

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому +1

      @@HardCold-Alquan she's gained weight, she's 70+ yrs now and still entertaining, she's truly one of the corner pillows of Motown and pop music. Our Great Sister.

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому

      She could be my Baby Mama. I adore her.

  • @migueltomlinson3024
    @migueltomlinson3024 4 роки тому +4

    Martha Reeves was fine !!!!!!

  • @kpitt1204
    @kpitt1204 7 років тому +8

    I never knew anything from the latter years of the group until I was good and grown. I liked both sings, but it seems as though the "oomph" is missing out of the songs and group, but I do like this line up also. I just wish the background vocals were slightly louder. I love the choreography too, not to mention that they are good looking women.

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 5 років тому +7

      Martha had just gotten rid of her classic line-up of Vandellas (Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly) and that is why it doesn't seem quite Vandella like. These two Vandellas are ok but Rosalind and Betty had more soulful voices and better moves.

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому

      They recorded back to back songs of the year: Dancing in the Street and Heatwave.

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому

      @@jackanthony976 and better backup vocal harmonies.

  • @marvinking9848
    @marvinking9848 Рік тому +1

    I didn't realize their catalog was so vast with material that I've never heard before. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were over - shadowed by the Supremes which became the favored group that was designated for cross - over appeal by Gordy...not to mention his relationship with Diana Ross.

  • @Miketendo93
    @Miketendo93 6 років тому +9

    Goodness Ms. Reeves was/is just as classy as Ms. Ross!

    • @xavierdh2000
      @xavierdh2000 5 років тому +2

      And good looking!

    • @davidbetsey2437
      @davidbetsey2437 5 років тому +3

      Theyre all from Motown Record Company. Do I have to say anything else!

    • @monicabella7894
      @monicabella7894 4 роки тому +1

      @@davidbetsey2437 NO

    • @darrinbaker00
      @darrinbaker00 3 роки тому +1

      Classier, actually. Martha never gave up the cookie to the boss like Diana did.

  • @jackanthony976
    @jackanthony976 5 років тому +7

    Now that Martha got rid of the best line-up of Vandellas (Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly) she now employs unknowns to be Vandellas (including her sister?) and has them singing way behind her! Betty and Rosalind always sang upfront with Martha and participated in the interviews as well.

    • @davidbetsey2437
      @davidbetsey2437 5 років тому +3

      Wouldnt that fall under, following the instructions of Berry Gordy, Owner & C.E.O. of Motown Records! U people are all the same, crucifying Diana Ross for the same thing, before knowing all the facts. DAMN!

    • @mysky
      @mysky 5 років тому +1

      David Betsey Martha herself has stated, and even wrote in her book, that she got rid of Betty and Roz. Those are the facts, unless Martha was lying.

    • @RamardoTHunt
      @RamardoTHunt  4 роки тому +3

      Sandra Tilley was a member of the Velvelettes therefore she was not an unknown.

    • @donniesumling8549
      @donniesumling8549 4 роки тому

      @@RamardoTHunt isn't it weird that the Vandellas get a Velvelette for two of their replacements, both original members?

    • @kenmills4739
      @kenmills4739 2 роки тому +2

      @@donniesumling8549 . . .Betty Kelly and Sandra Tilley both were Velvelettes; the latter also sang with The Orlons.

  • @HardCold-Alquan
    @HardCold-Alquan Рік тому +2

    Even though this is back in the day, that set is pretty intriguing.

  • @horizontoday7874
    @horizontoday7874 3 роки тому +4

    Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly were replaced? 😩 I knew Betty was fired but didn’t know Roz had left

    • @jackjules7552
      @jackjules7552 3 роки тому +1

      Martha had just had Roz fired after singing with her for 10 years. Supposedly Martha did not like Roz changing the stage act without telling Marth before hand. Martha sang with Roz even before they went to Motown. Martha had Betty fired just before Roz. This lineup you see here had no national top 40 hits. In fact, after Martha got rid of Roz the group had no hits at all on the top 40 and shortly thereafter disbanded since the hits and the gigs came to an end. Read Martha's book for details.

    • @lenb7275
      @lenb7275 3 роки тому

      Betty & roz were replaced by Lois & Sandra

  • @KayJay470
    @KayJay470 7 років тому +6

    Martha reeves and the vandellas, the only group ever that couldn't keep group members! I love them tho

    • @kpitt1204
      @kpitt1204 7 років тому +9

      Kenneth Bailey Although I love both groups, the Supremes and Temptations had many changes in their lineups.

    • @mysky
      @mysky 5 років тому +3

      Kenneth Bailey During the group’s official Motown tenure, they had far less changes in their lineup than The Supremes and The Temptations. 🤷‍♂️

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому

      @@kpitt1204 this group of yhe Vandellas is a slight drop off from the earlier versions. I remember as a kid id hear my older cousins arguing about who was the real Vandellas, who were the best Vandellas, on and on and constantly hearing their great songs, you weren't cool if you didn't have a MRV album, single or somehting.

  • @timothywilson2589
    @timothywilson2589 8 років тому +7

    Will those girls let a 5 year old boy dance with them?

  • @Jocelyn_Jade
    @Jocelyn_Jade 3 роки тому +6

    Whoa I’m getting Mary J Blige vibes from this entire performance. Her outfit, hair, makeup, voice.

    • @alaricabercrombie2692
      @alaricabercrombie2692 2 роки тому

      Yes, yes, me too 😄👏

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Рік тому +1

      You're really getting Martha vibes but you really don't know it yet. She appears if she could've been a really good actress. What a great performance. I see how she could easily be the boss pop princess at Motown and America for half a decade. They were awesome.

    • @michellekirkendall818
      @michellekirkendall818 Рік тому

      Mary J Blige doesn't compare to Martha. Period.

  • @MrPeclo
    @MrPeclo 4 роки тому +1

    Martha Reeves ++++++

  • @MauriceRivers415
    @MauriceRivers415 8 років тому +5

    Great performance, but my question is this: Does Martha know that Sandra Tilley is resting in an unmarked grave? How does a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee go unnoticed like that? I would think Martha or someone at Motown would have the decency to put a headstone on her grave after 35 years.

    • @RamardoTHunt
      @RamardoTHunt  8 років тому +5

      Maurice Rivers I'm not sure if she do know, Motown use to pay for the funeral and burial of there former artists. It's a shame that Sandra is resting in an unmarked grave.

    • @sickvokals
      @sickvokals 7 років тому +6

      Maurice Rivers Sure it does. It's so irritating to hear the useless queens talk about what woulda, coulda and shoulda when you have no evidence of anything or a check book to rectify the problem. How long will the bitching and moaning continue? Just STFU with it already...unless you have a check book handy.

    • @migueltomlinson6131
      @migueltomlinson6131 6 років тому +4

      That's sad to hear about Sandra Tilley. She had also been a member of The Velvelettes

    • @ronwilliams717
      @ronwilliams717 6 років тому +1

      I have noticed that even the Motown fans really care about the original members so they probably wouldn't care to do to much for Sandra. I think that she was cute and hot but what does the majority say ?that is the question!

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 5 років тому +3

      Sandra Tilly was not with the Vandellas when they were having all of their major hits. Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly were real Vandellas as they sang on most of the major hits.

  • @ronniebishop2496
    @ronniebishop2496 2 роки тому +1

    A lot of artists said they didn’t like their biggest hits at first. Yet some still insist on picking them anyway and well then they’re gone. But this stuff is not very hot at all. No

  • @horizontoday7874
    @horizontoday7874 7 років тому +5

    What? Where's Betty and Rosalind???

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 7 років тому +9

      Betty was fired by Martha in mid 1967 after months of tension between the two of them. Rosalind was fired by Martha a few months later when Rosalind starting challenging Martha on professional decisions. You may wonder how Martha had the power to fire Betty and Rosalind. Betty and Rosalind were not under contract to Motown but were employees of Martha Reeves herself and therefore Martha had the power to terminate both Betty and Rosalind. Betty did not go quietly. After Betty was fired she would purchase a seat for Martha and the Vandellas concerts and would heckle Martha's performance from the audience. All this is documented in Martha's autobiographical book.

    • @mysky
      @mysky 7 років тому +4

      K Moore Betty was out of the group by 1967, and Roz was out in 1968.

    • @bretterry1347
      @bretterry1347 6 років тому +2

      Betty was not fired...she lost her hearing. She heckled her replacement Lois not Martha. Betty actually was Annette's replacement. Martha hired them all.

    • @bradleyscarton3931
      @bradleyscarton3931 6 років тому +3

      Betty and Roz were not employees of Martha Reeves. Both of them and Annette will confirm that. Betty was under contract to Motown as a Velvelette prior to her becoming a Vandella. Roz, being an original Vandella, was also under contract to Motown. In order for them to record, they had to be signed to the label. Motown would have never let them record or perform if they weren't under contract to them.

    • @jackjules7552
      @jackjules7552 3 роки тому +1

      @@bradleyscarton3931 Martha has a different story in her book. In her autobiography Martha states that the Vandellas were employees of Martha therefore she could fire both Betty and Roz which she did.

  • @m.1167
    @m.1167 3 роки тому +1

    why did roz leave/get fired? ☹️

    • @jackjules7552
      @jackjules7552 3 роки тому

      Roz started changing the stage patter without notifying Martha. Martha was not having it. And with the firing of Roz came the end of that "Vandellas" sound that Roz brought to all of the groups biggest hits especially Nowhere to Run.

  • @owenrees7544
    @owenrees7544 5 років тому +8

    Doesn't quite work for me like her earlier stuff

    • @iluvrachellef
      @iluvrachellef 4 роки тому

      I agree. I've been waiting to see this clip since a snippet of it appeared on Motown 40 in 1998....I've waited 22years and someone on IG directed me here.

    • @calvinjackson8110
      @calvinjackson8110 4 роки тому +1

      Cannot hold a candle to Heatwave and Quicksand. Those are the ones that make my brain go TILT.

    • @wilfordfraser6347
      @wilfordfraser6347 3 роки тому +2

      well apparently the public agreed with you because these songs were flops

    • @opheliumzone4671
      @opheliumzone4671 3 роки тому +1

      @@wilfordfraser6347 🤣

  • @ronniebishop2496
    @ronniebishop2496 2 роки тому

    This is not that typical edge they used to have, more like Smokey or Diana Ross.!

  • @carlosvelasquez9922
    @carlosvelasquez9922 2 роки тому +2

    I'm not trying to compare, but Martha's voice is my favorite for singing unlike Diana Ross's that's why I would have preferred Florence Ballard as lead singer of the Supremes

    • @carlosvelasquez9922
      @carlosvelasquez9922 2 роки тому

      @@dddddadadad1796 i told my personal opinion, i respect yours .

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 2 роки тому

      Edgy but this song is not like Heatwave lol.?

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 2 роки тому

      @@dddddadadad1796 Couldn’t even sing, does Barry Gordy know? lol 😂