This made me smile. Chaka is such a beautiful spirit. Her voice is like a pretty trumpet. Those Dionne Warwick songs are very technical. Chaka nailed it her own way❤
This is why I absolutely love Chaka, only she could simultaneously put her signature on a Dionne Warwick classic and compliment her original flawless technique.
Dione songs were written specifically for her voice register so Chaka singing this so extremely well only proves her excellent skill and ability to make this song her own. Complimenting Dione while making the song her own!!! I love 💕 being Black!!!
@@kovin-ashleychetty5159 And Ms. Dionne was the only one of 43 or so that was able to put her special touch on it and turn it into a masterpiece and make it a big Hit #Facts🙂❤.
@rasseruuu373 because Dionne did not sing ass shaking songs do not take away from the vocals, listen to her stuff, he'll you left Nancy Wilson off your list oh, I forgot did did no ass shaking songs either..
Dionne’s songs are not easy to sing she just makes them look easy. Chaka did a wonderful job with an advanced song like this. It shows not only her showmanship but also her musicianship to present this song in very good manner. She complimented the song.
I tell U all it’s like the beloved late Prince May he Rest In Peace and in power) himself said, Chaka is THE VOICE OF LIFE. Chaka can sing anything. She can take any song and just make it her own. She has to have the strongest voice second to no one. Take a listen at 2:52, she just unleashes that power of hers and hits those notes like you and I breathe or drink water, absolutely no straining or nothing whatsoever. She just opens that mouth and it just comes out. And you heard Marsha herself say at 5:03 and Vickie herself say at 5:08 that she doesn’t need a microphone. Marsha said in high school she sometimes wouldn’t even have a microphone but would just fill up the audience. This is why the QUEEN OF SOUL, Aretha Franklin (may she rest in peace and in power) said herself that Chaka is a world premiere vocalist. AIN’T NOBODY & I mean AIN’T NOBODY like her.
I hadn't realized that Chaka had sung a rendition of this brilliant song, and she nails it,🥰💖 Don't tell anyone but I have had a crush on Chaka since I first heard her voice,
My name is Alfie. My mom named me after this song and I never understood why she named a girl after this song when I learned about the movie as an adult. If someone yells my name I know they're related to me or know me from childhood lol. But only this year heard the song--and I get it now. Now I know why when I told older people what song I was named after their faces would soften and go awwww. It's such a warm an familiar loving pleading song now when I hear it.
The sublime Ms Khan made this classic her own like only she can. Even Dionne's renowned rendition is not in this class. As for Whitney's! It's best I say nothing! The Divine Ms Sarah Vaughan's 1969 live performance on the other hand is, as one would expect, absolutely spectacular and truly majestic.
Genius. Amazing. This would be such a no-go today 1. It has to be a fkn hit on fkn iHeart Radio 2. They would break it into three pieces to fit 7 commercials.
I love the Chaka vocalises here. Still, this is one of the hardest songs to sing (believe it or not!) even though it sounds so simple. Because every lyric in this song needs to be sung with complete understanding and experience of true love. This song doesn't need to be sung, it needs to be felt.
GALS? 😂 I know Vickie probably didn't mean any harm by it... Just this language today would be censored due to the sensitivity and the shape of the world we are in based on Politics that has people so disrespectful and a using Freedom of Speech... Nevertheless "Chaka Khan delivered and these legends were always graceful in the public's eye, her and Dion both 💯" (Vickie & Carol) were also my favorite funnies on TV growing up. -Kwaufi Nino
Some classics should remain untouched, "Alfie" is one, "At Last" is another. Pass that mic to Dionne, I love you both, but she is being kind & generous.
I mean PURE Chaka to the bone. It's something for an artist to truly have a POINT OF VIEW unique to them, exclusively. This is why I love Chaka. She is herself and nothing else.❤
Dionne Warwick's Jazz version is wonderfully smooth. Whitney Houston's reinterpretations are more daring and tough. Well, Chaka Khan is touring in between. My absolute favorite is Whitney Houston. She really enjoys it.
nobody in the world could sing this song better than Whitney Houston could, she used to kill this song, every night when she would do her Dionne Warwick medley, and her Aretha Franklin that late during The Bodyguard tour
Chaka did a fabulous rendition. She has perfect pitch, she has great breathing, loves jazz and standards so this was a great choice for Chaka.
@phillySoulable yes…she put her own Chaka flavor on it…she Chakafied Alfie! 😌
Not perfect pitch. Nice, but no.
I went from Whitney Houston's performance of Dionne's classics to this performance. And, I then realized how hard Ms. Dionne's songs are!
oh yes, they are indeed!!
Yep, her songs are extremely difficult. Ms. Dionne just makes it look quite simple.
#truth!... but the lyrics and song! Writers dont tell stories "like this" song
Check out sarah vaughan singing alfie
@@fredalwatkins4506 chaka's phrasing sounds a lot like Sarah's. A lot.
GO CHAKA.
Chaka can sing anything. She is so talented and just gorgeous.
She sure can
This made me smile. Chaka is such a beautiful spirit. Her voice is like a pretty trumpet. Those Dionne Warwick songs are very technical. Chaka nailed it her own way❤
This is why I absolutely love Chaka, only she could simultaneously put her signature on a Dionne Warwick classic and compliment her original flawless technique.
Dione songs were written specifically for her voice register so Chaka singing this so extremely well only proves her excellent skill and ability to make this song her own. Complimenting Dione while making the song her own!!! I love 💕 being Black!!!
Agree, beautiful 🥰😍 indeed
So many black female singers has also master this song, Sarah vaughan, Ella fitzgerald, Whitney houston.
No. This is church bullshit. I love Chaka. Not this heroin jive gospel atrocity
Say it loud.
Chaka has always been able to sing anything.
0:53 Dionne looking like a “proud momma” ❤️🔥
Burt Bacharach and Hal David were the brilliant song writers behind this masterpiece. Only the best give it justice, and Chaka is among the greatest.
Dionne's son David Elliott co-wrote 'Here & Now' for Luther Vandross. the more you know.
I love the way Chaka sang it. She made it sooo her own.
My favorite version of this song is Dionne Warwick. Chaka khan. And Cynthia,,,,,,,,,
My favorite rendition prior to my discovery of this version 😮
Its just something about Alfie and Dionne Warwick singing 🎵 it
Listen to the DELFONICS version of Alfie!
Ms. Dionne songs are extremely difficult masterpieces to sing. Chaka did good!
Dionne was the 43rd person or so to record this song ...
@@kovin-ashleychetty5159 And Ms. Dionne was the only one of 43 or so that was able to put her special touch on it and turn it into a masterpiece and make it a big Hit #Facts🙂❤.
@@singingmanmd no denying that! Her version is my favourite! Her version peaked the highest on the charts.
@@kovin-ashleychetty5159 Absolutely 💯
She did excellent
Brought me here by Cynthis Erivo's rendition. Chaka Khan's another rendition of Alfie. Killed it!
Television will never be this good again. Vicki Lawrence Dionne Warwick Chaka Khan and Marsha Warfield on the same show!
I’m sure Dionne will agree that Classic Chaka did a great take on this.
Wow. She sang that! And in front of Dionne, too. That's a tough song to sing.
That why Ms. CK is primal. She puts a stamp on anything she sings. The greatest female vocalist
Chaka is irresistible!🥰 ❤️ 💕 💗
No. Great but not the OG.
Not the greatest and I love Chaka but, Dionne is the greatest.
@@reginaldjohnson2618noooo. I might say these are the Top 3 best vocalist
Aretha
Mariah
Whitney
@rasseruuu373 because Dionne did not sing ass shaking songs do not take away from the vocals, listen to her stuff, he'll you left Nancy Wilson off your list oh, I forgot did did no ass shaking songs either..
Chaka Khan has her OWN STYLE which makes her one of a kind...SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.
Chaka Khan is SO BEAUTIFUL 😊
Oh Chaka, hope you see this comment, you absolutely make me cry at @1:43 what a gift dear lord. blessed soul!!!
Chaka left No Crumbs on the table.🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️🖤❤️
A rushed rendition for TV time, but Chaka lays this out!
Dionne’s songs are not easy to sing she just makes them look easy. Chaka did a wonderful job with an advanced song like this. It shows not only her showmanship but also her musicianship to present this song in very good manner. She complimented the song.
@Brayan Brycen lol I just saw you on another video.
I Absolutely concur! 💯❤
Chaka always great. But at the end when Dionne son came out caught me off guard. Got Damn he fine 😍
Haha ! You got your basement flooded!
No one sings a R like Ms. Chaka Khan.
My favs, Dionne and Chaka, all I need is Sarah Vaughn and life will be perfect.
God the Mother, God the Daughter and God the Holy Aurral Ether. Yesss...
Why didn’t Chaka do one or more jazz albums with songs in the same vein as My Funny Valentine?
Warner bros told Chaka not to record any jazz songs while under contract.
Chaka sings Jazz. Check out ClassicKhan and Echoes of an Era.
Classikhan was great
Chaka is amazing as always! Dionne's son reminded me of young Whitney on her modeling days. Really handsome and beautiful as Whitney was!
This has always been my absolute favorite version of Alfie. EVER!
I tell U all it’s like the beloved late Prince May he Rest In Peace and in power) himself said, Chaka is THE VOICE OF LIFE. Chaka can sing anything. She can take any song and just make it her own. She has to have the strongest voice second to no one. Take a listen at 2:52, she just unleashes that power of hers and hits those notes like you and I breathe or drink water, absolutely no straining or nothing whatsoever. She just opens that mouth and it just comes out. And you heard Marsha herself say at 5:03 and Vickie herself say at 5:08 that she doesn’t need a microphone. Marsha said in high school she sometimes wouldn’t even have a microphone but would just fill up the audience. This is why the QUEEN OF SOUL, Aretha Franklin (may she rest in peace and in power) said herself that Chaka is a world premiere vocalist. AIN’T NOBODY & I mean AIN’T NOBODY like her.
Beautiful!!!
She has the best and most consistent upper belts i ve ever heard and they still very much intact till this day
Great song, great voice, great human being!! Philanthropist and animal rights activist, Chaka Khan.
Beautiful performance from the beautiful and Legendary Chaka Khan ❤️❤️💕
shes just beautiful like the song
Chaka Khan is one the greatest female singers .....
Put a Chaka spin on it. Very nice!
Dionne is Old af she's been having tributes since before I was born!
Chaka did a very fine job covering Madame's classic.
Lol....i.just realize you were talking about dionne warwick
@@marquiswilliams485Yep, The one and only Ms. Dionne Warwick🙂
Check out sarah vaughans version
Right auntie was proud. Gone wid it my gurl Chaka. I like Dionne's version better than anyone else even Cynthia.
This is so luxurious ❤
Chaka. The essence of Sweet, Soulful Sexiness… Chaka has been huggable and squeezable since the 60s….💗♥️💜
I love that she is just doing enough - with the perfect notes
She is DEFINITELY singing Dionne’s version but I would have loved 🥰 to hear her singing Carmen McCrea’s version!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I ❤❤❤❤❤❤ THIS SONG!!!!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽 Dionne Warwick, Chaka and MORE!!!! I LUV THIS CHIC RT HERE!!! Sing Chaka! 😍😍
This is the way you make a tribute, it will be never be this good.
Absolutely amazing, I always got to come listen to this version. It’s just breathtaking how she played this song with her instrument voice 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Love this song and the way Chaka sings it!!
I love this version
I hadn't realized that Chaka had sung a rendition of this brilliant song, and she nails it,🥰💖 Don't tell anyone but I have had a crush on Chaka since I first heard her voice,
🤔At first I would only accept this song from Dion Warwick...but dangggggg Chaka...that was great!!!😂❤💥🙏🏽
Yvette Marie Stephens has nothing to prove 🎶🎵👌🏾🔥. Am I the only one who hears Luther Vandross in some of these notes?
Lmaooo same
One of the best versions... Chaka like always fabulous rendition
just, WOW...all hail, the The Queen of Funk.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL SONGS MIS DIONNE SANG AND LOOK WHOS SING THIS BEAUTY MY GIRL CHAKA ALRIGHT NOW!!!
My name is Alfie. My mom named me after this song and I never understood why she named a girl after this song when I learned about the movie as an adult. If someone yells my name I know they're related to me or know me from childhood lol. But only this year heard the song--and I get it now. Now I know why when I told older people what song I was named after their faces would soften and go awwww. It's such a warm an familiar loving pleading song now when I hear it.
That's lovely
Her Voice here is indeed, well rest, pure powerful.. and super clean.. l love chaka forever and ever from the Philippines
The sublime Ms Khan made this classic her own like only she can. Even Dionne's renowned rendition is not in this class. As for Whitney's! It's best I say nothing! The Divine Ms Sarah Vaughan's 1969 live performance on the other hand is, as one would expect, absolutely spectacular and truly majestic.
I love Sarah Vaughn. Her voice is like a smooth cognac.
@@SimplyCiCi894 EXACTLY!
Genius. Amazing. This would be such a no-go today 1. It has to be a fkn hit on fkn iHeart Radio 2. They would break it into three pieces to fit 7 commercials.
she looks so beautiful
OMG.. the Queen of Chaka!!!!!
Dionne's son was fine 😍
I love Chaka SO MUCH ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
This is nice but no one on the world can sing this song better than that NJ Songstress, Dionne.
Every singer who sangs diff.version of this beautiful love song and I love them all each rendition is unique.
2:18 riff was Luther Vandross House is Not a Home!!! When you hear it you hear it.
I love the Chaka vocalises here. Still, this is one of the hardest songs to sing (believe it or not!) even though it sounds so simple. Because every lyric in this song needs to be sung with complete understanding and experience of true love. This song doesn't need to be sung, it needs to be felt.
Wow Sing Chaka!!
nice version
Oh God, I love her….
Beautiful and amazing to this day... Chaka😍😍😍😍🎤🎤🎤🎤
Sing that bridge Chaka, I hear you!
She killed it! Wow!
Perfection!!!
Thank you!! Ah Chaka!
This is what we want. Back in AMERICA'S MUSIC, high jacked by the unseen hand. 😊
Those European doing their thing 😊
Wowwww so Great version Chaka ❤️😥♥️♥️🔥🔥🔥
Dionne is so beautiful.
When I say she put a lil funk r&b into this beautiful jazzy tune ❤️❤️❤️ I still rather Dionne but this one is perfect
Such a talented singer, talented beautiful woman.
Superb........simply superb. Thanks for sharing.
Great job Chaka Khan
Fabulous rubato reading, as you would expect from Chaka. Musicianly, relevant inversions and runs.
Beautiful!! 👏🏾👏🏾
I LOVE this!!!!
This made me smile too
Is amazing but Dionne Warwick is Unique , Chaka is greates but Dionne is the one and only
GALS? 😂 I know Vickie probably didn't mean any harm by it... Just this language today would be censored due to the sensitivity and the shape of the world we are in based on Politics that has people so disrespectful and a using Freedom of Speech... Nevertheless "Chaka Khan delivered and these legends were always graceful in the public's eye, her and Dion both 💯" (Vickie & Carol) were also my favorite funnies on TV growing up. -Kwaufi Nino
chaka. no one, nothing better.
私は日本で活躍されてるマリーンが大好きです。
でもUA-camにはマリーンのアルフィーがアップされてません。
だからマリーンに1番声が似てるチャカカーンのアルフィーを聞かせていただきました。
チャカカーンは素晴らしいですね。
声がシルキーでうっとりします。
素敵な歌をありがとうございました。
❤❤❤❤ “I believe…”
Some classics should remain untouched, "Alfie" is one, "At Last" is another. Pass that mic to Dionne, I love you both, but she is being kind & generous.
Beautiful!!
Iconic. Legendary. Her phrasing and creative choices are pure Chaka Khan. You'd know it anywhere even if you disquised her voice. ❤
I mean PURE Chaka to the bone. It's something for an artist to truly have a POINT OF VIEW unique to them, exclusively. This is why I love Chaka. She is herself and nothing else.❤
Chaka, an Aries, loves a good challenge.
Sick piano chords❤
So beautiful.
pure magic
Dionne Warwick's Jazz version is wonderfully smooth. Whitney Houston's reinterpretations are more daring and tough. Well, Chaka Khan is touring in between. My absolute favorite is Whitney Houston. She really enjoys it.
nobody in the world could sing this song better than Whitney Houston could, she used to kill this song, every night when she would do her Dionne Warwick medley, and her Aretha Franklin that late during The Bodyguard tour
And Cissy Houston, too, when she recorded this song on the Sweet Inspirations, "The world Needs Is Love" album
Check Cynthia Erivo new performance. She is up these with Whitney
Chaka, chaka Chaka, my God chaka
This lady hasn’t aged a single day