Heart of Glass - Blondie | The Midnight Special
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Blondie performed on The Midnight Special January 19, 1979
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A few months later, on new years eve, Blondie performs this song live on the midnight special. It sounds so much better live. She is wearing a blue pillowcase with a boob window. One of her most notorious outfits.
Oh no, are you saying midnight special had non live performances?
A rare occasion for The Midnight Special to have a lip sync performance ..The wild dancing couple got a large part of the attention
Good eye. I thought Debbie's distance from the mic was suspicious but the closing drum riffs caused a confirmed sighting.
One of Tina Turner's performances (Sunset on Sunset I believe) wasn't live either. Wonder why?
@@psychedelic.dreamer I assume at times it was easier for the performers of any band or a solo to be over tracked with a recorded version to avoid a lack luster appearance . .Maybe they had troubles with members fighting and being tired from constant gigs and fatigued from too much partying and so taking the easy way out was the best choice. .
I caught it immediately, recognizing it was the recorded single edit.
It's possible they didn't play live because it's difficult & they may not have had the instruments available. The song features a Roland drum machine, miniMoog & Roland synthesizer that were at times likely triggered by the drum machine. Then there's 7/4 time & beat patterns in the interludes. There's a synth on stage but they may not have had all the stuff needed to recreate the song and its production correctly. Drumming along to the drum machine in perfect time is a challenge for even the best players.
Yes, really surprised. Disappointed.
Yay! This was the first time I saw Blondie on TV. Thanks for sharing. I can't wait for all their performances 😃
Wow amazing never seen this before curls and flicks!! debbie goes farrah fawcett loving it.
Absolutely fantastic track, from Blondie again
Debbie Harry was always the blonde Queen of pop music for me. Screw Madonna!
Debbie is more rock and roll and definitely a bigger badass! Madonna wanted to be Debbie Harry when she started out but either her or her record label, or both, veered towards more pop/disco so she had to abandon her street cool and originality to appeal to the mass. Also I think that Debbie being in a bad and an actual songwriter had more control over her music whereas with Madonna she was simply a singer so she had to work with songs given to her by others.
This song is a classic ! It came out in 1978 or 1979 !I love this song and 80s 70s 60s music !
I wonder when The Midnight Special performers went from “singing live” to “lip-syncing”? Debbie and the band are clearly not playing live, which is unlike the other performances so far released from The Midnight Special. I still enjoyed it though.
Sucks they couldn't do this live . Debbie was THE fox !!
Oh the memories this brings back!
Clem Burke cool as always 😎
you mean Elvis Ramone don't you?
Thank Mike Chapman for him turning the song into what it became.
On their 1978 appearance, which was a few months before this episode, they played this and other songs live. This was demarcation point of when The Midnight Special no longer featured live performances. It's no wonder it went off the air a year earlier.
❤ OF CLASS, 🪨 on Debbie! 🌹....💃🕺✨🎸✨🥁...👍
And the hits just keep on commin'!
🪩 Classic ✌🏼
pleasssssse, SUNDAY GIRL as well ! I can;t wait to see it. THANXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
This was fabulous 👏👏👏
Whatta letdown that this wasn’t live. Since the Midnight Special is known for live performances it would be interesting to know the backstory of why this wasn’t…..
My thoughts exactly. A shame, because I love Blondie.
Funny. I just discovered a different video of Blondie performing Heart of Glass on the Midnight Special and it’s live. Hopefully that performance will be posted the MS official YT channel
@@waynedexter Oh yeah? Cool. And the other they posted earlier of One Way or Another is live! Really great performance!
Chrysalis records was often worried about the temperament of the band. Blondie broke big on a disco song, and had most of their early hits written by record label songwriters, in Blondie's case, Chinn and Chapman. (see chinnichap music). Classic record exec stuff.
Agree'd, this is the only time i saw a mimed performance on there, that's such a letdown, it was supposed to be all about live bands.
Great video
Blondie, Sing that song Heart of glass on New Year's Rockin' Eve 1980. And, there is NO full broadcast as of yet.
2:17 Haha Check those plastic pants and the wrestling dance!
Lady's and Gentleman Elvis Ramone on the drums!!!!!
The dance at 2:08 is very strange. Why isn't anyone going to comment on it? I think they wanted to be on TV.
0:35 Wolfman Jack cracks me up
At the 2:33 till 3:23 mark, those dancers were doing their thing in slow motion!!! They took off the lyric "pain in the ass" & put "Heart Of Glass" instead!!
❤ブロンディ❤❤❤最高❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Why would the director focus on spastics in plastic pants when you have Deborah Harry on stage? Truly a mystery wrapped in a conundrum.
Maybe the first and only one time I see Debbie Harry with such long hair
How about posting Peter Frampton "Nowhere's Too Far For My Baby" from September 5th 1975!!
Comparing the audiences between 73 and 79 is obvious. By 1979, there were fewer people in attendance. I am deducing that producers wanted more floor space to allow dancing. The Midnight Special was losing its uniqueness and becoming across between American Bandstand, Soul Train, and eventually Solid Gold (Big Stage, but the audience remained seated). I viewed all the clips of Blondie's performance and Debbie did multiple costume changes. For her, it seems to me, it was more about the look than the music. The Midnight Special theme, in the beginning, was about the music and only the music. And this particular performance seems to me as being a dead-on imitation of the single whereas the other performances seemed live and wonderfully raw.
Wolfman Jack trippin' balls 0:34
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Is it just me or is the couple at 1:12 just crazy
Looks more like American Bandstand…
This is my favorite performance of heart of glass!!! Sadly blondie never sounded good when they sung the song live in my opinion. It was the only song that they did not sound good singing live. But this version I LOVE!!!
Because this is clearly not live!
That is why I like this version. Because it is not sung live. DUH!!
The midnight special performance with the nuclear power speech did actually sound great, and Call Me on Muppet Show (though the Blondie guys would've been better on the instruments than the muppet band, haha) and some versions of Pretty Baby (on a live abum, Texas 79 or something? and Glasgow 1979 which was pretty similar)
DH ALWAYS looked like the cat that ate the canary
100% lip sync
She was usually cynical about it, and would pull faces and mug off. Likely the studio wanted the "radio edit" heard exactly.
The Goddess
Studio recording! Post a video of her in a blue dress with a blue headband, there's a live!!
Hippie era.
Oh, man. What a woman.
How long after this did she get her hair cut?
The Midnight Disco Special. I like Blondie, but this is from when the show was on its last legs and strayed from its beginnings.
This seems like a lip sync?
Not live singing, too much focus on dancers and not group - thumbs down.
Thought Midnight Special was 'all about live' performances for the fans.
Hmm, this doesn't sound live. The Midnight Special was always live.
from i saw it start with tecktonik guy persia girl and olf couple
what's this? when did MS allow lip-sync????
God you can almost smell the unstepped-on cocaine
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
So annoying to see that couple “dancing”
Why do acts obviously sing live on certain songs and then lip sync another within the same performance?
Ok, you know she's lip syncing here. That type of mic you have to sing directly into or it won't pick up and you can here that the vocals are altered like in the studio song. Sigh...
She's black And blonde.
Fueled by Amal nitrate & cocaine
Another wack mime performance
PLAYBACK... 😒
Miming
Lip sync.😢
Lip Synching, so lame! Midnight Special was all about LIVE bands, i didn't know they had mimed stuff on there too. Also, her hair looks like she just stepped in from a hurricane outside lol.
Oh, those dancers, so mechanical and boring. Band is good.
How more ridiculous disco could be? Those were some wasted years...musically and intellectually...
FU yankee blue jeans. The disco era was unforgettable if you actually lived in it. And all in good ways.
Donna summer was great, lol
Disco is good. You just can't dance. Well some of it was good like Moroder, Blondie, Kraftwerk, Devo, etc.
@@guyinsfThis was Blondie’s foray into disco, but when were kraftwerk and devo disco?
@@romin5035 I know Kraftwerk and Devo weren't true disco but they had disco elements in their music.