24 year old Ms. Patti Labelle, 24 year old Ms. Nona Hendrix, & 23 year old Ms. Sarah Dash are beautiful and amazing, then & still😉👌🏿 #Legendary #Trailblazers #Trendsetters #Classy
Her voice has gotten higher and stronger over the years I didn’t even know that it was Patti singing it sounds like a whole different person that shows that if you keep singing your voice will get stronger and that’s exactly what happened to her
Exactly!!! Dionne, Aretha. Cissy and Whitney Houston. Diana Ross smoked "More" cigarettes back in the '80s and stopped. She also smoked a little in the '60s (Supremes). This is why she still has her voice.
I've seen this dozens of time and each time I have give Patti LaBelle a perfect 10 standing ovation! She's a vocalist's dream in this: perfect pitch, inflection, intonation, timber, vibrato, range, breathe control and sheer "forget the band, my VOICE WILL be the last thing your hear in this song." Stage presence for days. Patti personifizes the song. Nona and Sarah sing well enough to not even miss Cindy Birdsong. And as plastic and corny as a 50's throw-back song about rainbows and Kansas could have come off as preformed in front off an all black audience on a local New York City PBS show (Soul!) whose subject matter at the time was late '60s prison riots and black revolution, Patti and Bluebelle's wow-factor was still undeniable. Go girls!
Wow seeing her hair like this speaks to her originality as a star and as a performance artist. Kudos to Patti! well before her time. Hands down! she did it before Fantasia and all of them did it in the 21 st century. This was a revelation!
I hear no difference in her voice with or without the nose job it sounds the same to me. Her voice just got much stronger the more she sang. Nevertheless, Pattie is simply amazing!!
I went to a jazz festival in Cincy, several yrs ago and Patti was supposed to perform for 20 minutes and she got the crowd so riled up and she was so into it that she performed for over an hr, so they had to bring a limo onto the field at riverfront stadium and they escorted her off the staged but inside the limbo, Patti hit a note that rocked the stadium without a mike on, and as the limo drove her away and out the stadium thousands of fans started running towards the limo shouting Patti Patti, the remaining fans didn't even want to hear the other two artist that was supposed to perform and the jazz festival was over without allowing the other two to perform
Highly recommended is the LP of Motown songs they did with the Bronx genius Laura Nyro, 'Gonna Take a Miracle' (1971). The title track is a mind blower. The LP is also important for its implicit statements on race relations, feminism and sexual freedom. There is an excellent essay on this LP by 'someone Neal' if I remember correctly which addresses these issues. Nyro was god-mother to Patti's first born.
That's what's supposed to happen to great singers. Operatic singers definitely endure a spring later on. Sadly, at lot of CCM singers seem to peak after their 20s. Patti was about 24 here.
This just goes to show how much her voice evolved, this sounds nothing like her today or even back then in the 70s and 80s. But she still sounded phenomenal.
She sounds grand here, I've just been watching videos of her singing in the 80s/90s and her voice is more powerful and stronger. How is that possible? Usually with age peoples voices falter.
wow......one of my favorite girl group back in the day. Still have all of there records and especially the early ones listening to Patti's electricfying voice sends chill. Thanks for the memories while growing up.
I think that her voice got stronger and stronger with each new adventure she had to do; in other words. Pattie has said that she never wanted to go solo, but after she lost her mother, and two of her sisters and Labelle broke up..Pattie would round on the floor and lose her mind and that voice got stronger and stronger, she sang like she wanted to from the heart.
This is from PBS series 'Soul' from NYC! Nice to see a "clear" version. This was late Patti & the Blue Belles. Revolution was in the air! When Labelle return a few years later, they ditched the 3-girl-3-gown-three-wig routine and were singing hard rock-in-roll from "Over the Rainbow" to "Morning Much Better," & "When the Sun Comes Shining Through." If I recall, Mohammad Ali appeared was on the same episode, explaining his conversion to Islam and why he dodged the Vietnam draft. Classic!
Patti and the girls used to "steal the show" at the Uptown Rock n Roll shows back in the mid 60s and they didn't have a record on the charts singing standards like Over the Rainbow, Oh Danny Boy, etc! You go my home girls!
Racism was and still is so much a factor, I remember when they would not allow Patti to Sing this Song on an awards show because of the fear the white public would see how much better she sounded over the original white singer, that did it in the wizard of oz. So naturally , Patti improvised and sung UNDER THE RAINBO AND STILL TURNED IT OUT
Patti LaBelle & The BlueBelles and LaBelle are ONE AND THE SAME GROUP...with the same members: Patti, Sarah Dash, and Nona Hendrix. The ONLY difference between the two was the departure of The FOURTH Original member, Cindy Birdsong, who left to join The Supremes.
It was Labelle, it was The Bluebelles with Cindy Birdsong,she left the group in 1967 to sing with The Supremes. Did Cindy quit or did someone get her to be with The Supremes?
According to Sara Dash and Patti Labelle, Cindy was stolen from the Bluebelles as a result of the dirty work of Diana Ross and Berry Gordy. Diana and Berry knew they needed someone who looked like Florence to replace Florence when she was fired from the Supremes. The Supremes and Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles had shared the stage quite a few times on the touring circuit, so the two groups knew one another as rivals. According to Patti and Sara, they had no idea that Cindy was singing with the Supremes until it was reported in the press that Cindy had subbed for Florence at a Supremes' performance at the Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl. Patti and her lawyers then sued Berry Gordy as Cindy was under contract to Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles. Florence was then rehired temporarily back into the Supremes on a sort of probation until Berry Gordy's lawyers could get Cindy out of her contract with Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles. Patti and Sara expressed their disappointment at Cindy's lack of loyalty to the Bluebelles as they had been singing together for six years by this time. Diana Ross was obviously thrilled that she had put one over on Patti and they had been rivals on the touring circuit for some years.
Cindy quit to join The Supremes after Florence was fired. Actually, she was groomed to be Florence's "stand in" (replacement) before they fired Florence because she bore a striking resemblance to Flo and was stacked like Flo and could fit into her gowns.
Charles Marcus I believe that when the Supremes started having problems with Florence Ballard's drinking, Motown considered Cindy Birdsong as a replacement because she could sing and resembled I read that she was secretly attending performances by the Supremes in order to learn the routines
Awsome sanging!! Patti Labelle and Ms. Nona Hendryx and Ms. Sarah Dash straight up the real deal!! them girls didn't need that hair or pretty dresses... they could really sang!!
It's amazing....these woman would soon become the brass and vocal soaring group known as Labelle! Say goodbye to the matching dresses and hello silver space suits and feathers.
OMG PATTIE PATTIE damn you really were beforw your time. I mean like I felt like I was watching something from the Now era lol she worked that I felt every note
Notice how Cindy Birdsong is conspicuously missing. That is the result of the dirty work of Diana Ross who stole Cindy from Patti to replace Florence of the Supremes. Who steals another group's member without asking permission? This was definitely a message from Diana Ross who was jealous of Patti's vocal abilities. Lawyers had to get involved when it was discovered that Cindy had covertly been kidnapped from Pattie Labelle and the Bluebelles and made to sign up with the Supremes. I say kidnapped because Cindy was probably promised so many things by Berry Gordy if she snuck out of the Bluebelles in the middle of the night as she did. Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles had absolutely no idea that there was a behind the scenes plot to steal Cindy. Sara Dash states that Patti was devastated at the way Cindy snuck out of the Bluebelles without discussing it with Patti, Nona or herself. Cindy was suddenly gone without notice after 7 years singing with Patti, Nona and Sara herself. So much for loyalty in the business.
The only female singer who never lost her voice, Not one note, octave, or pitch is different. That's what i call Legendary Mama Patti
SAY IT!!!
Patti's voice is like wine🍷
Ap1ist Gladys Knight also
Its gotten better with time
+FrozenRemix1 Fine wine not just any wine
24 year old Ms. Patti Labelle, 24 year old Ms. Nona Hendrix, & 23 year old Ms. Sarah Dash are beautiful and amazing, then & still😉👌🏿 #Legendary #Trailblazers #Trendsetters #Classy
Her voice has gotten higher and stronger over the years I didn’t even know that it was Patti singing it sounds like a whole different person that shows that if you keep singing your voice will get stronger and that’s exactly what happened to her
You keep the voice when you dont smoke
Exactly!!! Dionne, Aretha. Cissy and Whitney Houston. Diana Ross smoked "More" cigarettes back in the '80s and stopped. She also smoked a little in the '60s (Supremes). This is why she still has her voice.
I've seen this dozens of time and each time I have give Patti LaBelle a perfect 10 standing ovation! She's a vocalist's dream in this: perfect pitch, inflection, intonation, timber, vibrato, range, breathe control and sheer "forget the band, my VOICE WILL be the last thing your hear in this song." Stage presence for days. Patti personifizes the song. Nona and Sarah sing well enough to not even miss Cindy Birdsong. And as plastic and corny as a 50's throw-back song about rainbows and Kansas could have come off as preformed in front off an all black audience on a local New York City PBS show (Soul!) whose subject matter at the time was late '60s prison riots and black revolution, Patti and Bluebelle's wow-factor was still undeniable. Go girls!
hprm33t
AMAZINGLY PUT!!! Speak light!!
Wow seeing her hair like this speaks to her originality as a star and as a performance artist. Kudos to Patti! well before her time. Hands down! she did it before Fantasia and all of them did it in the 21 st century. This was a revelation!
I hear no difference in her voice with or without the nose job it sounds the same to me. Her voice just got much stronger the more she sang. Nevertheless, Pattie is simply amazing!!
I 100% agree with you.
agreed
+Jacqueline Lowery YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
agree, she got better.
100% agree
PATTIE AND ARETHA AND GLADYS, GREAT SINGER'S 3 DIFFERENT STYLES. GREAT TO HAVE BEEN HERE ON EARTH TO HERE THESE ICONS.
So beautiful! That high note @2:51 gives me chills!!👌🏼👌🏼
Best vocalist that ever walked earth!
Nails those notes every time. Perfection to be sure.
I went to a jazz festival in Cincy, several yrs ago and Patti was supposed to perform for 20 minutes and she got the crowd so riled up and she was so into it that she performed for over an hr, so they had to bring a limo onto the field at riverfront stadium and they escorted her off the staged but inside the limbo, Patti hit a note that rocked the stadium without a mike on, and as the limo drove her away and out the stadium thousands of fans started running towards the limo shouting Patti Patti, the remaining fans didn't even want to hear the other two artist that was supposed to perform and the jazz festival was over without allowing the other two to perform
LEGENDARY!!! That is all.
AGREE!!!!!!
Gregory Curtis you said it‼️
Wonderful rare televised performance.
I want this queen to stay with us forever, now that auntie Aretha is gone we only have aunt Patti left :((((((((
So BEAUTIFUL this song makes me cry and remembering my second mother and best friend and my sister in law I loss from cancer a year ago
*screaming* C'mon Patti! PATTI!!!!
Sounds great BUT, Cindy was an important part of that harmony. I love how they reformed ...LABELLE
This woman brings tears to my eyes !!
Highly recommended is the LP of Motown songs they did with the Bronx genius Laura Nyro, 'Gonna Take a Miracle' (1971). The title track is a mind blower. The LP is also important for its implicit statements on race relations, feminism and sexual freedom. There is an excellent essay on this LP by 'someone Neal' if I remember correctly which addresses these issues. Nyro was god-mother to Patti's first born.
Lord Have Mercy!
+childinthecity Look at young Patti Labelle and the Blue Bells
Fierce!
SHE SOUND BETTER AS SHE GOT OLDER, SHE PUT A LITTLE MORE SOUL INTO HER SINGING, AMAZING SINGING, HER RANGE IS OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Her voice was more powerful during the 80s/90s. But, she sounded good here.
She's actually starting to sound more like this as her voice is declining due to age. Still incredible though.
That's what's supposed to happen to great singers. Operatic singers definitely endure a spring later on. Sadly, at lot of CCM singers seem to peak after their 20s. Patti was about 24 here.
Patti style is timeless and Nona and Sarah lord have mercay!!! Them some fine sisters boy!
What lovely voices, so soulful ! PRAISE THE MOST HIGH!
I would love to see Fantasia play Patti in a movie
Initially heard her when I was around seven years of age and was blown away
That was so awesome!!! 💖 Patti!
This just goes to show how much her voice evolved, this sounds nothing like her today or even back then in the 70s and 80s. But she still sounded phenomenal.
Canelius yeah she jus grew over a 40 year period. That's crazy.
and about 23 here wow,,,the 60's
Pattie sure did grace them t be sure.
EHDROCK What a talent Patty is without question. The best of the best.
She sounds grand here, I've just been watching videos of her singing in the 80s/90s and her voice is more powerful and stronger. How is that possible? Usually with age peoples voices falter.
Like if Got 2b Real brought you here...
This is beyond beautiful!
wow......one of my favorite girl group back in the day. Still have all of there records and especially the early ones listening to Patti's electricfying voice sends chill. Thanks for the memories while growing up.
I think that her voice got stronger and stronger with each new adventure she had to do; in other words. Pattie has said that she never wanted to go solo, but after she lost her mother, and two of her sisters and Labelle broke up..Pattie would round on the floor and lose her mind and that voice got stronger and stronger, she sang like she wanted to from the heart.
Don't Ever Stop Performing !!!
Hendryx was the brains behind Labelle's innovative work though
HAPPY 76TH BIRTHDAY
PATRICIA HOLTE
"PATTI LABELLE"
(MAY 24. 2020)
a song is not enuff for Patti, she needs an opera
this was kinda tame for Patti lol but I love it.
Actually her voice got much better and stronger than this, last 20 years her best voice ever.
This is from PBS series 'Soul' from NYC! Nice to see a "clear" version. This was late Patti & the Blue Belles. Revolution was in the air! When Labelle return a few years later, they ditched the 3-girl-3-gown-three-wig routine and were singing hard rock-in-roll from "Over the Rainbow" to "Morning Much Better," & "When the Sun Comes Shining Through." If I recall, Mohammad Ali appeared was on the same episode, explaining his conversion to Islam and why he dodged the Vietnam draft. Classic!
LORD HAVE MERCY!!!
Patti and the girls used to "steal the show" at the Uptown Rock n Roll shows back in the mid 60s and they didn't have a record on the charts singing standards like Over the Rainbow, Oh Danny Boy, etc! You go my home girls!
Awwww. They look so tame here!
now if this 1968 she was ahead of her time with that hairdo.. This is Patti love you.......
They tore thT up
She still can blow!!!
patti lebelle is the best music I hear.
This is the most tame I've ever seen Patti. 😂😂
Racism was and still is so much a factor, I remember when they would not allow Patti to Sing this Song on an awards show because of the fear the white public would see how much better she sounded over the original white singer, that did it in the wizard of oz. So naturally , Patti improvised and sung UNDER THE RAINBO AND STILL TURNED IT OUT
had no clue, wow. definition of diva
Wow, what a treat, just the three of them right before the next incarnation!
Patti LaBelle & The BlueBelles and LaBelle are ONE AND THE SAME
GROUP...with the same members: Patti, Sarah Dash, and Nona Hendrix.
The ONLY difference between the two was the departure of The FOURTH Original member, Cindy Birdsong, who left to join The Supremes.
just 7 years later they would reach No1 as Labelle with the amazing Lady Marmalade- quite a transformation in a few short years!
amazing!!!!
OMG YO,. Where in the world did you find this incredible masterpiece of a video. I'm floored by by this performance. Those girls really could sing.
Who like her Jazz Album ?
Sarah & Nona had big voices to match Miss Patti's powerful notes
CLASSIC
It was Labelle, it was The Bluebelles with Cindy Birdsong,she left the group in 1967 to sing with The Supremes. Did Cindy quit or did someone get her to be with The Supremes?
Charles Marcus I have heard two different stories they say Diana Ross ask Cindy Birdsong then I also heard it was Berry Gordy also
Berry Gordy was after her because she had a close resemblance to Florence Ballard.
According to Sara Dash and Patti Labelle, Cindy was stolen from the Bluebelles as a result of the dirty work of Diana Ross and Berry Gordy. Diana and Berry knew they needed someone who looked like Florence to replace Florence when she was fired from the Supremes. The Supremes and Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles had shared the stage quite a few times on the touring circuit, so the two groups knew one another as rivals. According to Patti and Sara, they had no idea that Cindy was singing with the Supremes until it was reported in the press that Cindy had subbed for Florence at a Supremes' performance at the Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl. Patti and her lawyers then sued Berry Gordy as Cindy was under contract to Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles. Florence was then rehired temporarily back into the Supremes on a sort of probation until Berry Gordy's lawyers could get Cindy out of her contract with Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles. Patti and Sara expressed their disappointment at Cindy's lack of loyalty to the Bluebelles as they had been singing together for six years by this time. Diana Ross was obviously thrilled that she had put one over on Patti and they had been rivals on the touring circuit for some years.
Cindy quit to join The Supremes after Florence was fired. Actually, she was groomed to be Florence's "stand in" (replacement) before they fired Florence because she bore a striking resemblance to Flo and was stacked like Flo and could fit into her gowns.
Charles Marcus I believe that when the Supremes started having problems with Florence Ballard's drinking, Motown considered Cindy Birdsong as a replacement because she could sing and resembled I read that she was secretly attending performances by the Supremes in order to learn the routines
They were so young!
Hard to believe these are the same ladies that became the dynamic LaBelle!
Lol in order to keep from singing way over the other singers, Patti pretty much has to whispers her lyrics.
AMAAAAZING!
LEGENDS
so young.
Wow! excellent video quality.
I didn't know they wore highlights back then
1:36 I love this part, it's so good
Aretha may have hit a high note or two but, I don't know who would come out on top if they brought the vocal to the stage in those days.
Oh wow... I didn’t know Patti did that song back in 68’.
Awsome sanging!! Patti Labelle and Ms. Nona Hendryx and Ms. Sarah Dash straight up the real deal!! them girls didn't need that hair or pretty dresses... they could really sang!!
Always the best!
Just amazing!
Patti is a powerhouse
It was the La Belle years
how is her voice still the same I dont get it
astounding!
She needs to do a Movie.
i am surprised a movie was never made about her and the bluebells/ labelle
Yaaaaasss Miss Patti! 🙌🏾
Tough. And with a calm, cool confidence.
Wow 😯 just Wow
Thank you lord
but nothing has change about her greatness
elegantissime
It's amazing....these woman would soon become the brass and vocal soaring group known as Labelle! Say goodbye to the matching dresses and hello silver space suits and feathers.
omg... patti is a legend
at this moment.. mariah wasnt even born ahhaha. patti is a very long time singer.... this is like 25 years after world war 2
Facts..lol
Amazing
Sweet Philly soul
Took Dorothy and auntie M to CHURCH!!!
Very nice, but like here more recent virgins... she's better with age! Many, many can't say that.
I look at this and realize that LaBelle is yet to come.
I was in love with this womans soul yaul
OMG PATTIE PATTIE damn you really were beforw your time. I mean like I felt like I was watching something from the Now era lol she worked that I felt every note
Notice how Cindy Birdsong is conspicuously missing. That is the result of the dirty work of Diana Ross who stole Cindy from Patti to replace Florence of the Supremes. Who steals another group's member without asking permission? This was definitely a message from Diana Ross who was jealous of Patti's vocal abilities. Lawyers had to get involved when it was discovered that Cindy had covertly been kidnapped from Pattie Labelle and the Bluebelles and made to sign up with the Supremes. I say kidnapped because Cindy was probably promised so many things by Berry Gordy if she snuck out of the Bluebelles in the middle of the night as she did. Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles had absolutely no idea that there was a behind the scenes plot to steal Cindy. Sara Dash states that Patti was devastated at the way Cindy snuck out of the Bluebelles without discussing it with Patti, Nona or herself. Cindy was suddenly gone without notice after 7 years singing with Patti, Nona and Sara herself. So much for loyalty in the business.
nice song... got one for you at our next meeting... its a live performance... you should truly enjoy it.
The Note: 2:44
This is when Cindy left them...
Dynamic! Man, a few years later they redefined girl groups!