Patti labelle is the most entertaining singer ever she be like forget the melody yall finna hear me! Luther is the king of smooth R&b and gladys can damn sang!
Very ! Patti makes you want to listen even if it’s just for one song . She has this fire in her voice that stands out, and cuts through anything else !
3 of the best R&B Soul singers giving tribute to another one of the best R&B Soul artists. If you love real R&B Soul music like I do, this is the ultimate. The 3 singing and Smokey are all Legends
My soul resonates with Luther❤ He was the quintessential love song in my youth. I am 57 years old now, and it resonates with me he was the same age when “The Good Lord called him up” Thanks for the memories Luther❤🙏🏻🕊️
THAT IS HOW I FELT, UNTIL JEHOVAH GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOUR AND AMAZING GRACE, TOTALLY TRANSFORMED ME !!! I WAS LISTENING TO AN ALBUM CALLED "I'LL BE WITH YOU" BY THE REV. DARYL COLEY..... AS I LISTENED TO THE SONG "ROMANS 10"; I WAS BAPTIZED BY THE SWEET HOLYGHOST.... EVENTUALLY I INVITED CHRIST JESUS INTO MY HEART, MIND AND SOUL AS MY LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOUR... NOW MY NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN......, PRAISE THE LORD !!! LUTHER VANDROSS HAS NEVER SANG A GOSPEL SONG..... AND WHERE IS HE NOW ??? AND WHERE WILL YOU ALL SPEND ETERNITY ??? REVELATIONS 20:11-15. LUKE 16:19-31. JOHN 14:1-6. I CHALLENGE YOU ALL TO LISTEN TO DARYL COLEY..., START WITH THESE 3 ALBUMS IN ANY ORDER.... "BEYOND THE VIEL" "WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS" "I'LL BE WITH YOU" THANK YOU...... SO SAD IS THE SOUL WHO DIES WITHOUT CHRIST JESUS !!! HOW IRONIC, LUTHER VANDROSS BOASTED THAT HE NEVER SANG IN CHURCH, YET AT HIS FUNERAL, ARETHA FRANKLIN SUNG "PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND....." LUTHER SIR, I HOPE THAT FOR YOU, IT WAS NOT TOO LATE....
I don't think there's ever been a Smokey song that I didn't love, and doesn't make me weep. Every single one of them makes me remember a moment In my life and someone I loved dearly.
I still remember when this aired back in 91', it made an impact on me as a 10 year old kid. I KNEW right then, watching this particular tribute, that I wanted to sing. Haven't been the same since. I remember thinking "whatever Luther is doing to Patti and the audience, I want to do THAT". 🎶🔥🎙 ~Blake
You know, that part got my mother as well!! When this first aired, my mother was so tickled by that line!! Mama, I miss you madly!! 5/22/1950-11/5/2021
My FACE is somewhere on the floor and my ears are in HEAVEN!! LE-GEN-DARY!! 🤯💫🤯 3 Singers with the most unique instruments all coming together and showing OUT!! No one held back...this tribute was GLORIOUS!!! 💫👏🏾✨👏🏾💫
for me (and I can speak for nobody else)...that was the best tribute to another performer that Ive ever seen. And ALL OF THEM have history with Smokey...so it was a very personal tribute. Gladys and Patti, go back to the "chitlun circuit' with Smokey in the 60s. And Smokey has mentored Luther, since he broke into the business. So, this was right on time. uh, Patti LaBelle?...you are one bad sista.
There was a time when I was a kid we would be having fun outside and when we knew 8pm was coming we all shot in our homes because we knew the Soul Train Awards were coming on and they were going to have singers performing like this. I miss old school singing I REALLY DO!
Patti labelle, my favorite lady, gladis night and Luther Vandross Did a great job singing smokey Robinson song as 3 artist on stage ,and whoopi for the presenting the award.
This is and was the absolute BEST - it doesn't get any better than this - never has and never will! For those without a soul, please note that PATTI LIT up that stage and brought out the best in Gladys & Luther (not that they needed any help) ..........Loved when she kept saying SING! Incredible performance by three of the greatest of all time!
Smokey Robinson was one of my Soul R&B faves back in the 60's right from the time he and the Miracles had their first hit with Shop Around while I was a Senior in H.S. After that they had one great song after another and I and my friends loved them to death. In something like 64 I and some friends saw a Motown show at the Regal Theater in Chicago in which they were the main group.
Rare good sangin....no auto tune, no pre recorded background singers...I can imagine what my family reunion will be if they were my sisters and brother...
Luther Vandross, OMG what a beautiful talented singer with a voice of an angel. May he live on in peace and happiness free from the torments and cares of this world of suffering for being gay in a hateful repressing world and then suffering illnesses that nobody should have to in the self-proclaimed "Greatest Country on Earth.
Mannnn when I say I love this right here!!! I love it!! The greatest legends of I seen over my years as a kid till now. I still love smokey Robinson and the rest of the rest of the legends that's not even on the stage with these 3
Thank you Smokey bless you for all the great great music how it lifts our spirits the Lord TrueLy has blessed you my brother praise the Lord for the gifts He has given you and the doors He opened for you to bless the world amen and amen tears
I agree. Gladys would have respected the gorgeous melody of 'Ooh Baby Baby' more. I love Patti to death but everyone knows that the actual songs are meaningless in her hands. They're just vehicles for her vocal acrobatics & histrionics.
@@darreylhenderson702 Girl Bye. I can GUARANTEE you that I own more & know more about Patti's recordings than you & the other simpleton put together. I actually enjoyed Patti's performance here! But the fact of the matter is that she completely ignored the melody of the song & belted her way through it with reckless abandon. As she's always tended to do during the majority of her live performances over the decades. I never disrespected or said I hated Patti because I'm a big fan of hers. I simply said that Gladys would have stayed truer to the melody. And I stand by that.
Tracks of My Tears People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears I need you, need you Since you left me if you see me with another girl Seeming like I'm having fun Although she may be cute She's just a substitute Because you're the permanent one So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears I need you, need you Outside I'm masquerading Inside my hope is fading Just a clown oh yeah Since you put me down My smile is my make up I wear since my break up with you So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears
I still find that this is among the Greatest Happenings that has ever occurred in artistic expression. What the three of them did there is beyond all belief.
10:48 and my GREAT grandmother loved your music! And what a blessing that 3/4th of the people here are still with us! +++knocks on all the wood within a 2 mile radius+++
You'll never hear someone in this age say I wanna thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ and hear the crowd go simply crazy. We live a new generation, any other country has their own main religion. Only America has abandoned their main religion to support everyone elses.
![Diana Ross & Luther Vandross - Smokey Robinson Tribute @ NAACP Image Awards [2000]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pSGkPOxjh9g/mqdefault.jpg)
Patti was getting screams of anticipation in the 80s and early 90s singing ONE note and entering. She was AMAZING. Still is.
Back when standing ovations were earned instead of given out like participation trophies.
You Said that Period Queen I tried to like that comment again LMaO
Love it Talent Real Talent
Dayuuum so right!!!!
SAY THAT AGAIN!!! So true!
I know right!
QUEEN PATTI LABELLE HAS ENTERED THE STAGE...
And She’s Going To “ Rock “ EverythingThat’s She Sings!!!! ❤❤❤😊😊😊
😢😮😢😅 0:10 0:10
It's strange, everytime I watch 80's music live videos, it feels like every artist was an amazing singer 😂
That's because they were.
Yes they are & were❤❤🔥🔥🔥💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
I mean yes
That’s because they were lol. Back then you had to actually have talent and be able to actually sing.
This is early nineties.😊
Omg Luther.Gladys.Patti.
We are so lucky 3 legends on the same stage together.
I miss Luther so much. I'm stuck on Luther today and can't stop watching and listening to him sing
Patti labelle is the most entertaining singer ever she be like forget the melody yall finna hear me! Luther is the king of smooth R&b and gladys can damn sang!
Very ! Patti makes you want to listen even if it’s just for one song . She has this fire in her voice that stands out, and cuts through anything else !
Patti is the godmother and her heir apparent is Fantasia
One of the Baddest Singers of all times Mr Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross is the absolute best male singer ever. He and Rance Allen can’t nobody or anybody will ever be able to touch them.
I love Luther but their are plenty of great singers like David Ruffin,Sam Cooke Eddie Levert and many others.
In terms of vocals, I almost agree. You cannot leave out Darryl Coley.
3 of the best R&B Soul singers giving tribute to another one of the best R&B Soul artists. If you love real R&B Soul music like I do, this is the ultimate. The 3 singing and Smokey are all Legends
This is royalty at its best ❤
Agree 💯👍🏼 They gettin down!!! I grew up with Motown ❤ it!!!
My soul resonates with Luther❤ He was the quintessential love song in my youth. I am 57 years old now, and it resonates with me he was the same age when “The Good Lord called him up” Thanks for the memories Luther❤🙏🏻🕊️
Patti LaBelle Could Sing The Phone Book And It Would Be A Hit🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
There is nothing that can compare to old-school music🎉🎉🎉🎉
My,my,my....Luther gone to soon. He was definitely one of the "Greatest"😊
Luther left his impression on all of us! Not another male vocalist, musician, and lyric writer like him.
THAT IS HOW I FELT,
UNTIL JEHOVAH GOD'S UNMERITED FAVOUR AND AMAZING GRACE, TOTALLY TRANSFORMED ME !!!
I WAS LISTENING TO AN ALBUM CALLED
"I'LL BE WITH YOU"
BY THE REV. DARYL COLEY.....
AS I LISTENED TO THE SONG "ROMANS 10";
I WAS BAPTIZED BY THE SWEET HOLYGHOST....
EVENTUALLY I INVITED CHRIST JESUS INTO MY HEART, MIND AND SOUL AS MY LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOUR...
NOW MY NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN......, PRAISE THE LORD !!!
LUTHER VANDROSS HAS NEVER SANG A GOSPEL SONG.....
AND WHERE IS HE NOW ???
AND WHERE WILL YOU ALL SPEND ETERNITY ???
REVELATIONS 20:11-15.
LUKE 16:19-31.
JOHN 14:1-6.
I CHALLENGE YOU ALL TO LISTEN TO DARYL COLEY...,
START WITH THESE 3 ALBUMS IN ANY ORDER....
"BEYOND THE VIEL"
"WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS"
"I'LL BE WITH YOU"
THANK YOU......
SO SAD IS THE SOUL WHO DIES WITHOUT CHRIST JESUS !!!
HOW IRONIC, LUTHER VANDROSS BOASTED THAT HE NEVER SANG IN CHURCH, YET AT HIS FUNERAL, ARETHA FRANKLIN SUNG
"PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND....."
LUTHER SIR, I HOPE THAT FOR YOU, IT WAS NOT TOO LATE....
Miss Gladys shined like a diamond with that amazing outfit ,smile & vocals
Patti my favorite but The Empress took no prisoners lol 🙂
The late remarkable singer Luther Vandross May have left the earthly realm but he will never be forgotten 😀👍🏽🙏💡😊
Patti killed it...this tribute would have been dry without her
I don't think there's ever been a Smokey song that I didn't love, and doesn't make me weep. Every single one of them makes me remember a moment In my life and someone I loved dearly.
Rosalind Aarons, I’m know there wasn’t one I didn’t love & still listen to in 2023. Patti made that her song. Gone girl!! I hear you!!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
😢😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😅😅😅😅😅😅😅❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤
3:59 3:59 4:00
😅
I realize I grew up on Smokey's music along with the Temps, 4 Tops, and so many more!! Still listening 60+ years later.😊❤
When you have three of the greatest sangers (yeah I said SANGERS) this country ever birthed, on one stage...you are about to witness brilliance.
award shows used to be truly beautiful. It’s a shame to see what type of content we have now
This is a wonderful performance. Patti changed the whole melody to the song and I loved it. They each made the songs their own.
Its her.
I can't believe these were once in the same building 😍
I still remember when this aired back in 91', it made an impact on me as a 10 year old kid. I KNEW right then, watching this particular tribute, that I wanted to sing. Haven't been the same since. I remember thinking "whatever Luther is doing to Patti and the audience, I want to do THAT". 🎶🔥🎙
~Blake
right on mane ✊🏿
Still crying after all these years just amazing these three now this is sangin!!❤
Absolutely the 4 best R&B/Soul singers along w/ Whitney Houston!!!
Gladys: "Although he might be cute, he's just a substitute"
Luther: "He better be"
😂😂😂 Tell her Luther 😂😂😂
You know, that part got my mother as well!! When this first aired, my mother was so tickled by that line!! Mama, I miss you madly!! 5/22/1950-11/5/2021
@@BigMeach1 Rest in peace to your lovely mother ❤🙏🏾
I love Patti saying sing baby to Gladys! They were such good friend
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS. SO GLAD I FOUND IT. I'M HERE IN 2022.
That was a very thoughtful, beautiful speech by the GREAT Mr.Smokey Robinson.
He literally created the sound of Motown with his great songwriting.
My FACE is somewhere on the floor and my ears are in HEAVEN!! LE-GEN-DARY!! 🤯💫🤯 3 Singers with the most unique instruments all coming together and showing OUT!! No one held back...this tribute was GLORIOUS!!! 💫👏🏾✨👏🏾💫
What a collaboration! wow!
for me (and I can speak for nobody else)...that was the best tribute to another performer that Ive ever seen. And ALL OF THEM have history with Smokey...so it was a very personal tribute. Gladys and Patti, go back to the "chitlun circuit' with Smokey in the 60s. And Smokey has mentored Luther, since he broke into the business. So, this was right on time. uh, Patti LaBelle?...you are one bad sista.
Real sangers right here.
There was a time when I was a kid we would be having fun outside and when we knew 8pm was coming we all shot in our homes because we knew the Soul Train Awards were coming on and they were going to have singers performing like this. I miss old school singing I REALLY DO!
Patti is forever Queen sheesh
You're never going to hear three lead singers sing that well together ever again. And at the end it got close to unlistenable
Close but not quite & that's the difference. Well said.
3 of the greatest, and the great combination on the very same stage 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Patti labelle, my favorite lady, gladis night and Luther Vandross Did a great job singing smokey Robinson song as 3 artist on stage ,and whoopi for the presenting the award.
This is and was the absolute BEST - it doesn't get any better than this - never has and never will! For those without a soul, please note that PATTI LIT up that stage and brought out the best in Gladys & Luther (not that they needed any help) ..........Loved when she kept saying SING! Incredible performance by three of the greatest of all time!
patti commands the floor whenever she steps out
Smokey Robinson was one of my Soul R&B faves back in the 60's right from the time he and the Miracles had their first hit with Shop Around while I was a Senior in H.S. After that they had one great song after another and I and my friends loved them to death. In something like 64 I and some friends saw a Motown show at the Regal Theater in Chicago in which they were the main group.
Luther best ❤Real stronger voice mâle in the World thanks god🙏
That damn LUTHER MF VANDROSS😭❤️‼️Just damn
This performance brought me to tears so many greats on the stage and of course smokey
One of the best to EVER do it.👏🏾👏🏾
Rare good sangin....no auto tune, no pre recorded background singers...I can imagine what my family reunion will be if they were my sisters and brother...
Beautiful voices ❣️!!
The best combine of amazing r&b
Incredible trio~
FANTASTIC LEGENDS ❤️ for the GREAT SMOKEY ROBINSON!♥️♥️♥️
King Luther
Unbelievable that this was 30 years ago.
They killed it
Gladys knight just walked out and said I am here
When Smokey's smilin', you know it's goooood!
Luther Vandross, OMG what a beautiful talented singer with a voice of an angel. May he live on in peace and happiness free from the torments and cares of this world of suffering for being gay in a hateful repressing world and then suffering illnesses that nobody should have to in the self-proclaimed "Greatest Country on Earth.
Fantastic!
Got damn they came out swinging
Luther & Patti didn't care about the song(s) more about what they could do with there voice. Gladys went in with style and clas......
@@divinemadness8297 HERE COMES A HATER! 😂😂😂
Mannnn when I say I love this right here!!! I love it!! The greatest legends of I seen over my years as a kid till now. I still love smokey Robinson and the rest of the rest of the legends that's not even on the stage with these 3
Since I lost my baby
Thank you Smokey bless you for all the great great music how it lifts our spirits the Lord TrueLy has blessed you my brother praise the Lord for the gifts He has given you and the doors He opened for you to bless the world amen and amen tears
We lost great singers
....my son plays FENDER 6 STRING BASS.. he's awesome!
I think he's the best ever
Patti is wearing that wig well.
Go ahead all of you all good singers. That sound good. Wish you all good luck.
🗣️ mane DAMN…
Smokey is as handsome today as then...LOVE LOVE LOVE! this era!
They did their thang. Smokie ❤it .
True gems 💎
LUTHER PATTI AND GLAYDS PURE GIFTS
I have this on tape.
Real friends singing to a friend cheering each other on
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
Gladys is all class
This is Greatness
I feel like Patti and Gladys should’ve switched songs, but all three still did their thing 😍
I agree. Gladys would have respected the gorgeous melody of 'Ooh Baby Baby' more. I love Patti to death but everyone knows that the actual songs are meaningless in her hands. They're just vehicles for her vocal acrobatics & histrionics.
What the hell do you know?
@@tonytate391 Girl, who are you talking to?
@@ThorSmith Should be talking to both of you. Lol
@@darreylhenderson702 Girl Bye. I can GUARANTEE you that I own more & know more about Patti's recordings than you & the other simpleton put together. I actually enjoyed Patti's performance here! But the fact of the matter is that she completely ignored the melody of the song & belted her way through it with reckless abandon. As she's always tended to do during the majority of her live performances over the decades. I never disrespected or said I hated Patti because I'm a big fan of hers. I simply said that Gladys would have stayed truer to the melody. And I stand by that.
Now....that's real singing! Wow! Awesome! Amazing!
🎙🎙🎙💃🏾💃🏾🎙🏃🏾🎶👌🏾👍🏼☝🏿
I love all of them
THAT is a tribute. So much talent. It's something to look back and see when it was okay to be Black and have class and intelligence.
Smokey is so cool and smooth
What they did vocally is beyond unreal.
And the *finale*
5:00..........
*5:27*
Now that is singing!
The Great Patty!!!!🤎🖤💜 her!!!!!
Tracks of My Tears
People say I'm the life of the party
Because I tell a joke or two
Although I might be laughing loud and hearty
Deep inside I'm blue
So take a good look at my face
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer, it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears
I need you, need you
Since you left me if you see me with another girl
Seeming like I'm having fun
Although she may be cute
She's just a substitute
Because you're the permanent one
So take a good look at my face
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer, it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears
I need you, need you
Outside I'm masquerading
Inside my hope is fading
Just a clown oh yeah
Since you put me down
My smile is my make up
I wear since my break up with you
So take a good look at my face
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer, it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears
Love you you too pattilabelllecarriehoo
Outstanding 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
LINDO DEMAIS
Patti totally over the top here with her sharp yelling - thank god Gladys brought some beauty of tone to the stage.
Ima need me a friend like patti to hype me up! "Saaanng girl...come on saannngg" ❤❤
I still find that this is among the Greatest Happenings that has ever occurred in artistic expression.
What the three of them did there is beyond all belief.
10:48 and my GREAT grandmother loved your music! And what a blessing that 3/4th of the people here are still with us!
+++knocks on all the wood within a 2 mile radius+++
You'll never hear someone in this age say I wanna thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ and hear the crowd go simply crazy.
We live a new generation, any other country has their own main religion. Only America has abandoned their main religion to support everyone elses.
What is the main religion... What is it... because in todays society, people that k ow the truth about christianity is LEAVING THE CHURCH in droves..
Note: not an earpiece or enhanced track in the back. With a real group for the BGV (The Whispers).
YES! All straight vocals and NATURAL harmony...🔥🎙🎶
Patti sang sang
How dare they!🔥🫠❤️
Yasssss 😍💞
Legends True Legends!!!!💖💖💖
Awesome!