Glad to have made it available. I'm amazed at the number of people who seem to assume that, to be "punk", one must also be cynical. But in truth hope and optimism are far more radical.
D’accord ! 100 💯 percent baby!! I just love it… my favorite genre… patty was an attitude with a unique voice and a great guitarist in Lenny Kaye… btw, this song is fckn horrible her singing, oh no… but thank you!🙏🏻
If any of you think this is a joke on the kids, Patti sang "You Light Up My Life" at the Uptown Theatre in 1980. She may not have the voice of Debbi Boone, but she's got one hundred times the soul.
@@PolyQuasi I like people who pigeonhole 'punk' to mean sloppy and amateurish - Smith was/is a consummate 'artist' who transcends those kinds of media labels. She sings a song she respects and gives it what she thinks it deserves (VERY shocking)
Me too. It reminds me of what happened with "I Hung my Head" composed and performed by Sting vs Johnny Cash's cover. I'm sure Debbie was/is a nice person but her version didn't have an ounce of passion. Patti's does. She LIVES every word, as Johnny did on his cover I mentioned above. That made all the difference.
in a single word: enigmatic. mrs smith so succinctly and appropriately addresses the evil of corporate rock, explains the beauty of punk and warms our hearts with a moving ballad, all in the presence of a childhood audience on a show so aptly named "kids are people too"
How odd! That song was SOOOOO overplayed in the 70's that I never thought I'd ever want to hear it again. Patti does an incredible turn on it. I found it nteresting that she left out the entire last stanza of the song ("You light up my days and fill my nights with song, This can't be wrong, when it feels so right"). I wonder why? Now that I think about it, I think she just spaced out!
@@tcampe She and so many other people, when they covered Pale Blue Eyes, dropped the verse about adultery though to be fair, Patti used to do it in an odd medley with Louie Louie.
The day this played on tv the first time, my brother called me and said "Quick! Turn on Kids are People, Too! Patty Smith is going to be on!" It just kinda blew my mind...
Thanks SO much! One of my greatest music surprises was in the '70s when I saw Patti Smith atTthe Palladium. Well, I couldn't beLIEVE it when she started singing "You Light Up My Life" - the Debby Boone hit - a capella! No I wasn't drunk or stoned, but I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Now, of course, thanks to TH-cam, I know it was TRUE! It DID happen! I was THERE... not on Kids Are People Too, but at her actual Palladium show!
Thanks for posting. Who would have thought all those views back in the day. We were a handful of fans. Saw her sing it at the Santa Monica Civic to big applauds. Right after Because the Night. She said, "next time I do my song I want as big of applauds as you gave that song". Still the coolest.
This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen. I remember this show growing up...they really had some strange guests like Kiss and The Captain and Tenille. I remember it like it was yesterday...It was a daring show that catered to "tweens"-a forerunner of all this Disney Channel stuff.
Just saw her yesterday, doing a free gig in support of an artist friend from India. After 25+ years, she's evolved, while staying true to her values and principles. Thanks for this clip.
Her enthusiasm and lack of any affectation sets her apart from practically everyone in the entertainment industry then or now. She is fearless at showing us who she really is. Rare...yink.
Agreed. The proof of how seriously she took this song is that the guy playing the piano for her is Joe Brooks - the composer of the song. This is not a piss-take. And New Years Eve does not define a decade. I acquired a VHS machine in 1979, and spent the 80s recording music - and consider all those tapes my "80s" tapes.
I came here after reading Rich Cohen's over-intellectualized critique of this performance in the 11/12/2022 Wall Street Journal. Like most such reviews, of which the late Pauline Kael was the master, the author completely misses what is in front of him because he's too busy thinking up the next clever line and snide remark. He says the original by Debbie Boone, the woman who made this song the all-time hit (at that time) in the 1970s, was in the "schlock tradition" of her father, 1950s Pat. To further tarnish Debbie Boone's mega hit, he proceeds to trash her father for some weird covers he did later in his career, while not making any mention of his amazing career in the 1950s. It would be like critiquing William Shatner's career by only mentioning his bizarre performance of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." So, having now heard this performance myself, it is obviously a solid, enjoyable rendition, but hardly a major re-interpretation and certainly not any sort of revelation.
Wow. So different. I was listening to Bianca Ryan singing it, then Leanne Rymes - then Patti Smith, the only one of the three who sounds like her life is truly in the dark and full of pain without the person she sings about. Plus the nice rock edge to her singing.
Thanks so much. I watched the local NYC version of this show, "Wonderama" which theme song was "Kids are People Too" before the show went national in 1978. Similarly to "Wonderama", another NYC local chidren's show, Mario Cantone's "Steampipe Alley", produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s, often had segments and guests that I would not expect on a children's show and felt that it was somewhat of an inside joke. I like how Smith awkwardly says she prefers writing songs with her band but some times will record other people's songs like Bruce Springsteen. She is an amazing interpreter of other people's songs from "Gloria" to "When Doves Cry". "You LIght Up My Life" first appeared in the 1977 movie of the same name where actress Didi Conn (she was also a Pink Lady in Grease in 1978) appears to be singing the song. Patti Smith's version is closer to this version. Conn was lip syncing. The recording was a minor hit for "Original Cast" (the voice belonged to Kvitka Cisyk). Debby Boone quickly recorded the song and it was released 3 weeks after the movie's debut and became the biggest hit in the US for the decade. I always preferred the original version from the movie than the cover by Debby Boone. Whitney Houston's version is very good too.
This is fantastic. It's kind of like the bonus round for my kids someday, when they ask "Who's Patti Smith? What's so special about her?" And my shorthand answer will be direct to this video, because nothing I could say would be equal to the task of that question, but this video says it all. ty.
"kids are People Too" was a catchphrase and a Bob McAllister song from Wonderama, they tried to continue the Wonderama vibe with this show after Wonderama was cancelled? ( I think) . Both shows were filmed in new york city in the 70s. Patti got around that town quite handily didnt she. th-cam.com/video/akMucPDNjos/w-d-xo.html
One of Patti’s most punk moments, she played this straight and nailed it. But don’t be mistaken she had done this same song in other venues way more scathing and ironic. She showed she can do both sides.
The thing is, if you ASK the DKs, the Pistols or Black Flag if Patti Smith is punk, all will say yes. I didn't put this video up as an example of Patti's punk bona fides, but to share a rare and interesting thing from my collection. She's an artist and like any truly great does what the fuck she wants no matter what you, or anyone, might think. And that is genuinely punk.
This is absolutely one of the worst covers of this song I have ever heard. I love Patti (especially when she sang Because the Night) but good lord, she isn't even singing the correct words. Joe must be gritting his teeth a lot during this.
Hi there, I work for a french documentary production company and we are working on a project about Patti Smith. Wondering if you still had that tape ? ABC destroyed all their materials. Thank you !
TH-cam is just an incredible place - Thank you for posting these wonderful things. Indeed I'm very happy now! Do you happen to have a clip of Roger Hodgson on this show?
Astonishing. Of course, this was 1979, not long after 'Wave', when Smith's hard rock was giving way to something more mushy (though 'Wave' is still a great album). It prefigures her later, utterly awful albums, following her 10-year gap. What's amazing here is that, even if the song is sappy, her voice turns it into something better than its parts. She's not wholly at ease with the kids, but she gives it her best. I'm still waiting for the original album that will put her back on course.
rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock. OR a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior. It's all good... a matter of opinion, dear grasshopper
you're missing my point--there is no "thinking" she is punk, Grasshopper. Saying "Patty Smith isn't punk" is like saying "John Hancock didn't sign the declaration of independence." What is punk? Is it posing in an attitude approved by a focus group, or is it surprising the bourgeoisie with something shocking and unsettling? If it's the former, then you'd be right... but you're not. Sometimes, singing Debbie Boone is the most punkrock thing you can do.
Obviously it is always easy to say that something "sucks" if you are ignorant to the "style or music" of an artist. That's an easy way to feel good about yourself. Maybe you'd appreciate it more if you actually listened to something else she has done. Or you could just go on immediately dismissing everything you feel "sucks"- that's an easy way to go to your grave without ever experiencing anything new!
That's got to be embarassing... although we don't see him flinch. I should have said she "forgot" the words, or more exactly forgot how to end the song... I bet they didn't get to rehearse more than once or twice, it's an easy mistake to make if you don't listen to Debbie Boone every day. ;-) It's still an amazing performance, and a wonderful time capsule. Isn't it cool to see a music video where you have something like that which PROVES they were singing live?
well, he was also quite frail and ill from a stroke suffered in april, 2008, and got arrested june, 2009. the court proceedings took forever and the charges and bail kept going up. he was on the brink of losing his apartment in the upper east side in manhattan and his son got arrested for murder dec 10, 2010...the guy had a lot to be sad about, guilty or not!
@natestewiu: It's not that she sucks, per se, she dosen't; it's that this song doesn't fit her-PERIOD. I think that the producers forced her to sing this song instead of the ones that she's known for, because they were frightened about how the would sound to kids (which begs the question, 'Why did they invite her on this show?'
I agree about the performance of this song, it is outstanding and this is the kind of song I would never have imagined her ever being able to do. I'm shocked you consider Gung Ho or Gone Again utterly awful. I would say Wave is utterly awful and Gung Ho is great but we're all entitled to our opinion.
seriously...have u listened to her sing??? really, you think she is punk?? wow.. she even forgets the words at the end. A punker singing DEBBIE BOONE.. get real.. this really sucked bad. Hello Kitty, o, I already have some.. wanna borrow them? :D don't hate an opinion...embrace the banter.
@colorform69 : Both are great songs, better than this overplayed crap 'song' that stunk up the radio and the charts back in the day, and even inspired a stupid movie of the same name. Somebody higher up at ABC must have made her do this.
@KlonopinSaves: Thing was, before there ever was Pop Idol, there was 'Ted Mack's Amateur Hour', 'Star Search', and a ton of other shows where people got up and sang or danced or did whatever. Not to defend Pop Idol, but to not mention that would be wrong.
Patty played the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Pennsylvania on May 10th 1978 and covered this You light up my life on that night. My freinds and i new even then that we were watcing something bizzare and special at that moment in time.
I've always loved this song, but this rendition, while interesting, is so poorly executed that it's embarrassing. Music by and for the people is great, but forgetting the words while sitting next to the composer who is accompanying you is just poor form.
i think he was an ad man who also did fairly well writing commercial music. he dabbled in film-making but found no success there. both "you light up my life" and "if ever i see you again" (any music clips on this? even from the ill-fated movie, which starred brooks himself and charlie perfume girl shelley hack?)
This has blown my mind. I had thought she'd goof on it but instead, Patti turned the Cheese Whiz into Brie. It reminds me of Ray Charles doing "I Can't Stop Loving You" or Chet Baker doing "My Funny Valentine."
@blewvelvet: Then you haven't heard any good hip hop artists talk in interviews yet. Try listening to Wesley 'Maestro Fresh Wes' Williams new album and read his book, or better yet have an open mind.
Kids Are People Too was awesome back in the day. I remember they had Cheap Trick on the show too. If they had a show like that for kids today, it would be all Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers. Blaargh
totally gross, she butchered the song. she needs to learn how to breath and to sing i guess that is why she sings punk. im not against punk but she is not made to sing classic songs like this
This song sucked, and was completely overplayed everywhere; I wish that she sang the songs SHE's known for ('Gloria', 'Because The Night') instead of this.
I agree! I would never thought she could tackle this because in a conventional sense she's not a 'real' singer (whatever that means). She does great here!
She took the most vanilla song in the universe and gave it *feeling*.
Glad to have made it available. I'm amazed at the number of people who seem to assume that, to be "punk", one must also be cynical. But in truth hope and optimism are far more radical.
Probably because of the "Sex Pistols" they generally celebrated bad behavior.😁
D’accord ! 100 💯 percent baby!! I just love it… my favorite genre… patty was an attitude with a unique voice and a great guitarist in Lenny Kaye… btw, this song is fckn horrible her singing, oh no… but thank you!🙏🏻
If any of you think this is a joke on the kids, Patti sang "You Light Up My Life" at the Uptown Theatre in 1980. She may not have the voice of Debbi Boone, but she's got one hundred times the soul.
@jonp72: Who do you think that kids would listen to except them? They're kids, after all.
seems to be from 1979.
she could sing the telephone book and it would be great.
This is crazy! Next your going to tell me that the Ramones will do the spiderman cartoon theme song.
the piano player has a bizzarro story. look it up.
Ugh I have a crush on Patti Smith I hope she's a lesbian cause I think I am now :)
Patti was so cool and gracious with these kids. And the song choice? Totally unexpected yet it works. Very punk!
Was expecting a punk version, but she stayed true to it and nailed it. Cover better than the original?
@@PolyQuasi
I like people who pigeonhole 'punk' to mean sloppy and amateurish - Smith was/is a consummate 'artist' who transcends those kinds of media labels. She sings a song she respects and gives it what she thinks it deserves (VERY shocking)
Later that same night, Debbie Boone sang HORSES at CBGB's
Genius.
I'd love to see video proof of that.
ahahahaha
Never really liked that song but hearing this has changed everything.
That is now the definitive version of the song, for me anyway.
"Thanks Patti, and we'll be right back with Count Dracula and Adam Rich" Classic. lol
Can you upload Count Dracula and Adam Rich, too?
This made me cry. This was one of my brother’s favorite songs. He died in 2019 from cancer. Never knew that Patti Smith did a cover of it. So amazing!
I hated this song until I heard Patti do it!
Me too. It reminds me of what happened with "I Hung my Head" composed and performed by Sting vs Johnny Cash's cover. I'm sure Debbie was/is a nice person but her version didn't have an ounce of passion. Patti's does. She LIVES every word, as Johnny did on his cover I mentioned above. That made all the difference.
Also check out Joe Brooks being like "What's this crazy punk chick doing singing MY song?"
Singing it well, Mr. Brooks. That's all.
30 people gave this a thumbs down?? Are they for real? Patti is a freak'n Icon!
in a single word: enigmatic. mrs smith so succinctly and appropriately addresses the evil of corporate rock, explains the beauty of punk and warms our hearts with a moving ballad, all in the presence of a childhood audience on a show so aptly named "kids are people too"
The best by far. She sends chills up my spine when she sings.
the coolest human being ever
Patti is such a big kid.
Patti is a better singer than she's given credit for.
How odd! That song was SOOOOO overplayed in the 70's that I never thought I'd ever want to hear it again. Patti does an incredible turn on it. I found it nteresting that she left out the entire last stanza of the song ("You light up my days and fill my nights with song, This can't be wrong, when it feels so right"). I wonder why? Now that I think about it, I think she just spaced out!
It looked like she forgot the words
She sings it with genuine emotion, from the heart, like she's singing a tribute to a lover.❤️
The song is about a one night stand, and it was a kids show. Avoiding those lyrics was intentional.
@@tcampe She and so many other people, when they covered Pale Blue Eyes, dropped the verse about adultery though to be fair, Patti used to do it in an odd medley with Louie Louie.
Shame the kids ask her such boring questions. I was hoping one of the little ones would say, "Is your look inspired by Albrecht Dürer?"
Who?
The day this played on tv the first time, my brother called me and said "Quick! Turn on Kids are People, Too! Patty Smith is going to be on!" It just kinda blew my mind...
Thanks SO much! One of my greatest music surprises was in the '70s when I saw Patti Smith atTthe Palladium.
Well, I couldn't beLIEVE it when she started singing "You Light Up My Life" - the Debby Boone hit - a capella!
No I wasn't drunk or stoned, but I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Now, of course, thanks to TH-cam, I know it was TRUE! It DID happen! I was THERE... not on Kids Are People Too, but at her actual Palladium show!
Glad to have made it available. When I put it up originally, I had no idea that it would be viewed more than half a million times.
Thanks for posting. Who would have thought all those views back in the day. We were a handful of fans.
Saw her sing it at the Santa Monica Civic to big applauds. Right after Because the Night. She said, "next time I do my song I want as big of applauds as you gave that song".
Still the coolest.
the best rendition of this song I've ever heard. Finally sung in a believable way, not all shallow and trite.
I had an ENORMOUS crush on this guy...love him. Kids are people too...had forgotten about this.
This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen. I remember this show growing up...they really had some strange guests like Kiss and The Captain and Tenille. I remember it like it was yesterday...It was a daring show that catered to "tweens"-a forerunner of all this Disney Channel stuff.
OMG, that is priceless! I guess you couldn't expect her to read "Piss Factory" to a bunch of kiddies :P
Patti Smith is one of the most soulful, sincerely human Rock vocalists.
Just saw her yesterday, doing a free gig in support of an artist friend from India. After 25+ years, she's evolved, while staying true to her values and principles. Thanks for this clip.
Her enthusiasm and lack of any affectation sets her apart from practically everyone in the entertainment industry then or now. She is fearless at showing us who she really is. Rare...yink.
Absolutely Beautiful
Amazing you are a legend. You didn't stay in the same lane you made your own lane.🙀
The more amazing bit is that the guy playing the piano is Joe Brooks - the composer of "You Light Up My Life". And he gave her the lyrics.
Agreed. The proof of how seriously she took this song is that the guy playing the piano for her is Joe Brooks - the composer of the song. This is not a piss-take. And New Years Eve does not define a decade. I acquired a VHS machine in 1979, and spent the 80s recording music - and consider all those tapes my "80s" tapes.
I came here after reading Rich Cohen's over-intellectualized critique of this performance in the 11/12/2022 Wall Street Journal. Like most such reviews, of which the late Pauline Kael was the master, the author completely misses what is in front of him because he's too busy thinking up the next clever line and snide remark. He says the original by Debbie Boone, the woman who made this song the all-time hit (at that time) in the 1970s, was in the "schlock tradition" of her father, 1950s Pat. To further tarnish Debbie Boone's mega hit, he proceeds to trash her father for some weird covers he did later in his career, while not making any mention of his amazing career in the 1950s.
It would be like critiquing William Shatner's career by only mentioning his bizarre performance of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."
So, having now heard this performance myself, it is obviously a solid, enjoyable rendition, but hardly a major re-interpretation and certainly not any sort of revelation.
Awesome!
"Don't go away...we have Count Dracula and Adam Rich..." The roller coaster that was '70's TV!
@Neville6000 hah!!! just the thought of her singing gloria or because the night in front of little kids is hilarious. are you kidding???
Leave it to kids to ask questions that are actually INTERESTING. Love the interview portion: "What did you want to be when you were a kid?"
Love it!
Wow. So different. I was listening to Bianca Ryan singing it, then Leanne Rymes - then Patti Smith, the only one of the three who sounds like her life is truly in the dark and full of pain without the person she sings about. Plus the nice rock edge to her singing.
I just can't believe what the puberty is hearing now, comparing to this.
God love Patti, been a fan for so long, muse of robert mapplethorpe, love Lenny kaye
there's noting ironic about patti; she sang the sun will come out tomorrow for her mother once, and it was awsome
Great comment. This is exactly what I thought-she's actually kinda cute, interacting with the kids and taking them seriously.
Magical ! 🎶💥🎶
Thanks so much. I watched the local NYC version of this show, "Wonderama" which theme song was "Kids are People Too" before the show went national in 1978. Similarly to "Wonderama", another NYC local chidren's show, Mario Cantone's "Steampipe Alley", produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s, often had segments and guests that I would not expect on a children's show and felt that it was somewhat of an inside joke.
I like how Smith awkwardly says she prefers writing songs with her band but some times will record other people's songs like Bruce Springsteen. She is an amazing interpreter of other people's songs from "Gloria" to "When Doves Cry".
"You LIght Up My Life" first appeared in the 1977 movie of the same name where actress Didi Conn (she was also a Pink Lady in Grease in 1978) appears to be singing the song. Patti Smith's version is closer to this version. Conn was lip syncing. The recording was a minor hit for "Original Cast" (the voice belonged to Kvitka Cisyk). Debby Boone quickly recorded the song and it was released 3 weeks after the movie's debut and became the biggest hit in the US for the decade. I always preferred the original version from the movie than the cover by Debby Boone. Whitney Houston's version is very good too.
Glad to have made it available. People won't believe it happened otherwise.
these kids are lucky growing up on real music
she's great :)
Patti is so cool. She was then and she is now.
At that time in her life she somewhat resembled Bowzer from Sha-Na-Na.
Thank you so much for posting this.
This is fantastic. It's kind of like the bonus round for my kids someday, when they ask "Who's Patti Smith? What's so special about her?" And my shorthand answer will be direct to this video, because nothing I could say would be equal to the task of that question, but this video says it all. ty.
Right on Patti u lite up my life. Love my Easter lp. Be lost without it.
She kicked it!!!
She has nothing on Debby Boone. Sorry folks.
You couldn't make this s*** up
Holy shit!! What can you say? Absolutely brilliant! Patti Smith - rock goddess!
i love this woman
Next we have Count Dracula and Adam Rich...does anyone have that on video? (Adam Rich was the litle mop-top kid on Eight is Enough.)
She thought the music in *1974* stunk?? Wow...I wonder what she thinks of it now? She's sadly prophetic @ 2:24...
This is just about the coolest thing ever. I'm sure some of the kids were scared of her and none of them had ever heard her music.
Given when this would have been, they probably heard BECAUSE THE NIGHT.
"kids are People Too" was a catchphrase and a Bob McAllister song from Wonderama, they tried to continue the Wonderama vibe with this show after Wonderama was cancelled? ( I think) . Both shows were filmed in new york city in the 70s. Patti got around that town quite handily didnt she. th-cam.com/video/akMucPDNjos/w-d-xo.html
One of Patti’s most punk moments, she played this straight and nailed it. But don’t be mistaken she had done this same song in other venues way more scathing and ironic. She showed she can do both sides.
The thing is, if you ASK the DKs, the Pistols or Black Flag if Patti Smith is punk, all will say yes. I didn't put this video up as an example of Patti's punk bona fides, but to share a rare and interesting thing from my collection. She's an artist and like any truly great does what the fuck she wants no matter what you, or anyone, might think. And that is genuinely punk.
Didn't she forget the words ??? I remember watching this back in the day
This is absolutely one of the worst covers of this song I have ever heard. I love Patti (especially when she sang Because the Night) but good lord, she isn't even singing the correct words. Joe must be gritting his teeth a lot during this.
Hi there, I work for a french documentary production company and we are working on a project about Patti Smith. Wondering if you still had that tape ? ABC destroyed all their materials. Thank you !
Hee hee, don't you have a Celine Dion record to go listen to?
TH-cam is just an incredible place - Thank you for posting these wonderful things. Indeed I'm very happy now!
Do you happen to have a clip of Roger Hodgson on this show?
The real live.. One ama only Candy Slice (and remember; Candy had a sung, Gimme Mick' , all about Jagger😉
Beautiful version with alot of meaning.
WSJ article brought me here on 11/12/22 --- Amazing, really touching.
No, she genuinely considered this was a well-written song. Songwriters and musicians often have wider-ranging tastes than listeners.
I like it. It's really unique. But I wonder what was going through the mind of Mr. Brooks.
Dorian mode song. Look it up. Not Aeolian minor. Strong middle, weakish top. Use this song as an example of Dorian mode.
This woman really rocks !
Astonishing. Of course, this was 1979, not long after 'Wave', when Smith's hard rock was giving way to something more mushy (though 'Wave' is still a great album). It prefigures her later, utterly awful albums, following her 10-year gap. What's amazing here is that, even if the song is sappy, her voice turns it into something better than its parts. She's not wholly at ease with the kids, but she gives it her best. I'm still waiting for the original album that will put her back on course.
rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock. OR a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior. It's all good... a matter of opinion, dear grasshopper
you're missing my point--there is no "thinking" she is punk, Grasshopper. Saying "Patty Smith isn't punk" is like saying "John Hancock didn't sign the declaration of independence."
What is punk? Is it posing in an attitude approved by a focus group, or is it surprising the bourgeoisie with something shocking and unsettling? If it's the former, then you'd be right... but you're not. Sometimes, singing Debbie Boone is the most punkrock thing you can do.
Obviously it is always easy to say that something "sucks" if you are ignorant to the "style or music" of an artist. That's an easy way to feel good about yourself. Maybe you'd appreciate it more if you actually listened to something else she has done. Or you could just go on immediately dismissing everything you feel "sucks"- that's an easy way to go to your grave without ever experiencing anything new!
That's got to be embarassing... although we don't see him flinch. I should have said she "forgot" the words, or more exactly forgot how to end the song... I bet they didn't get to rehearse more than once or twice, it's an easy mistake to make if you don't listen to Debbie Boone every day. ;-) It's still an amazing performance, and a wonderful time capsule. Isn't it cool to see a music video where you have something like that which PROVES they were singing live?
well, he was also quite frail and ill from a stroke suffered in april, 2008, and got arrested june, 2009. the court proceedings took forever and the charges and bail kept going up. he was on the brink of losing his apartment in the upper east side in manhattan and his son got arrested for murder dec 10, 2010...the guy had a lot to be sad about, guilty or not!
@natestewiu: It's not that she sucks, per se, she dosen't; it's that this song doesn't fit her-PERIOD. I think that the producers forced her to sing this song instead of the ones that she's known for, because they were frightened about how the would sound to kids (which begs the question, 'Why did they invite her on this show?'
I agree about the performance of this song, it is outstanding and this is the kind of song I would never have imagined her ever being able to do.
I'm shocked you consider Gung Ho or Gone Again utterly awful. I would say Wave is utterly awful and Gung Ho is great but we're all entitled to our opinion.
seriously...have u listened to her sing??? really, you think she is punk?? wow.. she even forgets the words at the end. A punker singing DEBBIE BOONE.. get real.. this really sucked bad. Hello Kitty, o, I already have some.. wanna borrow them? :D don't hate an opinion...embrace the banter.
@colorform69 : Both are great songs, better than this overplayed crap 'song' that stunk up the radio and the charts back in the day, and even inspired a stupid movie of the same name. Somebody higher up at ABC must have made her do this.
@KlonopinSaves: Thing was, before there ever was Pop Idol, there was 'Ted Mack's Amateur Hour', 'Star Search', and a ton of other shows where people got up and sang or danced or did whatever. Not to defend Pop Idol, but to not mention that would be wrong.
Patty played the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Pennsylvania on May 10th 1978 and covered this You light up my life on that night. My freinds and i new even then that we were watcing something bizzare and special at that moment in time.
I've always loved this song, but this rendition, while interesting, is so poorly executed that it's embarrassing. Music by and for the people is great, but forgetting the words while sitting next to the composer who is accompanying you is just poor form.
Do you have video of someone sing the Kids Are People Too theme song? I wanna hear that again.
i think he was an ad man who also did fairly well writing commercial music. he dabbled in film-making but found no success there. both "you light up my life" and "if ever i see you again" (any music clips on this? even from the ill-fated movie, which starred brooks himself and charlie perfume girl shelley hack?)
This has blown my mind. I had thought she'd goof on it but instead, Patti turned the Cheese Whiz into Brie. It reminds me of Ray Charles doing "I Can't Stop Loving You" or Chet Baker doing "My Funny Valentine."
love Patti! never liked this song. but she sure does it justice!
@blewvelvet: Then you haven't heard any good hip hop artists talk in interviews yet. Try listening to Wesley 'Maestro Fresh Wes' Williams new album and read his book, or better yet have an open mind.
Kids Are People Too was awesome back in the day. I remember they had Cheap Trick on the show too. If they had a show like that for kids today, it would be all Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers. Blaargh
totally gross, she butchered the song. she needs to learn how to breath and to sing i guess that is why she sings punk. im not against punk but she is not made to sing classic songs like this
This song sucked, and was completely overplayed everywhere; I wish that she sang the songs SHE's known for ('Gloria', 'Because The Night') instead of this.
I agree! I would never thought she could tackle this because in a conventional sense she's not a 'real' singer (whatever that means).
She does great here!