@@waynedexter We were entertained by artists with voices , of course auto tune didn't exist it was created for these non singing artists of today. My father was a saxophonist with a band and you got your money's worth. Auto tune made it possible for the music of today because without it most wouldn't be in the business. So take that!
@@honeylove7678 You made a generalization, and it’s painful. I know hyperbole and exaggerated is the rule of thumb, especially in the TH-cam comment section. Folks say stuff just based how how it makes them feel and not on reality. If you want a list of current artists that don’t use auto tune just holla
You responded to a statement I made to the Emotions at the Wattstax festival whom I've seen in person, auto tune didn't exist, entertainers back in the day had voices there was no fear of going to a concert and really enjoying it. I listen to plenty of artists Will Downing, Sade, Cleo Soul etc. auto tune has made dreams a reality for some of the younger generation.
Pure talent and grace. You don’t need to take your clothes off all you gotta do is let your vocals and your performance shine, and the audience will always love you.
I would argue that this sounds a little flat at various points and it sounds like she's straining her voice. Some of the notes don't sound as welll-supported as the they did on the studio version. The studio version sounds much smoother
This is an absolutely magnificent live performance without any lip sync and auto tune didn't exist! The biggest female group of the 70's. Absolutely Magnificent
I'll say it again and again. The 60's and 70"s had the best and purest music. Live singing and musicians playing real instruments. You just can't get any better then this. You've got to love the Hutchinson Sisters. RIP Pamela! 🙏🌻💞
Thats the way you do it right there...playing live, with horns, live voices, no lip syncing or modulation. True talent on display back in the 70s, they weren't messing around. Hardly anything nowadays comes close to 70s & 80s music.
They wereTrue talented professionals. This is 1977 and they sound better than today's singers . I sure hope that male and female singing groups make a comeback. I miss good singing. ..I miss r&b.
Rise In Power Pamela Hutchinson your angelic voice will live on forever. My condolences to the Hutchinson Family. The Emotions are legendary. The voices of angels.
WOOOWWW! LOVE THE EMOTIONS!!!! ONE OF THE BADDEST GIRL GROUPS (TOP THREE) EMOTIONS, SUPREMES AND THE MARVELLETS. I FORGOT ABOUT RONNIE SPECTOR.SO MUCH TALENT BACK THEN. NATURAL GOD GIVEN TALENT!! THE MUSICIANS ALSO SUPERB!!!! MUSIC ISN'T THE SAME. YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO RESEARCH. OLD SCHOOL HAD IT ALL WHEN IT CAME TO 🎶. SINGING, DANCING, PLAYING. PRODUCTION, SONGWRITING JUST TO NAME A FEW!!!!!!
NOW this is what I call LIVE ENTERTAINMENT....FANTASTIC vocals and BEAUTIFUL sisters....GREAT harmony....It doesn't get any better than this!!!....70s BEST MUSIC 💯❤
I love this song! It is one of the songs from my childhood that really makes me smile. I mean, Kodak smile, LOL! I just feel so happy when I hear it! I know...weird.
I was 6yrs. old when this song was out and I use to jump around like crazy along with my older sisters whenever this song played on the radio or 8 track... Those were the days of good times, little crime, and good music!
What a song! What talent! One of the greatest feel good songs of all time. Thats what music in the last 20 years has lost, it doesn't take you to places like this and make you feel this good and just want to get up and dance!
Do you really want to see white people dance? I am European-American and am one of the few who CAN dance but many of my friends have not a single rythmic bone in their bodies! If you watch many performances from the 70's note that the crowds are basically just sitting there. The Hippie flower dancing has left the building and the crowd surfing mosh pit disaster had yet to rear it's ugly head.
Jody R Most of the millions upon millions of white Latin-Americans dance. It has nothing to do with race; it's all about environment. A black girl raised by Polish farmers will not dance
Chavezoid Actually, she very well may have been able to dance, even despite being raised by Polish people. There is a correlation between melanin and rhythm. This is why Black artists like Drake, Deborah Cox, and a host of others who were from White surroundings (they’re both from Canada), still tend to have talent and rhythm. This is why almost all of the popular music worldwide, even in Latin American countries, has African roots.
that's a serious audio attack. I might've stayed quiet if that was the first time seeing this live and didn't know them. Because those harmonies, & clear voices is AWWEEEE INSPIRING. BUT, once the song was over, I would've stood on my feet yelling & applauding. LOVE: THE HUMAN DNA
When will someone in the black entertainment industry honor the Hutchinson Sisters it is long past due. They are featuring girl groups who came on the scene in the 90's but totally forgot about those tight blended harmonies of the Emotions. Those sisters are flawless in their presentation of their art.
Love this song and the album was off the chain! Great performance from Chicago Own! No one sounds like Wanda and little Sheila with squeak in her voice was always a fan of both women voices. For the young folks they are all sisters and one sister left to be replaced by another sister.
My gosh, did they feed the audience alcohol and turkey prior to the Emotions taking the stage? I've seen livelier gatherings in a cemetery… LOVE the Emotions and LOVE this song; easily one of my favorites of all time. As I watched the video I thought, 'Nowadays you'd NEVER see a female group dressed in suits and high-collar shirts like the Emotions' but then I realized something: Nowadays you'd never see a group that can SING like the Emotions, so they gotta make up for their lack of talent in other ways. Too bad, too - I'd listen to a lot more radio i there were a lot more talents akin to the lovely Emotions.
Well that's the thing. To 'fill up' the audience, they go to the local morgue to get a bunch of stiffs. This isn't the first time I have seen that either. Watch some of Donna Summer's early videos and it's the same thing with the audience. As for their outfits...they are horrible. Watch the clip of them on Soul Train and they have some really nice dresses that are MUCH easier on the eyes.
Bunch of stuffy uptight white folks in the audience. Their parents had to live through the Civil Rights movement so they were still bent out of shape about that.
On this day in 1977 {July 23rd} the Emotions' "Best of My Love" regained the #1 spot {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B chart... It first reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on June 25th, then "Easy" by the Commodores became #1 {for 1 week} and then the girls jumped back into the top spot... They had a similar fate on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; they reached #1 {for 4 weeks} then were replaced by "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb for 1 week, then regained #1 for 1 more week...
This song never sounds played out to me. I love family types of gatherings where someone puts this song on and everybody goes in. It definitely reminds me of fun times before the bills came.
Please SOMEBODY bring the midnight special back. I understand it was during dead air time back then, but hell most of air time is dead now. When you made it to the Midnight special as an Artist... You MADE IT... LOVED THAT SHOW.
I know this is a deadly old comment, but I’m reaching my 20’s and this instrumental is just.. gorgeous. I miss the clavinet, that needs to be a thing again
You may not know this true fact. The sisters are Chi Town nurtured and as youngsters shared the local talent shows with Yvette Steven's who morphed into the now beloved artist Chaka Khan. Chaka said that sometimes her group would win the loot and other times the Hutchinson Sunbeams would be awarded the loot. We who are yet present an have been graced by the powers of their talents are very fortunate. I've been on a Monthly Sabbatical of immersing by being into the Emotions Stax Records Project. It's an absolute master piece of art. So many beautiful songs that have become my own favorites. If you haven't had the opportunity to take in that project please do as soon as possible. You will beaming with joy.
I keep hearing this song on videos but with a male rapper and different lyrics?? I recognized it right away. I hope the original creators are getting credit.
I was reading some of these posts and they mentioned Wanda not holding the notes. Well they were touring for I saw them with the Commodores in 1977 when this song was HOT and the album. They wore these same outfits too! Wanda was singing in a higher register unlike her alto she was singing in before. She sounds great here and her newer register grew wider and bigger and she still sounds awesome today. They looked great and too bad Sheila didn't have a solo here, she would've worked it.
![The Emotions- "Best Of My Love" 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/diw_1ae4l68/mqdefault.jpg)
The Emotions!!! No auto-tune when they performed, singing was backed with a live band. The good ole' days I'll always cherish.
Auto tune didn’t exist back then so there’s that
@@waynedexter We were entertained by artists with voices , of course auto tune didn't exist it was created for these non singing artists of today. My father was a saxophonist with a band and you got your money's worth. Auto tune made it possible for the music of today because without it most wouldn't be in the business. So take that!
@@honeylove7678 You made a generalization, and it’s painful. I know hyperbole and exaggerated is the rule of thumb, especially in the TH-cam comment section. Folks say stuff just based how how it makes them feel and not on reality. If you want a list of current artists that don’t use auto tune just holla
You responded to a statement I made to the Emotions at the Wattstax festival whom I've seen in person, auto tune didn't exist, entertainers back in the day had voices there was no fear of going to a concert and really enjoying it. I listen to plenty of artists Will Downing, Sade, Cleo Soul etc. auto tune has made dreams a reality for some of the younger generation.
Cleo Sol would’ve been on that list 😝
classy, beautiful, talented ladies!
Pure talent and grace. You don’t need to take your clothes off all you gotta do is let your vocals and your performance shine, and the audience will always love you.
Same key, hit all the notes both lead singer and backups. Real talent and tremendous song.
I would argue that this sounds a little flat at various points and it sounds like she's straining her voice. Some of the notes don't sound as welll-supported as the they did on the studio version. The studio version sounds much smoother
@@jakemiles1427 its called raw talent bozo
@@calibre8718 OH so you're saying she didn't vocal lessons, gotcha.
SING IT LADIES!! There's nothing like the 70's and I would love to see a movie made about The Emotions. They are so deserving of it!!
normas da cidade
Which city?
This is an absolutely magnificent live performance without any lip sync and auto tune didn't exist!
The biggest female group of the 70's.
Absolutely Magnificent
midnight special should have its own youtube channel for oldies like this so that i can watch them
Bunch of beautiful ladies 😁
What a huge hit back in 1977. I think of my teen self with her friends in the 70's, singing and dancing to this song. What a fun time it was.
Damnn they slay on the vocals!!!
I'll say it again and again. The 60's and 70"s had the best and purest music. Live singing and musicians playing real instruments. You just can't get any better then this. You've got to love the Hutchinson Sisters. RIP Pamela! 🙏🌻💞
Well said! 💯
You are sooooo right 🎉🎉🎉
One of the GREATEST songs of all time!!!!!👍👍👍👍✨✨✨👍👍👍👍👍
Definitely the biggest song of 1977. #1 twice in different quarters of the year, now that's big!
Sad that Pamela has passed.
MHSRIP.
This song lives forever in most people's hearts.
Which 1 is she?
@@dominiquedevereux7205 the one on the right.
@@patrickmakombe7037 OK. Thank you.
No auto tune just raw talent.
Absolutely magnificent vocals
💔💔💔
REST IN PEACE
PAMELA HUTCHERSON
(09-18, 2020)
Unsung: The Emotions brought me here!
Me too
Gives me goosebumps everytime I hear them sing! 🥰
Thats the way you do it right there...playing live, with horns, live voices, no lip syncing or modulation. True talent on display back in the 70s, they weren't messing around. Hardly anything nowadays comes close to 70s & 80s music.
Jeff Cobb Only one problem...the horns (which imho are the best part of the tune were dubbed in here by synthesizer) Just not the same.
So true.
Probably the most vocally talented group during this time
This song gives me the chills. Thanks EWF and the Emotions. Love and miss y'all.
What real music sounds like, folks! I’ll always cherish this decade! Great memories!
You had to be talented back then...no electronic aids.
This song never gets old!!!
They wereTrue talented professionals. This is 1977 and they sound better than today's singers . I sure hope that male and female singing groups make a comeback. I miss good singing. ..I miss r&b.
RIP MY BROTHER MAURICE WHITE
Ah the Clavinet! The sound of the seventies. These ladies had serious voices. Another great Maurice White song.
Hard to believe this is live... incredible.... !!! What voices these gorgeous ladies have
kkkkk
reza a lenda viva
I remember I liked this song alot when I was 5. Still do like it😎
you can't beat EWF putting out some of the greatest funk rythms of all time!! Maurice white you the Man!!
I remember watching this very episode of Midnight Special the summer of 77 at 14 years old...... Special memories
Rise In Power Pamela Hutchinson your angelic voice will live on forever. My condolences to the Hutchinson Family. The Emotions are legendary. The voices of angels.
Them girls are STILL gettin' it THIS good today!!! FORTY YEARS LATER!!!!
WOOOWWW! LOVE THE EMOTIONS!!!! ONE OF THE BADDEST GIRL GROUPS (TOP THREE) EMOTIONS, SUPREMES AND THE MARVELLETS. I FORGOT ABOUT RONNIE SPECTOR.SO MUCH TALENT BACK THEN. NATURAL GOD GIVEN TALENT!! THE MUSICIANS ALSO SUPERB!!!! MUSIC ISN'T THE SAME. YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO RESEARCH. OLD SCHOOL HAD IT ALL WHEN IT CAME TO 🎶. SINGING, DANCING, PLAYING. PRODUCTION, SONGWRITING JUST TO NAME A FEW!!!!!!
REST IN LOVE AND POWER PAMELA ROSE HUTCHISON.
THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING WONDERFUL GIFT.
I use to try my best to stay up until midnight to watch this show. Especially if there was someone like The Emotions going to be on
Wow I never seen these ladies live they were good
And they got the steps down and the voice - excellent!
Outstanding. One of the best 70s disco songs. This is a nice version of it, too.
I'm going to learn how to play this song with my bass..this week....I remember my folks use to listen to this...plus - I like the bass line...
NOW this is what I call LIVE ENTERTAINMENT....FANTASTIC vocals and BEAUTIFUL sisters....GREAT harmony....It doesn't get any better than this!!!....70s BEST MUSIC 💯❤
Voices... naturally, clear, beauties, original... Real, true...
I love this song! It is one of the songs from my childhood that really makes me smile. I mean, Kodak smile, LOL! I just feel so happy when I hear it! I know...weird.
Hello Latonia I still like Best Of My Love also. very good music. I feel happy when I hear that song also. Take care Latonia.
This song makes me happy too.
I LOVE her voice, it's her vocals that makes this song one of my favorites EVER, she sang the hell out of it💖
Wanda Hutchinson - a 70s icon. What a voice.
She sings with such an open, happy force. I really like this upload! What a gift .. thanks for it.
I get emotional when ever I listen to emotions, great group
Awesome! Left to right Wanda, Sheila, Pam!
These suits are everything to me! I love a cute white suit!
Do you know how many of today's artists would just fall apart if they had to perform live?? Without their studio backup? Ha!
Imagine them trying to perform without electricity and you'd soon find out who the real artists are.
Man the 70s was just so superior... good music any way you turned...who knew we were living in the best decade of music..then..
That l ead singer!!!!!!GOOD LORD JESUS!!!!! BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL SONG😍😍😍😍
I was 6yrs. old when this song was out and I use to jump around like crazy along with my older sisters whenever this song played on the radio or 8 track... Those were the days of good times, little crime, and good music!
I miss 8 tracks!
En ese programa tenían la opción de bailar en vivo!!!!! que lindos recuerdos!
Wow ! Love that song and they did it fantastic live!!
What a song! What talent! One of the greatest feel good songs of all time. Thats what music in the last 20 years has lost, it doesn't take you to places like this and make you feel this good and just want to get up and dance!
Midnight Special was all that! And the performers did LIVE performances, which is what made it so special.
These Three sisters were so good together 👍👍 and look great 😃 Sheila, Wanda and Pam just incredible 🤗 luv these Queens 😄
What talent!!!!!! Awesome........thanks for sharing this gem in these days of auto-tune and "produced" music. Thank you Lord I was raised in the '70s!
Real talent, 70's style back then...miss those good ole' days, wore this album out!!!!
"Rejoice"...love The Emotions!!!
When we got our first record player at Gemco this was the first record my parents got such great memories
The Emotions was my favorite female singing group back in the 70’s and today they are still is
Oh shit!!! Fukkin Midnight Special!!! Damn I miss these days! Real voices, real instruments!
*NATURAL BEAUTY* nothing fake👍💯🙌🤗❤😁
love the funk clav in this version...
It still amazes me how certain audiences could be so subdued during this great soulful performances. Smh
Do you really want to see white people dance? I am European-American and am one of the few who CAN dance but many of my friends have not a single rythmic bone in their bodies! If you watch many performances from the 70's note that the crowds are basically just sitting there. The Hippie flower dancing has left the building and the crowd surfing mosh pit disaster had yet to rear it's ugly head.
Jody R Most of the millions upon millions of white Latin-Americans dance. It has nothing to do with race; it's all about environment. A black girl raised by Polish farmers will not dance
Chavezoid Actually, she very well may have been able to dance, even despite being raised by Polish people. There is a correlation between melanin and rhythm. This is why Black artists like Drake, Deborah Cox, and a host of others who were from White surroundings (they’re both from Canada), still tend to have talent and rhythm. This is why almost all of the popular music worldwide, even in Latin American countries, has African roots.
Drawing inspiration from these songbirds. Today’s generation take note!
never saw this one of my fave song ever!
Incredible live performance
that's a serious audio attack. I might've stayed quiet if that was the first time seeing this live and didn't know them. Because those harmonies, & clear voices is AWWEEEE INSPIRING. BUT, once the song was over, I would've stood on my feet yelling & applauding.
LOVE: THE HUMAN DNA
no autotune, just true talent.
When will someone in the black entertainment industry honor the Hutchinson Sisters it is long past due. They are featuring girl groups who came on the scene in the 90's but totally forgot about those tight blended harmonies of the Emotions. Those sisters are flawless in their presentation of their art.
A little gem, this is what makes TH-cam great and groovy
Love this song and the album was off the chain! Great performance from Chicago Own! No one sounds like Wanda and little Sheila with squeak in her voice was always a fan of both women voices. For the young folks they are all sisters and one sister left to be replaced by another sister.
Simple elegance and grace, with the moves to match, I bet todays singers could not sing live and hit those notes.
My gosh, did they feed the audience alcohol and turkey prior to the Emotions taking the stage? I've seen livelier gatherings in a cemetery…
LOVE the Emotions and LOVE this song; easily one of my favorites of all time. As I watched the video I thought, 'Nowadays you'd NEVER see a female group dressed in suits and high-collar shirts like the Emotions' but then I realized something: Nowadays you'd never see a group that can SING like the Emotions, so they gotta make up for their lack of talent in other ways. Too bad, too - I'd listen to a lot more radio i there were a lot more talents akin to the lovely Emotions.
Sho ya right 110%
Well that's the thing. To 'fill up' the audience, they go to the local morgue to get a bunch of stiffs. This isn't the first time I have seen that either. Watch some of Donna Summer's early videos and it's the same thing with the audience. As for their outfits...they are horrible. Watch the clip of them on Soul Train and they have some really nice dresses that are MUCH easier on the eyes.
Bunch of stuffy uptight white folks in the audience. Their parents had to live through the Civil Rights movement so they were still bent out of shape about that.
On this day in 1977 {July 23rd} the Emotions' "Best of My Love" regained the #1 spot {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B chart...
It first reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on June 25th, then "Easy" by the Commodores became #1 {for 1 week} and then the girls jumped back into the top spot...
They had a similar fate on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; they reached #1 {for 4 weeks} then were replaced by "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb for 1 week, then regained #1 for 1 more week...
Pure Excellence!!!! 2020!!!
Wow! That was incredible!
This song never sounds played out to me. I love family types of gatherings where someone puts this song on and everybody goes in. It definitely reminds me of fun times before the bills came.
awesome pop/dance song; gets folks on the floor !!
A spectacular live vocal performance of one my all-time favorite songs absolutely destroyed by a horrendous mix. Grrrr!
Wow, what a song to stand up and dance to, and look at all those folk sitting and listening. 🤷🏽
Please SOMEBODY bring the midnight special back. I understand it was during dead air time back then, but hell most of air time is dead now. When you made it to the Midnight special as an Artist... You MADE IT... LOVED THAT SHOW.
Keith Hill Why do you want to bring this show back, most of today artist suck. Bring back the good music first, then bring this show back.
Sounds GREAT!
Man them girls was on 🔥 sound just like the album
So much good music in the 1970's love the instrumental in the background. Those under 30 cannot appreciate this.
I know this is a deadly old comment, but I’m reaching my 20’s and this instrumental is just.. gorgeous. I miss the clavinet, that needs to be a thing again
I love the Emotions! so much energy!!
Excuse my language, but all I can say is Goooddd Damn..... This is amazing.
Totally awesome. Thank you....I was hypnotized.
Real music nothing eugly in the words beautiful words period.
You may not know this true fact. The sisters are Chi Town nurtured and as youngsters shared the local talent shows with Yvette Steven's who morphed into the now beloved artist Chaka Khan. Chaka said that sometimes her group would win the loot and other times the Hutchinson Sunbeams would be awarded the loot. We who are yet present an have been graced by the powers of their talents are very fortunate. I've been on a Monthly Sabbatical of immersing by being into the Emotions Stax Records Project. It's an absolute master piece of art. So many beautiful songs that have become my own favorites. If you haven't had the opportunity to take in that project please do as soon as possible. You will beaming with joy.
menrnerencing, how u got the best of my love, and how great of singers the Emotions were
I keep hearing this song on videos but with a male rapper and different lyrics?? I recognized it right away. I hope the original creators are getting credit.
I was reading some of these posts and they mentioned Wanda not holding the notes. Well they were touring for I saw them with the Commodores in 1977 when this song was HOT and the album. They wore these same outfits too! Wanda was singing in a higher register unlike her alto she was singing in before. She sounds great here and her newer register grew wider and bigger and she still sounds awesome today. They looked great and too bad Sheila didn't have a solo here, she would've worked it.
Le meilleur album de The Emotions produit par Maurice White pour kalimba production !!
Beautiful voices! Thx for the upload!
This kind of gift transcends all dimensions. Love it.
ONE of the ALL-TIME Best FEMALE SINGING GROUPS! PERIOD!
I was 8 or 9 when this song came out. I love it.
Damn you old lol
Just watched them on Way Black When on TV One! 2-21-11 they still go it!~ audience gave them a deserved Standing Ovation~~ WOW!~~
I wish they had more of the background vocals but this performance is so good
I'm old. Great Maurice Whtie song!