THE ROYALETTES - IT'S GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE. TAKEN FROM THE SHIVAREE SHOW SEPTEMBER 25TH 1965. GROUP MEMBERS ARE: SHEILA ROSS, ANITA ROSS, TERRY JONES AND VERONICA BROWN
She was straight up 🔥, and a darn good singer. I would ride with my mother in her Impala with a 327 and she loved R&B and Jazz, and she would let me turn the radio up LOUD. Great times. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
The RICH ORCHESTRATION ALONE on The ROYALETTES’ original flat out BURIES the cover versions… and the ladies’ sweet , plaintive harmonies, and Shiela’s beautiful lead vocals is icing on the CAKE !! I can agree with the old saying: “Some songs just SHOULD NOT be COVERED…because they were just done SO RIGHT the FIRST TIME !!”
That saying makes zero sense. The more a song is recorded, more royalties to the songwriters. You have every right to prefer the original but to say a song shouldn't be re-recorded hurts the songwriters
I'm an 80s born man . I'd always go listen to my dads vinyl records and get lost in music . I've always been told I had an old soul . If having an old soul means I can go back in time to experience the beautiful angelic voices, and feel the depth of my soul embraced by words of emotion serenading me then yes I'll gladly be an old soul . I'm enamored, and on this love high . I think I'm in love . And I proudly say it . . . . . I'd love to meet , fall in love with and see this angel daily 😍😍😍🕊🕊🕊🕊🌹🌹🌹
You are no the only one. I was born in 1969 and I too get lost listening the music lyrics voices harmonies etc etc and its beautiful. Listening the 45rps from 1966 to 1970 day dreaming Wishing I was a part of this era and in love with the music!
I love how sophisticated their sound is compared to most of the other girl groups of the era. Sheila Ross is a real stunner. If she had come along during the video era, she would likely have become very famous.
+Len Walker My parents had one of their albums. The songs were all rather sophisticated. I think this must have been one of those songs that hit in a "wave". (It wasn't popular all over the place at once, and so never made it to the top 10, yet most people know it well.)
+shmuli9 That happened a lot when artists were on labels that didn't have the muscle to push a record hard. A record could be huge in one city, while just starting to get airplay in another, while in a third city, it never makes a splash at all. Many regional, and local hits back in the era before consultants, and program directors took over the radio business.
+mrstep2me mr. Step 2 this is JT this song is so great and so well done by Sheila it didn't need much of a push buddy today's music is the purest of pure garbage you have a great night God bless you
On this day in 1966 {August 23rd} the Royalettes performed "It's Gonna Take A Miracle"* on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'Where The Action Is'... Exactly one year earlier on August 23rd, 1965 the song was at #53 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, three weeks later it would peak at #41 {for 1 week} and it spent 11 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #28 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... The Baltimore quartet had one other Top 100 record, "I Want To Meet Him", it peaked at #72 later in 1965... * In 1982 Deniece Williams covered "It's Gonna Take A Miracle", her version peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on the Hot R&B Singles chart and at #10 in the Top 100 chart...
Sheila Ross?!! Is that her name?! You mean she is Diana Ross's sister? Oh no. That explains why Sheila Ross only had one hit with the Royalettes. No way was Diana Ross going to let her sister have more than one hit. Diana Ross made sure that there was going to be only one queen in the Ross family and it wasn't going to be Sheila.
F A N T A S T I C - lead in Sheila, Royalettes singing Teddy Randazzo creations (Little Anthony) were exceptional. Beautiful. Memorable. Give me back the 60s.
...Beauty is always close...We talk too much and feel too little...The eye misses all the colors and is sated only by all the darkness...Such a waste of precious time...Tomorrow becomes yesterday...We wonder where today went...This song was a beautiful moment...A gentle breeze across the brow...A sunbeam through the clouds...Wish that I had heard this once upon a long time ago in the A Shau Valley...Thank you, lovely ladies for being a breeze and a sunbeam..."...I am certain of nothing except the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination..."(Keats)...Blessings to all points of the compass...James Patrick Casey, Esq.
Oh Sheila you're so great it's like birds chirping one of the greatest songs done by one of the greatest singers of the golden era today's music couldn't put a pimple on anybody's ass compared to then Sheila you're the greatest a bless you have a great night
williamg2552 1 second ago The ROYALETTES version is the ORIGINAL....and THE BEST !! It BURIES all "copycat cover versions". Sounds even better NOW than when it first came out in '65 !!! REPLY
+ILMJXXX Yes thank you so much - my favourite girl band (maybe the Lovelites...) - Only When You're Lonely - what a song. Have you seen the footage of Brenda and the Tabulations singing That's In The Past? It's here on TH-cam...
love this song...have you seen 'a love affair to remember'? xx th-cam.com/video/oId1BUXSAqk/w-d-xo.html I also have them singing 'out of sight, out of mind...more uptempo th-cam.com/video/x1QpDqbuQw8/w-d-xo.html
This beautiful song only lets me know that I have outlived my music. I'm 68 years old, and I never turn on my radio any more, as what they are playing, I don't want to hear. I have not heard a song worth hearing in 15 years, and I don't choose to hear the hip-hop horse shit that all stations play. How people consider this music, is beyond me--it is absolute crap--period!
bjclark1017 amen! I'm only 38 but people cal me an old soul because I listen to oldies al the time. I tell you there will never be an era in music like this
Tell u the truth I don't remember them that well. I don't think they got alot of newyork airplay. In 65 the ronnettes and the brill building girl groups were killing it and Detroit motown was bubbling up. But still I think this is a great act that I think was ahead of their time.
Goes to show you Gorfy wasnt the only one separating lead singer from background..The Lead was several feet in beginning behind or in front with cameras focused on her
This was classy, sophisticated music and the girls performed it with style and elan. Their two albums on MGM are standouts from the early 1960s.
It's gonna take a miracle to bring fine music and harmony back like these ladies do...
Shelia Ross emulates exactly what a lead singer does best, perform, act and sing. How many fella's she "kill" with that beautiful smile
A Great Song From My Past. BEAUTIFUL SONG
Baltimore's finest all girl group to this day and yes Sheila Ross was stunning
Love those dance moves. This whole song and group radiates sexiness without filth. Love it!
no doubt buddy have a great night
Hey Niki Minaj , you paying attention?
@@richardleonard4281 Niki Minaj is too busy showing her butt crack while twerking to be paying attention to any Royalettes.
Had the biggest schoolboy crush on her. Learned a move or two also
She has the most MESMERIZING AND SPARKLING EYES! ;-)
What stands out for me is the lead singers clarity, you can understand every word she’s saying🗣️ Plus she’s nice l👀king 🥰
She was straight up 🔥, and a darn good singer. I would ride with my mother in her Impala with a 327 and she loved R&B and Jazz, and she would let me turn the radio up LOUD. Great times.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Straight up fire! @@williamhiles7404 🔥
They're beautiful.
Beautiful beautiful music, beautiful beautiful women!!!! ⭐❤️
The best of Baltimore meets Brooklyn's Teddy Randazzo and comes up with an early Philly sound.
Sheila.Ross....The Smile........ GOLD....
Sheila Ross
The RICH ORCHESTRATION ALONE on The ROYALETTES’ original flat out BURIES the cover versions…
and the ladies’ sweet , plaintive harmonies, and Shiela’s beautiful lead vocals is icing on the CAKE !!
I can agree with the old saying: “Some songs just SHOULD NOT be COVERED…because they were just done SO RIGHT the FIRST TIME !!”
That saying makes zero sense. The more a song is recorded, more royalties to the songwriters. You have every right to prefer the original but to say a song shouldn't be re-recorded hurts the songwriters
I'm an 80s born man . I'd always go listen to my dads vinyl records and get lost in music . I've always been told I had an old soul . If having an old soul means I can go back in time to experience the beautiful angelic voices, and feel the depth of my soul embraced by words of emotion serenading me then yes I'll gladly be an old soul . I'm enamored, and on this love high . I think I'm in love . And I proudly say it . . . . . I'd love to meet , fall in love with and see this angel daily 😍😍😍🕊🕊🕊🕊🌹🌹🌹
You are no the only one. I was born in 1969 and I too get lost listening the music lyrics voices harmonies etc etc and its beautiful. Listening the 45rps from 1966 to 1970 day dreaming Wishing I was a part of this era and in love with the music!
I love how sophisticated their sound is compared to most of the other girl groups of the era. Sheila Ross is a real stunner. If she had come along during the video era, she would likely have become very famous.
+yellowlinda wow...Thankyou John (Clemente) for that information :-) I bought your book a while back now but see you have an updated one out?
+Len Walker My parents had one of their albums. The songs were all rather sophisticated. I think this must have been one of those songs that hit in a "wave". (It wasn't popular all over the place at once, and so never made it to the top 10, yet most people know it well.)
+shmuli9 That happened a lot when artists were on labels that didn't have the muscle to push a record hard. A record could be huge in one city, while just starting to get airplay in another, while in a third city, it never makes a splash at all. Many regional, and local hits back in the era before consultants, and program directors took over the radio business.
+mrstep2me It sure did, well into the 1980s...
+mrstep2me mr. Step 2 this is JT this song is so great and so well done by Sheila it didn't need much of a push buddy today's music is the purest of pure garbage you have a great night God bless you
This ORIGINAL version by The Royalettes is so much BETTER than the copycat COVER versions...that it's just NO CONTEST !!!
This is ok. Deniece Williams' cover is the best....no question.
...to each his own .
To ME , nothing's better than the ORIGINAL .
Best version for me is Laura Nyro with LaBelle.
The Royalettes own it; Laura Nyro killed it (with obvious reverence toward the original) & Deniece got jiggy with it.
Laura absolutely nailed it
Too much! Dropdead gorgeous women with a punching above their weight delivery of a stunning tune. Knockout!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Girlfriend Ross is really the epitome of an American Black beauty. And lord, that voice is stunning.
Sheila Ross is incredibly beautiful and talented and so are the rest of the group. Sighhhhhh....if only this was still 1965.
She is really beautiful
They were from Baltimore. They took their name from the Royal theater in Baltimore where they often performed. 💛
Wow! Thanks for the info. Cool!! : )
Absolutely beautiful singing. And Sheila Ross was gorgeous back in the day :-)
She has an amazing voice and beautiful what a great talent!!!
Wow beautiful stunning ladies!!!
The main singer beautiful AND confident!
That summer i listen late at night to hear this one and Love makes me do foolish things by Martha and Vandellas
That sound so smooth great even in 2019
2022 Hi!! : )
didn't need technology back then to make a beautiful song
Great voice and a great group!
@ my alltime r&b ballad no. 1 !! ;-) *
Beautiful song from a beautiful group, produced by the great Teddy Randazzo. Their star deserved to shine more brightly. I love all their songs.
The writers and record company were ahead of their time with this song, and the vocals are as well
On this day in 1966 {August 23rd} the Royalettes performed "It's Gonna Take A Miracle"* on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'Where The Action Is'...
Exactly one year earlier on August 23rd, 1965 the song was at #53 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, three weeks later it would peak at #41 {for 1 week} and it spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #28 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
The Baltimore quartet had one other Top 100 record, "I Want To Meet Him", it peaked at #72 later in 1965...
* In 1982 Deniece Williams covered "It's Gonna Take A Miracle", her version peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on the Hot R&B Singles chart and at #10 in the Top 100 chart...
One of Baltimore's finest!
It's so awesome.
Sheila Ross was an ABSOLUTE BABE! ;-)
Sheila Ross?!! Is that her name?! You mean she is Diana Ross's sister? Oh no. That explains why Sheila Ross only had one hit with the Royalettes. No way was Diana Ross going to let her sister have more than one hit. Diana Ross made sure that there was going to be only one queen in the Ross family and it wasn't going to be Sheila.
I luv this record
And I luv the royalettes
Proper music
It's a shame how great artists were so taken advantage of by those shyster, so called record producers! The Royalettes Were True Nubian Beauty!!
This is fantastic. Thank you, TH-cam for such a great suggestion
F A N T A S T I C - lead in Sheila, Royalettes singing Teddy Randazzo creations (Little Anthony) were exceptional. Beautiful. Memorable. Give me back the 60s.
Original , wow sooooooo good. Its the best
OMG WOW, FANTASTIC and so interesting. Thanks for the upload
You can’t buy class it’s something your taught and learned and they have mastered it
One of my favorites, many memories!
That singer is very pretty.? Sophisticated voice
What a beautiful song this is...very tight ladies, appreciate this upload...also appreciate the live look!!
Classic
beautiful!!
Dynamite Vocal Group, I love this spectacular lead voice just sensational**********
They are all pretty
Masterpiece!
AWESOME💖...DENIECE W. DID GOOD REMAKING THIS BEAUTIFUL BALLAD.
The Royallettes!!
Love it ..
Real class
Have this record in my collection
I had this 45. Royalettes. I liked this rendition.
What treat to see The Royalettes performing their timeless hit! More, please!
What a beautiful girl she is.
Classy
Que lindo!!!!!!Me emocionou muito 13/01/2019 14:33
Love it!!!!
The original is still the best!!! Sheila is fabulous!!
The B-side of the 45 Out of sight out of mind was a nice cut also, Teddy did a great job of production
Why Isn’t I Want To Meet Him on ITunes? Love that song.
it is on TH-cam!
Loveliest lead singer of her era, hands down, her and her sister, 2nd in center 3 girls.
...Beauty is always close...We talk too much and feel too little...The eye misses all the colors and is sated only by all the darkness...Such a waste of precious time...Tomorrow becomes yesterday...We wonder where today went...This song was a beautiful moment...A gentle breeze across the brow...A sunbeam through the clouds...Wish that I had heard this once upon a long time ago in the A Shau Valley...Thank you, lovely ladies for being a breeze and a sunbeam..."...I am certain of nothing except the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination..."(Keats)...Blessings to all points of the compass...James Patrick Casey, Esq.
Love her voice/ essences of Jamal of DC
Thanks for salvaging this episode.
She's so lovely, reminds you abit of Kelly Rowland
Oh Sheila you're so great it's like birds chirping one of the greatest songs done by one of the greatest singers of the golden era today's music couldn't put a pimple on anybody's ass compared to then Sheila you're the greatest a bless you have a great night
nice and mellow tune --ktf
Nostalgic
Go onthan! LOng live black music, all good music
Nice.
Sheila Ross, a GREAT lead singer....they should have been mu,ch bigger esp. with Teddy Randazzo as producer & writer!!
❤❤❤❤
another great female grp tyvm!
This song is similar in arrangement to Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts" released on Motown Records in the same year.
I said this on another Channel but the melody reminds me of "Ohh Baby Baby" by The Miracles.
All music is syncretic, bordering one from another. You can hear strains of Mozart in Beethoven and think - he stole that. LOL
A certain era will have a certain similar sound.
Nice
williamg2552
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The ROYALETTES version is the ORIGINAL....and THE BEST !!
It BURIES all "copycat cover versions". Sounds even better NOW than when it first came out in '65 !!!
REPLY
Great footage of this song! I'm very happy to see more footage of The Royalettes! :-) Thanks, ILMJXXX! :-)
+lovelychick84 Thankyou your welcome :-)
+ILMJXXX Yes thank you so much - my favourite girl band (maybe the Lovelites...) - Only When You're Lonely - what a song. Have you seen the footage of Brenda and the Tabulations singing That's In The Past? It's here on TH-cam...
Hi there just seen this reply now? Yes I have Thankyou :-) have a great weekend.
Oh no, it's alright. Don't worry about it. :-) You're Welcome and have a great weekend as well. :-)
Muito legal !!!!
I love this song, thanks for the upload, it has made my day!
Thankyou...your most welcome :-)
BEAUTIFUL X
love this song...have you seen 'a love affair to remember'? xx th-cam.com/video/oId1BUXSAqk/w-d-xo.html
I also have them singing 'out of sight, out of mind...more uptempo th-cam.com/video/x1QpDqbuQw8/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, they're both good posts. Their voices blend lovely together xx
This beautiful song only lets me know that I have outlived my music. I'm 68 years old, and I never turn on my radio any more, as what they are playing, I don't want to hear. I have not heard a song worth hearing in 15 years, and I don't choose to hear the hip-hop horse shit that all stations play. How people consider this music, is beyond me--it is absolute crap--period!
bjclark1017 amen! I'm only 38 but people cal me an old soul because I listen to oldies al the time. I tell you there will never be an era in music like this
I'm 24yrs younger, I don't listen to radio, either!
Now thats red light blue light grind city right there kid!!
This is real music no fake shit just skills you had to have these artist these days are fake no skillz just a ashame
Shivaree had a lot of great Girl Groups. The Supremes & The Shangri-Las not to mention The Yardbirds amongst others.
yes and I'm also lucky enough to have the full series in my collection :-)
Lucky You!
Me TOO !! (Hi, Venus !!)
And the Ronettes, the Shirelles, and the Crystals.
@@TheArabchaser Did The Ronettes do Shivaree?
Sheila and Anita Ross lived up the street from me
Nice video! Like and subscribed! ;-)
Tell u the truth I don't remember them that well. I don't think they got alot of newyork airplay. In 65 the ronnettes and the brill building girl groups were killing it and Detroit motown was bubbling up. But still I think this is a great act that I think was ahead of their time.
Goes to show you Gorfy wasnt the only one separating lead singer from background..The Lead was several feet in beginning behind or in front with cameras focused on her
WHATA VOICE SHE HAD
I think that Teri Garr is the go go dancer on the far right.
Correct. It was Teri.
Lol, really ??
@@farmyardflavours Yes, she danced on a lot of tv shows, like "The T.A.M.I. Show" and also a few Elvis movies.
wooooooooohooooooooo!.So Deniece wasnt the First....Yowza Dowza.
i want the 45 after see this
cut the instrumental break out !
Are any of these ladies still around.
Why are there so many people off beat... Damn!?! You people act as if it hard to sway to the beat.