The End Of A Love Affair - Chaka Khan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2025
- If ever there was a song that deserved the title "saloon song", it's this 1950 masterpiece of lyrics and melody by Edward C. Redding. The song has been covered by great singers like Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Nat "King" Cole. All of their versions are treasures and I recommend them to anyone interested in hearing examples of great singers singing great songs. In my humble opinion, here Chaka Khan produces what I believe is the definitive version. The lyrics and the music and her voice are a perfect marriage. This clip is from her 2000 performance at BET Jazz Channel.
Lineup:
Chaka Khan - vocals
Mark Stephens - piano
Andy Weiner - keyboard, flugelhorn
Vincent Colaiuta - drums
Melvin Davis - bass
If billie holiday were still alive and heard chaka khan remake, she would certainly be proud
Chaka Khan can beautifully help you to enjoy painful moments.
MR. JORDAN! you know how to make a perfect description before a performance, along with the songwriter , others who have recorded great versions of this ultimate "saloon song" and most appreciated are all the wonderfully talented musicians who play here with Chaka; her glorious voice of passion & emotion whose heart dances around the octaves with her very special genius speaking to us when it's "over". Even telling us when & where this was recorded impresses me. I appreciate you for this~
Thank you so much for your very kind words. After the election results last night, I believe we all need all the kindness we can give to one another. Sorry for bringing politics into my reply. I'm just venting honestly. I'm hoping that you don't get too annoyed by me. And I'm hoping that you can still enjoy this clip despite my words. Anyway, thank you again.
@@beeshor1 There's advantages & disadvantages to every decision & event. Just because we think what happens we have the advantage or not, it's just thoughts. G-D is in control not earthly politicians. We continue to strive to be the best WE can & not settle for ourselves to despair & stop striving. Always tell G-D 5 things you are grateful for when a thought like that passes thru our minds or anytime. Good is EVERYWHERE. Even when Helene came thru Asheville area I felt this.
Sing Chaka❤️ A Voice Like No Other 🌹
Very good way to describe our wonderful Chaka Khan, we should bless her with great happiness & good health with a full life and inspiration & facility for her art~
Beautiful ❤️
The true essence of Lady Day, Ms. BILLIE Holiday
She is the consummate vocalist. I love Chaka.
..What a beautiful sexy-jazzy ballad sung by one of finest legendary singers of all time..thank you
December 2024! Right here! Right now! QUEEN♥️
Fabulous!!!
Please God! Never EVER Let This Sound! Ever...Come To...The End!
In her 70s she still has it.... The people are in a trance
One of my Fav singers!! Chaka K!!!
George Benson did the scat guitar solo in the studio version and killed it !!!!!!! Chaka Khan's performance is awesome here as well !!!!!!
"Do they know, do they care, that it's only that I'm lonely
And low as can be?
And the smile on my face isn't really a smile at all!"
Chaka Khan is one of my favorite singers. Love her
Marvin McCoy mines too
Chaka, Empress that You Are!!!
i will say again Ms. Khan was always a jazz singer
Awesome, and everyone in the audience knows it.
I love this song!! I love Chaka's touch on it! Love the jazz feel!
Yes this is a feel good pain when it's Chaka my alter ego feeling this now 👠🎈
Can I just add this: VINNIE, MARK, MEL, ET AL JUST BLOW ME AWAY HERE, and you have to watch PBS Little Desk performance with her recent band with Mel conducting. Of course the one & only CHAKA is unique in her amazing power in her lungs & her improvisational choices with the other musicians. NEVER A DULL MOMENT - JUST PURE INSPIRATION.
Just beautiful!!!👍🏽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💕💕💕💕💕💕
What a golden voice. Beautiful elegant song.
What a voice man, the greatest…. & a one of a kind sas to go with it 😂 just don’t get no better ❤️ thank you God for keeping her with us 🙏🏾
So i walk a little too fast and i drive a little too fast
And i'm reckless it's true, but what else can you do
At the end of a love affair?
So i talk a little too much and i laugh a little too much
And my voice is too loud when i'm out in a crowd
So that people are apt to stare
Do they know, do they care, that it's only that i'm lonely
And low as can be?
And the smile on my face isn't really a smile at all!
So i smoke a little too much and i drink a little too much
And the tunes i request aren't always the best
But the ones where the trumpets blare!
So i go at a maddening pace, and i pretend that it's taking your place
But what else can you do, at the end of a love affair?
So i smoke a little too much and i drink a little too much
And the tunes i request aren't always the best
But the ones where the trumpets blare!
So i go at a maddening pace, and i pretend that it's taking your place
But what else can you do, at the end of a love affair?
Exactly! What else can anyone do at the end of a love affair!!!!
Out
I absolutely love this song when sung by her! She is amazing
AMAZING ARTISTRY WITH VOICE!!!!! GOD GIVEN GIFT XXXXX
I love the velvet number and I love these lyrics and I love Chaka💖
The Voice
My favorite Artist of all times...🙌🏽
It is Sunday Lord forgive me but GATDAMN Chaka!!! Sangggg!!! OAN CK album did not sell as well as it should have, that album was fantastic...
Chaka Kahn just blew me away....speechless in Chicago, her hometown. :)
She's frikkin amazing. ❤
This woman was born to sing!!!
3:53 WOW!
she sings the @ell out of this song!!! Bravo Chaka!!!
This is my favorite track on this BET jazz album.
Chaka is a gem. ❤2022
Willie Jordan, Thank You so much for sharing this. I’ve always loved this song and each of it’s “master versions” by the legends you mentioned. When she released it on the CK album I, too, said (IMHO) this is THE definitive version! The gods intended for it to be sung by Chaka, as with so many other classic pieces. But I’ve never heard I live until now. Sublime. Thank you!
Thank you for your kind words. I get a kick out of folks who enjoy the music as I do. Thanks for digging GOOD music.
Thaddeus, nice treatment by Chaka of this song. She is a very talented singer. However, to say that this is the "definitive version" is indeed a stretch!
@@enjoy7024I don't think it's a stretch whatsoever. Her cover version of "My Funny Valentine" is also probably the definitive version although more R&B oriented. From all the cover versions that exist hers is the most accurate regarding the melody and what is supposed to be taken out of the song.
DAAAAAMN!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic, incredibo Singer! Brilhante!!!
Beautiful! My favourite sista singer in the world since I was a teen. And now, one year older than Chaka, my grandchildren know her songs, along with WAR & EWF. These are the best!!! Love you Chaka ❤
beautiful…
🙏✍💛💐EXCELLENT ! 😊 CHAKA KHAN🔥 !
Wow!!!!Bravo
Divine, so so Nice !! Wahou !!
tears…..!!!!
Willie Jordan, thank you, thank you thank you!
You're very welcome.
Nicely done, Chaka. Loved the scatting!
I bought Epiphany album by Chaka Khan and this song was so beautiful considering the title~:) Now I can watch this live verion~! Thumbs up~!!
Love love this song one of my top favorites from her !!!!
Divinely done! 🌟👍🏾🌟
Sweet Chaka. the best
thank you!! we are enjoying the sounds
Chakatized. Simply subliminal.
I like this kind of song.
i agree
She scatted George Benson's guitar solo...impressive!
Yes ! i wondered who'd play the solo, but she did ! Fabulous guitar solo on the record :)
There is only one.
Adoro!
Superb
What she did to this lovely song should be illegal!
love a little too much!
Así que caminar un poco demasiado rápido y conducir un poco demasiado rápido
Y yo soy imprudente es cierto, pero ¿qué más se puede hacer
Al final de una historia de amor?
Así que hablar un poco demasiado y me río un poco demasiado
Y mi voz es demasiado alta cuando estoy en una multitud
Para que las personas tienden a mirar
¿Saben ellos, qué les importa, que es sólo que me siento solo
Y bajo como puede ser?
Y la sonrisa en mi cara no es realmente una sonrisa a todos!
Así que me fumo un poco demasiado y bebo un poco demasiado
Y las melodías i solicitud no siempre son los mejores
Sin embargo, aquellos en los que el estruendo las trompetas!
Así que ir a un ritmo enloquecedor, y pretender que está tomando su lugar
Pero, ¿qué más se puede hacer, al final de una historia de amor?
Así que me fumo un poco demasiado y bebo un poco demasiado
Y las melodías i solicitud no siempre son los mejores
Sin embargo, aquellos en los que el estruendo las trompetas!
Así que ir a un ritmo enloquecedor, y pretender que está tomando su lugar
Pero, ¿qué más se puede hacer, al final de una historia de amor?
Thank you
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Try the live version with Herbie Hancock. And Jack. Something else. Here. Also, find Dexter Gordon's version too. Very very special. Also here.
Tony Bennett's rare version is fantastic - and completely different.
😂 All the cover versions are "fantastic" when you are before the "ultimate" and "definitive" version there is!
Yes
Does anyone know where can I buy this song's piano sheet? thanks
❤
Pls. Lyrics
Is that Vinnie Colaiuta on drums?
Yes.
Yes
Ain't it the truth....
ドラムはやっぱり…そうなんだよね。
Good version......but for my 2cents....Julie London's velvety voice made this a hit record!! she does it the best.
This is a live version...you should listen to Chaka's original 1988 "CK" album version or her "Epiphany - The Best Of" album version...
Nora Johnson, you cant compare Julie London to Chaka Khan, Chaka Version sound much better than Julie London, Billy Holiday and all the other I have seen trying to sang this song, Chaka did an amazing at singing this song.
London's version is the sterile and monotone version
This woman can sing any song. She is never trying to do a song better. She is doing it in her own style. She doesn't compete that's why she is such a good singer.
Julie London's version is wonderful. I can certainly see why you enjoy it.
I am really shocked to this disappointing version of a song wich I really love (for decades!) in it's studio version
( th-cam.com/video/WaIMQGDrbdE/w-d-xo.html ). But here: every second note is far away from acceptable pitch (and it wasn't the band's fault)... Also her insufficient attempt to get George Bensons solo - neither in terms of groove nor in expression -
just a caricature of a great solo.
Chaka Kahn is really a great singer - but here it sounds like one of these unbearable recordings f.ex. of Charlie Parker, when he was too drunk to play (-> lover man etc.).
Chaka - I am so inconsolable, but because of this performance you lost a piece of untouchability as one of the greatest singers of the last decades. Now I can not bann from my ears what I've heard here. It is like memorizing a car accident which you saw involuntarily... Dismantling of an icon. Not more or less.
WOW!! Why don't you tell us how you really feel? I was so caught off guard by your comment that I had to play this clip over again to see if I could hear any of the things that you complain about here. Upon further review, I find NOTHING of what you're talking about in this performance. I know that music criticism is purely subjective. But things like inappropriate pitch isn't a subjective matter. Either the pitch is correct, or it isn't. I heard nothing here that warranted your response.
@@beeshor1 open your ears - she sings lot of the notes really wrong - out of tune. Makes me earcancer. Compare it to the studio version. Worlds between...
I do love Chaka Kahn, but never heard such a bad Version..
A furthermore answer I just think about now is, that she took the lyrics literally (so I drink...)
@@klauslieser5094 My ears are open. Maybe you need to check your hearing. You're the ONLY one who has commented here negatively about her singing on this clip.
@@beeshor1 It doesn't matter. If you don't hear wrong notes - Congratulations. In the end I do love her studio version, nothing else really matters here to me...
@@klauslieser5094
Wow! I just played and listened to "YOUR" version of the exact same song and I was blown away by your approach as far as the technicalities. I mean you nailed the song and I'm sure that "Lady Day" herself would be beaming with happiness at your attempt.
Okay now that I've gotten that bullchit out the way, ROFKMSL! From the way you attacked Chaka Khan's performance you'd have to be Pavarotti himself in reincarnation. How much money did you make or alcolades did you receive when you placed your recorded version of this song on your ALBUM/CD/MP3? I imagine not a got-damned penny since no one has ever heard of you. I'm more than sure that Ms. Khan sounds better than you after she has awaken in the middle of the night to take a well deserved chit. It is always you people that spent 20 minutes in a music appreciation class where you've barely learn the correct musical term for sheet music!
If you watched any live performance and didn't like how the artist interpreted the lyrics to any song just refrain from viewing it and move on with your life. But don't sit anywhere and attempt to rip them to shreds on social media as if you can or could do any better. On another and final note; I am positively sure that Chaka Khan wouldn't give-a-chit about what an absolute arrogant no body has to say about her years of outstanding work!!!!
Out
Not a jazz singer😢
So, I walk a little too fast and I drive a little too fast
And I'm reckless, it's true, but what else can you do
At the end of a love affair?
So, I talk a little too much and I laugh a little too much
And my voice is too loud when I'm out in a crowd
So that people are apt to stare
Do they know, do they care, that it's only that I'm lonely
And low as can be?
And the smile on my face isn't really a smile at all!
So, I smoke a little too much and I drink a little too much
And the tunes I request are not always the best
But the ones where the trumpets blare!
So, I go at a maddening pace
I pretend that it's taking his place
But what else can you do, at the end of love?
What else can you do at the end of love?
So, I smoke just a little too much and I drink a little too much
And the tunes I request are not always the best
But the ones where the trumpets blare!
So I go at this maddening pace
I pretend that it's taking his place
But what else can you do, at the end of a love affair?