I saw Clyde's last performance in Oakland in 1972. He was trying to sing "Easter Parade", since it was Easter, instead of "White Christmas" . He became confused, lost track of the words and had to helped off the stage, while Ben E. King finished his set. Clyde never performed again, dying a month or so later. What a sad ending to his amazing career. He was and still is my favorite singer. My favorite song is "Treasure of Love" followed by "Without Love" there is nothing at all. Without Clyde there would be no R&B music in the 1950s.
When he was with the drifters they’d do Easter Parade live. Teaming Clyde and Bill Pinkney. Always wish they’d recorded it in a “White Christmas” vain.
He was so pivotal to bringing RnB into mainstream broadcasting , a true pioneer of rock and roll. I seldom see his name mentioned when early rock music is discussed or written, and that is a shame. He paved the way for James Brown, Marvin Gay, Jackie Wilson, and so many others. A beautiful voice who could do gospel, rock & roll, along with classic pop. It’s wonderful to read these comments from other music lovers.
Clyde McPhatter was one of the best ever. You can put Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Jackie Wilson in with him to be the BEST of that era (and beyond). Clyde could sing anything and make it his own song. More McPhatter videos, please.
Being from NC I have always tried to promote singers from my state. Clyde has always beeen at the top of my list. What an absolutely wonderful voice. I still love to hear him sing.
An extraordinary talent....Clyde McPHATTER truly sings with a sensitive and painful heart......a once in a lifetime phenomenon......just like his good friend Jackie Wilson .
Poor Clyde. Died of a heart attack at age 40 in 1972. Clyde inspired a number of sound-alike "high tenors" in his day. They seemed to be everywhere in the late 1950s and early 1960s. And I loved the songs of all of them! Check out Dee Clark, Marv Johnson, Jimmy Jones, Bobby Hendricks.
Thanks for posting, Clyde also does "Rock & Cry" in the same movie. It's worth searching for. The true king of R&B, they'll never be another singer to match Clyde McPhatter.
he was a voice you could remember and his love songs were just great .. many a night many of us just sat and enjoyed his music .. i'll never forget him ..
I had the biggest crush on him as a teenager after my father introduced me to Doo Wop. I used to just stare at the picture of him with his face slightly turned to the side with that big beautiful smile of his. I thought that he was the most handsome man ever and I loved that album sooo much. My yoinger sister and I knew the words to every song on that album from The Treasure of Love, Seven Days. Money Honey, Without Love,etc. What a talent!!! I have his CDs with his greatest hits/Anthology. i'll bet his tenor leads in that heavenly choir🌹🌹.
Clyde was a music icon who I idolized. In fact, I'm not convinced Rock & Roll would have broken into the mainstream without he and Alan Freed. In 1955, me and a friend happened to meet Clyde walking outside Palisade Park in NJ where he was on leave from the Army. Heart pounding, I pleaded, "Clyde, can I have your autograph?" So accommodating, he replied, "Sure kid, got a pen?" OMG no - nor did he. Devastating moment in my life.
What a beautiful beautiful voice I love his voice he can sing. Clyde SAM LITTLE WILLIE JOHN. THE BEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME BUT I THINK CLYDE BEAT THEM ALL REST IN PEACE CLYDE MCPHATTER
It is a real crying shame that so many black artists of that era have very, very little film footage of them performing LIVE, in studio, or stage. Their fame often predated the television networks willingness to show blacks, of any sort at all. And lo, so very many of them could not sustain their careers or lives into the late 60's or 70's when more opportunities arose. Like I said, a crying shame.
you want to hear great Clyde Mc phatter listen to "Gone" by Clyde Mcphatter and The Drifters also "Heart to Heart " Little Esther and The Dominos .....(Where she and Clyde share the song , its out of this world )
They all had great diction back then cuz Clyde and all those cats came up emulating Bill Kenny. Its a shame where Pop music has headed. At least we have videos like this to see what it used to be like. Really classy. -Austin
his son Ron Mcphatter (the secret child he had with Ruth Brown) looks just like him WOW! His son also was in why do fools fall in love movie he played The Platters lead singer!
Totally agree with you. I have been lucky enough to gather pretty much all of the Clyde Mc Phatter tracks that have been released on CD in the last 10 years ago. You might like to listen to Money Honey as uploaded on TH-cam. Great early R&B / Rock n Roll
Yes, the drinking hurt Clyde, but as with many Black artists of the era, racism and discrimination hurt his career also. You may read up on Clyde in a book called, "Dream Boogie, the story of Sam Cooke". Sam and Clyde were best friends and both were active against racism and discrimination.
@kiwihans Actually,he did make it. Sure,he didn't go as far as his talent should have taken him,but Clyde had many hits and was one of the biggest names in r&b. Think of the thousands of talented singers who have never made it in the music business. I think overall,Clyde was a success.
@JayBabyTube18 very well said. How far most black music has fallen. 50 years ago we had these wonderful singers. Now we have this awful degrading rap music.
There was artistic integrity. An artist was true to their art, not just $. Notice the good diction singers sang with; you could understand every word they uttered. We were a more "literate" society back then, people were readers, This is why the song writing is so superior to what we see today. Sam Cooke was an intellectual and read voraciously, as did Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson. The spoke well, and were concerned with issues beyond money and personal fame; they set the standard.
When I first started watching and listening to this video , I used to get emotional and teary-eyed. But I have now come to realize that the lyrics to this song are wicked. These are the words of a psychopath and, in the least, a stalker. This is a man whose love saw fit to leave him and move on. And now he is talking about how he has no chart and doesn't know where to start. He is a perfect candidate for a restraining order. He is even willing to kill himself so that he can stalk this woman in paradise.
I wrote before but forgot to mention that which I believe to be his best recording one without heavy backing which occasionally swamped his wonder voice..the track being a B side entitiled "Next To Me" which is just spell bindiing!!!!!!
Am I the only one who interprets the end of this song as a sort of Romeo/Juliette, that she is dead and he know that when he dies she'll be there (the hereafter)? I can't remember if "Moody River" had the same narrative arc, but there were a few from the 50's and 60's that were weirdly suicide-themed. Again, I might be interpreting it incorrectly. Any thoughts?
Am I the only one who interprets the end of this song as a sort of Romeo/Juliette, that she is dead and he know that when he dies she'll be there (the hereafter)? I can't remember if "Moody River" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" had the same narrative arc, but there were a few from the 50's and 60's that were weirdly suicide-themed. Again, I might be interpreting it incorrectly. Any thoughts?
MUSICAL MEMORIAL: RHYTHM & BLUES VOCALIST/SONGWRITER CLYDE LENSLEY MCPHATTER DIED ON THIS DAY, JUNE 13, 1972, AT THE AGE OF 38. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS OF CARDIAC ARREST/HEART ATTACK. HE WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 15, 1933, IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. MAY CLYDE LENSLEY MCPHATTER REST IN HARMONY. FOR MORE INFO AND MEMORIALS, PLEASE JOIN MY GROUP AND VIEW MY TH-cam PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND. FACE BOOK PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. THANK YOU.
Neil --- I did a google check, too. Other than Ron McPhatter's claim, is there any documented evidence that he is the son of Clyde McPhatter and Ruth Brown? Forgive my cynicism, but I just don't buy this story until proven factual. I am reminded of the award winning Broadway play, "Six Degrees of Separation" in which the lead character claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier, in order to advance his career, but is ultimately discredited.
IamDottieDandridge I read some of that information that you were reading about Jackie Wilson's lover and it stated there Clyde McPhatter was bisexual then I heard that he was married when I try to find out if he was really married to said he was single so sometimes it just irritates me when people don't have the facts and ready to say something negative about him and I know he was an alcoholic that's what killed him he abused alcohol but so forth and so on I love him with all my heart I love his voice I love his smile and from what I read he's a very sweet and loving person he also suffered from depression wow such a great man gone too early
I saw Clyde's last performance in Oakland in 1972. He was trying to sing "Easter Parade", since it was Easter, instead of "White Christmas" . He became confused, lost track of the words and had to helped off the stage, while Ben E. King finished his set. Clyde never performed again, dying a month or so later. What a sad ending to his amazing career. He was and still is my favorite singer. My favorite song is "Treasure of Love" followed by "Without Love" there is nothing at all. Without Clyde there would be no R&B music in the 1950s.
@Mike Mustang Thank you "Have a cool yule and a frantic first" (Elvis)
When he was with the drifters they’d do Easter Parade live. Teaming Clyde and Bill Pinkney. Always wish they’d recorded it in a “White Christmas” vain.
This man, in addition, to Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, had the most unique tenor voices I've ever heard in my life. Thank you for the post.
Otis Redding? Otis did not have a tenor buddy! Otis’s voice was raspy!!
jACKIE WILSON SOUNDS LIKE HIM..
@@jimmyprincivil4269 I agree 100 percent.
He was so pivotal to bringing RnB into mainstream broadcasting , a true pioneer of rock and roll. I seldom see his name mentioned when early rock music is discussed or written, and that is a shame. He paved the way for James Brown, Marvin Gay, Jackie Wilson, and so many others. A beautiful voice who could do gospel, rock & roll, along with classic pop. It’s wonderful to read these comments from other music lovers.
He continues to sing in heaven. An angel can never be silenced!
One of the great singers of the twentieth century.
Clyde McPhatter was one of the best ever. You can put Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Jackie Wilson in with him to be the BEST of that era (and beyond).
Clyde could sing anything and make it his own song.
More McPhatter videos, please.
Being from NC I have always tried to promote singers from my state. Clyde has always beeen at the top of my list. What an absolutely wonderful voice. I still love to hear him sing.
An extraordinary talent....Clyde McPHATTER truly sings with a sensitive and painful heart......a once in a lifetime phenomenon......just like his good friend Jackie Wilson .
So many great R&B Soul voices from the 50's and 60's
Singing is just effortless for this singer. He is the best.Gone but not forgotten.Mr. Clyde Mcphatter. 💟💖
Poor Clyde. Died of a heart attack at age 40 in 1972. Clyde inspired a number of sound-alike "high tenors" in his day. They seemed to be everywhere in the late 1950s and early 1960s. And I loved the songs of all of them! Check out Dee Clark, Marv Johnson, Jimmy Jones, Bobby Hendricks.
I'm still listening in 2020. We have no singers like this today.
love the smile at the end cause he knew he NAILED IT
Nailed it!!
I love Clyde, what a great singer. So influential...
one of, if not The- best male voices of all time.
stillwill2215 him and Jackie Wilson I think had the best voices. Who would you pick between the two?
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Sam Cooke
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Sam Cooke always!
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Jackie Wilson.
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Of course Jackie.
Absolutely brilliant singer, silky smooth voice.
The Voice ! Thanks for the beautiful unique voice RIP never Forgotten ❤❤❤
That voice is everything!
Thanks for posting, Clyde also does "Rock & Cry" in the same movie. It's worth searching for. The true king of R&B, they'll never be another singer to match Clyde McPhatter.
Great Song ,love his songs.thanks for posting.
I will always love Clyde McPhatter and his music.
he was a voice you could remember and his love songs were just great .. many a night many of us just sat and enjoyed his music .. i'll never forget him ..
I had the biggest crush on him as a teenager after my father introduced me to Doo Wop. I used to just stare at the picture of him with his face slightly turned to the side with that big beautiful smile of his. I thought that he was the most handsome man ever and I loved that album sooo much. My yoinger sister and I knew the words to every song on that album from The Treasure of Love, Seven Days. Money Honey, Without Love,etc. What a talent!!! I have his CDs with his greatest hits/Anthology. i'll bet his tenor leads in that heavenly choir🌹🌹.
The purest voice I have every heard....
Clyde was a music icon who I idolized. In fact, I'm not convinced Rock & Roll would have broken into the mainstream without he and Alan Freed. In 1955, me and a friend happened to meet Clyde walking outside Palisade Park in NJ where he was on leave from the Army. Heart pounding, I pleaded, "Clyde, can I have your autograph?" So accommodating, he replied, "Sure kid, got a pen?" OMG no - nor did he. Devastating moment in my life.
What a beautiful beautiful voice I love his voice he can sing. Clyde SAM LITTLE WILLIE JOHN. THE BEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME BUT I THINK CLYDE BEAT THEM ALL REST IN PEACE CLYDE MCPHATTER
I agree! Clyde McPhatter is my favorite singer of all time!!
It is a real crying shame that so many black artists of that era have very, very little film footage of them performing LIVE, in studio, or stage. Their fame often predated the television networks willingness to show blacks, of any sort at all. And lo, so very many of them could not sustain their careers or lives into the late 60's or 70's when more opportunities arose. Like I said, a crying shame.
I've loved Clyde McPhatter's music for more than fifty yrs, my fav is probably "One More Chance".
Super great talent ! Yes Clyde was 'The Voice ' 💖💖💖
absolutely beautiful singing wow. they don't make em like this anymore
WOW! I never heard that one by Clyde. Man,what a voice!!
you want to hear great Clyde Mc phatter listen to "Gone" by Clyde Mcphatter and The Drifters also "Heart to Heart " Little Esther and The Dominos .....(Where she and Clyde share the song , its out of this world )
They all had great diction back then cuz Clyde and all those cats came up emulating Bill Kenny. Its a shame where Pop music has headed. At least we have videos like this to see what it used to be like. Really classy.
-Austin
From the 1957 Paramount movie "Mister Rock N Roll".
Beautiful voice and Good looking!
Amazing voice!!
man you can hear the whole history of R&B / soul music in this cat's voice....
One of the fathers of rock and roll
Clyde Is actually good looking smooth chocolate skin like chocolate and a voice was jus amazing smh wow
Alexis Williams He so sexy his smile drool OMG
He’s so handsome😩
AMAZING VOICE & ARTISTRY.
ONE OF A KIND.
WELL DONE
Happy Birthday Clyde.....R.I.P. :)
I wish there was a video of him performing "White Christmas" with the Drifters
Gteat voice-saw him last on a Bobby J Apollo show csnnot recall date-angelic voice--miss you! Hi Billy Mcphatter fr Lady J! 💘
I dont know about anyone else today but i got the chills after watching this. I am going to do a version of it as soon as I can learn the song.
Yes, Very Classy .Could Just Sit Back and Relax with a 🍸 and Listen all Day..Sing Clyde🎶
My favourite
We still miss you, Clyde.
i lost my husband 5 years ago. He is the love of my my life for almost 40 years and my soul will find him again soon. Oh my love I miss you so much!
his son Ron Mcphatter (the secret child he had with Ruth Brown) looks just like him WOW! His son also was in why do fools fall in love movie he played The Platters lead singer!
So Beautiful and Smooth .Clyde Mcphatter ,The Best...💖
Handsome ❤❤❤
Totally agree with you. I have been lucky enough to gather pretty much all of the Clyde Mc Phatter tracks that have been released on CD in the last 10 years ago. You might like to listen to Money Honey as uploaded on TH-cam. Great early R&B / Rock n Roll
I wish there was video with Jackie and Clyde jamming together!
Clyde was born November born Scorpio Monkey (among) the best people as why a lot of them die young.
Thank you, great post.
Love it
Yes, the drinking hurt Clyde, but as with many Black artists of the era, racism and discrimination hurt his career also. You may read up on Clyde in a book called, "Dream Boogie, the story of Sam Cooke". Sam and Clyde were best friends and both were active against racism and discrimination.
In that book Dream Boogie the author stated that Clyde McPhatter was Sam Cooke’s mentor!
thanks for this! im 65 now lol
One of the very best
Fantastic voice
How mesmerizing.
Just perfect!
Who in the Fuck would dislike this video.....anyways best song by Clyde i believe.......thanks for the share
Beautiful voice
You are right about Bill Kenny. I think that there is a little influence from Sonny Til as well perhaps
Clyde that was out of this world.
I see how those runs have come a long way. Lol, people back then had killer riffs. I like that.
@kiwihans Actually,he did make it. Sure,he didn't go as far as his talent should have taken him,but Clyde had many hits and was one of the biggest names in r&b. Think of the thousands of talented singers who have never made it in the music business. I think overall,Clyde was a success.
@JayBabyTube18 very well said. How far most black music has fallen. 50 years ago we had these wonderful singers. Now we have this awful degrading rap music.
LEGEND
Wow!
i like him best in treasure of love.he's a fave aling with tony williams
this outstanding, are you related to clyde,
There was artistic integrity. An artist was true to their art, not just $. Notice the good diction singers sang with; you could understand every word they uttered. We were a more "literate" society back then, people were readers, This is why the song writing is so superior to what we see today. Sam Cooke was an intellectual and read voraciously, as did Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson. The spoke well, and were concerned with issues beyond money and personal fame; they set the standard.
When I first started watching and listening to this video , I used to get emotional and teary-eyed. But I have now come to realize that the lyrics to this song are wicked. These are the words of a psychopath and, in the least, a stalker. This is a man whose love saw fit to leave him and move on. And now he is talking about how he has no chart and doesn't know where to start. He is a perfect candidate for a restraining order. He is even willing to kill himself so that he can stalk this woman in paradise.
I wish their was a love button to click on and the dislike button wasn't available
I wrote before but forgot to mention that which I believe to be his best recording one without heavy backing which occasionally swamped his wonder voice..the track being a B side entitiled "Next To Me" which is just spell bindiing!!!!!!
is that so? I must check that movie out. I will also have to do some Google searches for Ron McPhatter to see what comes up. Thanks for that
Ron is very talented also, he sang with a revival Moonglows group for a number of years
@IamDottieDandridge A child with Ruth Brown?? She didn't mention that in her autobiography which I read some years ago! What's the scoop with that?
And the moon is made of green cheese.
THE GREATEST
Died ta the age of 39 form organ failure due to alcohol abuse.
Am I the only one who interprets the end of this song as a sort of Romeo/Juliette, that she is dead and he know that when he dies she'll be there (the hereafter)? I can't remember if "Moody River" had the same narrative arc, but there were a few from the 50's and 60's that were weirdly suicide-themed. Again, I might be interpreting it incorrectly. Any thoughts?
was this tune in the movie la bamba?
Am I the only one who interprets the end of this song as a sort of Romeo/Juliette, that she is dead and he know that when he dies she'll be there (the hereafter)? I can't remember if "Moody River" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" had the same narrative arc, but there were a few from the 50's and 60's that were weirdly suicide-themed. Again, I might be interpreting it incorrectly. Any thoughts?
MUSICAL MEMORIAL: RHYTHM & BLUES VOCALIST/SONGWRITER CLYDE LENSLEY MCPHATTER DIED ON THIS DAY, JUNE 13, 1972, AT THE AGE OF 38. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS OF CARDIAC ARREST/HEART ATTACK. HE WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 15, 1933, IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. MAY CLYDE LENSLEY MCPHATTER REST IN HARMONY. FOR MORE INFO AND MEMORIALS, PLEASE JOIN MY GROUP AND VIEW MY TH-cam PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND. FACE BOOK PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. THANK YOU.
Jackie wilson the best tenor
Go Clyde
Neil --- I did a google check, too. Other than Ron McPhatter's claim, is there any documented evidence that he is the son of Clyde McPhatter and Ruth Brown? Forgive my cynicism, but I just don't buy this story until proven factual. I am reminded of the award winning Broadway play, "Six Degrees of Separation" in which the lead character claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier, in order to advance his career, but is ultimately discredited.
@melotone
and "Patches"
Sad he died so young.
What year was this?
Lyrics anyone?
@JackieWilsonLover no ron is also his son its true
IamDottieDandridge I read some of that information that you were reading about Jackie Wilson's lover and it stated there Clyde McPhatter was bisexual then I heard that he was married when I try to find out if he was really married to said he was single so sometimes it just irritates me when people don't have the facts and ready to say something negative about him and I know he was an alcoholic that's what killed him he abused alcohol but so forth and so on I love him with all my heart I love his voice I love his smile and from what I read he's a very sweet and loving person he also suffered from depression wow such a great man gone too early
@JackieWilsonLover sorry read this too late
Handsome dude! He should have adjusted his style instead of losing faith.