Lord, I feel her trauma, addiction, suffering, soul and blues in this performance. She was the Van Gogh of Soul. This is her Starry Night. Twisted & Perfect Peek Into Heaven.
I’m here in 2024! I’m totally obsessed with this performance. This is ART! From the sweat, her makeup never budging, her overall Jean dress, HER RAW VOCALS 😮, the band, HER EMOTIONS! Can’t get enough 🙌🏾
Its' now 2024 and I'm 78yrs old and when I feel hurt, sad, and alone, I play this song. When your children treat you like your not important and you never did any thing for them, it HURTS. I'm hurting so deep down inside, tears are rolling down my face.as I listen to this song. This pass year so many things have happen in my life, but I must say, AS LONG AS i AM ABOVE THE DIRT, GOD IS NOT FINISH WITH ME. He still has work for me to do and maybe one day the ones I LOVE will see it. That's why I continue to SEW, CROCHET, GARDEN, AND HELP OTHERS WHEN I CAN. REMEMBER TO BE KIND TO OTHERS.
Jesus,how many comments did this song have ? When I met my husband 38 years ago this was one of the first songs he ever played for me I was a newly qualified Solicitor and because of all my studies I was never exposed to music I was overwhelmed when I heard it. It is now forty years later My darling husband and soul mate died on the 22nd of November 2021 I am broken hearted but still in February 2024 I play it every night and my heart breaks all over again It is an amazing experience listening to Etta James .I will listen to this song until I die and lie in my grave with my beautiful soul mate again I can’t wait to be with him forever
I felt like it was so unique i cldnt think of someone the could com close to matching the way she as u ruth said TELLING A STORY...i was tryn to figure out why it was so hard to even karaoke this...it was way too hard lol
everyone's talking about Etta, and rightfully so, but god damn that guitarist knows just the right amount to fill out the song while still leaving so spacious for all that emotion to soak in. The whole fucking band is locked in, honestly.
Look, I never comment on youtube videos, but this deserves it. Every few months I come back here to remind myself to feel deeply and to leave everything on the freaking table. She bares her entire soul to us. What a gift that we get to witness it. This performance never ever fails to leave me in tears.
It hurts me how people can hear and see this, and give all their attention to her facial expressions rather than the way she transpires passion, mourning, pain... this was real talent rather than looks.
They just don’t understand that she’s feeling the music and it’s coming from someplace real. Don’t pay attention to close mindedness...what happened in this video clip was magic ❤️
It's not just the amazing vocal. It's the whole damn performance. The woman is raw, unfiltered, mesmerising, unmatched!! This kind of performance doesn't exist anymore. Incredible!!
I saw her live, she was a kick in the pants! She was outrageously funny and sassy. It was one of the most beautiful moments in my life with my late husband , his late best friend and one of my late best friends. I'm the only one still here, 6 feet above ground, to carry the memory for us 🙏 .
ETTA JAMES MY,MY MY YOU ARE A CHOSEN WOMAN.I'M 69YRS AND I STILL REMEMBER THIS SONG BACK IN THE DAY..2024 I still love this song.This is your signature song make no mistakes no one does it like you and never will.
This one of the most powerful songs of a woman who has been hurt. I can feel the emotion everytime I hear it and it brings tears to my eyes. I think every woman has felt this way. I know I have.
@@mariahyohannes Even if they did have it, it wouldn't have been accepted. A robot voice could never express a human emotion. That's why anyone from this era considers todays music garbage and talentless. When you have been exposed to real music and artist that are one of a kind voice, that brings something special. its hard to accept music that sounds exactly the same no matter what artist is playing with nothing special to display. For instance when Bruno Mars was using autotune, I thought he sounded horrible. But when I heard him sing with his actual voice, His actual talent shines. I thought he was great. You can not get the emotions of a song that comes from a singers voice from a computer. Imagine James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Al Green on autotune.. why would anyone ever want to destroy something so special?
I am 77years old and I have been listening to Etta James and I still love ❤🎉her music and I listen to her every day I love all of her music I used to go to her concerts and I love her so much I was so heart broken when she passed and I keep her music to play you are loved every day day and I miss you so much rip Etta love ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊u
This is her masterpiece. After singing it all those years, she perfected it here. No other person can or will ever replicate it like Etta. She is a legend. God blessed this world with her amazing presence.
How many times must Etta have performed this song and yet the emotion that she displays while singing you'd think she had only just seen him with that other girl 2 mins ago.
The pain she had to relive her heartache. She didnt have to, but she went through this for the love of her art. I hope she found a bit more closure everytime she sung this song.
Yes, and every time I hear it my heart breaks just like the first time. She has an extremely rare power to tame that type of emotion - to let it live strong and exposed without letting it destroy you.
@@rondaallen7211 Do you think you and "sleeping bear" could come up with 2 brain cells to rub together? Only thing messed up is your analogy of the lyrics. Lets hear a song you have written.
If you never had your heartbroken, or you read a book, see a doctor, smoke some bud, drink some Muscato, YOU STILL WILL NOT get it ; all you need to do is listen to this song AND you will understand what a broken heart feels like.
I had the rare privilege of meeting this talented woman and having a meal with her. I was a sophomore in high school and she was unforgettable and funny and cool as hell.
Yesss. This is the era when it was real. Where thru the alcohol and drugs and heartache, she put it all on stage and sang every emotion she could. I love it
If you could re live legendary concerts like this in a photorealistic virtual reality, would you pay for that? Just about anything that has video or photo of it can be rebuild digitally.
It’s almost 2023 and this is still one of the BEST Live Performances EVER! Today’s pop artist can’t touch this LADY. I Cried watching this performance because I could FEEL her pain.
No matter how many times I watch this it brings me to tears. So much emotion in a song, beautifully crafted and delivered. Etta was one of the true greats of this genre. It doesn't matter if played on the phone or over some exotic HiFi. She takes it straight to your heart. Wonderful lady.
It gives me the tears as well. I know its a great song when I can cry without having it remind me of a past love. The only other song that does that to me in the same way is Claire de Lune. I heard it as a kid and cried for no reason. My mom said I was an old soul. Now Im just old. 🤦♀️
Agree, Dawn M, and how confident must a singer be in the strength of her vocal *power to perform at the Montreaux Jazz Festival and show her audience that she can even sing *without the mic, and *still be clearly heard over her brass-filled band !
We will never have another Nina Simone, nor, now, another Etta. But I still enjoy Beth Hart for *incredible all-around vocals and musicianship along with a Blues Artist from the Kansas City Blues Scene named Danielle Nicole, and an Irishwoman from Belfast named Kaz Hawkins.
Etta was known for her dramatic stage presence, command, and theatrics just like Sammy Davis jr. She acted on stage. Van Morrison once said musicians are also actors. To that extent is purely an illusion. The woman was damn good. That powerful voice. Her blues and her soul! I could listen to this woman eating her cereal for breakfast in the morning and I know it would sound incredible.
Steve Wexler, OD and I can listen to her while I’m straightening my her,awesome chops with a lot of natural soul.i f you have it,if you don’t you don’t,you feel me Brother Steve. Check out BB KING WITH ETTA JAMES,GLADYS KNIGHT AND CHACHA CON. AMAZING FOR DAYS
When was the last time we saw a performance of a woman all covered? Nothing hanging out and the audience is still captivated. It helps to have natural talent
WOW STARTLING Image of my late mother,,but this lady is also singing from her heart and not just because because she knows the song but her voice speakes to the human soul.I knever know someone like Ette JAMES ,AND HER GOLDEN VOICE LIVED BEFORE,FIRSTIME LISTENING TO HER.
This is real art. I have never experienced this kind of heart break spoken about in this song. Yet she transported me to that exact place of deep pain and made me feel it. Feel it to the point of watching tears run down my cheeks helplessly. This is why Etta James is Etta James.
Joseph right on brother! This is the art of singing the blues. You know I'm 57 years old and I just became a Blues fan and I have none other than the great Gregory Allman for that he turned me on to the Blues because he loves the blue so much. And I had so much admiration and love for Gregg Allman as an artist
I have brother and she transported me there too but see the blues is good it's like going to a therapist and spilling your guts and getting the pain outside
Etta James put her soul in this performance. Singers aren’t like this anymore, they’re not putting life into the music. I want my singers sweating and sangin’ 🙌🏾
Oh, she says it so well... That moment when you realize that the thing you wanted so badly is not going to happen. Whatever might have started, it's over. Whatever you dreamed, that's over, and done or just never was. Thank you Etta, posthumously. You got it right.
how deeply I feel this at the moment. It's like the moment of death. All the things that could have been are left for others to enjoy but not you. I rather be a blind girl. Enjoy the moment and keep my essence
How did Etta not win an award for this song but Rod Stewart won one for it? I really like Rod Stewart’s cover but Etta’s is so powerful, so soulful, she makes you feel this song. She “sang it” as my people say. 🎤🎼🎸🎹
I could not resist a comment. I had to record the moment I stumbled on this Artist Classic. I could listen her all day and night...wat a voice...it has all the human sounds
This performance is indeed a mutual emotion I share with Etta 👑 ***Undeniably relatable for so many! 💕. The tears are real along with all the feelings being revealed by the look upon her face. "I KNOW she endured so very much as she traveled her journeys path." 🙏🏼 Thanks so much Etta for being proof positive that certain choices we made & make have a positive impact on why ppl "today" are still checking in to listen to that gift of singing that you've been blessed with & even a moment of reminiscences down/up memory lane. *I have also lived this song! 😪To be continued 💪🏼......😉😔🤔👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💎
1st time watching this ..✨truly a nostalgic feeling seeing no auto tune, no background singers , & a full live band. She left her emotions on the stage that’s the true meaning of performing: seems therapeutic to her. 👑#RIPettajames
Can you imagine the majority of today's superstar pop trash singing with their naked voice alone?? Sure, a few could do it but the majority wouldn't be able to have a career as singers.
People talking about her looks but the looks is the real ness the raw the talent that is within her... I hear more voice than music. More talent then entertaining... More real ness that foolery.... whoa could she sing... whoa could she perform way better than most of what we see today... all the bells and whistles we see that distract the real voice the real music the real talent that ultimately draws us in....
Real Talk She comes from that Great era when singer's could actually sing!!! Just raw emotions like she's giving a Testimony!! No Bell's and whistles needed.
I sometimes get back to this video just to get grounded. She was such an incredible singer…. Absolutely out of this world, the feeling, the sound, the timing…incredible musician….
She doesn't even need a microphone! Her voice is so powerful!
Przepraszam 😢 już nie ma takich głosów 😢😢😢
Yes she really don't need a microphone. Her voice is so powerful
Ramón spain its jazz
Only jazz a song aborto love😊
So true
Someone in 2024 listening to this masterpiece and master performance?
SOUL FOOD AT IT'S "BEST"!!!❤
I’m amazed 😮
Great song it is. 2024
Yes
Toca na alma da gente.
Lord, I feel her trauma, addiction, suffering, soul and blues in this performance. She was the Van Gogh of Soul. This is her Starry Night. Twisted & Perfect Peek Into Heaven.
!!!! Yes !!!!!
WoW, she was the *Van Gogh of Soul* im pretty sure that says it All !!!
She was a great star
I can feel her pain. She is putting herself out there for us😢
What happened to her demise.
Someone like this, please, so that I too can be reminded of this precious gem.
Here in 2025...Enjoy 😊
Etta doesn’t need the mic, the mic needs Etta.
Gangstar
diggit
Yup
@@louistoscano6426 by
This👆
I'd rather go blind than see an ad in the middle of a song on youtube ever again
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So annoying. Right when I’m in the groove an ad comes
first time it happened to me on this vid. I watch this one often too
She was NOT performing that song, she WAS that song you hear me?
Say that one mo gin for the people in the back!!!
Yes,that's it.
You so right 😂 😂😂😂
I’m in awe. Wow
This comment here!
I’m here in 2024! I’m totally obsessed with this performance. This is ART! From the sweat, her makeup never budging, her overall Jean dress, HER RAW VOCALS 😮, the band, HER EMOTIONS! Can’t get enough 🙌🏾
Amazing 👏🏿 music 🎶 🎵 👌🏿
The Jean Dress For Sure!
@@yungerallenelectricalcontr6415 very nice 👌🏿
It like she wasn’t singing... it was her soul crying out in melody.
Deedums thats Soul music for you
Agree🥊
That's right
Yessssas
YES , AMEN !
March 2024. This Sister was born to sing. She's got "it", whatever "it" is. Etta is precious. She is blessed...
Depth of soul
April here
Głębia duszy, głębia człowieczeństwa, głębia nas. To poprostu w nas się nie mieści 😢😢😢😢😢
Beyonce did this song justice, I love how she sings it, with so much conviction. Probably thinking about something in her own life
@@roseoverstreet9483 i disagree and so did etta....
Its' now 2024 and I'm 78yrs old and when I feel hurt, sad, and alone, I play this song. When your children treat you like your not important and you never did any thing for them, it HURTS. I'm hurting so deep down inside, tears are rolling down my face.as I listen to this song. This pass year so many things have happen in my life, but I must say, AS LONG AS i AM ABOVE THE DIRT, GOD IS NOT FINISH WITH ME. He still has work for me to do and maybe one day the ones I LOVE will see it. That's why I continue to SEW, CROCHET, GARDEN, AND HELP OTHERS WHEN I CAN. REMEMBER TO BE KIND TO OTHERS.
I pray you find the peace you need in Christ Jesus!(((((Virtual Hugs))))) God's blessings to you ma'am💚🙏🏽
You be strong and lean on the LORD🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Blessings u are👼🙏🙏🙏
Saying prayers for you and your family 🙏🏼
Amen ❤
Next year its gonna be 50 years ago she performed this. The song hasn't aged one second...
Jesus,how many comments did this song have ?
When I met my husband 38 years ago this was one of the first songs he ever played for me I was a newly qualified Solicitor and because of all my studies I was never exposed to music
I was overwhelmed when I heard it.
It is now forty years later
My darling husband and soul mate died on the 22nd of November 2021
I am broken hearted but still in February 2024 I play it every night and my heart breaks all over again
It is an amazing experience listening to Etta James .I will listen to this song until I die and lie in my grave with my beautiful soul mate again
I can’t wait to be with him forever
Thank you for sharing. Brought me to tears. What a blessing to have love so deep. Wow, what a day it will be to be reunited with him❤
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God bless you!!!!!
Stay strong, one day you will be reunited ❤
This doesn't sound like a performance. It sounds like a testimony. April, 2020. Coronavirus Pandemic. And I. Needed. This.
Pandemic* bon :(
@@arijmnasri1260 yeah. That.
Bootney Farnsworth, what a great movie! One of my all time favorites.
Dis what we called Dropping it like it's Hot👍👍
"Can I get a Witness"
She is NOT PERFORMING this SONG she is TELLING A STORY .
I felt like it was so unique i cldnt think of someone the could com close to matching the way she as u ruth said TELLING A STORY...i was tryn to figure out why it was so hard to even karaoke this...it was way too hard lol
ruth rolon 💛
ruth rolon Danm it, Danm right, but she is sannnnnngggggginng it
Agreed. #genius #rawEmotion
thank you
🎶 I was just...😢💔 here still listening in 2024 ❤ to one of the most talented singers ever to grace this world ❤
R.I.P 🙏🏽 Etta James 🙏🏽❤🎶❤️🎶
Pls teel me wich time she is death
everyone's talking about Etta, and rightfully so, but god damn that guitarist knows just the right amount to fill out the song while still leaving so spacious for all that emotion to soak in. The whole fucking band is locked in, honestly.
You said it.
Blessings ✨🙏💞🙏✨
You should look up who that guitarist is ;)
@@gamercatsz5441 who is it? I can’t find anything
Shore nuff is
Thanks for your comment...
@@gamercatsz5441 whom
Who’s watching during the 2020 pandemic just trying to RELAX and listen to some REAL MUSIC?!
Eu estou! Pra não enlouquecer na quarentena! Antes eu estava ouvindo Sam Cooke.
Me to , stay well , all the best from the uk
Me too..
Me! It's the best remedy
White guy from uk bad ass
She’s the kind of queen that knows her crown isn’t on her head but in her soul
Beautiful meaning in your words.
That’s like knowing the best love is the way your kids love you and you love your kids.
Yes
Well spoken!!
Truth spoken...
That lady has more talent in her little finger than most of today’s musicians have in their whole body.
Shes making faces because shes singing with emotion from her soul..something thats rare in todays world
. this generation doesn’t know about this type of music
Carlos Santana says when you make music you have to make funny faces. It's part of the musician feeling the music he/she is making!
Malcolm Alvarez those are just the failed Alien experiments! Ignore them!
Yasssssss!!!! You get it!!!!
Great voice with a great performance 💯💯💯💯
She isn’t singing the song, she’s reliving the moment. Outstanding.
Yessss! That’s so true and deep!
What a queen! ♥
Exactly
what a brilliant comment
Max it out
Should be a crime to put ads in the middle of this song
so Disrespectful
Thank you she is a goddess you don’t mess with her
You should get an ad blocker on your browser. Easy fix
Seriously i just thought the same thing. I had two ads in the middle of the song....wtf why?!
@@MateChocolate94 don't work for me on yt or fb....
Look, I never comment on youtube videos, but this deserves it. Every few months I come back here to remind myself to feel deeply and to leave everything on the freaking table. She bares her entire soul to us. What a gift that we get to witness it. This performance never ever fails to leave me in tears.
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Are you freaking kidding me?!? Who TF puts an ad in the middle of Miss Etta James's testimony!?
I know right??? WTF😎
Right!! I was so HOT with Liberty Mutual, sap-suckas!!😡😡. Lol!!!
I have adblock, so I didn't notice that. That's crazy inappropriate though!
@@tigerlilly9038 Yup... Mine was Heineken
that’s exactly what i just screamed😂
This song hits different when you've been through a heartbreak
We all have been through stuff 😭
R.F.A omg yes I’m going through this now
Yeah😔
Meliyah Anderson tc
Me rn lmao
81 years old and I still cry for the depth of this performance.
I know how you feel 😂🤣
There is no age where we are what we really are ---
Etta can really pull it out of your soul,she sings from the depths of pain. She knows heartbreak.
Bless ya Evad Tremmag-
Sorry my filling.
5 decades, I enjoyed this song. I'm listening and enjoying it in 2025❤
some people will never understand this kind of pain and the strength it takes for a writer to perform those kind of lyrics. etta the great!
They are normally singing from their experience..you are so right !
It's what got to Amy also.
Good to see ya here me krazie ♡
I surely can...Wow, dead on...
we need more confucianism in the West...
It hurts me how people can hear and see this, and give all their attention to her facial expressions rather than the way she transpires passion, mourning, pain... this was real talent rather than looks.
Love etta james but still cant help but giggle once and a while but yes its a jammin tune for sure and i look beyond facial expression
She knew how to reach down and pull the emotion needed to put this song out there.
They just don’t understand that she’s feeling the music and it’s coming from someplace real. Don’t pay attention to close mindedness...what happened in this video clip was magic ❤️
Only stupid dickheads do that. This presentation was perfect
Seem like she was holding back real tears trying to smile through the pain. I love this performance NOBODY GOT NOTHING ON HER
46 years later, still sends chills up your spine. Absolutely timeless.
Yes!!!!!!!!! Lord!!!!!
Agree
Laying in the bath after work listening to this. Sometimes life is good.
I just said the same thing! Incredible performance!
For real though, emotion filled that room, her, and you too! Get it girl! Hell yes!✌️🙏✨
Mystic RS
MY MYSTICAL CHANNEL ✨
One of the greatest performances.. no words, no one can do that but Etta James
2020...quarantine, sipping wine of the porch, loving me some Etta James.
Me too Baby Girl!! Cheers 🥂! Stay strong and Healthy!! Sending you Peace and Love from North Carolina!
I just drink stright vodka nowadays but im not out getting into trouble at least😂😂
Yes girl! Yessss
Having a beer letting Etta give me goosebumps.
Sounds like a whole mood yasss💞
It's not just the amazing vocal. It's the whole damn performance. The woman is raw, unfiltered, mesmerising, unmatched!! This kind of performance doesn't exist anymore. Incredible!!
Etta was high, but she was good.
@TinEE189 I think Jill Scott gives you something similar in her Live performances. May Etta rest in peace. So Underrated
I saw her live, she was a kick in the pants! She was outrageously funny and sassy. It was one of the most beautiful moments in my life with my late husband , his late best friend and one of my late best friends.
I'm the only one still here, 6 feet above ground, to carry the memory for us 🙏 .
Oh yes ❤
High ?
She's not just singing...she's performing a musical drama. Absolutely amazing!
You can tell she lived this experience...
Pure joy love this
Sang Etta
I Love Ettas voice one of a kind,shes simply amazing story teller❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹
She should get over it. This can't be healthy 🤣🤣
ETTA JAMES MY,MY MY YOU ARE A CHOSEN WOMAN.I'M 69YRS AND I STILL REMEMBER THIS SONG BACK IN THE DAY..2024 I still love this song.This is your signature song make no mistakes no one does it like you and never will.
This one of the most powerful songs of a woman who has been hurt. I can feel the emotion everytime I hear it and it brings tears to my eyes. I think every woman has felt this way. I know I have.
yesssss this the idea even i am a guy but i can feel the pain in a woman s heart
I cry every time, love it x
Alison Worrell I’m Mexican 🇲🇽 ❤️ this music 🎵 I like my 1950s -2000s I hate today music
8-19-19
Indeed! But somehow, Etta makes it all better!!! ;o)
Indeed.
She didn’t even need that microphone! That mic needed HER! 🎤 Such a powerful voice! 🪄 🌟
😂😂 You just said the Truth
That’s true 😂😂😂
Seriously, that is insane. No one can sing it like Etta James.
Bang on , scotland
@@karinebernard1647 ß
No auto tune here, just pure talent.
Can't using something that didn't exist then
@@mariahyohannes Even if they did have it, it wouldn't have been accepted. A robot voice could never express a human emotion. That's why anyone from this era considers todays music garbage and talentless. When you have been exposed to real music and artist that are one of a kind voice, that brings something special. its hard to accept music that sounds exactly the same no matter what artist is playing with nothing special to display. For instance when Bruno Mars was using autotune, I thought he sounded horrible. But when I heard him sing with his actual voice, His actual talent shines. I thought he was great. You can not get the emotions of a song that comes from a singers voice from a computer. Imagine James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Al Green on autotune.. why would anyone ever want to destroy something so special?
Tht fucking part ....these artist r a joke compared to this queen ..tf gtfoh..I'm a Motown lover best believe
@@kimnewton8881 damn where are those beautiful black voices. I want that.
Pure Talent Indeed. wow
I am 77years old and I have been listening to Etta James and I still love ❤🎉her music and I listen to her every day I love all of her music I used to go to her concerts and I love her so much I was so heart broken when she passed and I keep her music to play you are loved every day day and I miss you so much rip Etta love ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊u
That's not drugs or booze, that's just Etta being Etta. Roll on momma 🎶
Amen
Kyle McGlothen Thats soul "The truth"
Thank you!!!!!
Oweeee
At that point in time she was a heroin addict so I think the drugs were a real influence
Had a crush on Miss Etta when I was a kid. Now at 76 I still have the same feelings.
Thunder doesn't get it...
awhhh aha bless you brother
Richard Roma how cute❤️
Daddy, I'm there with you!
That's so sweet!
If this song doesn't break your heart, you dont have one.
Autumn Blair
I don’t have a heart that really hurts you know so I do
breaks mine every time i hear it
For a woman!
@Inez Whatley don't tell that to a woman unless u want to make her sad!!!😇♥️🤔
Or it's too broke to feel any more...
This is her masterpiece. After singing it all those years, she perfected it here. No other person can or will ever replicate it like Etta. She is a legend. God blessed this world with her amazing presence.
Yeah and Obama chose stupid Beyonce to sing instead of the original and only Etta James that can sing it right!!!😢❤❤❤❤❤
How many times must Etta have performed this song and yet the emotion that she displays while singing you'd think she had only just seen him with that other girl 2 mins ago.
Agree 1 million percent. U can still see the hurt in her eyes, she was truly in love with him.
Thats right" its real !!
The pain she had to relive her heartache. She didnt have to, but she went through this for the love of her art. I hope she found a bit more closure everytime she sung this song.
Yes, and every time I hear it my heart breaks just like the first time. She has an extremely rare power to tame that type of emotion - to let it live strong and exposed without letting it destroy you.
When you've lived it, you can sing it.
She's singing about a man she loves that doesn't love her. That unrequited love is extremely painful but the song is still amazing.
@sleepingbear lol-and the lyric is messed up from the start-something told me it was over when i saw you talking to that girl...
hilarious.
@@rondaallen7211 Do you think you and "sleeping bear" could come up with 2 brain cells to rub together? Only thing messed up is your analogy of the lyrics. Lets hear a song you have written.
@@KStewart-th4sk you must be on your period so i will overlook the fact that you totally missed that we have the right ANALYSIS of the lyrics.
Amen amazing 😢😍
If you never had your heartbroken, or you read a book, see a doctor, smoke some bud, drink some Muscato, YOU STILL WILL NOT get it
; all you need to do is listen to this song AND you will understand what a broken heart feels like.
Who’s listening in Jan 2020 , just beautiful!
I am
Meeeee lol
Wow sensational absolutely sensational....
Of course i am! 🎶
Me! 😊
Her Best Interpretation😍
Etta James Feeling and Power of her Voice are UNFORGETTABLE🌺❤
She did NOT even need a microphone! Wow what power and verve. Natural, raw unabated TALENT. A true gift from the Almighty God. #ettajames
Trust me. It was when she would take the mic down and her voice still carries that had me in awe. Powerhouse!
Ten years after this. Luther did it. Sang without a mic. So so very few can DO THAT
Surely right brother
100% xxx
So true 🙏🕊️
I had the rare privilege of meeting this talented woman and having a meal with her. I was a sophomore in high school and she was unforgettable and funny and cool as hell.
yeah sure u did julie andrews
Lucky you are !
brilliant!
Please tell more
Billie Posters i cackled at this😂💕
You can hear the pain in her voice....wow..........so much pain and emotion, real singing....
kieona allen love Lee
Real Blues right there
Yesss. This is the era when it was real. Where thru the alcohol and drugs and heartache, she put it all on stage and sang every emotion she could. I love it
Without the mic she still express her pain in her vocals
just fantastic
She wasnt even singing. Her soul was crying to the melodies
❤❤❤
*We don't care what year you saw this video because music is timeless.*
So I suppose I won't share i seen this in May 2019? Fine...
Good music to he precis
Ooo I loved that
*MUSIC IS TIMELESS*
Not true. Children are finding these timeless classics maybe accidentally. Or like my 66 year old self strolling down memory lane. Be blessed
Yes. Music is TIMELESS ❤
I feel every single note she sings down in my 'crying place'. I'm 72 and she is one of the legendary greats of my time.❤
me too. im 30. glad my grandparents passed down this type of music to me :)
@Tadawindo Me too, it's definitely worth passing down. It's pure gold.❤️
Tenho 52 anos adoro ouvir ela lembrar meu falecido pai era músico ❤
I'm also 72. I feel this song (when Etta sings it) to my core, especially in my heart's memory with tears in my eyes.
passionate at 72 - im half your age , thanks for showing it survives
What a privilege to those who were in the room. This performance is magnificent.
So very true!
Wasn't it tho, she was a performer like no other ever has been
Frankie Grootboom I've had the privilege back 1994 Etta James & B.B. King in São Paulo (Brazil). What I'd say? Awesome? Words can not tell.
If you could re live legendary concerts like this in a photorealistic virtual reality, would you pay for that? Just about anything that has video or photo of it can be rebuild digitally.
You are soooo RIGHT , OMG her ENERGY
Is there some one in 2025 listening..
I just turned 54 and I'm discovering this for the first time. All I ever heard is the studio version before. She is a sorceress!!!
Oh yes! Timeless ! And accurate transcendence!
Yepp
Yes! And I've always loved this song❤
Meee
If this doesn’t make you feel something, you’re dead inside.
I couldn’t agree more 👏🏽
Sang from the Soul #EJ🎤
Seriously
All you who praise "Tennessee Whiskey" understand where the original beat came from! The Originator Queen Etta James!
Don't judge man, enjoy them both
Actually, the original creator was Ellington Jordan
True
Get it right black queen of soul all you white people do is copy
Say it again for the ones who don't believe it
It’s almost 2023 and this is still one of the BEST Live Performances EVER!
Today’s pop artist can’t touch this LADY. I Cried watching this performance because I could FEEL her pain.
I feel the performance in my stomach, that's what I call (Pro performance).
ofc
Absolutely
@@RD-nq7fl
Yes sir 👏 🙌
Today's artist don't feel thier music they just sing the words and try to showcase themselves instead of the song
Almost 50 years since this concert and still kicking, incredible song, video, but specially incredible musicians
This woman had alot of pain in her to sing like that. I love her. Such soul, spirit and energy.
Ted talks
Agreed.
Only wanted the love from her White father which she never gotten. For him 2 say that she was his daughter. Too much like right back in those days.😢
Back in the day when performers poured blood, sweat, tears and everything else they had into their performance of a song.
Yes!
I miss that so much. That something that an audience feel it in their soul. Yes
Right. They didn't have to shake ass to get you to listen.
@@QsynYo I know it was a while ago but, female singers shook their asses back then too.🤣🤣
@@ihavealashinmy3rdeye921 Name a female artist in the 50's, 60's, 70's that went out dress like Miley Cyrus during a performance.
I’m listening to this song during the pandemic, pregnant, and stressed the hell out. I needed to hear this. R.I.P you sweet soul ❤️
Kinesha Beafore
God bless you! Don’t stress out and you’re pregnant!!
Next time use protection.
stay safe and healthy please 💓
Baby girl... You okay? Let me know if you need to talk! 🤗 😘 Love ya, girl.
Me too girl. Trying to stay calm for this baby!
It's 25 September 2024 and I'm hearing this song for the first time! I was born in 1987 mind you lol! How did my parents/uncles miss this CLASSIC?????
My son was born in 87. We both have a love of music, his father as well. All genres, so many great times, great music.
No matter how many times I watch this it brings me to tears. So much emotion in a song, beautifully crafted and delivered. Etta was one of the true greats of this genre. It doesn't matter if played on the phone or over some exotic HiFi. She takes it straight to your heart. Wonderful lady.
I hear this song every day,. Love so much this woman.
ABSOLUTELY !
SO DEEP
I'm cutting onions right now
It gives me the tears as well. I know its a great song when I can cry without having it remind me of a past love. The only other song that does that to me in the same way is Claire de Lune. I heard it as a kid and cried for no reason. My mom said I was an old soul. Now Im just old. 🤦♀️
Someone like my comment so that i can come back and listen to the Queen🥰
I LOVE HER FOREVER 🎵🎼✍🏾💃🏽🎤
Just watched the movie Cadillac Records ,looked up Etta to hear her Beautiful voice .had to like your comment
❤
A sin!
❤️
She did not need a microphone. She is beautiful. Expressing herself like nobody like her. I love her.
Amen
Check out Phyllis Hyman's "Livin All Alone" live. She showed us her entire soul. 💔😢
Phil Bradshaw drunk asl too
He performed this song 10 years before i was born. And here i am listening to it in 2024 and it is still relevant. Golden i must say.
I love how Etta's mic is optional
😂 facts
Yes sir
When she sings without a mic it adds a very personal feel to the performance.
*THIS*
🙌🏻That’s a true true. 👏🏻👏🏻
Etta's faces are darling ! That's called expression of *emotion. Etta *wrote the song,
Etta gets to *sing the song any way she *wants to !
Bruce Coleman I love her facial expressions. She put it all out there ❤
Agree, Dawn M, and how confident must a singer be in the strength of her
vocal *power to perform at the Montreaux Jazz Festival and show her audience that she can even sing *without the mic, and *still be clearly
heard over her brass-filled band !
Bruce Coleman She was golden. My second favorite right next to Nina Simone
We will never have another Nina Simone, nor, now, another Etta. But I still
enjoy Beth Hart for *incredible all-around vocals and musicianship along
with a Blues Artist from the Kansas City Blues Scene named Danielle Nicole, and an Irishwoman from Belfast named Kaz Hawkins.
Bruce Coleman Amen❤️🙏🏾
Etta was known for her dramatic stage presence, command, and theatrics just like Sammy Davis jr. She acted on stage. Van Morrison once said musicians are also actors. To that extent is purely an illusion. The woman was damn good. That powerful voice. Her blues and her soul! I could listen to this woman eating her cereal for breakfast in the morning and I know it would sound incredible.
Hahaha, well.said..♥️♥️
Truth
Awesome
Steve Wexler, OD and I can listen to her while I’m straightening my her,awesome chops with a lot of natural soul.i f you have it,if you don’t you don’t,you feel me Brother Steve. Check out BB KING WITH ETTA JAMES,GLADYS KNIGHT AND CHACHA CON. AMAZING FOR DAYS
Facts
4:58 the POWER in her voice 🤯🤯🤯💚💙💚💙💚
She just told a story some of ya'll will never understand.
they lucky...this shit hurt lol
But you have the ones who created it🙁.... from the deepest part of my heart plz forgive me and I truly do apologize
You better say it! They will NEVER UNDERSTAND!
I get IT!! Feel.sorry for you all that dont.. I can FEEL THIS.. WHY CANT YOU? LOVE U FOREVER MY BEAUTIFUL.SOUL! THANK.YOU!!
@@KKarlyNNicole hurt like hell 😓
What did I learn today? The mic was merely a formality. Etta James could scream us the blues over the band while staying in tune.
What a legend.
That's called belting not screaming
And she was higher than a lab rat, LoL 😁
@@pgapple that was oddly pedantic. I think we on the same side here?
@James Swan , just not from Alabama, LoL 😁
No dancers, no fancy lights or gimmicks, just a women with her band. Simply awesome.
Not sexualized either. PURE Etta!
This is the very very best performance I have ever seen or heard of this song by Etta herself. I love it ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I agree!!
When was the last time we saw a performance of a woman all covered? Nothing hanging out and the audience is still captivated. It helps to have natural talent
No twerking
WOW STARTLING Image of my late mother,,but this lady is also singing from her heart and not just because because she knows the song but her voice speakes to the human soul.I knever know someone like Ette JAMES ,AND HER GOLDEN VOICE LIVED BEFORE,FIRSTIME LISTENING TO HER.
This is real art. I have never experienced this kind of heart break spoken about in this song. Yet she transported me to that exact place of deep pain and made me feel it. Feel it to the point of watching tears run down my cheeks helplessly. This is why Etta James is Etta James.
i hope that feel better now?
Well WELL Said!
Joseph I feel it too
Joseph right on brother! This is the art of singing the blues. You know I'm 57 years old and I just became a Blues fan and I have none other than the great Gregory Allman for that he turned me on to the Blues because he loves the blue so much. And I had so much admiration and love for Gregg Allman as an artist
I have brother and she transported me there too but see the blues is good it's like going to a therapist and spilling your guts and getting the pain outside
Ms. Etta James.... one of the very best to ever hold a microphone and let her voice fill the room with soul.
You can feel the pain.
RIP Ms. Etta James
Look Out
@@dominiquejones3805
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Yes please put the RESPECT on her name bc she deserves that and more MS ETTA JAMES
Etta James put her soul in this performance. Singers aren’t like this anymore, they’re not putting life into the music. I want my singers sweating and sangin’ 🙌🏾
Sweating and sangin... love it!
exactlyyy
Janis Joplin and Etta James were the queens
Love this. She's so beautiful and that voice. Omgsh
Etta always put her heart into everything she sang.
I watched this 49 years after she performed this song. It gave me chills. She is truly an artist.
As a professional musician, I think this is one of the most heartfelt performances I've ever seen in my life.
Adventures of Mark Bowen Professional how? If this is the most heartfelt performance you’ve heard then you haven’t heard much
@@nalydretsbew1029 it's his opinion so get over it, no one thinks or act the same way you do, my man.
@@carloscruz8630 no need to comment troll. Move over
A supernova to soul music💖
I'm 15 and,sadly my friends don't understand the reason why I love this song...poor guys
THAT'S REAL GOOD MUSIC YALL!!!!
They've got no soul!
You're wise beyond your years-I'm sure. Give them some time:).
You are ahead of your time young lady!!
Im 20 and i love it
Listen to Angelina Jordans cover. So young and full of soul.
Oh, she says it so well... That moment when you realize that the thing you wanted so badly is not going to happen. Whatever might have started, it's over. Whatever you dreamed, that's over, and done or just never was. Thank you Etta, posthumously. You got it right.
So beautiful and it touch my heart
This comment got me whooooo😭
Suzaynn Schick that part!
That what you wanted so badly was never going to happen. Yes, that's the blues, strength from sorrow.
how deeply I feel this at the moment. It's like the moment of death. All the things that could have been are left for others to enjoy but not you. I rather be a blind girl. Enjoy the moment and keep my essence
she tugs @ your heart, you can honestly see and feel the pain coming through a POWERFUL VOICE that hypnotises you.
I got chills when she just puts the mic down and looks so hard at the audience and just vocalizes pure emotion! Such power in her spirit!
She's ok but rather listen to Beth Hart's version . I'm 76yrs old
@sandrabiggin752 good for you ma'am.
Omg🥰❤️🔥
Stares right into their eyes and watches the reaction. Pure confidence!
She was feeling it. That’s what they did in the 70s. They felt it
Dope helped 🤷
@@liveyourbestsoftlife5705 😥🤣🤣🤣😁😁😂
@@liveyourbestsoftlife5705 yeah well at least she wasn't using 'Auto tune' like they do these days. Go home! *mic drop*
Tammy Brownlee she was feeling this sinds the 50/60’s
ITS CALLED TESTIFYING AND SIGNAFYING WYLD AND WBOK IN NEW ORLEANS WOULD USE THOSE COMMENTS TO SONGS LIKE THIS ONE
This is live, and raw talent. no autotune, no studio improvements. JUST PURE NATURAL TALENT.
Well said. 👍
Yes Raw Talent❤❤👍👍
No air conditioning 😅
How did Etta not win an award for this song but Rod Stewart won one for it? I really like Rod Stewart’s cover but Etta’s is so powerful, so soulful, she makes you feel this song. She “sang it” as my people say. 🎤🎼🎸🎹
I could not resist a comment. I had to record the moment I stumbled on this Artist Classic. I could listen her all day and night...wat a voice...it has all the human sounds
The way she literally cries out in this song hurts me.
I felt every single one like a missile with her message scribed on its sides... just completely crushed my soul and rebuild it in a matter if minutes.
OJ Squeeze that’s the best way to describe it...
She wrote it when she was 16
I couldn't control my emotions, that's how good she is telling the story, somehow we live it.
This performance is indeed a mutual emotion I share with Etta 👑 ***Undeniably relatable for so many! 💕. The tears are real along with all the feelings being revealed by the look upon her face. "I KNOW she endured so very much as she traveled her journeys path." 🙏🏼 Thanks so much Etta for being proof positive that certain choices we made & make have a positive impact on why ppl "today" are still checking in to listen to that gift of singing that you've been blessed with & even a moment of reminiscences down/up memory lane. *I have also lived this song! 😪To be continued 💪🏼......😉😔🤔👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💎
Dang, what a performance. If Aretha is the Queen of soul, Etta James definitely deserves to at least be a Duchess.
David DiMuzio ur right but I think she deserves more than that
I thought Etta was the queen of blues already lol
All due respect to Aretha, but Etta is queen to me.
Theyre in the same level
she is the abdicated queen....
This is called MUSIC...And didn’t just sing....She PERFORMED the HELL out of this song!
And without a $40M stage show. This is REAL!
she sang
Absolutely!!!!❤
Yes ma'am
D. Esterling You nailed it with that comment.
Etta was so beautiful. She had her natural hair and wasn't dressed in the finest attire . Wiping sweat, constantly. She was a beauty!
It’s unreal that modern pop culture doesn’t have Etta in their top 10 voices of all times. She’s legendary! My children will know her greatness
#metoo 👍
Aretha, Whitney, Celine, Etta, Nina Simone. Top 5 female singers of all time.
💪🏽🙌🏽💪🏽🙌🏽💪🏽
@@Drlebtwitout Celine, add Amy, and we are cool! 🎉🎉🎉
@@Drlebtsorry for my miss spelling
"BLUES IS THE ROOTS, THE REST ARE THE FRUITS" - Willie DIxon
Uncle Bobmarley, I know that shit be right.
WOW I LIKE THAT
Willie said that? Nice nice
Yes Brother Bob☺️
WOW WEE 👍 . Nicely said 😉
Raw talent. Live Band. no computer. Real music
Yes
Yessssssssss !
I agree !!!
A real artist
Temieka Williams the song is as beautiful as you are
Absorbing this kind of performance and singing live must have been enchanting to the soul 😄
This, ladies and gentlemen is what soul & the blues, LOOKS, SOUNDS & FEELS like!!! Wow, just wow… ❤️😉
My thoughts exact !
#PREACH BABY! Thank you!
Selah...no truer words!!!
Haah yes. And that right amount of ego in the performance is the origin of that, isn’t it?
WORD!
1st time watching this ..✨truly a nostalgic feeling seeing no auto tune, no background singers , & a full live band. She left her emotions on the stage that’s the true meaning of performing: seems therapeutic to her. 👑#RIPettajames
I wasnt even born in 1975 and I have nostalgia watching this. :)
It's so refreshing!
Can you imagine the majority of today's superstar pop trash singing with their naked voice alone?? Sure, a few could do it but the majority wouldn't be able to have a career as singers.
People talking about her looks but the looks is the real ness the raw the talent that is within her... I hear more voice than music. More talent then entertaining... More real ness that foolery.... whoa could she sing... whoa could she perform way better than most of what we see today... all the bells and whistles we see that distract the real voice the real music the real talent that ultimately draws us in....
Real Talk She comes from that Great era when singer's could actually sing!!! Just raw emotions like she's giving a Testimony!!
No Bell's and whistles needed.
Word...
She's absolutely beautiful!!!
she looks cool, I love her jean overalls!
You and I know, we get it. It's one if those things that if you have to explain it, you will never get it anyway😊
I sometimes get back to this video just to get grounded. She was such an incredible singer…. Absolutely out of this world, the feeling, the sound, the timing…incredible musician….