The Spinners - Ghetto Child - Live 1976

[ezekielthemack]

Brilliant performance wasted on a wack audience.

[nikonguy102]

The audience are fucking losers

[317cod]

My boss at the time sang this all the time ...... xx

[nikonguy102]

The audience are fucking losers

[discornbgirl]

@nikonguy102 the audience are mostly white losers : )

[mrjoshjones1]

Cool if they looked bored, guess they never caught the Spinner's co- headlining

a Kool Jazz Festival.....

Gauranteed, NO ONE was sitting during the 45 minute set!!!!!

[discoAL]

i think the audience was waiting for the juggler or the bearded woman.. they truly were out of touch with Explosive Sweet Soul...

[oldmantook1]

The Spinners brought more joy to me than any other group, God bless THE SPINNERS!

[ApprxAm]

The band is tight and soulful. And those voices.

[summerbabetoo]

THE WHITE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE COULD NOT RELATE.

[discornbgirl]

@summerbabetoo so true : )

[summerbabetoo]

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE

[snoops71]

This might be my all-time favorite song by The Spinners.

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

@snoops71 I love this song too. They expressed the problems of the hood without all the cursing and they put it in your heart. They provided encouragement too. The rappers today feel they have to be coarse to keep it real, this song proves you do not. At least back in the day, black artists tried to provide encouragement to blacks through music, I don't hear that now. The rappers glamourize the hood, which I feel hurts us, when so many black youths need encouragement.

[snoops71]

@MusicandDancing4Ever That so true. Remember "Wake Up Everybody" by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes? That is another song that tells it like it is, without all of the vulgarity.

This is my all-time favorite kind of music :)

[brocklinc]

What a crowd should have stayed home

[dp100eboggan]

Wynne needs to be reincarnated... Now.

[tedkay]

Where are all the blacks other than on stage? audience is all white, not that there's nothing wrong with that!~LOL!~ This is from a time when Music touched the adults as well as the teenagers,all Races and even the kids, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED > HUH??? I can answer my own question! Drugs came along and killed any Dreams of low poor Blacks living in poverty. now we degrade out women and thinks it's funny! Drugs have to be legalized to save our people and to take the guns out of the youths hands.

[kevkboy]

"The Rubberband Man" – originally recorded by The Spinners

"Half Crazy" – originally recorded by Johnny Gill

"Greatest Love of All" – originally recorded by George Benson; later made famous by Whitney Houston

"Hold Me" – Teddy Pendergrass (duet with Whitney Houston)

[kevkboy]

You Make Me Feel Brand New" – originally recorded by The Stylistics

"Ghetto Child" – originally recorded by The Spinners

"I'm Coming Home" – originally recorded by The Spinners

"Living a Little, Laughing a Little" – originally recorded by The Spinners

[kevkboy]

"Break Up to Make Up" – originally recorded by The Stylistics

"Rockin' Roll Baby" – originally recorded by The Stylistics

[kevkboy]

A little fact for you all The spinners didnt write this song. The song was written by a white woman name Linda Creed. Here's a list of all the songs she wrote.

[SleepyBrownEyes1]

@kevkboy Umm, I actually knew that. She also sang backup for them sometimes. And (big news flash) Rod Temperton--another White person--wrote probably all of Heatwave's biggest hits as well as smash hits for Michael Jackson, Patti Austin and James Ingram, the Brothers Johnson, and a whole host of other Black artists. But what does the fact that a White woman wrote songs for many of Philly Soul's top acts have to do with this audience??

[hudsonaable]

they did not understand what was going on in the hood because they lived in there surburn parts but that why they look bored

[BrotherBlaccspider]

1:02-1:28 I like the little performance they did but what I like even more was how they all got back in place right after now that was super tight!!

[jwmellott]

Good song, but this sucked. What were they doing, some kind of clown act?

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

@jwmellott No, they weren't doing a clown act, they were doing a re-enactment of what goes in the ghetto, the drug dealing, drug using, stealing, winos, pimping, shooting craps, I thought they did a good job of showing the tragedies of the hood.

[ladydee20784]

@MusicandDancing4Ever I agree 100%. As you can see, the audience looks kind of bored. Singing to the wrong crowd. If they would have done this at the Apollo, that joint would have been jumping and I would have been part of the crowd! :-)

[andrewfrancis74]

@jwmellott It's the Seventies. Remember culture changes over time. It was probably cool then.

[GospelAccording2ME]

Everytime Wynne hit the stage he sang his ass off! That's what true singing is all about...always passionate, never the same twice.

[zeelove8]

that was wonderful an very touching an true to the way things were for kids, inner city kids like us an this reminds me so much of my lil boy cousins back in the early 80s,, it was hard to be black an hispanic for them so hard,, hard times for us all,, but it was even worse for them,, an this reminds me so much of those times,, a very touching joint that i love so much, thanks for postin *)

the audience is super wak! though,,,*(

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

@zeelove8 I love your comment. The Spinners were able to get the story of the hardships children of color go through without all the cursing like the rappers do.

[zeelove8]

@MusicandDancing4Ever o that is amen-soooo true,,, most rap today it seems is reminiscent to black-face comedy of the 20s-50s an they dont even realize it, how hollywood encourage's them to clown them- selves with explicit -degrading black women imagery splattered all over their vids, exploiting the women an men rappin an singing proudly about using black women shooting each other- black on black crime, its embarrassing an soulless most of todays music,, its very sad for the most part,,

[esseen100]

Look at that clueless crowd! They must think that rock music sprouted out of the ground! LOL!

[Greg14966]

wrong audience to perform to!!!!! Mr. Wynne simply the best.!!!!

[Greg14966]

wrong audience to perform to!!!!!

[t0mme1981]

A real song about black depravation in the US. No mention of killing, shooting or raping. Hip-hop skank bags should be made to listewn to this track and may be then they could convey their message .

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

@t0mme1981 I agree I thought this song got over the message of what's really going on in the hood, without unnecessary cursing and filth. They really brought home the message and touched your heart and made you think. Today's performers think the only way they can get across a message is with cussing. Anyone can curse, it doesn't make you a true artist. Today's artists don't give any solution about how to solve whats going on in the hood, they just glamourize it.

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

I think their just really into the music. They applaud loudly at the end of each song. I think audiences were more classy back then and let artists finish their numbers before showing appreciation.

[baxstar]

@mcmanusdown, i guess you're right. They don't know good entertainment.

[chynaphotogurl]

This my seven year olds favorite.. I rubbed off bad..

[baxstar]

Why the audience looks like they're bored?

[mcmanusdown]

@baxstar they're not hip

[maz3705]

@baxstar LOOK AT THIER COLOR

[eyesley]

@baxstar They can't relate to what we went through with live not being so easy when we were children of the ghetto.

[baxstar]

@eyesley i agree they can't relate. We had it rough back then.

[SleepyBrownEyes1]

@baxstar Well, I'll try to choose my words carefully. The audience, which looks to consist primarily of non-Blacks, looks bored because1) they can't relate to the message of the song, and 2) they can't relate to the music of the Spinners...period. I just saw these guys in concert in Nashville in April (great show, by the way). The opening act was some 2nd rate country pop duo. Trust me when I tell you that 99.9% of the non-Whites in the audience looked bored as this crowd.

[baxstar]

@SleepyBrownEyes1 Maybe that's the reason why they looked bored, because they can't relate. I just don't understand how some people can get bored by the music of the legendary Spinners. Speaking of them, TV One's Unsung is doing an episode on these guys. I can't wait to watch it.

[discornbgirl]

@baxstar because they are mostly white lol