gaylord also found at pointers tv rehearsal little pony - it of course is sick... for students: get right w gaylord at santana festival track reach up- for the price of a damn i-tune mr birch will offer up 26 showband accents.. you go and memorize, actually bass guitar keys people might aswell study..other than what you get here, which is illlllll INCL BEAT BOXING are you kidding Gaylord? sir your eternmity is earned and suddenly here is its venue
Gaylord gittin down wit his fonky bad self on a round badge Gretsch kit WITH A 14x18" bass drum with the front head removed! Which sister is the lead singer in this song?
...and shortly after this, the late Gaylord Birch was with the funkiest band in the land Graham Central Station. His solo's with GCS in the 70's were incredible, especially in those large 20k+ size arenas.
oh yeah, and I do believe I gotta take this time right here and say.... JUUUUUUUNE!!! (and on this one especially, lord help me, the brilliant amazing fantastic ANITA !!!)
lol i didnt know marvin gaye could play the drums! lol or is that eddie kendricks?? lol naw im j/k.. this dude is funky!! and then pointer sisters are jammin!!!
I always loved "The Pointer Sisters" with them cat eyes. Anita Pointer was the most attractive of them all to me and my crush on her is still on high after 37 years. In the words of the great proverbial Gucci Mane "I think I luv ha." Her soul just turns me on!!! Next in line would be Ruth, super fine and cool as hell with that deep but femanine sultry voice and gagnsta bitch swagga! Then that sexy but confused June. Bonnie looked too much like a kitten and I can't imagine me fucking a kitten.
I just found out about Gaylord Birch, via an interview with Lenny White & Mike Clark. Gaylord is funk in this clip. I wonder if he's on SoulDrummers . com
...the brother ain't nuthing but the TRUTH, the ladys are no less than DIVAlicious..
"Gotta Chick on the Side" is one of the funkiest grooves you will ever hear. These ladies can not be touched in their genre...."EnVogue" came close but these ladyies did it all, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Rock and COUNTRY......they are the total package.....rest in peace my sister........
...I found this video by chance- and wooowh- it is a highlight, a rare treasure in soul- funky popular music... amazing energy, incredible singers performance- pointer sisters at their best... respect... you can make it!!!
@mickeyrouke Im sorry man :-(, I really wasn't tryn to be mean. I guess some lifestyles effect people in different ways as they age. It just dosn't seem like she aged as well as the others. But its just my opinion on her outer appereance. not sayin she's an ugly person or she looks ugly now. But i will say she was the finest sister when they were young...FINE! but my bad..Im not tryin to offend anybody.
"How can you just sit there?" she sings near the end... Quite! The audience look like they're listening to some other gig! OMG the girls are singing their hearts out and pumping out a funk that's SO infectious...you have no choice but to dance to it...and yet...this audience is...well...nuff said. One of the best dance tunes of all time...It takes possession of your feet and then your very soul and you just HAVE to dance! Thank you Pointer Sisters and thank you for posting this.
The video should have full 5 stars rating ... c'mon people? I had original vinyl album this song was on, and now have it on CD also. Love to blast it out my car speakers, people must think I'm nuts, which probably I am when playing this song. (big smile)
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that should have been " else" but i'm sick of the way white people act like OMG racist are so evil your mothers your fathers, had thier day now it's mine, oh lets forget the past, tell you what when the jews forget the holocost, i'll forget slavery and Jim Crow.
when the pointers went white they lost me, and if they're honest they'll tell you that when that "rock" album came out the black stations would play a song and the phone boards would light up, and we had to take it off.
You're as racist as the people you condemn. If you look at the world as a whole, you'll find people have been assholes to each other for centuries and we all, no matter what color we are, have it coming to us for the things we have done.
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I wanted to respond to something ekse, but ket me say this instead,I don't like white American's, I like my culture, I don't want white people involved in Black America, when the pointer sisters stared to sing all theat pop crap it was a white mans idea, an idea driven by greed,
throughout history ever thing the white man has done has been done out of greed, up until 1970 Jim Crow law's were on the book's and now white people act like racisim is alien, I don't have anything to do with whites
Wow, I love it. This was the first song I remember hearing from the Pointer sisters and after all these years seeing it performed live. I would not want this song used for anybody's political campaign ... would be even worse than commercializing it.
I never before realized how loaded with racial harmony 70's music was. I'm thinking of The Impressions here with My Country, etc. it still resonates today.
a sick drum feel on this one here. damn. & a big eff of to the name haters-you'd think people intelligent enough to log on would have better sense than johndeere...whatah8rfk.
First of all the name gaylord is just fine. Second he is (was) my uncle and third he was one of the top drummers of his time. So dont disrespect people like that 8020johndeereseries. People like you is why our country is so screwed up.
one of the best drummers ever to be recorded and many all over the world respect him - just read some of the words people of all types have written on here, esp on other pointer sisters videos, people asking who the brilliant drummer is. a name is a name. respect from the UK to this very fine drummer.
whenever you say that four grown women who were more than capable of making their own decisions messed up because of someone else, you take their power from them. It is probably truer to say they listen the wrong person, but in the end it was their decision.
So don't blame someone else no matter what their color. People get to make their own decisions.
you have never been in the music business i take it ? and you've never been black either or r you one of those uncle tom's that holla's every time the man says so ? the faggot ruined them, in fact he ruined Martha Reeves as well, and Diana Ross didn't fare to well either with him, only Barbra S. got away unscathed, but then she's white and jewish and so is he. ppl should sticl with their own kind until there is eqaulity.
why reply to a hater like u ... Pointer sisters ruined u say? maybe you must have missed the decade of the 80s ... they somehow managed to have quite a few major hit songs.
Perfect. Yes we can. This song is so timeless and The Pointer Sisters tear it up. And that drum solo with a little beat box. I know we can work it out.
No offense (and It's hardly worth mentioning but i'm a bass player) it's not an upright bass. It's the classic 70's thump of an electric Precision bass. I don't see or hear a guitar either. Amazing 3 piece band.
get over urself. it was a joke. some of my best friends are of the brown persuasion. Oh wait a minute! i am too! LOL! some people are so uptight. anywho...i sooo love the pointer sisters. was devastated that one of them passed away. i remember when they were in the movie Car Wash.
This isn't 1950 so you can leave your "coloreds" and "sure do" and whatever howdy-doo talk at the door. Some perverts trolling this Internet world and they just need to shut up and get their parents to pay some attention to them cause they sure aren't getting enough of it.
Wonder if Obama was listening to them when he was 13. I never heard this one; did like the group; lived in an area with poor radio reception that played mainly what is now called "classic rock". Yes, we can, can. I like it.
Man this sho is funky!!!!!!!!! Damn, is it just me but I think the singers of yesterday we just so much better..These gals really work it, and having seen them from back in the day, they just do it great and look that way at the same time..Remember when good lookin' women would wear a flower in their hair? Wow, thanks for posting this..Brings back a lot of really good memories..
Great performance from a dynamic group. Wish I knew how to remix songs on youtube because the Pointer Sisters debut hit "Yes We Can Can" is the perfect theme song for Barack Obamas campaign for the Presidency. Hope to hear these dynamic sisters perform it at Obama's inauguration.
I agree, I was thinking the same thing. And even to use it now. This song came to me when I thought about Obama and I did a search to find it. Maybe some one with the skills can do it before tueday and send it to them to post. Perfect song...I always loved the Pointer Sisters.
So right! I had the privilege this weekend of hearing the song's composer, the great Allen Toussaint, perform it for a rapt audience. It hit me like a thunderbolt that "Yes We Can Can" perfectly captures the positive and unifying message of Sen. Obama's presidential campaign. (By the way, YWCC features prominently in a new documentary called "Young@Heart.") Grassroots supporters, let's spread the word--and the song!
I've heard that this song is actually a cover. Allen Toussaint wrote and composed the song with an obscure soul singer Lee Dorsey. He does this song in 2 parts, you can find it on iTunes. I have to say, I'm victim to the funk so I prefer this version, but Lee has some gems of his own worthy of a listen.
Lee Dorsey is only obscure if you are of a certain age...many of us know and remember lee Dorsey as an excellent singer. Not everybody wants or gets to be a star!
It really is wonderful to see these great performances and hear these songs again! I'm wondering if anyone has the clip of "How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On the Side)" which they performed on the Carol Burnett show just before the Steppin' album was released (circa 1975). On that same show I think they also did the Duke Ellington medley. Would love to see those again!
Oh, yes...by all means! I remember the Burnett show well! And, wasn't the "Steppin'" album the same one that featured "Save the Bones for Henry Jones"?
I had the privildge of seeing Gaylord Birch playing in Chattanooga on the Cold Blood "Thriller" tour in 1972..at the time he was the best drummer I had ever seen...omg he was tight. Great tone. RIP and hats off..
Gaylord was an awesome drummer and awesome person, a real gentleman, i got to know him in the 80's and he also played with Santana, Jerry Garcia, and then wanted to become a master at jazz and started playing with all the top jazz musicians in the bay area.. it was so sad, he died too early of cancer...
tsk..tsk..tsk...People don't know good music still. Shame...the Pointers were in the music business for so long since the early 70s. At least, give the girls credit. They could sing for sure and not be trashy like today's music.
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..... Seriously..... This SUCKS!! now dont you start Trippin and call me a rasist but this is BOOO bullshit! it sucks donkeyhorse ballsDamn this sucks.. LIsten to some Pimp pimp pimp... MJUSARCH!
good grief, you cant beat the 70s music man, the pointer sisters were and still is one of my favourite groups from the 70s and 80s, they are astounding. the whole band was so together. the drummer Gaylord Birch was so fun to watch and impressive, in addition to his work with the pointer sisters, i love his drum grooves on the Santana album ( festival ) from 1977, just fun and modern for its time. thanks for the clip.
find it odd that i listen to black/death metal and still quite appreciate this lol (: lots of techic on the drummer (: smooth voices ^_^ ah, well, started to like softer music after getting together with my gf, wonder if it has any connection? :O
wonderful I remember their first appearance on the 'Helen Ready' show, Bonnie wanted something for herself, but her solo Career fizzled out, there was bad feeling between Bonnie and Ruth and Anita, she wasnt even allowed to sit in the familys Limousine at June's funeral
ESTUVE BUSCANDO UNA CANCION QUE DICE EN LA LETRA "ELLAS TRABAJAN POR EL DINERO" (EN INGLES.
y si alguien sabe quien canta SOMETHIN GO, es una canciòn de los 70, una amiga me dijo que era de WE ALL TOGETHER, pero no la he encontrado. mil gracias
It seems strange that Bonnie Pointer would never returned even when her solo career fizzled out. She surely could have step in after June passed. I wonder is their hard feeling between them after she left the group
What a tiny bass drum...cool
SweeperMelis 4 months ago
gaylord also found at pointers tv rehearsal little pony - it of course is sick... for students: get right w gaylord at santana festival track reach up- for the price of a damn i-tune mr birch will offer up 26 showband accents.. you go and memorize, actually bass guitar keys people might aswell study..other than what you get here, which is illlllll INCL BEAT BOXING are you kidding Gaylord? sir your eternmity is earned and suddenly here is its venue
newsmanbluesman 6 months ago
@newsmanbluesman thanks i'll check it out further
greggorypeccary1 4 months ago
no sign of a whitey hair weave there - respect!
robynlois 8 months ago
Yeah, live band, ad-libs, no-autotune... makes you realize what a bunch of awful talentless cunts most modern pop singers are.
MrBurstingfoam 8 months ago 7
Good Gosh Almighty!!!!
DRUMTOY2002 9 months ago
Get down, Gaylord Birch. Nice
valdancer52 9 months ago
17 people probably like justin bieber's crap
cesarcaslini 11 months ago
so pretty.
boomerlady 11 months ago
Gaylord gittin down wit his fonky bad self on a round badge Gretsch kit WITH A 14x18" bass drum with the front head removed! Which sister is the lead singer in this song?
DrumTchr 11 months ago
@DrumTchr thats Anita, the 2nd oldest, shes really belting it starting about 5:00.
bendbenn 9 months ago
@bendbenn THANKS! I appreciate it. :-)
DrumTchr 9 months ago
This is nice because, this perfomance is before Bonnie (in green) fell out with her sisters... usually you only see three sisters.
bigreed43 1 year ago
this is stupid
XxDarkBlazinxX 1 year ago
the first 6:57 is the best.
sarniarocks 1 year ago
...and shortly after this, the late Gaylord Birch was with the funkiest band in the land Graham Central Station. His solo's with GCS in the 70's were incredible, especially in those large 20k+ size arenas.
geosh78 1 year ago 4
oh yeah, and I do believe I gotta take this time right here and say.... JUUUUUUUNE!!! (and on this one especially, lord help me, the brilliant amazing fantastic ANITA !!!)
AahSluta 1 year ago
lol i didnt know marvin gaye could play the drums! lol or is that eddie kendricks?? lol naw im j/k.. this dude is funky!! and then pointer sisters are jammin!!!
muzikman183 1 year ago
@muzikman183 Marvin's first gig with Motown was a studio drummer and his 1st tune that he's heard on is:
"Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvellettes...He was a member of the legendary "The Funk Brothers"
sarniarocks 1 year ago
i didnt marvin gaye could play the drums.. or was it eddie kendricks? lol. j/k this kat is funy as hell!.. and the pointer sister are throwin down!
muzikman183 1 year ago
@muzikman183 that's gaylord birch on drums.
fredly71 1 year ago
I always loved "The Pointer Sisters" with them cat eyes. Anita Pointer was the most attractive of them all to me and my crush on her is still on high after 37 years. In the words of the great proverbial Gucci Mane "I think I luv ha." Her soul just turns me on!!! Next in line would be Ruth, super fine and cool as hell with that deep but femanine sultry voice and gagnsta bitch swagga! Then that sexy but confused June. Bonnie looked too much like a kitten and I can't imagine me fucking a kitten.
magnumpush 1 year ago
@magnumpush nice comment until ya got to Bonnie ... but she prolly wudn't want yor @ss eithyer. (haha)
bendbenn 1 year ago
@bendbenn I am totally O.K with that though. lol..
magnumpush 1 year ago
@magnumpush
Let's keep it civil!
gscott424 1 year ago
Is this concert available on DVD?
petzi1969 1 year ago
Doesn't get any better than this!!!!!
saanzacs 1 year ago
I just found out about Gaylord Birch, via an interview with Lenny White & Mike Clark. Gaylord is funk in this clip. I wonder if he's on SoulDrummers . com
fnkdrmmr 1 year ago
Im sorry but this ain't nuthin but FUNKY!!!!!!!!!!!!
philburrell 1 year ago
@philburrell HA HA HA.....I HEARD THAT, BRUTHA!!!!!!
DRUMTOY2002 1 year ago
daaaaaaamn,that BACKBEAT!!!!!
kapdrums 1 year ago
...the brother ain't nuthing but the TRUTH, the ladys are no less than DIVAlicious..
"Gotta Chick on the Side" is one of the funkiest grooves you will ever hear. These ladies can not be touched in their genre...."EnVogue" came close but these ladyies did it all, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Rock and COUNTRY......they are the total package.....rest in peace my sister........
philburrell 1 year ago
wow he IS the funky drummer!
and great vocal performance.
thanks for sahring.
heinie 1 year ago
Because no one would make that assumption. Because your name doesn't have the word gay in it.
GurgleOneSixSix 1 year ago
There are drummers and there are drummers!........... This guy is the real deal!
madjack1950 1 year ago
@madjack1950 : AMEN (R.I.P. Mr. Birch)!!!!
DRUMTOY2002 1 year ago
...I found this video by chance- and wooowh- it is a highlight, a rare treasure in soul- funky popular music... amazing energy, incredible singers performance- pointer sisters at their best... respect... you can make it!!!
manjulafabi 1 year ago
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hahahaha gaylord!
hes a gay lord!!!
get it??? hahahaha
the king of the gays!!
IamAIDSfearme 1 year ago
hahah hes called gaylord
HABRADASHR 1 year ago
Gaylord also played Graham Central Station for a few years...great drummer...
freein2339 2 years ago
i always thought that Bonnie was the prettiest one, but as she aged she became lest attractive and Anita and Ruth become more attractive.
barbarasboi 2 years ago
@barbarasboi dat is my mother yo is talking about
aminmontrose 2 years ago
@barbarasboi thats kinda mean?!?
mickeyrouke 1 year ago
@mickeyrouke Im sorry man :-(, I really wasn't tryn to be mean. I guess some lifestyles effect people in different ways as they age. It just dosn't seem like she aged as well as the others. But its just my opinion on her outer appereance. not sayin she's an ugly person or she looks ugly now. But i will say she was the finest sister when they were young...FINE! but my bad..Im not tryin to offend anybody.
barbarasboi 1 year ago
i love the drummer he is tight,in the 70s they the pointers were funky but in the 80s went soft like lionel ritchie when he went solo
tonyskins19 2 years ago
I thought it said Gaylord Bitch lawl
TheTupacolypse 2 years ago
Just Real GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Music. We all love you ladys....... and miss you!!!
shirleyhusar 2 years ago 2
These ladys spent 10 k on out fits in 1982 before knoxville concert.worth every penny and then some!!mucho fine
1SECRETBILLY 2 years ago
AWESOME !
Gerri000 2 years ago
"How can you just sit there?" she sings near the end... Quite! The audience look like they're listening to some other gig! OMG the girls are singing their hearts out and pumping out a funk that's SO infectious...you have no choice but to dance to it...and yet...this audience is...well...nuff said. One of the best dance tunes of all time...It takes possession of your feet and then your very soul and you just HAVE to dance! Thank you Pointer Sisters and thank you for posting this.
josephadeamo 2 years ago 2
soooooo fantastic, thx so much for posting it!!!
nerettino 2 years ago
Anita's freestyling on this is TOO HOT!!! Such an incredible performance of this gem!
jayawr 2 years ago 3
That is some bad ass funky stuff right there partner.
DeltaSwamprat 2 years ago 4
Does anyone have the song that one of the Pointer's did with Earl Thomas Conley? It would be very greatly appreciated. thanx.
brotherWes 2 years ago
yes funky - a little excursion of them, great
soutltank 2 years ago
love the outfits!
priszmatic 2 years ago 2
great video quality for a dyn-o-mite tune. thanks for posting.
fredjberg 2 years ago 3
yeah Allan Tousaint
bigdumbchimp 2 years ago
hum seem like the idiots that gave me a minus 3 didn t read leidheiser6 racist posting before posting a minus to me - such lazy arses . . .
leftsoul 2 years ago
the best bring it on
leftsoul 2 years ago
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To leidheiser6 fuck the black people bring on the allman brothers band and go pointer sisters . . .
leftsoul 2 years ago
man i luu dis song!!! ~~eleven goin on twelve
mosaha1 2 years ago 2
Super Funky !!
PartyBopper 3 years ago 3
This should have been President Obama's theme song!
vidann1 3 years ago 13
right on!
iwannajamwithsuperma 3 years ago
@vidann1
Totally would have been sweet at the inauguration if that drum beat came in and the pointer sisters sang this while Obama strolled about
aronious187 1 year ago
@vidann1 he he he.. where do you think he got the slogan... he he he. he prolly was inspired by this song. Proves he has great taste.
spritualdiary 7 months ago
I looooooove the Pointer Sisters!!
SymplyJ 3 years ago 2
SAAAAAAAANG Pointer Sisters! SAAAAANG!!! Thank You so much for posting this!
DarenFleming 3 years ago 3
hot to def...
champ3700 3 years ago 3
Criskoogle is right. This video its *k*i*c*k*s major fanny!!!
telarock 3 years ago 4
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fuck white people
leidheiser6 3 years ago
23 October 2008
That track just put a good kick start on my day. Thanks. It's a piece of American movement that the world digs.
-Dave@Woodpile
maak88 3 years ago 7
The pointer sisters... very good took the church theme to another level... go girls
mjg355 3 years ago 5
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HOT HOT HOT !!!
anre1516 3 years ago 2
lol i thought the title was Gaylord Bitch
ahhbloobla 3 years ago 5
@ahhbloobla worst name everrr!
QazWsx093 1 year ago
GAYLORD<3
AeHuaheuhe 3 years ago 3
this is EASY among one of the best live performances ever!! that drum break solo was dope aas fuck!
mkysmallz 3 years ago 4
One of the most amazing moments in music I've ever seen/heard.... that's real soul! Is it Ruth who does the lead vocal?
snoopfrogg 3 years ago
No, Anita. Ruth is the tall one with the amazing deeper voice.
MandyRRAh 3 years ago
The video should have full 5 stars rating ... c'mon people? I had original vinyl album this song was on, and now have it on CD also. Love to blast it out my car speakers, people must think I'm nuts, which probably I am when playing this song. (big smile)
driskoogle 3 years ago
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MmMmm hey! im Faith, feeling so #WORD# I have so many fantasies that its hard to narrow it down hehe i have always wanted to have seX on a secluded beach somewhere in the rain. hmm just the thought of it gets me wet! looking for some naughty fun. I get turned on just knowing that guys are watching me and knowing that you cum for me. come visit me at Play-Cam * COM my user-id there is Faith-skwd chat soon on cam :) mzaucauiohv im waiting for you! kisses-x
BigTimeBill1988 3 years ago
Great video that drummer kicks ass
krammit69 3 years ago
(sad refers to below comments) ... but the video is great!
driskoogle 3 years ago
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that should have been " else" but i'm sick of the way white people act like OMG racist are so evil your mothers your fathers, had thier day now it's mine, oh lets forget the past, tell you what when the jews forget the holocost, i'll forget slavery and Jim Crow.
when the pointers went white they lost me, and if they're honest they'll tell you that when that "rock" album came out the black stations would play a song and the phone boards would light up, and we had to take it off.
ihatetrash2007 3 years ago
you twat
georgeridesagain 3 years ago
You're as racist as the people you condemn. If you look at the world as a whole, you'll find people have been assholes to each other for centuries and we all, no matter what color we are, have it coming to us for the things we have done.
mejsmith1 3 years ago
Work on your own spelling and punctation.
MandyRRAh 3 years ago 2
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I wanted to respond to something ekse, but ket me say this instead,I don't like white American's, I like my culture, I don't want white people involved in Black America, when the pointer sisters stared to sing all theat pop crap it was a white mans idea, an idea driven by greed,
throughout history ever thing the white man has done has been done out of greed, up until 1970 Jim Crow law's were on the book's and now white people act like racisim is alien, I don't have anything to do with whites
ihatetrash2007 3 years ago
sad
driskoogle 3 years ago
Big mouths
acidheadx 3 years ago
WORD
MODbelle 3 years ago
OBAMA((((((Yes we Can Can))))
pekoe 3 years ago
Wow, I love it. This was the first song I remember hearing from the Pointer sisters and after all these years seeing it performed live. I would not want this song used for anybody's political campaign ... would be even worse than commercializing it.
telarock 3 years ago
I remember them on Sesame sreet them an stevie Wonder.. Lots of Hip acts in the early 70's on that show-- the kids would __ rock out!
pekoe 3 years ago
Nothing like the sistahs!
benaiah68 3 years ago 2
I always loved the Pointer Sisters (fav song Jada). Wouldn't "Yes we can, can" make a great campaign song for Obama?
UDbmas 3 years ago
I never before realized how loaded with racial harmony 70's music was. I'm thinking of The Impressions here with My Country, etc. it still resonates today.
kd1s 3 years ago
a sick drum feel on this one here. damn. & a big eff of to the name haters-you'd think people intelligent enough to log on would have better sense than johndeere...whatah8rfk.
asapsodef 3 years ago
still missin' you JUNE POINTER !!!
tonyrolls1 3 years ago 2
First of all the name gaylord is just fine. Second he is (was) my uncle and third he was one of the top drummers of his time. So dont disrespect people like that 8020johndeereseries. People like you is why our country is so screwed up.
rellybaby172k4 3 years ago
one of the best drummers ever to be recorded and many all over the world respect him - just read some of the words people of all types have written on here, esp on other pointer sisters videos, people asking who the brilliant drummer is. a name is a name. respect from the UK to this very fine drummer.
catmadwoman 3 years ago 2
I know John Deere--sounds pretty redneck
(((Obama)) YES we Can Can!!!!!!
pekoe 3 years ago
I would hate to be named gaylord
8020johndeereseries 3 years ago
i love them so talented great voices and energy ! and live as well
stephancan 3 years ago
Vote for change...Yes we can!! Obama 08!
SnowballPete 3 years ago
whoever has them singing this song on soul train can you bring it back ....love that ...it was smooth
getyourkicks 3 years ago
I remember those headphones.
56BUICKRiviera 3 years ago
they were great b 4 they got of mixed up with white folk, and that sound racist, but richard perry ruined them with that disco crap
ihatetrash2007 3 years ago
whenever you say that four grown women who were more than capable of making their own decisions messed up because of someone else, you take their power from them. It is probably truer to say they listen the wrong person, but in the end it was their decision.
So don't blame someone else no matter what their color. People get to make their own decisions.
anghiariIT 3 years ago
you have never been in the music business i take it ? and you've never been black either or r you one of those uncle tom's that holla's every time the man says so ? the faggot ruined them, in fact he ruined Martha Reeves as well, and Diana Ross didn't fare to well either with him, only Barbra S. got away unscathed, but then she's white and jewish and so is he. ppl should sticl with their own kind until there is eqaulity.
ihatetrash2007 3 years ago
why reply to a hater like u ... Pointer sisters ruined u say? maybe you must have missed the decade of the 80s ... they somehow managed to have quite a few major hit songs.
driskoogle 3 years ago
The enemy is hate.
56BUICKRiviera 3 years ago
Perfect. Yes we can. This song is so timeless and The Pointer Sisters tear it up. And that drum solo with a little beat box. I know we can work it out.
drwippit 3 years ago 3
Love it. I always prefer the studio versions better, but this is pretty decent indeed. Great song. Thanks for posting.
Leanne60 3 years ago
Excellent!
E2HJ 3 years ago
Do you have/can you post the rest of this segment with the Pointer Sisters????
jkguffin 3 years ago
I have always loved the Pointer Sisters!
frc1968 3 years ago
my father was gaylord and he in my mind was the best
enriq505 3 years ago 3
I guess upright bass, keys,vocal harmony and guitar can't be heard by Celie71's stupid ass! Some comments aren't worth posting stupid!
katvictoria2000 3 years ago
No offense (and It's hardly worth mentioning but i'm a bass player) it's not an upright bass. It's the classic 70's thump of an electric Precision bass. I don't see or hear a guitar either. Amazing 3 piece band.
thelowmax 3 years ago
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Coloreds sure do like percussions! thats nice.
Celie71 3 years ago
Celie71- You are ignorant.
frc1968 3 years ago
get over urself. it was a joke. some of my best friends are of the brown persuasion. Oh wait a minute! i am too! LOL! some people are so uptight. anywho...i sooo love the pointer sisters. was devastated that one of them passed away. i remember when they were in the movie Car Wash.
Celie71 3 years ago
This isn't 1950 so you can leave your "coloreds" and "sure do" and whatever howdy-doo talk at the door. Some perverts trolling this Internet world and they just need to shut up and get their parents to pay some attention to them cause they sure aren't getting enough of it.
hazeleste 3 years ago
Class, talent, style, beauty. What's not to love?
starofinanna 4 years ago
Yes We Can Can! GO OBAMA IN 08!!!
SoBeJon 4 years ago 2
Great song........good song for any walk of life!
Bedazzled07 4 years ago
Wonder if Obama was listening to them when he was 13. I never heard this one; did like the group; lived in an area with poor radio reception that played mainly what is now called "classic rock". Yes, we can, can. I like it.
alyceclover 4 years ago 2
I agree! Obama's campaign should use this song! Yes We Can!!!
corijc 4 years ago 2
This would be perfect for the Obama campaign! YES WE CAN!
musamalenga 4 years ago 2
Question: Which one is leading this song????
jkguffin 4 years ago
Anita. the best 1 in my opinion.
1980scrazy 4 years ago
Anita was the oldest sister and the strongest singer
anghiariIT 3 years ago
No. Wrong. Anita is the second to eldest.
1980scrazy 3 years ago
No it goes Ruth b.1946, Anita b.1948, Bonie b.1950 or '51, and June b. 1953...Yourwelcome :)
dutico 2 years ago
All four of them sistas are hellafied. And June could've rocked the lead on this as well as Anita
RunawayTrane 3 years ago
Barack Obama should use this song as one of his campaign songs.........Yes We Can, Can.
MotownMusicLover 4 years ago
Man this sho is funky!!!!!!!!! Damn, is it just me but I think the singers of yesterday we just so much better..These gals really work it, and having seen them from back in the day, they just do it great and look that way at the same time..Remember when good lookin' women would wear a flower in their hair? Wow, thanks for posting this..Brings back a lot of really good memories..
dbd1353 4 years ago
man i love the baseline on this song.
Konuvis 4 years ago
Great!
mardimitriou 4 years ago
shit, damn, motherfucker...
sidcatlet 4 years ago
== WARNING == Ol' Head Statement:
There is something to be said for a group that can harmonize with a band & look good doing it. Ask any of today's girl group's to do this.
Rock on, Pointers!
Pirate7X 4 years ago
Great performance from a dynamic group. Wish I knew how to remix songs on youtube because the Pointer Sisters debut hit "Yes We Can Can" is the perfect theme song for Barack Obamas campaign for the Presidency. Hope to hear these dynamic sisters perform it at Obama's inauguration.
foreverlarge 4 years ago 2
I agree, I was thinking the same thing. And even to use it now. This song came to me when I thought about Obama and I did a search to find it. Maybe some one with the skills can do it before tueday and send it to them to post. Perfect song...I always loved the Pointer Sisters.
happyness7 4 years ago 2
So right! I had the privilege this weekend of hearing the song's composer, the great Allen Toussaint, perform it for a rapt audience. It hit me like a thunderbolt that "Yes We Can Can" perfectly captures the positive and unifying message of Sen. Obama's presidential campaign. (By the way, YWCC features prominently in a new documentary called "Young@Heart.") Grassroots supporters, let's spread the word--and the song!
YesWeCanCan08 4 years ago
I've heard that this song is actually a cover. Allen Toussaint wrote and composed the song with an obscure soul singer Lee Dorsey. He does this song in 2 parts, you can find it on iTunes. I have to say, I'm victim to the funk so I prefer this version, but Lee has some gems of his own worthy of a listen.
hazeleste 3 years ago
yes, yes, and yes...
ihatetrash2007 3 years ago
and yes
vizfranz 3 years ago
Lee Dorsey is only obscure if you are of a certain age...many of us know and remember lee Dorsey as an excellent singer. Not everybody wants or gets to be a star!
anghiariIT 3 years ago
Now THAT is some funky shit.
disobedient 4 years ago
You said it. They were ALL singing every bit of that song! They've been through a lot, but it looks like Bonnie's back now ...
dagarrat 4 years ago
It really is wonderful to see these great performances and hear these songs again! I'm wondering if anyone has the clip of "How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On the Side)" which they performed on the Carol Burnett show just before the Steppin' album was released (circa 1975). On that same show I think they also did the Duke Ellington medley. Would love to see those again!
discobrian 4 years ago
Oh, yes...by all means! I remember the Burnett show well! And, wasn't the "Steppin'" album the same one that featured "Save the Bones for Henry Jones"?
tyoonz 4 years ago
I had the privildge of seeing Gaylord Birch playing in Chattanooga on the Cold Blood "Thriller" tour in 1972..at the time he was the best drummer I had ever seen...omg he was tight. Great tone. RIP and hats off..
martianshoes 4 years ago
This is performing. You cant even tell there is a audience and they still gave it 110%. God bless the Pointer Sisters and Gaylord Birch
LUVHYM 4 years ago
This is funky drumming..listen..and shut up!
Yamotte 4 years ago
THIS IS THE POINTER SISTERS !!!! Mr. Birch keeping it tight, and no where is Richard Perry in sight
thank you jesus for that brief period when it was the pointers without Perry
nikkicarress 4 years ago
Gaylord was an awesome drummer and awesome person, a real gentleman, i got to know him in the 80's and he also played with Santana, Jerry Garcia, and then wanted to become a master at jazz and started playing with all the top jazz musicians in the bay area.. it was so sad, he died too early of cancer...
dysbtwn 4 years ago
These chicks are bad ... they can sing anything! I miss June!
GQBlue3 4 years ago
John Loughman, thank you for making my world a funkier place...Gaylord Birch...bad ass
mlaubach706 4 years ago
The Drummer is Gaylord Birch my uncle who passed in 96. Miss you Uncle Gaylord
rellybaby172k4 4 years ago
These girls are the real deal. Love the guy clapping at the end.
misterashley 4 years ago
tsk..tsk..tsk...People don't know good music still. Shame...the Pointers were in the music business for so long since the early 70s. At least, give the girls credit. They could sing for sure and not be trashy like today's music.
83survivor 4 years ago
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..... Seriously..... This SUCKS!! now dont you start Trippin and call me a rasist but this is BOOO bullshit! it sucks donkeyhorse ballsDamn this sucks.. LIsten to some Pimp pimp pimp... MJUSARCH!
Quy11 4 years ago
bom da dee bom bom yeah!!! Lovin' it, Didn't realise there was 4 of them at one time???
Penny0thoughts 4 years ago
love these gals, thanks for posting this.
54taqiyya 4 years ago
good grief, you cant beat the 70s music man, the pointer sisters were and still is one of my favourite groups from the 70s and 80s, they are astounding. the whole band was so together. the drummer Gaylord Birch was so fun to watch and impressive, in addition to his work with the pointer sisters, i love his drum grooves on the Santana album ( festival ) from 1977, just fun and modern for its time. thanks for the clip.
1245102 4 years ago 2
the Drummer is or should i say was my uncle. He passed in 1996. He gave me my first pair of drum sticks
rellybaby172k4 4 years ago 2
the sisters at their best.
bowfffff 4 years ago
LOVE this song; always been a fan or theirs. Thanks for posting it! (Great lyrics, especially for today's world..)
SweetDreamsCherry 4 years ago
goosebumps
blissfullSong 4 years ago
find it odd that i listen to black/death metal and still quite appreciate this lol (: lots of techic on the drummer (: smooth voices ^_^ ah, well, started to like softer music after getting together with my gf, wonder if it has any connection? :O
ah, well, great upload :)!
MeetMalice 4 years ago
wonderful I remember their first appearance on the 'Helen Ready' show, Bonnie wanted something for herself, but her solo Career fizzled out, there was bad feeling between Bonnie and Ruth and Anita, she wasnt even allowed to sit in the familys Limousine at June's funeral
cavaradossij 4 years ago
how did u find tht out
colnevalleyhigh 4 years ago
THE R JAMMIN
HAVOK05 4 years ago
ESTUVE BUSCANDO UNA CANCION QUE DICE EN LA LETRA "ELLAS TRABAJAN POR EL DINERO" (EN INGLES.
y si alguien sabe quien canta SOMETHIN GO, es una canciòn de los 70, una amiga me dijo que era de WE ALL TOGETHER, pero no la he encontrado. mil gracias
marialuisa1909 4 years ago
It seems strange that Bonnie Pointer would never returned even when her solo career fizzled out. She surely could have step in after June passed. I wonder is their hard feeling between them after she left the group
Dukey453 4 years ago