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  • :49

  • Thank God we know how a joyfully heart sounds

  • God Bless You Ms. Patti......God Bless You!!!

  • Patti!!!!!! I have nothing else to say. She know what she did. Lol.

  • patti sang this song so good her dress was even on time with her notes.this clip is one of my favorites.thank you you tube. now i can see patti anytime i want.i love me some patti labelle.maurice from chicago.

  • Good God ah-mighty! This makes you laugh, cry, scream, holla, and jump up and down. Go 'head Patti! That's how you give a performance.

  • My, My, My is all I can say....

  • before Fantasy hair became a show. !!! she did it first.

  • What happen to when the audience was ready to receive the artists on the stage like this?

  • ...and the late great Billy on the organ! Wow!

  • Pure, raw, unmitigated, unadulterated TALENT!!!

  • I bet Patti's hair could be in any hair show of today!!!!!

  • ...they don't make 'em like THAT anymore......

  • @3:10 "and your dreams be tossed and blown, aaaaahhhhh whoooooooooo".

    How in the hell does the human voice do that?

  • This is the best performance... It brings tears to my eyes and if I am down I come straight to this video and play it because, it lifts my spirit...

  • Pattie back the n was a pure vocal beast simple, as pattie is now still the same but not as much oooomffffppp as she had,, but dont mistake it cause compared todays so called sangers, well she still is miles ahead as she was back then, god bless u ms pattie

  • @TheRyry84 Right and she is almost 70, I saw her 2 years ago, and while she still brought tears to my eyes, at 25 I envy the people who got to go see Patti in the 80's and 90s!!!!!!!!!! Life is not fair... all the vocal beast of the past, that toured

  • Man I can't stop watching this. Ain't no artist got nothing on this lady. She just too much. This lady just hit some notes out of this world!.

  • @JacksonObamafan4life Patti is the Greatest,pure Soul and Heart

  • WOW PATTI!!!!

  • @lasmelle04 what about her????????

  • It's a sadness to hear how these singers sing today compared to how they use to sing back in the day... All we hear is a lot of technical to the voices today instead of the pure voice itself... This is pure soul singing and performance at its best...The only person who I can say who has it now days is Jennifer Hudson and sometimes I don't feel they is letter her use her voice to the fullest with those non vocal songs they are giving her.

  • @slwb91

    Jennifer Hudson can sing, BUTshe is NOT marketable meaning she was recognized for singing in dreamgirls a.k.a The Big Girl with the big voice. That was he 15 minutes of fame and that was it. she had surgery to remove the extra pounds and proved to everyone that changing her looks wasn't enough for her to achieve real success.

    jen is just another person with a nice voice and that's it. Nobody is checking for her music because she's basically a gospel/show tunes type of performer.

  • @PLAYDIRTY1000 With all do rspect, I take it that you are not a J. Hudson fan... Question: this is a gospel performance that we both just viewed right? For the record I never said anything about her weight or success because both are beside the point I was making... And you said it yourself she does have a nice voice, and if she is "good at singing gospel" so you say, then I must was right.

  • @slwb91

    I LIKE JEN, AND SHE HAS AN AMAZING VOICE, BUT SHE DON'T HAVE STAGE PRESENCE. SHE IS BORING AS HELL AS NICE AS HER VOICE IS. PATTI LABELLE IS MORE THAN A BIG VOICE, SHE KNOWS HOW TO WORK THE STAGE. JENNIFER IS STILL YOUNG, BUT THE YOUNG GENERATION IS NOT CHECKING FOR HER MUSIC AND THAT'S WHERE THE MARKET IS. LET'S BE HONEST ...SHE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS THE FAT GIRL WHO SUNG A POWERFUL SONG IN DREAMGIRLS. WHAT HAS SHE REALLY DONE SINCE THEN? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

  • @PLAYDIRTY1000 Everyone has their own opinion and is entitled too but I never sad anything about Jenn's performance I clearly was talking about her vocals.... I also said that the music today is totally different then the music back then because you had to really perform back then vocally to show your talents. Something you don't have to do with today's music because of technology.

  • @PLAYDIRTY1000 Let's be honest their are a lot of performer's out today who get's marketing but it doesn't mean they are talented. Because today in music all you need is the look and a lil. vocal skill and they will market you and have technology do the rest. It's all about the look and not the skills if you want to keep it real.

  • 1:38 - 1:58 My Good God of Mighty! 3:43 - 3:50 "Neeyeeyeeevvverr" Just gone head girl 1:48 - 1:53 Patti was cutting a serious step. LOL

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  • my mother pass away on june 19th 2011 ,i know the real meaning of this song with god i know i will never walk alone.i miss you so much moma R.I.P love you moma.sing patti

  • 1:48 - 1:52 Ha Love that little step she did.

  • It's amazing what she did with her hair!!

  • Look at Never Leave You Alone By Twanette Lynn on you tube

  • R.I.P moma 6-19-11 i love and miss u sooooooooooooo much

  • decca8 sorry you don't want your bubble burst as it would upset your being. proven: Having been demonstrated or verified without doubt,

    one can neither prove nor disprove of anything having any effect on anything in this world. Well maybe some aliens could.

  • At 3:08 the choir gets high.

  • not sure if unproven invisible being has anything to do with being born with a great voice and years of practice

  • @midlocal what do you mean unproven? You would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not see all the proof around you!

  • Ya'll, Miss Patti's entrance was so on point! That's the old way...walk on the stage singing in full voice, she was doing the damn thang!

  • A tribute to Liverpool FC. Cool!

  • Only way a singer from today could come on stage after this to perform is to shoot themselves in the face, and even then half the audience would still be talking about Patti's performance.

  • Patti puts the entertainment in the room....my uncle went to highschool with her, and my grandmother says Patti was something...when she use to go up to the school to see about my uncle...but I like her

  • I saw this when I was 13 and I watch it now as a grown woman now. It it a profound and earth shattering moment to listen to this song and be convinced..that GOD always has your back.

  • Yes my dear, mr. Preston it is:-)!

  • Isn't that Billy Preston on Organ?

  • Rogers and Hammerstein were rolling over in their graves if they were dead by this time, and if not, this killed them. I'm a fan of LaBelle, but she has no business singing this.

  • @clraybon Ok, let's put this straight: I respect your opinion. Funny though that EVERYBODY in the audience seem to disagree with you. Can't you feel the awesome-awesome energy and emotion that are delivered in just about 5 minutes? Gosh, I wish you would -and if you can't I really do pity and feel sorry for you.

    Miss Patti had ALL business singing/performing this. But hey - that's only just MY opinion. Have a nice life my dear:-)!

  • @clraybon Patti can sing anything!

  • You have to be crazy to dislike this performance! Those 12 people are crazy; well if you are talking about her out then I understand. LOL But I love me some Patti!

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  • Vintage Patti LaBelle. . . .

  • It's funny how I always end up seeing Al Green in a video when I'm looking for any sort of good music, no matter the singer I want to hear

    That makes you think, doesn't it!

  • . . . amazing!

  • PHILLY STAND ON YOUR FEET!!!!!!

  • I´m lost for words..........

  • Even before I started the video I just knew Ms.Patti was going to sing last because she always brings the house down when she walks on the stage. Love it!

  • The way Mrs. Patti hit them notes--my hair stood up, too. So blessed!

  • THEEEEE  DIVA

  • Holy SHIT! They just put the faith in me.....

  • I.m just blown away .......

  • I'm jealous of older folks...they used to go to concerts/festivals/jubilees and hear singers like this one after the other...we can't even get ONE decent new-school live act on a tour these days...smh...

  • @MsMerising I agree!! I wish I could go back in time!!!!!!!!

  • Patti is cross-eyed crazy with that hair-do, lol...but, of course, I'm lovin' every damn minute :P Mx

  • She is the only singer that consistently gives me goosebumps! Thanks!

  • the energy level is through the roof, just fantastic.

    absolutely beautiful, it brought me to tears

  • the energy level is through the roof, just fantastic

  • Where did all these strange hair dos come from? Patti! I have loved here since I Sold My Heart to the Junkman which was very poplular with my friends in the 60s

  • be that billy preston on organ ?

    he seems to be up front and away from the rest of the band

    for some reason

  • I LUF IT !!!!

    ERIK TIELMAN, FLORIDADADAAA

  • miss patti snatch that mic

  • Poor Mavis Staples!!.. Poor Babe was barely heard! ... Patti clearly stole the show! as usual!.. Gotta Love That Hurricane of a Voice!!

  • @whyneed1215 I thought homegirl was going to choke on her mic... lol

  • @anthonykeithjohnson3 lol Exactly!!

  • yea - patti is definitely the best voice out there.....and consistant - never hear her go back like many others

  • my lord, patti and them hair styles, i love it. this is what you call an old school all star team

  • the best live proforma ever to this day Ive never seen it yet.

  • the best live proforma ever to this day Ive never seen it yet.

  • The Apollo is Patti's living room and she made it HER house that night!!!! Ghaad Bless You, Patti FOREVER!!!! I Love You, Gemini Genius!!!! 

  • Amen!

  • even the choior is feelin patti

  • I love this song it is my morning inspiration. I love you Patti

  • allllll right. did you all know that this song only has two paragraphs. this is amazing, patty song this song so well that it appeared to be much longer than the two paragraphs when written by rogers and hammerstein. patty is so awesome

  • i wanna see dinana sing like this

  • And how bout the NJMC?  They were terrific.

  • Can we more folks on this stage?????no really I want more folks!!!

  • That overdub anouncer is so white and so wrong among this talent

  • she's the best !

  • The queen diva!

  • She is just quite simply The QUEEN, period. [i luvem all, but patti is in a league of her own.

  • I totally loved it...

  • AMA ZING AWESOME THANK YOU VIBRATIONAL BLESSINGS ~ NAMASTE :) LOVE & LIGHT SHINE BRIGHT ALL

  • Her Voice and the Glasses of the Gospelchicks are of da chain!

    This is real stuff, love it!!!

  • I've always wanted to hear Little Richard do a gospel album in his true style. He recorded some in the 50s that had him sounding like he was deep inside of my case. Love Al Green too! I hope to see both of those two singers in concert someday!

  • I remember watching this when this came on tv... I use to have this on tape and played it all the time unti the tape gave out on me.... This is classic right here.

  • I love how she just can't control herself once that choir comes in. And I LOVE how the choir members are standing back there in awe, taking all of Patti in. They had the best seat in the house that night. What a memorable performance. One of her top 3 for sure.

  • If they played music like this at my local church here in Rural Rantshire, I'd have one of those Damascene conversions!

  • When this originally aired my mother taped it for this performance. It was lost long ago and I am thrilled that I can watch it here. Thanks so much for the posting! Ms. Patti sits high on top of my DIVA list, any other voice, look and stage presence put other wannabe divas to shame!

  • OMGOSH! Goose bumps! 3:52 Choir kicking in!

  • PATTI IS THE QUEEN OF SOUL!!

  • @orero1717 Actually that's Aretha....

  • @ZebFAN2010

    What did you mean by, Actually, that's Aretha?

  • @ZebFAN2010 who is aretha?

  • @czahair yes! GET THAT DAMN ZEBFAN! I HATE THAT BITCH!

  • Man..... That caught me off guard.... I'm speechless

  • yes! patti took everybody to church

  • Honor The Great's!

  • my all time favorite Patti performance ever!!!!

  • Patti's greatest performance!!!

  • I'm not religious but Damn! Every time I hear her voice I always go through a religious experience! Wow!

  • oh what delivery oh oh

  • super geil ! super cool ;-) 

  • watch out 4 dem grits Al lol

  • GREAT

  • I'm really love her headvoice !!!..... I've never heard such a incredible like this before ....GREATEST CHEST VOICE AND HEAD VOICE ..... !!!! love you Patti * *

  • This is flawless!

  • @blackie3740 i have to agree

  • I'd say from about 1979 to right about 1994-1995, Patti Labelle could be considered to have the best voice ever. Oprah said it best: "If we were to have an intergalactic singing competition, the Earth would send Patti Labelle." We would.

    Of course she can still blow today in her 60s, but I believe that like 15-16 year gap she did the most amazing thing with her voice. And with EASE. The runs, riffs, and sheer power crushes anyone and EVERYONE.

  • @tangled55 wow, thats is so true. For a while its seem like it was leaving her but after seeing her performing on the BET awards she made take it back once again as one of her biggest fans out there... LOL

  • @tangled55 I think I agree, but 90-96 Whitney was BEAST, MYTHOLOGICAL BEAST (does anybody else really like the amber tones of her crack damaged voice? I really love the way she sounds on her last record only problem is it's 15 years or so premature)

  • @philipsmog dont bash people.... we all fall down but we get up .... so be nice

  • @philipsmog ok theyre singers, the cult of celebrity is a bit weird, they are only singers, u dont them as real people, its a para relationship, great singers, but thts it, theyre not gods

  • @tangled55

    Actually, that's a David Nathan quote... :P

  • @tangled55 I totally agree! I perform Patti labelle as a female impersonator and I myself can see the differences...But I love her none the less

  • @tangled55 I think you should extend that period from 1970-1995. Her singing on the early Labelle albums is simply out of this world!

  • @filthyfunke AMEN!! for that comment. There's sooo many great talents why compare?

  • u got know there is god sing patti .i know i never walk alone thank you patti

  • This is a wonderful video, I LOVE IT SO MUCH praise God. Thank you Great

    show, it was just wonderful

  • Sang Patti!  Poor Mavis...you cannot hear anything coming out of her mic.

  • @terrancesings I thought home girl was trying to choke on her mic when I first saw this.... lol

  • @filthyfunke patty don't sound this good now!

  • @ranmae57 . Like fine wine, she has aged well, and with such grace.

  • This was my first memory of Patti and my favorite performance to date. I was 5 years old when this aired and I still have it on VHS. I can remember rewinding the tape just to see her "glitter dress". Thanks for posting this.

  • Patti ALWAYS Delivers the Goods!! Sing Loud an Sing often and show everybody how it is done!!!!!

  • Oh My God.

  • great vid!

  • patti labelle is a true singer she is firece when she get on stage she is like a true drag queen cuz she will give u a show that u cant remember

  • patti labelle is a true singer she is fierce every time she be on stage she is the ulimate drag queen on stage cuz she will give you the best show ever

  • this has to be the greatest live performance ever

  • pattie always kill it till this day lol 

  • Amen almighty I love you miss Patti!!! I'm crying!!!

  • SANG PATTI SANG

  • WOW...when was this cause Patti took me there...woo...I feel good...what year was this...go ahead Patti...she brought the house down...I don't know how those folks stayed in their seats I'm ready to shout around in the living room I can't imagin being there and taking all that in...Woo...thanks for posting.

  • @newme09able this was Motown returns to the apollo in 1983 or 85

  • amazing!

  • Greatest singer ever!

  • Patti received a well deserved Emmy nomination for her performances during this show. She was taking names left and right.

  • Look at Patti's face at the end of this number! There are no other singers who get that much into what they are doing. Patti is unique. We are so lucky to have her.

  • THE GREATEST !!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is Ms Raw Pattie Labelle Queen of Rock N Soul at one of her best performance hands down, now one can even come close today. xx

  • Wow 

  • Patti Queremos você no Brazil!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • beyonce who?

  • @beelinegirl  Hysterical! Hilarious! No disrespect to Ms. B., but this was the funniest & wittiest response I've experience here. Delightful....

  • I never tire of this video and i always well up, but no tears drop cause i'm hard

  • Pattie sure got a talent but the devil corrupted her talent and she got it right when she says, "You'll never walk with jesus."

  • @ATOM09 You are out of your mind. Your need to shut up because your thinking out the side of your neck and your talking out your ass. God blessed Patti with an amazing talent and Satin could never corrupt her. She might be a "secular" singer but she is truly a blessed woman. She's a mother figure to the young people in the industry today ,she's a giving woman too, and she's brought great joy to many You'll go to hell before she does you judgemental piece of junk.

  • @MrMbell2 MrMbell2, all that you said sounds real good if you stupid. And you are certainly operating in the super stupid if you believe what you said. Satan got singers too, you know. These singers don't represent God. You must be spiritually retarded if you believe they do. You better get somewhere and sit down and read.

  • @ATOM09 Oh I read just fine. I read that you are nothing sanctimonious, arrogant, judgemental, fool. Who do you think you are trying to pinpoint how corrupt someones talent is? I remeber an old interview for "Lift Every Voice" on BET where Patti talked about belonging to a churchin her younger years where this minister juged her and mocked her in front of the entire congregation for her singing. But mind oyu she was paticipating in church functions, cooking for them, the whole nine yards.

  • @MrMbell2 MrMbell2, she wasn't in nothing from the start. That church ain't telling them people anything. I told you before they just warming up pews to go to hell. That old one punch line preacher need to sit his butt down. And so does Patti. Either she gonna sing for God or sing for the devil and she certainly has made her choice clear.

  • @ATOM09 Patti Labelle sings for god....

  • @ATOM09 shut up and go to sleep

  • @ATOM09 But he spit out his negativity to her after everything she did to try to belong in that so called church home she thought she had found. Its hypocritical lowlives like you with your noses up so snotty and filled with self righteousness that you scared the sinners who want to be saved and want to belong to a church away. How dare you! Why don't you read the book of "Humble Pie" you could use a big slice shoved down your throat right about now.

  • I love the choir reactions to Patti's singing they knew history in the making....Too bad Little Richard changed clothes he missed the whole performance a real queen would have stuck around to hear Patti LOL....I had the whole show on VHS in my humble opinion the finest 3 hours of television ever I loaned it to a friend only to have never returned now thanks to Youtube I can watch whenever and often

  • ONLY IN THE BLACK CHURCH!!!...hear them sing like that @ 3:46 when Patti sang u'll "neeuueuueeuuvver" she was feelin that song..Sing Ms. Patti..u blessed my soul..they all come out of the church Praise His name, Patti, Gladys, Dionne, Aretha all sisters from the church.

  • 1:40 = IM HEAR BITCHES ROFL

  • Patti's a beast...she's the pro's pro...hell pros can't do it like she can. No one can.

  • What a voice! Outstanding! The incomperable Patti Labelle!

  • Hey Little Richard changed clothes????? LOL They edited this I assume.

  • @nht68 He changed during the 4 minutes she sang solo.

  • One of my fav vids eva !

  • wuauuuuuhhh patti I love you.Joel from ARGENTINA