Saw them live “back in the day” when they were definitely “at the height of their powers”. They were one of the many vocal groups (The Moments immediately come to mind) from that magical era for whom recordings didn’t do justice. Their live shows were pure vocal and showmanship heaven!
Lenny was a great lead and, indeed Paulpfoley he never got the credit he deserved. Ron was losing that falsetto by the time this was filmed, but the harmony was still tight. I don't live in Houston but would have loved to have seen this performance. God granted us so many talented performers. We were truly blessed.
aww this is so sad to watch. I tear up cause the best member's are died now. I like watching they old footage when they were younger some very handsome men. Especially Lenny Mayes and Ron Banks. Willie was sexy too. Aww Lenny is a sweetheart always with beautiful smile. Lay back ,smooth LJ could sing I like the younger LJ. 😉 And last but not least:The late Great WeeGee, El, Larry even though he's not dead. God Bless the member's who still alive. And may the members who went home to glory RIP💖💗
That woman needed to sit in her seat. She took away from the performance jumping up there. All that ab-living by the lead singer in the first song messed the performance up.
lenny was great voice with in the group so was LJ and Ron,larry and Willie this is the real member of the group to me even though lenny Willie and LJ weren't original member
❤❤for. God so. Loved 😍🤩 the. World 🌎🌍. He. Gave his. Only. Begotten. Son. That. Who. So. Ever. Believe. Him. Will not. Parrish. Means Die. In your. Sinns.
This is after they have been singing together since 1973 the vocals are still strong also Lenny at this time was battling lung cancer Ron had a heart condition but they all were on stage holding their own.
This group has been together since 1973 and some of them before then. Lenny at this time is battling lung cancer and Ron with a heart condition and I still think they were holding their own. This is real old school music with people who knew how to really sing and harmonize. Listen to some of their music from back in the day . One of the best groups out during that time.
Like I said the first time no disrespect to this group. I'm very familiar with The Dramatics music, but this particular song does not sound good to me and that is in my opinion. I do believe in this day and time we are still able to have our own opinion. Thank you
I hate to bust all of you LJ REYNOLDS LOVERS, but LJ ain't even no where close in singing ability to the original lead singer William wee gee Howard. NOT ONLY IS LJ REYNOLDS NOT ON THE SAME PLANET AS WEE GEE, BUT LJ AIN'T EVEN IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS WEE GEE. I hate to hear LJ Reynolds just butcher whatcha see is whatcha get. WEE GEE WAS SO MUCH BETTER IT'S NOT EVEN A ARGUMENT. Wee Gee was a much better dancer. that's why they called him THE ELECTRIFYING WEE GEE HOWARD.
Oran Payne so why is l.j REYNOLDS SO HIGHLY Rated as a lead vocalist by the music historians and connoisseurs? I know wee gee has a greater range and power.but l.j's ability to preach& innovates is better and you can be a very good singer but if your voice don't fits the tune, it might not sound good and singer of lesser ability does it better.ive heard and seen Dramatics doing that same tune you're critzing L.J doing, let tell you could've hardly recognised the difference when L. j belted out BELTED OUT HEY YOU !GET OFF MY MOUNTAIN.
Maica Clarke Let me give you the game. Wee Gee Howard, Tony Hester, The Squirrel made the Dramatics, period. Not LJ Reynolds. Wee Gee was a much better singer and dancer than L.J. could dream of. Did you ever see Wee Gee Howard LIVE with the Dramatics? Cause I have and there is no comparison. Wee Gee was a much better lead singer than L.J. could dream of.
Maica Clarke Also have you heard L.J. Reynolds just butcher Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get. A slaughter house couldn't do a better job of butchering a song like L.J. Could. L.J. can't hit the notes, can't hold the notes and just butchers this song and In The Rain.
Maica Clarke excuse me but about how old are you? I looked at your profile and couldn't guess your age. The reason that I ask is that if you are not in your very late 50s or in your 60s, you couldn't have possibly seen Wee Gee or heard him with the dramatics. Wee Gee was out of the dramatics in 1973. See I know what I am talking about.
What a blessing ive followed da Dramatics 4 40years What a Blessing RIP my brothers
RIP Lenny Mayes and Ron banks Willie Ford 💔💙😮💨
I have followed these brothers over 40 years. I know the entire history. Bad Brothers
My favorite group
Rest my friend Lennie Mayes in heaven
So blessed to experience their music in our lifetime ❤️
This was when Lenny was battling cancer. What an amazing group.
Yes it is showing a little, still missing Lenny Willie and Ron
Rest Easy My 💔😢 Brothers
R.I.P LENNY MAYES...
❤❤❤❤
Despite having cancer you can't deny Lenny could still get down 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Yes he cud lenny didn't miss a beat cancer was there but lenny was on point
Lenny was my favorite of all the dramatics, I miss him so much, I miss that smile, love him forever.
I also loved Lenny...
💕💕💕💕
A playful approach😘📖👏✨
Oh they were one of my favorite groups I loved all the songs that they sing missing them.
Greatest True Vocal Group of all time!!!
Miss this man and so many others that took us to the dance floor...RIP.... singing in the heavenly ❤❤❤
Man -o man brings back some good memories❤
One of the best màle groups ever
Entertainers 😎So believable 😘 Thank you each and every artist. Clean 😘Tactful🥳🎊🎉Enjoyable songs✨
2021. THESE Songs Are STILL The Very Best Of The Best. 💥💥
Love Detroit's Own Dramatics. ( 2022 )
Saw them live “back in the day” when they were definitely “at the height of their powers”. They were one of the many vocal groups (The Moments immediately come to mind) from that magical era for whom recordings didn’t do justice. Their live shows were pure vocal and showmanship heaven!
Saw them in concert in Kansas City in the 70s...Awesome performance! 👌
Wow, this was great Ron voice was still tight Lenny was on point, Willie just Wow. DRAMATIC FOREVER
RIP Willie Ford, one of the best bass voices ever....
Linda demais
Bom
Along with Melvin Franklin
Willie suga bear Ford was my favorite dramatic along with Ron Banks and Lenny Mayes, but then the whole group were dynamic performers!!! Legends!💖
@@mauricecampbell1014 He's good but let's not get carried away He's no Melvin
Lenny.And Ron love those dramatics, I loved listening.
ALL I CAN SAY IS... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OUT THERE CAN COMPARE TO THE DRAMATICS. THEY ARE AND WERE VOCAL KINGS. 🎶💙🎶💙👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
So true...such impact on our emotions
Love this video. We get to see the Fabulous Dramatics up close on small stage. Sing Lenny!!!
That was real music...Dramatics
Lenny had the perfect name and voice!! Next to the Jackson Dramatic's is one of my favorites group's!!
Thank you for this. Never seen before. Yes, I'm a Dramataholic !!!!
Best group ever for me.
Only to you
@@garymayfield5995
That's all that counts for me
Thx for the reminder 👍😄
Love Lenny Mays and Ron Banks rip Lenny and Ron
2020. OMG!!! THESE GUYS. 💎🎶💎🎶💎🎶💎🎶💎🎶💎🎶
Lenny was a great lead and, indeed Paulpfoley he never got the credit he deserved. Ron was losing that falsetto by the time this was filmed, but the harmony was still tight. I don't live in Houston but would have loved to have seen this performance.
God granted us so many talented performers. We were truly blessed.
Lenny Mayes was a star. Not given the credit he deserved. Ron's gone too now. Top band.
Best Group Ever!! Love The Dramatics!!
You'll done lost your fucking mind,Can't TOUCH THE "CLASSIC 5" HANDS DOWN
@@garymayfield5995 Go find Your F-----G Mind!! My Opinion Is Mine & Yours is Yours!! Now Gallop on!!
Love Lenny 💘
WHEN I SEE THEM PERFORM...ALL I CAN SAY IS LAWD HAVE MERCY!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜😊
aww this is so sad to watch. I tear up cause the best member's are died now. I like watching they old footage when they were younger some very handsome men. Especially Lenny Mayes and Ron Banks. Willie was sexy too. Aww Lenny is a sweetheart always with beautiful smile. Lay back ,smooth LJ could sing I like the younger LJ. 😉 And last but not least:The late Great WeeGee, El, Larry even though he's not dead. God Bless the member's who still alive. And may the members who went home to glory RIP💖💗
Rip my guys Ron Willie and Lenny
Takes me back home my cousin Jimmy favorite song the abest God bless him he in Heaven.
Dramatics throwing down,love y'all.
You are sosososososo awsome
WOW - they STILL SOUND (and look) GOOD!!!! Thank you, karylg.
2o21 August 12 the best group ever forever more amen thank yall
Let's go soakin wet Lenny in heaven. Love The Dramatics
I love this song! Listening from Azusa California 12/01/2022
How in Hell did I miss that one 10 yrs ago in H-Town Debra Duncan 😱!!!🤠🤔🤗🎶🎤💯
Wow!!! all I can say is that this tape, of this one in life time group is a treasure!!! 💯💥👏🏽✊🏽
I WAS AT THIS PERFORMANCE AT THE DEBRA DUNCAN TV SHOWIN HOUSTON!!! 😱
This was a great group from the ground up! The were real badd ass every time on stage, and their band kicked ass also.
Lenny be da' shit.
My true love Lenny Mays 💏
Nothing absolutely nothing about The Dramatics music it's like a fine wine a beautiful piece of art a precious ballet it's in a class all its own
LOVE LENNY MAYS VOICE
Lenny and LJ sounds so much alike, and they favor each other as well.
Weegee and Larry Demps we're the originals loved that first group in the rain rip weegee
I don't think Larry was an original he came way after
@@josevillagrana571 you're totally WRONG. Larry "Squirrel" Demps was one of the oriiginal members. Winzell Kelly replaced him.
SOUL POWER !!!!!!!
Still listening !!!❤❤❤❤❤
11 - 10 -23
Der beste Regen aller zeiten
Lenny kisses to the heaven for you ! And i steel Love you for ever!
Willie Ford and Lenny Mayes were the best in the group.
❤❤❤Old school music for me
Hey watch Winzell Kelly!! He held his own up there with those veteran performers. He saved the mike too :-)
Will never be forgotten RiH I love this group !!!!
It’s been at least 40yrs since l seen Winzell Kelly… wow :)
Winzell Kelly
That woman needed to sit in her seat. She took away from the performance jumping up there. All that ab-living by the lead singer in the first song messed the performance up.
Amen
lenny was great voice with in the group so was LJ and Ron,larry and Willie this is the real member of the group to me even though lenny Willie and LJ weren't original member
Gregory Williams willie is
Oh know l stand to correct yu Willie Ford the OG.
Agreed! except for that one song "In the Rain".
No one in the world could have surpassed Wee Gee on that one.
LENNY MAYES IS ONE OF THE GREATEST UNKNOWN LEAD SINGERS OF ALL TIME WAY BETTER THAN LJ who.
Oh Debra Duncan was jamming
Yaaassssss.......
what year was this
2000
O grupo perdeu muito com a morte de Lenny ele era fantastico
isso, q ia perguntar o q aconteceu com o vocalista .não era esse ele morreu? e de que?
Great great great great great great
That is LJ over Weegy anytime
Give me Oh Any time over Weegy. Sorry
LJ, Willie, Lenny not original. Only Ron Banks is original
❤❤for. God so. Loved 😍🤩 the. World 🌎🌍. He. Gave his. Only. Begotten. Son. That. Who. So. Ever. Believe. Him. Will not. Parrish. Means
Die. In your. Sinns.
When. We. Reject. Jesus Christ. Will. Die. In our. Sinns. An. Go. To. HeLL
No disrespect but they do not sound good at all to me. The music is helping drowning out the bad vocals.
This is after they have been singing together since 1973 the vocals are still strong also Lenny at this time was battling lung cancer Ron had a heart condition but they all were on stage holding their own.
This group has been together since 1973 and some of them before then. Lenny at this time is battling lung cancer and Ron with a heart condition and I still think they were holding their own. This is real old school music with people who knew how to really sing and harmonize. Listen to some of their music from back in the day . One of the best groups out during that time.
Go buy one of their albums they had about five number ones on the top ten charts
Like I said the first time no disrespect to this group. I'm very familiar with The Dramatics music, but this particular song does not sound good to me and that is in my opinion. I do believe in this day and time we are still able to have our own opinion.
Thank you
@@eyvonnecottrell8575
You're more than welcome
I hate to bust all of you LJ REYNOLDS LOVERS, but LJ ain't even no where close in singing ability to the original lead singer William wee gee Howard. NOT ONLY IS LJ REYNOLDS NOT ON THE SAME PLANET AS WEE GEE, BUT LJ AIN'T EVEN IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS WEE GEE. I hate to hear LJ Reynolds just butcher whatcha see is whatcha get. WEE GEE WAS SO MUCH BETTER IT'S NOT EVEN A ARGUMENT. Wee Gee was a much better dancer. that's why they called him THE ELECTRIFYING WEE GEE HOWARD.
Oran Payne So Right.
Oran Payne so why is l.j REYNOLDS SO HIGHLY Rated as a lead vocalist by the music historians and connoisseurs? I know wee gee has a greater range and power.but l.j's ability to preach& innovates is better and you can be a very good singer but if your voice don't fits the tune, it might not sound good and singer of lesser ability does it better.ive heard and seen Dramatics doing that same tune you're critzing L.J doing, let tell you could've hardly recognised the difference when L. j belted out BELTED OUT HEY YOU !GET OFF MY MOUNTAIN.
Maica Clarke Let me give you the game. Wee Gee Howard, Tony Hester, The Squirrel made the Dramatics, period. Not LJ Reynolds. Wee Gee was a much better singer and dancer than L.J. could dream of. Did you ever see Wee Gee Howard LIVE with the Dramatics? Cause I have and there is no comparison. Wee Gee was a much better lead singer than L.J. could dream of.
Maica Clarke Also have you heard L.J. Reynolds just butcher Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get. A slaughter house couldn't do a better job of butchering a song like L.J. Could. L.J. can't hit the notes, can't hold the notes and just butchers this song and In The Rain.
Maica Clarke excuse me but about how old are you? I looked at your profile and couldn't guess your age. The reason that I ask is that if you are not in your very late 50s or in your 60s, you couldn't have possibly seen Wee Gee or heard him with the dramatics. Wee Gee was out of the dramatics in 1973. See I know what I am talking about.
+come on antoine johnson,no way is lenny mayes better than l.j. reynolds,who is highly rated by the music historians and connoisseurs.
Maica Clarke Lenny had the best showmanship of the group. He had the personality and was the group's best dancer.
jimy0803 ,best personality is the Leader Ronald Dean Banks,we concur about who's the best dancer.
wait! have ya'll seen squirrel get down on the dance floor. JS
Lenny was it.....!!!
Lenny is a better solo singer, and LJ a better group lead
Sing it love this song . ( Detroit's Own Dramatics ) ❤🩹💝❤❤🩹💗 2022
All gone as of 2022. Everything comes to an end and there are several groups calling them selves the dramatic but they are covers