The song "Band of Gold" was singer Freda Payne's first gold record in 1970, but she was no newcomer to the scene, having released her first album in 1964.
Freda should get a job teaching todays pop stars how to sing and dance. I'm so glad I grew up in the 60's/70's when we had such great music and lovely ladies.
Similarly, that's exactly how I feel about Beyonce. Her music doesn't do her talent justice because that woman is a force on stage. But I agree, Miss Freda is so relaxed, yet so captivating.
@@TailorK9 It's live. She does many things different from the studio version (growls, more runs, etc). You must not heard of the studio version. Listen to the very end. It's obvious she was singing live.
@@TailorK9 You do not see the horn player toward the end in this video although it looks like people holding lights you can see it is the shine of those horns .Again the studio version played in the radio does nit sound like this.Also during this time the Tv shows,Variety always had a live band who played for these artist.We did not have a track playing behind artist except mist times on Soul Train and American Bandstand.
I am listening to this song, August 28, 2021. Tears are in my eyes because this song took me back to 1970 when I was in the 9th grade at Whitted Junior High School in Durham, North Carolina. I miss those days and friendships from the past in the 70's.
-- No lip syncing. -- No twerking. -- No foul language. Just raw talent in all of its glory! Thank goodness this uploader did not copy over this live soundtrack with the studio version. The studio version is great. But here we get to see her and hear her.
Yess Ms. Freda get it queen! What a gorgeous lady with a great voice. The lyrics are actually so deep. Here in 2020 vibin to this classic song! Love this!
Always a classy, gorgeous, stunning,talented lady. Every girl growing up in the seventies wanted to grow up and look like, be like Ms. Payne!!!!!!! Ms. Payne is still simply beautiful!!!!!
I get where you’re coming from comparing this era to that era. but also this would have been considered raunchy back in the day, also her other performances she’s more raunchy and provocative. And there’s nothing wrong with that she’s a goddess with so much talent, being raunchy shouldn’t be deemed as unclassy or shamed. saying that “ kids these days” don’t have class and don’t have to be raunchy is silly AF because almost all rockstars who made an impact from way back are raunchy or have some kind of sex appeal stage presence. (Elvis thrusting his hips on stage for example) A girl showing her knee cap back in the day would have been the same scare factor and as twerking now. So it doesn’t matter how talented you are if you wanna show sex appeal then it shouldn’t matter and you shouldn’t be labelled as not classy for doing it. You can be classy and have sex appeal and be horny because we are all human. So who cares. We need to stop putting people down, especially the youngens who are ok with there sexuality. anyone who has ever lived over the age of 25 has said “kids these days are too provocative/ too sexual blah blah” (even me) but its BS! because kids have ALWAYS been sexual! Always. It’s nature, dating way back. it’s just becoming more acceptable and less taboo as the years pass on. So let’s all get over it and where it’s going, it’s not the 60’s anymore we are progressing forward in normalising sexuality so get over it and get with the times. it doesn’t matter. It’s evolution. People with talent will explore both there talent AND there sexuality so let it be.
@@diyanahjean9191 No it was not considered 'raunchy'. Using that adjective makes your whole rant not worth reading. The level of distinction between being seductive, which she was and being raunchy evidently goes past your level of morality. HUGE difference compared to the whorish trash now days.
She had a voice- listen to how she can hold a note. She had poise. She was gorgeous. Look at how the audience is clapping. watch how she moves. Sensual, not sleazy. she was soul royalty. A queen.
♪♫ This Day in Music: September 21, 1970 - Freda Payne was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Band Of Gold”, the singers only UK No.1 which spent six weeks at the top of the chart. The song peaked at No. 3 in the USA and was written by former Motown songwriter/producers, Holland-Dozier-Holland (under the pseudonym of Edythe Wayne) and Ron Dunbar. In 2004, Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" was voted number 391 in Rolling Stone magazine's listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ♪♫
Freda Payne was and is still a superstar. Simply Beautiful. I was 13 when my mother brought the 45 single of 'Band Of Gold' home from the GC Murphy's Record Department, we played that record for months on end, both sides. 20 years ago I bought the Vinyl LP at a record convention. And I have played it back to back over and over. Wonderful memories still. While I have many, two of my favorites by her are, 'I left some dreams back there' and 'Cherish what is dear to you while it's near to you. Produced by Holland, Dozier, Holland. Classic R&B with meaning and beauty.
tomsmusicforallofyou I have a chance to see her in concert during November. I didn't even know she was still performing. She didn't have that many Top-40 hits, as I recall.
I was 10. My Dad took me to the record store. The clerk took my Dad to the back to listen to it because it was about divorce. Dad wouldn’t allow me to get it. He bought me Wipe Out instead. Scarred me worse than the song!
I was in high school when this was a hit and I remember watching her on TV and totally falling in love! She is amazingly beautiful and amazingly talented.
Remember this song - use to hear each Friday as I rode with my dad to Syracuse to have my braces adjusted. This song and "Take a Letter Maria" at the tender age of 10, I had to wonder if marriage would last?
This was my first love and mine song. We had a fantastic relationship together and I made a grave mistake of leaving her for someone that wasn't the right one in 1970.
Back when people actually had talent and autotune didn't fix their shortcomings. Singers today pale in comparison with their American Idol genre screaming.
I lost this song more than 45 years ago, did not know interpreter nor title. But always had the melody in my head - I've never heard the song again, until today! For me today is a very special day. And I wish each of you such special days!
Wow. Freda rocked this performance vocally and visually. Love the hot moves. You can tell how musical she is groovin' with that live band and on point rhythmically and with perfect intonation. With a voice, look and style like that, it baffles me that she wasn't an even bigger star with many more hits to her credit. Some A&D guy totally missed the boat. Fantastic post. Thanks!
Thankfully not true. After Bring the Boys Home she had her own tv show, appeared in movies, and performed on Broadway. She changed labels, music tastes eventually changed (she released 3 disco albums), but she never did chart as high as this song. Bring the Boys Home was her second gold record--iirc her only other one.
Oh hell yeah. She looked like a deer in the headlights AND scared shitless in the lipsyncing video of 1970. I hope that it is in part because the music wasn't actually playing. That would at least partially explain the seizure-like movements of some of the dancers....who had all grown up learning that dancing was a two-person movement of not a ton a variety, other than what was taught in the ''20s 50s (charleston, swing, uh....well, I'm not a historian, but in terms of the past 500 years, or more, dancing essentially 'alone' to beats people had a rough time figuring out how to move their bodies to, that few decades and HUGE musical changes between the 19th century and MoTown...well, can't fault these people. And, it's not just white dancers that struggled. Watch Soul Train from it's first year. You'll see.
Easier to agree with you than restate what you said. I was so happy to find this, she really made it look so easy and sound so clear, it sounded like it could have been a studio version.
She is lip syncing here also. What's wrong with you people? Sometimes I think I'm living in a world of Helen Kellers. I'm not criticizing Freda, I'm criticizing you idiots.
I was 9 when I first heard it. Now that I listen to the lyrics it sounds like something from a shrink's couch. :) But at the time it had a lot of energy and yearning and that's I guess what connected with me.
Finally found this. I thought Lulu sang it and could not find it yea I'm happy. I'm eighty two woman and having so much fun listening to old favourites it's bringing good and bad memories back lol
I remember this song from before I could even speak. When vocals were just sounds. Nothing gives me a more powerful sense of nostalgia than this song. Phenomenal.
Without the funk guitar of Dennis Coffey, this performance falls short. The great funk guitar performance along with her great vocal work made the single pure magic!
The radio version was playing today while I was shopping at Publix supermarkets. I heard it a lot in life but not for awhile. I now have it as an ear worm and have read about the lyrics and I'm watching CZcams videos of it and all that. Lol.
I lived on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba-US Naval Base, when this song was out. I remember Gladys D. singing to it, under the Cabana. The song was being danced to, the wind was coming off the water, and salt filled the air at Windmill Beach. Thanks for memories of the greatest place on earth, and of a great song that stands the test of time!
Of the videos I've seen of Freda performing this song in 1970 when it first came out, this is my favorite. It's a slightly faster tempo than the studio version, but not so fast as to throw off what made it work in the first place. And the sound and video quality is good -- as is the live accompanying band and Freda's performance in general. Love it!
Freda should get a job teaching todays pop stars how to sing and dance. I'm so glad I grew up in the 60's/70's when we had such great music and lovely ladies.
Me too, born in 1963. We still had class and some of the best music in American history.
Similarly, that's exactly how I feel about Beyonce. Her music doesn't do her talent justice because that woman is a force on stage. But I agree, Miss Freda is so relaxed, yet so captivating.
Best performance of this song. No lip sync and perfect. What a beautiful creature:)
i agree. so far that i have seen, this is the one. ✌
I think you're right. At the time of this hit any male of any race loved her beauty !!!
You are joking, right? You think this isn't lip syncing? See your eye doctor before you lose all your vision.
@@TailorK9 It's live. She does many things different from the studio version (growls, more runs, etc). You must not heard of the studio version. Listen to the very end. It's obvious she was singing live.
@@TailorK9 You do not see the horn player toward the end in this video although it looks like people holding lights you can see it is the shine of those horns .Again the studio version played in the radio does nit sound like this.Also during this time the Tv shows,Variety always had a live band who played for these artist.We did not have a track playing behind artist except mist times on Soul Train and American Bandstand.
I am listening to this song, August 28, 2021. Tears are in my eyes because this song took me back to 1970 when I was in the 9th grade at Whitted Junior High School in Durham, North Carolina. I miss those days and friendships from the past in the 70's.
Life went pretty fast, huh? It's the same for us all, brother.
They were the best times, best music, best friends.
I was 9 yrs old. Didn't understand love between couples yet. But I liked this song.
The Great Freda Payne
🙌 My Senior year
This lady was drop dead gorgeous!
I definitely agree and I’m a white guy. I’d actually ask for her hand in marriage if she would give it to me. And yes!!! “WITH A BAND OF GOLD”
@@jimgross7921 that's mitey white of you and no she wouldn't!
Correction she IS gorgeous even now!
@@destineydevereux4722What the hell? 🤨
She’s still very beautiful and on IG
-- No lip syncing.
-- No twerking.
-- No foul language.
Just raw talent in all of its glory!
Thank goodness this uploader did not copy over this live soundtrack with the studio version. The studio version is great. But here we get to see her and hear her.
No tattoos
nothing wrong with tattoos, stop that please
and she's sexier than all of them.
Tattoos make women look hard. Too masculine.
This woman should be in the conversation as one of the best singers ever
A classic lady. We need more like her now. Great Voice.
No man would leave Freda alone with a band of gold..
I go through every version there is on CZcams on a regular basis. I can’t get enough of this stunning woman and this perfect pop song.
She TORE this live performance up....YESSSSS!!!
Freda Payne was underated. She could sing her ass off. You know she used to be an understudy for another fine sister Leslie Uggams on Broadway.
Yess Ms. Freda get it queen! What a gorgeous lady with a great voice. The lyrics are actually so deep. Here in 2020 vibin to this classic song! Love this!
Always a classy, gorgeous, stunning,talented lady. Every girl growing up in the seventies wanted to grow up and look like, be like Ms. Payne!!!!!!! Ms. Payne is still simply beautiful!!!!!
This is how you sing kids........
lemoncellomusic too true
Absolutely
Singing live...Freda leaves today's trolls in the dust! :)
Her voice is just so pretty. It's hard to stop listening to.
What strikes me most besides Freda in this performance is that is it actually live, what a voice!
Loved this song since I was kid... and i've been dead for 2 years now and still love it
Lol
😂..this was my brother's favorite song. He would play it over and over. Thanks bro for this coming across my news feed today. Love and miss you bro.
Godbless
Nicest thing? It's actually live and not lip-synched.... I like this so much more than my 45 rpm.
Freda's outfit is EPIC!!!
Besides this song being amazing and her voice shining like a star... I adore her outfit!!!!
she wouldn't have waited long for me to come thru that door.
paul coulthard 😂😁😉
Me either. ..I wouldn't even stop to open it !😍
Know that’s right!:)
paul coulthard lol
From the voice to the way she holds herself up. True talent and beauty!
Can't find em like her anymore, Freda Payne.
+Kirk Sledge i hope we can because i dont want anything else
Female entertainers today should take note.
Back when performers had class and Freda shows the kids today you don't need to be raunchy if you have real talent.
so true.... and sad. Those days of hot but classy women is gone.
I get where you’re coming from comparing this era to that era. but also this would have been considered raunchy back in the day, also her other performances she’s more raunchy and provocative. And there’s nothing wrong with that she’s a goddess with so much talent, being raunchy shouldn’t be deemed as unclassy or shamed. saying that “ kids these days” don’t have class and don’t have to be raunchy is silly AF because almost all rockstars who made an impact from way back are raunchy or have some kind of sex appeal stage presence. (Elvis thrusting his hips on stage for example) A girl showing her knee cap back in the day would have been the same scare factor and as twerking now. So it doesn’t matter how talented you are if you wanna show sex appeal then it shouldn’t matter and you shouldn’t be labelled as not classy for doing it. You can be classy and have sex appeal and be horny because we are all human. So who cares. We need to stop putting people down, especially the youngens who are ok with there sexuality. anyone who has ever lived over the age of 25 has said “kids these days are too provocative/ too sexual blah blah” (even me) but its BS! because kids have ALWAYS been sexual! Always. It’s nature, dating way back. it’s just becoming more acceptable and less taboo as the years pass on. So let’s all get over it and where it’s going, it’s not the 60’s anymore we are progressing forward in normalising sexuality so get over it and get with the times. it doesn’t matter. It’s evolution. People with talent will explore both there talent AND there sexuality so let it be.
@@diyanahjean9191 No it was not considered 'raunchy'. Using that adjective makes your whole rant not worth reading. The level of distinction between being seductive, which she was and being raunchy evidently goes past your level of morality. HUGE difference compared to the whorish trash now days.
Well said!!!
I agree with you the way they dress plz
What a beauty! Bring this back!
you too ;-)))
If you are what I see in your photo and you also like cyst popping than you must be my destiny.. fancy the Netherlands?
She had a voice- listen to how she can hold a note. She had poise. She was gorgeous. Look at how the audience is clapping. watch how she moves. Sensual, not sleazy. she was soul royalty. A queen.
What a talent. Something that's in short supply today.
♪♫ This Day in Music: September 21, 1970 - Freda Payne was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Band Of Gold”, the singers only UK No.1 which spent six weeks at the top of the chart. The song peaked at No. 3 in the USA and was written by former Motown songwriter/producers, Holland-Dozier-Holland (under the pseudonym of Edythe Wayne) and Ron Dunbar. In 2004, Freda Payne's "Band of Gold" was voted number 391 in Rolling Stone magazine's listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ♪♫
Late,but very cool info!
I love this woman, so glad she's still alive. Listening to this in 2018 from South Africa.
I remember this song. Didn't know what she looked like. Pretty doggone cute.
Those were the best years. Never to come again.
She was born to sign this great song and she gives it all she's got. And the lady has a lot to give. Brava my darling.
Great song and fantastic performance from Freda Payne:supersoul will never die!
NO NEWERS PROMISSE ALL WORDS !! !
Freda Payne was and is still a superstar. Simply Beautiful. I was 13 when my mother brought the 45 single of 'Band Of Gold' home from the GC Murphy's Record Department, we played that record for months on end, both sides. 20 years ago I bought the Vinyl LP at a record convention. And I have played it back to back over and over. Wonderful memories still. While I have many, two of my favorites by her are, 'I left some dreams back there' and 'Cherish what is dear to you while it's near to you. Produced by Holland, Dozier, Holland. Classic R&B with meaning and beauty.
tomsmusicforallofyou I have a chance to see her in concert during November. I didn't even know she was still performing. She didn't have that many Top-40 hits, as I recall.
+VILJL It's because after making the song "Bring the Boys Home" she was blackballed. No record Company would touch her.
G.C. Murphy's at Parkway City?
Music4allofU I,too,was 13....and was totally Nuts over this song !
I was 10. My Dad took me to the record store. The clerk took my Dad to the back to listen to it because it was about divorce. Dad wouldn’t allow me to get it. He bought me Wipe Out instead. Scarred me worse than the song!
I was in high school when this was a hit and I remember watching her on TV and totally falling in love! She is amazingly beautiful and amazingly talented.
To all the up and coming girls out there. Take a having class lesson from the queens of the past! Class overflowing!!!!
Remember this song - use to hear each Friday as I rode with my dad to Syracuse to have my braces adjusted. This song and "Take a Letter Maria" at the tender age of 10, I had to wonder if marriage would last?
Great singer, classic song, brilliant live performance.
This was my first love and mine song. We had a fantastic relationship together and I made a grave mistake of leaving her for someone that wasn't the right one in 1970.
Back when people actually had talent and autotune didn't fix their shortcomings. Singers today pale in comparison with their American Idol genre screaming.
you trying to starts fights LOL...so true
PREACH!!! ROBBING US OLDER PEOPLE OF INNOCENCE!!!! DAYS OF MORE 💘 AND ACCEPTANCE!!!
MUSIC TODAY IS HATE MUSIC!!!!
Elton john, " and best vocals go to Madonna"....." FUCK OFFFF!!!"
She doesn’t like racists like you!
I lost this song more than 45 years ago, did not know interpreter nor title. But always had the melody in my head - I've never heard the song again, until today!
For me today is a very special day. And I wish each of you such special days!
She is SOOO GORGEOUS!!!!
She was fine as wine back in the day...Wow!
mmjaljs they make like that anym5
This song brings back childhood memories! Back when things were simpler!
Wow. Freda rocked this performance vocally and visually. Love the hot moves. You can tell how musical she is groovin' with that live band and on point rhythmically and with perfect intonation. With a voice, look and style like that, it baffles me that she wasn't an even bigger star with many more hits to her credit. Some A&D guy totally missed the boat. Fantastic post. Thanks!
+Steve Washington No Steve no one missed it . She was blackballed for the song Bring the Boys Home. Check out the video on here.
+William Bryant That's genuinely tragic and everyone's loss if true.
Thankfully not true. After Bring the Boys Home she had her own tv show, appeared in movies, and performed on Broadway. She changed labels, music tastes eventually changed (she released 3 disco albums), but she never did chart as high as this song. Bring the Boys Home was her second gold record--iirc her only other one.
Yup - beautiful and very talented. Great combination.
she looks soooo much more comfortable in her live performances than the ones where she's lip-synching
Oh hell yeah. She looked like a deer in the headlights AND scared shitless in the lipsyncing video of 1970.
I hope that it is in part because the music wasn't actually playing. That would at least partially explain the seizure-like movements of some of the dancers....who had all grown up learning that dancing was a two-person movement of not a ton a variety, other than what was taught in the ''20s 50s (charleston, swing, uh....well, I'm not a historian, but in terms of the past 500 years, or more, dancing essentially 'alone' to beats people had a rough time figuring out how to move their bodies to, that few decades and HUGE musical changes between the 19th century and MoTown...well, can't fault these people. And, it's not just white dancers that struggled. Watch Soul Train from it's first year. You'll see.
Easier to agree with you than restate what you said. I was so happy to find this, she really made it look so easy and sound so clear, it sounded like it could have been a studio version.
She is lip syncing here also. What's wrong with you people? Sometimes I think I'm living in a world of Helen Kellers. I'm not criticizing Freda, I'm criticizing you idiots.
That crowd was not ready for her beautifulness and her greatness. That outfit is stunning. Beautiful always.
I Love The Way she moves, she was beautiful and could sing.
the very first record (45) that I ever bought at ten years old...still holds up well 46 years later
I was 9 when I first heard it. Now that I listen to the lyrics it sounds like something from a shrink's couch. :) But at the time it had a lot of energy and yearning and that's I guess what connected with me.
I bought the '45 too and was also 10 (in 1070)!
It sure does
maura obrien
Another kid who recalls spending that part of "weakly" allowance, but happily!
Me too
Rory-Not Gail: One of my favorites...and easy to sing. What a talented and classy woman.
My goosebumps just got their own goosebumps. This is fantastic.
Such tragic lyrics sung with so much enthusiasm and life!
How I wish we had artists and songs with soul like this. Modern music has lost it's soul.
Freda so beautiful she can also dance
No lip sync, no mime. And beautiful.
Beautiful song sang by a beautiful woman. . . 🌹🌹🌹🌹
I fell in love with her back in the day. Still makes my heart flutter. WOW.
Finally found this. I thought Lulu sang it and could not find it yea I'm happy. I'm eighty two woman and having so much fun listening to old favourites it's bringing good and bad memories back lol
She's got the looks and the moves. Beautiful
I love this... I just stumbled across it just now, but it took me back to 6th (?) grade! Thanks!
+Mark Ramono
Cool... you single?
I remember this song from before I could even speak. When vocals were just sounds. Nothing gives me a more powerful sense of nostalgia than this song.
Phenomenal.
wow. that was amazing , I had to show it to my wife. wow. that was a true act .
so classy...I was about 8 yrs old when this came out and just loved it then and now.
My god 10 outta 10!!!
I know this song but am noticing the singer for the first time my god she is an angel,
Without the funk guitar of Dennis Coffey, this performance falls short. The great funk guitar performance along with her great vocal work made the single pure magic!
Goodness beautiful voice and a beautiful lady!
Came here from vh1 I love the 70s. This still feels like a Motown joint.
Love it when the audience is in view.
Love you Freda.....
She had such a beautiful face and voice
I will never forget the this song i know every word
my oh my can that girl sing, love Freda all day and all night
The incomparable Freda Payne slayed it! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
This was spectacular.
The radio version was playing today while I was shopping at Publix supermarkets. I heard it a lot in life but not for awhile. I now have it as an ear worm and have read about the lyrics and I'm watching CZcams videos of it and all that. Lol.
Raw and unfiltered performance!
A childhood favorite of mine. I was either 3 or 4 depending when the song hit the airwaves.
Her voice is awesome, cant imagine her needing to lip sync anything
Great music and such a graceful, beautiful woman ✨✨
Incredible dancer, and signer!
No auto tune, just pure beautiful talent. This is why I never listen to the radio hardly ever.
Man, she was a babe. Great tune and performance
Love this song! Freda looks amazing❤
Close enough for the audience to smell this gorgeous, otherworldly creatures perfume.
She is so awesome and very down to earth in real life, keep shining, Freda Payne!
That front row so rightfully transfixed. One of the great beauties. Oh yeah; all-timer song, too.
What a great song
Beautiful Lady...
no lip syncing here. fantastic!
Love that voice, and that song made me break out in dance in a store one day
I lived on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba-US Naval Base, when this song was out. I remember Gladys D. singing to it, under the Cabana. The song was being danced to, the wind was coming off the water, and salt filled the air at Windmill Beach. Thanks for memories of the greatest place on earth, and of a great song that stands the test of time!
Of the videos I've seen of Freda performing this song in 1970 when it first came out, this is my favorite. It's a slightly faster tempo than the studio version, but not so fast as to throw off what made it work in the first place. And the sound and video quality is good -- as is the live accompanying band and Freda's performance in general. Love it!
Yes! What a woman! Incredible talent and what a voice!
Happy 75th Birthday Freda Payne
1970, 15 yrs old great song. My cute girl would always sing this song. Boy she was very cute and the cutest eyes.....ol my goodness.
Class and talent. I sure miss it.
Omg!!!!! Just perfect!!!!!!
Great song ! I like It when I was very young ... Remind me in the car leaving for vacances ! ;)