@@waynedexter We were entertained by artists with voices , of course auto tune didn't exist it was created for these non singing artists of today. My father was a saxophonist with a band and you got your money's worth. Auto tune made it possible for the music of today because without it most wouldn't be in the business. So take that!
@@honeylove7678 You made a generalization, and it’s painful. I know hyperbole and exaggerated is the rule of thumb, especially in the CZcams comment section. Folks say stuff just based how how it makes them feel and not on reality. If you want a list of current artists that don’t use auto tune just holla
You responded to a statement I made to the Emotions at the Wattstax festival whom I've seen in person, auto tune didn't exist, entertainers back in the day had voices there was no fear of going to a concert and really enjoying it. I listen to plenty of artists Will Downing, Sade, Cleo Soul etc. auto tune has made dreams a reality for some of the younger generation.
I would argue that this sounds a little flat at various points and it sounds like she's straining her voice. Some of the notes don't sound as welll-supported as the they did on the studio version. The studio version sounds much smoother
Pure talent and grace. You don’t need to take your clothes off all you gotta do is let your vocals and your performance shine, and the audience will always love you.
This is an absolutely magnificent live performance without any lip sync and auto tune didn't exist! The biggest female group of the 70's. Absolutely Magnificent
I'll say it again and again. The 60's and 70"s had the best and purest music. Live singing and musicians playing real instruments. You just can't get any better then this. You've got to love the Hutchinson Sisters. RIP Pamela! 🙏🌻💞
Rise In Power Pamela Hutchinson your angelic voice will live on forever. My condolences to the Hutchinson Family. The Emotions are legendary. The voices of angels.
NOW this is what I call LIVE ENTERTAINMENT....FANTASTIC vocals and BEAUTIFUL sisters....GREAT harmony....It doesn't get any better than this!!!....70s BEST MUSIC 💯❤
I was 6yrs. old when this song was out and I use to jump around like crazy along with my older sisters whenever this song played on the radio or 8 track... Those were the days of good times, little crime, and good music!
They wereTrue talented professionals. This is 1977 and they sound better than today's singers . I sure hope that male and female singing groups make a comeback. I miss good singing. ..I miss r&b.
What a song! What talent! One of the greatest feel good songs of all time. Thats what music in the last 20 years has lost, it doesn't take you to places like this and make you feel this good and just want to get up and dance!
that's a serious audio attack. I might've stayed quiet if that was the first time seeing this live and didn't know them. Because those harmonies, & clear voices is AWWEEEE INSPIRING. BUT, once the song was over, I would've stood on my feet yelling & applauding. LOVE: THE HUMAN DNA
I love this song! It is one of the songs from my childhood that really makes me smile. I mean, Kodak smile, LOL! I just feel so happy when I hear it! I know...weird.
Thats the way you do it right there...playing live, with horns, live voices, no lip syncing or modulation. True talent on display back in the 70s, they weren't messing around. Hardly anything nowadays comes close to 70s & 80s music.
jeff u used the word hardly,well now its 2018 and auto tune,untalented "artist" and emotionless music(get it thats a drake song get it) are top of the chart somehow,its not just that we have the tech to listen to music around the world its that theres nothing good playin in the US,really sad
Do you really want to see white people dance? I am European-American and am one of the few who CAN dance but many of my friends have not a single rythmic bone in their bodies! If you watch many performances from the 70's note that the crowds are basically just sitting there. The Hippie flower dancing has left the building and the crowd surfing mosh pit disaster had yet to rear it's ugly head.
Jody R Most of the millions upon millions of white Latin-Americans dance. It has nothing to do with race; it's all about environment. A black girl raised by Polish farmers will not dance
Chavezoid Actually, she very well may have been able to dance, even despite being raised by Polish people. There is a correlation between melanin and rhythm. This is why Black artists like Drake, Deborah Cox, and a host of others who were from White surroundings (they’re both from Canada), still tend to have talent and rhythm. This is why almost all of the popular music worldwide, even in Latin American countries, has African roots.
Love this song and the album was off the chain! Great performance from Chicago Own! No one sounds like Wanda and little Sheila with squeak in her voice was always a fan of both women voices. For the young folks they are all sisters and one sister left to be replaced by another sister.
Please SOMEBODY bring the midnight special back. I understand it was during dead air time back then, but hell most of air time is dead now. When you made it to the Midnight special as an Artist... You MADE IT... LOVED THAT SHOW.
This song never sounds played out to me. I love family types of gatherings where someone puts this song on and everybody goes in. It definitely reminds me of fun times before the bills came.
On this day in 1977 {July 23rd} the Emotions' "Best of My Love" regained the #1 spot {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B chart... It first reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on June 25th, then "Easy" by the Commodores became #1 {for 1 week} and then the girls jumped back into the top spot... They had a similar fate on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; they reached #1 {for 4 weeks} then were replaced by "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb for 1 week, then regained #1 for 1 more week...
I know this is a deadly old comment, but I’m reaching my 20’s and this instrumental is just.. gorgeous. I miss the clavinet, that needs to be a thing again
![The Emotions- "Best Of My Love" 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/diw_1ae4l68/mqdefault.jpg)
No auto tune just raw talent.
Absolutely magnificent vocals
classy, beautiful, talented ladies!
The Emotions!!! No auto-tune when they performed, singing was backed with a live band. The good ole' days I'll always cherish.
Auto tune didn’t exist back then so there’s that
@@waynedexter We were entertained by artists with voices , of course auto tune didn't exist it was created for these non singing artists of today. My father was a saxophonist with a band and you got your money's worth. Auto tune made it possible for the music of today because without it most wouldn't be in the business. So take that!
@@honeylove7678 You made a generalization, and it’s painful. I know hyperbole and exaggerated is the rule of thumb, especially in the CZcams comment section. Folks say stuff just based how how it makes them feel and not on reality. If you want a list of current artists that don’t use auto tune just holla
You responded to a statement I made to the Emotions at the Wattstax festival whom I've seen in person, auto tune didn't exist, entertainers back in the day had voices there was no fear of going to a concert and really enjoying it. I listen to plenty of artists Will Downing, Sade, Cleo Soul etc. auto tune has made dreams a reality for some of the younger generation.
Cleo Sol would’ve been on that list 😝
Same key, hit all the notes both lead singer and backups. Real talent and tremendous song.
I would argue that this sounds a little flat at various points and it sounds like she's straining her voice. Some of the notes don't sound as welll-supported as the they did on the studio version. The studio version sounds much smoother
@@jakemiles1427 its called raw talent bozo
@@calibre8718 OH so you're saying she didn't vocal lessons, gotcha.
Pure talent and grace. You don’t need to take your clothes off all you gotta do is let your vocals and your performance shine, and the audience will always love you.
This is an absolutely magnificent live performance without any lip sync and auto tune didn't exist!
The biggest female group of the 70's.
Absolutely Magnificent
SING IT LADIES!! There's nothing like the 70's and I would love to see a movie made about The Emotions. They are so deserving of it!!
normas da cidade
Which city?
💔💔💔
REST IN PEACE
PAMELA HUTCHERSON
(09-18, 2020)
midnight special should have its own youtube channel for oldies like this so that i can watch them
RIP MY BROTHER MAURICE WHITE
Unsung: The Emotions brought me here!
Me too
I'll say it again and again. The 60's and 70"s had the best and purest music. Live singing and musicians playing real instruments. You just can't get any better then this. You've got to love the Hutchinson Sisters. RIP Pamela! 🙏🌻💞
Well said! 💯
You are sooooo right 🎉🎉🎉
Definitely the biggest song of 1977. #1 twice in different quarters of the year, now that's big!
One of the GREATEST songs of all time!!!!!👍👍👍👍✨✨✨👍👍👍👍👍
What a huge hit back in 1977. I think of my teen self with her friends in the 70's, singing and dancing to this song. What a fun time it was.
Probably the most vocally talented group during this time
Gives me goosebumps everytime I hear them sing! 🥰
I remember I liked this song alot when I was 5. Still do like it😎
Sad that Pamela has passed.
MHSRIP.
This song lives forever in most people's hearts.
Which 1 is she?
@@dominiquedevereux7205 the one on the right.
@@patrickmakombe7037 OK. Thank you.
you can't beat EWF putting out some of the greatest funk rythms of all time!! Maurice white you the Man!!
Ah the Clavinet! The sound of the seventies. These ladies had serious voices. Another great Maurice White song.
Rise In Power Pamela Hutchinson your angelic voice will live on forever. My condolences to the Hutchinson Family. The Emotions are legendary. The voices of angels.
Pure Excellence!!!! 2020!!!
This song gives me the chills. Thanks EWF and the Emotions. Love and miss y'all.
Hard to believe this is live... incredible.... !!! What voices these gorgeous ladies have
kkkkk
reza a lenda viva
REST IN LOVE AND POWER PAMELA ROSE HUTCHISON.
THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING WONDERFUL GIFT.
I'm going to learn how to play this song with my bass..this week....I remember my folks use to listen to this...plus - I like the bass line...
I use to try my best to stay up until midnight to watch this show. Especially if there was someone like The Emotions going to be on
Outstanding. One of the best 70s disco songs. This is a nice version of it, too.
no autotune, just true talent.
NOW this is what I call LIVE ENTERTAINMENT....FANTASTIC vocals and BEAUTIFUL sisters....GREAT harmony....It doesn't get any better than this!!!....70s BEST MUSIC 💯❤
Voices... naturally, clear, beauties, original... Real, true...
Bunch of beautiful ladies 😁
I remember watching this very episode of Midnight Special the summer of 77 at 14 years old...... Special memories
love the funk clav in this version...
I LOVE her voice, it's her vocals that makes this song one of my favorites EVER, she sang the hell out of it💖
Wanda Hutchinson - a 70s icon. What a voice.
I was 6yrs. old when this song was out and I use to jump around like crazy along with my older sisters whenever this song played on the radio or 8 track... Those were the days of good times, little crime, and good music!
I miss 8 tracks!
Sounds GREAT!
Them girls are STILL gettin' it THIS good today!!! FORTY YEARS LATER!!!!
These suits are everything to me! I love a cute white suit!
I get emotional when ever I listen to emotions, great group
Wow ! Love that song and they did it fantastic live!!
Real talent, 70's style back then...miss those good ole' days, wore this album out!!!!
"Rejoice"...love The Emotions!!!
What talent!!!!!! Awesome........thanks for sharing this gem in these days of auto-tune and "produced" music. Thank you Lord I was raised in the '70s!
They wereTrue talented professionals. This is 1977 and they sound better than today's singers . I sure hope that male and female singing groups make a comeback. I miss good singing. ..I miss r&b.
This kind of gift transcends all dimensions. Love it.
What a song! What talent! One of the greatest feel good songs of all time. Thats what music in the last 20 years has lost, it doesn't take you to places like this and make you feel this good and just want to get up and dance!
that's a serious audio attack. I might've stayed quiet if that was the first time seeing this live and didn't know them. Because those harmonies, & clear voices is AWWEEEE INSPIRING. BUT, once the song was over, I would've stood on my feet yelling & applauding.
LOVE: THE HUMAN DNA
I love this song! It is one of the songs from my childhood that really makes me smile. I mean, Kodak smile, LOL! I just feel so happy when I hear it! I know...weird.
Hello Latonia I still like Best Of My Love also. very good music. I feel happy when I hear that song also. Take care Latonia.
This song makes me happy too.
Thats the way you do it right there...playing live, with horns, live voices, no lip syncing or modulation. True talent on display back in the 70s, they weren't messing around. Hardly anything nowadays comes close to 70s & 80s music.
Jeff Cobb Only one problem...the horns (which imho are the best part of the tune were dubbed in here by synthesizer) Just not the same.
jeff u used the word hardly,well now its 2018 and auto tune,untalented "artist" and emotionless music(get it thats a drake song get it) are top of the chart somehow,its not just that we have the tech to listen to music around the world its that theres nothing good playin in the US,really sad
So true.
Love the Emotions
I'm old. Great Maurice Whtie song!
En ese programa tenían la opción de bailar en vivo!!!!! que lindos recuerdos!
Damnn they slay on the vocals!!!
She sings with such an open, happy force. I really like this upload! What a gift .. thanks for it.
Wow! That was incredible!
I love the Emotions! so much energy!!
Midnight Special was all that! And the performers did LIVE performances, which is what made it so special.
It still amazes me how certain audiences could be so subdued during this great soulful performances. Smh
Do you really want to see white people dance? I am European-American and am one of the few who CAN dance but many of my friends have not a single rythmic bone in their bodies! If you watch many performances from the 70's note that the crowds are basically just sitting there. The Hippie flower dancing has left the building and the crowd surfing mosh pit disaster had yet to rear it's ugly head.
Jody R Most of the millions upon millions of white Latin-Americans dance. It has nothing to do with race; it's all about environment. A black girl raised by Polish farmers will not dance
Chavezoid Actually, she very well may have been able to dance, even despite being raised by Polish people. There is a correlation between melanin and rhythm. This is why Black artists like Drake, Deborah Cox, and a host of others who were from White surroundings (they’re both from Canada), still tend to have talent and rhythm. This is why almost all of the popular music worldwide, even in Latin American countries, has African roots.
Wow, what a song to stand up and dance to, and look at all those folk sitting and listening. 🤷🏽
Love this song and the album was off the chain! Great performance from Chicago Own! No one sounds like Wanda and little Sheila with squeak in her voice was always a fan of both women voices. For the young folks they are all sisters and one sister left to be replaced by another sister.
That l ead singer!!!!!!GOOD LORD JESUS!!!!! BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL SONG😍😍😍😍
I was 8 or 9 when this song came out. I love it.
Damn you old lol
These Three sisters were so good together 👍👍 and look great 😃 Sheila, Wanda and Pam just incredible 🤗 luv these Queens 😄
*NATURAL BEAUTY* nothing fake👍💯🙌🤗❤😁
menrnerencing, how u got the best of my love, and how great of singers the Emotions were
Simple elegance and grace, with the moves to match, I bet todays singers could not sing live and hit those notes.
Awesome ! Classic indeed !
Man the 70s was just so superior... good music any way you turned...who knew we were living in the best decade of music..then..
Please SOMEBODY bring the midnight special back. I understand it was during dead air time back then, but hell most of air time is dead now. When you made it to the Midnight special as an Artist... You MADE IT... LOVED THAT SHOW.
Keith Hill Why do you want to bring this show back, most of today artist suck. Bring back the good music first, then bring this show back.
This song never sounds played out to me. I love family types of gatherings where someone puts this song on and everybody goes in. It definitely reminds me of fun times before the bills came.
Just watched them on Way Black When on TV One! 2-21-11 they still go it!~ audience gave them a deserved Standing Ovation~~ WOW!~~
awesome pop/dance song; gets folks on the floor !!
Oh shit!!! Fukkin Midnight Special!!! Damn I miss these days! Real voices, real instruments!
I LOVE THEM !!
muy buen tema !!!
I sang this on American idol I love this song
Wow I never seen these ladies live they were good
And they got the steps down and the voice - excellent!
On this day in 1977 {July 23rd} the Emotions' "Best of My Love" regained the #1 spot {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B chart...
It first reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on June 25th, then "Easy" by the Commodores became #1 {for 1 week} and then the girls jumped back into the top spot...
They had a similar fate on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; they reached #1 {for 4 weeks} then were replaced by "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb for 1 week, then regained #1 for 1 more week...
awesome..because, so emaculate..still after all these years..
Can't Feel My Face reminds me of this song
Great song 🎶
Lit of memories from when I was little
Great music
These ladies are the real deal (bowing down).
Rest In Peace Maurice White and Pamela Hutchinson. Love your songs.
A little gem, this is what makes CZcams great and groovy
So much good music in the 1970's love the instrumental in the background. Those under 30 cannot appreciate this.
I know this is a deadly old comment, but I’m reaching my 20’s and this instrumental is just.. gorgeous. I miss the clavinet, that needs to be a thing again
可愛い❤
they are one of the greatest.
i always enjoyed these sisters habits
excelente recuerdo, año 1977, the emotions,
never saw this one of my fave song ever!
The Emotions was my favorite female singing group back in the 70’s and today they are still is
Just saw them today at the LA county fair. Awesome!!!!!!!!
Wow, first time seeing this. They sound nice live.
1977 best era ever
I love this song 🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶❤❤❤
Do you know how many of today's artists would just fall apart if they had to perform live?? Without their studio backup? Ha!
Imagine them trying to perform without electricity and you'd soon find out who the real artists are.
These outfits are so cute, oh my god