Ruth Brown - "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin on It" [Donahue 1990]
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Ruth Brown performs "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin on It" from BLACK AND BLUE followed by a short interview with Phil Donahue. Live on DONAHUE circa 1990.
I saw the show on Broadway. Got to know this dynamic performer...and she won the Tony for her performance this piece is from. A great lady!
Behold - the whitest audience in history. AWK-WARD
the lady at 4:30 was not amused... hahahahahahahahaha
She was, but ran outta expression 😄
As for African American music, I'd like to see a return to music like Ruth Browns from the 1950's brought back. All of the current music with Beyounce, and other female singers all now sound alike, the beat is the same, and nothing is original.....
The audience WISH they knew how to take Ms. Ruth.
+Fredicago Illanoise No doubt! Everyone looks like they're afraid to smile at such a scandalous thing on national television.
they are retentive because time has separated them from their emotions for the music
The visible blown minds, enchantment, the lust, the empowerment, the proud, the double meaning shock, the bars.... She created a multi faceted atmosphere and gave sunshine while playing with ⚡. Love Ruth Brown!
one of the 'architects' of what we call "popular music''...she was AWESOME. As Stevie Wonder, said "if there aint no Ruth Brown...there aint no Aretha Franklin". Ms Brown was THAT important to music. I regret that I never saw her live, in the last several yrs that she was active and traveling, mostly on the East Coast.
REMEMBERING THE QUEEN OF R&B, MY VA HOMIE
MISS RUTH BROWN (JANUARY 12, 1928 - NOVEMBER 17, 2006) [01/12/2017]
A Facebook post about Cardi and Meg's W.A.P. bought me here. I love this💜💜💜 Im a 91' baby and have never heard this 🤷🏾
She was very kind to me. I was on a movie set where she was a featured player. My dad asked her if his daughter (me) could ask a few questions because I sang. She immediately asked us to join us in her trailer. Hundreds of extras were outside and she was such a kind host. We spoke about her life. Then it was time for all of us to shoot the scene. I was blown away by her performance singing about a chair. I have been a big fan of hers ever since. Wow what a great woman
That was a wonderful testament. TY for sharing it. I met her while in highschool and Bonnie Raitt being a Quaker did Friends school tours and one day in Ohio she brought Ruth to visit. It was awesome.
The original MotorMouth Maybelle!
Hadn't thought about her in years.Sanford and Sons.
She deserved the Tony award she won for that wonderful show.
Great Sounds From a Wonderful Era Of the Greatest Music Ever. Thanks for post
Fantastic- the audience just couldn't handle it.
The white women in the audience are SO uncomfortable! LMAOOO
FACTS!
SOME of them- oh, yeah! But there was that older lady (or was it two?). She knew exactly what she was singing about, and lived through the jazz age. I saw her smiling, not batting a single eye.
If I'd been in the audience, I'd have been removed for squealing with glee! I adore Ruth Brown, and she killed it here! She was a gorgeous young woman, and an elegant queen as a senior. She never lost her sass or talent!
I am a 74 year old female, I am greatly astounded to be able to hear this Ruth Brown sing “Lucky Lips!” I was around the age of 5when my Godmother’s sister sung it to me.
Best Broadway show ever produced!
its always a wrong feeling to put legends into tv sterility in the modern idiom . the singer feels at a loss because of no atmos and audience cant connect...but...if you watch professionalism of the artiste and inner joy of the audience can be seen so somewhat like a birthday party in a nursing home. people will always be individuals
there is value and purpose and dignity on both sides even though its on a knife edge due to the hosting hollow fickle ness and thoughtlessness
sadly a valueless society, look at |Gene Vincent's trip to U.k a legend and treated underpar. there is fact in point watch it and you will see
At first, I was asking, "What's up with the bass?" As the bass was clearly acoustic, although it sounded very electronic/synthesizerish. But then once Phil started talking in his lower range, I kinda figured it out.
Omfg😂😂😂😂the white ppl
they should have lowered the lights over the audience a bit more.
That's racist
Fun fact this is Rakim's Aunt
Absolutely Fantabulous
omg So happy I found this. She is amazing.
Just grand stage presence! The ladies don’t know how to respond or act, but the guys seem to get her. ❤❤❤❤just priceless.
Some people or like "why is she singing about furniture?"
Rakim’s aunt 👏🏽😻
THE "GODMOTHER OF POP!"
She's in line with Eartha Kitt, Cher, Madonna and Britney in the POP Pantheon
Saw the show in New York. The costumes were just fabulous! Ruth did an amazing job!!!
The editing her is awful but that audience can't handle RUTH BROWN.
The audience seems constipated.
😂 good one
I love the double entendre.
I was VERY lucky to see Black & Blue. Had never heard Ruth Brown before and was BLOWN AWAY!!!!!.
the glorious Miss Rhythm
She;s great
The greatest. Miss Ruth Brown, what a woman!
Man at 1:23 was already in the hall before everyone else knew about that day's show
Man at 1:41 looked unimpressed. Or embarrassed because he didn’t get it.
if i cant sell it i sit on it
"any weight of size...."
Actually "any weight or size" ;-) love the double entendres in this song!
Godddddesssss!!!!
I saw 👀 a play about her this summer. Everyone in the audience enjoyed this song 🎵.
I love you, from🎉 Portsmouth VA, me to,I met her and danced with her in a Hampton VA concert, love her!!!!
magnificent performance
Lol. No one knows whether it's okay to laugh.
Amazing performance - That guy's look at 1:41, "my mom warned him about girls like this."
I remember I heard this song when I took a Burlesque class. I downloaded this song. Lol
Old white men in the audience, Oy! Times do not change. Ruth Brown is magnificent!
FAB-U-LOUS DARLING
Stiff-lipped audience. Moderate fanfare. Ruth was great!
TELL IT SISSTAA
i guess she didn't get many buyers, because it looks like she's been sitting on it a lot.
They had to edit this so much for daytime TV.
what the hell is wrong with the song
She is the aunt of Rakim from Eric B . & Rakim
Omg!
1:41 😂💀
The lady at 3:53 gets it
Sound like record player when they speak
These audience members are funny. lol
I'm from Portsmouth VA to
Love it ❤❤❤
It's like the audience are Amish or Quakers. Either they don't understand or they're shocked and offended. The occasional one daring to smile. What a great performance though.
Q U E E N
SALUTE TO OUR GREAT GREAT LEGENDARY SISTA 💎💎💎💎💎💎☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️MAMA ☀️☀️☀️💎💎💎💎☀️☀️☀️💎💎👑👑👑👑👑
Thank you so much for posting!
they cracking up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
its the donahue show!!
That was and is still awesome
i suppose its like going face off with god , unreal and you have to bare your soul emotions, anything else and people who know will see straight through you. wonderful and precious
birthday party in a nursing home...you know what i mean...some there because they feel they have to be there and some who have no choice and live there ...but Ruth and her music connect and thats what the special thing is, bringing folks together through music soul, its our first language shown by expression and immediate reaction
Do you have anything with smaller cushions?
Some didn't realize that she was referring to a chair and not her butt.
Ha, ha. She was not referring to her butt. lol That's what makes it such a great double-entendre song.
Bert Cooper at 1:24!