Beautiful song from Stevie as usual! I absolutely enjoyed watching the dancers as all 5 of them let the music move them away from a choreographed routine to doing what they felt. I must say the sister in the middle was feeling it and let it show! The white girl in the back went in as well....beautiful music has the power to do that- 1 May 2019
Hi! Thanks! I am the white girl to the right behind him! I still dance & still look the same at 69yo! We are in a Mural w/ Stevie at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, concourse B near the Rock Hall Store. The thrill of a lifetime to back up dance for Frankie Avalon, Bobbie Sherman,...view Edwin Starr "24 Miles" & Oliver singing Jean to me (that's my name) on RUclips too!
@@geanh7269 Hello Jean! In the years I have watched this, I always hoped someone from your group would post a message. What show did you perform on? And do you have a favorite memory from it? It’s so true how it seemed there was planned choreography, but then each of you just started doing your own thing. 😁Very fun to watch Stevie doing his Robert Palmer thing about 16 or 17 yrs before Robert did!
No, I am that girl on the top right, Jeannie. Hank was the Choreographer then. We rehearsed twice a week for a solo routine (no acts to back up) & we danced the routine he chose & we practiced. He was behind the camera; he had hand signals on when to fee style & when to resume the routine from the top. You saw how the "popcorn" step was popular!!
@@geanh7269 Oh Wow Gean, That's Awesome!!! So Then You're The One In The White Tights. Gorgeous!!! So Interesting About The Choreographed Dance Routines And Hand Signals To Free-Style. You And Lynda We're Sisters? Anyways Jennie I Fell In Love With You. So Pretty. You And Lynda. Lynda Was On The 'Camera' Left, And You We're On 'Camera' Right. Love Your Eyes, Smile, The Way You Danced.
@@geanh7269 Thank you for correcting me. I got this info from someone who claimed to be well aquainted with one of the ladies that was dancing. My apologies to youtube viewers for passing on incorrect info. But you must say you are dancing like you made it up. lol.
@@geanh7269 I love that routine it brings a smile to my face when I periodically watch it. You know we were groovin together back in those days. I'm 68.
Outstanding! There is nothing that is even the toenail of that these days! The pop scene these days has shamed itself in front of Motown Soul Greats like Stevie Wonder!
SMILE - the song, the dance, the simplicity and fun of it all! Whenever I hear this version of the song it brightens my day and provides a spark no matter what may be happening in this world thankyou!
For once in my life I have someone who needs me Someone I've needed so long For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me And somehow I know I'll be strong For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of Long before I knew Oh, someone warm like you Would make my dreams come true Yeah, yeah, yeah For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me Not like it's hurt me before (not like it's hurt before) For once, I have something I know won't desert me I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore) For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it As long as I know I have love, I can make it For once in my life, I have someone who needs me Ayy, ha-ha, ayy, yeah (Someone who needs me) Oh, baby, oh, baby For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me (for once in my life) Not like it's hurt me before For once, I have something I know won't desert me I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore) For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it As long as I know I have love, I can make it For once in my life, I have someone who need me (someone who needs me) Oh, for once in my life (Somebody that needs me) Yeah, somebody that needs me (Somebody that needs me) Ooh, baby For once in my life
Wonderful song. Takes me back to my childhood when I was ten years old and on school journey on the Isle of Wight and we danced to this song at the school camp disco every night. xxx :-)
What a talented musician Stevie Wonder is! Love this song so much. It is So uplifting. Love the music and the beat. He was a slim handsome young man then.
@@geanh7269At The Top Of The Comments... I Had Looking To Find Out Who You Were, I've Been In Total Complete Love With You!!! I Was Only 9 When That Song Charted, So I Am Myself Now 63, But I Bet We'd Still Make A Cute Couple. You're So Beautiful!!! Pretty Eyes, And You Dance So Sweetly... Love You!!! I Send You Kisses 😘 💕😍 From San Antonio, Texas.
Great song (originally done as a slow ballad by Tony Bennett -- how many of you knew that?!) Stevie Wonder's version with the Motown Funk Brothers backing him up is FANTASTIC. I like the girls, yes, even though they are not the best dancers! because they are cute and energetic. Love their outfits, too (white tights are cool!)
@@SpiderWireless G.K. is right. Jean DuShon did it first until Berry Gordy told Chess Records(her label) to cease promoting it as one of the song's composers is contracted through Motown. It was then recorded by Connie Haines(the first white female artist signed by Motown) but her version sat on the shelf for 50 years. Barbara McNair recorded it soon afterwards and that was released.
This video is amazing. Recently, I saw an advertisement, for Toyota, wholly inspired in this video. Stand out in it several points: Stevie Wonder still young, the content of the music, beautifully saying that there is hope when there is love, when someone cares or needs us, and the sensuality of the girls, a delight, dancing upbeat, even with small errors, but always in a tempting way. I do not agree that Stevie Wonder did not like the dance (and would shoot himself, as said Mr. Kohn in his comments on Sept.27 2014), as he is also nostalgic and has already expressed several times that he likes this video.
Stevie Wonder, icon of popular music, myth of history of black music , has more than 40 years of career huge successes and awards ; his contribution is crucial to the evolution of soul and rhythm , of the blues to which I brought a touch of jazz, reggae e funky turning them into masterpieces. "For once in my life", is a love song, a love experienced in a mature age, that love that does not need other certainties, you know it when it comes from the experience of your life, you have it in front of you fixed you can't turn around, the love you don't need to be blinded by because it seems to be what you've been waiting for, the love that's right for you that by now with the experience of life it has been worth the pen to hope and wait to try it. When love is matched it becomes a strength, when it is rejected it becomes a plague over time that you don't heal from, you are left alone with your own thoughts sometimes with no way back. Love song that manages to bypass time, it is always an excellent choice to declare yourself in love , thank you for bringing a wonderful singer here, a song of great caliber of great significance. Thanks ☺️ ☺️ ☺️.
How sweet. We were a good, fun, happy group of girls. Lynda on camera left & Bev on the camera right floor have died. I am top camera right. Thank you!
Those dancers?! Wow! I remembered a segment, back in the day, from Sesame Street, "One of these things belong together..." Anyways, that chick on Stevie's top right (our top left), clearly did not make it to any of the rehearsals, but I LOVE it because I dance just like that. Ridiculous!
That is Gail on the left & Bev on the right. Tragic that Bev was killed in an auto accident in '70 when the show went off the air. She had a bellowing voice & would have been a star. Love you Bev! Jeannie
+shotput4life Yes, kids tuned in to the Big 5 Show, later called Upbeat when it was syndicated, to learn the new moves. This one is called "The Plunger" by Bev, the blonde in the front right.
The girls are all great grandmothers now😀
Incredible
Wonder is 71 himself
@ Peter Fichter 😁
Creo que solo abuelas, Stevie tiene 72 y las otras aproximadamente tendrían unos 20 o 19 en el 67
@@dhanimcca411 Grandmothers significa abuelas amigo
One of Stevie Wonder's finest. What a handsome man he was when he was young. Tall and dark and young and handsome.....
The blond behind him to his left looks like this is about the coolest thing she's ever gotten to do. How sweet.
Probably still is today..What's cooler than dancing next to Stevie..I would have peed my pants with excitement...lol
I was just think how sweet and innocent these girls look. Lovely video
She's the only one doing her moves in time.
Thank you! that is me, Jeannie! It WAS a thrill. I still dance now at 69yo like crazy & feel just as young.
@@geanh7269 that's amazing! 👏🏾
歴史的にすごい人と時代を共にできたことに感謝
A hit this week in 1968. Wonder-ful.
The year that I started elementary school
If this was in 1968 daddy had just got on the Cleveland police force in 1967
The backup dancing is hilarious.
just be glad HE never saw it.
@@bethgilbert3934 you thinking of all the sycronised dancing today,,it wasn,t the done thing in the 60,s
That’s how everyone would dance if they followed white kids on tiktok
@@jamalyoung7258 LMFAO! 💯
One of my all-time favorite songs by one of the greatest musicians/artists in history....YES, in history.
People are saying they can't dance, but I think it looks better than modern dance moves. This over dabbing any day!
My favorite version of this song and the best bad choreography ever!! Everyone was having a good time which we don't do enough of these days.
Yeah everything seems so robotic now.
Hahaha... the best bad choreography ever! So very natural, though.
@@sapereaude8149 Yep. All natural and they were definitely having a good time.
the two girls on the left were terrific dancers and fun to watch!
Best music video ever!🎉
1:22 Hohner handoff was impressive.
Beautiful song from Stevie as usual! I absolutely enjoyed watching the dancers as all 5 of them let the music move them away from a choreographed routine to doing what they felt. I must say the sister in the middle was feeling it and let it show! The white girl in the back went in as well....beautiful music has the power to do that- 1 May 2019
Their routine was invented for this performance and was called "The Plunge"
Yeah they were just having fun and looking good doing it
I absolutely agree !
Hi! Thanks! I am the white girl to the right behind him! I still dance & still look the same at 69yo! We are in a Mural w/ Stevie at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, concourse B near the Rock Hall Store. The thrill of a lifetime to back up dance for Frankie Avalon, Bobbie Sherman,...view Edwin Starr "24 Miles" & Oliver singing Jean to me (that's my name) on RUclips too!
@@geanh7269 Hello Jean! In the years I have watched this, I always hoped someone from your group would post a message. What show did you perform on? And do you have a favorite memory from it? It’s so true how it seemed there was planned choreography, but then each of you just started doing your own thing. 😁Very fun to watch Stevie doing his Robert Palmer thing about 16 or 17 yrs before Robert did!
The girl at the top right is the choreographer. She made up this dance routine, and you can tell.
Is true!
No, I am that girl on the top right, Jeannie. Hank was the Choreographer then. We rehearsed twice a week for a solo routine (no acts to back up) & we danced the routine he chose & we practiced. He was behind the camera; he had hand signals on when to fee style & when to resume the routine from the top. You saw how the "popcorn" step was popular!!
@@geanh7269
Oh Wow Gean, That's Awesome!!!
So Then You're The One In The White Tights. Gorgeous!!! So Interesting About The Choreographed Dance Routines And Hand Signals To Free-Style. You And
Lynda We're Sisters? Anyways Jennie
I Fell In Love With You. So Pretty.
You And Lynda. Lynda Was On The 'Camera' Left, And You We're On 'Camera' Right. Love Your Eyes, Smile, The Way You Danced.
@@geanh7269 Thank you for correcting me. I got this info from someone who claimed to be well aquainted with one of the ladies that was dancing. My apologies to youtube viewers for passing on incorrect info. But you must say you are dancing like you made it up. lol.
@@geanh7269 I love that routine it brings a smile to my face when I periodically watch it. You know we were groovin together back in those days. I'm 68.
Stevie was always amazing through all seasons of his recording career and continues to be today. Love love love
FINALLY learned this incredibly hard bassline :O
I love this song so much, that I bothered to torture myself with learning it :)
That harmonica!
Outstanding! There is nothing that is even the toenail of that these days! The pop scene these days has shamed itself in front of Motown Soul Greats like Stevie Wonder!
SMILE - the song, the dance, the simplicity and fun of it all! Whenever I hear this version of the song it brightens my day and provides a spark no matter what may be happening in this world thankyou!
For once in my life I have someone who needs me
Someone I've needed so long
For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Oh, someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true
Yeah, yeah, yeah
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before (not like it's hurt before)
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore)
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me
Ayy, ha-ha, ayy, yeah
(Someone who needs me)
Oh, baby, oh, baby
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me (for once in my life)
Not like it's hurt me before
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore)
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who need me (someone who needs me)
Oh, for once in my life
(Somebody that needs me)
Yeah, somebody that needs me
(Somebody that needs me)
Ooh, baby
For once in my life
Je suis une inconditionnelle de ce chanteur,
Je ne m’en lasserais jamais
Je l’écoute très souvent !
En un mot j’adore !!!
This is my favorite version of this song😊☺️❤️
Efectivi wonderful song... we love you ....thanks from spain 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
love, love, love this song. I have a few favs from Stevie that I love, but this right here is number 1# on my list from Stevie!! A musical genius !!
Wonderful song. Takes me back to my childhood when I was ten years old and on school journey on the Isle of Wight and we danced to this song at the school camp disco every night. xxx :-)
Bless, Stevie Wonder 💯
my mom is from the 60s she would play these songs to me when I was little
What a talented musician Stevie Wonder is! Love this song so much. It is So uplifting. Love the music and the beat. He was a slim handsome young man then.
Such an excellent musician with an excellent voice ❤
Un aplauso para los artistas de aquellos tiempos
It's a very simple of Stevie's presentation but it makes me inspired to be love again :)
the girl on the top right, she's got it going on.
Thank you! I am she! Jeannie!
@@geanh7269yea Jeannie!!!
This is my favorite video of all time
This song sounds way ahead of its time. Like it was made it the 80’s.
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Whoa, someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true
goosebumps listening to this man! Talented nonetheless!!!
Top song and artist of the 60's!! Still love it!! I'm 68, white, live in Sweden, always loved Motown!! 💯🎶🎵
No dejo de llorar al escuchar éste hermoso tema...
I remember those dances and they did it very well, especially the two girls on the right side of him.
Eddie Murphy is great here.
Is Eddie Murphy blind
Yeah an 80's Eddie Murphy when he used to imitate Stevie on SNL.
It isn't Eddie Murphy. It is Will Smith, isn't it?
@@upideas Nah, its Obama
@@sbtopjosh4098 I'll check it.
Stevie Wonder is PHENOMENAL....
1The girl dancing on the second platform behind Stevie is so damn cute!
Thank you! That is me, Jeannie! People say I haven't changed at 69yo now! Still dancing!
@@geanh7269At The Top Of The Comments... I Had Looking To Find Out Who You Were, I've Been In Total Complete Love With You!!! I Was Only 9 When That Song Charted, So I Am Myself Now 63, But I Bet We'd Still Make A Cute Couple. You're So Beautiful!!! Pretty Eyes, And You Dance So Sweetly... Love You!!! I Send You Kisses 😘 💕😍 From San Antonio, Texas.
I love these retro dancers!! Never gets old.
Thanks for upload, this video is so valuable, so wonderful!
he's beautiful
This song is. Special I love it. For my love
the celestial realm's gift of inspiration to the humanity ... we are mindfully thankful!
He was so cute 😩😻😻
Eterno gênio da musica, que habita meus grandes sonhos, até mesmo, antes do meu nascimento !
stevie tks so much for your music you are really WONDERful
Great song (originally done as a slow ballad by Tony Bennett -- how many of you knew that?!) Stevie Wonder's version with the Motown Funk Brothers backing him up is FANTASTIC. I like the girls, yes, even though they are not the best dancers! because they are cute and energetic. Love their outfits, too (white tights are cool!)
Nope, originally done by Jean Dushon.
@@beer_gut_judo Nope, originally done by Barbara McNair in 1965.
@@SpiderWireless
G.K. is right. Jean DuShon did it first until Berry Gordy told Chess Records(her label) to cease promoting it as one of the song's composers is contracted through Motown. It was then recorded by Connie Haines(the first white female artist signed by Motown) but her version sat on the shelf for 50 years. Barbara McNair recorded it soon afterwards and that was released.
la mejor canción de steve wonder ...
This video is amazing. Recently, I saw an advertisement, for Toyota, wholly inspired in this video. Stand out in it several points: Stevie Wonder still young, the content of the music, beautifully saying that there is hope when there is love, when someone cares or needs us, and the sensuality of the girls, a delight, dancing upbeat, even with small errors, but always in a tempting way. I do not agree that Stevie Wonder did not like the dance (and would shoot himself, as said Mr. Kohn in his comments on Sept.27 2014), as he is also nostalgic and has already expressed several times that he likes this video.
Stevie Wonder, icon of popular music, myth of history of black music , has more than 40 years of career huge successes and awards ; his contribution is crucial to the evolution of soul and rhythm , of the blues to which I brought a touch of jazz, reggae e funky turning them into masterpieces. "For once in my life", is a love song, a love experienced in a mature age, that love that does not need other certainties, you know it when it comes from the experience of your life, you have it in front of you fixed you can't turn around, the love you don't need to be blinded by because it seems to be what you've been waiting for, the love that's right for you that by now with the experience of life it has been worth the pen to hope and wait to try it. When love is matched it becomes a strength, when it is rejected it becomes a plague over time that you don't heal from, you are left alone with your own thoughts sometimes with no way back. Love song that manages to bypass time, it is always an excellent choice to declare yourself in love , thank you for bringing a wonderful singer here, a song of great caliber of great significance. Thanks ☺️ ☺️ ☺️.
Lo.escuche. El.70..en radio Miraflores ..en la época ,de los hippies.
De ptmm..wonderfullll
The Incomparable Stevie Wonder.
Love it love it classic stevie
Classic love this track
Amazing!!!!
Love this music
Love me some Stevie Wonder.🤗😚
i'm in love with the girls
ME TO LOL
(PEES WHILE LAUGHING )
How sweet. We were a good, fun, happy group of girls. Lynda on camera left & Bev on the camera right floor have died. I am top camera right. Thank you!
Those dancers?! Wow! I remembered a segment, back in the day, from Sesame Street, "One of these things belong together..." Anyways, that chick on Stevie's top right (our top left), clearly did not make it to any of the rehearsals, but I LOVE it because I dance just like that. Ridiculous!
That is Lynda (our top left). She died 10 years ago. I am Jeannie, top right (his left). I am thrilled that I got so many face shots!
@@geanh7269 God bless you 🙏 I enjoy watching you 😊
Boy Stevie was a stud Master back in the day LOL
To think all those beautiful young dancers are most likely all grandmothers today.
Some of them are no longer with us. There is a guy here in the comments that was engaged to one of the girls.
Yes, I am Jeannie, the top camera right. 69yo now. Married the cameraman on the show!
Upbeat 1968
Nice Video
Genius.
queste ragazze sono fantastiche!!!
que temazo y en la compañia interracial de preciosas damas.
As long as Stevie cannot check what's going on around him...lets dance whatever we like...
My teacher put this song in the morning at school lol
Legend pure Legend
Looking forward to see you on Roskilde Festival 2014!!! :)
Do you remember the DANCE NAME.....I remember the girls used to dance like that in the birthday parties...I had a very happy time in those days....
One of the dancers, Beverly Jean Jones, choreographed this dance. Bev's signature move was called The Plunge.
Rob Cole Many thanks.
beautiful voice ^_^ love the dance moves as well!
i love ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Hermosa melodía stivie womder❤
The girls in front were very slick handing steve his harmonica and taking it for him.
That is Gail on the left & Bev on the right. Tragic that Bev was killed in an auto accident in '70 when the show went off the air. She had a bellowing voice & would have been a star. Love you Bev! Jeannie
@@geanh7269 Aw.. How sad. But what a memory to have, to dance with Stevie!
Love! 😊
Stevie Wonder, born May 13, 1950
That harmonica finally kills me.
I love how the white girls was getting down in the 60's to soul music.
no words
Fun stuff, kinda funny dancers
Jen Gossett Stevie didn't get the joke
I LOVE that girl in White stockings.
向かって左側の背の高い女の子のダンス、最高！nice!
Whenever I feel depressed, I listen to Fingertips! Lol seriously tho
groovy man
I wonder where are those young Lady that was dancing in the background today I hope all is well and good!
I am Jeannie, top camera right. I am fine at 69yo still dancing up a storm! Thank you for caring!
Funny thing...the moves the background dancers were doing were probably the top dances of that time haha
+shotput4life Yes, kids tuned in to the Big 5 Show, later called Upbeat when it was syndicated, to learn the new moves. This one is called "The Plunger" by Bev, the blonde in the front right.
No. I was around then. They were just kids having fun plus being on TV must been a big thrill.
shotput4life Thats right !
I'm from back in those days and those chicks where out a sight !
The dancers had to stay within the directors directions since Stevie Wonder was blind to the dancing abilities of the song
#Inmyfeelings classic track#Salute
Love early Stevie
For mande um my life.
why don't people who upload videos state the year of their production..
1:34 ❤❤❤❤
Es el festival de octi
Where would this song be if not for those dancers 😂😂😂
#Awesomemixvol2 maybe yes??
The black girl in the front i just love her!!
Gayle Philpot is the one in the front. Arlinda Willis is the one right behind her.
Gail in on the floor, camera left. I will tell her. I am Jeannie, back camera right.
These girls are hilarious!