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  • Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024

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  • @mickm4771
    @mickm4771 6 месяцев назад +12

    I was Irma's drummer on her 1966 tour. Great memories. 🥁

  • @mrkneel5760
    @mrkneel5760 4 года назад +65

    This is the Soul Queen of New Orleans show respect please.

    • @charsiu_808
      @charsiu_808 Год назад +1

      Lion's Den red beans and rice..I love Erma Thomas!!

  • @UncleJams
    @UncleJams 4 года назад +56

    Her version with Bonnie Raitt is fantastic. She owns that song with her beautiful voice. Mick Jagger can't compare.

    • @PamelaTaylor
      @PamelaTaylor 4 года назад

      Ooh Hell Naw Naw NAW

    • @2cvburton
      @2cvburton 4 года назад

      Wrong. Different but not worse

    • @nkwari
      @nkwari 4 года назад

      Mick Jagger can’t sing if compared to her or any of the 4 Beatles

    • @WCM1945
      @WCM1945 3 года назад

      Jagger was a styist more than a singer. He put on a very energestic show. And a very LOUD one.

    • @regvarnie
      @regvarnie Год назад

      Absolutely correct. Jagger is what you get when you order 'Soul/Blues' from Wish. A pale, watered down pastiche of the original music they plagiarised wholesale.

  • @joycerichardson1810
    @joycerichardson1810 16 дней назад

    What s lovely lady! Thank you, Irma.

  • @masatoshishoji8271
    @masatoshishoji8271 5 месяцев назад +5

    Finally, Irma sang with the Rolling Stones In New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 2, 2024. This song opened a door to the Rolling Stones and New Orleans. Love Irma Thomas.

  • @TheReubenKincaid
    @TheReubenKincaid 4 года назад +15

    The first time I heard Irma’s version was at the end of a Sopranos Episode. Her version blows away the Stones version .

  • @bookaboymusic
    @bookaboymusic 5 месяцев назад +4

    It’s great to hear tomorrow Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones will be sharing the stage at the New Orleans Jazzfest to sing a rendition of the song together, with The Rolling Stones acknowledging her as the originator of their version of the song. That’s respect!

    • @dixieworker
      @dixieworker 5 месяцев назад +2

      About time! She is so completely deserving of recognition.

  • @j.c7719
    @j.c7719 Год назад +3

    One of the greatest songs of all time, obviously Irma Thomas’ definitive version

  • @crawnyxx
    @crawnyxx 4 года назад +6

    I can't get enough of this stuff; been watching for 2 days straight, no sleep!!!!! Appreciate the uploads

  • @michavandam
    @michavandam 4 года назад +19

    Wikipedia: "Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (using the pseudonym "Norman Meade"). First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his orchestra in 1963, it was covered (with additional lyrics by Jimmy Norman) by both soul singer Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones in 1964.

    • @jrr832
      @jrr832 4 года назад +4

      This should of been the story behind the song

    • @michavandam
      @michavandam 4 года назад +3

      @@jrr832 " 've "
      But you're right.
      But an interview with Irma is more entertaining.

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 3 года назад +4

      @@michavandam - Nonsense. "Entertaining" has nothing to do with it, Clown. Ms Thomas was interviewed because it was her vocal that brought the song to the public's initial attention/popularity and to Jagger and Richard's attention to record - comparatively no one heard the song performed by Kai Winding - despite its vocal chorus by Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick, and Cissy Houston - all relatives of Whitney Houston.
      The Irma Thomas vocal words differed decidedly from the Warwick/Houston/Winding vocal words The cover version the Rolling Stones emulated - nearly word for word - was the Irma Thomas improvised word vocal version - NOT Winding's. That is why this video's interview is appropriately with Ms Thomas and not with Ragovoy, Winding, Houston, or the Warwicks. Has nothing to do with Thomas being more "entertaining;" It has everything to do with the fact that The Stones didn't copy Winding, they copied Thomas. Get it? Got it? Good.

    • @michavandam
      @michavandam 3 года назад +2

      @@waldolydecker8118 You get triggered by one word, a word that you interpret your way, and you don't read the line of the conversation with understanding.
      But go ahaed, be right, and be rude.

    • @waldolydecker8118
      @waldolydecker8118 3 года назад +2

      @@michavandam - yadda, yadda, yadda. Cut the lame vacillation, dude. Your statement is clear with nothing to "interpret." This video is about the Stones copying verbatim Ms Thomas in 1964; its not about the side issue of who wrote the song or who first recorded it since neither of those had anything directly to do with the Stones coming across the song. Its that simple. Cut the excuses.

  • @jamespollock11
    @jamespollock11 2 года назад +10

    It was a B-side for her, obscure. She performed the A-side on Dick Clark months earlier. the 45 was no longer charting when the Stones came out with their version. Without the Stones the song would have sunk without a trace, as many wonderful tunes have done. By the way Irma is among my favorite singers. I've played her songs more than anyone else's except maybe the Stoneses--whom I first saw live in (19)65.

  • @terencesmith4137
    @terencesmith4137 4 года назад +4

    Love Miss Irma! I grew up in New Orleans and she was absolutely the Queen of Soul ❤️ to us!

    • @charsiu_808
      @charsiu_808 Год назад

      Have you been to her night club, The Lions den? I went there twice..Miss Erma makes her delicious red beans and rice.

  • @TheMisterMonkeyman
    @TheMisterMonkeyman 4 года назад +6

    It's a story as old as music in general, let alone rock and roll. The original gets left behind, no matter how great they are. Good to see she's ok with it. A beautiful, classy, and talented lady. Super cool to make this video to set the story straight and give credit where it is due. Peace.

    • @Dr.AnonymousPro
      @Dr.AnonymousPro 4 года назад +1

      Except hers wasn't 'the original' either. She doesn't even give credit to the source.

  • @PamelaTaylor
    @PamelaTaylor 4 года назад +11

    YO MAMA YOUR VERSION IS TRULY SO MUCH DAMN BETTER
    THAT IS FOR SURE

    • @PamelaTaylor
      @PamelaTaylor 4 года назад +1

      Maybe you should do daily volgs of cooking or cleaning or try out
      With Tyler Perry hell I will come see that your deserve to be back in that spot light

  • @charsiu_808
    @charsiu_808 Год назад

    Ive been to Nrw Orleans twice for the Jazz and Heritage week..We sought our Ms Erma's shows and went to her night club, where she makes the beans and rice for her fans..Truly a HUMBLE WOMAN!! God bless Miss Erma Thomas

  • @michaelarmato7568
    @michaelarmato7568 7 дней назад

    What a shame that Irma did not get the recognition that she deserved!!!!

  • @joypace9100
    @joypace9100 4 года назад +2

    Ms. Irma can't wait to you come back to Paragon. Miss doing your riders. Ur song is the best hands down.

  • @trufantom21
    @trufantom21 4 года назад +16

    What a beautiful classy lady

  • @fearitselfpinball8912
    @fearitselfpinball8912 Месяц назад +1

    I’m a BIG stones fan. I’m a BIG stones fan. I think though, like a lot of stones fans it’s a SHOCK how good the Irma Thomas (previously recorded!) version is. The build at the beginning!!! I prefer it. A lot of people react that way.
    I’m your fan. Yes!

  • @joycerichardson1810
    @joycerichardson1810 16 дней назад

    Irma, your version is the best!!! Love that you sang it with Bonnie Raitt...she's the real deal.

  • @gary9426
    @gary9426 2 года назад +2

    Gotta love Irma!

  • @imlistening1137
    @imlistening1137 4 года назад +2

    Irma Thomas has a most beautiful voice!

  • @roysmemorylane
    @roysmemorylane 2 года назад +3

    She is SO cool!!!!

  • @mikehydropneumatic2583
    @mikehydropneumatic2583 4 года назад +3

    Great song!
    Great story!

  • @bennyahlander7476
    @bennyahlander7476 4 года назад +3

    I love you 🌻😊
    Your Voice is still the sound of a angel.

  • @noces626
    @noces626 2 года назад +3

    I saw a documentary about The Rolling Stones, when some one asked Mick Jagger, where they get songs that they sing, Mick said," We get them across the river", He meant Mississippi River, since R S were in the USA during the time some one asked him. Many songs are covered. but some people chose not to play the original version, the radio either. Segregation and injustice, where in the way to hear many original versions. Good thing we have RUclips.

  • @isabellawatson9013
    @isabellawatson9013 Месяц назад +1

    The comparison between the two is unbelievable. Queen Irma has soul, she's so beautiful, I love that she told the truth instead of giving "PR" answers and I loved that she didn't hide her disappointment over a lesser artist making bank with "her" song and I loved that she was still willing to sing it with Mick and did at Jazz Fest in NOLA 2024.

  • @nolaboyteroylee9794
    @nolaboyteroylee9794 Год назад +1

    #MsErmaThomas Still Looks Amazing Time is Definitely On Your Side 🎤🎶💕🌎🛐⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️💯

  • @ubarhd1
    @ubarhd1 4 года назад +2

    Great song 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @Base612
    @Base612 6 месяцев назад

    I am obsessed with The Rolling Stones, but this song 🎵 s 1000% Irma.
    True greatness.

  • @HanifBarnwell
    @HanifBarnwell 4 года назад +23

    Irma Thomas could’ve been bigger than Aretha, nonetheless I’m thankful to her musical contributions!

  • @normapena4870
    @normapena4870 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful Voice 💝

  • @djowinzschuschen235
    @djowinzschuschen235 3 года назад +2

    The Queen,love her So much XXX

  • @nujackswing6370
    @nujackswing6370 4 года назад +12

    There is a Jazz Heritage Foundation in NOLA, but a lot of Talent has been Killed Off there... In the days of early Rock n Roll, the Original Singer of Music did not get paid for their hard work. Peace.

    • @watchinboats
      @watchinboats 4 года назад +3

      This is still happening in modern genres such as House Music (Chicago, Detroit Pioneers) and Hip Hop.. the system never cared about the foundation laid out by Black People

  • @peacefulpossum2438
    @peacefulpossum2438 4 года назад +25

    The big picture is that dozens of British Invasion bands got rich and famous on American blues while actual blues artists weren't played on American radio.

    • @peacefulpossum2438
      @peacefulpossum2438 4 года назад +5

      @@sg-yq8pm Black artists weren't played in the U.S. because they were black. Teens being interested was actively discouraged. That's just history.

    • @albertosilvabrito8377
      @albertosilvabrito8377 6 месяцев назад +1

      Você falou a pura verdade...
      Grandes mestres do blues eram dignos de turnê mundiais...
      Se esses artistas não tocavam nas rádios norte americanas, imagina no resto do mundo...
      Ainda bem que surgiu a interneth para que a verdade seja restabelecida...
      Abraços ...
      🎉

    • @isabellawatson9013
      @isabellawatson9013 Месяц назад

      That makes me so so sad! She literally had the song on the charts when RS version came out - I think that's shady especially since they met her. They could have done it on their next album or released it later. I like some RS songs, but their version is not in the same universe as Queen Irma's. Don't mean to be mean, but this makes me cranky.

    • @michaelarmato7568
      @michaelarmato7568 7 дней назад

      That’s so true!!! Such an awful shame!!!! 😧😧😧😧😭😭😭😭

  • @RafaSarriaBustamante
    @RafaSarriaBustamante 7 месяцев назад

    the most graceful eloquent shade every thrown, jeje. She was so close to saying "Bless his heart, I love that for him" jeje

  • @rickshearer
    @rickshearer 4 года назад +1

    A classic with time on it's side!

  • @traditionalpetition906
    @traditionalpetition906 4 года назад +3

    I wanna give her a hug...

  • @kendallrobinson7523
    @kendallrobinson7523 2 года назад

    You're still great !

  • @kathfitz6497
    @kathfitz6497 Год назад +1

    Irma’s got it!

  • @robke9999
    @robke9999 4 года назад +3

    Nog steeds aan het afkicken van de Top 2000, dit helpt erbij...

  • @jimfritz9503
    @jimfritz9503 4 года назад +7

    Irma Thomas Anthology CD. Has about 25 songs on it. Check it out.

  • @Natnekker
    @Natnekker 4 года назад +1

    Te gek!

  • @seanarmstrong7767
    @seanarmstrong7767 2 года назад

    Holy shit!! Never thought I would hear that...Is the Trombone player(Kai Winding)next.

  • @harlowblackadder356
    @harlowblackadder356 4 года назад +2

    This story makes me sad
    ...HELLO, ROLLING STONES???

  • @mikelawson6456
    @mikelawson6456 3 года назад +1

    The Soul Queen of NOLA

  • @dpfarez
    @dpfarez 4 года назад +3

    fantastic music history, love the original better than the stones version!

  • @ubarhd1
    @ubarhd1 4 года назад

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @andzwe
    @andzwe 4 года назад

    One of the most important things in popmusic is how much people can relate to it and lots of kids (in 1964) thought they could do what the Stones did, or knew boys like that. The Beatles were probably already a bit too sophisticated, with their great harmonies, let alone what artists like Irma Thomas were capable of. BTW, Jagger more than makes up for what he lacks technically in other respects, when he sings and interprets a song. One of those character singers.

  • @erlpen2016
    @erlpen2016 4 года назад +11

    i am so glad i found this video....all along i thought the rolling stones wrote this song...even until today...the reason why we had the so called British invasion was because the so called "white people" of this country were so racist at the time (and still are just look at trump)they wanted nothing to do with music made by black people, except steal it and use it to promote their own careers...pat boone was a good example...and it didn't help that blacks were really saying nothing...and still today are kissing white ass...they seem to love it and maybe it is in their dna...i am glad i always liked and enjoyed music made by blacks ...mick jagger never sounded like an amazing singer...he was an opportunist and if it wasn't for keith richards probably nothing would've happened with mick...

    • @PamelaTaylor
      @PamelaTaylor 4 года назад +2

      Those record company will rip off anyone its not about color, cause the color in that industry is GREEN

    • @ceedoubleyou
      @ceedoubleyou 3 года назад

      I've always believed, without Elvis, we may not have had rock'n'roll, because, no one played rock'n'roll before Elvis, because it was, "black" music!

    • @lamper2
      @lamper2 2 года назад

      Trump is so great now look where our country has fallen

    • @etmeyutub
      @etmeyutub 4 месяца назад

      Trump racist? Biden has said and done so many more racist thngs than Trump. We could compare a list and Biden would rack them up. Biden caused the inflation taht is crippling poor black people. Biden caused the invasion of illegal laborers who are taking jobs form poor black people. Trum funded HBCU's and had the highest employment numbers of blacks in history. But....what?.....Central Park Five? WHat about Biden with "racial jungles" and the crime bill that imprisoned more blacks. You had to bring in politics and ruin this discussion abot Irma Tho,as with your Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yeah, Biden is wonderful.

  • @anibalnikov47
    @anibalnikov47 5 месяцев назад

    This year the rolling stones sang this song live with her.

  • @Paul_C
    @Paul_C 4 года назад

    @TOP2000 PLEASE, whenever you publish a video do the writers of the songs a pleasure, tell them who wrote them. I hate it when writers get short changed. You have various songs where those who made it into a hit are different.

    • @Top2000agogo
      @Top2000agogo  4 года назад +6

      Hi Paul, these videos are segments of our tv-program. Usually in the program we give an introduction from the studio with this kind of information. But that is all in Dutch, so we decided to leave this out. We did put the who wrote it in the information of this video.

  • @vince065us.2
    @vince065us.2 11 месяцев назад +1

    Irma's version is much better.

  • @MitoNoche
    @MitoNoche 4 года назад

    Wat een prachtnummer van de koningin van de soul. En wat heeft ze een leuk kettinkje om, met een gouden klompje!

    • @Dr.AnonymousPro
      @Dr.AnonymousPro 4 года назад +1

      Het was niet haar nummer. Dat laat ze gemakshalve even weg hè?

  • @SomeoneHasToSayIt2525
    @SomeoneHasToSayIt2525 3 года назад +3

    With all due respect Irma, and I mean all respect and honor I’m sorry but Kai Winding and Dionne Warwick and The Gospelaires did THE ORIGINAL in 1963. Just keeping it real.

  • @acelatrain
    @acelatrain 3 года назад +3

    Lets face it folks the real reason why Irma Thomas did not go to the top of the charts as opposed to Mick Jagger was because she is a double minority; in other words a Black woman. Mick Jagger can sing no doubt but Miss Thomas nailed that song and everybody knows it. As the saying goes: "I don't care how good you think you are someone out there is always better." When I heard her version I almost cried.

  • @onewaycrook5880
    @onewaycrook5880 4 года назад +2

    Black Queen right there 👸🏽

  • @r.brooks1742
    @r.brooks1742 4 года назад +6

    Tina Turner says the same thing about Mick Jagger watching her and ikettes dance..and then come to America dancing..trying to emulate her..the best he can...and since he's white..he gets attention...but still couldn't touch Tina on his best day...I see Irma Thomas experience the same thing.

  • @dickyt1318
    @dickyt1318 3 года назад +2

    it was the gender reversal that made it such a hit for the Rolling Stones, men don't like to hear that they will be running back to a woman !

  • @jammer3618
    @jammer3618 4 года назад +4

    Dear Mick can't really sing. Never could. He is a vocal stylist not a singer.

  • @DerekDominoes
    @DerekDominoes 4 года назад +13

    Listening to her, you'd think she wrote the song. She didn't.

    • @lamper2
      @lamper2 4 года назад +1

      TRUE!

    • @Top2000agogo
      @Top2000agogo  4 года назад +2

      That's certainly true. This video is a segment of our program, in the original introduction we explained this. We will put it in the description!

    • @12121149
      @12121149 4 года назад +1

      she never said she wrote it.

    • @DerekDominoes
      @DerekDominoes 4 года назад +1

      @@12121149 She only acts like she did.

  • @lionheartroar3104
    @lionheartroar3104 4 года назад +2

    Irma has lots of great songs,,check her catalog! I respect her and feel bad that time was taken from her, but she shouldn't be attacking Mick...sour grapes

  • @Rigoletta53
    @Rigoletta53 2 года назад

    WTF … shoulda sued them. Thanks Bonnie Raitt for helping sistah!!

  • @Vibeagain
    @Vibeagain 2 года назад +2

    That's what you call bitterness. She didn't figure out how to be a rock star with it though did she?

  • @Dr.AnonymousPro
    @Dr.AnonymousPro 4 года назад +4

    She didn't even write it. What delusions of grandeur. Doesn't even mention that of course.

  • @vanessaturner3982
    @vanessaturner3982 4 года назад +1

    Did you sue their asses for stealing your music are you getting something from that theft

  • @stevenkitchen7586
    @stevenkitchen7586 Год назад

    If it wasn't for the British Invasion we wouldn't know about a lot of songs America didn't care they had no respect for black artists

  • @lamper2
    @lamper2 4 года назад +2

    ROLLING STONES DID IT 100 TIMES BETTER-WHY? BECAUSE THEY PUT 100 TIMES MORE SOUL INTO IT!

    • @gsco82
      @gsco82 4 года назад +2

      Perhaps, I'm biased because I'm not a fan of the Rolling Stones, but I think that the Bonnie Raitt and Irma Thomas version is better.

    • @reinpost
      @reinpost 4 года назад +1

      Ask the Rolling Stones; they'd be ashamed of you saying that.

    • @blachubear
      @blachubear 4 года назад +7

      I love The Stones but don't disrespect Ms. Thomas.

    • @lamper2
      @lamper2 2 года назад

      @@blachubear I saw her live a few years ago at a festival -SHE WAS BORING!

    • @lamper2
      @lamper2 2 года назад

      @@reinpost they mean nothing now to me-they need to either write great songs or give up