Shirley Ellis "The Nitty Gritty"
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2012
- American Bandstand. January 04, 1964. Full interview follows the performance. This was a very poor quality kinescope. I delayed posting it, but I've gotten 7 or 8 personal e-mails asking for any Shirley Ellis performances of "Nitty Gritty". So, poor kinescope quality or not, here it is.
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She’s so pretty!
I've heard this song many times but this was the first time I'd seen Shirley Ellis singing it. What an absolute stunner and amazing singer. Puts a whole new light on the performance. Lets play it again Sam!
of course, she was lip-synching.
It was a great hit in 63 when I was 13. It still holds up really well today.
..I was 2 in 63' but I remember the song and my mom dancing to it!
I remember this song in junior high. Everyone really liked it. I think it was her first hit in '63. I also remember seeing both men & women teachers wiping away tears that same year as they stood outside their classroom doors watching us walk to our next class. It is true when folks say we all remember where we were & what we were doing on November 22, 1963 when we heard the news about our president. On a brighter note, isn't she a sweet lady!
She's lovely and has great stage presence.
Is it still ok these days to say that she's also pretty? Because she is.
It is not a she.
Amazing singer & such a class act! She just exudes poise and elegance. Oh to have been at a house party 55 years ago and have this woman walk in and agree to sing it. I would die. Literally. RIP Shirley.
Great vibrato, great deep voice and tone quality. She's great.
check out "The Clapping Song" ! 🎼🎤🎶🎵
shirley ellis was a pure beauty
Her voice is so soft... this woman is so godly and beautiful.
chamka destina she was really so hot! Love this and her followup "Name Game". She really had charisma
She is beautiful! :3
She'd make this a hit in 2021.
Awesome Shirley we used to jam off this song Thanks for the Memories !
The dance number to this was off the charts fantastic !!!
I've never seen an interview with Shirley Ellis. She seemed very shy and young. Thanks so much for this posting.
Thanks for posting the original! I am hooked on this song since I saw the dance version with Bobby Banas! 2018 😊
Me too ♥️
🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
same here, it's may 2021
May 2021. My new favorite song. The Bobby Banas dance brought me here.
THIS WOMAN CAN SING! And Bobby Banas can *DANCE*
@@mapacharro Hey! I'm here again in May 2021! 😉
July 2022 love the song love the dance video.
The 11 people who down-voted this have NO SOUL! 😏
... or mobile devices and clumsy thumbs.
3 more people have no soul. 🙄
Yup
Yup!!
This is classic
Don't look at the upvotes and downvotes; they're an Internet construct. Just enjoy her talent and absolute charm. She didn't have to worry about that crap.
She's built like an Olympian!
Charming, incredibly talented young lady, and charming interviewer too.
Love it. So pretty. Soft spoken.
Oh my I never knew an original recording of this existed! She's so beautiful! Thank you!
She's so graceful, smooth and beautiful
Amazing talent. No technology needed other then a mic 😊
I can't believe this is the first time I've heard this song- though I will say I was born in 1962! I love the 60's though and I love this song too!
i was born in 1962 Dec 23rd
Who gives a s**t what her moves are like...WHAT A VOICE!! This is the real Nitty Gritty. Luv it!
It would have been great if she could have really showed off her moves. Honestly, if u was born in in 1963 or '64, I would have been twistin' my ass off to this song.
Adam Smith You werent around in the 60s. TV executives and sponsors were very conservative. No gyrations or body movements allowed! They use to film Elvis (the pelvis) from the waist up in the 50s. The early 60s was pretty much the same!
jsbach15 Not in England they weren't maybe we were a little more enlightened, or we didn't give a S*** Incidently I was born in 1945, so I was a teenager in the 60's and it was great.
Good on you. I was communicating to Adam Smith about the US in the 50s and early 60s on TV. Teens were not retricted in their expression of dance once iff camera!
@@jsbach15 Not true. See ruclips.net/video/jyzL6D-5znY/видео.html
She was beautiful!
Her voice gives me chills, amazing 😍
Wow.....she’s fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love how she sings this. I know she really wants to dance too. Wished they had gotten her singing and dancing to it.
ahhh ! the great shirley ellis ' she had some great RnB dancers , this ,then the name game , lets not forget, the clapping song , they always filled the floor ! magic memories
Love Shirley Ellis. I have my 5 and 6 year old grandkids singing her songs. Nothing better!
Yay Shirley!!!!!!!!!! Awesome record, I still love it! wow she seem very shy, with talent and a powerful voice like that! She look so beautiful to... kinda like that Breakfast at Tiffany style.. I love all her songs!
When gospel and funk walked hand in hand... double beatin, keep repeatin sistah
As much as I've always loved this song, this is the first time I've actually seen anything with Ellis performing any of her famous songs. Love this!
On this day in 1964 {January 4th} Shirley Ellis performed "The Nitty Gritty" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'...
Two months earlier on November 16th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #8 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #4 on the Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
She had two other Top 10 hits; "The Name Game" {#3 in 1964} and "The Clapping Song" {#8 in 1965}...
R.I.P. Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}...
Shirley Ellis thank you for this swinging song, and thank you for sharing it with Gladys Knight and the Pips and the world!🤗💕
Wow, what a beautiful woman.
THE NEW AMERICAN BANDSTAND Aired on Saturday Afternoon JANUARY 4, 1964 on ABC-TV USA in B&W Kinescope/Videotape at ABC Television Center (The Prospect Studios) in Hollywood, CA, USA.
Don't remember singing this one in the halls of school but I remember it being a hit in '63, I hate to say it but I do remember seeing the teachers cry as we walked down the halls in '63. Not all of them but more than one cried right in front of everyone. That was November 22, of '63. First time in my life I ever saw a teacher cry. It was shocking to me as a couple of them were men teachers.
what a wonderful singer and in her time my time spectacular. I love the dance developed from it. thank you shirley
She was so sweet in the interview. Remember she was in a "white" show and she needed to be very careful with what she could say and do unfortunately.. Good for her 👏👏👏👏
She was fabulous what an artist truly gifted.
We had this 45 when I was a kid, I always loved it. I rediscovered Shirley Ellis on Pandora, I like every tune I hear. She's ton's of fun. Her cd's are out of print, darn it!!!!
What? I was just going to look her up!
Actually, I just found a bunch on amazon.
You don't know how much this song, its sound and Ms Ellis singing means to me.
Thanks
Amazing Song Never Gets old
The Nitty Gritty is Shirley Ellis is one very , very Classy Dame. 💥💫💯
You can tell she's holding back on the dance moves during this performance. I would have LOVED to see her sing this in a black club in the 1960s. :-) Anyway, thanks for uploading this video!
The only reason why I didn't show her dancing because in that decade they weren't allowed to show from the waist down so did make no sense for her to dance they weren't allowed to dance from the waist down on TV should I say
@@chrisboland3777 That's actually not true. See ruclips.net/video/jyzL6D-5znY/видео.html (amazing that it's free to watch this video, I've purchased the video and DVD, and you can see it here for free on RUclips) Actually, the reason she's not dancing is Shirley Ellis didn't dance when she sang. See all other video of her performing and she basically always stands in a statuesque kind of way.
see this video, it's awesome ruclips.net/video/jyzL6D-5znY/видео.html
I agree. She looks like she's holding back in all the videos I've seen of her. I bet she wasn't like that when she was in a club setting, not being videotaped.
Agree totally.
That is one beautiful woman.
One of the greatest songs. She is incredible.
I like how she begins the song with, "Here's the ditty." l also like how she tackles a background part out front.
I really enjoyed watching this very old clip from American Bandstand.
That voice! How did I not know about her until now? RUclips magic! (Bringing us stuff we never would have had the chance to see, without it!)
This is an awesome song, and so cool so see an interview with Shirley Ellis, what a sweet lady!
The Late Shirley Ellis' "The Nitty Gritty" on Congress Records (The CBS CORPORATION) hits Hot 40 Billboard Chart on 12/7/1963+ (on 1/11/1964- No. 8) for 9 Weeks went Gold.
I LOVE Shirley Ellis !!!!!!
Wow! I was not expecting that soft speaking voice! Especially after THAT performance!
Same here. So soft spoken. I'm sure she wasn't comfortable being interviewed. What a beautiful soul.
She's so lovely! And so dignified and soft-spoken yet she belts out that song with such gusto. I see Bobby Banas in my head every time I hear that song.
What a amazing,unique voice! Absolutely beautiful woman!
Love her presence. Love this song and danced to it as a kid.
Number one record for Shirley Ellis still play it on my Classic Soul radio show.
Pure class and a beautiful song by a beautiful lady
Yeah, mmm, yeah
Do you know that some folks know about it, some don't
Some will learn to shout it, some won't
But sooner or later baby, here's a ditty
Say you're gonna have to get right down to the real nitty gritty
Now let's get right on down to the nitty gritty
Now one, two nitty gritty
Now yeah, mmm, nitty gritty now
Ooooowee, right down to the real nitty gritty
Ooooowee, can you feel it double beatin', I keep repeatin
Get right down to the real nitty gritty
Say it again double beatin' ...
I just love this song❤ today's the 1st time I ever heard it .
I'm positive that my mother used to dance to this song 🎵
back in the sixties.💜
I didn't know that Shirley sang this, before Gladys Knight & the Pips. Thanks for uploading this.
She seems like a nice lady. I heard this song done by Southern Culture on the Skids and liked it. I was surprised to find here that it goes back to 1963 by Shirley Ellis.
Thanks so much for this. I have seen the dance but never the performer.
I’ve never seen the singer, just Bobby and his team performing to her music. What a lovely beauty she was.🌹 the face and figure of a goddess.🌹❤️🌹
She's really cool looking.
Tough Soul Singing! Much Respect!!!!
I am here in April 2021 because somebody used the expression "nitty gritty" in work this morn. So I said here is a song "get down to the real nitty gritty". I guessed it was Shirley Bassey. Surprise. She is a doll...very charismatic and a little shy. Beautiful voice. Now I will look up the "Name Game".
What a voice
Soul time was my fave by Shirley
Love this woman and her superb voice🥰
She's beautiful!
Great looker superb voice
What a voice!
Definitely better than other videos circulating of this track which show dancers dancing to the track instead of Shirley Ellis performing it. Thanks for posting this one.
I never liked "The Name Game," but I really like this and this is the first time I've heard this song. This is real powerhouse old school juke joint Saturday night Rhythm and blues.
Damn that lady had a powerful voice and rhythm
ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS!!! Dick Clark that voice😊
My grandfather is Lincoln Chase it's a honor to see this video
what a voice!!!
Great lady and song. Also, Dick Clark seemed to be a real nice guy with everyone he interviewed. Good people.
Some folks know about it some don't!🎶🎶❤️❤️
Thank you a bunch!!!! I do really love this dance and now I know who was the real singer star of this song treasure
I love this! I've never heard it until someone posted on facebook today! Thanks!!
Awesome singer
Brings back memories of better times.
What a wonderful voice...
Where's Bobby Banas?
One thing about American Bandstand is that it respected Afro-Americans and treated them with the respect they deserved long before the rest of the media did and I love Dick Clark for that...!!!
Dick Clark was smart to feature black artist on the show and give them that exposure. It was hard enough for black musicians to perform at places but had to go though the back door or wasn’t even allowed to stay in some hotels in the south even after performing and practicing for hours!
Definitivamente el Gospel es la cuna del Rock n' roll y los norteamericanos de color los pioneros de este movimiento musical .
Great Talento Afro-Norteanericano.
This song makes me feel like I just went to church .❤️🔥😇😀
The song was awesome.
Thank you! It's so great to see/hear her performing it!
Afro Americans have the best voices of the world. The power and emotions catapult me to amazing joy
Charming!
It seems to be killing her she cant move with the song. LET IT OUT, GIRL! So much style back then, so little now. It's like we went from being a chocolate malt to being watered down powdered milk. I wish I could have seen her rip it up in club where she was comfortable-amazing voice. Amazing. Adore her!
LOVE IT!!!
Adoro essa música!!!!!
Amazing love it ,,and loved it when Bobby banas Danced it ,,fab song ..she js sooo awesome
She seems like such a humble and sweet soul!
I’ve heard this song and watched the dance with Bobby Banas and the others with him many times 👏🏻❤️🔥🥰‼️