I was a big fan of Patti and Michael, so you can imagine how excited I was when I heard they were doing a duet. I worked at a music called Turtle's Records and recall opening a shipment box and seeing the 45. After listening to it for around the tenth time, I knew they had a number one hit. Ok a 45/record is telling you I'm old school.........lol. Anyhow, great reaction video!!!!!!!!
They just simply don't make 🎵🎶 🎤 music 🎶🎵 like this anymore... Nearly every song recorded today is Computer Generated and probably no one sings live without using some form of lip-synch these days!!!! Legendary Classic LaBelle and McDonald,...these kid's think 🤔 they perform better today,but like McDonald said "What a fool believe's" 😅😊😅 Excellent Reaction my dear SNation and remember I want you to react to Third World 🌍 song called Sense of Purpose and checkout Vanessa Carlton -A Thousand Mile's with her playing piano music 🎵🎶 down the street and highway 😊😅 thank you ❤and I'm sure you will Love the song's I requested ❤❤❤❤❤😊
You would never know that they were never in the same studio or even the same city while recording this masterpiece. Even the video is shot in different locations, that’s why it’s split screen. I can only recall them actually singing it live only once for a TV performance. You may also like her song “You Are My Friend “. Personally, I prefer the studio recording as opposed to the live versions.
A very beautiful reaction💎 💎! On My Own was released as the lead single from Patti LaBelle's 1986 album: Winner In You. It was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. The song reached #1 on the R&B chart, #1 on the Cash Box 100, #1 on the Dance Singles Sales chart, #1 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The music video was directed by Mick Haggerty. The singers recorded their music and music video parts separately. Patti LaBelle filmed the video in New York and recorded her part in Philadelphia. Michael McDonald did both in LA. The video used a split screen effect to show them each on their own. Yes, their voices go perfect together...to produce a very soothing melodic sound. Lyrically, the song: "On My Own", was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day. The song was initially not intended to be a duet at all, but Patti LaBelle decided to invite Michael McDonald to help her turn the song into a duet, as she stated: "The song was sent to me and I did a version of it but somehow it just didn't quite work. We were going over things I'd done and we talked about turning it into a duet. Someone asked, 'If you could do it with anyone, who would you sing it with?', and Michael was my first choice". Patti LaBelle told NME in 1986: "The success of 'On My Own' came as a shock. I don't record for commercial value. With 'On My Own' I went into the Studio thinking, I'm gonna record something I love. Usually if I love it, it bubbles under. And I was surprised it made a hit". Fun Fact 🕵🏾♀: The song was originally recorded by singer Dionne Warwick for inclusion on her album: Friends (1985), but was left off of the album's final production for release.
I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Michael McDonald before: I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near), Yah Mo B, What A Fool Believes, Takin' It To The Streets and Sweet Freedom. Michael McDonald Info 📰: Michael McDonald was born on February 12, 1952 in Ferguson, Missouri. He is a singer, keyboardist and songwriter. He attended McCluer High School, where he played in local bands, including Mike And The Majestics, Jerry Jay And The Sheratons, The Reeb-Toors/Younger Brothers and The Guild. In 1970, while playing with a band called Blue, he was discovered in an Illinois night club by RCA Records staff producer Rick Jarrard, who offered him a record contract and brought him to Los Angeles. He is well known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of the bands The Doobie Brothers (1975-1982, 1987, 2019-present) and Steely Dan (1973-1974). Michael McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with The Doobie Brothers, including "What A Fool Believes", "Minute By Minute", and "Takin' It To The Streets". Michael McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including: Steely Dan, Christopher Cross and Kenny Loggins. Michael McDonald's solo career consists of nine studio albums and a number of singles, including the 1982 hit song: "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)". During his career, Michael McDonald has collaborated with a number of other artists, including: James Ingram, David Cassidy, Van Halen, Patti LaBelle, Lee Ritenour, The Winans, Aretha Franklin, Toto, Grizzly Bear, Joni Mitchell and Thundercat. He has also recorded for television and film soundtracks. Michael McDonald is the recipient of five Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Doobie Brothers in 2020. Steely Dan 👨🎤🎸🎷🎺🥁: Michael McDonald became a member of Steely Dan's touring band in 1973, singing lead and backing vocals. As he recalled in a 2016 interview: I literally threw my piano in the back of my Pinto and drove down to where they were rehearsing and auditioned. Remarkably I got the gig, not because of my keyboard playing but because I could sing all the high parts. I could tell that appealed to Donald Fagen-'cause I could sing like a girl. Michael McDonald became one of the many in-studio adjunct members of the band, providing backing vocals on tracks for the 1975 song: Katy Lied. He appeared on subsequent Steely Dan recordings, including: The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977). He also played keyboards on some Steely Dan tracks. Michael McDonald continued to provide backing vocals for Steely Dan through their 1980 album release: Gaucho. In 2006, he joined Steely Dan on the band's summer tour, both as the opening act and as part of the band. The Doobie Brothers 👨🎤🎸🎷🎺🥁🪘: Michael McDonald was recruited by The Doobie Brothers in April 1975, initially as a temporary replacement for their lead vocalist Tom Johnston after he became ill during a national tour. Michael McDonald's work with the band proved so successful that they decided to retain him as a full-time member. As a member of The Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald sang lead vocals on some of the band's best-known songs including: "Real Love", "Takin' It To The Streets", "Little Darling (I Need You)", "It Keeps You Runnin'", "Minute By Minute" and "What A Fool Believes" which became a number-one single in the U.S. and earned him a 1980 Grammy Award for Song of the Year along with co-writer Kenny Loggins. At the same time, Michael McDonald appeared as a session vocalist and keyboardist for various artists, including: Christopher Cross, Stephen Bishop, Jack Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Toto and Kenny Loggins. Michael McDonald co-wrote the song: "You Belong To Me", with Carly Simon, which appeared on The Doobie Brothers' studio album: Livin' On The Fault Line (1977). Michael McDonald has reunited as a guest performer with The Doobie Brothers several times since the band's initial dissolution in 1982. He reteamed with them for the track: "Don't Say Goodbye", on the band's thirteenth studio album: World Gone Crazy (2010). In March 2014, he reunited with the band to record a new album featuring the greatest hits of their 40-plus-year career. This project was completed in conjunction with Sony Music Nashville. On the album, Michael McDonald shares lead vocals with Sara Evans for the song: "What A Fool Believes", the singing duo "Love And Theft" for the song: "Takin' It To The Streets", and Amanda Sudano-Ramirez for the song: "You Belong To Me." The album titled: Southbound was released on November 4, 2014, as The Doobie Brothers' fourteenth studio album. On November 5, 2014, McDonald and the Doobie Brothers were featured musical guests on the 47th annual Country Music Association Awards to celebrate the release of Southbound. They were joined by Hunter Hayes, Jennifer Nettles, and Hillary Scott in their performance of "Listen to the Music". At the end of the awards ceremony, they were also joined by host Brad Paisley for "Takin' It to the Streets". Solo Career 👨🎤: After The Doobie Brothers' first farewell tour, Michael McDonald released his first solo studio album: If That's What It Takes, in 1982, on the Warner Bros. record label. The album featured the hit singles: "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" and "I Gotta Try", the latter co-written with Kenny Loggins, who also recorded it that same year for his fourth album High Adventure. He continued to collaborate with other artists during this period. Michael McDonald co-wrote Van Halen's top-20 hit song; "I'll Wait", from their biggest-selling album 1984. "Yah Mo B There", a duet with James Ingram, won the 27th Annual Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. In 1985, he released his second studio album: No Lookin' Back, his first time co-producing an album. He also wrote or co-wrote all of the tracks and featured a minor hit with the title track, cowritten by Kenny Loggins. By June 1986, the album had met with little success, but Michael McDonald then had a huge boost with the release of the single: "Sweet Freedom", which appeared on the soundtrack to the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines 1986 film: Running Scared, and was Michael McDonald's last top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The No Lookin' Back album was then re-released in some markets with the new hit single included, as well as with a few songs remixed. The single: "On My Own", a duet with Patti LaBelle, reached number one on the U.S. charts in 1986. Mid that year, he performed as a backing vocalist on the rock band Toto's studio album: Fahrenheit, appearing on the hit single: "I'll Be Over You", and its accompanying video. On August 22, 1986, Michael McDonald appeared in an episode of the television soap opera: The Young And The Restless. Later that year, he provided backing vocals on the Wang Chung song: "A Fool And His Money", from their studio album: Mosaic. In 1987, Michael McDonald did a featured collaboration, titled: "Love Has No Color", with gospel quartet The Winans from their studio album: Decisions. In 1990, Michael McDonald released his third studio album: Take It To Heart, which featured a minor hit with the album's title track which was co-written by Diane Warren. The following year, he joined the New York Rock And Soul Revue, put together by Steely Dan's lead vocalist Donald Fagen and featuring other artists such as Boz Scaggs and Phoebe Snow. In 1991, he released the popular single: "Ever Changing Times" (#19 R&B), a duet with the legendary Soul singer Aretha Franklin. In 1999, Michael McDonald recorded the song: "Eyes Of A Child", a comedic ballad written by Trey Parker, for the film: South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut, movie soundtrack. It was also used at the ending credits for the movie. The same year, he sang backing vocals on the Warren Brothers' single: "Better Man", from their studio album: Beautiful Day In The Cold Cruel World. He also provided lead vocals for one of three studio tracks on Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert. ****CONTINUE BELOW****
In 2000, Michael McDonald, along with partners Chris Pelonis and actor Jeff Bridges, founded the independent recording label: Rampe St. Louis Walk Of Fame. Michael McDonald recorded a duet with Ray Charles on Ray Charles' final studio album: Genius Loves Company (2004). In 2007, Michael McDonald helped judge the sixth annual Independent Music Awards. In 2006, he sang as a guest singer in the Jazz quartet Fourplay from their studio album: X, on a cover of Steve Winwood's song: "My Love's Leavin'". In 2003, Michael McDonald earned two Grammy nominations for his sixth studio album: Motown, a tribute to the Motown musical sound. A year later he released the album: Motown Two. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "The album follows the same blueprint as the first record, offering highly polished, professionally produced, expertly performed interpretations of gems from the Motown vaults". Also, in 2003 Michael McDonald was inducted into the St Louis Walk Of Fame. In 2008, Michael McDonald released his studio album: Soul Speak, which includes three new songs penned by himself, and covers of songs originally made famous by Dionne Warwick ("Walk On By"), Stevie Wonder ("Living For The City"), Van Morrison ("Into The Mystic") and Tyrone Davis ("Baby Can I Change My Mind"). In 2009, Michael McDonald, along with the West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir, released the song: "Storm Before The Calm", on the compilation album: Oh Happy Day. Michael McDonald also contributed an alternate lead vocal track for the 7-inch single: "While You Wait For The Others", by the indie rock band Grizzly Bear. In 2009, McDonald appeared on the satirical television sitcom: 30 Rock, as one of the benefit singers in the season finale episode "Kidney Now!". Michael McDonald performed the national anthem before the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl between the Boise State Broncos and TCU Horned Frogs at the University of Phoenix Stadium on January 4, 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. Michael McDonald sang the song: "Takin' It To The Streets", on the American Idol season nine finale, in 2010. In 2010, Michael McDonald teamed up again with Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs, to form the super group: The Dukes Of September. In June 2012, the supergroup performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote their tour. The group also played at Lincoln Center, a performance which was then broadcast as a PBS special and later released on DVD. In May 2011, Michael McDonald was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. In the summer of 2014, Michael McDonald co-headlined a U.S. tour with the rock band Toto. In 2017, Michael McDonald was featured together with Kenny Loggins on Thundercat's single: "Show You The Way", included on the latter's album: Drunk. In June 2017, Michael McDonald, Loggins and Thundercat performed the song together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2018, he appeared as a guest vocalist on the song: "What The World Needs Now", on Barbra Streisand's thirty-sixth studio album: Walls. In 2021, Michael McDonald was featured on the song: "The Best Of Me", from Toad The Wet Sprocket's seventh studio album: Starting Now. Michael McDonald still performs his music live on stage as a solo artist and with The Doobie Brothers. Michael McDonald Albums 📀: Takin' It To The Streets w/ The Doobie Brothers (1976) Livin' On The Fault Line w/ The Doobie Brothers (1977) Minute By Minute w/ The Doobie Brothers (1978) One Step Closer w/ The Doobie Brothers (1980) If That's What It Takes (1982) No Lookin' Back (1985) Sweet Freedom (1986) Take It to Heart (1990) Blink Of An Eye (1993) Blue Obsession (2000) In The Spirit A Christmas (2001) Motown (2003) Motown Two (2004) The Best Of Michael McDonald: The Christmas Collection (2004) Through The Many Winters, A Christmas Album (2005) Soul Speak (2008) This Christmas (2009) Southbound w/ The Doobie Brothers (2014) Wide Open (2017) Season Of Peace: The Christmas Collection (2018) Some good Michael McDonald songs 🎶: I Gotta Try, No Lookin' Back, All We Got, I Stand For You, Take It To The Heart, Hey Girl, Lost In The Parade, Matters Of The Heart, Our Love, By Heart, If That's What It Takes, (I Hang) On Your Every Word, For A Child, Searchin' For Understanding, No Lookin' Back, That's Why, Losin' End, Tear It Up, No Such Luck, Believe In It, I Can Let Go Now, Lonely Talk, Playin' By The Rules, Any Foolish Thing, No Amount Of Reason, One Step Away, Love Lies, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Obsession Blues, You Show Me, I Want You, All I Need, East Of Eden, No More Prayin', Lost In The Parade, For A Child, Everlasting, Bad Times, Reach Out I'll Be There, What Makes a Man Hold On, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Don't Let Me Down, Get The Word Started, The Meaning Of Love, Kikwit Town, Homeboy, Love Can Break Your Heart, Build Upon It, Open The Door, Someday You Will, You Can't Make It Love, Down By Thee River, Ain't That Peculiar, Baby I Need Your Lovin', Walk On By, Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart), I Can Let Go Now, Still Not Over You (Getting Over Me), Baby Can I Change My Mind, Distant Lover, No Love To Be Found, (I'll Be Your) Angel, Only God Can Help Me Now, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Enemy Within, Hallelujah, Love TKO, Ever Changing Times (w/ Aretha Franklin), On Our Own (w/ Patti LaBelle), Love Has No Color (w/ The Winans), I Just Can't Let Go (w/ David Pack & James Ingram), Through The Many Winters, Redemption Song, Time To Be Lovers (w/ Chaka Khan), This Is It (w/ Kenny Loggins), Let Me Go Love (w/ Nicolette Larson), I'll Be Over You (w/ Toto), Christmas On The Bayou, Hail Mary, Silent Night, Just Strong Enough, Half Truth, Aja (w/ Steely Dan), Bad Sneakers (w/ Steely Dan), Just Strong Enough, Ain't No Good, Too Short, Honest Emotion, Dark Side, Beautiful Child, Free A Man, If You Want To Hurt Me, Too High, Find It In Your Heart, Blessing In Disguise, The Royal Scam (w/ Steely Dan), It Keeps You Runnin' (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Real Love (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Little Darling I Need You (w/ The Doobie Brothers), What A Fool Believes (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Minute By Minute (w/ The Doobie Brothers), You Belong To Me (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Don't Say Goodbye (w/ The Doobie Brothers) and Takin' It To The Streets (w/ The Doobie Brothers). Fun Fact 🕵: Michael McDonald appeared on the hit 1970s television show: What's Happening!, as a member of The Doobie Brothers (S2/E 16-17 Doobie Or Not Doobie: Part 1& 2).
I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Patti LaBelle before: Lady Marmalade and Somebody Loves You Baby. Patti LaBelle Info 📰: Patricia Louise Holt (Patti LaBelle) was born on May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a singer, songwriter, producer, actress and activist. She is referred to as "The Godmother Of Soul". Patti LaBelle is a dramatic soprano recognized for her vocal power, range and emotive delivery. Pattie LaBelle dropped out of Philadelphia's John Bartram High School just a semester before graduating in 1962. She returned to the school in her mid-thirties and later earned her high school diploma. Patti LaBelle is an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Patti LaBelle has released eighteen studio albums, three live albums, fourteen compilation albums, and forty-seven singles. According to RIAA, she has attained six Gold and one Platinum album in the United States. Patti LaBelle has also charted forty-two hits on Billboard's Hot/R&B Hip-Hop Songs, 13 of which reached the Top 10. She has charted twenty albums on Billboard 200, two of which reached the Top 10 and one reaching the top. Her 1986 album: Winner In You, is her most successful album to date with eight million copies sold worldwide. In a career that has spanned seven decades, Patti LaBelle has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Patti LaBelle has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame. Patti LaBelle was included in Rolling Stone on their list of 100 Greatest Singers at #95. In 2015, Billboard ranked her song: “Lady Marmalade”, with the all-female group LaBelle as the 30th Biggest Girl Group song of all time on Billboard Hot 100. Patti LaBelle, after growing up singing the the church choir, began her professional singing career in the early 1960s as lead singer and frontwoman of the vocal group Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the 1970s, they released the popular number-one hit song: "Lady Marmalade". After the group split up in 1976, Patti LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed self titled debut album, which included the career-defining song: "You Are My Friend". Patti LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles: "If Only You Knew", "Love, Need And Want You", "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up". Less than two years later, in 1986, Patti LaBelle scored a number-one album: Winner In You, and its number-one duet single: "On My Own", with Michael McDonald. In 1989, her album: Be Yourself spawned the standard: "If You Asked Me To", which was also included on the 1989 James Bond film Licence To Kill movie soundtrack. Patti LaBelle won a 1992 Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her 1991 album: Burnin', an album that featured the single: "Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)", "Feels Like Another One" and "When You've Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven)". Patti LaBelle earned a second Grammy win for her live album: Live! One Night Only (1998). Her 1990s albums: Burnin' (1991), Gems (1994) and Flame (1997) continued her popularity with young R&B audiences throughout the decade. She reunited with her Labelle bandmates for the album: Back To Now (2008), followed by a well-received promotional tour. Patti LaBelle has also experienced success as an actress with a role in the Oscar-nominated 1984 film: A Soldier's Story, as well as appearing in the films: Mama I Want To Sing, Semi-Pro, Cover, Idlewild, Preaching To The Choir and Sing. In 1992, Patti LaBelle starred in her own television sitcom Out All Night. Patti LaBelle has appeared in many other television shows-movies-specials including: Out All Night, A Different World, The Neighborhood, A New Orleans Noel, American Playhouse (Working), The Wonder Years, Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock, Star, Fire And Rain, All Of Us, Christmas Everlasting, Greenleaf, Empire, A Family Christmas Gift, Santa Baby, The Nanny, Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo And His Music, The Patti LaBelle Show, Cosby, Parker Kane, Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy, Unnatural Causes and American Horror Story: Freak Show. In 2004, Patti LaBelle hosted her own lifestyle TV show: Living It Up With Patti LaBelle, on TV One. In 2015, Patti LaBelle took part in the dance competition Dancing With The Stars at the age of 70. Patti Labelle has also seen success launching her own brand of bedding, cookbooks, and food for various companies. In 2015, her specialty pie: Patti's Sweet Potato Pie, sold millions when a RUclips video praising the product went viral. As a result, over a 72-hour period, Walmart sold one pie every second. She returned to the VH1 Divas stage in 2016, headlining a holiday-themed concert alongside Chaka Khan, Vanessa Williams and her goddaughter Mariah Carey. On July 2, 2019, Patti LaBelle was honored in Philadelphia with her very own street name Patti LaBelle Way between Locust and Spruce Street. Patti LaBelle still performs her music live on stage in 2023. Miscellaneous Info 🗃: Members of Patti LaBelle's immediate family have passed away at young ages. Her mother Bertha passed away in October 1978 from diabetes at the age of 62. Her father, Henry Holte Jr, passed away of complications from emphysema and Alzheimer's disease in October 1989 at the age of 70. All three of LaBelle's sisters passed away young. Eldest sister Vivian Hogan Rogers passed away of lung cancer in October 1975 at the age of 43. Seven years later, in October 1982, her elder sister Barbara Holte Purifoy passed away from complications of colon cancer at the age of 40. In July 1989, three months before her father's passing, Patti LaBelle lost her youngest sister, Jacqueline "Jackie" Holte-Padgett, to brain cancer at the age of 43. A day after the singer buried Jacqueline Padgett, an emotionally-wrecked Patti LaBelle shot the music video to her song: "If You Asked Me To", where she was seen crying in various shots; the video was shot on what would've been Jacqueline Padgett's 44th birthday. The singer dedicated her 1991 album: Burnin', and her famous rendition of the song: "Wind Beneath My Wings", during her concert tour in 1991-92 to Jacqueline "Jackie" Holte-Padgett. Patti LaBelle said because of her sisters and parents passing away "before their time", she wrote in her autobiography that she feared she wouldn't make it to 50. Once she reached that age, however, the singer said she felt her life "had just begun". A year later, Patti LaBelle was diagnosed as having diabetes and later became a spokesperson for several organizations dedicated in fighting the disease. Patti LaBelle also wrote in her autobiography that she was sexually assaulted by Jackie Wilson while at the Brevoort Theatre at Brooklyn in the 1960s. Patti LaBelle Albums 📀: 1. With Labelle Labelle (1971) Gonna Take A Miracle w/ Laura Nyro (1971) Moon Shadow (1972) Pressure Cookin' ( 1973) Nightbirds (1974) Phoenix (1975) Chameleon (1976) Back To Now (2008) 2. Solo Patti LaBelle (1977) Tasty (1978) It's Alright With Me (1979) Released (1980) The Spirit's In It (1981) I'm In Love Again (1983) Patti (1985) Winner in You (1986) Be Yourself (1989) This Christmas (1990) Burnin' (1991) Gems (1994) Flame (1997) When A Woman Loves (2000) Timeless Journey (2004) Classic Moments (2005) The Gospel According To Patti LaBelle (2006) Miss Patti's Christmas (2007) Bel Hommage (2017) ****CONTINUE BELOW****
Some more good Patti Labelle songs 🎶: If Only You Knew, The Best Is Yet To Come, What Can I Do For You?, Music Is My Way Of Life, New Attitude, Love Need And Want You, Stir It Up, Feels Like Another One, Superwoman, When You've Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven), The Right Kind Of Lover, Oh People, If You Asked Me To, Love Has Finally Come At Last, Kiss Away The Pain, Isn't It A Shame, Messing With My Mind, Down The Aisle (The Wedding Song), Love Symphony, Living Double, Where I Wanna Be, I Can't Complain, Be Yourself, I Got It Like That, Love 89, Still In Love, I'm Scared Of You, Can't Bring Me Down, Need A Little Faith, I Can Fly, Shy, Look To The Rainbow, I Can't Forget You, What Can I Do For You, If You Don't Know Me By Now, Danny Boy, I'm In Love Again, Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?), If Only You Knew, Body Language, I'll Never Never Give Up, If Everyday Could Be Like Christmas, Nothing Could Be Better, Twas Love, Country Christmas, Love Bankrupt, When Am I Gonna Find True Love, Yo Mister, Joy To Have Your Love, Funky Music, Since I Don't Have You, Dan Swit Me, You Are My Friend, You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, I Think About You, Do I Stand A Chance, I'm Christmasing With You, Most Likely You Go Your Way, This Christmas, When You Love Somebody (I'm Saving My Love For You), I Don't Do Duets, Temptation, I'm In Love, All This Love, This Word Is All, Too Good To Be Through, I Never Stopped Loving You, Stay In My Corner, If I Didn't Have You, I Can't Tell My Heart What To Do, Time Will Tell, Our World, Come As You Are Burnin' (The Fire Is Still) Burnin' For You, I Hear Your Voice, We're Not Makin' Love Anymore, Someone Like You, I Like The Way It Feels, You Are My Solid Ground, Flame, New Day, Let My Be Your Lady, Does He Love You, Shoe Was On The Other Foot, Addicted To You, When You Talk About Love, Love Is Just A Whisper Away, If By Chance, Let Me Be There For You, You Saved My Life, Don't Block The Blessing, Release Yourself, Love Never Dies, Crazy Love, Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight), Twisted, You're Mine Tonight, Finally We're Back Together, Beat My Heart Like A Drum, Sleep With Me Tonight, There's A Winner In You, If Everyday Could Be Like Christmas, Reason For The Season, Save The Last Dance For Me, Monkey See Monkey Do, Little Girls, You Make It So Hard (To Say No), Teach Me Tonight, Every Year Every Christmas, Quiet Time, Don't Let Go, I See Home, What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas?, Eyes In The Back Of My Head, It's Alright With Me, Christmas Jam, My Best Was Good Enough, What'cha Doing To Me, Love Is Just A Touch Away, Love And Learn, Deliver The Funk, Come What May, You And Me, The Jazz In You, Give It Up (The Dawning Of Rejection), Don't Make Your Angel Cry, Release, I Don't Go Shopping, Ain't That Enough, Love Has Finally Come, Song For Old Lovers, Moanin', Come And Dance With Me, Get Ready (Lookin' For Loving), Find The Love, The Spirit's In It, Softly As I Leave You, Here You Come Again, Love Lives, I Fell In Love Without Warning, Boats Against The Current, Ain't No Way, Don't Explain, Moody's Mood, Too Many Tears Too Many Times, Here's To Life, Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu, Family, Shoot Him On Sight, Folks Who Live On The Hill, Way Up There, Over The Rainbow and When You Talk About Love. Some good LaBelle songs 🎶: Down The Aisle (The Wedding Song), You'll Never Walk Alone, Can I Speak To You Before You Go To Hollywood, Over The Rainbow, It Took A Long Time, System, What Can I Do For You?, Superlover, Turn It Out, Go On, Tear After Tear, Danny Boy, I Believe, Academy Award, Messin' With My Mind, I Sold My Heart to the Junkman, Going On A Holiday, Suffer, Moon Shadow, I Found A New Love, Take Me For A Little While, Oh My Love, Wonderful, Tender Words, Dreamer, Pride's No Match For Love, Trust In You, He's Gone, Dance To The Rhythm Of Love, Open Up Your Heart, Always Something There To Remind Me, Ain't It Sad It's Over, Morning Much Better, I Don't Want To Go On Without You, He's My Man, Groovy Kind Of Love, Cool Water, You Forgot How To Love, Family Man, I Found A New Love, All Or Nothing, I Don't Want To Go On Without You, Sunshine (Woke Me Up This Morning), Roll Out, It's Gonna Take A Miracle (w/ Laura Nyro), Trustin' In You, Isn't It A Shame, Nightbird, Who's Watching The Watcher, One Phone Call (Will Do), Something In The Air / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Patti's Prayer, Far As We Felt Like Goin', You'll Never Walk Alone, If I Can't Have You, Time And Love, I Believe That I've Finally Made It Home, Runnin' Out Of Fools / If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody, Won't Get Fooled Again, Shades Of Difference, Wild Horses, Touch Me All Over, Loving Rules, Ebb Tide, Sunday News, I'm Still Waiting and Decatur Street. Fun Fact 🕵🏾♀: Around 1964 Patti LaBelle was engaged to Otis Williams, founding member of The Temptations. The engagement lasted a year before Patti LaBelle broke it off after fearing that Otis Williams would force her to move to Detroit and retire from performing on the road.
Easily the best blend of two very strong voices. Aretha and George Michael's "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" is also something you should give a listen to if you like duets with different sounds.
I was a big fan of Patti and Michael, so you can imagine how excited I was when I heard they were doing a duet. I worked at a music called Turtle's Records and recall opening a shipment box and seeing the 45. After listening to it for around the tenth time, I knew they had a number one hit. Ok a 45/record is telling you I'm old school.........lol. Anyhow, great reaction video!!!!!!!!
All the feels. 🫶
So many great duos with complimentary voices back then.
yea Girl ..they stole our hearts !
For this song you have an appropriate response for sure.
One of the best you will ever hear
His isone of my favorie songs. Yes, goosebumps and tears!
They just simply don't make 🎵🎶 🎤 music 🎶🎵 like this anymore... Nearly every song recorded today is Computer Generated and probably no one sings live without using some form of lip-synch these days!!!! Legendary Classic LaBelle and McDonald,...these kid's think 🤔 they perform better today,but like McDonald said "What a fool believe's" 😅😊😅 Excellent Reaction my dear SNation and remember I want you to react to Third World 🌍 song called Sense of Purpose and checkout Vanessa Carlton -A Thousand Mile's with her playing piano music 🎵🎶 down the street and highway 😊😅 thank you ❤and I'm sure you will Love the song's I requested ❤❤❤❤❤😊
A powerful classic that will last forever...
You would never know that they were never in the same studio or even the same city while recording this masterpiece. Even the video is shot in different locations, that’s why it’s split screen. I can only recall them actually singing it live only once for a TV performance. You may also like her song “You Are My Friend “. Personally, I prefer the studio recording as opposed to the live versions.
Real music perfcet together ❤❤❤
They were SANGIN'!
Oh also, Patti did her own cover of Michael’s hit, “I Keep Forgetting “. And it’s as equally amazing as his.
You were just born again🎉
Agree with you...always loved this recording❤
Great song, great reaction ❤
Ohhh Patti ❤❤❤❤
A very beautiful reaction💎 💎! On My Own was released as the lead single from Patti LaBelle's 1986 album: Winner In You. It was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. The song reached #1 on the R&B chart, #1 on the Cash Box 100, #1 on the Dance Singles Sales chart, #1 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The music video was directed by Mick Haggerty. The singers recorded their music and music video parts separately. Patti LaBelle filmed the video in New York and recorded her part in Philadelphia. Michael McDonald did both in LA. The video used a split screen effect to show them each on their own. Yes, their voices go perfect together...to produce a very soothing melodic sound.
Lyrically, the song: "On My Own", was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day.
The song was initially not intended to be a duet at all, but Patti LaBelle decided to invite Michael McDonald to help her turn the song into a duet, as she stated: "The song was sent to me and I did a version of it but somehow it just didn't quite work. We were going over things I'd done and we talked about turning it into a duet. Someone asked, 'If you could do it with anyone, who would you sing it with?', and Michael was my first choice".
Patti LaBelle told NME in 1986: "The success of 'On My Own' came as a shock. I don't record for commercial value. With 'On My Own' I went into the Studio thinking, I'm gonna record something I love. Usually if I love it, it bubbles under. And I was surprised it made a hit".
Fun Fact 🕵🏾♀: The song was originally recorded by singer Dionne Warwick for inclusion on her album: Friends (1985), but was left off of the album's final production for release.
I saw Patti at the Melbourne Hilton back in the 70's, she blew the roof off the joint.
Her song New attitude is such a banger!
I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Michael McDonald before: I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near), Yah Mo B, What A Fool Believes, Takin' It To The Streets and Sweet Freedom.
Michael McDonald Info 📰:
Michael McDonald was born on February 12, 1952 in Ferguson, Missouri. He is a singer, keyboardist and songwriter. He attended McCluer High School, where he played in local bands, including Mike And The Majestics, Jerry Jay And The Sheratons, The Reeb-Toors/Younger Brothers and The Guild. In 1970, while playing with a band called Blue, he was discovered in an Illinois night club by RCA Records staff producer Rick Jarrard, who offered him a record contract and brought him to Los Angeles. He is well known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of the bands The Doobie Brothers (1975-1982, 1987, 2019-present) and Steely Dan (1973-1974). Michael McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with The Doobie Brothers, including "What A Fool Believes", "Minute By Minute", and "Takin' It To The Streets". Michael McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including: Steely Dan, Christopher Cross and Kenny Loggins.
Michael McDonald's solo career consists of nine studio albums and a number of singles, including the 1982 hit song: "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)". During his career, Michael McDonald has collaborated with a number of other artists, including: James Ingram, David Cassidy, Van Halen, Patti LaBelle, Lee Ritenour, The Winans, Aretha Franklin, Toto, Grizzly Bear, Joni Mitchell and Thundercat. He has also recorded for television and film soundtracks. Michael McDonald is the recipient of five Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Doobie Brothers in 2020.
Steely Dan 👨🎤🎸🎷🎺🥁:
Michael McDonald became a member of Steely Dan's touring band in 1973, singing lead and backing vocals. As he recalled in a 2016 interview:
I literally threw my piano in the back of my Pinto and drove down to where they were rehearsing and auditioned. Remarkably I got the gig, not because of my keyboard playing but because I could sing all the high parts. I could tell that appealed to Donald Fagen-'cause I could sing like a girl.
Michael McDonald became one of the many in-studio adjunct members of the band, providing backing vocals on tracks for the 1975 song: Katy Lied. He appeared on subsequent Steely Dan recordings, including: The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977). He also played keyboards on some Steely Dan tracks.
Michael McDonald continued to provide backing vocals for Steely Dan through their 1980 album release: Gaucho. In 2006, he joined Steely Dan on the band's summer tour, both as the opening act and as part of the band.
The Doobie Brothers 👨🎤🎸🎷🎺🥁🪘:
Michael McDonald was recruited by The Doobie Brothers in April 1975, initially as a temporary replacement for their lead vocalist Tom Johnston after he became ill during a national tour. Michael McDonald's work with the band proved so successful that they decided to retain him as a full-time member.
As a member of The Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald sang lead vocals on some of the band's best-known songs including: "Real Love", "Takin' It To The Streets", "Little Darling (I Need You)", "It Keeps You Runnin'", "Minute By Minute" and "What A Fool Believes" which became a number-one single in the U.S. and earned him a 1980 Grammy Award for Song of the Year along with co-writer Kenny Loggins.
At the same time, Michael McDonald appeared as a session vocalist and keyboardist for various artists, including: Christopher Cross, Stephen Bishop, Jack Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Toto and Kenny Loggins. Michael McDonald co-wrote the song: "You Belong To Me", with Carly Simon, which appeared on The Doobie Brothers' studio album: Livin' On The Fault Line (1977).
Michael McDonald has reunited as a guest performer with The Doobie Brothers several times since the band's initial dissolution in 1982. He reteamed with them for the track: "Don't Say Goodbye", on the band's thirteenth studio album: World Gone Crazy (2010). In March 2014, he reunited with the band to record a new album featuring the greatest hits of their 40-plus-year career. This project was completed in conjunction with Sony Music Nashville. On the album, Michael McDonald shares lead vocals with Sara Evans for the song: "What A Fool Believes", the singing duo "Love And Theft" for the song: "Takin' It To The Streets", and Amanda Sudano-Ramirez for the song: "You Belong To Me." The album titled: Southbound was released on November 4, 2014, as The Doobie Brothers' fourteenth studio album.
On November 5, 2014, McDonald and the Doobie Brothers were featured musical guests on the 47th annual Country Music Association Awards to celebrate the release of Southbound. They were joined by Hunter Hayes, Jennifer Nettles, and Hillary Scott in their performance of "Listen to the Music". At the end of the awards ceremony, they were also joined by host Brad Paisley for "Takin' It to the Streets".
Solo Career 👨🎤:
After The Doobie Brothers' first farewell tour, Michael McDonald released his first solo studio album: If That's What It Takes, in 1982, on the Warner Bros. record label. The album featured the hit singles: "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" and "I Gotta Try", the latter co-written with Kenny Loggins, who also recorded it that same year for his fourth album High Adventure.
He continued to collaborate with other artists during this period. Michael McDonald co-wrote Van Halen's top-20 hit song; "I'll Wait", from their biggest-selling album 1984. "Yah Mo B There", a duet with James Ingram, won the 27th Annual Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
In 1985, he released his second studio album: No Lookin' Back, his first time co-producing an album. He also wrote or co-wrote all of the tracks and featured a minor hit with the title track, cowritten by Kenny Loggins. By June 1986, the album had met with little success, but Michael McDonald then had a huge boost with the release of the single: "Sweet Freedom", which appeared on the soundtrack to the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines 1986 film: Running Scared, and was Michael McDonald's last top-10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The No Lookin' Back album was then re-released in some markets with the new hit single included, as well as with a few songs remixed. The single: "On My Own", a duet with Patti LaBelle, reached number one on the U.S. charts in 1986. Mid that year, he performed as a backing vocalist on the rock band Toto's studio album: Fahrenheit, appearing on the hit single: "I'll Be Over You", and its accompanying video. On August 22, 1986, Michael McDonald appeared in an episode of the television soap opera: The Young And The Restless. Later that year, he provided backing vocals on the Wang Chung song: "A Fool And His Money", from their studio album: Mosaic. In 1987, Michael McDonald did a featured collaboration, titled: "Love Has No Color", with gospel quartet The Winans from their studio album: Decisions.
In 1990, Michael McDonald released his third studio album: Take It To Heart, which featured a minor hit with the album's title track which was co-written by Diane Warren. The following year, he joined the New York Rock And Soul Revue, put together by Steely Dan's lead vocalist Donald Fagen and featuring other artists such as Boz Scaggs and Phoebe Snow. In 1991, he released the popular single: "Ever Changing Times" (#19 R&B), a duet with the legendary Soul singer Aretha Franklin.
In 1999, Michael McDonald recorded the song: "Eyes Of A Child", a comedic ballad written by Trey Parker, for the film: South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut, movie soundtrack. It was also used at the ending credits for the movie. The same year, he sang backing vocals on the Warren Brothers' single: "Better Man", from their studio album: Beautiful Day In The Cold Cruel World. He also provided lead vocals for one of three studio tracks on Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert.
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In 2000, Michael McDonald, along with partners Chris Pelonis and actor Jeff Bridges, founded the independent recording label: Rampe St. Louis Walk Of Fame. Michael McDonald recorded a duet with Ray Charles on Ray Charles' final studio album: Genius Loves Company (2004). In 2007, Michael McDonald helped judge the sixth annual Independent Music Awards. In 2006, he sang as a guest singer in the Jazz quartet Fourplay from their studio album: X, on a cover of Steve Winwood's song: "My Love's Leavin'".
In 2003, Michael McDonald earned two Grammy nominations for his sixth studio album: Motown, a tribute to the Motown musical sound. A year later he released the album: Motown Two. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "The album follows the same blueprint as the first record, offering highly polished, professionally produced, expertly performed interpretations of gems from the Motown vaults". Also, in 2003 Michael McDonald was inducted into the St Louis Walk Of Fame.
In 2008, Michael McDonald released his studio album: Soul Speak, which includes three new songs penned by himself, and covers of songs originally made famous by Dionne Warwick ("Walk On By"), Stevie Wonder ("Living For The City"), Van Morrison ("Into The Mystic") and Tyrone Davis ("Baby Can I Change My Mind").
In 2009, Michael McDonald, along with the West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir, released the song: "Storm Before The Calm", on the compilation album: Oh Happy Day. Michael McDonald also contributed an alternate lead vocal track for the 7-inch single: "While You Wait For The Others", by the indie rock band Grizzly Bear.
In 2009, McDonald appeared on the satirical television sitcom: 30 Rock, as one of the benefit singers in the season finale episode "Kidney Now!".
Michael McDonald performed the national anthem before the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl between the Boise State Broncos and TCU Horned Frogs at the University of Phoenix Stadium on January 4, 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. Michael McDonald sang the song: "Takin' It To The Streets", on the American Idol season nine finale, in 2010.
In 2010, Michael McDonald teamed up again with Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs, to form the super group: The Dukes Of September. In June 2012, the supergroup performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote their tour. The group also played at Lincoln Center, a performance which was then broadcast as a PBS special and later released on DVD.
In May 2011, Michael McDonald was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
In the summer of 2014, Michael McDonald co-headlined a U.S. tour with the rock band Toto.
In 2017, Michael McDonald was featured together with Kenny Loggins on Thundercat's single: "Show You The Way", included on the latter's album: Drunk. In June 2017, Michael McDonald, Loggins and Thundercat performed the song together on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In 2018, he appeared as a guest vocalist on the song: "What The World Needs Now", on Barbra Streisand's thirty-sixth studio album: Walls.
In 2021, Michael McDonald was featured on the song: "The Best Of Me", from Toad The Wet Sprocket's seventh studio album: Starting Now.
Michael McDonald still performs his music live on stage as a solo artist and with The Doobie Brothers.
Michael McDonald Albums 📀:
Takin' It To The Streets w/ The Doobie Brothers (1976)
Livin' On The Fault Line w/ The Doobie Brothers (1977)
Minute By Minute w/ The Doobie Brothers (1978)
One Step Closer w/ The Doobie Brothers (1980)
If That's What It Takes (1982)
No Lookin' Back (1985)
Sweet Freedom (1986)
Take It to Heart (1990)
Blink Of An Eye (1993)
Blue Obsession (2000)
In The Spirit A Christmas (2001)
Motown (2003)
Motown Two (2004)
The Best Of Michael McDonald: The Christmas Collection (2004)
Through The Many Winters, A Christmas Album (2005)
Soul Speak (2008)
This Christmas (2009)
Southbound w/ The Doobie Brothers (2014)
Wide Open (2017)
Season Of Peace: The Christmas Collection (2018)
Some good Michael McDonald songs 🎶: I Gotta Try, No Lookin' Back, All We Got, I Stand For You, Take It To The Heart, Hey Girl, Lost In The Parade, Matters Of The Heart, Our Love, By Heart, If That's What It Takes, (I Hang) On Your Every Word, For A Child, Searchin' For Understanding, No Lookin' Back, That's Why, Losin' End, Tear It Up, No Such Luck, Believe In It, I Can Let Go Now, Lonely Talk, Playin' By The Rules, Any Foolish Thing, No Amount Of Reason, One Step Away, Love Lies, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Obsession Blues, You Show Me, I Want You, All I Need, East Of Eden, No More Prayin', Lost In The Parade, For A Child, Everlasting, Bad Times, Reach Out I'll Be There, What Makes a Man Hold On, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Don't Let Me Down, Get The Word Started, The Meaning Of Love, Kikwit Town, Homeboy, Love Can Break Your Heart, Build Upon It, Open The Door, Someday You Will, You Can't Make It Love, Down By Thee River, Ain't That Peculiar, Baby I Need Your Lovin', Walk On By, Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart), I Can Let Go Now, Still Not Over You (Getting Over Me), Baby Can I Change My Mind, Distant Lover, No Love To Be Found, (I'll Be Your) Angel, Only God Can Help Me Now, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher, Enemy Within, Hallelujah, Love TKO, Ever Changing Times (w/ Aretha Franklin), On Our Own (w/ Patti LaBelle), Love Has No Color (w/ The Winans), I Just Can't Let Go (w/ David Pack & James Ingram), Through The Many Winters, Redemption Song, Time To Be Lovers (w/ Chaka Khan), This Is It (w/ Kenny Loggins), Let Me Go Love (w/ Nicolette Larson), I'll Be Over You (w/ Toto), Christmas On The Bayou, Hail Mary, Silent Night, Just Strong Enough, Half Truth, Aja (w/ Steely Dan), Bad Sneakers (w/ Steely Dan), Just Strong Enough, Ain't No Good, Too Short, Honest Emotion, Dark Side, Beautiful Child, Free A Man, If You Want To Hurt Me, Too High, Find It In Your Heart, Blessing In Disguise, The Royal Scam (w/ Steely Dan), It Keeps You Runnin' (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Real Love (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Little Darling I Need You (w/ The Doobie Brothers), What A Fool Believes (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Minute By Minute (w/ The Doobie Brothers), You Belong To Me (w/ The Doobie Brothers), Don't Say Goodbye (w/ The Doobie Brothers) and Takin' It To The Streets (w/ The Doobie Brothers).
Fun Fact 🕵: Michael McDonald appeared on the hit 1970s television show: What's Happening!, as a member of The Doobie Brothers (S2/E 16-17 Doobie Or Not Doobie: Part 1& 2).
U grew up in the wrong era..lol. I'm glad you appreciate this!
MM is the boss!
Still to this day he has those powerful pipes well tuned.
You should react to his song "You belong to me".
Absolutely powerful❤😊 I always love hearing this one❤Great reaction!
I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Patti LaBelle before: Lady Marmalade and Somebody Loves You Baby.
Patti LaBelle Info 📰:
Patricia Louise Holt (Patti LaBelle) was born on May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a singer, songwriter, producer, actress and activist. She is referred to as "The Godmother Of Soul". Patti LaBelle is a dramatic soprano recognized for her vocal power, range and emotive delivery. Pattie LaBelle dropped out of Philadelphia's John Bartram High School just a semester before graduating in 1962. She returned to the school in her mid-thirties and later earned her high school diploma. Patti LaBelle is an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Patti LaBelle has released eighteen studio albums, three live albums, fourteen compilation albums, and forty-seven singles. According to RIAA, she has attained six Gold and one Platinum album in the United States. Patti LaBelle has also charted forty-two hits on Billboard's Hot/R&B Hip-Hop Songs, 13 of which reached the Top 10. She has charted twenty albums on Billboard 200, two of which reached the Top 10 and one reaching the top. Her 1986 album: Winner In You, is her most successful album to date with eight million copies sold worldwide. In a career that has spanned seven decades, Patti LaBelle has sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
Patti LaBelle has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame. Patti LaBelle was included in Rolling Stone on their list of 100 Greatest Singers at #95. In 2015, Billboard ranked her song: “Lady Marmalade”, with the all-female group LaBelle as the 30th Biggest Girl Group song of all time on Billboard Hot 100.
Patti LaBelle, after growing up singing the the church choir, began her professional singing career in the early 1960s as lead singer and frontwoman of the vocal group Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the 1970s, they released the popular number-one hit song: "Lady Marmalade". After the group split up in 1976, Patti LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed self titled debut album, which included the career-defining song: "You Are My Friend". Patti LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles: "If Only You Knew", "Love, Need And Want You", "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up". Less than two years later, in 1986, Patti LaBelle scored a number-one album: Winner In You, and its number-one duet single: "On My Own", with Michael McDonald.
In 1989, her album: Be Yourself spawned the standard: "If You Asked Me To", which was also included on the 1989 James Bond film Licence To Kill movie soundtrack. Patti LaBelle won a 1992 Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her 1991 album: Burnin', an album that featured the single: "Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)", "Feels Like Another One" and "When You've Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven)".
Patti LaBelle earned a second Grammy win for her live album: Live! One Night Only (1998). Her 1990s albums: Burnin' (1991), Gems (1994) and Flame (1997) continued her popularity with young R&B audiences throughout the decade. She reunited with her Labelle bandmates for the album: Back To Now (2008), followed by a well-received promotional tour.
Patti LaBelle has also experienced success as an actress with a role in the Oscar-nominated 1984 film: A Soldier's Story, as well as appearing in the films: Mama I Want To Sing, Semi-Pro, Cover, Idlewild, Preaching To The Choir and Sing.
In 1992, Patti LaBelle starred in her own television sitcom Out All Night. Patti LaBelle has appeared in many other television shows-movies-specials including: Out All Night, A Different World, The Neighborhood, A New Orleans Noel, American Playhouse (Working), The Wonder Years, Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock, Star, Fire And Rain, All Of Us, Christmas Everlasting, Greenleaf, Empire, A Family Christmas Gift, Santa Baby, The Nanny, Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo And His Music, The Patti LaBelle Show, Cosby, Parker Kane, Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy, Unnatural Causes and American Horror Story: Freak Show.
In 2004, Patti LaBelle hosted her own lifestyle TV show: Living It Up With Patti LaBelle, on TV One. In 2015, Patti LaBelle took part in the dance competition Dancing With The Stars at the age of 70. Patti Labelle has also seen success launching her own brand of bedding, cookbooks, and food for various companies. In 2015, her specialty pie: Patti's Sweet Potato Pie, sold millions when a RUclips video praising the product went viral. As a result, over a 72-hour period, Walmart sold one pie every second.
She returned to the VH1 Divas stage in 2016, headlining a holiday-themed concert alongside Chaka Khan, Vanessa Williams and her goddaughter Mariah Carey.
On July 2, 2019, Patti LaBelle was honored in Philadelphia with her very own street name Patti LaBelle Way between Locust and Spruce Street.
Patti LaBelle still performs her music live on stage in 2023.
Miscellaneous Info 🗃:
Members of Patti LaBelle's immediate family have passed away at young ages. Her mother Bertha passed away in October 1978 from diabetes at the age of 62. Her father, Henry Holte Jr, passed away of complications from emphysema and Alzheimer's disease in October 1989 at the age of 70. All three of LaBelle's sisters passed away young. Eldest sister Vivian Hogan Rogers passed away of lung cancer in October 1975 at the age of 43. Seven years later, in October 1982, her elder sister Barbara Holte Purifoy passed away from complications of colon cancer at the age of 40.
In July 1989, three months before her father's passing, Patti LaBelle lost her youngest sister, Jacqueline "Jackie" Holte-Padgett, to brain cancer at the age of 43. A day after the singer buried Jacqueline Padgett, an emotionally-wrecked Patti LaBelle shot the music video to her song: "If You Asked Me To", where she was seen crying in various shots; the video was shot on what would've been Jacqueline Padgett's 44th birthday. The singer dedicated her 1991 album: Burnin', and her famous rendition of the song: "Wind Beneath My Wings", during her concert tour in 1991-92 to Jacqueline "Jackie" Holte-Padgett.
Patti LaBelle said because of her sisters and parents passing away "before their time", she wrote in her autobiography that she feared she wouldn't make it to 50. Once she reached that age, however, the singer said she felt her life "had just begun". A year later, Patti LaBelle was diagnosed as having diabetes and later became a spokesperson for several organizations dedicated in fighting the disease. Patti LaBelle also wrote in her autobiography that she was sexually assaulted by Jackie Wilson while at the Brevoort Theatre at Brooklyn in the 1960s.
Patti LaBelle Albums 📀:
1. With Labelle
Labelle (1971)
Gonna Take A Miracle w/ Laura Nyro (1971)
Moon Shadow (1972)
Pressure Cookin' ( 1973)
Nightbirds (1974)
Phoenix (1975)
Chameleon (1976)
Back To Now (2008)
2. Solo
Patti LaBelle (1977)
Tasty (1978)
It's Alright With Me (1979)
Released (1980)
The Spirit's In It (1981)
I'm In Love Again (1983)
Patti (1985)
Winner in You (1986)
Be Yourself (1989)
This Christmas (1990)
Burnin' (1991)
Gems (1994)
Flame (1997)
When A Woman Loves (2000)
Timeless Journey (2004)
Classic Moments (2005)
The Gospel According To Patti LaBelle (2006)
Miss Patti's Christmas (2007)
Bel Hommage (2017)
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Some more good Patti Labelle songs 🎶: If Only You Knew, The Best Is Yet To Come, What Can I Do For You?, Music Is My Way Of Life, New Attitude, Love Need And Want You, Stir It Up, Feels Like Another One, Superwoman, When You've Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven), The Right Kind Of Lover, Oh People, If You Asked Me To, Love Has Finally Come At Last, Kiss Away The Pain, Isn't It A Shame, Messing With My Mind, Down The Aisle (The Wedding Song), Love Symphony, Living Double, Where I Wanna Be, I Can't Complain, Be Yourself, I Got It Like That, Love 89, Still In Love, I'm Scared Of You, Can't Bring Me Down, Need A Little Faith, I Can Fly, Shy, Look To The Rainbow, I Can't Forget You, What Can I Do For You, If You Don't Know Me By Now, Danny Boy, I'm In Love Again, Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?), If Only You Knew, Body Language, I'll Never Never Give Up, If Everyday Could Be Like Christmas, Nothing Could Be Better, Twas Love, Country Christmas, Love Bankrupt, When Am I Gonna Find True Love, Yo Mister, Joy To Have Your Love, Funky Music, Since I Don't Have You, Dan Swit Me, You Are My Friend, You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover, I Think About You, Do I Stand A Chance, I'm Christmasing With You, Most Likely You Go Your Way, This Christmas, When You Love Somebody (I'm Saving My Love For You), I Don't Do Duets, Temptation, I'm In Love, All This Love, This Word Is All, Too Good To Be Through, I Never Stopped Loving You, Stay In My Corner, If I Didn't Have You, I Can't Tell My Heart What To Do, Time Will Tell, Our World, Come As You Are Burnin' (The Fire Is Still) Burnin' For You, I Hear Your Voice, We're Not Makin' Love Anymore, Someone Like You, I Like The Way It Feels, You Are My Solid Ground, Flame, New Day, Let My Be Your Lady, Does He Love You, Shoe Was On The Other Foot, Addicted To You, When You Talk About Love, Love Is Just A Whisper Away, If By Chance, Let Me Be There For You, You Saved My Life, Don't Block The Blessing, Release Yourself, Love Never Dies, Crazy Love, Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight), Twisted, You're Mine Tonight, Finally We're Back Together, Beat My Heart Like A Drum, Sleep With Me Tonight, There's A Winner In You, If Everyday Could Be Like Christmas, Reason For The Season, Save The Last Dance For Me, Monkey See Monkey Do, Little Girls, You Make It So Hard (To Say No), Teach Me Tonight, Every Year Every Christmas, Quiet Time, Don't Let Go, I See Home, What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas?, Eyes In The Back Of My Head, It's Alright With Me, Christmas Jam, My Best Was Good Enough, What'cha Doing To Me, Love Is Just A Touch Away, Love And Learn, Deliver The Funk, Come What May, You And Me, The Jazz In You, Give It Up (The Dawning Of Rejection), Don't Make Your Angel Cry, Release, I Don't Go Shopping, Ain't That Enough, Love Has Finally Come, Song For Old Lovers, Moanin', Come And Dance With Me, Get Ready (Lookin' For Loving), Find The Love, The Spirit's In It, Softly As I Leave You, Here You Come Again, Love Lives, I Fell In Love Without Warning, Boats Against The Current, Ain't No Way, Don't Explain, Moody's Mood, Too Many Tears Too Many Times, Here's To Life, Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu, Family, Shoot Him On Sight, Folks Who Live On The Hill, Way Up There, Over The Rainbow and When You Talk About Love.
Some good LaBelle songs 🎶: Down The Aisle (The Wedding Song), You'll Never Walk Alone, Can I Speak To You Before You Go To Hollywood, Over The Rainbow, It Took A Long Time, System, What Can I Do For You?, Superlover, Turn It Out, Go On, Tear After Tear, Danny Boy, I Believe, Academy Award, Messin' With My Mind, I Sold My Heart to the Junkman, Going On A Holiday, Suffer, Moon Shadow, I Found A New Love, Take Me For A Little While, Oh My Love, Wonderful, Tender Words, Dreamer, Pride's No Match For Love, Trust In You, He's Gone, Dance To The Rhythm Of Love, Open Up Your Heart, Always Something There To Remind Me, Ain't It Sad It's Over, Morning Much Better, I Don't Want To Go On Without You, He's My Man, Groovy Kind Of Love, Cool Water, You Forgot How To Love, Family Man, I Found A New Love, All Or Nothing, I Don't Want To Go On Without You, Sunshine (Woke Me Up This Morning), Roll Out, It's Gonna Take A Miracle (w/ Laura Nyro), Trustin' In You, Isn't It A Shame, Nightbird, Who's Watching The Watcher, One Phone Call (Will Do), Something In The Air / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Patti's Prayer, Far As We Felt Like Goin', You'll Never Walk Alone, If I Can't Have You, Time And Love, I Believe That I've Finally Made It Home, Runnin' Out Of Fools / If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody, Won't Get Fooled Again, Shades Of Difference, Wild Horses, Touch Me All Over, Loving Rules, Ebb Tide, Sunday News, I'm Still Waiting and Decatur Street.
Fun Fact 🕵🏾♀: Around 1964 Patti LaBelle was engaged to Otis Williams, founding member of The Temptations. The engagement lasted a year before Patti LaBelle broke it off after fearing that Otis Williams would force her to move to Detroit and retire from performing on the road.
Easily the best blend of two very strong voices. Aretha and George Michael's "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" is also something you should give a listen to if you like duets with different sounds.
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