Was it this song or You Brought the Sunshine? I thought it was the latter, but it could be a combination of songs. Either way...they are gospel superstars even today!!!
YBTS was when they crossed over to secular gospel which made them get to a high spot on the charts but IMLIV was their first real single but I like all their songs so ian complaining😂😂
My Singing, My Preaching, My Teaching, My Paising God ( Shouting and Dancing) For Jesus Christ -GOD ! Hallelujah!!! Jesus Christ -GOD is Worthy of All my Praise!!
It is now 2023 and this song stills speaks to my spirit. Help me Jesus not to live my life in vain. Help me daily God to die to myself and pick up my personal cross and follow you. I give you Jesus, another Yes .
you don't even here ppl on the organ like this no more,.........shame this song take me back to my childhood helps with my sobriety ever day just to listen
Some songs you know you can't listen to in public cause you fall to pieces. This is one of them songs. Thank ya Lord for taking me through the trials and tribulations!
@@lukehamilton6681 it was jus her belting when she gets in her upper register and belting notes her voice gets raspy but a throaty type of raspy not like dorindas raspy ness
The Clark Sisters song the song is not in vain up to Aretha Franklin funeral to let her family and the whole world know her work was not in vain in Jesus name amen amen 🙏🙏🙏
My mom bought me here 😂 she used to play this all the time and it was my favorite song when I was little (along with "I Made A Vow" and "You Bought The Sunshine") it reminds me of the good old unfiltered church 👍
I'm here for the memories. I remember hearing this song for the first time in church when I was little, and (I believe) four of the pastor's daughters used to tear this song UP!!!!!!! I'm glad they bought me to this song.
I believe Sister Clark's signature is on this song with the organ and church-sounding music. She held a standard of holiness and sanctification in her daughters. I miss that.✝️
thank you Lord it's not in vain... I'm going to be with my lord in the end I feel like celebrating over and over... my God I thank you so much for loving me and being the most high wonderful being I have ever or could...GOD I THANK AND I PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME... I TRULY LOVE YOU GOD
They were signing to the Glory of God, and we have reaped encouragement and inspiration from their Gospel recordings. From before this and after, Yahweh is good.
This is one of my favorite songs across all genres. I don't actually listen to Gospel Music but I heard this once as a kid and it stuck with me. I swear you can "feel" them singing. Something special about them being related and harmonizing like that. Mattie Moss Clark is their mom and she legit birthed an instrument split in pieces. I'm also not a huge fan of the Braxtons except for Toni but she and her sisters have a similar affect. Their harmonies are so pretty and seem more special because they're sisters IMO.
My momma would play this when I was a boy. Now as a man I find myself returning here to be reminded by these ladies that "it's not all in vain." For "up the road".... can I get some help? "Up the road is eternal gain."
Love these wonderful women of God. Beautiful sisters giving glory to God Almighty through their wonderful voices and musical instruments. God bless them.
my living in vain? Is my giving in vain? Is my praying in vain? Is my fasting in vain? Am I wasting my time? Can the clock be rewind? Have I let my light shine? Have I made ninety-nine? No, of course not It's not all in vain No, no Lord, no 'Cause up the road is eternal gain Is my praying in vain? Is my labor in vain? Is my singing in vain? Is my speaking, is it in vain? Is my playing the organ in vain? Is my praying in vain? Is my, is my, is my labor in vain? Is my singing, singing, singing, in vain? No, of course not No, of course not No, of course not No, no, no, no, no, no Of course not No, no, no, no, no, no Of course not It's not all in vain Up the road is eternal gain Is my praying in vain? Is my, is my, is my labor in vain? Is my singing, singing in vain? I know I'm speaking in vain Is my playin' this organ in vain, at the temple At the cathedral, at all these churches? Is my praying, my praying, my praying, in vain? Ooh Is it in vain? Is it in vain? Is it in vain? Is it in vain? No it ain't in vain No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no No, no, of course not No, no, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no, no Of course not No, no, no, no, no, no Of course not No, no, no, no, no, no Of course not It's not all in vain It's not all in vain It's not all in vain It's not all in vain It's not all in vain 'Cause up the road is eternal gain
@@Cmar102 They sing in unison most of the song. After the first run through of the chorus ("No, of course not ... it's not all in vain ... cause up the road is eternal gain"), they each sing a line (Jackie asks about labor, Karen about singing, Twinkie about playing the organ, Dorinda about speaking, and Niecy about praying).
Yes’. The Lord guided me to stumble a cross this page”🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️🌹. Thank you Lird”. I was seeking for Old throw backs from the day’s🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. Hallelujah 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👌🏾. Phraise the Lord “. Amen. Thank you
They always keep their classic songs new and Fresh. Little Baby Karen done grew up now. She put a Holy Ghost echo on that Cuz Up the Road. I ain't neva heard somebody echo a squall. These Girls are ALIENS.
I Thank God.In I Thank You'll For This Blessed Song.The Lord Laid This Song on my heart when he open my eyes to see another beautiful morning.Thank You Jesus.God Bless
I recently came to listen to The Clark Sister after their being around for seemingly forever.And these women of God were and are truly outstanding in every aspect of the word...Artist Kevin Curtis Barr....
I know you're grateful because some people don't care whether they got parents or not. Some people don't have parents. We need to care for our parents and ourselves.
This song hits different when you're getting over depression or going through depression. Amen love this song the lyrics speak to me.
Hope you’re doing better now. God bless you 🙏🏾🙏🏾
It definitely hits different for me because these are my aunts and my mother and I really need her right
Yes sir!!!!!!
Touches my soul
The Lord brought me here...
Awohoa ,yes he did
Same! I’ve never heard this song professionally sung before. I only hear it in church
Had a melancholy feeling for awhile.This song jumped in my spirit. Had to come and listen to it
This song is 40 years old in 2020!! Still is a classic
Tanisha Anderson did you see the movie last night
@@leele2579 I DID
This that stank face gospel
@@ATLKing404 yes!!! Stank face and rocking back and forth with your arms wrapped around!!!
@@leele2579 Yes!!!! The movie was fantastic!
The moment Denise says 'Is my praying my praying my praying in vain" took me all the way in.
🙏🏽🛐🙌🏽Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.🙌🏽🛐🙏🏽
So raw and unedited....gives me chills...
That part
Recorded at Detroit's Bailey Cathedral in late 1979, the song that made the Clark Sisters gospel superstars in 1980.
Was it this song or You Brought the Sunshine? I thought it was the latter, but it could be a combination of songs. Either way...they are gospel superstars even today!!!
@@freshpeaches15 Well Living was their first number one. But yeah Sunshine did make them huge.
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YBTS was when they crossed over to secular gospel which made them get to a high spot on the charts but IMLIV was their first real single but I like all their songs so ian complaining😂😂
@@kenreksimpson3107 true I can’t believe this was there first number one hit they had so much other great songs before this
Twinki; Thomas Whitfield, Walter Hawkins, is the reason we have Gospel music like it is today , Thank yall
Yes Amen
I agree totally & don't forget Rev. Milton Brunson...
Andre crouch
My Singing, My Preaching, My Teaching, My Paising God ( Shouting and Dancing) For Jesus Christ -GOD ! Hallelujah!!! Jesus Christ -GOD is Worthy of All my Praise!!
It is now 2023 and this song stills speaks to my spirit. Help me Jesus not to live my life in vain. Help me daily God to die to myself and pick up my personal cross and follow you. I give you Jesus, another Yes .
you don't even here ppl on the organ like this no more,.........shame this song take me back to my childhood helps with my sobriety ever day just to listen
Pam S god bless you on your journey of sobriety
At my church you will
Best of luck with your sobriety journey 🙏🏾
Shyon Clark
Some songs you know you can't listen to in public cause you fall to pieces. This is one of them songs. Thank ya Lord for taking me through the trials and tribulations!
Totally agree!! I came a long way
This is a very inspirational song , when our souls cry out our Savior hears us
This song never gets old!
Amen on that one
This will always be the best version
Matthew Weston I totally agree!
PeriodT!!!
Forward real!! Love it. Had this on CD. Back in the day. Love it always.🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💓💓❤️
@@reginalddrake4549 I'm old,my mama had the tape and we practiced and performed at church
Arethas funeral brought me here✌🏿
Clark Sisters killed this👍🏿👍🏿
Sitting here in composition class, wth tears coming to my eyes.
Thank you Jesus it's not in vain!
Denise Has Done The Things!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
PERIODT!!! Denise was SANGING!!!
Am I the only one that heard that growl denise did @ 2:16 !?
@@lukehamilton6681 that wasn’t a growl 😂
@@reggiemitchell5198 Well whatever it was, it sounded good to me ( and since you seem to be such an expert, what was it?)
@@lukehamilton6681 it was jus her belting when she gets in her upper register and belting notes her voice gets raspy but a throaty type of raspy not like dorindas raspy ness
This is it! Mattie on piano, Twinkie on the organ, and the sisters sanging to high Heaven, makes for a glorious time.
Mrspain 79
All of these decades I’ve been listening to this album and it was today that I learned Dr. Matties Moss was on the piano.😯
@@sowaseedoftheword4560 Twinkie played the Piano and Organ on the entire Is My Living In Vain Album.
Scream this in the devil face: NOOOOOO OF COURSE NOT IT AIN'T ALL IN VAIN.
Amen.
The Clark Sisters song the song is not in vain up to Aretha Franklin funeral to let her family and the whole world know her work was not in vain in Jesus name amen amen 🙏🙏🙏
My mom bought me here 😂 she used to play this all the time and it was my favorite song when I was little (along with "I Made A Vow" and "You Bought The Sunshine") it reminds me of the good old unfiltered church 👍
My mom played this and the whole album when I was little as well
♥️
Playing this right now for my granny who's passing she needed to know it's okay to be in peace God has her back 😇💕
So sorry for your loss
Only two musicians tho. Twinkie and the drummer. PERFECT production.
Steven Majors it's a organist, drummer and pianist
@@tariqzbaxley7507 Twinkie overdubbed the piano in the studio
there's a bass on there too; so, organ, piano, bass, drums. still amazing!
@@FKupstateB she played the bass as well I forgot the name of the kinda bass it’s called tho
@@teekay1389 synthesizer
Classic old school Sunday morning service sound and vocals. Thank you Jesus!!!!
Sometimes we gotta be reminded of this...Praise God for the Clark Sisters and THIS song! It's bringing me through.
Twinke was just at my church and this song was such an inspiration to me smh God has really been good to me....she was amazing
Mama Mattie, take a bow in Heaven!!!!!
Love this, I was raised on this... praise God for the mother He gave me!!!
Me too ..
Me too bro!
I love all of the Clark Sisters but Twinkie's part is taking me to the throne
The way she said "Niecy" and the way she sang after that was everything
I've always love when she calls niecey!!!
@@Tonymarquee912me too ❤😁
The piano playing is incredible. This is my favorite version
I'm here for the memories. I remember hearing this song for the first time in church when I was little, and (I believe) four of the pastor's daughters used to tear this song UP!!!!!!! I'm glad they bought me to this song.
I believe Sister Clark's signature is on this song with the organ and church-sounding music. She held a standard of holiness and sanctification in her daughters. I miss that.✝️
This song has brought me out of many dark places 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 can’t wait to watch the movie tonight
Classic! Takes me back to when my mother would play their albums over and over. I’m a child of the 70s. This is how we got dressed for church.
Denise is a sister
The organ tho! AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Powerful song, vocals, instruments. That Hammond B3 is singing!
thank you Lord it's not in vain... I'm going to be with my lord in the end I feel like celebrating over and over... my God I thank you so much for loving me and being the most high wonderful being I have ever or could...GOD I THANK AND I PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME... I TRULY LOVE YOU GOD
Amen
Pray for denise!! And pray she comes back to music again.
They were signing to the Glory of God, and we have reaped encouragement and inspiration from their Gospel recordings. From before this and after, Yahweh is good.
Wendy’s disrespectful comments brought me here tonight! All hail The Dynamic Clark Sisters!!
When the bass comes in at the beginning....as a musician hit something deep in my soul🎵🎼🎹🎸
The classic has this special anointing than the more recent versions
Got that right!
this is the best song I love of the Clarke sisters....go my Detroit sister. wow they can sing...give me chills...HOLY SPRIT AT WORK
Been praying all morning then saddened I heard the lord say listen to this 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I love this song!!!listening to it always lifts my spirit up..
This is an absolute TUNE. I've been known to listen to it 15, 20 times in a row.
Twinkie on that organ...🔥🔥🔥
Thankful & Graceful on today Lord... Plz Be Blessed Everyone!!
They sound like they havin a good time sangin that
Aretha Franklin funeral brought me here. I have no idea why I haven't heard this song before.
You are not alone....
This is one of my favorite songs across all genres. I don't actually listen to Gospel Music but I heard this once as a kid and it stuck with me. I swear you can "feel" them singing. Something special about them being related and harmonizing like that. Mattie Moss Clark is their mom and she legit birthed an instrument split in pieces.
I'm also not a huge fan of the Braxtons except for Toni but she and her sisters have a similar affect. Their harmonies are so pretty and seem more special because they're sisters IMO.
Courtney Elie same
God got you
Me too
This is the BEST song EVER ....all genres included.. hands down (or up for that matter)
Lord, Have Mercy!!!!! I’m going through a tough time and had to hear this. Is it in vain Jesus?
🙏🏽🌹
My momma would play this when I was a boy. Now as a man I find myself returning here to be reminded by these ladies that "it's not all in vain." For "up the road".... can I get some help? "Up the road is eternal gain."
So Awesome Timeless! Praise God for their gift!
The piano, the piano, the piano!
It's swanky
The year I received GOD into my LIFE is when this song came out. I have not tuen back to sin. Im not living in.vain
Praise GOD❤❤❤❤❤❤
They were on fire when they sang this!!
Listening to them is blessing my spirit 😇
This is the version that speaks to my soul and keeps me going. As soon as that beat drops I get chills
year 2022 and this song is STILL a blessing t o my soul. Praise for the Almighty.
Denise on the tambourine... Her praying is NOT in vain... XOXO
Love these wonderful women of God. Beautiful sisters giving glory to God Almighty through their wonderful voices and musical instruments. God bless them.
Chills!!! They are annointed...those damn vocalssss, go on now lort, speak through them.
The incomparable Clark Sisters
my living in vain?
Is my giving in vain?
Is my praying in vain?
Is my fasting in vain?
Am I wasting my time?
Can the clock be rewind?
Have I let my light shine?
Have I made ninety-nine?
No, of course not
It's not all in vain
No, no Lord, no
'Cause up the road is eternal gain
Is my praying in vain?
Is my labor in vain?
Is my singing in vain?
Is my speaking, is it in vain?
Is my playing the organ in vain?
Is my praying in vain?
Is my, is my, is my labor in vain?
Is my singing, singing, singing, in vain?
No, of course not
No, of course not
No, of course not
No, no, no, no, no, no
Of course not
No, no, no, no, no, no
Of course not
It's not all in vain
Up the road is eternal gain
Is my praying in vain?
Is my, is my, is my labor in vain?
Is my singing, singing in vain?
I know I'm speaking in vain
Is my playin' this organ in vain, at the temple
At the cathedral, at all these churches?
Is my praying, my praying, my praying, in vain? Ooh
Is it in vain? Is it in vain?
Is it in vain? Is it in vain?
No it ain't in vain
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, of course not
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
Of course not
No, no, no, no, no, no
Of course not
No, no, no, no, no, no
Of course not
It's not all in vain
It's not all in vain
It's not all in vain
It's not all in vain
It's not all in vain
'Cause up the road is eternal gain
Alesis Jones who performing lead vocals? And what year?
Charles Marcus karen
@@Cmar102 They sing in unison most of the song. After the first run through of the chorus ("No, of course not ... it's not all in vain ... cause up the road is eternal gain"), they each sing a line (Jackie asks about labor, Karen about singing, Twinkie about playing the organ, Dorinda about speaking, and Niecy about praying).
@@Cmar102 after the chorus it’s Denise(praying) Jacky(labor) Karen(singing) Dorinda(speaking) Twinkie(playing the organ)
yesssss thanks for the words!!!!!
Posso ficar o dia todo ouvindo essa música. 🙌
The strength this song gives when you Goin through a storm!!!! Hallelujah
SING IT NOWWWW!!!!! I absolutely love that harmony 😍😍
Yes’. The Lord guided me to stumble a cross this page”🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️🌹. Thank you Lird”. I was seeking for Old throw backs from the day’s🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. Hallelujah 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾👌🏾. Phraise the Lord “. Amen. Thank you
Lord. This is a Blessing “🙏🏾🙏🏾🌹🌹❤️❤️
Amen, It is NOT all in vain!!!! It is Eternal!!!!!
They always keep their classic songs new and Fresh. Little Baby Karen done grew up now. She put a Holy Ghost echo on that Cuz Up the Road. I ain't neva heard somebody echo a squall. These Girls are ALIENS.
Thank you for posting the original radio version!!!!
Truly touch my spirit on this evening. Glory to God .
Working for Jesus Christ -GOD is not in vain!!!
Amen
Lord Lord the memories of my cousin's singing that back in the day. Jesus!
I Thank God.In I Thank You'll For This Blessed Song.The Lord Laid This Song on my heart when he open my eyes to see another beautiful morning.Thank You Jesus.God Bless
It!s not all in vain!!!! love this and the new Snoop Dog collaboration
In 2021 !! It’s not all in vain☝🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽BREAK THROUGH SONG !! HALLELUJAH THANK YOU JESUS 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Fa real💯this song really make u think
I recently came to listen to The Clark Sister after their being around for seemingly forever.And these women of God were and are truly outstanding in every aspect of the word...Artist Kevin Curtis Barr....
I wish there was a video of this concert.
Had ta here dis!!!! Love The Clark Sisters Amen.🙏🙏💜💜
I'm here for the testimony's.to god be the glory
I know you're grateful because some people don't care whether they got parents or not. Some people don't have parents. We need to care for our parents and ourselves.
Pure gold❤️🙌🏾
Not a big religious person butt this song makes me feel closer to a higher being?
The higher being Loves you friend, and so do I . Dont give up! Yahweh is here for you.🤍🤍🤍
LORD I LIFT YOU UP I MAGNIFY YOUR HOLY NAME. BLESSED ARE THE QUARANTINE AMEN
Don't do,keep holding on,a change will come!!!
Can't stop listening to this song.
I love This Song So Much I love The Lord 😍❤
Love, Peace & Blessings Everyone🕊
Glory Hallejuah Amen Lord your worthy Amen
I needed to hear this today. Thanks for posting.
God Bless You! You will have an awesome testimony!! He will turn your situation around suddenly!!
I’m here after Mac Miller’s death. I’m so hurt. 💙
Girl bye
This really blessed my spirit.
Dorinda is FUNNY ! 4:00
Right, the little laugh afterwards!
What is she saying?
0:41 - 1:00 gave me chills
Xscape did a cover of this song.