I’ve been trying to find that, too! Stinks! I really hope somebody posts that also, of Carol Burnett surprising Vicki L. with the Gold Record someday. 👏🏼 🙏🏼 🌟 🏆 ❤ BRAVA, Vicki Lawrence - & major bravos to her ex-husband, Bobby Russell, for writing such a magnificent song! ❤
I turn 60 in a few weeks and I remember watching The Carol Burnett show when Vicki Lawrence sang this song like it was yesterday. From then until now those good old days are all over.
I remember when it was on the radio in 1973. The song always reminded me of my Uncle Andy. They said he carried a gun, and he wanted to shoot his son in law!
I once asked my mother if Vicki Lawrence performed this song on The Carol Burnett Show, to which confirmed she did and she remembers watching it. To finally see this clip is quite a treat. Don't know where this episode was shown, but THANK YOU so much for giving me the opportunity to finally see it.
Did anyone notice how Carol beams when she looks off to the side toward Vicki after her introduction? There's genuine pride and excitement in her face, and it just reinforces what a supportive person she is.
Carol Burnett always said that Viki Lawrence was like a baby sister to her. In my opinion the whole cast was like a big happy family and I truly enjoyed watching the show as I was growing up.
Carol has always been like that...Vicky Lawrence even acknowledge that Carol was always on her side and proud of her and opened up opportunities even when Vicky didn't understand what she was doing.
I attended Vicki Lawrence's Q&A and she told the story of how Carol and she met. Vicki happened to write her a fan letter including a picture of herself and told her about s contest/pageant she was in. Carol went to it and essentially told Vicki she wanted to meet up with her later to talk about her career. They have such a beautiful and supportive relationship. Carol definitely took her in and jumpstarted Vicki's career!
After 30 years of begging Carol Burnett to release this to home video my last hope was that some angel would record this from the Museum of TV and Radio. That angel came through for me. Thank you so much for making my dream come true.
I remember this episode. First offered to Cher, who turned it down. The song was a big hit, but it took a while and a few plays for some people to understand what the song was about.
I was ten years old when this song came out in '73 and AM Radio was King and for whatever reason it always gave me the chills back then and even to this day... 👀 Spooky
Of course it did. This was a song of reality for many people, especially in the south. The thing that they don't talk much about during the MLK marches, is that some people who got arrested by authorities, when family came to see their loved ones at the county jail. There was no record of them being arrested. Nor were they ever seen again.
I remember this song when it was a hit! I did watch the "Carol Burnett Show" sometimes, but never saw this performance by Vicki Lawrence. The song still gives me chills. Thanks for posting.
I've always liked this song, and never thought much more about it. Then about 10 years ago, it was playing and i saw on my display the artist was Vicki Lawrence (which I knew but never connected). Lights finally went off in my head and I thought, "no, couldn't be THAT Vicki Lawrence!" Googled it and sure enough it was. Sometimes the simplest things just slip past you.
Always loved this song but this video really hit me. 1. How beautiful and talented Vicki is. 2. That subtle mood change and look on her face while singing the last verse. The song and her face reveal at the same time; “I’m the evil little sister…”
Also, if you notice the camera work and how the shadow of the tree was shown against the back of the stage?? Maybe I'm ready too much into it but it looks like a hanging tree😒....very subtle.
I heard Vicki sing this live at the IP Casino in Biloxi last night. She is comedic gold, and I had no idea of the story behind this song. Very funny and gifted lady and the world is better for having her. Thanks Vicki
It sounds like she is singing along to her own audio track cuz you can hear a little doubling in the voice... No matter though. An absolutely incredible song and well one performance. Great job Vicki Lawrence!
I had no idea Vicki Lawrence sang this song period back then we didn't know who sang what's song unless we listen to Casey Kasem. We didn't have the internet so we didn't know much !!!
Oh my gosh I love this I played that record till it was worn I called the radio station asking them to play it I remember watching this and loving her performance oh my goodness gracious seems like a lifetime ago
They must of had different 45's made. My neighbor bought the 45 record, the flip side was a song called, "He Did It With Me" I remember as kids we looked at each other and started laughing. LOL
@@billaccord717 "Dime a Dance" was on the Original released copy. "He did with me" was the oldie copy that would put the songs follow-up single on the fiip
This song was #1 on the charts when I Iwas a kid. It scared me because in the south this was a real reality. That's why other artist refused to sing this song before it was offered to Vickie
I had a 45 of this with a chip out of the lead-in area, right up to but not including the grooves containing the song: to play it from the very beginning involved waiting until the chip came under the tonearm, then dropping the needle right onto the first beat of the song. I got good at it.
Finally get to see this after seeing when I watched the show. That said, I always thought she was sitting on a staircase singing this. I’ll take it anyway.
This is available on one of the Carol Burnett boxed sets... I can't recall which one since I have bought them all hoping for shows I didn't already have!
The late Bobby Russell wrote & sang "Saturday Morning Confusion" in October of 1971 that went to # 28 (Billboard Top 40). Also Carol Burnett sang that song with the late Bing Crosby.
Actually it was circumstances that were out of her control. Around the time her song was released in 1973, Vicki's original label Bell Records (which was at the time owned by Columbia Pictures) underwent a major managerial shakeup with Larry Uttall, the head of the label, leaving. They replaced Uttall with Clive Davis, who formerly headed CBS/Columbia Records. Davis then underwent a major housecleaning with the label, letting go artists such as Tony Orlando and Dawn and Vicki, but retaining Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester and Bay City Rollers. In late 1974, Davis relaunched Bell under a new name: Arista Records. It was also around that time Vicki divorced Bobby Russell (who penned her song) and married Carol Burnett Show's makeup artist Al Schulz.
Never knew she even song . Had no clue she sang the first. Wasn't until a few years ago when Reba mentioned how she loved Vicki's version. Off to Google and found that she sings and was her song first.
I know the Reba version and I knew it was a remake but I didn’t realize it was Vicki Lawrence who sang the original. I love her but I didn’t even knew she was a recording artist.
Nice to see the original as aired on Carol Burnett. I wanted to re-watch the clip of Vicki and Reba singing it together, but I can't find it so I guess it's not available anymore. :(
I have come across this kind of thing a lot. The other one that comes to mind how how many people don't realise that Whitney Houston's I will always love you is a cover of Dolly Parton's way of firing her manager in the 1973.
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been looking for this for years. I remember it just like it was yesterday. If I'm not mistaken, Carol even presented Vicki with a gold record, but I'm not sure if it was on this episode or not.
Is it my imagination or can Carol pass as a sister of Molly Ringwald? Besides the same coloring, she has some of the same facial characteristics of Mr, especially when Molly was in "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles".
The sister who did the shooting carried the guilt for 40 yrs until she heard her dead brothers voice from the grave to clear the guilt she had and she confessed to the shooting of Andy and his brothers wife.
The sisters brother plead guilty to protect her..and he was hung for the crime a innocent man until the sister heard the spirit of her dead brother say you need to clear your gulit and she confessed to the 40 yr old murder of Andy and her brothers wife.
The wife was going to be found out eventually for cheating on her brother. She shot the wife for hurting her brother, but ended up hurting him worse than she could have ever imagined.
She shot the wife who was cheating and that guilt she had was finally cleared when from the grave her executed brother told her to clear her guilt and the heavy burden was lifted when she confessed to the 40 yr old cold case murder.
She shot the SIL because she had been cheating on the sister's brother with Andy. The brother took the fall for the murders and now she is confessing to her role in it years later. I also believed that the sister shot Andy as well because the sister was in a relationship with Andy, and in a fit of rage, shot both of them when she saw them together.
Glad to finally see this performance. BUT, the staging is TERRIBLE. She should have been given close-ups and medium shots, instead of the camera aimlessly wandering across the stage. By the way, I have always wondered about the lyrics. Andy's sister was the killer? Why did she kill?
Carol Burnett surprised Vicki with a gold record on her last show of the sixth season. Well deserved.
That's why I'm here. Is there a clip of that anywhere?
Thanks.
@@paulzammataro7185 I have scoured RUclips and the internet for it, but have not been able to find anything.
I’ve been trying to find that, too! Stinks! I really hope somebody posts that also, of Carol Burnett surprising Vicki L. with the Gold Record someday. 👏🏼 🙏🏼 🌟 🏆 ❤ BRAVA, Vicki Lawrence - & major bravos to her ex-husband, Bobby Russell, for writing such a magnificent song! ❤
I turn 60 in a few weeks and I remember watching The Carol Burnett show when Vicki Lawrence sang this song like it was yesterday. From then until now those good old days are all over.
So true.
I remember when it was on the radio in 1973. The song always reminded me of my Uncle Andy. They said he carried a gun, and he wanted to shoot his son in law!
I remember that. It was so cool back then.
I once asked my mother if Vicki Lawrence performed this song on The Carol Burnett Show, to which confirmed she did and she remembers watching it. To finally see this clip is quite a treat. Don't know where this episode was shown, but THANK YOU so much for giving me the opportunity to finally see it.
My mother told me the same thing.
Seeing here here made my heart so happy.
@@AnnetteLynnG I've always been attracted to older women and after seeing this again, I think I remember why
I've seen the rerun of it many times over the years
Did anyone notice how Carol beams when she looks off to the side toward Vicki after her introduction? There's genuine pride and excitement in her face, and it just reinforces what a supportive person she is.
Carol Burnett always said that Viki Lawrence was like a baby sister to her. In my opinion the whole cast was like a big happy family and I truly enjoyed watching the show as I was growing up.
Carol has always been like that...Vicky Lawrence even acknowledge that Carol was always on her side and proud of her and opened up opportunities even when Vicky didn't understand what she was doing.
Yess!!! That's an honest support and Good heart!!
I attended Vicki Lawrence's Q&A and she told the story of how Carol and she met. Vicki happened to write her a fan letter including a picture of herself and told her about s contest/pageant she was in. Carol went to it and essentially told Vicki she wanted to meet up with her later to talk about her career. They have such a beautiful and supportive relationship. Carol definitely took her in and jumpstarted Vicki's career!
My father always thought they were really sisters
What a voice! Not only could she act but Wowwwww she could sing! Such talent!
One hit wonder!
@@jgrysiak6566doesn't matter it was a no.1 song and better than anything today
After 30 years of begging Carol Burnett to release this to home video my last hope was that some angel would record this from the Museum of TV and Radio. That angel came through for me. Thank you so much for making my dream come true.
It actually is on DVD now, on The Best of The Carol Burnett Shown 50th Anniversary 10 disc set put out by Time-Life.
One of those songs that sticks with you, no matter how many years ago it was! Momma did good!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Even Reba McIntyre redid it
I remember this episode. First offered to Cher, who turned it down. The song was a big hit, but it took a while and a few plays for some people to understand what the song was about.
I was ten years old when this song came out in '73 and AM Radio was King and for whatever reason it always gave me the chills back then and even to this day... 👀 Spooky
Shoeless Joe, I hope a Southern murder mystery movie based on this song gets produced. I can practically see it happen.
Of course it did. This was a song of reality for many people, especially in the south. The thing that they don't talk much about during the MLK marches, is that some people who got arrested by authorities, when family came to see their loved ones at the county jail. There was no record of them being arrested. Nor were they ever seen again.
But I can assure you, on judgment day, there shall be wailing and grinding of teeth.
I remember this song when it was a hit! I did watch the "Carol Burnett Show" sometimes, but never saw this performance by Vicki Lawrence. The song still gives me chills. Thanks for posting.
From Carol Burnett Show on February 3, 1973. Incredible this is 50 years ago now.
Mama Harper could sing in her younger days!
I've always liked this song, and never thought much more about it. Then about 10 years ago, it was playing and i saw on my display the artist was Vicki Lawrence (which I knew but never connected). Lights finally went off in my head and I thought, "no, couldn't be THAT Vicki Lawrence!" Googled it and sure enough it was. Sometimes the simplest things just slip past you.
I love this song from Vicki Lawrence
I actually remember this when it was on the air.
Historic moment that should not be held from the public, Carol!
So do I. Her sitting in the porch swing.
Me too. Saturday night, 9 pm.Eating homemade burgers and chips.
Me too.
Wow…this is the very same clip I watched when it was first broadcast. Thensong has a major creep factor that never leaves you. Thank you!
Always loved this song but this video really hit me. 1. How beautiful and talented Vicki is. 2. That subtle mood change and look on her face while singing the last verse. The song and her face reveal at the same time; “I’m the evil little sister…”
Also, if you notice the camera work and how the shadow of the tree was shown against the back of the stage?? Maybe I'm ready too much into it but it looks like a hanging tree😒....very subtle.
@@stacythomas1587 Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t noticed that but I’d say it’s by design.
I wouldn't call it evil.....just don't cheat, and you won't end up dead. Take your vows seriously
50 years again, ❤️
Betting than everything on the radio today. ❤️
Happy Birthday Vicki Lawrence (Mar.26, 1949).
Luv luv luv this song from the 70’s. What an innocent time.
I heard Vicki sing this live at the IP Casino in Biloxi last night. She is comedic gold, and I had no idea of the story behind this song. Very funny and gifted lady and the world is better for having her. Thanks Vicki
It sounds like she is singing along to her own audio track cuz you can hear a little doubling in the voice... No matter though. An absolutely incredible song and well one performance. Great job Vicki Lawrence!
Great song that brings back high school memories.
She’s so beautiful
Vicki looks so young and fresh faced.
One awesome song from Vicki Lawrence! I love it!
I had no idea Vicki Lawrence sang this song period back then we didn't know who sang what's song unless we listen to Casey Kasem. We didn't have the internet so we didn't know much !!!
Oh I do remember this. Just had a flashback. Love this song. Love her voice.
Oh my gosh I love this I played that record till it was worn I called the radio station asking them to play it I remember watching this and loving her performance oh my goodness gracious seems like a lifetime ago
What was the name of the song on the flip side?
Dime a Dance
They must of had different 45's made. My neighbor bought the 45 record, the flip side was a song called, "He Did It With Me" I remember as kids we looked at each other and started laughing. LOL
I think you’re right now I can’t remember what Dime a dance was on maybe that was a separate single
@@billaccord717 "Dime a Dance" was on the Original released copy. "He did with me" was the oldie copy that would put the songs follow-up single on the fiip
Heavy story material for the carol Burnett show! Yet we all love this song somehow. What a great performance. Love the simple night time set!
I can't imagine it would have been on if it wasn't for the fact that it is vicki
I love this song
Happy Birthday Ms Vicki Lawrence !!
As fresh and powerful today as it was then. This single reached #1 on the Billboard survey. Reba also did it as a cover--equally great.
Carol Burnett Is Like A Favorite Aunt
This song was #1 on the charts when I Iwas a kid. It scared me because in the south this was a real reality. That's why other artist refused to sing this song before it was offered to Vickie
She was 23 years old when she had this hit
Beautiful song
i Wish Vicki would sing this as Mama Harper
I had a 45 of this with a chip out of the lead-in area, right up to but not including the grooves containing the song: to play it from the very beginning involved waiting until the chip came under the tonearm, then dropping the needle right onto the first beat of the song. I got good at it.
I still have my 45 with "Dime a Dance" on the B side.
What that chip on the 45, a version sent to Radio stations?
That intro isn't that long.
Oops.
"Was that chip...", instead.
love this version
Anyone hear mama in there somewhere?
She was a good singer she should have kept it up
That was fantastic !! always loved the song and never knew it was released on the Carol Burnett show .
Got me thinking of the old KJR which was Seattle’s Top 40 station back then!
Thanks for the upload its so kool
Greatvoicevickylawarence
Thanks for uploading this! I have heard so many people mention that they remembered that porch swing for this song!
They seem to have a great relationship. Great song.
I remember watching this when it was first broadcast. Wednesday night was "Carol Burnett Night" in my household!
I never realized that she did this song!
Finally get to see this after seeing when I watched the show. That said, I always thought she was sitting on a staircase singing this. I’ll take it anyway.
You can find that version here: ruclips.net/video/hkys-6AmkAw/видео.html
This is available on one of the Carol Burnett boxed sets... I can't recall which one since I have bought them all hoping for shows I didn't already have!
50th anniversary 10 disc set.
I was watching Reba's cover of this and I remembered that Vicki sang this. I just had to look this up.
Holding court just sitting there. Captivating
The late Bobby Russell wrote & sang "Saturday Morning Confusion" in October of 1971 that went to # 28 (Billboard Top 40). Also Carol Burnett sang that song with the late Bing Crosby.
Wow, Vicki Lawrence sings more better as the original.
Did anyone notice that in this episode Carol and Vicki have the exact same haircut 😅😂
Vicki missed her calling! Love 💕 her
Actually it was circumstances that were out of her control. Around the time her song was released in 1973, Vicki's original label Bell Records (which was at the time owned by Columbia Pictures) underwent a major managerial shakeup with Larry Uttall, the head of the label, leaving. They replaced Uttall with Clive Davis, who formerly headed CBS/Columbia Records. Davis then underwent a major housecleaning with the label, letting go artists such as Tony Orlando and Dawn and Vicki, but retaining Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester and Bay City Rollers. In late 1974, Davis relaunched Bell under a new name: Arista Records. It was also around that time Vicki divorced Bobby Russell (who penned her song) and married Carol Burnett Show's makeup artist Al Schulz.
Exactly she had a good voice after having a no.1 hit she should have continued
Never knew she even song . Had no clue she sang the first. Wasn't until a few years ago when Reba mentioned how she loved Vicki's version. Off to Google and found that she sings and was her song first.
❤❤❤,
I know the Reba version and I knew it was a remake but I didn’t realize it was Vicki Lawrence who sang the original. I love her but I didn’t even knew she was a recording artist.
This is the best shit ever
Nice to see the original as aired on Carol Burnett. I wanted to re-watch the clip of Vicki and Reba singing it together, but I can't find it so I guess it's not available anymore. :(
i had no idea that this wasn't an original Reba song
I have come across this kind of thing a lot. The other one that comes to mind how how many people don't realise that Whitney Houston's I will always love you is a cover of Dolly Parton's way of firing her manager in the 1973.
Vicki is the original no.1 song from 1973 its the best version
I was 10 when this came out in '72... I remember it and her very well.
Carol looks so much like Molly Ringwald
I am going to cut my hair like this
My Kind of RUclips Video, no Thumbs Down
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been looking for this for years. I remember it just like it was yesterday. If I'm not mistaken, Carol even presented Vicki with a gold record, but I'm not sure if it was on this episode or not.
Last episode of season 6.
Family Feud brought me here.
How??
Is it my imagination or can Carol pass as a sister of Molly Ringwald? Besides the same coloring, she has some of the same facial characteristics of Mr, especially when Molly was in "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles".
Anyone know the airdate?
I have heard that this song was originally offered to Cher but Sonny Bono told her not to do it.
You heard right... He was afraid cher's southern fans would be offended.
where is the version vicki is sitting on a black staircase? wiped out?
I was there when Vickie sang this in the show. Does anyone know what episode this was or the date it aired? I’d appreciate it
The words in the song are wrong. There are 3 people referred to as Andy (the friend, the husband, the lover). Listen to the song closely.
The sister who did the shooting carried the guilt for 40 yrs until she heard her dead brothers voice from the grave to clear the guilt she had and she confessed to the shooting of Andy and his brothers wife.
Why is Carol Burnett touching her nose as she is introducing Vickie Lawrence?
Why the little sister killed the cheating wife?
The sisters brother plead guilty to protect her..and he was hung for the crime a innocent man until the sister heard the spirit of her dead brother say you need to clear your gulit and she confessed to the 40 yr old murder of Andy and her brothers wife.
The wife was going to be found out eventually for cheating on her brother. She shot the wife for hurting her brother, but ended up hurting him worse than she could have ever imagined.
She shot the wife who was cheating and that guilt she had was finally cleared when from the grave her executed brother told her to clear her guilt and the heavy burden was lifted when she confessed to the 40 yr old cold case murder.
She shot the SIL because she had been cheating on the sister's brother with Andy. The brother took the fall for the murders and now she is confessing to her role in it years later. I also believed that the sister shot Andy as well because the sister was in a relationship with Andy, and in a fit of rage, shot both of them when she saw them together.
Glad to finally see this performance. BUT, the staging is TERRIBLE. She should have been given close-ups and medium shots, instead of the camera aimlessly wandering across the stage. By the way, I have always wondered about the lyrics. Andy's sister was the killer? Why did she kill?
She killed her sister in law because she was sleeping around
@@scanner973 Thank you.
Unbelievable
Would have been nice if Vicki did this live and not lip sync
It's good but like Reba Mcintryes version better
Me too. Reba put some attitude into it
I like Vicki's better and shes the original
Great singer. Stupid song makes no sense...
Lip sync
I never realized that she did this song!