A chill went right down my spine when the vocal started. One of the all time best performances
A chill went right down my spine when the vocal started. One of the all time best performances
Yep, brilliant, Joe always was.
Mind you, the look has changed a little since then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O271C69yeeU
Another version of this song that I also love is by Joan Osborne featuring both Isaac Hayes and Meshell N'degeocello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3H3UbiBB9o
It's off her terrific CD of covers, HOW SWEET IT IS [[her version of the title track is another one of many standouts):
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/...joan-howsweet/
Last edited by ejluther; 07-18-2012 at 04:28 PM.
I`ve just received a sealed copy of the album and I`ll have it on CD soon.I can`t wait to hear it. Thanks everybody.
I'd still LOVE to see a TV performance of the original lineup.
great stuff,thanks theboy........
Gosh he sounds really good!
Jill .. You might want to try this link to a 2008 Mojo Magazine rundown of "the best Motown performances"
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/..._playlist.html
About half of the links to the videos no longer work, but #11 "Smiling Faces" is one that still does .. the UNDISPUTED TRUTH are in full make-up with gold faces and white afro wigs. Presumably it is the original line-up?
#12 .. A brilliant performance of "Didn't You Know You'd Have To Cry Sometime" by GLADYS KNIGHT still works as well
Roger
This was one of the best Motown performances/songs and one where they completely outshone the Temptations version and one which has stood up well over time.
I still can't believe it wasn't a hit in the UK.
I posted this on the forum...it's excellent and very recent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7oGW4gRMU
Last edited by MIKEW-UK; 07-19-2012 at 04:58 PM.
Well then Tamla617 .. My "Best of The Undisputed Truth" C.D. shows the line-up as Four Blokes and One Bird [[Girl) so I'm wondering how that fits in ....
In answer to 144man's comment about it never being a hit in Britain .. I don't recall ever hearing it played on BBC Radio One or Luxembourg and, if I remember correctly, it got a so-so review from James Hemilton in Record-Mirror. I got to know the song through hearing it on A.F.N. a few times, though it was only a year or so later I got a copy .. personally I love everything about the record and the lyrics are so true it is unbelievable. Wasn't the "B" side "You Got The Love I Need" a big "Northern Soul" record for a while?
Roger
Wasn`t the original line up Joe Harris with Brenda Joyce Evans and Billie Rae Calvin from the Delicates ?
I worked for WEA New Zealand in the 70`s and "Method To The Madness" on Whitfield went gold due to cassette sales in the South Sea Islands.
I remember when that first came out with the original line up of the Undisputed Truth. I know I'm dating myself. A really great song!
Last edited by rta5225; 07-19-2012 at 09:28 PM.
Sorry to bring this old thread up again but I just HAVE to see "Smiling Faces" performed by the original trio. Has any footage appeared since this thread? Is it likely to appear?!! I just love the song so much and I need to see it performed!!!!! Hehe
I found out that the group performed the song on Soul Train at least two times, the first in January 1972 and the second in October:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0849290/
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0845896/
So they definitely DID perform the song on TV but will this footage ever come to light again?
I saw Joe "Pep" Harris in Detroit last April. We attended the "Motown in Black and White" event.
Hey masterblaster, I believe the two ladies are Jaki G Fondren and Dazee Love. They have been members of The Undisputed Truth since 2008. I don't know when or where this show was but it would have been sometime between 2008 [[when they joined) and 2011 [[when the video was uploaded).
Yes. I saw it when it originally aired and have the DVD, which is copyrighted 2005.
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