I wouldn’t change a thing. Johnny Bristol

[luke]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgr9cP-keg

[TomatoTom123]

Great song luke. From 1975's Feeling The Magic!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QG9RyMTayGg

[luke]

I assume Johnny write this for himself and then Diana performed it a couple of years later?

[TomatoTom123]

Yes, written, produced and sung by Johnny!

I didn’t know Diana had recorded this song, but now I see she did it live at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1976! Nice performance. I guess she must have liked this song!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lqoq6FAG35E

[PeaceNHarmony]

Yes, written, produced and sung by Johnny!

I didn’t know Diana had recorded this song, but now I see she did it live in Japan in 1977!! Nice performance. I guess she must have liked this song!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktov=lqoq6FAG35EHi there, friend Tom. Yes, Diana performed a Johnny Bristol song entitled "I Wouldn't Change A Thing" as the opening song her amazing, historic, incredible [[etc) Palace Theater run on Broadway, but ... I Wouldn't ... is a different song -

[TomatoTom123]

Hi there, friend Tom. Yes, Diana performed a Johnny Bristol song entitled "I Wouldn't Change A Thing" as the opening song her amazing, historic, incredible [[etc) Palace Theater run on Broadway, but ... I Wouldn't ... is a different song -

Hi PNH, I meant the Ahmanson Theatre in 1976, not Japan! Not sure what happened to my brain there. :p

Still, I wouldn’t change a thing about that post! LOL

[Jaap]

I love this song and they play it quite often on the Dutch radio station I'm listening to, surprisingly as, as far as I know, the song was never released on single. It would have been a good fit on the 1976 album, perhaps in a slightly disco-fied way as Coke Escovedo did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwKUZJHZQE

[RanRan79]

I really like Johnny's version. Didn't know his was the original. This is the first time I'm hearing it. I have the Hang On In There, Cream, and Strangers albums, but not Magic.
Really nice to hear.

Diana's live versions of course I love. Makes me wonder if there might be a studio version waiting to be released/found.

Coke Escovedo's version is also quite nice. I think I prefer it to Johnny's.

[johnjeb]

I also never realized that Johnny Bristol did the original version. I remember when I got the album and saw that the other song in the medley was Here I Am and that Dionne Warwick did the original on that. I never researched the Johnny Bristol credit. Shame on me!

What was great about this opening medley was that during Wouldn't Change Diana stretched-out her arms to expand her dress while the mimes pulled-out more fabric to create a movie screen which projected her images while she was singing. It was exciting.

Here is a clip from Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8V9ou4bYYQ

[Jaap]

The dutch musical singer Simone Kleinsma used the Diana Ross medley of "I Wouldn't Change A Thing / Here I Am" as opening of her own show -- clearly a flashy musical version though, yet still very close to the Diana version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0MQTjSAd4

[Boogiedown]

Great song luke. From 1975's Feeling The Magic!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QG9RyMTayGg


the Barry White imitation continues. I'm liking this.

I used to really like HANG ON IN THERE, thought it was a great extension of BW's sound .
But my sensibilities have become more discerning and I now find it a bit vulgar. This makes for a nice substitute:)


Curious that Diana Ross would do someone else's non-hit at a concert that has nothing to do with her if she has no intention of recording it .... especially including it as part of a live LP representing her repertoire ...

[TomatoTom123]

I really like Johnny's version. Didn't know his was the original. This is the first time I'm hearing it. I have the Hang On In There, Cream, and Strangers albums, but not Magic.
Really nice to hear.

Diana's live versions of course I love. Makes me wonder if there might be a studio version waiting to be released/found.

Coke Escovedo's version is also quite nice. I think I prefer it to Johnny's.

Hey Ran! I think all of Johnny's 70s albums are top-notch. My favourites from Feeling The Magic are probably the title cut, "Love Takes Tears", "I Wouldn't Change A Thing" and "Leave My World".

Here's "Love Takes Tears"…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=u02EFyAhjCw

… also recorded by The Real Thing several years later, despite only being a very minor US R&B hit. :)

[TomatoTom123]

the Barry White imitation continues. I'm liking this.

I used to really like HANG ON IN THERE, thought it was a great extension of BW's sound .
But my sensibilities have become more discerning and I now find it a bit vulgar. This makes for a nice substitute:)


Curious that Diana Ross would do someone else's non-hit at a concert that has nothing to do with her if she has no intention of recording it .... especially including it as part of a live LP representing her repertoire ...

Ha! I know what you mean about "Hang On" Boogie!

And I agree that it’s interesting for Diana to have performed this one live and yet never actually recorded it. Maybe she just heard the song and really liked it. After all, it is a great song. :D

[RanRan79]

I also never realized that Johnny Bristol did the original version. I remember when I got the album and saw that the other song in the medley was Here I Am and that Dionne Warwick did the original on that. I never researched the Johnny Bristol credit. Shame on me!



John I never paid attention to the writing credit. It was years before I even knew Dionne did "Here I Am", and I think I read that somewhere. Never noticed Johnny having a credit on "Change". Would've piqued my interest into researching further if I had because I do love Johnny's work and may have found his version much sooner.

[RanRan79]

The dutch musical singer Simone Kleinsma used the Diana Ross medley of "I Wouldn't Change A Thing / Here I Am" as opening of her own show -- clearly a flashy musical version though, yet still very close to the Diana version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0MQTjSAd4

Says video is unavailable Jaap.

[Jaap]

Says video is unavailable Jaap. Must be a regional thing. You don't miss much though!

[RanRan79]

Hey Ran! I think all of Johnny's 70s albums are top-notch. My favourites from Feeling The Magic are probably the title cut, "Love Takes Tears", "I Wouldn't Change A Thing" and "Leave My World".

Here's "Love Takes Tears"…

I'm loving "Love Takes Tears" Tom, thanks!

[RanRan79]

Must be a regional thing. You don't miss much though!

Understood.;)

[TomatoTom123]

I'm loving "Love Takes Tears" Tom, thanks!

Awesome :cool: and you’re welcome!

Here's a nice version by The Real Thing from 1982…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_cgHBn_RN5w

[heikki]

Here's my Johnny Bristol favourite. He wrote it together with Jerry Butler, James Dean and John Glover. Jerry released it first, and after Johnny there were Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis and many others, but nobody really got a hit with it - for some strange reason -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-qHVs867M

Best regards
Heikki

[TomatoTom123]

Here's my Johnny Bristol favourite. He wrote it together with Jerry Butler, James Dean and John Glover. Jerry released it first, and after Johnny there were Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis and many others, but nobody really got a hit with it - for some strange reason -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-qHVs867M

Best regards
Heikki

I'm really enjoying this one again, thanks heikki. And, I’m revisiting the Hang On In There Baby album, which is all fantastic! :D

Another one of my favourites, "Love Me For A Reason", later to be a hit for The Osmonds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=EtYUtp4mKNo

I’d never really paid attention to the classical- style string intro here, quite similar to The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together". :cool: