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Methuselah2
06-01-2013, 01:26 PM
Very well-known footage but thanks--many, many thanks--to MARVELETTES4U, it's back on YouTube in a great print.

Especially for those who might never have seen it before--and for those of you who have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2f345Dz6SY
luke
06-01-2013, 05:12 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3nH1N1Y_o And lower on the bill at the Apollo. Berry must have had a crystal ball. At least they didnt get booed!!!
franjoy56
06-01-2013, 06:05 PM
Very well-known footage but thanks--many, many thanks--to MARVELETTES4U, it's back on YouTube in a great print.

Especially for those who might never have seen it before--and for those of you who have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2f345Dz6SY
This has got to be one of the best girl group performances ever especially for movement and vocal variety, Gladys and Wanda trading ff lead vocals and Cat and Georgiana hitting the choreography, even the Shirelles didn't have it down pat like this and to think the Marvelettes were being put on the back burner by this time in 1963.
marv2
06-01-2013, 06:26 PM
This has got to be one of the best girl group performances ever especially for movement and vocal variety, Gladys and Wanda trading ff lead vocals and Cat and Georgiana hitting the choreography, even the Shirelles didn't have it down pat like this and to think the Marvelettes were being put on the back burner by this time in 1963.

Also it must be noted that at that time the Marvelettes did not benefit from Motowns Artist Development. Their Choreography was not developed by Cholly Aktins. It is my understanding that the Marvelettes and others early success made it possible for Motown to offer those services to artists later on.
kenneth
06-01-2013, 08:24 PM
This has got to be one of the best girl group performances ever especially for movement and vocal variety, Gladys and Wanda trading ff lead vocals and Cat and Georgiana hitting the choreography, even the Shirelles didn't have it down pat like this and to think the Marvelettes were being put on the back burner by this time in 1963.

I know, the choreography is so surprising you almost laugh out loud in delight when the girls swap sides. It was genius to do it that way. What a great clip. I enjoy it every time I see it.
westgrandboulevard
06-02-2013, 06:21 AM
So do I!

Try watching their feet only.

Just like a small herd of graceful, energetic gazelles, in perfect synchronisation:)
Methuselah2
06-02-2013, 07:28 AM
It's all so true. Their timing and movements--all done in an extremely revved-up-speeded-up-full-steam-ahead musical arrangement--were so precise and exact. It seems impossible that a group could perform such a complex routine so faultlessly. In such great voice. And in high heels! Their professionalism was just remarkable. What snap!
westgrandboulevard
06-02-2013, 08:22 AM
There is the lasting regret that not more is available of The Marvelettes, either by visual footage or audio live recordings.

It seems likely that many Marvelettes fans in North America were little or no more familiar with the girls in visual action than we here in Europe.

There was so much more to the group than simply identifying the alternate lead voices on their recordings, or whether the other group members were actually to be heard on background vocals, or not.....
splanky
06-02-2013, 08:32 AM
Yes, most of us have seen this before but the new print is better quality and it's always
so much dang fun! The girls were so animated; I only wish I could have been there. Then
again even though I was only a kid at the time I probably would have had to be escorted
off the stage like the guy Wanda sent over the line...LOL....
westgrandboulevard
06-02-2013, 08:56 AM
Is it my imagination, or did performers live on stage in those days appear to have much more fun than do the current entertainers, in these far more sophisticated times?
arrr&bee
06-02-2013, 12:32 PM
That's my girls.
supremester
06-02-2013, 08:27 PM
Why were they put on the back burner? I didn't think that happened until after Vandellas and Supremes hit.


This has got to be one of the best girl group performances ever especially for movement and vocal variety, Gladys and Wanda trading ff lead vocals and Cat and Georgiana hitting the choreography, even the Shirelles didn't have it down pat like this and to think the Marvelettes were being put on the back burner by this time in 1963.
supremester
06-02-2013, 08:29 PM
This is sensational......Wanda was a natural and Gladys was so likeable. How cool that this footage exists. What a show they did in 8 minutes!
Very well-known footage but thanks--many, many thanks--to MARVELETTES4U, it's back on YouTube in a great print.

Especially for those who might never have seen it before--and for those of you who have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2f345Dz6SY
LuvHangOva
06-03-2013, 12:11 AM
That exit never fails to knock me out! Awesome ending to an excellent performance! I also prefer this style of background vocals instead of the sometimes over homogenized, sanitized style we got with help from the Andantes
kenneth
06-03-2013, 11:15 AM
There is the lasting regret that not more is available of The Marvelettes, either by visual footage or audio live recordings.

It seems likely that many Marvelettes fans in North America were little or no more familiar with the girls in visual action than we here in Europe.

There was so much more to the group than simply identifying the alternate lead voices on their recordings, or whether the other group members were actually to be heard on background vocals, or not.....

I was very disappointed when Keith Hughes said on Midnight Johnny's radio program that nothing in the way of formerly unreleased Marvelettes live recordings existed in the vaults. I would love to have been able to hear them a few years after this performance when they had become a more polished act, and with more leads by Wanda. Well, you never know. A good audio tape of a live show may show up sometime...we can always hope, anyway!
RossHolloway
06-03-2013, 12:37 PM
I was very disappointed when Keith Hughes said on Midnight Johnny's radio program that nothing in the way of formerly unreleased Marvelettes live recordings existed in the vaults. I would love to have been able to hear them a few years after this performance when they had become a more polished act, and with more leads by Wanda. Well, you never know. A good audio tape of a live show may show up sometime...we can always hope, anyway!

I believe HW said that prior to the taping of the Motown Mondays performances that the acts all performed in Cleveland, and that those shows were recorded. Might there be a recording of the Marvelettes in that batch of unreleased live concert performances?