pour the wine, cuddle up to your lover, and enter the youtube thread for incredible live performances of slow jams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9ZVGM7smE

Luther Vandross singing "A House Is Not a Home" at the 1988 NAACP awards, with Dionne Warwick totally beaming and Janet Jackson's panties melting off in the audience.

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

Rick James & Teena Marie performing a 24-MINUTE version of "Fire and Desire" (plus some other Teena stuff as a bonus) in 1981...with several mentions of toe licking.

The thread title immediately brings to mind unwanted imagery from "The Room"

..........

thank you for these!!

oh man that Luther performance. totally commanded the room. Dionne's expressions were as entertaining as the singing.

this thread is tremendous

aw man there used to be this crazy youtube of smokey robinson doing a slower, spaced-out, nearly acapella "tracks of my tears" on some 80s french tv special. but it's gone :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZ7LnkCl7w

in lieu of that, this is pretty good. some kind of habsburg loungewear.

Posting this one for the insane amount of emotional energy they are putting into a song about soup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0HEQ8WSuA

oh man that Luther performance. totally commanded the room. Dionne's expressions were as entertaining as the singing.

― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, March 6, 2015 9:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeahhh, the response he gets every time he goes off script!

Anthony Hamilton - Charlene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeLVt9xzOs
Maxwell - lifetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BekQujvYZd0

oh man, everybody in my family has had that Vandross youtube bookmarked for years--that is one of THE great performances.....

Rev, do we have one of those plugin fireplaces you could turn on?

yeah, we definitely need one for this thread.

omg that "Charlene" performance

I think about this thread weekly and wish there were more additions.

Isley Bros - Hello Its Me (soul train)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVg9J5ELEwI

Luther Ingram - If loving you is wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAUCVbnDUg

Jose James - Its All over your body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ameYy9TLhqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbxCl61GmsY

Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further (Soul Train)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8cmJamfNHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9MC2V4CrM

whoa that el debarge video made me cry

sound on this is a little blurry but

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T246rhSoHes

whoa that el debarge video made me cry

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah watched that like 5 times in a row last night at like 1am. song translates perfectly as a solo piano/keys ballad.

when he take back control of the song at 3:26 O__o

if push came to shove I'm not sure i'd be able to name a better song than Time Will Reveal

wow @ that sam and dave

the Luther performance that opens this thread is a miracle and a blessing to this cold world

yeah I've watched it at least once a month since this thread started

Re the Sam and Dave, there's another amazing live version of that I'll try to find later, where Sam comes in in the middle of Dave's verse with this tremendously sung "Whoa-oa-oah sing a song Dave!" and the audience goes nuts. I think they were nearly on par with Otis Redding as singers and performers but maybe didn't quite get as good material and also had the slight noveltyishness of being a male duo.

Great thread. Adding some Gladys Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1HNpzFxzo

neville bros it feels like rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqYrHSTgE4
this whole concert is on youtube and its fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TD9yxU0L7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TiFfjkUaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-0OaoVpfWw
this performance tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz-Au0rP8A8

Magnificent thread. The link is dead on the El Debarge track/video - which one is it?

It's the one from this post
pour the wine, cuddle up to your lover, and enter the youtube thread for incredible live performances of slow jams
Time Will Reveal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3cOtmyyOc

nice

just went down a goapele youtube rabbit hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC1Qft3XC1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sG2o2Zq0wI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImNPioTa2-g

this funked up version of 'the only one for me' is so weird, there's like 25 key changes lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO_b8n2AASI

Controversy
Brian McKnight's x-rated song upset a portion of his religious fan base, resulting in the removal of the video from Youtube. He got the idea for the x-rated song during a Twitter session with his fans. A vocal minority questioned him for releasing the song, primarily due to his being raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. One Twitter one fan asked McKight; "Are or we're (sic) you really a 7th Day Adventist?" "I grew up that way," replied McKight. "And now your (sic) not?" "Religion was man made," answered McKnight.(15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX8qDGB7d4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UMzNFJxhY

sexiest man ever

Teddy Pendergrass - Turn off the Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4wofMj5-k

incredible