Friday, March 20, 2009

Subjunctive Soul

Gladys Knight and the Pips with “If I Were Your Woman” on the Ed Sullivan Show, 7 February 1971.

This is what television was like before Pop Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Real stars, live, making mistakes but being brilliant. The band drops out at 1:00 and then her mike does too when it kicks in again at 1:22 until 2:00, but even so, it’s great stuff. I’ve no idea why they’re all dressed like Robin Hood.

2 comments:

laughykate said...

They're not Robin Hood, silly, they're leprechauns. http://www.halloweencostume.co.uk/images/characters/leprechaun.jpg

Stephen Stratford said...

Of course. It would have been St Patrick's day.