Happy 90th birthday to Cissy Houston 🎂♥ Singers in Order: Emily "Cissy" Houston, Anne Drinkard-Moss (mother of Felicia Moss-Eaton, BGV for Whitney), Larry Drinkard, Lee Drinkard Warrick (Dionne and DeeDee Warwick's mother), and Marie Drinkard-Epps.
@malcolmnichols3510 Жыл бұрын
I see Dionne and DeeDee mama too ❤❤❤
@MrMystri Жыл бұрын
@@malcolmnichols3510 Which one is Dee Dee and Dionne's mama? As I was wondering that then read your message.
@zivaray Жыл бұрын
@@MrMystrithe lead singer is Whitney’s mama
@MrMystri Жыл бұрын
@@zivaray Yes I recognise Cissy but one there in the group is Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick's mama, But which one?
@BlackMusicArchive Жыл бұрын
@@MrMystri4:44 is Lee Warwick
@andremansa1 Жыл бұрын
Cissy’s falsettos sounds just like Whitney’s 🥹
@cynthiamckinney4276 Жыл бұрын
You mean Whitney’s falsetto sounds like her momma. That’s where it started…
@andremansa1 Жыл бұрын
You right 👏🏿
@willre9023 Жыл бұрын
Agree
@TDoeful Жыл бұрын
Cissy just coached her to be BETTER, as in a TRUE mother wants for her child…
@charlita255 ай бұрын
@@cynthiamckinney4276 💯
@shviewjames126 Жыл бұрын
This is exactly why Whitney Houston is one of the greatest singers. With her God given talent and that family, there is no way she could have not been.
@shonda79able Жыл бұрын
She was born into.
@TDoeful Жыл бұрын
EXACTLY!!! Wow… She couldn’t help, but to be great…
@YAH-19 ай бұрын
@@shonda79able Born into lies/Evil 😒
@Wayneeee18 ай бұрын
She is not Whitney’s mother .
@storiking65019 күн бұрын
@@Wayneeee1STOP SPREADING STUPID, GOSSIPY, LIES!!!! Cissy & her own family members have publicly told the story about when she went into labor & had Nippy & just how breathtakingly stunning she was even as a newborn baby, I watched it myself!!!
@JudahCub1981 Жыл бұрын
The premier gospel singing family. Mahalia Jackson was quite fond of them. She brought them with her to Carnegie Hall in 1950 when they were much younger and she also had them join her at her first Newport Jazz Festival appearance in 1957. Mrs. Emily “Cissy” Drinkard Houston passed on her angelic tonality to her son Gary and her legendary daughter Whitney (forever in our hearts) Houston and we are grateful. This family is such a blessing to the world of music. Happy Birthday to the legendary Mrs. Cissy Houston - I love all that your voice added to the music of the 1950s-1990s, the Sweet Inspirations and all of the recordings you sang background on, especially those soprano ad libs on ‘Ain’t No Way’ with your friend, Lady Soul herself.
@hectorrivera2785 Жыл бұрын
Cissy Houston's voice is really powerful, is absolutely amazing.
@1960songwriter Жыл бұрын
Well i wouldn't go that far as say cissy voice was amazing. Whitney was amazing but cissy was 4sure holding her own. But the harmony n that group was most definitely amazing which explains got her learning and education about how to sing and arrange harmony which lead her to b 1 of the most sought out background session singers n the music industry.
@sandilekhumalo61529 ай бұрын
It really is amazing. I love how she hit those high notes
@jermichaelkirkland2446 Жыл бұрын
Definitely sounds like the blueprint for Whitney.
@Thegazelle1000 Жыл бұрын
The Drinkard can sing! Their DNA don’t lie!!!
@NaomiDrinkard Жыл бұрын
Yes
@stephaniewilliams3460 Жыл бұрын
❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤
@alexforest16 ай бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@lavernehoutman Жыл бұрын
Beautiful, gone are the days when we were blessed by reall gospel music like this!
@djcannon343022 күн бұрын
RIP Cissy❤ you are now reunited with your daughter, your granddaughter and your sisters and brothers. I can only imagine your face when you saw your mom and dad and the Lord Jesus.
@AngelHoll-pr8fz13 күн бұрын
Amen!!!😢
@stephaniehouston861321 күн бұрын
Rest In Sweet Heavenly Peace To Legendary Soul And Gospel Singer Cissy Houston 💜💜💜💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️😇😇😇🎧🎧🎤🎤🎤🎤
@kirstenknott1602 Жыл бұрын
We need this sound back into our churches. This is true gospel singing. Praise God 👏🏽 🙏🏽
@t.lucalake8963 Жыл бұрын
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!, Ms. Cissy Houston. This woman's voice was still powerful into her 70's.
@olusheyibanjo Жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Cissy. She's a sangin' woman
@tammyfelts8390 Жыл бұрын
Why are they screaming??
@olusheyibanjo Жыл бұрын
@@tammyfelts8390 they aren't screaming they're singing
@Gwenesis Жыл бұрын
@@olusheyibanjotammy doesn't get it, and you know why...
@olusheyibanjo Жыл бұрын
@@Gwenesis why
@tanyagary8494 Жыл бұрын
@@GwenesisLol
@lovewynns5032 Жыл бұрын
Has anybody noticed how much Cissy's brother's voice sounds like Gary's
@tennisstar2011 Жыл бұрын
Literally just like him!
@tennisstar2011 Жыл бұрын
And they do the same thing with their jaw lol
@thomasgilliam77644 ай бұрын
Yes sir! That family's singing blood is rich
@motionsickness961014 күн бұрын
Sing the ENTIRE song Cissy. Amazing.
@abrahamjean8176 Жыл бұрын
The head voice transition at the end of the first song whewwww
@californiapoppy4413 Жыл бұрын
You can’t help but hear Whitney in her voice omg literally the blueprint!
@danellejones5556 Жыл бұрын
Exactly 💯
@ayoochitown4438 Жыл бұрын
Yess, I definitely hear Whitney in there. 💯
@1talldaddy10 ай бұрын
@@ayoochitown4438 you can hear Whitney as soon as Cissy opens her mouth.
@Dundee0116 күн бұрын
Not to me. Cissy's voice is more operatic, Whitney's more soulful
@annabrown571213 күн бұрын
They don't sound alike at all.
@henrylockett7838 Жыл бұрын
Mrs. Cissy Houston and that marvelous soprano! The Drinkard singers could sang! Whitney had no other choice, LoL. Also, Gary and his uncle have very similar tones.
@StellarAvenger Жыл бұрын
WOW!!? Whitney sounds JUST LIKE her mother!!!
@eumechamoantonio1344 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think so, but both tones are powerful
@tsairox6035 Жыл бұрын
I see similarities in some parts of Cissy’s voice. Both powerful, but Whitney had more clarity and crystal clear range in her voice.
@kimberlyjade4094 Жыл бұрын
The technique is 85% the same. It’s the grainy texture of her voice that throws everyone off. If she sung in a more pleasant way then she’d sound like Terry Ellis.
@ManifestedSonofTheMostHigh23 Жыл бұрын
@@tsairox6035perfect analysis 👌🏿
@1960songwriter Жыл бұрын
Yes u most definitely hear some of the twin characteristic between cissy and her and daughter voice.
@JaySmith-mz7vg Жыл бұрын
A family, sangers through and through! Cissy ain't come to play with lift him up.
@lisabonner1633 Жыл бұрын
Cissy Houston traveled all over the world singing please google her and listen to her albums
@YAH-1 Жыл бұрын
That will be a NO!
@paulasuniverse5029 Жыл бұрын
Wow! I knew that was Cissy Houston the moment I saw her. Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick had no choice but to be great singers. DNA + training
@bennyadler58823 күн бұрын
Never be another like beautiful Mama Cissy., ever.
@bernadette2120 Жыл бұрын
Cissy could really sing
@timothyypearson3 күн бұрын
Her falsetto is who you hear on Aretha Ain't no way
@zakanahshalam5373 Жыл бұрын
Now y'all know Mrs. Cissy sang background for Elvis too! She can saaaaang yes she can!
@kklustra10 ай бұрын
Yes, she sang background for Elvis BUT did you know she also sang background for Dusty Springfield and the Drifters, and Nina Simone, and Aretha Franklin, and Dionne Warwick, and Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie, and The Rascals, and Roberta Flack, and Jackie DeShannon, and the Neville Brothers, and Nancy Wilson, and Esther Phillips, and Connie Francis, and Average White Band, and Van Morrison, and Paul Simon, and Herbie Mann, and Burt Bacharach, Chaka Khan, and Bette Midler, and Luther Vandross, and Whitney Houston, and Beyonce' just to name a FEW?
@markherron140722 күн бұрын
REST IN POWER CISSY HOUSTON Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜
@DeeDeeWarwickMusic9 ай бұрын
Larry Drinkard, Arthur Lee Warrick Drinkard (mother of Dionne & Dee Dee), Emily Cissy Drinkard Houston, (mother of Whitney), Ann Drinkard (mother of Felicia Moss-Eaton), Marie Drinkard. Another brother also sang in the group - Nicholas Drinkard. And another brother, Hansome Drinkard, accompanied on the piano.
@jamellfoster6029 Жыл бұрын
Yes this is where Whitney got her talent from. Her Mom and all of her maternal relatives. She was indeed a Blessing for the time she was here. Mrs. Cissy is still a Blessing.
@creolelady4096 Жыл бұрын
This sent chills through me. Thank you Jesus for all that you do for me. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@tylerhackner9731 Жыл бұрын
Happy 90th cissy
@boy-in-stereo Жыл бұрын
This is the year Whitney was born! I wonder if Cissy was pregnant with her here or had just given birth?
@Elsxn22 Жыл бұрын
Bro this is already the official evidence that Teresa graves is whitney's biological mother.
@thomasgilliam77644 ай бұрын
I was wondering the exact same thing 😂
@housewhitney7274Ай бұрын
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 👍🎉
@09TOLBERT22 күн бұрын
Cause that's what I want to know
@HaliB7517 күн бұрын
Probably was not pregnant in 63. And I’m not going the Teresa Graves foolish route. I suspect someone else.
@Emanuel9991000 Жыл бұрын
In Marion Williams and The Stars of Faith's style. Phenomenal and powerful vocals, I love Cissy Houston's voice.
@malcolmnichols3510 Жыл бұрын
Oh Yess Cissy Houston ❤❤❤❤ Sang Ms Emily Drinkard
@BlackMusicArchive Жыл бұрын
Yes, 4:44 !!! Dionne looks just like her!
@wendypoo9914 Жыл бұрын
The sound that birthed the voice ❤
@MsTexas73 Жыл бұрын
Love to hear the Drinkard family sing. LOVE Cissy. She doesn’t get enough flowers IMO. I love her solo projects, her BGV on several artists works, and her leads on other artists works. ❤️💫✨
@sandilekhumalo61529 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree more
@stephenkuwadi21 күн бұрын
RIP Cissy
@RamonExtraordinaire1 Жыл бұрын
Yall hear that classic Cissy whooo! in the background? Man! The one & only! Happy birthday Ms. Cissy. We continue to appreciate what you've contributed to music.
@LuisAntonio_0622 күн бұрын
Rest in peace Cissy🖤🙏🏾🕊️
@indiakakivasloane8581 Жыл бұрын
Cissy Houston was no joke HAPPY BLESS BIRTHDAY TO THE BEAUTIFUL CISSY HOUSTON❤️🌹
@tharealbeblessed Жыл бұрын
Sang Cissy!
@abrahamjean8176 Жыл бұрын
This was 1963? I’m guessing after she had Nippy. Happy 90th Cissy
@TDoeful Жыл бұрын
She song so powerful until God blessed her with a beautiful daughter, with the voice from the heavens and it can’t be touched…
@lindahubbard-brinston6741 Жыл бұрын
Happy 90th Birthday Miss Cissy. ❤
@pfh3133 Жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Cissy!!!
@caroljones4348 Жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, Ms Cissy! Woman of GOD. Blessed art thou to have a beautiful voice and bare a daughter with a phenomenal voice.🥰
@katyarnold-ji8sv6 күн бұрын
I love!! this song. RIP Mrs. Cissy Houston.
@thenewauthoreden Жыл бұрын
Absolute Vocal Gold! 🦋🌹
@DebraBell-s7l2 күн бұрын
Wonderful singers
@enossantosbezerra1100 Жыл бұрын
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, Will draw all men unto Me.” Refrain: Lift Him up, lift Him up; Still He speaks from eternity: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, Will draw all men unto Me. My faith looks up to thee Thou Lamb of Calvary Savior divine! Now hear me while I pray Take all my guilt away O let me from this day Be wholly thine!
@indigoskybird Жыл бұрын
I don’t know why but 2:13-2:17 was just 🙌🏽
@timothywilliams2396 Жыл бұрын
Cissy had a squall on her too!
@kklustra10 ай бұрын
It was 1:55 - 2:22 for me!
@anonymouss974 Жыл бұрын
thanks for the clips as always. and btw, the second hymn is “My Faith Looks Up To Thee” ❤️
@BlackMusicArchive Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I could not recognize it ❤❤
@anonymouss974 Жыл бұрын
@@BlackMusicArchiveyou’re welcome and thanks again. ❤️🙏
@AngelHoll Жыл бұрын
Was miss mariah alive in 1963? Or was miss aretha famous? What about Michael Jackson?
@AngelHoll Жыл бұрын
@devonteroache oh ok thank you
@donovanrobinson1843 Жыл бұрын
@@AngelHolltheir niece Dionne was getting her big break around this time she had recorded her first album and was a marvel all over Europe
@ktookes6027 Жыл бұрын
should put up more of drinkard singers, legends
@Adeina-c4k Жыл бұрын
Very strong and soulful. The music I was raised on.❤❤❤
Happy Birthday mother Huston 🎉🎉. I miss her so much, but GOD knew to take her home. I thank God for you.
Жыл бұрын
I hope you get an interview with Cissy ❤
@BlackMusicArchive Жыл бұрын
I have an interview with Dionne ❤️ close enough!
@IAMMOVIN4WARD11 ай бұрын
Sang Cissy!!!!!
@timothywilliams2396 Жыл бұрын
The love recording of them singing at Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 is awesome too!!!
@condor8142 Жыл бұрын
This is a historical moment! Even watching through my media sources is priceless! Yes indeed, I see why Whitney Houston was special, and had singing skills like no others! Family, family and family! I miss Whitney but play her in my car...like a lot!
@BernadetteLester-c3v Жыл бұрын
Beautiful voices
@mwoodson1026 Жыл бұрын
WHITNEY🔥HASSS MADE THEM PROUDDD, YOUUU HEAR ME?!! PROUD!!! 😍😍😍🥹🥹🥹🥹
@divadoll606 Жыл бұрын
Y'all betta saannng! Happy Birthday Cissy. We share the same BD.
@keginemylife6 ай бұрын
Omg I Remember this song, only difference is we sang it a lot slower. I grew up in singing lead in a little church in Roosevelt Long Island called Calvary Baptist Church. We sang Lift him sometimes in competitions church events. I Our choir was call the young adult choir. This brings back memories for me. I’m 60 now so I grew up in a different time.
@z71taavi Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this in high quality! 💜
@EmilyWatson-g9f Жыл бұрын
Happy belated Birthday queen beautiful vocals your daughter sounds alot lot like you
@polotrey5 күн бұрын
Cissy definitely taught Whitney well❤
@Ladysensei22 күн бұрын
Rest in peace dear sweet lady 🙏🏻
@MrErnieFaison Жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this. I've been hoping to see a clearer version.
@musiclover-cn7tb5 ай бұрын
nothing like vintage gospel 🙌❤ I feel that spirit .
@musiclover-cn7tb5 ай бұрын
I just know the mighty clouds of joy appeared on this program and the blind boys of both alabama and mississippi.
@Just_Chosenn Жыл бұрын
I would love to see any videos of ms Evelyn SINGING as well
@margheritamontagnani9659 Жыл бұрын
🙌🙌Tutti con il talento nel Dna... ma Whitney era altro... era oltre... era tutta la gamma delle emozioni in una sola voce... 😭 che DIO la benedica ora e per sempre. Amen🙌🙌🎶🎵🎼😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@Thegazelle1000 Жыл бұрын
Amen
@thomasgilliam77644 ай бұрын
Whitney's voice is nothing but Cissy's when she was younger! And they looked so much like each other when they sung too!! 🥰🥰 #TheVoice and #Thesound #thatgavebirthtoTheVoice 🎙️🔥🎤🔥💯💯
@linettejenkins8600 Жыл бұрын
Happy birthday Cissy.
@beautifulsungoddess2015 Жыл бұрын
Happy Heavenly Birthday Beautiful Mother Cissy! Thank you the Voice, Whitney🎊🎉🎊💜
@jakarigainer5165 Жыл бұрын
Lady on the left is Dionne Warwick’s mother right?
@BlackMusicArchive Жыл бұрын
Lee Warwick, mother of Dionne and DeeDee Warwick, can be seen at 4:44!
@charlita255 ай бұрын
I wish I came from a singing family 😢
@JimRockfordFiles Жыл бұрын
Ms. Emily!!! Xo 😘 🔥
@CesarLlerenaLopez14 күн бұрын
Mujer llena de Dios movida ppr espiritu Santo
@Nimonjeua-Ndiangang Жыл бұрын
Cuuuuud Lawwwwd
@DitalianCole Жыл бұрын
AWESOME, man!!!
@NSUVid Жыл бұрын
Depending on when this was recorded, Momma Cissy could've just given birth to Whitney or could've been pregnant here. The singers are (in order of first appearance): Emily "Cissy" Houston, Anne Drinkard-Moss (mother of the late Felicia Moss-Eaton, early BGV for Whitney), Larry Drinkard, Lee Drinkard Warrick (Dionne Warwick's mom), and Marie Drinkard-Epps.
@stephaniewilliams3460 Жыл бұрын
WOW!!!
@unclevon-von Жыл бұрын
The kinda sanging that will draw you ✍️ nearer to thee amen
@shawnthompson940 Жыл бұрын
A SHOUT!!! 🙌🙌🙌
@jeromebeamon858914 күн бұрын
EPIC!
@AngelHoll-pr8fz13 күн бұрын
That's right!!!
@lindellbeatty3100 Жыл бұрын
Oh, I remember Moma in a special way!! Lois M. White, I'll look for you when I get to Heaven.
@arttissyphrette3123 Жыл бұрын
Happy Brithday to Ms. CISSEY GIVE a Steven Wonder happy B DAY SONG❤❤❤😊
@ListenSpeakReadWrite Жыл бұрын
Is Anne-Drinkard-Moss related to Mattie Moss, Bill Moss, or Essie Moss? (basically asking if Whitney, Dionne, And Cissy are Related to J. Moss and the Clark Sisters.)
@mrjay648311 ай бұрын
That's a good question.
@jaysoulxselah826024 күн бұрын
I've always wondered that as well 🤔
@j.d.whitfield7604 Жыл бұрын
If this was 1963, Cissy would either be pregnant with a superstar (Whitney Elizabeth Houston), or would have just had her.
@AngelHoll Жыл бұрын
Was miss mariah carey born yet? Or what about miss aretha was she a artist during this time I thought miss aretha started in the 1970s right with rock steady her first song!!!
@lesjones78183 ай бұрын
@@AngelHollMariah was born in 1970
@musiclover-cn7tb5 ай бұрын
Amen ❤
@Tremaineswife Жыл бұрын
🥰💜
@TheTruthShow Жыл бұрын
WHAT MONTH WAS THIS RECORDED?
@Elsxn226 ай бұрын
This was recorded during the birth of Whitney, and that shows indeed that Teresa graves is her actual birth mother and plus there are no specific evidence or pictures of cissy being pregnant with Whitney
@rustica556 ай бұрын
Whoa!!
@Roshon1114 Жыл бұрын
Cmon !!!!🔥🔥
@christophermoore4262 Жыл бұрын
.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@maritahyde7274 Жыл бұрын
It is just always so sad to me what happened to Whitney and her daughter.
@kyree410 Жыл бұрын
If this 1963 Cissy was either pregnant or had Whitney already.Right?
@ReddzVoice Жыл бұрын
: I believe this was taped early on in Cissy Houston's pregnancy [probably late Winter or the beginning of Spring 1963]. Toward the end of her pregnancy, Cissy left The Drinkard Singers to form the Sweet Inspirations group. Peace and love...
@YAH-1 Жыл бұрын
Cissy didn't give birth to Whitney 🙄
@estherepps6914 Жыл бұрын
@@YAH-1who did?😮
@Elsxn2210 ай бұрын
@@estherepps6914 Whitney's actual birth mother is Teresa Graves
@Elsxn2210 ай бұрын
@@YAH-1 yea true, and this live tour of cissy happened during the birth of Whitney and that shows indeed that Teresa graves is her biological mother
@jamesgeorge5276Ай бұрын
I wonder if Cissy Houston was pregnant with Whitney at the time because she was born Aug 27, 1963..and was recorded sometime in 1963.🤔