Lonette McKee Ill Wind (The Cotton Club Movie)

[@karenmccants1439]

This performance has stayed with me my whole adult life--I remember being blown away by her talent and beauty when I first saw it when the movie came out...Lonette is a truly wonderful artist, and this performance is timeless.💖💖

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

Absolutely

[@smallworld1624]

Agreed. I’ve never forgotten this performance.

[@willgeorge7203]

Same. Just superb

[@annalaw4684]

I loved this 🎥 back in the 80's!!! All of us ladies wanted to be, was enchanted by Lonette, the guys were hypnotized by Ms. McKee vocals/beauty!!!! Sister Mckee bellowed the heck out of this song as she embodied true elegance!!!!! Forty plus yrs later, I still love this cinema, minus all of the foul language!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I knew a lady that danced at the Cotton Club- Jeni LeGon.

[@kennethlatham3133]

God, this is beautiful. Lonette McKee is absolutely mesmerizing to me. This song is unreal in its transcendence, just wonderful. One of Coppola's finest unsung moments as a director, too. For the ages.

[@francisville4686]

Written by the same fello who wrote over the rainbow and the man that got away among others!!!

[@KhaosKryptos]

For the ages......

[@kennethlatham3133]

@@francisville4686 Harold Arlen? No sh*t. Thanks!

[@bgordon1273]

She looks like a white woman! Is that's why she is beautiful to you??

[@kennethlatham3133]

@@bgordon1273 That is such an ignorant, stupid, idiotic statement. You are obviously looking for a fight. I won't give it to you. Race-baiting morons like you have HAD your day. The nation is SICK of your bullsh*t.

[@darry9462]

THE Best version of this song..

[@francisville4686]

Sarah Vaughn live❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@marchingramen9485]

Julie Benz in that one episode of Angel!

[@otisroseboro2837]

I agree

[@VictorMedina-vz7go]

Mina

[@unclealand]

Best scene in the whole movie, Lonette McKee singing "Ill Wind."

[@karenmccants1439]

I agree!!!

[@HarryFlowerrs]

Obviously didn’t see the film!

[@piroskaracz3621]

She's gorgeous and multi talented. First heard her sing in first SPARKLE film in 1976. Of all renditions of this song by by Ella, Sarah, Billie....THIS is my favorite 😍

[@johnmoore1436]

Piroska YOU'RE RIGHT. HER rendition of ILLWIND is THE BEST

[@prn8330]

This songs stays in your head for days after viewing the movie.

[@merleginsburg388]

for years pr n

[@prn8330]

@@merleginsburg388 I stand corrected.

[@merleginsburg388]

@@prn8330 very cool that you replied to my comment so long after you posted yours. "i stand corrected" is the perfect response. this beautiful song is fitting especially now as i have a broken heart. all the best from canada.

[@KimberlyM0716]

I've heard this version, Lena Horne's version, Sarah Vaughan's version as well as Dinah Washington's and I must say that this surpasses them all.

[@grega1972]

best song on the soundtrack and one of my favorite parts of the movie

[@angiefromChi]

Such a beauty and a lovely voice! I love Lonette McKee! ♡♡♡♡♡

[@mikealjeffries1424]

Sooo many outstanding actresses of color that are simply cast by the wayside in Hollywierd. It's almost 2020 and hearing her sing this song still makes me swoon. Lonette McKee was so great. I hope she's doing well wherever she is.

[@NosferKatu]

She's fine. Just a simple search can give you information 😺en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonette_McKee#:~:text=Born%20in%20Detroit%2C%20Michigan%2C%20McKee,also%20an%20actress%20and%20performer.

[@goinxnginx]

Fell in love just listening to this track on a cassette back in the day. When I saw the movie, it clinched it. Lonette McKee, you are amazing. You literally own this song. And my heart.

[@gregbrock1994]

I have seen "The Cotton Club" more times than any other movie in my life.... I would guess some 200 times. The story, the time period, the music... so many elements came together and made the perfect movie.

[@lrbc4372]

I agree. I bought the LP album after I saw it at the movie theatre!

[@sean6131]

Oh my God I'm sooo grateful to have stumbled across this, what a talent! She is truly an under appreciated treasure.

[@yolandagofigure]

This voice ❤️🌹

[@jonperez5806]

What a wonderful voice! McKee and the song itself are gorgeous.

[@garland522]

Love this song so much. It says so much and Lonette Mckee is such a great singer and puts so much feeling into this version. Hers is the only one I love to listen to. She also reminds me of my mother when my mom was young. Exact look, hair, makeup etc. They could have been sisters.

[@polferiferus1938]

@Brian G - The others, I like; but this one is immortally exquisite! Ms McKee’s voice sounds like an angel of righteous sorrow, weeping for all the unjustly wronged in a world gone wrong. Agree: only this one can I honestly say that I love. Love everything about the way this was filmed, and her choreographic performance for this scene, too. The whole production is dreamlike and ethereal! Your mother must’ve been a beautiful woman!

[@NeverMeAlwaysYou]

This. Is to DIE FOR. The devastatingly beautiful Ms. Mckee, voice of an angel owns this song. Her rendition is the best.

[@jerryj920]

July 22nd: Happy birthday Actress-Singer-songwriter (film scores) Lonette McKee. "The Cotton Club" "Sparkle" "Jungle Fever" "Honey." Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, Mark Antony. Blessings

[@clarequilty4962]

I sure hope Harold Arlen lived long enough to see and hear Lonete McKee's rendition of his fine song.

[@fruitsofspirit6903]

GOD gifted, talented, beautiful Lonette!!!!! My entertainer sister, has always exemplified excellence!!!!!!

[@ajamu4304]

One of Detroits' many gems!

[@khansander57]

A wonderful woman and a fantastic jazz singer

[@orlandocordova5183]

Great song by a Great Singer! Loved the movie BUT WISHED THEY HAD FILMED THE BOOK! IT'S BASE ON! BUT GREAT SCORE!

[@drparnassus2867]

Although I think I've watched the whole movie, this is the bit that stuck with me the most...

[@williedynamyte]

What a great version of this song. Lonette McKee does this song justice. Coppola's Cotton club is vastly underrated. Salute!

[@longnlean34]

My best memories of this film are based on Ms. McKee and her vocal performance.

[@lasbagman1]

I saw her in Showboat. a superb singer and actress.

[@melolabean7656]

She is really pretty and her voice is Smokey ,and as smooth as silk.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

This is like fricken CGI. How did they film this segment so meticulously?????

[@robo6590]

Yeah. Always loved this.

[@frederickstudio6658]

Bellissimo Film, ingiustamente sottovalutato!

[@thebrowneesfilm2]

One of THE great interpretations of a Harold Arlen song. Best scene in the film. She should have been a huge star.

[@goinxnginx]

I fell in love with Lonette when I first saw this scene. She owns this song as surely as Etta James owns At Last. Sorry, just had to say it. She is so beautiful, and what a stellar performance of Ill Wind.

[@chrysalissartorious7648]

She sang Stormy Weather and gave my soul a massage!

[@samuelsmall5243]

This is the best! version i have heard vocally...all others struggled to hit the higher notes and none so far are anywhere near able scale as smoothly as Lonette....as i think she sits in an exclusive tiny club of black female singers were their Talent sit above the rest....a good film over all.

[@daisyb4614]

So beautiful

[@HarryFlowerrs]

In my humble opinion 'The Cotton Club' is a Masterpiece!❤

[@jcgeneva3476]

The best part of the excellent movie Cotton Club 💫

[@thecounselingcouch68]

I love this movie. I'm not sure why but I love it.

[@blacktygar]

She has always been extraordinary.

[@ghtaboma]

Lonette, nails this one! Beautiful.

[@davefuller3311]

Fantastic performance!

[@pierabergamaschi5576]

Bravissima cantante, bellissima canzone, ottimo film ambientato anni 30, musica jazz indimenticabile💙💙❤❤🎷🎷🎤🎤

[@artisttemple8268]

BRILLIANT! BRAVO!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@BCD1964]

Pure genius.....greatness.

[@samuelgates5935]

Love this song 🎶🎶🎶🥰

[@timothylawson3262]

Love the song and the movie takes me back. I remember seeing the preveue of the movie back 81 or 82 thinking this might be pretty good. And it wsa.

[@bonniegropper]

She is just so gorgeous and has a nice voice.Loved her and Gregory Hines as a couple.I also loved Richard Gere and the guy who played Dutch Schultz and their mutual love interest.Really good movie!

[@sonnylapilotta1069]

The best version of Ill Wind EVER.

[@oscar87171]

Awesome performance

[@kimberjack]

I love this song ❤

[@luisardas]

wonderfull CINEMA

[@rwh44222]

One of my favs!

[@DENAANN1000]

Still gives me goose bumps.

[@paxsopranodynasty7555]

she was so beautiful

[@luizcarlosmunhoz7580]

why was, is she dead?

[@pierabergamaschi5576]

BRAVA, BRAVA, BRAVA..💝👏👏👏❤

[@josemariapb9529]

Que maravilla de BSO, es un lujazo del sr Barry. Y esta cancion me derrito, buahhh.......

[@shivasgirl1609]

It's too bad I couldn't find Lonette McKee singing this on Spotify. It should be because it's the best damn version of this song!

[@marieclaudemarot4871]

l'or subsite à tout....seul l'amour triomphe....merci à vous

[@ledaros6383]

Wonderful interpretation..!

[@arleengomez3538]

Amazing voice ...the singer definitely made this movie.

[@darry9462]

Lonette Mckee blows Billy Holidays version out the water,brilliant amazing singer.

[@303ajr303]

Darry Lena Horne has a great version too.

[@steved8053]

this movie never got credit that it deserves

[@arletteg]

I would have thought she would have made it bigger

[@MrJazzologist1]

Like your brain, maybe?

[@MrJazzologist1]

Mr Roderic White. Being an uncouth and dumb Australia, how the hell could you know anything about quality in ANYTHING? let alone a singer like Lonette. I expect you're a fan of screechng 'pop' singers with the old bump and grind crap to show they're sexually alive. Numb nut.

[@MrJazzologist1]

Mr Rod White. Being an Australian, what you would know about a singer like Lonette would be a joke. Your knowledge goes as far as 'pop' simgers who bump and grind, screech their crap and get loads ' money for garbage. Grow up, moron, you don't rate a passing irritation.

[@RodricWhite]

+John Perks YOU HAVE BEEN REPORTED FOR HARASSMENT. IF YOU CRITICISE, MAKE IT INFORMED AND DEVOID OF INSULTS. YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN IN THIS LIFE.

[@MrJazzologist1]

My dear cupid stunt. May I suggest that you get yourself a good psychiatrist, because you're in danger of burning out your remaining few brain cells - and you didn't have many to start with. Did mommy drop you on your tiny head when just a baby? Did you bounce? You;'re quite a laugh, but far too dumb to know that.

[@MrJazzologist1]

What a cracking version of 'Ill wind', one of my favourite songs which epitomized that era in America. America was tearing itself apart until WW11- that war refocussed America and its role in the world. For that we must be eternally thankful.

[@gdmoore]

Are you serious? Found this way? With all the racism that we had to face... smh

[@RodricWhite]

Individuals who demean, insult, belittle others in a public forum, using disguised obscenities & racial slurs should be taken to task for deliberately bullying & harassing others. I refuse to interact with individuals of this mentality and inferior personal conduct. This is a reference to a certain person in this comment stream who espouses vitriol & hatred. Spare us. There is too much of this in this world already. I truly pity this person.

[@Luvie1980]

@@MrJazzologist1 STFU

[@MichaelJones-gw8sg]

I love this performance, but on a side note: at 2:32, when the change is spilled onto a glass table, you'll see some Roosevelt dimes. Those didn't come out until 1946. This movie was set in the early 1930's.

[@janettucker3196]

Written by the great Harold Arlen. Check out his songbook. You will be amazed at his range and expression, and how many famous songs were written by him. But Ill WInd is perhaps my favorite.

[@bonniegropper]

Also loved Lonette McGhee in jungle fever opposite Wesley Snipes!.

[@danielrincones4386]

This should be the theme song for 2020!

[@brendapayne6603]

She has great talent and was wonderful in Jungle Fever and The Women of Brewster Place. Why hasn't she been cast more often? I have always liked her.

[@thomasball8832]

she really made this movie in my opinion.

[@sean6131]

It should've just been about her and Gregory Hines.

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

I love this scene, 'Fun Fact' the director's son directed this scene but was later killed in a boating accident with Actor Ryan O'Neal's son, Griffin O'Neal being held responsible for his death. That boy (Gian-Carlo Coppola) would have gone on to become a great film maker just like his sister Sophia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation) or his Dad Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Dracula)

[@volvo850rex]

Been looking for the track of this on iTunes, no luck

[@plain22jane]

2020

[@LiveMusicOntario]

Let me know if anyone finds a recording of her singing God Bless The Child. I've been looking and no luck. I watched The Cotton Club and her version in that movie hooked me for a long time. (Maybe my memory is fuzzy 30 years on, but I'm pretty sure it was part of that movie but it's not in any KZbins of the soundtrack.)

[@senturion417]

Black people of harlem fight back ❤️

[@gavin8tor]

If you refuse to learn history; you are bound to repeat it. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@tatianakamennova2489]

Жалко, нет записи без стрельбы.

[@ez3333]

🌹

[@62kit45]

A great song I chore I graded a piece to this... went t ik far according ik bg to the west side y.m c . A here in kno ville tn. Because I partened oure guy ( b lack) with a white dancer( it crushed me and I left their employ .. have never been the same... I just put a dance together was all her neme was trisha..

[@roman6135]

❤

[@ladomi7962]

Blow ill wind, blow away Let me rest today You're blowin' me no good {no good) Go ill wind, go away Skies are oh, so gray Around my neighborhood And that's no good You're only misleadin' the sunshine l'm needin' Ain't that a shame H's so hard to keep up With troubles that creep up from out of nowhere When love's to blame _So ill wind, blow away Let me rest today You're blowin' me no good {no good) You're only misleadin' the sunshine l'm needin' Ain't that a shame H's so hard to keep up With troubles that creep up from out of nowhere When love's to blame _So ill wind, blow away Let me rest today You're blowin' me no good {no good) _Blow, ill wind, blow Souffle mauvais vent, souffle loin Laisse-moi me reposer aujourd'hui Tu ne me fais pas du bien (rien de bon) Va, mauvais vent, va-t'en Le ciel est oh, si gris Autour de mon quartier Et ce n'est pas bon Tu ne fais que tromper le soleil dont j'ai besoin N'est-ce pas dommage C'est si difficile de suivre Avec des problèmes qui surgissent de nulle part Quand l'amour est à blâmer Alors mauvais vent, souffle loin Laisse-moi me reposer aujourd'hui Tu ne me fais pas du bien (rien de bon) Tu ne fais que tromper le soleil dont j'ai besoin N'est-ce pas dommage C'est si difficile de suivre Avec des problèmes qui surgissent de nulle part Quand l'amour est à blâmer Alors mauvais vent, souffle loin Laisse-moi me reposer aujourd'hui Tu ne me fais pas du bien (rien de bon) Souffle, mauvais vent, souffle

[@TheSecurityCamChannel]

Never been a fan of this film but the musical number were good.

[@tomsawyer6773]

Who disliked this, you cultured animals.

[@milestone_achiever4634]

Never this knew this lady had prior work. We all know her from Jungle Fever!!!!😊

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

True but she also worked with the late comedian Richard Pryor who put in some of his FUNNIEST Movies, one being Which Way Is Up. That movie had me rolling with laughter

[@MIMI88998899]

No, we all know her from Sparkle!!!

[@ladomi7962]

lyrics please?

[@MrJazzologist1]

A great, moody film spoiled by the ending.

[@lf1496]

Lonette McKee is one of the most beautiful talented profound women ever on screen. Hollywood with its sick Racism and obsessive insecurity which gerimandered wt supemacists narrative, kept this magnificent women from the roles that should have propelled her to global household name status. We're lucky to have a record of these performances of her. I'm in awe.

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

She is the modern day version of Fredi Washington

[@thebrowneesfilm2]

This montage was supervised by Gio Coppola who died shortly after in that awful boating accident

[@mathewmcgill6266]

The visual effects impose on this cut is horribly annoying !!!!

[@joshuamanso2307]

is this part of the great depression?

[@rsingactdan]

Yes. The time period was the during the early years if the great depression. Early 1930's

[@requiemheidireprisal7824]

I came here because of Darla, in the Angel series. (Darla sits on the stage at Caritas while Angel stands beside the Host at the bar.) DARLA: (singing) Blow, ill wind, blow away. Let me rest today. You're blowing me no good... LORNE: (watching her) Ooh! ANGEL: What is that? What does that mean, ooh? LORNE: It means 'ooh, ground control to major Tom', we may not be able to save this bird. ANGEL: I'm gonna save her and you're gonna help me. LORNE: (looks at ANGEL) I sense pain and anger. Are you still testy from the last time? ANGEL: When you sent me to that swami who was dead, and his imposter tried to kill me? Why would I be testy about that? LORNE: That was painful. I'm still reeling. ANGEL: Yeah, I feel your pain, what with him trying to kill me and all. LORNE: People try to kill *you* everyday. I'm talking about Ramone. Overheard us, betrayed me. The man was a world-class bartender. He made a Sea Breeze that took you to Tahiti. Mmm. He's off the menu now. ANGEL: Can we get back to Darla? LORNE: If you shush up and listen to the bridge. DARLA: (singing) You're only misleading the sunshine I'm needing. Ain't that a shame? It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up from out of nowhere when love... ANGEL: (noticing Lorne watching him) Aren't you supposed to be reading her? LORNE: I'm a channel surfer. Look, you're a big hunk of hero sandwich. You wanna save the girl. I can see why. But you're missing the crucial point here. Things fall apart. Not everything can be put back together, no matter how much you want it. ANGEL: She's not gonna die. LORNE: Why do you care so much? She had more than most of us, already 400 plus years. ANGEL: As a vampire. Before that she was... She... She never had a chance. DARLA: (finishes her song) No good. (Applause.) LORNE: Someone get my heart. That girl's ripped it right out. - Okay, I know I'm probably going to regret this. In fact, being prescient, I'm actually sure of it. There is one way. It-it's a bit of a quest - and - it'll probably kill you. ANGEL: I'll take it. LORNE: (writes down an address) Alright, big fella, you asked for it. You're about to face the hell and the high water. - Go to this address. ANGEL: What is it? LORNE: It's where we find out if you're really ready to take the plunge. (Angel and Darla walk up to an empty pool.) ANGEL: Well, here we are. DARLA: I don't think this is right. ANGEL: Well, he said I had to take the plunge. DARLA: Into an empty pool? ANGEL: Sure. 'Cause if you had water, you'd get all wet and miss out on all that skull crushing. DARLA: Maybe he meant another pool. ANGEL: Something in a Koi pond. They're very Zen. Nah, he's just testing me. It's that whole leap of faith thing. (Angel walks up onto the diving board.) DARLA: Then don't do it. Angel, some green horned lounge singer asks you to do something and you just do it? - Why? ANGEL: I'm either coming back with a cure - or you're about to see something kinda funny. (Takes a running step, bounces off the end of the board and takes a header into the empty pool. But instead of hitting the bottom he disappears through it with a blue crackle,...)

[@elainerosefelder4986]

I had a sister who looked like this, my mother used to go on and on about how beautiful she was, I was called “Black and ugly.”

[@elainerosefelder4986]

But now my daughter’s not, and will never know what that’s like :-)

[@LoiteringInWonderland]

The Cotton Club review on Nic Cage Cast: www.loiteringinwonderland.com/shitty-movie-showdown/38-nic-cage-cast-19-the-cotton-club-1984/412019

[@mathewmcgill6266]

The video effects are horrible.

[@jermainelindo6944]

1950s moulin rouge

[@theoriginalbrooklyn9566]

All Praises Due to ALLAH

[@jermainelindo6944]

cigarette

[@tiaevans8109]

This is HOW I FEEL ABOUT GENTRIFICATION & BLACK ON BLACK YOUTH KILLINGS..... PLEASE ✋👼🏾