OMG...I was at this recording, Clevelaned, OH...I took 3 RTA buses through snow to get to the Civic Auditorium for this recording...I was 16, my parents put me on punishment for a month, I didn't care. Wow...this is legendary video!
@anthonygrant37504 жыл бұрын
Looking back, you had no idea that he would pass away so young. It’s amazing that you got to see him and his choir.
@prettyboinelly21933 жыл бұрын
What was the year when u saw this?
@sheilafields40672 жыл бұрын
That's amazing I was somewhere around that time card this song confirmed my love for the MOST HIGH YAH AND HIS LOVE AND SCRIFICRF
@melliemel329 ай бұрын
You got in trouble for going to hear the Gospel? Bless your geart…I pray you have lived it all these years too!
@FabienMattox20 күн бұрын
😊😊
@EMWBOI0716 жыл бұрын
Truly Thomas Whitfield was ahead of his time and his chords was ahead of its time. He was one of the greatest men in Gospel Music. Nothing like Detroit Gospel. One historical note: He produced and did the music for Vannessa Bell Armstrong's 1st Album "PEACE BE STILL" which is still a classic album.
@rashonts17 жыл бұрын
That MAN BETTER SING!!!!! That's a LEAD! not too much, not too little...Classic hits like these flat out don't get wrote anymore.
@Whtmt15 жыл бұрын
Tommy did not have to beat that piano up like that! MY GOD! He's still the GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!
@ndflossy17 жыл бұрын
i still MISS THOMAS WHITFIELD!!!!! he was the TRUTH!!!!
@wardsnow504012 жыл бұрын
As a native of THE "D". I am forever a GOSPEL MUSICIAN and PREACHER from the COGIC and FIRST BORN CHURCHES., This is the REAL GOSPEL MUSIC. No offense to the 2000's babies but this is IT !!!!!!! I will never forget The Maestro. It's Real .!!!!!!!!!! Elder Ward A. Snow formerly of Southwest Detroit.... Livin in Bama.
@2TruMike Жыл бұрын
My Big Cousin the Choir Director, Miss You Cuz!!!🙏🏽❤️
@teflo214 жыл бұрын
LAWD HAVE MERCY!!!! After all these years, I'm still addicted to this song! Praise God!
@QuiteSexy715 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite gospel songs of all time, brings me to tears because it is my hearts songs all day and all night. Jesus is truly 'All I Need' !!
@2TruMike3 жыл бұрын
I Always come here to see my Big Cousin, Choir Director Dennis M. Walker, R.I.P.
@TexasManMike16 жыл бұрын
This is STILL one of my all-time favorite songs by ANYBODY. Dude singing the lead is "ON IT". Those were the days when people sang with power and the annointing and not for a chance to be on BET's Celebration of Gospel. lol What a powerful song. I didn't know if I was gonna break out in a dance or have a "baptist fit" and pass out at my computer. lol Thanks for sharing this gospel classic!!! :)
@enjoyit0816 жыл бұрын
Wow! I miss Thomas Whitfield! Growing up singing his intricate and precise melodies was like like being trained by a master vocal coach. Not many choirs/singers could truly replicate the moves and changes in his original productions without tons of practice. There are many of us who recognize the awesome gift God gave us in this humble Maestro and the legacy left by Min. Whitfield and we are surely grateful! The epitome of ministry thru music!
@nulifesolja17 жыл бұрын
This from Sound of Gospel's War on Crack Concert in Toledo, Ohio back in the day. SOG had their whole roster there: Donald Vails, Jerry Q. Parries, Craig Brothers, Esther Smith, and of course The untouchable Whitfield Company. I was there that night!
@PhillipConleyJr.3 жыл бұрын
Was it held at Savage Hall at University of Toledo? That’s what this looks like but I can’t tell
@DDeep100013 жыл бұрын
Being a peculiar person, I prefer this peculiar sound over the common sound of the world. We miss you Thomas!
@bjstix12 жыл бұрын
Yes sir! I am raised Apostolic and my wife grew up COGIC! Real music right here!!!!
@songbirddomole12 жыл бұрын
Omg! This song is killing me! I've spent the last hour on repeat! Thank you Jesus for being all that I need!
@cedriclyons1711 жыл бұрын
Love this song, that Brutha is singing, good stuff
@rosellabush40272 жыл бұрын
That is a beautiful song and my name is Rosella Whitfield I was married to James Whitfield the love of my life
@DDanyelleThomas16 жыл бұрын
omg this is straight up one of my FAVORITE Thomas Whitfield songs. I'm so glad I can watch/listen to this at work.
@mablestrouble82588 жыл бұрын
I love this song it makes my heart happy I listen to it as I have devotions.
@MSLATONJA16 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! This is so awesome. Church is not like this anymore. I remember everything I did when I was growig up was surrounded around church and going out to sing!
@bessieberry80049 жыл бұрын
Bro. Larry Edwards, I so glad to see this, you are one of the greats, you poured into us all in the New Creation Christian Center choir back in the day, I thank you and I love and appreciate you! Sis Bessie Cook Berry.
@Cake2692 жыл бұрын
The song of my heart ❤️. MaKes me cry.
@orpheusblack6715 жыл бұрын
That's the closest to Donny Hathaway I have heard in a minute...! Thanks for the post!
@wonderfilled60483 жыл бұрын
Wow the memories! My mother used to have this on cassette tape back in the day.
@dwightgavin28054 ай бұрын
My first real solo. First lady almost knock the wind out of me (RIH love her)
@returnofthemack83474 жыл бұрын
This was my song I loved this mans voice; I miss when people sang instead of running all over the place in their noses
@LoudTenorReg16 жыл бұрын
omg this is why this choir my fav of all time and prolly willalways b, flawless! annoiting and complexity
@lisaballard11142 жыл бұрын
In the early 80s I went to a chruch name greater faith ,it was on Plymouth the pastor name was lenoard Lyons I think Larry was our choir director at the time smh what a voice this singing is good
@rashonts17 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest song of the 80's!!!!!!! LOVE IT! I grew up on this! YAZZZZZZZZZZZ GAWD!!!!!!
@davidbrock513712 жыл бұрын
I will forever remember the T.W.C. To keep Tommy's music alive. He had a Spiritually radiant music ministry to me. We use to talk all the time. I use to help the group out . Thank God for the memory of Tommy!
@AnthonyMarkT17 жыл бұрын
HA! I wish I could find that old tape! I used to have it and went to bed at night with my ear to the boom box...remember what those were? lol Whitfield is one of my all-time favorites. His music had an impact that will never go away. This song especially speaks right to the heart! YEAH! Praise him!
@badgalruth6 жыл бұрын
Simply...Thankyou🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 only Thomas Whitefield 🙏🙌😇❤️
@returnofthemack83474 жыл бұрын
This man sang this songgggggg. I wish I knew who this man was because he has one or the best voices I ever heard.
@organplaya4 жыл бұрын
His name is Larry Edwards.
@returnofthemack8347 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!
@jazzlife117 жыл бұрын
This brings back memories living in Detroit, these young musicians don't know good music.
@Ms1outlaw14 жыл бұрын
I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS DONE BY HIM FIRST!!! WOW!!! i guess the saying is true....ain't nothing new under the sun.....
@musicgirl7816 жыл бұрын
You don't hear choirs that sound like this anymore..such a classic sound. Has anyone posted "I'm encouraged"?
@itsdynomyte17 жыл бұрын
Oh wow...I remember this like yesterday, Civic Auditorium, Cleveland, OH, 1986, I drove through a snowstorm to get there. There were a few jheri curls casted out that nite.
@foxy10diva12 жыл бұрын
All I Need is JESUS...sing Larry!
@ashleyjohnson95562 жыл бұрын
Still hear in 2022 holding onto God’s unchanging hand!!!!!
@MSLATONJA16 жыл бұрын
oh my gosh! You just gave me a massive flashback. I used to sing with 2nd Ebenezer Youth Chorale in the 80's when we won the gospel fest at Hart Plaza. I grew up going to everything that those choirs you named gave.
@rpurpose17 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this amazing footage. As a musician who loves Gospel music.. I have patterned my style after Whitfield... my first time to actually see footage.. have all kids of sheet music and cds but now footage ... is just amazing...
@okebaram16 жыл бұрын
Great! Halfway through the video, the sopranos are now loud and blending LOL! The choir sounds even better now that they showed up.
@DanaProctor17 жыл бұрын
Man this is the Thomas Whitfield & Company LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUTOTORIUM ALBUM. a Gospel Choir CLASSIC. (Man my mama gave me this Cassette for my birthday a few months ago, It's truly off chain. (the whole Tape I mean)
@thejbfactory57935 жыл бұрын
My wish is to go back to my times with Tommy and the Company and stay right there. Everything since then has been anti climactic. Tommy ruined me for life.
@HobsonMediaGroup10 жыл бұрын
Bro Larry on Lead, use to listen to him every Sunday at New Creation Christian Center. With that voice, should have been one of the greats in the gospel world
@michaeldavio17 жыл бұрын
Still one of the greatest choirs.
@ToshaWarrenTalks15 жыл бұрын
i love the soloist. men dont sing gospel like that anymore. daryl coley style!
@teflo25 жыл бұрын
Amaaan!!
@teflo25 жыл бұрын
The Whitfield Company is STILL sanging like that! Their 40th Anniversary Concert was crazy! Just crazy praise!
@blackman412114 жыл бұрын
@teflo2 I feel the SAME way!!!!! Did a choir workshop last week and this was one of the songs that I chose to do.... AMEN!!!
@foxy10diva12 жыл бұрын
All I need is to b wrapped up, tied up, tangled up n JESUS!
@kelvinbrooks9588 Жыл бұрын
Awesome voice.
@mrshughes3344dd12 жыл бұрын
My favorite song...
@8315dbird15 жыл бұрын
U got to keep in mind the sound person has to know to balance out the parts, if the sound man doesn't really know the singers, or group they r pretty much in the dark till they figure it out. Especially in a large auditorium..
@h313w17 жыл бұрын
man I gotta say, Larry killed that joint. I ain' mad if they do MORE than the album :)
@KMMJKR17 жыл бұрын
THIS IS AWESOME THANKS FOR THIS!!!
@theVeeAye4 жыл бұрын
2020 💪🏿 all I need 💯
@bjstix15 жыл бұрын
That's right tyhutson08! I love this kind of gospel music and it just makes you feel closer to Jesus and it makes you feel holy! It does something to you on the inside, can I get a wittness!!!
@jcashtr0217 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest to ever do it...
@aar4109317 жыл бұрын
What an awesome anointing. this was a dynamic concert. the memories are flooding my soul. thank you once again for posting this!
@h313w14 жыл бұрын
wow the guitarist. miss him
@ilmatic3516 жыл бұрын
My God my God... this song is truly amazing****
@returnofthemack83474 жыл бұрын
Sopranos mic needs turning up but lordddddddd this man was sanginggggg. I was over here yelling at the screen
@LoudTenorReg17 жыл бұрын
this is amazing....tw and twc...flawless and ANNOITED!!!!!!
@professorlip17 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have Whitfield singing "Dear Jesus" or Soon as "I Get Home"? I know that this may start something, but Whitfield was to the 80's what James Hall was to the 90's. They both added a level of musical prowess that was not seen by most to the choir scene.
@troymarkee9555 жыл бұрын
No comparison...
@supersimpson5504 жыл бұрын
I love this song!
@SeriouslyFocused14 жыл бұрын
@leroyfj I love this!!!!! Leaves no questions to ask
@organplaya17 жыл бұрын
AMEN TO THAT, MY FRIEND.
@itsdynomyte17 жыл бұрын
Yes both of those songs are on the release Hallelujah Anyhow. They are starting to put these on CDs, I transferred from cassette to CD.
@theoneandonly0917 жыл бұрын
Hes the truth on that piano
@justdfbc9 жыл бұрын
Sing doc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a range!!!!!!!!!!
@edwar36016 жыл бұрын
thats my uncle Larry Edwards on the lead vocals...yes Unc
@tjmuzix2 жыл бұрын
Hello Ms Bartee, Do you still have this taping? I would love to see the entire concert.
@TOAYES17 жыл бұрын
Great song. Someone post "I Shall Wear a Crown."
@realladylike16 жыл бұрын
he killed it
@therealkpeworldwide11 ай бұрын
Timeless 30 plus years after his last full company project we are still sweating over musical and choral arrangements plus if you mess around…it’ll take you in. Ha ha ha…
@Destinn300011 жыл бұрын
Lol I feel you Bruh!
@wepopalot17 жыл бұрын
Actually John did an arrangment of that song. Brother Joe Mays did it originaly, more than 50 years ago
@mysticman0717 жыл бұрын
what an mastro!does anyone have "jesus gave his all by thomas whitfield?
@ioxxd9011 ай бұрын
Yes indeed
@teflo214 жыл бұрын
@blackman4121 You made an awesome and anointed choice. Did y'all tear up the chairs in rehearsal? Been there, done that! Had an employee bring me some paperwork during rehearsal. Choir members were running up and down the hall. He asked me if we always did that. I told him "If he only knew".
@jnbjproductions17 жыл бұрын
just how old is volley on the drums???? oh my GAWD!!!!
@mrhammondb314 жыл бұрын
@Ms1outlaw actually thomas intoduced the song to the neworleans gospel soulchildren first on there 3rd album then he recorded it with his group after
@niqulusviii9876 жыл бұрын
Wow, I guess that's why my new Orleans family knew it so well when we sung it for altar call lol!
@professorlip17 жыл бұрын
I have the songs on CDs. I was looking for videos on youtube. Appreciate the heads up, though.
@eddieholmes68758 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@okebaram16 жыл бұрын
I can't hear the sopranos! But the choir sounds great noneheless. Imagine how nice they would sound if their sopranos were loud enough.
@professorlip17 жыл бұрын
Yes sirrrr! That was the jam. But I don't think he recorded that with the Whitfield Company though. Whom did he record that with? Also, his Christmas CD was way ahead of its time.
@organplaya17 жыл бұрын
HEY EVERYONE ! ! ! ! don't forget to click the stars under the video screen. thanks
@realladylike16 жыл бұрын
amen i love this song that man on the other video sounded a mess
@raphaelcharpentier1213 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace Pop
@organplaya3 жыл бұрын
Did Larry pass away????
@capenmi15 жыл бұрын
so true
@edwar36016 жыл бұрын
yo...thats my uncle...he gets it done
@Morrie198615 жыл бұрын
Play that piano Min. Whitfield!
@UncleDuTheWatchman12 жыл бұрын
Look at Volley!
@h313w17 жыл бұрын
this is what's up
@organplaya17 жыл бұрын
Thomas Whitfield wrote this song.
@anyhu4u17 жыл бұрын
no"with my hold heart" that was my song.many have song it but not like the original.
@thejbfactory57935 жыл бұрын
Larry Edwards!
@TheRuby13red7 жыл бұрын
Stirring
@realladylike16 жыл бұрын
lolololol amen i get tired of that foolishness and im a youngn so i get talked about cuz i dont care for all that nonsense
@Louie91417 жыл бұрын
byron cage ...thomas's protege actually arrange this for earnest pugh.