Rappers React To The Band & The Staples "The Weight"!!!

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

The reason they called themselves the Band was that they were Bob Dylan's band. He'd come out and introduce himself, "My name's Bob Dylan and this is the band." So when they started playing on their own they just kept the name. These guys are huge. Very influential, and they were all musical purists. Everything they did was amazing.

[@jlhilbert1]

Actually, they were originally signed as “The Crackers” on their original contract as kind of a joke according to Levon Helm. Their first album, Songs from the Big Pink, the record company couldn’t list them as The Crackers and the band was simply listed as “The Band” and it stuck. That’s the story Levon tells.

[@corybritton1966]

That's not completely correct. They were originally called the Hawks, and toured & recorded under that name for a time, then evolved into the "band" which is the name they eventually became famous for. By the way, the film this segment was taken from "The last waltz" was directed by Martin Scorsese, and peppered with cameos by stellar artists, including Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and a host of others. You owe it to yourselves to watch the entire film!!

[@jlhilbert1]

@@corybritton1966 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJi5qaawgplleqs Levon tells the story at the 3:00 minute mark.

[@billmavin6203]

One other name they considered was The Crackers! Yikes

[@billmavin6203]

@@corybritton1966 Sorry - commented before I sawyour reply

[@jasonremy1627]

This is from the film "The Last Waltz". It's a documentary about the last concert The Band performed. One of the best music films of all time.

[@alltogetherfitandproper4252]

Directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s fantastic.

[@Patrick-jd1ku]

tied with Stop Making Sense for best concert film of all time IMO

[@marleybob3157]

@@Patrick-jd1ku I'd put "Jazz on a Summer's Day" set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island at the top. "The Last Waltz" is still timeless (just not as timeless as "Jazz on a Summer's Day" IMHO.

[@johncopeland3826]

Thee finest ever ....

[@adamprice3466]

Neil Young has a coke booger in it.

[@jasonremy1627]

Also, you can't go wrong with The Staples Singers. Their biggest hit is "I'll Take You There". Mavis Staples is in her 80s and still going strong today.

[@kristaspecht]

That's awesome! Her voice is amazing!

[@Dooklawz]

This has always been my favorite version of this song...hands down. teaming up with The Staple Singers was a fantastic choice. The Staple Singers all have such great vocalists, like warm honey.... still gives me chills. So glad Marvis is still out there singing for folks... makes me smile :)

[@JasonBenesh]

My wife and I saw a Mavis Staples show in late 2020. She was as great as you might imagine. Her voice has never been better.

[@patticriss2238]

Miss Mavis is spectacular. Check out more.

[@jasonremy1627]

The Band has so many great songs. "Up On Cripple Creek", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Stage Fright". So many good ones.

[@dancoughlin3331]

The Band cover of Dylan's I Shall Be Released is so powerful as sung by Richard Manuel. The Band had 3 lead singers, all of whom have passed now.

[@mvellis3863]

The Band is iconic, and Mavis Staples is a national treasure

[@vickihirsch8340]

You can't go wrong with the Band. Robbie, Levon Helm, and the group made great songs. NOBODY brings it like Mavis Staples. She is an icon and has performed with just about every legendary group. Always brings the soul. The Staples were the Staple Singers and you should listen to their songs I'll take you there and Respect Yourself!

[@randywissler9923]

Gotta also put some respect on Rick Danko, the bass player. Legendary bassist and singer/songwriter!!!!

[@grahamkemble3917]

This was a collaboration of The Band and the Staple Singers singing the Weight, which is a song of the Band. The Band had three lead singers, drummer Levon Helm, Bass Rick Danko and keyboardist Richard Manuel. The were 4 Canadians from SW Ontario and 1 American, Levon Helm.

[@chuckyanus3563]

My friends, you just watched one of the greatest rock performances ever. Glad you had the chance.

[@joshb23]

A finer band you'll never find. And a better 4 1/2 minutes of music performed on film does NOT exist! These guys were on another level... Great video!

[@bobschenkel7921]

Who's got goosebumps? This video is from the Martin Scorscese film of The Band's final concert called "The Last Waltz". This is what you get when one of the best bands of the 60's and 70's, called The Band, and one of the best Gospel groups of all time, The Staples Singers, come together with a great song to sing. Lead Guitarist and Song Writer Robbie Robertson needed a town name for the first line in the song, looked inside his C.F. Martin Guitar and saw Nazareth, Pennsylvania, the home of Martin Guitars, and there it was. Also the home of the family of race car drivers, the Andrettis, Mario, Michael and Marco. Hello from the Lehigh Valley, Pa.

[@thomasjacques5286]

That was a clip from the docu/movie The Last Waltz, The Band's last performance. Directed by Martin Scorsese. It's a Who's Who of rock royalty getting together. Check that out.

[@isaacvanwart-i2v]

As close to perfection as ever there has been in popular music.

[@vickihirsch8340]

You just mentioned that singer, drummer, actor in one of your trivia questions. Levon Helm was the narrorator for the movie the The Right Stuff. Also played Loretta Lynne's father in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter.

[@davidpost428]

You've just heard greatness. Take a load off Fannie is all about coming alongside other folks and helping them carry the load in life.

[@1doug62]

The members of The Band were gathered together over a few years by Ronnie Hawkins, and his band were called The Hawks. They started out in the mid to late 50's and toured extensively in Canada. By the mid 60's they left Ronnie Hawkins and started doing some live performances of there own. At this time they didn't really have an exclusive name they used, usually they performed as The Hawks. Word got out Bod Dylan was looking for a backing band for his 66 world tour when he goes electric. Someone in the business suggested Dylan check out The Hawks and as history will prove that worked out well. They started the world tour with Bob Dylan, half way through they took a break from touring, that's when Dylan's infamous motorcycle accident happened. Dylan took a few years off, moved his family to West Saugerties, New York, by Woodstock. The guys of The Band followed because they were still under contract to be Bob Dylan's touring Band and actually still being paid. They moved into a house they would eventually call big pink. During this time Dylan would visit quite often and Robbie would learn quickly from Bob Dylan how to better write and constuct songs. The infamous Bob Dylan's basement tapes were recorded by Garth Hudson in the basement of there house, Big Pink during this period. The Group finally picked a name for themselves The Band because thats what everyone always referred to them as. There Debut album was Music from Big Pink by The Band in1968, and the rest is History!

[@AmberPearcy]

So good! The song at the end made me tear up a little. That reminded me of my Granny-haven’t heard “that old time religion” in quite awhile.

[@randyhochstein8455]

The Band actually had five lead vocalists, but my personal favorite was the drummer that started singing first. The late great Levon Helm. His vocals on the song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” are so compelling that they draw you into the lyrics. The Last Waltz is well worth the two hours of concert film by Martin Scorsese, with an incredible roster of legendary guests like The Staples, Eric Clapton, Dr John, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and more. ✌🏼😎

[@jimmarshall3668]

And the Great Ronnie Hawkins, who is the guy The Band started with in Toronto. He made them practice all the time which made them the polished group they ended up being!! Levon and Ronnie were originally from Arkansas and the rest were from Canada!! One of the Greatest Bands of all time!

[@rnorth8812]

They did not have five lead volalists. To my knowledge, Garth Hudson did not sing altough he was a tremendous musician. Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel were the singers and Robbie's mic was turned off if at all possible. I give him full credit as a song writer and a guitarist, but he wasn't a great singer. The musical talent in this group is the reason they are the only group that can be called THE BAND. However, if you want to see a band that really had five lead singers, look up The Five Man Elecical Band.

[@lordessducky8494]

@@rnorth8812 , maybe I wouldn’t refer to Robbie has having the greatest voice, but it’s unique and I for one definitely enjoy listening to it.;)

[@rnorth8812]

@@lordessducky8494 Much respect. I may not like his voice but he sure could write. Let's agree to disagree. Take care.

[@denroy3]

It's 3 lead singers, not 5. Levon, Rick and Richard were the only keads.

[@davedalton1273]

The Band had 3 lead singers: Levon Helm, the drummer; Rick Danko on bass and Richard Manuel, piano.

[@metalguru85]

Love this song. The Band were pure talent. Check out Crosby, Stills & Nash next for the greatest vocal harmonies of all time.

[@j.h.3777]

...and you can throw in Young for good measure! : )

[@shane5200]

CSN Deja Vu or Carry on are both good. Wait maybe that's CSNY. Don't quote me on that. It's one of those.

[@jono.pom-downunder]

Staple Singers, "the BAND"- beautiful music and vocals. The characters in the song - Crazy Chester, Luke, Anna Lee, are based on friends of the band. In Levon Helm's autobiography This Wheel's On Fire: Levon Helm And The Story Of The Band, he explained: "We had two or three tunes, or pieces of tunes, and 'The Weight' was one I would work on. Robbie had that bit about going down to Nazareth - Pennsylvania, where the Martin guitar factory is at. The song was full of our favorite characters. 'Luke' was Jimmy Ray Paulman. 'Young Anna Lee' was Anna Lee Williams from Turkey Scratch. 'Crazy Chester' was a guy we all knew from Fayetteville who came into town on Saturdays wearing a full set of cap guns on his hips and kinda walked around town to help keep the peace,if you follow me. He was like Hopalong Cassidy, and he was a friend of the Hawks. Ronnie would always check with Crazy Chester to make sure there wasn't any trouble around town. And Chester would reassure him that everything was peaceable and not to worry, because he was on the case. Two big cap guns, he wore, plus a toupee! There were also 'Carmen and the Devil', 'Miss Moses' and 'Fanny,' a name that just seemed to fit the picture. (I believe she looked a lot like Caladonia.) We recorded the song maybe four times. We weren't really sure it was going to be on the album, but people really liked it. Rick, Richard, and I would switch the verses around among us, and we all sang the chorus: Put the load right on me!"

[@hlawrencepowell]

The Band was perhaps the greatest rock band ever. That song, The Weight, is in Rolling Stone Magazine's top 20 in their top 500 songs of all time. The Band had three lead vocalists -- Levon Helm, who sang the first verse, Rick Danko, who sang the fourth verse, and Richard Manuel, with the beard and long hair who was playing the piano. It's Fanny.

[@andrewmatthews1083]

The Weight -playing for change: great version with musicians from around the world.

[@edprzydatek8398]

Absolutely.

[@timbeatty8411]

Love, love, love, this band and song. Ty

[@cheryla7480]

The Band was a Canadian band, with one American member, Levon Helm ( drummer ) from Arkansas. Most of the lyrics for all their songs were written by Robbie Robertson ( double neck guitar guy ). They were so good. Eric Clapton wanted to leave “ Cream “ and join them, but they said no. Try their: “Up on Cripple Creek “. “it Makes No Difference “ and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down “. R.I.P. Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel.

[@scalisque5403]

Yes and my great uncle Roy Buchanan was also one the original members who was also from Arkansas. He taught Robbie some tricks on the guitar then left the band before they got famous

[@wthiem11]

@@scalisque5403 I had never heard that Roy was associated with The Band. I had heard that The Rolling Stones wanted him to join them and he turned them down. Phenomenal guitarist!

[@JennyJohn50]

Great reaction y'all! Now y'all should check out the cover by Playing For Change ft. Robbie Robertson from The Band & Ringo Starr, a song (& with artists) from all around the world. ❤

[@MicroRhin0]

This is a definite watch! You get an amazing plethora of singers on this song. And you get two of the best blues and rock guitarists of this generation; Marcus King, and Lukas Nelson. It will blow you guys away.

[@heidi82]

You all need to get to some Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Wooden ships, and Southern Cross. Great reaction to this.

[@johncopeland3826]

The Weight was written in 1968 by Robbie Robertson ,with this sublime version combining The Band and the Staple Singers being performed as part of The Last Waltz concert by The Band in 1976 . The song is 54 years old and sounds as fresh and brilliant today ,as when it was first composed in my opinion ! I still get goosebumps at the magical performances to this day ... A timeless song and performance by all concerned .... Has it been bettered all these years later .....?

[@dougieyou]

All of the members could play multiple instruments and they made some of the best music ever. You need to go down the rabbit hole or for a real treat check out "The Last Waltz" movie, it has anyone who was anyone from the 60&70's. You will be amazed at how good they were.

[@corycole123]

Remember the old gunsmith from the movie SHOOTER??? That's him playing the drums and singing.

[@jgsrhythm100]

How about just the Staples Singers? "I'll Take You There?" They were part the Gospel Choir movement of the 60's along with Mahalia Jackson and many others.

[@russrollins9978]

The third lead in this song is the amazing Roebuck "Pops" Staples. He is in the movie True Stories, starring David Byrne, who is the lead singer for the group Talking Heads. The film also features John Goodman, , Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. The movie features many iconic Talking Heads songs, and Pops plays Mr. Tucker, a voodoo witch doctor, and sings my favorite song in the film, Papa Legba. I think you would enjoy the movie as much as I do.

[@KevinRCarr]

That's Levon Helm playing the drums and singing! He was the answer to your trivia question, the narrator of the movie The Right Stuff.

[@lancevaughn432]

The Last Waltz, The Band, Last concert and documentary, everybody should watch. Special guest, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ron Woods, and more. Everybody should watch it, if not it’s your loss.

[@sst3d]

Very respectful reaction, gentlemen…thank you

[@kristaspecht]

Morning fellas! Hey I remember this song!Lol! Great song!( I really love that there are multiple singers.) Really Kool! Their voices really blend quite well together! I just love the woman's voice and style!❤️❤️🤓👏

[@MrWo-qj2yh]

you can hear the guitar player (robbie Robbertson) sing at somewhere down the crazy river its great to he wrote this song

[@KP-xn7bq]

Great song. Love seeing this from you two this a.m.! Easy Rider soundtrack is an absolute treasure. It doesn't have this version, but it's where I know this song from. It's a great way to finish a week of me having watched about 20 of your older reactions. My oh my how you have grown 🤣 Have a dope ass day Hollywood and Smokey!

[@ShanLH5]

Easy Rider is a great movie and soundtrack! “Hey man, yeah, I’m high, right? But I’m tellin ya man, I SAW A SATELLITE!!”

[@KP-xn7bq]

@@ShanLH5 Great movie!

[@ShanLH5]

@@KP-xn7bq yes!! And the soundtrack, I mean… The Pusher, If 6 Was 9… love those songs!

[@KP-xn7bq]

@Shan5 after seeing that movie back in the day in cinema class in high school, I found a live Steppenwolf vinyl - this has a super tippy 20 minute long version of The Pusher (jam session)!

[@ShanLH5]

@@KP-xn7bq that sounds pretty sweet!

[@PatB2028]

Glad you guys liked it. Being from the 60s this song is part of my generation. The Big Pink - album by The Band is amazing. The Big Pink is a house in the woods in upstate NY where the album was created.

[@samimknot]

YES? The Last Waltz is a must watch. All calabs with The Band

[@MrPig777]

Light up, watch "The Last Waltz" you won't be disappointed!!

[@leebay6093]

Funny, played the Band on the way home from work today, great songs, you can’t stop listening.... addictive ❤❤

[@amymalina5073]

So great to hear you guys appreciate this music. The band had so much great music. Hope you get to check out more of it. Great songs, great musicians. It stills sounds great to my ears after all these years. The Band was one of the greatest bands of those times.

[@lynnecurrie7561]

Your reaction to this legendary performance just made me smile. The Band and The Staple Singers...pure perfection!!

[@thatdamelana]

That is The Staple Singers. The older man is their father Pop Staples. Mavis Staples is the lead singer. I attended The Staple Singer's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is part of The Bands, documentary The Last Waltz. It's a must-see. I love Van Morrison's performance in that doc along with many others. Both artists have impeccable discographies worth exploring.

[@angelskunk2206]

The other man and woman who are singing with The Band are The Staples singers.

[@panarchpete5637]

Fantastic Band with fantastic vocalists', the Staple Singers...

[@ronaldstokes4841]

The movie is filled with little inserts like this between songs; story-telling, interviews, road memories. Volume Up!

[@Brandi6666]

Thats the staple singers gospel family. First up was the marvelous mavis, then her pops. They were invited to this session

[@willfromyadkinville]

some ridiculous talent right there!

[@scalisque5403]

My great uncle Roy Buchanan was almost in this band. He was actually one of the first members and taught Robbie Robertson some tricks on the guitar then left before they became “the band”

[@JanBear]

Roy Buchanan was a great one.

[@stevethompson6772]

Martin Scorsese directed the film "The Last Waltz", which documented the farewell concert of The Band. This song was a part of that movie. There were some special musicians with The Band that day, including Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr and others. It is a movie well worth seeing, if it can be found in its entirety.

[@waynewade6723]

Bad omen - like a villain 💯🔥

[@ginamirisis3016]

A classic more like it....

[@RunsLikeMays]

That interlude leads into "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which is more than worthy of your reaction.

[@maryannturton9830]

This song hooks you right from the start,but when that sister started singing with that Roberta Flack voice,I got the chills! Blues,soul,and gospel! They took us to church!🎙✝️

[@jgsrhythm100]

Are Trash Talkers down with funk & soul of 60's-70's Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (72) 🔥 One of the most Sampled joints in Hip Hop. What does it take to make it happen?

[@ericelander9936]

The GREAT Levon Helm from my state of Arkansas on drums and vocals. This is what's classified as Americana music today. We just called it excellent music back in the day. Check out The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down to hear Levon kill it. Also Tom Petty's Southern Accents. Both pretty well sum up what it means to be from the South no matter what skin color you are.

[@scalisque5403]

Yes sir and my great uncle Roy Buchanan was in this band before Robbie joined as lead and he taught him some guitar tricks. Roy was from Ozark, Arkansas same place I’m from

[@ericelander9936]

@@scalisque5403 I live in the middle of the Bexar-Mitchell-Elizabeth metroplex. Six miles north of Wild Cherry, close to twenty north of Calico Rock.

[@scalisque5403]

@@ericelander9936 okay you’re just north of Mountain View. That’s a beautiful area over there. I hardly make it over there because it’s kinda out of the way we are always taking I-40 cause it’s right next to us

[@bradmorrison2796]

This was the bands “last waltz” concert, you could react to the whole concert and your jaw would be on the floor the whole time

[@jeffmorrison2147]

The Band The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down

[@viviandarkbloom100]

Listen...I saw Mavis Staples in 2018 in Dallas.....she sounds as good as EVER. Seriously she is amazing.

[@jas8581]

From the classic Martin Scorsese film on their last concert. Well worth watching.

[@sandrapullins8644]

one of my all time favorite songs..great reaction

[@hannejeppesen1809]

The Band was Bob Dylan's back up band for a few years. They were all living in Woodstock, NY. Whenever the guys from Dylan's band was out on the town people would say "they are with The Band, or when one of the guys were out alone, again people would say "he is with The Band", so when they went out on their own and had to pick a name, they decided on The Band, since that what people had been calling them for years. I would say they lived up to their name. The singer singing the Chester verse, is the late great Rick Danko, listen to him sing Stagefright or It makes no difference. Or Richard Manuel singing The Shape I'm in. The guy with the double neck guitar is Robbie Robertson, he wrote most of the songs for The Band.

[@Anna-hl5zb]

I loved this song from the first time I heard it in the late 60's. This version (from The Last Waltz) takes it to a new level for me. It is pure heaven. Although your take on the lyrics is amusing, I have always thought this song was about helping out your neighbour, just being there for each other.

[@michaelwebster8389]

They didn't even use all their singers in this. Richard Manuel on the Keyboards is Eric Clapton's favourite singer.

[@88pjtink]

This may be the second best you tube music video. Period. Second only to Stairway to heaven performence by Ann and nancy (and company) at the KCH show. I have heard it a hundred times, and still love it every time. The Staple Singers are an extremely important family in the whole history of American music (much like the Carter family is/was). And The Band were just brilliant, one of the best of their era. Robbie was, and STILL IS a musical genius. See him in the "Playing for change" video of the same title. It is ridiculous good, and features a Beatle!

[@jpdj2715]

"The Band" started as such in 1967 but their musical journey individually and together is older. They started as Bob Dylan's "band" and got on Dylan's posters as "The Band" as in Bob Dylan & The Band. Canadians Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and USAnian Levon Helm were all multi-instrumentalists. All except Garth did vocals, solo or together in different combinations. Their genre of music being a rock version of folk, was originally called "rockabilly" but that may have become a pejorative label later on, avoided by fans. The commented on piece "The Weight" is a clip from the farewell movie "The Last Waltz" [1978] that Martin Scorsese did (he does the interviews himself) to the "occasion" of The Band breaking up. This clip here has the song The Weight followed by a brief part of the movie. The movie is a documentary of The Band's history and a testament to their music. The movie credits a.o. the following musicians that we see perform in it: Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Mavis Staples & Pops Staples, Muddy Waters, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Paul Butterfield, Van Morrison. Clapton disbanded his "Cream" trio after having been to a concert by The Band because "all the music I had wanted to make already has been made" (paraphrased). [1] "The Staples" is the vocal quartet of Daddy "Pops" Staple and his three daughters - Mavis and her sisters. "The Weight" is about the singer-person checking out on people with issues in a less privileged neighborhood or village, strange to him. Each attempt at a communication ends up in an awkward situation and the singer refrain-answers with the other person might as well put a "load of fanny" [excrement] on him. There's literary and musical sophistication in The Band's songs and that was well recognized in the late 60s, 70s. But, Mavis and family add an extra layer here, taking it to church in terms of "soul". [1] ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-robbie-robertson-tribute/

[@edprzydatek8398]

The name is "Fanny" and the genre of music is "Americana". The guy playing the double guitar (actually a guitar and mandolin) wrote the song and it's about actual people that he knew when they were all living in and around Woodstock, NY. Nice reaction.

[@garysteinert8040]

It’s a song by the band, the Staples covered it and had a hit on gospel and black r n B stations with it. So they got together and did this for the Last Waltz movie. Now I’m just an old white guy that’s been listening to gospel and black R n B since the 70z. But I’m told I’m a racist today on MSM..

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

Smokey, you'd LOVE it at my family's reunion. Banjos and fiddles everywhere!!! Bluegrass is the best grass!!!

[@waynewade6723]

🤔💯 classic guys!!!

[@geraldherrmann787]

Rolling Stone Magazine listed Mavis Staples #56 of the 100 greatest singers of all time.

[@AngelofSunday]

Nice!!!! One of the more iconic songs ever for sure!!

[@linzzyy]

As a Canadian, let me tell you The Band is legendary. Thanks for reacting to this - you should really check out the entire album. I’m sure others explained it , but the concert is honestly one of the best evenings of music you can imagine

[@FrogLegs313]

Hopefully in the year since you posted this you've found the time to look into the movie "The Last Waltz". They had decided to go their separate ways and decided to go out big by inviting every musician they felt had a major influence including Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and several more. They desperately wanted The Staple Singes included but they were booked elsewhere that day so Martin Scorsese, who directed the documentary, brought them all in to shoot this masterpiece. The Staples were a leading gospel group of that time who eased over into popular music. They consisted of Roebuck (Pops) Staples, his son Pervis (until 1970), and his three daughters Mavis, Cleotha, and Yvonne (after Pervis left in 1970). Check out their releases "Respect Yourself" and "I'll take You There"

[@827dusty]

"The Band" and "The Staple Singers" made quite a combo. The Staples were a Gospel/ R&B group in the early 70s. "Papa" Staple, and his daughters, (Lead singer Mavis Staple) were one of the hottest groups in thee 70s. I think they are all dead, except Mavis. This clip, is from the Documentary, "The Last Waltz." Do yourself a favor, and grab a few Brews, some popcorn, and enjoy this movie, with many Bands, and artists in it from the 70s. Good Stuff guys

[@BClarke]

This song was already 10/10 before the Staple Singers came around and launched it into the stratosphere.

[@byronmitchell3784]

THE BAND / THE STAPLES. From the Movie, Documentary "THE LAST WALTZ". Was supposed to The Bands final live performance. They had several music guests performing also. Such as, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Dr. John.. and others. The Weight was written by, Guitarest Robbie Robertson. As I heard that The Band was from Canada.

[@johnwinton2209]

Whatever Genre of music floats your boat, there is no mistaking class.

[@1doug62]

Actually this version is a studio version not live. It was recorded during the production of the Album The Last Waltz from the movie of the same name. Some of the members of The Band were pissed off at Robbie for including some acts (Like Niel Diamond which Robbie just happend to be producing an album for at the time) and leaving out others that really had an influence on them like the Staples Singers. They produced a studio version with The Staples Singers that looked like a live performance so it would fit in with the live theam of the Album/Concert. This information was from Levon Helms book, This Wheels On Fire.

[@isaacvanwart-i2v]

You can do about two dozen of The Band’s songs and never miss. Try “Makes No Difference,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” “Long Black Veil,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” . . . Clapton, upon hearing The Band, said he’d heard the pinnacle of music (or words to that effect). SO great.

[@yeahbee8237]

Rick with that suave vocals and a fretless bass

[@doctorcorps5590]

You guys need to check out van Canto I don't want to give anything away about em but they are a very awesome and interesting heavy metal band

[@onsesejoo2605]

The Band itself, no pun intended, had three members singing lead parts. The drummer Levon Helm did the most, but pianist Richard Manuel and bassist Rick Danko also sang lead parts. The only member who did not sing was keyboardist Garth Hudson.

[@barbaralindsey9587]

Love this song it just turned 50 years old it

[@JosefK]

I heard this song for the first time in the movie ''Easy Rider'' and from that day I took it everywhere on cassette, cd and now mp3 format. The final song is ''Old Time Religion''

[@rhondamims9254]

Every member had talent and they were letting it show

[@randyfergus8781]

The guys playing instruments were one group actually called The Band. The other group off to the side was the Staple Singers, primarily a gospel group consisting of Pop Staples and his three daughters. The rest of the information seems to already have been filled in by other posters.

[@kevingrady8736]

My all time fave song by my all time fave band. It don't get better than that.

[@jenniferdonohue-cunningham5367]

R.I.P Robbie Robertson

[@laudanum669]

Rick Danko (Bass) and singer @6:33 always seems to have so fun while on stage. He's a joy to watch.

[@happything100]

Back in 2004 Rolling Stone magazine named this song as the 41st best Rock and Roll song of all time.

[@Brandi6666]

I believe all but one member all had songs they were lead singer on. I guess they felt the voice would dictate who sung. They all had great and distinct voices. There is a great back story to these cats 🤘❤️

[@timgrady4630]

Intersection of the best elements available this side of heaven .

[@JazzDrummer1946]

RIP Robbie Robertson.

[@tmtjr]

Just a perfect piece of music.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

Hollywood reacting to the number of lead singers was too funny 😂❤ I always as a kid wondered if they say Annie or Fanny 😅 still don’t know

[@kimkoula1005]

This really was a great doc

[@thekingcobra63]

You must watch The Last Waltz and see all the different special guests singing with the Band in their final concert.

[@georgehall1614]

Loved Levan Helms roll in the 1980's film, "Coal Miners Daughter"!