THE CAKE - USTV

Forgotten girl group THE CAKE perform their best song "You can have him" on USTV! These girls are the coolest!

[@marshamc]

This song and particular performance never, never gets old. There is something so of its time yet timeless as well.

[@thediamondsky2334]

Insanely beautiful song and performance! The Shangri-Las on acid!

[@caprichosmorales]

Fair enough, too; since most of us were stoned when we saw the Smothers Brothers and how they mocked CBS censorship right up to the end.

[@caprichosmorales]

At that time, it was de rigueur to seem to be totally bored with what was happening and in this instance, the group was forced to lip-sync the vocals; a practice that many if not most performers would only begrudgingly condescend to doing.

[@nedd.8479]

2:27 for the TV Girl album cover.

[@raelene101]

Best thing I've seen and heard in years. Mesmerized.

[@anthonydemarco4205]

The years I spent talking to Chelsea Lee -Eleanor "the Blond" just a few months before her passed away August 2016 while she was living in Britain she was telling me she couldn't stand Barbara Morillo " Right Side Black hair" after the huge falling out, Eleanor said to me that she was going to NYC to do a last gig at BB Kings Blue Jazz Club but she decided not to go and I was going to meet her there. She was devastated when Jeanette Jacobs passed the "female Brown hair Left" was pretty much what did her in. Eleanor was a very very open heart woman.. I reside in NYC and I do miss her.. we would drink wine while talking and she would ALWAYS be naked because she said I want to be free, she was a very cool person to talk to...

[@dfontana59]

was a friend of Eleanor as well. We met in late 80s' remained friends until she moved to Florida around 2000 maybe 2001. lost track of her after that, was talking to a coworker about her and that evening he googled them and Eleanor found her obit online. showed it to me next day. when i got back to the hotel, think i cried not beign there for her in the end. But yes that was Eleanor/Chelsea as I knew her, prefered being nude or if he had to wear clothes commando under it

[@dfontana59]

Anthony mind if i ask you, did Eleanor pass away in Britain or in NYC? if in NYC do you know where? As I said in prior comment was friends with her from 1989 - to around 2001. i belong to a site Mylife.com and it showed a female of Eleanor's age searching for me (my name anyway) but I had moved to SC by then and probably did not think it was me. I would like to be able to pay my final respects to her and a final goodbye

[@Nuez296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe4eZ-dht2WqpY You can have him Instrumental 😀👍

[@beachwalker2574]

@@Nuez296 ty !!!!!!!!!!

[@anthonydemarco4205]

@@dfontana59 She Died in Britain

[@AlbingierOne]

Stunning Performance. Quite unbelievable great sound, etherial and wonderful Music. Think Syd Barrett must have watched that then.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

I remember when this first aired. I watched The Smothers Brothers show every week.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

WOW, amazing gig footage!

[@georgestirling1832]

brilliant,want more,please.

[@dfontana59]

RIP my dear friend Chelsea Lee, miss you and always have

[@Nuez296]

😔

[@reparata11]

Thanks for posting! This sounds really beautiful and high powered great dancing! Also, they were three beautiful ladies. It would have been a hit if recorded a few years earlier during the girl group era. I showed my mother this video as she grew up in the 60's and was class of 64. She used to meet with girlfriends twice a week, until her early 20's, to teach each other all the latest dance moves, and she said she used to dance just like this and it was considered standard dance back then. I thought she would be surprised at the dance moves. I ordered their first album, and this song doesn't sound nearly as good as this on the LP. This live version is way better. It was Eleanor's voice that made it sound extra good, and I can't hear her voice on the recorded version for some reason. They all had really nice voices. Sorry to hear that Jeanette and Eleanor are no longer with us, and really sad that Jeanette died so young. May they rest in peace.

[@Nuez296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe4eZ-dht2WqpY You can have him Instrumental 😀👍

[@anauticalgate5496]

Mashed POTATO & Electric Boogaloo !

[@chygwelanmeneth]

While The Cake's studio version of "You can have him" is a very good Wall of Sound track, I can't agree this is their best song. Surely "Baby, that's me" holds that honour - one of the best Wall of Sounds songs ever recorded on this planet in the last thousand years.

[@dfontana59]

I agree having befriended Chelsea Lee/Eleanor Barooshian in the late 80s and remained friends with her until she moved temporarily to Florida and moved back to her NY. was saddened to find out she had passed away in 2016

[@croiners4166]

Their whole 1st album is full of great songs!

[@user-qi1qu2kw4r]

That's lovely girls .

[@Nuez296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe4eZ-dht2WqpY You can have him Instrumental 😀👍

[@sdenny]

This is great !!!

[@reparata11]

I was have asleep in a chair and the computer started browsing through music, and I was awakened by this super beautiful song sung by three beautiful young women, all with beautiful voices. It's a shame this wasn't a hit because it would have been if made a few years earlier. Stunning!

[@dano3952]

May I say that you too are stunning. Handsome.

[@Susan17ful]

RIP Dear Chelsea Lee

[@bighill8272]

What a lot of people seem to miss these days is that Jeanette Jacobs was gorgeous

[@dang2443]

I don't think anybody missed that.

[@wolflarson6831]

They were so spaced out, this is awesome.

[@raceyboy]

They're weird and they're wonderful.

[@Swampwitch99]

Jeanette Jacobs was actually acting that way because the guys managing them, Charles Greene and Brian Stone, had her microphone turned off, because she could not really sing R & B. This was, in her own way, a protest...she was actually the most talented in the group. Jeanette wrote most of the material although they all contributed, Jeanette was the force behind it and the girls held no delusions about it either.I will post a link to a great article about The Cake for any who might be interested

[@atlasking6110]

Fake News. Barbara made it very clear in later years that it was all part of the act, to get attention.

[@dang2443]

@@atlasking6110 Stop saying "Fake News", because it's just Trump buzzword bullshit that ironically means the opposite. Like everything Trump says, the opposite is really the truth. When Trump says "Fake News" you can be sure it just means "news that Trump doesn't like because it makes him look bad, or exposes his pathological criminality".

[@QuadMochaMatti]

@@dang2443 speaking of news that is not favorable to the current clown "emperor", he's only the latest in a long succession of them. The Democrat and Republican "leaders" alike have done more to destroy this country then any foreign invading army. The sooner we get rid of the broken-down failed system of two party leadership, the better. Thinking, independent-minded people realize that you cannot be confined to one simple label like you would be assigned in kindergarten.

[@dupedbydines1305]

​@@dang2443How's that Bidenomics doin'? Are most Americans better off now then they were four years ago? Biden's a lying corrupt dithering fraud of a President, and you know it. Trump 2024, all the way!

[@anauticalgate5496]

A touch of "Munchausen's" today ?

[@mikeh66]

I would have LOVED to be the fly on the wall after this performance!

[@ludovica8221]

RIP Chelsea Lee/Eleanor Barooshian

[@ParchedPinemarten]

which one is she in the video? i know the one on the left was jacobs

[@ParchedPinemarten]

nevermind, i found out she was the blonde one.

[@dfontana59]

RIP my dear friend

[@nyakris]

First I saw this video I thought that it was some 80s group making parody on the 60s.

[@gingermurray]

Wearing green, Jeanette Jacobs-Wood wife of Chris Wood (Traffic) left Chris for Jimi Hendrix. She didn’t think it was cool to jig about. So, she just stood there prob tripping on LSD. Chris plays the flute on Hendrix’s 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

[@HonkIfYouLoveHonking]

Groovy man, groovy. I remember seeing this. On E!. But I do remember the Smothers Brothers on network TV. I'd get very frustrated at how they'd never complete a song. I was very young. I was 5 when this aired Oct 67. Sure glad I didn't wasn't older, I probably would have ended up like Syd Barrett.

[@Imissthishitormisstrend]

Who else came from tv girl

[@ksteiger]

I'm so glad they soaked the video tape under water before they transferred it.

[@AfroZen]

Soft Machine backing vocalists.

[@richardkopikats6314]

The last member ..middle one , a brit still lives in Miami ..met her a couple of years ago!!!

[@richardkopikats6314]

Correction prob 2014!!

[@spikemcgovern8403]

Actually I think you'll find that it was actually Eleanor Barooshian who wrote most of the bands material although Jeanette did write Rainbow Wood..and why Jeanette looks so solemn had nothing to do with Greene and Stone but more so to do with falling out with Barbara..Eleanor and Jeanette later joined Ginger Bakers Airforce for a short while..

[@michaelroper4237]

WHOAAA WIPEOUT MAN!

[@guidingmike2823]

Look at that set! They built a cake just for this song by a mostly unknown girl group. The girl on the left in the green looks like an a Japanese anime girl before there was such a thing.

[@ludovica8221]

according to the blonde Chelsea Lee/Eleanor Barooshian (who has just passed away in the past week)the girl in green Jeanette Jacobs (a former g/f of Jimi Hendrix,) was on acid and was unable to move

[@explorermike19]

+Ludo Vica That makes perfect sense that she was on acid. Everybody at the time probably assumed she was just acting artistically gauche, but in fact she was simply stoned out of her mind.

[@raelene101]

Really!! Makes sense. I feel high just watching them.

[@garboil]

Yeah, that set is amazing. As a set designer myself I’d have loved to build that huge cake on a turntable. For one freaking song. Look at it’s acid psychodelic glory!!! More crane shots!!! And get some more lights on the glitter!!! Delicious!!!

[@stonedsoulpicnic]

Jeanette Jacobs is my waifu

[@Tuning_Spork]

I just realized how much Dickie Smothers looks like Alfred E, Neuman.

[@johnmitchelljr]

This is really great. But only the comments music lovers and lovers of creativity are worth reading. Thank you.

[@PleaseLookAwayNow]

Is that Stonehenge? Groovy, man!

[@lilic1]

@SylviaSayit3Times She had epilepsy. Lights in such a studio are very dangerous for somebody who has often epileptic seizures. Her name is Jeanette Jacobs and died at the age of 30 from the effects of a seizure.

[@kellykma71]

According to Tragic Magic The Life of Traffic’s Chris Wood by Dan Ropek: “On tour with Ginger Baker’s Air Force...Coming off stage one night, she tripped over the drum kit, falling hard and hitting her head. Knocked unconscious, she came around and seemed alright. But thereafter she would be plagued by lingering headaches and then more serious complications.” “...Having begun with the fall she’d taken during the long past Air Force days,, had progressed from headaches to incapacitating seizures. Watching them occur at an unpredictable but increasing basis, Chris could only cradle her head as she writhed and worry as he waited for the episode to pass.” “...On December 31st 1981, she left her home alone to attend a New Years Eve party, presumably somewhere near Kent, where she lived with Larry (her partner) and Damien (their son). At the party, she was supposedly accosted by a drunk man, who, having been rebuffed, hit Jeanette in the face with a glass. As a result of the trauma, she collapsed into a series of seizures. Somehow returning home in the middle of the night- her face bandaged in gauze, she was calmed by Larry, who left her sleeping on the living room couch. On the morning of January 1, 1982, he found her in the same place, dead, of causes directly related to her seizures.”

[@flywings111]

@@kellykma71 thank you for this. I didn't know the details. Very sad story. May she rest in peace.

[@kellykma71]

@@flywings111 Yes indeed. Way too young. I hope that guy who hit her was charged with murder! :,(

[@kurt11110]

the little blonde girl can't believe she has to work with joanne worly

[@lrwguitar]

Reverb at number 11 he he.

[@MadderFucher]

if Jeanette was protesting for whatever then she did it alot. I met Jeanette in 1968 along with Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell at Manny's in New York when 18 and after talking to them learn of the Cake's gig at the Salvation. I was dumbfound when while the girls where singing Jeanette was the only one not dancing or was seldom moving. I found out years later after the poor girl died that she had epilepsy. I would also add as the young person claiming to be the child of Jeanette shame on you.

[@Khultan]

I'm interested.

[@EliWurth]

This was their schtick. Barb and Eleanor dancing while Jeannette stood there aloof. If you watch any of their other live performances, it's the same thing.

[@dang2443]

Well it is still working all these decades later. Everybody who watches this notices that and talks about it.

[@SummerOddyssey]

Do any of you have info of the members of the cake?

[@dfontana59]

Eleanor the blonde passed away in 2016, the one on the let died in 1982.I'm not sure ofthe status of Barbara. Eleanor I befriended around 1989

[@Nuez296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe4eZ-dht2WqpY You can have him Instrumental 😀👍

[@SuzSeptember]

the medication didnt make her a zombie..she took medication for seizures....in some epileptic people sudden movements can send them into a horrible seizure..which is why she never danced or moved around much..

[@atlasking6110]

Fake News. Barbara made it very clear in later years that it was all part of the act, to get attention.

[@colujomes]

"While Barbara and Eleanor skated, dipped and weaved to the rhythm, Jeanette stood stock still to their left, looking detached and aloof, holding her microphone down by her waist. When she did finally raise it to her mouth, she purposefully lip-synched the words rather than sing them. Everyone assumed it was just part of their shtick. “Yeah, that was her gimmick,’ agrees Rodney Bingenheimer. Barbara recalls Greene and Stone also saying, “Yeah, it’s different. Keep it!” But Chelsea thinks there was another reason. “Everybody said, “Why does she just stand there?’ Most of the time Greene and Stone would have her mic turned off because she couldn’t sing R&B. She felt left out." (dangerousminds.net/comments/the_cake_a_real_life_beyond_the_valley_of_the_dolls2 )

[@raceyboy]

They were trippin' balls

[@mcleanartists]

Jimi's girl Jeannette in green

[@cshargeit]

she was a stone fox.

[@smcoscis]

so the two dancing like they have epilepsy aren't the ones with epilepsy?

[@sisgaia]

I don't recall this song, but it sounds very much like "He Don't Love You" (which was admittedly the later song).

[@dudzick9]

In 1960, the song (“He Don’t Love You”) was released as “He Will Break Your Heart.” There is definitely a strong similarity to this song by the Cake. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXLSmaqGdquHgs0

[@TVdudee]

Your own religion

[@cynthiam2408]

i cant

[@johanpool9946]

Is the girl in green a female variant of Syd Barrett?

[@stonedsoulpicnic]

That was exactly what I'm thinking while watching this

[@Khultan]

@SylviaSayit3Times Sorry, but it's true. And aside from this fact, you're only making up nstuff. Typical.

[@SylviaSayit3Times]

what the hell was wrong with Miss On the Left?

[@daevarthurford3529]

spoiled by distorted sound

[@johnny07652]

The first girl was so stagefright that she couldn't move and barely sing!!!!

[@iluvnuggets]

Maybe they should've called this group the Train Wrecks!

[@dang2443]

Well they made it on TV, and you're talking about them a half-century later.

[@greatbyrondo]

@@dang2443 ....Yes, that's one of the weird and random features of the net...

[@dfontana59]

have some respect for the deceased, you may not like them and as I personally knew Eleanor later on in life around 1989 as a matter of fact.. they were talented and ahead of their time. my friend passed away in 2016 and in my next trip to NYC may try and find where she is buried to say goodbye to her a final time

[@noddyholder79]

Endearingly sloppy performance!

[@harryknackers7892]

Poor Jeanette - she was afraid of having a seizure.

[@Nuez296]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe4eZ-dht2WqpY You can have him Instrumental 😀👍

[@ailurophile17]

Worst cover version ever! Roy Hamilton is turning over in his grave!

[@georgestirling1832]

brilliant,want more,please.