The Patti LaBelle Show

Patti LaBelle's first TV special from 1985! Guests include Luther Vandross, Amy Grant, Cyndi Lauper, and Bill Cosby!

[@eigilvesti]

I was there in person- left side front- IT WAS AMAZING!-

[@tbee1575]

OH WOW!!! What a blessing!!!!

[@sanantonio210x]

NEVER take this down please!

[@idiosyncraticparadise1655]

Patti is a ROCK STAR !!!!! Rock & blues that voice , her performance.. everything!!!!!!!!

[@i_am_legend7827]

I finally get to witness this in it’s entirety! Patti was so deserving of this special! From the costumes to the theatrics just amazing!

[@nesq4104]

This special on it's own proves Patti is supreme. This will shut any hater down.

[@mgmbacklot]

I watched this the night if first aired.. had it on tape. and watched it 100 times.. thank you.. thank you for posting this gem...

[@pattifanalwayz]

+Gary DeVaughn so did I.I was 12

[@iluvrachellef]

@@pattifanalwayz Wow I was 17. 1985 is one of my favorite years. I attended my 2nd concert that year and also left home for the first time over the Summer and worked my first job.

[@glennlaroche1524]

Took the words right outta my mouth--er, keyboard, I guess.....

[@1549t3]

@@iluvrachellef I was 11 and remembered watching this with my mom on new years eve.

[@1549t3]

Glad I found this. My mom passed 12 yrs ago and this is one of the best memories I have with her. Thank you for sharing this.

[@mateomelendez3733]

While at my parents' home. I vividly remember watching this special program on NBC. This has been called Patti's first television special. I hope that means another is to come. Ms. Patti is a consumate professional and deserves another. Our planet needs more good music!

[@bellakeshialynn]

Too bad I wasn't born until 1986, thank goodness for KZbin so I can see Miss Patti's TV special from 1985!! This is a gem!!! 💗💗💕💕💖💖

[@markasflood8196]

It's Usually Shown on GetTV

[@CarrieHoward-gh4sc]

I'm going to sleep tonight pàttilabelle Carrie Lucille Howard ❤😂😂🎉🎉🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮😅😅😅😅 good luck good lunch good love good happy good hope good heart pàttilabelle carrrehowardloveyoupat tilabelle❤❤❤❤❤❤❤m❤m❤m❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.❤❤.❤❤❤❤❤❤.❤.❤.❤.❤❤

[@CarrieHoward-gh4sc]

Pàttilabelle Carrie Lucille Howard love you too live you too? Like you too care about you

[@CarrieHoward-gh4sc]

Miss you too pàttilabelle Carrie Lucille Howard love you like you live you miss you Carrie pàttilabelle good smile

[@CarrieHoward-gh4sc]

Kiss me pàttilabelle love you miss you Carrie Lucille Howard ❤😂🎉🎉😢😢😢😢😮😮😅😅😅😅😅❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@simplymj9032]

She ate "Imagine" turned it into a bomb and threw it on our faces woohhh 👑💖

[@shortyt9060]

Bring my drag back when u get a chance lmbo….love love Ms.Patti

[@candy661980]

I remember the day this came on right after The Cosby Show my mother went and bought a brand new VCR just so that we could record it and we watched it almost every Saturday for at least 4 years.

[@iluvrachellef]

WOW!!!!! Good old days. I hope you still have your folks,mine are gone 😪💔🖤

[@markasflood8196]

Wow! Amazing

[@moniquebrown7778]

Ms. Patti Patti🌷💕makes things sound so much better, "time after time" I love Ms. Patti Labelle like I know her😉👌🏿

[@russeluc]

'Don't you go nowhere with my coat honey!' LOL. Patti u know it!

[@pattifanalwayz]

russell you love some patti

[@russeluc]

pattifanalwayz i do!

[@USNAVDC]

I saw in interview where she said she took off a mink coat and gave it to a guy to hold for her, and at the end of the show he ran with it. I think it was in Las Vegas. :-) Patti LaBelle is a National Treasure!

[@CuirPhotodotNet]

....i remember this special like it was last night...BRILLIANT....so UNCUT....so FIERCE....and very AFRICAN....

[@angeluvsvid]

I love these classic tv specials shows

[@tonimorgan5154]

I LOVE ME SOME PATTIE LABELLE

[@iluvrachellef]

I know your comment was years ago but it's PATTI.

[@devinsummer3022]

Patti + Cyndi = EPIC

[@annamonrose7423]

THIS show =#Awesome💜✌ Love#Imagine-Rainbow &Luther-Amy-Cyndi. & How#WeAllUsed 2 #JustGetAlong-Finally. Just 2Bcome DividedAgain. I Like This Way better. 🎶💜✌💜U #Patti Labelle💜🎶💙🌹

[@otter4771]

Damn, Born In the USA and Imagine. Blown away.

[@creswellformey7654]

God bless you for this post!!!! Haven't seen it since it aired!!!!

[@alexlundell2947]

Cyndi Lauper is a force to be reckoned with!

[@9175rock]

😂

[@lorebay2593]

I don’t know about all that, but she did well.

[@shirlepps4636]

Goose Bumps Baby!!!!!!

[@jmc305jc]

Thank you who every post this :)

[@falangja17]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELATEDLY (May TO OUR WONDERFULLY OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL GOD MOTHER OF SOUL MISS PATTI LABELLE! 😍🌹MUCH LUV 2 U MAMA P!😘

[@barbaralee6300]

u go girl u go. and u go and u go girl i love you 💖

[@Misskelli]

R e a l T a l e n t....this is, wat I call entertainment....go patti

[@dwaynewardell8024]

November 28, 1985 -- Thanksgiving '85

[@ChagoWilson]

Happy 78th Life Anniversary Of Life May 24, 2022 Patricia Louise Holte Edwards Miss Patti LaBelle

[@sharkeisha2225]

Patti labelle started the weird hair and clothing in which lady Gaga took it in and started that trend again

[@nickelwindow538]

Actually labele her group did

[@9175rock]

🤔

[@MHBarnhill]

years later she said she preferred the simple looks but did it for her fans

[@markasflood124]

Did this air on Thusday after The Cosby Show on NBC.

[@LittleJ1576]

Cyndi Lauper is good, but saying she almost took the show is a little far fetched. Haha, but Patti never fails to sing you under a bench somewhere! Her voice is just so Powerful...Amazing!!!

[@KevinETaylor]

AND Patti LOVES/LIVES for a great duet partner. PATTI will give you room to sing and leave you room to shine WHEN YOU ARE SINGING!

[@DW721]

LMAO! She straight up DEMOLISHED Amy Grant.

[@MsSdupree1]

DW721 OMG!!! yesssssssssssssss lol

[@simistop3964]

How? U both are silly

[@mrwilliams_4627]

Chris Green I agree

[@mrwilliams_4627]

Chris Green I've never seen her in concert but I really want too

[@doubleolove]

That Amy Grant duet was so awkward. She didn't know what to do but shake her shoulders!

[@Johnmag1976]

Never saw or heard of vain or pretentious Divas..they are all classy,smart and humble inspite of their huge talent

[@karmencummings5463]

WAIT...I DIDN'T KNOW SHE HAD A SHOW!!!!!!!!

[@Worme95]

47:53 major understatement. LOL

[@xavierdallenmusicuniverse6304]

47:25 - 47:32 - 47:38 wow Queen Patti walked those steps yet I can still hear her singing

[@philroyce1144]

Poor us : Now, We got Nicki, Beyoncé and Cardi B. Look What our Grand parents got ? PATTI, CINDY' ARETHA

[@tbee1575]

Agreed.

[@lisaaugustin5400]

Patti was HOT in that gold dress !!! I love the way she sings hear the bells, and over the rainbow, at the end,

[@Worme95]

I don't remember this. Did it come on more than once or is this the only episode?

[@doubleolove]

It is actually reairing tomorrow night on get TV at 9pm and 11pm

[@9175rock]

Just aured again tonight.

[@iluvmyboba]

Someone please tell me what song is Patti singing @ 42:25? She was on FIRE.

[@PistolPackinGrandpa]

Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles down the aisle

[@pattifanalwayz]

Imagine

[@charlesjeffery3998]

I can sing my ass off, like I can blow, I grew up in the church, and every second month of the year, we get to pick someone, that we want to choose to do their songs, as a tribute to them, even though ain't nobody ever going to see it, at the most, I performed in front of 1500 people, you know especially when you grow up in the church, not for religious reasons like back then, I'm just saying like when we go on towards they're usually to cathedrals and things like that, and it's just not allowed us to start doing to our people, like it's no longer the devil's music, we can start off with gospel, talk about our tribute, why we chose the person we did, do their songs, songs that might be secular, but not disrespectful, and I chose Patti labelle, and I completely when you do somebody you want to do them right, my voice is more like stuck between Whitney Houston and Jennifer hudson, always had a big mouth a high voice, and on key, but when I did Patti LaBelle's music, I promise you, the next day, and doing some of the songs, my mouth felt as though it was stretched so large, but you could stay an entire microphone through it, and my vocal cords were even bruised for like a whole week, it's honestly so much easier, to do Fantasia than it is her, and I don't have that gravel pit, where you could screen, like I said I have more of a large falsetto voice, like I could hit Cissy Houston high note in the song Ain't no Way, without even practicing, and go all is low as I went to at the same time, and I've been hoarse before, but this was something totally different, and I got through myself, but I can't even tell you how drained I was, and how drunk like I said my mouth felt like I have busted something in it.

[@danellejones5556]

After -23:00 Looks like Amy got so caught up in Patti she couldn't even sing. Just look how she stares.

[@jemelwilliams1110]

44:48

[@jemelwilliams1110]

10:49

[@jemelwilliams4521]

30:10

[@jemelwilliams4521]

23:00

[@wellofcire]

1:30

[@medhi62640]

Moi juste je veux aidé mang

[@s.j.l.8252]

Cyndi Pauper and Amy CAN'T!!

[@otter4771]

Why is it a competition? I don't think any of them say that. Appreciate everyone's style

[@jaymorgan.]

Cyndi sounds terrible. Lol 😂

[@dky_1353]

No she did not!! Time to get your ear wax removed. 😂😂😂

[@jaymorgan.]

@@dky_1353 She definitely did. She needs to stick with pop music. She sounds good doing pop rock. She’s out her league especially next to Patti Belle.

[@tonimorgan5154]

cyndi lauper almost took the show from patti

[@lneka]

Chile boo she wish!

[@PLAYDIRTY1000]

You must be smoking that shit to make such a stupid comment about Cyndi almost taking the show. NO ONE EVER will share the stage with Patti and come close to taking the show. On Motown 25 special Diana Ross made the mistake giving Patti the mic. Patti stole the show and everyone knew to fall back.

[@tonimorgan9990]

p thomas first of all i do not smoke so you must smoke that shit to make such a stupid comment on what i said it my thoughts and i can say what ever the hell i want to

[@pattifanalwayz]

p thomas cyndi was hangan'

[@pattifanalwayz]

+toni morgan Two crazy divas

[@lesthebest3171]

This was a fabulous special. Patti never was one of those pretentious stars, because she always knew she was one if musics greatest singers even it took the world decades to acknowledge it. No ego she was never scared to collaborate with others and let them shine. One of the great Divas!

[@jemelwilliams4521]

38:45

[@TahariBlue]

Cindy and Patti's version of Time After Time was brilliant!!!! Cindy is an underrated singer and they way that Patti brilliantly colored her notes echoing her was just breath taking!

[@Noteworthy2024]

My most favorite part of this I never forgot it after 40 years lol

[@carriehoward2618]

P att ok y

[@carriehoward2618]

Love you too Carrie howardpattilabelle

[@sanantonio210x]

A CLINIC in R&B/Gospel singing.

[@hsbthree]

+Sid Brown You better say it.

[@igotyourback9175]

Chile, Luther and Patti singing together damn near gave me a heartattack! The soul, power, magic and chills was almost too much to bare!

[@harrystarks2118]

Q

[@jamesgentry2948]

Patti Labelle better wear that spider web dress!

[@pattifanalwayz]

OKAY!!!!!!

[@misterabby6310]

James Gentry 😂

[@thekingdom6990]

Letting you know she is black widow on the track coming to kill the vocals 👏🏾

[@swisschoklate736]

James Gentry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jareyn98]

Patti & Luther..........I mean is there really anything else left to say?!?!?

[@TonyMontana-vw8dj]

Patti singing "Imagine" paralyzes me. One of my favorite all time renditions. I love 💘 this woman. A Powerful, Pretty and Positive Person.

[@sanantonio210x]

And one of the best covers of Imagine you'll ever hear.

[@Darrick.DamitaJoBoy]

I love the way they did Time After Time.

[@pattifanalwayz]

DamitaJoBoy9 they killed it

[@kirk5487]

Come on with that Ms Ross pic, you know this show was a hot sweaty mess.

[@sharonb.robinson3325]

Two Powerhouses!!

[@bernardojunior2658]

I have never seen a vocalist holding her own with Patti as Cyndi did that night. Two great sopranos.

[@dky_1353]

I never knew Cyndi had those kind of pipes!!! Phew.........

[@derricksingleton4736]

Amen.. she held her own..

[@ChagoWilson]

Oh, but let's not overlook Luther Vandross. He & Patti did it up on "If Only For One Night"!

[@tomtalker2000]

Being a singer myself using Patti's "vocal style" as my template. I have to say that Cyndi SERIOUSLY held her own singing with her. Patti has such a POWERFUL voice there just isn't many singers out there that can gel with her especially during a duet. But i was VERY impressed with Cyndi's ability to do so. Very beautiful harmonization between the two divas.

[@charlesjeffery1155]

u r sooooooo right

[@pattifanalwayz]

Patti and Cyndi

[@nesq4104]

I saw Cyndi sing live with Patti maybe late 1990s or early 2000s. Yes her voice is strong and she can hold all her notes

[@williammurray9945]

Yall act like Cyndi can't sing or something. She's been great for decades, so I don't see how this is shocking, and she's a lyric soprano, she sings higher than Patti who is a dramatic soprano, the lowest soprano type.

[@BrianSummers-g6y]

​@@williammurray9945mezzo soprano have the lowest voice range in sopranos as in #jessenormen

[@AldenRDavis]

The Patti LaBelle Show (1985) is a outrageous TV special on NBC, it gotten so big back in 1985. I sure wish that Sid & Marty Krofft, the creators of H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville and Land of the Lost, they could've made it into a variety-hour show for Patti LaBelle, just like they did for Donny & Marie Osmond, the stars of the Brady Bunch, Pink Lady & Jeff, and Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters.

[@DefSquadFan]

Wrong complexion for back then.

[@latoyahaynes4866]

I'm extremely grateful for this video! I was able to watch it with my mom and cry happy tears of memories! Thank you!

[@pattifanalwayz]

+Latoya Haynes yall look good

[@PistolPackinGrandpa]

My God-Mom Patti LaBelle never does the same version of Lady Marmalade twice.

[@ericechols7638]

I thought momma Patti had, wide shoulder pads until, Amy Grant came out with her NFL Super Bowl shoulder pads. Lol!!!😅😂🤣

[@isaacortiz4617]

Lmao.😂😂😂

[@MaxBialystoclk515]

Great. Patti has been fantastic forever. This is a wonderful show. Remember it when it broadcasted. . Never aired again. Thank you, UTUBE. First saw her perform at PEP'S in Philly when she was LaBelle (the group). That was sixties. A True DIVA. Her and Lauper; the best.

[@MetalHockeyHead]

Max Bialystock you mean the Blue Belles first, right? Lol

[@cindyingram7299]

BTW...This Show..."The Patti School"😅 and I'm so missing 🎶🎵Luther's Beautiful Melodic voice🎵🎶😢

[@1549t3]

I remember watching this with my mom on New Year's eve! This was the best show ever!

[@nsimone4me]

I remember this show for 2 memorable moments, beside Miss Patti doing the damn thing...the duet with Luther and Cyndi Lauper. Boy, I hate that those never made it to the studio. As they say, it was done like that, for that moment, and that moment only. I was so blessed that I got to see it in this lifetime. #PattiFan4life

[@loveyu2778]

The days when artis had their own distinct sound..You knew who was singing..Today, unfortunately they all sound the same..

[@len1975]

Yes I agree. Now they all sound the same, like garbage!!!

[@tlw11217]

"don't you go no where with my coat honey"...only Patti.

[@juliusmaloney]

The woman is a Goddess!

[@mreynol1]

Patti killed Over the rainbow..my god!!!

[@Lawrence_619]

she is music royalty...you mention her name, and people are not just aware of who she is...but they understand why she's a living legend. Nobody sings like her...ask any professional singer out here, why no one sings like her, and they'll probably say "because they CANT sing like her".

[@KenTurnerSings]

I LOVE KASSIM for posting This!! A Flood Gate of Memories & tears flow while watching this. Especially since THIS particular style of performing is long gone... sadly, even for Patti. But She Still Is My FAVORITE Female Vocalist, EVER!!!

[@iluvmyboba]

Wow!!! Thanks for uploading this. I honestly thought I'd never see this again.

[@Juleslive2007]

Simply the best ever.....She won't get her just due until she's gone but trust me she made her mark....I love you Patti.

[@MetalHockeyHead]

Stephen Williams SHE CANNOT DIE!!!

[@markdrinkwater1508]

She's average at best, the voice is sharp and ugly in tone.

[@a.karatas953]

15:23 two extreme voices together... Cindy Lauper ist also an unbelievable singer.

[@DAMIAN512]

Never take this down please. Thank You.

[@isaacpowell1408]

This is the patty I fell in love with at the tender age of 10 in 1983

[@mark91345]

OH YES!!!! I remember this from the 80s

[@dtrn254]

Patti really gave Cyndi Lauper her wings that night...Patti put Cyndi on one and Cyndi felt it. Just like baking a cake, Patti stirred Cyndi all the way up...🎂🎈

[@shaneschoeppner2868]

Patti has amazing chemistry with all of these guest artists, but she doesn't need anyone's help to electrify an audience!

[@donaldmiller4643]

This lady is a true legend great live singer and entertainer

[@gracet3647]

hahah Amy looks so lost and frightened en confused!

[@otter4771]

Actually, Patti was a little off on the first song. Amy on the second. They both didn't know the songs all that well.

[@comptonjackson7073]

One powerful woman love you miss Patti

[@pat324631]

Thanks for posting always wanted to see this. I must have been to little when she had her show.

[@ebonyepps6732]

Patti & Luther DID THAT!!!!!! CHURCH!!!!!

[@netpoon07]

Speechless!

[@pattifanalwayz]

Mmiss Cyndi is hangin

[@briansummers843]

I'll be the first fan to say Patti LaBelle have pretty lips we talked about everything else 😂

[@staycegirl]

Thanks so much for posting this!!! I'm on this special!!! Wow! What memories!!!

[@ericlong9466]

Ok, was there a Patti puppet on this show?

[@patriciahamilton1731]

I watched this when it first aired on TV also, and watched it 100 times. I have always been a big fan of Cyndi Lauper, Patti Labelle, Luther Vandross. It was such a great show, I wonder there weren't more to follow. Thank you so much for uploading it. This is my 2nd time watching since I found it.

[@ericlthomassr724]

I saw this show when it came on TV. Totally awesome. Sing Patti.

[@torij1206]

This is another one I lost in the fire! God Bless who ever posted this!

[@len1975]

All I can say is that note and key change starting at 33:16 whew I love Patsy. I had the pleasure of breaking bread with her three times and seeing her in concert twice. She is my Philly native and auntie!!!