The Three Degrees - Everybody gets to go to the Moon - French Connection

I took this song from the Isolated Score Track of the Filmmakers Signature Series FRENCH CONNECTION Blu-ray.

[@happybiker1000]

Best thing the Three Degrees ever did. Sublime.

[@mrjasonwhite73]

This is one of my favorite scenes in the film.

[@stevenj2108]

It's just a pure classic movie that nearly never got made, Jason check out the documentary about it its real eye opener. Take care

[@lisadotdash]

Yeah, Popeye saying while eating peanuts, smiling like a cheshire cat, "That table's dirty."

[@njplr]

I remember quite well seeing this movie at the theater, and being utterly absorbed and engrossed in it, when this scene, in the Copacabana, came on. Immediately, I no longer cared about the plot. This INSANELY GOOD song, delivered with such wham and bam, changed my focus completely. Not sure I ever really returned to the story; all I thought about were these three girls and that incredible song. Which holds up to this day!😊

[@rsattahip]

This happy song represents the optimism in America in the 1960's and 70's.

[@andrewbrenneman7921]

Yes, bit it was used sarcastically I believe. While Armstrong was walking on the moon, life on the streets of NYC was raw.

[@robjackson5245]

Nah I think this song was fighting the white establishment. Dey were black after all.

[@jonathanree4524]

@@robjackson5245 the song was written by a white guy, Jimmy Webb

[@jonathanree4524]

How was america optimistic in the 1970s?

[@robjackson5245]

@@jonathanree4524 Nah I don't buy that

[@viralbuthow000]

"That table's definitely wrong". - Popeye Doyle

[@richardhunt304]

Taken from, in my opinion, the best film ever made !!!

[@sandwichbar8226]

Couldn't agree more!

[@stevenj2108]

Fantastic and they just did it live on set, now that's just pure talent. Thank you ladies 🇺🇸🇬🇧🧐

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

11 people are probably picking their feet in Poughkeepsie.

[@vinzelrato]

Or got booked by Popeye ; )

[@SolarRadioFM]

@@vinzelrato Whahahaha...good one !!!

[@juve96]

Hello fellow Canuck

[@danielalexander8588]

Top comment!

[@jmarcguy]

I saw this movie in the 80's & have been hooked ever since. Love this scene & this song. I never thought to listen to the isolated score before. Lol

[@stevenj2108]

I'm going to attempt to find my copy today because it beats the woke box ticking shit on the box tonight

[@robjackson5245]

@@stevenj2108 New woke crap I agree. Son, this shit slamz.

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

how many people would love to drive a 1971 Ford LTD while listening to this song?

[@rsattahip]

Bender Rodriguez If America was still the country it was in 1971 I would not be living in Thailand. We were once a great country.

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

what that has to do with my comment?

[@jxyz4847]

My first car was a 1971 LTD ragtop. Wish I still had it!

[@KevinStriker]

It has to be a powder blue LTD with a strawhat on the back dash.

[@rsattahip]

The yellow car is a 71 LTD, the blue one I believe a 68 Ford Galaxie.

[@emperorclovis8348]

my all time favorite movie.

[@det3134]

+emperor clovis - A great one for sure.

[@emperorclovis8348]

+DET313 i can watch this movie 2 or 3x a day seriously.

[@vinzelrato]

I'm Proud to say I'm French ; )

[@robjackson5245]

"The French Connection" and being a true black OG bought me to this sub-Saharan Episcopal choir globetrottin classic! Deez waz queenz

[@tripsadelica]

Best version with the full brass accompaniment. I wish there was a cleaner, high treble version of this exact track.

[@robjackson5245]

Word...

[@jay45ecp76]

Visual and auditory memory melting into one sublime and iconic sensation...great movie, great music.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

You know what that means?! Goddammit!!! All winter long I gotta hear him gripe about his bowling score.

[@robjackson5245]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That shit makes me laugh all the time, son. City of Brooklyn, two angry cops, and one lying sheisty-ass like that nigga they chased, son. If they were from Brooklyn, than this is a Brooklyn movie, son XD, not a New York City one. Yes Brooklyn is a different city from New York. OK nevermind, Popeye lived by the Manhattan Bridge in New York City, not Brooklyn but dat was pretty close son. Russo may have been from Brooklyn doe. XD

[@thomasthomas2418]

"Stand up there, noddy" "Get that hair done before Saturday." "We're going now, goodbye!"

[@speeta]

ANGIE BOCA (applauding) "More! More!"

[@dieter6219]

Boca.B.O.C.A.

[@Brecconable]

@@dieter6219 Picked up on suspicion of armed robbery.

[@det3134]

Popeye "let's give him a tail...." Cloudy "why - you want to play 'hide the salami' with his old lady ?" Popeye "Yeah !"

[@stevenj2108]

And the best bit the real popeye was in the movie, he played their boss

[@jmulvey371]

Written by Jimmy Webb. How was this not released as a single? Boggles my mind to this day.

[@andrewmueller9986]

Outstanding song writer

[@HarrisO.R8]

What a great subtle way to let people watching the movie know that the true story took place circa 67'-68.

[@thomasthomas2418]

"I wouldn't be infringing on your coffee break, Simonsen, If I thought it was a nickle-and-dimer!"

[@dixiedale6779]

"I'm sitting on Frog 1."

[@sagaponek]

Great tune...would have loved to be there with Sal and company (esp. since he was comping all the drinks).

[@det3134]

Popeye "that group is all wrong...."

[@awakeatnight1]

I thought we came in here to buy me a drink.

[@awakeatnight1]

That's that policy guy from Queens.

[@robjackson5245]

Russo: "He could have been white." Doyle: "Never trust anyone." XD That line is killer, even if you can't stand Doyle. XD

[@fabt612]

What a song!!!

[@ToddBrittain1963]

I dig the bass line on this

[@nickrex1891]

I'm relatively positive that this is a Don Ellis arrangement and his band playing as backup for the Three Degrees considering he did the music for the film and the voice at the beginning sounds a lot like him.

[@StooGP]

+Nick Rex I agree, it definitely sounds like him in the beginning. And more than likely this is the Tears of Joy band then, which also played on the rest of the soundtrack and was Ellis' orchestra for much of the early 1970s and recorded a live album for Columbia called Tears of Joy around the time of this recording in 1971 in San Francisco. (as you may have already known)

[@thomasthomas2418]

Some of the happiest music EVAH!

[@ArmyJames]

“Anybody want a milkshake?”

[@ELHIPPO]

Ohh fuck ..

[@robjackson5245]

"Alright shut up... SHUT UP!"

[@robjackson5245]

The Three Degrees - possibly the most majestic of brass sub-Saharan Episcopal choir brass artists. Son. These gurls could sing. I feel like I'm in sub-Saharia.

[@joek5784]

How come they never released this on a 45RPM record bac in '71? Very great song - would have sold well.

[@toml.1408]

Great song. Saw the movie in theaters at time of release, just to see the car chase. I enjoy the movie much better years later.

[@THX-kw2jh]

French Connection 1971

[@peterschleger]

Leslie Uggams does this well. Came on and I fell off the chair. Thanks for posting this. And the dialogue below. I saw this in NY and actually drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to catch it again. Way back when.

[@StooGP]

Those brassy exclamations that open the song and reprise a bit during the song are in 7 time, which was a staple of Don Ellis' time signature repertoire. The verses are standard 4/4 (or 8/4) But that tricky 7 on those brass arrangements also makes more to the claim that this was a Don Ellis project, as I mentioned earlier here and someone else did as well. .

[@tomshea8382]

The original Thelma Houston cut also has the 7 bars. So Webb wrote it that way originally. I also thought it was a Don Ellis tune because of that. But no.

[@makeit7579]

" You're having fun ain't you ? "

[@knockshinnoch1950]

They were the hottest girl group on the planet when they appeared in the movie, overtaking the Supremes who had been THE top group through he 60s and early 70s

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

and yet you couldn't see them at night...

[@humbleharry3871]

I think the Three Degrees were prettier and had tighter harmonies than the Supremes, but none of them had the natural star wattage that Diana Ross possessed, not even Sheila Ferguson, who was incredibly beautiful, with a flashy, stage presence and effervescent personality. Ross was a solo act by the time the Three Degrees came into their own in the early '70s, so the Supremes were already on the descent without Ross.

[@mistahoward1898]

The standard for vocalists through the 70s.

[@mistahoward1898]

@@humbleharry3871 Their harmonies were better, their choreography were better too.

[@lookfor125]

The most underrated female group of all time..They had it all and more!!

[@keithskillen8360]

Great song ever seen

[@robjackson5245]

Rodney Dangerfield was this type even more to that extreme. He was equal opportunity humor.

[@goback3spaces]

Frog One is in that room.

[@bigshiro]

thankyou!! iwas looking for this!!

[@goldenvanilla]

Shiro Ishikawa you are welcome :D

[@ourcoloredpast1766]

Technology has a lot to answer for. Time was when these gals had to be on perfect pitch, and at speed, dancing and smiling at the same time. Not only that, when they left the stage every one of the audience felt like they just made a new best friend. Now, in celebrity shows, the auto-tune makes anyone with an ego bigger than their abilities able to be the next big thing, their stage personas carefully overridden by the "judges" who are actually the ones motivating the audience. You can be a star without having to do much work at all. The old saying "There are two kinds of people - those who do the work and those who take the credit."

[@robjackson5245]

Blame "American Idol" but specifically Paula Abdul and to a lesser extent Randy Jackson. Simon Cowell is the only one who still produces good singers. He's firm. And thank Emma Thompson there's still good singers and talent and actors in Hollywood. They're both no-nonsense.

[@steve2474]

If I'm not mistaken, THE FRENCH CONNECTION won best picture for 1971 beating out FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, & NICHOLAS & ALEXANDRA- all great films.

[@30secondsovertokyo]

Beating the godfather!

[@robjackson5245]

"The French Connection" was the best one with all due respect to "Fiddler on the Roof."

[@steve2474]

How many times have I been downhearted looked up and see him smiling like a shiny dime and hoped that he would stay and tell me why he was so happy if he had the time oh I wish there was a way to race him catch a flying horse and chase him everybody’s going to the moon everybody’s going in a weird white suit it’s customary songs like this use a word like spoon by the light of the silvery take a flight to the silvery you know everybody’s going to the moon how many times while looking down has he heard us singing songs he wondered who we were and envied us because the lady in the moon is gone and now he misses her and then he wondered to himself now why is it we so seldom pay a visit everybody gets to go to the moon everybody’s got to go in a weird white suit now it’s customary songs like this use a month like june by the light of the silvery take a flight to the silvery you know everybody’s going to the moon (spoken) now don’t you think it’s a miracle that we’re the generation that’s going to one day populate the moon and that’s going to be fun and it’s got to make you glad to be alive yes it’s got to make you proud to be alive everybody’s going to the moon everybody’s going to the moon well how many times have I heard a cynic say I was a fool to try and reach for him or heard a dreamer say ‘the skies the limit’ and just had to laugh at each for him oh I suppose the point is only that in orbit is no longer lonely everybody’s going to go to the moon everybody’s going in a weird white suit now it’s customary songs like this use a word like spoon by the light of the silvery take a flight to the silvery everybody’s going to the moon

[@goldenvanilla]

Thanx for posting the lyrics

[@dieter6219]

@@goldenvanilla agreed. Didnt understand any sense TiII now

[@superblue2983]

"French Connection " (1971) NYC 1971 :-) ;-)

[@to6696]

Thank you for uploading this greatest version!! I wonder where you got this treasure.

[@goldenvanilla]

I took this song from the Isolated Score Track of the Filmmakers Signature Series FRENCH CONNECTION Blu-ray.

[@trickstick84]

"That table is WRONG ..."

[@Davemoser75]

Top clip!

[@peterschleger]

And a shout out to Joel Weinstock.

[@daveblanchard5064]

Popeye and Buddy Russo--if it's their theme music, can't beat it

[@tripsadelica]

Written at a time when we were all optimistic after the first moon landing. We all thought that everybody would, eventually, go to the moon. Then the world f'ed up, NASA was cut to shreds and no one else went to the moon after Apollo.

[@trevmac8362]

*Come On Irv*

[@19LondBuch72]

Irv " I taken the car apart, everything except the rocker panels" Popeye "Come on Irv ! What the hell are those ?"

[@yaphettbanks4936]

Wrong scene

[@nevittwoods1730]

wait, I took everything outa that car except the rocker pannels

[@dannyshewan4447]

Hell I thought I was the only one who appreciated irv, I guess not

[@makeit7579]

Jimmys gotta be right.The car's still 120 lbs over weight.

[@sandwichbar8226]

50 years. *FIFTY*

[@peterschleger]

That table smells wrong.

[@robjackson5245]

Popeye Doyle, perfecting equal-opportunity humor that "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating "South Park" could only try (but never be), since 1971 (since he was born in 1930). OK, borderline. That's what makes this better than self-righteous "Home Alone" or "Bring it On" (2000). UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship and I know this movie aired on UPN (which was more popular than The WB) and New York/Brooklyn's WWOR (before, during, and post-UPN [although I'm reviving it and creating WB, a real Warner Bros. network, with no "The" before "WB,' no frog, no Tribune, no "dubba," "dubba," "dubba"]). I love how he pissed on everyone even his partner. No respect.

[@matthewbulger6814]

What Street Was It In New York City Where The Chez Nightclub Scene In The 1971 Film "The French Connection "Filmed?

[@tomshea8382]

According to Wikipedia that was the Copacabana, which was on 60th St at that time.

[@gecobrarrett4532]

There’s Gene Hackman coming to kick your ass.

[@robjackson5245]

Gangsta

[@pavlistarvmterramater3579]

Popeye Doyle

[@d.avallone466]

Eddie BULLETS Egan - RIP

[@robjackson5245]

UPN/Warner Bros./WB shit son!

[@me-lq7go]

THE BEST SCENE IN THIS CORNY MOVIE!!

[@ChipWhitingtonIII]

Your mother is corny..... in the rear.

[@30secondsovertokyo]

for sure the movie is corny, the endscene: frog one was in that room.... a propos: your name is corny too!

[@deepood6392]

In the film it relates to people getting high

[@30secondsovertokyo]

that should be easy to see

[@fallingdownlessons]

What album is this on? Evidently not the French Connection soundtrack.

[@goldenvanilla]

+fallingdownlessons Ripped from the Isolated Score Track of the Filmmakers Signature Series Blu-ray

[@rsattahip]

fallingdownlessons Download it, there's plenty of software that will convert this to mp3.

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

All right, Popeye's here!

[@peteralainszpiriev4750]

Man on the big cheese?

[@robjackson5245]

Question was this released in 1970 or 1971, when the movie came out? This feels like it was made a year before the movie. This set the way for Blaxploitation, son. Beast shit.

[@goldenvanilla]

The filming in and around Manhattan took place from November 1970 to March 1971. That should be the time the song was produced. As far as I know that version was never officially released. The Film was released in US cinemas on October, 7th 1971. The song was originally written by Jimmy Webb and according to a source on Discogs.com first released as "A Special Release for Programming During THE APOLLO 11 MISSION 1969 in a version sung by Thelma Houston. Thelma Houson is most known for here version of Don't leave me this way.