LaBelle - Nightbirds - Beacon Theater 02/26/09 video free download

Tanya Lake

that was beautiful. I never knew until now that this song was about Janis Joplin, who I have never listened to like that but, alos heard through other singers that she (Janis Joplin) was good.That's how you can tell that all three of these women were feeling the song because it was for Janis Joplin!!! Now i get it.And those women STILL sound so beautiful as if they're voice never "aged". You can tell that they take care of their bodies. That's how they can belt them notes and hold them. Good God!!!It's amazing to me how they still have those voices from when they were younger and just brings you right back in the day when they first sang/performed this song before i was even born, and i'm 35 years old. that is crazy. they got some lungs!!!

sweetpidi

This is my absolute favorite song...ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

James Kristoff

A song written for Janis Joplin by Nona Hendryx. Beautiful song for a fantastic singer who left too soon. “Nightbird” (a tender tribute to Janis Joplin, apparently) and the frankly unbelievable, sexually charged “You Turn Me On.”

RunawayTrane

Nona Hendryx looks fantastic

RunawayTrane

@DollPjTay I don't see it

LutherLaBelle

I looooooooooooooooove this song and look at them legs, shoes, outfit MAKES NO SENSE lol---she only touchwn to feel her wings again!!! YES BABY!!es do

LutherLaBelle

I looooooooooooooooove this song and look at them legs, shoes, outfit MAKES NO SENSE lol---she only touches down to feel her wings again!!! YES BABY!!

MotownMaster

Did they do any Bluebelles songs?

bemaniac2

patti's voice has actually gotten better with age. I dont understand how that is possible!

Noodleydoo

@iboudiop Man I am just so happy to have heard these women do this song again that I don't even care. This is one of Nona's greatest songs. Captures Janis Joplin's live-for-today, to-hell-with-tomorrow essence perfectly.

iboudiop

Great to hear them sing this. Wish they should sing this song againt, next time with a electronic keyboard, a rock band, and patti not singing in a falsetto throughout. What do you think my fair doodleynoo ;-)

DollPjTay

@DollPjTay if you type in Labelle Nightbirds. It's the second video that comes up under mine by LaBelleOfTheBall.

Ina Jordan

@DollPjTay caint find it....:(

prjr1973

I love every song by this legendary group, BUT, "NightBirds" is THE most beautiful song of their repertoire! This song and performance gives me goosebumps! LADIES!!! We MISS you!!!! Come Back!!!

DollPjTay

@Wantable the orginal is posted here on youtube.

Ina Jordan

a timeless classic...one of my theme songs..just AWE!!... wish someone would also post the orig...they looked so awsum there..;)

Dee1108

This is actually one of my favorite LABELLE songs. i was 5 when i first heard it, 11 when i really listened to the lyrics...the vocals are off the chain then and now...

Noodleydoo

You're welcome--but I just realized I made a mistake. The correct lyric is "leaving bits and pieces in her wake..."

tlw11217

this is such a beautiful song that Nona wrote back in the 70s. it is such ashame this group never got a grammy award back then, and that Nona got the acclaim she deserves even to this day.

Noodleydoo

And yesterday's a thought, unwillingly caught, in a mind where there's nothing to gain she feeds the fire for the flame Nightbird flies not by the light of the moon Nightbird flies not by the light of the moon

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