LaBelle, Patti - What Can I Do For You Lyrics

The breakdown on this song and Patti's voice does me in . What-what-wha-wha-wha-wha-what

And still true today and always.

I was fortunate to grow up in the right era ! The wide range of music was so intense, it was impossible to digest it all. And I tried to digest every bit of it.

Those vocals!!! Oh my, oh my!!!!

One of my favorites by Labelle from their debut album in 74 trying to raise our social consciences.

Yesssssssssssssssssss love love love LABELLE. These lovely Queens are from another planet! YouTube is the closest thing I've got to time travel. I also hear a slight inflection of a Bob Marley song in this.

Sheer genius in the annals of music.

I Just Landed back on Earth!! PEOPLE need to LIVE NOT EXIST...

I lived it times were changing 70s coming into a new age we were banging you had to live it.

No no no oh yea😋🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵.

STILL LISTENING IN 2019 !

This song is the timeless TRUTH!!!! Thank you LaBelle for this classic!!!

I love love love this song!!! Let's stop fighting and become sis and bros... Wow....To think this song came out when I was just a toddler and now I'm almost 50 and resonate with these powerful lyrics today is just..Wow...We need power, we need peace I'm sure that you will all agree... LaBelle rocks!!

Musical arrangements sounds backwards..🤔great notes=tones .

Ahhh ha

Love it 2019!

I have always loved this song.. They need to reunite.cause this is a powerhouse of the Totall PACKAGE my God I saw some old live concerts stupendous!!

From 1974 - 2019! Still bumping this Jam From the Divas far ahead of the rest! LABELLE!!!

Great Song!!!!

This song still sounds good in 2019

Finally found it, good shit

These Ladies right here......Great message here

I was a little boy when this song came out

LOVE THIS GREAT SONG THE HARMONIES!

I love this song since I first heard it in 1975. The bass line is so nasty, And those chicks no they can really sang.

IF YOU THINK YOU CAN SING LIKE THIS HIT ME UP. 7THM PRODUCTIONS @GMAIL.COM

We were Spacers before space was the Place.🚀🚄🚅🚁🚢🚙😁

If I was a major singing group I would remake this song asap! This song is timeless and was waaaay ahead of it's time.

I love my 70"s music because always understood the messages in the music even as a young girl!!! Music is my Life..

one of my favorite albums of all time...

Pattie, Sarah, and Nona sisters of Philly soul.

My all time favorite Labelle song. They killed it. SANG!

I grew up on this awesomeness!😃

Nona Hendryx wrote the hell outta that song.

Hey Vanessa hope you are well. Just in case your ever asked on who wants to be a millionaire lol. Nona didn't write this one. She did write many for the group tho. Edward Batts and James Ellison. Wrote this one. Now get then Millions😉

this shit right here will give you the holy ghost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

most def my all time favorite disco song,,i also remember paying 90.00 for a 12 inch at Vinalmania

Bring this music back,

People want truth it's hard to live without Love Love Love Say Yeah Say Yeah

Don't make no sense for somebody to be this fierce and talented.

At the Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan - 1975, They brought the house down with this song. It felt like the energy was flowing from the stage, melding with the audience and blasting through the doors and out into the street. Magical moment.

xfunkster "My Man", Detroit, born and bread. I no longer live in Detroit, I never stop saying Detroit is my HOME, whenever I'm ask where your from, Good or Bad I come with the reputation. Detroit will for ever pull at my heart strings.

Of My Life, This Is The Song That Keeps Me Living Today

It was too too much!~~~~

After this song was played....it was time to go.....UNLESS....something just as powerful come behind it.....every city I've visited...would take you on a rocket fuel experience with this song: DC CLUB HOUSE....PHILLY: CATCOMBS:  CHICAGO: THE OLD POWER PLANT....LOS ANGELES: THE CATCH.....BMORE: THE PARADOX.....NYC: THE GARAGE.....

People want truth
Or nothing at all
People want sincerity
And nothing false
People need happiness as land needs rain from above
We need rain-we need life-we need love

Most people find it so hard to live
Without love, love, love
To live without love, love, love
Oh yeah-oh yeah

People want to live
Not merely exist
People want to enjoy
Not suffer and fear
People need understanding
Not impatience nor confusion
Oh, I wonder, should we hate
Those who present us disillusion
They talk about love, love, love
And they lie about love, love, love
They talk about love, love, love
Oh yeah-oh yeah

We need power, we need power
And we need peace, peace, peace, peace
I think we all agree
Let's stop fighting, let's stop fighting
And become sis and bro, 'sis and bro'
Sis and bro', sis and bro'
And show it's not too late to love, love, love
What can i do for you? What can you do for me?

What is it about this song???? The music itself & vocals do something to me I can't put in words. I was raised in the Pentecostal church so I can say it definitely hits me in my spirit deeply. Somehow it makes me tearful and yet & it makes me want to dance dance dance.

think I was posse to be born in 70s

Even as a teen, I was stopped, motionless when this song was played. The lyrics, vocals, music; outstanding!

Read these lyrics, true in my life, but true for our times. Indeed ahead of their time.

People want truth
Or nothing at all
People want sincerity
And nothing false
People need happiness as land needs rain from above
We need rain-we need life-we need love

Most people find it so hard to live
Without love, love, love
To live without love, love, love
Oh yeah-oh yeah

People want to live
Not merely exist
People want to enjoy
Not suffer and fear
People need understanding
Not impatience nor confusion
Oh, I wonder, should we hate
Those who present us disillusion
They talk about love, love, love
And they lie about love, love, love
They talk about love, love, love
Oh yeah-oh yeah

We need power, we need power
And we need peace, peace, peace, peace
I think we all agree
Let's stop fighting, let's stop fighting
And become sis and bro, 'sis and bro'
Sis and bro', sis and bro'
And show it's not too late to love, love, love
What can i do for you? What can you do for me?

AMEN!! The Black Soul & Fuck Female Vocal Group Of Women Powerful Movement. ❤❤❤.

A great will always be a "GREAT" song. Until the end of time......

Ms Patty BABY...oh yesss

Reminds me of so much, some FAMILY gone but not forgotten.... Nona Hendryx blowing it out with Ms. Patti just the BESTTTTTTTTT

spirit your right Stephen

Whoooo??? LadyGaGa ? Little Sista' She will Never have ANYTHING,ANYTHING, U hEAR ME ANYTHAAAAANG on LA'BELLE !!!

This is what I call a
total package hit:
The right voices
The right sound
The right words
The right intro
The right everything.

THE TEAR DOWN

Love, Love, Love!!!

My jam!!!

Danced in NYC w/ my best bud Marcellus..Miss him so much..this is the best of LaBelle. Does anyone know what the off-beat drum line is in this song? It was soo innovative and only the best bands ever use it. Thanks..would appreciate any feedback.

Labelle is the shit!

Still rocking this in 2017!!! Love, love, love!

This album ROCKED !!! Timeless!!!

THIS A SONG IS FOR OUR TIME !!! TODAY!!!!!!!

"People want to live, not merely exist. People want to enjoy, not suffer and fear. People need understanding, not impatience or confusion. But I wonder should we hate those who present us with illusions, talking about LOVE. LOVE, LOVE..."
Speak Sisters!!!

AMEN!! They Sing For Women Rights & Revolution!! The Girl Group Of Black Rock 🎸!! Fuck And Black Soul As Well.

Wow, have not heard this song in years. It was a kick ass song. Those beautiful ladies with great voices blowing out those vibes just made you want to get up and groove to the sounds. Great music and those voices, nothing could be better..Brings back my time I spent in NYC....Peace and Love....

Seriously got my grand daughter listening to this... commands respect.
Commands you to groove, move and try to holler the same way Patti does..
The zans memories brought me here.....

I had ALMOST forgotten about this classic!! Wow!! It takes you THERE!! You can't help but get up and dance uncontrollably (that's called freestyle)!!

I remember hearing this at the Garage in NYC, Larry loved this track and would weave his magical audio web of sound around the entire dance floor wipping us in to a frenzy. For me It was a religious, spirit drenched experience, the crowd stomped, clapped ( there was always some one with a tamborine ) and jumped up and down on the wooden floor, till it felt like it was going to give way!! Patty, Nona and Sarah vocals summoned an powerful energy into the space and the crowd was caught up in a joyful experience!!

Yes baby, I use to live in that place on King St. Those was the days

Stephen Hardy

Amen! I was there🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Stephen Hardy Don’t forget they whistles blowing!

OM Goodness, I saw them there as well!!! Just as you described it !!  I LOVED the Garage! We NEVER left before sunrise!!!

What can you do for me:

2019 still sounds good!

Work it, mamas! I LOVE those costumes...

This song takes me back to high school, just makes me dance. Almost like having church

Kick ass song. Patti does it now soft and soulful now with just a piano accompaniment. Stunning!

This track DOES ME!!!!

So not fair my parents got this, my generationgot to listen to rihanna and the rest of this bullcrap on the radio.. I love this real music

dope right!! I was a kid in the 80's but it was still funky like this lol

+Basil Morgan lol wow my real name is Basil!!

U young ppl know music when u hear it..thanks 4 taking the time to listen

WELCOME ABOARD

I'M 48 I WAS RAISED ON THIS REAL SHIT!

...still amazing! Thru the headphones you can hear a male vocal leading into some of
the choruses and I've always wondered if it was Allen Toussaint...

I first saw labelle sing this on stage at the Paridise Garage 1983 They had the crowd going bananas😄

Steven Harris not possible as they broke up in the late seventies

I know in 1983 Pattie released her 6th Lp, "I'm In Love Again" and was a breakout success. Nona, Sarah and Pattie have done a few tour dates several times since 1976. I saw them 2008 and 2009.

Tracy Snyder they broke up in 1976 and as you said, the three of them started solo careers. Sarah was the first one to have a solo hit record with "Sinner Man ". They briefly reunited in 1991 and 1995 but only to release one single each of those years but to my knowledge, other than making a couple of appearances, they did not tour until the release of their first full length album ( in 32 years) in 2008. For that album ( Back To Now ) they toured until sometime in 2009. All three of them are still active. Nona was recently featured on single put out by some DJs named Soul Clap. It is a 1990s house music sounding single and the name of it is "This Is It". It can be heard on YouTube by searching for Soul Clap/ Nona Hen... Its really good. She can sing and write any kind of music. Sarah is appearing at a club called Joes Pub here in Manhattan soon and of course Patti still tours.

I purchased that cd in 08, it was decent too. Thanks for that info on Nona, she is a powerhouse. I'll be certain to look it up. I think all of these ladies are dynamic and uber talented. Thanks again Drummer C.

Always correct.

OH MY !!!!!!!!!!!! Do that CHIT LADIES !!!! .. they dont do it like this no more

The band is grooving so hard on this cut.

New Orleans own The Meters and Chocolate Milk. Album recorded in New Orleans Seasaint Studios, Allen Toussaint owner, also arr. and producer of this album.

Great song to clean to!

Another Allen Toussaint classic!

.....but it was miss nona holding' down that bottom.......eeeew......and sarah dash.....
THAT NOTE!

Patti know she held that note! WERK!

+Sherri Solomon yessssssssssss

@sljjrphd lol!

Actually that was Sarah Dash holding that note

I was going to note the same thing. Patti is hittin' and holdin' that very last note, but Sarah Dash is providing the power-house vocals and harmony throughout, as even Patti acknowledges when Sarah hits that note in the live video of this tune, and looking fine as hell while doing it!.

SANG IT!! and I still have ALL those Albums and 45's  Jamin right now!

Great classic.......

Sing the song girls...

Patti and the girls really rocked it out with this great cut on the album featuring Lady Marmalade we know what the incredible smash hit was and i remember like yesterday those fabulous costumes. Love you all what great music

Very relevant in 2015!!!

so good are those ladies of soul.

I saw them perform this in person back in 1974. Baltimore Civic Center. I was 18. Me and four other white gay boys. Probably the only white boys in the audience. From the moment they stepped out on stage we screamed like little girls. We were soooooo excited. Patti, Nona, and Sarah tore up that place. What an incredible night. Hearing this now...I'm there again.

+Chuckscott I saw them here in LA twice!

You're story is hilarious and cute at the same time 😍😍😍 I bet they were amazing 🤩🤩🤩

I saw them with my friend Milton at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville around then too @Chuckscott! They tore the roof off!!!

I saw them circa 1974 in Central Park, NY during a summer long series of concerts. Tickets were less than $10 but their performance was gold/platinum!

Those are THE DAYS!

Y'all better sang now!

Wow. Wonder if my mom still has this record. I remember singing this song and becoming hoarse bcause I can't blow like Patti.

The lyrics! The message: People want TRUTH or nothing at all, People want to live not merely exist, People need understanding, We Need POWER, We Need PEACE, Lets Stop FIGHTING and become sis and bro! Its not TOO LATE to LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!! What can I do for YOU, what can you do for ME!!! YES!!!!!! The ever powerful LABELLE!!

WORD!!!

Nona.....

💥🔥💥🔥 Still giving me life !!  

Pure energy.  Good energy.

+MySugarWallz And power. Good power.

So much energy in this tune.

We knew even back then that these girls were way ahead of their time.  Nona Hendryx was a writing ass visionary.

Yeah you right.

Love this song

Nona didn't write this one tho. She can however weite her ass off lol.

I remember seeing Labelle and lots of other old groups in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Paramount in the 60's.  This is 70's Labelle and the voices don't change. there was a reunion in 2009 in Atlanta and I swear they sound the same.  Timeless! wonderful!

I was there!!!!!

The first song tht I felt deep within my soul, I thank Labelle for the hit nd the memories!.