G.I.T. on Broadway was a 1969 live television special

Television special

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 produced by Motown Productions and George Schlatter-Ed Friendly Productions. The special, a follow-up to 1968's successful TCB program, was a music

Music

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al revue

Revue

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 starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time, Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations

The Temptations

The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...

. Containing primarily Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 showtunes, the special was taped before a live studio audience in mid-1969 and originally broadcast November 12, 1969 on NBC

NBC

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. Like TCB, the title of the program was derived from an acronym, this one standing for "Gettin' It Together".

A soundtrack album for the special, titled On Broadway, was issued the same month the program aired. Two months after its release, Diana Ross

Diana Ross

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...

 left The Supremes to start a solo career.

Cast

• Diana Ross & the Supremes:
  • Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
    
    
  • Mary Wilson
    Mary Wilson (singer)
    Mary Wilson is an American singer, formerlymember of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure...
    
    
  • Cindy Birdsong
    Cindy Birdsong
    Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Birdsong , better known by her stage name, Cindy Birdsong, is an American singer, most famous for singing with the legendary soul groups Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles and The Supremes.-Early life:...
    
    
• The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
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  • Dennis Edwards
    Dennis Edwards
    Dennis Edwards is a soul and R&B singer, most noted for being one of Motown act The Temptations' lead singers replacing David Ruffin. He is the father of Issa Pointer, whose mother is Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters.-Career:...
    
    
  • Eddie Kendricks
    Eddie Kendricks
    Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do The Things...
    
    
  • Paul Williams
    Paul Williams (The Temptations)
    Paul Williams was an American baritone singer and choreographer. Williams is noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the Motown group The Temptations...
    
    
  • Melvin Franklin
    Melvin Franklin
    David Melvin English better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin, was an American bass singer. Franklin is best known for his role as a member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1960 to 1994....
    
    
  • Otis Williams
    Otis Williams
    Otis Williams is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he has also acted as a sporadic songwriter and record producer. Williams co-founded the Motown vocal group The Temptations in early 1960 as The Elgins, a group in which he continues to perform...
    
    

Program

1. "G.I.T On Broadway"
2. Broadway Medley
3. "The Rhythm of Life"
4. "Malteds over Manhattan"
5. Medley:
   1. "It Ain't Necessarily So"
   2. "Summertime"
6. "Fiddler on the Roof Medley
   Fiddler on the Roof
   Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
   
   "
7. "The Student Mountie"
8. "Leading Lady Medley"
9. "Let the Sunshine In"
10. "Funky Broadway"
11. "G.I.T. On Broadway Reprise"

Track list for On Broadway (Original TV Sound Track)

1. "G.I.T On Broadway"
2. Broadway Medley
3. "Malteds over Manhattan"
4. "Leading Lady Medley"
5. Fiddler on the Roof
   Fiddler on the Roof
   Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
   
   Medley
6. "The Student Mountie"
7. "The Rhythm of Life"
8. Finale: "Let the Sunshine In"
9. "Funky Broadway"
10. "G.I.T. On Broadway" (Reprise)