Gene Chandler- Duke Of Earl- Reaction
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it is wonderful to see a young man enjoying the Doo Wop music my 89 year old parents grew up with!!! A classic never dies!!!!!
This is one of my all time favorites!!! If you don't smile when you hear this song you have no soul!!!
I was going back through your old vids and am glad I found this! I LOVED this as a young woman. Thanks for playing and liking it.
This song has such memories for me. It came out in 1961. I was a freshman at Commerce High School in downtown Detroit. Commerce connected to Cass Tech high school by a bridge. Since the only cafeteria was in Cass Tech the Commerce students had to cross the bridge over to Cass Tech for lunch. I still remrmber the African American student strolling across the bridge singing The Duke of Earl. 😂funny, the things you never forget and always associate with a song. Diane Ross was a senior at Cass Tech that year.
I was fortunately to be born in the greatest era of music ever! : The 50's , 60's, 70's, and 80's. This is one of Many! Great songs of the 60's.💯
This when a man held his woman in his arms and they were one heart and soul. So romantic.
So much good music back in the day.
@@jg1174 Not only is Gene Chandler a great musican and singer, he is wise beyond his years. These are words of one who knows how deep music can go to heal the soul. Thanks for sharing this with me. I believe you do too.
This is an iconic song from 1962. It was covered by Sha Na Na, which was the first version I was personally familiar with, but the original is still the best. I'm sure it has appeared in countless films and, as you said, parodied in TV commercials. A great song.
Gene Chandler sounds like a one man doo wop group on this song.
That's because the recording is actually by the Dukays, the group that Chandler was the lead singer of. Legend has it that the group broke up AT the recording session for this song, but the truth probably has more to do with the record company's desire to have Chandler move on as a solo act.
🤔Very true.
One of the greatest songs of all time. Gene Chandler !! I was 13 in 1962. Long live Doo Wop !! Thank You Gene and The back up group!!
It's a great example of the "Bass Man", the bass singer in an A Capella Doo-Wop band. In fact, that would be a great song for you to do. "Mr. Bass Man" by Johnny Cymbal (1963)
Man your variety is on point. Love the harmonies in this oldie. Cheers mate
Please do Up On the Roof by the Drifters or Stand By Me by Ben E. King.
Come on, if this guy says he's never heard stand by me I'mma call bullshit.
Spanish Harlem by Been E. King also great.
Or "I Wonder Why" by Dion And The Belmonts.
Haven't heard this on in like 60+ years. We had a barbershop quartet in high school and I sang the base background. Love this song.
This is another great classic from 1962 that always makes You smile when You hear it justr like you did Ty.
So glad that you have discovered "Duke of Earl" Gene Chandler.
Your life is changed.
One of the all-time best songs!
agreed
I third that the emotion.
I love it!
Took me back to my childhood when my parents would play their music from their era...thanx for the positive reaction.,.,.
This is one of my all time favorites. When gene goes into the chorus and the bass singer starts backing up gene it sends me into orbit! Way to go Gene!
In Australia they used this instrumental and changed the words to a shampoo/conditioner product called decore and I remember it 30 years later
Edmund Cooke V yep. Remember that😀
It is such a pleasure to listen to all these great old songs where there isn't any anger, cussing, beating on or disrespecting women. Much of the music today is filled with all kinds of nasty and violence that people (especially kids) don't need to be listening to. I am so thankful that I was born in an era where music was truly music. Thanks for another great reaction Ty.
I was 16 and this OUR SONG in 61, 62. Memories? THE BEST!
I so love watching your reactions you are a hoot. A plus for progress is you young'uns get a taste of 1900's music that was and still is the greatest!
born in 56 absolutely the best pure soul filled with love grew up with that kind of music the best
OMG I was in Jr. High school when this was out! I am 72 now. Loved this song so much, around the same time of the Tokens with The Lion Sleep Tonight. In my music class our instructor would sing for us. So cool. I sang alto and performed once when in high school in glee club. Was so pleased both my mom and grandmother came to see. Wish I could remember the song though. So darn long ago. Some memories are fleeting, and stay fleeting.
I was 13 when I heard this song. I went to the movie theater and this video was playing before the movie started
Great song. Gene Chandler was a Grammy winner. Old music is the best music.
Brings back memories!!! Love it! He used to come to Memphis and joke that he came from Earle, Ark. across the river! Fab entertainer and singer!
This classic is what we grew up on, Gene wears it out, best music ever!
Thank you for playing the music I grew up with there will never be music this great was a great era to grow up in Great Music
Cheesy and Beautiful at the same time.
Ive loved that song for decades.
All those New York Black and Italian Street Corner singers had Beautiful voices and harmonies.
I Love Doo Wop.
The Greatest music to come out of America.
@afr malatesta Don't get antsy mate.
Im British, and Duke and Earl are both titles.
Earl isn't a place. It sounds a bit cheesy.
But if you read my comment properly, you'll know that I love DooWop.
Apart from classical, I find it the most Romantic music going.
'I Love You' by the Volumes is one of my fave songs of all time.
And so is 'The Duke of Earl.'
So don't get strung up about a comment Man.
It is cheesy. But that dont mean it ain't Great.
I'd make Love to my Princess with that playing, over any crap around at the moment.
Gene was still at the top of his game through 2015 or a year or two later. His talent came out on TH-cam videos as extraordinary even when Gene was nearing 80! He never lost it! His moves are still there as well!
I have always loved this song. I watch PBS when they do their fund raisers, and they have doo-wop groups from the 50's and early 60's on. The show must have been done in the 90's. but Gene Chandler comes walking down through the audience, with the tux, top hat, and cane, sing the Duke of Earl. It was great. There are many of those old groups who could still bring it 30 and 40 years from when they had the top hits.
This song is over a half century old and it still kicks butt. Awesome awesome awesome.
Boy, you're doing some songs from my junior high years in Germany (my dad was in the Army). "Since I Don't Have You" was, as you say, a favorite slow dance to end the dance. "Duke of Earl" was a hit when I was at an international Boy Scout chalet in Switzerland, and it reminds me of a certain British Girls Scout, and "Since He Kissed Me" was a great Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" song back then. Love them all.
I'm almost 70 yrs old and that was one of my favorites when I was a teenie bopper.
Old as me. I’ve heard it and loved it all my life. The falsetto bits and backing vocal arrangements are epic, you never forget them once you’ve heard them.
I've always said that's my boyfriend...Love him strutting across the stage on one of PBS. specials. I'll be 70 tomorrow and listen to a lot of reviewers & philosophers on here!! Love your style & passions❣️ Actually my Aunt's played all this music when watching over me as a child💕
Doo-wop, R&B, R&R were love sings. Rock'n'roll was about PASSION and the energy of youth. When it first hit the AM radio airwaves in the early 1950's it stirred up a storm and was blamed for teenager's rebelling against their parents. It was called "race" music in the South and banned on many radio stations. No one in their wildest dreams ever imagined what was coming and how much bolder the music was going to get. When Danny & the Juniors sang "Rock & Roll is Here to Stay" in 1958, no one thought it would ever end.
I was like 12 when this song was playing the airwaves...made such an impression on this 12 yearold, older siblings listening to their music, spilled on to me, still takes me back to those days. M
I was syncing with the tune too! Great vid 😀
OMG!!! It's been ages since I've heard this. Great memories!! ❤️ Thank you for playing it 😃😃😃
Sock hops, on gym floors doing the stroll. OH yeh! another world.
50sbaby 🙋🏽♀️😊 oh my goodness I haven’t heard this in forever, one of my running around with my friends song. We turned it up and sang along at the top of our lungs lol
I sang lead to this song in a music theather back in 1999 and it was liked by many people. Great song. I was 25 years old.
Love Gene Chandler And The Duke Of Earl A Great Song And Review Hope You Had A Great Easter God Bless You Also
This song came out in 1961, my freshman year in high school. Yeah! I'm old!
But still rockin' right?
Came out in '62. I was 18. Walkin' to the beach in Brooklyn to meet my girlfriend. Little did I or anyone on Earth know that in two years the group harmony sound (now called "doo-wop") would suddenly disappear from the airwaves under the "British Invasion" led by the Beatles.
This is a great classic! From 1963!! The great Gene Chandler of Chicago..from Chicago!! One of the best songs of all time!!!
It takes me back to the Marines in 1962. We had a guy we called duke he was like a platoon leader and every time he walked into the barracks we would break out with duke of earl I wish I could go back those were the days I was 18 in 1962.
I first heard this song when I was about five or six years old way back in the early 60’s. My parents swing danced to this classic!
im glad im old and got a chance to hear all the great music back then. i dont believe i listen to any music thats newer then 1990s.
I listen to this one all the time. Have loved it since it came out a long time ago. Thanks for playing it and reacting to it. Great reaction 👍🏻👏🏻🌟❤️‼️
This is my Mom & Dad's music. I truly love Doo Wop! This song rocks. We would sing this but I can't sing. So I had to back round vocals. Take care!
In the "pre-Beatle" days of rock, countless songs were either C-F-G (such as Johnny B Goode and 90% of everything else written by Chuck Berry) or C-Am-F-G such as Duke of Earl, I Wonder Why by Dion and the Belmonts, In the Still of the Night, even Unchained Melody. So it should not come as a surprise that the jingle you heard from an advertiser, while possibly a knock off of Duke of Earl, would sound familiar. Looking back, it is amazing that so many different melodies were created around the same group of chords and chord changes.
#1 classic from 1962...
some of my favorite music ever. love oldies. 👊💚
One of the great vocal stylist of all time. Like The Tokens “ The Lion Sleeps tonight”
I fell in love with doo wop at the age of 14 I'm 27 now and I'm still in love with these oldies but goodies
Please do "Bring It On Home To Me" by Sam Cooke
Yes! Actually please do anything by Sam Cooke. Bring it on Home to Me and Good News "man ain't that news" were great. I also liked Twistin the Night Away, Having a Party and just anything by him.
☦🔥🤣Thank You!😂🔥☦ In late 60's Detroit, (Motown) a DJ Locked Himself into His (Radio) Station's Broadcasting Studio & Broadcast, "The Duke of Earl" REPEATEDLY, for OVER 24 HOURS! His "Protest, against Motown's Takeover of the Music Industry in Detroit".🤣😂❣He
refused to obey the "Cease, Desist, & Vacate," Court Order of Station's Owner. The DPD was called in to Brake through the Door's Barricade, after 24 hours of Broadcasting, & the DJ's refusal to respond. People from all over, (even CANADA) Called Into the Station, To Support the DJ! AND FOR OVER 24 HOURS, EVERYBODY LAUGHED TOGETHER! There were NO, Hyphenated By Skin Color, Victims! Just Human Being's who enjoyed Music, a Good Laugh, & appreciated Someone Who could use Both...
BUT, that was in the 1960's, BCCE! "Before Common Core Era"-
Current Era that began 35+yrs ago, when a Plague called Common Core, turned
American Schools into Federal Daycares for "Victims, of Whatever"! You're an awesome Yougling with a Gift that says you got through, unaffected...
(& that Inspires Hope in old f@$t's forced to watch as History Repeats Itself, with a Vengeance!)😎❣☦
This song is one of my Sunday night favorites. I worked in a cafe kitchen while in HS and on Sunday night we`d have a radio playing the oldies.
If you like this one then you`d probably enjoy Brenton Wood singing Oogum Boogum.
The Drifters, I got to hang with them for a week in the late 70's or early 80's even got to sing with them once. Funny story, we were clubbing one night and found a club advertising the new age drifters, so we went in and there were some young guys singing Drifters songs. Needless to say the drifters werent happy. After some discussion with the group and club owner, the group was gone.
When I was a boy, my dad used to drive our family around in the car and play an oldies channel. This was likely the first place I heard this, though I had started listening to the same oldies station on my own at some point as well. This is as style of music that they call Doo-Wop. It is very frequently noted for it's great harmonies.
Might want to check out In The Still Of The Night by The Five Satins. You may have heard the Boyz II Men cover of this from the 1990s, but this one was the original.
Aaahhh love oldies yes yes Yes !!!!!!! Makes me smile
Thank you. Have always loved this song!
On my list of favoorites. 1962, yes I found that it was used in a commercial
The success of the song came after the popularity of a TV commercial for Decoré Shampoo which used an adaptation of "Duke of Earl" as its jingle (viz. "De-de-de Decoré, de-de Decoré, de-de Decoré..." etc.). The song was covered by John Goodman in the 1991 comedy film King Ralph.
Me and my 1st love. He was from Earle St. Dukes. We made a baby to this. 36 years ago.
Our 27 year old daughter knows and loves this music as much as we do.
I've always Loved this song, haven't heard it for sometime. The word you were searching for I BELIEVE is PASSION for that ONE woman in your life. I heard this song sometime in the 60s, my BEST FRIEND was my little RADIO. THE OLDIES ARE GREAT, FUNNY HOW THEY GET RECYCLED
This young man Gene Chandler could really hold a tune. This is at a time when men cared about women.
Dude...The harmonies, the harmonies, the harmonies!
I love this Doo Wop song. I put this song on and dance with my daughter and sing like a crazy person.
Man this is a blast from the past! Taking me back to my childhood and early teens. Did a lot of dancin to this one. Old Doo Wop. Thanks again Ty! Always a joy. Peace!
My dad use to listen to this song regularly when I was a kid.
The Carpenters first hit, "We've Only Just Begun", was derived from a bank commercial.
Love Duke of Earl! One of the best ever!
I was 7 years old when this song came out and my older brother (6 yrs older) was a music fanatic, I heard all of these great songs, they are timeless. Thanks for doing reviews on this one and Paul and Paula. I admire who you are and what you stand for, may God Bless you in everything you do!
This song came out the year I was born. It was my mother's favorite song! My mother passed almost 16 years ago. Thank you for taking me back to some memories of my mom!!
I have grown up loving this song. This song was a bit before my time, but it used to come on the radio when I was a kid and I could never get enough of it. It's so wonderful, in this age of TH-cam that you can pull up tracks and videos of the songs from your childhood. TH-cam has both the original performance by Gene Chandler and a more recent performance on an oldie show.
I flipping love this song! Very popular when I was growing up.
Thats as real as music will ever be.
Soul music.
You said it right. Men were Men. Women were Women. They saw the beauty and desire GOD created in each other. I was 10 years old
wow MRM you have ventured into the lovely music that is Do Wop fantastic
There were a lot of little gangs in our neighborhood and my brother was in the “Dukes” named so as a result of this song. I was assigned to give them all (5 or 6) tattoos with India ink because I always got an A art. (LOL) For me this is a hilarious recall after hearing this song again.
Oh my, listened to this earlier today on way to work and thought what would you think of this song.
This song is sooo good, glad I found someone to review it
People have great taste the music I've been listening to in your videos
How versatile music is! Wonderful to see so many folks are interested in a wide range of styles and eras of music. Another suggestion: KD Lang and Roy Orbison “Crying”. Roy is a legend still, and KD Lang is considered one of the best voices around. Each with a lot if their own material worth checking out. This duet was seen on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I believe Carson had her back many times and he said she was his favourite singer.
Some of that under the street light on the corner, burn Barrel, pass the bottle Doo Whop.
This song is a classic people look at me weird when I jam to this. This was way before my time.
Just grab any "Top 40" list from anytime in the '60s and you'll find dozens of songs that have "stood the test of time." "Duke of Earl" is still worth a listen.
I think I may have suggested this awhile back. Anyway, thanks for doing it.
There are a ton of these songs that are so good!
Btw Ty, you and Gene Chandler look like twins, underneath your beard anyway.
LOVE this song. I have sing along everytime i hear it..lol
If you had ever seen an episode of Happy Days with the Fonz, you may have recognized this song from that tv show or Laverne and Shirley. Good old time music.
There are billions of songs, and plenty of inspiration for someone to create a new version for an ad or movie
My Mom and Dad had this on vinyl 45. I heard it often as a child. Very nice memories you have stirred, MRM. Thank you.
I can't remember when I first heard this song, but, considering that I'm 67 now, it would have been back in the early 60's. I'm glad I watched this clip because it made me aware of something in the mix that I had never noticed before. Listen to the vocal intro and you can hear someone playing some very tasty saxophone under the singers' voices. This repeats at every turn around back to the beginning of each verse. I'd love to know who that player is. King Curtis? Red Prysock?
History is so cool. I hope that we all have a good sense of it!!!
This came out in 62. I met my wife in 69 and whenever this came on the radio it would start her dancing. It's our 50th wedding anniversary next year and I am going to make sure this gets played.