Georgia Sea Island Singers (1963)
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- Presents pure spirituals as they were sung during the 19th century on St. Simon's, an isolated island off the Georgia coast. Was made on the San Fernando Valley St. Coll. Campus. Songs include: Moses, Yonder Comes Day, Buzzard Lope (Throw Me Anywhere Lord), Adam in the Garden (Picking up Leaves), and Down in the Mire (Bright Star Shinning in Glory). Singers are: John Davis, Emma Ramsay, Henry Morrison, Mabel Hillary, Bessie Jones. Director: Bess Lomax Hawes - from archive.org
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See, these people had known suffering like we today have nothing like. And they kept their faith. I just pray one day I’ll be worthy to stand with them in glory.
ln Baltimore 40yrs old ..DRAYTON FAMILY ,, forcing my kids to listen to this. 300yrs we couldnt show emotion or have drums i cry hard in front anybody because of that and been in east and west bawdamore solo not a scratch.the feeling i get from this english can't explain
I love being born n raised in lowcountry SC ..much respect to all my sea island folks, songs like this make me miss my granny grandpa and all the elders that passed..being born in 86 i think i caught the last of these greats, i loved it
You Definitely did. I was born in 83 and I’m the only one in my family who gets it. Being in Baltimore we a ways up. Then found out why my family is the only Drayton’s in Baltimore, cuz da rest downare in SC
The Draytons is a popular name in The Low country (Gullah Geechee) community which are the counties of Charleston, Colleton,Beaufort and Jasper. Recently white people have merged some more counties with that so they can capitalize on the gullah for those traveling to South Carolina and through South Carolina I literally only four counties and we are all related to each other.
ANCESTORS.
SHALL. NEVER.
BE. FORGOTTEN.💖💖💖
Ancestors we are them they are us. They never went nowhere they still here just people don't know
@mrthink5378 these ni##as today soft as bear milk, these ancestors are real on so many levels
Beautiful people. God's original people
I'm a man who never cries and I shed tears watching this. I do not know why.
...they were led to some lonesome graveyard, it's inevitable
@jasonwaterfalls9615
Dear Sir, that is the Holy Spirit calling you.
Thank you for showing the uniqueness and beauty of the Gullah-Geechee culture. I'm a proud descendant of people from Charleston, the Gullah Islands, & the surrounding areas of SC.
My ancestors are from Orangeburg, Charleston (Chucktown), and Conway
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 JESUS Thank you for saving me.
Mama Africa is alive and well within us no matter what form it comes in 🙏🏾 thanks to our ancestors like these shown right here 🙏🏾 asé
This took me back
I'm a charlestonian. Love for the islands coast of the south.
Im near St Helena SC and have family in Charleston..I'm 32 sounds like the songs the older generation sung in church when i was younger..great times
Im near St Helena SC, i got family in Charleston..im 32 i used to love going to church back in the early 90s..u don't hear these songs anymore ..i used to lay on granny lap n jam out to hear singing all the time when i was young
@@hittz2581 they're in total harmony, rhythm and melody, no beat machine, lyp synching, auto dubbing and don't miss a best. It doesn't get any better.
My family sung gospel hymns all the time, there was always a hymn book opened and sitting on a table
I was born in 1958, my aunts/uncles sung hymnals everyday, and would rotate where they'd sing, many times I'd be awakened by this ss some would arrive very early like 7-8am to share and enjoy a hearty breakfast with us.
After three seconds all my Hair stood on end, and I understood that this musik made their Survival on the Cottenfields possible .
God protect their Souls.
Rice in our case
@@DemonteAlford1 rice, tobacco, cotton, indigo, and whatever else needed to be grown, cultivated, plowed, seen, reaped and harvested, it was all on the back breaking work of AA.
Rice and indigo yes.
that was an extraordinary experience.
Thank you from Brazil!
My ancestors welcomed death, the unimaginable torture they endured, my dad's family sung notes this as a real as it gets, if this don't stir your spirit you're already dead
This took my breath away. I have gained a new perspective on southern culture along the Georgia sea Islands. This music of hope is such a primal expression of our soul longing for the Infinite. Thank you for posting.
No auto-tune, drum machines, beat boxes, nothing soulful rhythm, harmony, melody and gospel. My Aunt's and Uncle's use to go visit one another to explicitly sing these hymns and notes. They are all gone now, as a little kid I wished I had participated more, but I did get the jest. I was a student of their legacy in singing gospel hymn notes.
I love how I can feel Africa through this.
I haven’t heard beautiful music like this in years.
It's like they welcomed death as if it was an escape from a tormented reality.
Hope they don't kill another one of us songs brings back the good ol,times in America
'Daughters of the Dust' is a good movie about this. 👍
Thank you for this. The film looks fantastic. Not sure how I missed this in back in 1991.
Fabulous film by Julie Dash. Has a dreamlike quality. I grew up on the sea islands in Charleston SC and this feels like home to me.
Buzzard lope. Spirituals. Easter rock. Ring shout. Dikenga. Our more Jubilant spiritual heritage is really rich and quite powerful
The rhythm used on "where is Adam" is similar to the "kalinda" , even the foot movements of the "Buzzard dance" resemble the foot work of the Afro-Trinidad 🇹🇹 martial art. The Buzzard dance itself is also reminiscent of the "money game" in Capoeira, except it's play with 2 people who attempt to pick up the handkerchief with their mouths. The act of bending low to the ground in some African traditions, is a way to commune with the ancestors, who are buried in the ground.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I did not know I needed to see this. Ancestors passing us gifts and blessings.
My neck of the woods. I'm originally from Brunswick which is in the same county that St. Simons is located (Glynn County). I was born 13 years after this documentary.
Got a little of this, remember it well(Sav.Ga) they gone now, but l remember the beating of the broom n the shouting...
If you got it ,it's not gone and forever pass it on, thanks for posting.
I cannot thank you enough for bringing all these videos of our black brothers singing and dancing there’s so many videos that you have published thank you very much again from your brother in England one love you know what Ireland I come from then when I say that Jamaica living in England
Thank you real black for bringing me back in time so many times so many videos from your brother in England another hallelujah praise be the most high that is raised Up out of the ashes of our bondage
Shape note singing. I grew up singing this style of gospel.
I grew u on one of the Sea Island off the coast of South Carolina in a Gullah community. The singing in my grandmother's church was just the same
Folklore and culture it's beautiful to watch too bad we can't see this in 2019
The Buzzard lope dance is being done. Look it up here on yt.
th-cam.com/video/Y6hrDm4e0FU/w-d-xo.html
Wow!! Love it! Good old fashion gospel music. Please keep them coming!
I love seeing and hearing the Georgia sea folks! And those rhythimic patterns people pretend we dont have 👀
My Dad's family sung hymns it was ten of them, they'd exchange visits, alternate residences, I was about seven yrs old, early to mid sixties, I wish I'd been more involved but because of my intellect and observatorial skills I've got it down because they'd sing in churches all the time, it comes with the territory, there's no escaping it. My Dad and his siblings are all gone to greener pastures now and we'll keep the traditions going, I introduce my children to it now, they're absorbing all they can.
My girl Bessie with the gold 🦷✨ shining 🖤
Eerily Beautiful 💕
I've been around,and I've met people from everywhere. The Gullah people are among the finest on earth. Like all small town folks they can be suspicious of strangers... You ain't a stranger for long. If you've never had the pleasure ; please,visit the coastal towns in SC and Georgia.
I was visiting the SC coast around Charleston(Chucktown) and they call breast(boobies) ninnies and paps, a real cultural thing in and of itself.
@@aarondigby9859 It's a fascinating culture and I hope it is preserved.
They sound like enslaved West Africans who survived being kidnapped by strange white ghosts and brought across the Atlantic Ocean, split from their family friends, stripped bare abused forced to speak English gunpoint trying to secretly keep traces of their culture that has been forbidden whilst soothing their souls with song and African rhythm
My ancestors ❤
No matter how hard life gets I think of them and their pain, it spurs me on. Thank you for surviving because I wouldn't exist otherwise.
That's what they sound like to me, majestic soulful timeless beautiful and real
To the untrained eye...these appear to be songs rooted in Christianity:
However examine closer and we can see that :
CHRISTIANITY is the Exact OPPOSITE of the Bible. That's why we grew up in churches Confused! Europeans Stole the Bible and Told a Slave that Couldn't Read for himself that God Was in the IMAGE of the Slave Master!
CHRISTIANITY:Jesus is White
BIBLE: Jesus is VERY, Very, Dark (BLACK)
CHRISTIANITY: Worship On 1st day of the week as special and set apart
BIBLE: Remember The Sabbath and keep it Holy (7th day of the week).
CHRISTIANITY: All Food is Clean to Eat
BIBLE: CLEAN Food is SANCTIFIED (SET APART)
CHRISTIANITY: Come as you are
BIBLE: REPENT YE therefore and be Converted
CHRISTIANITY: the BIBLE is written TO EVERY NATION
BIBLE: He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.HE HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION: and as for his judgments, THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THEM. Praise ye the LORD. (Psalms 147-19)
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH: therefore I will punish YOU for all YOUR iniquities.
CHRISTIANITY: is the account of The Slave Master
BIBLE: is the account of the Children of Slavery
Only one People on the Planet fulfilled the Prophecies concerning the breaking and observing of OUR Covenants with OUR God.
The Biggest Secret on the Earth is that who the World calls AFRICAN~AMERICAN are in fact the True people and exclusive audience of the Bible..
The Religions of Christianity & Democracy is the Mark of the Caucasian Colonizing Beast!
Lamentations 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching WE HAVE WATCHED FOR A NATION THAT COULD NOT SAVE US.
Politicians, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar. Jamal Bryant. Even Dr. Martin Luther King. They have all gotten it wrong.
Jeremiah 23:25
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy Lies in my name, saying,I HAVE DREAMED, I HAVE DREAMED.
Dr, King's lie was to confuse equality with assimilation. We have forgotten the LAWS of our God. We have been willing to do anything to receive this Nations tolerance and acceptance.To fit in with this Nation's Pagan Holidays. With its tolerance of Homosexuality. To glorify murder and hatred towards brother as a way to achieve riches and this society's title of Fame. Our so called LEADERS have not figured out that SIN is the cause for the nearly 400 years of oppression. And our Hatred for God's Laws have replaced a ritcheous spirit with a self destructive spirit.
Awake from your graves, you Children of the Captivity, and hear your ancient speak.
Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God
Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O NATION NOT DESIRED;
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
We are NOT African-American. The South African Caucasian now living in America is an AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
HERE IS OUR PROBLEM:
Deuteronomy 28:68
And the LORD shall bring thee into EGYPT AGAIN WITH SHIPS,by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and THERE YE SHALL BE SOLD TO YOUR ENEMIES FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN, and no man shall buy you.
HERE IS OUR SOLUTION:
1 Kings 8:47-
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither THEY WERE CARRIED CAPTIVES , AND REPENT and make supplication unto thee IN THE LAND OF THEM THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES, saying, WE HAVE SINNED and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, IN THE LAND OF THEIR...."ENEMIES"....,, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Zephaniah 11:4-5
4Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;5 WHOSE POSSESSORS SLAY THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
I never heard one African sing like this.
thehoneyeffect they weren’t forced to speak English.. the Gullah language is a west African language
VirginiaTribe you don’t know African music ..
@@Afrometa I'm sick of people claiming African Americans didnt retain any African culture or always making a point to say latinos and Caribbean blacks have more African culture retained than African Americans. People are so ignorant about African American culture and history. Our culture is mostly rooted in different parts of Africa from Caribbean blacks which is why we are so different. African Americans from the south are very African. The Gullahs are not the only African Americans from the south to retain a lot of African culture either.
Thank you for posting this beautiful footage. I am a music teacher, and I plan to share this with my students this week! Keep up the great channel.
They're keeping perfect beat, rhythm, harmony and melody without any accessories: drum beat machines, auto tune, none of that non sense to help you keep pace because you really can't perform on a real artistic level.
This is wonderful...thank you for sharing!!!!
Loving this...remembering my elders, thank you for uploading this precious video.
Praise God
beautiful
Thank you for uploading this. Just helps me feel connected to my ancestors.
I am not black and I am not religious. Nevertheless, this music moves me and speaks to me.
All u gotta hv is a soul.
pain, sorrow, glory, art.....Now what.... same, plus, product...I be damn....Thanks for sharing reelblack. Prayer for joyful sound/music....
I am not a musician. I am a Technologist. Still lististing to the rhythms of my ancestors in this video I feel the rhythm of my art and where it comes from.
Awesome thanks
Just fantastic. Thankyou
📣PRICELESS 🎼💯
i had this dvd and lost it... thanks a lot for uploading it
Wonderful. Thanks !
Thank you wholeheartedly.>>> I stumbled across this and thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Wow beautiful ! Thank you : )
There was a Pentecostal Church in Riverside, CA that I was taken to one Sunday by my aunt. It was 1952 and this is what it was like. They sang these songs and danced like this. Most were from the South, Macon, GA, to be exact. This takes me back. I'm so lucky to have been raised in White Culture and Black Culture, I got them both and, both, although for different reasons, have their merits. It's a shame more people can't embrace both.
Thank you for your knowledge, reel back.
exquisite -- living history
Wonderful history…more please…..blessings
I had no idea there was this kind of footage of Bessie and the Sea Island Singers! This is absolutely historic footage
So, so good
Wonderful and very moving. Thanks so much for sharing,
What happen to our churches, parents, grandparents, children, and keeping us together and safe? Who is now our politicalized churches that are too uppidie to allow me and my children paray as I was thought. Proud to be born in 72 raised by Blacks that were exslaves that made me cook, clean, sew, sing, dance, pick peas and cotton. All are passed and gone. Im 47 and not one of them left to see what I enstilled in my girls. Women! Be humble, loving, kind, soft spoken and only roar when home n family is threaten and a good man such as I have will come. Be tolleraber well and fair damiddlen. Who caught that lol. Many blessings🌞🌲🌼🌊🔥🌍❤
I love this sound i always have
I love that you can hear the shapenote in this
Taking me home.
THE ANCESTORS COULD DEFINETLY JAAAAAM.
Chills. 😍
Very beautiful! 🎷❇️🎼🎼🎹
2nd to none 😎
Let’s never forget
Many thanks 🙏🏾
This is so wonderful I can hardly believe it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is really a wonderful video!
I agree with the other comments this is a heritage something internal in your soul starts to quiver when you hear these elders unleash the spirit!
Thank God I'm Black.🏁
G'day luv
Oh okay love it the Elders
Prayers up sage down drum beaten
Yes Ma am.
Thank you creator. My ancestors.
Amen beautiful 💕
As Black American natives we don't have much culture if any left. It's nice to see this
I respectfully disagree. Black American culture is American culture, our influence is WORLDWIDE.
@@naturallyme14 Exactly it's very hard to keep culture when every culture is in the United states!
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That dance we call round up Native American side to side circle
Proud Cherokee.we pow wow I am a blanket dancer shawl dancer
@@tansyveejones6749not so, if you're clapping and you're happy that's all it is
Beautiful.
🙌🏾😔🍷💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 bout to get me a ritual
I too have shed tears without knowing why
needed this
Am I the only one who thinks they sound like the Staple Singers.
🥰
🎶💜
I love ❤️
Thanks for showing this real song. Used as an insult in politics.
This is true soul True Blues true rhythm once again folklore and culture cardi B Beyonce can't do this tekashi69 Jay-Z can't do this
Yep and it all goes back to gospel!!!
@49jubilee >>.> hahahaha haha!!! >.>> Ain't that the truth!!!!
@@teribrod4017 It actually goes back to West African music that can't be ascribed to the same religious importance that was set upon it by converted Africans in the new world.
...And we still Moanin and a Groanin for freedom. Lord have mercy 🕊️
THEN AGAIN , YOUR ANCESTERS HAD MUCH MUCH HARDER TIMES !
@blackbelttroll4008 you must come down to the mire and rise up from the more WHEN YOU RISE
🥰👍
I’m related to the sea island sisters I’m just now finding this out
You can clearly hear the African roots of this music. Black spiritual music brought us through slavery, chain gangs, sharecropping (debt slavery) and every other kind of exploitation imaginable.
As is typical of spirituals (and unlike the much more recent gospel), this music is acapella, except for percussion. Enslaved people seldom had instruments.
Need to credit filmmaker, Bess Lomax Hawes, I believe.
🙏🙏🙌❣
🦋✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋✨
An audio recording of one of their 1965 concerts will be released June 14, 2024. Five of the songs are currently available here or on most music services. th-cam.com/play/PL4h7cOhe79IowQHg-TxqkJqYuEkQBR4w7.html
Thanks for the info
Happy Juneteenth
Here to celebrate Georgia tuning BLUE. It has always been blue. There’s just so much voter suppression over the years. COME THRU GEORGIA!
Heavy
🔥🔥👩🏾🚒
#TheLeganLiveOn
John Davis looks like my Father
Cherokee
RIP Nathaniel Mitchell
Emma Lee Ramsey raised me. She is in the white dress. Her name is not included in the credits. Why?
Is the dance they do around 3:52 considered a ring-shout?