Anyone listening in 2024? Never appreciated the lyrics when it first came out, just loved the different rhythm - now, the lyrics are pretty compelling, if a bit inscrutable.
I loved this song when it was released in the UK in 1969 (1970 ?) and I remember the track as a young kid then. It's timeless - and still brilliant. The thematic idea of the lyrics is probably to link the idea of the original 'wandering Jews' of Biblical times - Israelites - to find their spiritual home and can probably be linked as a result to the concept of other 'repressed' people to find a 'Spiritual' homeland; which also links those with Reggae/Rastafarian beliefs to a similar 'Spiritual' home in Africa - modern-day Ethiopia or 'Babylon'. It's a great shame, too, that neither place is 'peaceful' in 2024 ! Interesting fact - in the UK, this track; or rather a plagiarised version of it - was used as a television advertising 'jingle' to promote a rival version to Marmite called 'Vitalite' - I think in the 1990s. Older viewers will probably remember it well. It was just as good as Marmite - and about half the price !
The reference to 'Bonnie and Clyde' in the lyrics - infamous gangsters from the Depression-era 1930s USA probably reflects the idea, too, of the need for freedom and being 'on the run' from Authority and its dangers; yet at the same time - to find a 'safe' home. It's interesting, too, that this track was released in 1968 - the year after the 1967 film of Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway was released. Both were eventually shot and killed in an ambush by the police in 1934 as outlaws.
Desmond Dekker died in London, England on 25th May, 2006 at the age of 64. He was a great Jamaican musician in the Reggae category. May his soul rest in peace.
@@erisdiscordia5429 ...what is funny is in the early 1990's skinheads were listening to this.. Ska was cool back then no matter your color or your view
@@OUeight12 Yerp, for like, the first 5 years of Skin's being a direct answer to the laxidasical and carefree lifestyle of the hippies. Then, after those 5 years, the neonazis took over, and modern skins can eat my asshole.
Literally the greatest song ever. I find myself singing it multiple times a day. So unbelievably fantastic. Wish current bands brought it back to roots.
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When this first came out, I heard it on the radio. Was either WISE or WKKE, Asheville, NC. After one hearing, not even sure what I'd heard, or who it was, I HAD to have it. I was about 13 years old. I hit the pavement walking, and went to Every record/music store in town, where I was met with incomprehension as I tried to find/describe this Holy Grail. Finally, after almost a whole day, I found a store with a 45RPM of a song called "Israelites". Couldn't even be sure it was the right one, but I bought it and took it home. Imagine my relief when I put it on and heard that first "Get up in the morning..." There are so few pleasures in life that are as intense, immediate, and pure as that.
Do you know how talented you have to be for such a sad song to sound soo upbeat and smooth!? Rest Easy to King Desmond! This song is Perfect in every form!
It’s 1969 and I’m 13 and hearing this song on a transistor radio on the school bus. Loved it then, love it now. It was so original and universally good.
I was 15, going on 16. The spring of 1969 when music was great. It was the final months of my Freshman year of high school & final months of living in Elwood, New Jersey. June 21, 1969 I moved to Newark, Delaware where I lived 3 years before I went into the U.S.Navy.
I was stationed in Northern Thailand in 1969 during the Vietnam War.. I listened to this almost everyday... it got me through a bad time in my life and others too.
First off, thank you for your service to our amazing country. While you were listening to this overseas I was a kid listening to this song on am radio here in the states. I hadn't heard it for years until I stumbled upon a movie starring matt dillon called drugstore cowboy. What a blast from the past.
@@WedgePee Not missing Him yet... (I had to screw a couple of cones, new ones, into a couple of cabinets, old ones, I had to clean the conductive surfaces of each and every one of my audio leads... I even had to accept the need for a new AmpLifIer... SO NO! I HAVE NOT HAD TO MISS Desmond Decker for a moment..! (unless I sleeping, then I skipping it for some hours)
As a Jamaican, these are the songs that I see that represent the roots of our culture. Yeah, we have a new string of songs that represent us now, but look at the state of the country now.
From the time conscious reggae music was destroyed with nasty dancehall shenanigans..... the whole world lost out. RIP Mr Marley...Twinkle Brothers...Black Uhuru... and Steel Pulse! ❤
Fantastic to hear Desmond and the Aces again, takes me back to the mid'60s when I saw them in Peterborough at the Bull and Dolphin, they were brilliant the best regae band I ever saw. God bless you Dessie up there in Heaven.
I just heard this song for the first time three days ago and must have repeated it 100 times. This is magical and what music should be and do to your mind.
looked for this song for years but thought it was called "its a red light". hey, i was only eight years old but it stayed with me all my life and I'm 55 now and this is the first time since 1968 i am hearing it. i love it! wouldn't have rediscovered it had i not hummed the tune to some one older who knew it was the Israelites song. and thanks to you tube, well there you have out and many other great songs by Desmond Dekker. enjoy!!! white conservative in the northeast! dont go figure, music is the universal language!
I Love this Song...I was in my 20's during the 1960's.(Lucky Me). I have played this Song for the Last 44 Years. I am now 79 and still Love their Music...
What an amazing sound - I heard this song over 60 years ago - still love it - the music out there today is also amazing but this song by Desmond Decker still takes a lot of beating xxx
Im here Mate ...200 Kid from South Staffs..formerly from Crewe... Suedehead Central back in 70 - 72...I was 8 ...surrounded by Mods and Skins due to my Foxy elder sisters ....wonderful times
i was 4 years old came to England from East Africa this was number when we arrived in England my family loved it so much today im a single parent with two mixed Asian and white kids i asked my son while driving listening to the radio what was his favourite song of all time he said mum I was 5 and you put on Israelites: my fav song of all time my son is 24 now and uni i was blown away so proud
I was 15 years old and saw the band in a Pub called the Bull in Sheen SW 14 in London, that was 53 years ago when music made you dance all night, it influenced me to enjoy all kinds of music that was harmonic in nature and that soothed the soul.
The first time I heard this was on my way home from Vietnam flying from Seattle to Chicago in July 1969 with those earbuds they had on airlines back then. I had heard Caribbean music before but nothing like this. It just blew me away. I was an instant reggae fan. A few nights later I was dancing in a Boston night club to it's beat.lol
To all the ska kids, especially 3rd wave, we made it through the dark days of the 70s as kids and 80s as teens. We can make it through today!!! #Trojan #2Tone #skabetty
Hahaha... Seen him play in the 90s.. Cheers from Southern California 🇺🇸 Stay Rude Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping Only 51 this year Still dancing
Back in 1968 my girlfirend (now my wife) and I used to meet for lunch at the Elephant and Castle at a place called the Gold Medal and this used to play while we ate and here I am 55 years later. and still listening to it. Happy days and happier days since.
It really is brilliant. I heard it for the first time during a movie "Drugstore Cowboy." It's so unique, and stays in your head! Great, great song from extraordinary people - Jamaicans.
I loved this song when it came out. I was 10, living next to the sea and this tune seemed to be everywhere.......the tourists always had radios with them on the beach in those days (UK)
This all-time Reggae Classic gave me the shivers everytime I spun the record on my turntable back in the days...No doubt one of the defining tracks in the development of Jamaican music as much as the Wailers' Get up Stand Up and the Abyssinians' Satta Massagana..
I was there in '68 my two bros. In Nam my Uncle Ken a P.O.W. my friend Steve Marlow a Marine who lived three houses down from me in N.Y. kia. This was my favorite song. I was 14 .
Oh ya? The multicultural brainwashing goes that far back? London's basically a proxy of Africa and the Middle East. Their gonna kill you guys you know? Yep... Best believe it.
I grew up around there in the 80s, do you mean the fairs that used to pitch up in Hackney Downs park? They still had them during the 80s and 90s. It's interesting hearing that this was a song they played during the 60s. I can well understand the nostalgia, especially when a great song brings it all back.
I was 10 years old when it came out in 1968 and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Me and my friends were at a local Fun Fair in Stainforth, Doncaster on the 'Waltzers' the first time we heard it.
Love this song. My dad used to sing this whenever I would blow dry my hair saying “my ears are alight” instead of “The Israelites”. Every time I hear this song now I can’t help but remember his amazing sense of humour. MEMORIES 😍😍
Remember when this came out when I was at school 1968 when I was 12, all the Teens in the UK loved Reggae, brought to the UK from Jamaica by Chris Blackwell. of Island Records. He is still around I think.
Any 2021 fans? My mother played this over and over back in the 60s and we loved to dance to it. Lover of reggae! Love this song!
There will always be a fan to this, whenever
2nd favorite song, behind tears of a clown.
Yes!! Still listening in 2021 ❤️🎶🎸
Hi there 👍 Mate Australia 👍🏼🌹💕
@@beverlykorte8581 from belgium
Anyone listening in 2024? Never appreciated the lyrics when it first came out, just loved the different rhythm - now, the lyrics are pretty compelling, if a bit inscrutable.
I lived in Milwaukee when this song came out. Huge hit here.
Feb 8 2024
Yep, i loved it when i heard it...still do.❤❤❤❤
I loved this song when it was released in the UK in 1969 (1970 ?) and I remember the track as a young kid then. It's timeless - and still brilliant.
The thematic idea of the lyrics is probably to link the idea of the original 'wandering Jews' of Biblical times - Israelites - to find their spiritual home and can probably be linked as a result to the concept of other 'repressed' people to find a 'Spiritual' homeland; which also links those with Reggae/Rastafarian beliefs to a similar 'Spiritual' home in Africa - modern-day Ethiopia or 'Babylon'. It's a great shame, too, that neither place is 'peaceful' in 2024 !
Interesting fact - in the UK, this track; or rather a plagiarised version of it - was used as a television advertising 'jingle' to promote a rival version to Marmite called 'Vitalite' - I think in the 1990s. Older viewers will probably remember it well. It was just as good as Marmite - and about half the price !
The reference to 'Bonnie and Clyde' in the lyrics - infamous gangsters from the Depression-era 1930s USA probably reflects the idea, too, of the need for freedom and being 'on the run' from Authority and its dangers; yet at the same time - to find a 'safe' home.
It's interesting, too, that this track was released in 1968 - the year after the 1967 film of Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway was released. Both were eventually shot and killed in an ambush by the police
in 1934 as outlaws.
Desmond Dekker died in London, England on 25th May, 2006 at the age of 64.
He was a great Jamaican musician in the Reggae category.
May his soul rest in peace.
😢
He was a great musician.
He as awesome. RIP
Desmond Dekker, tha pioneer of reggae, true voice, I N I jah bless
Who’s still listening this in 2024 ?
Not the Palestinians. They lack internet thanks too..
The Israelites.. the Israelites.
@@erisdiscordia5429 ...what is funny is in the early 1990's skinheads were listening to this.. Ska was cool back then no matter your color or your view
@@OUeight12 Yerp, for like, the first 5 years of Skin's being a direct answer to the laxidasical and carefree lifestyle of the hippies.
Then, after those 5 years, the neonazis took over, and modern skins can eat my asshole.
Me always
Me!!!!
Literally the greatest song ever. I find myself singing it multiple times a day. So unbelievably fantastic. Wish current bands brought it back to roots.
The song is 53 years old and still sounds great
I miss the oldies stations that once had all of these songs!!! Not songs like Fleetwood mac and the 80's Bullshit that counts as oldies.
Fukkk U2 pink Floyd pearl jam packed with sht
Amen Joe.
This song is timeless. A beautiful masterpiece.
Cant stop swingin my hips to this. A treasure. Bring back dancing.
Me ears are alight!
I always loved this song since I was a very young man and I still dig it I"am going on 70 music like this lives forever.
Fond memories of seeing Desmond Dekker live at the Top rank Suite (night club) in Birmingham back in the late 1960s
Massive Respect...
Got to see Him at the Showcase Theater...
Here in Southern California...
Theatre please!
Still listening and always listening to the best music 2024
This song never gets old.
It's one of those classics you love to hear every time it plays.
When it was released, our AM station played it to death. In a week. But it's still got some of the funkiest bass 'climbs'.
Timeless
this song is like a fashion that will never wear out
Timeless classic 👌
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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 unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.”
WE ARE THE ISRAELITES.
When this first came out, I heard it on the radio. Was either WISE or WKKE, Asheville, NC. After one hearing, not even sure what I'd heard, or who it was, I HAD to have it. I was about 13 years old. I hit the pavement walking, and went to Every record/music store in town, where I was met with incomprehension as I tried to find/describe this Holy Grail. Finally, after almost a whole day, I found a store with a 45RPM of a song called "Israelites". Couldn't even be sure it was the right one, but I bought it and took it home. Imagine my relief when I put it on and heard that first "Get up in the morning..."
There are so few pleasures in life that are as intense, immediate, and pure as that.
I'm guessing you did some dancing that day :)
agreed!!
There is a lot of familiarity in your story. :)
Also first it heard on that same station in 1969 as a kid growing up in Asheville. Loved it.
Rob Derrick brilliant comment! was kinda what happened to me too.
2024 WHOS HERE 🎉
Me
@@jamesbyrne4957 yes ssssir
YES!
Yup here 2024. Heard something the other day that woke up my memory and this song flooded back into my head. What a great original song.
Me here today 1st November in Kenya!
Do you know how talented you have to be for such a sad song to sound soo upbeat and smooth!? Rest Easy to King Desmond! This song is Perfect in every form!
...truth...
Agreed 100%
TotLly with yer
Can someone explain exactly what this song is about,I love it anyway😊
It’s 1969 and I’m 13 and hearing this song on a transistor radio on the school bus. Loved it then, love it now. It was so original and universally good.
I was 15, and now a shiver runs down my spine!
Ditto and I was 10
How sweet!
We are old but love the classics?
I was 15, going on 16. The spring of 1969 when music was great. It was the final months of my Freshman year of high school & final months of living in Elwood, New Jersey. June 21, 1969 I moved to Newark, Delaware where I lived 3 years before I went into the U.S.Navy.
Me 13. First skinhead haircut. Corn Exchange, Leeds. This on radio.
In my book, this's the greatest song in ska/reggae history!
It's the only one in mine!
Still fantastic after all these years 😎
@@williambaxter4628 Might I recommend.. basically anything from Toots and the Maytalls?
@@erisdiscordia5429
Thanks.
Embarrassed to admit it was years before I realised Desmond wasn't singing 'my ears are alight'
Timeless classic from the music giants of my little island 🇯🇲
Hi Lawrence greetings from a Blondie in Europe🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚Jamaica is great🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Jamaica has produced some great music in its time.
No little Island but msgnificent country. Do uou know that Britain is an island, so is Japan and the Philippines. Big up Jamaica.
@@hgfh4684 Jamaica's much smaller than all those places, both in area and population
👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 top talent the Aces. And the fab Harry Belafonte ❤️ Scottish granny! 🇯🇲.
2024. Who's still dancing to this?
I'm still playing it 😄
Can't move like i used to, but yeah me.😁
Me.
I don't dance but I love the song. The two have nothing to do with each other.
It kinda slaps.
The first reggae song to crack the U.S.charts-Reached the top 10 in the spring of 1969.
Always loved this song.
Thank you for the education family
Yes! Reached #9 on the Billboard Top 40 and was the first reggae song to get lots of airplay on mainstream pop radio here in the States
This isn't reggae though. This is ska. This is good ska. This is reggae's daddy.
Ah the origins of Reggae! What a timeless classic!😂❤😮
Found this song while skimming through the oldies on TH-cam. Wonderful song.
Drugstore cowboy..fucked up movie
I am still listening to this classic song ❤
I was 11 when this came out. I liked it a lot, and still do.
Fantastic
First heard this song growing up in Jamaica in the 90s watching drugstore cowboy the movie. That film creeped me out 😂
Great movie 🍿
Happy 80th birthday Desmond Dekker!!!
Happy birthday 🎂
Any body out there 2024?
Like before.. always...
Stay Rude Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping...
Cheers from Southern California...
2024❤
Great song !!
I’m here
Yep.
How about November 2024? Jamaica proud ❤
I was stationed in Northern Thailand in 1969 during the Vietnam War.. I listened to this almost everyday... it got me through a bad time in my life and others too.
Rastafari family
My brother was in 'Nam at the time. His unit loved this song.
Music can be the transporter back in time...the healer.
It's Oct 2023 and I'm living in Bangkok now and it still sounds great!
First off, thank you for your service to our amazing country. While you were listening to this overseas I was a kid listening to this song on am radio here in the states. I hadn't heard it for years until I stumbled upon a movie starring matt dillon called drugstore cowboy. What a blast from the past.
Just heard, this wonderful man has died of a heart attack. RIP Desmond Decker, you will be missed!
MARINA THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATION. I'VE ALWAYS ENJOYED THIS SONG SINCE I WAS A KID.
Amen Marina.
He passed on in 2006, but your last point is completely valid.
@@WedgePee Not missing Him yet...
(I had to screw a couple of cones, new ones, into a couple of cabinets, old ones, I had to clean the conductive surfaces of each and every one of my audio leads... I even had to accept the need for a new AmpLifIer... SO NO! I HAVE NOT HAD TO MISS Desmond Decker for a moment..!
(unless I sleeping, then I skipping it for some hours)
Decker is a style of bus. This genius is DEKKER. R- E-S-P-E-C-T
As a Jamaican, these are the songs that I see that represent the roots of our culture. Yeah, we have a new string of songs that represent us now, but look at the state of the country now.
Fabulous band
The 60s will never be beaten
Jamaica should have stayed in the Commonwealth.
ppl wanna feel independent as a race i dont blame them @@ryleighloughty3307
From the time conscious reggae music was destroyed with nasty dancehall shenanigans..... the whole world lost out. RIP Mr Marley...Twinkle Brothers...Black Uhuru... and Steel Pulse! ❤
Yall are Israelites not Jamaicans
Forever.
2022, 70 years old and still listening and dancing with my grandson. God is good, Big up UK.
Fantastic to hear Desmond and the Aces again, takes me back to the mid'60s when I saw them in Peterborough at the Bull and Dolphin, they were brilliant the best regae band I ever saw. God bless you Dessie up there in Heaven.
I just heard this song for the first time three days ago and must have repeated it 100 times. This is magical and what music should be and do to your mind.
Do you know Young Gifted and Black.....go check that 1 out ❤
Thank you Dad for introducing me to this banger 🔥❤👊
Hey Paula
Do you have any idea how much you want me for this weekend and how you want me for a woman that will await your call from my friend and let her family
2024 anybody out there?? Truth coming into the light. APTTMH,🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Bless up!!! This song came out in 1968.
@@Ifonze yeah man the truth is coming, the king of kings that is.
Takes me back to the good old days
"Shirt them a tear up..trousers a go" the best way I've heard of being completely on your arse!
looked for this song for years but thought it was called "its a red light". hey, i was only eight years old but it stayed with me all my life and I'm 55 now and this is the first time since 1968 i am hearing it. i love it! wouldn't have rediscovered it had i not hummed the tune to some one older who knew it was the Israelites song. and thanks to you tube, well there you have out and many other great songs by Desmond Dekker. enjoy!!! white conservative in the northeast! dont go figure, music is the universal language!
its a red light
Lol..I thought it was "These red eyes".
Surely it's "Me Ears Are Alight" :-)
I had the same problem with Brimful of Asha
Me ears are alight ?
2020 anyone?
Me
Hell yeah!
Yes my darling
sup
2020 and still living for unity in the face of division
We da israelites! Praise God, good to see our people confessing the name way back then
I loved this song 🎵 when l was a teenager my father and mother wondered why their music was more frenk sinatra which I do like but reggae is for me
The Israelites need is now more than ever. DD forever.
I Love this Song...I was in my 20's during the 1960's.(Lucky Me). I have played this Song for the Last 44 Years. I am now 79 and still Love their Music...
My ears are alight!
First reggae I ever heard. Just perfect 🥰.
I remember this song was used in an advert for a sunflower margarin, way back , always loved this song so cheerful and made you want to dance.
I'm 83, still love it 😊
The first 'reggae' track I heard in 1968. Well done, boys.
Yes we had some diverse music in the 60’s. And we loved it.
What an amazing sound - I heard this song over 60 years ago - still love it - the music out there today is also amazing but this song by Desmond Decker still takes a lot of beating xxx
2023 , any body out there ?
Jammin❤
Im here Mate ...200 Kid from South Staffs..formerly from Crewe...
Suedehead Central back in 70 - 72...I was 8 ...surrounded by Mods and Skins due to my Foxy elder sisters ....wonderful times
Yea... an Israelite in the truth!
🙋🏻♀️
Yes, israelite here! ❤
Dancing in the disco over Cafe Straub in Heidelberg, Germany in 1969 and I thought I was sooo cool...
I’m 80, still Bobbin in to this! 2023
big sound big tune
It may be 53 years old, but I heard it for the first time just now. It's great.
Shout out to whoever will always hear "me ears are alight"
Masterpiece real reggae music jamming 2024
Wi deh yah, December 2024 !! Representing and Honouring the works !!
This song perfectly illustrates the transformation of ska into reggae. And still fresh after 49! years
This is actually a Rocksteady tune Reggae came after Rocksteady. The backing band is Lyn Taitt and The Jets.
I'm here in 2024!
I am 24 great music
i was 4 years old came to England from East Africa this was number when we arrived in England my family loved it so much today im a single parent with two mixed Asian and white kids i asked my son while driving listening to the radio what was his favourite song of all time he said mum I was 5 and you put on Israelites: my fav song of all time my son is 24 now and uni i was blown away so proud
Playing in Mt bar right now its a vybe 😊
Love the guitar in this classic. And can we just shout about the range of Desmond's voice. All dancing on our 6th form roof in '68!
I was 15 years old and saw the band in a Pub called the Bull in Sheen SW 14 in London, that was 53 years ago when music made you dance all night, it influenced me to enjoy all kinds of music that was harmonic in nature and that soothed the soul.
Top notch 👍🇯🇲🇬🇧🏴
The first time I heard this was on my way home from Vietnam flying from Seattle to Chicago in July 1969 with those earbuds they had on airlines back then. I had heard Caribbean music before but nothing like this. It just blew me away. I was an instant reggae fan. A few nights later I was dancing in a Boston night club to it's beat.lol
To all the ska kids, especially 3rd wave, we made it through the dark days of the 70s as kids and 80s as teens.
We can make it through today!!!
#Trojan #2Tone #skabetty
No idea whatsoever why I like this song
Once a ringer always a ringer. Still the sound of what music was and should be today.
Watchmen thanks for using my country song 🇯🇲🥰
The best music came from there my friend.
This song POPPED in my head today STRAIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE!! Is it because I'm turning 63 this year?? 🙏
Our days in discotheques and live band jams
Great music for us oldies who can dance. No good for anyone under 55!
Hahaha... Seen him play in the 90s..
Cheers from Southern California 🇺🇸
Stay Rude Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping
Only 51 this year
Still dancing
Desmond Dekker did more improve race relations in Britain than anyone at the time or any of today’s shabby politicians.
RIP,bruv..
Back in 1968 my girlfirend (now my wife) and I used to meet for lunch at the Elephant and Castle at a place called the Gold Medal and this used to play while we ate and here I am 55 years later. and still listening to it. Happy days and happier days since.
Not to be picky, but this hit was in the summer of 69
@@robertthacher I was so much in love that time meant nothing to me.
Nice!!!
I was in Middle School when this came out and it was bomb
The first record I ever purchased with my own money.
Still loving this! 2024
I've been listening to this tune since 1987 awesome tune got to number 1 in the UK charts in march 1969
These musicians nailed it. Great music.
1st reggae tune to hit No1 in the UK. And well deserved. *"Rest In Eternal Paradise"-* Desmond Dekker.
This is one of my all-time favourites! I adore it.
Anyone remember Drugstore Cowboy they played this song at the end of the movie this song is great
When they were cross roading
January 2024 - Still listening and toe tapping 💃 👏 🎶 😍
This was one of the first 45's I bought as a kid, loved it, played it over and over, drove my parents nuts....
It really is brilliant. I heard it for the first time during a movie "Drugstore Cowboy." It's so unique, and stays in your head! Great, great song from extraordinary people - Jamaicans.
Yep.. thats where I first heard this awesome tune.. great movie !!!
Same here and great film!!
IT MEK is unbelievably, even better!!!!
Me too! Great movie!!
I was looking for a comment like yours, I forgot the name of the movie that I heard this song in, Drugstore Cowboy
I loved this song when it came out. I was 10, living next to the sea and this tune seemed to be everywhere.......the tourists always had radios with them on the beach in those days (UK)
Yep!!
Bringing memories of 68 when I left school & my first Reggae lovers disco ..
Loved it then & love it now ..timeless
This all-time Reggae Classic gave me the shivers everytime I spun the record on my turntable back in the days...No doubt one of the defining tracks in the development of Jamaican music as much as the Wailers' Get up Stand Up and the Abyssinians' Satta Massagana..
All praises to The Most High!! Loved that song then and now RIP!
Israelites ✌🏾🤴🏿👸🏾
Praise The Lord. Please read Galatians.
@@Leejahstar 2 Esdras 6:9 KJV.
Wake Israel
I was there in '68 my two bros. In Nam my Uncle Ken a P.O.W. my friend Steve Marlow a Marine who lived three houses down from me in N.Y. kia. This was my favorite song. I was 14 .
Great story!
So many memories of living in London! I was 13 when this came out and they would blast it at the fairgrounds in Clapton. Nostalgic as I age.
Oh ya? The multicultural brainwashing goes that far back? London's basically a proxy of Africa and the Middle East. Their gonna kill you guys you know? Yep... Best believe it.
I grew up around there in the 80s, do you mean the fairs that used to pitch up in Hackney Downs park? They still had them during the 80s and 90s. It's interesting hearing that this was a song they played during the 60s. I can well understand the nostalgia, especially when a great song brings it all back.
I was 10 years old when it came out in 1968 and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Me and my friends were at a local Fun Fair in Stainforth, Doncaster on the 'Waltzers' the first time we heard it.
I remember this from 1970 when I was a kid. Simply brilliant.
Wow! Never knew how much relevance this would have today. Shout out to all of my Israelite Mispacha! Shalom!
It shalam
Watchmen s01e03 though
well, don't most of us wake up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir? so every mouth can be fed?
@Robert legitd00d lol, it's been tried before
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Classic....I like the bass man. He makes this group's harmony.
Love this song. My dad used to sing this whenever I would blow dry my hair saying “my ears are alight” instead of “The Israelites”. Every time I hear this song now I can’t help but remember his amazing sense of humour. MEMORIES 😍😍
Still Awesome 👏
Remember when this came out when I was at school 1968 when I was 12, all the Teens in the UK loved Reggae, brought to the UK from Jamaica by Chris Blackwell. of Island Records. He is still around I think.