Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites" (Official Audio)
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- Official audio for Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites", released in 1968 on Trojan Records.
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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!!!!
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.
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.
I was 11 when this came out. I liked it a lot, and still do.
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.
I am still listening to this classic song ❤
Still listening and always listening to the best music 2024
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
I'm here in 2024!
I am 24 great music
2024 anybody out there?? Truth coming into the light. APTTMH,🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Bless up!!! This song came out in 1968.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2024 here! First ska song I ever heard at age five! Fast forward to the English Beat, The Selector, Madness, The Specials! That beat never gets old. 😀🎵
Me too, 2024. Ska was an experience of a naive little white girl in Toronto, Canada, part of the British Commonwealth. in the 1960s. More Ska! More Reggae! More Rock Steady!
@@patriciasmith1128 Ska was great for another little white girl (me!) growing up in a small town in northeast USA. When the DJ started playing all the ska songs, you couldn't get my friends or me off the dance floor. Sometimes lasted for an hour! Great times and memories. Glad you had fun,too! Rankin full stop goes on!
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.
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.
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.
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😊
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! ❤
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.
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! 🇯🇲.
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...
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..
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
Embarrassed to admit it was years before I realised Desmond wasn't singing 'my 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.
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
First heard this song growing up in Jamaica in the 90s watching drugstore cowboy the movie. That film creeped me out 😂
Great movie 🍿
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 ?
The first 'reggae' track I heard in 1968. Well done, boys.
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 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...
This song had a profound effect on me as a teenager. It's message still stands today.
Graduated in 88, never saw Drugstore cowboy until tonight, how is that possible. That's why I'm here.
Never leave a hat on the bed!
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 😍😍
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
January 2024 - Still listening and toe tapping 💃 👏 🎶 😍
😮Just realised this day what this song is about. They made it an advert for a drink. un-learn and re-learn. ❤
Watchmen thanks for using my country song 🇯🇲🥰
The best music came from there my friend.
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.
2020 anyone?
Me
Hell yeah!
Yes my darling
sup
2020 and still living for unity in the face of division
I’m 80, still Bobbin in to this! 2023
These musicians nailed it. Great music.
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.
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 may be 53 years old, but I heard it for the first time just now. It's great.
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.
Once a ringer always a ringer. Still the sound of what music was and should be today.
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
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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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
Playing in Mt bar right now its a vybe 😊
"Shirt them a tear up..trousers a go" the best way I've heard of being completely on your arse!
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
Mr. Dekker you have my greatest admiration and respect; when life brings me down this song uplifts my spirits and I find the way over the past 25 years to overcome adversity, your voice is a rare gem and I am humbly grateful
I was 30 years old when this came out--loved it then and love it now
The Israelites need is now more than ever. DD forever.
I'm 83, still love it 😊
1st reggae tune to hit No1 in the UK. And well deserved. *"Rest In Eternal Paradise"-* Desmond Dekker.
my brother who passed away to a better place , had this on tape cassette and played it to me when i young still sounds great
+billy miami dolphins gunners taaffe Condolences for your loss.Your brother had great taste.
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Classic....I like the bass man. He makes this group's harmony.
When I first heard this song on the radio, I thought I was hearing a very good foreign language record and lumped it together in my musical understanding with "Sukiyaki" and "Volare." Boy was I wrong when further listening revealed English with a very heavy Jamaican accent. I bought it when it first came out in the states and played it alone in my room a lot. Little did I know, I was buying a record that would make history even now in light of the success of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Little did I know that I would be playing it today as if I just bought it new way back then. Little did I know that I would trace my love of Reggae music not to Bob Marley, but to Desmond Dekker and this masterpiece. Tomorrow, I will play this again, unlock more of its secrets and enjoy every minute of it.
+Donald Morrow This was the first Reggae song I ever heard, when it came out. I did not realize it was from an entire genre of music. Years later, I saw Toots and the Maytals, the same week Bob's Rastaman Vibration came out. I was in Love, like I had not been since James Brown played in my 4th grade pre Integration all white elementary school auditorium, in Augusta Ga. Love at first hearing.
+Donald Morrow I don't want to sound rude, but I have no idea how you didn't recognize that this was English straight away.
+Seb King Quite simply, I was twelve years old at the time and knew very few Jamaicans.
Donald Morrow Fair enough then. Again, sorry if it came off as rude.
+Donald Morrow This was also the first reggae song I ever heard. My aunts and uncles were holding out on me. I heard this record on WABC-AM in New York, and almost had a meltdown.
This is an absolute timeless classic, I first heard this when it came out back the 1960s in the UK, was enthralled with it back then and now in 2024 it's lost none of it's great sound to me personally and regards reggae, still love the beat.
This fab song makes me get up and dance ,, What a special unique reggae Blast from the past lol Jane x
I was in Middle School when this came out and it was bomb
Suddenly I'm 16 again.....tonic skirt, chunky shoes and mod haircut down at the RickyTick disco on a Friday night!
MAN DOWN TOP RANK CROYDON ANY ONE OUT THERE REMEMBER IT
Blow Up; The film featured The Ricky Tick
Probably saw you there!
Suddenly I'm -22, my mother was 4 and was probably busy singing.
hehe...
Lovely song; it took me right back to the days of my childhood when my mom and her brothers used to play sweet reggae records with songs like Israelites. I practically grew up on these kind of songs! Love em to pieces I did back then, and still do.
Takes me back to the good old days
I played it for my son last night on a long trip. It just popped into my head. I have not heard it since the early 70s when it ruled AM radio -- 77 WABC in NYC.
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 was when tunes were really tunes and gotta love this classic.
stephen smart I always have, ever since it 1st came out when I was a teen.
stephen smart love this song whats some other old gems for a young buck whos too young to know
Fun trivia fact: The most famous Jamaican musician *before* Bob Marley was Desmond Dekker, mostly because of this song.
They worked together in a factory.
Sorry Jim but there were lots who came before, most notably Prince Buster etc.. but hey thus tune brought SKA to the masses thank god.
@@Life-is-a-Dance This isn't ska, it's reggae and this example is a long way from ska.
@@monsieurbertillon9570 From what I understand, this is a subset of reggae called rocksteady.
Jimmy Cliff Wonderful World
Killah tune still after all those years! This one has no expiry date dread!
Great music doesn't get old.
Me Israelites still alive and kicking 2022
Yah Chosen people✊🏾
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OOOoooh The True Isarilites Amen!
@@evanlaughlin6345 the Israelites were never white
@@truthseeker215 They weren't black fam.
rest well Desmond, you've done good here and will be missed, never forgotten
Yes I am here ❤ love growing up listening to this May 2024 these were good clean life songs
I was 13 when this came out and I pretty much wore out the record playing it. Had the record until 2015ish. Basement flood destroyed my entire record collection. Today, my Wife sent me the lyrics....never knew the actual lyrics. This still hits me as it did in 68.
I've listened and played this song more times than any other.
Drugstore cowboy had this originally on the soundtrack way before watchman did!
What? It was very popular here in the UK. My dad was Jamaican so we were very familiar with it, but it was very much loved by a lot of people here
Same. Drug store cowboy 1989 got me hooked on this song
Be playing music tomorrow johnny
Yes I love this song it reminds me of my brother n I we heard it in 1969 we were 13yrs old. Never forgotten
In the year 2124 they will still listen....🙂
Children of Judah and the other 11 stand up and represent the blessing you all are as God's chosen. Suffer now and inherit the holy kingdom.
All praises to the Most High Old King👑
Amen sister ✊🏾
God is Ponzi scheme
Cheyenne and Arapahoe here! One of 12 tribes! Indigenous people love!!
@Freedom For All YOU A REAL DUMB ASS
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I heard this for the first time in 1968! GREAT song! 68 also had Whiter Shade of Pale! 68 and 69 had best music!
..love that re recurring bass line.
Amazing song! Dekker introduced the ska and reggae music to UK, even before that Bob Marley.
2024 junkie here , anyone else ?
Don’t leave a hat on the bed
One of Jamaica’s best 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Forever.
Still loving this! 2024
Yes, I do I'm 68 and I loved it then and love it now, in 2021.
First heard this on an early "oldies" format radio station around 1978. I was about 14 and...GAME CHANGER!!
This was so different to anything else I had heard. Still one of the best songs I have ever heard.
I remember this from 1970 when I was a kid. Simply brilliant.
I was a reggae child in west London 1955 to 2981. Reggae was a youth club dance craze. Loved it!
I saw Desmond live in Romford, Essex. Wow this took me back more than a few years!! Still loving it.
my hometown
Such a beautiful song.
Classic is an understatement!
Desmond Dekker did more improve race relations in Britain than anyone at the time or any of today’s shabby politicians.
RIP,bruv..