SONNY CHARLES AND THE CHECKMATES LD - Black Pearl REACTION - A very important song much needed
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SONNY CHARLES AND THE CHECKMATES LD - Black Pearl REACTION
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This is fantastic John, especially for Black History Month. 🖤
@@AnnE-mn8ny Pretty much every other day.
I have loved this song from it came out, in 1969 if memory serves. A powerful song with an equally powerful message. I just love it and listen to my " old school " songs on a regular basis. Great reaction, i must look up the reggae version, thanks👍
Thanks Harri for the great reaction. There's a little more backstory that I discovered just recently. Spector was inspired to write this (the lyrics are by Toni Wine & Irwin Levine) when he saw "For The Love of Ivy" a 1968 film starring Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln. Poitier co-wrote the script about Ivy Moore, a maid who after nine years of service leaves to go to secretarial school. So, it was definitely about self-empowerment. Quincy Jones' score for the movie was nominated for an Oscar.
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Thank you, John Chu. I haven't heard this song in years.
What a great tune! Thanks for sponsoring this pearl, John!
In 2001 when hubby and I were still dating, we'd go every weekend here in Las Vegas to Arizona Charlie's, where Sonny Charles and his band would entertain all weekend. We'd dance our butts off! Then a few years later, we saw Sonny in Laughlin Nevada singing with The Steve Miller Band. We last saw him in West Vegas doing singing in a retirement community. Still as light on his feet as ever and in fine voice! Talked with him for awhile. Very nice chap. When he was at Arizona Charlie's, his band was still The Checkmates. He started singing with others when his longtime bandmate, Sweet Louie died suddenly when they were booked as entertainment on a cruise ship. Sonny has been a fixture in Vegas for decades. Thanks for featuring him Harri! 👍 ❤
i was 10 when i first heard this,,still on my playlist i'm not black i'm a brown chicano....what a song. shakes ma soul.
I have loved this song so much since high school.
Look at the video, makes you cry too , just to see what our women went through, achieved and still be called second class. You have beauty queens, maids, scientists, astronaut, poets, first lady, business women etc represented there. Make you wonder what we could have done if we were just left alone and no treated like that.
I am SO glad you have reacted to this.I thought I was on my own knowing this song.Bought it when it came out,still play it regularly,LOVE IT .Phil Spector produced it.Thanks for reviewing it.A hidden GEM❤.
Woo-Hoo !!....I had thought I was the only one who admired this song as much as I do !..I'm not alone ! Got my recent Reggae version done as well...photo-video....
✋🏿😔 and I promise to make the 'real' video
stand to the Greatness of the song.
He's from my hometown FT WAYNE IN. SO proud ..
I have played this song over and over. It was popular when I was young. And Spector's wall of sound... dang. I love this song so much. I was 19 y/o and working with a young black man who introduced me to this song. I found it so wonderful, I wished I was black so I could claim it for myself. Good review.
I’m from the Southside of Chicago, and I know this song because my mom has the 45 and that’s her nickname Black Pearl she was in a gang called the Duprees, in Pilsen, they also called her blacky, we are Mexican but my mom is very Dark skinned and this song just fills me with joy I almost cry sometimes listening to it, blacks and browns unite, and all others let’s continue together
Bought this 45 when it was out.. 12 years old..... summer of '69......loved this record....
As a lifelong reggae fan I remember discovering soul originals. It can be such a shock to find out that it’s not a reggae original. I like your cultural comparison between the two genres and placing it in historical context. I particularly liked your affection for the reggae version
Nice one ❤
I still play this song, always loved it.
Great song when I was dating my future wife we went out to dinner and before we got out of the car this song came on the radio. We had to listen to it before leaving the car.
Love it
I loved this song when it first came out. I love it now. A gem of the art form called Rock and Roll. You feel the love ,pride and hope of people. A gift from black people to all people people people people
I'm sorry. I meant to say people only once at the end of my comment. Computers can be real crap sometimes.
Oh man I haven't heard this song in 40 years! Maybe 50. Great choice thanks! Peace!
I haven’t heard this song for too long. The music that you explore is always amazing. The diamonds in your ears keeps me coming back for more. Exceptional programming.
TH-cam is my go-to for old songs.
I only knew this version back in the day.
I didn't realize the fullness of it's meaning.
Hola Harri! I've been following you for some couple of years, it did my head in when your monitors were reflect in your glasses (that's the tour manager in me!) you give so many insights into your soul. Loved your exploration into the Beatles a while ago, Greetings from Bristol UK, keep on " reacting" dude!
the Best Song Ever Written
From their 1969 album, Love is All We have to Give, this was produced by Phil Spector. Inspired by the Sidney Portier's 1968 movie Love of Ivy.
Such a great song from past. Beautiful lyrics in this song, sung with such sweetness and delivering a message of love and loss. I always loved this song.
Great reaction Harri.Thanks Harri and John. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Interesting, did Phil Spector produce both versions? Totally in love with this beautiful beautiful song. Thanks for the video! And how does this only have 1.7k views?
I love your channel and your accent Harri. Please do a reaction on “Young, Gifted and Black” by Donny Hathaway live at the Troubadour. It too is a very empowering song. I know people listen to the great Ms. Nina Simone sing it, but Donny does it with so much soul and he does it live. Please check it out for Black History Month. Thank you.
Luv this song!! ❤
I've loved this since it was first out. The beautiful message is bringing tears to my eyes even as I watch your video.
I still have the 45rpm record. A lot of southern radio stations didn't give it the airplay it deserved. Just a wonderful song with a great message.
I was 14 when this song came out, about a year after Elvis Presley's "In The Ghetto." Both did have a significant impact.
I really liked both songs then, and still do now.
My first time hearing this song 👋 👋👋
Loved this song since my teens on Leeds
I remember this song albeit by a different artist, the song i know is by Horace Faith and was a hit in the uk. First yime hearing this version and i liked it. Horace's version was slightly sped up.
good job! great song!! always loved it. and , love your channel
I heard this song on the radio in the 90s and it's a song I keep coming back to. Their whole album is marvelous esp I keep forgetting. Would love for regular folk today to get exposure to great songs like this. Thank you so much for posting
I adore this song! I had it in my 45 Record collection as a kid.
You really have great people suggesting songs
my all time fav song 1969
This is a great song! ❤
This is such a beautiful song. Heard it for the first time the other day. Love it!!!!
One of my favorites
Thank you!
I remember this tune and it's really sweet. Thanks Harri
He is from my home town FT WAYNE INDIANA.. I named my Shepard BLACK PEARL....
what a blast from the past,beednyears since heard this.
I have both versions bought them both when they were first released
what people didnt know that he had a terrible cold when he recorded this song it is incredible!!!
Heart Felt
Read an interesting story from Sonny Charles that this recording is actually his voice sped up. When he went to record, he had laryngitis or a similar ailment.
I love this song. Check our Love Is All I Have To Give. Different lead singer and more wall of sound Phil Specter sound,
Superb haven't heard this song for years.
Here's the reggae version by Horace Faith th-cam.com/video/x9rQ4eXw-NE/w-d-xo.html Got to #13 in UK in 1970. Bob and Marcia "Young, Gifted and Black" th-cam.com/video/ZV_afu1-jDw/w-d-xo.html which was #5 in the UK also in 1970.
As far as I know The Checkmates version of "Proud Mary" th-cam.com/video/VvMGW9dLQVg/w-d-xo.html was the first to use the arrangement that Tina Turner would make an integral part of her act for ever.
This came out at the very beginning of America making strides toward racial equality...Next came Martin Luther King and we were getting even closer, but it seems after his death we stalled out and the last few years we seem to be regressing...What a shame and an embarrassment for our country...
Where's the "regression"? Really, please tell me..., that's a divisive false narrative promoted to divide us by people that hate America...and you've got the timeline wrong on this record too. MLK was assassinated in '68. .. this record came out in summer of '69.....The
"embarrassment" is the people that fall for the race baiting politics.......wise up..
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