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!!!
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.
Gene Chandler sounds like a one man doo wop group on this song.
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.
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 when a man held his woman in his arms and they were one heart and soul. So romantic.
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.
Please do Up On the Roof by the Drifters or Stand By Me by Ben E. King.
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 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.💯
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.
So much good music back in the day.
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)
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.
Man your variety is on point. Love the harmonies in this oldie. Cheers mate
In Australia they used this instrumental and changed the words to a shampoo/conditioner product called decore and I remember it 30 years later