THE BELLE STARS - Iko Iko
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Iko Iko by the The Belle Stars, from the movie soundtrack to "Rainman" (with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise) - video originally broadcast on MuchMusic (Canada's music video station) during the late 80's
This song brings back memories of my youth thank God for UA-cam
This song was used in my Senior Year Video Yearbook in 1989. Recently heard it on Sirius and cranked it up
How stunning was she awesome tune
Yes! She was always striking but when they released this vid a few years later her features had smoothed out and she was simply beautiful...
Bravo at The Belle Stars. I've heard too many interpretations of IKO, IKO by a multitude of artists but YOU and The Belle Stars are interpret this song exactly as it should be: all in depth, light (in the fantastic), amusing and mind-blowing just like a possibly random computer. Amazulu: You surely don't know that the creation of the lyrics of this song have was randomly created by a computer and that's why it makes us travel elsewhere. You do it so well that I really believe in it.
Bravo: The Belle Stars.
Grand-Papa Mario 06/16/1955
P/S: I wish you had the courage to tell me what you think. If you don't have the courage to speak up, I understand you. I'm 65 years old and I'm just starting to understand who I am and how my soul feels.
Awesome song for playing some blackjack
It's favorite for many people, for just as many reasons! Rock on!!!
@Antonio Frankenstein do you specifically request this to be on while you play?😂♠️♥️♦️♣️
just after reading "The World's Greatest Blackjack Book".
My favorite movie.
Of course
That song sound always in my head because is in many films, and now can not stop 👂
Young people 2022: I like the new version they have today.
Me 2022: The new version sucks!
I don't care too much for cover songs because the original version is usually better but not the case with this song and I thank you many times over for putting it up :)
I first heard this song on Nickelodeon, only it was under the title “Nickelodeon Nation”. I had never heard the original until now.
As an 80s teen, I can’t say how much I love this song ❤❤
I enjoyed the song's second go round then too. As a little girl, I loved it sung by The Dixie Cups. :)
Lucky you, I was born in 1988
I was in marching band in high school and our drum and flag corps had a great routine to this. Such happy memories!
It's my feel good song, if I am having a bad day !
I wasn’t allowed to listen to this song growing up. I’m so happy to listen to it as much as I want, now! MUCH respect to this song!!
2021 April 14 from Turkey 🇹🇷🙋♂️
very cool
Awesome!
Je ne connaissais qu'un titre des Belles stars "Sign of the times".
Still the Best!
when i was a lot younger my sleep-away camp would have us sing this by the fireplace. memories
I already Thumbed d'up. Can't I do it twice?
IKO IKO rainman and me danced by the fire.
The Belle Stars cover is by FAR the best version. I've listened to the others from other artists before and after and there's no comparison. Shows that sometimes covers and remixes are better than the original
you're right like the few songs UB40 had they were a lot better than the originals
Rainman relieved
2019?
Looking up the Dr. John version and this crap czme up... Dr. John's version from 1972 is closer the the original spirit of the song originally written and performed by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford. The song was called Jock-a-mo. In the 60's the Dixie Cups basically screwed him out of the song by changing the words a little bit, modifying the arrangement somewhat, and titling it Iko Iko instead of Jock-a-mo. Listening to the songs back to back, it's clear that they are the same damn song. They fucked him over. They got credits for it and he only got something like 25% from his own song.
Dr. John's version musically is more faithful to the original Jock-a-mo and lyrically it's more faithful (although slightly modified as well). I respect his version more than any other (other than the original) because he kept the feel of the original, and the lyrics that are different are in the spirit of the original. Most every other version you hear is a cover of The Dixie Cups version with few, if any lyrics changed.
Sample of the Jock-a-mo Lyrics:
My spyboy met your spyboy
Sittin' by the bayou
My spyboy told your spyboy:
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"
Talkin' 'bout
Hey now, Hey now
Look at my queen all dressed in red
Iko iko an de
I bet you five dollars she'll kill you dead
Jock-a-mo fee na ne
Sample of the lyrics The Dixie Cups version:
My grand-ma and your grand-ma
were sit-tin' by the fire.
My grand-ma told your grand-ma:
"I'm gon-na set your flag on fire."
Look at my king all dressed in red
I-ko, I-ko, un-day.
I bet-cha five dol-lars he'll kill you dead, jock-a-mo fee na-né
My flag boy and your flag boy
were Sit-tin' by the fire
My flag boy told Your flag boy:
"I'm gon-na set your flag on fire."
Total ripoff.
R.I.P. Dr. John
1 For bad, 2 for good
I first heard this song from the Fox family features promo in the ferngully vhs
I think of Tom Cruise in sunglasses hoisting a Ferrari.
La chanson me fait penser á Rain Man
Came here from the movie "The Hangover"
knew this song even before the hangover movie.
I heard this song in 1990, from the movie Rain Man.
Which recreated the scene from Rain Man
I came here from the movie "The Rainman" that gave Dustin Hoffman his 2nd Oscar for Best Actor.
Congratulations
Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know's on third
los simuladores!
2019
super pjesmica
10 years from now we'll look back and ask why we dressed like gangstas.
She was just seventeen....
Watching Mission Impossible 2 for the first time brought me here :)
How is this song 9 years old?
"Mustafa, bu arabanın parasını nereden buldun?"
Classic remake.
Is Macarena the only alternative through You?
This is the version I heard first.
i kinda wanna do a cover of this
The Hangover
vine hasta acá por los simuladores
Disculpe, fuego tiene?
The previews to snoopy come home brought me here.
Does anyone know who all the dancers are, they don't look like the band members?
Soundtrack akımını başlatan ilk klip desek yanlış olmaz.
Your potato films in HD? I want the same :D
😂😂😂
Ti ft Gucci mane usher Nelly iko iko song hip hop
I'm not man !!! I'm a loving man,Amanda!!!!!!
Wolf of wall street
This song is about a collision between 2 tribes of Mardi Gras Indians. The song was called Jak a Mo and was first released in 1953 by Sugar Boy and the cane cutters. It didn't even make the charts. It was redone by The Dixie Cups ( all girl band ) and became an international hit in 1967. It was done again by The bell Stars that your watching.
This is a song about a guy who was estrange from his father learning to be self sufficient at the cost of becoming cold.
It’s actually about a snail who went on an adventure and found a cucumber to eat 👉🐌🥒 ua-cam.com/video/Sg_lJ4k1yY0/v-deo.html
The Dixie Cups girls did it in 1965.
Seeing the Indians is a great, but overlooked experience.
Thanks for the lesson. The Dixie version is a favorite.
Whenever i hear this song, I think of Alan coming down the elevator in a suit.
I think about that shifty flag boy who’s been causing some trouble around campfire....
Always lol
hahaha same
i think about a line of lamborghinis
LMAO SAME..
We are not looking for old songs, we are looking for the old memories they hold
booooth
This song has two memories for me. First, it's the song used in the opening title sequence of the movie "Rain Man."However, in late May 1989 I was hired to be the overnight announcer/engineer at 107.1 WKPL-FM in Platteville, Wis. At the time the station played a Top 40 format and used reel-to-reel tape automation. When I walked into the station late on a Friday night to start my training, this song was playing on air. What a fun and sometimes challenging 18-month stint I would have at WKPL and it's sister station 1590 WTOQ-AM. I do miss those days working in radio.BTW: I was a journalism/technical communications student at UW-Platteville at the time.
What awesome memories 💜
IKO!
This woman seriously has the best hair I have ever seen 😍
The rest of her isn't shabby either!
@@keithrobinson6511 blonde dreds are so hot.
And the best style sense!
This is my favorite version of "Iko". It's a standard, and there are a million ways to do any standard; but in my opinion, this one both gets the structure right, _and_ has the most finely tuned syncopation. (also, dat sliiiide bass)
My fav too
Okay dad
@@fruitloop622 GO TO YOUR ROOM
The Club des Belugas version is perfect.
@@denigomes6697 Nice one! Lovely rhythms, great recommendation, thanks for that!
(I even like the goofy 1930s-cartoon video, with the bare-midriffed giraffe-headed giantess shuffling her fluffy slippers by the windmill spraying oak leaves over the Dutch countryside)
who is still listening in 2020?
Nothing much else to do right now 🙄😂
Iko iko
Here!
Of course this is very good! The best version of this song is here!
This song just popped into my head today.
I was once at Pizza Hut... some people I didn't particularly like came in. I knew one of the girls hated this song. The jukebox had 7 songs for a dollar. I was done eating when they came in. Best $5 I've ever spent. Gosh I loved the 80s. LOL
That's 7 X 5 😮
Passive aggressive much?
Ame tu comentario jaja y pensar que es un clásico 😂😂
JACK EM OFF FEED 'EM HAY!
Yeah thats funny as fuck, What was the punch line?, send too me when you get it, ya bri prick.
Im here for the Hangover
I remember when it was in the charts in the early 80s, catching it on Top of the Pops...Yes I am that old!
This is the best version by FAR!!
You didn't like Cyndi Laupers?
@@johnstauffer1032 not really, no.
The original by The Dixie Cups from the 60's was much better!
This was the best
@@Jiltedin2007 that wasn’t the original
This song should've been included in the "Beetlejuice" movie soundtrack. (I think it goes really well being paired up with the other song, "Day-O'.)
Yes
Yo vengo por Los Simuladores, T2E3
Somos do
Disculpe, fuego tiene?
This song was always so catchy and 30 years later it still is!
The story of this record:
It was recorded in 1982. The group had broken up by the time it was put on the Rain Man soundtrack. The singer in the video is Jennie Matthias (aka Jennie McKeown), who is the singer on the record, but nobody else from the band appeared in the video because the band didn’t exist anymore.
Thank you, didn't know
So was this video shot in 1987/88 or is it an 1982 video?
@@yuvraj01 1988
I was in marching band in high school and our drum and flag corps had a great routine to this. Such happy memories!
I remember this video. It's been years since I last seen it. Hard to believe that its from 1989.
Who's here because of the movie "the hangover" lol i do
Crazy how I'm watching both in 2024
I saw this on Rain Man, best song and movie!
The entire soundtrack from Rain Man was great!
Definitely 247 tooth picks definitely 247 yeah
@EPIC MONTAGES Really??
God thank you for this life altering bit of trivial information
You smart person!!
@EPIC MONTAGES Hey Rainman!!
Wanna go to Vegas with me?.. I mean, you seem really good with numbers!!.. We can take our uncle's 1950 Chevrolet with a blue flame inline 6 engine in it!!!!
@EPIC MONTAGES JUDGE JUDY IS ON AT 5!!!
Dont you get your socks at Walmart in Philadelphia???
Duuuuuude.....you're a legend for having an actual music video from Much Music back when they actually played music videos.
video klibi sezen cumhur önalın sunduğu müzik programından hatırlıyorum. çocukluğum ...
God this song brought Rainman memory back🙌👏
Alot of artists have performed this song. It was wrote in 1965 by The Dixie Cups. They learned it from their grandmother. What a simple great song. In yes its 2020. 55 years ago
Gotta hit that like button. If anyone listened to this in the past year.
one of my best friends stepmother was the base player in this bandXD
and she didnt teach you how to spell "bass?" sounds like a shitty stepmom...
TheSeeohhdee his best friend's stepmother, not his
True I have a big woman crush on the bassplayer foreva. Can u get set me up with her. 💋❤
@@TheSeeohhdee Lol... This post useless af lol...
I remember when this came out, I had a crush on her :-)
Los Simuladores..? Anyone?
2018, y los sigo viendo.
@@80751770 y yo ahora
@@80751770 JAJAJAJA AGUANTE LOS SIMULADORES QUE CAGO DE RISA EL FINAL CON LA OVEJA Y EL TEMA ESTE
Los Simuladores, lo mejor de Argentina
🙌🙌
LOVE this song! It makes me feel good every time I listen to it. Thanks Belle Stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just here from that 20th Century Fox Family Features promo
And someday...I will dance the way she is dancing.
I remember I was at a Grateful Dead concert I think it was 1986. It was in August on a day musta been 100° with high humidity at Giants stadium in NJ. And later in the evening the sky opened up and it rained like I've never seen b4 it was a monsoon , and most welcome !! And the Dead suddenly broke out into this tune while playing under a tarp , it was the very best moment I ever had at a Dead concert. 50,000+ people singing along with this song while getting destroyed by the rain , something I'll NEVER forget.
Not the same year but...
ua-cam.com/video/IsHVqO2X-nQ/v-deo.html
Priceless and meaningful memory
I remember this was the song used in the _Fox Family Features_ trailer with various Fox movies, including the Streamline dub of _My Neighbor Totoro_ on, speaking of, the videotape for that movie.
Funny enough, that promo brought me here. And I have proof that I found it.
@@IdeaBox-dk5vj Same.
Rainman soundrack.. Rainman movie is life story of Kim Peek.. He was biggest savant of the world. R.I.P.
Growing up, my mom used to make CD's for us every year for Christmas. I remember this song being the first one year and I loved it. I didn't know this was from Rain Man until years later.
That’s such a great tradition and idea. I will copy for my kids.
Nor did I as didn't watch music videos, nor see the movie 'til years later, tho' I did (and still do) have the 45. When I found out a 12" single had been released, I got ahold of one only to find out that they had re-mixed it for the 12" (which was not uncommon) and added vocals which for me totally ruined it.
Got this in a play list. I'm addicted to it! The guy that's dancing is cute as fuck!
So Amazing!! My favorite version of it.
If this song doesn't make u start rockin & swinging, then I suppose you must be a zombie
Say what you will about the song/video but things made a hell of a lot more sense back then...
Has to be the same director that did Heavy D & The Boyz video "We Got Our Own Thang". Exact same style; loved it then, love it now.
Production on this is way better than I remember
This is such a jam
For those wondering, the musicians are lead vocalist Jennie McKeown, lead guitarist-wah wah guitarist Sarah-Jane Owen, acoustic guitarist-rhythm guitarist Stella Barker, bassist Lesley Shone, drummer Judy Parsons, percussionists Graham Broad and Martin Ditcham, alto saxophonist Miranda Joyce, and tenor saxophonist-keyboardist Clare Hirst.
Michael Glickman So cool...!!! Thanks for the update and intel...!!! Nice. :-)
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+Michael Glickman Thanks, Michael!
+Michael Glickman Who's the male dancer. I wish I had footwork like that. I can't even follow it.
I was wondering the same, do you happen to know who the male dancer is? He's the true star of this video. I can't believe those dance moves!
This song was featured in the promo for 20th Century Fox family features videos.
I like the part with Raymond dancing :)
Let's have no further nasty comments about the quality of the video. We should be grateful that it's available to us on UA-cam at all. Thanks, DfunkShowz!
yes, thanks a lot!
Which few viewers would have known about if not for this post.
yes and its a great song.
Gee......Sorry.......I didn't realize you owned this forum.
Erik Reichmann ii
Esta canción la conocí por Madagascar (juego de Play Station), ¡no lo puedo creer! ¡al fin la encontré! La reconocí enseguida 😃😆😃😆😃😆😃😆😃😮😮😮😮
Por fin encontré la canción de los simuladores
Lo mismo digo
I remember going to the theatre to see Rain Man in 88 and hearing this song it just stuck in my head along with being fascinated with the Lambos at the beginning...
Me too. Same story and time
They were Ferraris :/
Positrackly Papal Powered.
Reclaim YOU TS
There's a UA-cam video about the origins of the song.
"IKO IKO - meaning of the real words and their origin"
Bahsi geçen kabilenin sorunu neyse sürekli durup dururken arıza çıkarıyorlar birbirlerine. Bence bölgenin suyunda sorun var.
this song is in our video yearbook for the class of 1989. Brings back memories.
I was a 12 year-old kid living in Hawaii when this song came out. It was HUGELY popular there, because the “locals” (a.k.a. Asian people trying to act like they’re Hawaiian) thought that the song was made by Hawaiians and the lyrics were Hawaiian. All the kids my age knew the lyrics, word for word. It’s quite funny to me looking back, realizing that the song has absolutely nothing to do with Hawaii.
DON'T GET IT BRO. IF THEY ARE ASIAN, AND LIVE IN HAWAII DOESN'T THAT MAKE THEM HAWAIIAN. WHEN I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE. STATION IN DYESS AIR FORCE BASE TX HAD A SHIT LOAD OF HAWAIIAN FRIENDS. MOST IF NOT ALL WERE JAPANESE, OR CHINESE. I LIKE THEIR ACCENT, WAS SO KOOL. ONE NIGHT I WAS INVITED TO ONE THE SARGENT'S HOUSE [ HAWAIIAN ] MY FRIEND APO. SAID HEY DELA GARZA WERE GONNA HAVE SOME GOOD FOOD BRAU. MAN I WAS EXPECTING SOME SERIOUS HAWAIIAN FOOD. WHAT THE FOOK DO THEY BRING. TACOS, I SAID APO ARE YOU SERIOUS, MEXICAN FOOD. I'M MEXICAN I EAT. TO ALL MY MEXICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. SORRY FOR MY EXPRESSION "SHIT" ALL THE FOOKIN TIME. I WAS STATIONED IN ABILENE TEXAS. NOT FOOKIN HAWAII. THEY ALWAYS WANTED ME TO CATCH A HOP TO HAWAII WITH THEM. OUR C- 130'S FLEW TO HAWAII EVERY OTHER WEEK. ALOHA 🤙
Bruh! 👍🏻
At 0:41 And 0:49 This Part Of The Song Was Removed In The 20th Century Fox Family Feature