Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites" (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2014
- 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!!!!
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.
2024. Who's still dancing to this?
I'm still playing it 😄
Can't move like i used to, but yeah me.😁
Me.
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.
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! ❤
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.
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
2024 anybody out there?? Truth coming into the light. APTTMH,🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
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.
This song POPPED in my head today STRAIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE!! Is it because I'm turning 63 this year?? 🙏
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...
Ah the origins of Reggae! What a timeless classic!😂❤😮
2020 anyone?
Me
Hell yeah!
Yes my darling
sup
2020 and still living for unity in the face of division
Fine Christian man. Respected by all
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.
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.
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 😎
God bless you all . This song is so true . We love you farther god . We love you Jesus. And all the angels above . I praise you god .I praise you Jesus. I praise you angels . And two all the Christian people out there. I love and praise you two A men 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🙌❤️❤️🌈🌈
ima touch you
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!
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.
First heard this song growing up in Jamaica in the 90s watching drugstore cowboy the movie. That film creeped me out 😂
Great movie 🍿
Embarrassed to admit it was years before I realised Desmond wasn't singing 'my ears are alight'
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.
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😊
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
It's 2024 here and now... This song is timeless. 🙏
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
We da israelites! Praise God, good to see our people confessing the name way back then
Happy 80th birthday Desmond Dekker!!!
"I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde" best line ever
I'm not sure about that bro. It might be 587437th best line ever though, it's ok?
Another good reason this was the theme song of the movie, Drugstore Cowboy.
LOL
Full of holes
👍👍😊
2023 Still sounds Good to a 78 year old 😂
"Shirt them a tear up..trousers a go" the best way I've heard of being completely on your arse!
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! 🇯🇲.
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.
Watchmen thanks for using my country song 🇯🇲🥰
Playing in Mt bar right now its a vybe 😊
The Israelites need is now more than ever. DD forever.
Me Israelites still alive and kicking 2022
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
Dancing in the disco over Cafe Straub in Heidelberg, Germany in 1969 and I thought I was sooo cool...
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
2024 junkie here , anyone else ?
Don’t leave a hat on the bed
January 2024 - Still listening and toe tapping 💃 👏 🎶 😍
2024
Everyman can be fed
12, when this came out. Still love this song!💯👌
Suddenly I'm 16 again.....tonic skirt, chunky shoes and mod haircut down at the RickyTick disco on a Friday night!
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...
What fun?☺😊😀
True Israelites!! Sing brothers.
They're Jamaicans.
I get up in the morning,
Kelloggs for breakfast.
❤✌🇬🇧
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 ?
2022, 70 years old and still listening and dancing with my grandson. God is good, Big up UK.
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.
"Darling she said I was yards too greasy" - my favourite ever misheard lyric of all time.
Shalom Israelites 🕎
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!!!
Thus tune was played everyday 10× at Sha-bean restaurant owned by Chris Blackwell Miami Beach 1991. Best job I ever had as a bartender.
One song on a playlist from my late 1960s high school years. Didn't understand the words except 'Israelites' & 'Bonnie & Clyde'! Still holds up!
Isn't it Rock Steady music ? After Ska, but before Reggae !
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...
I’m 80, still Bobbin in to this! 2023
No idea whatsoever why I like this song
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.
Top notch 👍🇯🇲🇬🇧🏴
My ears are alight!
Saw him live at Effingham Hall in the early 70's to be honest, the Aces stole the show!
The first record I ever purchased with my own money.
Just Fabulous 🤩 ****"” love it
we dah yah still 2024
big sound big tune
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 ❤
First reggae I ever heard. Just perfect 🥰.
Yes I am here ❤ love growing up listening to this May 2024 these were good clean life songs
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.
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
this must be the first Reggae song to be a major hit
2022 fan here!
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
It may be 53 years old, but I heard it for the first time just now. It's great.
Finest piece of regae gold ever come outta Jamaica!
Great music doesn't get old.
I’m here remember dancing to this at a sock hop in the 8th grade
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 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!
Follow up hit, ek MEK.israelites,heard it a shamrock skating rink, had to wait ,aweek before I had money to buy a copy.a wonderful song that would play in my head. As I slept. Sleep sweetly, Desmond, you are now a saint.
Takes me back to the good old days
The 269th UK #1.
Before Bob Marley was widely known in the UK, this number became the first reggae song to reach the chart summit. Goodness-knows-how-many years later, it's still better than the imitation "music" that dominates today's charts, and a lasting classic.
9.6/10 ("Amazing")
Actually, "Israelites" is in the ska genre, which was a precursor to reggae.
Steve Armstrong
OK. My bad. I don't have much time to listen to and rate these songs in a full in-depth review. I'm now on 1988!
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 😍😍
First reggae in america
"Oh Ohhhh me ears are alight".
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.
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
Still loving this! 2024
A-1 song often spun on CKLW out of Detroit/Windsor or WIXY 1260 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a fun listen 50 years ago & it's a fun listen today, 12-12-2021. "And the Hits just Keep on Coming" *
Yes, I do I'm 68 and I loved it then and love it now, in 2021.
Just heard this song playing on the "Watchmen" series it sounds fly.
bet bro same here haha what a tune
Haha me too.
Had to look it up after hearing it on watchmen
I wondered why this was caught in my head!
That's it!
🇯🇲🗣🥰 so proud to know they know good music
Admiration of the working man and struggles of the human condition expertly expressed.
TROJAN RECORDS, some war that was. 🙏⭐ones with people from my past even today worrying about being shot down like a criminally those people's only recourse. I still keep my faith.
I totally understand why this song is so important now! Praise be to the most high yeshua and shout out to the tribe of Judah and all the 11 tribes!
And my ears are still alight!