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We recommend you this playlist featuring the best of Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott: www.playingforchange.com/playlists/the-best-of-grandpa-elliott-and-roger-ridley
I met Grandpa Elliott Small on the streets of New Orleans late at night in 2019. I had no idea who he was then, but I want to be like him when I grow up. He was kind, humble, cheerful, and a wonderful person.
Can you share the story of Roger and this wonderful idea? I just found it by accident, and I AM HOOKED? How, HOW, is this put together? How is it done?? Amazing...
@@MrDorbel I see very little sincerity from most of the performers in this vid.... please don't misunderstand... there is some genuine feeling... but not enough from the majority of (for lack of other words) posers
@@tonyfraser2650 You think these are posers? They can all sing and play and a lot of them earn their living as buskers, or did then. Nothing as sincere and pouring yourself into a song to put food on the table!
@@MrDorbel .. Dear Paul... I'm not sure what your argument of my opinion is about... I've done a lot of busking in my life and can certainly discern the difference between what's genuine and what's veneer.... Love and peace brother
Me too, and I was very sad to see Roger and Grandpa were both gone. I love these compilations. I don't know why Alice Tan Ridley is identified in the video, but she is Roger's sister and still with us today. She is amazing too, and such a powerful voice.
the world won't get darker ... if like this small piece with people from LA, Japan, Italy, New Orleans, NYC, Cuba brought joy to so many ... imagine what we can do to make the world a brighter place
Who is the Super GENIUS, That put this World Wide SUPERJAM Together ❤ , I just want to say THANKS!!! One of my Favorite songs, that I be Crooning quite often over the years!!!
Holy shit I’ve just come upon this man and then I read that he’s past over and now I’m saddened but and a big BUT I’m rejoicing in his memory and he’s sublime voice God bless you Roger
On the other day about this and more importantly the first one to be able to do with the same thing as well as well as well as well as well as well but the other day about this. It was great to meet you at least one person who has the right to stay with you
I wish I could have heard Roger Ridley and seen him perform in person. His voice is mesmerizing, like you'd simply get stuck in space and time as you walked by, incapable of moving on until he was done singing.
I would like to have a time machine and go back to this exact moment to see Roger Ridley playing this live and say a huge THANK YOU for him. This music brings me peace.
Agreed! I always wonder no matter what is posted there are always a percentage of thumbs down even for some sweet three year old saying water is wet. Yet to these trolls or algorithmically built to automatically give a certain number of dislikes for all vids? S9mething is going on thst is not kosher with Tube.
Omg. I always thought Sam's voice was so unique that this would be a hard song to cover but holy crap Roger killed it. They were all wonderful but Roger's voice was perfect for this. What a talent. 👌
I am a lover of Sam Cooke and was just listening to him singing this and admiring his beauty at the same time. I didn't think anyone could do better. This version not only gave me chills but tears to my eyes. Thank you! From my late mother too who spent her life buried in Blues/Jazz clubs in her youth and one of the last things she did was kiss a photo of Sam Cooke and said "I LOVE THAT MAN!" I wish she was alive to hear this version. Exactly how it should be done. EXACTLY!
Forgive me folks, I'm very late to the party, but i gotta say i'm loving listening to these songs from " Playing for change ". they way they bring it all together from the performers from around the globe is just Brilliant. These guys know/knew, sadly in (roger Ridley's) case how to sing their hearts out...
I listen to these songs every night now ---- Playing for change is my happy place ( my wife thinks i,.m nuts ) dont care!!! Shed a tear when i read that Roger had passed . Keiko,s my fave, "" BUTT OUT " ----- I saw her first !!!!!!
Oh you dont know! These soldiers have been in service for my work, Friend to The Homeless FOR YEARS.. And all the times i listened to them for inspiration. NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO ERASE MY LOVE AND GRATITUDE FOR YOU. 🙏 ❤️
Jim Hill they don't have to change to keep their fans..yes the change dropped in a case is good, but seeing children dance, people smile, or just stop close their eyes and soak in the music..brings the performance more love and soul. They do it for love of music, and stay for live of music.
Watching Roger and Alice sing together was a treat. I have watched Alice busking in the NY subway for over 30yrs. I had her sing at my Library for a couple times, and have a picture with us on my desk. When I wanted to book her again 2 yrs ago. I learned from her manager, that she is sick, and cannot perform anymore. The musical legacy is on UA-cam for her grand children. I know her daughter Actress (Gabourey Sidibi) is very proud of her musical heritage.
I hope they keep doing this for the world and the hearts that are bleeding right now, its just what we need. Music is the soul of all of us. Peace brothers and sisters.
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@@jeffoneal3518 they redid the video to include Alice - many years after Roger (her brother) had already passed away. I thought it was so well done and gave her a wonderful opportunity to have something to have where she was able to sing 'with' him. What a lovely thing to do for her - and well deserved.
I really never thought this song could give me more feels and chills if it was sung by anyone else other than Mr. Cooke himself, but wow…I was proven WRONG! And this song was done the best justice possible! Thank you. Rest in heaven RR!
Thanks, ya’ll. 7 likes means the world to me! Especially when so much pain is felt and currently experienced and currently coincides with with the song 💔💔💔💔 And The voices who aren’t with us anymore
Remember seeing Rodger and playing for change on my local PBS station ten years ago at least. My life has never been the same. I now Can play the gutiar and this gift is directly an aftermath of this wonderful program. I was 39 when I started practicing on the instrument. I'm now 54 and though I'm no troubadour, I play for me and my God who has made this a gift to play cords and to let my self decompress to the beautiful sound of the gutiar. Oh, it WAS difficult learning to play but, my soul thanks me every time I strum the Damn thing.
I discovered Sam Cooke as a teenager in the 80s...to this day, while I listen to everything under the Sun, “Bring it on home” is still my favorite song...
I've been enjoying Sam Cook and many others highlighted here, for more than fifty years, this was an awe inspiring piece of work, real harmony, thank you all so much.
You have to hear Clarence Bekker, Grandpa Elliott and the PFC Band sing 'Change Gonna Come' Sam Cooke's everlasting anthem (used for the Civil Rights Movement). It's brilliant. Clarence's voice does Sam full justice.
This song is so awesoming beautiful to become painful, it makes me cry like a little girl, and I am a bearded big man near to fifty years old ... Greetings and love to the whole world, in this clear evening Roma is crying with me .
Im crying too, in fact all of Playing for Change songs make me cry, these talented artists from around the world bring so much joy and emotion... Hang on there, with love from Bucharest!
THAT is the passion that songs like this were meant to be performed with.. Did it more than justice.. Thank you all for carrying that soul into the modern day.. There is none of it in new music
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💜💜💜RIP ROGER!
Grandpa Elliott just passed away...He and His talent will be missed .RIP TALENTED MAN...
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💪🏾🫶🏾✌🏾
With a family name of Elliott he had a Scottish slave owner in his ancestry and I would like to apologise for that.
RIP Roger Ridley your voice was truly a gift to us all.
When did he pass?
The best people are taken way to soon…….rest easy
Roger was areal treasure! RIP ROGER! You will be missed!
Rest easy Granpa Elliott
Legendary voice...
I am 72 yrs old. I grew up with this music . you are a true singer with heart and soul. God bless you.
It’s now 2024 and still listening. Angel above Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott! ❤❤
Even without instruments, the voices alone can cry with such rhythm & soul , that’s true blues .. some have it some don’t. This is beautiful 😎
Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott - amazing musicians
Ok I’m lot times her ex ex the ex ex S
Thank God for the World's musicians.
It's now 2024 and I am still listening to this Great Song!!❤❤
We recommend you this playlist featuring the best of Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott:
www.playingforchange.com/playlists/the-best-of-grandpa-elliott-and-roger-ridley
me too!!
It's simply amazing all the playing for change songs are AMAZING!
Yeah me too
Me too!!!
I met Grandpa Elliott Small on the streets of New Orleans late at night in 2019. I had no idea who he was then, but I want to be like him when I grow up. He was kind, humble, cheerful, and a wonderful person.
Roger Ridley the gifts you gave the world are still playing on. Thank you for all of that light, my brother, your memory is a blessing to millions.
Gòd bless you
Absolutely true it brings people from different backgrounds together as one.
La voz del mismo Dios
Hell yes, I was just in New Orleans at Grandpa Elliot's second line and send off, RIP to another great.
Every single artist here is singing with the heart, they cannot hide that, is contagious
AWESOME!!!!
Music is the shorthand to emotion.
2022 and yeah still listening and loving it
Qqq
@@danyellerobinson5940 yes
I find myself coming back to this vid when things ain't going too good in my life and it gives me a boost of love.
One Love! ❤️
Oh absolutely! Starting my day off this way. After coffee and listening to the birds chirp so wonderful way to pick me up. Played it twice
Roger Ridley, a guy who knows how to put a smile and a tear on my face at the same time. :')
Roger Ridley was the one who kicked this whole Playing for Change thing off. He can Rest In Peace knowing it is still going on.
Oh ,my deepest regrets another angel stringer done gone. RIP
A-men!!!
Can you share the story of Roger and this wonderful idea? I just found it by accident, and I AM HOOKED? How, HOW, is this put together? How is it done?? Amazing...
I have been listening to your song not knowing you are dead rip 2021
@@tonyalfonso8427 yeah he passed in 2015, what a sad day it was.
Once I realized that the song was being played around the world, I couldn't pull myself away ! I'm going to listen to it again! 😊❤🎉PURE JOY
Dear Roger Ridley, R.I.P what a wonderful man so polite , in the joy business. If we was all like him.
SIMPLY WONDERFUL
That's so true amen
sam cooke would be so proud and also be in tears if he was alive to watch this, its brilliant
sam cooke would be sad at the deliberation without feeling...
@@tonyfraser2650 What does that actually mean? Just curious.
@@MrDorbel I see very little sincerity from most of the performers in this vid.... please don't misunderstand... there is some genuine feeling... but not enough from the majority of (for lack of other words) posers
@@tonyfraser2650 You think these are posers? They can all sing and play and a lot of them earn their living as buskers, or did then. Nothing as sincere and pouring yourself into a song to put food on the table!
@@MrDorbel .. Dear Paul... I'm not sure what your argument of my opinion is about... I've done a lot of busking in my life and can certainly discern the difference between what's genuine and what's veneer.... Love and peace brother
2022 and I can’t count how many times I’ve watched it. When the world gets dark, Playing for Change videos are my medicine❤️✌🏽
Dude same. I just discovered this channel yesterday, just playing all of them … I feel like shits gonna work out ok. Maybe.
I do the very same thing. I love all of them this is one of my favorites.
Me too, and I was very sad to see Roger and Grandpa were both gone. I love these compilations. I don't know why Alice Tan Ridley is identified in the video, but she is Roger's sister and still with us today. She is amazing too, and such a powerful voice.
the world won't get darker ... if like this small piece with people from LA, Japan, Italy, New Orleans, NYC, Cuba brought joy to so many ... imagine what we can do to make the world a brighter place
So true, I wish I could be a part of this somehow. There isn’t a bad song in their list.
This is pure through-the-bones to-the-heart SOUL, baby! It doesn't come any better than this.
I am convinced that many of the very best singers and performers are street performers.2020
Simon Cowell should patrol the streets instead of auditioning for mediocrity on television.
Agree 💯
That's because they sing, purely, from the heart.
True. 2020
I always thought that, I agree
Music is the universal language that brings us all together!!♥️
Love from all over the world ...let's stop all these wars!!!
Amen
Yes, it’s time so we can move forward as one.
Just a schlumpy old white woman adoring this fantastic music. God bless whoever is reading this.
And god bless you as well. Stay safe and healthy!
@@dereksmith3142 you stay safe and healthy as well, Derek.
Here with you. One schlumpy white womanto another.
This makes my heart full, God bless you as well
Estamos juntos independentemente da cor.. muita Alegria, Felicidades e Paz...A todas as etnias, povos e nações.👏👏👏☺️👏👏👏👏👏
Wonderful, Wonderful. Bring it on Home!
Rest in peace Roger, your voice and your kindness will follow in the hearts of those who were lucky enough to have met you.
From Venezuela, H.D
A true great performance 👌🏾Thanks brother Roger Ridley and may you Rest In Peace 🙏🏾
Who is the Super GENIUS, That put this World Wide SUPERJAM Together ❤ , I just want to say THANKS!!! One of my Favorite songs, that I be Crooning quite often over the years!!!
I was a young teen. So many problems...family...etc...young love. Drifting. So many memories. Love this song.
Holy shit I’ve just come upon this man and then I read that he’s past over and now I’m saddened but and a big BUT I’m rejoicing in his memory and he’s sublime voice God bless you Roger
That song started a New revolution with music and technology
He died the year he recorded this. Hard to digest.
His sister has the voice of an angel. Genesis is strong in her.
Good bless you all!
It's 2021 and I'm still listening to this amazing song. Who else?
I do too, Great Music Lives on FOREVER!!!
❤️
you
I'm not dead inside. So, me too!! 🤣
I do.
Still love all the Playing for Change Musicians
I'm surely blessed as i had a chance to know this video. Roger, rest in peace
I was privilege to Stands
among those crowds
and listen Roger Ridley
sings his ❤ out. R. I . P
Brother.
오지오는거시기먼저벳다
진짜
On the other day about this and more importantly the first one to be able to do with the same thing as well as well as well as well as well as well but the other day about this. It was great to meet you at least one person who has the right to stay with you
Wow....he could really sing!
Goosebumps all over, especially when Karl Denson works his magic on the saxophone. Thanks for this amazing piece of art, chapeau!
I wish I could have heard Roger Ridley and seen him perform in person. His voice is mesmerizing, like you'd simply get stuck in space and time as you walked by, incapable of moving on until he was done singing.
I would like to have a time machine and go back to this exact moment to see Roger Ridley playing this live and say a huge THANK YOU for him. This music brings me peace.
Wish i,d said that!!
@@rumples2698 you just did ❤
The sax quality🤗
I would love to buy his cd right now. Thank you ROGER!
💜💟✝️🦅☀️🦅☀️🦅🧡☀️🧡
My God, Sam Cooke would be so proud of this rendition...❤
Grandpa Elliot is a blessing with his talent
How anyone on earth gives a thumbs down to this is beyond me. Beautiful music is simply that...beautiful. Celebrate it, don't judge it.
Agreed! I always wonder no matter what is posted there are always a percentage of thumbs down even for some sweet three year old saying water is wet. Yet to these trolls or algorithmically built to automatically give a certain number of dislikes for all vids? S9mething is going on thst is not kosher with Tube.
Kelli Martin yes
I am guessing most likely the high rollers that can't take some street musicians showing them up.
I'm sure they're very much in need of some lovin
NO ... Ted Hawkins
Omg. I always thought Sam's voice was so unique that this would be a hard song to cover but holy crap Roger killed it. They were all wonderful but Roger's voice was perfect for this. What a talent. 👌
I am a lover of Sam Cooke and was just listening to him singing this and admiring his beauty at the same time. I didn't think anyone could do better. This version not only gave me chills but tears to my eyes. Thank you! From my late mother too who spent her life buried in Blues/Jazz clubs in her youth and one of the last things she did was kiss a photo of Sam Cooke and said "I LOVE THAT MAN!" I wish she was alive to hear this version. Exactly how it should be done. EXACTLY!
Forgive me folks, I'm very late to the party, but i gotta say i'm loving listening to these songs from " Playing for change ". they way they bring it all together from the performers from around the globe is just Brilliant. These guys know/knew, sadly in (roger Ridley's) case how to sing their hearts out...
So beautifully put x
Just discovered this site 3-4 months ago. I'm asking myself, what rock did I crawl out from? Glad I did!
Great voices, great singers…And that’s what you call MUSIC!!!
this is the most beautiful version of this song I've ever heard.
From a technical and aesthetic point of view, this whole series of videos is an amazing piece of work. There's nothing else like it in the world.
I listen to these songs every night now ---- Playing for change is my happy place ( my wife thinks i,.m nuts ) dont care!!! Shed a tear when i read that Roger had passed . Keiko,s my fave, "" BUTT OUT " ----- I saw her first !!!!!!
I absolutely love them.
👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿💯%👈🏿🌠
David Hopkins Yes, music as it used to be! Awesome!
Pure passion, what more needs to be said 👍👍
A tear rolled from my eye as I watched this heart tugging rendition of an incredible song, as I wished it to keep going. Thank you.
This song makes a soul feel good.
EXACTLY.. speak to me
Love real soul, the heart of rock, and roll
I am in love !!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh you dont know! These soldiers have been in service for my work, Friend to The Homeless FOR YEARS.. And all the times i listened to them for inspiration. NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO ERASE MY LOVE AND GRATITUDE FOR YOU. 🙏 ❤️
After almost for 3 years I never get bored watching and enjoying this group
It's 2022 and I'm listening. Fabulous music and singing.
Love from Northern Ireland!!
Rest in peace, Roger Ridley. You made my world and the whole world a far better place. God love you. I sure do.
Some music just last forever. This is one of them.
I am convinced that many of the very best singers and performers are street performers.
Jim Hill duh
Jim Hill yeh
Jim Hill they don't have to change to keep their fans..yes the change dropped in a case is good, but seeing children dance, people smile, or just stop close their eyes and soak in the music..brings the performance more love and soul. They do it for love of music, and stay for live of music.
I think the same. I have always enjoyed more underground artists of all kind. And street singers of course.
100 %
Watching Roger and Alice sing together was a treat. I have watched Alice busking in the NY subway for over 30yrs. I had her sing at my Library for a couple times, and have a picture with us on my desk. When I wanted to book her again 2 yrs ago. I learned from her manager, that she is sick, and cannot perform anymore. The musical legacy is on UA-cam for her grand children. I know her daughter Actress (Gabourey Sidibi) is very proud of her musical heritage.
All I have to say is, "Wow! That was beautiful!!"
I hope they keep doing this for the world and the hearts that are bleeding right now, its just what we need. Music is the soul of all of us. Peace brothers and sisters.
Peace to you too
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It's kinda cool watching the live chat with people from all over the world. Enjoy!
That song is world wide known! LOVE IT! ALL OVER THE 🌎 Those musicians were
FANTASTIC!!!
I can’t play an instrument. I can’t sing a single note. But I appreciate people who can- and I certainly appreciated this. Bravo.
Anyone can sing. You may not have the pitch perfect voice like an opera singer. But it's your voice
John Thornton
They use me to empty my local bar at the end of the night. I only have to sing a few lines. Thanks for your kind words my friend. 👍🏼
Hooray for a musician who can start to play a stroll with only a guitar. Glad to hear a drummer join in. Amazing talent.
Hello Lynn. How're you doing
1:54 Wow, Alice Tan Ridley, amazing voice! Goosebumps...
What a talented brother and sister!
@@jeffoneal3518 they redid the video to include Alice - many years after Roger (her brother) had already passed away. I thought it was so well done and gave her a wonderful opportunity to have something to have where she was able to sing 'with' him. What a lovely thing to do for her - and well deserved.
This is the most beuatiful way to honor Roger - he would have loved it. RIP mr. Ridley
Muito talento artistas de rua sensacional 👏👏👏
I really never thought this song could give me more feels and chills if it was sung by anyone else other than Mr. Cooke himself, but wow…I was proven WRONG! And this song was done the best justice possible! Thank you. Rest in heaven RR!
Thanks, ya’ll. 7 likes means the world to me! Especially when so much pain is felt and currently experienced and currently coincides with with the song 💔💔💔💔
And The voices who aren’t with us anymore
I’m in tears
These are musicians who deserve notoriety and fame
I keep coming back to listen over & over again. Lightning in a jar --??? Or just perfection?
So beautiful I'm at a complete loss for words. Wow!
My late husband was a great musician. This song will always make me think about him. Thank you!
Phenomenal. A very great gift. Thank you Sam and friends. Amazing. Just AMAZING!!!!!
goose bumps.....so much feeling and talent..thank you all...
Roger has an unbelievable voice! Can listen to him forever!! ❤️❤️❤️
WORLD PEACE = MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SOOOOOOO GREAT !!!!!!
Sam Cooke is one of my all time favorite singers very powerful music and there's just something about that sax.
Roger Ridley it's here between us. His voice, his soul are unforgettable. God Bless Him.
Remember seeing Rodger and playing for change on my local PBS station ten years ago at least. My life has never been the same. I now Can play the gutiar and this gift is directly an aftermath of this wonderful program. I was 39 when I started practicing on the instrument. I'm now 54 and though I'm no troubadour, I play for me and my God who has made this a gift to play cords and to let my self decompress to the beautiful sound of the gutiar. Oh, it WAS difficult learning to play but, my soul thanks me every time I strum the Damn thing.
After watching Playing For Change videos like this, I realize how deprived I am of real, authentic and soulful music and singers. So good!
Wow. Just wow
Wish!! I could walk down the street and witness these.people live.
I’m crying! This is my favorite song EVER and I love Playing For Change!!
오 브레스 우 윈나이트
Zahra Ismail aw me too,I love this song,better than all the junk that is sung now🙏🙏🙏
me too, my favorite song and singers, especially I am missing a lot of Roger
This is love! Unity amongst all manking. Restoration, Reconciliation; the message of Christ ❤.
This series proves what I have always said "A smile, and music, are universal"
Playing For Change = best sound engineers on the planet. I have no idea how they can do this so well... truly a gift to us all.
Sam would be humbled. Amazing job by all.
I discovered Sam Cooke as a teenager in the 80s...to this day, while I listen to everything under the Sun, “Bring it on home” is still my favorite song...
Feel exactly the same, I love a lot of songs but this is my favorite go to! ❤ RIP Mr. Roger Ridley and Sam Cooke
Roger Ridley ,this guys was and still is amazing, with grandpa Elliot, super stars
Amen !!!!
👍👍👍👏
Wow 😮 amazing voices 🤩❤️🎵🎶🎵
I've been enjoying Sam Cook and many others highlighted here, for more than fifty years, this was an awe inspiring piece of work, real harmony, thank you all so much.
You have to hear Clarence Bekker, Grandpa Elliott and the PFC Band sing 'Change Gonna Come' Sam Cooke's everlasting anthem (used for the Civil Rights Movement). It's brilliant. Clarence's voice does Sam full justice.
These playing for change videos are utter works of art and pure magic.
Beautiful
I got chills angels are ticklin me. God bless peole of song and music
This song is so awesoming beautiful to become painful, it makes me cry like a little girl, and I am a bearded big man near to fifty years old ... Greetings and love to the whole world, in this clear evening Roma is crying with me
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Ciao Aldo...from Washington State.. USA😷
Im crying too, in fact all of Playing for Change songs make me cry, these talented artists from around the world bring so much joy and emotion... Hang on there, with love from Bucharest!
Oh! Ｃｈａｒ！ One of Japan's leading guitarists
Masters!! Wow wow wow!! How come I have never seen or was aware of this version!?!
All that talent just blows me away.
Sam Cooke. Amazingly talented and beautiful, and his genius is so well rendered here, almost improved, by Roger Ridley.
３regends, great harmony.
THAT is the passion that songs like this were meant to be performed with.. Did it more than justice.. Thank you all for carrying that soul into the modern day.. There is none of it in new music
the Orange should see this...this is what makes America Great.
Some people see politics in everything
bruh you dumb af.