Everything is perfect about this song. The hook, the lyrics, the instruments, His Voice! The man EVEN DANCED IN THE COUNT! This Man is a damn Treasure! His facial expressions are icing on the cake with acting out the cadences, inflections and tones. R.I.P King Desmond! You're loved, Missed and still honored here sir!🤲🏿

@harolddottin10

4 ай бұрын

You spoke like a bicycle wheel fella Amen!

@davidcurrie8564

4 ай бұрын

I remember this fella when i was a 9 year old kid captivating!

@FrithonaHrududu02127

3 ай бұрын

They should use this song as like an AI test if you don't like this song you're obviously not a human being

@OH.A.M.

2 ай бұрын

Are you CHURRO!? Perfect is not even close with its crooked mouth

The closer you listen to his singing, the more groove & soul you can feel Desmond Dekker pour into this song - a classic diamond !

@bamashow3676

Жыл бұрын

💯

I remember buying this record in 1969 when I was 12. Loved singing it on my way to school. Great times, wonderful music.

@nannydebs

3 ай бұрын

I was 10!!! Great song...

Timeless masterpiece by Mr Dekker even in 2023 !

@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jz

6 ай бұрын

They should play it in Gaza.

Still lovin it in 2024

Desmond was on the good stuff that day. Eyes tell no lies.

@margaretmestas1481

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly 😁

@josephthunderhorse8793

Жыл бұрын

Yes l agree

@margaretmestas1481

Жыл бұрын

I think we're talking about two different things, I know I was talking about his "pink eye" 😁 I believe his mouth is just how he sang

@mleh2512

Жыл бұрын

I’ve no idea what Mr Dekker and his crazy hippie friends were on here. I only know that I want some too please.

"Israelites" was the first reggae song to get into the American pop Top 40, in June 1969. I think it peaked at #9.

@rickyf243

6 жыл бұрын

“Hold Me Tight” by Johnny Nash peaked at #5 in November 1968.

@57highland

6 жыл бұрын

@Ricky F: Hey, I didn't know that .....

@b_uppy

6 жыл бұрын

Its Ska.

@rtarbinar

5 жыл бұрын

@@b_uppy actually, i would classify both songs as rocksteady.

@gdupkwin9676

4 жыл бұрын

It definitely isn't typically American top 40 pop type music that's for sure 😂

Reggae music, Jamaicas gift to the world

@jmart9414

4 жыл бұрын

I loved this song... And being only 6 yrs old, didn't realize the amount of racial disparity within this USA. And his country STILL continues its digusting hateful agenda. Check the billboard charts for 1969...get it? One of lowest compared to other countries.

Desmond Dekker is so care free that you can clearly see this through his performance. World Class Talent 💛♥️💚

Love how his mouth is having it's own party!!!!

@trancisfrancis

4 жыл бұрын

His whole face actually. Amazing!!

@MG-yv8dr

3 жыл бұрын

His whole face a great showman

@russellcampbell9198

3 жыл бұрын

@@trancisfrancis His body too!

@brinkybrinkz

3 жыл бұрын

Man you made my day! I laughed so hard! Funny stuff! Wicked tune! Ohhhh Israelites!

@nacholibre1962

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like he's had a stoke!

En sus entrevistas, Desmond Dekker, era preguntado frecuentemente sobre el significado que escondía la letra: Habla sobre lo dura que es la vida en Jamaica, de la opresión que sufrimos, igual que los Israelitas que Moisés conducía a la tierra prometida. Era una forma de decir a la gente que no se diese por vencida, que las cosas mejorarían. No la escribí sentando en un piano o mientras tocaba la guitarra. Fue mientras daba un paseo por el parque comiendo palomitas de maíz y escuché a una pareja discutiendo sobre problemas económicos. Ella le decía que necesitaba más dinero y él replicaba que con el trabajo que tenía no le daba para más. Me quedé con esto, y empecé a componer en mi cabeza una canción que empezaba con lo de ‘te levantas por la mañana y eres esclavo del pan’. Cuando llegué a casa ya la tenía.

Nobody can sing out of the side of their mouth cooler than Desmond Dekker did here. RIP, good sir.

@king77703

Жыл бұрын

Elvis didn't do too bad 👍

@SeahorsesJay

10 ай бұрын

Brian Wilson is the most famous for doing this!

Best song ever! I have been loving Desmond Dekker as long as I live.

I listen to this & watch him dance & it reminds me of my real dad from about 50 years ago. Yep i'm old :)

This is the best ever song from the Ska- Reggae era What a song! what a voice! Bob Marley fans dig this!

@rifelaw

5 ай бұрын

This is the guy who spotted Marley and got him launched.

@donnaroberts4565

5 ай бұрын

@@rifelaw really? how do you know that? :)

@rifelaw

5 ай бұрын

@@donnaroberts4565 Everybody from the 60s Jamaican music scene said so, including Marley and Tosh.

@MrTimothybratton

4 ай бұрын

Lol its called dance hall bro..

@MrTimothybratton

4 ай бұрын

And btw it was joe higgs that was one of marleys real inspirations, im sure des had a hand in it somehow as well but. Just listen to higgs urself "theres a reward for me" u will see marleys main inspiration and thats key

Takes me back to when i was 14 at school, the whole class used to sing i get up in the morning baked beans for breakfast, times were hard then.

2024 still in love❤❤❤

@adeolaolatunji9324

4 ай бұрын

Glory be to GOD

Always heard the song, but never seen this video. Pretty cool

This is from a German Music TV Show called 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (Musik für Junge Leute) 1967-1970 ZDF Television Very Very Rare because all episodes are Missing or Deleted !!!

Shalom Israelites 🕎

@donnaroberts4565

5 ай бұрын

Yeah now can you stop killing kids in gaza

@vangroover1903

2 ай бұрын

@@donnaroberts4565 When their mothers stop strapping bombs to their children there can be peace in Israel, shining and free, from the river to the sea.

Desmond is a legend.

That is one cool cat. Desmond Decker is the Ace. Boy, I'm tellin' ya.

Desmond's voice! Perfection 🖤

what a beautiful presentation, everlasting greetings to Desmond! 💕💕💕💕

Truly a blast from the past!

Amazing. I've never seen this. Thanks for uploading.

@chuckmaddison2924

Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed,I heard it when first came out and loved ever since. Admittedly it took a few years to figure out what he was singing.

A grand old age of 7 Wen this was out OMG 😱 were have the years gone ❤ now 60

Thank you so much you don't know how long I've waited for this footage of one of my favourite songs

What a Tune.

I love this song so much

I always thought he sang "baked beans for breakfast"...for like 50 years! I'm never going to get those words unstuck from my head!

@oughtonoughton2634

2 жыл бұрын

Albert i adore your comment ,,believe it or not i always thought he sang ,, Baked beans for breakfast xx i still sing the same , how lovely some one else thought that lol Jane x

@rolandoaponte214

Жыл бұрын

LOL, I always misheard the same "baked beans for breakfast"🤣

@davisworth5114

Жыл бұрын

a wake up in de mornin' slaving for bread suh, so dat ebry mout can be fed.........

@josephthunderhorse8793

Жыл бұрын

Take heart ...l like those words as well

@kimberlyhendricks6388

Жыл бұрын

I thought he was saying belligerent lies 😂

Greatest thumbnail in the history of KZread

Love the song and love the man!

How can black men not even move and yet move so damn amazingly? Such smooth, incredible feel for rhythmic dancing.

@OligoST

Жыл бұрын

It has nothing to do with his ethnicity, everyone danced conservatively back then..

Makes me wanna moon-stomp! Classic song, and a huge worldwide hit.

Loved this song forever 🎵❤️

The greatest song and performance of all time. Hire the handicapped!

Fantastic.Saw him live

@David-kv9yh

2 жыл бұрын

So cool you got to see him

Happy Birthday DESMOND DEKKER

I remember this from 1969, hearing it on WLS Chicago...

Desmond the King of Rock Steady!

As a 12 year old white boy from Leeds, Yorkshire I could understand every lyric - only now that I'm 30 and looking at this comment section am I learning that this was actually impressive talent apparently 👀

Gracias.

Wow... A lost memory & I was 5 that year but when I heard I remember! 😊

@b_uppy

6 жыл бұрын

Sheri Jolly Same here, recognized it and loved it

@michaelmapes4119

6 жыл бұрын

Me too...I Just turmed Five and my 18 year old brother had the 45....One of the memories we still share to today!

Jah Bless The Benjamin Israelite of Jamaica R.I.P.

Ive always liked this song , i remember hearing on oldies channels as young man and almost suprised , thinking it was more modern

Takes me back, nice place to be YES

Love that out fit sir

Nem te conto , o quanto sou fã é incontavel . Amo de mais 😍 meu coracão bate pot ti

This song is great, even if you don't understand the words!

"Israelites" es una canción del grupo jamaicano Desmond Dekker & The Aces que fue lanzada como single en Octubre del año 1968. Esta canción es considerada como una de las primeras piezas musicales con alta influencia del Ska en ser un hit mundial, pese a que Dekker, un jamaicano que escribía letras muy difíciles de entender para el publico común y corriente que no entendía mucho sobre el movimiento rastafari. (906 vis.)

@rickyf243

6 жыл бұрын

“Hold Me Tight” de Johnny Nash entró a las listas de Billboard en Estados Unidos en septiembre de 1968 (un mes antes del lanzamiento de “Israelites”) y llegó a la posición número 5 en noviembre del 1968. En los Estados Unidos, no es hasta mayo 1969 que “Israelites” entra a las listas de Billboard bajo el sello Uni, alcanzando la posición número 9 un mes más tarde.

@nickbishop8930

4 жыл бұрын

English?

@Cash82Mx

Жыл бұрын

"Israelites" aparece en un época en que el ska ya había pasado de moda y la nueva música jamaiquina se había hecho más lenta, pasando del rocksteady al reggay.

It's a shame this song wasn't more popular. This is my first time hearing it in YEARS. Till now (after seeing another video of this with the lyrics), I always thought the chorus was "Oooooooooohhhhhhh, The Israelites".

in clips after this one we don't see him singing like he's had a stroke

I love it😂❤❤

I was a kid when listen that. Miss that times !

Wore this record out 50 years ago..

Thanks

1:20 The young boy very bottom right of screen seems "more than happy" with his view of the stage! lol

Rude Boy Extraordinaire!

Def far out. Thank you Desmond…

Love this song r.i.p des 👍

What a record brill

We black who came to the Americas and Caribbean island are the Hebrew Israelites scatter around the world through slavery.i guess he new he was a Israelite.

@brucemarmy8500

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Iya man. Hebrews. Israelites!. From Everlasting to beyond the march of time.

@ronlatronica3112

4 жыл бұрын

Of course he knows.

@ronlatronica3112

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't know until last year that I was.

@garthyahudahandrews8504

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Yah showed me the truth

wow .... speechless

@noahbody5609

5 жыл бұрын

you said it it !!! wow

Hands down my favorite song about Jews

Uma lenda do reggae

Too funny love the rhythm

Takes me back to 8th grade at Haskell Junior High in Lakewood.

What did the title and lyric, "Israelites", have to do with the song? By the way, Bob Marley said that Desmond Dekker was his favorite Reggae singer.

@sonofnaphtalifromisrael8531

4 жыл бұрын

Because the black americans are israelites

@AllisonYYZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@sonofnaphtalifromisrael8531 and Caribbean

@kb6kgx

3 жыл бұрын

@Brian Quint That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

@brianquint6126

3 жыл бұрын

@@kb6kgx Your tricks don't work on me Canaanite. Take your Sithian lies somewhere else while the Israelites are talking.

@kb6kgx

3 жыл бұрын

WHAT is?

This was the original reggae song

Love the track. Honestly thought he was having a stroke 😂

Love this song but somehow I had forgot! OMG have to get for my iPOD-ASAP.

There's that OG screw face haha Really tho, grew up on this shit. Couldn't possibly love it more.

timeless you have to watch drugstore cowboy ..this song makes that film haunting

2024 still good song

Kann ich immer wieder hoeren. Love this song.

hermosa canción

They played this over the P.A. at the J.C.C. swimming pool when I was 7. I kept wondering, "Is this about US??"

@barleycorn3384

3 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha yes yes that is what we wondered too!

I only ever heard that on radio. I thought he sang "misery light"!

Dam!!!what's ip with the mouth movements. I love the voice of the backup singer.

@barleycorn3384

3 жыл бұрын

It's a technique known locally as yaumbus it enhances annunciation and clarity

@oughtonoughton2634

2 жыл бұрын

iNGRID THE DEAR CHAP HAD A STROKE ,,,,, LOL jANE

@davisworth5114

Жыл бұрын

@@barleycorn3384 nice try this is lip sync. and that is his rude boy face.

Raw and unc00ked sometimes is BEST~

Rich, me for listening to this song.

Im sure this is where Shinsuke Nakamura got his facial expressions from

excellente!!

Israelites everywhere should sing this as their anthem!!! Long live a Free, Proud and Strong Israel, a shining light in a region often lacking it.

Gold

This cat groovy.

bro is rollin off the molly ngl

Desmond Dekker is incredible. The crotch close-ups weren't necessary, though :)

That’s my school disco I think.😂

Deep love

Not much reggae broke through to the US . This did in 69' and Jimmy Cliff's Bight Sunshiny Day did in 74' . Clapton had a hit with Marley's I Shot the Sheriff around 75' but Marley, the king of reggae, himself didn't have any US hits although his output was vast and excellent . But he did develop a following despite that

gotta luv the dd

The thumbnail is no joke

Great performance by Desmond Dekker. Only drawback the Aces were absent in person, which leads me to believe it was a staged performance(Miming)

Rhythmus wo man mit muß 💃💃💃

I defy anyone who thinks they can do better DD mouth than I can .. been doing it ever since and NO ONE has ever beat me,.. NO ONE...

te adoro

He would have huge if not for the Bell's Palsy.

He knew he was our ancrstors true Isrealites Deuteronomy 28 cursed scattered on ships 4 corners of earth as slaves Keep His commandments Halleluyah