Someone in 2024 listening to this

@janicejames1953

4 ай бұрын

Im here

@NirmanakayaSamantabhadra

4 ай бұрын

We are always here..eh🇨🇦

@janmeuleman8470

4 ай бұрын

Yes, ever since the early seventies.

@JeanClarke-hi3gc

4 ай бұрын

Wow wow.love it.

@janicejames1953

3 ай бұрын

Who grow up with this song

The like button should be a love button for this song...

Was in Jamaica in 1966 for the Commonwealth Games. This song was being played literally everywhere - you couldn’t avoid it. Great times! Got home and the UK were just being introduced to it and the kids here went crazy for it too. A great Summer!! Great memories

@ervineokuboh7459

2 жыл бұрын

I went to Barbados in November 1966 with my mother and aunt to see my grandmother. I was 8 years old at the time. On the way to Barbados, we stopped off at Kingston and I can clearly remember hearing this tune booming out as our ship docked at Kingston harbour, as people were mashing up the floor dancing ! Brilliant tune and great memories !

@kenkovar2647

2 жыл бұрын

wow

@rebeccaw1674

2 жыл бұрын

Great story!

@jamesedward623

2 жыл бұрын

Memory ❣️ for days and extra days

@adegoadego2219

2 жыл бұрын

The magic of Rocksteady❤️💛💚💜♥️🎶🔥🔥

Jamaica produced some of the best music and artist ever

@Lerf8

10 ай бұрын

Same with the USA but Jamaica don't get the credit they deserve.

@JamesBaker-kv6jv

9 ай бұрын

@@Lerf8🤦🏻‍♂️ you mustn’t listen to reggae legends like Peter tosh or bob marley who got all the recognition in the world

@gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086

8 ай бұрын

that's true baby

@eddieb270

6 ай бұрын

​@@JamesBaker-kv6jvtrue but not enough people really listen to their messages and just think they're catchy songs

Im listening to this classic. April 2024.. Soundtrack to my younger life...The best time to grow up in UK ❤

Desmond is the reason I love Jamaican music. He opened the door, I walked in in wonder. Thanks isn't enough.

@adolfryan1930

11 ай бұрын

Just make sure u don't walk in the door to the actual jamaica though. U will lose your organs

@eddieb270

6 ай бұрын

​@@adolfryan1930my parents got chased by a man with a shotgun when they went but if you go into the hills and into the countryside where they haven't been corrupted by tourism you'll meet some of the nicest people but i wouldnt go anywhere without a tour guide

If the Blacks danced like this in the street I'd be like bring some more over. That girl crossing the road is the coolest thing I've seen for ages.

Love that vintage 60s sound. Nothing like it today.

@broady112

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 25& I can agree with that

@pedropenacardenas8875

Жыл бұрын

I’m 25 and can disagree with that

@that-one-guyfrom-that-one-1239

10 ай бұрын

I'm 21 and I can come back in 4 years to give my verdict

Most people (anywhere) think of beaches, grand hotels, and vacations when they think of Jamaica. When I think about it I think of music. Much love to Jamaica from the States.

reggae is timeless music

This rocksteady masterwork just takes it's sweet time telling its very important story of rude boys and their downfall and keeps me at the edge of my seat all the way through. I heard this years after "Israelites" and figured out in short order that Desmond Dekker's success was no accident; that he was an absolute master of his genre. And I'm still learning from him to this day.

The Israelites was the 1st reggae record I bought

Brought tears to my eyes, it was all so simple then.

I well both of us,my deceased husband, & we went all over Spanish town ,actually stayed there where Aston's grandfather was bed ridden but this handsome elderly man had a 🐝 beehives business & he would amaze me of how much foreseen spiritual humble & the warm hearted attachment of holy spirits attached to him. For instance one I saw a man in an orange shirt pacing his balcony & mentioned it to Aston. He immediately woke up his bedridden Grandfather, which the Spanish town tribe & the neborhood all admired & highly respected often refers to him as "Uncle Stan, he looked at me & Aston,& said his family are happy & Joyous to have a beautiful Indian woman walking thru the home & land. There's so much to relate to this trip,I was flabbergasted..True & intense journey. All in all,I didn't want to leave ,but Aston was pretty anxious. Also he named Aston (Del) probably a hindu name. I'm amazed I'm getting deeper with mentioning a part of my life,brakes up Chosen Angel 😇 😊❤❤🎉

Love this song . Desmond Decker & the Aces Forever ! Rocksteady began by local musicians on the Island passing around almost impossible to get American rock & roll vinyl records that would get SCRATCHED up by so much use . Playing along with a scratched beat evolved into a " one drop " guitar rhythm , to " rock steady " to Ska to Reggae . Apparently , Decker was also the man who got Bob Marley his first record deal . God Bless Desmond Decker . R.I.P

remember my dad buying this record when it first came out (I was a kid)and he played it over and over again , my mum was not pleased

@robertcampbell9946

4 жыл бұрын

valerie campbell Namesake this is back when i was 5 yrs old Seeing those J.O.S buses remains me of my father. He drove them throughout the 60s.Those times we were still using pounds& shillings.

One of the reasons I became a huge reggae fan is because of great songs like this.

@kwacou4279

4 жыл бұрын

Rock steady not reggae. I used to walk those streets as a likkle yout inna Jamaica.

@oludotunjohnshowemimo434

11 ай бұрын

​@@kwacou4279this is Rocksteady, slowed down version of ska.

White dress : love how she dealt with the cars flying bye- she owned it! this was a classic ska sway- we did it as a tribute before we tore into a more twisted flurry- those were good times!

CLASSIC SKA BY MR. DRSMOND Dekker. NOTHING MORE TO BE SAID. 🔊🔊🔊🎤🎼🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It took me almost a decade to find this song. I heard this for the first time in Grand Theft Auto TBoGT back in 2014 and the melody just got stuck in my head. Happy to finally find this masterpiece.

@FabledHawk

2 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling!

@Justin0676

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@gabeboi5569

Жыл бұрын

That feeling is better than anything I can think of

Takes me home where I was born. Memories galore. What happened to those days.....when I remenis, I want to turn the clock back around. I dig the whole video 🎉❤😅

R.I.P.Desmond Dekker!!!

When Motown ruled the mainland, this was what the islands jammed to.

@rafiqaziz9629

2 жыл бұрын

Q2

@arfermo853

2 жыл бұрын

Hated motown loved reggae

Classic example of the rocksteady riddim, along with a great vocal performance by one of the top vocalists in Jamaica

from Japan. Thank you.

Classic Reggae. 👊🏿 That's how the Dancehall ting start. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

@LoftusBlake

3 жыл бұрын

This was even before Reggae which dancehall came from. This is Ska or Rocksteady

Saw Desmond more than a few times live, shed a tear the day he left us.. Best tune for me... Pickney Gal

@sallybrown3636

4 жыл бұрын

The best tune for me Young Generation 😏

@calebclunie4001

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sad that Mr. Bill Hicks left us, back in '97. You have good taste. Have a blessed, or mushroom filled week.

@bodhimomhxxg240

3 жыл бұрын

You can get it if you really want

@im-gi2pg

Жыл бұрын

@@bodhimomhxxg240 jimmy cliff.

Merci man ✌️🍹💯

Whos here from Vivarium????? 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 love this jam

from a 50+, thank you for coming to us, you made our shared country great, we would never be the same with out you

Truly marvellous and a fascinating look at Jamaica in the 60's

@South99African

3 жыл бұрын

Very fascinating🤔

@ISeeDeadPplS

2 жыл бұрын

wooow

@mildredmunozgutierrez6936

2 жыл бұрын

Muy buena pero hace una referencia al mundo en la forma de vivir los jamaiquinos en esa epoca

@renespeich7697

2 жыл бұрын

@@mildredmunozgutierrez6936 damals war man bescheiden und mit wenigem zufrieden. Doch heute hat man alles und will noch mehr. Es ist eine traurige Welt. Immerhin gibt es 🎶

@mikeyengland6363

Жыл бұрын

@@renespeich7697 not necessarily my friend- the key is and always is, love.

YES! Big Big tune!!! Rip The GREAT Desmond Dekker The Israelite!!

2024 and still sounds Beautiful

😮This that music that had emotions and meaning behind it, these are the songs that speak to your heart ❤️ and soul😊

You see that dancing lady. You see how ladies carried themselves. No short up tight skirt, no bleaching & natural hair & nice rocking dolly dance! Believe you me!

Give thanks Trojan Records for 50 years of my favorite music!

Original Regaee music💚💛♥️ Jah live♥️💛💚 JAH BLESS 🌍

I'm only 24 years old but i discovered great tune when i was like 14 , it always takes me backk many blessings from Aruba!🇦🇼

Great memories of my childhood.

This joyous dancing gladens my soul especially from the barefooted boys. 🎼🎶🎙🎶

One of the VERY few videos I've seen of true Late Ska/Early Rocksteady dance style as it went away from "The Ska"! I love this so much.. The gal in the white dress and the guys swinging their arms up left then right! It's BIG.

I'm 23 and love it

@lv--ak3310

Ай бұрын

21

@Midlandsbusguy

Ай бұрын

30

Traditonal skinhead showin love too one of my all time favorites You are missed desmond The man who taught bob marley the ways of music

I used to work in Michigan with some older Jamaicans and I would sing this song with them and my friends wondered how the hell I knew this song and I had to teach them about Ska.

@jawaratoyloy7780

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hell yeah

@kenkovar2647

2 жыл бұрын

so damn cool you rule!!🤪🤪😀🇯🇲🙏🏿

Those dance moves ....a long time Jamaican a come up dem # movement

One of the most amazing pieces of footage Ive ever seen on urban Jamaica ,,,new or old,,,,Id give my right arm to live ONE DAY in that day and age to see what the vibe was like,,,to me it looks like everyone was peace lovin God fearing, social and chill wit dat der gut Rocksteady playin on the turntable,,,

@donnayoung1552

4 жыл бұрын

This is what Jamaican music sounds like in the sixties, but they don't make them like this any more

Always loved this timeless classic & this social historical video is the icing on the cake - what a rare gem.🌴💎💕

Special Ed-'Im the Magnificent!' Brought me here. 😊

First single I bought as a kid, was Desmond Dekker , the Israelites 👍🏻😎

Proper music 🇬🇧🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Love this song. It's on the Harder They Come sound track. My favorite sound track!

@jeffpadgett8269

Жыл бұрын

Love that soundtrack.

timeless, classic and just positive.

Those beautiful days will never no never return.

Thank you - Just beautiful Ska in it`s purest form!

I knew and loved the tune itself for ages, but this is one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. The lady in the white dress with the records in her hands is so stunning and the rudies with the Vauxhall as well! There's no good system besides a sound system! Desmond Dekker-one of the All Time Greats! Thanks a million for sharing this gem!

@alisonclarke9642

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks I think is has some class without being loud

@MarieProvost77

4 жыл бұрын

Agree - I am in love with this woman who had the commitment to do this very stylized movement throughout - w/ 45 records in hand, no less! In the middle of street scenes full of interest & color. The sparseness & sort of randomness of the overall movements keep something of the Ska feel, for me. Just a gem.

@haroldbeenen7911

4 жыл бұрын

CyberstormDJTeam g

@mariastewart8810

4 жыл бұрын

The young lady reminds me of Millie Small (My boy lollipop)😆

@robertcampbell9946

4 жыл бұрын

CyberstormDJTeam For real , seeing those J.O.S Buses reminds me of kids days riding them .A few of them are still around though not operating.

I just found this song and have been listening to it on repeat. This is truly one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Feels like I've known it since forever. So peaceful and light, it just makes you smile. This is how music is supposed to feel.

Oh how wonderful is this? I love this. I played lead guitar in a band in 1970 and we played this. I love it to death.

beautiful track. I so love regea. RIP Desmond

Just love me some Desmond. Legend. RIP sir

Que excelente música, gracias por descubrir tantas maravillas. Saludos de Perú. 🇵🇪

KZread you grace me with beautiful music on the daily. Thank you based algorithm.

that beautiful lady in the white dress dancing .. life is so bitter sweet isn't it ? long time ago now

One of my all time favorite tune & brilliant footage of life in 67.;-D

Vivarium got me here 😍 damn the song soo good 👌

Sometimes i just travel backing time to the 60s when i am just chilling and remember the olden days legends!!!

Popped up on Radio6 today.Old tunes like this have such a nice vibe&make me smile.🎶😊👍

Never heard this song before. I love ❤️ it !!! 😊

@daviddunn6829

2 жыл бұрын

You need to check out the soundtrack to ‘The Harder They Come’

@Tacsmoker

2 жыл бұрын

@@daviddunn6829 i second that mate

….. I JUST HEARD THIS MARVELLOUS SONG FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ME LIFE, PERHAPS CAUSE I MAY BE A BIT TO YOUNG FOR ORIGINAL ROCKSTEADY/SKA MUSIC .. . TOO BAD TO BE INFORMED HERE THAT MR. DEKKER IS NOT WIT%H US ANY LONGER … BEST WISHES FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, GOD BLESS ...

@Sonnyblack100

4 жыл бұрын

Check out harder they come soundtrack

@martinderry9045

4 жыл бұрын

… THANK YOU, I´VE LISTENED TO MOST OF HIS MATERIAL NOW AND I LIKE EVERY SONG .. BEST WISHES

@coralsurf2009

3 жыл бұрын

The movie "The Harder They Come" is available on youtube, check it out; SO happy you discovered Desmond Dekker!

@martinderry9045

3 жыл бұрын

.. I WILL, THANK YOU AND BEST WISHES ..

@ameard9801

3 жыл бұрын

Were you under a Rock ?

God. I love this. Such a crisp clear sound with nice bass. Amazing film too. Well done. Thanks.

This song is "Magnificent"

Great music coming out of something that was very problematic troubling Jamaica. Regular shootings, lootings. A lot of the tunes made about the "Rude Boys" were anti-violence, condenming them, but there were one or two that actually supported them. Bob Marley, who was still a young yute himself in the 60s, identified with the rudie, best example in the tunes *"Let Him Go"* and *"Jailhouse (Good Good Rudie)."* Alton Ellis did a great anti-rudie song called *"Cry Tough"* for Duke Reid. But probably one of the best known is Prince Buster's *" Judge Dread"* saga, where he handed out ludicously long sentences to the rude boys on trial. But me personally, my favourite from this era was Mr Foundation's Studio One rudie classic *"See Dem A Come."*

Ich glaub da hat wirklich jeder Einzelne ordentlich Rythmus im Blut...schön ❤ ♥️ 💜

The rude boys and rude girls a skanking. What a heat! Major classic from Dekker and the Aces. *Rest In Power.*

The lady crossing the road in a zombie walk scant....excellent!

@pauldickinson1434

4 жыл бұрын

Fabulous... What a tune to cross the road with, stuff the traffic...

I really value seeing this vintage bit of film. First, most of it is of Slipe Rd in the vicinty of the second Woolworth's, in Kingston and the Bank of Nova Scotia is still there on Slipe Rd on the left hand side. About 2 shots of Half Way Tree with the Tree as it's no longer there. Those were different times; sometimes hard but sweet in so many ways - I miss them.

Thx for bring this rare tape on the net 🤗.. Love and peace ✌️.. Lion of Africa, desmond!, 👌

the film clips here are wonderful. Thanks so much Trojan Records!

Saw Desmond Dekker and Madness back in the late 70s....he sure got them skinheads dancing :)

@HopelessSinner

4 жыл бұрын

Chay. Bode. Love this comment ! 😂👍🏻 💚💛♥️

@TheBLACKMQQN

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the day every skin head group was not synonymous with racism

@ChayBode

4 жыл бұрын

@@HopelessSinner Thanks for the comment, put a BIG SMILE on my face :)

@ChayBode

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBLACKMQQN Very true, most skins were into the fusion of musical Cultures and Two Tone is a great example :)

@HopelessSinner

4 жыл бұрын

Chay. Bode. You're very welcome! They were certainly the good old days as far as music is concerned! And I still love a geezer with a shaved head!!😊

The white dress gal that trance dance through time mesmerize me.

@michaelleighton6879

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! I was wondering when someone was going to mention her. And so perfectly poetically put, too. Best comment, yet, sir!

@JohnSmith-pd1fz

3 жыл бұрын

++Cool The Fool++ And where is she now? Anyone know?

@o.b.7217

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pd1fz "And where is she now? Anyone know?" --- Somewhere in her 70s, if not dead.

@irenaandrews723

3 жыл бұрын

That was an actual dance we used to do back in the sixties to this music!

@irenaandrews723

3 жыл бұрын

.... in London, as the original "skinheads" in '67/68/69. It was a very underground scene back then.

Eternal masterpiece.

This is a great piece of history!

I heard this music first time in 80s, a very young teenager. It melts my heart. Very touching. God bless you guys ❤❤❤

60’s Jamaica 🇯🇲 looks awesome.

Classic! Bring mi back to mi youth!!

Oh, I'm on the good music side of KZread.

@whatthehellisthis0505

3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏆💯😎🎼🙄😉🌞😇🌞😉😌🎼😎💯🏆🙏

Imagine a white kid in 2d grade singing "The Harder they Come" on the schoolyard. My singing has been discouraged since, but I still listen to Ska & Reggae.

@tomfrazier1103

3 жыл бұрын

@@adeyoung5575 Alas my singing of anything is said to "Destroy souls" these days.

the slur in the guitar line of this song - for just half a second - is one of the most memorable things in popular music. Truly.

I remember a friend and I wanted think what the wildest name of a band and we agreed Desmond Decker! All good music.

I used to play my Dad's Trojan records and 60s reggae , this was my favourite of them all , I was buzzing to see Desmond in concert back in 87 🖤🤍🖤🤍✊🏿💯

What a great classic tune, totally timeless, and I love that early footage of Jamaica☝️

The girl in the white dress is hypnotic. I could just watch her dance. Lovely...

@malothedog1

2 жыл бұрын

Simply beautiful....

Brilliant. Love Desmond Dekker - still do. This is one of his best tracks - along with 'Israelites' and 'You Can Get It If You Really Want'. Timeless ska/early Reggae masterpieces - and still relevant today in 2024 - with their themes of oppression, poverty and the need to find a Biblical, 'Spiritual' home. Simple, 'feel-good' music which was produced on basic analogue tape technology back then - but still sounds great today !

Who are the 57 simpletons who disliked this ?

@giuseppelogiurato5718

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know, but "57 Simpletons" is a good name for an all-white ska band.

@tubtar

3 жыл бұрын

@@giuseppelogiurato5718 good name for any band......maybe even an orchestra.

@brianladder4710

3 жыл бұрын

jamaicans that thought dislike was dis i like

@phynnr3469

3 жыл бұрын

It gone 107 Now 😂 🤣

@tubtar

3 жыл бұрын

@@phynnr3469 I weep for our future. LOL

I felt as though I was in a time machine. What a trip.

Wicked🔥🔥🔥...what a time to be alive.

@jamesmoskal5482

4 жыл бұрын

Be happy you're alive now, thank God.

@jamesmoskal5482

4 жыл бұрын

Russians were working all the Caribbean at the time ,using alot of Cuban defacto soldiers. I remember a damn up in the blue mountains being a particular point of contention .Manly was bought and paid for,but it doesn't excuse communism trying to expand.Bad actors,this latest by Chinese communist 's,especially nasty.Thining the herd (putting it crudely)is typical of their mentality, no morals.Where do you stand on old folks?

What a great way to celebrate 50!!!!! Thanks Trojan!

Awesome enough said

Lovely tribute to Desmond just now on Cerys Matthew's fab Sunday show on Bbc6music today! Great to hear 007, Israelites, and my fave, It Mek!

007 Licensed to kill - Absolutely fantastic video and obviously a killer tune.

Man I love watching this video. The music is intoxicating like good Jamaican Rum.😁