1977 Roots Intro

[@oneironaut.indigo]

I’m Mexican and this gets me emotional, it doesn’t matter what race you are we are all in this world together

[@jaleaalexander1555]

Tell the Mexicans that in L.A we are one. Being divided is the devil works. Yall just a few shades lighter than us

[@LittleMissEmerald]

The reason you feel emotional is because our people went through the same struggles but it’s sadly not voiced or widely broadcasted like these amazing shows. Dont let the border fool you. Our browned skinned people may be mixed with a lot of different latins but our mother race is Native American.

[@pqz91]

Makes me emotional every time.....will never forget

[@MrDonny27]

I'm here 2020

[@gazanation767]

@@MrDonny27 i'm here 2021

[@lakeisharobinson2132]

I agree. Amen.

[@nosadnordin4732]

Me too

[@marvinjames890]

💯👌

[@NattyWerewolf]

This song and Roots will always have a place in my heart

[@Yagami0fth3Dead88]

thanks Goku

[@NattyWerewolf]

@@Yagami0fth3Dead88 I cry every time p

[@pauledfors6390]

I was a boy in 1977 when I first saw this television drama, and I was frozen in time watching it on TV. It took place over a week, and every day I could not wait to sit in front of the TV with my entire family with intense anticipation waiting for the next episode. Over 40 years later, I still get a chill through my spine and break into tears just by seeing the intro. Thank you Alex Haley

[@vikramgupta2326]

Interesting. I specifically remember the week it played. I was 8 but was not allowed to see it...it was for grown ups...I had to go up to bed when it came on, but I remember the intro starting.

[@ckrtom2]

You story and sentiments are exactly mine, bud.

[@leonardhughes4521]

Same with me.

[@victorygirl38games36]

Our ancestors were strong men and women. 😊

[@shirleyleone799]

Just watched Roots on the Sundance channel this week. Timeless classic that hasn't lost its profound influence. It remains a powerful testament. The soundtrack truly helps tell the story.

[@linettestanding8071]

Reminds me of mum. We watched this together when she was alive RIP xx

[@orangelazarus91]

Happy 45th Anniversary to Roots (first aired 45 years ago tonight, 1/23/1977).

[@missbritt288]

This is my childhood right here .... My mom forced all us to watch this series as a kid ... Remember having the box set of VHS ... it was a big deal . Watching this with my bro in the living room wow how time flies ...People were more together as families .. Thank you mom for caring enough to try and teach me who i was , and to have knowledge of self , my brother too - Nuwabian/Five percenter . .

[@jojones2500]

This music connects to you within and brings tears to your eyes . 🙏

[@YourHalfSister]

I hope they use this song for the Roots remake. It's so beautiful; the struggle and triumph can be heard in each measure.

[@junyah1]

I agree

[@valuecalc]

Extremely impressive! After 46 years, this powerful series never loses its timeless impact!

[@dorothyspeaks6997]

I feel empowered when I hear this.

[@omarescobar3166]

Destinee Greer Same Brother, This theme song is absolutely beautiful and fits in with this.

[@deanadiedrich9304]

Why do you feel empowered by it?

[@jasonpalacios2705]

I'm surprised that no one in 90's hip hop didn't sample this music.

[@titan643]

+Dancingdiva. juelz santana mic check

[@1demcrispylinks880]

I’m glad someone knows

[@KDawg92801]

Jason Palacios too good to be sampled

[@munecadoll13]

Juelz Santana did...on song called Mic Check

[@GTO_CAL]

Santana did but it was terrible

[@CamilleCoTV]

I can’t hear this without being emotional. I first heard it at 10 years old ..watching the miniseries every night with my mom and dad….not understanding everything but knowing I was experiencing something life changing. It represents so much. Our past, our heritage, our pain, our hope…and a deep insatiable desire to find out where we “belonged” as well. It changed me forever. So grateful its timeless nature is still being experienced today. I will never forget it.

[@kazunaedits]

I love this intro, when I was in the 8th grade we had a assignment to watch the first 3 episodes of roots but after watching all 3 episodes I wanted to continue watching it, so in my free time I would watch the rest of the series on my own. Anybody can enjoy this series no matter what race or background, I'm half white and asian (sweedish + japanese).

[@garrett5386]

✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 can’t even begin to try to imagine the pain and suffering my ancestors went through. Everything I do, I do for them and in their honor.

[@anthonybass8395]

I watch the Roots series at least once every year it makes me cry 😢

[@alonzamyers2840]

This music & series reaches deep within our souls.

[@jondriscoll9471]

Cherish the nights that I watched this with my wonderful late mom - wow- 1977 - 40 years ago- would give anything to be back there again :(

[@phibikovac2060]

Unforgettable song.everytime i cry😢😢😢

[@lyndiaburgess7009]

Rip to an icon 🙏 😪 cicely u will never be forgotten

[@newrecord1000]

This intro is iconic!

[@RalphyDee]

I watched this as a kid back in Brooklyn in the 70s & it made me cry. Over 40 years later, here I am listening to this again & I'm tearing up & have a lump in my throat...

[@racourdav]

I look at those images and feel such sorrow for my ancestors. I doubt I could watch Roots again-- it's too heavy

[@garycollins8129]

Timeless indeed. I was a young teen when I saw this. My wife and I didn’t have kids until a little later in life. We are getting closer to sharing this with our kids who are now young teens themselves. I can’t wait.

[@rodhilton6264]

When I showed this to my 11th grade history classes last yea as part of Black History month r they were speechless. Each day they anticipated this class out of all the others. I maybe had only 3 absences out of all ny classes and tge letters of support I received from the parents were overwhelming. I am going to make this a regular thing each black history month.

[@sjoelle3335]

I am a teacher as well. I would say that this is American history not just “black history.” This movie resonates with all Americans because it is a part of our shared history and story. I will agree it is powerful and definitely moves students.

[@NattyWerewolf]

Show this every year. Everyone should know

[@moa6969]

It's too bad that Alex Haley plagarized this story from a book written in the 1960's titled "The African" by Harry Courlander, a white man. Haley was taken to court and the Judge found that he indeed plagerized many passages from Courlander's book. This theme music written by Gerald Fried, who recently passed away is amazing. The "Roots" movie doesn't depict the entirety of how slaves were sold. Many but not all stronger dominating tribes caught their enemies in time of war and held them in captivity as a standard practice before the Transatlantic slave trade began. The white man didn't go into the bush to hunt for black Africans to sell them for the most part. Slavery in West Africa existed before the Europeans arrived. Slavery still exists today in North Africa particularly in Mauritania. This part of history is not popular, but kids need to learn this too.

[@Dovahkiinismean]

0:32 this part makes me tear up every time

[@ChaseEverything]

I love the musical progression from that part on wards :) This theme always stuck with me, then when I saw the Roots remake I was inspired to work on a remix of this haha!

[@Dovahkiinismean]

ChaseEverything yes!! that's really awesome man!

[@racourdav]

Yeah...me too

[@dmpwwrestling490]

I watched it this past weekend. It was an amazing story I can’t believe this generation doesn’t want to learn where we came from

[@NattyWerewolf]

Every black person should watch this original Roots

[@nataljawells3761]

This is really freaky. T reminds me of watching it as a child.. idk I just find the music really powerful?? It actually feels like your there

[@Drill1775]

A piece of you was. Your ancestors. That's why you feel how you do.

[@sstritmatter2158]

That and the images look like paintings from real events - were probably very similar and the artistry captures something acting is difficult to produce.

[@oneinsixcom]

Sat my kids through this series.

[@จันทร์พรส์สุธาสินี]

2021 i love the song from this movie since 1977 it's wonderful to hear this song again thanks

[@francisrenaldo1693]

MAKES ME CRY CRY CRY...........

[@andyjurkiewicz1990]

Powerful intro.

[@nhanpham1315]

Andy Jurkiewicz

[@alexsilvacorp]

Im from Brazil and i remember this was the first time my mum let me stay up later...to watch the episodes on TV with her...

[@wheelchairmanjon]

On this day, January 23, 1977, this mini series premiered this was a great and accurate portrayal of the way African-Americans have overcome adversity. I think it is the shame that they don’t show this anymore on television. I think it is disrespectful that they don’t show it on television anymore I think people need to see and understand the struggle that African-Americans had to go through. Ignoring history doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

[@janesgems7]

I remember watching this as a kid with my mum and dad...all three of us cried.

[@gpk1027]

Can never forget that theme song....What an All Star Cast !

[@sonixnight3500]

the music for this is so amazing!! thank you soo much for posting this!

[@orangeslush7018]

rest in power all my brothers and sisters, we wont forget your struggle

[@jothompson6531]

a genealogist of african american history this theme touches me deeplkklk

[@shawndavid2020]

Every since i was a child and til this day Every time I hear this theme I cry for freedom for my people and i think about all the affliction and torment

[@NattyWerewolf]

I still come back

[@mmmmmmmmm95]

Hermoso y emotivo , se me sale las lagrimas, un genio quincy jones, uno de los mejores musicales de nivel de una pelicula

[@Ire308]

Roots was one of the productions that I remember most with great affection. For the protagonists, for the great actors who participated in it and gave their best in their performances. Makes me sad that programs of this caliber are no longer produced. Even the 2016 remake can't hold a candle to the original.

[@ANDREINATEX]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

[@wabejoo]

When other communities became almost extinct from this kind of brutality, African communities on both sides of the Atlantic refused to die and to me this is a testament of the inherent strength of these communities. That being said, I KNOW I would not have survived slavery.

[@sstritmatter2158]

I probably wouldn't survive Jim Crow

[@miospio]

@@sstritmatter2158 hell, we still in Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow…

[@jaleaalexander1555]

But Thank God yours and mine ancestors did

[@loveisabeautifulthing7188]

love this music

[@mejiasrosario3457]

R.I.P cicley tyson💛

[@thomasdavid8690]

Every time i hear this my soul cries out to Abba in heaven,please restore your chosen people

[@timothyturner1056]

I wouldn't mind having that song for a ringtone.

[@philasyr]

I'm not a big fan of "rebooting" things, but I'd definitely like to see Roots get redone. Its message is as relevant as it ever was. Maybe Levar Burton can be the grown up Kunta Kinte!

[@Kidicaruslover]

There is a remake coming soon

[@tryarunm]

+philasyr I believe its been made, with Levar, Louis Gosset Jr. and others. 2012 I think. When Roots aired in Zambia in the late '70s and in Zimbabwe in 82-3, the colonial yoke had only just been thrown off, so the show seemed to be a recalling of the recent grim past. I think it will resonate deeply now with a generation that has never known the white man except on the sports field or in the car garage.

[@waivedwench]

+tryarunm I just hope it doesn't disappoint, like so many remakes do.

[@thejusticeavengers1]

@@waivedwench 7 years later what’d you think I’d the remake?

[@yaitsasha]

why do I love this song so much 💀

[@adamharris7775]

Kathy Bates as Madame Lalaurie watched that show on American Horror Story: Coven in 2014.

[@hccarpan]

I watched this tv serial in TRT the Turkish national channel when I was 14 years old.

[@TruthHipHopAndSoul]

Never seen a story so sad. And its not because they died, death would have been peace. Its that they lived

[@davidwilliamson462]

this mini series enlightened me to the struggle of slavery, hard to watch , but nessacary , a stain on american history that is still being fought today,

[@orangeslush7018]

very unfortunate tht ppl had to go thru this, very.

[@cpman1987]

Quincy Jones compositions are FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Jaliyl773]

Its hard to imagine how hard our ancestors had it back then. Even 2014 never 4get. Were still slaves mentally.

[@Jaliyl773]

***** You missed the point in my comment and your trying to compare your peoples struggle to mine. Take your own advice.

[@Jaliyl773]

***** Nothings changed except are not in phy slavery anymore,kiddo 😂.

[@Jaliyl773]

***** yeah my bad I was on the bus, yeah that's what I ment.

[@Jaliyl773]

***** I respect your opinion though.

[@MrDarkmarius]

You're not a slave! You're not even close!!! You live in a country & time when a black President has been voted in twice by both black & white people. You're an uneducated black person who loves to feel sorry for himself & HAS THE FUCKING NERVE TO COMPARE HIS SITUATION TODAY TO SLAVERY!!!!! It underscores your ignorance & disgraces those WHO WERE REAL SLAVES. . .

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

My niece is thirteen and I'm hoping to give her this as her fourteenth birthday or by October for a holiday gift.

[@NattyWerewolf]

Great present

[@HaciendaDurazo]

I watched this series with my mother when I was a little girl. A couple months ago, I took a DNA test with 23andme. Turns out I have 5.6% African in me. Looking at the timeline of my DNA ancestors, I realized it was around the time Africans were brought to South American and sold as slaves. It saddens me to know this history, and it’s in my own blood.

[@keno8spot]

there is a remake of Roots coming out thats like remaking Gone With The Wind or The Godfather you cant do it now matter how good it is those films are such classics they stand for all time

[@tuskwilliams716]

tv show*

[@keno8spot]

right tv show my point is still valid you really cant remake Roots

[@elsakristina2689]

I am pretty excited for it, tho. I've never watched the original "Roots" but I am curious as to how this one will be like

[@kevinwatson6879]

I recommend it to all who've never seen it.

[@keno8spot]

i recommend renting the original you cant improve perfection

[@dondake3409]

Soundtracks from Roots, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Taxi Driver has been used multiple times in classic Chop Socky Films.

[@Teletran35]

I'm watching the new version and so far its very similiar to the origional.I haven't seen the origional since I was a kid

[@mannyh7883]

me too since high school

[@ebony1473]

I have the old version of roots on dvd watching today. Watched the new version and the making of it on last night vert interesting

[@NattyWerewolf]

Every black should watch Roots

[@jeffp5788]

So should every white of they wish to understand why things are the way they are now.

[@NattyWerewolf]

@@jeffp5788 yea true

[@MannyY2K]

Its black history month now, I watch roots every year on black history month

[@jothompson6531]

I meant to say deeply any way a great theme thanks Gerald Fried and Quincy Jones

[@MightyBryanGaming]

My mom rented this from blockbuster in 08 I was 9. I remember getting emotional at this film. To this day this is the only slavery movie I’ll watch cause it’s about telling a story not tryna villianize modern white people like these new black movies

[@racool911]

Remember this from history class lol

[@laminage]

I couldn't watch it when I was 11 in 1977. It was too horrifying for my sister and I and she was 7. It's like a fine wine. When I saw The Picture of Binta who was in "Pain" I didn't understand but now I do, she was giving birth without any of the technolgy we have today in 1750.

[@orangeslush7018]

break my heart every time

[@erikmartin2302]

They have used this theme for several Kung Fu movies as well.

[@katerinag9512]

Wow chicken George is pretty dark to be half white. Genetics are interesting !

[@smileybits7833]

You know mixed comes in all different shades

[@valuecalc]

​@@smileybits7833, correct.

[@Escadeus]

I have the vinyl record of this movie's soundtrack if anyone out there wants it...

[@lfcethan_]

Ooga booga

[@wockyslush669]

I see your up to date on your cave beast language

[@andrejake348]

Amazing !!??

[@5015dance]

Read last week that "Roots" is going to be remade. Levar Burton is going to co-produce!!

[@akeel_1701]

I know he played Kunta Kinte then but now he will forever be Geordi LaForge

[@Prodboy1690]

Respect x

[@amoney31aplus28]

Wow all this going in the 1800s while Shaka over in Africa going through his problems ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@_donald.harrison04]

What about the end part

[@natskils]

Year 8 anyone?

[@Sueb18631]

OK, what I want to know is: Who the heck is that balding white guy with the mustache right behind George and Matilda at 1:01?? He doesn't look like anybody who's in the show.

[@NattyWerewolf]

Good question. Maybe it’s that one white dude they made friends with at the end. The nice one

[@Sueb18631]

@@NattyWerewolf Ol' George? Well, maybe, although it doesn't look anything like Brad Davis who played that part. However, it's possible that the painting was done before the role was cast and filmed. Or maybe it's just a random white guy.

[@bryangarcia9560]

Anyone know the name of the music the playing cause I wanted to post it or better yet the video

[@LogicMind99]

Powerful

[@Heartbreakcherry]

Somebody make this a beat please

[@jonesbrandon76]

MIKE CHERRY SHOT IT NO

[@jeffreyrichardson]

Jody, did you see the choking scene?

[@j2shoes288]

Never ever forget

[@かおり-l9y5c]

感動したドラマ

[@moviebuff1975]

Is this the same title card or did ABC use the book cover?

[@leilamacre5282]

anyone knows the name of the song?

[@andresnevarez]

I watch this for black history month

[@tiffanyleonard7895]

were those paintings?

[@HLordz301]

wow

[@Cardenas50zz58]

Captain of the ship is so hot

[@jeffp5788]

Ed Asner

[@Cardenas50zz58]

@@jeffp5788 I know his name. But thanks.

[@kayunderwood225]

Daddy John Walton

[@lorenzoguice6367]

:47 seconds 😢

[@acerola179]

ah, i love .hack

[@spicey6646]

Democrats:GET OFF OF THE DEMOKKKRAT PLANTATION! 2018.

[@orangeslush7018]

so many cowards have graced this earth

[@mcdonoghrahloh459]

Quincy Jones!

[@rodrigomunozlevi4214]

20 kkk around here...