Chants

Liverpools very own Doo Wop Sixties Group

[@user-ew4ns3cp1e]

Best version of this song

[@roybowker2983]

Used to see the Chants in the Embassy in Seacombe Wallasey, great nights, dance floor rocking. Brilliant mix of music. 😊 Happy days.

[@mandyjohnson1109]

The ultimate doo wop group so professional and this was the least of their recordings..They were the most underrated group in the sixties..Proud to know them, see them rehearse, sing live at the Cavern so many times and above all see them keeping the music alive on youtube..Powerful Lar...

[@PIPEHEAD]

Look missus, there's no R in La, ok ?

[@mandyjohnson1109]

@@PIPEHEAD Well there was when I lived there many decades ago and you don't have a monopoly on dialect - ever heard of Peter Moloney?? "Lern yerself Scouse" I worked on that book with him. we used the "R" Moreover - who gives a rats backside???

[@PIPEHEAD]

@@mandyjohnson1109 Fritz Spiegel for a kick off, I should think, unless I'm very much mistaken. He claimed to write my copy of LYS. Peter Moloney was great. " La " is short for " Lad " - where you get the "R" from, I'm dying to hear ........................... ?

[@mandyjohnson1109]

@@PIPEHEAD I know that - who doesn't? The R" accentuates the pronunciation which is not "la" as in "lah".. I heard the term Powerful lar from Joey Ankah almost sixty years ago and,add once again, who gives a rat's behind? Fritz Speigel may well have been a contributor who wasn't?? Liverpool was "in" and there were lots of hangers on looking for their five minutes of fame..and lots of irritating people who continue to. Thanks for your comments and have an exciting life; as for me.. I still enjoy listening to The Chants records powerful or not!

[@PIPEHEAD]

@@mandyjohnson1109 You may be slightly older than me, but that doesn't impress me as much as you seem to think it should - are you still saying P Moloney wrote LYS ?

[@sheilalove5618]

Been looking for this version for years... thought it was the tymes .....BEST song best version ever can’t get it out of my head again... takes me back to the day ... I LOVE IT. Wish we could be back there now..

[@ferryyuwanto2571]

excellent.......great

[@frankhyland6333]

One of the best British vocal groups ever. I had the privileged of watching their performance at the Majestic in Birkenhead. They were on the same bill as the Beatles. I can't recall who backed them instrumental wise, it might well have been the Beatles? Their two earlier recordings were as good as any American vocal groups. Unfortunately for them Doowop was on the way out around the 1962/63 period. That's when they should have diversified. They were different and talented but heir problem was, apart form the two earlier records, a choice of wrong songs, probably not of their doing, and most certainly mismanagement. Nevertheless they have their rightful place in the history of the Mersey beat scene.

[@kelime]

The Beatles backed up the Chants quite a few times. Paul McCartney met Joe Ankrah after a Little Richard concert and suggested he bring the Chants to the Cavern Club for an audition. When the Chants arrived w/o a backup band, the Beatles offered to back them up. Subsequently, the groups appeared together on quite a few gigs.

[@josephsillah7165]

FRANK HYLAND SORRY TO SAY ANOTHER ONE OF THE CHANTS GROUP HAS PASSED AWAY B4 MY TIME NAT SMEDA R=I=P, BUT HIS BROTHER STEVEN HAD TWO KIDS TO MY SISTER GOD BLESS NAT SMEDA G=B=N=F XX

[@frankhyland6333]

@@josephsillah7165 Hi Joseph.I'm saddend to hear that, I still think of them as the young kids in this video. God bless Nat.

[@josephsillah7165]

@@frankhyland6333 YER VERY SAD NEWS IN LIVERPOOL 8 FRANK ,I USE TO SEE NAT ALOT WHERE HE WORKED IN LIVERPOOL SOCIAL WORKER HE WAS LOVELY FAMILY GNG BLESS ALL X

[@soulvigilante]

I would have loved to see these guys live if this is what they were capable of. Doo-Wop meets Mersey Beat...and it works!

[@lyndamcardle4123]

Never heard this until about 20 years ago on Radio 2's "Sounds of the 60's" with the late, great Brian Mathew. It's simply a stunning doo-wop song and a Great American Songbook Rodgers & Hart classic done in a completely different and successful way.

[@moorlock2003]

Absolutely fabulous

[@joesmith34]

Brilliant harmonies.

[@billarroo]

Nice sounds. Thanks

[@shariallison5579]

love how innocent the girls look and dress and act ..amazing group with a great sound and record totally brings me back to the British invasion thanks so much for posting this awesome song and such a sweet group compared to the filthy rappers we have in todays world !!

[@williamrivera4749]

Great version

[@bluenazz]

That's an excellent track!

[@user-ew4ns3cp1e]

Super!

[@rainclear8429]

Only two real harmony groups in liverpool with at least 4 voices ,the chants and the Easybeats ,this is one of my all time favourite songs ,great group.

[@PBL187]

The Easybeats? I thought they were Australian

[@TheMerseySound1]

@@PBL187 The Australian Easybeats we’re named after the Liverpool band The Easybeats. AUS Easybeats drummer Gordon Fleet was from Liverpool and used to follow the Liverpool band before he emigrated

[@GildardoZBpechocho]

Psychologist: Paula McCartney does not exist. Me: 1:29

[@zorenxam4693]

Awesome

[@TheFreedutch2008]

I love it. If you was a beatle you could have seen this live.

[@djammerosl879]

Powerful,that’s all powerful.the Boys.🔥👌🏾😎

[@Themaddprof]

There is an overall sweetness to this. Love it. Some six years later, they made a powerful anti racist anthem "Man Without a Face" that I'm sure raised eyebrows in 1968.

[@gazzgazeer]

Nice one Ty

[@martinbroughton5079]

Ace!!

[@meyselfI]

Hi, There was only one Amoo brother in The Chants...Eddie Amoo was their main songwriter. Eddies brother Chris formed a group called Sophisticated Soul Brothers or something along those line, I can't quite remember, which later was changed to The Real Thing and it was then that Eddie was drafted in as a writer and singer...not from the beginning...but just love The Chants...

[@crucialpdenislea1963]

This group formed the basis for the real thing

[@TheMerseySound1]

Not quite. Eddie Amoo of The Chants joined Vocal Perfection who later became The Real Thing

[@crucialpdenislea1963]

@@TheMerseySound1 so, a bit the basics for the real thing,..😀

[@TheMerseySound1]

@@crucialpdenislea1963 Vocal Perfection were the basis for The Real Thing. Eddie joined from a separate entity

[@soulatthewheel]

@meyselfI the name of the group before the real thing was the vocal perfection who used to play regular at the time and place liverpool......Eric P.S.lead singer was a great guy named kenny davis who sadly is no longer with us.

[@ZZebidee]

Nice one! Thanks

[@johnthrussell1377]

Nice harmonysweet song

[@DoowopJohnnyBoy]

By the way the Chants were NOT the only vocal harmony Doowop group from Liverpool... Back In 1958 there was a release on Columbia which I have of a white Doowop group called The Crescents . Tracks are Wrong/ Baby Baby Baby its a bloody rare record aswell...

[@soulatthewheel]

@meyselfI your spot on kenny did drown in the mersey . I used to buy kenny a drink in chaufers on hardman street he loved wearing that long leather coat .Funny I saw your article has only last week was speaking to willy wenton about kenny [remember willy from the shuffler sound another class act that should have made it...

[@shariallison5579]

where is Kenny on this video ? cheers

[@meyselfI]

@soulatthewheel You're absolutely right, I felt it was something like that...Yes, sadly Kenny as far as I know drowned at the Pier Head sometime after he was unceremoniously kicked out of the group just before they hit the big time, Kenny wasn't pretty like the others but he could sing very well, After leaving the group Kenny's life took a turn for the worse and he never recovered from it...very sad...I knew him well...he is missed

[@andyhowarth2778]

I met him back in the 70s at High park st dole.

[@sheilspeter]

Pleasure, do you recognise the Amoo brothers who went on to form the Real Thing!!

[@andrewberry6411]

Is that JWL left of picture at 0.07 to 0.08 seconds?

[@sarahgregory2480]

Which ones are Joe and Eddie Ankrah please? I'm assuming the one in middle and on the right looking at the video as they look alike but want to be sure. I've been doing a family tree for a while and discovered they are cousins of my son on his dad's side.

[@MrGandharva108]

Fab !

[@robertnewsome3663]

Cilla right at the begining on the front left.

[@LonnieCook-doowopsvoice]

This is the page for The Doo Wop Hall of Fame facebook.com/doowopsvoice/ I am posting this comment because of some of the others posted. This is a landmark great recording and performance. The reaction of the girls in the audience lets us know how popular The Chants were. The music mogols in the UK decided to kill their career and they did that by having Brian Epstein manage both The Chants and The Beatles. If you check you will find that The Beatles provided a backup band for The Chants sometimes. The situation was that Black music was curtailed on radio so much so that it started a youth revolution that generated Northern Soul, and the white mogols could not stop it; as we all know. A song that i wrote is listed at #242 in the Top Northern Soul book.

[@rainclear8429]

It is called music

[@VMR1952]

does anyone know the club they are in, mike, Liverpool.

[@rainclear8429]

It's the Rialto or rio as it was known ..ft

[@rainclear8429]

every other group in clouding the original Easybeats and the beech woods with beach boys and brian Wilson music in the brian Wilson beach boy music because it was different but the music was the same , four freshmen etc British dance bands and all other bands play the same harmonies a

[@sheilspeter]

@theaznlvr why bother posting such a message, if its not your cup of tea thats fine........ but some people find it of interest!!

[@garrickp100]

do you recognize anyone ? look closely

[@PBL187]

Who?

[@shariallison5579]

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

[@PBL187]

Wait you don't mean Cilla Black by any chance do you? She could well have been in that audience. She is harder to recognise in her younger days though, she looked like most of the women in this clip

[@shariallison5579]

@@PBL187 can you tell me where on the minutes she appears .. i think I found her but not sure x

[@PBL187]

@@shariallison5579 I don't know, I was asking Garrick

[@zorenxam4693]

Lip sync it 🙂🤎🤎🤎

[@dmlevitt]

very Beach Boys

[@svgallery]

Super!