Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites (Official Lyrics Video) | REACTION

[@grampageorge3407]

I'm 72 years old and have been listening to this song for many a year.I was really young when this song came out.

[@wonderrob3225]

Brother I cant believe how fast we got old !

[@nancikuba42]

I@grampageorge3407 i was in Jr high, 68 now & this was on my favorite songs & wanted to see todays reaction to it. What just dawned on me was it was right after the 1967 war.

[@wearinganapron]

I could listen to this ALL DAY. In high school, nobody could understand the lyrics, but we all hopped around to if. Who could resist that rising bass?

[@saxmusicmail]

I love that rising bass line lick!

[@Katiepiepie666]

I remember this song very well and loved it. My dad bought it, when I was still a babe in arms, it was played in our white British home in London for years. Poor people can understand the suffering and struggle of other poor people. I remember as kids we would study the lyrics on the sleeves of singles and albums to learn the words if inspired to do so. Singing them to our friends in and out of school. I am happy to see this song being rediscovered. Music has this amazing ability to span all social strata :)

[@dagmar.6954]

This is such a cool song from 1968. Very few people react to it. I have always loved it. Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady & reggae singer-songwriter & musician. I have his cd & there are some are other good songs on it such as "007 (Shanty Town)", "It Mek", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" etc.

[@wonderrob3225]

Them a shoot , them a loot , them a wail in Shanty tooown 🎶

[@stobbinsboy]

I've always loved this since I was 6 in 69'!

[@suzie4417]

Thank you ! OMG I haven’t heard this fantastic song for ages! We used to dance to this at the West Indies parties 🎉 Thanks again 🎶💓🇨🇦

[@AP-gb3eh]

Ohh a beloved oldie ❤ been jamming to this since grade school. Turned me onto Jamaican Reggae, Soca

[@marksanders8028]

Love this song. This man had soul.

[@victoriataylor6741]

I was 12 when i first heard this song. Got my mom to take me to the record store & i bought the 45. Loved it then. Love it now!

[@wonderrob3225]

45s Oh how wonderful a way to get your favorite songs !

[@compassontheroad5286]

i am now a woman of 66 and i was a trojan skinhead in 1969 . we were named after the record lablel and we loved ska and Desmond was one of our heros. by the I am white and i understand him perfectly. thank you for playing this

[@JonS0107]

One of my favorite songs growing up.

[@v.2080]

I remember this tune very well. Liked it very much. Who can forget that phrase?❤

[@celsus7979]

I love this song, been a long time since hearing it. It somehow reminds me of an 80s british song, real working class music. Madness - One Step Beyond I would really enjoy a reaction to that one!

[@Whippy99]

This song was, and still is, hugely popular in the UK. I absolutely love it.

[@wonderrob3225]

When Desmond Decker says OOOOH me Israelites! He means "hey all you slaves like me ! I sing to you." I especially love this song because I am a Jew from a multi-ethnic family.

[@roylle6346]

He said poor mi Israelites gtfoh

[@whyask8155]

@wonderrob3225 it's "poor" Pooooo--oooor, Athens Israelites

[@emilybirdiebelle862]

I love Desmond Dekker music , thank you for your video here and insight and history.

[@nechemyah2102]

The pagans will never understand the heart of a true Israelite. They will not tell the world who we are, but we have not forgotten who we are.. the true children of the Most High...

[@DraniCondon]

i might be wrong but did you say brits wouldnt understand this song? it is you who needs to crawl back under your stone if your saying you have only recently heard this tune,. raygay as u call it is in fact reggae and the reggae scene didnt catch on in the states. i was nine at the time of its release and everyone bought this single on vinyl, and at school we sang and sang it including the white kids who also knew how to sing it in creole. white people over here have always liked west indian accents and west indian ska and ray gay :)

[@heatherhobbit2931]

I love Desmond Dekker 🤗

[@tacop11]

This song came out when I was 12. I still love it.

[@mpemberton7760]

Same here!

[@ricelaker]

I remember hearing this back in the day. Very catchy tune.

[@bk6020]

I’m 77 and this brings back so many good memories for me. The 60,s was a great era for music,Reggae especially .

[@Pab2465]

Massive tune in the British Scooter and Skinhead scene, Love it

[@wulfsheadbladesmiths6666]

Back in the late 70s in the UK all the different sub-cultures were fighting each other, today at our gatherings we all dance to the Trojan sound and without all the fighting. This old Revivalist MOD says what a better world we live in today.

[@Oakland_California_Gurl]

This song is perfection.

[@johnlomax2502]

This song turned me on exactly like that! I just started smiling and couldn’t stop! I feel you ☺️

[@nancikuba42]

One of my favorites.

[@Debbie13399]

Looove old Skool.

[@jamespasifull]

Another great track, in a similar vein, is Dat, by Pluto Shervington. Released in the early 80's, it was a completely new sound for us Brit kids, just getting into music as young adults! Decades later, I still can't understand a word, but you just can't keep still while it's playing!! 🕺💃🕺💃

[@susangalloway3055]

Song was different and we loved it!!!

[@lesliedavis2185]

Love this. Heard this a a kid , always been fave. Rock steady led me to,ska

[@RoarinRoots]

Being from the West Indies this has been a classic from day one

[@arlinehoward399]

Backup vocalist where big in Jamaica winning the song of Jamaica and also in the hall of fame

[@yang-it-yin7002]

Love this track! This was a great era for Jamaican ska and early reggae. It reminds me of another great track from this period: a ska/reggae/funk track that hit the top of the charts called DOUBLE BARREL by Dave & Ansel Collins. I highly recommend it for your consideration in a future reaction, particularly the 1971 Top of the Pops performance. I feel it possibly has one of the greatest basslines you will hear in any genre of music. Well, it makes a lot of sense with Sly and Robbie performing on The Top of The Pops with Dave and Ansel Collins. After all, they are the most legendary rhythm sections to come from Jamaica. Hope you give it a play and see for yourself.

[@arlinehoward399]

The Aces where a group of 4 first before signing with Kong and had there own and individual hits

[@DraniCondon]

i was lucky i got to see him perform at my local art centre

[@jamesstuart7649]

From The Most High. You sleep and true say you nah know me. My chosen nation in our covenant. Wake Up onto me and obey. Know. I C U .... correction we C U. Mother also C U. Show respect to her. More than me and bow to her daughters. She knows that you carry me and her seed of good. Abandon all evil. For good has family values with respect. Ask to obtain. Or bow out if rejected, yet give thanks for a close call. Know us in the kjv and that we are always in you forever. Wake Up Chosen and fear Him alone. Please note that you have His Power and they fear us all, you male and female. Take want you want from this but know we love you more. You must take them down before us . Or we will sun kissed .... Yah xxxx

[@phillyhope27]

I love him.....

[@mlevi9206]

It was a massive hit in Britain. It’s like serfs

[@yvetteadshead4212]

Fab song, loved it

[@Starscr34m76]

I heard this song in my darkest hours

[@markthomas2577]

oooh. ooooh ... me ears are alight

[@Ryattt81]

I came up in the ska scene in the 90s, so I was aware of the older classics that 3rd wave grew from, I heard it, I liked it, but I wasnt there yet. Ow at the ripe old age of 42, give me Dekker, Ellis, Gaylads, Ken Boothe, Dennis Brown, Livingston, etc...dont really listen to much 3rd wave anymore, its too hectic, but I love these golden oldies of reggae

[@Anykindahandle]

One of the best reggae songs out there!!!!

[@Mulavi]

Now that you've opened the door to the ska, rock steady, early reggae rabbit hole it's time for Toots and the Maytals: Time Tough, Sweet and Dandy, and Rasta Man.

[@marksanders8028]

There is some live video’s of him singing this that are worth seeing.

[@KC-gy5xw]

I ALWAYS won the Desmond Dekker sing a long, I got his mouth and movements perfectly... Still got this on 7" somewhere

[@RoarinRoots]

Yeah his eye & mouth movements where something else🤭

[@fatovamingus]

This has got such a great guitar part

[@FHIPrincePeter]

The Man is wearing dreads! Yet a stranger to this tune. I call it cultural appropriation!

[@perrinejay9084]

them say "inna yard" when come visit, not stealing from the garden ya mon good laugh good times. thanks this tune is bad

[@toddadams2030]

This comes under Ska music early reggae

[@perrinejay9084]

Israelites (1970 Live Version) youtube Desmond Dekker - Topic check it pls bomb of recordings!!!!!! OLD OLD SCHOOL playing it never gets old

[@ANONDA-g1m]

Dekker shouted a warning with song, and if you are not crying, you missed the meaning. Pain and suffering is real. The music was the medicine.

[@dennisflury6942]

You get good suggestions, and then you play them, Thanks

[@amandasutton4056]

Love it..classic reggae 😊

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