Richie Havens - Minstrel From Gault

[@andrewdoggette2893]

MY 12 year old cousin used to look at my Big brother and Richie with awe..back in the day. WE knew that they were Giants. NOw we moved on to others . Made songs for so many great groups. Bless you Richie

[@PhilBaird1]

This will always be among Richie's greatest recordings. The verse about a soldier coming down from Dien Bien Phu with silence in his eyes says so much in just a few lines, and I've never forgotten it. RIP to a beautiful human being whose music will live on,

[@albertbavre3941]

i think the same as you now !!

[@albertbavre3941]

Love your reaction sooo much !!

[@KateBates22zabu]

Listening during the Palestinian genocide. Praying for peace & not extermination and deliberate starvation. Thank you Mr Richie P Havens and msy God reward you. Ameen

[@dreadnought2021]

STONEHENGE is my favourite Richie Havens Album , I had it first , on tape , in the early 90's , but now , I have it on Vinyl (STORMY FOREST) a treasured possession.

[@peppinotorino2569]

This track Is from the 1969 album ' Stonehenge ' . A beautiful record. I still have It on vinyl.

[@Retroman27]

IMHO this is Mr Havens' best song. Very haunting yet very powerful.

[@albertbavre3941]

Heared it more than 40 years ago and now again,it's so hurting..

[@reconnsupernaturalsyndicat1493]

Absolutely brilliant

[@jenniedevereaux2696]

❤Thank God for his beautiful children. Richie heavens you are in heaven with the Lord

[@WillScarlet16]

It was 45 years ago today Richie opened Woodstock with this very song.

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

GREAT PERFORMANCE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR !!

[@simjtuder2531]

@@anthonyvaughan6470 yes..wish I was there...however, that 1st day at Woodstock was the same day as the ground attack on Quan Loi...one of my baptisms of fire.

[@sdushdiu]

My favorite Richie Haven's song...

[@paulaston66]

His songs always have a moral message!

[@IbnBahtuta]

Like Freedom, this one is so haunting too. This is my favorite song that nobody else could sing like RH, ever.

[@TheDman216]

i love this song

[@Ladyrants]

Thank you. This was his best song, bar none.

[@jenniedevereaux2696]

Pure class ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@calvinmatthews4426]

What a nice song. One of my favorites by Richie.

[@leykeyes3261]

Great song by the outstanding Richie Havens.

[@LWitlen]

I love this man. God rest your enormous soul, Richie.

[@daehrotom]

Shows what a beautiful individual he truely was. Peace to You

[@nealluczkiewicz6846]

Truly a phenmenal man, song, performance, message. All you need to know about humanity -- "when it came to listening, we listened, but little, if at all "

[@greggmoeller6307]

On another posting of this song, many people commented how they were introduced to Havens through this song being included in the very first K-Tel "hits" album, "Get It On". Amazing that something like K-Tel could widen so many horizons--especially mine. This is still my all time favorite Havens song, and I still treasure that old K-Tel album that I found at a Goodwill...

[@bomji23]

That's where I first heard it! Got the album at a yard sale.

[@bionicman71]

I have looking or this song for a long time..i first heard this song on a K-tel Type album called "Do It Now / 20 Giant Hits" from romco records..sadly this was one of the sonds that skipped on it and glad i can hear the full song without any skips.I still will listen to my records.This album was givin to me from a friend at the time.

[@gregkasich7079]

ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITES! I don't know how many times I have seen him!!!!

[@jenniedevereaux2696]

Saint Richie ☆♡

[@athenspirates]

will NEVER forget you and what you meant to EARTH. . . you changed things. . . and made a difference.

[@anthonyvaughan4853]

A GREAT STORY TELLER

[@TUT2222]

RIP, so sorry to read this news. Thank you for posting a quality version of this amazing song.

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

GREAT ANTI WAR SONG/ DURING THE VIETNAM WAR /BIG UP RERSPECT !!!! R.I.P.

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

AMEN TO THAT !!!

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

This is... by far... my favorite Richie Havens track. The song has such a haunting melody to it, and Richie's voice is equally as haunting. I'm trying to figure out what year this track was released. If anybody knows, please let me know. Thanks.

[@rodmcdonough6111]

Randy, The Lazy Comic. I feel the same way about this song you describe so well. I beleive it first came out in late 1969 or early 1970, and brought me to tears then as it does today.

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

DURING THE VIETNAM WAR !

[@paulaston66]

I think it was 1966

[@tinman8561]

wish a remake would be done that they came down from Iraq and Afgan. RIP RICHIE

[@albertbavre3941]

Impossible,they don't love music and fighting eachother muslims since the 7nt century, what a waste of love !!

[@albertbavre3941]

GOOD MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP

[@tomwright2008]

Amen

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

Thanks for the date on the song. I appreciate it. Randy, The Lazy Comic.

[@bomji23]

It shows up in 1970.

[@Snickers4211]

Damn that's nice. RIP

[@leandrochagas88]

2022 música muito boa...

[@markcognetti4875]

Prophetic to the entire veitnam debacle!-go to the black wall on Memorial Day & say a prayer

[@anthonyvaughan4853]

AN ORIGINAL BLACK TROUBADOUR

[@tinman8561]

wish someone would do a cover of this song but with a soldier came down from Kubul in Iraq. I dont think Richie would mind.

[@charliebates7414]

Can't hear this without remembering Vietnam and the futility of the dead and dying on both sides. Turned 18 in that country (despite regulations) will never forget.

[@charliebates7414]

Welcome home brother. Richie would not have minded at all. He was singing of the futility of all war, including yours. It just so happened that he saw the First Indochina War (France) turn into the Second Indochina War (US).

[@tinman8561]

Charlie Bates Always remember my friends who didn't come back-also the ones who did and just were never the same. So many good kids lost to all the wars--too many mothers hearts broken

[@Russellsagecline]

Tinman That's the truth.

[@chetstanger7679]

Sad but true. . . Doesn't mean that many of them weren't fought for the right reasons, which is to stop evil.

[@simjtuder2531]

my Vietnam song....

[@Harbingeruk1]

Intriguing, it's Gaul on everything I've seen and Gaul is a place (gault is a rock formation) so would make more sense. (Spotify and soundhound also references Gaul.

[@11BravoRVN]

Gaul is France, hence the reference to Dien Bien Phu, which was the final battle that drove the French out of Vietnam in 1954. We did not learn much from the French defeat.

[@greggmoeller6307]

"Gault" was a spelling error on Havens' album that was never corrected.

[@derekmtheriault]

#ugottalisten2b4udie ...with scores of tales to tell yet some we knew too well He told of many a nights when the bravest of men would cry knowing that through Satan's earth-bound magic,many more would have to die! A man came down from Sinai mountain with words of truth for us all But when it came to listening, We listened but little if at all. The reference to Dien Bien Phu is to one of the biggest battles in the Vietnam war, where the French vacated the country and the Americans moved in. *mispelled "Minstral From Gault" on www.discogs.com/Various-Do-It-Now-20-Giant-Hits/release/461587

[@jacqueshughes3085]

After many years just found out that it was a "Minstrel came down from Gault" - I though that it was a "Minstrel came down from God"!! Oh well, you live and learn

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

A TRUE TROUBADOUR ( STORY TELLER ) !!

[@anthonyvaughan6470]

BIG UP RESPECT !

[@serenacastro5586]

Woodstock!

[@emrahkalak7466]

Is this the first sing of Woodstock fest _;_;_;_?_??=

[@Billfartsalot]

Yes!

[@IbnBahtuta]

One, music is haram, two, wearing flowers is not our habit, that's a kufir habit.

[@Harbingeruk1]

It's 'Minstrel from Gaul', not minstral or gault

[@bomji23]

Gault seems to be what's listed on album covers.

[@sutcaq]

+Harbingeruk1 "Minstrel from Gault" (Havens, Mark Roth) - 3:35

[@bomji23]

+Harbingeruk1 Sorry for the misspelling of minstrel on the video.

[@greggmoeller6307]

The spelling error was a record company mistake that was never really corrected.