THE STAPLE SINGERS featuring POPS STAPLES "GREAT DAY" 1963

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[@carolinejohnson4070]

The Staple Singers taught me a great appreciation for music, culture, and life (R. I. P. Pop Staples)

[@davidbaise5137]

Thanks for uploading. 👍🎶

[@sooz9433]

This is the music that feeds my soul. God Bless the memory of the Staples Singers and God Bless Mavis. 🎼🖤

[@georgeheyward4824]

I like it that Pop had his own style and it worked.

[@jeffreyconyers7120]

The Original Staple Singers with Pervis Jr. as a member.

[@walterclaven5556]

We Just Lost Pervis

[@clementjohnson2666]

@@walterclaven5556 when did this song come out ? I'm just curious .

[@MichaelJohnson-yd6sz]

Cleotha was one of the originals too. Yvonne just wasn't singing on records with them in the beginning because she was shy, but when Cleotha got married Yvonne stepped in and sung then stooped again until Pervis left for the military.

[@francesbrown2385]

I Love,Love Love This Song So much,I'll Always love the Staple singers,God bless Mavis Staples forever,I love you very much,keep up the good work,I'm very proud of you!!!!!!!!!!😃😃😃😃😃

[@wileyoutland538]

3:18 😅

[@wileyoutland538]

😅😅😅😅😅😅 3:18

[@K-S95]

There’s so much grace and talent here. Pardon my vulgarity, but God damn Pop’s is slaying on that guitar.

[@drbryant23]

Priceless early footage of the Staple Singers in great quality. Incredible. My Lord's gettin' us ready for that, Great day My Lord's gettin' us ready for that, Great day Who shall be able to stand My Lord's gettin' us ready for that, Great day My Lord's gettin' us ready for that, Great day My Lord's gettin' us ready for that, Great day Who shall be able to stand Lightnin will be flashin' on that, Great day Lightnin will be flashin' on that, Great day Lightnin will be flashin' on that, Great day Who shall be able to stand Thunder will be rollin' on that, Great day Thunder will be rollin' on that, Great day Thunder will be rollin' on that, Great day Who shall be able to stand Sinners will be running on that, Great day Sinners will be running on that, Great day Sinners will be running on that, Great day Who shall be able to stand Great day, Great day, Who shall be able to stand (2X) (guitar solo) Great day, Great day, Who shall be able to stand (2X)

[@catherineblack2970]

I remember when that album came out in 62. I was a teenager.

[@bobaldo2339]

Thanks for this wonderful film footage!

[@antonewilson4310]

I'm an athiest and I still love this. Mavis was a doll.

[@daryltracy7949]

She's so cute.

[@nonayobizness]

Good stuff! MUSIC was uniting black and white people during this time even when African-Americans were battling for their civil rights.

[@Lavonson]

CLAP FOR JESUS!!!!!!! I LOVE THE STAPLES SINGERS!!!!

[@certifyme1003xs]

Ppl this is what you call church Clap👏 : double clap, triple clap. They got that rhythm dwn to a science lol. I love it!

[@nealyoung7025]

Love their talent always.

[@Chesterton7]

The best.

[@DanielEscobar-sl7fq]

This is Salt of the Earth !

[@Johnnycdrums]

Love it!

[@brendonwashington474]

I bet Mavis can play the heck out of a tambourine just by how she claps

[@georgemanka]

Magnificent!

[@edwardburns5995]

Such an amazeing video that is such an awesome performance captured on video any one else find that outro of thst guy talking about nazis and atomic bombs after with that creepy animation and drawing at the end weird? Lol

[@theleadshoes]

Yes, very weird! Especially with that strong southern accent. Maybe he wanted to mention some sinners who'll be running on that Great Day. :)

[@poortraits]

pops!

[@marywatkins6798]

Pretty amazing. Love this!

[@zippymufo9765]

Pop could play that guitar

[@marquessmith1620]

Sing y all

[@jamietfranklin]

The Staple Singers, introduced by John Henry Faulk, great hero of the American Blacklist for supporting unions.

[@MamaBoots007]

RIP Pervis.....💔

[@acidfuzzpedals9986]

It doesn't get much higher than this.

[@raphaelrousso7124]

Le Monde a besoin de Cela

[@indrataylor3149]

😭🙏🏿💐🕊️

[@mooogg]

WOW!!!!🤩😍

[@carypasseroff3331]

BANG!

[@jeffreyconyers8735]

The Original Staplers Singers, with the son.

[@saivery2803]

They better clap nah👏🏾

[@bernardoesposito6312]

Fantastici

[@geffcassuto]

Fire Music

[@alicejean4879]

♥️

[@marceloperez1349]

Hermoso

[@veshaw.]

Dang 🤯🤯 is pop's playing a jazzmaster or jaguar

[@scottsoucy6186]

You can keep Aretha. In my opinion, Mavis Staples is the real Queen of Soul.

[@73spain]

Gospel? Working song? Spiritual?

[@april1969simnel]

They're singing about the Rapture. When I was a kid in the 70s, the old folks in my church led the singing, and this was one of the songs. Gospel is the genre of music and songs in that genre are called spirituals, but especially the old ones from before the days of recorded music. This song seems to be from a time after slavery. It's fast. Field hollers and worksongs had a slower tempo, to match the pace of work.

[@fanmaxis3004]

Old Pops is a bit younger here

[@johnypitman2368]

Pervis jr. ?

[@andrewtannenbaum1]

who's the narrator.....

[@indiglo1971]

Jimmy Dean?

[@TommieDavenport]

what happen to the son?

[@nr8337]

They made quite the transition over the course of their career. They went from Gospel to Secular Funk real quick. I guess there was a lot of money to be made!

[@theleadshoes]

I would say it was gospel-flavored soul, and what better way to spread the word. After all, "I'll take you there" is about heaven.

[@carlosrincon1551]

N R you think they traded gospel for secular music? They never stopped playing gospel-you can never stop something that lives within you.

[@JaySmith-wo3di]

Comments like this are annoying as hell. The message NEVER changed and were beyond deserving of the same amount of money awarded to other artists - which they still didn't receive.

[@mulwanymulwany5985]

"Featuring" Pops Staples....? How unnecessary.

[@appytight8468]

I assume you mean "how unnecessary to mention it 'cos obviously Pops would be there".

[@mulwanymulwany5985]

@@appytight8468 I assume you mean to be a pedantic asshole?

[@thurtletoncrackwinnet1779]

Isn't that fantastic?

[@gasparucciox9706]

fantastic!!!!!!!