Delta Rhythm Boys - Dry Bones
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2006
- Read the fascinating story of the Delta Rhythm Boys, best known for the song Dry Bones, and one of the most influential groups of the 20th century, whose sound still resonates throughout popular culture to this day.
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My dad is the one on the far right. He said they weren't allowed to do all of their songs that night because some were deemed "unsuitable for white audiences". I remember the whole quartet came over one Thanksgiving and sang several songs on the porch. The entire neighborhood ended up coming out to listen. It was a magical evening that I'll never forget.
Bucky Love, what was your father’s name?
I am a huge fan of this group and music of this era born in the late nineties i dont like todays music
I got the album features qnd favorites of the delta rhythm boys on 45RPM this past christmas, its a good album.
That's so messed up! I wish we could change history. Glad they had a magical moment on Thanksgiving. They're really good!
@@synergymedia2009 the one on the far right is lee gaines
That's my Dad the second from the left. They couldn't express more emotion because in that day they were under strict direction on what a black group could and could not do. Love the song though!
T Henderson, they were/are awesome! I love them, and I have to hear more. So special that you have such nice video and audio of your dad. 🥰
What year was this video made?
1955
@@WeirdoVideo Thank you. : )
So if he was around the mid 30s he'd be in his 80s somewhere by now? Geeze that made me feel like my kid for a bit ... But cool story
This was my godfather's, father's band. carl jones, sr. he's second on the left. he passed away today, sept 21, 2010. he was a great, lovely man. r.i.p., carl.
Stacey, I know it's been years since you wrote this, but many thanks for doing so. The Delta Rhythm Boys are not that well known in USA these days, but they are still fondly remembered in the Nordic countries here in Europe: they performed here for decades until 1987, when the group's head Lee Gaines passed away. The group became much loved for their cheery personalities, even recording many songs in languages of the Nordic countries instead of just English (and they did it well!). Gaines' last wish was to be buried here in Finland, the country which he had come to love as his home (he's really saying what he felt in his heart about Finland in this beautiful song, "Finlandia - I Know You" czcams.com/video/dnARp73K6T0/video.html ). Your godfather's father Carl Jones Sr. had a long life, and having been active with the group between 1944 and 1960, he had many good experiences (it was quite something in those days to be involved with a group that came all the way to the Nordic countries to perform from USA - all the way to the Arctic Circle!). With respect to Carl and the rest of the group - r.i.p
Hi my father met them when he was in a band from Italy..I’ve got a picture...1957...
I'm sorry for doubting you, but someone, "T JH", has said Carl was his father, so I assume you might know them in some way?
Sorry for your loss.
Stacey, that is awesome that he was in this singing! Thank you for your input and I'm sorry to hear of his passing. God bless you all
I saw this when I was in my 20's, in the early 70's, and I got so emotional because I remember when my Dad dressed and wore his hair just like this, back in the day - especially when I saw their trouser cuffs!!
I had heard many different versions of Dry Bones, but IMHO, these guys are the ONLY ones who can really carry it off!
No matter the actual situation, God Almighty provides nourishment to our dried up bones. Glory!
THIS is the kind of stuff I grew up with. People don't have a clue what they're missing.
You said a mouthful!
Ikr
is anyone else still trying to figure out the last episode of The Prisoner?
Kuzn yes I remember singing this before I became a teenager.
@@Viking_Luchador we were researching this, and how it was a part of the great TV show "The Prisoner". It's significant in culture for sure! Thanks for mentioning! 🌞
I LOVE the way their voices go up & down the scales while singing the different names of the bones, yet they STAY in harmony the whole time. That is AWESOME; it comes from years of practice!! Great group doing a great song! Only thing that I would have liked more, would be if they showed a bit more emotion while singing it, although I understand that they wouldn't want to scare people away.
And, the way they stand stock still!! Can you just imagine the Temptations doing this song, with all their choreography??? LOLOLOL
I agree!! :)
Since you made your comment four years ago a 'T Henderson' has added a comment saying their father is the second singer on the left and that black performers in those days were under strict instructions not to show emotion.
I grew up listening to songs like this & they really moved me. I love the harmonizing of their voices. It was truly a sound one needed to hear. They don't do songs like that anymore. They need to bring them back (the music) the good ole Gospels.
@@bcooper2123 Instead you get this overproduced autotune crap that all sounds the same. I'm an extremely open minded individual, but modern pop music has no soul in it
A pitch perfect performance made to look effortless.I can't imagine the work that would go into trying to reproduce this arrangement
Thank you. A classic from my childhood. I used it back in the 1980s when directing my children's church choir and Halloween fell on Sunday. Ezekiel saw them dry bones :)
The lyrics are just pure genius
true
😀😀
I believe they are based on a mindfulness of death meditation the Buddha
Ready for something unsettling. I can’t tell you how old I was. Guessing before 5 years old or so. I had a dream about these guys singing to me in blue suits this exact song. I am 25 for context. Just this night the memory of the dream popped into my head. Song and all. After finding the true name of the song and seeing this band on google it sent shivers down my spine. I don’t know how that dream came to be or how I knew this band as a child in a dream like that but here I am. It’s actually one of the first dreams I can ever remember. But as much as it creeps me out this is an amazing group and honestly I’m happy to discover them. New music like this excites me and I guess my younger self unknowingly had good taste.
Don't freak out. You probably were passing through something with your mind engaged on your personal affairs. Meanwhile some TV was playing a clip from this video, and your subconscious just loved it. But you didn't have time, you were trying to get on with your life, and it just slipped your mind and faded into the zillion impressions we all get every day. All the while your secret self was saying, hold on, I wanted to hear the rest of that song! But only when you were in that suggestible state, could your subconscious get through to your conscious to put through that long-latent request: Get thee hence to CZcams and PLAY THAT SONG FOR ME!
Read the full story of it in the Bible and see … im sure The Lord is speaking to you
Occam's Razor is a core principle in research, it states: "faced with 2 possible explanations, the simpler one is usually correct" Stored childhood memory resurfaced in an adult's dream. 🌞
Ezekiel 37
It's in the 1988 film - "rain man" 👍
Yeah, this is a classic, and I really dig that classic harmony. But, the thing that caught my ear how the tone of the song (or whatever they call it) takes the elevator to the top floor, then goes back down to the first. Love that:)
These men did a fine job singing this song, especially each of the 4 staying precisely on tune with each half-step up and down the scale. My dad sang in a quartet and I remember him singing bass in this song when I was a kid.
I was astonished when the band came back in and the singers were spot on. Hello!!!! Loved this song as a 6-year old kid. Love it even more as a 74-year old kid.
I was at six grade camp and our cabin sang this song for the rest of the cabins. It was so comforting that we could praise God in school back in the 60's.
and yet when i wrote this on a biology exam last week i failed...
There is no ankle bone
@@saintfisuto1072 nor "head bone"
You should have added 'now hear the word of the Lord!' and then the teacher might have passed it!
Hahahahahaha
Don't feel bad I put Country Road take me home as one of mine
I used to sing this in Sunday school!!! Love this song! 💕💕💕
The decade when TALENT is very important in order to be super famous.
I haven't heard this since I was a kid some 60 yrs back
I was looking at an video with dog eating a bone, and then,,,,,,,woooop! :) Yes!!
I remember the young men in South Carolina, singing this song in the echo's of the school breeze way. Their harmonies were so delightful! Ascending and descending! Those were the best of times!👏✨😊🎶 "Now Hear the Word of the Lord" 😁👌💗🕊
Imagine all the teachers in medical schools who got sick and tired of their students singing this whenever they brought a skeleton into the classroom.
I'd have to say, "Wipe Out" for the sixties, grade school kid, desktop, oh yeah!
These guys have a lot of talent. I love this group already.
Class, polish, grace and cool. My mom used to sing this to us kids and we loved it. We could visualize our bones as she danced us all over the kitchen while she sang. It was wonderful.
All the local US TV stations should close their daily broadcasts at night with this video.
I literally never knew until this year this song is based on the story of Ezekiel in the bible.
And what Ezekiel saw was the communion of the saints. Also known as The Final Resurrection, in which the Book of Life is read by Jesus to all those people pulled from the grave to go to heaven, and they receive a new body. The new body is a body that is similar to the one Jesus was resurrected with, which is one of flesh and bone.
Of course, Jesus lived hundreds of years after Ezekiel and Ezekiel would not had known what he was seeing.
When Jesus was resurrected, carrying the wounds he has suffered in his hands and side, Luke 24:39: "Mortals have not a body of flesh and bone as I have."
"Flesh and blood" is an earthly body. In this world, people you can call your flesh and blood are family members but in the eyes of God, all Christians are connected by Flesh and Bone. The divine bone symbol is in a few other songs. Think, "Bad to the Bone." That singer is saying he's worse than bad in blood, he's bad to the core!
Bible, a.k.a. book of lies
Cameron ZELLER book of Truth
Cameron ZELLER satanist
I bet there's a lot more out there we've experienced based off the Bible and we don't even know.
Wonderful sound. A classic. Just shared this with a young med student. She loved it! God bless these gentlemen and their families. :-)
Isn't this something... Well, dear family of this quartet, my "non- black" father loved this rendition and sang it to me, his " non- black" ( white) child so many times I still hear it in my head now in old(er) age. I was thrilled to find this on CZcams because I also have a memory of hearing it by these gentlemen, though not sure if on TV or an old movie. I am grateful for the talent that was " allowed" to be aired. Thank you for posting !
Yeah, I was 18 when I discovered this song with Rain Man too. So much fun to sing. Classic accapella!!! Love it!
I remember this song in my parents generation. But I heard it again on MSNBC Rachel Maddox show. Thanks Rachel for bringing me back to these good old days memories. 😊
Bucky Love you've been blessed by God to have a father that I sing as a child. Today I got to see those that are famous stars of a biblical story. May God bless you all the days of your life and may we someday united with your father in heaven, brother! 😇🙏❤ January 20, 2022 SoCal. USA /🇺🇸
Мы пели в музучилише 30 лет назад. Спасибо нашему хормейстеру,что рассказала содержание. Это читают в Великую Субботу в церкви.
Translated: We sang in music 30 years ago. Thanks to our choirmaster for sharing the content. This is read on Holy Saturday in church.
Love the song & their voices.
The performance is astonishingly perfect in every way. IF they had jumped and jived about that would have distracted from the message. Instead they remain restrained and just indicate how perfectly different each one of them is in appearance and personality, without histrionics. The tell a whole world about the holy sanctity of each human life.
this is great old music...
2022 needs more songs about bones!
3/17/2021.Still listening and i love it.
Ezekiel cried dem dry bones
Ezekiel cried dem dry bones
Ezekiel cried dem dry bones
Now I hear the word of the Lord
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Ezekiel connected dem dry bones
Now I hear the word of the Lord
Well, your toe bone connected to your foot bone
Your foot bone connected to your heel bone
Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone
Your leg bone connected to your knee bone
Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone
Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone
Your hip bone connected to your back bone
Your back bone connected to your shoulder bone
Your shoulder bone connected to your neck bone
Your neck bone connected to your head bone
I hear the word of the Lord!
A dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around
A dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around
A dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around
I hear the word of the Lord!
Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones
Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones
Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones
I hear the word of the Lord
Well, your head bone connected from your neck bone
Your neck bone connected from your shoulder bone
Your shoulder bone connected from your back bone
Your back bone connected from your hip bone
Your hip bone connected from your thigh bone
Your thigh bone connected from your knee bone
Your knee bone connected from your leg bone
Your leg bone connected from your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected from your heel bone
Your heel bone connected from your foot bone
Your foot bone connected from your toe bone
I hear the word of the Lord, oh well
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
I hear the word of the Lord, mmh
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
Now I hear the word of the Lord
This makes me incredibly happy and kind of hopeless feeling at the same time. I’m not sure why.
I highly believe, that these guys was what was meant when people said "that's cool."
My mother who was finish and married to a US sea Captain. We had LEE to dinner when he was in Sweden. When I was younger and in Nice France, LEE invited me and my friends to a show.
My mother who died 20 year ago always was Happy when she listened to him sing.
As his doughter I wanted to give this liking from the past.
Beautiful song.👏👏👏 That's what I'm reading about this morning. The dry bones. God bless you🙏
I remember learning this version way back and it was so fun to sing along with!
Omg. For some reason this leapt back into my memory tonight :) I’m old.
middle schoolers when they need to give a class presentation
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Oh my! This brings great joy. I remember a group of men singing this song at my church in Dallas OR.
Dry Bones runs deep.
Real Music.
"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone..."
-Song of the Artificer
I love this song and they did it so great!
All my life, I thought these were two separate songs, because I never heard this number performed all the awy through. I'm glad I looked it up!
This inspires me to start singing again. They are amazing men‼️
i'm an ex italian DJ fan of group like Temptations,O'Jays,Chi Lites,Harold Melvin &the blue notes etc, you can't imagine how happy you make me feel !! Thank you a lot for discovering this great singers!! :))
I love the harmony
I love these guys wonderful singing x
Remember singing this in Sunday school.❤
Iv'e loved this since I was a littl'un ! Great stuff, can't beat that deep base! Thank you! X
Thanks to this song and the inspired singing, the ?toe bone connected to the head bone" has lived with me, on and on. So grateful!
Who still listen to this 2021? I do! :)
Took me about 10 minutes to find this song! It was ringing in my head one day, probably in a Netflix movie. Yeah, this is the one...I love it!
I herd this song in The Prisoner (greatest t.v. seris ever) and i absolutely love it.
These honorable men don't let THEIR drawers show. A time of public decency and self respect when I was young in better days.
This song used to scare me when i was a kid. Specially when they went deep... Scary!
Don Dixon I would have been scared too if i had heard it as a kid, if i had understood english back then! I was SO scared of skeletons . One day my kindergarten class was listening to a kind of musical story were we at points got to sing and move around. And... in the story, we was in the forest and met a bunch of skeletons dancing in a cirkle, singing a gleefull song about... skeletons and the bones of the body (i know it still, but it is in Swedish ). NIGHTMARE! We were told to stand in a cirkle and dance like the skeletons in the story and sing that song, but i REFUSED and just sat down🤣 I was sooo scared🤣☠️
@@sofiasodergardakesson5952
oooh the Horror!
I remember jumping out of my crib because this song was playing
Lol the put the deep part in alot of scary moveis...
My late, lovely Dad used to sing this. Top man, top tune!
I came here after watching the " rain man" movie. Excellent vocals !!!
Thanks for checking out the real thing!
modulation n harmony are amazing this is cool!
This is one of my favorite songs.
Was reading Ezekiel and somehow remembered a song about it. Was only the fact it was "dry bones" that made me search the song!
I love this song!
All these years I had no idea where this song came from! I love it 🦴
These guys sang awesomely!!
oldies but goldies;)..and I am 13...
Really super fine musicians fantastic!
Wu-Tang:American Saga brought me here. I LOVE this rendition!! 💖
It's also all over the trailer for the film. Love it.
私が初めて此の曲を聞いたのは敗戦後日本がやっと落ち着いた今から７０年以上前の事です。此の曲の表現力に驚き以後JAZZを楽しむ様になり人生を豊かに過ごすことができました。記念の曲です
I love this song ❤️❤️
So talented🎶🎶👑👑👑👑
This is great; I need to memorize this! XD The guy with the deep voice at the end is the best!
Oh, Thanks very much, been looking for this song for many years, Cheers from Australia...😂
First time I heard this song was in the movie "Rain Man" I've liked it every since. *Nice song* 💚🟡💙🌺🤗👍🏽
Dang, these guys sound great and look sharp. Nice stuff! Never seen this group before; what a great find : D
I remember this from my childhood ❤️
ooh dem bones..
Thank you !!
this is amazing! i love when these sites create such connections!
Sensacional.... vamos cantar este desafio no Ibirapuera em maio... wow
Perfect harmonies
I don't think I blinked once watching this. Wtf! Truly classic.
Hypnotic,modern ,funny...great singers!!..i can't stop singing it:)
Just watched Rain Man on Netflix.. just had to find it
wow this is the first time hearing this in what must be 13 years, love this song
The Cathedrals Quartet performs this perfectly and this version has very good harmony and does good too
These were the original
Heavenly!
I love this!!!
Love this!
This really helps me because I have a music program soon this is one of my songs
Thank u so much. I remember this song from childhood.
My spouse is going to have a new left hip joint replaced. And this song came to mind. I love it
Loved it!
Delicious ! What a perfect song! sung by excellent singers !!!!
great :D
TRUE HARMONY. I LOVE THIS!
One of my 3 favorite groups to come out of Oklahoma, the other two being the Flaming Lips and Caroline's Spine. I'm danged pround to be an Oklahoman. The place is a good bit more diverse than many out-of-state folks think.
Whos watching in 2019?;)