Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths - Young, Gifted and Black (Official Lyrics Video)

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Celebrating 50 years of Bob and Marcia's Joyous reggae version of Nina Simone’s ‘To Be Young, Gifted And Black'. This recording, released on Trojan Records, peaked in the UK Chart at No.4 on April 4th 1970.
To mark the occasion, Trojan Records launched a brand new website - www.younggiftedandblack2020.com, where we invited the general public to submit photos and video clips showcasing stories and examples of black excellence. The submissions to the website now make up this bright and uplifting lyric video which re-imagines the positive message of the song for the modern day audience, breathing fresh air into the inspiring lyrics which are just as powerful now as they were 50 years ago.
(TO BE) YOUNG GIFTED & BLACK (LYRICS)
Written by Weldon Irvin & Nina Simone
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Young, gifted and black!
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young, gifted and black,
Open your heart to what I mean
In the whole world you know
There’s a million boys and girls
Who are young, gifted and black
And that's a fact!
Young, gifted and black!
We must begin to tell our young
There's a world waiting for you
Yours is the quest that's just begun
When you feeling real low
Yeah, there's a great truth you should know
To be young, gifted and black
Your soul's intact!
Oh, young, young, gifted and black!
How I long to know the truth
There were times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth
Ah, but my joy of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
To be young, gifted and black
Is where it's at!
Young, gifted and black!
We must begin to tell our young
There's a world waiting for you
Yours is the quest that's just begun
When you feeling real low
Yeah, there's a great truth you should know
When you are young, gifted and black
Your soul's intact!
Oh, young, young, gifted and black!
Oh, ow I long to know the truth
There were times when I look back
And I am haunted by my youth
Ah, but my joys of today
Is that we can all be proud to say
To be young, gifted and black
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
Is where it's at!
#blackhistorymonth #younggiftedandblack #bobandy #marciagriffiths #bhm #trojanrecords #reggae #charthits #blackexcellence #blackculture #blackpride #blackexcellence

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Комментарии : 73

@philipbowen9179 3 года назад

One of the sweetest songs ever to be recorded in Jamaica 👍👍👍

@daniellaboriel6100 2 года назад

Loved that song always since my teenage times 🎶🤗🌹😅🤣

@juliettewilliams4298 3 года назад

This makes me cry. What a rallying call. One love. ❤

@bibbole5351 10 месяцев назад

SOOOOO TRUUEEEEE-!! 🙏🏿🖤⭐🖤⭐🖤⭐🖤🙏🏿

@nickesha8846 3 года назад

Blessings and respect for the feature!!! Bigup Marcia Griffiths and Bob Andy everytime! 🙏🏽🙌🏾👏🏾👌🏾✌🏾💪🏾🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

@ChalkyWhite1 3 года назад

Ive been listening to reggae for about 55 years and have a load of trojan music in the car and they always get played. One of my fav is the pioneers long shot kick the bucket. How can you not love that record.

@mikecorrie123 3 года назад

Mine was Dandy Livingstone as he was a great writer and singer. Next was the late Nicky Thomas ... What a great voice from him and he did Trojan Records proud.

@AtZero138 3 года назад

Stay Rude, Stay Roots and keep your Boots Stomping.. Cheers from Southern California... peace

@deanrideout1275 2 года назад

I have on repeat

@paulbillerey1594 4 года назад

I remember this when I was a teenager in the 1970s nice one one love

@annblazeby9984 3 года назад

Me too. Great song. Brings back so many memories 😊

@2bsure 3 года назад

Yes, I was only 5 but remember it well. Simpler times of a wonderful childhood that my brother and sisters regularly reminisce about. 👏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🤗❤️

@lisablack8892 3 года назад

I only knew of the original written by Nina Simone and song by Nina Simone.

@lisablack8892 3 года назад

Too Be Young Gifted And Black💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜👍🏾

@miles6613 5 месяцев назад

My Mum would play this for me and my brother. Takes me back to a beautiful time

@geoff6942 5 месяцев назад

When I was a schoolboy, early '70s, I remember hearing this for the first time while I was travelling on a bus! (UK). Someone playing a transistor radio. I immediately loved it. Many white kids of my era also loved this. In fact, black musicians on Top of the Pops, were also revered.

@bridgettdowner525 3 года назад

This song need to release again in this time of black life matter. Yes we young gifted and black

@megataurus7779 3 года назад

Burn Loot Murder

@bridgettdowner525 3 года назад

@@megataurus7779 ???

@lisablack8892 3 года назад

This beautiful masterpiece was written by the Great Nina Simone.

@stephieastillstephie1549 2 года назад

I'm old now. I'm white but am proud to say I was raised to have no prejudice. Colour shouldn't matter we are all humans, I see first the person and ALL lives matter my friend. God Bless you x

@teeteringonthebrink.305 Месяц назад

Young, Gifted and Black. Does it describe me? Black? Nope, I'm a white fella. Gifted? Er, I do have certain talents...nothing special mind. Young? Well, when this wonderful song was riding high in the U.K. charts in 1970, I was a mere ten years old, so I was able to lay claim for the 'young' bit at least. Sadly, no longer. I love the strings in this reggae tune and it's firmly lodged in the top ten of my favourite songs of all time, alongside Simon and Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' the Beatle's 'She Loves You,' Squeeze's 'Take Me I'm Yours,' Gerry Rafferty's 'Right Down The Line' and Yes's 'Wonderous Stories' among others. This piece of pop perfection will be in my heart right up to when I shuffle off this mortal coil (many, many years from now). Superbly put together video, by the way.

@geoff6942 22 дня назад

Agree. Hope you saw my @geoff6942 comment.

@eyeamiriethinkin 3 года назад

Thank you so much for featuring l in the young gifted and black blessed

@mikeekunno8142 2 года назад

Great song; beautiful lyrics.

@ReggaeOnVinyl 3 года назад

Great song... make me remember Marcia Griffiths last year at Rototom Sunsplash.

@barryh.4220 11 месяцев назад

Fabulous song ....

@PeterPanoramics 2 года назад

Haunted by my youth, this song is definitely a haunting blast from my youth, never really looked into the meaning back then as a white boy I just loved the sound of Soul , Motown & Reggae, and of course Bob Marley, Bowie, Beatles, and then the glam rock era came along TRex Sweet, Roxy Music, seems like music has become a money making manufactured sound

@__-qq8rx 3 года назад

Man Trojan records are so fucking suave, this is the real skinhead and ska. I love all the stuff on Trojan.

@lisablack8892 3 года назад

A Very Beautiful Woman Singing A Very Beautful Song. 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷♥️

@mikecorrie123 3 года назад

UK Strings by Johnny Arthur Orch and was a radio 1 success mainly due to DJ Tony Blackburn consistent Trojan Records release airplay.. good old Tony!!

@MJC1124 9 месяцев назад

His name was Johnny Arthey, not Arthur. I bought the record after I heard Tony Blackburn playing it a lot on the breakfast show.

@mikecorrie123 9 месяцев назад

@@MJC1124 THANKS TECCY !

@rasjahson6261 3 года назад

Yea mon. I remember this tune. Bring back memories. Good vibes. Give thanks for life. Rastafari! 🇪🇹😎🙏

@garethgriffiths8577 2 года назад

I was shaking my arse to this in the four seasons at Scarborough N yorks in the early seventies but now l just arse dance on the sofa. Still love this track

@deanrideout1275 2 года назад

Good choice of music

@attab0y985 3 года назад

Awesome chunes

@AlexSmith-mp4eg 2 года назад

This song reminds me of when I was about 4. My mum would play it nearly everyday, this and buffalo soldier was my favourite

@sherib6293 2 года назад

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ loving this song/music and lyrics ♥️ ❤️ blessing 🙌 to all

@MebrickBernaldezMorphound 3 года назад

I really like this music, although I really already had a lot that I did not listen to, I think that when I hear amazing riffs again. The feeling is the same always, something good.

@RussWWFC 2 года назад

Magic

@antoniojosedossantossantos9389 2 года назад

É muita recordaçao

@colinbaker3916 Год назад

I prefer this joyous, happy version to Nina Simone’s slow original.

@geoff6942 22 дня назад

I'm totally in agreement!

@chrishinnant3924 2 года назад

Here in the US, this song is on the Tamla label

@rp2364 3 года назад

I'm SKINHEAD (50)... I like that ! I love REGGAE

@johngriffiniv3065 3 года назад

Awesome

@OfficialUriah 3 года назад

🔥🔥🔥

@jomillie12 3 года назад

Up there as one of my favorites with Lloyd charmers something about you No1.

@ahora2867 3 года назад

QUE BUEN CANALLLLL....EXCELENTE MATERIAL MUSICAL..

@AuthenticSelector64 3 года назад

Put the 7 inch on the grammar phone... let’s dance!

@michaellifetv5696 3 года назад

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@richardroyle9123 3 года назад

nothing 'official ' about this in any way, shape or form; but still a fantastic record. can't find an early version of it, I remember it was a minor hit in the UK at the time, I remember it on the TV; any pointers please? I love Marcia Griffiths, and I still 'feel like jumping.'

@AtZero138 3 года назад

Stay Rude, Stay Roots and keep your Boots Stomping... cheers from Southern California.. short playlist on my channel.. case you get a few.. peace humans..

@grahamd5418 3 года назад

Written and originally recorded by Nina Simone.

@CLASSICALSNature Месяц назад

Wait. There's a reggae version all these years and we didn't know???

@daviddowson3507 3 года назад

Takes me back to mill lane youth club Elswick Newcastle on tyne

@WedgePee Год назад

The first issue of this single (on Pama’s Escort imprint, with a wonderful sketch of a ship being towed on the label) didn’t have the strings. And didn’t chart.

@wandererofthewasteland400 3 года назад

Respek

@xnslrzn 3 года назад

and that's a fact...

@skacitobogota 2 года назад

Francia Marquez 🇨🇴

@livefromplanetearth 3 года назад

+++

@roseannallan4944 5 дней назад

When the name rasist didn’t exist look at Britain now

@nativeafroeurasian 3 года назад

Does that imply that being black is better than other ethnics?

@richardroyle9123 3 года назад

whooah , that's one huge rabbit - hole to be explored, or maybe not ; depending on who and what you choose to believe, or not. A very pertinent question.

@brianmuhammad4988 3 года назад

You should get actual facts before you ask such a stupid ass question The song was written and sung by Nina Simone in tribute to Lorraine Hansberry a playwright who died of brain cancer in 1965

@aidanh88 3 года назад

Oh dear. Begs what your motive is in asking. Sometimes things are best taken in the intended spirit rather than subverting ones politics onto the subject. It’s a joyous tune. Enjoy!