Georgia Sea Island Singers (1963) 

You Definitely did. I was born in 83 and I’m the only one in my family who gets it. Being in Baltimore we a ways up. Then found out why my family is the only Drayton’s in Baltimore, cuz da rest downare in SC

The Draytons is a popular name in The Low country (Gullah Geechee) community which are the counties of Charleston, Colleton,Beaufort and Jasper. Recently white people have merged some more counties with that so they can capitalize on the gullah for those traveling to South Carolina and through South Carolina I literally only four counties and we are all related to each other.

My ancestors are from Orangeburg, Charleston (Chucktown), and Conway

Ancestors we are them they are us. They never went nowhere they still here just people don't know

​@mrthink5378 these ni##as today soft as bear milk, these ancestors are real on so many levels

...they were led to some lonesome graveyard, it's inevitable

@jasonwaterfalls9615 Dear Sir, that is the Holy Spirit calling you.

Rice in our case

@@DemonteAlford1 rice, tobacco, cotton, indigo, and whatever else needed to be grown, cultivated, plowed, seen, reaped and harvested, it was all on the back breaking work of AA.

Rice and indigo yes.

Im near St Helena SC and have family in Charleston..I'm 32 sounds like the songs the older generation sung in church when i was younger..great times

Im near St Helena SC, i got family in Charleston..im 32 i used to love going to church back in the early 90s..u don't hear these songs anymore ..i used to lay on granny lap n jam out to hear singing all the time when i was young

@@hittz2581 they're in total harmony, rhythm and melody, no beat machine, lyp synching, auto dubbing and don't miss a best. It doesn't get any better.

My family sung gospel hymns all the time, there was always a hymn book opened and sitting on a table

Thank you for this. The film looks fantastic. Not sure how I missed this in back in 1991.

Fabulous film by Julie Dash. Has a dreamlike quality. I grew up on the sea islands in Charleston SC and this feels like home to me.

If you got it ,it's not gone and forever pass it on, thanks for posting.

No auto-tune, drum machines, beat boxes, nothing soulful rhythm, harmony, melody and gospel. My Aunt's and Uncle's use to go visit one another to explicitly sing these hymns and notes. They are all gone now, as a little kid I wished I had participated more, but I did get the jest. I was a student of their legacy in singing gospel hymn notes.

It's like they welcomed death as if it was an escape from a tormented reality.

My Dad's family sung hymns it was ten of them, they'd exchange visits, alternate residences, I was about seven yrs old, early to mid sixties, I wish I'd been more involved but because of my intellect and observatorial skills I've got it down because they'd sing in churches all the time, it comes with the territory, there's no escaping it. My Dad and his siblings are all gone to greener pastures now and we'll keep the traditions going, I introduce my children to it now, they're absorbing all they can.

The Buzzard lope dance is being done. Look it up here on yt. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y6hrDm4e0FU.html

To the untrained eye...these appear to be songs rooted in Christianity: However examine closer and we can see that : CHRISTIANITY is the Exact OPPOSITE of the Bible. That's why we grew up in churches Confused! Europeans Stole the Bible and Told a Slave that Couldn't Read for himself that God Was in the IMAGE of the Slave Master! CHRISTIANITY:Jesus is White BIBLE: Jesus is VERY, Very, Dark (BLACK) CHRISTIANITY: Worship On 1st day of the week as special and set apart BIBLE: Remember The Sabbath and keep it Holy (7th day of the week). CHRISTIANITY: All Food is Clean to Eat BIBLE: CLEAN Food is SANCTIFIED (SET APART) CHRISTIANITY: Come as you are BIBLE: REPENT YE therefore and be Converted CHRISTIANITY: the BIBLE is written TO EVERY NATION BIBLE: He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.HE HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION: and as for his judgments, THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THEM. Praise ye the LORD. (Psalms 147-19) Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 YOU ONLY HAVE I KNOWN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH: therefore I will punish YOU for all YOUR iniquities. CHRISTIANITY: is the account of The Slave Master BIBLE: is the account of the Children of Slavery Only one People on the Planet fulfilled the Prophecies concerning the breaking and observing of OUR Covenants with OUR God. The Biggest Secret on the Earth is that who the World calls AFRICAN~AMERICAN are in fact the True people and exclusive audience of the Bible.. The Religions of Christianity & Democracy is the Mark of the Caucasian Colonizing Beast! Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching WE HAVE WATCHED FOR A NATION THAT COULD NOT SAVE US. Politicians, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar. Jamal Bryant. Even Dr. Martin Luther King. They have all gotten it wrong. Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy Lies in my name, saying,I HAVE DREAMED, I HAVE DREAMED. Dr, King's lie was to confuse equality with assimilation. We have forgotten the LAWS of our God. We have been willing to do anything to receive this Nations tolerance and acceptance.To fit in with this Nation's Pagan Holidays. With its tolerance of Homosexuality. To glorify murder and hatred towards brother as a way to achieve riches and this society's title of Fame. Our so called LEADERS have not figured out that SIN is the cause for the nearly 400 years of oppression. And our Hatred for God's Laws have replaced a ritcheous spirit with a self destructive spirit. Awake from your graves, you Children of the Captivity, and hear your ancient speak. Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O NATION NOT DESIRED; Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. We are NOT African-American. The South African Caucasian now living in America is an AFRICAN-AMERICAN. HERE IS OUR PROBLEM: Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into EGYPT AGAIN WITH SHIPS,by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and THERE YE SHALL BE SOLD TO YOUR ENEMIES FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN, and no man shall buy you. HERE IS OUR SOLUTION: 1 Kings 8:47- Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither THEY WERE CARRIED CAPTIVES , AND REPENT and make supplication unto thee IN THE LAND OF THEM THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES, saying, WE HAVE SINNED and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, IN THE LAND OF THEIR...."ENEMIES"....,, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, Zephaniah 11:4-5 4Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;5 WHOSE POSSESSORS SLAY THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

I never heard one African sing like this.

thehoneyeffect they weren’t forced to speak English.. the Gullah language is a west African language

VirginiaTribe you don’t know African music ..

@@Afrometa I'm sick of people claiming African Americans didnt retain any African culture or always making a point to say latinos and Caribbean blacks have more African culture retained than African Americans. People are so ignorant about African American culture and history. Our culture is mostly rooted in different parts of Africa from Caribbean blacks which is why we are so different. African Americans from the south are very African. The Gullahs are not the only African Americans from the south to retain a lot of African culture either.

They're keeping perfect beat, rhythm, harmony and melody without any accessories: drum beat machines, auto tune, none of that non sense to help you keep pace because you really can't perform on a real artistic level.

I was visiting the SC coast around Charleston(Chucktown) and they call breast(boobies) ninnies and paps, a real cultural thing in and of itself.

@@aarondigby9859 It's a fascinating culture and I hope it is preserved.

All u gotta hv is a soul.

Yep and it all goes back to gospel!!!

@49jubilee >>.> hahahaha haha!!! >.>> Ain't that the truth!!!!

@@teribrod4017 It actually goes back to West African music that can't be ascribed to the same religious importance that was set upon it by converted Africans in the new world.

Thanks for the info

I respectfully disagree. Black American culture is American culture, our influence is WORLDWIDE.

@@naturallyme14 Exactly it's very hard to keep culture when every culture is in the United states!

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That dance we call round up Native American side to side circle Proud Cherokee.we pow wow I am a blanket dancer shawl dancer

​@@tansyveejones6749not so, if you're clapping and you're happy that's all it is

THEN AGAIN , YOUR ANCESTERS HAD MUCH MUCH HARDER TIMES !

​@blackbelttroll4008 you must come down to the mire and rise up from the more WHEN YOU RISE

IKR, it transcends territories. state lines, mountains, valleys rivers it'll be there when you get there and it'll be there when you arrive back