The Winstons - Amen Brother
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The most famous loop af all times! "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample( starts at 1:26 ) from the b-side of this chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures.
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Wikipedia Source:
"The Winstons were a 1960s funk and soul music group, based in Washington, D.C.. They are known for their 1969 recording of an EP featuring a song entitled "Color Him Father" on the A-side, and a song entitled "Amen, Brother" on the B-side. Half-way into "Amen, Brother", there is a drum solo (performed by G.C. Coleman) which would cause The Winston's EP to become one of the most widely-sampled records in the history of electronic music. Sampled audio clips of the drum solo became known as the Amen Break, which has been used in thousands of tracks in a large number of musical genres, including drum and bass, hip hop, jungle, big beat, industrial and electronica.
The "Color Him Father" record sold over one million copies, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on 24 July 1969."
Label : (Metromedia Records, BMI)
Biography by Ron Wynn & Bruce Eder :
A Washington, D.C.-based soul act led by Richard Spencer, the Winstons signed to Curtom in early 1968 and lasted there for one single, the rousing "Need a Replacement." They had a sound that was somewhat similar to the Impressions, but were unfortunate enough to have signed with Curtom before the label had national distribution, and the single never got the play it should have. A year after leaving Curtom, they hit for the Metromedia label with a huge single called "Color Him Father," which became a Top Ten R&B and pop hit, just missing number one on the R&B list, and also earned a Grammy for Best R&B Song. It was both a great tribute number and outstanding lead vocal from Richard Spencer, along with Ray Maritano, Quincy Mattison, Phil Tolotta, Sonny Peckrol, and G.C. Coleman. Mattison and Coleman were veterans of Otis Redding's band. The Winstons eventually toured as the backup band for the Impressions, but never again made any noise on the charts.
The Winstons line-up included:
Gregory C. Coleman (vocals, drums)
Ray Maritano (vocals, alto saxophone)
Quincy Mattison (vocals, lead guitar)
Sonny Pekerol (vocals, bass guitar)
Richard Lewis Spencer (lead vocals, tenor saxophone)
Phil Tolotta (second lead, organ)
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Man this drumbeat sounds pretty nice, maybe we should put it in *10,000 SONGS.*
man it's WAAAAAAAY more than that.
Better add a few zeros to that
@@BiLdoEMcLown we're at the point we need factorial notation. I'd say 100! = 9.332622e+157 is pretty close
yea tha drumbeat was heavily sampled a close 2nd most sampled to everything James Brown ever made/produced lol
Maybe more
From wikipedia: "Coleman died homeless and destitute in 2006. Spencer said it was unlikely he was aware of the impact he had made on music."
Heavy stuff man.
So horrible
People had been sampling the amen break since 1986 that doesn't make sense that he didn't know. It was sampled in straight outta compton in 1988 which I'm sure he had to have known about.
As is the case with most artists
@@ihatemeww a lot about this guy's life doesn't make sense. It seems like he had a career in music but he died homeless in his 60s? And he had family. Maybe he had some kind of health problem or something?
@@ihatemeww historically, drum breaks are the hardest to legally enforce in music, since the sound of drums is pretty nondescript. This means the odds of NWA (or anyone really) feeling the need to contact anyone from The Winstons is minimal. Add onto that the fact that during the time of NWA, the amen break had already been taken out of the original song and sold on various loop records, i doubt NWA even knew who he was.
in 1969, a man hit those drums so damn hard that he started multiple genres of music. Legendary.
ha
Jungle beat/ DNB
Dude created a music big bang lol
cant forget breakcore itself! @@PedroChavezzz
jungle, DNB, breakcore, mashcore, IDM, probably some more, all started by one drum solo
I think someone should sample that breakbeat. just a thought
LittleBabyBum ® wait what is a child RUclips channel doing here
This is the official channel-
mind. blown. what an idea.
Dude,this is the most sampled song in the hip hop history
it's hard with the sarcasm isn't it? :))
I know everyone's here for the drum break but no joke the song itself is a bop.
Agreed
nice pfp
The loop is just under 137 BPM. Like 136.8.
Yeah they really made a Christian melody into something really funky and uplifting
I always hop up and do a few cat daddies and swing a few times.
"thank you for changing my life"
"I'm literally a 50 year old 7 second drum loop
And that was all we needed
And you've done so much for so many in those 50 years.
If only it actually changed his life
@@Puffypoo574 damn
Gary Coleman: “Darn it, No credit again!”
The way the drums isolate there it's like it was made to be sampled.
idd and it was
It's almost weird to hear cause listening to it you feel the classic soul, but it's like there's this super nasty drum beat on top that is years ahead of itself.
This is how human culture evolved... many a small progresses and, once, BOOM! Probably was the same with the invention of the wheel. 😉
True! It was a common to do brakes like this to get the music all over the place. The sample is amazing
that's why it's called a drum break
1:26 that drum solo sounds pretty cool, someone should like sample it
Npc
hehe funny
Dua Lipa did in One Kiss
1:26 @ 0.75 = And when I come back boy, I'm comin straight outta Compton.
@@Dr.Hoffman Also the creation are of boom bap.
Everyone's talking about the break but nobody's talking about how awesome of an example of 60's soul this is
60s & 70s were great decades for soul especially if you liked live drums
Not a good example at all , this is borderline gospel
Why should we talk about something, if it's part of music history, almost every song in the world talks about this song already
@@therealckonmixcloud1733 Best decades for music in general
I came here for the break, but stayed for the soul.
Yo, let your soul take break AMEN BROTHER WHOOAH
Amen brother!
Yep, the track in it's entirety is just soooo dope. It's a timeless masterpiece.
Amen to that Quixocrates.
Me too brother!
01:26 The DNA of Drum and bass!
*speed that shit up to 1,25x.... just do it.*
The DNA of Drum and Bass,Hip-Hop and Jungle
@@ZFAIRGENTLEMAN powerpuff girls intro from 90s LOL
Unknown its fucking wild how those exact drum sounds with that exact beat was always my favorite part of all the dnb songs
*breakbeat*
R.I.P. Gregory S. Coleman
The drummer of this influential drum solo
(September 1944 - April 2006)
R.I.P.
Amen...
It's Gregory C. Coleman, but yes. Everything else you said.
🙏🙏🙏
Yes, it's " C " Coleman, you schwein
@@Ben_19M ...break
I'm coming by internet pilgrimage to pay tribute to the break that has moved me for many years. Amen, my Brothers!
Word
Soooo there is 666 likes, and I'm leaving it like that. Lol
Amen.
Amen
AMEN
I'm not religious but I will praise the AMEN BREAK!
amen to that brother
IT'S A RIGHTEOUS BEAT! XD
=)
Amen, brother
@@SHINBAXTER hes playing the same damn beat the whole song, but then all of a sudden everybody else stops and he's playing the same thing and it jumps out at you. If you need all other instruments to stop for you to appreciate just one, then you have very non-musical ears.
@@EBrassfield the only reason people make a big deal about the break is cause it's the part that gets sampled
What’s really sad is that Gregory Coleman (the drummer) never received any royalties from the break, and he was homeless when he died. It’s also believed that he was unaware of the impact he had made on music.
He died in 2006, well after jungle took root. It feels dirty
I thought people did a crowdfunding for him so he actually got paid something for it ?
@@djimma5080 source?
The only one I found is for a different Gregory Coleman
@@djimma5080The bandleader got it, Coleman the drummer was dead already. Sickening the way folks in this thread toss it off so easily. The truest criticism of hip hop is it's pure theft. Point blank. Great music, ruthless business decisions. Really bad look for anyone attempting to hype hip hop culture. They could have given him a credit but decided not to, all 5,000 of them. So what if he was an addict. Weren't most rock stars addicts? We sure give them the benefit of the doubt. But the most influential drummer in history? He just gets degraded as a crackhead, which incidentally, a lot of the folks using his sample were as well. So there's that. Pretty hypocritical.
How is hip hop stealing? People who use that as a criticism dont know anything about sampling, i mean, how were the producers who sampled from this song would know about the drummer anyway? This is from 1969, the music industry back in those days was different, if you signed to a label, all of the royalties would go to the label and not the people who made the song, so even if they did credit him, he would still get no money. Also do you think skrillex is a crackhead? NWA, Tyler the creator and all of these jungle and dnb producers are crackheads? How ignorant are you? And nobody in this comment section is ignoring the guy or mentioning that he was a crackhead, everybody is giving respects to him.
I think that this may be one of the most influential songs ever.
music genius
I'd say it is. The breakbeat in this song is beautiful and is what started an era
Maybe nor for everyone, but DEFFO for me. In hip-hop, jungle, dnb and hardcore from back in the days, to dubstep and trap here and now. Amazing....
Same break. No innovation.
If not the most influential. That drum break is the most sampled piece of audio in history, sampled at least 3,000 times.
he will never create a breakbeat thats so good it spawns several entire genres
*spits out cereal*
never, ain't gonna happen, nope, no sir e, the chances of that are lower than the chances of me getting a romantic partner
@@lmaolol7702 does that matter tho?
@@insertnamehere1258 Yeah, and the chances are lower than it being samples in a song so influencial in a genre that it reshapes the entire genre and becomes one of the most legendary songs of all time
@@insertnamehere1258 any update on that?
95% of my favorite songs wouldn’t exist without this drum break huge kudos to you guys
i love almost every atmosphere breakcore/jungle song this comment is so real
Amen
@@buzzdoesnotbuzz3330Hearing that solo feels like coming home.
I just took a huge kudo.
The most important sample in music history
Don't forget Funky Drummer by James Brown.
Amen brother!!
According to WhoSampled, this song has been sampled over 4000 times.
@@Sir_Gom_bOach what's second and third?
@@Sir_Gom_bOach never heard those somehow. Imma go on a sample safari
It's funny..when I was a kid self taught in the 70's , I figured out this beat out on my own. My dear mom loved it. God bless and rest her soul.
Crazy to think how this is a possible contender the most influential song of all time and most people don’t even realize it
Change the speed, change the whole genre.
x0,75: Hip-Hop
x1,25: Drum n Bass / Jungle
x1,5/x1,75: Breakcore (sort of)
Breakcore is more complicated but what you said is close.
David 26 Exactly. To fit more notes it has to be faster.
Big up and salute! You really know whats up!
x0.5 You can find some Bristol Vibes, feel the Trip-Hop
@@IWOkaryn good point!
This belongs in a museum.
1:25 THE MOST SAMPLED LOOP IN MUSIC HISTORY!
yea we kno
Eyeless
its crazy that my dad used to play the a-side of this for me all the time (color me father) without either of us knowing what a legendary sample was on the other side
I hope you still have it. Some 45's are fetching $800+$x,000 here in Australia. I'd own this in my record collection if I could.
rorz999 Yeah but sometimes it’s also just nice to own something so awesome, and people are willing to pay good money for “one”.
If I found one at a garage sale I’d scoop that puppy up. I have lots of useless shit like this, a Taito Space Inavders arcade machine is one example. Why do I have that? It’s fkn cool!
Got proof? If you aint gonna give proof, youre lying.
@@morreddie717 lmao what proof do you want, a video of my dad agreeing with me?
@@anthonylongobardo2623 i wasnt talking to you you moron, i was responding to someone else.
Who else actually *likes* this song rather than just the drum sample? It's a neat instrumental soul track.
Junior Blitz yes...me too. It's soulful. Someone ought to make an extended remix. I usually don't like songs in Db, but this is one of the few songs I could listen to on repeat. Too bad it's so short.
Hey Jr, I like this tune. I've just told my Funk band to learn it! ;)
Its the same for Ashley's Roachclip by The Soul Searchers too. I always listen to the whole of the track.
Here here
I think the break is the driving force behing this track. You can hear it throughout the song, but in the break is when it shines. Truly pioneers of their time.
1:26 its very crazy to think that without this 6 fucking seconds world should not be the same, hip hop, drum and bass, breakbeat, electronic music, dance, house, that all music genres started because of 6 seconds of a soul song
I wonder if this drummer realizes he started Jungle / drum & bass.
0TruckMafk ☢TM™"... The BigMean CommentSection BadAss doubt it he died sadly :(
He didn't. Breakbeat rave came from 70's hip hop breaks when it split from house music. The Amen break came into fashion afterwards at around the same time as reggae began to influence breakbeat rave which then turned it into jungle. Jungle is really a mash up of Hip hop ,Reggae and Breakbeat rave. Drum and bass essential evolved from jungle when producers started moving away from the dancehall reggae vibe into a darker hardcore techno influenced sound. The Amen break is important to jungle but it didn't start it all off. If you listen to some really early breakbeat rave type stuff you usually find a mix of 4/4 house beat and speeded up hip hop breaks before the Amen era began.
Wrong newb. Jungle evolved from Hardcore not breakbeat you nub. Any 80s influence would have been the '88 Acid house scene. Even Prodigy used hardcore beats that are verging on Jungle in their early albums (The song Poison). Back then the pop form of Jungle became to be known as Clownstep or the original term Jump-Up. DNB isn't a form of hip hop, hip hop is a form of DNB. The two are so different. The only thing you got right is Reggae. The toasting culture of dancehall definitely influenced Jungle especially as people immigrated to Britain.
Dank Mheems how is hiphop a form of drum n bass. Idiot!!! Do your research. Hiphop came WAAAY before
Amen Break > Hip-hop > Jungle > Breakcore, Speedcore > DnB
Am I correct?
as a DnB crackhead I cant express how much I love them now
ikr
Me
damn those drumbreaks are fire, i hope one day someone will sample this and it will become popular.
The world will never know😂😂😂
the amen break 1:26 to 1:32 is just amazing, and from 1969! wow, thank you the winstons, been a junglist all my life and some of my favourite tracks would not have been made possible without you. awesome :)
When I listen to this, it still sounds to me like it has a sampled beat.
Simply Visual while technically not true (stockhausen, reich, even the beatles had used sampling before 1968) you still misunderstood me.
except the is the most sampled beat of all time!? dumbass
I can't imagine they were the first ever to use that beat, but I also don't think it was borrowed on purpose
Calm down youre the one looking like a "dumbass" here. He is saying this song sounds like it is using a sample not that it has been sampled, "dumbass".
let the Church say Aaaaaamen, Let the Church say aaaaaaaaaamen, Let the Church say aaaaaaaaaamen, Amen, Amen!
Only 4.3 million views? This deserves over a billion views simply for how influential this tune is on what it has spawned in the later decades.
Thank you The Winstons. This has been a part of my life for the past 28 years. The best 6 seconds of music ever.
"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"
Kick kick snare kick kick kick snare
The most iconic 8 seconds of music ever recorded. Incredible.
It's no wonder why this was heavily sampled---the break itself is an open instrumental beat that emcees can freely rap to at the time. Jungle/D&B of course would completely build around it. Very simple, very basic, very clean, and most importantly: It contained the necessary drum/snare pattern to create other types of music. It's like finding the most accessible, reliable drum kit in the world for ANY musician to use----which at the time, this WAS it!
the magic happens at 1:26
The most important 8 seconds of drumming in the history of music. Magic is the right word bro!
Correction, the magic happens between 0:00 and 2:32.
Slipknot
@@johnbazy correct
0:00*
The early 90's would've been boring if it weren't for this.
As influential as the Amen Break is, the original drummer died homeless and destitute with a drug addiction. Think about that.
Didn't the same thing happen to Beethoven?
I'm on the verge of dying homeless and destitute with a drug addiction. My music is going to be dope in 30 years. You just wait.
Never received one royalty payment. Damn.
Jade Prout Beethoven probably died a fairly wealthy, albeit sad man. He was well loved. Mozart, on the other hand, died in an unmarked grave somewhere. He was in poverty at the end of his life
Sucks. He has plenty of company with many other artists that were used up and kicked to the curb. Sad reality.
Their greatness lies within their understanding of creativity and love for music. I understand that this work is indeed copyrighted, but they never initiated any kind of legal action for its use in other works. They play, make, and have soul, because they undestood the importance of their shoulders for others to be able to reach further in music. Thank you Winstons!!! This kind of greatness is far, far bigger and important than stupid licenses, royalties and copyright laws!! You'll never perish.
Amen brother
Keep the faith 🙏.. See wey back they were rolling out them drumzz 🔊🙌❤️
Que vuelva el jungle!!!
Chetooooooo
Hombre cheeto, yo vine aquí por un tiktok de cómo se hizo la canción de Futurama con tres samples
Aquí por Yo Interneto
@@enrique23f en serio hay gente que conoce el sampling y hace tiktoks? que genial :D
Oh Hi Mark!
I love how if you change the speed of the video to 1.25, this tracks actually sounds like jungle music at its general speed! :D
Lol :D
There are other tracks earlier than this one that have an amen style beat, this is just the one (possibly the first) that has a clean sample able section that everyone went on to use.
At around 1:10 they start playing The Impressions' "We're A Winner" guitar riff. And no wonder. They were the Impressions' backing band!!
I bought the Winstons' Color Him Father single on Metromedia when it was first released in 1969, and immediately preferred this flip side over the A-side. It was a time when mainstream music was sinking into a protracted aesthetic slump of self-indulgence, and this relentlessly upbeat instrumental was a breath of fresh air. Brief career, enduring legacy.
The amount of heart Coleman put into this song was enough for the beat to give birth to an entire genre 2 decades later *AND* for it to be, up to this day, remembered not only as the 'DNA' of DnB, but as a great song itself!
That's a lot of heart, man ngl
1:26 at 1.25x speed and you have literally every DnB drum sample ever
💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@aljoshablu What’s up
@@Dragoneer u were right & its so freakin funny! These damn 7 seconds influence my daily life, its like its my heart beat 💜
@@aljoshablu 💀
.75 sounds like straight outta compton 💀
Classic Break!
Much loved and used in many hip hop tracks especially late 80's & early 90's and as a result influencing drum & bass. As someone who was there at the start of the drum & bass scene. I can tell you that when we went to House raves we used to go nuts for the tracks that used Hip Hop or Ragga/Reggae samples. The buzz we created helped develop the Jungle scene which later became Drum & Bass.
I’m very happy to see this got nearly 4Million clicks!!! Humanity isn’t lost.
This very song and the fact that it was sampled so much is indirectly responsible for me still being alive
HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD THIS TUNE BEFORE! love it so happy and groovy
oh but you have
Kimberley Tam nice one
Never gets old, no matter how fast or slow you hear it.
You created breakcore thanks for that
Yes, God bless them!
After years of being fan of - and practicing - this music, finally I found my way.
Thanks for posting this!
¡Amen brother!
1:26 This drumbeat is pretty good, someone should use it.
Thanks for 80% of my favorite music
This break was a turning point in my breakbeat journey.. life has never been the same since.
So, _This_ is where amen came from. It's one of my favorite breaks, even though I don't use it much.
Wow! seven measly seconds of his life, that the drummer probably never had a second thought about when he was playing it, I wonder who's seven seconds is shaping history right now.
Finally, a great drumbreak to sample an lucky for me nobody else has used this before!
I remember hearing the break sampled in one of The Prodigy's songs. Amazing song, this.
Also became the base for Breakcore don't forget Breakcore :)
never forget breakcore
Bob Bobertson Breakcore
breakcore is literally just the amen break
Kuukuu Blast Lol, I have heard way more breaks in breakcore than that
yeah but if you want views amen is the way to go
This video is 14 years old and I still listen to it
thank you so much guys!! most important 6 seconds in music history!!
the guy on the drums died broke and homeless...
Thank you for your beautiful drums!
I just came here to pay respect to Gregory C. Coleman and his crew for making these fabulous beats that changed the history of hip hop and rap, but nobody realized how he had changed the world by making this 6 seconds beat and again my deepest condolence to Mr.Gregory C. Coleman and his crew The Winstons. Amen Brother we will never forget about you
If this song were never made, many awesome songs and genres wouldn't have been created
@@HolyRollerTV I'm jus saying and this is one of the most used breaks in all of music history
The song part of what I said is somewhat true although yes, people could use other breaks if this didn't exist or just in general
Lovely snare sound...!
Where would music today be at without the amen break?
We live in the shoulders of giants!
this is the birthplace of drum'n'bass...
this is like staring at god's face
Godse?
😆😆😆
Amen brother
ironic since this is a christian song
@@hescoming4544 legendary answer
The most sampled song in history.. as of today 21/08/2024.. it has been sampled 6493 times and still counting❤
"I think this is techno, therefore, I like techno" -- René Descarte
Drum and bass beginnings...
those looking back fifty years from now will see us as pioneers. ^.2
Wow the Winstons thanks for making the ultimate drum solo and without u I wouldn't have my addiction to drum & bass yes I'm a fiend for jungle my addiction started in 1996 when my neighbour let me tape his DJ hype & fearless tape from Toronto
Well, if it wasn't them, somebody else would have come up with it. There are just so many drum patterns.
Holyrollertv of course man. Love reggae. Jungle/D&B took inspiration from it no doubt.
After much research, I find that this is a mashup. This song takes the melody that the nuns and Sidney Poitier were singing in the 1963 movie "Amen" (please find the video) and then puts that melody on top of the instrumental of the Impressions' We're a Winner. So I just reverse-engineered this song just the way people do when they find the Amen break in many newer works. :-)
Interesting one Reg!
Cool stuff :)
yeah it was kindo funny when I let my mother hear this song she started singing 'aaaameen!' :p
True to a point, more of a jam session. They played "Amen" which is a very old gospel refrian or spiritual that likely dates way before the 60's. They band jammed doing a cover of The Impressions "We're A Winner".
The Winstons' drummer and band created the infamous drum break that set off so many songs and music genres.
You know I can't hear you when you mumble like that.
absolutny klasyk, od którego wszystko się zaczeło
Heck, even this sample (1:25) was used on a heavy metal song.
what song?
Papa Disco I think he's probably referring to Slipknot's "Eyeless". The DJ of this band samples the famous drum break in the beginning of this song, but with a bit faster version.
Rammstein sehnsucht
this was never featured in a Rammstein song.
YOU CAN'T SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLON BRANDO'S EYES
Estou aqui para honrar o legado e prestar meu respeito à essa obra prima, o Amen Break é literalmente o beat mais usado da história, que incrível.
Im 42 and those 4 seconds are my whole childhood! I also wrote haunting winds on goodlooking records using amen drum loop!
Literally Google searched "original drum n bass sample"
Ashley Burns *original jungle sample
I never knew this part of music history. Thank you!
My dad used to play me this all the time growing up and then show me a bunch of drum and bass so this makes me heavy nostalgic
Amen Break or not, all the drums in this song are absolute fire.
I was a major jungle and dnb fan for two decades, before I heard that drum sample for the first time in this song. It blew my mind, and my load. :)
ignoring the obvious, can we talk about how upbeat and genuinely really good the song is?
just one of the most incredible snares ever. obviously the legend of the Amen Break need not be restated, but it really is so good
The Brass and the Drums what a Powerful Sound!
"Hey grandpa, what is 'Breakcore'?"
"Well, you see son..."
*And this is where it all began*
This is legendary.
i really like that drum break, i bet noones gonna sample it though
Passing by to pay my respects to the song that provided a drum loop for literally everyone. Thank you, and amen, brother!
1:26 1:34 This part is the freaking best!!
Best sounding snares.
Love that drum break at 1.26. Been sampled to death, but it's so good.
1:25
Band: I don't think a drum solo makes sense here.
Drummer: Gimme 4 bars, I feel like that might change the entire world of music for decades.
Band: *rolls eyes* Sigh...fine.
This was the beat that started the whole rave scene of 1989 and beyond. Thankyou brothers
Wow, that backbeat is so cool, I wonder if anyone has thought of sampling it
1:26 Como disse a lenda Dj Marky essa música deu a origem ao Drum & Bass, meu gênero de música favorito sempre!!, Obrigado G. C. Coleman.