The DELLS - Love is Blue (I Can Sing A Rainbow)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- My tribute to the super vocal group - The Dells - and the best version of "Love is blue" - one of the most beautiful songs in the word ( Music: Andre Pop, Pierre Cour/ Arthur Hamilton. English lyrics by Bryan Blackburn).
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imagine being a kid, about 10 years old and you turn on the radio and this is playing.., we had real music then...
Eliza Queen.......It blew my mind..lol, and I still love it today.
I cannot understand how this only got to No 75 in the UK, I'm embarrassed to be honest. This is stunning, sophisticated, this group is amazing.
Probably because it wasn’t plugged by DJ’s on the scene at the time, but you know the saying ‘ the rare, unknown ones are the sweetest ones’ and that’s a fact my man 👍
@@richardprocter4905saying I never heard of😁
Happy New Year's
The Dells I can sing a rainbow - love is blue reached no 15 in the UK singles chart on 10 August 1969.
Nobody could sing with the power and control of Marvin. His ability to hold a notes for what seems like a minute or more is unmatched... truly a vocal talent
Awesome
I totally agree.
Teddy Pendergrass called him "daddy". On a Soul Train interview, TP said Mr. Marvin taught him everything he knows. :0)
The late great David Ruffin nicknamed Marvin "Iron Throat" because of his incomparable baritone!
This is real music!!!!! Real instruments, real vocals, and real emotions!!! The Dells=Best Male Group of All-Time!!!!!!
Hands down!
dddwwd#dm. dryko
Yes from beginning to infinity ♾️
The vocals! The arrangement! This is stunningly powerful! This is when music was music and only the real talents, like The Dells, flourished!
This song is perfection!
The Mighty, Mighty, MIGHTY Dells. One of the most successful male singing groups in the history of Rythym and Blues. Awesome.
Thanks Nena sis.
Really true
This brings back some wonderful memories of my childhood! What a wonderful song!
Oh yes
The composition of this song is so beautiful.
The baseline on this is sick. Love it to pieces
Agreed. But you mean bassline.
Without a doubt one of the greatest love songs ever!
I love this song!!!! my older sister used to play it to 'death'!! I have not heard this in about 30 years!!!! Still sounds great!!
It's the inspired arrangement by Charles Stepney that makes this song so powerful. And of course, those Dells' voices, and especially Marvin's lead.
I just love this song. It's so nostalgic. It takes you back to a time of real music and innocence. True love.
Only Soul Chillin' can arrange funk with symphony harmonics and classical overtones. GENIUS!!!!!!
Marvin Junior !!! An ICONIC VOICE BEFORE TEDDY THERE WAS AND FOREVER WILL BE THE GREAT MARVIN JUNIOR !!!
Most definitely 👍 He was the best/boss on lead!!!💖
You are sure right! I just learned that we are family.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BY THE GROUP. SO MUCH SOUL. GOOD MEMORIES.
I love this version too, but my fav Dells tune is “The Love We Had”. The Dells were as good as any Motown group. 🎤🎷🎹🎼
Beautiful song, amazing performance, goosebumps
Oh Oh Oh,,, This just too much beautiful blue soul to digest. Makes my heart ache for how times used to be. Slow dancing under a blue light at a house party or just walking home from high school holding my girls hand on a spring day. Many of you singers today need to enroll in the old school and learn how to sing Real talented soul. Brother Marvin Jr, Chuck, Verne, Johnnie, and Mickey; can't nobody top you.
+geegon50: The Dells are fast becoming
'INTERNET GODS' since the 'Pepsi Generation' has caught on to them, After 'The 5 Heartbeats' based on their tumultuous 60 year career. The group currently has 245 singles on RUclips.
God, I wish there was a time machine to take me back to this era :( :(
Yes. What an era!!!
Dan thanks for the time machine 2021
One of the great male vocal groups of all time, I was a kid when they were in their hey day but I remember hearing their hits on the radio (WRAP, Norfolk, VA) this is my favorite from them....
Just wanted to say "music was at its Best " groups like them made my generation appreciate "Soul" love my Dells!!
Dava Lege
What a wonderful rendition of a great classic song.
RIP Marvin Junior... You and your distinctive voice are truly missed...
The Mighty Dells: 1952 - 2012 60 Years of Musical Excellence.
2004 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, The 24th Annual NAACP IMAGE AWARD
2004 Vocal Group Hall of Fame Inductees - The Soul of American Music Award
The 1991 R&B Foundation 'Pioneer Award' The Doo Wopp of America Award.
Award Winning 'EMMY' "Oh What A Night" The Dells: Marvin Junior, Johnnie Carter, Michael McGill, Verne Allison, Chuck Barksdale ... 'Long Live The Mighty Dells'
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This takes you back to a time.....When people SANG about SOMETHING!!
Ouch, ouch, ouch what a blast from those mighty mighty Dells,
Tuuuunnnnnne, class always rises to the top!!
Simply the best.
What a Great Song,, Use to play over n'over ;-)
This is pure gold
One of my all time favorite songs ;-)
I asked alexa to play love is blue and when she started playing this I thought she messed up but wow - this is my favorite version!!!!
Yes. The Dells still perform oldies R&B shows. I saw them in Philly a couple of years ago (also saw them sing this in the early 70's). They were great live performances.
WHAT A WONDERFUL MUSIC WITH AMAZING SINGERS! MY SOUL IS RESTING
SURVIVED OFF THIS SONG .. IN THE MUCKED UP BORDER/JUNGLE OF LAOS/VIET NAHM border ..... waitin ' for MARINE HUEY'S ....... to run us up the mountains of HMONG-DOM .. !!!!!!! .1968 ... rip .. my fallen brothers .. mothers n children ..
The Dells, Just Received:
THE PRESIDENT'S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2016)
from President Barack Obama! "We are so honored"
Well deserved
What !
They needed it long time
You deserve it!!! The Mighty Dells are AWESOME!
Beautiful tribute.
R.I.P. Johnny Carter
You can sing to me all night Marvin Junior. RIP to you and Johnnie Carter
One of my favorite groups and songs from day one
OMG!! STILL AS SERIOUS IN 2015!!
"Simply beautiful" ❤🌹🐞
Marvin Junior (Iron Throat) is killing this ...
YES MAN
This was last song I danced on before I joined the navy.
CAN YOU FEEL THIS, I KNOW I CAN!!!
LOOOOVE this song! Thank you SOOOO much for posting! He sings his heart out!
One of the greatest songs recorded
I can play this all day The Dells ,The Dramatic , The Stylisics some baddest group.
One of my favorite groups of all times...that finale line and the way he holds that last note brings me to tears still after all these years...
this is my favorite song from them
Oh!!!
I bet Paul M was happy his classic had such crossover international appeal. This is a cool cover by the Cells.
Sorry, Dells.
I'm on the floor like HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!
Watching my man’s get biz he zoned out finished off my man’s wiz!!!
Classic Mighty Mighty Dells! My Jam here! Played this one endlessly! Love the Dells! Loved seeing them in Concert! The bassline and drums are fire! Much Love!
wow What a beautiful rendition to a great song. The Dells are truly an amazing group that are so musically gifted, My god that really blew me away. Such power.
The song " I Can Sing a Rainbow" was based on a nursery song from their youth, but that will go with "Love Is Blue". A lot of kids from kindergarden never heard of the intro where it leads to "love Is Blue". That fits very well.
i can't believe i'm hearing this for the first time. right on!
the one & only Dells
Rest in peace to the great CHUCK BARKSDALE, the deep bass/baritone vocalist of the mighty mighty DELLS. He passed away on may 15th, 2019. I think he was the last one left. Will always love his part on this jam, from 1:53 to 2:15.
B.H......Michael Mcgill and Vern Allison are the two remaining Dells, I wish them and family much love and peace. 💖
@@maceymc.7612 Mick McGill and Vern Allison. Good to know they're still with us. Thanks.
Listing to this music give me so much hope!!!!!
Thank you for saving this classic song for us to enjoy on YT. This song burned its self into my heart when I first heard it and will never be forgotten. ❤❤❤
Oh my! I love this song.. when I was about 6, my older sister, 15 used to wear this out on our Dad's console stereo!!!!!!! GREAT Song.....wonderful memories.....
What a brilliant song from 1968 ,it conquers images of that year ,high rise flats ,concrete jungles,Vauxhall vicounts ,ford cortina mark twos ,skinheads and afros too.Great emotional soul sound ,they sing it like they really mean it. Long live soul
This joint hits so hard, still BANGS, killer vocals and instrumentation, production, everything executed to perfection
What mixture of one of a kind voices... that can only produce, the one and only mighty, mighty Dells !!
U/yall could sing anything.... those voices, that harmony, the lyrics. Marvin Jr. voice touches ur soul and can anyone hold a note as long as him?
Lead Vocals: Marvin (big voice) Junior - Bridge (Chuck Barksdale)
Impeccable Harmonies: The Mighty Dells
Producer: Bobby Miller - Arranger Charles Stepney
My my they can sing anything and it's gonna sound rrreal good. I wish I was old enough to see them live back in their younger days. You would see 5 or 6 groups at one concert. Those were the real good times. RIP y'all, Marvin jr Johnny and now Chuck. Randi Quinones
One of my favorite hits by the Dells..I had the pleasure of watching them sing this song many times in the 60's in Buffalo,NY...Thanks for the post..
I love this and I bought the album when it was released
+Josephine Thomas DO YOU STILL HAVE THE ALBUM?
One of the last songs I danced to before I joined the navy
2:36 it gets crucial, real authentic soul...
This is my favorite song by the Mighty Dells!
I love this song to death. Beautiful sounds and lyrics. "Blue, blue is my world." "Now we are apart." "Now I am without you baby." My God I feel the lyrics to this song. That dude could hold a note. I saw them at Painters Mills in Baltimore.
So glad to hear that you enjoy the lyrics, they mean a lot to me as my father Bryan Blackburn wrote them~!
Marvin Junior, one of the great unsung baritones.
Edan I see colors brought me here. Great track, tremendous sampling. I love the cycle of music.
REMEMBERING MARVIN JUNIOR (JANUARY 31, 1936 - MAY 29, 2013) [01/31/2018]
This is hands down my favorite song. I’ve listened to this 100,000 times
As many times as I've tried to hold any note THAT long, it's never happened, lol
This is my favorite song by The Dells!
Sing it Marvin! RIP.
love is blue! I love the production values of songs like this songs nowadays are too minimalistic and digital nowadays!
Thanks HitBoy and Nas for bringing me here!
love this xxx
The Mighty Dells: (1952 - 2012) 60 Years of Musical Excellence.
2004 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Inductees.
The 24th Annual NAACP IMAGE AWARD, Recipients.
2004 Vocal Group Hall of Fame Inductees.
The Soul of American Music Award.
The 1991 R&B Foundation 'Pioneer Award'
The Doo Wop of America Award.
EMMY Winning Documentary"Oh What A Night" RUclips, Part 123
The '5 Heartbeats' Movie, based on the career of The Dells.
The Dells: Marvin Junior, Johnnie Carter, Michael 'mickey' McGill,
Verne Allison, Chuck Barksdale ... 'Long Live The Mighty Dells
2019, still loving this!
I remember hearing this track in 1970 aged 15 and coming home to London after being on holiday in Peranporth, Cornwall...in my Dads 1964 Humber Hawk......trouble is he didnt like the song and pressed the button on the old Motorola radio to another channel........Ah, the good old days.
@rjm58 glad to know you SURVIVED AND ARE STILL ON THE PLANET.....Thank You to you and all those who served.
No One Does It Better👏👏👏👏👏
I love this group and song, my dad is a huge fan I grew up listening to them!!!
so much soul
The Dells: Marvin Junior, Johnnie Carter, Michael 'Mickey' McGill, .. Verne Allison..Chuck Barksdale. The 'Longest Running' R&B Group.
The one & only
Mighty, Mighty!! Love me some Dells
I think that in these images there is all your love for people, for the great outdoors, for dreams, for your dear things and your animals. You are a person who shows a great love for life. The color blue is capable of creating a magical atmosphere, full of serenity and inner peace. And the wonderful music accompanies your journey, a story that speaks about love. Thank you Ela, for emotions that you express. ♥ ♫ ♥ ♫ ♥ ♫ ♥ ♫ ♥ ♫ ♥ ♫ ♥
This is a absolute beautiful classic 🎶🎶🎶💝
great tune, thanks, Marvin
doesn't get much better than the late Marvin Junior, rest easy, my man
Top Drawer Tune!
Da BIG One - Killa DELLS 'n HEAVY Orch!!
wow i found it! have look long for this!!
Marvin Junior...... So Much emotion, grit and gots
in memory of marvin junior, sr. i will miss you. rest in peace
That cello is killing me!
Radio station WBLS in New York City used to have a program on Sundays with Hal Jackson known as the Sunday classics. That’s where I first heard this song.
Starts off slow then...BAM!
My man doesn't even need a build up. Just comes straight in with the soul.
Totally agree this was such a great song , I was 14 when this came out and was in last year of senior school, left at 15 to start work,almost got obsessed with the same BAM part as you😂 them were the days❤
They took a hippie song and put funk and soul into it period
doesn't get any better than this
The Dells are fast becoming 'INTERNET GODS' since the 'Pepsi Generation' has caught on to them, After 'The 5 Heartbeats' based on their tumultuous 60 year career. The group currently has 245 singles on RUclips