George Perkins & The Silver Stars - Cryin' in the streets

[Thespadecaller]

Great video and music!

[dora5132ify]

this is when we had real CIVIL RIGHT leaders.

[tiroritiroraaa]

helloo!!! i love this sonng!!!! where can i found some information about this musicians?????? and some information about this song!!?

[MultiStanga]

me too 7369.. superrr .. i also herad at how i met your mother.. and made the connection to youtube.. it takes me back to my youth.. wonderful time in a simple world.. and nowadays everything has a price.. where is the brotherhood of sharing. take care yáll !!

[Atomank68]

Hmmm, all them bushy-haired A-Rabs should take a lesson from Dr. King's and the Mahatma's strategy and overthrow their oppressors, 'cause naked violence gets you nothing but more of the same and it's what the "Evil-Ones of Arabia, Europe and North America profit from, amid the death, destruction and carnage. THEY JUST L-U-U-U-V IT!!!

[hiphiphiphoula]

how i met your mother !

[Renda501]

I LOVE THIS SONG!

[dora5132ify]

love this.mmmmm

[bumblebeebattv]

OMG I have not heard this song since my childhood in the 1960's!!! I have hoped to hear it again on an oldies station but never did in four decades. As a child I thought the song was about a man who was in love and his girl broke his heart, so he went crying in the streets!! I was just a kid, I didn't know. Didn't know it was inspirational. If you can get part 2 it would be a blessing!! Thanks for posting!! ;^)

[tambourine4lyfe09]

OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!

MY DAD USED TO HAVE THIS ON TAPE...

Do You Have Part 2?????

[bilbo2shire]

The riots in '68 when they burned Roosevelt Road and other places after the death of Dr King and Bobby Kennedy. bilbo2shire

[Atomank68]

From the "Silver Fox" label, whose studio logo, curiously still adorns a bldg. in the Hunts Point district in the Bronx.

"...A bullet through your window, fired by a gun." Curious I how I missed that particular stanza when a kid. This George Perkins seems not very well known, but this produvtion of his I have always considered a classic. Much Thanks!

[teemack]

love it- never heard this before--it really touches me.

[Atomank68]

From the "Silver Fox" label, whose studio logo, curiously still adorns a bldg. in the Hunts Point district in the Bronx.

"...A bullet through your window, fired by a gun." Curious I how I missed that particular stanza when a kid. This George Perkins seems not very well known, but this produvtion of his I have always considered a classic. Much Thanks!

[moedemama]

@Atomank68

thanks for this recomendation! im always happy to find a message from you in my inbox!!

[soulie101]

@Atomank68 , nice share, this is fanfooktastic, the raw emotion just stopped me in my tracks...phil

[Atomank68]

Yes, indeed. I had this 45-rpm single, and for the life of me, when I was 14-years old, I still don't know why I would routinely break my usual marathon record playing between the J-5, And Sly, to Otis, Pickett, and Candi Staton to play this very haunting though-for the-times, appropiate compostions. But then again, I believe I did know even then.) Might as well ask myself why I overplayed so many Curtis Mayfield and Bill Withers' "message" songs; at least 1\4 of all R&B recordings were "msgs."

[ratonul20]

too bad it has only 13000 views ... cause this is fucking music

[yappiy7799]

I love this song it has lots of different meanings to me,was introduced to this song by my wife love it

[7369]

I love this song sooo much. My father had this old record and from the first time and to now every time I hear it, it brings him back to me unlike anything else.

[OddsDiva]

Profound song...profound pictures...profound times.

[cjfl]

@Empyrean1401 This pleases me that you like this song. My mother wrote the lyrics way back in the early 70s. She died in 1986. She was an elementary school teacher in the hills of Virginia for 31 years.

Wish she could know the current success of this song now. Thanks.

[SolemnTruth]

if you really want this joint, check out Let Freedom Sing Music of the Civil Rights Movement by Time Life...it is a must have for any serious music collector or history buff.

[toolsdoorway]

Great song!!

Do you have "high blood pressure" by Mr. Perkins?

[remoprete]

:P beautifull just got a new meaning :P <3

too bad these days of musical wonders r long gone :P peace out

[7369]

I actually have searched years..YEARS!!!!!!!!!!! for this song. My Dad had it on an old 45 back in the days! Thank GOD for youtube!

[Reynardineuk]

I cannot make out all the words esp from the guy with the high voice. Please help me if you can. verse 1 I see somebody marching Mmm hmmm Marching down the street, yeh Mmm Hmmm I see somebody marching marching down the street, yeh Mmm Hmmm this time we stop and praying 0.48 to ? ??????????????????? 0.53

[nana60ful]

Watching this video was a repeat of some of the things that I saw as a child of the 50s. This video is second to none and with this song "you couldn't want for anything better". Thank you for posting it because it needs to be shared with the world..

[Blijd]

Hi Nico2327,

The song is a collectors item. It was already in the collection of my parents.

Greetz,

B.

[nico2327]

Ha ok!

Anyway, thank you for the answer!

I can't stop listening to this song!

[nico2327]

Great music, very very good!

Just a question, where did you find this?

Because I can't find it anywhere...

[tbogwi]

Great stuff- very creative video work - This somng is recommended by Tom Waits in one of his songs

[lastofthebadmen]

"Nighthawk postcards"-Tom waits from the Nighthaks at the Diner album

[Blijd]

Thnx for all the reactions...i just find the picture on the internet.

[Nicc67]

I like the picture at 0:47. its very powerful. Where did you get it from?

My greatest thanks to you for putting this song up, its true that you cant find this anywhere, i searched through all the sources i know to find the song but nothing

[williampickens]

brilliant pictures to accompany one of my all-time favorite songs.

[vicandmaes]

Please don't ever remove this from youtube. You can't find this music anywhere today.

[vicandmaes]

Lord, this brings back memories..

[soulfreakwoman]

mooi man

[sonny0929]

This would have been perfect for the Dr Martin Luther King holiday. Why would you take it off the web during this historic time?

[sonny0929]

Why isn't this video more widespread?

[Blijd]

Thanx mi Soulbrada!

[Tjalie07]

Respeki

A disie tranga toe.

Danny