Amen, Brother

[Kajtusize]

unbelievable quality of video!

[High5forAmerica]

1:41

[tbrown55]

YouTube search for: Frank Zappa - The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet 1966 Parte1...the beat is there too.

[moviejacker]

Gregory sylvester died penniless... Shame on u thieving scratters. Pay for the break!!!!

[skribbal]

@moviejacker right. you just heard that one Radio One. In reality the dude dies as an anomymous legend across the whole world for the beat that rocked the soul of everyone that lived through the early 90's. Worth more than every dollar bill in existence.

[madefortv2]

@moviejacker That's such a sad thing. If only talented people made the money they deserved.

[CPLWeeks]

@moviejacker You mean Gregory C. Coleman?

[ryanklb]

Press 6 for the 6 seconds that made every beautiful amen fill, shuffle, and break. making history since 1960 god bless and amen!

[chedca]

he probably killed that dubplate for this video :3

[theo1001]

Thanks for uploading it

[twilolight]

Thats the most important record ever made. I have ~6 copies of this.  I'm going to frame one at some point.

[Uristenzor]

the break is @ 1:47

[InterceptOne]

The Seed, which sparked all!

[LeeDarkParadox]

tune +++

[GosseBosma]

This is superior to anything that has ever sampled it. hehe.

[jjjooommm222]

Great video could have been in the Blues Brothers movie

[jjjooommm222]

Great video could have been in the Blues Brothers movie

[nominaohm]

1:41

[TheLemonking]

Great video could have been in the Blues Brothers movie

[TheLemonking]

Great video could have been in the Blues Brothers movie

[Kr4sHDubSt3p]

Sick baby....sick! I remember I used to work on my styles and footwork in Breakdancing with this track! Wack!!!! Love it!

[TrUthSmith]

Haha so weird, I got goosebumps when I heard it. They had no idea what was going to come of this

[jimromerulez]

holy crap

this and the james brown funky drummer best samples ever used.

[iainpetriemusic]

this sounds very familiar in parts (the bridge, i guess) to curtis mayfields 'we're a winner', anyone know which came first?

[kudge43]

1.44 to 1.51 sounds really familiar for some reason,has this bit ever been used on any other songs?

[BadWaters]

@greenman123 Trolled hard.

[krystian1292]

@kudge43, man, thats the legendary AMEN BREAK :D

[theeturnone]

@kudge43 yeah that part is the famous "Amen " from drum and Bass tracks today. . firefight, tramen. . .1:45 is the key to the whole "jungle" genre

[twilolight]

@kudge43 = Like probably over a million songs at this point.

[95MegaByte1]

@kudge43 DJ SS - Black

[Svarbard]

@kudge43 I guess on every other hip hop song, this became the most used loop in hip hop music

[96Irap]

@Svarbard nah 'Amen, Brother' was first used by hip hop but most used by drum n bass (in nearly every damn song)... hip hops most used loop is probably the 'Funky Drummer' break by james brown...

[Stephaknows]

@kudge43 the amen break? Yeah it's used in a lot in dnb/jungle. If you grew up in the 90s watching kid shows you might recognize it from the Powerpuff Girl's theme song. lol

[DerFeindr]

@Stephaknows It was a joke...

[parkfilms1]

@kudge43 actually amen brother has been used now many times it was on the top 100 songs of 1969 and a few people recorded it with a audio recorder they invented about that time later several people restored the recording and used it in songs popular in the mid 80's and it became a hit many people have talked about the amen beat and one man used a machine at the maker fair to knit the audio pattern for the break and it is said to be the most impotent 6 second drum beat in the world 0:56 - 1:06

[Elbenzo64]

One of the most important drum breaks of all time. Name one other that has helped create as many songs, and genres as the 5 second break in this song.

[beatsiz]

@Elbenzo64 6 second... lol

[Matjes22]

@Elbenzo64

funky drummer

[albertusj]

Great to dance to

[happyzero]

when i heard it...i shit bricks...

[KanyeisBest815]

you need to know your history in music...heres some of it right in front of your face you lucky ones

[DragonWon]

break @ 1:43 - 1:50

[bobbynewmarkiii]

@ supersharp... You're wrong... the amen break is not 'the beat you hear in the background' it's the solo drum break at approx 1.44, hence it being called the amen 'break'. Do your re-search please before you start embaressing yourself. Haha!!

[jezeus420]

@bobbynewmarkiii you'd make a good lawyer mate

[bigmuso1]

The Amen Break

[bigmuso1]

The famous 6 second drum loop, that has inspired many genres of music.

[originxxx]

how much would a copy be worth i wonder?

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

wow i have a radio station not for sale copy also (all others stereo-this is mono) i got mine from a guy in jr high (who died) now I am 36 years old and almost sold my copy

all other copies on here stereo...

[moonleyet]

it was soul... and is soul.. plain and simple. you can sub catergorize soul and call it funk... but it was soul in those days. soul:funk:jazz... it was music... good music.

ever heard james brown's "Give the Drummer Some"?

[vasedeny]

the amen brothers are the drum and bass parents... so that's why it's sick...

[SuperSharpShooter83]

Sorry but I've read some of these comments and I am shocked that some of you who have viewed this video don't know what the "Amen break" is OR your just guessing or in some cases you think it's jungle music...Let me clear up any confusion, to be precise it's actually a 5.20 sec drum loop the beat you hear in the background obviously...and it's this Break beat that spawned DnB, Acid house, Techno, to name but a few...it's the godfather of DnB, To those who already knew this, Amen Brother!

[flyonee]

d&b original

i too farted!!

[Speedas16]

1:42 :D

[originxxx]

What do you call this style? it reminds me of everything i used to love when i was a kid. All that James Brown stuff coming through. Would it be blues or something? Id love to go to a club where they play this stuff live.

[d3vin92]

@originxxx

its called "jungle" and its one of the first tracks in this genre

[SuperSharpShooter83]

@d3vin92 - No correction mate, It was funk and soul music actually, the amen break made drum and bass. Do your re-search please before you start embaressing yourself.

[Drgnak]

Funk or soul music.

[SimdudeS]

@originxxx Soul

[illegalsmirf]

I farted. :)

[smalllove1]

I work for PRS and I can confirm that the writers of this song didn't get a penny for the sampling of this song.

[SuperSharpShooter83]

@smalllove1 - No1 did mate. if they had they would be millionaires right now, due to how many tracks it has been in and how many tracks it's actually made.

[realfuckinggas]

sounds like a really cool, funky, up tempo version of The Impressions - We`re a Winner

[EdEckersley]

@GhettoSugar Yep, they never got a penny from the break.

Some sample companies have very very slightly altered the break however and collected royalties off that.

[OnTheRoof1]

@GhettoSugar No, they never collected anything.

[qwayker]

The Drum and Bass parents.

[TWORable]

@qwayker not just DnB ,but all genres we know as "Broken Beats".

[DobriReperi]

@qwayker no, JUNGLE parents...big difference !

[TheGoodChap]

@qwayker Jungle parents, not DnB which is all synth drum beats...

[basstester]

that break is so hard!!! i mean, bak in those days, that must have bin soo mind bending!!!! serious, if the original drummer had a nickel from every song that had that break, Oooooo!!! :)

[elliottjameswalsh]

lol he'd be a very wealthy man

[bunnieslope]

I don't even know where to begin. Have any of you ever played an instument or been in a band or even picked up a pair of drumsticks and beat on some skins? This break is so damned common to drummers that you don't even need instruction to play it. It is instinctual (and I assume why it's so popular). I had a friend who could barely play the drums and I remember hearing him play this break, quite sloppily but very recognizably.

[jdjc79]

@bunnieslope: you're right that it's very common and this is what started it. The most sampled drum loop (and probably most sampled thing) ever. It feels natural to us drumers because we've heard it thousands of times in so many forms.

[techniquesse]

the arrangement yes, but the sound, and thats what makes it outstanding.. its the thing musicians will never understand, like engineers will never understand musicians, i know it i am both at the same time

[techniquesse]

but i would like to hear your amen... i know some drummers, and they all sound good, but its not 'the' amen - sound.. there are many theories out there from real good drummers, they all try to reproduce this sound.. knowing many types of cymbals and tricks to make them sound like this.. the trick of this recorded amen is the compression... !

[1koops]

what youv said is so right it never sounds as good as that recording can you explain compression for me?thanks koops

[techniquesse]

i made video for you where i compressed a drum loop. used accoustic samples but eq'ed them and in the second version, which seems to be louder - this is the compressed version. it is actually lower in volume the peak is 6 db below the first version... thats the RMS

watch?v=3tJWvj8YFUw

[cwartis]

Amen was written by JETER Hairston ?

for the movie Lilies of the Field in which Sidney Portier portrayed a handyman to German Catholic nuns. It was covered by

Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions in the mid 1960's.

[Athie95]

god bless thy amen break

[smenkins]

i was searching for jungle but i found this golden masterpiece

[saremihkel]

you fucker, you just heard the entire essence of jungle music. you fucker

[smenkins]

exactly

[tibas1994]

AMEN BREAK IS BEST

[WinkyMcGee]

Amen for the Amen Break!

[themightyimp08]

Amen to that!

1:43

[ionmeketawa]

straight up

[gomer1021]

1:43

[sponsi]

Hail the Amen beat. So much good music has come from that small 5 sec drum solo

[Legahsee1]

actualllllllly it was 6 seconds and it wasnt a solo it was a break..like a bridge in the song..

[neotri45]

@sponsi could you explain that to me. Im not sure i understand. What songs came from that solo?

[shirasong]

neotri - hundreds of thousands of songs spanning multipe genres (hip hop, drum n bass, jungle...) use the break at 1:43.

[scotttblisss]

it's the most sampled song ever.

[navaticus]

@neotri45 Not songs, genres. That drum break helped spawn, jungle, breakbeat, drum n bass, hip hop and a whole host of other. It was sampled loads. Sped up, slowed town, turned around, you name it.

[teamforteress]

60's dnb woot

[shithappens17]

legend

[EvanMcAwesom]

Six seconds that changed the world.

[pretor92]

music grows out of music dipshitstr.

[SSXtrikE]

Then where did the first music come from?

[Legahsee1]

rain

[SSXtrikE]

God is in the rain.

[pretor92]

also acid.

[kaownage]

1:41 to 1:51 is music LEGEND.

[jessiedoogy]

AMEN BREAK!

[adrifromhh]

whats the genre? Is that soul or ghospel?

[qpalqlap]

it's r n' b/ soul stuff which stems from gospel. and this song actually uses pieces from a gospel song.

It really says a lot about music that this song steals from gospel and then every artists since this one has stolen from them.

[raesantos921]

This song is nothing but unforgettable :)

[Cookies4Next10Miles]

Groovy

[rmediainc]

incredible. than you "the winstons" and gospel music for igniting entire cultures.

[illegalsmirf]

Don't forget to lubricate first.

[zfatalismz]

This song is so damn groovy, it can't help but make you smile. Major props for the awesome break

[WhopBobbaLuBop]

I hate to break the news to you but neither song you mentioned has anything like the 'Amen Break." B-Side or not, Coleman performed it and, you're correct, he should have been paid, as should have Richard Spencer who owns the copyright.

[barriobajaj]

Don't know why people are hating on your reply. It's the truth.

The drum break for the most part is also ripped off. Listen to the intro of Tommy Roe's hit Sweet Pea that came out 3 years earlier.

You try to school people and they get defensive.

mobius32 worked hard on his presentation but didn't do his homework and give true cred where it was due.

[skeetupinmygrill]

man the intro to sweet pea is only like 2 bars and the drumbeat isn't even the same, the only similarity is the ghost notes

[candygir7]

I never liked them rock and roll, it was the same drumming over and over again. I listened to a few new songs, then I said it is same as the previous songs and left it there. Check out Georgian drumming. Real cool, fast beat and over 1,000 years old original drumming. I suggest they sue like them corporations do for copyright infringement.

[candygir7]

The problem was not that this is an ugly song or beat. It is ok song and beat, but when all the songs use this beat, it becomes lame.

[LUNICERATE]

yep, nice

[zyblot]

epic!

[00wilko]

Gotta show the love!!Respect!!!

[geek183]

6 seconds of music sparking a whole subculture? 3 cheers for the winstons!

[isair81]

It's incredible really, a mere 6 seconds spawned a completely new musical genre, one that is still alive and thriving to this day (altho it may not be based so much on the Amen Brother break anymore)

[illegalsmirf]

Fucking amazing!!!

[gameboysex]

the birth of drum and bass, thank you The Winstons

[textingname]

I wish I could go back in time so I could get more samples out of this drummer. The snare drum mostly. Goes to show you what good engineering does when people now days with top-of-the-line digital DAWs use this sample that was recorded in the 60s. All this protools and autotune crap but they STILL don't make'em like they used to.

[zerfsun]

1:43 just awesome

[word2mutha]

lol powerpuff girls sampled this too

[geboy5]

haha D'n'B jungle breakcore...I luv this drums

[Joe402]

These are some dope beats.

[xelxjefex305x]

straight style breaking song

[bkome]

the classic killer tune

[dczthoma]

so true

[1jake312]

I've got the sax and drum sections stuck in my head ALL FREAKING DAY!

[motorcityska6TD]

Holy shit amazing. I've been glued to this vid all day.

[Chokladpudding36]

Can I buy it?

[tetsor]

@Chokladpudding36 nope ... not for sale at the moment

[AbbottSupreme]

Amen Brother...........

5/5*****

[NicaKrnKid]

amen!

[supermaaannnn1]

What that short loop has done is actually amazing. Also, how much money would they have made if they took legal action against samplers.

[owlwink]

millions,upon millions.

[getsetrecords]

they are... 1500 dollars PER INSTANCE of the sample... that is 1500 x 64 bars x 2 tunes per record x 50+ releases for certain labels.

Win.

[PuzzleDNB]

It has turned into something even bigger because they didnt take legal action :3

[dagilpe]

I dunno if you know that, but less than a certain amount of time is not considered as copying... if this wasnt that way... most works may fall in the copy stuff...

[EternalJunglist]

Let us all thank The Winstons for producing this track, Amen Brother, and for giving birth to what we now know as Drum n Bass

haha

wicked track

[Savateboy]

1000 times thanks!!!

[NathanHowardPortland]

This is the cut. A great song indeed. Moronboy aint got no taste. No offense brother, amen.

[boranboy]

What do you mean? This song is a classic, but I can't change the fact I don't like it. I'm sorry m8.

[zakyzeek]

1:44

[savioroftehuniverse]

1:42

[karoloandria]

for all ....................... amen brother

[trichenosis]

I know that break like the back of my hand...

[Dave1507]

yeah, we all do...;-)

[aphexmandelbrot]

1:43

Never forget.

[pyrokinetikrlz]

the break is so fresh!!!! so pure!!!! this makes me love drum and bass a little more!!!!

[FernyBass007]

imagine they play this version in church masses!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!!

[Mgaak]

mmm 40th anniversary of this Awesome break! A-men! yeah!

[HexicNexus]

Thats sick. I never heard the full song. Amazing. Amen

[AFrame88]

and its on a 45, thats even cooler.

[djdinnum]

amazing

[iyntx]

amen brothers aliluya!! :D

[jtfles]

thats fucking amazing.....the whole tunes groovy as fuck!!! i didnt realise that this is where half of my life came from till two days ago....amen brothers

[Dave1507]

yeah man, just found out about it, but it is truely amazing, how a whole music culture can be built on one 6 sec. sample!

[josue62]

Drum Break!

That's History right there lol

[odominguez]

DRUM & BASS SAMPLE! YEEEAH!

[iyntx]

This is an original sample of the Winstons. was released in 69 year.

this sample as a starting Drum'n'bass in 90's

[mejika18]

yes sir!.... AMEN!!!

[KlikOn]

AMEN BROTHER!!

sick tune

[loempiavreter]

Haha Hot Rod All Stars - Skinhead speaks his mind stole the horns melody (instead singing "Skinhead" on that melody)!

Awful Reggae tune

[clerlic]

I get goosebumps every time I hear that specific part

[nonglow]

amen

[AnarchyRules17]

The break is at 1:43 for all you people who have no patience at all

[urkomplex]

haha this is great, got some cool feeling when listening this :) massive tune! and thanks to the winstons for making the roots to dnb :)

[mikeb1444]

Alright, Time to hook up the sampler.