Yellow Bird (Haitian Folk Song)

[nardongmagpuputik]

cool



[weatherboi]

Great job, thanks for posting!!

[dgthrg]

AbsenceInfini, I am a music lover, that is why checked out this video. I am still willing to give something a second chance. It just brought back bad memories. I don't know if you are trying to be funny or if you are just trying to start an argument. If you are trying to make me feel bad you haven't. You just proved what kind of person you are.

[KingDon1956]

Check out my "Yellow Bird" from the UK ;-)

[BlahBlahMonk3y]

I remember my Mum use to sing this song to me when I was little. Makes me miss playing drums too. He plays it beautifully. :)

[dgthrg]

We were ib a 10 day cruise and the same band played one of these drums all day every day and same songs over and over nex to the pool. It will be the last cruise we will ever go on.

[AbsenceInfini]

@dgthrg So you come on to youtube and watch steel drum videos?

[vadik199]

кто здесь из зис ис хорошо палец вверх

[44bluenose]

its great stuff with glass of RUM

[disjoinedchip2]

it's a nice tune. and i love the sound of steel drums

[orosol]

By the way, interesting instrument.

[orosol]

I don't understand how narrowed minded people, may narrow a piece of music that is so beutiful, to political discussion, why just don't enjoy and relax, if there is heavenly music this piece is part of it. This is a real master piece. The first time I listen to it I understood it was part of Jamaican's folklore.

[DannyShaw3388]

Nice! I love it.

[0936121867]

很好聽 ! 很好聽 ! 很好聽 ! 很好聽 !

[mariosunshinefaan]

i believe i've heard this song before - it's awesome nontheless! love it! relaxing..

[123X2C]

@mariosunshinefaan see if kingstin trio yellow bird you may have heard, they brought many songs of the past and far away places to the western world :)

[PlayCrome]

great Tune

[Delta50Eagle]

Reminds me of Caribbean cruises :D :D :D

[MLwhitcomb]

Mario Sunshine????

[mariosunshinefaan]

@MLwhitcomb i almost start to cry - no one can ever understand what it meant for me :)

[oo0Dionysus0oo]

awsome. I love it

[sjokolade7]

Great sound right on key..

[LadyCleoB]

Marvellous - I'd never realized that steel drums could have such beautiful tonality.

[posansallen]

posans theme song!

[vp34]

dam that shit crazy..

[jeffrey2you2002]

FUCKING FANTASTIC

[bennydajin]

@jeffrey2you2002 you are a f ing idiot

[bennydajin]

@jeffrey2you2002 you are a f ing idiot now go wash your mouth out with lye soap.. tough guy./.

[EliteIxHitman]

'yellow bird up high in the bannana tree' best calypso song i have heard in a while

[xgi36]

Wonderful ! Thank you for the song.

[GumboRon]

Great performance... those pans do sound nice! I wanted to buy a cheap set just to try em out... found out there is no such thing as cheap steel drums... that sound decent that is.

[ricvausa]

I've watched this video so many times -- and love it more each time. Combination of the song, THE EXECUTION BY THESE GUYS, plus some personal history with the song. Thanks guys!!! WHERE ARE YOU? Would love to hear you live sometime ....

[7levelGI]

I love music, a all kinds (except rap) and I just learned the this song is Haitiian. Huh !

[thesir27]

sounds like classical music

[ghostface2006]

@thesir27

sorry i quoted the wrong person.

[Panstyx]

Sweet sweet sweet pan!

[chrissyboism]

beautiful sound - awesome!

[musikus48]

Sehr guter, stimmiger Sound der Steel Drum's. Komplimente und Grüße sendet

Bert

[Wildrover434]

Wonderful music so beautifully played, I really love the sound of steel drums!!!

10**********

[rorygirl]

Good job on the drums... ;)

[mamyjomarash]

my mom's group used to play an upbeat version of Yellow Bird, down on St. Maarten. my mother played accordion in a jump-up in 1971, and joined a group that played parties and barbecues, sometimes at the beach hotels.

[supperlow17]

LOVE IT! *tears*

[KiraYukari]

Steel drums always seemed so simple to me, yet this song is just awesome. It's like summer. I love it

[pedrimason]

I´d seat right there and enjoy it. What a sound....

[kendrum48]

hairepy thanks for this wonderful note on Yellow Bird. I always knew as Choukoun since I learned it while learning Haitian drumming back in the 70s so when I play it now I can have a greater appreciation for the song.

Thanks again.

[Elodea]

A real Trini pannist wouldn't be caught dead playing "Curry Chicken"!

[smoothoperator1986]

WOW! that is some great playing" awsome!

[debyok]

Wow ! "Calypso" drums have such a lovely sound.

Have always loved this song, I had it on an old casette tape years ago, too long ago to remember who actually sang it though.

Thanks so much for sharing this.

[ylan70]

Excellent!!!

[bobykool]

est-ce possible? j'ai entendu ben. une pleiade de son........ca vient de ces deux trucs?

putain c'est nickel.....amazing

[hairepy]

"Choucoune" (Haitian Creole: Choukoun) is a 19th century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauleart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. It was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as "Yellow Bird."

[runrunawaynow]

Very nice

[illusionist1956]

Great playing. Love this song.

[mrpga007]

Love it!!!!!

[Jazziana]

Ahh...we play this in my steel drum class all the time!! I love it! :)

[marani1970]

I just remembered this song today...and remembered when I was little my Mum would love to sing it for me..just brings back warm cosy feelings and how much I miss my Mum.

[magsergen]

Ho scoperto questa canzone negli ultimi anni '60 e l'unica cosa che ricordavo era il titolo. Oggi ho trovato questa meravigliosa e stupenda esecuzione che mi ha affascinato per la melodia del suono e l'abilità dell'esecutore. Complimenti, valeva la pena di cercare Yellow Bird.

[sonmalshan]

we got married in St Lucia and they played this for us, good memories !

[goodtogonow3]

sonmalshan , wonderful, I hope it brings you life long great memories

[ShirazSaloojee]

Excellent, you are very talented.

[paulhallart]

This is tympani like the piano. Put this in those hard rock bands and burn the drums and they'd have some real music at last.

Keep it up, hopeandsavannah and JENNIEE09, keep playing real music and you'll keep your own minds. The payola people won't be able to use pop to render you into lobotomized impulse buyers. Stand strong against the tide and be willing to be unpopular.

Bob is among those who will perhaps be able to take music beyond it's present limited horizons.

Hassle the stress

[Richiehurtsalot]

well said

[SailinSonOfABitch]

You are awesome!!! I love steal drums and want to play so bad

[Jazziana]

My high school has a steel drum class. I love it so much. :P

[muppets3377]

@Jazziana Gad zukes you are SO LUCKY!!! The day our high school has a class like that will be the day giant speckled pigs fly down and replace the school buses for transportation, hahahahhah. It's actually not funny though, heh heh =(

[goreabortion]

@muppets3377 Don't worry, pigs are starting to fly... I mean come on, police choppers :D

[Pablosiento]

Any of you rookies ever heard of

THE MILLS BROTHERS?

Check out their version of this GREAT song. You might also like it as done by

MARTIN DENNY...I know...Oldies, like me.

[jfkwatch09]

Keith Stewart's version is a classic.

[alanlui]

this is one of my favorite songs!

[hopeandsavannah]

I am in middle school and i am learning this song

[jl605]

me too

[Fujimoto420]

I agree with Cindi. Just enjoy the song and live in the moment. If you have to focus on all the political garbage you're just living a stressful life.

[akapody]

Thanks for posting. I love this music.

[Cindi3847]

I can't believe we have all the political comments about this beautiful music. I just enjoy it. Like a lot of music, I don't consider the political source.

Just enjoy.

[morissetruh]

@Cindi3847

Iam haitian born in Canada, I AM VERY PROUD THAT THIS SONG IS ORIGINALLY FROM hAITI, THE AUTHOR OF THIS SONG IS Oswald Durand

[morissetruh]

@Cindi3847

Iam haitian born in Canada, I AM VERY PROUD THAT THIS SONG IS ORIGINALLY FROM hAITI, THE AUTHOR OF THIS SONG IS Oswald Durand. n creol , translation `` ti zwazo`` Choucoune ``described a beautiful black haitian women

[JENNIEE09]

I played this song in middle school too (:

[MYsteelinvader]

DS's, DT's, it doesn't matter, it sounds great dude. All I can realy say is ire man.

[heyshins]

Everyone loves "Yellow Bird" not knowing the origins of this popular song made famous by Harry Belafonte after being translated. The original song is called "Choucoune" by Oswald Durand in 1883 in HAITI, Yes Haiti.This song is so old there way before the calypso craze of the 50's. Give us credit, jus as you have never done for us being the 1st New World settlement by Columbus who still has a fortress there, the 2nd republic in the Hemisphere after the only successful slave rebellion in history,

[sangraal728]

You should be thankful that Harry Belafonte liked the song enough to rearrange it and preserve your culture.  I'm sure he knows where the song comes from.

Stop complaining on youtube and talk to HIM if you care so much.

[alphaphi09]

@sangraal728 how was he preserving the Haitians culture?

[heyshins]

That revoultion which resulted in the Louisiana Purchase doubling the U.S.,Supplying arms and even men to aid in Bolivar's Revolutions in SouthAmerica, and even the battle against the British in American Independence 1779 "Seige of Savannah" in Georgia, or having the largest fortress ever built in this Hemisphere "La Citadelle LaFerriere" Give us credit for the song at least DAMN!!

[smitaay]

Okay, on behalf of the Western Hemisphere, I give you credit for this song. Do you feel better, now? Please? Because you seem awfully distraught over this, and a distraught Haitian is something I do NOT need on my conscience.

[paulhallart]

If you have a conscience at all, wise guy, it's verbose.

[ymhr1948]

I love Steel Drum Music(Calypso) very much

caribbean musics are very nice from tokyo japan

[lowflams]

THose pans sound nice. What kind are they? Who made them?

[jetski325]

WOW!! I play too but I'm not half as good! AWESOME!!