My dad is the one on the far right. He said they weren't allowed to do all of their songs that night because some were deemed "unsuitable for white audiences". I remember the whole quartet came over one Thanksgiving and sang several songs on the porch. The entire neighborhood ended up coming out to listen. It was a magical evening that I'll never forget.

That's my Dad the second from the left. They couldn't express more emotion because in that day they were under strict direction on what a black group could and could not do. Love the song though!

This was my godfather's, father's band. carl jones, sr. he's second on the left. he passed away today, sept 21, 2010. he was a great, lovely man. r.i.p., carl.

I had heard many different versions of Dry Bones, but IMHO, these guys are the ONLY ones who can really carry it off!

I saw this when I was in my 20's, in the early 70's, and I got so emotional because I remember when my Dad dressed and wore his hair just like this, back in the day - especially when I saw their trouser cuffs!!

No matter the actual situation, God Almighty provides nourishment to our dried up bones. Glory!

It's in the 1988 film - "rain man" 👍

I LOVE the way their voices go up & down the scales while singing the different names of the bones, yet they STAY in harmony the whole time. That is AWESOME; it comes from years of practice!! Great group doing a great song! Only thing that I would have liked more, would be if they showed a bit more emotion while singing it, although I understand that they wouldn't want to scare people away.

The lyrics are just pure genius

Ready for something unsettling. I can’t tell you how old I was. Guessing before 5 years old or so. I had a dream about these guys singing to me in blue suits this exact song. I am 25 for context. Just this night the memory of the dream popped into my head. Song and all. After finding the true name of the song and seeing this band on google it sent shivers down my spine. I don’t know how that dream came to be or how I knew this band as a child in a dream like that but here I am. It’s actually one of the first dreams I can ever remember. But as much as it creeps me out this is an amazing group and honestly I’m happy to discover them. New music like this excites me and I guess my younger self unknowingly had good taste.

I was at six grade camp and our cabin sang this song for the rest of the cabins. It was so comforting that we could praise God in school back in the 60's.

A pitch perfect performance made to look effortless.I can't imagine the work that would go into trying to reproduce this arrangement

Thank you. A classic from my childhood. I used it back in the 1980s when directing my children's church choir and Halloween fell on Sunday. Ezekiel saw them dry bones :)

THIS is the kind of stuff I grew up with. People don't have a clue what they're missing.

These men did a fine job singing this song, especially each of the 4 staying precisely on tune with each half-step up and down the scale. My dad sang in a quartet and I remember him singing bass in this song when I was a kid.

Yeah, this is a classic, and I really dig that classic harmony. But, the thing that caught my ear how the tone of the song (or whatever they call it) takes the elevator to the top floor, then goes back down to the first. Love that:)

I remember the young men in South Carolina, singing this song in the echo's of the school breeze way. Their harmonies were so delightful! Ascending and descending! Those were the best of times!👏✨😊🎶 "Now Hear the Word of the Lord" 😁👌💗🕊

I haven't heard this since I was a kid some 60 yrs back

I used to sing this in Sunday school!!! Love this song! 💕💕💕

The decade when TALENT is very important in order to be super famous.

These guys have a lot of talent. I love this group already.

Bucky Love you've been blessed by God to have a father that I sing as a child. Today I got to see those that are famous stars of a biblical story. May God bless you all the days of your life and may we someday united with your father in heaven, brother! 😇🙏❤ January 20, 2022 SoCal. USA /🇺🇸

Yeah, I was 18 when I discovered this song with Rain Man too. So much fun to sing. Classic accapella!!! Love it!

Class, polish, grace and cool. My mom used to sing this to us kids and we loved it. We could visualize our bones as she danced us all over the kitchen while she sang. It was wonderful.

The performance is astonishingly perfect in every way. IF they had jumped and jived about that would have distracted from the message. Instead they remain restrained and just indicate how perfectly different each one of them is in appearance and personality, without histrionics. The tell a whole world about the holy sanctity of each human life.

Isn't this something... Well, dear family of this quartet, my "non- black" father loved this rendition and sang it to me, his " non- black" ( white) child so many times I still hear it in my head now in old(er) age. I was thrilled to find this on KZfaq because I also have a memory of hearing it by these gentlemen, though not sure if on TV or an old movie. I am grateful for the talent that was " allowed" to be aired. Thank you for posting !

Wonderful sound. A classic. Just shared this with a young med student. She loved it! God bless these gentlemen and their families. :-)

I remember this song in my parents generation. But I heard it again on MSNBC Rachel Maddox show. Thanks Rachel for bringing me back to these good old days memories. 😊

Love the song & their voices.

Imagine all the teachers in medical schools who got sick and tired of their students singing this whenever they brought a skeleton into the classroom.

this is great old music...

3/17/2021.Still listening and i love it. Ezekiel cried dem dry bones Ezekiel cried dem dry bones Ezekiel cried dem dry bones Now I hear the word of the Lord Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Ezekiel connected dem dry bones Now I hear the word of the Lord Well, your toe bone connected to your foot bone Your foot bone connected to your heel bone Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone Your leg bone connected to your knee bone Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone Your hip bone connected to your back bone Your back bone connected to your shoulder bone Your shoulder bone connected to your neck bone Your neck bone connected to your head bone I hear the word of the Lord! A dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around A dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around A dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around I hear the word of the Lord! Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones Disconnect dem bones, dem dry bones I hear the word of the Lord Well, your head bone connected from your neck bone Your neck bone connected from your shoulder bone Your shoulder bone connected from your back bone Your back bone connected from your hip bone Your hip bone connected from your thigh bone Your thigh bone connected from your knee bone Your knee bone connected from your leg bone Your leg bone connected from your ankle bone Your ankle bone connected from your heel bone Your heel bone connected from your foot bone Your foot bone connected from your toe bone I hear the word of the Lord, oh well A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones I hear the word of the Lord, mmh A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones A dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Now I hear the word of the Lord

and yet when i wrote this on a biology exam last week i failed...

My mother who was finish and married to a US sea Captain. We had LEE to dinner when he was in Sweden. When I was younger and in Nice France, LEE invited me and my friends to a show. My mother who died 20 year ago always was Happy when she listened to him sing. As his doughter I wanted to give this liking from the past.

Beautiful song.👏👏👏 That's what I'm reading about this morning. The dry bones. God bless you🙏

I remember learning this version way back and it was so fun to sing along with!

Мы пели в музучилише 30 лет назад. Спасибо нашему хормейстеру,что рассказала содержание. Это читают в Великую Субботу в церкви.

Oh my! This brings great joy. I remember a group of men singing this song at my church in Dallas OR.

2022 needs more songs about bones!

i'm an ex italian DJ fan of group like Temptations,O'Jays,Chi Lites,Harold Melvin &the blue notes etc, you can't imagine how happy you make me feel !! Thank you a lot for discovering this great singers!! :))

All my life, I thought these were two separate songs, because I never heard this number performed all the awy through. I'm glad I looked it up!

All the local US TV stations should close their daily broadcasts at night with this video.

I literally never knew until this year this song is based on the story of Ezekiel in the bible.

This makes me incredibly happy and kind of hopeless feeling at the same time. I’m not sure why.

Omg. For some reason this leapt back into my memory tonight :) I’m old.

Thanks to this song and the inspired singing, the ?toe bone connected to the head bone" has lived with me, on and on. So grateful!

I love this song and they did it so great!

This inspires me to start singing again. They are amazing men‼️

I love the harmony

Iv'e loved this since I was a littl'un ! Great stuff, can't beat that deep base! Thank you! X

Took me about 10 minutes to find this song! It was ringing in my head one day, probably in a Netflix movie. Yeah, this is the one...I love it!

I herd this song in The Prisoner (greatest t.v. seris ever) and i absolutely love it.

Real Music.

"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone..." -Song of the Artificer

I highly believe, that these guys was what was meant when people said "that's cool."

This is great; I need to memorize this! XD The guy with the deep voice at the end is the best!

oldies but goldies;)..and I am 13...

modulation n harmony are amazing this is cool!

First time I heard this song was in the movie "Rain Man" I've liked it every since. *Nice song* 💚🟡💙🌺🤗👍🏽

I love these guys wonderful singing x

I came here after watching the " rain man" movie. Excellent vocals !!!

middle schoolers when they need to give a class presentation

The Cathedrals Quartet performs this perfectly and this version has very good harmony and does good too

It's also all over the trailer for the film. Love it.

My late, lovely Dad used to sing this. Top man, top tune!

All these years I had no idea where this song came from! I love it 🦴

Wu-Tang:American Saga brought me here. I LOVE this rendition!! 💖

Remember singing this in Sunday school.❤

This is one of my favorite songs.

This song used to scare me when i was a kid. Specially when they went deep... Scary!

Was reading Ezekiel and somehow remembered a song about it. Was only the fact it was "dry bones" that made me search the song!

Oh, Thanks very much, been looking for this song for many years, Cheers from Australia...😂

Dang, these guys sound great and look sharp. Nice stuff! Never seen this group before; what a great find : D

Whos watching in 2019?;)

I don't think I blinked once watching this. Wtf! Truly classic.

I love this song!

Who still listen to this 2021? I do! :)

Really super fine musicians fantastic!

私が初めて此の曲を聞いたのは敗戦後日本がやっと落ち着いた今から７０年以上前の事です。此の曲の表現力に驚き以後JAZZを楽しむ様になり人生を豊かに過ごすことができました。記念の曲です

So talented🎶🎶👑👑👑👑

Hypnotic,modern ,funny...great singers!!..i can't stop singing it:)

One of my 3 favorite groups to come out of Oklahoma, the other two being the Flaming Lips and Caroline's Spine. I'm danged pround to be an Oklahoman. The place is a good bit more diverse than many out-of-state folks think.

Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

These guys sang awesomely!!

wow this is the first time hearing this in what must be 13 years, love this song

Sensacional.... vamos cantar este desafio no Ibirapuera em maio... wow

this is amazing! i love when these sites create such connections!

I remember listening to this song when i was about 8. I'm 75 now and i still enjoy it. I think when i heard it first that the pitch was a lot lower especially when they went down to the toe bone. Ha. Good song!

I love this song ❤️❤️

I remember this from my childhood ❤️

Perfect harmonies

ooh dem bones.. Thank you !!

I first heard this about 70 years ago and I think it was sung by a group called Mrs Smith's five little boys.

These honorable men don't let THEIR drawers show. A time of public decency and self respect when I was young in better days.

Heavenly!

OMG we had to sing this so many times in 4th and 5th grade music class/Chorus

Thank u so much. I remember this song from childhood.

Heard it at pll xD

Who is watching in 2019?

This really helps me because I have a music program soon this is one of my songs