Caravan of Love
| Caravan of Love | |
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| Isley Jasper Isley | |
| publication | 1985 |
| length | 4:15 (7 "single) 5:43 (12" single) |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Ernest Isley , Marvin Isley , Chris Jasper |
| Producer (s) | Ernest Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper |
| Label | Epic Records |
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| 1986 | The Housemartins |
| 2006 | Nena feat. Duncan Townsend |
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Caravan of Love is a song by the group Isley Jasper Isley from 1985. The members Ernie and Marvin Isley and their cousin Chris Jasper belonged to The Isley Brothers from 1973 to 1984 .
history
Chris Jasper wrote and produced the song, but also sang the lead vocals and played the piano . The background vocals were done by Ernie and Marvin Isley, who also played bass and guitar .
When released in 1985, Caravan of Love became the trio's biggest hit, peaking at # 1 on the American R&B charts and staying at the top for three weeks. After their single Kiss and Tell , which hit the Billboard charts in February 1985 , Caravan of Love reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The group could not achieve further chart successes in the Hot 100.
content
The song has a strong appeal and takes up Christian motifs. After asking a “you” four times whether he is ready for the most important point in his life, the appeal is made to get up and fight.
The appellative "stand up" is repeated three times during the song, a sign of the imminent departure, which is reflected in the final verse with the four times repeating the initial question "Are you ready" and the four-time request "You better get ready" is underlined. In the following it becomes clear who is addressed with the “you”: all men and all women - all. The reason given for the required joint action is that all are brothers and sisters and children of the world. The joint exodus of the “caravan of love” from a bad world to the actual motherland, the better place for a life in freedom and peace, takes up Old Testament references to the exodus of the children of Israel.
Cover versions
The Housemartins
The British indie - band The Housemartins released Caravan of Love in November 1986. The a cappella song can quickly became successful. After the single was ranked 34th in the British charts for the first time on December 6, 1986 , it reached number 1 on December 16, 1986. It was at the top for two weeks and was in the charts for the last time on February 7, 1987 so it stayed in the top 50 for only nine weeks. It was the second a cappella number one hit after Only You by the Flying Pickets in 1983. Jackie Wilson's Reet Petite took over from the top .
The song was not found on a regular Housemartins album, but appeared for the first time on an album on their Greatest Hits compilation Now That's What I Call Quite Good .
Further
- 1987: Echo-Echo (German version caravan in the night )
- 1990: Norbert & die Feiglinge (German parody Bum Bum Boris on Boris Becker )
- 2000: Marvin Sapp with Bob Carlisle and Kirk Whalum
- 2002: Terry Callier
- 2006: Nena feat. Duncan Townsend
swell
- ↑ Isley- Jasper-Isley version , The-Housemartins version , Nena version
- ^ Laufenberg, Frank / Hake, Ingrid: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 1: ABBA - Kay Kyser . Düsseldorf / Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, p. 742
- ^ Columbia Assoc. Catalog number 05611; B-side: I Can't Get Over Losing You
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top R & B / Hip-Hop Singles 1942-2004 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd. 2004, p. 279
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- ↑ "It's time to stand up and fight."
- ↑ "Every woman every man [...] everybody take a stand join the caravan of love"
- ↑ "caravan to the motherland", "better place for us to be", "a world of peace", "everyone is free"
- ↑ Rees, Dafydd / Lazell, Barry / Osborne, Roger: 40 Years of NME Charts . London: Boxtree Ltd., 1992, pp. 458-460