Posted on 09/21/2018 12:22:11 PM PDT by Bikkuri
I once mentioned to friends, that Johnny Cash was the original country rapper - they lost their minds!
But if you really listen, he doesn’t sing most of his recordings, rather, he is just “talking at you” over a Country vibe.
White Lines ~ my nomination for the first true rap song.
Dig it, yo!
I still crack up though when he does that, “Yooooo.....got what I neeeeed......”
A little further down that playlist, Chaka Khan. I had a thing for her when I was in high school.
CC
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Zoooommm
Tooling down the highway doing seventy-nine
I’m a twin pipe papa and I’m feelin fine
Hey man dig that was that a red stop sign
Transfusion transfusion
I’m just a solid mess of contusions
Never never never gonna speed again
Slip the blood to me Bud
I jump in my rod about a quarter to nine
I gotta make a date with that chick of mine
I cross the center line man you gotta make time
Transfusion transfusion
Oh man I got the cotton pickin convolutions
Never never never gonna speed again
Shoot the juice to me Bruce
My foot’s on the throttle and it’s made of lead
But I’m a fast ridding daddy with a real cool head
I’ma gonna pass a truck on the hill ahead
Transfusion transfusion
My red corpsickles are in mass confusion
Never never never gonna speed again
Pass the crimson to me Jimson
I took a little drink and I’m feelin right
I can fly right over everything everything in sight
There’s a slow poking cat I’m gonna pass him on the right
Transfusion transfusion
I’m a real gone paleface and that’s no illusion
I’ma never never never gonna speed again
Pass the claret to me Barrett
A rollin down the mountain on a rainy day
Oh when you see me coming better start to pray
I’ma cuttin up the road and I’m the boss all the way
Transfusion transfusion
Oh doc pardon me for this crazy intrusion
I’m never never never gonna speed again
Pump the fluid in me Louie
I’m burning up the highway early this morn
I’m passing everybody oh nothing but corn
Man outta my way I don’t drive with my horn
Transfusion transfusion
Oh nurse I’m gonna make a new resolution
I’m never never never gonna speed again
Put a gallon in me Alan
Oh barnyard drivers are found in two classes
Line crowding hogs and speeding jackasses
So remember to slow down today
Hey daddy-o
Make that type O huh
Atta-boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojuPQXMm44
Instant crush.. her and Pat Benitar..
I still like this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmg5GaAHbk
I LOVE 50s (people for the past couple of decades have called ‘rock, ‘rock and Roll’.. but I always try to explain that “Rock and Roll” ended about the early to mid 60s :p
I love listening to my father’s ampex/revox/8 tracks of 50s music.
Jeff Hi Stomp (1946)
Probably inspired by Jefferson High School on 41st Street in Los Angeles
Jimmy's Around the Clock Blues (1945)
Recorded by several acts in 1945, this tune morphed into Chuck Berry's Reelin' and a-Rockin' (1958) and Teddy Randazzo's Mother Goose Twist (1962).
Didn’t he and Hank Williams Sr. share some of the music type interests? (I love Sr. but dislike Jr’s music)....
I just clicked on the videos and realized how old I am ( >.< )
... Damn, even the vids are out of date :p
SPANK you very much for updating me ;^)
ty, watching now..
I'm a baby boomer. Those are just names to me.
When rap/hip hop was young and innocent I listened to it for fun, but never considered it as real music. No way would I have ever spent any coin on those records.
When the gangsta rap became the thing, I tuned out hard.
Round the Clock Blues came through... but ‘Hi Jeff Stomp’ said, “Video Unavailable” :/
5am here though.. Round the Clock is putting me to sleep ;)
I know Funky Cold Medina well.. I was in Uni then... and the most popular bar (that always played it) was right next to the Uni...
Speaking rhymes actually started in the 50s with Beatniks reciting poetry to bongo drums.
It deteriorated to RAP-CRAP after that.
Didn’t really come into it’s own until the early 80’s in my opinion.
Zapp - “I Can Make You Dance”
I agree.. when I first heard ‘rap’, I thought it was great freestyle poetry with a good beat...
As soon as the ‘gansta’ came out, it was down the garbage disposal for me.
(actually not totally true.. I was still kinda young, and Luke Skywalker/2 Live Crew won a court case in Florida about their music (1st Amendment case).. and, so, the beginning of the RAP mutation began. At the time, I loved their rowdiness and balls to step up against the system... but I did not foresee what a mess it would make of the whole society :/ (SO was born Gansta-Rap)...)
Buddy Holley was actually pretty good at it too ;^)
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