Not a DJ, but his paintings sell for $110.5 million now, so he's got that going for him.
Posted on 07/10/2021 1:17:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“The most recent fad to catch on with kids in our big cities and metropolitan areas is rapping,” the Blondie singer explained to the audience on the network variety show “Solid Gold,” in 1981.
After mentioning some of the genre’s rising stars from the Bronx — the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, the Funky 4 + 1 — Harry introduced her band’s latest rap-inspired video.
“Using our new single, ‘Rapture,’” Harry said, in a professorial tone, “Blondie and some of our friends put together a number to show you what rapping in the street scene is like.”
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Not a DJ, but his paintings sell for $110.5 million now, so he's got that going for him.
One of their worst songs, IMHO. The faux rapping is …not good.
Looks like Halloween at CBGB’s
got introduced to rap playing bball in high school. to use the title of the show, it was a different world i’d stepped into. two distinctively different cultures.
Great song! Brings me back to the opening months of the Reagan administration.
mo betta version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaICtIY3G4
Clem Burke made the band and few would have any success without him.
Is that a Virginia governor or Canadian prime minister on the left of the first pic?
Horrible. I think I liked it in my thirties
If you think about it, white people really had a hand in rap music. I always felt that Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club (which also came out in 1981 and was sampled by dozens of other hip-hop artists) and Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" should also be classified as rap.
In addition: “Hanging on the Telephone” the original version — by The Nerves. Blondie covered it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc
That kind of vocal delivery goes back a long way from ilbert & Sullivan to African music.
Tom Tom club were a great band.
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he’s got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you’re in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin’ cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subaru
And you don’t stop, you keep on eatin’ cars
Then, when there’s no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don’t move too slow, ‘cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he’s eatin’ bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He’s gonna eat ‘em all
Ahh yes, Donnie Iris of “Ah, Leah” fame.
It IS terrible. It sounds like she’s singing in a snowstorm of cocaine.
But she looked real nice.
I love everything Blondie.
I got introduced to rap by Meredith Wilson in the top musical “The Music Man”
The Top Hatted “Man from Mars” is a hoot. He’s got great, smooth moves.
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