[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[David Lennick]

FACADE qualifies more as an early form of rap, and it was indeed declaimed 
through megaphones at its premiere performance (while jazzy music blared).

dl

On 2/5/2014 10:50 AM, Bud Black wrote:
> How about George M. Cohan's recording of "Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All?"
>
> Bud
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:20 AM, David Sanderson<dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com>  wrote:
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>> On 2/4/2014 5:32 PM, Eòin f wrote:
>>> Some consider other entertainments to be early form of rap, and a megaphone protruding through a screen comes close to the effect of sitting in a room listening radio. Parts of it are nearly as undecipherable as today's rap.
>>> https://app.box.com/s/hyx1lvm267w097wre31m
>>> It might do them good to have a listen "for what they hear they repeat."
>>>
>>>   Jim
>>
>>
>> My candidate for early rap-like recordings is Byron G. Harlan, "Wal, I
>> Swan," available here:
>> http://www.dwsanderson.com/music/Wal%20I%20Swan.mp3
>> This has the spoken/sung vocal lead and the aggressive manner that turns
>> up in rap much later
>>
>> --
>> David Sanderson
>> East Waterford Maine
>> dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
>> http://www.dwsanderson.com
>>