[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[Joe Scott]

Rhythmic speech goes way back. In practice whether say Tex Williams' "Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)" or Chuck Berry's "Jaguar And Thunderbird" is considered a "talking blues" or "rap" is pretty meaningless, because it's just all rhythmic speech, which went back before Chris Bouchillon's "Talking Blues" in 1926 anyway (and evaluating whether something's in the so-called "talking blues" tradition that Robert Lunn, John Greenway etc. kept alive has nothing to do with whether it's actual blues music).
Joseph Scott
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From: Bud Black
Sent: 02/05/14 08:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] My history of broadcasting course

How about George M. Cohan's recording of "Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All?" Bud Sent from my iPad On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:20 AM, David Sanderson <dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l