[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[David Sanderson]

On 2/5/2014 12:42 PM, Joe Scott wrote:
> 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 -----

Exactly right. The Byron Harlan recording I referred people to is from 
about 1914, so such performances were showing up fairly early on 
records. But the "rhythmic speech" performance style shows up all over 
the place.

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David Sanderson
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