Listening list for May 12, 2017

Here's the listening list for this week. There won't be lyrics because..... too much work.... :(

Spoken traditions

The Dozens

(from In Living Color)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5pbHxvChU

Signifying Monkey

(from Dolemite!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voxp3ckwJZ0

Funk

I feel good

James Brown (1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTRwnjFygU

Earth Wind and Fire

Shining star (1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwc0AW67CmA

Early raps

Isaac's rap 2

Isaac Hayes (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVbrPoLc3w

Woman's viewpoint

Irma Thomas (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_TYYhrWIxY

The Rap (interlude in If lovin' you is wrong (I don't wanna be right))

Millie Jackson (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-UAsJ61Zs

Jamaica

Fire Corner

King Stitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_sJbr1Mhc

Dread beat an' blood

Linton Kwesi Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwDnb_u1-kg

Proto-rap

Here come the judge

Pigmeat Markham (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRS62nccwmw

Turn the beat around

Vicki Sue Robinson (1976) (short rap like section around 1.40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSzZsQV5fc

First rap records

King Tim III (Personality jock)

Fatback band (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojQqAnlrW_M

Rapper's delight

Sugarhill gang (1978) (esp from 9.30 to 10.30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAnojTvyc0g