Listening List for June 09, 2026

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

NON-AFRICAN AMERICAN

Other uses of the word 'rap' in relation to speaking

Hippy style 'rap session' (not really, but as close as I could find, starts 3:50)
(from Mad Men, season 7, episode 14, 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxLruTzHug

The Rapper
The Jaggers (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcbKgEK_uM

Patter songs: the Music Man (1957, 1962 film)

Rock Island:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF1klsLM0o

Ya got trouble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ySBtVLCYA

Pick a little: (from 1:40-1:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ySBtVLCYA


AFRICAN AMERICAN

Spoken cultural 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

Double Dutch (early 1980s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRdwTxMeTL8

Black Preachers

Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha)
And he went a little farther (1960s) (start around 18:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN3ilK_4_40

Rev. W.B. Smith
Watch them dogs (1986) (start around 31:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRP3HoWR3U

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"(spoken sections between or during songs)

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 (DJ)
King Stitt (1960s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_sJbr1Mhc

Dread beat an' blood (dub)
Linton Kwesi Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwDnb_u1-kg

Jazz poetry

The revolution will not be televized
Gil Scott Heron (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

Ego Tripping
Nikki Giovanni (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPOBu8qp6M

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

Enter Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia
Pillow Talk (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWWzerVfqE

Shirley and Company
Shame Shame Shame (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJnK8nvlk4

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