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Very early rap music

Comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, a stage and television comedian, associated with the NBC-TV series "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", recorded an aggressive comedy/novelty record in 1968, based on a line used in "Laugh-In", called "Here Comes The Judge".
Listen to it. It's Rap or, more precisely, Rap before there was Rap. I don't know if there was a name, at the time, for what he did besides a "novelty". The record became a Top 20 Billboard "Hot 100" hit.
 
Sheet music for "The Preacher and The Bear" came out in 1904. Arthur Collins recorded hit versions of it in 1905 on both cylinder and disc records. Arthur Collins recorded the song as late as 1919. In these early versions, there is a word used that would be changed in later versions by Jerry Reed and Ray Stevens. I listened to all of them and I don't hear any Rap or even Rap-orientation in any of them.
 
CTListener said:
"Talking blues" was proto-rap. It dates back to the 1920s. Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan also recorded in the genre.
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I've always said if you take Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and recite it, with emphasis on the five, you have rap:

"Johnny's in the basement
mixin up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
thinkin' bout the government"
 
michael hagerty said:
I've always said if you take Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and recite it, with emphasis on the five, you have rap:

"Johnny's in the basement
mixin up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
thinkin' bout the government"
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By that same logic, so is INXS' "Mediate" (which most recognize as the "extended" version of "Need You Tonight").
 
johnbasalla said:
Comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, a stage and television comedian, associated with the NBC-TV series "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", recorded an aggressive comedy/novelty record in 1968, based on a line used in "Laugh-In", called "Here Comes The Judge".
Listen to it. It's Rap or, more precisely, Rap before there was Rap. I don't know if there was a name, at the time, for what he did besides a "novelty". The record became a Top 20 Billboard "Hot 100" hit.
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Two or three years before "Laugh-In" there was "Trouble Coming Everyday" by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. The first rapper; Frank Zappa. Zappa da rappa
 
K.M. Richards said:
And was somewhat off-key doing both.
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I had never heard Dylan live until the Desert Trip concert here. He did not do most of his actual hit songs, and spent a lot of time with ones I (and all the people near me) had never heard nor wanted to hear ever again.

But I went to hear the Stones and McCartney and The Who. So looking for beer and tater tots in the interim was a good use of time. Oh, and the incredible staging of "Another Brick in the Wall" was worth hearing Roger Waters go on his political rants with the big inflatable... but I digress.

"Somewhat" is a kind way of saying it.
 
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