WYNONIE HARRIS ~ HEY-BA-BA-RE-BOP ~ 1946

[MrKongssund]

Mafia 2 anyone?

[KYIRISH1]

I remember listening to this tune on the radio in the 40's. I was a kid but I still remember the 'hey ba ba re bop' part and from time to time, like when I make a long putt, it comes out. When one gets old you remember stuff like this but sometimes forget where in the hell you just parked your car.

[SuperPais]

What I mean, is that reading these messages, it seems that (be blacks, whtes, whatever), the world began with america. Geez.

No european of none country, is obseceed with who invented the scales, some instruments, the notation, etc. I know, cause i learned music, including notation.

((sorry for english mistakes ok? )

Stay tuned

[SuperPais]

@ChristopherDone - and before USA exist, much earlier, in the middle ages they invented notation, and ancient greeks, invented the scales.

Wow, thats something.

/drop the stupid notion, that middle ages was the dark age.

[GrlExcitement]

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail of water.Jill came down with a five dollar bill,What?!...no water?!" haha. Awesome!

[rentatrip1]

it more properly pronounced ...HEY BOB A ---RE BOB

[GrigoriZhukov]

@rentatrip1 lol that cadence has sho' done been aroun' long ass time. With many variation in the verses...but jill still makes that fi' dollah short/long.

[salsburysteakjr]

Did they colorize & give him BLUE eyes in that first picture??

[d820m]

@salsburysteakjr from all pics i've seen of him, his eyes were green

[salsburysteakjr]

@d820m Ahh, my mistake. They seem so neon-intense! Imagine it helped him woo chicks.

[d820m]

@salsburysteakjr from the stories i've read about him, it certainly did....the album i have of him called "Oh Babe!" has his story from Tan Magazine called "Women Won't Leave Me Alone"

[1johnlangford2]

This song is in the same vein as Ray Charles early stuff "Kiss A Me Baby".

Great stuff.

john

[fretts]

@mih868 No, I hear hillbilly high lonesome harmonies in the Country & Western music I am thinking of, and that is derived from the Irish & Scottish people who inhabited those mountain areas. Maybe you are thinking of a specific type of Country & Western different from what I am.

[MrChillin65]

down and dirty Rhythmin' blues !!

[TheFalconracer]

The intervator and the man behind Carolina Beach music as we know it today. Thanks for the post

[MrSteamhammer100]

soooo coooool ,  Mr. Harris teached us what is Rock and Roll ! Great !

[Jrobinson2009]

If it wasn't for the African Nation then their wouldn't be Rock & Roll music. If there was no Rock and Roll music then there wouldn't be Heavy Metal, Punk Rock, Grunge, and any other rock based music. real talk

[0LolaLola]

@Jrobinson2009 Rock n Roll is from blues, appalchian, bluegrass....

Which is both, black and white

[Jrobinson2009]

not exactly

You are right Rock & Roll is influenced from blues which is African based soul styled music. However Bluegrass and Appalachian music are influenced by African based music. I'm saying this because it is the truth, just about all music today is influenced by black people in some way. Do your research.

[0LolaLola]

@Jrobinson2009 No, the music existed side by side....

Both influenced what was to become rock n roll

[Jrobinson2009]

I don't know what you mean "by side by side" but you can believe whatever you want, if you look hard enough through music's history your see that I'm right.

[0LolaLola]

@Jrobinson2009 No, you're just totally biased and have an agenda

Music isn't as limited as your type of person's brain (no matter what colour) likes to think

Good Day!

[fretts]

Appalachian music is mostly Irish and Scottish traditional music. That gave birth to American Country & Western music. You put the Blues together with the C&W and there's your Rock N Roll stew.

[oramikleepunk]

@fretts I don't think so!Stop trying to white-wash history.

[fretts]

@oramikleepunk OK, post your version of the history of Rock N Roll. I told mine.

[oramikleepunk]

@fretts Cats created rock n roll.Stop your hate of the moon men!

[fretts]

@oramikleepunk I think you are burying yourself pretty well here, without my help.

[mih868]

@fretts sorry to tell ya this kiddo, country and western was not born in the appalachians but it was bred there . the music you call country and western is actually african banjo music played by west african slaves, it is a brother of the blues. blues progressions we use today are the work songs of the slaves, country was their storytelling music used by the griots. many of the poor white immigrants of europe worked side by side with slaves of the south eastern U.S. and carried the music west.

[hep2jive]

@Jrobinson2009 Yeah thank god for all the people who put a little swing with some boogie and created a feeling that made you wanna rock n roll!!!

[Hujinu619]

@Jrobinson2009 and we also wouldnt have jazz which mean it wouldnt lead up to hiphop

[Jrobinson2009]

@Hujinu619 hell yea that's right

[TreeLeg]

@Jrobinson2009

And if it wasn't for Brian Jones there woulda been no Jonestown Massacre nor even a McKinley Morganfield. Think about it

[Jrobinson2009]

@TreeLeg So your saying Brain Jones who wasn't even born when Muddy Waters was in music and doing shows is what made him??? By the time the rolling stones started Muddy Waters already proved he was a legend. And what does Jim Jones have to do with anything? Black people are the mother and father to music, now think about that.

[TreeLeg]

@Jrobinson2009

I was just joshing. All this jive in here about who did what and when got on my nerves.

Besides , the frigging Rolling Stones copped their name from a Muddy Waters' ditty and there is/was a group called the "Brian Jonestown Massacre". Not exactly a blues band but nevertheless worth mention in the context of this fairly crazy "discussion".

[wighatsuperreggie]

@Jrobinson2009

True dat. But if there angry teen-aged red-neck crackers listening to that african nation on the radio, there wouldn't be no Rock n Roll either. Without Hawaiians, there wouldn't be steel guitar. If there weren't German immigrants, there'd be no accordians in Mexico. If there weren't french in New Orleans, there'd be no Jazz. Where does it start? Where does it end? Real real talk.

[doowopman49]

@Jrobinson2009 don't forget that there wouldn,t be YOU either !!! doowopman49

[ChristopherDone]

@Jrobinson2009 Word. People resist statements like that, like Africans invented all music ever. That's not what it means, it means we're giving credit where credit's due. Gospel, blues, rock and roll, jazz, started it all, others picked up and continued. From the side came country music. Then born of these step brothers, Little Richard, Elvis, and co pioneered rock and roll, psychedelic, punk, metal, heavy metal, electronic elsewhere, a non-hierarchical web taking and giving, beautiful.

[shuckslbj]

WHAT??

NO WATTAH??!!

[1691bhm]

WOW! Earliest Rock & Roll i think i've ever heard! Real COOL posting, thanks :-)

[checkunderyourbed]

Sounds like Jill got the job done. Five bucks was a lot of money back in '46...lol

[hep2jive]

greatest era ever.

[dunskie]

Five bucks was alot back then too. Naughty Jill.

[7beers]

Jill came down with a five dollar bill???? WTF????

[JosephNScott]

"Jill came down with a five dollar bill???? WTF????" She earned it, somehow.

[boobay2]

race music

[hellcatchrissy]

I don´t give a damn about that. to me harris´s version is the better one :)

I only care about the music, not about the stuff around...

[whitefalcon64]

Not sure, ettaj2, but I believe it was Lionel Hampton the very first.

[JosephNScott]

"I believe it was Lionel Hampton the very first" It was either Harris or Hampton. The exact recording date for Harris's is unknown (and estimated dates by researchers conflict), but they were recorded in the same city, and Hampton was known as a shark businesswise, so it's possible he "borrowed" the song from Harris, or possible he really did it first.

[NickeB68]

The song is written by Hampton & Curley Hamner, and Hampton had a great hit with it, with his big band in -45 i think. Harris recorded it in -46 for the Hamp-Tone label, owned by Hampton and his wife Gladys. In this recording he was backed up by "The Hamp-Tone all Stars", musicians from Hamp's big band. A funny thing is that there is also a Swedish version of the song, made famous by "Burken" in the seventies called "Hey Baberiba", I think you can find it here on youtube!

[JosephNScott]

"Harris recorded it in -46" Or late '45.

[NickeB68]

Correct, in Dec. or Jan. And Hampton made a recording of Hey ba-ba-re-bop and Slide Hamp Slide in Los Angeles the first of December.

[JosephNScott]

"Correct, in Dec. or Jan." Maybe. Many accepted small-label-R&B "recording" dates originally came from someone figuring out about when the record was released and giving that, or subtracting a bit. For instance, everyone "knew" T-Bone's "Sail On Boogie" date happened about May '45 for a long time, until someone found out in recent years that the actual date was Oct. 10, '44.

[ettaj2]

boy this is an oldie.was wynonie the first to record this? i remember my mom and dad dancing their hearts out to this.