@Jonasdarowje I would say Screamin' Jay is the Godfather of shock rock and was followed by a cult of maniacs including: Screamin' Lord Sutch, Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper.
Country has nothing to do with Africa. Country is the child of European folk music that made its way across the Atlantic with Europeans settling in the New world.
That's not at consistent with the history of Country music@motorvating. Country didn't just arrive in the U.S. with European immigrants. Pure fiction. The rural communities of southern Appalachia were of mixed origins and pioneered what is today known as Country music. Hence the prominence of the African banjo in American folk music, especially Country. Lesley Riddle had a big impact on the Carter family. And who taught Hank Williams guitar? A black Bluesman. Country is American, not European.
Country music was being formed long before any African set foot in the New World, this is something well documented with timelines to provide credibility. Yes the banjo was of African decent but that means nothing, this is like saying drum and base comes from white Europeans because the double base comes from Europe. Most music that came out of the states was as of a result of the melting pot of cultures, but the meat and bone of country is from Europe.
@motorvating Sorry, Country music cannot be traced directly back to Europe, nor is Country European at its core. Country music is above all a southern artform. "The folk South from which Country evolved, however, should not be viewed as some pristine ethnic or racial culture. The musical South was neither Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, nor Elizabethan ..." (The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Oxford) The Black American beat and rhythm is ever present in Country music. And the banjo means a lot to Country.
You really know nothing about music do you?? quoting from a book as a source is dubious at best, and moronic at worst.
So if we are going to quote these type of sources:
Country Music History Presented By The Country Music Planet! Country music has its beginnings in music styles brought over by the first European settlers. In medieval times
A brief history of Country Music by Piero Scaruffi
Country music was a federation of styles, rather than a monolithic style. Its origins were lost in the early decades of colonization, when the folk dances (Scottish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, and "quadrille") and the British ballad got transplanted into the new world and got contaminated by the religious hymns of church and camp meetings. The musical styles were reminiscent of their British ancestors.
Country music is rooted in the folk traditions of the British Isles. In the new world, those roots became entangled with the ethnic musics of other immigrants and African slaves
@motorvating Europeans were not in the U.S. "long before" Africans. I don't know where you're getting your history. Country music evolved from Southern folk music which was not purely European. Clearly your source is making oversimplifications. European musicians relied on major and minor scales for their melodies. They knew knew nothing about bending and augmenting to generate melody.
"Country fiddling reflects a considerable amount of cultural synthesis. For example, the sliding into and out of notes-one of the distinguishing features of southern fiddling-is generally thought to be a stylistic trait derived from African-American music." (The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Oxford)
Yet another example why Country music does not echo the British Isles. Most interesting is the fact that the banjo and not the fiddle became the symbol of Country music.
And when you consider Europeans where in the New world long before Africans, you then realise that whilst Africans may have influenced country music, its origin is firmly in the first European settlers.
Listen to the folk music of the Europeans arriving on the New world shores, especially Scottish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, it is almost indistinguishable from the origins of country. If anything country was a meting pot of European music that was influenced by the music of African slaves and then evolved with the musical freedom the New World offered.
@dedballoonz Oh dear. He's just asking if you're bopping, but really really fast. You'll have to excuse me, I'm white as a tissue and heaps not from that era.. it took me a bit over an hour of listening to the first verse on repeat to hear him asking me about bopping, and that you bop until you can't bop anymore. Plus side I can sing the fuck out of it now. My bad :)
@beroth77 it sounds like you dont like to give white singers much credit for anything and where in any book did you find that black singers founded heavy metal singing,look what classical music was doing 500 years ago and no music is more advanced than it maybe its better to give credit to whites as well and then we can all just listen to music.
@northamerican2121 I believe that whomever wrote the message you are responding to ment this. Classical was the oldest root to metal, but it WAS shock rock and the Blues that laid the modern stepping stones that developed into metal. Those two genres were primarily black men. Although alot of credit must go to classical composers who inspired the orchestration of metal music. it had been fairly modern songs that gave metal the drive and verbal expression.
It's really unbelivable people fighting on a music video about race...what are you fighting for ?This is music...and rock is born from withe people coutry and black people blues...even blues is influenced by the coutry music i guess...the black people created fundamental elements to rock...and vocals are for shure one of them.Janis was tottaly influenced by black jazz,bluess black singers .Plant was heavily influenced by Janis..Lots were influenced by Plant.,so its all a mix ,so why fight?
Hey if ur black dont forget to thank the white soldier that fought and died for your freedom from 1861 to 1865. lots to blame to white man for well here something to thank him for.I would bet that janice joplin scared as many folks as this man did and she had some great songs also.She never saw color in people just music
hey if you're white don't forget that a lot of black people fought in the civil war, and the war of independence, and the indian wars and all of your other imperialist wars. afterall the unionist america didn't fight the civil war for slaves but for unity. there certainly is nothing to "thank the white man" for, the black man had to fight for it all by himself. you should really learn some history man, and learn how to write janis joplin correctly.
@sammy6784 White people start Wars Everybody else suffers because of it history has proven it to be a fact Even the wars that are fought in Afrika today has the hand of the man in the middle.
This is the hot one....jumpin & rockin with that wild vocal...tho this one sounds a little tame than the one I heard on the radio with Mad Daddy... I'll have to check my tape of it...are there any of Jay with Tiny Grimes? I'm thinking of the one where he's bawling his head off and the band telling him to be ok, she'll come back....fantastic stuff!
Don't forget the English and a myriad of races I haven't even mentioned. Also blacks aren't the only ones to be called "niggers". My mother was called one as a child and she is Portuguese along with my husband's grandfather who is full Italian.
Anyone of difference is called names. People are afraid of change, not colors.
Nobody invented anything we all expand upon things.. black, white. red .or yellow. it all started with a previous fellow. We just add to the mix such is the case with humans our greates asset is past on knowledge..what a card screamin is he would be fun to hang out with ..lol
it does matter 'Dexxxterr' you folks always say that when its 'you' guys gettin all the money from the music!......i agree with MUN7001 100%.....when the brits came over here in the 60's they were singing blues,appropriated for there style...which was imitation soul and black sound....they were more palatable therefore more marketable and so they got paid for doing what blacks were doing for years....ie. the rollin stones,cream,beatles,led zeppelin...etc.
@67mrblack what do u mean "you folks"?? I didnt get any of that money... General youtube response = Lump groups of people together based on preconceived notions, biases, prejudices, racism, homophobia and the like to incite more comments by like minded people. I refuse to stoop to that level, but thanks for playing. "The most powerful weapon against logic is ignorance" Go back to your hole and stay there please.
Well; the blues itself was mainly inspired by european folkmusic and is a kind of 'black slave' approach of what they heard around them(european folk+ american style folk, which had his origines in european folk too) , mixed with a 'bluesy' feeling they had inside them because of being slaves.
Somehow the over-used phrase "Ahead of his time" doesn't do Jay justice. We all owe him a debt of gratitude weather you are an artist or just a music lover, he helped shape our music even today. Thank you Jay, I'm sure you're pushing the limits where ever you are now!
Country in turn was more based on Appalachian folk music, descended from Irish and Scottish folk music, particularly scottish fiddle music. The appalachian folk music had a lot of african influences as well, for example the wide use of banjo, mostly due to the Appalachian "hillbillys" being the only whites who integrated with blacks at the turn of the century in the south. Rock 'n' Roll, then, is an integration of BOTH musical cultures and history. Neither stolen from blacks or whites.
@ringringbananarchy Hunt down an excellent compilation in Columbia's "Roots 'n' Blues" series, "White Country Blues: A Bluer Shade of Pale," which features a boatload of early country artists playing the blues they learned behind Jim Crow's back from the black bluesmen themselves---including Gene Autry and Roy Acuff. It's quite a revelation. Eff the man---the music brought them together regardless.
@EasyAce Well the blues itself was mainly inspired by the european folkmusic and is a kind of 'black slave' approach of what they heard around them, mixed with a 'bluesy' feeling they had inside them because of being slaves.
Alright I have to chime into this conversation here. To say that Rock 'n' Roll came from blues is simplistic and wrong. To say that Rock 'n' Roll came from country is also simplistic and wrong. To say that Country came from blues...again, wrong. Rock 'n' Roll was a slow development of a fusion of styles, most notably blues and country, particularly in the earliest forms of R'n'R, Rock-a-billy.
@ringringbananarchy Actually Rock and Roll started way b/f that. The slaves in the cotton fields would sing. Then on Saturday night they would get together and play. Later on Sam Phillips said "he would make a million dollars if he could find a white boy to sing black" Elvis came and the rest is history.
@fudgefucker666 wow....you dont read enough into my comments....saying that rock and roll came from negro spirituals from the time of slavery, is as i said below, simplistic and WRONG....it was a blending of the african music with white appalachian folk music. You can trace rock music back to Scottish folk singers just as easily as you can the slaves. And Chuck Berry's direct influences that lead to his style were also both white and black, and each brought the music farther than it was before.
Again the Europeans, how many delta blues records are found in some forgotten collection of a true believer of The Invented American Music genre "called" the Blues- talkin' Euro collection here. The truth is out and there's lots of originality by White (capital W as in capital B) American musicians. Don't get me wrong, I"ve met a few of the last real Blues shouters and love the art of their expression through their experience, deep felt . Music is culture and as culture develops,not invented
This version is different than the one that wound up on Rhino's "Voodoo Jive" compilation. The second and third verses are sung more laid-back here. Does anybody know the two different sources of both recordings?
when white teens brought home his record id bet that their parents were scared shitless of a black man singin jiberish and thought the world was going to hell...
@rocknrollporn A lot of what you call "white people" marched with Martin Luther King and in protests against the racism, but I never see that mentioned. It is time to state facts and accept that it is not RACE no matter what, but it is the actions of the person that matter*** Do not refer to us as "white". We are Italian, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, American and above all - we are human. I get sick of the double standard. 2 wrongs make no right.
@DrunkenPiano hey smart guy! im white too. theres nothing wrong with being called white or black as long as its not to define u as a person. just because some white ppl marched with martin luther king doesnt change that fact that black culture wasnt accepted by many back then.my skin is white therfore someone who doesnt know me is gunna describe me as white. so what get over it
@DrunkenPiano i grew up in a latino hood and have been called every white slur u can think of. do u think ppl care where ur ansestors came 4rm. race matters and if u think not u must live a shelterd life.
They did not invent anything, but they took things further. Appropriation is not the same as creation, but if something good comes out of it...Now that I think of it, I can't see any Black roots in country/western music, do you know where it comes from?
blues, country blues comes from blues music, thats where you get western country music, and negro hollers or songs, as far as im concerned, they made it popular because of racist system, the 'blacks' were getting shit for doing in America but were held in high regard in Europe , when Europeans came back to America they got more popular than the people they appropriated the culture from, same with Elvis, he took it , and made it more popular based on the fact he was white,
I can see what you mean about country music, I understand where the rhythm comes from, but not the singing style. Same thing with cajun fiddles, this might be the only kind of music 100% white.
Europe was more or less against slavery and later segregation, but today black artists are not more appreciated in europe than in the usa...
i wasnt just talking about rhythm . 'but today black artists are not more appreciated in europe than in the usa...' lol THAT IS SO WRONG. BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY ARE. FUNK BANDS that have run out of popularity and rock bands like Fishbone, get more praise in places like France and Germany. Europeans have more appreciation of soul and funk than Americans in my opinion. Check out MOther's Finest, still popular in Germany even after the racist bullshit in America. DO you know Zydeco music, check it.
it isn't important what color of skin you are. damn. Music is music. If you play blues, rock or jazz, if guitar player is white or black man, music is music.
@Dexxxterrr Thank you for saying this. The debating over color is embarrassing that it's still going on in this generation today. We are supposed to end the hatred, not continue the cycle. Thanks again. Much Love!
@Dexxxterrr i agree to disagree the problem is when these fucking white people come in on their fucking high horses thinking they rule this God given universe and STEAL things that isnt theirs (music,Land,etc) and redistribute it to little fucking joey and sarah and call it their own fuck man that shit has to stop i hope he put a spell on these cowards.
@MUN7001 Just an aside to your comment. I heard that Sam Phillips said at one point, "Get me a white boy who can sing like a black guy". They found Elvis. Take Care.
Really? So you've never heard folk music from europe obviously.
Country is a DIRECT line from that. The Blues was a hybrid of african folk songs, country, and church music. Rock is the Blues reinterpreted with more Country and Bluegrass musics tempo and choppiness. Music is and always will be for the performers anyway, not a matter of race.
welllllll put! country's and blues histories are sooo parallel it was an eventuality they would join forces to give us the big bad monster known as rock n roll...kudos to you
@RoverTCB, Country and Western music is derived from Irish and British folk music. However, the quintessential C&W instrument, the banjo, originated in West Africa.
I don't understand why the other ppl were arguing with you. You do have a valid point though, all modern western music is either a creation of black persons, or a derivative of such. The only thing they didn't make is classical music lol
maybe take a look out of MTV. there is plenty of stuff I HAVE NEV0R witnessed a black person being the very (sole) foundation if you dont call up the historical discussion about instruments. otherwise you are welcome to ask if there is actually any new music, for that I really have decent doubts XD
When I die play this. Semper Fi Screaming Jay!
madmarine94 1 month ago
Screamin' Jay didn't need no autotune.
porkadachop 3 months ago
Together with Screaming Lord Sutch and Hasil Adkins he is the prototyp of a genre later called Psychobilly !
Jonasdarowje 4 months ago
@Jonasdarowje I would say Screamin' Jay is the Godfather of shock rock and was followed by a cult of maniacs including: Screamin' Lord Sutch, Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper.
theSavageHippie 4 months ago 5
Screamin' Jay
Jcolinsol 4 months ago
ummmm i call that one epic :D
frickinjune26 4 months ago
Fucking mental. If that lad was a full shilling, I'll poke my eyes out & piss on my brain!
One of the greats.
RedBryn 5 months ago
This was about 25 years before the Cramps. Just sayin'
ellaguru42 5 months ago 2
The white people of the 50s were like OMG he is going to take our souls and impregnate our women.... Run for the hills!!!!
Mokieloke 6 months ago 2
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He had an estimated 55 kids so that's kind right.
recmonty 5 months ago 2
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billsonmark 7 months ago
date is the 1st and I am gonna get lit to this track.. cheers
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theBigNoseAttack 7 months ago
Badass
WhiteWolfWinter 7 months ago 2
this stuff scared the living shit out people back then....great fucking tune!
brickmaster01 8 months ago 2
holy shit he was awesome
theSavageHippie 8 months ago
I love this guy.....Damn I was born in the wrong decade
MachoMadness79 8 months ago 19
The first Psychobilly singer ! I love him ! R.I.P.
Rainmaker2212 8 months ago 6
Sorry @beroth77 but Country music is hardly white. See the way they utilize the banjo? That's a traditional African instrument.
misermania 9 months ago
@misermania
Country has nothing to do with Africa. Country is the child of European folk music that made its way across the Atlantic with Europeans settling in the New world.
motorvating 3 months ago
That's not at consistent with the history of Country music@motorvating. Country didn't just arrive in the U.S. with European immigrants. Pure fiction. The rural communities of southern Appalachia were of mixed origins and pioneered what is today known as Country music. Hence the prominence of the African banjo in American folk music, especially Country. Lesley Riddle had a big impact on the Carter family. And who taught Hank Williams guitar? A black Bluesman. Country is American, not European.
misermania 3 months ago
@misermania
Part 1
Country music was being formed long before any African set foot in the New World, this is something well documented with timelines to provide credibility. Yes the banjo was of African decent but that means nothing, this is like saying drum and base comes from white Europeans because the double base comes from Europe. Most music that came out of the states was as of a result of the melting pot of cultures, but the meat and bone of country is from Europe.
motorvating 3 months ago
@motorvating Sorry, Country music cannot be traced directly back to Europe, nor is Country European at its core. Country music is above all a southern artform. "The folk South from which Country evolved, however, should not be viewed as some pristine ethnic or racial culture. The musical South was neither Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, nor Elizabethan ..." (The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Oxford) The Black American beat and rhythm is ever present in Country music. And the banjo means a lot to Country.
misermania 3 months ago
@misermania
Part 1
You really know nothing about music do you?? quoting from a book as a source is dubious at best, and moronic at worst.
So if we are going to quote these type of sources:
Country Music History Presented By The Country Music Planet! Country music has its beginnings in music styles brought over by the first European settlers. In medieval times
motorvating 3 months ago
@misermania
Part 2
A brief history of Country Music by Piero Scaruffi
Country music was a federation of styles, rather than a monolithic style. Its origins were lost in the early decades of colonization, when the folk dances (Scottish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, and "quadrille") and the British ballad got transplanted into the new world and got contaminated by the religious hymns of church and camp meetings. The musical styles were reminiscent of their British ancestors.
motorvating 3 months ago
@misermania
Part 3
The Country Music Hall of Fame
Country music is rooted in the folk traditions of the British Isles. In the new world, those roots became entangled with the ethnic musics of other immigrants and African slaves
motorvating 3 months ago
@motorvating Europeans were not in the U.S. "long before" Africans. I don't know where you're getting your history. Country music evolved from Southern folk music which was not purely European. Clearly your source is making oversimplifications. European musicians relied on major and minor scales for their melodies. They knew knew nothing about bending and augmenting to generate melody.
misermania 3 months ago
Furthermore@motorvating
"Country fiddling reflects a considerable amount of cultural synthesis. For example, the sliding into and out of notes-one of the distinguishing features of southern fiddling-is generally thought to be a stylistic trait derived from African-American music." (The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Oxford)
Yet another example why Country music does not echo the British Isles. Most interesting is the fact that the banjo and not the fiddle became the symbol of Country music.
misermania 3 months ago
@misermania
part 4
And when you consider Europeans where in the New world long before Africans, you then realise that whilst Africans may have influenced country music, its origin is firmly in the first European settlers.
motorvating 3 months ago
@misermania
Part 2
Listen to the folk music of the Europeans arriving on the New world shores, especially Scottish reels, Irish jigs, and square dances, it is almost indistinguishable from the origins of country. If anything country was a meting pot of European music that was influenced by the music of African slaves and then evolved with the musical freedom the New World offered.
motorvating 3 months ago
Wow. I'm pretty sure he just said this:
He did tha! nyi-bop-n-nmop'n-yi-bop-mn, ni-bop'bop-mnmh!
Nhyi-bop-mn-nyop(n)-nop-mnyimop-ni'h-boh'pop, nyi-boh-bopp'n?
Nyi-bopp'n, bop-bop, mngh-moggbty-mo'h!
That cat was MAAD!
It took me 25 minutes to type out that translation :P I love this guy.
dedballoonz 9 months ago 94
@dedballoonz Oh dear. He's just asking if you're bopping, but really really fast. You'll have to excuse me, I'm white as a tissue and heaps not from that era.. it took me a bit over an hour of listening to the first verse on repeat to hear him asking me about bopping, and that you bop until you can't bop anymore. Plus side I can sing the fuck out of it now. My bad :)
dedballoonz 9 months ago
@dedballoonz ah ah ah ...that's so cool!
djsundancekid 9 months ago
@dedballoonz Sure you do, and you have a lot of time, too, haha
pablador 9 months ago
@dedballoonz Yep thats pretty close I reckon :)
Vtonsofflax 5 months ago
@dedballoonz I CANT BE LIEVE U ACTUALLY GOT THAT RITE!!! UR THE SHIIZNT & SO IZ SCREAMIN JAY!!!
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beroth77 9 months ago
@beroth77 it sounds like you dont like to give white singers much credit for anything and where in any book did you find that black singers founded heavy metal singing,look what classical music was doing 500 years ago and no music is more advanced than it maybe its better to give credit to whites as well and then we can all just listen to music.
northamerican2121 8 months ago
@northamerican2121 I believe that whomever wrote the message you are responding to ment this. Classical was the oldest root to metal, but it WAS shock rock and the Blues that laid the modern stepping stones that developed into metal. Those two genres were primarily black men. Although alot of credit must go to classical composers who inspired the orchestration of metal music. it had been fairly modern songs that gave metal the drive and verbal expression.
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beroth77 9 months ago
It's really unbelivable people fighting on a music video about race...what are you fighting for ?This is music...and rock is born from withe people coutry and black people blues...even blues is influenced by the coutry music i guess...the black people created fundamental elements to rock...and vocals are for shure one of them.Janis was tottaly influenced by black jazz,bluess black singers .Plant was heavily influenced by Janis..Lots were influenced by Plant.,so its all a mix ,so why fight?
beroth77 9 months ago
Super cool song. :)
DarkBellatrix 10 months ago
this is a different version than the one I know
JimmyHeartburn75 11 months ago
This song makes me happy. Its too silly. What a fucking entertainer
burnyourtv 11 months ago
first rock n'roll
boegeman072885 11 months ago
Hey if ur black dont forget to thank the white soldier that fought and died for your freedom from 1861 to 1865. lots to blame to white man for well here something to thank him for.I would bet that janice joplin scared as many folks as this man did and she had some great songs also.She never saw color in people just music
sammy6784 11 months ago
@sammy6784
hey if you're white don't forget that a lot of black people fought in the civil war, and the war of independence, and the indian wars and all of your other imperialist wars. afterall the unionist america didn't fight the civil war for slaves but for unity. there certainly is nothing to "thank the white man" for, the black man had to fight for it all by himself. you should really learn some history man, and learn how to write janis joplin correctly.
bluesplaylist 10 months ago
@sammy6784 White people start Wars Everybody else suffers because of it history has proven it to be a fact Even the wars that are fought in Afrika today has the hand of the man in the middle.
MrMonopolistic 10 months ago
This is one of my Favorite Scream Jay Hawkins' songs. It was featured in an episode of Millennium titled "The Curse Of Frank Black".
TheWhitelunar 1 year ago
I have a new found love for this man! Screamin' Jay Hawkins is/was everything I love in music.
monte72454 1 year ago
This is the hot one....jumpin & rockin with that wild vocal...tho this one sounds a little tame than the one I heard on the radio with Mad Daddy... I'll have to check my tape of it...are there any of Jay with Tiny Grimes? I'm thinking of the one where he's bawling his head off and the band telling him to be ok, she'll come back....fantastic stuff!
jackwidful 1 year ago
Don't forget the English and a myriad of races I haven't even mentioned. Also blacks aren't the only ones to be called "niggers". My mother was called one as a child and she is Portuguese along with my husband's grandfather who is full Italian.
Anyone of difference is called names. People are afraid of change, not colors.
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
Nobody invented anything we all expand upon things.. black, white. red .or yellow. it all started with a previous fellow. We just add to the mix such is the case with humans our greates asset is past on knowledge..what a card screamin is he would be fun to hang out with ..lol
mikemanzardo 1 year ago
it does matter 'Dexxxterr' you folks always say that when its 'you' guys gettin all the money from the music!......i agree with MUN7001 100%.....when the brits came over here in the 60's they were singing blues,appropriated for there style...which was imitation soul and black sound....they were more palatable therefore more marketable and so they got paid for doing what blacks were doing for years....ie. the rollin stones,cream,beatles,led zeppelin...etc.
67mrblack 1 year ago
@67mrblack what do u mean "you folks"?? I didnt get any of that money... General youtube response = Lump groups of people together based on preconceived notions, biases, prejudices, racism, homophobia and the like to incite more comments by like minded people. I refuse to stoop to that level, but thanks for playing. "The most powerful weapon against logic is ignorance" Go back to your hole and stay there please.
Landyn99 1 year ago
Screanin Jay Hawkins Was the first Shock Rocker. He's Where Alice Cooper and KISS came from.
curtisrice142s9 1 year ago
:O woooooooah, u just cant get any better then this
xXdwebbXx 1 year ago
this is my fave screamin' song, it never fails to make me happy :P#
or dance like crazy
ChazJayHeaton 1 year ago
Well; the blues itself was mainly inspired by european folkmusic and is a kind of 'black slave' approach of what they heard around them(european folk+ american style folk, which had his origines in european folk too) , mixed with a 'bluesy' feeling they had inside them because of being slaves.
skald9 1 year ago
capo total!!!!
vikingorockstore 1 year ago
the original shock rocker!!! :)
trhoward8502 1 year ago
the man!
a8anasios666 1 year ago
I just think of it as an american invention, not black or white one. Love this guy!
disturbing123456 1 year ago
look, i'll solve this race problem. i'm a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater..
crisis averted.
woodside4life 1 year ago 5
wild
joegrogan1984 1 year ago
Somehow the over-used phrase "Ahead of his time" doesn't do Jay justice. We all owe him a debt of gratitude weather you are an artist or just a music lover, he helped shape our music even today. Thank you Jay, I'm sure you're pushing the limits where ever you are now!
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petehernandez100 1 year ago
@petehernandez100 i think hes timeless
patrickinurface 1 year ago
you bunch of musicologist fuck wits talkin bout well the negro and the white during the ummmm....... shut the fuck up and enjoy the song.
wideosvatcher 1 year ago 5
@wideosvatcher Loving your comment!! I 2nd that suggestion :)
Yngsatchvai 1 year ago
Love Screamin' Jay, so ahead of his time!!
FatherVinyard88 1 year ago
Country in turn was more based on Appalachian folk music, descended from Irish and Scottish folk music, particularly scottish fiddle music. The appalachian folk music had a lot of african influences as well, for example the wide use of banjo, mostly due to the Appalachian "hillbillys" being the only whites who integrated with blacks at the turn of the century in the south. Rock 'n' Roll, then, is an integration of BOTH musical cultures and history. Neither stolen from blacks or whites.
ringringbananarchy 1 year ago 2
@ringringbananarchy Hunt down an excellent compilation in Columbia's "Roots 'n' Blues" series, "White Country Blues: A Bluer Shade of Pale," which features a boatload of early country artists playing the blues they learned behind Jim Crow's back from the black bluesmen themselves---including Gene Autry and Roy Acuff. It's quite a revelation. Eff the man---the music brought them together regardless.
EasyAce 1 year ago
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@EasyAce Well the blues itself was mainly inspired by the european folkmusic and is a kind of 'black slave' approach of what they heard around them, mixed with a 'bluesy' feeling they had inside them because of being slaves.
skald9 1 year ago
Alright I have to chime into this conversation here. To say that Rock 'n' Roll came from blues is simplistic and wrong. To say that Rock 'n' Roll came from country is also simplistic and wrong. To say that Country came from blues...again, wrong. Rock 'n' Roll was a slow development of a fusion of styles, most notably blues and country, particularly in the earliest forms of R'n'R, Rock-a-billy.
ringringbananarchy 1 year ago
@ringringbananarchy Alen freed said the samething you said,but racist seem not to understand.
oramikleepunk 1 year ago
@ringringbananarchy Actually Rock and Roll started way b/f that. The slaves in the cotton fields would sing. Then on Saturday night they would get together and play. Later on Sam Phillips said "he would make a million dollars if he could find a white boy to sing black" Elvis came and the rest is history.
fudgefucker666 1 year ago
@fudgefucker666 wow....you dont read enough into my comments....saying that rock and roll came from negro spirituals from the time of slavery, is as i said below, simplistic and WRONG....it was a blending of the african music with white appalachian folk music. You can trace rock music back to Scottish folk singers just as easily as you can the slaves. And Chuck Berry's direct influences that lead to his style were also both white and black, and each brought the music farther than it was before.
ringringbananarchy 1 year ago
SCREAM ON JAY !
wherever you are....
SeniorMojo 1 year ago 2
Arthur brown is cooler than this dude. he's more psychedelic and seems more serious.
MrFigueroa007 1 year ago
awesome
HUNNYB13 1 year ago
einsame spitze!
BolleNDH 1 year ago
the alternate version!
aww...
still great! thank you!
ShadowWanderer1 1 year ago
Again the Europeans, how many delta blues records are found in some forgotten collection of a true believer of The Invented American Music genre "called" the Blues- talkin' Euro collection here. The truth is out and there's lots of originality by White (capital W as in capital B) American musicians. Don't get me wrong, I"ve met a few of the last real Blues shouters and love the art of their expression through their experience, deep felt . Music is culture and as culture develops,not invented
RoknRolUSA 1 year ago
@RoknRolUSA ya brother! you said it!
scotydo1 1 year ago
@RoknRolUSA ya brother! you said it!
scotydo1 1 year ago
One of a kind! Way ahead of his time, he didn't water down his music. It was and is always straight up
MrUnclemuncle 1 year ago
love it *.* especially the refrain :D
xXpooooolaXx 1 year ago
Wow, I didn't know him 'till now, he kicks ass!
Fussino 1 year ago
Why can't I find "last saturday night" on youtube?
ichbineintoober 2 years ago
scream it jay!!!
IndianaDylan 2 years ago
Scream'in Jay Hawkins was a musical genius. I'm amazed he wasn't a much bigger star. All of his material is so much fun to listen to...
MrFishermanbob 2 years ago 24
@MrFishermanbob: people are dumb... they care only 'bout shi*s and themselves.. don't get dissapointed...! :-)
JAY, YOU ARE SAINT!!!! REST IN PEACE!!!!!!!!
frazerus 9 months ago
i heard the chuck and the hulas version, i like hawkins version better
gorillazfan3 2 years ago
yeah i love this
selfscientific1 2 years ago 3
Y'ever heard Jay do the constipation blues thts some funny shit no pun intended
PorkChopDick 2 years ago
ha - this is my mobile phone ring tone
koo65 2 years ago
best version, period
gonlaz 2 years ago
i like this alt version better. The screams are better.
asorls1 2 years ago
whoever can do the lyrics to dhis sonq iisz genis! :]
Littl3MissCh33sy 2 years ago
only Jay can sing Jay
xarissof 2 years ago
This version is an alternate take. The original 45 version is on "Voo Doo Jive". It was released originally in 1956.
radio14fun 2 years ago
This version is different than the one that wound up on Rhino's "Voodoo Jive" compilation. The second and third verses are sung more laid-back here. Does anybody know the two different sources of both recordings?
geezerbill 2 years ago
I think this version is from the compilation Loud, Fast & Out of Control, the wild sounds of 50's rock
multiversos 2 years ago 3
Great, thanks for the info!
geezerbill 2 years ago
I have a different version of this, too, but it's one of my favorite jump blues songs.
moparmonster1965 2 years ago
whenever I am watching Screamin' Jay Hawkins I look to my left and my right like I'm getting away with something...is this legal? LOL. Great fun!
richardryals 2 years ago 13
Nah, just a guilty pleasure because most have forgotten him.
moparmonster1965 2 years ago
You Too? Man Light the incense, Pull the blinds, lock the doors, and let Him Scream!!!!
stretcherbearerband 2 years ago
Aw, man-this just put a smile on my face!!! Bless this man!!!! : )
MindRises 2 years ago 7
luv dis guy!!!!! song is way too catchy lol
AngryChild9 2 years ago 7
Best chorus ever.
PlaidShirtsLoveMe 2 years ago 8
Pure Genuis!
hoof565 2 years ago 12
I agree with you hoof!! there is just no denying it, this song is just amazing!!
MOBROOKS 2 years ago
this song is insane. how the hell do you make that sound into a chorus?
xxtaxidermyxx 2 years ago
this demon caught me, and there's nothing wrong about that.
luckystriker888 2 years ago
And the guys from Korn. ..they think they invented a new thing at the chorus of the song called Freak on the leash... : )
pulpmiction 2 years ago
when white teens brought home his record id bet that their parents were scared shitless of a black man singin jiberish and thought the world was going to hell...
before their children killed them.
rocknrollporn 2 years ago 50
@rocknrollporn A lot of what you call "white people" marched with Martin Luther King and in protests against the racism, but I never see that mentioned. It is time to state facts and accept that it is not RACE no matter what, but it is the actions of the person that matter*** Do not refer to us as "white". We are Italian, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, American and above all - we are human. I get sick of the double standard. 2 wrongs make no right.
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
@DrunkenPiano hey smart guy! im white too. theres nothing wrong with being called white or black as long as its not to define u as a person. just because some white ppl marched with martin luther king doesnt change that fact that black culture wasnt accepted by many back then.my skin is white therfore someone who doesnt know me is gunna describe me as white. so what get over it
rocknrollporn 1 year ago 2
@DrunkenPiano i grew up in a latino hood and have been called every white slur u can think of. do u think ppl care where ur ansestors came 4rm. race matters and if u think not u must live a shelterd life.
rocknrollporn 1 year ago
@rocknrollporn hahaha! same shit happen when tupac hit the scene
MrMonopolistic 10 months ago
@MrMonopolistic hahaha good one
el oh el
rocknrollporn 10 months ago
@rocknrollporn Why thank you my good sir and may peace be with you Jah bless.
MrMonopolistic 10 months ago
I've never heard this song before, but it's now one of my favorites!!! I can't stop bobbin' my head. This guy is nuts...and AWESOME!
jsahawkwiz 2 years ago 4
the best chorus i've ever heard. bumpha pummpa mbpi bap pa brmbi mpa :D
Dexxxterrr 2 years ago 7
its time to twist^^
Lajina00 2 years ago
Brmmap a lubba brmmap a lubba...the best ¡¡¡¡
pulpmiction 2 years ago 3
Way ahead of his time, what a genius of the dark-side with a comedy twist
BetsyDevlin 2 years ago 7
when the truth comes out, it sort of hurts white people that they almost invented nothing when it came to American music
MUN7001 2 years ago
They did not invent anything, but they took things further. Appropriation is not the same as creation, but if something good comes out of it...Now that I think of it, I can't see any Black roots in country/western music, do you know where it comes from?
RoverTCB 2 years ago
blues, country blues comes from blues music, thats where you get western country music, and negro hollers or songs, as far as im concerned, they made it popular because of racist system, the 'blacks' were getting shit for doing in America but were held in high regard in Europe , when Europeans came back to America they got more popular than the people they appropriated the culture from, same with Elvis, he took it , and made it more popular based on the fact he was white,
MUN7001 2 years ago 3
I can see what you mean about country music, I understand where the rhythm comes from, but not the singing style. Same thing with cajun fiddles, this might be the only kind of music 100% white.
Europe was more or less against slavery and later segregation, but today black artists are not more appreciated in europe than in the usa...
RoverTCB 2 years ago
i wasnt just talking about rhythm . 'but today black artists are not more appreciated in europe than in the usa...' lol THAT IS SO WRONG. BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY ARE. FUNK BANDS that have run out of popularity and rock bands like Fishbone, get more praise in places like France and Germany. Europeans have more appreciation of soul and funk than Americans in my opinion. Check out MOther's Finest, still popular in Germany even after the racist bullshit in America. DO you know Zydeco music, check it.
MUN7001 2 years ago
it isn't important what color of skin you are. damn. Music is music. If you play blues, rock or jazz, if guitar player is white or black man, music is music.
Dexxxterrr 2 years ago 67
amen brother
steve89z 2 years ago 6
@Dexxxterrr totally agree, but there always will be suckers to suck...
codenametorture 1 year ago
@Dexxxterrr Thank you, I get so sick of hearing about oh this group did this and that group did that. Get over it already people.
jessesgirl10 1 year ago
@Dexxxterrr That's really naive of you to say.
Khultan 1 year ago
@Dexxxterrr Thank you for saying this. The debating over color is embarrassing that it's still going on in this generation today. We are supposed to end the hatred, not continue the cycle. Thanks again. Much Love!
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
@Dexxxterrr I bet he spooked alot of people in the 50's lol.
oramikleepunk 1 year ago 2
@Dexxxterrr but i really dont like music some modern black people are making...rap
cloudcally 10 months ago
@cloudcally you dont have to like it...its not for you
DaSandMan230 9 months ago
@Dexxxterrr i agree to disagree the problem is when these fucking white people come in on their fucking high horses thinking they rule this God given universe and STEAL things that isnt theirs (music,Land,etc) and redistribute it to little fucking joey and sarah and call it their own fuck man that shit has to stop i hope he put a spell on these cowards.
MrMonopolistic 10 months ago
@RoverTCB E.U. for the win !
patrickinurface 1 year ago
@RoverTCB My impression is still other wise.
Khultan 1 year ago
@MUN7001 It seems the that the English invasion bands had more knowledge of the roots of Rock then Americans.
oramikleepunk 1 year ago
@MUN7001 Just an aside to your comment. I heard that Sam Phillips said at one point, "Get me a white boy who can sing like a black guy". They found Elvis. Take Care.
wasteland70 1 year ago
@MUN7001
Really? So you've never heard folk music from europe obviously.
Country is a DIRECT line from that. The Blues was a hybrid of african folk songs, country, and church music. Rock is the Blues reinterpreted with more Country and Bluegrass musics tempo and choppiness. Music is and always will be for the performers anyway, not a matter of race.
machinesworking 1 year ago
country is just blues from the other side of the field.
sayyes2bull 2 years ago
welllllll put! country's and blues histories are sooo parallel it was an eventuality they would join forces to give us the big bad monster known as rock n roll...kudos to you
darksouldealer 2 years ago
@RoverTCB What the hell does appropriation have to do with this conversation? ....
I'm sorry to butt in.. But what the the fuck are you guys argueing about?
Rock and Roll was based on Blues!
scotydo1 1 year ago
@RoverTCB
carapo66 1 year ago
@RoverTCB, Country and Western music is derived from Irish and British folk music. However, the quintessential C&W instrument, the banjo, originated in West Africa.
carapo66 1 year ago
@RoverTCB Country music, was a product of the mingling of Africans and Scotch Irish coal miners in the appalachians.
Knappula 1 year ago
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IHateSpauldingGray 2 years ago
fuck off
MUN7001 2 years ago
I don't understand why the other ppl were arguing with you. You do have a valid point though, all modern western music is either a creation of black persons, or a derivative of such. The only thing they didn't make is classical music lol
sntial5 2 years ago
maybe take a look out of MTV. there is plenty of stuff I HAVE NEV0R witnessed a black person being the very (sole) foundation if you dont call up the historical discussion about instruments. otherwise you are welcome to ask if there is actually any new music, for that I really have decent doubts XD
lezvarthok 2 years ago
thats the most ignorant and racist thing you could have said.
scsteeldrums 2 years ago
Jay taught eric how to scream... Jays the daddy of scream
Delizia09 2 years ago
Screamin' Jay. GENIUS. Nuff said,
ProjectFlashlight612 2 years ago
ritualistic, savage, roots heavy rockin' demon!
actitudbandera 2 years ago
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"He made the sky turn green, he made the grass turn red,
He even put pretty hair on Grandma's bald head
He made the moon back up, he even pushed back time
He took the tutti out of frutti, he had the devil drinkin' wine"
:D
robotorb 2 years ago
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robotorb 2 years ago
Screamer Jay Hawkins, Eric Burdon! There's no need for comparisons, they are both great!
savvakissss 3 years ago 6
thank you!!!!!
jaymaru1976 3 years ago 2
"Screamin' lik ERIC BURDON?!!!!" Are you nuts? Before Eric Burdon came to be Screamin' Jay WAS!
xyrtle 3 years ago 5
Top-notch. Thanks for posting.
ssoultrain 3 years ago 3
Jay and Henry, doesn't get any better.
fashoshow 3 years ago
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kurrupipi 3 years ago
excellent!!
monicarwells2 3 years ago 5
Rock and roll heaven?? Yes.!!
mistercarlton 3 years ago 7
fuckin' A!
dozer273 3 years ago 2
He's so great, screamin like Eric Burdon!!
JulianThomePictures 3 years ago
Eric Burdon WISHES he could scream like that...
fourclaws 3 years ago 16