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  • what a groove.

  • I'm 14 yrs old and I had 8 years of my life listening to the blues I'm in LOVE with the blues <3 :D

  • The good old times..

  • blues will never die!!!!

  • Will all you pathetic thumb whores fuck off and just enjoy the music?

  • This song belongs in the top three of R&B favorites of all time, In 1957 to show our love of the Blues ,Four of us received KING BEE tattoos.That was 54 years ago,I am stilled asked " What does that mean"?

  • This is where rock and roll started. It doesn't get any better!

  • Awesome.

  • But... I have no thumbs :(

  • You can hear where Larry Blackmon of Cameo was influenced by Slim's vocal style

  • AWESOME! Thanks. I call my boyfriend Honeybee. This is his theme song lol Like it by the Stones also.

  • send more blues this  is theee

  • Thumbs up if you like my comment. ;)

  • Thumbs up if you're a King Bee

  • Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to Thumbs up if you hate it when people ask for you to

  • I just like this song, that's all.

  • thumbs up if you r an alcoholic hoo fuckin like blues

  • Hey honey baby let me cum inside!

    i need an 8ball to buzz all night long,

    when you here the buzzing baby some stining is cumming

    Cuz in a king bee

  • thumbs up if you brought yourself here of your own free will and independent thinking.

  • @nemesisurvivorleon This is just stupid.

  • @nemesisurvivorleon Haha, you're right mate.

  • @nemesisurvivorleon Now aren't we a rare group of people? :D

  • slim harpo being a legend brought me here

  • it's so funny when he says hive, he sounds like a bee when he says

  • One of my greatest inspirations

  • Looks like an accountant, sings like a killer.

  • funny how there seems to be no bass on this track....also true of some Little Walter stuff...I assume this was likely intentional??Really minimal production.

  • the mainstream needs to stop taking good music and putting it on shitty tv shows and commercials. go research, dont be brain fed.

  • A love of good blues brought me here.

  • I prefer add N to X's version. Pisses all over this "original, vintage" shite. Give birth to a synth or holler by the river, I'd go for the former. Love You Slim x

  • Love old school blues. Muddy did a great cover of this, Muddified it, and The Rolling Stones did a great cover as well.

    Any guitarist out there know if this is tuned down a 1/2 step? It seems to be 1/2 step lower than Muddy's or The Stones versions.

    Thanks. And long live The Blues.

  • Happy Tears brought me here! hells yeah

  • THUMBS UP IF PIGPEN BROT YOU HERE!

  • used to have this on an Excello 78. Record is long gone, so thanks for putting it up.. SH never gets old!!!

  • came here to get more SH. Haven't seen the commercial. Proof that good music lives. Wonder if Katy Perry songs will be in commercials 40 years from now? -doubt it-

  • I heard this by the Blues Brothers on SNL long before that commercial.

  • Awesome classic blues static image video, thanks to Ugo Fist on FB for this share! Love the old classics. You may want to look up Harry Belafonte's Dark as a Dungeon, if you like this one.

  • Bees make GOOD HONEY 'babe!!!!!!!creashonrebel

  • lets get careless and fuck the world up

    with our mad styles

  • Entourage, ho!

  • sorry, but digging good blues brought me here. I like whiskey, don't get me wrong, but I already knew of Slim Harpo cheers to those of you who sought ought a song from a commercial cause you dug it though.. done that a few times myself.

  • Thumbs up if Add N To (X) brought you here! :D

  • 3 people are allergic.

  • I'm drinkin' Jack right now and I never heard of this commercial people are talkin' about. Let's face it - there's a lot of blues/whiskey overlap! Check my channel for some good raw blues, btw...

  • thumbs up if entourage bought you here

  • @LeboThugz NICE!!

  • Slim rules....I like the Stones version, but this is where they got it from..

    STING A WHILE!

  • Entourage. Got condoms. Will havoc.

  • I love the soundtracks of entourage. Respect to the guy who selects songs for the show.

  • entourage

  • thumbs up if entourage bought you here!

  • @cannwi2003 oh yeaaaahhhh :D

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  • @cannwi2003 Thumbs down. Slim Harpo brought me here.

  • this song and slim harpo is way cool - my dad has the record this song is on.

  • Cleveland Brown should lip-synch this.

  • Cool buzz ! :)

  • I like this song, the bass line really gives this song a true blues feel.

  • Without the blues we'd have nada

  • @jimbronxny This may possibly be the truest statement on the internet... Fuck, IN THE WORLD.

  • @jimbronxny no, we would just have a lot of really bad music

  • @jimbronxny And that's the truth!

  • he sounds like cleveland from familyguy

  • "It shouldn't have worked. The voice was impossibly nasal and tentative, the backings were minimal and monotonous. But something unfettered and unrefined made Slim Harpo's first records irresistible" - Neil Slaven "The Penguine Guide to Blues Recordings"

  • 2 fucking fools now

  • I see some DEAF people clicked the 'dislike' button

    This is one of the greatest blues songs ever.

  • @Kashmir0109 and covered by some stupid rock band instead of just playing the goddamn original.

  • Thumbs up if beeing a Bee brought you here!

  • wow covered by the rolling stones then the stone foxes

  • slim harpo is one badass mofocka

  • thumbs up if you realize it was the stone foxes remake that was on the jack daniels commercial

  • Thumbs up if you heard this decades before the Jack Daniel's commercial.

  • When I saw this guy's picture I knew his voice would sound just like that

  • cleveland is a helluva blues singer

  • Harpo sang about a Queen Bee too, check out My Little Queen Bee. It's uploaded on this site.

    he was top class, Harpo. We should have heard more of him.

  • jack daniels is a chic drink

  • This song reminds me of my man....No, I don't have any extra men lyin around (like the woman in his song). He's my King Bee!! Mmmm mmmm mmmm.

  • His voice is a little buzzy

  • You sound like a king bee :)

  • Somebody must have hit the dislike button by accident.

  • Is it just me or does at first glance he look like he could be kevin harts dad? lmfao

  • thumbs up if the comercial for jack daniels brought u here

  • @namekman01 jack who?

  • @inhmn jack mother fucking good wiskey, thats who

  • @namekman01 never heard it. It must be some damn redneck booze.

  • @inhmn good wiskey, its all im sayn

  • @namekman01 chill, i'm just trolling ;)

  • @namekman01 Hit the nail on the head, brother.

  • @namekman01

    indirectly...i'm a huge blues fan and was going through all the covers of this great classic!

  • ...punch him for me, too. I'll never get tired of Slim Harpo. 'Scratch My Back' is an all time great, too. And Kim Wilson nails it with Fabulous T birds get it goin, too.

    all the early greats had a ....deceptively simple form. Strictly from a musician trying to copy these covers perspective. I love the originals waaay more than anything. Thanks for posting this one!

  • just AWESOME....are there any other similar artists??? this is some sexy shite

  • Slim was one of the originals! That guy who didn't get it was just leaving his 10th Justin Beiber concert! He had to hurry up and turn on his request for "Friday"! Ignorance of realism! The Outlaw Bluesman

  • Check out this singer singing King Bee on youtube...Laura Ingles!

  • The dirtiest and the coolest blues song on the planet!

  • so many sexcsual messages in this songs

  • Sting it man!

  • Im 62 and always loved the stones vertion of king bee ,ive just stumbled on this slim harpo vertion ,love it ,and the muddy waters vertion ,first time ive ever heard of slim harpo ,sorry theres alot worse than me out there

  • @MARKETMAN6789 pink flods version the best

  • Really atmospheric. Make honey baby. xx

  • The absolute original best. Totally cool. Thanks for posting this

  • Fucking great harmonica, no wonder the nickname.

  • Very Cool

  • Yeah ... I like Blues music !

    

  • Remembering the great Slim Harpo today! January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970

  • It amuses me to no end to hear parent-types ranting about how sexually suggestive the current crop of hip-hop artists can be, when you think of the long and storied history of African American DIRTY Bloooooze--GREAT STUFF! ("Let me come inside.")

  • @LeshaAnn Yeah but it was done artfully/suggestively back in the day. Today there's no art to it, its just out there like a big old stankin ass. lol

  • @eslubin Absolutely right. No art, no style, no subtlety, no class today. Just crude and in your face.

  • @eslubin Hell yea. today there's no talkin about buzzn and stinging, subtle and cool. It's all "POP THAt PUSSY BITCH" BLAH blah blah.

  • The Doors covered this song live quite often, with Ray Manzarek (Keyboardist) doing Vocals and his voice is very bluesy, It's great. Check it out (Y)

  • @smurfman95 Not many people know that the Doors wanted him to open for them during thier planned 1970

    tour until he suffered his tragic heart attack.

  • @billchew450 Really, I didnt know that I know in 70' and 71' they played with alot of the old Bluesys like Albert King etc etc. That's cool thanks for letting me know (Y)

    Too bad for this guy suffering a heart attack though.

    R.I.P. King Bee

  • everybody dance now.

  • lets all punch the fool who disliked this song!

  • @waylo4526 take a number!

  • where he at?

  • @waylo4526

    punch sent xD

  • @waylo4526 Can I be the first in line?

  • @waylo4526 There's three now you take one and we'll split the other 70+ on the other two fags.

  • We miss you slim....we'll just keep buzz'in in your honor.....Buzz a while...yeah....

  • I'm Young and Able to buzz all night long... Well, Buzz a while..

  • His singing voice kinda sounds like a bee =P Not hatin', btw. I love this dude

  • Someone tell lazur and JDurden to shut the FUCK up and have fun.

  • Ever heard Pink Floyd's version? (!!!)

  • Great tune , the first one I was taught to play.

  • to be fair, the Stones version is a lot better than some other UK acts cover versions were. This may be Lousiana's most famous blues song, at least partly because of them. But such a shame Harpo couldn't even make a living from music while they were throwing money around.

  • @callippo99 Mick doesn,t throw any money around and never has or will.He,s as tight as a nuns cunt.

  • heard this for the first time this past Sunday driving out of Baton Rouge and over the swamp....it gave me chills!!!!

  • swamp blues

  • ooohhhhh yeah!!!!! this is it !!

  • this is the original version,the version from the stones it's to commercial but cool

  • @TheKeefguitar Slim, the real deal, is obviously better than a 21 year-old white English Jagger's impression of a southern black. The Stones play it a bit too fast, a tendency w/young players -&- white players, (Keith was 20), & Mick just doesn't have the vocal chops. Nonetheless, i'd hardly call it 'commercial'. Sounds to me like they really wanted to do it right, & came about as close as they could, under the circumstances.

  • @lazur1 It's worth noting, however, that Mick Jagger said, "I don't know why anyone would want to listen to our version when they can go get Slim Harpo's"

  • bit too early for a good-nighter then, good afternoon to you then, mr gaga, or is it mr bieber? GOOD AFTERNOON eh? better? what what sport is sport you cock is easily tickled and you must have a very demanding lifestlye.

  • Let the record show: Your post wasn't a "reply", but a "respond to this video". Hoping I wouldn't come back to see it? No matter: You've found a way out of trouble: Gibberish's tough to argue with. On the other hand, if there was any doubt of you being a moron, you've laid that to rest: You are a moron, & the more you post, the more you prove it. (Yes, "afternoon"s good change, still hardly creative. Yes, I have an easy life. Sorry if you don't.)

  • @lazur1 i can't believe you're STILL replying! hahaha! oh my god 'let the record show' HAHAHAHAHAHA hahaha haha heheh - phew! all that lady gaga's really got to your brain hasn't it! very funny. GOODNIGHT!

  • @JD I'm the one who -wants- to "talk", remember? -You're- the one who supposedly wants this all to stop. You're dong a poor job of -that- : - ) Glad you mustered up enough nerve to honestly reply this time, though. / I just want to be around to see how deep a hole you dig for yourself. You're doing fine so far, keep digging. Talk to you soon.

  • @lazur1 what on earth are yu doing, your memory is short and you live in some kind of distorted fantasy land, which is fine by me - please do continue? canny say goodnight can ya chum? mmm

  • Memory of what? Fantasy of what? Do you deny you posted a reply to me without putting it in the 'reply' section, so I wouldn't get an email? (So I'd think this was over, & you'd get in the last word.) Do you deny you want me to stop posting, but can't stop yourself, the very thing that'll stop me? If you deny this, you're a liar. Lies & Gibberish. Can you make any less sense? I think you can, & I think you will. That's why I'm still here; I'd like to see how low you can go.

  • @lazur1 only YOU are taking this in the exact same direction to which you claim, inadvertently, to be monitoring it. you seem to be content in doing this - shaping yourself into more and more of a fool for all to see, which is fine by me. goodnight sweet prince xxx

  • Cool. I admit it: I'm here to watch you make more of an ass of yourself every day. i love it. I want to stay, I want -you- to stay. More than anything, I want to see how many times you can say "goodnight" & still think it's clever. Are -you- here to watch -me- make an ass of -my-self? If "monitoring" an asshole's replies makes me one, too, I'll live with it. You used to claim you wanted me to stop posting. I guess that was a lie, too. Thanks for not answering my questions. I knew you couldn't.

  • @lazur1 EXCEPT YOU CONTINUE TO BE WRONG it's you and clearly YOU who is the ass. you prove this fact with every post you throw back for the sake of it, with increasingly less to say, evidently grasping at straws, trying to be clever - instead you stand proud as the biggest cock-muncher on youtube. continue if you must, but for now i say GOODNIGHT YOU FOOL.

  • @JDurden33 Wrong about what? I essentially admitted, quite a few posts ago, that I didn't have anything left to say. i'm just here for you to talk to, & to count the number of times you write "goodnight". A good way of measuring a person's intelligence is by counting how many different ways they can say the same thing. Your score is one.

  • @lazur1 jokes over. i've been replying to you without even scanning through your replies for days. it's been a wind-up mate, pure sport. and you took the bait every time. my name is troll. you've been trolled. meanwhile life is busy enough and i don't give a fuck. i hope you'll no-doubt enjoy the 'last comment' as i'm pretty sure it's the only kind of satisfaction you get. lots of love JDxxx

  • Again, posted w/o notice, hoping I don't see it, so you'd get the last word. Troll? No shit, Sherlock. You still put in the time, even if not intelligence. You read my posts, you just didn't understand them. Oh my! What will I do? You're a 'troll'. Whad'ja think I thought you were? A music lover? . Would I call a music lover an asshole? Nope: Just another word for troll. A troll who's been trolled by a better troll. You lose. Again. (No "Goodnight" for me?)

  • @lazur1 with out notice what? the last word is all yours you fucking fool - go on . . . take the stand, live the dream!

  • @JDurden33 Hmmm....looks like you -did- read my post. You're wrong, again: The last word is -not- mine, because you will -not- shut up.

  • @lazur1 yeah read that ONE since you obviously are going to such effort with all this. but no its YOU - YOU'RE WRONG. AGAIN. YOU FAIL. AGAIN just conceed and fuck off, come on lets see it. of course you will choose to continue talking shit.

  • You read that 1 too. Same effort as you, moron. "Failed" at what? "See" what? "Wrong"? I said you wouldn't shut up, & you didn't: I'm right. "Concede"? (Only if you spell it right.) Why?, you think my fingers are getting tired? You've outdone yourself: Your earlier gibberish looks intelligent compared to what you're posting now. Mission's succeeding beyond all expectations: You're self-destructing.You lose again. But it's OK: You like to lose. You're good at losing. Because you lose so often.

  • @lazur1 hi how was your day? your replies sue are lengthy! just art, hung out with a few friends, sunny day here, good times x

  • @JDurden33 Lengthy, but not time consuming: Type fast / think fast, 10 seconds, in & out. Congrats on having some friends. It's Labor Day (3-day weekend) here, so this post's a break between all the BBQs. What's 'just art'?

  • @lazur1 no man, really, i've hung out with a few friends, been painting, did a 3 camera shoot of a dance-demo in a town several miles west, it's been a blast. how was your weekend?

  • @JDurden33 Traveling from BBQ to BBQ , Sat Sun Mon. Perfect venues for some Slim Harpo, but no such luck. Maybe next year I'll pack a sound system w/a stack of swamp-blues cds, & trade dj services for ribs, beer & ....

  • @lazur1 mmm easy on the ribs, shoud just get one of those portable record players, or a set of mini speakers for your ipod, just rack it out! i for one have ripped all the harpo off youtube i can find using the free software at squared5dotcom, excellent because 9 out of ten are original vynil uploads!

  • @JDurden33 I've got a Numark ipod mixer. (The older models are virtually free now that bullshit dj effects come with new ones .) I'll just run it through a guitar amp today: Probably what Slim sang through at most gigs anyway.

  • @lazur1 that sounds like one hell of a set-up for maximum slimming

  • @JDurden33 Of course I'll include a big dose of the great Chicago blues artists :-) : Jimmy Reed & Little Walter being -the- major influences on Slim. Time to go.

  • @lazur1 time to go is right - got a Robert Johnson vinyl retrospective to play-out. not into mp3s much myself. anyhow, good luck with it.

  • "I am king bee can buzz all night long" Genius lyrics.

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  • this beats pop music

  • No matter who remakes it, you can't beat the original.

  • strange. this guy was never even a full time musician, ran a trucking business till he died of a heart aged 46. the rolling stones owe their success to slim and all the other black bluesmen they ripped off. boom.

  • @JDurden33

    The Stones never ripped any of these cats off. In fact they made sure that these artists got whatever royalties they had coming. Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys were the thieves in the night, ripping off both Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.

  • @SmokindaBlues well he obviously didn't do too well out of it, dieing in his late 40's with debts, running a trucking company. bollocks - the stones raped him for main street. white rockers raped the black musicians to help create the legends of the previous mid-late century.

  • As far as "King Bee" 's concerned, Slim did well: It's his 1st hit, he hadn't signed away any writer's credit yet, & the Stones gave him proper credit: He received 100% words & music, about 1/2 of the publishing. BUT: Even then, the Stones had clout, & a small company's glad to get any new $ on a tune they thought had run its course: "Let us use your tune for 1/2 standard publishing rate. You'll still make more than you ever dreamed. Otherwise we'll use another tune." Not all that bad a deal.

  • Recording songs isn't stealing. Credit's given, royalties were paid. Many artists were ripped off by their publishers, managers, agents, & producers. Think original artists should get more?: Buy their records. If as many people had bought Slim's "King Bee" as bought the 1st Stones LP, he'd've been a rich man. As it is, he wrote 1 tune of 12, & his publisher gave the Stones at least a 50% deal, so Slim made 1/24th what he would on equal sales of his own records. And -that- was a lot of $!

  • @lazur1 the facts still stand. white man steals black mans music. the blacks invented rock n roll. the originators were never recognized for their genesis or contribution. the white bands surfed the discoveries of others and exploited them. the stones would be nothing without slim.

  • When black musicians use European chords, are they "stealing from whites"? NO. He who pays didn't steal. He who loves a riff,sound,style,technique, absorbs it. The only way to stop 'stealing' : Forbid whites & blacks to hear each other's music. It's been tried. The Stones'd never form w/o black music. So what? But they'd do fine w/ Chuck, Muddy,. Elmore, Wolf, Jimmy, Bo, Solomon, Otis, & Sam. Slim's great, but they'd've done fine w/o him, & he'd've done considerably worse w/o them.

  • @lazur1 everything i said still stand you haven't proved otherwise and slimp harpo was under-paid and deserves about 99.999% of the stones qudos. all said and done. thank you and goodnight.

  • Of course, in hindsight, underpaid, but not cheated. Fate easily goes another way, Stones never make a dime, everyone gets nothing: Is that better? Slim deserves 99.999% of Stones' "qudos"? Muddy, Wolf, Elmore, Robert Johnson Jimmy Reed(the main influence on Slim), Chuck, Bo, Otis, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, & all other great black artists who influenced the Stones "deserve" to split the remaining 1/10,000th of a % (=1millionth), of "qudos"? And I'm supposed to "prove" otherwise? Please.