"Signifying Monkey" Pre-Dolemite Toast (Not Rudy Ray Moore)

[meddetect10]

LOL! I'd like to see this made into an adult cartoon!

[tthomaselli2]

Who did this version?

[marcos09013]

BLACK FOLK CANT HAVE SHIT! 

[sconlymusicpage]

your rite rudy ray moore did'nt write this nore did h. a. converse the joke came from poor black communities in the south and lead to poor white communities in the south and if you know the south poor whites got alot from poor blacks and this what is playin is a " 78RPM Party Records "

[uhprah]

History shows that Edison invented the recorder (vocal). There's a ton of great stuff on Pandora if you look. Mack Woolbright, blind banjo player and many old records were vulgar if you knew the codes - i.e. "she sat down on a big black snake", etc. Try "Take a Whiff on Me", a 1920's song about coppin' coke in Memphis. So, what's new? Ain't black versus white, it is people. Peace.

[bozophelia]

Go with this one and Snatch and the Poontangs! Or mail me somethin better!

[freqazoidiac]

I really enjoy the Johnny Otis version (on the Cold Shot! Lp)

[shyjayb]

Funny, but it woulda been MUCH Better had RRM actually done it and NOT some white Knock Off...

[Helenem55]

You can tell its a white dude doing the narration...its not that funny either. I like the Rudy Rudy Ray Moore. anybody got the Chuck Berry stuff?

[gorilsmoke]

damn this some back woods shit

[youvexme]

Chuck Berry took the story and a bunch of these rhymes and made them into "jojo gun"

[mrspage09]

My father has this recording by Oscar Brown Jr. If anyone has it, you should upload it. My children are 20 16 and 15 and they know every word of the song. It's not the exact same lyrics, but it is the same concept.

[nashishan]

Apparently this is a story Africans brought across the Atlantic as slaves. In reality, this is just a vulgar American's rendition of a traditional African story. :3

[Lugarurmsr]

Well damn!!!!!!!!!!!

lmbao

Pay back for elvis

pat boone

and all those other ones folk took from us

[BigBishop1]

what are you ussin about u got a turd in your pocket

[counterguy]

The monkey's trickster behavior in this tale reminds me of the Cherokee trickster rabbit stories. The most famous one of those is the Rabbit & Pinegum Wold, which eventually was adapted by black folk as 'Brer Rabbit & Tarbaby'.

[nashishan]

That's an interesting point you've made. I am sure every culture has 'trickster' stories.

[CostelloCostigan]

This is so funny to hear, especially knowing it's from the 40's.

[IMUHDIVA]

no you didn't try to take the signified monkey from dolimite !!!

[PartyRecords]

Sorry, Rudy Ray Moore (aka Dolemite) did not write the "Signifying Monkey". He only adapted it from earlier versions of the poem. This was recorded in the 1940s. Pre-Dolomite.

[IMUHDIVA]

o u learn sumthin EVERYDAY & 2DA I'VE LEARN SUMTHIN & ILL RESEARCH IT ALSO THX

[GeneralTarik]

I knew that Rudy Ray Moore didn't originate this or any other the other toast like Dolemite, Stack-O-Lee or Shine and the Titanic, but it is strange, to me at least, to hear a white person doing this toast. Bruce Jackson does mention in his book "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" that this is one of the toast that are common to blacks and whites though.

[PartyRecords]

If you read "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me", you will note that some of the toasts recited by black people were learned from white prisoners.

[djgambitron]

either way, this guy has no sense of rhythm and adds unnecessary words every chance he can where it would flow better without them.

i'd hard of this long ago and wondered what it was. there was some other early "rap" i heard about a monkey, from the 60s i think that sounded way better than this. it might have been a version of "clap hands", but i'm not sure. it was done by some young women.

[drlove1972]

holy shit, they were using language like this back then. where did u find this one

[RAOJazz]

The language isn't anything new....you're born too late. KIK

[drlove1972]

Gee, thanks old man.

[tthomaselli2]

@PartyRecords

Who does this version you just up-loaded?