Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon

1956

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Entertainment

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• Screamin'
• Jay
• Hawkins
• Little
• Demon

[dedballoonz]

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.

[MachoMadness79]

I love this guy.....Damn I was born in the wrong decade

[madmarine94]

When I die play this. Semper Fi Screaming Jay!

[MrSlipCapone]

@dedballoonz I CANT BE LIEVE U ACTUALLY GOT THAT RITE!!! UR THE SHIIZNT & SO IZ SCREAMIN JAY!!!

[misermania]

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]

@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.

[motorvating]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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

[misermania]

@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.

[motorvating]

@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.