Video: Joe Bataan - Rap o Clap O - 4 Aprile 1980

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I absolutely LOVE Youtube for stuff like this... Your sis here at BlackRadioIsBack.com and the FuseBox Radio Broadcast has the dance version 12" for this (if you can find it, the instrumental is dope as all get out ) and while doing some "trying not to work" stuff on the computer, I found this live performance of Black Music legend Joe Bataan performing this Hip-Hop record live on the overseas music TV show Popcorn . The label he was on at the time, Salsoul Records , is mostly known [...]

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I Got The Feelin': James Brown in the '60s (Shout Factory, 2008) Joe Bataan: Mr. New York Is Back (Vampisoul, 2008) Finally took some time recently to look at two music-related DVDs. The first is I Got the Feelin': James Brown In the '60s , a 3-DVD set comprised of two concerts (Boston Gardens, 4/5/68 & the Apollo Theater, 3/68), plus a documentary, The Night James Brown Saved Boston . The latter is in reference to one of the astounding cultural moments of [...]

"A hip, hop, hip hip hop to the hip hip hop and you don't stop": the inimitable first verbal cues to what would become arguably the biggest music style in the world. But what if those lyrics started out "We got a new thing out, gonna make ya shout/ got rhythm got beat gonna move your feet"? Well, no, that would just be silly, right? Come on; "gonna move your feet"? But consider this: those opening lines of Joe Bataan's novelty song "Rap-O Clap-O" actually were the introduction to what would become hip-hop to millions of people in Europe, where [...]