Intermodulation and Harmonic Distortion Tips in Tracer Newsletter

[Dan McDonald]

there's a lot of blues and folk songs from the 20's and 30s that are just talking with guitar or other music in the background, so you could call those early rap, if you're going to call "Ringo" early rap (even though it's probably more fun to call Lorne Greene the 'first rapper.')

There are even some cylinder records that do that kind of thing - but they tend to be comedy. And I imagine if you go back to troubadors and jongleurs, they were more like rappers because they incorporated news into songs with music.

[Lord Theo]

"I'm A Man" by Bo Diddley

In my opinion, the greatest flip side of a 45 ever recorded, a classic in it's own right.

[DJBohn]

You make a strong argument Dan. I'll also have to admit that Craig had a good point as well - "The Rapper" by the Jaggerz may have been the first or at least one of the first references to the term "Rapper" in popular music.

Lord Theo - I like some of Bo Diddley's stuf as well. (Did he do the original of the song "Bo Diddley" or was that done by someone else?)

Guess I got a little off track for this forum - would have been better off in the "General Audio" catagory...

[Dan McDonald]

Bo did the first Bo Diddley, I'm pretty sure. But I'm a Man was a Muddy Waters song (Mannish Boy) before it was Bo's, wasn't it?

Dan

[Lord Theo]

Bo Diddley was the originator of the song, "Bo Diddley" his first record, with "I'm A Man" as the its flip side. Both were recorded in March of 1955. When released, "I'm A Man" was supposed to be the "A" side-it didn't work out that way.

[Lord Theo]

"I'm A Man" is a Muddy Waters song that Bo Diddley re-worked. A few months after the release of I'm A Man", Muddy Waters recorded a cover version of it, entitled "Mannish Boy".

[Dan McDonald]

Thanks Theo. I thought that was pretty much the way it worked.

Dan