He left out a verse in this live version. After "Before he left, he went and named me Sue", the next verse is "Well, he must have thought that it was quite a joke and it got a lot of laughs from a lot of folks, seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I'd turn red and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue."
Another vintage rapper you may enjoy is Jimmie Dean (of Jimmie Dean sausage fame) telling the story of Big Bad John from back in 1961. Before that was Charlie Ryan in 1955 with Hot Rod Lincoln. “Pappa said son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop drivin’ that hot rod Lincoln.”
I'm only 30, but you're taking me back to my childhood! I knew Hot Rod Lincoln from Commander Cody and his lost planet airmen. It was one of my FAVORITE songs growing up! I also loved Jimmy Dean! My personal favorite was P.T. 109, but you really need to hear big bad John first! I also loved The Cajun Queen!
And yes, most of my friends thought I was crazy (they might be right, but for other reasons!) They all said I had weird taste in music, so I'd crank it UP!!! Lol
@LeannWebb61 I'm also a big fan of what we call "trucker Songs." We joked that they were the precursor to rap because they didn't really sing. It was spoken poetry set to music! C.W. McCall and Red Sovine are the two that come to mind. I was an over the road driver for a while, and I can honestly say truckers can be the biggest softie tough guys you'll ever meet! I mean that in a good way! I still cry when I listen to some of their songs!
the guitarist to Jonny's left is Carl Perkins writer of Blue Suede Shoes and sold the first Million song for Sun Records before Elvis sang Blue Suede Shoes. Carl was part of the "Million Dollar Quartet": Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash all four Beatles were members of Carl Perkins' fan club and became close friends with the rockabilly legend. They recorded more songs by Perkins than any other composer, aside from their own works
People will argue and say he was country, but his original career started out touring with the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little RIchard and they partied like they were setting the satndard for acts like The Who, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath and others. Not a country act in sight. By the 70s to 80s he'd slid into a mid-point between rock and country, with a strong folk base. His cover of Hurt, oringally by the Nine Inch Nails is an epic that even Trent Reznor is in awe of.
I met Johnny many years ago and I became very good friends with Carl Perkins, the man on guitar, and his drummer, WS Holland. The amazing thing about this video is that they had never played it before. Johnny had the lyrics that Shel Silverstein had given him the day before. The rest of the band had never heard the lyrics. There was actually no music written. Johnny just told the band, play a standard country chord progression. He was reading the lyrics. You can tell if you watch him. He improv’d and it became one of his biggest hits. Just thought I’d share.
To the roots of rapping: In the late 1800s in Germany, a style called "Sprechgesang" became popular, where rythmically spoken texts were accompanied by matching music. But musically accompanied storytelling is probably as old as the instruments able to do so.
Did you know that Merle Haggard (a later country music star) was a prisoner at San Quentin when Johnny did this performance? The two didn't meet at that time, but it influenced Merle's career in music. Also, because of your guest's name, you should check out Neil Diamond performing his song "Soolaimon".
Finest performance inside Folsom State Prison ! You really should review Cocaine Blues . Same gig. 4 felonies in the first 20 seconds because Johnny was LEGEND .
If you're talking about spoken word, the 1st was German composer Englebert Humperdink's stage play musical in the late 1880s. Now that's a rapper name! 😂
Norse Flyghting from the 1300s and prior was battle rap full of boasts and insults. the Loksenna is the saga where Loki Flyghts on the rest of the Aesir
Yeah, the problem (like is often the case) goes to definitions and refining those definitions to het an agreed-upon understanding of what we mean by a word. "Rap" tends to be associated with a certain type of flow developed in hip hop, but even that has evolved a lot over the years. Heck, Snoop and them in the '90s sounded nothing like the first bug rappers in the '80s. I think a lot of music traditions have had spoken word, recitation traditions, with various types of melodic "flow." Then you also get into the debate of rap versus hip hop, and does the former really exist outside of the context of the other.
"Talkin' Blues" is what this form of music is called. Christopher Allen Bouchillon, "The Talking Comedian of the South" recorded "Talking Blues", Columbia Records in Atlanta in 1926. Lead Belly (Black) and Woodrow Guthrie (White) were famous performers of this genre.
I loved this conversation. I think there are a lot of artists in folk and country that are storytellers as much as they are singers. That tradition continues but it’s been diluted in time.
This was a great reaction, guys. I first heard this when I was 9 (1969). My brothers and I knew all of Johnny's songs. Check out Johnny Cash, Man in Black, and then look into the recordings he made with Rick Rubin before he died. One of those is Hurt. I am partial to God's Gonna Cut You Down, both the song and the slide show. Peace and Kindness.
I still get a laugh out of this song! Another that I think you'd enjoy is Tennessee Ernie Ford singing "Children Go where I send Thee" on live (B&W) TV with a bunch of kids. No matter how often I watch it I still laugh 'til I cry!
Great video! A Boy Named Sue is a song that belongs in American culture, ALL American culture, and I am very happy to see it here. Music is the great unifier, and we need it now more than ever before. Bravo!
Love this performance! Johnny Cash is the real deal. I recommend listening to the country “super group”: The Highway Men. You got the best and baddest country superstars in one place, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. But for early “rappers” check out the live version of Charlie Daniels in The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Your conversation made me think of "Colorado Kool Aid" by Johnny Paycheck. It is another song that involves an ear being cut off. I recommend it as a reaction.
Prior to "Boy named Sue" there was a type of folk music called Talking Blues. I just found an old Recording on UA-cam from 1926! That might actually be the original pre-cursor to Rap. Maybe.
Thanks for this. You should listen to the songs he recorded in his studio later in his life. Not for an album just ones he wanted preserved I guess. They were the songs that he loved growing up or that made him who he was as an artist. Some are just crazy good. Just him and a guitar.
Many years ago I had a supervisor who we called Lee but one day a woman called and wanted to talk to Sandra. I told her there wasn’t a Sandra who worked there but another employee heard the conversation and said “She wants to talk to Lee”. The caller was Lee’s mother and his legal first name was Sandra.
RIP to legends Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash Shel Silverstein did children’s poems as an author, but he was also an adult so he did things like The Great Smoke Off, which was for adults
The second verse was left out in the video seems Verse 2: “Well, he musta thought that it was quite a joke / An’ it got a lot of laughs from lots a folks / Seems I had to fight my whole life through / Some gal would giggle and I’d get red / And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head / I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”
Bob Dylan... Subterranean homesick blues, and ..Its all right ma (im only bleeding) have been named as 60s rap. have you heard Johnny Cash man in black ?
My dad was a big Johnny Cash fan, dad was a self-taught guitar player (country and gospel) until I was 14 I had only heard a couple rock n roll songs cause we didnt listen to the devil music, grew on on Johnny
My dad was old school country, and he would drive me to school. This song would come on sometimes and he would look at me and aren't you glad your name is Bill? I knew you would like this.🤣
OMG, the memories. He was a prisoner. at San Quentin. As an older woman, it's great to see you guys listening to Johnny Cash. My dad used to play the records so much they would warp. He's replace them and go through it all over again.
lol I laughed at the logic that you were trying to make of this dilemma. Lol he could have just changed his name. That was hilarious. 90% of the people that listen to that song don’t even think about that. Great observation. lol 😂 😂😂
I love it when reactors don't pause the videos! It ruins the flow =) On a side note, as a 54 year old woman named Michael, I SO relate to this song! lol
Bob Dylan:1965's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Is the first rap I remember. "The pump don't work cuz the vandals took the handle" is one of the greatest lyrics ever. Or maybe it's "Man wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten". Or maybe.............
I'll say he was laying the foundation of rapping. He put a stone or two down but more of a voice of the people. Rapper esk of putting a story on the beat in his way so you know what he means and are entertained. Really told our story as a people. Ira haze not the spelling but great story
Try Marie Leveau sung by Bobby Bare, its also written by Shel Sylverstein. The whole Old Dogs album was written by Silverstein and performed by Bobby Bare, Mel Tillis, Jerry Reed, Waylon Jennings. All fun songs
I would love to see you react to Tom Waits. He is a brilliant storyteller and his wit is completely next level. Songs to check out would be Chocolat Jesus, God's Away on Business, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Hell Broke Luce (which has a hell of a back story you should read up on beforehand)... really anything from his catalog is brilliant and unbelievably unique. Some people get thrown off by his voice at first, but it has its own charm. The man is also a fantastic actor.
I wasn't sure how far back on your reaction videos you review the comments. I just saw you and your son's reaction to Hurt. Great song, video depiction of a glimpse into the wonderful and sometimes tragic life of a great musician. You should check out Five for Fighting's "100 Years." It's guaranteed to make you reflect upon your life and appreciate every moment in the mere flash in the pan you have on this beautiful planet.
In the 60s Bing Crosby did "There's Nothing That I Haven't sung About." About a minute and a half he raps in most pleasant way. Check out Elvis in 1967 doing "U.S. Male" and take a lesson.
You should check out the writer of the song Shel Silverstein. Wrote music, wrote poetry, wrote for Playboy and several children's books like The Giving Tree, and Where The Sidewalk ends. Shel duets this song with Johnny plus he has original songs of his own like The Great Smoke Off and The Father Of A Boy Named Sue.
I have seen what could be called rap in a Marx Brothers' movie dating back to the 40s. In fact, going back to classical opera music, spoken parts were called "recitative".
The first official mainstream Rap song was done by the Blondie .. A British band .. The song was actually called “Rapture” .. Love your reaction… Johnny Cash here was more of a folk story teller similar to Neil Young .. 😀
That is country music brother. hits ya with a moral everytime lol.. might not always be useful. but there's usually a message in there somewhere lol.. God bless ya
JC ... he was one of the greatest Gangsta Rappers out there! :) You should check out some BLUES, too ... like "The Elektrid Mud Cats - Mannish Boy" < Chuck D, Common, Rahzel and Kyle Jason with the Rotary Connection performing a Muddy Waters song!
Let me drop this here, for your consideration: you should look into a genre of music called "The Talkin' Blues". This style of music goes back over a century. It's a blues/bluegrass/country genre that was popularized by a southern white fella, but it migrated from southern black culture. Bluegrass has its roots in southern Appalachian music, itself derived from folk songs, lyrics, and styles that were brought over by colonial pioneers (Scots-Irish) who pushed the eastern boundaries into the Indian territories of the Appalachian Mountain range. These were dirt-poor people who predated the rich plantation owners and, so long as they remained poor, were welcoming of others. They mixed with the poor regardless of color, and they shared music. So, it makes sense bluegrass adopted some black characteristics. Talkin' Blues was often comedic, sometimes political, and generally arose from experiences and viewpoints of the common man. Usually the format was simple: a basic repetitive tune played as backing on a stringed instrument with a solo vocal that was 'talked' rather than sung. Sometimes there was a sung refrain, but mostly the lyrics were spoken. Johnny Cash is using that style in this Shel Silverstein cover, but it was a style also employed in early Bob Dylan songs in the 1960s and also by others, including Jim Stafford in his comedic 1970s song "The Wildwood Weed". You should do reactions to these other sources. Johnny Cash was BORN 'J. R. Cash'; I don't know if you can call it a 'rapper name' if 'Cash' was your daddy's last name. Now, Johnny Paycheck... I'm female, but my mother gave me an unusual name, so I've lived that situation. My whole life, I've dealt with a name that when people hear it they can't spell it and when they see it they can't pronounce it. I've been citing 'A Boy Named Sue" to explain my problem to people. But I've also admitted that having an unusual name put starch in my backbone. I was 5'-7", but even boyfriends who knew me well thought I was 5'-10" or 6ft; it's the impression I give. On at least two occasions I chased away muggers just by standing and turning toward them. When you have to stand up for your name, people sense the resolve in you in all matters. A name that made me miserable as a child put that resolve and strength in me. It wasn't my mom's intention, but that's how it played out, and yes it was a gift.
Krizz, you need to introduce Suli to a true early rapper country rapper...........Charlie Daniels, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Charlie was " spittin' some bars"!! 😄
It all kinda depends on where you draw the line between rap, recitation, and "talking blues." It was a few of these older dudes that actually did it with some rhythm to it and could really pass for rap and Johnny is definitely one. Charlie Daniels was good at that too. There are people that think anyone can do rap and to that, all I have to say is listen to Mark O'Connor's "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia" and hear the difference between Johnny Cash and Marty Stuart doing spoken lyrics 😂 no disrespect to Marty, great singer and musician, but he's proof that the "rapping" delivery is a talent not everyone has
He left out a verse in this live version. After "Before he left, he went and named me Sue", the next verse is "Well, he must have thought that it was quite a joke and it got a lot of laughs from a lot of folks, seems I had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and I'd turn red and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue."
Johnny Cash was one of a kind for sure.
Yes!!!
Good catch
Yes ! Highly important verse.
I thought Johnny Cash only performed that once. Only recorded it once.
this song was written by Shel Silverstein, a musician and poet who wrote the book Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel is one of the most underrated song writers. Most people don't even know he wrote songs
@deadheadfor2oh948 yeah it's crazy how folks only know his poetry
He also wrote most of Dr. Hook's hits.
@Jacob_Junge learn something new every day !!! ❤ lovvve me some Dr Hook !!!!!
Imagine that A Boy Named Sue and THE GIVING TREE came from the same brain.
Another vintage rapper you may enjoy is Jimmie Dean (of Jimmie Dean sausage fame) telling the story of Big Bad John from back in 1961.
Before that was Charlie Ryan in 1955 with Hot Rod Lincoln. “Pappa said son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop drivin’ that hot rod Lincoln.”
I'm only 30, but you're taking me back to my childhood! I knew Hot Rod Lincoln from Commander Cody and his lost planet airmen. It was one of my FAVORITE songs growing up!
I also loved Jimmy Dean! My personal favorite was P.T. 109, but you really need to hear big bad John first! I also loved The Cajun Queen!
And yes, most of my friends thought I was crazy (they might be right, but for other reasons!) They all said I had weird taste in music, so I'd crank it UP!!! Lol
@@MrNiccholas I’m 63, the same age as Jimmie Dean’s song. Back then we called songs like that “Talking songs” instead of rap. 😁
@LeannWebb61 I'm also a big fan of what we call "trucker Songs." We joked that they were the precursor to rap because they didn't really sing. It was spoken poetry set to music! C.W. McCall and Red Sovine are the two that come to mind. I was an over the road driver for a while, and I can honestly say truckers can be the biggest softie tough guys you'll ever meet! I mean that in a good way! I still cry when I listen to some of their songs!
Yes, and the follow-up to “Big Bad John” - “Cajun Queen”!
“Phantom 409” is another awesome one!
Johnny was a bad ass story teller, didn't hold back.
"...And we crashed through the walls and into the street
Kicking and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer" Now that's a lyric.
That was our favorite song line all the time when we were seniors in HS. (that's the year it hit #1)
AMEN BROTHER!! 🍺🤠🇺🇸💥
I love that one too! Great poetic imagery!
This was right after he got clean till the day he died. Johnny Cash sounds like a stage name but that was his birth name.
the guitarist to Jonny's left is Carl Perkins writer of Blue Suede Shoes and sold the first Million song for Sun Records before Elvis sang Blue Suede Shoes.
Carl was part of the "Million Dollar Quartet": Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash
all four Beatles were members of Carl Perkins' fan club and became close friends with the rockabilly legend. They recorded more songs by Perkins than any other composer, aside from their own works
So many great acts from Sun records including Roy Orbison. and one of my favorites the often forgotten Narvel Felts.
Johnny is a national treasure. He loved all types of music and musicians. 💯🤠
He is one of the best country singers back in the day. Love Johnny Cash..
Cash was a 50s rock and roll star, cash was a founding member of rock n roll
Although he touched on many genres, surely he was primarily Country, more than rock and roll ?
Rockabilly. And that's a stretch
People will argue and say he was country, but his original career started out touring with the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little RIchard and they partied like they were setting the satndard for acts like The Who, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath and others. Not a country act in sight. By the 70s to 80s he'd slid into a mid-point between rock and country, with a strong folk base. His cover of Hurt, oringally by the Nine Inch Nails is an epic that even Trent Reznor is in awe of.
I met Johnny many years ago and I became very good friends with Carl Perkins, the man on guitar, and his drummer, WS Holland. The amazing thing about this video is that they had never played it before. Johnny had the lyrics that Shel Silverstein had given him the day before. The rest of the band had never heard the lyrics. There was actually no music written. Johnny just told the band, play a standard country chord progression. He was reading the lyrics. You can tell if you watch him. He improv’d and it became one of his biggest hits. Just thought I’d share.
"I know that I've fought tougher men, but I really couldn't tell you when..." I love that line.
To the roots of rapping: In the late 1800s in Germany, a style called "Sprechgesang" became popular, where rythmically spoken texts were accompanied by matching music. But musically accompanied storytelling is probably as old as the instruments able to do so.
Homer is always pictured with a lyre.
Did you know that Merle Haggard (a later country music star) was a prisoner at San Quentin when Johnny did this performance? The two didn't meet at that time, but it influenced Merle's career in music. Also, because of your guest's name, you should check out Neil Diamond performing his song "Soolaimon".
Yes, Merle was sent to San Quentin after attempting to escape from Bakersfield jail.
Sounds about right, 😂 but apparently I’m a distant relative of haggard. The harps are all related. He has a song grandma harp.
Finest performance inside Folsom State Prison ! You really should review Cocaine Blues . Same gig. 4 felonies in the first 20 seconds because Johnny was LEGEND .
this was in San Quentin prison, February 24, 1969
Johnny Cash is an amazing story teller
If you're talking about spoken word, the 1st was German composer Englebert Humperdink's stage play musical in the late 1880s. Now that's a rapper name! 😂
Norse Flyghting from the 1300s and prior was battle rap full of boasts and insults. the Loksenna is the saga where Loki Flyghts on the rest of the Aesir
Englebert Humperdink is also the name of a singer in the 70s. He had a few hits. "Am I That Easy To Forget," being my favorite.
Yeah, the problem (like is often the case) goes to definitions and refining those definitions to het an agreed-upon understanding of what we mean by a word. "Rap" tends to be associated with a certain type of flow developed in hip hop, but even that has evolved a lot over the years. Heck, Snoop and them in the '90s sounded nothing like the first bug rappers in the '80s. I think a lot of music traditions have had spoken word, recitation traditions, with various types of melodic "flow." Then you also get into the debate of rap versus hip hop, and does the former really exist outside of the context of the other.
Oh, and Humper "DANK" would be a great rapper name.
"Talkin' Blues" is what this form of music is called.
Christopher Allen Bouchillon, "The Talking Comedian of the South" recorded "Talking Blues", Columbia Records in Atlanta in 1926.
Lead Belly (Black) and Woodrow Guthrie (White) were famous performers of this genre.
I loved this conversation. I think there are a lot of artists in folk and country that are storytellers as much as they are singers. That tradition continues but it’s been diluted in time.
This was a great reaction, guys. I first heard this when I was 9 (1969). My brothers and I knew all of Johnny's songs. Check out Johnny Cash, Man in Black, and then look into the recordings he made with Rick Rubin before he died. One of those is Hurt. I am partial to God's Gonna Cut You Down, both the song and the slide show. Peace and Kindness.
Great reaction..
BOB DYLAN ..first rapper...
Subterranean Homesick Blues..
Early 60:s
That song and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleedin'") from the same period.
It started LONG BEFORE THAT.... Look up "Beatniks". Poetry to music has been around for a VERY long time, even BEFORE the Beatnik era.
I still get a laugh out of this song! Another that I think you'd enjoy is Tennessee Ernie Ford singing "Children Go where I send Thee" on live (B&W) TV with a bunch of kids. No matter how often I watch it I still laugh 'til I cry!
Great video! A Boy Named Sue is a song that belongs in American culture, ALL American culture, and I am very happy to see it here. Music is the great unifier, and we need it now more than ever before. Bravo!
Love this performance! Johnny Cash is the real deal. I recommend listening to the country “super group”: The Highway Men. You got the best and baddest country superstars in one place, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. But for early “rappers” check out the live version of Charlie Daniels in The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Your conversation made me think of "Colorado Kool Aid" by Johnny Paycheck. It is another song that involves an ear being cut off. I recommend it as a reaction.
Prior to "Boy named Sue" there was a type of folk music called Talking Blues. I just found an old Recording on UA-cam from 1926! That might actually be the original pre-cursor to Rap. Maybe.
😎😎😎 *Outlaw Country at it's best!* 😎😎😎
Thanks for this. You should listen to the songs he recorded in his studio later in his life. Not for an album just ones he wanted preserved I guess. They were the songs that he loved growing up or that made him who he was as an artist. Some are just crazy good. Just him and a guitar.
SWEET YOU GUYS DID IT THANK YOU!
Many years ago I had a supervisor who we called Lee but one day a woman called and wanted to talk to Sandra. I told her there wasn’t a Sandra who worked there but another employee heard the conversation and said “She wants to talk to Lee”. The caller was Lee’s mother and his legal first name was Sandra.
RIP to legends Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash Shel Silverstein did children’s poems as an author, but he was also an adult so he did things like The Great Smoke Off, which was for adults
Loved Shel. And the musical rendition of his poem, The Unicorn, by The Irish Rovers.
Johnny Cash was one of a kind for sure.
When my son was born I named him Kelly. People said he would bully him,he grew to 6" 2. He weighed. 12 lbs. 4oz. He didn't get bullied. 👍😍😍
Short little sucker at 6 inches!! I guess that explains his weighing only 12 lbs.. 🙂
I've been listening to Johnny Cash for almost sixty years, you guys got it dead right. Never thought of it like that. Perfect setup guys!
Love this song.
The second verse was left out in the video seems Verse 2: “Well, he musta thought that it was quite a joke / An’ it got a lot of laughs from lots a folks / Seems I had to fight my whole life through / Some gal would giggle and I’d get red / And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head / I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”
Once at a soccer game, a guy and I worked to get all the lyrics. Got most of them.
Song written by Shel Silverstein ! Loved his books as a kid!
you hear pt2 sung byr Shel? from the dads pov
You guys are a hoot! This is my new favorite channel!
Bob Dylan... Subterranean homesick blues, and ..Its all right ma (im only bleeding) have been named as 60s rap. have you heard Johnny Cash man in black ?
'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.'
@@flyingardilla143 yes, and money doesn't talk it swears, is one of my favourites
I like your take on Johnny Cash. He rocks. (so to speak)
My dad was a big Johnny Cash fan, dad was a self-taught guitar player (country and gospel) until I was 14 I had only heard a couple rock n roll songs cause we didnt listen to the devil music, grew on on Johnny
Hahahaha a great artist ! Great song love your reaction!
Great reaction! "He could have just changed his name"
My dad was old school country, and he would drive me to school. This song would come on sometimes and he would look at me and aren't you glad your name is Bill?
I knew you would like this.🤣
OMG, the memories. He was a prisoner. at San Quentin. As an older woman, it's great to see you guys listening to Johnny Cash. My dad used to play the records so much they would warp. He's replace them and go through it all over again.
Great reaction, fellas!!! More please.
Listen to Johnny Cash - "Get Rhythm" That's him rapping!
Dig into the "Talking Blues." It started in the 1920's.
Enjoyed this review w you 2 ! ❤❤
Krizz! Rap in the 60’s that you GOT to see! Bob Dylan “Subterranean Homesick Blues”! Positively rap. Make sure to see the video, not just audio.
After you check out Subterranean Homesick Blues (with video) check out Weird Al Yankovic’s parody “Bob” with video. You’ll crack up!
YUP
lol I laughed at the logic that you were trying to make of this dilemma. Lol he could have just changed his name. That was hilarious. 90% of the people that listen to that song don’t even think about that. Great observation. lol 😂 😂😂
Try Red Sovine who is an old country story teller. 3 of his most famous stories: "Teddy Bear", "Roses for Mama" and "Phantom 309"
Suli was awesome, great reaction guys.
I'm Loving that Jersey, my friend
Love your reactions...keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
Watch his last great work covering 'Hurt', he was not afraid to lay things on the line, a good though tortured man imho.
Great reaction!! Have you heard his "Cocaine Blues" yet? It will surprise you!
I love it when reactors don't pause the videos! It ruins the flow =) On a side note, as a 54 year old woman named Michael, I SO relate to this song! lol
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve practiced this song. Love this song!
Johnny Cash: The Man in Black!
Johnny cash best rap song.... ive been everywhere...
Bob Dylan:1965's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Is the first rap I remember. "The pump don't work cuz the vandals took the handle" is one of the greatest lyrics ever. Or maybe it's "Man wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten". Or maybe.............
I'll say he was laying the foundation of rapping. He put a stone or two down but more of a voice of the people. Rapper esk of putting a story on the beat in his way so you know what he means and are entertained. Really told our story as a people. Ira haze not the spelling but great story
Best country storytelling rapper Jerry reed she got the goldmine I got the shaft. You will love it
Try Marie Leveau sung by Bobby Bare, its also written by Shel Sylverstein. The whole Old Dogs album was written by Silverstein and performed by Bobby Bare, Mel Tillis, Jerry Reed, Waylon Jennings. All fun songs
Thx Kris! Dylan in 1961 was “spitting!”
Goes way back to the 30's. They called it "TALKIN' BLUES'. Bob Dylan was great at it. "Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine".
God I had forgotten about that song. I had first heard that song way back in the 60s, I think.
I've been saying "Man in black" is the first Hip Hop song ever written for years! It's a looping beat and a dude just dropping truth and knowledge
I would love to see you react to Tom Waits. He is a brilliant storyteller and his wit is completely next level. Songs to check out would be Chocolat Jesus, God's Away on Business, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Hell Broke Luce (which has a hell of a back story you should read up on beforehand)... really anything from his catalog is brilliant and unbelievably unique. Some people get thrown off by his voice at first, but it has its own charm. The man is also a fantastic actor.
A couple more of the older cool country type of rap reciting songs recommended are 16 Tons / Ernie Ford Big John / Jimmy Dean ,, they get the views
One of the funniest songs ive ever heard, followed by She Got the Goldmine
1982 by Jerry Reed
I love this one!
I wasn't sure how far back on your reaction videos you review the comments. I just saw you and your son's reaction to Hurt. Great song, video depiction of a glimpse into the wonderful and sometimes tragic life of a great musician. You should check out Five for Fighting's "100 Years." It's guaranteed to make you reflect upon your life and appreciate every moment in the mere flash in the pan you have on this beautiful planet.
This from Folsom prison. Ultimate gangster move to do a concert in a prison for the inmates. He was the man in black. A true legend.
In the 60s Bing Crosby did "There's Nothing That I Haven't sung About." About a minute and a half he raps in most pleasant way.
Check out Elvis in 1967 doing "U.S. Male" and take a lesson.
Saludos desde Colombia parcero 👊🏻🔥
He's also the original MIB
Amazing Song!!!
You should check out the writer of the song Shel Silverstein. Wrote music, wrote poetry, wrote for Playboy and several children's books like The Giving Tree, and Where The Sidewalk ends. Shel duets this song with Johnny plus he has original songs of his own like The Great Smoke Off and The Father Of A Boy Named Sue.
I have seen what could be called rap in a Marx Brothers' movie dating back to the 40s. In fact, going back to classical opera music, spoken parts were called "recitative".
Some good old folk story telling... something that's definitely got a good kin to Hip-hop IMO
The first official mainstream Rap song was done by the Blondie .. A British band .. The song was actually called “Rapture” .. Love your reaction… Johnny Cash here was more of a folk story teller similar to Neil Young .. 😀
Howdy, Krizz. Now you need to watch "Father of a Boy Named Sue" by Cash.
Krizz, you would also love Jim Croce who is a great story teller. Try him out. Beautiful songs...
That era had a number of semi-spoken story teller songs. Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to mind.
That is country music brother. hits ya with a moral everytime lol.. might not always be useful. but there's usually a message in there somewhere lol.. God bless ya
JC ... he was one of the greatest Gangsta Rappers out there! :)
You should check out some BLUES, too ... like "The Elektrid Mud Cats - Mannish Boy" < Chuck D, Common, Rahzel and Kyle Jason with the Rotary Connection performing a Muddy Waters song!
You got to check out Johnny's song,"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" and Roger Miller's song,"King of the Road"
First rapper… you might be thinking of Cab Calloway. He was the progenitor of Scat… which became rap of a sort.
The Man In Black!
***ONE PIECE AT A TIME*** a more fun side of Johnny! This one is for the Gangstas! DO NOT MISS THIS :)
I never thought about that he could have just said a different name!😂
You cant go wrong with Johnny Cash!
Let me drop this here, for your consideration: you should look into a genre of music called "The Talkin' Blues".
This style of music goes back over a century. It's a blues/bluegrass/country genre that was popularized by a southern white fella, but it migrated from southern black culture.
Bluegrass has its roots in southern Appalachian music, itself derived from folk songs, lyrics, and styles that were brought over by colonial pioneers (Scots-Irish) who pushed the eastern boundaries into the Indian territories of the Appalachian Mountain range. These were dirt-poor people who predated the rich plantation owners and, so long as they remained poor, were welcoming of others. They mixed with the poor regardless of color, and they shared music. So, it makes sense bluegrass adopted some black characteristics.
Talkin' Blues was often comedic, sometimes political, and generally arose from experiences and viewpoints of the common man. Usually the format was simple: a basic repetitive tune played as backing on a stringed instrument with a solo vocal that was 'talked' rather than sung. Sometimes there was a sung refrain, but mostly the lyrics were spoken. Johnny Cash is using that style in this Shel Silverstein cover, but it was a style also employed in early Bob Dylan songs in the 1960s and also by others, including Jim Stafford in his comedic 1970s song "The Wildwood Weed". You should do reactions to these other sources.
Johnny Cash was BORN 'J. R. Cash'; I don't know if you can call it a 'rapper name' if 'Cash' was your daddy's last name.
Now, Johnny Paycheck...
I'm female, but my mother gave me an unusual name, so I've lived that situation.
My whole life, I've dealt with a name that when people hear it they can't spell it and when they see it they can't pronounce it.
I've been citing 'A Boy Named Sue" to explain my problem to people. But I've also admitted that having an unusual name put starch in my backbone. I was 5'-7", but even boyfriends who knew me well thought I was 5'-10" or 6ft; it's the impression I give. On at least two occasions I chased away muggers just by standing and turning toward them.
When you have to stand up for your name, people sense the resolve in you in all matters. A name that made me miserable as a child put that resolve and strength in me. It wasn't my mom's intention, but that's how it played out, and yes it was a gift.
Krizz, you need to introduce Suli to a true early rapper country rapper...........Charlie Daniels, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Charlie was " spittin' some bars"!! 😄
This was the first time he played this song with the band
MAN IN BLACK ONE AMERICAN BADASS!
Love the "Man in Black" but along the same storyline, check out "The Coward of the County" by Kenny Rodgers. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
It all kinda depends on where you draw the line between rap, recitation, and "talking blues." It was a few of these older dudes that actually did it with some rhythm to it and could really pass for rap and Johnny is definitely one. Charlie Daniels was good at that too. There are people that think anyone can do rap and to that, all I have to say is listen to Mark O'Connor's "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia" and hear the difference between Johnny Cash and Marty Stuart doing spoken lyrics 😂 no disrespect to Marty, great singer and musician, but he's proof that the "rapping" delivery is a talent not everyone has
Yall listening on Elvis and Johnny, yall got, GOT TO, check out Jerry lee lewis, live performance is recommended to get the full experience.