Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Queen of Rock and Roll | Drunk History: Black Stories

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @catalinacurio
    @catalinacurio 3 роки тому +134

    Rosetta’s needs to be brought to the forefront, I’m so pleased you covered her, thank you!

  • @gertrudelaronge6864
    @gertrudelaronge6864 3 роки тому +36

    Long overdue, and well deserved recognition.
    Thanks for saying it.

  • @benjsmithproductions
    @benjsmithproductions 2 роки тому +21

    1944.... we were still in WW2 when she created Rock N Roll. Everyone alive holding a guitar and aside from playing classical music, owes everything to Tharpe. From Heavy Metal to Ska, from Country to Hip Hop.... all her.

  • @reikisk8r
    @reikisk8r 3 роки тому +42

    Elizabeth Cotton was also amazing and deserves her own Drunk history episode.
    Big smiles

    • @rickilake4838
      @rickilake4838 2 роки тому +2

      This lady made rock and roll,in the 30’s .

  • @cabupa
    @cabupa 3 роки тому +47

    As a former resident of Cotton Plant, AR (my grandmother still lives there), I can confirm the description of the area. Lol.

    • @rileyjamesmusic9333
      @rileyjamesmusic9333 3 роки тому +2

      Hello fellow arkansian!! That's my homestate 😁

    • @agapereign
      @agapereign 2 роки тому +1

      My maternal family is from Cotton Plant.

    • @whoopshey826
      @whoopshey826 2 роки тому +1

      same lol. Helena here.

  • @xfranchise5127
    @xfranchise5127 3 роки тому +36

    This is sad she wasnt given credit and were only just finding out about it

    • @dennisgallagher
      @dennisgallagher 2 роки тому +3

      There were 25,000 paying customers at her wedding/concert when she got married in Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium in the early 50's. She may not have been a big deal among White audiences but she was still a star. Her "problem" was her loyalty to both secular and religious music. Neither audience was totally accepting of the other genre.

    • @MomoBaileybutt
      @MomoBaileybutt 8 місяців тому

      All successful female musicians at the time, sadly.

  • @yapha3284
    @yapha3284 3 роки тому +12

    She tells the story so well lol 🤣💪🏾🎸💃🏾

  • @madmanJSK
    @madmanJSK Рік тому +4

    Do an episode for Bessie Smith next maybe?

  • @JTCurtisMusic
    @JTCurtisMusic 3 роки тому +26

    What? No love for Memphis Minnie? She recorded "When the Levee Breaks" back in 1929... long before Led Zeppelin "Borrowed" the song.
    Much love to Sister Rosetta for her undeniable influence, but there are so many more black women who deserve to be propped up for influencing the genera that came to be known as rock and roll.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 2 роки тому +3

      When the levee breaks was a famous song from even before Rosetta performed it.

    • @dennisgallagher
      @dennisgallagher 2 роки тому +2

      @@yankees29 You mean before Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe? I don't think Sister Rosetta recorded it.

    • @mctransportation9831
      @mctransportation9831 2 роки тому +4

      Yes. As a big Zep fan since I was a teenager, it was like finding out there was no Santa Claus when I was hipped to half their songs being old blues and folk that they had stolen.

    • @johngillespie3409
      @johngillespie3409 2 роки тому +3

      @@mctransportation9831 me too, they stole the introduction to STH from the band Spirit's Taurus when they opened for them.

  • @Mephistopholies
    @Mephistopholies 2 роки тому +3

    She lit a fire in The UK!

  • @MegaTroyhamilton
    @MegaTroyhamilton 2 роки тому +2

    I grew up south of cotton plant, ark. Eudora ar.

  • @profmoriarty6697
    @profmoriarty6697 3 роки тому +3

    She played an awesome white SG I think. She was phenomenal.

  • @agapereign
    @agapereign 2 роки тому +2

    My mother’s family was from Cotton Plant!

  • @Davevegasful
    @Davevegasful 2 роки тому +1

    I first heard of her in the late 80’s

  • @pascualyaque9673
    @pascualyaque9673 7 місяців тому

    Sister Rosetta Tharpe!! Primera rockstar. En llenar un estadio

  • @hupyt
    @hupyt 2 роки тому +1

    I am all the way dead 💀 with this 1 😂😂😂

  • @bienvenidos5130
    @bienvenidos5130 5 місяців тому

    I want Sister Rosetta’s clothes!

  • @garywilburn7384
    @garywilburn7384 Рік тому +1

    This is my favorite version of history 😆 🤣 LOL

  • @tdsiva9051
    @tdsiva9051 4 місяці тому

    Queen

  • @vogelvogeltje
    @vogelvogeltje 2 роки тому +1

    SHE OWNT DAT SHEEIT!

  • @LCSDA
    @LCSDA Рік тому

    Sister Rosetta need her biopick with Eddie Murphy

  • @zeecaptain42
    @zeecaptain42 Рік тому

    Yaa has always been my power Queen ever since I read about her as a 13 year old white leftist learning about racism. I did schoolwork on her. I've brought her up in debates with British family. That one never quite landed though...

  • @sarahgordino6695
    @sarahgordino6695 Рік тому

    and thats facts.

  • @SatansSimgma
    @SatansSimgma 2 роки тому +2

    I put her in there with Chet Atkins and Flatts and Skruggs, one of the best pickers ever. Thorpe and Bessie Smith before her were rebels in thier own community. Like if Cardi B had talent that level of shock from the Preacherman.

  • @lilme7052
    @lilme7052 2 роки тому

    She's never mentioned here! Never. Well done!

  • @martha8156
    @martha8156 3 роки тому +5

    god i love these videos sm

  • @ohmhasmeaning7292
    @ohmhasmeaning7292 Рік тому

    the BIG missing piece is... that in our dialects, "Rock" meant POSSESSION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

  • @terryhanley8579
    @terryhanley8579 2 роки тому

    Very funny ...very true !

  • @rileyjamesmusic9333
    @rileyjamesmusic9333 3 роки тому +2

    This train don't take no sinners...

  • @thomassimpkins4986
    @thomassimpkins4986 2 роки тому +2

    I wish they had gotten someone else to do this. Thanks for covering the sister though

  • @twilfits
    @twilfits 2 роки тому

    What 1st Chicago...then then NYC

  • @michaelpipkin9942
    @michaelpipkin9942 3 роки тому +1

    This is like This is Not Happening without Ari.

  • @blt4life112
    @blt4life112 3 роки тому +5

    Everytime I hear someone say "you're welcome", it's never from the person who actually accomplished the task.

  • @A.mCoastal
    @A.mCoastal 10 місяців тому

    She talks like she actually heard or liked her music lol

  • @THEWRESTLERSWRESTLER
    @THEWRESTLERSWRESTLER 3 роки тому +9

    Dis, IS, XACTLY, Y, I call black woman GodDESS"s. They R da creators 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @Davevegasful
    @Davevegasful 2 роки тому +1

    W

  • @angelonicassio7131
    @angelonicassio7131 3 роки тому +2

    That guy was drunk? Stoned, maybe...

  • @dennisgallagher
    @dennisgallagher 2 роки тому +1

    I have been a huge Sister Rosetta Tharpe fan for over 50 years. She is fantastic, but if her records were rock and roll so were the records of Freddy Slack and the Will Bradley Trio who first recorded the Rolling Stones/Chuck Berry hit "Down The Road A Piece" in 1940.

  • @jaybrown3341
    @jaybrown3341 3 роки тому +6

    Great history..why make this into comedy?...this is a real freakin story about a black musical goddess. Wtf

  • @Davevegasful
    @Davevegasful 2 роки тому

    My Mt. Rushmore of R&R: Chuck Berry Little Richard Elvis AND Sister Rosetta Tharp.

  • @prodsyvnsvn2911
    @prodsyvnsvn2911 3 роки тому

    Wait why’s rapman there?😂😂

  • @corirosario1985
    @corirosario1985 3 роки тому +7

    the amount of misinformation and representation is astounding Sister Rosetta Tharpe was and incredible performer and Rock and Roll owes her so much. If you know anything, you'll know that popular rock and roll artists including Elvis were inspired by her music and guitar picking. This video is kind of a slap to the face to what she stood for and tried to represent, I love that she's finally being heard of but maybe not bring so much unnecessary comedy when teaching history.

    • @agapereign
      @agapereign 2 роки тому +9

      You DO know this is done by COMEDY CENTRAL, right?!? ALL of their episodes are like this. 🙄😂😂😂

    • @nightsmelodyful
      @nightsmelodyful 2 роки тому +3

      I just watched a vid by bailey sairen that led me here

    • @SatansSimgma
      @SatansSimgma 2 роки тому

      Get over yourself.

    • @TheRedScareIsAlive
      @TheRedScareIsAlive 2 роки тому +3

      "Unnecessary comedy"...on Comedy Central? 😭

  • @rodneyhill5960
    @rodneyhill5960 2 роки тому +2

    No need to disrespect Elvis just because he respected her so much he felt compelled to emulate her. Imitation is the best form of flattery.

    • @TheRedScareIsAlive
      @TheRedScareIsAlive 2 роки тому +8

      He was a thief...especially of black artists. Imitation without reparation is just stealing.
      Imitating black people without crediting or paying us is NOT flattering

  • @scsu5085
    @scsu5085 2 роки тому +1

    ////// Sistor Tharpe changed her sound AFTER Rock & Roll became it's own genre. It's a misunderstanding I keep seeing on YT, where they show her Later in life (after rock became it's own genre in 1955) & she's covering her earlier songs from 1930s/40s that everyone concludes she was doing Rock back in the 30s & 40s. One example is showing her video in the UK doing Strange Things and This Train in 1964 (which is 9 years aftrer rock began) and everyone concludes she played this way back in the 1930s , which is incorrect. Her early style prior to 1955 sounded like rural accoustic blues, not electric rock & roll.
    But Compare how she did the songs early(30s) & later (50s & beyond) and you'll hear she was influenced by pioneers of rock Bill Hailey, Elvis, Chuck, LRichard, Carl Perkins, & a few other obscure artists who accidentally stumbled onto rock... Billboard Music & Historians identify 1955 as the beginning of the rock era, and with a few accidental exceptions here & there, rock didn't solidify until that year.
    Another misconception is that Blues & Rock are identical. Rock & Roll and Popular music did not come from only 1 source, it also evolved from contributions from many other artists from different cultures & music styles, such as Appalachin Music (mountain music, bluegrass), Country Music, Pop Music, operatic music, BigBand music, and of course blues, which played a big part.

  • @smoking566
    @smoking566 3 роки тому +2

    I didn’t take this seriously and turned it off and isn’t helping people learn

  • @dun8410
    @dun8410 3 роки тому

    Where is Derek Walters???

    • @carrierogers874
      @carrierogers874 3 роки тому +3

      He's taking a break. Let the man recover from his hangover.

    • @comedycentraluk
      @comedycentraluk  3 роки тому +2

      This is a special UK series

    • @dun8410
      @dun8410 3 роки тому

      @@carrierogers874 not having it.

    • @dun8410
      @dun8410 3 роки тому

      @@comedycentraluk Oh Alright.

  • @ORonyOficial
    @ORonyOficial Рік тому

    this lack of respect

  • @jamesz.williams8746
    @jamesz.williams8746 2 роки тому

    This was so annoying, and aggy.

  • @TT-js4jn
    @TT-js4jn 2 роки тому

    Sister I want to hear your story but I can't handle it coming out of your mouth dirty so I'm out

  • @DM-it1qf
    @DM-it1qf 3 роки тому +3

    “Hello. My name is Desiree Birch…and I am… ✨ *f u c k e d u p* ✨”