Preacher and the Bear
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Golden Gate Quartet The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one…
Golden Gate Quartet & The Golden Gate Quartet The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one…
Guardian Well the Preacher went a-huntin' On a Sunday morn Though i…
Rufus Thomas A preacher, he went huntin' It was on a Sunday morn' Of…

The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one…
The Golden Gate Quartet The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one…
The Jubalaires Old time re-li-li-ligion brother that-a, Old time re-li-li-l…

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Comments from YouTube:

@AltoonaYourPiano

4y↑18

It's amazing how many modern genres of music have roots in religious music, the first rap song is a gospel song and so are some of the oldest rock and roll songs.

@HerrinSchadenfreude

10y↑46

The lyrics have nothing to do with Rapper's Delight but the cadence is almost identical. Wow. I LOVE this song and the harmonizing and cadence in the chorus is awesome

@datnyugga

9y↑3

Kascha K The melody is the same but some of Rapper's Delight lyrics come from Grandmaster Caz.

@oreally8605

Looks like Crappers delight STOLE from Ggq

@sassyears9573

And this was not unusual - this was a recognized style back in the day.

@DannyJustiniano

7y↑17

This is amazing, not only is it literally a rap from 1937, but since pop music today includes rapping, it's also like today's pop.

@tabascocat5102

1y↑3

Heard this on Angel radio. Thought I'd come and search for it to see if others thought the same about it being proto-rap. You did!

@nigelsaunders3573

8y↑7

Beautiful song; great harmonies and the lyrics are smashingly rhythmic...definitely very rap-like. Didn't Moby sample this for one of his songs?

@RobertoGinsburg

7y↑1

IS RAP...Only that not on the Hip Hop context.

@2nvsolo451

3y↑7

This is so DOPE. This is for the culture

@cosmicenttv

7y↑6

Anybody hears this song knows EXACTLY what connection to #HipHop it has...!

@maxwellndlovu4461

2y↑1

I thank you for this recording Wouter Klein.

@jamalx5407

7y↑68

the rap is in the same exact melody as rappers delight this cannot be a coincidence!

@TheRunner75

5y↑5

@TheStylordznetwork Considered as the first rap track in the history.
1937... But not sure about this date.

@oreally8605

You really need to educate yourself. This isn't rap. It's Barber shop quartet Gospel.. 75 years before that trash 🗑 came out in the 70's. Black people created Blues and Rock n Roll R&B & Jazz too. Stop thinking that Black people thrive in a limited capacity.

@thomasbengtsson8547

11y↑12

Yeah definitely rap. They must be mentioned in history books, especially if they were the first ones doing it?!

@sbslctv

11y↑18

Rhythm And Poetry

@molian9918

3y↑11

The Jubalaires have a version and a few other tunes like this. Check them out💜

@tbrZW

4y↑8

This slaps more than mumble rap in 2020

@RobertoGinsburg

7y↑3

Exist also a video of this Proto Rap Gospel performed by THE JUBILAIRES and that appears also on the documentary "Father Founders" related by Chuck D.

@Nicole215

2y↑4

1937 - The FIRST rap was born. ❤️

@ExoticBloxed

42w

Poor mourner (1902)

@ouartiabdel8001

6y↑4

Excellent 🇫🇷

@RantNRavinFection

11y↑8

This is like seeing Superman's parents lol!

@nspcrazy1122

8y↑13

These men were not greatly depressed.

@noseflutejob

11y↑5

Only this quality is 1000 times better.

@saifalibaba

12y↑3

Exactly !!! I guess Golden Gate Quartet was a gospel band... and Rappers Delight took the lyrics from that band ! You're right...and as wodie225 said, it's the 1st rap ever !! ;-)

@paulbrembly1417

15w

No! The Golden Gate Quartet was not a gospel group, foray, Negro Spirituals, which was before gospel.This form of delivery of words in rhythm, was called narration during this time. But as you can hear, it is one the first forms of what we call rap today!

@ViktorBautistaiRoca

9y↑8

Proto-rap de 1937
Proto rap from 1937
The preacher and the bear, Golden Gate Quartet
La part recitada té la mateixa cadència que el Rappers' Delight de Sugarhill Gang.
The spoken part has the same cadence as the Rappers' Delight by Sugarhill Gang.

@RobertoGinsburg

7y↑2

Exactly. Escucha también "Whitewash Station" por Memphis Jug Band de 1928.

@Kong-se5ht

9y↑19

Rap goes back deeper than this, all the way back to Africa to the griots. It is clear that rapping is a common tradition of black music in the diaspora. Kool Herc would bring Jamaican toasting to the original hip hop block parties, whilst it is clear from this song that blacks in America had also carried on the tradition. Akala explains it perfectly on the 'Knowledge is Power' track

@ab-pj2ur

I was about to say you got that idea directly from Akala and sure enough you did!

@datnyugga

9y↑8

Karan M There is a lot of misinformation concerning the origin of rapping in Hip Hop. Herc had nothing to do with it. It came from Hollywood, whose friend Lovebug introduced it to the Hip Hop set. https://www.academia.edu/12545353/A_History_of_Hip_Hop_in_Perspective

@Kong-se5ht

Damani Saunderson excellent informative article. it deserves a wider readership in the hip hop community

@datnyugga

9y↑4

Thanks. I tried to do a good job. I also had friends that were there and helped to give me additional insight.

@ghetuyi

7y↑14

Jamaican toasting did not come from the griot tradition. Jamaican toasting came from Jamaican DJs mimicking African American radio DJ's.

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@cedricwelch5600

8y↑68

Rap was gospel

@ttimetotroll

4y↑2

Was about the gospel indeed. Now look what they did to my boy.

@loser18777

3y↑2

Mind blown. Cause they'll say rapper delight was the first rap song. But what's twisted is that this song and these boys were the originators and were rapping about God and the BIBLE, compare that to rap today

@benkeith2077

4y↑3

Was this really considered bluegrass in it’s day? I’ve never heard anything labeled bluegrass without fiddles driving the rhythm. They should be retroactively names barbershop hip hop.

@owenwiggs2615

No it wouldn’t be. There was only one bluegrass band at the time.

@owenwiggs2615

Correction there was no such thing as bluegrass as we know it at the time this was recorded.

@Juuxr

Does anybody have the lyrics?

@flatbush46

5y↑3

the hook is hard.. someone sample it..

@quez76

4y↑2

EFP search “preachers delight”

@mrcrot3850

5y↑3

Harry Reser's Send for Our Free Booklets (composed and performed by white men) predates this by seven years. Also notice The Preacher and The Bear was composed by a white person, Arthur Longbrake. Evert Taube (a Swedish singer) wrote Kinesiska Muren in 1920s. Not to mention Gilbert and Sullivan's tons of patter songs in 19th century.
Black people didn't invent rap.

@caydenkasongo3534

3y↑1

We invented spiritual

@HaroldCarl1

11y↑1

Mind= Blown.

@DJDionP

8y↑4

He's technically rapping but where is the beats? Pigmeat Markham actually had a dope breakbeat that he was rhyming along to. long live hip hop..

@thisaccountisabandoned.7273

6y↑3

The beats not there because ITS SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER OLD DUUUUHHH

@koolou2012

12y↑11

yea!!! this is the first format of hiphop,sounds like rappers deligh,t dont it.

@johnradix9590

Wrong

@thefunkdroid2777

3y↑1

You should listen to "Whitewash Station" by Memphis Jug Band. It's from 1929-30 and also includes rapping.

@Synoptimus

11y↑11

Just because its gospel, doesn't mean he wasn't "rapping". Its not rap music, but its rap.

@koolkeithultra1715

6y↑2

We been doing this we manifest things at different times

@SugarBearMosher

11y↑1

Rap was around LONG before this song even.

@SIC66SIC66

6y↑3

Does anyone know where to find the lyrics to this song? I have no idea what they sing in the chorus.

@loser18777

Its that holy time religion

@paulroys5019

"That old (uh) time (uh) religion" x3
"It's good enough for me"

@caydenkasongo3534

3y↑3

Old time religion

@Riorebelde60

11y

And that's why it's called monologue.

@dabrown2178

6y↑9

Idlewild makes more sense to me now.... Rap was in the 1930's.
Damn.

@delarapper757

6y↑2

Yes .there is a remix of this song preacher And the bear with rappers delight song.good remix

@jessicarichmond8982

9y↑31

south started hip hop !

@AlMahdi2k

6y↑5

Yah

@abdulrasulalah8414

5y↑3

Jessica Richmond your right the Foundation started in the South

@swaynec.o.p.d9938

YEP!!! I used to share this in my Family Concerts from 1999-06, and people were BLOWN AWAY!!! Especially being in NYS, and to find out Hip-Hop didn't begin in the Bronx after all these years!!! I see someone else is from Buffalo on this thread. That's where I was when I discovered GGQ and shared it, at my "Friday Nite Flava" Family Concerts.

@DONNYPESO

5y↑6

So now I guess people from New York and Jamaicans can stop saying they started rap and hip-hop because I've been telling them that they didn't it started in the South and they looked at me like I was crazy

@stanleyshack26

Yes rapping The 1920s but the Bronx and some caribbeans did are saying true Hip hop is Turntables the two turntables cutting Scratching mixing records find out about when mixing two of the same records on the turntables do some research. dj herc. Afrikin bambaata, dj flash are the true Fathers of Hip Hop they are from the caribbeans not African Americans. They are lying, lying

@ES2990

41w

@@stanleyshack26 You do some research into Grandmaster flowers, Disco King Mario, Pete DJ Jones, Smokey and the Smokatrons, and DJ Hollywood

@davadavo

Merci Grégoire Hervier - Dark was the night

@stanleyshack26

You are right

@SugarBearMosher

11y

Also, even farther back than slavery times, the songs of native americans! And the songs of African tribes!

@anton996

9y↑8

rap was born

@zonalibrer3357

3y↑2

Search and listen the 1941 filmed version of The Jubilaires 😉

@Rev1981

3y↑2

That one is great too!

@delarapper757

6y↑1

M.c s of the old school

@brettwinstead

9y↑1

Who knew Vanilla Ice was this old?

@biggrhymees88one

8y↑5

Akala sent me here, NB .I am Kenyan and Akala is a Maasai word for sandals made of rubber.

@jamesmacdonald2665

11y↑2

This sounds like the from rappers delight by the sugar Hill gang

@readingrangers1000

Hey fab, Ima kill you, lyrics coming at you with super sonic speed (JJ fad) uh samalamadalama you assumin I'm a human what I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman innovative and I'm made of rubber so that anything you say is ricocheting off of me and it'll glue to you I'm never staying more than ever demonstrating how to give a motherfucking audience a feeling like its levitating never fading and I know the haters are forever waiting for the day they can say I fell off they'd be celebrating because I know the way to get them motivated I make elevating music you make elevator music

@wodie225

13y↑5

1st rap ever!

@kissbence1594

10y↑4

Wich year was this beauty recorded?

@caydenkasongo3534

3y↑2

1937

@shamika5300

5y↑3

Rap to hiphopstarted in the south

@user-sd9yh7yj6x

29w

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

@conroysmith2581

1y↑1

Hold up ....who is the original writer of the song....is it the jubalaries or these dudes???? 🤔🤔🤔

@Rev1981

I looked it up. It was written by George Fairman in 1904. Arthur Francis Collins was the first to record it in 1905.

@ShawnDanGage

10y↑1

akala sent me a swell

@lmdrap

10y

real the 1---rap-------

@TrblecomTV-mr3ij

Pretty Cool...yep from Akala

@bear2747

....sayyyyy!

@davidmartin6959

11y

c quoi la date ?

@phydeauxddog

I still like Pig Meat Markham The Judge

@elstyr

Lord Looord Looordy Loord Loord, Southpark.

@fixuplooksharp92

9y↑1

Akaka sent me here

@jamesedwards7142

10y↑8

Akala sent me too

@axiomasinopsis7768

3y↑1

Esta canción es la original que después copio The sugarhill gang y fue el primer exito de hip hop y posterior fue copiado por asereje de las ketchup que fue un éxito mundial en habla hispana jajaja , cuanta ironía jajaja