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First Hip Hop Record?

LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
edited July 2006 in Strut Central
This is from the Dukays 1961 Nat 45. Gene Chandler was a group member. Dukays So when was the phrase hip hop first used in music?

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  • ShingalingShingaling 877 Posts
    I like this. Never heard that Dukays! I believe it came from using early dance and vocal terms like doo-wop and be-bop. The term "hippity hop" seems to be the earliest form of the saying. I think it was shortened when the term became hip.

    -Illinois Jacquet "Hippity Hop" from the Jazz Moods LP...1951.

    -Les Cooper "Hippity Hop" 1963.

    -Lou Donaldson "Hippity Hop" from the Musty Rusty LP...1965.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    It's funny that this involves Gene Chandler, cause I always
    say that the earliest record I can find that truly sounds
    like hip hop to me is the Gene Chandler/Jerry Butler cover
    of "Take This Woman Off the Corner" - especially Gene Chandler's
    verses.
    Shit is seriously rap music.
  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    I think the whole hip hop/hippety hoppety thing goes back to Cab Calloway and Slim Gaillard and other scat cats.
  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    "hip hop," as a term for the genre, comes from the disco djs that used to always start off there little freestyles with" a hip, a hop, a hip to the hippity hop hop....ect." people who were unimpressed with this phenomenon, used the term "hip hop" as a description of the music in the negative sense. like, "oh, you like that that hip hop stuff? bleehhhh!" funny how it became the norm. i still prefer the term "rap music."
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