Casper
The Groovy Ghost Show
(Howard Tucker)
Recorded at Sky Hero Productions - Chicago, Il
Produced by Terry Marshall
Engineered by Sam Gallo
Read the article below. Casper's Groovy Ghost Show is actually credited as the First Hip Hop song released, predating Rapper's Delight (Sugar Hill Gang) by several months!
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While we were in the middle of cutting an album for Terry Marshall's band, "Third Rail," Terry told me he had a disc jockey from New York who wanted to cut a "concept" song. Third Rail was a mix of jazz and funk so I assumed the concept had something to do with that genre. He went on to explain that this DJ did his entire show with non-stop talking from the time he went on the air til the time he signed off. But the interesting part of it was that Terry told me he did this non-stop talk in perfect rhyme.
We called in Marvin Sparks for the drum track, Tony Carpenter on percussion, "Chuck -A- Luck" on bass, Terry Marshall on Clavinet, Ron Scott on Piano, Keith Henderson on guitar. For back up vocals we called in Diane Madison, Mae Cohen, Regina Walton, and Adaretha Dyer.
We laid down the rhythm track and background vocals. Howard (Casper) Tucker came in and laid the vocal track in one take, non-stop. We mixed it over the next few days and shopped it.
Jim Tyrell of T-Electric picked it up and re-shopped it to AVI. It became the first Hip-Hop record to come out of Chicago.
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http://www.discogs.com/Casper-Caspers-Groovy-Ghost-Show/release/1573501http://wax.fm/release/casper_caspers_groovy_ghost_show/AVI+40001/d/200211http://www.chicagograffiti.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3714I. Old School to Middle School:
Pioneering Era ('72-'78)
The Old School ('79-'82)
The Middle School (a.k.a The drum machine era, '83-'85)
Here we find the happenings in Chicago at a minimum. As the titles of the eras suggest, the culture had just begun to grow. The focus of attention was on New York and a few neighboring cities. More than anything it was the breaking crews in this era that dominate the scene. They became the foundation of the Chicago scene with
many B-Boy crews were already making a name for themselves; D.T.R (Down To Rock, Krazy Krew, Floormasters (the crew stretched from the North to the South side), TopTen, Out To Rock, Freeze Crew, The B-boys, The Freshboys, Windy City Breakers, Hypnotic Rockers, Los Ninos, etc... It was many of the breakers who would later go on to become some of the key Graf writers in the city. By '82 the Graf scene was very active with several known crews hitting up all sides of the city; CTA, ABC, MPC, TCP, ACW, CAR CREW, MOSA, IAC, OTR, GGC, GBC (w/Crazyman), CISA, GAS, BTB, FCA, AIM, GMC, SMOG, & The HITMEN. From there, things slowly began to take shape...
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1979 New York Graf writer, Nick Salsa, moves to Chicago and starts bombing the city and becomes recognized as the first local writer. Later he starts the first known Chicago Graf crew; C.T.A.
1980 Casper-"Groovy Ghost Show " 12" (first Hip Hop release from a Chicago artist although it's not generally known that it was a Chicago based recording)
History of hip hop music
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old School Hip Hop
Hip hop music originated in 1970s block parties in New York City, specifically The Bronx]. Hip hop culture, including MCing, DJing, graffiti and b-boying. In the 1930s more than a sixth of Harlem residents were from the West Indies, and the block parties of the '80s were closely similar to sound systems in Jamaica. These were large parties, originally outdoors, thrown by owners of loud and expensive stereo equipment, which they could share with the community or use to compete among themselves, who began speaking lyrics or toasting.
Rap music emerged from block parties after ultra-competitive DJs isolated percussion breaks, those being the favorites among dancers, and MCs began speaking over the beats; in Jamaica, a similar musical style called dub developed from the same isolated and elongated percussion breaks. However, "most rappers will tell you that they either disliked reggae or were only vaguely aware of it in the early and middle '70s."
"Rappers Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang is the first song that was recorded & released by a hip hop crew, and therefore is considered the first true hip hop release, though "King Tim III" by the R&B group Fatback Band and "Groovy Ghost Show" by Casper are sometimes considered to be the first because they featured rapping, and predated "Rapper's Delight" by a few months..
Lil Rodney Cee, of Funky Four Plus One More and Double Trouble, cites Cowboy, of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, as, "the first MC that I know of...He was the first MC to talk about the DJ."
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