I remember seeing something where she said: who needs a microphone when I’ve got a voice as big as a church and lungs as powerful as the Holy Spirit?! That alone is the best!
@@suraya1224 And heartbreak and gender non-conformism and being cast out and a terrible death...the story of rock and roll and all that came after... all that besides, watch her mannerisms closely: chuck berry to keith richards...they all either copy her or (more accurately) learnt from her (and acknowlege it) and embody the same physicality of relationship with the guitar...
Depends on who "they" is. Hollyweird would take all hint of religion out of it and make her over as another infallible girl boss, which would be a waste of time, not to mention the disrespect. There are fewer and fewer people to write it who remember what it was like to be black when America really did have institutionalized racism. None of them are in Hollywood.
Best part is that her guitars a fuckin Gibson SG just like Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath used😂the fact that there’s a direct line from this woman, to Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath (& from there to brutal death metal, grindcore, sludge metal & every other extreme form of metal & also Hardcore/Hardcore Punk) is one of the most beautiful things to ever occur in human history
@@mcFreaki She is called that by others, just like Patti LaBelle is called the "Godmother of Soul" and just like James Brown is referred to as the "Godfather of Soul". There are two men who are referred to as the "Father of Rock and Roll" and they are Chuck Berry and legendary DJ and promoter Alan Freed. You are right though that Sister Rosetta Sharp should be referred to as the "Mother of Rock and Roll". I was not disrespecting her legacy but pointing out that she is also referred to as the "Godmother of Rock and Roll" as well. It was a long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2018 when Sister Rosetta Sharp was finally inducted.. I think a movie on her life and legacy on music should be made.
Pulls up in a horse drawn carriage, is led onto the stage by a dapper gent, and then proceeds to tear the house down, all whilst still in her coat. 100% pure class.
@@seregill13 keep in mind Hendrix died in 69. He was already playing the way he did. I’m not saying she wasn’t influential but to say this was ground breaking in 64 is not accurate.
@neicosta "history did everything it could" lol it's on youtube. You didn't have to find some obscure magazine and dig through garage sales to find this song
Ladies and gents, you are witnessing the prototype of rock and roll. Sister Rosetta is severely underrated. The rock and roll hall of fame JUST inducted her, even though she practically invented the damn genre
I see a lot of people complaining that she isn’t as known because she was a woman and gender conforming whatever crap. I think it’s better this way though. Id rather her stay relatively obscure and be able to just enjoy her music without having to hear a bunch of white liberals who just found her music pretend to have known about her all along and start complaining about injustices instead of just appreciating what she did for rock n roll. Or worse comparing her to modern artists as a trailblazer like Lizzo or something.
Let's be clear: no one person invented rock n roll. However, Tharpe was perhaps the first to take gospel and punch it up for mainly white audiences. If you don't feel, based on the timeline, that she was the mother of the genre, who was? Everyone else came later. @@bobbyschannel349
It should be noted that she wasn't performing for the camera or even the folks in the crowd really, she was playing for the Lord; that IMHO makes it all that much better.
My mom talked about Rosetta Tharpe all the time. One day earlier this year we listened to a podcast on her. She had such an interesting life. She was extremely popular in her day. She was more appreciated outside the US. I hate that so many have not heard of her. Amazing lady.
There's never going to be a more important influence in music definition and expertise than All of our sister and the lord's work !!!! She truly is an Angel !!!!
My dad is outta Jackson, Alabama waaaaay back up in them woods where the asphalt stops and the orange clay dirt starts, and he always tell me about these artist back in his youth. Me and my friends would be dying laffing because pop always enjoyed talking about the good times coming up in those times (Jim Crow). My homies love to hear my Pop talk about when him and his running buddies went to see James Brown and The Famous Flames and they were drinking a rott gutt liquor call "Red Dagger"! Lawd I'm so glad that this new social media can put a face with these stories of old and we can see our elders and appreciate and learn and be proud of our heritage which we're supposed to be anyway because we have been through hell and highwater but we're still standing! So thank you elders for going through and keeping the faith because it's 2021 and we're still going through and it seem like they're trying to take us back! Next they'll be telling us to guess how many bubbles in a bar of soap so we can vote! Maaaan...let me stop! Y'all stay sturdy and stay safe and keep the faith 💯🙏🏿💪🏾✊🏾
I spent some time in Birmingham Alabama in the early 1970s and sampled "Red Dagger" wine and while there they came out with Red Dagger Junior to cut It back a little. Yet, what was just as if not more potent was Purple Cow! Peace...
If so, her name is Big Mama Thornton, not Sister Rosetta. Unless, of course, you are referring to Little Richard as a "queen." All kidding aside, though, you can't be serious in comparing Sister Rosetta to Chuck Berry when it comes to rock and roll music. Gospel music may be a genre that (along with other genres) fused into what became rock and roll, but it is no more rock and roll music than country swing (another genre that underlies rock and roll) is.
Dick Warren “Chuck Berry once said his entire career was “one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation”.” Artists from Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Littler Richard, and Chuck Berry had all cited Rosetta as either their favorite artist or musical influence. She was one of the pioneers of electric guitar distortion. There wouldn’t be any of them, without her. So yes, she is the Queen of Rock and Roll.
830 dislikes? people have no class, intelligence, or an appreciation for history and real talent. On a side note Ms Thorpe is rocking that gorgeous coat!
I suspect the dislikes are from seeing an awesome black artist perform before a bland white crowd. How can you just sit in your seat and listen to her sing her heart out?
How a black woman could say to a bunch of white kids that she loved them with a genuine warm smile on her face after the years of horrible racism she saw growing up is proof that she really had God’s love and forgiveness in her heart and just what a light she was and how much that light burned with the Holy Spirit.
So many great blues players were kept alive and performing by mostly white college circuit gigs. Sister Rosetta, John Lee Hooker, so many more. If they were lucky they lived long enough to be appreciated as the giants they were. Most only got that recognition after they'd died.
@@seantuohy3100 John Lee Hooker became a millionaire, as did BB King for another example. They drew massive audiences. John Lee Hooker was in The Blues Brothers, along with a host of other mega famous multi-millionaire black musicians from Aretha Frankin and Ray Charles to Cab Calloway and James Brown. These people were beloved international superstars and not at all just among black communities. I first heard of Aretha Franklin and Cab Calloway because my grandparents had their LPs which they bought in the 1960s. Sam Cooke was another singer songwriter my grandad was obsessed with. They were both extremely white and born in the 20s. They weren't some special kind of anti-racist or "woke" white people they were just regular folk and there were plenty of them. This idea that anything earlier than a few decades ago means everyone was a horrible racist is nonsense. Racism was institutional and systemic to far worse degrees and this of course caused more people to think in those rotten ways, but tons of people also didn't. We in fact largely cherry pick all the racism from the past now to make it seem like there was nothing else, which is a distortion of a very complex and nuanced reality. A lot of this broader stardom, even for white musicians, in fact came from the increase in record publications and global marketing by record labels. This only kicked off in the late 50s, before then it was very difficult for anyone to be so huge or well known beyond more niche fandoms. However, a lot of black musicians still made a pretty good living just playing to huge black audiences before being able to have a broader platform through the record industry, and it was regular people who showed the industry they wanted to hear their work and more and more of it, so black music in general became huge by the mid-70s into the 80s. But the record industry is why the real explosion of music mega stardom, just in general, began in the 60s. The stars who became huge and more international before then were those at the very top of the movie industry and the few huge singers who got into Hollywood, though even that was still very young industry in the 50s. In fact, one small example of this incredibly one-track minded cherry picking of racism from the past is the Marx Brothers movie, A Day at the Races. There's a black community depicted in that film who have a musical number, and the Marx brothers black their faces with grease at one point to (ironically) hide from the cops while singing and dancing with everyone. This scene is now pulled out of it's content and absolutely trashed today as some utterly vile racism that means the Marx Brothers were racist. Go back to the 1930s when it was made and the Marx brothers in fact wrote and produced that scene specifically to give a voice to black dancers and singers who they loved and wanted to work with. The studio didn't want it, but they made sure it got into the film, the exact opposite of actual racism. The song itself is all about how much awful unfairness the black community were having to deal with, yet keeping their spirits up anyway, and the blacking up later in the scene was in fact supposed to be like showing that they were more comfortable joining in with the local black community than being around the white high society and the cops who were the villains out to get them and being aggressive and ignorant... It's complicated and extremely nuanced, and people now are getting really carried away with it all before even learning anything remotely in depth.
As a lifelong rocker till I’m six feet under, man, how i Love it’s precious roots !!!!! Thank you, Sister Rosetta Thorpe.. I’m one of the few that’ll blast these treasures at FULL VOLUME out of my music box !!!!!!! 🎸
My goodness... I have never seen this or had any idea about this artist at all before... What a delight to come from work, open youtube, and this shows right on my face. I had to click on and seat and listen to the entire beautiful Art of this lady. I am glad I saw this...
The late Canadian tenor Jon Vickers was the same. He sang the Star Spangled Banner in front of the White House in front of a mic once, but whenever he played Tristan, Otello, Sampson, Peter Grimes, etc. it was just raw vocal power that carried his performance.
Strapping on an electric guitar in the rain in the 60's. Probably safe, but it makes me appreciate her even more!! I agree with an earlier comment....we need a movie about this talented woman!
That move she makes at the 2:49 mark, she played that guitar like it was a part of her...A powerful voice and genius on guitar, the TRUE mother of rock and roll.
True pioneer.I've heard a lot of people didn't like her because of her "style" as in bluesy playing. I love it. Such a versatile musician who didn't stick to just one genre. She deserves her props.
If you are 15-20 years old and here listening to this song, congratulations you have my respect. We need young people like you so that our real music can continue to exist. May 2020
Nice to hear someone speak sense rather than nit-picking and calling them ignorant etc. If you really love a genre, you welcome people to it, not shut them out. I'm 30 so old enough to spread the good word :D When your Chuck Berry-loving father gives you a guitar at 6 then you are going to grow up with good taste!
@@lorylove492 You should, first of all, respect the opinion of your elders. Comments like yours show that you don't have a minimum of education. God be with you !
I'm 17, I love listening to music from the 1920's all the way to the 90's, I just love how in those decades they put so much thought and soul into their music compared to most of today, love it :D
Entirely new to me and I thought I knew a bit about music? Little did I know 8n fact! Wow. You can immediately see her influence on SO many who came afterwards.
James Short: she was 30 years before her time. What an incredible voice. She could sing with the ease that most people could only speak with. Lord, I loved that woman and her voice.
@@billbradleymusic Technically no, but the blues are the main thing that inspired rock, especially influencing the British blues of the late 60s, which led to so many other genre's. I mean, even look at Sabbath. Iommi was a blues dude who had almost the same exact guitar here, and through finding himself and the blues invented a genre. Most iconic music from the last 100 years or so evolved from electric blues, James Jamerson's basslines, the stage presence of soul artists, and the freedom of 60s counterculture.
Shame on humanity for hiding such genius and beauty under a pile of rubbish prejudice. We are sadists for losing a lot of joy all this time. Sister, we need you to teach us the lesson.
Amen sister. The world would've been a much better place if she had been given a bigger stage to shine on all those years ago, But she shines here for the whole world to see.
@@VinylandKicks86 oh I see what you are. You're one those racist people who think black and white are actually different races. Poor humans so easy to dupe. There's no black no white just shades of brown.
Research Black Gospel, and my favorite, Black Blues. I am! An rock and roll child of the 60's, 70's, and present day talents. And my friends, this is, where it came from...
There'd be no rock and roll as we know it without this lady right here! She was the PROTOTYPE! listen closely and you can here where alot of rock and rollers back in the day got their style and swag from and she rarely got acknowledged! I believve it was either Chuck Barry or Little Richard who said "My career has just been one long sister rosetta rose tharpe impression." THE POWER OF THAT STATEMENT! pay your respects because without this lady right here music would be VERY different
@@usertubeification The video is filmed in the 60s but she was around decades before, I think she helped Little Richard onto the scene. As a rule of thumb regarding RnR, if Chuck Berry said it, it's the truth. Just saying, so you can make sure you have your facts right :)
Well Rock n Roll wasn’t really invented by one person. It was the culmination of the efforts of many people. Someone else here said something about Chuck Berry. Even Chuck Berry had his influences. Give a listen to T Bone Walker and tell me Chuck wasn’t influenced by him. Listen to Goree Carter’s “Rock a While” too. Everybody was influenced by somebody.
This is a classic! This woman was a classic! And I love the quote below: "who needs a microphone when I’ve got a voice as big as a church and lungs as powerful as the Holy Spirit?!" That's just fabulous!
Wow! Can't believe this is the first i am listening to this amazing lady, what a shame, with a voice like that she should have been in the front line, not being made to walk in back doors.
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay....
And to think that she was not allowed in restaurants or clubs in some states or had to enter through the back! She displays class, performs with authority and sings with so much soul...
@@delphineblue I’m not that naive, but there were enough people who respected these musicians that these tours were a success and people came from as far as London to sit it the rain and watch them. The fact that it was televised shows that too.
audience incredibly forward looking to have made it to this station in such weather when there was no internet to announce happenings. And incredibly open minded English folks, very appreciative.
Didn't know about Tharpe as a kid in high school, thirty years ago. Saw this video about five years ago. I teach high school American/African-American history now and you can bet she's part of our curriculum. Thanks for posting.
...and when she arrives she begins to talk... "Ohhhh the sweet horsy... Ohhhhhh the sweet horsy... This is a wonderful time of my life... Ohh let me tell you something... It's raining... And the people are so sweet to stay and get soaked... How great it is... Let me tell you what I am coming on... Ohhhh yessss... Give me the key..." And then she begins to play that guitar, and I was hooked...desperately and lost on her ability to play, dance and sing... TRUE ARTIST, TRUE ARTISTIC ATTRIBUTES, TRUE STAGE PRESENCE... I WATCHED THIS VIDEO A MILLION TIMES NOW. Thank you, whoever you are, for sharing with us...
How can I be a blues guitar lover, and JUST found this beautiful woman??? So damn good! And expensive Gibson guitars too! Proof that God loves ALL of us!!! I wish I had my old red Gibson SG, and my ES 135. (Made on Valentine's day) That's not rain, that's tears. I love you Rosetta!
spoke to my grandpa on the phone of old songs and he mentioned Sister Tharpe and i got curious. Here i am, 27 years old listening to this banger of a song.
@@boldbhoy67 yes..I just read about it today on her biography 'Shout, Sister, Shout' by Wald..she apparently was an inspiration to many artists even Elvis Presley😮
I just saw this and I have never heard about her, I am amazed at her talents of playing a guitar and sing, she was ahead of the times wow 1964 I was 7 years old, and Elvis Presley want to play like her style ,so he would watch her play and that’s how he learned to play ,but nothing like her she was the original , so glad they put her in the Hall of Fame, she earned it.
This was from a period when many blues performers were better known in the UK than they were in their home country the USA. I had the pleasure of seeing some of them when they came to my small little market town with Sonny Boy Williamson being the most memorable as I had chance to chat to him and get some advice on playing the harmonica.
I was lucky enough to grow up in Chicago in the 1970s. By that time Young American audiences we're getting into the blues music. I got to see them all, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Lonnie Brooks, Buddy Guy and many many others. A couple of years ago on Howlin Wolf's 100 birthday anniversary I watched his band play at Chicago Blues Festival. By the end of the set I had tears streaming down my face.
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay...
Finding gems like this is why I love RUclips. Such a great clip. How have I never heard of Sister Rosetta until just now???? Love everything about this clip from her entrance, to playing in front of the tracks to her last words to the audience. They genuinely loved her performance and she genuinely loved them too for that positive energy. Phenomenal!
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay...
I saw a play based on her story and this woman is so badass! i loved every minute of this....she's in such command of both her voice and guitar as well as the audience! She's rockin' the thumb pick which is so awesome! Some of the best use the thumb pick like ol' Rosetta, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Johnny Winter, & many more!
Sister Rosetta would have been a hit at Woodstock. I mean that I'm not kidding she would have got that audience rocking. This is the first that I've heard of her as she had me smiling all all the way.
I noticed she almost tripped on her cable but some how quickly kicked it aside while not breaking that riff one bit. As if it never happened. In high fucking heals lol.
she was as good as anyone , perfect timing , hit every note , sang perfectly , played that guitar perfectly .... THAT is "the queen of soul" right there .... and I never heard of her until today .... pity
Boy have you been missing out on something. In the late 1950s the UK musician's union lifted their ban on USA musician and we had a succession of the ageing USA greats. Always accompanied on their tours with a top-notch UK band. This lady was perhaps the most appreciated of them all. Mind you a few, just a few of them were past their best - but not that lady. Leith born band leader Alex Welsh was very often the chosen UK band to go on tour with the USA musicians and to be honest Alex and the band were well on a par with the visitors. The Post WWII trad jazz revival threw up some real great musicians. Here is a RUclips clip of a little Number that unusual for jazz made the top twenty. Not exactly most folks idea of jazz but a bonny wee tune and so well played' ruclips.net/video/sjE0a6IYXJs/видео.html
shure46 She was a fundamental pioneer of the genre and I am so glad to have discovered her too. And pissed that her legacy wasn’t more celebrated when I was coming up. But at least those wrongs are being righted.
Check out what's known as an 'American rocking chair' on her left. It's got the original carpet bag upholstery and the coiled springs under the rockers. An inspired prop choice for the 2nd innovator and the Queen of Rock 'n Roll. The REAL ORIGINATOR who wrote the very first Rock 'n Roll song is the King of Country music Mr. Hank Williams Snr. Check out his 'MOVE IT ON OVER on here at RUclips and then compare it to what is officially known as the first R'nRoll record 'Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley & The Comets. Even the guitar riff on Haley's is a steal of Hank Williams'. Yes, Hank Williams and Sister Rosetta are the male and female innovators of Rock 'n Roll. Listen to Sister Rosetta singing & playing 'HOUNDS DOG' years before Elvis recorded it. I'm interested in any constructive feedback. opinions
Me too. Just stumbled across her and her incredible music yesterday! All my life I never heard of her at all. And wow! I love it and I'm so glad I found these videos of her. What incredible talent! Even though it has been decades since she passed, we who have found her music (all these years after) will surely keep her memory and music going! I just love her. And in this performance she has the moves too! A complete package of incredible talent!
WHAT A SOUND FOR 1964!!! I was born in 1959 and yesterday was browsing through U-TUBE and found The Godmother Rosetta Tharpe and I could not believe my ears.Wow what a treat!!! I love it.
This is amazing. I like how they turned a railroad station into a makeshift stage on one side with audience seating on the other side. Humble as it was, the English audience was loving the experience -- they hungered for more of this American music style (and the rest is music history).
Actually, she is wearing a mic, it's that clunking huge black thing at her collar, low profile 60s lapel mic. XD Audio is amazing though, very well done.
Speechless Just realised this is filmed in Manchester! How awesome is that!! Didn't it rain! It's always raining in Manchester. Half way though, it's like god is shining on her. How lucky those few Brits to have witnessed this.
@@annajohannessen-adams4189 just seen your other comment. How did you get in the dressing room? I love how she tells the audience 'i love you England and I will until the end of my days'. She says it with true meaning. I'd prefer to of seen this than anything that has ever taken place. She's incredible. She played the Cavern Club in Liverpool on her first tour you know. Late 50's. Allegedly Richie Starkey went to see it (Ringo Starr).
I am blown away by this lady. I am a white 66 year old guy. I work with a former student who is 51 and African American. He knows who she is and I told him I was embarrassed that I had never heard of her. If she isn't in the rock and roll hall of fame, she should be. What a voice. Goosebumps listening to her.
It never ceases to amaze me how the black artists of the Jim Crow era kept plowing straight ahead despite all obstacles. Their "race" may have been denied, but there talent could not be! For those that don't know, strong elements of Jim Crow existed in much of the north too. It wasn't exclusive to the south.
Fortunately Jim Crow didn't exist in the north of England, where I'm guessing this was recorded,from the Chorltonville station sign, and sweet Sister Rosetta's lovely words to her English audience. Nowhere outside the African American communities has their music been more warmly embraced and cherished than England's Northern towns, cities and of course venues: the cavern, the twisted wheel, the wigan casino and the hacienda to name just a few over the last 60 years. African American music and artists enrich global culture immeasurably.
@Green Morning Dragon Productions are absolutely right, though the station was actually Chorlton-cum-Hardy, which Granada TV renamed Chorltonville for the night in honour of Rosetta Tharpe and Muddy Waters who was also on the bill. I've sourced the full story for you here: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/when-the-blues-train-rolled-into-chorlton-1049592
@@GreenMorningDragonProductions how did you guys feel about the music of the zulu people? did you develop an appreciation for their music after using them as target practice for your new machine guns?
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I remember seeing something where she said: who needs a microphone when I’ve got a voice as big as a church and lungs as powerful as the Holy Spirit?! That alone is the best!
She’s got a lapel microphone, you can see it on her coat. But the point remains. I reckon she hardly needed it on the day haha
AMEN to that!!🙏
@@Shakes-Off-Fear I mean, the lapel will probably be for recording her for TV rather than to put through a PA.
she feelin the spirit fo sure
OMG
The best part of RUclips is finding musicians you've never seen or heard before and loving them immediately
Yes Mark, nice observation, and nice inquiring mind you have, I'll bet you don't get bored.
FACTS MARKWOLFE !!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🙏
MarkWolfe I agree with you 100%
MarkWolfe this is my first time coming her. True music, especially when the crowd is involved
311 and Metallica brought me here.
I LOVE MUSIC
Imagine starting Rock and Roll and not getting credited as much as other people. She deserves the title of Queen and King of Rock and Roll
@@suraya1224 And heartbreak and gender non-conformism and being cast out and a terrible death...the story of rock and roll and all that came after... all that besides, watch her mannerisms closely: chuck berry to keith richards...they all either copy her or (more accurately) learnt from her (and acknowlege it) and embody the same physicality of relationship with the guitar...
Yes
I think Rock 'n' Roll was around before 1964...
@@DrProfScience1 Yes, but this was after she had already invented the style many years prior. She didn't stop after others took it up.
SHE NEEDS MORE CREDIT!!!!!!
Take a bow Sister Rosetta Tharpe. All those listening to you in 2020 sends their love and respect.
Speechless amen sister Rosetta Thorpe amen Queen I just got hip heard of her now I feel her rain
Absolutely!!
Love it
100%
My soul feels her passion!! 🙌👏👏👏👏
Elvis once said “rock 'n roll music is basically gospel and rhythm n blues.” and Sister Rosetta Tharpe is the embodiment of that synthesis.
Elvis watched her perform
Elvis was a con
He had no choice, his entire career is owed to black musicians
At least he admitted how influential she was on him!
where do you think he and Chuck Berry learned it from
Ain't nobody cool as Sister Rosetta playing an SG at the train station, in a jeweled fur coat. What a legend.
And don’t forget about that entrance. Classic
she looks so cool
That Coach and SG is a classic baby!
I believe that was called a Les Paul back then. Keith Richards played one.
@@scotthouston3607 yeah but les didn't like it
Would be nice if they did a movie about her
Exactly! Either Queen Latifah (I think she looks a lot like her) or Macy Gray.
I’d buy a ticket
Estava faltando esse comentário. Eu iria amar ver um filme sobre essa rainha ❤
Depends on who "they" is. Hollyweird would take all hint of religion out of it and make her over as another infallible girl boss, which would be a waste of time, not to mention the disrespect.
There are fewer and fewer people to write it who remember what it was like to be black when America really did have institutionalized racism. None of them are in Hollywood.
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 good point. Hollywood is pretty much is a cesspool.
the class, the style
exits a carriage, strolls over casually,
*obtains guitar*
immediately slays
Perfectly said and the power too. She's a strong person.
Lovely
😅👌
Nice Horse, what a nice thing...GIMME A KEY
Best part is that her guitars a fuckin Gibson SG just like Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath used😂the fact that there’s a direct line from this woman, to Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath (& from there to brutal death metal, grindcore, sludge metal & every other extreme form of metal & also Hardcore/Hardcore Punk) is one of the most beautiful things to ever occur in human history
The Godmother of Rock and Roll. Hollywood should make a movie about her as she influenced music in such a way that it is still felt to this day.
Played by Queen Latifah 💯🔥
Yeah let Hollywood fuck even more up👍
Mother of Rock and Roll FTFY
no she wasn't the godmother of rock and roll
she was the MOTHER of rock 'n' roll. put some RESPECT on her name!
@@mcFreaki She is called that by others, just like Patti LaBelle is called the "Godmother of Soul" and just like
James Brown is referred to as the
"Godfather of Soul".
There are two men who are referred to as the "Father of Rock and Roll" and they are Chuck Berry and legendary DJ and promoter Alan Freed.
You are right though that Sister Rosetta Sharp should be referred to as the
"Mother of Rock and Roll". I was not disrespecting her legacy but pointing out that she is also referred to as the
"Godmother of Rock and Roll" as well.
It was a long overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2018 when Sister Rosetta Sharp was finally inducted.. I think a movie on her life and legacy on music should be made.
Pulls up in a horse drawn carriage, is led onto the stage by a dapper gent, and then proceeds to tear the house down, all whilst still in her coat. 100% pure class.
Yes that is so awesome! 😀❤💞💖
Brilliant response.
Amen
Right? 😂 And dancing around pools of Water while holding an Electric guitar⛈️⚡✨ Luv her!
The way she plays that electric guitar in 1964 gives me chills. So far ahead of the times.
yep
bro she was FEELIN that rhythm
Not in 64. Keep in mind players like Hendrix and Clapton were already around.
@@david6099 In 64 Hendrix and Clapton were basically unknown, they were taking influence from people like her.
@@seregill13 keep in mind Hendrix died in 69. He was already playing the way he did. I’m not saying she wasn’t influential but to say this was ground breaking in 64 is not accurate.
I was today years old. 49 years of not knowing about this badass woman.
Pretty awesome find, huh? Have you looked all her stuff up yet?
History did everything to erase this incredible woman. but talent could not be hidden. Badass indeed!
Dude there's a treasure trove of old blues stuff online now. RL Burnside my dude
@neicosta "history did everything it could" lol it's on youtube. You didn't have to find some obscure magazine and dig through garage sales to find this song
How about 55+ loving rock all my life and not knowing anything about this woman.
Ladies and gents, you are witnessing the prototype of rock and roll. Sister Rosetta is severely underrated. The rock and roll hall of fame JUST inducted her, even though she practically invented the damn genre
True....
A birthing!
never even heard of her ever, lol amazing how now youtube wants me to watch this :) sad to read up that she died so young though
Truth
That electric guitar seems too out of place in this video.
My grandmother used to tell me about Miss Tharpe and she always said "she already at top, she's just waiting for the men to catch up" lol
my ipads not coperating, A THOUSAND THUMBS UP
Great!! See I knew she was something else x
The god of rock is a queen. Jimi and Chuck said so...
Hey friend, I hope you know you're always loved and supported!! I love you buddy, if you ever need anyone to talk to, I'm here. Rest in peace. ❤
Wow! Your grandmother absolutely nailed it!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Everyone listening in 2021, don't let the memory of this beautiful music die with the legendary musicians.
Same for 2022,
Still Listen 05/10/2022. Amen 🙏
When I want to be enspired, I watch this video. She mix Gospel & Rythm & Blues. And Sings to The Lord in The sky. Amen 🙏
I see a lot of people complaining that she isn’t as known because she was a woman and gender conforming whatever crap. I think it’s better this way though. Id rather her stay relatively obscure and be able to just enjoy her music without having to hear a bunch of white liberals who just found her music pretend to have known about her all along and start complaining about injustices instead of just appreciating what she did for rock n roll. Or worse comparing her to modern artists as a trailblazer like Lizzo or something.
or 2022!
Not the godmother of rock and roll, she was the true MOTHER of the rock and roll. Real respect to her.
Absolutely 🤗
lmao imagine believing this
@@edreed5571cope
@@edreed5571i am begging you to explain why you don’t
Who was it then, Joan Jett with the time machine 👀
Can we take a few seconds to appreciate how bless we are to being capable to discover something like this every once in a while?
Blessed, blessed, blessed
💯 😊
Wonderful!!ď
I 🧡 RUclips
😍
She invented rock 'n roll and was the first to say:
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
she didn't invent rock n roll...
Let's be clear: no one person invented rock n roll. However, Tharpe was perhaps the first to take gospel and punch it up for mainly white audiences. If you don't feel, based on the timeline, that she was the mother of the genre, who was? Everyone else came later. @@bobbyschannel349
It should be noted that she wasn't performing for the camera or even the folks in the crowd really, she was playing for the Lord; that IMHO makes it all that much better.
The way she picked up that guitar like a boss!!!!! YES QUEEN!!!!
Yes she did!!❤❤❤👍👍👍
You know she did! ❤️
Oh yes she was Queen Beautiful Queen
Yes Queen! Like A Boss.. And can I get a Mic Drop?
She is AMAZING right!!
My mom talked about Rosetta Tharpe all the time. One day earlier this year we listened to a podcast on her. She had such an interesting life. She was extremely popular in her day. She was more appreciated outside the US. I hate that so many have not heard of her. Amazing lady.
@Laurence O'Connor That is so cool!
Josephine Baker, was another great opportunity missed by the racists American people.
I'd never heard of her until today wow
This is the true start of real in your face, energetic rock and roll rippin from a triple humbucking gibson SG. Absolute legend.
I am simultaneously grateful for discovering Sister Tharpe today and furious that the discovery took so long. What an immense talent she was!
Yep yep and yep
Warrior goddess
Yes we invented rock and roll too.
Dito! ❤️
I'm here October 2020 and couldn't agree more!! I'm a huge Aretha, Staple sisters, Ann Pebbles and Etta fan so I'm embarrassed too!!
There's never going to be a more important influence in music definition and expertise than All of our sister and the lord's work !!!! She truly is an Angel !!!!
Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan.... Stay Safe!
Black women contribution to American 🇺🇲 arts in unmeasurable and undeniable
Yes sir
@@tactricks Hope I'm loud 🔊📢 enough
Why do you classify People by their race and gender?
Because we do !! The whole world does . . Don’t play the innocent little flower here
@@YOULOOTWESHOOT101 🤣
My dad is outta Jackson, Alabama waaaaay back up in them woods where the asphalt stops and the orange clay dirt starts, and he always tell me about these artist back in his youth. Me and my friends would be dying laffing because pop always enjoyed talking about the good times coming up in those times (Jim Crow). My homies love to hear my Pop talk about when him and his running buddies went to see James Brown and The Famous Flames and they were drinking a rott gutt liquor call "Red Dagger"! Lawd I'm so glad that this new social media can put a face with these stories of old and we can see our elders and appreciate and learn and be proud of our heritage which we're supposed to be anyway because we have been through hell and highwater but we're still standing! So thank you elders for going through and keeping the faith because it's 2021 and we're still going through and it seem like they're trying to take us back! Next they'll be telling us to guess how many bubbles in a bar of soap so we can vote! Maaaan...let me stop! Y'all stay sturdy and stay safe and keep the faith 💯🙏🏿💪🏾✊🏾
Your family's story should become a book.
Pretty please preserve them at all cost!🥳🙏🏾
Love this
I spent some time in Birmingham Alabama in the early 1970s and sampled "Red Dagger" wine and while there they came out with Red Dagger Junior to cut It back a little. Yet, what was just as if not more potent was Purple Cow! Peace...
keep the faith.. the most important thing on earth
Elvis? Chuck?
Sorry guys, but the "King of Rock&Roll" is a Queen...
Oh yaaaas she’s the heckin queenarino!
If so, her name is Big Mama Thornton, not Sister Rosetta. Unless, of course, you are referring to Little Richard as a "queen." All kidding aside, though, you can't be serious in comparing Sister Rosetta to Chuck Berry when it comes to rock and roll music. Gospel music may be a genre that (along with other genres) fused into what became rock and roll, but it is no more rock and roll music than country swing (another genre that underlies rock and roll) is.
Dick Warren “Chuck Berry once said his entire career was “one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation”.” Artists from Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Littler Richard, and Chuck Berry had all cited Rosetta as either their favorite artist or musical influence. She was one of the pioneers of electric guitar distortion. There wouldn’t be any of them, without her. So yes, she is the Queen of Rock and Roll.
It's okay if you don't call Elvis The King. But hey, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Fats Domino were the true kings of Rock'n'roll.
Amen!!
What charisma, magnetism and talent!
Sister Rosetta Tharpe we love you!
830 dislikes? people have no class, intelligence, or an appreciation for history and real talent. On a side note Ms Thorpe is rocking that gorgeous coat!
Gettin their 2 and 1/2 seconds
steemdup only a moron would dislike this
That's okay at least we know
I suspect the dislikes are from seeing an awesome black artist perform before a bland white crowd. How can you just sit in your seat and listen to her sing her heart out?
830 guys that could only tap their big feet!
When your grandma is more rock and roll than you'll ever be
Ted Nugent once said his grandmother can play better guitar then them, referring to the band The Clash. Now, I can believe it.
She definitely has the moves...
And Gospel rock at that!!!
@@geezler4083 that's not hard to believe!
Actually, it is blues, but the best Rock and Roll was blues based.
Did I just watch a women take a horse and carriage to perform a Rock and Roll show!?
Yes You did!
Levels. This is my energy from now on. 🙌🏾😄
Oh yea baby she a queen right
That's style right there
Yes and?
How a black woman could say to a bunch of white kids that she loved them with a genuine warm smile on her face after the years of horrible racism she saw growing up is proof that she really had God’s love and forgiveness in her heart and just what a light she was and how much that light burned with the Holy Spirit.
So many great blues players were kept alive and performing by mostly white college circuit gigs. Sister Rosetta, John Lee Hooker, so many more. If they were lucky they lived long enough to be appreciated as the giants they were. Most only got that recognition after they'd died.
she was a performer. that's what they do.
@@seantuohy3100 John Lee Hooker became a millionaire, as did BB King for another example. They drew massive audiences. John Lee Hooker was in The Blues Brothers, along with a host of other mega famous multi-millionaire black musicians from Aretha Frankin and Ray Charles to Cab Calloway and James Brown. These people were beloved international superstars and not at all just among black communities. I first heard of Aretha Franklin and Cab Calloway because my grandparents had their LPs which they bought in the 1960s. Sam Cooke was another singer songwriter my grandad was obsessed with. They were both extremely white and born in the 20s. They weren't some special kind of anti-racist or "woke" white people they were just regular folk and there were plenty of them. This idea that anything earlier than a few decades ago means everyone was a horrible racist is nonsense. Racism was institutional and systemic to far worse degrees and this of course caused more people to think in those rotten ways, but tons of people also didn't. We in fact largely cherry pick all the racism from the past now to make it seem like there was nothing else, which is a distortion of a very complex and nuanced reality.
A lot of this broader stardom, even for white musicians, in fact came from the increase in record publications and global marketing by record labels. This only kicked off in the late 50s, before then it was very difficult for anyone to be so huge or well known beyond more niche fandoms. However, a lot of black musicians still made a pretty good living just playing to huge black audiences before being able to have a broader platform through the record industry, and it was regular people who showed the industry they wanted to hear their work and more and more of it, so black music in general became huge by the mid-70s into the 80s. But the record industry is why the real explosion of music mega stardom, just in general, began in the 60s. The stars who became huge and more international before then were those at the very top of the movie industry and the few huge singers who got into Hollywood, though even that was still very young industry in the 50s.
In fact, one small example of this incredibly one-track minded cherry picking of racism from the past is the Marx Brothers movie, A Day at the Races. There's a black community depicted in that film who have a musical number, and the Marx brothers black their faces with grease at one point to (ironically) hide from the cops while singing and dancing with everyone. This scene is now pulled out of it's content and absolutely trashed today as some utterly vile racism that means the Marx Brothers were racist. Go back to the 1930s when it was made and the Marx brothers in fact wrote and produced that scene specifically to give a voice to black dancers and singers who they loved and wanted to work with. The studio didn't want it, but they made sure it got into the film, the exact opposite of actual racism. The song itself is all about how much awful unfairness the black community were having to deal with, yet keeping their spirits up anyway, and the blacking up later in the scene was in fact supposed to be like showing that they were more comfortable joining in with the local black community than being around the white high society and the cops who were the villains out to get them and being aggressive and ignorant... It's complicated and extremely nuanced, and people now are getting really carried away with it all before even learning anything remotely in depth.
You would hate the children? Wtf is wrong with you?
Spot on mate, thanks for your incisive nput@@DM-kv9kj
As a lifelong rocker till I’m six feet under, man, how i Love it’s precious roots !!!!!
Thank you, Sister Rosetta Thorpe..
I’m one of the few that’ll blast these treasures at FULL VOLUME out of my music box !!!!!!! 🎸
My goodness... I have never seen this or had any idea about this artist at all before... What a delight to come from work, open youtube, and this shows right on my face. I had to click on and seat and listen to the entire beautiful Art of this lady. I am glad I saw this...
And dance!!!
Me too it just pop up today in front of me😱I'm glad I listen to it🎼🎶🤗❤she's a JAM❤
Wasn't she just awesome?
ditto
She is rock and roll...
Her voice is so powerful that she doesn't even use a microphone!!! Wow, what a show.
Do you know if she played the guitar live or is she miming on that too
@@bobmomgodbob She played it live.
She has a mic on her lapel so it's all live.
She has a mic on. It's clipped just below her chin
The late Canadian tenor Jon Vickers was the same. He sang the Star Spangled Banner in front of the White House in front of a mic once, but whenever he played Tristan, Otello, Sampson, Peter Grimes, etc. it was just raw vocal power that carried his performance.
Strapping on an electric guitar in the rain in the 60's. Probably safe, but it makes me appreciate her even more!! I agree with an earlier comment....we need a movie about this talented woman!
That move she makes at the 2:49 mark, she played that guitar like it was a part of her...A powerful voice and genius on guitar, the TRUE mother of rock and roll.
True pioneer.I've heard a lot of people didn't like her because of her "style" as in bluesy playing. I love it. Such a versatile musician who didn't stick to just one genre. She deserves her props.
They didn't like her because SHE SHOWED THEM UP!
Artist go unheard everyday
@q As long as we know the truth- that's whats important
If you are 15-20 years old and here listening to this song, congratulations you have my respect. We need young people like you so that our real music can continue to exist. May 2020
Nice to hear someone speak sense rather than nit-picking and calling them ignorant etc. If you really love a genre, you welcome people to it, not shut them out. I'm 30 so old enough to spread the good word :D When your Chuck Berry-loving father gives you a guitar at 6 then you are going to grow up with good taste!
@@rosseatsleepjdmCongratulations friend, stay with God !
Hate when old people say stupid stuff like this
@@lorylove492
You should, first of all, respect the opinion of your elders. Comments like yours show that you don't have a minimum of education. God be with you !
I'm 17, I love listening to music from the 1920's all the way to the 90's, I just love how in those decades they put so much thought and soul into their music compared to most of today, love it :D
Her voice is SO full...takes me back to memories that aren't mine...
Entirely new to me and I thought I knew a bit about music? Little did I know 8n fact! Wow. You can immediately see her influence on SO many who came afterwards.
She should be as well known as Waters, Wolf, King, et al. Glad the rock hall finally noticed her.
James Short: she was 30 years before her time. What an incredible voice. She could sing with the ease that most people could only speak with. Lord, I loved that woman and her voice.
Blues not rock. Don't care what anybody says.
@Mark Spires tell him
@@billbradleymusic Technically no, but the blues are the main thing that inspired rock, especially influencing the British blues of the late 60s, which led to so many other genre's.
I mean, even look at Sabbath. Iommi was a blues dude who had almost the same exact guitar here, and through finding himself and the blues invented a genre.
Most iconic music from the last 100 years or so evolved from electric blues, James Jamerson's basslines, the stage presence of soul artists, and the freedom of 60s counterculture.
As usual black jazz move mountains be it Everest o de Pico europa
This old lady is cooler than I will ever be.
Naomi Winters I’m sure you’re cool too:)
😆
That "old" lady is 49.
Belle Starr in the words of inspector Clouseau “not anymore” 😎
@@johnhungerford6073 Your point?
Shame on humanity for hiding such genius and beauty under a pile of rubbish prejudice. We are sadists for losing a lot of joy all this time. Sister, we need you to teach us the lesson.
Hiding?
Amen
Well, I'll give it to the British, who recognized this greatness, they repackaged it and sold it back to us and we loved it.
Amen sister. The world would've been a much better place if she had been given a bigger stage to shine on all those years ago, But she shines here for the whole world to see.
If we can ever clone humans. Should we start with her?
Classics that need to be remembered! She’s the Queen of rock n roll Gospel!!!
One of them.
@Ronnie Wall, she's the most pioneering and at the same time the most unknown.
@@VinylandKicks86 you can't say that
The most unknown really. People have no clue how to use words.
No such thing as the most unknown the most pioneering
@@VinylandKicks86 oh I see what you are. You're one those racist people who think black and white are actually different races. Poor humans so easy to dupe. There's no black no white just shades of brown.
I. Am. So. Happy!!!!! I have never heard of her and I just hit the youtube jackpot! I...I think I love her!
Me too!
Same! 👏
Research Black Gospel, and my favorite, Black Blues. I am! An rock and roll child of the 60's, 70's, and present day talents. And my friends, this is, where it came from...
me toooooo!!!!!
When she straps on that guitar, I'm so proud to be a woman.
Right 😫🙏🙏
RESPECT 4 U
That part!❤
Arent u normally proud? Imagine if men said these idiocies
I am so grateful to be able to see her in 2024! She is better than anyone we have now. She is amazing 😍
There'd be no rock and roll as we know it without this lady right here! She was the PROTOTYPE! listen closely and you can here where alot of rock and rollers back in the day got their style and swag from and she rarely got acknowledged! I believve it was either Chuck Barry or Little Richard who said "My career has just been one long sister rosetta rose tharpe impression." THE POWER OF THAT STATEMENT! pay your respects because without this lady right here music would be VERY different
"There'd be no rock and roll as we know it " Chill out dude, yes there would be, rock n roll wasn't invented by one person.
Pretty sure Chuck Berry had those riffs 20 years before her, but yeah, what you say. ruclips.net/video/v124f0i0Xh4/видео.html
@@usertubeification The video is filmed in the 60s but she was around decades before, I think she helped Little Richard onto the scene. As a rule of thumb regarding RnR, if Chuck Berry said it, it's the truth. Just saying, so you can make sure you have your facts right :)
Sing and Shout
Well Rock n Roll wasn’t really invented by one person. It was the culmination of the efforts of many people. Someone else here said something about Chuck Berry. Even Chuck Berry had his influences. Give a listen to T Bone Walker and tell me Chuck wasn’t influenced by him. Listen to Goree Carter’s “Rock a While” too. Everybody was influenced by somebody.
How the hell have I never heard about this amazing lady?!?
Exactly so many owe her.
I'm embarrassed I just found out... and it was Instagram that told me. Sad
Whitewashing history
Because she isn't Justin Bieber or Niki Minaj
@@quincyhyde8760
Don't be embarrassed
BE VERY PROUD THAT YOU FOUND HER
An old girlfriend of mine told me this was one of the greatest entrances ever made. I'm inclined to agree.
This beautiful black granny makes me so proud to see history.
The best. ❤❤❤
This is a classic! This woman was a classic! And I love the quote below: "who needs a microphone when I’ve got a voice as big as a church and lungs as powerful as the Holy Spirit?!" That's just fabulous!
Wow! Can't believe this is the first i am listening to this amazing lady, what a shame, with a voice like that she should have been in the front line, not being made to walk in back doors.
saw this legend live on her uk tour,ended up in her dressing room ,sitting at her feet...love and peace lady...xx
Hello Anna
Wow
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay....
And to think that she was not allowed in restaurants or clubs in some states or had to enter through the back!
She displays class, performs with authority and sings with so much soul...
But that wasn't a problem in England in 1964
@@markjackson5665 It WAS a problem in this lady's birthplace. And let's not pretend the UK did not subject people to racist abuse.
@@delphineblue I’m not that naive, but there were enough people who respected these musicians that these tours were a success and people came from as far as London to sit it the rain and watch them. The fact that it was televised shows that too.
Anyone in 2024? 😎
Yessss
Never heard of her until today. She is amazing 😊😊
Yip deep down in AFRICA 😂
Still playing and known 60 years later!
Yes from Mizoram India 🇮🇳
Thier are no words to describe how she plays that guitar.
She amazing Female version of Elvs that woman was Rock and Roll
She really rocks that beautiful Gibson!
Elvis was inspired by her.
It sure ain't
Soul spirit freedom dream's . Ope nope your are right . There are no words . Amen
She is a Rockstar like no other!!! Much respect to Sister Rosetta Tharpe!!
Amen and 🙏
She rocking in heels that's even more talent
Alyssa Smith yes she was the whole deal, played guitar, sang and performed in those 👠.
She did it all, like right there. Like, this ain't even hard.
Absolutely talented
On a wet stage .
And in that coat!!
ijs! yaaaaaaaasssssssss!
audience incredibly forward looking to have made it to this station in such weather when there was no internet to announce happenings. And incredibly open minded English folks, very appreciative.
Didn't know about Tharpe as a kid in high school, thirty years ago. Saw this video about five years ago. I teach high school American/African-American history now and you can bet she's part of our curriculum. Thanks for posting.
The grandmama of rock'n'roll. She was something else
As a guitar player myself, I simply adore this woman! Jimmy was right to be inspired by her 😊
She looks so stylish and plays the guitar like a BOSS!!! How are these people in the audience not rushing the tracks?!
...and when she arrives she begins to talk...
"Ohhhh the sweet horsy...
Ohhhhhh the sweet horsy...
This is a wonderful time of my life...
Ohh let me tell you something...
It's raining...
And the people are so sweet to stay and get soaked...
How great it is...
Let me tell you what I am coming on...
Ohhhh yessss...
Give me the key..."
And then she begins to play that guitar, and I was hooked...desperately and lost on her ability to play, dance and sing...
TRUE ARTIST, TRUE ARTISTIC ATTRIBUTES, TRUE STAGE PRESENCE... I WATCHED THIS VIDEO A MILLION TIMES NOW.
Thank you, whoever you are, for sharing with us...
Richard Andretti I second that!
I really love this,,,,,, a lot of good music,,,, POSITIVE ENERGY,,,,,,,,, so good ,,,, I found it,,, great God
She's bad ass. Playing a electric guitar in the rain
theres no any rain you sucker haha
@@andrzejziobry9025 It's certainly pretty damp!
狗日
@@MrDorbel that's what she said.. I guess it wasn't all the way wet
@Ian Knight a bat guilty of spreading Coronavirus, perhaps?
Never heard of this lady, this was in my recommendations so thank you person at youtube is awake and actually doing their job today!
How can I be a blues guitar lover, and JUST found this beautiful woman??? So damn good! And expensive Gibson guitars too! Proof that God loves ALL of us!!! I wish I had my old red Gibson SG, and my ES 135. (Made on Valentine's day) That's not rain, that's tears. I love you Rosetta!
They don't make em like this anymore, God bless sister Rosetta.
She made herself, mistress of of self
spoke to my grandpa on the phone of old songs and he mentioned Sister Tharpe and i got curious. Here i am, 27 years old listening to this banger of a song.
Watched the lady in Edinburgh's Usher Hall many years ago and been a fan ever since. A totally unforgettable experience seeing her live on stage.
This is awesome.
Lucky it was recorded for to see in 2023.✌️
Holy feckin smoke!! I've never heard her. Only been on this planet since 1961, and never heard this magic!!! Best wishes from Scotland.
Right? I was born '65 and never heard of her and I am from the south (U.S.)
I was also born in 1961 and I listen to most genres of music and never heard of her until it showed up on You Tube. Love her, she's great.
@boldbhoy67 she did a tour in Scotland actually
@@abigaelkamau9340 Really? Thanks for that Abigael.
@@boldbhoy67 yes..I just read about it today on her biography 'Shout, Sister, Shout' by Wald..she apparently was an inspiration to many artists even Elvis Presley😮
I just saw this and I have never heard about her, I am amazed at her talents of playing a guitar and sing, she was ahead of the times wow 1964 I was 7 years old, and Elvis Presley want to play like her style ,so he would watch her play and that’s how he learned to play ,but nothing like her she was the original , so glad they put her in the Hall of Fame, she earned it.
This was from a period when many blues performers were better known in the UK than they were in their home country the USA. I had the pleasure of seeing some of them when they came to my small little market town with Sonny Boy Williamson being the most memorable as I had chance to chat to him and get some advice on playing the harmonica.
You know it.... it's the blues!
@@billbradleymusic You don't say.
@@johnknow4097 It's true
Yeah! I thought it looked like an English crowd! So she presaged the British Invasion!
I was lucky enough to grow up in Chicago in the 1970s. By that time Young American audiences we're getting into the blues music. I got to see them all, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Lonnie Brooks, Buddy Guy and many many others. A couple of years ago on Howlin Wolf's 100 birthday anniversary I watched his band play at Chicago Blues Festival. By the end of the set I had tears streaming down my face.
Good Lawd so glad I ran across this gem...My Lawd!
Goodness, she's amazing, what a powerhouse & played that hell outta the guitar too! Can hear her influence on so many after her!
Hello
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay...
To the 84 people who down voted this video. Something wrong with you.
Unfortunately there's always the sour grapes wherever you go.
Something?
Many things.
Maybe they don't like this gospel, blues or whatever I personally don't like blues I think it's a horrible music but this is special
Luis Mancilla if you think blues is horrible you should get sponsored by Prozac! 🤣
tappedout300xc something? I say EVERYTHING!
Finding gems like this is why I love RUclips. Such a great clip. How have I never heard of Sister Rosetta until just now???? Love everything about this clip from her entrance, to playing in front of the tracks to her last words to the audience. They genuinely loved her performance and she genuinely loved them too for that positive energy. Phenomenal!
I didn't hear about her until Five Watt World's History of the SG video.
RUclips is the best thing about the webz. God I take some deep dives but yeah it's 100% gold when you come across stuff like this. She's unbelievable.
It's amazing how a humble invention from Utah, U.S.A., can become something truly amazing in the hands of a gifted and dedicated artist!
Why have I never heard of this lady? She’s fantastic!
@Anita Bonghit People aren't born with all music pre-programmed though. Hit that bong and chill OUT for wheats sake
Imagine Queen Latifa playing her in a movie. I'm such a big fan of hers! What a legend!
Yeah she was ineed an angel sent by God, God has been really amazing, whenever I listened to her songs, just can't stop thanking God for all his wonderful works in our life, you seem to love her alot right, I can tell from your comment, she must be really glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate her so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right 😃😃😃...have a blessed day okay...
Yola is going to play her in an Elvis movie coming out soon.
Queen Latifah, would be a perfect actress to play as sister Rosetta. She's awesome 👌
@@awboat Who?
@@tommiewestmoreland426 Viola Davis would be better
I saw a play based on her story and this woman is so badass! i loved every minute of this....she's in such command of both her voice and guitar as well as the audience! She's rockin' the thumb pick which is so awesome! Some of the best use the thumb pick like ol' Rosetta, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Johnny Winter, & many more!
The good thing about Sister Rosetta Tharpe was rhat you always knew you were just a minute away from another blistering guitar solo.
Sister Rosetta would have been a hit at Woodstock. I mean that I'm not kidding she would have got that audience rocking. This is the first that I've heard of her as she had me smiling all all the way.
That's for sure! I only discovered her tonight listening to the John Creedon show on RTE radio one in Ireland.
@@patrickambrose5372 mo
Love the way they use a train station , as a stage , the whole world is a stage .
they had to, there was segregation in that area and the crowd was white. One of the reasons it wasn't in a theater.
It is in England , we have never had segregation.
@@reya8601 Nope.
@@reya8601 That's England...
@@reya8601 No.
I noticed she almost tripped on her cable but some how quickly kicked it aside while not breaking that riff one bit. As if it never happened. In high fucking heals lol.
thank God she did not get "electrocuted" with all those puddles
If hollywood made a story it would miss the point
Didnt it rain
Ponder that
Straight Rock and roll right there, a queen
I had to play this again, especially on a rainy day like today. It's been raining NON STOP for 2 days here in central Maine Monday December 11th 2023
she was as good as anyone , perfect timing , hit every note , sang perfectly , played that guitar perfectly .... THAT is "the queen of soul" right there .... and I never heard of her until today .... pity
Boy have you been missing out on something. In the late 1950s the UK musician's union lifted their ban on USA musician and we had a succession of the ageing USA greats. Always accompanied on their tours with a top-notch UK band.
This lady was perhaps the most appreciated of them all. Mind you a few, just a few of them were past their best - but not that lady. Leith born band leader Alex Welsh was very often the chosen UK band to go on tour with the USA musicians and to be honest Alex and the band were well on a par with the visitors. The Post WWII trad jazz revival threw up some real great musicians.
Here is a RUclips clip of a little Number that unusual for jazz made the top twenty. Not exactly most folks idea of jazz but a bonny wee tune and so well played'
ruclips.net/video/sjE0a6IYXJs/видео.html
shure46 She was a fundamental pioneer of the genre and I am so glad to have discovered her too. And pissed that her legacy wasn’t more celebrated when I was coming up. But at least those wrongs are being righted.
@@TheAuldBob thanks for the information and educating me. ✌
It's a man!
Wake your ass up!
She released a song in 1938 called Rock Me; that is the creator of rock'n roll we are watching perform.
I don't know what has more class, the woman, the stage, or the Gibson
I clicked for the guitar, glad I did too :)
The woman. She's the one rocking the other elements.
I too clicked for the Gibson, double whammy.😚
Check out what's known as an 'American rocking chair' on her left. It's got the original carpet bag upholstery and the coiled springs under the rockers. An inspired prop choice for the 2nd innovator and the Queen of Rock 'n Roll.
The REAL ORIGINATOR who wrote the very first Rock 'n Roll song is the King of Country music Mr. Hank Williams Snr. Check out his 'MOVE IT ON OVER on here at RUclips and then compare it to what is officially known as the first R'nRoll record 'Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley & The Comets. Even the guitar riff on Haley's is a steal of Hank Williams'.
Yes, Hank Williams and Sister Rosetta are the male and female innovators of Rock 'n Roll. Listen to Sister Rosetta singing & playing 'HOUNDS DOG' years before Elvis recorded it.
I'm interested in any constructive feedback. opinions
@@BobTaile Hound Dog is one of my favorites. If I wasn't a white, male bassist, I'd love to be able to sing like Sister or Big Mama Thornton
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a true American treasure, a lady of immense talent.
*sigh* she deserved and still deserves so much more credit and praise for her contribution to music :(
She used to play at a church near where I grew up ...A lil before my time but RIGHT THERE !
Oh my god-just discovered this amazing lady "Wow" she is a legend .
I think even the horse was rocking back-and-forth bouncing his hoof
Me too. Just stumbled across her and her incredible music yesterday! All my life I never heard of her at all. And wow! I love it and I'm so glad I found these videos of her.
What incredible talent!
Even though it has been decades since she passed, we who have found her music (all these years after) will surely keep her memory and music going!
I just love her. And in this performance she has the moves too!
A complete package of incredible talent!
Howdy cousin!
Absolute QUEEN!
The definition! 👑
hi hoovy
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@@sinixdev8690 yes
WHAT A SOUND FOR 1964!!! I was born in 1959 and yesterday was browsing through U-TUBE and found The Godmother Rosetta Tharpe and I could not believe my ears.Wow what a treat!!! I love it.
This is amazing. I like how they turned a railroad station into a makeshift stage on one side with audience seating on the other side. Humble as it was, the English audience was loving the experience -- they hungered for more of this American music style (and the rest is music history).
Brilliant recording as well it is live but she's got no mic that's just crazy
🙈they did not see me cumin👍
Actually, she is wearing a mic, it's that clunking huge black thing at her collar, low profile 60s lapel mic. XD
Audio is amazing though, very well done.
@@HiVizCamo oh yeah u can see the chord coming out her dress on the right crystal clear recording for those times
Not humble, that is a huge production to mic up a live set with an audience along with the technical directing and editing of multi shots
Speechless
Just realised this is filmed in Manchester! How awesome is that!! Didn't it rain! It's always raining in Manchester.
Half way though, it's like god is shining on her.
How lucky those few Brits to have witnessed this.
and I was there..sitting at her feet...I was a teenager and she was so kind..
@@annajohannessen-adams4189 just seen your other comment. How did you get in the dressing room? I love how she tells the audience 'i love you England and I will until the end of my days'. She says it with true meaning. I'd prefer to of seen this than anything that has ever taken place. She's incredible. She played the Cavern Club in Liverpool on her first tour you know. Late 50's. Allegedly Richie Starkey went to see it (Ringo Starr).
I am blown away by this lady. I am a white 66 year old guy. I work with a former student who is 51 and African American. He knows who she is and I told him I was embarrassed that I had never heard of her. If she isn't in the rock and roll hall of fame, she should be. What a voice. Goosebumps listening to her.
Can we talk about her VOICE for a minute? Raw power ❤
It never ceases to amaze me how the black artists of the Jim Crow era kept plowing straight ahead despite all obstacles. Their "race" may have been denied, but there talent could not be! For those that don't know, strong elements of Jim Crow existed in much of the north too. It wasn't exclusive to the south.
Fortunately Jim Crow didn't exist in the north of England, where I'm guessing this was recorded,from the Chorltonville station sign, and sweet Sister Rosetta's lovely words to her English audience. Nowhere outside the African American communities has their music been more warmly embraced and cherished than England's Northern towns, cities and of course venues: the cavern, the twisted wheel, the wigan casino and the hacienda to name just a few over the last 60 years. African American music and artists enrich global culture immeasurably.
@Green Morning Dragon Productions are absolutely right, though the station was actually Chorlton-cum-Hardy, which Granada TV renamed Chorltonville for the night in honour of Rosetta Tharpe and Muddy Waters who was also on the bill.
I've sourced the full story for you here:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/when-the-blues-train-rolled-into-chorlton-1049592
@@GreenMorningDragonProductions i reckon the colonies the british still had in africa at this time were pretty enriching as well
Yes that’s why blacks should see themselves as winners not oppressed ppl
@@GreenMorningDragonProductions how did you guys feel about the music of the zulu people? did you develop an appreciation for their music after using them as target practice for your new machine guns?