The creativity of youth can not be commercialized. As soon as something artistic become popular enough, the suits all charge in for a slice. Eventually something else new and 'free' is introduced, so there's always something to look forward to.
The First song with Rap Lyrics to make US Number 1!!! Trend Setter! oh and they had the song down without the Rap Debbie said give me 15mins and went and wrote it in 10!!!!
Think this was the first time Rap made the main pop charts. Blondies three top tracks were Heart Of Glass, Call me and The Tide Is High. Blondie is the group, Debby Harry is the singer she was a model then a part of the "Punk Era" then pop.
In the early 80s MTV would not play rap videos. Once this came out they had to play it because Blondie was a huge band/brand. It was middle America’s intro to rap.
Blondie was a group way ahead of their time. Incorporating punk, new wave, reggae, pop, rock, disco and rap. Lead singer Debbie Harry a true icon. Try Heart of Glass, Dreaming, Atomic, One Way or Another, Hanging on the Telephone, Call Me, Hardest Part.
I read that she made up the fun whimsical lyrics in about 15 minutes before the performance. She’s so cute and pretty that it would be good even if she were reciting the alphabet.
Here in the UK the groups biggest hits were: 1978: Denis, (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear, Picture This, Hanging On The Telephone 1979: Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Dreaming, Union City Blue 1980: Atomic, Call Me, The Tide Is High 1981: Rapture 1982: Island Of Lost Souls, War Child 1999: Maria, Nothing Is Real But The Girl
Welcome to the BIRTH of hip hop. This was the first track EVER to feature a rap in 1979 when the genre was still a New York house party phenomenon. Fab Five Freddy was one of the first ever famous rappers and "Flash" is the inimitable, legendary OG DJ Grandmaster Flash. Soon after this Rappers Delight came out and the rest was history.
First song with rap to chart in the UK. I was 13. In my memory I’d heard the message before this, but maybe not. Defo got into Public Enemy snd Ll cool j a year later. The whole Ny scene, cbgbs, was a melting pot of styles. Love the brummie reaction. 👍🏽👍❤️
Fascinating, that’s super cool that for a lot of people this was probably their first introduction to rap, she was really cool with it aswell haha, this song is a really cool fusion of genres. And thanks! Hopefully the accent isn’t too jarring to the viewers 😄😂😅
This was the intro to rap that most white Americans got. If you were interested, you would move on to Grandmaster Flash. This song came out as a single in 1981.
It was several years after this song was a hit before I even heard of rap as a genre honestly, and some time before I found out Deborah Harry hadn't invented it. BTW the DJ was supposed to be Grandmaster Flash but couldn't make it, so the artist Basquiat filled in. The two graffiti artists are Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, they created all the graffiti art in the video.
Call Me is a must listen. If you do, don't listen to the music video version as it is criminally shortened. Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone and Accidents Never Happen are must listens as well.
"Heart of Glass" - Blondie. Came out in 79 as a single in its hit version as their top song/video. Even most young people know it as Debbie Harry looking gorgeous and great song... bit disco.... was part of the era into the 80s. Blondie youtube sight has many great videos... sadly, might not be able to react to... showing how Debbie Harry late 70s early 80s was waaaay ahead of her time in dress, hair, look. Videos song -"The Hardest Part" she is a brunette and great outfit..... 4.6 mil views and song - Dreaming at 17 mil views and others in virtually HD. Worth a look even if cannot react to..... should be able to do "Heart of Glass" video though... that one generally does get thru for reactions... and again here arguably top song with video.
Hahaha, it feels wrong for me to try and look at her like that as I wasn’t even born when this came out, she looks stunning in this video though I can’t lie
That ending should have gone on for another 15 minutes right? 😀 Of course there was an EP released for the clubs 💃🏽🕺🏼 This track rocketed around the world on every dance floor and party for its brilliant and FUN fusion of almost everything😆 -funk, new wave, disco, rap: no leading band had fused disco and rap. Ever. For the record: Deborah Harry was smart enough to know and she insisted this was NOT a rap song but an “homage” to rap. You can see a couple rappers and the painter Basquiat in the background of this $50 video (which I love it for)😄 You mentioned that time. That was my neighborhood, I lived a 10-min walk from CBGB’s and the other clubs, saw Blondie and countless bands. I was an original punk😁 What made the scene SO FUN and an explosion of creativity was that young people in ALL the arts were running around to everyone’s art openings, music performances, modern dance, conceptual, being influenced by everything and collaborating. Partly because everything was CHEAP! My first apt in Manhattan’s East Village was $170/month my salary was $5/hour😱 [I’m devastated how fkg hard it is for younger] I didn’t see below exact mention of this history: MTV in the beginning was notorious for refusing “black” “urban” music and videos🤬 including rap. Blondie was huge at the time and on heavy rotation at MTV; this song was such a smash (and a white band)🙄 that this song is how rap broke through. (They HAD to “open up” for Michael Jackson too)
You young people missed sooooo much! You're parents and grandparents were waaaaayyyy cooler than you ever imasgined! Your voyage into truly GREAT music--the BEST popular music of ALL TIME--is just beginning! This 79-year-old has a LOT of suggestions if you are interested...check out The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Mama and the Papas, The Who, the Guess Who, Peter Frampton, The Eagles, The Youngbloods, Burton Cummings...andf then there'ss Mo-Town--Marbin Gaye, Ben E. King, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry, The Supremes, Dione Warwick--want more Blondie? The Tide is high, Call Me, Heart of Glass...
I’ll fight anyone who tries to say anything about this not being the first mainstream rap song. And it was by a woman! Yes I understand there were already rap groups but they weren’t getting airplay yet on MTV when all they did was MUSIC not reality tv. Debra Harry is a freakin legend. She was in several movies. She played witch that has a boy in a cage and is going to cook him but he convinces her he could tell her scary stories. The movie was called Tales of the Darkside. She was also in horror/body horror legend David Cronenberg’s acid trip of a movie Videodrome.
The younger generation croticises this often, however it was thev80scand it was fun and she ad the 1st rap song on MTV & that hot the charts in US and yes it's about the man from Mars and bars and music that's what was happening in the 80s d9nt 0eople ding a out what's happening " now" as rule ?
So much fun back 70s 80s
Good reaction bro!
The creativity of youth can not be commercialized. As soon as something artistic become popular enough, the suits all charge in for a slice. Eventually something else new and 'free' is introduced, so there's always something to look forward to.
The First song with Rap Lyrics to make US Number 1!!! Trend Setter! oh and they had the song down without the Rap Debbie said give me 15mins and went and wrote it in 10!!!!
Think this was the first time Rap made the main pop charts. Blondies three top tracks were Heart Of Glass, Call me and The Tide Is High. Blondie is the group, Debby Harry is the singer she was a model then a part of the "Punk Era" then pop.
In the early 80s MTV would not play rap videos. Once this came out they had to play it because Blondie was a huge band/brand. It was middle America’s intro to rap.
Intro for many places. Also Australia. I still remember I saw this on tv…very early 80s.
Blondie was a group way ahead of their time. Incorporating punk, new wave, reggae, pop, rock, disco and rap. Lead singer Debbie Harry a true icon. Try Heart of Glass, Dreaming, Atomic, One Way or Another, Hanging on the Telephone, Call Me, Hardest Part.
I read that she made up the fun whimsical lyrics in about 15 minutes before the performance. She’s so cute and pretty that it would be good even if she were reciting the alphabet.
Here in the UK the groups biggest hits were:
1978: Denis, (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear, Picture This, Hanging On The Telephone
1979: Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Dreaming, Union City Blue
1980: Atomic, Call Me, The Tide Is High
1981: Rapture
1982: Island Of Lost Souls, War Child
1999: Maria, Nothing Is Real But The Girl
Welcome to the BIRTH of hip hop. This was the first track EVER to feature a rap in 1979 when the genre was still a New York house party phenomenon. Fab Five Freddy was one of the first ever famous rappers and "Flash" is the inimitable, legendary OG DJ Grandmaster Flash. Soon after this Rappers Delight came out and the rest was history.
lets not forget graffit with lee in the backround.. all part of a scene that came from punkrock..until it found its own home.
Ty for watching with an open kind and getting it ty and keep having fun
This was the first rap at nr.1 in the Billboard chart. ….Blondie.
First song with rap to chart in the UK. I was 13. In my memory I’d heard the message before this, but maybe not. Defo got into Public Enemy snd Ll cool j a year later.
The whole Ny scene, cbgbs, was a melting pot of styles.
Love the brummie reaction. 👍🏽👍❤️
Fascinating, that’s super cool that for a lot of people this was probably their first introduction to rap, she was really cool with it aswell haha, this song is a really cool fusion of genres.
And thanks! Hopefully the accent isn’t too jarring to the viewers 😄😂😅
This was the intro to rap that most white Americans got. If you were interested, you would move on to Grandmaster Flash.
This song came out as a single in 1981.
It was several years after this song was a hit before I even heard of rap as a genre honestly, and some time before I found out Deborah Harry hadn't invented it. BTW the DJ was supposed to be Grandmaster Flash but couldn't make it, so the artist Basquiat filled in. The two graffiti artists are Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, they created all the graffiti art in the video.
I believe this was the first "rap" song to go #1 in the Billboard
Deborah Harry was a Playboy Bunny at the famous NYC mansion for 3 years in the 1960s!
Heart Of Glass, Call Me, Dreaming are some of Blondie hits!
The guy standing at the turntables was the famous painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Warhol protege.
Was supposed to be Grandmaster Flash but he couldn't make it, so they grabbed Basquiat to fill in, lol.
Call Me is a must listen. If you do, don't listen to the music video version as it is criminally shortened. Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone and Accidents Never Happen are must listens as well.
First rap song to hit the radio waves was by a white girl named Deborah Harry (Lead Singer of Blondie. You need to react to "Heart of Glass"
She did not stick with rap in songs though... early evolution in NYC scene that did not yet get much traction.
Union City Blue followed by Atomic. Plastic Letters is a great album also....
"Heart of Glass" - Blondie. Came out in 79 as a single in its hit version as their top song/video. Even most young people know it as Debbie Harry looking gorgeous and great song... bit disco.... was part of the era into the 80s. Blondie youtube sight has many great videos... sadly, might not be able to react to... showing how Debbie Harry late 70s early 80s was waaaay ahead of her time in dress, hair, look. Videos song -"The Hardest Part" she is a brunette and great outfit..... 4.6 mil views and song - Dreaming at 17 mil views and others in virtually HD. Worth a look even if cannot react to..... should be able to do "Heart of Glass" video though... that one generally does get thru for reactions... and again here arguably top song with video.
I still want some time with Debbie. This woman casts a spell that lasts until you die, apparently.
Hahaha, it feels wrong for me to try and look at her like that as I wasn’t even born when this came out, she looks stunning in this video though I can’t lie
Blondie has hits upon hits. Heart of glass is a good one.
That ending should have gone on for another 15 minutes right? 😀
Of course there was an EP released for the clubs 💃🏽🕺🏼
This track rocketed around the world on every dance floor and party for its brilliant and FUN fusion of almost everything😆 -funk, new wave, disco, rap: no leading band had fused disco and rap. Ever.
For the record: Deborah Harry was smart enough to know and she insisted this was NOT a rap song but an “homage” to rap.
You can see a couple rappers and the painter Basquiat in the background of this $50 video (which I love it for)😄
You mentioned that time.
That was my neighborhood, I lived a 10-min walk from CBGB’s and the other clubs, saw Blondie and countless bands. I was an original punk😁
What made the scene SO FUN and an explosion of creativity was that young people in ALL the arts were running around to everyone’s art openings, music performances, modern dance, conceptual, being influenced by everything and collaborating.
Partly because everything was CHEAP! My first apt in Manhattan’s East Village was $170/month my salary was $5/hour😱
[I’m devastated how fkg hard it is for younger]
I didn’t see below exact mention of this history: MTV in the beginning was notorious for refusing “black” “urban” music and videos🤬 including rap. Blondie was huge at the time and on heavy rotation at MTV; this song was such a smash (and a white band)🙄 that this song is how rap broke through. (They HAD to “open up” for Michael Jackson too)
This and Heart of Glass...
Tha jam!
Debbie Harry was an icon. I loved Blondie.
IS an icon.
You young people missed sooooo much! You're parents and grandparents were waaaaayyyy cooler than you ever imasgined! Your voyage into truly GREAT music--the BEST popular music of ALL TIME--is just beginning! This 79-year-old has a LOT of suggestions if you are interested...check out The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Mama and the Papas, The Who, the Guess Who, Peter Frampton, The Eagles, The Youngbloods, Burton Cummings...andf then there'ss Mo-Town--Marbin Gaye, Ben E. King, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry, The Supremes, Dione Warwick--want more Blondie? The Tide is high, Call Me, Heart of Glass...
In the album, extents with more instrumental jam
I’ll fight anyone who tries to say anything about this not being the first mainstream rap song. And it was by a woman! Yes I understand there were already rap groups but they weren’t getting airplay yet on MTV when all they did was MUSIC not reality tv. Debra Harry is a freakin legend. She was in several movies. She played witch that has a boy in a cage and is going to cook him but he convinces her he could tell her scary stories. The movie was called Tales of the Darkside. She was also in horror/body horror legend David Cronenberg’s acid trip of a movie Videodrome.
The younger generation croticises this often, however it was thev80scand it was fun and she ad the 1st rap song on MTV & that hot the charts in US and yes it's about the man from Mars and bars and music that's what was happening in the 80s d9nt 0eople ding a out what's happening " now" as rule ?
The first rap song to hit no. 1 on the billboard charts in 1981