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World’s First Beatboxing Champion in 1938

March 1, 2012


World's First Beatboxing Champion in 1938 World's First Beatboxing Champion in 1938 See a playlist of our channel's best clips here: This video is taken from the British Pathe newsreel “The Radio Revellers” and is a song called 'There's A Tavern In The Town'. You can watch the video of the whole song here: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-radio-revellers/ And yes, for those of you who were wondering, this isn't actually “beatboxing” strictly. The singer is doing an impersonation of a “big string bass” – Still, it's pretty impressive and a prototype of beat boxing. The world famous beatboxer Rahzel shared some insight on this video which you can read on our blog here: http://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/the-history-of-beatboxing-rahzel-talks-to-british-pathe/ If you like fun and good quality archive footage then join our archive's lively Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/britishpathe All 90,000 newsreels in the British Pathe archive can be viewed for free online http://www.britishpathe.com Also, If anyone's interested, the applause in this video is taken from this other video of Julie Andrews singing in 1948: From: britishpathe Views: 40171 504 ratings Time: 00:48 More in Music

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