meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Smartest Man in the World

Violas

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In another recording from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer banter on Bayard Rustin, The Berkeley Barb and Bong Joon-ho.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

There is no better way to start a Black History Month podcast than with one of the

0:19.5

inventors of Rock and Roll, Sister Rose Alhattharp.

0:22.5

This is from a 1964 live television broadcast she did in the movie.

0:26.4

You can hear people clapping along and screaming because they're there at a abandoned train station.

0:33.4

Here are once again the smartest man in the world who takes to the either this time from

0:40.2

the Sluubri's confines of the Purpose of Frutitude located somewhere in Lower California,

0:44.6

Mayo, McGregorio, me esposa eshenifer.

0:46.9

Hello.

0:47.9

Hello.

0:48.9

We're listening to Sister Rose Alhattharp because there's never enough time to listen to

0:52.8

Sister Rose Alhattharp.

0:54.1

She is born.

0:55.6

In 1915, it was a gospel singer and then started doing gigging with Lucky Melander, Duke

1:05.1

Alan Tuhl and what not, she played the cotton club in Harlem and became a giant gospel

1:09.2

star.

1:10.2

Then made a record for DACA that went onto the rhythm and blues charts.

1:13.9

They didn't call it then they called it the Harlem charts.

1:16.6

It might be the first gospel cost of a record.

1:20.3

This is way later in the career in 1964.

1:23.4

She toured extensively around the United States and then met a woman piano player who I think

1:29.2

they were.

1:30.2

She was the Helia Jackson's pianist and then she and Renite toured together.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Greg Proops, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Greg Proops and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.