1961 Radio Station Promo Signifyin' Monkey / Work Song Oscar Brown Jr. 45 JAZZ

Description: Offered: Radio Station Copy ( Promo) Signifyin' Monkey / Work Song Oscar Brown Jr. runouts JZSP 53140 JZSP 53141 White labelExcellent Great Sound **** Oscar Brown, Jr. was a vocalist whose technique was steeped in jazzy agility and swing, but whose talents were too diverse to allow him to slot conveniently into the "jazz vocalist" category alone. His performances were consistently witty, shrewd, musical and humane, and he wrote lyrics to several classic jazz anthems that sounded integral to them, rather than afterthoughts. He was also a trenchant observer of hypocrisies and injustices, with a history of intelligent combativeness about citizens' rights - artists' or otherwise - that did not always go down well with the music industry. He never committed himself so completely to the jazz life as to build a distinct reputation there, and after his success in the 1960s he increasingly tended to be overlooked by the media and the cognoscenti. Yet he continued his live shows and these often led surprised observers to comment on the injustice of his comparative obscurity. A Brown set would include his hit songs - The Snake, or the hypocrisy-puncturing Signifyin' Monkey - but there would be plenty of space for landmarks of jazz composing, like Charlie Parker's Now's The Time or Billie's Bounce, Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight or the Miles Davis classic, All Blues. Brown's lyrics for the last count among his most popular achievements. ****Signifyn' monkey is about the life of a black man who makes fun of a lion in a jungle about how he was beaten up. The lion represents a white man and the monkey interestingly the name that a white man would give a black man. The white man/lion is supposed to have assertion and power over the town however he is beaten up. The black man later holers some remarks at the lion and he threatens to kill them.This can be closely related to the works of Kendrick Lamar in ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ as it represents the white man as taking power over a situation and the monkey doesn’t fight back because although he says that he will put the elephant on the lion again he has no power or place in society because the political system doesn’t allow it. Work Song: Chain Gang serving time for being hungry and poor at the grocery store

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