Tik Tok Harmonizes With James Charles - "Bring Me Little Water, Silvy" And A Video Of High School Choir Doing Body Patting While Singing "Bring Me Little Water", Silvy"

i love tik tok, Aug 24, 2020

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a 2020 harmonizing rendition of "Bring Me Little Water Silvy". This tik tok clip and other were inspired by (and which includes) a short 2020 clip of n James Charles, a young White American man, singing that song while seated on a street curb.

This post also includes a video of a high school choir performing body patting while singing this song. 

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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/03/leadbellys-sound-file-and-sweet-honey.html  for the closely related 2021 pancocjams post entitled "Leadbelly's sound file And Sweet Honey In The Rock's video of "Bring Me Little Water Sylvie" (with lyrics)".

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VIDEO #2

Los Angeles Master Chorale

1,000 high school students participate in the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 28th Annual High School Choir Festival. Composer/singer/guest artist Moira Smiley leads the students for a performance of her "Bring Me Little Water, Silvy" at Walt Disney Concert Hall
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A number of YouTube videos inaccurately attribute the song "Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy" to White American Moira Smiley.

"Bring Me Little Water, Silvy" is an African American folk song. The composer of "Bring Me Little Water, Silvy" is unknown and that song's earliest recording was in 1936 by African American Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly).

Moira Smiley is credited with starting the custom of performing body patting while singing "Bring Me Little Water, Silvy". The earliest video that I have found of Moira Smiley and choir members doing body patting with this song is from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkHGhGpaW5k&ab_channel=MoiraSmiley  

Bring Me Little Water, Silvy (teaching demo)

Moira Smiley, Mar 6, 2009 

Moira's arrangement of Huddie Ledbetter's great song, performed by VOCO.

Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Christine Enns-Tavares

original body percussion by Evie Ladin
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An older term for "body patting" is "Pattin Juba" and doing "Hambone". These body patting customs originated in West Africa. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71RyGbKv0vQ&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=UlfJ%C3%A4gfors for a 2006 YouTube video of  Jola (ethnic group) girls performing traditional Jola body patting and dances in Mlomp, Casamance region, Southern Senegal (West Africa).

That video is included in this 2011 pancocojams post entitled "Pattin Juba, Hambone, And The Bo Diddley Beat"  http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/pattin-juba-hambone-and-bo-diddley-beat.html

Body patting is most closely associated with African Americans and lives on in many of the steppin(g) routines of historically Black Greek letter fraternities and sororities. Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/03/body-patting-in-historically-black.html for a pancocojams post entitled "Body Patting In Historically Black Greek Letter Fraternities Stepping Routines".

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