RichandGroovy, November 20, 2024
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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43cMgUd_SYY for the tutorial video for this dance.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases the 2024 Thanksgiving dance video that uses an excerpt of DJ Suede's remix of Pastor Shirley Caesar's introduction to her rendition of the Gospel song "I'm Gonna Praise Gos While I Have A Chance" (also known as "Shouting John".
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Thanks to Shirley Caesar for her musical legacy. Thanks to DjSuede for his remix of Shirley Caesar's Gospel song that is known as "Shouting John". Thanks to richandgroovy.com for choreographing this Thanksgiving song. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post..
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-black-gospel-source-of-u-name-it.html for the pancocojams post entitled "The Black Gospel Source of The "Beans, Greens, Potatoes, Tomatoes (U Name It) Song & Dance Challenge".
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE MUSIC FOR THIS SHOWCASED THANKSGIVING DANCE
The music that RichandGroovy used for the Thanksgiving dance that he choreographed is from DJ Suede's viral 2016 remix of the introductory story about "Shouting John" that Pastor Shirley Caesar created for the Gospel song "I'm Gonna Praise God While I Have A Chance".
Here's a YouTube video of DJ Suede's remix of that song:
Dj Suede The Remix God ft Pastor Shirley Caesar - You Name It! #UNAMEITCHALLENGE (VocalTeknix Edit)
VocalTeknix, Nov 26, 2016
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Here is a portion of the lyrics for the DJ Suede remix of "Shouting John"
From https://genius.com/Vato-gonzalez-u-name-it-lyrics
"I Got Beans Greens Potatoes Tomatoes
Lamb Rams Hogs Maws
Beans Greens Potatoes Tomatoes
Chicken Turkeys Rabbit"...
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THE BACKGROUND OF THIS REMIX AND THE STORY OF "SHOUTING JOHN"
from that my 2014 pancocojams post entitled "Shirley Caesar - "Shouting John "(Hold My Mule) videos, lyrics, and comments"
[This portion was added in 2016 after the DJ Suede remix went viral]
From http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7587981/gospel-legend-shirley-caesar-soars-thanks-to-remix-memes-of-hold
Why the sudden surge in the song's popularity? In the tradition of recent social media memes (like the Mannequin Challenge) comes the #UNameIt Challenge, which started when DJ Suede The Remix God created an update of "Mule," with special focus on the line, "beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes" among other food shout-outs, obviously timely just ahead of Thanksgiving.".
In this article: https://abc11.com/gospel-icon-shirley-caesar-beans-greens-tomatoes/1623066/ "Gospel icon Caesar reacts to becoming a viral sensation, Nov. 23, 2016" Shirley Caesar shared that the U Name it clip was from a 2008 program at her church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Shirley Caesar first recorded the song "Praise God While You Have A Chance" in 1988. I don't know if that rendition includes the story of "Shouting John" as an introduction to that Gospel song. I also don't know if Shirley Caesar wrote that "Shouting John" story.
The "beans, greens, potato, tomato, You name it" line is part of African American Gospel singer Shirley Caesar's "Shouting John" song. She told that story as part of her introduction to the Gospel song "I'm Gonna Praise God While I Have A Chance".
The phrase "hold my mule" in the introduction to Shirley Caesar's "I'm Gonna Praise God While I Have A Chance" (also known as "Shouting John") may have come from the mid 19th century Southern United States Black dance song entitled "Jim Along Josie" (also given as "Jim Along Josey"). There are many different versions of that song. A verse in one version of that song is "Hold my mule while I dance Josie". ("Josie" was/is a female nickname and was also the name of a non-religious dance.)
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