Friday Video - The Rapper

I feel like I know bands and musicians from Pittsburgh. You have The Marcels and The Del-Vikings and Walt Harper and Joe Grushecky and Donnie Iris and Rusted Root and Christina Aguilera and Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller and Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio among others. A recent YaJagoff! podcast featured the band, The Jaggerz, who I somehow had never heard of before.

I learned that The Jaggerz had a major hit in 1970 with the song, The Rapper, which went to #2 on the Billboard Top 100. I had never heard of this song either. What's amazing to me are the other songs and artists on the chart. Simon & Garfunkel's monster smash "Bridge Over Troubled Water"  prevented "The Rapper" from reaching the top spot. However, The Rapper was above Instant Karma by John Lennon, Santana's Evil Ways, Let It Be by The Beatles, and ABC by The Jackson 5. Other artists with songs in the Top 40 include Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steve Wonder, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, The Temptations, and The Supremes. That's quite a list!