Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series that showcases the YouTube vlog [video blog] by Ghcurls entitled "Being Black in Italy| My Experience".

Part I presents my partial, unofficial transcription of this vlog episode with a focus on the numbered points that Ghcurls made.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/ghcurls-vlog-being-black-in-italy-my.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. Part II presents that vlog along with selected comments from that vlog.

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owner.

Thanks to Ghcurls for this vlog.
-snip-
Part II of this pancocojams series will be published ASAP and its link will be added to this post.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/2017-article-excerpt-leaning-away-from.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "2017 Article Excerpt - "Leaning Away From Racial Evaporations in Italy- Reflections on Whiteness, African Americanness and Privilege in Italy" by Candice Whitney"

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Being Black in Italy| My Experience



Ghcurls, Jan 31, 2018

Hello guys i thought i should do a little talk video and so here you are. These are just some general things you might face as a black person living in Italy. It actually varies. In some cities you might even go unnoticed and in others you will just be one of the many black people.

If you want me to do more of such videos comment in the comment section and i will be glad to make such videos for you

#beingblackinitaly #livinginitalyasablackperson
-snip-
"Ghcurls" is a woman who was born in Ghana, West Africa. From a comment she made in this vlog, she came to Italy when she was in high school.

****
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION OF THIS VLOG
by Azizi Powell
[Additions and corrections are welcome.]

1...."one of the first thing to expect when you are Black in Italy is the stares. People are going to stare at you right left center. Wherever you go, whoever you are with- you are going to get the stares.

Now the stares are quite different. People are going to stare at you with curiosity. People are going to stare at you with disgust. People are going to stare at you with-like-in a sexual way. Whatever it is, you are going to get stares....

2. If you are Black in Italy, you have... I mean you probably are going to be regarded as a quote on quote regarded as a "prostitute". And that is automatic. Like, every Black person in Italy is supposed to be a prostitute. That is-that actually kinda of annoys me. It it it just kills my soul that I-because of the color of my skin I am going to be associated with a prostitute. Now when I was in the North, I never really got those kind of-It wasn't direct, you understand. In Rome [pause] it is terrible....

3. You are never going to get any products for you. When I say "any products" what I mean is you are never going to walk in a store and get something that is tailored for your hair, for your face, for your skin, for anything. There is- I mean it is assumed that we are in the minority, which we are, and apparently we don't need any makeup. Apparently, we don't take out our hair. Apparently, we don't exist. So basically you walk in any makeup store and their foundation range is going to stop at [pause] a mulatto's like um skin tone. You're never-it's never going to go down....

If you are coming from outside the country and you're thinking you are going to get everything here-I'm sorry. You're not. So just bring everything with you when you're coming to Italy. Face, makeup products, hair products-whatever it is you need, bring them with you because I can take you you are not going to get any of that.

4. Another thing to expect is being associated with a Black American. So the funny thing is if you are in Italy, and you dress well and you walk well and you speak well and you do whatever it is well- if you have a good appearance, you know, you know, you're not African. And that is terrible. I mean that is terribly painful because you can see me and say "Oh, you are- You don't look African. You look American." Ah, what does that mean? I don't understand. What makes me look like a Black American? What makes me not look like an African? Is it because we are always portrayed as as poor people or as something of that sort and so we are not worthy to be, to be able to dress well, to be able to speak well, to be able to be gentle like-Yeah there's something about this which actually irks me....Yeah, if you dress well, if you have an iphone, if you have whatever, you're an African American, or you're from the UK- somewhere but not in Africa.

5. Yes, another thing to expect if you are Black in Italy is to be asked a lot of questions. Ah, people do ask you lots of questions, and you say, okay, this is genuinely because they want to know, they genuinely want to know more about you, more about your culture, they want to know more about where you come from. And you're going to get questions that insult you and questions that are just, you you wonder if the person asking the question is actually a human being or if the person asking the question is, is educated in any kind of way. Now I don't blame them because that's what they see on tv. Africans are portrayed as having I don't know, flies on their nose, flies on their mouth, asking for aid, no water to drink, no clothes to wear. So you will be asked these silly questions. It baffles me and annoys me. I mean I have been asked if I see elephants and tigers when I open my door....And I said "Excuse me, I don't live in a jungle". Lately, I was asked a question like "Why do you have white teeth when you are black?" Like, that is one of those crazy questions that people ask you. And you're like "Are you even serious? I mean, are teeth supposed to be black because I'm Black? Like, are you even serious?" That is just one of the normal, the absurd questions that people ask you"...

****
This concludes Part I of this pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series that showcases the YouTube vlog [video blog] by Ghcurls entitled "Being Black in Italy| My Experience".

Part II presents that vlog along with selected comments from that vlog.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/youtube-video-partial-transcription-of.html for Part I of this post presents that vlog and presents my partial, unofficial transcription of this vlog episode with a focus on the numbered points that Ghcurls made.

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owner.

Thanks to Ghcurls for this vlog. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/2017-article-excerpt-leaning-away-from.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "2017 Article Excerpt - "Leaning Away From Racial Evaporations in Italy- Reflections on Whiteness, African Americanness and Privilege in Italy" by Candice Whitney"

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Being Black in Italy| My Experience



Ghcurls, Jan 31, 2018

Hello guys i thought i should do a little talk video and so here you are. These are just some general things you might face as a black person living in Italy. It actually varies. In some cities you might even go unnoticed and in others you will just be one of the many black people.

If you want me to do more of such videos comment in the comment section and i will be glad to make such videos for you

#beingblackinitaly #livinginitalyasablackperson
-snip-
"Ghcurls" is a woman who was born in Ghana, West Africa. From a comment she made in this vlog, she came to Italy when she was in high school.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
WARNING: This discussion thread contains a great deal of profanity. There's also at least one comment with the pejorative "n" word. None of those comments are given below except with partial spelling.

I also didn't include any comments in this compilation that discuss Italian politics in detail and didn't include any of the few comments that were written in Italian.

I assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.

1. David Black, 2018
"Interesting video. I spent a lot of time in Veneto, too. It's strange that they think you're American. Italians would assume that I'm not American (I am) but instead from Cuba, Brazil, or Morocco. And when I'd say I'm American, they'd ask me where I originally came from. Talk about stupid!"

**
REPLY
2. BPTB1, 2018
"David Black There's nothing more racist in this planet than fascist Italians."

**
3. Gisele Marcelle Findjeu, 2018
"I totally agreed with you my dear, all you said was true. Living in Milan working in office and have a good background i am so proud to tell them I'M AFRICAN, not french or american"

**
4. Priscilla Owusu Pankyee, 2018
"It is very true that there are people who would ask you very stupid questions. One white 19 year old Italian girl asked my 60 year old uncle if he stole the car that he drives.I was asked if in Africa we have food to eat and if we even have flat screen TVs.I mean how stupid is that?"

**
5. Sir Ace, 2018
"I'm sorry for your experience, though some of your remarks are totally typical of countries that never faced or only recently faced immigration from far countries.
As examples, the silly questions are obvious. I've been living in East Asia and they were sometimes asking me if Italy was one of USA states. Or if all Italians ate only pasta, they were called Mario or they were all Mafia affiliates. I couldn't find deodorant for my skin or products for my hairs. It's part of being an ethnic minority in a far foreign country. I was stared everywhere I went and sometimes insulted when I was dating local girls.
I personally accepted all that stuff as part of my choice in living in such a far foreign country. I can't blame the locals for that.
Add that racism in Italy towards Africans and South East Asians is as recent as the immigration from those areas. And actually it is really recent. Less than 30 years. And 30 years are nothing in terms of social acceptance and integration of diversity."

**
REPLY
6. Marley Barley, 2018
"Sir Ace I think it depends on the number of immigrants and their level of integration. The more the immigrants from x ethnic background (and lack of integration from them) the more they’re targeted for racism.
Albanians + Romanians are the largest ethnic minorities in Italy and as a result they face a lot of racism (also because many of them are criminals) this was also true for Moroccans several years ago as they were the largest ethnic minority.
Recently Bangladeshis have migrated to Italy but because their numbers are relatively small in comparison to others (b/w 100,000-150,000) and many own local grocery shops and aren’t as criminal they don’t face much racism (now if there were 1 million Bangladeshis in Italy they would face a lot more racism)."

**
REPLY
7. Sir Ace, 2018
"Well, what you write it's true but it's a secondary effect. For example, Philippinos have been the largest (or second largest) community of immigrants in Italy for three decades and still now are the fourth largest group. They never faced though much racism if any.
Chinese face some racism where there are the largest and most complex communities like in Prato but overall they are doing fine (more or less).
Albanians today are mostly integrated, I worked with a lot of them and they confirm me that basically racism against them has mostly come to an end.
The point is that most of Albanians worked hard to integrate, despite a big number of them that indulged in criminal activities. For Romanians there is a similar process going on and I think in less than 10 years you would not tell a Romanian from an Italian.
The problem for South Sahara people is that they are visible and recognizible, so the racist ones in Italy have an easy target. Add that some very violent crimes in the last years have been committed by South Sahara illegal immigrants and were widely reported in the media.
Still, I'm quite sure that in short time (maybe 30 years) we will not debate about this issue because it will be solved, since hopefully the African immigrants will try hard to integrate (as the Albanians did) and at the same time the locals will be more accustomed to variety."

**
8. Mamadou Lama Diallo, 2018
"Is true my dear"

**
9. Priscilla Owusu Pankyee, 2018
"It's not a comfortable country to live in as a foreigner. As much as there are many racists there I've met a lot of good people who treat me with a lot of respect but seriously I don't feel comfortable."

**
REPLY
10. 1FDerek, 2018
"Priscilla Owusu Pankyee It depends if you're a black or white foreigner cause Italians give a lot of importance to skin color. If you're a black foreign they will treat you like shit, if you're a white foreigner with blonde hair and blue eyes the Italians will kiss your ass."

**
REPLY
11. Priscilla Owusu Pankyee, 2018
"+1FDerek soo true you're right if you're black or Asian they don't respect people"

**
REPLY
12. 1FDerek, 2018
"Priscilla Owusu Pankyee Italians aren't really that racist to Asians but they're racist as hell against blacks, they don't respect blacks at all."

**
13. MB-A, 2018
"Living in Pisa, and the staring is on another level. I hate it here and never go anywhere."

**
REPLY
14. Priscilla Owusu Pankyee, 2018
"exactly I don't even want to go out with my Italian friends because when you do people are going to stare at you with you with disgust or curiosity and they look at you the entire time until you leave the place."

**
15. la mulata linda Martinez, 2018
"I have lived in Rome for 10 years, my husband is Italian and my children are half Italian. I have never had anyone approach me as a prostitute. Maybe it is the fact that I am African American of Afro Puerto Rican descent. Sometimes I am thought to be Brazilian and people will speak Portuguese to me but I have never had a racist encounter in the 10 years I've lived in Italy. I do agree in the last few years the Fascist strain that is apart of Italy's DNA has shown its ugly head. The immigrants are treated horribly and it is a scary time with 5 Star and Lega coming into power. My kids are small and I hope this latest strain of Fascism is a blip and not the future. I'm sorry that your experience has been so painful. It hurts me to know that people can be so ignorant. I left America to get away from white racism and it seems that everywhere we are with Europeans racism shows its ugly face. My husband and his family are the Italy that I love, good people who love humanity. My father in law is a lawyer that helps immigrant families, get housing and find jobs. But I will agree there is a feeling here now that I didn't feel when I first came here. I haven't had anyone be racist with me yet but the mood is ominous. Good luck to you sister."

**
REPLY
16. Sahada Beloved, 2018
"+la mulata linda Martinez I had to ask sorry.but are you light skinned?."

**
REPLY
17. 1FDerek, 2018 [This is written in response to another comment]
"Gray The majority of you Italians are not racist? Yeah sure, that's why the racist fascist of the Northern League won the latest election in Italy and the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini is the most important and powerful politician in Italy right now."

**
REPLY
18. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek What led to their election though? Ask yourself that and think wisely. Most Italians are not racist. Ten years ago many Italians were, but they’ve changed immensely within a decade. Italians have been rescuing hundreds and thousands of refugees weekly, if not daily, and welcoming them with open arms for ten *years*, so how are they racist? To me this shows how they’re welcoming towards all regardless of ethnicity + religion.

Unemployment for locals is high, their economy is a mess, the EU (more like Germany) enforced austerity on them, and enforced the euro currency on them (which is destructive for Southern Europe but beneficial for Germany), the mass immigration is too much and too overwhelming; Europe can’t accept the whole, half, quarter, or even one fifth of the population of Africa and the Middle East, these are reasons why neo-fascists and populists are in power. All of these problems need to be addressed."

**
REPLY
19. Right Says Ted, 2018
"Marley Barley Wrong, I'm Italian and I can confirm that most Italians are racist."

**
REPLY
20. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Well, to be honest Italy has always been a quite racist country, it's not something that started recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Race

**
REPLY
21. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek Not necessarily true, pale, blonde, blue eyed Romanians or east Europeans aren’t treated well."

**
REPLY
22. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Romanians and other Eastern European immigrants are treated quite well in Italy, I met a lot of them when I was in Italy."

**
REPLY
23. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek Not really, Romanians and Albanians have been heavily discriminated against"

**
REPLY
24. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Not now, I met a lot of Romanians and Albanians when I was in Italy, many of them have good job and there are many Romanian and Albanian women who are married to Italian men. From what I saw in Italy Eastern European immigrants are treated much better than those blacks who are born and bred in Italy."

**
REPLY
25. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek I think it’s because they’re - they being Albanians and Romanians - now starting to integrate, their people are known for committing a lot of crime when they first arrived.

I’ve heard western black people like American/Canadian/British/etc black people are treated better than born and bred Italian black people...but I know many who are in mixed relationships with Italian men (many have their own YouTube channels)."

**
REPLY
26. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Well, let's say that black westerns from countries like America, England and Canada are quite rare in Italy and most of them are tourists, but it's true that those blacks who are born and bred in Italy are treated very bad. Italy reminded me of the south of the US during the Jim Crow laws era."

**
REPLY
27. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek What the hell?! Surely it can’t be that bad, i think you’re exaggerating. What’s your ethnicity and what country are you from?

**
REPLY
28. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley I'm a black dude from US, I lived in Italy for a couple of years because of my job, I'm not exaggerating, I'm just telling what I saw with my own eyes."

**
REPLY
29. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek I always knew it was tough being raised in Italy as a black person with African parents but I didn’t think it was Jim Crow level of unbearable."

**
REPLY
30. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Yes, it's very bad. Blacks who were born and bred in Italy and who studied in Italy go through a lot of racism and discrimination, they're considered like third class citizens and they're excluded from the Italian society. It's very sad."

**
REPLY
31. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek I’ve come across at least 5 (if not more) youtube channels of interracial Italian and black couples with their mixed children, none of them ever mentioned racism was a problem for both them or their mixed children. There’s some ignorance and curiosity but nothing like being a third class citizen. I’ve heard only good things from Bangladeshis living in Italy too.

I’m appalled by what I’m reading, can I ask you how they’re discriminated against? And in what way are they treated like third class citizens?"

**
REPLY
32. 1FDerek, 2018
"Marley Barley Well, you should know that since you're Italian and you live in Italy : )"

**
REPLY
33. Marley Barley, 2018
"1FDerek I’m mostly Irish with partial Bangladeshi heritage (i look white) raised in the uk and lived in the Netherlands for a while. Where did I say I’m Italian? I just read about Italian politics."

**
34. Arianna E, 2018
"italy is like the last place to go to escape racism if ur coming from america lmaoo"

**
REPLY
35. André K., 2018
"@Arianna E Exactly, maybe going to England or France or some other country, not to fascist land Italy, lmao."

**
36. Priscilla Owusu Pankyee, 2018
"The thing you said about stares in the beginning is soo true.I am a black girl born and raised in Italy and I can confirm that this is true.Some look at you as if they don't know that there is such a thing as the black race as if you are an alien.From the way you talked I can tell you are bitter towards Italy and that you don't like living there.Personally I don't feel comfortable in the country now I live in France and I feel more comfortable there because the racial integration is much better over there."

**
REPLY
37. Sir Ace, 2018
"Indeed. I hope for a future without racism in Italy and I also hope for a good integration of all the newer Italians. I do really hope that they'll feel Italians as soon as possible. On the other hand I'm not so ingenous to think it will be a short process. Italians don't really know how to behave with cultures they don't know. Second generation Italians need to be patient and help the more historic Italians to understand that in the end we will all be Italians. Maybe it will not happen tomorrow and still in France there is a lot of racism but I feel that in Italy there will be less cultural segregation. Even because in France the banlieu housing system only slowed down integration (as the many terrorist attacks from radicalized 2nd/3rd generation French, English and Belgians demonstrated). In Italy the immigrants live more side by side with Italians."

**
38. Teena W., 2018
"You are so wrong about the majority of what you're saying, I lived in Rome in Trastevere and did not experience any of this prostite stuff. And there are several black hair salons and beauty supply stores... There is one big black hair supply store by the termini station in Rome. Please don't speak for all black people because yes I'm Black American and I noticed the different of treatment but it's still depends on YOUR reaction to things on how your experiences will be. My experience living in Rome as a Business English Teacher was quite positive and sure I was asked where in America I was from and they would want to know more, it's ok because i know it is out of genuine interest. Of course if you're black in Italy we are gonna get looked at, because we are in Italy... Duh!😏"

**
REPLY
39. It's kris Btw, 2018
"Teena W. How is she wrong? Its her experience, and to be corrective here, you don't look like her, your skin is lighter, so of course you and her experiences are vastly different."

**
REPLY
40. Teena W., 2018
"It's kris Btw Well, Kris I know she's talking about her experience on how she was treated but when she said ALL Black people are thought of as prostitutes in Italy, That was wrong and when she said there were no hair products for Black people or hairnsalonss in Rome that was also wrong. I never challenged her opinion on how SHE was treated by Italians because of course I'm American and my experience will be different for sure. But she was wrong about the things I mentioned."

**
REPLY
41. 1FDerek, 2018
"It's kris Btw Exactly, the darker is your skin, the worst the Italians treat you. If you're pale, blonde and with blue eyes the Italians will kiss your ass."

**
42. ramarr0, 2018
"I noticed that black people coming from USA in general report a better experience in Italy than black people coming from African countries."

**
REPLY
43. HAT, 2019
"It is because Italians have a thing for Americans = NICE TREATMENT"

**
REPLY
44. BPTB1, 2019
"@HAT I can assure you that Italians are racist against black Americans too. It happened to me when I was in Italy and I'm a black American man from Brooklyn Heights."

**
45. Courtney Henley, 2018
"You have some seriously weird issues and this was both stupid and untrue! I lived in Italy for two years and no one - NO ONE - ever thought I was a prostitute or stared at me with disgust. This is something that YOU are putting out because I was adored by the Italians and never had any issue."

**
REPLY
46. Mercedes B, 2018
"Courtney Henley are you even black? From your pic you don’t look black"

**
REPLY
47. Tasha Mack, 2018
"Courtney Henley Are you fully black?"

**
REPLY
48. 1FDerek, 2018
"Courtney Henley The darker is your skin the worst the Italians will treat you. If you're pale, blonde and with blue eyes the Italians will kiss your ass."

**
REPLY
49. Ghcurls, 2018
"well you lived for 2 years. I have been here for long so i don't expect you to tell me i have weird issues. Talk to me when you stay here for 10 years"

**
REPLY
50. Sahada Beloved, 2018
"Courtney from your picture.you are light skinned right?. OK girl sit somewhere. never knock down someone's experience because you haven't experienced it. if you were to get on YouTube and talk about being sexually assaulted does that mean I have the right to condemn you because I haven't?. you are either trolling or just plain empathetic"

**
REPLY
51. Rho A, 2018
"Courtney Henley You're being hostile and You're not even truly black! No wonder you fled from the responses. You want us all to live vicariously through your light skin? 🤣 Get real."

**
REPLY
52. Caroline Obonyo, 2018
"Courtney Henley. Your skin is not black. U could easily pass for being white. Case closed. Amen."

**
REPLY
53. Malika Diza, 2019
"Courtney Henley I’ve been in Rome for a week and I’ve been stared at multiple times in disgust"

**
54. 1FDerek, 2019
"[names of three previous commenters] Italians are worldwide recognized as the worst and the most racist European colonizers in Africa."

**
REPLY
55. Salvatore Lanzieri, 2019
"1FDerick The problem is Italians dont trust most foreigners Period.. Not just subsahran poor negroes. Especially recently because there are so many subsahran africans. Nigerians especially have given africans a bad name ! they prostitue there own sisters,they sell hard drugs etc etc. The nigerians and most africans also come with no trades or skils ! So what will they do ? Just beg and get state money ? The fact is we look at you in this way ! And another thing ,older Italian men will not let there daughters date africans period. And thats why 99% you will not end up with them ."

**
REPLY
56. 1FDerek, 2019
"@Salvatore Lanzieri Salvatore Lanzeri You Italians have ALWAYS been very racist against blacks, it certainly didn't start today. Italians have a long history of racism against blacks."

**
REPLY
57. Salvatore Lanzieri, 2019
"Geeeze thats funny because before the 1990s there were only a few african migrants in cities . and before the 1950s there were none . so how were we always prejudice ??? during ww2 we were in north africa but that was war. So nice try ! But once again Derek your wrong . They have wifi in subsahra ? oh thats right your in America !! ahahaha!!!!"

**
REPLY
58. Marcel Tresvant, 2019
"@Salvatore Lanzieri What about the Italian fascist racial laws against black people? What about Benito Mussolini and the gassing of the Ethiopians? Nice try dude but everyone who went to school knows about it."

**
REPLY
59. Marcel Tresvant, 2019
"Salvatore Lanzieri War has nothing to do with that stupid idiot. The Italian fascist racial laws were made against those citizens of the Italian kingdom who were black, like people who lived in the Italian colonies of Africa. Idiot."

**
REPLY
60. FataLFreaKZz, 2019
"Marcel Tresvant Omg what a stupid person ... in 1940s black people didn’t have any right in all Europe... The racial laws made because of being an ally of Germany were against Jews, not Africans that especially France and English were enslaving"

**
REPLY
61. 1FDerek, 2019
"@FataLFreaKZz The Italian fascist racial laws were not only against Jews but also against those blacks who lived in the Italian colonies in Africa (Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia). They weren't made in 1940s but in the 1930s. It's not true that blacks in 1940 didn't have any right in Europe, racial laws were only in fascist Italy and in nazi Germany."

**
62. RW M, 2019
"Wish i had watched before i landed hahaha this is 100% true. The stares are giving me anxiety."

**
REPLY
63. The Renaissance Amazon, 2019
"RW M Damn. That’s making me not want to go."

**
REPLY
64. BPTB1, 2019
"@The Renaissance Amazon I'm a black American man and because of my job I lived in Italy for a period some years ago. Italy is freakin' SCARY if you're black. Lots of fascists and a lot of fascist racist graffiti in the Italian towns. It looks like still living in the world war 2 era. Most racist and scary place where I've been."

**
65. Ej khan, 2019
"Im a british born muslim i got married to an Italian Muslim. I spent most of my time in milan and the staring i got..omg... They made me feel as if I was an alien lol. They talk about u infront of you thinking u dont understand .. Look at you up and down... Not most people talk English so its hard to communicate .. Most of them are racist but not all.. I get you sister x gota say no country beats the humanity and right we all get in the uk."

**
66. Malika Diza, 2019
"I’ve been in Rome for a week and the people here are unfriendly, and they stare at you straight in the eyes and I got so annoyed with it that I just started saying hello 🤦🏾‍♀‍ but yeah most people just keep to themselves here and I figured if they wanna be racist then that’s their problem not mine...🤷🏾‍♀‍"

**
REPLY
67. alex ojideagu, 2019
"That's very strange for a major capital city, even in Italy they should be used to black people. Nobody stares in London or Paris just because you're black."

**
REPLY
68. 1FDerek, 2019
"@alex ojideagu Rome is a very particular case, cause it's a big city with a village mentality.
-snip-
This sub-thread included a comment exchange between Malika Diza and Ghcurls, the video producer, indicating that they would be in direct contact with each other in Rome."

****
This concludes Part II of this pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents full reprints of two online articles about some ways that enslaved Black people experienced Christmas in the American South.

The content of this post is presented for historical and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the online publishers of this content.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-black-americans-celebrated.html for a 2016 pancocojams post entitled "How Black Americans Celebrated Christmas In The Antebellum South".

****
ARTICLE EXCERPT #1: THE SLAVE EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLIDAYS
From https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/holidays.html
[by] DocSouth staff
"American slaves experienced the Christmas holidays in many different ways. Joy, hope, and celebration were naturally a part of the season for many. For other slaves, these holidays conjured up visions of freedom and even the opportunity to bring about that freedom. Still others saw it as yet another burden to be endured. This month, Documenting the American South considers the Christmas holidays as they were experienced by enslaved Americans.

The prosperity and relaxed discipline associated with Christmas often enabled slaves to interact in ways that they could not during the rest of the year. They customarily received material goods from their masters: perhaps the slave's yearly allotment of clothing, an edible delicacy, or a present above and beyond what he or she needed to survive and work on the plantation. For this reason, among others, slaves frequently married during the Christmas season. When Dice, a female slave in Nina Hill Robinson's Aunt Dice, came to her master "one Christmas eve, and asked his consent to her marriage with Caesar," her master allowed the ceremony, and a "great feast was spread" (pp. 24-25). Dice and Caesar were married in "the mistress's own parlor . . . before the white minister" (pp. 25-26). More than any other time of year, Christmas provided slaves with the latitude and prosperity that made a formal wedding possible.

On the plantation, the transfer of Christmas gifts from master to slave was often accompanied by a curious ritual. On Christmas day, "it was always customary in those days to catch peoples Christmas gifts and they would give you something." Slaves and children would lie in wait for those with the means to provide presents and capture them, crying 'Christmas gift' and refusing to release their prisoners until they received a gift in return (p. 22). This ironic annual inversion of power occasionally allowed slaves to acquire real power. Henry, a slave whose tragic life and death is recounted in Martha Griffith Browne's Autobiography of a Female Slave, saved "Christmas gifts in money" to buy his freedom (p. 311).

Some slaves saw Christmas as an opportunity to escape. They took advantage of relaxed work schedules and the holiday travels of slaveholders, who were too far away to stop them. While some slaveholders presumably treated the holiday as any other workday, numerous authors record a variety of holiday traditions, including the suspension of work for celebration and family visits. Because many slaves had spouses, children, and family who were owned by different masters and who lived on other properties, slaves often requested passes to travel and visit family during this time. Some slaves used the passes to explain their presence on the road and delay the discovery of their escape through their masters' expectation that they would soon return from their "family visit." Jermain Loguen plotted a Christmas escape, stockpiling supplies and waiting for travel passes, knowing the cover of the holidays was essential for success: "Lord speed the day!--freedom begins with the holidays!" (p. 262). These plans turned out to be wise, as Loguen and his companions are almost caught crossing a river into Ohio, but were left alone because the white men thought they were free men "who have been to Kentucky to spend the Holidays with their friends" (p. 303).

Harriet Tubman helped her brothers escape at Christmas. Their master intended to sell them after Christmas but was delayed by the holiday. The brothers were expected to spend the day with their elderly mother but met Tubman in secret. She helped them travel north, gaining a head start on the master who did not discover their disappearance until the end of the holidays. Likewise, William and Ellen Crafts escaped together at Christmastime. They took advantage of passes that were clearly meant for temporary use. Ellen "obtained a pass from her mistress, allowing her to be away for a few days. The cabinet-maker with whom I worked gave me a similar paper, but said that he needed my services very much, and wished me to return as soon as the time granted was up. I thanked him kindly; but somehow I have not been able to make it convenient to return yet; and, as the free air of good old England agrees so well with my wife and our dear little ones, as well as with myself, it is not at all likely we shall return at present to the 'peculiar institution' of chains and stripes" (pp. 303-304).

Christmas could represent not only physical freedom, but spiritual freedom, as well as the hope for better things to come. The main protagonist of Martha Griffin Browne's Autobiography of a Female Slave, Ann, found little positive value in the slaveholder's version of Christmas—equating it with "all sorts of culinary preparations" and extensive house cleaning rituals—but she saw the possibility for a better future in the story of the life of Christ: "This same Jesus, whom the civilized world now worship as their Lord, was once lowly, outcast, and despised; born of the most hated people of the world . . . laid in the manger of a stable at Bethlehem . . . this Jesus is worshipped now" (p. 203, 47-48). For Ann, Christmas symbolized the birth of the very hope she used to survive her captivity.

Not all enslaved African Americans viewed the holidays as a time of celebration and hope. Rather, Christmas served only to highlight their lack of freedom. As a young boy, Louis Hughes was bought in December and introduced to his new household on Christmas Eve "as a Christmas gift to the madam" (p. 13). When Peter Bruner tried to claim a Christmas gift from his master, "he took me and threw me in the tan vat and nearly drowned me. Every time I made an attempt to get out he would kick me back in again until I was almost dead" (p. 22).

Frederick Douglass described the period of respite that was granted to slaves every year between Christmas and New Year's Day as a psychological tool of the oppressor. In his 1845 Narrative, Douglass wrote that slaves celebrated the winter holidays by engaging in activities such as "playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whiskey" (p. 75). He took particular umbrage at the latter practice, which was often encouraged by slave owners through various tactics. "One plan [was] to make bets on their slaves, as to who can drink the most whiskey without getting drunk; and in this way they succeed in getting whole multitudes to drink to excess" (p. 75). In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass concluded that "[a]ll the license allowed [during the holidays] appears to have no other object than to disgust the slaves with their temporary freedom, and to make them as glad to return to their work, as they were to leave it" (p. 255). While there is no doubt that many enjoyed these holidays, Douglass acutely discerned that they were granted not merely in a spirit of charity or conviviality, but also to appease those who yearned for freedom, ultimately serving the ulterior motives of slave owners.

****
ARTICLE EXCERPT #2: LITTLE KNOWN BLACK HISTORY FACT: A SLAVES' CHRISTMAS
From Erica Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show
https://blackamericaweb.com/2012/12/23/little-known-black-history-fact-a-slaves-christmas/
"During slavery, some slaves were given a day of rest while others were forced to continue work. In some parts of the country, slaves were given a yule log to burn in the big house. As long as the log burned, they were granted rest during the holiday. Sometimes the log would burn until the New Year.

During the days of rest, some slaves would hold quilting bees, with both men and women. It was also sometimes tradition that slaves could keep the money they earned for the sale of goods during the holiday.

While the holiday season was meant to be a joyous occasion, slaves that worked inside the house would be worked hardest during Christmas, as many owners and their families would host Christmas parties.

The Christmas holiday would also be a time that some slaveowners gave wine and alcoholic beverages to their slaves. With business still in mind, the effects of alcohol were something unknown to many slaves, and most would overindulge. The increased lounge and slumber would discourage runaways during the break. This was a theory held by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Despite, some slaves were given passes to see nearby relatives during Christmas time and allowed visitors from neighboring plantations.

Along with the traditions of the Christmas holiday in Western culture, slaves had dancing and singing in the slave quarters. Sometimes the white masters would come to the slave quarters to watch the celebration. Parents would give children small, homemade tokens.

Another celebration known as Jonkonnu, or a Christmas masquerade, took place on the plantations. It was a basic traveling show in which the slave would put on makeshift costumes and go from house to house to perform for gifts and money.

The traditions of Christmas during slavery were tools for celebration in the harshest working and living conditions for blacks. While the whites in the “big house” were being showered with gifts and feast, they shared a portion of those with their captives, and at the same time, used the opportunity to convince slaves that slavery was their best option for living peacefully and safely among the masters."

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a full reprint of one articles reprinted online by the Cape Fear Historical Institute under the heading ""Jonkonnu" or "John Kunering" or "John Kooner" at Christmas".

This pancocojams post also includes excerpts from the Wikipedia article on Jonkanoo, including information about John Canoe being celebrated in North Carolina and-for comparison's sake- information about Jokanoo (John Canoe) traditions in the Bahamas, West Indies.

Note that the information about John Canoe traditions in the Bahamas and theories about the "John Canoe" name for these traditions are given in the Addendum to this post.

The content of this post is presented for historical and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the online publisher of this content.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-black-americans-celebrated.html for a 2016 pancocojams post entitled "How Black Americans Celebrated Christmas In The Antebellum South".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-article-excerpts-how-enslaved-black.html for a 2019 pancocojams post entitled "Two Article Reprints About Some Ways That Enslaved Black People Experienced The Christmas Holidays In The United States South".

****
ARTICLE REPRINT #1
[Pancocojams' Editor's Note] This reprint doesn't include drawings that are inserted throughout that article. This reprint also doesn't include the italics font that is used for much of the content.

From http://www.cfhi.net/JohnKuneringatChristmas.php"Jonkonnu" or "John Kunering" or "John Kooner" at Christmas" by Cape Fear Historical Instutute [sic] Papers

The John Kuners were a chief attraction of the Christmas season since colonial times.”
Dr. James Sprunt
"An old Christmas tradition of Wilmington called “John Kunering” is still remembered, with one similar in Edenton referred to as “John Canoeing.” This was a tradition practiced mainly by black slaves, a custom that would find noisy and gaily-dressed processions “singing strange tunes accompanied by banjo, accordian, tambourine and other instruments.” Some of the participants would dress as women, and they festooned themselves with shreds of cloth sewn to their daily attire.

In Wilmington, the “John Kuners” would dance throughout the town to the rhythmic chants of:

“Hah! Low! Here we go!
Hah! Low! Here we go!
Hah! Low! Here we go! Kuners come from Denby!”

“With the rattles of bones, the blowing of cow’s horns, and the tinkling of tambourines, the singing slaves, grotesque in their “Kuner” costumes, would halt whenever an appreciative crowd gathered. Strips of brightly colored cloth sewn to their clothes fluttered gaily as the John Kuners danced merrily. They were bedecked in horned masks, beards, staring eyes and enormous noses with grinning mouths. All were men, but some would dress as women.

After a few songs and dancing, the Kuners would approach the spectators with hat extended to collect a monetary reward for the antics. The Kuners would then depart for another crowd to dance and sing for and the usual reward”(Johnson).

Slave Harriet Brent Jacobs described the custom (Cashman, p.51):
"Every child rises on Christmas morning to see the John Kannaus. Without them Christmas would be shorn of its greatest attraction... a box covered with sheepskin is called the gumbo box. A dozen beat on this while others strike triangles and jawbones to which a band of dancers keep time. For a month previous they are composing songs."

"John Kunering" was a way in which blacks, free and slave, would imitate the Christmas traditions in their own manner, and an opportunity to parade in gaily-dressed musical groups around the city and request gifts and treats from white families. Lacking the long Christian traditions of the annual holiday celebrated by white families, blacks initiated what may be called a pagan ritual of their own.

The custom fell into disuse in the 1880’s after being tabooed by black residents, it was seen "as tending to lower them as a race in the eyes of the public (Moore)."

Though usually viewed as a black custom, historians note that the processions was not limited to blacks, as many white youths would dress and march as well, joining in the Christmas gaiety."

"Slaves Granted Liberty at Holidays:
"Wilmington historian Louis T. Moore wrote that "At Christmas seasons especially, a greater degree of real liberty was enjoyed by the colored people...and they were permitted to band themselves together in groups and from Christmas Eve through the advent of the New Year, Wilmington verily rang with the chants, songs and merry-making of the John Kuners. As the groups would stop in front of the different handsome homes, or pass into the gardens and spacious yards of the stately houses, they would always expect some type of Christmas cheer or gift. Invariably, the Kuners were fed on the substantial viands and appetizing desserts with which the groaning tables were filled during the Christmas season.”

There was substantial support for granting slaves the freedom to enjoy time away from their labor, and antebellum North Carolina’s Chief Justice Ruffin typified this with his view that:
“It would really be a source of regret, if, contrary to common custom, it were denied to slaves, in the intervals between their toils, to indulge in mirthful pastimes…”

Christmas as celebrated by white Wilmingtonians was a quiet and reflective time with families at home, and author Guion Griffis Johnson relates in “Antebellum North Carolina” that:
“Christmas in North Carolina was celebrated without official ceremony, and the town authorities ordinarily made no occasion of the day, “leaving it to quiet church services, visiting parties and pleasant family reunions.” The Wilmington Daily Journal wrote on December 23, 1851: “Christmas is coming…and were it not for the little and big (Negroes) begging for quarters, and the “noise and confusion” and the “Kooners,” . . . and the fire-crackers, and all the other unnamed horrors and abominations, we should be much inclined to rejoice thereat…”

In 1859 the same Journal wrote that “Christmas is past… A crowd on foot preceded by an ox team was quite
amusing. John Kuner was feeble. John Barleycorn retained his usual spirit…our town authorities on Christmas generally let the boys have their way so far as mere noise is concerned….much firing of crackers, rockets, sapients, etc…” It was customary to give slaves considerable freedom on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and on general holidays such as the 4th of July and Christmas. The old Southern custom of ladies staying indoors on Saturday afternoons arose from the great numbers of slaves in town at that time.

Christmas was the time that slaves enjoyed more than others, and it was a general custom to give the workers a rest from the field labors for several days at least, and often the period between Christmas and New Year Day. The masters were liberal in issuing passes so the slaves could visit relatives and former masters on neighboring plantations. The slaves would have more money at this time as masters seldom forgot to give coins and presents on Christmas morning as “the slaves gathered about happily shouting “Chris’mus gif!”

The gifts received were usually gay head-cloths for the women and “hands of tobacco” for the men, plus barbequed pork, molasses and weakened liquor. The Negroes (in Edenton) arose early Christmas morning, singing their John Canoe songs and shouting “Chris’mus gif” at their masters’ doors. With liquor on their breaths and money in their pockets, they spent to day in one long jubilee.”

****
EXCERPT #2
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkanoo
"Historian Stephen Nissenbaum described the festival as it was performed in 19th-century North Carolina:

Essentially, it involved a band of black men—generally young—who dressed themselves in ornate and often bizarre costumes. Each band was led by a man who was variously dressed in animal horns, elaborate rags, female disguise, whiteface (and wearing a gentleman's wig!), or simply his "Sunday-go-to-meeting-suit." Accompanied by music, the band marched along the roads from plantation to plantation, town to town, accosting whites along the way and sometimes even entering their houses. In the process the men performed elaborate and (to white observers) grotesque dances that were probably of African origin. And in return for this performance they always demanded money (the leader generally carried "a small bowl or tin cup" for this purpose), though whiskey was an acceptable substitute.[8]

"

****
ADDENDUM: ORIGIN OF JONKANOO
EXCERPT #1:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkanoo
"Junkanoo (or Jonkonnu) is a street parade with music, dance, and costumes of mixed African origin in many islands across the English speaking Caribbean every Boxing Day (26 December) and New Year's Day (1 January), the same as "Kakamotobi" or the Fancy Dress Festival of Ghana. There are also Junkanoo parades in Miami in June and Key West in October, where local black populations have their roots in the Caribbean. In addition to being a culture dance for the Garifuna people,[1][2] this type of dancing is also performed in The Bahamas on Independence day and other historical holidays.

Dances are choreographed to the beat of goatskin drums and cowbells.

History
The festival may have originated several centuries ago, when enslaved descendants of Africans on plantations in The Bahamas celebrated holidays granted around Christmas time with dance, music, and costumes. After emancipation the tradition continued and junkanoo evolved from simple origins to a formal, organised parade with intricate costumes, themed music and official prizes within various categories.

The origin of the word junkanoo is disputed. Theories include that it is named after a folk hero named John Canoe or that it is derived from the French gens inconnus (unknown people) as masks are worn by the revelers.[3] Douglas Chambers, professor of African studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, suggests a possible Igbo origin from the Igbo yam deity Njoku Ji referencing festivities in time for the new yam festival. Chambers also suggests a link with the Igbo okonko masking tradition of southern Igboland which feature horned maskers and other masked characters in similar style to jonkonnu masks.[4] Similarities with the Yoruba Egungun festivals have also been identified.[5] However, an Akan origin is more likely because the celebration of the Fancy Dress Festivals/Masquerades are the same Christmas week(Dec 25- Jan 1st) and also John Canoe was in fact an existing king and hero that ruled Axim, Ghana before 1720, the same year the John Canoe festival was created in the Caribbean.[6]

According to Edward Long, an 18th-century Jamaican slave owner/historian, the John Canoe festival was created in Jamaica and the Caribbean by enslaved Akans who backed the man known as John Canoe. John Canoe, from Axim, Ghana, was an Akan from the Ahanta. He was a soldier for the Germans, until one day he turned his back on them for his Ahanta people and sided with Nzima and Ashanti troops, in order to take the area from the Germans and other Europeans. The news of his victory reached Jamaica and he has been celebrated ever since that Christmas of 1708 when he first defeated Prussic forces for Axim. Twenty years later his stronghold was broken by neighbouring Fante forces aided by the military might of the British and Ahanta, Nzima and Ashanti captives were taken to Jamaica as prisoners of war. The festival itself included motifs from battles typical of Akan fashion. The Ashanti swordsman became the "horned headed man"; the Ashanti commander became "Pitchy patchy" who also wears a battledress with what would resemble charms, referred to as a "Batakari".[7]"...

****
EXCERPT #2: JONKANOO TRADITIONS IN THE BAHAMAS
From https://www.bahamas.com/junkanoo
"WHAT IS JUNKANOO?
Although the roots of the Junkanoo parade remain subject to long and passionate debates, what is agreed, is that after centuries of practice, today's cultural extravaganzas have become the most entertaining street carnivals of not only The Bahamas, but also the world at large.
With the costumes, dance, and music inspired by a different theme each time, preparations for the Boxing Day, New Year's Day and summertime Junkanoo literally take months, and bring together men and women from all different walks of life.

[...]

THE HISTORY OF JUNKANOO
Legend has it that you haven't needed an excuse to party in The Bahamas for well over 500 years.

But ask folks here at the top of the Caribbean how The Bahamas Junkanoo tradition got started and they'll all tell you a different story—with many believing it was established by John Canoe, a legendary West African Prince, who outwitted the English and became a local hero; and others suspecting it comes from the French ‘gens inconnus,’ which translates as 'unknown' or 'masked people".

The most popular belief, however, is that it evovled from the days of slavery. Loyalists who migrated to The Bahamas in the late 18th Century brought their African slaves with them. The slaves were given three days off during the Christmas season, which they used to celebrate by singing and dancing in colorful masks, traveling from house to house, often on stilts. Junkanoo nearly vanished after slavery was abolished but the revival of the festival in The Bahamas now provides entertainment for many thousands."...

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about Senegalese singer, musician, composer, Ismaël Lô and information about Tajabone, a Senegalese holiday.

This pancocojams post also showcases three YouTube examples of Ismaël Lô's now classic song "Tajabone" and includes lyrics and an English translation of that song.

Several comments from the discussion thread for one of these examples are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Ismaël Lô for his musical legacy and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/twelve-year-old-talima-sings-tajabone_12.html for the pancocojams post entitled "Twelve Year Old Talima Sings "Tajabone" In An Audition For The French Series "The Voice Kids" (video, lyrics, & comments)">

Thanks to YouTube for recommending that video which introduced me to the Senegalese holiday Tajabone and Senegalese singer/composer Ismaël Lô.

****
INFORMATION ABOUT ISMAEL LO
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isma%C3%ABl_L%C3%B4
"Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician and actor. He was born in Dogondoutchi, Niger on 30 August 1956, to a Senegalese father and a Nigerien mother. Shortly after Lo's birth the family returned to Senegal where they settled in the town of Rufisque, near the capital Dakar. He plays guitar and harmonica, and has been called "the Bob Dylan of Africa".

In the 1970s, Lo studied at the School of Art in Dakar. He later joined the popular group Super Diamono, but left in 1984 to start a solo career. Over the next four years Lo recorded five popular solo albums.

In 1988, he composes the soundtrack for Ousmane Sembene's Camp de Thiaroye and plays in it. He will also star in Moussa Sene Absa's film Tableau Ferraille (Iron Landscape), in 1996, and compose more soundtracks[1].

In 1990, Lo signed a recording deal with Barclay and recorded in France his seventh solo album, Ismael Lo. Thanks to the success of the single "Tajabone" the album became a hit in the European charts. The album launched Lo’s international career.

Iso was recorded and released in 1994, and also became a success. The album contains soft guitar melodies and traditional Senegalese mbalax. The following year Lo toured in Africa. The compilation album Jammu Africa was released in 1996. The song "Without Blame" is a duet with Marianne Faithfull.

Lo's song "Tajabone" was featured in Pedro Almodóvar's film All About My Mother.”...

****
SHOWCASE YOUTUBE EXAMPLES
Example #1: Ismael Lô – Tajabone


Caroline, Mar 16, 2008

Beautiful African song by Ismael Lô, a singer from Senegal.
This song is also part of the original soundtrack of Pedro Almodovar's movie " All about my mother " ( " Todo sobre mi madre ").

Ta.....tajabone de nuy tajabone
Ta.....tajabone de nuy tajabone
Abdu u iambaar gniari malaykala
Ch'awé étchiko daan si séroo
Muomu muhnilda degëm du lingaan
Muomu muhnila degëm woor nga-am
Ch'awé etchiko daanu si seroo
Muomu muhnida degem du lingaam
Muomu muhnida degem woor nga-am
Tajabone de nuy tajabone
Tajabone de nuy tajabone
Wou leij Wou leij
Wou leij Wou leij
Abdu jambaar gniari malaykala
chico woley juge daanu si sero
Muhnila degem du linga'n
Muhnila degem woor nga-am

****
Example #2: Ismael Lo - Tajabone (Subtitulado) - YouTube.flv



A3F Napoli, Oct 31, 2011

Ascoltare Ismael Lo significa fare un viaggio nel miglior Senegal possibile.Le sue interpretazioni ci restituiscono una spiritualità capace di trasportarci dalla nostra Madre, la nostra Madre Africa
-snip-
Google translate from Italian to English"
"Listening to Ismael It means taking a trip to the best Senegal possible. His interpretations give us back a spirituality capable of transporting us from our Mother, our Mother Africa"
-snip-
Here are a few comments from this example's discussion thread (with numbers given for referencing purposes only):
1. carisi29, 2016
"Me enamore de la concion cuando la escuche por primera vez en la película de Almodovar, sin saber lo que decía, ahora que se sus letras y el significado me enamoro aun más de ella, la cancion. PRECIOSA!!!"
-snip-
Google translate from Italian to English:
"I fell in love with the song when I first heard it in the Almodovar movie, not knowing what it said, now that I know its lyrics and the meaning I fall in love even more with it, the song. PRECIOUS!!!"

**
2. Byron Arumero, 2018
"This one is a timeless classic"

**
3. Guimar Diop, 2018
"I remember Tajabone in Senegal , it's a wonderful holiday, a bit like Halloween, we dress up, put powder on our faces, make little drums. I miss my beloved Senegal. Africa, I carry you in my heart always."

**
4. Adja Koumba, 2018
"Since i was young i always love this song to present.
I don't even know what his said i love it."

**
5. Casidm Salem, 2019
"have been looking for the song for more than 10 , it was my best childhood song yet i ddnt know the name, this is pure african talent"

**
6. Veegee Manyera, 2019
"Loved it as a child, don't know why it makes me sad, when I can't understand what his saying but it's beautifully composed
He comes to your soul
He comes to your soul to ask if you have prayed, if you have fasted"

****
Example #3: Ismaël Lô ~ Tajabone (1990)



olaboga13. Aug 22, 2015

Album: Ismaël Lô
Released: July 1, 1990
Nickname: the Bob Dylan of Senegal

Ismaël Lô (also Ismaël Lo) is a Senegalese musician and actor. He was born in Dogondoutchi, Niger on 30 August 1956, to a Senegalese father and a Nigerien mother. Shortly after Lo's birth the family returned to Senegal where they settled in the town of Rufisque, near the capital Dakar. He plays guitar and harmonica.

Tadieu Bone (sometimes spelled Tajabone) is a Musilim holiday celebrated in Senegal with a feast, during which the children go from house to house entertaining the adults with singing and dancing and are rewarded with money or snacks.

Translation : Tadieu Bone

As children we will go from house to house to entertain
Which was singing and dancing and afterwards
They will give us money or rice or wheat or biscuits
These were one of my best memories as a child.
The song we use to sing is the song Ismaël Lô is singing
He is saying :

Tajabone we're going to Tajabone

Abdou Jabar he's an angel coming from the skies to your soul

He's going to ask you did you pray
He's going to ask you did you fast
He is coming to your soul
He's going to ask you did you pray did you fast

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a performance by 12 year old Senegalese girl Talima of Ismaël Lô's song "Tajabone" in an audition for the French television competitive music talent series The Voice Kids.

Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_Kids_(French_TV_series) for information about that television series.

Several comments from the discussion thread for one of these examples are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Ismaël Lô for his musical legacy and thanks to Talima for her musical talents. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all the publisher of this examples on YouTube.

Also, thanks to YouTube for recommending this video which introduced me to the Senegalese holiday Tajabone and Senegalese singer/composer Ismaël Lô.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/senegalese-singer-composer-ismael-lo.html for a pancocojams post about Ismaël Lô's song "Tajabone" and additional information about the Senegalese holiday Tajabone.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Ismaël Lô - Tajabone | Talima | The Voice Kids France 2019 | Blind Audition

The Voice Kids France, Sep 9, 2019

Née au Sénégal, Talima vit en France depuis 4 ans. Très jeune, elle se prend de passion pour la musique, qu’elle partage avec sa sœur autiste.
-snip-
Google translate from French to English
"Born in Senegal, Talima has lived in France for 4 years. At a young age, she is passionate about music, which she shares with her autistic sister."
-snip-
The summary for a video of Talima's performance in the finale for The Voice Kids indicated that she isas 12 years old. I think that Talima was the first runner up for the winner of that 2019 series with the winner being Soan. Here's a video of Soan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6aF2FxKsh8.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM TALIMA'S AUDITION OF "TAJABONE"
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only; All of these comments are from September- November 2019 )

1. Saliou Ndiaye
"Dommage que Ismaël Lo est sous coté au Sénégal à cause de plusieurs raisons , c'est un grand chanteur plus reconnu à l'étranger ... Merci Talima d'avoir honoré ce chanteur sa lui fera beaucoup plaisir"
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"Too bad that Ismaël Lo is listed in Senegal because of several reasons, it is a great singer more recognized abroad ... Thank you Talima for having honored this singer will make him very happy."

**
2. Broken BroZers
"Bref explication sur ce magnifique chef d'oeuvre signé ISMAËL LO
"Tajabone est une fête que le tous le sénégal célébre à chaque nouvel an musulmane
LYRICS
" abdou jambar niarri malayka la, diougué si kaw dannou si sa rou mounila ndéguam dioulii nga mounila ndéguam worrone nga tajabone dagniouy tajabone"

Cela signifie que le jour même du tajabone deux anges dénommes Abdou et Jambar descendrons des cieux puis ils poserons à chacun d'entre ns ces deux questions
est ce que tu pries?
est ce que tu jeunes?
les sénégais célébrent cette nuit en préparent des cous-cous (thiéré) et les enfants fonts des portes à portes pour collecter des riz, de l'argent ,.... et la fête continu
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"Brief explanation of this magnificent masterpiece signed ISMAEL LO
"Tajabone is a festival that all Senegal celebrates every Muslim new year
LYRICS
"abdou jambar niarri malayka la, diougué si kaw dannou if his rou mounila ndéguam dioulii nga mounila ndéguam worrone nga tajabone dagniouy tajabone"

This means that on the day of the tajabone, two angels named Abdou and Jambar will descend from heaven and then ask each of these two questions
do you pray?
are you young?
the Senegalese celebrate this night by preparing cous-cous (thiéré) and the children fonts doors to doors to collect rice, money, .... and the party continues"

**
REPLY
3. dior gueye Diop
-snip-
"Merci cla représente la fin dune Anne sur l calendrier musulmans c notre 31 décembre"
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"Thank you cla represents the end of a year on the Muslim calendar c our December 31"

**
REPLY
4. Aïcha Sarr
"Et chacun demande pardon à son prochain pour recommencer une nouvelle année paisible"
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"And everyone asks forgiveness to his neighbor to start a new peaceful year"

**
5. Ngum Ngafor
"Big up to her parents for teaching her the language and culture. She's amazing! I felt all sorts of emotions. I hope she goes far."

**
6. aida dieme
"Façon Qu’elle a chanté ma chanson préférée je pouvais pas m’empêcher de pleurer... c ouff❤️❤️😭😭"
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"How she sang my favorite song I could not help but cry ... c ouff❤️❤️😭😭"

**
7. Ndeye coumba Thiam
"ismaila lo fierté sénégalais franchement cette fille m'a fait pleurer en chantant cette chanson 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳"
-snip-
Google translate from French to English:
"ismaila lo Senegalese pride frankly this girl made me cry by singing this song 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳"

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a two part pancocojams post series focuses on the racist children's rhyme entitled "Ching Chang Chinaman" and how it evolved to certain non-racist children rhymes.

Part I of this series presents the history of, early examples of, and comments about the racist rhyme entitled "Ching Chang Chinaman". This post also includes my partial analysis of "Shimmy Shimmy China", one contemporary non-racist rhyme which includes lines from the "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhyme.

Part II presents some examples of the racist rhyme entitled "Ching Chang Chinaman" and some contemporary non-racist rhymes that partly have their source in the "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhyme.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

****
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND COMMENTS
Excerpt #1: Information about the words "Ching Chong" (with early examples of the rhyme "Ching Chang Chinaman"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_chong
"Ching chong and ching chang chong are pejorative terms sometimes employed by speakers of English to mock or play on the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other East Asians or Southeast Asians perceived to be Chinese. Several public commentators have characterized the term as derogatory, noting that assaults or physical intimidation of East Asians are often accompanied by racial slurs or imitation Chinese.[1][2]

Historical usage
The term "ching chong" is based on how Chinese supposedly sounds to English speakers who do not speak it. The "ch" reflects the relative abundance of voiceless coronal affricates in Chinese...

While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians. Mary Paik Lee, a Korean immigrant who arrived with her family in San Francisco in 1906, writes in her 1990 autobiography Quiet Odyssey that on her first day of school, girls circled and hit her, chanting:

Ching Chong, Chinaman,
Sitting on a wall.
Along came a white man,
And chopped his tail off.[3]

A variation of this rhyme is repeated by a young boy in John Steinbeck's 1945 novel Cannery Row in mockery of a Chinese man. In this version, "wall" is replaced with "rail", and the phrase "chopped his tail off" is changed to "chopped off his tail":

Ching Chong, Chinaman,
Sitting on a rail.
Along came a white man,
And chopped off his tail.

[...]

****
Excerpt #2
WARNING: This page includes lots of racist content.

From https://soc.culture.asian.american.narkive.com/NljmrMFD/sing-the-popular-ching-chong-chinaman-song
soc.culture.asian.american"Discussion: sing the popular "ching chong chinaman" song!
"In 1917, a ragtime piano song entitled "Ching Chong" was co-written by Ted Baxter and Max Kortlander. Its lyrics are listed below for your enlightenment about US history....

..."Ching Chong, Oh Mister Ching Chong,
You are the king of Chinatown.
Ching Chong, I love your sing-song,
When you have turned the lights all down;
Ching Chong, just let me swing long"...

[...]
Sometimes "ching chong" is combined with another anti-Chinese slur,
that of "Chinaman;" the combination is often used in nursery-style
rhymes, such as:

Ching Chong Chinaman sitting on a fence,
Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
Along came a choo-choo train,
Knocked him in the cuckoo-brain,
And that was the end of the fifteen cents.
z***@hotmail.com, 2005

Permalink: ching chong china man working on the rail along comes a cowboy and
chopped off his pony tail.

the early generation are so racist kkk bunch”...

****
Excerpt #3
From https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/04/04/ching-chong-chinaman-playwright-explains-controversial-title/"Controversial Title" By Michelle Kung, Apr 4, 2010
""When you use a phrase like 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' you'll always run into segments of the population that don't think the phrase should be used," says playwright Lauren Yee, who says she went back and forth over whether or not to use the racial slur as the title of her thesis play at Yale University."For younger generations of Chinese Americans, the phrase seems archaic, because they don't encounter it as frequently. For older generations, because they have memories of being called the term, they don't understand why you'd want to revisit the term.""...

****
Excerpt #4: Pancocojams Editor's Note
[These editor's notes were written in 2013 and slight revisions on December 13, 2019 as part of this pancocojams post: "Anti-Asian Rhymes - I Went To A Chinese Restaurant"http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/anti-asian-rhymes-i-went-to-chinese.html ]

In 2009 I conducted an informal, unscientific review of pejorative, ridiculing, and/or mocking racial references or gestures in English language playground rhymes that were posted to facebook pages or other websites.*

Those Facebook pages in particular and some of the other websites served as a place where people could share their childhood memories of hand clap games, and other childhood singing games. Some of these websites/Facebook pages included demographic information which identified those contributing these examples as being from the United States, Great Britain, or Australia. I later published material that I collected from that informal review on a page of cocojams.com, my cultural website that I voluntarily deactivated in 2014. Unfortunately, I didn't retrieve that page.

Those examples included what is now commonly known as "the n word". However, an overwhelming majority of the rhymes contained racially offensive words that I found on websites of children's rhymes & on Facebook pages included references to Chinese and/or Japanese people.

Those examples of playground rhymes consisted & still consist of rhymes whose lyrics and/or whose accompanying gestures intentionally or unintentionally mocked, ridiculed, "imitated" the sound of the Chinese language and included racist references to Chinese people such as "Ching Chong". Some of those rhymes also described Chinese people doing demeaning actions (such as peeing outside) and/or ridiculed the physical appearance of Chinese people or Japanese people and by extension, other people of East Asian descent. To be clear, although I conducted that review in 2009, these types of playground rhymes still are chanted today, with seemingly little to no recognition that there is anything wrong with them.

Two titles (first lines) of these rhyme are "Me Chinese Me Tell Joke"**, and "Ching Ching Chinaman" (sittin on a fence)* However, versions of "I Went To A Chinese Restaurant" (much less often given as "I Went To A Chinese Bakery") were the most frequently given examples of anti-Asian playground rhymes.

Although most of the video examples and, presumably, also most of text examples that I've found of these rhymes are from White children and White adults, I'm including this subject in this pancocojams blog which focuses on Black cultures throughout the world. I do so because some non-offensive examples and some offensive examples of "I Went To A Chinese Restaurant" and some versions of "Ching Ching Chinaman" (albeit with different titles such as "Shimmy Shimmy China" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang") appear to have become a part of the cultural body of playground rhymes in the United States and in some other English language nations. And these rhymes appear to be chanted in the United States (if not in other English speaking nations) regardless of the children's race or ethnicity (with "ethnicity" having the United States meaning of "Latina/o").

Notice that a link given below to another pancocojams post includes a video of two young Black women who preface their performance of several hand clap rhymes by saying that they remember reciting "I Went To A Chinese Restaurant" during their childhood.** Also, there are people with Black/Asian (or Asian/Black) descent in the United States and elsewhere. Therefore, this topic is quite suitable for a blog about Black culture & customs in the United States & throughout the world.

Like many other playground rhymes, "I Went To A Chinese Restaurant" may include floating verses from one or more stand alone (independent) playground rhymes. And many of these versions and their accompanying performance activity aren't at all offensive- unless you consider the hand clap partners' attempts to tap or poke each other on the forehead or stomach during the rhyme and/or at the end of that rhyme to be problematic.

Here's a comment that I wrote in July 14, 2014 on the discussion thread for that pancocojams "Anti-Asian Rhymes" post [given with corrected spelling:

"Here's the central message of this post:

Unfortunately, some adults don't "get" that it's racist to label any Black male wearing a hoody as a thug. And possibly even more adults don't realize that it's racially offensive & it's emotionally hurtful to say things like "Ching Chong" and to pull your eyes in a squinty gesture that is suppose to imitate or represent Chinese people and by extension, other East Asian people."

*I've not included web addresses for the sites that I included in that review of racism in online playground rhymes. Nor am I posting any numerical figures about that review. Besides the fact that this was an informal review to satisfy my curiosity on the subject, I found out months after conducting that review that it was very difficult to re-locate the Facebook material which was a large part of that review. That said, it seems to me that this topic would be an interesting subject for formal study. I hope that such studies would be conducted & shared online.

** Two young African American women demonstrate "old school" hand games, including "I Went To A Chinese Reataurant":
Fun hand games
fatcat123455, Dec 24, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0KMFSj-FrQ&t=23s

****
Except #5
From https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090711102014AA8oWxS
the old dog Lv 7; asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia, 2009
a. "Long lost "ditty"; my dad used to sing this old ditty about a smart China man and it started like this ...?
"Chicka Chick China man sitting on a fence, trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents" ...

That's all I remember of it as he used to sing it in the early sixties and I can't remember the rest. It was about an astute and cunning China man and how he made "one dollar" out of fifteen cents.

Does anyone know about or heard this story? Can you remember or recite it for me because it's been on my mind for a while and I'd like to know it again. Has anyone ever heard this and do they remember it? Would anyone know where I might be able to find a copy?

Dad died about twelve years ago and this childhood memory of him keeps cropping up the last few months.

Anyone have any help in finding it?

**
b. Vincent S, 2014
"Ching chong chinaman sitting on a fence trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents, along came a chinaman hit him in the head, ching chong chinaman fell down dead."

**
c. A, 2015
"Yeah, its a little more racist than that. Its chinky chinky chinaman. ***** is the old war dogs name for the asians that rob everyone by selling cheap **** for a high proffit."
-snip-
This is how this rhyme was written in that discussion page. By the way, I'm not the commenter "A" who shared that example.

There are additional examples of that rhyme on that page.

****
Rhyme Example & Comments
"I used to do a chant/clap game similar to that with my friends in elementary school when I lived in Indiana, it went something like this:
Down, down baby, down by the rollercoaster
Sweet, sweet baby, too sweet, I'll let you go
Shimmy Shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy down
Shimmy Shimmy coco pop
Break down, break down
Two Chinese, sitting on a bench,
Tryin' to make a dollar outta 15 cents
You miss, you miss, you miss like this
This is how me and my boy friend kiss
Like this

Looking back on it now, years later, it seems racist, but I didn't really think about it when I lived in an area that was virtually just Caucasian, even though I, myself, am hispanic."
-Guest ,Alexis; http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100653&messages=24 ; Lyr Add: Down Down Baby-Race in Children's Rhymes
-snip-
Here's a comment that I wrote in response to Guest, Alexis comment about this version of that rhyme being racist:
As I noted in my previous comments, there's no doubt that versions of "Down Down Baby" (with their "sitttng on a bench -or fence- and trying to make a dollar out of __ cents) came from the racist Ching Chong rhymes. However, I believe that simply mentioning a race in a rhyme or elsewhere means that that rhyme has racial content, but that rhyme isn't automatically racist. That said, the "trying to make a dollar out of __ cents, can be interpreted to be mocking those persons' lack of understanding of United States money. Or it might be scornful of those persons' engaging in "hustling" and trying to get more for less.

****
This concludes Part I of this pancocojams post.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams post series focuses on the racist children's rhyme entitled "Ching Chang Chinaman" and how it evolved to certain non-racist children rhymes.

Part II presents some text examples and a few YouTube videos of contemporary non-racist rhymes such as "Shimmy Shimmy China", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", and "Down Down Baby I Know Karate". My position is that the words to these rhymes partly come from the racist "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhyme.

Part I of this series presents the history of, early examples of, and comments about the racist rhyme entitled "Ching Chang Chinaman".

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publishers of the videos that are embedded in this post.

****
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES
[Most of these notes were Written in 2013 and included in the pancocojams post "Anti-Asian Rhymes - I Went To A Chinese Restaurant"http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/anti-asian-rhymes-i-went-to-chinese.html

I consider the "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhymes anti-Asian because their words and/or accompanying actions mock or insult Chinese people.

In contrast, the rhymes that are showcased in this post have nothing whatsoever to do with Chinese people or other Asian people, except for the referent to "karate" [which is usually pronounced "kah-RAH-tay" to rhyme with "bo-day""body"].

Based on my conversations with and observations of African American girls in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who performed the rhyme "Shimmy Shimmy China" (I Know Karate), my conclusion is that the word "China" in that rhyme is a girl's name.

Here's some general statements about some of these examples

"Ching Ching China", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Shimmy Shimmy China", "Choo Choo Charlie" and other similarly titled playground rhymes are partly adaptations of the anti-Asian rhyme "Ching Chong Chinaman". However, in spite of their source (which few children or adults are aware of), the contemporary rhymes with that title aren't offensive.

Ching Chong Charlie" or "Ching Ching China"
These alliterative titles are clear adaptations of the "Ching Chong Chinaman" title/first line but with the socially correct name "Charlie" replacing the racial referent "Chinaman".

**
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
This title (first line) reflects the popularity of the book and the 1968 musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang for information about this subject.

It's likely that some children changed this title (first line) or were told to change to another alliterative title (first line) because of its close similarity to the profanity word "sh&t".

**
"Choo Choo Charlie"
These words continue the practice of using alliterative "ch" words for the title & lines of these rhymes. The name "Choo Choo Charlie" may have come from 1950s "Good n' Plenty candy television commercials which featured the jingle about a little boy whose nickname wa "Choo Choo Charlie" who pretended he was a train engineer. Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I for a clip of that jingle.

**
"Shimmy Shimmy China"
"Shimmy Shimmy China" is a variant form of the children's rhyme "Down Down Baby, I Can Do Karate" and that rhyme is a variant form of the children's rhyme "Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pa" (or similar sounding words).

Note the similarities between lines in these rhymes and the rhyme "Down Down Baby I Can Do Karate".

Given that the martial arts "karate" originated in an Asian culture (Japan), the reference to "China" that follow that title/first line may be an example of conflating or mixing up of two Asians cultures. While the words constitute bragging about doing karate, conflating and/or mixing up two Asian cultures is still problematic.

The words "shimmy shimmy" in this title/line were undoubtedly influenced by the words of the widely known children's rhyme "Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pa". However, in the rhyme "Shimmy Shimmy China" (and not the title/line "Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pa") those words may be a folk etymology form of the words "ching ching".

I believe that the word "China" in this alliterative title/line refers to a female and not to the Asian nation of China. In the almost entirely African American school (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) where I collected this rhyme example, there was one female student whose name was "China".

The name "China" fits the structure and sound of many contemporary "African"&"Arabic" sounding names that have been given to African American females since the 1970s. The name "China" has two syllables and ends with an "ah" sound. Also, the name "China" fits the aesthetic preference for names with the "Sh" ("Ch") beginning sound. Consequently, I think it's relatively easy for African Americans to assume that the name "China" is a girl's name and not the name of that Asian nation. Note that other place names such as "Asia", "Kenya", "Sahara" are also very familiar African American female names (since at least the 1980s).

**
Compared with some other examples of this "family of children's rhymes", versions of "Down Down Baby I Can Do Karate" don't have any lyrics from "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhymes. The example given below with the beginning word "Monchichi" also doesn't have the "sitting on the fence/trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents" words. as Since Americans associate karate with Asians, the only connection between those contemporary rhymes and that much older anti-Chinese racist rhyme is the "I can do karate" line.

Compared with other examples of this "family of children's rhyems" that I've come across, the rhyme examples which begin with the words "Chinese checkers" also have only a small amount of material from the "Ching Chang Chinaman" rhymes. While those examples retain a referent to "China" with the words "Chinese checkers" [the name of a children's board game played with marbles), they don't have the "sittin on the fence/tryin to make a dollar out of 55 cents [or some amount of money less than one dollar.]

****
RHYME EXAMPLES
Excerpt for multiple versions, these examples are given in relative chronological order based on the year they were collected (either directly by me or retrieved online) or the year that they were published online.

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

Example #1: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (Version #1)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Sittin on a fence.
Tryin to make a dollar
out of 15 cents
She missed, she missed, she missed like this.
She missed, she missed, she missed like this.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I can do ka-ra-te.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
I can hurt somebody.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Oops! I’m sorry.
-African American boys & girls , around ages 6-10 years, (Duquesne, Pennsylvania), 1998, collected by Azizi Powell, 1998
-snip-
I've seen this rhyme performed [In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and adjacent communities] as a partner handclap routine with some corresponding movements* or just sung with corresponding movements. The words "karate" and "sorry" are pronounced so that they rhyme (kah-RAH-tay" and "sor-ray"). That pronunciation points to African American origin of these rhymes.

On the words "Oops, I'm so sorry, each handclap partner pretends to slap or to punch the other one. The girls or boys lean back so that they won't be touched by the other person. While they sang the words "She missed she missed etc, the children did criss cross jumps. At the end of the rhyme if your feet weren't side by side, you were out. * Boys said "he" instead of "she". See "Ching Chong China" on this page and "Shimmy Shimmy China" for examples of very similar rhymes. (However, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" may not have been performed the same way as these other two rhymes. Also, African American girls who I interviewed who performed this rhyme considered the word "China" to be a girl's name and not the nation's name.

*I've never seen any children do "karate" movements when they said this word, but I'm sure that those kinds of movements are sometimes done with this rhyme.

****
Example #2: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (Version #2)
this is one we did in school
chitty chitty bang bang
chitty chitty bang bang im sitting on a fence trying to make a
dollar but all i can do is holler she missed she missed she
missed like this she missed she missed she missed like
this chitty chitty bang bang i can do karate chitty
chitty bang bang i can hurt somebody chitty chitty
bang bang opps im sorry
-mariah; Cocojams, 2/26/2009 [Cocojams was the name of my no longer active cultural website.]
-snip-
This example was written in run on sentences. That writing style is quite common with people under forty years old who text, and who write on the internet. I thnk that's because speed is much more highly values than following grammatical rules or spelling correctly.

mariah spelled the word "chitty" with an "s". I took the liberty to substitute that letter with a "c" because I wanted to ensure that that website was available in educational facilities which might block access because of "bad" words.

****
Example #3: DOWN DOWN BABY I KNOW KARATE (Version #1)
Down, down baby.
I know karate.
Down, down baby,
I can shake my body.
Down, down baby,
I can call my mommy.
Oops! I’m so sorry *
Down, down baby,
to the front,
to the back,
to the side, side, side **
Watch me do the butterfly ***
-Teneisha (African American female, 11 years) and Antoinette (African American female, 10 years); Pittsburgh, PA., 1999, collected by Azizi Powell
-snip-
* both girls simultaneously “accidentally” tap each other player on the forehead
** to the beat, both girls jump to the front, then to the back, then to the right, then to the left, and back to the right
*** both girls do “the butterfly”, a hip wiggling Caribbean derived R&B dance that was popular around 1994.
-snip-
"Down Down Baby I Can Do Karate" is a variant form of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Down Down Baby". A "sanitized" version of this rhyme was popularized by its inclusion on a segment of Sesame Street"Elmo's World" (an American television series for toddlers and pre-schoolers). That version of ""Down Down Baby I Can Do Karate" is found below.

**
Example #4: DOWN DOWN BABY I KNOW KARATE (Version #2)
Down down baby I can do karate.
Down down baby I can cut salami.
Down down baby I can call my mommie.
Down down baby I can shake my body.
Down down baby OOPS I'M SORRY. [hit the other persons head.]

Posted by: Shalala, http://roughdraft.typepad.com/dotmoms/2004/05/theres_a_song_i.html, December 08, 2008
-snip-
This was posted as a comment to an article about memories of children's rhymes. WARNING: One example of another rhyme on that page contains profanity.

Here's a video clip of Sesame Street's character Elmo" watched girls chanting and doing a hand clap routine to this rhyme.

Down down baby I can do karate



Luci Belt, Jun 28, 2018

****
Example #5: CHOO CHOO CHARLIE
Choo Choo Charlie Sitting on a bench ...
Tryin to make a dollar outta 15 cents
he missed he missed he missed like this...
Its one of those clap games....did it when i was in 2nd or 3rd grade
-brittanie; Octoblog, December 4, 2005 [This blog is no longer active]
-snip-
The name "Choo Choo Charlie" probably came from the 1960s or so "Good n' Plenty television commercial which included the jingle about a little boy pretending he was an train engineer. The jingle goes "Choo Choo Charlie was an engineer/ ????. The chorus was "Charlie says "Love my Good n' Plenty"/ Charlie says "Really rings my bell"/Charlie says "Love my Good n' Plenty"/ "Don't know any other candy that I love so well".

****
Example #6: CHING CHING CHINA
Ching Ching China
Sitting on a bench,
Tried to make a dollar
Out of 65 cents.
She did it, she did it
She did it like this...
(you had to jump w/ this one. first feet apart, then legs crossed, then feet apart again (on and on) and if you landed on "this" with your feet apart, you were a boy, and if your legs were crossed, you were a girl :o )
-Grace Kim, http://battery-d.livejournal.com/87113.html ; 12/17/2005
-snip-
"Ching Ching China", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Shimmy Shimmy China", "Choo Choo Charlie" and other similarly titled playground rhymes are adaptations of the anti-Asian rhyme Ching Chong Chinaman. However, in spite of their source (which few children or adults are aware of), the contemporary rhymes with that title aren't offensive.

****
Example #7: CHINESE CHECKERS

If anyone doesn’t know the hand game” Chinese Checkers” you’ve got to be insane.

Hand Band- Chinese Checkers
Chinese checkers I can do karate
Chinese checkers I can call my mommy
Chinese checkers I can eat salami
Chinese checkers Oops I’m sorry
You better be sorry
Cause I’m not sorry
Itsy bitsy soda pop
Itsy bitsy boo
Itsy bitsy soda pop a boy loves you

So hey! Now you know it!"
-kausthandband, December 31, 2009; https://kausthandband.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/chinese-checkers/

****
Examples #8: Sophia Prior and Sophia Mussa sing Chinese checkers



theRealCrazyGideon, Aug 30, 2009

Chinese checkers I can do karate...
-snip-
Here's my transcription of this version of that rhyme: [Additions and corrections are welcome]
"Chinese checkers I can do karate
Chinese checkers I can eat salami
Chinese checkers I can call my mommy
What's up, mommy?
Oops, I'm sorry [on these words, the partners push each other)
You'd better be sorry.
"Cause I'm not sorry.
Acey deecy soda pop
Acey deecy boom!
itsy bitsy soda pop
A boy loves you.

****
Examples #9 & 10
from https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090711102014AA8oWxS Long lost "ditty"; my dad used to sing this old ditty about a smart China man...

a. Storbakken, 2014
"I learned "Little Tommy Tuckerbutt sitting on a fence. Trying make a dollar out of 15 cents. Hands in his pockets, pockets in his pants. Trying to teach a chicken, the Hula Hula dance."

**
b. kathy, 2015
"This was a "patty cake" singsong that went with a series of progressively complex hand claps or hops...Chicka chicka china sitting on a fence, trying to make a dollar out of 59 cents he ",,,", "..." just like this"
-snip-
This commenter in that discussion thread referred to these rhymes being performed while playing jump rope:
Paul, 2016
"The song was common with young kids. and sung during a game of jump rope. You would sing it to the rythum of the rope spinning as two friends held the rope while you jumped."

****
Example #11: MONCHICHI MONCHICHI
No publishing date: Retrieved December 12, 2019
From http://www.inthe80s.com/rhymes.shtml
Monchichi, monchichi I can see somebody (do seeing motion with your hand) Monchichi, monchichi I can do karate (do hand chopping moting on your arm) Monchichi, monchichi I can play Atari (do joystick playing motion with hands) Monchichi, monchichi - oops! (push someone on there forehead) I'm sorry."

****
This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about the fictitious character "Starrkeisha" and showcases three YouTube videos entitled Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols. These videos were published on YouTube by Random Structure TV in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Cameron J, the developer of the "Starrkeisha" character, the producer of Starrkeisha videos, and the principal performers in those videos. Thanks also to others who are associated with Random Structure TV and the Starrkeisha videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Several pancocojams posts that focus on comments from the discussion threads for these 2016, 2017, and 2018 "Starrkeisha Christmas Carol" videos will be published ASAP and will be able to be assessed by clicking the link "Starrkeisha Christmas Carol discussion comments".

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/06/child-support-rap-battle-starrkeisha-vs.html for Part I of a four part 2016 pancocojams series on Starrkeisha that is entitled "Child Support Rap Battle - Starrkeisha VS Cameron J (information, video, & comments)". That post includes information about Cameron J. Henderson.

The links to the other posts in pancocojoams' 2016 Starrkeisha series are found in that post and in other posts in that series.

****
INFORMATION ABOUT "STARRKEISHA" (fictitious character)
[unofficially written by Azizi Powell, June 26, 2016 & updated on December 14, 2019; additions and corrections welcome]

"Starrkeisha" is a fictitious African American woman who is always performed by an African American male (Cameron J. Henderson, that character's developer).

The first Starrkeisha video appears to have been "I Need My Child Support Money!- StarrKeisha/Cameron J"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--wmtJ7Vj8 ,Uploaded on Jan 15, 2011. Here's the description of that video written by its publisher, Cameron J. Henderson:
"The newest edition to RSTV is not only ghetto, but quite trashy and uneducated. I wanted to create a character that can bring some ghetto fabulous flavor to my channel, StarrKeisha definitely does that! Lol!"
-end of quote-

The comedic character Starrkeisha was conceptualized and is performed by African American male Cameron J as a a relatively young, "ratchet" Black woman who is sassy, street smart, and creative- She raps, sings, and dances/ . In keeping with the exaggerated image of "ratchet" Black women, Starrkeisha wears a short blue wig or weave of long braids, a blue jacket that is too short for her, and other "dumpster dump" clothes. In spite of her attire, Starrkeisha brags about how many brand name clothes and accessories she has.

In contrast with almost all characters that have been created by female impersonators, "Starrkeisha" has a mustache and a short beard. Since mustaches and beards aren't part of the description of "ratchet" women, I wonder if Starrkeisha is portrayed that way to add more comedic elements to those skits, and to emphasize that this character isn't real-although the situations she finds herself in and her responses to those situations could be real. That said, a lot of people who comment on discussion threads for Starrkeisha videos interact with and react to Starrkeisha and Cameron J as though they are both real. And as a result of Starrkeisha's mustache and beard, a lot of children who comment on those discussion threads don't understand that Cameron J is portraying Starrkeisha (and, sometimes, also himself) and are confused about whether "Starrkeisha" is male or female. Questions such as "Is she a boy? and statements like "She can't be pregnant 'cause she's a man" are found numerous times in the discussion threads that I read for these videos.

Starkeisha (also known as "Star" and "KiKi"), has at least two children. These children may have different fathers, although she claims that Cameron J is the father of one-or is it two- of them. The contentious relationship between Starrkeisha and Cameron J is the focus of many of the videos, including videos of Starrkeisha suing Cameron J for child support. In later videos, Cameron J doesn't appear in the skits as Starrkeisha's "baby daddy" and/or love interest. Instead, those comedy skits focus on some aspect of Black culture and features multiple "Starrkeisha" characters who look alike and are dressed alike but might have different motions. An example of this type of "Starrkeisha" comedy skit is 2016 "The Starrkeisha Cheer Squad (The "Pettty" Cheer) which is the focus of this post.

According to an interview of Cameron J. Henderson by a representative of Legit Life Magazine (January 21, 2016)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqYOA299lw), Cameron indicated that he found the blue wig and the itty bitty blue jacket that the character Starrkeisha wears at a thrift shop years ago and took them with him when he went away to college. He also said that he started doing comedy skits featuring the Starrkeisha character because he was bored.

All "Starrkeisha" videos have one million plus views. Commenters regularly praise these videos as being hilarious and creative. I've watched a number of "Starkeisha" videos and I've read many comments on those videos’ discussion threads. Very few commenters who indicated that they disliked those videos because of their portrayal of a Black woman or Black women, or for any other reasons. (Note: As per my direct experience and as per a comment from one of those video's discussion thread), these videos don't contain profanity, violence, or sexually explicit content.)

Given the length of time that "Starrkeisha" videos have been published on YouTube, and given the large number of viewers for many of these videos, I'm surprised that I haven't found any online articles about Cameron J, or RandomStructureTV, or about Starrkeisha.* For instance, neither Cameron J, nor RandomStructureTV, or Starrkeisha have a Wikipedia page. Also, to date, I've not come across any interviews with Cameron J or information about when and why he created the "Starrkeisha" character, and when the first "Starrkeisha" video was published on YouTube.

Starrkeisha videos are produced, performed, published, and viewed for their comedic and singing entertainment content. These videos provide opportunities for Cameron J to showcase his writing, acting, singing, composing, and mixing skills & talents. That said, it seems to me that at least some of the Starrkeisha videos such as "Child Support Rap Battle" provide opportunities to subtly and not so subtly illustrate problematic facets of African American culture as a means of encouraging a re-examination and rectification of those elements. In particular, I think that some Starrkeisha videos and the discussions that people engage in about those videos highlight the dysfunctional nature of values and interactions in some female/male relationships, especially within lower class and working class Black communities.

The values and interactions that are reflected in those relationships and their resulting problems won't be decreased or corrected by laughing, but presenting examples of those relationships albeit in comedy skits and the discussions that might occur as a result of those videos could be significant elements of the process of working through and working away from those dysfunctional relationships.

****
COMMENTS ABOUT THE NAME "STARRKEISHA"
"Starrkeisha" is an contemporary (1960s on) African American originated female name that is a combination of the name "Star" and the name "Keisha" (pronounced KEY shah; KEE Shah).

"Star" is a rather familiar "status" female name. Since the 1970s, "Keisha" and its numerous spelling forms -with or without a prefix such as "LaKeisha"- have been relatively familiar names that have been given mostly but not exclusively to African American females. I believe that "Keisha" and its various similarly spelled forms are an Africanized form of the Hebrew female name "Kezia[h)". The earliest record that I could find for celebrities born with the name "Keisha" is from the the early 1960s.

In my admittedly informal study of "non-standard" (according to mainstream American culture) African American names from the 1980s to date, I've never come across any reference to a person (besides the fictional character) having the name "Starrkeisha" until I read this comment in the discussion thread for the November 2011 "Starrkeisha" video that's featured in this post:

Kimberley Trimble, 2012
"there's a lil girl et mii school name starkeashia"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFoZ0H4Cr7I"Child Support Rap Battle - Starrkeisha VS Cameron J". That video is showcased in Part I of this series.
-snip-
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-real-sources-of-female-name-keisha.html for Part I of a two part series on the name "Keisha".
-snip-
The fictional female character "Starrkeisha" shouldn't be confused with the real African American woman named Sharkeisha Boss Ass (later known as "Queen Sharkeisha") whose fame or notoriety started with a 2013 video of a profanity laced fight with another African American woman went viral on instagram and was later removed from that online site. That said, it's possible that the fictional character's name may have inspired the screen name "Sharkeisha".

****
SHOWCASE VIDEOS:
Video #1: Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols! (Powered by Universal's 'SING')



Random Structure TV, Dec 12, 2016

"Starrkeisha, Cameron J, Pastor James, & Joe go Christmas caroling... with a twist! - 'SING' in theaters December 21st!

[...]

CHECK OUT STARRKEISHA’S MOST POPULAR
▶ The StarrKeisha Cheer Squad: https://youtu.be/wn67XyvePOE
▶ The Starrkeisha Choir - Formation!: https://youtu.be/uFEf5lfaeJk
▶ Battle of the Choirs: https://youtu.be/BDqKzJ2CRh0
▶ Starrkeisha - The Baby Momma Dance: https://youtu.be/Y07i5ctc_n8
▶ Battle of the Cheer Squads: https://youtu.be/0hm5SspQVBU

About Random Structure TV:
Welcome to Random Structure TV, the home of Cameron J, also known as Starrkeisha. I make covers, mashups, choreography, skits, reactions and more! Make sure you :P"...
-snip-
Each of the Starrkeisha Christmas Carol videos include the information given in this summary.

****
Video #2: Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols! (PART 2) 😂🎄🔥 | Random Structure TV



Random Structure TV, Dec 10, 2017

Starrkeisha, Cameron J, Pastor James, & Joe go Christmas caroling again!

****
Video #3: Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols! (PART 3) 😂🎄🔥 | Random Structure TV



Random Structure TV, Premiered Dec 9, 2018

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for the YouTube video Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2016).

Information about the fictitious character Starrkeisha, that above mentioned video, and two additional Starrkiesha's Christmas Carols videos (from 2017 and from 2018) are embedded in the 2019 pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" Videos 2016, 2017, & 2018 (with information about Cameron J. Henderson's Starrkeisha character)"https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-videos.html

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Cameron J, the developer of the "Starrkeisha" character, the producer of Starrkeisha videos, and the principal performers in those videos. Thanks also to others who are associated with Random Structure TV and the Starrkeisha videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Links to pancocojams posts that present a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2017) and Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2018) will be added to this post ASAP.

Click the Starrkeisha tag below for more pancocojams posts about this fictitious character.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols! (Powered by Universal's 'SING')



Random Structure TV, Dec 12, 2016

"Starrkeisha, Cameron J, Pastor James, & Joe go Christmas caroling... with a twist! - 'SING' in theaters December 21st!"...
-snip-
Statistics (as of December 15, 2019 at 3:48 AM
total # of views - 6,149,749
total # of likes - 169K
total # of dislikes - 2.3K
total # of comments- 7,830
-snip-
Note I read all the comments in this discussion thread that my computer would load- which means A Lot, but not all of these comments. I believe these selected comments are probably representative of that entire discussion thread.
-snip-
Here's my unofficial summary of these 2016, 2017, and 2019 Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols videos:
These videos feature Starrkeisha and her crew in a suburban White neighborhood singing some standard Christmas carols that are smoothly blended with Hip Hop/R&B songs that were popular that year.

****
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to compiling example comments about the Starrkeisha character and these videos, I'm particularly interested in documenting commenters' use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). However, no definitions of those words and phrases are included in this particular pancocojams post.

I also have only included a few of the numerous comments from this video's discussion thread which praise Cameron J. Henderson, who developed the Starrkeisha and other featured characters and performs those characters in these videos.

These comments are given in chronological order, and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD

2016
1. rollinhard7
You have an amazing voice! This is so lit!

**
2. Meka Bri
""They need to come on, I can feel the pneumonia, I can fee it, it's building up" :-D:-D:-D:-D"

**
3. Sydney Watson
"That actually sounded really good. Lol I'm so used to hearing just Starrkeisha singing, I didn't know he could sing like that. He need to come out with a Christmas album"

**
REPLY
4. BetaZ, 2017
"No Christmas album yet, but he does have an actual album. A christmas album would be lit though."

**
6. Avonell
"That white man's face the entire time! LOLOLOLOL

**
REPLY
7. Shame on You :3
"Avonell Rose right they were both all awkward"

**
8. BozuシシMoyo
"WHEN SIDE TO SIDE CAME ON🙌🙌And Starkeisha couldn't wait so she just went to that 'IIIIII' part😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
9. dimondsareagirlsbf
"Moyo Bozuシ lmao then she looked at him like "you heard those notes right 😎 ?""

**
REPLY
10. Esther Larose
"Moyo Bozuシ i died 😂😂"

**
11. Alisha
"Starr got her new hair and think she cute now 😂"

**
12. b33j33zybaby
"Starr don't like NOBODY to out-run her lmao. 2:54. she looked at him like try that crap again around 3:58"

**
13. Ethical Warrior
"Why am I starting to see her as a real woman?"

**
REPLY
14. foo foo fontanna
"lol me too"

**
REPLY
15. 2MGCA
"Ethical Warrior you are not the only one"

**
REPLY
16. Angie's Doing It
"You mean...she's not?"

**
REPLY
17. Trent Soto
"Ethical Warrior Legit, I hardly even notice the beard"

**
18. Kelsye Jordan
"If people use to carol like this maybe I won't treat them as if their jehovah witnesses😆"

**
REPLY
19. just me
"lol me"

**
REPLY
20. Shirah Baraka, 2017
"Jehovah's witnesses are of no harm so that is very rude of you to treat them so badly."

**
REPLY
21. Angela Stewart, 2017
"😅😅😅😅"

**
REPLY
22. Shirah Baraka, 2017
"Angela Stewart what's the joke"

**
REPLY
23. Chassity lit famous squad, 2017
"Kelsye Jordan facts"

**
REPLY
24. I sell food stamps I sell food stamps, 2018
"Shirah Baraka shut up its a joke"

**
REPLY
25. Julie Marie, 2018
"Shut up please"

**
REPLY
26. just me, 2018
"@Julie Marie oh calm down don't nobody care that you are mad lol they ain't say nothing bad they just said i'm not answering no doors"

**
REPLY
27. Jordan china, 2018
"Sarah Thomas you should not joke about goddddd jeez"

**
REPLY
28. iibunnyhxpii, 2019
"I’m a Jehovah’s Witness •,~,•"

**
REPLY
29. Lavender lovesyuri, 2019
"@Shirah Baraka r/woosh"

****
2017
30. Arianna Watkins
"Me: The one in the stripes is a really good singer👌
Me five minutes later: They're all the same person😱 facepalm"

**
REPLY
31. Larriona Bannister
"Arianna Watkins haha lol"

**
REPLY
32. B
"What gave it away? The wigs or starrkeishas full beard?"

**
REPLY
33. Joseph Credit
"5 minutes though lol"

**
REPLY
34. Daniel Ramirez
"Arianna Watkins lmao"

**
REPLY
35. The loyalty Squad, 2018
"They are all the same ppl"

**
REPLY
36. The loyalty Squad, 2018
"Xochitl Dominguez are you being serious or are you being stupid like that Is a real question"

**
REPLY
37. Animegurl 710, 2018
"The loyalty Squad serious cause i never really focused on their faces only the singing plus it's not really a stupid question cause i just found this channel after my teacher showed my class these videos and Ive been trying to look it up ever since"

**
REPLY
38. The loyalty Squad, 2018
"Xochitl Dominguez 😂😂😂😂😂 Oh"

**
REPLY
39. leeyah cobbs, 2018
"You rlly thought they were Different ppl😂😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
40. The loyalty Squad, 2018
"Leeyah Cobbs exactly like fr"

**
41. Audrey Gabriel
"Can someone list all the songs he sung?????"

**
REPLY
42. Blessing M
"Audrey Gabriel what our you mean, juju on that beat, fake love, million reasons, cut it, black Beatles, starboy, side to side, closer,"

**
REPLY
43. Lataha Waters
"Blessing Minawa Zola u r correct"

**
44. no
"If they came up to my door and did this I'd be LIT I'm talking about jumping up and down dancing singing (like a dying cow) and MUCH more!!!!"

**
45. Bre Aubry
"Still watching this after Christmas is long gone"

**
46. reverse god
"I will be trunt up if they came to my door"

**
47. Sweet luh Darkskin
"Starrkeisha: "I can feel the pneumonia I can feel it"
Me:dead😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
48. Tonya Chatman
"lol im dying😅"

***
49. Kennedy N Jackson
"Keep forgetting they all the same person..."

**
50. Jermaine Jones
"You mean we singing in the cold for free...i'm dead lol"

**
51. Tiaja Bilah
"She is A Boy"

**
REPLY
52. Kayla Jacobs
"Tiaja Bilah yes"

**
53. PKHOKIE11
"I watched this one so much I still know it by heart... the new one is fire too 👍🏾"

**
54. lilmommalady76
""Yeah, Juju on that, Juju on that, Juju on that beat". The look on the couples' faces tho 1:29 like "What's a Juju?"😂😂😂"

**
55. eep meep
"that eye roll @2:57 😂😂"

**
56. Rodney Sanders
"I love all of the hip hop mixed withe Christmas songs 💖💖💖"

**
59. Chante Noel
"when Cameron sung Come o ye faithful, i felt that in my soul"

**
60. Chip Taylor
"ayeeeeee he be killing it!"

**
61. Roni Caquias
"I've never hit the subscribe button until now! You are sooooo freaking creative; lets give this talented man a round of applause!!!!!💯🏆🎶😍👍"

**
62. PKHOKIE11
"I watched this one so much I still know it by heart... the new one is fire too 👍🏾"

**
63. Jermaine Jones
"You mean we singing in the cold for free...i'm dead lol"

**
REPLY
64. Trenton Brown, 2019
"Ikr 😂😂"

**
65. Starshawn Cook
"We all know if they went to a black persons house they would be hype


(Not racist)"

**
REPLY
66. Rainbow Ramen, 2018
"Exactly"

**
REPLY
67. Patterson Daniels, 2018
"I mean your not lying but aren't they already hype"

**
REPLY
68. Ma'Nayah Kelley, 2018
"Star Shawn Cook yes racist"

**
69. Janiya Bolden
"So you mean we singing out here in the cold for free I'm dead😂😂🤣😅"

**
REPLY
70. Dennise Andrews, 2018
"Janiya Bolden i was too when i heard she/he said that i broke to pieces hahahah"

**
REPLY
71. Nathaniel Pillay, 2018
"Janiya Bolden if ur dead, how were u writing this message"

**
REPLY
72. Nafeesa F., 2018
"right that got me falling to the ground laughing my ass off!😂"

**
REPLY
73. Paulette Robinson, 2918
"I'm screaming😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"

****
2018
74. Tamica Mott
"this is so funny!! but they killed it!!!!"

**
75. Ughitsdayday
"THAT RUN AT THE BEGINNING 😯SJSJSMSHFDSJVAHSVF"

**
76. Dattt girl K
"I love watching his vids FR they lit💎💎💎"

**
77. Jasmin Kennedy
"0:35 she killed it ayyy you go girl😂☺🙋"

**
78. Jennifer Fiorito
"You can’t tell me this doesn’t get you hyped for the holidays"

**
79. zarya winston
"This is lit😍 I'm D.A I don't want any Christmas carolers at my door unless their fit to get down like this💯🔥🔥"

**
80. Nia Babyy
"what a nice and ghetto mashup but yall slayed this and the ending was too funny and their faces when they started mixing it up was so funnyyy"

**
81. Ronda Jones
"So much time has passed and I still come watch this video to smile ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"

**
82. Asia Hendricks
"Ayyyyeeee I just heard this on my radio station in Atlanta on V-103 today"

**
83. Bessie Hatcher
"i am jamming to this ayyyyeeeeee"

**
84. Jean Kweyama
""I can feel the pneumonia building up "😭😭😭🏋😂😂👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌"

**
85, Michelle Falevalu
"NICE JAM GUYS"

**
86. Tinker Bell
"That ending was lit!!!"

**
87. saran mason
"Omg I love your videos. He said got family to feed!!"

**
88. Dearly_ _Beloved
"The ending legit sent chills when they were harmonizing"

****
2019
89. Tabatha Grush
"Your talent is AMAZING! I love ALL of your characters ❤"

**
90. Damian Bombardieri
"it literally took me 3 minutes to realise its the same guy"

**
91. Helen Carter
"Please continue to make these holiday videos. I needed the laughter. You are Awesome."

**
92. imma little teapot
"this dude is a genius 😂🤣 err body got they own solo n errthing lmao"

**
93. CloudedTear816
"He took me from in the spirit to on the radio to rachet then back to the spirit again. My body mind and soul were so conflicted lol!!!!!😂😂😂😂"

**
94. sha chero
"“Gotta family to feed, gotta family to feed... joojoo on dat, joojoo on dat, joojoo on dat beat... slide, drop, hit dem folk, don’t stop, don’t stop....don’t stop.” 🤣😂🤣😂took me out! Merry Christmas, All!🥰"

**
95. JLeah Fair
"2:40 ayyy he killin it🔥🔥"

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for the YouTube video Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2017).

Information about the fictitious character Starrkeisha, that above mentioned video, and two additional Starrkiesha's Christmas Carols videos (from 2017 and from 2018) are embedded in the 2019 pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" Videos 2016, 2016, & 2018 (with information about Cameron J. Henderson's Starrkeisha character)"https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-videos.html

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Cameron J, the developer of the "Starrkeisha" character, the producer of Starrkeisha videos, and the principal performers in those videos. Thanks also to others who are associated with Random Structure TV and the Starrkeisha videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2016.html for the pancocojam post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2016 (Video & Selected Comments)".

The link to the pancocojams post presents a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2018) will be added to this post ASAP.

Click the Starrkeisha tag below for more pancocojams posts about this fictitious character.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols! (PART 2) 😂🎄🔥 | Random Structure TV



Random Structure TV•Dec 10, 2017

Starrkeisha, Cameron J, Pastor James, & Joe go Christmas caroling again!

[...]

About Random Structure TV:
Welcome to Random Structure TV, the home of Cameron J, also known as Starrkeisha. I make covers, mashups, choreography, skits, reactions and more! Make sure you :P"...
-snip-
Statistics (as of December 15, 2019 at 11:29 AM
total # of views -1,487,240
total # of likes -68K
total # of dislikes - 585
total # of comments- 3,062
-snip-
Note I read all the comments in this discussion thread that my computer would load- which means A Lot, but not all of these comments. I believe these selected comments are probably representative of that entire discussion thread.
-snip-
Here's my unofficial summary of these 2016, 2017, and 2018 "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" videos:
These videos feature Starrkeisha and her crew in a suburban White neighborhood singing some standard Christmas carols that are smoothly blended with Hip Hop/R&B songs which were popular that year.

****
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to compiling example comments about the Starrkeisha character and these videos, I'm particularly interested in documenting commenters' use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). However, no definitions of those words and phrases are included in this particular pancocojams post.

I also have only included a few of the numerous comments from this video's discussion thread which praise Cameron J. Henderson, who developed the Starrkeisha and other featured characters and performs those characters in these videos.

These comments are given in chronological order, and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD

2017
1. LovelyAshley
"When you like before you watch,because you know it's gonna be fiya."

**
2. LaToya Forever
"I just couldn't handle your character in the pink sweater, toooo funny"

**
REPLY
3. Ivory' Lee Lambskank
"That's Starkiesha"

**
REPLY
4. Juelle gibson
"D'Miya Harris starkiesha his main character on his channel"

**
5. Blessing Adejumo
"Thank God it's winter season that means we don't have to see Starrkeisha's ashy knees.
Love you starr no shade✨✨🔥❤"

**
REPLY
6.slime Princess 4L, 2018
"Blessing Adejumo lol"

**
7. That.Weirdo.Kayla
"I was singing along to the girl! 😂😁
When they started singing Havana I was DONE!!"

**
REPLY
8. Samari Empire, 2018
"Miss Dorkalicious her name is starkisha"

REPLY
9. Briauna Brice, 2019
"Samari buckmaster not trying to be mean but it's actually spelled starrkeisha fyi"

**
10. Shinsou
"When Starr starting singing the weekend I died laughing at the old people face expression"

**
11. Nelly Nel
"I was weaak off their faces as they were singing "The Weekend"💀😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
12. Sierra Carter
"How did there faces change on the weekend"

**
REPLY
13. Cay H
"Sierra Carter look at the couple"

**
REPLY
14. Gerre Barnwell
"Sierra Carter go back and look at it, they were digusted..."

**
15. Stage Ready
"Next time go to a black family’s house . They’ll be jamming right along with you lol"

**
16. Diana Padilla
"He can sing in spanish he is on fleak🌹🌷💐💖😘"

**
17. Tae
"When he started singing Despacito I lost it 😍, he’s so freaking talented"

**
18. Amanda Alliance
"This man had a chicken soup: African American soul book. I'm done."

**
REPLY
19. JameyPiano18
"Amanda Alliance that's what I noticed too lol. I stared hard and had to blink twice"

**
20. Sierra Williams
"Damn this was fire!!!!!!!!!"

**
21. Khyia Williams
"when they put Havana in there I started getting litt💯😂"

**
22. jeb
"#randomstructuretv Cameron I see you on that bilingual grind 3:21 you should do alot more of this :D"

**
23. Bald And High Chronicles
"YAAAAAAASSS!! He unexpectedly snatched my edges off."

**
REPLY
24. Metal Mouth Mama
"Honey, my entire HEAD was ripped off!!!"

**
25. Trulee peoples
"His voice is goals 💖🤘"

**
26. Niall Fitzgerald
"Khalid Location part was litty"

**
27. ThePrinceOfShadowsX
"These harmonies slayed me for life I can’t ❤️❤️❤️🔥😍"

**
28. MZ412BABY
"Cameron J gives me life💙💙💙💙💙"

**
29. Chloe Dunn
"....nothing has ever gotten me more in the Christmas spirit, than this lit ass video 😂😂🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄 Merry Christmas everyone!!"

**
30. VJ 1472
"u got down with that"

**
31. Lashay Johnson
"This boy know he sing hunny.....my goodness gracious😇😘😊😍😄"

**
32. ItsCasey
"I AM SHOOKETH"

**
33. Queen Niyah Z
"This video is so lit"

**
33. Esther Adelaja
"this is liiitt i love it 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🤗🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘"

**
34. xksandx
"You better sing boy! Yasss"

**
35. Ailine ortiz
"My mom saw the singing part on Facebook she was dying! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤"

**
36. Tondelaire Cottom
"This is 🔥🔥🔥@CameronHenderson you are so talented can't wait till see what you have for us in 2018 ❤❤❤❤"

**
37. Colorful110
"Was anybody shook when he did despacito 😂😂"

**
38. Zo
""And we do take donations" Asdfghjkl I knew Star couldn't resist 😩😩😂"

**
39. Mz. Phatbaldkat
"When that Xmas spirit hit Mom & pop & they started bopping.. I was like ayeeeeeeeeee"

**
40. Cpsweetz
"So dope! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 you’re super talented 🙌🏾💯"

**
41. Average Gaming
"The start with bodak yellow got me 😂😂😂"

**
42. Zuri Saunders
"And we do take donation's 😂💀👍"

**
43. Rajvir Rai
"0:14 Cooking Soup for the African American Soul"

**
REPLY
44. Iam_Tracion !, 2018
"Bruh. I saw that!!!! And at first I was like: "What he think he doing reading this?!?" LOL 🤣🤣"

**
45. Darkskin forever, 2018
"That was a ah yeet moment"

**
46. Amelia Morris
"Part one they had on coats and the background cried Autumn this time there's actually snow in the background. haha!! great video thou i loved it!
BTW I LOVE YOUR SWEATER STARR"

**
47. Xylo
"tht was a hella bomb mashup of songs!!"

**
48. ThePrinceOfShadowsX
"Shape of you was lit like ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️"

**
50. PKHOKIE11
"Boy you betta SANG! I look forward to these videos. Happy holidays!"

**
51. Journey de AbenaRose
"YO CAM! THIS WAS STRAIGHT FIRE!!! YOUR VOCAL TALENT IS SOMETIMES OVERLOOKED DUE TO THE COMEDY BUT DAMNNNNNN! I WANT THIS ALBUM! 💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣"

**
52. Kelvin Alexander
"DAAAAMN....U MURDERED THIS CHRISTMAS..FO' REAL!!!!👍👍wish I had more thumbs"

****
2018
53. Just Life
"Its literally Christmas tradition to watch this every Christmas for me because it's so amazing!!!😍😍😍"

**
54. Jackie Forbes
"ha ha all despacito perfect shape of shape and Havana these people are so funny"

**
55. Jamesha Ross
"Who would dislike this? A HATER that's who. It takes real talent to know how to mix these songs."

**
REPLY
56. Natasha Luo
"Those who hate gay people with a passion."

**
REPLY
57. Trinity Green
"@Natasha Luo 😑. Hes not even gay."

**
REPLY
58. Chantel Harewood
"Natasha Luo He’s not even gay though........."

**
59. Chrissy Nicole
"OMG AND WHEN IS YA ALBUM DROPPING YOU COULD SANG IM OFFICIALLY IN LOVE"

**
60. Dee C.
"Oh, so you’re just gonna come out of nowhere and slay?

I waited all year for this too 😭

Got me wantin to slap my mama and bake a pie"

**
61. Nurse Bae
"ALWAYS KILLING IT! THE WHOLE MIX WAS DOPE!"

**
62. Kinlyn Williams
"ooh this cameron j boy with all his crew: Starrkeisha, Pastor James, & Joe be on it! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! LET THE LORD USE YOU!"

**
63. Daaron Ellis
"Litttttttttttttt"

**
64. N͙i͙y͙a͙h͙ Burton
"I just heard y’all on the radio"

**
65. Ladysa Tx
"The harmony is straight fire! Very talented indeed! And second from the left could get it for real even though they are all him lol"

**
66. Chrissy Fritz
"Saw this on Facebook and just had to come show some support. This is really amazing 😍. I LOVE IT 💪"

**
67. Aysha Smith
"THIS WAS FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥 THE BLENDING OF THE SONGS WAS ACTUAL PERFECTION"

**
68. Albertia Burgess
"I laughed, cried, cheered, clapped! So many emotions, LOL!"

**
69. Brownsugarglam
"So glad I found you! This video gives life lol. It's amazing how you edit, you are gifted."

**
70. Zarria Suggs
"You was Killin it"

**
71. UniquelyDesigned 43
"Obviously I've run across you in IG but happen to come across you on YT. I am definitely enjoying the singing you have an amazing voice. Do you have any albums out? If not, why not? Some type of compilations need to be done ASAP! It seems you are a singer, musician, choreographer, instrumentalist, producer, director, public figure and more. Thank you for sharing your gift. Keep up the great work! You rock😉"

**
72. Ellie E
"Damn! What DOESN'T this guy do? Content, characters, vocal, edit, market...Tyler Perry, partner with Cam, sign him, mentor him, SCOOP HIM UP!!!"

**
73. WavvvyyDee Central
"Blended so well, one of my favourite parts was; Jingle Bells and That’s What I Like😄"

**
74. Warntheworld
"That falsetto 😩😩😩😩"

**
75. ihateyoucaroline
"MY ENTIRE SOUL IS SHAKING"

**
76. Aston Margolis-Dias
"1:29 gets far too litty"

**
77. bork
"🔥 🔥 😎😂💥 dat song was LIT"

**
78. Itsprettylov.ly
"Omg lit merry Christmas"

**
79. andrea cardiel
"I can't be any weaker ahhh"

**
80. Mr. Nobody Stl
"I swear he be killing song lmao"

**
81. toyota
"Yass this is litty"

**
82. Felicia Sanusi
"insanely good!😱 you have crazy expert brain. oh my Lord this song really really good.💖💖🙈 many thumbs up for you👍👍👍👍👍"

**
83. Itnok Alagat
"Saw it, sang it, subscribed!"

**
84. Sherline's Baddie's
"That was so lit"

**
85. Christy Lang
"He can REALLY sing !!!"

**
86. jordan A.M
"I love how they combine christmas songs with today's kind of music. Hell yeah"

**
87. Roger Cortez
"Did any one notice the girl has a beard"

**
88. Late Night Owl
"We don't celebrate Christmas but I live for this! Thank you for this year amazing Carols :)"

**
89. Shelia Whetstone
"wooooowww they just made my morning so bright ol dude can blow that's what Im talking about"

**
90. Guna Seelan
"This is too dope 🔥🔥🔥"

**
91. Briamah Patel
"Because we always have to be extra :) Love it"

**
92. Eliza Rivera
"if starkisha came to my house i would be like AYE AYE AYE DROP AYE NEA NEA AYE WHIP AYE FOOTWORK AYE😂"

**
93. BozuシシMoyo
"The elderly couple switching from enjoyment to disapproval every 10 seconds😂😂😂"

**
94. itsandree
"Peep the books😭😭"

**
95. Hamburger Network
"Is this 3 brothers and a sister🤔"

**
96. Shatonya Joseph
"star got a berd"

**
97. natasha thomàs
"Lord that man could singgg"

**
98. Keischa Coulanges
"I like the havana and shape of you"

**
99. Megan Ella
"HAVANA OH NA NA HE TOOK ME BACK EAST ALANTA NA NA HALF OF MY HEART IS IN HAVANA"

**
100. Kaitlin Foley
"LMFAO! Bodak Yellow and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! I died!"

**
101. Shinique04
"I'm proud of Starrkeisha for not rolling her eyes at Cameron's solo parts. lol"

**
102. Maria The Galaxy Wolf
"Wait...the hair was blue?!?!?
I thought it was black"

**
103. Jacques Braz
"I watch this video almost every day! It's so lit"

**
104. Januckery
"Starkkeshia messed it up for them every time. Lol!😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
105. HBSQUADD !, 2019
"I know right 😂😂"

**
REPLY
106. Luca Peyrefitte, 2019
"That's the best part"

**
107. Kimoree Randle, 2019
"I know right😂😂😂😂😂

**
108. Lejune Murdock
"Got the poor white folks confused lmao"

**
109. Christine Onofre
"Slay it Starrrrr 💚❤💚❤"

**
110. Angelica
"It's my first time seeing his video and dang, it's freaking good"

**
111. Kelly Forrest
"Y'all are bomb 😂"

**
112. Simply Alelia
"U better do it 😂♥️"

**
113. Anaya Franklin
"2:42 he still got it. SING IT🔥🔥🎤"

**
114. Jasmine Robinson
"Killed it once again!! Lol we do take donations 😂😂❤️❤️"

**
115. Logan Butler
"The dude with the beard has a good voice"

**
116. Summer Williams
"he snapped lmao"

**
117. shadowhead masked bandit
"this hard."

**
118. Qawserftgyuh R
"found them on insta and so glad i can see the full version here!"

**
119. Rachel Gonzales
"I'm waiting on u to do a Christmas album with all these song yo! Hook up us!"

**
120. Xzavier Williams
"Absolutely on point!! ♡☆♡☆
Can you do the Alphabet song?
Calling it "Funky Alphabet "
putting your stank on it..."

**
121. Rafael Castro
"whats the name of the "through the weekend" song?"

**
REPLY
122. chiara bekoe
"Rafael Castro the weekend by sza"

**
123. Jacqueline Ayyy
"I was straight DEAD at the very beginning!🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 then I died again at Despacito! Love these!"

**
124. Sodiari Ubani
"could you imagine if someone made a movie and this was the end credits, it would be lit"

**
125. Zach W
"Yo he plays every part so well"

**
126. YaShara Lynch
"Love it! Your voice is amazing 😍... This video is awesome!!! Details on point. I saw the book the man was reading 😂lol!"

**
127. Isaiah King
"O Holy Night made me do a praise dance and throw my phone"

**
128. Just Jada
"All i could do is say yasss and scream through this whole video ...i love this video😍😍😍😭☺🙌❤"

**
129. Taylor Collins
"you are so talented and amazing and i know it takes a lot of effort to make the songs sound so good from being mixed all together and to have to do all of that 4 times and having to edit all of it you are so gifted...and by the way you have an amazing voice! Keep up the good work and thank you"

**
130. Ja’Niya Taylor
"The African American version of Pentatonix?
Yes!!!!"

**
REPLY
131. Kaitlyn Jones, 2019
"Girl hush"

**
REPLY
132. Skyler Broussard
"It’s way more impressive simply for the fact that it’s just one dude"

**
133. Sade` With The Receipts
"THAT SPANISH VERSE THO!!!! AWESOME!!!!"

**
REPLY
134. Renee' ????
"Sade' Watson it was although u didn't like that part (Spanish part)"

**
REPLY
135. Sade` With The Receipts
"WHAT YA MEAN THAT I DON'T LIKE THAT PART?!?! I DO...THAT IS WHAT THAT EXPRESSION MEANS...."THAT SPANISH PART THO"! FOLLOWED BY THE WORD AWESOME......HMM..."

**
REPLY
136. D'Nicety
"@Renee' ???? Yeah u lost me too on that. She used a figure of speech n followed it up w/ a positive accolade. Which meant she like that part."

**
137. TEMI LONDON
"The couple CRACK ME UP"

**
138. 9528TERRY
"the look on the their faces when they get off Christmas carols into hip hop songs...lol"

**
139. Lizzy Watkins
"lol this great but also hilarious there faces had me dying 😂😂"

**
140. Mya Charles
"OMG this is amazing!! Especially love the transition between Perfect by Ed Sheeran and O Holy Night 3:35"

****
141. Mzshondagirl
"Your videos always get me dancing and singing.. I be so lit after watching your videos"

**
142. elton forlemu
"He sang The Weekend by Sza BETTER than Sza. DAMN!!! I need a full cover the song now please!!"

**
143. Robin's Nest
"The couples reaction tho😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
144. Januckery
"becky boodoo I knowww! When Starrkesia started singing "The Weekend", the look on their faces were priceless. Me and my sister just keep rewatching that part over and over again and ctfu.😂😂😂"

**
145. SABRYAT17
"I'm lovin Starrkeisha's oufit. Slay girl Slay.💜💜💖"

**
146. OGIN
"Why am I listening to this in April and saving it for my Christmas list for Christmas 2018? Lol"

**
REPLY
147. Frisk and Fam, 2019
"SAME!"

**
148. yxungdimer._nay
"Been waiting since last year"

**
149. Erin Gezwind
"The harmonization tho🔥🔥🔥"

**
150. Euphoria makings
"Soooooo smoothly put together thats melty 😍🎄"

**
151. Shasta Brown
"Okay, i have never laughed so hard in my life. OMG! Keep up the good work. Too hilarious..."

**
152. Natalie Lomax
"Drove down to Maryland rocking this on blast. My whole family loves you"

**
153. Uriyah Nolan
"Killed it.... All four of y'all 😉😋😘"

**
154. kimchisoo
"I love the immediate change on the oldies' face when Starrkeisha started singing "the weekend" I died"

**
155. Cherry Blossom
"I have watched this waaaayyyy tooo many times haha! I love the way he sings “here comes Santa Claus” lol"

**
156. Courtney Quinn
"❤️❤️watching It Over again . Lit🔥🤟🏾"

**
157. ChakraW
"Snoop Dog ran this one in his live feed on Instagram 13 hours ago."

**
158. Tracy Henderson
"Hey I just wanted to say I just heard you on V-103 Black Friday November 22nd 2018 around 11:27 a.m. I was like yes OMG I was like rocking it love it love it love it"

**
159. mokeshua norman
"yelling ComeOnBoy, GetIt!!!..straight talent🖤i didn't want it to end"

**
160. Jamesha Ross
"Who would dislike this? A HATER that's who. It takes real talent to know how to mix these songs."

**
161. knockoutjw
"I’m hella late🤦🏾‍♂‍ just seen this on Facebook & there’s hella good song blended. I love it finna play this on Christmas fo’show."

**
162. Dante Galindo Cruz
"Yaaaaasssss Bro you are absolutely amazing. You are my vocal goals ❤"

**
163. faith
"Those editing skills are on fleek😂perfect harmony"

**
164. Itss Chenelle
"Bruh. Either I'm tripping or I just heard this on the radio 🤔 Doing big things Cameron! Keep it up!!!!"

****
2019
165. Anais Hardon
"Is there anywhere we can purchase this frfr? Or even stream?! I’m sorry but this right here is a BOP!"

**
166. Just Love
"Star’s movement on Dive for “Oh Holy Night” was the biz! 🔥🔥🔥"

**
167. Boss'lady 302 yeah you read right
"I love him so much , Cameron is my you tube husband 4life and starrkeisha is my bff 😘😘😘😘"

**
168. Dan Free
"I’m mad late this just came up on my FB page so I decided to follow on YouTube as well"

**
169. A&T Martin
"That's amazing you guys made me think about Christmas keep it ☝😄😍

**
170. Shybria S
"Hey im a New fan and i jsut watched part 3 and came to watch the others💋💕😽"

**
171. Nilsein Celestin
"Just realised there the same people...?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

**
172. Mark S.
"Yasssss!!!!!! Starr hit her note "ooh nah naaah""

**
173. Life story of Ari
"I’m dead 🤣😂"

**
174. Spazarella Poet
"Very creative and yo voice is awesome"

**
175. Trinity Portley
"Who else wish there were actually people who caroled like this"

**
176. Antwynette Houston
"Voice is just beautiful. I'm over here listening to Christmas carols in August 😂🤣"

**
177. Shantez Tolbut
"The jingle bell rock and Noel part to The weekend!!!! Jesus!!! Musicianship!!!"

**
178. Tayevaughn Williams
"3:42 His rendition of O Holy Night was absolutely beautiful"

**
179.Pink Ink
"My computer teacher is silly she put this on for Christmas music music and said if u thought I was gonna put the real songs than u haven’t seen the color of my skin XD 🤪"

**
180. Jhøññïê B
"Rewatching this hoping he drops another this year 🥰"

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for the YouTube video Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2018).

Information about the fictitious character Starrkeisha, that above mentioned video, and two additional Starrkiesha's Christmas Carols videos (from 2017 and from 2018) are embedded in the 2019 pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" Videos 2016, 2016, & 2018 (with information about Cameron J. Henderson's Starrkeisha character)"https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-videos.html

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Cameron J, the developer of the "Starrkeisha" character, the producer of Starrkeisha videos, and the principal performers in those videos. Thanks also to others who are associated with Random Structure TV and the Starrkeisha videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2016.html for the pancocojam post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2016 (Video & Selected Comments)".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2017_15.html for the link to the pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2017 (Video & Selected Comments)."

Click the Starrkeisha tag below for more pancocojams posts about this fictitious character.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols! (PART 3) 😂🎄🔥 | Random Structure TV


Random Structure TV, Premiered Dec 9, 2018
-snip-
Statistics (as of December 15, 2019 at 11:29 AM
total # of views - 846,209
total # of likes -47K
total # of dislikes - 365
total # of comments-
-snip- 2,045
I read all the comments in this discussion thread that my computer would load- which means A Lot, but not all of these comments. I believe these selected comments are probably representative of that entire discussion thread.
-snip-
Here's my unofficial summary of these 2016, 2017, and 2018 "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" videos:
These videos feature Black Americans Starrkeisha and her crew in a suburban White neighborhood singing some standard Christmas carols that are smoothly blended with Hip Hop/R&B songs which were popular that year.

****
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to compiling example comments about the Starrkeisha character and these videos, I'm particularly interested in documenting commenters' use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). However, I've only include one definition for an AAVE phrase that I hadn't come across before. Here's a definition for "ice me out" from https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/icing+me+outhttps://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/icing+me+out
"ice out
v. Slang
To cover or decorate something with diamonds: The medallion was completely iced out. The performers went to the jewelry store and iced out their wrists.
See also: ice, out
Cite- The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved."
-snip-
I also have only included a few of the numerous comments from this video's discussion thread which praise Cameron J. Henderson, who developed the Starrkeisha and other featured characters and performs those characters in these videos.

These comments are given in chronological order, and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD

2018

1. kitdacraze deadbydaylight
"I was looking forward to this my whole year man
Part3 oh yeah"

**
2. ablckdiamd1
"How can anyone give a thumb downs on this? Anywhoo....
I look forward to this every year!"

**
3. Maimouna Sogue Diop
"If this was real ohhhhhhh it will be lit❤️❤️❤️MARRY Xmas. Like if you agree"

**
4. NeziNapps akaNeziTV
"I wish they could come to my house and sing to, me, for Christmas:)

**
REPLY
5. Green Olive
"I want the same thjng... lol would totally make my day!"

**
REPLY
6. p ø t ä t ø
"Its Only one dude"

**
REPLY
6. Gelo Brunken
"@p ø t ä t ø dont ruin our illusions😂😂"

**
REPLY
7.Alexis Kay
"For real"

**
8. TheGlove Supreme
"Do a black family next time then they gone be like "ohhhhh yassssss"they gone be litt"

**
REPLY
9. Caira Johnson
"FOR REAL THO Theyre needs to be a black family"

**
REPLY
10. gone ugly broken, 2019
"Facts cuz the families looking like they never heard a beat drop before."

**
REPLY
11. Baby Gold, 2019
"I was thinking about that lol 😂"

**
REPLY
12. K V, 2019
"Black people will sit there when the doorbell rings and say nobody called and said they was coming over. Then they look out the peep hole or window and see strangers and not open the door. Folks crazy nowadays!"

**
REPLY
13. Mr. D, 2019
"I just noticed that too, lol. Every video that I watched- every family is in the suburbs, upper middle class. They probably thought that their style was FOREIGN, lol."

**
REPLY
14. relax96, 2019
"Having white families makes it funny though. Lol"

**
15. lindawuah♡
"2:13 lmao when the little boy started feelin it , dead!"

**
20. Pretty Crissy
"Why they was looking like that when the Rap songs came on😂😂😕"

**
REPLY
21. Manacha Ozit, 2019
"Pretty Crissy Mom got scared when he started with “This is America”😂😂😂"

**
22. Essence Sylvia Smith
"Yes! I love these mash ups. Starkeisha is crazy lol 😂. Little homie was jamming"

**
23. K love
"No he didn't say ice me out at the end lol"

**
REPLY
24. Kpac shakur
"“Ice me out” 😂😂😂😂😂I’m weak"

**
REPLY
25. Deahnna Eady
"For real! I was like "no she didn't"😂"

**
REPLY
26. Kpac shakur
"Deahnna Eady girl a fool😂😂"

**
27. D'Nicety
"Dude! This the 💣 🔥🔥🔥🔥! Just as bad as last year still L.I.T. #ILikeItLikeThat #BooedUp #KillnIt"

**
28. Shawntina
"Yes!!! You are so talented Cameron!"

**
29. MysteriousLatrice 83
"LOVE LOVE LOVE MAN THIS GUY IS A TRUE CREATOR FUNNY AND GOOD SOUND"

**
30. Nicole Vlogs
"You need to make a carol video where you go to a black people house cuz they would be lit af....unlike these people when they look at you weird and hold there child closer cuz they think your crazy black people😂"

**
REPLY
31. SharonMWrites
"Yep"

**
REPLY
32. Destiny Mays
"Nicole Vlogs I was just thinking the same thing 😂😂"

**
REPLY
34. Mona Cunningham
"Rightttt🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥it would be so dope"

**
REPLY
35. Good People Prosper
"Lol...not the little boy he getting it🤣😂"

**
REPLY
36. Tiffany Gipson
"I was just thinking that 😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
37. Peachy Fuzz, 2019
"Nicole Vlogs damn that's hella racist

**
REPLY
38. mareina, 2019
"Black people don't open their doors thou😭😭"

**
REPLY
39. Kayla Brooks, 2019
"For real"

**
40. stripedsweater520
"Yeah we need a family that's lit lolol these ppl making confused faces at songs that are clearly bops haha"

**
41. Matt Johnson
"Took me out at "We take Paypal..." lol!"

**
42. Gelo Brunken
"This gets better every year😂 my ears feel blessed😁the moves are littier every year😊ice me out😀😂"

**
43. Chicaa xoxo
"He was hitting them notes though. Straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. 😁"

**
44. Tina Hill
"The family start looking like hold up LMBO😂😂🤣🤣🤣👍🏽👏🏽"

**
45. Nya Gary
"Dang you got all my favorite songs😍😍😍"

**
46. I LOVE THE BOMBDIGZ
"Why the people they singing to always making wired looks😂😂 like this is the christmas remix mashup, enjoy a once im a life time😂😂😂😂 my momma said thag last part she found my phone😊😂😂😊"

**
47. Pretty Crissy
"This was Lit 🔥🔥🔥 Like Always"

**
48. oniiibae
"Keep doing these😂😂😂👍🏽👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾"

**
49. The _matrix _
"I'm 💀 star said "we take PayPal cashapp cash of course 💀💀🤦🤦😭💀💀💀💀😭"

**
50. Twisted PRETTY By LINA
"😂😂😂"

**
51. Renea Edwards, 2019
"LORD DID HE NOT 😂😂😂😂😂"

**
REPLY
52. La P
"Star was like nall this is a nice house pay me.😂😁😭😦🎅🎄"

**
53. cheytul
"We take PayPal. I'm done!"

**
REPLY
54. Zion Johnson
"YAASSSSS I WAS WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT YASSSSSSSSSSS QUEEEEENNNNNN"

**
55. S C
"For people who don’t know, check out the old ones, they are so good too!! 🙌"

**
56. Jahlea _the cheetoreeto
"You should make a Christmas cd like that"

**
REPLY
57. 5SharonMWrites
"Jahlea Yelton for real! It needs airplay!"

**
REPLY
58. SpiritAngel
"I prayto 8lb black babyJesus you get the clearances needed to do it"

**
REPLY
59. Harriet B, 2019
"CD ! 👀- Giirrrlll this ain't the 90's people download things now!!! Damn"

**
60. Nesa Williams
"Magnificent ❤❤❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😘😘😘 loved it.... Star you the best😘"

**
61. CheckOutBTSgroup
"this is 1000% better than youtube rewind lol"

**
62. Ella Chidume
"Ayyyeeeee!!! I wait for this every year mahnnn 😝😝"

**
63. Vocally Gifted
"Lol so funny I can’t & your vocals are serious!!👌🏽"

**
64. Just Jada
"Yesssss , I needed this remix!"

**
65. Babatunde Ogunsina
"I DIDNT WANT THIS TO END"

**
66. Pana Rican
"I loved the way u mixed the Christmas and current hits!!!! can't wait to watch more!!"

**
67. denice works
"You never disappoint me. This was freakin awesome."

**
68. J.
"This the only holiday jingles I know 😭😭🔥🔥🔥"

**
69. Makenzie Loving
"Yay they put xxxtentacion sad song 😊❤️"

**
REPLY
70. Asha Shine
"I know right"

**
REPLY
80. jaazili1
"RIP Jahseh!"

**
REPLY
81. T. Santos
"That transition to x made my heart melt love this soooo much"

**
82. Shae is Bored
"This is everything man"

**
83. Vallita Fossitt
"Very creative!!! I love it! Do more🤣💜🤣"

**
84. Denelsia Walker
"Love button ❤👑💎
Straight flame! 🔥🔥🔥"

**
85. JuzmeKeKe
"It was suuuuper lit!🕯"

**
86. Mars
"This is a Bop"

**
87. Hayes Family
"The This is America part is HILARIOUS!!!"

**
REPLY
88. scooby-doo jonathan
"That's was fire"

**
89. Honest Truth
"This is my first time watching your videos but this is fire 🔥"

**
90. S C
"Now I’m gonna watch the old ones!!! I love these sooo much! 😂😀☃️❄️🎄🎁"

**
91. ronnie pope
"Bruh I would buy this on vinyl yes I said vinyl and I don’t even have a player 🤣 u still going hard 💯"

**
92. Danica Gittens
"Starrkeshia did that!🔥🔥🔥😂❤️"

**
93. John Laryea
"Starkeisha always delivers, go get 'em gyal!"

**
94. Vitani B Mamba
"Why did I know payPal was about to come outta her mouth after they stopped singing😂😂"

**
95. Imperfect 2 Perfect
"Starrkeisha better push through with these Christmas carols lol"

**
96. Ouch
"Slayed wig in the blue was feeling it🔥"

**
97. kosoul2k14
""No. No.. this is a nice house""

**
REPLY
98. Ronald Nash III, 2019
"kosoul2k14....I need to pay this pneumonia bill..🤣🤣🤣😂😂"

**
REPLY
99. kosoul2k14, 2019
"🤣💀💀💀💀"

**
100. Josiah A. Baker, 2019
"So... ICE ME OUT"

**
REPLY
101. Otidi Ochogi, 2019
"😂😂😂😂💀💀"

**
REPLY
102. Curtis Brown, 2019
"kosoul2k14 Definitely died when I heard that 😂😂"

**
103. Now or Never
"Idk why them other people looked at that girl like she was crazy bc she was right. They have mad money"

**
104. joyyy206
"Who else was singing with them😭💗‼️"

**
105. G_Mama Rules
"I be low key listening to your caroling videos in the car during Christmas time! You did not disappoint!"

**
106. Rainbow Ramen
"WHERE CAN I FIND THIS ON SPOTIFY?!?"

**
107. Brotha Stogie
"Cameron J you know you got to do this every year now!...I literally wait for these!"

**
108. Native American Swag
"He just added every good hit we had this year!🔥😂😂😂"

**
109. Chaxx .X
"Feel free to pop up at my door step uno we can get lit together 😂🔥🔥🔥"

**
110. Aunreyale
"FIREEE🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
111. Daii Daii Arianna
"'ice me out, ahahhahehehe' THAT HAD ME WEAKK😭😭😂 and Starr still asking for money since last year they did it😂😂😭"

**
112. Kuro SWhite
"I knew it was gonna be good but Daaaanggg"

**
113. Valleen
"Come Through"

**
114. Krisha Angela
"I love you so muchhhhhhh, been a fan since 2015 from Canada. I love your vids so much 😍😍"

**
115. Joshua da man The Comedian
"yo u kill that"

**
116. Jayden Maragh
"Yass finally I have been waiting for this banger to drop"

**
117. Iced Tea•
"I love These Songs! And these Dance moves was on Fire🔥fr🖤"

**
118. Bliss Blissful
"🌸🌸🌸Hey !! 🌸🌸🌸 I saw this man on Twitter using your video He changed the faces to Hilary, Auntie Maxine and etc. He needs to pay if hes getting paid off your work."

**
119. Jonna Roanne
"Freaky Friday is literally my favorite song 😭😭"

**
120. Mack Greer
"I waited sooooo long for this yaaaaay and it was fire I live for your Christmas carol videos . Deff a holiday staple, and my 4 year old be jamming harder to this video than any other Christmas music lol keep it up bro you are extremely talented."

**
121. Kim Jisoo
"Am jamming so hard to this right now 👌 lit as hell"

**
122. m m
"People who dislike are haters. Dont @ me cuz they're facts."

**
123. Lia John
"Ayeeeeeeee🎶🔥🎶"

**
124. Cinnamon Logan
"Who at school watching this 😂"

**
125. caroyo caro
"Bravo!!! vraiment très talentueux. Et merci, quel agréable moment."

**
126. Kyris Marie
"Next year they should carol in the hood lol!"

**
127. Cheryl Gaulman
"😱 OMG 😱 LOOKOUT BOYS2MEN!!! 💕💯👍👏 HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ☃️❄️🎄!!! THANKS, AWESOME JOB!!👏👍💕💯🤗"

**
128. dg drummers 758
"Omg that was hot"

**
129. Cristy Sparrow
"I love it.. The mixture of Christmas and Rb music together was amazing.. Keep doing what you are doing❤️❤️🎄🎄🎄🎶🎶🎶"

**
130. D'Andre Newby
"Yessss!!!! You betta mix Cardi with joy to the world"

**
131. This is Marcooos
"This be on my recommendations and I be ignoring it every time and I’m glad I pressed it it’s worth watching 😭😭"

**
132. Richard Salmon
"I'm here for the soulful rendition."

**
133. Bever-Leigh Norwood
"The BEST Christmas SONG(s) out courtesy of @RandomStructureTV!!! #NoCAP #LIT #BARS #ThanksSoMuch #ListeningFromTheMiddleEast #ThisWasDefinitelyNeeded"

**
REPLY
134. Chantay Smith
"Boiiiiii!!😂🤣😂🤣 You the truth!!!!#1fan"

**
135. Madison Somuah
"After they started singing cardio it got lit🔥and the end is hilarious😂"

***
136. Kelly Bedwell
"Cameron...you play boy, but you can SANG SANG! Your voice gives me goosebumps. Thank you for always sharing your gift with us."

**
137. Kizzy Hamilton
"Loving Starrkeisha's ugly Xmas sweater! Once again, awesome video. I ♥ Cameron J!"

**
138. glamazini
"Come on choreography!!! AY!!!"

**
139. Ajaya's Journey
"And it's Freaky Friday i'm in Chris Brown's Body😂😂😂😂😂. You GOT SKILLZ FOR REAL FOR REAL. God Bless You Always"

**
140. Glow Wherever You Go
"When I think you can't do better than the last one you still deliver! True talent!"

**
141. Nicole
"If you caroling at my door, I would’ve slipped you my number. Just saying."

**
142. Mychael Torres
"It’s like he took the Grammy noms straight from the list and plopped them ina remix. And I am HERE FOR IT"

**
143. Beasty Wins
"Of course Starrkeisha would sing Cardi B"

**
REPLY
144. Anthony Bennett
"That was lit"

**
145. Kobe Morris
"This mad fire tho"

**
146. Victoria hollin
"They get even lit every year"

**
147. Tanisha Hall
"He doesn't want any friends...I can't deal"

**
148. Queen Potato
"This just confirms the Christmas season for me. One of the best things to look forward to at Christmas."

****
2019

149. Samye Borushaski
"I’ve waited ALL YEAR for this. 😭 THEY JUST GET BETTER"

**
150. marquez johnson
"yesss girl you killed that cardi b i like it like that."

**
151. Phenomenal Son
"No... No... This Is A Nice House And I Have To Pay This Pneumonia Bill So... Ice Me Out💯💯"

**
152. Troy Spruill
"Yo love it bro once again you killed it thanks"

**
153. Na Love
"I LOVE THIS! LITERALLY MADE MY DAY! JUST PICKED UP A NEW SUBBIE! 💙💙💙💙💙 KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK! YOU ARE SUPER TALENTED! THE VIDEOGRAPHY/CHOREOGRAPHY/SYNCING OFF THE CHAIN! ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE! U FIYNE TOO! 😉😜😍😘"

**
154. Bitterlee
"So many great things about this... but this arrangement is so impressive!"

**
155. I'mBlack&I'mProud X
"Yeasssssss!!! Come on 2018 Christmas/Rap/R&B Carol's!!🤣🤣...milli rockin! Cameron is the GOAT 💯🖤✊🏽"

**
156. Pretty Crissy
"The ending Had me Weak 😭😭😂😂💀💀💀💀 She said "I gotta pay this nemonia bill""

**
157. Holy Cow Yes
"THIS IS ONE HELL OF A GOOD REMIX ! 😍💯 #CREATIVE"

**
158. Margaret Manuel
"That was crazy!!!! Mad love 💖🎄"

**
159. JustPax__
"Is it just me or do they all look alike"

**
160. Apoette 504
"Please stop messin with my head with these comments on this being carolers! LOL! This is just one guy, right? This was at the right time for me, I was not in the holiday spirit. Tickled me, got me misty-eyed and cheered me right up. Loved it!"

**
161. Takia M
"As always so dope! 👌😊😂🎄🎅🏾"

**
162. MrBrandon8505
"Drop that Christmas Mixtape so I can buy it 💪"

**
163. Aja Cheyenne
"Y'all should go to Medea house"

**
164. MikL David
"When they busted out with the i like it like that 😭💀"

**
165. Itsyomanbrenton Miller
"Singggggggggg"

**
166. Mya Taylor
"i literally cried when he started singing Ariana Da Queen + XXXTentacion 😫"

**
167. Briera Hilliard
"We neeed more mashups pleaseee I LOVE ITTTT"

**
168. Melek Ulu
"Whats that song called at 2:00"

**
REPLY
169. Ashley Rossignol
"Melek Sicko mode - Travis Scott"

**
170. Jesse Ball
"I’ve waited all year for this. Never disappoints!"

**
171. Kelly Lowery
"3:03 I was laughing so hard my stomach started to hurt😂😂😂😂😂"

**
172. Corbinz Vlogzz
"LIT ALL THE WAY THRU"

**
173. TheKingMarkus
"from 2:35 through 2:44 is maybe one of the littest parts like apeshhh, sleigh ride together with YOOOoouu, frosty dance movements(mainly heard Starr yaaaaaasssss), floss, and I like it like that!!!!! It was all littyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!"

**
174. Renalgia Burgess
"I wish he come to my house sing to me and my family i like he mix with pop music and Christmas music at the same time"

**
175. The G Sister’s Show
"Littyyyy lit👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🔥"

**
176. Tionne Griffin
"Ayyyyy get it starkiesha"

**
177. Jaquille Douarnynney
"WHERE IS THIS MAN'S RECORD DEAL🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
178. Adriana Rossi
"Oooo when Zeze and Walk it like I talk it came on I was jammin"

**
179. Drippy. Aj
"Okay but the faces the family were making tho"

**
REPLY
180. Jelena Rodriguez
"I’m not sure if the mom is looking at them weird because of the songs or the fact that a bearded lady is singing carols to them 😂"

**
181. Alessa Dolan
"you've been doing this for 3 years, and i all watched it! lol"

**
182. Devon
"Liked All three videos. Keep doing your thing!"

**
183. Jaterria Harris
"You went crazzzzyyyy with this one 💙🤙🤑"

**
184. Natarshia Peck
"love it!!!! would even push this in the car"

**
185. Harriet B
"Did anyone else laugh the hardest at "God's plan" haha"

**
186. Kam Sarju
"The family don't know how to react to some of the songs..hahaha"

**
187. sunny Days
"Lil man was about to cut a rug"

**
188. TaNiya’s World
"Out of all of the ones he did this is the most lit"

**
189. kimchisoo
"OMG THIS IS SOO GOOD AND INNOVATIVE"

**
190. Brittany E.
"Y’all sleeping on chill dude in blue😂 dude got vocals ‼️"

**
191. xLaya
"Omggg this is sooooooo goooddd!! Your voice is beautiful and you really have a good feeling how to remix songs ❤️ this is so good for my ears"

**
192. Lenny Boler
""It's freaky Friday
I'm in Chris Brown body
With no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow..."



Think about that a while."

**
193. Shesha626
"I like how even when singing he makes them all sing differently."

**
194. P. M
"Do more videos with your sisters zoRonda and Mercedes"

**
195. ElijahAaron
"YOOO THE WAY THE PASTOR SAID GODS PLAN THE WAY HE SAID IT WAS HILARIOUS I’m so glad that they added that song that had me dead"

**
196. Jessie K Neequaye
"Starrkeisha is the only woman with a beard I like"

**
197. Cash
"Bruh in the UK they played this on the radio capital xtra I'M IN LUV ❤️❤️❤️"

**
198. LaNetta Alexander
"Love love LOVE me some Starkeshia!!!Happy holidays boo!😘"

**
199. Cali Girl
"I love how they mix the songs together. I've said it a million times...talent"

**
200. Jasmine Lord
"Heard this on the radio today and reminded me to check out this channel again 😂👍"

**
201. Sam
"I can't wait for his Christmas carol part 4. I literally had all 3 parts on repeat today."

**
REPLY
202. Skyler Broussard
"I’m hyped for it too. I’ve been watching all of them the closer it gets to Christmas

**
203. MomMeFun
"Playing this at my next Christmas party.😃"

**
204. babyyy kayyy
"My teacher showed this to me...im shooketh"

**
205. Jenny Juliana
"So.... this year (2019) we gonna have songs such as Old Town Road and Senorita? 😂 I'm here for ittt"

**
206. Zinga Blair
"Now the real question is: Is there gonna be a part 4 this year 👀"

**
207. Bryan E
"Who's here waiting for Part 4 to drop?"

**
208. Bre
"Steady waiting on this year's one 😩"

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about African American Gospel singer and songwriter Dorothy Norwood and showcases three videos of the Gospel song "Victory Is Mine" sung by Dorothy Norwood.

The lyrics to that song are also included in this post along with selected comments from one of these video's discussion threads.

Thanks to Dorothy Norwood for her musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks the publishers of these videos on YouTube and thanks to all those who are featured in these videos.
-snip-
An earlier pancocojams post on Dorothy Norwood and her song "Victory Is Mine" was published in 2014.

****
INFORMATION ABOUT DOROTHY NORWOOD
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Norwood
Dorothy Norwood (born May 29, 1935) is an American gospel singer and songwriter. She began touring with her family at the age of eight, and in 1956, began singing with Mahalia Jackson. In the early 1960s she was a member of The Caravans, and in 1964, she embarked on a solo career, recording her first album, Johnny and Jesus. Her 1991 album Live with the Northern California GMWA Mass Choir reached the Number 1 position on Billboard′s Top FEarly life and work with the Caravans/

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she began singing and touring with her family at the age of eight. In 1956, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, and was soon singing with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. Shortly after, during the early 1960s, Norwood became a member of the gospel group The Caravans, which would include such gospel music legends as the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker, who is also Norwood's role model and confidante. Other members of the Caravans include Shirley Caesar, Inez Andrews, Delores Washington, Cassietta George and the late Rev. James Cleveland.

Solo career
Norwood launched her solo career in 1964 and recorded her first album Johnny and Jesus on Savoy Records. It brought her national attention and was certified Gold. She followed it up with the stirring Denied Mother, which also went Gold, and earned her the title "World's Greatest Storyteller". After the death of Albertina Walker, she is now characterized as the "Mother of Gospel music", while Shirley Caesar is the "Queen of Gospel Music".

In her 50 plus years in the Gospel Music Industry, Norwood has recorded over 50 albums, five of which were certified Gold. She has also received numerous awards and citations, including nine Grammy Award nominations. R.E.A. Robert Estevis Award for the album The Caravans, Paved The Way. As renowned as she is in America, she is just as large in Europe. She has performed in Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England."...

****
LYRICS: VICTORY IS MINE
(written by Dorothy Norwood and Alvin Darling)
(recorded by Dorothy Norwood)

Chorus 1:
Victory is mine,
victory is mine,
victory today is mine.

I told Satan to get thee behind,
victory today is mine.

Verse:
When I rose this morning,
I didn't have no doubt,
I knew that the Lord would bring me out.

I fell on my knees,
said, "Lord help me please"
got up singing and shouting the victory.

Chorus 1

Chorus 2:
Joy is mine,
joy is mine,
I know that joy is mine.

I told Satan to get thee behind,
I know that joy is mine.

Chorus 3:
Happiness is mine,
happiness is mine,
happiness today is mine.

I told Satan to get thee behind,
happiness today is mine.

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

Source: http://allgospellyrics.com/printwin.php?id=11519
-snip-
This song is often sung without the "When I Rose This Morning" verse.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1: Victory Is Mine - Dorothy Norwood



Kadeem Graves Published on Jul 15, 2012

This is from the 1994 video "Feel Like..."
-snip-
Here are a few comments from this discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only.
1. marioparty12345, 2013
"Some people don't even know about that "When I Rose This Morning" part. But my Great Aunt makes sure she sings it everytime she leads this song on the choir. Thank You Jesus ."

**
2. Joseph Vulaca, 2018
"Man thhe good ol school church gospel!"

**
3. 4Cedar Who, 2018
"Every Sunday we watch "The Help" and then we listen to this. I wish church was like this. Would be so much more inspiring.
-snip-
The Help is a 2011 award winning American movie. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)for information about that movie.

**
REPLY
4. Angel 1973, 2019
"Amen in a small country church it's still like this! Hallelujah praise His Holy Name!"

**
5. alan smlth, 2019
"I`m telling Satan,Victory is mine . Joy ,Peace ,Happiness, Victory and praise. So get out of those dead Churches that are as dead as the chicken,as weak as the tea and as cold as the ice cream."

****
Video #2: Dorothy Norwood - Victory Is Mine



malacomg, May 12, 2014

****
Video #3: Dorothy Norwood - Victory Is Mine



malacomg, May 23, 2014

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a compilation of comments from the YouTube discussion thread for the YouTube video Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols (2019).

Information about the fictitious character Starrkeisha and three Starrkiesha's Christmas Carols videos are embedded in the pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" Videos 2016, 2016, & 2018 (with information about Cameron J. Henderson's Starrkeisha character)"https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-videos.html

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Cameron J, the developer of the "Starrkeisha" character, the producer of Starrkeisha videos, and the principal performers in those videos. Thanks also to others who are associated with Random Structure TV and the Starrkeisha videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
-snip-
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2016.html for the pancocojam post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2016 (Video & Selected Comments)".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2017_15.html for the link to the pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2017 (Video & Selected Comments)."

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/starrkeishas-christmas-carols-2018.html for the pancocojams post entitled "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols, 2018 (Video & Selected Comments)".

And click the Starrkeisha tag below for more pancocojams posts about this fictitious character.

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO: Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols! (PART 4: The Last House) 😂🎄🔥 | Random Structure TV



Random Structure TV, Premiered Dec 16, 2019

-snip-
Statistics (as of December 19, 2019 at 5:48 PM
total # of views - 62,959
total # of likes - 8.9k
total # of dislikes - 26
total # of comments - 619
-snip-
I read A LOT of the comments in this discussion thread. I believe these selected comments are probably representative of that entire discussion thread.
-snip-
Here's my unofficial summary of the 2019 "Starrkeisha's Christmas Carols" video:
These videos feature Black Americans Starrkeisha and her crew caroling at what they describe as their "last house" which happens to be a house where a Black couple lives. The carolers sing some standard Christmas carols that are smoothly blended with Hip Hop/R&B songs which were popular that year and the Black couple's positive reactions to these blended songs are a definite contrast to the reactions of the White families who were featured in previous videos.

****
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to compiling example comments about the Starrkeisha character and these videos, I'm particularly interested in documenting commenters' use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). erved."
-snip-
I also have only included a few of the numerous comments from this video's discussion thread which praise Cameron J. Henderson, who developed the Starrkeisha and other featured characters and performs those characters in these videos.

These comments are given in chronological order, and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD

All of these comments are from December 16-19, 2019

1. blacqueen 87
"Who else be waiting for these at Christmas time?!😂 Straight jamming!🔥Merry Christmas!!!🌲🎄🎁

**
REPLY
2. LaKeisha Darden
"Me !!!!😍😅🤚🏾"

**
REPLY
3. M Wells
"blacqueen 87 waiting like a kid, waiting on Santa! 🤣"

**
4. Supreme Saiyan
"They went to the right house this time"

**
REPLY
5. Ruby - San
"IKR 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏"

**
REPLY
6. Crystal Doggo
"they’ve been walking for 4 years lol they finally got the right house"

**
7. Darien Mitchell
"Yoooo, no lie? When the video was about to start I was saying in my head... they better be black and boom. They were. LOL. This mashup was litty. Keep it up Cameron!"

**
8. C McPat
"I love this!!! I knew once we got to the black people’s home, that there would be a different response!!!"

**
9. Harry Potter Lover
"She finally got her money😂"

**
REPLY
10. Keshia Amiena
"Rightttt"

**
REPLY
11. Charlee'B
"Exactly! Peep tho it came from the black family."

**
12. Serenity Gavin
"I like how the people getting lit with them🔥😂"

**
13. Chiemeri
"Omg he jammin with these remixes 😍😍😍😍 and I love the people dancing 😂😂😂😂"

**
14. Zanay Dewberry
"Its funny how black people be just like this, they dance to anything"

**
REPLY
15. Crystal Doggo
"it’s all in the culture 😜"

**
16. sir_HIGHLIGHT
"I really hope this ain't the LAST HOUSE cuz I look forward to these every year"

**
17. ChelC Who?!
"been here since p-e- to the-t-t-y and I'm still lovin the content
Edit: Idk bout’ you guys but Ima boutta watch all the other ones in sequence"

**
REPLY
18. BonnieMonroe
"I just did that before watching this one 😂"

**
REPLY
19. Keshia Amiena
"Yesss me too😍😍😁❤"

**
20. Mike08651
"That motivation came in HARD‼️
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love this 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏"

**
21. Geniene Turner
"Y'all DID THAT!!!! Best year 😍😍😍!!!! #Periodt"

**
22. im18yay
"Starrkeisha’s Christmas Carols is one of my favorite parts of Christmas! 🎄😃"

**
23. JazmiNia B
"I love how Lit 🔥they are at the last house 🏠 when they’re like Ayyyy!!!! Hahahah man I love this!! His voice is too Beautiful 😍😍😍😍 I hate this is the last one 😟"

**
24. Brian Sherrod
"This gives me life. I live for these carolers. Where y’all at in my neighborhood!"

**
25. CC 'S WORLD
"The beat was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #fire"

**
26. Soclassc
"Maaaaaan this was Supa Lit & they were gettin it! 👏👍👌👏👍👌"

**
27. Raichris6
"That waaaasssssss liiittttt!!!!! 😍 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 aaaaaaayyyyyyyyy! 💃🏾🕺🏾"

**
28. Myrah's Life
"Absolutely love your videos❤❤ , you can come carol at my house 😂"

**
29. TheJerseyboy15
"Before they even open their mouths to sing

My mother: “Y’all can either come inside and sing or keep it moving. It’s cold outside and y’all got me letting all my heat out and I know y’all ain’t finna donate to my light bill cause.” "

**
30. Chel
"Is the last one because she finally got that donation after 4 years lmfao"

**
31. Mike08651
"Splitting?! You didn’t want donation, remember?!
🗣AMEN STAR‼️
😂😂😂"

**
32. Irene Robinson
"StarrKeisha is a mess."

**
33. Katakin Goth
"Seen all four, great, followed "Starrkeisha's" Christmas Carols and have enjoyed and shared them with family and friends. Need a record deal or a TV show or something. <3"

**
34. chantitown chantastic83
"Omg you've blown it out the water again love it!! Love it!! Love it!! Every Christmas now i wait to hear your new Christmas mix. They just keep getting better and better please come to the UK would definitely love to watch you in concert 💖😘 nuff love from across the big pond have a merry Christmas and a happy New year x x 🎅🏿🎉💯😘"

**
35. Sunshine Smith
"Last like this year last or like forever ever? 🤔 inquiring minds wanna know"

**
36. Kj Jackson
"Watching this every year is a tradition for me 💯😂"

**
37. Leon Brown
"Aye had me up in the house turnt 😂"

**
38. Teee Frenney
"Yep this is my favorite so talented that ending was everything lol"

**
39. Sasha Bell
"I would've gave yall money too"

**
40. Aziza Alexander
"I love your talents from babymomma to the get ready news and everthing in between HAPPY HOLIDAYS Cameron and thank you for showing us how amazing you truly are😘🎅🎁🎄"

**
41. Kerrie Barnes
"Yassss....come thru Cam!!!😍"

**
42. Elijah Roe
"Cough cough, and we are accepting donations for my medical bills😂😂😂"

**
43. Stella Mary
"Yes starkeisha! Get that money honey! Merry Christmas 🌲🥰"

**
44. Kadar Dew
"Noooooo. Pls don’t let this be the last one !!!!!!!!!!!"

**
45. Skyler Broussard
"This is the first they’ve done it at a black house. All the jokes about how hype a black family’s reaction would be are now proven"

**
46. east oakland
"Bruh got talent, that was dope."

**
47. Sangawaka Khuoge
"This was littt🔥🔥especially with the black family👊🏾 They be vibing tho"

**
48. Candice Ellis
"Did it again!!! Outstanding!!! The harmony and vocals were on point!!! Damn Cameron is awesome!!!!"

**
49. Mykaela
"I just went back and rewatched all the old ones and wow how music changes 🤯"

**
50. Erin Gezwind
"It aint Christmas without a Starrkeisha mashup yaaaas🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
51. Tomorrow Mims
"I look forward to this every year! Killed it again!"

**
52. Ya Haddy Ndow
"The couple are soo lit😩🔥🔥🔥"

**
53. Emmanuel Nyamekye
"Lol she finally got something for her Pneumonia"

**
54. Thatkiddking
"Lets see them knees starkeisha"

**
55. Princes Tms
"Make more please!!!!!!!"

**
56. Florida Peach
"I love to hear them sang!!! ❤️"

**
57. Rickeylc
"You go harder every year!"

**
58. Makeup by Tania Tanesha
"Loooooveeee this♥️♥️♥️"

**
59. Blandine DOLON
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!"

**
60. Rashidah Richardson
"Thank you Cameron for all you do. Your awesome."

**
61. BlessedIam
"💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾Man if only Carol singers were like this... Man I love Cameron.. He is so creative"

**
62. Ajaya's Journey
"That was EVERYTHING!!!!!!
#HappyHolidays #EverySongWasFire"

**
63. MelaninBarrGoodness
"Ayeee🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
64. Bever-Leigh Norwood
"Best Holiday CHEER to SPREAD @StarrKeisha🎄🎋🎁🎎🧨🧧🥁"

**
65. Alissa Harvy
"For those who gave a thumbs down😒your a mean one mr. grinch. hope your heart grow this Christmas"

**
66. Kyle Corbin Music
"The last house??🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺"

**
67. NYC Marion
"MASH UP WAS FIRE"

**
68. Ellen Sanyang
"Hats off y'all am officially in the Christmas mood now... The last part tho😂😂😂😂😂😂"

**
69. Carla Collins
"You need to put all these on CD so I can buy it"

**
70. Thatkiddking
"Sing it sista starkeisha"

**
71. Linda Samba
"Wait so theres no more Christmas Carol's after this????😱😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭😭"

**
72. itsmr.talented
"LITTY CITY‼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
73. T. Jones
"Yaaassssss. Come thru..AGAIN!!!😍😍😍😍😍"

**
74. BUTLERU
"Straight jamming!!!!🔥🔥🔥"

**
75. QueenLadyT
"Finally!! I've been waiting for this !!!! I have everybody at my job waiting to listen to your Xmas mash up ! I'm so blasting this through the restaurant speakers before we open!!!!!!!"

**
76. ineccie miles
"This was The Bomb 🔥"

**
77. G'mon Lovesong
"This was the best one yet y'all. I like the way the couple was feeling it and bouncin' wit'cha mon. Das dat Feel Good right there now mon!!!!! BIG UPS!!!!!"

**
78. Patrice Brittingham
"This was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I was at my desk rockin...."

**
79. Lizzy Jackson
"He keeps topping the last year. Under appreciated talent"

**
80. Ashtyn Green
"Once again they killed that."

**
81. Yohanan Oloke
"Why He say last house?? What’s up? We ain’t done yet bro. More houses please"

**
82. MIC
"THIS WENT SOOO HARRDD!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
83. Mary Evans
"Where can I buy this smash up fam!?! I need to blast this in the whip!💯"

**
84. skorpia g
"I dedicate to all those WHO GOTTA WORK ON CHRISTMAS 💪 🎄 and cant be with their families🎁bless ya'll ps. 2:36part is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌"

**
85. Keshia Amiena
"I like how these peeps be feeling the vibe😍❤"

**
86. Excenia
"All I could yell was aye aye aye ayeeeeeee!!!!!"

**
87. Tracey J
"You are extremely talented and I was straight jamming 💕"

**
88. I love the rap game
"This was lit!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

**
89. Marchello Randle
"This was a jam! You did that!"

**
90. Darice Smith
"Dang why the last house !!! This is fire"

**
91. Okeo Parks
"That last line, "We ain't splittin nuthin" made me bust out laughing in the public bus 😂"

**
92. Omi Womiii
"Yesss!!! It’s not Christmas without a Starrkiesha Christmas Carol ❤️👏🏽"

**
93. TAY STINSON
"If they come to my door I'm calling everybody over."

**
94. A'Mya Moore
"These mashups get BETTER and BETTER every year !! Absolutely astounding!! Putting me in the Christmas spirit."

**
95. Kadar Dew
"Pls !!!!!! Nooo!!!

Like if u want more. Pls"

**
96. Lady Tarianna
"I bet he took some time on this like... Woooooow"

**
97. CSJ Chicago
"I didn’t want it to end!!"

**
98. Ryan Asrul
"Merry Christmas, Cameron and Starkeisha! 🎄"

**
99. M Wells
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! This gets me in the spirit every year! Merry Christmas guys! ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️"

**
100. Alkaline Mom
"Happy Holidays Everyone!"

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Compiled by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides information about the meaning of the blog name "pancocojams" and provides statistical information about this blog.

Publishing these links in one post makes it easier for me- and hopefully you - to enjoy these posts again, and also provides an opportunity for you to check out some posts that you might have missed.

****
EXPLANATION OF THE BLOG NAME "PANCOCOJAMS":
"Pancocojams" is an expansion of the title that I coined* for my previous (now inactive) cultural website- "cocojams".

When I coined the word "pancocojams", I gave it the meaning "Black cultures around the world".
"pan" = worldwide
"coco" = chocolate (= Black people)
"jams" = music (expanded meaning - "cultures")

*My "cocojams" cultural blog was launched in 2001 and voluntarily deactivated in 2014. It wasn't until some years after I "coined" the word "cocojams" that I found out that it was a previously existing word.

****
PANCOCOJAMS BLOG OVERALL STATISTICS
A total of 3,354 posts (including this post) have been published on pancocojams since I launched this blog on August 29, 2011.

Total number of blog posts in 2019 [as of December 21, 2019, including this post] - 345

Total number of page views from August 20, 2011 to December 21, 2019 at 12:15 PM EST (not including my page views) - 8,047,289

***
TOP TEN PANCOCOJAMS VIEWER NATIONS WORLDWIDE (based on viewing statistics from August 29, 2011 to December 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM EST)

1. United States - 4,810,912

2. United Kingdom - 420,999

3. Canada - 223,477

4. Russia- 207,927

5. France- 197,735

6. Germany- 113,798

7. Kenya- 92,136

8. Australia- 84,744

9. Nigeria- 64,720

10. South Africa- 60,106

****
TWENTY-FIVE MOST POPULAR PANCOCOJAMS POSTS WITH LINKS (based on page views from August 29, 2011 to December 26, 2019 at 10:00 AM EST)

1. What "Hit The Quan" REALLY Means

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-hit-quan-really-means.html

published: Aug 1, 2015; page views -303,234

**
2. The Origins And Meanings Of "Shante You Stay"&"Sashay Away

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-origins-and-meanings-of-shante-you.html

published Apr 8, 2014; page views - 234,886

**
3. List Of Most Common Black Jamaican Last Names

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/07/list-of-most-common-black-jamaican-last.html

published Jul 6, 2016; page views - 70,687

****
4. How "Bye Felicia" Became A Popular Catchphrase

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-bye-felicia-became-popular.html

published May 16, 2014; page views- 70,150.

**
5. 50 Most Common African American Surnames (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1992-2001)

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/50-most-common-african-american.html

published May 24, 2015; page views - 64,586

**
6. The Right Rhyming Pattern For Shabooya Roll Call Verses*

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-right-rhyming-pattern-for-shabooya.html

published: Jan 30, 2012; page views - 58,741
-snip-
*a second copy of this post with the same content published 6/6/2016 - page views - 14,985

**
7. Children's Parodies Of "I Believe I Can Fly" (text & video examples)

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/childrens-parodies-of-i-believe-i-can_2.html

published October 2, 2013; page views - 56,568

**
8. Stomp & Shake Cheerleading - Who Cheers The Best?

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/stomp-shake-cheerleading-who-cheers.html

published January 23, 2012; page views - 45,437

**
9. Stand Battles & The Changing Meaning Of "Majorettes" In African American Culture

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/stand-battles-changing-meaning-of.html

published Apr 11, 2014; page views- 45,326

**
10. The REAL Meanings Of The Phrase "Be Owt"

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-real-meanings-of-phrase-be-owt.html

published April 22, 2013; page vies - 44, 950

**
11. What "Ah Sookie Sookie Now" Means

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-ah-sookie-sookie-now-means.html

published May 14, 2013; page views - 42,729

**
12. Lyrics & Meanings Of The Ghanaian Song "Sansa Kroma"

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/lyrics-meanings-of-ghanaian-song-sansa.html

published on March 30, 2012; page views - 40,874

**
13. What "John Crow" Means In Jamaica

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-crow-part-i-what-john-crow-means.html

published on September 20, 2012; page views - 40,309

**
14. Concentration 64 Handclap Game

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/concentration-64-handclap-game.html

published November 13, 2011; page views - 39,603

**
15. Che Che Kule - Origin, Lyrics, & Videos

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/che-che-kule-origin-lyrics-videos.html

published March 12, 2012; page views - 34,301

**
16. “Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone” - Why Military Cadences Are Known As Jodies

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/jodys-got-your-girl-and-gone-why.html

published March 23, 2012; page views - 31,651

**
17. What Do "Juju On That Beat" And "TZ Anthem" Mean?

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-does-juju-on-that-beat-and-tm.html

published Oct 25, 2016; page views - 30,747

**
18. “Rock Steady” Military Cadences (with sound files & lyrics)

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/rock-steady-military-cadences-with.html

published May 20, 2013; page views - 30,652

**
19. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. "This Is A Serious Matter" (Text Examples & Videos)

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/alpha-kappa-alpha-sorority-inc-this-is.html

published August 10, 2012; page views - 30454

**
20. What Kiss Teeth (Suck Teeth) Means

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-kiss-teeth-suck-teeth-means.html

published September 4, 2011; page views - 28,902

**
21. "3 6 9 The Goose Drank Wine" - The Clapping Rhyme (Lyrics, & Video Examples)

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-6-9-goose-drank-wine-clapping-song.html

published August 9, 2012; page views - 28, 577

**
22. "ABC It's Easy As 1, 2, 3" Playground Rhymes & Their R&B Record Source

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/abc-its-easy-as-1-2-3-playground-rhyme.html

published June 13, 2013; page views 28,559

**
23. The REAL Author of The Poem "Hey Black Child"

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/useni-eugene-perkins-hey-black-child.html

published: Oct 19, 2015; page views 28,173

**
24. "Thank You Lord" ("I Just Want To Thank You Lord") Examples & Lyrics

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/i-just-want-to-thank-you-lord-video.html

published November 20, 2012; page views - 26,607

**
25. “Chicken In The Car And The Car Can't Go” Rhyme

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicken-in-car-and-car-cant-go-rhyme.html

published January 22, 2012; page views - 26, 081

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part IV of a compilation of all of the posts that have been published on this pancocojams blog about children's playground rhymes & singing games.

A total of 29 posts in this category were published on pancocojams during that period.

These lists have been prepared for archiving purposes and to raise public awareness about these posts.

Visitor comments and additions to these posts' discussion threads are still welcome.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to these posts.

****
Archived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts on Children's Rhymes and Singing Games:

Numbers are assigned to posts within their publishing year for referencing purposes only.]

1. https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/12/lists-of-pancocojams-posts-about_29.html
Lists Of Pancocojams Posts About Children's Playground Rhymes & Singing Games (Part I- 2011 through 2013)

**
2. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/12/lists-of-pancocojams-posts-about_93.htmlArchived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts About Children's Playground Rhymes & Singing Games (Part II - 2014 through 2016)

**
http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/12/lists-of-pancocojams-posts-about_30.html Archived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts About Children's Playground Rhymes & Singing Games (Part III-2017 through 2018)

****
Most of these posts focus on playground rhymes and singing games that are (or were) performed by African American or other Black children or teens. In addition, these posts include English language rhymes and singing games from the United States that aren't of African American origin or weren't adapted by African Americans.

These posts also include English language rhymes/singing games from outside of the United States (particularly from the United Kingdom and some Caribbean nations). In addition, a few of these posts focus on non-English (language) children's rhymes and singing games.

These lists don't include pancocojams posts about children's (including teens) foot stomping cheers***. A separate archive list will be published for those posts.

These lists also don't include posts about children's (including teens') stomp & shake cheerleading cheers. Those posts will be included in upcoming archived lists of pancocojams posts about that form of cheerleading.

The posts that are included in these lists are only found on one pancocojams list although some of them could have (also) been added to this blog's upcoming lists on folk songs, or lists of word meanings, or lists of cultural commentary, etc.
-snip-
For the purpose of these lists, "playground rhymes" include hand clap rhymes, jump rope rhymes, counting out rhymes etc. For the purpose of these lists, "singing games" include ring games (circle games) and line games that are performed with a song; children's parodies, play-party songs, and camp songs.

To give you a sense of what I mean by "foot stomping cheers", I believe that "Shabooya Roll Call" (which was popularized by the 2006 cheerleader movie Bring It On: All Or Nothing) is an (adapted) example of a foot stomping cheer.

****
LIST OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ON CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND RHYMES AND GAME SONGS (2019)
[The URL for each of these posts are given along with their titles and dates. However, these web addresses won't work as a hyperlink on this blog.

Numbers are assigned to posts within their publishing year for referencing purposes only.]

1. A Textual Analysis Of Three Examples Of "Miss Sue From Alabama" from 1965, 1976, and 1978
January 19, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-textual-diversity-of-miss-sue-from.html

**
2. A Small List Of Verses From Stand Alone Rhymes That Are Found In "Miss Sue From Alabama" Rhymes
January 19, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-textual-word-diversity-of-miss-sue_19.html

**
3. Examples Of "Wipe Those Cooties Off Of Me" And/Or "Take A Smooth Shot" Lines That Are Found In "Miss Sue From Alabama" Rhymes
January 19, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-textual-word-diversity-of-miss-sue_90.html

**
4. Examples Of "See That House Up On That Hill" Verses In Various Children's Playground Rhymes
January 29, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/01/examples-of-see-that-house-up-on-that.html

**
5. Examples Of The Lines "Step Back Jack, Your Hands Are Too Black" In African American Playground Rhymes
February 1, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/02/examples-of-lines-step-back-jack-your.html

**
6. An Adapted Version Of The Children's Singing Game "Gigalo" That Promotes Children Reading
February 13, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/02/an-adapted-version-of-childrens-singing.html

**
7. Some Early Examples Of The Children's Rhyme "Once Upon A Time The Goose Drank Wine" (Update: Feb. 2019)
;https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/02/some-early-examples-of-childrens-rhyme.html

**
8. Funky Nassau (Lyrics, Videos, Information, & Comments)
April 3, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/funky-nassau-lyrics-videos-information.html

**
9. "Hey Alafia!" - A Children's Action Song Adaptation Of The United States Military Cadences "Here We Go Again"& All You Knuckleheads"
April 29, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/two-childrens-action-song-adaptations.html

**
10. Examples Of The Hand Clap & Hand Slap Game "Bo Bo Ski Watten Totten"
May 17, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/05/examples-of-hand-clap-hand-slap-game-

**
11. Three YouTube Videos Of Children Performing The Singing Game "Skip To My Lou"
May 25, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/05/late-19th-century-early-20th-century.html

**
12. Information About The Traditional Ghanaian Children's Game Called "Ampe"
June 25, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/06/information-about-traditional-ghanaian.html

**
13. Seven Videos Of The Ghanaian Children's Game "Ampe"
Tuesday, June 25, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/06/seven-videos-of-ghanaian-childrens-game.html

**
14. Information About & Videos Of The Hand Game "Slide" ("Slide Slide Slippery Slide")
July 2, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/07/information-about-videos-of-hand-game.html

**
15. Children's Rhymes That Mention People With A Bald Head Or People With Nappy Hair
July 13, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/07/childrens-rhymes-that-mention-people.html

**
16. Is The Caribbean Game Song "Brown Girl In The Ring" Racist? (information, videos, comments, & lyrics)
July 25, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/07/is-caribbean-game-song-brown-girl-in.html

**
17. African American Versions Of The English Children's Singing Game "Two Dukes A Riding"
August 2, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/african-american-versions-of-english.html

**
18. Five Examples Of "Two Dukes A-Riding" (Children's Singing Game)
August 3, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/five-examples-of-two-dukes-riding.html

**
19. Two Examples Of The African American Children's Singing Game "Johnny Cuckoo" (By Bessie Jones & By Joan Baez)
August 5, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/two-examples-of-african-american_5.html

**
19. An Example Of The Singing Game "Johnny Cuckoo" As Sung By Janie Hunter
August 6, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-example-of-singing-game-johnny.html

**
20. Video & Lyrics For A "Hello" Children's Song And The Words & Instructions For "Green Color Up", A Contemporary Color Recognition Game
August 22, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/video-lyrics-for-hello-childrens-song.html

**
21. Some Changes In The Rhyme "I'm A Pretty Little First Grader" From Their Rhyme Source "I Am A Pretty Little Dutch Girl"
August 22, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/some-changes-in-rhyme-im-little-first_22.html

**
22. Examples Of "D.I.S.H Choice" (And Other Examples Of "D.I.S.H." Double Dutch Rhymes)
September 29, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/09/examples-of-dish-choice-and-other.html

**
23. "All Hid" (An African American Children's Rhyme Chanted During The "Hide & Go Seek" Game)
October 2, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/10/all-hid-african-american-childrens.html

**
24. "When Billy Boy Was One"&"Poor Pinocchio" (Hand Clap Rhymes Text Examples & Videos)
October 18, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/10/when-billy-boy-was-one-poor-pinocchio.html

**
25. Information About & Some Examples Of The Hand Clap Rhymes "Coca Cola Went To Town"
November 10, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/11/information-about-some-examples-of-hand.html

**
26. Information About & Examples Of The Hand Clap Rhyme "Michael Jackson Went To Town"
November 11, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/11/information-about-examples-of-hand-clap.html

**
27. Michael Jackson In Children's Rhymes: "I Don't Want To Go To Hollywood No More More More"
November 12, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/11/michael-jackson-in-childrens-rhymes-i.html

**
28. How The Racist Rhyme "Ching Chang Chinaman" Evolved To Certain Contemporary Non Racist Children Rhymes (Part I - History, Early Examples, & Comments)
December 13, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/how-racist-rhyme-ching-chang-chinaman.html

**
29. Contemporary Examples of "Shimmy Shimmy China", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"& Other Non-Racist Children's Rhymes That Have Part Of Their Source In The "Ching Chang Chinaman" Rhyme
December 13, 2019; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/contemporary-examples-of-shimmy-shimmy_13.html

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a compilation of all of the posts about African American religious music and/or church traditions that have been published on this pancocojams blog from 2011 through 2012.

A total of 80 posts in this category were published on pancocojams during that period of time.

These lists have been prepared for archiving purposes and to raise public awareness about these posts.

Visitor comments and additions to these posts' discussion threads are still welcome.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to these posts.

****
LIST OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC AND/OR CHURCH TRADITIONS (2011-2013)
The URL for each of these posts is given along with the post's title and publishing date. However, these web addresses won't work as a hyperlink on this blog.

Numbers are assigned to posts within their publishing year for referencing purposes only.

2011
1. Soulful Black Churches (Dr Watts songs sung in African American churches)
August 29, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/08/soulful-black-churches.html

**
2. House of Prayer Shout Bands
September 26, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/09/house-of-prayer-shout-bands.html

**
3. Black Gospel Mime Featuring K&K Mime
October 16, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/black-gospel-mime-featuring-k-mime.html

**
4. Marching For Jesus - Black Church Processions Part I
November 6, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/marching-for-jesus-black-church.html

**
5. Marching For Jesus - Black Church Processions Part II
November 6, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/marching-for-jesus-black-church_84.html

**
6. Marching For Jesus (Church Ushers & Nurses) Black Church Processions Part III
November 6, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/marching-for-jesus-church-ushers-nurses.html

**
7. Marching For Jesus - Black Church Processions Part IV (African Choirs)
November 6, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/marching-for-jesus-black-church_6.html

**
8. Should Women Wear Pants In Church?
November 30, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/11/should-women-wear-pants-in-church.html

**
0. Three Versions Of The Gospel Song "I'm A Pilgrim" - Lyrics & Comments
December 14, 2011; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/12/three-versions-of-gospel-song-im.html

****
2012

1. Telephone Central Songs From Gospel & Blues Traditions
January 1, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/telephone-central-songs-from-gospel.html

**
2. More Shout Band Videos
January 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-shout-band-videos.html

**
3. The Kumbaya Song Around The World
January 21, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-kumbaya-song-around-world.html

**
4. The Jubailaire's Noah - 1940s Gospel Rap
January 25, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-jubailaires-noah-1940s-gospel-rap.html

**
5. Four Iconic Performances Of "Down By The Riverside" ("Ain't Gonna Study War No More")
January 29, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/down-by-riverside-song-four-iconic.html

**
6. Jubilee Quartet Videos -"God Told Nicodemus"&"Noah"
January 30, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/jubilee-quartet-videos-god-told.html

**
7. Vintage Gospel - God Specializes (Have You Any Rivers)
February 4, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/vintage-gospel-god-specializes-have-you.html

**
8. Vintage Gospel Songs By Albertina Walker & The Caravans
February 18, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/vintage-gospel-songs-by-albertina.html

**
9. Seven Of My Favorite African American Gospel Choir Videos
February 26, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/seven-of-my-favorite-african-american.html

**
10. Three Renditions Of The Spiritual "Elijah Rock"
March 18, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-renditions-of-spiritual-elijah.html

**
11. Five Old School Black Gospel Songs By The Hawkins Family
March 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/gospel-by-walter-hawkins-edwin-hawkins.html

**
12. Gospel Videos Of Rev. James Cleveland
March 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/03/gospel-by-rev-james-cleveland.html

**
13. "Jesus Dropped The Charges"& Two Other Gospel Songs by The O'Neil Twins
April 17, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/jesus-dropped-charges-other-gospel.html

**
14. "It's A Highway To Heaven" (videos and lyrics)
April 17, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/videos-of-gospel-song-its-high-way-to.html

**
15. Black Churches Sing Old Dr. Watts Hymns
April 26, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/black-churches-sings-old-dr-watts-hymns.html

**
16. Black Church Praise Break Videos, Part I
May 5, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-church-praise-break-videos.html

**
17. Black Church Praise Break Videos, Part II
May 5, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/black-church-praise-break-videos-part.html

**
18. Old Time Hand Clapping & Foot Stomping In African American Religious Singing
, May 8, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/05/old-time-handclapping-foot-stomping-in.html

**
19. Videos Of "Keep Your Hand On The Plow (Hold On)"
June 1, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/videos-of-keep-your-hand-on-plow-hold-on.html

**
20. "Hold On Just A Little While Longer" (Spiritual)
June 1, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/videos-of-hold-on-just-little-while.html

**
21. Videos Of The Gospel Song "Hold On Old Soldier"
June 1, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/videos-of-hold-on-old-soldier.html

**
22. Various Gospel Songs With The Phrase "Hold On" (Part IV)
June 1, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/various-gospel-songs-with-phrase-hold.html

**
23. Biblical References In African American Religious Songs (Part I - Old Testament)
June 7, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/biblical-references-in-african-american.html

**
24. Biblical References In African American Religious Songs (Part I - Old Testament)
June 7, 2012; http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/biblical-references-in-african-american_07.html

**
25. "O Magnify The Lord" - Black Church Procession (Video & Lyrics)
June 9, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/o-magnify-lord-church-procession-video.html

**
26. The Sources, Artistry, And Purposes Of Black Church Processions
June 10, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/the-sources-artistry-and-purposes-of.html

**
27. Rev. Timothy Flemming - Jesus Is On The Mainline (Sound file, , Lyrics, & Introduction Transcription)
June 11, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/rev-timothy-flemming-jesus-is-on.html

**
28. "Daniel In The Lion's Den" Song (Sound Files & Lyrics)
June 24, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/06/daniel-in-lions-den-song-sound-files.html

**
29. Standard African American Funeral Songs, Part I
July 8, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/standard-african-american-funeral-songs_2737.html

**
30. Standard African American Funeral Songs, Part II
July 8, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/standard-african-american-funeral-songs.html

**
31. Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah) Ring Shout
July 8, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/good-lord-run-old-jeremiah-ring-shout.html

**
32. I Am On The Battlefield For My Lord (African American Gospel Song Videos & Lyrics)
July 29, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-am-on-battlefield-for-my-lord-videos.html

**
33. "Throw Me Anywhere, Lord" Song & The Buzzard Lope Dance
July 31, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/throw-me-anywhere-lord-buzzard-lope.html

**
34. "Kneebone Bend" song (Lyrics & Videos)
July 31, 2012https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/kneebone-bend-song-lyrics-videos.html

**
35. African American Song "Dem Dry Bones "(Lyrics & Video)
August 14, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/dry-bones-lyrics-video.html

**
36. Staple Singers - "Sit Down Servant" (Sound File, Lyrics, & Song Meaning)
August 18, 2012 https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/staple-singers-sit-down-servant-sound.html

**
37. Rev. James Cleveland - "Plenty Good Room" (Sound File & Lyrics)
August 18, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/rev-james-cleveland-plenty-good-room.html

**
38. Rev. Timothy Wright - "Who's On The Lord's Side?" (Sound File, Video, & Lyrics)
August 21, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/rev-timothy-wright-whos-on-lords-side.html

**
39. You Can't Beat God's Giving (Videos & Lyrics)
August 23, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/you-cant-beat-gods-giving-videos-lyrics.html

**
40. Handclapping In African American Churches, Part I
August 26, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/handclapping-in-african-american.html

**
41. Handclapping In African American Churches, Part II (Videos)
August 26, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/08/handclapping-in-african-american_26.html

**
42. Seven Sound Files Of The Soul Stirrers (Gospel group, featuring Sam Cooke)
September 3, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/09/seven-sound-files-of-soul-stirrers.html

**
43. Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More (Comments, Lyrics, & Videos)
September 9, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/09/aint-gonna-grieve-my-lord-no-more.html

**
44. Myrna Summers - I'm Determined (Sound File & Lyrics)
September 25, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/09/myrna-summers-im-determined-sound-file.html

**
45. African American Versions Of The Religious Song "Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior"
November 2, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/versions-of-religious-song-pass-me-not.html

**
46. King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away (Videos & Lyrics)
November 14, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/king-jesus-will-roll-all-burdens-away.html

**
47. Lead Me. Guide Me (Sound File, Videos & Lyrics)
November 14, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/lead-me-guide-me-sound-file-videos.html

**
48. Three Gospel Versions of "Jesus Lover Of My Soul"
November 19, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/three-gospel-versions-of-jesus-lover-of.html

**
49. Thank You Jesus (For My Journey) - Videos & Lyrics
November 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/thank-you-jesus-for-my-journey-videos.html

**
50. Marie Knight - I Thank You Jesus (Sure 'Nough I Do)
November 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/marie-knight-i-thank-you-jesus-sure.html

**
51. "Thank You Lord" ("I Just Want To Thank You Lord") Examples & Lyrics
November 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/i-just-want-to-thank-you-lord-video.html

**
52. Walter Hawkins Singers, Kim Burrell - "Thank You Lord For All You've Done For Me"
November 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/walter-hawkins-singers-kim-burrell.html

**
53. More Gospel Songs Of Thanks: Kim McFarland & Mississippi Mass Choir
November 22, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-gospel-songs-of-thanks-kim.html

**
54. More Gospel Songs Of Thanks: Richard Smallwood & Vision
November 22, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-gospel-songs-of-thanks-richard.html

**
55. Cosmo Warriors - Thank You Jesus (For My Blessings)
November 22, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cosmo-warriors-thank-you-jesus-for-my.html

**
56. Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus (Black talk in Gospel song & comments)
November 30, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/cant-nobody-do-me-like-jesus-black-talk.html

**
57. Andrae Crouch - Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus (from the Jeffersons TV Show)
November 30, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/11/andrae-crouch-cant-nobody-do-me-like.html

**
58. Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied (with Lyrics)
December 6, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/blind-willie-johnson-praise-god-im.html

**
50. Rev. Oris Mays - I Thank God I'm Satisfied (with lyrics)
December 6, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/rev-oris-mays-i-thank-god-im-satisfied.html

**
60. Willie Neal Johnson & The New Gospel Keynotes - With God I'm Satisfied (lyrics)
December 6, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/willie-neal-johnson-new-gospel-keynotes.html

**
61. "Weeping May Endure For a Night, But Joy Comes in the Morning" (Lyrics)
December 8, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/weeping-may-endure-for-night-but-joy.html

**
62. Sister Gertrude Morgan - He Wrote The Revelation & If You Live Like Jesus Told You (Lyrics)
December 10, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/sister-gertrude-morgan-he-wrote.html

**
63. Two Examples Of "Run On For A Long Time" (lyrics, comments)
December 13, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/two-examples-of-run-on-for-long-time.html

**
64. Langston Hughes' Play "Black Nativity" - History & Contemporary Performance Reviews
December 15, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/langston-hughes-black-nativity-play.html

**
65. Langston Hughes' Play "Black Nativity" (songs & videos)
December 15, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/langston-hughes-black-nativity-song.html

**
66. Kurt Carr - (We Lift Our Hands) In The Sanctuary
December 16, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/kurt-carr-we-lift-our-hands-in.html

**
70. Examples of "Oh What A Pretty Little Baby" (with lyrics)
December 19, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/examples-of-oh-what-pretty-little-baby.html

**
71. African American Christmas Songs About Naming Jesus (videos & lyrics)
December 20, 2012; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/black-christmas-songs-about-naming.html

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a compilation of all of the posts about African American religious music and/or church traditions that have been published on this pancocojams blog from 2013 through 2014.

A total of 103 posts in this category were published on pancocojams during that period of time.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/archived-lists-of-pancocojams-posts-on_24.html for Part I of this series, That post is entitled "Archived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts On African American Religious Music And/or Church Traditions (2011 through 2012)"

These lists have been prepared for archiving purposes and to raise public awareness about these posts.

Visitor comments and additions to these posts' discussion threads are still welcome.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to these posts.

****
LIST OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC AND/OR CHURCH TRADITIONS (2011-2013)
The URL for each of these posts is given along with the post's title and publishing date. However, these web addresses won't work as a hyperlink on this blog.

Numbers are assigned to posts within their publishing year for referencing purposes only.

2013
1. Old Blind Barnabas (Video, Sound Files, & Lyrics)
January 5, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/01/old-blind-barnabas-vido-sound-files.html

**
2. Rev. James Cleveland - "Peace Be Still" (examples & lyrics)
January 9, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/01/rev-james-cleveland-peace-be-still.html

**
3. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre - "Revelations"
January 23, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theatre.html

**
4. Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes - Get Away Jordan
February 17, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/02/dorothy-love-coates-original-gospel.html

**
5. The Staple Singers - I Know I Been Changed (sound file & lyrics)
February 21, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-staple-singers-i-know-i-been.html

**
6. "Yonder Come My Jesus" (sung to the tune "Michael Row The Boat Ashore")
February 23, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/02/yonder-come-my-jesus-sung-to-tune.html

**
7. Clara Ward Singers, Mahalia Jackson - How I Got Over (lyrics)
March 9, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/clara-ward-singers-mahalia-jackson-how.html

**
8. American Sign Language Interpretations Of Seven Gospel Songs
March 9, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-sign-language-interpretations.html

**
9. More Religious Songs Interpreted in American Sign Language
March 9, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-religious-songs-interpreted-in_9.html

**
10. Five Examples of the Gospel song "He's Sweet I Know"
March 10, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/five-examples-of-gospel-song-hes-sweet.html

**
11. The Herman Stevens Singers - Sit Down Servant (Sound File & Lyrics)
March 13, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/herman-stevens-singers-sit-down-servant.html

**
12. Jesus Savior Pilot Me (Black Gospel Versions With Lyrics)
March 18, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-savior-pilot-me-black-gospel.html

**
13. Three Renditions Of The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
March 18, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-edwin-hawkins-singers-oh-happy-day.html

**
14. Andrae Crouch - Jesus Is The Answer (Videos & Lyrics)
March 23, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/andrae-crouch-jesus-is-answer-videos.html

**
15. Five Examples Of "Sing To The Power Of The Lord Comes Down"
March 28, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/five-examples-of-sing-to-power-of-lord.html

**
16. A Hymn Rendition & A Black Gospel Rendition of "Revive Us Again"
March 31, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-hymn-rendition-black-gospel-rendition.html

**
17. He 'Rose (Spiritual Examples & Lyrics)
March 31, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/03/he-rose-spiritual-examples-lyrics.html

**
18. Youthful Praise feat. Kerry Brown [Gospel] "He Rose" (with partial lyrics)
April 1, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/youthful-praise-feat-kerry-brown-gospel.html

**
19. Five Examples of the Gospel Song "Beams Of Heaven"
April 1, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/five-examples-of-gospel-song-beams-of.html

**
20. Sound Files Of "John The Revelator" by Blind Willie Johnson & by Son House
April 6, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/john-revelator.html

**
21. Rev. James Cleveland & The Southern California Community Choir - God Is
April 13, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/rev-james-cleveland-southern-california.html

**
22. Walter Hawkins & The Love Center Choir- I'm Not The Same (with lyrics)
April 17, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/walter-hawkins-love-center-choir-im-not.html

**
23. Two Versions Of "Old Ship Of Zion" (The Roberta Martin Singers & Jackson Southernaires)
April 29, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/04/two-versions-of-old-ship-of-zion.html

**
24. Adam In The Garden (Picking Up Leaves) - Song Examples & Lyrics
May 2, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/adam-in-garden-picking-up-leaves.html

**
25. African American Ring Shouts (Origins & Examples)
May 3, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/african-american-ring-shouts-origins.html

**
26. Three Examples Of "Run On For A Long Time" (God Gonna Cut You Down)
May 8, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/three-examples-of-run-on-for-long-time.html

**
27. Bless That Wonderful Name Of Jesus (videos & lyrics)
May 26, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/bless-that-wonderful-name-of-jesus.html

**
28. Dottie Peoples & the Peoples Choice Chorale - Just When I Need Him Most
June 2, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/dottie-peoples-peoples-choice-chorale.html

**
29. Andrae Crouch - Let The Church Say Amen
June 2, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/andrae-crouch-let-church-say-amen.html

**
30. Mahalia Jackson - Walk In Jerusalem (When I Die)
June 4, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/mahalia-jackson-walk-in-jerusalem-when.html

**
31. Five Examples Of "Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John"
June 4, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/five-examples-of-walk-in-jerusalem-just.html

**
32. Roberta Martin Singers - Walk In Jerusalem
June 4, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/roberta-martin-singers-walk-in-jerusalem.html

**
33. Fred Hammond - This Is The Day (That The Lord Has Made)
June 23, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/fred-hammond-this-is-day-that-lord-has.html

**
34. Mississippi John Hurt - "I Shall Not Be Moved" (with lyrics)
June 25, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/mississippi-john-hurt-i-shall-not-be.html

**
35. Three Gospel Versions Of "Rise, Shine, Give God The Glory" (with lyrics)
June 27, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/three-gospel-versions-of-rise-shine.html

**
36. Rise And Shine (The Lord Told Noah) with lyrics
June 27, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/rise-and-shine-lord-told-noah-with.html

**
37. I Decided To Make Jesus My Choice (lyrics & examples)
July 8, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-decided-to-make-jesus-my-choice.html

**
38. Mildred Bailey - "Shouting At The Amen Corner" (Phrase Meaning, Sound File, & Lyrics)
July 10, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/mildred-bailey-shouting-at-amen-corner.html

**
39. Nina Simone - Sinnerman (with lyrics)
July 10, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/nina-simone-sinnerman-with-lyrics.html

**
40. Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water
July 22, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/07/blind-willie-johnson-god-moves-on-water.html

**
41. Gospel Arrangements Of "We're Marching To Zion"
August 15, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/08/gospel-arrangements-of-were-marching-to.html

**
42. Rev. Clay Evans "Have You Got Good Religion" (Sound File & Lyrics)
August 18, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/08/rev-clay-evans-have-you-got-good.html

**
43. Traditional Hymn and Gospel Renditions of "Rock Of Ages"
August 24, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/08/traditional-hymn-and-gospel-renditions.html

**
44. It's Me Oh Lord (Standing In The Need Of Prayer) lyrics, examples, & comments
October 4, 2013;https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/its-me-oh-lord-standing-in-need-of.html

**
45. I Got Shoes (Walk All Over God's Heaven) lyrics, examples, comment
October 4, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/its-me-oh-lord-standing-in-need-of.html

**
46. Bessie Jones - You Better Mind (with lyrics)
October 5, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/bessie-jones-you-better-mind-with-lyrics.html

**
47. Walk Together Children (lyrics, examples, comments)
October 10, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/walk-together-children-lyrics-examples.html

**
48. Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey - "Take My Hand, Precious Lord"
October 23, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/rev-thomas-dorsey-take-my-hand-precious.html

**
49. Rev Timothy Flemming - "Anyhow" (Lyrics & Comments)
October 30, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/rev-timothy-flemming-anyhow-lyrics.html

**
50. Two Examples Of The Spiritual "Anyhow" (by Emmanuel P. Djob & Choir & by the Swan Silvertones)
October 30, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/two-examples-of-spiritual-anyhow-by.html

**
51. Thomas Whitfield - Hallelujah Anyhow (example & lyrics)
October 31, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/thomas-whitfield-hallelujah-anyhow.html

**
52. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - "Hallelujah Anyhow" (video & lyrics)
October 31, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-brooklyn-tabernacle-choir.html

**
53. "This Little Light Of Mine" (information, lyrics, & examples)
November 5, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/this-little-light-of-mine-information.html

**
54. Seven Songs By The Dixie Hummingbirds Gospel Quartet
November 14, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/this-little-light-of-mine-information.html

**
55. Seven Songs By The Swan Silvertones Gospel Quartet
November 14, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/seven-songs-by-swan-silvertones-gospel.html

**
56. The Gospel Song "I'll Overcome Someday"& The Civil Rights Song "We Shall Overcome"
November 16, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/seven-songs-by-swan-silvertones-gospel.html

**
57. You Can't Beat God's Giving (lyrics & examples)
November 28, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/11/you-cant-beat-gods-giving-lyrics.html

**
58. Old School Gospel Song "I'm So Glad That The Lord Saved Me" (Video, Lyrics, & Sermon Transcript)
December 7, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/old-school-gospel-song-im-so-glad-that.html

**
59. The Original Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi - I'm So Glad The Lord Saved Me (sound file & lyrics)
December 8, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-original-five-blind-boys-of.html

**
60. Bishop G. E. Patterson - COGIC Song "I'm So Glad That The Lord Saved Me" (sound file & lyrics)
December 8, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/bishop-g-e-patterson-im-so-glad-that.html

**
61. Miracle Tabernacle COGIC's Praise Generation - "Lord I Thank You"&"I'm So Glad That The Lord Saved Me" (video & lyrics)
December 8, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/miracle-tabernacle-cogics-praise.html

**
62. The Christmas Song "Behold That Star"& Its African American Composer Thomas W. Talley
December 14, 2013; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-christmas-song-behold-that-star-its.html

****
2014

1. Paul Robeson; Kathleen Battle & Jessye Norman - Scandalize My Name
January 5, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/01/paul-robeson-kathleen-battle-jessye.html

**
2. Four Examples of the Gospel song "This Morning When I Rose"
January 7, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/01/four-examples-of-gospel-song-this.html

**
3. Dorothy Norwood - "Victory Is Mine" (videos & lyrics)
January 29, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/01/dorothy-norwood-victory-is-mine-videos.html

**
4. Four Hymns & Gospel Songs By St. James Missionary Baptist Church (Detroit, Illinois)
February 6, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/four-songs-by-detroit-illinois-st-james.html

**
5. Examples of the Spiritual "There Is A Balm In Gilead"& Karen Clark Sheard's "Balm In Gilead"
February 9, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/examples-of-spiritual-there-is-balm-in.html

**
6. Rev. Clay Evans & The AARC Mass Choir -" I've Got A Testimony!" (video & lyrics)
February 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/revclay-evans-aarc-mass-choir-ive-got.html

**
7. The Parliaments - "I Wanna Testify" and The Gospel Ayres - "I Wanna Testify"
February 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-parliaments-i-wanna-testify-and.html

**
8. Black Choir Processions - Videos Of Marching With The Right Hand Held Up
February 16, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/old-school-black-church-choir-march-st.html

**
9. Spiritual (Shouter) Baptist Churches In The USA & Canada
February 23, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/02/spiritual-shouter-baptist-churches-in_23.html

**
10. "Didn't It Rain" (Gospel song lyrics & examples)
March 1, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/03/didnt-it-rain-gospel-song-lyrics.html

**
11. "Just A Little Talk With Jesus" (lyrics and videos)
March 13, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/03/gospel-song-just-little-talk-with-jesus.html

**
12. "Noah" (God Told Noah") examples & lyrics
March 25, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/03/noah-god-told-noah-examples-lyrics.html

**
13. "My God Is So High"&"You Must Come In At The Door" (lyrics & examples)
April 7, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-god-is-so-high-you-must-come-in-at.html

**
14. Ricky Dillard & New G - "I Am Saved" (Gospel lyrics & video)
April 7, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/ricky-dillard-new-g-i-am-saved-gospel.html

**
15. "Take Me Back" (Gospel song lyrics, videos, & artists information)
April 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/take-me-back-gospel-song-lyrics-videos.html

**
16. Why Fewer African American Women Wear Hats In Church
April 13, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-fewer-african-american-women-wear.html

**
17. James Cleveland & The Southern California Community Choir - "God Is" (example & lyrics)
April 14, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/james-cleveland-southern-california.html

**
18. African American Examples Of The Bluegrass Gospel Song "Build Me A Cabin In Glory"
April 21, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/african-american-examples-of-bluegrass.html

**
19. Five Examples Of Black Gospel Versions Of The Song "Take A Trip" (with lyrics)
April 28, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/04/five-examples-of-black-gospel-song-take.html

**
20. The Fame Movie's Version Of The Christian Hymn "Never Alone"
May 17, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-fame-movies-version-of-christian.html

**
21. Five Video Examples Of "I'm So Glad Jesus Lifted Me"
May 18, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/five-video-examples-of-im-so-glad-jesus.html

**
22. Songs About The Devil Being Mad, Part I: "Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More" song & spin offs
May 19, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/songs-about-devil-being-mad-part-i-aint.html

**
23. Rev. Charles H. Nicks & The St. James Adult Choir - "Hold Back The Night"
May 19, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/rev-charles-h-nicks-st-james-adult.html

**
24. "Free At Last" African American Spiritual & Gospel Song
May 25, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/05/free-at-last-spiritual-gospel-song.html

**
25. African American Choir Directing Styles In Arrangements Of "Ride On King Jesus"
June 8, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/06/african-american-choir-directing-styles.html

**
26. Two Examples Of "Ride On King Jesus" (Ride On King Emmanuel)
June 8, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/06/two-examples-of-ride-on-king-jesus-ride.html

**
27. Five Additional "Ride On King Jesus" Spirituals
June 9, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/06/five-additional-ride-on-king-jesus.html

**
28. Five Examples Of The Gospel Song "Shine On Me" (Let the light from the lighthouse shine on me".
July 2, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/07/five-examples-of-gospel-song-shine-on.html

**
29. "Surely I Will" (comments, examples, & lyrics)
July 8, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/07/surely-i-will-comments-examples-lyrics.html

**
30. Nine Examples Of (African American) Black Gospel Quartet Music
July 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/07/nine-examples-of-black-gospel-quartet.html

**
31. Comments About Singing Spirituals Using 19th Century Negro Dialect
August 10, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-i-dont-like-use-of-19th-century.html

**
32. "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (Spiritual lyrics, information, and video)
August 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-that-great-gettin-up-mornin-gabriels.html

**
33. I'll Hear That Trumpet Sound (lyrics and information)
August 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/ill-hear-that-trumpet-sound-lyrics-and.html

**
34. Spirituals "Blow Gable Blow"&"Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel"
August 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/spirituals-blow-gable-blow-blow-your.html

**
35. Five Examples Of "Guide My Feet While I Run This Race" (lyrics and comments)
August 26, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-examples-of-guide-my-feet-while-i.html

**
36. Gospel song "No Condemnation" (1940s Mississippi COGIC Congregation & by the 1950s group Gospel All Stars)
October 12, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/10/two-examples-of-no-condemnation-by.html

**
37. "No Condemnation" (Gospel recording by Natalie Wilson and SOP Chorale and by Ricky Dillard and New G)
October 13, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/10/two-examples-of-no-condemnation-by.html

**
38. I Have Been Walking This Road A Long Time (Gullah Religious Song)
October 15, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/10/i-have-been-walking-this-road-long-time.html

**
39. Two Examples Of "I'm Not Tired Yet (Gospel song examples & lyrics)
October 15, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/10/two-examples-of-im-not-tired-yet-gospel.html

**
40. "Let's Go Way Back In God" (Apostolic Gospel song with lyrics)
October 27, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/10/lets-go-way-back-in-god-apostalic.html

**
41. Shirley Caesar - "Shouting John "(Hold My Mule) videos, lyrics, and comments
November 16, 2014; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/11/shirley-caesar-shouting-john-hold-my.html

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post showcases two videos of Kwanzaa and presents a list of six pancocojams posts about the African American holiday "Kwanzaa".

I showcased these videos and prepared this list for archiving purposes and to raise public awareness about the African American originated holiday of Kwanzaa.

This post will be updated when additional posts on Kwanzaa are published on this pancocojams blog.

Visitor comments and additions to these posts' discussion threads are still welcome.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to these posts.

****
SHOWCASED VIDEOS
Video #1: Teddy Pendergrass - Happy Kwanzaa



rapidvibrationz, Nov 25, 2010

****
Video #2: Oh Kwanzaa ,,,



Jonathan Perrin

My son Rylen and his third grade class performing kwanzaa in there Christmas concert. 2014

****
LIST OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ABOUT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HOLIDAY "KWANZAA"
The hyperlink for each of these posts is given along with the post's title and publishing date.

Teddy Pendergrass - Happy Kwanzaa (video & lyrics)
December 22, 2012
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/teddy-pendergrass-happy-kwanzaa-video.html

**
Why Swahili Terms Are Used For The African American Originated Holiday "Kwanzaa"
December 26, 2015 [re-posted on December 17, 2018]
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-swahili-terms-are-used-for-african.html

**
Sesame Street's Elmo Performing A Kwanzaa Dance Featuring A Musical Bow Instrument"
December 17, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/12/sesame-streets-elmo-performing-kwanzaa.html

**
Kwanzaa Children's Song "O Kwanzaa" (information, lyrics, videos, & instrumental song file)
December 17, 2017; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/12/kwanzaa-childrens-song-o-kwanzaa.html

**
Videos Of Kwanzaa Celebrations In The United States & In Canada
December 18, 2017; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/12/videos-of-kwanzaa-celebrations-in.html

**
Excerpts From & Comments About The 2012 Washington Post Article "Confessions of a Kwanzaa drop-out: Why I don’t celebrate the holiday"
December 18, 2017'https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/12/excerpts-from-comments-about-2012.html

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part III of a compilation of all of the posts about African American religious music and/or church traditions that have been published on this pancocojams blog from 2015 through 2016.

A total of 80 posts in this category were published on pancocojams during that period of time.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/archived-lists-of-pancocojams-posts-on_24.html for Part I of this series, That post is entitled "Archived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts On African American Religious Music And/or Church Traditions (2011 through 2012)"

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/12/archived-lists-of-pancocojams-posts-on_25.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post is entitled "Archived Lists Of Pancocojams Posts On African American Religious Music And/or Church Traditions (2013 through 2014)".

These lists have been prepared for archiving purposes and to raise public awareness about these posts.

Visitor comments and additions to these posts' discussion threads are still welcome.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to these posts.

****
LIST OF PANCOCOJAMS POSTS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC AND/OR CHURCH TRADITIONS (2011-2013)
The URL for each of these posts is given along with the post's title and publishing date. However, these web addresses won't work as a hyperlink on this blog.

Numbers are assigned to posts within their publishing year for referencing purposes only.

2015

1. Nine Examples Of The Gospel Song "We've Come This Far By Faith" (with lyrics)
January 20, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/01/nine-examples-of-gospel-song-weve-come.html

**
2. Seven Examples Of "I Shall Not Be Moved" (African American Gospel Versions)
February 2, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/seven-examples-of-i-shall-not-be-moved.html

**
3. Five Examples Of "Have You Got Good Religion?, Certainly Lord" (African American Gospel)
February 2, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/have-you-got-good-religion-african.html

**
4. "Blessed Assurance" (Standard Hymn & Black Gospel Versions)
February 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/one-hymn-four-gospel-examples-of.html

**
5. Videos Of Gene Martin & Rev. A. A. Allen's Miracle Valley Ministries Choirs
February 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/videos-of-gene-martin-rev-a-allens.html

**
6. Evelyn Turrentine-Agee - "God Is Using Me" (Gospel song examples & lyrics)
February 15, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/evelyn-turrentine-agee-he-is-using-me.html

**
7. Examples Of "Glory Glory Hallelujah (Since I Laid My Burdens Down" (various arrangements)
February 23, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/examples-of-glory-glory-hallelujah.html

**
8. Examples Of Glory Glory Hallelujah (Since I Laid My Burdens Down" (James Hall arrangement; New Directions arrangement)
February 23, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/examples-of-glory-glory-hallelujah_23.html

**
9. "What Do You Want The Lord To Say" (videos & lyrics)
February 24, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-do-you-want-lord-to-say-videos.html

**
10. Three Old School Gospel Videos (with selected comments)
February 25, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/three-old-school-gospel-videos-with.html

**
11. "Give Me That Old Time Religion" (examples & comments)
February 25, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/02/give-me-that-old-time-religion-examples.html

**
12. Gospel & Jazz Examples Of "When The Saints Go Marching In"
March 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/03/gospel-jazz-examples-of-when-saints-go.html

**
13. African American & Jamaican Examples Of The Gospel Song "Won't It Be Grand" (with lyrics)
March 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/03/african-american-jamaican-examples-of.html

**
14. Five African American Renditions Of "Nearer My God To Thee"
March 22, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/03/five-african-american-renditions-of.html

**
15. Bishop Kenneth H. Moales, Sr. "War Cry" (And Other Examples Of & Comments About Praise Break War Cries)
April 4, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/bishop-kenneth-moalessr-war-cry-and.html

**
16. "Lift Him Up" - African American Gospel Versions Of That Christian Hymn
April 4, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/african-american-gospel-versions-of.html

**
17. Spiritual "I Heard Of A City Called Heaven" (with lyrics & comments)
April 19, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/spiritual-i-heard-of-city-called-heaven.html

**
18. "Swing Down Sweet Chariot" - The Golden Gate Quartet and by Elvis Presley, Part I (GGQ)
April 26, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/swing-down-sweet-chariot-by-golden-gate.html

**
19. "Swing Down Sweet Chariot" - by The Golden Gate Quartet and by Elvis Presley, Part II (Elvis Presley)
April 26, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/04/swing-down-sweet-chariot-by-golden-gate_53.html

**
20. "All My Sins Done Taken Away" (Song Lyric & Howard W. Odum's 1912 Book Excerpt)
May 14, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/lyrics-all-my-sins-done-taken-away.html

**
21. "All My Sins Been Taken Away" (sound files & video examples)
May 14, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/all-my-sins-been-taken-away-sound-files.html

**
22. Thomas A. Dorsey, The REAL Composer Of "Peace In The Valley" (with eight YouTube examples of that song)
May 17, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/thomas-dorsey-real-composer-of-peace-in.html

**
23. Two Really Old School Versions Of The Gospel Song "Drive Old Satan Away"
May 21, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/two-really-old-school-versions-of.html

**
25. Bishop Ronald E. Brown - "Drive Old Satan Away" (sound file & lyrics)
May 21, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/bishop-ronald-e-brown-drive-old-satan.html

**
26. Gospel Classics: Clara Ward Singers - "Packing Up "(information, lyrics, videos, comments)
May 31, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/gospel-classics-clara-ward-singers.html

**
27. African American Gospel Singer Mali Music - "Yahweh" (lyrics, examples, information)
June 6, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/african-american-gospel-singer-mali.html

**
28. The Commodores - "Jesus is Love"&"Nightshift" (examples & lyrics)
June 21, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-commodores-jesus-is-love-nightshift.html

**
29. The Barrett Sisters - "I'll Going To Fly Away" (example &, lyrics)
June 21, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-barrett-sisters-ill-going-to-fly.html

**
30. Applauding During Church Services
June 27, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/applauding-during-church-services.html

**
31. Marvin Sapp - "Never Would Have Made It" (lyrics & two videos, including American sign language video)
July 11, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/07/marvin-sapp-never-would-have-made-it.html

**
32. Two Videos Of Fred Hammond's Contemporary Black Gospel Song - "No Weapon"
July 11, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/07/two-videos-of-fred-hammonds.html

**
33. "My Way Is Cloudy" (Spiritual Examples & Lyrics)
July 26, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-way-is-cloudy-spiritual-examples.html

**
34. The Golden Gate Quartet & Willie Gresham - "Soon One Morning" ("Hush Somebody Calling My Name") with lyrics
August 30, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-golden-gate-quartet-willie-gresham.html

**
35. Bishop J.D. Means & Dr. C.J. Johnson - "One Morning Soon" (with lyrics)
August 30, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/08/shop-jd-means-dr-cj-johnson-one-morning.html

**
36. Three Example Of The Gospel Song "99 1/2 Won't Do" (with lyrics)
September 6, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/three-example-of-gospel-song-99-12-wont.html

**
37. Mississippi Children's Choir - "His Eye Is On The Sparrow" (1994 video with selected discussion thread comments)
September 13, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/mississippi-childrens-choir-his-eye-is.html

**
38. Kathleen Battle - "My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me" ( "I Trust In God") video & lyrics
September 20, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/kathleen-battle-my-heavenly-father.html

**
39. Black Catholics In The USA Sing Gospel Music
September 22, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/seven-videos-of-african-american.html

**
40. Rev. James Cleveland & Rev. Calvin Bernard Rhones "New Jerusalem" (When The Battle Is Over) preface & lyrics
October 4, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/rev-james-cleveland-rev-calvin-rhones.html

**
41. Jessy Dixon - "He Has Done Great Things" (sound file & lyrics)
October 11, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/jessy-dixon-he-has-done-great-things.html

**
42. Marvin Winans And Rev. Milton Brunson & the Thompson Community Singers -"It's Gonna Rain" (Come On In This House") examples, lyrics, & comments
October 18, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/10/marvin-winans-and-rev-milton-brunson.html

**
43. Rev. James Cleveland - "Lord, Help Me To Hold Out" (examples, lyrics, comments)
November 1, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/11/rev-james-cleveland-lord-help-me-to.html

**
44. "There Is No Failure In God" (Gospel song, lyrics, & comments)
November 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/11/there-is-no-failure-in-god-gospel-song.html

**
"45. I Will Make The Darkness Light" ("The High Places") examples & lyrics
November 15, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-will-make-darkness-light-high-places.html

**
46. Pastor Charles Jenkins - My God Is Awesome (original & remix versions with lyrics)
November 20, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-jenkins-my-god-is-awesome.html

**
47. "God Put A Rainbow In The Sky" (examples & lyrics)
November 22, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/11/god-put-rainbow-in-sky-examples-lyrics.html

**
48. Children Singing "Children, Go Where I Send Thee"
December 6, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/12/children-singing-children-go-where-i.html

**
49. Four Examples Of The Gospel Song "When You See Me Walking Right"
December 8, 2015; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/12/four-examples-of-gospel-song-when-you.html

****
2016

1. African American Praise Dancing (information & videos)
January 2, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/01/african-american-praise-dancing.html

**
2. Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (information, examples, lyrics)
January 16, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/01/staple-singers-ill-take-you-there.html

**
3. Ricky Dillard - "Our Father, You Are Holy" (video & comments)
January 30, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/01/three-ricky-dillard-our-father-you-are.html

**
4. The Davis Sisters - "Oh, I Want To See Him" (with lyrics, & comments)
February 6, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-davis-sisters-oh-i-want-to-see-him.html

**
5. "Rain Fall And Wet Becca Lawton" - A 19th century African American Ring Shout & Rowing Song
February 12, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/rain-fall-and-wet-becca-lawton-19th.html

**
6. "King Jesus Is The Rock", A 1925 Example Of The Black Gospel Song "Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I"
February 23, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/king-jesus-is-rock-1925-version-of.html

**
7. Seven Examples Of The Praise & Worship Song "Let It Rise" (with lyrics)
February 28, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/seven-examples-of-praise-worship-song.html

**
8. African American Church Of Christ Worship Practices (Excerpt From Lamont Ali Francies' 2013 doctoral dissertation)
February 28, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/african-american-church-of-christ.html

**
9. Seven Examples Of African American Church Of Christ Singing (videos & comments)
February 28, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/seven-examples-of-african-american.html

**
10. Handclapping & Beatboxing In Church Of Christ Worship Services (videos & comments)
February 29, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/handclapping-beatboxing-in-church-of.html

**
11. Georgia Sea Isle Ring Shouts "Daniel" and "Move Daniel" (lyrics & video)
March 22, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/georgia-sea-isle-ring-shouts-daniel-and.html

**
12. Two Examples Of Praise & Worship Songs With The Title "Crown Him Lord"
March 27, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/two-examples-of-praise-worship-songs.html

**
13. Kathy Taylor - The Corinthian Song (Gospel video, lyrics, and comments)
March 28, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/kathy-taylor-corinthian-song-gospel.html

**
14. Kirk Franklin & God's Property, featuring Salt - Stomp (Gospel video, information, lyrics, & comments)
April 10, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/04/kirk-franklin-gods-property-featuring.html

**
15. Black Preaching - The Art Of "Whooping" In Sermon Closings (with a video of a sermon & my transcription of that video)
April 13, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/04/black-preaching-art-of-whooping-in.html

**
16. Seven Examples Of The Gospel Song "I Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody)
April 24, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/04/seven-examples-of-gospel-song-i-said-i.html

**
17. Harry Belafonte & The Belafonte Singers - "Didn't It Rain" (sound file & transcription)
April 25, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/04/harry-belafonte-belafonte-singers-didnt.html

**
18. Three African American Gospelized Renditions Of The Hymn "Child Of The King" (My Father Is Rich In Houses And Lands)
May 22, 2016: https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/05/three-african-american-gospelized.html

**
19. Dixie Hummingbirds - Take Care Of Me (videos & lyrics)
June 12, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/06/dixie-hummingbirds-take-care-of-me.html

**
20. Syte Unseen - "Choices" (Christian A Cappella Song) video & lyrics)
June 19, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/06/syte-unseen-choices-christian-cappella.html

**
21. Two Examples Of The Gospel Song "Rough Side Of The Mountain"
July 17, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/07/two-examples-of-gospel-song-rough-side.html

**
22. Albertina Walker & Choir, Directed By O"landa Draper - "O Lord Remember Me"
July 24, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/07/albertina-walker-choir-directed-by.html

**
23. "Hand Me Down My Sliver Trumpet, Gabriel"&"Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes" (comments, lyrics, & videos)
August 7, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/hand-me-down-my-sliver-trumpet-gabriel.html

**
24. Two Examples Of The Spiritual "Somebody's Knocking At Your Door" (Franklin Willis, Rev. James Cleveland)
August 14, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/two-examples-of-spiritual-somebodys.html

**
25. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)" information, video, & lyrics
August 21, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/sister-rosetta-tharpe-this-train-is.html

**
26. Hezekiah Walker - "Every Praise" (lyrics, videos, & information)
October 30, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/10/hezekiah-walker-every-praise-lyrics.html

**
27. Rev. James Cleveland & The Meditation Singers- "I'm Determined To Run This Race"
November 9, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/11/rev-james-cleveland-meditation-singers.html

**
28. The Black Gospel Source of The "Beans, Greens, Potatoes, Tomatoes (U Name It) Song & Dance Challenge
November 25, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-black-gospel-source-of-u-name-it.html

**
29. Examples Of The Gospel Song "I'm Gonna Praise The Lord While I Have A Chance" (with lyrics & comments)
November 27, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/11/examples-of-gospel-song-im-going-to.html

**
30. Ella Jenkins and the Goodwill Spiritual Choir - This Is The Way I Pray In My Home (sound file, lyrics)
December 2, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/12/this-is-way-i-pray-in-my-home-sound.html

**
31. Will Reagan & United Pursuit and Tasha Cobbs - "Break Every Chain" (Gospel Song)
December 11, 2016; https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/12/tasha-cobbs-gospel-song-break-every.html

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.