World’s First Beatboxing Champion in 1938

This video is taken from the British Pathe newsreel “The Radio Revellers” and is a song called ‘There’s A Tavern In The Town’. You can watch the video of the whole song here:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-radio-revellers/

And yes, for those of you who were wondering, this isn’t actually “beatboxing” strictly. The singer is doing an impersonation of a “big string bass” – Still, it’s pretty impressive and a prototype of beat boxing.

The world famous beatboxer Rahzel shared some insight on this video which you can read on our blog here:
http://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/the-history-of-beatboxing-rahzel…