Cd Baby// Hells to the Naw Naw by Bishop Bullwinkle

"Hell Naw To The Naw Naw"

Bishop Bullwinkle

Bishop Bullwinkle: Gone Simply Not Forgotten

Days afterwards having a heart assault and complications from a stint, Bishop Bullwinkle (born Bernard Thomas) died on Male parent's Day, June 16, 2019 in a Tampa Bay-area infirmary. The 70-year-old Establish City, Florida pastor, whose claim to fame was "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw," a southern soul song/slash/sermon from the "Outset Church Of Nothin' But Da Truth," was based on an instrumental rail from southern soul star Bigg Robb's song "State Daughter". Released as a YouTube video rather than a single, "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" went on to become a viral hit and novelty sensation, garnering millions of views. It also eventually thrust Bullwinkle into court, where Bigg Robb (Robert Smith) sued and won a copyright infringement case.

"Bullwinkle" was a nickname picked up in Bernard Thomas'southward childhood, when a TV cartoon bear witness named "Rocky & Bullwinkle" was popular. In later life Thomas combined "Bullwinkle" with "Bishop" when he decided to record the rap-slash-sermon lambasting the hypocrisies he witnessed in his church and neighborhood. When Bullwinkle auditioned and filmed the tune for Mobile, Alabama'due south WDLT radio station via a microphone and boombox in a Mobile shopping mall, the song soon went viral, ultimately becoming the #1-ranked song in southern soul:

*************

Daddy B. Nice's TOP 25 SOUTHERN SOUL SONGS OF 2015

ane. "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" ------Bishop Bullwinkle

Once in awhile, a vocal comes along that makes everyone feel like they've been creating inside a "box". "Hell To The Naw Naw" was such a record.

Mind to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

**************

A wake was held for Bishop Bullwinkle on June 28, 2019 at the Allen Chapel AME, 1109 East Laura Street, Constitute City, Florida, followed by a funeral on June 29, 2019 at the First Baptist Church, 3309 James Fifty. Redman Parkway in Plant Urban center. Daddy B. Overnice had just published an update and appreciation of Bishop Bullwinkle ("Bishop Bullwinkle's New "No Woman, No Cry" Single") a few days earlier he was hospitalized. A posthumous digital album--The Da Vinci Lawmaking, Bullwinkle's first and terminal--was published 2 months to the day subsequently he passed, August 16, 2019. (Scroll downward this folio.)

--Daddy B. Nice

September 1, 2019:

New Album Alert!

Buy Bishop Bullwinkle's new THE DA VINCI CODE album at Apple tree.

The DAVINCI Code TRACK List:

1
Mama

2
Do Y'all Hear Me

iii
Animal of Burden

4
You Do Too

5
Pouring Water (On A Drowning Human)

six
No Adult female, No Weep

vii
Some Preachers

eight
Is It Real?

Daddy B. Squeamish notes:

In a bittersweet twist, Bishop Bullwinkle'southward first full-length (digital only) album turns out to exist his last and posthumous release. (Meet obituary above.) The compilation combines previously-released video singles such equally "Some Preachers" and "You Do Also" with recently-released tunes, including covers of Bob Marley & The Wailers' "No Woman, No Cry" (see feature below) and The Rolling Stones' "Creature Of Burden." Watch for Bullwinkle's "Practise You Hear Me Now?" on Daddy B. Nice'south Top 10 "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles for September 2019.

--Daddy B. Dainty

Listen to all the tracks from Bishop Bullwinkle's THE DA VINCE CODE on YouTube.

Buy Bishop Bullwinkle'southward THE DAVINCI Code album at iTunes.

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle's THE DA VINCI CODE on Spotify.

***********
To read "Daddy B. Dainty on Plagiarism, Copyright Law, Copyright Infringement, Bigg Robb & Bishop Bullwinkle," curl down this page to "Tidbits #4. To read Daddy B. Nice's profile/interview of Bishop Bullwinkle and biography, as well coil downwardly. To automatically link to Bishop Bullwinkle'south charted radio singles, awards, CD's and other citations on the website, go to "Bishop Bullwinkle" in Daddy B. Nice'southward Comprehensive Index.
***********

June five, 2019: Originally posted in Daddy B. Nice's Corner.

Bishop Bullwinkle'south New "No Adult female, No Cry" Single

Reggae was my dejection in the seventies. I was in on information technology from the start, but as I've been in on contemporary southern soul from the offset, simply role of my never-ending search for new music, and what nosotros need today is a movie soundtrack that brings southern soul to the world the mode "The Harder They Come up" brought reggae to the globe in the early on seventies. Jimmy Cliff was the star of the album and the motion-picture show, just my favorite cuts were past groups similar The Melodians' and their bluesy "Rivers Of Babylon.

Without "The Harder They Come," "No Woman No Weep," which came years afterward, would have remained a regional Jamaican striking, never heard in the U.Southward. Without that anthology--one picture show soundtrack, simply one--reggae would have remained regional and never heard by the masses (like southern soul in 2019). And if the album hadn't appeared, there would have been no Bob Marley, who was simply an unknown member of a Kingston group called The Wailers. His grouping wasn't even invited to be on that landmark album.

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "No Woman, No Weep" on YouTube while you read.

Bishop Bullwinkle is the just artist I'd be interested in hearing cover "No Woman No Weep," merely because the thought sounds preposterous. I certainly never imagined Bullwinkle in Jamaican-colored caput vesture, puffing on a large blunt, like he does on the artwork for "No Woman, No Cry".

Moreover, in Bullwinkle'southward passionate testimony, I hear lyrics I never understood (or bothered to pay attention to) in the one thousand-plus times I've listened to the Bob Marley version. I remembered the phrase "mingling with the practiced people we meet/In the government k in Trenchtown," but I'd never heard the scathing reference to "observing the hypocrites" (a critical phrase to have missed). And I had never heard an important line which Bullwinkle repeats in at least 2 verses: "And so I cooked some corn meal porridge/ Which I shared with you".

It's great to have Bishop Bullwinkle back. I wrote him off equally a vanishing novelty act after a down and mostly absent year in my southern soul wrap-up for 2018: The Year In Review, and I'm so happy to have to consume my words. Bullwinkle'due south got some other single out (fifty-fifty newer than "No Woman No Cry"), and he's again touring on the concert scene.

Southern soul culture celebrates alcohol. Mel Waiters celebrated it in song and verse even though he didn't drink. Unlike rap and hiphop, southern soul is a "grown-folks" culture, licentious but constabulary-abiding. So to run into and hear Bishop Bullwinkle put his blunt out there for all to see--"Hell naw! to the naw naw!"--gave me renewed respect for the man.

And I should add a caveat. The fact that Bullwinkle is promoting his song by appearing to smoke a joint the size of Texas doesn't mean he smokes in real life. Why, he may never have touched the stuff! Just the underlying fact is that with the release of that hilarious picture of him smoking herb, the expert Bishop has broken one of the last southern soul taboos.

Of course, we all knew Bullwinkle was a brave homo when he started singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" to that beginning shopping-mall audition in Mobile captured on YouTube (now gone). And I'thou not talking about the watered-down, pureed version--good as information technology is--the "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" YouTube video people have to content themselves with on the Net nowadays. What is it?--Iii years after the original went viral? I'm talking about the original with the Bigg Robb instrumental rails (information technology was then much better, information technology pulled y'all forth). I'chiliad talking about the original with the "Northward-word" in the phrase "kids looking for a chore/ with pants hanging down their knees/ I say, 'North----, please!"

This was office of his "blazing preacher" viral breakout. The phrase was perfect in the context of the lyric--and also rhythmic. I mean, if nosotros tin can appreciate it when Richard Pryor says it, why tin't we capeesh it when Bishop Bullwinkle says it?

Don't tell me. I know the respond to that question, and it bores me. Even Richard ended up repenting. That's why I'll continue to scratch out the new music like a barnyard rooster, getting it while it'due south fresh, in all its squirming and itch messiness.

--Daddy B. Dainty

Meet "No Woman, No Cry," Daddy B. Nice's #six-ranked Southern Soul Single for June 'nineteen (right-paw column this folio)

See Daddy B. Nice's Artist Guide to Bishop Bullwinkle.

**********

Send product to:
SouthernSoulRnB.com
P.O. Box 19574
Boulder, Colorado 80308
Or electronic mail:
daddybnice@southernsoulrnb.com
************

February 28, 2018:

Daddy B. Squeamish Announces THE WINNERS of the 2017 (11th Annual) SOUTHERN SOUL MUSIC AWARDS.

All-time Mid-Tempo Song

Meridian Contenders:
"I'chiliad Stepping Out" ---- Mr. Campbell
"Buss It Good-Adieu" ---- Lomax
"I Can't Be True-blue"----Big Pokey Bear & Bishop Bullwinkle
"Textual Harassment" ---- Nellie "Tiger" Travis
"Yous're My Gold" ---- Joe "Blues" Butler
"My Land Girl" ---- Jeter Jones
"Shake Something (Remix)" ---- J. Cherry, Columbus Toy, Ms. Lady Blues
"Don't Blame It On Jody" ---- Adrian Bagher
"Caller I.D." ----- El' Willie
"It's The Weekend" ----- Magic One
"Stilettos & Jeans" ----- Sharnette Hyter & J.J. Callier
"Bedroom Rodeo (Remix)" ----- Big Yayo, Gentry Jones, Omar Cunningham
"Call Me" ----- Nelson Curry
"Preacher Car In My Yard" ---- Luther Lackey
"All I Demand Is You" ----- Pokey Carry & Crystal Thomas
"I Had To Lie" ----- Ms. Jody
"Call My Name" ----- J. Red & Sharnette Hyter
"Neighbor" ----- Solomon Thompson
"Pretty Girl" ----- J-Wonn & Tucka
"I Left My Woman" ----- Stan Butler
"'Til The Sun Comes Up" ---- Tucka

Best Mid-Tempo Vocal: "I Can't Be Faithful" past Pokey Bear & Bishop Bullwinkle

Listen to Pokey Bear & Bishop Bullwinkle singing "I Tin can't Be Faithful" on YouTube.

***********

December two, 2017:

CHART-CLIMBER!: Bishop Bullwinkle And "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" Debut At #51 On Daddy B. Nice's Pinnacle 100 Southern Soul!

The chart ranks the top one hundred contemporary southern soul singles over the last eighteen years--ultimately a twenty-year period (from 2000-2020).

Encounter Bishop Bullwinkle'due south new position on the Chart.

Bishop Bullwinkle also becomes the #51-ranked artist on Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 21st Century Southern Soul Artists Chart.

See the nautical chart.

Daddy B. Nice notes:

More than than ii years have passed since Bishop Bullwinkle'southward "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" exploded on the southern soul scene, and Bishop Bullwinkle nonetheless has not recorded the song for buy. It remains a YouTube miracle, and what a phenomenon. The various YouTube versions of the vocal have been viewed by millions of fans, and the lxx-something Bishop Bullwinkle has parlayed the success of the song into a lucrative touring career. Along with simply Big Pokey Behave and Tucka, the Bishop (Bernard Thomas in real life) has hurdled scores of traditional and not-and so-traditional southern soul recording artists to headline concerts throughout the South and even play the vaunted national Blues Is Alright Tour. The singer/comedian may be viewed as a "novelty" act, but and then have countless other R&B performers who went on to fame on the national stage. While the lack of a recording resume has kept him off Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 Southern Soul Chart upward until now, Bishop Bullwinkle can no longer be denied. He has vaulted over past chitlin' circuit comedians like Poonanny, Willie P. Richardson, Unckle Eddie and Marcel to get the greatest novelty act in contemporary southern soul music.

**********
Scroll down this page to "Tidbits" for the latest updates on Bishop Bullwinkle. To automatically link to Bishop Bullwinkle'southward charted radio singles, awards and other citations on the Southern Soul website, go to "Bishop Bullwinkle" in Daddy B. Squeamish's Comprehensive Index.
**********

May 2, 2017: Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice'southward Corner

41,000 Views In 1st Week!

Sentinel the official new video of Pokey Bear and Bishop Bullwinkle singing "I Can't Be Faithful" on YouTube.

From:

Daddy B. Nice's Pinnacle 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For. . .

-------February 2017-------

1. "I Can't Be Faithful"----Big Pokey Acquit featuring Bishop Bullwinkle

The ii biggest new stars in southern soul music team upwards for the outset time on a Beat Flippa-produced track that continues Pokey'due south theme of being "addicted to the women." Hewing to his theme of preaching about worldly evils, in this case Pokey'southward, Bishop Bullwinkle stuns with his crystal-clear clarity and tone, proving he's not just a novelty human action but a unique vocalist. DBN

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube while yous read.

--Daddy B. Dainty

Well-nigh Bishop Bullwinkle

November 26, 2015: Story & Interview

Daddy B. Nice's Profile of Bishop Bullwinkle

Bishop Bullwinkle's "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw": The Early Days...

Bishop Bullwinkle is a YouTube phenomenon. He has never released a single, much less an album. His fame/notoriety every bit an X-rated preacher/performer was ignited past an open-air appearance singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on the Tom Joyner forenoon bear witness on WDLT, Mobile, Alabama a couple of years ago. The performance was posted on YouTube, gradually gaining millions of views.

Yous'll have to content yourself with listening to the many YouTube versions of the song currently online, because Bishop Bullwinkle has shown no eagerness to release a record or even an online mp3. Be aware that many YouTube versions keep to be deleted by southern soul creative person Bigg Robb for copyright infringement fifty-fifty equally new versions proliferate. Regardless of the controversy, "Hell Naw" burst on the southern soul scene like no other tune in years.

See Daddy B. Dainty'south #1 Southern Soul Single of 2015: "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" by Bishop Bullwinkle.

Daddy B. Nice's Pinnacle 25 SOUTHERN SOUL SONGS OF 2015

ane. "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" ------Bishop Bullwinkle

One time in awhile, a song comes forth that makes everyone feel like they've been creating within a "box". "Hell To The Naw Naw" was such a record.

Heed to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

Bigg Robb removed the official Bishop Bullwinkle video for "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" from YouTube for copyright infringement, citing Bullwinkle's unauthorized employ of the instrumental rails from Robb's "Looking For A Land Girl."

Juke Joint Music, the Bigg Robb album from which "Looking For A Country Girl" was taken, was first published and copyrighted by Robert Smith (Robb's given name) at CD Babe upon its initial consequence in 2012.

In a related matter, Bishop Bullwinkle'due south "Some Preachers" has been reported to steal the instrumental runway from Sheba Potts-Wright's "The Existent Deal". "The Real Deal" was showtime published and copyrighted by Ecko Records and Sheba Potts-Wright on her LET YOUR MIND Become BACK album in 2011. At the fourth dimension of this news story, the YouTube video for Bullwinkle'due south "Some Preachers" had not yet been taken downwards by the victims.

Bishop Bullwinkle's "Hell Naw 2 To Da Naw Naw"--an unheard-of and explicit preaching sermon set to R&B--caused a awareness throughout the chitlin' circuit over the form of the last year, dwarfing the usual numbers for southern soul video (the genre's main exposure for singles) and giving the idiosyncratic singer/preacher instant notoriety and "headliner" status in chitlin' excursion venues. And still, the vocal was never made into a record, never offered for auction.

"Hell Naw 2 To Da Naw Naw'southward" first chart appearance was on....

Daddy B. Nice'due south Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For. . .

-------JUNE 2015---------

1. "Hell 2 Da Naw Naw"---------Bishop Bullwinkle

A one-in-a-grand, hybrid gospel/southern soul vocal arising from a preacher's (or would-be preacher's) frustrations with the hypocrisy of his fellow churchgoers, "Hell To The Naw Naw's" six-plus blissful minutes go by manner too speedily. Already a striking in Florida (Tampa, Orlando), the song has clustered 150,000 plays on YouTube and an astounding number of enthusiastic comments. And who wouldn't dear someone named Bishop Bullwinkle?

Listen to Bishop Balderdash Winka singing "Hell To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

One of the only two available YouTube versions of the song at the time was a video of a local shopping-mall appearance with Bishop Bullwinkle singing in front of a boombox for a few by turns enthusiastic and bemused onlookers and passersby. The video included J. Anthony Brown from former Dallas talk-testify host Tom Joyner'south morn show snatching the microphone from Bullwinkle and singing a verse of his own inspiration. (That video has also been removed by Bigg Robb.)

However, the initial online recognition for the song (your Daddy B. Nice afterwards discovered) came in December of 2014, when the blog Southern Soul Paradise made "Hell To The Naw Naw" its "song of the day" and reported:

"This is one of those songs that is in and so much demand in the south --- turn on any radio station in south central Alabama and you volition hear it."

At the time, the song yet hadn't made information technology to radio stations in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Bishop Bullwinkle made an advent the following month as Daddy B. Squeamish'south #3 Single for July:

three. "Some Preachers"-----Bishop Bullwinkle

I don't remember you'll be hearing this follow-upwards to "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on the radio. Information technology's true clandestine African-American "folk" civilisation, undiluted and outrageously raw, and it's the reason your Daddy B. Prissy got into southern soul in the starting time identify. If you think Bishop Bullwinkle "crosses the line" with lyrics like:

"Some preachers ain't shit.
Some preachers, they demand to quit...."

....There's much worse. Mind to "retired preacher" Bullwinkle's total story in the song. Yous'll empathize his anger and passion, and you'll realize he's following in the huge footprints of Clarence Carter, Marvin Sease and Bobby Rush.

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Some Preachers" on YouTube.

******

Meanwhile, the letters kept pouring in--"More than Bedlam For Bishop Bullwinkle"--seeking to buy the (not-existent) 2 singles or CD.

By August the Bishop was a full-fledged phenomenon:

******

From Daddy B. Prissy's Corner
August 22, 2015:

BISHOP BULLWINKLE BREAKS OUT! THE OFFICIAL VIDEO OF "HELL NAW 2 DA NAW NAW" DRAWS A Million-PLUS VIEWS IN LESS THAN A Month!

Mind to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell 2 Da Naw Naw" (The Official Video) on YouTube.

Read more than nearly Bishop Bullwinkle in Daddy B. Nice's Mailbag.

And hither's a glimpse of the pre-"Hell To The Naw Naw" Bishop Bullwinkle, every bit an X-rated preacher-slash-stand up-upward comedian. Videos of his pre-singing appearances are proliferating on YouTube. There is a long tradition of story-tellers in the chitlin' circuit, Willie P. Richardson, Poonanny, and Marcel amid them. Bishop Bullwinkle appears to come out of that lineage--with a dose of Richard Pryor.

--Daddy B. Prissy

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle story-telling "County Jail" on YouTube.

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle preaching "The Great Titanic" on YouTube.

******

Gradually, biographical details of the mesmerizing, gray-whiskered, preacher-rapper emerged. Bishop Bullwinkle is the performing proper noun of Bernard Thomas, 68-69 years onetime, of either-or-both Plant City, Alabama and Tampa, Florida.

******

Bigg Robb, when asked past your Daddy B. Nice almost Bishop Bullwinkle...

....was surprisingly sanguine and costless of Bishop Bullwinkle "the person".

Asked nigh the upcoming concert (Run into Daddy B. Squeamish's Concert Agenda) on Black Friday in Vicksburg when he and Bishop Bullwinkle would share the same venue for the first time, Robb said:

"Personally, I love Bernard Thomas aka Bishop Bullwinkle as a person. He is very witty and creative. The homo is 68 years young and living his dream. That's a blessing from God."

But!... (Robb continued)

"As far as his infringement of my copyright, infringement of my master recording, infringement of my trademark, and exploitation of these things without compensating the songwriters, publisher and the record company which owns "Looking For A State Girl," I call up it'southward ridiculous and wrong.

"Those familiar with my catalog of music know that I have replayed and remade many songs from diverse songwriters. Put my ain twist on them. And I've been blessed to have hits including these guys' music with my ideas, but I have always contacted the publishers and paid the royalties. Also as I normally shout out the originator of the music on the tape. It'south called "respect" and "post-obit the rules".

"Delight understand I am happy for the success of 'Hell 2 The Naw Naw" and look forward to performing on the same pecker with Bullwinkle. I'chiliad not mad at him for using my music. It's the biggest vocal in Southern Soul this year and I co-wrote it."

And when Bigg Robb says he "co-wrote" "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw," yous tin can exist sure of this. He means his name will be on the copyright if and when the song is published.

RE: BIGG ROBB TAKES Downwardly BISHOP BULLWINKLE'S "HELL NAW T0 THE NAW NAW" FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

BISHOP BULLWINKLE RESPONDS WITH Anger AND Defiance

Daddy B. Dainty notes: In a requested phone interview with Daddy B. Nice that took place Saturday, Dec 12, 2015, Bishop Bullwinkle responded with anger and defiance to Bigg Robb's allegations of copyright infringement. The bulk of the interview was profanity-laced, and information technology was difficult to confirm details because of the one-sided, tirade-like nature of the exchange. Bullwinkle was sympathetic at times, simply more often stressed, passionate, words tumbling out faster than he could recollect 'em or I could write 'em.

"Bigg Robb is a god-damned liar!" "Bigg Robb is a mother-f--g liar! Print information technology just like that on your website!"

This was Bullwinkle'south pre-eminent theme, repeated a dozen times.

"John Ward ain't called me dorsum. I'm waiting. He own't done nothing. Bigg Robb told a big lie. I couldn't get a sample (from Robb). He didn't want to do it. Bigg Robb want to ain the fucking song. We were going to partner. Then Robb want 70%. 'You take 30%.'

"Bigg Robb is a fucking liar. He been sampling records the whole fourth dimension. Then he have "Naw Naw" off a YouTube. NBC contacted me. They wanna practise a Tv bear witness on 'Naw Naw.' Bigg Robb contacted them and NBC dropped the show. NBC said it was because it sampled Marvin Gaye! And Bigg Robb was a friend of mine.

"They can all go to hell. I got a new runway coming. I ain't taking that shit. Bigg Robb sent me some papers. I gave 'em to my lawyers. Permit's go to court. What fourth dimension we going? What's the fucking wait on? If I did something wrong, why ain't I in copyright court?

That's the existent truth. If I disrespect y'all, have me to courtroom. Bigg Robb needs to get his lawyer and his thick pieces of newspaper and talk to my lawyer. That's the truth."

--Daddy B. Nice

Tidbits

ane.

More Bedlam For Bishop Bullwinkle:

Letters from Daddy B. Nice's Mailbag, Summertime of 2015:

More than Bedlam FOR BISHOP BULLWINKLE

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw ii Da Naw Naw (The Official Video)" on YouTube.

Daddy B Squeamish--

Can you tell me where I can purchase Bishop Bullwinkle's CD featuring Hell to the Naw?

Lugenia

Daddy B. Dainty replies:

Hi, Lugenia. No CD. That'due south the bad news. Hither'south the good news. Bishop Bullwinkle simply posted the "official video" on YouTube and it contains instructions for an mp3 download!

One proficient sign of time to come product: Bishop Bullwinkle is touring. For instance, he'll be performing in Jackson, Alabama (not Jackson, Ms.) next weekend.(Run across Daddy B. Squeamish's Concert Calendar.)

Another side note: T.Chiliad. Soul protege Tha Don is coming out with a unmarried called "Hell Naw." There is no connection with the Bishop Bullwinkle song. Tha Don's song is not a cover and is in fact a take-off on Pokey's "My Sidepiece," Only it definitely traffics in Bishop Bullwinkle's territory by inviting confusion with Bishop Bullwinkle'due south title.

Daddy B. Prissy

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw two Da Naw Naw (The Official Video)" and DOWNLOAD, if desired," on YouTube.

***********

**********

2.

RE: BISHOP BULLWINKLE'S HELL 2 DA NAW NAW!

Daddy...

What's the discussion on this guy? Does he has a CD or just 2 singles out? I tin can't find anything online.....

R...

Daddy B. Nice replies:

Yeah. Just the two singles. Not and so long ago, but the one single. Bishop Bullwinkle is what I call "insider" music, meaning it's only for the fanatical few (like you and your DBN) who have a need for new music adjoining on hunger. You lot might say southern soul equally a genre is "insider" music. In this day and historic period of media and money everywhere, it's difficult to visualize a portion of the population likewise poor to brand the leap from recording a song with "Pro Tools" to distributing an bodily record to the fans, but that's the facts of life in the poor South. Count your blessings, though. By putting those songs on YouTube, Bishop Bullwinkle has done what southern soul does best: given the fans an unfiltered taste of the real affair, the spiritual source of popular music. And he may go it together with a CD withal.

Daddy B. Prissy

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw 2 Da Naw Naw" on YouTube.

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Some Preachers" on YouTube.

See Daddy B. Overnice'due south Top 10 "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles ("Hell ii Da Naw Naw" #one June fifteen and "Some Preachers" #three July 15).

R... replies

Thanks...... Nosotros don't go to hear a lot of soul music in the Washington DC surface area, on the radio... Just on line..... Cheers

***********

three.

May 13, 2016: News & Notes

The Latest On Bishop Bullwinkle

Actually funny. The comments are pouring in near what people would say "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" to. Here'south a sampling:

When you lot lose everything in Minecraft and can't find it when u die?

when you're not a little child so you can't chronicle...?

Practice you desire Donald Trump for president??

When you discover out zombies are at your door?

When you walk in to your room mate jerking and he asks for a hand?

When you meet a spider on the ceiling.?

wen u see someone take out a Ouija lath?

When they wish you a Marvelous Mon on the intercom?

When you in the hood and half dozen people with guns indicate out you proverb empty them pockets and y'all realize they are faux donkey rpg players?

When you finally see your kids disrespecting you?

When Your Teacher Gives You Bunch Of Homework ?

When your mom asks if she can come across your history on YouTube.?

When the Everyday donkey eater ask for a hit of the Joint?

Despite all the memes and funny jokes, can we just have a moment to appreciate how good this vocal is?
God damn, i actually dig this song. Hell 2 Da Naw!?

And so on and and so forth....the jokes roll on and on, down the page.

Mind to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube. Printing "Bear witness More" and scroll downward the left sidebar column for comments.

As well, regarding ongoing copyright problems on "Hell Naw To The Naw" (see Bishop Bullwinkle creative person guide), the Bishop now has a new version of "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube, featuring a different instrumental organization, non quite as good--in your Daddy B. Nice's opinion--but still interesting.

Listen to "Bishop Bullwinkle Hell To Da Naw,Naw,Naw With Da Wheel" on YouTube. (It'south already got 160,000 visits.)

Lastly, your Daddy B. Nice recently closed out a column on "3 Red Herrings Southern Soul Artists Should Ignore" (scroll all the way down this folio) with this paragraph:

I suspect that when big urban-radio chains tell southern soul artists to "tone it downward," what they really mean is "to gentrify"--adopt the urban r&b signatures--and that's simply not going to happen. Because that wouldn't be southern soul, would information technology?

I want to modify that to read:

I suspect that when big urban-radio bondage tell southern soul artists to "tone it down," what they really mean is "to gentrify"--adopt the urban r&b signatures--and that's but not going to happen. Considering that wouldn't be southern soul, would information technology? Not as long as Bishop Bullwinkle is in the house.

--Daddy B. Nice

**********

4.

Daddy B. Prissy on Plagiarism, Copyright Law, Copyright Infringement, Bigg Robb & Bishop Bullwinkle

December 1, 2015: RE-POSTED FROM DADDY B. Dainty'S CALENDAR/MAILBAG

RE:

BIGG ROBB TAKES DOWN BISHOP BULLWINKLE'S "HELL NAW TO THE NAW NAW" FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Daddy B. Nice notes: An individual in the southern soul community, who chooses to remain anonymous (a request I'll honor because he'southward paid his dues a dozen times over), has asked me to comment on the upshot of copyright infringement prompted past the news that Bishop Bullwinkle used an unauthorized instrumental track to record "Hell Naw two Da Naw Naw" and others. The individual fifty-fifty notes your Daddy B. Prissy'southward own travails over the years with websites stealing his copyrighted "Concert Calendar."

Bishop Bullwinkle: Meet story on Daddy B. Squeamish'south Corner.

Daddy B. Nice replies:

Get-go of all, I was as surprised every bit just about everybody else that the Bullwinkle instrumental tracks were stolen. Since the Bigg Robb and Sheba Potts-Wright singles weren't favorites (often-played tracks) of mine, I had to go dorsum and mind to the originals to even believe information technology. The testify is conclusive. Bullwinkle lifted the instrumental tracks on both--lock, stock, and smoking barrel.

Secondly, I want the artists to know I'grand in solidarity with them on this effect. When Daddy B. Nice's "Concert Calendar" (right-hand column of this folio) gets ripped off past competing websites, it puts your Daddy B. Dainty into a "tiresome fire" very like what a recording artist feels upon hearing his instrumental runway in someone else's song.

A little personal groundwork. About fifteen years ago, I plant myself travelling in the Deep Southward, following my daughter, a Marine pilot, to her various military bases, and in the course of these trips I discovered a form of contemporary rhythm & blues that was no longer played nationwide all the same held passion, musical integrity, and a devotion to musicality that hiphop had largely left backside.

For the first time in my life, I knew I was the right guy (everything in my life had prepared me for this) in the right place (the Muddied South beingness the last place in the world I would ever have imagined myself) at the right fourth dimension. I truly felt there was something of import going on here (southern soul music) and--if not me--who was going to memorialize it? I couldn't acquit the thought of this music appearing briefly in this tiny bust of the country and disappearing forever.

So I started the website. I took out a second mortgage on my house (leading to my second divorce), sunk 35K into SouthernSoulRnB and my own calculator literacy, and put in 25-30 unpaid hours per week over the last 10 years into this gigantic, e'er-growing anthill of information and stance.

Then when I see a competing website who has stolen my hard-researched data from my "Concert Calendar" above me on a search engine page for Ms. Jody's upcoming concerts, I want to "kill."

This, readers, is what a recording artist feels similar when he hears his song ripped off, inserted into a competitor'southward vocal, playing on the radio or on YouTube. It'southward the ultimate, stinging slap in the face--a statement that all the work and years of training the original artist did was for naught...

....Someone else is taking the credit and reaping the rewards that were rightfully yours. This is particularly galling in the southern soul "industry," where the financial rewards are so minor, or even non-existent, and where the accolades of peers and fans are oft the simply recompense.

In the world of journalism from which I came, it's called plagiarism and, traditionally (I won't speak for the wild-and-woolly digital age) existence accused of plagiarism was a stigma strong enough to destroy a writer's career. And yet, there are only so many words and phrases to be used.

What if I asked you lot, as a person with at least a passing acquaintance with movies, where the expression, "I'one thousand gonna brand him an offer he can't decline," came from. Most everyone would say, "Why, that's the Godfather (Marlon Brando) in the picture "The Godfather," from the volume by Mario Puzo.

In fact, that expression is a cliche and has been used again and over again. The other twenty-four hour period, I heard the villain in a black-and-white John Wayne western from 1933 ("Riders Of Destiny," long before "The Godfather") say the very same words--"I'm gonna brand him an offer he tin can't pass up"--not once only twice.

So in that location are two bug here. In the entertainment business, nothing is new. At that place are only and so many words and phrases to exist used. It's the same with music, only almost people don't "go information technology" the way they exercise with words. They don't understand that musical phrases are as specific and oft-used as are words.

Maybe, because I'1000 a erstwhile bassist (12 years acoustic bass, classically-trained), I believe the bass line is usually the central part (or phrase) of whatsoever instrumental rail. (Drums, of course, too.) One of the slinkiest bass lines ever recorded motored Carl Sims "It Ain't A Juke Joint Without The Dejection" (besides a great YouTube video), only it wasn't the first time the bass line was used. Johnnie Taylor put down the same instrumental rails a decade earlier in his "(Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed) Y'all Know It Ain't Correct." And it's anyone's judge how many iterations of the phrase preceded Taylor's.

Or, if you're really intent on a copyright puzzle and the frequency with which musical phrases are reinvented, compare the instrumental tracks of two of the most widely-known classics in popular music: Michael Jackson's "Baton Jean" and B.B. Male monarch's "Big Boss Human."

Southern soul music is rife with such examples. Lebrado'due south "Coffee" is playing in my ear just at present; the bass line is from Marvin Sease's "Do Y'all Qualify?" I seldom listen to a song that doesn't remind me of another song or reference some other. It'due south a sign of the genre's vitality and communal power.

The problem with Bishop Bullwinkle's "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" isn't in the quality of the work. On the contrary, once in awhile something comes forth that's totally fresh and different, something that makes everyone feel like they've been creating inside a "box". "Hell To The Naw Naw" is such a tape.

....Bishop Bullwinkle'due south song is more memorable than Bigg Robb'southward "Looking For A Country Girl," only as Bigg Robb'southward comprehend of "Good Loving Will Make Y'all Cry"--properly licensed by Bigg Robb, by the fashion--was more than memorable than Carl Marshall's original. You could say Bishop Bullwinkle's "Hell Naw 2 Da Naw Naw" and Bigg Robb'south "Expert Lovin' (Remix)" were the highest artistic fruition of their corresponding musical phrases.

But heed carefully. Click the two links in the previous paragraph and compare them (they're identical), considering it's important to understand the ability and allure of SHEER Amusement, a temptation like gold fever of satisfying hordes of fans, that makes supposedly ethical folks--people similar Bishop Bullwinkle--abruptly lose their moral compass.

"Hell Naw 2 Da Naw Naw" lifts the entire instrumental rails, intact, from Bigg Robb's "Looking For A Land Girl," and just ii years later on the former was released and copyrighted.

What makes people think they tin can steal creative property? Is it because they're contemptuous, used to taking short cuts, and retrieve they can go abroad with it? Is it because they're entitled, and used to getting everything they desire--instant gratification? Is it considering they're so marginalized, then impoverished, and then browbeaten-down that they no longer believe their actions accept real-life consequences?

In that location are two ways performers, writers and producers can protect themselves from being intellectually mugged, and both are called "copyrighting". Compositions (the underlying structure of the song, including melodies, lyrics, chords, etc.) and Sound Recordings (the stock-still principal recording and/or audio file) are two carve up copyrights.

Compositions are called "publishing rights," while recordings are called "main rights." Music publishers and songwriters control the publishing rights. Record labels and recording artists (if they ain the label) ain and control the chief rights.

Under the present copyright law, a work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. A work is created when information technology is "stock-still" or embodied in a re-create or record for the get-go time. Neither registration in the Copyright Office nor publication is required for copyright protection nether the law. At that place are, however, certain advantages to registration, including the establishment of a public record of the copyright claim. This is obviously helpful if yous do have to resort to litigation.

Composers and recording artists are compensated with royalties via "cue sheets" used past music organizations like BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) and ASCAP (American Social club of Composers, Authors and Publishers), which runway requests for apply of the artists' material.

If yous're an artist like Bishop Bullwinkle desiring to dip into some other creative person'due south work, you'll offset need to enquire the question, "What am I looking to use? Am I creating a cover song? Am I sampling an existing recording?" Knowing the difference between compositions (the publishing rights) and sound recordings (the masters rights) is key to determining the necessary license.

Doing things The Right Fashion (i.e. existence a professional) is simple. It merely takes courage. Communication. At its most basic level, searching for a phone number, calling the creative person, producer or composer and negotiating permission. People ever ask me, "How do I get a agree of such-and-such artist?" And I always say, "Purchase their CD and read the liner notes." Is ten bucks and then much to get to where y'all're going?

No man is an island, standing in front of a disk board under a tent in a shopping mall. Fifty-fifty that man--Bishop Bullwinkle--may find his short-cutted, stolen-slash-sampled creation an unexpected southern-soul hit single, along with all the scrutiny and notoriety that comes with fame.

--Daddy B. Nice

P.South. Here are some helpful links for artists seeking more information on copyrights and song registration.

CD BABY

BMI

U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE

ASCAP

***********

5.

February 1, 2016: 2015 Southern Soul Music Laurels Winner

Best Mid-Tempo Vocal: "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" by Bishop Bullwinkle

Mind to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

Best Debut: "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" past Bishop Bullwinkle

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

All-time Songwriter: Bigg Robb & Bishop Bullwinkle: "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw"

Listen to Bishop Bullwinkle singing "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" on YouTube.

See Daddy B. Nice'southward Best of 2015.

**********

six. Bishop Bullwinkle: Messages from fans

Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice'southward Mailbag. Transferred to Bishop Bullwinkle Artist Guide Baronial 2018.

Looking For Bishop Bullwinkle

To whom it may concern:

I am sending this electronic mail because I have older parents who don't utilise modern technology.

...My stepfather is looking for Bishop Bro Winkels song hell naw...on CD for his car. Tin you tell me where I can purchase him this CD. I live in Memphis, Tn

Thank you
Margo

Daddy B. Nice replies:

Margo, I volition post your e-mail on the Mailbag page, and right beneath it, you'll see a alphabetic character that came in just a week before yours, explaining where on the Cyberspace you can download Bishop Bullwinkle's hit song. Hopefully, yous can find some style to download information technology and burn it onto a CDR for your parents. This is the first opportunity to get Bishop Bullwinkle'south music in the two years since "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" came out.

See Daddy B. Nice's Creative person Guide to Bishop Bullwinkle.

Bishop Bullwinkle on Spotify!

Dear daddbnice:

I just went on your website and saw that Denise LaSalle passed away. I am then sorry to read the news. She was a very talented lady and I enjoyed listening to her songs in the few years since I've discovered Southern Soul Blues. I am sorry for the loss for her friends and family and for the fans.

I wanted to allow yous know that Bishop Bullwinkle has 3 songs on Spotify that I was alerted to via my "Release Radar" feature. These new releases post every Friday. The song that posted to my radar was "Hell to da Naw". The version is the one that is on You Tube with the wheel. The vocal has already has 12,065 plays since beingness released yesterday. That won't get it viral, merely that is pretty good. I as well checked Google Play (available for 99 cents but if yous have a subscription with them yous tin stream for free) and on Amazon (also for 99 cents only tin stream for free with Amazon Prime).

Even though I tin can stream for free on Spotify and Amazon Prime number I am going to bear witness some dear past buying the mp3.

Please spread the word since I know you lot love the song and and so do I and a lot of others.

Christina Dodson

Daddy B. Nice replies:

Thanks so much, Christina. That is peachy news for Bishop Bullwinkle fans who have repeatedly requested where to buy his music over the last couple of years. The "bicycle" version of "Hell Naw" isn't quite as good as the original "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw" with Bigg Robb's instrumental rail, simply I'thousand not going to quibble or even go there, given the copyright implications.

Christina replies:

I am also guessing that information technology's on iTunes merely haven't checked since I don't use that. I take read all of the issues regarding the copyright on your website. I wish they they could be resolved because the original does audio better.

Run into Daddy B. Nice'due south Artist Guide to Bishop Bullwinkle.

***********

Honorary "B" Side

"Some Preachers Ain't Shit"

shellthenteme.blogspot.com

Source: https://www.southernsoulrnb.com/artistguide.cfm?aid=621

Share this post