User:BoppDuWopp

cdbaby.com/Fathertime4BoppDuWopp Started in the 1970s in Toledo Ohio! On July 27,2010 Bopp Du Wopp Became a registered Service mark issued by the USPTO.

It was a time in which being able to Groove off the top of ones head and create raw music impromptu from the Heart.A Genuine American Music with African Americans being the main contributors .Keith Porter aka Fathertime and Namon Henry coined the name BoppDuWopp music and have been forever expanding a growing following of the music. BoppDuWopp's first record "The Greatest Thing in the Universe"a single was released independently in the midwestern U.S.and took the region by storm.BoppDuWopp released it's second single which started with the same amount of success. The plan was to than release a full length Album and commence a tour to support promotion and sales. The change from an Analog musical format to the digital age was a major setback for BoppDuWopp The momentum came to an immediate halt as a result of the overnight change in the industry from vinyl records to CDs. In 1988 an independent 12 inch LP could be pressed in Detroit at a cost of approximately 1200.00 for 1000 LPS including the set up cost. Our radio promoter Gilardi informed us that radio would no longer service VINYL RECORDS they wanted CDs. The price difference was an unobtainable 100,000.00 for 50-100 prototypes technology was against us as we couldn't afford to put out CDs. David Cone co Founder of Bopp Du Wopp projected where the music industry was headed and became involved with the DART proceedings in front of the Library of Congress. It has taken BoppDuWopp over twenty two years to recover. More to follow!!!!!! In 1989 BoppDuWopp in need of some sweetening to the works already in progress. Keith and David on a road trip to Detroit met @George Clinton and the Parliment Funkedelic crowd at the Super Disc in Detroit. George was trying to rebake PFunk on Grand Master Ampex tape to no avail. BoppDuWopp had the opportunity to meet Mark and Jeff Bass. The Funky Bassment Studio at that time was housed in Oak Park Michigan.The later of which was on 8 Mile in Ferndale what became the title of the Academy award winning movie "8 Mile" starring Eminem. It is still a controversy of fact as to the Baseline and Rift of the song "Lose Yourself" belongs to Keith Porter Fathertime. Marky used to recall how we kept the light on at Bassment Sound of course until Eminem blew up nationally on the Hip Hop scene. Two projects were completed during this time in Detroit. W.B.D.W. which can be listen to at Keith"s podomatic. "Banned in Toledo" which was Produced by pioneer Fathertime and was very possibly be the first Hip Hop in the U.S. http://boppduwoppcast.podomatic.com/