World’s First Beatboxing Champion in 1938

World’s First Beatboxing Champion in 1938 See a playlist of our channel’s best clips here: 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: 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: If you like fun and good quality archive footage then join our archive’s lively Facebook page: All 90,000 newsreels in the British Pathe archive can be viewed for free online