I’m gonna need extra time at the altar after this week!
Rudy Ray Moore was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and eventually moved to Cleveland and then Milwaukee. In Milwaukee, he preached in churches as well as worked as a nightclub dancer. He returned to Cleveland, working in clubs as a singer, dancer, and comedian, often appearing in character as Prince DuMarr. He joined the Army and served in an entertainment unit in Germany, where he was nicknamed the Harlem Hillbilly for singing country songs in R&B style. He developed an interest in comedy in the Army after expanding on a singing performance for other servicemen.
After his discharge he lived in Seattle and then Los Angeles, where he continued to work in clubs and was discovered by record producer Dootsie Williams.
By his own account, he was working at a record store in Hollywood in 1970 when he began buy viagra russia hearing obscene stories of “Dolemite” recounted by a local man named Rico. Moore began recording the stories, and assumed the role of “Dolemite” in his club act and on recordings. In 1970–71 he recorded three albums of material, Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens, where “with jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, [Moore] would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers.”
And we have to include this clip. A classic, CLASSIC delivery…why this man didn’t get an Oscar for this I’ll never know!
The Signifying Monkey
Ok, just look at some of the album covers for these raunchy dudes of the 70s era! And these are the only ones (the FEW) I could feature without fear of POU being classified as porn! Rudy Ray Moore’s Zodiac album is a classic!
