Roy Hammond, Soul Singer Who Wrote ‘Impeach The President,’ Dies at 81

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9/23/2020

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Gil Kaufman

Soul singer Roy Hammond, easiest known for writing and producing the Honey Drippers’ many times-sampled “Impeach The President,” has died at 81.

His daughter suggested the Contemporary York Times that Hammond died on Wednesday at his dwelling in Allendale, South Carolina, on yarn of liver most cancers.

Hammond changed into born on Aug. 3, 1939, in Newington, Georgia, and had needs of being a authentic boxer sooner than pivoting to song in the slow 1950s, atmosphere off a decade-future singing, writing and producing hits beginning with the Long Coastline, Long Island, community The Genies.

The community hit No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958 with “Who’s That Knockin’,” and after a stint in the Air Force, he obtained encourage to work in 1965 below his hang title (as Roy C.), releasing  the single “Shotgun Wedding,” which hit No. 14 on the R&B chart; he launched his debut solo album, That Shotgun Wedding Man in 1966.

He scored more hits during the slow 1960s and early 1970s, including “Bought To Catch Adequate (Of Your Sweet Admire Stuff)” and “Win now not Blame The Man.” He launched the Sex and Soul album in 1973. He issued two more albums as allotment of his Mercury Files deal, 1975’s Something Nice and 1977’s More Sex & More Soul, with an undercurrent of political and social agitation woven all the map through his work on songs equivalent to 1971’s Vietnam War thunder tune “Initiate Letter to the President” and More Sex & More Soul‘s pointed “Big, Big Grandson of a Slave.”

His most lasting legacy, however, came with a tune he wrote and produced for a community of Queens high schoolers known as the Honey Drippers, whose song he launched on his just Alaga designate. Their most necessary notice changed into the 1973 funk single “Impeach the President,” an agitation against then-president Richard Nixon.

“Some folks disclose that he’s responsible (that he’s responsible)/ Some folks disclose I create now not know (I create now not know)/ Some folks disclose, give him a large gamble (give him a large gamble)/ Aw, some folks disclose, wait till he’s convicted (till he’s convicted)/ Impeach the president,” they sang on the notice, which advocated for the impeachment of the President during the Watergate scandal that finally resulted in Nixon’s resignation.

The tune’s biggest affect, although, is in the booming drums cooked up by Hammond on the notice, which enjoy reportedly been sampled bigger than 600 instances on hip-hop tracks, including on MC Shan’s “The Bridge,” Eric B and Rakim’s “Eric B. is President” Kris Kross’ “Jump,” Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “The Power (Intro),” LL Frosty J’s “All around the Intention Lady,” Tupac Shakur’s “I Catch Round,” The Infamous B.I.G.’s “Improbable” and J. Cole’s “Moist Dreamz,” as effectively as songs by Nas, Flo Rida, Digable Planets, Janet Jackson, N.W.A, Big Daddy Kane, Aaliyah, Trot-DMC and the Jungle Brothers.

Are attempting “Impeach The President” below.