Much of today's music, and even the music of yesterday uses elements from other songs.  Some you may recognize, others you may not.  Here is a ongoing thread chronicling some of them ...


One of the BIG hits of 2011 is 'On the Floor' by Jennifer Lopez.  Can you spot the sample?


Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - On the Floor (2011)
US #5 | CANADA #2 | UK #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4H_Zoh7G5A

KAOMA - LAMBADA (1989)
UK #4 | CANADA #6 (1990) | US #46 (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkamW1YneAA

Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, the American/Canadian duo known as Duck Sauce had a massive club hit with an hommage to a big nosed legend.  What was also awesome about the song was that not only did it sample a classic song, it also sampled a classic album cover ...

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2010/09/duck-sauce-barbra-streisand.jpg


Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (2010)
UK #3 | CANADA #35 (2011) | US #89 (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_zwdmz0hE

Boney M - Gotta Go Home (1979)
UK # 12 | CANADA #11 | US DID NOT CHART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EjLWh2150I

Boney M - Gotta Go Home (1979)
UK # 12 | CANADA #11 | US DID NOT CHART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EjLWh2150I


What's interesting about this video... The steel drum section is the DRSSB, which stands for Dutch Rhythm Steel & Show Band. Internationally known as Trinidad Oil Company... :D

^ That's cool.  That Calendar Song is quite bouncy.


Here's one from the 80s to the 70s.  Martin Fry and Mark White, core members of ABC, were big fans of Smokey Robinson, so they wrote a song about him and it became a BIG hit in 1987.  But not only was it a tribute to Smokey, they even sampled one of his songs.  Can you spot the sample?


ABC - When Smokey Sings (1987)
US #5 | CANADA #5 | UK #11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N6PYNRF8mg

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of A Clown (1970)
US #1 | CANADA #7 | UK #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww7FQILQec

Here's one you might know, but have forgotten about...

Say No Go - De La Soul (1989)

US #3 (Dance Music/Club Play Singles) / UK #18 / NL #8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08X5CVfL0bk


And no, not the obvious one...


Baby Let Me Take You - Detroit Emeralds (1972)

US #24 / UK dnc / NL dnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvCiGOATpCA

Man, I remember both those songs.  Back in the day, De La soul were quite popular in the clubs. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime {1991}


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FcNurUkPC4

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness {1974}





Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnuSsOZ148

Ladae! - Party 2 Nite {1996}


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPVcoXZkLg

The Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go {1976}




Dan

I'm pretty sure S&M by Rihanna samples Master and Servant by Depeche Mode (some people say it samples 'Let's Go To Bed' by the Cure, which is similar, but considering M&S is also about S&M, im going with Depeche)

Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, the American/Canadian duo known as Duck Sauce had a massive club hit with an hommage to a big nosed legend.
Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (2010)
Boney M - Gotta Go Home (1979)


Thanks.  They got the catchiest bit of the Boney M track and turned it into something awesome.  That made me look for the original Duck Sauce MP3, and during my search I stumbled across this little... well, gem is probably too strong a word.  But that isn't necessarily a bad thing.  

Turning their existing remix of Barbara Streisand into Barbra Streisand (O-God Remix) / Barbara Streisand (O-God Remix) couldn't have taken very long, and thrning that remix into Duck Sauce: Charlie Streisand (O-God Winner Edit) couldn't have taken more than an hour, but it was more than enough to get me laughing my ass off.  Long Live O-God, his blood is tiger, and the steel in his drums is made from the drop tanks from F-18s.   O-God took awesome and turned it into epic (duh!) winning!

You Know You're Old When: The music world is moving so fast that something that went viral in spring of 2010 is "retro" by the time the Charlie Sheen remix comes out in spring of 2011.

Thanks.  They got the catchiest bit of the Boney M track and turned it into something awesome.  That made me look for the original Duck Sauce MP3, and during my search I stumbled across this little... well, gem is probably too strong a word.  But that isn't necessarily a bad thing. 

Turning their existing Barbra Streisand (O-God Remix) / Barbara Streisand (O-God Remix) into Duck Sauce: Charlie Streisand (O-God Winner Edit) couldn't have taken more than an hour or two, but it was more than enough to get me laughing my ass off.  Long Live O-God, his blood is tiger, and the steel in his drums is made from the drop tanks from F-18s.  O-God took awesome and turned it into epic (duh!) winning!

You Know You're Old When: The music world is moving so fast that something that went viral in April 2010 is "retro" by the time the Charlie Sheen remix comes out in April 2011.


LOL That was great.

LOL That was great.


I dunno what's worse, the fact that I had to double-check "April" only to discover it was "March", and replace it with "spring", or that you were on it before I fixed it.  WINNING!

LOL That was great.


Maybe I'm not so old after all.

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I still beat Glee to it by a week and a half!

Dang, for a song that never made the US Top 40, it sure is getting quite the exposure.  I wonder what ol' big nose thinks about the song?

She now joins Michael Caine, Robert DeNiro and Clint Eastwood (among others) to have their name in a hit song title.

Dang, for a song that never made the US Top 40, it sure is getting quite the exposure.  I wonder what ol' big nose thinks about the song?


Song?  Oh, dear.  Now that I've looked, there's now a whole album.

There's an evil part of me that hopes she misses the point - that the song is actually a tribute to her - and that she flips out and sues everybody involved. 

If she does, it'll be the second time the Streisand Effect has affected Barbra Streisand.  (In addition to being one of the few celebrities with a top 40 track named after her, she's pretty much the only celebrity who has an Internet truism named after her.)

^ I seen that album in stores.  'Barbra Streisand' is bringing fame in the US to the Boney M track, which in 1979, was popular almost everywhere but the US.

I was gonna say with the popularity of this track, we may see a Boney M reunion, but without the late great Bobby Farrell, it would not be the same

^ I seen that album in stores.  'Barbra Streisand' is bringing fame in the US to the Boney M track, which in 1979, was popular almost everywhere but the US.

I was gonna say with the popularity of this track, we may see a Boney M reunion, but without the late great Bobby Farrell, it would not be the same


It wouldn't be the same, but I'd go see it.  Boney M was one of the few late-70s disco cheese acts that has stood the test of time.  I'll bet the surviving members can still bring it vocally, and the rest is up to the people behind the keyboards.

As for DJ Doug Laurent's take on it, I've got the album, have been listening to it over the past few days, and it's worth getting, if only for the novelty value.  The "Club Mix"es of tracks you remember are quick-and-dirty mashups of the original track against a more modern backbeat (in the way that 30 years ago, "Hooked On $FOO" could turn anything from Mendelssohn to ABBA into a pop hit by adding a back beat). 

Back to 2011, the two 15-minute megamashupwhatevemrixes of Boney M tracks are worth the price of admission, and the mix of "Gotta Go Home" is, of course, the perfect template upon which to inflict any sample you like, you get the Marilyn Monroe version for free, and of course, you already have the Barbra Streisand and Charlie Sheen variants. 

Dang, for a song that never made the US Top 40, it sure is getting quite the exposure.  I wonder what ol' big nose thinks about the song?

She now joins Michael Caine, Robert DeNiro and Clint Eastwood (among others) to have their name in a hit song title.


Sorry for going slightly off topic here, but let's not forget Fred Astaire...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCK3anBTDU

Sorry for going slightly off topic here, but let's not forget Fred Astaire...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCK3anBTDU


Can't say as I know of that one, but it has a neat little funky beat to it.

I see that, and raise you this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5qyNF-MLaQ

Can't say as I know of that one, but it has a neat little funky beat to it.


Mo were a shortlived Dutch band, and the song only made #18 in our Top 40. I don't think it made international charts (except maybe in some parts of Asia).



I see that, and raise you this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5qyNF-MLaQ




Not familiar with that one. :-\\ But that's a great song! 8)

Mo were a shortlived Dutch band, and the song only made #18 in our Top 40. I don't think it made international charts (except maybe in some parts of Asia).

Can't say as I had heard of it, but it was catchy.


Not familiar with that one. :-\\ But that's a great song! 8)


'Just Like Fred Astaire' was the 23rd UK hit for the group James.  I don't think it made much noise outside of the UK.  The album 'Millionaires' that it was released on did not even get a world wide release.  Back when it came out in 1999, I had to pay big bucks to special order it through a CD store.

Turning their existing remix of Barbara Streisand into Barbra Streisand (O-God Remix) / Barbara Streisand (O-God Remix) couldn't have taken very long, and thrning that remix into Duck Sauce: Charlie Streisand (O-God Winner Edit) couldn't have taken more than an hour, but it was more than enough to get me laughing my ass off.  Long Live O-God, his blood is tiger, and the steel in his drums is made from the drop tanks from F-18s.   O-God took awesome and turned it into epic (duh!) winning!


Of course now there are remixes with video.  #WINNING!

-Tx7nZt6BRo

Tom Loud's Video Dance-a-Rama: with video from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hot Shots, and moar!  (I needed a new keyboard after the bit where Superman tried to shake that blasted dove off his hand, accompanied by scratching work.)

Back on the subject... I'm sure Jason already knows this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3JIEoJnzrE


The song uses heavy sampling from the original 1977 version by Italian singer/actress/tv host Raffaella Carra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040QmKZqQm0

The English version of the song (Do It Do It Again) was a UK #9 hit, and the original Italian version hit #3 in the Netherlands.

^ I was not aware of that one, but I am definately going get a copy of it.  Bob Sinclair and Rafella Carra are excellent

Here's a new one I am enjoying quite alot ...

NEW:   Bingo Players - Cry (Just A Little) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBpWdwXzpMk

OLD:   Brenda Russell - Piano in the Dark (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7u5GtSIC5k&ob=av2n

Song?  Oh, dear.  Now that I've looked, there's now a whole album.


Duck Sauce vs. Boney M. vs. Barbra Striesand = 2010.
Duck Sauce vs. Glee = Spring 2011.
Duck Sauce vs. My Little Pony = Pony Sauce, Rainbow Dash.

(It was so simple, someone had to do it.)

F-EPt8pgT28

Nice cover art, now to find someone to make the video...