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Idris Muhammad, drummer extraordinaire, was born in 1939 and died on July 29, 2014. Read a biography from Drummerworld: www.drummerworld.com
Watch the video of the Beastie Boys performing "Shake Your Rump": www.youtube.com
Read a biography of The Sugarhill Gang: www.oldschoolhiphop.com
Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder - "hoo yah got them all in check" vocal section
The Sugarhill Gang’s version of “Apache” is based on the Incredible Bongo Band’s 1973 version. The Incredible Bongo Band are sampled on Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun on Paul’s Boutique.
Sample is the vocal piece "It's the Joint." Funky Four Plus One (also known as Funky 4 + 1) was the first hip hop group from The Bronx, to receive a recording deal. They were notable for having a female MC, and were the first rap group to perform live on a national television broadcast.
Sample is the funky guitar lick. Stevie Wonder wrote this song and recorded it himself on December 13, 1973 - he copyrighted it on January 3, 1974. His version was never released, as he gave it to Rufus, since Stevie was a fan of their lead singer, Chaka Khan. Ronnie Laws covered it on his debut album, "Pressure Sensitive."
Sample is the bass lick around 1:04. Rose Royce is a 9-member band who were the original backup band for Edwin Starr. They are best known for the soundtrack to "Car Wash." Read a biography here: www.rose-royce.com
Follow this link to the Dust Brothers' official website: www.dustbrothers.com
Sample is the "Shake your rump-ah" vocal piece.
This was the first Reggae song to get prominent airplay on major American radio stations. It was first played by Frankie Crocker at the New York radio station WBLS.
Sampled the drums from this track. Here's video of jazz session drummer Paul Humphrey on the Lawrence Welk Show: www.youtube.com
Sample is the beat with the owl-like sound.
Shake Your Rump sampled a drum fill from this track. Despite being one of Led Zeppelin's best known tracks, it would rarely show up in their live set, and when it did, not in its entirety.
Shake Your Rump sampled the murky electronic sound from the beginning of the track. Rose Royce's "Car Wash' album went gold and won the 1977 Grammy for Best Soundtrack.
Shake Your Rump sampled a hook from the beginning of this track. Rose Royce was previously named Total Concept Unlimited, then Magic Wand, and then Rose Royce to reflect the automotive theme of the Car Wash album.
Shake Your Rump sampled the disco call from the beginning and throughout this track.
Matt Dike was the co-founder of Delicious Vinyl, whose first release was Tone Loc's "On Fire/Cheeba Cheeba 12," whic set the stage for the wildly popular "Wild Thing."
Shake Your Rump sampled the drum fill from this track, most notably at the very beginning of Shake Your Rump. Alphonse Mouzon is an American jazz-fusion drummer and the owner of Tenacious Records.
Johnny Ryall was a real vagrant that hung around Mike D’s apartment after the Licensed To Ill era. Johnny Ryall wasn’t his real name, however. Mike D’s then-roommate Sean Carasov came up with the fictional history of the man, saying that he looked like a “fifty-miles-of-bad-road version of Chet Baker” and making up his backstory as a rockabilly musician who was only homeless because he was cheated out of royalties for Blue Suede Shoes.
Sampled the drums from the beginning and the 1,2,3,4 chant.
Sampling the wind noise at the beginning of this song. "One of These Days" is instrumental except for a distorted, low voice that says "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" (spoken by drummer Nick Mason) and features double-tracked bass guitars played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with each bass hard panned into one channel of stereo.
"Johnny Ryall" samples the "that's right ya'll, his name is" vocal piece of this track. Kurtis Blow became an ordained minister in 2009 and founded Hip Hop Ministry, a movement that incorporates rap into worship. Read a biography of Kurtis Walker, aka Kurtis Blow.: www.biography.com
Sampled the guitar riff. David Bromberg will be playing in Seattle at the Triple Door on Sunday, August 9th, 2015. He will, no doubt, perform "Sharon."
The album was certified Double Platinum 10 years after its release. It was released July 25, 1989, and on January 27, 1999 the RIAA certified it Double Platinum to commemorate 10,000,000 copies sold.
"Johnny Ryall" samples the drum break from this song. “Momma Miss America” is another instrumental track on the "McCartney" album, as the only voice heard is that of an engineer announcing that this is take one of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Springtime”. That title was soon changed, as what was to become two separate songs “ran into each other by accident and became one”. Made up as McCartney went along, it was recorded entirely at his London home.
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D commented that the "dirty secret" of black hip hop was that nobody wanted to admit Beastie Boys had the best beats of the time.
What do you call it when a band samples themselves? Self-"samplification"? "Kick it' in the final verse of "Johnny Ryall" comes from this song.
Sampling the chimes throughout this song. Clud One used Moog synthesizers to create its sound effects. Read an Allmusic biography of this "studio-bound disco unit": www.allmusic.com
"Saw the convertible driving by, Loaded up the slingshot and let one fly..." Here are the lyrics to "Egg Man": www.azlyrics.com
Sampled the drum break after "I'm on the roof." Listen to Sly and the Family Stone perform "Dance to the Music" in a live NYC Fillmore show: www.rollingstone.com
Samples "now they got me in a cell" vocal section. Public Enemy's latest, "Man Plans God Laughs," is due for release on August 7th, 2015.
Read about how Public Enemy crafted "Fight the Power": www.rollingstone.com
The main bass line and some percussion from "Superfly" are sampled. On his death at age 57, Aretha Franklin said, "“Curtis Mayfield is to soul music what Bach was to the classics and Gershwin and Irving Berlin were to pop music.” Read a biography: rockhall.com
The main beat of "Sport" is sampled. Lightnin' Rod was one of Harlem's The Last Poets, who "almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop.": www.allmusic.com
Samples a bass line from this track. Tower of Power have toured consistently since their 1968 formation, playing with artists like Elton John, Aerosmith, and the Grateful Dead, among others.
Eggman recycles lyrics from an early "Beastie Boys'" punk song. For some reason, a lot of people have no clue Beastie Boys started out as a punk band called The Young Aborigines -- with Kate Schellenbach (who later formed Luscious Jackson) on drums. The famous lyric "we are dressed in black, we snuck up around the back" was originally in 'Egg Raid On Mojo', from their hardcore days. The original track can be found on the compilation 'Some Old Bulls*it' from 1994.
This is the theme from the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." It's used in "Egg Man" as the sound effect at the end of the song.
John Williams recalls "Jaws" in this article: www.filmmusicsociety.org
This is Drew Barrymore's scream from the movie "ET."
"“High Plains Drifter” tells the story of a roaming kleptomaniac who likes to knock down mailboxes and fight with his girlfriend on his “cellular” (not a common activity in 1989). Much like Clint Eastwood’s character in the 1973 Western film that gave the song its title, our protagonist is a man of mystery." www.popmatters.com
Oops. "Now they got me in a cell," sampled in "Egg Man," is actually from Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise."
The main beat and bass line from "Those Shoes" are sampled. Matt Dike and Matt D thought that it was hilarious that an Eagles wong would have such a great beat for a hip hop song. The song, about predatory men who take advantage of lonely women, is not to be taken seriously, according to Don Henley. He said the album was "tongue-in-cheek cynical," and that "most of the humor is so dry nobody will think its funny."
"High Plains Drifter" samples "outta the car longhair." Read a biography of Loggins and Messina: www.logginsandmessina.com
Sampling the vocal section of the song title. "Suzy Is a Headbanger" was written in Tommy Ramone's loft. It was inspired by the 1947 film, Nightmare Alley."
The moaning throughout this song is sampled in "High Plains Drifter. " "Fatback" in this band's title refers to the particular New Orleans jazz beat that this New York band incorporated into their music.
From "Beastiemania,"we can be confident in knowing that “The Sounds of Science” has been performed in 52 known concerts.
Vocal sample of "I do not sniff the coke..." Pato Banton is a reggae singer and toaster from Birmingham, England. He received the nickname "Pato" from his stepfather, and "Banton" from the disc jockey slang for a "heavyweight DJ". Here's the official video for "Don't Sniff Coke": www.youtube.com
Famous guitar riff sampled. This is the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles and is the final song of "Abbey Road."
Paul McCartney wrote the song while the Beatles were in Rishikesh, India, studying Transcendental Meditation. The title of the song is a tribute to Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." while the chorus and background vocals pay homage to the Beach Boys' "California Girls".
"Walk right up to your face and dis you" vocal sample. Boogie Down Productions was a South Bronx hip-hop crew led by philosopher KRS-One, that became politically astute and intellectual pioneers of gangsta rap.: www.allmusic.com
Sampled oboe and brushed drum from beginning. The song is sung by a young man to his lover, and is about his plans of growing old together with her. Although the theme is ageing, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote, when he was only 16.
Sampled drums from this song.
Sampled crowd noise from the song. Multiple Beatles songs sampled for the Sounds of Science.
A chopped up vocal sample and guitar from this track.
This song is actually one of the few Beastie Boys tracks where each member has a standalone verse.
slowed down sample of drum beat in intro. - since returning to live appearances, albeit very sporadic and unpredictable ones, in 2006, Sly Stone has played with the original members of the Family Stone and Baby Stone, the band led by his daughter Novena. He has not released a proper album of new material since 1982.