Roberta Flack was the daughter of a church organist and started playing piano early enough to get a music scholarship and eventual degree from Howard University. Her first two albums at Atlantic were well-received but produced no hit singles; however, that all changed when a version of Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” from her first LP, was included in the soundtrack of Play Misty for Me. Flack followed this hit with the first of several duets with Howard classmate Donny Hathaway, “Where Is the Love.” “Killing Me Softly With His Song” became Flack’s second number one hit in 1973, and after topping the charts again in 1974 with “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” Flack took a break from performing to concentrate on recording and charitable causes. She charted several more times over the next few years, but a major blow struck in 1979 when Hathaway committed suicide. Devastated, Flack was forced to find another partner and eventually did in Peabo Bryson, with whom she toured in 1980. The two recorded together in 1983, scoring a hit duet with “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.”
The Kleptones’ A Night at the Hip-Hopera is one of the the best mashup remixes I’ve ever heard, a fluid blend of classic and modern hip hop with Queen’s epic catalog. (…)
As far as I can tell, nobody has listed the sample origins online yet. I don’t have the time to locate the short samples, but here are most of the primary sources.
(Waxy)
The only superstar performer disco ever produced, Summer has a good voice and substantial songwriting talent, but her great gift is acting: she projected a hedonistic sexual image so effectively she became the poster child for 70’s excess. Born in Boston, Donna Summer moved to Germany and appeared in musicals including Hair and Godspell. After running into producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellote, the 17-minute heavy breather “Love To Love You Baby” brought Summer to international prominence, and she was crowned the Queen of Disco. 1977’s I Remember Yesterday produced the most forward-looking single in Summer and Moroder’s catalog, the monumental “I Feel Love.” Eschewing the strings and typical disco excess, it laid the groundwork not only for countless Euro-dance imitators, but also for the techno revolution of the ’80s and ’90s. Summer ended her collaboration with Moroder and Bellotte and teamed up with Quincy Jones for 1982’s Donna Summer. With producer Michael Omartian, Summer moved back into post-disco dance music and urban R&B with 1983’s She Works Hard for the Money; its title track was a smash and became a feminist anthem of sorts.(DBW/MSN)
(”What? No “Hot Stuff”? No “State of Independence”? I’m as amazed as you, but I couldn’t find any evidence. If you do have some proof of people having sampled other Donna Summer tracks, let me know!)
In the late ’70s, when Motown was not doing so well, Rick James came along and rescued the company. “You and I” and “Mary Jane“, both on James’ debut album, Come and Get It! (Jun 1978) were huge pop hits. After the less succesfull Bustin’ Out of L Seven , James returned to form with the number one R&B hit “Give It to Me Baby“, featured on the million-selling Street Songs (Apr 1981), which also featured the hit “Super Freak“.
James’ follow-up to Street Songs was Throwin’ Down (May 1982), which featured the hit “Dance Wit’ Me“. The title song of Cold Blooded (Aug 1983) became James’ third R&B number one, and the album also featured his hit duet with Smokey Robinson, “Ebony Eyes“. James’ greatest hits album Reflections (Aug 1984) featured the new track “17“, which also became a hit. Glow (Apr 1985) contained Top Ten R&B singles in the title track and “Can’t Stop“.
Rick James died in Aug 2004 at the age of 56.
Making a list of all James Brown samples ever used would be virtually impossible, but here we focus on just one, probably the most sampled drum loop of all times: “Funky Drummer”, recorded in 1969. The drums were played by Clyde Stubblefield. I don’t expect this list to be complete.
“Funky Drummer”
2 Live Crew: Coolin’
808 State: Pacific 202
A Tribe Called Quest: Seperate / Together
Above the Law: Murder Rap, Untouchables, What Cha Can Prove
Allison Williams: Sleep Talk
Aphrodite: Velvet Seduction
Awesome Dre: Frankly Speaking
Beastie Boys: Shadrach
Big Daddy Kane: Mortal Combat
Biz Markie: Spring Again
Black Rock & Ron: Stop the World
Breeze: Great Big Freak
BWP: A Different Category
Cash Money & Marvelous: Drawers
Choice MC: Bad A-s B—-h
Chubb Rock: Bump the Floor, Talkin’ Loud, Ain’t Sayin’ Jack
Coldcut: Say Kids, What Time is It?
Compton’s Most Wanted: The Final Chapter, Wanted
Conscious:Unconscious
Convicts: I Like Boning
CPO: Flow to the Rhythm
Criminal Nation: I’m Rollin’, Insane, It’s a Black Thing, The Right Crowd
De la Soul: Oodles of O’s
Deep Forest: Deep Forest
Depeche Mode: My Joy
Derek B: Get Down, Human Time Bomb
Digable Planets: Where I’m From
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: 2 Damn Hype, Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme, Jazzy’s Groove, Magnificent Jazzy Jeff, Pump up the Bass
DJ Mark the 45 King ft Lakim Shabazz: When a Wise Man Speaks
DJ Master T: Wind Me Up
DOC: Let the Bass Go
Domination: Back at it Again
Dr. Dre: Let Me Ride
Eazy-E: We Want Eazy
Enigma: Carly’s Song
Eric B & Rakim: Lyrics of Fury, Paid in Full, Relax with Pep
Father MC: Ain’t it Funky
Fine Young Cannibals: I’m Not the Man I Used to Be
Freddie Foxx: F. F. is Here
Fresh 4: Wishing on a Star
GangStarr: 2 Deep
George Michael: Waiting for That Day/You Can’t Always Get. . .
Geto Boys: Mind of a Lunatic, Read These Nikes
Goats: TV Cops
Gus Gus: Purple
Guy: I Like
Hard Knocks: A Blow to the Head
Heavy D: Peaceful Journey, We Got Our Own Thang
Hi-C: Take a Ride
HWA: Trick is a Trick
Ice Cube: Endangered Species, Jackin’ for Beats
Ice T: I Ain’t New Ta This, Original Gangster, Radio Suckers,
James Brown: She Looks All Types A’ Good
Jaz: The Originators
Kid ‘N Play: Foreplay, Slippin’
Kid Sensation: Emergency
King Sun: King Sun with the Sword
Kool G Rap: It’s a Demo, The Butcher Shop
Kool Moe Dee: Bad, Bad, Bad, I’m Blowing Up, Knowledge is King
Korn & the Dust Brothers: Kick the P.A.
Kris Kross: Jump, Lil’ Boys in Da Hood
Kwame: The Rhythm
Lakim Shabazz: Black is Back
Leaders of the New School: Sobb Story, Teachers, Don’t Teach Us Nonsense
LL Cool J: Boomin’ System, Fast Peg, Mama Said Knock You Out, Nitro, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Low Profile: Make Room for. . .
Maestro Fresh Wes: Let Your Backbone Slide
Mantronix ft Wondress: Got to Have Your Love, Fresh is the Word
Marky Mark: Good Vibrations
Masters at Work: Jus’ a Lil’ Dope
MC Frontalot: Good Old Clyde
MC Lyte: Brooklyn
MC Shan: So Def, So Fresh
MC Smooth: Blow the Whistle
Mellow Man Ace: Hypest from Cypress, River Cubano
Michel’le: No More Lies
Michie Mee: Jamaican Funk Canadian Style
Milli Vanilli: Girl you know it’s true
Ministere Amer: Traitres
Mistress & DJ Madame E: Hypergroove, Show ‘em How We Play
MMG: Only the Strong Survive
Mobb Deep: Flavor for the Non-Believes
Nas: Get Down
Naughty by Nature: Hot Potato, Ready for Dem
New Order: Ruined in a Day
Nikki D: Freak Accident, Gotta up the Ante for the Panties
Nine Inch Nails: Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
No Face: Half
NWA: F–k tha Police, Quiet on tha Set
Omni Trio: Nu Birth of Cool
Paperboy: The Nine Yards
Paris: I Call Him Mad, On the Prowl, The Devil Made Me Do It
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Go with the Flow
P-Funk All Stars: Dope Dogs
Pharcyde: Officer
Prince Johnny C: Comin’ to Get Ya, Kevey Kev is a Dancer with Soul
Prince: Gangster Glam, Gett Off, My Name is Prince
Public Enemy: Bring the Noise, Fight the Power, Hazy Shade of Criminal, Rebel Without a Pause, She Watch Channel Zero, Terminator X to the Edge of Panic, The Enemy Assault Vehicle Mixx
Redman: Rated R
Roxanne Shante: Have a Nice Day
Run-DMC: Back from Hell, Beats to the Rhyme, Run’s House, Word is Born
Salt-N-Pepa: Let the Rhythm Run
Scarface: Born Killer
Sinead O’Connor: I Am Stretched on Your Grave
Sir Mix-A-Lot: No Holds Barred
Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot: No Remorse (I Wanna Die)
Slick Rick: The Moment I Feared
Smooth Ice: I’m Coming, Without a Pause
Sons of Bazerk: One Time for the Rebel
South Central Cartel: Neighborhood Jacka
Stetsasonic: DBC Let the Music Play, Sally, Speaking of a Girl Named Suzy, The Hip Hop Band
Stop the Violence Movement: Self-Destruction
Style: Victim to the Vinyl
Sublime: Scarlet Begonias
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud: Do the James, Let the Drummer Get Ill
Sweet T: My Beat
Tim Dog: Goin Wild in the Penile, Low Down N—a
TLC: Shock Dat Monkey
True Mathematics: For the Lover in You
Tung Twista: No Peace Sign
Tupac ft Richie Rich: Lie to Kick It
Ultramagnetic MC: Give the Drummer Some, Moe Love on the One & Two
Vanilla Ice: Stop That Train
Wagon Christ: Filthy Drummer
WC & the Maad Circle: Ghetto Serenade
Yomo & Maulkie: Mockingbird
YZ: Return of the Holy One
Z-Trip: Rockstar, Rockstar 2
(thanks to the-breaks.com for a very complete list to begin with!)
Led by vocalist Eugene Record, the Chi-Lites had a lush, creamy sound distinguished by their four-part harmonies and layered productions. During the early ’70s, they racked up 11 Top Ten R&B singles, ranging from the romantic ballads “Have You Seen Her” and “Oh Girl” to protest songs like “(For God’s Sake) Give More Power to the People” and “There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table).”
Stewart Copeland and Sting (b. Gordon Sumner) formed the Police in 1977. Released in the fall of 1978, Outlandos D’Amour began a slow climb into the British Top 10 and American Top 30. Preceded by the number one British single “Message in a Bottle,” Regatta de Blanc (fall 1979) established the group as stars in England and Europe. Zenyatta Mondatta, released in the fall of 1980, became the Police’s North American breakthrough. The Police returned in the summer of 1983 with Synchronicity, a blockbuster success on the strength of the ballad “Every Breath You Take”. After the Synchronicity tour, the band basically split for solo projects.
Jean-Marc Cerrone was one of the most influential disco producers in Europe during the 1970s and early ’80s, eclipsed only by Giorgio Moroder. He released his first solo album, Love in C-Minor, in 1976. The title track proved a massive European hit and worked its way into the American Top 40 as well. A lot of his tracks were remixed/re-edited by Bob Sinclar in 2001.
Walter Becker (bass) and Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) officially formed Steely Dan in 1972, releasing their debut Can’t Buy A Thrill shortly afterward, with 2 hit singles “Do It Again” and “Reeling in the Years”. Released in the spring of 1974, Pretzel Logic returned Steely Dan to the Top 10 on the strength of the single “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number. Katy Lied (1975) was another hit, as was 1976’s The Royal Scam. On 1977’s Aja, Steely Dan’s sound became more polished and jazzy. Steely Dan finally released Gaucho, the followup to Aja in late 1980, after which they parted ways.
R&B singer Chaka Khan enjoyed solo success as well as popularity as a member of the group Rufus. Her pop career was on shaky ground when she released 1984’s I Feel for You, a platinum-seller launched by its title cut, a Grammy-winning, rap-inspired rendition of a fairly obscure Prince album track.
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