"Look at the bargins over here, ladies". How's that smooth talkin' someone into a drink?

ernestsewell said:

TheEnglishGent said:

I hear the same as Ernest does on this one.

Me three. Chances are it's just a short clip from a movie or TV show or something like that.

purpledoveuk said:

ernestsewell said:

"Look at the bargins over here, ladies". How's that smooth talkin' someone into a drink?

Thought he said " I'm looking to buy you something here ladies"

Is this Thread a simple fail

Jakeasaurus said:

here's what I found:

"BIG APPLE RAPPIN used a sample from a Sound Effects LP that was big at the time. It came from Hamburg in Germany and had many sound effects of occupations in the city. The most famous of which was a Taxi driver who is anonymous. Hamburg was famous at the time for huge parking problems outside Bingo Halls. Many Ladies would have to be let out in the street.

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" is the now famous sample used by BIG APPLE RAPPIN, The Shippers, and in 1987..... Prince.

The often-mistaken "Bargains" line is out of the question, given the double parking used in Hamburg by most Public Transport companies ...specifically German Taxi Drivers.

Finally we have some clarification!"

You cannot fuck with the above explanation after you hear the beginning of this:

[Edited 8/24/10 22:39pm]

ufoclub said:

here's what I found:

"BIG APPLE RAPPIN used a sample from a Sound Effects LP that was big at the time. It came from Hamburg in Germany and had many sound effects of occupations in the city. The most famous of which was a Taxi driver who is anonymous. Hamburg was famous at the time for huge parking problems outside Bingo Halls. Many Ladies would have to be let out in the street.

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" is the now famous sample used by BIG APPLE RAPPIN, The Shippers, and in 1987..... Prince.

The often-mistaken "Bargains" line is out of the question, given the double parking used in Hamburg by most Public Transport companies ...specifically German Taxi Drivers.

Finally we have some clarification!"

Excellent find! - finally we have a definitive answer.

Awesome find. I feel like one of life's great mysteries has been solved

toejam said:

ufoclub said:

Crazy. I always thought it was something to do with parking when I first heard it back in 87, until I was "corrected" by a fellow Prince fan some years later...

I WAS RIGHT! It was about parking all along. Brilliant find!

purpledoveuk said:

toejam said:

Awesome find. I feel like one of life's great mysteries has been solved

Apart from of course the point/meaning

Excellent find indeed! And yeah, now the meaning... or are we looking for something that isn't there, and he just wanted a soundsnip from life on the streets in a big city, in synch with the whole SOTT presentation, and this wast just a soundbite he stumbled upon? Wonder if previous configurations had this sample also.

purpledoveuk said:

toejam said:

Awesome find. I feel like one of life's great mysteries has been solved

Apart from of course the point/meaning

oh my god I cant wait to hear this on break!!!

ufoclub said:

here's what I found:

"BIG APPLE RAPPIN used a sample from a Sound Effects LP that was big at the time. It came from Hamburg in Germany and had many sound effects of occupations in the city. The most famous of which was a Taxi driver who is anonymous. Hamburg was famous at the time for huge parking problems outside Bingo Halls. Many Ladies would have to be let out in the street.

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" is the now famous sample used by BIG APPLE RAPPIN, The Shippers, and in 1987..... Prince.

The often-mistaken "Bargains" line is out of the question, given the double parking used in Hamburg by most Public Transport companies ...specifically German Taxi Drivers.

Finally we have some clarification!"

Can you post a link to this info? I'd like to forward it to the head of the DTT and have Ted hear it to correct the lyric on the site.

ernestsewell said:

ufoclub said:

here's what I found:

"BIG APPLE RAPPIN used a sample from a Sound Effects LP that was big at the time. It came from Hamburg in Germany and had many sound effects of occupations in the city. The most famous of which was a Taxi driver who is anonymous. Hamburg was famous at the time for huge parking problems outside Bingo Halls. Many Ladies would have to be let out in the street.

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" is the now famous sample used by BIG APPLE RAPPIN, The Shippers, and in 1987..... Prince.

The often-mistaken "Bargains" line is out of the question, given the double parking used in Hamburg by most Public Transport companies ...specifically German Taxi Drivers.

Finally we have some clarification!"

Can you post a link to this info? I'd like to forward it to the head of the DTT and have Ted hear it to correct the lyric on the site.

Beleive it or not, this info is from........ drumroll........ a previous thread on prince.org! Found with a google search here: http://prince.org/msg/7/125670

I was surprised too! I had long accepted it was about bargains...

ernestsewell said:

Jakeasaurus said:

ernestsewell said:

"Look at the bargins over here, ladies". How's that smooth talkin' someone into a drink?

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" - How's that about bargains?

If you'd said it before everyone else, I might have considered you original for once, but this time - not so much.

Here's what Spyder D (the guy who made "Big Apple Rappin'") says:

I used a sound effects 12" that contained a "Delancey Street" vendor pushing his wares on the streets of NY. Thats all I remember!

IMHO the guy on the record does say "bargains". To me it sounds like a market place where a vendor is calling out to people passing by "look at the bargains over here, ladies". Listen to "Big Apple Rappin'": in the fade-in you can hear him mention a price:

http://www.boomkat.com/ju...type=music

The stuff about the German cab driver sounds like somebody is posting some nonsense, hoping to see his bullshit repeated. I don't see any evidence of his claims.

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[Edited 8/25/10 12:33pm]

ufoclub said:

I always thought it was a preacher saying..."Look upon this southern hill ladies" because right afterwards was that wedding music. Hell, I always thought it was two lesbians getting married up on a southern hill.

FINALLY!

That Spyder D track is awesomely bad. I had to find an mp3 download of it to add it to my collection of 80's songs. I have other Spyder D songs but didn't have that one.

ufoclub said:

here's what I found:

"BIG APPLE RAPPIN used a sample from a Sound Effects LP that was big at the time. It came from Hamburg in Germany and had many sound effects of occupations in the city. The most famous of which was a Taxi driver who is anonymous. Hamburg was famous at the time for huge parking problems outside Bingo Halls. Many Ladies would have to be let out in the street.

"Look At The Parking - Stoppage Here Ladies" is the now famous sample used by BIG APPLE RAPPIN, The Shippers, and in 1987..... Prince.

The often-mistaken "Bargains" line is out of the question, given the double parking used in Hamburg by most Public Transport companies ...specifically German Taxi Drivers.

Finally we have some clarification!"

I'm not convinced - if it was a taxi driver in Hamburg, I would have thought he would have being speaking in German - or at least have a German accent.