So I listened to them yesterday for the first time! (I know...I'm always late!)

I have the impression that "All Night Long" was been massily sampled...

Around the Way Girl - LL Cool J

I'm Real (Remix) - Jennifer Lopez (music is 'All Night Long'..lyrics sung like 'Mary Jane')

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

It's the 80s all over again and I am very young, with big hair and shoulder pads All Night Long was the music to my youth.

whatsgoingon said:

Yep...I was 8 when this song came out.....

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"Smooth Operator" - Big Daddy Kane
"Mary Jane (All Night Long)" - Mary J.
I know Doug E. Fresh sampled it but I forgot the name of his song.
Groove Theory's "Tell Me" sampled its drum beat, I think.

Timmy84 said:

That's right! Forgot about that one....

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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

I remember hearing it alot around 1983/84 because that's when I started to go to parties in earnest, but I am not quite sure what year it came out.
[Edited 7/6/07 12:36pm]

Timmy84 said:

I know what Dong E Fresh song you're talking about, I can't remember the name either, but it sampled Ain't No Half Steppin by Heatwave, but it doesn't sample All Night Long.

There's a song that exist called Keep Rising to the Top that has a similar/very similar bass line to All Night Long. I can't remember the artist name.

I heard "Keep Rising To The Top" a few weeks ago on the oldies station. I forgot what year it came out but I said to myself that must have been where Rick James got the bass line from. "Keep Rising" was sometime in the mid to late 70's.

Thriller81 said:

Kenni Burke of 5 stairsteps and Invisible Man's Band Fame did this track

And if you're going down the line of Keni Burke's 'Rising to the top' as a potential starting point for the inspiration of 'All night long,' the possibilities are endless.

The Love No Limit remix by Mary J Blige on What's the 411 remix and LL Cool J's song 'Paradise' both spring to mind.

Erykah Badu's live album she works it into another song, i can't remember which now.
Also did Groove Theory really sample the All Night Long beat or just use the same drum machine?

GaryMF said:

it was a drum machine...

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

Nah that was Keep risin to the top by Kenni Burke

IAintTheOne said:

THey both were drum machines..... i meant did Groove Theory just re-record that part with a similar machine? Or sample it from MJGs?

THe more I think about it (i'm not listening to either now) the beat is a basic bass-snare-bass-snare 4/4 beat so it's not like it's hard to recreate.


although I will say the MJG beat has a certain groove to it that mkaes it sounds better than just simple 4 beat.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Actually,it's from 1982