I know the posters are here are the most music knowledgeable folks I've seen on my board/blog. Lets make an "educational" thread highlightings songs and the original song they came from. I've start it off. Thanks in advance for playing.

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The first to come to mind

(these may not classify as samples...)

There's also a whole website dedicated to this:

http://www.whosampled.com/

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This sampled this...

Which took it's chant from this:

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Mike didn't sample Soul Makossa, he took the chant from it and resung it. It's like Rappers Delight is actually played by the Sugarhill Records house band, not a sample of Good Times and Here Comes That Sound.

MickyDolenz said:

Mike didn't sample Soul Makossa, he took the chant from it and resung it.

I know that, but many people still consider that sampling. I think two of the other songs I listed might have rerecorded the music, but it still took the music from another song.

David McCallum & Dr. Dre...



...The Edge & The Next Episode



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tA

Tribal Records

CrabalockerFishwife said:

MickyDolenz said:

Mike didn't sample Soul Makossa, he took the chant from it and resung it.

I know that, but many people still consider that sampling. I think two of the other songs I listed might have rerecorded the music, but it still took the music from another song.

That doesn't matter, it's not sampling according to the law. Sampling is taking a pre-recorded sound from a record or other source and programming it into a sampler to use it on another song. It's not using lyrics or replaying music from another song. You don't have to get permission for that because it's considered a remake, cover, or interpolation. The original writers have to be credited though. Weird Al doesn't have to get permission for doing a parody (most of them are replayed by him and his band, there are a few that use samples and he does have to clear them), he just does so out of courtesy. My Sweet Lord is not a sample of He's So Fine just because it sounds similar, because George doesn't put the Chiffons record on his song. Samplers didn't exist then anyway. A sample has to be cleared because it is someone else's work. Turntablism is not exactly the same thing as sampling either, although since sounds from another record is used, the person that has the scratching on their record would have to get permission.

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^ Ok.. I changed my post.

Lonnie Liston Smith & Stetsasonic...



...Expansions & Talkin' All That Jazz



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Tribal Records

Jeff Lorber Fusion & Lil Kim...



...Rain Dance & Crush On You



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Tribal Records

Only the remix of Get It has a sample, the album version is sample free. The vocal version of the remix is blocked, but it's still on this instrumental dub (around 4:20).

Miles Davis & Digital Underground...



...Fat Time & Nuttin' Nis Funky



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Tribal Records

Fingertips by Little Stevie Wonder was sampled on Chaka Khan's I Feel For You.

I don't feel like looking up the vids, but Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable and Tupac's Keep Ya Head Up come to mind.

theAudience said:

Miles Davis & Digital Underground...



...Fat Time & Nuttin' Nis Funky

I did not know this one!!

Quality posting, tA!

Andrew Oldham Orchestra "The Last Time" & The Verve "Bitter Sweet Symphony"

S.O.S. Band "No One's Gonna Love You" & ASAP Rocky "Peso"

theAudience said:

This was an obvious one that I recognized right away:

I swear this is ONE of JB's funkiest grooves

And just because there's nothing like seeing JB live....

Harlepolis said:

Glad this was figured out!

Bugs me that the Youtube is showing his debut album cover Stop & Go. It's from 1978's Summertime Groove.

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