9 Songs that sample songs that sample other songs
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Published 2024-01-12
Here’s the video where I look at Fat Boy Slim’s “Praise You”:
• 18 Songs That Sample Other Songs
I've made a few videos now on songs based on sampling. But this video will focus on songs that sample songs which themselves were already based on a sample!
📌 5:57 I mispoke when I said the Robin Thicke song came out in 2012, it actually came out in 2002. Sorry for any confusion caused.
This video was edited in part by Martino Gasparrini.
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 Jay-Z vs M.I.A vs The Clash
0:52 Lady Gaga vs Boney M vs Sidi Mansour
1:32 Jeremiah vs Rhythm Is A Dancer vs Automan
2:17 Kanye West vs Daft Punk vs Cola Bottle Baby
2:56 David Guetta vs Haddaway vs Zero-G
3:42 Rihanna vs Michael Jackson vs Soul Makossa
5:27 Beethoven vs Walter Murphy vs Robin Thicke
6:13 Issey Cross vs The Verve vs The Rolling Stones
9:07 Rita Ora vs Fat Boy Slim vs various songs
9:45 Patr
All Comments (21)
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Chic "Good Times" (1978) -> Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" (1979) -> Las Ketchup's "Aserejé" (2002). The Ketchup song is about a Spanish guy who asks the DJ to play Rapper's Delight, and sings along to it in Spanish: "Aserejé, ja he, de jebe tu de jebere ..." ("I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie...")
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I just have the feeling the newer songs forgot the original beauty of sampling. most of them just felt like covers to me (just based on the clips showed in the video)
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Surprised there's no: Apache - The Shadows ---> Apache - Incredible Bongo Band --> Apache (Jump On It) - Sugarhill Gang. Three songs that share the same name but are each entirely unique in their own way.
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Beethoven's Fifth opener is itself is based on a birdcall of a wood wren, so he sampled nature for the tune!
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Makes me wonder what is the longest chain of "Songs that sample songs that sample songs..." we could find. Like a musical family tree. This reminds me of a TED talk of everything is a remix.
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David Benett in 10 years be like: Songs (that sample songs ) to the power of 8😂 The dedication is already crazy enough. Love those videos.
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Boney M is a bit underrated imho. they are mostly perceived as showy party disco dance act, but they were super influential, brought world tunes to broad audiences and (the studio band and) production was top notch and so many lasting hits. I mean I don't listen to them on purpose, but yeah they're almost the US-German ABBA
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i believe a handful of these aren’t actually samples, but interpolations. there are some where melodie’s are used but not the actual audio from the original song, such as the rihanna & michael jackson one. that would be considered interpolation
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In the 80s a composer friend of mine Ritchie Close put out a 12 “ disc where he used live musicians but in the inner tracks of the 12” record he copied the idea of putting the individual recordings as sample tracks . About a year later I was filming a young DJ who was raving about this disc and how authentic the tracks sounded . He couldn’t believe it when I explained that it wasn’t synthesised and these were real musicians playing and not a keyboard sample . There were sax riffs , guitar riffs , drum solos , bass baselines and his keyboard list of short chords progressions and sounds . I used to get paid for recording a 3 hour vocals where I had to do a minimum of 30 mins . When sampling came about I wouldn’t even sing the whole song or god forbid any harmonies . They would just get me to sing sections and maybe a few jazz runs then I’d be done as they would take my vocals and do the harmonies etc afterwards. So many people were lifting bass lines and even the basic background to a song then adding a lot of rhythmic tracks and synth sounds and using the cut buttons on the automated fader mixing desks to create tracks by non musicians.
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I don't know if a parody song counts as "sampling" another song but... a rather obvious example is "Amish Paradise" by Al Yankovic, which parodies "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio, which itself samples "Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder.
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Hey David, thanks for getting me into composing! I'm gonna start my Composition undergrad degree this year and I wanna thank you for inspiring me to get into it in the first place.
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Another one would be: Your Woman by White Town, sampled by Dua Lipa in Love Again and Naughty Boy in Never be your woman, and sampling a trumpet line from My Woman by Lew Stone.
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You know that you are old when you can immediately recognize those disco tunes from the 90s.
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My favorite house track is "Waterman" by Dutch DJ Olav Basoski. It samples "Bam Bam" by dancehall artist Sister Nancy. But this in turn samples the 1974 song "Stalag 17", by Ansell Collins - and is also based on a hit by Toots and the Maytals.
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Yes! 10 months ago I suggested the Kanye second level sample, and now we have a full video including that! You made my day ❤
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It’s cool to see where tiny samples of songs have ended up. I listen to Latin radio, and i did notice recently that there was a song that samples the beginning trumpet bit of the Shakira hit “Hips Dont Lie” which i believe is itself a sample of something else. I don’t remember the other songs but if you can manage to find it, i do recommend you check those out.
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6:38 bittersweet symphony is also sampled in rest assured - treat infamy
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There's another one from Boney M that has a similar story. "Gotta Go Home" didn't use a sample, but the tune was ~INTERPOLATED~ from another 70s track, "Hallo Bimmelbahn" by Nighttrain "Gotta Go Home" was then heavily sampled in 2010 by Duck Sauce, in "Barbra Streisand"
