instrumental more popular than the vocal version?
ako
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i dont know the history of the track or anything, but i always thought it was strange that "The Horse" was 10000% more popular than "Love is All Right"are there any other cases where the instrumental version of a song was more popular than the vocal version, or was this a one time deal?
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Francine McGee's "Delirium", which was the instrumental version of her "Feeling Good".
I think that might have come later - someone like Lambert Hendricks & Ross, maybe? It's not uncommon to have lyrics written for something that started life as a straight instrumental.
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yup...the the vocal version is
Vs. the Barbara Acklin original? You're tripping dude. The instrumental had more legs in the long run (i.e. covered by more groups) but Acklin's vocals are unfuckwittable.
Especially since Cliff Nobles, from all reports, didn't play an instrument, so at live shows he had to do the Horse dance while the band played.
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the subject is "more popular" not better....i think everyone agrees that the vocal version is dope
I thought he meant instrumental versions of vocals done to the exact same backing track...
BTW Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart is a ripoff of a Bobby Womack tune (backing track). Fucker.
I thought it was a ripoff of a Jorge Ben tune?!?
Dude. You also are tripping.
I don't need to defend shit; these speak for themselves.
Don't say sticks and stones
They might break your bones
But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome
I'm talkin about the toe-taggin
Huh, the body-baggin
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As I pick up the Zig 9
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And niggas standing on your corner reminiscing of you
But your ass is out and you're dead and gone
So who'd you rather be?
The murdered, or the murderer?
Niggas got me stressed - I got my Tek and my vest
And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse
Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse[/b]
For we'll be tried by 12
And fertilizing daisies
Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies
Due to the fact that death is a must
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Niggas getting bust
For in God we trust
So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down
You must be casket-bound
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Nigga
I sign my name on the book at your funeral
The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
La-di-da-di
Saturday night and we like to party
The punks are f**king around so we might catch a body
Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody
So what they tryin to get?
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Chump motherf**kers just a-schemin on my sh*t
But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip
And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Aw sh*t - murder commit
And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic
The witness say I'm wicked
But that's how I kick it
Cause I'll be the bastard who blasts and didn't get blasted
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I cut your wig back kid
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Body will be identified
Momma and poppa will cry, b*tch-ass man says he'll testify
To see me tried, but here's I slide (?)
Upon the same corner that you did
And I'm still facing a bid
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Nigga
I sign my name at the book at your funeral
The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
As for Instrumentals that are more popular than the vocals I would have to say MotherFuckingSonofaBitch "Love Is The Message" AKA that REAL BROOKLYN STICK-UP MUSIC.
Also right here goes the "YA HEARD" graemlin.
I actually would wager that the vocal is more popular... despite the many instrumental covers of the tune, as far as radio play goes in my experience the vocal got more. At least, on the oldies shows I grew up listening to that was the version that got played.
Carmen McCrae did a vocal version w/ Brubeck himself.
Soulful Strut inst is practically a standard, I've never even heard a vocal version
I think your oldies station was doing its own thing
It must have been a local fave, because the Young/Holt record was Top 40 nationwide. 'Am I The Same Girl' only made the Top 40 in a few regional markets.
Weren't there a number of songs that followed this format? Someone put lyrics to "Grazin' in the Grass," and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy". I'd say those instros were more popular.
Mercy was written with lyrics originally...
And I thought Grazin in the Grass was by 5th D originally and Masekela did the cover?? I nearly mentioned that right off but I wasn't sure which was more popular...
Original by Masekela, cover by the Friends of Distinction...
I was going to post this but I couldn't remember the name of the vocal version, I know I heard it on Finewine's show. Li'l help?
oh shit! I didn't realize this.
Sebastian: Living in Depression
I've heard of at least 3 different issues of the 45