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brunswick:young-holt unlimited "light my fire" > erma franklin "light my fire"willie henderson (forgot the title) > fred hughes "oo wee baby i love you"probably more on brunswick alone, but what are some others? this is always interesting to me.oh and of course the re-usage of the background track for "lover and a friend" on that other 45. name escapes me. little boy blue or something? whatever. you know it.
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Motown did it too: "Say You" (Monitors/Temptations), "Forever" (Marvin Gaye/Marvelettes).
Double Shot did it at least once, when Brenton Wood did a bizarre remake of "Psychotic Reaction" that more or less "sampled" the Count Five.
are him playing vibes over backing tracks from
their catalog. That's why I want "Off Into a Black
Thing" - the OG track on the Willie Henderson LP is
completely insane. Anyone know of a vocal to it???
"Our Future" by Lucky Peterson / Black Ivory
he "covers" Isley Bros songs is just him
playing over the backing tracks.
He did a similar thing with All-Platinum ...
the Soul Vibration LP features him playing
over the OG track of "Why Can't People Be Colors"
Now that I think about it, this practice was not at all uncommon.
Clarence Reid- Miss Hot Stuff
Leon Austin- Screw Driver
Little Royal(trius)/Sebastian (can't remember the label...brown door maybe? brown dog?)
There are at least 4(!!) different version of Hunt's Determination Band's "I Need Love"
The instrumental track for Carol Anderson's 45 on Whip was previously used on an earlier release by Gail Nevels.
The instrumental track from the Four Voices- "You're Love is Getting Stronger", which was itself a flop, was reused YEARS later on a now very valuable Chuck Holiday record.
The Flint Emeralds (Coconut Groove)/ The Breed (Melony)
There was at least one track by the Combinations Inc that was reused by the Hot 'n' Heavy Allstars.
Final Decisions on both BumpShop and Love was, like, an interpolation of the Prophet & His Disciples recording on Pressco.
That killer funk record by Earth's Delight (Black Forest) was revamped with a vocal and :shredface: guitar by the group Now (which was pretty much the same band as I understand)
James Brown, too - he used and reused several tracks on several artists between King and Polydor.
Yeah, weird stuff like I'm pretty sure Hank Ballard's
"How You Gonna Get Respect" is the rhythm track of
"Lickin' Stick" with new horn charts over it.
yeah, this was always really strange to me because wasnt "lickin stick" a (relatively) big hit?
I think the Erma came out first, since her Soul Sister album has a lower catalog number (Young-Holt's Just A Melody, featuring their version of the same song, was three Brunswick albums later). But I don't know which was recorded first, for whatever reason...
All the more reason to recycle it
"Licking Stick - Licking Stick" was a big hit any way you look at it (Top 5 R&B/Top 15 pop in Billboard ain't nothing to sneeze at). Funny part is, Hank got a sizable hit from "...Respect" later that same year.
Seems like this whole reused tracks thing was real huge with R&B labels and producers trying to pinch pennies. (And this ONLY seemed to happen in R&B - I can't think of many rock examples.) I'm surprised Gamble & Huff never pulled this stunt, to my knowledge...but then, they seemed like too much of a class act to stoop to hand-me-down backgrounds.
trying to keep the other track hush-hush but im sure plenty of you dudes know the 45 already.
oh Lord, we're back on that "paranoid crate digger afraid of sharing knowledge" trip again!
hahaha, i dont know, i was intending on keeping the whole thing to myself since i discovered it but whatever. im sure countless dudes on here have this 45 so this is as close as i'll come to giving it up completely.
by the way did anybody else know about this yet? im just wondering how WB ended up with the master tapes assuming the soul track came first. the bass/drums is IDENTICAL. same changes throughout the song and everything. listen close.
also from Motown..
Reuben Howell - You Made Your Bed -> Magic Disco Machine - Scratchin'.
"We Must Be In Love" (Five Stairsteps/Impressions)
"This Is My Country" (Impressions/Dewi, Cheetum & Howe)
Where does the Jackie Wilson version fit into the timeline?
also, Wanda Robinson had a number of recycled joints, like the one she took from Black Ivory "I Keep Asking You Questions". Man, there are a LOT of these recycled songs out there... "Momma Momma" by Betty somebody has the same music as some funk 45 instrumental... i used to know all these titles but i just don't care to retain this info any longer
what about recycled rap tracks? I don't mean joints where somebody samples somebody else's record for a remake (ex. Diddy redoing PE's "Public Enemy No. 1) or somebody just coincidentally using the same sample but schitt where the producer sells the same exact beat to two different acts... like Onyx used the same beat as somebody else awhile back and i think somebody else did this schitt recently
when i get home maybe i'll look up some more of these recycled tunes, there are tons of them... probbly i won't bother with it though
"Pity the Child" by The Albert is the backing music on one of Wanda Robinson's songs. both are on perception.
Later that same year (1969), just a little bit after Young-Holt.
Betty Barney.
This I didn't know.
yeah, i think it's called "chicken scratch" or something... i'll try to check on that later if i'm thinking about it. somebody here should know that schitt. i think its a more common record than the Betty Barney is actually but i don't remember for sure
"Private Number" (originally done by William Bell & Judy Clay) b/w "Double Or Nothing" (Booker T. & the MG's), on Enterprise (a Stax sub-label). This is a Stitt single where he's heard riffing over the backing tracks to both, like a saxophone karaoke.
Also see: "Double-O Soul," another Stitt single, where he's playing sax to the track of the Edwin Starr hit of the same name. On the Wingate label (was this company affiliated with Ric Tic, who put out Starr's version?).