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Here's two "and a half" more: #1: Another "song that samples [a song that samples a song, that reworks yet another]" for any Disney fans: "Evil Boys" from Phineas and Ferb samples "Bad To the Bone" (Delaware Destroyers), which in turn samples "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters, which repurposes the hook from his earlier track "Hoochie-Coochie Man." #2: You mentioned Poker Face in your video, but Weird Al reworked into a polka track (he'd have at least one/album, and one album was just those) called "Polka Face." #3: It almost seems like O-Zone reworked "What Is Love" (again, the Haddaway version) for "Dragostea Din Tei," particularly "mai-ya-hii..." etc. If that's true, then (based on one of the prior videos) "Someone To Love" by Capaldi could have been added to this list! But seriously- didn't know "Bittersweet Symphony" sampled anything, but the one that sampled it was blatantly obvious from the title alone!
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...")
De hecho es que el Diego de la historia,es Diego Armando Maradona,que llegaba a la Discoteca pidiendo está canción,y ya pasadito de coca, tartamudeaba la canción Esto es verdad Maradona jugo en el Sevilla de España.
Michael Jackson received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-koosa" from Jackson's 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
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)
I'm willing to be the sample of a sample have never heard the original song. I'm in the same boat as you--basing that statement off the clips used in the vid. Many of them feel like covers albeit with different lyrics rather than a song that samples another and then kicks it up a notch in terms of originality by bringing something else unique to the party aside from different lyrics. The newer ones just feel derivative--and I mean that in a bad way.
The two approaches (and a spectrum in between) have existed as long as sampling exists, it's not a new phenomenon. There are producers today that make amazing flips of samples, that cobble together songs from an array of obscure samples just like Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk or The Avalanches did. Quite often you would hardly realize they are samples. On the other hand I know of 90s tracks that are just retreads of Eurhythmics of A-ha songs. You could say Madonna's Hung Up is also an example of this "lazier" form of sampling. Those lazy samples work, because they have the recognisability, which gives them great hit potential. Which is annoying, because it means you're going to hear those tracks a lot, even though most of the time they're not exactly great (since the source material wasn't exactly great either, at best it was a bit of silly fun).
The person who should actually get the songwriting credit for Bittersweet Symphony is David Whitaker. The only reason we all love that song is because of that amazing strings hook.
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
I'd argue an interpolation would be 'inspiration' from the original sample, rather than directly sampling it - but it's such a grey area I don't know where you'd begin with that 😂
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
The story of Boney M is generally interesting all by itself. From what I can tell two of the stage performers never sang on the tracks. The male voice came from the creator of Boney M, Frank Farian, who wrote and produced all their songs.
@@Elesarioyes , it's kind of the same as the story of Milli Vanilli . Though they both are memorable bands who had a lot of good music in themselves . ☺☺☺
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.
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.
The Incredible Bongo Band didn't sample The Shadows though, it was a cover... having said that, Apache and songs that have sampled it could be an entire video all on its own given how influential it ended up being to multiple genres.
@@Vaelzan sorry, i'll be more clear lol. that was kinda phrased dumbly. just that the section seemed expansive enough in scope that it wouldn't be much of a stretch for the video to count an interpolation as a cover for the sake of cool fun facts about music history.
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.
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.
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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@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it's good they've been exposed or that it's good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it's good they've been exposed or that it's good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
Hi Dan. Thanks for your message. I wasn’t aware of this issue with BetterHelp? Can you link me to some information on it and I’ll look into it. Thanks again
@@DavidBennettPiano Hi David there are videos by youtubers Mickey Atkins, Logically Answered, Queer News Tonight, and Isabella Lanter just to name a few. Not saying to drop them or anything, just to be mindful of their past and hopefully they are working to correct things
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.
Another excellent video, thanks. I felt most illuminated by the Boney M connection. Frank Farian must have really dug around to find that Tunisian piece. Maybe I should check my mum's old Polish record collection, and fashion out of that a smash disco hit.... Or maybe not.
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.
@@GianniBosio He released a video on Wuthering Heights, and while that isn't from my suggestion, I think his first mention of Kate Bush was in one of those "facts about famous songs" videos, where he talked about how she was the first woman to get a number 1 hit with a self-written song, which I think was my suggestion on his community post. He also recently made a video on the James Bond chord progression, which I know is definitely my suggestion, though. Feels pretty great ngl.
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"
6:09 also italian prog band Elio E Le Storie Tese re-reworked (in a playful and mocking-ish way) A Fifth of Beethoven, with ironic lyrics about an indecisive lover
This! I checked the comments just to add the same. Since I have a video link, here it is: th-cam.com/video/oPHxhOKYaII/w-d-xo.html . It sounds like a 1:1 cover of the Walter Murphy song (besides lyrics, obviously); oddly it's uncredited on the release, as far as I can see.
I have one: Mario Winans in his 2004 song I Don't Wanna Know (which features P. Diddy) sampled the Fugees' 1996 song "Ready or Not". Unbeknownst to Mario Winans, Ready or Not includes a sample of Enya's 1987 song Boadicea, so after a lot of back and forths the artist listing for I Don't Wanna Know now reads: Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy. And I am pretty sure that that sample that Robin Thicke used in 2012 was also used a few years earlier. It's just a vague memory I have but there's something inside me that screams something from the late 90s or early 00s used it too. Or maybe I am misremembering?
Seems Busta didn't need the Beastie Boys. According to Wikipedia, he was directly inspired by The Sugar Hill Gang, which must be where the Beastie Boys got it.
And itself part of the verse going into chorus of "Please don't stop the Music" comes from an unknown "Shake" music track circa 1972 as heard in comedies from the UK at the time
That phrase started earlier, in the 80's, in an NME article about the band Jamie Wednesday and its recycling of old ideas. That article then inspired another 80's band to name itself "Pop Will Eat Itself."
1:37 oh that famous organ bass made popular by Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (MK remix). This sound and even this melody still pops out here and there! 2:02 familiar melody from Ozzy's Crazy Train sampled by Hollywood Undead - Undead. This also reminds of Sweet Dreams. Hidden Flows by City Of The Lost sound quite similar.
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.
@DavidBennettPiano Correction for you my friend. At 5:55 you say "2012" was Robin Thicke's debut single "When I Get You Alone" but in fact that song came out back when i was in high school in 2002 & I super remember the video & it being in the 2002 film "The Rules of Attraction" which I oddly just seen again a few days ago.
Is there really a Rhythm is a Dancer sample there, though? To me, that rather sounds like a completely new recording of the same few words and the melody, rather like a cover?
Yeah, I believe that's "interpolation" (quoting a melody or lyric, but in a new recording) rather than "sampling" (using a clip from the original recording). It's a bit annoying how the word "sampling" can be used to cover both of these practices.
Interesting! Cool video as always. Especially the Stones/Verve one blew my mind. But I have a quick question: Aren't some of these examples rather interpolation than sampling? Like Rihanna and MJ?
I’ve been binge watching these, very insightful, another song that samples a song that also samples another song is Rihanna - SOS, which samples Soft Cells version of Tainted Love, which is also a cover of Gloria Jones version 👍👍👍
I feel like most of the modern ones are interpolations, technically samples but not really repurposed. The older ones were mostly true samples, or used the older song to inspire a portion of the new one (like the MJ one, for example).
Not all of these are samples, eg Ma Baker didn’t sample that older song, but copied the melody. How about a video of acts who sampled themselves. Revolution 9 by the Beatles uses John’s increasingly manic screams of “All right” from the long version of Revolution 1. For the album version of I’m Mandy Fly Me, 10cc used a sample of Clockwork Creep. Bizarrely, for Dreams of Children, the Jam included a backwards sample of Thick As Thieves.
What's interesting about the sample of sample of samples is that the latest version sample doesn't sound like the original ,shows how each sample evolved over each version
Cola Bottle Baby and Harder Faster Better Stronger sounds like You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) if you ask me. And David Guetta I noticed did tons of samples.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention Pitbull's "I know you want me" which samples Nicola Fasano's "75 Brazil Street" which samples Chicago "Street Player"
Excuse me Mr Bennett. Where do you buy you shirts? I saw you in a nice red one in that advert for the mental health therapy thing and it was really rather fetching.
Nice, still using the whammy pedal on piano for the end piece. Though didn't you already cover how samples and interpolations aren't exactly the same thing?
Remixes of remixes are even cooler. This is a very underground song, but Vaguedge Dies for Dies Irae remixed a song from the band Blankfield, which was a remix of the the track Last Remote by Zun. Then there's the viral Bad Apple remixes, tho I much much much prefer remixes of the original track as they have a melody that seems lost to time.
So weird thing about Bittersweet Symphony is that around the same time it came out there was a leftfield track Treat Infamy by an act called rest assured. No one ever seems to remember that lol.
So, apparently, an early mix of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" included the moon landing audio of "The Eagle has landed". This mix was included in a special Pink Floyd box set. But that audio is owned by NASA, making it public domain. Ars Technica used the "The Eagle has Landed" audio on its Facebook page. They then received a takedown notice from Facebook saying that they were using audio copyrighted by Pink Floyd. Awesome.
Have you done something with songs that aren't samples per se, but are very close? Like the chorus of 21 Guns, All the Young Dudes, and a few others (someone compiled them a few years back th-cam.com/play/PLIY33qKb4qltdGOBX4BpCbGBlZlhyYEfq.html. Missing is Route 209 from Pokémon). There's also Best of My Love by The Emotions, Emotions by Mariah Carey, Got to Be Real by Cheryl Lynn, and Labyrinth Zone from the original Sonic game.
How about Venus, by Shocking Blue and Bananarama? The music is sampled from The Bango Song, by the Big Three, and in turn that song's lyrics is sampled from Oh Suzanna, by Stephen Foster.
Thanks for relaying the great research. Collectfully, Don't Stop/Wanna Be/ the original trio are the biggest. I think Rhianna's song more than samples MJ's song. I feel the music is a cover with new lyrics. And its conclusion/outro/coda samples MJ's song's conclusion.
You've got to listen to Green Day One Eyed Bastard if you haven't yet! I had to stop and scream in my house and immediately go record something about it when I heard the opening.
I have horrid memory, but from what I remember from the interpolation vid is: "Sample" is the direct recording, so, going this route you have to pay twice; for the rights *to use the recording,* as well as the rights for *the melody.* Interpolating is when you re-record that melody yourself and create a different song (could be alternate lyrics, adding lyrics over instrumental songs, etc) Take it with a grain of salt, btw: I'm a pleb on the internet and this is just me regurgitating what I took away and remembered so it could be full of mistakes lol Have a great day, and I hope I am correct and helped :)
@@Keopro remember how MTV kept playing it as a "breakthrough artist" & how different he looked on a bike vs 10 years later in "Blurred Lines" so checked def was +10 years not +1 year apart 🤪
@DavidBennettPiano I could be wrong but the song call me call me by Steve Conte (or of the show cowboy bebop) sounds like bitter sweet symphony in the last Corus
"Uppermost - Beautiful Light" sampled "Daft Punk - Face to Face" ;) and uses various vocal-samples. Give it a listen, it's really awesome and creative.
What makes the "Last Time - Bitter Sweet Symphony" case Eben more absurd is that the Stones' song was heavily based on the traditional gospel song "This May Be The Last Time".
Gotta add to the poker face sample russian doll: "Make her say" - Kid Cudi > "Poker face" - Lady Gaga > "Ma Baker" - Boney M > "Sidi Mansour" - Mohammed Hanesh
Aliens Fighting Robots by Mac Miller features a sample of The Avalanches song Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life and section that Miller sampled, samples... Well we don't know yet
you should cover bbno$ with Top gun sampling Black eyes peas' Pump it, sampling Dick Dale's Miserlou, sampling Michalis Partinos' 1930 Misirlou, which is a sample of 1927's Misirlou by Tetos Demetriades
Stronger -> Harder better faster stronger -> cola bottle baby Also, because I love shitpost and mashups we have: Doin it right (Daft Punk, 20M) -> Doin' (HydroDalek, 1.5M) -> ReDoin (JerryTerry, 2.6M) -> Doin Hhgregg Right (Lavender, 310k)
The Jay Z -> M.I.A -> The Clash one can go even further. I’m pretty sure a portion of the Straight to Hell melody was lifted from “May This Be Love” by Jimi Hendrix.
I now want to sample some of these for the explicit purpose of making a song that samples a song that samples a somg that samples a song, otherwise noted as a "sampled song thrice removed", or a "sample³".
Oh I know one! Gorilla by Little Simz sample the beat of Jurassic 5's Concrete Schoolyard, which sampled a bass phrase from Ramsey Lewis' version of Summer Breeze
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Thank you!@@just_a_guy_.
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Here's two "and a half" more:
#1: Another "song that samples [a song that samples a song, that reworks yet another]" for any Disney fans: "Evil Boys" from Phineas and Ferb samples "Bad To the Bone" (Delaware Destroyers), which in turn samples "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters, which repurposes the hook from his earlier track "Hoochie-Coochie Man."
#2: You mentioned Poker Face in your video, but Weird Al reworked into a polka track (he'd have at least one/album, and one album was just those) called "Polka Face."
#3: It almost seems like O-Zone reworked "What Is Love" (again, the Haddaway version) for "Dragostea Din Tei," particularly "mai-ya-hii..." etc. If that's true, then (based on one of the prior videos) "Someone To Love" by Capaldi could have been added to this list!
But seriously- didn't know "Bittersweet Symphony" sampled anything, but the one that sampled it was blatantly obvious from the title alone!
Knocking out the park again, David! Sorted.
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...")
that’s amazing
Oh damn
Oh god!
De hecho es que el Diego de la historia,es Diego Armando Maradona,que llegaba a la Discoteca pidiendo está canción,y ya pasadito de coca, tartamudeaba la canción
Esto es verdad Maradona jugo en el Sevilla de España.
Michael Jackson received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-koosa" from Jackson's 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
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)
I'm willing to be the sample of a sample have never heard the original song. I'm in the same boat as you--basing that statement off the clips used in the vid. Many of them feel like covers albeit with different lyrics rather than a song that samples another and then kicks it up a notch in terms of originality by bringing something else unique to the party aside from different lyrics. The newer ones just feel derivative--and I mean that in a bad way.
definitely agree, they dont really feel to be doing anything creative with the samples. just feels like a retread
That's because lots of these are covers or interpolations not actual samples, but yeah the feeling is completely understandable
E.g. David guetta is garbage
The two approaches (and a spectrum in between) have existed as long as sampling exists, it's not a new phenomenon. There are producers today that make amazing flips of samples, that cobble together songs from an array of obscure samples just like Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk or The Avalanches did. Quite often you would hardly realize they are samples. On the other hand I know of 90s tracks that are just retreads of Eurhythmics of A-ha songs. You could say Madonna's Hung Up is also an example of this "lazier" form of sampling.
Those lazy samples work, because they have the recognisability, which gives them great hit potential. Which is annoying, because it means you're going to hear those tracks a lot, even though most of the time they're not exactly great (since the source material wasn't exactly great either, at best it was a bit of silly fun).
The person who should actually get the songwriting credit for Bittersweet Symphony is David Whitaker. The only reason we all love that song is because of that amazing strings hook.
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
Agreed- and the Walter Murphy Band is technically a disco cover of Beethoven. Not a sample.
I'd argue an interpolation would be 'inspiration' from the original sample, rather than directly sampling it - but it's such a grey area I don't know where you'd begin with that 😂
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
Agreed, my personal favourites is their nod to Whitfield and Strong on the album track ' He was a Steppenwolf' ( Night-flight to Venus).
The story of Boney M is generally interesting all by itself. From what I can tell two of the stage performers never sang on the tracks. The male voice came from the creator of Boney M, Frank Farian, who wrote and produced all their songs.
@@Elesarioyes , it's kind of the same as the story of Milli Vanilli . Though they both are memorable bands who had a lot of good music in themselves . ☺☺☺
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And also produced by farian
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.
@TxDavidBennettPiano no, thanks. You are Mist certainly one of those who take but not give, a scammer to be precise.
Beethoven's Fifth opener is itself is based on a birdcall of a wood wren, so he sampled nature for the tune!
Can you imagine Beethoven had synthesis and sampling to work with?
@@b00ts4ndc4ts My name is Ludwig van Beethoven, but everyone calls me: Beethoven.
@@b00ts4ndc4ts Bach in the Day...
How would he have know. What sounds like
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.
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.
The Incredible Bongo Band didn't sample The Shadows though, it was a cover... having said that, Apache and songs that have sampled it could be an entire video all on its own given how influential it ended up being to multiple genres.
but david guetta made it in
@@Vaelzanbittersweet symphony by the verve is already in this very video
@@ace-smith I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there... that's a sample.
@@Vaelzan sorry, i'll be more clear lol. that was kinda phrased dumbly. just that the section seemed expansive enough in scope that it wouldn't be much of a stretch for the video to count an interpolation as a cover for the sake of cool fun facts about music history.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent!!
The Rhythm Is a Dancer one is the coolest one, IMO.
I don't think it's valid tho. They clearly just "borrowed" the idea, but the sound is theirs, it is not a sample.
Amazing work David! One thing to be mindful of though is that there are lots of videos out there exposing BetterHelp's questionable practices of not holding certain counsellors accountable for anti-LGBTQ and anti-transgender beliefs and some that have attempted harmful "conversion therapy" through their platform. Just reminding everyone to hold these companies accountable!
That's good! :)
@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it's good they've been exposed or that it's good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it's good they've been exposed or that it's good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
Hi Dan. Thanks for your message. I wasn’t aware of this issue with BetterHelp? Can you link me to some information on it and I’ll look into it. Thanks again
@@DavidBennettPiano Hi David there are videos by youtubers Mickey Atkins, Logically Answered, Queer News Tonight, and Isabella Lanter just to name a few. Not saying to drop them or anything, just to be mindful of their past and hopefully they are working to correct things
9:51 Finally someone is bending piano notes! 👏😀
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.
Another example is Word Crimes, sampling Blurred Lines, sampling Got To Give it Up.
The Paradise Saga..
Oh boy there is one for gangstas paradise, its called alibi and its awful
Another excellent video, thanks.
I felt most illuminated by the Boney M connection. Frank Farian must have really dug around to find that Tunisian piece. Maybe I should check my mum's old Polish record collection, and fashion out of that a smash disco hit.... Or maybe not.
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.
Amores como el nuestro by Jerry Rivera
@TxDavidBennettPiano go away scammer!
Yes! 10 months ago I suggested the Kanye second level sample, and now we have a full video including that! You made my day ❤
Nice! I know that feeling of not being sure if he made the video because of your suggestion or not, but it's still awesome
@@althealligator1467 I'm sure he didn't, but it's good anyways! 🤣
@@GianniBosio He released a video on Wuthering Heights, and while that isn't from my suggestion, I think his first mention of Kate Bush was in one of those "facts about famous songs" videos, where he talked about how she was the first woman to get a number 1 hit with a self-written song, which I think was my suggestion on his community post. He also recently made a video on the James Bond chord progression, which I know is definitely my suggestion, though. Feels pretty great ngl.
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"
Wasn't the "Rasputin" melody based on Katibim/Uskudara too?
6:09 also italian prog band Elio E Le Storie Tese re-reworked (in a playful and mocking-ish way) A Fifth of Beethoven, with ironic lyrics about an indecisive lover
This! I checked the comments just to add the same. Since I have a video link, here it is: th-cam.com/video/oPHxhOKYaII/w-d-xo.html .
It sounds like a 1:1 cover of the Walter Murphy song (besides lyrics, obviously); oddly it's uncredited on the release, as far as I can see.
I have one: Mario Winans in his 2004 song I Don't Wanna Know (which features P. Diddy) sampled the Fugees' 1996 song "Ready or Not". Unbeknownst to Mario Winans, Ready or Not includes a sample of Enya's 1987 song Boadicea, so after a lot of back and forths the artist listing for I Don't Wanna Know now reads: Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy.
And I am pretty sure that that sample that Robin Thicke used in 2012 was also used a few years earlier. It's just a vague memory I have but there's something inside me that screams something from the late 90s or early 00s used it too. Or maybe I am misremembering?
Creepin by Metro Boomin samples Mario Winans song. That's a long sampling chain
@@dolmadoltche8125 Sampling-ception... sorry, had to do it... I'll see myself out ;) But thanks, I didn't know that. :)
It's because that Robin Thicke song is from 2002, not 2012.
It's that music video where he's on a messenger bike in a Manhattan
@@irTaeke Aha... that might explain it then. Thank you!
Great video. Another one could be Busta Rhymes sampling Beastie Boys sampling ? Woo-Ha, Got you all in check!
th-cam.com/video/9YYMw1_FZL8/w-d-xo.html
I'ma just gonna leave this here . . .
Seems Busta didn't need the Beastie Boys. According to Wikipedia, he was directly inspired by The Sugar Hill Gang, which must be where the Beastie Boys got it.
And itself part of the verse going into chorus of "Please don't stop the Music" comes from an unknown "Shake" music track circa 1972 as heard in comedies from the UK at the time
This reminded me of the book "Will Pop Eat Itself?" by Jeremy J. Beadle from 1993 which talked about how sampling was changing pop music.
That phrase started earlier, in the 80's, in an NME article about the band Jamie Wednesday and its recycling of old ideas. That article then inspired another 80's band to name itself "Pop Will Eat Itself."
1:37 oh that famous organ bass made popular by Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (MK remix). This sound and even this melody still pops out here and there!
2:02 familiar melody from Ozzy's Crazy Train sampled by Hollywood Undead - Undead. This also reminds of Sweet Dreams. Hidden Flows by City Of The Lost sound quite similar.
@TxDavidBennettPiano I'm kinda unsure that you are you 😳
Finally an explanation how something that sounded nothing like the Last Time was tied in w it. Thanks David.
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.
Another one: Good Feeling by Flo Rida sampled Levels by Avicii, which sampled Something's Got a Hold on Me by Etta James.
3:52 that transition 🔥🔥🔥
@DavidBennettPiano Correction for you my friend. At 5:55 you say "2012" was Robin Thicke's debut single "When I Get You Alone" but in fact that song came out back when i was in high school in 2002 & I super remember the video & it being in the 2002 film "The Rules of Attraction" which I oddly just seen again a few days ago.
6:38 bittersweet symphony is also sampled in rest assured - treat infamy
There was the song "Big Energy" by Latto which sampled "Fantasy" by Mariah Carey which itself sampled "Genius of Love" by the Tom Tom Club.
That's the first example that came to my mind.
You know that you are old when you can immediately recognize those disco tunes from the 90s.
You’re not really old until you don’t recognize anything in this video. 😂👨🏻🦳
Bro how is the 90s old lmao, its barely 30
Man I'm a 2000s baby and I could recognise those bangers anywhere.
Is there really a Rhythm is a Dancer sample there, though? To me, that rather sounds like a completely new recording of the same few words and the melody, rather like a cover?
The “rhythm is a dancer” line was interpolated from Rakim.
Yeah, I believe that's "interpolation" (quoting a melody or lyric, but in a new recording) rather than "sampling" (using a clip from the original recording).
It's a bit annoying how the word "sampling" can be used to cover both of these practices.
Daft Punk are the Kings of sampling. KLF are the underdogs of the sampling world.
Llorando Se Fue (Kjarkas) > Chorando se Foi/Lambada Song (Kaoma) > Get On The Floor (JLO) > Taboo (Don Omar)
And all of them were hits lol
Interesting! Cool video as always. Especially the Stones/Verve one blew my mind. But I have a quick question: Aren't some of these examples rather interpolation than sampling? Like Rihanna and MJ?
Excellent, Mr. David. Thanks. Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
sapazo hahaha
I’ve been binge watching these, very insightful, another song that samples a song that also samples another song is
Rihanna - SOS, which samples Soft Cells version of Tainted Love, which is also a cover of Gloria Jones version 👍👍👍
5:50 is that the guitar from Fame by David Bowie maybe? But much faster.
Bulgarian-Arabic samples
Ya leila doub 1998
Azis-Napipai go 2001
Higher key(Bb>C)
Nancy Ajram-Yay 2001
Daniela-Strah me e sama 2004
Lower key(E>Eb)
I feel like most of the modern ones are interpolations, technically samples but not really repurposed.
The older ones were mostly true samples, or used the older song to inspire a portion of the new one (like the MJ one, for example).
Not all of these are samples, eg Ma Baker didn’t sample that older song, but copied the melody.
How about a video of acts who sampled themselves. Revolution 9 by the Beatles uses John’s increasingly manic screams of “All right” from the long version of Revolution 1. For the album version of I’m Mandy Fly Me, 10cc used a sample of Clockwork Creep. Bizarrely, for Dreams of Children, the Jam included a backwards sample of Thick As Thieves.
What's interesting about the sample of sample of samples is that the latest version sample doesn't sound like the original ,shows how each sample evolved over each version
Cola Bottle Baby and Harder Faster Better Stronger sounds like You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) if you ask me.
And David Guetta I noticed did tons of samples.
And “You Spin Me Round” was then later sampled in “Right Round” by Flo Rida.
The line bass of "dog in heat" of Missy Elliott is a copy of the line bass of the 70's song " Douala by night" of the Cameroonian duet Tim & Foty
I'm surprised that you didn't mention Pitbull's "I know you want me" which samples Nicola Fasano's "75 Brazil Street" which samples Chicago "Street Player"
Street Player, was that the song that got sampled for "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" by the Bucketheads?
one i think of all the time is close to you by frank ocean which is an interpolation of stevie wonder's live cover of the carpenters' close to you
Flo Rida's Good Feeling sampled Avicii's Levels, or did they both sample an Etta James song?
I've just thought of a term for this with conjugations.
Grandsampling.
If there are 4 songs in a row like this, great-grandsampling.
Excuse me Mr Bennett. Where do you buy you shirts? I saw you in a nice red one in that advert for the mental health therapy thing and it was really rather fetching.
Nice, still using the whammy pedal on piano for the end piece.
Though didn't you already cover how samples and interpolations aren't exactly the same thing?
I like the music as the end. Is that a pitchshifter on the piano? Its a cool effect...
Love these evolutions of music
Issey Cross
Remixes of remixes are even cooler.
This is a very underground song, but Vaguedge Dies for Dies Irae remixed a song from the band Blankfield, which was a remix of the the track Last Remote by Zun.
Then there's the viral Bad Apple remixes, tho I much much much prefer remixes of the original track as they have a melody that seems lost to time.
So weird thing about Bittersweet Symphony is that around the same time it came out there was a leftfield track Treat Infamy by an act called rest assured. No one ever seems to remember that lol.
So, apparently, an early mix of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" included the moon landing audio of "The Eagle has landed". This mix was included in a special Pink Floyd box set. But that audio is owned by NASA, making it public domain.
Ars Technica used the "The Eagle has Landed" audio on its Facebook page. They then received a takedown notice from Facebook saying that they were using audio copyrighted by Pink Floyd.
Awesome.
Wow
The cheek of Facebook tell people not to use other people's work when they sell all their users information to the highest bidder.
Have you done something with songs that aren't samples per se, but are very close? Like the chorus of 21 Guns, All the Young Dudes, and a few others (someone compiled them a few years back th-cam.com/play/PLIY33qKb4qltdGOBX4BpCbGBlZlhyYEfq.html. Missing is Route 209 from Pokémon). There's also Best of My Love by The Emotions, Emotions by Mariah Carey, Got to Be Real by Cheryl Lynn, and Labyrinth Zone from the original Sonic game.
We must go deeper.
Next up: "11 songs that sample songs that sample other songs that sample other songs"
Before Robin Thicke there was Enjoy yourself by A+ who sampled A fifth of Beethoven.
That was exactly what i wanted to say 😂
How about Venus, by Shocking Blue and Bananarama? The music is sampled from The Bango Song, by the Big Three, and in turn that song's lyrics is sampled from Oh Suzanna, by Stephen Foster.
Thanks for relaying the great research.
Collectfully, Don't Stop/Wanna Be/ the original trio are the biggest.
I think Rhianna's song more than samples MJ's song.
I feel the music is a cover with new lyrics. And its conclusion/outro/coda samples MJ's song's conclusion.
A Fifth of Beethoven was also reworked into a song by Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese called Quinto Ripensamento
It’s funny, I always get one of your ads before your video
You've got to listen to Green Day One Eyed Bastard if you haven't yet! I had to stop and scream in my house and immediately go record something about it when I heard the opening.
How do you know this stuff?
Just saw your video about interpolation. Where you say sample here, isn't that also interpolation actually?
I have horrid memory, but from what I remember from the interpolation vid is:
"Sample" is the direct recording, so, going this route you have to pay twice; for the rights *to use the recording,* as well as the rights for *the melody.*
Interpolating is when you re-record that melody yourself and create a different song (could be alternate lyrics, adding lyrics over instrumental songs, etc)
Take it with a grain of salt, btw: I'm a pleb on the internet and this is just me regurgitating what I took away and remembered so it could be full of mistakes lol
Have a great day, and I hope I am correct and helped :)
Love your videos, just one small correction Robin Thicke "Get You Alone" was 2002 not 2012 otherwise keep this series going!
It's sad that I knew this too.
@@Keopro remember how MTV kept playing it as a "breakthrough artist" & how different he looked on a bike vs 10 years later in "Blurred Lines" so checked def was +10 years not +1 year apart 🤪
@@AhmadmaDJamAjam I knew because we had the single CD and remember the winner of Australian Idol season 1 sang it the year after.
@DavidBennettPiano I could be wrong but the song call me call me by Steve Conte (or of the show cowboy bebop) sounds like bitter sweet symphony in the last Corus
"Uppermost - Beautiful Light" sampled "Daft Punk - Face to Face" ;) and uses various vocal-samples. Give it a listen, it's really awesome and creative.
What makes the "Last Time - Bitter Sweet Symphony" case Eben more absurd is that the Stones' song was heavily based on the traditional gospel song "This May Be The Last Time".
For real tho, Ma Baker is such a BANGER! I discovered it through The Avalanches sampling it on Since I Left You's Live at Dominoes.
And I heard that the Rolling Stones song's chorus samples, or is taken from, a gospel song.
Another example is arioso by bach and hey jude by the beatles the start of the songs are very similar
Gotta add to the poker face sample russian doll: "Make her say" - Kid Cudi > "Poker face" - Lady Gaga > "Ma Baker" - Boney M > "Sidi Mansour" - Mohammed Hanesh
Poker Face itself is then in turn sampled by Kid Cudi on the song Make Her Say
Bastille also sampled/covered “Rhythm is a Dancer”
Aliens Fighting Robots by Mac Miller features a sample of The Avalanches song Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life and section that Miller sampled, samples... Well we don't know yet
you should cover bbno$ with Top gun sampling Black eyes peas' Pump it, sampling Dick Dale's Miserlou, sampling Michalis Partinos' 1930 Misirlou, which is a sample of 1927's Misirlou by Tetos Demetriades
You can still add another layer to ma baker/pokerface which is further sampled by kid Cudi and Kanye West for their track make her say
I got an ad with David Bennett in it 😭
Stronger -> Harder better faster stronger -> cola bottle baby
Also, because I love shitpost and mashups we have:
Doin it right (Daft Punk, 20M) -> Doin' (HydroDalek, 1.5M) -> ReDoin (JerryTerry, 2.6M) -> Doin Hhgregg Right (Lavender, 310k)
In the late 90s a Rapper also sampled from A fifth of beethoven. I can't remember his name.
It was A+ with Enjoy yourself.
The synth arp from What is Love sounds a lot like it was sampled from Mr Mr - Broken Wings
The Jay Z -> M.I.A -> The Clash one can go even further. I’m pretty sure a portion of the Straight to Hell melody was lifted from “May This Be Love” by Jimi Hendrix.
Love this one
I now want to sample some of these for the explicit purpose of making a song that samples a song that samples a somg that samples a song, otherwise noted as a "sampled song thrice removed", or a "sample³".
Holly Valance-Kiss Kiss 2002
Ruslan-Na Tarkan blizalkata 2001
I got an ad with you in it before the video started lol
well, that's smart marketing at least
You see ads? LOL! Noob!
How about "Love Again" -> "Your Woman" -> "My Woman"?
Pastime paradise (Stevie Wonder) - Gangstas Paradise (Coolio) - Amish Paradise (Weird Al Yankovic) - Alibi (Ella Henderson)
“Creepin” by Metro Boomin and The Weeknd has a pretty long chain of samples and interpolations. That one surprised me
I'm sure someone knows this one. Tupac's "California Love" is a sample of Joe Cocker's "Woman to Woman."
Jay-Z's "Takeover" contains a sample of a sample of a cover of a cover, going back to a recording that Alan Lomax made in a Mississippi prison.
Oh I know one! Gorilla by Little Simz sample the beat of Jurassic 5's Concrete Schoolyard, which sampled a bass phrase from Ramsey Lewis' version of Summer Breeze
Another: “Big Energy” by Latto >> “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey >> “Genius of Love” The Tom Tom Club