Samples and Covers

[seanzo]

Modjo - Lady

Sample: Chic - Soup For One

Sammy Virji - Burn the River

Sample: Dionne Warwick - Forever my Love

 

[seanzo]

Mala - Alicia

Sample: Alicia Keys - Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)

This one is kind of a cheat as he explains the sample before the tune drops

Lupe Fiasco - Tilted in Any Colour You Like

Sample: Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like

This will have to do for now but I've got more. Lots more

 

[xmontrealer]

samples:

guitar and horn samples...

"I know I love you better"

the whistling at the end...

 

[xmontrealer]

Keef covering VU's I'm Waiting For The Man

 

[xmontrealer]

Bud Benderbe's cover of VU's All Tomorrow's Partys

and The Black Angel's Death Song

He also did a wild and weird version of VU's There She Goes, but it's not on YouTube.

 

[ogibowt]

samples:

guitar and horn samples...

"I know I love you better"

the whistling at the end...

The Mad Lads and Otis.....getting my day started on the right foot

 

[ogibowt]

i dont know te OP,s age group and whether he knows from Janis Joplin....i love her music btw...and she recorded some covers on some R&B tunes and kinda made them her own
example 1

 

[Tptestuser]

samples:

guitar and horn samples...

"I know I love you better"

the whistling at the end...

De La Soul! Yes — Steely Dan! I knew I recognized it from somewhere!

 

[ogibowt]

 

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[ogibowt]

the original

Janis definetly used the song to fit her style
both versions are top shelf

 

[Tptestuser]

I am old enough to know who Janis Joplin is

These are great picks!

 

[K Douglas]

The original by Little Anthony & the Imperials (1965)

The cover by Linda Ronstadt (1980)

 

[Tptestuser]

The original by Little Anthony & the Imperials (1965)

The cover by Linda Ronstadt (1980)

I’m starting to get the sense that R&B singers were the first to do every song, ever.

 

[xmontrealer]

I’m starting to get the sense that R&B singers were the first to do every song, ever.

Yeah they were usually great.

But they were easy pickins' for covers as they got so little white radio play until the mid-1960's at the earliest, unless they were amazing.

 

[ogibowt]

I’m starting to get the sense that R&B singers were the first to do every song, ever.

your senses are correct...dozen upon dozons of examples ..here is one

 

[ogibowt]

the original
the Moody Blues version is "fuller", while Bessie has more "soul"

 

[opieshuffle]

I’m starting to get the sense that R&B singers were the first to do every song, ever.

They were. But they never owned the songs, so the producers / labels / song owners allowed others to record to get more airplay / royalties.
The music biz is NOT for the faint of heart.

 

[ogibowt]

Brenda Holloway turns 80 today, so this seems appropriate
she also wrote this tune

 

[ogibowt]

the cover version