Funky Friday looks back to last Sunday
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Track:Amen, Brother
Sunday past, I posted the Brentford Choir's take on "Amen", which we have now established was first sung on screen by Sidney Poitier, then cut by (amongst others) The Wailers, The Impressions and Otis Redding.
This track is from 1969, and is by the a long-forgotten group called the Winstons. I understand that a drum sample from this track has been a much used hip-hop sample, but that's somewhat outside my sphere of knowledge. the track is, of course, a reworking of the "Amen" theme
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Comments (5)
The drum track is the entire basis of Jungle/D n'B as this fine posts discusses..funny the vid didn't appear there for me, but it is a fun post anyway.
That is not to say, I don't like this tune..it tis smokin'..
Yes, and one can assume what they were smokin was quite good
I did notice that the drum beat in the middle is used at the start of Daddy Freddy's "Respect", but am not aware of its use anywhere else, which appears to be my lack of knowledge.
That's a BIG AMEN!!
Baudolino, I didn't even know about its use in "Respect," much less it itself, so you're a tad less ignorant than I, if that's any consolation. It's brilliant how the drummer plays a nifty riff (do drummers play riffs?), and makes you think he's going to play it four times, but at the end of the third time he changes it around so your mind is totally, totally blown, or at least my easily blowable mind is.