People as old as me may remember Bow Wow Wow had a hit called I Want Candy in the mid-80s - it was actually a cover originally recorded by the Strangeloves, recorded in the mid-60s.
__________________ You don't stay up at night wondering if you'll get an Oleg Saprykin.
Hmm.... well, to me, he ain't a legend until the milk carton says so.
At the time Leadbelly was in his prime, black music wasn't played much on the radio. Even in the fifties, rock stars such as Pat Boone made a living doing their white sanitized versions.
With the number of covers made today, not to mention the amount of sampling, the original artists really should be mentioned in a subtitle to the song. I've always thought it's unfair for modern artists to make millions off of the work of others (regardless of royalties) without giving any real credit to the originals.
And I shake my cane and throw my dentures at Pat Boone. That hippie.
Actually quite surprising...well, maybe not...that modern music has it's roots in the genre of blues.
Simplified progression is:
Slaves in the fields -> Blues 12 bar -> Country/Gospel -> Rock & Roll -> Pop/Rock -> insert variation of popular music here.
Not included in there was Jazz, which has heavily influenced everything as well (big band -> ska).
Basic point is nearly all contemporary music styles owe their roots to the blues 12 bar progression. Turn on the radio and tap out the beats. It's all 12 bar. Both the Stones and the Beatles were based heavily in the blues sound.
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Oh, for extra kicks, most hip-hop and rap styles are based on the iambic-pentameter. That Shakespeare was a home boi, yo!
Much of the music we love exists in four-beat measures. Why is this? Why is 4/4 so natural? What happens when you don't have four beats in each bar? Host Kevin Seal and Pandora music analyst Adam Blum talk about signatures and meter, with musical illustrations played by drummer Jeff Anthony. They visit the land of the waltz, and look at ways that a smartly-written drum part can make 5/4 and 7/4 feel natural and inconspicuous.
although I'm sure Hootie made the 54-40 boys wealthier than they would have been otherwise. I remember hearing at the time the hootie version was released (the first time I heard it was on the Friends episode when 'the gang' went to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert--can we get anymore dated?) that the Hooties were essentially a 54-40 cover band when they are in college, which is a pretty strange thing if you think about it
Hotel California by William Hung is a cover of an old Eagles song.
Did anyone else know this?
Seriousy?
I mean, are you being serious cause if you are, you really just showed your age.
Also, don't forget samples from other songs. Funky Cold Medina may have original lyrics but all the music from song were samples from rock & roll legends.
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This song contains samples from six songs, "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner (whose guitar riff dominates the song), "Christine Sixteen" by KISS, "All Right Now" by Free, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and the introduction to "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic (from which the drum break during the song's bridge is derived).
