i think i'll stay in brooklyn
- nyt bigs up stacey-ann chin's new show (more on this soon), jamaican patties, and jamaican beverages!
- forgot to mention in the toneburst post that kid kameleon generated some toneburst history a while back, too, with nice contributions from former members in the comments.
- michael blanding responds to rick santorum for all us corrupt, craven bostonians. bravo.
- ben walker notes, from beijing, that they're bootlegging the potleaf version of willie nelson's reggae album, not that wack walmart version.
- kevin wen, with whom i had the pleasure of hanging on monday night, reports that china has over 2 million blogs and counting. like, whoa. he also reports that online-mediated karaoke has long been a major craze, with "legit" vendors as well as p2p-circulating instrumentals. apparently, one of the most popular songs in recent times is mice love rice, as in, i love you like...
- then again, maybe i won't stay in brooklyn.
posted by wayne&wax @ 10:23 AM
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I'm of an age where "I think I'll stay in Brooklyn" reminds me of 3rd Bass, but does it go back further?
i'm sure it goes back further. i mean, 3rd bass sampled it from somewhere. but, yeah, i'm of that age too.
real cool, 'cause brooklyn's cool...
well--in product of the environment, they sample Archie Bunker from an All in the Family record so I am suspect that maybe they drew from that as well for Brooklyn Queens.
I just looked on wiki:
and it lists these samples:
**Brooklyn-Queens**
You Got the Best of My Love by The Emotions
Got to Be Real by Cheryl Lynn
Jungle Jazz by Kool and the Gang
A Wild and Crazy Guy by Steve Martin
You Haven't Done a Thing by Stevie Wonder
The Metal Melter by Milt Jackson & the Ray Brown Big Band
--My guess is that it might be the steve martin track: LOL!!!
interesting! thanks for doing the research.
i have to admit, i'm skeptical that it's steve martin. just doesn't sounds anything like him. moreover, i doubt that the wikipedia article is comprehensive in its listing of the samples.
"archie bunker" ain't a bad guess -- but didn't he live in queens? to me, it sounds even older, like some sort of vaudeville reference. those ol' sample-based albums are great in this way, just chock full of suggestive references.
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