SpaceTimeMusic

On today’s episode:

If I Was Rich: From Short Story to Dancehall Classic

I think it was in episode 2 that I mentioned how our West Indian brothers and sisters will remix any and all songs so this is the first of a number episodes that will feature some of my favorite use of samples, of remakes and remixes by Caribbean artists. 

Rich Girl by Louchie Lou and Michie One is probably the first time I remember hearing a dancehall song sample a song that is so clearly NOT of reggae or even soul or R&B origin but I didn’t immediately know it was a sample and remake of If I Was a Rich Man from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. It’s quite possible that my mother overheard it and asked if I was listening to Fiddler on the Roof but I could just be making that up. I can’t really remember how I discovered where the song was from but it was the first time I thought, man, Jamaicans will make a dancehall remix of ANYthing.

SONG CREDITS:
If I Was a Rich Man
Fiddler on the Roof Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Chaim Topol, John Williams
1967

Rich Girl
Louchie Lou, Michie One
1993

Rich Girl
Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Gwen Stefani, Eve
2004

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

On a completely different note, if you are in need of some centering, healing, calming music I highly recommend the Healing Vibes series from Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk/live-looping artist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUoG8MfKNoQ

In this episode Lyd the SBW listens to Soul Makossa. Soul Makossa and its musical children exemplify the call-and-response nature of music. Black American music has its roots in west Africa. Enslaved Africans brought their musical traditions with them as they were sold across the Americas creating rhythms and music that would give birth to gospel, blues jazz, samba, rhumba, soul, funk, rock, r&b, pop, reggae, soca, bachata, merengue, house, hip-hop and innumerable sub-genres, including, makossa, a style of funk-dance music from Cameroon. Little tidbit, kossa means "I dance" in Duala. 

Song Credits in order of appearance:
Zombie
Zombie
Fela Kuti
1977
Nigeria

Soul Makossa
B-side of Hymne de la 8e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
Manu DiBango
1972
Cameroon

Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Thriller
Michael Jackson
1982
Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson
USA

Don’t Stop the Music
Good Girl Gone Bad
Rihanna
2007
Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tawanna Dabney
USA

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Welden Johnson (lyrics) and John Rosamond Johnson (music)
Poem written by James in 1900 and set to music by his brother John in 1905

Déjà Vu
(B’Day, 2006)
Homecoming
2019
Beyoncé Knowles, Rodney Jerkins, Delisha Thomas, Makeba Riddick, Keli Nicole Price, Shawn Carter
USA

LINKS:
Homecoming samples playlist
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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

On today’s episode:

I Only Have Eyes for You

I was listening to Spotify, playing classic Lode Runner online (yes, I am played-the-original-Lode Runner-on-an-Apple IIe-years-old) and falling down Spotify holes, when a song by Timothy Bloom came on. I liked the sound of his voice and went to his artist page to find that I was already following him and had even “clicked the heart button” on one of his songs it’s called The Beginning (Work it Out).

I began playing it to refresh my memory and heard the haunting first notes of I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos sampled in the background. 

SONG CREDITS:

I Only Have Eyes for You
Composer: Harry Warren
Lyricist: Al Dubin
Ben Selvin, 1934
Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday, 1955
The Flamingos, 1959
Corrine Bailey Rae, 2010

The Beginning (Work it Out)
Timothy Bloom
2016

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

I picked Ready or Not, track number 3 on the Fugees’ sophomore album “The Score” for the first episode because listening to this song was the first time I heard musical proof of someone having the same allegedly weird musical taste as me. 

Ready or Not
The Score
Fugees
1996
Songwriters: Wyclef, Pras, Lauryn, William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
Producers: Wyclef, Pras, Lauryn, Jerry Duplessis (Wyclef’s cousin)
New Jersey

Boadicea
The Celts
Enya
1987
Writers/Producers: Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
Deep in Ireland

Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide from Love)
sound of sexy soul
The Delfonics
1969
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell
Philadelphia, PA

Sock It 2 Me (Feat. Da Brat)
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliot
1997
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Missy, Da Brat, Timbaland
Virginia

Ready or Not
The Dreaming Room (Special Edition)
Laura Mvula
2016
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Laura Mvula
England

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SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a looped sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees