Well, this is up a little later than even I had planned, but among other things, tonight I had to listen to part of ISU’s mens basketball postseason game online (from a Kansas radio station), where they lost to Kansas State in OT in the first round. It doesn’t mean they didn’t have a fabulous season, though.
Anyway, last week I was randomly looking at videos on YouTube and through much clicking I viewed some videos and I got an idea for this entry. It’s about Daft Punk… or rather, two songs that they sampled for their classic Discovery album.
The first tune is from a band that happens to be going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year but the tune isn’t from their heyday, but rather the late 70’s. It’s Little Anthony & The Imperials. The song is Can You Imagine; the only part that Daft used for the song Crescendolls was the opening few seconds. It’s a catchy enough ditty from that time period, although it’s certainly different than songs like-say-Tears On My Pillow.
Little Anthony & The Imperials-Can You Imagine (7.22 MB, 320Kbits/second)
The second tune is from Edwin Birdsong, an R&B artist who worked in several different areas in the music field and a few different genres. The tune is also from the late 70’s and is an R&B ditty known as Cola Bottle Baby. You hear just a few seconds of it and you’ll know that it was used liberally for the tune Harder Better Faster Stronger (and then Stronger), so at least Mr. Birdsong should be getting some decent royalties for this tune being used and it becoming much more famous than it was back then.
Edwin Birdsong-Cola Bottle Baby (7.1 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back this Friday, March 20th.
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