How do you
figure out where a sample is from? If you're lucky, the
liner notes will have info... if not, it takes a bit of
guesswork and a bit of scouting around. Sometimes even if
the liner notes don't list samples they'll give songwriting
credit to the original songwriters, which helps.
Sometimes songs don't use a "true" sample. Instead, people rerecord vocals
or music that sound exactly like the original - probably because they
haven't got clearance to use the sample or some legal issue like that.
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Sampling Song
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Original Source
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Glaubitz and Roc "Sunshine Day"
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Osibisa "Sunshine Day"
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Groove Armada "At the River"
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Patti Page "Old Cape Cod" (although Groove Armada rerecorded the
vocals instead of sampling Page directly)
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Groove Armada "If Everybody Looked the Same"
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The Chi-Lites "We Are Neighbours" (the "if everybody looked the
same" vocal bit)
A Tribe Called Quest vs Aphrodite "1nce Again (The Twister Mix)"
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Groove Terminator "One More Time (The Sunshine Song")
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The 5th Dimension "Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In"
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The Heartists "Belo Horizonti"
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Airto "Celebration Suite"
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The Hydraulic Dogs "Shake It For Me"
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Tupac Shakur "California Love"
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Ini Kamoze "Here Comes the Hotstepper"
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Taana Gardner "Heartbeat"
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Jakatta "American Booty"
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Thomas Newman, "Dead Already" (from the American Beauty
soundtrack)
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Jazzy M "Jazzin' the Way You Know"
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Change "Let's Go Together"
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| Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule "I'm Real" |
Rick James "Mary Jane" |
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Joey Negro "Saturday"
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Norma Jean "Saturday"
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Klubbheads "Discohopping"
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Patrick Hernandez "Born to be Alive"
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Len "Steal My Sunshine"
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Andrea True Connection "More More More"
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Lisa Marie Experience "Keep on Jumpin'"
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Musique "Keep on Jumpin'"
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Lyn Collins "Think (About It)"
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Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two"
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Madison Avenue "Don't Call Me Baby"
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Pino D'Anglo "Ma Quale Idea"
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Marc et Claude "I Need Your Lovin' (Like the Sunshine)"
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The Korgis "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations"
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Loleatta Holloway "Love Sensation"
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MC Lyte "Cold Rock a Party (Bad Boy Remix)"
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Diana Ross "Upside Down"
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Mirrorball "Given Up"
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The Three Degrees "Givin' Up Givin' In"
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Moby "Go"
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Angelo Badalamenti, Theme to Twin Peaks
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Moby "Natural Blues"
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Vera Hall "Troubled So Hard"
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Modjo "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"
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Chic "Soup For One"
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Naughty by Nature "O.P.P."
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The Jackson Five "ABC"
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Notorious B.I.G. "Mo Money Mo Problems"
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Diana Ross "I'm Coming Out" (oh... Puff Daddy is terrible about
using samples in an inventive way)
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Nu Generation "In Your Arms (Rescue Me)"
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Fontella Bass "Rescue Me" (which is the original, not the Aretha
one!)
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Pete Heller "Big Love"
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Stargard "Wear It Out" (the "I've been saving my loving" line)
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Phats and Small "Feel Good"
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BT Express "Does It Feel Good"
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Phats and Small "Turn Around"
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Change "The Glow of Love"
Tony Lee "Reach Up"
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Portishead "Glory Box"
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Isaac Hayes "Ike's Rap III"
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Portishead "Sour Times"
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Lalo Schifrin "More Mission Impossible"
Smokey Brooks "Spin It Jig"
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Portishead "Wandering Star"
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War "Magic Mountain"
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Public Enemy "He Got Game"
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Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth"
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Pulp Victim "The World '99"
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Maire Brennan "Oro"
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