[Rumori] proto-mashup question

[matt davignon]

Hmmm, I don't know if these quite count, but...

Eddie Money's song "Take Me Home Tonight" has Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes 
singing her 60's hit "Be My Baby" in the background vocals.

Lotsa fairly modern rap & rnb songs mix chorus vocals with instrumental 
renditions of other songs. 2 examples I can think of off the top of my head 
are Shaggy's "Angel" (combining Marilee Rush's "just call me angel of the 
morning" with Steve Miller Band's "the Joker"), and a couple years old song 
called "Ghetto Superstar" (in which the chorus is Islands in the Stream).

Not to mention the huge amount of times the tune of "ring around the rosie" 
has appeared in top 40 songs over the last 20 years.

>From: kembrew mcleod <kembrew-mcleod at uiowa.edu>
>Reply-To: "Detritus discussion list." <rumori at detritus.net>
>To: rumori at detritus.net
>Subject: [Rumori] proto-mashup question
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:25:33 -0600
>
>i was trying to think of any proto-mashup/bastard pop kinds of recordings. 
>can
>i pick your brain?
>
>the earliest i can think of is alan copeland's "mission: impossible theme/
>norwegian wood" from 1968. on this, the tv-theme songwriter and arranger 
>for
>basie and fitzgerald has female vocalists sing the lyrics of "norwegian 
>wood"
>over the "mission: impossible" theme. it even won a grammy for best
>contemporary pop performance by a chorus. yikes.
>
>are there any other songs up this alley you can think of?
>
>best,
>
>k
>
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