[Rumori] proto-mashup question

[rick silva]

the first mash up ever recorded:

http://www.deepdiscoforce.com/dgf.htm

:)
rick


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt davignon" <mattdavignon at hotmail.com>
To: <rumori at detritus.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Rumori] proto-mashup question


> 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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