further adventures in sampling.

The Stylistics' "People Make The World Go Round."

Here's EPMD's "Ride the Bozack - one of two songs on the same LP to sample the Stylistics's original recording. (The other is "It Wasn't Me, It Was The Fame.")


Here's Hortense Ellis's great reggae version. Unfortunately the audio sucks. You can find it on iTunes with Hortense's brother Alton Ellis listed as the artist.



Okay. Here's Freddie Hubard's take.

and here's Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth's "Mecca and the Soul Brother", which samples the latter.

And there's Blackalicious's "Swan Lake," which samples the Hubbard as well as two other version not on youtube. (Milt Jackson and O'Donel Levy)



and here's Ramsey Lewis's rather lame smooth jazz version, which was apparently sampled by sage francis