Love this kind of stuff! I recently went down a massive rabbit hole because of the track "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash related to the topic of sampling and using bits of other songs!
You probably know this but Grandmaster Flash used “Take Me To The Mardi Gras” for a sequence in the film Wild Style about three or four years before “Peter Piper”. If you see the official clip on YouTube now though, you’ll hear it was replaced it with something else - though Mike Clark’s “God Made Me Funky” break remains. There’s a version tagged (original audio) that does have Mardi Gras, but Bob James/CTI clearly found out somewhere along the line.
Love this kind of stuff! I recently went down a massive rabbit hole because of the track "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash related to the topic of sampling and using bits of other songs!
You probably know this but Grandmaster Flash used “Take Me To The Mardi Gras” for a sequence in the film Wild Style about three or four years before “Peter Piper”. If you see the official clip on YouTube now though, you’ll hear it was replaced it with something else - though Mike Clark’s “God Made Me Funky” break remains. There’s a version tagged (original audio) that does have Mardi Gras, but Bob James/CTI clearly found out somewhere along the line.
I forgot about this!
I cannot find it in Apple Podcasts or on Spotify. Do you only publish it on Substack?
I have so far only posted here but will also be posting it elsewhere.
Update: now available on Spotify and Apple, will add other platforms if folks request