Say Kids What Time Is It

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Coldcut's first white label release, Say Kids What Time Is It?, first picked up by Coldcut to sell in record stores 25 years ago to the day on 1 February 1987

One of the first tracks to be built entirely by sampling other records

grab it here

http://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/coldcut-say-kids-what-time-is

them days were such an exciting time for music....

Samples used:

1. Vocal sample ("Say kids, what time is it?") and sounds
Dialogue by "Buffalo" Bob Smith from the Howdy Doody theme song

2. Horn samples
Music from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

3. Drum samples, raps and "party time" singing
Kurtis Blow - Party Time

4. Drum and horn samples
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers - Bustin' Loose

5. Vocal sample ("Ah")
T La Rock - It's Yours

6. Clapping sample
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin' (CORRECTION: THIS IS NOT A SAMPLE)

7. Guitar sample and vocal sample ("Huh")
Banberra - Shack Up

8. Scratching samples
Malcolm McLaren - World's Famous

9. Vocal sample ("Uh")
James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud

10. Drum sample after Kurtis Blow rap
Hot, Cold Sweat - Meet Me at the Go-Go

11. Vocal sample ("Beat dis")
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force - Looking for the Perfect Beat

12. Bongo sample
The Incredible Bongo Band - Apache

13. Vocal sample ("Yo, clap, clap, clap")
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

14. Conga sample
Sound Experience - Boogie Woogie

15. Vocal sample ("Say what")
Trouble Funk - Say What?

16. Vocal sample ("Drop the bomb")
Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb

17. Vocal sample ("Sex machine")
James Brown - (Get Up) I Feel Like Being a (Sex Machine) (Live)

18. Vocal sample ("U-u-uh"...)
Fat Boys - Disco 3/Human Beat Box

19. Vocal sample ("And...")
D-Train - Music

20. Flute instrumental sample
Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, composed by Ennio Morricone

21. Go-go break and vocal sample ("P-p-pump me up")
Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up

22. Whistle sample
Ralph MacDonald - Jam on the Groove (CORRECTION: IT MIGHT BE FROM KOOL & THE GANG'S FUNKY STUFF)

23. Instrumental sample
Kool & the Gang - Jungle Jazz

24. Grunt samples
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - King Kong

25. Bongo sample and vocal sample ("All we need...")
Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars - Here Comes That Beat!

26. Drum sample and vocal samples ("Ain't it funky" and "he-he")
James Brown - Funky Drummer

27. Vocal sample ("Now I'm...")
"I Wanna Be Like You" by King Louie, voiced by Louis Prima, from the film The Jungle Book

28. Vocal sample ("Fresh")
Fab 5 Freddy and Beeside - Change le Beat

29. Vocal sample ("Hit me")
James Brown - Get on the Good Foot

30. Instrumental sample and vocal sample ("Ha-ha-ha, everybody say...")
Grandmaster Flash - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (which samples Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Freedom and The Furious Five - Birthday Party)

31. Vocal sample ("Agitate...") and horn sample
Brother D and Collective Effort - How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise? (horns interpolated from James Brown - Living in America)

32. Sounds
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals

33. Horn sample
Trouble Funk - Let's Get Small

34. Vocal sample ("Goodnight, kids")
Dialogue by "Buffalo" Bob Smith from Howdy Doody

35. Gong sample and vocal sample ("Please, somebody")
Herman Kelly & Life - Dance to the Drummer's Beat

36. Vocal sample ("That means stop")
Dialogue from the film The Jungle Book

holy cow that's a lot of samples

interesting Bob, and yes... loads of samples.

just want to say .. I'm a complete cock smoker

Nice post brother, thanks for sharing.

www.fuckoffanddie.com

back in the day eh?

I sampled Buck Rodgers (theme song) once....it didnt seem to work out, back in the day.

^ Cool

The Avalanches put up a bunch of their songs broken down with where the samples came from





Took them fucking ages to get their album released due to the massive amounts of samples...estimated at 3500!