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The Source

14 Oct 2017

Show 010 / Bettye Girl Gaga

Music

Episode 10 features songs from Salt-N-PepaGoldfrapp, and Boney M..

The final track on Episode 9 was “Ray of Light” by Madonna. The lyrics of this song originate from the 1971 Curtiss Maldoon track “Sepheryn”. The original artist was credited.

“The Source” explores popular music with the aim to discover if it has been “borrowed” from other songs.  The show will go back to the source of popular songs, and play the songs they have sampled from.

Song Notes

Salt n Pepa / The Sweet Inspirations

That was “Shoop” by Salt n Pepa here on the source. One of the group’s most succesful singles released back in 1993.

The line “The voodoo that you do so well” was taken from the 1929 Cole Porter song “You Do Something to Me”.

This song uses a sample of the Ike Turner-penned “I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)” by The Ikettes.

However, during my research I discovered a cover of the ikettes song sounds a lot more like “Shoop” – so I suspect they got their inspiration from this song. Its a cover also with the same name “I’m Blue” by Sweet Inspiration.


Galantis / Bettye Swann

That was “Peanut Butter Jelly” by Galantis here on the the Source on JOY.

The Nu-Disco song heavily features a sample of the 1974 single “Kiss My Love Goodbye” by Bettye Swann.


Goldfrapp / Norman Greenbaum

That was “Ooh La La” by Goldfrapp. The song was released back in 2005.

The song was composed as a collaborative effort between Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory while jamming in the recording studio, bouncing song ideas off each other. Goldfrapp contributed the song’s lyrics, and has described the song as being “sulky, sexual and a bit ambiguous”. In “Ooh La La”, she confesses to wanting only a sexual relationship without romance.

The song has been compared to Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 glam rock song “Spirit in the Sky”, Juana Molina’s 2003 song “Sonamos” and Rachel Stevens’ 2004 song “Some Girls” (itself heavily influenced by Goldfrapp’s own “Strict Machine”). Gregory noted that comparisons to Greenbaum were made when the duo released the song “Train” in 2003, adding that the two tracks share the same glam swing. Goldfrapp rejected comparisons to Stevens, stating that “Some Girls” was “very bland”.


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