Show 013 / CeCe Pink Wonder
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Episode 13 features songs from Coolio, P!nk, and Corona.
The final track on Episode 12 was “Too Funky” by George Michael.
Lyrically, the song is a basic, animalistic plea for sexual activity.
It features a clip from The Graduate; Anne Bancroft’s line of “I am not trying to seduce you… Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?”. As an intro of the song and it is repeated during the final crescendo. The song then ends with a sample from an episode of the Tony Hancock Show called ‘The Radio Ham,’ spoken by actress Annie Leake (“Would you stop playing with that radio of yours? I’m trying to get to sleep,” a sample that also appeared in the song “Let Mom Sleep” from the video game Jet Set Radio).
The song’s hook also samples Jocelyn Brown’s 1984 hit “Somebody Else’s Guy”.
“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
Coolio / Stevie Wonder
The Coolio and L.V. co-wrote the song with its producer Doug Rasheed, with Stevie Wonder receiving writing credits for the sampling of his song “Pastime Paradise” from his album Songs in the Key of Life.
The Stevie Wonder sample is the reason why this is one of few Coolio tracks without profanity, as Wonder would not allow it. Coolio said, “I had a few vulgarities…and he wasn’t with that. So I changed it. Once he heard it, he thought it was incredible.”
M People and David Morales / CeCe Peniston
This is actually a cover of a song originally performed and written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, first recorded by the group, the Small Faces. The song reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1967.
The similarities I found in this track were in fact the similarity in the piano in M People’s cover to the classic anthem “Finally” by CeCe Peniston.
Corona / Say When !
The associated song did not have a lot of information I could find – but if you listen to the track – you can actually hear Corona’s lyrics for this song contained in this older track.
I suspect that both songs had the same songwriters.
The song is called “Save Me” by dutch duo “Say When” released back in 1987.
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