Music

I was just listening to De La Soul's classic debut album 3 Feet High and Rising, which has just been re-released to mark its 35th anniversary.

The sweeping string figure in "Transmitting Live From Mars" sounded really familiar but I couldn't place it so I checked whosampled and found out it was from the 1968 hit "You Showed Me" by The Turtles.

But while I was there I saw that the drums on "Transmitting Live From Mars" are sampled from Wilson Pickett's 1969 cover of Lennon–McCartney's classic song "Hey Jude". I'd never heard this cover, and it's amazing! The gospel vibe works perfectly, the arrangement is spot-on, and Pickett's vocal performance is incredibly powerful. Check it out:

I was just listening to De La Soul's classic debut album 3 Feet High and Rising, which has just been re-released to mark its 35th anniversary.

The sweeping string figure in "Transmitting Live From Mars" sounded really familiar but I couldn't place it so I checked whosampled and found out it was from the 1968 hit "You Showed Me" by The Turtles.

But while I was there I saw that the drums on "Transmitting Live From Mars" are sampled from Wilson Pickett's 1969 cover of Lennon–McCartney's classic song "Hey Jude". I'd never heard this cover, and it's amazing! The gospel vibe works perfectly, the arrangement is spot-on, and Pickett's vocal performance is incredibly powerful. Check it out:
https://youtu.be/apdCgfr05rU?si=--pyI8a-_hHeJ-Pt