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Re: [L-OT] re: (OT) Bad News in Music INdustry

2002-02-19 by marc lindahl

> From: Doug Slick <dslick@...>
> 
> How about Sugar Hill Gang with Rapper's Delight?  1979.  First rap
> hits the record stores.  Before then, AFAIK, nobody had taken the
> music tracks from another band (they use a Chic song, forget the name
> of the tune now) and added spoken rhyme.

Actually, the first rap record was King Tim III with the Fatback band, about
half a year earlier.

btw, rappers delight used "Good Times" by chic.

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