15 Songs you didn't know sample other songs

📌 I decided to cut out the section of this video about "When The Levee Breaks". It seems that it's not 100% confirmed whether "Army of Me" actually used the original Led Zeppelin beat or instead used a sound-alike, so I decided to cut out the section to avoid the risk of spreading misinformation. Sorry for any confusion caused.
📌📌 Also, sorry for my mispronunciation of "Wyclef Jean" 🫠

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0:00 Sampling
0:21 Gnarls Barkley
0:54 Portishead vs. Issac Hayes
2:15 Doja Cat vs. Burt Bacharach
2:40 Oasis
3:31 Ride On Time
4:40 Hooktheory
5:23 Pussycat Dolls vs. ELO
5:40 Jump Around
7:30 Tupac vs. Joe Cocker
8:00 No Diggity vs. Bill Withers
8:25 Shakira
9:25 Lily Allen
10:25 Patreon

[DavidBennettPiano]

📌 I decided to cut out the section of this video about "When The Levee Breaks". It seems that it's not 100% confirmed whether "Army of Me" actually used the original Led Zeppelin beat or instead used a sound-alike, so I decided to cut out the section to avoid the risk of spreading misinformation. Sorry for any confusion caused.

📌📌 Also, sorry for my mispronunciation of "Wyclef Jean" 🫠

[guyhamilton]

Daft Punk uses crazy sampling. Face to Face is like a collage you wouldn't have thought was possible from the originals.

[DoubleZeroChallenge]

When I hear a new track sampling a song that's already a hit, my mind has already latched onto that hit and perceives the new track as 'wrong' because it doesn't go the expected way. I much prefer the approach taken by the examples showcased here, where it's a treat to find out that a new track is based on an obscure piece of music, and arguably making it a hit in the process.

[t_albino]

Danger Mouse is an excellent producer and the whole of the first Gnarls Barkley is packed chock full of rare, obscure and unheard of 60s and 70s samples. Literally every thing from TV themes, radio jingles, elevator music and B sides that never got any air play. Amazing work.

[Kar_Olla]

Ike's rap is also used in "Here" by Alessia Cara

[adammckay]

I had no idea that Gnarls Barkley was a duo. I thought it was the name Ceelo Green called himself before changing it to Ceelo.

[havoc]

Before Wyclef and Shakira used that fanfare intro, it was already used in Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - Deja vu (uptown baby)

[redachraibi]

Butterfly from Crazytown is a few seconds sample from a Red Hot Chili Peppers instrumental song. In the original song, the sample goes almost unnoticed

[Kasino]

In Denmark, a very popular Christmas song, used the sleigh bells from a old version Sleigh Ride. Only problem, they forgot to get permission, so the settlement was, that the original artist receives 77% of the royalties from that Christmas song. Only problem (for the Danish group) between 2008-2012 it was the most played Christmas song on public radio.

[SyncoprNZ]

That sax sample in Jump Around reminds me of a similar thing in Cypress Hill songs. Years ago a friend slowed it down and it was a horse neighing.

[SamBegich]

5:30 ELO sampled this from their own song "Nightrider" playing a section backwards.

[waugsqueke]

A lot of tunes that use the "When the Levee Breaks" sample do it in a slightly different way. In the mid 80s there were companies producing EEPROM chips for drum machines which had famous drum sounds on them, one such package you could get was the Bonham Memorial pack, commonly used to replace individual drum sounds in LinnDrums. Hence you have artists like Howard Jones using them (in the original "No One Is To Blame" for example). Art of Noise was another such artist who made use of them a lot.

[jenshoffmannolsen]

LEN: Steal my Sunshine is based on the break from Andrea True Connection: More, More, More

[nickstadler]

For years, many people, myself included, believed the "screech" sampled in "Jump Around" was actually the opening scream in Prince's "Gett Off." (There is, however, a version of the song on the 12" single that uses the "Gett Off" scream instead of the "Shoot Your Shot" horn).

[nickkokliotis]

So the great thing about Walk On By is that Isaac Hayes did a cover of the song and Hooverphonic sampled it for 2wicky. Really like these videos!!

[ChristopherANeal]

Oasis might not have sampled Johnny Jenkins, but Beck sure did on "Loser".

[TheTrumpReaper]

The Bjork and Futurama ones caught me off guard. 😳

[cjdennis]

The Avalanches' whole catalogue. My understanding is that their first album, Since I Left You, was 100% samples remixed into brand new songs with no sounds performed by the band itself. And it's an absolutely brilliant album!

[ericleiter]

Congrats on 1 million David...keep up the good work!!!

[LittleFly]

Clyde Stubblefield's break on James Brown's "Funky Drummer" has been recognized as the most sampled drum break of all time, as well.