(super)natural Thing - M People

[Dayo]

I'm certain I can't be the only one to have spotted this, so apologies if it's a chestnut, but....

Remember "Natural Thing" by M People?

Surely it owes a vast amount to Ben E King's "Supernatural Thing" (like, almost the entire chorus).

Mike Pickering and Paul Heard get writing credits on the M People track. Did anyone ever sue?

Anyone share other blatant examples of "borrowing"? Yeah, yeah, Four Vandals, we know!

Colin

[Guest Jamie]

I'm certain I can't be the only one to have spotted this, so apologies if it's a chestnut, but....

Remember "Natural Thing" by M People? 

Surely it owes a vast amount to Ben E King's "Supernatural Thing" (like, almost the entire chorus).

Mike Pickering and Paul Heard get writing credits on the M People track. Did anyone ever sue?

Anyone share other blatant examples of "borrowing"?  Yeah, yeah, Four Vandals, we know!

Colin

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There's loads of 'Samples' out there. Nearly every dance track there is contains a sample or loop of vocals and the like.

Brainstorm 'Loving Is Really My Game - Joey Negro/Dave Lee springs immediately to mind.

The most sampled track I have ever heard is First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder. I think I clocked about 7 different dance tracks that had sampled both the vocals and the breaks.

That was a few years ago, and I probably couldn't name half of them now.

There's literally thousands of tracks in the charts all mainly sampling 70's stuff.

Then there's Fat Boy Slim. I personally never did, never have and never will like that 'Squashed Tomatoes' thingy

Edited May 11, 2005 by Jamie

[Dayo]

There's loads of 'Samples' out there. Nearly every dance track there is contains a sample or loop of vocals and the like.

Brainstorm 'Loving Is Really My Game - Joey Negro/Dave Lee springs immediately to mind.

The most sampled track I have ever heard is First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder. I think I clocked about 7 different dance tracks that had sampled both the vocals and the breaks.

That was a few years ago, and I probably couldn't name half of them now.

There's literally thousands of tracks in the charts all mainly sampling 70's stuff.

Then there's Fat Boy Slim. I personally never did, never have and never will like that 'Squashed Tomatoes' thingy   

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Point taken. But the M People thing is not a sample. My contention is that they have re-worked the Ben E King song and not given the original writers a credit. Alledgedly.

[Guest]

Point taken.  But the M People thing is not a sample.  My contention is that they have re-worked the Ben E King song and not given the original writers a credit. Alledgedly.

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Rewriting hit songs is a very very very common practice and has been for YEARS ! Virtually everything on Cameo/Parkway is a rewrite of something else fro instance, Motown rewrote virtually its own catalogue time and time again in the 60's. And the songs influenced by "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Baby Love" must run into hundreds ! I have a mate who can point out what something is re written from staright away.

MPeople also did it using "Highwire" and the Trammps "Where Do We Go From Here".

[Guest Jamie]

Point taken.  But the M People thing is not a sample.  My contention is that they have re-worked the Ben E King song and not given the original writers a credit. Alledgedly.

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I getcha

I've got a cover of Herbie Hancock 'I Thought It Was You' somewhere, I'll have a dig & see if it's credited.

Jamie