Where do these infamous 80s samples originate from?

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During the early days of house in the late 80s, a lot of samples were used a lot. This included, for instance, those loops from "Funky Drummer" and "Paid In Full", but it also included several spoken word phrases. And this thread is devoted to them. Does anyone on ILM know where these often sampled phrases were originally taken from?

- "This is a journey into sound. A journey which along the way will bring to new value, new color, new dimenson."
- "I Know You're Gonna Dig This"
- "The names have been changed to protect the innocent"
- "Ah Yea"
- "Put the needle on the record when the song beats go like this"

The latter may be from "Put The Needle On The Record" by Criminal Element Orchestra, put I do have a feeling that one was sampled from elsewhere too. As for the rest, I don't have a clue.

- "Put The Needle On The Record When The Song Beats Go Like This"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

drumbeats

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

isn't it '....when the drum beats go like this'?

the 'journey into sound' is from an old stereo test record.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

If you listen to it they clearly say either "song beats" or "thump beats". And "song beats" is what is being used in "Pump Up The Volume" lyrics on the Net.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

"The names have been changed to protect the innocent"

Isn't this from Cops?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

"This is a journey into sound. A journey which along the way will bring to new value, new color, new dimenson." - olivia newton-john, "xanadu"

"I Know You're Gonna Dig This" - randy travis, "diggin up bones"

"The names have been changed to protect the innocent" - bob dylan, "positively 4th street"

"Ah Yea" - bo diddley, "oh yeah"

"Put the needle on the record when the song beats go like this" - the velvet underground, "heroin"

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

"The names have been changed to protect the innocent" pops up in the opening narration of the Dragnet television show (along with the unforgettable "dum da dum dum, dum da dum dum DUM!" theme). I'm not sure if this is the sample in question, though.

― James, Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "The names have been changed to protect the innocent" from "Dragnet?" ...old school...

― doggyhead, Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I think Art Of Noise re-recorded that sample for "Dragnet".

The "Dragnet" theme says "The story .... is true" whereas the original sample said something like "Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear is true."

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

WRONGO HONGRO

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

"Aw Yeah" - I think this is actually the Beastie Boys

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. Seems the "Names have been changed..." sample originates from the original Dragnet series rather than the one with the Art Of Noise theme.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.the-breaks.com/

― Renard (Renard), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

What about that old "This is our house, and our house music"?

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

crosby, stills, nash (& young?) - "our house"

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I know that "Wooo-Yeah" sample they used to use a lot is from Lyn Collins "Think".

― Louis Giomblechett and his kerayzy friends (dog latin), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

wrong, that's from sing #2 by blur.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

oh right, blur must have gone back in time to 1972 and given lynne collins the idea.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

i forgot how influential blur were!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

What about "We're gonna do a song, that you never heard befo'"

― Louis Giomblechett and his kerayzy friends (dog latin), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

The "Ah Yeah" sample is from "Here We Go" by Run DMC.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Blount- Try more gospel-sounding, and female.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

DRUMBEATS!!!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

What about, "Ladies and gentlemen, the sound you're about to hear is not a test..."? Where does that come from?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

what are these from?

"Now what were gonna do is go back, way back, back into time."
"Oh my gosh. The music just turns me on!"

― R. J. Greene, Friday, 27 January 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

ok, someone please ID this loop from some old hip house record:
"man...woman...earth...infinity"

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

"Now what were gonna do is go back, way back, back into time."

I have a faint recollection that this is from some old funk record, possibly by Jimmy Castor Bunch. Can't remember any clearer, sorry.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 January 2006 08:11 (twenty years ago)

sweet fucking jesus you morons someone linked the-breaks.com already above how fucking stupid are you fcukerss

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Would also love to locate the origin of "Keep the frequency clear"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

"what were gonna do..go way back.." is from Jimmy Castor Bunch album its just begun..track troglodyte.

― danny boy, Friday, 27 January 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

"sweet fucking jesus you morons someone linked the-breaks.com already above how fucking stupid are you fcukerss"

That was The Bar-Kays if I am not mistaken.

― gspm (gspm), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

the-breaks.com doesn't really help, it just lists tracks that have been sampled by various artists, but it doesn't tell you which sample is which bit. Also, half of the samples on this thread are probably taken from TV programmes or films, not from songs.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i am so going to write an italian piano house track that revolves around a sample of someone saying "sweet fucking jesus you morons someone linked the-breaks.com already above how fucking stupid are you fcukerss" in a Black-Teutonic barritone.

― Louis Giomblechett and his kerayzy friends (dog latin), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

the 'journey into sound' is from an old stereo test record.

Indeed, it's one of the first albums I ever owned (still got it)... There was another sample taken from here "Stereophonic Sound for... Dance Music". The whole album is genuinely amusing in places.

Narrated by one Geoffrey Sumner. No relation to Sting, I'm guessing.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

"Oh my gosh. The music just turns me on!"

Damnnit, I heared this about a month ago.

I did hear the sample that the Orb used loads for "The Blue Room", a poptones Mission Control rerelease, I believe.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

ok, someone please ID this loop from some old hip house record:
"man...woman...earth...infinity"

That's gotta be from the beginning of the old Ben Casey medical TV show. While a hand drew the appropriate symbols on a board, the narrator said, "Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Life, Infinity."

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

"half of the samples on this thread are probably taken from TV programmes or films"

some of that stuff is on the-breaks.com though. I wasn't posting that link as a cure-all, just trying to save people from reduplicating that site's efforts over the last, what, 10 years?

their search engine is not that intuitive sometimes but some of the stuff being discussed in here is definitely on there. a search for "Paid in Full" under "Sampling Song/Title" turns up this:

>>
Section 18. Compilations

Sumner, Geoffrey
A Journey into Stereo Sound: (London ?)
* "Train Sequence" (Vocals: "This is a Journey Into Sound")
Eric B and Rakim - "Paid in Full"

― Renard (Renard), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Car Wash

"I Know You're Gonna Dig This"
Cypress Hill's "The Funky Cypress Hill S--t"

― Renard (Renard), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

A lot of the samples mentioned were first sampled _within_ Double Dee & Steinski's "The Lesson" tracks, which is where a lot of subsequent uses got them...

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Re: "The music just turns me on..." I don't know if it's the original, but that's on Saturday Night Style by Mikey Dread.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that's the sample .... the one Coldcut used on Paid in Full (I'm assuming that's what ppl are asking about) sounds like a chick from a '60s movie.

― Renard (Renard), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

A lot of the samples mentioned were first sampled _within_ Double Dee & Steinski's "The Lesson" tracks, which is where a lot of subsequent uses got them...

That's what I thought

― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah, but I've heared a longer version on a reggae track, and I'm sure it wasn't Mikey Dread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure it is from mikey dread. the record he uses it on is pre sampling.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

... but not pre-tape!

― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

trakMARX - You landed your own show on JBC in 1976 - how did you get your foot in the door?
Mikey Dread: I had applied to RJR, which I still see as a Jamaican prejudice station, and because I had 8 O-Level subjects (a UK examination) and they only needed 2 or 3 they turned me down saying I was over qualified for the job of Technical operator. Now I look back I ask myself why they did not offer me something in which my qualification was best suited? You should call them and get an answer.
I tried Ossie Harvey at JBC and Rupert Linton and they were different keep telling me to come back. I was determined and kept going back just to say ‘hi’ then to come back. One day they offered me a job to start in 1976 as a trainee Transmitter Engineer but they gave me 6 months in Radio to study the signal flow. They forgot to call me up to go with the engineers to see the transmitters and such so I kept quiet and continued working the board as a Technical Operator.
Later I had a good grasp of the board and I asked Ossie and Mr Linton why the Radio signed off at midnight. They said nobody listened to the radio after midnight - but after some brief pleading on my part - they said ‘ye’. Now I only had one day off instead of 2. I had to guarantee them I would work Monday to Saturday and only have Sundays off. I was relieved and said yes. My original days off were Saturday and Sunday.
Later I started spending my days in the record library looking for music I knew but did not have. I found a lot of boxes of great tunes that were not catalogued. I knew then I had found a gold mine - and the librarians were too uptown to even know what they had!
I also listened to a lot of sci-fi sound effects LPs, comedy LPs and some comedic one-liners and decided that I would record some of them and play them on my show between songs and over dubs as in those days you would not hear dub on the radio. I asked them why they don’t play dubs and they told me that you can’t hear it on the radio as the frequency was too low - but I knew some brethren who had some big speakers connected to their tuner who could feel it.
Then I started playing dub and so dub came on the radio. I later wrote some of my own one-liners and got some kids in to record them:
“Mommy I don’t want to go to bed,
I want to listen to Mikey Dread instead”
And females too:
“Oh, my gosh, the music just turns me on”

Then other artists come into the studio and recorded others as well. Some artists made up their own lines, too.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

... now that's what I call a comprehensive explanation, well done sir!

― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty fucking stellar when you paste something in and it fits the thread's flow rather than coming off like an X-Post, braddahs!

Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

awesome .... I stand corrected!

― Renard (Renard), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Is the little female laugh that is at the beginning of Yaz's 'Situation' sampled from somewhere else, or is that it's original origin? I hear it in tons of songs.

― tylero (tylero), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I emailed Steinski, he denies knowing any of them and only recognizes them from Coldcut. I guess I'll have to pull out my copy of the book "Will Pop Eat Itself" or was it called "Pop Will Eat Itself"?

Either way Coldcut's Paid In Full re-mix followed quickly by Bomb the Bass's Beat Dis...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Does anyone know where that doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo sample at the very beginning comes from? Is it part of the "journey into sound" sample? I feel like I've heard it before...maybe on the avalanches record

― Beamo, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

does anyone know in which song by the Art of Noise, the samples "We will restore order, and keep the peace" are used?

― bonkabonk (bonkabonk), Friday, 21 July 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

jblount otm back into time

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

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