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Are You That Somebody Aaliyah3/10/2021
Copyright: Writer(s): Stephen Garrett, Timothy Mosley Lyrics Terms of Use.Cause I really need somebody (Uh huh) Tell me are you that somebody (Say What) If I let this go You cant tell nobody Im talking bout nobody Are you responsible Boy I gotta watch my body Im not just anybody Is it my go, Is it your go Sometimes Im goody goody Right now Im naughty naughty Say yes or say no Cause I really need somebody Tell me are you that somebody You cant tell nobody Im talking bout nobody I hope you responsible Boy I gotta watch my body Im not just anybody Is it my go, is it your go Sometimes Im goody goody Right now Im naughty naughty Say yes or say no Cause I really need somebody Tell me are you that somebody Is it my go, is it your go Sometimes Im goody goody Right now Im naughty naughty Cause I really need somebody Tell me are you that somebody You cant tell nobody Im talking bout nobody.Seymour had got it from a company in New York that specialized in recording real sounds.
Collections Collections Features Interviews Videos Lectures Search Red Bull Music Academy Red Bull Music Collections Features Interviews Videos Lectures Red Bull Music Academy Search. Larson tracks the source of an iconic sample that has so far eluded the internets pervasive annotative efforts Late one night after a show in 1998, Timbaland received a phone call. On the other end was Barry Hankerson, Aaliyahs manager and uncle, asking Tim to produce the lead single for the Dr. Doolittle soundtrack. The deal was already etched in stone, and Tim would get 400,000 to do it. There was just one catch: He had to have the master of the track to the label at 8 AM. It wouldnt be enough to put just any song together they expected a chart-topping radio hit. Then, Tim had an idea: He flipped through his CDs, found the one he wanted and played it for everyone. It was a baby cooing happily, lilting up like the softest arc extending from the gentlest slingshot, lasting no more than half a second in the air before falling back down to earth. Its melodic curve mirrored a glissando on a violin, from a note high on the staff to a harmonic far above the fingerboard. Aaliyah thought the baby coo was cute and, with that, it was slotted snugly inside one of the empty spaces in Tims beat, becoming instantly iconic. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody As with many famous samples, this coo has a storied history in pop music. The same baby has crawled its way onto several songs, from the Rascals Look Around (1969), to Princes Delirious (1982), to TNGHTs Buggn (2012). ![]() But even the identity of the Wilhelm Screamer is known (its actor Sheb Wooley). But perhaps whats most odd about this baby coo is that the origin of the sample couldnt be found in 15 seconds. Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two We live in the Genius age, where every line of text and every bit of information is now annotated, searchable and definable. The digitization of music has served as a mass cataloging project for anyone interested in dissecting a track down to its molecular makeup. Supernumerary sounds on records, no matter how seemingly insignificant, can usually be traced to its source. If you dont know whos screaming Look at ya on Kanye Wests Runaway, just put the question to Google and youll find out its Rick James. Want to know who did the Yeah Woo in Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rocks It Takes Two Thats Bobby Byrd with the Yeah and James Brown himself with the Woo, over a drum break from Lyn Collins 1972 funk single Think (About It). Finding all this out is as easy as: Siri, who did the Wilhelm Scream. But trace it back in reverse chronological order and you get the closest there is to a patient zero: an obscure, almost-novelty 1966 Perrey and Kingsley track called Countdown at 6. The electronic music pioneers put this baby coo in the middle of a little riff on Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, featured on their Vanguard Records release The In Sound From the Way Out Maybe it came from one of their children at the time. I message her about this baby coo on her fathers record, adding a parenthetical Was it you She writes back: It was Seymour Solomon, one of the directors of Vanguard Records in New York in the 60s, who gave Perrey a magnetic tape with that sound.
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