WOMAN OF THE GHETTO

Created on 17/04/2001
Latest update on 03/03/2023

Artist: Marlena Shaw
Author: Marlena Shaw
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1973

The version on her lp Live At Montreux. There's an earlier version for Cadet in '69 (lp The Spice Of Life), covered by Phyllis Dillon in Jamaica, but that's irrelevant here: it's Marlena's Montreux live sample that counts.

Covers:

1973:

Intruders

1991:

Williams Brothers

1992:

Inner City

1996:

Blue Boy [sample in Remember Me]

1997:

Courtney Pine

2000:

St. Germain [sample in Rose Rouge on a doubled groove of Take Five (Dave Brubeck)]

2020:

Jorja Smith [idem op Blue Note Re:Imagined]

St. Germain samples the spoken introduction to the song, Blueboy the end of it. That whole song takes 10 minutes, the sample not even 10 seconds.

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