Help identify a song.

banja · 7 Sep 2011 at 15:10

Heard this song in full yesterday - great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4

It's clearly been an influence on various songs (that guitar riff especially) but the (verse) vocals have been copied very closely by another song and I can't work out what this other song is.

Today it occured to me that the song I'm thinking of isn't sung by a woman but by a man in falsetto, and may also use the dual harmony trick used in Minnie Riperton's song.

Any ideas? I'm guessing the song is from the last 25 years and is by a quite popular pop / soul artist. NB - it isn't a cover or sample of Les Fleurs but just copies the vocal style / melody.

Gilly · 7 Sep 2011 at 15:14

Sounds like a KFC advert

This is a cover, but not by a dude.

Also used in a Baileys ad

loltim · 7 Sep 2011 at 15:25

Ramsay Lewis?

this is '83 http://youtu.be/L2SEsicrGlk

edit:

jurassic 5 too http://youtu.be/KXgoqG7ZU94

edit2:

i'm sure i'm hearing some Eminem - Stan in there too

banja · 7 Sep 2011 at 15:59

All those examples are covers / previous versions / samples.

This is a different song which rips off the vocal melody / style.

Gilly · 7 Sep 2011 at 16:00

Something that rips off the melody is a sample, surely :/

banja · 7 Sep 2011 at 17:01

A sample is when you physically take part of one song and use it in another song. To 'rip off' I mean basically you change it a bit and put it in your own song.

Sample - lots of Hip Hop.
Rip off - Elastica's Waking up vs Strangler's No More Heroes.

banja · 7 Sep 2011 at 17:28

Right - I think it's The Miracles - I second that Emotion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8NBji3AC9Q

Both songs were of a similar time, and aren't that similar - but the Minnie Riperton vocal just reminded me of it and I couldn't place it.

Both great songs anyway