Funky Drummer facts
While investigating facts about Funky Drummer, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Funky Drummer" by James Brown has been sampled at least 957 times
Funky Drummer" by james brown has the most sampled drum beat of all time, sampled in over 1175 songs. The drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, owns no rights to it and was paid only for his studio time.
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James Brown's "The Funky Drummer" is one of the most sampled pieces of music in history
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Prince secretly paid for Clyde Stubblefield's (creator of the famous funky drummer sample for James Brown) medical bills when he had cancer, even though they had never met
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The "funky drummer" Clyde Stubblefield was in high demand for an assortment of genres, including playing on the song "Queer" by Garbage
