Where does Cola Bottle Baby come from?
A 1979 funk single that Daft Punk say they found while digging through record bins.
Cola Bottle Baby · Edwin Birdsong, 1979
Where it came from
- Was written by Edwin Birdsong (keyboardist). Birdsong, years later: "I asked them, where did you find the music? And they said, I was going through bins and it popped out." Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Wikipedia: Edwin Birdsong, Rolling Stone
What it became
- Sampled by Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Daft Punk, 2001). The bouncy keyboard riff is sampled from "Cola Bottle Baby". Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Wikipedia: Edwin Birdsong, MusicBrainz, DJ Mag
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