Lady Is A Tramp

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song name	Lady Is a Tramp
artist	They Might Be Giants
releases	Purple Toupee (EP), Don't Let's Start (Album), Miscellaneous T, Then: The Earlier Years, Stumpbox
year	1989
run time	1:20
sung by	Instrumental

Trivia/Info

A cover of the Rodgers and Hart song, originally from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms.
In the 1980s the band had a segment in their live show called the "Pal Joey Revival," in which they covered songs from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey. This song might have been part of that segment, or inspired by it.
This song samples Carla Thomas saying "tramp" in her and Otis Redding's version of the Lowell Fulson song "Tramp."
The lead trumpet sound is a sample from LL Cool J's 1988 song "Going Back to Cali." Frank London played the trumpet solo on that song, and the band samples three notes from it — for the main melody the first note of the solo is layered with another note from 15 seconds in, and the growl note from 8 seconds in is used for the solo. The band ended up getting London to rerecord the "Cali" solo for themselves, and used samples from that rerecording on "Birdhouse In Your Soul" and "Road Movie To Berlin."
This song was sometimes used as an intro to shows in the 90s. It was used briefly in 1990, and again in 1996 and 1997. The recording used in 1990 is slightly different to the released version. It featured a different drum track, a different keyboard sound and no vocal sample.

Song Themes

Intros, Songs With Samples, TMBG Remakes, Yes

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