Her vocal just had a beautiful quality to it. “Basically, any time I heard a bit of a capella,” Cook says today, “I was like, OK, I can use that. Little did he know that by sampling it as the main motif of what became his 1999 single ‘Praise You’, he would create a timeless track destined to echo down the years. Buying a handful and taking them home to Brighton, he first heard the isolated vocal introduction of American soul singer Camille Yarbrough’s ‘Take Yo’ Praise’, from her long-forgotten 1975 album The Iron Pot Cooker. One Saturday afternoon in the late ’90s, Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim was mooching around Camden market in North London when he chanced upon a stall selling vinyl bootleg albums featuring old soul and funk breakbeats and snatches of a capella vocals. Photo: Richard EcclestoneĪrmed with nothing but an Atari, a pair of S950 samplers and his faithful TB303, Fatboy Slim took the charts of the late 1990s by storm.
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