name that sound!
January 10, 2008 5:42 PM Subscribe
What did they use to make that fuzzy, rattly percussion sound in the Sanford & Son theme?
You can hear it here, and it's sampled and repeated in MIA's song U.R.A.Q.T. (click the audio symbol next to the title to hear a sample), and it's also used briefly in Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer, but I can't find a sound file of that.
What is making that sound??
You can hear it here, and it's sampled and repeated in MIA's song U.R.A.Q.T. (click the audio symbol next to the title to hear a sample), and it's also used briefly in Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer, but I can't find a sound file of that.
What is making that sound??
Best answer: I believe that's a bass harmonica. You can hear The Boxer here.
posted by iconomy at 5:50 PM on January 10, 2008
posted by iconomy at 5:50 PM on January 10, 2008
You mean the percussion sound at the very end of that wav file? Isn't that a vibraslap?
posted by mr_roboto at 5:59 PM on January 10, 2008
posted by mr_roboto at 5:59 PM on January 10, 2008
Response by poster: No, the vibraslap is too rattly, and has no range. I do think it's a bass harmonica, or something similar. It's heavily distorted, so it's kind of hard to tell.
posted by Koko at 6:09 PM on January 10, 2008
posted by Koko at 6:09 PM on January 10, 2008
Ah, you meant the sound that wasn't percussion? (That's OK, it's certainly the most distinctive sound in the song, and the one I was wondering about too...)
posted by xil at 6:14 PM on January 10, 2008
posted by xil at 6:14 PM on January 10, 2008
Was it on MeFi that someone posted their made-up lyrics to that theme? I think of them everytime I hear the theme...
Fred Sanford had some junk!
And he had a son Lamont, and he drove the truck!
Try singing it sometime, you know the tune...
posted by GaelFC at 6:19 PM on January 10, 2008
Fred Sanford had some junk!
And he had a son Lamont, and he drove the truck!
Try singing it sometime, you know the tune...
posted by GaelFC at 6:19 PM on January 10, 2008
I have no clue but thanks reminding me of the Sanford and Son theme. That song is a work of art, love the Hammond organ.
posted by smoothhickory at 6:29 PM on January 10, 2008
posted by smoothhickory at 6:29 PM on January 10, 2008
Why didn't you ask your friend, that Australian, who is an audio engineer, girl? He would have known. In fact he does know, and he's wearing a sad face.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 12:18 AM on January 11, 2008
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 12:18 AM on January 11, 2008
FYI - the Sanford and Son theme is a Quincy Jones tune called The Streetbeater.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:44 AM on January 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Pollomacho at 5:44 AM on January 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Yeah, I said percussion, but I guess what I meant was rhythm. Or something.
posted by Koko at 6:36 AM on January 11, 2008
posted by Koko at 6:36 AM on January 11, 2008
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