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#BizMarkie

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One more for #JukeBoxFridayNight in the #ThatFirstTime theme.

That first time I ever downloaded a mp3 was 1994 and it was Biz Markie "Just A Friend". My dad was kind of a tech geek back then and was like, you can download all this music now in a smaller file format. "Just A Friend" was the first file that came across the newsgroup I was looking at.

Fun fact: I met Biz Markie in 2002 when he came in to the Blockbuster Video I worked at in Laurel, Maryland.

youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNd

TIL that #BizMarkie's 1989 hit, "More Than Just A Friend", was based on a 1969 track by #FreddieScott. But that's not all... There are so many interesting tidbits about pop culture, sampling, and the Mandela Effect in this episode of @underunderstood underunderstood.com/podcast/ep

UnderunderstoodMore Than Just A FriendMario and Biz Markie both had hits with "Just A Friend," but what happened to the remix they did together?

Seems a fitting choice for while so many people are settling in and learning the ways of where they are now.

Absolutely love this tune. Maybe it's #Donovan 's most deeply funky song (though at the frantic end of funk there is 'Barabajagal', my jam.) In any case the drums and double bass here are just *chef's kiss* imho.

The song had a bit of an afterlife. #KingCrimson used to cover it live. The late, great and diabolical #BizMarkie sampled it in 1991.

#nowPlaying #music #twittermigration #twitterexodus #musique #twitterrefugees

youtu.be/rL3EZvpPvUk