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Average White Band

School Boy Crush

1975 · via A Tribe Called Quest

Average White Band’s 1975 recording of “School Boy Crush” is the earliest release on file. Roger Ball, Molly Duncan, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Owen McIntyre and Hamish Stuart are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Prince (released 2013). A Tribe Called Quest’s “Check the Rhime” (1991) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Average White Band – School Boy Crush
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Under Check the Rhime sits School Boy Crush, first cut by Average White Band in 1975, and six of that band's names ride on the Tribe credit. Prince put the same song on record in 2013, so this cut has a door on both ends.

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Credited writers: Roger Ball, Molly Duncan, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Owen McIntyre and Hamish Stuart.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1975.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s “Check the Rhime” (1991) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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Check the Rhime by A Tribe Called Quest carries the writing credit of an earlier song, School Boy Crush. Who first recorded it?Average White Band
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