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Madonna

Material Girl

1984 · via LL Cool J

Madonna’s 1984 recording of “Material Girl” is the earliest release on file. Peter Brown and Robert Rans are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Virginia Da Cunha (released 2006), Barenaked Ladies (released 1991) and Sugarpie and the Candymen (released 2014), among 123 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. LL Cool J’s “Starsky and Hutch” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit. It is on the album Like a Virgin (1984).

Madonna – Material Girl
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Flip the credits on "Starsky and Hutch" and there sit Peter Brown and Robert Rans, the writers of Madonna's "Material Girl." LL's 1997 cut runs on a song she had on record back in 1984, so play them back to back and listen for the seam.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Peter Brown and Robert Rans.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1984.

On the album Like a Virgin (1984).

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LL Cool J’s “Starsky and Hutch” (1997) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

123 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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