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Rose Royce

Do Your Dance

1977 · via Public Enemy

Rose Royce’s 1977 recording of “Do Your Dance” is the earliest release on file. Spyder Turner and Norman Whitfield are credited as its writers. Public Enemy’s “Aintnuttin Buttersong” (1994) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Rose Royce – Do Your Dance
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Chuck D's name sits on that credit right next to Spyder Turner and Norman Whitfield, because the track runs on their "Do Your Dance." Put on the Rose Royce cut from 1977 and listen for where the Public Enemy song found its footing.

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Credited writers: Spyder Turner and Norman Whitfield.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

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Public Enemy’s “Aintnuttin Buttersong” (1994) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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Public Enemy's "Aintnuttin Buttersong" carries the writing credit of an earlier song, "Do Your Dance." Who recorded "Do Your Dance" first?Rose Royce
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