Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - We Invented the Remix Part 1
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today on Hit Parade, we trace the multifarious history of the remix: a musical term with a universe of meanings. Rethinks. Reboots. Reinventions. Re-recordings. Even instances where the so-called remix came before the supposed original. (How is that even possible?) In a way, the most pivotal “remix” in chart history was the one so transformative, it compelled a change in our understanding of what a remix even is. In part 1, we explore the experimental origins of the remix and its slow but steady infiltration of the pop charts.
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| 0:03.4 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. What you're about to hear is part one of this episode. |
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| 0:58.0 | hit parade episode. Welcome to hit parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine, |
| 1:09.1 | about the hits from coast to coast. I'm Chris |
| 1:12.1 | Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is this song number one series? |
| 1:18.4 | On today's show, 32 years ago, in the winter of 1990, pop legend Elton John was climbing the charts, |
| 1:31.8 | as he so often did, with his 46th American Top 40 hit, a plush ballad called Sacrifice. |
| 1:36.2 | For the man-born Reginald Dwight, this was just another day at the office. |
| 1:51.8 | Sacrifice eventually peaked on Billboard's Hot 100 at number 18. |
| 1:57.4 | In a career with so many hits, from your song to Benny and the Jets to I'm Still Standing, |
| 2:05.5 | sacrifice could have been forgotten. But not this year. There's a good chance you've heard |
| 2:13.1 | a version of this song just in the last few weeks, thumping from your radio. And I do mean |
| 2:20.5 | thumping. The version you've probably heard sounds more like this. This recording is on the Hot 100 right now. It was a top 10 hit, peaking at number 7 just a few weeks ago. |
| 2:46.9 | Its official title is Cold Heart, Pinau Remix. |
| 2:51.8 | The name Cold Heart is taken from a lyric in the original verse of Sacrifice, and it is credited to Elton John and Duolipa. |
| 3:03.3 | Oh yeah, did I mention this version is a duet? |
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