Yesterday, I Googled "the motorcade sped on" as it just popped into my head since it's a well known phrase and the first hit was this hip-hop track from 1985 I've never heard before. It's rare and obscure as it was released only on the cover of NME magazine on a 7" single, no CD version unfortunately, and wasn't for sale, so it didn't appear in the charts and wasn't played very widely on the radio.
It's based on the assassination of JFK in 1963, an awful time in American history most will agree, and I think it sounds rather silly with all those disjointed and repeated soundbites of news reports, but it soon became really catchy, so I've added it to my music collection. See what you think of it.
There doesn't seem to be a CD quality version as it never made any compilation CDs as far as I know, being a promo track that wasn't for sale. This first video sounds the best, but has a weird special effects version of the original music video (see bottom video) that obscures everything, but sounds very clean and solid with no noticeable record crackling. I wonder if this was taken from a source other than a record, but there's no information at all on the video and there are no comments.
While this second one is clearly off a record and has some noticeable crackling and distortion in places, I've posted it for reference as it shows the record label.
Turns out that a music video was produced for it in 1995, so I've added that as the third video, but the sound is mono and not very good. If I find a better version, I'll post it.
It's based on the assassination of JFK in 1963, an awful time in American history most will agree, and I think it sounds rather silly with all those disjointed and repeated soundbites of news reports, but it soon became really catchy, so I've added it to my music collection. See what you think of it.
There doesn't seem to be a CD quality version as it never made any compilation CDs as far as I know, being a promo track that wasn't for sale. This first video sounds the best, but has a weird special effects version of the original music video (see bottom video) that obscures everything, but sounds very clean and solid with no noticeable record crackling. I wonder if this was taken from a source other than a record, but there's no information at all on the video and there are no comments.
While this second one is clearly off a record and has some noticeable crackling and distortion in places, I've posted it for reference as it shows the record label.
Turns out that a music video was produced for it in 1995, so I've added that as the third video, but the sound is mono and not very good. If I find a better version, I'll post it.
