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Last Night (Mar-Keys composition)

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"Last Night"
Single by The Mar-Keys
from the album Last Night!
B-side"Night Before"
ReleasedJune 1961 (1961-06)
GenreR&B, instrumental rock
Length2:35
LabelSatellite
107
Songwriter(s)

"Last Night" is an instrumental recorded by The Mar-Keys. Released in 1961, the track appeared on Last Night!, the first LP released by the Stax label.

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Background

The label of the single gives writing credit simply to "Mar-Keys"; it was registered with BMI as having been written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith and Chips Moman.

The song is in a twelve-bar blues form, with brief stops, where Floyd Newman intones "Last Night" before his saxophone solo, which is followed by him exclaiming "Oh, yeah!" before the last three choruses, including the pauses, before the song's fade.

According to Steve Cropper, in an interview with Paul Nassari of the Sunday Mail newspaper, in Adelaide, Australia, "Jerry Lee ‘Smoochy’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ. Since [producer Chips] Moman didn't want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold-down on the organ on the root note. It hurts me in the Mar-Keys history when people say I wasn’t in the Mar-Keys because there’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them."[citation needed]

Chart performance

"Last Night" reached #3 Pop and #2 in the R&B charts in the United States.[1] In Canada, the song reached #21 on the CHUM Charts.[2]

Cover versions

Samples

  • The tune was sampled in 'Last Night' by Chris Anderson and DJ Robbie, and featured on their album of the same name.
  • Multiple elements from the track were heavily borrowed in the Duffy's 2008 worldwide hit "Mercy".

Use in films, radio and television programs

  • During the 1960s, "Last Night" became the title tune for the French radio show Salut les Copains on Europe 1.
  • The music was used during telecasts of the NBA on CBS in the 1970s (roughly around 1975–76) as the play-by-play announcer gave a preview to the featured game.[citation needed]
  • The tune was covered by the jazz ensemble The Bum Notes for the closing credits of the BBC sitcom Bottom in the early 1990s.
  • It was also used as the backing music to "Viaduct", a game played on the Chris Moyles radio show.
  • It is the theme tune to "The Midweek Special", a weekly show on Hospital Radio DGH in Eastbourne, England.
  • KNOE TV-8 in Monroe, Louisiana once utilized the tune as the theme music for the weekly program ‘’Sportscope’’.
  • It featured in the 1988 Keanu Reeves film The Night Before.
  • It appeared in the 1998 film Blues Brothers 2000, re-recorded by the Blues Brothers Band, and during the closing credits of the 2007 film Rush Hour 3.
  • The music was used in the legal comedy-drama Ally McBeal (1999, episode "Sideshow", second season).
  • The music was used in Netflix and Aardman Animated movie ‘’Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’’.

References

  1. ^ Galloway, A. Scott (1994). Rock Instrumental Classics Volume 4: Soul (p. 14) [CD booklet]. Los Angeles: Rhino Records.
  2. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - July 31, 1961".
  3. ^ Because Is in Your Mind, Discogs
This page was last edited on 7 March 2024, at 12:08
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