MARTIN DENNY / FIRE CRACKER

[Lexd1989]

Not only did YMO did a cover for this, but this song was what inspired Haruomi Hosono to establish YMO (originally Yellow Magic Band) in the first place.

[nullpore]

I know YMO's cover but this original melody is very nicely constructing oriental melody.

[nellie2581]

Jennifer Lopez sampled YMO's version for her I'm Real.

[mkultra2300]

holy shit Yellow Magic.

[stupidpropaganda]

@mkultra2300

in Exotica 2 (1958's) MARTIN DENNY also covered

Japanese exotic song 'Soshuu Night Serenade' (1940's)

Musicians cover others with courtesy is common thing,

YMO had never forgotten the orginator was MARTIN DENNY.

[stuckinnebraska]

YMO did a good contemporary job, but Denny's truly has the "oriental" sound to it. YMO could have been a European band because of its techno treatment. Not a bad version, just different.  Still, Martin Denny was incredible in his knowledge and creativity.

[Jagged85]

@stuckinnebraska

YMO's version was actually intended to be a subversion of the original version's "orientalist" flavour. In a way, you could say YMO's version was undoing the exoticism and orientalist flavour of the original, to the point that the only thing it has in common is the melody, while everything else, from the beats to the bassline, is futuristic-sounding, almost like YMO were trying to present their own new brand of futuristic orientalism. Either way, both versions are great.

[chkjns]

@stuckinnebraska I just picked up the album with this song for 16 cents today - big blowout at our local thrift store. I've got over 50 songs on my Martin Denny playlist & this is the only one from this pre-1963 vinyl album. Julius Wechter is on vibes & marimbas here. He played & composed for Herb Alpert & was founder & lead player in the Baja Marimba Band! Come check out my 700 playlists that cover over a century of pop music, with individual lists covering every year since 1900. chuck

[supermariosunshine64]

I don't usually prefer covers...but YMO's version is way better in my opinion.

[atrios28]

fully analog ! love it

[Drassdouche]

This music makes me want to take my clothes off and dance into the females only gym in my town and shake my juicy danglers all over the place, squirting love foam onto the running machines.

[srfm10064]

Did YMO cover this?

It is terrible arrangement power.

[davesharon1]

Anyone know why there isn't a posting of his last top 100 hit (got as far as #50), A Taste of Honey? I haven't heard this since I was little.

[tokyokisshu122]

Wow :U This is possibly cooler than the YMO version.

Oh, of course it's better being the original and all..but I love the sound of this ^_^

[joyouslife4all]

wow! this is the first time to hear the original "Fire cracker"!!!

it is awsome that YMO did such dope cover on this by synths!!

Awsome music!!

and thank god that I'm alive in todays world to meet such great music!!

[WarRogers]

YMO did an incredibly fantastic awesome super-duper cover of this! And this is pretty damn good too. Martin Denny is king of tiki cool

[felexia1]

YMO did a great cover of this.

[MrUnidyne]

Years later, the Japanese electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra covered this!