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Cameo

Back and Forth

1986 · via Wu-Tang Clan

Cameo’s 1986 recording of “Back and Forth” is the earliest release on file. Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Kevin Kendrick and Nathan Leftenant are credited as its writers. Wu-Tang Clan’s “Gravel Pit” (2001) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

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Cameo had "Back and Forth" on record in 1986, and four of its writers still sit in the credits of "Gravel Pit." Play the two back to back and listen for the frame the Clan built on.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Kevin Kendrick and Nathan Leftenant.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1986.

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Wu-Tang Clan’s “Gravel Pit” (2001) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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Wu-Tang Clan's "Gravel Pit" carries the writing credit of an earlier song, "Back and Forth." Who first recorded that one?Cameo
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