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Stephen Sondheim

Company: You Could Drive a Person Crazy

1997 · via Beastie Boys

Stephen Sondheim’s earliest release of “Company: You Could Drive a Person Crazy” on file came out in 1997. Stephen Sondheim wrote it. The earliest release on file is Susan Browning, Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Harold Hastings’, from 1970. Also recorded by Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie, David Kernan (released 1990), Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, Pamela Myers (released 1993) and Maria Friedman, Ruthie Henshall, Millicent Martin & Lea Salonga (released 1998), among 10 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Beastie Boys’ “Electrify” (1998) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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A 1998 Beastie Boys track that runs on a Stephen Sondheim song from Company, sample cleared and credit carried. Play his recording first, then Electrify, and see if you can hear where one ends and the other begins.

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Credited writer: Stephen Sondheim.

Earliest release on file: Susan Browning, Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, Harold Hastings, 1970.

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Beastie Boys’ “Electrify” (1998) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Other recordings on file · first release year

10 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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