'Ain't Nobody' is a song by American funk band Rufus and American singer Chaka Khan. It was released on November 4, 1983, as a bonus track for their live album Stompin' at the Savoy (1983). 'Ain't Nobody' quickly gathered popularity, and reached number one on the US BillboardR&B chart and number 22 on the US BillboardHot 100.[1] It has become one of Khan's signature songs.
Rufus keyboardist David 'Hawk' Wolinski wrote the song around a repeating synthesizer loop backed by a Linn LM-1 drum computer. However, drummer John J. R. Robinson played real drums for the recording session. The band did a democratic vote and they decided to include the song in their album repertoire. Once the song was recorded, Warner executives wanted to issue another song as the album's first single.[citation needed] Wolinski threatened to give the song to American singer Michael Jackson and American producer Quincy Jones for Jackson's album Thriller if the song was not the lead-off single. The label relented and 'Ain't Nobody' was issued and hit number one on the R&B chart for the week ending October 15, 1983.[2]
The song was also included on the soundtrack album to the 1984 film Breakin'.[3]
The song was adopted by fans of Nottingham Forest in 2018 in tribute to their star midfielder Joe Lolley, and has previously been utilised by supporters of Arsenal (Laurent Koscielny), Wales (Joe Ledley) and West Ham (Manuel Lanzini).
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The song is performed in the key of Eâ minor with a tempo of 104 beats per minute in common time. Khan's vocals span from Gâ3 to Eâ5 in the song.[4][5]
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Other versions[edit]Jaki Graham version[edit]
In 1994, singer Jaki Graham recorded the song and released it as a single. It reached number 44 in the UK, number 11 in Iceland,[10] 17 in Australia and number one on US Billboard Dance chart.[11]
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The music video for 'Ain't Nobody' was directed by American film director and producer Antoine Fuqua.[12]
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Diana King version[edit]Ain't Nobody's Business Sheet Music
Diana King recorded a cover single in 1995, reaching number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 4 on Billboard's Dance chart and number 13 on the UK Singles Chart.
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LL Cool J version[edit]
The cover of 'Ain't Nobody' by rapper LL Cool J was commercially successful. He recorded an interpolation of the song for the soundtrack to the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
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Released as the soundtrack's second single, the song peaked at No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 4 on the Hot Rap Singles Chart and No. 27 on the BillboardHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in the United Kingdom,[32] where the song was also a hit for Gwen Dickey and KWS (reaching No. 21) and The Course (No. 8).[citation needed]
Richard X vs Liberty X version[edit]
In 2003, Liberty X released a version of the song titled 'Being Nobody', produced by Richard X. The song takes the lyrics of 'Ain't Nobody' and the music from The Human League's 'Being Boiled'.
Mary J. Blige version[edit]
American R&B singer Mary J. Blige covered the song for her 2011 studio album My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1).
Scooter version[edit]
'It's a Biz (Ain't Nobody)' is a single by Germanhard dance band Scooter. It was released on 23 March 2012 as the fifth single from their fifteenth studio album The Big Mash Up.[33]
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Felix Jaehn version[edit]
In 2015, German music producer and DJ Felix Jaehn released a remix titled 'Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)' featuring vocals by British singer Jasmine Thompson.[38] It is the lead single for his eponymous 2016 debut EP Felix Jaehn. The remix was based on a solo release of the song by Thompson in 2013, when Thompson was 13, which had peaked at number 32 on the UK Singles Chart. However, the Felix Jaehn remix became a far bigger international chart success, peaking at number one or two in a number of European countries (including number two in the United Kingdom) as well as the top 10 in other European countries and Australia.[39]
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'Ain't Nobody's Business' (originally 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do') is a 1920s blues song that became one of the first blues standards.[1] It was published in 1922 by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins.[1] The song features a lyrical theme of freedom of choice and a vaudeville jazzâstyle musical arrangement.[2] It was first recorded, as 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do', in 1922 by Anna Meyers, backed by the Original Memphis Five.[3]
Recordings by other classic female blues singers, including Sara Martin, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith soon followed.[1][3] In 1947, the song was revived by the jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon as 'Ain't Nobody's Business'.[4] It was the best-selling race record of 1949[5] and inspired numerous adaptations of the song.[1] In 2011, Witherspoon's rendition was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame as a 'Classic of Blues Recording'.[4]
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The early versions of 'Ain't Nobody's Business' feature vocals with piano and sometimes horn accompaniment. They are performed as moderate-tempo blues and have an extended sixteen-bar introduction:[2]
There ain't nothin' I can do nor nothin' I can say, that folks don't criticize me
But I'm gonna do just as I want to anyway, I don't care if they all despise me
The remaining verses are eight bars in length, with the first four describing a situation, such as 'If I go to church on Sunday, then cabaret on Monday', and the last four concluding with the refrain 'Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do'.[2] The song's eight-bar chord scheme was a model for subsequent 'bluesy' Tin Pan Alley songs and R&B ballads in an AABA form. [6]
The music and lyrics are usually credited to two pianists â Porter Grainger, who had been Bessie Smith's accompanist from 1924 to 1928, and Everett Robbins, who had his own bands and worked briefly with Mamie Smith.[1][2][3][4]Clarence Williams, who played the piano on Bessie Smith's recording, is sometimes listed as a co-author of the song.[7]BMI, the performing rights organization, lists Grainger, Williams, Witherspoon, and Robert Prince.[8] The original lyrics were copyrighted in 1922 and are now in the public domain.[9]
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1923 record label listing 'Bessie Smith â Clarence Wiliams at the piano'
Anna Meyers recorded 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do' on October 19, 1922, in New York City,[10] backed by the Original Memphis Five.[10] The song was released as a ten-inch 78-rpm single on Pathé Actuelle for the US market by the French-based Pathé Records. Other early recordings include those by Sara Martin (with Fats Waller on piano),[11]Alberta Hunter,[12] and Bessie Smith.[13] In Smith's version, the lyrics also mention an abusive partner:
I'd rather my man would hit me, than to jump right up and quit me ...
I swear I won't call no copper, if I'm beat up by my papa Tain't nobody's business if I do
In 1928, a country blues rendition was recorded by Memphis, Tennessee, singer-guitarist Frank Stokes.[1] His finger-style acoustic guitar version uses a simple I-IV-V chord progression and different lyrics, including the refrain 'It ain't nobody's business but mine'.
In the postâWorld War II blues era, the jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon revived the song as 'Ain't Nobody's Business'.[4] He performed it in the West Coast blues style with understated backing by piano, guitar, bass, drums, and a three-piece horn section.[5] The song was recorded in Los Angeles on November 15, 1947, and released by Supreme Records in September 1948.[5] It entered the record chart on March 5, 1949, and reached number one.[14] Witherspoon's song was the best-selling R&B record of 1949.[5]
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In 2011, Witherspoon's 'Ain't Nobody's Business' was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.[4] According to the Foundation, 'its message continued to resonate, as borne out by the remarkable success of Witherspoon's two-part rendition, which remained on the Billboard 'race records' charts for 34 weeks. It was rated No. 3 in all-time chart longevity in Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942â1988.'[4]
Witherspoon's rendition also inspired numerous artists to record adaptations of the song.[1]Hank Williams Jr. recorded a version for his Lone Wolf album. Released as a single in 1990, it peaked at number 15 on the BillboardHot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[15]
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Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country is a 1993 book by Peter McWilliams, in which he presents the history of legislation against what he feels are victimless crimes, or crimes that are committed consensually, as well as arguments for their legalization.
The book is divided into five sections.
Throughout the book are approximately six hundred quotations by noted thinkers on both sides of his positions (primarily supporters).
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McWilliams presents a variety of arguments against the criminalization of victimless crimes. Some are philosophical in nature: one argument is that laws against these crimes are based in religion, which violates the separation of church and state. He also claims that they are un-American, as they attempt to homogenize the country to a certain group's idea of morality, and that they create an oppressive society, restricting personal freedoms without justification. Another claim is that they teach irresponsibility, by not letting people deal with the natural consequences of their actions, but rather penalizing them whether or not their actions harmed anyone else.
Other objections are practical: catching the 'criminals' involved is an expensive affair. Victimless crimes draw manpower and funds away from crimes that do hurt innocent parties, and enforcement of the laws is not consistent enough to be an effective deterrent. He also argues that actions to help people deal with problems caused by these illegal activities are effectively prevented by their criminalizationâfor example, no one could be helped about their drinking problems during Prohibition. Additionally, he details how laws against victimless crimes paved the way for organized crime.
Activities examined in detail in Part III include gambling, recreational drug use, medical marijuana, prostitution, homosexuality, pornography, indecent exposure, and seat belt legislation.
Until a few years after McWilliams's death, the text of this book (as well as McWilliams' other books) was available for free in its entirety through his archived web site; though all the books have been removed from that site in favor of links to online retail vendors, the texts have been archived in various formats by others.
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