I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventually got a copy of the beat and when I passed it along to my pal Alan, he dumped it in Pro Tools and cleaned it up.
Years later, I got married and made a mix for The Wife. Little Miss Sunshine was and is one of her favorite movies so Alan and I cut up dialogue by Alan Arkin and fit it over the Finesse-Marvin Gaye beat.
Enjoy.
And smile: it won’t mess up your hair.
The older I get the more I love Alan Arkin. That guy really eats up some scenes.
Nice beat also.
There's no spot in the record where you can hear this loop. Finesse had to cut and paste different portions of the record to create it.
And yeah, Arkin: he's so good.
Arkin has a great understated touch.
He's played some great roles, and been in some fun movies - none better, I think, than The In-Laws with Peter Falk.
Of course, Andrew Bergman's story and script were pretty brilliant, in that one too.