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Last Night (Mar-Keys composition)

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22: 323:, Australia, "Jerry Lee ‘Smoochy’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ. Since Moman didn't want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold-down on the organ on the root note. It hurts me in the Mar-Keys history when people say I wasn’t in the Mar-Keys because there’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them." 305:
form, with brief stops, where Floyd Newman intones "Last Night" before his saxophone solo, which is followed by him exclaiming "Oh, yeah!" before the last three choruses, including the pauses, before the song's fade.
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The label of the single gives writing credit simply to "Mar-Keys"; it was registered with BMI as having been written by
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The tune was sampled in 'Last Night' by Chris Anderson and DJ Robbie, and featured on their album of the same name.
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KNOE TV-8 in Monroe, Louisiana once utilized the tune as the theme music for the weekly program ‘’Sportscope’’.
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It is the theme tune to "The Midweek Special", a weekly show on Hospital Radio DGH in Eastbourne, England.
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During the 1960s, "Last Night" became the title tune for the French radio show
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covered the song on his 1967 album "King Curtis Plays the Great Memphis Hits"
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It was also used as the backing music to "Viaduct", a game played on the
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Multiple elements from the track were heavily borrowed in the
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in the United States. In Canada, the song reached #21 on the
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The music was used in Netflix and Aardman Animated movie ‘’
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released a risqué rendering titled "Bite it" on his record
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Single
The Mar-Keys
B-side
Genre
R&B
instrumental rock
Label
Satellite
Songwriter(s)
Charles Axton
Floyd Newman
Chips Moman
instrumental
The Mar-Keys
LP
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Charles Axton
Chips Moman
twelve-bar blues

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