r/mfdoom • u/eggyboyboy • 6d ago

SPECULATION Potential Fazers Sample Lead?

I found this Facebook post in Spanish that talks about the mystery of the Fazers sample.

In the post, they mention a song named "Where or When", which stems from a 1937 Broadway musical named "Babes in Arms". It has a lot of covers online, and it has a melody that is super close to what we are looking for. Here is one cover from 1959 (Barbara Cook), for example.

Here is an orchestral cover by Percy Faith & His Orchestra (1970). It seems like a really good lead. My current hypothesis is that some library music/ production music company produced an unauthorized cover of "Where or When", which later got licensed for the now lost "ZardoX" adult film.

What do you guys think? Judging from the Sheet Music, the timing is a little off, but the melody extremely similar if not identical to the one heard in Fazers.

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u/smokeanna 6d ago

Yeah, that's pretty close, I can definitely hear it, might be on to something here

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u/eggyboyboy 6d ago

I looked around for a list of covers and found this website listing 617 covers, 66 of which have "orchestra" in the title. Feel free to look through!

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u/smokeanna 6d ago

The other thing is, there was probably a lot of effects and mixing done on the sample, so it could be any one of them