Use of "Summer Madness"
From this album, the song "Summer Madness" has been used in various features, such as:
- The 1976 film Rocky (uncredited)
- A cover version on Mary J. Blige's 1998 live album The Tour. Mary J. Blige also sampled this song in "Message In Our Music" from the album Love & Life.
- The 1991 song "Summertime", via a sample by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
- Sampled on song by Gang Starr for "DJ Premier In Deep Concentration".
- The 1994 song by H-Town for the Above the Rim soundtrack which was written and produced by Jodeci's DeVante Swing.
- Mad Skillz's "Get Your Groove On" samples "Summer Madness" on his 1996 debut From Where???
- Rap group Lost Boyz used a direct sample of the song for the intro to their 1996 debut Legal Drug Money
- Aaliyah's "A Girl Like You" Featuring Naughty By Nature frontman Treach samples "Summer Madness" on her sophomore 1996 album One in a Million.
- Erykah Badu's song Certainly samples "Summer Madness." (From her 1997 album Baduizm)
- The 1997 song "Incident at Gate 7" by Thievery Corporation on their debut album Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi samples the opening keyboard riff.
- The 1998 song "You Ain't a Killer", by Big Pun on his debut album Capital Punishment.
- The 1999 song "Boy You Knock Me Out" via sample by Tatyana Ali feat Will Smith. Also contains a version of the lyrics from the aforementioned Summertime that used the same sample.
- The 2001 film Baby Boy
- The 2002 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It's played on the Fever 105 radio channel
- The 2004 film You Got Served.
- A 2006 Nike shoe commercial featuring LeBron James' "The LeBrons"
- The 2006 Tony Hawk's Project 8 Soundtrack
- Bob Baldwin released a cover on his album Lookin' Back (2009).
- Shy FX & T Power sampled the song on their album, Set It Off, on the track Don't Give A Damn.
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Famous quotes containing the words summer and/or madness:
“The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The eye-balls were seared with a milky mucus;
The madness of a dying soul
Was written on her face
But the multitude saw why she wore the bandage.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (18691950)