“The Original Chairmen Of The Board was put together by Holland Dozier Holland with four lead singers Harrison Kennedy (who was a singer/musician and performer from the hit Broadway play Hair), General Norman Johnson (singer, song-writer) Danny Woods (high energy lead singer and stage commander also known as Mr.Excitement), Eddie Curtis (lead singer of ballads).” Norman V. Johnson Jr

Part 1 of this who sampled Chairmen Of The Board showed you direct songs sampled or covered by other artists inspired by their music! Part 2 will show you more music but this time it will cover music penned by the song writer of the group General Norman Johnson. We hope that you enjoy!

The Honey Cone

Innocent Til’ Proven Guilty

 

Innocent TIl’ Proven Guilty was later sampled by Kanye West for Common’s song Testify 

 

Also sampled by Murs

 

Sampled by Bathgate

Lastly sampled in Lock my Love by Danoo

 

https://youtu.be/IuBX2lYbBKI

 

The Honey Cone Want Ads

 

Mary Mary later sampled Want Ads in their song Heaven

 

Sampled in Because I’m Me by The Avalanches featuring Camp Lo

Want Ads was also sampled here in Nikt Nic by Molesta

 

Stick Up by Honey Cone 

 

Stick Up was sampled in Get The Point by CEB

And many others but due to the language I will not post it!

The Honey Cone One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show

Covered by The Marvels

Freda Payne

Bring The Boys Home 

 

 

 

 

This was an impromptu collaboration thank you Norman V Johnson from Rollingout Magazine! Click Here to see more insider photos from his page!