Double Dee & Steinski – Lessons 1 - 3

"Lesson 3" was the final medley in Double Dee & Steinski's trailblazing trilogy of cut and paste breakbeat. It mixes up funk, electro, breaks and vocal samples with the same irreverent adventurousness as before, but this time with more of a focus on the breakdancing classics.

The main music includes Herman Kelly & Life's "Funky Music Is The Thing", to name but a few.

These are overlaid with the usual array of diverse vocals from films ("Putney Swope", "To Have And Not Have", "Mars Needs Women"), comedy sketches (Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup"), politics (US president John F. Kennedy), and the first ever cut and paste medley, Buchanan & Goodman's 1956 "The Flying Saucer". As before, the lesson ends with a 1945 clip of NYC mayor Fiorella La Guardia asking: "And say children, what does it all mean?"

With the heaviest breaks of the trilogy, and its eclectic combination of disparate ingredients, "Lesson 3" fitted right in with the big beat scene that it would go on to influence a decade later. (7)

your right i have one and mine has lesson 3 printed on both sides i think there was only 500 pressed thanks

Apparently one of the represses is a limited legitimate Tommy Boy repress from 2002. This has the cat# TB-867 on the runout grooves plus a scratched star. Not sure how many were pressed.

Original has the frankford/wayne stamp on run-out groove ( i own one) , without the f/w stamp is a bootleg ,beside you can recognize the bootleg even if you don't check for the stamp from the label misprinted ( bootleg says side-a in both sides like this pic here on discogs )once again original has the f/w stamp , without the stamp the record is a bootleg or a repress ,this is to stop the doubts one time for all , peace.

At the closing of 1983, the crew from the American label Tommy Boy had the idea of sponsoring a mastermix dispute called ‘G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's “Play That Beat Mr. DJ” Mix Context!’ In order to create new master mixes of “Play That Beat Mr DJ” with hooks and cuts of other tunes exactly the way Mr Shep Pettibone used to do in Kiss FM with his accurate technique, releasing whole exclusive versions. The reward offered by the label was pretty generous: Tommy Boy’s complete catalogue and official t-shirt, a hundred dollars, including the possibility or an airplay a special club distribution for the mega mix. The winner would be chosen between ten finalists by a very serious team of judges including Jellybean Benitez and Shep Pettibone himself. Though the hot track of the moment was Shannon’s “Let The Music Play”, the surprise didn’t come out from a DJ or a well-known artist, but by a duo of supreme cut & paste masters named Double Dee & Steinski, that boldly put together an incredible amount of quotes and samples, including Humphrey Bogart’s speeches, N.Y. Fiorello LaGuardia, Yaz, Herbie Hancock, Culture Club, NYC Peech Boys, among others, announcing samplemania’s emergence in the Club culture. After the tape was played, all the judges applauded intensely.

Lesson 1 – Conceived in Doug De Franco’s studio during a little more than twelve hours, “Lesson One” is a melting pot of samples with a plethora of quotes on top of “Play That Beat Mr. DJ”, from G.L.O.B.E. feat Whiz Kid. The famous “You see!” vocal sample from "Monster Jam” by Spoonie Gee opens the megamix, sequenced by a regressive countdown, then the sample-title of this lesson: “Now we come to the payoff!”
During the sequence “Punk Rock, New Wave and Soul, Pop Music, Salsa and Rock & Roll”, other fragment goes in and out: “Br-Br-Br-Bronx!”, taken from Malcolm McLaren’s classic “Buffalo Gals”, succeeded by “Play That Beat” chorus and by “Is the t!”, from Funky 4 + 1’s “That’s The t”.
The main theme follows with Run DMC’s “Check This Out!” Sample from ‘Here We Go’ (used later by Bomb The Bass in “Megablast”) and, while the vocalist spells the main chorus “Play it for (…)”, there is a chain of samples, including Apache’s percussion of 1973’s Incredible Bongo Band’s classic; and “Do you love the Supreme Team Show?” from Malcolm McLaren and The Worlds Famous Supreme Team.
Also present is “I’ll Thumble” from Culture Club’s “I’ll Thumble 4 Ya” is followed by another mad sequence of Elvis Presley samples, Lovebug Starsky’s "Starski Live At The Disco Fever", and Humphrey Bogart‘s sample “You played it for her, you’ll play it for me…Play it!” from Casablanca (1942). Herbie Hancock “Rock It” follows in the middle of amazing fragments of Malcolm McLaren “Buffalo Gals” effects, and the fantastic medley continues with another part of Globe & Whiz Kid’s quote, “Master Mix and those number 1 tunes”, followed by The Supremes emotional “Stop In The Name Of Love”, then the well known backing vocals “Everybody say one…one! Bless one time! Everybody say two (…)” mixed with “Good…Good” (from Chic’s “Good Times”).
The Lesson One features as well “New York is brand high!” sample, continued by the most emotional moment of the master mix, a delicious mixture of a synthesizer sequence with Bernard Fowler’s accapella “Hey, feeling real good, baybe…yeah…so good, so good…’cause I can do it right…”, part of the NYC Peech Boys classic “Don’t Make Me Wait”, and by the robotic vocoder “Planet Rock! Planet Rock! Planet Rock! Don’t, don’t stop!” (from Arthur Baker & John Robie with Afrika Bambaata & The Soulsonic Force anthem). The first lesson closure brings Indeep’s sample “It’s not a problem that I can’t fix…’cause I can do it…in the mix” from the club anthem “Last Night a DJ Saved My Life”.

Lesson 2 is opened by Kurtis Blow's Do The Do break, and the master of ceremony announcing "The hottest recordman in show business" - James Brown - followed by a melting pot of samples from his musics; Clint Eastwood's voice is also present on the age "You've get to ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?" from Dirty Harry movie, followed by Mama Used To Say by Junior.

My favorite Lesson is the 3rd one, which starts with John Kennedy's 1961 speech "Torch has been ed to a new generation of Americans”, followed by a multitude of magistral quotes. Among them, "And the message is: Mars Needs Women" (from the 1967 Sci-Fi novel), Lauren Bacall's sample "You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?" from 'To Have And To Have Not' (1947); the Dynamic Corvettes' Funky Music Is The Thing, followed by "Kind of Funky!"from Baby Huey's Listen To Me (1971); the grand finale "And Say Children: what does it all mean?" is a 1945 historical quote from New York’s Fiorello LaGuardia.

Unfortunately I have the bootleg version (as many others I expect have also) In the marvelous Rap Records bible written by Freddy Fresh, he says "the original has a Frankford/Wayne pressing stamp on the runout groove" Have a look and if you have it, please make a picture/scan of it. :-)