Saturday, August 4, 2018

Buckshot LeFonque "Some Cow Fonque"

Morning radio shows all use music beds to brand themselves. A music bed ultimately is vocal-less background music to talk over. I would bet that most mid-1990s morning producers spun the song "Some Cow Fonque" while the wacky morning host riffed on the day's topics. The funky hip-hop jazz tune comes from Buckshot LeFonque (pronounced "luh funk") which is the brainchild of Branson Marsalis. His 1994 song made it on the R&B charts and also became commonplace as a music bed on morning radio shows.