First Drum Loop in the book "The Art of Digital Music"

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Bernhard's big book informs:-
>Another excerpt for our historians: "the distinction for the first
>commercial record to use a drum loop probably goes to producer Albhy
>Galuten. The Bee Gees' song "Stayin' Alive" used a loop of drums extracted
>from their song "Night Fever". It refers to an article in "Mix" of October
>2000. Apparently Galuten used the loop again for Bee Gees' "More Than a
>Woman" and Barbra Sreisand's "I'm a Woman in Love"

I think Zappa used tape loops for the drums on "Ruben and the Jets".
That would be 1968,
difficult to confirm since the original drumming was replaced for the
cd issue.

andy butler