The 20-second break was part of a song by the Winstons, a multiracial soul band. Despite the Amen break's seminal popularity across music genres, the Winstons never received royalties. Nobody ...

A six second drum break from The Winstons‘ “Amen, Brother” (the b-side to their 1969 hit “Color Him Father”) is arguably the most famous “break” ever. The “Amen Break” has been sampled on countless ...

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What do Salt-N-Pepa, Amy Winehouse, Oasis and the theme song to the animated TV show "Futurama" have in common - these six seconds. (SOUNDBITE OF THE WINSTONS' "AMEN, BROTHER") SHAPIRO: This is called ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Don’t mess with classics, they say, and drummer Merlin Matthews - founder of drum and percussion ...

You may have absolutely no idea what the Amen Break is, but you’ve probably heard it a hundred times before. Artists ranging from N.W.A and Amy Winehouse to Oasis and Slipknot have all sampled the 6-7 ...

The Amen break is a drum riff created some 50 years ago by a funk and soul band called The Winstons, and they've finally started getting some... Funk Band Behind 'Amen Break' Drum Riff Receives Long ...

Don’t mess with classics, they say, and drummer Merlin Mathews - co-founder of drum and percussion loop/sample library The Beat Shed - is happy to agree that you can’t improve on the “perfect” Amen ...