“Barbra Streisand” by Duck Sauce

Duck Sauce, the Canadian-American DJ duo, turned "Barbra Streisand" loose in 2010 and built a hit out of almost nothing: a replayed sample of Boney M.'s 1979 disco smash "Gotta Go Home" and a voice saying the singer's name, over and over, which is the whole lyric. Mark Summers produced that replay at SCORCCiO Replays. The borrowing runs deeper, too: "Gotta Go Home" itself leaned on "Hallo Bimmelbahn", a 1973 German song by Nighttrain, the band of brothers Heinz and Jürgen Huth, and both brothers sit in the writing credits alongside Armand van Helden and Alain Macklovitch.

The joke traveled. It went to number one in Austria, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and Switzerland, made the top ten in the UK, France and Germany among others, landed in Just Dance 3, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.