This one’s heavy on video, yo. But it’s smooth.

In 1978, the Doobie Brothers released their album Minute By Minute, containing the song “What A Fool Believes”….

…and, of course, it became a hit. So smooth.

Comare and contrast with Robbie Dupree’s 1980 single titled “Steal Away”…

…which seems to be exactly what happened here. Very suspiciously similar.

According to this site, Dupree’s song also was, uh, inspired by Eddie Money’s 1977 song “Baby Hold On.” I can kind of hear it.

Doobie Bro Michael McDonald had this happen with another song, 1982’s “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)” –

The song was sampled in 1994 by Warren G and Nate Dogg in “Regulate” [mildly NSFW]-

A completely and totally 100% absolutely true and smooth account of how this came about was related on the internet series Yacht Rock [also a bit NSFW]. And “Hollywood Steve,” the host of the show, is a real life music critic.

However, “I Keep Forgettin'” itself is heavily inspired by Chuck Jackson’s 1963 song titled, amazingly, “I Keep Forgettin'” –

McDonald’s version is sometimes listed as a cover of Jackson’s song, but there are differences. Although sharing credit with the writers of Jackson’s song, McDonald does get a songwriting credit on his version.

Michael’s old friends in Steely Dan had their own run-in with this sort of thing. From 1977, their song “Black Cow” –

…which got sampled in 1997 by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz for their single “Uptown Baby” [you know it’s NSFW]-

The opening of the song features another sample, Amores Como El Nuestro by Jerry Rivera.

Turns out The Dan weren’t happy with Tariq and Gunz sampling the song and causing Walter and Donald some difficulties. Peter Gunz discusses it here (a little NSFW language in there).

Not long after that, Tatyana Ali released her 1998 single “Daydreamin'” (lots of apostrophes in music, apparently), where Tariq and Gunz sampled themselves sampling “Black Cow” in some kind of recursive loop and rapped on it –

“I heard Steely Dan “Black Cow” and went wild!”

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen completes and reverses the Mobius Circuit by sampling “Uptown Baby” over “Black Cow” –