How did Zapp & Roger make a song called "Computer Love" before the internet was invented

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Charlie Wilson Remembers Rivalry With Roger Troutman, Making "Computer Love"

Charlie Wilson Remembers Rivalry With Roger Troutman, Making “Computer Love”
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Mar 24, 2011
By Jerry L. Barrow
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Some of the best songs are not born of one mind, but instead result from the collaboration of great artists. In 1984 Zapp And Roger’s “Computer Love” was a top 10 Billboard hit featuring Charlie Wilson andShirley Murdock. In this interview for TheUrbandaily.com Uncle Charlie tells the hilarious story of Roger coming to his room one night with the idea for a song, their ideas for a video and how it almost didn’t get released.


“We had problems with the label when they found out I was singing with Roger…they said it wasn’t going to be a hit…” –-Charlie Wilson
 
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MusicConsulting said:
Not pointless, shall we say, troll-full.

Good job with the grab, but those negs :banderas:
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lol @ "troll-full"

and to the neggers (:patrice: hope that word don't bite me in the ass later, fyi I mean those who Neg)

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Rakim Allah said:
Charlie Wilson Remembers Rivalry With Roger Troutman, Making "Computer Love"

Charlie Wilson Remembers Rivalry With Roger Troutman, Making “Computer Love”
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Mar 24, 2011
By Jerry L. Barrow
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Some of the best songs are not born of one mind, but instead result from the collaboration of great artists. In 1984 Zapp And Roger’s “Computer Love” was a top 10 Billboard hit featuring Charlie Wilson andShirley Murdock. In this interview for TheUrbandaily.com Uncle Charlie tells the hilarious story of Roger coming to his room one night with the idea for a song, their ideas for a video and how it almost didn’t get released.


“We had problems with the label when they found out I was singing with Roger…they said it wasn’t going to be a hit…” –-Charlie Wilson
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Dope interview, almost confirmed what I thought. Uncle Charlie says the concept was they were gonna make the perfect woman using a computer. Just like in the movie "Weird Science", which came out a year before the song :sas1:
 
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Cat piss martini said:
dude has always been before his time.
look at autotune..

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Roger used a talk box. Teddy Riley used a vocoder. T pain and the rappers/singers today use auto tune. Not the same thing. Doesn’t sound the same either to those that have listened to the talk box and vocoder for decades. It’s like a difference in sp 1200 drums and MPC 3000 drums. Plus auto tune was around before t pain. It was a correction tool. The first mainstream song I heard overuse it was by Cher and I didn’t know what it was
 
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DontEemTry said:
Dope interview, almost confirmed what I thought. Uncle Charlie says the concept was they were gonna make the perfect woman using a computer. Just like in the movie "Weird Science", which came out a year before the song :sas1:
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Thank you.

It’s laughable to think the song was on some futuristic Tinder, POF, etc. dating service shyt.
 
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