Someone at work was playing something that was full of samples from this. I bet she has no idea where it came from.
It says over 170 songs sample Genius of Love. They get lots of checks in the mail. It sounds like even though Mariah Carey's song was practically a cover, they only got a smaller percentage, but it was a huge hit.
I bought this album when first came out without knowing anything about it. Today it’s still one of my favorites. Not a single bad song on it. A perfect LP.
I’d bet almost no one at your work knows where the music in the new Apple ad came from, either. Ad features high school kids campaigning for a school office. Sparks album Kimono My House (1974) features the song This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us (and it ain’t me who’s gonna leave).