Don't you just love a great sample... It's been a long time since I have thought of something blog-worthy. It has been some time since I made a music connection in my brain that was worth writing about, but I found something. : ) During 2016 there was a McDonald's campaign that included a sample of the famous Otis Redding song entitled " Try a Little Tenderness (1966)". The year 2016 made fifty years since the song's official release. And to date, I am confident that millions of people are familiar with this song. Even if they are only familiar with a small part of it; namely Redding's brief riff at the end of the song... but I will come back to that. You know how a lot of people know famous songs because they have passed down through generations? You know it when you hear it - kind of thing. So it makes me think... a three-second riff at the end of a song is strong enough to be passed down over five decades and used over and over again. Music i...