high times sample driving me crazy in real life

I recently went through what I swore was the most insane mandela effect of my life, and only now have I actually found answers. I need to share this with someone or I’m going to lose my mind, because I’m so happy that I’m actually not crazy.

Since I’m not allowed to use Bluetooth in the car - since I’m only on my P1 plates - I’ve raided my parents’ cd collection to steal for myself. My favourite one to listen to on my drives to and from uni is Jamiroquai’s Travelling Without Moving. It’s one of my favourite albums with some of my favourite tracks; but one that particularly stands out to me is the song High Times (disc 1, track 6). But, listening closer to both the version of the song on my CD and the song on my Spotify playlist, I found myself going a bit crazy.

On the CD version, there was a sample. I’d never been able to figure out what song it was, or what the sample was saying; it was a woman’s voice. But, on the version on streaming such as Spotify and YouTube, and the version in the music video, the sample had been removed entirely from the song. It had some smaller parts, but the most notable change for me was the voice saying something after the second chorus, right before the instrumental break.

So, as I do with every question I have, I started googling without delay. Surely I’d be able to find something that’d give me an answer. But, weirdly, no luck. No matter what I searched and where I looked, there was nothing about the sample anywhere. I was scouring the internet to try and find a rip of the song where it had the sample but I was unable to find anything. I was starting to lose my mind. I was going to give up.

Then, I found a comment on a YouTube upload of the 2006 remaster.

“I think I'm from another universe where they mixed in the song "Last Night changed it all" into this song.”

To my dear YouTube user @les907, god bless you seriously. After so much searching and finding nothing, one search of Last Night Changed it All, written by Joe Wheeler and performed by Esther Williams and I’ll be damned, mentions of Jamiroquai sampling it in earlier recordings of the song all over the place that never showed up when I was googling before. I gave it a listen and I’ll be damned, the second the chorus started, I knew that was the one. I’m so happy to hear that I’m not going crazy. I was starting to lose my mind a bit. Those high times were in fact killing me.

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a HQ version of the song with the sample in it online, even with the knowledge that the sample definitely did exist… If anyone knows where I can find the song + the sample so I don’t have to resort to asking someone on Reddit for it, then please let me know! I’d kill to be able to listen to a version that’s not over the tinny speakers of my Mazda :)

It’s such a small thing but it’s also been such a weight off my shoulders ugh… @les907, wherever you are, I sincerely do hope your pillows are cold on both sides and you are never stuck in traffic again.

with love, lee ♥