Believe it or not, DangerMouse and Cee-Lo weren’t playing every instrument you heard on “Crazy.” The song depends as heavily on a sampled bassline as it does on a drum machine and Cee-Lo’s incredible voice.

The source song is called “Nel Cimitero la Tucson,” a song from Gianfranco Reverberi’s soundtrack to a 60’s-era spaghetti western called “Preparati La Bara!” Before you go thinking I’m some kind of mystical genius, remember that I obsessively surf the web more than you do.

Prometheus may have brought fire to man, but he didn’t invent it.

I learned about this via Stereogum and a blog called The Splendida Project (thanks, guys!)

You can download the tune here, thanks to my man Eric Bryant:

Here it is –> “Nel Cimitero la Tucson,” by Gianfranco Reverberi