“I bought a Billboard magazine for the month of July and looked across every chart - pop, the Hot 100, the R&B chart, the dance chart, then club and radio play, and then 12-inch dance sales - looking for whichever song appeared in the top ten of each of those charts,” Mason admitted to Electronic Beats in 2015. Justin Timberlake Pays Tribute to Bill Withers: 'One of My Biggest Idols' Songs Are Becoming Hits on TikTok Before They're Even Released Mason’s son Baron confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone.Īfter a stint as a music manager and studio engineer, Mason - as Vaughan Mason & Crew - signed with Brunswick Records in 1980 and, in an effort to capitalize on the roller skating craze sweeping the nation, recorded the roller rink anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll,” a not-so-veiled homage to Chic’s hit from the previous year, “Good Times.”Ĭelebs Are Bored: Ariana Grande Recreates 'Waterboy' Scene With Friends Vaughan Mason, the musician and producer whose influential disco-funk singles - most notably his 1980 roller skating anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” - have been sampled by dozens of artists ranging from Daft Punk to a Tribe Called Quest, died Thursday of natural causes at the age of 69.
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