(We'll take this DJ booth out for a spin, see what she can do...)
[The playlists are often accompanied by links, not usually to the song itself, but often to live performances, music videos, and later songs that sample or borrow pieces of the track. Just trying to spread the love & appreciation. It's important to understand that Funk is not dead; that it circulates in new forms & contexts.]
P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) – Parliament
[The playlists are often accompanied by links, not usually to the song itself, but often to live performances, music videos, and later songs that sample or borrow pieces of the track. Just trying to spread the love & appreciation. It's important to understand that Funk is not dead; that it circulates in new forms & contexts.]
P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) – Parliament
Move on Up – Curtis Mayfield
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| Curtis Mayfield onstage |
Telephone Girl - Assegai
Think (About it) – Lyn Collins, The Female Preacher
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| Lyn Collins, The Female Preacher |
Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays
I’ve Got So Much to Give – Barry White
Anti-Love Song – Betty Davis
Trouble Funk Express - Trouble Funk (link is to a video of 1988 concert)
Cramp Your Style – All the People
Don’t Think… Do – Bama & the Family
Animal Behavior - Praxis (link is to music video)
Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Roy Ayers
Inner City Blues (Make Me Want to Holler) – Reuben Wilson
Mary Jane – Rick James & The Stone City Band
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| Rick James' Come and Get It (1978) |
Family Affair – Sly and the Family Stone
Slide – Slave
Trials of a Jedi – Morgan Phillips (Supergenius)
Damn Right I Am Somebody – Fred Wesley & The JBs
Say It Loud, I’m Black I’m Proud – James Brown
Locked Inside – Janelle Monáe
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| Janelle Monáe her own bad self |
Kashmere – The Kashmere Stage Band (link is to 2010 reunion performance in Dallas, TX)
Rock Creek Park – The Blackbyrds
Water No Get Enemy – Fela Ransome Kuti & The Afrika 70
Sport – Lightnin’ Rod (aka Jamal-udin Nuruddin) (link to a fan vid of The Beastie Boys' "Egg Man" which uses a drum sample from "Sport")
Musicawa Silt (pt 1 & 2) - The Daktaris
Super Stupid – Funkadelic
Hard Times – Baby Huey & The Babysitters
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| Baby Huey with a favorite book |
Fight the Power – The Isley Brothers
The Seed 2.0 – The Roots (feat. Cody Chestnutt) (link to music video)
Summer Madness – Kool & the Gang
Honky Tonk Popcorn – Bill Doggett
Holy Ghost – The Bar-Kays (link to video of M/A/R/R/S' "Pump Up the Volume" - go to 2:45 for a sample of the famous "Holy Ghost" breakdown)
I Made a Mistake (Because It’s Only You) – Marva Whitney (link is to live version)
Hot Pants… I’m Comin, I’m Comin, I’m Comin - Bobby Byrd
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| Bob James, One (1974) |
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