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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Playlist 09/29/2018

LP Cover for Excuse-O by Fela Kuti (1977, Coconut)

Mr. Grammaticology-lisationalism is the Boss - Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70

How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet) - Hank Ballard w/ the Dapps

LP cover for Ji by Junior (1982,  Mercury)

I Can't Help It - Junior
7 Rooms of Gloom - The Four Tops
Billy Jean - Michael Jackson
Cut Chemist Suite - Ozomatli

Guru

Trust Me - Guru's Jazzamatazz
Trust Me - Aged in Harmony

Late 1970's James Brown tracks
A Man Understands

LP Cover for Get Up Offa That Thing by James Brown (1976, Polydor)

Medley: Get Up Offa That Thing/Release the Pressure
I Refuse to Lose

LP Cover for The Original Disco Man by James Brown (1979, Polydor)

It's Too Funky In Here
Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?)

LP Cover for Take a Look at Those Cakes by James Brown (1978, Polydor)

For Goodness Sakes, Look at those Cakes
Eyesight
The Spank

LP Cover for Gloryhallastoopid, or Pin the Tail on the Funky
 by Parliament (1979, Casablanca)

The Big Bang Theory - Parliament

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Playlist 09/22/2018

We Live in Brooklyn Baby - Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers in the studio

Sexy Dancer - Prince
Bumpin Bus Stop - Thunder & Lightning
The Funky Buzzard - James Bell & The Turner Brothers

The Isley Brothers' backing band (with Jimi Hendrix, left)

Move Over & Let Me Dance - The Isley Brothers (w/ Jimi Hendrix)

LP Cover for Show Album no. 1 by The Happy Dolls (1977, Solar)

Funky Stuff - The Happy Dolls
Seeds of Life - Harlem River Drive (feat. Eddie Palmieri & Jimmy Norman)

LP Cover for It's a New Day by The Skull Snaps (1973, GSF)

It's a New Day - The Skull Snaps
Rhyme Time People - Kool & The Gang

Inside cover to Innervisions by Stevie Wonder (1973, Tamla)

Don't You Worry Bout A Thing - Stevie Wonder
Get Down - Curtis Mayfield
Fish Head - Slim & The Soulful Saints
Kazi - Oneness of Juju

George (left) and Louis Johnson

Ain't We Funkin' Now - The Brothers Johnson

Full-Side Funk:
Ain't No Bout-a-Doubt It by Graham Central Station

Front LP Cover, Ain't No Bout-a-Doubt It by Graham Central Station (1975, WB)

Side 1

The Jam
Your Love
It's All Right
I Can't Stand the Rain

Rear LP Cover

I Got the Feeling - Sharon Jones
Beautiful Day - Spider Harrison

45 Cover for "Beautiful Daddy" by Ofo the Black Company (1972, Decca)

Beautiful Daddy - Ofo the Black Company
There Was a Time - Six Pack
Make It Good to Yourself - James Brown

LP Cover for Black Heat (1972, Atlantic)

Wanaoh - Black Heat

45 Label (B side) for "Yeah You're Right You Know You're Right" by The Gaturs (1972, Gatur)

Yeah You're Right, You Know You're Right - The Gaturs
"Simon Says" The Kingpin - Fishbone
Getting the Corners - The TSU Tornadoes

Darondo (born Willian Daron Pulliam)

Didn't I - Darondo

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Playlist 09/01/2018

Walter "Junie" Morrison

Super J - Junie
In the Pocket - Boots
Why Not Start All Over Again - The Counts
Get Down with the Get Down - Melvin Sparks

LP Cover Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic (1973, Westbound)

March to the Witch's Castle - Funkadelic
The Goose pt 1 - Parliament
Humpin pt 1 & 2 - The Unstoppable S Robinson & His Marvelaires
Jungle Boogie - 24-7 Spyz

LP Cover for With a Lotta Help From My Friends by Junior Mance (1970, Atlantic)


Don't Cha Hear Me Calling to Ya - Junior Mance
Whole Lot Of Lovin' - Elsie Mae "TV Mama"

LP Cover for We the People by The Soul Searchers (1972, Sussex)

Full Side Funk - "We The People" by the Soul Searchers

We the People
Your Love is so Doggone Good
It's All in Your Mind
Soul to the People

Robert Lowe

Back to Funk - Robert Lowe
South Side Funk - Soul Seven
Mellow Mellow Right On - Lowrell
Mother Popcorn (live) - James Brown
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
Ripplin' - Ripple

Double Cross - The Sugarman Three

LP Cover for Money Talks by The Bar-Kays (1978, Fantasy)

Monster - The Bar-Kays
Psyche - The Jimmy Castor Bunch

LP Cover for Be Nice to the People by Question Mark (1977, EMI)

Scram Out - Question Mark