Playlist 12/09/2017 - Ragged Edges

A bit of technical awkwardness today, but I think we're going out nonetheless — All the way live!

Skit #2 – from Chains & Black Exhaust compilation
Let's Get Small - Trouble Funk (link is to BDP's "Criminal Minded" built on a sample from Trouble Funk)

Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn – James Brown
Let a Woman Be a Woman and Let a Man Be a Man - Dyke and Blazers (link to "Sally" by Stetsasonic built on a sample from Dyke and the Blazers)

Ripplin’ – Ripple

Ripple, year unknown

Bands with Numbers —

Spreadin’ Honey – The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

She’s Not Just Another Woman – The 8^th Day

Daisy Lady – 7^th Wonder

LP Cover, Climbing Higher by 7th Wonder, 1979

I’m Just Like You – 6ix

My Friend – Jimi Hendrix
Keep On Doin' - The Isley Brothers (link to listen)

The Grunt – The JB’s

45 Label, "Pickin' Cotton" by Johnny Talbot & De Thangs

Pickin’ Cotton – Johnny Talbot & De Thangs

You Better Think Twice – Sharon Jones

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings in a holiday mood

Rap with Funk Instrumentation —

Synthesizer – OutKast

Cut Chemist Suite – Ozomatli

Ozomatli (w/ Chalie 2na)

At the House – People Under the Stairs

Truth Be Told – Surreal and the Sound Providers
Put It On Her - Big Grams (link is to video to performance of "Goldmine Junkie" on Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins    

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Main Theme from Trouble Man / T Plays It Cool – Marvin Gaye

No Name Bar – Isaac Hayes

Aht Uh Mi Hed – Shuggie Otis

CD cover for re-release of Shuggie Otis, "Inspiration Information"

You Don’t Know How Much I Love You – Alphonse Mouzon

LP Cover, Funky Snakefoot by Alphonse Mouzon, 1974

Getaway – Earth Wind & Fire    

Bop Gun (Endangered Species) – Parliament
It's Just Begun - The Jimmy Castor Bunch (link to TV performance)

Showstopper – Iron Knowledge

45 Label, "Showstopper" by Iron Knowledge

Jungle Jazz – Kool and the Gang

Unwind Yourself (remix) – Marva Whitney

You’re Welcome, Stop On By – Vicki Anderson (w/ Bobby Byrd)

Ya Mama Wants Ya Back – Betty Davis

The Easiest Way to Fall – Freda Payne

We Beg Your Pardon (Pardon Our Analysis) – Gil Scott-Heron

The late great Gil Scott-Heron, the Conscience of Funk

Living for the City – Stevie Wonder    
We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue – Curtis Mayfield    
If You Don't Give a Doggone About It - James Brown (link is to video of the Godfather trying to teach his dance moves to this song -- my favorite is the Camel Walk)

Ape Is High – Mandrill
Jerking the Dog – The Mighty Hannibal    

The Mighty Hannibal at a radio station record hop, mid-60s

Pop-Eye Stroll – The Mar-Keys

Ye Ye De Smell – Fela Ransome Kuti & the Afrika 70 (live,w/ Ginger Baker)

Fallin’ Like Dominoes – Donald Byrd   

Donald Byrd, Jazz trumpeter & Professor at Howard University

Tune in next Saturday for more Sublime Funk! Same place same time!

    

Playlist: 2017/12/02 - Parliament etc.

Show #4: Parliament, George Clinton, etc. —

Album cover, 1979's Uncle Jam Wants You by Funkadelic

Chocolate City - Parliament

Underground Angel – George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars

Hyper Space – The Sweat Band

Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament (link is to 1976 landing in concert)

Back cover, 1980's Sweat Band (a spinoff act featuring
Bootsy Collins & the Horny Horns)

Fantasy is Reality – Parliament (prev. unreleased track)

(I Wanna) Testify – The Parliaments

Nappy Dugout – Funkadelic

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah – O.G. Funk

Video clip from Say Brother, 1969
Cosmic Slop – Funkadelic

I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You (LP version) - Funkadelic
Cholly (Funk Get Ready to Roll) – Funkadelic

Loose Booty – Funkadelic

The late great Bernie Worrell in 2013

— Reprises & Replays —

Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere) – Bernie Worrell
Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) – Parliament

What You Been Growin' – The Parliaments
Can You Get to That? – Funkadelic
Disco Lady – Johnnie Taylor (featuring 4 P-Funk musicians)
Undisco Kidd – Funkadelic

Pedro Bell's album cover for 1976's Tales of Kidd Funkadelic

Funky Woman – Parliament
The Goose – Parliament
Atomic Dog - George Clinton (link is to 1983 video)
Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk - Parliament (link is to recent live performance of "Flash Light" with current Sir Nose)

Cover of 1978's The Motor-Booty Affair featuring Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk

Four Play – Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns (feat. Maceo Parker)
Ahhhh… The Name’s Bootsy, Baby – Bootsy’s Rubber Band
Disco to Go – The Brides of Funkenstein    
Hydraulic Pump – The P-Funk All-Stars    

Up for the Down Stroke TV commercial, 1974
Up For the Down Stroke – Parliament
Everything Is On the One – Parliament    

Maggot Brain (1971) - Funkadelic (link is to 1985 concert performance with both Eddie Hazel [RIP] and Michael Hampton)
(Not Just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic (link is to video by De La Soul "Me Myself & I" (1989) which is built on a sample from Funkadelic)

Night of the Thumpasaurus Peoples – Parliament

Parliament, ca. 1970

The Silent Boatman - Parliament

[Could have easily filled three more hours with all this intense brilliance. We'll continue to play around with more P-Funk in the weeks to come, I promise...]