Playlist: May 5th, 2018

EZ’s Favorite Funk Mega-List

Prelude – Parliament
Breakin’ Bread – Fred Wesley & The JBs

LP Cover for Breakin' Bread by Fred & The New JBs (1974, People)

Sexy Coffee Pot – Tony Alvon & The Belairs
The Seed 2.0 – The Roots (w/ Cody Chestnutt)

Cody ChesnuTT

Get Off Your Ass and Jam – Funkadelic
Rigor Mortis – Cameo
What’s Up Front That Counts – The Fabulous Counts

LP Cover for What's Up Front That Counts by The Counts (1972, Westbound)

African Rhythms – The Oneness of Juju
Survival – Osibisa

LP Gatefold for Woyaya by Osibisa (1971, Decca)

Move on Up – Curtis Mayfield
Black Man’s Cry/ Egbe Mi O Medley – Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes
Musicawa Silt pt 1 & 2 – The Daktaris

Inner City Blues – Reuben Wilson

LP Cover for The Sweet Life by Reuben Wilson (1972, Groove Merchant)

Amen Brother – The Winstons
All Your Goodies Are Gone – Parliament
Hook & Sling pt 1 & 2 – Eddie Bo
Moment of Truth – Earth Wind & Fire
Big Bird – Eddie Floyd

Eddie Floyd

Get On The Good Foot – James Brown
Ashley’s Roach Clip – The Soul Searchers
I Made a Mistake (Because It’s Only You) – Marva Whitney
“T” Plays It Cool – Marvin Gaye

LP Cover for Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye (1972, Tamla)

Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Tramp - Lowell Fulsom

Nautilus – Bob James
Rock Creek Park – The Blackbyrds

The Blackbyrds

You Better Think Twice – Sharon Jones
Chameleon – Herbie Hancock

Erotic City – Prince
Atomic Dog – George Clinton
Who’s Gonna Take The Weight? – Kool & The Gang
Sport – Lightnin’ Rod

Inside Gatefold of Hustler's Convention, featuring Jamaluddin al-Nuruddin

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
I Want To Take You Higher – Sly & The Family Stone
Humpty Dump – The Vibrettes

Telephone Girl – Assagai
Fencewalk – Mandrill
Bra – Cymande
Spreadin’ Honey – The Watts 103rd Rhythm Band

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Rock Steady – Aretha Franklin
Walk On By – Isaac Hayes

Cosmic Slop (live) – Funkadelic
Let a Woman Be a Woman and Let a Man Be a Man – Dyke & the Blazers
Creation (Prologue)/ It’s Just Begun – The Jimmy Castor Bunch

The Jimmy Castor Bunch

Night of the Thumposaurus Peoples – Parliament
Jungle Jazz – Kool & The Gang
Say It Loud, I’m Black I’m Proud – James Brown

LP Cover for Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud by James Brown (1969, King)

Apache – Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band
Unwind Yourself – Marva Whitney
Give It Up or Turnit Loose (In The Jungle remix) – James Brown
Think (About It) – Lyn Collins
Drop the Bomb – Trouble Funk

Trouble Funk in action

Cissy Strut – The Meters
Keep On Doin’ – The Isley Brothers

LP Cover for Get Into Something by The Isley Brothers (1969, T-Neck)

The Grunt pt 1 & 2 – The JBs
Cramp Your Style – All the People feat. Robert Moore
Mary Jane – Rick James

LP Cover for Come Get It! by Rick James & The Stone City Band (1978, Gordy)

Holy Ghost (extended version) – The Bar-Kays

Funky Worm – The Ohio Players
Your Man, My Man – Betty Davis
I Know You Got Soul – Bobby Byrd

Soul Brother One & a Half, the Fabulous Bobby Byrd

Dazz – Brick
Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
Some Kind of Wonderful – Soul Brother Six

Soul Brother Six

Red Hot Momma – Parliament

Last show this weekend

So it looks I'll be able to swashbuckle my way in to the station this Saturday, but it looks like the station is going to be inactive during the summer, at least on the weekends, when the entire building is closed.

I'm sure it will be easy to get a weekday slot, so I'll let you know what's up soon.

So be sure to tune in! We'll be doing the mega-show: "60+ Favorite Funk Songs"

Just purchased this week, & it's the funkiest
children's album I've ever heard!

No show this weekend, 4/28

Sucks to say, but not only I am too busy to do a show this weekend, but the station is still off-limits until next week. Hopefully that first weekend in May it'll go down:

The Black Nasty, back cover to their 1972 LP, Talkin to the People (Stax Records)

Update

Last Saturday afternoon, a pipe burst in the Campus Center cafeteria, closing the building for the rest of that day. Now we are being told that the flood loosened asbestos in the basement, and WCCR is off-limits at least until April 30th. So there will be no funk until after, at the very soonest.

Big bummer.

Aborted playlist - 03/24/2018

Mighty Mighty (live) – Earth Wind & Fire

CD cover for The Eternal Dance, a Earth Wind & Fire compilation (1992, Columbia)

Sweet Sticky Thing – The Ohio Players

LP gatefold of Honey by The Ohio Players (1975, Mercury)

Footsteps in the Dark – The Isley Brothers
Power to the People – Curtis Mayfield
Chameleon – Unknown High School Band

LP Cover for Schoolhouse Funk (2000, Cali-Tex)

Loose Booty – Sly & The Family Stone
Black and Proud – 6th Infantry Brigade of the Nigerian Army
Freedom Flight – Shuggie Otis

LP Cover for Freedom Flight by Shuggie Otis (1971, Epic)

Tom Cat – Muddy Waters

Unfortunately, my laptop suffered a grave malfunction at the end of this song, and my show had to aborted about an hour into my slot. Bummer.

No Show April 14th

Sorry y'all -- I have several commitments next Saturday, April 14th that will keep me out of the studio. Sucks. But I am giving a talk at Camden Comic-Con so that will be fun (not on Black Panther, but there will be a panel on it).

Also SF great Samuel Delany will be giving a talk at the English Department conference that same day, so lots to do at RUC!

Playlist 04/07/2018

Blow Your Head – The JBs

LP Cover for Damn Right I Am Somebody by Fred Wesley & the JBs (1974, People)

I Don’t Believe You Wanna Get Up And Dance (Oops) – The GAP Band
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow – Funkadelic
(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going to Go – Curtis Mayfield
Get Down on It – Kool & The Gang

LP Cover for Something Special by Kool & The Gang (1981, De-Lite)

Willie Pass the Water – Ripple
Gimme a Pigfoot & A Bottle of Beer – Bessie Smith

Record Label for "Gimme a Pigfoot" by Bessie Smith (1934, Parlophone)

The Bad One – Kent Meade & The Remington Sunshine
Blow Your Whistle –The Soul Searchers
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself) – James Brown

Hunk O’ Funk – Brother Jack McDuff

Jack McDuff, jazz organist extraordinaire

Volunteered Slavery– [Rahsaan] Roland Kirk
Fairchild – Willie West

45 Label for "Fairchild" by Willie West (1970, Josie)

Full Side Funk — The Meters, side 1

LP Cover for The Meters (1969, Josie)

Cissy Strut
Here Comes the Meter Man
Cardova
Live Wire
Art
Sophisticated Cissy

Funk It Down – Caesar Frazier
Promised Heights – Cymande

LP Cover for Promised Heights by Cymande (1974, Janus)

The Funky Buzzard – James Bell & The Turner Brothers

Get Down People – The Fabulous Counts
History Lesson/The World – Gil Scott-Heron

LP Cover for Moving Target by Gil Scott-Heron (1982, Arista)

James Baldwin speech at the Cambridge Union Society, 1965

James Baldwin at work

Time – The Last Poets
Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron

Nobody But You Babe – Clarence Reid
Smoke – The Ohio Players

LP Cover for Fire by The Ohio Players (1974, Mercury)

Hey Sallie Mae Get Off My Feet – Lee Fields & The Soul Providers
So Nice You Name Him Twice – Bootsy Collins
Get Down With the Get Down – Melvin Sparks

LP Cover for Melvin Spark '75 (1975, Westbound)

Memory Band – Rotary Connection
‘Tis Your Kind of Music – Graham Central Station

Full Side Funk — Kool & The Gang, side 2

LP Cover for Kool & The Gang (1970, Del-Lite)

Give It Up
Since I Lost My Baby
Kool’s Back Again
The Gang’s Back Again
Raw Hamburger
Let the Music Take Your Mind (unlisted track)

Drum Song – Earth Wind & Fire
Panama – Mandrill

Cramp Your Style – All the People (feat. Robert Moore)

45 Label for "Cramp Your Style" by All the People (feat. Robert Moore) (1972, Blue Candle)