SUNDAY SESSIONS-PT 2 ...

So here it is... SUNDAY SESSIONS PT 2

This month is another session by myself. 

And in the words of Jimmy Castor ...

"What we're gonna do right here is go back....Way back ...Back into time"

With an hour long  excursion to Planet Funk ....

 So get your dancing shoes on... and get ready to bust some serious moves to some serious tunes... Funk for the folk. Ya'll

Enjoy... wigid ;)

SUNDAY FUNK SESSION...

1. Intro - Jimmy Castor

2. Product Efficiency - Johnny Pearson

3. Hung up - Salt

4. Hot, Funky and Sweaty - The Soul Lifters

5. Keep it up - Olympic Runners

6. Cosmic Sea - The Mystic Moods

7. Soul Travelin' - The Gary Byrd Experience

8. The Basic - Milk

9. Jungle Fever - Chakachas

10. Tatou Strip Tease - Michel Audiard

11. If it ain't Funky - The Soul Searchers

12. Free Your Mind - The Politicians

13. Get up and Dance - Eddie Harris

14. Funk for the Folk - The Soul Searchers

15. Humpty Dump - The Vibrettes

16. Black skinned blue eyed boys - The Equals

17. You got to have a job (If you don't work...you can't eat) - Marva Whitney and James Brown

18. I rolled it you hold it - The Soul Searchers

19. Blow your whistle - The Soul Searchers

20. Keep on Dancing - The Commodores

21. I cant get next to you - Mongo Santamaria

Pt 1

Pt 2

ps... As always download both parts to open .rar file

"Turn off the lights" Larry Youngs Fuel


This video is a cover version by Jamiroquai


b. Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz, 7th October 1940, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.

d. 30th March 1978, New York, New York State, U.S.A.

Whilst working with UK guitarist John McLaughlin in 1969, Larry Young met Jimi Hendrix with whom he played organ on a few sessions.

He also played with John Coltrane (although these sessions were never recorded).

Larry was one of the great innovators of the mid to late '60's.

After playing with various R & B bands in the 1950's, and being featured as a sideman with tenor saxman Jimmy Forrest in 1960, Young debuted as a leader that year with 'Testifying', which, like his subsequent soul-jazz efforts for Prestige, 'Young Blues' (1960), and 'Groove Street', (1962), left no doubt that Smith was his primary inspiration.

But when Young went to Blue Note in 1964, he was well on his way to becoming a major innovator.

John Coltrane's post-bop influence asserted itself more and more in Young's playing and composing, and his work grew much more cerebral and exploratory.

'Unity', recorded in 1965, remains his best-known album.

Quick to embrace fusion, Young played with Miles Davis in 1969, John McLaughlin in 1970, and Tony Williams' groundbreaking 'Lifetime' in the early '70's.

From here he recorded two solo albums for Arista, 'Larry Young's Fuel' (1975), including 'Turn Off The Lights', and 'Spaceball' (1976), both highly collectable 'rare grooves' among UK funk, soul and jazz fans.

Young was only 38 when, in 1978, he checked into hospital suffering from stomach pains, and died from untreated pneumonia.

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Northend "Tee's Happy (Tee Scott Club Mix)

Written and produced by Arthur Baker,Russel Presto, Tony Carbone
Executive Produced by Micheal Jonzun (Jonzun Crew,Neucleus)
and mixed by Tee Scott
a brilliant piece of Electro-Funk from 1981.

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The People's Choise "Cold Blooded and Down-Right Funky"

The People's Choice went through its share of personnel changes in the '70s and '80s. When the Philadelphia outfit recorded the album" We Got the Rhythm" for TSOP/Philadelphia International in 1976, its lineup included original members Frankie Brunson (lead vocals/keyboards), David Thompson (drums, percussion), and Darnell Jordan (rhythm guitar) as well as more recent additions like Guy Fiske (lead guitar), Roger Andrews (bass), and Donald Ford (keyboards).
This track from the album (which Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff produced at Philly's famous Sigma Sound Studios) wasn't a huge radio hit, although club DJs found "Cold Blooded and Down-Right Funky," to be highly infectious with the crowd and it still hits the spot today.

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Magnum "Evolution"

A sampling DJ's best wet dream, the track
features horn driven '70s Funk, wet bottom heavy basslines
and a tight rhythm section.

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New York Noise vol 1

'New York Noise' features the cream
of New York's punk-funk bands from
the early 80s, ESG, Liquid Liquid,
Bush Tetras, Arthur Russell's 'Dinosaur 1' etc.
All the bands that had a huge influence on the
current wave of New York groups such as
The Rapture, Metro Area,
The Liars, & The Strokes.

1. Optimo - Liquid Liquid 2. Baby Dee - Konk 3. Do Dada 4. Reduction - Material 5. Wawa - Lizzy Mercier Descloux 6. 5:30 - DNA 7. Beat Bop - K Rob, Rammellzee, K Rob 8. Contort Yourself - James Chance 9. Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar - Glenn Branca 10. Button Up - Bloods 11. Clean on Your Bean No. 1 - Dinosaur L 12. You Got Me - Theoretical Girls 13. Can't Be Funky - Bush Tetras 14. Helen Fordsdale - Mars 15. You Make No Sense - ESG 16. Defunkt - Defunkt

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Hustlers Convention

Part blaxploitation on vinyl part Jazzoetry,
this recording features some incredibly funky
and jazzed out backing music by none other than
KOOL AND THE GANG
as Lighnin' Rod (a former Last Poet's member)
tells his Iceberg Slim style tale of getting over.

1. Sport - Kool & the Gang, Lightnin' Rod

2. Spoon

3. Café Black Rose

4. Brother Hominy Grit

5. Coppin' Some Fronts for the Sets

6. Hamhock's Hall Was Big (And There Was a Whole Lot to Dig!)

7. Bones Fly from Spoon's Hand

8. Break Was So Loud, It Hushed the Crowd

9. Four Bitches Is What I Got

10. Grit's Den

11. Shit Hits the Fan Again

12. Sentenced to the Chair

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It's my thing (is it yours?)

Although she's not a household name, Marva Whitney is fondly remembered by funk devotees as one of the rawest, brassiest, most powerful divas the music ever produced. Along with fellow funk belters Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson, Whitney made her name singing with the James Brown Revue for a few years, and her limited, much-sampled recordings for Brown-associated labels now fetch astronomical sums on the collector's market. Born in Kansas City, Whitney began performing at the age of three with her family's touring gospel group, the Manning Gospel Singers. She studied music in college and caught on as lead singer of the R&B group Tommy Gadson & the Derbys. In 1967, she signed on with the James Brown Revue as a featured female vocalist, meaning that she would perform her own small set every night while Brown took a break. Whitney accompanied Brown on his late-'60s tour of Vietnam, and made other international appearances with him as well. In 1969, Whitney made her first solo recordings for King, Brown's label at the time. She scored a Top 20 hit on the R&B charts with "It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who to Sock It To)," a rewrite of the Isley Brothers hit; the follow-up, "Things Got to Get Better (Get Together)," just missed the R&B Top 20. Far too gutsy and funky to cross over to the pop charts, Whitney remained with the Revue until 1970, without scoring any more significant hits on her own. Still, cuts like "Unwind Yourself" (now very recognizable through several hip-hop samples) and the duet "You Got to Have a Job (If You Don't Work)" helped cement her reputation among record collectors. Her only studio LP, It's My Thing, was released in 1969 and has been heavily bootlegged and sampled by numerous DJs; her Live and Lowdown at the Apollo LP also commands hefty price tags. Whitney went on to record for the Isley Brothers' T-Neck label, as well as Nashboro, but her prime material is from the James Brown years. Seven of those tracks were compiled on the Polydor collection James Brown's Original Funky Divas. Whitney has reunited sporadically with Brown for live performances over the years.
~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

This is Marva Whitneys first and i think best album
Its class ! produced by "The Godfather"
James Brown and featuring the JB's
Of course it has the infamous title track(Plus pt 2)
But the track that stands out to me is the duet with James Brown
of "Sunny"

1. It's My Thing, Pt. 1

2. It's My Thing, Pt. 2

3. Things Got to Get Better (Get Together)

4. What Kind of Man

5. If You Love Me

6. In the Middle [Instrumental]

7. Unwind Yourself

8. You Got to Have a Job (If You Don't Work, You Can't Eat)

9. I'll Work It Out

10. Get Out of My Life

11. I'm Tired I'm Tired I'm Tired (Things Better Change Before It's ...)

12. Shades of Brown [Instrumental]

13. I Made a Mistake Because It's Only You, Pt. 1

14. I Made a Mistake Because It's Only You, Pt. 2

15. What Do I Have to Do to Prove My Love to You

16. He's the One

17. This Girl's in Love With You

18. Sunny - James Brown, Marva Whitney

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Enjoy ;)

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Live at P.J's

If you like Funk you'll love this!!!

1. N.T. - 6:29
2. Ricksonata - 5:39
3. Sombrero Sam - 6:42
4. Ronnie's Groove - 2:57
5. Ike's Mood/You've Lost That Loving Feeling - 10:05
6. Lucky for Me - 3:02
7. Dujii - 6:02
8. The Penguin - 5:10

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