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  • GuzzoGuzzo 8,611 Posts
    James Brown "The Payback"

    This album was originally recorded as the soundtrack to Hell Up In Harlem. The Studio said it wasn't funky enough

    The bug that bit me was Sly's "If you Want Me To Stay"
    I followed that up with the purchase of all 4 cd's in this series


    then I started working at a record store and John Doe got me started on the vinyl habit with Some Idris Muhammad Power of Soul

  • cheebahazecheebahaze 235 Posts
    As a young Rude Boy in the 80's i was deeply enveloped
    in Jamaican music and specially the falsetto tinged vocals of
    Rocksteady.... Slim Smith, Ken Parker... mostly Treasure Isle
    stuff. Then one night in a soul club i heard the DJ play this
    amazing track. I raced over and asked what it was he had just played.
    He replied "it's called 'Move On Up' by Curtis Mayfield".
    That was THE moment i became hooked.

  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
    Ruby Andrews - Everybody Saw You (Zodiac)

  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    The JB's - Pass The Peas

  • theory9theory9 1,128 Posts
    Commodores "Machine Gun", I think.

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    As a young Rude Boy in the 80's i was deeply enveloped
    in Jamaican music and specially the falsetto tinged vocals of
    Rocksteady.... Slim Smith, Ken Parker... mostly Treasure Isle
    stuff. Then one night in a soul club i heard the DJ play this
    amazing track. I raced over and asked what it was he had just played.
    He replied "it's called 'Move On Up' by Curtis Mayfield".
    That was THE moment i became hooked.

    I remember the first time I heard that shit as well. I was driving down Sunset Blvd and it came on the radio, most likely KCRW's Chocolate City, back when the show had a weekly midnight-3am slot. Once the song hit the breakdown, I flipped. I heard "Places and Spaces" for the first time a few minutes later. This was about 15 years ago. Crazy.

  • Bobby Rush- Chicken Heads

  • JayGeeJayGee 313 Posts
    My moms old Tamla Motown compilation got me hooked!
    Track was Isleys "this old heart" - still one of the best 60s soul tunes ever!

  • my friend borrowed DJ Drezs "Rare Soul vol.2" mixtape from his homie, we always use to play that shit in his beat up old car.two tracks in particular REALLY stood out to me...Whole Darn Family "seven minutes of funk" and kool and the gang "summer madness" but back then i had no idea what they were cause there was no tracklisting.i was in like 9th grade,and that mixtape is what turned me on to digging.
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