Want to put together a set list of classic (late sixties-mid seventies) funk and soul with partying going on. What would be the essential or even some hidden gems here? Any opinions and help would be greatly appreciated.
Off the top o the head . . .
Highlighters - Funky 16 Corners
Bar Kays - Soul Finger
Impression - We're a Winner
Wow.. I was just discussing the same thing to a friend last week. A few I was going to use - Jam Party, Brooklyn Express, Maximus Party, Special Touch...
What of that one you told me about, where the record had the partying sound all the way through, and the singer tried to do his own take on these effects, when they did it live. Years later. And it was massively embarrassing for all to see.
"Double Shot of My Baby Gravy", or somesuch.
Oh man, the Swingin' Medallions, "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love."
That's a whiter shade of pale, right there, though. Shit makes "She's About A Mover" look like X Clan. I'm not sure the 'strut is ready for that particular chamber.
(In a side note: That record is always partied--or as your people say, banjaxed--as fuck. And that's probably as it should be. As with the New Holidays' "Maybe So Maybe No" or The Notations' "I'm Still Here," VG minus minus is really the only way to listen to it [to the extent that it is to be listened to at all]. In a box somewhere I have a copy that's got a deep cigarette melt in it that the previous owner very meticulously filled in with some glue and a shim cut from a fucking Quisp box or something. I was not around during its heyday, but my impression is that all people really required from that record, condition-wise, was for the needle to physically make it across its surface, in the belief that the presence or absence of any actual sonic qualities would anyway be rendered secondary by the fratty musk that this thing secretes. There's some dude on youtube flossing his minty stock copy, which is a little like showing off an unopened condom. Some people, man.)
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I love this song.
It seems like you can't go wrong with any 45 with "party" in the title
If there was a 60's garage rock equivalent, it would be the piped-in screaming fans on "live" LPs. Always funny.
There is nothing on the cover indicating that it is a greatest hits. Does anyone have any of these songs on a different LP of his?
Break Your Back
Soulful Football
OO Wee Baby, I Love You
Can I Change My Mind
Funky Chicken
Windjammer
Loose Booty
Sugar Sugar
Off Into A Black Thing
Is It Something You've Got
Funky Chicken
Harlem
Numerous James Brown and JBs tracks fit this bill.
Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud for one.
Wow.. I was just discussing the same thing to a friend last week. A few I was going to use - Jam Party, Brooklyn Express, Maximus Party, Special Touch...
That's a whiter shade of pale, right there, though. Shit makes "She's About A Mover" look like X Clan. I'm not sure the 'strut is ready for that particular chamber.
(In a side note: That record is always partied--or as your people say, banjaxed--as fuck. And that's probably as it should be. As with the New Holidays' "Maybe So Maybe No" or The Notations' "I'm Still Here," VG minus minus is really the only way to listen to it [to the extent that it is to be listened to at all]. In a box somewhere I have a copy that's got a deep cigarette melt in it that the previous owner very meticulously filled in with some glue and a shim cut from a fucking Quisp box or something. I was not around during its heyday, but my impression is that all people really required from that record, condition-wise, was for the needle to physically make it across its surface, in the belief that the presence or absence of any actual sonic qualities would anyway be rendered secondary by the fratty musk that this thing secretes. There's some dude on youtube flossing his minty stock copy, which is a little like showing off an unopened condom. Some people, man.)