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  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,585
    War (now the Lowrider Band)

    Cisco Kid
    The World is a Ghetto
    Gypsy Man
    Why Can't we be Friends

    Now that is funk my friend!
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,241
    Ohio Players
    Fred Wesley and the JBs
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited June 2013
    thanks for all the suggestions (especially War), listened to many, have made a CD-length playlist, for anyone interested it is:

    Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
    Tramp - Lowell Fulsom
    Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose - James Brown
    Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
    Time Is Tight - Booker T & The MGs
    Here Come The Girls - Ernie K-Doe
    Thank You - Sly & The Family Stone
    Gimme Some More - James Brown
    Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
    Doing It To Death - James Brown
    The Cisco Kid - War
    Cross The Track (we better go back) - Maceo and the Macks
    Low Rider - War
    Fight the Power - Isley Brothers
    Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give up the Funk) - Parliament
    Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
    Le Freak - Chic
    Flashlight - Parliament
    Shack Up - A Certain Ratio
    Word Up - Cameo
    Dont Joke with A Hungry Man - Quantic
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    edited June 2013
    holyjo said:

    Lonnie Liston Smith - expansions
    Chocolate milk - actions speak louder than words
    The blackbyrds- doing it in the park

    You been going through my record collection? (Actually, mate, The Blackbyrds track is called Rock Creek Park.)

    I used to spend a fortune at record fairs on funk and soul, then dance to similar at Gilles Peterson's Sunday afternoon Dingwalls sessions. Key tracks of mine, apart from those three listed above, include (and again, maybe more jazz funk/soul then true down-home dirty funk):

    Sweet Power - James Mason
    Dominoes - Donald Byrd
    Places & Spaces - Donald Byrd
    Shifting Gears - Johnny Hammond
    2000 Black - Roy Ayres
    Lucky Fella - Leroy Hutson
    How Could You Break My Heart - Bobby Womack


  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    RIP - George Duke
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    Boogie on reggae woman - Stevie Wonder
  • I_was_Floyd
    I_was_Floyd Posts: 468
    edited August 2013
    Me and Baby Brother - War
    Galaxy - War
    Yum Yum (gimme some) - Fatback Band
    Street Dance - Fatback Band
    Wicky Wacky - Fatback Band
    Fire - Ohio Players
    Funky President - James Brown
    Funky Stuff - Kool and The Gang
    Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
    I Feel Sanctified - Commodores
    Hollywood Swinging - Kool and The Gang
    For The Love of Money - O'Jays
    Make It Funky - James Brown
    Thank You - Sly & The Family Stone
    Bertha Butt Boogie - Jimmy Castor Bunch

    Various Parliament/Clinton/Collins tracks

    Do It Anyway You Wanna - Peoples Choice
    Do It Til You're Satisfied - BT Express
    Mr.Big Stuff - Jean Knight
    Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright

    That'll do.......

  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Any of you soul funksters recognise which song these lyrics come from...its a record that keeps getting played on a classic soul station here in the ATL...

    The Smaller the club, the bigger the party, there's something about this room
    The Smaller the club, the bigger the party, a dancefloor you can barely move.

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