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Disco and Funk and Soul and Boogie (Music Thread)

Started by chutnut, December 17, 2021, 10:43:53 AM

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Inspector Norse

Sorry can't think of anything, "soul" is a really narrow niche genre


Sebastian Cobb

Been going down a Mille Jackson rabbit hole recently, was going to make a thread but forgot.



Her live stuff on Live & Uncensored is mad as well.

monkfromhavana

Jeffree - Mr. Fix-It

Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again

A vaguely new bit, a cracking slice of what I think they call "Soultronica":

Saturn's Children - From The Heart (K15 Remix)

Placebo - Humpty Dumpty

Gary Bartz - Celestial Blues

Some slept on mid-90s UK RnB
Paul Johnson - If We Lose Our Way

chutnut

I do like a bit of Millie Jackson, used to play All The Way Lover a lot

Also love that Staple Singers track!
This 'soultronica' stuff is new to me, liking the tune but it does sound exactly the same as neo soul tbh
I'm a big fan of Placebo and Gary Bartz - actually posted 2  tracks by them in the Jazz thread yesterday!


chutnut

Sad to see Paul Johnson go earlier this year, he wasn't from the UK was he? Always thought he was Chicago

Edit - nvm 2 different Paul Johnsons

Sebastian Cobb

I'm not sure what this category falls into but it's such a smooth favourite.




There's a great LWT documentary narrated by Danny Baker from 1980 talking about the London/SE soul, boogie & jazz funk scene



chutnut

Quote from: Better Midlands on December 17, 2021, 03:04:51 PMThere's a great LWT documentary narrated by Danny Baker from 1980 talking about the London/SE soul, boogie & jazz funk scene
This looks interesting nice one, might watch it tonight

Hadn't heard that Wilbert Longmire tune before, pretty good!
The rest are classic of course, especially Funkanova. When I was in my mid 20s I spent ages trying to make an edit of it, before realising it was all a waste of time because it's basically perfect as it is


monkfromhavana

An old favourite but a beautiful arrangement and a great vocal

Luther Ingram - If Loving You Is Wrong

Al Green - Jesus Is Waiting

Quincy Jones - Money Runner

Marvin Gaye - Desperate Situation - Always loved the strings on this one

As long as these threads keep popping up, I will always add this one

Sylvester - I Need You

Last one might be considered an odd choice, but Jerry Reed will always be one of my favourites and his tunes were definitely funky. Swamp funk.

Jerry Reed - The Ballad Of Gator McClusky

non capisco


I became addicted to 'You + Me = Love' by The Undisputed Truth this last year, a lot of brilliant peaks in those 11 + minutes.

Bobby Treetops

Tunes from artist you'd otherwise think were a bit naff.


A big tune from The Loft and shows Abigail was on to something there.

Eddie Grant's finest moment.

Mr Banlon


Quote from: Bobby Treetops on December 17, 2021, 03:50:38 PMEddie Grant's finest moment.

Nah


Quote from: chutnut on December 17, 2021, 03:40:14 PMThe rest are classic of course, especially Funkanova. When I was in my mid 20s I spent ages trying to make an edit of it, before realising it was all a waste of time because it's basically perfect as it is

Ashley Beedle did a good job


This is one of my favourite boogie tunes


and this


monkfromhavana

Also this, probably the most cheerful track ever recorded

Masayoshi Takanaka - Sexy Girl

chutnut


Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: chutnut on December 17, 2021, 01:44:02 PMYes big tune! (it's boogie)

Seriously thanks for the categorisation as I didn't have a real rabbit hole to go down.

I like some of the adjacent more hip-hop heavy but also quintessentially european stuff that Streetwise put out as well.


A lot of this has come from listening to Colleen Cosmo Murphy on Worldidefm, possibly my favourite dj and she crosses genres a fair bit so don't aways know where to look.



monkfromhavana


chutnut

I've heard loads of good things about DJ Cosmo but never heard any sets before, I'll have to check out that radio show!

Loving the Xavier video, here's another classic

kalowski

Here's a lovely song, especially for you Public Enemy fans.

daf

#25
Carte Blanche - Do You Like it Like That?



B-side of the single 'Get Up Get On Your Feet' - released in June 1979.

Quote   
Despite the lure of two fruity sleeve variants featured on the 7 and 12-inch, it failed to chart.

daf

Ganymed - Dancing In A Disco



Released in 1979 - did not chart

QuoteGanymed was an Austrian/German space disco band founded in 1977. Members included :
"Kroonk" on lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, synth programming – Gerry Edmond [real name : Edmund Gerhard Czerwenka]
"Pulsaria" on vocals – Yvonne Dory [real name : Doris Ellen Czerwenka]
"Vendd" on keyboards – Rudolf Mille
"Schnitzel" on bass, keyboards – Gerhard Messinger-Neuwirth
"Cak" on drums, percussion, drum programming – Ernst Hefter
"Suk" on keyboards – Daniele Prencipe

In 1978, they released their first single 'Saturn', followed by "It Takes Me Higher", which hit #5 on the Austrian charts for four weeks and #23 on the German charts. That same year, they released their debut album 'Takes You Higher', which peaked at #16.

   

1979 saw the release of their second album, 'Future World'. In 1980, they released their final album, 'Dimension No. 3', plus a non-album single, "Money Is Addiction (Of This Crazy World)". At their last concert in 1981, 'Rock Me Amadeus' hit-maker Falco played bass for the group. Ganymed officially broke up in 1983.

daf

Lorraine Chase ‎– It's Nice 'Ere, Innit?

 

Released in August 1979 - did not chart.

QuoteIn the 1977 Campari television commercial, model and actress Lorraine Chase is shown being wooed by Jeremy Clyde over drinks. In response to his romantic line "Were you truly wafted here from paradise?" she replies in a strong Cockney accent, "Nahh, Luton Airport!". The humorous punchline became very popular, and in 1979, songwriter Paul Curtis and record producer John Worsley came up with the idea for a song while on holiday in Majorca. The song was offered to Lorraine Chase, but she refused it. The writers approached Jill Shirley [who had been involved with the UK heats for Eurovision for a number of years, and would go on to form Bucks Fizz, Gem and Bardo] - about finding suitable singers for the 'Shakin' Chase' group Cats U.K..

     

Deena Payne : "In 1978 there was an advert for a girl group called Cats UK. I auditioned as I was in musical theatre and I got the job - it was to sing Luton Airport. Clearly this song was done for Lorraine, she'd said it in a famous advert for Campari. But Lorraine didn't really want to have anything to do with it [because she objected to not being paid for it]."

The band included lead singer was Bea Rowley who, as a leading TV dancer who had worked with many of the major choreographers of the 1980s including Geoff Richer, Nigel Lithco and Arlene Phillips, and Deena Payne, who went on to appear with Chase in the long-running soap opera Emmerdale. The song reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart. Some releases of the record featured a censored version, which bleeped out the line "Sod it" from the lyrics. Cats UK released two further singles, Sixteen Looking for Love and Holiday Camp (both 1980), which failed to reach the charts.

daf

Mike Reid – Prisencolinensinainciusol (Freezin' Cold In 89 Twoso)



Released in April 1974 -  did not chart

QuoteMichael Reid was born in Hackney in 1940. The Blitz caused his family to move to Tottenham where he attended Rowland Hill School.

Reid's first work in entertainment was as a stand-up comedian in clubs and aboard cruise liners in the early 1960s. He then became an extra playing uncredited roles in television series such as Doctor Who [in the story The War Machines], and Department S. He was fired from working as Roger Moore's underwater stunt double in The Saint after drawing attention to Moore's thinning hair. He also worked as a stuntman for films such as Casino Royale and The Dirty Dozen in 1967.

 

He then became one of the original stars of Granada TV's The Comedians. He released 'Ter-rif-ic' an album of cockney songs in 1973, and reached number 10 in the UK singles chart with 'The Ugly Duckling' in 1975 - the same year as he became the host of the ITV children's TV quiz show Runaround.

Golden E. Pump


Not exactly obscure, but not known nearly as well as it should be; this is the David Ruffin jam I've been bumping more than any other soul track in 2021.