Post up to 5 Funky 45s you're feelin'

[NiteKrawler45]

I realize that this has been done in the past, but these threads are always helpful so let's do it again. Everyone who has at least one funk 45 please participate

The idea is simple.

List up to 5 of your funky 45 tunes, (not top 5, just 5 randoms and maybe just 5 on your decks right now), the label they're on, and a description of the tunes or groups if you like. Big labels, small labels, whatever. Just good music. No imaginary/unreleased stuff. There's a Mingering Mike thread for such things. Let's go!

1-Harvey and the Phenomenals - Soul and Sunshine (Da-Wood)

One of my fav funk tunes. Listen to that sax!

2-James Brown - Lickin Stick (King)

Wow. Always on rotation at the Ice Cave.

3-Tiaras - Right On (The New Sound By Revere Music

)Played this out recently, and I just can't get enough of it. Driving, fast, and heavy sister funk. Wish I knew if it was from my area or not

4-Interpretations - Blow Your Mind (Jubilee)

A recent aquisition that's been getting heavy play on my decks. It really did blow my mind the first time I heard it.......rough and raw

5-Derek David - The Morning After (Pagan)

Mr. David was the group leader of DC's Young Senators during the mid 1960s, (around the time they recorded "7th and T") but he left to persue a solo career before they signed to Innovation. "The Morning After" is one of my favorite DC tunes, and I think it's still sitting on the turntable at home.

 

[yoigotbeats]

5 I'm rocking too much lately:

Betty Adams - Make It Real
Jack Hammer - Color Combination
Fact Of Life - It's Not What ya Got
Ironing Board Sam - Original Funky Bell Bottoms
the Proflics - Guts (someone please help me get an upgrade)

 

[jinx74]

mary jane hoooper - reasons (powerpac) : ive always loved this funky guitar driven female funker out of n.o.

lido - evil ways (mdr) : cool indie of white guys(?) covering santanas track

something real - aint that cold/yes i do (mankind) : a relative cheapy of two nice instrumental uptempo tracks.

stanley lippett - freakish (fos-glo) : nice and funky and quite a sexual roundtable of freakism going on in the song.

fire & brimstone - lifes lesson/into yourself (larj) : new discovery more or less of a female funk trio(?) from stockton. dumb nice on both sides.

 

[Blastkid]

These are common 45s, but have been on my turntables all the time for the last weeks:

Eddie Kendricks - Keep on truckin pt I & II (Tamla)
=> Solid tune with vibes on it. From the S/T album

VIP Connection - Please love me again/West Coast Drive (Sirocco)
=> From France I believe. The a-side is disco, but the b-side is a great downtempo funk tracks with nice rhodes playing.

Soul Vibrations - Sex Vibrations/Organ Vibrations (Apollo)
=> The b-side again. Heavy mid-70s hammond funk.

The Meters - A message from The Meters/Zony Mash (Josie)
=> A classic, needs no introduction

James Brown - I refuse to lose/Home Again (Polydor)
=> A very solid '76 track by Mr. Brown. The lyrics, the singing, the guitar line and the drums... really solid tune.

 

[pickwick33]

I haven't been bumping these singles LATELY, but they're still A-1 examples of this thing we call funk:

Net Wt. 14 Karat Black - "There's Gotta Be A Change" (parts one & two) (Luna)
South Shore Commission - "Shadows" (Nickel)
Kool & the Gang - "More Funky Stuff" (De-Lite)
Electric Express - "It's The Real Thing" (the instrumental version, which I think is Part One) (Linco)
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band - "Express Yourself" (Warner Bros.)

Not judged by common/raer staus, just by whatever sounds good (and was the first to spring to mind).

 

[bassie]

let me guess, these aren't even funk

I Want To Love You Baby - JoJo Benson and Peggy Scott
I Can't Stand It - Brenda George
Message from the Soul Sisters - Vicki Anderson
Do Your Duty - Gloria Taylor
Movin - Brass Construction

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Net Wt. 14 Karat Black "Stop Listenin'"(Luna)
Fuzz wha goodness

Myra Barnes "Message from the Soul Sisters"(King)
Vicki under an alias...think it has been recently re-ished

Bo Diddley "Another Sugar Daddy"(Checker)
easily Bo's coolest funk side...the flip "Im High Again" is top shelf as well

Honey and The Bees "Love Addict"(Arctic)
sister funk killer...so good

Sam Mosley "you got it"(M.O.C.)
I wear this out on the regular, then put it away for a month or two, then I gotta hear it again...one of my favorite Memphis 45s...

 

[jinx74]

Honey and The Bees "Love Addict"(Arctic)
sister funk killer...so good

i need their LP in my life...

i know mosley and seleno clarke are on MOC. what else is on that label?

 

[The_Hook_Up]

this is weird, I posted my list before I saw the last two above me (I had to take a call, so my post sat there a few minutes before I submitted it) then I see 14 kt. and the Myra/Vicki repped as well...great minds w/great taste think alike I suppose

 

[hendravis]

mary jane hoooper - reasons

the impressions - this is my country
Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band - Scorpio

 

[pickwick33]

Honey and The Bees "Love Addict"(Arctic)
sister funk killer...so good

i need their LP in my life...

i know mosley and seleno clarke are on MOC. what else is on that label?

The ones I have are a mediocre early single by Norm West (later of the Soul Children) and a novelty rockabilly thing by Murry Kellum, "Long Tall Texan" (this was a minor hit; the B-side, "I Gotta Leave This Town," is marginally better and is by a different artist altogether - I wanna say Glenn Hughes?).

 

[pickwick33]

this is weird, I posted my list before I saw the last two above me (I had to take a call, so my post sat there a few minutes before I submitted it) then I see 14 kt. and the Myra/Vicki repped as well...great minds w/great taste think alike I suppose

You should hear part two of the 14 Karat single I listed - they put the fuzz guitar on one speaker and the rest of the band on the other! I once played this on a college-radio funk show and somebody called in and thought our audio equipment went haywire...

 

[DrWu]

Jeanie Dee- Shake a Hand on HUDD Nice slow driving sister funk

Menahan Street Band- Make the Road By Walking/Karina on Dunham New one from the Daptone family. I love where these guys are taking the funk right now. The next release is rumored to be a total facemelter.

The New Apocalypse- Stainless Soul on MTA great instro funk.

Dee Felice Trio-There Was A Time on Bethlehem Jazzy cover of the JB cut. Always thought these guys kinda soft but liking them more these days.

Rudy Rae Moore-Put Your Weight On It on Generation Sex Funk from Dolemite. This one's for the ladies.

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Honey and The Bees "Love Addict"(Arctic)
sister funk killer...so good

i need their LP in my life...

i know mosley and seleno clarke are on MOC. what else is on that label?
The ones I have are a mediocre early single by Norm West (later of the Soul Children) and a novelty rockabilly thing by Murry Kellum, "Long Tall Texan" (this was a minor hit; the B-side, "I Gotta Leave This Town," is marginally better and is by a different artist altogether - I wanna say Glenn Hughes?).

it seems it was the dumping ground for Hi's "am gold" acts as well...a lot of bad rock on M.O.C., there is a 45 by Crazy Horse on M.O.C., probably not Neil Young's band(It doesnt sound like them) but a weird coincedence name wise however. About a year/year and a half ago this homeless dude brought in a box of MOC promos, I was excited to listen to them but it seemed the Mosley and Clarke were the best things soul/funk-wise. There are a couple other soul acts(the aforementioned Norm West) but my mind is drawing a blank on them right now. I need to dig that box out of the back of the shop and give them a second listen.

 

[pickwick33]

i know mosley and seleno clarke are on MOC. what else is on that label?

The ones I have are a mediocre early single by Norm West (later of the Soul Children) and a novelty rockabilly thing by Murry Kellum, "Long Tall Texan" (this was a minor hit; the B-side, "I Gotta Leave This Town," is marginally better and is by a different artist altogether - I wanna say Glenn Hughes?).

it seems it was the dumping ground for Hi's "am gold" acts as well...a lot of bad rock on M.O.C., there is a 45 by Crazy Horse on M.O.C., probably not Neil Young's band(It doesnt sound like them) but a weird coincedence name wise however. About a year/year and a half ago this homeless dude brought in a box of MOC promos, I was excited to listen to them but it seemed the Mosley and Clarke were the best things soul/funk-wise. There are a couple other soul acts(the aforementioned Norm West) but my mind is drawing a blank on them right now. I need to dig that box out of the back of the shop and give them a second listen.

Off the head, didn't that Southern stoner-rock band Iota have an M.O.C. single? I think one or more of Hi's blues acts (from that River Town Blues album) had 45's on that label as well.

And what's M.O.C. stand for, anyway?

 

[6fran50]

cookie jackson - find me a lover (uptown)
tony northern - hand down the law (ariel)
jimmie willis - soul power (orr)
rod king & the souls - soul feel (space)
gene willis & the aggregation - shing-a-ling's the thing (coronado)

 

[The_Hook_Up]

i know mosley and seleno clarke are on MOC. what else is on that label?

The ones I have are a mediocre early single by Norm West (later of the Soul Children) and a novelty rockabilly thing by Murry Kellum, "Long Tall Texan" (this was a minor hit; the B-side, "I Gotta Leave This Town," is marginally better and is by a different artist altogether - I wanna say Glenn Hughes?).

it seems it was the dumping ground for Hi's "am gold" acts as well...a lot of bad rock on M.O.C., there is a 45 by Crazy Horse on M.O.C., probably not Neil Young's band(It doesnt sound like them) but a weird coincedence name wise however. About a year/year and a half ago this homeless dude brought in a box of MOC promos, I was excited to listen to them but it seemed the Mosley and Clarke were the best things soul/funk-wise. There are a couple other soul acts(the aforementioned Norm West) but my mind is drawing a blank on them right now. I need to dig that box out of the back of the shop and give them a second listen.

Off the head, didn't that Southern stoner-rock band Iota have an M.O.C. single? I think one or more of Hi's blues acts (from that River Town Blues album) had 45's on that label as well.

And what's M.O.C. stand for, anyway?

Besides the "love come wicked" on Hi, I think Iota has a single on another Hi subsidiary, Mach. If the label designs werent so different, I would think that the 2 different names were just a misunderstood phone order to the pressing plant/printers.

I dont know what M.O.C. stands for...if it wasnt for the Mosley and Clarke I would guess it would stand for Memphis' Other Crap. But it is probably an acronym for Mitchell, ?, and Cannon.

 

[holmes]

Jimmy McCracklin - Married Life/Love Love Love on Minit
A cool slightly funky blues 45.

Lee Moses - Bad Girl on Musicor
Two parts over two sides of a 45, understatedly funky soul 45 with Lee Moses killing it on the impassioned vocals.

Chuck Jackson - Candy on Scepter
Fat funky soul with organ & nice ride cymbal action, always gets the heads nodding at gigs.

Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic on Reprise
Nice funky drums on this classic track.

Manuel B Holcom - I Stayed Away Too Long - Diamond Jim
Killer intro into a great funky soul song about losing your baby to another man while being away in vietnam. Flip is the instrumental, sweet.

 

[bluewater]

5 randoms off the top of the head.

Soul Experience - Who's Lips You Been Kissing (Smoke)
Della Reese - It Was A Very Good Year (ABC)
Inez and Charlie Foxx - Speed Ticket (Dynamo)
Soul Bros Inc. - Hot Pants (S.B.I)
Curtis Blandon - Where Is My Baby (Buddah)

great records im feeling at the moment. first 3 can be heard on the musicplayer on my myspace page - here.

 

[6fran50]

Della Reese - It Was A Very Good Year (ABC)

nice one !