Friday 26 August 2011

Funk All Time Top 100. (51-75)


51. Billy Wade And The 3rd Degrees - Tear It Up (1968 ABC)
Super-fast funk stomper on the borderline of the UK Northern Soul sound.


52. Alvin Cash & The Registers - Stone Thing (1970 Westbound)
Rare groove classic with phenomenal drum break.


53. United 8 - Getting Uptown (To Get Down)
Well produced piece of East Coast funk by King & Douglass of later Kleeer fame.


54. Barbara & Gwen - Right On (New Chicago Sound)
Diva funk with a social message out of Chicago.



55. Billy "Sugar Billy" Garner - Your Wasting My Time (1971 New Day)
Frenetic piece of hard-hitting midwest funk.

56. Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul (1971 King)
Relentless James Brown produced rare groove classic.


57. Black Haze Express - Won't Nobody Listen (1971 Clintone)
Heavy funk out of Birmingham, Alabama with dramatic intro.

58. Little Beaver - Everybody Has Some Dues To Pay (1973 Saadia)
Mid-tempo southern funk with Tony Allen style drums.


59. Preston Love - Cissy Popcorn (Hudson)
Rare West Coast funk - written by Wilton Felder of The Crusaders.

60. Maceo And The Macks - Soul Power 74 (1974 People)
Classic late-era James Brown produced rare-groove.


61. Mary Love - Born To Live With Heartache (Elco)
Wah-wah driven diva-funk from the West Coast.

62. Pam Kellum - What You See, you Can't Get (1972)
Classy laid-back diva-funk out of Long Beach, California.


63. Mickey and The Soul Generation - Iron Leg (1969 Maxwell)
Jazzy piece of organ-led Texan funk. A rare-groove classic.

64. Lee Dorsey - Give It Up (1969)
Another piece of low down New Orleans funk - backed by The Meters.


65. Charles Mintz - Give A Man A Break (UpLook)
Fast-paced B-Boy classic out of Philadelphia.

66. Bobby Byrd - I Need Help (1973 Brownstone)
Fast-paced rare groove classic produced by James Brown.

67. Eldridge Holmes - Pop, Popcorn Children (1969 Atco)
Hard hitting vocal funk from the Sehorn-Toussaint production team.


68. Gus "The Groove" Lewis - Let The Groove Move You (1968 Tou-Sea)
Hard hitting New Orleans funk with classic drum break intro.


69. Bobby Williams - Funky Superfly (1973 Duplex)
Rare-groove classic southern-funk.


70. Chris Jones - I'm The Man (1970 Goodie Train)
Assertive, stripped down small label vocal funk.


71. Manuel B. Holcolm - I Stayed Away Too Long (1970 Diamond Jim)
Well-produced vocal funk with killer drums.


72. Freddy Wilson - Promise Land (1972 Eastbound)
Unashamedly James Brown influenced funk.


73. Michael Kirkland - The Prophet (1972 Zay)
Upbeat funk from West Coast singer Mike James Kirkland.

74. James Brown - Licking Stick, Licking Stick (1968 King)
Classic James Brown from April 1968.

75. The Meters - Cissy Strut (1969 Josie)
Classic New Orleans minimal funk.



1 comment:

Bleed For Me. said...

Wow. If I had any free time before, it's gone now. I'm going to be listening through everything I haven't heard yet.

Thanks so much for the effort - I know this takes thought as well as action. Very cool.