VA - What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967-1977 (2006)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967-1977
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Rhino Records
Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco
Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log artwork)
Total Time: 5:06:26
Total Size: 718 Mb / 1.74 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967-1977
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Rhino Records
Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco
Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log artwork)
Total Time: 5:06:26
Total Size: 718 Mb / 1.74 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Disc 1
01. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin' Honey (02:25)
02. Bar-Kays – Soul Finger (02:21)
03. Brother Jack McDuff – The Shadow Of Your Smile (03:55)
04. Jimmy Norman – Gangsters Of Love (Parts I & II) (04:10)
05. Rufus Thomas – The Memphis Train (02:33)
06. Grassella Oliphant – Get Out Of My Life Woman (02:44)
07. Eddie Harris – Live Right Now (02:49)
08. Natural Bridge Bunch – Pig Snootss, Part I (02:36)
09. Freedom Sounds – Soul Sound System (feat. Wayne Henderson) (05:34)
10. Clarence Carter – Snatching It Back (02:41)
11. Artie Christopher – Stoned Soul (01:56)
12. The T.S.U. Toronadoes – Getting The Corners (02:27)
13. Tony Alvon & The Belairs – Sexy Coffee Pot (02:28)
14. Mark Putney – Don't Come Around Here Anymore (02:44)
15. Commodores – Keep On Dancing (02:39)
16. South Shore Commission – Right On Brother - Part I (02:40)
17. Eldridge Holmes – Pop, Popcorn Children (02:53)
18. Cold Grits – It's Your Thing (02:52)
19. Soul Angels – It's All In Your Mind (02:49)
20. Johnny Cameron & The Camerons – Funky John (02:48)
21. Joyce Jones – Help Me Make Up My Mind (02:45)
22. Lou Johnson – Rock Me Baby (02:15)
23. The Noble Knights – Sing A Simple Song (02:57)
24. Titus Turner – Do You Dig It (02:13)
25. Phil Moore III – Funky Canyon (02:38)
26. The Fabulous Counts – Jan Jan (02:17)
27. The Rhine Oaks – Tampin (03:02)
Disc 2
01. Cyril Neville – Gossip (02:38)
02. The Mighty Hannibal – Somebody In The World For You (02:55)
03. Little Sister – Stanga (03:42)
04. Ananda Shankar – Jumpin' Jack Flash (03:40)
05. Brute Force – The Deacon (04:32)
06. Don Covay and The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band – Sookie Sookie (02:44)
07. Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers – Right On (04:41)
08. Curtis Mayfield – (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (03:28)
09. Johnny Harris – Stepping Stones (05:24)
10. 6ix – I'm Just Like You (03:08)
11. The Unemployed – Funky Thing - Part I (03:06)
12. Shirley Scott – Messie Bessie (04:19)
13. Willie West – Fairchild (03:20)
14. The Gaturs – Cold Bear (02:55)
15. Mongo Santamaria – I Can't Get Next To You (02:44)
16. Lulu – Feelin' Alright (03:02)
17. The Memphis Horns – Soul Bowl (03:21)
18. Hammer – Tuane (03:07)
19. Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs – Take It Off - Part II (03:17)
20. Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Life (feat. Eddie Palmieri & Jimmy Norman) (05:09)
21. Wilson Pickett – Engine Number 9 (02:50)
Disc 3
01. Baby Huey & The Babysitters – Hard Times (03:21)
02. Houseguests – What So Never The Dance - Pt. 1 & 2 (03:59)
03. Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes (03:34)
04. Wade Marcus – Spinning Wheel (03:58)
05. Earth, Wind & Fire – Bad Tune (04:42)
06. Rasputin's Stash – Mr. Cool (03:34)
07. Junior Mance – Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' To Ya (05:09)
08. The Stovall Sisters – Hang On In There (03:16)
09. The Beginning of the End – Funky Nassau (Part III) (02:00)
10. Mark Holder & The Positives – Whatever's Fair (02:42)
11. Ed Robinson – Face It (02:25)
12. Young Holt Unlimited – Wah Wah Man (03:47)
13. Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady (Alternate Mix) (04:32)
14. Black Haze Express – Won't Nobody Listen (04:17)
15. Allen Toussaint – Goin' Down (02:59)
16. Malo – Suavecito (03:27)
17. Charles Wright – You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' (03:58)
18. Tami Lynn – Mo Jo Hanna (03:26)
19. King Curtis – Ridin' Thumb (03:10)
20. Macondo – Almendra (03:46)
21. Little Richard – Nuki Suki (05:30)
Disc 4
01. United 8 – Getting Uptown (To Get Down) (02:46)
02. Howard Tate – 8 Days On The Road (02:40)
03. LaBelle – Moon Shadow (04:25)
04. Society's Bag – Let It Crawl (02:37)
05. Black Heat – Wanaoh (03:54)
06. Clarence Reid – If It Was Good Enough For Daddy (03:05)
07. Claudia Lennear – Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (03:46)
08. The Mystic Moods Orchestra – Cosmic Sea (02:37)
09. Cold Blood – Kissing My Love (06:06)
10. Seatrain – Flute Thing (03:23)
11. The Meters – Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove) Part II (03:29)
12. Freddi / Henchi & The Soul Setters – Funky To The Bone (02:42)
13. Bobby Byrd – Try It Again (03:36)
14. Cornell Dupree – Teasin' (03:55)
15. Dr. John – (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away (02:44)
16. Oscar Brown Jr. – Chicken Heads (02:40)
17. Funk Factory – Rien Ne Va Plus (05:18)
18. Herbie Mann – Cajun Moon (03:08)
19. Darrow Fletcher – Improve (02:51)
20. Faze-O – Riding High (05:21)
21. Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns – Four Play (03:34)
22. Eddie Hazel – California Dreamin' (04:04)
Subtitled Funky Soul & Rare Grooves From the Vaults of Atlantic, Atco & Warner Brothers, 1967-1977, this 4xCD set is another outstanding soul/r&b collection from Rhino, and it features contributions from the Meters, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Allen Toussaint, and Sly Stone, among many others.
Consolidation in the music industry has created problems that have manifested themselves both in business and art, but one of the positive side effects of it is on display on What It Is!, the latest in Rhino's campaign to collate the sidelines of music history with four-disc boxed sets. The subtitle of the box notes that all of the (mostly) obscure funk and soul sides in the tracklist comes from the vaults of just three labels: Atlantic, Atco, and Warner Brothers. Reading the exhaustive track notes, however, reveals a huge list of original issuing labels, including Keymen, Josie, Reprise, Cotillion, Alston, and Kwanza, all of which were either scooped up in acquisitions or distributed by the three title labels, which of course are all owned by the same company today.
It's rather nice to have one, well-documented place to go for such a huge range of funk and soul tracks, and Rhino has taken advantage of it, consolidating things even further to compile what amounts to, as Oliver Wang says in his lead-in essay, a "shadow history of funk." These aren't the songs that blew up the charts, though you may have heard a few of them-- Curtis Mayfield's "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go" or Wilson Pickett's "Engine Number 9", for instance.
Though the title puts the range of years at 1967-1977, the vast majority of the songs gathered here came out in the first five years of that span. They're arranged chronologically, and you don't get to 1973 until the sixth track of Disc 4. This is entirely appropriate, because the real window of dirty, nasty funk-- before it gave way to disco and other, smoother cousins-- was a relatively short one. Several of the later tracks don't quite fit the spirit of what precedes them, and there's a lot of distance between the simple bounce of organ epiphany on the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Spreadin' Honey", released in 1967, and the cosmic, synth-heavy stomp of "Riding High", recorded in 1977 by the Ohio Players under the name Faze-O.
Consolidation in the music industry has created problems that have manifested themselves both in business and art, but one of the positive side effects of it is on display on What It Is!, the latest in Rhino's campaign to collate the sidelines of music history with four-disc boxed sets. The subtitle of the box notes that all of the (mostly) obscure funk and soul sides in the tracklist comes from the vaults of just three labels: Atlantic, Atco, and Warner Brothers. Reading the exhaustive track notes, however, reveals a huge list of original issuing labels, including Keymen, Josie, Reprise, Cotillion, Alston, and Kwanza, all of which were either scooped up in acquisitions or distributed by the three title labels, which of course are all owned by the same company today.
It's rather nice to have one, well-documented place to go for such a huge range of funk and soul tracks, and Rhino has taken advantage of it, consolidating things even further to compile what amounts to, as Oliver Wang says in his lead-in essay, a "shadow history of funk." These aren't the songs that blew up the charts, though you may have heard a few of them-- Curtis Mayfield's "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go" or Wilson Pickett's "Engine Number 9", for instance.
Though the title puts the range of years at 1967-1977, the vast majority of the songs gathered here came out in the first five years of that span. They're arranged chronologically, and you don't get to 1973 until the sixth track of Disc 4. This is entirely appropriate, because the real window of dirty, nasty funk-- before it gave way to disco and other, smoother cousins-- was a relatively short one. Several of the later tracks don't quite fit the spirit of what precedes them, and there's a lot of distance between the simple bounce of organ epiphany on the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Spreadin' Honey", released in 1967, and the cosmic, synth-heavy stomp of "Riding High", recorded in 1977 by the Ohio Players under the name Faze-O.
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