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Show #68 - Boogaloo Mania!  Well, it's not all boogaloo tracks for the whole show, but I can explain myself.  You see the thing is that boogaloo is all about the party.   Party sounds for people to get down to and have a good time with.  There's no pretension, just party music.  And that sums up this show - once the first three tracks set the mood, I abandoned my playlist, and just went along with the flow - so you get hoppin' boogaloo, upbeat soul classics, Venus, and killer funk, all together - just how I like my parties!

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Joe Loco - Shing-Ah-Ling
Charlie Palmieri - Boogaloo-Mania
Ray Barretto - The Soul Drummers
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher
Freddie Terrell - Soul Know How to Make Music
Shocking Blue - Venus
Hudson County - Bim Sala Bim
Miguel de Deus - Black Soul Brothers

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It's all about SOUL for this episode.  George Clinton said: "soul is a hamhock in your cornflakes" - I think of soul as music with feeling - and grooves.  I take a look at soul in a few different contexts in this show - from the "folk funk" of Barbara and Ernie to the discoteque of Lalomie Washburn, to the organic sway of Sly, it's all got that soul... some classics in here, too - Alice Clark, Eddie Drennon, and Martha and the Vandellas cover of the Jackson 5 tune!

Listen to Show #67 right here.  My Odeo Channel (odeo/b4f95457dcd9c38b)

Barbara and Ernie - Somebody to Love
Arnold Blair - Trying to Get Next to You
Alice Clark - Hey Girl
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - I Want You Back
Lalomie Washburn - Give Me Love With the Music
Eddie Drennon - Do It Nice and Easy
Sly and the Family Stone - Say You Will

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Got some new (to me) Brazillian tracks that I'm excited to play - check the dope Fafa de Belem track, and marvel how she never stops singing!  Orquestra e Coro give us a funky version of Helio Matheus' 'Kriola', and then we move into the Afro funk.  Er, rather African-sounding funk, made by non-Africans.  There's the Lafayette Afro Rock Band (American, recorded in France) with 'Oglenon', Nico Gomez (Belgian) with 'Ritual', and finally the 2006 sounds of Nomo (Ann Arbour) doing 'If You Want'.  It only seemed right to close the show with some music genuinely from Africa - Ethiopia's Getatchew Mekurya doing 'Yegenet Muziqa'.

Listen to show #66 right here.  My Odeo Channel (odeo/b4f95457dcd9c38b)

Fafa de Belem - Naturalmente
Wando - Benedito e Julieta
Orquestra e Coro - Kriola
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Oglenon
Nico Gomez - Ritual
Nomo - If You Want
Getatchew Mekurya - Yegenet Muziqa

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After last week's delve into East German grooves, I thought we should get back to some straight up grooves - I originally intended this show to be oriented towards early 70s funk, but I was drawn to the later disco sounds - and I even slipped in some early 80s tracks.  Highlights of this show - the amazing Nina Simone which shows how to really get down, 'the vulture' by Labi Siffre, which is just about everything you could wish for in a track - huge opening break, irresistable groove.. damn!  There's a pair of tracks from 1981 - Conquest, and the Whispers (who continually impress me with their 80s material).  The show finishes with a sweet track from Linda Tillery on the lesbian-founded Olivia label out of LA/Oakland.  Dig it!

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Nina Simone - Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
Ice - Time Will Tell
Labi Siffre - The Vulture
New York Community Choir - Express Yourself
Conquest - Give it to Me (If You Don't Mind)
The Whispers - In The Raw
Linda Tillery - Freedom Time

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Sorry for no show last week - I went to Berlin!  Just got back, so I'm just going to put up a few tracks for a quick taste - all tracks that came out on the East German label Amiga (which also seemed to press up a LOT of Western music - surprised me).  You can get a hold of these tracks in the great Amiga A Go-Go compliations (buy at Amazon).  Here are 3 tracks for you:

Modern Soul Band - 5 nach halb 7

Orchester Günter Gollasch - es steht ein haus in new orleans

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Show #64: A lot of songs to fit into 30 minutes!  Some good ones, too - the first half starts with the jazzy latin sounds of Joe Loco, and moves through the Afro-Latin Soultet on it's way to Brazil - with Candeia and Tania Maria keeping the groove moving.  The first half ends with Quebecois ye-ye girl Jenny Rock with 'Le Grand Menage', a 1'28 slice of 60s pop.  In the second half, we go from Euro e-z funksters El Chicles, to Canada's Wayne McGhie, who delivers one of the sickest drum breaks out there.  To round out the show, there's the falsetto sounds of Rayfield Reid, and a classic Eddie Kendricks track to finish it all off.  Check it out - 9 songs in 28 minutes means that even if you don't like something, it'll be over soon enough!   

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Joe Loco - Anabacoa
Afro-Latin Soultet - I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
Candeia - Saudacao a Toco Preto
Tania Maria - O Voz do Povo
Jenny Rock - Le Grand Menage
El Chicles - Music for a Playboy
Wayne McGhie & Sounds of Joy - Dirty Funk
Rayfield Reid & the Magnificents - Dynamite Party
Eddie Kendricks - Date with the Rain

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There must've been something in the water in Quebec for it to have so many cool records from the 60s and 70s... I was recording some tracks, and thought that 3 of them would be perfect to share here: 

I'm a big sucker for cover versions, especially cover versions in other languages, so that's why this French-language version of 'Vehicle' is especially appealing!

L'Armistis - Ma Vie

On their own 'Revolution' record label, here is another Quebec band with a kind of garage / funk hybrid, with a mercifully short guitar solo.  I really dig this track.  The title refers to a downpour.

La Revolution Francaise - Y'Mouille a Sciaux

A surf-rock instrumental that I love to play out pitched up around +6.  Always gets a good reaction.  Funnily enough, the cover art is the same as a very rare Venezuelan record!

Les Jaguars - Jaguar Shake

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For Show #63, I delve into the jazz section of my crates... 30 minutes of music in 5 songs.  The first track is by Nigerian musician Peter King, from his previously unreleased LP 'Shango' - a great mix of jazz and funk put out by the Strut record label.  After that there are two pairs of tracks.  The first pair are 80s tracks by legendary jazz artist Pharoah Sanders - the first, 'Africa', is from his 1987 dutch LP of the same name, and is a great vocal effort.  The second is the jazz dance classic 'You've Got to Have Freedom', from his 1980 LP on the Theresa label. 

For the second half we have the pleasure of two tracks from the Brazillian guitarist Baden Powell recorded for Germany's MPS label.  The first, 'Sarava', is from the 1966 LP Tristeza on Guitar, and then the show finishes with his great scat vocal number 'Blues a Volonte' from his 1973 LP Images on Guitar.  Two great tracks by this artist.

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Peter King - Shango
Pharoah Sanders - Africa
Pharoah Sanders - You've Got to Have Freedom
Baden Powell - Sarava
Baden Powell - Blues a Volonte

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For show #62, 30 minutes of all sorts of funky music.  There's Ethiopian grooves, jazz, rare groove, Brazillian, and 4 hot latin tracks to round out the show.  Joey Pastrano may look square, but he can really get down!   Varied and funky, just the way I like it!

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Alemayehu Eshete - Yeweb dar
Juan Carlos Caceres - Noche Negra
Dierdre Wilson Tabac - I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes
Odyssey - Battened Ships
MPB4 - Agibore
Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Willie Bobo - Spanish Grease
Joey Pastrano - Flamenco Ole
Alfredito - Get It Right

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Another shorter (30 min) show here, this week split into two sections - the first is more West Indian (with the exception of the Dramatics) and the second half is soul.  Some cool groovy reggae in the first half (as well as some songs from the era when it was called 'Reggay'), like Phyllis Dillon's ultra cool version of 'Woman of the Ghetto', Hopeton Lewis' 'Tom Drunk' and pre-ska-era Derrick Morgan and Patsy Todd with 'Hey Boy Hey Girl'.  Also in the first half are some cool Island funk tracks - the Cinnamon Suns awesome 'Party Time' from their rare 'Get It Together' LP, and Frankie Zhivago Young from his (even more) rare 'Flying High' LP on the private Alwa record label.

In the second half we have some great movin' soul tunes - of course there's Stevie, with 'Can I Get a Witness', but there's also Cliff Nobles & the vocal version of 'The Horse', and Jimmy Holliday with 'The New Breed', which is a super tune.  There's even a video of a guy dancing to it on Youtube.  So lots to get into, even in half an hour!

Listen to Show #60 right here.  My Odeo Channel (odeo/b4f95457dcd9c38b)

Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
Phyllis Dillon - Woman of the Ghetto
Hopeton Lewis & "Hugh" Roy - Tom Drunk
Derrick & Patsy - Hey Boy Hey Girl
Cinnamon Suns - Party Time
Frankie Zhivago Young - All Around the World
Charles Brinkley - In the Pocket
Bobby Freeman - Oughta Be a Law
Stevie Wonder - Can I Get a Witness
Cliff Nobles - Love is All Right
Jimmy Holliday - The New Breed

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