And, for your pleasure, another great Turkish track - from the 'Bosporus Bridges' compilation of a few years back, here's Mustafa Kozent - Dolana Dolana!

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Listen to show #68 right here.  My Odeo Channel (odeo/b4f95457dcd9c38b)

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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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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back on Track!  This show marks the return of the If It Rotates show - there was too long of a pause there, but now I'm back, and I'm going to continue with the funky and groovy music, but now making more frequent shows that are a little shorter and easier for me to put together.  This will make it easier for me to do mini-themes, and other focussed shows.  However, just to mark the return of the show, this latest one is 30 minutes of groovy stuff from Nigeria to Italy to Brazil to Canada, as a showcase of the kind of music you can find here.

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Ray Stephen Oche and His Matumbo - Odeiyolao-o
Nonato Buzar - 100 Milhas
Janko Nilovic - Soul Impressions
Toldos y su Grupo - Modulo Jazz
Remigio Ducros - Scherzi Pesanti
Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Francois Cousineau - Psychedelic Party
Nilton Castro - Segura Sambura
Milton Nascimento - Para Lennon e McCartney

Last week we saw how "the groove" is found in recordings all over the world - it's only natural that you can find it in gospel recordings, too.  In fact, since so many secular soul and funk artists came from gospel backgrounds, you could argue that it just might be the source.  This week, I've got 3 groovy gospel tunes for you.

First up - Brother Samuel Cheatam, with 'Troubles of the World' from a 45 on Chicago's One Way record label (he has an album on One Way, too, called 'Stranger in the City').  This is a slow, brooding track with a deep and continuous groove.  There's another edition of this 45 on the Cora label.

Brother Samuel Cheatam - Troubles of the World

Second - on the Stax subsidiary label 'The Gospel Truth', the Rance Allen Group giving us practically the opposite - upbeat, snappy, and those great gospel vocals on top.  Some parts remind me of Sly and the Family Stone.  The Rance Allen group has several albums on Gospel Truth, and this track, 'I Got To Be Myself' is available on 45.

The Rance Allen Group - I Got To Be Myself

Lastly, also on the Gospel Truth label, Charles May and Annette May Thomas' amazing 'Keep My Baby Warm'.  You may have heard this before, because it's been comped a few times, but it's still worth hearing again... this is the most like a soul track - female vocals, a deep groove, but, at the end there's a great part where the music drops out and just the vocals let you know that it's gospel! There's an album on Gospel Truth called 'Songs Our Father Used to Sing', and this song is also available on 45.

Charles May and Annette May Thomas - Keep My Baby Warm

PS - Next week - straight up funk, I promise!