Mix Tape for 80's children who missed the 60/70's

[KingModem]

Gentlemen -

After listening to the Ron & Fez program, I have come across some really fantastic Funk/Rock type music.

I am looking to make a CD to distribute to my peeps, which include some really niche, amazing funk songs, and jam songs from the pre-80's era. Some of us grew up in the 80's and we missed a ton of good music!

Some may be more old school R&B, but here are some songs that favor the type of genre that I am favoring:

1. Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (more old rock than Funk, but a very good jamming tune
2. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
3. Al Green - Lets Stay Together

Any suggestions to help complete a good list of songs that would match, to a certain extent, the songs listed above.

RF.NET is the best!

Thanks

-cw

[Jughead]

Buzzard8.com Hot Days Cool Nights..Not that good but from that era!!!:happy:

[hedges]

Superfly Curtis Mayfield

[KingModem]

Superfly Curtis Mayfield

Nice recommendation! Any specific songs that touch you in a gnarly way?

[PapaBear]

I've always thought the R&F show should put out a Best of R&F Funk record.

[KingModem]

I've always thought the R&F show should put out a Best of R&F Funk record.

EXACTLY - Since they havent, I have to try my best to do it myself

[weekapaugjz]

touch you in a gnarly way?

in a creepy uncle paul voice, "back when you were just two years old..."

[Jughead]

Chicago Im a man

[hedges]

Here are some Stax songs that are pretty good:
Albert King Blues Power
Johnnie Taylor Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone
The Staple Singers Oh La De Da
Otis Redding Shake
Sam and Dave You Don't Know Like I Know

[RhinoinMN]

Chicago Im a man

C'mon, Jug. I know you like Chicago, but Spencer Davis Group is better.

[hedges]

C'mon, Jug. I know you like Chicago, but Spencer Davis Group is better.

Might as well talk about the blues then. A lot of good blues came out in the 60s and 70s.
Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, The Paul Butterfield Band, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Walter, etc., etc. None of it is funk, but some of it is funky.

[hedges]

If you're talking funk around this time period I would say James Brown. I saw some old footage of James Brown and his band playing. Bootsy Collins was the bassist. They were so funky. The drummer and the band really laid into the "1" beat. That is what makes most funk what it is.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'd devote one side of the tape to Janis Joplin's Pearl.

But that's just me...

[CruelCircus]

Sly & the Family Stone.
I'm partial to "Dance to the Music," but there's plenty.

You got all the good Memphis stuff they've talked about- Sam & Dave ("Hold On I'm Coming", "Soul Man"), "Knock on Wood" by Eddie Floyd, Issac Hayes ("Shaft"), Staple Singers ("I'll Take You There")...

It's overplayed, but I love "Pick Up the Pieces" by the Average White Band and Joe Cocker's "Leave Your Hat On."

The Temptations: "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."

For something a little different, track down "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock.

Oh, and you can probably fill an album side with Stevie Wonder tunes: "Higher Ground", "Sir Duke", "I Wish", "Superstition", "Living For the City."

[Brudep]

Some of the old Ike & Tina Turner stuff is awesome!!!

[utriculus!]

Please release it digitally!

So much good funk gets played on R+F but I never know where to START!

[jauble]

I know back in your day you paid a nickle for a 45 and a big bag of popcorn, but nowadays we provide links.

Just saying.

Now eat your pudding.

[hedges]

Jauble, who are you talking about?

[hedges]

A young Stevie Wonder, in 1964, tearing it up on this Soul tune on his harmonica
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