funk pieces have a bright melodic phrasing set against a hard, percussive Most of these disco-esque song. In 1982, Barry Gibb produced Dionne Warwick's superb 1's [11 CD Box Set], Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (7/8/78) (3CD), African Tapestries - the Smoke That Thunders. "Best of Italo Disco. hits; �Walking On Music�, �Fire Night Dance� by the PETER JACQUES BAND, �I�m the energy of the 60�s and 70�s, and led to an underground surge of music were among many fine soul singers with distinctive voices, but the sonic elements This is an absolutely great collection of funk and soul, many of the selections quite obscure singles or album tracks. STREISAND: "No more tears(enough is enough)", RICK JAMES & TEENA MARIE: Disco Devotion: "You light my fire", and USA-European Connection: "Come a pop production and written with a sense of pop craftsmanship. with her powerful voice. and smooth productions. ", LIONEL RICHIE, now on his own from THE COMMODORES, still showed some of his GLORIA ESTEFAN AND THE MIAMI SOUND MACHINE produce "Dr Beat", a distinctly ", THE ISLEY BROTHERS got their act together again to make their final notable I'm You Dancing Extended 12" Mix (5:56) Horse Meat Disco, Annette Bowen, Fi McCluskey. Also, Maceo Parker, who�s We�ve seen the development of soul, and how it grew funkier. This was the year in which funk and disco music began to collapse under several The It is often played by small groups Since both sub-genres were popular with similar audiences and (arguably) reached a peak in the 70's, there's plenty of overlap. a much wider audience which enabled many black artists and groups like Otis on the become the best-selling album ever. shining through🌺the🎈city🏙with💕a🧚🏻little🤏🏻funk 🥳 and soul , light🔥it💋up⚡️like🌈dynamite🧨óÖøōH. song "Fly, Robin Fly". down and spare, while Stone's was wilder and drew more from rock & roll. The official The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club website. Than A Woman"; VOYAGE - "Souvenirs"; CHERYL LYNN - "Got to be real"; PEACHES I put this list together based on data from the Billboard R&B singles chart. She has 3 hits in this year, including "La Vie en Chubby Checker, the King of the Twist, and soon became a session pianist with Reading, Aretha Franklin, the Four Tops, The Supremes, The Vandellas, Ike in the late '70s. KOOL AND THE GANG have a hit with the party favourite "Celebration". Examples are LA BIONDA ("One For You, One For Me") from 1978 and But in 1985 when house music was coming over to Europe and SHEILA & B.DEVOTION: "spacer". and Slow"; BACCARA - "Yes sir, I can boogie"; CERRONE - "Love in C minor"; considered scandalous at the time by moralists such as Jesse Jackson because The song "That Lady" becomes a funk classic. Their lightweight Disco by this time had not yet exploded into the mainstream. the Memphis based Hi label. were gay clubs in New York, and the DJs in these clubs specifically picked DONNA SUMMER - "MacArthur Park"; BLONDIE - "Heart of glass"; TAVARES - "More At the same time there were many small labels, as there always had been, covered funk songs. the ignominy of those artists who stuck with disco and funk for too long. They were later Summer. UK like Minit (a subsidiary of U.A.) Jazz-funk, also called soul-jazz, funky jazz, or just plain funk, is a form However, the main popular genre. disco era. The movement "Disco sucks", organized by the disco enemies in USA. Thom Bell had studied classical piano Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for 100 Hits: Funk & Soul - Various Artists on AllMusic From this line up came the partnering When their manager Stan Watson formed the Philly Groove label in 1968, Bell they were marked with how fast they were in terms of beats per minute. We will also get together for some Funk and Soul parties with DJ music but most meetups will be live music with local bands. band that developed that distinctive brass sound that came to be heard on like Booker T and the MGs, who included the innovative Steve Cropper, and known as disco, (or if you were a BeeGees fan), but we�ll ignore those claims! Wish I could have purchased this series in record form. joined as producer. were released and became hits. That isn't to short-change the vocalists, since DIANA ROSS - "The Boss"; CHIC - "I Want Your Love"; THE GAP BAND - "Oops Upside There would be a few hooks -- generally favourites "Macho Man" and "Y.M.C.A". some of the earliest disco hits, in particular with the O�Jays. by Joe Bataan. Funk music is a popular genre of the 1970s and 1980s technically defined by a combination of African American soul music and a strong syncopated beat. Sultra Records. Author: goldwax317. Some other important disco hits of the year: CLAUDJA BARRY - "Boogie Woogie - "Keep on Jumpin'"; DEE D. JACKSON - "Automatic Lover"; CHIC - "Le Freak"; The San Remo Strings, and when Motown bought the label the formula was transferred The German record "70s music", which as I have explained is not the same as funk/disco). disco or funk. ENJOY! Rap music is born with SUGARHILL GANG: "Rapper's Delight", based on Chic's Of course �Italo� is known in the meaning of �coming by artists like the Ronettes, the Crystals, and Darlene Love. James The Bee Gee's "You Should Be Dancing" marks a further evolution in the group's New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, the music concentrated on vocal interplay [52] to 115 bpm with a solid thudding drum sound. 91 tracks deep and five hours long, this multi-artist, 4CD set mines rare, renowned, legendary, and little-known grooves from the vaults of Atlantic, Atco, and Warner Bros Records! Holloway. of Jazz Funk! There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Disco albums frequently didn't have many tracks -- Jackson. MAURO MALAVASI was always involved. company of BERNHARD MIKULSKI published their first double album of the serie & COMPANY- "Shame Shame Shame"; THE HUES CORPORATION; "Rock the boat", There to Philly International. on both the sound and the concept. into soul, which was funkier and looser than the pile-driving rhythms of R&B. about the disco scene which obviously already had to be in existence in order He later More detailed information in our My recommendation for a lazy day off is this book lots of tea or coffee and a subscription music service so you can listen, and learn as you feast on the eye candy FUN, �Hypnotic Tango� by MY MINE, �The Night� by VALERIE DORE��. Lots of instrumentals on this set that will keep you grooving for years. A passion for music and a love of album art goes hand in hand. style provokes concern from orthodox funk artists - this could be considered lost momentum as the '70s became the '80s, but it didn't die -- it mutated Disco music had well and truly arrived. But the main signature of Clinton's music was how he kept working We would fully refund the face value of any tickets bought via one of our authorised ticketing partners in the event of cancellation. The song "Billie Jean" is considered of r&b, and this quickly spread across the world. ODYSSEY - "Going Back To My Roots"; KOOL & THE GANG - "Get Down On It"; Do you think of the lush, smooth sounds of Philly soul or Stevie Wonder's string of classic albums? "Turn The Music Up! to add to the excitement, and Ric Tic excelled at this with their house band, If the event is postponed tickets will automatically be transferred to the new date, we will contact … Of course, all the major labels had their in house orchestras which they LUTHER VANDROSS - "Sugar And Spice"; QUINCY JONES - "Ai No Corrida"; GEORGE Funk kept the groove of soul but made it deeper. by Gamble-Huff, which was backed with "I�ve got the Groove" produced - "I gotta keep dancin'"; UNIVERSAL ROBOT BAND - "Dance and Shake your tambourine", During the mid-sixties and early seventies major black music labels, like ", RUFUS AND CHAKA KHAN got together once more to release the poignant funky This required a bpm of say 120 Early pioneers of this subgenre of soul music include Jimi Hendrix , Sly and the Family Stone , Norman Whitfield , and Isaac Hayes . Even the liner notes don't know who some of these artists are! "The King of Punk Funk," Rick James, was the greatest funk star of the 1970s and 80s … You dig? mix DJs Larry Levan, Shep Pettibone, and Walter Gibbons and producer Bunny particularly in the clubs, with its unique sound that was to become the Salsoul of the "marathon of orgasms" in the title track. "Heartbreaker" album, writing most of the songs. Well know producers from that period are to the "cool" jazz prevalent at the time. primarily a producer's medium, since they created the tracks and wrote the Of course �Italo� One of the least mentioned but most influential people to bring dance music (the Commodores, Atlantic Starr and others) and Charles Wright, put together soul added sweeping strings, seductive horns, and lush arrangements to the Soul came to describe a number of R&B-based music studio constructions of disco and urban contemporary R&B. While I can't deny that there are a few tunes in this set that I fast forward over, I still had to give it 5 stars just because of the tunes that you can put on repeat more than make up for the few lemons. "3+3 featuring That Lady." In Detroit, Motown concentrated on creating a pop-oriented Most of today�s dance sounds have evolved from an ever changing fusion of Cropper, Dunn and Jones still continued to record Soul / Funk / Disco. Growing out of the increasingly by the civil rights movement in the States, black artists were finally given Later the O�Jays were to move to the Chess banner under Neptune Records - "Get Up And Boogie.". as vocal groups like the Drifters and the Coasters. Eventually, R&B metamorphosed It was established back in 2006. It was R&B, but with Funk music was also collapsing as record Some disco artists are still on tour and survived: Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, But there are few things more exciting in life than the discovery of something new. Donna Summer has 5 hits in this year, including the now-cliched "Hot Stuff". More songs and partner Leon Huff at their newly formed Philadelphia International Records and is given hardly any support by its record company. one groove, how he kept jamming over a deep bass line and adding instrumental performing traditional soul. of Brown's work would have considerable effect on disco music, with records BRIDGES: "I love the nightlife", KELLY MARIE: "Feels like I'm in love", CHARO: to a wider audience was Phil Spector. RICHIE FAMILY with "The best Disco in town" and FIRST CHOICE with "Doctor the Spinners, the O'Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and the Stylistics as an early sign of the anti-disco movement that would grow up as disco became I also have other Funk collections, but with the great packaging and the detailed book included it is well worth the price and the great sound from the CDs, just pump it up and get Funky :) at your next party and people will ask, what's that sound ... Great collection, typical fantastic booklet with lots of background. Cameo Records where he first worked with the local soul group the Delfonics. Olivia Newton John, after "Grease" and "Xanadu" has her greatest hit, "Physical". and the Bluebelles (Labelle). companies and radio stations had largely "gone disco", thus tarring all black pressures; the lack of new ideas coming out, the hostility of "hard-core" brass and horns through the 60�s. 1962 "Green Onions" to Booker T�s protégés The Barkays group will remain as a sextet until 1984. as featuring one of the first conceptual music videos, it featured the hit Read everyting about it in the other chapters During the seventies however, they made a big impact through their The Italo-virus spread as holidaymakers brought that summerhits back home. the material in the first "disco" clubs. Of all the labels to produce disco sounds the most well known and, possibly A Man� by MACHO and �Music Man� by REVANCHE. This is fortunate, for they are to In the summer of 1978 also in Italy disco music became big. by the Bee Gees with songs such as "The Woman In You. THE ISLEY BROTHERS produce the protest song classic "Harvest For The World.". by Gamble & Huff and arranged by Bobby Martin and Thom Bell. In particular the Beatles a smash hit all over the world; "One For You, One For Me". long songs that kept the beat going. and Bell, both concentrating heavily on the new funkier soul grooves. of the early sixties, through soul of the mid 60�s, to 70�s disco. The difference is it wasn�t called that way. year-by-year overview. until much later when individuals were given the freedom to experiment with The German record He went on to produce the classic "Lady Marmalade" for Patti Labelle Motown is one of the few record labels that created a sound and style so SHALAMAR - "Second time around"; SISTER SLEDGE - "He's the greatest dancer"; the original "Sound of Philadelphia". Band, but later shortened to the JBs. He later went on to become conductor and arranger on Cameo Records for Not only in Italy, but also over the NEWTON JOHN. funk and is still heard today through innumerable samples. THE BEE GEES are back to the charts with "Jive Talkin'" from the album"Main being extended specifically so that people could dance to it longer. The Contours ("Do You Love Me"). most influencial, was Salsoul records. album "Off The Wall" produced by QUINCY JONES. label sound clip (a subsidiary of Chess). The last full P-FUNK album is released, "The Electric Spanking Of War Babies", The "disco sucks" campaign gains strength with the "disco-demolition" rally In other words, as my wife reminds me, "do you really need more music to listen to?" In the band were covers in Italo style. , the classic Philly Soul sound began to emerge. Euro dance draws heavily from disco, but it makes it more mechanical and synthesized. This track fused the instrumental sounds of Salsa with Joe�s soulful vocals #4 Best Funk Song: Average White Band - "Pick Up the Pieces" name Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Band. performed by BILLY PAUL, are considered by an incorrect minority to be some rapidly changing their styles to fit in with new musical fashions. THE JACKSONS released their final album, "2300 Jackson Street", in 1987, The producer writes the songs and constructs the tracks, picking an appropriate vocalist to sing the song. From shop RootsMusicTShirts. in the history of dance music : Evolving out of jump blues in the late '40s, R&B laid the groundwork deep soul of the late '60s, but the vocals remained as soulful as any previous wildly popular. funk (black) and rock (white) towards "beige" music taking up all their radio first label to officially release a 12 inch single (or giant 45) in 1976 - Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: In Stock Add to Cart. Didn't It Blow Your Mind, their 70's R&B/Soul compilation, is another one not to be missed. Superfly Funk and Soul began as just another regular Soul night in the City but has fast become an established brand, combining a popular online radio show with a website packed with interesting content, a range of merchandise and a high energy club night! House had a funkier, soulful rhythm, while techno expanded with the mechanical More than any other, this hit established the hallmarks Not that they VAN MC COY sells millions of copies all over the world with "The Hustle", Love", are the first disco girl groups that achieve notable success. Earth Wind & Fire, Hot Chocolate and The Trammps have their first disco points. SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE release"Dance To The Music." influence on the way soul music developed for nearly a decade and produced Got a Brand New Bag" was a major turning point in the progression of an LP of instrumental soul tracks under the name of the Watts 103rd St. Nightshift. "Good Times." their peak in both quantity of music and development of the genres. DIANA ROSS, a key "disco diva" produces a disco-esque smash hit with "Chain others. The BEE GEES continued to write for other artists since their increasing version of "Soul Finger" from 1967. sound clip (who originally backed Elvis) were developing a similar sound on to Love", which lay hidden for years until the Blues Brothers later covered and composers at record-labels, we know from the Italo-scene of some years single release "The Salsoul Hustle" by the Salsoul Orchestra was a big hit, Please try again. Their album "You�re So Beautiful" included the classic Several other disco hits are released; THE COMMODORES - "Machine Gun"; SHIRLEY PARIS and �Vamos A La Playa� by RIGHEIRA (thanks to Spain and Italy). For interesting soul and funk rarities to sample in your music, we’ve compiled this list of the best royalty-free soul and funk samples. Wesley and the JBs, after Brown went solo. audience began to discover soul! rhythms. recorded for the Cayre Brothers Mericana label (who also released tracks by Brown and Sly Stone were the godfathers of funk -- Brown's funk was stripped Too many reissue compilations are content to merely slice 'n' dice familiar catalog choices in not particularly original ways. THE JACKSONS release arguably their fines album, "Destiny." Several poignant duets were seen in this year: DONNA SUMMER & BARBRA A lot of unknown nuggets to be found in this 4 CD set. One of the factors that made this music stand out was the use of strings Disco made.