| I couldn't tell you off hand if all of this stuff was actually "top 40" at the time, but it's classic:
"Fire" and "Skin Tight" - Ohio Players
"Pick Up The Pieces", "School Boy Crush", "Cut The Cake" - Average White Band
"Hollywood Swinging", "Jungle Boogie", "Get Down On It", "Ladies Night" - Kool & The Gang
"Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine", "The Payback", "Cold Sweat", "Soul Power" - James Brown
"Doin' It To Death", "Pass The Peas" - The J.B.s
"Sing A Simple Song", "Thank You Fa Lettinme Be Mice Elf Agin", "If You Want Me To Stay" - Sly & The Family Stone
"Flash Light", "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)", "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" - Parliament
"Cissy Strut" - The Meters
"Dazz" - Brick
"She's A Bad Mama Jama" - Carl Carlton
"Super Freak", "Give It To Me Baby" - Rick James
"Bustin' Loose" - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
"Slide" - Slave
"Fantastic Voyage" - Lakeside
"Not Just (Knee Deep)", "One Nation Under A Groove" - Funkadelic
"Get The Funk Out Ma Face", "Stomp" - Brothers Johnson
"Water", "Hair", "The Jam" - Graham Central Station
"Shining Star", "Let's Groove", "September" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"What Is Hip" - Tower Of Power
"Shaky Ground" - The Temptations
"Express Yourself" - Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Band
"Brick House" - The Commodores
"It's Your Thing" - The Isley Brothers
Well, that's a start. There's plenty more and you might want to look at some of the stuff that's a little more on the disco side as well (although some of the songs mentioned above are definitely in that vein).
Last edited by bass12 : 10-29-2011 at 01:50 AM.
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