Old School funk song suggestions...

SanDiegoHarry

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I'm putting together a CD (or two or three) to play along with as a warmup, and want just some old school funk/disco - Not music I *love* to listen to per se, but music that is darn fun to play along with...

So far I have...

Will it go round in Circles (Billy Preston)
Skin tight (Ohio Players)
get down tonight (KC)
That's the way (KC)
Machine Gun (Commodores)
The Bump (Commodores)

but now I'm drawing a blank...!

Come on, old disco-dudes and funk fools - throw some titles out there for me!

 

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Sly
Earth Wind and Fire
Graham Central
The Jacksons
George Duke
Brothers Johnson

 

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Check out marlowdk on youtube. He has playalongs to a lot of good old funksongs.

Lots of inspiration there.

 

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Dom Phenom said:

Sly
Earth Wind and Fire
Graham Central
The Jacksons
George Duke
Brothers Johnson

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artists are fun, but I'm looking for songs titles! (that said, I had forgotten about Graham Central - doing a itunes store search right now...)

And I saw George Duke live at the Jazz Bakery in LA - front row, center - all of 7 feet from him. It was great!

 

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What is Hip - Tower of Power

 

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James Brown invented funk and is/was the funkiest man in the multiverse.

 

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Sex Machine - James Brown
Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin - Sly & The Family Stone
Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks
Up For The Downstroke - Parliament
One Nation Under A Groove - Parliament (or was that Funkadelic?)
For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Do It Til You're Satisfied - BT Express
Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Hollywood Swinger - Kool & The Gang
Fight The Power - Isley Brothers
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Brick House - Commodores
Fire - Ohio Players

 

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Well several Funky/ disco songs are


Don't Leave Me This Way- Thelma Houston

Blame it On The Boogie- Jackson 5

Good Times & Le Freak- Chic

Rappers Delight- Sugarhill Gang (its the same, yet so different compared to Good Times!)

 

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Hoover said:

Sex Machine - James Brown
Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin - Sly & The Family Stone
Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks
Up For The Downstroke - Parliament
One Nation Under A Groove - Parliament (or was that Funkadelic?)
For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Do It Til You're Satisfied - BT Express
Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Hollywood Swinger - Kool & The Gang
Fight The Power - Isley Brothers
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Brick House - Commodores
Fire - Ohio Players

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Nice...!

 

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Follow the bass players to the R&B, groove and funk promised land:

James Jamerson. Jr. - Motown/Funk Bros
Cloud Nine: Temptations

 

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Check the Funk 101 thread.

 

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I want you back - Jackson 5


Coolest bass-line ever

 

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All Jamerson: see pic

 

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Narada Michael Walden!!!

 

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+1 on Fire by the Ohio Players. "Let's Groove" by E,W,&F too.

 

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How 'bout Groove Me by King Floyd. Super easy to play, super fun to play. You'll have the song down after about a minute of practice.

 

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So I spent too much time last PM at the Itunes store listening to Larry Graham - Why hadn't I been exposed to him before? True, his "best of" album seems to have too many ballads, but just sampling around there are a TON of very cool, very very funky fun tunes! Reminds me of a bit-more-conventional P-funk... So thanks for the tip

 

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happiness is just around the bend -main ingredient
its just begun -jimmy castor

 

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Express yourself-Charles Wright
Soul Man-Sam and Dave

 

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dave_p said:

its just begun -jimmy castor

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Oh, man, how could I have forgotten that gem! Awesome tune, monster groove... There's a lot of cool stuff on that first Jimmy Castor Bunch album too (anyone remember the troglodyte song?)