Funky Si

O-Wow - panic buttons - chalom

The Payback - james brown - polydor My top JB tune at the moment

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Blue Monday People - curtis mayfield - curtom 14645 refosoul Ahh yes ..... a work of genius ..... "when cupboards are bare, our love we can share" ..... I raise my Birthday glass to Curtis Mayfield

Who knows - marion black - avco Suitable for Birthday contemplation .... I've just had my lunch so its time for a few more laid back sounds while I put my feet up and let the gastric juices do their stuff ...

Fantastic stuff Blake - thanks for the tune - I know a little bit of Screamin Jay from the Wammee track that Wilco Johnson plays but i've never heard this before - fabulous.

Cheers Steve B, Thanks for the Birthday tune If you type in the title first of all (before you add the clip), that makes it look like the other clips. Funky Si

Girl You Need A Change Of Mind - eddie kendricks - tamla My theme tune in all relations with women. Followed swiftly by "How Sweet It Is" then Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", satin sheets & a sensual massage ....

Jagger the Dagger - eugene mcdaniels - atlantic The "left rev. mc d." from the headless heroes of the apocalypse album - this is the record I have spent most money on ever .....

Cheers Black Gold of the Sun - much appreciated! Chooooon!

You Are My Sunshine - dyke & the blazers - original sound When it comes to deep down, low & dirty, soulful funk cover versions of silly pop songs, this one does it for me every time! Why are Dyke & the Blazers so seemingly unpopular? Are they too raucous for the soul fans & too soulful for the funksters? Did they commit some terrible offence & get put away by the soul police? Can anyone explain ....?

Let Your Mind Be Free - brother to brother - turbo Just a good time boy really - don't get me wrong, I enjoy all the political threads & I have my serious side, but soul for me is about good times. If I want an argument, there's plenty of them happening in the real world. No need to go online to have a pointless slanging match, I find! So let you mind be free, stand firm stand tall, lets get it orn, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ... You know it makes sense!

Great stuff - its got me grinning from ear to ear! I heard they were toying with 'Urination' & 'Shower Of Gold', but opted for 'Wee' instead as they wanted to be taken seriously!

Shake and Fingerpop - jr. walker - soul Why is Jr. Walker never mentioned as one of the inventors of funk? This was made in 1965 & it sounds funky to me .... Roadrunner is probably my top soul sound of all time - but then Higher & Higher, How Sweet It Is, Tracks of My Tears, etc are all probably my top soul sound of all time ...

The Mighty Burner - charles earland - prestige A bit of funky jazz - I defy anyone to keep still while this is playing ......

Cheers mate - that's a hell of a present! I love this mellow tune - what on earth were they thinking of when they named their band though!?!

Let The Good Times Roll and Feel so Good - bunny sigler - parkway 14618 refosoul This is about as rare as my 60s collection gets, I'm sorry to say! I've not paid more than £10 for a single ..... I can hear those purists tutting & those mandibles being manhandled .....

Cheers Steve, I love 60s music - I've just not got much in my collection apart from motown, Aretha, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, a few tunes I used to play at my early-80s Manchester Student Union 60s nights (Arther Conley, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Sly Stone, etc), and a smattering of scratched old things from eBay job lots. You can always add stuff from refosoul if you can't post you own sounds - you need to find the track in the Sounds section, find it's reference number (click on the little logo that looks like a piece of paper), then click on the Insert refosoul clip link in the Quick Access panel on the left side of the reply page. Put the reference number in & you're away. You'll need to add the name of the track too! Funky Si - 44 today

Music For My Mother - funkadelic - westbound Everyone should remember their mother on their Birthdays! Cheers Mum. I'm also a big fan of psychedelic soul, Parliafunkadelicment thangs, & such like.

New Orleans - the staple singers - curtom Three things I'm a big fan of - The Staples Singers, Curtis Mayfield and New Orleans! I love the way the Curtis influence comes through in this production.

Sing A Simple Song - sly & the family stone - direction Warning, purists will find themselves tutting, chin strokers will be clutching their mandibles & I'm in trouble if the soul police locate my secret soul den! If you object to my choices, then please know that I am not trying to upset anyone - post up something you would see as more appropriate! I am always open to passionate, uplifting or inspiring soul/jazz/blues/funk music.

Playmates - the regents - blue cat 14612 refosoul Something to set the mood for the day - warning, not compatible with being serious!

Happy Birthday to Me! Down side of having a Birthday on a Monday - I have the day off but everyone else is getting their week's work started. So I'm going to play some of my favourite tunes & share them with whoever wants to join in. Please feel free to turn me on to new & old sounds, funk, soul, blues, jazz, whatever. Just keep smiling with me all day long!

They're a fantastic James Brown style band from Japan - they have a new single out backing Marva Whitney if I remember correctly. Their website is, unfortunately but not surprisingly, in Japanese! Their singles get sold & traded in the Funk scene.

Chicago, Damn - bobbi humphrey - blue note 14590 refosoul Copied from the Jazz Funk friday-going-on-Monday thread: Another blue note thing of beauty - this one qualifies for the Origin Sleeve Porn thread going on elsewhere!