Musical Episode #072 : Super Funky Boogie, an hour of 70’s funk 45s

Booker T & The MG’s are featured on today’s podcast of an hour of funky 70’s sounds all played on 45!
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Welcome back to another Musical Episode, this week we have a pile of 45s from the 70s all super funky- heavy bass lines, vocoders and synths galore. Some of these tracks incorporate more disco elements than usual on the podcast but all these tracks have hard hitting drums and are a lot of fun.

There’s two tracks here associated with the prolific and supremely talented Hamilton Bohannon who was a producer for Motown before striking out on his own and producing a seemingly endless supply of sprawling and super funky tracks.

Also worth noting there are two great very late era Stax singles by Sho-Nuff and The Bar-Kays, it’s such a shame the company wasn’t able to continue on as an independent, vision driven company during that period, there was so much talent and potential in a rapidly changing industry.

A couple classics with Rock Creek Park and Chameleon round things out.

Hope you enjoy and will be back soon with more!

Peace,

-George / Snack Attack

Tracklist:
Herman Kelly & Life – Dance To The Drummer’s Beat (Alston, 1978)
Junie – Granny’s Funky Rolls Royce (Westbound, 1975)
Sho-Nuff – Funkasize You (Stax, 1976)
Ripple – I Don’t Know What It Is But It Sure Is Funky (GRC, 1973)
Banda Uniao Black – Yeah Yeah Yeah (Vampi Soul, 2006)
Booker T & The MG’s – Grab Bag (Asylum Records, 1977)
Hamilton Bohannon – Gittin Off (Dakar, 1976)
Santiago – Feeling Good (AOTN, 1975/2016)
Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park (Fantasy, 1975)
Oliver Sain – Bus Stop (Abet, 1974)
Lyn Collins – Rock Me Again and Again (People, 1974)
The Bar-Kays – Holy Ghost (Stax, 1978)
Parliament – Bop Gun (Endangered Species) (Casablanca, 1978)
Tony Camillo’s Bazuka – Dynomite Part 1 (A&M, 1975)
War – In Your Eyes (United Artists, 1974)
Herbie Hancock – Chameleon (Columbia, 1974)
Jimmy Bee – March Funky (Calla, 1976)
Bohannon Band – Stop & Go (Dakar, 1973)
David Matthews – Shoogie Wanna Boogie (Kudu, 1976)

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