Black History Month on the move.
Start in Oklahoma City...
In the South it's usually a fact that if you live near the railroad tracks or by the river, you're probably live in the bad part of town. The Moore house was built on stilts, with the river on one side & the railroad tracks on the other.
According to Harold Moore Sr.: He had four children, Jr. & his three sisters who had been abandoned by their alcoholic mom. Harold Sr. worked for a very rich woman who took a liking to the kids & bought them musical instruments, even paying for lessons. She made the kids a deal that if they learned how to play at least three songs she would get them a slot on some local TV telethon. The kids took to music very quickly. Within a year they were appearing on local TV. The response was so good that the woman paid for them to record an LP but suggested they write "original" songs. This is where Harold Sr. comes in. Dad wrote all the songs that appear on the LP, with most of them being attacks on the drunken & supposedly abusive ex-Mrs. Moore… "Mama drinks Tequila / She stays drunk all the time." Once the LP was recorded & pressed, the next step was to get them in the local record stores. At least one store told Mr. Moore that they could not stock them unless they were shrink-wrapped. Harold went to a butcher shop where his brother worked. Harold used their shrink-wrap machine to seal the LPs… unfortunately, this was a high heat machine. Sr. had melted every single LP in the process. This wasn't discovered until someone bought one & took it home. All the LPs were pulled from the stores. Rather than re-press it, the woman decided to release some 45s.
These 45s were compiled to recreate the original melted LP.
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Side One -
Thing, Do the Creep
Momma Love Tequilla
Pimp
Waw-Waw Rock
Love from Above
Flip Will
Do Your Funky Thing
Side Two -
Slow
Sweet Little One
Kewetha
Kat-Walk
Rock 'N Roll Santa
Rock Blues
Pop Junior Pop
Jr & his Soulettes: Harold M. Moore, Jr. - guitar & vocals (age 10); Jacqueln Carol Moore waw waw organ & vocals (age 6); Vinita Marie Moore - bass & organ (age 6); & Denise Marshell Moore - drummer (age 7).
Of course there's Ohio Players (I've posted Skin Tight over at digital meltd0wn blog). I'm giving some different tastes from FunkenTown so although the Players are sublime (& their covers even more sublime), you'll have to grab that Ohio elsewhere, player. Ditto Zapp (however I've added a tribute to Roger Troutman before I leave Dayton).
That's the easy ones, but do you all know Slave or Lakeside or Faze-O or Platypus?...
Steve Arrington of Slave:
“Dayton's scene was all these bands that didn't sound anything alike. Ohio Players didn't sound anything like Heatwave who didn't sound like Slave; Slave didn't sound like Zapp; Zapp didn't sound like Lakeside. What we got from the Players was, we had to find our own voice. The Dayton sound was—innovation.”
But they all had one commonality: Charles Spencer, a music teacher at Roosevelt High School, Dayton, Ohio.. Every band in Dayton that went on to sign a major label deal (including Platypus) had students of Spencer's in them. Spencer made his kids read music & study theory. He also staged battles-of-the-bands to raise money for the school. The funds were good for the musicians but so was the competition; it helped the players hone their skills & also build an audience.
Side A -
Fantastic Voyage
Your Love is on the One
I Need You
Side B -
Strung Out
Say Yes
Eveready Man
I Love Everything You Do
Say Yes (reprise)
Side One -
Snap Shot
Party Lites
Spice of Life (oh Yes, You’re the Best)
Smokin
Side Two -
Wait for Me
Steal Your Heart
For the Love of U
Funken Town
This L.P. is dedicated to Allah for the Concepts of Pure Growth!!
Faze-O was a late 70s funk group produced by Clarence Satchell of the Ohio Players,
Side One -
Breakin’ the Funk
Ya-ba-da-ba-duzie
I Still Love You
Side Two -
Let’s Rock
I’m Tankful
See You Through the Night
Side 1 -
Dancing in the Moonlight
Street Babies
Love the Way You Funk
Don’t Go Away
Side 2 -
Dance if You Can
Running from Love
Body & Soul
Victim of Love
More Bounce to the Ounce
Dance Floor
Do it Roger
Heartbreaker (Pt 1 & Pt 2)
Computer Love
Girl, Cut it Out (maxi-single)
Fire
Thrill Seekers (extended remix)
I've posted plenty Funkadelic nectar here & here & here & here, & elsewhere...you can search it out if you want it. Here's some close family representing.
Side 1 -
Ridin’ High
No Rump to Bump
Don’t Ever Stop (Lovin’ Me, Needin’ Me)
Side 2 -
Booty Snatchers
You’re Leaving
Huff-n-Puff
Parlet began as: Jeanette Washington (in 1975 she joined Parliament with...); Debbie Wright (the first female members of Parliament & Funkadelic); & Mallia Franklin (also vocalist with Parliament-Funkadelic who introduced George Clinton & Bootsy Collins in 1971 as well as bringing ex-Ohio Player Junie Morrison to P-Funk in 1978). Here Parlet is: Jeanette Washington; Shirley Hayden (replacing Debbie Wright): & Janice Evans (replacing Mallia Franklin).
Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky - John Sinclair with Ras Kente
Purple Hazel - Eddie Hazel
Pleasure With the Dirt Devil - Blackbyrd
Positivity - Michael Hampton
Look Now Baby James Glass & the Get to Gettin’ Band
Fly On - Blackbyrd
Reflections on Jimi Part 1 - George Clinton
Funky Kazoo - Michael Hampton
The Wind Cries Colors - Ras Kente
Get to the Gettin’ - James Glass & the Get to Gettin’ Band
Future Past - Randall & Allen Lynch
Should’a Known - Randall & Allen Lynch
Reflections on Jimi Part 2 - George Clinton
Debbie Does the Voodo Child - Point Blank
Thanx Jimi - Andre Foxxe
Return of the Gypsy - Johnny Graham
Oh Say Can You See, the Red, the White, & the Blues - Johnny Graham
Father forgive Um - Mud Bone Cooper & Michael Hampton
Jimi Why D-U Have ta Go - Dee Dee "Dirty Mugg" James & Bootsy's Rubber Band
Revolutions of Jimi - Bootsy Collins
Jimi Why D-U Have ta Go (dance version) - "Dirty Mugg" & Bootsy's Rubber Band
Future Equations - The Darryl Plummer Band
What You Gonna Do? - Ras Kente
Fishin; da Sea - Menace
I Need a Man - Menace
Last Days - Menace
Crash & Burn - Andre Foxxe
Both volumes recorded New Orleans, Lousiana; East Detroit, Highland Park, Michigan USA 1994.
Funk On!
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