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O novo CEO da WSL, Ryan Crosby, acaba de meter (epa!) o pé na porta do sistema criado pela própria entidade e anuncia retorno às raízes do circuito mundial.No Boia 302, Júlio Adler e João Valente recebem Steven Allain, velho conhecido, sócio atleta do podcast, para ajudar a entender esse momento de transição.Celebramos as vidas de Clyde Aukau, Nana Caymmi, Luiz Antonio Mello e Mike Peters e ainda teve um tempinho pra encaixar Burleigh de 1977 até 2025.Na trilha, If You Want Me to Stay do Sly Stone, Hungry for Power do Azari & III e The Alarm com Sixty Eight Guns.

Send us a Text Message.Ready for a musical rollercoaster ride? Join us on the latest edition of Milk Crates and Turntables as we celebrate timeless tracks hitting their 30, 40, and 50-year milestones. Ever wondered what it would be like to draw 45s from a stash and debate which one's superior? This episode has it all, from the hilarious "45 Poker" segment to a passionate review of side two of The Tubes' debut album. We even had a penalty box incident before we hit record, but it's all in good fun!In our "Record Label Challenge," we share quirky tales about "Patty Patchouli" and the riveting Karen Reed saga, sparking some serious laughs. The episode's highlight features intense debates over Sly and the Family Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay" versus The Stylistics' "You Are Everything," with Siri popping in for some unexpected comic relief. And guess what? We take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, reminiscing about Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Sweet Gypsy Rose."Get ready for a heated showdown as we compare 70s classics like "Bohemian Rhapsody" versus "Stairway to Heaven," and "Hotel California" versus "Dream On." We share personal stories and lively opinions, sparking debates that will have you questioning your own favorites. From 90s hits and unforgettable music videos to the unforgettable disco duel between Gloria Gaynor and ABBA, our episode promises a mix of humor, nostalgia, and spirited conversation. Let's keep the laughter and music memories rolling with our signature blend of chaos and camaraderie!

Réécoutez le FG Chic Mix Soul by Belle Boutique du dimanche 21 avril 2024 Tracklist :1- Bill Withers - Lean on Me (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)2- Michael Franks - When I Give My Love To You (with Brenda Russell) (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)3- Love Unlimited Orchestra, the - If You Want Me, Say it (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)4- Street People - Wanna Slow Dance With You Baby (At the Disco) (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)5- Imagination - In & Out of Love (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)6- Barry White - Playing Your Game, Baby (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)7- Imagination - Body Talk (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)8- Imagination - Mornin' Lights (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)9- Imagination - In the Heat of the Night (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)10- Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)11- Barry White - It's Only Love Doing It's Thing (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)12- Norma Jean Wright - Hold Me Lonely Boy (Belle Boutique Re-Edit)

Welcome to a soulful episode of Rock is Lit. If you've got a hankering for that sweet soul music—the kind that echoes with the sounds of Otis Redding, Al Green, Sly & The Family Stone, and Aretha Franklin—then you're in for a treat. My fellow Tar Heel native Michael Parker is here to talk about his novel ‘If You Want Me to Stay', a story in which 14-year-old narrator Joel Dunn, Jr., takes us on a poignant odyssey. Joel, Jr., shares the heartfelt tale of salvaging his family in the aftermath of his mother's departure and his father's unraveling sanity. From the rural landscapes of eastern North Carolina to the coastal vistas, Joel and his little brother Tank embark on a journey guided by junk food and the soulful melodies their daddy taught them to love. Michael Parker is the author of three collections of short stories and seven other novels, including his most recent, 2022's ‘I Am the Light of This World'. He is a three-time winner of the O. Henry Award for short fiction and winner of the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Award. Michael has taught for almost 30 years in the MFA program at UNC-G. Catch Michael on Season 1 Episode 11 of Rock is Lit, when he joined me to discuss ‘I Am the Light of This World'.   MUSIC AND MEDIA IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: R&B/Soul Music Funky Bass Royalty Free Rock is Lit theme music Clip from Season 3 Announcement/'Duck Tales'/Disney Channel [Guitar Instrumental Beat] Sad Rock [Free Use Music] Punch Deck—“I Can't Stop” R&B/Soul Music Funky Bass Royalty Free “(Do the) Push and Pull (Part 1)” by Rufus Thomas “Gone to Carolina” by Shooter Jennings “If You Want Me to Stay” by Sly & The Family Stone “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell and The Drells “People Get Ready” by Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions “Ain't No Way” by Aretha Franklin “(Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay” by Otis Redding “I'll Take You There” by The Staple Singers “Call Me (Come Back Home)” by Al Green Hollerin Contest Festival in Spivey's Corner, CBS 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7-Nuf2MYQ “Love Train” by The O'Jays Rock is Lit theme music     LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Michael Parker's website: https://www.michaelfparker.com/ Michael Parker on Instagram: @texheel22 Michael Parker on Season 1 Episode 11 of Rock is Lit: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/michaelparkerandjeffplace Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram & YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a soulful episode of Rock is Lit. If you've got a hankering for that sweet soul music—the kind that echoes with the sounds of Otis Redding, Al Green, Sly & The Family Stone, and Aretha Franklin—then you're in for a treat. My fellow Tar Heel native Michael Parker is here to talk about his novel ‘If You Want Me to Stay', a story in which 14-year-old narrator Joel Dunn, Jr., takes us on a poignant odyssey. Joel, Jr., shares the heartfelt tale of salvaging his family in the aftermath of his mother's departure and his father's unraveling sanity. From the rural landscapes of eastern North Carolina to the coastal vistas, Joel and his little brother Tank embark on a journey guided by junk food and the soulful melodies their daddy taught them to love. Michael Parker is the author of three collections of short stories and seven other novels, including his most recent, 2022's ‘I Am the Light of This World'. He is a three-time winner of the O. Henry Award for short fiction and winner of the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Award. Michael has taught for almost 30 years in the MFA program at UNC-G. Catch Michael on Season 1 Episode 11 of Rock is Lit, when he joined me to discuss ‘I Am the Light of This World'.   MUSIC AND MEDIA IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: R&B/Soul Music Funky Bass Royalty Free Rock is Lit theme music Clip from Season 3 Announcement/'Duck Tales'/Disney Channel [Guitar Instrumental Beat] Sad Rock [Free Use Music] Punch Deck—“I Can't Stop” R&B/Soul Music Funky Bass Royalty Free “(Do the) Push and Pull (Part 1)” by Rufus Thomas “Gone to Carolina” by Shooter Jennings “If You Want Me to Stay” by Sly & The Family Stone “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell and The Drells “People Get Ready” by Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions “Ain't No Way” by Aretha Franklin “(Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay” by Otis Redding “I'll Take You There” by The Staple Singers “Call Me (Come Back Home)” by Al Green Hollerin Contest Festival in Spivey's Corner, CBS 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7-Nuf2MYQ “Love Train” by The O'Jays Rock is Lit theme music     LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Michael Parker's website: https://www.michaelfparker.com/ Michael Parker on Instagram: @texheel22 Michael Parker on Season 1 Episode 11 of Rock is Lit: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/michaelparkerandjeffplace Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram & YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dustin Katz joined me on the latest episode of GHOULISH to discuss his spooky "fear of the self" theory, which I immediately derailed with Elliott Smith conspiracy theories. At some point, we walk through the entire plot of Oedipus Rex, too, so...uhh...spoilers? Read Dustin's new short story "If You Want Me" in LOST CONTACT: https://perpetualpublishing.com/product/lost-contact/  Join The Ghoulish Times: https://theghoulishtimes.substack.com/ Join Dog Ears, a writing & publishing newsletter: https://dogears.substack.com/  Browse the books on our webstore: http://perpetualpublishing.com/shop/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pmmpublishing Theme song by Heathenish Kid

Episode one hundred and thirty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Papa's Got a Brand New Bag” by James Brown, and at how Brown went from a minor doo-wop artist to the pioneer of funk. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "I'm a Fool" by Dino, Desi, and Billy. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ NB an early version of this was uploaded, in which I said "episode 136" rather than 137 and "flattened ninth" at one point rather than "ninth". I've fixed that in a new upload, which is otherwise unchanged. Resources As usual, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. I relied mostly on fur books for this episode. James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, by James Brown with Bruce Tucker, is a celebrity autobiography with all that that entails, but a more interesting read than many. Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown, by James McBride is a more discursive, gonzo journalism piece, and well worth a read. Black and Proud: The Life of James Brown by Geoff Brown is a more traditional objective biography. And Douglas Wolk's 33 1/3 book on Live at the Apollo is a fascinating, detailed, look at that album. This box set is the best collection of Brown's work there is, but is out of print. This two-CD set has all the essential hits. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Introduction, the opening of Live at the Apollo. "So now, ladies and gentlemen, it is star time. Are you ready for star time? [Audience cheers, and gives out another cheer with each musical sting sting] Thank you, and thank you very kindly. It is indeed a great pleasure to present to you in this particular time, national and international known as the hardest working man in showbusiness, Man that sing "I'll Go Crazy"! [sting] "Try Me" [sting] "You've Got the Power" [sting] "Think" [sting], "If You Want Me" [sting] "I Don't Mind" [sting] "Bewildered" [sting] million-dollar seller "Lost Someone" [sting], the very latest release, "Night Train" [sting] Let's everybody "Shout and Shimmy" [sting] Mr. Dynamite, the amazing Mr. Please Please himself, the star of the show, James Brown and the Famous Flames"] In 1951, the composer John Cage entered an anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room that's been completely soundproofed, so no sound can get in from the outside world, and in which the walls, floor, and ceiling are designed to absorb any sounds that are made. It's as close as a human being can get to experiencing total silence. When Cage entered it, he expected that to be what he heard -- just total silence. Instead, he heard two noises, a high-pitched one and a low one. Cage was confused by this -- why hadn't he heard the silence? The engineer in charge of the chamber explained to him that what he was hearing was himself -- the high-pitched noise was Cage's nervous system, and the low-pitched one was his circulatory system. Cage later said about this, "Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music." The experience inspired him to write his most famous piece, 4'33, in which a performer attempts not to make any sound for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. The piece is usually described as being four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence, but it actually isn't -- the whole point is that there is no silence, and that the audience is meant to listen to the ambient noise and appreciate that noise as music. Here is where I would normally excerpt the piece, but of course for 4'33 to have its full effect, one has to listen to the whole thing. But I can excerpt another piece Cage wrote. Because on October the twenty-fourth 1962 he wrote a sequel to 4'33, a piece he titled 0'00, but which is sometimes credited as "4'33 no. 2". He later reworked the piece, but the original score, which is dedicated to two avant-garde Japanese composers, Toshi Ichiyanagi and his estranged wife Yoko Ono, reads as follows: "In a situation provided with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined action." Now, as it happens, we have a recording of someone else performing Cage's piece, as written, on the day it was written, though neither performer nor composer were aware that that was what was happening. But I'm sure everyone can agree that this recording from October the 24th, 1962, is a disciplined action performed with maximum amplification and no feedback: [Excerpt: James Brown, "Night Train" (Live at the Apollo version)] When we left James Brown, almost a hundred episodes ago, he had just had his first R&B number one, with "Try Me", and had performed for the first time at the venue with which he would become most associated, the Harlem Apollo, and had reconnected with the mother he hadn't seen since he was a small child. But at that point, in 1958, he was still just the lead singer of a doo-wop group, one of many, and there was nothing in his shows or his records to indicate that he was going to become anything more than that, nothing to distinguish him from King Records labelmates like Hank Ballard, who made great records, put on a great live show, and are still remembered more than sixty years later, but mostly as a footnote. Today we're going to look at the process that led James Brown from being a peer of Ballard or Little Willie John to being arguably the single most influential musician of the second half of the twentieth century. Much of that influence is outside rock music, narrowly defined, but the records we're going to look at this time and in the next episode on Brown are records without which the entire sonic landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries would be unimaginably different. And that process started in 1958, shortly after the release of "Try Me" in October that year, with two big changes to Brown's organisation. The first was that this was -- at least according to Brown -- when he first started working with Universal Attractions, a booking agency run by a man named Ben Bart, who before starting his own company had spent much of the 1940s working for Moe Gale, the owner of the Savoy Ballroom and manager of the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and many of the other acts we looked at in the very first episodes of this podcast. Bart had started his own agency in 1945, and had taken the Ink Spots with him, though they'd returned to Gale a few years later, and he'd been responsible for managing the career of the Ravens, one of the first bird groups: [Excerpt: The Ravens, "Rock Me All Night Long"] In the fifties, Bart had become closely associated with King Records, the label to which Brown and the Famous Flames were signed. A quick aside here -- Brown's early records were released on Federal Records, and later they switched to being released on King, but Federal was a subsidiary label for King, and in the same way that I don't distinguish between Checker and Chess, Tamla and Motown, or Phillips and Sun, I'll just refer to King throughout. Bart and Universal Attractions handled bookings for almost every big R&B act signed by King, including Tiny Bradshaw, Little Willie John, the "5" Royales, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. According to some sources, the Famous Flames signed with Universal Attractions at the same time they signed with King Records, and Bart's family even say it was Bart who discovered them and got them signed to King in the first place. Other sources say they didn't sign with Universal until after they'd proved themselves on the charts. But everyone seems agreed that 1958 was when Bart started making Brown a priority and taking an active interest in his career. Within a few years, Bart would have left Universal, handing the company over to his son and a business partner, to devote himself full-time to managing Brown, with whom he developed an almost father-son relationship. With Bart behind them, the Famous Flames started getting better gigs, and a much higher profile on the chitlin circuit. But around this time there was another change that would have an even more profound effect. Up to this point, the Famous Flames had been like almost every other vocal group playing the chitlin' circuit, in that they hadn't had their own backing musicians. There were exceptions, but in general vocal groups would perform with the same backing band as every other act on a bill -- either a single backing band playing for a whole package tour, or a house band at the venue they were playing at who would perform with every act that played that venue. There would often be a single instrumentalist with the group, usually a guitarist or piano player, who would act as musical director to make sure that the random assortment of musicians they were going to perform with knew the material. This was, for the most part, how the Famous Flames had always performed, though they had on occasion also performed their own backing in the early days. But now they got their own backing band, centred on J.C. Davis as sax player and bandleader, Bobby Roach on guitar, Nat Kendrick on drums, and Bernard Odum on bass. Musicians would come and go, but this was the core original lineup of what became the James Brown Band. Other musicians who played with them in the late fifties were horn players Alfred Corley and Roscoe Patrick, guitarist Les Buie, and bass player Hubert Perry, while keyboard duties would be taken on by Fats Gonder, although James Brown and Bobby Byrd would both sometimes play keyboards on stage. At this point, as well, the lineup of the Famous Flames became more or less stable. As we discussed in the previous episode on Brown, the original lineup of the Famous Flames had left en masse when it became clear that they were going to be promoted as James Brown and the Famous Flames, with Brown getting more money, rather than as a group. Brown had taken on another vocal group, who had previously been Little Richard's backing vocalists, but shortly after "Try Me" had come out, but before they'd seen any money from it, that group had got into an argument with Brown over money he owed them. He dropped them, and they went off to record unsuccessfully as the Fabulous Flames on a tiny label, though the records they made, like "Do You Remember", are quite good examples of their type: [Excerpt: The Fabulous Flames, "Do You Remember?"] Brown pulled together a new lineup of Famous Flames, featuring two of the originals. Johnny Terry had already returned to the group earlier, and stayed when Brown sacked the rest of the second lineup of Flames, and they added Lloyd Bennett and Bobby Stallworth. And making his second return to the group was Bobby Byrd, who had left with the other original members, joined again briefly, and then left again. Oddly, the first commercial success that Brown had after these lineup changes was not with the Famous Flames, or even under his own name. Rather, it was under the name of his drummer, Nat Kendrick. Brown had always seen himself, not primarily as a singer, but as a band leader and arranger. He was always a jazz fan first and foremost, and he'd grown up in the era of the big bands, and musicians he'd admired growing up like Lionel Hampton and Louis Jordan had always recorded instrumentals as well as vocal selections, and Brown saw himself very much in that tradition. Even though he couldn't read music, he could play several instruments, and he could communicate his arrangement ideas, and he wanted to show off the fact that he was one of the few R&B musicians with his own tight band. The story goes that Syd Nathan, the owner of King Records, didn't like the idea, because he thought that the R&B audience at this point only wanted vocal tracks, and also because Brown's band had previously released an instrumental which hadn't sold. Now, this is a definite pattern in the story of James Brown -- it seems that at every point in Brown's career for the first decade, Brown would come up with an idea that would have immense commercial value, Nathan would say it was the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard, Brown would do it anyway, and Nathan would later admit that he was wrong. This is such a pattern -- it apparently happened with "Please Please Please", Brown's first hit, *and* "Try Me", Brown's first R&B number one, and we'll see it happen again later in this episode -- that one tends to suspect that maybe these stories were sometimes made up after the fact, especially since Syd Nathan somehow managed to run a successful record label for over twenty years, putting out some of the best R&B and country records from everyone from Moon Mullican to Wynonie Harris, the Stanley Brothers to Little Willie John, while if these stories are to be believed he was consistently making the most boneheaded, egregious, uncommercial decisions imaginable. But in this case, it seems to be at least mostly true, as rather than being released on King Records as by James Brown, "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" was released on Dade Records as by Nat Kendrick and the Swans, with the DJ Carlton Coleman shouting vocals over Brown's so it wouldn't be obvious Brown was breaking his contract: [Excerpt: Nat Kendrick and the Swans, "(Do the)" Mashed Potatoes"] That made the R&B top ten,  and I've seen reports that Brown and his band even toured briefly as Nat Kendrick and the Swans, before Syd Nathan realised his mistake, and started allowing instrumentals to be released under the name "James Brown presents HIS BAND", starting with a cover of Bill Doggett's "Hold It": [Excerpt: James Brown Presents HIS BAND, "Hold It"] After the Nat Kendrick record gave Brown's band an instrumental success, the Famous Flames also came back from another mini dry spell for hits, with the first top twenty R&B hit for the new lineup, "I'll Go Crazy", which was followed shortly afterwards by their first pop top forty hit, "Think!": [Excerpt: James Brown and the Famous Flames, "Think!"] The success of "Think!" is at least in part down to Bobby Byrd, who would from this point on be Brown's major collaborator and (often uncredited) co-writer and co-producer until the mid-seventies. After leaving the Flames, and before rejoining them, Byrd had toured for a while with his own group, but had then gone to work for King Records at the request of Brown. King Records' pressing plant had equipment that sometimes produced less-than-ideal pressings of records, and Brown had asked Byrd to take a job there performing quality control, making sure that Brown's records didn't skip. While working there, Byrd also worked as a song doctor. His job was to take songs that had been sent in as demos, and rework them in the style of some of the label's popular artists, to make them more suitable, changing a song so it might fit the style of the "5" Royales or Little Willie John or whoever, and Byrd had done this for "Think", which had originally been recorded by the "5" Royales, whose leader, Lowman Pauling, had written it: [Excerpt: The "5" Royales, "Think"] Byrd had reworked the song to fit Brown's style and persona. It's notable for example that the Royales sing "How much of all your happiness have I really claimed?/How many tears have you cried for which I was to blame?/Darlin', I can't remember which was my fault/I tried so hard to please you—at least that's what I thought.” But in Brown's version this becomes “How much of your happiness can I really claim?/How many tears have you shed for which you was to blame?/Darlin', I can't remember just what is wrong/I tried so hard to please you—at least that's what I thought.” [Excerpt: James Brown and the Famous Flames, "Think"] In Brown's version, nothing is his fault, he's trying to persuade an unreasonable woman who has some problem he doesn't even understand, but she needs to think about it and she'll see that he's right, while in the Royales' version they're acknowledging that they're at fault, that they've done wrong, but they didn't *only* do wrong and maybe she should think about that too. It's only a couple of words' difference, but it changes the whole tenor of the song. "Think" would become the Famous Flames' first top forty hit on the pop charts, reaching number thirty-three. It went top ten on the R&B charts, and between 1959 and 1963 Brown and the Flames would have fifteen top-thirty R&B hits, going from being a minor doo-wop group that had had a few big hits to being consistent hit-makers, who were not yet household names, but who had a consistent sound that could be guaranteed to make the R&B charts, and who put on what was regarded as the best live show of any R&B band in the world. This was partly down to the type of discipline that Brown imposed on his band. Many band-leaders in the R&B world would impose fines on their band members, and Johnny Terry suggested that Brown do the same thing. As Bobby Byrd put it, "Many band leaders do it but it was Johnny's idea to start it with us and we were all for it ‘cos we didn't want to miss nothing. We wanted to be immaculate, clothes-wise, routine-wise and everything. Originally, the fines was only between James and us, The Famous Flames, but then James carried it over into the whole troupe. It was still a good idea because anybody joining The James Brown Revue had to know that they couldn't be messing up, and anyway, all the fines went into a pot for the parties we had." But Brown went much further with these fines than any other band leader, and would also impose them arbitrarily, and it became part of his reputation that he was the strictest disciplinarian in rhythm and blues music. One thing that became legendary among musicians was the way that he would impose fines while on stage. If a band member missed a note, or a dance step, or missed a cue, or had improperly polished shoes, Brown would, while looking at them, briefly make a flashing gesture with his hand, spreading his fingers out for a fraction of a second. To the audience, it looked like just part of Brown's dance routine, but the musician knew he had just been fined five dollars. Multiple flashes meant multiples of five dollars fined. Brown also developed a whole series of other signals to the band, which they had to learn, To quote Bobby Byrd again: "James didn't want anybody else to know what we was doing, so he had numbers and certain screams and spins. There was a certain spin he'd do and if he didn't do the complete spin you'd know it was time to go over here. Certain screams would instigate chord changes, but mostly it was numbers. James would call out football numbers, that's where we got that from. Thirty-nine — Sixteen —Fourteen — Two — Five — Three — Ninety-eight, that kind of thing. Number thirty-nine was always the change into ‘Please, Please, Please'. Sixteen is into a scream and an immediate change, not bam-bam but straight into something else. If he spins around and calls thirty-six, that means we're going back to the top again. And the forty-two, OK, we're going to do this verse and then bow out, we're leaving now. It was amazing." This, or something like this, is a fairly standard technique among more autocratic band leaders, a way of allowing the band as a whole to become a live compositional or improvisational tool for their leader, and Frank Zappa, for example, had a similar system. It requires the players to subordinate themselves utterly to the whim of the band leader, but also requires a band leader who knows the precise strengths and weaknesses of every band member and how they are likely to respond to a cue. When it works well, it can be devastatingly effective, and it was for Brown's live show. The Famous Flames shows soon became a full-on revue, with other artists joining the bill and performing with Brown's band. From the late 1950s on, Brown would always include a female singer. The first of these was Sugar Pie DeSanto, a blues singer who had been discovered (and given her stage name) by Johnny Otis, but DeSanto soon left Brown's band and went on to solo success on Chess records, with hits like "Soulful Dress": [Excerpt: Sugar Pie DeSanto, "Soulful Dress"] After DeSanto left, she was replaced by  Bea Ford, the former wife of the soul singer Joe Tex, with whom Brown had an aggressive rivalry and mutual loathing. Ford and Brown recorded together, cutting tracks like "You Got the Power": [Excerpt: James Brown and Bea Ford, "You Got the Power"] However, Brown and Ford soon fell out, and Brown actually wrote to Tex asking if he wanted his wife back. Tex's response was to record this: [Excerpt: Joe Tex, "You Keep Her"] Ford's replacement was Yvonne Fair, who had briefly replaced Jackie Landry in the Chantels for touring purposes when Landry had quit touring to have a baby. Fair would stay with Brown for a couple of years, and would release a number of singles written and produced for her by Brown, including one which Brown would later rerecord himself with some success: [Excerpt: Yvonne Fair, "I Found You"] Fair would eventually leave the band after getting pregnant with a child by Brown, who tended to sleep with the female singers in his band. The last shows she played with him were the shows that would catapult Brown into the next level of stardom. Brown had been convinced for a long time that his live shows had an energy that his records didn't, and that people would buy a record of one of them. Syd Nathan, as usual, disagreed. In his view the market for R&B albums was small, and only consisted of people who wanted collections of hit singles they could play in one place. Nobody would buy a James Brown live album. So Brown decided to take matters into his own hands. He decided to book a run of shows at the Apollo Theatre, and record them, paying for the recordings with his own money. This was a week-long engagement, with shows running all day every day -- Brown and his band would play five shows a day, and Brown would wear a different suit for every show. This was in October 1962, the month that we've already established as the month the sixties started -- the month the Beatles released their first single, the Beach Boys released their first record outside the US, and the first Bond film came out, all on the same day at the beginning of the month. By the end of October, when Brown appeared at the Apollo, the Cuban Missile Crisis was at its height, and there were several points during the run where it looked like the world itself might not last until November 62. Douglas Wolk has written an entire book on the live album that resulted, which claims to be a recording of the midnight performance from October the twenty-fourth, though it seems like it was actually compiled from multiple performances. The album only records the headline performance, but Wolk describes what a full show by the James Brown Revue at the Apollo was like in October 1962, and the following description is indebted to his book, which I'll link in the show notes. The show would start with the "James Brown Orchestra" -- the backing band. They would play a set of instrumentals, and a group of dancers called the Brownies would join them: [Excerpt: James Brown Presents His Band, "Night Flying"] At various points during the set, Brown himself would join the band for a song or two, playing keyboards or drums. After the band's instrumental set, the Valentinos would take the stage for a few songs. This was before they'd been taken on by Sam Cooke, who would take them under his wing very soon after these shows, but the Valentinos were already recording artists in their own right, and had recently released "Lookin' For a Love": [Excerpt: The Valentinos, "Lookin' For a Love"] Next up would be Yvonne Fair, now visibly pregnant with her boss' child, to sing her few numbers: [Excerpt: Yvonne Fair, "You Can Make it if You Try"] Freddie King was on next, another artist for the King family of labels who'd had a run of R&B hits the previous year, promoting his new single "I'm On My Way to Atlanta": [Excerpt: Freddie King, "I'm on My Way to Atlanta"] After King came Solomon Burke, who had been signed to Atlantic earlier that year and just started having hits, and was the new hot thing on the scene, but not yet the massive star he became: [Excerpt: Solomon Burke, "Cry to Me"] After Burke came a change of pace -- the vaudeville comedian Pigmeat Markham would take the stage and perform a couple of comedy sketches. We actually know exactly how these went, as Brown wasn't the only one recording a live album there that week, and Markham's album "The World's Greatest Clown" was a result of these shows and released on Chess Records: [Excerpt: Pigmeat Markham, "Go Ahead and Sing"] And after Markham would come the main event. Fats Gonder, the band's organist, would give the introduction we heard at the beginning of the episode -- and backstage, Danny Ray, who had been taken on as James Brown's valet that very week (according to Wolk -- I've seen other sources saying he'd joined Brown's organisation in 1960), was listening closely. He would soon go on to take over the role of MC, and would introduce Brown in much the same way as Gonder had at every show until Brown's death forty-four years later. The live album is an astonishing tour de force, showing Brown and his band generating a level of excitement that few bands then or now could hope to equal. It's even more astonishing when you realise two things. The first is that this was *before* any of the hits that most people now associate with the name James Brown -- before "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "Sex Machine", or "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" or "Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud" or "Funky Drummer" or "Get Up Offa That Thing". It's still an *unformed* James Brown, only six years into a fifty-year career, and still without most of what made him famous. The other thing is, as Wolk notes, if you listen to any live bootleg recordings from this time, the microphone distorts all the time, because Brown is singing so loud. Here, the vocal tone is clean, because Brown knew he was being recorded. This is the sound of James Brown restraining himself: [Excerpt: James Brown and the Famous Flames, "Night Train" (Live at the Apollo version)] The album was released a few months later, and proved Syd Nathan's judgement utterly, utterly, wrong. It became the thirty-second biggest selling album of 1963 -- an amazing achievement given that it was released on a small independent label that dealt almost exclusively in singles, and which had no real presence in the pop market. The album spent sixty-six weeks on the album charts, making number two on the charts -- the pop album charts, not R&B charts. There wasn't an R&B albums chart until 1965, and Live at the Apollo basically forced Billboard to create one, and more or less single-handedly created the R&B albums market. It was such a popular album in 1963 that DJs took to playing the whole album -- breaking for commercials as they turned the side over, but otherwise not interrupting it. It turned Brown from merely a relatively big R&B star into a megastar. But oddly, given this astonishing level of success, Brown's singles in 1963 were slightly less successful than they had been in the previous few years -- possibly partly because he decided to record a few versions of old standards, changing direction as he had for much of his career. Johnny Terry quit the Famous Flames, to join the Drifters, becoming part of the lineup that recorded "Under the Boardwalk" and "Saturday Night at the Movies". Brown also recorded a second live album, Pure Dynamite!, which is generally considered a little lacklustre in comparison to the Apollo album. There were other changes to the lineup as well as Terry leaving. Brown wanted to hire a new drummer, Melvin Parker, who agreed to join the band, but only if Brown took on his sax-playing brother, Maceo, along with him. Maceo soon became one of the most prominent musicians in Brown's band, and his distinctive saxophone playing is all over many of Brown's biggest hits. The first big hit that the Parkers played on was released as by James Brown and his Orchestra, rather than James Brown and the Famous Flames, and was a landmark in Brown's evolution as a musician: [Excerpt: James Brown and his Orchestra, "Out of Sight"] The Famous Flames did sing on the B-side of that, a song called "Maybe the Last Time", which was ripped off from the same Pops Staples song that the Rolling Stones later ripped off for their own hit single. But that would be the last time Brown would use them in the studio -- from that point on, the Famous Flames were purely a live act, although Bobby Byrd, but not the other members, would continue to sing on the records. The reason it was credited to James Brown, rather than to James Brown and the Famous Flames, is that "Out of Sight" was released on Smash Records, to which Brown -- but not the Flames -- had signed a little while earlier. Brown had become sick of what he saw as King Records' incompetence, and had found what he and his advisors thought was a loophole in his contract. Brown had been signed to King Records under a personal services contract as a singer, not under a musician contract as a musician, and so they believed that he could sign to Smash, a subsidiary of Mercury, as a musician. He did, and he made what he thought of as a fresh start on his new label by recording "Caldonia", a cover of a song by his idol Louis Jordan: [Excerpt: James Brown and his Orchestra, "Caldonia"] Understandably, King Records sued on the reasonable grounds that Brown was signed to them as a singer, and they got an injunction to stop him recording for Smash -- but by the time the injunction came through, Brown had already released two albums and three singles for the label. The injunction prevented Brown from recording any new material for the rest of 1964, though both labels continued to release stockpiled material during that time. While he was unable to record new material, October 1964 saw Brown's biggest opportunity to cross over to a white audience -- the TAMI Show: [Excerpt: James Brown, "Out of Sight (TAMI show live)"] We've mentioned the TAMI show a couple of times in previous episodes, but didn't go into it in much detail. It was a filmed concert which featured Jan and Dean, the Barbarians, Lesley Gore, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, the Miracles, the Supremes, and, as the two top acts, James Brown and the Rolling Stones. Rather oddly, the point of the TAMI Show wasn't the music as such. Rather it was intended as a demonstration of a technical process. Before videotape became cheap and a standard, it was difficult to record TV shows for later broadcast, for distribution to other countries, or for archive. The way they used to be recorded was a process known as telerecording in the UK and kinescoping in the US, and that was about as crude as it's possible to get -- you'd get a film camera, point it at a TV showing the programme you wanted to record, and film the TV screen. There was specialist equipment to do this, but that was all it actually did. Almost all surviving TV from the fifties and sixties -- and even some from the seventies -- was preserved by this method rather than by videotape. Even after videotape started being used to make the programmes, there were differing standards and tapes were expensive, so if you were making a programme in the UK and wanted a copy for US broadcast, or vice versa, you'd make a telerecording. But what if you wanted to make a TV show that you could also show on cinema screens? If you're filming a TV screen, and then you project that film onto a big screen, you get a blurry, low-resolution, mess -- or at least you did with the 525-line TV screens that were used in the US at the time. So a company named Electronovision came into the picture, for those rare times when you wanted to do something using video cameras that would be shown at the cinema. Rather than shoot in 525-line resolution, their cameras shot in 819-line resolution -- super high definition for the time, but capable of being recorded onto standard videotape with appropriate modifications for the equipment. But that meant that when you kinescoped the production, it was nearly twice the resolution that a standard US TV broadcast would be, and so it didn't look terrible when shown in a cinema. The owner of the Electronovision process had had a hit with a cinema release of a performance by Richard Burton as Hamlet, and he needed a follow-up, and decided that another filmed live performance would be the best way to make use of his process -- TV cameras were much more useful for capturing live performances than film cameras, for a variety of dull technical reasons, and so this was one of the few areas where Electronovision might actually be useful. And so Bill Roden, one of the heads of Electronovision, turned to a TV director named Steve Binder, who was working at the time on the Steve Allen show, one of the big variety shows, second only to Ed Sullivan, and who would soon go on to direct Hullaballoo. Roden asked Binder to make a concert film, shot on video, which would be released on the big screen by American International Pictures (the same organisation with which David Crosby's father worked so often). Binder had contacts with West Coast record labels, and particularly with Lou Adler's organisation, which managed Jan and Dean. He also had been in touch with a promoter who was putting on a package tour of British musicians. So they decided that their next demonstration of the capabilities of the equipment would be a show featuring performers from "all over the world", as the theme song put it -- by which they meant all over the continental United States plus two major British cities. For those acts who didn't have their own bands -- or whose bands needed augmenting -- there was an orchestra, centred around members of the Wrecking Crew, conducted by Jack Nitzsche, and the Blossoms were on hand to provide backing vocals where required. Jan and Dean would host the show and sing the theme song. James Brown had had less pop success than any of the other artists on the show except for the Barbarians, who are now best-known for their appearances on the Nuggets collection of relatively obscure garage rock singles, and whose biggest hit, "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?" only went to number fifty-five on the charts: [Excerpt: The Barbarians, "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?"] The Barbarians were being touted as the American equivalent of the Rolling Stones, but the general cultural moment of the time can be summed up by that line "You're either a girl or you come from Liverpool" -- which was where the Rolling Stones came from. Or at least, it was where Americans seemed to think they came from given both that song, and the theme song of the TAMI show, written by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, which sang about “the Rolling Stones from Liverpool”, and also referred to Brown as "the king of the blues": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Here They Come From All Over The World"] But other than the Barbarians, the TAMI show was one of the few places in which all the major pop music movements of the late fifties and early sixties could be found in one place -- there was the Merseybeat of Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Dakotas, already past their commercial peak but not yet realising it, the fifties rock of Chuck Berry, who actually ended up performing one song with Gerry and the Pacemakers: [Excerpt: Chuck Berry and Gerry and the Pacemakers: "Maybellene"] And there was the Brill Building pop of Lesley Gore, the British R&B of the Rolling Stones right at the point of their breakthrough, the vocal surf music of the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, and three of the most important Motown acts, with Brown the other representative of soul on the bill. But the billing was a sore point. James Brown's manager insisted that he should be the headliner of the show, and indeed by some accounts the Rolling Stones also thought that they should probably not try to follow him -- though other accounts say that the Stones were equally insistent that they *must* be the headliners. It was a difficult decision, because Brown was much less well known, but it was eventually decided that the Rolling Stones would go on last. Most people talking about the event, including most of those involved with the production, have since stated that this was a mistake, because nobody could follow James Brown, though in interviews Mick Jagger has always insisted that the Stones didn't have to follow Brown, as there was a recording break between acts and they weren't even playing to the same audience -- though others have disputed that quite vigorously. But what absolutely everyone has agreed is that Brown gave the performance of a lifetime, and that it was miraculously captured by the cameras. I say its capture was miraculous because every other act had done a full rehearsal for the TV cameras, and had had a full shot-by-shot plan worked out by Binder beforehand. But according to Steve Binder -- though all the accounts of the show are contradictory -- Brown refused to do a rehearsal -- so even though he had by far the most complex and choreographed performance of the event, Binder and his camera crew had to make decisions by pure instinct, rather than by having an actual plan they'd worked out in advance of what shots to use. This is one of the rare times when I wish this was a video series rather than a podcast, because the visuals are a huge part of this performance -- Brown is a whirlwind of activity, moving all over the stage in a similar way to Jackie Wilson, one of his big influences, and doing an astonishing gliding dance step in which he stands on one leg and moves sideways almost as if on wheels. The full performance is easily findable online, and is well worth seeking out. But still, just hearing the music and the audience's reaction can give some insight: [Excerpt: James Brown, "Out of Sight" (TAMI Show)] The Rolling Stones apparently watched the show in horror, unable to imagine following that -- though when they did, the audience response was fine: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Around and Around"] Incidentally, Chuck Berry must have been quite pleased with his payday from the TAMI Show, given that as well as his own performance the Stones did one of his songs, as did Gerry and the Pacemakers, as we heard earlier, and the Beach Boys did "Surfin' USA" for which he had won sole songwriting credit. After the TAMI Show, Mick Jagger would completely change his attitude to performing, and would spend the rest of his career trying to imitate Brown's performing style. He was unsuccessful in this, but still came close enough that he's still regarded as one of the great frontmen, nearly sixty years later. Brown kept performing, and his labels kept releasing material, but he was still not allowed to record, until in early 1965 a court reached a ruling -- yes, Brown wasn't signed as a musician to King Records, so he was perfectly within his rights to record with Smash Records. As an instrumentalist. But Brown *was* signed to King Records as a singer, so he was obliged to record vocal tracks for them, and only for them. So until his contract with Smash lapsed, he had to record twice as much material -- he had to keep recording instrumentals, playing piano or organ, for Smash, while recording vocal tracks for King Records. His first new record, released as by "James Brown" rather than the earlier billings of "James Brown and his Orchestra" or "James Brown and the Famous Flames", was for King, and was almost a remake of "Out of Sight", his hit for Smash Records. But even so, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" was a major step forward, and is often cited as the first true funk record. This is largely because of the presence of a new guitarist in Brown's band. Jimmy Nolen had started out as a violin player, but like many musicians in the 1950s he had been massively influenced by T-Bone Walker, and had switched to playing guitar. He was discovered as a guitarist by the bluesman Jimmy Wilson, who had had a minor hit with "Tin Pan Alley": [Excerpt: Jimmy Wilson, "Tin Pan Alley"] Wilson had brought Nolen to LA, where he'd soon parted from Wilson and started working with a whole variety of bandleaders. His first recording came with Monte Easter on Aladdin Records: [Excerpt: Monte Easter, "Blues in the Evening"] After working with Easter, he started recording with Chuck Higgins, and also started recording by himself. At this point, Nolen was just one of many West Coast blues guitarists with a similar style, influenced by T-Bone Walker -- he was competing with Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Guitar Slim, and wasn't yet quite as good as any of them. But he was still making some influential records. His version of "After Hours", for example, released under his own name on Federal Records, was a big influence on Roy Buchanan, who would record several versions of the standard based on Nolen's arrangement: [Excerpt: Jimmy Nolen, "After Hours"] Nolen had released records on many labels, but his most important early association came from records he made but didn't release. In the mid-fifties, Johnny Otis produced a couple of tracks by Nolen, for Otis' Dig Records label, but they weren't released until decades later: [Excerpt: Jimmy Nolen, "Jimmy's Jive"] But when Otis had a falling out with his longtime guitar player Pete "Guitar" Lewis, who was one of the best players in LA but who was increasingly becoming unreliable due to his alcoholism, Otis hired Nolen to replace him. It's Nolen who's playing on most of the best-known recordings Otis made in the late fifties, like "Casting My Spell": [Excerpt: Johnny Otis, "Casting My Spell"] And of course Otis' biggest hit "Willie and the Hand Jive": [Excerpt: Johnny Otis, "Willie and the Hand Jive"] Nolen left Otis after a few years, and spent the early sixties mostly playing in scratch bands backing blues singers, and not recording. It was during this time that Nolen developed the style that would revolutionise music. The style he developed was unique in several different ways. The first was in Nolen's choice of chords. We talked last week about how Pete Townshend's guitar playing became based on simplifying chords and only playing power chords. Nolen went the other way -- while his voicings often only included two or three notes, he was also often using very complex chords with *more* notes than a standard chord. As we discussed last week, in most popular music, the chords are based around either major or minor triads -- the first, third, and fifth notes of a scale, so you have an E major chord, which is the notes E, G sharp, and B: [Excerpt: E major chord] It's also fairly common to have what are called seventh chords, which are actually a triad with an added flattened seventh, so an E7 chord would be the notes E, G sharp, B, and D: [Excerpt: E7 chord] But Nolen built his style around dominant ninth chords, often just called ninth chords. Dominant ninth chords are mostly thought of as jazz chords because they're mildly dissonant. They consist of the first, third, fifth, flattened seventh, *and* ninth of a scale, so an E9 would be the notes E, G sharp, B, D, and F sharp: [Excerpt: E9 chord] Another way of looking at that is that you're playing both a major chord *and* at the same time a minor chord that starts on the fifth note, so an E major and B minor chord at the same time: [Demonstrates Emajor, B minor, E9] It's not completely unknown for pop songs to use ninth chords, but it's very rare. Probably the most prominent example came from a couple of years after the period we're talking about, when in mid-1967 Bobby Gentry basically built the whole song "Ode to Billie Joe" around a D9 chord, barely ever moving off it: [Excerpt: Bobby Gentry, "Ode to Billie Joe"] That shows the kind of thing that ninth chords are useful for -- because they have so many notes in them, you can just keep hammering on the same chord for a long time, and the melody can go wherever it wants and will fit over it. The record we're looking at, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", actually has three chords in it -- it's basically a twelve-bar blues, like "Out of Sight" was, just with these ninth chords sometimes used instead of more conventional chords -- but as Brown's style got more experimental in future years, he would often build songs with no chord changes at all, just with Nolen playing a single ninth chord throughout. There's a possibly-apocryphal story, told in a few different ways, but the gist of which is that when auditioning Nolen's replacement many years later, Brown asked "Can you play an E ninth chord?" "Yes, of course" came the reply. "But can you play an E ninth chord *all night*?" The reason Brown asked this, if he did, is that playing like Nolen is *extremely* physically demanding. Because the other thing about Nolen's style is that he was an extremely percussive player. In his years backing blues musicians, he'd had to play with many different drummers, and knew they weren't always reliable timekeepers. So he'd started playing like a drummer himself, developing a technique called chicken-scratching, based on the Bo Diddley style he'd played with Otis, where he'd often play rapid, consistent, semiquaver chords, keeping the time himself so the drummer didn't have to. Other times he'd just play single, jagged-sounding, chords to accentuate the beat. He used guitars with single-coil pickups and turned the treble up and got rid of all the midrange, so the sound would cut through no matter what. As well as playing full-voiced chords, he'd also sometimes mute all the strings while he strummed, giving a percussive scratching sound rather than letting the strings ring. In short, the sound he got was this: [Excerpt: James Brown, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"] And that is the sound that became funk guitar. If you listen to Jimmy Nolen's playing on "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", that guitar sound -- chicken scratched ninth chords -- is what every funk guitarist after him based their style on. It's not Nolen's guitar playing in its actual final form -- that wouldn't come until he started using wah wah pedals, which weren't mass produced until early 1967 -- but it's very clear when listening to the track that this is the birth of funk. The original studio recording of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" actually sounds odd if you listen to it now -- it's slower than the single, and lasts almost seven minutes: [Excerpt: James Brown "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (parts 1, 2, and 3)"] But for release as a single, it was sped up a semitone, a ton of reverb was added, and it was edited down to just a few seconds over two minutes. The result was an obvious hit single: [Excerpt: James Brown, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"] Or at least, it was an obvious hit single to everyone except Syd Nathan, who as you'll have already predicted by now didn't like the song. Indeed according to Brown, he was so disgusted with the record that he threw his acetate copy of it onto the floor. But Brown got his way, and the single came out, and it became the biggest hit of Brown's career up to that point, not only giving him his first R&B number one since "Try Me" seven years earlier, but also crossing over to the pop charts in a way he hadn't before. He'd had the odd top thirty or even top twenty pop single in the past, but now he was in the top ten, and getting noticed by the music business establishment in a way he hadn't earlier. Brown's audience went from being medium-sized crowds of almost exclusively Black people with the occasional white face, to a much larger, more integrated, audience. Indeed, at the Grammys the next year, while the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector and the whole Motown stable were overlooked in favour of the big winners for that year Roger Miller, Herb Alpert, and the Anita Kerr Singers, even an organisation with its finger so notoriously off the pulse of the music industry as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which presents the Grammys, couldn't fail to find the pulse of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", and gave Brown the Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues record, beating out the other nominees "In the Midnight Hour", "My Girl", "Shotgun" by Junior Walker, and "Shake" by Sam Cooke. From this point on, Syd Nathan would no longer argue with James Brown as to which of his records would be released. After nine years of being the hardest working man in showbusiness, James Brown had now become the Godfather of Soul, and his real career had just begun.

Before Ari Lennox would drop her debut album “Shea Butter Baby” featuring hit singles like “Whipped Cream” and “40 Shades of Choke". Before Ari Lennox would team up with Crown Royal to record a cover of Sly and the Family Stone's “If You Want Me to Stay” in support of independent bars facing the threat of closure during the COVID crisis. Before Ari Lennox would have 1.3 Million followers on Instagram, over 481K followers on Twitter, and almost 400K subscribers on YouTube at the time of this recording. When fans and critics talk about the music of artist Ari Lennox, they often use words like “classic” or “timeless” to describe her R&B sound – but despite the praise they're eager to heap on her now, it was a long road to success for Ms. Lennox. After years of work on the independent scene by uploading her music online and working a series of different odd jobs, this uber-talented 29-year-old became the first female to sign onto J Cole's Dreamville label back in 2015. Even after that, it took Ari a few years to continue developing her music and sound before she was ready to drop her debut studio album: “Shea Butter Baby”, which, after the release, J Cole then jumped onto Twitter to announced Ari as: “the Future” of the music scene.

** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ** Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music's foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm. Featured in TIR Episode 201, Part 2 of 2: Saxophonist for innovative funk originators and extraordinary band regardless of genre -- Sly & the Family Stone's Jerry Martini! He was a founding member of the groundbreaking multiracial, multigender group that released seven albums from 1967 to 1973, with 14 top 30 R&B singles and nine top 40 pop songs.  Their stylistic diversity and songcraft ranged from pounding funk like “Thank You (Fallentin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)” and “Loose Booty” to anthems like “Everyday People” and “Stand!” to infectious midtempo songs like “If You Want Me to Stay” and “Family Affair” to breezy melodic tracks like “Hot Fun in the Summertime.” Yet some of the best were deep album tracks like “Thank You for Talking to Me Africa” and “In Time.”  Martini would go on to play with several other artists, including Graham Central Station and Prince, and has continued to perform with other original Family Stone members to keep that hallowed legacy alive. RECORDED APRIL 2021 LEGAL NOTICE: All video and audio content is protected by copyright. Any use of this material is strictly prohibited without expressed consent from original content producer and owner Scott Goldfine, dba FUNKNSTUFF. For inquiries, email info@funknstuff.net. TRUTH IN RHYTHM is a registered U.S. Trademark (Serial #88540281). Get your copy of "Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk" today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541256603/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1541256603&linkCode=as2&tag=funknstuff-20&linkId=b6c7558ddc7f8fc9fe440c5d9f3c400

** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ** Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music's foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm. Featured in TIR Episode 201, Part 1 of 2: Saxophonist for innovative funk originators and extraordinary band regardless of genre -- Sly & the Family Stone's Jerry Martini! He was a founding member of the groundbreaking multiracial, multigender group that released seven albums from 1967 to 1973, with 14 top 30 R&B singles and nine top 40 pop songs.  Their stylistic diversity and songcraft ranged from pounding funk like “Thank You (Fallentin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)” and “Loose Booty” to anthems like “Everyday People” and “Stand!” to infectious midtempo songs like “If You Want Me to Stay” and “Family Affair” to breezy melodic tracks like “Hot Fun in the Summertime.” Yet some of the best were deep album tracks like “Thank You for Talking to Me Africa” and “In Time.”  Martini would go on to play with several other artists, including Graham Central Station and Prince, and has continued to perform with other original Family Stone members to keep that hallowed legacy alive. RECORDED APRIL 2021 LEGAL NOTICE: All video and audio content is protected by copyright. Any use of this material is strictly prohibited without expressed consent from original content producer and owner Scott Goldfine, dba FUNKNSTUFF. For inquiries, email info@funknstuff.net. TRUTH IN RHYTHM is a registered U.S. Trademark (Serial #88540281). Get your copy of "Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk" today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541256603/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1541256603&linkCode=as2&tag=funknstuff-20&linkId=b6c7558ddc7f8fc9fe440c5d9f3c400

So much to choose from, so many didn't make the cut - but there will be a Part 3...Track Listing:1. Intro, 2. Double Barrel - Dave & Ansell Collins, 3. No, No, No - Dawn Penn, 4. Move Up Starsky - The Mexicano, 5. Wolf & Leopards - Dennis Brown, 6. Fashion Monkey - I Roy, 7. Stop Your Coming & Come, 8. Stick By Me - John Holt, 9. Good Thing Going - Sugar Minot, 10. I Do Love You - Janet Kay, 11. Work All Day - Barry Biggs, 12. Revolutionist - Freddie McGregor, 13. Flat Foot Hustling - Dillinger, 14. Give the People What They Want - Jimmy Cliff, 15. Is It Because I'm Black - Ken Booth, 16. Mash Down - The Roots, 17. Ba Da - Gregory Isaacs, 18. I Need a Roof - Mighty Diamonds, 19. Peace, Love & Togetherness - The Invaders, 20. What Is Man - Delroy Wilson, 21. Chocking Kind - Danny Ray, 22. Move On Up (instrumental break) - Curtis Mayfield, 23. Dynomite - Bazuka, 24. On Top Of It - All Dyrections, 25. Rags to Rufus - Rufus & Chaka Kahan, 26. Slick - Willie Hutch, 27. If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & the Family Stone, 28. Who Is He & What Is He to You - Creative Source, 29. Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations, 30. Smiling Faces - The Undisputed Truth, 31. Midnight & You - Love Unlimited Orchestra, 32. Ai No Corrida - Qunicy Jones

Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon and The Jeremy White Podcast presents the legendary DAVID COVERDALE (March 2021 interview).   We discuss all things Whitesnake including the great new The Blues album. Plus, David schools Jeremy.     PRESS RELEASE -- WHITESNAKE’S THE BLUES ALBUM The 14 Song Collection Completes The Red, White And Blues Trilogy With Remixed And Remastered Versions Of The Band’s Best Blues-Rock Tracks Whitesnake celebrates the blues sound that helped inspire its multi-platinum career on a new collection that features remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best blues-rock songs. THE BLUES ALBUM is the third and final release in the band’s Red, White and Blues Trilogy, a series of compilations organized by musical themes that began this year with Love Songs (red) and The Rock Album (white). Like The Rock Album and Love Songs, all the tracks on THE BLUES ALBUM have been revisited, remixed, and remastered. Whitesnake’s singer-songwriter David Coverdale says, the music reflects how blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and the three Kings (Albert, B.B. and Freddie) continue to inspire him. In the album’s liner notes, he writes: “It’s hard to find the words to show how profoundly they connected with my soul. But ‘blues’ to me is a beautiful word that describes emotional expression… feelings, be it feelings of sadness, loneliness, emptiness… but, also those that express great joy, celebration and dance, sexiness and Love!!!” The new compilation delivers a potent mix of hits and deep tracks that originally appeared between 1984 and 2011 on six Whitesnake studio albums and Coverdale’s solo album, Into the Light. THE BLUES ALBUM showcases two of the band’s biggest songs: “Slow An’ Easy,” a Top 20 Mainstream Rock hit in 1984 from Whitesnake’s double-platinum album Slide It In, and the smash “Give Me All Your Love” from the band’s 1987 self-titled album, which was certified 8x platinum. Other choice tracks from Whitesnake are also featured: “Looking For Love” and “Crying In The Rain,” and “Steal Your Heart Away,” which is available now. Restless Heart (1997), Good to Be Bad (2008), and Forevermore (2011) are all represented on THE BLUES ALBUM by multiple tracks (“Too Many Tears,” “A Fool In Love” and “Steal Your Heart Away”). The collection also includes “If You Want Me,” a studio recording released in 2006 as a bonus track on the live album, Live…in the Shadows of the Blues. Coverdale also taps his 2000 solo album, Into the Light, for “River Song.” THE BLUES ALBUM CD Track Listing: 1. “Steal Your Heart Away” 2. “Good To Be Bad” 3. “Give Me All Your Love” 4. “Take Me Back Again” 5. “Slow An’ Easy” 6. “Too Many Tears” 7. “Lay Down Your Love” 8. “The River Song” 9. “Whipping Boy Blues” 10. “If You Want Me” 11. “A Fool In Love” 12. “Woman Trouble Blues” 13. “Looking For Love” 14. “Crying In The Rain” Help support the show. Please consider a donation: https://www.paypal.me/MitchLafon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charles Ray sets the record straight with his family name. Music has always been a passion of Charles, and he channels it into playing his trumpet, singing, and songwriting. In 2015, Charles auditioned for American Idol and ended his journey in Hollywood week. His classic cover song, "If You Want Me to Stay" by Sly and the Family Stone, showcased his musical gifts. Only through hard work, dedication, and his ability to adjust and acclimate to new environments is how Charles "Stepped Out of Line." Touring with Jake Botts & Glenn Hill on Kelly Clarkson's Meaning of Life tour was only the beginning!Catch Charles Ray's single, How Long, at the end of the interview as well! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peace family. We see you standing tall. Yes, fall is here. The leaves are slowly falling, the air is changing, yet you have the power to keep forward in accomplishing your goals. Yeah, harness your powers, and keep moving at a steady pace. Yet, don't forget that it's still a marathon, not a sprint. Now, with that said, onward to the classic jams. On this episode, The Force MDs stop thru, bring in a little bit of Bill Summers & Summers' Heat, a dash of Midnight Star, etc., and we have a party going on. Don't take my word for it, press play & enjoy. Thanks as always for tuning in, and remember---Tell a friend, to tell a friend, to tell a friend, all about The Throwback Lounge. It's not just a show....IT'S AN EXPERIENCE!! 1 LOVE ;) OPENING CUT: CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT-BILL SUMMERS & SUMMERS' HEAT 1. I LOVE YOU-WELDON IRVINE 2. LEARNING TO LOVE YOU-LEON WARE 3. ALL THE WAY 'ROUND-MARVIN GAYE 4. IF YOU WANT ME, SAY IT-LOVE UNLIMITED 5. YOU DID IT GOOD-L. A. BOPPERS 6. TIME LOOP-GALAXIA 7. WET MY WHISTLE-MIDNIGHT STAR 8. JUNGLE LOVE-THE TIME 9. ALL MY LOVE-L.A.X. 10. REAL LOVE-DRIZABONE SOUL FAMILY 11. I'LL BE YOUR PLEASURE-ESTHER WILLIAMS 12. HAPPY ME-KLEEER 13. LOVE BALLAD-GEORGE BENSON 14. VERY LAST DROP-BOBBY THURSTON 15. I'M TOTALLY YOURS-HI GLOSS 16. OVERNIGHT SENSATION-JERRY KNIGHT 17. AND WHEN WE PARTY-JAY W. MCGEE 18. LOVELY ONE-THE JACKSONS 19. PARTY DOWN-WOODS EMPIRE 20. LOVE'S MELODY-WILL DOWNING FEAT. ROY AYERS CHAMPAGNE HOUR 21. (CAN'T)GET YOU OUT OF MY SYSTEM-JOHN WHITE 22. IF YOU EVER LOVED SOMEONE & LOST-WALTER BEASLEY 23. I CARE FOR YOU-CAMEO 24. NO HIDING PLACE-THE GAP BAND 25. VISIONS OF MY MIND-LAKESIDE 26. SILLY LOVE SONG-ENCHANTMENT 27. THERE'S NO OTHER LIKE YOU-MELBA MOORE 28. I NEED YOUR LOVE-EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING 29. LOVE'S HOLIDAY-EARTH, WIND & FIRE 30. ONLY ONE-JON B 31. BLOWING ON YOUR BACK-JARRARD ANTHONY 32. ALL OF MY LOVE-ECHRIS 33. THE SECRET GARDEN-QUINCY JONES & CREW 34. YOUR LOVE DRIVES ME CRAZY-FORCE MD'S 35. THE MORE WE LOVE-STARPOINT 36. STILL IN LOVE-TROOP 37. ALL SEASON-LEVERT 38. I'VE BEEN SEARCHIN'(NOBODY LIKE YOU)- GLENN JONES 39. TO SATISFY YOU-BRYAN LOREN FEAT. MICHAEL JACKSON CLOSING CUT: I GOT THE LOVE-STARPOINT

The penultimate episode of season 2, “The Nominations,” premiered on May 26th, 2013. It was written by Bryan Goluboff, who last penned “The Dramaturg” earlier this season, and was directed by Michael Morris, who has written a number of season 2 episodes. The viewership jumped up by .43 million viewers from the last episode, bringing the total viewership to 2.44 million. We had three featured songs this week, with our only original song being an excerpt of Hit List’s “Rewrite This Story” written by Pasek & Paul. Our two others included a cover of Traffic’s “Feelin’ Alright” sung by Megan Hilty, and “If You Want Me” from Once, performed by Krysta Rodriguez. It’s just days until Tony Award nominations come out, and nobody’s feeling alright: Eileen wants more nominations than Hit List, Tom wants a win to cement his future as a director. Oh, and Ivy Lynn is puking in the bathroom between scenes because she’s pregnant. Jimmy is worried that Kyle won’t be recognized with a Tony nomination for Best Book, but Hit List’s producer Jerry says he’s worried about the wrong thing: Ana is filing a wrongful termination suit against Derek. The Outer Critics Circle deems “Best Director” a tie between Derek and Tom, and Julia Huston wins “Best Book” for Bomshell. But Hit List walks away with the rest, including acting awards for Karen, Sam and Daisy. The win for Daisy lights a fire under Karen’s ass to protect her roommate, igniting her to storm into Daisy’s dressing room demanding she quit Hit List. But Daisy’s been working too hard for ten years to give up this opportunity. At the Outer Critics Circle luncheon, Julia gives a touching tribute to Kyle, and Tom dedicates his joint win to Derek, but afterwards tensions fire as Jimmy interrupts the proceedings to give Julia a lecture in theatrical ethics. Burning the candle at both ends and with his voice failing, Karen encourages Jimmy to call out of that night’s show and watch the fruits of Kyle’s labor from the audience. Teary-eyed after sitting in the Barrymore, Jimmy realizes that theatre lovers will remember Kyle for his work onstage, not because he did or didn’t win a Tony. The morning of the nominations are announced, everyone from the Bombshell and Hit List camps are crowded around their screens to watch them live. Bombshell gets 12 nominations, including those for Ivy, Leigh, Derek, Julia, Tom but Hit List gets 13 with nods for Karen, Daisy, Derek, Jimmy and Kyle. But all is not peachy, as Julia being dragged to court by her soon-to-be-ex-husband and Derek publicly acknowledges that he wrongly terminated Ana and gave the part to Daisy after sleeping with her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's good family? I see you standing tall. I hope this episode finds you all in good spirits while we continue to go through with the madness all around us. That said though, the good music of the day will not let you down. On this episode, we get it in with Pockets, Herbie Hancock, a little bit of Teddy Mike, Raphael Saadiq, some Michael Henderson, new music from Chris & Lawanda Bethel, and we have us nothing but a great time. If you have a request, please, by all means, drop us a line at greatsoulradio@gmail. We will get your song rolling. Thanks as always for tuning in, and remember---Tell a friend, to tell a friend, to tell a friend, all about The Throwback Lounge. It's not just a show...IT'S AN EXPERIENCE!! 1 LOVE ;) OPENING CUT: I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU- HERBIE HANCOCK 1. COME & GO WITH ME-POCKETS 2. REJOICE-THE EMOTIONS 3. LET ME BE THE ONE-PLEASURE 4. I'LL DO MY BEST-THE RITCHIE FAMILY 5. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR-EVELYN 'CHAMPAGNE' KING 6. SOLTO O SOM-TEDDY MIKE(FEAT. GUSTAVO BARRETO) 7. I LOVE YOUR LOVE-DONALD BYRD & 125TH ST. NYC 8. TIL YOU TAKE MY LOVE-HARVEY MASON 9. DOES SHE HAVE A FRIEND(FOR ME?)-GENE CHANDLER 10. IF YOU WANT ME, SAY IT-LOVE UNLIMITED 11. LOVE THAT GIRL-RAPHAEL SAADIQ 12. COME GET TO THIS-L.J. REYNOLDS 13. COME GET TO THIS-MARVIN GAYE 14. CAN'T PLAY AROUND-LACE 15. GETTING HOT-GWEN GUTHRIE 16. (WE ARE HERE TO)GEEK YOU UP-MICHAEL HENDERSON 17. STREET CORNER(12"EXTENDED)-ASHFORD & SIMPSON 18. I'M BACK FOR MORE-LEO'S SUNSHIPP 19. LET THE DRUMS SPEAK-THE FATBACK BAND 20. SCREW YOUR WIG ON TITE-SLAVE CHAMPAGNE HOUR 21. THEN CAME YOU-CHRIS & LAWANDA BETHEL 22. NO ONE ELSE WILL DO-CHERYL LYNN 23. (CAN'T TAKE HALF)ALL OF YOU-LILLO THOMAS FEAT. MELBA MOORE 24. (LOVE ME)IN A SPECIAL WAY-DEBARGE 25. CALLING ON ALL GIRLS-SWITCH 26. REASONS(LIVE)-EARTH, WIND & FIRE 27. DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE-THE TEMPREES 28. LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE-BLUE MAGIC 29. DON'T ASK MY NEIGHBOR-BENNY GOLSON 30. BABY-PRINCE 31. THE BEAUTIFUL ONES-PRINCE 32. ADORE-PRINCE 33. MAKE IT LAST-CON FUNK SHUN 34. I NEED YOU-LAKESIDE 35. I'M AT YOUR MERCY-THE JONES GIRLS 36. TIL TOMORROW-MARVIN GAYE 37. HEAVEN IS WITH YOU-NATALIE COLE 38. COME LIVE WITH ME-ISAAC HAYES 39. THE LOVE YOU GIVE TO ME-WEBSTER LEWIS CLOSING CUT: I GOT THE LOVE-STARPOINT

Bobbin Headcast 76 – By Husky – 26/03/2020 Follow us on the social links below www.facebook.com/bobbinheadmusic www.soundcloud.com/bobbinheadmusic www.twitter.com/bobbinheadmusic www.instagram.com/bobbinheadmusic Track listing 1. Roisin Murphy – Murphy’s Law – Skint Records 2. Mam – Sunset Funk – Fina 3. Husky Feat Kimono – If You Want Me – Bobbin Head Music 4. Crazy P – Like A Fool – Walk Don’t Walk Limited 5. Nebraska – Xiao Long Bao – Heist Recordings 6. Cody Currie and Joel Holmes – Love We Feel – Toy Tonics 7. Modento – Give Me The Sunshine (Vertigini Remix) – Midnight Riot 8. Narda – Captain Richards Groove Shack – Bobbin Head Music 9. Romy Black – WTF Matty’s Revenge – Spacedisco 10. Husky Feat Shyam P – Treat Me Right (Art Of Tones Remix) – Vicious Recordings 11. Risk Assessment Feat Queen Rose – Dance With Me – No Fuss 12. Ashley Benjamin – Never Enough (Extended) - RSR 13. Akabu – Don’t Hold Back (Skylark Main Mix) – NRK 2004 14. Tough Love & Reblok – Alright – Mother Recordings 15. Austins Groove Ft Silver Angelina – Wait For You (Withus Remix) – Bobbin Head Music 16. Offaiah – Private Show (Club re-edit) – Defected Records 17. Chloe Wilson & Ivan Gough – 200 Years (Qubiko Remix) - Neon

Rare Earth [00:32] "Get Ready" Rare Earth R 5012 1969 Rare Earth were one of the artists name checked by Gil Scott Heron as not being the sound of the revolution. The Rolling Stones [03:20] "Paint It Black" London Records 45 LON 901 1966 Proto-Goth. Gary Lewis & the Playboys [06:46] "Jill" Liberty 55985 1967 An opening timpani bounce?! Could this be of the Popcorn genre from Jerry Lewis' kid? Sly & the Family Stone [09:04] "Family Affiar" Epic Records 5-10805 1971 The last number one single from Sly & the Family Stone. And actually it's just Sly on all the instruments, except the keys which are played by Billy Preson, and backing vox by his sister Rose. Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts [13:15] "Angel of the Morning" Bell Records 705 1968 This version made it all the way to number 7, recorded by Chips Moman in Memphis. Sandy Posey [16:26] "I Take It Back" MGM Records K 13744 1967 Another Chips Moman produced single, which reached number 12. Shorty Long [18:44] "Here Comes the Judge" Soul S-35044 1968 This Laugh-In inspired single made it all the way up to number 8. Release exactly two weeks before my birthday. How's your shing-a-ling? Paul Mauriat and his Orchestra [21:19] "Love Is Blue" Philips 40475 1967 Aw yeah... pop harpsichord, it doesn't get much better than that. Orginally performed with lyrics by Vicky as a Eurovision entry from Luxembourg. Jimmy Jules [25:22] "Talk About You" Atlantic Records 45-2120 1961 Some mighty fine New Orleans soul, with excellent arrangement by Harold Batiste. Jules would later go on to start a record label called Jim Gem Records. Sly & the Family Stone [28:03] "If You Want Me to Stay" Epic 5-11017 1973 And this one was Sly's last appearance in the Top 20, reaching number 12 on the pop charts. It does feature a fine bass groove by Larry Graham's hand-picked replacement Rustee Allen. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen [31:04] "Hot Rod Lincoln" Paramount Records PAA-0146 1972 The souped up classic featuring the deft clutching of Bill Kirchen. Bobbie Gentry [33:48] "Ode to Billie Joe" Capitol Records 5950 1967 And what an ode it is. If you'd like to know more about the now mysterious and amazing Bobbie Gentry, I strongly recommend the 33 1/3 series book on her first album, titled Ode to Billie Joe of course (https://amzn.to/38iqGUr). Merle Kilgore with The Merry Melody Singers [39:22] "A Girl Named Liz" Mercury Records 71978 1962 This is a new one by me. Kilgore was better known as a songwriter and would later become Hank Williams Jr's manager. Gallery [41:38] "Nice to Be with You" Sussex SUX-232 1972 Oh yeah... that one! Some might nice jaunty country pop from Detroit. Made it all the way to number 4 on the hot 100. Otis Redding [44:17] "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" Volt Records VLT-13684 Sure this copy is well used, but it's in waaay better shape than the one we heard not too long ago in the last season of Vinyl-O-Matic. Jr. Walker and the All Stars [46:56] "Do the Boomerang" Soul S-35012 1965 I am definitely going to do the boomerang next time I'm out on the dance floor. This skronkity tune made it to number 36 on the hot 100 and number 10 on the r&b charts. Music behind the DJ: "Theme from the Thomas Crown Affair" by Michel Legrand.

TRACKLIST 1:40 Various Artists - Wot 3:40 Captain Sensible - Wot 4:40 Am Fm - You Are The One 6:40 DJ NORI - You Are The One 8:40 Vaughan Mason and Crew - Rollerskate 10:40 Vaughan Mason & Crew - Roller Skate 14:40 Wish - Mr. DJ 16:00 Vicki Sue Robinson - Hot Summer Night 19:40 Roy B' - If You Want Me 22:20 Boogymann - If You 24:00 Funkacise Gang - Let's Funkacise 25:00 Funkacise Gang - Funkacise (7 Inch Version) 27:20 Skyy - Show Me The Way 31:00 Hi-Tension - How D'you Feel 33:40 Latoya Jackson - If You Feel The Funk 37:00 Marc Sadane - One Minute from Love 37:40 Marc Sadane - One Minute From Love 41:20 One Way - Music 45:40 Second Image - Starr 49:40 High Fashion - Hold on 51:40 Raw Silk - Just in Time 57:20 The Real Thing - She's A Groovy Freak 59:00 The Real Thing - She's a Groovy Freak 1:03:20 Rick James - Dance Wit' Me 1:05:20 Sergio Mendes - I'll Tell You 1:07:00 SURFACE - When You X Wants You Back 1:11:00 Booker T. - Don't Stop Your Love 1:12:40 Booker T. Jones - Don't Stop Your Love 1:14:40 Janet Jackson - Say You Do 1:17:40 Skyy - Here's To You 1:21:20 Temper - No Favors 1:25:20 The Trammps - That's Where the Happy People Go (Re-Record) 1:27:40 The Trammps - That's Where The Happy People Go 1:29:40 Boys Town Gang - Ain't No Mountain High Enough / Remember Me 1:30:40 Boys Town Gang - Remember Me / Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Original Extended Version) 1:35:00 ボーイズ・タウン・ギャング - リメンバー・ミー ～エイント・ノー・マウンテン・ハイ・イナフ〔スペシャル・リミックス・ロング・ヴァージョン〕 1:41:00 Boys Town Gang - can't take my eyes of you 1:41:40 Love Band - I Can't Take My Eyes Off You 1:52:20 Moment of Truth - So Much for Love 1:53:40 Cloud One - Stomp Your Feet and Dance 2:00:00 Shift - Roller Rink Funk (Full Version) 2:03:20 Sparkle - Disco Madness 2:15:20 Brainstorm - Wake up and Be Somebody 2:16:00 Brainstorm - Wake Up And Be Somebody

While a handful of college bands go on to fame and fortune, most of them fade away over time. It’s difficult to keep things rolling when people move away for their own careers and families. This was the fate of Syd Sustain. In 1989, Ray and John got together and put out an album of “synthesized rock” called the “Voltz/Trammell Sessions”. Some of the songs were updated versions of classic Syd, while others were brand new compositions. I’m including “Motorin”, “If You Want Me”, “Take a Look at Yourself”, and “Interstellar Love Song”. To the best of my knowledge, this was the final work for Syd Sustain. What I know for a fact is that this is the final episode of Decawatt Playhouse. I’ve run out of material, so unless I unearth something new, that wraps it up. Please take a moment to check out the other SFPPN podcasts—thanks for listening.

(Ep. 7) “It’s a weekly 1 hour non-stop musical journey into Funky, Innovative, Energizing and Uplifting House Music from Around the World” – DJ MIDIMACK   Nov 2016 Funky House Mix Pt. 3 Playlist (Ep. 7): 01. Don’t Let Go by Knoe1 02. So Hard by Angelo Ferreri (Italy) 03. Jamaica Funk by Angelo Ferreri (Italy) 04. Hot by Dirty Disco Stars 05. Play Me Pt. 2 by Andy Gramm 06. Lazy by Gary Caos/Simioli/lma 07. Everybody Loves Drums by Topa 08. I Told Ya by Alex Whisper/Mick Teck 09. If You Want Me by AlexZ/Remko B 10. My Darling by Midnight Dubbers 11. The House Records by Angelo Ferreri (Italy) 12. Friendly Gang by Angelo Ferreri (Italy) 13. Dance Tonight by Valeron/7even 14. What You Gonna Do by Kevin McKay   Thank You for Listening to the Podcast! Support this podcast

Hi Everyone! Hope you All had a Fun & Safe New Years Eve 2016. Here is the new 1 hour Soulful House mix for January 2016. Big Thank You going out to Rodney in D.C., Niels in Germany, Christie James here in the SF Bay Area, and Damon for his Guidance & Support! I am Very Excited to Announce I will be releasing my 1st EP "Theoretical Soul Sessions" at the Winter Music Conference in Miami coming up in March 2016. If you would like to help with a Paypal donation to help cover costs for music and studio time you can go to djtheo.podomatic.com and click on the "PayPal Donate" icon on the bottom right. Every Little Bit Helps. If you want to get in touch email me at djtheosf@gmail.com & you can also follow me on Twitter @djtheosf. Here is the Playlist: 1) "Ain't That Funkin Kinda Hard On You" - Funkadelic & Kendrick Lamar (Louie Vega Remix) 2) "If You Want Me" - Husky feat. Kimono (Husky's Uptown Funk Edit) 3) "Saved My Day" - Butter BPM (Reelsoul Vocal Mix) 4) "Your Love" - Booker T. feat. Inner Life (Main Mix) 5) "All Around the World" - Los Charly's Orchestra feat. Xontone Blacq (Opolopo Vocal Remix) 6) "Innocent Kind" - Kyle "Small" Smith feat. Krystal Dixon (Frankie Feliciano Vocal Mix) 7) "God Lives in Me" - Two 4 Soul feat. Nontu Xulu (DJ Spen, David Anthony & Bennett Holland Revival Mix) 8) "Lights & Shadows" - Guido P (Erick B's Love Sensation Mix) 9) "Because I Love You" - DJ Spen feat. Typheni (Reelsoul Remix) 10) "Into the Night" - Mark Di Meo feat. Sofia Rubina (Original Mix) Make Love, Not War! Peace, Theo :)

December is all about the giving and sharing, so Shanon and Jack gave each other a stack of records the day before the show and then played and talked about songs selected from those stacks. Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke" on Songs in the Key of Life Roy Orbison, "Lay it Down" on Laminar Flow Scorpions, "The Same Thrill" on Love at First Stin Joe Cocker, "Honky Tonk Women" on Mad Dogs & Englishmen Barbra Streisand, "Queen Bee" on A Star is Born Hank Williams, Jr., "I Can't Take It No Longer" on The Best of Hank Williams, Jr. Lynyrd Skynyrd, "I Know a Little" on Gold & Platinum Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristoffersen, "Big River" on Highwayman Kris Kristofferson, "If You Don't Like Hank Williams" on Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 Bob Dylan, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on Highway 61 Revisited Tom Petty, "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" on Hard Promises Mahalia Jackson, "I'm Going to Wait Until My Change Comes" on I Believe Sly and the Family Stone, "If You Want Me to Stay" on Fresh Janis Joplin and the Full Tilt Boogie Band, "Trust Me" on Pearl The Flying Burrito Bros, "Juanita" on The Gilded Palace of Sin Diana Ross, "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" on 20 Golden Greats Loretta Lynn, "Portland Oregon" on Van Lear Rose

In Michael Parker's new novel, If You Want Me to Stay, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father's tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping the faith that their mother is waiting for them, they move from one kindly stranger to another on their odyssey, Joel ever certain they are being guided to her door.

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