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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Hard Times - Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters ~ Various Artists |  |
| 2. What So Never The Dance (part 1 & 2) - Houseguests ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Headless Heroes - Eugene McDaniels ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Spinning Wheel - Wade Marcus ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Bad Tune - Earth, Wind & Fire ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. Mr. Cool - Rasputin's Stash ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' To Ya - Junior Mance ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Hang On In There - The Stovall Sisters ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Funky Nassau Part 2 - The Beginning Of The End ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Whatever's Fair - Mark Holder & the Positives ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Face It - Ed Robinson ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Wah Wah Man - Young-Holt Unlimited ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin (Alternate mix) ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Won't Nobody Listen - Black Haze Express ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Going Down - Allen Toussaint ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Suavecito - Malo ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' - Charles Wright ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Mo Jo Hanna - Tami Lynn ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Ridin' Thumb - King Curtis ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. Almendra - Macondo ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. Nuki Suki - Little Richard ~ Various Artists | | Disc 4
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United 8 ~ Various Artists | |
| 2. 8 Days On The Road - Howard Tate ~ Various Artists | |
| 3. Moon Shadow - LaBelle ~ Various Artists | |
| 4. Let It Crawl - Society's Bag ~ Various Artists | |
| 5. Wanaoh - Black Heat ~ Various Artists | |
| 6. If It Was Good Enough For Daddy - Clarence Reid ~ Various Artists | |
| 7. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Claudia Linnear ~ Various Artists | |
| 8. Cosmic Sea - The Mystic Moods ~ Various Artists | |
| 9. Kissing My Love - Cold Blood ~ Various Artists | |
| 10. Flute Thing - Seatrain ~ Various Artists | |
| 11. Chug, Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove) - The Meters ~ Various Artists | |
| 12. Funky To The Bone - Freddie & Henchi ~ Various Artists | |
| 13. Try It Again - Bobby Byrd ~ Various Artists | |
| 14. Teasin' - Cornell Dupree ~ Various Artists | |
| 15. Rite Away, (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) - Dr. John ~ Various Artists | |
| 16. Chicken Heads - Oscar Brown Jr. ~ Various Artists | |
| 17. Rien Na Va Plus - Funk Factory ~ Various Artists | |
| 18. Cajun Moon - Herbie Mann ~ Various Artists | |
| 19. Improve - Darrow Fletcher ~ Various Artists | |
| 20. Riding High - Faze-O ~ Various Artists | |
| 21. Four Play - Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns ~ Various Artists | |
| 22. California Dreamin' - Eddie Hazel ~ Various Artists | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Rare groove is the stuff that killer record collections are built on: obscure R&B, jazzy funk, and funky soul plucked from the deepest and dustiest of crates. Of course, not all listeners have the time, patience, or cashflow to go musical spelunking for old-skool gems. With that in mind, Rhino's superb four-disc box set, WHAT IT IS! FUNKY SOUL AND RARE GROOVES: 1967-1977, takes care of the hard part and offers 91 tracks of deep, sweaty funk from the genre's heyday. | | While a number of the artists will be familiar to the average fan (the Commodores, Rufus Thomas, Labelle, Little Richard, among others), many more won't (Cornell Dupree, Cold Grits, Black Heat, Society's Bag, United 8, etc.). Of course, obscurity is the name of the game here: It's not hard to find a DJ spinning "Brick House," but Little Sister's "Stanga"--included here--is a different bag all together. Wallflowers beware, and "all the squares, go home |
Producer: Matt Abels (Compilation); Mason Williams (Compilation) |
Musical Guests | | Eddie Palmieri | | Jimmy Norman |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 10/03/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 77635 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227763527 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Rolling Stone (p.116)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "What it is: nonstop late-Sixties-and-Seventies party time from the deep recesses of these major-label catalogs."Entertainment Weekly (p.73)
- "Even as greasy boogaloo gives way to polyrhythmic Cat Stevens covers, the four discs stave off the 4/4 behemoth of disco." -- Grade: A- |
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