| Product Summary | | Label: Rhino Records | | UPC: 00081227763527 | | Release Date: 10/3/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202827828 | | Item#: M32SDL | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Spreadin' Honey - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Shadow Of Your Smile, The - Brother Jack McDuff ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Gangster Of Love (Parts 1 And 2) - Jimmy Norman ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Memphis Train, The - Rufus Thomas ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Get Out Of My Life Woman - Grassella Oliphant ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Live Right Now - Eddie Harris ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Pig Snoots Part 1 - Natural Bridge Bunch ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Soul Sound System - Freedom Sounds/Wayne Henderson ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Snatching It Back - Clarence Carter ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Stoned Soul - Artie Christopher ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Getting The Corners - The T.S.U. Toronadoes ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Alvon & The Belairs ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Don't Come Around Here Anymore - Mark Putney ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Keep On Dancing - The Commodores ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Right On Brother--Part 1 - South Shore Commission ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes ~ Various Artists | | | 18. It's Your Thing - Cold Grits ~ Various Artists | | | 19. It's All In Your Mind - Soul Angels ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Funky John - Johnny Cameron & The Camerons ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Help Me Make Up My Mind - Joyce Jones ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Rock Me Baby - Lou Johnson ~ Various Artists | | | 23. Sing A Simple Song - Noble Knights ~ Various Artists | | | 24. Do You Dig It - Titus Turner ~ Various Artists | | | 25. Funky Canyon - Phil Moore Jr. ~ Various Artists | | | 26. Jam Jam - Fabulous Counts ~ Various Artists | | | 27. Tampin - The Rhine Oaks ~ Various Artists | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Gossip - Cyril Neville ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Somebody In The World For You - The Mighty Hannibal ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Stanga - Little Sister ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Ananda Shankar ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Deacon, The - Brute Force ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Sookie Sookie - Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Don't Worry If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go - Curtis Mayfield ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Stepping Stones - Johnny Harris ~ Various Artists | | | 10. I'm Just Like You - 6ix ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Funky Thing Part 1 - The Unemployed ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Messie Bessie - Shirley Scott ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Fairchild - Willie West ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Cold Bear - The Gaturs ~ Various Artists | | | 15. I Can't Get Next To You - Mongo Santamaria ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Feelin' Alright - Lulu ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Soul Bowl - The Memphis Horns ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Tuane - Hammer ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Take It Off Part 2 - Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Seeds of Life - Harlem River Drive - (featuring Eddie Palmieri/Jimmy Norman) ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Engine Number Nine - Wilson Pickett ~ Various Artists | | Disc 3
| | 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
| | 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 | |
| | 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 | | A righteous undertaking of great magnitude, What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves trawls through a decade-long stretch of the Warner-distributed archive -- taking in the catalogs of Warner Bros., Atlantic, Reprise, Atco, and smaller nodes like Cotillion, Curtom, Alston, and Jonie -- and pulls up 80 soul/funk truffles, almost all of which were left for dead shortly after release. While many of these cuts have been repurposed as vital ingredients of hip-hop tracks, which has in turn fostered a voracious collector's market (it would cost a fortune to collect these songs in their original formats of release), the box is a leagues-deep trawl through an otherwise forgotten past. There are few well-known names on these four discs, but even they tend to be represented by selections that are not obvious. Curtis Mayfield's "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go" is likely the best-known inclusion, and after a substantial number of cuts that can't be considered truly rare, there's a sudden drop into (sweet, sweet) oblivion -- unless you're of the small minority whose spines tingle at the sight of names like Grassella Oliphant and Rasputin's Stash. The chicken-scratch guitars, wild Hammond B-3 runs, group chants, and blaring horn punches are served by the dozens, but the box also illustrates an evolution that took place through the '70s. Since the sequencing is, for the most part, chronological, those changes are all the more perceptible. Funk Factory's "Rien Ne Va Plus" and Faze-O's "Riding High" churn and float slowly, steeped in synthesizers, electric pianos, and studio effects, while legions of artists have attempted to replicate the sound and spirit of Stanga's "Little Sister" and 6ix's "I'm Just Like You" -- two songs graced by the hands of Sly Stone in tripped-out, otherworldly There's a Riot Goin' On mode. It's not one big party, either. Check Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters' harrowing "Hard Times" (written and produced by Mayfield), where the poor and paranoid protagonist subsists on Spam and Oreos and keeps his curtains drawn so he won't see those who peer in on him. The themed playlists and imaginary compilations hiding within this compact box are innumerable, bound to take the average overthinking funk freak to new levels of nerd-dom. There are region-specific sets to be made, as well as sets with possible titles like Latin Funk and Flute Funk and The Early Arrangement and Production Work of the Late Arif Mardin, in addition to a remarkable batch of covers, a tight collection of instrumentals, and a not-very-exclusive list of tracks that have been sampled throughout the years. The accompanying booklet could be sold separately, as it contains scads of seldom-seen photos and scholarly track-by-track notes. Rhino also deserves applause for resisting the urge to house these discs in a massive synthetic afro or an oversized wah-wah pedal. You can snugly tuck this thing between your arm and chest and sense its power run through your whole body. Bring on a second set that extends past the disco era and involves the likes of Slave, Mass Production, Brides of Funkenstein, and Dinosaur. ~ Andy Kellman |
Producer: Matt Abels (Compilation); Mason Williams (Compilation) |
Musical Guests | | Eddie Palmieri | | Jimmy Norman |
| | 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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