Funk (The Essential Collection)

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

Part of The Intro Collection

Tracklist

1▶CD: Under a Groove: Killer Funky Klassiks
2▶CD: Trouble in the Ghetto: Life in Chocolate City
3▼CD: Night People Steppin’: Nothin' but a House Party
#TitleArtistLength
1House Party
Fred Wesley5:41
2Ain't Gonna Bump No More (with No Big Fat Woman)
producer:
Buddy Killen
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Dial (in 1977)
recording of:
Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
writer:
Buddy Killen and Bennie Lee McGinty
Joe Tex3:24
3Night People
Lee Dorsey4:21
4Get Ta' Stepin
Robert Parker2:44
5Funky Drop
Soul Suspects2:40
6Ride Your Pony
Betty Harris3:09
7Don't Change Your Love
Five Stairsteps & Cubie2:47
8Lover and a Friend
recording of:
Lover and a Friend
lyricist and composer:
Edwin Bocage
publisher:
Colsoul Music Co. and Tune-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham2:27
9Look-Ka-Py-Py
bass:
George Porter, Jr.
drums (drum set):
Ziggy Modeliste
guitar:
Leo Nocentelli
keyboard:
Art Neville
recording of:
Look-Ka Py Py
writer:
Ziggy Modeliste, Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli and George Porter, Jr.
publisher:
Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc.
The Meters3:12
10Harlem Clavinette
recording of:
Harlem Clavinette
composer:
J.J. Johnson and Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack & J.J. Johnson2:11
11The Way They Do My Life
Joe Quarterman & Free Soul3:00
12Funky Love
The Staple Singers4:45
13Maceo
Maceo and All the King’s Men7:46
14Freddie's Dead
engineer:
Roger Anfinsen
producer:
Curtis Mayfield
bass guitar:
Joseph Scott
drums (drum set):
Morris Jennings
guitar:
Curtis Mayfield and Craig McMullen
percussion:
Master Henry Gibson
lead vocals:
Curtis Mayfield
arranger and orchestrator:
Johnny Pate
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Curtom Records (in 1972)
recording of:
Freddie’s Dead
lyricist and composer:
Curtis Mayfield
publisher:
Todd Mayfield Publishing, Warner–Tamerlane Publishing Corp. and Curtom Publishing Co Inc (from 1972 to ????)
recording of:
Freddie’s Dead (William Parker arrangement)
composer:
Curtis Mayfield
arranger:
William Parker
publisher:
Centering Music
arrangement of:
Freddie’s Dead
Curtis Mayfield5:24
15Sooner or Later
The Impressions2:55
16Find Someone to Love
Ohio Players2:13
17Brother Man, Sister Ann
Clemon Smith6:20
18Singing a Funky Song (For You Baby)
Jackey Beavers2:08
19Kind of Funky
Kool & the Gang8:21
20Goo Bah
Continental Showstoppers2:22