What It Is (Funky Soul And Rare Grooves) - Various Artists

Main specs

Title: What It Is (Funky Soul And Rare Grooves)

Performer: Various Artists

Genre: R&B

Sub Genre: Soul

Release Date: 16/10/2006

Recomended Retail Price: 41.99 GBP

Original Release Year: 2006

Label / Distributor: Rhino / Cinram Logistics

Producer: Fred Smith; Lewis Futterman; Johnny

Pieces in Set: 4

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Collection

EAN: 81227763527

Catalogue Number: 8122776352

Additional notes

Album Notes: 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 - FUNK 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"

Album 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."

Titles on disc 1

1.: Spreadin' Honey - Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band

2.: Soul Finger - Bar-Kays

3.: Shadow Of Your Smile - McDuff, 'Brother' Jack

4.: Gangster Of Love (parts 1 & 2) - Norman, Jimmy

5.: Memphis Train - Thomas, Rufus

6.: Get Out Of My Life Woman - Oliphant, Grassella

7.: Live Right Now - Harris, Eddie

8.: Pig Snoots (part 1) - Natural Bridge Bunch

9.: Soul Sound System - Freedom Sounds & Wayne Henderson

10.: Snatching It Back - Carter, Clarence

11.: Stoned Soul - Christopher, Artie

12.: Getting The Corners - TSU Tornadoes

13.: Sexy Coffee Pot - Alvon, Tony & The Belairs

14.: Don't Come Around Here Anymore - Putney, Mark

15.: Keep On Dancing - Commodores

16.: Right On Brother (part 1) - Southshore Commission

17.: Pop Popcorn Children - Holmes, Eldridge

18.: It's Your Thing - Cold Grits

19.: It's All In Your Mind - Soul Angels

20.: Funky John - Cameron, Johnny & The Camerons

21.: Help Me Make Up My Mind - Jones, Joyce

22.: Rock Me Baby - Johnson, Lou

23.: Sing A Simple Song - Noble Knights

24.: Do You Dig It - Turner, Titus

25.: Funky Canyon - Moore, Phil Jr.

26.: Jan Jan - Fabulous Counts

27.: Tampin' - Rhine Oaks

Titles on disc 2

1.: Gossip - Neville, Cyril

2.: Somebody In The World For You - Mighty Hannibal

3.: Stanga - Little Sister

4.: Jumpin' Jack Flash - Shankar, Ananda

5.: Deacon - Brute Force

6.: Sookie Sookie - Covay, Don & Jefferson Lemon Blues Band

7.: Right On - Wheeler, Clarence & The Enforcers

8.: Don't Worry If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go - Mayfield, Curtis

9.: Stepping Stones - Harris, Johnny

10.: I'm Just Like You - 6IX

11.: Funky Thing (part 1) - Unemployed

12.: Messie Bessie - Scott, Shirley

13.: Fairchild - West, Willie

14.: Cold Bear - Gaturs

15.: I Can't Get Next To You - Santamaria, Mongo

16.: Feelin' Alright - Lulu

17.: Soul Bowl - Memphis Horns

18.: Tuane - Hammer

19.: Take It Off (part 2) - Tolbert, Johnny & De Thangs

20.: Seeds Of Life - Harlem River Drive & Eddie Palmieri/Jimmy Norman

21.: Engine Number 9 - Pickett, Wilson

Titles on disc 3

1.: Hard Times - Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters

2.: What So Never The Dance (parts 1 & 2) - Houseguests

3.: Headless Heroes - McDaniels, Eugene

4.: Spinning Wheel - Marcus, Wade

5.: Bad Tune - Earth Wind & Fire

6.: Mr Cool - Rasputin's Stash

7.: Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' To Ya - Mance, Junior

8.: Hang On In There - Stovall Sisters

9.: Funky Nassau (part 2) - Beginning Of The End

10.: Whatever's Fair - Holder, Mark & The Positives

11.: Face It - Robinson, Ed

12.: Wah Wah Man - Young-Holt Unlimited

13.: Rock Steady (alternate mix/previously unreleased) - Franklin, Aretha

14.: Won't Nobody Listen - Black Haze Express

15.: Goin' Down - Toussaint, Allen

16.: Suavecito - Malo

17.: You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' - Wright, Charles

18.: Mo Jo Hanna - Lynn, Tammi

19.: Ridin' Thumb - King Curtis

20.: Almendra - Macondo

21.: Nuki Suki - Little Richard

Titles on disc 4

1.: Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United 8

2.: 8 Days On The Road - Tate, Howard

3.: Moon Shadow - Labelle

4.: Let It Crawl - Society's Bag

5.: Wanaoh - Black Heat

6.: If It Was Good Enough For Daddy - Reid, Clarence

7.: Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Lennear, Claudia

8.: Cosmic Sea - Mystic Moods

9.: Kissing My Love - Cold Blood

10.: Flute Thing - Seatrain

11.: Chug Chug Chug A Lug (Push 'n' Shove) (part 2) - Meters

12.: Funky To The Bone - Freddi & Henchi/The Soul Setters

13.: Try It Again - Byrd, Bobby

14.: Teasin' - Dupree, Cornell

15.: Everybody Wanna Get Rich Rite Away - Dr. John

16.: Chicken Heads - Brown, Oscar Jr.

17.: Rien Ne Va Plus - Funk Factory

18.: Cajun Moon - Mann, Herbie

19.: Improve - Fletcher, Darrow

20.: Riding High - Faze-O

21.: Four Play - Wesley, Fred & The Horny Horns

22.: California Dreamin' - Hazel, Eddie

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