Post an obscure funk track...

Can't think of one of their songs specifically, but Larry Graham (Sly Stone's bass player) and his band Graham Central Station (which he put together after Sly's sad flameout) had a lot of great stuff and is vastly underrated (or unknown).


But my All Time Favorite Funk song (though largely unknown due to its release before the band hit it big) is from the Tower of Power's debut album:




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Watch me turn even this topic into a Beatles thread...

 

(with Chaka on vocals as well)

Admittedly, both are on the slicker side of the funk, but I love that style.

 

From San Fran:

Rodger Collins "Foxy Girls in Oakland"

 

The Beatles do not belong in this thread.

Mandrill certainly do.

 

One of the less intense tracks from the great great Lee Moses, but with a chooglin percolating bass and answering horns:


Lee Moses Time and Place

 

"Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again"
- Maceo And All The King's Men

1971

 

The late, great Jackie Wilson doing his best "James Brown."

 

If its the Meters its gots ta be funkay.

 

Yes Yes Yes! Keeping the Sly flame going with a great Al Green cover that reaches for Sly level ecstasy:


Graham Central Station - It Ain't No Fun To Me

 

Great stuff! One could do just a thread on the funky stuff outta Nigeria, Kenya, Angola, Ghana, etc.,

Here's a great one from Kenya:
Tanya Ria: Love You Didn't Want
TANYA RIA - LOVE YOU DIDN'T WANT - AFRO7

 

"Gossip" - Cyril Neville

1969

 

This may have been the second funk single I ever bought, after James Brown's "Super Bad" in November 1970. It's "I'm Just Like You" by 6IX on Sly Stone's Stone Flower label (A-side is "Dynamite"). Also bought "Somebody's Watchin' You" by Little Sister at the same time, it became a big hit. This came out in December 1970:

 

Barrabás - Hi Jack (1974) (Spanish funk ´70)

 

"O-H-I-O" - Ohio Players

1977

 

Tito Duarte - Glambing Fever (1979) (Spanish funk ´70)

 

Augusto Algueró - Bocaccio Soul (Spanish funk ´70)

 

Rupert Holmes

 

Barrabás - Woman (1973) (Spanish funk ´70)

Every time I see that woman
Every time I see that girl
Secret feelings come inside me
Something's burning in my head

 

This is the top Barrabás tune for me:

 

Very good choice!!

 

General Crook "What Time It Is"

 

"Mary, Mary" - Commodores

1975