Happy Birthday to Me!

Down side of having a Birthday on a Monday - I have the day off but everyone else is getting their week's work started.

So I'm going to play some of my favourite tunes & share them with whoever wants to join in. Please feel free to turn me on to new & old sounds, funk, soul, blues, jazz, whatever. Just keep smiling with me all day long!

Playmates - the regents - blue cat

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Something to set the mood for the day - warning, not compatible with being serious!

Sing A Simple Song - sly & the family stone - direction

Warning, purists will find themselves tutting, chin strokers will be clutching their mandibles & I'm in trouble if the soul police locate my secret soul den! If you object to my choices, then please know that I am not trying to upset anyone - post up something you would see as more appropriate! I am always open to passionate, uplifting or inspiring soul/jazz/blues/funk music.

New Orleans - the staple singers - curtom

Three things I'm a big fan of - The Staples Singers, Curtis Mayfield and New Orleans! I love the way the Curtis influence comes through in this production.

Happy Birthday Funky Si from a fellow Yorkie. Still not sure how to post a choon up on here but being a dinosaur(according to some) you'd probably not care for my selections as I'm still stuck in the 60's although I am playing a bit more of the 70's these days.

Anyway have a good day and enjoy yourself.

Steve B

Music For My Mother - funkadelic - westbound

Everyone should remember their mother on their Birthdays! Cheers Mum. I'm also a big fan of psychedelic soul, Parliafunkadelicment thangs, & such like.

Happy Birthday Funky Si from a fellow Yorkie. Still not sure how to post a choon up on here but being a dinosaur(according to some) you'd probably not care for my selections as I'm still stuck in the 60's although I am playing a bit more of the 70's these days.

Anyway have a good day and enjoy yourself.

Steve B

Cheers Steve, I love 60s music - I've just not got much in my collection apart from motown, Aretha, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, a few tunes I used to play at my early-80s Manchester Student Union 60s nights (Arther Conley, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Sly Stone, etc), and a smattering of scratched old things from eBay job lots.

You can always add stuff from refosoul if you can't post you own sounds - you need to find the track in the Sounds section, find it's reference number (click on the little logo that looks like a piece of paper), then click on the Insert refosoul clip link in the Quick Access panel on the left side of the reply page. Put the reference number in & you're away. You'll need to add the name of the track too!

Funky Si - 44 today

you can fly in my aeroplane - wee - owl

free birthday trip in a plane...super soulful lp only cut from wee.happy birthday materuss

Let The Good Times Roll and Feel so Good - bunny sigler - parkway

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This is about as rare as my 60s collection gets, I'm sorry to say! I've not paid more than £10 for a single ..... I can hear those purists tutting & those mandibles being manhandled .....

you can fly in my aeroplane - wee - owl

free birthday trip in a plane...super soulful lp only cut from wee.happy birthday materuss

Cheers mate - that's a hell of a present!

I love this mellow tune - what on earth were they thinking of when they named their band though!?!

The Mighty Burner - charles earland - prestige

A bit of funky jazz - I defy anyone to keep still while this is playing ......

Cheers mate - that's a hell of a present!

I love this mellow tune - what on earth were they thinking of when they named their band though!?!

yeah i think they were going to go with piss stinker but settled for wee instead

its a superb lp so heres another cut from it

Shake and Fingerpop - jr. walker - soul

Why is Jr. Walker never mentioned as one of the inventors of funk? This was made in 1965 & it sounds funky to me .... Roadrunner is probably my top soul sound of all time - but then Higher & Higher, How Sweet It Is, Tracks of My Tears, etc are all probably my top soul sound of all time ...

try me - wee - owl

different lp version of top rare dancer on 45

try me - wee - owl

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different lp version of top rare dancer on 45

Great stuff - its got me grinning from ear to ear!

I heard they were toying with 'Urination' & 'Shower Of Gold', but opted for 'Wee' instead as they wanted to be taken seriously!

Edited February 12, 200718 yr by Funky Si

Let Your Mind Be Free - brother to brother - turbo

Just a good time boy really - don't get me wrong, I enjoy all the political threads & I have my serious side, but soul for me is about good times. If I want an argument, there's plenty of them happening in the real world. No need to go online to have a pointless slanging match, I find! So let you mind be free, stand firm stand tall, lets get it orn, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ... You know it makes sense!

Reel People Feat Sharlene Hector The Rain Rp Club Mix.mp3 - -

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Happy Birthday hope you like this

Edited February 12, 200718 yr by Black Gold of the Sun

You Are My Sunshine - dyke & the blazers - original sound

When it comes to deep down, low & dirty, soulful funk cover versions of silly pop songs, this one does it for me every time! Why are Dyke & the Blazers so seemingly unpopular? Are they too raucous for the soul fans & too soulful for the funksters? Did they commit some terrible offence & get put away by the soul police? Can anyone explain ....?

Reel People Feat Sharlene Hector The Rain Rp Club Mix.mp3 - -

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Happy Birthday hope you like this

Cheers Black Gold of the Sun - much appreciated! Chooooon!

Jagger the Dagger - eugene mcdaniels - atlantic

The "left rev. mc d." from the headless heroes of the apocalypse album - this is the record I have spent most money on ever .....

Girl You Need A Change Of Mind - eddie kendricks - tamla

My theme tune in all relations with women. Followed swiftly by "How Sweet It Is" then Miles Davis "Kind of Blue", satin sheets & a sensual massage ....

Africa gone funky - screaming jay hawkins - london

Here you go Si I know you like your funk so heres one for ya, happy birthday fellaBlake

Cheers Steve, I love 60s music - I've just not got much in my collection apart from motown, Aretha, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, a few tunes I used to play at my early-80s Manchester Student Union 60s nights (Arther Conley, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Sly Stone, etc), and a smattering of scratched old things from eBay job lots.

You can always add stuff from refosoul if you can't post you own sounds - you need to find the track in the Sounds section, find it's reference number (click on the little logo that looks like a piece of paper), then click on the Insert refosoul clip link in the Quick Access panel on the left side of the reply page. Put the reference number in & you're away. You'll need to add the name of the track too!

Funky Si - 44 today

Right here goes nothing. Don't know where to put the title...............Why when love has gone - The Isley's

STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT THE BL**DY TITLE....................Technology, huh................

Steve B

Add to playlist

Cheers Steve B,

Thanks for the Birthday tune

If you type in the title first of all (before you add the clip), that makes it look like the other clips.

Funky Si

Edited February 12, 200718 yr by Funky Si

Africa gone funky - screaming jay hawkins - london

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Here you go Si I know you like your funk so heres one for ya, happy birthday fellaBlake

Fantastic stuff Blake - thanks for the tune - I know a little bit of Screamin Jay from the Wammee track that Wilco Johnson plays but i've never heard this before - fabulous.

Who knows - marion black - avco


Suitable for Birthday contemplation .... I've just had my lunch so its time for a few more laid back sounds while I put my feet up and let the gastric juices do their stuff ...

Blue Monday People - curtis mayfield - curtom

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Ahh yes ..... a work of genius ..... "when cupboards are bare, our love we can share" ..... I raise my Birthday glass to Curtis Mayfield

Edited February 12, 200718 yr by Funky Si

Money wont change you - James Brown -


Si, I've done as you said and put the name of the song before the number and it still won't work, so what's next!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve B

About bl**dy time.

Steve B

Money wont change you - James Brown -


Si, I've done as you said and put the name of the song before the number and it still won't work, so what's next!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve B

Ta!

The Payback - james brown - polydor

My top JB tune at the moment

O-Wow - panic buttons - chalom
 

I Get Lifted - george mccrae - tk