RIBS TPTD: Alexander, Freddie and Keith…
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Some soul vocalists are on the menu from the RIBS kitchen today! Our triple decker this week are three gentlemen who lit up the latter part of the 80s and much of the 90s with their vocal prowess and smooth sound.
Once again I’m not going to do a lot of “talking” and just let the music speak for itself as we present to you…
Alexander O’Neal, Freddie Jackson and Keith Washington
RIBS TPTD: Alexander, Freddie and Keith
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Playlist: (song - artist - [time])
- Sunshine - Alexander O’Neal [6:01]
- Rock Me Tonight - Freddie Jackson [7:11]
- Tonight Is Right - Keith Washington [4:28]
- Saturday Love - Alexander O’Neal ft Cherelle [6:33]
- Jam Tonight - Freddie Jackson [4:33]
- You Sure Love to Ball - Keith Washington [5:10]
- Never Knew Love Like This - Alexander O’Neal ft Cherelle [5:38]
- Nice ‘N’ Slow - Freddie Jackson [5:16]
- Candlelight And You - Keith Washington ft Chante Moore [5:21]
- Criticize (Remix) - Alexander O’Neal [7:02]
- Was It Something - Freddie Jackson [5:14]
- Kissing You - Keith Washington [4:54]
- If You Were Here Tonight - Alexander O’Neal [6:10]
- Do Me Again - Freddie Jackson [4:12]
- Is It Just Too Much - Keith Washington [4:31]
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Happy ‘Obama Day’ - The Inauguration Mix 2009
Filed under: Funk, RIBS, Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
President Barack Obama! Whoo-Hoo!!!
What a historic day Tuesday, January 20, 2009 was with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. A day of change, a day of historical significance AND… a night of celebration and partying!
Washington D.C. was alive and kicking late into the night Tuesday as the official balls and who knows how many other countless parties around town (hell, around the country for that matter) kept the celebration going into the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
And that leads me directly (more or less *smile*) to today’s RIBS Triple Play Thurs-Day playlist. If I had been DJing any one of the parties in town Tuesday night you probably would have heard a set that included many of the songs in this week’s mix. Funky and uptempo (with a couple of notable exceptions), these are many of the songs I would have wanted to party to that night because of their title, tempo and of course the lyrics.
Just like the Obama campaign slogan, “Yes We Can!” didn’t you think to yourself as election day drew near, “Can You Feel It” like there was something BIG about to happen? Now I don’t know about you, but at 11:00pm on November 4, 2008 one of my first thoughts was “I Feel Good” cause we gonna “Move On Up”! At one point in time during the campaign and especially after the election each of these songs came to mind and just seemed so appropriate for the occasion.
I think it’s fair to say that we are “One Nation Under A Groove” now that everything is “Signed, Sealed and Delivered” so, let’s continue to ride an Obama-induced high here at RIBS as we present to you…
Happy ‘Obama Day’ - The Inauguration Mix 2009
RIBS TPTD: Happy ‘Obama Day’ - The Inauguration Mix 2009
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Playlist: (song - artist - [time])
- Can You Feel It (Feeling Mix) - Jacksons [4:02]
- I Feel Good -James Brown [2:46]
- Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield [8:54]
- A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke [3:13]
- I Have A Dream Speech (excerpt) - Martin Luther King, Jr. [5:16]
- People Get Ready - Aretha Franklin [3:41]
- Message In Our Music - The O’Jays [6:23]
- Year Of Decision - The Three Degrees [2:30]
- Super Bad - James Brown [5:02]
- One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic [7:28]
- Ain’t We Funkin Now - Brothers Johnson [5:37]
- Living In America - James Brown [4:47]
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder [2:41]
- Ain’t No Stopping Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead [7:03]
- Love Train - The O’Jays [3:00]
- Now Is The Time To Do It - Teddy Pendergrass [3:38]
- Who’s Zooming Who - Aretha Franklin [4:10]
- Funky President - James Brown [3:55]
- Chocolate City - Parliament [5:40]
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Rick James, The Gap Band and Prince…
Filed under: Funk, R&B, RIBS, Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
Let’s kick off the new year on an uptempo/funky note!
I have to admit, I had much fun picking out the songs for this week’s mix. Additionally it brought back good memories from “back-in-the-day” as I have spent many hours partying to the music of this week’s trio:
Let’s not talk a lot this week (I mean c’mon, if you are really into classic Soul music do I have to explain who these three are?) and get right to the music as we present to you…
Rick James, The Gap Band and Prince
RIBS TPTD: Rick James, The Gap Band and Prince
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])
- Big Time - Rick James - Garden Of Love [6:23]
- Burn Rubber On Me - The Gap Band - Gap Band III [5:33]
- Kiss - Prince and the Revolution - Parade [3:37]
- Dance Wit’ Me - Rick James - Reflections [4:03]
- Early In The Morning - The Gap Band - The Best of Gap Band [7:41]
- Musicology - Prince - Musicology [4:24]
- Mary Jane - Rick James - Come Get It! [4:57]
- Open Up Your Mind (Wide) - The Gap Band - The Gap Band [7:08]
- I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince - Prince [5:50]
- West Coast Thing - Rick James - Urban Rhapsody [4:10]
- I Found My Baby - The Gap Band - The Gap Band VI [4:40]
- Call My Name - Prince - Musicology [5:15]
- Standing On The Top - Rick James/The Temptations - Throwin’ Down [3:51]
- I’m Gonna Git You Sucka - Gap Band - Straight From The Heart [3:34]
- U Got The Look - Prince - Sign O’ The Times [3:48]
- Love Gun - Rick James - Fire It Up [5:45]
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: In Memoriam 2008, R.I.P.
Filed under: Funk, Gospel, R.I.P., RIBS, Triple Play Thurs-Day, blues, jazz, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
TG Notes: A little late getting this one out, but I’ve been caught up in the holidays and my vacation and have been just plain lazy most of the past week *smile*. But here we go…
January, 2009… the start of another new year. New hopes, new excitement… new fears. A time to shake off the old and begin anew. A time for a fresh start on a new journey or a recommitment with renewed determination to a journey that has already begun.
A time for looking forward…
However, as the saying goes, “if you don’t know where you’ve been, how will you know where you’re going?” (I’m paraphrasing the exact quote here I guess; anybody know where the original quote came from by any chance?)
So with that in mind, before we turn ourselves towards the front and push forward to our individual destinies, let us collectively take a few moments to look back and reflect upon those music artists and entertainers that left us during the past twelve months during 2008.
Maybe it’s just me and the fact that I pay attention to music a lot more closely these days than I have in the past, but it seems like 2008 was a particularly bad year in that a large number of our artists passed away, a few quite unexpectedly. The following is a list of those artists/entertainers we lost last year whose music, memory and talent we honor in this week’s mix:
- Buddy Miles, d. Feb 26, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
- Al Wilson, Apr 21, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
- Jimmy McGriff, d. May 24, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
- Bo Diddley, d. Jun 2, 2008
- George Carlin, Jun 22, 2008
- Ira Tucker Sr. (The Dixie Hummingbirds), d. Jun 24, 2008
- Bernie Mac, d. Aug 9, 2008
- Isaac Hayes, d. Aug 10, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mixes here and here)
- Jerry Wexler, d, Aug 15, 2008
- Pervis Jackson (The Spinners), d. Aug 18, 2008
- Jerry Reed, d. Sept 1, 2008
- Norman Whitfield, d. Sept 16, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
- Levi Stubbs (Four Tops), d. Oct 17, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
- Dee Dee Warwick, d. Oct 18, 2008
- Miriam Makeba, d. Nov 10, 2008
- Odetta, d. Dec 2, 2008
- Dennis Yost (Classics IV), d. Dec 7, 2008
- Eartha Kitt, d. Dec 25, 2008
- Freddie Hubbard, d. Dec 29, 2008 (RIBS “In Memoriam” mix here)
Just a few more quick notes about the playlist to make sure there is no confusion. The Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin songs are on the list to honor Jerry Wexler. He, along with Ahmet Ertegun, was responsible for making Atlantic Records such a major force in music back in the 50s and 60s He’s credited with jump starting the career of Ray and turning Aretha’s career around after her less than stellar years at Columbia Records. Oh, and one more “little” thing… in 1948 as a writer for Billboard Magazine Jerry coined the term “Rhythm and Blues” as a musical marketing term in the United States.
Norman Whitfield writer/producer extraordinaire for Motown Records in the 60s and 70s is represented by one of his all-time great songs, “Cloud Nine” by the Temptations and one of his most recognizable compositions, “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” performed by Gladys Knight and The Pips. As you may know “Grapevine” was also a hit for Marvin Gaye and has also been performed and/or covered by numerous groups over the years, not the least of which was the clay-animated singing group The California Raisins, a fictional group originally created for a 1986 commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board. (BTW, did you know that Buddy Miles was the lead singer voice of The California Raisins?)
Fortunately, the memories and the music will live on forever. So, let’s lift our glasses high in honor of these dearly departed as we present to you…
In Memoriam 2008, R.I.P.
WARNING - the following version of the mix is X-RATED and is NOT work-safe. It contains two comedy routines, one by Bernie Mac (track #5) and one by George Carlin (track #12) that contain quite a bit of profanity. Select the optional PG-rated version of the mix for versions that eliminate the comedy routines and do not include any profanity.
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Playlist: (song - artist [time])
- Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes [4:39]
- Them Changes - Buddy Miles [3:22]
- Cloud Nine - The Temptations [3:31]
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight and the Pips [2:46]
- White Folks - Bernie Mac [5:44]
- Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba [3:00]
- Mess Around - Ray Charles [2:41]
- Can’t Seem To Get You Out Of My Mind - Four Tops [3:15]
- When Love Slips Away - Dee Dee Warwick [3:05]
- Mama Told Me Not To Come - Odetta [2:47]
- Branded - Isaac Hayes [7:02]
- 7 Words You Can’t Say On Television - George Carlin [7:02]
- East Bound And Down - Jerry Reed [2:48]
- Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley [2:30]
- They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play) - The Spinners [4:44]
- I Want To Be Evil - Eartha Kitt [3:33]
- Blue Groove (Part 1) - Jimmy McGriff [5:34]
- Spooky - Classics IV [2:49]
- I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin [2:44]
- Show and Tell - Al Wilson [3:26]
- Who Are We? - Dixie Hummingbirds [2:39]
Enjoy!
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