RIBS TPTD: A Funky Christmas 2009…
Filed under: Christmas, Funk, Holiday, R&B, RIBS, Triple Play Thurs-Day, Xmas, podcasts/mixes, soul
Hey! Good to see ya back again. I hope you have been enjoying our “Sounds of the Season” here on Rhythms In Black Satin.
Before I get to rambling on about our third “Xmas RIBS” mix for 2009 let me just say that I do so very much appreciate you and all the readers and listeners of this site for popping in here and letting me share my love of music with you. May you and your loved ones have a safe, healthy and happy holiday season!
Now… on to the mix.
If you’ve been following RIBS around this time of year you know that I like to make Christmas mixes that are a little different. As much as I like all of the holiday music that the season brings, the one thing I dislike is hearing the same old standards over and over again in the weeks leading up to the big day. So back in 2007 I started doing my own take on Christmas putting together mixes featuring some great Soul/R&B, Jazz, Blues and Gospel that don’t usually get played very often. It’s been a lot of fun and everybody seems to like them a lot.
On today’s buffet table I’m serving up an uptempo Xmas mix called “A Funky Christmas 2009″. This is a bookend to the first mix of this type that you can find here. The Christmas holiday is a joyous occasion, time for visiting family and friends, relaxing and… partying! And a little funky Christmas music mix is just the thing to get it started!
Merry Christmas everybody!
RIBS TPTD: A Funky Christmas 2009
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Playlist: (song – artist – album [time])
- Stoned Soul Christmas - Binky Griptite [3:21]
- Xtina’s Christmas (Interlude) - Christina Aguilera - My Kind of Christmas [1:32]
- Christmas Time - Christina Aguilera - My Kind of Christmas [4:01]
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Gary Chapman - Christmas On The Border [3:22]
- Chestnutz (a.k.a. The Christmas Song) - Bootsy Collins - Christmas Is 4 Ever [5:05]
- Merry Christmas Baby - The Four Tops - Merry Christmas [5:06]
- Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! - Aaron Neville - Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas [2:22]
- Ain’t No Chimneys - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings [2:20]
- The Little Drummer Boy - The Temptations - A Motown Christmas, Vol. 2 [4:14]
- Happy Kwanzaa - Teddy Pendergrass - This Christmas I’d Rather have Love [5:12]
- Every Time Christmas Comes Around - Michael McDonald - This Christmas [3:34]
- White Christmas - The Whispers - Happy Holidays To You [3:29]
- Soulful Christmas - Faith Evans - The Best Christmas Album [3:07]
- What Christmas Means To Me - Mandisa - It’s Christmas [3:03]
- Jesus Is The Reason For The Season - Kirk Franklin [5:45]
- This Year - Christina Aguilera - My Kind of Christmas [4:13]
- It’s Christmas - The Whispers - Christmas Moments [5:15]
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Jackson 5 - A Motown Christmas [2:23]
- Hark! The herald Angels Sing - Musiq Soulchild - A Philly Soul Christmas [4:50]
- Funky Funky Christmas - New Kids On The Block [4:44]
- Holiday - Rahsaan Patterson - The Ultimate Gift [4:30]
Have you missed any of the RIBS mixes we’ve posted? If you have there is now an easy way to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Just go check out the new RIBS Archives Page to see a very easy to read listing of every post (and music mix) we’ve uploaded to the site.
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
Filed under: Funk, Michael Jackson, R&B, R.I.P., RIBS, podcasts/mixes, soul
Hey folks, how is everybody doin’ today?
Note: This is part 1 of a 3-part MJ mix here on RIBS (parts 2 & 3 will be available over the next 24-48 hours). Try as I might there just were not enough hours in the day (nor days in the week) for me to get an MJ mix posted last weekend as I originally intended. Now I know that commercial radio has played MJ/J5 music to death over the past week and that everybody and their mother are posting MJ tribute mixes, but to be a music fan/podcaster and NOT celebrate his life at a time like this just wouldn’t be right. Hopefully there are a few things in these RIBS Michael Jackson mixes that you haven’t heard 100 or more times this past week and that the combination of songs chosen is pleasing to your ear.
Oh, and one more thing… I must give a shout out and major BIG props to Honey over on HoneySoul.com. She has done a great job providing information and links to the many, many MJ tribute mixes, video and information that have been posted online. If you want to find good music and info about the “King of Pop” (without all of the negativity those other sites are giving you) check out: Remembering The Time. Michael Jackson (1958-2009) [Audio, Video Links] over on HoneySoul.com
Well, as we are all well aware, Michael Jackson left us one week ago today. It’s still very hard to think of him as being gone. I, like so many others, was really looking forward to his planned tour later this year to see if he could stage a comeback in his career after all of the mess that he had been through these past several years.
The best way for me to describe MJ is this:
“He was one of the cornerstones of the foundation of the "Soundtrack of My Life"
I mean I’m not that much older than Michael, and from the early days with his brothers in the Jackson 5, to their move to CBS Records as The Jacksons, and of course his enormously popular and influential solo career his music was always there somewhere during all of the various trials, tribulations, happiness, sadness and discoveries of my life.
He was, without question, one of the best (if not THE BEST) entertainers that I’ve had the pleasure to see in my lifetime. I say "entertainer" and not just singer or singing artist because MJ could do it all: singer, dancer, actor (a little {smile}), songwriter, producer. The only person who I think comes close in comparison to Michael (that I can think of) is Sammy Davis, Jr. Hmmmm, MJ vs. Sammy, that could make for an interesting discussion in the comments section!
One of things I have been doing during the past week as the reality of Michael’s death has slowly been sinking in is thinking of the various memories that I have of him…
Memories Of Michael
- 7th grade music class with Mrs. Hoffman. She had us singing "ABC" by the Jackson 5
- Buying the UK pressing of the Maybe Tomorrow album over in London on the 9th grade class trip during Spring vacation. (forever grateful to my maternal grandfather, God rest his soul, for helping pay for the trip so I could go)
- How BIG of a J5 fan Jolene White was (girlfriend in 9th grade); she was one of the few girls I knew at that time that liked Marlon better than Michael
- Seeing the Jackson 5 in Madison Square Garden in 1971 (with Jolene). Opening act: The Commodores! (Hmmmm, wonder whatever happened to THEM? {smile})
- Watching the Jackson 5ive cartoon (nope that’s not a mis-spelling) on Saturday mornings
- Hating The Osmonds and the song "One Bad Apple" as they blatantly (but, I have to admit all these years later, very smartly) modeled themselves after the J5 and went on to quite a bit of success themselves during the 70s
- Hoping and praying that Michael’s solo albums would not cause the Jackson 5 to break up (hey, I was young then. I didn’t know anything about the music business)
- The changing sound of the group (as the boys naturally grew older) on the albums G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine and Moving Violation
- The Jackson 5 leaving Motown (for CBS Records) and having to change their name to The Jacksons
- Jermaine leaving the group and staying at Motown due to his marriage to Motown founder Berry Gordy’s daughter Hazel
- Youngest brother Randy joining the group to replace Jermaine
- Michael playing the Scarecrow in The Wiz
- The monster success of the Off The Wall album (only to be surpassed by the Thriller album)
- The Motown 25 television special and Michael’s performance of Billie Jean! My favorite MJ moment/performance of all time.
- We Are The World (song and recording session)
- Watching the first airing of the Thriller video. Wow!
- Watching and listening to Marc Jones (a friend I had a short-lived mobile DJ business with after college) mix Billie Jean. Nobody could mix that song like he could!
- …and so many, many more!
Hopefully Michael is at peace now. Though we mourn his passing, we will always celebrate his life and the happy times he gave us all. He will continue to live on in our hearts and minds and ears via the wonderful legacy of music he has left behind.
RIBS TPTD: "Michael Jackson, R.I.P."
RIBS TPTD: Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
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- I Am Love, pts 1 & 2 – Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine [7:29]
- Walk Right Now – Jacksons – Triumph [6:29]
- Forever Came Today – Jackson 5 – Moving Violation [2:09]
- Can You Feel It (Disconet mix) – Jacksons – Triumph [7:44]
- Mama I Got A Brand New Thing – Jackson 5 – G.I.T: Get It Together [7:11]
- Feelin’ Alright – Jackson 5 – Goin’ Back To Indiana [4:12]
- Man In The Mirror (Instrumental) – Michael Jackson – Instrumental Version Collection [5:06]
- Dirty Diana – Michael Jackson - Bad [4:41]
- Money - Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present and Future [4:42]
- Doctor My Eyes – Jackson 5 – Lookin’ Through The Windows [3:11]
- Lookin’ Through The Windows – Jackson 5 - Lookin’ Through The Windows [3:38]
- Don’t Want To See Tomorrow – Jackson 5 - Lookin’ Through The Windows [2:40]
- Corner Of The Sky - Jackson 5 – Skywriter [3:40]
- Maybe Tomorrow - Jackson 5 – Maybe Tomorrow [4:48]
- Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing - Jackson 5 - Lookin’ Through The Windows [2:28]
- Can I See You In The Morning - Jackson 5 – Third Album [3:09]
- It’s Too Late To Change The Time - Jackson 5 - G.I.T: Get It Together [4:00]
Remember, don’t forget to check back here for parts 2 & 3 of the Rhythms In Black Satin “Memories of Michael” mixes!
Have you missed any of the RIBS mixes we’ve posted? If you have there is now an easy way to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Just go check out the new RIBS Archives Page to see a very easy to read listing of every post (and music mix) we’ve uploaded to the site.
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: ‘Sax Appeal’ 4 – The Ladies of Sax: Candy, Mindi and Pamela…
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Playing “catch-up” this week on the site since I got “overcome by events” and did not get the mix posted last week. A late drop this week (been happening a lot lately {sigh}) BUT… we’ll get back on track on our regular Thursday release schedule soon. Let’s go…
In this, installment #4 in our month long ‘Sax Appeal’ series (installment/mix #3 is here), we take a look at the Ladies of the saxophone. I originally thought that female sax players were few and far between, but my research has uncovered more than quite a few ladies who have mastered the instrument. I’ve come to the conclusion that it is not so much that women musicians aren’t playing the instrument as much as they may experience great difficulty in getting recorded, especially as solo artists. Sounds like a subject well worth investigating further at some point in the future here on RIBS.
Fortunately, our trio today have not had any problems getting recorded, and we get to enjoy all the benefits of THAT fact. These three are probably the most prominent and well known women on the scene playing the sax today (of course there may be some out there who disagree with that statement):
Candy Dulfer: She started playing saxophone at age six, was leading her own band Funky Stuff at age fourteen, became an international recording star at age nineteen, started touring the world at age twenty. Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1969, she’s probably the reigning queen of the current crop of female sax players.
Mindi Abair: American born saxophonist with a strong Top-40 pop music background, Mindi also plays keyboards and the flute (and occasionally sings a little too!). She started out as a backing musician for such acts as Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys but switched to jazz in 2003 and has never looked back.
Pamela Williams: A Philadelphia native, Pamela sites Grover Washington, Jr. as one of her early influences. A former member of Patti LaBelle’s backup band she released her first album, “Saxtress” in 1996. Multi-talented (she also writes, produces and paints) Pamela is also known for her incredible visual art. She earned a degree in Fine Art and continues to paint when not on tour.
Let’s get busy wit it and let the Ladies of Sax show us what they can do as we present to you…
“Sax Appeal 4 - Candy, Mindi & Pamela”
RIBS TPTD: ‘Sax Appeal’ 4 – The Ladies of Sax: Candy, Mindi & Pamela
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])
- Once You Get Started - Candy Dulfer - For The Love Of You [4:55]
- F.L.A. Swing - Mindi Abair – Stars [4:34]
- Sexy MF - Pamela Williams - The Perfect Love [4:50]
- Gititon - Candy Dulfer - For The Love Of You [4:32]
- Sticks And Stones - Mindi Abair - Come As You Are 4:41]
- Saxtress - Pamela Williams – Saxtress [4:59]
- Valdez In The Country - Candy Dulfer - Right In My Soul [3:45]
- The Joint - Mindi Abair - Life Less Ordinary [5:13]
- Walk On By - Pamela Williams - The Look of Love [4:00]
- Bird - Candy Dulfer - For The Love Of You [6:22]
- Smile - Mindi Abair – Stars [4:29]
- Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like) - Pamela Williams – Saxtress [3:52]
- Saxy Mood - Candy Dulfer - For The Love Of You [4:19]
- Right On - Mindi Abair - It Just Happens That Way [4:11]
- I Am Love - Pamela Williams – Evolution [5:16]
- Jazz It’s Me - Candy Dulfer - Big Girl [4:38]
- High Five - Mindi Abair - Come As You Are [4:02]
- Lifeline - Pamela Williams – Evolution [3:19]
Have you missed any of the RIBS mixes we’ve posted? If you have there is now an easy way to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Just go check out the new RIBS Archives Page to see a very easy to read listing of every post (and music mix) we’ve uploaded to the site.
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: “Jazz 101″ - An Introduction To Jazz, Lesson #1…
Filed under: Funk, Jazz 101, R&B, RIBS, Triple Play Thurs-Day, blues, jazz, podcasts/mixes
Hey Good People!
Intro to Jazz
Surprise! A rare weekend treat from the RIBS kitchen today. First, before we get to our classroom session, let me give you a little bit of background on what this is all about…
As I hope you are aware, April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) and all month long the great American art form known as jazz is being celebrated with a variety of events all over the country. Additionally, many online music enthusiasts are writing and talking about jazz a lot on their sites this month. One post that caught my eye was from my home girl, Vivrant Thang, over on her excellent site, Songs In The Key Of Life. In a post entitled, “All That Jazz: In Celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month”, she wrote:
I don’t talk about my love for jazz enough on this blog so I figure jazz appreciation month is the perfect time to do so. I have to admit that my knowledge is lacking. Mama Vivrant Thang was never really into jazz so it wasn’t played much around the house.
The number of jazz albums in my collection is unusually slim. Time for my collection to reflect it. Question is - where to start?
Jazz lovers, help me out. What do you consider the essential albums any jazz lover should have in their collection?
Now, when a person bares their soul like this and feels compelled to publicly share such an awful secret with the world well… how can you not reach out and help them? Hmmmm? {smile}
Seriously though, in addition to putting in my 2 cents as a comment on the site, Vivrant Thang’s post got me to thinking…
What artists and what songs WOULD a person choose to initially introduce someone to jazz???
I mean I know what I like and several songs came immediately to mind, but I continued to wonder what combinations other jazz fans would choose as an introduction to jazz. Well, since my curiosity had gotten the best of me, there was only one thing to do…
Twitter to the rescue.
Yep. I decided to post the question on Twitter and see what kind of responses “the crew” would come up with. To make a long story short we had a very interesting couple of days of conversation with a boatload of great suggestions for a playlist of songs that would be perfect for an “Introduction to Jazz” playlist. AAMOF, we started calling the tweets “Jazz 101″ and used the #jazz101 hashtag on most of the repsponses/replies so it would be easy to search for parts of the conversation you may have missed. (click the link to open a new window showing you the “Jazz 101″ conversation via Twitter Search)
And… that’s the backstory of today’s playlist.
Now, let’s talk about the “frontstory”, the music itself and some suggestions for “getting into jazz” and becoming a bonafide jazz aficionado.
When I was thinking about writing this “introduction to jazz” post I originally considered trying to answer the question” “What is jazz?” After a little research and careful consideration I quickly abandoned THAT idea. Ha! Even the folks who play and/or make their livelihood from this music have not definitively defined it yet after all these years, what made me think I could? {smile} However, researching the answer to the “What is jazz?” question IS fascinating in and of itself. The Wikipedia entry for Jazz is a good starting point, IMO.
Basically, the best way to get into jazz is to listen to it (no real earth shattering revelation there, eh? {smile}) The question is, of course, “where to start?” For my money, and the suggestion I always make, is to start with what many folks consider (even to this day, 50 years after it was first recorded) to be the finest jazz album ever made:
Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” (and, fittingly, the first song on the playlist comes from this gem; more on that later)
AAMOF, it’s probably a very good idea to start one’s appreciation of jazz with the recordings produced during the 50s (Cool Jazz and Modal Jazz) and the early-to-mid 60s (Soul Jazz and Latin Jazz) as this is a period in which many of the finest and most listenable (IMHO) jazz recordings were made. From there you can go back to the Bebop jazz era (1940s) or the Swing jazz era (1930s) or push forward into the Fusion jazz era of the late 60s/70s or the Smooth jazz era of the 1980’s and beyond.
Also, let me repeat something I wrote in the post comment on Vivrant Thang’s website which some of you may find works well as a springboard into the genre. Begin your jazz education by starting on an instrument by instrument basis: pick an instrument and then pick the most prominent artist (opinions vary greatly here, of course) on that instrument and collect several of their works first. My own personal instrument/artist list suggestions:
- Trumpet - Miles Davis
- Saxophone - John Coltrane
- Guitar - Wes Montgomery
- Vibes - Lionel Hampton
- Big Band - Count Basie (I know that’s not an instrument, but the Count is essential!)
- Drums - Max Roach
- Keyboards - Duke Ellington or Herbie Hancock
Let me make one more point that I think is essential to appreciating jazz before we get into the playlist. In addition to the sound of the music, true fans of jazz also pay particular attention to the personnel that are involved in the performance/recording session of a jazz concert or album. It’s one of those little things that, while not exclusive to jazz, is something that has greater importance to fans of jazz as opposed to other musical genres. For example, not only is it important to know that Miles’ “Kind Of Blue” is perhaps the best jazz album of all time, but to fans of jazz it is equally important to note of the fact that this was Miles’ sextet ensemble with, in addition to Davis on trumpet, pianist Bill Evans, pianist Wynton Kelly (on track #2, Freddie Freeloader only), drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley.
Also, before I let you go, I wanted to say a few things about the songs that make up this first playlist. The first thing is… “Yes!” there will, at the very least, be a Lesson #2 “Jazz 101″ mix here on RIBS. Although when I came up with the idea for this ‘jazz intro’ playlist I was originally thinking of it in singular terms, there have so many great suggestions from the crew on Twitter and some other folks I’ve discussed this with that I just have to make more than one mix in order to do the subject justice.
As for this initial selection of songs the goal was to present a cross section of songs, instruments and styles that were some of the best (subjective, I know!) examples of the beauty and variety of that thing called jazz.
As I’ve already mentioned, for me it doesn’t get any better than Miles’ “Kind Of Blue”, and the first track from that album, So What, gets us started. That leads us quite smoothly into Stolen Moments (my second favorite jazz composition behind So What) by saxophonist, composer and arranger Oliver Nelson from his 1961 breakthrough album “The Blues And The Abstract Truth”. These two are fine examples of the softer, melodic sound of jazz that is so pleasing to ones ears.
Duke Ellington and Count Basie give us two familiar jazz standards, Take The ‘A’ Train and April In Paris respectively, that are prime examples of the Swing style of jazz popular in the late 1930s through the 1940s . You may also hear Swing jazz referred to as “Big Band” jazz so named as much for the size of the bands that played it (approximately 12 to 25 musicians) as for the big, uptempo sound it had. Swing was THE dance music back in its heyday and was broadcast nightly coast-to-coast across America for years.
Sometimes when you think about jazz music much of the thought process centers around instrumental music, however jazz is as much a medium for vocalists as it is for instrumentalists. In order to provide a taste of the lyrical side of jazz our playlist includes three of the best, Nina Simone with My Baby Just Cares For Me; Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan with the melancholy, bluesy Black Coffee and one of my all time favorite singers (ooooh, I just luv this woman’s voice!) Ms. Nancy Wilson and her version of In The Heat Of The Night.
If you are going to introduce someone to the jazz guitar and the jazz saxophone there are few better to start with than Wes Montgomery (guitar) who gives us Four On Six and John Coltrane (saxophone, often referred to as just “Trane” by jazz fans) with his classic rendition of My Favorite Things. Far from the first ones to play these instruments, each man is considered one of the most innovative artists in jazz and has been a major influence on all who have come after them.
To round out and finish up our first lesson we take you home with three more jazz standards (and personal favs)… Red Clay from trumpet extraordinaire Freddie Hubbard, Maiden Voyage from the versatile master of all things keyboards Herbie Hancock, and Take Five from pianist and jazz icon Dave Brubeck.
Whew! OK, I hope I haven’t worn you out with all that “talk”. Time for our “Jazz 101″ class to begin. Face forward, eyes up front and make sure to take extensive notes as we present to you…
“Jazz 101 - An Introduction to Jazz, Lesson #1″
RIBS TPTD: Jazz 101 - An Introduction To Jazz 1
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])
- So What - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
[9:25]
- Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
[8:47]
- Take The ‘A’ Train - Duke Ellington - Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
[2:52]
- April In Paris - Count Basie and His Orchestra - April in Paris
[3:51]
- My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
[3:38]
- Four On Six - Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
[6:17]
- My Favorite Things - John Coltrane - The Last Giant: The John Coltrane Anthology
[13:40]
- In The Heat Of The Night - Nancy Wilson - Welcome to My Love
[2:34]
- Black Coffee - Sarah Vaughan - The Divine Sarah Vaughan: The Columbia Years 1949 - 1953)
[3:18]
- Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
[12:11]
- Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
[7:57]
- Take Five - Dave Brubeck - Time Out
[5:26]
Have you missed any of the RIBS mixes we’ve posted? If you have there is now an easy way to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Just go check out the new RIBS Archives Page to see a very easy to read listing of every post (and music mix) we’ve uploaded to the site.
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Happy ‘Obama Day’ - The Inauguration Mix 2009
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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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- 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…
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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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