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"Funky Broadway" is an early funk-style song written by Arlester "Dyke" Christian. In 1966, he recorded it with his band, Dyke & the Blazers.The small, Phoenix, Arizona-based, Artco Records first issued it as a two-part single; when it was unable to keep up with the demand, the distribution was picked up by the Original Sound label.
In 2007, The New York Times stated, "Dumpstaphunk is the best funk band from New Orleans right now." [4]From annual performances at New Orleans' Jazz Fest — "The colossal low end and filthy grooves they threw down from the Gentilly Stage must have set a Jazz Fest record for baddest bass jams ever" (Bass Player magazine, 2012) [5] — to music rooms and festivals across the nation (Bonnaroo ...
Rickey Vincent, in Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One, deemed the album an "exquisite [example] of the fertile, erotic realm of R&B-based funk at its most stretched out." [ 2 ] Track listing
Year Artist Song Label 1980: Donna Summer "Sunset People" [9] Casablanca: 1980: Viola Wills "If You Could Read My Mind" [10] Hansa: 1981: Boys Town Gang "Remember Me / Ain't No Mountain High Enough" [11]
Despite the song's title, its style is firmly funk/R&B and neither boogie nor reggae. It continued Wonder's successful Top Ten streak on the pop charts, reaching number three and also spent two weeks at number one on the soul charts. [2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 26 song for 1975.
Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome is the sixth studio album by the American funk band Parliament, released in 1977. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a loose concept album warning the listener of falling into the "Placebo Syndrome," which according to George Clinton is consumerism , and listening to disco music, which he saw as a simplification of funk ...
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The band name derives from a calypso word for "dove", which symbolises peace and love; [2] "Dove" is also the title of one of their best-known songs. With a membership deriving from several Caribbean nations, Cymande were noted for an eclectic mix of funk, soul, reggae, rock, African music, calypso, and jazz that they called "nyah-rock".