Aaaaagggghhhhhhh!
I was never keen on these 3 bands, and very rarely do I EVER play anything by any of them... but hey, you don't need to say anything; I know a lot of people did/do like them, they just weren't my cup of cocoa!

Top man
May the funk be with you

Two of my all time favourites there (Nights Over Egypt & Reach Up)

Yes Marky – amazing remix of a fantastic cover by Incognito. There was also a good remix by MJ Cole. I used to play it to death when I had a club residency.

Maybe I can sing it for you instead…
"Wall to wall and tree top tall,
Everybody’s gonna have a ball,…" (Just tell me when to stop)

Some great tunes in these lists! I have nearly all of then on vinyl, and many on CD, although it is hard to track the original 12" versions of some of them on CD.

The one that I haven't played for the longest (maybe not even since the 80’s) is Mezzaforte’s "Garden Party" listed by 007 - I must pull it out.

Just to add some, I pulled some vinyl of the shelf, and came up with these gems:

US:
George Duke – Brazilian Love Affair
Hamlton Bohannon - Let's Start To Dance Again
Ca$hflow - Mine All Mine (great mix with I found lovin’)
Willie "Beaver" Hale – Groove On
Cheryl Lynn – To Be Real / Fidelity
Archie Bell & The Drells – Don't Let Love Get You Down
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – The Love I Lost (Later covered by Sybil)
Dexter Wansel – The Sweetest Pain (TUNE, TUNE, TUNE!!!)
Fat Larry’s Band – Act Like You Know
William De Vaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
Glenn Jones – I Am Somebody
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
The S.O.S. Band – Weekend Girl / Just Be Good To Me / The Finest
Take Your Time (Do It Right) / Just The Way You Like It / No Ones Gonna Love You (I must try and find out if they have a greatest hits album on CD)
UK:
David Joseph – You Can't Hide Your Love / Let's Live It Up (Nite People)
Billy Frazier & Friends - Billy Who?
Surface Noise – The Scratch (A top 30 hit from the owners of the Groove Records shop in Greek Street in Soho – one of the places I used to visit on my weekly trips to London to buy the latest imports, back in the day)

As you can tell, my twelve's are filed in no particular order (although I am trying to group artists together as I come across them – like the SOS Band above). It can take a couple of weeks to find a specific track!

Yep, they do have a greatest hits cd and all of these tracks are on it

Syl Johnson is a serious choon
I ain't played that one for years... that is DEFINITELY gonna get played tonight ... only problem is that the gig tonight is all heavy metal

I've got every way but loose on a CD - that what you're thinking, top tune

- that is definately getting played, as is:

Eskie, I must find this one again!

excellent

nope, will do a search Marc... most of MAW is good

wicked!

I made a huge mistake in the mid 90s and did something I had up to then promised myself never to do- I sold my vinyl along with my trusty old Citronic Thames (I not II), a pair of Squire speakers, lights etc... So I am missing a great chunk of these tunes which were so influential in my early life as a DJ. I kept a few back, but once they are gone, they are gone

Just thought of another few:

Harry Thuman - Underwater (Prob 70's though)
Stone - Time

about a year ago i was thinking of selling off my colection of 14,000 12" including nearly every track mentioned above but then i had a brain wave... carry on djing.
sorry kingy but i sold a spare copy of dancing in outa space only last year and got £45 for it.
now if i was somehow able to find another copy then i will post it on the forum.

heres a few more to add to the list...
cherrele - saturday love
the concept - mr dj
aleem - get loose
brass construction - give and take
princess - after the love has gone
anita ward - ring my bell
caprice - 100%
masquerade - one nation
masquerade - set it off
total contrast - the river
kurtis blow - if i ruled the world
juicey - sugar free
the social club - rumors
midnight star - midas touch
dayton - the sound of music
curtis hairston - i want you all tonight
gap band - someday
funk deluxe - this time
fonda rae - tuch me
rodney franklin - the groove
tyrone brunson - the smurf
mtume - juicey fruit
first light - daybreak
maze - twilight
freeze - i.o.u.
candido - jingo
sugerhill gang - rappers delight
newcleus - jam on revenge
indeep - last night a dj stole my wife

sorry again, got a bit carried away

so whos next

which ones or do you want all of them

My experience of actually playing this kind of music in the 80's was that it was very much an underground scene with only the occasional track crossing over to radio and the charts. (Even though people now talk about these classics as if everyone knew then.)

I think things were different in London, where Soul and Jazz Funk were more mainstream.

Robbie Vincent - now he's the man, from his Saturday morning show on Radio London, through to the Radio 1 show, he did more to push this music than anyone else.

Jeff Young followed him through the same route, and on my record buying trips to London I would occassionally hang out in the Radio London studio, answering phones etc, as Jeff did his show. It was a great opertunity to meet many of my music idols of the time.

I have it on 2 CD's one that is on sale in Asda for less then £10 called Disco Sessions and another that came out last year called Groove On Down (which had the superb Circle City band - Magic

as the lists have not been entirely Jazz Funk, can I add some Jazz Essentials

Alive - Skindo le le
Jon Lucian - Listen Love
Richie Cole - New York Afternoon (Vocal Version ft John Hendricks)
John Hendricks - I bet You Thought I'd Never Find You
Miles davies - Milestones
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Pat London - I believe In Love
Grover washington Jnr - Sausilito (Live) Proper jazz Funk played at my party on Saturday
Pacific Eardrum - Inner Circles
Astrud Gilberto - Aruanda
Jackie & Roy - Don't Be Blue
Lonnie Liston Smith - Mardis Gras
Eddie Jefferson - Jenine
Tania Marie - Come With Me

who ever it was that mentioned Robbie Vincent, the guy's a legend, us people in the south east were lucky enough to be able to listen to his shows at least 15years before the rest of the country on BB Radio London, his Saturday morning shows were legendary, most of us would listen before making our way to the specialist record shops.

and Eskie, I played Syl Johnson on saturday, never been on CD, should be

your right, very few of them actually made it in to the charts, i bought them cos i liked them, still got them in my loft. I occasionally play D-train and a few more of the well known ones. it's a shame really, because most of them are cracking songs.

You must have played it before I arrived, cos I would have definitely noticed that one.

Robbie Vincent's saturday lunchtime show on Radio London in the early 80's was essential, as was Greg Edwards "Soul Spectrum" show saturday evenings on Capital Radio around the same period.
Plus all the great Pirate soul stations such as JFM, Jackie, Horizon, Invicta, LWR, Kiss, Solar etc.

Yep, I used to remember that. He used to appear at my local club "The Kilburn National" although sometimes it was Tony Blackburn.
I thought Steve Walsh was best when he used to do "The Best Disco In Town" at "The Lyceum" in The Strand with Greg Edwards on friday nights which were often live on Capital Radio. In those days it was all about the music, as his fame grew he started to talk/sing more and more over the top of the the records he was playing. It's sad when DJ's start to get so consumed by their fame that they think they're bigger than the tunes they're playing Steve Walsh though is one of many who have gone down this road. They forget that most of the punters want to listen to the actual record and NOT their attempts to sing over the record

It seems a LOT of guys on this site like the old soul/jazz-funk/rare-groove etc and are all reminiscing about the great tracks that were around... instead of sitting there accessing your memory banks book yourself on the Caister Soul Weekender You'll love it, they have 3 rooms playing great tunes, and virtually every track thats been listed here is played at least once in one of the rooms during the weekend. Myself, Ian Stewart & paula from this forum will all be there, so lets have a few more of you joining us. The next one is MayDay bank holiday weekend.
April 29th to May 2nd, and then later in the year, the first weekend in October.
They take place at the Vauxhall holiday park in Great Yarmouth, and the atmosphere there is ALWAYS fantastic, VERY friendly and never a hint of trouble.

ahhh the memories here's a few that I brought down from the attic today:)


Atmosphere Dancing in Outer Space(on orig 12")
Hi Tension-Hi Tension
Third World-Now That we have Found Love
Player's Association-Turn the Music Up/Going To The Disco/Get Down Mellow Sound
Incognito- Jazz Funk(Their first LP!)
Light Of The World- Pete's Crusade
NYPA- I Got It/100,000 Miles From Home
Lonnie Liston Smith Expanisons on RCA/ and the very rare Bluebird Records issue!
Fatback Band- Street Dance the orig and still the best!
Kaygees Waitin At The Bus stop

There's loads more too, remember playing most of them on Radio Invicta in the late 70's/Early 80's in London:)

The Funkmasters "It's Over" was one of the tunes of the 80's along with Billy Griffin's Hold Me Tighter In The Rain

Steve Walsh started off as a guest jock on Radio Invicta in London, in fact as well as being a DJ, Steve also sat up tower blocks in London, helping us to put out the programmes!

Ian, many thanks, I will dig them out

Eskie, I WILL make it there one day, only problem being time is in such short supply with my kids & Mrs M. I guess this is a over 18s event??


OK, I found another few gems:

Time - Stone
Arthur Adams - you got the floor

Exactly; that's why I started my list as above. What started off referring to Jazz-Funk suddenly included pop, disco, electro, rap and so on.

I'm another one that would testify that the Mastercuts series is absolutely phenomenal. Apart from the Mastercuts Jazz-Funk volume 1 to 7 they also do other series such as Mastercuts Rare-Groove, Mastercuts Mellow Soul, and Funk, P-Funk, Soul, Disco, Salsoul, Electro, Rap, New Jack Swing, R&B, House, Reggae and many more.
Mastercuts was formerly part of the Beechwood record label, but it seems they've been taken over by Dynamic Music & Media. Check out the website

Very observant Ian... Some fantastic memories in this thread though.

I thought of a few more in similar genres:

Tygers of pan tang - Love potion No9
Saxon - 747
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir