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Big beats, bass-lines, banging brass and booga-bloomin'-loo.

Our ‘Gold’ album (from 1972) is Music Is The Message by Kool & The Gang. The Trunk of funk is all about big beats, bass-lines, banging brass and booga-bloomin'-loo.

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Sat 28 May 202218:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Dennis Coffey

    Somebody's Been Sleeping (feat. Lisa Kekaula from The Bellrays)

    • Strut.

  • Johnny “Guitar” Watson

    I Need It (The Funk Anthology)

    • DJM Records.

  • Maceo Parker

    Homeboy

    • ESC.

  • Crowd Company

    You Ain't Ready (Smoove Remix)

    • Vintage League Music.

  • Fatback

    Double Dutch

    • Spring Records.

  • Joe Tatton Trio

    Just Don't Stop

    • Rodina Music.

  • Billy Frazier

    The Mind Blower (Finally Got His Mind Blown)

    • Z Records.

  • The Mighty Show-Stoppers

    Hippy Skippy Moon Strut

    • Freestyle Recordings.

  • Bobby Womack

    California Dreamin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Innocent.

  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed

    Mama Tried

    • Yep Roc Records.

  • Akin Amusan

    You're No Good

    • ATA Records.

  • Michelle David & The True-Tones

    Better Days

  • The Sensations

    Get On Up Mama

    • Numero Group.

  • The Incredibles

    There's Nothing Else To Say

    • Northern Soul Dance Party.
    • GOLDMINE.
    • 12.

  • Bonnie Blanchard

    A Real Good Lovin' Man

    • Tramp.

  • Sister Sledge

    Lost In Music (Dimitri From Paris Remix)

    Remix Artist: Dimitri From Paris.
    • Lost in Music.
    • Rhino.

  • Tampa Red

    Sugar Mama Blues

    • Oldie Blues.

  • Gabriels

    One And Only

    • Parlophone.

  • Rachel Maxann

    You Gotta Set Me Free

    • Original Gravity.

  • Quincy Jones

    Money Runner

    • Reprise.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Music Is The Message

    • De-Lite Records.

  • The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble

    Step Down

    • Step Down.
    • Colemine Records.
    • 1.

  • Prince Alphonso & The Fever

    Time Is Ska Tight

    • Original Gravity.

  • Jorge Ben Jor

    Matou (Sonic Funk Foundry Bossa Edit)

    • Philips.

  • Terry Callier

    Ordinary Joe

    • Universal.

  • First Choice

    This Is The House (Tom Moulton Mix)

    • Philly Groove Records.

  • Aroop Roy

    Visions (Aroop Roy edit)

    • Self Released.

  • Casbah 73

    Let's Invade The Amazon

    • Boogie Angst.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Got To Give It Up (The Reflex Revision)

    • White.

  • Los Fulanos

    I Want A Chance For Romance

    • Vampi Soul.

  • Gilberto Sextet

    Good Lovin'

    • Cotique.

  • Robert Cray

    My Baby Likes To Boogaloo

    • Thirty Tigers.

  • Ozzie Torrens And His Exciting Orchestra

    Mia's Boogaloo

    • Rocafort Records.

  • Sunlightsquare

    Chan Chan Boogaloo

    • Sunlightsquare Records.

  • The Invitations

    Funky Road

    • Red Greg Records.

  • The Bongolian

    El Beardo

    • Blow Up Records.

  • Gil Scott‐Heron

    Johannesburg

    • Ariola Express.

  • Dojo Cuts & Carlton Jumel Smith

    Here We Are

    • Colemine Records.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Love The Life You Live

    • De-Lite Records.

  • Astrud Gilberto

    Baiao

    • Astrud Gilberto Now.
    • Perception Records.
    • 1.

  • Hugh Masekela

    Dyambo (Sonic Funk Foundry Bayete Disco Rework)

    • Self Released.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Funky Granny

    • De-Lite Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 28 May 202218:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music