Motown Funk: 38 Pipin' Hot Funk Joints

[jack020]

Amazon has this for sale from march 25, 2013. Anybody has any info on this?

[Ngroove]

Orrrr, who wouldja want in such a collection, before further official track lineup airs? I'd be happy with Rick James and Val Young an absolute MUST before consideration of buying, with Willie Hutch, Tata Vega, Jermaine Jackson, Switch, Dazz Band, Bobby Nunn, Teena Marie, Mary Jane Girls, and Georgio pretty nicely too....oh wait - 38 tracks? Ozone, Vanity, Stacy Lattisaw, Carrie McDowell, Johnny Gill.

[Kamasu_Jr]

Can you provide a link to what you are talking about? I saw a Motown Funk release on Amazon.COM USA. But it had no details.

[johnny_raven]

http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/motown-funk-mr0003862161

[Ngroove]

Hmmm....I approve of "Sisters Love" and "Bottom and Company", but really - even if the tracks are unreleased, most of the names are all too common, easy to find, on any individual Greatest Hits / Cellarful of Motowns / Complete Motown Singles....

Huh??? Frankie Valli??? A legendary vocalist he is, but he's not "funk" funk....neither is Barbara McNair, or ANY Supremes headed by Diana Ross!

Think I'm gonna consider getting the older, out of print, but superior FUNKOLOGY series instead.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/funkology-vol-1-got-to-give-it-up-mw0000179931

[jack020]

Thanks for the info but this lists 32 tracks , not 38 so I think this is not the same title!

[johnny_raven]

jack ... Why would spectrum release two different CDs with practically the same title on the same day?

[snakepit]

A strange release in many ways, but some good tracks here. What a shame "Rolling down a mountain side" by Third Creation wasn't included........it would have fitted in with this 'varied' set.

[jack020]

Hi Johnny:
I had a look at the track listing of the above mentioned album and saw :


Hardly funk I think....

L.A [[My Town) [[http://www.allmusic.com/song/la-my-town-mt0046538214)


The Four Tops [[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-four-tops-mn0000071812)

[johnny_raven]

I agree that most of these are hardly funk tracks, but there you have it ...

[Ngroove]

I agree that most of these are hardly funk tracks, but there you have it ...

Indeed...seriously, I really wouldn't peg much sixties, outside of perhaps James Brown / George Clinton, as "funk"....yes, you can call Temptations backed by Dennis Edwards, Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Shorty Long, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Wilson Pickett "funky", but still "funk" as a genre to me, is mostly a term that began in the seventies at earliest...and that still goes to whoever can stand toe-to-toe up with James Brown, George Clinton, Ohio Players, Kool and the Gang, Cameo, ect.