A rare Revilot 45 featuring Funkadelic and the Detroit vocal group, The Holidays

Holidays - All That is Required is You (feat. Funkadelic)

Rose Banks' version of Billy Preston's 'Whole New Thing'. Billy Bass Nelson and Freddie Stone join on this version ; Keni Burke played bass on the original Preston version.

Rose Banks - Whole New Thing

A live Parliament-Funkadelic vamp from 1979 .. Garry Shider and George Clinton

Parliament - Funkadelic - Skip To My Loo (Live)

From Buddy Miles Regiment Double LP - 1981. Arranged by P-Funk's / James Brown's Richard 'Kush' Griffith 

Buddy Miles - Working Harder Every Day

Bootsy and older brother Phelps Collins did this record after they split with James Brown but before they hooked up with Funkadelic.

Bootsy Phelps & Complete Strangers - Fun On Your Thang ( Catfish Collins )

A great Phelps Catfish Collins jam here in this live 1978 version of Bootsy Rubber Band jam 'Very Yes'. Rest in Power Catfish Collins!

Bootsy Collins and Catfish Collins - Live in Louisville - Very Yes

A rare Billy Bass Nelson led track:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bass_Nelson

Billy Bass + Eddie Hazel ( Funkadelic ) - I Ain't Got Nobody

An awesome track with Billy Bass Nelson, Eddie Hazel, Tiki Fulwood and Bernie Worrell of Funkadelic. Led by vocalist JJ Barnes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ_Barnes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkadelic

J.J. Barnes - So Called Friends ( Featuring Funkadelic )

A different take on Shriekback's 'Party Line' - I prefer this 1984 version a bit more, with the female vocalists. I didn't discover it until recently. 

The Arista version of "Partyline" omits an extra repeat of the chorus near the end. Vocals have been re-recorded, and there are additional overdubs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Science

Shriekback - Party Line (Arista Version)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Science

Jam Science is the second album by English pop group Shriekback. It was released in two versions in 1984, and has not been reissued on CD.

The first edition, issued on Y Records in early 1984, was the final release by the label. As the company's final activity, label owner Dick O'Dell assembled an unfinished version of the album from rough mixes without the group's permission; however as the album was contractually recorded for the label, it is not an unauthorised release.[1] Y was a UK record company, but this album was manufactured and distributed in the Netherlands by Sound Products Holland BV, and was out of print by the time the second edition was released. The second edition, issued on Arista Records in late 1984, is the version sanctioned by the group.

"Hand on My Heart" and "Mercy Dash" were also issued as singles, both on Arista.

Shriekback - Party Line (Y Records Version)

Awesome boogie funk track about 'new wavin'. See for more info:

http://www.myspace.com/maggabrainreunion

Multi-member band Maggabrain released this slamming 12 inch in 1983. Sublime electro-funk loaded with synths,
breaks and vocoders. The record contains 3 versions of 'New Wavin' plus a ballad entitled 'Rock Me In Your Arms'.
Maggabrain released another 4 track 12 inch EP in 1984 on the Starr-Bedd label which is ever more rare.
The 'New Wavin' maxi is a great assett to any funk collection.

Maggabrain Band is a funk band that originated in Atlanta, Georgia back in 1974. Maggabrain toured internationally in the 80's with hit songs like "New Wavin", "Rock me in your arms", "I like it when your wet" and "Dreamin

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/maggabrainreunion#ixzz0ytUpQJ1Z

Maggabrain - New Wavin'

http://www.californiaflight1.com/ has bio information .. amazing project from Bay Area jazzer Jerry J

California Flight Project - California Flight

The Mississippi based funk band Wynd Chymes formed in the 70’s. They released an obscure 7” single ‘Baby you’re the one’ on the imprint ‘Lotus Land’. This was a demo and apparently the catalyst for getting them signed to RCA Victor Records. In 1978, just with a record deal in the bag, Alexander O’Neill left the group to focus on his solo with the producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis of Flyte Tyme Productions.

Wynd Chymes - Ride

orn Neville Keighley, Some released his first LP, Some People, in 1985. The title track was a club hit. Although Some's contribution to the Pretty in Pink Soundtrack, "Round, Round", did not penetrate the mainstream, it introduced him to an audience outside of discothèques. Produced by Bernard Edwards, "Round, Round" included an electric guitar rock sound while also featuring a dance groove. "Imagination," a song from the Some People album, was reissued in 1986, peaking at number 17 on the U.K. pop charts. Both "Some People" and "Imagination" were remixed several times. In 1986 he appeared at Knebworth at the bottom of a bill including Queen, Big Country, and Status Quo, where audience members threw plastic bottles at him. In 1987, Some recorded his self-titled second album, but it failed to duplicate the success of his debut. Some then disappeared from the music scene, until 1993 when he released Living Your Life with a techno sound.[2] He has since made sporadic appearances under the alternate pseudonym Belouis Many.

Belouis Some - Jerusalem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Young

Rick James promoted her as the "Black Marilyn Monroe" and brought Young to Berry Gordy, who signed her to Motown Records on James' recommendation. Rick James produced her debut album Seduction which was released in 1985, it included the singles "Mind Games" and the title track "Seduction", as well as "Piece of My Heart" and "If You Should Ever Be Lonely", which were successful follow-ups in 1986.

Val Young - Mind Games

1985 was a memorable year for Rick James; that year, he recorded Glow (one of his more adventurous albums of the 1980s), produced and wrote the Mary Jane Girls' All Four You, and did some work with former Brides of Funkenstein member Val Young (who Motown signed on James' recommendation). James' influence is strong on Young's first solo album, Seduction -- he wrote and produced two of the songs ("Piece of My Heart" and the intoxicating title track), while the rest of the LP was produced by Fred Jenkins and Stone City Band keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. Some of the Mary Jane Girls contribute background vocals, and Young's accompaniment includes members of James' Stone City Band. But Young is certainly her own person -- in fact, she wrote or co-wrote the lyrics for six of the nine songs. Though parts of Seduction are very James-influenced, "Let's Fall in Love" and "Tellin' Me Lies" are closer to the type of material that Kashif would have produced for Evelyn "Champagne" King in the 1980s. And while Young is an R&B singer first and foremost, she incorporates pop/rock elements with pleasing results on "Mind Games" and the playful, slightly new wave-ish "Come Hang Out." This good to excellent album did moderately well, but not as well as it should have -- and regrettably, Young never made it to the next level commercially. ~ Alex Henderson

1st time on CD. Val's debut album (1985 Motown) produced by Rick James and includes the singles Mind Games", "Piece of My Heart", "If You Should Ever Be Lonely" and "Seduction". Val who has work in the past with everybody from George Clinton (she was in the Brides of Funkenstein), Roy Ayers, The Gap Band, Bobby Brown, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eddie Murphy, Miki Howard and many others. 9 tracks.

Val Young - Seduction

1985 was a memorable year for Rick James; that year, he recorded Glow (one of his more adventurous albums of the 1980s), produced and wrote the Mary Jane Girls' All Four You, and did some work with former Brides of Funkenstein member Val Young (who Motown signed on James' recommendation). James' influence is strong on Young's first solo album, Seduction -- he wrote and produced two of the songs ("Piece of My Heart" and the intoxicating title track), while the rest of the LP was produced by Fred Jenkins and Stone City Band keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. Some of the Mary Jane Girls contribute background vocals, and Young's accompaniment includes members of James' Stone City Band. But Young is certainly her own person -- in fact, she wrote or co-wrote the lyrics for six of the nine songs. Though parts of Seduction are very James-influenced, "Let's Fall in Love" and "Tellin' Me Lies" are closer to the type of material that Kashif would have produced for Evelyn "Champagne" King in the 1980s. And while Young is an R&B singer first and foremost, she incorporates pop/rock elements with pleasing results on "Mind Games" and the playful, slightly new wave-ish "Come Hang Out." This good to excellent album did moderately well, but not as well as it should have -- and regrettably, Young never made it to the next level commercially. ~ Alex Henderson

Val Young - If You Should Ever Be Lonely

Rick James ran into serious conflict with Motown over the status of his spin-off acts and Val Young subsequently left the label signing to Amherst Records, a Buffalo, New York-based label, releasing her second album Private Conversations in 1987. Three tracks from this album were produced by Rick James with the title being released as a single.

Val Young - Sweetest Thing

985 was a memorable year for Rick James; that year, he recorded Glow (one of his more adventurous albums of the 1980s), produced and wrote the Mary Jane Girls' All Four You, and did some work with former Brides of Funkenstein member Val Young (who Motown signed on James' recommendation). James' influence is strong on Young's first solo album, Seduction -- he wrote and produced two of the songs ("Piece of My Heart" and the intoxicating title track), while the rest of the LP was produced by Fred Jenkins and Stone City Band keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. Some of the Mary Jane Girls contribute background vocals, and Young's accompaniment includes members of James' Stone City Band. But Young is certainly her own person -- in fact, she wrote or co-wrote the lyrics for six of the nine songs. Though parts of Seduction are very James-influenced, "Let's Fall in Love" and "Tellin' Me Lies" are closer to the type of material that Kashif would have produced for Evelyn "Champagne" King in the 1980s. And while Young is an R&B singer first and foremost, she incorporates pop/rock elements with pleasing results on "Mind Games" and the playful, slightly new wave-ish "Come Hang Out." This good to excellent album did moderately well, but not as well as it should have -- and regrettably, Young never made it to the next level commercially. ~ Alex Henderson

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