IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

A New Year's Eve exotically hip and exponentially funky odyssey to bring better days to mind if there ain't no party going on.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR (IF YOU USE YOUR IMAGINATION) - 12:31:21, 8.55 PM

A stone get-off of funky expressions from around the way.

0:00 - Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
8:29 - Bill Cosby - "Hicky Burr"
12:32 - Salt - "Hung Up"
14:44 - Johnny Harris - "Give Peace a Chance"
18:14 - Gene Harris and the Three Sounds - "Hey Girl"
21:18 - Nino Ferrer - "Mao et Moa"
24:24 - Liza Minnelli - "Use Me"
27:46 - Eddie Senay - "Ain't No Sunshine"
30:55 - Freda Payne - "Unhooked Generation"
33:20 - Jimmy McGriff - "Dig On It"
36:19 - Lonnie Youngblood - "Black Is So Bad"
38:56 - Tower of Power - "What Is Hip?"
42:14 - Timeless Legend - "Baby Don't Do This To Me"
44:54 - The Flaming Ember - "Filet de Soul"
47:16 - Fabulous Souls - "Take Me"
49:46 - Ernie & the Top Notes - "Dap Walk"
52:43 - CK Mann - "Funky Highlife"

Michael Rafalowich's Album

What Is Hip?

Dying to be dancin'? Tonight's the night you'll get what you're looking for.

0:00 - SSO Band - "Tonight's the Night"
2:43 - Rare Function - "Disco Function"
6:45 - Betty Padgett - "Sugar Daddy"
10:00 - Empress - "Dying to Be Dancin'"
15:30 - Crown Heights Affair - "Dreaming a Dream"
18:58 - Cloud One - "Atmosphere Strut"
21:50 - Giorgio Moroder - "I Wanna Rock You"
28:06 - Eastbound Expressway - "Never Let Go"
30:43 - Roy Ayers - "Running Away"
34:52 - Gino Soccio - "Try It Out"
39:15 - Heatwave - "Ain't No Half Steppin'"
43:58 - Chris Rhodes Band - "Gotta New Lease On Love"
47:30 - Mighty Ryeders - "Evil Vibrations"
51:00 - Ronnie Laws - "Always There"
54:30 - Chanson - "Don't Hold Back"
58:25 - Marta Acuna - "Dance Dance Dance"
1:04:25 - Salsa 78 Orchestra - "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine"
1:07:10 - Wild Sugar - "Bring It Here"
1:10:26 - Evelyn Champagne King - "Shame"
1:14:42 - The Love Company - "Love Tempo"
1:18:08 - Gene Chandler - "Get Down"
1:21:35 - The Strikers - "Body Music Part 2"
1:26:38 - D Train - "You're the One For Me"
1:31:00 - Teddy Pendergrass - "I Don't Love You Anymore"
1:33:35 - Loose Joints - "Tell You (Today)"
1:39:03 - Eddy Grant - "Walking on Sunshine"
1:43:58 - Passion - "Don't Stop My Love Part 2"
1:48:56 - The Funk Master - "(I Can't Believe) It's Over"

Tonight's the Night

A heavy, heady rock and roll stew for your next space cowboy road trip across the country or across the cosmos.

0:00 - ENJOY THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS!
1:23 - Atomic Rooster - "The Rock"
2:45 - Traffic - "Rock and Roll Stew"
6:34 - Atomic Rooster - "Breakthrough"
9:04 - The Gentrys - "I Need Love"
11:30 - Three Dog Night - "Fire Eater"
14:15 - Los Dug Dugs - "It's Over"
17:35 - The Cryan Shames - "Greenberg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith and Jones"
19:42 - Les Variations - "What's Happening?"
22:40 - Crow - "Busy Day"
24:59 - keep digging :)
28:59 - Larry Coryell - "Sex"
32:44 - GRAB A SNACK, YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE HERE FOR AWHILE!
33:11 - Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke and Sassafrass"
35:34 - The Damnation of Adam Blessing - "Ba-Dup"
38:50 - Ten Years After - "Sugar the Road"
42:15 - The Ventures - Embers in E Minor"
45:00 - Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - "Going Down"
47:56 - Bo Diddley - "Bad Trip"
53:00 - Spirit - "I Got a Line On You"
55:32 - The Equals - "Funky Funky"
57:44 - Bill Quick - "Take Me Away"
1:00:20 - keep digging :)
1:03:24 - WHO'S GETTING LAID WHILE EATING MACADAMIA NUTS?
1:04:48 - JJ Cale - "Cocaine"
1:07:16 - The Crystal Mansion - "Somebody Ought to Turn Your Head Around"
1:10:30 - King Harvest - "I Can Tell"
1:14:54 - Black Oak Arkansas - "Hot and Nasty"
1:16:55 - Little Stevie Wright - "Evie (Let Your Hair Hang Down)"
1:20:50 - Ram Jam - "404"
1:24:23 - James Gang - "Funk # 48"
1:27:05 - Elephant's Memory - "Mongoose"
1:31:33 - Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - "Flashing Light"
1:34:22 - Help - "Run Away"
1:37:20 - Foghat - "Step Outside"
1:40:55 - Suzi Quatro - "Hit the Road, Jack"
1:44:36 - keep digging :)
1:46:57 - Rare Earth - "Here Comes the Night"
1:50:14 - Johnny Winter - "Funky Music"
1:53:53 - Manassas - "Isn't It About Time?"
1:56:40 - Steve Miller Band - "My Dark Hour"
1:59:36 - Smith - "Minus-Plus"
2:03:17 - April Wine - "Bad Side of the Moon"
2:05:45 - The Nazz - "Magic Me"
2:08:40 - Mahogany Rush - "Look Outside"
2:11:20 - "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"
2:13:05 - Christine Perfect - "I Want You"
2:15:20 - The Move - "Feel Too Good"

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

An exotically hip cross-continental flight to various funky destinations. Stretch out to some Afro-Latin-Brasilian-Jamaican-Euro soul jazz, boogaloo, bossa, and discoteque soundtracks sounds from all over the world. 

0:00 - Johnny Harris - "Fragment of Fear"
3:35 - War - "Cisco Kid"
7:00 - Harlem River Drive - "Harlem River Drive"
10:14 - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - "For What It's Worth"
13:36 - Eddie Palmieri - "Condiciones de Existen"
17:22 - keep digging :)
20:50 - Lonnie Smith - "Hola Muneca"
23:35 - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - "Nora"
28:01 - Herbie Mann - "Let's Boom Chitty Boom"
31:11 - keep digging :)
35:20 - Chakachas - "Stories"
37:50 - Mandrill - "Fat City Strut"/"Hagalo"
43:31 - Denny Wright & the Hustlers - "Shout About Pepsi"
45:49 - Carnival - "Laia Ladaia"
49:14 - Aphrodite's Child - "Funky Mary"
53:12 - Stairsteps - "My Sweet Lord"
56:32 - Dave Pike Set - "Got the Feelin'"
58:47 - Jimmy Castor Bunch - "Hey Leroy (Your Mama's Calling You)"
1:01:07 - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - "Batucada"
1:03:13 - War - "Hey Señorita"
1:07:22 - Lonnie Smith - "Keep Talkin'"
1:10:03 - Mongo Santamaria - "We Got Latin Soul"
1:12:57 - El Gran Combo - "Jala Jala Boogaloo"
1:15:38 - keep digging :)
1:18:28 - Isley Brothers - "Spill the Wine"
1:22:47 - Ray Barretto - "Soul Drummers"
1:26:50 - Valorie Keys - "Listen Here"
1:29:51 - Cal Tjader - "Manteca"
1:35:20 - Massak - "B.L.A. Part 1"
1:38:25 - The Beginning of the End - "In the Deep"
1:43:16 - Massak - "B.L.A. Part 2"
1:45:46 - Jackie Mittoo - "Stereo Freeze"
1:48:48 - Osibisa - "Sunshine Day"
1:52:48 - Sivuca - Ain't No Sunshine
1:57:05 - Gabor Szabo - "Gypsy Jam"
2:01:22 - Joe Cuba Sextet - "Sock It To Me Baby"
2:03:37 - Thee Midniters - "Chicano Power"
2:06:30 - TNT Boys - "Musica de Alma"
2:09:58 - Village Callers - "Hector"
2:12:22 - keep digging :)
2:14:48 - Harlem River Drive - "Seeds of Life"
2:18:17 - The Ventures - "Wack Wack"
2:21:02 - Secos e Molhados - "Amor"
2:23:09 - Baja Marimba Band - "Peru 68"
2:25:19 - Manassas - "Pensamiento"
2:27:45 - Monty Alexander - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
2:31:15 - Donny Hathaway - "The Ghetto"
2:33:50 - Lonnie Smith - "Sideman"

BOSSA BARRIO BOOGALOO

Kick back into summer and vibe out on the smoothness. Everybody loves the sunshine.

0:00 - Rotary Connection - "If I Sing My Song"
3:30 - U.S. 69 - "I Hear You Talkin'"
6:19 - Daryl Hall and John Oates - "When the Morning Comes"
9:00 - The Cyrkle - "The Visit (She Was Here)"
11:05 - The Fifth Avenue Band - "One Way Or the Other"
13:30 - The Vogues - "You're Just What I've Been Looking For"
16:03 - keep digging :)
19:00 - Fire - "Sunny Day"
21:30 - The Buoys - "Sunny Days"
23:12 - Ben Sidran - "Hey Hey Baby"
26:32 - Keni Burke - "Keep On Singing"
30:56 - keep digging :)
33:39 - Michel Fugain et Le Big Bazaar - "Vol 00"
36:25 - Paul Williams - "Roan Pony"
39:56 - Fifth Dimension - "Magic in My Life"
42:50 - Carole King - "Bitter With the Sweet"
45:10 - Robert Lamm - "Love Song"
48:06 - Sanford Townsend Band - "Does It Have to Be You?"
51:03 - El Chicano - "Tell Her She's Lovely"
54:39 - Hues Corporation - "All Goin' Down Together"
57:15 - snack break
57:43 - Orpheus - "I Can Make the Sun Rise"
59:54 - Salt Water Taffy - "The Girl Is Broke"
1:02:20 - The Attitudes - "Sweet Summer Music"
1:05:46 - Milton Wright - "My Old Lady"
1:08:55 - Daryl Hall and John Oates - "You're Much Too Soon"
1:12:45 - Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
1:16:02 - The Crystal Mansion - "Satisfied"
1:18:57 - Baby Grand - "Bring Me Your Broken Heart"
1:22:35 - Seals and Crofts - "Earth"
1:25:03 - LeBlanc and Carr - "Stronger Love"
1:28:37 - Jefferson Starship - "Runaway"
1:32:05 - Gypsy - "Here In My Loneliness"
1:34:54 - keep digging :)
1:36:55 - MFSB - "Sunnin' and Funnin'"
1:39:30 - Gabor Szabo - "Smooth Sailin'"
1:45:43 - Mamas and the Papas - "No Dough"
1:48:29 - Brick - "Southern Sunset"
1:51:23 - The Match - "Morning I'll Be Movin' On"
1:54:35 - The Voices of East Harlem - "Cashin' In"
1:56:50 - Four Tops - "Love Makes You Human"
2:01:23 - Philamore Lincoln - "Temma Harbour"
2:04:10 - Genya Ravan and Ten Wheel Drive - "Shootin' the Breeze"
2:07:16 - Spanky and Our Gang - "Like To Get To Know You"
2:09:30 - Heatwave - "Star of the Story"
2:14:36 - RAMP - "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"
2:18:00 - Ohio Players - "Heaven Must Be Like This"

SMOOTH SAILIN'

Vinyl disc jock of elegantly funky, exotically hip and exponentially groovy music from all over the world.

Guitarist/bassist/song and dance man - The Golden Grass (#goldengrassgroop)

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