Can I  – Leon Bryant (Leon is/was also a writer, producer & arranger – and this trak is one of his compositions … assigned to New York’s Delite Records – home of Kool & the Gang, Crown Heights Affair)

Time waits for no one  –  Jean Carn (The vocals, the composition & the arrangement – all three put together is what makes it works … from her first album on Philadelphia International which was self-titled “Jean Carn”)

House of the rising funk   –  Chubukos (Inspired by ‘House of the rising sun – The Animals/Nina Simone … this trak appeared on Mainstream Records after they forayed into Soul & Funk from the usual Jazz releases , ignored by most until being discovered by Hip hop producers & Street Funk fans alike)

I know a place  –  Victor Simonelli presents Sounds of One (I’ll take you there – Staple Singers is the trak that comes to mind every time i hear this trak … originally released as  The EP – on One Records)

In the thick of it  –  Brenda Russell (After releasing a duo album with her husband – Brenda went solo was where all trax were written by her … an A & M Record release)

Tell me how it feels  –  John Davis & the Monster Orchestra (From his first album ‘Night & Day’ which consisted of mainly Cole Porter tunes – six of the eight … released on Sam Records)

I need it  –  Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson (This man made his guitar ‘talk’  and in the seventies made it “Funk” … signed to U.K.’s DJM Records – from the ‘Ain’t that a bitch’)

Let the music take control  –  Night Writers (Credited to Ricky Dillard on cd and both released on Jack Trax in the U.K … Ricky went on to create The New Generation Chorale with great success)

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