Funk | Soul Vinyl 244 Items

US original, Hollywood pressing. Drill hole.

Cover close to VG+

1965 funky Instro-Soul album from Chicago that originally came out on Mercury. It deals with new interpretations of James Bond themes and own Bond inspired compositions. Feat. Studiomusic Clarence Perry (tenor), Richard McCrea (organ) and Ed Townsend (Piano).

Driving mid-paced R’n’B crossover with nice blues on the flip.

- "Sex Machine" sampled by Beastie Boys for "Sex Machine"

- "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" sampled by Geto Boys for "Punk Bitch Game",
Ice Cube for "Horny Lil' Devil",
Ice T for "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey",
KAM for "Stereotype",
MOP for "G-Building" and
Schoolly D for "Don't Call Me Nigger"

- "Stand" sampled by 3XDope for "Believe Dat",
7A3 for "Coolin' in Cali",
A Tribe Called Quest for "Rap Promoter",
Kool Moe Dee for "Rise 'N' Shine",
Professor Griff for "Last Asiatic Disciples",
Public Enemy for "Who Stole the Soul?" and
Scarface for "The Diary"

- "You Can Make it if You Try" (Drums) sampled by 7A3 for "Coolin' in Cali",
Diamond D for "What You Seek",
DJ Quik for "Niggaz Still Trippin'",
DJ Shadow for "Basic Mega-Mix",
Ice Cube for "The Product", "True to the Game" & "Wicked",
Ice T for "New Jack Hustler",
Insane Poetry for "Grim Reality",
Jungle Brothers for "Because I Got it Like That",
King Sun for "Be Black" & "Stunts",
King T for "Take You Home",
Lifer's Group for "Jack U. Back (So You Wanna Be a Gangsta)",
Mad Flava for "Wax on tha Belt (Baby G Gets Biz)",
Mobb Deep for "Hit it from the Back",
Powerule for "Gots to Get This",
Public Enemy for "Night of the Living Baseheads",
Queen Latifah for "Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children",
Rumpletilskinz for "I-N-I",
Schoolly D for "Mr. Big Dick" & "This is It (Ain't Gonna Rain)",
Stetsasonic for "Talkin' All That Jazz",
Tupac for "Troublesome",
Two Kings in a Cipher for "Movin' on 'Em",
X-Clan for "Xodus" and
Yo-Yo for "You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo"

- "I Want to Take You Higher" sampled by De La Soul for "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'" & "Ladies Nite Decision",
DOC for "Mind Blowin'",
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for "Magic Carpet Ride" and
Schoolly D for "Dis Groove is Bad"

- "Sing a Simple Song" (Drums) sampled amongst others by A Tribe Called Quest for "Jazz (We've Got)",
Ahmad for "Can I Party?",
Akinyele for "Bags Packed",
Alkaholiks for "Make Room",
Arrested Development for "Mr. Wendal",
Big Punisher for "Twinz (Deep Cover '98)",
Boss for "Drive By",
Chubb Rock for "Lost in the Storm",
Compton's Most Wanted for "I Don't Dance",
Craig Mack for "That Y'all",
Cypress Hill for "Latin Lingo",
Da King & I for "Krak Da Weazel",
Da Lench Mob for "Buck tha Devil",
Das EFX for "Hard Like a Criminal" & "Mic Checka",
De La Soul for "Eye Know",
Del for "Worldwide",
Diamond D for "Check 1, 2",
Digital Underground for "Return of the Crazy One" & "The Humpty Dance",
Domino for "Getto Jam", "Long Beach Thing" & "Sweet Potato Pie",
Dr. Dre for "Deep Cover",
E-40 for "Hide n Seek" & "Nuttin' A-s Nigga",
Eazy-E for "Eazy-Duz-It" & "It's On",
Ed OG for "Skinny Dip",
Erick Sermon for "Stay Real",
Fu-Schnickens for "Props" & "Sneekin' up on Ya",
Gorillaz for "192000",
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for "Kid Named Flash",
Group Home for "Supa Star",
Heather B for "All Glocks Down",
Ice Cube for "Gangsta's Fairy Tale 2",
"Jackin' for Beats", "Really Doe" & "Who's the Mack?",
Ice T for "Ricochet",
Insane Poetry for "How Ya Gonna Reason with a Psycho",
Jungle Brothers for "For the Heads at Company B", "J. Beez Comin' Through" & "Simple As That",
KAM for "Ain't That a Bitch", "Holiday Madness", "Pull Your Hoe Card" & "Stereotype",
Kris Kross for "Can't Stop the Bumrush",
KRS-One for "Sound of da Police",
LL Cool J for "How I'm Comin'" & "Mama Said Knock You Out",
Lords of the Underground for "Here Comes the Lords",
MadKap for "Check it Out",
Mary J. Blige for "Love is All We Need",
Me Phi Me for "Put Sho' Hands Together",
Mellow Man Ace for "Me La Pelas",
Naughty by Nature for "Ready for Dem",
ODB for "Hippa to da Hoppa",
Papa Chuk for "Trunk of Funk",
Paris for "Check it out ch'all",
Pete Rock & CL Smooth for "Anger in the Nation" & "For Pete's Sake",
Pharcyde for "I'm That Type of Nigga",
Public Enemy for "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", "Can't Truss It", "Get the Fuck out of Dodge", "Livin' in a Zoo" & "Party for Your Right to Fight",
Redman for "Blow Your Mind", "So Ruff" & "Time 4 Sum Aksion",
Rumpletilskinz for "Sweet Therapy" & "Theramixx",
Run-DMC for "In the House",
Salt-N-Pepa for "Somma Time Man",
Scarface for "Your Ass Got Took",
Schoolly D for "Dis Groove is Bad",
Showbiz & A.G. for "Represent",
Sir Mix-A-Lot for "The Jack Back",
Soul II Soul for "Nuff Love",
Stereo MCs for "The Other Side",
Stetsasonic for "It's in My Song",
Stezo for "Gets into His Move",
Terminator X for "Back to the Scene of the Crime",
TLC for "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "Hat 2 Da Back" & "What about Your Friends?",
Tupac for "Peep Game", "Souljah's Revenge", "Temptations" & "Young Niggaz",
UTFO for "Rough and Rugged",
WC & the Maad Circle for "Behind Closed Doors",
West Street Mob for "Sing A Simple Song",
Wu-Tang Clan for "Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)",
X-Clan for "Funk Liberation" and
Yo-Yo for "Mackstress"

11 tracks ... sampled by Guru, Ghostface, Geto Boys ... 180 gram vinyl

Seam split and storage wear. Vinyl is Close to VG. 1965 reissue.

The album Rock 'n Soul was originally released in 1964 by Grammy Award winning Solomon Burke (†2010). 7 tracks ended up in Top 100 Billboard Hits at the time. "If You Need Me" went as high as #2 in the Black Singles Chart. This extraordinary album is not only soulful but a confirmation that Burke is a genius when it comes to writing music and making it happen in a studio!

Originally from 1961, here is a searing soul tinged R'n'B pleader. This reissue is backed with the original flip, which also is a nice mover.

This is an excellent 1964 soul-jazz album, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.

Breezy Sunshine-Pop / Soft-Rock / Psych-Pop from California, 1970, featuring Peter Clark a.k.a Chet DeMilo.

Crystal clear recording, awesome vocal harmonies, superb musicianship, bossa & blue-eyed-soul-jazz touches,folk-rock moves…

In 1969 Chet Demilo was appearing at Donkin's Inn, Marina Del Rey, where he met Arnie Marcus and Ray Hames, who together were to become part of an incredible slice of history. Donkin's became the hottest and most famous destination in Southern California for the next seven years, and Chet was the magnet that started the new singles scene in Los Angeles with Marina Del Rey as ground zero.

Arnie sat in on bongos with Chet from time to time, and Ray, who was managing an apartment complex that housed 200 flight attendants, just happened to have a unit available!! Chet moved in, and he and Ray started working on songs together. Chet suggested forming a vocal group with Arnie and SST was born. For three months they practiced the intricate vocal harmonies and in early 1970 cut the album, "Soft Soul Transition". A thousand records were pressed, and an album release party was held at Donkins where SST gave their one and only performance that night!

There was interest in the project at Burt Bacharach's Blue Seas Music, but it was not to be and SST faded away...until more than 20 years later when the SST album was discovered by a new generation of DJs and collectors looking for cool and groovy sounds from the 60s-70s.

Original US pressing.

Yet another collaboration between Sandro Brugnolini and Stefano Torossi, who also worked together on the masterpiece “Feelings”. “Musica per commenti sonori” consists of twelve amazing tracks that will excite lovers of the wildest funk, producers in search of rare breaks, and those with a penchant for the psycho-beat atmospheres of the sixties. One of the rarest library music releases ever, that’s never been re-released in any form until now!

“Musica per commenti sonori” is a cult series within the diverse world of Italian library music. In the late sixties and seventies, the small record label Costanza Records has published several releases precisely focusing on ‘background music’, including works of great composers such as Peppino De Luca, Roberto Pregadio, Franco Micalizzi, Vito Thomas, Giancarlo Thomas Puccio Roelens, Riccardo Luciani, and by the protagonists of this long-time due reissue: Sandro Brugnolini and Stefano Torossi.

The two musicians, who had also worked together on the masterpiece “Feelings” (1974), have often collaborated and delivered some of the best Italian library music of all time. “Musica per commenti sonori” is certainly one of the most interesting. On the two equally split sides of this LP, the first for Torossi and the second for Brugnolini (but it seems that this partition was exclusively dictated by legal demands), there are twelve amazing tracks that will excite lovers of the wildest funk, producers in search of rare breaks, and those with a penchant for the psycho-beat atmospheres of the sixties.

Among the most heated tracks featured on Torossi’s side, we can’t pass over the amazing “Sweet-Beat”, “Interrupted” (perhaps the best track of the album) and “Repetition” while “Polyphony”, “Motuproprio” and the closing track “Flyer” shine on Brugnolini’s. Virtually impossible to find, even at astonishing prices, this reissue puts back into the market one of the best examples of ‘The Italian Art of Library Music’: a genre worldwide envied and collected.

Womack returned to American in 1969 to cut My Prescription, also produced by Moman, at a time that the venue was becoming exceptionally hot with visits from the likes of Elvis, Dusty Springfield, Neil Diamond and others. Womack's sophomore album may however well be one of the most demonstrative showcases of studio and session crew, incandescent on a finely-honed program of classy and soulful performances, with the singer in full control. Tracks like 'How I Miss You Baby,' 'Arkansas State Prison' and 'I Can't Take It Like A Man' stand as some of Womack's greatest moments, and taken as a whole, My Prescription stands not only the man's first truly great solo album, but also a timeless slice of sophisticated southern soul-making.

Copy is close to VG+!

Writing on cover.

Tear in spine. Writing on cover.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover with long open seam splits on top and bottom spines.

Bottom spine is torn. Original inner sleeve.

Vinyl has scuffs and hairlines.

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines. Cover close to VG+

Record has light scratches and marks, plays with slight background crackles. Cover solid VG.

The soundtrack to this 1969 German sexual comedy was produced by Improved Sound Limited, showcasing their killer blend of experimental pop, blues, rock, jazz, funk and easy listening, augmented with tape effects, phasing, distorted guitar... Groovy songs influenced by 60's beat and psychedelia.

Newly mastered sound by Jörg Scheuerman. Comes complete with an insert with photos and liner notes. Limited to 500 copies only.

Nina Simone was one of the best Blues singers of the 20th century. Only someone the likes of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith had the power to lay a soul bare like she could, as her stripped-down 'Be My Husband' shows. Nina Simone never, ever disappoints. Re-released for the first time on vinyl since 1965, we hope we do 'Pastel Blues' justice. Includes 'Strange Fruit'!

Original US.

180 gram vinyl

cover with puchhole and bottom seam split. vinyl has only superficial marks

180 Gram Vinyl!

Back To Black 180 gram vinyl reissue

heavily sampled classic funk album!!

- "In the Middle" sampled by Chubb Rock for "Organizer"

- "The Chicken" sampled by 2 Live Crew for "I Ain't Bullshitin'",
Big Daddy Kane for "Calling Mr. Welfare",
CEO for "Hit Me with the Beat" and
Main Source for "Think"

- "Why Am I Treated So Bad" sampled by The Associates for "From the Ground Up"

- "Soul Pride" sampled by Digable Planets for "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)",
Mad Flava for "Gotz ta Flow ta This",
Mr. X & Mr.Y for "1956",
Peshay for "Psychosis" & "Vocal Tune" and
Roni Size for "Hot Stuff"

Cover is missing.

close to NM. 2008 reissue.

Vinyl LP pressing.

Vinyl LP pressing.