Super Rare Disco Grooves Volumes 1 - 10

[Funky Dude]

Okay now I'm going to list my 26 "Super Rare Disco Groove" CD compilations that I've slapped together over the past 8 months. A lot of them are hard-to-find grooves but I've also put some mainstream grooves on as well despite the fact I call the compilations "Super Rare Disco Grooves". Most of them I've downloaded and some come off my records. Also the quality of the songs range from good to extremely poor, I don't worry about filtering them as the filters are a pain in the arse to use and I just throw together these compilations just so I don't wear my records out and to listen to my MP3s on my stereo system. Also it's not just disco it's also funk as well.

Anyhow here's my "Super Rare Grooves" listings 1-10:


Super Rare Disco Grooves 1:
1 – B.T. Express – Expose Yourself 1977
2 – Ultra High Frequency – We’re On The Right Track 1973
3 – Louis Ramirez – Salsa 1975
4 – Eastside Connection – You’re So Right For Me 1977
5 – Softones – That Old Black Magic 1975
6 – Deodato – Skyscrapers 1973
7 – Miami – Party Freaks 1974
8 – Juggy Murray Jones – Inside America 1976
9 – The Joneses – Sugar Pie Guy 1974
10 – Rozza & Wine – Disco Boogie Woman 1975
11 – Kay Gees – Hustle With Every Muscle 1975
12 – Rufus & Chaka Khan – Once You Get Started 1974
13 – The Intruders – She’s A Winner 1972
14 – Funky People – Everybody Hustle 1975

Super Rare Disco Grooves 2:
1 – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Tell The World How I Feel About ‘cha Baby 1975
2 – Dennis Coffey – Scorpio 1971
3 – Fat Larry’s Band – Center City 1977
4 – Don Downing – Dream World 1974
5 – Paradise Express – Dance 1978
6 – Archie Bell & the Drells – Everybody Have A Good Time 1976
7 – Fatback Band – Street Walk 1972
8 – I.O.B. (Impact Of Brass) – Say Goodbye 1975
9 – Crown Heights Affair – Dancin’ 1976
10 – Willie Hutch – Get Ready For The Get Down 1974
11 – Executive Suite – When The Fuel Runs Out 1973
12 – Telex – Moskow Diskow 1979
13 – Edwin Starr – Time 1970
14 – The Chequers – Undecided Love 1975

Super Rare Disco Grooves 3:
1 – Isaac Hayes – Chocolate Chip 1975
2 – Metropolis – I Love New York 1978
3 – Baciotti – Black Jack 1977
4 – First Choice – The Player 1974
5 – Undisputed Truth – You + Me = Love 1976
6 – Soul Train Gang – Soul Train ’75 Theme 1975
7 – Jerry Butler – One Night Affair 1972
8 – Jakki – Sun Sun Sun 1976
9 – Nite-Liters – K-Jee 1971
10 – Midnight Movers – Follow The Wind 1973
11 – Van McCoy – Love Is The Answer 1974

Super Rare Disco Grooves 4:
1 – Kay Gees – Space Disco 1978
2 – Jermaine Jackson – Bass Odyssey 1976
3 – Ultrafunk – Kung Fu Man (Troy’s Mix) 1974
4 – Isaac Hayes – Theme From Men 1972
5 – Black Soul – Black Soul Music 1975 (Version 1)
6 – Black Soul – Black Soul Music 1975 (Version 2)
7 – Carrie Lucas – I Gotta Keep Dancin’ 1977
8 – Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles 1973
9 – Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes – Hot Lava 1976
10 – Independants – I Love You, Yes I Do 1972
11 – Melvin Sparks – Get Down With The Get Down 1974
12 – Lyn Collins – Rock Me Again & Again X6 1974
13 – Soul Searchers – We The People (Parts 1 & 2) 1972
14 – Boogie Man Orchestra – Lady, Lady, Lady 1975
15 – Zulema – Giving Up 1973
16 – Queen Yahna – Ain’t It Time 1976

Super Rare Disco Grooves 5:
1 – Commodores – Superman 1974
2 – B.T. Express – Discotizer 1975
3 – USA-European Connection – Come Into My Heart 1979
4 – Ultrafunk – Kung Fu Man (Extended) 1974
5 – Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun 1972
6 – Rose Royce – It Makes You Feel Like Dancing 1977
7 – Biddu Orchestra – Summer Of ’42 1975
8 – Olympic Runners – Get It While You Can 1978
9 – Blackbyrds – Flying High 1975
10 – First Choice – Armed & Extremely Dangerous 1973
11 – Liquid Smoke – Dance, Dance, Dance 1976
12 – The Originals – Down To Love Town 1976
13 – Steam – Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Goodbye 1969
14 – Barrabas – Hi-Jack 1974
15 – Gary Toms Empire – 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blow Your Whistle 1975

Super Rare Disco Grooves 6:
1 – Ace Spectrum – If You Were There 1974
2 – Gary Criss – The Girl From Ipanema & Brazilian Nights 1978
3 – Yambu – Sunny 1975
4 – Booker T. & The MG’s – Melting Pot 1971
5 – Archie Bell & The Drells – Let’s Groove 1975
6 – George McCrae – Love In Motion 1976
7 – Jackson 5 – Hum Along & Dance 1973
8 – Rinder & Lewis – Lust 1977
9 – Osibisa – Dance The Body Music 1976
10 – Bar-Kays – Son Of Shaft (My edit) 1972
11 – Alvin Cash – Ali Shuffle 1976
12 – Foxy – Get Off Your Ahh & Dance 1976
13 – Van McCoy – Disco Baby 1975
14 – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Where Are All Your Friends 1974

Super Rare Disco Grooves 7:
1 – Jackson 5 – Hum Along & Dance 1973
2 – Eddie Kendricks – Goin’ Up In Smoke 1976
3 – James Wells – My Claim To Fame 1978
4 – Jimmy Castor Bunch – Potential 1975
5 – Archie Bell & The Drells – Tighten Up 1968
6 – John Davis & The Monster Orchestra – Up Jumped The Devil 1977
7 – Gary’s Gang – Keep On Dancin’ 1978
8 – KC & The Sunshine Band – All My Love 1974
9 – Donna Summer – Summer Fever 1976
10 – Osibisa – Music For Gong Gong 1971
11 – Poison – Let Me Lay My Funk On You 1975
12 – Blackbyrds – Happy Music 1975
13 – The Intruders – I’ll Always Love My Mama 1973

Super Rare Disco Grooves 8:
1 – Brother’s Johnson – Ride-O-Rocket 1978
2 – Mass Production – Welcome To Our World (Of Merry Music) 1976
3 – The Blenders LTD – When Ya Git Through With It Put It Back 1972
4 – William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got 1974
5 – Isaac Hayes – Disco Connection 1975
6 – Four Tops – Are You Man Enough 1973
7 – The O’Jays – I Love Music 1976
8 – Esther Phillips – What A Difference A Day Makes 1975
9 – Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain 1972
10 – Good News – Australia 1979
11 – Curtis Mayfield – If There’s Hell Below (We’re All Gonna Go) 1970
12 – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Bad Luck 1975
13 – Fatback Band – Night Fever 1976
14 – Nino Tempo – Sister James 1973

Super Rare Disco Grooves 9:
1 – Paul Jabara – Pleasure Island 1978
2 – Disco Construction – Harlem Hustle 1975
3 – Muscle Shoals Horns – Born To Get Down 1976
4 – The Nite-Liters – Theme From Shaft 1972
5 – Musique – Keep On Jumpin’ 1979
6 – Bobby Rydell – Sway 1976
7 – Sister Sledge – Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On Me 1974
8 – Imperials – Who’s Gonna Love Me 1975
9 – Con Funk Shun – Ffun 1977
10 – Aquarian Dream – Phoenix 1975
11 – Crystal Grass – Crystal World (My edit) 1974
12 – MFSB – TSOP (Soul Train Theme) 1973
13 – Philly Devotions – Just Can’t Say Goodbye 1974
14 – The Sylvers – Cotton Candy 1975

Super Rare Disco Grooves 10:
1 – Kay Gees – Hustle With Every Muscle (My edit) 1975
2 – Donna Summer – Spring Affair 1976
3 – 3 Degrees – Year Of Decision 1974
4 – Al Green – Love & Happiness 1972
5 – Futures – Castles In The Sky 1975
6 – First Choice – Armed & Extremely Dangerous 1973
7 – Carol Douglas – Doctor’s Orders (My edit) 1974
8 – Jackson 5 – Forever Came Today 1975
9 – Hues Corporation – I Caught Your Act 1977
10 – Kool & The Gang – Caribbean Festival Pt 1 1975
11 – Lonnie Liston Smith – Expansions’ 1975
12 – Players Association – Going To A Disco 1977

Next up volumes 11-20

[Bernie]

Funkydude,

Great stuff! By the looks of your list it seems as if you are branching out. Good to see that you are not putting up any musical boundaries. Others here have said it before, for being only 20 years of age you got the music thing going on. If more younger people were as open-minded as you about music...

[Blaxman]

What can I say about all those lists?? Just perfect!!!

Funky Dude, keep posting your lists whenever you want !! We like them!!! :grin: :grin:

Peace

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[jazz_pilgrim]

Wow!!! :grin: :grin:

What can I say??? A-W-E-S-O-M-E !!!

Those lists are gonna take some time to work through, but I will, I promise!!

And I agree with Blax!! Keep on posting your lists!! :grin: :grin: Where would we be without them!! They are fantastic!

[Funky Dude]

Thanks Bernie, Blax and Jazz for the wonderful feedback .

Cheers

[Robbie]

FunkyDude--

I was going over your list and thought I'd add some comments to some of your selections which are faves of mine.

Vol.1--"Sugar Pie Guy" by the Joneses was a good song.
Vol.2--"Dream World" by Don Downing was another good one; it came off of "Super Rare Disco" CD, which was very good. "Dance" by Paradise Express is one of my all-time fave disco tunes. Martha and Izora in the background and doing their thing at the end--Classic!! "When The Fuel Runs Out" by Executive Suite is another great song and also came from the "Super Rare Disco" CD.
Vol.3--"I Love N.Y." by Metropolis is another great one, a definite Salsoul classic from '78!! "Sun Sun Sun" by Jakki I had never heard of until I heard the Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage CD. I have yet to hear the 9-minute version, and I'd like to soon.
Vol.5--"Come Into My Heart" by USA/European Connection was a great Boris Midney composition, and it was good enough to be included on a Billboard Top Disco Hits collection, which was a surprise. "Down To Love Town" by the Originals was a good one too; that was heard in the movie "Thank God It's Friday".
Vol.6--"Sunny" by Yambu is one of my all-time faves. I loved it when I heard for the first time about 10 years ago on a disco classics radio show in N.Y. I have this on a 45, on the Montuno label.
Vol.7--"My Claim To Fame" by James Wells is a song I'm familiar with but haven't heard the full length version of. Donna Summer's "Summer Fever" was great!! I love the part where the tension builds and lets out the oooooh that could give Minnie Riperton's bird calls a run for her money. "I'll Always Love My Mama" by the Intruders was a great 1973 disco classic.
Vol.8--"I Love Music" by the O'Jays was one of their best records. "What A Difference A Day Makes" by Esther Phillips was another good one; she even performed that song on an early "Saturday Night Live" episode in 1975. "Date With The Rain" by Eddie Kendricks was another 1973 disco classic.
Vol.9--"Cotton Candy" by the Sylvers was a song I liked by them.
Vol.10--"Spring Affair" by Donna Summer was terrific and it led into "Summer Fever" on the Four Seasons of Love album; "I Caught Your Act" by the Hues Corporation was another good one; I have that on a CD called "Club Floor Classics".

[jazz_pilgrim]

OK, Funky, I'm sitting here in the evening with a glasss of my favourite Irish Whiskey! The perfect time to go through some of your excellent lists!!

As you put so much effort in putting them together, then you deserve a bit of my time to go through them!!

Cd 1:
Eastside Connection - that went in my Top 25 and deservedly so! Great funky rhythms and great arrangements! Two tracks I have only discovered myself in the past three months or so, and I love both of 'em: Skyscrapers - fast becoming a real fave of mine...Miami and Party freaks - recorded that off one of the radio shows in London recently...Intruders track - nice track with a big Philly sound!....Rufus track - the best thing they ever did, IMHO, I remember dancin' to this many times but I don't have it in my collection...yet!! Hustle With Every Muscle :grin:

Wow! That was only the first CD! :grin:

CD 2 :
Hmm - this Scorpio track that I have yet to discover but am very intrigued about! I loved Wings Of Fire from '77. Fat Larry's Band - what can I say - one of the first underground disco records I got into in 1977 (1977 - Nuff said :grin:) and I still play it to death!! Was in my Top 25. Paradise Express - Dance.. a really nice record more on the disco side.......Crown Heights Affair - some of their early stuff was awesome/that tune included..Archie Bell ... his stuff was always very popular over here, that one included. Turn it up!!! :grin: I think I have that Executive Suite on a K-Tel compilation but I don't know it!! Gotta dig it out!!

CD3:
Metropolis - the first US import 12" I ever bought!! It cost me a whopping £3.25 in 1978 for a 3-min and a 5-min version of the same song!! Worth every penny as I have played it so much over the years!! Jerry Butler - anybody that likes the "Ice Man" has gotta be cool in my opinion!!...Jakki - another one I've picked up on recently - superb... Undisputed Truth - superb vocals from Taka Boom (a nice picture as well!) plus a stormin' Norman production.. Perfect 1977 record!! First Choice - can go wrong with that Salsoul stormer - a real powerful record!!

CD4:
I only know 2 of the songs: Jackson Sisters was so big in the rare groove scene in the mid-80s in England that they re-relased this on a UK Urban 12". I snapped it up!!! Lyn Collins - another mid-80's re-release!! I think I've heard Black Soul being mentioned somewhere B4 -sounds interesting!

CD5: Hmmm Barrabas - Hijack. Just picked up off the radio a Herbie Mann tune called Hijack. Wonder if its the same tune? :???: I reckon they probably are!!! Bloody good tune! Blackbyrds - all their music from this era was pretty ground-breaking, IMHO, in terms of the development of jazz fusion. Seriously good track! Rose Royce - another great stormin Norman produced track. Fantastic! Biddhu Orchestra - haven't heard that one in ages! Aaah! Sweet memories!...Olympic Runners - I have the 12" but I must admit I always preferred Keep It Up!!! Steam - think I remember that one!

Hope U appreciate my comments Funky! tell you what, I will stop for now, as it's getting late but I will come back tomorrow with my comments on Cd's 6 -10. I am amazed that you have been able to delve back in to this music and come up with such strong listings! If you had played those back in the day, you would have had a heaving and packed dance floor All Night Long!! :grin: :grin: Guaranteed!







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