THANKSGIVING 1973

**Keith RS** · November 28th, 2003, 08:19 AM

Yesterday I was thinking about a memorable Thanksgiving Day weekend from 1973. It marked the time when I became a serious music collector. My big sister came home from college with one of her girlfriends and they had some reall music treats with them. Here is a sampling of what we listened to that weekend:

"Head To the Sky"- Earth, Wind, & Fire
"3 + 3"-Isley Brothers
"Wild & Peaceful"- Kool & the Gang
"Just Outside of Town"-Mandrill
"Innervisons"-Stevie Wonder
"Street Lady"-Donald Byrd

Good music, good times!!!! 8)

**efunk_adelic** · December 31st, 2003, 04:32 PM

Originally Written by Keith RS

Yesterday I was thinking about a memorable Thanksgiving Day weekend from 1973. It marked the time when I became a serious music collector. My big sister came home from college with one of her girlfriends and they had some reall music treats with them. Here is a sampling of what we listened to that weekend:

"Head To the Sky"- Earth, Wind, & Fire
"3 + 3"-Isley Brothers
"Wild & Peaceful"- Kool & the Gang
"Just Outside of Town"-Mandrill
"Innervisons"-Stevie Wonder
"Street Lady"-Donald Byrd

Good music, good times!!!! 8)

I really like these choices you have here... within my immediate family we have all but - Mandrill & Donald Byrd.

during that time is around the time I got serious about music also.............

add:

Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
Ohio Players - Pain

the first part of the year ('74)

Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes
James Brown - Hell

I bought mostly 45's but these are the LP's I had purchased at the time.... $3.99 was a lot of money back then for a little kid and a $5.00 allowance per week. :roll:

**visuals** · December 31st, 2003, 07:45 PM

I agree with you both. I have all of the original albums on wax and CD (except "Street Lady" by The Blackbyrds & James Brown's "Hell"). Good stuff

**efunk_adelic** · January 1st, 2004, 01:50 PM

Visuals, even tho I don't have James Brown's Hell LP on CD... On one of his compilation CD's something like "Best of 1974-1978... It contains the song Coldblooded So Cool!!!

**Keith RS** · January 12th, 2004, 04:14 PM

"open Our Eyes", a classic ! James Brown, "Hell", top shelf!

**herbalizer12** · January 15th, 2004, 01:55 AM

I spy a lot of you mentioneing James Brown's beautifully gatefolded "Hell" album. Living here in Australia, back in the early 90s I managed to pick the original copy of this 2-record set up for a really cheap price.

In later years I would be deejaying at a funk/soul club and my DJ companion at that time decided it would be funny to act the fool and swan around on the dancefloor with my "Hell" album.

Consequently, he was a little "sloshed" and pretending to dance with the opened-up inside gatefold picture of Mr.Brown, both records fell out and one of the records broke!

To this day, I haven't forgiven my mate and still possess the album: albeit with one hefty chunk taken out of Record 1!

I have a re-press now, but it's the last time I let anyone hold my vast soul, jazz & funk collection in the same manner. :evil:

herbalizer12

**efunk_adelic** · January 15th, 2004, 09:50 AM

herb,

sounds like maybe you should've bitch slapped him after that incident. you should see the looks on my face when somebody decides to play one of my records regardless of what it is... :o I hate finger prints on my records!!!!

**originalbigm** · January 15th, 2004, 01:38 PM

After reading this thread I had to go dig out my original Lp. Arguably one of his best albums .The Godfather of Soul is at his inimitable funky best on this one.

From AMG
"Brown's early-'70s run of classic singles and good-to-great albums is still impressive. Hell was the double album released a year after the gold selling The Payback. To some, the title might put this effort in the realm of kitsch, but in many ways Hell was one of Brown's strongest albums. The album was the pinnacle of his work as the Minister of the Super New New Heavy Funk. From the tough and nimble Latin rhythms of "Coldblooded," and "Sayin' It and Doin' It" to the title track, all are prime pre-disco Brown. "My Thang" is probably as hard and unrelenting as he got without spontaneously combusting. The biggest surprise of Hell is that no matter how odd the song choices seemed, practically everything worked, excluding a few key songs of course. Both "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Stormy Monday" don't belong in James Brown's catalogue, let alone the same album. Ballad-wise, Brown fares better. "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You" has him getting all warm and fuzzy as he inexplicably throws in an "I'm hurt, I'm hurt" for good measure. That song, as well as the weepers "A Man Has to Go to the Cross Road Before He Finds Himself" and "Sometime," were produced by David Matthews who could always get good ragged yet poised vocals from Brown. Although Brown did roll snake eyes on all of side three, he did leave Hell on a good note. "Papa Don't Take No Mess" is laid-back, funky jazz that's worth each of its 13-plus minutes. Despite a few detours, Hell is worth listening to."