Theme from I Need Help……….Rare Album Compilation I DentifyTracks ListThe First Family Of FunkA 1. The Dapps - There Was A Time 2. Hank Ballard - How You Gonna Get Respect (You Havent Cut Your Process Yet) 3. The Dapps - Bringin Up The Guitar 4. Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk Popcorn 5. Marva Whitney - I Made A Mistake (Because Its Only You) 6. J.B.O. - Use Your Mother 7. Marva Whitney - Hes The One 8. Beau Dollar - Who Knows B 1. Steve Soul - Popcorn With A Feeling 2. Hank Ballard - With Your Sweet Lovin Self 3. Vicki Anderson - Answer To Mother Popcorn 4. J.B.O. - The Drunk 5. Bobby Byrd - Hang Up Your Hang-Ups 6. Fred Wesley & The J.B.s - Use Me 7. A.A.B.B. - Pick Up The Pieces One By One 8. Bootsey Phelps & Complete Strangers - Fun In Your Thang Pt. 1By mid-1960s, James Brown had developed his signature groove that emphasized the downbeat — with heavy emphasis “on the one” (the first beat of every measure) — to etch his distinctive sound, rather than the backbeat that was familiar to many R&B and soul musicians.[4] Brown often cued his band with the command “On the one!,” changing the percussion emphasis/accent from the one-two-three-four backbeat of traditional soul music to the one-two-three-four downbeat — but with an even-note syncopated guitar rhythm (on quarter notes two and four) featuring a hard-driving, repetitive brassy swing. This one-three beat launched the shift in Browns signature funk music style, starting with his 1964 hit single, “Out of Sight” and his 1965 hit, “Papas Got a Brand New Bag.”Browns innovations pushed the funk music style further to the forefront with releases such as “Cold Sweat” (1967), “Mother Popcorn” (1969) and “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” (1970), discarding even the twelve bar blues featured in his earlier music. Instead, Browns music was overlaid with “catchy, anthemic vocals” based on

“extensive vamps” in which he also used his voice as “a percussive instrument with frequent rhythmic grunts and with rhythm-section patterns … [resembling] West African polyrhythms.”[5] Throughout his career, Browns frenzied vocals, frequently punctuated with screams and grunts, channeled the “ecstatic ambiance of the black church” in a secular context.[5] Although “Papas Got a Brand New Bag” and “Cold Sweat” were widely credited as the prototype songs that launched the funk genre, “Out of Sight” was the breakthrough hit that signaled the shift in Browns sound to establish funk as a distinct genre.[6]In a 1990 interview, Brown offered his reason for switching the rhythm of his music: “I changed from the upbeat to the downbeat … Simple as that, really.”[7] According to Maceo Parker, Browns former saxophonist, playing on the downbeat was at first hard for him and took some getting used to. Reflecting back to his early days with Browns band, Parker reported that he had difficulty playing “on the one” during solo performances, since he was used to hearing and playing with the accent on the second beat.[8]Other musical groups picked up on the riffs, rhythms, and vocal style developed by James Brown and his band, and the style began to grow. Dyke & the Blazers based in Phoenix, Arizona, released “Funky Broadway” in 1967, perhaps the first record to have “funky” in the title. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band were releasing funk tracks beginning with their first album in 1967, culminating in their classic single “Express Yourself” in 1970.The Meters defined funk in New Orleans, starting with their Top Ten R&B hits “Sophisticated Cissy” and “Cissy Strut” in 1969. Another group who would define funk in the decade to come were The Isley Brothers, whose funky 1969 #1 R&B hit, “Its Your Thing”, signaled a breakthrough in African-American music, bridging the gaps of the rock of Jimi Hendrix and the upbeat soul of Sly & the Family Stone and Mothers Finest.

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