MFS Radio Presents: ”Gettin’ Hot Volume 4 - Go Go Beats” Music For Your Happiness

MFS Radio Presents:

”Gettin’ Hot Volume 4 - Go Go Beats”
Music For Your Happiness

Tracklisting:
01 - Trouble Funk - Good To Go 12''
02 - Redds & The Boys - Movin' & Groovin' 12''
03 - AM-FM - All We Want Is Go-Go
04 - Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up 12''
05 - Slim - Good To Go
06 - Chuck Brown - We Need Some Money (8.18) 12''
07 - Go Go Lorenzo & The Davis Pickney Project-You Can Dance If You Want To
08 - TTED All Stars - All Wrapped Up In One (Fast Version)
09 - Little Benny & The Masters - Who Comes To Boogie 12''
10 - Donald Banks - Status Quo
11 - AM-FM You Are The One (Instrumental)
12 - Trouble Funk - E Flat Boogie (Instrumental)

All original versions
Compiled by JP
A My Favourite Sound© Production, 2009

Books: ''The Beat!''

The Beat!was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a period during which hip-hop has predominated. This styling reflects the District's African American heritage. Its super-charged drumming and vocal combinations of hip-hop, funk, and soul evolved and still thrive on the streets of Washington, D.C., and in neighboring Prince George's County, making it the most geographically compact form of popular music.Go-go--the only musical form indigenous to Washington, D.C.--features a highly syncopated, nonstop beat and vocals that are spoken as well as sung. The book chronicles its development and ongoing popularity, focusing on many of its key figures and institutions, including established acts such as Chuck Brown (the Godfather of Go-Go), Experience Unlimited, Rare Essence, and Trouble Funk; well-known DJs, managers, and promoters; and filmmakers who have incorporated it into their work. Now updated and back in print,The Beat!provides longtime fans and those who study American musical forms a definitive look at the music and its makers.

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Various Artists ”Go Go Crankin”’

Various Artists

”Go Go Crankin”’
( LP Island Records, 1985 )
Catalog # 207 118 (UK)
or US Cat. # BWAY 400
on 4th & B’way Records

Tracklisting:
A1 Hot, Cold Sweat Meet Me At The Go Go
A2 Trouble Funk Let’s Get Small
A3 Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers We Need Some Money
A4 E.U. Ooh La La La
B1 Trouble Funk Drop The Bomb
B2 Slim (2) Good To Go
B3 E.U. Somebody’s Ringing That Door Bell
B4 Trouble Funk Say What?

Credits:
Executive Producer - Maxx Kidd (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B4)
Producer - Maxx Kidd (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B3) , Trouble Funk (tracks: B1, B2, B4)

Notes:
"Warning"
"This Is The D.C. Sound Attack"
"Paint The White House Black"

By Pier

Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers ”Bustin’ Loose”

Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

”Bustin’ Loose”
( LP Source Records, 1979 )
Catalog # SOR 3076

Tracklisting:
A1 Bustin Loose (7:42)
A2 Never Gonna Give You Up (5:43)
Guitar [Lead] – Leron Young
Strings – Don Renaldo
A3 If It Ain’t Funky (6:00)
B1 I Gotcha Now (5:02)
B2 Could It Be Love (5:22)
Guitar [Lead] – Leron Young
Strings – Don Renaldo
B3 Game Seven (6:12)
B4 Berro e Sombaro (3:11)

Personnel & Credits:
Bass – Jerry Wilder
Congas, Percussion – Gregory Gerran
Drums – Ricky Wellman
Engineer – Carl Paruolo
Flute, Timbales, Saxophone [Tenor] – Leroy Fleming
Guitar – Chuck Brown
Keyboards – Skip Fennell
Organ – Curtis Johnson
Producer – James Purdie
Trombone, Synthesizer – John Buchanan
Trumpet, Tambourine – Donald Tillery
Vocals – Chuck Brown, Donald Tillery, Jerry Wilder,
John Buchanan, Leroy Fleming

Notes:
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1979

Review:
In the 1980s many of go-go’s supporters insisted that it was going to become as big as rap. Regrettably, that never happened. Go-go was huge in Washington, D.C., where a Chuck Brown or Rare Essence show was as big a deal as a George Clinton concert, and a go-go release could be as impressive a seller as the latest Rick James record. But nationally, only a few go-go songs became major hits: E.U.’s “Da Butt” was huge in 1988, and Chuck Brown soared to the top of the R&B charts in 1978 with the insanely funky “Bustin’ Loose.” Brown and his band, the Soul Searchers, showed a great deal of promise on this debut album, which James Purdie produced at the famous Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. The title song is one of go-go’s all-time classics, and anyone with a taste for sweaty, hard-driving funk will also find a lot to love about “If It Ain’t Funky” and “I Gotcha Now.” But not everything on the album is aggressive. Even though Brown is best known for his gutbucket funk grooves, “Could It Be Love” and an inspired cover of the Jerry Butler/Gamble & Huff pearl “Never Gonna Give You Up” demonstrate that he has no problem handling romantic ballads and slow jams. It isn’t surprising that the album’s slower tracks are so heavily influenced by Philly soul. After all, Sigma Sound is where the O’Jays, the Intruders, Blue Magic, Teddy Pendergrass, the Stylistics, Billy Paul, and countless others recorded their biggest hits. Most of Bustin’ Loose, however, isn’t typical of recordings made at Sigma; the majority of the material is pure go-go, and Bustin’ Loose went down in history as one of go-go’s most essential releases.
By Alex Henderson (AMG)

By Pier