Every now and then I trip over a classic.
When this hit my mailbox I wrote it off at yet another silly purchase of obscure funk. I tend to do this ; )
What I didn't know is that I stumbled upon a slice of Funk perfection.
This album is from '74 which seems a little ahead of its time when you listen to the backbeats. They had a real sense of where funk would go around '76 with the likes of other Funk / Disco crossovers.
Track Titles
A1. HEY YA'LL, WE'RE MIAMI 2:55
(Scott-Thompson-Williams-Curran-Jackson-More)
A2. FUNK IT UP 3:15
(C. Reid - W. Clarke)
A3. NOBODY BUT YOU BABE 2:58
(C. Reid - W. Clarke)
A4. FREAK ON DOWN MY WAY 3:50
(C. Reid - W. Clarke)
A5. PARTY FREAKS (Part II) 2:57
(W. Clarke - C. Reid)
B1. PARTY FREAKS 2:57
(W. Clarke - C. Reid)
B2. I CAN SEE THROUGH YOU 2:58
(C. Reid - W. Clarke)
B3. SAME OL' BEAT 3:58
(H. Stone - B. Shapiro)
B4. CHICKEN YELLOW (Let Me Do It To You) 3:43
(C. Reid - Clarke - Laird)
A TK Records release. That label (As far as I'm concerned) brought funk to the masses via the disco tip. Everyone attributes RSO with that and I say hell no! Miami was a house band for a lot of the disco hits through that label.
From wikipedia:
TK Records was one of the record labels started by Henry Stone. It distributed disco stars KC and the Sunshine Band until 1981.
TK Records is closely associated with the early rise of disco music, being the label on which the first disco song to become a #1 hit on the pop music charts was released, "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae in 1974. Shortly after McCrae's hit the record label struck gold with KC & The Sunshine Band with 5 #1 songs including "Get Down Tonight", "That's the Way I Like It", "Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man" and "Please Don't Go". Other artists who had an impact on the label or on one of its many subsidiary labels include Peter Brown (Drive), Foxy (Dash), Jimmy "Bo" Horne (Sunshine Sound), Gwen McCrae (Cat), T-Connection (Dash) and Anita Ward (Juana). Within a couple of years, TK's notability in disco music would be surpassed by other labels such as Casablanca Records and RSO Records, but in the early years of disco TK was undoubtedly in the top tier of record labels in the genre.
I put a few tracks on the minxbox but the rest of them you'll have to get! Good luck hunting for the 45s or vinyl! CDs available on dusty.
Miami Featuring Robert Moore - The Party Freaks
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