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This afternoon I added around 1200 tracks in the database. Tracks from albums like Brass Construction, Brick, Chic, Mutiny, Chas, Delegation, Dayton, Cheryl Lynn, Starpoint and many more. I also upped about 30 samples.

Chas - Better Love Chic Take it off

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Mark


George Duke Passed Away At Age 67I just came back from my yearly holiday and read very sad news that my all time hero George Duke has passed away at age 67. Duke reportedly had been battling Lukemia. This is a great loss for all the fans out there. May George Duke rest in peace.

Funky Town Grooves

This month FunkTownGrooves.com will giveaway free CDs. To win one of these CDs you must answer this question: In which two countries is FunkyTownGrooves based? Send the solution and the name of the CD of your choice and your postal address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. FunkyTownGrooves will pick at random five winners. Next week we announce the winners on soulandfunkmusic.com.

You can win a CD from the following list:

Bloodstone - Party / Blue Magic - Welcome Back / Skyy - From The Left Side / First Circle - Boys Night Out / Fonzi Thornton - Pumpin' / Tease - Tease / JM Silk - Hold On To Your Dream / James "DTrain" Williams - In Your Eyes / James "DTrain" Williams - Miracles Of The Heart

The winners of Last week are:

Robert ten Brink from the Netherlands (First Circle - Boys Nights Out)

Thomas del Pozo from Canada (Syreeta - Set My Love In Motion)

 

This contest has already ended on 12/20/2011

 

FUNKY TOWN GROOVES
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On Nov 16th, ESL Music presents the debut EP “Booty Lock” by Frank Mitchell Jr.! A mysterious rogue hailing from Washington DC, Frank Mitchell Jr. has a voice like honey and the sensibilities of a man that’d make Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield blush.Side A features the no-nonsense roller-skating disco jam “Booty Lock.”Rubbery bass, wah-wah guitars, and silky horns don’t even begin to describe the naughtiness within.The B side, in  this case “B” for “bad ass,” features “Body and Mind” another future soul classic.Just get a little closer and let the rhythm grab you by the hips and draw you in!
Produced by Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation

Also Available as Digital & 7” vinyl

Here is a streaming  version! We'd love to work with you on premiering it, or anything you see fit if you enjoy the tunes. Feel free to post for stream on any of your sites!

http://soundcloud.com/ingroovesmarketing/frank-mitchell-ingrooves-promo-booty-lock

Frank Mitchell - (Ingrooves Promo) Booty Lock by INgroovesmarketing

ATTENTION: A FEW HOURS LEFT

I just wanted to let you know I have found another large auction of soul, funk, jazz, latin and rare groove LP's on eBay right now including many tough to find titles.  There are over 300 LP’s with audio up for some of the more obscure things.  These all end on Thursday, January 23rd.  Here is a link:

Click this link for the auction: http://www.ebay.com/sch/jaybreezie/m.html?_sop=1

Chris Jasper LiveMark Your Calendar...

CHRIS JASPER LIVE...

Saturday, August 18 from 11PM - 1AM on Soul Central Station with Tony Ryan, WBAI 99.5FM New York.

Tune in or listen online... http://www.wbai.org

Willie Mitchel Passed Away Soul music lost a great legend on January 5th. Willie Mitchell was responsible for the music of Al Green and the entire sound of Memphis based record label Hi-Records. Poppa Willie passed away at age 81 and leaves a tremendous catalog of classics behind. Dutch music collector Djef, who manages the Originals section at online jukebox 22tracks, selected 22 gems as an ode to him and his legacy.

Mitchell produced sparkling jewels like Al Green's Let's Stay Together and diamonds in the rough such as Could I Be Falling In Love by the more obscure Syl Johnson. Rather than having a hard time keeping up with the pace of music, the distinguished sound he once wrote the blueprint for remains timeless. Do You Feel Me by Anthony Hamilton, produced by The Bomb Squad's Hank Shocklee and arranged by Willie Mitchell is a perfect example of how the sound of Hi-Records is still very much sought-after in today's music.

MOTOWN GIVES BACK TO DETROIT STUDENTS WITH DONATION TO DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONDETROIT – Musician and Motown enthusiast Drew Schultz, 24, and Motown musical legends gave back to Detroit students through the Detroit Public Schools Foundation with sales from debut album “Back to Class.” Prior to The Four Tops’ performance at the Motor City Casino Soundboard Theater on Thursday, Dec. 13, the musicians presented their first $1000 donation of proceeds from album sales to the DPS Foundation. The Four Tops, Spyder Turner and James Jamerson Jr., among many others, were in attendance to celebrate the first donation to music programs for Detroit students funded by the DPS Foundation.

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Madagascar
Skool Boyz
Wax
Michael Wycoff
Funky Town Grooves The number one website for collectable urban cd's has got some stunning new items on stock. We talk about the reissue CDs of Madagascar: Spirit Of The Street, Wax: Do You Believe In Magic and two on on CD from The Skool Boyz:Skool Boyz / This Is The Real Thing and Michael Wycoff: Come To My World / On the Line. The Audio, from all these CDs, is transferred from the master tapes by Mark Wilder at Sonys Battery Studios in New York. Check Them out on Funkytowngrooves.com Sound Samples are available.
Entertainer, Music Producer Ernesto Phillips Dies at 50

Thursday, April 1, 2004; Page B06

Ernesto McKenzie Phillips, 50, a Columbia resident who was a musician in pop rhythm-and-blues groups and then produced a series of local entertainers, including singers Toni Braxton and Kimberly Scott, died March 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a stroke. He had hypertension.

Mr. Phillips, a native Washingtonian, was raised in Crownsville and graduated from Arundel High School in Gambrills. He was a self-taught guitarist, and during high school he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore to study trumpet.

He was a graduate of Anne Arundel Community College and attended Howard University, where he intended to study medicine as his father -- a psychiatrist -- had. He decided instead to make music his career.

With his four brothers -- George, Lloyd, Orlando and Gregory -- Mr. Phillips formed Licyndiana, an R&B group named after his mother and his sisters. Ernesto Phillips sang and played guitar. He also wrote songs and did production work.

Singer Renee Diggs, who was Mr. Phillips's longtime companion, and musician-songwriter Kayode "Ky" Adeyemo later joined Licyndiana.

Mr. Phillips had greater success as leader, co-producer and primary songwriter of a successor pop R&B band called Starpoint, which included the same members except for Lloyd.

The band toured nationally, opening for such performers as Luther Vandross, and appeared on "Soul Train," "Solid Gold" and other television programs. Its album "Restless" (1986) sold more than 500,000 copies, according to news reports, and included the hit song "Object of My Desire."

At the 1990 Washington Area Music Awards, Starpoint was named best R&B/urban group. Mr. Phillips, on guitar, was named best instrumentalist.

The group disbanded about 1990 as members went in different directions professionally. Until his death, Mr. Phillips worked as a producer. He owned and operated Longevity Records and Pearl Studios, both in Columbia.

"I pledged that once we made it, I was going to prove there is a lot of talent in this area," he told The Washington Post in 1995.

His best-known find is Braxton, the Grammy Award-winning singer whom he met through a friend.

In recent months, he worked as a counselor for teenagers at Sheppard Pratt psychiatric clinic in Ellicott City.

Survivors include his mother, Ana Phillips, of Columbia; four brothers, George Phillips and Lloyd Phillips, both of Columbia, and Orlando Phillips and Gregory Phillips, both of Annapolis; and two sisters, Diane Laguerre of Elk Ridge, Md., and Lisa Phillips of Columbia.

© 2004 The Washington Post Company
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