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Oneness of JuJu recorded their seminal soul/funk/jazz LP Space Jungle Luv on America's bicentennial - July 4th, 1976. (Editor's note: Whether coincidence or cosmic convergence, this is the 76th post to appear on Soul'ed Out, UnLtd. Thazz funky, baby!)
Here's that album's semi-title cut, a spaced out jazz-funk masterpiece:
Led by J. Plunky Branch on sax, Oneness of JuJu's 1982 track Every Way But Loose (the Larry Levan mix) turned a new generation of funksters onto the JuJu when it was featured on the Paradise FM playlist in GTA: Vice City Stories.
Checking out a comic book store that also sells records recently, I found a bunch of choice cuts and other goodies. Including a sealed 8-track copy of the soundtrack to Patty, an infamous 1976 porno based on the SLA's kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Not to be confused with Patty-ploitation movies of the same time period like Abduction (1975) or The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979). Patty starred Jamie Gillis and was released in hard-X, soft-X and R-rated versions.
Researching this flick, I discovered The Rimshots, who contributed standout numbers to the soundtrack like Takin' It and Revelation.
That led me to their 1976 LP Down To Earth, released on Stang Records, featuring today's most outstanding joint, Super Disco.
Stang Records was a subsidiary of Sylvia Robinson's All Platinum Records, and The Rimshots were the label's house band. Along with King Curtis, they recorded the original Soul Train theme song.
While rocking the tables at a 4th of July cookout held at Captain Ron's infamous spot known as 420+1, I ran into a dude who remembered me from his days as a substitute teacher way back when. Since then, this particular guy has worked at the post office for many years, and knows everybody in town's business.
But that has nothing to do with today's joint. I only brought along 45's, and was using a portable Numark turntable that kept needing pitch adjustments. I'll never use that thing again, the sound was truly horrible. Still, I did my best to keep the funk fresh.
Of all the choice tracks that got laid down, from Time Warp by Eddy Grant to the Doors' Wild Child (since it was the 42nd anniversary of Jim Morrison's death in Paris, likely from a heroin overdose, according to biographer Danny Sugerman, who claims that Jim's girlfriend Pamela Courson confessed to him what really happened that night), the absolute funkiest was Struttin', by Billy Preston. Here he was on Soul Train back in the day, doin' his thing:
As Don Cornelius pointed out, Struttin' wasn't released (on Billy's record The Kids and Me) until May of '74, although the LP had been recorded the previous October. The record featured Joe Walsh on guitar, but there was no sign of him at the Soul Train taping.
