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Just a little bit more for my lovelies.  (I am so procrastinating.)

So today I apparently have a taste for a bit of 70s-inspired funk/R&B (I love me some horns) (and wakachika wakachika).  Yeah, I don't get it either.  It actually started when I flipped on the TV this morning and caught the end of Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got," which is really inspired by the Public Enemy song of almost the same name--but they both sampled Johnny Pate's "Shaft in Africa."  And I was sitting there watching this video and it occurred to me that the only reason the song is appealing at all is due to "Shaft" (and the other one they sampled, "Malik" by the Lafayette I am too tired to look up the rest of the name of this Band).  Jay-Z can kindly go back into retirement.

Then there was the big Kanye West hissy fit (life is so hard, Kanye!).  Again, that song would have nothing going for it (in my book) but for Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up."

That is what I've brought for you today.

Oh, and some John Legend.  He does use a sample or two but he's got a great voice to back it up.  (Whoa Nelson.)

Also on the menu, just because I feel like it, is a weeee bit of The Incredible Moses Leroy, which is unrelated to any of the above (being distinctly 80s-inspired rather than 70s).  I've got lots more of him but it would require importing the CD, which would require me to get up out of my chair.  Sorry.

Onward!

01.  Johnny Pate - Shaft in Africa  [RCSA]
02.  Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up  [RCSA]
03.  John Legend - Maxine [RCSA]
04.  John Legend - Ordinary People [RCSA]
05.  John Legend - Save Room [RCSA]
06.  John Legend - Stay With You [RCSA]
07.  The Incredible Moses Leroy - Everybody's Getting Down [RCSA]
08.  The Incredible Moses Leroy - Transmission C [RCSA]

*Just to clarify, please note that this is all I know of funk/R&B.  I guess you call that funk.  Seems more funk than soul but as I just said, I don't know what I'm talking about.  :D

Next time:  Sufjan Stevens?  Sergio Mendes?