HISTORY OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC - part 310 torrent

PART 310


RICK JAMES - Superfreak (1981)



\"Super Freak\" is a 1981 hit single produced and performed by Rick James. The song, co-written by James and Alonzo Miller, was first released on James\' album \"Street Songs\" and became one of James\' signature songs. It features background vocals from Motown labelmates The Temptations, in which the bass singer is James\' uncle Melvin Franklin, and Canadian singer Taborah Johnson. \"Freak\" is a slang term for, as described in the song\'s lyrics, \"...a very kinky girl / The kind you don\'t take home to mother\".
Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #477 in its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.The song was a big hit for James in 1981, charting on the pop, R&B and dance charts in the U.S. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #16 in the fall of 1981 and spent 10 weeks in the top 40. Together with two other singles from Street Songs, \"Give It to Me Baby\" and \"Ghetto Life\", it spent three weeks at #1 on the American dance charts earlier that year.







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HISTORY OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC



08.10.01 DISCO MUSIC – FUNK ORIENTED BACKGROUNDS

Funk music was a major influence on the development of disco music. Funk musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Disco funk
typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms. Funk bands sometimes have a horn section of several saxophones, trumpets, and in some cases, a trombone, which plays rhythmic \"hits\".


THE COMMODORES - BRICK HOUSE (1977)
BROTHERS JONHSON - STRAWBERRY LETTER 23 (1977)
A TASTE OF HONEY - BOOGIE OOGIE (1978)
CHIC - LE FREAK (1978)
EARTH,WIND & FIRE - FANTASY (1978)
THE BROTHERS JOHNSON - STOMP (1979)
KOOL AND THE GANG - LADIES NIGHT (1979)
THE JACKSONS - BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE (1979)
MICHAEL JACKSON - DON\'T STOP \'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH (1979)
THE REAL THING - CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE (1979)
THE SUGARHILL GANG - RAPPER’S DELIGHT (1979)
THE GAP BAND – BURN RUBBER ON ME (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) (1980)
KOOL & THE GANG - CELEBRATION (1980)
ODISSEY - USE IT UP AND WEAR IT OUT (1980)
ODISSEY - GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS (1981)
KOOL & THE GANG – Get Down On It (1981)
RICK JAMES - Superfreak (1981)
YARBROUGH & PEOPLES - DON’T STOP THE MUSIC (1981)
GIBSON BROTHERS – QUE SERA MI VIDA (1981)
EARTH,WIND & FIRE - FALL IN LOVE WITH ME (1982)
EARTH,WIND & FIRE - LET\'S GROOVE (1982)
OSIBISA - SUNSHINE DAY (1983)
BILLY OCEAN - WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING (1985)