One of my all time favorite track, by Arthur Verocai Brazilian 70s god

Arthur Verocai - Presente Grego (1972)

Trippy cover, but super good boogaloo !

Also appeared in compilation Big Ol Bag o Boogaloo

Latin blues band - Take a trip

Summer 1974 in NY city... do you feel it? "Electric" latin funk at its best

Cortijo & his time machine - La Verdad (1974)

Super cool disco funk rock by Earl Young (MFSB, Salsoul drummer)

Ripped with Accuphase HIFI 1979 equipment

The Atlanta Disco Band - I am trying (1975)

When latin NY funky latin 70s vibes meet rock'n'roll !

Bobby Valentin - Good lovin' (fania records)

Kicking boogaloo track from the ultra hard to find ON TOP Lp by Mongo Santamaria.

Mongo Santamaria - Puchi's boogaloo (Fania records)

Pure late 60s NY funky latin groove !

Kako & his orchestra - Live it up (1967)

Super lovely duet by 70s master Norman Connors

Norman Connors - Anyway you want (1980)

Another exclusive soundsofthe70s nugget find:

Extract from the excellent Sun 1980 album (all LPs from this band are good), this track is a completely overviewed and superb piece of Disco Jazz Funk that competes with best Jazz Funk tracks from the 70s

Sun - The quest (instrumental)

Capitol records 1980

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Super dope and deep R&B/soul track by this 70s act quite similar to Average White Band in essence.

Kokomo - Rise & Shine (1975)

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Genius 70s crossover soul, amazingly well arranged by Brad Shapiro's crew !

Brandye - I love the way you love (1978)

Disco jazz funk at its best...

Webster Lewis - Touch my love (1978)

I guess I have not much to comment here, this is just PURE soul...

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - I Want You Back (1971)

Feeling like New York Chinatown in 1977? Here you are, from a Latin Funk perspective !

Jose Mangual - Chinatown (1977)

Great track by Lamont Dozier, and funky edit by DannyBlue

Lamont Dozier - Ain't Never had it so good 1981 (DannyBlue Edit)

Fantastic uplifting track by this great DISCO FUNK act, made famous with the classic Love isn't really my game

Brainstorm - Hangin'on (Tabu records 1977)

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I have so much energy to spend that I felt like passing on some of it to you guys (and girls) who have been following me in the past months/years

This hard to find track should do... loud playing recommended,

Voyage - I love you dancer (instr.) 1981

Short notice to announce that more the blog has passed the 500.000 hits, slowly but surely !

There has been remarkably few file deletion due to the fact that all the tracks posted here are 100% out of print, which makes the blog so special and vintage !

Incredibly funky track from High Inergy for MOTOWN, 1979, from their 3rd and best LP

High Inergy - Voulez vous (Gordy Mortown 1979)

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Slow boogie as I love it.... deep and stirring !

From genius Grey & Hanks, 2 legendary composers who defintely left their groovy imprint in the 70s music landscape !

Candy Bowman covered the track the same year.

Grey & Hanks - I'm calling on you (1981)

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Monster RAW soul by Soul Diva Gloria Jones, more famous for her Tainted Love hit.

Gloria Jones - Tin Can people (1973)

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As you may hav noticed in my blog, I have a huge collection of Brazilian 70s music. I will start posting some of my all time favorite track from Brazil, I hope you will enjoy them as I do.

This track is from a very very obscure band, performing for the OST of a "novela" movie from the 70s

A Tribo - Sei la (Tema de Maria)

from the OST Assim na terra como no ceu (1971)

Extract from this unsual and great compilation gathering 70s funk and library themes from Spain

Marquez - Melao (1977)

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Kocky - Just keep on dancing

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Fantastic rare groove of this 70s Diva, written by Grey & Hanks, produced and arranged (once again) by Bert de Coteaux!

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Backing Vocals - Brenda White , Gwen Guthrie , Ullanda McCullough

Bass - Bob Babbitt

Congas - Jimmy Mallin

Drums - Jimmy Young

Engineer [Mastering] - Joe Gastwirt

Engineer [Recording] - Douglas Epstein , Godfrey Diamond , Harvey Goldberg , Neil Ceppos

Guitar - Jeff Mirinov, Kenneth Hatfield , Lance Quinn

Keyboards - Bert Keyes , Bert deCoteaux , Leon Pendarvis

Producer, Arranged By - Bert deCoteaux, Brad Shapiro

Thelma Jones - How long (Columbia records 1978)

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Sublime track from the same 1976 Motown LP that produced ´"Dont leave me this way"

Magic..

Thelma Houston - Dont't know why I love you (Motown 1976)

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Dee Dee Bridgewater at her best... I love this track and need an edit. Soundcloud talents, go!

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Lonely disco dancer (Elektra 1980)

Splendid track by William Bell from his 1976 LP

William Bell - Relax (Mercury 1976)

original vinyl rip

Let's keep on playing the Jazz-Funk I love.... Now is the turn of Mike Mandel, with this great track from his Vanguard 1980 LP Utopia Parkway.

Mike Mandel - The glider (1980) vinyl rip

Personnel:

Bass - Wilbur Bascomb

Drums - Brian Brake

Guitar - Jeff Layton, Steve Kahn

Keyboards - Mike Mandel

Saxophone - George Young

Trombone - Barry Rogers

Trumpet - Alan Rubin , Jon Faddis

Heavy weight deep jazz-funk track from the 1976 LP "In a special way" by maestro Gene Harris.

Personnel list is impressive:

Gene Harris . piano

Chuck Rainey, Verdine White : bass

Harvey Mason : drums, percussion

James Gadson : drums

Myuto Correa, Phillip Bailey : percussion

John Rowin, Al McKay : electric guitar

Lee Ritenour : electric & acoustic guitar

Charlotte Politte : electric piano, synthesizer

Jerry Peters : electric piano, synthesizer, string emsemble

Azar Lawrence : tenor saxophone

George Bohannon : trombone

Sidney Muldrow, Marni Robinson : french horn

Ed Green : violin (on 4)

Gene Page - Theme for Relana (1976)

Accuphase 1979 /Tascam vinyl rip