Episode 44: BMS Soul and Samples/A Hip Hop Songbook

Welcome to the show BMS listeners. This episode crosses the avenues of Soul and Hip Hop. During the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s on what many call the golden age of hip hop. Many rappers dipped into their parent’s old record collections and sourced classic and some not so classic records to use as samples on their own recordings. One of the bedrock loops was James Brown’s ‘Funky Drummer’. We delve into James and his entourage as well as many other great soul artists; which became the inspiration for Eric B. & Rakim, Stetsasonic, Eric Sermon, Tribe Called Quest, Biggy Smalls, and others.

This Episode will feature, Kool & The Gang, Curtis Mayfield, George McCrea, Marvin Gaye, and many others.

Remember when music was Music!

PLAYLIST

1. WHO'S GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT/ KOOL & THE GANG
2. EXPANSIONS/ LONNIE LISTON SMITH
3. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE/ CURTIS MAYFIELD
4. PLAYING YOUR GAME/ BARRY WHITE
5. I GET LIFTED/ GEORGE MCCRAE
6. YOU'RE GOOD TO ME/ CURTIS MAYFIELD
7. YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY/ MARVIN GAYE
8. FUNKY PRESIDENT/ JAMES BROWN
9. CROSS THE TRACKS/ MACEO & THE MACKS
10. THINK/ LYNN COLLINS
11. PASS THE PEAS /THE JB'S
12. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS/ OTIS REDDING
13. LOVE & HAPPINESS/ AL GREEN
14. CLEAN UP WOMAN/ BETTY WRIGHT
15. MR. BIG STUFF/ JEAN KNIGHT
16. EXPRESS YOURSELF/ CHARLES WRIGHT
17. YOU CAN'T TURN ME AWAY/ SYLVIA STRIPLAN
18. TURN ON SOME MUSIC/ MARVIN GAYE
19. RISE /HERB ALPERT