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A masterpiece of hard and heavy funk -- from one of the best bands of the early 70s! The Nite Liters were a legendary funky combo that provided the backing for some of New Birth's best albums -- but on their own, they were even funkier, and had a sound that was part JBs, part Meters, and all funky! This album may well be the group's best -- their last for RCA, and a set that really has them honing their edge incredibly. The drums are amazing, the keyboards great, and the horns have this quality that's both complex, yet right on the money -- making for a richness in sound that really sets the group apart from their contemporaries. A few singers from The New Birth provide chorus vocals on a few tracks -- but most of the set is instrumental, and the record's one we'd gladly stack next to our Meters albums on Josie or JBs classics on People. Every track's a gem -- and titles include "Drumology", "Excuse Me While I Do My Thing", "Serenade for a Jive Turkey", "Happy Hooker", "Craaashing", "Damn", "Pee-Foul", and a sweet cover of "Valdez in the Country" that's been sampled at least once over the years!

A masterpiece of hard and heavy funk -- from one of the best bands of the early 70s! The Nite Liters were a legendary little funky combo that provided the backing for some of New Birth's best albums -- but on their own, they were even funkier, and had a sound that was part JBs, part Meters, and all funky! This album may well be the group's best -- their last for RCA, and a set that really has them honing their edge incredibly. The drums are amazing, the keyboards great, and the horns have this quality that's both complex, yet right on the money -- making for a richness in sound that really sets the group apart from their contemporaries. A few singers from The New Birth provide chorus vocals on a few tracks -- but most of the set is instrumental, and the record's one we'd gladly stack next to our Meters albums on Josie or JBs classics on People. Every track's a gem -- and titles include "Drumology", "Excuse Me While I Do My Thing", "Serenade for a Jive Turkey", "Happy Hooker", "Craaashing", "Damn", "Pee-Foul", and a sweet cover of "Valdez in the Country" that's been sampled at least once over the years!

One of the best albums of funky instrumentals by the legendary Nite Liters -- and probably their hardest to find! The record's got loads of nice cuts that hit their classic funky groove in a way that brings to mind The Meters or The JBs -- but which also has the Nite-Liter's own unique brand of tight party funk! Titles include "Funky Vamp", "Do The Granny", "Skimo's Theme", "Theme From Buck & The Preacher", and their cover of Quincy Jones' "Money Runner" from the film $, a real sample classic! Great stuff, and one that we hardly ever see on original wax!

Cold, hard, and funky! This might be the greatest album ever by this legendary 70s funk band -- and it's got a killer sound that has the tightness of the JBs, the rawness of the early Meters, and the frenzy of a rare funky 45! Includes the incredible "Afro Strut" -- worth the price of the record alone, as it's got this screaming sax riff that's completely insane! Other nice ones include covers of "Shaft" and "Them Changes", plus "Brand X", "Baker's Instant", and "Respect To The Other Man".

Stone funky funky! This is an excellent reissue of the Nite Liters' classic first album, and a monster batch of funky instrumentals that we'd put up there with the great Meters records on Josie, or the classic JBs LPs on People! There's lots of hard drums, choppy guitars, and good funky grooves. The tracks are short and hard, with the kind of raw funk groove that you buy rare funk LPs for. Tracks include "Itchy Brother", "Snap Your Twig", "Down & Dirty", "The Heckler", and "Stuff N It".

A great album filled with hard breaks, tight choppy guitars, and a deep funky sound. This is one of the best early albums by the Nite Liters, and it's filled with great grooves like "Funky-Doo", "Stinkin Charlie", and "K-Jee" -- but just about every track is a funky winner! These guys fit right in between The Meters & The JBs -- and in our book, they're one of the best instrumental funk acts of the 70s! The album's like finding a pile of rare funky 45s, all pressed onto the same piece of wax!

An excellent early album from this massive soul collective! The album captures the group near the beginning of their career -- when they were sort of a funky soul army, featuring the instrumental talents of The Nite-Liters, the vocal strength of a number of excellent members, and the raw production skills of the great Harvey Fuqua! This album's one of their best-ever -- and it features a great mix of soul and funk, with some sweet cuts, and other nice harder numbers, all done in the warm spirit of the group when they were in their prime. Includes "Honeybee", "Oh What a Feeling", "How Good It Feels", plus groovy covers, like "I Want to Make It With You" and "Never Can Say Goodbye".

One of the nicest early albums by this great 70s soul collective -- featuring a strong mix of funk and mellow soul tracks, with backing by the Nite Liters on some tracks, and production by the great Harvey Fuqua throughout! Titles include "Wild Flower", "It's Been A Long Time", "Keep On Doing It", "Pains of Love", "Ain't No Change", and "Heaven Says". Classic funky 70s soul!

A killer batch of funk from the RCA family of labels -- long-neglected in the world of reissues, and finally stepping out with this ultra heavy set! The package does a really great job of pulling together disparate elements of funk from the RCA catalog -- a bit of jazz vocals, electric fusion, cosmic soul, and rock breaks -- all packed together in one nicely priced set that includes some really great surprises! 2LP set features tracks pulled from both the Flying Funk and Flying Groove CDs -- and titles include "Save Me" by Nina Simone, "Baby That's What I Need" by Esther Marrow, "Hit The Road Jack" by Wild Bill Davis, "Head Start" by Tom Scott, "Night Thing" by Spontaneous Combustion, "Afro Strut" by The Nite Liters, "What's Going On" by Pretty Purdie, "This Is The Me Me" by Groove Holmes, "Tite Rope" by Harold Alexander, "It's Just Begun" by Jimmy Castor, and "I Can't Keep From Crying" by Dierdre Wilson Tabac.

Pure, simple funk -- and nothing but! We'd be hard pressed to come up with better advice than "Pick It Up Lay It In The Cut" -- and Sharon and the Dap Kings do just that, grooving hard with monstrous bass, drums, and guitar -- making the tune one of the hardest tracks ever on the already-legendary Daptone label! "Hard Eight" is equally great -- a hard-vamp number with some killer sax, riffing away at a pace that's somewhere between the JBs and The Nite Liters -- and with a sound that's as great as both of them together!

Great stuff! This is the first-ever album by the huge collective of soul singers and musicians that included The Nite-Liters, and who recorded for ex-Moonglow Harvey Fuqua during his time at RCA, when he was working as a visionary funky soul producer. Like a lot of their earlier albums, the record's sort of a "showcase" one -- with some male vocals, some female, some mellow cuts, some funky. Despite the fact that they often did a lot of covers, the band manages to transform just about everything they get their hands on -- and they really bring a nice punch to numbers like "It's You Or No One", "Do The Funky Chicken", "The Unh Song", and "What'll I Do".

A surprisingly well-thought out set of tracks that is perhaps the only ever time someone at RCA did a good job with a soul reissue! The filled-to-the brim compilation features 16 tracks from the legendary New Birth Inc. collective that also included the funky combo The Nite Liters and the vocal group Love, Peace, & Happiness -- all of whom recorded together under the aegis of ex-Moonglow Harvey Fuqua during his production stint at RCA in the early 70s. The combination of different groups and styles makes for a very lively batch of 70's soul and funk tracks -- and the set features both classics and overlooked obscure material, all nicely remastered, and packaged with a great set of notes. Titles include "Got To Get A Knutt", "K Jee", "Comin From All Ends", "Afro Strut", "Wild Flower", "Keep On Doin It", and "I Can Understand It".

One of the most old school volumes of this always-great series -- a set that features mostly obscure soul singles from the late 60s and early 70s -- many of which we've never had on reissues before! The groove here is more in the style that Chicago Steppers used back in the day -- the mellow soul that first burned brightly in the mid 60s, then continued to supply the scene with some great music as years went on. And because of that mode, many of the tracks here have a great late nite feel -- not exactly sweet soul, but not too far away either -- thanks to some great vocals. Titles include "I Made Up My Mind" and "I'm Not Ready To Settle Down" by The Cheers, "I Love You More" by Lee Williams & The Cymbals, "Feel Kind Of Bad" by The Radiants, "You've Said It All" by Steve Karmen Orchestra, "Pull Together" by Nite Liters, "Here I Am Baby" by Barbara McNair, "Stay A While With Me" by Sharon Ridley, "Here I Am & Here I Stay" by Sonji Clay, "Stealing Watermelons" by Chambers Brothers, and "Got No One" by Delcardos.