S/D - T.K. Disco

Matos to thread!

Heh heh, I thought of Matos, too!

what's up with this? LONNIE "LISTEN" SMITH

see wife Gwen Mcrae's Rockin' Chair LP, also sublime.

A five-star TK album is Betty Wright's Danger High Voltage.

On the obscure tip is TK session guitarist Little Beaver's (aka Willie Hale) album Party Down. Wish I could find a jpg of the original 74 album cover it's a hoot. George Benson goes disco.

an old friend of my wife's, the late Barry Bluestein, worked as a publicist at TK during the mid 70s. He told some great stories, such as the background vocalists improvising those classic "Uh-huh uh-huh's" live during the recording take of KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way I Like It."

As far as KC albums go, I'm most familiar w/the greatest hits, though "I Get Lifted" is a great album track and club classic.

Timmy Thomas and George McCrae seconded / thirded

My fave-Queen Samantha's Take a Chance

Equal time for James Knight & the Butlers' BLACK KNIGHT LP on Cat, which is really good early 70's funk.

And if you're into singles..."Santa Claus Is A Black Man" by Akim on the TK-distributed Simtone label.

I got Peter Brown "Crank It Up (Funk Town)", and Joe Thomas "Plato's Retreat".. But there was so much I wasn't able to investigate it all. I will revisit and check for some of the names from this thread.

I Need Someone is a nice slow cooker-- really love it. Discolypso is a bit bland, but a good discolypso nonetheless.

http://www.bigchill.net/story.html?id=1295

is fine fine fine ..

tracklisting :

joe tex - discomania
john tropea - living in the jungle
peter brown - burning love breakdown
jo bisso - your love
mad dog fire department - cosmic funk (this is GREAT!)
timmy thomas - africano
peter brown - dance with me
ultrafunk - inidigo country
elis second coming - foxfire
george mccrae - love in motion
paul lewis - girl you need a change of mind
timmy thomas - freak in freak out
jimmy bo horne - is it in
seven seas - super jaws
peter brown - the singer becomes the dancer
gwen mccrae - 90% of me is you

comes with unmixed version as well.

The main thing to understand is the dichotomy of Reid/Clarke early 70's and Casey/Finch mid-to-late 70's of course.

if there is to be a taking sides George McCrae vs KC Shunshine version of get lifted, KC wins for me (and for most sampling the track too)

Ish - Don't Stop

apparently really fucking hard to find according to the dude at kstarke

After Ish's days with Joe Galdo in Foxy, Ish was also the man behind Oxo and later, Company B

eMusic just added the James Brown album, if anyone's in need of it. Classic.

I believe Ish left a comment or two on Youtube accompanying the Foxy "Get Off" video a year ago or so.

kano - don't try to stop me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV45KVH_KZ4

yeah, COMBI made a hot edit of that one. I like playing this one out too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqi57xgdXo

glad i revived!

there are four TK Records threads on ILM, all started in the 2006-2008 period - those were the (groundhog) days.
they are all short threads tho, but this was the first, so here it goes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-d3ZsVBVGk
Jimmy "Bo" Horne • Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)

what a sound, what a jam

been listening to this one a lot lately too! root sample of stereo mc's "connected," which i also love.

ahh the days i used to get TK Disco/Stateside reissues.

the compilation that they put out of Jimmys stuff still hits the spot.

https://www.discogs.com/Jimmy-Bo-Horne-The-Best-Of-The-TK-Years-1975-1985/release/2096468