Star Funk, Vol. 3 [Import]

Star Funk, Vol. 3 [Import]

Track Listings

1. My Simple Heart - Carol Douglas

2. Knock Me Out - Carol Douglas, Gary's Gang

3. Hit 'N Run Lover - Carol Jiani

4. Saturday Night - David Morris

5. Do It - Herley Johnson, Jr.

6. Give It to Me (If You Don't Mind) - Conquest

7. Set Me Free - Karen Silver

8. I Hear Music in the Streets - Unlimited Touch

Star Funk, Vol. 3,Various Artists,Unidisc Records,Club/Dance,Dance,Dance Music,Disco,Pop,Urban

Eccentric Soul, Vol. 3: The Bandit Label
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Eccentric Soul, Vol. 3: The Bandit Label
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Numero
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | R&B | Styles | Music
General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0006HCYJ2
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

One More Time Around
We Have Love - The Arrows
Another Day
If You Love Me - Altyrone Deno Brown
You've Got To Crawl To Me - Johnny Davis
Boogedy Boogedy - The Arrows
Doing It For Us
Love Is All I Need
Glad About That - Linda Balintine
Bring Back The One I Love - The Arrows
The Magic Of Your Love
I'll Never Cry For Another Boy
Sweet Pea - Altyrone Deno Brown
The Love I See Now - The Arrows
We Love Together
You're A Habit Hard To Break - Linda Balintine
Going To Make A Time Machine
If I Had A Littel Love (Rehearsal)
Make Yourself Over (Rehearsal)
I'll Never Cry For Another Boy (Rehearsal)

Product Description

It could almost be fiction. The house passing as a home, the harem, passing as a family, the rising star brutally murdered in his prime, the dream, the con; the end. Arrow Brown inhabited the same south-side Chicago landscape as Afro-Noir author Iceberg Slim's ghetto characters, drawing inspiration from the same dark sources that colored Airtight Willie, White Folks and Blue Howard. He was drawn to the underground, fancying himself a rogue entrepreneur. Throughout the late 60s, his personal and professional business appears to have taken place largely outside the law. Yet, like Slim, he had massive creative impulses to contend with. By the early 70s, Brown put together an oddball cast of family, friends, and girlfriends, all interchangeable, and created a musical commune; a band, a production company and a record label. Unable to completely divorce himself from his former life, he named this company Bandit. The results of these efforts play like a sweet soul Enoch Light, putting beauty and genius in front of commercial viability. The lush, sweeping strings that introduced each track draw the listener into Brown's hipster fantasy world, sharply incongruent with the reality of his harsh existence. While the long, dreamy introductions set these songs apart from other soft soul at the time, they kept the singles off the radio, often times being too long and complicated for mainstream consumption. Nothing even resembling a hit came off the pen of Arrow Brown, this accounts heavily for the lack of interest the world showed the Bandit label in its brief eight year existence. Package includes twenty remastered tracks by The Arrows, Altyrone Deno Brown, The Majestic Arrows, Johnny Davis, and Linda Balintine, and a sixteen page booklet detailing the label's entire futile history.

Amazon.com

The Numero Group serves up a collection of unheard 70's soul from obscure South-side Chicago label Bandit Records. Between 1969 and 1981, the handful of 45s and single LP released on the Bandit imprint were orchestrated by musical/business mastermind Arrow Brown-- the reissue liner notes detail the somewhat incestuous group of family, friends, and oddballs he assembled to perform his compositions. The result is smooth vocal soul, heavy on the strings, informed as much by the Philly sound of the Spinners and the Delfonics as by Chicago natives the Chi-Lites. Highlights include The Majestic Arrows' falsetto stylings on "Doing It For Us" and "Going To Make A Time Machine", and the pre-adolescent love musings on "Sweet Pea" sung by the unusually-named Altyrone Deno Brown (7-year old son of label proprietor Arrow). --Ben Heege

Customer Reviews:

buy this record for sure.......2006-11-02

this album is money, and for that matter this whole eccentric soul series is money. i got two of these discs so far, the other being the deep soul label (also terrific). singer neko case highly recommended the big mack label in a recent ny times article. i'm definitely getting the rest of the series asap. as for the bandit label... the opening track, 'one more time around' is butter...there's some 7 year old kid, i think i remember reading that he was 7, but he's something special. basically, there isn't a bad track and if you enjoy old soul music, that really rich, gritty soul -- these discs are 100% for you. bravo and kudos to the numero group label for getting these out!