Various - Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul from Miami Florida 1967-1974 - 2 LP import w/ download
Various Artists
Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul from Miami Florida 1967-1974
Soul Jazz Records 541 - 2 LP import w/ download code
Soul Jazz Records’ new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.
Throughout the 1970s founder Henry Stone’s TK Records rose up to be one of the most important forces in black music, successfully pioneering the evolution in musical fashions from the early gritty funk and soul at the start of the decade to the arrival of disco in the mid-70s.
This album is a rollercoaster journey across soul, funk, disco and boogie, a party-rocking dancefloor-filling collection of monster tracks that includes million-selling hits such as Betty Wright’s classic ‘Clean Up Woman’, Timmy Thomas’s ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’, T-Connection’s ‘Do What You Wanna Do’, anthemic rare groove club hits including Gwen McCrae’s massive ‘All This Love I’m Giving’ and Milton Wright’s ‘Keep It Up’, plus a host of hard-to-find gems and rarities from the likes of Raw Soul Express, Chocolate Clay, Beginning of the End, Robert Moore, Clarence Reid, Little Beaver and Paulette Reeves.
TK Records functioned more like a close-knit family than a typical record company. Based in the industrial Hialeah district of Miami, music man Henry Stone surrounded himself with a host of creative artists, musicians, songwriters and producers who created an immediately identifiable TK sound as well as making musical stars out of many of its artists.
Miami Sound 2 comes with extensive sleevenotes, an exclusive interview with Steve Alaimo, co-founder with Henry Stone, and photography by TK in-house photographer Larry Warmoth, whose rarely seen striking and unique images of Gwen McRae, Betty Wright, Clarence Reid and others offer a fascinating window into the pioneering record company.
includes:
Disc One
Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright
Party Freaks - Miami
All This Love That I'm Giving - Gwen McCrae
Monkey Tamarind - Beginning of the End
I Get Lifted - Latimore
Burn the Candle - Raw Soul Express
Free, I'll Always Be - Chocolate Clay
I Love the Way You Love - Betty Wright
Concrete Jungle - Little Beaver
Clean Up Man - Jimmy Bo Horne
Disc Two:
Africano - Timmy Thomas
Winterman - Charles Allen
Do What ya Wanna Do - T-Connection
Jimmie Bo Charlie - Robert Moore
Keep It Up - Milton Wright
Ten Tons of Dynamite - Clarence Reid
Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
We Three - Little Beaver
Do It Again - Paulette Reaves
Kisses, Kisses Kisses - Lynn Williams
NEW SEALED 2 LP import with download
