'70s Funk Music MEME

The sexy Avatar tagged me in a music MEME. I’m passing it on, but had to concentrate my selections within a theme (too much damn music out there). Since I grew up close to Detroit, and the music I listened to as a child was all stuff you could shake yer ass to, all choices are “70’s Funk” theme.

Sergei: “Sex Machine” by James Brown. (Oh, you know why!)

Julie: ”Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)” by B.T. Express. (Of course!)

Annush: “Treat Her Like a Lady” by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose. (…and don't let them forget it!)

Bear and Marcheline: "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" by Al Green. (Next to Sergei and me, the couple most likely to make out on the couch at a party!)

BitchPhD: “Fight the Power” by the Isley Bros. (Right on, sister! [holding up my 'power hand'])

Big Monkey Rob: "What’s Goin’ On" by Marvin Gaye, also "Mercy Mercy Me". (Two songs, I can't decide, your Thoreau-ness begs both, I think.)

Lisa the Bored Housewife: “Brick House” by The Commodores. (Thank god for braless Tuesdays!!)

Rose at Great Googly Moogly: "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye (Your hubby's coming home Friday! Get you somma this!)

Laurie at HCPR2.0: “Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang (See, I'm picturing us drunk in a bar shakin' our butts to this…!)

Francis Heaney: ”Groove Me" by King Floyd (Six Things = Groovy.)

Jo(e): “Hot Fun in the Summertime” by Sly and the Family Stone. (You have the BEST summer vacations, I want you to adopt me.)

Midwest Hick: “Spill the Wine” by War. (Aren't you standing on a mountain top, naked to the world?)

Orange: “Lady Marmalade” by LaBelle. ( “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?”)

Overworked Avatar: “You Sexy Thing” by Hot Chocolate. (I don't need to 'splain this.)

Pisser: “Love Rollercoaster” by the Ohio Players. (Oh, it has to do with Cranky and LA, you know…)

QW Maine: “Tear the Roof Off the Sucker” by Parliament. (I’m picturing you in platform shoes, big sequined cape, Bootsie Collins behind you, comin’ off the Mothership. You could totally pull it off!)

Serra: "I’ll Take You There" by the Staple Singers. (Bring your crystal ball, and I'll bring the backup singers!)

Mr. Jones:Love Train" by the O'Jays. (Mr. Jones…Mrs. Jones…Baby Jones…CONGRATS! Oh, you almost got "Me And Mrs. Jones", but that was too easy.)

I would have added blog links and MP3s or lyrics, but it's almost 1 a.m. and I must get up to go to work in 5 hours. Catch ya 'round.

ADDENDUM: YRB magazine (Yellow Rat Bastard, and if you ask me, the greatest magazine name ever created), has a cover with my favorite funk uncle, Mister Atomic Dog himself, George Clinton.