The Westbound Years [Import]

1. Junie

2. Tight Rope

3. Walt's Third Trip

4. Place

5. When We Do

6. Johnny Carson Samba

7. Loving Arms

8. Junie II

9. Not as Good as You Should

10. Cookies Will Get You

11. Freeze

12. Super J

13. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce

14. Junie III

15. Surrender

16. Suzie

17. Super Groupie

18. Suzie Thundertussy

19. Spirit

20. Junie's Ultimate Departure [#]

The Westbound Years,Junie,Westbound,Funk,Soul/R & B

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Average customer rating: PLAYERS DOIN' THEIR THING ON THIS COLLECTION! enter the players Vintage Funk from the Vaults of Westbound ! ! ! Must Have You can't get any better than this!

Orgasm: The Very Best of the Westbound Years The Ohio Players Manufacturer: Southbound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Funk on Fire: The Mercury Anthology Honey Skin Tight 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Ohio Players Fire ASIN: B0000072NP Release Date: 1994-05-09

Tracks:

1. Pain
2. Pleasure
3. Ecstasy
4. Climax
5. Funky Worm
6. Player's Balling (Players Doin' Their Own Thing)
7. Varee Is Love
8. Sllep Talk
9. Walt's First Trip
10. Laid It
11. What's Going On
12. Singing in the Morning
13. Food Stamps Y'all
14. I Want to Hear (From You)
15. Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)

Album Description

1993 release on the Ace label, a retrospective featuring 14of the legendary soul group's best for the Westbound label,1972-1974. Includes the top 20 hit 'Funky Worm' & top 40'Ecstasy', plus the previously unreleased 'Ain't That Lovin'You (For More Reasons Than One)'. 15 tracks total.

Album Details

These Dayton Funk Masters Spent Time During the 1970' Signed to the Westward Label. This Item Presents the Best Tracks to Come from that Era, Including 'climax', 'funky Worm', a Cover of the Marvin Gaye Smash 'what's Going On', the Previously Unreleased 'ain't that Lovin' You (For More Reasons Than One)' and Eleven More.

Customer Reviews:

PLAYERS DOIN' THEIR THING ON THIS COLLECTION! .......2007-02-14

The Players may've been around since the 50's as a doo wop group, but these songs are where the group makes their "real debut" in r&b. Orgasm shows that the Ohio Players were an innovative funk band in their own right. At their best, they were clearly up to par with Funkadelic, Kool and the Gang, and the JB's.

If you listen to their songs on the surface, they don't seem all that unique. But their songs often had a sleazy edge that separated them from their comtemporaries (which is obvious from their playboy-ish album covers). Tracks like "Climax" drips with sexuality and "Laid It" can be a theme song for a Players Ball convention.

Overall these songs may not sound as fully realized as their Mercury records recordings, the seeds they were planting for commercial success makes this cd an essential purchase. If you already own the "Funk on Fire anthology", you need this to make your Ohio Players collection complete.

If you're havin' any doubts about purchasing this batch of funk, follow the advice that funky Granny gives in "Funky Worm"....... DON'T FIGHT THE FEELIN!

enter the players.......2001-10-25

good cd for the funklovers only, not as popular as skin tight, and fire but all op fans should have this plus funky worm was sampled to death, this features junie morrison way fo he went funkadelic, the tracks for those who cannot understand is a group in their prime trying lots of experimenting, and creativity along with it, unsung heroes of rock, and fusion,while the players played every style of music known to man in one song at that, and the songs are quality. this was one of few groups who could give funkadelic, a run for their money.

Vintage Funk from the Vaults of Westbound ! ! !.......2000-10-22

Its hard to believe that The Ohio Players and Funkadelic were once label mates... with the exception of the Junie Morrison connection. And like Funkadelic and a lot of other groups that left that label for bigger fame, the band might have gotten more polished, but NOT more funky.

Listen to this album to hear a band less dominated by Sugar's trademark voice and the trademark ARP string ensemble, but a very urban sounding funk band crossing various musical thresholds... the horns are agressive, Junie's organ sizzles... the tunes bump, the album covers titilate (wonder whatever happened to the bald chick ?)... There's nothing soft... Tune like Pain, Pleasure and the Funky Worm make you want to bump.

If you like this album, keep an eye out for Junie's solo albums (which seem to go in and out of print) and other groups from that label including THE COUNTS, Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel and occasional WESTBOUND compilations !

Must Have.......2000-03-03

I Just got this from Amazon and was floored by the Funk.I have most of their stuff from the Mercury Era but this Disc is Just as Tight.The Grooves are Just as Tight.Funky Worm&Pain Are Slamming.this Band was as Bad as any Group from Back in the day.there music is Timeless.

You can't get any better than this!.......1999-08-04

Finally, after all these years! All of the songs that put funk where it is today. Back then music was music and the Ohio Players lead the way. Every song on this cd is a hit! (or at least should've been). "Pain", "Pleasure" and "Funky Worm" are still slammin' nearly 30 years later. These guys were ahead of their time!

Average customer rating:

The Westbound Years Spanky Wilson Manufacturer: Westbound UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000QEKHVW Release Date: 2007-07-24

Tracks:

1. Kissing My Love
2. Shake Your Head
3. Can't See The Forest For The Trees
4. I'll Stake My Life On You Boy
5. Non-Stop Flight
6. He Called Me Baby
7. Specialty Of The House
8. Easy Lover
9. Will Power
10. Spend The Night With Me
11. The Downer I Get
12. Missing Pieces
13. I Had A Talk With My Man
14. Home
15. I Think I'm Gonna Cry
16. Standing Room Only
17. Love Song
18. The Chokin' Kind

Album Description

Jazz singer Spanky Wilson is currently the name to drop in the hip 'jazz not jazz/groovy music' world. After years of being just a name known to collectors, happening DJ/Producer Quantic used her vocals on a track from his 2004 album "Mishaps Happening". So successful was this that he then made a whole album with her - the critically acclaimed "I'm Thankful". The end of 2006 saw Quantic and Spanky tour Europe to full houses. An incredible comeback.

Ms Wilson's musical roots stretch back to late-60s Los Angeles where she was discovered by legendary producer and arranger HB Barnum. Barnum signed her to his Mothers record label, where she recorded three sought-after albums which included the BGP classic 'You'.

In the early 70s she signed to the Westbound label in Detroit, where she recorded the fantastic album "Specialty Of The House" and a bunch of unreleased recordings, which are all gathered on this release. These include 'Can't See The Forest For The Trees', a future floor-filler, and the mighty live version of 'Kissing My Love' that already is huge in the clubs.

Album Description

Jazz singer Spanky Wilson is currently the name to drop in the hip jazz not jazz, groovy music world. After years of being just a name known to collectors, happening DJ /Producer Quantic used her vocals on a track from his 2004 album "Mishaps Happening". So successful was this that he then made a whole album with her - the critically acclaimed "I'm Thankful". The end of 2006 saw Quantic and Spanky tour Europe to full houses. An incredible comeback. Ms Wilson's musical roots stretch back to late-60s Los Angeles where she was discovered by legendary producer and arranger HB Barnum. Barnum signed her to his Mothers record label, where she recorded three sought-after albums which included the BGP classic 'You'.ACE 2007

Album Details

Essential Recordings from Mid-70's Detroit, Including the Album "Specialty of the House" Pluse Five Previously Unreleased Tracks. Fans of her Collaboration with DJ/PRODUCER Quantic Should Check These Out.

Average customer rating: The missing link !!!

The Westbound Years Junie Manufacturer: Westbound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bread Alone Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs Ecstasy A Whole New Thing Funk Or Walk ASIN: B0000071A0 Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

1. Junie
2. Tight Rope
3. Walt's Third Trip
4. Place
5. When We Do
6. Johnny Carson Samba
7. Loving Arms
8. Junie II
9. Not as Good as You Should
10. Cookies Will Get You
11. Freeze
12. Super J
13. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce
14. Junie III
15. Surrender
16. Suzie
17. Super Groupie
18. Suzie Thundertussy
19. Spirit
20. Junie's Ultimate Departure [#]

Customer Reviews:

The missing link !!!.......2006-05-15

To some, you say Detroit, and behold, the image of the American auto industry is conjured up - - to others MOTOWN. But to me, a small underground funk label called WESTBOUND - - with its swurvy psychadelic blue label, that introduced a funkier incarnation of the Ohio Players to the world as well as a pre-disco "acid rock" meets "black rock" version of FUNKADELIC. And the missing link between the two - - JUNIE - - multi-keyboardist for the Ohio Players, who jumped shipped when the group went over to Polydor went "smooth and funky" and hit paydirt with SKIN TIGHT. JUNIE however didn't fall into obscurity - - he joined the P-Funk organisation - - however, during the bald chick Ohio Players era, he recorded a couple of great (and ultra obscure) albums... one called JUNIE, WHEN WE DO - - The Ohio Player's sound in that era was clearly under HIS influence (not Sugar's) and not surprisingly this album does sound like early Ohio Players (circa PAIN, PLEASURE, CLIMAX, etc.) - - only a bit more ambitious (including pre-disco era strings and all - - not just ARPs!)

Though Bernie Worell and Billy Preston would be the guy's best remembered as quintessential funk keyoardists... give a listen to this album and you will experience some great funk that you're going to wonder how you missed all these years - - and for more Junie at his best, check out P-Funk's MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR !

Average customer rating:

The Westbound Years Spanky Wilson Manufacturer: Westbound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000R1A0HA Release Date: 2007-07-06

Average customer rating:

The Westbound Years Junie Manufacturer: Westbound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000PHW1BY Release Date: 2004-08-06

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