Take It to the Stage [Import]

Track Listings

1. Cosmic Slop

2. Bop Gun

3. Standing On The Verge

4. Funk Gettin Ready To Roll

5. Runkentelechy

6. Give Up The Funk

7. Lets Take It To The Stage

8. Good Love

9. Maggot Brain

10. Make My Funk The P Funk

11. Flashlight

12. Aquaboogie

13. Atomic Dog

14. The Mothership Connection

15. Pepe The Pill Popper

16. Lets Get Satisfied

17. Dope Dog

18. Aint Nuthin But A Jam Y'all

19. State Of The Nation

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2003 release featuring the P-Funk All Stars. 19 tracks. Music Avenue.

Take It to the Stage,George Clinton,Music Aven,R&B/Soul,Soul/R & B

Tracks:

Good To Your Earhole
Better By The Pound
Be My Beach
No Head No Backstage Pass
Let's Take It To The Stage
Get Off Your Ass And Jam
Baby I Owe You Something Good
Stuffs & Things
The Song Is Familiar
Atmosphere

Customer Reviews:

Funk used to be a bad word........2007-07-01

This is another example of how creative the music was in the 1970's. "Chocolate City" was already doing something. Funkadelic's album was a little more "coarse". With intense guitars, booming bass', pocket drum beats. Slick vocals, they were at thier best here. The album cover almost made me not buy the album. Every song here is a favorite. The opening song "Good To Your Earhole. I love Eddie Hazels guitar solo. Better By The Pound was also a great dance number with "Billy Bass" Nelson on the bass. "No Head" is a funny song about a girl trying to get backstage but the bouncer told her "No head, no backstage pass" (blush). Be My Beach is a slow song but it's a hot one. Bootsy Collins on bass & Lead vocals who sounds a lot like the late Jimi Hendricks. He's sharing vocals with George Clinton, the late Sting Ray (Bass singer) Davis & Calvin Simon, who sounds like Walter from the O'Jays. Title Cut is slammin'. "Get off your ...& Jam" was the song. Eddie Hazel sho nuff plays a hysterical guitar. "I Owe U Something GOod" WIth Garry & Calvin on vocals, they are holding it down, while the guitars sounds like some middle eastern play! Stuff & Thangs is great. Bernie Worrell is holding it down. "The Song IS Familiar" sounds real churchy. Garry Shider again, singing that song with so much soul. "ATmosphere" Bernie takes a stab at the Hammond B3& other keyboards, while George is obviously saying something "common" in the intro. This is one of the best albums that was ever released. RIP Eddie, Ray, & Tiki Fulwood!
THis album concept was actually the stuff going on backstage at the time. Who's going to go on first, equipment being sabatoged...stuff like that. I heard that some times fist fights happened. Funk says....Let's Take It To The Stage......

This is good for your collection.......2006-09-15

You cannot have a Funkadelic collection without "The Stage" album. It totally works in the chronicological order of things and Funkadelice let's you know, "We don't care what you think, if you can do better, let's take it to the stage". They would win the battle hands down! I saw an interview with Earth, Wind and Fire and when they were descibed as a funk band they said they thought they could funk but Parlaiment/Funkadelic could funk! What does that tell you? They put out some good stuff here. "Baby I Owe You Something Good" with lead vocals by Gary Shider was superb and "Get Off Your A__ And Jam" just let you know as they always said, "Ain't nuthin' but a party baby"."Let's Take It To The Stage" is a ribbing of other groups and it was good advertisement for the Funk Mob. Read all the liner notes you can and you will see that the U.S. Funk Mob were "musical thugs" who could back up all that they spewed out. Nice "in your face music George".....

Back & Forth.......2006-08-26

I go back & forth between this album and Standing on the Verge being my favorite Funkadelic albums. Gun to my head, I'd probably say "Let's Take It To The Stage" most days. My father brought this home for me on 8-track (I was 14), and to this day I still don't know if he had any idea... The album smokes from start to finish, from Earhole to Atmosphere. More accessible than the earlier stuff, not as commercial as the later stuff, this is the band at the peak of its powers.

So good to your earhole..........2006-03-02

It bothers me when Parliament and Funkadelic are lumped together as the same entity. For example, VH1 claims that the 99th greatest rock act of all time is Parliament/Funkadelic. Although both groups, spearheaded by George Clinton, had rotating line-ups of musicians that usually overlapped, each band had their own sound and boasts an impressive catalogue of music that is not related to the other in any way. In my opinion, BOTH Parliament and Funkadelic should be included separately in any "Greatest" list, and both in at least the top 20! I just had to get that off of my chest. On to the review.

Let's Take it to the Stage is easily a top-3 Funkadelic album, maybe even the best. It opens with the rocking one-two punch of "Good to Your Earhole" and "Better by the Pound". I've always considered Funkadelic a rock band that is extremely funky, not vice versa, and these two tracks add credence to that way of thinking. Next is "Be My Beach" which is one of the most unique, trippy songs they have ever made. Bootsy's vocals are fantastic. Fourth is Clinton's updated take on Sly and the Family Stone's "Jane is a Groupie". "No Head, No Backstage Pass" is hilarious, sleazy, biting and to the point. It's also on the verge of heavy metal, a concept that was being invented by Black Sabbath and, to some extent, Led Zeppelin at the time. Next is the title track which is the biggest "hit" off of the album. Memorable for the funk mob's playful skewering of their contemporaries, this statement of dominance doesn't hold up as well, to me, as the wonderfully crafted tunes that surround it. One track that holds up exceedingly well, however, is "Get Off You're A$$ and Jam". Fueled by Michael Hampton's frenzied guitar solos, this live staple practically assaults you when you listen to it. Hampton (along with his predecessor and inspiration, Eddie Hazel) still ranks among rock's greatest guitarists, and his performance on this album is one of the reasons why. "Baby I Owe You Something Good" is an epic track with tremendous vocals by Gary Shider (I think...). "Stuffs and Things" is a ludicrously suggestive and goofy track that lampoons traditional R&B's less than subtle use of innuendo to talk about sex. It literally cracks me up every time I hear it ("I'm gonna do my utmost to your stuff..."). Musically, its the funkiest track on the disc with Bernie Worrell's synths doing crazy things in the background. Alas, Funkadelic can't quite keep up the incredible pace, and the last 2 songs are somewhat of a drop-off. "The Song is Familiar" is a nice-enough ballad, and "Atmosphere" is an eerily catchy little keyboard experiment.

While Let's Take it to the Stage doesn't get the recognition of Maggot Brain or One Nation Under a Groove, it is every bit as essential. Clinton and company were at a song-writing apex, giving us several 2-5 minute blasts of brilliance. The assertion that Funkadelic is the "black Beatles" is not far off base. Strip away the psychedelia, the dark humor, the monstrous bass of Bootsy and the general Funkadelic craziness, and you've got a perfectly crafted pop album. Of course, strip all of that away, and you don't have Funkadelic.

Get Off Your WHAT And Jam?.......2004-09-12

I personally believe that Funkadelic were hitting a peak when they made 'Let's Take It To The Stage".They had certainly perfected their mix of funk and psychedelic rock and
had it down to a science.And in the pure funk-rock idion
"Good To Your Earhole","Stuffs And Things" and the unforgettable
"Get Off Your Ass And Jam" are the real deal!The zany title track and the cryptic "Better By The Pound" are P-Funk basics with the latter featuring a brilliant percussion section.And the
whole shabang ends off with the dirty,dirty "Atmosphere",nothing
but gospel organ and a filthy lyric-it so sacreligious I LOVE it!
"Be My Beach" is one of those psychedelic Bootsy ballads that just punches you out (at least it does me) and
"No Head,No Backstage Pass" is trashier then anything I've
heard Aerosmith or Sabbath or ANY groovy hard rock band do!
"This Song Is Familiar" is yet more of Funkadelic at their
irreverant best-almost acapella gospel of sorts!To me this is
one Funkadelic album that got pretty overlooked at first but that the years have treated VERY kindly!This is the kind of music that Digital Underground and Outkast have cut their teeth on and as it is it's still out and out FUNKY!Not to mention how
it steers out of the long winded jam band style that had become a Funkadelic clishe'.I'd actually recommend this to anyone as the Funkadelic album to start with-their first album is at the
same level but this is somewhat easier to get into!

Average customer rating:

remastering job great, but edited version on atmosphere HORRIBLE

Let's Take It to the Stage
Funkadelic
Manufacturer: Westbound Records Us
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AXWV3Q
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

Good to Your Earhole
Better by the Pound
Be My Beach
No Head, No Backstage Pass
Let's Take It to the Stage
Get Off Your Ass and Jam
Baby I Owe You Something Good
Stuffs and Things
Song Is Familiar
Atmosphere
Baby I Owe You Something Good [Mono Version][*] - Funkadelic, U.S. Music, U.S. Music

Album Description

The classic 1975 Funkadelic album - with plenty of Bootsy Collins - remastered from the original master tapes for the first time in 15 years. This is the album that saw Bootsy invent his classic "Casper" vocal style on the mighty "Be My Beach". It was Funkadelic's sixth Top 20 R&B album. This release includes the original 10-track album and the original 1972 version of album track "Baby I Owe You Something Good" taken from the earlier "US Music with Funkadelic" 45. Includes in-depth notes from funk expert and series compiler Dean Rudland. These include a band history and details of the recording of this album. The booklet includes a full color reproduction of Pedro Bell's phenomenal artwork from the original album, as well as original adverts and rarely-seen band pictures. Westbound U.S.

Customer Reviews:

remastering job great, but edited version on atmosphere HORRIBLE.......2006-01-02

the remastering job and cover art and liner notes are great, but westbound edited the beginning of atmosphere. i bought this version instead of the import because i read that the import had this edit also, so i figured that westbound wouldn't make the same mistake but they did. the edit is just stupid because it's only about 10 seconds they take off the beginning of the song and it makes no sense to do it.

don't buy until you know for sure that the edit has been fixed.

This Is the Army / Call Me Mister / Winged Victory

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Fine music, tone-deaf pricing from Vivendi
At long last and timely to boot

This Is the Army / Call Me Mister / Winged Victory
Irving Berlin , Harold Rome , and Moss Hart
Manufacturer: Decca Broadway
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ASIN: B0000A9D1N
Release Date: 2003-07-29

Tracks:

Overture - Irving Berlin
I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep - Irving Berlin
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Irving Berlin
Ihe Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Irving Berlin
What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Irving Berlin
How Bout A Cheer For The Navy - Irving Berlin
American Eagles - Irving Berlin
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Going Home Train - Harold Rome
Along With Me - Harold Rome
Little Surplus Me - Harold Rome
The Red Ball Express - Harold Rome
Military Life - Harold Rome
Yuletied, Park Avenue - Harold Rome
When We Meet Again - Harold Rome
The Face On The Dime - Harold Rome
South America, Take It Away - Harold Rome
Call Me Mister - Harold Rome
Winged Victory - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
My Dream Book Of Memories - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
The Whiffenpoof Song - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra
The Army Air Corps - Sgt. David Rose/ Winged Victory Chorus And Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Fine music, tone-deaf pricing from Vivendi.......2007-05-09

"This is the Army" is the first, and by far the greatest. When the word historic has lost all meaning this revue truly was -- perhaps the biggest show-biz charity fundraiser ever (for the Army Emergency Relief, which exists to this day), an incalculable morale booster on two fronts, a show whose too-small number of black players nonetheless helped break down the military's color barrier. It also sired the first major-label musical cast album; Decca rushed it into production at the end of July, 1942 to beat the AFM's notorious recording ban. That (and perhaps some reticence with an untested genre) may explain why the public only got four 10" 78s, shorter than they should have been. (Victor rushed its own studio recording into print as well, with mediocre arrangements and Fats Waller.) The following year Decca atoned for its mistake when it declared peace with the musician's union to record "Oklahoma!", making the cast album a permanent part of our musical lives. If we got only a fraction of what must have been it must have been tremendous. On the evidence this was Irving Berlin's finest score to date, and after the slog through multiple continents with a war hardened company he dug deep and wrote "Annie Get Your Gun." The tragedy is that no one tried to revive this show when enough of the boys were still alive, say in the eighties; perhaps Berlin, by then a hopeless recluse, turned it down. As touching and as stirring as these songs are it is preposterous that this score has remained all but buried since the last production in 1945. That this show is inextricably tied to a war is no excuse; the memory of a brave generation deserves better.

We go inevitably downhill from there, starting with the first track of "Call Me Mister", a postwar show with a lighter touch, and a lighter songwriter in several ways. Harold Rome could write a mean lyric, and he was good at the sort of situational humor that worked with topical shows, but despite his ambitions -- at the end of his career he foolishly adapted "Gone with the Wind" -- he just could not write the fine ballad that would have put him in the first rank. So where "This is the Army" can move the soul "Mister" just sits there, despite a haunting tribute to the "Face on the Dime." Its comic relief saves the day and it's pretty good as a recording too, as it's from 1946, and gives us a flavor of the old-time Broadway sound that makes these early albums so appealing. The four concluding sides of incidental music from Moss Hart's play "Winged Victory" are negligible. These are from David Rose, author of "Holiday for Strings" and patron saint of easy listening (until he wrote "The Stripper" and no doubt caused Red Skelton to swallow his kaddidlehopper). As might be expected from a man Spike Jones parodied he writes the most self-important music with the most showoffy grandiose charts, undercutting whatever patriotic feeling it had. His orchestral yelling even makes "The Army Air Corps" ("Off we go into the wild blue yonder") tiresome, a true negative achievement. It's easy to see why this has never been revived -- and never could be.

Despite its shortcomings of production (and in the last two works of inspiration), this is a fine and valuable recording. Which brings us to Vivendi. When the company revamped its cast-album catalog it decided to price these completely amortized albums at full-line-plus. It's especially galling here as all the selections from "This is the Army" and "Winged Victory" and at least one from "Call Me Mister" have enough surface noise and distortion to indicate they're likely from commercial pressings. Maybe Mr. Bronfman Junior needed the money for his ultimately failed investment; but such gouging underscores the contempt the record business has for its customers, whom it sees as saps whose pockets will empty endlessly when it grabs them face down by the ankles. The public is now richly returning the favor by tuning itself out to the majors and its endless parade of tunelessness. For all the gold-chained clan's howls of denial it isn't good for the record trade -- and in the end, by eviscerating the one stable source for new music, it isn't good for us.

At long last and timely to boot.......2003-09-01

Having scored a triumph during World War I with his "Yip Yip Yaphank," Irving Berlin was a natural to be asked to create a similar revue for World War II, and the all-male "This Is the Army" did very well. An original cast recording came out in 1942. The very next year, the Air Force got its chance with Moss Hart's "Winged Victory." Four of the songs appeared in boxed set of 78 rpm discs. When it was all over, the returning GI was saluted in yet another revue called "Call Me Mister." That original cast album appeared in 1946. Now you can hear them ALL on a single Decca CD (BOOOO831-02).

There is a soundtrack recording from the film "This Is the Army" that is extremely fuzzy, making this Decca release far preferable, all the more so because it does give us the original all-soldier cast that included Irving Berlin himself singing (more or less) his immortal "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." Other songs include "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen," "How About a Cheer For the Navy," and "American Eagles."

The focus here is how men made the transition from civilian to military life, and most of the problems they faced are mentioned in the opening number, "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." We must also note with some sadness that the real problems of joining an army are never explicit, but the purpose of the show was to reassure and not to look at the "dark side of the force."

"Winged Victory" originally contained only two discs holding four songs: "Winged Victory," "My Dream Book of Memories," "The Whiffenpoof Song," and "The Army Air Corps." That last one thrilled my generation whenever it was played over the radio and especially during the wartime films; and it has lost none of its potency over the years. (The line about going "down in flame" still chills.) This was also the first military revue that included women, a fact which makes it even more of an historical document.

In 1946, Harold Rome lent his talents to putting together a revue for those returning to civilian life. Early in the war, Dinah Shore was able to praise "A Boy in Khaki," but Vaughn Monroe later in the war sang about looking forward to wearing "Just a Blue Serge Suit." I have a particular fondness for this set, because I owned a copy as a boy, played it to death, and eventually lost track of it. I never knew there was a 1950 LP version which included "This Is the Army," and I spent years trying to find the company that held the copyright that would get it onto a tape or (later on) a CD. So 57 years after the album first was released, my prayer has been answered!

The first number, sung by Lawrence Winters (a great portrayer of Porgy, by the way), takes place aboard a "Going Home Train" and is replete with optimism. A sketch in which a group of men are waiting to be assigned work for the day included Winter's rendition of "The Red Ball Express" on which the Black GIs carried supplies to the troops. He is the only one denied work at the end of the scene. We had an even older enemy than the Nazis to face.

A young newcomer named Betty Garrett delighted audiences with "Little Surplus Me" and "Yuletide, Park Avenue" in which many of the New York shops are mentioned in Christmas carol style. But it was her rendition of "South America, Take It Away" that brought down the house and raised her to stardom.

You get the expected comic number, "Military Life," sung by Jules Munshin (remember him from the film "On the Town"?) and two other men, while Winters sings "A Face on a Dime," a song that needs some explaining to those who were born after the minting of the "Roosevelt Dime." "Along With Me" and the full version of "When We Meet Again" are the ballads, while the title song acts as a finale number.

The press release announces, "Decca Broadway Salutes the Troops With the CD Release of Three World War II Musical Revues." The current situation, I am sure, helped prompt the release of this set; but whatever the reason, I am absolutely delighted it is finally available. The songs are mostly excellent examples of their kind, the lyrics for the most part clever and powerful, the historical value great. I really suggest that History Departments take notice and get a copy. All the textbook accounts of the war never give the human side of things, and this CD will go a long way to letting the present young generation know how we faced all-too-familiar problems back then.

This Is the Army & Call Me Mister
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This Is the Army & Call Me Mister

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Release Date: 2002-11-19

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Overture: This Is The Army, Mr. Jones/I Left My Heart At The Stage Door/Canteen/That Russian Winter/This Is The Army, Mr. Jones (Reprise) - All-Soldier Chorus
This Is The Army, Mr. Jones - Irving Berlin & Chorus
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I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Corporal Earl Oxford
Dialog With Staff Sergent Ezra Stone, Corporal Philip Truex & Private Julie Oshins - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Corporal James 'Stump' Cross
How About A Cheer For The Navy - All-Soldier Chorus
American Eagles/With My Head In The Clouds - Soldier Chorus
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My British Buddy - Irving Berlin & Chorus
This Time - Cote Glee Club
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When We Meet Again - Paula Bane
The Face On The Dime - Lawrence Winters
South America, Take It Away - Betty Garrett
Call Me Mister - Bill Callaghan

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eveweybody's trying to cash in on the funk somehow

Take It to the Stage
George Clinton
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Release Date: 2006-10-10

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Give Up the Funk
Let's Take It to the Stage
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Ain't Nuthin' But a Jam Y'all
State of the Nation

Album Description

This double album was first released in September 1997, entitled "Live and Kickin'." The 2XCD collection contains previously unreleased live performances of Parliament funk anthems as well as some of the experimental alien psychedelic rock of Funkadelic. Nineteen tracks include "Give Up the Funk," "Atomic Dog," "Flashlight," and more.

Album Description

2003 release featuring the P-Funk All Stars. 19 tracks. Music Avenue.

Customer Reviews:

eveweybody's trying to cash in on the funk somehow.......2003-12-16

go ahead and get live and kicking since this is the same cd.

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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The style is the man--and the song

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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Release Date: 2001-04-17

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This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
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Customer Reviews:

The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.

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