A Double Dose of Double Soul

Here's a boatload of funk & soul to kick old man winter in the ass. The caveat of this box set is that it's assembled from the vaults of three different record labels. ALL of these files are whopper downloads, so take your time. Please say thanks and please report any broken links.

Various Artists - What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves: 1967 - 1977 [2006]





















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 162.4 MB





















1. Spreadin' Honey - Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
2. Soul Finger - Bar-Kays
3. The Shadow Of Your Smile - Brother Jack McDuff
4. Gangster Of Love (Parts I & II) - Jimmy Norman
5. The Memphis Train - Rufus Thomas
6. Get Out Of My Life Woman - Grassella Oliphant
7. Live Right Now - Eddie Harris
8. Pig Snoots, Part I - Natural Bridge Bunch
9. Soul Sound System - The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson
10. Snatching It Back - Clarence Carter
11. Stoned Soul - Artie Christopher
12. Getting The Corners - The T.S.U. Toronadoes
13. Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Alvon & The Belairs
14. Don't Come Around Here Anymore - Mark Putney
15. Keep On Dancing - The Commodores
16. Right On Brother-Part I -The Southshore Commission
17. Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes
18. It's Your Thing - Cold Grits
19. It's All In Your Mind - Soul Angels
20. Funky John - Johnny Cameron & The Camerons
21. Help Me Make Up My Mind - Joyce Jones
22. Rock Me Baby - Lou Johnson
23. Sing A Simple Song - The Noble Knights
24. Do You Dig It - Titus Turner
25. Funky Canyon - Phil Moore, Jr.
26. Jan Jan - The Fabulous Counts
27. Tampin' - The Rhine Oaks

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 160.7 MB





















1. Gossip - Cyril Neville
2. Somebody In The World For You - The Mighty Hannibal
3. Stanga - Little Sister
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Ananda Shankar
5. The Deacon - Brute Force
6. Sookie Sookie - Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
7. Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers
8. (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All
9. Going To Go - Curtis Mayfield
10. Stepping Stones - Johnny Harris
11. I'm Just Like You - 6ix
12. Funky Thing, Part I - The Unemployed
13. Messie Bessie - Shirley Scott
14. Fairchild - Willie West
15. Cold Bear - The Gaturs
16. I Can't Get Next To You - Mongo Santamaria
17. Feelin' Alright - Lulu
18. Soul Bowl - Memphis Horns
19. Tuane - Hammer
20. Take It Off-Part II - Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs
21. Seeds Of Life - Harlem River Drive featuring Eddie Palmieri & Jimmy Norman
22. Engine Number 9 - Wilson Pickett

Disc 3
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 169.6 MB





















1. Hard Times - Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters
2. What So Never The Dance, Pt. 1 & 2 - Houseguests
3. Headless Heroes - Eugene McDaniels
4. Spinning Wheel - Wade Marcus
5. Bad Tune - Earth, Wind & Fire
6. Mr. Cool - Rasputin's Stash
7. Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' To Ya - Junior Mance
8. Hang On In There - The Stovall Sisters
9. Funky Nassau (Part II) - The Beginning Of The End
10. Whatever's Fair - Mark Holder & The Positives
11. Face It - Ed Robinson
12. Wah Wah Man - Young-Holt Unlimited
13. Rock Steady (Alternate Mix) - Aretha Franklin
14. Won't Nobody Listen - Black Haze Express
15. Goin' Down - Allen Toussaint
16. Suavecito - Malo
17. You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' - Charles Wright
18. Mo Jo Hanna - Tami Lynn
19. Ridin' Thumb - King Curtis
20. Almendra - Macondo
21. Nuki Suki - Little Richard


Disc 4
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 172.7 MB





















1. Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United 8
2. 8 Days On The Road - Howard Tate
3. Moon Shadow - Labelle
4. Let It Crawl - Society's Bag
5. Wanaoh - Black Heat
6. If It Was Good Enough For Daddy - Clarence Reid
7. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Claudia Lennear
8. Cosmic Sea - The Mystic Moods
9. Kissing My Love - Cold Blood
10. Flute Thing - Seatrain
11. Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove) Part II - The Meters
12. Funky To The Bone - Freddi/Henchi & The Soul Setters
13. Try It Again - Bobby Byrd
14. Teasin' - Cornell Dupree
15. (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away - Dr. John
16. Chicken Heads - Oscar Brown, Jr.
17. Rien Ne Va Plus - Funk Factory
18. Cajun Moon - Herbie Mann
19. Improve - Darrow Fletcher
20. Riding High - Faze-O
21. Four Play - Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns
22. California Dreamin' - Eddie Hazel

1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 CID Fastback

Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [1968]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 62.1 MB

















1. Bullitt (Main Title)
2. Room “26″
3. Hotel Daniels
4. The Aftermath Of Love
5. Music To Interrogate By
6. On The Way To San Mateo
7. Ice Pick Mike
8. A Song For Cathy
9. Shifting Gears
10. Cantata For Combo
11. The First Snowfall (Sonny Burke)
12. Bullitt (end Title)

From the House of Cash

After his death in 2003, the vaults at House of Cash were excavated and cleaned. What was discovered was dozens of previously unreleased recordings by Cash, most of them recorded between 1973 and 1982. Every track on this compilation features nothing but Cash and his guitar, some tracks are just storytelling without musical accompaniment. There's a mix of covers, spirituals, and original compositions. This isn't a beginner's album for Johnny Cash, but I recommend it anyway. Personal File was released in 2006. These are whopper downloads.

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Johnny Cash - Personal File [2006]

















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 149.11 MB

1. The Letter Edged in Black
2. There's a Mother Always Waiting at Home
3. The Engineer's Dying Child
4. My Mother Was a Lady
5. The Winding Stream
6. Far Away Places
7. Galway Bay
8. When I Stop Dreaming
9. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
10. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
11. Missouri Waltz
12. Louisiana Man
13. Paradise
14. I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
15. Jim, I Wore a Tie Today
16. Saginaw, Michigan
17. When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
18. Girl in Saskatoon
19. The Cremation of Sam McGee
20. Tiger Whitehead
21. It's All Over
22. A Fast Song
23. Virgie
24. I Wanted So
25. It Takes One to Know Me

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 125.96 MB

1. Seal It in My Heart and Mind
2. Wildwood in the Pines
3. Who at My Door Is Standing
4. Have Thine Own Way, Lord
5. Lights of Magdala
6. If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman
7. The Lily of the Valley
8. Have a Drink of Water
9. The Way Worn Traveler
10. Look Unto the East
11. Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)
12. The House Is Falling Down
13. One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul
14. What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
15. My Children Walk in Truth
16. No Earthly Good
17. Sanctified
18. Lord, Lord, Lord
19. What Is Man
20. Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
21. A Half a Mile a Day
22. Farther Along
23. Life's Railway to Heaven
24. In the Sweet By-and-By

Nu Yorican

Harlem River Drive was the brainchild of latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri. Assembling a supergroup of black and Puetro Rican musicians from New York City, this is a jam-oriented album that combines funk, soul and salsa. This album is only about a half-hour, but it is a very often overlooked chapter in the history of Afro-Latin jazz. This is just amazing stuff.

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Harlem River Drive - Harlem River Drive [1971]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 66 MB

















1. Harlem River Drive (Theme Song)
2. If (We Had Peace Today)
3. Idle Hands
4. Broken Home
5. Seeds Of Life

Give It To Me Baby

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Rick James - Street Songs [1981]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 59.7 MB

















1. Give It to Me Baby
2. Ghetto Life
3. Make Love to Me
4. Mr. Policeman
5. Super Freak
6. Fire and Desire
7. Call Me Up
8. Below the Funk (Pass the J)

Two Masters Reunite

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Elvin Jones - McCoy Tyner Quintet - Love & Peace [1982]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 80.3 MB

















1. Little Rock's Blues (4:35)
2. Hip Jones (7:27)
3. Korina (5:35)
4. For Tomorrow (7:08)
5. Sweet and Lovely (6:52)
6. Origin" (5:05)

90s Nostalgia

I don't normally post dance music, but I have a soft spot for this particular compilation. Most of the songs here are from the early-to-mid 1990s. This period represents when I was in college. This reminds me of the women I knew when I was much younger (and some women that I knew extremely well). A little bit of back-in-the-day.

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Various Artists - Pulse (1990s Dance Compilation) [2001]




















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 122.6 MB

1. Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited
2. Rhythm Is A Dancer - Snap!
3. 100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters
4. Mr. Vain - Culture Beat
5. Show Me Love - Robin S.
6. Please Don't Go - KWS
7. I'm Gonna Get You - Bizarre Inc. featuring Angie Brown
8. Beautiful Life- Ace of Base
9. What's Up - DJ Miko
10. Move This - Technotronic
11. Tonight Is The Night - Le Click
12. You Only Have To Say You Love Me - Hannah Jones
13. Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) - Scatman John
14. Give It Up - The Goodmen
15. Set U Free - Planet Soul

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 114.9 MB

1. Another Night - Real McCoy
2. Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
3. Be My Lover - La Bouche
4. Boom Boom Boom - Outhere Brothers
5. More And More - Captain Hollywood Project
6. What Is Love? - Hadaway
7. Everbody's Free - Rozalla
8. Twilight Zone - 2 Unlimited
9. I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Real
10. Rhythm Of The Night - Corona
11. Feels So Good (Show Me Your Love) - Lina Santiago
12. Wiggle It - 2 in a Room
13. Power of Love - Deee-lite
14. Your Loving Arms - Billy Ray Martin
15. Something Good - Utah Saints

The Greatest Entertainment Ever Made [re-post]

The Mercury Theater on the Air - H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds (October 30th, 1938)

Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 50.6 MB















From the CD booklet:

The original, uncut dramatization!

On the foggy fall evening of October 30, 1938, America went to war with Mars!

Adapted for radio by Howard Koch and starring Orson Welles, War of the Worlds was presented as a special Halloween thriller, or as Welles put it: "The Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying 'boo!'" But for those who tuned in late, "normal" programming appeared to be interrupted with the startling news that there were "explosions occurring on the Planet Mars!" Reports followed stating that a "huge, flaming object" had fallen to Earth on a farm near Grover's Mill, New Jersey. More landings were soon reported and an anxious radio audience came to the frightening conclusion that Earth was the target of a full-scale invasion by aliens!

'...Some shape is rising out of the pit.
I can make out a small beam of light againt a mirror.
What's that...It's a jet of flames springing from that mirror and it's pointed right at the heads of the men.
It strikes them head-on! They're turning to flames!'

This is the program which terrified a nation. Thousands fled their homes in panic. In the town of Grover's Mill, the local water tower was pumped full of buckshot as frightened believers fired at what they thought was a giant Martian war machine. The true power of broadcast made itself known on this Halloween eve. And no one has forgotten the chilling fear and awesome force of this, radio's single most famous broadcast!"

Read the Wikipedia story here.

Kalimba Cookin'

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Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World: Alive in '75 [2002]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 108.2 MB

















1. Overture
2. Shining Star
3. Happy Feelin'
4. Yearnin' Learnin'
5. Sun Goddess
6. Interlude
7. Evil
8. Kalmimba Story
9. Reasons
10. Mighty Mighty
11. That's the Way of the World

Earth, Wind & Fire - Live in Rio 1980 [2002]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 123.9 MB

















1. Dialog
2. Rock That!
3. In The Stone
4. Serpentine Fire
5. Fantasy
6. Can't Let Go
7. Get Away
8. Brazilian Rhyme
9. Magic Mind
10. Runnin'
11. After The Love Is Gone
12. Rio After Dark
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Boogie Wonderland
15. September

When keepin' it real goes righteously badass; Lenny Kravitz crashes the VOP choir in New Orleans. (5:23 / SFW)

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The Man From Milwaukee

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Al Jarreau - Best of Al Jarreau [1996]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 165.5 MB

















1. Compared to What
2. Goodhands Tonight
3. Agua de Beber
4. Take Five
5. Spain (I Can Recall)
6. Never Givin' Up
7. Roof Garden
8. We're in This Love Together
9. Mornin'
10. Boogie Down
11. Moonlighting
12. Since I Fell for You
13. After All
14. So Good
15. Heaven and Earth
16. Like a Lover