Artist:
Con Funk Shun
Title Of Album: Con Funk Shun & Secrets
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Cherry Red Records
Genre: Funk, Soul, Disco
Quality: Mp3 |
Bitrate: 320 kbps |
Total Time: 76:43 Min
Total Size: 186 Mb |
Tracklist:
1. Music Is The Way 2:37
2. Tell Me That You Like It 2:59
3. Never Be The Same 4:26
4. Owe It To Myself 3:39
5. Foley Park 3:57
6. Nothing To Lose By Trying 3:44
7. Forever Just Ain’t Long Enough 3:19
8. Another World 4:27
9. Sho’ Feels Good To Me 6:12
10.Doowhachawannadoo 3:29
11.Who Has The Time 4:49
12.Indian Summer Love (Interlude) 0:39
13.Tears
In My Eyes 3:59
14.Ffun 4:12
15.Secrets 4:20
16.Confunkshunize Ya 4:28
17.I’ll Set You Out O.K 4:17
18.Indian Summer Love (Instrumental) 4:56
19.Ffun (12” Version) (Bonus Track) 6:05
Con Funk Shun was formed by high-school
classmates
Michael Cooper and Louis "Tony" McCall, along with Karl Fuller, Paul
"Maceo" Harrell, Dennis Johnson, Cedric Martin, and Danny "Sweet Man"
Thomas. All of them had been playing together since their high-school
days in Vallejo, CA. Felton Pilate, also from Vallejo, joined the group
after his band, a local rival, disbanded.
In the early '70s, the
group was a backup band for the Soul Children with the name Project
Soul. And when they weren't on the road with the Soul Children, they
were creatively working with various Stax staff writers. In the
mid-'70s, Project Soul made an effort to become a headliner, but they
met dead-ends and little success. However, they found good fortune at
Audio Dimensions, a Memphis recording studio owned by producer Ted
Sturges. Around this time, he group named itself after the title of one
of their instrumentals, "Con Funk Shun." During their three-year stint at Audio Dimensions, Sturges, besides owning the studio, was also Con Funk Shun's producer. Their association resulted in the group's first album, Organized Con Funk Shun.
As their sound developed, Pilate and Cooper emerged as the primary lead vocalists. Around the time their first album for
Crankshaft
Productions, Inc. was being recorded, the eighth member, MC and
technician Dennis Johnson, left the group to attend seminary in
California. By 1976, the group signed to Mercury, where they remained
for ten years. Their first hit for Mercury was "Ffun," written by
Michael Cooper as a tribute to the R&B/funk band Brick. One of the
premiere party funk bands of its time, they also began recording ballads
and instrumental tracks by the early '80s. Aside from being the primary
musicians on all their albums, Con Funk Shun also contributed to each of their albums as writers, arrangers, and/or producers.
Burnin'
Love, the septet's last album with Mercury, was recorded without their
longtime musical center, Felton Pilate, who left the group in 1986 to
become a successful producer. (Pilate eventually became
the musical force behind MC Hammer.) Melvin Carter, a frequent collaborator of Con Funk Shun, joined the group upon Pilate's exit, and that same year Michael Cooper left for a solo career. Con Funk Shun
disbanded after their last album with Mercury, but reunited in the
'90s, and began performing at festivals and concerts around the world.
