James Foster & The LA Untouchables - "The Time Has Come" (2:20)
The Del-Reys - "Don’t You Know" (2:50)
The LA Untouchables - "Money Man" (2:11)
Spider Walker - "I’m Mad" (2:30)
The Del-Reys - "Walk Proud" (2:07)
Billy Williams - "So Called Friend (Oh! What A Friend)" (2:31)
Ty Karim - "Lighten Up Baby" (2:40)
BB Carter - "Cool It Baby" (2:28)
Marilyn Calloway & The 4-Silvertones - "My Lover" (2:32)
Deb Tones & The Del-Reys - "Knock On Wood" (2:55)
The De Velles - "Misery" (2:46)
Ann Stacy - "Don’t You Fool Me" (2:32)
BB Carter - "Leave Me Alone" (2:20)
Marilyn Calloway & The 4-Silvertones - "Shut Up" (demo) (2:02)
Jimmy 'Preacher' Ellis - "(C’mon) Dance To The Drumbeat" (3:02)
The LA Untouchables - "Acey Deucey" (2:28)
Gene Russell’s Trio - "Doin’ The Snake Hips" (2:19)
The De Velles - "Let’s Do The Hunch" (1:50)
Gene Russell’s Trio - "Jet Set" (3:08)
Dynamic Duo & The Penguiness - "Turkey Trot" (2:47)
Gene Russell’s Trio - "Foggy Bottom" (3:01)
Lee Harvey - "Only True Love" (1:53)
Lee Harvey - "Need Of Love" (3:18)
Lee Jones - "I Got To See My Baby" (2:54)
Lee Harvey - "Prove It" (2:31)
Lee Harvey & The LA Untouchables - "My Assurance" (2:32)
Lee Harvey & The LA Untouchables - "If I’m Dreaming" (2:51)
Lee Harvey - "False Pride" (2:36)
Review: One of four new vinyl issues, Numero Group deliver their compendium of regional funk and soul unknowns from Mel Alexander's Consolidated Productions label. The V/A forms a part of a new bundled volume of their longstanding compilation-compilation (yes!), made up of earlier funk cuts released by lesser-spotted interstate funk floggers throughout the 70s, including Tragar, Note, Saadia and Shoestring. Eccentric Soul is its name: first issued in 2004, this big splash homed in on the regional American delights in the genre, stretching as far as Wichita, Kansas, San Antonia, Texas and Norfolk and releasing an uncountable string of tracks by formerly unknown names based in small locales, who'd at that point only just caught onto the incipient funk movement. Here, you may dive into LA's cutthroat music business from 1961-1991, embodied in Mel Alexander's Consolidated Productions, which lay among the longest running Black-owned independent record conglomerates of the 20th century.
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