Push The Button - Newcleus
Egypt, Egypt - Egyptian Lover
Throwdown - Griffin
Street Freeks - Jimmy Lewis and the L.A. Street Band
99 1/2 - Carol Lynne Townes
Trommeltaz (Din Daa Daa) - George Kranz
I.O.U. - Freeze
Syberian Nights - Twilight 22
Fix It In The Mix - Pretty Tony
Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) - Hashim
Reckless - Chris "The Glove" Taylor and David Storrs
Dynamic (Total Control) - Dynamic Breakers
Looking For The Perfect Beat - Soul Sonic Force
Sound Chaser - Paul Hardcastle
My Love Is Alive - Chaka Khan
Jam The Box - Pretty Tony
Breakin..There's No Stopping Us - Ollie and Jerry
Breakdancin' - Irene Cara
The Party Has Begun - Freestyle
Can You Rock It Like This - Run DMC
Girls - Egyptian Lover
Jam On It - Newcleus
Freakshow On The Dance Floor - Barkays
Operator - Midnight Star
Nasty Rock - Garret's Crew
Nasty Rock - P Crew
Party Rock - P Crew
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Freestyle Express - Freestyle
Time Is Running Out - Jonzun Crew
We Are Whodini - Whodini

skilletnomicrowave said:

my 12'' says "arawak all stars" lol

Boogie Down Bronx- Man Parish
Take A Chance- Nuance
Everlasting Bass- Rodney O & Joe Cooly
Surgery- World Class Wrecking Crew(Props 2 Dr.Dre 4 the beat)
Rainforest- Paul Hardcastle
Rockberry Jam- LA Dream Team
What People Do For Money- Divine Styles
Looking For The Perfect Beat - Soul Sonic Force
Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) - Hashim
Needle To The Groove- Mantronix
Baseline-Mantronix
Ladys- Mantronix
Buffalo Gals- Malcolm Mclaren
Beat Box- Art Of Noise
Radio Activity- Royal Cash
The Party Has Begun - Freestyle
Hey DJ - World Famous Supreme team

You know it was realy going on back then,I'ma have to bust a windmill right quick.....
still got it.

peace

How many of you use to do the Prep?

Cavern--Liquid Liquid
It's Just Begun--Jimmy Castor Bunch
Din Daa Daa--George Kranz

(All right! I cheated. I have "Perfect Beats" Vo1.1-4 )

vainandy said:

I used to love the pop/lock era also:

Shake Your Pants - Cameo
Boogie Bodyland - Barkays
Pop Along Kid - Shalamar
Firecracker - Mass Production
Computer Games - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Right In The Socket - Shalamar
Sexy Dancer - Prince
All Night Thing - Invisible Man's Band
Freaky Dancing - Cameo
Get Up, Get Funky, Get Loose - Teddy Pendergrass
Outta Space - Billy Preston

Break Dance Party - BREAK MACHINE
Hey You - THE ROCKSTEADY CREW
Boogie In Your Butt - EDDIE MURPHY

ONE MORE BATCH...

Newcleus: jam on it's revenge

newcleus: Automan

Axel F: Beverly Hills Cop Sndtrk

Tour De France: Kraftwerk

On the Down Side: Xena

Let The Music Play: Shannon

One More Shot: C-Bank

Rainforest: Paul Hardcastle

Sound Chaser: Paul Hardcastle

am/pm: paul hardcastle

This should be your night: Cindy Mizelle (on Breaking 1)

Is this thing love: Jay Novell

Five minutes of funk: Whodini

Freaks come out at night: Whodini

Funky Beat: Whodini

What people do for money: Divine Sounds

Buffalo Gals: Malcolm McLaren

Body Train: Gap Band

Light years away: warp 9

Play at your own risk: Planet Patrol

release Yourself: Aleem

Looking for the perfect beat: African Bambaataa

One for the treble: Davy DMX

Oh My God: Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh

Soul Makossa: Nairobi

Clear: Cybotron

Dancefloor: zapp

Breaker's Revenge: Arthur Baker

Last Night the DJ Saved My Life: Indeep

When Boys Talk: Indeep

10 Reasons Why I Can't Be Free For Your Love: Indeep

This is Your Night: Chaka Khan

RR2004 said:

Rocksteady Crew's "Up Rock" was a fav of mine (So was Baby Love, she was cute, and a breaker too )

Many of those songs listed above was what I use to break to as a kid.

Boogie In your Butt Ronny u clown

skilletnomicrowave said:

Yes, the original guitar riff is by the shadows (One of my all time favourite, classic samples). "Michael Viner" must have put that classic beat over the top of it & was probably the first to lift The Shadow's original and sample it.

paligap said:

Damn! You taking me back to my DJing days with these!
I was bumping Beat Box, Planet Rock and More Bounce in my car not too long ago. Sounds so good thru my subs. Orgasmic!

Love & Light,

Quietsoul

sextonseven said:

The statement about "leave it to the west coast to take something and water it down" was ignorant. The L.A. and NYC urban dance scenes evolved simultaneously, albeit differently. Los Angeles had its own dance culture that had been vibrant since the late 1960s starting with a dance kids in Watts, Compton and the Eastside of L.A. used to do called "The Robot," which used a lot of pantomime and resembled movements from popular TV shows like "Lost In Space."

In the 1970s, "The Robot" dance evolved and elevated into what would soon be known as "Campbellocking" or "Locking." Poplocking started in L.A. Re-Run, from the TV show, What's Happening! was a member of the Campbellockers (a legendary L.A. dance crew in the 70s). Among their members were "Shabba-doo" Quinones (who appeared as "O-Zone" in Breakin'), Tony Basil (who was a Campbellocker and used many of the dance moves to propel her choreography career in Hollywood). It was Re-Run, who was an original street dancer, that popularized poplocking (or "popping" and "locking") nationwide.

New York had an unquestionably vibrant dance scene. Their moves were more acrobatic and gymnastic and heavily centered on floor work. L.A. "Poppin'" is essentially West Coast breaking, but it involved more freeze work and characterization. NYC mimicked stuff from the LA scene and vice versa. But to deny L.A.'s place in the history of B-boying or to simply say they "took it" from it from NYC, watered it down and expropriated it is ignorant.

Actually, it was the MOVIE INDUSTRY that took breakdancing, homogenized it, and watered it down to a "flavor of the month" type fad, not the dancers in Los Angeles (who were also used by Hollywood and treated the same way). A lot of the dancers from the "Breakin'" movies are ORIGINAL (not just some actors) and are actually from the streets. The first "Breakin'" movie is actually a viable hip hop document in its own right, up there with Wild Style and Beat Street (just more scripted, polished and with bigger budget). Reason being: the hip hop sequence in the first movie featuring a rap by Ice-T was filmed at the Radiotron (a popular dance club in Los Angeles were dance crews would battle using popping, locking, and breaking. Many of the beach scenes in the film were staged, but popping and locking crews would actually hold dance battles at Venice Beach, so it wasn't pulled out of the air.

To tell you the truth, L.A. hardly gets love when it comes to invention, acknowledgment and recognition in the story of b-boying. Often times, the city gets left out. New York tends to get ALL the love (which is interesting that you refer to NYC as being somehow robbed of its legacy and not "being able to sell it well" -- Hell, the Rock Steady Crew and the NYC breakers are still remembered and revered to this day) while other cities dance scenes and dance crews are labeled "cheap imitations" or rendered non-existent. If you truly examined the history of B-boying or lived in areas outside of New York around the time the movement was blossoming, you'd see that it took many parts to create the whole.

Learn more about Campbellocking, locking, popping and the West Coast breakdance scene...
http://tonytee.com/campbellock/
http://www.mrwiggleshipho...n_higa.htm
http://www.dancemaster.com/history.html

...or run a Google search.

In my area, I seem to be the only one that remembers "Street Freeks" by Jimmy lweis and the L.A. street Band! Thanks [u][b]vainandy for reminding me of that one. "19" as well! Guess I'll go ahead and add another to my list:

Play That Beat Mr. D.J.--G.L.O.B.E. + Whiz Kid

JANFAN4L said:

Yes, all that history is very nice, but it doesn't change the fact that a lite west coast film made all the money while the east coast films didn't. This corresponds to rap music a few years later when the biggest pop hits were mostly by west coast artists.

And I don't recall making any statement about which city created breakdancing.

sextonseven said:

It wasn't a "West Coast" film. It was a Cannon/MGM film that happened to be set in L.A. They made all the money. O-Zone, Turbo, Special K and all the b-boys in the film didn't. In fact, most of them didn't really collect any major royalties although the film remains an 80s cult classic. "Wild Style" as far as video sales, word-of-mouth and critical approval was very successful. Of course it wasn't going to make "Breakin'" money right out the gate because it was released limitedly and wasn't backed by a major hollywood studio. Beat Street was backed by MGM and it made money and opened in more theaters, so I don't get what you're saying.

I did not say anywhere in my initial posting that you made a statement about which city spawned breaking. I'm refering to your comment about the west coast taking breakdancing, "watering it down and making money off of it," as if L.A. people were faking the funk and stealing everything from New York.

And for you to add "blah, blah, blah" in your quote implies that you didn't read for comprehension anyway.

JANFAN4L said:

The box office take for Breakin' was more than twice the amount for Beat Street because it was more accessible to the general public by being more lightweight and light-hearted in nature--just like much (not all) of the west coast rap music a few years later. That's what I'm saying.



I never said that. That just your misinterpretation of my post.



It implies that I hate when people repost an entire overlong message in their response.

sextonseven said:

Hopefully, someone got something out of this exchange. If you don't know, now you know.

AsianConnection said:

To this day i still need a copy of Play that beat, can anyone help? ( on 12 of course)

Come on guys let's not forget OLLIE AND JERRY!









no one does it better!

sextonseven said:

they were both cheesy films.....but such good cheese.

TECHNICOLOR - CHANNEL ONE
YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG - SLINGSHOT
I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVE YOU (TILL I SAW YOU ROCK & ROLL) - PLANET PATROL
RETURN OF CAPTAIN ROCK - CAPTIN ROCK
MIRDA ROCK - ???

Clear.....Cybotron
Beatbox...Art of Noise
Close to the Edit....Art of Noise
Rockit....Herbie Handcock
Mirda Rock...Reggie Griffen & Technofunk
West Coast Poplock...Ronnie Hudson[b]
[b]Looking for the Perfect Beat...Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force
Planet Rock....."""""
Rockin Radio....????
Tour de France.....Kraftwerk
Its Time.....????
The Beat goes on....Orbit
I.O.U (a-e-i-o-u)....Freeze
Surgery.....World Class Wreckin CRU
Electric Kingdom....????

AQUABOOGIE said:

HOW COULD I FORGET ELECTRIC KINGDOM - TWILIGHT 22
THAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN BREAK DANCE SONGS!

debbiedean2 said:

Yep

"GOTTA ROCK IT, DON'T STOP IT, GOTTA ROCK IT, DON'T STOP....."
[This message was edited Thu Aug 5 22:57:13 2004 by NWF]

"What's your sign"

"Street Freeks" didn't get much airplay down here back in the day. Everyone I know never remembers it until I play it for them. I would be the same way if I didn't have the 45.

Back in those days, when I really LOVED the current music, if I even slightly liked it, I bought it. My grandmother was very overprotective so she would bribe me with records to keep me from going out. Every Friday, she would buy me either 3 45s or one 12 Inch. She would also do the same on Saturday. If I wanted an album, that would take the place of both days. Now when Prince released a new album, that was like an unwritten contract...she was going to buy that for me immediately. She used to call me after I was grown and ask me if Prince was coming out with something new. I built up quite a record collection. If I REALLY wanted something special...I would make up a story about a phony concert I wanted to go to so she would bribe me. Isn't it funny how manipulative we can be as kids. I think she knew but she loved me and wanted to keep me home and out of trouble.

Yeah, it took me a long time to find a copy of that song ("Street Freeks"). A year or two ago I got a 12" on the EBAY auctions. Yeah, they remember it when you play it! In fact, there was a big break battle on stage during Cinco de Mayo celebration in '84 here in San Jose. That was the only damn song they played over and over again, literally! So, those people that were there remember it!

You can find a 12" of "Play That Beat Mr. D.J." on http://www.gemm.com

oh, and I stand corrected on The Shadows being the originators of "Apache".

AsianConnection said:

Play that Beat is a classic!!!