A friend gave me this cd called "King Funk"

It's a compilation of various artists from 1969 - 1973 that are from JB's record label.

All of it's pretty funk and I think I can hear JB himself in some songs.

I searched the web and got nothing other than the cd is available as an import from Amazon.

Does anybody here know anything about this?

C'Mon! With all of these Rock & Roll rainmen around here, you'd think somebody would know about this!

Mistermaxx? anybody?

you got a tracklisting?

1. Honky Tonk Popcorn - Bill Doggett
2. Butter Your Popcorn - Hank Ballard
3. Your Thing Ain't No Good Without My Thing - Marie Queenie Lyons
4. Tighten Up
5. Live It Up
6. Gold Walk
7. See and Don't See - Marie Queenie Lyons
8. From the Back Side, Pt. 1 - Sons of Funk
9. From the Back Side, Pt. 2 - Sons of Funk
10. Witch Doctor
11. Papa's Got the Wagon - Gloria Walker
12. Camelot Time
13. Fever - Marie Queenie Lyons
14. Love Potion No. 9
15. Soul Train - Little Royal
16. Unwind Yourself - Hank Ballard
17. Get It Right or Leave It Alone
18. Stand up and Get Funky - James Duncan
19. Honky Tonk - Bill Doggett
20. Funky Lady, Pt. 1
21. Funky Lady, Pt. 2
22. Mr. Tuff Stuff
23. Don't Get Funky - Gloria Walker
24. Down Home Girl

O.K. then, I guess I'll bring this thread back when I find the scoop.

"Oh yes, it will be mine"

well, i've never seen that piece, but i do know that king records was a label out of cincinnati, ohio. when you say it was james brown's record label, it was the label that he was on, but it was owned by syd nathan. he apparently didn't really care for james brown, and there were a number of difficulties between the two especially when money was concerned.

medoc2003 said:

I think that's what this compilation is (from King Records). I'm still gonna dig.

These 24 cuts were released by the King label or King subsidiaries between 1967 and 1973 (with the exception of the previously unreleased "Don't Get Funky" by Gloria Walker).

During the early stretch of that period, James Brown was carrying the whole King enterprise on his back. It comes as no surprise, then, that an anthology of non-Brown funk on the label during this period is heavily James Brown-influenced. You hear it up-front in the first two tracks, Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk Popcorn" and Hank Ballard's "Butter Your Popcorn," attempts by two fading R&B stars to ride James Brown's "Popcorn" hits.

Overall, this is adequate, but not noteworthy, period funk; none of the performers are recognizable to anyone but collectors, except for the Coasters (who do an ill-advised 1972 remake of "Love Potion No. 9") and the aforementioned Ballard and Doggett.

As is so often the situation on second-tier soul anthologies, the derivative nature of much of the material is real in-your-face: Roosevelt Matthews' cover of Archie Bell's "Tighten Up" could not hope to make anyone forget the original; the Presidents do the late-'60s James Brown routine on "Gold Walk" (as does Little Royal on "Soul Train"); the Sons of Funk do their best to emulate the smoldering funk of the JB's on the two-part "From the Back Side."

This CD is not a bad secondary acquisition for the funk fanatic, mind you -- just nothing to jump up and down about. The set is at least made more listenable by some variety among the instrumentals and between the male and female vocalists.

cool, thanks for the follow up, and review.