"Do You Wanna Funk?" - Yes You Do!

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Native American riffs rolled into a fabulous, high-energy disco celebration. Sylvester. Remember the old movie "Trading Places"? This was Eddie Murphy's housewarming party -- crammed full to the sweat level with wacky friends celebrating wild, disco bell-infused, synth-laden FUNK, and Eddie's new-found wealth. Huh!

I loved the song well before I had ever seen the movie. It lit the pilot light inside me. And those clattering disco bells -- I can only guess, but I don't think that there's any drug that can get you as high as wonderful music.

I still feel a bit taken aback about the song, and this whole "Sylvester" thing. I actually had thought that the name of this unforgettable heartpumper was "Do You Want To Bump?"  It had always sounded that way to me... Fact is, it is natural music to do the bump to. I was at a disco on Long Island's south shore when I was in my 20s, and I remember coming home to my apartment with my hips black and blue (I was a bit skinny and didn't have the right padding to play the game), and aching from head to toe [but smiling] after bumping with a whole crowd of other dancing fools for over a half hour. The DJ played a super-set of the song, and we just could not stop.

It took me almost until the next night to recover - I was awfully resilient back then.

By the way, before you enjoy this insanity-invoking joyous noise, I wanted to invite you to please join us and Follow us on both of our Twitter Channels:

http://twitter.com/RadioDAZZ and http://twitter.com/DAZZRadio. I'd be honored if you'd come with me! Better, yet...each channel features all of the DAZZmanian DEVILry, PLUS its own unique mix of other great feeds. Please -- I ain't too proud to beg. -D

Now click and enjoy this. Louder is better! Make it an office party or a housewarming party - it doesn't matter. Now, let me aks you dis (I'm from New York): Do you want to Funk? Won't you tell me now? You know that you do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Vh-a2l6SY






By the way, friends and DAZZ-o-lites. Let's have a moment of silence for the late Don Cornelius -- the driving force behind Soul Train. Good night, Don. You gave us all so much - and you will be dearly missed.




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Music Break - AWB - Work To Do! - RadioDAZZ

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I'll admit it. I snagged this post from my personal blog http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ . This song, originally performed by the Isley Brothers, was re-made brilliantly in the 1970s by The Average White Band.

AWB takes it a bit faster, and they actually make it more intense. Listen to the power of the driving, hypnotic refrain, "Work! Work!".

If you'd like, skip the article and go right to the link at the end. I have no way of knowing, and so I won't be insulted. The song is absolutely funkacious. That's all there is to it.
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I believe that every Entrepreneur's and Visionary's greatest challenge is balancing between the business microscope and the business telescope... we are constantly having to shift our focus from the smallest incremental chores (we couldn't pay anyone else enough to take them on!) to the re-framing of the big picture, or the "Grand Design". It is difficult to live in a house while you are building it.

Actionable Items: Spread this picture around. Mass email it. Post it on your Social Media groups and pages. Blow it up to poster size. Mount it on the walls of your office or garage. Frame it. Laminate it. Look at it and laugh! It will, indeed resonate with you.

Actionable Items: Spread this picture around. Mass email it. Post it on your Social Media groups and pages. Blow it up to poster size. Mount it on the walls of your office, school locker, community bulletin board or garage. Frame it. Laminate it. Look at it and laugh! It will indeed resonate with you.
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And now, to the RadioDAZZ selection - "Work To Do" by the Average White Band. Crank up your speakers, put on your sneakers. I dare you to hold still. You won't be able to. In fact, you will be tempted (always yield to temptation when it's about sharing something great) to turn up the volume so that the whole office can hear. Let it fly over those cubicles like the spirit of liberation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEDC52o0nk 

Douglas E Castle [http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com]





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Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas ... "Huh!"

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This song is one of a kind. Truly. "Kung Fu Fighting" is truly infantile, trite and misinformed (as to the ways of the martial arts)...having said that, the song is absolutely cute, unassuming and entertaining. The opening riff (with its pentatonic air) is fabulously distinctive -- if you hum it to most anyone, that person (the anyone) will exclaim, "Kung Fu Fighting? Isn't that the song about Kung Fu Fighting?"

Don't think about it. Just enjoy it. Silly sound effects and all. It's a "old school" type of Top 40 hit.

I dedicate this song to Soke Joseph Droual, owner of the New York Martial Arts Hombu (in Huntington, New York), my martial arts instructer, a true Master, an inductee into the US Martial Arts Hall Of Fame, and a wonderful, faithful friend.

Take off your shoes. Get on the mat. Bow. Click on the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0&feature=related




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Band Of Gold - Freda Payne! - RadioDAZZ Work Break

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Freda Payne sings "Band of Gold" on Soul Train. This song was her breakthrough hit (with a nice counterpoint riff on electric sitar, and a bass line with a slightly middle eastern feel), and her performance, while lip-synched, was just incredible. This was my younger sister's favorite song, and one of the first 45 rpm vinyl singles she bought. She played this record to death -- I pretended to be tired of it, but I secretly loved it.

I hope that you will, too.

You know what to do. - DC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX82yGBhBZU&feature=feedrec

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