William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Blasters of the Universe ; Year: 1993; Genre: Funk Made it to the end of another workweek safe and sound... well... more or less. Nothing like some P-Funk to lift the mood... this entire album is filled to the brim with Parliament-Funkadelic alumni, so you know it's going to be top-shelf bump music.    Hear Funk Me Dirty on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: B.T. Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Allman Brothers Band - Pegasus   My song pick 3 years ago today: Vixen - Cryin'   My song pick 4 years ago today: Weather Report - Surucucú   My song pick 5 years ago today: Steeleye Span - Summer Lady   My song pick 6 years ago today: Bobby Freeman - Do You Want To Dance? My song pick 7 years ago today: Sly and the Family Stone - If This Room Could Talk My song pick 8 years ago today: Rush - Grand Designs My song pick 9 years ago today: The Trammps - Rubber Band My s...

From: Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! ; Year: 1977; Genre: Funk/Psychedelic Soul This is such a cool love ballad of a sort with that slow and soulful funky rhythm; only one such as Bootsy and company could do such an awesome feat. Almost ten minutes of excellent music from the master himself; pure heaven to the ears.   Hear Munchies for Your Soul on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Just Look At Me Now   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Kinks - Money Talks   My song pick 3 years ago today: Ozric Tentacles - Humboldt Currant   My song pick 4 years ago today: Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower   My song pick 5 years ago today: The O'Jays - Time To Get Down My song pick 6 years ago today: Dazz Band - Let it Whip My song pick 7 years ago today: Benny Carter - Things Ain't What They Used To Be My song pick 8 years ago today: The Kinks - Destroyer My song pick 9 years ago today: Band of Horse...

From: Ahh... The Name is Bootsy , Baby!; Year: 1977; Genre: Funk Been a busy last couple of days and am finally getting to actually sit down and go over some music and not just that which has been on my mind, and/or something I recently heard. Anyway, wot a perfect pick for a Funky Friday ? A great track from Bootsy and his band of renown that is in and of itself a reference to George Clinton's character from P-Funk mythos Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk who appears in many songs from Parliament-Funkadelic; yep... there's no touching funk this hot.   Hear The Pinocchio Theory on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Ugly Kid Joe - Come Tomorrow   My song pick 2 years ago today: Blackmore's Night - Play Minstrel Play   My song pick 3 years ago today: Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me My song pick 4 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Acres Wild My song pick 5 years ago today: Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose My song pick 6 years ago today: Bootsy's Rubber ...

From: This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N ; Year: 1979; Genre: Funk Funky Friday again! This song just makes me feel good all over, it's so much fun to listen and dance to; Bootsy Collins and company are just amazing, as usual.     Hear Chug-A-Lug (The Bun Patrol) on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Mastodon - Asleep in the Deep   My song pick 2 years ago today: Uriah Heep - Fallen Angel My song pick 3 years ago today: Depeche Mode - Strangelove My song pick 4 years ago today: Billy Joel - Uptown Girl My song pick 5 years ago today: Aerosmith - What it Takes My song pick 6 years ago today: Queen - Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy My song pick 7 years ago today: Rush - The Trees My song pick 8 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Orion My song pick 9 years ago today: Genesis - The Return of the Giant Hogweed My song pick 10 years ago today: Rush - The Seeker My song pick 11 years ago today: Queen - The Show Must Go On My song pick 12 year...

From: Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band ; Year: 1976; Genre: Funk It's Friday again, and thus time for another selection of Funk . I love Bootsy Collins and his band; they really lay the funk downin an awesome way. Hear Another Point of View on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: America - Watership Down My song pick 2 years ago today: Hawkwind - Angels of Death My song pick 3 year ago today: Yes - America My song pick 4 years ago today: Styx - Miss America My song pick 5 years ago today: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - The House is a Rockin' My song pick 6 years ago today: Melvins - Honey Bucket My song pick 7 years ago today: Bing Crosby - Beautiful Dreamer My song pick 8 years ago today: Black 47 - Bankers and Gangsters My song pick 9 years ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - House of the Rising Sun My song pick 10 years ago today: The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes My song pick 11 years ago today: Che...

From: Ahh... The Name is Bootsy, Baby! ; Year: 1977; Genre: Funk Time for another Funky Friday ! This is a great one from Bootsy Collins and his Rubber Band; a perfect song when you need some funk. Hear Rubber Duckie on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya My song pick 2 years ago today: Curved Air - Back Street Luv My song pick 3 years ago today: Fairport Convention - Fotheringay My song pick 4 years ago today: Steeleye Span - Van Diemen's Land My song pick 5 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Kelpie My song pick 6 years ago today: Wild Turkey - Battle Hymn My song pick 7 years ago today: Johann Strauss I - Op. 154 - Lorelei Rhein Klänge My song pick 8 years ago today: Puhdys - Hier Oben My song pick 9 years ago today: Rush - Circumstances My song pick 10 years ago today: Rammstein - Du Hast My song pick 11 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Sunshine Day

From: This Boot is Made For Fonk-N ; Year: 1979; Genre: Funk I had this very funky album on my mind today for this, my 205th consecutive Funky Friday pick. I absolutely love the slow and hard bumping groove throughout this one, and it's over nine minutes of that excellent groove long. Hear Jam Fan (Hot) on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Van Halen - The Dream is Over My song pick two years ago today: Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long My song pick three years ago today: Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson & Clover My song pick four years ago today: John Denver - Carolina In My Mind My song pick five years ago today: Asia - Time Again My song pick six years ago today: U2 - The Unforgettable Fire My song pick seven years ago today: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World My song pick eight years ago today: Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now My song pick nine years ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Gimme Your Money Ple...

From: This Boot is Made for Fonk-N ; Year: 1979; Genre: Funk Another Funky Friday is here; was in the mood for some P-Funk and chose this funky track from Bootsy Collins' band, which should get ya up and moving to that funky groove. Hear Under the Influence of a Groove on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Redbone - Come and Get Your Love My song pick two years ago today: Petula Clark - A Sign of the Times My song pick three years ago today: Iron Maiden - Wrathchild My song pick four years ago today: Guns N' Roses - Paradise City My song pick five years ago today: Ian Anderson - Shunt and Shuffle My song pick six years ago today: Def Leppard - Waterloo Sunset My song pick seven years ago today: John Denver - Spirit My song pick eight years ago today: Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People My song pick nine years ago today: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

From: Blasters of the Universe ; Year: 1993; Genre: Funk Another busy Funky Friday descended upon me; I felt like picking another super funky number from Bootsy. Hear Funk Express Card on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Marmalade - Rainbow My song pick two years ago today: Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend My song pick three years ago today: Rammstein - Rosenrot My song pick four years ago today: Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump My song pick five years ago today: Nightwish - Storytime My song pick six years ago today: Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition My song pick seven years ago today: Nightwish feat. Tapio Wilska - The Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean My song pick eight years ago today: Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen My song pick nine years ago today: Frank Zappa - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

From: Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band ; Year: 1976; Genre: Funk/Soul Whilst this counts as my 141st consecutive Funky Friday pick, it's the first one in my new house and I wanted a perfect song for the occasion. Who better than the incomparable Bootsy Collins and his band for the pick, right? Anyway, this soulful and powerful funk track is the closing track to the band's first album; it's a perfect "cooldown" for such a fun thumping and bumping album. Hear Vanish In Our Sleep on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: The Who - Another Tricky Day My song pick two years ago today: Rush - Beneath, Between & Behind My song pick three years ago today: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last of a Dyin' Breed My song pick four years ago today: Rush - Subdivisions My song pick five years ago today: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - K. 525, Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major " Eine Kleine Nachtmusik " My song pick six years ago today: F...

From: Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band ; Year: 1976; Genre; Funk A huge smile came on my face the other day when this song came on; put me in an incredible mood. Some definitely fun bump music for y'all on this 119th consecutive Funky Friday pick. Hear Psychoticbumpschool on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Alice Cooper/John 5/Billy Sheehan/Vinny Appice - Santa Claus is Coming to Town My song pick two years ago today: The Ventures - Sleigh Ride My song pick three years ago today: The Miracles featuring Bill "Smokey" Robinson - Shop Around My song pick four years ago today: Louis Armstrong - Christmas in New Orleans My song pick five years ago today: Boston - A Man I'll Never Be My song pick six years ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Blue Collar My song pick seven years ago today: John Denver - Season Suite - Winter My song pick eight years ago today: Band of Horses - The Funeral

From: Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band ; Year: 1976; Genre: Funk Today is my 80th consecutive Funky Friday and I thought I would mark the pick with some proper, thumping and bumping fun funk from the funky monster himself and his band. This one always puts a big smile on my face and bounce in my step. Hear Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band) on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks My song pick two years ago today: Hawkwind - Wind of Change My song pick three years ago today: Alestorm - Set Sail to Conquer My song pick four years ago today: Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys - The Ghost and Honest Joe My song pick five years ago today: Jerry Reed - Amos Moses My song pick six years ago today: Santana - All The Love In The Universe My song pick seven years ago today: The Who - My Generation