Funky Friday - Animal Crackers

Is it possible to build an audio ark, a musical menagerie, a funky farm, a zound zoo..

*goes on like this for several hours*

of animals celebrated in soul stompsters and sizzlers?

Well, for starters, here's a few beauties and beasties racing straight out of the traps...

If you only have the chance to check out one of these tunes Please. Please. Please check out the 'Funky Chicken' nugget, not just for the most eye blinding explosion of spectacular clobber ever seen at any single event.

But also the collective display of shaking, strutting and group frugging - it's like Heronymous Bosch flash mobbing..

Rufus Thomas - The Funky Chicken (from Wattstax)




Billy Preston - The Octopus



Los Gatos Negros - Hey Hey Bunny



Syko and The Caribs - Do The Dog



Bernard Purdie - Funky Donkey



Rufus Thomas - Walking The Dog

Funky Friday - Billy's Bag

Every Friday is Funky Friday on Planet Mondo - and this Friday brings you two vintage synthy sizzler vid's and three downloads from Mr Billy Preston.

Billy P previously appeared on Funky Friday showing his explosive fruggery in a storming duet on Agent Double O Soul with Ray Charles here

Billy Preston - Outta Space

The studio version of Outta Space is stomping enough, but this impeccably afroed and impossibly funky live take is so heavy hitting that it leaves The Commodores 'Machine Gun' standing in the stalls and comes dangerously close to out vamping Stevie Wonders 'Superstition'. Given Led Zep's legacy of 'poplifting'('You Need Love' - Small Faces, 'Season of the Witch' - Donovan, 'Dazed and Confused' from something I can't remember)I wouldn't be surprised to find that 'Zep reworked and rocked up the 'Outta Space riff' into 'Trampled Underfoot'.




Billy Preston - struttin'

Another 'fro fest throw down with all the shuffle and funk of The Blockheads 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll' meets the 'Starsky and Hutch'(Blow out version) theme tune. Now if could just find 'Creature Freature'* I'd have Billy's squeal deal synth set sorted.

(*If you do have Creature Freature on MP3 I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could pass it on).



Why not treat yourself and fill your Space boots with these three lovelies.
Or shimmy over to channel mondo for some TV theme funk

Billy Preston - Outta Space


Billy Preston - struttin'


Billy Preston - Space Race