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George Rue's Collection

Funk Brothers   07/04/2004

Downtown Festival, Montréal, QC
Source cable TV audio
Media Flac   2 discs
Notes 107:32 min (complete) I uploaded to Traders Den 3/2/16.
Tech Notes
The Funk Brothers
Downtown Festival Main Stage
Montréal, Quebec

July 4, 2004

Source: cable TV audio feed > analog cable > CD-R > CD Trade

Editing: Soundforge > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 8

Traders Den 3/2/16.

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Most music fans are going to know who The Funk Brothers are.

The movie titled "Standing In The Shadow of Motown", showcases this group and needs to been seen by all.

Out of the original 13 members, there are only 2 still alive to this day.

I was fortunate to see and tape them a few times. Along with obtaining a series of live recordings that have been sitting around

waiting for the day that I get motivated and make them ready for more people can hear.

This is going to be the start of a run of Funk Brothers recordings that I'm pretty excited to finally get put into circulation.

I figured I'd start in chronological order. This date is the earliest one I have (i think...) and a typical long set.

There are others that I prefer instead of this one, but I'll talk more about that later.

If you have any knowledge of who this group represents and how influential they have been to the music business,

then my later releases are going to be even more exciting.

At the time of these concerts there were 5 original members in the band.

You'll notice that one of my favorite guest singers was asked to join in during this tour, Joan Osborne.

This is a really good audio feed, so it's well worth a listen.

I think I have all the stage members correctly named for this show, though it does change up a little as the tour progresses.

On a side note, there has been a chopped up version of this with commentary added in.

What I have here is the complete unedited version.

Original members:
Jack Ashford: Tambourine, Band Announcer
Joe Hunter : Keyboards
Eddie Willis : Guitarist
Uriel Jones : Drummer
Bob Babbitt : Bass

Additional members:
Ray Monette : Guitarist
Sam Moore : Lead Vocals
Trenita Womack : Congas, Percussion, Vocals
Hayden Neal : Vocals
Carolyn Crawford : Backing vocals
Donna Curtin : Backing vocals
Delbert Nelson : Backing vocals
Mark Ferguson : Trombone
Ed Green : Drums, Music Director
Robert Jones : Horn player
Tom Scott: Saxophone player
Joan Osborne : Guest Lead Vocals (*)



01 Introduction
02 You Can't Hurry Love
03 Ooh Baby Baby
04 Pride & Joy
05 Let's Get It On
06 Mercy, Mercy
07 What's Going On
08 Once In My Life (*)
09 Heatwave (*)
10 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (*)
11 I Heard It Through The Grapevine (*)
12 Higher & Higher
13 You Better Shop Around
14 Ain't Too Proud To Beg
15 Baby I Need Your Loving
16 I Can't Help Myself
17 My Girl
18 Band Introductions
19 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
20 Shotgun

Total Time = 107:32 min

Enjoy

George

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