The People's Choice: I Likes To Do It 1971

 

The People’s Choice were formed in Philadelphia by Keyboardist Frank Brunson in 1971. The instrumental I Likes To Do It was their debut single, released on the Phil L.A of Soul label in the same year. It pecked at number 38 on the Billboard charts and 9 on the RnB chart. After signing to Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff ‘s Philadelphia International Records they had an even bigger hit with Do It Any Way You Wanna. In 1989 I Likes To Do It was sampled by De La Soul for the track Trend Water on their album 3 Foot High And Rising. Big Ladies Man was the B-Side. Both songs were written by Frank Brunson.

Produced By Bill Perry and Rudy Wilson

Frank Brunson        Keyboards/Vocals
David Thomson                        Drums
Darnell Jordan                           Guitar
Johnnie Hightower                    Guitar
Stanley Thomas                          Bass
Marc Reed                                Vocals

I Likes To Do It.mp3

Big Ladies Man.mp3

Iron Knowledge: Show-Stopper 1974

Not a lot is known about Iron Knowledge. They were from Youngstown Ohio and played Hendrix influenced Funk Rock. The 1974 high energy Show-Stopper was their first release. They put out one more single after this (Give Me A Little Taste Of Your Love). Which like Show Stopper was released on Tammy Records. It sounds like the guitar on Show-Stopper is Drop D tuning. That is, instead of the strings being tuned in the standard way (E A D G B E) they are tuned to D A D G A D. Making the intro sound deep and dirty. The B-Side is the complete opposite, it is a slow burning groove.

***Warning recorded off of vinyl.  Surface Noise***

 Show-Stopper

Oh Love 

The Parliaments: Heart Trouble 1965

The Parliaments were the precursor to Parliament, the George Clinton led 70’s funk band. This is the George Clinton led 60’s soul/doo-wop quintet. Heart Trouble was their third single. It was released in 1965 on Golden World Records.  Like the flipside (That Was My Girl), it was co-written by George Clinton and Sidney Barnes. A few years later George Clinton rewrote Heart Trouble as You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure for his other band Funkadelic, it appears on their 1973 Cosmic Slop album. The B-side, That Was My Girl, was also later reworked by George Clinton and features of Funkadelic’s 1972 double album America Eats Its Young.

George Clinton      vocals
Grady Thomas       vocals
Ray Davis              vocals
Fuzzy Haskins       vocals
Calvin Simon         vocals

Produced by George Clinton, Sidney Barnes, Mike Terry

Heart Trouble

That Was My Girl

As a bonus here's there biggest hit I Wanna Testify

I Wanna Testify