# What are your favorite funk/R&B songs from the 70's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936 "2012-01-09T16:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/1 "2012-01-09T16:43:04Z")
Name and artist please: Here are some of my favorites: Stawberry Letter 23 by the Brothers Johnson (which was a remake of the Shuggi Otis version). Burn Rubber by The Gap Band Fantastic Voyage by Lakeside ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/2 "2012-01-09T21:54:50Z")
Only “Strawberry Letter 23” of your list is from the 70’s … Which means you’ve tacitly approved my 80’s heavy list. _Ms. Got-the-Body_ by Con Funk Shun _Shake your Pants_ by Cameo _Freaky Behavior_ by the Bar-Kays _She Talks to Me With Her Body_ by the Bar-Kays The Bar-Kays were one of my favorite groups EVER 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/3 "2012-01-09T22:10:09Z")
Sly and the Family Stone: If You Want Me to Stay… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8x3RLGj-KU) ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/4 "2012-01-09T22:12:28Z")
Sly and the Family Stone: Loose Booty. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/5 "2012-01-11T21:28:51Z")
One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic, released in '78 Oops Upside Your Head - The Gap Band, released in '79 Atomic Dog - George Clinton, released in '82 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/6 "2012-01-11T22:55:37Z")
Go for Your Guns, The Isley Brothers - greasiest clavinet groove you can find. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/7 "2012-01-12T01:15:21Z")
This thread is useless without links! More links! [Brothers Johnson-- Get The Funk Outta My Face](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQx352SGYwQ) [Isley Brothers – Fight The Power (Parts 1&2)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2ebiuV3hU) [Get Up For The Downstroke – Parlament](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i01fYbRQjWM) [The Jam – Graham Central Station](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmK8-PPeBg0) Every time I think I’m done, another even more favoriter song comes to mind. I’ll give it a rest now. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/8 "2012-01-12T02:18:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This thread is useless without links! More links! OK, you wanna go there?! Stomp on [THIS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EvWkUuALGg)! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/9 "2012-01-12T05:55:54Z")
Lee Fields - [Problems](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseXccnD25k) Lee Fields - [Honey Dove](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1sCxGnUEX8) Lee Fields - [I’m The Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx8IzPbAMiE) Actually, the whole album is terrific. So is his more recent stuff. Lee Fields totally fucking rocks. Freddi/Henchi and the Soulsetters - [I Want To Dance, Dance, Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QI7UlFFaU) Freddi/Henchi and the Soulsetters - [I Like Funky Music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5cGD2CSZ4) Classic Funk - [Hard Times](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcLy9K0rRw) The Soul Drifters - [Funky Soul Brother](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpFPSga2xU) Parliament - [Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWH3OWfT2Y) Okay, really damn near any P-Funk, but damn I love that song! Sly & The Family Stone - [Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=des0hOyzgRs) Sly Stone totally fucking rocks! Rick James - [Mary Jane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg263dzOn3Q) Ohio Players - [Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47G-Wa4qfs) I better stop before I list all the good songs! I have a fairly large collection of funk and R&B; it’s great music! ETA: Okay, just one more! Who doesn’t love hearing Sugarhill Gang’s original long version of [Rapper’s Delight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwaW4cZNwRk)? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/10 "2012-01-12T19:25:51Z")
[Bootsy’s Rubber Band-- Bootzilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=husf6po76mU) The world’s only rhinestone rock star baby dollbaby, Bubba. [Parlament Funkadelic-- Cosmic Slop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxnbVGFK1W0) I can hear my mother call, I can hear my mother call-- would you like to dance with me, we’re doing the cosmic slop? [Cymande-- Bra](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucwDjKC8us) But it’s all right. You can still go on. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/11 "2012-01-12T21:39:56Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Go for Your Guns, The Isley Brothers - greasiest clavinet groove you can find. I’m not entirely sure. As mentioned in earlier threads here: > [@Funkiest song ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/61): > > Eminent musicologists have long contended [1] that _Superstition_ is not merely funky but actually **stanky**. > > [1] Ellis, D. et al, _J. Funk. Stud_ 36( **2** ), 1978 Dig the clavinet, brother! (Though, it doesn’t actually require clavinet. Check out a version with guitar: [Stevie Wonder and his band performing Superstition live on Sesame Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE).) ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/12 "2012-01-12T21:46:08Z")
Play that funky music whiteboy- Wild Cherry. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-funk-r-b-songs-from-the-70s/608936/13 "2012-01-12T23:41:02Z")
Presented, for your perusal, perhaps the single funkiest groove of all time Bootsy Collins, “What’s a Telephone Bill” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJAQdwyFD64)