Night Train 3/26 Playlist - Tommy TNT Helps Out

Thomas Brenneck, the man behind the Meenaheen Street Band and the guitarist for both the Budos Band and the Dap Kings, joined Night Train in the illustrious KCR studios to spin favorites deep from his phonographic files. We have a recording on hand for the tracks from “Funky Jive” onwards, which will be posted next week.

A smattering of 45’s fresh in from Cleveland.

James Brown: “Night Train” (7″ King 1962)

Isley Brothers: “Fight the Power Pt. 1″ (7″ T-Neck 1975)
Ike & Tina Turner: “Chopper” (7″ United Artists 1972)
Ann Peebles: “Part Time Love” (7″ Hi Records 1970)
Brick: “Dazz” (7″ Bang 1976)
Odyssey: “No One Else Part 1″ (7″ Hi Records 1973)

El Michels Affair: “Creation”
“This Song’s For You” (from Sounding Out the City 2007)

Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes: “I Wanna Dance Wit’ Choo (Doo Dat Dance) Part I
Al Green: “Ride Sally Ride” (7″ Hi Records)
Denise LaSalle: “Trapped By a thing Called Love” (1971)
Clutchy Hopkins: “Love of a Woman” (off of Walking Backwards 2008)

Thomas Brenneck, aka Tommy TNT, at this point joined us in the studio with some vinyl sides of delicious afro, soul, and dance-floor monsters.

Hugh Masekela: “Ride It”
Jesse Anderson: “Mighty Mighty”
The Winstones: “Amen, Brother”
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey: “Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome”
Kalyanji Anandji: “Na Na Na Yeh Kya Karne Lage Ho” [Covered by Budos Band as "Chicago Falcon"]
Mulatu Astatke: “Yekitir Tezeta”
Tlahoun Gessesse: “Selamtaye Yedres”
Alemayehu Eshete: “Let’s End It”
Mulatu Astatke: “Emnete”
“Ebo Lala”
Cairo Jazz Band: “Latino in Cairo”
Meenaheen Street Band: “Make the Road By Walking”
Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens: “What Have You Done”
Meenaheen Street Band: “The World Is Going Up in Flames”
James Brown: “The World (Part 1)”

Bob & Gene: “I Can Be Cool”
Gene Williams: “Don’t Let Your Love Fade Away”
Buddy Miles: “Joe Tex”
Soul Crusaders Orchestra: “Funky Jive”
The Superlatives: “I Don’t Know How”
Bobby Hutcherson: “Family Affair”
Jimmy Stone: “Family Affair”
Holland-Dozier: “Don’t Leave Me”
T.S.U. Toronadoes: “Got to Get Through to You”
“Nee-Nee (Alternate Take)”
J.C. Davis: “A New Day”
Tommy Youngblood: “Tobacco Road”
Bobby Bland: “Sad Feeling”
Bobby Hutcherson: “Gotcha”
The Five Stairsteps: “Danger! She’s a Stranger”
Curtis Mayfield: “We People Who Are Darker than Blue”
Tammi Terrell: “All I do is Think About is You”
Tammi Terrell: “I Cried”
The Impressions: “Don’t Cry My Love”

And on to Fela Kuti Hour, featuring the groundbreaking ‘69 Los Angeles Sessions.