bong heights

S*A*T* - HOW ARE WE FIVE-O

01 Inside Out – American Gypsy
02 P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) – Parliament
03 Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield
04 Going Back To My Roots – Ritchie Havens
05 A Day In The Life – Eric Burdon & War
06 Everybody’s Gotta live – Love
07 Be Thankful For What You Got – Love
08 Gimme Shelter – Maxayn
09 Light My Fire – Shirley Bassey
10 On A Clear Day – Peddlers
11 Ain’t No Sunshine – Eddy Senay
12 Who Knows – Marion Black
13 Polarizer – Joe Thomas
14 Fool On The Street – Rick James
15 Mind Power – James Brown
16 Move Your Hand – Lonnie Smith
17 Mystic Brew – Ronnie Foster
18 Out Law – Ron Henderson & Choice Of Colour
19 Dancing Girl – Terry Callier
20 Song Of The Universe – Baby Face Willette
21 It’s Hard To Explain – Ray Agee
22 I Wanted To Be A Rock & Roll Star – Willie Hutch
23 The Man – Patto
24 Viva Tirado – El Chicano
25 Funky Like A Train (Jeff Young Re-Edit) – The Equals
26 The Bottle – Gil Scott-Heron
27 I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl – Nina Simone
28 To The Establishment – Lou Bond
29 Give Me Your Love (Danny Krivit Edit) – The Sisters Love
30 Law Of The Land – The Undisputed Truth
31 I Got The – Labi Siffre
32 Am I Black Enough For You – Billy Paul
33 All The Way Down – Esther Phillips
34 Harlem River Drive – Bobbi Humphrey
35 A Change is Going to Come – The Baby Huey Story
36 Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack
37 I Walk On Guided Splinters – Dr. John
38 Fievre – La lupe
39 Out There On My Own – Lamont Dozier
40 She Aint Heavy – George Benson
41 What You Wont Do For love – Roy Ayers
42 I Hear The Love Chimes – Syl Johnson
43 Starchild – Cane And Able
44 The Hunter – Archie Shepp & Jasper van’t Hof
45 By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Isaac Hayes
46 Rainy Night In Georgia – Tony Joe White
47 Ace Of Spades – O.V. Wrigh
48 Love That Burns – Fleetwood Mac
49 Spellbinder – Gabor Szabo
50 Five O – Morton Stevens

The background to this project is that it began as a gift of 50 tracks for my fiftieth birthday (… yep I know!) DOM (the selector) had just moved back from living in NYC since the early 90s and had been digging up these gems during his time there.

So instead of consigning them all to my iTunes library to be mixed up and lost I decided to embark on putting them together as a whole. I wanted to keep true to the original creators and not muck about with the originals. Many are longer versions of tracks that I hadn’t come across before and so I wanted to keep that long player experience, so no edits, no added samples just low maintenance blends! The result is an epic just under five-O hours of listening pleasure!

The Brooklyn Bridge street photo used on the cover was taken back in the day by DOM and is where he lived. This scene was once used for Sergio Leone’s 1984 Once Upon a Time in America film poster… So I thought the mix title should use the same font and design. And oh yeah apologies for the title, one of the included tracks was the Hawaii Five-O theme tune (fiftieth etc) and that’s the closest I got to it!