The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference, page 13
Lead Vocals: Robert Peanut Johnson, Bootsy Collins, Mudbone Cooper, Greg Thomas,
Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Catfish Collins
Keyboards, Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
“Jam Fan (Hot)”
Lead Vocals, Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Backup Vocals: Parlet, Dawn Silva, Sheila Horne, Jeanette McGruder, Mudbone Cooper, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson, Greg Thomas
Guitar: Catfish Collins
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Handclap Boards: Carl Butch Small
Percussion: Larry Fratangelo
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Chug-A-Lug (The Bun Patrol)”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Mudbone Cooper, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Carl Butch Small
Organ: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Shejam (Almost Bootsy Show)” Lead Vocals: Maceo Parker, Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson, Greg Thomas
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson, Bernie Worrell
Percussion, Handclap Boards: Carl Butch Small
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Reprise (Get Live)”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Mudbone Cooper, Robert Peanut Johnson, George Clinton, Greg Thomas
Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Carl Butch Small
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
Single
“Body Slam”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Joel Johnson
Synth Strings: Joel Johnson, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Bootsy Collins, Wes Boatman, Joel Johnson
Grand Piano: Kae Williams Jr.
Organ: Bruce Weeden
“Body Slam” became a well-known post– Rubber Band single from Bootsy and features some electronic elements although still retaining authenticity with Razor’s keyboards and excellent musicianship from all.
4th & Broadway
Jungle Bass
“Jungle Bass”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Disciples of Funk”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Interzone”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
FUZZY HASKINS: 1976–1978
These are solo albums by co–lead vocalist of the Parliaments, Mr. Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins.
Westbound Records
A Whole Nother Thang
“Tangerine Green”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Cookie Jar”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra?
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Mr. Junk Man”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I Can See Myself in You”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“The Fuzz and Da Boog”
Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Which Way Do I Disco?”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Love’s Now Is Forever”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums, Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Sometimes I Rock and Roll”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I’ll Be Loving You”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums, Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Later released Bside from A Whole Nother Thang
“Right Back Where I Started From”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Radio-Active
“Not Yet”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Garry Shider
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I Think I Got My Thang Together”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
“This Situation Called Love”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Backup Vocals: ?
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar, Keyboards: Glenn Goins
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Gimme Back (Some of the Love You Got from Me)”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Backup Vocals: ?
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Glenn Goins
Keyboards: Garry Schunk?
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
“Thangs We Used to Do”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Garry Shider, Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bruce Nazarian
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Woman”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bruce Nazarian
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Sinderella”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Glenn Goins, Fuzzy Haskins
Keyboards: Glenn Goins
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Silent Day”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Jerome Brailey?, Tyrone Lampkin?
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Garry Shider, Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Note: It still has not been ascertained who the horn section is on both of Fuzzy Haskins’s solo albums. Hopefully with future editions, this mystery will be solved.
THE BRECKER BROTHERS (SELECT TRACKS): 1976–1994
The Brecker Brothers are truly a musical force of their own. Much like Chops Horns, the Brecker Brothers’ full discography cannot be truly contained within this volume. They were featured, along with the Horny Horns, on most of the major Parliament and Horny Horns albums. Their albums are listed here, but there is so much material and so many different session players that their discography could be given its own book in terms of discographic appearances. There were not many P-Funk bandmates on their albums, but artists such as David Sanborn and Luther Vandross had early appearances in their career on the Brecker Bros. albums.
Saxophone: Michael Brecker
Trumpet: Randy Brecker
Arista Records
The Brecker Bros.
“Some Skunk Funk”
“Sponge”
“A Creature of Many Faces”
“Twilight”
“Sneakin’ Up behind You”
“Rocks”
“Levitate”
“Oh My Stars”
“D.B.B.”
Back to Back
“Keep It Steady (Brecker Bump)”
“It You Wanna Boogie . . . Forget It”
“Lovely Lady”
“Night Flight”
“Slick Stuff”
“Dig a Little Deeper”
“Grease Piece”
“What Can a Miracle Do”
“I Love Wastin’ Time with You”
Don’t Stop the Music
“Finger Lickin’ Good”
“Funky Sea, Funky Dew”
“As Long As I’ve Got Your Love”
“Squids”
“Don’t Stop the Music”
“Petals”
“Tabula Rasa”
Heavy Metal Be-Bop
“East River”
“Inside Out”
“Some Skunk Funk”
“Sponge”
“Funky Sea, Funky Dew”
“Squids”
Detente
“You Ga (Ta Give It)”
“Not Tonight”
“Dont’ Get Funny with My Money”
“Tee’d Off”
“You Left Something Behind”
“Squish”
“Dream Theme”
“Baffled”
“I Don’t Know Either”
Straphangin’
“Straphangin’”
“Threesome”
“Bathsheba”
“Jacknife”
“Why Can’t I Be There”
“Not Ethiopia”
“Spreadeagle”
GRP Records
Return of the Brecker Bros.
“Song for Barry”
“King of the Lobby”
“Big Idea”
“Above & Below”
“That’s All There Is to Do”
“Wakaria (What’s Up?)”
“On the Backside”
“Sozinho (Alone)”
“Spherical”
“Good Gracious”
“Roppongi”
Out of the Loop
“Slang”
“Evocations”
“Scrunch”
“Secret Heart”
“African Skies”
“When It Was”
“Harpoon”
“The Nightwalker”
“And Then She Wept”
JOHNNIE TAYLOR (SELECT): 1976
Soul singer Johnnie Taylor (who recorded at United Sound, the famous Detroit studio where much of P-Funk’s heyday music was produced) had much of Parliament play on his #1 hit single Disco Lady, which came right behind the smash Parliament hit “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker).” Indeed, both songs featured many conspicuously relative melodies and rhythms.
“Disco Lady”
Lead Vocals: Johnnie Taylor
Drums: Zachary Slater (Frazier)
Tambourine, Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Garry Shider, Glenn Goins
Keyboards: Rudi Robinson, Bernie Worrell
Horns: Johnny Trudell Horns
EDDIE HAZEL: 1977, 1993–1994
These are solo albums by the heralded lead guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic, Mr. Eddie Hazel. His Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs, produced by George Clinton, is (along with albums like Bernie Worrell’s All the Woo in the World) considered “height era” P-Funk canon.
Warner Bros. Records
“California Dreamin’”
Guitar, Lead Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Backup Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“Frantic Moment”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass, Drums: Bootsy Collins
Clavinet: Bernie Worrell
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“So Goes the Story”
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Michael Hampton, Gary Shider
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider
Bass: Billy Nelson
Piano: Doug Duffy
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“Physical Love”
Drums: Cordell Mosson
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell
“What About It?”
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Michael Hampton
Synth Bass: Bernie Worrell
“California Dreamin’ (Reprise)”
Guitar, Lead Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Backup Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
P-Vine Records
Rest in P
“Until It Rains”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Beyond Word and Measure”
Guitar, Bass: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Vocals: Dawn Silva, Lynn Mabry
“Relic ‘Delic (Purple Hazel)”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Bootsy Collins
“Straighten Up”
Guitar, Bass, Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
Piano: Bernie Worrell
“Juicy Fingers”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“We Three”
Guitar, Vocal: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Why Cry”
Guitar, Bass: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
“We Are One”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin?, Tiki Fulwood?
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“No, It’s Not!”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Until It Rains (Reprise)”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
JDC Records
(Posthumously)
Jams from the Heart
“Smedley Smorganoff”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Lampoc Boogie”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
“From the Bottom of My Soul”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Buddy Miles
“Uncut Funk”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Reggie McBride, Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Buddy Miles
FRED WESLEY & THE HORNY HORNS: 1977–1979, 1994
Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Catfish Collins
Keyboards, Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
“Jam Fan (Hot)”
Lead Vocals, Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Backup Vocals: Parlet, Dawn Silva, Sheila Horne, Jeanette McGruder, Mudbone Cooper, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson, Greg Thomas
Guitar: Catfish Collins
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Handclap Boards: Carl Butch Small
Percussion: Larry Fratangelo
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Chug-A-Lug (The Bun Patrol)”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Mudbone Cooper, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Carl Butch Small
Organ: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Shejam (Almost Bootsy Show)” Lead Vocals: Maceo Parker, Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Robert Peanut Johnson, Greg Thomas
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson, Bernie Worrell
Percussion, Handclap Boards: Carl Butch Small
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Reprise (Get Live)”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Mudbone Cooper, Robert Peanut Johnson, George Clinton, Greg Thomas
Drums, Bass: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Carl Butch Small
Synthesizers: Joel Johnson
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
Single
“Body Slam”
Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins, Joel Johnson
Synth Strings: Joel Johnson, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Bass, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Percussion: Bootsy Collins, Wes Boatman, Joel Johnson
Grand Piano: Kae Williams Jr.
Organ: Bruce Weeden
“Body Slam” became a well-known post– Rubber Band single from Bootsy and features some electronic elements although still retaining authenticity with Razor’s keyboards and excellent musicianship from all.
4th & Broadway
Jungle Bass
“Jungle Bass”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Disciples of Funk”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
“Interzone”
Lead Vocals: Mudbone Cooper, Bootsy Collins
Drums, Guitar: Bootsy Collins
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, Joel Johnson, Jeff Bova
Trombone: Fred Wesley
Sax: Maceo Parker
Trumpet: Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
FUZZY HASKINS: 1976–1978
These are solo albums by co–lead vocalist of the Parliaments, Mr. Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins.
Westbound Records
A Whole Nother Thang
“Tangerine Green”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Cookie Jar”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra?
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Mr. Junk Man”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I Can See Myself in You”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“The Fuzz and Da Boog”
Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Which Way Do I Disco?”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Love’s Now Is Forever”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums, Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Strings: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Sometimes I Rock and Roll”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I’ll Be Loving You”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums, Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Later released Bside from A Whole Nother Thang
“Right Back Where I Started From”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Donald Austin, Ron Bykowski
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Radio-Active
“Not Yet”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Garry Shider
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“I Think I Got My Thang Together”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
“This Situation Called Love”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Backup Vocals: ?
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar, Keyboards: Glenn Goins
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Gimme Back (Some of the Love You Got from Me)”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Backup Vocals: ?
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Glenn Goins
Keyboards: Garry Schunk?
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
“Thangs We Used to Do”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Garry Shider, Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bruce Nazarian
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Woman”
Lead Vocals, Drums: Fuzzy Haskins
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bruce Nazarian
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Sinderella”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Bruce Nazarian
Guitar: Glenn Goins, Fuzzy Haskins
Keyboards: Glenn Goins
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
“Silent Day”
Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins
Drums: Jerome Brailey?, Tyrone Lampkin?
Percussion: Jerome Podjajski
Bass: Cordell Mosson
Guitar: Garry Shider, Michael Hampton
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Trumpet: ?
Sax: ?
Trombone: ?
Note: It still has not been ascertained who the horn section is on both of Fuzzy Haskins’s solo albums. Hopefully with future editions, this mystery will be solved.
THE BRECKER BROTHERS (SELECT TRACKS): 1976–1994
The Brecker Brothers are truly a musical force of their own. Much like Chops Horns, the Brecker Brothers’ full discography cannot be truly contained within this volume. They were featured, along with the Horny Horns, on most of the major Parliament and Horny Horns albums. Their albums are listed here, but there is so much material and so many different session players that their discography could be given its own book in terms of discographic appearances. There were not many P-Funk bandmates on their albums, but artists such as David Sanborn and Luther Vandross had early appearances in their career on the Brecker Bros. albums.
Saxophone: Michael Brecker
Trumpet: Randy Brecker
Arista Records
The Brecker Bros.
“Some Skunk Funk”
“Sponge”
“A Creature of Many Faces”
“Twilight”
“Sneakin’ Up behind You”
“Rocks”
“Levitate”
“Oh My Stars”
“D.B.B.”
Back to Back
“Keep It Steady (Brecker Bump)”
“It You Wanna Boogie . . . Forget It”
“Lovely Lady”
“Night Flight”
“Slick Stuff”
“Dig a Little Deeper”
“Grease Piece”
“What Can a Miracle Do”
“I Love Wastin’ Time with You”
Don’t Stop the Music
“Finger Lickin’ Good”
“Funky Sea, Funky Dew”
“As Long As I’ve Got Your Love”
“Squids”
“Don’t Stop the Music”
“Petals”
“Tabula Rasa”
Heavy Metal Be-Bop
“East River”
“Inside Out”
“Some Skunk Funk”
“Sponge”
“Funky Sea, Funky Dew”
“Squids”
Detente
“You Ga (Ta Give It)”
“Not Tonight”
“Dont’ Get Funny with My Money”
“Tee’d Off”
“You Left Something Behind”
“Squish”
“Dream Theme”
“Baffled”
“I Don’t Know Either”
Straphangin’
“Straphangin’”
“Threesome”
“Bathsheba”
“Jacknife”
“Why Can’t I Be There”
“Not Ethiopia”
“Spreadeagle”
GRP Records
Return of the Brecker Bros.
“Song for Barry”
“King of the Lobby”
“Big Idea”
“Above & Below”
“That’s All There Is to Do”
“Wakaria (What’s Up?)”
“On the Backside”
“Sozinho (Alone)”
“Spherical”
“Good Gracious”
“Roppongi”
Out of the Loop
“Slang”
“Evocations”
“Scrunch”
“Secret Heart”
“African Skies”
“When It Was”
“Harpoon”
“The Nightwalker”
“And Then She Wept”
JOHNNIE TAYLOR (SELECT): 1976
Soul singer Johnnie Taylor (who recorded at United Sound, the famous Detroit studio where much of P-Funk’s heyday music was produced) had much of Parliament play on his #1 hit single Disco Lady, which came right behind the smash Parliament hit “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker).” Indeed, both songs featured many conspicuously relative melodies and rhythms.
“Disco Lady”
Lead Vocals: Johnnie Taylor
Drums: Zachary Slater (Frazier)
Tambourine, Percussion: Carl “Butch” Small
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Garry Shider, Glenn Goins
Keyboards: Rudi Robinson, Bernie Worrell
Horns: Johnny Trudell Horns
EDDIE HAZEL: 1977, 1993–1994
These are solo albums by the heralded lead guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic, Mr. Eddie Hazel. His Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs, produced by George Clinton, is (along with albums like Bernie Worrell’s All the Woo in the World) considered “height era” P-Funk canon.
Warner Bros. Records
“California Dreamin’”
Guitar, Lead Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Backup Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“Frantic Moment”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass, Drums: Bootsy Collins
Clavinet: Bernie Worrell
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“So Goes the Story”
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Michael Hampton, Gary Shider
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider
Bass: Billy Nelson
Piano: Doug Duffy
Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
“Physical Love”
Drums: Cordell Mosson
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell
“What About It?”
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Michael Hampton
Synth Bass: Bernie Worrell
“California Dreamin’ (Reprise)”
Guitar, Lead Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Bootsy Collins
Drums: Tiki Fulwood
Backup Vocals: Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva
P-Vine Records
Rest in P
“Until It Rains”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Beyond Word and Measure”
Guitar, Bass: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Vocals: Dawn Silva, Lynn Mabry
“Relic ‘Delic (Purple Hazel)”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Jerome Brailey
Bass: Bootsy Collins
“Straighten Up”
Guitar, Bass, Vocals: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
Piano: Bernie Worrell
“Juicy Fingers”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“We Three”
Guitar, Vocal: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Piano: Bernie Worrell
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Why Cry”
Guitar, Bass: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
“We Are One”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin?, Tiki Fulwood?
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“No, It’s Not!”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Until It Rains (Reprise)”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
JDC Records
(Posthumously)
Jams from the Heart
“Smedley Smorganoff”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Drums: Buddy Miles
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
“Lampoc Boogie”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
“From the Bottom of My Soul”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Buddy Miles
“Uncut Funk”
Guitar: Eddie Hazel
Bass: Reggie McBride, Jimmy Calhoun
Drums: Buddy Miles
FRED WESLEY & THE HORNY HORNS: 1977–1979, 1994
