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How would you like to hear a new side—or should we say sides—of the world’s greatest funk band? This 3-LP, 40-track collecton presents the A and B-side of every single that organist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste cut for the Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. label, virtually their entire singles output (all but two co-produced by the late, great Allen Toussaint) save for a few odds ‘n’ ends issued mostly overseas. That means that you not only get every hit along with its hard-to-find B-side but also the rare single mixes, including the especially rare original mono single mixes of the 1968-1971 Josie sides, very few of which have appeared on vinyl since their original 45 release (the first three LP sides are all mono; the last three, featuring the later Reprise and Warner Bros. singles, presents all stereo single mixes). These songs represent the mother lode of New Orleans funk, classic tracks like “Sophisticated Cissy,” “Cissy Strut,” “Look-Ka Py Py,” “Chicken Strut,” “Hand Clapping Song,” “Hey Pocky A-Way,” and more. And, with liner notes by Bill Dahl featuring quotes from Nocentelli, Neville, and Porter, this 3- LP set offers the best vinyl retrospective to date of this enormously influential band. And how’s the sound? Well, after extensive and exhaustive tape research, we were able to come up with original tape sources for all but five of these single sides, and the remastering—by Mike Milchner at SonicVision—is tight. Now available in a lower-priced black vinyl version for crate-diggers everywhere! 

RECORD ONE Side A 

Sophisticated Cissy 

Sehorns Farms 

Cissy Strut 

Here Comes the Meter Man 

Ease Back 

Ann 

Dry Spell 

Little Old Money Maker 

RECORD ONE Side B 

Look-Ka Py Py 

This Is My Last Affair 

Chicken Strut 

Hey! Last Minute 

Hand Clapping Song 

Joog 

RECORD TWO Side A 

A Message from the Meters 

Zony Mash 

Stretch Your Rubber Band 

Groovy Lady 

(The World Is a Bit under the Weather) Doodle-Oop 

I Need More Time 

Good Old Funky Music 

Sassy Lady 

RECORD TWO Side B 

Do the Dirt 

Smiling 

Cabbage Alley 

The Flower 

Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug 

(Push ‘N’ Shove) Part I 

Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug (Push ‘N’ Shove) Part II 

RECORD THREE Side A 

Hey Pocky A-Way 

Africa 

People Say 

Loving You Is on My Mind 

They All Ask’d for You 

Running Fast (Long Version) 

RECORD THREE Side B 

Disco Is the Thing Today 

Mr. Moon 

Trick Bag 

Find Yourself 

Be My Lady 

No More Okey Doke