Felton was nominated for an Oscar for producing the” Addams Groove” (Addams Family Movie theme) and “ Hammerman” (Hammerman cartoon show). Pilate was the Musical Director for (MC) Hammer’s record-breaking 250-date world tour which included the Earth, Wind and Fire horn section, and over 40 musicians, singers, dancers, & rappers. He plays trumpet, trombone, flute, keyboards, and guitar sometimes. Scorpio“, I call him “ The King of Falsetto“, his name is Felton Pilate. By the way, Cooper’s “ Prove My Love To You” produced with Jay King of “ Club Nouveau” made it to number three on the R&B charts. Wow, talk about a musical genius! Michael’s powerful vocal chords commands authority with whatever he belts…you just say, “ Shoop Shoop” with a “ Quickness“! Even when the song is about kicking you to the curb finally and he tells you,” I’m Leaving Baby“, you’ll still want “ Dinner For Two“! On the other hand, when Michael professes, “ what can I do…what should I do…what-must-I-DO” to prove his love to you”, you’ll simply get to “ Steppin’ To A Love Song“. Scorpio“, his name is Michael Cooper. He plays lead/rhythm guitar, keyboards, bass, percussions, drums song arranger and producer. Our crowns of wisdom displayed “Black Panther Party Afros”.”Afros”, the pinnacle of natural black hair were maintained with “Afro Sheen” and “Stay Soft fro” products, and blown out with the wide-toothed comb, colloquially known as “afro pick” with the black power symbol fist on top. Hipsters of the 70’s wore tight-fitting bell bottoms, platform shoes, halter tops, flower power dresses, jean overall dresses, cowl neck sweaters, Dashikis from Yoruba, Palazzo pants, wedge heeled boots, and wet-look crinkle boots.
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I watched all of my favorite bands including Confunkshun who sported polyester yellow jumpsuits made by their tour bus driver who moon lighted as a tailor. (still) Got-The-Body” for love! Back in the day when you wanted to enjoy authentic Soul you tuned into KSOL (1450 AM) and KDIA “Lucky 13″ (1210 AM). These stations embraced our beautiful blackness, supported community outreach programs and promoted Bay Area Royalty like Confunkshun.Įvery Saturday I’d tune into host Don Cornelius’ dance show, “ Soul Train, The Hippest Trip In America“. Yes, that long ago and thank goodness for great genes…love you mom! Besides, stories tell this “ Ms.
My “ Confunkshunize” life began in Elementary School with their 1977 hit single “ Sho Feels Good To Me“. They give you “ Organized Con Funk Shun” alright ! From “Balladeers” to “Funk-a-tiers”, they will always have “ A Song For You” and give you “More Than Love”. They were choreographing steps before New Edition! Member Michael Cooper describes the Confunkshun sound as “Emotional Funk, Happy Rhythms and Loves Songs”. You believe you discovered a new sound only to find through research that Confunkshun, the originals of Funk music planted the seeds. Confunkshun’s “ Spirit of Love” album was sampled by “ Lil’ Wayne“. Young folks who are not familiar “ With The Sound of Grown Men” listen closely to some of your favorite hip hop or rap tunes and you’ll recognize sampled melodic hooks and chords. We couldn’t just sit and be cool,Ĭonfunkshun grooved and it made us move to classic Billboard hits like “Chase Me”, “Shake and Dance With Me”, and “Too Tight”. They pick us up and we went out to dance, they took our hands and we had “Fun Fun Fun”.
We fans were touched by their “ Burning Love” to provide many years of quality music. Elliot of “A-List Musiq Circle” production! Felton welcomed all the first-timers into the Confunkshun family…Say “hi to your cousins”, Felton Pilate, Michael Cooper, Ron Moton, Eric “EQ” Young, Kurt “KC” Clayton, Brian Collier, and special guest Skip Martin of the “ Dazz Band“, and René Escovedo of the Latin Jazz family “ The Escovedos“, and cousin to “ Sheila E“.Īlthough they hail from Vallejo CA., this “ Electric Lady” and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area claim Confunkshun as our “Hometown Guys”too. We were swooped up in the vortex of another Forever AWESOME Mark T. I’ll take you to the stage honey gonna sing sweet love to you… Confunkshunizeya“.ĬON-FUNK-SHUN sho nuff hypnotized and mesmerized the filled to capacity “ Happy Face(s)” at Yoshi’s Jazz club. “You can take it to the floor baby and do what you do.
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