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When Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band took the stage at the storied-and long-gone-Hollywood nightclub the Haunted House on a spring night in 1968 to record a live album, they were already a regularly-scheduled house favorite at the venue. Mixed from the original 4-track tapes, Rhino Handmade's 2-CD live recording LIVE AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE captures the well-oiled band in top form, pumping out funk and soul for the masses pounding the dancefloor and making the scene. It also represents the group at a watershed moment, as they began to evolve from a dance band into a crea

The title track "Puckey Puckey," illustrates both the band's short-form and long-form quest for perfection. Disc One opens with just-under thirty minute take on the song, which Wang says, "shows how the band would linger in a groove to find that elusive magic." It's almost an album in itself. Disc Two closes with the edited version that best expressed Wright's notion of "four minutes of happiness."

Available for the first time on CD, this self-titled album is also known to fans (and in some discographies) as "Hot Heat and Sweet Groove" as that slogan appears clearly on the back cover. With this 1968 Warner debut, the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band outlined their loose, improvisational sound bridging the gap between the proto-funk explosiveness of James Brown and the earthy Southern grooves of the Stax/Volt stable, topped off by Charles Wright's incantatory lead vocals. Along with strong originals, the album features unexpectedly soulful covers of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me." Includes original liner notes by comedy icon Bill Cosby -- who discovered the band and used them as the backing group for his own 1967 Reprise R&B LP.

This is first time on CD for this 1971 Warner Bros. soul classic. Steeped in call-and-response revivalism this amazing lost album brings the funk and showcases one of the great funk bands of the '60s and '70s. A Tribe Called Quest and Brand Nubian have plucked juicy lines from "What Can You Bring Me," with its chicken-scratch guitar licks and ebbing horn patterns. New detailed liner notes.

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