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"Get Your Lie Straight A Galaxy Of Funky Soul" anthologises the red-hottest grooves that Fantasys R&B subsidiary Galaxy issued in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Galaxy naturally focused on the bluesy, earthier style of soul popular in that region, a sound exemplified by the local smash Foxy Girls In Oakland by Rodger Collins, a record that regularly graces turntables world-wide to this day. "Get Your Lie Straight" features for the first time on CD some of Collins other funk outings like Im Leaving This Place. Other local acts on Galaxy were vocalist Lenny Williams, later to find fame with Tower Of Power, and blues singers JJ Malone and Tiny Powell, both of whose funky waxings for the label are represented here, along with instrumental grooves from Merl Saunders and The Right Kind, and obscure nuggets from further notables like The Debonaires and Loleatta Holloway The vast majority of "Get Your Lie Straight" has never been on CD, or at least not in the unsurpassed quality arrived at after major research in the Fantasy tape vault.
Tracklist
1 Manpower - Ben & Larry
2 Feelin' Blue - Lenny Williams
3 I Love Her Too - Lenny Williams
4 Foxy Girls In Oakland - Rodger Collins
5 I'm Leaving This Place - Rodger Collins
6 Direct Me - Rodger Collins
7 We Gonna Do Our Thing - Bobby Eaton
8 Stop, Let's Be United - The Debonaires
9 I Want To Talk About It (World) (Parts 1 & 2) - The Debonaires
10 Get Your Lie Straight - Bill Coday
11 When You Find A Fool, Bump His Head - Bill Coday
12 Let Me Be Your Handy Man - Bill Coday
13 I Got A Thing - Bill Coday
14 My Money Is Funny - The Right Kind
15 Bossy Woman - Tiny Powell
16 One Step Away - Jj Malone
17 People Say - Jj Malone
18 Bring It On Up - Loleatta Holloway
19 I Get What I Want - The Sequins
20 The Iron Horse - Merl Saunders & Heavy Turbulence
21 Chicken Heads - Bobby Rush
22 It's A Gas - The Ebonys