Fatback Band

The Fatback Band (later, simply Fatback) is an American funk and disco band. Most popular in the 1970s and 1980s, The Fatback Band is most known for their R&B hits, "(Do The) Spanish Hustle", "I Like Girls", "Gotta Get My Hands on Some (Money)", "Backstrokin'" and "I Found Lovin". Their 1979 single "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" is sometimes considered the first hip hop single.

History

Formed in New York City in 1970, The Fatback Band was the concept of Bill Curtis, an experienced session drummer, inspired to merge the "fatback" jazz beat of New Orleans into a funk band. In addition to Curtis, the band's initial line-up included guitarist Johnny King, bassist Johnny Flippin, trumpet player George Williams, saxophonist Earl Shelton, flautist George Adams, and keyboardist Gerry Thomas. The band specialized in playing "street funk". The group also later included conga player Wayne Woolford, vocalists Jayne and Gerry, Deborah Cooper saxophonist Fred Demerey, guitarist Louis Wright and George Victory.

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Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (12" Version)

published: 12 Dec 2010

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Fatback - Backstrokin' (Official Audio)

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published: 19 Aug 2014

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The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) - 1986

published: 12 Jul 2014

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Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

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published: 08 Feb 2006

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Fatback - I Like Girls (Official Audio)

Official audio for I Like Girls by Fatback, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the offi...

published: 19 Aug 2014

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Fatback - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (Official Audio)

Official audio for Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) by Fatback, released on Ace Records....

published: 19 Aug 2014

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The Fatback Band - Mr. Bass Man

The Fatback Band - Mr. Bass Man From there 1974 album Keep on Steppin' (Polydor - 23...

published: 14 Mar 2009

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Fatback - Girls On My Mind

From The Album So Delicious 1985

published: 09 Mar 2012

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Fatback Band - The Girl Is Fine (So Fine)

published: 09 Dec 2010

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FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

A Fatback Band album from 1974 - very funky! Mr Bass Man 00:00:00 Stuff 03:22:09 New York ...

published: 09 Sep 2015

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The Fatback Band Live at The O2 London .m4v

The Fatback Band Live

published: 03 Dec 2009

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The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) - 1986

published: 12 Jul 2014

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Classic Fatback - "I Like the Girls"

Fatback in DC at the Capital Center. 1980's.

published: 06 Jan 2008

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Backstrokin', the Fatback Band

The Fatback Band performing "Backstrokin'" LIVE at the Capital Centre in the 1980s.

published: 21 Jan 2014

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Fatback Band double dutch 1977 -by djfunk80.com London

published: 13 Feb 2017

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Fatback band live in Newcastle

published: 23 Nov 2012

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Fatback Band Do the Bus Stop live at Big Chill 2005

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published: 15 Sep 2007

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Exclusive Footage of the Fatback Band at The O2, London LIVE

Exclusive live footage of the Fatback Band at The O2, London

published: 19 Jan 2014

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The Fatback Band - Spanish Hustle

published: 30 Sep 2013

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EXCLUSIVE Footage of Fatback Band sound check at O2, London LIVE Pt. 2

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published: 19 Jan 2014

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Fatback Band - Bill Curtis Interview

Subscribe to underyourskindvd. A conversation with Bill Curtis from Fatback Band.... "You...

published: 01 Jun 2013

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FATBACK BAND INTERVIEWS AT UNION SQUARE 2008

Pre show interviews of current Fatback Band members when they perform at Union Square Dece...

published: 17 Feb 2009

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The Fatback Band Fri 070613 800 Interview With DJ Gloss Sound Fusion Radio

published: 07 Jun 2013

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JOHNNY 'FLIP' FLIPPIN OF THE FATBACK BAND INTERVIEW A SAYWORDTV PRODUCTION

Johnny 'Flip' Flippin of the Fatback band discusses his career from past, present to futur...

published: 09 Jul 2009

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Behind the Scenes with the Fatback band

Check out the Fatback Band as they were rehearsing for their Spring 2007 European tour. Al...

published: 12 Jun 2007

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Behind the Scenes with the Fatback Band 2007

The Fatback Band rehearsing for their Spring 2007 European tour, plus interviews with band...

published: 29 Jan 2014

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Fat Larry's Band - Zoom Official Video

published: 20 Feb 2010

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Digital Fiction Factory Interview

An Interview with Lee Hardman, the Director of The Digital Fiction Factory, speaking a the...

published: 03 Mar 2011

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The Fatback Band Live at The O2 London .m4v

The Fatback Band Live

published: 03 Dec 2009

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YOGI'S CUBS: Post Performance Interviews 10/26/08

Interviews of Yogi's Cubs members: Johnny 'Flip' Flippin (original member of the Fatback B...

published: 19 Jan 2009

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The Pace Report: "Still Soul Searching" The Chuck Brown and Soul Searchers Interview

Chuck Brown, The Godfather and founder of Go-Go, has a lot to celebrate these days. The 74...

published: 03 Oct 2010

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Bill Curtis - Fatback Band interview

A conversation with Bill Curtis from Fatback Band.... "You got my style".. "Check".. http...

published: 02 Jun 2013

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The Sequence: The Funked-Up Legacy of Hip-Hop's First Ladies

Edit Rollingstone 24 May 2017

Within the trio you had woodwind players in the school band, poetry enthusiasts and members of the basketball and track teams – but all three ended up on the cheerleading squad, writing original material instead of stock cheers ... the Fatback Band's "King Tim III" and, of course, the Sugarhill Gang's monster hit "Rapper's Delight ." ... "Let me tell you something, [the band] lived in Connecticut....

Sugarhill Gang: how we made Rapper's Delight

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2017

‘I’d heard this word hip-hop and just started going. “Hip-hop hippie to the hippie to the hip-hip hop”’. Hip-hop. How we made. Sugarhill Gang. how we made Rapper's Delight. ‘I’d heard this word hip-hop and just started going. “Hip-hop hippie to the hippie to the hip-hip hop”’. Guy ‘Master Gee’ O’Brien, songwriter-rapper ... It worked ... Then I was at a party and heard the Fatback Band’s King Tim III, which featured rapping with singing ... Facebook ... ....

Were mixtapes better than modern playlists?

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2017

Paid for by. As a teenager, my mixtapes were mostly love letters to girls. A digital playlist could never be quite so romantic – or half as embarrassing. Spotify ... Paid for by ... It’s a great opening track for mixtape and playlist alike, with its nonsense chanting, discordant guitars, fatback bass and angry horns ... Hearing my 15-year-old singing Dexys Midnight Runners seems … I don’t know … I want to warn her that that band ruined my life ... ....

A Comprehensive Guide to How Kendrick Lamar Made Damn

Edit Slate 25 Apr 2017

He samples Ted Taylor’s “Be Ever Wonderful,” (the same sample you might remember from Ludacris’s “Splash Waterfalls”), Hiatus Kaiyote’s “Atari” (whom Drake also recently sampled), September’s “ Ostavi Trag, ” and Fatback Band’s “ Let the Drums Speak .” “People always ask me, why do I choose samples the way I choose samples? I don’t usually choose ......

Reimagining the French Room: an inside look at a remake of historic proportions

Edit The Dallas Morning News 26 Mar 2017

Michael Ehlert has a lot on his mind ... Ehlert and Cournia may go with two casually elegant chargers of Vista Alegre Atlantis porcelain from Portugal, one with a big light-sage-colored band around a white center and the other ripply-surfaced, a solid, paler green ... Still, the big sage band might be overwhelming, so the question's still open ... But traditional lardons – matchsticks of bacon or fatback – would be too pedestrian ... ....

The one must-try food in 47 European countries

Edit Business Insider 23 Mar 2017

The INSIDER Summary ... The mountain-dwelling borda ranchers of this tiny country in the Pyrenees happily subsist on trinxatde la Cerdanya, a mash of potatoes and cabbage, formed in a skillet and garnished with fatback or bacon ... (Tip ... Shaped like crescent moons, these treats are stuffed with just about anything (mashed potatoes, egg, cabbage, and liver, to name a few) and may be topped with bits of salo (fatback), onions, or sour cream ... ....

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Edit The Roanoke Times 16 Mar 2017

Funk, neo-soul, R&B and blues from one of Roanoke’s hardest-working bands ... It’s a busy day for this Roanoke rock band, with gigs in Salem and Roanoke, one after the other ... Alt-soul and funk with horns from an Asheville band led by two brothers ... It you love a band, you want to see that band. You can’t see it if the band can’t get to the show ... The band crowdfunded for a new bus, with a goal of raising $85,000....

North Mississippi Allstars Invoke "Prayer For Peace"

Edit Market Watch 15 Mar 2017

PRAYER FOR PEACE will be available for pre-order beginning today Tuesday, March 14 [th] , with all pre-orders joined by instant grat downloads of the album's roof-raising title track written by the band, a ripping new rendition of R.L ... PRAYER FOR PEACE sees the now-venerable band continuing to think globally following 2013's Earth-shaking WORLD BOOGIE IS COMING....

New Year's traditions around the world

Edit Atlanta Journal 27 Dec 2016

Every good Southerner knows you have to eat greens (usually collard, turnip or mustard) and black-eyed peas on Jan. 1 to ensure wealth and prosperity in the new year. Folklore says the tradition spread during the Civil War ... Under it all ... First footers ... Ideally, the first-footer will be dark-haired ... In the South, we eat ham, fatback and hog’s jowl; Italy prefers pork sausage; and in the Philippines, the consume a whole roasted pig ... 1 ... ....

What to Watch on Thursday: Ham hocks and pig tails on ‘A Chef’s Life’

Edit The Charlotte Observer 03 Nov 2016

A Chef’s Life (9.30 p.m., UNC-TV) – Chef Vivian Howard looks at the hot and cold of curing ham, and also pig tails, ham hocks and fatback. Also on tonight ... ....

Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back

Edit The Guardian 06 Sep 2016

I forced my vowels into shape and it worked. I got into graduate school. I got a PhD. I learned to pass. But I lost my voice in the process. “Let’s go around the room and say where we’re from.”. It was my first day in a class called “Experiencing Appalachia” during my first year of college. “Raleigh,” someone said. “Just outside of Charlotte,” said another ... I ate more tempeh than I did fatback, and I loved Ani DiFranco and Doc Watson equally....

Hear the Songs From The Get Down You Won’t Find on the Soundtrack

Edit Time Magazine 16 Aug 2016

That means you’ll want more than just those 24 excellent songs on the official soundtrack, which includes some of the classics and the original jams ... And do play through 61 of those tracks from the show gathered here in this handy playlist ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... The Fatback Band – (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop ... Incredible Bongo Band – Apache (Grandmaster Flash Remix) ... and the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way (I Like It)....

Music helps tell the story in 'The Get Down'

Edit Mashable 12 Aug 2016

Can, the band behind "Vitamin C," was one of the early Krautrock greats, known for its psychedelic and often funky sounds ... The lengthy Les Inferno scene is filled with classic disco cuts — including an extended dance sequence to The Fatback Band's "Are You Ready (Do the Bus Stop)" — but we're giving the nod here to "Devil's Gun ." ... "Apache (Grandmaster Flash Mix)" / Incredible Bongo Band....

Fatback Band

History

Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (12" Version)

Fatback - Backstrokin' (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

Fatback - I Like Girls (Official Audio)

Fatback - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - Mr. Bass Man

Fatback - Girls On My Mind

Fatback Band - The Girl Is Fine (So Fine)

FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

Fatback Band

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Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (12" Version)

Fatback - Backstrokin' (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

Fatback - I Like Girls (Official Audio)

Fatback - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - Mr. Bass Man

Fatback - Girls On My Mind

Fatback Band - The Girl Is Fine (So Fine)

FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (12" Version)

Fatback - Backstrokin' (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop

Fatback - I Like Girls (Official Audio)

Fatback - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (Official Audio)

The Fatback Band - Mr. Bass Man

Fatback - Girls On My Mind

Fatback Band - The Girl Is Fine (So Fine)

FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

The Fatback Band Live at The O2 London .m4v

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

Classic Fatback - "I Like the Girls"

Backstrokin', the Fatback Band

Fatback Band double dutch 1977 -by djfunk80.com London

Fatback band live in Newcastle

Fatback Band Do the Bus Stop live at Big Chill 2005

Exclusive Footage of the Fatback Band at The O2, London LIVE

The Fatback Band - Spanish Hustle

EXCLUSIVE Footage of Fatback Band sound check at O2, London LIVE Pt. 2

The Fatback Band Live at The O2 London .m4v

The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' (Top Of The Pops Mix) (1986)

Classic Fatback - "I Like the Girls"

Backstrokin', the Fatback Band

Fatback Band double dutch 1977 -by djfunk80.com London

Fatback band live in Newcastle

Fatback Band Do the Bus Stop live at Big Chill 2005

Exclusive Footage of the Fatback Band at The O2, London LIVE

The Fatback Band - Spanish Hustle

EXCLUSIVE Footage of Fatback Band sound check at O2, London LIVE Pt. 2

FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

The Fatback Band - Yum Yum LP 1975

The Fatback Band

THE BEST OF FATBACK BAND

Fatback Band - Hot Box FULL ALBUM

The LMS Show - The Fatback Band

Livin' In The Streets Vol. 1 (Full Album)

Disco Funk 70's live mix - Pure Grooves - Oldschool - vinyl

FUNK MEGAMIX PARTY VOL 3

The Funky House Mix - 30 minutes long! Cru mix

FATBACK BAND Keep On Steppin album

The Fatback Band - Yum Yum LP 1975

The Fatback Band

THE BEST OF FATBACK BAND

Fatback Band - Hot Box FULL ALBUM

The LMS Show - The Fatback Band

Livin' In The Streets Vol. 1 (Full Album)

Disco Funk 70's live mix - Pure Grooves - Oldschool - vinyl

FUNK MEGAMIX PARTY VOL 3

The Funky House Mix - 30 minutes long! Cru mix

Fatback Band - Bill Curtis Interview

FATBACK BAND INTERVIEWS AT UNION SQUARE 2008

The Fatback Band Fri 070613 800 Interview SFR

JOHNNY 'FLIP' FLIPPIN OF THE FATBACK BAND INTERVIEW A SAYWORDTV PRODUCTION

Behind the Scenes with the Fatback band

Behind the Scenes with the Fatback Band 2007