This is the theme song for our upcoming “Merry Go Round Podcast.” It’s “Move it, Do It” by the great Syretta Wright. The song is taken from her classic 1981 LP, “Set My Love in Motion.” This album is a true undisputed classic of the “Boogie” electro funk genre that held a powerful sway in the early 1980s. Songs like this combined electronics with live instrumentation, much in the style established by P-Funk, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and Billy Preston during the 1970s.
We hope you enjoy this song as a teaser for our upcoming podcast. We will strive to bring you funky music with themes, encompassing songs you are familiar with, songs you have forgotten, and songs that you have never heard but have that ‘ol feeling. In the spirit of Kool Herc, Afrika Baambaata, and Grandmaster Flash, we will bring you this music irrespective of genre lines. We believe that funky grooves can be found from artists who perform in the fields of jazz, country, R&B, soul, hiphop, house, disco, big band, reggae, afro-latin, contemporary african, almost every genre of modern music gives it up for the ONE from time to time. Although we will play plenty of things from the golden age of funk, we also hope to identify and give you the best of funky music that is being produced TODAY.
We take our inspiration for this podcast from the founder of hip hop, DJ Kool Herc. When DJ Kool Herc reached the apex of his parties, when he’d play the best of “disco breaks” that he’d culled from around the world of music, he’d call that section “The Merry Go Round.” It is our aim to spin your musical/dancing world round and round with the ONE in both familiar and unfamiliar manifestations….so let me get your ticket for the Merry Go Round!!!!
The Merry Go Round Podcast 