Johnny Hammond-los conquistadores chocolate

[drumz47]

Funky Harvey Mason on drumz.........Nice for the after gig drive home ..Priceless.

[Marcsafon]

Hattie Cursey brought me here.

[djdeviant1]

Harvey Mason drums and the great Chuck Rainey on bass

[TMBuxton]

At the end of the day, apart from the lifted chord progression, "When You Gonna Learn" and this song are nothing alike. But this song is pretty damn hot. Something funny I've just noticed is that the horns from "Blow Your Mind" were blatantly inspired by the horns at the end of this song.

[kinstube]

N!!!!CE

[masoojz]

Harvey Mason on the drums-no joke!!!

[drumz47]

@masoojz Im telling you ."shhhh . Havey Is slingging the funk" Love this cut.Peace Brother.

[dixielatino]

This is truely 70's Jazz Funk at it's best .thanks for posting , I haven't heard this jam in about 30yrs or more , man this tune takes me back many moons ago.

[thefunkeyplanet]

Oooops! Jazzfunkers…

[thefunkeyplanet]

Simply Fantastic! A great Jazzy Dance tune from many, many years ago. Jazzfuners, get those funky feet moving. One for the dancers.

[jazzyman63]

Shame Still CAN`T Find This LP Must Have Lent It To Someone Never Got It Back Great Post

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[RamonaFromPomona]

Si, vente conmigo !!

[MorninMan]

There's a real nice remix of this by Dimitri from Paris...sounds like he got a hold of the master tapes & mixed in some elements that were left out of the original recording

[port2344chester]

CLASSIC N.Y.C. a true FLOOR RUSHER... cats would go nuts over this DEEP DEEP trax... just love the old school... the diversity of this clasSICK.. JUST AWESOME... keep em comin! Port

[djgiovanninsane]

One of my favorite albums in my collection!!

[bembebuddha]

Dave Mancuso's Loft parties at 99 Prince Street were by far the ultimate in spiritual dancing...he is the King of all DJs.

[coolwafferman]

My dad has this album. Well I own it now, but it used to scare the shit out of me when I was kid! lol

[djtonypoole]

MONSTER !!!

[964302]

this was a david mancuso 99 prince st nyc LOFT classic no doubt peace Murph

[adubyatha1]

When Ron Hardy went this deep, people passed out, ambulances were called, the children couldn't handle it!!!!!!!

[janmoyen]

In my top 20 best songs of all time! Amazing.

[LEGSUDESIRE]

thanks @chino

[isaacfrancis2]

Originally part of the Jazzfunk scene in around 1976 - 1977.

[drwhatson]

This was one of the earliest Jazz/Funk tracks to be played at Blackpool Mecca (in early 1976) and along with similar Mizell bros. productions for Donald Byrd etc., helped kick off the whole JF scene here in the UK. There was also a US 45 release on Milestone, but minus the great spoken intro. In the States it was commonly referred to as "Jazz Fusion". We certainly never called it "Deep House", as we'd never heard of the term.

[papaedda]

spooky!!! in the most positive sense of the word!!!

[cgraham76]

This is hard to come by. I'm trying to find an Mp3 somewhere...

[ShyftStyle]

@cgraham76 dirpy.com generally hooks up pretty good quality mp3's from youtube videos

[rilesent]

YES.....I REMEMBER....FIERCE

[bouverieboy]

Fantastic drumming on this track

[lewdrum73]

Harvey Mason on drums

[crazycutz]

VERY much like the song: galaxy from the group: War.. love that band. :)

[964302]

99 prince st nyc loft classic murray peace holla 1978 to 1988 after that club shelter and sound factory then the club scene went dead in nyc.ya feel me.

[port2344chester]

This tune is for the people with soul... if your ass dont get up & move do what ever... then you are DOA.... this jamm was played in my house back in the day. MAN THE FOND MEMORIES GROWING UP IN N.Y. MY UNCLE WOULD JAMM ALL TYPES OF SHIT & THIS WAS IN ROTATION. Peace to all the old school heads out their & you know who you are!!!

[Rikstyle93]

House version: Lenny Fontana - Chocolate Sensation (2000)

[oldschoolhappymetal]

too much phaser on that guitar

[noiz87]

@oldschoolhappymetal

"This account is closed."

Well that's what you get for fuckin with Hammond, buddy :)

This tune is monstruous.

[MrOkaydokay]

Such a tune! Just played this the other night in London.

[daryllharris]

knowing how much ALL music is recycled it is comical to think that there is even a such thing as "ORIGNAL" get a grip nearly everything has been done b4 at some, point by someone, just because it wasn't a commercial success doesn't mean it didn't exist. everybody borrows from everyone period. music is universal. ?

[owlwink]

True,but not with this track,man.

[btinsley1]

when i was a teen, i used to see this album & it always creeped me out....still does, but it's what's in the groove that counts....

[RitmoNo1]

Awesome!!!!!!!! I can remember it belting out of the speakers late 70's early 80's even tho it came out in 1976 - Ouch that wuz guuuuud

[Bianteowns]

Groovey

[alkh3myst]

Wow. All-time club classic.

[BHDread]

ok...I love Ol School Hip-Hop and HOUSE (undagrownd) .. but we started listening to "classics" to hear true inspiration and acoustic music influenced and referring to African roots (consciousness). Sampling and coming up with tracks and improvs are two different things...and levels of origainal creativity..CAN I GET A WITNESS @ 4:44???

[Iskander67]

Who cares about that JK takes the bass line ?

Tupac takes the guitar Riff from Manifest destiny(Jamiroquai song)...

c'mon! Everybody needs inspiration in order to make something new.

Jay Kay had sold an album named "Jay's Selection" about his musical inspirations, so he is respectfull for other artist, and that's the most important.

And at the end...WYGL and this song are really the same ? no, they are both great and different.

[albahackvideo]

He mate, Im a big Jamiroquai fan, from the Zender Era (1992-1997), but we have to admit that JK took a lots of b-lines from different musicians, as Idris Mohammed (Alright b-line), Larry Graham - Pow (its TWM b-line), Bee Gees (Wolf In Sheep's Clothing) etc

[euphonix21]

@albahackvideo Have you only just realised... Oh well...

[il6politico]

@albahackvideo that's right, but who doesn't do that? The Doors for example have built an empire copying parts of other songs and putting them together, and it is clear revealed from themselves. I presume that you are not a musician, 'cause if you were you surelly had known what is inadvertent plagiarism. If you like some kind of music, when you compose your mind and your ears tend to reproduce the sound you like, so sometimes you find that one of your song is incredibly similar to other one...

[stretchmorgan]

@Iskander67 It depends whether or not the artists (or their estates) he has plagiarised are paid properly or not. I doubt it but sometimes these deals are made secretly so that the illusion of genius is maintained for the artist's rabid fans. JK is a very rich man & a lot of these artists he has taken from wouldn't stand a chance of taking him down in court. The compilation referred to studiously avoids highlighting any of the tracks featuring riffs he has built his personal fortune on.

[sperry22ut]

Love this - particularly when he goes to town on the organ. ( From the LP - Gears).

[tomtsatas]

first heard this track at this loft party The Reactor back in 1990 and Dj Rush rocked it ... best era in muzic growin up as a teenaged kid...

[drwhatson]

Don't you think it may have been even better to have heard it when it was NEW (at Blackpool Mecca in 1976) tomtsatas?

Who the hell is "DJ Rush" anyway? LOL

[bean9seventy]

please let me post this video responce

so people who are JK ,, fans understand where jamiroquai got his bass from !!

and who !!!

[izkack]

WOW you're really cool, figuring this out and every thing

(scoff)

[VanBurenBoi]

intense stuff Q!

[bean9seventy]

big choon ,,robbie vincent

jamiroquai riffed off the bass line ,

[lawla76]

a great remix of this track was made by lenny fontana and dj xl. Its called chocolate sensation. Great tribute for house fans who love this song

[alonzo2k]

chorus sounds like when u gonna learn by jamiroquai,i guess they were hearing this song at the moment

[agfagaevart]

They copied it, that's why.

[ThaFlameofATown]

"The chord progressions of WYGL bears striking resemblance to the chord progressions of a Johnny "Hammond" Smith's song called "Los Conquistadores Chocolates", however, not by accident, because the booklet of the Acid Jazz Records release of the single bears a "special thanks" note to Smith, who gave permission to Jason to use the composition's structure. However, it is unknown whether Hammond received any royalties or not." - Wikipedia

Take that as you may.

[snolan1990]

I have the CD your talking about and it does say that in it

[harvardlaw13]

Wasn't Harvey Mason on drums?

[chino1430]

This is what deep house in Chicago was, is and always will be.

Ron Hardy(R.I.P.) used to BEAT THIS SHIT!!

[BHDread]

@chino1430 YALL GOT IT FROM NYC --- 90'S DOWNSTAIRS AT THE SOUND FACTORY BAR...WHERE LIL LOUIE VEGA SPUN UPSTAIRS....DOWNSTAIRS COULD BE ANYBODY FUNKY....AND A SHOW WITH SOMEONE LIKE ROY AYERS OR TITO PUENTE (R.I.P) ...BUT DEFINITELY BATTLE MUSIC@@ LOKIDZ RERESENT NJ/NYC

[BHDread]

@BHDread REPRESENT

[Warioda]

Ok I'm hooked!

[SYDSTL80]

this track proves that the Mizell Bros. were one of the best music production teams EVER!!!

sooo dope!

[dhakaboy1]

Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's, Soho, London...back in Da days !!!!!

[bulmiti]

GREAT tune, like WYGL. It gives me ghoosebumps at 1:40 too :D

i think this tune is more like the first song of WYGN than the commonly known, the ordinary one.

[superstrut75]

count me in on the goosebumps at 1.40 also. it also makes my eyes water a bit too. ha.

[cheebalover]

i am a jamiroquai hardcore fan but i must admit jay ripped this tune and turned it into "when u gonna learn" but still he has a good influence! :)

[SteveSpent]

man this is one of the only tunes that gives me musical goosebumps when it comes in at 1.40.. amazing amazing tune

[BHDread]

YO...WE would dance our asses off at THE SOUND FACTORY BAR, THE SHELTER, AND HERE IN NJ ZANZIBAR!!! mousheeeee introduced me to this song!!! LO KIDZ 4EVER KICKIN ANYONEZ ASS

 KRAZE LO

[howarddavid31]

man, this is what im talking about. this is a classic. I miss this whole album. johnny is the TRUTH

[Funkyrican1]

One of my all time favorite songs.

Shit just makes you get up and dance like a person under a spell.

[owlwink]

what a song!

[ziskorv]

great song & great album!!! 3:06 sounds just the same to Jamiroquai- "When U gonna Learn"

PD: pa los que cachan nomas :)

[superstrut75]

well observed. look back at the previous comments. someone tells the story. marvellous.

[smmrtc]

Yep rearrange the bars at the end of the jay kay tune and i think u have it!

[superstrut75]

Is that Johnny on the front of the album cover?

[gregdread]

i remember dancing to this way back. harvey mason on drums, wicked tune

[tmontyb]

One of my all time favorite songs!

[ultrafelicity]

It is shocking that when this song was played no one ever got hurt on the dance floor. When this came on total mayhem would ensue.Old school Chicago house FOREVER!!!

[JUGGERNAUTIC]

I first hear Terry Hunter play this in Chicago back in early 90's!

[Roelandvinken]

i heard it for the first time on a Larry Heard mix on the deephousepage... gave me goosebumps!!!

[billypistol]

Great!

[IowaCubs]

According to Wikipedia:

The composition sturcture of this song was used by Jamiroquai to make their first song: "When you gonna learn?"!!!

Listen to both and you'll hear the similarity!

It also says Jay Kay gave Johnny Hammond a special thanks in the single's release.

[pablotronix]

that's true!!

[superhead123]

Yes i remeber dancing to this back in the day day

[damienkellyuk]

Yeah this is from Gears !

This is the closet i have got to trying illegal substances, paradise found ...

[ZuluMuntu]

Darn good!

[idancejazz]

Nice post!!

Dance classic for ever!