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Happy 40th birthday Hip-Hop!

Craig celebrates the 40th birthday of hip-hop with a 1979-1982 Mixtape, and we go all the way with Odyssey in our Version Excursion. Plus tunes by Gala, Usher, Chaka Khan and more!

Let Craig Charles provide your ultimate Saturday night party playlist as he spins his way through seven decades of the finest funk and soul tunes for your listening pleasure. If it feels like funk and sounds like soul it'll be The Craig Charles House Party.

Craig celebrates the 40th birthday of hip-hop with a 1979-1982 Mixtape - 25th March 1979 saw the release of The Fatback Band's King Tim III (Personality Jock), widely cited as the beginning of recorded hip-hop. We go all the way with Odyssey in our Version Excursion. Plus tunes by Gala, Usher, Chaka Khan, and more!

1 hour, 57 minutes

Music Played

  • Tori Amos

    Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • MFSB

    TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (feat. The Three Degrees)

    • The Masters Series: Philly Soul.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Chaka Khan

    Like Sugar

    • Diary/Island.
  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix)

  • Kool & the Gang

    Straight Ahead

    • In The Heart.
    • BBR.
    • 006.
  • Johnny Pate

    Shaft in Africa

    • Can You Dig It? Music And Politics Of Black Action Films: 1968-1975 CD1.
    • 3.
  • The Soul Motivators

    Mindblastin'

    • Do Right Music.
  • Usher

    Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris)

    • Arista.
  • Odyssey

    Inside Out (Al Kent Extended Mix)

  • Anderson .Paak

    King James

    • Ventura.
    • Aftermath.
  • The Andrea True Connection

    More, More, More

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Gala

    Freed From Desire

    • Friday Night Fever (Various Artists).
    • PolyGram TV.
    • 18.
  • Wendy Rene

    Bar-B-Q

    • The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles 1959-1968 CD4.
    • Warner.
    • 5.
  • James & Bobby Purify

    Shake A Tail Feather

    • Grandson Of Frat Rock! Volume 3.
  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.
  • The Soul Sisters

    I Can't Stand It

    • Sue Records Inc. ‎.
  • Ibibio Sound Machine

    Tell Me

    • Merge Records.
  • Gonzalez

    I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.
    • 4.
  • Hot 8 Brass Band

    Sexual Healing (Wrongtom Reassignment)

    • Wrongtom Meets....
    • Tru Thoughts.
    • 1.
  • LL Cool J

    Going Back To Cali

    • Def Jam Music Group Inc. 10th Year Anniversary.
    • Def Jam.
    • 6.
  • Erick Sermon

    Music

    • Polydor.
  • Fatback

    King Tim III (Personality Jock)

    • Old School Rap.
    • 1.
  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • The Seventies: A Very Special Collect.
    • Pickwick.
  • Kurtis Blow

    The Breaks

  • Blondie

    Rapture

    • The Model: 20 New Romantic Hits From The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.
    • 6.
  • Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

    The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash...

    • Snapper.
  • Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force

    Planet Rock

    • 100 R&B Classics Original Anthems (Various Artists).
    • Warner Music TV.
  • Whodini

    Magic's Wand

    • JIVE.

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 Mar 2019 22:00