Funky Funny Four, studio band in 1971

 

The Funky Funny Four, a rock studio-band formed to record an album of mostly cover of 1971 US hits for São Paulo independent label Young, called 'The Funky Funny Four play & sing 16 World's Top Hits, for your dance party', USLP 6260.

The sessions for this album were recorded at Philips studio in São Paulo, mid-1971, when there were enough Brazilian musicians who grew up learning English and playing rock'n'roll. Suely Chagas, who were part of O'Seis in 1965, who eventually morphed into progressive rock Os Mutantes in 1966, and had a hit accompanied by Os Kantikus, 'Que bacana', which won the First Festival Universitario held by TV Tupi in 1968, tells how the whole business started. Suely said she was approached by Liminha (Arnolpho Lima Filho, former Mutantes bass-player) who told her Philips wanted to record an album of recent US hits covers and he was forming a band and producing it. 

Here is the line-up of such a band besides Suely & Liminha himself: Lanny Gordin (guitar), Dinho Leme (drums, played with Mutantes too), Pedrinho (singer for a band called Codigo 90), Rafael Vilardi, Roberto Loyola, Regis Moreira (piano),Tobéu ; Fernanda, Lineu & Tomás were background singers.   

It Don't Come Easy / Here comes that rainy day feeling again / Pickin' up sticks / Put Your Hand In The Hand / Sweet Mary / Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep / Rosianna / Country Sam / Where are we going? / Never Can Say Goodbye / Lotti, Lotti / Jodie / Sweet and inocent / All you'll ever get from me / Cathy, I love you / Treat her like a lady / What is life? / When you see Jerusalem

Pickin' up sticks - Kasnat & Katz Fighter Squadron (AZ)

Rosianna (the Manhattan Transfer)

Country Sam (Christie)

Where are we going? Sir Lord Baltimore 

Lanny Gordin (centre) with Paulo Miklos (right). 

clockwise from the left-back: Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, Mogy, ?, Sergio Baptista &.

Suely & the Kanticus in 1968; Lanny Gordin played the guitar and Raphael Villard the...