Discography and Biography of Parliament With Free MP3 Download Links and Song Lyrics

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Parliament was a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. Both Parliament and its sister act, Funkadelic, were led by George Clinton. Parliament was originally The Parliaments, a doo-wop vocal group based at a Plainfield, New Jersey barbershop. The group was formed in the late 1950s and included George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. Clinton was the group leader and manager. The group finally had a hit single in 1967 with "(I Wanna) Testify" on Revilot Records. During a contractual dispute with Revilot, Clinton temporarily lost the rights to the name "The Parliaments", and signed the ensemble to Westbound Records as Funkadelic, which Clinton positioned as a funk-rock band featuring the five touring musicians with the five Parliaments singers as uncredited guests.

Clinton was now the leader of two different acts, Parliament and Funkadelic, which featured the same members but were marketed as creating two different types of funk. In the early 1980s, with legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup at Casablanca Records, George Clinton dissolved Parliament and Funkadelic as recording and touring entities. However, many of the musicians in later versions of the two groups remained employed by Clinton. Clinton continued to release new albums regularly, sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the name George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. The P-Funk All-Stars continued to record and tour into the 1990s and 2000s, and regularly perform classic Parliament songs.

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#		Artist (click for discography and biography of artist)	Title (click song title to play it, read lyrics etc.)	Year	Label
1	recordlabel: Casablanca 909 chartposition: RandB #1, US #16 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins & Bernie Worrell album: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome comments: [funk]	Parliament	Flash Light	1978	Casablanca
2	recordlabel: Casablanca 856 chartposition: RandB #5, US #15 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins & Jerome Brailey album: Mothership Connection comments: [funk]	Parliament	Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)	1976	Casablanca
3	recordlabel: Revilot 207 chartposition: RandB #3, US #20 writtenby: George Clinton & Deron Taylor comments: [northern soul]	The Parliaments	(I Wanna) Testify	1967	Revilot
4	recordlabel: Casablanca 950 chartposition: RandB #1, US #89 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins (as William Collins) and Bernie Worrell (as Bernard Worrell) album: Motor Booty Affair	Parliament	Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)	1979	Casablanca
5	recordlabel: Casablanca 505 chartposition: RandB #10, US #63 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Fuzzy Haskins and Bernie Worrell album: Up for the Down Stroke	Parliament	Up for the Down Stroke	1974	Casablanca
6	recordlabel: Casablanca 2317 chartposition: RandB #7 writtenby: Ronald Dunbar (as Ron Dunbar), Donnie Sterling and George Clinton album: Trombipulation	Parliament	Agony of DeFeet	1980	Casablanca
7	recordlabel: Casablanca 2235 chartposition: RandB #8, US Dance #69 writtenby: Bootsy Collins (as William Collins), George Clinton and J.S. Theracon album: Gloryhallastoopid	Parliament	Theme from The Black Hole	1980	Casablanca
8	recordlabel: Casablanca 900 chartposition: RandB #14, US #102 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Garry Shider album: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome	Parliament	Bop Gun (Endangered Species)	1977	Casablanca
9	recordlabel: Revilot 211 chartposition: RandB #21, US #80 writtenby: Billy Nelson, Fuzzy Haskins (as Clarence Haskins) and George Clinton	The Parliaments	All Your Goodies Are Gone (The Loser's Seat)	1967	Revilot
10	recordlabel: Casablanca 831 chartposition: RandB #24, US #94 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell album: Chocolate City	Parliament	Chocolate City	1975	Casablanca
11	recordlabel: Casablanca 871 chartposition: RandB #22 writtenby: George Clinton, Gary Shider and Bernie Worrell album: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein	Parliament	Do That Stuff	1977	Casablanca
12	recordlabel: Jive 42370 2 chartposition: RandB #49, US #68 writtenby: Too $hort, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper, Belita Woods and Stuart Jordan album: Gettin' It comments: [hip hop]	Too $hort featuring Parliament Funkadelic	Gettin' It	1996	Jive
13	recordlabel: Revilot 217 chartposition: Cashbox R&B #29, US #104 writtenby: George Clinton and Tamla Lewis	The Parliaments	Look at What I Almost Missed	1968	Revilot
14	recordlabel: Casablanca 7022 chartposition: RandB #26 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell album: MothershipÂ Connection	Parliament	Star Child (Mothership Connection)	1976	Casablanca
15	recordlabel: Invictus 9095 chartposition: RandB #30, US #107 writtenby: Ruth Copeland, Clyde Wilson and George Clinton	Parliament	Breakdown	1971	Invictus
16	recordlabel: Casablanca 921 chartposition: RandB #27 writtenby: George Clinton and Bootsy Collins album: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome	Parliament	Funkentelechy	1978	Casablanca
17	recordlabel: Casablanca 852 chartposition: RandB #33 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins (as William Collins) and Bernie Worrell (as Bernard Worrell) album: Mothership Connection	Parliament	P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)	1976	Casablanca
18	recordlabel: Casablanca 875 chartposition: RandB #43, US #102 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell album: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein	Parliament	Dr. Funkenstein	1977	Casablanca
19	recordlabel: Revilot 223 chartposition: Cashbox RandB #35 writtenby: The Funkadelics, George Clinton	The Parliaments	Good Old Music	1968	Revilot
20	recordlabel: Casablanca 2222 chartposition: RandB #39 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Garry Shider album: Gloryhallastoopid	Parliament	Party People	1979	Casablanca
21	recordlabel: Revilot 228 chartposition: RandB #44 writtenby: George Clinton	The Parliaments	A New Day Begins	1969	Revilot
22	recordlabel: Casablanca 2250 chartposition: RandB #50 writtenby: Donnie Sterling, Ronald Dunbar and George Clinton album: Gloryhallastoopid comments: [instrumental]	Parliament	The Big Bang Theory	1980	Casablanca
23	recordlabel: Hot Hands 1(UK) chartposition: UK #157 writtenby: Rakim (as William Griffin) and Eric B. (as Eric Barrier)	Parliament-Funkadelic & P-Funk All Stars	Follow The Leader	1995	Hot Hands (UK)
24	recordlabel: Casablanca 892 chartposition: RandB #54 writtenby: George Clinton, Bernie Worrell and Leon Ware album: P. Funk Earth Tour	Parliament	Fantasy Is Reality	1977	Casablanca
25	recordlabel: Casablanca 976 chartposition: RandB #63 writtenby: George Clinton and Bootsy Collins	Parliament	Rumpofsteelskin	1979	Casablanca
26	recordlabel: Casablanca 843 chartposition: RandB #64 writtenby: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins (as William Collins) and Bernie Worrell	Parliament	Ride On	1975	Casablanca
27	recordlabel: Casablanca 811 chartposition: RandB #77 writtenby: George Clinton and Deron Taylor comments: re release	Parliament	Testify	1974	Casablanca
--	recordlabel: Casablanca 7022 writtenby: B. Worrell, B. Collins, G. Clinton, G. Shider, G. Goins, J. McLaughlin, J. Brailey album: Mothership Connection comments: [Complete Album] mpcode: 1pOiDe3ljzU	Parliament	Mothership Connection (full album)	1975	Casablanca

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