From the Crates - Dennis Coffey

Do you need to feel the funk? Guard your face, cuz here it comes!



Bam!

Dennis Coffey's "Some Like It Hot," off his 1975 record Finger Lickin' Good, which gets my vote for any list of great album covers:



Mr. Coffey was pretty heavily sampled during the Golden Era, particularly his earlier records. This is only a partial list:

Evolution: (Sussex 1971)
“Scorpio” (Drums)
Busy Bee’s “Old School”
Double D & Steinski’s “Lesson 3”
Geto Boys’s “Do it Like a G.O.”
LL Cool J’s “Jinglin' Baby”
Lord Finesse’s “Keep it Flowing”
Mos Def’s “Universal Magnetic”
Professor Griff’s “Bro Kemit Splitting Atoms in the Corporate War Zone”
Public Enemy’s “Night of the Living Baseheads”
Queen Latifah’s “Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children”
Roni Size’s “Share the Fall”
Rage Against the Machine's "Renegades of Funk"
Young MC's "Bust a Move”

“Getting it On”
Beastie Boys’s “What Comes Around”
Ed OG’s “Dat Ain't Right”
Public Enemy’s “You're Gonna Get Yours”

“Whole Lot of Love”
Diamond D’s “No Wonduh (The Projects)”

Goin for Myself: (Sussex 1972)
“Ride Sally Ride”
LL Cool J’s “Big Ole Butt”
Ultramagnetic MCs’s “Feelin' It”
Ultramagnetic MCs’s “Kool Keith Housing Things”

Electric Coffey: (Sussex 1972)
“Son of Scorpio”
Busy Bee’s “Old School”

Black Belt Jones soundtrack: (Warner Bros 1974)
“Theme from Black Belt Jones”
Lakim Shabazz’s “Sample the Dope Noise”
LL Cool J’s “Jinglin' Baby”