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A young entrepreneur from South Los Angeles named Forest Hamilton was booking shows around town and advising acts like Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band and Bill Withers.

CAN said over the ear-splitting sounds of Marvin Gaye and Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.

On his second album “Still Bill,” Withers was working with the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, an acidic L.A. funk crew that had to downshift to a backing band — its funk slithers like an unannounced visitor that knows how to hustle through the door.

Tina Turner told the Mail that she was afraid to turn down a marriage proposal in 1962 from Ike - who was seven years her senior, had discovered her and made her the singer of his Kings of Rhythm band.

Members of the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band provide the foundation, but the weirdness comes courtesy of the synthesizers, which add a futuristic bent to conga-fueled dance numbers.