Mothership Connection

Mothership Connection
Studio album by
Parliament
ReleasedDecember 15, 1975
RecordedMarch–October 1975 [1]
StudioUnited Sound, Detroit, Michigan, and Hollywood Sound, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length38:18
LabelCasablanca
NBLP 7022/Def Jam
ProducerGeorge Clinton
Parliament chronology
Chocolate City
(1975) 		Mothership Connection
(1975) 		The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
(1976)
Singles from Mothership Connection

Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records. This concept album is often rated among the best Parliament-Funkadelic releases, and was the first to feature horn players Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, previously of James Brown's backing band the J.B.'s.

Mothership Connection became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum.[7] It was supported by the hit "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," the band's first million-selling single. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011, declaring that it "has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music."[8]

  1. ^ "Parliament's 1975 LP Mothership Connection revisited with Bernard Worrell". Soulculture.com. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
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  3. ^ Review: Mothership Connection Archived February 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Robins, Wayne (2016). A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record. Routledge. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-415-97472-1.
  5. ^ "Review: Mothership Connection". Superseventies.com. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
  6. ^ Keister, Jay (2019). "Black Prog: Soul, Funk, Intellect and the Progressive Side of Black Music of the 1970s" (PDF). American Music Research Center Journal. 28: 5–22. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via colorado.edu.
  7. ^ "American album certifications – Parliament". Recording Industry Association of America.
  8. ^ "Registry Choices 2010: The National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)". Loc.gov. Retrieved 2013-07-14.