Parliament “Mothership Connection” released 45 years ago today, December 15th, 1975. So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums and make my funk the P-funk, I wants to get funked up! Parliament’s fourth album is one of the best funk records of all-time and rates high on best album of any genre of all-time; the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. Relentlessly groovy, infectious and hilarious, Mothership Connection includes the epitome of funk single “P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” along with “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” which gives us for the first time George Clinton’s alter ego as well providing main sample for Dr. Dre’s Grammy winning “Let Me Ride” (1993): “Swing down, sweet chariot, stop and let me ride.” And of course there’s “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)” which went to #15 on the Hot 100 chart and to #5 on the Hot Soul chart; it remains one of Parliament’s most well-known songs and gave the world the oft-repeated lyric “…turn this mother out.” Best song title goes to “Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication“ followed closely by “Night of the Thumpsorus Peoples.”