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Mandrill is an American multi-genre band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1968. Members of the band included three brothers: Carlos Wilson (trombone, vocals), Lou Wilson (1941-2013) (trumpet, vocals), and Ric Wilson (sax, vocals). The brothers were born in Panama and grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. Other members included Claude 'Coffee' Cave II (keyboards, percussion, vocals); Bundy Cenac (bass) on the band's eponymous first album, replaced by Fudgie Kae Solomon (bass, vocals) in 1972; Charles Padro (drums, percussion, vocals) for two albums, replaced by Neftali Santiago (drums, percussion, vocals); and Omar Mesa (guitar, vocals), replaced in 1974 by Doug Rodriguez (lead guitar, vocals). This completed the Mandrill line-up from the Polydor years 1970-1975 which make up the Mandrill sound. Other members of the band in later years included Juaquin Jessup (lead guitar, percussion, vocals) and Tommy Trujillo (guitar). Also a fourth brother was added to the group known as Wolf. Their songs have been sampled by many hip-hop acts such as Johnny D, Public Enemy, DJ Shadow, Shawty Lo, Big L, Kanye West, Jin, Eminem, and 9th Wonder. They combined funk with many other styles such as Latin, salsa, rock, blues and soul.

Below is a list of Mandrill songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Polydor 14163
chart position: RandB #19, US #52
written by: Wilson Bros.
album: Composite Truth
Mandrill Fencewalk
1973 Polydor
2 record label: Polydor 14187
chart position: RandB #25, US #83
written by: Mandrill
album: Composite Truth
comments: [instrumental]
Mandrill Hang Loose
1973 Polydor
3 record label: Polydor 14235
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Mandrill
album: Mandrilland
Mandrill Positive Thing
1974 Polydor
4 record label: Polydor 14070
chart position: US #94
written by: Mandrill
album: Mandrill
Mandrill Mandrill
1971 Polydor
5 record label: Polydor 14200
chart position: RandB #40, US #107
written by: Mandrill
album: Just Outside of Town
Mandrill Mango Meat
1973 Polydor
6 record label: Polydor 14142
chart position: RandB #37
written by: Mandrill
album: Mandrill Is
Mandrill Git It All
1972 Polydor
7 record label: Arista 0375
chart position: RandB #37
written by: Carlos Wilson, Louis Wilson, Ric Wilson, Claude
album: New Worlds
Mandrill Too Late
1979 Arista
8 record label: Arista 0304
chart position: RandB #43
written by: Carlos Wilson, Louis Wilson, Ric Wilson, Claude "Coffee" Cave, Joaquin Jessup, Neftali Santiago
album: We Are One
Mandrill Can You Get It (Suzie Caesar)
1978 Arista
9 record label: Arista 0274
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Carlos Wilson, Louis Wilson, Ric Wilson, Claude "Coffee" Cave and Wilfredo Wilson
album: We Are One
Mandrill Funky Monkey
1977 Arista
10 record label: Polydor 14214
chart position: RandB #65
written by: Mandrill
album: Just Outside of Town
Mandrill Love Song
1974 Polydor
11 record label: Arista 0250
chart position: RandB #69
written by: Michael Masser
Michael Masser & Mandrill Ali Bombaye I and II (Zaire Chant)
1977 Arista
12 record label: Polydor 14257
chart position: RandB #82
written by: Carlos Wilson, Louis Wilson, Ric Wilson and Claude "Coffee" Cave
Mandrill The Road to Love
1974 Polydor
13 record label: Montage 1222
chart position: RandB #83
written by: Carlos Wilson
album: Energize
comments: [funk]
Mandrill Put Your Money Where The Funk Is
1982 Montage
14 record label: Arista 88
chart position: US Dance #56
written by: Mandrill
album: Getting in the Mood
Mandrill Dance of Love
1980 Arista
15 record label: Arista 0326
chart position: RandB #99
written by: Carlos Wilson, Louis Wilson, Ric Wilson and Claude "Coffee" Cave
album: We Are One
Mandrill Happy Beat
1978 Arista




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