Funky16Corners Christmas – Freddy King – I Hear Jingle Bells

By , December 18, 2014 1:44 pm

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Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show Christmas Special! Join me this Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio for an hour of the best soulful and funky Christmas tunes. If you can’t join me at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device through the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

I thought it would be cool to close out the week with a Christmas 45 by one of my personal favorites, the mighty Freddy King.

Freddy King was a master of the guitar who recorded a grip of very tasty blues, R&B, soul and funk records between 1960 and his untimely death in 1976.

He got his start recording for the Federal label, racking up an impressive string of R&B hits in 1961 (four Top 10 hits that year!) including his debut hit ‘Hideaway’ (a big influence on the British R&Beat crowd) and ‘San-Ho-Zay’.

He recorded for Federal and King through the ’60s, eventually moving on to Cotillion and then Shelter.

King was – like Albert Collins – a cat who is thought of today as a blues player, but was much more than that, recording searing rock and R&B, soul and even funk, eventually settling into a blues groove late in his career.

His Federal 45s are indispensable, and ought to be grabbed whenever they are encountered in the field.

Though he was nothing if not prolific, it would appear that his 1961 45 ‘I Hear Jingle Bells’ b/w ‘Christmas Tears’ was his only holiday effort.

Opening with (naturally) a quote from ‘Jingle Bells’, soon followed by King’s high, clear tenor, some piano and his own razor sharp guitar, ‘I Hear Jingle Bells’ is a rocking pleasure from start to finish.

Freddy King was a badass of the first order, and if you get a chance you should shuffle on over to Youtube and check out his performances on the mid-60s TV show ‘The Beat’.

I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you with some more Christmas ish on Monday.

 

Keep the faith

Larry

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