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By Larry, January 17, 2017 12:24 pm

Lee Rogers

Listen/Download – Lee Rogers – Go Go Girl MP3

Greetings all.

I hope the middle of the week finds you well enough to get up outcha seat and dance, on account of what’s up.

Lee Rogers (nee Rogers Lee Caton) was a fairly prolific (on the 45RPM tip, anyway) Detroit soul singer with a catalog that stretched from the early 60s into the late 70s.

The tune I bring you today was released in 1966 on the D-Town label.

Rogers one and only hit had come the previous year when ‘I Want You To Have Everything’ made it into the R&B Top 20.

He never made another dent in the national charts, but the A-side of today’s selection, ‘I’m a Practical Guy’ was a regional hit in Detroit and the Great Lakes area in the summer of 1966.

Though that tune is a cracker, ‘Go Go Girl’ is the side for me.

Written by Detroit stalwarts Mike Hanks, Rudy Robinson and William Garrett, produced by Hanks and arranged by McKinley Jackson, ‘Go Go Girl’ is a hard-hitting dance floor stormer, with booming drums, solid guitar and bass and a horn section thar builds nicely.

Roger’s vocal moves between a smooth tenor and a reaching falsetto.

It’s not hard to imagine packed rooms of dancers, here in the US and over in the UK where Rogers’ 45s are sought after, getting down to this one.

‘Go Go Girl’ isn’t cheap, but it’s not going to put you in the poorhouse either, so if you dig it, and you want to make some people dance, go get yourself a copy for your playbox.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you tomorrow with something very special!

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 15, 2017 11:37 am

The Countdown Five

Listen/Download – Countdown Five – Shaka Shaka Na Na MP3

Greetings all.

The beginning of the week is here and I have something groovy for you.

Those of you that have followed the Funky16Corners blog for while, checked out my mixes, or heard me spin 45s in person, know that I have a taste for what might otherwise be termed ‘garage or bubblegum soul’ i.e. white rock bands laying down soulful party starters.

I started out collecting garage punk 45s way back in the day and most of those bands incorporated soul and R&B material into their playlists, covered those songs on record, and often came up with their own bangers.

Among my faves are tunes like ‘Shake’ by the Shadows of Knight, and ‘Sally Had a Party’ by Flavor (featured here a while back).

Not all that long ago my man Emery blew my mind with a tune that I had never heard by a group that I was already familiar with.

The band was Texas sixties punkers the Countdown Five, and the tune was ‘Shaka Shaka Na Na’.

The Countdown Five formed in Texas in the unlikely sounding Galveston suburb of Texas City, Texas.

They recorded a number of 45s during the 60s, including the oft-comped classic ‘Uncle Kirby’ (1967).

‘Shaka Shaka Na Na’ is a banger of the first order, sounding like a more soulful cousin of the Easybeats ‘Good Times’ (released the previous year), with fuzz guitar, organ (keyboardist Mack Hayes wrote the song) and a wailing sing-a-long chorus. It’s a great mix of fuzz, bubblegummy simplicity and soul, and a very groovy number indeed.

It was the band’s last 45, and though it wasn’t a hit, it got issued on no less than six countries!

The US issue is on the Buddah subsidiary Cobblestone, and isn’t too pricy or hard to find.

So grab yourself a copy, slip it into your playbox and dance!

See you on Wednesday

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 12, 2017 12:59 pm

Listen/Download -Bobby Boseman – Astrological Soul Train MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which pops into the airwaves of the interwebs each and every Friday. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on Stitcher, TuneIn and Mixcloud, check out the show on Cruising Radio in the UK, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

We finish out the week  – following a bunch of gospel –  with something decidedly more secular (and funky).

Bobby Boseman is one of those intriguing characters from the classic soul era.

Hailing from Texas, he originally recorded a few 45s under the name Gashead (yes, Gashead) for the Paradise label, later heading to California.

In Cali he joined up with Leon Haywood for one 45 on the Evejim label in 1970, and then recorded one last time – in a funky style – for the Tangerine/TRC imprint with ‘Astrological Soul Train’ in 1972.

The song, basically a funky, Wilson Pickett-esque party record (dig that kick drum at the beginning), combining the popular themes of astrology and ‘soul trains’, and it has the sound of a somewhat earlier side (1972 was really pushing the outer limits of when a record like this might have hit the charts).

Interestingly enough the song was written and produced by another Texan-gone-west, keyboard man Willard Burton (as in The Funky Four).

In an odd footnote, ‘Astrological Soul Train’ was later sampled by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the song ‘Calvin’.

Unfortunately, after ‘Astrological Soul Train’, there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that Bobby Boseman ever set foot in a recording studio again.

So get down with your bad selves, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 10, 2017 11:05 am

The Dixie Hummingbirds

Listen/Download – The Dixie Hummingbirds – She Loves Me Like a Rock MP3

Greetings all.

Since we got the week started with some high quality gospel, I thought I’d bring you another taste of the good (sanctified stuff).

If you are inclined to split hairs, ‘She Loves Me Like a Rock’ is closer to gospel pastiche in its original version, by its composer, a little known commodity by the name of Paul Simon.

Originally appearing on his 1973 LP ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’, ‘She Loves Me Like a Rock’ was a #2 Pop single that year.

Simon’s LP was recorded in a number of different settings, with ‘She Loves Me Like a Rock’ being done in Muscle Shoals, with the Swampers providing instrumental backing and the mighty Dixie Hummingbirds laying on the harmonies.

The tune I bring you today is the Dixie Hummingbirds’ own version of the song, recorded and released later that same year on the Peacock label.

The Dixie Hummingbirds came together in South Carolina 1928, with lead vocalist Ira Tucker joining the group in 1938 at the age of 13 (!?!).

The group eventually moved north to Philadelphia (Ira Tucker was the father of Sundray Tucker, aka Cindy Scott, a name that should be familiar to Northern Soul fans) and went on to become one of the most important gospel groups of the day.

Their recording of ‘She Loves Me Like a Rock’ doesn’t stray that far from Simon’s original, with the marked exception of Ira Tucker’s vocals taking over in the lead spot from Simon’s pleasant, but much less substantial voice.

The Dixie Hummingbirds version of the song was a minor gospel hit, and went on to win a Grammy for the Best Soul Gospel Performance in 1974.

It’s a groovy side, and I hope you dig it.

I’ll see you all on Friday with something funky.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 8, 2017 11:45 am

Listen/Download – The Staple Singers – Nobody’s Fault But Mine MP3

Listen/Download – The Staple Singers – I Wish I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again MP3

Greetings all.

I was recently gifted (in conjunction with Christmas) with the absolutely amazing Staple Singers boxed set, ‘Faith and Grace, A Family Journey 1953 – 1976’.

First released in 2015, and compiled by Joe McEwen, it is the first collection cover the Staples’ entire career, from their very first record in 1953 to their commercial heyday at Stax in the 1970s, with stops at VeeJay, Riverside, D-Town and Epic along the way.

Gospel has become a collectible genre among soul fans over the last ten years or so with some of the deeper cats – like Greg Belson – mining the depths for the soul, funk and even disco iterations of the genre.

While I have never collected gospel records in earnest (I still have a lot to learn), it is nearly impossible to listen to soul music from the classic era and not yearn to investigate the wellspring from which so many of its greatest practitioners came.

Gospel music is at least as big a contributor to what we know as soul music as was R&B, in both its style – brought forward by countless singers who spent their childhoods (and often adulthood) singing the music – and its repertoire, much of which made its way into the soul catalog via osmosis, theft and homage.

The mighty Staple singers are a perfect bridge for those with a taste for soul music who want to find a way into the gospel realm.

The group was in many sui generis, in that their approach to the genre was unusual (becoming even moreso as the years passed), with Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples Delta blues inspired guitar style and Mavis Staples uniquely powerful voice.

They were deeply influential, inside and outside of gospel, and work as a touchstone to pure, gospel quartet singing, and socialy conscious soul music.

As a listener of music, I have always been more attuned to the overall sound, as opposed to lyrics, effected first by the feel of things, and the Staple Singers had a sound that was remarkable.

It’s not that elements of their music blend can’t be found in earlier performers. Pop Staples grew up near the Dockery Plantation in Mississippi and learned to play the guitar while listening to Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Son House, and Mavis’s voice has echoes of both secular (Patton) and sanctified blues (Blind Willie Johnson). However nobody combined the sounds of the Delta and gospel harmony like the Staple Singers did.

Their sound – and it’s interesting to listen to how its power persisted through the different production styles over the years – was unique, spiritual (in every way) and at times almost ghostly, in its ability to carry the voices of the past into the present.

I’ve spent a great deal of time since Christmas listening, and relistening to ‘Faith and Grace’, and diving deep into the sound of the Staples’ music.

Though I was already familiar with much of the second half of the set (the late Riverside, Epic and Stax periods), the earlier recordings were a revelation.

To listen to their earliest recordings, like ‘It Rained Children’ (from 1953) and their first hit ‘Uncloudy Day’ (from 1956) and realize that Mavis’s booming, richly layered and masterfully controlled voice was coming from a teenager, verily boggles the mind. And it must be acknowledged that even that supreme instrument was only one component of the group’s sound. Pops’ high, keening voice, tremelo-soaked guitar, and the harmonies and call and response of Pervis, Cleotha and Yvonne (the line up changing frequently over the years) all came together to make something remarkable.
The two tracks I bring you today hail from the Staples 1965 and 1966 Epic LPs, ‘Amen!’ and ‘Why’, and are both included on ‘Faith and Grace, A Family Journey 1953 – 1976’.

The first, ‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine’ is a gospel standard that was first recorded by the aforementioned Blind Willie Johnson in 1927 as ‘It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine’. It should also be familiar to listeners of Led Zeppelin as just one (particularly egregious) example of their thievery.

The Staples take advantage of a small-band backing to add a brisk, rolling propulsion to their version of the song, with Pops’ guitar edging right up to an almost rockabilly sound (a recurring motif in songs like ‘Swing Down Chariot’ and ‘I’m So Glad’), and his vocal in the lead, with response from his children.

The second tune, ‘I Wish I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again’ is another gospel chestnut, which was recorded over the years by a variety of performers, many of the coming from the white/country gospel sound. You can hear traces of that sound in the Staples’ version.

The astounding quality of the music on ‘Faith and Grace’ will blow away the most jaded listener, and certainly spur many of you to head out and find as many of the original releases as possible. There are a few omissions (I wish that they had included the Larry Williams produced reworking of ‘Why Am I Treated So Bad’) but there are so many great moments (including a couple of rare live recordings) that nobody outside of pedantic record collectors will find any reason to quibble with the selection.

So dig the sounds, and go out and find yourself a copy of this collection, and settle in for several hours of amazement.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 3, 2017 11:56 am

Original artwork by Tim Smith

Mighty Hannibal – Jerkin’ the Dog (Shurfine)
Andre Williams – Rib Tips (Avin)
Andre Williams – Cadillac Jack (Checker)
Bunker Hill – Hide and Go Seek (Intermission)
Jon Thomas – Hot Tip (Mercury)

Nathaniel Mayer and the Fabulous Twilights – Village of Love (Fortune)
Dr Ross – Cat Squirrel (Fortune)
Arthur Griswold – Pretty Mama Blues (Fortune)
Dave Hamilton and his Peppers – The Beatle Walk (Fortune)

Sparkletones – Black Slacks (ABC-Paramount)
Carl Holmes and the Commanders – Mashed Potatoees Pt1 (Atlantic)
Duals – Oozy Groove (Infinity)
Kipper and the Exciters – Drum Twist (Torch)
Marvelle and the Blue Mats – A Dance Called the Motion (Dynamic Sound)

Bobby Parker – Watch Your Step (V-Tone)
Rivingtons – Papa Ooo Mow Mow (Liberty)
Turtles – Buzz Saw (White Whale)
Eskew Reeder – Green Door (Minit)
Magnificent Malochi – Mama Your Daddy’s Come Home (Brunswick)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Pays Tribute to Billy Miller from the WFMU Rock and Soul Ichiban Stream 1/1/17 MP3

Greetings all.

What you see before you today is a downloadable version of a radio show I put together for the WFMU Rock and Soul Ichiban Stream, which ran this past Sunday, January 1, 2017.

The grand poobah of the WFMU/Ichiban, Debbie D asked me to participate in a five hour long birthday tribute to the great Billy Miller, who passed away this past November.

As explained in a post I wrote just after he died, Billy and his wife Miriam Linna were a huge influence on my own musical and pop cultural sensibilities starting in the early 80s via their mighty zine Kicks and later through their work with their label Norton Records.

Norton/Kicks were devoted to plumbing the depths of musical history and paying overdue tribute to some of the wildest, largely unsung artists ever to make records, in garage punk, rockabilly, R&B, soul, surf and beat.

When Debbie asked me to put together a portion of the birthday tribute, I wanted to assemble a collection that reflected the vibe that Billy and Miriam put out into the world and its effect on my own work at Funky16Corners and Iron Leg.

This hour-long set includes plenty of soul and R&B, but also some stuff you wouldn’t normally hear at Funky16Corners, including some rockabilly, and early rock instros.

I think it all fits together well, and I hope you dig it.

So pull down the ones and zeros, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 1, 2017 2:36 pm

Listen/Download – Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin’ Honey MP3

Greetings all.

Happy New Year everybody!

I was grooving in the back alleys of my iPod the other day and hit on an old favorite, which I was surprised hadn’t ever been written up here at Funky16Corners.

Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band are a familiar sound to most folks that have even a passing familiarity with classic funk and soul, as well as the millions of others who have heard them sampled by NWA (among others) and used in commercials.

The record you see before you is technically their first 45, from 1966.

I use the qualifier “technically” because there is a fair amount of doubt that any of the players associated with the band’s post-1968 run ever played on it.

Release in 1966, written by LA soul scene movers Fred Smith and Nat Nathan, ‘Spreadin’ Honey’ grazed the R&B Top 40 in 1967 (with some regional Pop success).

It is a pounding dancer with one of the great drum openings of all time, as well as some tasty piano and guitar.

It seems likely that absent the later Watts 103 cats, and considering those involved in the writing and production, and most importantly the sound, that Leon Haywood was the piano player. I wouldn’t venture a guess as to who else was in the studio, but I have seen some people suggesting that the guitarist might be Bobby Womack.

Oddly enough, the track was recycled later in 1966 on the MoSoul label as being by the Soul Runners!

It was soon after the success of this record that Charles Wright and the rest of the band slipped into the name, and recorded a grip of heavy stuff for Warner Brothers between 1968 and 1971.

It is a very solid groover, and I suggest you follow your hips, and get up and dance.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 29, 2016 10:52 am

King and Queen

Listen/Download – Otis Redding and Carla Thomas – New Year’s Resolution MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week (at the end of the year) is here and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which drops each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via Stitcher and TuneIn, check it out on Mixcloud or grab an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

This has been a bitch of a year, and I don’t hold high hopes for the one on the way, but I will damn well make sure, here and out in the real world, to do what I can to make it better.

So listen to Otis and Carla, and ‘Let’s see how happy we can be”.

Right on?

Here’s a list of some Funky16Corners faves who transitioned out of the corporeal realm in 2016 (please let me know if I missed anyone) many of whom we paid tribute to on the blog or the radio show:

Otis Clay
Clarence Reid aka Blowfly
Maurice White
Leon Haywood
Jeremy Steig
Lonnie Mack
Prince
Billy Paul
Chips Moman F16C Radio Show Ep#321
Wayne Jackson
Bernie Worrell
Mack Rice
Bobby Hutcherson
Rudy Van Gelder
Prince Buster
Rod Temperton
Phil Chess
Clyde ‘City Gent’ Grimes of the Untouchables
Leon Russell
Billy Miller
David Mancuso
Mose Allison
Sharon Jones
Marshall Rock Jones of the Ohio Players
Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns
Clifford Curry
Little Royal
Rod Temperton
Robert Bateman (see Funky16Corners Radio Show #338) 
Sonny Sanders

Remember them all, and Happy New Year

And always, and in all ways

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 27, 2016 12:27 pm

Greetings all.

In continuation of our Christmas week ‘Best of’ grooves, I give you this selection of some of my favorite Northern Soul/soul dance mixes from the Funky16Corners Archives.

There are tons of storming dancers herein, so when you’re done wassailing, pull down the ones and zeroes and cut yourself a slice of rug.

And don’t forget to dig the Funky16Corners Radio Show, this and every Friday on iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, Mixcloud and Funky16Corners.com

Dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Keep the faith

Larry

 
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Carl Carleton – Competition Ain’t Nothing (Backbeat)
The Tams – Shelter (Probe)
Ambassadors – I’m So Proud of My Baby (Atlantic)
Billy Butler – Boston Monkey (Okeh)
Billy Harner – I Struck It Rich (OR)
Robb Fortune – Crazy Feeling (Now)
Tony Clarke – Landslide (Chess)
Patti and the Emblems – Please Don’t Ever Leave Me (Kapp)
Pat Lundy – Soul and Nothing But the Blues (Columbia)
Felice Taylor – Under the Influence of Love (Mustang)
Parliaments – Don’t Be Sore at Me (Revilot)
Jackie Lee – P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y (Mirwood)
Platters – With This Ring (Musicor)
James and Bobby Purify – The Last Piece of Love (Bell)
Baltimore and Ohio Marching Band – Condition Red (Jubilee)
JJ Barnes – Sad Day A’Coming (Revilot)
Stagemasters – Baby I’m Here Just To Love You (Slide)
Soul Twins – Quick Change Artist (Grapevine)
Paul Kelly – Chills and Fever (Dial)
Bob Brady and the Conchords – More More More of Your Love (Chariot)

Funky16Corners Presents: Condition Red

Ted Taylor – Love Is Like a Ramblin’ Rose (Okeh)
Stereos – I Feel Soul a Comin’ (Cadet)
Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers – I Can’t Turn You Loose (RCA)
Choker Campbell and his 16 Piece Band – Wild One (Motown)
Joe Jeffrey Group – My Pledge of Love (Wand)
The Contours – First I Look at the Purse (Gordy)
Derek Martin – Sly Girl (Tuba)
Exciters – Blowing Up My Mind (RCA)
Ferris Wheel – Number One Guy (Philips)
Carl Carlton – Hold On To What You Got (Big Beat)
Ella Fitzgerald – Get Ready (Reprise)
High Keys – Living a Lie (Verve)
Dobie Gray – Out On the Floor (Charger)
Ronnie Dyson – Fever (Columbia)
Shirelles – No Doubt About It (Scepter)
The Tams – Trouble Maker (ABC)
Garnet Mimms – Prove It To Me (UA)
Marvelle and the Blue Mats – Mellow Man (Dynamic Sound)
Billy Butler – Boston Monkey (Okeh)

Funky16Corners Presents: Out On the Floor

Danny White – Natural Soul Brother (SSS Intl)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Dancing’s Alright (Tamla)
The Marvelows – I Do (ABC/Paramount)
Sugar Pie DeSanto – Go Go Power (Checker)
Tom Jones – Get Ready (Parrot)
Roy Lee Johnson – Boogaloo #3 (Josie)
Otis Redding – Love Man (Atlantic)
R. Dean Taylor – There’s a Ghost In My House (VIP)
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels – Breakout (New Voice)
Lou Courtney – Me and You Doing the Boogaloo (Riverside)
The Rubaiyats – Omar Khayyam (Sansu)
Don Gardner – My Baby Likes to Boogaloo (Tru Glo Town)
Righteous Brothers Band – Rat Race (Verve)
Chris Clark – Love’s Gone Bad (Motown)
Syl Johnson – Come On and Sock It To Me (Twilight)
Fantastic Johnny C – (She’s) Some Kind of Wonderful (Phil LA of Soul)
Jackie Lee – The Shotgun and the Duck (Mirwood)
The Magnificent Men – I Got News (Capitol)
Wilson Pickett – Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Atlantic)
Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders – Goin’ Back to Miami (Mercury)

Funky16Corners Presents: Go Go Power

OV Wright – Love the Way You Love (Backbeat)
Billy Butler – Right Track (Okeh)
Lynne Randell – It’s a Hoe Down (Epic)
Thelma Jones – Stronger (Barry)
The Platters – Sweet Sweet Lovin’ (Musicor)
Christine Cooper – SOS (Heart In Distress) (Parkway)
Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)
Henry Lumpkin – Soul Is Taking Over (Buddah)
Barbara Banks – River of Tears (Veep)
Luther Ingram – If It’s All the Same To You (Hib)
Chuck Wood – Seven Days Is Too Long (Roulette)
Maurice and the Radiants – Baby You’ve Got It (Chess)
Parliaments – Don’t Be Sore At Me (Revilot)
O’Jays – I Dig Your Act (Bell)

Funky16Corners Presents: Soulshake – Live at The Subway Soul Club

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By Larry, December 25, 2016 12:07 pm

The Mighty Alen Toussaint

Greetings all.

Since it’s Christmas week and I’m taking some time to chill with the fam, I thought I would bring a couple of things up from the archive for your aural delectation.

What you see before you is a kind of ‘virtual boxed set’, the full, five part History of Allen Toussaint series that appeared on the Funky16Corners Radio Show at the end of 2015, right after Toussaint passed, and then from earlier this year.

If you didn’t catch it the first time around, and you dig Toussaint and Toussaint-related sounds, you couldn’t do any better than to pull down the ones and zeroes and spend an afternoon soaking in the sounds.

So dig it, and I’ll see you all later.

Keep the faith

Larry

 
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History of Allen Toussaint Pt1

A Tousan – Java (RCA)
A Tousan – Whirlaway (RCA)
Diamond Joe – Fair Play (Minit)
Chick Carbo – In the Night (Instant)
Chris Kenner –Johnny Little (RCA)

Willie Harper – A New Kind of Love (Alon)
Willie Harper – But I Couldn’t (Alon)
Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller (Minit)
Benny Spellman – Lipstick Traces (Minit)
Ernie K Doe – A Certain Girl (MInit)

Ernie K Doe –Mother In Law (Minit)
Stokes – Young Man Old Man (Alon)
Stokes – Whipped Cream (Alon)
Willie West – Hello Mama (Deesu)
KC Russell – Younka Chunka (Uptown)

Warren Lee – Star Revue (Deesu)
Warren Lee – Ever Since (I’ve Been Loving You) (Deesu)
Lee Dorsey – Ride Your Pony (Amy)
Lee Dorsey – Operation Heartache (Amy)
Lou Johnson – Little Girl (Big Top)
Lou Johnson – Walk On By (Big Top)

Benny Spellman – I Feel Good (Atlantic)
Frankie Ford – I Can’t Face Tomorrow (Doubloon)
Aaron Neville – Where Is My Baby (Bell)
Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)

History of Allen Toussaint Pt1
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History of Allen Toussaint Pt2

Eldridge Holmes – Emperor Jones (Alon)
Eldridge Holmes – A Time For Everything (Alon)
Eldridge Holmes – Humpback (Jetset)
Eldridge Holmes – Gone Gone Gone (Jetset)

Eldridge Holmes – Worried Over You (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – Until the End (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – Wait For Me Baby (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – A Love Problem (Decca)
Eldridge Holmes – If I Were a Carpenter (Deesu)

Betty Harris – I Don’t Want to Hear It (Sansu)
Betty Harris – Sometime (Sansu)
Betty Harris – Nearer To You (Sansu)
Betty Harris – Mean Man (Sansu)

Benny Spellman – Sinner Girl (Sansu)
Diamond Joe – Gossip Gossip (Sansu)
Prime Mates – Hot Tamales (Sansu)
Curly Moore – We Remember (Sansu)
Art Neville – Bo Diddley Pt1 (Sansu)

John Williams and the Tick Tocks – A Little Tighter (Sansu)
John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Do Me Like You Do Me (Sansu)
Rubaiyats – Omar Khayyam (Sansu)
Willie Harper – You You (Sansu)
Wallace Johnson – If You Leave Me (Sansu)
Wallace Johnson – Baby Go Ahead (Sansu)

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History of Allen Toussaint Pt3

Allen Toussaint – Get Out of My Life Woman (Bell)
Allen Toussaint – Hands Christian Anderson (Bell)
Allen Toussaint – We the People (Bell)
Allen Toussaint – Sweet Touch of Love (Scepter)
Allen Toussaint – Country John (Reprise)

Betty Harris –There’s a Break In the Road (SSS Intl)
Diamond Joe – The ABC Song (Deesu)
Earl King – Tic Tac Toe (Wand) 1970
Earl King – Street Parade (Kansu) 1970
Lou Johnson – Frisco Here I Come (Volt)
Rhine Oaks – Tampin’ (Atco)

Lee Dorsey – Four Corners Pt1 (Amy)
Lee Dorsey – Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On) (Amy)
Lee Dorsey – Give It Up (Amy)
Lee Dorsey – A Lover Was Born (Amy)
Lee Dorsey – Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further (Polydor)

The Meters – Cardova (Josie)
The Meters – Good Old Funky Music (Josie)
Ernie K Doe – Here Come the Girls (Janus)
Willie West – Fairchild (Josie) 1970
Eldridge Holmes – Pop Popcorn Children (Atco)
Eldridge Holmes – The Book (Deesu)
Aaron Neville – Hercules (Mercury)
Labelle- Lady Marmalade (WB)

History of Allen Toussaint Pt3
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History of Allen Toussaint Pt4
Kent Allan – What Have I Done (ALON)
Willie Harper – Cloudy Weather (ALON)
Willie Harper – I’ll Never Leave You (ALON)
Stokes – Crystal Ball (ALON)
Stokes – One Mint Julep (ALON)
Art Neville – Too Much (Instant)

Raymond Lewis – Nice Cents Worth of Chances (Instant)
Buddy Skipper – Restless Breed (Smash)
Eldridge Holmes – CC Rider (ALON)
Eldridge Holmes – Poor Me (Alon)
Ernie K Doe – Hey Hey Hey (MInit)

John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Blues Tears and Sorrows (Sansu)
Rubaiyats – Tomorrow (Sansu)
Betty Harris – Can’t Last Much Longer (Sansu)
Diamond Joe – Look Way Back (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – Selfish Woman (Brown Sugar)
Eldridge Holmes – Love Affair (Brown Sugar)

KC Russell – How Tired I Am (Uptown)
Lee Dorsey – There Should Be a Book (Amy)
Lee Calvin – You Got Me (Sansu)
Willie and Allen – Baby Do Little (Sansu)
Allen Toussaint – I Got That Feelin’ Now (Bell)

William D Smith – Take Your Pick (Do Your Trick) (WB)
William D Smith – I Feel Good With You Baby (WB)
The Meters – Here Comes the Meter Man (Josie)
Wallace Johnson – On My Way Back Home (RCA)
Wallace Johnson – I Miss You Girl (RCA)

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History of Allen Toussaint Pt5
Betty Harris – Hook Line and Sinker (Sansu)
Betty Harris – Show It (Sansu)
Betty Harris – I’m Gonna Git Ya (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – Beverly (Sansu)
Eldridge Holmes – Where Is Love (Decca)

Allen & Allen – Tiddle Winks (Minit)
Allen & Allen – Heavenly Baby (Minit)
Art Neville – Come Back Love (Instant)
Lee Calvin – Easy Easy (Sansu)
Ernie K Doe – Fly Away With Me (Janus)
Lee Dorsey – Sneaking Sally Through The Alley (Polydor)
Meters – Chug Chug a Lug (Reprise)

O’Jays – Lipstick Traces (Imperial)
Mel Taylor – Young Man Old Man (WB)
Willie Harper – A Certain Girl (Tou Sea)
Mohawks – Ride Your Pony (Pama)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Get Out Of My Life Woman (Elektra)

Esther Phillips – From a Whisper To a Scream (Kudu)
Pointer Sisters – Yes We Can Can (Blue Thumb)
Eldridge Holmes – Cheating Woman (Atco)
William D Smith – We All Wanna Boogie (WB)
Rhine Oaks – Oleancler (Atco)
Robert Palmer – Sneaking Sally Through the Alley (Island)

History of Allen Toussaint Pt5

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By Larry, December 22, 2016 11:24 am

Funky16Corners Christmas Party!
Ike and Tina Turner – Merry Christmas Baby (WB)
Otis Redding – White Christmas (Atco)
Soulful Strings – Jingle Bells (Cadet)
Albert King – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ (Stax)
Felice Taylor – It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It’s Spring) (Mustang)
Honey and the Bees – Jing Jing a Ling (Chess)
The Gems – Love For Christmas (Chess)
James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto (King)
Charles Brown – Merry Christmas Baby (Jewel)
Count Sidney and the Dukes – Soul Christmas (Goldband)
Donny Hathaway – This Christmas (Atco)
Bobby Holloway – Funky Little Drummer Boy (Smash)
Clarence Carter – Backdoor Santa (Atlantic)
Harvey Averne Band – Let’s Get It Together This Christmas (Fania)
J Hines and the Boys – A Funky X-Mas To You (Nation-Wide)
Freddy King – I Hear Jingle Bells (Federal)
Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore – All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love (Imperial)
Johnny and Jon – Christmas in Viet Nam (Jewel)
John Lee Hooker – Blues For Christmas (Elmor)
George Conedy – El Nino Del Tambor (Kent Gospel)
Soulful Strings (feat Dorothy Ashby) – Merry Christmas Baby (Cadet)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Christmas Party 124MB MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is nigh and so then is the Christmas Edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which arrives each and every Friday with a selection of platters, soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all original. You can subscribe  to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via Stitcher and TuneIn, grab it on Mixcloud or get an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

What you have here is a re-posting of last year’s Funky16Corners Christmas Party mix, which gathers together an hour-long selection of holiday favorites that have been posted here over the years into one nice, juicy, festive, jingling, jolly package.

There’s all manner of soul and funk (and even a little blues) and it’s the perfect soundtrack for your wassailing, cider-mulling, gift giving and general merriment.

I hope you dig it, and whether you celebrate Christmas or not, that you have a fantastic day!

See you next week with some special post-holiday collections.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 20, 2016 11:34 am

Freddy King

Greetings all.

We continue our tunes for the holidays with the flipside of a Freddy King record I posted last year around this time ‘I Hear Jingle Bells’).

This side is the bluesier, more melancholy ‘Christmas Tears’.

Released in 1961, and written by pianist Sonny Thompson (who plays on the track) and R.C. Wilson, it features King as rock solid guitarist (the role for which he is best known) and as an excellent vocalist (the part of the equation that is often forgotten).

King had a great tenor voice with enough flexibility to soar high into the rafters whenever he needed to.

It is a groovy one, indeed, and I hope you dig it.

We’ll be back right before Christmas with the Funky16Corners Christmas Party Mix.

Until then, be safe, be jolly (and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, just keep on being cool), and stay warm.

Keep the faith

Larry

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived! The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock. They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US). Click here to go to the ordering page.

Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).

PS Head over to Iron Leg too.