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By Larry, March 21, 2017 9:29 am

Funky16Corners: Bold Soul Sisters 3

Clydie King – Never Stop Loving You (Minit)
Barbara Acklin – Be By My Side (Brunswick)
Jo Armstead – Stone Good Lover (Giant)
Maxine Brown – You Upset My Soul (Wand)
Betty Harris – I’m Gonna Git Ya (Sansu)
Linda Lyndell – What a Man (Volt)
Bernice Willis – Confidence (Okeh)
Brenda Lee – Proud Mary (Decca)
Delores Hall – W-O-M-A-N (Keymen)
Mary Wells – Don’t Look Back (Jubilee)
Dianne Brooks- Walking On My Mind (TRC)
Ella Fitzgerald – Savoy Truffle (Reprise)
Gloria Jones – Look What You Started (Minit)
Jeanne and the Darlings – It’s Unbelievable (How You Control My Soul) (Volt)
Sari and the Shalimars – You Walked Out On Me Before (Veep)
Funky Sisters – Do It To It (Aurora)
Shirelles – No Sugar Tonight (RCA)
Jean Knight – Helping Man (Stax)
Linda Carr – Discover Me (Capitol)
Bobbettes – Looking For a New Love (Mayhew)
Kim Weston – Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead (People)
Little Betty Baker – Stop Boy (All Platinum)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners – F16C: Bold Soul Sisters 3 MP3

Greetings all.

As promised, I bring you the third installment in the Bold Soul Sisters series, the second having run last week and the first, a short eleven years ago.

This mix – while still funky – dials down the funk quotient a bit,, with things taking on a slightly mellower, soulful vibe (also drawing the selections from a slightly wider time period).

There are a lot of very tasty records herein, including a couple of old faves, a few very interesting covers, and hopefully a bunch that you haven’t heard before.

What they all have in common is a deep groove, a 45RPM format, and some of the most righteous soul sisters ever to play the game.

As always, I hope you dig it.

I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 14, 2017 11:48 am

Funky16Corners: Bold Soul Sisters 2

Toby Lark – Shake a Hand (Cotillion)
Faith White – Manhandle (Columbia)
Diane Johnson – Queen Bee (Buluu)
The Loading Zone – No More Tears (RCA)
Odia Coates – Showdown (UA)
Apollas – Seven Days (WB)
Marie Franklin – You Ain’t Changed (Maverick)
Tami Lynn – Mojo Hanna (Cotillion)
Lotti Golden – Sock It To Me Baby/It’s Your Thing (Atlantic)
Otisettes – You’re All I Want (Epic)
Dee Dee Sharpe – You’re Just a Fool In Love (Atco)
Erma Franklin – Gotta Find Me a Lover (Brunswick)
Dottie Cambridge – He’s About a Mover (MGM)
Etta James – Groove Me (Chess)
Judy Clay – Sister Pitiful (Atlantic)
Mary Wells – Soul Train (Jubilee)
Myra Barnes – Super Good Pt1 (King)
Vicki Anderson – I’m Too Tough For Mr Big Stuff (Brownstone)
Ikettes – There Was a Time (UA)
Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles (Prophecy)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners – F16C: Bold Soul Sisters 2 MP3

Greetings all.

I hope everyone (at least those of you in the northeast) are riding the storm out, whether you’re soaked and windblown (like us here at the Jersey Shore) or buried under the snow like everyone to the north and west of us is.

I have something very special for you this (not so) fine day.

Last week – as has become something of a tradition every March 8th – I reposted the Funky16Corners Bold Soul Sisters mix for International Women’s Day. That mix, first posted back in 2006 is a longtime fave and packed from end to end with funky burners from the ladies.

As I reposted it last week it occurred to me that I ought to put together  sequel, and I set down to gather together the best funk and funky soul stuff that I had gathered in the eleven years since the first mix.

There was soo much groovy stuff, that I decided to to two new mixes (cleverly titled Bold Soul Sisters 2 & 3), one of straight up funk and one with the funk quotient dialed down a bit (but not too far).

I’ll be running Part 2 today, and Part 3 next week.

It is (with three exceptions) an all-45 mix, and aside from a couple of bigger names, I think you’ll find that a lot of this is probably new to you.

So dig in, pull down the ones and zeroes and – of course – get funky.

I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 22, 2016 10:17 am

Miss Sharon Jones

Listen/Download – Sharon Jones – Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In MP3

Listen/Download – Sharon Jones, Lee Fields and the Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love MP3

Greetings all.

This has been an exceptionally tough couple of weeks (this is the fourth memorial post in a row).

Sometimes it feels like the universe is out to get us.

Among the many losses, and in many ways the most painful, was the passing of Miss Sharon Jones.

Jones, the brightest light of the modern funk/soul world, and front woman for the mighty Dap-Kings lost a long battle with cancer at the age of 60.

Jones, who only really got to start climbing the ladder of musical success at the age of 40, had worked as a corrections office in Rikers Island in NYC and an armed guard, before joining up with Daptone.

She was born in Augusta, GA (There was a time…) and sang her entire life, fronting wedding bands and wailing in choir lofts, all the while stretching and honing her powerful voice.

Starting in 1996 she recorded a hot string of 45s and LPs, and became the most famous proponent of the classic soul revival (I’m sure there’s a better term, but I have neither the time nor the energy to hash that out right now), working her way up from the clubs to worldwide fame, backed by the hottest band in the land.

My feelings about the various and sundry modern acts working the classic style have wavered between indifference and pure joy, but I can assure that Miss Sharon Jones brought nothing but the latter.

I was never fortunate enough to see her and the Dap-Kings live, but their recorded work has brought me much pleasure over the years.

The two tracks I bring you today are longtime favorites of mine.

The first is Jones reworking of Bettye Lavette’s 1968 arrangement of Mickey Newbury’s ‘Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)’*.

Released in 2004, it is a smoking take on the song (taking it just a touch faster than Lavette) , with Jones singing beautifully all the way through.

The second is a duet with another soul survivor, Lee Fields (Jones was discovered singing backup on a Fields session), and as a perfect example of ‘revivalist’ soul that meets and exceeds the quality of the music from the classic era.

‘Stranded In Your Love’ (which appeared on the 2005 album ‘Naturally’), is an epic (nearing 6 minutes) duet that starts out with a little spoken back and forth between Jones and Fields, but then drops down into a deep, deep number.

The singing, playing (by the Dap-Kings) and the song itself (beautifully written by Gabriel Roth) are simply remarkable. Had this record come out in 1968 in a limited run of 500 copies, modern day collectors would be killing each other to get a copy.

It’s one of those records that I absolutely need to listen to more than once when I put it on. It hits all of those pleasure centers in the brain, and is a reminder of just how good soul music can be.

There is so much painful irony in the fact that Sharon Jones was taken from us just when she was reaching her peak, but sometimes that’s how it is.

We can be thankful that she left behind so much great music.

She will be missed.

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

*Listed on Newbury’s album as ‘Just Dropped In’, Lavette’s 45 as ‘What Condition My Condition Was In’, on the First Edition hit with the parenthetical phrase, and on the Sharon Jones 45 without parentheses…

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By Larry, February 18, 2016 12:26 pm

Listen/Download – Marie Franklin – You Ain’t Changed MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is near, and so then is the latest episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast.You can (and should, really..) subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, listen on Mixcloud, or grab yourselves an MP3 right here at the blog.

The tune I bring you today is a hard-hitting, funky number by a singer that I don’t know much about.

Marie Franklin only recorded a few 45s during her short career, two for Tangerine, one duet with Vernon Garrett for Venture (more on that in a sec..) the disc you see before you today and a couple of rarer items on small labels.
The duet with Garrett is important, because it ties into the provenance of today’s selection (both records having been released in 1968).

Venture was a relatively short-lived imprint formed when the husband and wife team of Kim Weston and Mickey Stevenson left Motown in Detroit and made their way to California.

If you look closely at the label of ‘You Ain’t Changed’ you’ll notice the presence of Clarence Paul (another ex-Motown mover) and the publishing credit of Mikim music, Weston’s publishing company.

The tune itself, (written by Willie Cooper and Ernie Shelby who also wrote I Don’t Want to Discuss it for Little Richard and Nobody for Williams and Watson) ‘You Ain’t Changed’ manages to encapsulate a Motown-like production, while cozying up to the early vibrations of funk. Franklin had a hell of a voice, sounding to me a lot like Tina Turner (interesting since one of her TRC 45s was a cover of Ike and Tina’s ‘Anything You Wasn’t Born With’).

It kind of blows my mind that a singer this talented and powerful (you have to check out her duet with Garrett) didn’t see more success.

This 45 (which was also released in the UK on MGM) isn’t an easy pull, but if you dig it you ought to be able to put one in your box for 25 or 30 bucks.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 24, 2015 12:13 pm

Sylvester and Cynthia, side by side

Listen/Download – Sly and the Family Stone – Dance to the Medley MP3

Listen/Download – Sly and the Family Stone – Sing a Simple Song MP3

Greetings all.

This morning saw the sad news that the mighty Cynthia Robinson, trumpeter and hype lady for Sly and the Family Stone had passed away at the age of 69.

Cynthia was there at the very beginning and played with Sly almost to the end of the Family Stone (long after many of the founders had jumped ship).

Sly and the Family Stone were by any measure one of the truly great soul bands of the 1960s.

They were racially, sexually and sonically integrated, mixing black and white, male and female and soul and rock (and funk) and were the very definition of the word ‘badass’.

The Family Stone were super-tight on stage (there are plenty of clips on YouTube for those that need proof), and I included them in my list of great soul performances last year.

Cynthia and Rose Stone were no mere window dressing either, holding their own as serious, solid musicians, helping Sly shape and deliver the group’s amazing music.

The two tracks i’m posting are personal favorites, both of which show Cynthia at her very best.

‘Dance to the Medley (Music Is Alive/Dance In/Music Lover)’ fills most of the first side of 1968’s ‘Dance to the Music’ LP. It’s a performance tour de force, and gives you an idea of the raw power of the band. It also includes one of my all time fave Sly tunes ‘Music Lover’, which appeared over the years as a component of a few different Sly and the Family Stone medleys (but never recorded on its own).

‘Sing a Simple Song’ needs no introduction, other than to mention that it is one of the UR documents of funk. Just brilliant.

So take some time out of your day to pull some Family Stone out of your crates (real or digital) and raise a glass to a pioneer, Miss Cynthia Robinson.

See you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 19, 2015 3:29 pm

Bernice Willis (left) with the Kittens

Listen/Download – Bernice Willis – Breakfast In Bed MP3

Listen/Download – Bernice Willis – Confidence MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is nigh, so I will ask you once again to grab yourself a weekly dose of soul in the form of the Funky16 Corners Radio Show podcast. We come to you every week (and once a month at SoulGuyRadio.com) with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app or grab a download here in the archive.

Today’s selection is one of those 45s that I picked up knowing nothing about the artist, but when I saw the label (gotta keep stacking up those Okehs!) and a song I really dig (‘Breakfast In Bed’) I knew I had to have it.

Good thing, too, because Bernice Willis’s take on the Eddie Hinton/Donnie Fritts classic is very nice, indeed, and sports a nice funky tune on the flip.

There isn’t much out there on Bernice Willis who does not appear to have done much solo recording. However, she did make a grip of 45s with her previous group, the Chicago-based Kittens for labels like Vick, ABC/Paramount and Chess between 1963 and 1967.

The 45 you see before you today was recorded in 1969, and oddly enough when you Google it, there is a listing in a December 1969 edition of Billboard, where it is included as a soul single expected to chart, right next to another version of the song by Baby Washington (which appeared here back in 2006)!

Willis’s version opens with an odd-sounding electric piano (also used on the flip), then Willis comes in with a deep, sexy, gospel-inflected voice. Willis takes the tune at a more muscular, funky pace than the hit by Dusty Springfield (or the version by Washington).

The flipside ‘Confidence’ is a nice, funky,midtempo number with lots of bass and conga drums, and another great vocal by Willis.

I can’t find any evidence that Bernice Willis made any records after this Okeh 45, which is a shame.

I hope you dig the 45, and I’ll see you all next week.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 3, 2015 2:16 pm

Vicki Anderson

Greetings all.

How about something tasty from the James Brown galaxy of stars to get you over the hump?

I am continually surprised by the amount of James Brown and related records that I don’t know, and I grab pretty much whetever I find in the field on King, I-Dentify, BrownStone, People or Polydor with any of the JB-signifiers (often enough, his smiling face right there on the label).

Such was the case when I found myself a copy of the 45 you see before you, Vicki Anderson’s 1971 ‘I’m Too Tough For Mister Big Stuff (Hot Pants)’.

Here we have a 45 of value to record collector types as an ‘answer’ record (as part of the Jean Knight-originated ‘Big Stuff’ continuum, not to mention the parenthetical “hot pants” tacked on at the end), and to funk 45 heads for the Vicki Anderson content, since she hardly lent her pipes to anything that wasn’t a stone gas.

The tempo is relaxed – as these things go – yet still packs a punch. Written by one of James Brown’s guitar slingers, Hearlon ‘Cheese’ Martin, the song has a kind of odd rhythmic push, especially in regard to the way Anderson delivers the lyric.

You get to hear how ‘James Brown is down and Wilson Pickett is wicked’, as well as how ‘the cats in Watts are cool if you aren’t a fool’, and Vicki, one of the most powerful voices in Brown’s orbit, is on point.

The flipside, ‘Sounds Funky’ (written by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke) is a rocked up instrumental with some heavy guitar and piano.

I hope you dig the song, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 23, 2014 12:15 pm

Zulema Cusseaux

Listen/Download Zulema – Telling the World Goodbye

Greetings all

I’m coming out of the weekend feeling a touch somnolent, so I thought I’d whip out something funky to get the motor running, as it were.

Zulema Cusseaux may not be well-remembered today, but in the early 70s she was making some fine music.

Hailing from Tampa, FLA, she was part of a local group, the Lovelies that was discovered by Van McCoy and renamed Faith Hope and Charity.

That group had two hits in 1970 – So Much Love (#14 R&B) and Baby Don’t Take Your Love (#36 R&B) – before Zulema left the group (which would continue to have hits into the late 70s) to go solo.

She signed to the Sussex label, recording her first solo LP ‘Zulema’ in 1972.

Today’s selection ‘Telling the World Goodbye’ (from her second LP ‘Ms. Z’) was her first solo hit, making it just inside the R&B Hot 100 in 1973.

Produced by Bobby Taylor, ‘Telling the World Goodbye’ is a funky number recorded with a who’s who of West coast studio heads.

The tune has that very groovy, funk on the way to disco feel that was coming to prominence around that time (note the presence of Eddie Kendricks collaborator Leonard Caston on piano), making it a treat for the feet as well as the ears.

Zulema would chart three more times between 1973 and 1979, recording one more LP for Sussex, three for RCA and one for LeJoint before the end of the 70s.

She would eventually leave the music business to lead the band in her church, passing away in 2013 at the age of 66.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 6, 2014 11:38 am

Betty Davis

Listen/Download Betty Davis – If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up

Greetings all

The end of the week is here, and so the time is near for your weekly dose of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, coming to you via the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always keep up with the show by subscribing as a podcast in iTunes.

The tune I bring you today is something a little hard and funky from which to launch yourselves into the weekend.

I suspect that many more people have heard of Betty Davis than have actually heard her (excellent) music.

Davis, a singer, songwriter, model and muse to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis (to whom she was married) recorded three very cool, well-regarded (if not big selling) albums between 1973 and 1975 for the Just Sunshine and Island labels (as well as a fourth album that would remain in the can until 2009).

Davis had spent the 60s moving between music (where she worked with Lou Courtney and the Chambers Brothers) and modeling, recording a couple of rare 45s in the process.

She recorded her first, self-titled LP in 1973 with a cast of San Francisco-area heavies, including several members of Sly and the Family Stone (drummer Greg Errico produced the album), Santana,  Merl Saunders the Pointer Sisters and Sylvester.

Today’s selection, the hard-hitting ‘If I’m In Luck I Just Might Get Picked Up’ was Davis’s first charting single (R&B #66 in the summer of 1973) and is typical of her hard-edged, sexually frank vibe.

What is especially groovy is that the song rocks as much as it funks (if you will) thanks not only to the instrumental end of things but also to Miss Betty’s vocals.

Davis was a genre-bender, which helped to make her music intriguing, but also made it hard for the listening public to get with the program. This is not to say that other artists mixing and matching rock and soul weren’t embraced – the 70s were after all the decade of P-Funk – but rather that there was something about Davis’s particular recipe that didn’t gel with a wider audience.

Too bad for them, since the records she made are rightly regarded as classics today.

All of her 1970s recordings have been reissued by Light In the Attic and can be picked up in hard copy or digitally.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, June 2, 2013 1:32 pm

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Listen/Download Gladys Knight and the Pips – The Nitty Gritty

Greetings all

Before we get things rolling I wanted to extend a hearty ‘thank you’ to all of you who  made the 2013 Funky16Corners Allnighter/Pledge Drive a big success this year.

The contributions – whether they be mixes to fuel the Allnighter or donations to keep this machine rolling for another year – were all greatly appreciated.

As I mentioned in last week’s post, Funky16Corners will enter its tenth year of existence in 2013, a fact which boggles my mind as much as it does any of yours.

I was having a Facebook exchange with some friends the other day, in which I stated that even at the ripe old age of 50, I am still engaged in a constant search for new (to me) music. There is still so much out there that I haven’t heard, and thanks to amazing friends that are always turning me on to new sounds, and my own relentless digging, I keep ingesting it as quickly as I can manage, and relating the search, and the appreciation to all of you, here in this space.

It is a labor of love, writ large.

So once again, I say thanks, and Keep the Faith.

Larry

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I don’t know about you guys, but I need a little musical kick in the pants to get me going today.

Who better to provide it than the mighty Gladys Knight?

I have always been of the opinion that despite popular opinion to the contrary, it is Gladys Knight who was the greatest female voice in the Motown stable.

Knight was possessed of a singularly powerful, flexible voice that allowed her to kick ass no matter what kind of stuff she was laying down, from sensitive ballads, powerful dance floor soul or straightahead funk.

The tune I bring you today was a big hit for Gladys and the Pips in the summer of 1969, hitting #2 on the R&B charts and making it into the Pop Top 20.

‘The Nitty Gritty’, written by Lincoln Chase and originally a hit for his wife Shirley Ellis in 1963, and was covered many times (Ricardo Ray’s boogaloo take is especially tasty) over the years.

I first heard the Gladys Knight and the Pips version years ago on an old UK Tamla greatest hits, which exposed me to a number of fantastic tracks that I had never heard before.

The group was huge on the radio when I was a kid but their earlier output, with killers like ‘JustWalk In My Shoes’ and ‘You Need Love Like I Do’ was largely new to me.

‘Nitty Gritty’ is a tour de force Norman Whitfield production, driven by some supremely funky guitar (the highest instrument in the mix), mixed percussion (the congas and tambourine in the front) and of course an explosive vocal by Gladys.

There was already a rhythmic component in the lyrics, which Gladys takes to an entirely new level, and abetted by the mighty Pips, with the “BOOM BOOM BOOM”s and what not make this a 45 to be reckoned with.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 8, 2013 11:27 am

Originally posted July 2006

1. Thelma Jones – The House That Jack Built (Barry) 2. Gladys Knight & The Pips – The Nitty Gritty (Soul) 3. Ike & Tina Turner – Bold Soul Sister (Blue Thumb) 4. Tina Britt – Sookie Sookie (Veep) 5. Ann Sexton – You’re Losing Me (Seventy Seven) 6. Viola Wills – Sweetback (Supreme) 7. Martha Turner – Dirty Old Man (Royal American) 8. Shirley Vaughn – Escape (Columbia) 9. Ruby Andrews – You Made a Believer Out Of Me (Zodiac) 10. Helena Hollins – Baby You’re Right (Stonegood) 11. Monica – I Don’t Know Nothing Else To Tell You But I Love You (Toxsan) 12. Lyn Collins – Mama Feelgood (People) 13. Gi Gi – Daddy Love (Sweet) 14. Erma Franklin – Baby What You Want Me To Do (Shout) 15. Yvonne Fair – Say Yeah Yeah (Dade) 16. Brenda & The Tabulations – Scuze Uz Y’All (Top & Bottom) 17. Cold Blood – You Got Me Hummin’ (San Francisco)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners Radio V.6 – Bold Soul Sisters

Greetings all

This is a little bit of an impromptu groove.

I was posting a couple of tracks over on Facebook to commemorate International Women’s Day and it occurred to me that I really ought to dip back into the archives and whip this mix on you (in furtherance of the same idea).

Here you get a mix dynamite sister funk (and soul) that ought to serve as a reminder of some of the many strong and talented female voices in those realms.

So click on the link, or pull down the ones and zeros and let the music play.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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