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By Larry, June 26, 2014 4:22 pm

Theresa Lindsey

Listen/Download Theresa Lindsey – Daddy-O

Listen/Download Theresa Lindsey – I’ll Bet You

Greetings all

The weekend is looming, so I’ll remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You can also partake in the soulfulness by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or by grabbing an MP3 at the blog.

I’ve been wanting to drop today’s selection for a long time, but I wanted to wait until I was in the exactly right frame of mind.

A while back I was listening to Gail Smith’s most excellent ‘Work Your Soul’ podcast, when I encountered a song that shot right to all the soul-related pleasure centers of my brain. A quick glance at the playlist indicated that what I was digging was a tune called ‘Daddy-O’ by Theresa Lindsey.

Her name was already familiar as a Detroit-based singer who had recorded the original version of ‘I’ll Bet You’, which she co-wrote with George Clinton and Sidney Barnes (and was later recorded by Funkadelic, Billy Butler, Jean Carter and the Jackson Five).

What I discovered in short order (as soon as I set out in search of my own copy) was that ‘Daddy-O’ was the flipside of ‘I’ll Bet You’! Now I really had to get a copy!

Once I did (at what I would consider to be not too extreme an expense), I digimatized the 45 and played it over, and over and over again.

You see, ‘Daddy-O’ is one of the most sublime examples of the art form known as Detroit Soul that was ever created.

What you get here is a solid dancer’s beat, combined with a beautiful melody, a tight Detroit band and above all, the sexy, soulful delivery of Miss Theresa Lindsey.

This record is as close to perfect as it gets, my friends.

Opening with piano (the piano is really the heart of the band on this one), and then picking up with drums, vibes, bass and hand-claps, ‘Daddy-O’ is a showcase for Lindsey’s voice and the subtle backing vocals. There is no point where the essence of this record diverges from sublime wonderfulness, which makes it all the more surprising that it wasn’t a hit.

‘I’ll Bet You’ is taken at a brisk pace (much like the Billy Butler take from the following year) and features some tasty Dennis Coffey guitar licks.

Despite her obvious talents, Theresa Lindsey’s only chart success was a regional hit with her 1964 ‘Gotta Find a Way’ for the Correc-tone label.

Lindsey recorded a total of five singles, three for Correc-Tone, the one you see before you for Golden World, and then a UK-only release (recorded in New York) for the President label as ‘Terry Lindsey’.

Both sides of this 45 and some of her Correc-Tone recordings have been comped over the years, with both ‘Daddy-O’ and ‘I’ll Bet You’ currently available in iTunes (on a couple of shifty-looking comps).

That said, you can pull down the ones and zeros here, and bathe your ears in the goodness.

Have yourselves a great weekend, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 10, 2014 1:34 pm

The Mighty Harvey Fuqua

Listen/Download Harvey – Any Way You Wanta

Greetings all

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which lights up the wireless each and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you aren’t able to dig it at airtime, you can always keep up by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or by grabbing an MP3 here at the blog.

I thought I’d end the week with something very groovy.

The first time I heard ‘Any Way You Wanta’ by Harvey (courtesy of my man Michael Newman) I pretty much flipped my wig.

There’s a Latin term (dropped here from time to time), ‘sui generis’ meaning ‘in a class or group of its own’ or ‘not like anything else’.

If ever there was a 45 for which this term was seemingly invented, ‘Any Way You Wanta’ is it, brother.

It pays to start by mentioning that Harvey, was in fact Harvey Fuqua, late of the Moonglows (they even take the time to mention that fact on the label). Fuqua had had a solid and very interesting career prior to this record, recording with the Moonglows, and duetting with Etta James on Chess.

He eventually found his way to Detroit, where he fell in with the various and sundry figures that would eventually give birth to the Motown organization.

Fuqua worked with Anna Gordy (sister of Berry), married Gwen Gordy (their other sister, who co-wrote this 45) and in addition to work on the Anna label (home to Barrett Strong’s ‘Money’) started his own Tri-Phi and Harvey labels where he would record a number of artists that would end up on Motown, like the Spinners, Junior Walker and Shorty Long.

‘Any Way You Wanta’ was recorded in 1962, but sounds like it could have come from anytime in the previous five years, or from Mars or some other crazy place.

The musical backing is fairly simple and straight ahead, but the vocals are – in the words of the kids – cray cray.

Ho-lee-shizzle, there’s a reason this record is sweated bigtime (and pulls in serious coin), and that is because it is possessed of a kind of odd magic that sounds like a mixture of pure enthusiasm, Tarzan, glue-sniffing and that wolf from the old Tex Avery cartoons.

Harvey spends the better part of two minutes and forty five seconds singing, howling, stuttering, calling out dance steps and occasionally throwing in whatever he can pull from his grab bag.

It’s really something else, though perhaps too much so, since I can only find one instance of ‘Any Way You Wanta’ charting anywhere, and not very high or for very long.

That said, since its inception, ‘Any Way You Wanta’ has become a big favorite of soul/R&B fans, even finding its way onto Northern Soul playlists.

Harvey Fuqua went on to be an important figure in the history of soul, as a songwriter, producer, performer and discoverer of artists like Marvin Gaye, New Birth and Sylvester.

He was a very serious cat indeed, passing away in 2010 at the age of 80.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 25, 2014 3:19 pm

The Chevelles in their later incarnation as the Mighty Chevelles

Listen/Download The Chevelles – The Gallop

Greetings all

Welcome once again to the Funky16Corners hump day experience.

Back in nineteen and sixty eight, when a cat by the name of Cliff Nobles and his group laid down a little number called ‘The Horse’which was a HUGE (YOOOOOOOOOOGE) hit in the summer of that year.

‘The Horse’ wrecked the R&B and Pop charts, was by far the biggest hit that the storied Phil-LA of Soul label ever had and, as was often the case with successful dance craze records, spawned a veritable cottage industry of Horse-and horse-related rip-offs, tributes and homages.

If you get a sec, drop by the Funky16Corners mix archive to dig Funky16Corners Radio v.22 – Horse Power, which is a survey of the Horse explosion.

Included in that mix (back in 2007) was the track you see before you today, ‘The Gallop’ by the Chevelles.

Originally appearing on the flip side of Gloria Walker’s 1968 hit ‘Talking About My Baby’ (R&B Top 10, Pop Hot 100), ‘The Gallop’ is Horse-like in word and deed, emulating the vibe of the OG as well as attaching themselves by association with the title of the song.

The Chevelles – sometimes billed as the Mighty Chevelles – recorded a number of 45 for Eugene Davis’s Flaming Arrow imprint, as both headliners and backing singers like Walker and Angela Davis.

Based in Detroit, the Flaming Arrow label lasted for almost a decade, with the Mighty Chevelles eventually recording and releasing an LP on the label in 1977.

It is a funky, fast moving (it seems to pick up speed as it goes along) 45 and an excellent entry in the horse sweepstakes.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 12, 2014 11:20 am

The Contours

Listen/Download The Contours – First I Look at the Purse

Listen/Download The J Geils Band – First I Look at the Purse

Greetings all

I hope the new week finds you all well.

The tune I bring you today is one of those soul tunes I knew and loved years before I started collecting 45s.

My record collecting/listening past is filled with a variety of landmarks, some which make complete sense (i.e. the shortest distance from point a to point b) and some a little bit more circuitous.

Back when I was a longhaired teenager who wanted little more out of life than to bash on my drums, listen to music and sleep (not necessarily in that order) I found myself – as was often the case – browsing the cut-out bins at the local Music Den.

Music Den was that fossil of a bygone age, a chain record store which could be found in various guises (depending on your region) in malls all over the country.

Aside from the local flea market, that was pretty much the only place I had to go to buy music, which was then records and cassettes.

Though I can’t be 100% positive, I suspect that I had little or no folding money on my person, but I was no doubt determined to bring some new music home with me.

What I found that day was one of a series of WEA cassette twofers. The massive, multi-label conglomerate was reissuing albums, two per tape, in budget cardboard slipcases (no fancy shmancy plastic cases here) by a variety of artists in their vast catalog.

If memory serves, over the course of a year I picked up more than a few of these, at least one by Joni Mitchell, and the second (the pertinent one for today’s post) by the J. Geils Band.

Those of you that weren’t there in the 70s may not think much of the Geils band as more than a relic of the album rock age, but those that know (especially as the band’s early years are concerned) will tell you that they were once something heavier indeed.

I’m not completely certain what the second album on that cassette was (though I think it might have been ‘Monkey Island’) but it was the first side of the tape that cracked open my ears a little bit wider.

The band’s self-titled debut – from 1970 – was a surprise indeed.

It sounded nothing like the stuff I’d heard by the band on the radio, sounding more like a fired up version of Chicago blues than anything.

The greasier, 1970 edition of the J. Geils Band

That album not only introduced me to a hotter side of the J. Geils Band, but also to Otis Rush (‘Homework’), John Lee Hooker (‘Serves You Right To Suffer’) Albert Collins (‘Sno Cone’) and most importantly, the Contours (I would learn later that lead singer Peter Wolf was an inveterate record collector and probably had a lot to do with the variety of sounds covered by the group).

It was the Geils Band cover of ‘First I Look At the Purse’ – which I wouldn’t have recognized as a cover if I hadn’t seen Smokey Robinson’s name on it – that really grabbed me.

The song had a solid groove, and the lyrics were hilarious.

In retrospect the J. Geils Band must have been quite a breath of fresh air in the hippified scene of 1970.

Flash forward about ten years, and I finally got to hear the original by the Contours and I dug it even more.

Though they are best known for their 1962 classic ‘Do You Love Me’, the Contours are for me (much like the Velvelettes) a Motown group that should have (and probably would have, given the opportunity) been much bigger.

The Contours original (it just missed the R&B Top 10 in the summer of 1965) is a fast moving (much faster than the Geils cover), soul-clapping killer, with the rhythm guitar and piano pounding in tandem and the drums (listen to the kick drum hits) punching through the mix.

The Contours would make it into the R&B Top 40 eight times between 1962 and 1967.

The J. Geils Band would end up in much poppier (and more successful) place than they started, with 80s hits like ‘Centerfold’.

It was a long way from Otis Rush, but sometimes that’s just how it is.

I hope you dig the track. And I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 12, 2013 12:34 pm

The Fabulous Counts

Listen/Download The Fabulous Counts – Lunar Funk

Greetings all

It’s almost Friday, which is why I will remind you once again that the Funky16Corners Radio Show is on its way, taking to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You can also keep up with the show by subscribing to it as a podcast in iTunes, or by grabbing an MP3 at the blog.

The Funky16Corners Radio Show Christmas Special will be dropping next Friday, 12/20 at the usual time, so make sure to pencil that into your datebooks! Also, the next two weeks will be devoted to Christmas music, with some old faves making their yearly appearances, as well as some new finds from this year which I think you’ll dig. _____________________________________________________________________________________

I thought we’d finish off the week with something funky.

I have long been a fan of the Fabulous Counts. Their 1969 hit ‘Jan Jan’ (just skirting the R&B Top 40) was one of the first funk 45s I heard (or owned) and I did my level best to amass all of their stuff as quickly as possible.

They recorded three excellent of 45s for Ollie McLaughlin’s Moira label (his Detroit labels Carla, Karen and Moira all named after his daughters) and an LP for the Cotillion label (produced by McLaughlin), all in 1969.

Led by organist Mose Davis, the Fabulous Counts laid down a jazzy style of funk that broke from the James Brown mold, with their sound much closer in spirit to a group like Kool and the Gang.

Today’s selection, ‘Lunar Funk’ was the flipside of their biggest hit, 1970’s ‘Get Down People’ (R&B #32, Pop #88).

Featuring fuzz bass, wah wah guitar by Leroy Emmanuel and some groovy clavinet by Davis, the tune is a fast moving number with a great horn section.

The group would eventually leave Moira for the Westbound label, recording one more 45 as the Fabulous Counts, before shortening their name to the Counts.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 3, 2013 12:58 pm

Listen/Download Gloria Taylor – You Got To Pay the Price

Greetings all

Today’s selection is another one of those “didn’t know I had it until I started rooting around in my own crates” records.

I have no idea when I picked up this 45, whether it was part of a bulk purchase in a lot, or another one of those 25 cent come ups that I pulled out of a box because the artists name was familiar.

What I am pretty sure of, is that when I bought it, I never gave it a proper spin, because if I had, I would have recognized a long time ago that it was both very groovy, as well as a cover version of song I already knew.

Fortunately, when I finally did give Gloria Taylor’s ‘You GotTo Pay the Price’ a thorough listen, I realized that it was a cover of the Al Kent song of the same name.

Al Kent’s original version of the song, released in 1967 (I wrote up its flipside ‘Where Do We I From Here’ back in January) was done as an instrumental, and has over the years gathered a following on the Northern Soul scene.

Gloria Taylor (sometimes billed as Gloria Ann Taylor), was an Ohio-based singer who recorded just over a dozen 45s (and a rare LP) between 1968 and 1976 for a variety of Detroit and Nashville labels.

Taylor was apparently from Toledo, Ohio, and was discovered by (and later married to) producer Walter Whisenhunt, who ended up producing most of her recorded output.

Her version of ‘You Got To Pay the Price’, originally released on the King Soul label, and then on Silver Fox in 1969 takes the song at the same general tempo as the original. Taylor’s vocal ranges from a soulful contralto to flashes of super-high soprano, the part of her range that she seemed to favor on most of her other records.

‘You Got To Pay the Price’ was Taylor’s first (and biggest) hit, making it into the R&B Top 10 (Pop Top 50) in October of 1969.

She had two more chart hits, ‘Grounded’ in 1970 (R&B #43) and ‘Deep Inside You’ in 1974 (R&B #96).

Taylor has had some songs released on various funk and soul comps. Her Silver Fox 45s are fairly inexpensive and easy to come by, with the smaller label singles getting progressively more expensive, and the LP bringing in hundreds of dollars.

That said, I hope you dig the record, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 26, 2013 1:41 pm

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Listen/Download Sokey Robinson and the Miracles – Whole Lotta Shakin’ In My Heart (Since I Met You)

Greetings all

As we prepare to cross the border into the money half of the week, I bring you some first-class, floor-filling, spellbinding Motor City soul.

I always pick up Tamla/Motown LPs when I find them in the field.

They are often heavily played but since they are also cheap, and usually harbor songs of interest, they go on the keeper pile without hesitation.

I don’t have much to say about Smokey Robinson that hasn’t already been chiseled into granite elsewhere, other than, whoa, that voice, and double-whoa, all those songs.

Oddly enough, today’s selection did not spring from the prolific pen of Mr. Robinson, but rather the mighty Frank ‘Do I Love You’ Wilson!

This is one of those records that can be held up as a prime example of the Motown record-makers (including Funk Brothers, producers and songwriters) art.

It is a propulsive dancer, filled with hooks and played (if you’ll excuse the expression) like a motherfucker.

The band is absolutely relentless in precision and drive, and Smokey is right on the money, especially when (at around 2:12) he mounts the word “I” and rides it on out of the studio into the sunset.

This is pure dance floor heat, from the opening drum roll right on into the fade out.

‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ In My Heart (Since I Met You)’ just made it into the R&B Top 20 in the summer of 1966, grazing the Pop Top 50.

It is a monster, and I hope youdig it as much as I do.

See you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 24, 2013 1:07 pm

Cover of the Jackson Sisters LP

Listen/Download The Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles

Greetings all

The new week is upon us, and in the spirit of getting things off to a banging start, I thought I’d whip a little dynamite on you.

Last year, whilst I was nearing the end of a very fruitful vinyl dig out in Pittsburgh, I realized that the store in question had a box of pricier items propped up on the front counter.

Not one to let an opportunity such as this pass me by, I set my stack o’wax down, and started digging anew.

I ended up pulling another dozen or so discs out of that box, including the gem you see before you this very day.

I do not recall where I first encountered the Jackson Sisters ‘I Believe In Miracles’ but I can almost say with certainty that I knew the record’s label before I ever heard the song.

Back when I used to frequent a certain funk/soul/hip hop oriented message board, ‘finds’ lists used to be be one of my favorite things to peruse, always with amix of wonder and jealousy.

The Jackson Sisters 45 of ‘I Believe In Miracles’ used to pop up now and then (it is not a common 45) and the very groovy Prophesy Records label found itself a niche in my memory.

When I finally got around to actually hearing the record, I was blown away.

‘I Believe In Miracles’ is that perfect mixture of funk and disco, combined with an actual, catchy song (as opposed to the stand-alone groove of so many discs of the era).

First recorded by Mark Capanni, and co-written by Capanni and Bobby Taylor, ‘I Believe In Miracles’ was a much mellower affair in it’s original form.

The Jackson Sisters – Jacqueline, Lyn, Pat, Rae and Gennie – who hailed from Compton, CA but operated out of Detroit recorded one album (for the Tiger Lily label) and a few 45s in the early 70s.

‘I Believe In Miracles’ made it inside the R&B Top 100 in September of 1973, but dropped off the charts, and that was all she wrote for the Jackson Sisters….

Until the mid-80s, when ‘I Believe In Miracles’ was rescucitated as an anthem on the UK Rare Groove scene and made it back onto the UK charts.

The record, arranged by Gene Page is a masterpiece of dance floor engineering, with some hard-hitting drums (listen to those snare hits!), clavinet, and just enough horns and strings to class up the joint (but not too much).

‘I Believe In Miracles’ has a remarkable amount of kick to it (I’m posting the slightly more muscular mono version) and it’s hard to imagine anyone managing to stay in their seat when the needle hits the grooves (check out the way the song – another version – was used in the film ‘Cemetery Junction’).

The Jackson Sisters recording went on to be sampled a number of times, and the song was covered in 1992 by the UK group The Pasadenas.

The Mark Capanni 45 is exceedingly rare and sells for several hundred (sometimes over 1,000) dollars. It has been reissued by Jazzman in the UK and even that 45 can be pricey.

The Jackson Sisters OG runs around 200USD, especially version you see above, the vinyl promo issue with the stereo and mono mixes.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 14, 2013 11:23 am

Listen/Download Timmy Willis – Mr Soul Satisfaction

Greetings all

The end of the week is here, so I must remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show returns to the airwaves of the interwebs, this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you cannot make the scene at airtime, you can keep up by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes or by grabbing an MP3 out of the archive here at the blog.

The tune I have selected toclose out the week is a longtime fave of mine.

Timmy Willis’s ‘Mr Soul Satisfaction’ is one of those records that I saw popping up on playlists (especially Northern Soul-related) for years before I actually got to hear the record.

Once I did, I dug it so much I had to go out and find myself a copy, which I did.

Recorded and released in 1967 on Detroit’s Sidra label, and the picked up for national distribution by Veep (and by United Artists in the UK), ‘Mister Soul Satisfaction’ made it under the wire into the R&B Top 40 in February of 1968.

Opening with a very groovy guitar line (the guitarist is the unsung/un-singing hero of this 45), the rhythm section kicks in with a nice punch before Timmy, and a chorus of girl singers get rolling.

The tune is a classic bit of soul boasting, with Timmy nailing it with the line:

I’m so bad I shoulda been born twins!

Timmy Willis was born in Columbus, OH, but seems to have done most of his recording in Detroit.

The song was written and produced by George McGregor, who worked the board on a grip of Detroit 45s under his Gee-Mac productions name, including sides for Gwen Owens, Barbara Mercer, Ruby Andrews and Tobi Lark among others.

Willis had two more singles skirt the outside of the R&B Top 50 in 1969 (both for the Jubilee label) and appears to have done his last 45 for Epic in 1972.

That said, considering the quality therein, this is not a terribly hard to find or expensive 45 to find, so grab yourself one for your record box, and whip it on the people.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, October 24, 2013 9:18 am

Funky16Corners Presents:It’s Gonna Be Good!

Johnny Jones and the King Casuals – It’s Gonna Be Good (Brunswick)
Albert Collins – Cookin’ Catfish (20th Century Fox)
Chuck Berry – Club Nitty Gritty (Mercury)
Atlantics – Beaver Shot (Rampart)
Little Richard – Soul Train (Brunswick)
Bobby Hollaway – Corn Bread, Hog Maws and Chitterlins (Smash)
The Turtles – Buzz Saw (White Whale)
The Vibrations – Soul a Go Go (Okeh)
Benny Scott – Soul Beat (Brunswick)
Junior and the Classics – Mix Up a Go Go (Magic Touch)
Jon Lee Group – Pork Chops (Sparton)
Ricky Allen – Cut You a Loose (AGE)
El Dorados – The New Breed (Port)
Danny White – Cracked Up Over You (Decca)
Louis Chachere – A Soulful Bag (Forte)
Timmy Thomas – Have Some Boogaloo (Goldwax)
Toussaint McCall – Shimmy (Ronn)
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor) (Like)

Listen/Download -Funky16Corners Presents: It’s Gonna Be Good – 75MB Mixed MP3/256K

Greetings all.

I hope all is well on your side of the universe, and that you’re all ready for the weekend.

Don’t forget that the Funky16Corners Radio Show hits the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t be there at the time of broadcast, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or grab an MP3 (or two, or 100) out of the archive here at the blog.

A while back my man DJ Trick over in St. Petersburg, RU asked if I would be amenable to doing an interview and whipping up a mix that they could post in their ‘Grooves’ project*.

As someone who is always down with the cause of spreading the sounds of soul and funk all over the globe, I agreed and set to work.

As you will hear as soon as you pull the trigger on this one, I was in a particularly raucous mood that day, packing just about 40 minutes worth of sonic nitroglycerin into mix form and setting the fuse.

What you get here, is some of my favorite, high-octane soul shouters, organ burners, hardcore R&B and dance party starters, stitched together so that the assembled multitudes might cut themselves a slice of rug (and maybe spill a little beer, too).

If you haven’t sussed it out over the long haul, this is a pretty good approximation of the kind of set I’d throw down were I spinning in a live setting.

That said, this is perfect weekend stuff, so get your download on, and have yourself a party, Artie.

Have a great weekend, and i’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

PS They’re posting the interview over there, but it’s in Russian…
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