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By Larry, April 10, 2016 11:18 am

Travis Wammack

Listen/Download – Travis Wammack – Night Train MP3

Greetings all.

It behooves me to warn you that listening to the 45 you see before you may cause heart palpitations, nervous collapse or both, depending on how much coffee and or sugar you have ingested.

Travis Wammack is one of those names that keeps popping up on compilations of instrumental hits, due to his 1964 hit ‘Scratchy’.

Wammack was born in Mississippi but made his name playing in Memphis as a leader, sideman and working as a hired gun for giants like Little Richard (he was Mr Penniman’s bandleader for a decade).

Today’s selection, a cover of the strip club perennial ‘Night Train’. Written and performed by Jimmy Forrest in 1951, ‘Night Train’ was covered countless times by R&B, soul, jazz and rock performers, including the mighty James Brown.

Wammack’s version of the song is one of those instances of source material taken out back, draped over a pile of hand grenades, soaked in nitroglycerine and then blowed up (real good).

I mean, hot damn if this isn’t two and a half minutes of pure, unadulterated insanity. Wammack’s guitar sounds as if it’s being pumped through a Leslie speaker, and the band (just guitar, bass and drums) is recorded in as raw a fashion as I have ever heard on a major-label 45.

Ostensibly a showcase for Wammack’s guitar bad-assery, it serves more as a vivid example of what will happen when intoxicated people are let loose on musical instruments and recording equipment.

The flipside, ‘Karate Time’ is infinitely more subdued, but also quite groovy.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 7, 2016 12:50 pm

These are the JBs!

Listen/Download – The JBs – Music For the People MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast, which drops 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 the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab an MP3 right here at the blog.

Today’s selection is yet another of the countless chapters in the saga of the mighty JBs.

‘Music for the People’ written by “Sweet” Charles Sherrell, and released in 1977 (as the flipside of ‘Crossover’, actually the backing track of Lyn Collins ‘We Want To Parrty Parrty Parrty’) is a funky groover in the late-period JBs stylee.

It has that clockwork James Brown groove to it – dig the bass and guitar – and a group vocal running on top of things. Deep in the disco era, it still delivers the funk (especially the reference to ‘sardine sandwiches’!) even if the production is a tiny bit slick.

It is still – as are all JBs records – essential, so go out and get you some.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 5, 2016 11:39 am

Listen/Download – The Majestic Choir and the Soul Stirrers – Why Am I Treated So Bad MP3

Greetings all.

I hope the middle of the week finds you all well.

The tune I bring you today is a favorite of mine (which has appeared here –on the blog or the podcast – in other versions by the Staple Singers (Pop Staples wrote the song), the Sweet Inspirations, Bobby Powell, the Wildare Express and Brian Auger Trinity).

Not only is it a very groovy song on its own – sonic – merits, but also because it has a certain genre flexibility and depth that made it a standard, but in several different settings.

Originally recorded by the Staple Singers in 1965, the song was a perfect distillation of the group’s unique mixture of blues, soul and gospel, bringing with it an explicit civil rights message that couldn’t have been more timely. The Staples even took another – more modern/soul – run at the tune a few years later, with Larry Williams at the board.

The version I bring you today was recorded in 1967 (released in 1968) combining the voices of Harold Smith’s Majestic Choir (who had done a few gospel albums for Checker) and the legendary Soul Stirrers (who were also recording for Checker at the time).

Sounding as if it were recorded 100% live in the studio, their version of ‘Why Am I Treated So Bad’ manages to come on with a soulful edge, due in large part to the funky backing band and the tight harmonies.

Interestingly enough, Checker appears to have been reaching for a soul/gospel crossover with the Majestic Choir (starting with a 1967 45 including versions of ‘People get Ready’ and ‘What the World Needs Now’) that predates the breakthrough of the Edwin Hawkins Singers by two years.

I dig this version a lot, and I hope you do too.

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 3, 2016 1:40 pm

Listen/Download – The El Dorados – The Knock Knee MP3

Listen/Download – The El Dorados – The New Breed MP3

Greetings all.

The record I bring to you this fine day is something of a mystery.

First and foremost, it doesn’t appear in most discographies I’ve found of Port Records, and R&B and soul imprint that started in the 50s and went into the late 60s (though there is no doubt that the label and the catalog number check out, placing it sometime in 1965).

It also doesn’t help that the group has the same name as the storied Chicago R&B/doowop group the El Dorados that had a string of hits for VeeJay, including 1955’s ‘At My Front Door’.

This does not appear to be that group, though apparently they broke up and the name got reused a few times, so anything is possible.

That said, ‘The New Breed’ is a fast moving mod soul dancer pushed along by pounding drums and some tasty fatback guitar winding in and out of the proceedings.

The A-side, ‘The Knock Knee’ is the kind of greasy soul that is just a half-step and a heavy downbeat away from funk (dig the bass and the horns especially).

One name of interest on the record is Johnny Terry, who produced the record and co-wrote ‘The Knock Knee’ who I think may be the same Johnny Terry that was a member of the Famous Flames (and a somewhat prolific songwriter).

If any of you can string any of these facts together (or pull them apart where need be) please do so in the comments.

Either way, it’s a groovy 45, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 31, 2016 10:42 am

Listen/Download – The Bobby Sockers – Sock It To Me Bobby MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is near, and so is the appearance of the latest episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast. The show drops every Friday with the best in soul, funk and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at the blog.

Today’s selection is the unusual (soulful) by-product of a string mid-1960s comedy-novelty 45s by a guy named Bill Minkin.

Minkin, along with an assembledge known as the Hardly-Worthit Players (the name being a play on then famous newsmen (Chet) Huntley and (David) Brinkley) released a version of the Troggs’ ‘Wild Thing’, as performed in the (impersonated) voice of Senator Bobby Kennedy. Though this is little-known to anyone that wasn’t around to hear it the first time, it was a fairly substantial pop hit in the Winter of ‘66/’67.

As has always been the case, the parties involved decided to milk the success as much as they could, eventually releasing three 45s (and two LPs on Cameo/Parkway called ‘Boston Soul’ and ‘Senator Bobby’s Christmas Party’) between 1966 and 1968, with covers of Donovan’s ‘Mellow Yellow’ and finally Mitch Ryder’s ‘Sock It To Me Baby’.

The tune I bring you today was the flip side of that final 45. Billed as ‘Sock It To me Bobby’ by the ‘Bobby Sockers’, what you get here is a straight cover of the Mitch Ryder tune, with the ridiculous Bobby Kennedy imitation stripped off, returning it to its roots as an upbeat dancer.

The only downer (as it is) is the inclusion of a super-white-sounding female chorus running under things.

That said, it’s still a groovy record, which I included in one of my 2014 Pledge Drive mixes.

It’s a cool 45 (with a cool story) and I hope you dig it.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 29, 2016 6:36 pm

The Delacardos

Listen/Download – The Delacardos – They Put a Spell On You MP3

Greetings all.

The tune I bring you today is not only an excellent 45 on its own merits, but also a part of a small but very interesting chapter in the classic era of soul.

If you are a regular reader of Funky16Corners you already know that I believe Otis Redding to be the greatest soul singer of all time. He was an absolute master, hugely influential and one can only imagine what he might have produced had he not been cut down at the age of 27.

That said, for all of my deep and abiding respect for Otis, it was only fairly recently that I discovered that he had produced a couple of records for other people.

The list is short, including Redding’s protégé Arthur Conley, organist Jackie Hairston, singer Billy Young, and the group behind today’s selection, the Delacardos.

A North Carolina group, which included a singing front line – Vernon Hill, Chris Harris, Harold Ford and Robert Gates – and their backing band, the Delacardos recorded ten 45s between 1962 and 1967 for Elgey, Shell, Imperial, Dimension, United Artists and Atlantic.

Today’s selection, ‘They Put a Spell On You’ was the last of their Atlantic sides, two of which (including this one) were produced by Otis Redding*.

They had worked with Redding’s manager/business parter Phil Walden earlier in their career, which is probably how they ended up working with Otis.

‘They Put a Spell On You’, co-written by group member Chris Harris and band member Ronnie Grier, is a gritty, mid-tempo burner that sounds like a not-too-distant cousin to Sam and Dave’s ‘You Got Me Hummin’. It features a great lead vocal and some tasty harmonies by the group.

As far as I can tell, despite working with Redding and Walden, the Delacardo’s recordings didn’t see any commercial success.

They split up after this 45.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

*One of the two 45s has production credited to Redwal Productions, but I have seen mention that in this instance it is in fact Otis producing

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By Larry, March 27, 2016 10:35 am

Chuck Wood

Listen/Download – Chuck Wood – Seven Days Is Too Long MP3

Greetings all.

I thought we’d get the week started with an honest to goodness Northern Soul anthem.

Naturally, there’s a story to go along with this one, which will stand as a testimony to my occasional obliviousness and the nature of luck.

Many, many years ago, before my wife and I were blessed with our kids, she used to accompany on the occasional digging expedition.

I would usually provide her with a basic criteria as to what kind of stuff I was looking for, and she would dig through the crates with me.

Over the years she managed to pull a couple of real winners, and today’s selection is one of them.

Now when she saw the title ‘Soul Shingaling’ (the flipside of this 45), the alarms went off and she handed it to me. Though I’d never heard of Chuck Wood, I couldn’t in good conscience pass up a 45 with that title, so I put it in the keeper pile and gave it a home in my crates.

Now, at the time, though I was a fan of the Northern Soul “sound”, I didn’t know much of the canon, so it was a few years until I flipped over ‘Soul Shingaling’ and discovered just how good ‘Seven Days Is Too Long’ is.

Recorded in 1967, ‘Seven Days Is Too Long’ was actually a minor regional hit on the East Coast, especially in Philadelphia (I scored my copy on the outskirts of that city), but was pretty much all the success that Chuck Wood ever had.

That was until the record was rediscovered by the UK soul crowd, who embraced the record, making it a huge Northern Soul hit, getting it reissued (it had seen an original 1967 pressing in the UK on the Big T label) twice, in 1971 on Mojo and then in 1975 on Pye.

The record’s Northern Soul popularity should come as no surprise, since its bright, poppy hooks and driving pace and anthemic chorus sound tailor-made for those dance floors.

There’s not much in the way of information about Wood himself out there, which is odd considering the popularity of the record (I was lucky enough to find the picture above in a book on Northern Soul).

The song was covered in 1980 by Dexys Midnight Runners.

It’s a fantastic record and I hope you dig it as much as I do.

See you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 24, 2016 11:49 am

Funky16Corners Presents Go Go Shoes – Mix for Night Train Radio Show
The La Salles – La La La La La (VIP)
Jimmie Preacher Ellis and the Odd Fellows – (C’Mon) Let’s Dance to the Drum Beat (Kris)
Tina Britt – The Real Thing (Eastern)
Johnny Jay and the Gangbusters – Gangbusters Blues (Josie)
Gene Waiters – Shake and Shingaling Pt2 (Fairmount)
Cannibal and the Headhunters – Shotgun (Date)
Dottie Cambridge – He’s About a Mover (MGM)
Gravities (Bobby Newton’s Band) – Do the Whip (Instrumental Version) (Mercury)
Lonnie Youngblood – Go Go Shoes (Fairmount)
Ronnie Rae and the Dynamics – Funky Shuffle (RJR)
Soul Continentals – Bowlegs (Sound Stage Seven)
Big Maybelle – 96 Tears (Rojac)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Presents: Go Go Shoes MP3

Greetings all.

A while back Steve and Paul of the Night Train radio show (92.3 Sheffield Live in the UK) asked if I’d put together a guest mix for their show.

That mix airs this Thursday, (3/24 11pm GST/ 7pm EST), and you can pick yourselves up a download right here at the blog.

The Night Train guys requested a tight half hour, and that’s what you get, with soul, R&B and Northern sides mixed together for your dancing (and listening) pleasure.

These are all (with a few exceptions) fairly new additions to the Funky16Corners crates, so aside from a play or two in the podcast, they haven’t appeared here before.

So tune into the Night Train, pull down the ones and zeros, and have yourselves a great weekend.

I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 22, 2016 12:24 pm

The Four Larks

Listen/Download – The Four Larks – Groovin’ at the Go Go MP3

Greetings all.

I come to you, mid-week, with one of the greatest 45s ever made, and a story to accompany its dulcet tones.

Many years ago, in the early days of the Funky16Corners blog, I got an e-mail from a reader (whose identity is sadly lost in the sands of time) saying how much they dug the blog, and asked for my address so that they could send me something.

So, a couple of weeks pass, and then I get a package in the mail. I opened it, only to be greeted by a genuinely shocking sight.

There in the package was one of my personal holy grail 45s, ‘Groovin’ at the Go Go’ by the Four Larks, in stone mint condition, with a note saying how the sender had come across it at a stoop sale in Brooklyn, knew that I had sung its praises on the blog (mentioning of course how I had been unable to score a copy), and thought they’d send it my way as a token of their appreciation for my efforts.

Now, I should mention – for those of you who are not record collecting obsessives, or Northern Soul fans – that this is no ordinary garage sale/flea market find. This is a record that regularly fetches between 200 to 350 dollars in this kind of condition (way out of my price range) and this sainted soul dropped a mint copy in my lap for nothing.

That, my friends, is what the Jewish members of my family would describe as a mitzvah. A really big mitzvah.

Sadly, I soon lost the box with the sender’s name and address, and despite asking on the blog for contact info, have not heard from them again (if you’re still out there, PLEASE drop me a line).

They should know, that over the years, when I wasn’t feeling the love (blog-wise), that act of kindness was a well that I could return to over and over again to restore my faith in the readership, and mankind in general.

That all said, it is undeniable (at least to me and most Philly soul heads) that the Four Larks ‘Groovin’ at the Go Go’ is a monument to the greatness of the Harthon sound specifically, and Philadelphia soul in general.

The lead vocal by Vivian McDougal is first rate, and the backing by the Four Larks (including her then-husband, the mighty Weldon), and the instrumental backing (flawless) are both among the best of the era, and the tune, written by Philly giant Thom Bell is amazing.

‘Groovin’ at the Go Go’ is a Northern Soul favorite for all of the obvious reasons, including the hooks, bright pop-soul sound and that driving beat.

The 45 holds a place of honor in my playbox, and when I had the opportunity to spin at the legendary Subway Soul night in NYC, I made sure to give it an airing.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 20, 2016 11:52 am

Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith

Listen/Download – Johnny Hammond – Higher Ground MP3

Greetings all.

I thought we’d ease ourselves into the week with some long-form, funky Hammond organ from the man who’s name matched the axe, Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith.

Known alternately as Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith (he attached the Hammond to set himself apart from guitarist Johnny Smith and organ maestro Jimmy Smith) and Johnny Hammond (as he is here, having detached the ‘Smith’ in 1974, JHS was one of the masters of the classic era of organ led soul jazz.

He recorded for Riverside and Prestige from the late 50s into the early 70s, moving on to Kudu in 1971.

Today’s selection, his cover of Stevie Wonder’s 1973 hit Higher Ground’ comes from his (Hammond’s) 1974 LP of the same name.

Here Johnny gets to stretch out (the shortest track on the album is over seven minutes long) with a hot band that included Steve Gadd on drums, Ron Carter on bass, George Benson on guitar and electric piano by the arranger for the date, none other than Bob James.

It is a very groovy session for one relatively late in the game. There’s a little of that Creed Taylor CTI/Kudu polish (always a good thing) but also plenty of head nodding funk (the album also includes the heavily sampled ‘Big Sur Suite’).

All of his Kudu LPs are highly recommended.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 17, 2016 11:45 am

Isaac Hayes

Listen/Download – Isaac Hayes – Never Can Say Goodbye MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show. We come to you each and every Friday with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can dig the show as a podcast in iTunes (subscribe and rate, s’il vous plait), listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, listen on Mixcloud, or grab an MP3 right here at the blog.

We lose out the week with yet another version of one of my all-time favorite songs, Clifton Davis’s ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’.

It has always seemed odd to me, that such an amazing song, a veritable soul standard, was penned by a guy who is best known as an actor.

Between the hit versions by the Jackson Five (the biggest hit, and in my opinion, the gold standard), Gloria Gaynor (and the eight other versions in my iTunes library), I never tire of the song.

The rendition I bring you today comes courtesy of the mighty Isaac Hayes.

Hayes, who never met a song that he couldn’t give the “epic” treatment to, covered ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’ on his 1971 Black Moses album (coming in one of the greatest LP packages ever made).

Hayes was fresh off the mega-success of ‘Shaft’ and returned to the studio with a collection composed almost entirely of covers, by the likes of the Carpenters, Toussaint McCall, the Jackson Five, Curtis Mayfield, Kris Kristofferson and the Shirelles (among others).

Naturally, Ike takes the song at his patented slow and sexy pace, with some velvety vibes running underneath everything, and his own baritone on top.

Though it doesn’t stretch out to the 12 minute stratosphere of ‘Walk On By’, Hayes gives the song a respectful five-minute reading, and the all-male backing vocals are particularly interesting touch.

Whether you dig the song as much as I do, you really need to pick up as much Isaac Hayes as your record shelves will handle.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 15, 2016 11:46 am

Packed and ready to roll

In the midst of Set 1

Our Host Gene Meredith on the wheels of steel

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Larry Grogan Set 1 (Mixed Bag)
Falcons – I’m a Fool (I Must Love You) (Big Wheel)
Jewels – Opportunity (Dimension)
Vicki Gomez – Boys Are a Dime a Dozen (ABC/Paramount)
Eldridge Holmes – Emperor Jones (ALON)
Tangeers – This Empty Place (Scepter)
Mad Lads – No Time Is Better Than Right Now (Volt)
Spellbinders – A Little On the Blue Side (Columbia)
Sims Twins – A Losing Battle (Omen)
ZZ Hill – Don’t Make Promises (Kent)
JC Davis – Fezneckie (Chess)
Tommy Tucker – Long Tall Shorty (Checker)
Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman (Tribe)
Gentleman June Gardner – It’s Gonna Rain (Emarcy)
Sam Cooke – Shake (RCA)
Billy Davis – Stanky Get Funky (Cobblestone)
Pop-Ups – Lurking (HBR)
Johnny Otis Show – Keep the Faith Pt1 (Eldo)
Supremes – Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart (Motown)

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Larry Grogan Set 2 (Dancers)
Precisions – If This Is Love (I’d Rather Be Lonely) (Drew)
Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers – I’m Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got (Wand)
Taj Mahal – A Lot of Love (Columbia)
Marketts – Stirring Up Some Soul (WB)
Corvairs – Ain’t No Soul Left In These Old Shoes (Columbia)
Theresa Lindsay – I’ll Bet You (Golden World)
Incredibles – I Can’t Get Over Losing Your Love (Audio Arts)
Dorothy Berry – Shindig City (Planetary)
Mary Love – Lay This Burden Down (Modern)
Trade Martin – Moanin’ (RCA)
Soul City – Everybody Dance Now (Good Time)
Younghearts – A Little Togetherness (Soultown)
Eddie Floyd – Big Bird (Stax)

Listen/Download -Funky16Corners SSSC Set 2 – 75MB Mixed Mp3/192K

Greetings all.

This past weekend I had the honor of guesting at the Steel Stax Soul Club at Porter’s Pub in Easton, PA.

It was  a little bit of a ride, so we packed up all the Corners in the van and headed West for a little soul spinning (me) and R&R (all of us).

Steel Stax Soul Club is the brainchild of longtime DJ/collector and scooter expert Gene Meredith, who I first met more than 30 years ago back in the mod/garage days of the Dive.

I am always game to get out there and lay down some Northern Soul heat on the decks, and SSSC gave me that opportunity in spades.

I was able to record almost all of the night (you can dig Gene’s sets on his Mixcloud page) including both of my sets. The first set is a mixed bag (including some sweet, and slightly slower stuff) and the second set is all high octane dancers.

It was a great time, with much good music, and a bunch of new additions to my want list. I hope to make it back there to spin again some time in the future.

I hope you dig it (make sure to check out Gene’s sets, too) , and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the Faith

Larry

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