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By Larry, January 22, 2015 1:17 pm

NOTE: As a result of my hospital stay and lots of lost blogging time, I’m going to dip back into the archives for some groovy things to hold you over until I get back.

Also, don’t forget to tune in to an all new episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.

So dig it, and Keep the Faith
Larry

Listen/Download Cal’s Tricks – Who’s Gonna Take the Weight

Greetings all

The track I bring you today is something I picked up whilst grazing at the last Allentown All 45 show.

It’s hard not to be overwhelmed in a room packed to the gills with 45s, but since a lot of the dealers (and the kind of stock they bring with them) have become familiar to me over the years, I try to maintain a s small amount of focus.

These days my “want list” (as it is) isn’t very long.

There are a couple of very crucial things that I’m always on the lookout for, but outside of those, I tend to cast a pretty wide net. The old frame of reference is sharp enough that I come away with more gold that gravel, and the record you see before you today is evidence thereof.

I’d never heard of Cal’s Tricks, or the Secant label, but as soon as I noted the presence of a groovy Kool and the Gang cover, I placed the disc on the keeper pile and kept digging.

Once I got the record home I was very happy with my selection, and moved on to digging for information.

There’s not a lot out there, but what I have found is interesting.

It would seem that the Secant label was active in the Washington, DC/Maryland area during the 70s, releasing a wide variety of styles.

The DC Soul Recordings site noting that only three of their releases seemed to fall into the realm of soul and funk, two of them being records by Cal’s Tricks.

‘Who’s Gonna Take the Weight’ – taken here at a slightly faster, dare I say discofied, tempo than the OG – was the second 45 by Cal’s Tricks, released in 1976.

The band’s name seems to be a variation of the name of producer Caltrick Simone.

I don’t think this track or any of Cal’s Tricks tunes have been comped.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 15, 2015 11:47 am

This guy? Funky?!

Greetings all.

The end of the week is nigh, so I will take this opportunity to remind you all that the Funky16Corners Radio Show returns to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva-Radio.com. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

Having started the week with some Northern Soul, and moved on to Library, I thought I’d keep the spirit of diversity alive and bring you some funky big band ish to close things out.

You know I love to dig up examples of old-school jazzers dipping their beaks into funk and soul, but when I heard there was a joint worth seeking out by Stan Kenton, my bullshit detector blew a fuse.

Kenton was one of the coolest (some might say cold) of the West Coast jazzers running a cerebral, heavily brassy, outfit from the 40s on through the 70s.

He started out as a pianist, and eventually concentrated on arranging and working as a bandleader, running an orchestra that produced alumni like Maynard Ferguson, Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers.

Kenton was very successful and always kept an experimental edge to his sound, but at no point did he produce anything that would suggest to me that he had anything like today’s selection in him.

Of course, by the time he recorded ‘2002 Zarathustrevisited’ in 1973, Deodato had already had a substantial hit with his own funky reworking of the Strauss classic ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’.

The early 70s were not a great time for big jazz bands in America, and the few old heads that were still working it, guys like Kenton, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich, were doing everything they could to stay relevant and commercially viable.

Though I can’t say for sure, it seems likely that Kenton (or the arranger on this number Dale Devoe) heard the Deodato arrangement and thought piling a truckload of brass on top of it would send it into the stratosphere, and decided to take a shot at it.

While it lacks some of the subtlety of the Deodato version, the Kenton version has a substantial amount of kick to it, from the drums (very nicely recorded) and of course, the brass, which comes on in wave after wave.

There’s a groovy sax solo, and some Maynard Ferguson-esque high-note antics, but the drums and percussion keep coming on strong, all the way to the end.

Oddly enough, I owned the LP version of this for years (which also features a nice version of ‘Live and Let Die’) but when a 45 popped up I had to grab it, because…come on…funky Stan Kenton on 45. You can’t leave that sitting in the bin.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 31, 2014 12:10 pm

Miss Della Reese

Listen/Download – Della Reese – It Was a Very Good Year

Originally posted in 2011…

Note: It was indeed a very good year. Funky16Corners celebrated its 10th anniversary, the music kept flowing and all was well.

I thought it would be cool to repost this banger to ring in the New Year.

I hope you all had an excellent 2014, and I look forward to more music in the coming year.

Happy New Year!

Keep the Faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 28, 2014 10:46 am

Greetings all.

I’ve been cold and tired of late, so I thought it wise to light a fire under this week’s figurative ass, and what better way to do that than with a tasty slice of breakbeat funk.

‘Shack Up’ by Banbarra is one of those records that I knew of – as a breakbeat source – long before I ever heard (or owned) it.

Not only was it sampled heavily, but it also had a second (third?) life of sorts when it was covered by the UK post punk band A Certain Ratio in 1980.

The thing that I found odd is that when I started to look for information on the band and the record, I found almost nothing.

The facts as they stand are, Banbarra was a Washington, DC based act featuring Moe Daniels and Joseph Anthony Carter. They recorded ‘Shack Up’ in 1975, and though it didn’t hit the Pop or R&B charts, it was popular on disco dancefloors in both the US and the UK (it shows up on Billboard’s disco charts for 1976).

Bearing both a very 1970s message of “we don’t need a piece of paper to prove our love”, and one of the tastiest, swingingest breakbeats ever, ‘Shack Up’ really ought to have been a hit.

Unfortunately, as good as ‘Shack Up’ is, Banbarra never made another record.

That, as they say, is a drag.

So dig the funk (and that break), and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 14, 2014 11:51 am

Greetings all.

As the posts of the next few weeks will attest, I actually made an effort this year to gather some holiday-appropriate 45s in preparation for Christmas. Previous years have seen me discussing my malfeasance in this regard, but as the years have passed, I’ve made a slow, almost imperceptible k-turn, making sure that I stuff my Christmas crate as full as possible so that the blog and the radio show are both properly stocked.

I actually enjoy Christmas-oriented soul and funk, and god knows there’s plenty of it out there for those that are willing to explore.

I actually found today’s selection out in the field, whilst digging with my son.

There were already a couple of J Hines (with the Boys and the Fellows) 45s in my crates, so when I encountered ‘A Funky X Mas To You’, I had to grab it sight unheard (as it were).

Hines was very interesting character, coming out of the Carolinas to work with Roy C up in the NY area (there’s a great piece on him at Red Kelly’s Soul Detective site), recording a handful of 45s in the late 60s and early 70s.

He actually had a minor R&B hit with the extremely funky ‘Camelot Time’ (as J Hines and the Fellows) in 1973, making it to #71).

Though I haven’t been able to find a reliable discography, it would appear that ‘A Funky X Mas To You’ was probably issued in the early 70s.

Featuring Hines’ swinging guitar, and some groovy lyrics (“A big black Santa Claus,with a funk sack on his back!”), the song also features some nice horns and organ.

I really dig it a lot, and thought it’d be a great selection to kick off our holiday selections this year.

I hope you dig it too, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday with some more.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 30, 2014 12:06 pm

Tony Camillo

Greetings all.

I thought we’d get the week started with something smooth, and a little bit funky.

‘The Black Motion Picture Experience’ LP, credited to the Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds has long been a crate diggers staple, packed as it is with rerecordings of early 70s Blaxploitation soundtrack heavies.

As popular as it is, the LP has continued to elude me in the field. However, a few months back I was out digging and what should I turn up, but the 45 you see before you.

The big question for me, was always, who is ‘Cecil Holmes’?

The answer, as it turns out, is someone who had little or nothing to do with this record.

The Cecil Holmes that gave the record his name was a record executive (prominently for Casablanca Records).

There were a few different projects released sporting his name in the early 70s, including the Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds, and the Cecil Holmes Orchestra.

What both of these groups have in common, beside the lack of any direct musical involvement by Holmes, is the guiding hand of Tony Camillo.

Best remembered for his 1975 disco/funk hit ‘Dynomite!’ (credited to Tony Camillo’s Bazuka), Camillo was a NY/NJ-based composer/arranger/producer.

‘The Black Motion Picture Experience’ LP was recorded and released in 1973, featuring a band of East Coast studio heavies.

The track I feature today is their version of Curtis Mayfield’s theme from ‘Superfly’.

Camillo and band take the track, smooth it out and open it up just a bit, turning up the bass and giving the drums plenty of room to snap.

Naturally, things suffer from the absence of the mighty Curtis, but the sounds are still groovy.

There was one more LP by Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds, the slowjam collection ‘Music For Soulful Lovers’ (also 1973), again featuring Camillo.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 27, 2014 8:11 am

Mmmmmmmm!

Greetings all!

I first gathered these food-related mixes together for Thanksgiving 2011.

Since the Grogans will be chilling together this extended weekend, I thought I’d repost them for you to stuff into your ears/iPods/whatever.

There’s even a turkey song!

Don’t forget to tune into the Funky16Corners Radio Show this Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t dig it at airtime, make sure to subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen in on your mobile device through the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, have a great weekend with your friends and family, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 
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Funky16Corners Radio v.3 – Soul Food (That’s What I Like) Pt1

Track listing

Brother Jack McDuff – Hot Barbecue (Prestige)

 Soul Runners – Chittlin’ Salad Pt1 (MoSoul)

Lionel Hampton – Greasy Greens (GladHamp)

Albert Collins – Cookin’ Catfish (20th Century)

Andre Williams – Rib Tips (Avin)

Maurice Simon & The Pie Men – Sweet Potato Gravy (Carnival)

Mel Brown – Chicken Fat (Impulse)

Lonnie Youngblood – Soul Food (That’s What I Like) (Fairmount)

Prime Mates – Hot Tamales (Sansu)

Just Brothers – Sliced Tomatoes (Music Merchant)

Leon Haywood – Cornbread and Buttermilk (Decca)

Bobby Rush – Chicken Heads (Galaxy)

Booker T & The MGs – Jelly Bread (Stax)

Gentleman June Gardner – Mustard Greens (Blue Rock)

West Siders – Candy Yams (Infinity)

Hank Jacobs – Monkey Hips and Rice (Sue)

George Semper – Collard Greens (Imperial)

Billy Clark & His Orchestra – Hot Gravy (Dynamo)

Listen Download Mixed MP3

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Funky16Corners Radio v.9 – Soul Food Pt2

Playlist

1. Simtec Simmons – Tea Box (Maurci)

2. Johnny Barfield & The Men of S.O.U.L. – Soul Butter (SSS Intl)

3. Ronnie Woods – Sugar Pt2 (Everest)

4. Stan Hunter & Sonny Fortune – Corn Flakes (Prestige)

5. Fabulous Counts – Scrambled Eggs (Moira)

6. Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band – Spreadin Honey (Keymen)

7. Freddie Roach – Brown Sugar (Blue Note)

8. Albert Collins – Sno Cone Pt1 (TCF Hall)

9. Chuck Edwards – Chuck Roast (Rene)

10. Willie Mitchell – Mashed Potatoes (Hi)

11. Booker T & The MGs – Red Beans & Rice (Atlantic)

12. Righteous Brothers Band – Green Onions (Verve)

13. George Semper – Hog Maws & Collard Greens (Imperial)

14. Lee Dorsey – Candy Yam (Amy)

15. Roosevelt Fountain & his Pens of Rhythm – Red Pepper Pt1 (Prince Adams)

16. Bad Boys – Black Olives (Paula)

17. Willie Bobo – Spanish Grease (Verve)

18. American Group – Enchilada Soul (AGP)

DOWNLOAD – 39.3 MB Mixed MP3

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Funky16Corners Radio v.60 – Finger Lickin’ Good!

Funky16Corners Radio v.60 – Finger Lickin’ Good!

Playlist

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By Larry, November 18, 2014 1:57 pm

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Greetings all.

I’m dipping back into the archives today for another favorite mix of mine.

I put together ‘Beneath the Planet of Funky16Corners’ back in 2007 for the Souled On on blog.

As you’ll see once you pull down the ones and zeros, I was in a pensive mood at the time, and while things are soulful and occasionally funky, they also fall on the quieter side of the spectrum, best listened to mellowed out with the lights down low.

This was always a fave of mine (i.e. one that I listen to on my own time, frequently) not only because I dig its component parts so much, but also because they fell together pretty nicely as well.

So dig it, and I’ll be back on Friday with something cool.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 13, 2014 12:02 pm

Oh, yes…

Brothers Two – Boogaloo Soul Party (Crimson)
Roy Lee Johnson – Boogaloo #3 (Josie)
Barbara Lynn – Club A Go Go (Tribe)
Norman T Washington – Jumping Jack Flash (Pama)
Eyes of Blue – Heart Trouble (Deram)
Lil Bob and the Lollipops – I Got Loaded (La Louisianne)
Wayne Cochran – Goin’ back to Miami (Mercury)
Chet Poison Ivey and His Fabulous Avengers – Shake a Poo Poo (TRC)
Willie Tell and the Overtures – Soul Ranger (Chess)
Interpretations – Snap Out (Bell)
Syl Johnson – Different Strokes (Twilight)
Mad Men – African Twist Pt1 (Gamble)
Sir Lattimore Brown – Shake and Vibrate (SS7)
Georgie Woods – Potato Salad Pt1 (Fat Back)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Shotgun Man (Smash)
Jeanne & the Darlings – Soul Girl (Volt)

Listen/Download – F16C Soul Club Presents – Spindletop A-Go-Go 71MB/256K Mixed MP3

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Greetings all.

Time to close out the week.

First, a reminder that you should open your ears and fill them with the latest broadcast of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, appearing this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. Should you be unable to dig at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device through the TuneIn app, or download an MP3 here at the blog.

Today, I’m digging back into the archives to bring you a favorite live set of mine, recorded back in 2011 at Botanica in NYC.

This is a hard charging set of soul and funky soul burners meant for you to get your groove on to, so let the ones and zeros fly, roll back the carpet, loosen your  wig, kick off your high heel sneakers and dance.

I’ll see y’all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 5, 2014 11:57 am

Charlie Earland Erector Set – Yes Suh! (Eldorado)
Chicago Cubs Clark Street Band – Slide (Chess)
RD Stokes – My Sandra’s Jump (II Bros)
Cocktail Cabinet – Breathalyser (Page One)
Perry and the Harmonics – Do the Monkey With James (Mercury)
Dave Baby Cortez – Getting To the Point (Chess)
Gene Ludwig – The Vamp (Travis)
Timmy Thomas – Have Some Boogaloo (Goldwax)
Graham Bond Organisation – Wade In the Water (Ascot)
Hank Marr – White House Party (Wingate)
Georgie Fame – El Bandido (Imperial)
Albert Collins – Cookin’ Catfish (20th Century Fox)
Louis Chachere – The Hen Pt1 (Paula)
The Mohawks – The Champ (Philips NE)
Art Butler – Soul Brother (Epic)
Billy Preston – Billy’s Bag (VeeJay)
Andre Brasseur –The Duck (Palette)
Memphis Black – Why Don’t You Play the Organ Man (Ascot)
Wynder K Frog – Dancing Frog (United Artists)
Brother Jack McDuff – Hunk of Funk (Blue Note)
David Rockingham Trio – Soulful Chant (Josie)
Dave Davani Four – The Jupe (Capitol)
The Turtles – Buzz Saw (White Whale)
Toussaint McCall- Shimmy (Ronn)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt4 – Organs

Greetings all

I hope you’re all digging the mixes this week.

Those of you that stop by here on the reg know that I am deep into the Hammond thing, with several boxes of 45s (and a grip of LPs) devoted to the sound.

I am a Hammond nut from way back, but got seriously into collecting the sound after Finewine and Pat James Longo put together the ‘Vital Organs’ comp back at the end of the 90s.

As has been recounted here before, my man Mr Luther dropped a copy of that very comp on me back in ’99, and it promptly blew my mind.

It was the collection that set me out in search of Hammond 45s (especially Toussaint McCall’s ‘Shimmy’ and Louis Chachere’s ‘The Hen’ which immediately became favorites), and the digging never stopped. Though I probably don’t search with the same vigor I did in the early days, there are a couple of 45s in this mix that I only managed to get my hands on in the last year.

That all said, this is a particularly groovy mix, which I have listened to all the way through a number of times since completing it.

If you dig yourself a nice, gritty organ 45, I think you’ll dig it too.

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Enjoy, and I’ll be back tomorrow with the final 10th Anniversary mix.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 3, 2014 12:27 pm

Bill Cosby – Hikky Burr (Uni)
Eddie Bo – Hook and Sling Pt1 (Scram)
The Meters – Cardova (Josie)
James Brown – Hot Pants Pt1 (People)
Mickey and the Soul Generation – Iron Leg (Maxwell)
Steve Colt – Dynamite (Big Beat)
Bobby Byrd – I Know You Got Soul (King)
Willis Wooten – Your Love is Indescribably Delicious (Virtue)
Village Callers – Hector (Rampart)
Lou Courtney – Hey Joyce (Popside)
Buena Vistas – Kick Back (Marquee)
Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers – Searching for Soul Pt1 (Mutt)
Lee Moses – Reach Out I’ll Be There (Musicor)
Laura Lee – Crumbs Off the Table (Hot Wax)
Lyn Collins (The Female Preacher) – Think (About It) (People)
BW Souls – Marvin’s Groove (Round)
Chuck Carbo – Can I Be Your Squeeze (Canyon)
Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham – Lover and a Friend (Capitol)
David Batiste and the Gladiators – Funky Soul Pt1 (Instant)
Lou Courtney – Hot Butter’n’All (Hurdy Gurdy)
Richards People – Yo Yo (Tuba)
Interpretations – Blow Your Mind (Jubilee)
Gene Chandler – In My Body’s House (Checker)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt2 – Funk

Greetings all

Welcome to day two of the Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary celebration.

Today’s mix is composed of my favorite funk 45s from my crates.

Though the roots of my soul fandom lie in southern soul, it was the funk 45 boom that got me moving with the web zine and the blog.

There’s something about the heat and the syncopation that come with a really heavy funk 45 that always gets me moving.

Aside from the inventor, James Brown, the man whose music had a lot to do with my love of funk (and was my gateway into the sounds of New Orleans) was the late, great Eddie Bo.

There are no less than five New Orleans 45s in the mix – three of them Eddie Bo or Bo-adjacent– and one need only map out the records in this set to see where my passions were over the last 15 years or so.

New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, the sounds of America’s cities in the late 60s and early 70s, always stacked to the rafters with drums, drums and more drums.

There are some records in this mix (and in all of the mixes this week) that I would rank among the greatest funk of all time, including the Meters ‘Cardova’, Lou Courtney’s ‘Hot Butter’n’All’, James Brown’s ‘Hot Pants’ and Laura Lee’s “Crumbs Off the Table’ among them.

As I said in Monday’s post, you may not agree with all of my selections, and by no means are these mixes supposed to represent any definitive list of the ‘best’ that’s out there, but rather my personal favorites.

So put on your hot pants and slide out onto the dance floor.

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Also, I had some groovy anniversary bumper stickers made, and they’re free to anyone that sends a self-addressed #10 envelope. I’ll cover the postage.

Send your sticker requests to:
Funky16Corners c/o Grogan
80 New Brunswick Ave
Brick, NJ 08724 USA

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I’ll see you tomorrow.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, October 30, 2014 12:49 pm

Johnny Sayles and Clea Bradford

Listen/Download – Johnny Sayles – My Love’s a Monster – MP3

Listen/Download – Clea Bradford – My Love’s a Monster – MP3

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Greetings all.

Time to close out the week.

First, I’d like to suggest that since this Friday is Halloween, you all huddle around the wireless set with your cider and popcorn balls and dig this years Funky16Corners Radio Show Halloween Special, which hits the airwaves of the interwebs at 9PM on Viva Radio. There’ll be lots of groovy, spooky things to hear. If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, check it out on your mobile device in the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here in the archive.

I’m digging into the archive for today’s tracks, both of which have appeared in this space before (2006/2009).

What you’re getting is two very groovy, completely different songs that share the same title: ‘My Love’s a Monster’. Both of them hail from Chicago, with the Johnny Sayles number (arranged by Monk Higgins) coming from 1965, and the Clea Bradford (produced, arranged and co-written by no less a light than Richard Evans) in 1968.

They are both outstanding in their own way, with Johnny Sayles getting a touch more Halloween-y with his intro, but Miss Bradford getting a little funkier in her outing, which reminds me a lot of Marlena Shaw’s work with Mr Evans.

Both are yet more evidence that when it came to making soul 45s, the great city of Chicago was near the top of the list.

I hope you dig the sounds and get a chance to check out the Halloween show.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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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.