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By Larry, May 21, 2017 10:38 am

Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds

Listen/Download – Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds – The Yolk MP3

Listen/Download – Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds – The Funky Yolk MP3

Greetings all.

Before we get rolling….

My new weekly radio show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio, Testify! had it’s inaugural episode last Wednesday and is archived over there. If you dig Funky16Corners and/or Iron Leg I think you’ll dig it. I’ll be on the air every Wednesday night from 10-12, live, so tune in when you get a chance!
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Hows about we start the week with the musical defibrillation of Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds?

I forget where I picked up on this particular 45, but Harvey and his Sounds have popped up in this spot on numerous occasions, in posts, mixes and on the radio show.

The group, based out of Milwaukee, WI released a number of smoking 45s during the 60s (mostly on the local Magic Touch label) and Harvey himself doing 45s and LPs for labels like Casablanca through the disco era.

Today’s selection comes from a two single run for Chess in 1970. Both of the 45s originated with their local operation in Milwaukee, having been produced (and cowritten) by Magic Touch owner Lennie LaCour.

What you get here are variations on a theme, that being the Yolk, which appears (an assumption based solely on anecdotal, record collector information) to have been a dance of some kind.

‘The Yolk’ and its continuation ‘The Funky Yolk’ are both fine examples of prime, late 60s/early 70s kick-ass funk, and are among the finest things Harvey and the Sounds ever laid down. They are both packed from end to end with blazing horns, Harvey’s fine singing and some pounding drums. ‘The Yolk’ is your basic statement, with ‘The Funky Yolk’ following as a more heavily instrumental continuation.

I don’t recall dropping a lot of dough on this smoker, but Popsike seems to indicate that it has been changing hands for north of 50 bucks, often close to (or over) 100, and considering the heat contained in the grooves, it’s worth every penny.

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

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Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, May 16, 2017 1:02 pm

Keith Mansfield (left) and Alan Hawkshaw

Listen/Download – Keith Mansfield and His Orchestra – Soul Confusion MP3

Greetings all.

Before we get started, just a reminder about some important news.

Starting this Wednesday, 5/17 from 10PM to 12, and every Wednesday going forward at that time I will be doing a new weekly show on the WFMU Give the Drummer Radio stream called Testify! This show (which had a couple of dry runs elsewhere, earlier on) will see yours truly in a more free-form bag, taking the worlds of Funky16Corners and Iron Leg and mashing them together, with soul, rock, funk, pop, garage, psyche, R&B, Now Sound, jazz and anything else I think sounds good. The show will originate live from the Funky16Corners Subterranean Blogcasting Nerve Center and Record Vault, and will be archived thereafter.

So if your ears are free Wednesday night, turn them toward WFMU.org, click on the Give The Drummer stream and dig what it is that I am putting down.
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The track I bring you today is an old favorite, the flipside of which (the amazing ‘Boogaloo’ appeared in the eareliest incarnation of the blog 12 years ago!).

I have no idea why I waited so long to serve up the flip, but here it is.

Keith Mansfield was one of the great library masters on the UK scene, recording a grip of stuff for the storied KPM label as well as a number of mainstream releases under his own name.

Today’s selection has kind of an odd history.

‘Soul Confusion’ is a 45-only track, and was only released in the for you see today here in the US on an Epic promo.

In the UK the (same) track was billed under the name ‘Sugar with the Keith Mansfield Orchestra (Sugar being the vocalist, Sugar Simone who does not appear on the track) under a different title altogether, ‘11AM Tuesday Morning Taxi’ on CBS/UK. I have no idea why.

The other side of the US 45, ‘Boogaloo’ had appeared the year before on the excellent ‘All You Need Is Keith Mansfield’ LP, alongside the very groovy, breakbeat version of Mansfield’s oft covered ‘Soul Thing’.

‘Soul Confusion’, featuring (naturally) Hammond master Alan Hakshaw, is a funky, brassy groover with great rhythm guitar trading lines with the organ and hard hitting drums. There is a small drum break as well.

The 45 has gone up in price considerably since I found my copy (in the field, and on the cheap, luckily). Decent copies pull in between 75 and 100 dollars.

You can still get the LP (but no ‘Soul Confusion’, though the RPM/Retrodisc reissue from 2008 includes the track) at a much more reasonable price.

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

And, while you’re at it, make sure to follow Funky16Corners on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, May 7, 2017 10:25 am

Curley Moore

Listen/Download – Curley Moore – Sophisticated Sissy Pt1 MP3

Greetings all.

Thanks in large part to the odd working of my brain – especially as it pertains to the selection of blog content – we commence the second “theme week’ in a row.

Last week we looked at three Stax 45s.

This week we head south for three (excellent) New Orleans-based 45s.

As we did last week, we get things rolling with a dance craze 45, which oddly enough shares a title with a different Rufus Thomas 45, ‘Sophisticated Sissy’ by Curley Moore (Rufus’s came out in 1967, Moore’s in 1968).

Curley Moore is one of my favorite journeyman New Orleans soul singers, having recorded through the 60s and 70s for a variety of labels (Ace, NOLA, Teem, Sansu, Instant, House of the Fox) starting out with Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns and moving on to a series of outstanding solo 45s.

Moore was, like Willie Harper, possessed of one of the really interesting voices in New Orleans soul and R&B, and like Harper got to work with the mighty Allen Toussaint.

‘Sophisticated Sissy’ came out right on the cusp of what I like to call ‘The 33s’, i.e. records released on the Instant label with a catalog number higher than 3300, the dividing line (though there are some exceptions) between the soul and funk eras of the label, and right around the time (1968) when it seems that Instant was pressing their 45s in progressively smaller quantities (thus the increased rarity of their titles).

‘Sophisticated Sissy’, written by Huey Smith (who was doing a lot of work for Instant in this era) and Brenda Brannon (a frequent collaborator of Smith’s), sounds like a revved up version of Moore’s classic ‘Soul Train’, with a helping of heavy drums (sounds a lot like Smokey Johnson to me), twangy guitar and a pulsing piano like (Smith, no doubt).

The tune isn’t exactly a vocal showcase – it follows the dance craze template pretty closely – with Moore’s vocal being doubled by a female singer, but it does have a lot of New Orleans soul-into-funk flavor.

As funky New Orleans 45s go, ‘Sophisticated Sissy’ is fairly slept-on, still coming in at under 50 bucks, which I find kind of mind-boggling, but if you want to slip a copy into your playbox, that will work to your benefit.

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

Also, make sure to follow Funky16Corners on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 20, 2017 11:10 am

The Wicked One!

Listen/Download – Wilson Pickett – Love Will Keep Us Together MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then I must ask you once again to tune in the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which comes to you each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn and Stitcher apps, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

We close out a week of familiar songs in unfamiliar renditions with a very solid souping up of one of the biggest slices of AM Gold from the 70s.

The first time I heard (thanks Mike Schaefer!) that Wilson Pickett had done a cover of the Captain and Tennille’s ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ (a song I actually dig in the original version) I could scarcely believe it.

When I finally heard it, I was pleasantly surprised.

It’s not that I thought that Pickett wasn’t capable, but rather that I suspected that he might be too powerful a singer, and would blow through it like a bullet through a wet tissue.

Recorded in 1976 and released on Pickett’s ‘Chocolate Mountain’ LP (a one off on his TK distributed Wicked label), ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ was a #69 R&B hit (no notice on the Pop charts, other than some minor regional success in L.A.).

Pickett’s version is slightly funky with enough pop polish to keep the AM audience interested, but no so much as to scare away his diehard fans.
It’s really cool to hear the song removed from Toni Tennille’s buttery voice and recast with Pickett’s razor-sharp growl.

I dig it, and I hope you do, too.

See you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 16, 2017 11:08 am

Listen/Download – Sam Hutchins – Dang Me MP3

Greetings all.

Happy Monday and all that…

The tune we open the week with is a certified Memphis burner, as well as one of the most interesting soul covers of a decidedly non-soul song.
‘Dang Me’ was written and first recorded by Roger Miller, who had a big hit with it in 1964. If you’re not familiar with the original head on over to Youtube and check it out.

If you know it, then Sam Hutchins’ 1968 cover will likely blow your mind.

Hutchins recorded a string of 45s for the Amy/Bell/Mala group between 1966 and 1969, before joining the Masqueraders and singing lead with them in the later part of their career.

His version of ‘Dang Me’ was recorded in 1968, and produced by Chips Moman and Tommy Cogbill.

Hutchins takes the laconic, wry delivery of Miller and lays a whole lot of soul onto it, with a hard hitting take on the song.

The record starts out with some groovy organ before Hutchins drops in like a hammer, backed by a horn section and guitar. That would be enough for me, but right near the end of the record the arrangement takes an unexpected, and completely wonderful turn, dropping down into a much slower gospel-inflected passage that is really something else.

It’s become a fave of mine since I first heard it a few years ago, and I hope you dig it too.

Until Wednesday…

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 13, 2017 1:02 pm

Robert Parker

Listen/Download – Robert Parker – Get Ta Steppin’ MP3

Greetings all.

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

The record I bring you today is surely known to aficionados of New Orleans music, especially its funky side, but to precious few others.

To most people that know Robert Parker’s music, that knowledge begins and ends with ‘Barefootin’, not only Parker’s biggest hit, but one of the biggest hits to ever come out of New Orleans, having become a perennial on oldies stations, a favorite of the soulies as well as having been covered a bunch of times, and even having been used as a commercial jingle.

Parker recorded a grip of great stuff for the NOLA label in the mid-60s (including the excellent ‘Barefootin’ LP), but never really hit the charts after 1967, even though he continued to record for SSS Intl and eventually (from 1974-1977) Island records.

‘Get Ta Steppin’ was released on Island in 1974, and it is as good a slice of 1970s New Orleans funk as you are likely to find.

Written by Parker, and produced and arranged by Wardell Quezerge, ‘Get Ta Steppin’ has an impossibly heavy bass line and twangy guitar (possibly Meters George Porter Jr and Leon Nocentelli) and funky drums. Parker himself is in rare form, and the song is so catchy, so funky, that it seems a crime of sorts that it wasn’t a hit. As far as I can tell it didn’t get any traction in the R&B or Pop charts, even regionally.

After his brief run with Island, Parker seems to have (aside from a fake “live” set on a compilation) ceased recording entirely.

This is – as is the case with so many great New Orleans singers – a huge drag.

Fortunately for you good folks, ‘Get Ta Steppin’ is not a terribly well known or expensive 45, so get yourself a copy, drop the needle, turn up the bass and watch the dancers get down.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 4, 2017 12:05 pm

Listen/Download – Dynamic Eight – Sardines and Turnip Greens MP3

Greetings all.

We continue our week of ‘dead-enders’ with one of several one-off funky 45s that came out on Atlantic in the late 60s.

The Dynamic Eight (originally James Stuart and the Dynamic Eight) were a Nashville-based blues/soul band that recorded for the J&J label, and had this 45 (with the flipside ‘Sweet Woman’ misspelled as ‘Street Woman’) picked up for national distribution by Atlantic in 1969.

It’s not hard to see why, since ‘Sardines and Turnip Greens’ is a thumping slice of harmonica-led funk.

Pushed along by a fat-assed bass, horns and the wailing harp (Stuart?), and sporting the kind of title guaranteed to lure in any self-respecting crate digger, ‘Sardines and Turnip Greens’is the kind of record that probably rocked a grip of inner city jukeboxes, but as far as I can tell never bothered the charts (R&B or Pop) in the least.

The flipside of the 45, ‘Street (Sweet) Woman’ is funky blues (as opposed to the bluesy funk on the A side) with a raspy vocal.

The group recorded a second 45 for J&J which was not issued anywhere else.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 30, 2017 11:01 am

Listen/Download – Obie Plenty – Beef Stew MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, and so it’s Funky16Corners Radio Show time again. We come to you each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn and Stitcher apps, dig it on Mixcloud, or granb yourself and MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

The tune I bring you today is something of a mystery.

]If you drag your ears over here on a regular basis, you know that I dig food songs, and funny songs, and funky songs as well, so when a funny, funky food song rolls along you know I’m going to grab it for my playbox.

Obie Plenty’s ‘Beef Stew’ was released in 1967, and as far as I can tell it ios the only 45 ever to come out under that name (which appears to be a play on the name of the character B.O. Plenty from the Dick Tracy comic strip.

All signs point to ‘Obie Plenty’ being and alias of Harold Thomas of the Masqueraders, who is credited with writing and producing this single.

‘Beef Stew’ is a funky (dig that rolling bass line) novelty, with the singer going back and forth with his Mom about what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner (beef stew, natch) and complaining about the repetition.

There’s not much substance (certainly not as much as actual beef stew) but the tune is groovy, danceable, and lots of fun, and probably should have been more successful (as far as I can tell it charted briefly at one station in Connecticut before fading away into obscurity).

If anyone knows the true identity of Obie Plenty, please make note in the comments.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 28, 2017 12:12 pm

Listen/Download – Clifton White and the Royal Knights – The Warm Up Pt1 MP3

Greetings all.

I haven’t been able to discover much about Clifton White and the Royal Knights, other than that they probably hailed from Louisiana, and recorded for the Goldband subsidiary ANLA in the late 60s and early 70s.

‘The Warm Up’ (released in 1968) has been in my crates for a long, long time, no doubt picked up during one of my periodic New Orleans/Louisiana vinyl dragnets from back in the day.

Not only is ‘The Warm Up’ a great slice of relatively low-fi soul/funk, but it’s worth picking up for the spoken word jive as well.
You get the introductions, including the best of all, when White (I assume) decides to ‘give the drummer some’, at which point he introduces:

‘Leroy, is better known as MOOCHIE!’,

and the back and forth between White and a female singer who exalts the keyboard player,

‘Sweet Daddy Black Keys Foster playing on the white keys tonight!’.

I haven’t been able to find a picture of the band, but I did track down this 1969 clipping from a Beaumont, TX college paper about Clifton White and the Royal Knights playing a party on campus!

There’s some great, hard charging action from the band, and the musicianship has a certain roughness to it, especially the bass and drums (even the lead guitar) which – while not bad – are not exactly tight and slick, giving ‘The Warm Up’ a certain soul/garage feel that I dig.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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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 16, 2017 7:02 am

Listen/Download – The Soul Set – Mickey’s Funky Monkey MP3

Listen/Download – The Soul Set – Flunky Flunky MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, and so it’s Funky16Corners Radio Show time again. The podcast comes to you each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the Stitcher and TuneIn apps, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com

Today’s selection is one of those records that has been stewing in my crates since forever, picked up in my broad sweep of everything Philadelphical back in the day.

I remember grabbing this out of certain cigar smoke stained vinyl treasure trove withing the Philly city limits, along with a grip of funk and Northern Soul things, mainly on the strength of the title, and the fact that it had Philly music names (Frank Virtue and Bernie Binnick) on it.

When I got it home I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that in addition to the funky version of the Miracles ‘Mickey’s Monkey’, there was a groovy organ instro version (Flunky Flunky) on the flip.

I know nothing at all about the Soul Set, other than the fact that they probably had no relation to the Jersey Shore unit (that secorded for Selsom and Johnson).

BB was a Philadelphia imprint that released a bunch of 45s in the mid-to-late 60s including two by the Soul Set, one by Guy Maurice (who also recorded for Fairmount), and discs by Frantic Freddy, the Centurys and (dig this name) Ernie Fields and Cockroach.

The group’s version of ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ is groovy, with lots of dance floor punch.

The organ instro version ‘Flunky Flunky’ is also excellent, with lots of overmodulated Hammond sailing over the pounding drums.

Interestingly, ‘Mickey’s Funky Monkey’ charted in a bunch of Philly-area markets in the summer of 1967 (their earlier 45 had some minor regional success as well.

If anyone out there knows who was in this band, please let me know.

That said, I hope you dig the 45, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

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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