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By Larry, January 14, 2016 12:47 pm

Razzy Bailey

Listen/Download – Razzy – I Hate Hate MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast, bringing you the finest in funk, soul, 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, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog, or for the first show of the month at SoulGuyRadio.com

The tune I bring you today is something completely groovy and unusual.

If the name Razzy Bailey is at all familiar to you, it is probably because he was a country music hitmaker in the 1980s.

Bailey wrote/recorded today’s selection, ‘I Hate Hate’ in 1974, and had a sizable hit with it, first on Aquarian and then picked up for national distribution by MGM.

The song is a sweet, danceable, ever so slightly funky number that has – over the years – become something of a fave on the Northern Soul and crossover scenes.

The MGM version of the 45 is a slightly stripped-down take, with the children’s chorus (billed as the Neighborhood Kids on the Aquarian 45) mixed way down, and the drums and percussion higher in the mix.

Bailey, who got his start alongside cats like Joe South, went on to rack up a bunch of country hits (including a cover of Wilson Pickett’s ‘Midnight Hour’) in the 1980s.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 12, 2016 12:57 pm

Lonnie Youngblood

Listen/Download – Lonnie Youngblood – Roll With the Punches MP3

Greetings all.

Here’s a groovy one for you.

If you’re going to dig, you have to be able to read a label with some level of skill, i.e. pick up on the pedigree of a particular record, able to make a relative judgement about the quality of a disc by seeing who put it together.

I am always in the market for a Lonnie Youngblood 45, but when I see the name Jerry Ragovoy on the disc, and then that of James ‘The Mighty Hannibal’ Shaw, you know I’m putting that one on the ‘keeper’ pile.

Released in 1968, ‘Roll With the Punches’ is a fast moving, dance floor ready number with a great vocal by Lonnie, and some tasty backing vocals by the ladies.

I especially dig the bass (thumping!) and horns on this one, and the production by Ragovoy is predictably first-rate.

I can’t say with certainty how Hannibal placed this tune with Youngblood (or Ragovoy) but this 45 comes from the same time Hannibal was recording his own excellent 45s for Loma, so proximity would be a safe bet.

That said, it is very cool.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 10, 2016 2:47 pm

Chuck Brooks

Listen/Download – Chuck Brooks – Baa Baa Black Sheep MP3

Greetings all.

How about some nice, funky Memphis soul?

I forget where I first heard this 45 (I’m guessing on Facebook somewhere) but when I did, I knew I had to find myself a copy.

Chuck Brooks was a Memphis-based singer/songwriter who waxed 45s for AGP, Volt, Mercury, Chimneyville, and Malaco between 1969 and 1977.

Today’s selection, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ was recorded/released in 1969, recorded in Memphis and produced by Tommy Cogbill.

It was also released in the UK that year on Dave Godin’s Soul City imprint.

A tough, funky number with some hard-hitting guitar, and organ, as well as a strong vocal by Brooks, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ failed to hit the charts, though it certainly should have (his 1970 45 for Volt got some play in Philadelphia).

Interestingly enough, after his recording career, Brooks went into business with none other than Homer Banks, forming the Sound Town label, and co-writing, producing early 80s hits for J Blackfoot.

I hope you dig the 45, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 7, 2016 12:28 pm

Jesse Hill

Listen/Download – Jesse Hill – My Children My Children MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is near, and so I will beseech you once again to subscribe to the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which drops each and every Friday in iTunes and Mixcloud. You can also listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab and MP3 here at the blog.

Jesse Hill is one of the more interesting, second-rank, New Orleans performers of the classic era.

He first came to prominence in 1961 with the classic (and as close to a NOLA ‘standard’ as there is) ‘Ooh Poo Pah Do’.

Hill had gotten his start as a drummer, but moved out front as a vocalist. He had a wild growl –not unlike his homeboy Chris Kenner – and a talent for writing songs as well.

Hill was part of the New Orleans contingent – along with Harold Battiste, Mac ‘Dr John’ Rebennack and Alvin Robinson – that made their way to Los Angeles in the 1960s, working as session musicians, songwriters and performers. While in California Hill would write/cowrite songs for Cher, The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Cake, Delaney and Bonnie, and Dr John among others.

Somewhere along the way, in 1967, Hill made the 45 you see before you today. Co-written with Rebennack, and produced by Huey Meaux (which makes me think that this was recorded in Louisiana or Texas and then leased to Chess in Chicago) ‘My Children My Children’ is a solid slice of New Orleans soul.

The song sounds like it has roots in the same gospel song that Chris Kenner borrowed from for ‘Land of 1,000 Dances’ (‘Children Go Where I Send Thee’).

The song is pushed along by the bass and saxophones, as well as a female chorus that does a call and response with Hill.

Interestingly, this was recorded and released round the same time as the rare and coveted ‘Zu Zu Blues Band’ 45 (another Hill/Rebennack collab).

I can’t say anything about the flipside (written by Meaux) because my copy is a one-sided promo.

A few years down the line Hill would record some excellent 45s, and an LP for LA-based Pulsar Records.

He eventually returned to New Orleans, where addiction and other health issues left him destitute. He passed in 1996, and according to his Wiki is buried in a pauper’s grave.

That said, I hope you dig the tune, and if you don’t know Jesse Hill’s other stuff, get out there and check it out.

See you on Monday

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, January 3, 2016 12:57 pm

The reunited Velvet Hammer!

Listen/Download – Velvet Hammer – Happy MP3

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

The tune I bring you today is one of those records that I happened upon quite by accident, and fell in love with instantly.

Oddly enough, the song popped up in a medley in a video by the ‘Northern Soul Girl’ Levanna Mclean, in which she dances through the streets of Bristol, UK, first to Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’, and then to another song that I’d never heard before.

I found out in short order that the tune was ‘Happy’ by the group Velvet Hammer.

Recorded in 1977 in Chicago, with the songwriting and production assistance of none other than Andre Williams (this may be the latest thing I’ve ever heard by him) ‘Happy’ is a delirious mixture of a danceable beat (thus it’s popularity with the Northern Soul crowd), sweet soul falsetto soul and a classy arrangement.

What I know about the group I owe to the efforts of the late, sweet soul expert Bob Abrahamian, who traced the group’s roots to the 1960s Chicago group the Admirations, on through their evolution into the Green Berets, the High Society, and then in the mid-70s, into Velvet Hammer.

They recorded an entire LP for the Chicago-based Soozi Records (apparently run by the owners of a chain of barbecue restaurants!), from which ‘Happy’ and its b-side ‘Party Hardy’ were culled.

As I mentioned above, ‘Happy’ has that straight up, four on the floor beat that endears it to the soulies, yet it’s couched in an elegant, restrained arrangement (dig the way the organ and the jazzy guitar play against the strings) that makes it as easy to listen to as to dance.

It tends to be a relatively pricey 45 (especially after it was featured in the video above), but seems to have settled down a little (the promo, like mine, tends to run a little cheaper than the issue on the flowered label).

If you get a chance, take a look at the video of the reunited Velvet Hammer performing the tune live.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 29, 2015 10:40 am

Listen/Download – Righteous Brothers Band – Rat Race MP3

Greetings all.

I come to you in the middle of the week with an entry from the ancient tome, ‘The Weird World of Northern Soul’.

Truth be told, ‘Rat Race’ by the Righteous Brothers Band isn’t really weird at all, but it is a small window into the kind of unusual things that made their way into the Northern Soul canon back in the day.

While the Righteous Brothers made some groovy blue-eyed soul, and both side of this particular 45 are cool, ‘Rat Race’ isn’t exactly a textbook example of ‘soul’.

Originally composed by Elmer Bernstein for the 1960 Debbie Reynolds/Tony Curtis film of the same name, ‘Rat Race’ is a pounding instrumental that owes a tip of the hat to tunes like Henry Mancini’s theme from ‘Peter Gunn’.

Recorded in an earlier (slower) version by Sam Butera and the Witnesses, ‘Rat Race’ was redone by the Righteous Brothers Band in 1966 and in the next few years became a favorite of the UK soul scene.

‘Rat Race’ is one of those instrumentals that made its way into the canon by virtue of it’s unrelenting, four on the floor pace and the walls of brass.

Where Butera’s 1960 version is marked by growling, noir jazz saxophone, the Righteous Brothers Band arrangement (by Bill Baker, who arranged most of the RB’s records) has a slicker, uptown feel to it, and the pulsing beat locks into the Northern Soul “feel”.

While it certainly isn’t the weirdest, most incongruous instro to become a NS fave, it does illustrate the bridge between pop (or at least things not “purely” soul) and the Northern scene in that its importance is not in soulful roots, but more that it was really good to dance to.

It was so popular that it was repressed twice in 1970 and 1977 (in Ireland and the UK) as the flipside of ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’.

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

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 27, 2015 11:22 am

King Solomon

Listen/Download – King Solomon with the Lad Teens Band – Louisiana Groove MP3

Listen/Download – King Solomon with the Lad Teens Band – My Dream MP3

Greetings all.

I wouldn’t normally whip something this heavy on you at the beginning of the week (being that most of us need a little bit of lead time to get the gears turning) but I figured if I held onto it any longer I might get burned, so…

I have to shout out to my man Kris Holmes how turned me on to this 45 a while back. It was one of those instances where I was blown away from the first listen, and set out immediately to find my self a copy for my play box.

It took a little while, but I finally landed a nice, clean copy of King Solomon’s ‘Louisiana Groove’, and I pass it on to you today.

Billed as ‘King Solomon with the Lad Teens Band’, ‘Louisiana Groove’ is an explosive slab of soul-on-the-way-to-funk, propelled by a churning, relentless rhythm guitar and a cascading horn line that pushes the tune to another level..

There appear to have been (at least) a couple of musicians operating with the ‘King Solomon’ handle during the 60s. The one on this record recorded for a number of labels during the decade, including Checker, Don J, and Cadillac.

The common thread on all of these 45s seems to be a writer/producer named Frank Wedlaw.

King Solomon appears to have been a cat named King Sylvester Lee Melicious Solomon, who got his start in Louisiana, moved to Chicago and ended up out west in LA.

I haven’t been able to nail the date on ‘Louisiana Groove’ but it sounds like 67/68-ish to me.

This Cadillac Records (another instance of multiple labels with the same name) seems to have been a Los Angeles imprint, with its only other release being a 45 by the Lad Teens (no apparent relation to the NY boogaloo group, the Lat-Teens on Cotique).

All of that taken into consideration, ‘Louisiana Groove’ is a uniquely powerful disc, guaranteed to light up the dance floor, and your ears (of course).

I’m also posting the flipside, ‘My Dream’ only because it’s really weird and a severe contrast to ‘Louisiana Groove’.

Tuff City’s Night Train label issued a King Solomon comp back in 2005 (though neither of these songs was included).

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 24, 2015 9:50 am

Funky16Corners Christmas Party!
Ike and Tina Turner – Merry Christmas Baby (WB)
Otis Redding – White Christmas (Atco)
Soulful Strings – Jingle Bells (Cadet)
Albert King – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ (Stax)
Felice Taylor – It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It’s Spring) (Mustang)
Honey and the Bees – Jing Jing a Ling (Chess)
The Gems – Love For Christmas (Chess)
James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto (King)
Charles Brown – Merry Christmas Baby (Jewel)
Count Sidney and the Dukes – Soul Christmas (Goldband)
Donny Hathaway – This Christmas (Atco)
Bobby Holloway – Funky Little Drummer Boy (Smash)
Clarence Carter – Backdoor Santa (Atlantic)
Harvey Averne Band – Let’s Get It Together This Christmas (Fania)
J Hines and the Boys – A Funky X-Mas To You (Nation-Wide)
Freddy King – I Hear Jingle Bells (Federal)
Dee Irwin and Mamie Galore – All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love (Imperial)
Johnny and Jon – Christmas in Viet Nam (Jewel)
John Lee Hooker – Blues For Christmas (Elmor)
George Conedy – El Nino Del Tambor (Kent Gospel)
Soulful Strings (feat Dorothy Ashby) – Merry Christmas Baby (Cadet)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Christmas Party 124MB MP3

Greetings all.

It is the end of the week, and so I will remind you to grab this week’s edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show. This year, instead of a Christmas-themed show, you get the third and final part of the

History of Allen Toussaint. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile devicevia the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 at the blog.

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Since this week’s Friday post falls on Christmas Day, I thought I’d gather together a selection of favorites from Christmases past, and whip together a Funky16Corners holiday mix.

These should all be familiar, and there are a couple tunes that show up twice (vocal and instrumental), but they should provide a festive accompaniment  to the burning of the Yule log.

I hope you dig it, and whether you celebrate Christmas or not, that you have a fantastic day!

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 20, 2015 2:44 pm

Listen/Download – Shurfine Singers – Silent Night & the 11 O’Clock News MP3

Greetings all.

I have some groovy Christmas stuff for you this year – including a mix of favorites, dropping on Friday.
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One of this year’s offerings is particularly intriguing because it is a “cover” of sorts.

If the medley of ‘Silent Night’ and a recording of a TV news broadcast sounds familiar (and it should) it’s because Simon & Garfunkel did it in 1966 as ‘Silent Night/7 O’Clock News’ on their LP ‘Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme’.

The juxtaposition of a revered/traditional Christmas song, and a news broadcast marred by reports of war was a stark (if somewhat heavy handed) reminder of what was at stake in the middle of the 1960s.

The following year, Atlanta-based producer Wendell Parker, who had worked with Eddie Billups, Grover Mitchell and the Mighty Hannibal (among others) assembled a gospel group called the Shurfine Singers (Parker had done a lot of work with the Atlanta-based Shurfine label) and released his own version of the medley, in a gospel style, (barely) re-titled ‘Silent Night & the 11 O’Clock News’.

No doubt an attempt to offer up the same message to a black audience, it is refreshing (and also somewhat jarring) to hear the familiar medley redone.

As far as I can tell this version didn’t chart anywhere, nor was it released locally on Shurfine (though Parker had placed a number of his productions with Josie).

The flipside is a version of the spiritual ‘Go Tell It On the Mountain’.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back on Wednesday with something festive.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 17, 2015 11:23 am

Willie Tee

Listen/Download – Willie Tee – Walking Up a One Way Street MP3

Greetings all.

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

This week is Part 2 of the History of Allen Toussaint, with a focus this week on the sounds of the Sansu label. Listen in, and if you didn’t catch Part 1, hit the archive and grab that one, too.

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Today’s selection is an all-time New Orleans soul classic, laid down by one of that city’s greatest singers, Wilson Turbinton, better-known far and wide as Willie Tee.

Tee got his start recording for AFO in 1962, and spent the 60s working as a solo artist, and with his brothers in one of the great NOLA funk bands, the Gaturs.

‘Walking Up a One Way Street’ from 1965 is one of those records in the mid-tempo sweet spot that is popular with both the Northern Soul crowd in the UK as well as the Beach Music folks in the USA (I have it somewhere on an old Atlantic Records comp aimed at the Beach crowd).

‘Walking Up a One Way Street’ is like a New Orleans all-star session, having been written by Earl King, produced and arranged by Wardell Quezerque and performed by Willie Tee himself.

The song bounces along on top of a jaunty horn section (I dig in the verse where the trumpets drop out and the saxes carry the load), with a wonderful vocal performance by Tee.

There’s a reason this 45 is sweated by many and hard to find, but I’m here to tell you I waited and found my copy on the cheap side, so keep your eyes peeled and your wallet close by and you’ll eventually score one, too.

I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you all on Monday with some new stuff for Christmas!

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 15, 2015 1:34 pm

Billy Harner

Listen/Download – Billy Harner – Sally Sayin’ Somethin’ MP3

Greetings all.

The song I bring you today is a long-time fave from one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers of the classic era, Billy Harner.

New Jersey born and bred, Harner recorded a string of killer 45s for a variety of Philly-based and national labels between 1964 and the mid-70s, as well as an excellent (and very rare LP).

Oddly enough, it wasn’t either of Harner’s big Northern Soul faves (today’s selection and ‘What About the Music’) that started me hunting for his records, but rather his 1967 45 ‘Homicide Dresser’ which I grabbed almost 20 years ago because it looked interesting. Now I have at least a dozen of his 45s (including an autographed disc which holds a place of honor in my crates).

Today’s selection, ‘Sally Sayin’ Somethin’ was a big local hit in Philadelphia (as well as charting in New York and New Orleans) in 1967.

Opening with a throbbing bass, doubled by piano, Harner and a chorus of female backing vocalists come in and the tune build up into one of the great choruses.

The big selling point of the record (aside from the pop hooks, attributed pseudonymously to ‘Sunshine/Poltergeist’ ?!?) is Harner’s vocal, which is flexible enough to move between a smooth tenor and a soulful growl. He really is a seriously underrated singer, and his records are all worth picking up.

I hope you dig the tune (and dig a little deeper into Billy Harner).

See you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 13, 2015 11:41 am

The Webs

Listen/Download – The Webs – This Thing Called Love MP3

Listen/Download – The Webs – Tomorrow MP3

Greetings all.

I thought we’d start the week with a very solid two-sider by one of the more interesting soul groups of the 60s.

I don’t know much about the Webs (sometimes billed as Willie Cooper and the Webs), but you can piece together some of the puzzle by following their discography.

The group recorded for a number of labels between 1964 and 1968, getting their start in Texas (I’ve seem reports that they were from Galveston) and waxing their first 45 for the San Antonio-based Dynamic label.

They eventually moved on to Whiz and Atlantic, before hooking up with Bob Bateman and Lou Courtney, who would work with the group for a couple of 45s on the short-lived Popside imprint, as well as on Verve.

Today’s selections appeared on the group’s first Popside 45, from 1967.

‘This Thing Called Love’, co-written by Willie Cooper is a hard-edged, organ-driven number with a wailing lead vocal and a great horn section.

The flip-side ‘Tomorrow’, co-written by Bateman, sounds like it was born and raised inside the head of Curtis Mayfield. The lead and backing vocals, and the polished, uptown arrangement sound like they were lifted off of an Impressions or Major Lance session. The group’s harmonies are spot-on and the tempo is relaxed, yet still punchy enough for the dance floor.

Both sides are co-produced by Bateman and Courtney.

The group’s second Popside 45 ‘Give In’ b/w ‘It’s So Hard to Break a Habit’ is a much more expensive/in-demand Northern side (which I’m still looking for).

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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