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By Larry, December 11, 2014 1:03 pm

Marvin Gaye and Grover Washington, Jr.

Listen/Download – Grover Washington, Jr. – Trouble Man

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so I must remond you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show returns to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t dig the show at airtime, you can subscribe to it as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device through the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

Also, make sure to stop by next week. The Christmas soul posts start on Monday, and the Funky16Corners Radio Show Christmas Special drops next Friday!

The tunes I bring you today are two versions (OG and cover) from one of the more interesting chapters in the career of the mighty Marvin Gaye.

We featured one of the mighty Marvin’s early classics here some weeks ago, and today we take a look at classic (though underplayed/underappreciated) mid-period ish.

When 1972 rolled around, Marvin had just layed ‘What’s Going On’ on the world.

How would he follow one of the greatest albums of all time?

Gaye took a step back, and decided to compose the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film ‘Trouble Man’.

He was in good company, alongside other soul stars, like Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield, who had done stellar work on the soundtrack tip.

Gaye’s soundtrack for ‘Trouble Man’ was smooth and atmospheric, perfect for late nights.

The title track of the album was a substantial hit, making it to #4 R&B and #7 Pop in December of 1972.

‘Trouble Man’ has a slow, jazzy groove, with falsetto vocals by Gaye and instrumental backing from a mixture of Funk Brothers and West Coast players.

The following year, Grover Washington, Jr.  recorded his two-part ‘Soul Box’ project, in which he layed down extended versions of ‘Trouble Man’ and the Temptations’Masterpiece’, with a host of CTI stalwarts like Bob James, Ron Carter and Idris Muhammad.

Washington’s version of ‘Trouble Man’ isn’t much of a departure from the original, with the exception of Creed Taylor’s horn and woodwind production fleshing out the sound a bit. There’s also a very nice organ solo by Richard Tee around the five-minute mark.

What is exceptional is the fact that Washington has almost 16 minutes in which to stretch and expand upon Gaye’s theme. If you dig the CTI sound (and you know I do) that is a very groovy thing indeed.

So, turn the lights down low, pour yourself a drink, let these two play back-to-back, and slide yourself into the weekend.

I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 9, 2014 11:21 am

Sam Cooke

Listen/Download – Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come

Greetings all.

I hope the new day finds you well.

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but in case I haven’t, here’s something…

As a more than casual student of the interconnected nature of the Tao, and someone who has experienced the (extremely) odd coincidence now and again, the way that my life intersects with certain records often causes me to take note.

Many a time, have I been in search of a particular disc for a long time, then I get a sudden urge to look again, and there it is.

The same kind of thing often happens when I write up a record (or get ready to do so) and then I discover that some important event tied to that record (birthday, death, anniversary etc) is coming up at the same time.

I had been trying to get my hands on Sam Cooke’s final LP ‘Shake’ (specifically to get the LP-only track ‘Yeah Man’) for some time. Considering the popularity of Cooke, and the fact that the album contained no less than three hits, it surprised me how scarce a record it was, and how hard it would be to get a copy at a reasonable price.

So this fall, when I had all but given up trying, I scored a copy of the ‘Shake’ 45, and then a few weeks later  a copy of the LP verily fell in my lap (sometimes – to paraphrase my man DJ Prestige –  it less me finding the record, than the record finding me).

Last week I sat down to digimatize the discs, and what should pop up on my radar but the fact that the 50th anniversary of Cooke’s death (12/11/64) was about a week away.

Cooke has been – thanks entirely to his untimely passing – at the top of the list of transitional (and hugely influential) figures of soul music.

This is not to say that he never made any ‘pure’ soul, because the tracks above will testify to that, but rather that the bulk of his post-gospel career was divided pretty evenly between R&B, pop music and crooning.

Cooke was a brilliant singer and songwriter, and there are all indications that he would (like Jackie Wilson, an artist who’s career paralleled his) have entered the soul ‘mainstream’ had he lived, but sadly, we’ll never know.

Today’s 45, which was released about a month before the ‘Shake’ LP (it was already charting within a few weeks of his killing) was a substantial hit, both sides making it into the R&B Top 10 by the end of January 1965.

It is a study in contrasts, with ‘Shake’, a hard driving (and influential) soul number, backed with the epic civil rights ballad ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’.

‘Shake’, later covered by Otis Redding and the Small Faces among others, features some surprisingly raw rhythm guitar (Bobby Womack) running through its middle, surrounded by booming horns and solid percussion. It was recorded at Cooke’s last session, less than a month before his death.

‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ is one of those records that has an eerie depth to it. It hearkens back to Cooke’s gospel roots, but despite the title, it has never seemed to me like a hopeful song. It has the ring of inevitable resolution about it, but only as viewed through great amounts of struggle and pain.

Cooke sang the song on the Tonight Show in February of 1964 (the performance has since been lost) and never performed the song live again.

Listening to ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’, it now seems inevitable that a song and performance so powerful would be seen as a landmark of sorts.

That it was released almost simultaneously with his death has cemented that status.

So toast the memory of the mighty Sam Cooke,  dig the sounds, and I’ll see you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 4, 2014 3:14 pm

Dee Dee Warwick

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, so it’s time once again to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will be hitting the airwaves of the interwebs, this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always 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.

Today’s selection is another one (like Wednesday’s tune) of those tracks that made it into my ears via a British Invasion singer first.

A while back I managed to put my hands on a copy of Chris Farlowe’s ‘The Art of Chris Farlowe’ LP.

Farlowe, first with his band the Thunderbirds, and later on as the vocalist of Colosseum, was one of the really interesting UK singers that never made a serious dent here in the US.

A singularly unusual looking and sounding cat, Farlowe had excellent taste in R&B and soul, and ‘The Art of Chris Farlowe’ is packed with covers of artists like the Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin, Darrell Banks, Garnet Mimms, and Dee Dee Warwick.

I fell in love with the song ‘We’re Doing Fine’ and with a little digging discovered that it had originally been recorded by Dee Dee Warwick in 1965 for the Blue Rock label.

Written by Horace Ott, the song starts off deceptively quietly, with Warwick eventually joining the acoustic guitar that opens the record.

By the time the band kicks in – brass, strings and electric guitar (arranged by Ott, produced by Ed Townsend) – what you get is a powerful, melodically sophisticated soul 45.

‘We’re Doing Fine’ was Dee Dee Warwick’s first hit, making into the R&B Top 30 in August of 1965. She would continue to score hits into the mid-70s.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, December 2, 2014 1:10 pm

The Shirelles

Greetings all.

If you follow the Funky16Corners Radio Show, you will recall that a while back I did a two-episode arc devoted to the original versions of tunes made famous by British Invasion bands in the mid-60s.

Today’s selection, ‘Sha-La-La’ by the Shirelles is one of them.

Oddly, as well as I knew the version by Manfred Mann (one of my fave UK groups) I had no idea until recently that the song was a cover.

The song was a minor hit for the Shirelles in the Spring of 1964, grazing the Pop Top 50, having even less of an impact on the R&B charts.

Manfred Mann covered it, changing the tempo from a brisk shuffle to a fast 4/4, taking it into the Top 40 in October of 1964.

Despite the fact that it took me a little while to get used to the tempo change, I think I’ve come to appreciate the Shirelles version more. In addition to the girls’ vocals, you get some solid soul clapping and a great (LOUD) bass pushing things along.

Despite some solid quality in their later 45s (how about ‘Last Minute Miracle’?) this was the highest the Shirelles would find themselves on the charts before they transitioned into the ‘oldies’ circuit.

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

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 25, 2014 11:27 am

Listen/Download – The Salem Travelers – Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Listen/Download – The Staple Singers – For What It’s Worth

Listen/Download – George Perkins and the Silver Stars – Crying In the Streets
Greetings all

I’ve got nothing but sounds today…

Keep the faith

Larry

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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 6, 2014 12:53 pm

Volcanos – Storm Warning (Arctic)
Homer Banks – A Lot of Love (Minit)
The Supremes – Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart (Motown)
The Four Larks – Groovin’ at the Go Go (Tower)
Maurice and the Radiants – Baby You’ve Got It (Chess)
OV Wright – Love the Way You Love (Back Beat)
The Spellbinders – Help Me (Get Myself Back Together Again) (Columbia)
Otis Clay – Got To Find a Way (One-Derful)
Mary Love – Lay This Burden Down (Modern)
Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)
Bonnie and Lee – The Way I Feel About You (Fairmount)
The Marvelettes – I’ll Keep On Holding On (Tamla)
The Broadways – You Just Don’t Know How Good You Make Me Feel (MGM)
Darrell Banks – Our Love Is In the Pocket (Revilot)
The Facinations – Girls Are Out To Get You (Mayfield)
Barbara Banks – River of Tears (Veep)
The Cooperettes – Shingaling (Brunswick)
The Exciters – Blowing Up My Mind (RCA)
The Olympics – Mine Exclusively (Mirwood)
The Shirelles – Last Minute Miracle (Scepter)
Eddie Holman – Eddie’s My Name (Cameo/Parkway)
The Younghearts – A Little Togetherness (Soultown)
Jean Wells- With My Love and What You’ve Got (Calla)
Dean Parrish – I’m On My Way (Laurie)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt5 – Northern Soul

Greetings all

The end of the week, and of the Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary celebration are both at hand.

I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night on Viva Radio. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device on the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

The mix I chose to close out the week is near and dear to my heart.

Over the course of my soul fandom, stretching back 30 years, no sound has hit me as deeply as Northern Soul.

I’m not going to go into the roots of the sound here (I have in the past, to be sure), or provide a definition, other than to say these are records that combine hard-charging tempos and great melodies in uniquely exhilarating ways.

One need only listen to the mix all the way through to get the picture, as it were, but I suspect that even then, there are those that might take issue with some of the selections.

Northern Soul is a lot of things to a lot of people, and I approach the sound as someone who genuinely loves it.

Some of my very favorite soul records – in any genre – are key to this mix. These are records that lift you in every way, some crossing over into what can safely be described as pure musical bliss.

This is my favorite genre to listen to, and by far my favorite to spin for dancers as a DJ.

I thought it fitting that this was the mix to cap off the anniversary week.

I hope you dig it, and I hope you keep listening/reading as long as I still have something meaningful to say.

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I’ll see you all next week.

And, as always…

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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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
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Brick, NJ 08724 USA

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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 4, 2014 1:24 pm

Howard Tate – Get It While You Can (Verve)
Diamond Joe – Fair Play (Minit)
Irma Thomas – I Wish Someone Would Care (Imperial)
Jackie Shane – Any Other Way (Cookin’)
Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris – Please Take Care of Our Love (Sansu)
Van Dykes – No Man Is An Island (Mala)
Otis Redding – Cigarettes and Coffee (Volt/Atco)
Little Buster – I’m So Lonely (Jubilee)
Mable John – Your Good Thing (Is About To End) (Stax)
Sweet Linda Divine – Same Time Same Place (Columbia)
OV Wright – I Want Everyone To Know I Love You (Backbeat)
Rubaiyats – Tomorrow (Sansu)
Eddie Holman – I’ll Cry 1,000 Tears (Bell)
Eldridge Holmes – If I Were a Carpenter (Deesu)
James Carr – The Dark End of the Street (Goldwax)
John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Blues Tears and Sorrows (Sansu)
Laura Lee – Hang It Up (Chess)
Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long To Stop Now (Volt)
Toussaint McCall – Nothing Takes the Place of You (Ronn)
Bobby Womack – Take Me (Minit)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt3 – Ballads

Greetings all

Welcome to day three of the 10th Anniversary thing.

While I know that you all dig your soul upbeat and danceable, I couldn’t very well put together collections of my favorite stuff without stopping to consider the ballads.

In fact, to try to illustrate the greatness of soul music without touching on the deep side of things would be a fool’s errand.

To many people, these are the kind of records that make for great soul music; big, dramatic performances, expressing love – sought out, or lost – tragedy, tribute and longing.

What I found interesting after putting this mix together, is how many of the performers included were truly versatile, able to deliver a deep ballad, yet also capable (as is illustrated by their appearances in other mixes in this week’s line-up) of working the upbeat (even funky) side of things as well.

There are a lot of heavy, heavy records in this mix, so turn the lights down low, cuddle up with someone you love (or the memory of someone you’ve lost) and feel the soul.

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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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See you tomorrow.

Keep the faith

Larry

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived! The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock. They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US). Click here to go to the ordering page.

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.