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By Larry, November 25, 2018 11:52 am

Listen/Download – Prophecy – Everybody Walking Together MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is kind of mystery record.

I picked it up digging in Asbury Park a few years back, mainly because it looked interesting, and once I got it home and slipped it under the needle, it sounded that way, too.

Prophecy was a group that released a couple of singles on All Platinum, then a few more on Mainstream, all between 1972 and 1976.

‘Everybody Waking Together’ is a very groovy mix of sweet soul, pop and rock that seems like it would fit right next to Earth Wind and Fire from the same period.

The tune has plenty of hooks, a great falsetto lead vocal, cool distorted lead guitar and an electric piano in a kind of clavinet-esque sound.

The flipside, ‘Nya’ is a pretty ballad.

Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be much information out there about the group, other than their 1972 debut, ‘Rain In My Life’ appears to have been written by Lou Courtney.

That said, I hope you dig the sounds, and I will see you next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 6, 2016 11:33 am

Funky16Corners Presents – Funky Music Is the Thing
Harvey Scales – Dancing Room Only (Casablanca)
Alvin Cash – Twine Time (XL)
Eddie Drennon and BBS Unlimited – Get Down Do the Latin Hustle (Friends and Co)
United Image – African Bump (Branding Iron)
Cookie Jarr and His Krums – Ain’t No Use Pt1 (Roulette)
Willie Henderson and the Soul Explosions – Is it Something You’ve Got (Brunswick)
Robert Parker – Get To Steppin’ (Island)
Seven Seas – Pat’s Jam (Glades)
Dave Richmond – Phase Out (KPM)
Frankie Gee – Date With the Rain (Claridge)
Hack Bartholomew – La La You (CTI)
Lyn Collins – Give It Up or Turnit A Loose (People)
Rimshots – Do What You Feel Pt2 (Stang)
Jr Walker and the All Stars – Gimme That Beat Pt2 (Soul)
The Brothers – Fire (RCA)
Dynamic Corvettes- Funky Music Is the Thing (Abet)
Maceo and the Kings Men – Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin Pt2 (House of the Fox)
Bobby Keys – Gimme the Key (Ring’O)
Jimmy Bo Horne – Dance Across the Floor (Sunshine Sound)
ST4 – Funky (Scepter)

Listen/Download – Funky16Corners Presents: Funky Music Is the Thing 113MB Mixed MP3

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you all well, at least well enough to get out on the floor.

A while back, I took my son out for a long-promised digging session at one of the few decent local record stores. He grabbed himself a bunch of LPs, while I scoured the 45 bins, picking up mostly disco 45s.

Most of the stuff I found fell on the funky side of things, and while listening to them, I started to work up  the mix you see before you today, in which that kind of thing is mixed in with more of the same, some slightly later, danceable funk, as well as a couple of unusual things that sounded right to me.

The hour-long mix is (with three exceptions) culled exclusively from 45s, heavy on the drums (there are a couple of nice breaks in there) and all right, tight and outtasite for the dance floor.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, February 23, 2016 1:07 pm

Lonette Mckee

Listen/Download – Lonette McKee – Do To Me MP3

Greetings all.

The tune I bring you today is something from the more ‘modern soul’ side of things, and has a very interesting pedigree.

If you are close to my age or older, you probably first knew of Lonette McKee as an actress, in films like ‘Sparkle’, ‘The Cotton Club’ and ‘Malcolm X’, as well as many TV shows.

It was only a few years ago that I discovered that the Detroit-born McKee had an earlier career as a singer, first recording in the ate 60s (when she was still a teenager) for Michigan labels like Dearborn and M-S, and then in the early 70s (as with today’s selection) for Sussex.

‘Do To Me’ (mis-titled on this UK pressing as ‘Do It To Me’) is a smooth, hook-laden dancer, written by McKee herself and produced by no less a team than Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey. The song has jazzy chord changes that remind me of a Becker/Fagen outtake (the opening bears some resemblance to Terry Callier’s ‘Ordinary Joe’).

McKee was a fine singer and the brisk arrangement made ‘Do To Me’ a favorite on UK dance floors in the 70s, and while it didn’t do much over here, its funky flipside ‘Save It (Don’t Give It Away)’ made it into the R&B Hot 100 (with McKee performing the song on Soul Train).

It is a groovy tune, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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