Funky16Corners Presents: Out On the Floor – Funky16Corners 8th Anniversary Mix!
Ted Taylor – Love Is Like a Ramblin’ Rose (Okeh)
Stereos – I Feel Soul a Comin’ (Cadet)
Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers – I Can’t Turn You Loose (RCA)
Choker Campbell and his 16 Piece Band – Wild One (Motown)
Joe Jeffrey Group – My Pledge of Love (Wand)
The Contours – First I Look at the Purse (Gordy)
Derek Martin – Sly Girl (Tuba)
Exciters – Blowing Up My Mind (RCA)
Ferris Wheel – Number One Guy (Philips)
Carl Carlton – Hold On To What You Got (Big Beat)
Ella Fitzgerald – Get Ready (Reprise)
High Keys – Living a Lie (Verve)
Dobie Gray – Out On the Floor (Charger)
Ronnie Dyson – Fever (Columbia)
Shirelles – No Doubt About It (Scepter)
The Tams – Trouble Maker (ABC)
Garnet Mimms – Prove It To Me (UA)
Marvelle and the Blue Mats – Mellow Man (Dynamic Sound)
Billy Butler – Boston Monkey (Okeh)
Listen/Download -Funky16Corners Presents Out On the Floor – 86MB Mixed Mp3/256K
Greetings all.
I hope all is well on your end.
It’s the end of the week again, so that means it’s Funky16Corners Radio Show time, this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You can also come by this very spot on the weekend and pick yourself up an MP3 version of the show, or more than 100 previous episodes in the archive.
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I come to you this day a happy/relieved man.
The election is finally over, and by and large the results were ones that I would consider not only positive but encouraging.
I realize that not everyone agrees with that assessment, but I have also come to see that having stated my peace, there’s not much I can do about that.
I’m certainly not going to worry about it either.
There are those on the fringes that start with the violent rhetoric, but my suspicion is that they have neither the courage nor the wherewithal to follow through on their angry, anonymous threats.
The vast majority of the population will either get back to work in furtherance of their agenda, or will likely ignore the political scene until whipped once again into a fever pitch for the mid-terms.
I’m going to savor this all a little bit, and then go back to staying informed, a little less on edge that I have been for the past few months.
The other good news is, that this week marks the eighth anniversary of the founding of the Funky16Corners blog.
It was back in early November of 2004 that I made the leap from the Funky16Corners web zine (est. 2000) and decided to continue whipping the sounds and words on you all in a slightly more economical form.
There have been redirections (Blogger to WordPress to self-hosted WordPress) and a few minor policy changes (the unfortunate removal of the zip files) but there have also been improvements as well (like the Funky16Corners Radio Show and its archive).
Either way, the flow of music and history continues in force, and my passion for both remains as strong as ever.
My thanks goes out to all of you that have participated in the conversation along the way (readers and fellow bloggers), some of whom have become friends.
With any luck, we’ll all be celebrating these anniversaries for years to come.
The slogan of the Funky16Corners blog – borrowed from the Northern Soul movement in the UK – is ‘Keep the Faith’. These are words to live by, not only as a dedicated soul fan, but as someone with an eye on improving the world, in any way possible.
I “keep the faith” here by preaching and spreading the gospel of good music, not only to help keep it alive, but to remind as many people as possible of the importance of its transformative nature.
2012 has been an especially trying time in our house on a very deep, very frightening level.
The other day my son asked me what was most important to me in the world and I answered that family was number one, but music was next.
All great music is “soul” music in the broad sense because that’s where it hits you. It gets deep inside your brain and has the power to move your emotions (in many directions) and often enough, move your physical body, whether simply nodding your head, tapping your feet or lifting you out of your seat to dance.
If there is a guiding force behind Funky16Corners – the blog, or when I’m lucky enough to get out and spin records – that is it.
And that it shall stay.
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What you see before you is a new mix (previewed on Mixcloud a while back) composed of 45 solid minutes of dancers, most in the Northern Soul style.
There are lots of groovy 45s, a couple of unjustly ignored b-sides and an album track here and there.
A couple of these tracks have seen the light of day in this space individually, and a couple more may do so in the future.
Either way, they all ought to make you get up out of your seat and outon the floor (thanks Dobie!).
I hope you dig the soul, and I’ll see you on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Congrats on eight years! And thanks for all the tunes. I’ve been tipped to so much good stuff that’s new to me that I can’t begin to make a list. So just keep putting one foot in front of the other and groove on!
Larry many congratulations on eight years of the F16c blog and the election result.Plenty of relief over here when that was called.Also thanks for all the work you put in to bring us all the great tunes it is very much appreciated. KTF Tony.
Happy 8th anniversary Larry!
As I’ve said many times, thanks for adding to my music education and appreciation.
Congratulations! Thanks for all the wonderful tunes, they often put me in a good mood, I can’t get enough of.
Greetings from Berlin
Alexander
Congratulations Larry on eight wonderful years. Also enormous thanks for your kindness, generosity and impeccable taste. I have learned and enjoyed so much fantastic music
thanks to you. All the very best from Johnnie K in Auckland New Zealand
Well said, well done for all the years. Thanks for all the tunes and all the years and the electronic friendship.
Larry, I have been following the F16 Blog for about 7 of those 8 years and you have opened my ears to much great music. I hope you keep it going for many years to come.
Hey Larry,
Thanks for 8 great years and many more to come.
This blog is the bomb (as I believe ‘the kids’ said at some point in history)!
Can’t begin to say how much great music and how many great under-appreciated artists you have opened my poor, deprived, Scottish ears to.
Stu