Cal’s Tricks – Who’s Gonna Take the Weight
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Greetings all
The track I bring you today is something I picked up whilst grazing at the last Allentown All 45 show.
It’s hard not to be overwhelmed in a room packed to the gills with 45s, but since a lot of the dealers (and the kind of stock they bring with them) have become familiar to me over the years, I try to maintain a s small amount of focus.
These days my “want list” (as it is) isn’t very long.
There are a couple of very crucial things that I’m always on the lookout for, but outside of those, I tend to cast a pretty wide net. The old frame of reference is sharp enough that I come away with more gold that gravel, and the record you see before you today is evidence thereof.
I’d never heard of Cal’s Tricks, or the Secant label, but as soon as I noted the presence of a groovy Kool and the Gang cover, I placed the disc on the keeper pile and kept digging.
Once I got the record home I was very happy with my selection, and moved on to digging for information.
There’s not a lot out there, but what I have found is interesting.
It would seem that the Secant label was active in the Washington, DC/Maryland area during the 70s, releasing a wide variety of styles.
‘Who’s Gonna Take the Weight’ – taken here at a slightly faster, dare I say discofied, tempo than the OG – was the second 45 by Cal’s Tricks, released in 1976.
The band’s name seems to be a variation of the name of producer Caltrick Simone.
I don’t think this track or any of Cal’s Tricks tunes have been comped.
I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all on Friday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
Larry, thanks for posting this song!
It’s a great tune!
Ray
I’m glad you’re digging it Ray!
Hi, Larry…
Every few years I do a Google search on my name or my label’s name. Considering that Washington DC had a practically nonexistent record scene, and that only a few hundred of each of the 8 singles I produced (from 1972-1977, and one in 1987) were ever manufactured, it’s always amazing to see that, every so often there’s a relatively recent mention of one of them. Someday I should write up my story (of how I left DC and went to Power Station Studios and another studio in NY), then left the business entirely at the end of 1987.
(That story would include how I made those records in DC, where we didn’t have the sort of equipment that the NY, Philly, and LA studios did, and how I got my records played on the Top 40 stations, even though that was practically unheard of in DC.)
And thanks for your kind words about the record. Of the original 7 singles I did on the Secant label, this one (and other funk one by Juice) never got any airplay. (I do miss making records, but I don’t miss the business.)
Larry!!! Excellent 45 discovery!!! Caltrick is an amazing wizard with music and producing!!! Knew him back in the 1980’s and am happy to find this tonight !!!