Little Ann

Listen/Download Little Ann – Going Down a One Way Street (The Wrong Way)

Greetings all

The end of the week is once again breathing its hot Frankenstein breath down the back of our necks, so that means it’s time for the Funky16Corners Radio Show. We come to you every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio, with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original viny. If you can’t check the show out at airtime, do not fret. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or grab yourself an MP3 of this (or any of well over 100 previous episodes) at the blog.

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The tune I bring you today is a longtime fave of mine.

I am a huge fan of soul, as well as funk, but have an especially warm place in my heart for the records on which the two styles intersect well.

Today’s selection is one of those.

Little Ann, born Anne Bridgeforth in Chicago in 1945, recorded a number of unreleased tracks for Dave Hamilton (issued by the Timmion label in 2009) before having ‘Going Down a One Way Street (the Wrong Way)’ picked up and released by Ed Wingate’s Ric-Tic imprint.

The record is an incredible slice of funky soul, with a soaring vocal by Little Ann, and a booming, horn-heavy arrangement.

Oddly, this was the only 45 released in the US by Little Ann (she didn’t even get the b-side, that spot taken up by an instrumental called ‘I’d Like To Know You Better’, credited to Wingate).

She went to to record some for the Quality label in Canada, and was later rediscovered by the Northern Soul scene in the UK before passing away in 2003.

You can check out her other recordings on various comps (the ‘Dave Hamilton’s Detroit Dancers’ collections) and if you try hard enough you can still find the Timmion LP here and there.

This is a very groovy song indeed, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

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2 Responses to “Little Ann – Going Down a One Way Street (the Wrong Way)”

1. James says:

   June 22, 2013 at 6:07 pm

   Killer, killer tune from the very first guitar lick!

   Great post!

2. Kris Holmes says:

   June 23, 2013 at 3:35 am

   I love this 45