Listen/Download Benny Scott – Soul Beat

Greetings all

I figured it might behoove me to get the week off to a start with something obscure, and of course, funky.

I picked up today’s 45 last year whilst getting my record show dig on.

When I encountered the old, familiar Brunswick label, and then saw the title ‘Soul Beat’, you just know I had to slap this one onto the keeper pile.

As it turns out this was a fortuitous decision, since Benny Scott’s ‘Soul Beat’ is a very hot bit of funk from 1970, with some tight horns (it’s mostly a horn feature) and a particularly messy, yet very cool guitar solo.

Information on Benny Scott himself has been hard to come by.

It would appear that he was a Chicago-based bass player (he played with both Curtis Mayfield and Leroy Hutson), and while my first instinct was to associate him with the Scott Brothers who recorded for Toddlin’ Town (and other labels) I don’t think there was a Benny in their midst.

Either way, the 45 has quite a bit of flavor, and I would not hesitate to offer it up to a dance floor full of sweaty groovers.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

 

*Chills and Fever was first issued as by ‘Johnny Love’ on the Startime label a few months earlier
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