Listen/Download Larry Hale – Shout and Do the Duck

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The record I bring you today is yet another one of those “bought it for the organ tune on one side and ended up digging the flip a little bit more” things that keep popping up here at Funky16Corners.

I forget exactly where I first got wind of Larry Hale’s ‘Shout and Do the Duck’, but I suspect that it was on another DJs finds/wants list.

I do remember that it was not an expensive 45, and that it did take me a little while to flip it over, but as I said, when I did, I ended up preferring the vocal side.

Larry Hale recorded a few 45s under his own name for United Artists, Columbia and Diamond, as well as being one of the vocalists on the RCA 45s by the African Beavers.

‘Shout and Do the Duck’, which came out in 1966 starts with a spoken/shouted gospel-feeling instro, before opening up into a fast moving soul tune with a wailing vocal by Hale.

There is a vague Latin feel running underneath things, as well as a short breakdown that borrows from Stevie Wonder’s ‘Fingertips’.

I have no idea who’s playing the organ on ‘Organ Shout and Do the Duck’ (hear it in Funky16Corners Radio v.42) but the playing is rudimentary enough to suggest to me that the organ was not their first/main instrument.

In an interesting twist, it would seem (read Sir Shambling’s piece here) that Larry Hale and Tony Fox were in fact the same person recording under a number of aliases. If you listen to Tony Fox’s ‘I’ve Got To (Do It To It)’ on Calla, it is definitely the same person singing on this 45.

That said, this is a very cool 45, and I hope you give it a spin or two this weekend.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

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One Response to “Larry Hale – Shout and Do the Duck”

1. d.cook says:

   September 26, 2013 at 1:27 pm

   an interesting track–hugo and luigi, same prod team that did a lot of sam cooke’s RCA sessions.

   the overall mood is similar to little stevie’s “fingertips”–and the brief acapella break in the middle, in particular–“clap your hands”–is dead-on evocative of fingertips.

   thanks, as always, for sharing from da trove.