Listen/Download Soul East – Funky Lady Pt1

Listen/Download Soul East – Funky Lady Pt2

Greetings all

The tune I bring you today is an almost complete mystery to me.

Before I scored a copy last year, I had heard of Soul East, and heard the tune ‘Funky Lady’ in a mix somewhere, but never really knew anything about the group.

Actually getting my hands on a copy of the record hasn’t done anything to improve that situation.

A quick look at the label shows that the band was barely credited (the speed of the disc and the catalog number are both in a bigger font).

It seems that the co-writer and producer, listed as ‘Bud Scott’ may in fact have been NY-based producer Buddy Scott who wrote and produced a number of records for Pat Lundy.

Whether or not Soul East were also working out of NY, or if they were anything more than a studio concoction, I cannot say.

What I can say with certainty is that ‘Funky Lady’ was released in 1969, and appears to be the only record released by the group.

The tune features chicken scratch lead guitar (cool leads on Part 1), some punchy horns and rolling piano underneath it all.

‘Funky Lady’ does not appear to have charted anywhere, but it is a very tasty, very funky side.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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3 Responses to “Soul East – Funky Lady Pts 1&2”

1. Bee says:

   January 24, 2014 at 6:45 am

   Not heard that track in a while.

2. Andy says:

   January 27, 2014 at 2:35 pm

   These tracks appeared on a ‘King Funk’ comp over here in the UK so I guess there must be a King Records connection somewhere along the line. Great work as always.

3. jason says:

   April 16, 2014 at 4:42 pm

   @andy – deluxe was a king subsidiary, also this was released on king in canada. there may be a uk issue as well?