Connie T Empress Set , Friars Club 01/07/14
Philly Dog Mar-Keys (Stax)
Soul Sister, Brown Sugar- Sam & Dave (Atlantic)
In The Basement Part 1- Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto )Cadet)
Hear Say-Soul Children (Stax)
A Dime A Dozen-Carla Thomas (Stax)
I Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy-Lamplighters (Gusto reissue)
Toe Hold-Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)(“David said he had no idea WP had ever done this! so I played it.“)
Soul Girl-Jeanne & The Darlings (Volt)
I Could Never Be Satisfied Pt 1 – Sir Mack Rice (ATCO)
Ya Ya-Tamiko Jones (A&M)
Snatchin’ Back-Calvin Arnold (Venture)
Love Bug Got A Bear Hug-Melvin Davis (Mala)
Let Me Be Your Boy-Wilson Pickett (Verve)
Formula of Love – William Bell (Stax)
Fall In Love With Me-Bettye Swann (Money)
Say You-The Monitors (V.I.P.)
Oh, I’ve Been Blessed-Bobby Taylor (V.I.P.)
Late Shadows-Nicki Lee (Dade)
You Can’t Miss What you Can’t Measure-Clarence Carter (Atlantic)
Love Bones-Johnny Taylor (Stax)
Loving Material-The Charmels (Volt)
I Found Out-The Astors (Stax)
Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music-The Bandwagon (Epic)
Do The Whoopie-SugarPie Di Santo (Brunswick)
I can Take Care of Myself – Gene Chandler (Constellation)
Sleep Good Tonight-Sam & Dave (Stax)

Listen/Download Connie T Empress’s Set: Friars Club NYC 01/07/14 78MB/256K Mixed MP3

Greetings all

I hope you all dug my account of this week’s amazing Friars Club experience with the legendary David Porter.

What I am privileged to bring you today is the complete set spun that night by the mighty Connie T Empress.

For the few of you that won’t know her name, Connie T Empress was one of the founders of the legendary Empire State Soul Club. Starting in 1987 and lasting well into the 90s, Connie, along with W. Lee and Jeff the Chef spun the finest in rare soul for audiences all over New York City.

The Empress feeling the groove!

Though I missed out on the ESSC experience, I was lucky enough to spin alongside Connie when she joined the ranks of the Asbury Park 45 Sessions back in 2007, spinning with our crew for a few years.

She is that rarest of soul DJ, in that she’s no mere trainspotter/collector, but rather a dyed in the wool fan who feels the music as much as the dancers on the floor (she’s usually moving and grooving behind the decks at the same time).

Her enthusiasm is obvious and contagious, and I always relish the opportunity to share the turntables with her. It never fails that I come away from one of her sets with a number of sides added to my want list, and this evening was no exception.

ESSC Reunion: Connie T Empress and W. Lee!

What you get here is a little over an hour of solid senders, engineered for the dance floor, all groovy.

A brief technical note; as I mentioned with my set, there were some problems with the mixer, with some bleed through from channel to channel, but certainly not enough to keep such a tasty set under wraps. Fortunately, Connie did not experience the drop-out I did during my set, so you get this mix in stereo!

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

  

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