Listen/Download The Trends – Soul Clap

Greetings all

The end of the week is approaching so I will remind you once again to twist the dials on your interwebs radiola to tune in the Funky16Corners Radio Show, this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You’ll get an earful of the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or grab yourself an MP3 out of the archive here at the blog (where more than 200 episodes are stored!).

The record I have selected to close out the week is a tasty little disc I picked up last year while hunting for wax out in the New York hinterlands.

I was rifling through the crates in the basement of a groovy little record store, and making myself a nice bigstack of 45s to take home when I happened upon ‘Soul Clap’ by the Trends.

I had never heard of thr group or the song, but who am I to pass up a record with a title like that?

Fortunately the store had a turntable on which to preview platters, and I gave it a spin.

What I got was a very nice dancer, brought to you by the production skills (and pen) of the mighty Johnny Pate.

Naturally, the record has plenty of soul clapping, punchy bass and rhythm guitar, and some of those tasteful Chitown strings.

The flipside, ‘The Big Parade’ is a nice, sweet group harmony side.

As it turns out, the Trends (Eddie Dunn, Emmett Garner Jr., Ralph O’Neill and Jerome Johnson) had a string of 45s, first on Smash, and then on ABC between 1964 and 1968.

They didn’t have much commercial success – aside from some airplay in Chicago – but their 45s are cool and worth picking up.

I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

 

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